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• in TV
  Downton Abbey: Masterpiece Turns 40 and We Get a Gift
  A stately country house, a noble family, and a succession crisis are the backdrop for Downton Abbey, an Edwardian spellbinder.
  by missbobetier / on Jan 3, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “world war i”

 

• Sandusky High School Graduates in the Military, Spring 1918

  
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  The April 1918 issue of the Fram featured the names of seventy-six individuals who had either attended or graduated from Sandusky High School, and were serving in military service during World War I. The names were arranged alphabetically by surname, with the year of graduation listed after the name. ...
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• Memorial Day: Commemorating and Remembering Our Veterans and Those Who Serve

  
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  May 27th is Memorial Day. Did you know that this U.S. federal holiday goes as far back as the American Civil War in the 1860s? Memorial Day, formerly known as Decoration Day, occurs ever year on the last Monday of the month of May and is the day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United ...
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• Franco-Prussian War

  
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    The  Franco–Prussian War , from July 19, 1870 to May 10, 1871, was a war with the Second French Empire against   the North German Confederation.   Franco-Prussian relations only got worse, until 1868, over the issue of a Hohenzollern candidate for the Spanish throne. The public release of ...
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• Japan ruling party executive to keep visiting war shrine

  
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  The policy chief of Japan’s ruling party vowed on Sunday to keep paying homage at a controversial war shrine despite anger and diplomatic protests by China and South Korea. Nearly 170 Japanese lawmakers made a pilgrimage last month to the Yasukuni Shrine, a flashpoint in a bitter dispute between Japan and Asian ...
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• Archduke Franz Ferdinand and His Astounding End

  
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  Smithsonian Magazine, April 22, 2013 It’s hard to think of another event in the troubled 20th century that had quite the shattering impact of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The archduke was heir to the throne of the tottering Austro-Hungarian empire; his killers—a ...
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• Everett Goodner

  
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  Everett Goodner, born 02 September 1898 in Sheridan, Indiana. He served 22 months during WWI and later moved to Cordova, Illinois. He was married to Reva Gipson on 04 June 1921, in Noblesville,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The Origins of World War I

  
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  Harold Evans talks about two new books that explore the events leading up to the war.        
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• Book Review Podcast: The Origins of World War I

  
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  Harold Evans talks about two new books that explore the events leading up to the war.
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• ‘The Sleepwalkers’ and ‘July 1914’

  
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• Book Review: Business in the Trenches

  
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  I’m trying to improve. That’s at just about everything too. I know I don’t know enough or have enough skills to always get things done in an efficient manner, so I’m trying to learn more. One way is by reading, a lot. I’ve read a number of management and leadership books, many of them reviewed on this web ...
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• The real secret behind Gatsby

  
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  By Keith Gandal The Great Gatsby is one of the best-known American novels, but weirdly, and strangely reflective of Gatsby himself, one of the least understood. The much-awaited Baz Lurhmann version of The Great Gatsby opens in the United States tomorrow, and like Gatsby himself — as a new trailer reminds ...
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• MHQ Reviews: Was There a Crime in the Tragedy of the Great War?

  
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  Two new books weigh the culpability of the European powers in the failures of the First World War
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• Reincarnation on Repeat: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

  
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  Published: April 2nd, 2013 Publisher: Hachette Audio Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy Format: Audiobook Length: 15 hours, 34 minutes Life After Life opens with its main character, Ursula Todd, dying as an infant… and then being born again. This time, the doctor arrives in time and Ursula lives, only to die a ...
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• International humanitarianism in the United States

  
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  By Julia Irwin Each year on 8 May, the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies of dozens of nations unite in celebration of World Red Cross/Red Crescent Day. This global event observes the birthday of Henry Dunant, one of the founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC), and ...
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• Historians complain Governments WW1 commemoration focuses on British defeats

  
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  Historians and campaigners have also criticised the tone of the plans unveiled so far; they believe politicians and officials are focusing too much on British defeats and the carnage and futility of the war, because they are too anxious to avoid upsetting Germans and want to make sure the events are not considered ...
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• Crowley, Fleming, Churchill, Royalty, MI5, MI6, MI7b, A.A. Milne, Pooh Bear and Ashdown Forest

  
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  If you go down to the woods today: Artist’s impression of the famous people gathering in Ashdown Forest to conduct a black magic ritual using an effigy of Rudolph Hess. They would later be joined by prominent members of the royal family as well as hundreds of British and Canadian soldiers all wearing black hooded ...
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• Sunday Reads: A o.k. for oll korrect.

  
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  Good Morning Can you believe it is already May?  Whoosh, this year is going by fast! I realize this post is a little late this morning, but I wanted to give Boston Boomer’s late night thread a while to “stew” since it seemed like big news… Well…because it is Sunday, I have a mix of special interest ...
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• European Nurses during WW1

  
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  The history of nursing is also the history of war, for times of war have seen the major advances and achievements of nursing. During WW1, nurses did not serve at the advanced dressing stations on the front lines. (Women nurses were not allowed on the front line back then.) They did however serve at the field hospitals ...
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• Karl Kraus, war writer - his misused language beautifies a misused life

  
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  Karl Kraus has become a World War I writer.  It is a strange fate.  The prophet was right, so his prophecy swallowed him.  Clichéd, thoughtless language really did lead to the apocalypse, or at least an apocalypse, a war that quickly became an inescapable nightmare.  The crazy guy with the “World Is Ending” ...
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• April 1913: This month last century

  
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  100 years ago HMS New Zealand arrives in New Zealand (12 April 1913) In March 1909, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward announced that ‘the Dominion’ (New Zealand) was offering ‘the Motherland’ (Britain) the ‘free gift of … a first-class battleship’. The Prime Minister thought that his offer ...
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