December 2010
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The Christmas Truce →
Feature Articles - The Christmas Truce
You are standing up to your knees in the slime of a waterlogged trench. It is the evening of 24 December 1914 and you are on the dreaded Western Front.
Stooped over, you wade across to the firing step and take over the watch. Having exchanged pleasantries, your bleary-eyed and mud-spattered colleague shuffles off towards his dug out. Despite the horrors...
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“World War I – Zimmermann Telegram
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– World War I Picture: The Zimmermann Telegram From World War I
(Picture from the National Archives and Records Administration.)
Photostat of the Zimmermann Telegram as received by the German ambassador to Mexico (Jan. 19, 1917)
In the midst of World War I, German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann...
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40 people lynched amid Haiti cholera fears:... →
Angry Haitian mobs have lynched at least 40 people in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a cholera outbreak that has killed over 2,500 people across the country, officials said Wednesday.
The number included at least 14 suspected sorcerers previously known to have been lynched in the far southwestern region of Grand Anse as local people feared they were spreading cholera with a magical...
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The Battle of Towton: Nasty, brutish and not that... →
THE soldier now known as Towton 25 had survived battle before. A healed skull fracture points to previous engagements. He was old enough—somewhere between 36 and 45 when he died—to have gained plenty of experience of fighting. But on March 29th 1461, his luck ran out.
Towton 25 suffered eight wounds to his head that day. The precise order can be worked out from the direction of fractures on his...
