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Jun 19, 2019 · In the 1990s, a Ukrainian con man scammed thousands from the descendants of the British officers buried at Cathcart’s Hill to erect a new memorial there — the obelisk that is now falling apart. Captain Reginald Curtis, who fought in Crimea, survived and produced a survey of the British burial sites. Image courtesy of William Curtis.
Roman funerary art. Marble cinerary chest (90–110 AD), made by Marcus Domitius Primigenius "for himself, his freedmen and freedwomen, and their descendants": the deceased makes an offering to a reclining female figure who may be Mother Earth, with two attendants holding food and wine ( Metropolitan Museum of Art) [1] The funerary art of ...
World War I had a profound human cost, both on servicemen and civilians. Conservative estimates put war casualties at 12 million dead and 20 million severely wounded, though in reality both figures should probably be much higher. Taking into account deaths from combat, disease and missing soldiers, each of the major powers lost numbers in the ...
Mar 2, 2020 · Still, one thing is certain: the fire and subsequent Black People’s Day of Action demonstration were a catalyst that led to widespread change in Britain. Things would never be the same again ...
By the end of April 19, 1775, however, no man who had stood on the field of battle had any doubt that the Colonies were at war with Britain. In the day's aftermath, the British counted 73 dead ...
Nov 15, 2018 · On October 18, 1906, every battleship in the world, save one, became irrelevant. On that day, the waters of the English Channel churned under a frightful salvo fired from the eight 12-inch guns of a new British warship, HMS Dreadnought. Naval experts had predicted the recoil from this barrage would damage and perhaps even sink the steel leviathan.
Oct 2, 2013 · Ed Miliband has accused the Daily Mail of propagating an “appalling lie” to smear his dead father as a “man who hated Britain ... we think we produced evidence to support it, that he [Ralph ...
