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WECDIS on the Royal Navy’s Bridge Simulator at @HMS_Collingwood
Quoted tweet via @usgraphics - Their Berkeley Mono type face would look awesome here
Falkland CTG 317.8 GOP 141400Z JUN82, General Operating Plan of all ships directly involved with recapture of Falkland Island at time of surrender by Argentine forces. Seen at @RoyalNavy communications museum, HMS Collingwood, Mercury building. cc @orbatmapper, @spatialillusion
Giving the “new” @panasonic CF-20 Toughbook a “field-test” courtesy of @spatialillusion and @orbatmapper. Here’s to the #orbatboys 🍻
I need this.
Mustache cups from the Victorian era (1837-1901) in the United Kingdom.
The device sat inside the cup and allowed one to drink from it while keeping their mustache dry. It was invented in the 1860s by British potter, Harvey Adams. Mustaches were extremely popular during the Victorian era. So much so that the British military mandated all its soldiers to grow one from 1860 to 1916. These soldiers would often apply mustache wax which kept all the facial hairs tidy and in place. Drinking hot liquids like tea or coffee would often melt the wax, which would then slowly drip into the cup. Mustache stains were also another major concern for coffee/tea drinkers during this time.
The 1860 book "Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness" declared that mustaches must "never be curled, nor pulled out to an absurd length. Still worse is it to cut them close with the scissors. The mustache should be neat and not too large."
French writer, Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) once said, "A man without a mustache is no longer a man," and noted that their kisses "have no flavor, none whatever!"
Starting in World War I, soldiers began to shave their mustaches instead of trying to groom them while living in the trenches. Production for these cups continued to decline after the war as mustaches began to go out of fashion.
🇩🇪 Frigate Hessen, 🇩🇰frigate Niels Juel, and 🇳🇱 frigate HNLMS Tromp alongside at Southampton docks yesterday
What a fantastic image. Pompey has changed so much but still can easily make out places like the Bridge Tavern in the Camber and submarines at HMS Dolphin.
Relatable right now with No.3 recently joining the crew here
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Remember younger me reading about the Curie’s in encyclopaedias (pre-Internet!) She discovered the element Polonium and named it for her native homeland of Poland, which at the time was not an independent state; hoping that doing so would highlight Polands lack of independence.
Guess who shook up the world of science and shattered glass ceilings? The amazing 🇵🇱 Maria Skłodowska-Curie!
#OTD in 1903 she made history as the first woman to obtain a PhD in physics from the University of Paris.
Let's honor her legacy and support more women in science! 👩🔬
A few years ago there was a fantastic documentary (one of a series, I think possibly narrated by Michael Gambon??) about the development of K-3 and the USS Nautilus; I've been looking for it for ages but can't even remember what it was called.
#Navy #Museum #Submarine The museum exposition of the project 627 (November-Class) SSN submarine "Leninsky Komsomol" (K-3) in Kronstadt,🇷🇺Russia is almost ready to receive its first visitors.
Stunning pic, cc @sage_solar
A farewell flight through Southern Snowdonia for the @RoyalAirForce last few C-130 Hercules transport aircraft yesterday. Photographed approaching Talyllyn en route to RAF Valley - Photographed by Dave Thurlow
Just an hour or so later and I’d had a chance of seeing them over water. Oh well…fair winds and all that to the legendary Hercy Bird in RAF service.
@RoyalAirForce A tad bit off of the advertised flight plan over the south coast for the #Hercules farewell flypast this afternoon, so sadly didnt get to see them near Chichester. Still great that they managed to get one final lap of blighty, and on a fantastic day too! ✈️✈️✈️☀️🇬🇧
