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The biology collection contains 200,000 specimens, including both fauna and flora, with the majority of the collection made up of insects. There are two specimens of the extinct great auk, [18] an almost complete skeleton of an extinct moa, passenger pigeons, [19] and a large collection of Quaternary (c.125,000 years ago) specimens from the Yorkshire region including the remains of elephants ...
Sword, commonly known as Sword Beach, was the code name given to one of the five main landing areas along the Normandy coast during the initial assault phase, Operation Neptune, of Operation Overlord. The Allied invasion of German-occupied France commenced on 6 June 1944.
The Juno Beach Centre (French: Centre Juno Beach) is a museum located in Courseulles-sur-Mer in the Calvados region of Normandy, France. It is situated immediately behind the beach codenamed Juno , the section of the Allied beachhead on which 14,000 Canadian troops landed on D-Day 6 June 1944.
The Cotentin peninsula is part of the Armorican Massif [2] (with the exception of the Plain lying in the Paris Basin) and lies between the estuary of the Vire river and Mont Saint-Michel Bay. It is divided into three areas: the headland of Cap de la Hague , the Cotentin Pass (the Plain ), and the valley of the Saire River ( Val de Saire ).
The French 2nd Armoured Division entered Paris on the evening of August 24. The capitulation was signed on the Île de la Cité , German troops surrendered at the Montparnasse train station. Two days later a triumphal parade, led by General Charles de Gaulle , was held on the Champs-Elysées .
Jaeger, Stephan (2020), The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum, From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality, Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-066133-0; Veronico, Nicholas A. (2019), D-Day, the air and sea invasion of Normandy in photos, Guilford, Connecticut: Stackpole Books, ISBN 978-0-8117-6813-9
Paris Hilton took part in an epic beachside Instagram photo shoot this week during her trip to St. Bart's, and her beach-ready bikini body is definitely something to be enviable.
More than 14,000 Canadians stormed the 8 kilometres (5 mi) stretch of a Lower Normandy Beach between Courseulles-sur-Mer and St. Aubin-sur-Mer on 6 June 1944. They were followed by 150,000 additional Canadian troops over the next few months, and throughout the summer of 1944 the Canadian military used the town’s port to unload upwards of 1,000 tons of material a day, for the first two weeks ...