Albatros D.I, prototype, photographed in Johannisthal in front of the Albatros factory. This aircraft was displayed (along with other prototypes) to the Fliegertruppe brass and various fighter pilots at a Typenschau at Johannisthal on 15 April 1916
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Albatros D.I, prototype, photographed in Johannisthal in front of the Albatros factory. This aircraft was displayed (along with other prototypes) to the Fliegertruppe brass and various fighter pilots at a Typenschau at Johannisthal on 15 April 1916
The Count from 2025 - The Morganatic Mirror (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1634799338-the-count-from-2025-the-morganatic-mirror?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=historylover444 St. Petersburg, 2025. When a time machine is stolen by the brilliant and dangerous Dimitri Reznikov, university student Alexei Serovarin follows his mentor into the winter of 1916. Disguised as a wounded Imperial officer, Alexei infiltrates the world of the Romanovs to stop history from being rewritten. But the closer he grows to Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, the harder it becomes to remember why he came. Some timelines are meant to be preserved. Others are worth destroying for love.
1916: Conscience of Kings
Nashville’s (and formerly Rochester, New York’s) rowdiest pint-swilling Irish psychobilly punks, 1916, have dropped their sixth full-length album, Conscience of Kings, and it detonates! Produced by the legendary Ted Hutt, this 12-track, 37-minute riot of Irish punk, rockabilly swing, and foot-stomping Celtic fire is the breath of fresh air that the scene needs. Kicking off with the high-octane…
Portrait Of American Silent Actress
Nona Thomas
By Albert Witzel (1916)
Drawing included in a letter from Friedrich Gundolf to Elisabeth Salomon, 9 August 1916.
“In Gundolfs Briefen und Gedichten an Elisabeth Salomon gewinnt der erotische und sexuelle Bereich seines poetisch-epistolaren Kosmos an Kontur. Ein wesentliches Element sind die im Briefwechsel wiederkehrenden Motive der Fesselung des Mannes an Seilen, Ketten oder Bändern der Frau. Das Andreaskreuz, Symbol der erotischen Fesse-lung, findet sich mehrfach als Randzeichnung in seinen Briefen. Daneben steht als weiteres Symbol das Pentagramm, von Gundolf als „Hexensiegel[]“ deklariert. Die Gestalt der Lilith zitiert er in ihren ikonographischen Varianten als Dämonin der Nacht oder als Mischwesen zwischen Schlange und Frau. In den späteren Jahren des Briefwechsels wird diese dämonische Symbolik durch das Bild des flammenden Herzens ersetzt.”
Friedrich Gundolf + Elisabeth Salomon, Briefwechsel (1914–1931) (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015)
A German soldier in 'Drag' with his comrades in Verdun, France 13.9.1916 Via Flickr: The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun; German: Schlacht um Verdun) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War. The battle lasted for 302 days, one of the longest and costliest in human history. In 2000, Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann calculated that the French suffered 377,231 casualties and the Germans 337,000, a total of 714,231 and an average of 70,000 a month. In 2014, William Philpott wrote of 714,000 casualties suffered by both sides during the Battle of Verdun in 1916 and that about 1,250,000 casualties were suffered in the vicinity of Verdun in the war. A YouTube video on The Battle of Verdun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5iz3uZA6Co ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Homosexuality in the German Army during World War I was characterized by a complex tension between strict military discipline and the intimate realities of trench warfare, significantly impacting post-war LGBTQ+ rights movements. While Paragraph 175 criminalized male homosexuality, military authorities did not aggressively investigate or prosecute homosexual acts during the conflict, often prioritizing manpower and morale over moral policing, despite official propaganda condemning such behavior. Key dynamics included: Frontline Intimacy: The extreme stress and isolation of trench warfare fostered deep emotional and physical bonds between soldiers, leading to widespread homosocial and homosexual relationships that many veterans described as emotionally liberating. Political Mobilization: Homosexual activists, including over half the membership of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee (WhK), served in the military, using their patriotic service to argue against Paragraph 175 and counter stereotypes of effeminacy. Post-War Legacy: Returning veterans contested the "exclusively heterosexual" ideal of militarized masculinity, with some embracing a "third sex" theory (Magnus Hirschfeld) and others promoting a hyper-masculine warrior identity (Adolf Brand, Ernst Röhm) to demand social integration and legal reform in the Weimar Republic. Good photographic material for historians.
Lady Florence Norman on her motor-scooter in London, 1916
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