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@Addick05Peter

Lifelong Charlton fan. Also keen military historian, specialising in the American Civil War. Enjoy country walks with family; good pubs and restaurants.

Bromley, London Katılım Nisan 2018
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London init geezer@Miketyson2007·
It’s mine and the Mrs wedding anniversary today … 36 years … I was a teenager 🤣🤣🤣
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PeterSweden@PeterSweden7·
SURPRISE. Tommy Robinson is organizing a Unite the Kingdom rally this weekend. Now police say they will use live facial recognition cameras to identify people. This will be the first time they have ever done this for a protest. Orwellian.
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Hidden History
Hidden History@HiddenHistoryYT·
161 years ago today, more Americans died in a single night than on the Titanic. The country barely noticed. April 27, 1865. 2 a.m. The steamboat Sultana is churning up the Mississippi just north of Memphis. She is rated to carry 376 passengers and 85 crew, 461 souls total. On board that night: roughly 2,130. Three of her four boilers explode almost simultaneously. The men packed onto her decks aren't tourists. They're Union POWs, just released from Andersonville and Cahaba, the worst prisons of the Civil War. Many are skeletons. They survived starvation, dysentery, and up to 23 months of hell. They are going home. Most of them never make it. The blast hurls bodies into the air, collapses the smokestacks, and sets the rest of the boat on fire. The river is high and ice-cold from the spring snowmelt. Survivors fight hypothermia, drowning, burning debris, and each other. Men too weak to swim grab anything that floats. Some drown within sight of the Arkansas shore. The death toll: roughly 1,800. The Titanic killed about 1,500. Here's what makes it sting: The Sultana was overloaded on purpose. A corrupt Vicksburg quartermaster named Reuben Hatch took kickbacks to pack the boat. Other steamers waiting at the same dock left nearly empty. When investigators came for him, he resigned and walked away. Reuben's older brother was Ozias Hatch, Abraham Lincoln's close personal friend. No one was ever punished. The boilers themselves had been patched in Vicksburg with a shortcut repair. Captain J. Cass Mason wanted to keep his lucrative government contract. He died in the explosion. And here's why you've never heard of any of this. Look at the calendar: April 14: Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theatre. April 15: Lincoln dies. April 26: John Wilkes Booth is cornered and killed in a Virginia barn. April 27: the Sultana explodes. The country was emotionally exhausted. The war was ending. The victims were obscure enlisted men from Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, West Virginia. The papers ran the disaster on page 6 and moved on within days. The Mississippi shifted course over the next century. Today, the wreckage of the deadliest maritime disaster in American history sits buried about 32 feet beneath an Arkansas soybean field, two miles from the modern river. No marker. No monument on the spot. The new Sultana Disaster Museum opens in Marion, Arkansas this fall. Tonight, somewhere around 2 a.m. Central, it will be exactly 161 years.
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Grifty
Grifty@TheGriftReport·
Porth, South Wales: a small town now has 14 Turkish barber shops. That’s one salon for every 426 residents. Locals joke you never queue for a haircut… because there are barely any customers. Checks showed one new shop had just 4 customers in 4.5 hours on a Wednesday. Despite 34 letters of objection, the council approved another in a former amusement arcade. Porth Chamber of Trade chairman says the numbers simply don’t add up and wants planning laws changed. Government now giving councils powers to curb proliferating shops like these.
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Addick05@Addick05Peter·
@Skint_Eastwood1 @paulaclark50 Actually she’s probably right, she does work for the Government because it’s clear she doesn’t work for the people. Guarantee she’s not the only one who thinks this. Actually , she polices ‘by consent.’
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Skint Eastwood@Skint_Eastwood1·
🚨HEATED Debate at Migrant Hotel: Met Police Officer Insists “I Work for the Government, Not the Public” Female officer demands man filming outside Ibis Styles asylum hotel near Heathrow move on. He refuses, reminding her it’s a public place and she’s a public servant. She then tells him: “I’m not a public servant.” “I’m an emergency service. I respond to emergencies.” “I’m not a public servant. I don’t serve you, I serve the government, not you.” “I’m employed by the government, not by you or the public.”
