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Canadian soldier during Battle of Arnhem. The operation market garden was by all means, one big mess. The allies sent in paratroopers to capture the bridges over the big rivers of the Netherlands while armor was coming from the south. The battleplan was way to optimistic. Intel told the allied high command that there were battle-hardened divisions in the region. The allied high-command ignored this. Another thing that went wrong was that the Germans found a British officer who carried the whole battleplan with him (although this was strictly forbidden). The Germans now knew when and where the allied para's would land later that week. A correct recapitulation of the battle would be: "Everything that could go wrong, went wrong." Colorised by @the_young_historian #ww2 #wwii #secondworldwar #canadianarmy #canada #marketgarden #arnhem #101stairborne #airborne #tank #tanks #panzer #britishhistory #canadianhistory #stalin #boltaction #commonwealth #flak #armystrong #historygram #historyisfun #historyfacts #factss #thuglife #ballsdeep #screamingeagles

On yesterday’s date, April 28, 1603, Queen Elizabeth I's funeral took place in London. Elizabeth passed on March 24, 1603, her body was then placed inside a lead coffin and carried by night in a torchlit barge along the Thames from Richmond Palace to Whitehall. There, the Queen was to lie in state until her funeral, giving time for the new king, King James I (VI of Scotland) to travel down to London. While the coffin lay in state, a life size effigy of Elizabeth, dressed in her royal robes, was placed on top of it to act as a symbol of the monarchy while there was no monarch in England. On April 28, 1603, Elizabeth's coffin was carried from Whitehall to Westminster Abbey on a hearse drawn by horses hung with black velvet. The coffin was covered in a rich purple cloth, topped with the effigy of Elizabeth with a sceptre in her hands and a crown on her head. Above the coffin was a canopy supported by six knights, and behind the hearse was the Queen’s Master of the Horse, leading her palfrey. The chief mourner was the Countess of Northampton who led the party of peers of the realm, all dressed in black. Chronicler John Stow wrote: “Westminster was surcharged with multitudes of all sorts of people in their streets, houses, windows, leads and gutters, that came out to see the obsequy, and when they beheld her statue lying upon the coffin, there was such a general sighing, groaning and weeping as the like hath not been seen or known in the memory of man.” Elizabeth was then buried at Westminster Abbey in the vault of her grandfather, Henry VII, until she was moved in 1606 to her present resting place, a tomb in the Lady Chapel of Westminster Abbey which she shares with her half-sister Mary I. King James I spent over £11,000 on Elizabeth I's lavish funeral, and he also arranged for this white marble monument to be built. The tomb is inscribed with the words: “Consorts both in throne and grave, here we rest two sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, in hope of our resurrection.”

So, a new series of purely speculative posts. They are going to be shorter, explaining potential roles for developmental and experimental designs. We start off with the Rheinmetall-Borsig Waffenträger. I think that it would have been used as both a Self-Propelled Gun and an AT Gun. This is because the PaK 44 it potentially would have mounted was capable of firing 2 part ammunition. There were three separate propellent charges that could have been used, light and medium for Artillery use, and heavy for AT use. This picture highlights the tanks large gun elevation arch, and therefore usefulness as an Artillery Piece. However the design was based on the Hetzer Chassis, was expensive and complex, so already strained German workshops would have only been made worse due to this design. On the other hand, it could have taken out most tanks it came across, at ranges exceeding 2km with APCBC rounds travelling at just under 1km/s. It would have been a formidable opponent similar to the two Sturer Emils used on the Eastern Front that wracked up a hell of a lot of kills before being captured or destroyed. Considering the Allies had air superiority towards the end of the war, and the fact the tank is open-topped, it would have been exceedingly vulnerable to strafing attacks. The other image is of the Alecto Mark I, armed with a 3.75 (95mm) Close Support Howitzer. Britain had Cruiser and Infantry tanks throughout WW2 and this one doesn’t fit into either, so I find it very likely to have worked with the Engineers, utilising it’s HE round as anti-emplacement, rather than anti-infantry or AT. Finally it made a good Dozer, so I fear most would have been considered obsolete and modified to become a clean-up vehicle after the Second World War, helping to clear the rubble and debris that still remained in much of Europe. Hope you enjoyed this new kinda content! #tank #tanks #wt #wot #worldoftanks #wt #ww2 #warthunder #antitank #platoon #history #worldwar2 #historyfacts #historymemes

One of the Great Lakes' eerily frozen lighthouses that becomes an accidental ice sculpture due to the splashing waves and frigid storms. ❄ #frozen #lighthouse #GreatLakes #historydaily #old #war #history #ilovehistory #ancientegypt #historyfacts #sciencehistory #vintage #ushistory #funhistory #weirdhistory #oldwest #inventions #funfacts #historylover #worldhistory #creepy #history

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TAP Follow @conspiracypix A 2,200-year-old clay jar found near Baghdad, Iraq, has been described as the oldest known electric battery in existence. The clay jar and others like it are part of the holdings of the National Museum of Iraq and have been attributed to the Parthian Empire — an ancient Asian culture that ruled most of the Middle East from 247 B.C. to A.D. 228. The jar itself has been dated to sometime around 200 B.C. It was first described in 1938 by German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig, and to this day, it is uncertain whether Konig dug it up himself or found it archived in the museum. .. . TAP Follow @conspiracypix . . #ancientworld #ancientcivilization #ancient #ancientknowledge #truthseekers #truthseeker #seekthetruth #unplugthematrix #ancient #ancients #historygeek #historyfacts #historic #history #electricity #ancientegypt #ancientegyptians #gizapyramids #egypt #ancientaliens .. . . TAP Follow @conspiracypix also checkout @conspiracypixels

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