Category: Other interests
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WW1 Trucks and Logistics and Trucker Heroism
There is great heroism in non front line tasks – take this story upon Mr Reginald Horace Northcote from WW2. Via- https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/90/a3228590.shtml My Father was in Italy during the war as a driver with the North Devon Yeomanry and was attached to the British Fourth Division. He saw the bombing of Monte Cassino and entered Rome…
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How a cheesy joke from the 1830s became the most widely spoken word in the world.
OK is thought to be the most widely recognized word on the planet. We use it to communicate with each other, as well as our technology. But it actually started out as a language fad in the 1830’s of abbreviating words incorrectly. Young intellectuals in Boston came up with several of these abbreviations, including “KC”…
Tristan Hotham 