A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Italian Dreadnought Launched.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 25, 1913:
NAPLES, April 24.— The new Italian dreadnought, the Duilo, was launched to-day at the navy yard at Castellmare, in the presence of the King and Queen of Italy and a large gathering of military and naval authorities. Queen Helena named the vessel, amid the cheers 0f an immense crowd.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Italian Dreadnought Launched.

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