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Can't believe @kermodemovie.bsky.social missed out 'The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone' with Warren Beatty and Vivien Leigh & a surprising host of others on #Radio4 #Screenshot tonight...

June Tarpé Mills, (1918-1988) one of the first major US female comics artists, known for her action comic strip, Miss Fury, featuring the first female action hero created by a woman #womensart

a-fīndan, str.v: to find, detect, feel, experience. (ah-FEEN-dahn / a-ˈfiːn-dan) Image: St Helena’s discovery of the True Cross; Jean Beleth’s Vie des Saints; France (Paris), 1325-1340; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 17275, f. 290v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Josephine Baker (1906-1975), entertainer, French Resistance agent in WW2, civil rights activist and the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film 'Siren of the Tropics' #womensart

Putin's Useful Tool Extraordinaire... Fox News needs to re-play the footage of those "referendums" and interviews with refugee citizens from the occupied regions.

No amount of “404 Not Found” will wipe their bravery and achievement off the record. They were the Women Airforce Service Pilots and they will not be forgotten.

NEW: The Kremlin is weaponizing ongoing ceasefire negotiations and deliberately misrepresenting the status and terms of a future ceasefire agreement in order to delay and undermine negotiations for a settlement to the war. (1/3) Latest on Ukraine: isw.pub/UkrWar032125

Went to see the absolutely stunning reconstructions of Nubian early and high medieval textiles at the Dress to Impress exhibition that is now visiting Bode Museum in Berlin. The Warsaw team has done a splendid job bringing one of the most impressive bits of medieval history to life.

Stronger defense, including nuclear deterrence and forward-deployed forces, is Europe’s best chance to deter Russia and defend Ukraine from further attack, writes James Rogers of the Council on Geostrategy in his op-ed.

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One Russian newspaper today: “America now has more in common with Russia than Washington does with Brussels or with Kyiv.” #ReadingRussia

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Kremlin officials continue to amplify narratives indicating that Russian President Vladimir Putin remains committed to his long-standing goal of conquering Ukraine and is attempting to leverage upcoming ceasefire negotiations to secure preemptive concessions from Ukraine and the United States. (1/3)

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⚡️ Germany seizes Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker in Baltic Sea, Der Spiegel reports. The shadow fleet refers to aging and largely uninsured oil tankers that Russia uses to transport oil above the $60 per barrel price cap.

At least 234,145 civilians killed, and 177,021 still forcibly disappeared since March 2011 — Syrian Network for Human Rights Of those documented killed: 202,012 civilians were killed by Assad regime forces; 32,133 civilians killed by other parties to the conflict. snhr.org/blog/2025/03...

Yuko Shimizu, New York based award winning Japanese illustrator #womensart #Fridayfeeling

trum, adj: strong, firm, sound. (TRUM / ˈtrʌm) #OldEnglish #WOTD

Campaign group brings together the children of subpostmasters to meet Post Office minister to discuss redress for their suffering.... 👉 [read]

1/ On March 20, 2014, in Sevastopol, cadets of the Nakhimov Academy stood firm in their loyalty to Ukraine. While traitors raised the russian flag, these courageous young men defiantly sang the Ukrainian anthem. #CrimeaIsUkraine

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Putin will face ‘severe consequences’ for breaching any ceasefire with Ukraine, Starmer says www.itv.com/news/2025-03...

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📜 Sultan Abdulhamid II’s Rewarding of Louis Pasteur, Who Discovered the Rabies Vaccine, with 10,000 Francs and an Ottoman Order of the Medjidie, 1886 #History #Vaccine #Medicine #Health

🇬🇧 🍿🍿🍿 The Putinist-Trumper #ReformWars continue...

🇬🇧 Have you heard? #PenelopeKeith shot #JFK 😱

My most recent from @economist.com. #Trump #PutinIsaWarCriminal #ukraine #satire#cartoon

Happy Nowruz!

Glee and gloating in Russia. 🤮

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In Finland we have a saying:”Kel’ onni on, se onnen kätkeköön”, one who is happy should hide it. We are furious to be outed as being happy. We need to hide it better.

NEW: Russia & Ukraine have *not* formally announced the implementation of the temporary long-range strikes ceasefire. Ceasefires take time to negotiate, execute, and monitor and require both sides to agree to cease attacks on specified targets at a specific time and date. 🧵(1/3) isw.pub/UkrWar031925

It’s paperback pub day for #AgentZo! Whether you’re interested in history, women, war, Poland, Britain, leaps fm aircraft, leaps fm steam trains, microfilm hidden in cigarette lighters, children hidden in convents, men making passes, or mountain passes, Agent Zo has it!