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May 11, 2021 · Last month, a team of archaeologists from the White War Museum in Adamello, Italy, recovered around 300 artifacts from the Mount Scorluzzo cave. Researchers had long known about the site but were ...
Dec 12, 2019 · The exhibition is presented with a companion book, “We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity.” About the Companion Book. We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity, Smithsonian Books, 160 pages, $19.95. Edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill, deputy director of the National Museum of ...
Because it seriously disrupted economic links between Senegal and France, World War I marked the end of Senegal’s most dynamic period of economic growth, which had begun in the late nineteenth century with a marked increase in peanut production and export. Even with increased migration to the peanut basin, the production of peanuts dropped ...
07 Decorations and Memorials. Medals. (11) Commemorative Items. (15) Monuments. (2) Canada's contribution to the First World War led to growing autonomy and international recognition, but at great cost.
Mar 2, 2016 · Law died on December 1, 1970, at age 83. The Museum’s Archives has a scrapbook containing items from Ruth Law’s life: photos, news clippings, correspondence, articles, programs, and ribbons. The materials are available to researchers. Watch a very brief film of Ruth Law taking off in a Curtiss pusher. No one could say Ruth Law was a novice.
Artifacts Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun. The Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun was one of the deadliest weapons platforms of its day. The U.S. Navy deployed it to most of their ships during World War II and they dropped enemy planes from the sky with astonishing accuracy. This diorama shows a Bofors gun crew in action.
The Coming Storm After the outbreak of war in Europe in August 1914，New York State officials shared Pres. Woodrow Wilson’s official position of neutrality. Responses to the war in local communities, however, varied from indifference to strident nationalism, particularly among recent immigrants from the warring European countries.
