The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
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Therefore, we believe superfluous information would most certainly fit this most peculiar occasion!
Therefore, we believe superfluous information would most certainly fit this most peculiar occasion!
Did you know...
- ...the German Empire was the first to use the flamethrowers in world war one after being inspired by the Byzantine-Roman "Greek Fire" of the middle ages?
- ...over 10-million people died as a result of the great war?
- ...over 60-million people from countries as far as British India fought in the Great War?
- ...there were over 35-million combatant and non-combatant casualties?
- ...tanks were actually called "Landships" in the Great war?
- ...the word "tanks" derives from the British attempting to disguise their "Landships" as "tanks of water?"
- ...a decent sized demographic of Americans joined the French Foreign Legion, British/Canadian Army when the U.S. initially refused to enter the war?
- ...some German-Americans returned to the fatherland to fight for the Kaiser, including teens forced to by their parents? (this "call" would occur again in the second world war.)
- ...Woodrow Wilson's campaign slogan was "He kept us out of the war," but ironically entered the war during his second term?
- ...the U.S. federal government spend more than $30-billion USD on the war efforts?
- ...the Great War resulted in the collapse of four empires; Ottoman Empire, German Empire, Russian Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg Dynasty?
- ...the great Seljuk Ottoman Empire was the only empire of such proportions in history to be destroyed by a single conflict?
- ...Gavrilo Princip of the terrorist network, "Black Hand" was the one who assassinated Archduke Frans Ferdinand?
- ...contrary to popular belief, the Archduke's assassination was not the leading cause to the Great War? The Archduke was not very popular back home, and was despised by his uncle and others in the hierarchy. Additionally, there was no direct cause to this war, it was caused by intricate alliances and attempts of dissolution. Ironically, it is best argued it was started by diplomacy overall; misinterpreted, failed, diplomacy.