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Canal lock, Egypt, 1915-1919 / WRD Laurie, 01 Jan 1916

Mounted Egyptian troops crossing??
Laurie Family via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/35786051/source

#WorldWarI #Egypt #AucklandMountedRifles

https://www.europesays.com/people/53216/ Harry S. Truman: The 33rd President of the United States #AtomicBomb #ChicagoTribune #ColdWar #DeweyDefeatsTruman #Elizabeth'Bess"Truman #FranklinRoosevelt #HarrySTruman #Hiroshima #independence #KoreanWar #Lamar #Missouri #MissouriNationalGuard #Nagasaki #NATO #Nazis #POTUS #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #ShowMeState #SovietUnion #ThomasDewey #WestPoint #WorldWarI #WorldWarII

A century after Collingwood Cherry Ingram helped preserve Japan's cherry trees, a new initiative inspired by him and Masatoshi Asari aims to plant sakura in Ukraine and support war victims through humanitarian aid. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/05/01/japan/sakura-diplomacy-in-three-wars/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #collingwoodingram #masatoshiasari #nicholasmellor #hokkaido #belgium #ukraine #uk #us #worldwari #worldwarii #someiyoshino #taihaku #matsumae #sakura #cherrytrees

#OTD 1916: #AustriaHungary and the German Empire were the first countries in the world to introduce #DaylightSavingTime to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.

Unfortunately, the agenda item was destroyed by fire—but it is recorded, and resourceful individuals might be able to find a Ministervortrag on the subject in the Kabinettskanzlei...

https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095.xml&searchexpr=sommerzeit#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095_1

#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE
#history #HabsburgMonarchy #CouncilofMinisters
#EconomicHistory #WorldWarI #WWI

#OTD 1916: #AustriaHungary and the German Empire were the first countries in the world to introduce #DaylightSavingTime to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.

Unfortunately, the agenda item was destroyed by fire—but it is recorded, and resourceful individuals might be able to find a Ministervortrag on the subject in the Kabinettskanzlei...

https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095.xml&searchexpr=sommerzeit#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095_1

#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE
#history #HabsburgMonarchy #CouncilofMinisters
#EconomicHistory #WorldWarI #WWI

#OTD 1916: #AustriaHungary and the German Empire were the first countries in the world to introduce #DaylightSavingTime to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.

Unfortunately, the agenda item was destroyed by fire—but it is recorded, and resourceful individuals might be able to find a Ministervortrag on the subject in the Kabinettskanzlei...

https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095.xml&searchexpr=sommerzeit#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095_1

#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE
#history #HabsburgMonarchy #CouncilofMinisters
#EconomicHistory #WorldWarI #WWI

#OTD 1916: #AustriaHungary and the German Empire were the first countries in the world to introduce #DaylightSavingTime to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.

Unfortunately, the agenda item was destroyed by fire—but it is recorded, and resourceful individuals might be able to find a Ministervortrag on the subject in the Kabinettskanzlei...

https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095.xml&searchexpr=sommerzeit#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095_1

#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE
#history #HabsburgMonarchy #CouncilofMinisters
#EconomicHistory #WorldWarI #WWI

#OTD 1916: #AustriaHungary and the German Empire were the first countries in the world to introduce #DaylightSavingTime to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.

Unfortunately, the agenda item was destroyed by fire—but it is recorded, and resourceful individuals might be able to find a Ministervortrag on the subject in the Kabinettskanzlei...

https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095.xml&searchexpr=sommerzeit#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095_1

#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE
#history #HabsburgMonarchy #CouncilofMinisters
#EconomicHistory #WorldWarI #WWI

World War I and the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Influenza Ward at a Base Hospital in Langres, France during World War I (Sgt. Villanova, 1919 | National…
#Europe #EU #1918flu #1918flupandemic #fluinworldwarI #SpanishFlu #spanishfluinworldwarI #Spanishfluwar #TheGreatPandemic #WorldwarI #wwi #WWIhospital
https://www.europesays.com/europe/23575/

1985's Mata Hari, starring an all time erotic leading lady, Sylvia Kristel, was Cannon's attempt to do something of a historical war epic... but it was also loaded with boobs and sex.

