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• Lest we forget

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 580
  When I was at school everything stopped for a minute at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month while we observed a minute’s silence in commemoration of the end of World War I. It’s called Remembrance Day in Britain. Our remembrance day is Anzac Day but it is still important to acknowledge Armistice Day, to ...
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• LOC 11/10/2009: Memes And Blog Welfare Queens

  
  Left Of Center Podcasts — Authority: 136
  Didja Know Glenn Beck as a hypocrite? I mean, besides the fact that he’s a talk show host. I have story about a guy that took on Glenn Beck, and won. I bet Beck doesn’t bring it up. We will. Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs (The Blogosphere’s First Welfare Queen) has a thing about Islam, that much is pretty ...
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• Our ‘Reassured’ Allies

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  Justin Logan beat me to the punch , but Robert Kagan and Dan Blumenthal’s op-ed in the Washington Post warrants more than just one comment. Kagan and Blumenthal fret that the Obama administration’s policy of “strategic reassurance” is sure to fail. Aimed at encouraging Russia and China, especially, to ...
  10 hours ago

• Norman Buys a Box of Kleenex

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 480
  Kleenex anyone? I love marketing. I love marketing almost as much as I love my guns, and I love my guns more than I love my children. The only thing that keeps us from oblivion and lower phone bills is marketing. Without it, we’d be cavemen living in substandard caves without carpeting or decent furniture. ...
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• The Melancholy Daze, Satterfield cartoon

  
  Photos from the Vault — Authority: 112
  November 8, 1918 This was the other comic on the Daily Telegram’s page two that day . As fall swept in the end of World War I was near at hand. This cartoon by Bob Satterfield shows a downcast Kaiser Wilhelm II with a can labled defeat, tied to a leg and leaves falling with the same label. A jaunty teddy bear ...
  12 hours ago

• World War I audio archive

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 625
  The British Library has acquired an audio archive of British prisoners recorded at POW camps in Germany during World War I. The World’s Patrick Cox will have more details in today’s show. (Audio available after 5PM Eastern) The World in Words podcast The British Library
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• ‘Blackadder goes forth’ or ‘How I learned to enjoy ‘rat au van’

  
  Vulpes Libris — Authority: 469
  ">"> It is 7 November 2009, I’m enjoying a glass of Pedro Ximinez sherry after a delightful dinner while listening to the ticking of an early trench watch (dated from 1919). I am pondering Armistice Day and today’s subject, Blackadder Goes Forth. The First World War was ‘The Great War’ and ‘The War to ...
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• 64% of public feel that the war in Afghanistan is “unwinnable”, ComRes poll finds

  
  Net News Daily — Authority: 572
  A new ComRes poll, commissioned for the BBC’s Politics Show, has found that 64% (nearly two-thirds) find that the Afghanistan War is “unwinnable” as more and more criticism hits Westminster over the controversial war. These new findings are up from 57% of the public last year on the same issue. The poll also ...
  2 days ago

• Did You Know? Countdown to Veterans Day 2009 (11/08)

  
  Holiday Rap - Holidays on the Net Holiday Blog — Authority: 143
  Did You Know? Facts & Figures About America’s Veterans Day Nov 08 : 03 days till Veterans Day Did you know that Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day? The first Armistice Day was held on November 11, 1918 to commemorate the end of World War I. (Major hostilities of WWI were formally ended ...
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• Photos from the Vault 2009-11-07 22:49:30

  
  Blog Obispo — Authority: 136
  November 8, 1918Let the blames begin.The Daily Telegram crashed back to reality after the giddy extra edition. Advertising was back on the front page and three headlines tried to explain what went wrong. In today’s era of rapid communication the premature peace announcement would be truth tested as soon as it was ...
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• Back To The Drawing Board

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 151
  When would I have time to manage a football team? This is just one good reason why you should never give youngsters a survey about World War I & II. Hmm, this is the findings after 2,000 kids aged from 9 to 11 were polled by the veterans’ charity Erskine.1 in 20 thought Hitler was a German football manager, 1 ...
  4 days ago

• Did You Know? Countdown to Veterans Day 2009 (11/07)

  
  Holiday Rap - Holidays on the Net Holiday Blog — Authority: 143
  Did You Know? Facts & Figures About America’s Veterans Day Nov 07 : 04 days till Veterans Day Did you know that Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans? Veterans Day is both a federal holiday as well as a state holiday in all 50 states, and is usually observed on ...
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• St. Kitts - Nevis Remembers The Dead of World Wars

  
  Nevis Island Tourism Information Blog. — Authority: 140
  The War Memorial In St. Kitts - Lest We Forget Photo By Erasmus Williams Basseterre, St. Kitts - Nevis November 2009 (CUOPM) St. Kitts and Nevis will remember its nationals who fought and died in the two World Wars on Sunday (Remembrance Sunday). The traditional National Day of Remembrance to those who gave ...
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• Schoolboy confronts Griffin at memorial

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 143
  BNP leader argues with a 13-year-old at WWI monument to Indian troops Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, has paid a secret visit to a First World War memorial in Belgium - only to become embroiled in an angry confrontation with a 13-year-old schoolboy, The Independent has learnt. On Wednesday ...
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• 1918 Give War a Chance, premature peace announcement

  
  Blog Obispo — Authority: 136
  November 6, 1918It could be the biggest mistake combined history of the Telegram or Tribune’s.An hurried Extra edition was put out on Wednesday (the nameplate says Sunday) with the screaming top headline: GERMANY ASKS PEACE ON WILSON’S 14 POINTSProblem was it wasn’t true yet. The United Press wire service ...
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• Pornographic Past Vs Murderous Present

  
  NOVAKEO.COM — Authority: 134
  “Why would any writer make up stories about the Holocaust?” asks Melissa Katsoulis on mainstream British media outlet The Independent (1). Katsoulis has recently published a book about the history of literary hoaxes . She is interested in particular in a unique fictional genre; namely ‘the Holocaust ...
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• Todays Tribune column: "Forgotten fields in Flanders."

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 478
  Theres another, oddly connected anniversary coming on November 9, which will mark 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell. The armistice in 1918 didnt end the Great War. The fall of the wall might have. BAYLOR: Forgotten fields in Flanders By all such standards, the Great War was especially horrible. The ...
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• First World War, Fourth Bond Drive

  
  Blog Obispo — Authority: 136
  October 3 and 6, 1918War was treated differently by America in the early 20th Century as these advertisements attest. Citizens financed the war directly through bond issues. This was the fourth bond drive of the war.These ads ran on an almost daily basis during the drive, co-sponsored by a local business. Articles in ...
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• Military Censorship of Photographs in World War I

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 734
  Military Censorship of Photographs in World War I : "During the course of World War I, tens of thousands of photographs were withheld from publication by the U.S. military. These included images that might have revealed troop movements or military capabilities, pictures that were liable to be used in enemy ...
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• Sassoon fund gains £550,000 boost

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  Sassoon fund gains £550,000 boost -1.0 5 2009-11-04 13:06:49 1stAngel (with video) A campaign to save the papers of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon for the nation has been bolstered by a grant of £550,000. The National Heritage Memorial Fund’s award to Cambridge University puts it closer to ...
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