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World War One
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World War One
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Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Nurse Edith Cavell
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Edith Cavell was a nurse who was executed by the Germans during World War I. Her death did much to excite anti-German feelings in ...
Friday, 1 January 2016
Mata Hari, a dancer who was probably not a spy
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13 th March 1905 was the day on which a new sensation arrived in Paris, in the sensuous shape of a dancer who gave her first perf...
Saturday, 26 December 2015
Corporal Alvin York, a hero from World War One
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On 8 th October 1918 an American soldier, Corporal Alvin C York from Tennessee, carried out one of the most remarkable acts of singl...
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