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  2. List of last surviving World War I veterans - Wikipedia

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    Frank Buckles [32] 27 February 2011. 110 years. The last surviving veteran from the Colony of Jamaica was Stanley Stair [33] (d. 2008) and from British Guyana was Gershom Browne [34] (d. 2000). Thomas Shaw (d. 2002) was the last veteran from Ireland, [35] and Alfred Anderson (d. 2005) was the last from Scotland.

  3. Trench warfare - Wikipedia

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    Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. It became archetypically associated with World War I (1914–1918), when the Race to the Sea rapidly expanded trench use on ...

  4. Western Front (World War I) - Wikipedia

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    Western Front; Part of the European theatre of World War I: Clockwise from top left: Men of the Royal Irish Rifles, concentrated in the trench, right before going over the top on the First day on the Somme; British soldier carries a wounded comrade from the battlefield on the first day of the Somme; A young German soldier during the Battle of Ginchy; American infantry storming a German bunker ...

  5. Little Church of the West - Wikipedia

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    Little Church of the West. /  36.08611°N 115.17194°W  / 36.08611; -115.17194. Little Church of the West is a wedding chapel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States, [1] that is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. Built of redwood, it was intended to be a replica of a typical pioneer town ...

  6. World War I - Wikipedia

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    World War I[ j] or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in Europe and the Middle East, as well as in parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by ...

  7. Las Vegas Strip - Wikipedia

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    The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about 4.2 mi (6.8 km) long, [1] and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, but is often referred to simply as "Las Vegas".

  8. Trench map - Wikipedia

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    Trench map. A map of trenches in the Lone Pine area of the Allied beachhead in Galipoli as of August 1915. A trench map shows trenches dug for use in war. This article refers mainly to those produced by the British during the Great War, 1914–1918 although other participants made or used them.. For much of the Great War, trench warfare was ...

  9. Causes of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Causes of World War I. European diplomatic alignments shortly before the war. The Ottomans joined the Central Powers shortly after the war started, with Bulgaria joining the following year. Italy remained neutral in 1914 and joined the Allies in 1915. Map of the world with the participants in World War I c. 1917.

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