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Wednesday 21 August 1963

Detectives hunting the £2,600,000 train robbers are now looking for an attractive woman, aged between 30 and 40, who played a big part in the planning of the raid. She is a natural brunette, but often wears a blonde wig. The woman is known to detectives, and Scotland Yard hope to locate her in the next 48 hours.

The SS policeman who hunted his criminal comrades from within the Nazi system itself.

A biography recounts the extraordinary career of Konrad Morgen, who brought 200 SS members to trial, including concentration camp commandants, and even dared to investigate Adolf Eichmann.

mediafaro.org/article/20250820

Himmler (second from left) visits the Dutch SS training center, Avegoor, accompanied by German SS recruiting officer Gottlob Berger (third from left) and Reich Commissioner for the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart (first from left).
El País · The SS policeman who hunted his criminal comrades from within the Nazi system itself.By Jacinto Antón

The first iron-hulled, screw-driven ocean-going steamer was uniquely successful on the Britain-Australia route as a steam-assisted sailing ship rather than a sail-assisted steamship, according to economic historian Tim Hatton in his 2025 Butlin lecture that draws from both economic & business history!
doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70009

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #Australia #NZ #Auspol

Last weekend, I visited Waltham Abbey. The church there is a lovely building, much of which is in the early Norman style. It was built in around 1090, and I was particularly taken with the decorated columns and arches in the nave, which reminded me of Durham Cathedral. One of the guardians I met told me that many of the masons who had worked here went on to work in Durham - so I guess this may have acted as some kind of 'practice piece'.

I've been swinging these around for a couple of weeks now. They're fun! Commonly called Indian or light clubs, they've slowly been growing in popularity again lately. Inspired by Indian #PhysicalCulture, they were adopted into military training in India, Britain, Australia, Canada, and the US until after WWI, were the first fitness trend (for both men & women), and included in the Olympics (1904, 1932). They even became weapons used by the suffragette bodyguard. suffrajitsu.com/indian-clubs/ #History

FFS did the orange amoeba actually say that the Smithsonian focuses too much on "how bad slavery was"?

It is unconscionable that any human on our entire planet could think such a thing.

Everyday in every way I am thoroughly disgusted to my core by his abhorent, monsterous behaviour.

nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/poli

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.
The New York Times · Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’By Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Did you know that the most incapable #Roman emperor was an ancient-day Marie Antoinette?

Emperor Honorius' imperial career was marked by constant, unwise moves, enraging everyone.

In 410 AD, #Rome fell to Alaric of the Visigoths. The city had not been under foreign rule for 800 years.

When informed of the sacking, Honorius initially thought it was about one of his favourite chickens, named Roma. After confirming that it was the city, not the bird, that fell, he sighed in relief.*