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World War I remembrance and a forgotten Macomb song The McDonough County Voice The establishment of a new World War I memorial park in Washington, D.C. has once again brought that controversial conflict to national attention. The Great War (as it has been called) was also discussed several years ago, in 2017, on the 100th anniversary of American involvement in that war, which left about 8.5 million soldiers dead, from various countries—including some 116,500 Americans. (Millions of European civilians died as well.) Of course, any war that was touted as “the war to end all wars,” and the...

1 May 2021 • 5:00pm The Thiepval Commonwealth Memorial, which commemorates British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in the 1916 Somme Offensive  Credit: Francois Mori / POOL / AFP Could the First World War have been brought to a negotiated peace before the armistice of November 1918? Could the Armageddon on the Western Front possibly have been ended without victory on either side in late 1916 or early 1917, and the Great Powers return to peace, with millions of young lives saved? In other words, imagine a world with no Battle of Passchendaele, perhaps no Bolshevik Revolution, maybe even no...

Students & Covid in Greece : “Tell me where this ends” In Greece a lockdown has been in force since early November and universities are closed since February 2020. The so-called “Gen Z”, who had endured a 10-year economic crisis has been renamed “generation Covid” or even “quarantine generation”, reports Kostas Zafeiropoulos in Athens. Published on 29 April 2021 at 16:51 Bohemian Rhapsody Mama, Ι just killed a man. Ι didn’t stay inside in bed, I walked past him, now he’s dead. Mama, life was so much fun.  But now I’ve caught this unforgiving plague.  The pandemic ...

In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to as “alarums and excursions”: battles, chases, clashes, and the stuff of excitement. It might seem counterintuitive, but there are many books about warfare that take a comedic approach. This is probably rooted in the kind of grim gallows humor often shared by people in a dark and dangerous situation. In Pandora’s...

A word of advice to anyone preparing for post-vaccination, “real-world” social interaction again: practice your dinner party small talk. I learned this the hard way last week at a small, intimate dinner at CytyByrd, a cafe inside the Salt Lake City and County Building. It had been a long time since most of us mingled with strangers, and a lot of us didn’t quite know what to do with ourselves less than six feet apart. (Well, at least I didn’t.) Some of the guests were having less of a hard time, probably because they had character sheets and scripts to work with. This party was part of...