Members of living history societies stand under a shower of a million poppy flowers representing the dead during a World War One centenary ceremony at the Tank Museum, Bovington on August 4, 2014 in England. Monday August 4, 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of Great Britain's declaration of war on Germany. In 1914 British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith announced at 11 pm that Britain was to enter the war after Germany had violated Belgium neutrality. The First World War or the Great War lasted until 11 November 1918 and is recognised as one of the deadliest historical conflicts with millions of causalities. A series of events commemorating the 100th anniversary are taking place throughout the day. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) 
People walk past sculptures made with straw on August 4, 2014 during a contest in the village of Krasnoye, some 38 kilometers outside the southern Russian city of Stavropol. AFP PHOTO / DANIL SEMYONOVDANIL SEMYONOV/AFP/Getty Images
A Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) sits on a sunflower on August 4, 2014 in Godewaersvelde. AFP PHOTO/PHILIPPE HUGUENPHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images
Members of the Great War Society living history group dressed as 4th Battalion the Middlesex Regiment stand under a shower of a million poppy flowers representing the dead during a World War One centenary ceremony at the Tank Museum, Bovington on August 4, 2014 in England. Monday August 4, 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of Great Britain’s declaration of war on Germany. In 1914 British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith announced at 11pm that Britain was to enter the war after Germany had violated Belgium neutrality. The First World War or the Great War lasted until 11 November 1918 and is recognised as one of the deadliest historical conflicts with millions of causalities. A series of events commemorating the 100th anniversary are taking place throughout the day. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
The ‘Grave of the Unknown Warrior’ is dressed with flowers ahead of a candlelight vigil on August 4 marking the start of WW1, at Westminster Abbey on August 3, 2014 in London, England. Members of the National Association of Flower Arranging Societies dress the grave in flowers from the four nations including lilies, heather and roses. Monday 4th August marks the 100th anniversary of Great Britain declaring war on Germany. In 1914 British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith announced at 11pm that Britain was to enter the war after Germany had violated Belgium neutrality. The First World War or the Great War lasted until 11 November 1918 and is recognised as one of the deadliest historical conflicts with millions of causalities. A series of events commemorating the 100th anniversary are taking place throughout the day. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
People drive with amphibian vehicles in the river Mosel near Traben-Trabach, southern Germany on August 2, 2014 during the “Amphib 2014″ rally. Fans of amphibian vehicles join the event that takes place for the 4th time from August 2 to 8, 2014. (FREDRIK VON ERICHSEN/AFP/Getty Images)
An official of Forest Home Christian Conference Center in Forest Falls, Calif., inspects damage on the property following thunderstorms on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. About 1,500 residents of Oak Glen, and another 1,000 residents of Forest Falls in the San Bernardino Mountains were unable to get out because the roads were covered with mud, rock and debris, authorities said. (AP Photo/The Press-Enterprise, David Bauman)
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II looks at a display of bees from the Aberdeen Bee Keepers Association’s with a sign reading ‘Can you see the queen bee?’, during her visit to the 150th Anniversary Turriff Show in Turriff, Scotland, Monday Aug. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/PA, Andrew Milligan)
A Nepalese boy waits for news of his missing family near a damaged building as rescuers conduct search operation after a landslide in Mankha village, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Rescue workers in eastern India urgently evacuated tens of thousands of people on Monday after a deadly landslide in neighboring Nepal blocked a river that could burst its banks and submerge scores of Indian villages. Authorities in Nepal said there is no hope that more than 150 missing people are still alive after being buried by piles of rocks, mud and upturned trees in Saturday’s landslide. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys climb a wall to watch the scene of an attack in Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. An Israeli-declared cease-fire and troop withdrawals slowed violence in the Gaza war Monday, though an attack on Israeli bus that killed one person in Jerusalem underscored the tensions still simmering in the region. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
This picture taken on August 1, 2014 shows a dead whale shark being carried on a tractor in a seafood wholesale market in Xiangzhi township in Quanzhou, east China’s Fujian province. Local fishermen caught the whale shark which they thought was a “sea monster” and reported to local police after returning from the sea, local media reported. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTOSTR/AFP/Getty Images
An Ukrainian serviceman from the Donbass volunteer battalion is covered with a Ukrainian Communist Party flag as he gets a hair cut on August 4, 2014 in eastern Ukrainian city of Popasna, Lugansk region, freed by Ukrainian forces from pro-Russian militants. The deputy mayor in the encircled insurgent stronghold of Donetsk told AFP that shooting in a residential suburb had killed six civilians and injured 13, the latest victims of more than three months of civil war that has claimed at least 1,150 lives. AFP PHOTO/ ANATOLII STEPANOVANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian men crawl under the rubble of a house looking for survivors after it was hit by an Israeli air strike on the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on August 4, 2014. Israel was observing a temporary unilateral truce in most of the Gaza Strip amid world outrage over a deadly strike on a UN school in the besieged Palestinian territory. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARIMARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Thai surrogate mother Pattaramon Chanbua (L) holds her baby Gammy, born with Down Syndrome, at the Samitivej hospital, Sriracha district in Chonburi province on August 4, 2014. The surrogate mother of a baby reportedly abandoned by his Australian parents in Thailand because he has Down Syndrome was a “saint” and “absolute hero”, Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said. AFP PHOTO / Nicolas ASFOURINICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images
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