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Grand Duchess Marie Romanov having a lot of fun on the Polar Star in 1905.

For day #8, I'd like to do William Vicarage. He was another severely burned man at Jutland. This is a particularly revolutionary case because it he was the first patient to receive the Tubed Pedical, which if you don't know, was a skin graft invented by Harold Gillies. It's similar to the traditional flap, but it's stitched into a tube shape before being attached to the sight. This increases blood flow and diminishes the risk of infection. In Vicarages case, two V like grafts were taken from his chest and placed onto his cheeks, as seen in the first picture. The poor man had no lips or eyelids, and it took many surgeries and grafts to get him functional again, but as you can see In the last picture with him as an old man, he was infact returned to his former self, and lived a long and happy life.

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WWI Uniforms, Insignia, (Distinguishing Marks), Rank, etc.

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Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia of Russia

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Three wounded British soldiers, one drinking from a bowl, in a dressing station in a churchyard at Morlancourt, near Albert. 1916

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Girls deliver ice. Heavy work that formerly belonged to men only is being done by girls. The ice girls are delivering ice on a route and their work requires brawn as well as the partriotic ambition to help., 9/16/1918

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Detail from a postcard of Edwardian actress Lily Elsie, c. 1907

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Olga Nikolaevna and Maria Nikolaevna at the Lower dacha in Peterhof, 1906.

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Emperor Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna with their three daughters Olga, Tatiana and Maria on a beach.

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Name Meaning - Olga & Tatiana

Olga

Russian form of Helga. The Varangians brought it from Scandinavia to Russia. The 10th-century Saint Olga was the wife of Igor I, grand prince of Kievan Rus (a state based around the city of Kiev). Following his death she ruled as regent for her son for 18 years. After she was baptized in Constantinople she attempted to convert her subjects to Christianity.

This name was chosen in honor of the aunt of the Russian princess, Olga Alexandrovna, sister of the Czar, and one of the characters of the favorite book of the emperor and empress.

Tatiana

Feminine form of the Roman name Tatianus, a derivative of the Roman name Tatius. This was the name of a 3rd-century saint who was martyred in Rome under the emperor Alexander Severus. She was especially venerated in Orthodox Christianity, and the name has been common in Russia (as Татьяна) and Eastern Europe. This name was chosen in honour of one of the chararacters of the favorite book of both the emperor and the empress.

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“You are filled with anguish For the suffering of others. And no one’s grief Has ever passed you by. You are relentless Only to yourself, Forever cold and pitiless. But if only you could look upon Your own sadness from a distance, Just once with a loving soul— Oh, how you would pity yourself. How sadly you would weep.”

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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, poem dedicated to her mother, April 23, 1917

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We are sharing some of our favourite gifs each day this month for Antifa International’s fifth anniversary. Today: Nazi monuments being destroyed after the defeat of Nazi Germany.