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First military conscription bill heard in House of Commons

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On this Jan. 5, 1916, British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith introduced the first military conscription bill in his country’s history to the House of Commons. World War I, or the Great War as it was known then, was heading into its third year, and Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Britain’s secretary of state for war, had warned from the beginning that the war would be decided by Britain’s last 1 million men.

Cozy or cramped? Americans reveal how they feel about living in small spaces

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(StatePoint) When it comes to the home, bigger doesn’t always mean better. A new survey from Duck brand, which offers products that provide simple, imaginative and helpful solutions for a variety of tasks around the home, discovers that more than half of Americans living in a small space say they feel cozy and comfortable as opposed to cramped.