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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Oct 13 1916 Three papers publish what they think new "Tanks" are. East Oregonian says Tanks are just armoured tractors hauling guns while Hawaiian Gazette published drawing that looks like US G-9 Tank. 3rd paper shows "Monster Death Engine" 185ft long and 55 ft high bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Seattle Star Oct 13 1915 Seattle resident Almar de Turenne, a French-Canadian immigrant, on what he saw on #WW1 battleground, including being gassed "It didn't kill them right away. They suffered awfully. They begged to be put out of their misery, AND SO WE SHOT THEM" bsky.app/profile/this...

Seattle Star Oct 13 1915 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87093407/1915-10-13/ed-1/?sp=1&r=-0.103,0.081,1.417,0.645,0

Seattle resident Almar de Turenne, a French-Canadian immigrant, on what he saw on #WW1 battleground, including being gassed

HAD "I a taste of the Germans' gas. It was like yellow vapor. A little whiff of it made your nose and throat smart, but the poor devils in front didn't get little whiffs. It didn't kill them right away. They suffered awfully. They begged to be put out of their misery, AND SO WE SHOT THEM"- Almar de Turenne, Seattle veteran of the trenches. Read his story in today's paper.

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Aberdeen Herald Oct 13 1914 publishes this Edwin Marcus cartoon showing the dark figure of Famine rushing to war while the personification of peace cowers www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

Aberdeen Herald Oct 13 1914 publishes this Edwin Marcus cartoon showing Famine rushing to war while the personification of peace cowers https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87093220/1914-10-13/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.509,0.513,0.192,0.087,0

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Rock Island Argus Oct 13 1914 publishes this Bob Satterfield cartoon showing German Kulltur www.loc.gov/resource/sn9... bsky.app/profile/this...

Rock Island Argus Oct 13 1914 publishes this Bob Satterfield cartoon showing German Kulltur https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn92053934/1914-10-13/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.243,0.163,0.929,0.423,0

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Daily Gate City Oct 13 1914 Senegalese soldier Ooh La fought near Meaux where comrades "fought with bullets, knives, bayonets and fists, singing like devils, treating German bullets and shells as if they were only mosquitos." He killed 18 Germans before being wounded 9 times bsky.app/profile/this...

The Daily Gate City Oct 13 1914 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025182/1914-10-13/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.564,0.276,0.439,0.2,0
Senegalese soldier Ooh La fought near Meaux where his comrades "fought with bullets, knives, bayonets and fists, singing like devils, treating German bullets and shells as if they were only mosquitos." He killed 18 Germans before being wounded 9 times

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The Daily Gate City Oct 13 1914 Trial of 22 people on charges of high treason and conspiracy in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The 3 main defendants are Gavrilo Princip, Trifko Grabes aned Nideljko Cabrinovic www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oct. 12, 1926: “Miss Aline Thompson, who caught the largest sheepshead of the season at Venice, Calif., didn't take any chances on her story's being disbelieved. She posed for a special picture. She was later made honorary captain of the boat from which she caught the finny giant.” (Oakland Tribune)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oct. 12, 1926: The Condé Diamond, a pink, pear-shaped gem dating to the 17th century, is stolen along with other treasures from France’s Chantilly Castle. Burglars cross a moat and scale a tower to pull off the nighttime heist. The diamond will be recovered later in 1926.

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

1/5🧵Edith Cavell was British Nurse and spy that was executed by Germans #OTD Oct 12 1915 for helping Allied POWs. In left photo the dog on the right, "Jack" was rescued after her execution. Money was raised and Sir George Frampton designed a Trafalgar Square memorial en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_C...

"Pre-War Life in Brussels - A portrait of nurse Edith Cavell as she sits in a garden her two dogs. The dog on the right, "Jack" was rescued after her execution." https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205022484

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Cavell_Memorial

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oct 12 1917 #OTD Near Langemark-Poelkpelle Ernest Brooks takes this photo, IWM Q 3011, of group of Coldstream Guards and Irish Guards, crouching outside a captured German dugout, examining a muddy German rifle Colourized by DB Colour www.iwm.org.uk/collections/... bsky.app/profile/this...

