Wwi

5 Films To Watch That Celebrate Real War Heroes

Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Clint Eastwood, Flags of Our Fathers, Ron Kovic, Iwo Jima, Wwi, Vietnam, Tom Cruise, Sargeant York, Slideexpand, Alvin York, Video, Impact News

If you're trying to beat the heat this Memorial Day, there are ways to honor our troops away from the noisy parades and crowded events. Commemorate th...

Read Whole Story

Hitler WWI Postcard Unearthed

Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: European Roadshow, Video, World War I, Hitler Memorabilia, Hitler Letter, Europeana, Wwi, Unearthed, Hitler Postcard, Adolf Hitler, World News

Unearthed as part of a European history project, a postcard sent during World War I by a wounded Adolf Hitler has brought attention to the earlier yea...

Read Whole Story

Sustainable Prosperity

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Environmentalism, Wwi, Earth Day, Environmental Politics, Worldwatch Institute, Green News

There is no denying the inexorable law of supply and demand's effect on the earth's remaining natural resources.

Read Post

Happy Birthday, Max Ernst!

Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Painters, Dada, Video, Painter, Germany, German Art, Sculptor, Marcel Duchamp, Contemporary Art, Abstract Expressionism, Wwi, Surrealism, Max Ernst, Dada Movement, Arts News

Happy Birthday to one of our favorite surrealists, Max Ernst. Ernst's attitude towards authority was affected early on by his strict, religious father...

Read Whole Story

World's Last Known WWI Veteran Dies At 110

AP | DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Wwi Veteran Dies, Wii Veterans, Florence Green Dies, Wwi, Florence Green, Florence Patterson Dead, Wwi Veteran Dead, World News

LONDON — Florence Green never saw the front line. Her war was spent serving food, not dodging bullets. But Green, who has died at age 110, was ...

Read Whole Story

Nationalizing D.C.'s WWI Mem'l Could End In Stalemate

| Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: D.C. World War I Memorial, Video, Vincent Gray, World War I, District of Columbia, D.C. War Memorial, World War I Memorial, Emanuel Cleaver, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Wwi, Ted Poe, Cqrc, DC News

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff All Rep. Emanuel Cleaver wants is for his hometown's World War I memorial to have the status of a national monument...

Read Whole Story

Vietnam Veteran Devotes His Time To Preserving Other Vets' Stories

The Wichita Eagle | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Herb Duncan, The Greatest Generation, Robert B. Lee Duncan Jr., Wwii, Vietnam War, Freddy Simon, Vietnam Veterans, Wwi, Veterans, Impact News

By the end of today, 28 World War II veterans from Kansas will have died, according to Col. Herb Duncan. He wants to make sure their stories don’t d...

Read Whole Story

Mustard Gas Leak Detected At Pueblo's Army Chemical Depot

Reuters | by Keith Coffman | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Army Chemical Depot, Chemical Weapons, Mustard Gas, Pueblo Army Depot, Nerve Gas, Denver News, Pueblo Colorado, Mustard Agent, Wwi, Mustard Gas Leak, Denver Colorado, Colorado News, Denver News

DENVER (Reuters) - Mustard gas vapors were detected seeping from a chemical weapons depot in southern Colorado on Tuesday, but no one was sickened or ...

Read Whole Story

The Next Wave of Good

Tamsin Smith | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Wwi, Kelly Slater, Cause Marketing, Liberty-Bonds, United Nations Foundation, United Nations, (RED), Fromgoodforgood, Impact News

Cause Marketing, as a sector, is soaring. An IEG Sponsorship Report predicts that corporate spending on cause marketing will have risen over 6 percent to $1.6 billion in 2010.

Read Post

PHOTOS: Before The Situation Room: Iconic War Photography

Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Photography, Winston Churchill, Christmas Truce, War on Terror, Wwii, Vietnam War, Dresden, Wwi, War Photography, Bombing of Dresden, The Situation Room, Osama Bin Laden, Arts News

This month has already begotten two iconic photographs: one released, one not. The first refers to an image of the President and his staff in the Situ...

Read Whole Story

Honoring All our WWI Heroes

Ken Blackwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wwi, World War I, WWI Veterans, Politics News

President Obama and Vice President Biden this week paid an unannounced visit to Arlington National Cemetery to offer the thanks of a grateful nation for the service of Frank Buckles. It is altogether fitting and proper that they should do this.

Read Post

WWI Soldier Representative of Connection Between Ireland and America

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.25.2011

With St. Patrick's Day looming, then, I hope you'll understand that I have no choice but to surrender to my genetic urges and write of yet another link between our two countries: Private Thomas D. Costello.

Read Post

Matthew Broderick, Who Do You Think You Are?

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.25.2011

Matthew Broderick found success at an early age with his memorable performance in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. His efforts to trace his family history unearthed a legacy of quiet heroes.

Read Post

PHOTOS: Veterans Day Around The World

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Obama, Wwi, US Troops, Veterans Day, Wwii, Soldiers, Wars, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, Armistice Day, World War I, War Veterans, Slidepollajax, Afghanistan, World War II, World News

President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919 as a day "filled with lots of pride in the heroism of those who died in t...

