The First Battle of El Alamein (1–27 July 1942) was a battle of the Western Desert campaign of the Second World War, fought in Egypt between Axis (German and Italian) forces of the Panzer Army Africa—which included the Afrika Korps under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel—and Allied (British Imperial and Commonwealth) forces of the Eighth Army under General Claude Auchinleck.
Soldiers and officers of the British infantry attacking among the smoke and the dust on the front of El Alamein.áEl Alamein, 1942 (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)
On July 1, 1942, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is brought to a standstill in the battle for control of North Africa. The First Battle of El Alamein begins.
In June, the British had succeeded in driving Rommel into a defensive position in Libya. But Rommel repelled repeated air and tank attacks, delivering heavy losses to the armored strength of the British, and finally, using his panzer divisions, managed to force a British retreat—a retreat so rapid that a huge quantity of supplies was left behind. In fact, Rommel managed to push the British into Egypt using mostly captured vehicles.
Rommel’s Afrika Korps was now in Egypt, in El Alamein, only 60 miles west of the British naval base in Alexandria. The Axis powers smelled blood. The Italian troops that had preceded Rommel’s German forces in North Africa, only to be beaten back by the British, then saved from complete defeat by the arrival of Rommel, were now back on the winning side, their dwindled numbers having fought alongside the Afrika Korps. Naturally, Benito Mussolini saw this as his opportunity to partake of the victors’ spoils. And Hitler anticipated adding Egypt to his empire.
But the Allies were not finished. Reinforced by American supplies, and reorganized and reinvigorated by British General Bernard Montgomery, British, Indian, South African and New Zealand troops battled Rommel, and his by now exhausted men, to a standstill in Egypt. Montgomery denied the Axis Egypt. Rommel was back on the defensive—a definite turning point in the war in North Africa.
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My mother’s favorite color. Had Daddy paint the bedroom that very orchid color.
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Good day, Czarina! In the mid-1980s I was an office manager for a “televangelist” and he’d invited all the staff to an afternoon gathering at his residence in the Hollywood hills, a big modern house with super high ceilings and windows. The view was spectacular.
The pastor mentioned one time in a sermon that his wife loved purple. And did she ever! The living room was wallpapered in chartreuse with over-the-top silver streaks. The furnishings and decorative accents were in shades of purple. The master bedroom was done the opposite–purple/silver walls with green accents. If it had been toned down and the silver ditched, it might have been attractive. There is love and then there is obsession…LOL!
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Nice link…thanks Lucille!
Hapy Saturday to all!!
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Hi, weather! Beautiful flowers. Wouldn’t it be lovely to walk among the lavender here….
Palisade, Colorado…
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Mornin! So with all the Canadian wildfire smoke, the mayor targets pizza ovens. How do the Rats come up with this silliness?
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Right?? Mornin’ Czarina!
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Well, Wee, never let it be said that a single elected Dem has a lick of sense. Killing off the tax base has got to be the height of imbecility.
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Another turtle visitor on the back porch. This guy is twice as big as the prior one, and a different type: flatter shape. Can’t recall ever having turtle visitors in the 15 years we’ve been here. Looking forward to very good luck…
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Maybe word has gotten out that you run a rescue mission, Sister Czarina?
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You’ve mentioned lack of rain lately, Czarina; maybe your locale is becoming desertified, and the turtles are the harbingers. (Or are they amphibs?) 😉
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Good morning! Not quite as smokey today, I think (and hope). Nice start to a long holiday weekend. I hope the neighbors don’t have as many fireworks this year.
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Afternoon All. It is already 71* and I think it is going to be a hot one with a totally clear blue sky.
I have ordered two dresses for my granddaughters and one came and was exactly what I ordered. The other was totally wrong. I returned it and they immediately shipped out another one and I got it yesterday and it is the totally wrong one again. I chatted with a robot for a while and got little satisfaction, demanded a human who was somewhat more helpful, but she was saying they would ship out another dress and if it wasn’t the right one, we could chat again. So, I kept at it until I got a human being to call me. I explained the problem and she tried to fix it. But, I think the problem is that somebody put the wrong item numbers into the computer. So, the dresses are listed under the wrong number. That is the only reason they would ship the same thing on that order again.
Well, I finally found a way to get through to the supplier, who has English as a second language, obviously, but who was willing to help. So, I was up until all hours messaging back and forth to them. At least I alerted them there was a problem and they can look it up on Amazon to see if they can figure out what I was talking about. Keep your fingers crossed that they get it straightened out. 😯
Oh, and hopefully you will all have a nice day, hot though it may be.
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Good morning, aus! We’re at 79 degrees right now, heading to 86. Beautifully sunny without a cloud in the sky.
Hope all gets sorted out on your granddaughter’s dress. EASL (English as second language) folk, though I admire them for knowing more than one language, can often have accents and pronunciations which make phone conversations challenging. Online ordering was supposed to make our lives easier…LOL!
One time I ordered a Walmart decorative item. I not only got it but they sent me an additional one. I called customer service. The clerk couldn’t have been nicer when I explained it was difficult to get to a Walmart store to return the extra…and he told me to keep it. The problem was that I didn’t like the item in person after all, and now I had two of them. Oh my, but life can be ridiculously funny at times. Eventually both went to the animal rescue thrift shop.
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I didn’t actually speak to someone, we messaged, but it was easy to tell EASL because of the grammar. That was the least of the problem, though. It was just explaining they need to check the item number against the description of the item. I think that is wrong.
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Once I ordered a knife holder for the kitchen, and they sent four. Since they we kinda expensive, they sent a shipping label for three to be returned.
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When I was building the house I ordered doors, but the bathroom door was the wrong style. Every other door was the same style, and came correctly. It took seven shipments to finally talk to the owner, who kept me on the phone while he walked through the warehouse and discovered someone had put the wrong doors in the allotted space! THEN I finally got the right door.
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I really think that is what has happened.
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Just viewed this clip from GUYS AND DOLLS (1955)…both Marlon Brando as Sky Masterson and Jean Simmons as Sarah Brown sang the score themselves. They did quite well. If you’ve never seen this musical, it’s a must! When it opened on Broadway in 1950, it starred Robert Alda (Alan’s father) as Sky.
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Director Joe Mankiewicz later called Simmons “the dream…a fantastically talented and enormously underestimated girl. In terms of talent, Jean Simmons is so many heads and shoulders above most of her contemporaries, one wonders why she didn’t become the great star she could have been.”
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I’m gonna find this one.
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If you are interested, low-carb and moderate calorie neapolitan ice cream bars:
Recipe:
1 cup full fat sour cream
1 cup heavy whipping cream, divided
½ cup powdered Swerve Sweetener
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped fresh strawberries
2 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 popsicle | Calories: 136kcal | Carbohydrates: 3.25g | Protein: 1.29g | Fat: 12.53g | Fiber: 0.73g
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Wow!
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