Oct 12 1917 #OTD Near Langemarck (Langemark-Poelkpelle) Ernest Brooks takes this photo, IWM Q 3011, of group of Coldstream Guards and Irish Guards, crouching outside a captured German dugout, examining a muddy German rifle

Colourized by DB Colour https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205087466
https://x.com/colour_history/status/1712342962661621987

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oct 12 1917 #OTD During the Race to the Sea, a photographer takes this shot, IWM Q 53315, of British troops in an armoured car with a terrier rescued from Antwerp, October 12 1914-10-12 iwm.org.uk/collections/... bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

1/4 🧵on this 108-year-old "photoshop" by Australian war photographer, Frank Hurley. See the ALT for photo details. 1st pic is a modern colourization. 2nd photo is 105-year-old photoshopped B&W. 3rd photo is the original unaltered photo, AWM E01202, taken #OTD Oct 12 1917 bsky.app/profile/this...

Colourized by u/BaptistePierre
https://www.reddit.com/r/Colorization/comments/df730s/australian_soldiers_during_the_battle_of/

[Passendale] showing Australian Infantry wounded around a blockhouse near the site of Zonnebeke Railway Station, October 12, 1917 [picture] / Frank Hurley
Creator: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962
Call Number: PIC FH 10882 LOC H8/14
Created/Published: 1917
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-147387446/view

"Australian infantry wounded at a First Aid Post near Zonnebeke Railway Station. There are two conflicting sets of identification supplied for this image. Identified: Private A W Moss, 9th FAB (1); Private V E Reid, 10th FAB (2); 2nd Corporal P Pratt, 10th FAB, or Staff Sergeant F W Gray 9th FAB (3); Private C R Costain 10th FAB or Private J Cooke, 9th FAB (4). The pillbox (left) is identified as 'Jury'. This forms part of two Hurley composite images held at E01202A and E01202B." https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C43141

Oct 12 1917

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Oct 12 1918 #OTD Lt Paul W. Cloud took these photos. 111-SC-30024 (Colourized by Richard White) shows a chainmail mask used to protect Tanker when looking through the sighting slit. 111-SC-30022, shows Renault FT Tanks on maneuvers in Bois de Hesse, France bsky.app/profile/this...

Colourized by Richard White
https://www.redbubble.com/people/rwhitecolor/shop?artistUserName=rwhitecolor&collections=1036011&iaCode=all-departments&sortOrder=relevant

National Archives Identifier: 55219353
Local Identifier: 111-SC-30024
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55219353
"Coat of mail work as a face protection by the gunner in the tank to keep shell fragments from injuring the face when looking through the sighting slit. Bois de Hesse, north of Ricicourt, France"

Tank maneuvers in Bois de Hesse, north of Ricicourt, Meuse, France
National Archives Identifier: 55219349
Local Identifier: 111-SC-30022
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55219349

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Gervais Lufbery was a French and American fighter pilot and flying ACE in #WW1. He served in both the French Air Force, and later the US Army Air Service. All but one of his 17 victories came while flying for the French. Oct 12 1916 his 5th victory made him an ACE. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_L...

Gervais Lufbery was a French and American fighter pilot and flying ACE in #WW1. Served in both the French Air Force, and later the US Army Air Service all but one of his 17 victories came while flying for French. Oct 12 1916 his 5th victory made him an ACE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Lufbery

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

4/5 Were 1,634 babies given First World War related names during the war (1914-1919) 166 were named Kitchener 25 were named Cavell (Executed Oct 12 1915) 11 were named Haig Further 203 babies had names relating to #WW1 end 83 babies named Peace 120 babies named Victory bsky.app/profile/this...

4/5 "There were 1,634 babies given First World War related names during the war (1914-1919) in England and Wales, new data analysis reveals." https://web.archive.org/web/20160314170301/https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/first-world-war-related-baby-names-revealed/#.VuKb0dHFfug.twitter

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The London Gazette, No. 30433, Dec 18 1917, gives details of Captain Clarence Smith Jeffries, 34th Bn who was KIA Oct 12 1917 at Passchendaele, Belgium. Charged and captured multiple machine emplacements. Awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarenc...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Aug 29 1918 Near Fampoux, John Warwick Brooke photo of a tank attached to the 51st Division stuck in the Scarpe marshes. Mark I Male Tank (s/n 716) "C" Bn when it was penetrated by AP MG ammo, ditched, destroyed by shell Apr 23 1917 Feb 15 1918 Thomas Keith Aitken photo of a derelict Mark IV Tank

IWM Q 10711 - "Views of the battlefield after the third Battle of Ypres, 1917. A soldier look across devastated country near Ypres showing a derelict Mark IV Tank, shell-splintered trees and general battle detritus, 15 February 1918."
Creator: Thomas Keith Aitken (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-02-15 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246381

Oct 12 1917 #OTD During the Battle of Passchendaele (Jul 31 1917 – Nov 10 1917) John Warwick Brooke takes this photo, IWM Q 6327, of a knocked out British tank half-submerged in the mud and water of the shell-torn landscape near Saint Julien, Belgium.

