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Sunday, November 3, 2013

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de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


Thousands of people evacuated from their homes in Germany after discovery of 4,000lb World War Two bomb
Thousands of people have been offered shelter in the Westfalen Hall, in Dortmund after being forced from their homes
The massive piece of ordnance was spotted by experts scouring old aerial photographs of Dortmund, searching for unexploded bombs dropped on the Ruhr by the Allies.





Huge montage of reconnaissance photos taken by RAF pilots ahead of D-Day storming of Gold beach sells for £3,000

The annotated pictures picked out important landmarks, towns, German gun emplacements and beach exits
The 20ft long photo panorama was taken in March 1944 by RAF pilots flying just 10ft above the waves in planes with cameras fitted inside the nose cones.






Chinese authorities have dug up dozens of British war graves and used the headstones for building, says son of submariner who died in 1933

HMS Proteus
Charles Sells Jr, from Plymouth, wants to knoe the whereabouts of his father's remains after his grave was allegedly dug up at a British navy cemetery in Weihaiwei.








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