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What is the chance of a message in a bottle being found?

Recently, a cheerful 100-year-old message in a bottle was found on the south-west coast of Australia. In it, a world war one soldier proclaimed to be “as happy as Larry”.

The Conversation

Fans have been waiting more than 15 years for this, and I'm certain new Netflix anime series Leviathan will live up to the hype

Leviathan takes place in an alternative steampunk World War One

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High buildings, loose morals: Art Deco movement celebrates its centenary

Deriving from a Parisian design fair 100 years ago, "Art Deco" rose up out of the ashes of World War One, bringing confidence, prosperity, very big parties and new, instantly recognisable bold buildings.

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Alice Winn: ‘We live in the fossilised wreckage of world war one’

The author of In Memoriam, a contender for Waterstones book of the year, on borrowing first-hand accounts of combat, running sex scenes past her gay friends and the eternal impact of the great war

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Thousands Of Knitted Poppies Drape Warwickshire Church For Remembrance Day

Volunteers stitch 3,104 poppies on St Peter's Church to honor fallen soldiers of World War One

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‘It was like in world war one’: the foreign volunteers fighting in Ukraine

Alan from England tells of difficult fighting from the trenches, while Steve from the US hasn’t registered with his embassy

The Guardian - UK

Amnesia: The Bunker review: "A bold new direction for the series"

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Türkiye Shuts its Airspace to Armenian Flights

Türkiye has closed its airspace to Armenian flights heading to a third destination in response to the unveiling of a controversial monument in Yerevan last week, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. The monument commemorates those involved in an assassination plot against Ottoman Turkish officials whom Armenia holds…

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Russia’s Wagner Mercenaries Control over 80% of Bakhmut, Leader Says

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said in a video posted on Tuesday that his forces now control more than 80% of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Wagner fighters have led Russia's months-long efforts to capture Bakhmut, in one of the bloodiest battles in its 13-month-old…

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Russian Official Claims 75% of Bakhmut Seized

The Russian-installed head of the Moscow-controlled part of Ukraine's Donetsk region said on Monday that Russian forces controlled more than 75% of the besieged city of Bakhmut. The battle for Bakhmut has been one of the bloodiest of the 13-month war, drawing comparisons with World War One due to massive…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Mindless' vandals blamed after Perth museum’s replica World War One trench 'almost destroyed' in blaze

Local councillor Andy Chan attempted to put out the flames on the grounds of the Black Watch Castle and Museum

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‘If you don’t burrow in you die pretty quickly’: the relentless battle for Bakhmut

Ukrainian soldiers who have been holding off a Russian offensive around the city describe intense fighting

The Guardian - UK

In Belgium’s Ypres, a Museum Draws a Line from World War One to Ukraine

The massed ranks of empty chairs at the Belgian World War One exhibition - one for each country and region that sent soldiers to die here a century ago - have been replaced by just two to mark the new conflict raging on the continent. One empty chair for Ukraine,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

In Belgium's Ypres, a museum draws a line from World War One to Ukraine

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Not So Quiet on the BAFTA Front as Anti-war Remake Tops the Billing

A German remake of anti-war classic "All Quiet on the Western Front" leads the contenders at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, the country's highest accolade for the industry. Based on the 1928 novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque about the horrors of World War One from the…

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French Court Sentences Four Far-Right Group Members in Plot against Macron

A French court on Friday found three members of a far-right group guilty of conspiring to prepare an act of terrorism against President Emmanuel Macron in 2018. The Paris criminal court handed the three men sentences ranging from three to four years in jail, with one to two years suspended…

Reuters

French far-right group on trial for plot to kill Macron

Members of a far-right French group have gone on trial over a plot to kill President Emmanuel Macron during a World War One memorial ceremony in 2018, planning terrorist attacks and for advocating the violent overthrow of the government.

Reuters

French city asks Madonna to lend it a painting lost in 1918

The mayor of Amiens, northern France, has asked Madonna to lend the city a 19th-century painting lost during World War One which it believes may be have been bought by the singer, to help its chances of becoming European Capital of Culture.

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Inside WW1 military hospital abandoned for decades before gaining new lease of life

Ormskirk General Hospital served as a temporary site for injured World War One soldiers returning from the front in 1918 but after laying empty for 30 years it has been reborn as a bustling school

Daily Mirror

Woman discovers lost WW1 gravestone for tank corporal while digging up garden

A woman discovered a World War One gravestone in her back garden while gardening, she believes the stone was sold off due to an error in the corporal's death date

Daily Mirror

You can now book stays in a WWI bunker used by Britain's first ever sniper unit

Dreamy Hollows is a 7.5 acre site comprising of an original World War One training trench network, dug in 1915 by the soldiers of the Lovat Scout in North Norfolk

Bristol Post

Bomb squad find more World War One explosives in Bristol garden

A second day of searches by the army

Daily Mirror

Brit divers find shipwrecked WW1 US Navy boat missing for more than 100 years

Divers discovered the missing USS Jacob Jones off the southwest coast of England last week - it was one of six destroyers built for the Navy before World War One

Daily Mirror

'DNA tests proved war heroes who lay undiscovered for over 100 years were our relatives'

World War One soldiers whose bodies lay undiscovered for a century were put to rest and with military honours after detectives traced down their families - the story will appear on ITV's Long Lost Family

Belfast Live

Young boy finds World War One hand grenade on Co Down beach

A controlled explosion was carried out on the item

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