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British Intelligence Used “Bodily Fluids” as Invisible Ink
In case you missed this one, brings a whole new light to “Bond, James Bond” … Note the name of the person of charge of this operation in the article below. Via the Telegraph: A diary entry belonging to...
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The Real Story of the World War I ‘Christmas Truce’
If you can possibly stand another Christmas-related story today, then you might enjoy reading a detailed account of the famous “Christmas Truce” of 1914. It wasn’t formal or widespread, but in isolated...
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Sharing a Story from My Father: In Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide
via chycho I. Introduction Growing up I was always reminded of the Armenian genocide, of my ancestral history. It was so normal to hear the elders talk about it that it didn’t really faze me, not until...
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Sir Arthur and the Fairies
via The Public Domain Review In the spring of 1920, at the beginning of a growing fascination with spiritualism brought on by the death of his son and brother in WWI, Arthur Conan Doyle took up the...
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Melting Glaciers Revealing Frozen Corpses of World War I Soldiers
Pic: Museo della Grande Guerra, Peio (C) The slowly-melting glaciers of the Italian Alps are yielding up a gruesome find: The once-frozen corpses of World War I soldiers. Via The Telegraph: The bodies,...
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A Gallery of Propaganda on the Centennial of the “Great” War
100 years ago this month, a war began that shattered all sorts of illusions in Western Civilization. That “Great,” quite rather than a superlative of “good,” is connoted to imply anything but the...
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We need more focus on the women poets of World War I
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. By Lisa Regan, University of Liverpool Members of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. PA/PA Archive We’ve become very...
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Popular Science’s Strange Reporting Of The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
via Popular Science: This year marks the centennial of the start of World War I. To honor it, Popular Science is combing through our archives to bring you the best of our original war coverage–from the...
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