But these assumptions are shattered by the appearance of the Mule, a mutant with extraordinary powers and millions of devoted ...

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated in Sarajevo. To the Western powers, the killing appeared of little consequence and ...

There are also endless historical sites here, as Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914, and the city ...

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The death toll was already staggering. From August 1914, when hostilities broke out, until December, most of the British Expeditionary Force in France, about 160,000 men, had been wiped out.

The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it ...

With the proximity of the opposing lines being so close, and the night of 24 December 1914 being “a beautiful moonlit night, frost on the ground, white almost everywhere”, the voices of the opposing ...

This destruction of hope—about the truce but also about the goodness and decency of humanity—made the events that occurred on and around Christmas 1914 all the more remarkable. “ ...

ON December 25 1914, British and German troops on the Western Front stopped firing at each other, put down their guns, climbed out of their trenches and met in no-man’s land. The bloody slaughter of ...

The Retreat from Mons: 16th Lancers on the march, September 1914. For the cavalry, the trenches had created a frustrating and futile theatre of war. Nonetheless, contemporary commanders such as Sir ...