... two days ago dominion governments were advised by England that war was imminent. Jeremy and Alexander are very excited about this. Everyday the whole school stands and raises the Union Jack and repeats "I love God and my country. I honour the flag, I will serve the King and cheerfully obey my parents, teachers and the laws." Whenever those words are said I still have ... restrict how much food each person can have due to shortages. Yours, Amelia Evans 14 September 1916 During the period in which I haven't written, Prime Minister Hughes has been to London and has come back. Right now the...

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• Grade Level: High School

... wives, Hadley Richardson in 1921. Soon the couple moved to Paris, where Ernest was part of the literary group later called The Lost Generation. Ernest and Hadley had one son, Jack, nicknamed Bumby. The family survived on money Ernest made writing short stories and working as a foreign reporter for the Toronto Star. But, they were somewhat poor. The couple found the ... into his work around 1925. In 1930, Mondrian showed with Cercle et Carré and in 1931 joined Abstraction-Création. World War II forced Mondrian to move to London in 1938 and then to settle in New York in October 1940. In...

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• Grade Level: High School

... aid and dangling promises of control over Palestine after the war, Lawrence galvanized Arab support and organized a competent army that pestered Constantinople until the end of the war. In addition, London planned to attract Jewish allegiance through its support of Zionism, the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. In 1917, British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour issued the so-called ... By July 1918, the United States was sending over three hundred thousand troops every month to Europe to fight in the American Expeditionary Force under General John Pershing, nickn...

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