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It is a cultural centre owned and administered by the foundation of the same name, named after Domingo de Toro Herrera , a politician, engineer and soldier of the Chilean Army, and a veteran of the conflict who later held political positions and made other contributions to his country, in addition to having been the brother of Emilia de Toro ...
At the outbreak of war the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy, with assistance from New Zealand and Japanese naval and land forces in the Far East, had captured the German colonies of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, Yap, Nauru, and Samoa, instead of searching for the German East Asia Squadron commanded by Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee, which had abandoned its base at the German concession at ...
In 2004, Congress named it the nation's official World War I museum, and construction started on a new 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m 2) expansion and the Edward Jones Research Center underneath the original memorial, which was completed in 2006. The Liberty Memorial was designated a National Historic Landmark on September 20, 2006.
Stacie Peterson, director of exhibitions and collections at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, shows an historical office memo during the unveiling ceremony of a 100-year-old time capsule at ...
List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Champagne-Ardennes; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Flanders; List of World War I Memorials and Cemeteries in Lorraine; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the area of the St Mihiel salient; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Somme
The following lists events that happened during 1914 in Chile. Incumbents ... 1 November – World War I ... 7 May – Radomiro Tomic (d. 1992) [1] 11 May ...
This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Chile from its birth in the first decades of the 19th century to the present. Chilean victory : in case of being an international war or that has an international scope due to the quality of the belligerents.
The Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art (Spanish: Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino) is an art museum dedicated to the study and display of pre-Columbian artworks and artifacts from Central and South America. [1] The museum is located in the city centre of Santiago, the capital of Chile.