Holiday Minisode - The Truce
The Conspirators Podcast
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🗓️ 23 December 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Delive a Rule, because anything goes this Christmas. |
| 0:06.0 | Yes, even sprouts on a pizza or gravy on sushi. |
| 0:10.0 | The rules are, there are no rules. Have a Cantonese on Christmas Eve or a |
| 0:15.2 | Balty on Boxing Day and when you're so over the leftovers bring on the ramen |
| 0:20.2 | From big brands to local favorites this Christmas it's all on your doorstep with |
| 0:25.0 | deliver room. Geographical restrictions, Ties and C service and delivery fees apply. They called it the war to end all wars, which might be the biggest misstatement in history. |
| 0:44.0 | But at least in the eyes of those who fought and died in World War I, |
| 0:48.0 | it was widely believed that the idea that such a massive global conflict |
| 0:52.0 | could ever happen again was unthinkable. |
| 0:57.0 | By the time the war was going in full force, more than 70 million military personnel were |
| 1:01.9 | mobilized on both sides and by the time it was all over |
| 1:06.7 | Estimates say that over 37 million people died |
| 1:17.0 | Throughout the war there was likely no more deadly place to be than along the front lines. World War I brought with it many advancements in both technology and military strategy. |
| 1:25.0 | And both sides used these new weapons and techniques to deadly effect. |
| 1:30.0 | One of the most widespread military tactics used throughout the war was trench warfare, |
| 1:36.0 | in which troops would dig massive trenches along the battle lines that they would then fortify with barbed wire, landmines, mortars, artillery, and all sorts of other armaments. |
| 1:47.0 | The area between those lines, which might extend anywhere from several hundred to less than a dozen yards |
| 1:53.4 | earned a nickname of its own. |
| 1:55.8 | No Man's Land. |
| 1:58.8 | The term no man's land appears to date back to the 11th century, when a similar term, |
| 2:04.7 | nomena sland, was used to describe the area |
| 2:07.7 | that lie just beyond London's city walls. |
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