Read the new review at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-7Ee

#blog #review #history #worldwari #matahari #cannonfilms #sylviakristel #80s #drama #eroticdrama

1985's Mata Hari, starring an all time erotic leading lady, Sylvia Kristel, was Cannon's attempt to do something of a historical war epic... but it was also loaded with boobs and sex.

Read the new review at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-7Ee

#blog #review #history #worldwari #matahari #cannonfilms #sylviakristel #80s #drama #eroticdrama

1985's Mata Hari, starring an all time erotic leading lady, Sylvia Kristel, was Cannon's attempt to do something of a historical war epic... but it was also loaded with boobs and sex.

Read the new review at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-7Ee

#blog #review #history #worldwari #matahari #cannonfilms #sylviakristel #80s #drama #eroticdrama

1985's Mata Hari, starring an all time erotic leading lady, Sylvia Kristel, was Cannon's attempt to do something of a historical war epic... but it was also loaded with boobs and sex.

Read the new review at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-7Ee

#blog #review #history #worldwari #matahari #cannonfilms #sylviakristel #80s #drama #eroticdrama

1985's Mata Hari, starring an all time erotic leading lady, Sylvia Kristel, was Cannon's attempt to do something of a historical war epic... but it was also loaded with boobs and sex.

Read the new review at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-7Ee

#blog #review #history #worldwari #matahari #cannonfilms #sylviakristel #80s #drama #eroticdrama

"The Barrage" on the Nile, Cairo / WRD Laurie, 1915-1919, 1916-01-01

WRD would have had to cross the Nile to visit the Pyramids from Zeitoun Camp 24/25 December 1915
Laurie Family via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/35786039/source

#Cairo #WorldWarI #AucklandMountedRifles #Laurie #DigitalNZ

Although the sinking of RMS Lusitania happened years before Shallow Trenches/Open Skies takes place, it looms large over the main character, 2nd Lt. Bernard "Griz" Behr.

#wwi #worldwari #amwriting #bookstadon #books

'Trump's speech represents failing Iran war - bravado and lies as he loses control'

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/donald-trump-announcement-iran-war-36958174

Bought a new bank note!

This is from the 1902 series and was issued by The American National Bank of Vincennes sometime between 1920 and 1923.

This bank was originally named The German National Bank of Vincennes and changed its name in 1918, very likely due to anti-German sentiment at the time.

The front portrait is Benjamin Harrison, US President from Indianapolis, and the "Landing of the Pilgrims" is on the reverse.

#PaperCurrency #Numismatics #Indiana #History #WorldWarI #WorldWar1

Yazids

Also spelled Yesidis.

They’re a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, & Iran, with small numbers living in Armenia & Georgia (the country). Endogamy is the cultural practice of only marrying within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group. The majority of the Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the governorates of Nineveh & Duhok.

Yazidism came about through a complex historical process involving a pre-Islamic Kurdish religious substratum & teachings of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir. Generally, scholars regard Yazidism as an independent religious tradition with deep roots in ancient Iranian beliefs, shaped by later Sufi influences. Yazidism was adopted by many Kurdish tribes & Emirates. It reached as far west as Antioch & as far east as Sulaymaniyah. Sulaymaniyah/Slemani is a city in the East of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Yezidi manuscripts (called misurs) were written in the 13th century. It contains lists of Kurdish tribes affiliated with Yezidi Pir saints. Only 2 of the 40 total manuscripts have been published so far. Namely, the Misur of Pir Sini Darani & the Misur of Pir Xetib Pisi. The list in the Misur of Pir Sini Darani includes several large tribes that have been largely or fully Islamized today.

From the 14th century on, Yazidis developed their own religious & political institutions in the areas where they lived. The Yezidi territories were divided into 7 administrative centers. Each has its own Sincaq (This is an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire). More commonly known as Tawis among the Yezids. Sincaqs are sacred bronze effigies bearing the image of a bird or peacock to symbolize Tawusi Melek. They serve as symbols of power for each administrative center.

Every 6 months, the Yezidi Quwals, who are trained reciters of Qewls & other forms of sacred oral Yezidi tradition, were sent out to other Yezidi-inhabited areas with military protection from the central administrative region of Shekhan & the spiritual center of Lalish.

