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Dentist UK. LTW🌹.History nerd. I.C. member
Post-Brexit reliance on NHS staff from ‘red list’ countries is unethical, Streeting says
March 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation
March 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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London today.

Thank you for standing with #Ukraine!

📹: ukrainesol
February 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The community note 🤌😘
February 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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What a freaking year
December 27, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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[December 20th, 1944] Fritz Pfeffer, German dentist and Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank and her family and the Van Pels family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, died from enterocolitis in the Neuengamme concentration camp at the age of 55.

#history #OTD #WWII #1940s
December 21, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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For many, watching The Great Escape (1963) over the #Christmas period has become an annual tradition.

But, with real wartime experiences to draw on, for some of those involved in the film, the production inspired more than memories of seasonal cinema...

🧵 1/12
December 21, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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One of my favourite WW2 photographs is this group photo of some British Airborne at Oosterbeek.
They look like a great bunch of characters. 👍
December 10, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Farewell, then, Justin Welby. Good to see that you have already forgiven yourself | Marina Hyde
December 6, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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25 November 1900 | A Pole, Antoni Wieczorkiewicz, was born in Żychlin. An art historian, curator of Historical Museum of Warsaw).

In Auschwitz from 24 October 1941.
No. 21943
He perished in the camp on 22 March 1942.
November 25, 2024 at 7:00 AM
That feeling waking to only light snow and I have to head in to work
a man is covering his face with his hand and saying `` seriously '' .
ALT: a man is covering his face with his hand and saying `` seriously '' .
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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November 18, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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Getting ready to move house and it's really dawning on me how many books I have... 📚
November 18, 2024 at 7:41 AM
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November 18, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Very good read from a remarkable woman
November 16, 2024 at 7:51 PM