Henry Kissinger warns U.S.-China tensions are 'classic pre-World War I' A.I. could be the next technology of mutually assured destruction as the world becomes more dangerous. Fortune · May 18, 2023
Statue of World War I surgeon Vera Scantlebury Brown unveiled in home town of Linton World War I surgeon, trailblazer, and child health advocate Vera Scantlebury Brown is memorialised in bronze in her home town of Linton. ABC News · Apr 18, 2023
Commentary: How Los Angeles’ first female public defender pioneered the rule that led to Trump’s indictment Warren G. Harding was a terrible president, but he did get two things right. He freed an ailing Eugene Debs from federal prison, where Debs had been locked up for criticizing World War I, and he appointed Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Los Angeles’ first female public defender, as assistant attorney general… Los Angeles Times · Apr 14, 2023
Would tanks turn the tide? Pressure mounts on Germany to supply Ukraine Why the tanks? Vladimir Putin wanted a lightning capture of Kyiv, but seems happy to settle for a long artillery war that potentially lasts for years. Ukraine's allies argue that only tanks can speed up a win. We ask why and look at the World War I-style trench warfare that's… France 24 · Jan 23, 2023
Australian War Memorial says Shellal Mosaic taken during World War I would not be accepted into its collection today There have been calls for the nearly 1500-year-old mosaic to be returned to its place of origin, however, the Australian War Memorial says that "may further damage what remains of this precious work". ABC News · Nov 18, 2022
French iconic painter of black Pierre Soulages dead at 102 French painter Pierre Soulages, an icon of post-World War II European abstract art famed for his use of black, has died, according to the Soulages Museum in his hometown of Rodez The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2022
Ashington's Wallaw Cinema and the last picture show 40 years ago The post-World War II years marked cinema's golden age - it was a time when nearly every North East town had a cinema, and often more than one Chronicle Live · Jul 25, 2022
Ukrainian Fighters Take Out Russian Soldiers In WWI-Style Trenches Thanks To Drone These images purport to show Ukrainian fighters taking out Russian soldiers in World War I-style trenches thanks to a drone. Zenger · Jun 14, 2022
Australian actor Odessa Young shines in British post-WWI drama Mothering Sunday Australian actor Odessa Young shines in Mothering Sunday, a British post-World War I drama full of repressed emotions and slow-burning intensity. The New Daily · Jun 11, 2022
Winner of Gallipoli Art Prize announced A Newcastle artist's painting of a sword used in World War I and an item she mistook for a whip has won the 2022 Gallipoli Art Prize. AAP · Apr 20, 2022
Calls for statue to honour Annie Wheeler, known as Mother of Anzacs in World War I When Australian Annie Wheeler found herself in London in 1914, she wanted to help the war effort. She started writing an index card for every Queensland soldier she met. ABC News · Apr 17, 2022
Nicholas Goldberg: In Europe, the war in Ukraine raises the question — is the past really past? AURINGEN, Germany — I was visiting family in a village not too far from the city of Wiesbaden, Germany, when I learned that an unexploded World War II bomb had been found just a few kilometers away, near the gas station we passed on the road into town. Los Angeles Times · Apr 1, 2022
Review: 'Two Storm Wood,' by Philip Gray FICTION: A compelling historical thriller about a woman who investigates the disappearance of her fiancé at the end of World War I. Tribune News Service · Mar 30, 2022
World War I artefact that honoured Lanarkshire soldier is returned to the region Robert Horsburgh Robertson was killed during action in 1915 Daily Record · Mar 29, 2022
ABC News · Mar 15, 2022 Townsville shopping centre cleaner finds 106yo WWI postcard sent from battlefield in Turkey A postcard sent by a soldier from the battlefront in World War I has turned up at a busy Townsville shopping centre and will be delivered 106 years late.
The Conversation · Feb 10, 2022 A brief history of the NFL, 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' the Super Bowl and their tangled saga of patriotism and dissent When NFL Commissioner Elmer Layden visited the White House in August 1945, no sitting president had ever attended a professional football game. World War II was coming to a close and the commissioner presented President Harry Truman with a golden pass to any game on any day.
Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 7, 2022 Review: The Long-Delayed ‘Death on the Nile’ Runs Aground Kenneth Branagh's Agatha Christie adaptation “Death on the Nile” begins with a flashback to the trenches of World War I before shifting to 1930s London two decades later, but that’s nothing compared to the time that's passed since Branagh's preceding 2017 whodunit “Murder on the Orient Express.” That film, which…
Radio France Internationale · Jan 29, 2022 India showcases its military prowess at Republic Day parade with pomp and ceremony India rolled out its largest ever flypast as troops marched along a World War I monument where an “eternal” beacon lit 50 years ago was earlier doused and merged with a flame in a new war memorial.
LiveScience · Sep 24, 2017 Mayday! 22 mysterious shipwrecks you can see on Google Earth Google Earth has captured images of rotting and rusting hulls that are wasting away in shallow waters the world over.