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The Ottery Tar Barrels Burning Festival

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Every year on November 5th, for reasons lost in antiquity, the villagers of Ottery St Mary, Devon in England’s West Country race through the streets carrying heavy barrels full of flaming tar in one of the quirkiest of British traditions. The West Country has a history of torchlight processions and a tradition of burning barrels and rolling them down the streets, but Ottery is the only village where barrels aren’t rolled but carried above the head. The tradition is believed to have started in the 17th century, possibly when someone decided that rolling barrels were tame and carrying barrels on the shoulders was far more appealing.

MPs Leaping off the Gravy Train

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Perhaps fearing the long arm of the law, old-Etonian Boris Johnson faces a Tory uprising as 50 MPs join new resistance group. The embattled public schoolboy faces another Tory uprising as 50 MPs join a new resistance group calling for an end to coronavirus lockdown measures.

WWI: Soldiers’ Leisure and Feasts in the Rear

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On November 11, 1918, the Compiègne Agreement was signed in northern France, which ended the First World War (1914 – 1918), or, as it was then called, the Great War. For that time, it was the most massive and bloody military conflict of all the previous 15 thousand conflicts known: 38 states, having mobilized 68 million people, fought for economic dominance and territory for more than four years.

Last-Minute Appeal to Reason

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Catherine Robinson of RIGHT TO LIFE UK has sent out a five-minute to midnight appeal to concerned citizens to come to the defence of the unborn children. The evidence that babies can feel pain in the womb, and during many abortions, highlights the humanity of the unborn child and provides another important reason to introduce legislation to protect the unborn and defenceless child from abortion.

The Infamous Laconia Order

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How did a squadron of U.S. bombers change the rules of the sea which was to cost the lives of tens of thousands of Allied seamen? Few things illustrate the half-lie better than Allied propaganda relating to the Laconia Order. This was Hitler’s instruction that forbade German shipping from picking up distressed survivors at sea.

Eureka! An Honest Member of Parliament

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‘The greatest want of the world is the want of men, men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.’ – Ellen G. White.