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Serbia makes concessions but were they too late?
Austria-Hungary's ultimatum to Serbia expired on July 25, 1914. Just minutes before the deadline, Serbia presented a formal response in which it made concessions to the Dual Monarchy in Vienna. Serbia...
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Austria-Hungary declares war against Serbia
Exactly 100 years ago, at 11:10 a.m. on July 28, Austria-Hungary declared itself at war with Serbia. The Great War had begun.Austria-Hungary never stopped to consider the concessions that Serbia had...
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Appeals court strikes down Virginia's marriage ban
For the first time, a federal appeals court has struck down as unconstitutional a state law banning same-sex marriage.The 4th United States Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's decision that...
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Men of the early 20th century
Belgium, 1919Italian Man, by Guglielmo Plüschow, circa 1900Nude with Cane, by Pierre Adophe Valette of France, 1910-12Photo by Raoul-Jean Gustave, 1904circa 1900Photo by Louis Jean-Baptiste Igout,...
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Did King George demand war?
One hundred years after the fact, documents relating to The Great War continue to emerge. A newly uncovered letter reveals that, as war was near, King George V urged the British government to find a...
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Party animals
Street fairs, nudist events, whatever the venue: These guys are having lots of fun.San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair, 2013Gay Nudists InternationalSkidmore College students, Saratoga Springs, New...
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The haircut
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?~Lily Tomlin"Mortification," by Oleg Boris Photography
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July 31: Germany makes a general European war inevitable
After three days of behind-the-scenes diplomacy, efforts to confine the war to Austria-Hungary and Serbia were waning.A report from the Exchange Telegraphy Company in Vienna put it succinctly: "Hope of...
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Newspapers reflect the slide to European-wide war
A quick read of the newspapers gives a glimpse of what was happening as Europe spiraled into the hell of war.On July 31, Britain was preparing for war, even though a reader of the Daily Telegraph in...
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A hypothesis on why Americans were more alarmed than Europeans
I've noticed that in many cases, newspapers in the United States seemed more alarmed about the impending European-wide conflict than the Europeans were.The British public was on vacation as nations on...
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In the pink
Luces de Bengala, whose self-portraits are admired everywhere, is in the pink in these images.
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Michael Phelps nude
Olympic champion Michael Phelps is coming out of retirement. He is entering four events at next week's United States national championships in Irvine, California.He'll compete next Wednesday in four...
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'Let's hang on to what we got'
Let's hang on to what we gotDon't let go, girl, we got a lotGot a lot of love between usHang on, hang on, hang on to what we got.Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons obviously didn't have this in mind...
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Britain joins the war
It has finally come to pass: On August 4, 1914, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. "The storm of war has broken," declared the Daily Telegraph of London. Britain bowed to the inevitable and...
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