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Category Archives: World War I
TCS: Ettie Rout – Angel of the ANZACS
. .Good Morning! __________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Poetry, The Coffee Shop, World War I
Tagged Forgotten Voices of the Somme, Jane Tolterton, New Zealand Volunteer Sisterhood, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, TCS - Ettie Rout Angel of the ANZACs
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TCS: Et occultatis una bellum est scriptor horror – Veteran’s Day 2018
Good Morning! ___________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
TCS: Doctor Dolittle and ‘The War to End All Wars’
Good Morning! ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Structural substitution and the logic of urban modernism
By ann summers occupying a space for a time en.wikipedia.org/… Here are some examples of cultural substitution in the built environment that articulate multiple meanings and identify an axis or axes of more than geodetic importance. Every historical site is both monumental and … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Art, built environment, China, Germany, History, landscape, Media, Uncategorized, World War I, World War II
Tagged architecture, Berlin, built environment, china, city planning, Cold War, environment, Geography, History, Media, urbanism
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Terry Welshans; New Contributor on FFS
By Chuck Stanley If you notice the list of authors, Terry Welshans has joined the team. Terry is an eclectic kind of guy, who is interested in just about everything. I have known him for a couple of years. He … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: June 28, 2016
June 28th is: Paul Bunyan Day Tapioca Day Data Privacy Day International Body Piercing Day National Holidays Around the World Bosnia and Herzegovina – St. Vitus Day Serbia – St. Vitus Day Ukraine – Constitution Day On This Day in HISTORY … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day, World War I
Tagged Adolphe Sax, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Nelson Mandela, Paul Bunyan, Queen Victoria, Tapioca pudding, Treaty of Versailles
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Word Cloud: GUNFIRE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD GUNFIRE Someone picks up a gun and points it, At some famous face they think they know, Then pulls the trigger — The bullet nicks the heart of the world And we all bleed. Someone picks … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, Art, FDR, Holocaust, Nazis, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Terrorism, United States, War, Word Cloud, World History, World War I
Tagged Assassination, Firearms, Gunfire, Guns, Murder
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Word Cloud: WARCRY
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD This month marks the 99th Anniversary of the end of the Somme Offensive, also known as the Battle of the Somme. The Somme was one of the longest, bloodiest battles in human history: between July 1, and … Continue reading
Posted in Heroism, History, Poetry, Word Cloud, World War I
Tagged Battle of the Somme, Bertrand Russell, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Somme Offensive, Trench fever, Warcry, Wilfred Owen
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“Anthem For Doomed Youth”: A Poem by Wilfred Owen Read by Kenneth Branagh
SUBMITTED BY ELAINE MAGLIARO Anthem for Doomed Youth was written by Wilfred Owen in 1916, when he was a patient at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, recovering from shell shock.
Posted in Literature, Poetry, War, World History, World War I
Tagged Memorial Day, Wilfred Owen
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