A wreath of handmade yellow poppies were laid at the former site of the munitions factory in Linlithgow on Remembrance Day ...
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Baseball and the Great War
Leading the parades would be the High School band playing patriotic songs followed by the World War I guys. At the time, the Great War vets were probably only 67 or 68 years old, but their faces ...
“It is historically significant that this day continues to be observed on the month, day, and hour that the guns fell silent ...
The unregulated nature of the trade in medicines during this period ensured there was a far less strict delineation between 'pharmaceutical' and 'chemical ... during World War One, whilst ...
Iran was a victim of chemical warfare during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. Though estimates vary, at least tens of thousands of Iranians were believed to be exposed to Iraqi chemical attacks ...
VO, which are loaded with hazardous chemicals that are used for counter-riot operations and are prohibited as weapons of war, ...
On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, ...
FREDERICTON — When pilots took to the air for combat during the First World War, it had been less than 15 years since the Wright brothers’ famous first flight in 1903. Aircraft were in the ...
The pack or two a soldier might carry in his pocket would be burned up during “the many lazy days devoted to sailing across ...
Many of the areas surrounding Richmond owe their beginnings to periods during the Civil War and earlier. Sandston’s birth and ...
NADJA LOVADINOV explains why the Peace Pledge Union is launching a new initiative to make sure that the West's colonialist past and present — and its victims — are at the heart of remembrance ...
Is it true that movies glamorize whatever they touch, no matter how horrific? And if a war movie isn’t to sound a warning against war, what purpose does it serve? Even if Truffaut’s wrong ...