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Florence Green, the last veteran of World War I, has died

A British woman who served with the Royal Air Force for the last two months of World War I was the last known veteran of the war when she died in her sleep Saturday night. Florence Green joined the RAF at the age of 17 and died just before her 111th birthday, which would have been Feb. 19. She had been a mess steward with the air force, the BBC reported, serving in two U.K. air bases after she joined up on Sept. 13 1918. The Allies signed the armistice with Germany on Nov. 11, 1918.

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posted 07 February, 2012
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Otto von Bismarck’s voice heard for the first time on restored Edison records

Until some old Thomas Edison wax cylinders were recently restored, no one alive today had actually heard the voice of Otto von Bismarck, the chancellor of Germany that ruled pulled a number of diverse states together into a powerful German empire.

During World War I, France starting building a fake Paris to confuse German bombers

Oh France and your crazy anti-German schemes. While the Maginot Line in WWII was sort of a joke, in World War I, the French had a plan that actually might have worked pretty well for the time had it not been thwarted by the end of the war and all. They were going to build a fake Paris on the outskirts of the real one.

posted 26 September, 2011
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Frank Buckles, the last US veteran of WWI dies at the age of 110

Frank Buckles was an ambulance driver in World War I and returned to Europe to fight in World War II where he briefly became a prisoner of war. And yesterday at the age of 110, he passed away peacefully at his home in Michigan, leaving not an American alive who remembers fighting in WWI.