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Housing over 2,500 squatters on 28 of its 45 floors, the Tower of David is a half-finished structure in Caracas, Venezuela, populated with displaced people. Like the now-vanished Kowloon Walled Cit...

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Italian Cavalry School, 1906

In the first decades of the 20th century the Italian Cavalry School at Tor di Quinto near Rome was the leading institution for horsemanship in the world...

...The first time the young officers rode that way in front of senior officers they were punished for showing their buttocks to the ladies in attendance. They continued though, and shattered every record up to that point, and were also very successful in teaching masses of soldiers how to ride well in short period of times.

I'm kinda interested in 20th century horse cavalry. 

Any recommendations for books on this topic?

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How a tank stops

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:D

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"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to increase efficiency is insignificant next to the power of the Horse."

"Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational combine harvester!"

"Darth Vader, wearing farmer overalls and a straw hat"

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Credit poliscisexciting for finding this story of either how an enterprising American shipbuilder managed to unload a pair of subs on Canada as World War I was breaking out ... or how a 'courageous' Premier of British Columbia successfully provided for his province's own defense, at a cost of $1.1 million (twice the Canadian Navy's budget in 1913) and of violating American neutrality laws.

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The tiniest semiauto pistol.  Magazine of about 5-6 [officially 7] 2.7mm bullets.  That's a smaller diameter than a friggin' BB.

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Domestic cat and lynx.