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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice, and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the sacrifices were like the stockyards in Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American writer
A Farewell to Arms, ch. 27 (1929)More about this quote: wist.info/hemingway-ernest/859…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hemingway #farewelltoarms #cause #glory #hackneyed #inspiration #propaganda #sacredness #sacrifice #war #warishell #wartime #waste #worldwari #wwi #ww1
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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice, and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the sacrifices were like the stockyards in Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American writer
A Farewell to Arms, ch. 27 (1929)More about this quote: wist.info/hemingway-ernest/859…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hemingway #farewelltoarms #cause #glory #hackneyed #inspiration #propaganda #sacredness #sacrifice #war #warishell #wartime #waste #worldwari #wwi #ww1
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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice, and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the sacrifices were like the stockyards in Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American writer
A Farewell to Arms, ch. 27 (1929)More about this quote: wist.info/hemingway-ernest/859…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hemingway #farewelltoarms #cause #glory #hackneyed #inspiration #propaganda #sacredness #sacrifice #war #warishell #wartime #waste #worldwari #wwi #ww1
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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice, and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the sacrifices were like the stockyards in Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American writer
A Farewell to Arms, ch. 27 (1929)More about this quote: wist.info/hemingway-ernest/859…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hemingway #farewelltoarms #cause #glory #hackneyed #inspiration #propaganda #sacredness #sacrifice #war #warishell #wartime #waste #worldwari #wwi #ww1
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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice, and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the sacrifices were like the stockyards in Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American writer
A Farewell to Arms, ch. 27 (1929)More about this quote: wist.info/hemingway-ernest/859…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hemingway #farewelltoarms #cause #glory #hackneyed #inspiration #propaganda #sacredness #sacrifice #war #warishell #wartime #waste #worldwari #wwi #ww1
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Veterans headstone project fears funding promise falls short of need
By Briana Fiore and Sophie HolderThe Headstone Project SA questions why less money than promised appears to be available in federal government grants for veterans' graves.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/headstone-project-funding-concerns/107133716
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Veterans headstone project fears funding promise falls short of need
By Briana Fiore and Sophie HolderThe Headstone Project SA questions why less money than promised appears to be available in federal government grants for veterans' graves.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/headstone-project-funding-concerns/107133716
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Veterans headstone project fears funding promise falls short of need
By Briana Fiore and Sophie HolderThe Headstone Project SA questions why less money than promised appears to be available in federal government grants for veterans' graves.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/headstone-project-funding-concerns/107133716
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Veterans headstone project fears funding promise falls short of need
By Briana Fiore and Sophie HolderThe Headstone Project SA questions why less money than promised appears to be available in federal government grants for veterans' graves.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/headstone-project-funding-concerns/107133716
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Veterans headstone project fears funding promise falls short of need
By Briana Fiore and Sophie HolderThe Headstone Project SA questions why less money than promised appears to be available in federal government grants for veterans' graves.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/headstone-project-funding-concerns/107133716
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March of the ANZACs: For piano solo , c.1916
Sheet music of Alexander F. Lithgow's 'March of the Anzacs: For piano solo'.
Cover illustration depicts Gallipoli Peninsula and the landing of troops and supplies at Gabatepe.
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March of the ANZACs: For piano solo , c.1916
Sheet music of Alexander F. Lithgow's 'March of the Anzacs: For piano solo'.
Cover illustration depicts Gallipoli Peninsula and the landing of troops and supplies at Gabatepe.
University of Otago via DigitalNZ -
March of the ANZACs: For piano solo , c.1916
Sheet music of Alexander F. Lithgow's 'March of the Anzacs: For piano solo'.
Cover illustration depicts Gallipoli Peninsula and the landing of troops and supplies at Gabatepe.
University of Otago via DigitalNZ -
March of the ANZACs: For piano solo , c.1916
Sheet music of Alexander F. Lithgow's 'March of the Anzacs: For piano solo'.
Cover illustration depicts Gallipoli Peninsula and the landing of troops and supplies at Gabatepe.
