A century on and the scars of the Battle of the Somme are still vividly clear on the verdant French countryside 1st July marks 100 years since the WW1 battlefield saw France, Britain and the Commonwealth face Germany The largest monument on the Western Front is surrounded by visible trenches and craters that are relics of the war A century on and the scars of the Battle of the Somme are still vividly clear. A 100-year-old trench, its edges now smoothed over by verdant overgrowth, snakes through a French meadow. Craters carved by bombs in the Battle of the Somme still pock the countryside. A century on, a bird's-eye view of the World War I battlegrounds conveys the unprecedented scale of what happened. +19 A drone flying overhead in La Boisselle, France, captured the World War I Lochnager Crater (above) caused by a mine blowing up on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916 +19 The deep trenches that scar th...
The great strength of American capitalism is also its great weakness, namely, its extremely high weapons productivity. A number of factors have produced increases in productivity, like, the mechanization of the production process that got under way in England as early as the 18th century. In the early 20th century, then, American industrialists made a contribution in the form of automatiion. ..Amor Patriae