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Nor cornflakes. 😃
Actually regardless of how strange this must appear people still need to eat and milk helps fit that bill, especially for children.
 
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I was just watching the Call the Midwife episode about the Great Freeze in London (1962-63) and how the milkmen couldn’t get through. The housewives were quite put out, since the milkmen had made their rounds before while climbing over the bombing rubble.
 
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I was just watching the Call the Midwife episode about the Great Freeze in London (1962-63) and how the milkmen couldn’t get through.
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That was one heck of a winter .

At school there was no football because of frozen pitches , so we had to do cross-country running instead , but there was a cafe in the park opposite the school into which we would sneak and enjoy a hot Bovril . 😄

I had an aunt who was without running water for three months because her pipes underground were frozen .

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Deaf and blind American activist, writer and lecturer Helen Keller meets with Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States.

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Cars are supposed to carry people, but in Nepal people carried cars on the rocky, hilly trail from Kathmandu.

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Spectators standing upon tables to get a glimpse of the Versailles Treaty being signed, France, 1919…

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The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the deadliest battle in American history, began on this date in 1918

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The Kayan Lahwi people, also known as Padaung, are an ethnic group with populations in Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand. Padaung women are well-known for wearing neck rings, brass coils that are placed around the neck, appearing to lengthen it. The women wearing these coils are known as “giraffe women.” This set of photographs is taken in 1935 when a group of Padaung women visited London. In the 1930s, circuses and shows were extremely popular in the United Kingdom and these women, advertised as “giraffe women,” were star attractions, drawing huge crowds.

In their most distinctive custom, beginning at about five years of age, many Padaung girls have their necks wound with spirals of brass. (In earlier days, copper and gold were used as well.) A bedinsayah (spirit doctor) puts the coils into place on a day determined by divination to be auspicious. The first spiral, put on a girl at the age of five or so, is usually about four inches high (10 cm); in approximately two years, another coil is added. Coils are then added sporadically until a limit of 21-25 is reached, at the age of marriage. The spiral may reach to a foot in height (30 cm) and weigh 20 pounds (9kg); this gives the illusion of a stretched neck. but the actual effect is that of pushing down the collarbones and rib cage to distort the chest and slope the shoulders. The neck itself is not lengthened; the appearance of a stretched neck is created by the deformation of the clavicle (chest) and the sloping of the shoulders.

The coil, once on, is seldom removed, as the coiling and uncoiling is a lengthy procedure. It is usually only removed to be replaced by a new or longer coil. The muscles covered by the coil become weakened.

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My maternal grandfather was wounded in that battle just days before the armistice. He was with the 42nd (Rainbow) Division 168th Infantry Regiment and arrived in France with the division in Nov 1917. He was an immigrant from Germany and had relatives serving on the other side.
I find The Great War fascinating and have done quite a bit of research into the thing (mostly my family’s involvement).
 
At the end of World War Two the city of Dresden was in ruins, all its buildings destroyed and thousands of civilians dead. The order by Allied commanders to heavily bomb Dresden towards the end of the war has become one of the most controversial decisions made in the European theatre .

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Toffs and Toughs – The photo that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937…

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Katharine , Duchess of Kent …the wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who is a grandson of King George V and Queen Mary, and first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

Katharine was the highest ranking royal since the Reformation to become a Catholic when she was received into full communion with the Catholic Church in 1994 .

I took this photo after Mass in 2008 when I was in Dorchester on Thames , Oxfordshire , for the wedding of a cousin .

It was a delight for me to be able to speak to her , not least of all because she was one of my mum’s favourite royals .

When I told her of my mum’s view of her , she said that it would always be a delight for her to be able to carry my mum’s thoughts in her memory .

It was a delight for me to have met her .

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Abolitionist John Brown (1846) his attempt at ending slavery via armed insurrection failed, but it did help bring about the civil war that did end it.
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Hansom cabs drive through overcast streets on a rainy day in London, 1903.

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Street Doctor, London, 1877 Notice his shorter leg and shoe

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Brooklyn Bridge under construction , 1877 .

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