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A head wound suffered by the Red Baron the year before his death was the underlying reason he was eventually shot down, according to a study by neuroscientists. There has been endless speculation over who killed the 25-year-old First World War flying ace but the new study suggests that more credit is due to the British airman who grazed his skull in 1917 than to the Australian gunner who eventually brought him down in 1918. The killing machine feared by the Allies and revered by his countrymen suffered significant brain damage to his frontal lobes when a machinegun round fired...

WASHINGTON--Winston Churchill predicted World War I two years before it broke out, Library of Congress scholars discovered in a newly unearthed collection of the British prime minister's letters. The letters to Churchill's cousin, the Duke of Marlborough, have not been seen in decades, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said. As first lord of the Admiralty in 1912, Churchill updated his cousin on the war between Turkey and an alliance of Balkan states. Churchill took a stand against the Turks. "But the European situation is far from safe and anything might happen," he wrote. "It only needs a little ill...

Colorado's WWI vets have faded awayBy Jim Sheeler, Rocky Mountain News May 24, 2003 Deep within government computers, amid lists and statistics of millions of military veterans, a single name recently slipped quietly away. Confidentiality rules protected the name. Nothing protected the history behind it. Sometime in February, the last Colorado World War I veteran receiving military benefits died. It's a milestone that officials knew was coming - the Department of Veterans Affairs says fewer than 500 U.S. veterans of World War I remain alive; their average age is 101. Still, officials stress that the loss doesn't necessarily mean that...

,,America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War. If you hadn't entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, no breakdown in Italy followed by Fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned Nazism in Germany. If America had stayed out of the war, all these 'isms' wouldn't today be sweeping the continent of Europe and breaking down parliamentary government - and if England had...