The Latest Breaking News from the first world war

In 2017, George Lucas bought a 115-hectare French château; he later restored its historic buildings, vineyards, olive groves and surrounding forest

In 2017, filmmaker George Lucas acquired Château Margüi, a 115-hectare estate in the Var region of Provence, France, adding it to a small collection of properties tied to his Skywalker Vineyards brand. The estate's roots stretch back roughly 2,600 years, when Gallo-Romans first cultivated these very lands near the Argens…

The Times of India · Sep 3

A German pigeon began life as a WWI messenger, was captured in France, crossed the Atlantic and became a US military hero

In a museum collection in Washington, D.C., sits an unusual veteran of the First and Second World Wars. Kaiser was a German homing pigeon, hatched in Koblenz in 1917 and captured by American soldiers before the First World War had ended. Instead of being returned to Germany, he was brought…

The Times of India · Aug 23

In 1950, US former president Eisenhower bought a 189-acre Gettysburg farm for retirement. 17 years later, he gave the property to the nation

Gettysburg entered Dwight D. Eisenhower's life long before he became a general or president. In 1915, he arrived there as a West Point cadet, studying the ground where the Civil War's most famous battle had unfolded. Three years later, he was back, now a young Army officer assigned to Camp…

The Times of India · Aug 20

TV tonight: a perfect finale for French super-soldier thriller The Sentinels

The first world war drama has been a thrill throughout. Plus, the uneasy story of the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Here’s everything to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Aug 1

Henry Ford wanted a bird sanctuary; 100 years later, his factory's Guinness World Record roof finally became one

In 1915, Henry Ford bought around 2,000 acres of low-lying riverbank land outside Detroit with a specific dream in mind, turning it into a bird sanctuary. The First World War intervened before that dream could take shape, and the marshland instead became a shipyard, then grew steadily into the Ford…

The Times of India · Jul 7

Thousands of forgotten World War I Indian soldiers commemorated in UK

A research project has officially recognised 9,909 Indian soldiers missing from World War I records. These servicemen from pre-Partition India, who fought for the British Indian Army, were previously uncommemorated due to historical omissions. This initiative, a collaboration between CWGC, UK Punjab Heritage Association, and the University of Greenwich, ensures…

The Economic Times · Jul 6

Forgotten Punjabi soldiers of British Indian Army finally get WWI recognition after a century: Report

More than a century after the First World War, nearly 10,000 forgotten soldiers of the British Indian Army, many of them Punjabis, have finally been officially recognised for their wartime sacrifice.

The Times of India · Jul 6

How Bats Use Echolocation to Navigate Darkness and the Sonar Science That Changed Architecture

The call that comes back as a mapA bat leaving its roost at dusk emits ultrasound pulses at frequencies between 20 and 200 kilohertz, well above the ceiling of human hearing, which tops out around 20 kHz. Each pulse lasts between 0.2 and 100 milliseconds. The echo that bounces back…

Times Life · Jul 3

Trump claims communism is bigger threat to US than 9/11 and Pearl Harbor

Donald Trump has claimed that communism is a bigger threat to the US than the First World War, the Second World War, 9/11, and Pearl Harbor.

The Independent UK · Jun 29

Archduke review – twisted history goes to war for a sandwich

Hunger and TB, as much as imperialism, are triggers for the assassination that precipitated the first world war in Rajiv Joseph’s tragicomic reimagining of the plotters’ progress

The Guardian - UK · Jun 28