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Tsar Nicholas II among his troops during World War I

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Leon Trotsky with his bodyguards in 1919

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Never Swap Horses When You’re Crossing a Stream An adage often trotted out by political incumbents, particularly during a war or on the eve of a potential war, supporters of President Woodrow Wilson turned “Never swap horses when you’re crossing a stream” (sometimes heard as “Don’t swap horses in the middle of a stream”) into a campaign song in 1916.

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A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914. He never returned, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike.  Photographer Unknown

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Jewish Chaplan of the Austro-Hungarian Army Conducts Services for Jewish Russian Prisoners, ca. 1914-1918.

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French soldier eating lunch. Royal place. (Reims. Marl. France. April 1st, 1917).

(via Colour photographs, WWI | Retronaut)

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A Red Cross recruiting poster for nurses from World War I

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Lest we forget the Lusitania! 

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At 2:10 p.m. a torpedo fired from the U-20 hit the starboard side of the Lusitania. there were two explosions but only one torpedo was fired. 

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“The Three Slavs” by Alden Brooks, Collier’s, May 5, 1917, cover art by Herbert Paus.

(via The Pictorial Arts: The Three Slavs)

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An aerial view of the Loos-Hulluch trench system in France taken on July 22, 1917.

British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trenches on the right - in the middle of the two is no man’s land.

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Ernest Hemingway and the Oak Park High School football team, November 1915.

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The Silent One, Ivor Gurney.

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U.S. soldiers of 2nd Division engaged in the Forest of Argonne, 1918. National Archives

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WWI carrier pigeon.