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Ruth Comfort Mitchell
Ruth Comfort Mitchell was an American author and playwright who wrote under her maiden name Ruth Comfort Mitchell , as well as her married name, Mrs. Sanborn Young. She was born in San Francisco, California. At the age of fourteen, her first poem was published in the local Los Gatos Mail newspaper. Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young wrote novels, poems, short stories, and plays. -
Rupert Brooke
Rupert Chawner Brooke is born the 3 August 1887. He was an English poet, and is known for his poems, which he written during the first world war, especially The Soldier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rupert_Brooke_statue.jpg Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Road in Rugby, Warwickshire. He was the second of the three sons of William Parker Brooke.
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Uncle Sam image
The poster: Uncle Sam asking you to support the War. This war poster is a modern revision of the classic 1917 World War 1 poster. -
War poster
The most famous war poster was Alfred Leete's 1914 image of Lord Kitchener pointing directly at the viewer. So successful was this image that it was adapted for American use in both World War I and II by JM Flagg -
Beginning of the World War 1
First World War I (originally The Great War) was a global military conflict that it took place in Europe but also in the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia. The war killed more than nine million lives, and thus became one of the bloodiest conflicts in world history then. -
RUPERT BROOKE – THE SOLDIER
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Rupert Brooke's death
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Picture from life in the trenches
Australian soldiers in trenches during the Battle of Gallipoli, first World War. A trench is a ditch, which being dug in the ground, where soldiers can sit or stand upright and thus receive protection against enemy fire while he retains the ability to shoot. -
Pictures from life in the trenches
During the most of the first World War, was German and Allied troops locked in trench warfare along the Western Front. A survivor of the First World War describes a nauseating stink of dead bodies in the trench, it was the worst in the trench. Rats the size of cats lived of the many corpses, and the bad hygienic conditions did soldiers sick. It was the same routine every day for the soldiers . -
End of the world war I
Implications of first World War was huge for the European continent. Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire disappeared and was replaced by an amount smaller Eastern European states. It defeated Germany was transformed from monarchy to republic and missed areas of Alsace and Lorraine to France. -
The World War II begnining
The war in Europe began on 1 September 1939 when Germany and then Soviet Union invaded Poland. -
The Battle of Iwo Jima
First American attack on Japanese soil Japanese – heavily fortified:
Bunkers, hidden artillery and tunnels.
Well-prepared Americans – naval and air support.
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The Battle of Iwo Jima
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The ending of the World War II
Denmark was occupied by Germany from 9th April 1940 to 5 May 1945 -
Ruth Comfort Mitchell
In February 1954, Ruth was found dead in the bathtub. Sanborn (her husband) died ten years later. -
Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson is born the 18. november, 1968. He is an American actor and Oscar-nominated screenwriter. He is best known for playing the funny type but has also been involved in few serious movie roles. Owen Wilson was born in Dallas, Texas, USA. His parents, television producer Robert Andrew Wilson and photographer Laura Cunningham Wilson, both of Irish Catholic descent.
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DULCE ET DECORUM EST WILFRED OWEN
