Encyclopedia of Genealogy CHAPTER 13 Occupations: The Merchant Navy As a nation surrounded by the sea, Britons have a long association with maritime professions, perhaps no more so than the Merchant Navy. Fortunately, a vast array of material survives that allows us to trace the movements of our ...
US PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON, 1919 Within a year all Europe will be communist. GRIGORI ZINOVIEV, PRESIDENT OF COMINTERN (COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL), 1919 If the Russian revolutions of 1917 sent a shockwave through the world, then the brutal murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family on 17 July 1918 w...