Remembering my father, Private Albert Cartwright, 8th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 6th Airborne. Landed in Normandy D-Day, fought throughout the campaign; blinded in action in the battle for Annebault, 21/8.1944. #LestWeForget
How she imagines this kind of crass insensitivity helps her cause is beyond me. But maybe she has acquired psychic powers? After all, she knows exactly how all young people will vote in future, and exactly how all the departed-elderly voted in the past.
BBC News - Indonesian woman mauled to death by giant pet crocodile https://t.co/4cFcFt7VTm 'Don't bite the hand that feeds you,' but no one told the croc.
My war-blinded father would have reached 95 this year, had he not died prematurely of his wounds: pretty sure I'd have taken umbrage had anyone questioned his right to vote. This blatant, ignorant & disrespectful ageism really gets my goat.
#HistoryofPainting
Matthias Stom or Matthias Stomer (c. 1600 – after 1652) was a Dutch golden age painter considered one of the masters of Utrecht Caravaggism.
#TheFreeExhibition
A Young Man Reading by Candlelight, circa 1630
Nationalmuseum Sweden, → @NatMus_SWE ← Stockholm
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies... https://t.co/oblnMo5eec
#tweetfromalternatehistory@JeffProvine 1820 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Cato Street Conspirators determine plan, rouse up twenty-seven men and declare themselves a Committee of Public Safety to oversee the transition to a new representative government
https://t.co/kf7Pbmo24j
A BOOK TO INSPIRE: quote: “This book shows how on man’s life and achievements mirror the great events of the second half of the twentieth century and the opening years of the third millennium” (in hardback and paperback)
https://t.co/PHiNJf2ZKJ or from https://t.co/cuX4ljo4VI
BBC News - Man 'cements microwave to head' in Wolverhampton https://t.co/ZCaYskWoVq Medics should have bested his prank by plugging it in and turning it on. How long before a head is 'done?'