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		<title>Bizarre epilepsy remedy or cure</title>
		<link>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2012/01/18/bizarre-epilepsy-remedy-or-cure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This old 18th. century newspaper article describes a bizarre cure or remedy for epilepsy which involved beating a woman who suffered from &#8216;fits&#8217; or &#8216;epileptic fits&#8217; and tying her to a corpse. &#160; This isn&#8217;t early or primitive medicine This isn&#8217;t an example of what we might these days call &#8216;primitive medicine&#8217; or &#8216;early medicine,&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World War 1 bullet wound analysis</title>
		<link>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/12/08/world-war-1-bullet-wound-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hip flask]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article and photo. of a World War 1 hip flask that has been struck by a bullet has a story of survival and tragedy to tell &#8211; and an analysis of a WW1 bullet wound. It is believed that the hip flask was owned by an officer in a Scottish (British) regiment during WW1. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World War 1 dead German soldier with fatal head wound</title>
		<link>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/11/12/dead-world-war-1-german-soldier-with-fatal-head-wound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World War 1 photos of death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German soldier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photos of death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photo. of a dead World War 1 German soldier seems to show that he was killed by artillery fire because he has suffered from a head wound that would almost certainly have been fatal. The wound, a semi circular wound on the right side of his head, near his ear, was almost certainly caused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World War 1 priest’s ‘lack of patriotism’</title>
		<link>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/11/12/world-war-1-priests-lack-of-patriotism/</link>
		<comments>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/11/12/world-war-1-priests-lack-of-patriotism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World War 1 British newspaper articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patriotism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldworldnews.org/blog/?p=995</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This World War 1 British newspaper article features a letter to the editor from a photographer turned soldier who complains that someone is stealing his photography business while he is fighting in WW1. The photographer turned soldier had a thriving photography business before the outbreak of World War 1, and it seems that he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A modern case of spontaneous human combustion</title>
		<link>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/09/24/a-modern-case-of-spontaneous-human-combustion/</link>
		<comments>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/09/24/a-modern-case-of-spontaneous-human-combustion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[death by fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human spontaneous combustion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldworldnews.org/blog/?p=983</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A coroner has decided that spontaneous human combustion or human spontaneous combustion was the cause of death when a man mysteriously burned to death at his home recently. Although his body was completely destroyed by fire the fire had not spread beyond his body and there was no evidence that a fire had spread towards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of World War 1 dead soldier in fox hole</title>
		<link>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/09/12/photo-ofworld-war-1-dead-soldier-in-fox-hole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photo of a dead World War 1 soldier in a fox hole suggests that he was killed by a wound to the back of the head as a wound can be seen there. It looks as if it is a bullet wound because of the neat hole but it might, just might, be an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of World War 1 dead soldier in state of decomposition</title>
		<link>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/09/12/photo-of-world-war-1-dead-soldier-in-state-ofdecomposition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldworldnews.org/blog/?p=320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s difficult to identify the nationality of this dead soldier who was killed in World War 1 and is in an advanced state of decomposition. Usually the helmet or uniform gives a clue but to the nationality of the fallen but these are decomposing along with the body. However, he seems to wearing a kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of World War 1 dead German soldier with hand grenade</title>
		<link>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/09/12/photo-of-world-war-1-dead-german-soldier-with-handgrenad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldworldnews.org/blog/?p=317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A photo of a German soldier killed in battle during World War 1 while holding or preparing to throw a hand grenade and with his rifle lying nearby. He can easily be identified as a German soldier by the type of hand grenade &#8211; a &#8216;stick&#8217; grenade, and by his boots. Both the hand grenade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moment of death photographs in war photography part 2</title>
		<link>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/09/11/moment-of-death-photographs-in-war-photography-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/09/11/moment-of-death-photographs-in-war-photography-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldworldnews.org/blog/?p=911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following list gives some reasons why although &#8216;moment of death&#8217; photographs were apparently taken during World War 1 and the Spanish civil war of 1936 to 1939, they were not apparently taken during World War 2 and later wars. A moment of death photograph is a photograph which captures or which the photographer claims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moment of death photographs in war photography</title>
		<link>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/09/11/moment-of-death-photographs-in-war-photography/</link>
		<comments>http://oldworldnews.org/blog/2011/09/11/moment-of-death-photographs-in-war-photography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldworldnews.org/blog/?p=905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[World War 1 and the Spanish civil war of 1936 to 1939 both produced what we might call &#8216;moment of death&#8217; in war photographs, the exact moment at which a combatant was killed. However during World War 2 and in later wars it seems that these kind of photographs were no longer being produced. Why [...]]]></description>
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