Read Whole Story

Roots Travel In Ireland

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Europe Travel, Annie Moore, Books, International Destinations, President Obama, Ireland, Wwi, Travel, Obama, Destinations, Barack Obama, Castle, Soldiers, Ireland Travel, Who Do You Think You Are?, Genealogy, Vacation, Irish, Cork, Family History, Nbc, Ellis Island, Travel News

On a recent trip to Ireland, I did something I've never done before: rented a private castle. I'm not kidding.

Read Post

WWI Soldier Laid to Rest at Arlington National Cemetery

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arlington National Cemetery, Soldiers, Jpac, US Military, US Soldiers, Army, Military, Galway, World War I, France, Ireland, Wwi, US Army, Maine, Funeral, Home News

Private Thomas D. Costello lost his life on September 16, 1918 in France and received full military honors today at Arlington National Cemetery. Hast...

Read Post

Ghosts of Sevastopol

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World War II, Wwi, Black Sea, Ukraine, World News

Glory, tragedy, disaster. An army of ghosts haunt this great naval base that commands the Crimea and surrounding Black Sea. It is the site of two of history's greatest sieges.

Read Post

No Man Left Behind: Not Just an Expression

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arlington National Cemetery, Troops, US Soldiers, Wwi, Memorial Day, Cemetery, War, Wwii, Soldiers, Military, Army, Southeast Asia, Korea, Memorial Day Weekend, Korean War, Genealogy, US Army, Jpac, Politics News

This weekend, please take a moment to remember those who have served us, those who do so today, and those whose dedication in scouring the globe for our soldiers shows that "no man left behind" is far more than an expression.

Read Post

Prescriptions for Mending Broken Government and Averting Spiritual Death

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Arab World, Obama Afghanistan, Brooklyn, President Obama, Senate Races, Justin A. Frank, U.S. Constitution, Change You Can Believe In, Drill Baby Drill, Hank Lowenstein, Islamophobia, Middle East, Fossil Fuels, Lady Macbeth, Supreme Court Bush vs. Gore, Constitution, Energy, Glasgow, Wwi, Biofuels, Carbon Emissions, Bush on the Couch, Afghanistan, Pakistan, War President, Broadway, Washington DC, Wwii, Drones, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, US Air Force, Grant Park, Iraq War, Senate, Riyadh-Saudi Arabia, Martin Luther King, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Iraq, Bono, Politics News

While ending America's wars sounds logical and direct, I am beginning to doubt I will ever see this in my lifetime, as long or short as it may be. The country has become inextricably engaged in these conflicts.

Read Post

Google Books And Kindles: A Concentration Camp Of Ideas

Alan Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wwi, Nazis, Kindle, Google Books, Reading, Bookstores, Nazism, Technology, Holocaust, Books, Ebooks, Hitler, Ereaders, Crematoria, Books News

The hi-tech campaign to relocate books to Google and replace books with Kindles is, in its essence, a deportation of the literary culture to a kind of easily monitored concentration camp of ideas.

Read Post

Mussolini And MI5: Documents Reveal Italy's Fascist Dictator Was Once British Agent

The Guardian | Tom Kington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moussolini and mi5, Italy, Germany, Nazi Germany, Wwi, mi5, Propaganda, Documents, Wwii, Mussolini a Spy, Mussolini, Fascism, Spy, Was Mussolini a Spy, Benito Moussolini, Secret Agent, Nazi, British Agent, World News

Archived documents have revealed that Mussolini got his start in politics in 1917 with the help of a £100 weekly wage from MI5. For the British in...

Read Whole Story

"The Marne 1914": A Bold New Account (PHOTOS)

Holger H. Herwig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Military History, Historians, Wwi, World War I, Writing, Authors, New Books, Battle of the Marne, Books, Nonfiction, The Marne, Slideshow, Books News

I wanted to write about the Battle of the Marne because I regard it as the most decisive land battle since the Allies defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. I regard its impact to have been spectacular.

Read Post

Obsessions: Small and Monstrous

Thomas Scheff | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Obsession, Anger, Wwi, Compulsion, War, Delusion, Humiliation, Healthy Living News

Humiliation can spiral to the point that it haunts us. Emotions, at their core, are bodily states of arousal. It is bodily arousal over which one has no direct control that makes the obsession painful and compulsive.

Read Post

Harry Patch, Britain's Last WWI Vet, Honored At Funeral

AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: England, Wwi, Wwi Vet, Harry Patch, World War I, Harry Patch Dead, Harry Patch Funeral, Slidepoll, Harry Patch Last Tommy, Funeral Harry Patch, Patch Britain Funeral, Britain's Oldest Warrior Dies, Harry Patch Funeral Photos, Harry Patch Funeral Pictures, World News

WELLS, England (AP) — Church, state and hundreds of warriors of other battles were according last honors Thursday to Harry Patch, Britain's last...

Read Whole Story

France Exhumes British, Australian War Dead

Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, World War I, Australia, United Kingdom, England, Foreign Affairs, Wwi, World War I Dead, Advocacy, World News

Work has begun in France to exhume the remains of up to 400 British and Australian soldiers who died in the Battle of Fromelles during the First World...

Read Whole Story