The Berlin memorial of Otto & Elise Hampel, a working class couple who wrote postcards denouncing Hitler and the Nazis between 1940 and 1942. They were caught, tried, and beheaded in 1943. The memorial is by by Ingeborg Lockenmann, a replica of one of the Hampel’s postcards and was set up in 2020.

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oath. Darcy was subsequently arrested and executed for high treason on Tower Hill on 30 June 1537.

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increasingly isolated and short of supplies. Although the garrison had originally numbered around 300 men, by 19 October fewer than 140 remained fit for service. Faced with the vastly larger rebel force, Darcy and the other occupants surrendered without a fight and swore the rebels'

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🧵Pontefract Castle, held by Lord Darcy (Thomas Darcy), Archbishop of York Edward Lee, and Dr Thomas Magnus, surrendered to Robert Aske and the rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace on 20 October 1536. Aske had threatened an assault if the castle did not yield, while the garrison was

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No. EVERYONE in this country deserves more than a sidewalk to sleep on.

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