Great War

The close of this period of great war activity was marked by V-J Day. It also marked, faintly and hesitatingly at first, the beginnings of a new era — the establishment of Picatinny Arsenal as... 

It always was. Grandpapa used to go on about how the semis grew like mushrooms after the Great War. How it used to be orchards and meadows till then. ... 

Not for a while, I guess. Takes time to publicize, says Mark coolly. Not every day a fourteenth-century chantry ruin with attached Arts and Crafts country house comes on the market. After all, why should he be feeling anything It was all a very long time ago, as Grandmama used to say when I asked about her brother who died in the Great War. 

The excerpts above will give both Americans and citizens of the world an idea of what they are up against in the War on Terrorism. We are now engaged in a Holy War as far as our enemies are concerned, and it may be a very dirty war. World War I was called The Great War, World War II was called The Good War. What do we call this new war We don t even know who our enemies are. 

The discoveries of M. Sabatier with regard to the conversion of olein and other unsaturated fats and their corresponding acids into stearin or stearic acid have created an enormous demand for hydrogen in every industrial country the synthetic production of ammonia by the Haber process has produced another industry with g eat hydrogen requirements, while the Great War has, through the development of the kite balloon and airship, made requirements for hydrogen in excess of the two previously mentioned industries combined. 

The history of Delphinium is more peaceful, although, due to its poisinous property it was used against mammals. Crushed seeds of Delphinium staphisagria L. was used against body lice [5]. British army used the plant for this aim in Waterloo war as well as in the Great War. Medicinal use of Aconitum and Delphinium spans... 

Avner Offer, The working classes, British naval plans and the coming of the Great War , Past and Present, 107 (1985), 204—26. 

John Gooch, Soldiers, strategy and war aims in Britain 1914-1918 , in Barry Hunt and Adrian Preston (eds.). War Aims and Strategic Policy in the Great War 1914-1918 (London Groom Helm, 1977), pp. 21-40. 

Trevor Wilson, The Myriad Faces of War Great Britain and the Great War, 1914-1918 (Cambridge Polity Press, 1986), p.218. 

A. M. Low, Modem Armaments (London Scientific Book Club, 1939), pp. 108—16 Rolf-Dieter Muller, Total war as a result of new weapons The use of chemical agents in World War F, in Roger Chickering and Stig Forster (eds.) Great War Total War Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914—1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp.95—111 Albert Palazzo, Seeking Victory on the Western Front The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I (Lincoln University of Nebraska Press, 2000), pp. 123, 185-7. 

War Office, Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War 1914-20 (London HMSO, 1922), pp.30-7. 

Keith Grieves, Lloyd George and the management of the British war economy , in Chickering and Forster (eds.). Great War, Total War, pp. 369-87. 

Griffiths, Paddy (ed.), British Fighting Methods in the Great War, London Frank Cass, 1996. 

Source-. T.J. Mitchell and G.M. Smith, Official History of the Great War Medical Services Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War, London (1931). (Figures for 1915 refer to British casualties only, while those for later years include British Dominion casualties as well. The 1915 figures therefore do not include the heavy Canadian chemical warfare casualties during the Second Battle of Ypres.)... 

For more information on German casualty figures see, W.G. Macpherson etal. [Official] History of The Great War Medical Services Diseases of the War, London (1923), Vol. 2, especially Chapter 9. 

The concept belongs to historian E. Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order (New York, 1979). For history... 

Dewar s later work involved investigating the chemical and physical properties of substances at low temperatures, including low-temperature calorimetry. With the outbreak of the Great War (or World War I, 1914-1918), the laboratory at the Royal Institution lost most of its staff and Dewar turned his attention to soap bubbles. By the end of the war Dewar, now in his late seventies, did not have the energy to restart the laboratory, nor would he retire. He died on March 27, 1923, and his funeral service was held in the director s flat at the Royal Institution, see also Kekule, Friedrich August. 

After the great fluctuations during the Great War and post-War years, the production had again reached four million tons in 1919 and seven million tons in 1920, made up as follows (round numbers) —... 

Woollacott, A. (1994). On Her Their Lives Depend Munition Workers in the Great War. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 

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