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27-09-08, 12:57
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Weapons involved in the assassination plot that sparked the World War
One - and led to the deaths of 21 million people - are to go on display in
London to mark the war's end.

A pistol and bomb carried by the men involved in the killing of Austrian
Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 will be displayed at the
Imperial War Museum as part of its In Memoriam: Remembering the Great
War exhibition.

The archduke's assassination by Gavrilo Princip started a domino effect of
allied nation disputes which led to the First World War.

The exhibition will mark the 90th anniversary of the armistice that brought
the war to an end.

read more (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1061691/Revealed-Pistol-sparked-World-War-One-goes-display-Britain-time.html)