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Below: FLOTUS at the spouses event at #WWI100 in Paris.
(2) A family near Paradise, CA brought their US flag to wave as the President's motorcade passes. Today he is visiting some of the areas hit by wildfires.

A reminder of what's important at the moment: Helping the innocent Americans affected. POTUS will sort out the politicians.
(3) POTUS with Gov-Elect Newsom & Gov Brown at Paradise, CA. There is a lot of work to be done in getting through this crisis, then the time for accountability will come. I have no doubt that POTUS is fighting on behalf of the whole country to get things changed. #FixIt
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1/ During the remembrance ceremonies marking the Centenary of the end of WWI today in Paris, the interaction between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was noteworthy.

What follows is a partial nonverbal analysis of the two men's exchange.
2/ Many people have speculated regarding the significance of President Trump's jacket adjustment after shaking hands with President Putin. This is a common alpha-upregulatory behavior.
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¿Creéis que guerras como la Primera Guerra Mundial pueden haber ayudado en la búsqueda de la cura contra cáncer? Para averiguarlo os voy a hablar del gas mostaza y el origen de la quimioterapia.
#WWI100 #WWIcentenary #WWI #GuerraMundial
Ahora vamos a viajar hasta la Primera Guerra Mundial, julio 1917, Ypres (Bélgica): los soldados detectan una extraña nube de gas en su posición. En las siguientes 24 horas les salen quemaduras, ampollas y algunos tosen sangre. Es el inicio de la guerra química.
Una de las características de la Primera Guerra Mundial es que por primera vez se usó a gran escala armas químicas que en forma de gas herían a las tropas enemigas. De allí lo popular que se volvieron esas máscaras que llevaban los soldados.
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I am a specialist in 18th-19th Cy European history, but I once spent a summer doing research on the First World War. Here in honor of #WWI100 are some of the horrible things I learned:
First, some numbers: in #WWI an average of 900 French and 1300 German soldiers died EVERY DAY. At the end, 20,000,000 (twenty million) soldiers were disabled. 2/n
Western Front was 475 miles long, but it is estimated that 25,000 miles of trenches snaked along it. #WWI was a boon to the barbed-wire industry. Before 1914, British Army annually used 2500 shovels. During it? 2,500,000
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Trump’s Nationalism Rebuked at World War I Commemoration
#SundayMorning #Nationalism #WWI100
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2/"President Trump’s brand of “America First” nationalism was repudiated on Sunday as leaders from around the globe gathered to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I and reaffirm the international bonds that have once again come under strain.
3/"Stone-faced and unmoved, the American leader listened as President Emmanuel Macron of France used the ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe to denounce self-interested nationalism and extol the sort of globalism and international institutions that Mr. Trump has spent the last two
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The #WorldWar1 Armistice signing was enthusiastically celebrated in China, too - with street rallies, a military parade, and even a new commemorative gate. It might have been the "European War" 歐戰, but for many Chinese it held promise of redress for colonial invasion.
#WWI100
"The World Will Be Made Safe For Democracy"
"為世界造和平“ Creating Peace for the World
”世界大同“ Great Global Unity
are some of the signs held aloft in November 1918 in Beijing.
#WorldWar1 #WWI100 #Armistice
(A year later of course, students will be on the streets of Beijing again - protesting the concessions given to Japan after #WWI at the great expense of Chinese sovereignty.)

November 1919 Tiananmen student demonstration
From the Sidney Gamble collection at @DukeLibraries
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(1) Trump in Paris for #WWI100 commemorations #PhotoThread #1

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(2) Not so many PDAs so far but, we'll see what happens.😉
(3) Hello my little friend, we meet again.
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(1) I've started/added to so many threads this week that I can't remember them all without looking, LOL. They will be linked up with their related threads eventually but in the meantime, here they are. Please RT since I'm shadowbanned, thanks. #MAGA #DefyHistory #Winning
(2) A lot of useful info in here about Matt Whitaker, Jeff Sessions, and related stuff.

(3) These additions to my #HillarysHealth thread are important.

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