100 years ago today.
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September 5-12, 1914 - On the Western Front, Paris is saved as French and British troops disrupt the Schlieffen Plan by launching a major counter-offensive against the invading German armies to the east of Paris. Six hundred taxi cabs from the city help to move French troops to the Front. Aided by French aerial reconnaissance which reveals a gap has developed in the center of the whole German advance, the French and British exploit this weakness and press their advantage. The Germans then begin a strategic withdrawal northward as the Allies pursue. Each side repeatedly tries to outmaneuver the other and gain a tactical advantage as they move northward in what becomes known as the Race to the Sea.
September 7, 1914 - In the Far East, a German naval squadron, commanded by Graf von Spee severs the British Pacific communications cable.
September 8, 1914 - The French government enacts nationwide State of War regulations which include total control over the economy and national security, strict censorship, and suspension of civil liberties.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/firstworldwar/index-1914.html
See also:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11073408/Daily-Telegraph-September-7-1914.html
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/timeline/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_the_Marne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
World War I changed so many things changed and so many things followed from it.
Among many, many other things, after the war, Russian soldiers joined Russian peasants. Whereas prior revolution attempts by the peasants had failed, the military's joining the peasants probably accounts for the success of the next attempt.
Also, soldiers returning home from the War helped spread the influenza epidemic.
The total number of deaths from both the war and the influenza are unimaginable.
The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was over 37 million.
There were over 16 million deaths and 20 million wounded ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history.
The total number of deaths includes about 10 million military personnel and about 7 million civilians. The Entente Powers (also known as the Allies) lost about 6 million military personnel while the Central Powers lost about 4 million. At least 2 million died from diseases and 6 million went missing, presumed dead. This article lists the casualties of the belligerent powers based on official published sources. About two-thirds of military deaths in World War I were in battle, unlike the conflicts that took place in the 19th century when the majority of deaths were due to disease. Nevertheless, disease, including the Spanish flu and deaths while held as prisoners of war, still caused about one third of total military deaths for all belligerents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties
Try to imagine what the population of the world would be today if those hundreds of thousands had lived and reproduced. (A ball park number can probably be calculated by someone who knows about population growth, if we assume the death counts on both the war and the flu were correct.)
Recommended viewing, if you can get your hands on it: Oh! What a Lovely War.
(No write up can do it justice. You have to see it.)
World War I Museum in Kansas City
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If you're referring to Archduke Franz Ferdinand, he was an Archduke (and heir to the throne) of Austria-Hungary, not just Serbia (which was under the control of A-H), and he was assassinated on 6/28/1914.
An awesome song!!!
Samuel Prescott Bush
Father of Prescott Sheldon Bush, grandfather to George Herbert Walker Bush (Poppy), great-grandfather to George Walker Bush (Dubya).
Sam Bush was in his era to Remington Arms what Dick Cheney is to Halliburton in ours. Son of an Episcopal minister, he switched to a darker religion. Sam started out as low-management for railroads, where he made the connections needed to move over to Buckeye Steel Castings Company. Buckeye harbored railroad strike-breaker sentiment from the president on down. It's founder was member of the "Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery",[1] called a military and social organization, set up in 1878, the year after nationwide railroad strikes.
This guns and railroad connection returns for World War I, when Buckeye Steel produced gun barrels and shell casings, and Sam Bush was moved by his patrons into the position of chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms and Ammunition Section of the War Industries Board. Bush took national responsibility for government assistance to and relations with Remington and other weapons companies.[2] This was during the time that Buckeye Steel was casting gun barrels and Bush was president of Buckeye.
Preacher's son Bush looks innocent until you are informed that his patron, Percy Rockefeller took control of Remington Arms in 1914. Frank Rockefeller was president of Buckeye Steel for three years from 1905-1908, followed by Sam Bush from 1908-1927, throughout the WWI years and the gunbarrel sales era of Buckeye.[3] In 1915 a new Remington plant was constructed, operational by 1916 for the first world war, just in time to get a million rifle order from Russia.[4], [5] 67% of all the ammunition used in WWI by the US, Britain and Russia was sold by "Merchants of Death" Remington. Somebody got a no-bid contract on gun barrels for their company.
Pumping up nations war aspirations is good business for some, and the Bush family has been engaged in it for four generations.
Samuel Bush donated a son Prescott Sheldon Bush to the marriage of Dorothy Walker, daughter of George Herbert Walker. The name Walker thence comes in the middle of two George Bush presidents.
See George Herbert Walker's story for the other half of this history of where Bush Family Values were created.
SOURCE: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Samuel_Prescott_Bush
"Money trumps peace." -- pretzeldent George W Bush, Sam's great-grandson. What a coincidence.
...g-g-g-g-grand-aunt back in the early 1800's. Makes me related to the BFEE. 