12 October 1917-10-12 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205215480

Aug 29 1918 During the Hundred Day Offensive's Battle of the Scarpe war photographer #JohnWarwickBrooke takes this photo, IWM Q 7037, of a tank attached to the 51st Division embedded in the Scarpe marshes. Near Fampoux.

Under command of Lt V Smith this Mark I Male Tank (s/n 716) was part of "C" Battalion, 7 Company, C7, attached to XVII Corps, when it was penetrated by AP MG ammo, ditched, destroyed by shell #OTD Apr 23 1917

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Photo, IWM Q 68262, showing cockpit instruments and Lewis gun on Foster mounting Jul 3 1918 At Clairmarais aerodrome, near St. Omer, David McLellan photo of a pilot with a Lewis Gun on a Foster mounting 1917 photo, 3191558, showing 'Billy' Bishop in a RFC Nieuport aircraft with a similar setup

WM Q 68262 - "Avro 504K trainer biplane's cockpit and centre-section showing cockpit instruments and Lewis gun on Foster mounting."
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205357096

IWM Q 12065 - "A pilot of an S.E.5a of No. 1 Squadron firing the Lewis Gun on the upper plane of his machine. Clairmarais aerodrome, near St. Omer, 3 July 1918."
Creator: David McLellan (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-07-03 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247601

Reference: Box number: 4504
Item ID number: 3191558
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?IdNumber=3191558&app=fonandcol&ecopy=a122515
"William 'Billy' Bishop in a Nieuport aircraft of the Royal Flying Corps"

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oct 11 1916 In Haidenschaft, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Now Ajdovščina, Slovenia) Austro-Hungarian photographer takes photos of Italian prisoners of war (POWS) from 8th Battle of the Isonzo Italienische Kriegesgefangene aus der 8. Isonzoschlacht in Haidenschaft 11.10.1916 onb.digital/result/10CAC...

Italienische Kriegesgefangene aus der 8. Isonzoschlacht in Haidenschaft
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11.10.1916 · 1916
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Italienische Kriegsgefangene aus der 8.Isonzoschlacht in Haidenschaft
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Italienische Kriegesgefangene aus der 8. Isonzoschlacht in Haidenschaft
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11.10.1916 · 1916 https://onb.digital/result/10CACDEF

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oct 11 1917 Near Langemark-Poelkapelle, soldiers carry duckboards to the front while walking wounded move to first aid stations. Australian photo, AWM E00941, of exhausted 9th Field Ambulance stretcher bearers asleep on railway embankment in front of Thames House, beyond Zonnebeke Railway Station

IWM Q 3006 - "Battle of Poelcappelle. Walking wounded coming down and reinforcements going up a duckboard trench near Langemarck (Langemark-Poelkapelle), 11 October 1917."
Creator: Ernest Brooks (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1917-10-11
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205235602

Accession Number E00941
Date made 10 October 1917
"Stretcher bearers and dressers of the 9th Field Ambulance, asleep on the railway embankment in front of Thames House, beyond Zonnebeke Railway Station. The men are utterly exhausted, and have fallen asleep in the mud at their relay post, in total disregard of the cold, and drizzling rain which had just commenced to fall, and the harassing shellfire of the enemy upon the Broodseinde Ridge area where they were on battle duty. They had worked sixty hours without rest. Identified, left to right: the soldier extreme left is unidentified; Private (Pte) S J Watson; Pte Jim Campbell of 'Pendeen', O'Brien Street, Bondi, NSW (face obscured behind Watson); Pte R 'Bob' Mowbray (right foreground, looking to the right); Pte R (Roy or Ray) Jamieson of 'Lumeah', Railway Street, Petersham, Vic (beside Mowbray, on his left); Pte Robert Barker of 'Mimosa', Abbotsford Road, Homebush, NSW (beside Jamieson, half face visible, looking to his right); Pte J O'C Arkins of 'Moama', Murray River, NSW (to Barker's left, half face visible, looking straight at camera); Pte Alfred W Moss of 'Kilmuir', Hampstead Road, Petersham, Vic (beside Arkins, face visible); unidentified." https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E00941

