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(AP Photo/PA Files) Later on in WWI, Carton de Wiart even survived a shot to the head during a night mission, the bullet miraculously passing through his skull without causing any permanent damage.

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. During World War I, Allied navies started implementing shocking, cubist-inspired “dazzle” paint jobs on ships. The now-iconic ...

Aston University researchers have investigated the efficacy of dazzle camouflage on WWI battleships by re-analyzing a 106-year-old study. According to the new paper, the unintentional “horizon ...

J.R.R. Tolkien is easily one of the greatest writers ... Part of the reason for this, alongside his life as a WW1 soldier and linguistic knowledge as a professor at Oxford, is that he never ...