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H1N1 flu virus - Will colloidal silver kill it?

Realities check.... we don't know for sure that this virus will mutate and be resistant to the drugs our governments have invested so heavily in... It may just go away, or be no worse than a 'normal' flu...

4 comments    health politics barack obama
The Lusitania on her Maiden Voyage to New York81

The sinking of the Lusitania: A survivor's story

Fannie Jane Morecroft left New York on RMS Lusitania on the 1st May 1915, bound for Liverpool. The Lusitania was one of the great Atlantic liners, which rushed to and fro across the Atlantic conveying people...

88 comments    history new york liverpool
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Ghost Cavalry of the Great War

Captain Cecil Wightwick left us an account of the strange things that happened between April and August 1918 near Bethune (France), in the middle of an area of front line trenches between the city of Ypres...

1 comment    history paranormal angels
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Lawrence of Arabia

He was known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' but his real name was Thomas Edward Lawrence. Lawrence was born in 1888 in Wales and died in a motor cycle accident in 1935. His father Sir Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman...

2 comments    military wisdom importance
Winston Churchill's famous "V for Victory!" gesture.83

Operation Sealion - how Britain prepared for the Nazi invasion in 1940

As Winston Churchill, the new Prime Minister, put it, “the Battle of France is over, the Battle of Britain is about to begin"

32 comments    history england world war ii
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ADOLPH HITLER a Psychological Profile

Adolph Hitler – was he – mad, bad or sad or a combination of all three of the above. It has been said that he forced the German peoples to follow him to disaster and ultimately destruction of their...

8 comments    life relationships children
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Lipizzaner

DRESSAGE - SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL The Lipizzaner can be traced to AD 800. The Moors brought the Barb horses in the 7th century to Spain and crossed bred with the Spanish native stud the Andalusian horse and...

2 comments    horses austria olympic games
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The Angels of Mons

In 1930, the British newspaper The Daily News had a story about angels fighting on the side of the British troops during the retreat from Mons, in August 1914...

1 comment    education religion literature
And in the beginning.... there were no parachutes, no rules of engagement, no experience and often just 48 hours of flight training.74

World War 1 Flying Aces: ANZAC s who tamed the skies above the Trenches.

To an entire generation of young men, army recruiters sold the ‘Great War’ as a wonderful adventure, in picturesque places so far away. The world was at war; New Zealand and Australia were a distant part...

12 comments    flight new zealand world war
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Roles of Women in World War I

By 1914 nearly 5.9 million were working out of the 23.8 million females in Britain. In World War I, for example, thousands of women worked in munitions factories, offices and large hangars used to build...

2 comments    education how women
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