#pre-ww1

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Flight to Egypt by Hans Via Flickr: "Missglückter Flugversuch nach Ägypten Juni 1912" - "Failed flight attempt to Egypt, June 1912" A souvenir photo from the Bitsch training area. I'm not sure why Egypt, of all places, is the destination of their "flight". Maybe it's a biblical allusion.

[verityreadsbooks]

Series Update: Lady Hardcastle

Good news for fans of T E Kinsey’s Lady Hardcastle series – the eleventh book came out this week. I’ve written about the series before, so do feel free to go back and read those posts, but in the latest book we’ve reached 1912 and a murder in Bristol sees our intrepid duo head to London. I’ve already finished it – and it’s pretty good and I also appreciated all the historical notes at the end,…

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[theessentialshandbook]

// Kaiser Wilhelm II (1913)

[yugoslavfub]

Thomas  the Schneider-Tank. It’s an actual working reproduction French Schneider-Tank from the Great War.  

[yugoslavfub]

Arab Officers and British Staff during the Arab Revolt. A few of them are wearing ex-Ottoman tunics if you can zoom in close enough.

[jackstune]

popular (Irish) song - 1916 by William Jerome, Milton Ager

[poor-bloody-infantry]

The USS Olympia today as a museum ship in Washington...