• We find ourselves in a village in northern, Protestant Germany, a year before the outbreak of the First World War, and there, with only the briefest of excursions to the world beyond, we stay.

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  • And it will be a reminder that -- from the trenches of the First World War to the mountains of Afghanistan -- Aussies and Americans have stood together, we have fought together, we have given lives together in every single major conflict of the past hundred years.

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  • This was the beginning of the process that led to the creation of the Republic of Haiti, the first independent black republic of the world.

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  • If the cataclysm of the first world war had destroyed any belief in the immutability of a civilisation based on liberal, progressive British values, the origins of the morbid age can also be found in developments in the natural and social sciences that occurred well before 1914.

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  • After all, the carnage of the first world war left an indelible impression on the next generation of European politicians but did not prevent a further war from erupting 21 years later.

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  • McIlroy, who missed the cut in his first event of the season since switching to the clubs of his new sponsor Nike, then lost in the first round of the WGC World Championship last week, got into red fingers on the back nine.

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  • The fur trade was one of the first commercial networks of the New World.

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  • Peter's Square that he wished to follow in the steps of Benedict XV, who led the church through the turbulent years of the First World War.

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  • But by the eve of the first world war Britain's income per head had been overtaken by that of America, the 20th century's great power.

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  • After the horrors of the first world war, many people were convinced that another global conflict would unleash forces of barbarism that decaying liberalism would be powerless to resist and that the inevitable result would be the dawning of a new dark age.

    ECONOMIST: Britain between the wars

  • Lawrence (or, as he is better known, Lawrence of Arabia) led the revolt against the Ottoman Army occupying Arabia near the end of the First World War.

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  • Sadly, sang-froid was in short supply Stateside, and by the time Casey arrived in Seville for the first round of the World Cup, the Americans had manned the barricades.

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  • The snow (or "Champagne powder, " as the locals boast) is so reliable that each season, the first event of the World Cup skiing calendar is held at Lake Louise.

    WSJ: Smooth Skiing at Canada's Rocky Mountains

  • The new 12% figure will only be for the first round of the World Cup in South Africa, with the total returning to about eight percent for matches in the knockout phase.

    BBC: Fans get World Cup ticket boost

  • Ms Moggach's grandmother, who lost her husband, her only brother and 11 cousins in the slaughtering fields of the first world war, was the inspiration for this cleverly written tale of domestic intrigue in the sooty streets of Southwark, a working-class district of London just south of the Thames, as the war draws to its close.

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  • Here at this memorial, we recall our shared sacrifices in the trenches of the First World War.

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  • At the outbreak of the first world war, only 62 independent countries existed in the entire globe.

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  • The big shift occurred after the carnage of the first world war and the Spanish flu that followed.

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  • Consider the anniversary to the end of the First World War - at least, the fighting ended anyway.

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  • In 2002, Mr. Kinzler (screen name Kinz) won the first of two world titles and started making real money.

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  • However, in that case, the New York market had been closed since July due to the outbreak of the First World War.

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  • The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 changed everything.

    BBC: Home Rule and the Ulster Covenant

  • Three months later, Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, and interest in buying art collapsed with the first shots of World War I.

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  • The onset of the First World War led to a "truce" to concentrate on the war effort, in which women were heavily involved.

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  • Close to a century has passed since their devastating deployment by both sides on the battlefields of the First World War prompted widespread revulsion.

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  • Five years later marked the beginning of the First World War.

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  • In paradisal green Devon, a clean-limbed English youth, Albert (Jeremy Irvine), raises a bay colt, Joey, and then follows him into the slaughterhouse of the First World War.

    NEWYORKER: War Horse

  • The League was the first casualty of World War II.

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  • The killings occurred in and around the Istrian peninsula, which fell to Italy at the end of the first world war but was lost to Yugoslavia after the second.

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