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[-] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 42 points 5 days ago

This one always makes me melancholic:

Such a big turning point in time, captured on a photograph.

[-] mech@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Similar ones:

WW1 cavalry soldiers who still carried a lance, for charging against infantry.
(Even in the later stage of the war, when they already had steel helmets and gas masks)

[-] KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 10 points 5 days ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago
[-] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago

What's an orse and why does it need a bath?

[-] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 7 points 5 days ago

I’d have guessed emperor Wilhelm II, but it seems to just be a German officer.

this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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