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Scan from book published in 1904. FLIEGENDE BLATTER. This image is IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN and you may use them as you like, though I'd love it if you left a comment when you do use them.
ALSO: I do not speak German and have not translated this, so I have no idea what it says. If you feel like translating, please do! I'd love to know what this says.
Cartoon at the bottom continues on page 11.
Suspended Animation Classic #215
Originally published February 7, 1993 (#6)
(Dates are approximate)
Two-Fisted Tales
By Michael Vance
You can’t go home again. What was revolutionary in 1951 is not today because the revolution succeeded. Risqué then, even Marilyn Monroe seems innocent now.
“Two-Fisted Tales” and EC Comics changed comic books forever. In 1951, they were startling; they set a new standard. That standard was adopted, and has now been surpassed many times.
Well, not entirely. The early issues of “Mad” magazine remain unequaled. Certain stories from “Tales from the Crypt”, “Weird Science” and other EC Comics are still classics. But the first issues of “Two-Fisted Tales” now being reprinted seem … tame.
An anthology comic, each issue featured four stories. In the second issue, five artists are represented that all became legends.
John Severin and Bill Elder’s “War Story” is set in the Korean War. “Jivaro Death!” by Harvey Kurtzman takes place on the Amazon River. Both use twist endings that were typical of EC, but atypical of Kurtzman’s later work.
Johnny Craig’s “Flight From Danger” travels to Germany during WWII. Aboard an 18th century ship, Wally Wood spins the tale of a man’s impression into the British navy in “Brutal Capt. Bull”. Craig’s tale of the attempted flight of a scientist to America and Wood’s adventure both fall short of the heights these artists were to reach.
But in ’51, they must have seemed as wild as Monroe.
They lack the sophistication of later “Two-Fisted Tales” stories because most ‘50s comics lacked the maturity that this title and other ECs would eventually inspire. In their day, EC would inevitably become so controversial that they helped trigger the near death of the entire industry under the pink eye of Senator Joseph McCarthy!
Genius has to start somewhere. Alas, genius never stands unchallenged. But don’t save your pennies for later, more innovative issues, or the complete series will never see the light of day. And, at one time, it was the light of day.
“Two-Fisted Tales #2/$1.50, 31 pages, published by Russ Cochran/available in comics shops.
These four images plus two more images used as promos were in The Plain Dealer today. This is a full newspaper page in our Inside & Out section. Promo images are in photostream below.
Our daily circulation is 356,286 with daily readership estimated to be 883,690. So if only one in four readers finds this page, that's still 200,000 "hits," which is much better than this page will do on Flickr!
The images: Flying tigers, Julia butterfly, www.flickr.com/photos/jonfobes/106667951/ Pink orchid and Zebra butterfly.
I hadn't planned to, but I ended up writing the text block for these images, which reads:
Awesome. Orchids. Everywhere.
That pretty much sums up the Cleveland Botanical Garden's "Orchid Mania: Blossoms & Butterflies" show, running through March 26.
The other thing to know about the event can be summed up in even fewer words: bountiful butterflies, approximately three times more than normally seen in the Cloud Forest of Costa Rica biome in the Eleanor Armstrong Smith Glasshouse.
You'll see, among others, Postman, Cattleheart, Zebra Longwing and Julia butterflies and also the captivating Blue Morpho; you'll watch them flutter around orchids, ginger blossoms, leaves, branches and even land on visitors, providing magical moments that have patrons pointing their cameras in three directions at once and clicking shutters as fast as their fingers can function.
And don't forget to visit the spiny desert of Madagascar, also in the glasshouse. The resident chameleon is as beautiful as any flower.
But the stars of this show are the awesome orchids: Big orchids, small orchids, white orchids, purple orchids ... some peer out from frames as living artwork, others spring from free-standing orchid sculptures, and others congregate in pots that haunt every nook and cranny of the botanical garden.
As one weary worker said Thursday during setup for the show, "If there's such a thing as orchid overdose, this might be it!" But of course, there's no such thing as orchid overdose, just as there's no such thing as too much beauty – you always want more.
The Victorians coined the word "orchidelirium" to describe flower madness – now I know why.
