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In September 1992, band Pearl Jam threw a free concert in Seattle's Magnusson Park with more than 70,000 in attendance.
During the show, lead singer Eddie Vedder performed a death-defying feat. He climbed the stage scaffolding with 100 feet of microphone cable trailing behind him, looped it over the top, rappelled down, and swung out over the audience.
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1941 - British Matilda tanks are loaded onto a ship for transportation to the Soviet Union at the port of Liverpool. On October 13, the convoy's ships set sail for the USSR, and on October 30, they delivered the equipment to the harbor of Arkhangelsk. One of the first British convoys of Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union. Some 40% of the tanks defending Moscow from the Nazi invasion in December 1941 were British.
2023 - The first shipment of Bradley armoured fighting vehicles from the US port of North Charleston is being loaded onto a ship for delivery to Ukraine. Deliveries of military equipment are being made to aid Ukraine in its defense against Russian invasion.
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1944 — Parisians congregated at Place de la Concorde following the liberation of the city in August 25 to view a captured Nazi Panther tank on display.
2022 — People look at Russian armored military vehicles that were destroyed in fights with the Ukrainian army, displayed on Khreshchatyk street, in downtown Kyiv, ahead of the Independence Day, August 20.
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1943 - Onboard a US Air Force plane, Flight nurse, Lt. Katye Swope checks on patients during the evacuation from Sicily to Africa for further treatment. Flight nurses were truly ahead of their time, operating under their own authority and outranking male surgical technicians. Prior to takeoff, a flight surgeon briefed the nurse on each patient's condition and during the flight, she was responsible for ensuring the patients' safety and comfort.
2022 - Paramedics Maria Danchyna and Olena Gerasymyuk from the "Hospitallers" battalion are providing medical assistance to wounded soldiers in a medical evacuation bus during the evacuation from the combat zone in eastern Ukraine.
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Amidst the ruins of the Azovstal plant, with sunlight shining through the holes in the shell-damaged roof, a Ukrainian soldier stands firm in defense of Mariupol with unwavering determination, May 2022 @facethenation
February 24 marks one year since the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It was a year of pain, sorrow, faith, and unity. And this year we remained invincible. We know that 2023 will be the year of our victory!
Stand with Ukraine.
Together we will win!
Слава Україні! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Be Humanity
1940 – A lady member of the London Auxilliary Ambulance Service holds a Kitten saved after a daylight raid in London.
2022 – A cat was rescued from 7th floor of a house shelled by the Russian army in the ruined Borodyanka near Kyiv. So a cat lived for almost two months. The animal does not have any injuries or wounds.
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1941 — Burning Ukrainian village on Eastern Front during the Nazi occupation, World War II.
2022 — Local residents look on as smoke rises after shelling Ukrainian village on Eastern Front during full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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1940 — A man plays a piano amid the destruction wrought by Germany's bombs on the Blitz, London.
2022 — A man plays a piano outside a house damaged after a Russian bombing in Velyka Kostromka village, May 19.
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1944 — A woman fleeing the burning buildings of her French town, which German troops had set afire during their retreat on June 10.
2022 — A cyclist rides past flames and smoke rising from a fire following Russian artillery fire in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on March 25.
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1940 — Young boys swing from a lamp post in the midst of rubble left by a bombing raid on London during the Blitz.
2022 — Children play in front of a building damaged in fighting in the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol, on March 23.
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1943 — A woman weeps in front of her burning house during the nazi occupation of the Soviet Union in World War II.
2022 — A woman cries as she stands in front of a house that caught fire after being hit by russian shells in Irpin, near Ukraine's capital Kyiv.
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History Matters
1940 — On the night of October 14, a bomb penetrated the road and exploded in Balham London Underground station. During 1940's Battle of Britain, Luftwaffe bombers tried to destroy British air power ahead of a planned invasion of the UK. When that failed, Hitler resorted to terror attacks on civilians, including the full-scale bombing of London and other UK towns. The attacks killed tens of thousands of Britons, but "The Blitz" fizzled: the invasion never materialized.
