#historicaltimes

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An undetonated four megaton Mark 39 thermonuclear bomb (with parachute still attached), after it was accidentally dropped from a crashing B-52 bomber over Goldsboro, North Carolina – January 24th, 1961

from the disappeared historicaltimes

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“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.” ― W.B. Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire

William Butler Yeats.

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Soldiers of the Royal Ulster Rifles waiting on an improvised pier of lorries to evacuate Dunkirk during low tide – June 1940

originally posted by the deleted historicaltimes

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André Thevet, The Tamoyo chief Cunhambebe attacking an enemy tribe using French arquebuses (1575)

from the deleted historicaltimes