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William Lacey receiving the Echo-medal

kjehan wrote 2 days ago: Saturday, April 11 – 1914 Scenes before the Liverpool v. Aston Villa game started. Mr. John Mc … more →

Tags: Aston Villa, Dr. Ferguson, E.A. Bainbridge, Echo Medal, John McKenna, keating, Liverpool, martindale, Referees

The Live Bait Squadron.... HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy... 22nd September 1914

Thomas wrote 3 days ago: Recently I attended a family history fair, and on one of the stands, was a leaflet asking for inform … more →

Tags: Killed, WW1, War, History, Royal Navy, Bravery, Kia, 1916, historian

Daily Beast reviews The Sleepwalkers

1914centenary wrote 3 days ago: World War I saw ‘European civilization shattered like a glittering chandelier fallen on a marb … more →

Tags: Events, Books, news 2, Reviews, daily beast, The Sleepwalkers

Liverpool F.C. players – special photograph taken at Chingford

kjehan wrote 4 days ago: Wednesday, April 15 – 1914 The latest photograph of Liverpool was taken at Chingford, where th … more →

johnlink ranks TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE (1914)

johnlink00 wrote 1 week ago: This movie is 99 years old. That blows me away. We’re getting close to the point where we will … more →

Tags: T, Comedy, Silent

Collecting for the centenery

marketlavingtonmuseum wrote 1 week ago: Next year – 2014 – we will mark the centenery of the start of World War 1 which, sadly, did not live … more →

Tags: museum, Market Lavington, Easterton, Fiddington, Canada, World War 1, medallion, valcartier

Wordless Wednesday2 comments

midnightlaura wrote 1 week ago: From La Belle Epoque: Edwardian Fashion 1900-1914, the ‘Beautiful Era’ of Edwardian fash … more →

Tags: Wordless Wednesday, Steampunk, neo-Victorian, Victoriana, burlesque, costume design, History of Costume, Fashion, Victorian

We are Living in Great Times (In Dieser Grossen Zeit)

weltbuehne wrote 1 week ago: I knew them when they were just ordinary times, and they will be ordinary times again, if they have … more →

Tags: Die Fackel, Karl Kraus, Kraus Fischer Big Reader, Kraus Suhrkamp Reader, Kraus Suhrkamp Works. Judgement Day I, Kraus Volk und Welt Selected Works. Great Times

How does God value mothers?

T.L. wrote 1 week ago: No more than any other person. “Sacrilege, woman! How dare you diss mothers and say they … more →

Tags: God, church, Religion, MOTHERS DAY, Value, Worthy, appreciated, Blessing, Childfree

Respect for a fallen enemy - French soldier's grave, 1915

Gottmituns wrote 1 week ago: Gravesite erected for a French soldier by men of the German Guard-Regiment No. 4. No more words need … more →

Tags: World War 1, 1915, 1917, 1918, Battlefield, battles, Flanders, France, german

James Joyce, "Dubliners"

katflei wrote 1 week ago: 1914 The 15 stories of Dubliners are often read as a naturalist experiment in Dublin, the city opera … more →

Tags: Short Stories, 20th century British, 20b, Joyce, Short Story, Ulysses, Irish Writers, Dubliners, Bildungsroman

lanaahaske wrote 1 week ago: Who founded Mother’s Day? By Adrienne Burke | Profit Minded – Fri, May 10, 2013 1:22 PM E AnnaMarieJ … more →

Tags: Shout-outs, Current News, 1907, 1948, Anna Marie Jarvis, avenue mortgage corporation, Lana A Haske Licensed Loan Officer, MOTHERS DAY, Naperville IL

The Iron Cross

fx bernard wrote 2 weeks ago: This picture was already shown in a previous post, but I thought it was interesting to spend a few l … more →

Tags: 1915, 1918, 1916, German Army, 1917, monument, Verdun, France, Aviation

The Memorial of the 288th Régiment d'Infanterie

fx bernard wrote 2 weeks ago: This post is obviously linked to a previous post of mine dedicated to French writer Alain-Fournier, … more →

Tags: French Army, Group, Individual, German Army, mourning, monument, Verdun, France

May 8 in San Antonio history...

sapltexana wrote 2 weeks ago: 1914 County officials planned special ceremonies when the old Bexar County courthouse was demolished … more →

Tags: texana, 1956, 1942

"That Austrian corporal" - The army files of Adolf Hitler, 1914-19181 comment

Gottmituns wrote 2 weeks ago: A lot has been written about “That Austrian corporal”, so I will not try to write anythi … more →

Tags: World War 1, 1915, battle, great war, Hitler, iron cross, WW1

"The Lost Generation" - Trailer

thelostgenerationofficial wrote 3 weeks ago: A story based around a survivor’s recollections of World War I. The sights he saw, ordeals he … more →

Tags: Trailers, World War I, Youth, History, WWI, film, The Lost Generation, Casualties, generation

A postcard that moved me2 comments

locksands wrote 3 weeks ago: Virtually all of the family postcards I know of concern my dad’s family.  However, when I visited a … more →

Tags: genealogy, Postcard, First World War, World War I, Alf Ware

The monument of Vauquois

fx bernard wrote 3 weeks ago: I had published about one year ago two posts about the destroyed village of Vauquois (France, Meuse) … more →

Tags: French Army, 1915, 1918, 1916, German Army, civilian, 1917, US Army, Verdun


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