More than sixty countries were on the gold standard in the decades before War World I.
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The U.S. Navy is cut back to the levels before World War I.
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Stripping away the often elaborate ornamentation of the architectural styles popular before World War I, it was a conscious effort to capture the spirit of modernity.
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But it is thought to be a Luger, an early model issued to the Swiss army before World War I, a collector's item.
On the one hand, Poland was dominated by the USSR during the last century, and by the Russian Empire before World War I.
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Mariquita is the last of four 19-meter yachts built before World War I, while Tuiga was built to the more popular 15-meter standard.
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Hitler and Hess had crossed paths before, serving in the same infantry unit during World War I.
Optimists in both camps still talked about how they would reach out to the other side when it was all over, like the World War I infantrymen who played soccer on Christmas Day before going back to their trenches to try to kill each other again.
We were told all this time, time after time, in public hearings before the governmental affairs and other congressional committees, however much like the British after World War I, we were fixated on the economy.
The story turns tragic in World War I as a whole uncomplaining generation seemed to walk straight into the enemy guns before struggling on for four hellish years.
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