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General Luigi Cadorna Italian Chief of Staff Luigi Cadorna, having learnt of the Treaty of London, accepted the orders but declared that the...

On 27 July 1914 the Austrian foreign minister Berchtold requested Emperor Franz Joseph to sign the declaration of war, on the express ground...

The Original Blue Devils Tonight #1 Ranked Duke University's basketball team plays their opening game of the Sweet Sixteen stage of the ...

Stretch June 1916 a little, adding a day at each end—31 May and 1 July. This minor astronomical adjustment allows adding two monumental even...

Click on Images to Enlarge American artist John Singer's Sargent's Gassed —a dramatic and powerfully moving painting of a column of ...

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As part of Missouri's commemoration of the WWI Centennial, a tremendous collection of war-related images were gathered under the state-s...

  Prewar —Still Life with Metronome ,  1909  Georges Braque (1882–1963) was a modern artist who painted in the Cubist style. Before the war,...

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