75 Mind-Blowing Facts You’ll Think Are Made Up (But Aren’t)
Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries, and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you thought you knew for sure!
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WW1: Why was the first German defeat in Africa?
On 26 August Captain Bryant accepted the German surrender and Togoland was carved up between Britain and France. WW1: How did an artist help Britain fight the war at sea? documentWW1: How did an ...
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Meet The Most Legendary War Horse Of WWI—Here’s How He Became ‘The Horse The Germans Couldn’t Kill’
The Battle of Amiens was a last, desperate push to break the German lines. As part of a coordinated ... but as a symbol of surviving WWI. His legacy lived on, immortalized in books, battlefield ...
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Why everyone is trying out stick-it-on patches
It was a severe vitamin D3 deficiency that introduced Yashovardhan Kanodia, 35, co-founder of East Star Financial Advisors in Kolkata to vitamin patches. Racked by aches and pains in his body ...
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‘Found the needle in the haystack.’ WWI Museum donation found in shed more than a century ago
After doing some research and asking around the family, Evan and his wife Jeni discovered this was issued for combat during WWI, specifically given to soldiers guarding German POWs. Evan spent the ...
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2025’s first Patch Tuesday: 159 patches, including several zero-day fixes
After a fairly tame round of patches to end 2024, Microsoft gets back to business with a lengthy list of updates to start the year. Microsoft began 2025 with a hefty patch release this month ...
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WW1: How did Britain handle its biggest wave of refugees ever?
Dr Sam Willis discovers how the British artist Norman Wilkinson developed dazzle camouflage to protect ships from German U-boats in WW1 WW1: Does the peace that ended the war haunt us today?
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After 106 years, Black South African WWI troops honored with memorial
In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.
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Two killed in knife attack in German park, suspect arrested
A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan has been arrested following a knife attack in a park in the German city of Aschaffenburg on Wednesday in which two people were killed, including a toddler ...
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Forgotten no more: The Black South Africans who died in WWI Africa
They were ferrying supplies to Union of South Africa forces which had invaded German South West Africa (GSWA, now Namibia) as part of the Allied campaign against Germany in World War I.
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Frontrunner for German Chancellor vows stricter immigration policies – but says he won’t work with the far-right
The German lawmaker brought forward two pieces of legislation severely curbing migration. While the non-binding bill passed by a small majority, the binding “Influx Limitation Act” failed.