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Shortly after securing the beachhead on Guam in July of 1944, Marines of the 3rd Marine Division pose for a photograph with the American flag before returning to fight the enemy. 🇺🇸
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Corporal Desmond Doss, a medic with the 77th Infantry Division, has a resume that speaks for itself:
-Medal of Honor 🪖
- 2 Bronze Stars 🎖️
- 3 Purple Hearts 💜
- Saved 75 lives at Hacksaw Ridge🇺🇸
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A Marine sniper with the 3rd Marine Division poses with his rifle on Guam in 1945. 🪖
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82 years ago today, Marines dismount from an LVT at one of the Tinian invasion beaches…ready to meet the enemy. 🪖
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82 years ago today, the Marines wade ashore as the Battle of Tinian begins. 🪖
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#OnThisDay in 1969, US astronaut #NeilArmstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon, stepping down from #Apollo11.🚀
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#OnThisDay in 1403 King Henry IV of England defeats rebels in the Battle of Shrewsbury.⚔️
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#OnThisDay in 1942, the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins, as thousands are rounded up daily.
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#OnThisDay in 1940, Britain's 'Local Defence Volunteers' become the 'Home Guard' after Winston Churchill coins the name.🪖
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🪨 A ziggurat is a form of monumental architecture originating in ancient Mesopotamia, which usually had a rectangular base.
📝 Article by Joshua J. Mark.
📷 Photos 5 and 6 are ©️ by Mohawk Games and Ancient History Magazine / Karwansaray Publishers.
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With geysers from enemy shells erupting in the water & artillery exploding on the beach, General Patton waded through the surf at Gela in July of 1943. 🪖
At the sight of Patton, some men climbed out of their foxholes & charged across the dunes at the Germans, prompting a reporter to write: “I saw, for the first time, just how a brave general can turn the tide of battle by sheer leadership.” 🇺🇸
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During the Battle of Monte Cassino, a Sherman tank, shrouded in a protective smoke screen, waits to move forward into the fray. 🪖
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The #Iliad situates the #Trojan War on the coastal plain below the fortified city, widely identified with the archaeological site of #Troy (Hisarlık) in northwestern Anatolia, near the Dardanelles.
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🏛️ On this day in 356 BCE: The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is destroyed by arson.
📝 Article by Mark Cartwright.
📷 Photos by Faigl.ladislav and Carole Raddato.
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🎨 Sappho and Alcaeus, oil on panel by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1881.
Sappho and her companions are enraptured by the performance of the poet Alcaeus playing a kithara.
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
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In July of 1944, Marines take cover behind an advancing M4 Sherman medium tank, as they root out the enemy in the jungle on Guam. 🪖
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The grave of Pvt. Norman Mauer who was killed in action 82 years ago today in Normandy. 🇺🇸
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Captain James Stewart with pilots of his squadron in Marrakesh in 1943. ✈️
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In 1945, Sgt. Elvin Harley receives a kiss from a grateful French child while listening to the 9th Armored Division Band near Aboncourt, France. 🪖
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#OnThisDay in 1919, Edmund Hillary is born in Auckland, New Zealand. He became the first human, along with Tenzing Norgay, to reach the peak of #MountEverest.⛰️🥾
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#OnThisDay in 1925, Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the 150 mph land barrier.🏎️
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#OnThisDay in 1910, Pauline Mary de Peauly Gower Fahie, British pilot who established the women's branch of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War, is born.✈️
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#OnThisDay in 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie lands at Eriskay in the Hebrides, Scotland, to lay claim to the British throne.👑
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#OnThisDay in 1536, Henry FitzRoy, the only illegitimate child of Henry VIII ever acknowledged by his father, dies.
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82 years ago today, soldiers of the 29th Infantry Division watch over French civilians attending a Mass in Couvains, France. 🪖
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82 years ago today, Prime Minister Winston Churchill & General Bernard Montgomery talking to some of the troops who took part in the D-Day landings. 🪖
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83 years ago today, soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division get a warm welcome from the citizens of Sicily’s capital city Palermo. 🪖
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♟️ Happy International Chess Day!
♟️ Walrus ivory knight chess piece armed with a spear and kite-shaped shield from the Lewis series, found in Scotland, dated to c. 1150-1175. Photo by The British Museum, London.
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✨ Octavia Minor (circa 69 BCE to 11 BCE) was a Roman noblewoman who rose to prominence during the early years of the Roman Empire.
📝 Article by Harrison W. Mark.
📷 Photos by G.dallorto and J. Paul Getty Museum.
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👑 On this day in 548 CE: Empress Theodora I dies.
Theodora reigned as empress of the Byzantine Empire alongside her husband, Emperor Justinian I, from 527 CE until her death in 548 CE.
📝 Article by Mark Cartwright.
🖼️ Image by The Yorck Project.
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