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Showing posts with label The Tired Continent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Tired Continent. Show all posts
Friday, November 21, 2025

Regimental Steins Part Three - Corporal Dolland of the 167th

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Another regimental stein that my father acquired in post WW II Germany and brought home.  They are among the many things we found when clean...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Regimental Steins Part Two - Reservist Christman

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Photographing a one liter beer stein is not easy!  I've rather shortchanged the cool top on this. Of the two regimental steins my father...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Regimental Steins - Part One

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My dad picked up some antique beer steins when he served in Germany right after the war.  They even appear in the detailed inventory of thin...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Time Capsule - Button Box Part Three

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A non button item from the button box.  This is at first glance rather jarring to the eye.  We are accustomed to having medals display the n...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Time Capsule - Such Complicated Treason

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My "Time Capsule" posts are random by design.  They describe odd historic artifacts that I find, mostly in neglected cupboards and...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Time Capsule - Binoculars and a Story

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My 95 year old father in law is sharp of mind but his eyesight is not good.  When we were out to visit him in June he offered me a pair of b...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Belgium in Review

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A wrap up of my Belgian adventures.....how well did my pre-trip preparations work out?  And what kind of place is it anyway? In general my...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

The Finance Police on the Case!

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I guess its not exactly a secret that Italians are, shall we say, less than diligent in paying their taxes.  People who actually understand ...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Tourism in the Bandit Infested Hills

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I both admire and envy my more adventuresome friends.  They travel, seemingly without fear, to Laos and Tunisia and Antarctica.  They trek a...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Archaeological Chaos

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When we were in France last spring we took a side trip to a sleepy little town in the western part of the country.  It was once a site of mu...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Post Cards from World War I - Part Two

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Also from the Tongeren Flea market, a couple of French examples: Although undated you get the sense that this one was from early in the ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Postcards from World War One - Part I.

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Note:  European Flea Markets are a treasure trove for history lovers.  I am not sure how general the trend is but I ran across much more mat...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Verdun. Where 1916 can never end.

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If you sometimes wonder how the world got into its current sad state I can point you to the very spot where things went so badly astray.  It...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

Tree Shaped Tombstones - A Continental Specimen

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In a cemetery in small town France, It is similar to the "Rustic Cross" type seen in the states. It had some nice flour...