Way back in 1908, a weekly - "A Conviccao" - was edited and published by Antonio Xavier Serrao at Cotula vaddo in Saligao village (Goa-India). The picture of the vintage newspaper shows the masthead of its issue dated January 23, 1909. I am anxious to see some of the oldest newspapers.
Says my erudite friend Fr Nascimento Mascarenhas, hailing from Saligao, "A Conviccao, news weekly, Saligao, Cotula. Editor and Publisher Antonio Xavier Serrao (began publishing it in his own printing press, from January 1908 and with some inturuptions, stopped publishing it from 18th May, 1912 no. 188, 4th year... Printed in small folio (no folio pequeno), published from 15th January 1887 to 1895, edited by Gustavo A.de Silva, Leopoldo C.da Gama, Pascoal Joao Gomes and others... May be the copies of this weekly are in the Central Library , Panjim, now shifted to Patto, Panjim. Kindly find out and photograph the first one of January 15, 1887. It will be great." By the way, Fr Nascimento has recently published his fifth Goa book LAND OF THE SAL TREE (pp 290), which contains stories of the history, legends and traditions of Saligao, a typical Goan village and illustrated by Mel D'Souza.
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Justin Morales "On Location"
March 20th, 2016
New York City
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I created a series of flower characters for a book titled Blossom Buddies, published by teNeues in 2009. The book includes 100 blossom buddies.
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Scissor Sisters sono un gruppo pop rock statunitense, formatosi a New York nel 2001. Le loro influenze vanno dalla musica dance al pop rock e della scena dei club gay di New York. Il nome del gruppo deriva dalla posizione sessuale fra due donne detta tribadismo, mentre il loro nome originale completo è Dead Lesbian and the Fibrillating Scissor Sisters
Con il nuovo album "Magic Hour" uscito a maggio, Scissor Sisters annunciano il loro nuovo tour in Europa per il prossimo autunno.
Con il singolo "Only the Horses" che si aggiudica il titolo di brano internazionale più suonato dalle radio italiane di questa estate e già Top 5 nelle classifiche di I-Tunes, Scissor Sisters confermano la loro grande abilità nello scrivere hits che facciano breccia nel cuore e nella testa di un pubblico quanto mai trasversale.
Una vera e propria autorità come Bono li ha definiti “il migliore gruppo pop del mondo”.
Jake Shears (vero nome Jason Sellards) - cantante principale
Babydaddy (vero nome Scott Hoffman) - seconda voce, basso elettrico, tastiera, chitarra
Ana Matronic (vero nome Ana Lynch) - voce, tamburello, percussioni, MC
Del Marquis (vero nome Derek Gruen) - chitarra principale, basso elettrico
Randy Real (vero nome Randy Schrager) - batteria, batteria elettronica, percussioni
In tutti i concerti si aggiunge al quintetto pure John "JJ" Garden, figlio di Graeme Garden dei The Goodies, alla tastiera/chitarra
Once again... VISION Magazine - the leading Art Fashion magazine in China- gave me a part including an interview in their project - me representing Moscow among some other world metropols which are Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London and New York. The theme of the project was the characters of metropols and how the photograhers capture it. Why they chose me? I also asked this question. According to the Editor's words; my images show the real essence of the city not only by itself but through the moments and emotions of the inhabitants, all together defining a character to the city in an honest way. I'm highly honored and happy that I'm doing something right good. :) P.S : I definitely would select different pictures however they've asked 60-70 shots and finally these were chosen for the final layout.
Published by Usborne books in 1979, The Detectives Handbook (also published as 3 separate books) was quite simply my favourite childhood book.
Usborne are always known for the wealth of their illustrations, and these were no different. Pages of Colin King's artwork that made me want to go out and copy it, and above all, I wanted that detectives office!
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Bagattelle d’Inverno, l’ultima grande sfida #snellobb04
Birichinate, cammuffamenti, trasvestimenti, scherzi… insomma, in una parola: Carnevale!
Comunque lo si dica e comunque lo si festeggi, il Carnevale è da secoli una festa in cui la parola d’ordine è “divertirsi”.
