On November 11, British citizens (the Queen included) will honor veterans by wearing a crimson poppy pin. Here we look at what Remembrance Day is and how the poppy become the emblem in the U.K. and Canada.
JAMES: WHY I HAD TO QUIT; JAMES MCCLEAN TALKS TO ON EXPLOSIVE, DIVISIVE, DEPARTURE McClean Forced to Leave Sunderland after Fans Turned Remembrance Day Sta... JAMES: WHY I HAD TO QUIT; JAMES MCCLEAN TALKS TO ON EXPLOSIVE, DIVISIVE, DEPARTURE McClean Forced to Leave Sunderland after Fans ...
A watch lets you subtly check the time without signaling that you have better things to do. Watch Uses #8 Watches Give You A Relationship With Time Since the days of the sundial (and probably before) – men have been obsessed with devices that measure time. They are a reminder that our...
I don’t need any more of these parodies, and I don’t need Jimmy Fallon bringing out an old musician to do a novelty cover of either their own song or a new song from a different musical genre. If we just keep parodying shit, we won’t have new material left to parody. 3. ...
old acquaintance be forgot / And never brought to mind,” you’re rhetorically asking, “Should old friends be forgotten?” Should the old days we’ve experienced be left behind, or, should we remember them and toast them with a “cup o’ kindness,” as mentioned later in the song?
The Young Jewish Women Who Fought the Nazis – and Why You’ve Never Heard of Them A powerful new book, 'The Light of Days,' reveals the tragic and audacious stories of fearless Polish women in Jewish resistance movements. Author Judy Batalion...
Do Americans think the world must think like them? Is that not being proud and arrogant? Do the other nations of the world not have cultures and civilizations that have proud histories that people do not wish to dilute them in the name of “democracy” or “liberal thinking”?
do it all. Some of us have pretty much abandoned email altogether for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. We might prefer one feudal lord to the others. We might distribute our allegiance among several of these companies or studiously avoid a particular one we don't like. Regardless, it's ...
Many of the former and some of the latter have been people you and/or I know. So this Christmas has to be a time of remembrance as well as reflection, of caution not just celebration, and most of all perhaps, of reprioritising what truly matters in life. So when I woke this morning...