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@nafoviking Sunset from our camper

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said the country has never conducted activities related to the development or production of biological weapons and fully complies with the Biological Weapons Convention. Kyiv said cooperation with the United States is exclusively civilian and focused on public health, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory diagnostics and biosafety. The ministry noted that previous Russian allegations were reviewed internationally and were not substantiated. #Ukraine

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The wave in San Fran shows a lot of empty seats #fifa

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@citchmook Is there still hockey on?

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@brent_bellamy @jonkay Didn't they beat Italy?

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@Prominent_Bryan Well at least their kits weren't stolen.

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Lol. Possible theft. https://t.co/NOlQUlAeOd

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@Kaff_007 Ugh

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@erik260179 @TSN_Sports Mine keeps stopping every 2 seconds

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@CineplexMovies Its gotta be better than home glitches every 2 seconds

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Everyone knows Dunkirk. 338,000 men rescued from the beaches, the "miracle" that saved Britain.

Almost nobody knows what happened 8 days later, 100 miles down the coast. This story was buried for years, and once you hear it you will understand why.

While Dunkirk was being evacuated, the 51st Highland Division was deliberately kept in France. Churchill wanted to prove to the French that Britain would not abandon them. So 10,000 Scotsmen kept fighting along the Somme while everyone else went home.

They fought well. Too well to retreat in time.

By June 10, Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, moving so fast the Germans called it the Ghost Division, had cut them off from every port. The Highlanders fell back to a tiny fishing town called Saint-Valery-en-Caux, with cliffs at their backs and the Royal Navy on the way.

A second Dunkirk. That was the plan. Operation Cycle, ships waiting offshore.

Then the fog rolled in.

The ships could not reach the beaches in the dark and mist. And by morning, Rommel had artillery on the cliffs above the town, firing down on anything that floated. Men climbed down cliff faces on ropes made of rifle slings trying to reach boats. Some fell. The rescue never came.

On June 12, 1940, Major General Victor Fortune surrendered the 51st Highland Division to Rommel. There is a famous photo of the two men standing together, Rommel grinning, Fortune staring into the distance like he is somewhere else.

10,000 men marched east into 5 years of captivity. In parts of the Highlands, nearly every family knew someone in the bag. They called it the lost division, and for decades many Scots quietly believed they had been sacrificed.

Two details worth knowing.

Fortune was offered better treatment as a general. He refused privileges and stayed with his men for the entire war, organizing care for the sick and keeping discipline in the camps. He was knighted from a hospital bed after liberation.

And in September 1944, the rebuilt 51st Highland Division was given one specific assignment, at the request of its commander. They liberated Saint-Valery-en-Caux. The pipers played in the same square where their brothers had surrendered four years earlier.

Dunkirk got the movie. These men got the long war.

Worth remembering them today.

[Tata Chemia @tata_chemia]

Here in Georgia our festivals are full, but our poets are in prison – and now we feel abandoned by Europe | Archil Kikodze, the prominent Georgian writer and a good friend of mine❤️ https://t.co/TWG8v53d4o

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

At the entrance to the historic grounds of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz I, visitors can see the first conserved postwar memory markers which until now had been located on authentic post-camp buildings or within the historic space of the former camp.

The first items placed there are: a stone from Jerusalem, left at the Museum in 1992 by Israeli President Chaim Herzog, which had been located in front of Block 27, as well as two plaques from the mid-1990s from the wall of Block 15, dedicated to scouts imprisoned in Auschwitz and members of the Home Army active in the area around the camp.

This is the second stage of an ongoing project involving the conservation and presentation of postwar commemorations to Museum visitors. All remaining plaques placed in the past on historic structures of the Memorial should be moved to the new location later this year.

“The priority of the work of the Auschwitz Museum is to protect the authenticity of the entire post-camp site and its original remains. This applies both to personal objects belonging to the victims and documents, as well as to historic buildings and ruins. In the past, especially during the first decades of the existance of the Museum, plaques, stones and small forms of commemoration were placed on the walls of some historic buildings and within the post-camp space. They were expressions of remembrance of various groups of victims, individuals and events connected with the history of Auschwitz. Over time, however, our conservation philosophy became established and matured,” said Museum Director Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński.

The plaques are located along the main visitor route, just outside the exit from the tunnel leading from the Visitor Services Center to the grounds of the former camp. Visitors to the Memorial can hear there the names of Auschwitz victims.

The last plaque of this kind on a historic building in the former Auschwitz I camp was placed in 1996. Later, the Museum decided to discontinue this form of commemoration on authentic structures.

More: https://t.co/07FfzzHCTH

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Mm TSN isn't working for me now.

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Seems like ICE arrived

[Next Gen Personal Finance @NextGenPF]

A fun FinCamp in Dallas yesterday led by Diamond and Tabitha. "This was the most helpful pd experience I've had in a while. Excellent information presented in an effective manner," said one attendee.

Next week, we head to Jacksonville, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Tampa!
https://t.co/VxmypDdiqQ

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@pbontoast1 Thanks for being there, hope you’re okay after that.

[Lucy 🇨🇦 @TheBlueGem3]

The same guy that was selling medical supplies for profit during Covid. Got it. What a circus.

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@hardyrenos @PaulJac64175722 At least Ukrainian is hitting military targets not like little ru