IWM Q 3005 - "Battle of Poelcappelle. Duck-board carrying party, near Langemarck (Langemark-Poelkapelle), 11th October 1917."
Creator: Ernest Brooks (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1917-10-11
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205235601

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Talking about Italy joining #WW1, Ogden Standard Apr 3 1915 post photo of "Italian Jackies" embarking a "torpedo boat destroyer" Bridgemanimages says it was taken during Italian-Turkish War and shows Italian troops during the Battle of Benghazi on Oct 11 1911 bsky.app/profile/this...

The Ogden Standard Apr 3 1915 print this photo of "Italian Jackies" embarking in a tender for the torpedo boat destroyer, the stern of which is seen at the extreme left of the picture. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058396/1915-04-03/ed-1/seq-1/#

Italian-Turkish War Debarkment of Italian troops and Battle of Benghazi (Bengasi, Libya) on October 11, 1911.
https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-US/unknown-artist/italian-turkish-war-italo-turca-1911-1912-debarkment-of-italian-troops-and-battle-of-benghazi/photograph/asset/4714951

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Adelaide newspaper The Mail on Oct 11 1914 reports that officials at the Antwerp Zoo have shot all large animals in case they escape during the cities bombardment. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar... bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Oct 11 1918 #OTD "It cost [Sgt Richmond H. Hilton] an arm to clean out a German machine-gun nest. Can the cost of Victory Bonds be weighed against his bravery? Can anyone, thinking of Hilton say, 'I can't afford it?'" Hilton was awarded MoH en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmon... bsky.app/profile/this...

Evening Public Ledger Apr 19 1919
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045211/1919-04-19/ed-1/?sp=18&r=-0.859,0,2.718,1.238,0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_H._Hilton

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

New-York Tribune Oct 11 1914 "Heretofore, although there is no law prohibiting Jews from entering, no Israelite officer existed in the Imperial German army. Since this war began ... more than 150 Jews have joined" www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Oct 11 1917 French soldiers gathering grass Dans la journee du 11 Octobre 1917, il a ete arrache 11 October 1917. Library of Congress Control Number 2017680325 Reproduction Number LC-DIG-anrc-15318 www.loc.gov/resource/anr... bsky.app/profile/this...

Dans la journee du 11 Octobre 1917, il a ete arrache
11 October 1917.

Library of Congress Control Number
2017680325
Reproduction Number
LC-DIG-anrc-15318
https://www.loc.gov/resource/anrc.15318/

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Arizona Republican Oct 11 1914 print this photo of "Belgian soldiers guarding Antwerp from foe. Suffer untold privations" www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

Arizona Republican Oct 11 1914 print this photo of "Belgian soldiers guarding Antwerp from foe. Suffer untold privations" https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020558/1914-10-11/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.214,0.137,0.804,0.366,0

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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Missing of 1914: Belgium & France. We explore the 1914 campaign and the memorials to the missing, then use a specially developed AI tool to analyse the data: revealing the costliest days, hardest-hit regiments, ages, origins and military experience of the men who disappeared.

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The Missing of 1914

Between August and December 1914, the British Expeditionary Force fought its first battles of the First World War across Belgium and northern France and some 19,000 officers and men were missing. From Mons and Le Cateau to the Retreat and the First Battle of Ypres, thousands of men were killed and never recovered, becoming part of the great story of the…

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Italy follows up recent progress with attacks to extend the Gorizia bridgehead. Night attacks and brutal fighting allow the Italians to seize vital trenches just a few kilometers from Trieste. Austria-Hungary will shorten their lines along Mount Santo and the Hermada Hills. #WW1 #FWW #GreatWar

Upper Left: Black & White Photo of a machine gun crew in action. In the background are soldier with rifles firing. The position is amongst rocks with a mountain in the far background.
Upper Right: Black and white photo of a single soldier behind a rock wall overlooking a valley and a small settlement underneath snowy mountains.
Bottom Left: Black and white photo of fully laden troops marching up a path among cannon blasted trees and desolate landscape toward a white church on a small hill. Mountains in the background.
Bottom Right: A group of soldiers in a trench built into a steep mountainside. Beyond them is a covered shelter against the hillside. They are looking down below them. In the background are misty mountain ranges.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oct. 9, 1926: A prominent Berlin entomologist has been disgraced after authorities investigating the loss of research materials searched his home and found 20,000 stolen insect specimens. F. Schumacher confesses but says he was in a trance when he committed the thefts.

