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The most destructive “weapon” of all time -- Adolf Hitler’s telephone -- fetched $243,000 at an auction in Maryland on Sunday.

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“What they discovered is that on both ends of the rifle they were the same, the same working class guys,” author Stanley Weintraub said. “It was a very strange event. The circumstances were unique, it probably couldn’t have happened in another war.”

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The soldiers played soccer, or football as it's commonly called overseas, something which the soldiers were said to have done during the Christmas Truce in 1914.

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Photographer Thom Atkinson demonstrates how British military kit has evolved through the ages in his “Soldiers Inventories” series.

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A British archeology TV show reproduced and fired the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector, a massive flamethrower used by the British during WWI. “Time Team” created the monstrous machine after historians from Glasgow University’s Center for Battlefield Archeology found several pieces buried in Mametz, France, in 2010. Once it was up and running, the team […]

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“We Are Not Dead” is a series of portraits of British soldiers before, during and after an eight-month deployment in Afghanistan. British photographer Lalage Snow captured the portraits as an “attempt at giving the brave young men and women the chance to speak.” In the full gallery, the portraits are captioned with the thoughts and feelings of each […]

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The 92-year-old Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, was asked to wear his full complement of military decorations during the opening of the new armed forces charity, Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen Families Association, at the Queen Elizabeth House in central London this Friday. Having joined the Royal Navy in 1939 at the age of 19-years-old, the […]

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“8,” by Acim Vasic, is a short film about two, solitary soldiers from opposing armies who meet by happenstance in a snowy forest. In a perilous game of cat and mouse, the two antithetical characters work to outwit each other, until they are outwitted by destiny itself. As they march through the woods, the British […]

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A police officer was fired for having sexual relations while on-duty, however, he was later reinstated after assuring he could still reach for his pistol, if an emergency were to arise. South Wales Pc Shaun Jenkins, 36, was patrolling the streets in his squad car when he spotted a married woman he knew and took […]

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Guns.com takes a look at Eley ammunition. The steadfast choice of champion target shooters, Eley is one of the few .22 LR rounds readily available.

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