| 单词 | First World War |
| 例句 | “He’s really a great man, my father. He saved his community. He brought them all over to America after the First World War.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They began to issue military surplus from the First World War—olive-drab knit caps, earmuffs, peacoats, canvas leggings. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z No doubt it started growing long before the camps, long before the Second World War and the First World War, probably before the Civil War, and maybe even before the United States was a country. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Herbie hunkered, petrified, horrified, on his sleeping bag, watching them die like gas victims from the First World War, like Napoleonic soldiers on a Russian winter battlefield. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The greatest single epidemic in human history was the one of influenza that killed 21 million people at the end of the First World War. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe, in training for that profession in those years before the First World War, he saw ahead of him prejudices he refused to swallow, humiliations he refused to bear. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Later they told us the story of how, during the First World War, the British army had taken all their horses, and for a while they’d had none to pull their wagons. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And I must tell you what she did about the First World War. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In this respect the Scientific Revolution is quite unlike, for example, the First World War, where there is general agreement on what it was and a fair amount of agreement on why it happened. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By the First World War, the community was a ghetto in the making. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Seventy percent of the Eastern European Jews who came through Ellis Island in the thirty years or so before the First World War had some kind of occupational skill. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Not until the First World War did the military dominance of cavalry finally end. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z During the First World War he had served in the U.S. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Just after the First World War, Lewis Terman, a young professor of psychology at Stanford University, met a remarkable boy named Henry Cowell. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was during the First World War that a silent pilgrimage took its first steps within the borders of this country. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Precious Angel's made of blown glass; she was a gift to my great-grandmother from a one-eyed Hungarian prince, so the story goes, at a ball in Vienna, just before the First World War. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Most children brought up in Brooklyn before the First World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mother altered my birth certificate so I could fight in the First World War! That was the only lie she ever told! I was engaged to Fitzgerald’s sister!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “I'm more into the First World War poets, myself.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z This was because his son died of influenza during the First World War and he still wanted to talk to him. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His beloved first wife died early, in 1909, and the younger of his two sons was killed in the First World War. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z My mother spoke German during her childhood in America and was stoned for it during the First World War by the children at school. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The First World War had ended before he completed his flight training, but he often wrote about combat pilots and aerial performers in his fiction. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The nova of 1572 was not the cause of the Scientific Revolution, any more than the bullet which killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 was the cause of the First World War. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My feet clomped over the same worn boards boys did somersaults on before they went off to the First World War to be gassed. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He remained the rabbi of his community throughout the years of Russia’s participation in the First World War. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Celine was a brave French soldier in the First World War—until his skull was cracked. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Like many Confederate monuments, the Charlottesville statue dates to a period after the First World War when racist Jim Crow laws were being amped up in America. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps something from the First World War, or the Second, or art of the WPA era, or maybe something from the tumultuous 1960s. Perspective | America needs an epic narrative right now. Painters are working on it. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Roman mentions a study done that showed that First World War infantry equipment was actually heavier than what most medieval soldiers would carry into battle. “Game of Thrones” in combat: How realistic are the show’s epic fight scenes? 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Last year’s “Wonder Woman” surprised fans by setting itself in the First World War, rather than the Second. Perspective | Recollections of World War I were fading away, but books, movies and TV brought them back 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z “The technology of the First World War made it larger. The trucks and the large quantities of supplies, there were airplanes for the first time and tanks,” he said. Art made on the front lines of the First World War 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Men dressed as First World War soldiers mingle with regular commuters aboard an underground tube train in London, to mark 100-years since the start of the Battle of the Somme, early Friday July 1, 2016. WWI soldiers mingle with commuters in artist's Somme tribute 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Many of the generals in charge were old men, relics of the First World War. It Sucked to Go Through World War II. Inferno Will Remind You Why. 2011-11-09T10:00:54Z I think Wells was groping for a prediction of shell shock, which wasn’t a recognized condition until the First World War, 20 years later. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Sequel to ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z It was for the one with “tomb” in the title, the one with the music commemorating friends lost in the First World War. City Ballet Presents ‘Masters at Work’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z They present archival footage of the First World War—including images of veterans who were disfigured in combat. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z A comparable spirit of creative disavowal emerged with more force—and flair—under very different circumstances several decades later in the midst of the First World War. Artists are just this screwed: When capitalism markets rebellion, how does the rebel stand outside? 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z The story is a slightly tampered version of the First World War. Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld - review 2013-07-14T08:00:00Z Pilates was developed by Joseph Pilates, a German physical trainer, while he was interned by the British during the First World War. 'Pilates-changed-my-life’ stories are annoying… but it did 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z One of her earliest memories is of all the bells in Yamhill ringing at once: it was the end of the First World War. Beverly Cleary, Age 100 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Mendes: The winds that were blowing before the First World War are blowing again. Q&A: Sam Mendes on making ‘1917’ in one long take 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Then turn and turn again, as Virginia Woolf describes a landscape viewed through the aperture of the First World War’s “sharp, / immediate sorrow.” ‘Roget’s Ilusion’: wheels within wheels, words within words 2014-05-07T20:16:34Z These images may reflect a period of several decades — roughly from the First World War to the high-water mark of mid-century American power and ambition — when cities were thriving, cauldrons of industrial might. Art review: ‘Architectural Image, 1920-1950’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Each had lost a fiancé in the First World War, and their generation fascinated me. Emma Thompson: ‘Dieting screwed up my metabolism. I regret ever going on one' 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z But the First World War remains distinctively stupefying. Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z He was in a mining company — Sappers, the 256th Royal Engineers — and he was one of those guys tunneling under the Germans in the First World War. A Word With: Roger Waters: Rogers Waters Talks About ‘The Wall’ and Pink Floyd 2012-07-05T21:11:55Z Polchin wonders if the men, many of whom were veterans of the First World War, were in shell shock—though an exact diagnosis now hardly matters. The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z But for anyone interested in the First World War, the effort is well worth the exposure to a side of the war that is often given short shrift in Western histories. Review: ‘The End of Tsarist Russia’ by Dominic Lieven 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Millions were killed in imperial massacres, the Armenian genocide, and the First World War; then fascism marched and the suffering increased. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Devoted to the history of the Isonzo Front during the First World War, the museum is open every day of the year, but the exact hours vary by season. Once war-torn, Slovenia has become a green retreat 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z One hundred years ago this month, the guns finally fell silent over Flanders as the exhausted powers of Europe declared an armistice to end the First World War. Perspective | Recollections of World War I were fading away, but books, movies and TV brought them back 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z "The First World War was the most emotional thing that happened to our nation, and it was only four generations away," he said. Ballet makes Glastonbury debut 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z “Dishonored,” set during the First World War, is a story of danger and death; it’s a war film in which the crucial battles are psychological ones that are fought in back rooms. The Front Row: Marlene Dietrich in “Dishonored” 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z "They are central to what Sassoon means to us now as a war poet and as a protester against the First World War," he told the BBC. Sassoon war diaries published online 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z For reasons both logistical and narrative, the First World War itself is given short shrift — the archduke was assassinated, everyone overreacted, and there we all were, dug into the mud of France. History's 'World Wars' makes for fine Memorial Day viewing 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z "And then he said: 'It's going to be premiered during the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, what do you think about doing something connected to that?'" Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z One hundred years after Armistice, as memory of the First World War seems set to fade away, these stories remind us of its realities. Perspective | Recollections of World War I were fading away, but books, movies and TV brought them back 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z She wanted to study journalism but Columbia’s program was too crowded for her taste, and then it closed during the First World War. ‘Berenice Abbott’ Captures a Large and Star-Studded Life 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z After working as a radio operator during the First World War, Serge is later taken to a German prison camp, escapes, and eventually ends up in an Egyptian tomb. Booker prize longlist revealed 2010-07-27T17:20:00Z In 20th century culture – certainly in Europe after the First World War – saying one thing and meaning another became the standardised form of discourse. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z He was only too aware that the nationalistic passions expressed in the First World War had been compounded by new racist ideologies in the intervening years. When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Here the wounded of the First World War are arranged on the steps in their "convalescent blues" – loathed regulation garments – like figures in a Renaissance fresco, except that they are blank-eyed and listless. Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z But behind those stories was the “geological presence” of the First World War, a subject he wrote about in “The Missing of the Somme,” an elliptical book about remembrance. ArtsBeat: A Great War Reading List at PEN World Voices Festival 2014-05-02T18:57:31Z In addition to several warring gangs, one of them Roma, he gives us the Irish Republican Army and Communist union organizers, all of them operating in the shadow of the recently concluded First World War. ‘Peaky Blinders’ Is a British Crime Drama 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z “I’m afraid that the winds that were blowing before the First World War are blowing again,” he said. ‘1917’ Was an Impossible Mission. Here’s How Sam Mendes Pulled It Off. 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The torturous production is only the core of the novel, which follows our principals into the subsequent First World War, the brutality of which mocks the contrived fake-blood Grand Guignol horrors of a movie. Review | An irresistible tale of early cinema makes for perfect summer reading 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Marsh, whose brother, parents, and grandmother all died before she turned fourteen, served with the Y.M.C.A. during the First World War, working in a canteen in France. The Little Syria of Deep Valley 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z But radio technology was improving, in part because of innovations during the First World War, and after the war, listeners and broadcasters multiplied. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “The impact of the First World War was to shake things up enormously, loosening up old mores, fashions and behaviors. The early ’20s were like the waist of an hourglass. ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters, Looks at 1920s Britain 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z “After the First World War, people were nostalgic for the past and hopeful for the future.” A century after art deco’s birth, designers say we’re due for a revival 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z In the First World War, military surgeons reported dramatic results in the hopeless and near lifeless. Blood tales: the magic liquid that keeps us alive 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z A few years ago, I walked through Bialystok with a historical map of the now destroyed Jewish city—before the First World War, Jews comprised about half the population—and found my father’s house. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Communities in Inverclyde, like many parts of Scotland, were torn apart by the events of the First World War. Digital display for rare WWI posters 2013-08-23T00:25:58Z The Diplomacy board is a map of Europe on the eve of the First World War. Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z His “Queen of the Desert” stars Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Bell, who helped draw the borders of the Middle East after the end of the Ottoman and British Empires following the First World War. 'Taxi' by Jafar Panahi Takes Top Prize at Berlin Film Festival 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z “Up until the First World War, you see that great hope for society in Shaw’s works,” Mr. Mezon said. Kushner’s ‘The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide’ Finds a Niche at the Shaw Festival 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z In Berry’s virtuoso historical fantasy, the Greek gods toy with the hearts of four young mortals caught up in a chaotic First World War romance. Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z I’m reading Joseph Roth’s “The Radetzky March,” which is full of mourning for the end of the Austro-Hungarian empire—the twilight period before the First World War, and then after. The Books We’re Turning to Now 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Steve also explains that war—the First World War—is raging, and Diana believes she can stop it if she can kill Ares, the god responsible for such atrocities. Can We Build a Better Blockbuster? Wonder Woman Points a Way Forward 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, Britain solemnly observed the centenary of the end of the First World War, which, at its outset, was notoriously expected to last a few months, with everything over by Christmas. The Ultimate Very British Problem 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z A devout Melkite Catholic—born in Aleppo, but exiled by the First World War to Cairo, and then by the Second World War to America—my grandfather was functionally deaf. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z Since the First World War, Americans have been leading a double life. Just a Book? No, More Like a Trusty Companion 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z If historical dates were times on the 24-hour clock so that 2010 was 10 past eight, how many minutes would it be from the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War? TV review: University Challenge 2011-04-04T21:00:02Z Ansara described the wave of immigrants who fought the Revolutionary War, the wave of immigrants who fought in the Civil War, and, finally, the wave of immigrants who fought in the First World War. The Little Syria of Deep Valley 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z They play a trio of shirkers dodging trench service during the First World War. Simon Bird spreads his wings 2011-02-20T00:05:18Z Yugoslavia, a country of the South Slavs, was formed as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, on December 1, 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z It was a real phenomenon, first identified in 1917 in Vienna – a pandemic of brain disease, inflammations in the lining of the brain, that spread at the end of the First World War. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z The collective trauma of the First World War and its aftereffects were making the communication of shared experiences through the telling of tales a thing of the past. How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z “I thought it was important to show that the end of the First World War was used to start a second one, to put that into historical context,” Berger said. In a German ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ History Has a Starring Role 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Proust kept a telephone in his bedroom until the First World War broke out, and had a separate contraption called a théâtrophone that allowed him to listen to live concerts through the receiver. The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The Tate's 2014 programme includes major exhibitions from: Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, JMW Turner, and 100 Years Later: Conflict, Time, Photography - a photographic exhibition timed to coincide with the centenary of the First World War. Hirst helps Tate to record visitors 2013-09-19T14:06:12Z This all changed in the closing days of the First World War. Leaving Aleppo 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Vincent B. Sherry, writing in “The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War,” called Mr. Fussell’s book “the fork in the road for Great War criticism.” Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88 2012-05-23T22:21:26Z He was born in Romania in 1914, just before the start of the First World War. Remembering Saul Steinberg 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z It’s very difficult to think of Beckett, and that particular articulation of nihilism, without the First World War. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z Aboriginal history, the First World War and Aussie Rules football are all covered in this wide-ranging cultural museum. Getting the buzz on Melbourne: A coffee lover’s guide 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z He described how, as the tide of propaganda rose during the First World War, saturating newspapers, magazines, and radio, the sensibilities of readers became deadened. When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The late historian and critic Tony Judt once described Europe before the First World War as “an intricate, interwoven tapestry of overlapping languages, religions, communities and nations.” Iraq and Syria’s Poetic Borders 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z "Michael thinks it is important not to denigrate the patriotism, honour and courage demonstrated by ordinary British soldiers in the First World War." Blackadder star and Gove in WW1 row 2014-01-05T18:44:17Z Emerging from the horror of the First World War, and the 1918 November Revolution that saw the imperial government sacked, the nation’s consciousness was in a state of jumble and disarray. Bad times make great art. Worlds of light and shadow: The reproduction of liberalism in Weimar Germany 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z To bring the events of 1914 back to life, the Heritage Lottery Fund has launched a £6m small grants programme, First World War: Then and Now. Authors prepare to mark centenary of first world war with flood of new books 2013-06-09T08:30:02Z Army during the First World War before she got shot by the Germans and retired to Florida. A Scholar of Pigeons 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Surveying the old military test zone of Orford Ness, she discovers a sea wall built during the First World War by a Chinese labor force largely written out of history. From Lahore to Orford Ness, Searching for the Roots of Trauma 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z It occupies the site of San Juan Hill, a vibrant Black neighborhood before the First World War, the birthplace of Thelonious Monk, which during the 1940s attracted increasing numbers of Puerto Rican migrants. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z He also developed precision gun sights for the U.S. during the First World War and patented the car sunroof, but compression socks, which he invented around 1950, were his flagship achievement. A Word of Thanks for My Compression Socks 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z One of his favorite books is W. V. Tilsley’s “Other Ranks,” an account of everyday life for soldiers in the First World War. The Custodian of Forgotten Books 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Her father, a doctor, spent time in France during the First World War, helping set up orphanages, and returned to the U.S. in love with a Frenchwoman and seeking a divorce. My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z The Great Martian War This new import —an allegorical reimagining of the First World War — has humans waging a catastrophic battle against a race of extraterrestrials. Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk Shows: 'Crossbones' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z After the First World War, traumatized soldiers returning home from the front were often prescribed a course of reading. Is Reading the New Therapy? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The “picturesque front,” his narrator called this area of present-day Slovenia where intense fighting occurred between the Italians and Austro-Hungarian forces during the First World War. Once war-torn, Slovenia has become a green retreat 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z “Testament of Youth,” however, is not fiction; Vera and the other major characters are real-life figures who faced the horrors of the First World War. Review: ‘Testament of Youth’ Recalls the Great War With Little Nostalgia 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Once we hit the First World War, the British empire is really handing over to the American empire. ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Damian Lewis on 'Homeland' and 'The Forsyte Saga' 2012-09-21T18:30:54Z "She was a tiny girl in the First World War, living in a little market town in Yorkshire," said McCarthy. First world war poem wins National Poetry Competition 2013 2013-03-27T20:29:01Z For Berg, Büchner’s play offers a premonition both in its form and in its text, a premonition of the First World War. William Kentridge Brings ‘Wozzeck’ Into the Trenches 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Benjamin excelled in university and was briefly a leader in the German Youth Movement before breaking with them over his disapproval of the First World War. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z This week, Canadians of Ukrainian and other backgrounds urged a boycott due to "the lack of a meaningful portrayal" of Canada's internment of so-called "enemy aliens" during the First World War. Canada human rights museum stirs controversy as doors open 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The First World War Galleries beckon with an introductory film on the United Kingdom’s economic and military position just before the August 1914 outbreak of hostilities. London’s Imperial War Museum takes visitors back into the trenches 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z A veteran of the First World War who lives in harrowed, alcohol-benumbed grief, Tom lost his three best friends in that war and spends much of his time talking to their graves. Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge”: Religious Pomp Laced with Pornographic Violence 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Army in the First World War, he arrived in Chicago, where he took up the guitar and started playing more regularly. Listening Booth: The Alvin Brothers 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z It deepens the fragrant and history-laden music with which Ravel commemorated friends killed in the First World War. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z It is one of the most powerful presentations at the new First World War Galleries here, suggesting that this seemingly futile battle was actually a turning point. First World War Galleries Reopen at Imperial War Museum 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Like all wars, the First World War corrupted the winners and losers alike, spreading cynicism and lies, limiting free expression and dissent, and distributing pain, sacrifice and suffering unequally. What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “I was shocked to realize that the First World War was a war that nobody wanted,” he writes — which led him to wonder if and how such a “tragic accident” could happen again. New Political Thrillers Head to the Brink of Disaster (and Dive In) 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam furnished books for Doughboys in the First World War, firmly committed, as he was, “to the Library’s role as a protector of democracy.” Review | The Library of Congress: ‘The book Palace of the American People’ 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z It all began just at the end of the First World War, which was a watershed for industrialisation and the coming era of technology in civilisation. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z Taylor’s father was a veteran of the First World War, an avid reader of military history, and a Canadian senator. How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z By the time it abruptly ended at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, between 15 million and 20 million men had perished in the First World War. In France, Vestiges of the Great War’s Bloody End 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z “It felt like being in the First World War, where the nurses and doctors were all on the front line trying to save people from dying,” Birkin recalls of her treatment at a Paris hospital. Jane Birkin is back with a new album, but her presence is everlasting 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z He then attended élite institutions—Choate, Harvard—before volunteering as an ambulance driver in the First World War. What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z In a black-and-white photograph, she is standing with her back turned, a white column facing a grove of burnt tree trunks resembling the no man’s lands of the First World War. A Tale of Two Female Outcasts in the American Southwest 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z In the decades before the First World War, “invasion stories“ such as H. G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds” populated the best-seller lists in Britain and the United States. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The ten “Betsy-Tacy” books span the time from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the First World War. The Little Syria of Deep Valley 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Verdi set his opera in 15th-century Spain; this production updates the action to the First World War, and features a chorus wearing gas masks. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z In recognition of the centennial of the outbreak of the First World War, the museum underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation. London’s Imperial War Museum takes visitors back into the trenches 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z I smiled back and started reading the names of the people who'd been killed in the First World War. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z Claude Debussy died of cancer, age 55, 100 years ago March 25, as German artillery and aircraft hammered Paris during the First World War. Review | Pianist Lupo celebrates Debussy with thoughtful performance 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z "This was on the eve of the First World War, which of course ended the dream of progress and so-called European civilization." Knightley stars in film on birth of psychoanalysis 2011-09-02T14:29:06Z Sometimes I do watch some of the old films … now, I did watch yesterday one from the First World War called Dawn Patrol. Margaret Thatcher v Smash Hits – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-04-09T11:25:08Z I believe that Fitzgerald never really stopped thinking about the First World War. This Week in Fiction: The Lost Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z It was one of the things I studied that set off a real interest in this period of history and the literature surrounding the First World War. Kit Harington on the 'Teenage, Morbid Fascination' Behind His Latest Role 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z An ironically romantic sequence pitting Lupin against Germany’s own Kaiser Wilhelm in the run-up to the First World War only adds to the movie’s extravagant, ironic resonance. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z “Through movies I learned about astronomy, the First World War. It is continually walking into other worlds and getting to the bones of them. What other life can offer that?” Jodie Foster: ‘I make movies to figure out who I am’ | Tim Adams 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Just 30 minutes outside Paris in Meaux, Europe’s largest First World War museum offers an excellent immersion into the Great War with reconstructed trenches, hanging fighter planes and interactive displays. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Pigeons were also used by the French to capture the position of the German army in the First World War, most notably at the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of Somme. The Origins of Aerial Photography 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z A last bid for reflection, near the end, asks whether the First World War’s peace terms made a Second World War inevitable two decades later, as students have been taught over the decades. London’s Imperial War Museum takes visitors back into the trenches 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Kentridge created an all-consuming stage picture, with video, lighting and extravagant costumes and drawings depicting the horror of the First World War. Why do music festivals matter? For an answer, America, look to Salzburg 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z African-American soldiers who had fought for their country in the First World War returned home with high hopes for the recognition of their military service and their humanity. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Perhaps, however, you mean the First World War? Rereading: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Until now, that is, when the cataclysmic effects of the First World War begin to invade the crenellated walls of this slumbering fairy-tale castle so far from the front. ‘We That Are Left’ review: Can the British manor house survive? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Duchamp fled Paris and the First World War in 1915, and quickly established himself at the heart of the New York avant-garde. Reimagining Art, One Threesome at a Time 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z It’s just a repetition of the First World War. The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z A memorial built from words rather than bronze and stone is being built to commemorate the start of the First World War. Letter to an unknown soldier 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z "I'm very cognisant that I'm here because both of my grandfathers fought in the First World War and survived," says the artist known as Bob and Roberta Smith. Bob and Roberta Smith's WW1 art idea 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Freedom Kids singing a song about Trump to the tune of “Over There,” an old First World War song. Deciphering the Presidential-Campaign Songs of the 2020 Race 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z For one, it’s a film about the First World War, not the Second. The success of "Dunkirk" is proof that the World War II myth machine is still alive and well 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z “Sometimes you see TV shows where someone is wearing their Second World War medals in front of their First World War medals — which is ridiculous!” This Is the Huge Amount of Work That Went Into Making 'The Crown' Historically Accurate 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z I would say modernity was gone by the First World War. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z He tells how the First World War included a Christmas truce. Insights Into the Brain, in a Book You’ll Wish You Had in College 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s an iconic photo, easily found on Web sites devoted to the First World War, first printed in newspapers in 1917, with the caption, “Funeral of the first American soldier killed in battle in France.” The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z "We are honoured to be able to make them available to everyone, anywhere in the world, on the 100th anniversary of the First World War," she added. Sassoon war diaries published online 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z “I think we see the First World War very much through the prism of the trenches of the Western Front. You forget that there was a home front.” UK museum looks at epic, intimate sides of WWI 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z That history will be followed by the origins of Nazism after the First World War. Auschwitz Artifacts to Go on Tour, Very Carefully 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Just as they did in the days and months preceding the First World War, a variety of circumstances come together to create the conditions for a global catastrophe. Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is a cautionary tale of global catastrophe 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z “We don’t have that in the First World War.” Margaret MacMillan Discusses Causes of World War I 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The Kaiser wasn’t singly responsible for the First World War, but his actions and choices helped to bring it on. What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z "Loch Muick is one of her favorite places on the Balmoral estate and the loss of Uncle Fergus in the First World War is still honored by the family." Names of Queen Elizabeth's new dogs revealed: report 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z A lot has changed since the First World War broke out, and Kent was deported as a potential German spy. Read Your Way Through Newfoundland 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Starting with the ideological origins of the United States and the important French role in the American Revolution, the collection also provides insights into the First World War. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z And yet Spinney, a novelist and science writer, argues that almost a century later, the Spanish flu is “still emerging from the shadows of the First World War” in our collective memories. Three Books That Track Diseases, Drugs and the World They Made 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Generals came, and admirals and rickety survivors of the First World War. Review: ‘Martial Bliss,’ a Loving Memoir About a Bookstore for Military Buffs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z It wasn’t only the firm-jawed elder heirs to complicated inheritances who fell, elegantly, during the four long years of the First World War. The Stunning Grounds, and Tragic History, of the Lost Gardens of Heligan 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z “Just like in the First World War we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate,” the commander, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, told The Economist in an interview published on Wednesday. Ukraine’s Top Commander Says War Has Hit a ‘Stalemate’ 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z "Just like in the First World War we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate," Zaluzhnyi was quoted as saying in an interview published alongside his article. Ukraine must innovate as war moves to static, attritional phase -army chief 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Whereas in the First World War, the government scrambled to find even a handful of codebreakers, this time, decryption was a top priority, and early on, they recruited thousands of codebreakers. This Code Breaking Quaker Poet Hunted Nazis 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z During the First World War, as Britain invaded and captured the territory from the crumbling Ottoman Empire, it drew on growing forces of national self-determination. The lives upended by colonial rule in the Middle East 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z "In every apiary we have there will always be one white box - just one white. Those are ones Willie Smith made himself after the First World War," Mr Hood said. How many bees does it take to seal an Act of Parliament? 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z These tit-for-tat exchanges of small pieces of territory, with massive use of heavy artillery and appalling losses, typify a brutal war of attrition not unlike the First World War. What's next in Ukraine as U.S.-backed "counteroffensive" grinds to a halt? 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The First World War made mourning fashion a sad necessity for thousands of women, and dresses became simpler and more practical to meet demand. The radical power of the little black dress 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z The block party’s origin story is in New York, first held to bid a celebratory farewell to neighborhood soldiers leaving to the First World War. Wanna throw a block party in L.A. County this summer? Start here 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z But unlike the conference that ended the First World War a century later, the Congress of Vienna did not impose a huge penalty on the aggressor. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z I had three to be presented at the end of the summer - and it turned out to be three bottles from before the First World War. 'That's it, boys. I'm off' - Gower's 'nightmare' Ashes 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z But poison gas continued to hit rebel areas, marking some of the most extensive use of chemical weapons since the First World War. Syria's Assad boosted by return to Arab fold 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Work is needed to replace glass panels and support structures in the roof, which was rebuilt just after the First World War in 1922, Network Rail said. London Waterloo's century-old glass roof rebuilt with plastic 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z “If the First World War and the Second World War had been in 1914 B.C. and 1939 B.C., we wouldn’t be able to tell those two things apart.” Marking time: Cosmic ray storms can pin precise dates on history from ancient Egypt to the Vikings 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z In 1914, however, it came home to roost in the First World War. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Who even remembers when the First World War was known as "the war to end all wars"? Sadly, it seems that the era of Eternal War is now upon us. Will it never stop?: From forever war to eternal war 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z “They’re fighting a First World War, where human mass is their tactic,” he said. 'More comfortable than a Rolls-Royce': Ukrainian tank drivers eagerly await Western rides 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that 97 percent of Russia’s army was already deployed in Ukraine and that Moscow was suffering “First World War levels of attrition.” Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z “Because of the number of coffins coming back from the First World War fronts to the villages where the fallen lived.” In Bleak Russian Cemetery, Sea of Crosses Signals War’s True Toll 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The vast majority are burials from the First World War, when many of those killed were men in their 20s and 30s. The Gaza family tending World War graves for 100 years 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z The debt limit was first introduced in 1917, as a way to give the government flexibility to raise money during the First World War. What happens if the US hits the debt ceiling? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z But just as surrendering was considered one of the most dangerous acts on the battlefield of the First World War, the same is true in Ukraine today. Surrender to a Drone? Ukraine Is Urging Russian Soldiers to Do Just That. 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z He tries to invent medicines to get himself, with all his injuries from the First World War, through the day with a spring in his step. David O. Russell writes of art, friendship and a history that should not be forgotten 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Ten times as many Americans died of the 1918 flu as from the First World War. How the 1918 pandemic changed America, from women’s rights to germaphobia 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Britain refinanced its First World War debt, paying off the last of it only in 2014. Barbados spearheads push on climate disaster financing 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The charismatic Debs decided not to run again in 1916, mistakenly accepting President Woodrow Wilson's implied promise to keep the United States out of the First World War — something most Socialists cared about passionately. What you don't have and why: The crushing of American socialism and the left 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z My concern is that if the West is not careful, the outcome will be something like what happened after the Versailles Treaty at the end of the First World War. Putin's doom: Russia expert Mark Galeotti on how a once-feared leader threw it all away 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Almost all of the tensions that roiled the country during and after the First World War still linger today.