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Diving into WWII documentaries and literature feels like time-travel, unearthing pivotal moments that have shaped today’s world. The intricate layers of history are endlessly revealing and captivating. Who else enjoys unraveling history’s enduring mysteries? #HistoryBuff #WWII #TimeTravel 📚✨

This is a fascinating series, and just 15m an episode. I find it enduringly fascinating to understand the world I was born into, 21 years after the end of #WWII #history #podcasts
Politically: Postwar: Tr…

BBC Radio 4 - Politically, Postwar, Trailer
David Runciman tells the story of the 1945 election and the dawn of a new age.

Somebody needs to tell Trump WHY Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
#uspol #venezuela #trump #wwii

A friend’s dad told me a story the other week about his grandmother, who was part of the resistance against the fascist regime back in Italy during WWII.
She’d frequently have incriminating documents and plans in her house. One day, Mussolini’s soldiers were on patrol, knocking on doors of suspected resistance members and they came to inspect her house. She had a large map of a planned sabotage operation out in the living room.
So she had her husband open the door while she hid the map in the piano stool and sat down. When the authorities came in, she was playing the piano, welcoming them with a smile. She continued playing the entire time they searched the house, pretending it was in their honor.
Nobody asked to check the piano.
#history #WWII #Italy #fascism #ItalianHistory #Mussolini

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to the Honourable Cairine Reay Mackay Wilson who the first woman to be appointed to the Senate in Canada. Her appointment in 1930 marked the end of an era during which women in Canada were denied civil rights. Born in Montréal on February 4, 1885, into a wealthy Scottish-Canadian family, Cairine Reay Mackay married Norman F. Wilson, the Liberal Member of Parliament for Russell, Ontario, in 1909. In 1919, the Wilson family moved to Ottawa, where Mrs. Wilson soon became heavily involved in politics. Her privileged background did not stop her from publicly denouncing appeasement of Hitler, defying her own government to bring in #WWII Jewish refugees, or a lifetime commitment to child poverty and refugees. And she had time to fight for women's rights to be in government by founding the National Federation of Liberal Women of Canada in 1928 and the Twentieth Century Liberal Association in 1930.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairine_Wilson

#Snowmageddon has forced me to enjoy more coffee, relax in my sunroom, and binge on some YouTube content. This got injected into my feed, and because I was born in 1956, it's absolutely accurate. OK... it's bullshit since every generation has endured tough times. I mean, my parents grew up in the depression and survived #WWII. But if you were born in this time period - 1950 to 1969 - use this as proof of your emotional and physical superiority. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need a nap.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Toughness
https://youtu.be/cJFWGg-LQhY?si=JWLsqaGffl-qkPat

Good Morning #Canada
In 1896, gold was discovered on a tributary of the Klondike River, leading to tens of thousands of people (mostly Americans) racing north in the #KlondikeGoldRush. Canada feared that the United States would take control of the area (they purchased Alaska in 1867), so the Canadian government sent in the North-West Mounted Police to establish control of the region. The Klondike Gold Rush established the frontier town of Whitehorse, named for the rapids lying south of the settlement. On 13 June 1898, the Yukon Territory Act created Yukon as a separate Canadian territory and placed its capital at Dawson City. During #WWII Whitehorse became an important base of operations for the U.S. military as they built the Alaska Highway. Whitehorse was incorporated as a city in 1950, and in 1953, it became the capital of Yukon when the government was moved from Dawson City.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/whitehorse