Bismarck woman honors father by keeping part of trench art collection
Martha Charlotte’s family used to have hundreds of pieces of trench art from around the world that were collected by her ...
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The Poetry of Bombs and Trenches and Mustard Gas
Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...
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What Was Daily Life Like in a WWI Trench? | Daily Routine of a British Soldier in the Trenches
We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across ...
Family silver, a German doll and soldiers’ World War I mementos: What are they worth?
Your demitasse spoons in the Art Nouveau “Lily” pattern from the Floral Series by R. Wallace & Sons of Wallingford, ...
‘There is no future’: Even a potential ceasefire sparks little hope in eastern Ukraine
Could a ceasefire deal be a disaster for Ukraine in disguise? That is the urgent question echoing in Ukrainian frontline bunkers and in the ruins of besieged towns, where ubiquitous exhaustion begs ...
'Porcelain War' embeds with the Ukrainian artists who became warriors
An Amber Alert has been issued for a pregnant Wisconsin teen, who police believe is with the 40-year-old man who impregnated her. Gary Day, 40, "is known to be the father of the unborn child," ...
The best half-term holidays from Manchester Airport with returns from £39
Flights to Lisbon from Manchester with TAP Air Portugal during February half term start at a very reasonable £134pp return.
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Reid G. Miller, longtime AP international correspondent and editor, dies at 90
Reid G. Miller, who traveled the planet as an intrepid international correspondent for The Associated Press and developed a ...
Alphonse Mucha — far more than a poster artist
The Nazis thought him ‘dangerous’, the communists spurned him as ‘decadent’ — now a new museum in Prague seeks to revive his ...
Ukrainian troops lose ground with fewer fighters and exposed supply lines
POKROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — A dire shortage of infantry troops and supply routes coming under Russian drone attacks are ...
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The five best historical novels of all time, according to Jessie Burton
When Jessie Burton published The Miniaturist in 2014, it became the fastest-selling debut of the decade, shifting over a ...
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Corruption and Rule-Breaking Prevail at the European Patent Office (EPO), Europe's Second-Largest Institution
As usual, the EPO breaks the law with impunity, cannot be sued because of immunity, and it continues to rely on the EPO's bribery of the political class. The law does not really exist at the EPO; it ...