Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Samuel D. Riddle announced in the latter part of 1920 that his superb champion Man o’ War would not race as a 4-year-old, ...

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As the world continues to remember the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, The Royal Mint has chosen to honour one very special lady. Nurse Edith Cavell was one of the most prominent ...

A British nurse who risked – and ultimately lost – her life to help British and French soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium in World War I is remembered with a Google Doodle Tuesday. Edith ...

A new memorial to Edith Cavell was unveiled in Brussels A contemporary sculpture of nurse Edith Cavell, shot by German troops 100 years ago, has been unveiled in Brussels by Princess Astrid of Belgium ...

On August 5, 1915 Edith Cavell, head of the Training School for Nurses in occupied Brussels, was arrested for assisting Belgian, British, and French soldiers to escape from the country. Two months ...