Insects at the Berlin Natural History Museum (formerly Zoological Museum)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oct. 10, 1926: Oscar Brown Jr., a prolific singer, songwriter and civil rights activist, is born in Chicago. His “The Snake,” inspired by Black folklore, told of a kind woman who adopts a snake only for it to kill her; Donald Trump repeatedly read it on the campaign trail to demonize immigrants.

A 1963 Brown album that included “The Snake”

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oct. 10, 1926: The St. Louis Cardinals win their first World Series in a Game 7 marked by drama and absurdity. Possibly hung-over veteran pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander saves the day in the 7th inning with a bases-loaded strikeout; Babe Ruth is thrown out attempting a steal to end the game.

Tony Lazzeri after swinging and missing in the 7th inning

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Images of a stretcher developed by Austro-Hungarian officer Major Hülgerth. The Mountain medical sledge (Gebirgssanitätsschlitten) as shown in the photos, was a sledge for transporting wounded. It held up well even in the deepest snows. bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Pg 55 and Pg 57 of Larousse médical illustré de Guerre highlighting various means to transport wounded in #WW1 bsky.app/profile/this...

https://archive.org/details/laroussemdical00galtuoft/page/55/mode/1up

Larousse médical illustré de Guerre
by Galtier-Boissière, Émile, 1857-1919

https://archive.org/details/laroussemdical00galtuoft/page/57/mode/1up

Larousse médical illustré de Guerre
by Galtier-Boissière, Émile, 1857-1919

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Larousse Médical Illustré Fascicule 4 stretcher bearers transporting an injured person brancardiers transportant un blessé Colourized by Frédéric Duriez bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

El Paso Herald Oct 10 1914 reports on death of "Roumanian King Charles." Carol I or Charles I of Romania was 1st King of Romania after defeat of the Ottoman Empire (1878) in the Russo-Turkish War. Successor was his nephew Ferdinand I who saw Romania enter #WW1 on Aug 27 1916 bsky.app/profile/this...

El Paso Herald Oct 10 1914 reports on death "Roumanian King Charles." Carol I or Charles I of Romania was 1st King after defeat of the Ottoman Empire (1878) in the Russo-Turkish War. Successor was his nephew Ferdinand I who saw Romania enter #WW1 on Aug 27 1916
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_Romania#World_War_I
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88084272/1914-10-10/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.426,0.442,0.461,0.21,0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_I_of_Romania

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oct. 9, 1926: This is believed to be the shortest toll bridge in the world. The portable span over the Bude River at low tide in Cornwall, England, is operated by William Brinton (right), who asks pedestrians to chip in a penny when they cross.

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The Monett Times Oct 9 1914 publishes this Magnus Kettner cartoon about neutral countries curious about joining the war www.loc.gov/resource/sn9... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Monett Times Oct 9 1914 publishes this Magnus Kettner cartoon

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061308/1914-10-09/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.026,0.147,0.91,0.414,0

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Oct 9 1915 Canada announces will stop any Bulgarians from leaving the country. The hope to prevent them from traveling to Europe to help their country invade British Ally Serbia archives.chicagotribune.com/1915/10/09/p... #ww1centenary bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Amarillo Daily News #OTD Oct 9 1914 published this photo of a Belgian machine gun being pulled by a Belgian Mastiff dog team. Antwerp, Belgium would fall on Oct 10 1914 bsky.app/profile/this...

Amarillo Daily News #OTD Oct 9 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042551/1914-10-09/ed-1/seq-1/
"The work donw by these intelligent dogs in drawing Belgian rapid fire guns has been described by those who have seen them in action almost marvellous. The dogs have dashed into battle with the men and at times under fire they have crouched down quietly while the soldiers operated the guns with deadly effect into the German Ranks"

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

El Paso Herald Oct 13 1915 "Two million men in Europe are without legs or arms; to be taught how to work" German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm, "arrived in Austro-German HQs in Servia." Belgrade was occupied Oct 9 1915. The arrival of Bulgaria forced the Serbian Army on Great Retreat or Serbian Golgotha

El Paso Herald Oct 13 1915 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88084272/1915-10-13/ed-1/?sp=1
"Two million men in Europe are without legs or arms; to be taught how to work"

German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, "has arrived in Austro-German HQs in Servia." Belgrade was occupied on Oct 9 1915. The arrival of Bulgaria forced the Serbian Army on Great Retreat.

