The Art and the Science of the Trench Drain. April 25, 2008. ... Thousands of people have used a trench drain design I perfected years ago to redirect water that was coming from my neighbor's yard.

Trench art is any decorative or practical item made out of recycled war refuse such as shell casings, ... “I’m looking for an inkwell,” she said.

Today, trench art is highly valuable and can offer a glimpse into the lives of those who walked before us. Read more: The Most Valuable Tools & Home Improvement Items To Look Out For At Garage ...

Trench art has the capacity to inspire. It's about creativity in extreme circumstances, using the discarded, everyday objects of war in a new way. Trench art: a story of grace under fire.

The exhibition is set out so that the contemporary artists’ responses act as our guide to interpreting and understanding the trench art objects, and practices of trench art during WWI.

During the hellish Battle of Verdun that raged from February to December of 1916, an estimated 60 million shells were blasted between the French and the Germans, leaving the people and the ground ...

Great Britain’s Imperial War Museum website (iwm.org.uk) said trench art “is a misleading term given to a wide variety of decorative items, sometimes also functional, produced during or soon ...

HOW IT STARTED Soldiers transformed battlefield objects into objets d'art; thanks to the Internet, they're being traded JUDGMENT CALL It's beautiful, bizarre, and can be worth a bomb Californian ...

Herald & Review/Lisa Morrison William Randall holds the P-38 fighter replica he made out of bullets and a shell casing. Randall created the 'trench art' while getting over yellow jaundice and ...

A. Your souvenir is an example of “trench art,” one of the unusual outgrowths of life “in the trenches” during wars dating back to Napoleon’s time and quite common during World War I.

Emblems of respect for soldiers who lost their lives in war, some 12,000 remembrance poppies have been brought to the Island by the Bermuda Legion — and they will be given out, starting this ...