… Trump calls Biden "an enemy of the state." Media, as usual, looks the other way 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Harrowing memories of the First World War were slipping into the past. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Abandoning Germany after the First World War created an environment of hunger and desperation in which Adolf Hitler and the Nazis could thrive. Gorbachev and Bush: The world's massive missed opportunity for peace 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Soviet leader Joseph Stalin realized that Poland, part of which had belonged to Germany before the First World War, was most likely next. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z European and U.S. soldiers have written messages on artillery in every conflict since at least the First World War. Americans are paying for slogans on bombs aimed at Russians 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z His earliest aesthetic influences came from his immigrant parents, who had met in Russia during the First World War and re-encountered each other in New York City. Alex Katz Is Still Perfecting His Craft 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Lovelock was born on 26 July 1919, the result, he believed, of his parents’ celebration of the end of the First World War on 11 November the previous year. In Memoriam: James Lovelock (1919-2022) 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z One Ukrainian soldier we spoke to, who had fought in Severodonetsk, described Russian tactics as similar to the First World War - with waves of their infantry running into a hail of bullets. Ukraine War: The Donbas body collector who has lost count 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z The First World War also provided the impetus for another longstanding goal of some reformers: universal suffrage. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z "Russia’s strategy is a First World War approach of breaking your opponents. It could work – there is some evidence that Ukrainian morale is a problem," said the analyst. Analysis: Russia's grinding battlefield gains seen driven by new tactics 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Until the late 1960s, this was the U.K.’s most important munitions and armaments factory, peaking in size during the First World War, when about 80,000 people worked here. On the London Tube, the start of a new Elizabethan age 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Rwanda twice invaded its vast neighbour in the 1990s, sparking what was known as "Africa's First World War", in which millions of people lost their lives due to fighting and disease. DR Congo soldier shot dead by Rwanda police 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Prof Jones says that on big occasions, such as the outbreak of the First World War, it has been the crowd that has demanded the appearance of the Royal Family. Platinum Jubilee: Who is on - and off - the world's most famous balcony 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z “Britain did change leaders in both the First World War and the Second World War,” noted Tony Travers, a politics expert at the London School of Economics. As Boris Johnson is cheered in Ukraine, U.K. voters prepare to punish his party 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Syria has seen some of the most extensive use of chemical weapons since the First World War. Syria gas attack victim, awaiting justice, say impunity fuels war crimes 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z This may be a conflict in the 21st century but, at times, it feels more like something from the First World War. Ukraine War: Veterans prepare for battle in occupied Luhansk 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Even though they appeared invincible and took it upon themselves to divide the world among themselves, the states that emerged victorious from the First World War had a lot of vulnerabilities. We’re living in the geopolitical shadow of the 1900s 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z After all, the original Surrealist movement, with its urge to systematically derange the senses, occurred in the wake of the First World War and its horrors. The Ceramists Ushering in a New Era of Surrealism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z That’s Heather Jones, professor of modern and contemporary European history at University College London and author of the new book “For King and Country: the British Monarchy and the First World War.” The key to Queen Elizabeth II's long reign? A resilient monarchy 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Its role models are those upper-class officers in First World War films, who went manfully over the top armed with a whistle and a revolver. So what the hell happened to Boris Johnson — and can it happen to Donald Trump? 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z This story, Hoyer reflects, ends “where it had started: in blood and iron,” but “the First World War proved to be too much blood and iron for the young state.” Review | One man, three wars and the creation of Germany 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Perhaps because of her early interest in fabric, grids and geometric swaths of color were elemental to her thinking when she emerged on the scene during the First World War. Review | Sophie Taeuber-Arp could make just about anything. That meant a complicated legacy. 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z “We are going to read the First World War told by Céline — it’s exciting.” Newly Unearthed Work by a Revered and Reviled Novelist Causes a Stir in France 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Once an industrial town, it fell into decline after the First World War. New York on Ukraine's frontline: parliament backs town's name change 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z As the United States drifted into the First World War, nativists increasingly became concerned over the "hyphenates" in their midst: those who called themselves German-American, Irish-American, Italian-American, and the like. How is Marjorie Taylor Greene's failed "America First" caucus any different from the GOP? 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z David Lloyd George nearly died of Spanish Flu in September 1918 only a few weeks before the end of the First World War. Which prime minister didn’t enjoy life at No 10? 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z A combination of anti-German sentiment sparked by the First World War, and Prohibition in the 1920s, saw many lose their jobs and leave the area. Over-The-Rhine: Is this a model for urban renewal or a warning sign? 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Especially after the First World War and the Great Depression, the free market ideal was under threat. "A moment of moral and political nihilism": Theologian Adam Kotsko on our current crisis 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z "I was very young when Spanish flu was around, just after the First World War," she said. Covid vaccine: Nurse, 103, who lived through Spanish flu has jab 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z The Valley’s had a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution since the First World War. More than a big, flat suburb: Why the San Fernando Valley is so important to California history 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Rowe: I was interested in a scenario during the First World War where the inventor of the Maxim machine gun is discussed. Former ‘Dirty Jobs’ host Mike Rowe talks new show: ‘We’re desperate today to find topics we can all agree on’ 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z At the time, another major event was stealing newspaper headlines: the end of the First World War. Holidays in a Pandemic? Here’s What Happened in 1918 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z In 2006, Montenegro declared independence, becoming a sovereign state for the first time since the end of the First World War. Serbia and Montenegro expel respective ambassadors 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z The last time such a demographic event happened was in the years leading up to the First World War and the Spanish Flu epidemic, when 675,000 Americans, and 50 million people worldwide, died. Big Pharma is the disease 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Eight days before the “metamusical evening,” the first shots of the First Balkan War were fired, a destabilized Europe prepping for the First World War. Schoenberg knew. When the world goes mad, send in the clowns 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z He later emigrated to Canada and was working for the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Edmonton when the First World War broke out. Edmund De Wind: The war hero remembered in Comber and Canada 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z "Veterans of the industry will recall that the afternoon closing of pubs between about 3pm and 6pm was imposed in the First World War, to encourage munitions workers to return to their factories," he said. Coronavirus: Wetherspoons calls rules 'baffling and confusing' 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z "We were discussing it, and going back in history, we think the last time this type of facility was deployed in this country was during the First World War." Covid-19: How the Czech Republic's response went wrong 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Sally Collier, who has talked of her admiration for Edith Cavell, the nurse executed during the First World War, later stepped down as chief regulator and has made no comment since. The story of the big U-turn of the summer 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z During the First World War it was used as a poison gas. Halogen nightmares 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Lebanon’s modern borders were proclaimed 100 years ago by France in an imperial carve-up with Britain after the First World War. Macron to mark Lebanon's centenary as nation teeters on brink 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Synthetic ammonia, used to make the fertilizer that helped feed Germany during the First World War, was also essential in manufacturing explosives. Can the history of pollution shape a better future? 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z He had a grandfather in the First World War, “so perhaps what we’re being asked to do isn’t that bad.” The 23 best web videos about life in quarantine (or to get you through it) 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z In 1918, the United States was still mobilized for the First World War. America relearning the lessons of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z After the First World War erupted in July 1914, preparations carried on for a while since no one expected the hostilities to last another two years. A look back at Olympics that never were: 1916, ‘40 and ‘44 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z The story begins in the spring of 1917, when the United States entered the First World War. When "fake news" was banned: an America Trump might have loved 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z "We haven't seen this sort of thing in Australia since the end of the First World War. But together, we are up to this challenge," he said. Australia bans 'non-essential' large gatherings 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z In the midst of the horrors of the First World War, the deadly virus took hold among soldiers living in close contact with each other in military camps, transport ships and the like. From Spanish flu to coronavirus, lessons from world's deadliest outbreaks 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z During the First World War, it was used as a base material for munitions products. Man convicted over diet pill death 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z It swept across the world 102 years ago in 1918 and at first it was largely hushed up because there was a war on, the First World War. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Many years later, he was rehabilitated and served during the First World War. Opinion | I can think of no more honorable soldier than Alexander Vindman 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “Not only did he survive the First World War, he returned to his loved ones in England and became a husband and father.” Diary from World War I discovered in barn, recounts bloody Battle of the Somme 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The group drew its name from boxcars that took men to the front during the First World War. Those who survived the horrors of ’1917′ still honored 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z They absolutely had reason to think that after the First World War. Andrew Bacevich on Foreign-Policy Mistakes 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z For that reason, Kissinger says, the more relevant and disturbing analogy is to the First World War. The Future of America’s Contest with China 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Her previous operas, “Pnima” and “Infinite Now,” conjured scenes of twentieth-century catastrophe: the Holocaust in the former, the First World War in the latter. Opera Against the Patriarchy 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Mendes’ dad explained that, having served as a young soldier in the First World War, Alfred could still vividly recall the terrible muck and mire of the trenches. Hollywood doesn't often make films about World War I anymore. That's one reason Sam Mendes' '1917’ is exceptional 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The wild popularity of Agatha Christie novels in England followed swiftly the deaths of hundreds of thousands of young British soldiers in the First World War. The Case of the Angry Daughter 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z I think that the anti-interventionist case was understandable given the outcome of the First World War. Andrew Bacevich on Foreign-Policy Mistakes 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Success hinges not on abstract historical momentum but on hard, specific day-to-day decisions—what the political scientist Richard Rosecrance, in his study of the First World War, called the “tyranny of small things.” The Future of America’s Contest with China 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Mendes: The winds that were blowing before the First World War are blowing again. Q&A: Sam Mendes on making ‘1917’ in one long take 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The First World War was a turning point for the industry: servicemen and their loved ones enjoyed sending and receiving cards and became lifelong card buyers. How Hallmark Took Over Cable Television 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Last night, Labour lost another fifty-nine seats, this time in former mining and manufacturing communities across the north, where it had dominated the vote since the First World War. Boris Johnson Wins, and Britain Chooses the Devil It Knows 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Born a democracy at the end of the First World War, it suffocated through decades of Nazi and Stalinist barbarism, with periodic flourishes of democratic revival. Czech history through the eyes of a filmmaker 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In 1880, there were some thirty black newspapers in the United States; by the beginning of the First World War, there were around three hundred, with a collective circulation of more than half a million. The Legacy of a Radical Black Newspaperman 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The First World War ended with a nascent American hegemony and strong hints that Britain’s imperial days were numbered. From Little Englanders to Brexiteers 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z To the majority, the cross was acceptable because it dated back to the nineteen-twenties and belonged to a venerable line of First World War memorials, whose particular religious significance had faded over time. Is the Supreme Court’s Fate in Elena Kagan’s Hands? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Scientific career opportunities saw a boost during the First World War as a result of the realignment of science to the military. The women who cracked science’s glass ceiling 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The important work of female scientists during the First World War — stepping up to run laboratories while men were away at the front — is only just now being given due credit9. Careers and controversy before the First World War 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z It was the First World War and the embargo on all German products, especially chemicals, that was the catalyst to the golden age of ‘industrial research’, a neologism of the 1920s. Can marketplace science be trusted? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The world’s largest ethnic minority without a state, they were promised a country after the First World War, in the Treaty of Sévres, as the region was split up into new countries. America’s Ally in Syria Warns of Ethnic Cleansing by Turkey 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z In more recent years, it is fairly clear to me that Erdoğan has ambitions, because he feels that the borders of Turkey were unfairly drawn after the First World War. The Former U.S. ISIS Envoy on Trump and the Crisis in Syria 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z An odd omission from the book is the 1918 ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic, which overlapped with the First World War and is estimated to have killed between 50 million and 100 million people. How pandemics shape social evolution 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z They were promised a state in the reconfiguration of the Middle East after the First World War, but the agreement was later abandoned. Defying the World, Turkey Launches a War Against a U.S. Ally in Syria 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z But during the First World War, the US federal government turned tobacco merchant itself. Big Tobacco, war and politics 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Indeed, several leading policymakers were scandalized by the nation’s comparative lack of scientific and technical preparation during the First World War. Discovery is always political 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z So you view this as more about redrawing borders and resentment over the settlement of the First World War than about a fear by Erdoğan of his own Kurdish populations and foreign Kurdish populations? The Former U.S. ISIS Envoy on Trump and the Crisis in Syria 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z The treaty’s terms helped to end the First World War. Balance of power: The Economic Consequences of the Peace at 100 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z “In the First World War, our bond was sealed in blood,” Mr. Trump said in his welcome speech. In Shadow of Ukraine Scandal, White House Hosts Second State Dinner of Trump Era 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The last time that life expectancy in the United States showed a similar decline was in 1915–18, as a result of military deaths in the First World War and the 1918 influenza pandemic. Tracing the US opioid crisis to its roots 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Bill, which was designed to preëmpt the veterans’-rights marches that came after the First World War. Student Debt Is Transforming the American Family 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Andrew notes, “the great power with the best foreign intelligence during the few years before the First World War continued to be Tsarist Russia.” Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Thousands of black soldiers returning from the First World War competed against white workers for employment and housing. How the Trail of American White Supremacy Led to El Paso 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z In 1916, as the First World War raged, Gropius left the front on temporary leave for Weimar in Germany. The Bauhaus at 100: science by design 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Plastic surgeons first honed their skills treating the traumas of the First World War, but quickly found themselves reshaping normal bodies and faces simply to enhance appearance. Psychedelic Medicine Is Coming. The Law Isn't Ready 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Benfey’s account briskly summarizes the rest of Kipling’s career, especially the years leading up to the First World War, when his fame and wealth increased, and his political views became more extreme. Rudyard Kipling in America 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z During the First World War, the U.S. government enlisted American artists to produce twenty million propaganda posters. How Posters Became Art 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z For centuries before the First World War, the Latin cross held a specific religious meaning — a meaning it continues to hold for many today. Opinion | The Supreme Court got the Peace Cross case wrong 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z This timely historical work traces the convergence of two movements just before the First World War: one to restrict immigration and the other to improve the human species through eugenics. Review | How we tell the story of America 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z That fall, Trump arrived in Paris for the centennial of the First World War Armistice. Can Emmanuel Macron Stem the Populist Tide? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Americans, for the most part, were kept down on the farm after seeing Paris during the First World War. Europe and America Seventy-Five Years After D Day 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z The British had learned valuable lessons a generation earlier in the First World War when it found supplying the troops at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast was difficult, to say the least. How D-Day technology made Operation Overlord a success 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z But the fighting during the Battle of Normandy, which followed D-Day, was as bloody as it had been in the trenches of the First World War. D-Day veteran: 'I looked at the wounded and I cried' 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z The work is a kaleidoscopic walk through history, touching on, among other things, protests of President Trump, support for the Black Panthers in the 1970s, and propaganda from the First World War. The Smithsonian is digitizing political and military posters — 18,000 of them 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The Espionage Act was a panic measure enacted by Congress to clamp down on dissent or “sedition” when the US entered the First World War in 1917. US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave threat to a free media | Alan Rusbridger 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z What follows is a gnarly account of the past century in German politics, including the First World War, the Weimar Republic, Marx, Lenin, and the Holocaust. Rammstein’s Heavy and Cathartic Camp 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z During the First World War, men who returned from the trenches apparently uninjured displayed physical symptoms associated with hysteria. The Troubled History of Psychiatry 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z One of his closest friends was Gustav Landauer, a Jewish intellectual who took part in the socialist revolution in Bavaria after the First World War and was murdered by counter-revolutionary soldiers. Modernity, Faith, and Martin Buber 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The government did not truly, systematically start domestic propaganda until the First World War. On federal logorrhea 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z It had been Gropius’s dream since before the First World War to design dignified, elegant, and inexpensive workers’ houses. The Man Who Built the Bauhaus 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Reims Cathedral, another French gothic masterpiece, burnt down during the First World War in a disaster even greater in its magnitude than the one in Paris this week. How new tech might help Notre-Dame rebuild 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Many cathedrals like Reims and Soissons were destroyed in the First World War at the borders with Germany and Belgium, where the major battles happened. How France Can Rebuild Notre Dame 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z The First World War was by then well under way, in all its horror. Einstein, Eddington and the 1919 eclipse 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z "It's hard not to see it as partly a reaction to the British First World War experience and the great loss of life," she says. Why the founder of Mother's Day hated greetings cards 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z In 1914, Gropius’s regiment was called up just days after the onset of the First World War and sent into combat in the Vosges Mountains. The Man Who Built the Bauhaus 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z He enlisted during the First World War and served in the Machine Gun Corps, where casualties were so high it was known as the "suicide club". The British woman who fought for India's freedom 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Barker’s father, Frederick, an accountant whom he described as “a precise, matter-of-fact man,” had supernatural experiences while serving on the front lines during the First World War. The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z It is especially revealing about Einstein’s scientific work and private life leading up to the momentous events of 1919 — particularly in showing how these were affected by the First World War. Einstein, Eddington and the 1919 eclipse 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Like a First World War general, May is soldiering ahead. Theresa May’s Government Lives on—and So Does the Brexit Chaos 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z In the First World War, this discovery saved the lives of countless wounded soldiers. The History of Blood 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Ostensibly, Macron’s subject was the First World War, the brutal moment when “Europe very nearly committed suicide.” Opinion | Don’t let the nationalists steal patriotism 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z The First World War, one of the world’s deadliest conflicts, claimed approximately 20 million lives. All for one and one for all to fight flu 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z In the four years following the end of the First World War, more Americans were killed on roads than had died on the battlefields in France. Road deaths: why matters have only got worse over the past 100 years 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z One hundred years ago this month, shortly after the guns of the First World War fell silent, a German-speaking Scottish lawyer-turned-politician sent an 80-page report to his prime minister. A 100th birthday wish: uphold academic freedom in dark times 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z The mural, painted by Sir William Rothenstein in 1916, was completed as a tribute to students who were killed in the First World War and were unable to collect their degrees. WW1 mural row student leader steps down 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The New York Times explores the role of chemical-weapons research in the First World War and the ongoing project to clean up the mess it left behind. Daily briefing: Coral scientist, former naturopath win Maddox prize 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z In the First World War, the Great War, the one that we are commemorating now, the Germans were the ones who regretted having fought the French. Wine, War, Donald Trump, and Emmanuel Macron 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Patriotism was what inspired the self-sacrifice of the First World War. Trump mocks French leader after visit 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z For a conflict that ended a century ago, and of which there are no living survivors, the First World War remains remarkably alive in British memory. The First World War Remains Remarkably Alive in British Memory 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z He was referring to a controversial decision by the president to skip a ceremony scheduled for Saturday intended to honor American soldiers who died during the First World War. Trump mocked by Winston Churchill’s grandson after taking a rain check on WWI ceremony 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The U.S. schism with Europe—where millions of Americans died to preserve allies—has arguably not been this deep since the First World War ended. Trump Completes a Shameful Trip to Paris, Just as He Needs the Global Stage 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The world breathed a sigh of relief as the guns fell silent, marking the end of the First World War. Scots who fought on after the Armistice 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z