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Neil Hughes
Neil Hughes@BlobWarriorUK·
What's the obsession with teenage lads dressing like this on a warm sunny day?
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Kosher@koshercockney·
🚨 HAPPENING NOW - 10 Downing Street, London This is not good. Terror supporters flying the flag of the Islamic Republic Regime chanting “Allahu Akbar” The Islamic regime has attempted to enact 20 terror plots on British soil. They must be proscribed.
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Addick05@Addick05Peter·
@koshercockney Because the government and the judiciary allow it to?
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Addick05@Addick05Peter·
@Miketyson2007 Rumours, rumours. Let’s reserve judgment until we know what happened?
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London init geezer@Miketyson2007·
Rumours are that Kaminski has thrown his toys out of the pram after not being picked to start at Watford hence not in the squad…. I wouldn’t be fussed at all if we got rid ,I happy with Manion and can easily get another keeper in at nowhere near the cost of him #CAFC
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Richard Cawley
Richard Cawley@RichSCawley·
Nathan Jones says that #cafc will make addressing their attacking deficiencies a major priority in the summer transfer window.
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Mart@MartCAFC45·
@Miketyson2007 Midfield really was the key area they dominated us from start to finish
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London init geezer@Miketyson2007·
I see reports that city were better than us all over the pitch … no shit Sherlock they are a championship team with championship players who finished top 6 last year … we are league one players playing in the championship #CAFC
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Lone_Heckler@TheLoneHeckler·
thesun.co.uk/news/38693563/… Round them all up, take their phones, trace the call to riot back and hammer the instigators hard. Then put ankle trackers on all of them, call their parents or guardians and make them responsible.
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BowieW@BOWIEW73·
@TheBritLad If it is voluntary so be it. However if Muslims demand it to all restaurants and grocery stores that would be a problem to democracy.
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The British Patriot
The British Patriot@TheBritLad·
🚨BREAKING: Thousands of furious Brits have taken to social media to declare a full boycott of Subway and KFC. Both chains have recently announced they are switching to Halal meat in their products. Do you support the boycott?
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Addick05@Addick05Peter·
@suthersuk @VeoliaUK When isn’t he Man of the Match? Every week he demonstrates just how fortunate we are to have him! Incidentally I thought Mannion had a good game.
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Steve Sutherland OBE@suthersuk·
It wasn’t to be today but this man gives his all every single game and was deservedly made ‘Man of the Match’ by #cafc match sponsors ⁦@VeoliaUK⁩. Well done again Lloyd Jones.
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Addick05@Addick05Peter·
@AVaughan87 @RichSCawley Both penalties were avoidable - especially the Oxford one. However by the letter of the law I can see why both were given. Only exciting incidents in one of the worst games-especially the second half-that it has been my ‘privilege’ to watch.☹️
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Alex Vaughan@AVaughan87·
@RichSCawley Not saying its not a pen. But there was shirt pulling all over the pitch and Lanks was grabbed round the neck 3 or 4 times. No foul. The refering across all English football is so inconsistent and poor. That's not even talking about how awful the linesman are.
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Richard Cawley@RichSCawley·
Great shot by Kyle Andrews of the foul on Lloyd Jones. #cafc
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Addick05@Addick05Peter·
@LozzaFox If you come to live in the UK it’s down to you to ‘integrate ‘ with the indigenous population; not the other way round.
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Laurence Fox
Laurence Fox@LozzaFox·
It’s not our job to integrate with our guests. It’s their job. Just as we don’t walk around Marrakesh in bikinis, we don’t expect women to walk around Britain in bin bags. This is our home. Integrate to our way of life or go home. Small minded fool.
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Chris Rose
Chris Rose@ArchRose90·
President Trump has referred to the UK as “our once Great Ally” who “we don’t need them any longer”. Within 19 months of power, Keir Starmer and Lord Hermer have killed the US-UK special relationship. Britain deserves better than these two limp-wristed cowards.
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