A British nurse who risked – and ultimately lost – her life to help British and French soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium in World War I is remembered with a Google Doodle Tuesday. Edith ...
It’s nearly 100 years since the shots were fired, but the execution of nurse Edith Cavell still sends a collective shudder through the nation. It happened on October 12, 1915 in occupied Belgium.
On August 5, 1915 Edith Cavell, head of the Training School for Nurses in occupied Brussels, was arrested for assisting Belgian, British, and French soldiers to escape from the country. Two months ...
When Samuel D. Riddle announced in the latter part of 1920 that his superb champion Man o’ War would not race as a 4-year-old, disappointment reigned far and wide among the magnificent colt’s legions ...
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