University of Otago via DigitalNZ -
‘Mini-dictatorship’: Students slam far-right turn at Argentina-run residence in Paris
Weeks before President Javier Milei visits France, scrutiny has grown around an Argentina-run university residence in Paris supposed…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #Paris #AgenceFrance-Presse #Argentina #ArgentinaHouse #Basta! #CiteUniversitaire #FrenchForeignMinisterJean-NoelBarrot #GermanyHouse #JavierMilei #LGBTQrights #SantiagoMuzio #stateterrorism #worldwarI
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Jerusalem, city walls, 1917-1919 / WRD Laurie, 01 Jan 1918
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Jerusalem, city walls, 1917-1919 / WRD Laurie, 01 Jan 1918
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Jerusalem, city walls, 1917-1919 / WRD Laurie, 01 Jan 1918
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Jerusalem, city walls, 1917-1919 / WRD Laurie, 01 Jan 1918
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Renovation tradie's fireplace bomb find sets off blasts from the past
Tradies were this week surprised to unearth a live mortar shell during renovations on a home in Port Adelaide, but a former mayor says such finds used to be commonplace, even in hard rubbish.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/port-adelaide-fireplace-mortar-shell-and-ordnance/107089852
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Renovation tradie's fireplace bomb find sets off blasts from the past
Tradies were this week surprised to unearth a live mortar shell during renovations on a home in Port Adelaide, but a former mayor says such finds used to be commonplace, even in hard rubbish.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/port-adelaide-fireplace-mortar-shell-and-ordnance/107089852
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Renovation tradie's fireplace bomb find sets off blasts from the past
Tradies were this week surprised to unearth a live mortar shell during renovations on a home in Port Adelaide, but a former mayor says such finds used to be commonplace, even in hard rubbish.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/port-adelaide-fireplace-mortar-shell-and-ordnance/107089852
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Renovation tradie's fireplace bomb find sets off blasts from the past
Tradies were this week surprised to unearth a live mortar shell during renovations on a home in Port Adelaide, but a former mayor says such finds used to be commonplace, even in hard rubbish.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/port-adelaide-fireplace-mortar-shell-and-ordnance/107089852
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Renovation tradie's fireplace bomb find sets off blasts from the past
Tradies were this week surprised to unearth a live mortar shell during renovations on a home in Port Adelaide, but a former mayor says such finds used to be commonplace, even in hard rubbish.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/port-adelaide-fireplace-mortar-shell-and-ordnance/107089852
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Wildfires expose — and detonate — buried bombs and mines https://www.byteseu.com/2305642/ #authority #Belgium #BernardCollard #BOMB #border #Fire #forest #Germany #HighFens #MINE #OldMunition #SarahNjeri #site #wildfire #WorldWarI
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Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, 1918 /WRD Laurie, 01 Jan 1918
Laurie Family via DigitalNZhttp://api.digitalnz.org/records/35786104/source
#WorldWarI #AucklandMountedRifles #Palestine #Jerusalem #DamascusGate #Museum #LaurieFamily
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Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, 1918 /WRD Laurie, 01 Jan 1918
Laurie Family via DigitalNZhttp://api.digitalnz.org/records/35786104/source
#WorldWarI #AucklandMountedRifles #Palestine #Jerusalem #DamascusGate #Museum #LaurieFamily
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Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, 1918 /WRD Laurie, 01 Jan 1918
Laurie Family via DigitalNZhttp://api.digitalnz.org/records/35786104/source
#WorldWarI #AucklandMountedRifles #Palestine #Jerusalem #DamascusGate #Museum #LaurieFamily
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https://www.europesays.com/be/34226/ Wildfires expose — and detonate — buried bombs and mines #authority #Belgium #BernardCollard #bomb #border #fire #forest #Germany #HighFens #mine #OldMunition #SarahNjeri #site #wildfire #WorldWarI
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Wildfires expose — and detonate — buried bombs and mines from WWI and WWII
ELSENBORN, Belgium — The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #authority #Belgium #bernardcollard #bomb #border #Fire #forest #highfens #MINE #oldmunition #sarahnjeri #site #wildfire #worldwari
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Kojonup adds names of long-forgotten soldiers to war memorial
By Rachel JenningsA WA farming town has paused to honour 14 long-forgotten servicemen, at the 100th anniversary of its memorial hall.
