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This day in WWI@ThisDayInWWI · Oct 1, 2023

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Jul 1918 Red Cross Magazine Cover ~ N.C. Wyeth Red Cross Magazine - Mar 1919 Illustration by N.C. Wyeth x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

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The Saturday Evening Post Feb 13 1915 Red Cross Magazine - Mar 1919 Illustration by N.C. Wyeth

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This day in WWI@ThisDayInWWI · Jul 25, 2018

1918 Propellers by Fernand Léger moma.org/collection/wor…

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Jul 24 1914 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Sazonov accuses Austro-Hungary officials of trying to start a war by the way it was handling the ultimatum issued to Serbia. "I know what it is. You mean to make war on Serbia ...? You are setting fire to Europe" x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

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US1113675 was granted #OTD Oct 13 1914. Gas mask from famous African-American inventor Garrett A. Morgan. He used this device to rescue several men after a Jul 24 1916, tunnel explosion under Lake Erie. As smoke rises, it drew clean air from ground x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

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South Bend News-Times Jul 26 1915 reports on possibility of Polish noble André Poniatowski becoming King of a newly formed Poland. Would make wife American, heiress Helen Sperry Queen of Poland. Spoiler Alert: In 1918, a Kingless, Republic of Poland emerged from chaos of WW1

ThisDayInWWI's tweet image. South Bend News-Times Jul 26 1915 reports on possibility of Polish noble André Poniatowski becoming King of a newly formed Poland. Would make wife American, heiress Helen Sperry Queen of Poland.

Spoiler Alert: In 1918, a Kingless, Republic of Poland emerged from chaos of WW1

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German military officials on U-Boat. Man on right possibly Alfred von Tirpitz Detroit Times Jul 26 1915 Subs Up Against International Law The Topeka State Journal Jul 20 1915 prints this E. A. Bushnell cartoon She's only a Norwegian Steamer Sir! Go Ahead and Blow her up then

ThisDayInWWI's tweet image. German military officials on U-Boat. Man on right possibly Alfred von Tirpitz

Detroit Times Jul 26 1915 Subs Up Against International Law

The Topeka State Journal Jul 20 1915 prints this E. A. Bushnell cartoon
She's only a Norwegian Steamer Sir!
Go Ahead and Blow her up then

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Tacoma Times Jul 26 1915 Dad's over there. You are here why? My brother has gone. Why is your brother here? "little children across the way in Montreal, Canada, urging their big brothers and fathers to rush to the blood stained fields of Europe to give up their blood, also."

ThisDayInWWI's tweet image. Tacoma Times Jul 26 1915

Dad's over there. You are here why?
My brother has gone. Why is your brother here?

"little children across the way in Montreal, Canada, urging their big brothers and fathers to rush to the blood stained fields of Europe to give up their blood, also."

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The Tacoma Times Jul 26 1915 Bob Satterfield cartoon showing the WW1's causalities after 1 year of war. Total Killed in Action is 2,392,300 NZ Thames Star Jul 20 1918 Heavy Casualties, No Gains Chicago Tribune Jul 8 1916 John T McCutcheon cartoon Harvest moon in Fodderland

ThisDayInWWI's tweet image. The Tacoma Times Jul 26 1915 Bob Satterfield cartoon showing the WW1's causalities after 1 year of war. Total Killed in Action is 2,392,300
NZ Thames Star Jul 20 1918 Heavy Casualties, No Gains
Chicago Tribune Jul 8 1916 John T McCutcheon cartoon
Harvest moon in Fodderland

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Roger Litwiller -🇨🇦 Naval Author/Historian@RLitwiller · 8 h

#OTD 26/7/1881 #RememberRCN -HMS Charybdis arrives at Saint John, New Brunswick. The steam corvette is the first attempt to create a Canadian Naval Service. She is found to be too worn out even for training purposes and returned to the Royal Navy.

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Roger Litwiller -🇨🇦 Naval Author/Historian@RLitwiller · 8 h

#OTD 26/7/1918 #RememberRCN -U140 is the third German U-Boat to enter Canadian waters in #WWI, announcing its arrival in a running gun battle with British steamer SS Melitia just south of Newfoundland. The merchantman was too fast for the submarine and made good her escape.

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1st July 1916 Officer Roll of Honour@July1st1916 · 7 h

Barford War Memorial, Warwickshire The church was open today surprised to see names on a plaque inside as well. Only 5 had rank 1 woman, Mary Graham

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The Public Domain Review@PublicDomainRev · 6 h

A step-by-step guide to drawing mice, from a 1913 book entitled What to Draw and How to Draw it. More drawing instruction from this book, plus a 1935 follow-up by the same author, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/wha…

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Spotted and purchased 4 volumes WW2 war illustrated at National Trust secondhand bookshop £8 each Been curious about them for a while I have indexed every named photo in the WW1 editions if anyone looking for a photo.

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100YearsAgoNews@100YearsAgoNews · 5 h

July 26, 1925: William Jennings Bryan, the “Great Commoner” of U.S. politics, dies of a heart attack at 65. The 3-time Democratic presidential nominee succumbs during a nap in Dayton, Tenn., where 5 days ago he had helped win a guilty verdict in the Scopes evolution trial. 1/6

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100YearsAgoNews@100YearsAgoNews · 4 h

July 26, 1925: The Miss Plaquemines, which is reputed to be the world’s fastest motorboat with a top speed of 55 mph, is steered by Lilea Sherberne through Louisiana bayou country. It’s powered by a Curtiss airplane propeller.

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1925 Live@100YearsAgoLive · 4 h

Gotten Frege, German mathematician and philosopher often called “the greatest logician since Aristotle,” dies in Bad Kleinen, Germany. He was 76.

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100YearsAgoNews@100YearsAgoNews · 4 h

July 26, 1925: Italian racing star Alberto Anscari is killed when his car overturns ona bend halfway through the French Grand Prix at Montlhery. The 36-year-old driver with Alfa Romeo had won four Grand Prix races in his career was leading the pack at the time of the accident.

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100YearsAgoNews@100YearsAgoNews · 4 h

July 26, 1925: Rose Lauris and Mae Place, two students at the Bryn Mawr summer school in Pennsylvania, perform a Bohemian dance at the Pennsylvania campus. They are taking part in “Peace Day” celebrations marking the 11th anniversary of the start of WWI.

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Discovering the frontline and beyond.@Lachouffeke · 4 h

Really WroeFFFFF ...... This is nothing like the Western Front ......... Impressive .....

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Silent Movie GIFs@silentmoviegifs · 17 h

Ivanhoe (1913) was one of the first American movies to be filmed on location in the United Kingdom. It was filmed at Chepstow Castle and employed locals as extras

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