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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/gavtroon/">gavtroon</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gavtroon/54227785146/" title="Favourite record of 2024"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54227785146_dbb7d99ab4_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Favourite record of 2024" /></a></p> <p>Scotland // December 2024<br /> 7000px x 4667px<br /> Ref: O0065<br /> <a href="https://www.others.gavtroon.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.others.gavtroon.com</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/117006786@N06/">Kev Slade Too</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/117006786@N06/54228364990/" title="EI-BYX Champion 7GCA, Coonagh Aerodrome, Limerick, Ireland"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54228364990_fee3091ce2_m.jpg" width="240" height="167" alt="EI-BYX Champion 7GCA, Coonagh Aerodrome, Limerick, Ireland" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/adrien-fauth/">A.Fauth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/adrien-fauth/54227977016/" title=" "><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54227977016_b3997c7d0f_m.jpg" width="192" height="240" alt=" " /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/adrien-fauth/">A.Fauth</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/adrien-fauth/54228207028/" title=" "><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54228207028_2215194798_m.jpg" width="192" height="240" alt=" " /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/z-vago/">z.vago</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/z-vago/54228065103/" title="Silence"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54228065103_4ee7b3dbaf_m.jpg" width="240" height="157" alt="Silence" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/jp4712/">Rochdale 235</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jp4712/54227760768/" title="Dublin Bus EW21, October 2024"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54227760768_5dfafcdedb_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Dublin Bus EW21, October 2024" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/november_song/">pepandtim</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/november_song/54227337834/" title="London - Trafalgar Square Prior to 1945. And Tokyo Rose."><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54227337834_f6c4387492_m.jpg" width="240" height="151" alt="London - Trafalgar Square Prior to 1945. And Tokyo Rose." /></a></p> <p><u>The Postcard</u><br /> <br /> A postcard that was published by the Photochrom Co. Ltd. of Royal Tunbridge Wells. The card was printed in Great Britain.<br /> <br /> The card was posted in London using a 2d. stamp on Wednesday the 5th. September 1945. It was sent to:<br /> <br /> Mrs. Black,<br /> 'Craigmore',<br /> 42 Cedar Avenue,<br /> Antrim Road,<br /> Belfast,<br /> N. Ireland.<br /> <br /> The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:<br /> <br /> &quot;Hello Auntie B,<br /> I hope you are well.<br /> I am having a lovely<br /> holiday over here<br /> with Daddy &amp; Mammy.<br /> Hope to see you soon<br /> when I get back to<br /> Belfast.<br /> Love to you both,<br /> Hazel.&quot;<br /> <br /> <u>The Re-Occupation of Singapore</u><br /> <br /> So what else happened on the day that Hazel posted the card to her aunt?<br /> <br /> Well, on the 5th. September 1945, British troops landed at Singapore and took over without opposition.<br /> <br /> <u>Tokyo Rose</u><br /> <br /> Also on that day, Japanese American Iva Toguri D'Aquino was arrested in Yokohama on suspicion of being the wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose.<br /> <br /> Tokyo Rose was a name given by Allied troops in the South Pacific during World War II to all female English-speaking radio broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. <br /> <br /> The programs were broadcast in the South Pacific and North America in order to demoralize Allied forces abroad and their families at home by emphasizing troops' wartime difficulties and military losses. <br /> <br /> Several female broadcasters operated using different aliases and in different cities throughout the territories occupied by the Japanese Empire, including Tokyo, Manila, and Shanghai.<br /> <br /> The name &quot;Tokyo Rose&quot; was never actually used by any Japanese broadcaster, but it first appeared in U.S. newspapers during 1943.<br /> <br /> In the years soon after the war, the character &quot;Tokyo Rose&quot; – whom the FBI now avers to be &quot;mythical&quot; – became an important symbol of Japanese villainy for the United States.<br /> <br /> American cartoons, movies, and propaganda videos between 1945 and 1960 portrayed her as sexualized, manipulative, and deadly to American interests in the South Pacific, particularly by revealing intelligence of American losses in radio broadcasts. In 1949 the San Francisco Chronicle described Tokyo Rose as the &quot;Mata Hari of Radio&quot;.<br /> <br /> Similar accusations concern the propaganda broadcasts of Lord Haw-Haw and Axis Sally. <br /> <br /> Tokyo Rose ceased to be merely a symbol during September 1945 when Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American disc jockey for a propagandist radio program, attempted to return to the United States. <br /> <br /> Toguri was accused of being the &quot;real&quot; Tokyo Rose, arrested, tried, and became the seventh person in U.S. history to be convicted of treason. <br /> <br /> Toguri was eventually paroled from prison in 1956, but it was more than twenty years later that she received an official presidential pardon for her role in the war.