#History #WorldWarI #WorldWarII #CommunityandSociety #RachelJennings
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Kojonup adds names of long-forgotten soldiers to war memorial
By Rachel JenningsA WA farming town has paused to honour 14 long-forgotten servicemen, at the 100th anniversary of its memorial hall.
#History #WorldWarI #WorldWarII #CommunityandSociety #RachelJennings
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Kojonup adds names of long-forgotten soldiers to war memorial
By Rachel JenningsA WA farming town has paused to honour 14 long-forgotten servicemen, at the 100th anniversary of its memorial hall.
#History #WorldWarI #WorldWarII #CommunityandSociety #RachelJennings
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Kojonup adds names of long-forgotten soldiers to war memorial
By Rachel JenningsA WA farming town has paused to honour 14 long-forgotten servicemen, at the 100th anniversary of its memorial hall.
#History #WorldWarI #WorldWarII #CommunityandSociety #RachelJennings
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Kojonup adds names of long-forgotten soldiers to war memorial
By Rachel JenningsA WA farming town has paused to honour 14 long-forgotten servicemen, at the 100th anniversary of its memorial hall.
#History #WorldWarI #WorldWarII #CommunityandSociety #RachelJennings
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/81080/ Europe’s devastating wildfires unveil deadly new threat – buried bombs from WWI and WWII #Euronews #Europe #wildfires #WorldWarI #WorldWarII
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Bedouin camp? Egypt or Palestine, 1915-1919 / WRD Laurie, 01 Jan 1917
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Bedouin camp? Egypt or Palestine, 1915-1919 / WRD Laurie, 01 Jan 1917
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Bedouin camp? Egypt or Palestine, 1915-1919 / WRD Laurie, 01 Jan 1917
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World's oldest person celebrates her 117th birthday after shaking hands with the king
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How a German pigeon named ‘Kaiser’ became one of the longest-held POWs in American history
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How a German pigeon named ‘Kaiser’ became one of the longest-held POWs in American history
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How a German pigeon named ‘Kaiser’ became one of the longest-held POWs in American history
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How a German pigeon named ‘Kaiser’ became one of the longest-held POWs in American history
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Our Territorials: A chorus march song, , 1914
Sheet music of A.R.Don and H.S.B. Ribband's 'Our Territorials: A chorus march song.'
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Our Territorials: A chorus march song, , 1914
Sheet music of A.R.Don and H.S.B. Ribband's 'Our Territorials: A chorus march song.'
University of Otago via DigitalNZ -
Our Territorials: A chorus march song, , 1914
Sheet music of A.R.Don and H.S.B. Ribband's 'Our Territorials: A chorus march song.'
University of Otago via DigitalNZ -
ANZACs for ever: March, c. 1916
Sheet music of Edyth Rosehall's 'ANZACs forever: march'
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ANZACs for ever: March, c. 1916
Sheet music of Edyth Rosehall's 'ANZACs forever: march'
University of Otago via DigitalNZ -
ANZACs for ever: March, c. 1916
Sheet music of Edyth Rosehall's 'ANZACs forever: march'
University of Otago via DigitalNZ -
Exclusive: Women drivers who tore up the rule book and the race track with death-defying skill
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Exclusive: Women drivers who tore up the rule book and the race track with death-defying skill
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Exclusive: Women drivers who tore up the rule book and the race track with death-defying skill
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Exclusive: Women drivers who tore up the rule book and the race track with death-defying skill
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Exclusive: Women drivers who tore up the rule book and the race track with death-defying skill
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Bulmer Hobson on Roger Casement
#WorldWarI #Ireland #GallantAllies -
Bulmer Hobson on Roger Casement
#WorldWarI #Ireland #GallantAllies -
Bulmer Hobson on Roger Casement
#WorldWarI #Ireland #GallantAllies -
Bulmer Hobson on Roger Casement
#WorldWarI #Ireland #GallantAllies -
Bulmer Hobson on Roger Casement
#WorldWarI #Ireland #GallantAllies