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Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor

Andrew Frederick Weatherby Beauchamp-Proctor (1894-1921) was South Africa’s highest-scoring fighter pilot during World War One, with 54 victories. “Proccy” (as he became known) was born in Cape Province on 4 September 1894 and was studying engineering at the University of Cape Town when war broke out in August 1914.  He promptly dropped his studies and [...]

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Random remarks about Euro 2012 match turns British police force into minor Twitter sensation

With random insights into England‘s European Championship quarter-final match against Italy, a regional British police force made itself into a minor Twitter sensation on Sunday. By claiming Italian players dive and commenting on tactics, near misses and great saves, Staffordshire Police were a hit on the Internet among England fans. However, one particular tweet certainly [...]

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Britain’s queen sails in 1,000-boat diamond jubilee flotilla

Queen Elizabeth II sailed along the Thames Sunday on a royal barge at the center of a spectacular 1,000-boat river pageant, the highpoint of celebrations to mark her diamond jubilee. The queen travelled down the river on the red-and-gold Spirit of Chartwell amid a water-borne procession of kayaks, steamers and tugs. More than a million [...]

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English Soccer Fans and Players Warned of Possible Neo-Nazi Racist Violence at Euro 2012 Games

Leading soccer officials in the UK have voiced their concerns over the possibility of racial abuse being hurled at both British players and fans, as the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine draw closer. The latest prominent voice to be added to the debate is that of FA chairman David Bernstein who this week has [...]

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Concentrated war efforts

Since 1939, the Führer has acted according to the laws of concentrated military leadership. That is, he was so strong on offensive fronts that he could win “model victories” in Schlieffen’s sense, and strong enough on defensive fronts so that he could stop the enemy. When he fought in Poland, he was on the defensive [...]

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22 June 1941

22 June 1941 was the big event that Churchill and those behind the scenes in England and the USA had long predicted would change the war in their favor. The final source of military assistance, the military colossus of the Soviet Union, could be set in motion against Germany. The unleashing of the Bolshevist army [...]

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The New Humanitarianism

One dominant characteristic of the early Enlightenment – the concern for individual human worth – received new impetus from religion in the reaction against reason. The demand for reform and the belief in human progress were now equated with traditional Christian principles, such as human communality and God‘s concern for all people. Religious humanitarianism shunned [...]

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Mad Parliament:” Beginning Of England’s House Of Commons Author: Lingard, John

With the loss of Normandy under King John, the barons of Norman descent in England had become patriotic Englishmen. They forced their monarch to sign the Magna Charta and thus laid the foundation of English constitutional liberty. John died in 1216 and was succeeded by his son Henry of Winchester, a minor in his eleventh [...]

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On Milton

“Three poets in three different ages born,      Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.      The first in loftiness of soul surpassed,      The next in majesty, in both the last.      The force of nature could no further go;      To make a third she joined the other two.”   From Cowper’s Table Talk: [...]

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Lludd and Llefelys

BELI the Great, the son of Manogan, had three sons, Lludd, and Caswallawn, and Nynyaw; and according to the story he had a fourth son called Llevelys. And after the death of Beli, the kingdom of the Island of Britain fell into the hands of Lludd his eldest son; and Lludd ruled prosperously, and rebuilt [...]

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