Quindi, bando all’austerità e bando alle restrizioni, potevamo, noi di MondoSnello, non cogliere quest’occasione perfetta di Gusto e di Benessere, per vivere l’ultimo grande appuntamento delle gare di cucina di Snello Blind Box?
Eccoci qui, allora, amici di Mondosnello, estimatori dei prodotti Snello Rovagnati e appassionati Food Blogger che partecipate con noi ormai da un tempo che comincia a farsi lungo, perfino “tradizionale” (proprio come ci piace ;-)) a darvi il benvenuto a questa quarta sfida tra pentole, fornelli e… qualcosa di speciale – sennò che Carnevale è!
I fantasiosi piatti saranno assaggiati e votati da una giuria di esperti gastronomi di altissimo livello, a cominciare da Gil Grigliatti, gourmet di cultura ed esperienza internazionale. Da giovane è stato fiduciario Slow Food, nonché ispettore della guida dei ristoranti del Gambero Rosso per diversi anni. Autore del blog bilingue di cultura enogastronomica isymposium.org. Ancora Paolo Barichella, esperto di Food Design, autore del blog barichella.it; Alessia Cipolla, architetto e sommelier, autrice de lacostruzionedelgusto.it; Alessandro Salamone, reduce dalla trasmissione di La7 Chef per un giorno, autore di spaghettibites.com e ancora Angela Tomaiuolo co-fondatrice del web magazine milanodabere.it. Inoltre sarà presente Giacomo Kratter, otto volte campione italiano ed ora allenatore della Nazionale Italiana Snowboard. Quella da snowboard però non è l’unica tavola che ama: infatti Giacomo è un grande appassionato di cucina e adora farsi coccolare in ristoranti di lusso.
La giuria per l’occasione sarà presenziata dallo chef stellato e pluripremiato Davide Scabin, uno dei più apprezzati in Italia e all’estero, noto al grande pubblico per la partecipazione, nei panni di giudice dei cuochi in gara, a La Prova del Cuoco condotto su Rai1 da Antonella Clerici.
Per questo, abbiamo deciso di mettere insieme una serie di ingredienti saporiti, variegati, originali, proprio come in ogni ricetta gourmet che si rispetti:
- un pizzico di tradizione – la sede di InKitchen Loft, che ormai è prontissima ad accoglierci, in qualunque veste ci presentiamo
- e uno di modernità – quello che emana netto dalle protagoniste della gara, giovani donne che si muovono agili tra vite professionali sfidanti e articolati ménage familiari
- una buona dose di fantasia - fatta di maschere, costumi e colori sgargianti
- e l’ingrediente segreto – le nostre amate BlindBox, chiuse fino all’ultimo secondo anche al più ardito degli sguardi
- il tutto cosparso con una spruzzata di giocosità bambina – grazie a un buon numero di piccoli “scavezzacollo” che avranno il loro tavolo, i loro ingredienti, i loro cibi, e soprattutto una chef d’eccezione - Stefania Corrado, la “Multitasking Chef” che più che presentazioni merita i nostri più sentiti complimenti ;-) – a guidarli alla scoperta del buon cibo, del gusto e del mangiare bene… sapendolo preparare.
Già, perché, in fondo, soprattutto in un’era estremamente tecnologica come la nostra e come quella di quell’immediato futuro in cui saranno loro i protagonisti del mondo – far mettere “le mani in pasta” ai nostri bimbi lo consideriamo un onore, oltre che un piccolo grande contributo all’educazione dei “buoni mangiatori” di domani…
Amanti della cucina, appassionate del gusto, attente all’armonia dei sapori e alla cura per la buona e la bella tavola
Estimatrici di ricette snelle - per velocità, capacità, leggerezza - esperte nella valorizzazione degli ingredienti di stagione e nella rivisitazione moderna di piatti tradizionali, si sfideranno, si concentreranno su pentole e fornelli dimenticando tutto il resto, per dare il meglio di sé.
Ecco le Food Blogger di Snello BlindBox 04 – Bagattelle d'Inverno, vere animatrici dell'evento, che con le loro ricette e la loro esperienza renderanno onore ai prodotti Snello, Gusto e Benessere.
Loro si presentano così...
