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The poet, novelist, and political activist Gabriele d'Annunzio speaking in favor of Italy's entry into the war on the side of the Entente Allies, and against 'Giolittismo' at the Costanzi Theater in Rome, May, 1915. Giovanni Giolitti was five-time Prime Minister of Italy, and opposed intervention in the Great War. Illustration by Achille Beltrame. |
The great demonstrations against the 'Giolittism'; Gabriele d'Annunzio speaks to the people of Rome, in Theatro Costanzi. |
Gabriele d'Annunzio, d'Annunzio, Beltrame, Italy, 1915, 1915-05-12, May |
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1898 postcard of German Southwest Africa including scenes of the capital of Greater Windhoek, a square in the city, and Major Leutwein, Governor from 1894 to 1904. |
Panorama von Gross-Windhoek
Platz in Gross-Windhoek
Gouverneur Major Leutwein
Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika
Verl. u. Eigent d. Deutschen Kolonialhauses, Berlin, C 19. Ges. geschützl. Must. No. 15
Panorama of greater Windhoek
Square in greater Windhoek
Governor Major Leutwein
German SouthWest Africa
Publisher and Property of the German Colonial House, Berlin, C 19 Registered Trademark of the Heavy Artillery Muster [?] No. 15
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Deutsche Schutzgebiete
Nur für die Adresse
German protected areas
Only for the address |
Lithograph, Namibia, Deutsche Kolonie, Gross-Windhoek, Gouverneur Major Leutwein Namibia, Germany, colony, Windhoek, Leutwein, German Southwest Africa |
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The exploding shell of a French 75 mm. field gun blasts the crown from the tree of the Central Powers as the axe of Justice strikes its trunk. A background map shows British towns on the English Channel and Belgian and French cities shelled by German forces burning. A 1915 French postcard. |
75, Turquie, Allemagne, Autriche, Turkey, Austria, Germany, Yarmouth, Hartlepool, Whitby, Scarborough, Ypres, Arras, Reims, Louvain
Malheur aux ennemis
To the D...with the Enemy
1914 1915
Déposé. . . Tous Droits Réservés
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Edition Globe Trotter
Paris
Marque Déposée Trade Mark
Carte Postale
F. Bouchet, Éditeur-Imprimeur, 5bis, Rue Béranger, Paris (IIIe)
Visé - Paris No. 1 |
Turkey, Germany, Austria, tree, Yarmouth, Hartlepool, Whitby, Scarborough, Ypres, Arras, Rheims, Louvain, 1914, 1915, Justice, Scarborough bombarded |
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Headstones of Lieutenant D. Corbett-Wilson, Royal Flying Corps, and Second Lieutenant I.N. Woodiwiss, Lincolnshire Regiment, Attd. (attached) Royal Flying Corps, both deceased May 10, 1915, and interred at Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery in Souchez, France. |
Lieutenant D. Corbett-Wilson, Royal Flying Corps, May 10, 1915
Second Lieutenant I.N. Woodiwiss, Lincolnshire Regiment, Attd. (attached) Royal Flying Corps, May 10, 1915 |
Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France, headstones, headstone, Cabaret Rouge, British Cemetery, Cemetery, RFC, Royal Flying Corps, Corbett-Willson, Woodiwiss, 1915-05-10, 1915, May |
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A table of shells requirements from a May 9, 1915 memorandum by Sir John French, Commander of the British Expeditionary Force 1914 and sent to Members of Parliament David Lloyd George, Bonar Law, and Arthur Balfour. French also provided some of the information to Colonel Repington, the military correspondent for the Times of London, who published his story on the 'shell shortage' on May 15, 1915. |
Wanted three months hence, say, August 1 |
Sir John French, Sir John, John French, 1915, shell shortage, 1915-05-09, 1915-05-15 |