A reminder that Elizabeth II held the rank of Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces and Lord High Admiral of the Royal Navy

A reminder that Elizabeth II held the rank of Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces and Lord High Admiral of the Royal Navy. But that was after her accession to the throne.

Her military rank during her wartime service in the Second World War was that of lieutenant. In February 1945 she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women's home-defence units, where she trained as a driver-mechanic of an ambulance and received that rank.

Elizabeth's military service lasted about five months, which made her the first woman of the royal family to serve in the army

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

A reminder that Elizabeth II held the rank of Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces and Lord High Admiral of the Royal Navy

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s