Rogue Time Lord One

[Rogue Time Lord One @McCache33]

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Good bye Dad. I’ll miss you.

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@faithandheresy Thank you. I didn’t want to try handle it without being fairly sure what it was. Since it’s something harmless i also don’t want it getting hurt if it can be avoided.

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Wondering if you could help me out. This snake was crawling around my deck and I was wondering if you could identify it please.

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@faithandheresy Central Alabama. My daughter did a google search that said it was a rat snake.

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@TatooineSons C-3PO walked so Iron Man could fly.

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@alex65082 @Movies_analyst Only around 60.

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@oaksandlions After Dunkirk Germany’s defeat was inevitable.

[Royal Navy @RoyalNavy]

We can confirm the names of the three Royal Navy personnel who tragically lost their lives during a helicopter training exercise on 3 June:

Lt Cdr Chris Gayson, 42, Somerset
Lt Lily-Mae Fisher, 31, Surrey
PO Owen Green, 24, Hampshire

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@DrHelenFry I’m planning to get it for my daughter this summer. She loves history and WWII.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

The Two Women Who Cracked the Abwehr Enigma: How Mavis Batey and Margaret Rock Helped Secure D-Day
(a long-form post)

Ahead of D-Day, Mavis Batey and Margaret Rock played a leading role in cracking the complex Enigma code of the Abwehr, the German Secret Service. Unlike other machines it had four rotors instead of the standard three, and they rotated randomly, with no predictable pattern. Hut 6 had been unable to break it.

On 8 December 1941 Mavis Batey broke a message on the link between Belgrade and Berlin, allowing the reconstruction of one of the rotors. Within days Knox and his team had broken into the Abwehr Enigma, and shortly afterwards Mavis broke a second Abwehr machine.

The significance of their work cannot be overestimated. MI5 and MI6 were running double agents as part of the ‘Double Cross System’ and feeding deception and fake intelligence to the Germans. Being able to decode the messages between the Abwehr and their agents ensured that the double agents were really working for the Allies. It also provided a way to monitor whether the Germans had accepted the deception.

It ensured the success of the D-Day landings because the Double Cross agents fed information to the Germans that the invasion was to occur at Pas de Calais and not at the real landing points in Normandy. Brigadier Bill Williams, Montgomery’s chief intelligence officer, said that without cracking the Abwehr Enigma, the deception operation could not have been mounted as the Germans would have moved their reinforcements from Calais to Normandy. The successes of D-Day would have had a very different outcome.

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[Rogue Time Lord One @McCache33]

@TimHarcoff @atrupar His supporters are the same kind of people who made televangelists millionaires in the 80’s.

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@RetroMoviesDB @Bootboy1973 That’s why the film has the training sequence at the beginning where Spock “dies”. It was to throw off the audience.

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@DungeonNoir Almost as good as when Dolph Lundgren defeated three burglars without being there. They broke into his house in Spain, and tied up his wife. However, when they spotted a family photo and realized whose house they were in they immediately fled empty handed.

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@TatooineSons And she was an even more talented writer.

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@charlesmolesphi @DrHelenFry The entire history of the US, good and bad, should be taught in school. Only then can you understand how far America has come as a nation and how much further it can still go.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the night of April 28, 1944, more American soldiers were killed rehearsing for D-Day than were killed storming Utah Beach on D-Day itself. It happened in secret, and the survivors were ordered to take it to their graves. Most did.

Six weeks before the real invasion, the US Army staged a full dress rehearsal at Slapton Sands in Devon, a beach chosen because it looked almost exactly like the Normandy shore codenamed Utah. Eisenhower wanted it realistic, so they used live ammunition. That decision killed men before the enemy even arrived, when timing went wrong and incoming troops were shelled by their own naval guns on the sand. But the worst was still hours away.

Just after midnight, a convoy of eight tank landing ships, packed with men, trucks and fuel, was crawling across Lyme Bay in a long slow line. Out in the dark, nine German E-boats had slipped in from Cherbourg, and they could not believe what they were seeing. The convoy was nearly defenseless. One escort ship had been damaged in a collision and sent to port, never replaced. Worse, a typo had put the landing ships and their lone escort on different radio frequencies, so the warnings that could have saved them were broadcast to no one.

The E-boats opened fire. One ship burst into flames, another was hit and went under in about six minutes, taking hundreds down with her. Men poured into water barely above freezing. Then the cruelest detail: they had been issued life belts but never trained to wear them, so many strapped them around the waist instead of under the arms. When they jumped, the weight of their packs flipped them face-down, and the belts held them there. Hundreds drowned upside down in their own life jackets.

By dawn, around 749 Americans were dead, more than would die taking the actual beach on June 6. And the generals had a problem bigger than the bodies. Ten of the officers aboard held BIGOT clearance and knew the time and place of the entire invasion. If even one had been pulled alive from the sea by the Germans, D-Day would have had to be cancelled. Frantic teams searched the water for all ten. Every body was recovered. The secret held.

So the whole thing was buried. Bodies quietly interred, paperwork sealed, survivors warned that talking meant court martial. The records were not declassified until 1974. For decades these men had no monument and no mention. They died twice, once in the water and once in the silence that followed.

It was called Exercise Tiger. Now you know.

[Bluebell Raven @BluebellRaven]

The tapestry depicts Celtic mythology's Four Treasures, which directly inspired Arthurian legend. The Dagda’s Cauldron of abundance evolved into the Holy Grail. Lugh’s fiery Spear became the Bleeding Lance. Nuada’s invincible Sword of light inspired Excalibur. Finally, the Dagda’s magical Harp transformed into the enchanting bardic music and prophecies surrounding Merlin’s Arthurian court.

This is an example of pagan mythology, molded into Christian legends.

🎨Celtic Tapestry (2002) by Howard David Johnson, for Celtic Mythology.

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@DavidLeavitt @Acyn Here’s a better one.

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@Joegibson103 @CongressmanRaja @Acyn How many times has Trump claimed victory so far while the most powerful military in the world keeps failing to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and keeps failing to actually defeat Iran’s military?

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@OrangeHat2185 The films were canon to the EU , but the EU was never canon to the films. That was Lucas’s position. The fact is the holder of the IP decides what the official canon is.