[💡82 ans du #DDay]
👉 1er hommage à Maureen & Ted Sweeney, gardiens du phare irlandais de Blacksod qui le 4 juin 1944, ont adressé un bulletin météo qui a contribué à fixer la date au 6 juin en indiquant: “Heavy rain & drizzle cleared, visibility on land & sea very clear.”
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So pleased to have received a PDF copy of this book 'Freedom of Speech in the Press in Times of Conflict'
Grateful to the other editors, contributors and the publisher Peter Lang
Details here: https://t.co/zqcubvuqf8
For World Bicycle Day: Bicycle advertisements were prolific in the 19th and early 20th century, just as automobile ads are today. Here are a few beautiful ones from the Library of Congress collection.
A Secret garden and special place - read my Irish Diary in today's Irish Times newspaper about the historic Goldenbridge Cemetery in Dublin's Inchicore https://t.co/RDonu54iKF
Day 106, orbit 1644 — This timelapse shows the approach and docking of the @SpaceX CRS‑34 🛰 resupply mission on 17 May. Isn’t it amazing to think that this docking manoeuvre takes place while flying at 28,000 km/h around the Earth?
The blurred dot in the middle of the picture is actually a micrometeoroid impact on the Cupola window… No worries, it’s been there for a long time !
🎥 @esa / @NASA
#εpsilon • @esaspaceflight • @Space_Station • @NASAJohnson
#OnThisDay in 1911, RMS Titanic was launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. The completed hull was released down a slipway into the River Lagan in front of around 100,000 spectators.
📸 Getty
Announcing the imminent publication of this volume of essays, Freedom of Speech in the Press in Times of Conflict. The theme of the volume is, sadly, very relevant for our own times. https://t.co/sbxdF9AryB
News stories include the first trip over the North Pole, issues with the US Dollar and French Franc, strikes in England, trouble in Syria and the Rif, and car accidents (which seem to have featured in many cartoons at this time).
US - Cuba relations on this day in 1926...
Uncle Sam congratulates Cuba on its 24th anniversary - Washington DC's 'Evening Star' newspaper cartoon #OTD 1926
https://t.co/traLV8mGaf #ChronAm
Fr. Walsh
Éamon de Valera disguised as a priest under the name “Fr. Walsh” while travelling to Paris for the Irish Race Convention in 1922, using clerical clothing and false papers to avoid detection. Later became one of the most influential figures in Irish political history.
Trouble in Europe #OTD 1926
French newspaper cartoon recaps the main issues... Germany: Fall of Gustav Stresemann and Hans Luther's short-lived government
Poland: Józef Piłsudski headed the May Coup
Belgium: FM Emile Vandervelde is busy
England: Lloyd-George overjoyed