"Why do we wear poppies?""What makes people go to war?"Tom Christian glances at his four comrades and considers how he's going to answer this last and most difficult of questions.At 83, the former glider pilot first started going into local schools after a teacher friend encouraged him ...
Why we wear poppies At this time of the year, red poppies are proliferating on lapels everywhere. These enduring symbols of remembrance actually emerged in the early 1920s in the wake of the devastation of World War I, inspired by the resilience of the poppies that continued to grow on ...
While Poppy Day is primarily celebrated by residents of the UK, other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations such as Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa acknowledge the holiday as well. Here are a few pictures of poppies from around the world: ...
Poppies have trichomes but don't stingPoppies have trichomes but don't sting On most plants these tiny hairs are as inert as toothbrush bristles. But for some, evolution has crafted them into strange and useful machines. Cannabis plants, for example, have turned them into minute hollow chemical...
So when we got home I took some dry comfrey roots and boiled for a couple mins cooled it off and saturated the gauze that was given to him to stop the bleeding and put it behind his cheek. As the numbness started to wear off he started to feel pain but he continued to use comfrey...
Fifa Should Remember Why We Wear PoppiesRead the full-text online article and more details about "Fifa Should Remember Why We Wear Poppies" - Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 11, 2011Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Why We Are So Proud to Wear Our Red Poppies