As public anger grows in Spain over the government’s lax response to flooding that has killed at least 211 people, footage has emerged showing how one town was spared the worst of the devastation thanks to a 2,000-year-old Roman dam. The video shows how, thanks to ancient Roman […]
MAKE READING INTERESTING AGAIN ~ By all accounts, famous writer John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his wife, Edith, had a close and happy marriage. They were married for 55 years, with Edith following Tolkien wherever his life took him. The couple had four children: three sons and one […]
I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modify into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World.; ~ From a letter to George Orwell, dated 21 October 1949. From Letters of Aldous Huxley, ed. Grover Smith; Harper & Row, 1969.
War and mass slaughter of Europe’s finest young men became mechanized, industrial, and all-consuming. No longer did armies simply face each other across a battlefield in ordered rows to slog it out until one side was victorious, entire cities and nations would be left in ruins and generation after generation of young men would be wiped out of existence.
‘Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.’ ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley. English Poet.
This occurred during a pre-election rally of the Freedom Party when the rafters were raised by a spontaneous rendering of “Wenn alle untreu werden” (If all become unfaithful, we remain loyal).
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.’ – President John F. Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway, the war correspondent during Spain’s civil war, had a message for today’s politicians: ‘No one man nor group of men incapable of fighting, or exempt from fighting, should in any way be given the power, no matter how gradually it is given them, to put this […]
The Dead Who Died For Ireland.The dead who died for Ireland!Oh, these are living wordsTo nerve the hearts of patriots—To steel avenging swords—They thrill the soul when spoken,and lowly bend the headWith reverence for the memoriesof all our martyred dead..The dead who died for Ireland—The noble ones—the best,Who […]
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