First World War

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• Last BNP Activist Tour of EU Parliament for the Year

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 605
  The last group of British National party activist delegations to visit the European Parliament in Brussels this year as guests of Andrew Brons MEP have completed their tour, reports North West regional organiser Clive Jefferson. “I and national organiser Eddy Butler took 50 BNP members on an extensive two day trip ...
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• Vintage Motorcycles By Eddie Tobey

  
  e-Guru.org — Authority: 114
  Motorcycles were first introduced in the later half of 19th century. Since the invention, motorcycles have become one of the most popular and common means of transportation. Vintage motorcycles are the earlier models of motorcycles which were manufactured after the First World War. Vintage motorcycles are all time ...
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• Adolf Hitler’s war record published online

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, December 08 (ANI): Adolf Hitler’s war record describing him as an artist has been published on an online archive.Ancestry.co.uk has documented the details of the full military careers of 1.5 million Bavarian soldiers.Among these names is 25-year-old Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler, described as an artist, of ...
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• Hitler’s war record published online

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec 8 (IANS) Adolf Hitler’s war record is among hundreds of thousands of First World War documents to be published on an online archive, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday.Among the soldiers named is 25-year-old Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler, described as an artist, of Catholic religion.Ancestry.co.uk said ...
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• ‘Red Baron’s’ death certificate turns up in Poland

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Warsaw (Poland), Dec.7 (ANI): The death certificate of Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the legendary First World War German flying ace better known as the ‘Red Baron’, has been discovered in Poland. According to The Telegraph, ninety-one years after Von Richthofen died after being shot down near the River Somme in ...
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• Book Review of Nigel Cawthorne’s “steel Fist, Tank Warfare 1939 – 1945″

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  Cawthorne starts his book by exploring the determination of the German army to obtain a sizeable contingent of tanks despite being banned from doing so by the Versailles Treaty. The German military believed that American, British, and French tanks had played a significant role in winning the First World War for the ...
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• The Battle of Mons and a Horror Writer’s Happy Ending

  
  History Blog — Authority: 119
  It was the fall of 1914 when a heady rumor began to circulate amongst the Allied troops of World War I. In August of the same year, the British Expeditionary Force made its first incursion into German-occupied Belgium, only to find itself greatly outnumbered at the city of Mons. St. George and an armed brigade of ...
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• Plastic Surgery, Lasers, and TCA Skin Peels – Which is Right for You

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 463
  Ask a teenager about plastic surgery and the youngster will have enough to say about the contoured bodies, broad shoulders and the picture perfect features of the cine stars. For most of them, plastic surgery stands for cosmetic plastic surgery and they strongly believe in what the so-called reality TV shows show ? a ...
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• What a mess our military has made | Dan Plesch

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Just as in 1914-18, the handling of the Afghanistan conflict reflects a failure to understand modern societys impact on war The US Senate report blasting President Bushs administration for what is going on in Afghanistan provides covering fire for Barack Obamas speech on his Afghan strategy. The report is also a ...
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• New North Wales Secretary Appointed as Two Groups Relaunched

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 605
  Councillor John Walker, who is also the British National Party’s deputy press officer, has been appointed new North Wales secretary, it was announced at a re-launch meeting of the party in that region last night. Mr Walker told the crowd that he had also reformed the Alyn & Deeside group and had appointed old ...
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• The pheasants that saved Wolverhampton from Zeppelins

  
  Times Archive Blog — Authority: 420
  Rome had geese to protect it from invaders; Wolverhampton, according to this flurry of Times letter writers, had pheasants. In November, 1939, Mr D. M. Lightbody of St Albans wrote, as you do when theres a war on, to ask if anyone had noticed any disturbed calling of pheasants at night when aircraft flew over. ...
  2 weeks ago

• From the archive: The fate of democracy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Originally published on 26 November 1936 If Mr Lloyd George had been able in August, 1914, to read the preface that he was to write in October, 1936, to the last volume of his memoirs even his courage might well have been daunted. He would have been shocked to read of the death of ten million men and the mutilation ...
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• Walter Tull: First Black Officer & Footballer

  
  John's Labour blog — Authority: 473
  There will be the launch of a new biography about Black British Football and First World War Military hero, Walter Tull. The book is called Walter Tull, (1888-1918), Officer, Footballer by Phil Vasili. Check out this amazing story on Wikipedia here . Despite being brought up following the death of his parents ...
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• Big Brother, Obama-Style

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 459
  That classic image of Uncle Sam forcefully advising draft-aged young men and all Americans to support the war effort     actually dated back to the First World War.  It has been superseded in the Age of Obama with the Orwellian image of Big Obama Brother cautioning the citizens of Oceania to be on their ...
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• Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill. A passionate story

  
  Dulwich OnView — Authority: 126
  Three young artists revolutionized the history of western sculpture, just before the First World War. Their works stand out as both forceful and poignant in this new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art.You can hear what Royal Academy Senior Lecturer Graham Greenfield has to say on 26 November at Dulwich Picture ...
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• The Making of a “Great War”, Pt. I - Why Britain fought for France in 1914

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 583
  And I cant help but wonder, no Willie McBride, Do all those who lie here know why they died? Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?" Did you really believe that this war would end wars? - Eric Bogle: The Green Fields of France ( Dropkick Murphys Version ) Apart from “The Great War of 2077” ...
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• Families of first world war tank crew commemorate historic battle

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Relatives meet for first time to mark role in battle of Cambrai Relatives of soldiers who were killed in one of the worlds first major tank battles will make a pilgrimage to France this week to celebrate the mens bravery. Historians have traced families of the crew of the MkIV D51 tank, better known as "Deborah", ...
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• Many a slip – more meditations on mortality

  
  Everybody Means Something — Authority: 109
  My parents wedding My visit to the gravesides in Stockport, described in a previous post, triggered a lot of memories. It also reminded me of the sayings that almost always spring to my mind when I am working towards some particular outcome. ‘Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched’ and ‘There’s ...
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• The Last Veteran: Harry Patch and the Legacy of War

  
  Bookyards — Authority: 134
  From : The Guardian Photo : Matt Cardy Harry Patch launching the 2007 Royal British Legion Poppy appeal, 2007. On 9 November 1920 Britains Unknown Warrior, having been duly saluted in Boulogne by Maréchal Foch, supreme commander of allied forces on the western front, set sail on a Royal Navy ...
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• The West Ham Pals

  
  John's Labour blog — Authority: 473
  This is just a great local history blog about the “ West Ham Pals ”. One of the reasons why the First World War was so traumatic an event to British society was that so many of the new infantry Battalions formed to fight in the trenches were the so called “ Pals Battalions ”. Where men could serve with local ...
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