Roughly 100,000 British and German troops were involved in the unofficial cessations of hostility along the Western Front. The first truce started on Christmas Eve 1914, when German troops decorated the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres, Belgium and particularly in Saint-Yvon.
The only item of coronation regalia to survive the destruction at the end of the Civil War was the Coronation Spoon. Clement Kynnersley, who had bought it at the 1649 sale, returned the unique 12th-century gold spoon back to King Charles II.
A wedding dress is the clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony. The colour, style and ceremonial importance of the gown can depend on the religion and culture of the wedding participants.
The House of Fabergé is a jewellery firm which was founded in 1842 in St.Petersburg, Imperial Russia, by Gustav Faberge, using the accented name ‘Fabergé’; Gustav was followed by his son Peter Carl Fabergé, until the firm was nationalised by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
At the front of the St James churchyard in Birstall, facing out across Front Street and flanked by rows of conifer trees, stands the war memorial. It is a tall cross at the foot of which are the names of the fallen in the two world wars of the 20th century.
Quote: "I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies."
Born Honora Kelley in 1857 an American serial killer known as Jolly Jane confessed to 31 murders in 1901, and was quoted as saying that her ambition was “to have killed more people - helpless people - than any other man or woman who ever lived.”
Thomas E. Ketchum was born October 31st 1863 in San Saba County, Texas and known as Black Jack, a cowboy who later turned to a life of crime. Tom was born the youngest child of Green Berry and Temperance Ketchum. His father died when Tom was five, and his mother by the time he was ten.
Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, born September 11th 1862 in Coldwater, Michigan, was a doctor - but not the average medical physician. Crippen studied first at the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical School and graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College in 1884.
Beatrix was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.