This tradition serves to preserve the Yazidi faith & doctrine. The Qewals, supported by voluntary alms, led a Sincaq through Yazidi villages to maintain spiritual legitimacy & symbolize the authority of Lalish & the Mir.

During WWI, the Armenian genocide of 1915 caused a mass exodus of Yazidis from Van, Kars, & Bazid, Turkey. Together with many Armenians, they fled from the Ottoman Empire in masses to Transcaucasia (a.k.a. South Caucasus. This is located on the border of Eastern Europe & West Asia, which straddles the southern Caucasus Mountains.).

They followed their families/relatives who had already migrated to the territories of the Russian Empire after fleeing during the Russo-Turkish wars in 1828-1829 & 1877-1878. In May 1918, Ottomans crossed the Akhuryan River to invade the Armenian Republic. The Yezidi participation in the decisive Battle of Sardarabad is still commemorated by Armenians.

Yazidism is a monotheistic faith based on belief in 1 God, who created the world & entrusted it into the care of a Heptad of the 7 Holy Beings. Often known as angels or heft sirr (the 7 Mysteries). Preeminent among these is Tawusi Melek (also known as Melek Taus), the Peacock Angel. Traditionally, Yazidis who marry non-Yazidis are considered to have converted to the religion of their spouse.

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A quotation from A. A. Milne

Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Peace with Honour, ch. 16 “Patriotism and Pledges,” sec. 5 (1934)

More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/82508/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #casusbelli #death #proportionality #war #worldwari #ww1

Once upon a time in Holland – September 1944 https://www.allforgardening.com/1616598/once-upon-a-time-in-holland-september-1944/ #Film #GardenPlans #history #incynema #Movie #MovieClips #WAR #WorldWar #WorldWar2 #WorldWarI #WorldWarIi

Donald Trump’s narcissism, impulsiveness, and disregard for international norms closely resemble Kaiser Wilhelm II’s flaws, creating risks for global stability and undermining the pillars of international order. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/13/japan/trumps-vanity-is-like-kaiser-wilhelms/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #donaldtrump #kaiserwilhelmii #nato #russia #vladimirputin #ukraine #bismarck #helmuthvonmoltke #germany #france #britain #austrohungary #serbia #worldwari

Mutual Aid or Mutual Assured Destruction
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/26/mutual-aid-or-mutual-assured-destruction/
Cooperation is more important than competition in human survival, argued Peter Kropotkin. After competition brought two world wars, mutual aid twice sought to rescue humanity. Will there be a third chance? asks Joe Lauria. The following is the full text…
#Politics #Analysis #AncientWorld #Books #Brics #Britain #Commentary #Europe #France #History #NuclearWeapons #Revolution #Russia #Switzerland #UnitedNations #UnitedStates #WorldWarI #WorldWarIi #Anarchism #CoordinatorOfGovernmentActivitiesInTheTerritories #Habsburg(austriaHungary) #Hohenzollern(germany) #JoeLauria #MargaretThatcher #MiddleAges #MihailBakunin #MutualAid #NationalHealthService(nhs) #PetrKropotkin #Romanov(russia) #RonaldReagan #VladimirLenin

"Unlike those who (somewhat wrongly) interpreted Ivan Bloch and Norman Angell to have believed that increasing interaction and economic links between the countries would make the war unthinkable, Offer implicitly argues the very opposite. It is precisely the decision to specialize in the production of manufactures (that is, to produce something for which Britain or Germany possessed comparative advantage) that led to the need to have a war machine and ultimately to the war itself: "the adjustment to economic specialization was the root cause of the war" (p. 327). World War I was in effect the first war of globalization.

While international division of labor makes the costs of wars exorbitant for all participants, it also requires, in order that the system be maintained, a permanent armed underpinning. But that permanent armed underpinning by itself renders the war more likely because it leads more than one power to make the same calculation and come to the same conclusions. If we were to replace Britain and Germany from Offer’s book by US and China today we would not be very much remiss.

