Liverpool born poet and writer Michael Walsh traces his Liverpool roots back to 1865. This was the year his Irish great-grandmother arrived in the Second City of Empire. His parents were born at the turn of what was to become the most tumultuous century in history. Michael's father, Patrick, fought in three major conflicts before reaching his fortieth birthday. His mother, Kathleen, was a former nun turned gun-running renegade.
On leaving school at 15 years of age, Michael spent 12 weeks at the Merchant Navy School for Sailors in Sharpness, Gloucestershire. During his years at sea, he was to visit and work in over 60 countries.
The journalist and broadcaster since provided articles and columns for numerous magazines and international news media. In 2011 he was awarded Writer of the Year by the publishers of Euro Weekly News, Europe's highest-circulation newspaper of its kind. He has authored, edited and ghosted over 70 book titles.
According to the publication, the birth rate in Spain in December and January fell by 22.6% compared to the same period last year. A similar situation is observed in other European countries. Thus, in Italy, the number of new-borns in December decreased by 21.6% compared to last year, and in France, the birth rate in January fell by 13%.
The Guardian accidentally confirmed the suspicions of those who the media dismisses as ‘conspiracy theorists’ with an article suggesting a ‘global lockdown every two years’ was needed to meet Paris climate goals. The title was quickly changed.
A MUM has finally fulfilled her childhood wishlist — and now owns all the toys she ever circled in the Argos catalogue.
Fiona Barnes, 41, has a complete collection of My Little Ponies, Care Bears and Sindy Dolls.
Since the mid-20th century, the world has only ever heard one side of the most horrific war in human history. During the 75 years that have now passed, only a single narrative of the great conflict has been heard.
In Germany, a decision has been made to return from general quarantine to a normal lifestyle during the current month. On March 3, a distance conference of the government and presidential ministers of all federal states took place, which lasted 11 hours. A plan has been developed, a ‘road map’ for cancelling the lockdown throughout the country.
The British Merchant Navy freighter Fiscus, 4,815 tonnes and built by W. H. Seager & Co. loaded a cargo of steel ingots, lumber and a deck cargo of crated aircraft parts in Canada and sailed from Three Rivers to Sydney, Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. There she joined up with the 35 ships making up Convoy SC-7, which left Sydney, Canada on October 5, 1940.
We’re all in this together? Well, not quite. German MP Nikolas Löbel, a member of Angela Merkel’s CDU party, will quit parliament and not seek re-election. British MPs will be smirking as ‘the house’ in Pigminster voted to make corruption legal whilst outlawing principles and honesty.
Death and Transfiguration is neither poem nor soliloquy. The hour of midnight had long struck when my thoughts asked the question, what is it like to die? I was alone, the background to my whimsical notions was Richard Strauss’s musical-poem, “Death and Transfiguration”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced on Russian television that the New World Order has failed, and claims that the world is now experiencing the final death throes of a dying elitist regime.
Culture and art in the German Third Reich achieved an unprecedented and incomparable level of perfection. Porcelain of the Third Reich includes ceramics inspired and created by craftsmen of a standard that are unlikely to be experienced ever again.
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