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History and Literature:

The day the guns fell silent, about the Armistice, from The Washington Post.

Something interesting that I'd not heard about, in the last paragraph of the article.

Flanders Fields, and the significance of poppies: over here, in [livejournal.com profile] mme_n_b's LJ

Guess who's championing Homer? Radical online conservatives, from The Washington Post.

...Sparta. They would model society on Sparta!... If I ever did agree with their views (which I never did), this would turn me vehemently against them.

The Complicated DNA of ‘God Bless America’. The nation loved the song, which was introduced 80 years ago. But some reviled Irving Berlin for his presumption, as an immigrant and a Jew, in having written it at all, from The New York Times

Medical perspectives:

Sotto Voce: Neurodegeneration often steals something we consider quintessentially human—our ability to speak, from Harvard Medicine

The Name of the Dog, from The New England Journal of Medicine

Comments

Nov. 12th, 2018 11:49 am (UTC)
I was reading yesterday about tactics in those last hours. Pershing made his soldiers fight up until the last minute, killing hundreds, and thought the peace terms were too soft. He was bitterly criticised for it afterwards but in retrospect he probably had a point. The German army did not believe itself defeated, giving rise to the 'stabbed in the back' myth which fuelled Nazism.
med_cat: (woman reading)
Nov. 14th, 2018 09:44 am (UTC)
Interesting, I didn't know that...and yes, perhaps he did have a point.