More diversified, less autarkic, countries become much more productive but at the cost of being more fragile and brittle to any disruption. Our very sophisticated economic system can be brought to a complete halt by (say) one month breakdown of all electronic communications."

https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/free-trade-and-war

#WWI #WorldWarI #FreeTrade #Economy #EconomicHistory

Trump’s Attempt to Abridge Free Speech
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/13/trumps-attempt-to-abridge-free-speech/
Andrew P. Napolitano responds to a memo by Donald Trump calling antifa — which is an ideology — a domestic terrorism “organization” and directing federal law enforcement to disrupt its gatherings. By Andrew P. Napolitano While the country’s attention was drawn to…
#Politics #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #FreeSpeech #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #10ThAmendment #BrandenburgV.Ohio #FirstAmendment #NationalSecurityPresidentialMemorandum7(nspm7) #PresidentWoodrowWilson #SeditionActOf1918 #U.s.PresidentDonaldTrump #WorldWarI

Promptober 2025 Day 14: Grave Dirt

Using thepromptfoundry’s Ominous October list.

Agatha’s second story! I’m honestly really proud of this one. Agatha is my OC for krakaheimr‘s Chicago Spirit setting. But honestly this story has very little to do with that. This is historical fiction about an NB person dealing with their baggage.

CW for passing reference to past underage sex work. Agatha is from the early 1900s and she’s had it rough.

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The soil of Flanders Fields seems to seethe beneath Agatha’s feet as she walks through the poppies and graves of Ypres.

She had thought she would never come back here again. Never wanted to. The earth of the continent where she was born is a mass grave, and one of the things buried here is the person she should have been.

But then that’s why she had to come back, isn’t it? She couldn’t run forever; she’s not that kind of coward. No, cowardice has little to do with it. You spend years running from the pain and then one day, you look into the mirror and you understand it’s either time to turn and fight or to allow the past to take control of you.

And that is exactly why she left the first time. She is her own. She has paid far too much to achieve that. She will allow no one else to control her; not even her own memories.

She’s worn a funeral suit to this place, as befits a man visiting his own grave. Her trousered legs brush and hiss through the poppies and with each step those memories well up from the blood-soaked earth that bore witness: of how she slowly shed her humanity like the soldiers here shed their lives. Drip by drip. When she stopped being a girl, and became a woman. A man. A spy. A prostitute. A liar. A killer. A traitor. A disembodied knife in the dark. A monster.

And there, finally, she finds peace. She’s proud of her monstrosity. It feels like the truth. She wouldn’t choose to go back.

The men who ran the German war effort, who used her as a tool in her tender adolescence and turned her into a whore and spy and assassin for the Fatherland…they’ve walked on this soil. These very poppy fields contain, somewhere, the imprints of their squalid feet. Perhaps if she finds them, she can drive some iron nails through them. It’s a long shot, but she pocketed some before she came here, just on the off chance.

She has her knives too, on the chance she should meet any of them in person.

#agatha #chicagoSpirit #genderFluidCharacter #historicalFiction #lgbt #myFanfiction #myFiction #myOriginalFiction #nonbinaryCharacter #promptober #promptober2025 #transCharacter #worldWarI

Dame Helen Mirren in Flanders Flieds: The battle of Passchendaele centenary commemoration in Ypres

TAGS: #HelenMirren #DameHelenMirren #Actress #FilmActress #MovieActress #FilmStar #MovieStar #Oscar #AcademyAward #WorldWarI #Ypres #TheQueen #FilmNews #FilmIndustry #EntertainmentNews #Filmbuzz #FilmCommunity #Filmbuff #Moviebuff #Filmmaking #Moviemaking #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Film #Movies #Cinema

URL: https://filmtalk.org/2017/07/31/dame-helen-mirren-in-flanders-fields-the-battle-of-passchendaele-centenary-commemoration-in-ypres/

https://www.net-maquettes.com/pictures/berliet-cba/

The Berliet CBA is a legendary vehicle known for its robustness and reliability, playing a crucial role in World War I by transporting troops and supplies. Its innovative design featured a powerful engine and durable chassis, making it capable of withstanding harsh conditions.

