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If we're talking WWI, I'm bringing up Ornitologia da Grande Guerra (Ornithology of the Great War), a set of caricatures where portuguese Lieutenant Colonel José Rodrigues Brusco Júnior compares military men... to birds.

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2020-11-11

I am thrilled to share the cover of my first book on a reassessment of & grand strategies in 1914-1920, to be published by and expected in Dec. 2020 💪
Stay tuned!

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2020-08-30

🎵 Jacqueline du Pré—Elgar Cello Concerto (Adagio) Composed in response to WWI, this elegiac feels just as relevant today.

https://t.co/m75jKDbvf0

Nikkolas Smith

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2020-06-02

Balkanization occured not because of the fall of the Ottoman Empire after WWI, but because they couldn't see eye to eye on each other's fetishes. Honestly surprised that Serbia and Macedonia can even come to an agreement like this.

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2020-04-06

Though once described as a 'lovely Easter egg with nothing inside', Lady Helen Vincent proved herself a woman of great worth. She worked as an assistant anaesthetist and nurse during WWI, and wrote a book chronicling the Red Cross efforts in Germany (pub 1946).

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2020-03-25

‘Enemy Alien’ is based on the memoir of a socialist Ukrainian who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s and was locked up in an internment camp by the Canadian government during WWI, then as a forced labourer for Dominion Steel out in Nova Scotia.

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2020-03-25

Growing up in WWI, and women still without the right to vote, May Sinclair writes the story of Dorothy, who ends up joining a version of the Women's Social and Political Union. 🙌

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2020-03-24

Marc Allégret & André Gide by Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1920
Together since WWI, the two split up after they returned from the Congo, though they remained friends until Gide's death in 1951.

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2020-02-10

This is 'The Seine' by Henry O. Tanner (1859–1937). He studied under Thomas Eakins in the US and studied in France, where he exhibited at the 1896 Salon. He later worked for the Red Cross during WWI, painting images of African American troops in the war.

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2020-02-05

the 11th day of the 11th month at the 11th hour an armistice was signed signifying the end of WWI, later after many more wars (namely WWII) the holiday became a commemoration of the sacrifice that our servicemen and women give in order to keep us free. happy veterans day!

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2019-11-12

Painting at Bedtime.
The Drinking Place.
Stanhope Alexander Forbes.

Forbes, one of the founders of the Newlyn School, mainly painted genre scenes and landscapes. He was also a war artist in WWI, during which conflict his only son was killed.

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2019-09-15

After WWI, Paul Nash–who died 1946–continued to focus on landscape painting, initially in a formalised, decorative style but later in an increasingly abstract & surreal manner, often placing everyday objects into a landscape to give them a new identity & symbolism.

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2019-07-11

puxa amikos no tengo nada q subir, sowwi, dejo a esta fleta que hice hace un tiempito Oof, quería pintar de otra forma ajaj equisde aios

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2019-05-28

Graeme Neil Reid's first ever World War One cover for MUD AND MAYHEM! Out soon!

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2019-04-25

During WWI, the US army discharged thousands of men because they had picked up VD. As a matter of national security, throughout WW2 the military started distributing condoms, aggressively marketing prophylactics, & warning the troops about ‘loose women’.

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2019-04-25

One of my 3 WIPs (yikes so many...) follows a witch who became a “hello girl” in WWI, the first ever group of women to swear into USA Military

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2019-01-25

Here's another wartime image, this time from of some of the babies and nurses from Marie Celeste Ward,

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2019-01-17

Hilde's described w/ spear bearing references--soldiers called her their Minerva, while theatre puppets call her 'spear lady'. Though in decline, German Uhlan regiments were still a thing early in WWI, hence her cavalry lance, helmet and paint job in the gas/smoke. Meanwhile- 4/6

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2019-01-12

La Vie Parisienne (the Parisian life) was a French weekly magazine that ran from 1863-1970. By 1900 it had evolved into a mildly risqué publication. During WWI, General Pershing personally warned American servicemen against purchasing the magazine while stationed in France.

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2019-01-04

John Lavery (1856-1941) Forest People (n.d.). Lavery led a big life, evident in the diversity of his subject matter. An official British war artist during WWI, he later gave up his London home to the Irish delegation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. A free man of both Dublin & Belfast.

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2018-12-01