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The Battle of Mons was the baptism of fire of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. The BEF had arrived in France b...

During 1928 and 1929, in a period just 9 months apart, two terrible shark attacks occurred at Bondi Beach, sending shock waves through the S...

Traffic jams are one of the major social blights in the big cities of the developed - and developing - world. The obvious issues are the r...

The Red Cross in Australia began on 13 th August 1914 – just 9 days after the start of the First World War. It was begun as a branch of th...

This was the first land battle of the war, initiated by the Germans when they invaded Belgium on August 5 th 1914, with the longer-term pl...

Soon after the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in June of 1914, Germany began to activate its so-called Schlieffen Plan that had ha...

The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand on June 28th 1914, is widely believed to have precipitated the start of the First Wo...