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8 hours ago · The Third Battle of Ypres (‹See Tfd› German: Dritte Flandernschlacht; French: Troisième Bataille des Flandres; Dutch: Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele (/ ˈpæʃəndeɪl / PASH-ən-dayl), was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire. [a] The battle took place on the ...
8 hours ago · In the years since World War I a lot changed: the Irish Free State had been declared in 1922, and the Republic of Ireland the following year; Britain’s erstwhile major Dominions had become de facto sovereign nations; the Balfour Declaration (1917/26) presaged the end of Mandate Palestine; and with Brigadier Dyer’s 1921 Jalianwallahbagh Massacre and the seething Swaraj movement Britain’s forfeiture of India was in the cards. 1944 was Britain fifth year of World War II, and America’s ...
8 hours ago · The Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I (‹See Tfd› German: Ostfront; Romanian: Frontul de răsărit;), for Russia Second Patriotic War[24][25] (Russian: Вторая Отечественная Война), was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between Russia and Romania on one ...
8 hours ago · The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations to partition Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate.Drafted by the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947, the Plan was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181 (II). [1]
8 hours ago · Irish War of Independence. Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP , GCB , OM , GCVO , KCMG , PC (28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925), known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer. Born in Kent, he saw brief service as a midshipman in the ...
8 hours ago · The reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States (1776). The Latin phrase novus ordo seclorum, appearing on the reverse side of the Great Seal since 1782 and on the back of the U.S. one-dollar bill since 1935, translates to "New Order of the Ages", [1] and alludes to the beginning of an era where the United States of America is an independent nation-state; conspiracy theorists claim this is an allusion to the "New World Order".
1 day ago · Lynching of John William Clark in Cartersville, Georgia, September 1930, after killing Police Chief J. B. Jenkins [ 1 ] Lynching was the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States ' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s, slowed during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued until 1981.