<br /> <br /> <u>ZEEP</u><br /> <br /> Also on the 5th. September 1945, ZEEP, the first nuclear reactor both in Canada and outside the USA, went critical in Chalk River, Ontario.<br /> <br /> <u>A Defection in Canada</u><br /> <br /> Also on that day, in an important early event of the Cold War, Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada, defected with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West. <br /> <br /> Gouzenko's defection was kept secret from the public for five months, but it forced Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to call a Royal Commission in order to investigate espionage in Canada.<br /> <br /> <u>Al Stewart</u><br /> <br /> The day also marked the birth on Glasgow Al Stewart.<br /> <br /> Alastair Ian Stewart is a singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960's and 1970's. <br /> <br /> He developed a unique style of combining folk-rock songs with tales of characters and events from history.<br /> <br /> Stewart has released 16 studio and four live albums since his debut album Bed-Sitter Images in 1967, and continues to tour extensively in the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. <br /> <br /> Al is best known for his 1976 hit single &quot;Year of the Cat&quot;, from the platinum album of the same name. <br /> <br /> Though Year of the Cat and its 1978 platinum follow-up Time Passages brought Stewart his biggest worldwide commercial successes, earlier albums such as Past, Present and Future from 1973 are often seen as better examples of his intimate brand of historical folk-rock, a style to which he returned in later albums. <br /> <br /> His 2009 release, Uncorked, was was followed up by Al Stewart and The Empty Pockets Live in 2024. <br /> <br /> Stewart has worked with Peter White, Alan Parsons, Jimmy Page, Richard Thompson, Rick Wakeman, Francis Monkman, Tori Amos, and Tim Renwick, and more recently has played with Dave Nachmanoff and former Wings lead-guitarist Laurence Juber.<br /> <br /> Stewart appears throughout the musical history of the folk revivalist era. He played at the initial Glastonbury Festival in 1970, knew Yoko Ono before she met John Lennon, shared a London flat with Paul Simon, and hosted at the Les Cousins folk club in London in the 1960's.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/cibolojim/">ShutterNut...</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cibolojim/54226980448/" title="United Kingdom 1940 Postage Revenue King George VI 1D"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54226980448_7c44e6cbaa_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="United Kingdom 1940 Postage Revenue King George VI 1D" /></a></p> <p> Please be aware... Photos are just my hobby. I am not a stamp expert. Titles are from recognition - what I was told - or a quick search. No claim of 100% accuracy, I make an effort to be as factual as possible. Some duplication may occur. Your polite comments or corrections are always welcome.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/62747648@N08/">birrlad</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/62747648@N08/54225573367/" title="AIR X Charter ERJ-135BJ 9H-IMP"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54225573367_5e56b5e307_m.jpg" width="240" height="169" alt="AIR X Charter ERJ-135BJ 9H-IMP" /></a></p> <p>AIR X Charter ERJ-135BJ Reg: 9H-IMP &quot;Legend 550 Uniform&quot; about to land at Dublin.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/62747648@N08/">birrlad</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/62747648@N08/54225573377/" title="Fly-Coop Hawker 400A HA-YFM"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54225573377_fdeb0cfd38_m.jpg" width="240" height="170" alt="Fly-Coop Hawker 400A HA-YFM" /></a></p> <p>Fly-Coop Hawker 400A Reg: HA-YFM &quot;Coopair 1 Fox Mike&quot; on finals to Dublin.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/monty1958/">Monty May (OBSERVE)</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/monty1958/54225299807/" title="Ship And Pool"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54225299807_9fb912bebf_m.jpg" width="240" height="89" alt="Ship And Pool" /></a></p> <p>anamorphic lens<br /> <br /> OBSERVE Collective<br /> All images are © Copyrighted and All Rights Reserved<br /> <br /> <a href="https://germanstreetphotography.com/michael-monty-may/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">germanstreetphotography.com/michael-monty-may/</a><br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/montymay/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.instagram.com/montymay/</a><br /> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/montymay_bw/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.instagram.com/montymay_bw/</a><br /> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/montymay_phone/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.instagram.com/montymay_phone/</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/firehuse999/">firehouse.ie</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/firehuse999/54226176993/" title="Kaiser Opening A Christmas Gift - December 25, 2024"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54226176993_64e2e47d92_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="Kaiser Opening A Christmas Gift - December 25, 2024" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/62747648@N08/">birrlad</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/62747648@N08/54224949412/" title="Aer Lingus A320-200N EI-NSB"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54224949412_3eea9c880f_m.jpg" width="240" height="169" alt="Aer Lingus A320-200N EI-NSB" /></a></p> <p>Aer Lingus A320-251N Reg: EI-NSB &quot;Shamrock 38 Yankee&quot; departing Shannon to Heathrow.