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From the BBC documentary " When Britain ruled the skies ", on the astounding performance of the British aeronautical industry in c...

OTD, or rather, On This Night in 1943, 19 Lancasters under the command of Wing Commander Guy Gibson took off from RAF Scampton to attack sev...

76 years after the concentration camps were discovered and the ghastly extermination of Jews by the nazis became visible for the world to se...

I am a firm believer in humanity as a multi-planet species. It is our destiny to explore new horizons. With the Red Planet being the obvious...

Ten years ago to the day, my father died: On Monday, May 2nd, at about 22.05, my father passed away after almost one month on Intensive ...

Bad English with Time Stood Still . Album Backlash (1991). Short lived glam metal band which formed in LA in 1987 around three forme...

Ever heard of Norman? : "TAE Technologies, the California, USA-based fusion energy technology company, has announced that its pr...

DowneastBlog wishes all its readers of good will a Happy Easter!!! "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers with Scar Tissue . Album Californication (1999). RHCP formed in 1983 in LA, but Anthony Kiedis and Flea (real ...

Very interesting video about Nazi Germany's revolutionary Type XXI U-Boat, of which, luckily, only about 4 entered service. When...

America with Sister Golden Hair . Album Hearts (1975). America has the distinction of being a genuinely American band formed in the ...

Since the BLM virus has crossed the Atlantic, big (Western) European cities have had their share of mayhem caused by this scum. Yesterday, S...

William McGregor Paxton was an American painter of the Boston School and instructor. He co-founded The Guild of Boston Artists. The new...

Tame Impala with Borderline . From the album The Slow Rush (2020), although it had been released as a single in 2019. Actually a one...

The Death of Motherhood: As we speak, the fertility of autochton women in Belgium is hitting rock bottom. A couple of times in the pa...

SCK•CEN (for Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie/Centre d'Étude de l'énergie Nucléaire ) is Belgium's nuclear research centre, locate...

DowneastBlog wishes all its readers a Happy and Prosperous 2021!!! May it be a better one than the absolute STINKER that was 2020! ...

Fucking BASTARDS. Sickening. https://t.co/iaYT7SvZHK — Catturd ™ (@catturd2) December 30, 2020 Under cover of the COVID lockdowns, P...

As per usual, the eponymous 'youths' - Moroccans, of course - had some fun around Xmas: Kerstavond in #Antwerpistan . 👇🏻 pic.tw...

DowneastBlog wishes all its readers of good will a Merry Christmas!!! The Adoration of the Kings, By Gerard David (ca 1460-1523) The...