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Donetsk (great football team there now) in Ukraine grew up around a steel works built by a Welch industrialist....
Its first name was Hughesovka....The industrialists name..

When the German 6th Army was lost at Stalingrad....Hitler insisted that another 6th Army be formed....
That Army was destroyed at the battle of Kherson.....It was virtually surrounded, many of its survivors had to swim across an absolutely freezing river where hundreds were drowned....
The Belgian SS divisions there never really played any part in the rest of the war...

[rasher]

Are you on TikTok Rash?

Sorry I don’t know what that is

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Donetsk (great football team there now) in Ukraine grew up around a steel works built by a Welch industrialist....
Its first name was Hughesovka....The industrialists name..

The word ''vaccine'' comes from the Latin word for cow.....

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The word ''vaccine'' comes from the Latin word for cow.....

The ''French foreign legion'' earned their first battle honours.....in Mexico...

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The ''French foreign legion'' earned their first battle honours.....in Mexico...

Mao Zedong's first name comes from the Chinese word for cat (meeeeow)..

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Mao Zedong's first name comes from the Chinese word for cat (meeeeow)..

When the height of Mount Everest was first surveyed the team came up with a round figure.....Three feet was added to that figure to make it more believable...

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When the height of Mount Everest was first surveyed the team came up with a round figure.....Three feet was added to that figure to make it more believable...

When the centre of Paris was being redeveloped people were moved from the old houses and had to live outside Paris.....The traders and artisans then had to come into Paris to do their business....They were then taxed on their wares....

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When the height of Mount Everest was first surveyed the team came up with a round figure.....Three feet was added to that figure to make it more believable...

Interesting Quinner, do you know why three feet rather than any other amount

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Interesting Quinner, do you know why three feet rather than any other amount

Not really.....

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A group of hippos is called a "bloat."

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A group of Flamingos is called a “flamboyance “

[Vico2]

Not really.....

ok just wondered thanks

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A group of crows is called a parliament

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A group of crows is called a parliament

Very wisely named....

The last crusade ordered by the Pope was to what are today the Baltic States....
Most of the Crusaders were the army of the German Junkers (young Dukes )

Gibraltar is named after a Muslim invader called Tarik....Jebel el Tarik ( the hill of Tarik)....Though he was once a Christian.....

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Very wisely named....

The last crusade ordered by the Pope was to what are today the Baltic States....
Most of the Crusaders were the army of the German Junkers (young Dukes )

Gibraltar is named after a Muslim invader called Tarik....Jebel el Tarik ( the hill of Tarik)....Though he was once a Christian.....

When Queen Elizabeth the first, all dressed up in magnificent armour made her famous speech...''I have the body of a woman etc.''..The Armada was already beaten...