Lina D’Ambrosio
spadellatissima.com
Quando le chiedi di descriversi ,lei si presenta così: "Sono industrial designer e grafica, con una grande passione, quella del Food Blogging". Eppure non è tutto: inguaribile amante del buon cibo, dei viaggi, dell'arte e della fotografia, è sempre irresistibilmente affascinata mdai molteplici modi in cui un animo creativo può riuscire a esprimersi. Una frase che la descrive: "Mi piacciono la semplicità e la genuinità delle cose fatte in casa."
Serena Oliva
cucchiaiodistelle.com
Nella vita professionale, è architetto e designer, e per questo studia la relazione tra gli esseri umani e la tecnologia. Tuttavia, ha anche un'altra vita, quella da foodie, in cui è innanzitutto una mamma e una Food Blogger che progetta ricette, cucina piatti colorati, sani e golosi, cuoce il pane in casa e disegna insieme ai suoi bambini. Il motto che ha scelto per sé? "If in doubt, bake a cake"
Irene Prandi
Psicologa, piemontese, animata da una vera passione per la comunicazione e la condivisione, ha trovato nell'arte del cibo un mezzo straordinario per celebrare entrambe. Il suo viaggio da Food Blogger inizia con un blog creato in sordina, tuttavia in molti la notano e in ancora di più la seguono. Insomma, et voilà, il suo cammino continua rigoglioso, condito da sapori, ricette, un grande amore per il territorio, e tanta curiosità per tutto ciò che è "altro".
Arianna Vianelli
unafranciacortinaincucina.com
Non c'è dubbio, il suo nome è già un affermazione forte e chiara. Dice subito chi è e da dove viene. Almeno tanto quanto il suo blog nato dal desiderio di ritagliarsi uno spazio tutto proprio dove raccogliere e condividere le sue più grandi passioni: la cucina, il vino, gli amici e la Franciacorta.
Insomma, semplicità e ironia, ricette ed eventi, vini locali
e non solo, sono gli ingredienti di "una franciacortina in cucina".
Quindi, tra la stuzzicante prospettiva di gustosissimi lecca lecca di parmigiano con crudo e bresaola e prove di formine su pasta sfoglia con fette di prosciutto, in attesa delle prelibatezze imprevedibili che ci prepareranno le nostre sfidanti – adulte ;-) – non resta che invitarvi a conoscere un po’ meglio Lina, Serena, Irene e Arianna, giovani, pimpanti e agguerrite Food Blogger che ancora una volta ci delizieranno di una versione inconsueta e sorprendente dei prodotti che amiamo di più, con un occhio attento, come sempre, alla stagionalità.
SnelloBlindBox_04_CucinaTuVi abbracciamo, dunque, in un turbinio di coriandoli che non lascia presagire niente di… scontato :-)
e invitiamo tutti voi a fare festa con noi a Snello Blind Box 04 – Bagattelle d’Inverno il 6 marzo 2014, alle ore 18.30 e – perché no – a cimentarvi, insieme alle nostre “chef per passione”, in ricette e piatti che, siamo sicuri, saranno gustosissimi. Come raccogliere la sfida? Semplice, partecipando a Snello BlindBox CucinaTu – l’iniziativa pensata apposta per la #gente_di_MondoSnello che ormai ci segue da molto tempo.
In attesa di assaporare tutto il meglio che Snello Blind Box 04 – Bagattelle d’Inverno saprà regalarci – e non abbiamo dubbi - a presto!
I have another eight photos which have been published. They appear in a brochure by the Tennessee Trails and Byways program entitled "Screaming Eagle Trail" and have been rearranged into the montage here. The brochure can be found at most any rest area in the state or can be downloaded as a PDF here:
tntrailsandbyways.com/trail/10/screaming-eagle/
The photos which are mine are:
1) Loretta Lynn's Kitchen - www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/3671591488/
2) Cumberland Furnace Depot - www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/2706188416/
3) Hickerson Hotel - www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/5444884236/
4) Dickson War Memorial Building - www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/3635504322/
5) Ragan's Furniture - www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/3193282129/
6) Dickson County Courthouse - www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/5563129735/
7) Patsy Cline Memorial - www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/6256626597/
8) Birthplace Shrine Chapel - www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/3783786973/
Happy day - my work (eight photos!) has just been published in a pinhole collection called Dark Chamber Vol II by Urban Fox Press .
