Mika Paananen
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Author of 'Harmsleave'. History Fan and Old Aircraft Enthusiast. Belligerent Bookshelf. Typing Curmudgeon CorrectBird Style. Slightly Anglophile. NO unsolicited CHAT. Dim comments is just bad English...🇫🇮 painmike.com harmsleave.com
HARMSLEAVE KINDLE DEAL WEEK 67% OFF = $0.99 Mon Aug 17, 2026 8:00 am EST - Mon Aug 24, 2026 3:00 pm EST amazon.com/dp/B0C49FMY3K harmsleave.com "Bored with cookie-cutter plots and predictable scenarios?" "...well-developed characters, good pacing, and a gripping plot." #Kindle #BookPromos
The 12th century lead font of Dorchester Abbey in Oxfordshire - the only font of a monastic church to survive the Reformation. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #DorchesterAbbey
A 27 yr old JOHN GOODMAN paying the bills & working his way up the ladder in this 1979 commercial for Mennen After Shave
Lindsey, Suffolk. A rustic late 13th Century font in one of the loveliest and most atmospheric of all East Anglia's smaller churches. #FontsOnFriday
What's your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.
Just Alpal@justalpal.bsky.social · 13h agoWhat's your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.
When you finally give in to the urge to disappear into the woods and become local folklore 🎨 Lily Seika Jones
JAYNE MANSFIELD had an IQ of 163, spoke 5 languages, and was a more than proficient Violinist, as evidenced here playing Vivaldi's Concerto No. 6 in A minor on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1957.
Thanks Mika. And good luck to you. As my father sometimes says, the only thing worse than getting old is not getting old. ;-)
The sale of the medium beer/standard lager was allowed in Finnish grocery stores in 1969 and there was a great demand for e.g. 'Lapin Kulta'(Lapland's Gold beer) around the country. In this case the hero of the day was Kar-Air's swingtail DC-6B-ST OH-KDA. (Osmo Kuusisto/Finnish Aviation Museum)(ALT)
Tour #Scotland travel photography Blog of tossing the caber at #Highland #Games on #ancestry, #genealogy, #history visit and trip to #Newburgh, #Fife. Caber name derives from the #Gaelic word " cabar " or " kaber " which refers to a wooden pole tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2009/06/tour...
Tour Scotland Photograph Video Tossing The Caber Newburgh Games
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Today I learned something about war artist Paul Nash in an unexpected way.
Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 24h agoUK transit nerds are next level.
#North American #B-25N Mitchell, #Netherlands Air Force Historic Flight (PH-XXV) by Pascal MAILLOT (#La Ferté-Alais) #Warbirds (WW2 and before) #aviation #photography #avgeeks
Netherlands Air Force Historic Flight North American B-25N Mitchell PH-XXV at La Ferté-Alais LFFQ (Photo by Pascal MAILLOT)
Photo of PH-XXV North American B-25N Mitchell of Netherlands Air Force Historic Flight at LFFQ La Ferté-Alais - France © Pascal MAILLOT Jun 8th 2014
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A short, a bit less nice walk today, but done. Lower back mutiny still on. Got showered but warm weather. Then paracetamol and coffee☕😊
Battersea Power Station in 1936 by Bill Brandt, from his famous series of night photographs of London which were inspired by Brassaï's night photos of Paris. This is a masterpiece.
Stolen from FB, no source found. "HMS HOWE enters 5 Basin Devonport 18 May 1948. Nearby on 8 wharf, HMS KING GEORGE V has the destroyers HMS ST KITTS and HMS WIZARD alongside. On the trots distant are HMS GLORY and HMS UNICORN."
PERSON OF THE DAY. 21 August 1914. British Army private John Parr (aged 17), was killed in Belgium to become 1st British soldier to die in the “Great War of 1914-18). Born in London, he had worked as a butcher’s delivery boy before he volunteered for the army.
A Russian recon machine flew 9 km, three minutes over Finnish territory yesterday. Guess what: "The Border Guard has begun a preliminary investigation..blah blah... " Is there a problem with our defences?? This is no time to leave intruding subhumans unkilled, you unicorn huggers!
