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As she slid down the slipway on February 10, 1906, few realised the role the British battleship Dreadnought was to play in the shaping of the world for the next century.

Virginia Woolf, English novelist and essayist, along with fellow hoaxers of the Bloomsbury Group, pulled off a most embarrassing hoax on the crew of "HMS Dreadnought".

The concept behind the battlecruiser was simple. Faster than anything that can outgun them. Bigger guns than anything that can outrun them. Great - in theory.

Overshadowed by the Dreadnought battleships, it was Admiral Fisher's Battlecruisers of the Royal Navy that patrolled the oceans in the last days of the British Empire.

Argentina and Chile entered a three-way Naval Arms Race with Brazil just before World War One that led to a half century of South American battleships.

The U.S. battleship Texas, a first generation Dreadnought, is the only surviving US warship to have served in both world wars.

The assassination on June 28, 1914 of the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, sparked World War I.

From 1382 until 1918 this force was one of the largest in the world. Often bloodied but never beaten it disappeared from the oceans with a whimper.

The US Navy has tested the worlds largest rail gun making history in the evolution of large gun technology.

Brazil started a South American Naval Race between the three "ABC" countries when she ordered a class of new Dreadnoughts in 1906

At the close of World War One, the victorious allies ordered that the powerful and undefeated High Seas Fleet present itself for interment until a final peace.

Chile, part of a three-way South American Naval Race just before world war one ordered a pair of Battleships from Britain that went on to lead a life on their own.

One acoustic guitar has been copied more than any other but never equalled. It is easily the most recognizeable and famous acoustic guitar ever - the Martin D-28...

The long term causes of World War I begin with the Franco-Prussian War and end with a vastly different system of alliances created by the blunders of the German Kaiser.

While looking forwards, the stories in David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer's Best SF #11 often look back for inspiration, to -- amongst others -- James Blish and I, Robot.

The battleship, built by the last Tsar of russia and named for his father, served in two wars under at least five flags.

When the ill-fated White Russian battleship was broken up in Tunisia its guns were sent all over the world, changed hands often, and fought for many new owners.

Turkey's entry into World War I is an interesting example of the forces that drive a country to take sides in a war and the strange and deadly alliances thus formed.

Compared the massive operations conducted in World War I Europe, the Battle of Tsingtao was a relatively minor affair. But to the Japanese, it was the main event.