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24.8k views10 Fascinating Relics From WWI And The Stories Behind ThemAnyone can open a history book and become superficially familiar with names, dates, places, and events, but the greater drama of a...

639 votersOld School World War 1 PicturesWorld War 1 pictures capture everything from presidents and prime ministers to ordinary soldiers. As cameras became a more common ...

4.2k votersThe Best World War 1 MoviesThis is a list of the best World War 1 movies ever made with new and classic movies. The following WW1 films list can be sorted by...

72.2k viewsWhat It Was Really Like For Soldiers In The Trenches Of WWIWWI was one of the most catastrophic events in human history. But soldiers at the front lines who spent life in the trenches lived...

39.1k views10 Key Details About The Origins Of The First World WarOn June 28, 1914, the chauffeur of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne took a wrong turn. While the car stalled, a teenage rev...

130.2k views'The Attack Of The Dead Men' Is One Of The Most Horrifying Battles You've Never Heard OfWWI gave rise to many horrifying battle tactics, including the use of poison gas. One of the most unsettling WWI fights was the ba...

1.7k votersHaunting Photos Of WWIBeginning in 1914, WWI forced people from all over the European continent to contribute to their respective countries in many ways...

28.8k viewsWhat Was Hygiene Like For Soldiers In WWI Trench Warfare?How did WWI soldiers keep clean in the trenches? The answer lies somewhere between "with great difficulty" and "they didn't." Alth...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

155.7k views7 Insane Facts About the Absurd Circumstances of Franz Ferdinand's AssassinationHistory has a way of proving itself to be awesomely weird. Never was this more true than the case of the assassination of Archduke...

7.1k viewsIncredible Pictures Of World War I Battlefields From AboveThe battlefields of World War I brought the concept of trench warfare to a new extreme. The war, which drastically changed the wor...

8.7k viewsThis Bizarre Peace Plan For Post-War Europe Split The Continent Into Equally Sized Pie SlicesHistory is full of some fantastic “what ifs,” collections of good intentions, bad ideas, and unfulfilled possibilities that could ...

54 voters15 Pivotal Events Of WWI: The Most Crucial Moments In The ConflictThe popular conception of the First World War tends to center around the trenches of the Western Front, and while that is indeed a...

1.7k votersHaunting Colorized Photos Of WWIThe visual record of WWI, the first massive international conflict of the 20th century, exists mostly in shades of black, white, a...

32.9k views16 Photos From The Trenches Of WWI That Show What They Were Really LikeBetween 1914 and 1918, the trenches along the borders of Germany, France, Russia, and many other countries were the inadvertent ho...

978 voters12 Stories About World War I Most People Don't KnowThere was a lot more to the Great War than the trenches of the Western Front. The conflict on the Eastern Front was nothing like i...

39.3k viewsThe Battle Of Mons, The WWI Battle Where Soldiers Claimed Actual Angels Protected ThemThough battle and spirituality have gone hand in hand for centuries, soldiers rarely witness the presence of the divine mid-fight....

105.2k viewsFirsthand Accounts From Nurses Who Served During WWIThe upheaval of WWI changed the world. From 1914 to 1918, the international conflict caused many challenges throughout Europe; mil...

Historical Photos

3.9k votersHaunting Combat Photography From WWITwo shots rang through the streets of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914; they struck two members of the Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg family. ...

Graveyard Shift

629 voters21 Fascinating And Heartrending WWI Photos We Weren't Shown In History ClassPhotos from World War I are fascinating. Many of them feature some of the earliest versions of technology and weaponry still used ...

48.3k views18 Ways World War I Directly Shaped The Way We Live Now Also known as the Great War, World War I was a horrific world conflict that lasted for roughly four years (1914-1918). You know...