But what of that First World War, the war that ended with Armistice Day 100 years ago Sunday? Dan Crenshaw sacrifices one more time 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z On Sunday, Trump appeared at the cemetery in Suresnes where more than fifteen hundred American soldiers who died in the First World War are buried. The First World War Remains Remarkably Alive in British Memory 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Events today will mark the culmination of four years of events to commemorate the First World War and those who lost their lives in that conflict. Armistice Day: remembering end of first world war 100 years on - live updates 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z They gathered to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Armistice that ended the fighting of the First World War and to express global unity. Trump Completes a Shameful Trip to Paris, Just as He Needs the Global Stage 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z On Friday, meanwhile, the President headed to Paris for a centennial commemoration of the end of the First World War. The Post-Midterms Dangers of Donald Trump 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z "There were a number of my family members killed in the First World War. It's just good to be able to join him to the family memory." WWI hero finally added to MPs' memorial 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “Each cemetery and memorial across the world is a unique and poignant reminder of the cost of the First World War,” said May. A century after fighting for Paris, leaders mark armistice 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Inspired by the First World War poem “In Flanders Field,” artificial red poppies are worn in a number of countries to remember the millions that lost their lives in the conflict. World War I posters offer unique glimpse into soldiers' stories 100 years after the Armistice 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z If the event celebrates anything, it will be the long legacy of peace, which eluded the continent after the First World War but has now held more or less intact for seven decades. As the world marks 100 years since the end of WWI, nationalism is on the rise again 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Also, for some reason, in the years after the First World War, Eton harbored an unusual number of boys who were, like Powell, bookish and sensitive, and they formed something like an arts community. How Anthony Powell Wrote His Twelve-Volume Masterpiece 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Several front pages feature striking images of flames lighting up the moat of the Tower of London to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know this morning 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Even Scott, who died after failing to beat Amundsen to the pole, became a symbol for Great Britain during the First World War, a figure of stoic perseverance against insurmountable odds. To pierce the veneer of outside things: David Grann and the Antarctic - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Joseph Zimet, director of the First World War Centenary Mission, says Ma will headline a field of “great international artists” during the Nov. 11 ceremony close to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Cello star Yo-Yo Ma to perform at WWI Armistice ceremonies 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z As Europe devolved into barbarism in the early years of the First World War, Debussy adopted a decorous, formally controlled style that looked back to the aristocratic poise of the French Baroque. The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z "They represent the passing of the soldiers killed in the First World War," he said. Vandals take head off WWI soldier memorial 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The images are from the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War project, which aims to tell the stories of eight million people from Britain and the Commonwealth who served. Danny Boyle to stage WW1 beach memorial 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The eggs, which include an unusual “Steel Easter Egg” featuring military designs, were presented by the Czar to his wife in 1916 when Russia was embroiled in the First World War. Incredible photos of the last czar and the Russian royal family surface 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z After describing the soaring inflation and unemployment that followed the First World War, they concluded, “We hope for better times soon to come.” A German roofer working on a cathedral found a message in bottle, written by his grandfather 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z "It caused quite a sensation having to have a double funeral on November 11th 1918, which was the very day the First World War ended," she wrote. Spanish flu: 'We didn't know who we'd lose next' 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Other New York Army National Guard members were in Europe earlier this summer to commemorate the centennial of the United States fighting in the First World War. Soldiers in ‘Harlem Hellfighters’ unit to attend WWI events 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Cameroon was a German colony until the First World War, when British and French forces captured and divided it. Opinion | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Carnage of the Cameroons 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z In 1916, he addressed his fellow law graduates on the need for an assortment of judicial and business reforms, and, after heading Elwood’s Young Democratic Club, he trained for service in the First World War. Can the G.O.P. Ever Reclaim Wendell Willkie’s Legacy? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It's 23 years since Barker won the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the final part of her trilogy about the First World War. Why the Troy story is getting a female makeover 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z The lawyer acting for Mr de Causans, Jean-Marc Descoubès, said that "it was quite simply unacceptable for a German to reign over Monaco then, on the eve of the First World War". Monaco noble sues France for millions 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z His grandfather Earl Browder became active in socialist politics during the First World War and lived in the Soviet Union for five years before becoming the secretary-general of the Communist Party of America. How Bill Browder Became Russia’s Most Wanted Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z German politics until the end of the First World War was still very much a kind of elitist enterprise. Historian on comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler: “My resistance … is being overcome” 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z After the First World War, new inheritance taxes made it almost impossible for the British aristocracy to maintain their vast estates, and country houses across the land fell into disrepair. The British Heat Wave and Aerial Archeology 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z It stands on the old Dover Marine railway yards, where more than a million wounded soldiers were brought home from the First World War. Theresa May’s Impossible Choice 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The first night will commemorate the end of the First World War, with two works composed as a response to the conflict: Holst's much-loved The Planets and Vaughan Williams's choral masterpiece Toward the Unknown Region. Pick of the Proms: Five stand-out shows 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z After the empire collapsed in 1918, catastrophically weakened by the First World War, the discipline was carried forward in Germany, Russia, Austria, Britain and North America. The imperial roots of climate science 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z One of the most famous of the past century was the “Christmas Truce” of 1914, during the inaugural year of the First World War. For Eid al-Fitr, the Taliban Agrees to Its First Formal Ceasefire 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z As with most such scenes of slaughter of the First World War, it is the only the battle monuments and graveyard that give any clue as to what happened 100 years ago. Why this WWI battle is still important in US 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Woodrow Wilson was the first to travel across the Atlantic, when he went to Paris for peace talks to end the First World War. As Trump Preps for Singapore, Which Summits Changed History? Which Flopped? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Their story stretches back to Europe in the years following the First World War, and the novel unravels a love triangle and its players’ secrets. A short and satisfying summer books preview 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, the Irish influence on the growth of baseball until the First World War cannot be overstated. Dream debut revives Irish role in baseball history 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z A year before the end of the First World War, Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917, which drastically restricted the flow of immigrants attempting to enter the United States. See the Faces of Immigrants in 1917 America 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Later this year is the centenary of the end of the First World War, one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history, which led to the deaths of nearly 20 million people. How World War I Gave Women Scientists a Chance to Shine 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z He added: "They are working in a really, really dreadful, difficult situation; it reminds us of the First World War." New truce plea as Syria deaths mount 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Prof Pedersen adds: "During the First World War when many of the suffragettes get involved in war work, they are seen to be playing the role of citizens and the vote is reconsidered." Having a suffragette in the family 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Journey's End, a story set in the trenches at the end of the First World War, may not on the surface sound relevant to an audience today. Sam Claflin: It's ok to be scared or weak 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The “Vienna Circle” was formed after the First World War with the goal of rebuilding the foundations of math, science and philosophy. The Last Man Who Knew Every thing: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z "We will see many centenaries this year and next in the run-up to the centenary of the end of the First World War," he said. No kidding... Mum's Army to be called up? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z He considered many of the First World War monuments to be eyesores, and sought to restrict the number of World War II memorials to one per borough. When the War to End All Wars Doesn’t Do the Trick 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z For instance, after the First World War, a 1925 conference led to the development and ratification of the Geneva Protocol, a treaty banning the use of chemical and biological weapons. Four ethical priorities for neurotechnologies and AI 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z During the First World War, she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals. 15 Mathematical Curiosities to Celebrate Marie Curie's 150th Birthday 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z After the First World War, the area of Togoland was shared between the British and the French. Lingering cultural colonialism 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Iceland has a proud history of women's political advocacy, dating back to before the First World War. Iceland 'women's party' to boost rights 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The declaration was the result of discussions between British Zionist leaders seeking political recognition of their goals for Jewish statehood and British politicians embroiled in the First World War. Century-old declaration hardens Israeli-Palestinian rift 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z The poet Siegfried Sassoon expressed the cruel paradox of remembrance while contemplating the Cenotaph, dedicated to the dead of the First World War, in London: “Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial/Means.” The Photographer Who Saw America’s Monuments Hiding in Plain Sight 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z A. A. Milne returned to England from the First World War a broken man. ‘Goodbye, Christopher Robin’ director Curtis hopes film will push people to cherish their families 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z His work on behalf of prisoners of war following the First World War as well as his humanitarian relief work in the Soviet Union helped earn him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922. Google Doodle Celebrates Legendary Adventurer Fridtjof Nansen's 156th Birthday 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Woodrow Wilson was the second, in 1919, for his crucial role in establishing the League of Nations - a peacekeeping body established after the First World War. Here are the Odds of Trump Winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Never forget that these countries were cobbled together after the First World War. As Kurdish Borders Close, War of Words Heats Up 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Second, the specter of the First World War was emerging. Man of ‘Gotham’ Returns 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Describing his visit to recent visit to the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla, Mr Johnson said: "I've never seen anything like it - like the destruction... you see in images from the First World War. " UK looks at using aid budget for Irma 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Such knowledge would be called upon during the First World War. How an Outlaw Became the 'Turkish Lawrence of Arabia' 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z At the advent of the First World War, Conant briefly attempted war profiteering by organizing an organic-chemistry laboratory; that ended with an explosion and a colleague's death. History: Of chemistry and conflict : Nature : Nature Research 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z "It actually described how the First World War was the first mechanised war, where it wasn't just hand-to-hand combat, it was industrialised slaughter," he says. The weird and wonderful world of OMD - BBC News 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z He managed to escape with some other prisoners by overpowering their guards and later served in France during the First World