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re: History in Pictures is a great twitter feed. Here is one just posted.

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Posted by ReauxlTide222
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:48 pm to
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Nazi SA members from the looks of it. Looks like a Chirstmas feast.


Was it too easy?
Posted by Darth_Vader
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:49 pm to
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Russia

The Aurora


Correct.

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Have no clue as to her significance.


She fired the signal shot to begin the assault on the Winter Palace during the October Revolution.
Posted by Darth_Vader
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:50 pm to
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Was it too easy?


Well the brown shirts were a give away that they were SA members. And the table looked like a traditional German setting for Christmas.
Posted by Macphisto
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:50 pm to
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She fired the signal shot to begin the assault on the Winter Palace during the October Revolution.



From the Kronstadt naval base off of Petrograd, I presume? There's a documentary on Netflix about the sailors that precipitated the assault. They set up their own little fiefdom at the base.
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Posted by Spaceman Spiff
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:51 pm to
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Posted by Ace Midnight
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:51 pm to
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Posted by ReauxlTide222
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91527 posts
Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:52 pm to
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Well the brown shirts were a give away that they were SA members. And the table looked like a traditional German setting for Christmas.


Yes would have worked

I'm gonna find a good one dammit
Posted by Darth_Vader
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:52 pm to
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From the Kronstadt naval base off of Petrograd, I presume? There's a documentary on Netflix about the sailors that precipitated the assault. They set up their own little fiefdom at the base.



Bingo. She is still there as a fully restored museum piece...



Posted by Spaceman Spiff
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:53 pm to
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I'm gonna find a good one dammit


Stop with the red x's please...
Posted by Darth_Vader
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:55 pm to
Here's a good one...



What is this? What country made it and what was it for?
Posted by Spaceman Spiff
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:56 pm to
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What is this? What country made it and what was it for?


I am going the extremely lazy route and say this is in the U.S. during the Civil War; observation balloon.
Posted by Macphisto
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:57 pm to
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What is this? What country made it and what was it for?



Civil war observation balloon? Or from the Franco-Prussian War?
Posted by Darth_Vader
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:57 pm to
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I am going the extremely lazy route and say this is in the U.S. during the Civil War; observation balloon.


No x3.
Posted by Darth_Vader
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:57 pm to
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Civil war observation balloon? Or from the Franco-Prussian War?


No & No
Posted by Ace Midnight
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:58 pm to
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What is this?


I'm going to go out on a limb and say, "balloon".

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What country made it and what was it for?


Posted by Spaceman Spiff
Savannah
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:58 pm to


Well I have no clue...and am not going to cheat by looking it up.
Posted by LSUTygerFan
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:58 pm to
Posted by Macphisto
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Member since Jul 2005
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:58 pm to
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No & No



I just cheated...that's a good one!
Posted by Macphisto
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:59 pm to
That's a nuclear bomb test site...Los Alamos?
Posted by Darth_Vader
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 1:59 pm to
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say, "balloon".


Yes, but what kind of balloon? Whats it's purpose? And no, aliens did not build it.
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