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/200924044@N03/">Paulo Kelly</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/200924044@N03/54225839491/" title="Happy Christmas from Dublin"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54225839491_6b975c0489_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Happy Christmas from Dublin" /></a></p> <p>The Samuel Beckett bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin lit up for Christmas.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/jgardner/">*Jeff*</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jgardner/54225436855/" title="Life of St. Patrick - Part 4"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54225436855_5a8583c21e_m.jpg" width="240" height="176" alt="Life of St. Patrick - Part 4" /></a></p> <p>&quot;He sailed westward and landed at Inverded with St. Iserninus and St. Auxilius.<br /> <br /> A.D. 432 he was consecrated a bishop and sent out on his task of converting the Irish. <br /> <br /> For fourteen years he studied and prayed in Auxerre in preparation for his mission.&quot;<br /> <br /> Window in St. Patrick's Catholic Church in North Platte, Nebraska</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/drcarmo/">Mark Carmody</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/drcarmo/54225001023/" title="Little Egret/Eigrit bheag (Egretta garzetta)"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54225001023_49e8888802_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Little Egret/Eigrit bheag (Egretta garzetta)" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shorebirds-Ireland-Pictures-Jim-Wilson/dp/1848890176" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Shorebirds of Ireland</a>, <a href="https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31660773293&amp;searchurl=an=carmody&amp;ds=30&amp;rollup=on&amp;sortby=17&amp;tn=ireland&amp;cm_sp=snippet-_-srp0-_-title9" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Freshwater Birds of Ireland</a> and <a href="https://www.gillbooks.ie/nature/the-birds-of-ireland" rel="noreferrer nofollow">The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide 2nd Edition</a> with <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilsonjim/">Jim Wilson</a>. <br /> <a href="http://www.markcarmodyphotography.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.markcarmodyphotography.com</a><br /> <br /> The Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) is a small white heron. Until the 1950s, the Little Egret was restricted to southern Europe. Over the next few decades it became increasingly common in western France and later on the north coast. It bred in the Netherlands in 1979 with further breeding in the 1990s.<br /> <br /> In Ireland, the species bred for the first time in 1997 at a site in County Cork.<br /> <br /> This adult egret was preening after a fishing expedition along the Tolka River in Griffith Park, Dublin 9.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/firehuse999/">firehouse.ie</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/firehuse999/54224792808/" title="Rudolf?"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54224792808_14bfaba3b7_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Rudolf?" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/156679860@N02/">Harry_Warren</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/156679860@N02/54224774774/" title="Wild Lights Exhibition at Dublin Zoo, Ireland"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54224774774_4933a4a131_m.jpg" width="240" height="170" alt="Wild Lights Exhibition at Dublin Zoo, Ireland" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/kerrowdownphotography/">Kerrowdown Photography</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kerrowdownphotography/54224799630/" title="Pushmi-Pullyu Van"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54224799630_3d1cfbd4a3_m.jpg" width="163" height="240" alt="Pushmi-Pullyu Van" /></a></p> <p>The same van in the slow moving traffic, with two seconds between these two stacked shots. But that wasn't the money shot, it's the building that caught my eye. <br /> <br /> If you can't fix the human problem with chemicals on the top floor. Then perhaps with equipment on middle floor and if they both fail... <br /> <br /> There's always coffee at ground level..</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/62747648@N08/">birrlad</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/62747648@N08/54224384961/" title="Air Charter AG Challenger 601 HB-IKS"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54224384961_4cc5cbe8c7_m.jpg" width="240" height="177" alt="Air Charter AG Challenger 601 HB-IKS" /></a></p> <p>Air Charter AG Challenger 601 Reg: HB-IKS departing Shannon.</p>

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