Showing posts with label centenaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label centenaries. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2019

An annual reminder (2019): Forgotten fields in Flanders on Armistice (Veterans) Day.

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In 2018 the annual renewal of Veterans Day was auspicious because it marked the 100th anniversary of the Great War's end. Since the...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

An annual reminder: Forgotten fields in Flanders on Armistice (Veterans) Day.

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In 2018, the annual renewal of Veterans Day is auspicious because it's the 100th anniversary of the Great War's end. Since the ...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

An annual reminder: Forgotten fields in Flanders on Armistice (Veterans) Day.

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The annual renewal of Veterans Day reminds us that 2017 is the 99th anniversary of the Great War's end. The conflict's centenary w...
Friday, July 01, 2016

"The nation must be taught to bear losses."

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This is a French village in August, 1916. The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to atta...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

A century of Sinatra.

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Just last week, making not explicit connection to Frank Sinatra's centenary, I listened to a collection of his hits with Tommy Dorsey...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

"Sophie, Sophie, don't die! Stay alive for the children."

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This is the image that started it all for me. It shows the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary and his wife, exiting the town hall in S...
Friday, January 11, 2013

Pierce, Thompson and the Manics on the life of Richard Nixon.

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That's right: One hundred years ago on Wednesday, Richard Nixon was born. The tributes are effusive and deadly accurate, as with Char...