#BerlietCBA #History #WorldWarI #VintageVehicles #AutomotiveHistory #ClassicTrucks #Engineering #Innovation

Elias Rodriguez’s Murderous Gift to Israel
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/23/elias-rodriguezs-murderous-gift-to-israel/
The barbarism of the live-streamed genocide in Gaza has inflicted moral injury on a scale untold, says John Wight. This is how Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation and this abhorrent double murder should be understood. By John Wight Special to Consortium News…
#Politics #Commentary #Gaza #GunViolence #Israel #Militarism #Terrorism #U.s. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AaronBushnell #ArchdukeFranzFerdinand #GavriloPrincep #JohnWight #LeonTrotsky #PartyOfSocialismAndLiberation(psl) #SarahMilgrim #WorldWarI #YaronLischinksy

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 2️⃣1️⃣: Conflict

I figured a lot of mappers will create maps about recent wars and conflicts so I decided to create a map about #WorldWarI and see if #Wikidata is a good enough source for its battles, conflicts, and military operations.

I also wanted to know if there are any open data sources for historical borders, and I found one, CShapes! https://icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes/

🧵 1/2

#battles #MilitaryConflicts #WW1 #WWI #WorldWar1 #GreatWar #MilitaryHistory

War Horse (2011): Sobbingly Sentimental Spielberg https://mikesfilmtalk.com/2013/01/26/war-horse-2011-sobbingly-sentimental-spielberg/ #BlockbusterFilm, #EmilyWatson, #Entertainment, #FilmReview, #JeremyIrvine, #Joey, #MovieReview, #PeterMullan, #Spielberg, #StevenSpielberg, #TobyKebbell, #TrenchWarfare, #WarFilm, #WarHorse, #WorldWarI

Baguio Stone Market in Baguio, Philippines

This market built by German World War I prisoners is made of local stones.#shops #shopping #worldwari #worldwarii #war #masons #stone #section-Atlas
Baguio Stone Market

Liste der deutschen Internierten in der #Schweiz herausgegeben von der Deutschen Kriegsgefangenen-Fürsorge Bern, 1. Teil, Bestand vom 15. November 1916
https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN738530441
#ww1 #WorldWarI #GreatWar #genealogy #ahnenforschung

The International Committee of the Red Cross during #WorldWarI exchanged prisoner of war data between the conflict parties (mainly of soldiers from the Western Front). Their archive website https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/ provides lists of prisoner movements etc. as well as search requests. It helped me to recreate the time Emil Hercher https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-33 spent as a French prisoner of war. Even if there was no record of his escape, it helped to fill some gaps.
#genealogy #greatwar #worldwar1

After learning about him only yesterday, I created another profile from the category "significant relationships to our family". This time it's pharmacist Heinrich Siever from #Lüdenscheid aka "the guy with whom the brother of my great-grandmother broke out from a French prison during World War I":

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Siever-55
#genealogy #wikitree #greatwar #worldwar1 #worldwarI

Wo wir gerade beim Ersten Weltkrieg sind: Warum hat das "Infanterie-Regiment 113" seine Nummer eigentlich hinter der Einheitenbezeichnung, das "1. Garde-Regiment" aber ebenso davor, wie die "8. Landwehr-Division" und die "55. Gemischte Ersatz-Brigade"? Das @LandesarchivBW nummeriert die Einheiten zumindest so. Gibt es da ein System? 🤔
#GreatWar #WorldWarI #WorldWar1 #Ahnenforschung

「Lest we forget – SS Mendi 21 February 1917

The #SouthAfricanNativeLabourCorps men aboard her came from a range of social backgrounds, and from a number of different peoples spread over the South African provinces and neighbouring territories. (287 were from #Transvaal, 139 from the #EasternCape, 87 from #Natal, 27 from #NorthernCape, 26 from the #OrangeFreeState, 26 from #Basutoland, eight from #Bechuanaland [#Botswana], five from #WesternCape, one from #Rhodesia and one from #SouthWestAfrica). Most had never seen the sea before this voyage, and very few could swim. The officers and NCOs were white Southern Africans.

[...]

Poignantly, 21 February 2024 did not see military celebrations but the sombre repatriation to South Africa of two SA National Defence force soldiers killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a rebel mortar strike last week.」

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/military-history/lest-we-forget-ss-mendi-21-february-1917/

#Mendi #SouthAfrica #MilitaryHistory #History #WorldWarI #France #Congo #SANDF #SouthAfricanArmy #SouthAfricanNavy #NavalHistory