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Newcastle pays its respects to those who made the ultimate sacrifice

Red like timeworn blood, the poppy has become a symbol of Remembrance Day.After the First World War it was the first flower to spring up in the devastated battlefields of northern France and Belgium.

Newcastle Herald

French iconic painter of black Pierre Soulages dead at 102

French painter Pierre Soulages, an icon of post-World War II European abstract art famed for his use of black, has died, according to the Soulages Museum in his hometown of Rodez

The Independent UK

Ashington's Wallaw Cinema and the last picture show 40 years ago

The post-World War II years marked cinema's golden age - it was a time when nearly every North East town had a cinema, and often more than one

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Ukrainian Fighters Take Out Russian Soldiers In WWI-Style Trenches Thanks To Drone

These images purport to show Ukrainian fighters taking out Russian soldiers in World War I-style trenches thanks to a drone.

Zenger

Australian actor Odessa Young shines in British post-WWI drama Mothering Sunday

Australian actor Odessa Young shines in Mothering Sunday, a British post-World War I drama full of repressed emotions and slow-burning intensity.

The New Daily

Winner of Gallipoli Art Prize announced

A Newcastle artist's painting of a sword used in World War I and an item she mistook for a whip has won the 2022 Gallipoli Art Prize.

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Calls for statue to honour Annie Wheeler, known as Mother of Anzacs in World War I

When Australian Annie Wheeler found herself in London in 1914, she wanted to help the war effort. She started writing an index card for every Queensland soldier she met.

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Nicholas Goldberg: In Europe, the war in Ukraine raises the question — is the past really past?

AURINGEN, Germany — I was visiting family in a village not too far from the city of Wiesbaden, Germany, when I learned that an unexploded World War II bomb had been found just a few kilometers away, near the gas station we passed on the road into town.

Los Angeles Times

Review: 'Two Storm Wood,' by Philip Gray

FICTION: A compelling historical thriller about a woman who investigates the disappearance of her fiancé at the end of World War I.

Tribune News Service

World War I artefact that honoured Lanarkshire soldier is returned to the region

Robert Horsburgh Robertson was killed during action in 1915

Daily Record

Townsville shopping centre cleaner finds 106yo WWI postcard sent from battlefield in Turkey

A postcard sent by a soldier from the battlefront in World War I has turned up at a busy Townsville shopping centre and will be delivered 106 years late.

ABC News

The pandemic has highlighted inequality but nothing has changed

The government has failed to remedy inequalities that pre-existed the pandemic, says Mary Paul

Newsroom.co.nz

A brief history of the NFL, 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' the Super Bowl and their tangled saga of patriotism and dissent

When NFL Commissioner Elmer Layden visited the White House in August 1945, no sitting president had ever attended a professional football game. World War II was coming to a close and the commissioner presented President Harry Truman with a golden pass to any game on any day.

The Conversation

Review: The Long-Delayed ‘Death on the Nile’ Runs Aground

Kenneth Branagh's Agatha Christie adaptation “Death on the Nile” begins with a flashback to the trenches of World War I before shifting to 1930s London two decades later, but that’s nothing compared to the time that's passed since Branagh's preceding 2017 whodunit “Murder on the Orient Express.” That film, which…

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India showcases its military prowess at Republic Day parade with pomp and ceremony

India rolled out its largest ever flypast as troops marched along a World War I monument where an “eternal” beacon lit 50 years ago was earlier doused and merged with a flame in a new war memorial.

LiveScience

Mayday! 22 mysterious shipwrecks you can see on Google Earth

Google Earth has captured images of rotting and rusting hulls that are wasting away in shallow waters the world over.

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