2022 — Tram depot in Kharkiv after shelling by the Russian troops. Russia states that in Ukraine, they fire only at military facilities and do not launch any missile, air, or artillery strikes on cities and villages. Russian troops are shelling residential areas, schools, hospitals, maternity hospitals, kindergartens, cultural monuments, etc. And these aren’t one-off incidents; such attacks are common.
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Nerves of Steel
1940 — Lieutenant Robert Davies of the bomb disposal unit stands on a 1200-pound German time bomb (to keep the point from the ground) as members of his unit hoist it up from the grounds of the hospital in London.
2022 — Ukrainian demining team defuse 500-kg Russian aircraft bomb that did not detonate when it landed on an apartment building in March 4 in Kharkiv.
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1943 — Nazi German soldiers after the capture of Zhytomyr in north-west Ukraine during counterattack by the Wehrmacht towards Kyiv.
2022 — Russian soldiers walks along a street in Mariupol under occupation after a three-months siege and heavy shelling that virtually wiped out the city.
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1943 — Germany's mechanized infantry on a Sd.Kfz. 251 armoured half-track with swastika flag, at the eastern front. The Germans used swastika flag to identify armor for the Nazi German Air Force.
2022 — Russian army troops are seen atop of an armoured vehicle with the symbol of russian military invasion aggression "Z" painted on its side during the battle for Mariupol.
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August 18, 1941 - Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station was destroyed by Red Army without prior evacuation of the population. The explosion of 20 tons of explosives on dam created a breach measuring 175 meters in length and 21 meters in height, resulting in a nearly 6-meter wave rushing downstream and causing the destruction of buildings in the coastal zone. Explosion was intended to halt the advance of German forces. Although it did not affect the German army's progress, it led to the death of over 20,000 civilians and Red Army soldiers who were located downstream.
June 6, 2023 - Russian troops detonated the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station on the Dnieper River. This act of military aggression has led to the largest European ecological catastrophe in decades. There are 80 populated areas within the affected zone, and 40,000 people require evacuation. Water from Kakhovka reservoir was used for cooling the reactors of a nearby nuclear power plant.
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„All Quiet on the Eastern Front“
1917 — On the battlefield during the third battle of Ypres. The rain continued for three weeks. Soldiers struggled through heavy, sticky mud that reached up to their waists. Men, horses, tanks and other vehicles literally drowned in the mud. Photos have become the embodiment of the battle and the entire World War I.
2022 — On the battlefield near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. Brutal fighting has been going on for Bakhmut since August. The sight of trenches, endless mud and mass destruction is reminiscent of World War I, but that's the reality in Ukraine today.
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1940 - During the Blitz, the British Army used searchlight stations to spot enemy planes and guide anti-aircraft fire. These stations were strategically placed throughout the country and were manned by soldiers and volunteers. The searchlights were powerful enough to illuminate targets up to 20 miles away and were a key part of the UK's defense against German air raids.
2023 - Ukrainian servicemen in Kyiv are using searchlights to search for drones in the sky above the city. Modern air defense systems that utilize radar and missiles are not effective against low-cost mass-produced drones. The use of searchlights and anti-aircraft guns to combat drones feels reminiscent of the tactics used during World War II.
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Instead of buildings, only ruins were left behind.
1944 — The destruction of Warsaw in 1944 was primarily caused by the German forces, who were occupying the city at the time and launched a brutal military campaign against the Polish resistance fighters. The Nazis systematically destroyed much of the city, including historic landmarks, public buildings, and residential areas, and killed tens of thousands of civilians.
2023 — The town of Maryanka in eastern Ukraine has been completely destroyed by shelling from Russian occupation forces. The town is now deserted. Just a year ago, almost 10,000 people lived in Maryanka.
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1935 — Nazi planes formed a swastika 卐 during an parade before Hitler during the Nazi Party Congress. At their party rally Hitler announced new Race Laws. Nazi Germany started to prepare for a big war.
2022 — Russian army are rehearsing for parade on May 9 in Moscow. They train to fly planes in the form of the "Z" symbol for supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Just like the Nazis did in the form of a swastika.
