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Read MCN's history of the Vespa - the world's first scooter, which was designed by an Italian aeronautical engineer who hated motorbikes.

He was the Glasgow conman turned butler who robbed his rich aristocratic clients and in six month murder spree even took the life of his own brother.

BBC News By Heather Jones image copyrightGetty Images We now call it the First World War or World War One, but is this really an accurate description? Was it really a global war? And was it really the "first"? Contemporaries certainly thought it was a world war and called it that. The term "World War" (Weltkrieg) first appeared in Germany in 1914. The French and British referred to the war as "La Grande Guerre" or the "Great War", but also adopted the term "World War" later in the conflict. ...

Some consequences of WW1

The White War, which ended in November 1918, took place between Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy Wooden barracks belonging to Austro-Hungarian troops on Mount Scorluzzo were locked up after conflict Researchers entered the 9,000ft-high den for the first time in 2015 after ice encasing it melted Artefacts they found are set to be preserved in a new museum opening in Lombardy town of Bormio in 2022 

John J. McGinty John J. McGinty did the ole Eagle, Globe, and Anchor proud in 1966. Staff Sergeant McGinty and his troops were providing rear security for a battalion movement. As they provided cover, they predictably became engaged by a North Vietnamese regiment. They were doused by mortar, machine gun, and small arms fire. Well, it was on, and Marines did what Marines do best, they murdered their way through the North Vietnamese forces. His 32-men force destroyed human wave after human wave. ...

ROSA WOODS/Stuff Up to 10,000 people gathered at Wellington’s Pukeahu National War Memorial for an Anzac Day dawn service on Sunday. A story of a young pilot who yearned for the “fern-clad hills” of home before his aircraft was shot down in France during World War One has been recounted at a packed Anzac Day service in Wellington. Up to 10,000 people flocked to the 40-minute dawn service at Wellington’s Pukeahu National War Memorial to pay their respects to service men and women on a c...

Advertisement The harsh realities of World War One for soldiers around the world have been brought into sharp focus in a series of vivid colourised photographs.   Images show British soldiers at a captured trench pointing at a sign that says old hun line, Indian cavalry after their charge at the Somme in 1916, and an Irish soldier in a trench in Mesopotamia. Other striking pictures show Canadian soldiers in the Battle of Amiens in 1918, the second wave of Russian troops waiting to go over the...

Press Release – Peace Action Wellington Peace Action Wellington is hosting an Anzac-weekend peace event called The Climate of War: white supremacy, climate justice and militarism that challenges the meaning and purpose of Anzac Day. The free, public event will be held on Saturday, 24 April … Peace Action Wellington is hosting an Anzac-weekend peace event called The Climate of War: white supremacy, climate justice and militarism that challenges the meaning and purpose of Anzac Day. The fre...

by James ONeill / April 6th, 2021 Australia has always struggled to present an independent foreign policy to the world. For example, during its early days as a British colony its soldiers fought in the Crimean war in the mid 19th century, although it would be impossible to identify any Australian interest in that conflict. World War One saw a similar eagerness to die on behalf of the British Empire. To this day the most solemn day in the Australian calendar is 25th April, ANZAC Day, when Austra...