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• in Politics
  Victoria Cross Medals Are On Display In Australia
  People across Australia are being given the rare opportunity to see a display of nine Victoria Cross Medals in an exhibition that with travel across the country.
  by jaideepkhanduja / on Mar 19, 2010
• in Lifestyle
  World War I Survivor Turns 109
  Frank Woodruff Buckles celebrates his 109th birthday with one simple wish, the dedication of a WWI memorial
  by sageone73 / on Feb 2, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “wwi”

 

• WWI`s Morane Saulnier Typ N Aircraft In 1/33 Scale - by Modele Kartonowe

  
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  The Morane-Saulnier N, also known as the Morane-Saulnier Type N, was a French monoplane fighter aircraft of the First World War. Designed and manufactured by Morane-Saulnier, the Type N entered service in April 1915 with the Aéronautique Militaire designated as the MS.5C.1. It also equipped four squadrons of the ...
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• WWI British Light Howitzer Free Paper Model Download

  
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  This paper model is a 4.5" Howitzer , the standard British light howitzer throughout WWI, the papercraft created by Albrto Perilli. There are [Read More…]
  2 weeks ago

• Objectors to war have descendants, too

  
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  Cindy Freed at the group blog In-Depth Genealogist calls attention to a Civil War database of Pennsylvanians whose religious convictions prevented them from accepting a draft to serve in the Union army. Her title ("Bet Youve Never Researched This") may grate on those with lots of Quaker ancestors, or those from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Night in the JOL

  
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  Our monthly Night in the JOL evening talk held in the John Oxley Library Reading Room was a sell out affair on the eve of ANZAC Day 2013. ABC Radio National’s Dr Kate Evans led a fascinating discussion with panelists Lieutenant-General Mark Evans (retired) AO, DSC, Chair of the Queensland Advisory Committee for the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The UK’s National Archives’ site “The Cabinet Papers” offers insight into UK government and its participants.

  
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  What is available to researchers on “The Cabinet Papers” site? Records from 1915 to 1982 including full text is searchable from this site. Some of these records, however, have been redacted under the Public Records Act. These records include: Decisions and discussions of cabinet. Background reports and papers ...
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• Our Family’s Connection to Jamaica

  
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  My grandma’s sister Mabel Jean Thompson married Vivian Edward Steers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 21 Jul 1928. Great Uncle Viv was the first ‘coloured’ person I’d ever met. When I was young, I remember meeting him at Grandma’s house. He was a sweet man with a lovely smile who always had silver ...
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• Pause, Reflect and Share: A Busy April

  
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  Reflection should be an important element in our lives but sometimes we get so wound up in our lives that we forget to do this. This was happening to me so I thought I should pause, reflect on the hectic month that has been and share with you some of the things I have done. In doing so I share two blog posts that I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Students Experience ANZAC Collections in the John Oxley Library

  
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  In the lead up to ANZAC Day 2013 a number of student groups from Brisbane State High School and St Rita’s were able to examine original letters, diaries, photographs and medals held in the John Oxley Library. Displaying a portrait of WWI soldier Sgt Roy Proctor. WWI White Gloves talk and display in ...
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• Review: The Wars by Timothy Findley

  
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  All this mud and water was contaminated.  Dung and debris and decaying bodies lay beneath its surface.  When the rivers and canals could no longer be contained — over they spilled into clyttes already awash with rain. Houses, trees and fields of flax once flourished here.  Summers had been blue with flowers.  ...
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• Selenium, silk, spices and silver: drivers of human history

  
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  Adam Smith called the crossing of the Atlantic by Columbus  and rounding of the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco da Gama the greatest events in human history. They led to, for the first time, a truly global trading economy, where the Eurasian trade economy was extended to, and profoundly changed by contact with, the ...
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• Rin Tin Tin ... A Great Beach Read

  
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  Who didnt and doesnt love "Rin Tin Tin."  This is a wonderful book that I read in one night by Susan Orlean.  The book is well researched and if you loved the show, movies and love dogs in general ... this book is for you.  Full of interesting facts, people and history.  Funny, enlightening and sad as well.  The ...
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• He is Piling up his Thrift Stamps - Are You?

  
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  He is piling up his Thrift Stamps--Are you? Buy Thrift Stamps / W.S.S. from 1917. Original color lithograph at 60 x 44 cm. Poster showing a squirrel placing a nut in a hollow tree. "The Squirrel," advising children to buy Thrift Stamps.
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• Kitty’s War by Janet Butler

  
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  Kittys War by Janet Butler is an excellent biography of an Australian nurse who served in World War I. This sets the standard for war histories in terms of the excellence of writing, the depth of research and analysis. It is an absorbing and moving book which I recommend that everyone reads. Continue reading →
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• ANZAC Day

  
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  Tomorrow it’s ANZAC day (25 April) where New Zealand and Australia remember those who fell at Gallipoli during World War 1. A few years ago, Mr. Munro and I visited ANZAC Cove and Chunuk Bair in Turkey. We walked from ANZAC Cove up to Chunuk Bair. It was sweltering hot and we were exhausted by the time we reached ...
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• Kiwi Faces of World War I – Anzac Day update. We have reached over 60 identifications!

  
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  To mark Anzac Day tomorrow, here is an update on our ‘Kiwi Faces of World War I’ soldier identficiation project. We now identified more than 60 men out of the 110 World War One soldiers who were photographed by the Wellington photography studio Berry & Co. Most of these identifications have been based on ...
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• FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com Updates and Additions – April 23, 2013

  
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      FamilySearch.org   Australia Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933 Brazil Brazil, Civil Registration, 1870-2012 Brazil, Mato Grosso, Civil Registration, 1848-2012 Brazil, Parish and Diocesan Records Brazil, Piauí, Civil Registration, 1875-2012 Germany Germany, Prussia, Pomerania Church Records, ...
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• A-Z 2013 the letter T

  
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  Ive been looking into my family tree. I have found some rather very interesting things about my ancestors. Most interesting is that I have so many that I didnt know I even had. As I have mentioned on this blog many times I am a granddaughter of  immigrants. My fathers mother came to this country from Cork Ireland ...
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