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Canadian war photographer William Rider-Rider photo of Canadian soldiers pass through ruined buildings as they enter Cambrai. In back ground is the Église Saint-Géry de Cambrai - Oct 9 1918 VS Sep 2018 #thenAndNow recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Rec... bsky.app/profile/this...

Canadian soldiers pass through ruined buildings as they enter Cambrai.

In the back ground is the Église Saint-Géry de Cambrai

Canadians passing through ruined Church in Cambrai. Advance East of Arras. 9 Oct. 1918

Item no. (creator): O-3369
Item ID number: 3403971
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89glise_Saint-G%C3%A9ry_de_Cambrai
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Aug 26 1919 Georges Chevalier colour autochrome of a damaged crucifix in Bourg-et-Comin Oct 9 1918 David McLellan photo of a damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise Jan 2 1918 In Metz-en-Couture, David McLellan photo, of carved figure crucifix in the ruined church bsky.app/profile/this...

Bourg-et-Comin, Aisne, France, A 17 496
26 aug 1919
Source: Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/bourg-et-comin-aisne-france/617a7a3ecf8b8968b3358171?q=A17496&pos=1&pgn=0
Aug 26 1919 Georges Chevalier takes this colour autochrome image, A 17 496, of a damaged crucifix in Bourg-et-Comin, Aisne, France
Albert-Kahn Museum

Jan 2 1918 #OTD In Metz-en-Couture, France, war photographer David McLellan takes this photo, IWM Q 8390, of soldiers removing the carved figure of Christ from a large crucifix in the ruined church

January 2 1918-01-02
https://iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244264

Oct 9 1918 IWM (Q 9533) "A damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise" October 9 1918 by McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date
1918-10-09

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Alfred Pearse illustration with caption "One of the most inspiring and historic events during the Battle of Polygon Wood (Belgium), was the planting of the Australian Flag on Anzac Redoubt (German Pill-box)" 7:15AM on Sep 20 1917 by Lt Arthur Vincent Leopold Hull, 18th Bn. He was KIA Oct 9 1917

AWM H00563
"A copy of a colour printed post card of a 1917 scene on the battlefield in Belgium. The original post card was titled; "The Battle of Polygon Wood From Original Drawing by A. Pearse, War Artist." The following description was printed on the reverse of the card; "One of the most inspiring and historic events during the Battle of Polygon Wood (Belgium), was the planting of the Australian Flag on Anzac Redoubt (German Pill-box), at 7.15 a.m., on September 20th, 1917, by Lieutenant A V L Hull, 18th Battalion. He was killed in action three weeks later." This postcard was produced for sale and all profits were directed to the Australian Comforts Funds." https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C228349

https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/3143
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/161027/arthur-vincent-leopold-hull/

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East Oregonian:E.O. #OTD Dec 15 1917 publish John Warwick Brooke photo (taken Oct 9 1917) of British officer and French #Poilu talking on duckboards where their lines meet. Note bright French "Horizon Blue" uniforms VS British khaki. Colourized by LYoung chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88086...

East Oregonian:E.O. #OTD Dec 15 1917 picture of a British officer and a French #Poilu talking where their lines meet. They stand on duckboards in a muddy waterlogged shell-torn landscape. Note the bright French "Horizon Blue" uniforms VS British khaki.

This picture answers "Where do we go from here?" the query of thousands of Britishers and Canadians in the United States who are volunteering for service under the British flag. A British officer is chatting with a French "Poilu" at the very spot where the British and French lines meet on the French front in the famous ridges section." https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88086023/1917-12-15/ed-1/seq-1/#

IWM Q 6054
John Warwick Brooke
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205238073

L.B. Young Historical Colorization's
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Lt-Col C.A. Hodgetts takes over Canadian Red Cross after Lt-Col Jeffrey Hale Burland of Montreal died on the job Oct 9 1914. His assistant Lt E.W. Parker by coincidence died shortly after. Hodgetts served in that position for the rest of the war bsky.app/profile/this...

