The 100 Years Ago Thread

[Sleepwalker]

@Sleepwalker  So you're going to , sleep, walk, and read all at the same time? WOW!! YOUZA!!! GADFUCKINGZOOKS!!!!

+1 to you, sir.

I actually don't sleep much anymore. What's a +1? I'll take it if it's free.

[Rikki Gins]

From the Library of Congress, March 23, 1919.

The Omaha Daily Bee.
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The Tombstone Epitaph.
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[Rikki Gins]

San Francisco's beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti celebrates his 100th birthday today.

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti

[Rikki Gins]

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An ad from page 484 of "Farmer and stockbreeder" March, 1919.
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[Rikki Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, March 26, 1919.

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Clothing parade of the 13th Battalion, the King's (Liverpool Regiment) in front of the Bonn Bridge, 26 March 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245892 © IWM (Q 10179)

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British troops buying food in the Bonn market square, 26 March 1919.

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Men of the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Oxford and Bucks Light infantry being photographed by a German photographer in a model Rhine boat for the purpose of sending postcards home, 26 March 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245889 © IWM (Q 10176)



 

[Exile]

Keep up the good work Rikki. I don't always have a good comment handy but I always enjoy reading what you post.'


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[Rikki Gins]

Keep up the good work Rikki. I don't always have a good comment handy but I always enjoy reading what you post.'


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I'm very happy that you like it.  Thanks for reading the thread, my friend.

[Rikki Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, March 28, 1919.

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Demonstration of air fighting by the Bristol Fighters of No. 48 Squadron at Cologne, 28th March 1919. The attacker "side-slipping" for tail position.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247483 © IWM (Q 11934)

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A British Caquot kite balloon over the River Rhine area at Cologne. Photograph taken from a Bristol Fighter of No. 48 Squadron, 28 March 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247496 © IWM (Q 11947)

[Rikki Gins]

From Wiki:

March 29, 1919.  The Stanley Cup series final ended undecided when players on both the Montreal Canadiens and Seattle Metropolitans became too ill to play due to the Spanish flu.

https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/remembering-when-the-nhl-canceled-the-1919-cup-final-due-to-flu-pandemic/

[Bart Ell]

From Wiki:https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/remembering-when-the-nhl-canceled-the-1919-cup-final-due-to-flu-pandemic/

Wimps!

[Exile]

I do hope you will cover the little know and even less understood by historians, Soviet Polish war.

https://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/the-polish-soviet-war/


And the wiki....


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Soviet_War


Starting in 1919 and ending in 1921, this war probably should be viewed as a regional continuation of WW I.

How Poland would of looked had it been completely victorious.

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[Rikki Gins]

I do hope you will cover the little know and even less understood by historians, Soviet Polish war.

https://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/the-polish-soviet-war/


And the wiki....


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Soviet_War


Starting in 1919 and ending in 1921, this war probably should be viewed as a regional continuation of WW I.

How Poland would of looked had it been completely victorious.

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Interesting, and thanks for the info.  I doubt that I will cover these activities, but please feel free to post about them here.  (This is everyone's thread by the way.)  I was heavy into WWI for the past number of years, but now I'd prefer to narrow my scope to more 'needle in haystack' items that occurred one hundred years ago. I'm always on the lookout for strange, paranormal related stuff too.  But more worldly topics are definitely welcome here.  If you post it, I can guarantee that I will read it.

[Rikki Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, March 31, 1919.

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A Cologne-Bonn tram car at Cologne, 31 March 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239326 © IWM (Q 7506)

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Soldiers waiting on the bank of the Rhine in Köln for the steamer which is to take them to Rotterdam from where they are to go to England for demobilization. 31st March 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239321 © IWM (Q 7501)

[Rikki Gins]

From the Library of Congress. The Richmond (Indiana) Palladium and Sun-Telegram., March 31, 1919.

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[Rikki Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Ashland Tidings., April 01, 1919. 

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