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Sapper Redux

11:19a, 5/9/24

AgRyan04 said:
JABQ04 said:
Some very last defenders of Berlin were French SS. Truly an unenviable position. Die fighting or surrender to the Russkies, or survive that to be shot as a traitor by the French Government.

I guess that's one of those digging your own grave with the choices you make type scenarios

The extent to which the French accommodated fascism is really not well understood. De Gaulle did a great job convincing everyone that the French were resisting the Nazis when few did and many of those were from the French colonies.

Ghost of Andrew Eaton

11:35a, 5/9/24

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Sapper Redux said:
AgRyan04 said:
JABQ04 said:
Some very last defenders of Berlin were French SS. Truly an unenviable position. Die fighting or surrender to the Russkies, or survive that to be shot as a traitor by the French Government.

I guess that's one of those digging your own grave with the choices you make type scenarios

The extent to which the French accommodated fascism is really not well understood. De Gaulle did a great job convincing everyone that the French were resisting the Nazis when few did and many of those were from the French colonies.

This is strange since Communism also had a large following in France as well. Did certain regions embrace it more than others?

Sapper Redux

11:51a, 5/9/24

In reply to Ghost of Andrew Eaton

The FTP was a communist resistance organization that was pretty effective (they waited until the Nazis invaded the Soviets in 41 before joining the fight). The Vichy regime in the South didn't face a ton of internal resistance until the allies had actually invaded. Resistance in the Nazi-occupied parts of France was higher.

Rabid Cougar

11:58a, 5/9/24

The founder of the Kentucky Derby and builder of Churchill Downs. was Merriweather Lewis Clark Jr..

William Clarks grandson.

BQ78

12:16p, 5/9/24

In reply to Rabid Cougar

And an evil Confederate general

Rabid Cougar

12:24p, 5/9/24

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BQ78 said:
And an evil Confederate general.

That was Senior.

BQ78

2:19p, 5/9/24

In reply to Rabid Cougar

Whoops

Rongagin71

5:52p, 5/9/24

The Leonid Meteor Shower of 1833 has also been
called "the night the sky fell"

p_bubel

8:54p, 5/9/24

Monte Testaccio in Rome is a mountain of jars located right next to the ancient Tiber River port, and the Horrea Galbae warehouses, which would have been used to store imported goods like olive oil.

Markings known as "tituli picti" on the jars show that they originated primarily from Spain, Libya, and Tunisia. As many as 80 million pots make up the hill, which now stands 115 feet high, with another 45 feet under the modern street level.

dcbowers

3:15p, 5/11/24

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oragator said:
Don't care if it turns out to be not true….

Reminder that Battle of Rafah in 217 BC was the only time in history that African elephant cavalry fought Asian elephant cavalry. pic.twitter.com/uv6qtIN41S
— Jacob Shell (@JacobAShell) May 6, 2024

I was just wondering where this is and then it all made sense.

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p_bubel

11:58p, 5/13/24

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi had first intended to represent an "Egyptian peasant in Muslim garments." at the entrance to the Suez Canal and called the sculpture "Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia." However, Egyptian officials rejected the statue as too expensive, leading the architect to take his plans to America. He had to drop her Islamic robe and transform her into a Roman Goddess, renaming her "Liberty Enlightening the World."

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