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  2. No man's land - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] The Oxford English Dictionary contains a reference to the term dating back to 1320, spelled nonesmanneslond, to describe a territory that was disputed or involved in a legal disagreement. [3] [1] [9] The same term was later used as the name for the piece of land outside the north wall of London that was assigned as the place of ...

  3. Voluntary Aid Detachment - Wikipedia

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    St John's VAD cloth embroidered insignia (1916). The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) was a voluntary unit of civilians providing nursing care for military personnel in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire.

  4. Sheringham - Wikipedia

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    Sheringham (/ ˈ ʃ ɛr ɪ ŋ ə m /; population 7,367) is a seaside town and civil parish in the county of Norfolk, England. [2] The motto of the town, granted in 1953 to the Sheringham Urban District Council, is Mare Ditat Pinusque Decorat , Latin for "The sea enriches and the pine adorns".

  5. World War I - Wikipedia

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    Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."

  6. Propaganda in World War I - Wikipedia

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    Russian World War 1 propaganda posters generally showed the enemies as demonic, one example showing Kaiser Wilhelm as a devil figure. [13] They would all depict the war as ‘patriotic’, with one poster saying that the war was Russia’s second ‘patriotic war’, the first being against Napoleon.

  7. Armistice Day - Wikipedia

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    Armistice Day celebrations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 11 November 1918. Armistice Day, later known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States, is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, at 5:45 am [1] for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of ...

  8. Lost Generation - Wikipedia

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    The Lost Generation was the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation.The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s, and were the first generation to mature in the 20th century.

  9. Central Powers - Wikipedia

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    The Central Powers, also known as the Central Empires, [1] [notes 1] were one of the two main coalitions that fought in World War I (1914–1918). It consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria; this was also known as the Quadruple Alliance.