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96Downton Abbey Clothes The English Period Drama Starts A Hot New Fashion Trend
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77World War 1 History: First Tank Versus Tank Battle
On April 24, 1918 the first tank versus tank battle occurred. Three British Mark IV tanks (one male and two females) encountered three German A7V tanks. The two females (armed with machine guns only) were soon damaged and withdrew, leaving the male (armed with two 6-pounders and three machine guns to face the three “Monsters”.
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81World War 1 History: Winston Churchill in the Trenches
Winston Churchill, future Prime Minister of Great Britain, spent six months in the Western Front during World War I following his resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty after the disaster at Galipoli. He spent most of that time with his battalion, the 6th Royal Scots in the front lines.
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75Enid Blyton - A Magic World
On 11 August 1897, a baby girl was born in a tiny flat above a shop in Lordship Lane, East Dulwich. Her delighted parents, Thomas and Theresa Blyton named the squalling infant Enid Mary, little knowing that she would grow up to become one of the...
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73World War 1 History: The Battle of Mons-- The BEF's First Major Action
The British Expeditionary Force sent to France in the opening days of the First World War met the German First Army at Mons, Belgium. It was the first battle for the British against a European foe for 60 years.
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82Firing Squad at Dawn - Executions in World War One (WWI)
During the First World War, several hundred men were shot at dawn, by firing squads, made up of their own comrades, supposedly for cowardice and desertion. Many were suffering from trauma and other physical, psychological and / or emotional health problems. A number of them were young boys, who had lied about their age, when they enlisted, and then simply could not cope with the horrors that World War One forced upon them. They died a horrific and terrifying death, when they should have been sen
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79Military History: The U.S. Airborne
The American paratrooper is trained to fight wherever in the world they are needed and they strike hard and fast behind enemy lines. From the bloody battlefields of World War Two to the present day, this is the story of the U.S. Airborne. The...
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82How did the First World War affect the future world?
How far did the settlement of the first war cause the unrest that led to the second world war
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79France after the First World War
World War I broke out in 1914. France suffered for several years under a succession of weak premiers. However, in 1917, Georges Clemenceau became premier and led France to victory over Germany. Victory came...
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77Ghost 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 (Flanders, Belgium) and the French towns of...
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