The Solitary Vedette

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[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@AncientBritonX @nomadgeist Some 1,100 shipwrecked Armada survivors were captured by local authorities and on Queen Elizabeth I's orders immediately executed, many by hanging.

Some highborn were spared for ransom.

Only a few survived and managed to escape.

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@ESnomanu FIFA World Cup 2026

Fair Play Award (official)

NETHERLANDS

Thuggish Play Award (public sentiment)

ARGENTINA

Illustration credit: Omar Momani

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@hoyer_kat My sister was figure skater as a teenager

Our mother took us to World Figure Skating Championships Dordmund 1964

Marika Kilius & Hans-Jürgen Bäumler famous in their day successfully defended their title

Sjoukje Dijkstra 1964 Olympics ladies' singles gold became World Champion

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@EchoesofEmpire_ 'Viereinhalb Jahre (des Kampfes) gegen Lüge, Dummheit und Feigheit'

Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice

Publisher, Max Amann of the Franz Eher Verlag, suggested the shorter and simpler title 'Mein Kampf' (My Struggle)

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@FXMC1957 Saw this wonderfully exciting film on release

Watched it again and again over the decades

Breakout film that made him an international star

"Soldier of Orange" (1977)

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Starring:

Rutger Hauer-Jeroen Krabbé-Edward Fox-Susan Penhaligon-Derek de Lint

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@RomboutLuc In West Germany during entire Cold War military convoys, incl tank units, constantly drove on rural roads or the Autobahn

Caption:
A view of 3rd Armored Division M60A3 tanks and armored personnel carriers near the Sembach Air Base exit ramp 26 Apr 1982

Photo-MSGT Don Sutherland

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@orangenage2 @Roach_VDB "An estimated 25% (one in four) of British people have some degree of Irish ancestry."

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@10Pablito @Bayous01parody "There are approximately 17,895 people born in Argentina living in the UK, according to the Latin American migration to the United Kingdom data from the 2021/2022 UK Census."

This is an undercount as many migrate to UK with EU passports i.e. from Italy, Spain.

UK 10,000 in 2014

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@visionpaischile 2018 - Pres. Mauricio Macri stated

"We are all descendants from Europe"

2021 - Pres. Alberto Fernández said

"Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians from the jungle, but we Argentines came from the boats"

Fernández (L) receives presidential scepter from Macri (R)

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@VoicesofWW2 Family in Singapore late 19th cent. till independence

Dad's cousin wed Navy officer there early 1930s

He observed many Japanese fishing/research boats

Wrote Director of Naval Intelligence attack by land possible

Reply 'over-exercising his imagination'

He became vice admiral!

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@pritipatel Burnham

“this country does not work for working-class communities”

Labour Party elite have vested interest keeping people in that category on whose votes they count

UK is backward

In most developed Western nations people consider themselves middle class or aspire to become it

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@cyrusalnitak @LIZZIEM64948585 @COLRICHARDKEMP HAMAS bootlicker that's you and a loser to boot.

Israel is here to stay unlike you and the terrorists you support.

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@guillermo93e @UnionAtWarV2 Homicide rate 2025

MEXICO: 17.5 murders per 100,000 inhabitants 🇲🇽

abt 20,600 to 23,370 victims (lowest since 2016)

SPAIN: abt 0.64 to 0.70 per 100,000 inhabitants 🇪🇸

abt 300 to 350 victims (amongst lowest in Europe & world)

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@rodolfocarter Argentina found out the hard way taking on the British military.

It would come out second best again if it ever took on the Chilean armed forces.

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@VentureWeb3 @FabrizioRomaxno China are indeed great losers to Japan

Learn to play before talking about character!

FIFA World Cup Qualifying

Sep 2024 Japan 7 - China 0

Nov 2024 China 1 - Japan 4

2026 AFC U-23 Asian Cup Final

Jan 2026 China 0 - Japan 4
https://t.co/00hDQqZYjq

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@AnandVe43560402 @WolfofX Sure is!

Saw him play for Spurs, Gunners, and Northern Ireland in 1970s.

One of the great keepers at the time.

Always wore his hair longish, as we did in those days, and he continued to do so after it turned grey.

Longhaired footballers looked so much cooler than today's lot.

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@MovieKnight1263 @LouiseMensch @FennellJW Contemporary Frankish annals/Norman histories almost exclusively record Viking men marrying local Gallo-Romance/Frankish women

Norse wives/children not mentioned as in chronicles about Norse in Iceland & Danelaw England

Children born spoke French allowing rapid assimilation

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@Patrick12131682 @MilitaryCooI "Were it a Frenchman I would just piss on his face"

You are either mentally disturbed and/or have the same mindset as the Jihadis we eventually overcame.

[The Solitary Vedette @TrooperGrey1]

@lauren_tho4607 "Car 54, Where are you?"

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@NAFOvoyager 1944, doomed German 17th Army could've been evacuated by sea but Hitler refused permission till last moment when too late

He listened to OKW year before permitting it to be evacuated to Crimea across Kerch Straits from Kuban

Army Group Africa shared same fate permission refused