Advancing Therapies for Cancer—From Mustard Gas to CAR T by Dillon K. Jarrell, Seth Drake, Mark A. Brown

“…In the aftermath of World War I, it was discovered that mustard gas destroys rapidly dividing cells and could be used to treat cancer. …”
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Take Care of Me! Protection, conservation and presentation of archaeological sites to the public in the Autonomous Province of Trento, northern Italy by Franco Nicolis

“…A recent project to research, preserve and present to the public a unique World War I site located high in the Italian Alps, the Punta Linke Project, is described here. …”
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Starved to Death? Nutrition in Asylums During the World Wars by Kristina Engwall

“…The aim of this study was to compare nutritional conditions in Swedish mental hospitals and institutions for “feebleminded” people during the two world wars with those in German institutions of the same era. During World War I, lack of food in Germany and Sweden led to high death rates at institutions containing many patients. …”
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Les Glasgow Rent Strikes de 1915 ou quand la désobéissance civile des femmes contraint le législateur by Olivier Esteves

“…The outbreak of World War I in 1914 generated a massive influx of workers into the Clyde area, a hugely strategic region for heavy industry (shipyards, but also ammunition factories). …”
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A Review of a Roman-Fleuve Genre: Nights and Days by Nevra VARDAL ATAK

“…Events that are told with a quite detailed style, go back to Congress Poland with flashbacks and continue to the World War I. In this regard, many characters and cities are included in this work. …”
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Building Longitudinal Datasets From Diverse Historical Data in Australia by Janet McCalman

“…Through nominal linkage using volunteers and paid research staff, it has been possible over the past twenty years to build four cradle-to-grave datasets derived from administrative cohorts: poor white babies born in a charity hospital 1858–1900; Aboriginal Victorians from 1855 to 1988; convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land 1818-1853 and servicemen who embarked for World War I from the State of Victoria. The abundance of digitised historical sources from government archives to historical newspapers enables the practice of demographic prosopography, with a wide range of variables that have yielded new insights into Australia’s population and social history. …”
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African arts between curios, antiquities, and avant-garde at the Maison Brummer, Paris (1908-1914) by Yaëlle Biro

“…Before World War I, Hungarian-born art dealer Joseph Brummer (1883-1947) developed in Paris an extensive trade network through talented salesmanship and brilliant art selections. …”
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Une promise pour la licorne : quand Denis Johnston crève l’horizon de la scène irlandaise by Virginie Girel-Pietka

“…In the wake of World War I and the worldwide Great Depression, mimesis was out of fashion. …”
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“Penal Colony” and The Kafkaeskque Approach to Authoritarianism / “CEZA SÖMÜRGESİ” VE OTORİTERYANİZME KAFKAESK BİR YAKLAŞIM by Medine Sivri*, Fulya Çelik**

“…In this term, including 1919-1932, the outcomes of the World War I, developments in the field of industry, science and technology, the impact of the economic structure on people and man’s being crushed under the domination of matter and for this reason turning into mass people are aroused again in the works of Kafka on fictional platform. …”
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Wessen Feind? Die Wiederbelebung des politischen Antisemitismus im postimperialen Wien by Miloslav Szabó

“… This study deals with the significance of antisemitism in Austria, especially in Vienna, under the changed political conditions immediately after World War I. It strives for a new perspective, focusing not solely on antisemitic images of “the Jew”, but rather on the self-perception of antisemites and, to a certain extent, on their mutual accusations of abetting “Jews”. …”
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De Verdun à la Kaaba ! Les pèlerinages à La Mecque des empires alliés pendant la Première Guerre mondiale by Luc Chantre

“…Not only was the Arab Revolt, launched in October 1916 in the Hedjaz by Sharif Husayn, decisive to the outcome of World War I from a military standpoint, it also marked the unexpected return of civilian circulation on the Red Sea. …”
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The geopolitics of territorial relativity. Poland seen by Rudolf Kjellén by Lundén Thomas

“…His writings also include statements on the vulnerability of borders, the need for domestic autarky, and, on the problems of territorial autonomy, discussions of importance for the post-World War I geopolitical history of Poland; but these have mostly been neglected by post-World War II discourses. …”
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Turks, Arabs and Jewish Immigration into Palestine by Mandel, NJ

“…<p>It is commonly maintained that prior to World War I all was well between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. …”

Military Diaries: Content, Features, and Potential (Based on the Great Patriotic War Sources) by A. S. Kuznetsov

“…Military diaries demonstrated a great potential for studies of war routine, healthcare, psychology, and enemy perception through the eyes of an ordinary military participant, the psychology of warring man, the perception of an enemy during World War I.…”
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Landscape transformation in the low karst plain of Bela krajina (SE Slovenia) over the last 220 years by Andrej Paušič, Andraž Čarni

“…After human emigration at the beginning of the 20th century and World War I, the land was partly abandoned. During and after the World War II local inhabitants migrated from the region. …”
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Two September Weeks That Saved Damascus in 1918 by Sami Moubayed

“…They marked exodus of the Ottoman Turks and entry of the Allied Forces, yet they have received mediocre attention from World War I historians. Most literature on the Great War in the Middle East covers British strategies in the Arab Revolt and Hashemite ambitions, revolving around the characters of T. …”
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RAVEL ON (HIS) IMPRESSIONISM by Attila FODOR

“…Though Ravel’s oeuvre is original, especially regarding the piano and orchestral compositions set up before the World War I, it vibrates in a subtle manner with the major trends of his time: symbolism, impressionism, expressionism, neoclassicism and even futurism. …”
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Architecture, journal of the Uruguayan Architects Association. Topics and problems of architecture in Uruguay, 1914-1940 by Pablo Canén Suárez

“…While 1914 marks the founding year of the SAU and the onset of World War I, 1940 does not represent a definitive milestone but it roughly coincides with the construction of the new building for the Faculty of Architecture and the intensification of World War II, which began in 1939. …”
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The Meeting of 21–22 November, 1915, about the Reception and Accommodation of Refugees in the Irkutsk Governorate General by O. M. Dolidovich

“…The article features the meeting held on November 21–22, 1915, where representatives of the authorities, municipal and public organizations discussed the issues of assistance to World War I refugees on the territory of the Irkutsk Governorate General. …”
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Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years by Daria Tisch, Emma Ischinsky

“…One third of the companies associated with today’s largest fortunes were founded before World War I. About 8 percent of today’s fortunes can be traced back to fortunes on rich lists from 1913. …”
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