WWI
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An estimated 190,000 mines were placed in the North Sea during WWI in hopes that enemy ships would strike them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Unemployed WWI veterans marched on Washington in 1932 to demand bonuses, only to have their encampments dispersed with tanks and tear gas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
During WWI, federal authorities placed 6,300 “enemy aliens” — many from Germany — into internment camps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
It’s therefore much easier for a 25-year-old living in 2023 to romanticize the less technical, more individual plight of Snoopy as the WWI Flying Ace and his nemesis, the Red Baron, as a duel scene.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023
Did you know that the US Army Signal Corps used 600 pigeons during WWI?!
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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