War before leaving the military in 1921. War hero set to be honoured with memorial stone - BBC News 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z A phrase circulating then, 'homes fit for heroes', also suggested that First World War veterans should be looked after. Economics: Messy genesis of the welfare state : Nature : Nature Research 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Finally, exhausted by the First World War, Britain gave up in 1919 and granted Afghanistan independence. The Empire Stopper 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z In the First World War, for example, German naval blockades caused a shortage of acetone and butanol, both essential for munitions. History: Ingenious solutions sparked by a crisis : Nature : Nature Research 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z The study, First World War Fieldworks in England, forms part of Historic England’s contribution to the national Centenary Partnership programme about the conflict. Miles of forgotten first world war trenches unearthed in England 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Youth hostels first appeared in Germany just before the outbreak of the First World War. How Europe's Young Backpackers Forged a New Wave of International Collaboration 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z One hundred years on, Passchendaele is still synonymous with the blood and horror of the First World War. Passchendaele: Ypres lights up to remember a dark past - BBC News 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Born in 1917, with the First World War in progress and American women still unable to vote, Foray grew up in a time when sound was experiment, innovation. June Foray: from Rocky the flying squirrel to Cindy Lou who, she was a master 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, they each joined the military and fought on the front lines. Another biopic about J.R.R. Tolkien will focus on his formative years before WWI 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z The prime minister will represent the UK alongside the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at the ceremony marking the First World War battle of Passchendaele on 31 July. Theresa May to take walking holiday in Alps - BBC News 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Take a deep breath: among the sextillions of molecules you inhale may lurk traces of First World War mustard gas or Julius Caesar's dying gasp. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z It is deplorable that the First World War has received such second-rate treatment in the nation’s capital. Opinion | Why does World War I still get second-rate treatment in our capital? 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z “It is always difficult describing any of the major operations of the First World War as victories,” Steel said. This Explosion Was the Biggest Blast Before Atomic Bombs 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z “The Second World War was inevitable. Nobody wanted a war in 1938 after the First World War, which was an awful war,” Mr. Cox said. ‘Churchill’ star Brian Cox on inhabiting the prime minister on eve of D-Day 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z When he was three, the First World War made him a refugee, as his family fled the advancing German Army. Czeslaw Milosz’s Battle for Truth 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The United States had just entered the First World War, that senseless clash that took the lives of about 17 million people and upended centuries-old empires. Trump, too, will pass: Ask a friend who is 100 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Both parents had come to America before the First World War from Jewish shtetls, or small towns, outside Warsaw. Maurice Sendak’s Wild Things 1966-01-14T05:00:00Z A German doctor isolated this bacterium from the faeces of a First World War soldier who was resistant to dysentery. Therapeutic developments: Masters of medicine : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z However the party split into two factions during the First World War, with one, led by David Lloyd-George, forming a coalition government. Guide to the parties: Liberal Democrats - BBC News 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z The women returned to New York at the outbreak of the First World War. Revisiting Florine Stettheimer’s Place in Art History 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Every surface was crowded with intriguing objects—embroideries of First World War battle cruisers, a striking Pre-Raphaelite drawing, carpets picked up on trips to Turkey, nineteenth-century opera posters. How to Decode an Ancient Roman’s Handwriting 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Earlier, Hull remembered the life of former player and First World War hero Jack Harrison VC with a minutes applause. Super League: Hull FC 34-10 Warrington Wolves 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z He was reading a book about the First World War on his Kindle, a device that, he conceded, he hadn’t yet mastered. The Usefulness of a March for Science 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z "The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a turning point in the First World War and for Canada, when Canadians acted - and fought - as one," he said. Vimy Ridge centenary: Thousands of Canadians mark battle's anniversary - BBC News 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Fawcett was a recipient of the Gold Medal, the highest honor bestowed on an explorer by the Royal Geographical Society; a skilled mapmaker; and a decorated hero of the First World War. The Lost City of Z 2005-09-12T04:00:00Z Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn unveiled the online biographies Thursday, the 100th anniversary of the United States entering the First World War. NYC cemetery marks WWI anniversary with biography project 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The exhibit focuses on the prominent role played by New York City as the center for Allied propaganda during the First World War. France hosts NYC events marking centennial of US in WWI 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z The First World War hadn’t year started; neither had the Boer War or the Russo-Japanese war. Scientists understood the climate 150 years ago better than the EPA head today | John Abraham 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Organisers called the protest Freedom Day, evoking the independent Belarus that lasted just six months after the First World War, in 1918. Belarus protesters defy ban to march against 'parasite tax' - BBC News 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z “The peak donation time for World War I veterans was the 1970s and ‘80s, because that’s when most of the First World War veterans were dying. Waterloo museum prepares World War I exhibit 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Belowdecks, the passengers—men on their way to the First World War—slept in their uniforms and coats to keep warm, their heads resting on life preservers. The Legend of the S.S. Mendi 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Grey’s words, spoken on the eve of the First World War, are sometimes seen as an elegy for a halcyon period of globalization, peace, and prosperity. Donald Trump, the Impulsive Demagogue in the White House 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z One hundred years ago, soldiers of the First World War were trapped “eye deep in hell”, in poet Ezra Pound's words. Chemistry: The hidden war : Nature : Nature Research 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z A gothic vampire tale set in foggy London town just after the First World War, this action adventure is a far cry from Dontnod’s previous game, Life is Strange. The 42 most anticipated video games of 2017 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z It involves Madame Verdurin, a despotic salon hostess who circumvents the rationing laws of the First World War to get the special croissants that, when taken dipped in coffee, supposedly ease her migraines. The Big and Small of Bad Internet News 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Thought to have been the UK's oldest surviving MP, he was born 10 months before the end of the First World War. The ex-MPs who died in 2016 - part two - BBC News 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z The First World War was raging through Europe a century ago, and many of its tales away from the battlefront remain untold. Best films of 2016 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Its trench coats were worn by British soldiers during the First World War, while in 1953 its wyncol fabric was used by explorer Edmund Hillary in the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest. Trench coat maker Aquascutum sold for £97m - BBC News 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z They met after the war, in northern Canada, where many Ukrainians had been interned during the First World War, and a vestigial community remained. Edward Burtynsky’s Epic Landscapes 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The Nazis took advantage of the extreme economic hardship that followed the First World War and a global depression, but today’s populist movements are growing powerful in wealthy European countries with strong social programmes. Researchers baffled by nationalist surge 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z He was a Francophile, and, when the First World War broke out, in 1914, he went off to France to fight for civilization. How the publishing industry took on the taboo. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Wilhelm II, kaiser of Germany until 1918, when his country was defeated in the First World War, which he had done his best to unleash, was such a figure. The End of the Anglo-American Order 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z And just as in the First World War, a vast chasm quickly sprang up between wartime rhetoric and wartime reality. The Tragic, Forgotten History of Black Military Veterans 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Early aerial photography, especially of battle zones in the First World War, helped give rise to abstraction in modern painting, and abstraction in painting in turn influenced photography; the joint show emphasized the symbiosis. Edward Burtynsky’s Epic Landscapes 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Legislation making the unauthorised wearing of medals a criminal offence was originally introduced in the aftermath of the First World War by the then secretary for war, Winston Churchill. Backing for medals imposter bill - BBC News 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The result was the outbreak of the First World War, in which Great Britain and later Italy also joined Germany’s enemies. Donald Trump and the Ninth of November 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z For traumatized, trench-bound British soldiers caught up in the carnage of the First World War, birdwatching and botany offered solace. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The documents will now be part of the Lives of the First World War digital memorial. Remembrance Sunday: Services to honour war dead - BBC News 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z A tomb of the unknown soldier also memorializes those unknown who gave their lives in the First World War. TRAVEL: Paris luxury day trip package from London offers grand taste of French capital 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z “I wrote a book — ‘Foundations of World Order’ —covering the period of the Spanish-American War through the First World War and its aftermath. Without debate, we need to talk about Afghanistan: Remember the longest-running war in our nation’s history? 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Just after the First World War, he was appointed deputy secretary-general of the League of Nations, at the age of thirty-one. The Failure of the Euro 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z After the First World War, the League of Nations was founded to advance peace. History: Einstein the statesman : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z The first era of globalization and liberalization ended in the bloodbath of the First World War, when imperial power politics cut short the global march of progress. Does Trump’s Rise Mean Liberalism’s End? 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z He hadn’t been in West Virginia long before he signed up to fight for America during the First World War. In the Heart of Trump Country 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Our current global moment reminds me of the run up to the First World War.” Without debate, we need to talk about Afghanistan: Remember the longest-running war in our nation’s history? 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z For the West, the period from the end of the First World War to the early 1980s saw a 'great levelling'. Income inequality is cyclical 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z He was bold from the start: aged 35 and teaching at the University of Berlin, he was one of only four signatories to a manifesto against the First World War. History: Einstein the statesman : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z The final executions here were of turncoats during the First World War. TRAVEL: London sites to see in two days 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Though Conrad subtitled the book "a simple tale of the 19th century," the social and political currents it describes were still abroad in the 20th, and would soon help usher in First World War. In 'The Secret Agent,' a tale of political intrigue doesn't lose sight of its human drama 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Woods’s grandfather was hanged for a murder he did not commit; her father died of complications from German gas attacks suffered during the First World War. Dining Down Memory Lane 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z To Hitler’s mind, it was the Jews of Vienna who spread the original Big Lie—about Germany’s conduct in the First World War. Donald Trump’s Big Lies at the Commander-in-Chief Forum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Around the time of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War, there is a decline in mathematics PhDs awarded in the region, notes Gargiulo. Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z That shifted around time of First World War. History of Exhaustion Reveals We Could All Use Some Sleep Elaborately curved railings, trademark features of the Art Nouveau movement popular in the two decades before the First World War, used to highlight the facade of the stately home. Art Nouveau masterpiece abandoned in decaying Brussels warehouse 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z He served as Italy's head of radio operations during the First World War, and in 1919 represented the country at the Paris Peace Conference called by the Allied victors. Technology: Revolutionary of radio : Nature : Nature Research 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z This month, we’ve got books from places such as Russia and Cuba, tales from the First World War, deep space operas, and quite a lot more! New adventures: what to read in science fiction and fantasy this month 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The First World War did away with the Ottoman sultans who presided over far-off subjects from the city’s majestic palaces. Airport attack in Istanbul could make a slow tourism season even grimmer 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z "We're here because we're here" saw around 1,500 participants dressed in First World War uniform appear unexpectedly in locations across the UK. Somme marked by uniformed men across UK with #wearehere - BBC News 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Relatives of those who fought in the battle, one of the bloodiest of the First World War, share their family history. Battle of the Somme: Families remember loved ones who fought - BBC News 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The Battle of the Somme was one of the deadliest of the First World War. Somme battlefields from the air 100 years on - BBC News 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Francis’ determination to keep a focus on the killings after the First World War follows his appeals to halt the slaughter of Christians today in war-torn Syria. Pope prays at Armenia memorial after denouncing genocide 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Soon after the First World War started in 1914, a rain of these devices was falling on the hapless men on each side of the front. What If PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological? 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z "Digital memorials like Lives of the First World War help to ensure that they will be." Relatives of Battle of Jutland seamen asked to share stories - BBC News 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Callun has set up a Facebook page to document the contributions of soldiers during the First World War and has used the material to retrace their steps in his own journey to the Somme. Battle of the Somme: Families remember loved ones who fought - BBC News 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z It is a significant improvement on the low point of just 5% after the First World War, when the Forestry Commission was formed to safeguard the national timber stock. Is there any point in planting new trees? - BBC News 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z EA revealed yesterday that it's taking the Battlefield franchise to the First World War, and released an electrifying trailer of early-20th century combat. Watch an exhaustive frame-by-frame analysis of the Battlefield 1 trailer 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z But the two men live on in the secret agreement they were assigned to draft, during the First World War, to divide the Ottoman Empire’s vast land mass into British and French spheres of influence. How the Curse of Sykes-Picot Still Haunts the Middle East 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z After suffering the strains of German education and the First World War’s battlefields, this anarchist philosopher and actor was ready in 1916 to deliver his manifesto from exile in Zurich. A Dadaist portrait of the man who invented Dada 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z During the First World War, Hollywood production companies began to challenge the censors. What Movie Censors Did for Women 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z During the First World War, patterns of “disruptive coloration” were applied directly to guns, trucks and tanks to disguise them from reconnaissance aircraft or spotters in enemy trenches. The Surprising Reason Why This World War I Ship Looks Like Modern Art 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The Dreiländereck is a popular lookout point in the Alps where the borders of Austria, Italy, and Slovenia were set after the First World War, and from which you can see all three countries. Alone in the Alps 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z They collaborated intensively throughout the First World War. Film: In search of Ramanujan : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Both men fought in the First World War. In “Batman v Superman,” Nobody Wins 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z From the time of the First World War until around 1970, states exercised unprecedented political, military, and economic power. Fascism Isn't Our Problem 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z They helped save the nation after a horrific civil war, stitched it back together, moved a rural nation into a world power, and stabilized the world after the First World War. How Ohio's History Shows a Way Forward for John Kasich 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The record is inspired by the First World War and the sinking of the Titanic. Brian Eno announces new album inspired by World War I and the sinking of the Titanic 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z During the First World War, Germany and its allies ceased production of sausages so that there would be enough cow guts to make zeppelins from which to bomb England. A New Generation of Airships Is Born 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Trafalgar Square was transformed into a film set recreating First World War scenes for a Hollywood blockbuster. Trafalgar Square transformed into WW1 scene for 'Wonder Woman' movie - BBC News 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z It took the social change of the First World War and the movement of women into what were once seen as male jobs to bring change. Watching the heavens: The female pioneers of science - BBC News 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z “We know quite a few things about you. During the First World War you have distinguished yourself in battle. You fought bravely for your country,” one of them said. The Shocking Story of Hitler’s Jewish Spy 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z For more than a hundred years, the firm shipped everything from citrus fruit to industrial machinery; during the First World War, Natural Le Coultre supplied prisoners of war with Red Cross food parcels. The Art-World Insider Who Went Too Far 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z By August, 1914, the First World War was under way, and Kipling’s vision was thrust into battle. Has the Internet Made Air Travel Irrelevant? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z At the time, the US’s attention was largely focused on the First World War. Life and death on the border: effects of century-old murders still felt in Texas 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z "There was a period just before the First World War when everybody was reading Kipling." Solving the mystery of Rudyard Kipling’s son - BBC News 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z A century ago, at the time of the First World War, the richest 20% of the world’s population earned eleven times more than the poorest 20%. The game is completely rigged: The 1 percent has more than ever — and the system is too broken to deal with it 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. Transcript: Republican Presidential Debate 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The paper's circulation declined as the nation turned its attention to the First World War, and soon after the newspaper's printing plant burned down in 1919, the Menace sputtered out, along with other anti-Catholic publications. A century ago, a popular Missouri newspaper demonized a religious minority: Catholics 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z It lies outside the old main entrance to the building as a permanent memorial to Owen and all those affected by the First World War and other conflicts. War poet Wilfred Owen honoured at Craiglockhart hospital site - BBC News 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The Glasgow team said the trigger for some of these changes appeared to be the period around the First World War. Scots accent 'less eroded' than English regional accents - BBC News 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z As I wrote in the magazine last year, the Kurds have been fighting to maintain their autonomy and identity ever since Iraq was cobbled together at the end of the First World War. The Limits of the Kurds’ War on ISIS 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z A century later, the First World War is no longer forgotten, but it remains not entirely clear how it is to be remembered. Why There's No World War I Memorial on the U.S. National Mall 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z A group of letters written by the widows of husbands killed in the First World War are to be made public for the first time. The letters of WW1 widows show hardship of war - BBC News 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Despite the memorial and museum’s resurgence, a question often asked is why the United States’ official museum about the First World War is in Kansas City, the country’s 37th-largest city. A World War I Memorial in Kansas City Is a Tribute to Giving 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z At the start of the First World War, food purchases consumed half the average paycheck; today the figure is six per cent. Can Fast Food Get Healthy? 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z "He volunteered for the First World War and when he was in the trenches he volunteered for missions into No Man's Land. "In some way he relished the war and the camaraderie it offered. The tragedy and gaiety of David Jones - BBC News 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Finally, the First World War was overshadowed by a second, even more destructive conflict. Why There's No World War I Memorial on the U.S. National Mall 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z At the same time, the British Army and allied forces, including the Arab Irregulars, were fighting the Ottomans on the battlefields of the First World War. America enabled radical Islam: How the CIA, George W. Bush and many others helped create ISIS 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Roger Waters lost his father in World War II when he was all of 4 months old; his grandfather likewise died in the First World War before he was born. Roger Waters, Pink Floyd bassist, at Music Heals concert in D.C. to help war veterans 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z It is the country’s second-largest city, and became the capital only after the First World War, when the Ottoman Empire collapsed. The Explosions in Turkey 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z The First World War interrupted his career, and began the long isolation of German scientists just when his great idea most needed discussion. Geology: The continental conundrum : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z After the First World War, they became minorities in the new states created in the Paris peace settlement. Europe's Refugee Crisis: Last Time, It Was Much Worse 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z During the First World War, he initiated the program to develop and weaponize chlorine for use on the battlefield. Nobel Laureates We’d Like To Forget 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Teams from the US toured the UK regularly in the years before the First World War. America as competitive cricketing nation: so close, yet so far 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z One of the most useful roles for aircraft and airships in the First World War was for reconnaissance. Aircraft Communication, 1915 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z As with perhaps a quarter of all shells fired during the First World War, this giant shell was a dud and failed to explode. Bigger Guns, 1915 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Wednesday marks 100 years since the first meeting took place, aiming to encourage women to help with food supplies during the First World War. Women's Institute celebrates 100 years of existence - BBC News 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z After the First World War, an isolationist Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles and its creation of the League of Nations, which was the precursor to the United Nations. The Iran Deal Is a Victory for Economic Sanctions 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Whole economies during the First World War were geared to mass manufacturing supplies for armies engaged in the desperate struggle. Miniature Locomotive for War Work, 1915 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Before the First World War, Beerbohm and Florence had already retreated to Rapallo, on the Italian coast, and the self-exile became part of his legend. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Like at the beginning of the First World War.” Greece’s Ex-Finance Minister Tells All 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z “I’ve played him as an Egyptian warrior, an officer in the First World War and even as a Jehovah’s Witness in a German production.” Carl Tanner, opera tenor, returns to D.C. area, where trucking, bounty hunting career began 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z After the First World War ended, France and the other victorious powers demanded about twelve and a half billion dollars in reparations, which was a bit more than Germany’s G.D.P. at the time. Greece’s Surrender: A Return to 1919, or to 1905? 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Later, psychologists studied the effects of war on soldiers returning home, fuelling the case for making the First World War “the war to end all wars”. Lessons must be learned after psychology torture inquiry 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The producers of chemical weapons made that claim in the First World War, and President Truman used it to justify the use of nuclear weapons in the Second. Violence in the Age of Terror 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Then, the school was opened in 1924 after the First World War. An Interview With The President Of The University That Turned Israel Into Start-up Nation 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Ironically, the eruption of an even more destructive conflict 20 years after the end of this one meant that it is now known as the First World War. Why the Indian soldiers of WW1 were forgotten - BBC News 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z |
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