Lashed to the bow of the USS Olympia, the Unknown Soldier and his detachment of Marines battled a storm that threatened to ...
Fifty-seven years ago today, Glen Campbell stepped into the studio to put the finishing touches on what would become a major hit.
Over the last century, modern gems like 1917 and ageless classics like Lawrence of Arabia have presented the brutality and ...
Szyk (1894-1951) was born in Łódź and trained as an artist in Kraków and Paris, absorbing medieval illumination, caricature ...
How did WWI soldiers keep clean in the trenches? The answer lies somewhere between "with great difficulty" and "they didn't." Although WWI was known as the Great War, trench hygiene was anything but ...
The letter was written by John B. Woosley to his then-girlfriend Oma, who went on to become his wife WRAL/Youtube A letter written by a WWI solider was discovered in Laura Tonkin's Durham, North ...
Laura Tonkin loves antiques. She keeps a curated collection of postcards, currency, and photographs in her Durham home. Yet she didn't know she was living under a piece of history since she moved ...
John Monsky details the history of the Unknown Soldier and the origins of Veterans Day. The U.S. takes no territory in WWI, only leases for nine cemeteries for the American dead. Each grave has a ...
Deb Brown routinely cleans her local beach, but this is the first time she’s discovered such a relic. A beach cleaner discovered two messages in a bottle penned by soldiers as they shipped off to WWI.
The public is being asked to help solve a century-old mystery to lay an unidentified British soldier to rest with a named headstone. In 1995, the soldier's remains were uncovered by workmen digging a ...
Two handwritten letters penned by Australian soldiers on their way to the battlefields of France during World War I have surfaced on a remote stretch of beach in Western Australia — more than a ...
It took more than 100 years for these messages to be delivered. An Australian family found this bottle during a beach clean up. They could see the letters inside and took great care opening it up.