100 Years Ago Today
 

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...psu1pe5hg9.jpg

.... dominoes falling

And so it began...

The war to end all wars. :nope:

And I'm only a few hours drive from Sarajevo :hmmm:
Should have went there just to say I was there exactly 100 years later

Pity that it didn't.:-?

The spark that ignited the world.

It still echoes over Europe ...

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Ah yes might as well put this down here after Oberon showed it to me the other day:

Rap Battle - WW1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCEUZ4rFiac

It pretty much sums up the prelude to war in an...ehm....interesting way but it works :)

So the poor old ostrich died for nothing

Live news from 1914 Sarajevo:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-27978407

I blame it all on whoever invented the reverse gear.

Brilliant! Thanks for the (now bookmarked) link.

I have something prepared for certain 100th anniversary dates, mainly a series of posts I did years ago for another website on the major and minor naval confrontations. I also have a "day-by-day" book I can get info from, but that link looks like it might be a good one to follow.

Total of 16 million killed and 24 million injured.

Not as long we the humans are on the earth

Markus

I say to some extent WWI can share some blame it certainly helped spread the flu much more rapidly than it otherwise would have.