Japan did not enter World War One out of loyalty or ideology. It entered because Britain gave it an opening and Germany had valuable colonies in China and the Pacific sitting exposed. Japan seized ...
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WW1 Christmas truce

The year was 1914. During WW1, an unofficial ceasefire was declared on Christmas night despite no formal agreement. German and British soldiers sang Christmas carols to each other, leading some German ...
And the 63-year-old later bought the 23-acre Georgian port of Charlestown - site of the filming of Poldark among other movies ...
But for one moment in 1914, there came a Christmas miracle. The soldiers in the trenches stopped fighting, and for a moment, ...
Georgia's government allegedly used a WWI-era chemical against its people. What followed is a slew of unanswered questions.
If someone told you it rained fish once upon a time, would you believe them? You'd be forgiven if you said "no." But get this ...
Prologue On December 20, 2025, the European Union (EU) almost crossed the Rubicon. It tried seizing Russian financial assets in Belgium for funding and ...
On Christmas Eve in 1914, a light snowfall began to dust the Western Front, unable to settle on the muddy, waterlogged ground ...
Myrtle Frances Pack Brabb was born just months before the end of World War 1, on July 4, 1918 in Hinton, West Virginia. She was able to experience more than a century’s ...
The humble potato shows up in plenty of vintage recipes. Invented in places from Ireland to New York, these dishes still ...
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After all, it was a language not spoken in the power centers even in England. Their foreign overlords, the Norman, imposed their borrowed French on all aspects of the realm even as English remained ...