World War I

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• Larkspur, Field

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 136
  Botanical Name : Delphinium Consolida Family: N.O. Ranunculacae Synonyms: Lark’s Heel. Lark’s Toe. Lark’s Claw. Knight’s Spur. Part Used: Seed. Habitat: Europe.   The Field Larkspur grows wild in cornfields throughout Europe. Though a doubtful native, it is found occasionally in England in ...
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• The Last 100 Years

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  The world seemed to become smalled in the 1900s. Travel by motor vehicle and aircraft made it possible to move around more quickly and easily. By 1961 a Russian had become the first person to travel in space. The wonderful new inventions of the agecouldbe heard about on the radio, or seen at the movie theatre, then on ...
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• You Sank My Battleship!

  
  National Heritage Museum — Authority: 119
  The phrase above is familiar to anyone who played the game Battleship as a child.  But, did you know that the Battleship game dates back to the World War I era?  Recently, the National Heritage Museum was given “Salvo: The Game of Wits,” an early precursor to the now-familiar Battleship game with its plastic ...
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• The 1,000 Mile Boot by Wolverine

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 488
  The Bloggomist: The Local Boy Spotlight Addictions I’m a shoe guy.  And a coat guy.  But even before I was a coat guy, I was a shoe guy.  All of us who shop have one or two things that we always end up buying no matter how stuffed our closet is.  It’s shoes and coats for me–actually, for most guys I talk ...
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• Europe, 1914.By Keith Thompson.(k)

  
  SHODAN LIVES — Authority: 128
  Europe, 1914. By Keith Thompson . ( k )
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• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 6

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 800
  The casting of Robert Montgomery (1904–1981) in They Were Expendable was uncommonly appropriate. The suave, handsome actor made his name in debonair romantic comedies throughout the 1930s, but like John Ford he didn’t wait until America was dragged into war before enlisting. In 1940, fired up by the ...
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• A Soldier’s Story

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Pfc. John Nelson, the author’s grandfather, 1917.
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• 26-year-old World War I Victim

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 784
  Maité Roël of Bovekerke, Belgium is the youngest victim of the first World War. As a disabled war victim, she carries a veteran’s card that entitles her to reduced train fares, but gets suspicious looks when she uses it. Roël was only nine years old when an RAF bomb that was inadvertently thrown on a bonfire ...
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• Muslims In 21st Century America: Political Correctness Deadly

  
  NOVAKEO.COM — Authority: 135
  Part 3: Muslim Major Hasan’s deadly jihad, political correctness, a U.S. Army soldier’s story In 1860 Mark Twain said, “The shabbiest of all lies is ’silent-assertion’, which happens when the media, politicians and church leaders obfuscate, suppress or ignore a social wrong or something going awry in this ...
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• Unwanted side effects of democracy

  
  The Do It Yourself Scholar — Authority: 414
  Maybe it’s the legacy of the Cold War — all of those years of being the bastion of freedom and democracy — but somehow Americans got in the habit of viewing democracy as something completely good, something that everyone in his or her right mind must want, like a chocolate sundae with no calories.But democracy, ...
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• Local GOPs version of Arthur Carlson goes nutzoid ... alas, not for the first time.

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 478
  And theres no Dr. Johnny Fever around for temporary comic relief. Too bad that it seems to have become personal with Dave Matthews, but at least now I know that reading comprehension skills are not required of Republican county chairmen. Other than that, Dave is entitled to his own diatribes, but readers who ...
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• Heroes & Ballyhoo: How the Golden Age of the 1920s Transformed American Sports

  
  History Blog — Authority: 123
  HEROES & BALLYHOO tells the story of the creation of America’s sports entertainment industry during the period of 1919-1930. The star athletes, over-the-top journalists, and cagey PR men had an extraordinary impact on the country, profoundly changing individual sports, establishing the secular religion of sports ...
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• Brit Indians pay tribute to martyred World War Indian soldiers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, Nov.14 (ANI): A crowded meeting organised by the National Council of British Indians in a packed Committee Room of the House Commons paid tribute to thousands of Indian soldiers killed and injured in World War I and World War II. In his opening remarks, Daljit Sehbai, Chairman of the National Council of ...
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• Saturday Shout Out: Rachel - An American Conscience

  
  Don Emmerich's Peace Blog — Authority: 486
  Another World is Possible: Rachel - An American Conscience What Pissed Me Off: Obama Lied People Died Eye-4-Anarchy: 2738 Soldiers Died On the Final Day of the First World War So That the Time and Date of the Armistice Would Look Really Cool Desert Peace: The Wall Might Be Gone in Germany…But so ...
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• Saturday Shout Out: Rachel - An American Conscience

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 157
  Another World is Possible: Rachel - An American Conscience What Pissed Me Off: Obama Lied People Died Eye-4-Anarchy: 2738 Soldiers Died On the Final Day of the First World War So That the Time and Date of the Armistice Would Look Really Cool Desert Peace: The Wall Might Be Gone in Germany…But so is ...
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• A little F. Scott Fitzgerald

  
  howl at pluto — Authority: 125
  John Quiggins post on Armistice Day led one commenter to quote Tender Is the Night , providing a reminder of how well Fitzgerald could write. Its #33 in the comment thread.
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• Laura Flanders’ Armistice Metaphor

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  As I continue to read each piece of economic news as if it were a dispatch from the front lines of the War Against the Poor , whose objective seems to be the banishment of those below the poverty line from the virtual world of financial practices in which “real world” concepts of value need not interfere with ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  4IQREAD — Authority: 120
  Murphy, Jim. Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting. Scholastic Press. 2009. This talented author provides extensive information about the events leading up to the start of World War I, the horrific first few months of battle and the incredible Christmas Day Truce of 1914 between German and British soldiers ...
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• World War I Soldier’s Manual

  
  Retro Hound — Authority: 123
  Manual for Soldiers in France in Town and Field Service , by G. Ruffier. L’Edition Francaise Illustree, Paris. 1917 or so, owned by Earl Lessue in Comapny A, 338th machine gun battalion, AEF(?) from World War I. I probably should have tried to find a descendant. By the same author, Manual for ‘War-Women’ in ...
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• Remember Charlie of Company C on Veterans Day

  
  GeniTales — Authority: 122
  This is a repost from 2007. Tis fitting that I share this genealogy tidbit again today, on Veterans Day. Again I say, "Thanks Charlie." Again, the tears flow. Veterans Day is almost here. Its time to remember Americas heroes. Its time to honor Charlie of Co. C. Charlie of Co. C was my grandfather, Charles Edward ...
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