Below are current event articles that relate to events, topics, and people found in Adventures in the Secret Service.

Australia's oldest man, World War I veteran Claude Choules dies at 110

perthnow.com.au

5/5/2011

WA's national treasure Claude Choules, Australia's oldest man and the world's last surviving World War I veteran, has died in Perth aged 110. Mr Choules was a man who made the best of life and devoted himself to his family and country. His fighting spirit helped him survive two world wars, and also live long enough to become the oldest man in WA and the last World War I veteran living in Australia.

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CIA recipe for invisible ink among newly released WWI-era documents

washingtonpost.com

4/19/2011

So you want to open sealed envelopes without getting caught? Here’s the secret, according to one of the six oldest classified documents in possession of the Central Intelligence Agency: “Mix 5 drams copper acetol arsenate. 3 ounces acetone and add 1 pint amyl alcohol (fusil-oil). Heat in water bath — steam rising will dissolve the sealing material of its mucilage, wax or oil.” But there’s a warning for the intrepid spy: “Do not inhale fumes.”

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Frank Buckles, last American veteran of World War I, dies at 110

latimes.com

3/1/2011

Frank Woodruff Buckles, a onetime Missouri farm boy who was the last known living American veteran of World War I, has died. He was 110. Buckles, who later spent more than three years in a Japanese POW camp as a civilian in the Philippines during World War II, died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Charles Town, W.Va., family spokesman David DeJonge said.

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Resurrecting the Czar

Smithsonian.com

11/1/2010

Valentin Gribenyuk trudges ahead of me through a birch and pine forest outside Yekaterinburg, Russia, waving oversize mosquitoes from his neck and face. The woods close in around us as we follow a trail, stepping over rotting tree trunks and dark puddles. “Right here is the Old Koptyaki Road,” he says, pointing to a dirt and gravel path next to a gas pipeline. “This is where the assassins drove their truck.”

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Ten Inventions That Inadvertently Transformed Warfare

Smithsonian.com

9/19/2010

Bayonet: In the early 17th century, sportsmen in France and Spain adopted the practice of attaching knives to their muskets when hunting dangerous game, such as wild boar. The hunters particularly favored knives that were made in Bayonne—a small French town near the Spanish border long renowned for its quality cutlery.

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Ninety years on, wrecks of Royal Navy warships sunk in Russian Revolution are found

dailymail.co.uk

8/24/2010

The wrecks of three British warships sunk more than 90 years ago - seeking to prevent the Bolshevik Revolution from spreading West - have been located in the Baltic Sea by the Estonian Navy. HMS Cassandra, HMS Myrtle and HMS Gentian were lost as they fought to keep Estonia out of the hands of Vladimir Lenin after his seizure of power in Russia.

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