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Fallen2 Fallen3 Fallen4 Fallen6The Fallen: 9000 sand stencils on the D-Day landing beach of Arromanche in Normandy: a collaboration between British artists Andy Moss and Jamie Wardle of Sand In Your Eye (along with hundreds of volunteers who turned up from all over the world to help) in honour of last Saturday’s International Day of Peace.

It does not propose to be a celebration or condemnation, simply a statement of fact and tribute to life and its premature loss.

Each stencil (all of which were washed away by the tide within hours of completion) represents one of the 9000 Allied and German troops and French civilians who died on June 6th 1944.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdDnbXXn20

The award-winning 2003 documentary On The Threshold Of Oblivion examines the infamous invasion of the Dutch village of Putten in 1944 when German troops sent the entire male population of the town to concentration camps after Dutch resistance fighters attacked a small German patrol, wounding two soldiers.

Of 602 men sent, only 48 returned home. It has been described as one of the worst German reprisals in the occupied Netherlands

In this unnerving clip, two unrepentant former German soldiers defend the actions of Wehrmacht comrades, genuinely believing they did no wrong.

Full documentary viewable online here.

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Three journeys – each separated by 30 years from the last – recorded by the BBC and synced into a rather excellent side-by-side-by-side sequence, appropriately set to Star Guitar by the Chemical Brothers.

Full screen or not at all.

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charlie-chaplin-at-the-age-of-27-1916-affleckokactorCharlie Chaplin, aged 27 in 1916.

Or the result of a Cillian Murphy/James Nesbitt telepod splicing accident?

(Original photo colourised by Redditor BenAffleckIsAnOkActor)

MORE: 20 Historic Black and White Photos Colorized (Twisted Sifter)

(h/t: The Third Man)

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Fred (96), entered a songwriting contest he saw advertised in a local paper despite not being able to play an instrument or sing. Instead, he mailed the lyrics of a song he’d written about his wife Lorraine.

They’d been together since the late 1930s and she had passed away the month before.

Whatever you make of the song the studio recorded for Fred, you may find that, dammit, you have something in your eye or whatever.

‘Oh Sweet Lorraine’ on iTunes/GooglePlay

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The Cream of The Milk

A limited edition A2 printed Broadsheet (hey!) celebrating 12 remarkable Irish women (and Peig) with clerihews by poet Pauline Hall and illustrations by Alan Nolan.

It started life as a Fundit whatsit and now look at it.

Fair play though, in fairness.

From top: Eileen Grey, Peig Sayers and Countess Markievicz

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