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A VIRTUAL bike ride to the poppy fields of Flanders is aiming raise donations for veterans in need. Twelve cyclists from Rhyl will each clock up the 432-mile distance to the Belgian-French battlefields during February and March by using stationary exercise bikes and outdoor cycle routes. The fundraiser is being organised by the Rhyl branch of the Royal British Legion (RBL) as the charity for Armed Forces veterans and the Poppy Appeal celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Richard K...

January 13, 2021 Ding Xiang Warner, professor of Asian studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, has won a yearlong 2021 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to study etched shell casings and other “trench art” made by some of the Chinese laborers who supported the allied armies during World War I. Mixing archaeology, art history and cultural studies, this project will give insight into the significance of these items to the Chinese themselves as well as withi...

Article content Busines came through On behalf of the Business Cares food drive committee, I would like to extend our gratitude and thanks to the London community for helping us raise an astonishing 271,000 kilograms of food for the London Food Bank. This is a 34 per cent increase over last year. We set no goal for our 21st year, not wanting to put any pressure on the community or our committee during the pandemic. We asked for businesses and people to donate, but only if they were able. The fo...

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Others will take solace and inspiration from the poetry from Britain’s greatest war. The First World War was “one of the seminal moments of the twentieth century in which literate soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems”, writes English lecturer Dr Stuart Lee on Oxford University’s First World War Poetry Digital Archive. According to BBC’s HistoryExtra, “some 2,200 writers published poetry about the Great War between 1914 and 1918, 25 per ce...

Christian symbol, its primarily a symbol of sacrifice. this is what the state had argued, the state of maryland, this is what the american legion argued defending the cross saying the cross, in essence, was the symbol of sacrifice in world war i. think about the poem about flanders fields where the poppies grow, the crosses row by row, that it was a symbol of sacrifice for all religions. justice ginsburg in her accident said theres no doubt its all about christianity. this adds to frankly a mudd...

Pushback in congress, but i think most congressmen and senators understand the need to send a very clear messages on wmd. that after all has been the great concern of all of us since 9/11. military group or a rogue state acquire and use a wmd against united states and its allies. thats the broaders to treated challenge that a trump administration now faces. >> very quickly, sarin gas in a toco system by the cult -- this air strike ironically happened april 6, the anniversary of america getting i...

You know or people are, they wanted to make sure. its a tactical warning. we dont want to make this about russia, we dont want to make this about bashar al-assad, we have influence, lets make sure that this regime doesnt do what it does and put the blame there as opposed to russia. when chemical weapons were supposed to leave the country as part of the deal after barack obama set the redline and that was the deal, clearly this example finds that at some level not all of them left. thats going to...

Against, you know, remembering world war ii and say never again will we watch these atrocities and i look at whats happening oef thereby there where theyre massacring children, what theyre doing to women. to me its atrocious. america used to stand for something of hope. and i think theres a moral imperative right now in this time and place for us to lead the fight against isis. just sending troops on the ground is not going to be enough. it has to be part of a plan overall and the president has ...