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1941 — In the coastal city of Odessa in Ukraine, children help to build sandbag barricades against the advancing Nazi during Operation Barbarossa.
2022 — Odessa residents fill bags with sand to prepare their frontlines against Russian forces. Sandbags will be used to protect strategic points and barricades on the streets of Odessa in anticipation of a attack on the city.
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1940 — Nazi used symbol "V" during the occupation of France and Poland in the early years of World War II. Translate: “Germany is victorious on all fronts.”
2022 — Today the symbol "V" use by the Russian government as a war propaganda motif and symbol of support for Russia's invasion. Translate: "For Victory", "Our strength is in truth."
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1944 — A girl and her pet cat. A war orphan walks through the ruins of a house after the Germans had gone.
2022 — The 12-year-old boy holds a cat standing on the debris of his house destroyed by Russian forces shelling in the outskirts of Chernihiv, April 13.
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Evacuation trains from war zone
1940 — Millions of people were evacuated when Britain was bombed by nazi during World War II. The mass evacuations were intended to keep British children safe – or safer, theoretically – from German air raids, while their parents stayed behind to work and help out with war efforts.
2022 — Thousands of Ukrainians pour into train station fleeing war-ruined Kharkiv. Russian invasion of Ukraine has driven more than 6 million people out of the country.
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History Matters
1944 — The worst attack on Britain came on November 25, when a German V2 rocket bomb made a direct hit on a crowded Woolworths store in South London, killing 168 and razing the building to the ground. The V2 rocket was 14 metres high and carried a 910 kg of explosives.
2022 — The Russian military forces hit with a Kh-22 cruise missile Kremenchuk shopping mall in Poltava region on June 27, killed at least 20 civilians; dozens more are still unaccounted for. The Kh-22 missile has a length of 12 meters and a high-explosive cumulative mass of 960 kg.
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1943 — A huge explosion shakes the beach at Kwajalein 🇯🇵 during the combined US Marine-Army invasion of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. Kwajalein was especially well fortified by Japanese.
2022 — Russia attacks chemical plant during an air strike near Ukrainian town of Rubizhne in the Luhansk region, on April 9. Plumes of toxic gas blow through sky. The wind blew the nitric acid back over Russian positions.
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1944 — Family stand over wreckage in London 🇬🇧 after random bombs of the nazi night raids during World War II.
2016 — Family look at a destroyed building in Aleppo's northeastern Haydariya 🇸🇾 neighbourhood as they head to check their house for the first time in four years on December 4.
2022 — Family look at the damage following a rocket attack on a residential building in Kyiv 🇺🇦 on February 25.
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1940 — A soldier home on leave from the British Expeditionary Force, says goodbye to his baby son at the evacuation point in Greater London during World War II.
2022 — A Ukrainian police officer says goodbye to his son as his family flees from advancing russian troops, in the town of Irpin outside Kyiv, March 8.
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1940 — Reusel, like many other Netherlands 🇳🇱 towns, such as Rotterdam, was destroyed by German air force during World War II.
2016 — A man rides a bicycle near buildings damaged by a Russian airstrike in the rebel-held al-Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria 🇸🇾 on October 19.
2022 — A man rides a bicycle through the rubble after Russian attack in Mariupol, Ukraine 🇺🇦
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1941 — Northern Ireland woman Denise Weston Austin kept a baby elephant in her backyard. She took a elephant 🐘 named Sheila home everyday from Belfast Zoo to keep it from being destroyed during the Belfast Blitz. The Belfast Blitz consisted of four German air raids on strategic targets in the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland, in April and May 1941, causing high casualties. Both would survive the bombs of the Luftwaffe and live long after the end of World War II.
2022 — Animal keeper Kyrylo Trantin comforts an elephant 🐘 named Horace at the Kyiv Zoo on March 1. With his enormous ears and sensitive disposition, Horace is particularly vulnerable to loud noises. So a staff member moves into the elephant’s enclosure with him each night, sleeping beside him to comfort him during any loud bangs. When he wakes up in distress, they feed him apples and chat to him until they sense he’s relaxed.
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