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The New York Herald, European Edition, Oct 8 1914 publishes these photos of 6 Imperial German War Flags received at the The Musée de l'Armée Invalides, Paris archive.nytimes.com/iht-retrospe...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Stories of objects, mostly bibles, stopping bullets during #WW1. Details in the ALT of the collage photo. bsky.app/profile/this...

The Evening World Oct 8 1918
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1918-10-08/ed-1/seq-3/
Few soldiers from the New York district have had as many unusual escapes from death as Private Joseph H Harrington of the 106th Infantry, His home is at No. 101 Faxall Street, Ridgewood,
First, he writes home, a shell fragment struck him but its force was broken by a Crucifix

New-York Tribune Sep 10 1918
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1918-09-10/ed-1/seq-5/
Corporal Theodore Dukeshire, of 563 Eighth Street, Brooklyn, wrote his mother that he is alive to-day due solely to the presence in his vest pocket of a small Bible

Norwich Bulletin Feb 17 1916
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014086/1916-02-17/ed-1/seq-1/#
The bullet intended for the heart of Gunner Burgoyne of the British field artillery, who lives in Oldham road, Bardsley, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, entered the back of a Bible
(the gift of his mother-in-law).

Aug 23 1915 The Washington Times
London, Aug 23-A captain of the Coldstream Guards was saved from a bullet in northern France by his pocket Bible, on the fly leaf of which was written: "Thou Lord, art my refuge."
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1915-08-23/ed-1/seq-12/

Nov 12 1914 Daily Telegraph (Pg11) 1907 rifle competition medal saves Pte Marshall’s life, stops bullet
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03091/Telegraph1914_1211_3091716a.pdf

Daily Telegraph Jan 25 1915 - Pg 10
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03162/Telegraph1915_2501_3162507a.pdf
Private Abner Perkins, Swaffham, belonging to the 1st Battalion of the Lincoln Regiment..In his left breast pocket he had an illustrated Bible... It went right through the Bible, which turned it off his body... out at the other side of his tunic.

The Tacoma Times Feb 6 1915
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1915-02-06/ed-1/seq-1/
The life of Private A.G. Perkins of the First Lincolns was saved

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Jan 2 1918 placing "nail in a box pinned to a wall in Metz-en-Couture" May 6 1915 "French Foreign Legion and French Zouaves seen in camp at Sedd el Bahr, sorting out salvaged kit and equipment." Oct 8 1917 "So why let it lie in the mud, take it to the SALVAGE DUMP" bsky.app/profile/this...

IWM (Q 8388 - "A soldier places a nail in a box pinned to a wall in Metz-en-Couture, 2 January 1918. Nails could puncture lorry tyres and injure horses."
Creator: David McLellan (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-01-02 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244263

IWM Q 3015 - "A soldier next to a British Army salvage notice near Langemarck (Langemark-Poelkapelle), 8 October 1917. The sign says "LET "FRITZ" HAVE IT. It was made for him. So why let it lie in the mud, take it to the SALVAGE DUMP".
Creator: Ernest Brooks(Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1917-10-08 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205192928

IWM Q 13231 - "Men of the French Foreign Legion and French Zouaves seen in camp at Sedd el Bahr, sorting out salvaged kit and equipment."
Creator: Ernest Brooks (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1915-05-06 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205248468

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Oct 8 1918 #OTD Near Prémont, John Warwick Brooke photos of 20th Bn, Manchester Reg (25th Division) resting by an abandoned Mark V* Tank (s/n 9891) during the Battle of Cambrai. On Sep 29 1918, while under command of Lt Moury, 301st Bn, A Company, the Tank became stuck bsky.app/profile/this...

IWM Art.IWM ART 2267
1918
Creator: Adeney, W Bernard
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/65

Men of the 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (25th Division) resting by a British Mk V (female) tank serial number 9891 of the 301st Btn, A Coy, disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment on the 29th September. Photo taken near Prémont on 8 October 1918.
© IWM Q 7113)
https://twitter.com/colour_history/status/1314108031051988992

IWM Q 7111 - "Battle of Cambrai. Men of the 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (25th Division) resting by a tank (serial number 9891), disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment. Near Prémont, 8 October 1918."

Creator: Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-10-08
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205238960

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L'Audace des alpins Italiens - Le Petit Journal Oct 8 1916 - Boldness of the Italian gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... bsky.app/profile/this...

L'Audace des alpins Italiens - Le Petit Journal Oct 8 1916 - Boldness of the Italian https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7172307/f4.item#

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