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Peter Doyle

@ProfPeterDoyle

Geologist and military historian of twentieth century conflict, Great War in particular. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

London Katılım Aralık 2011
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NASA History Office
NASA History Office@NASAhistory·
One giant leap for mankind History was made on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first to set foot on the Moon. For more than 5 decades, the total number of moonwalkers has remained at 12. NASA will change that with Artemis IV.
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Peter Doyle@ProfPeterDoyle·
Father’s Day : excellent so far
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@northumbriana Hopefully you have packed both monocle and hand raised orchid from your personal greenhouse, à la Chamerlain
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Dan Jackson@northumbriana·
To Birmingham! 🧐
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IAMG@MilGeoscience·
The IAMG is delighted to announce that ICMG28 will be hosted in Rome, Italy in June 2028. Steeped in history with access to some of the most famous Second World War battle sites, this edition will also allow attendees to visit millennia old sites. militarygeoscience.org/conference-202…
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Tom Isitt 🐝@masaccio60·
@HChrisBallance @ProfPeterDoyle @SapperGeologist Also hydrographers, speleologists and glaciologists. In 1918 several eminent civilian glaciologists went to Höhe Schneid to study ice formations discovered during tunnelling, including the Cave of Wonders, said to be the size of a cathedral (probably slight exaggeration)
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Tom Isitt 🐝@masaccio60·
It’s International Rock Day, apparently, so here’s one of my favourites. I found a large slab of this on Cima Pale Rosse in the Ortlers, near the Italian WW1 front lines. Google thinks it would make a great kitchen worktop, I think it would always look better in situ.
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Chris Ballance@HChrisBallance·
@masaccio60 @ProfPeterDoyle @SapperGeologist You wonder if there were any unfortunate former university geology students amoung the Italians, Austrians, and Germans taking notes in their diaries about the rocks around their positions?
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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association
Vickers MG Collection & Research Association@vickersmg·
#onthisday 1916 Private Andrew Sutherland of 56 Machine Gun Company, 19 Division was wearing this helmet when he received two bullets to the head at La Boiselle on the Somme. He survived and would go on to serve in the Royal Engineers and live until 1969.
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National Air and Space Museum
National Air and Space Museum@airandspace·
Happy 91st birthday to Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmitt! He traveled to the Moon on Apollo 17, becoming the only trained geologist to walk on the lunar surface.
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Tom Isitt 🐝@masaccio60·
During WW1 in Italy, Monte Pasubio had it all… 9 miles of rock tunnels. 12 miles of snow tunnels. 16 cableways. Large military villages. 30 miles of compressed air pipes. 290 miles of aqueducts. Water pumped up 4,600 vertical feet. It was a logistics masterpiece. #TiTM
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Peter Doyle@ProfPeterDoyle·
@sommecourt Wonderful, both of them. They leave a large legacy
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Paul Reed@sommecourt·
Very sad to hear this news, a chapter of the history of the battlefields closes but as Taff says their legacy continues.
Taff Gillingham@Taff_Gillingham

I am very sorry to hear the news that Valmai Holt, MBE, has died. She and her late husband, Tonie, had been great supporters of the Khaki Chums since we first met them at 6am on a very misty 1st July in the Newfoundland Memorial Park a long time ago. The interest they rekindled in battlefield touring is their legacy.

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Andy@AndyAitcheson·
Twitter hive mind…. Am I right in thinking this is the Essex Regiment and not the Essex Yeomanry?
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