Tag: politics

Not a Country of Sissies

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro says the severity of the coronavirus pandemic is exaggerated, urging his compatriots to stop being sissies in the face of Covid-19 and pointing out that ‘all of us are going to die one day.’ The is growing cynicism over the profits to be made […]

WWI: Soldiers’ Leisure and Feasts in the Rear

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.

Eureka! An Honest Member of Parliament

‘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.

Letters In The Trenches

The post comes to us nightly, we hail the post with glee –
For now we’re not as many as once we used to be:
For some have done their fighting, packed up and gone away,
And many lads are sleeping – no sound will break their sleeping;
Brave lusty comrades sleeping in their little homes of clay. ~ Irish poet Patrick MacGill.