Featuring work by Billy Childish, Wolf Howard, Dave Wise, Nhung Dang, Antonio Goncalves, Matthias Hagemann, Terry Towery, Lena Kallberg, Mark Tweedie, Boris Malyi, Arunas Kulikauskas, Christian Nze, Suzanne Rochette, Peter Wiklund, Robin Cruz, Leslie Bastress, David Gates, Gabriel Biderman, Hugh Jones, Steve Irvine, Ian Bodfish, Willem Labeji, Melissa Joi Slepekis, Ohte Kumi, Simon Peevers, Karl Farrer, Patrick Schaudy and Aurelie Hubert.
Woodcut cover artwork by Billy Childish.
Nhung Dang is in this book too, great images -
OM newsletter was published by Roger Priest, a seaman apprentice journalist assigned to the Pentagon and the Washington Navy Yard 1969-70 that criticized the brass, opposed the war in Vietnam and urged military personnel to form a union and had a national circulation of about 1,000.
Its publication resulted in a court martial for Priest where he faced charges of soliciting fellow soldiers to desert, urging insubordination and making statements disloyal to the United States that could have resulted in up to six years hard labor, forfeiture of pay and grade and a dishonorable discharge.
Priest was ultimately convicted of promoting disloyalty and given a reprimand, reduction in rank and a bad conduct discharge. At the time it was regarded as a victory for Priest.
In 1971, a panel of Navy appeals judges reversed that conviction and awarded Priest an honorable discharge, A later review of the case by Rear Admiral George Koch, commandant of the Washington Naval District, dropped the reprimand.
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Punta de la Salina, Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZE
Focal Length: 100 mm
Exposure: 0.8 sec at f/22
ISO: 50
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I forwarded one the photos I took at the Barclays bank robbery to The Birstall Post - the local community newspaper.
My photo, complete with credit, was published.
From here: www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Raiders-break-cash-machine-Bar...
Intruders smashed their way into a bank and then broke into its cash machine – possibly by filling the device with explosive gas or liquid and igniting it.
Two men targeted the branch of Barclays in Sibson Road, Birstall, at 4am today.
They smashed a window to the side of the cash machine to get into the bank.
Some residents reported hearing a loud bang at around that time, thought to be the cash machine exploding, although police have not confirmed that.
Other residents said they had seen what looked like gas-fuelled cutting equipment left behind at the scene.
A tube from what appeared to be oxyacetylene cannisters could be seen connected to the exterior cash machine.
A Leicestershire Police spokeswoman said a “large amount” of cash was stolen. The bank was closed and cordoned off throughout the day as police examined the scene.
Two men were seen leaving the scene in a Vauxhall Vectra which was later found abandoned in nearby Rectory Road, Wanlip.
Police are appealing for information.
A local business owner said: “Some people were saying on Facebook that they heard a loud bang.
“I live nearby but I didn’t hear anything, but it was four o’clock in the morning.
“I saw what looked like oxyacetylene equipment outside the bank in front of the cash machine. I don’t know what they’ve done exactly, but there was no sign of damage outside.”
Another resident said: “There were police all around the bank through the morning and it was closed.
“People are saying these men blew the cash machine apart somehow to open it.
“It sounds like an incredibly dangerous thing to do.”
Detective Constable Clare Moore, who is investigating the incident, urged anyone who heard or saw anything suspicious in Sibson Road please contact police.
“The car was found abandoned a few hours later and has since been recovered for forensic analysis,” she said.
“If you saw someone leaving the vehicle in Rectory Road, Wanlip sometime during the early hours then please get in touch.”
A Barclays spokeswoman said: “I can confirm that an incident involving our cash machine took place.
“As a result, it was necessary to close the branch.”
The bank was expected to open as normal tomorrow.
Contact Det Con Moore on 101 or Crimestoppers, which is anonymous, on 0800 555 111.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Penrose & Palmer of Oxford, and printed by The Vandyck Printers Ltd. of Bristol.
The card was posted on Monday the 29th. June 1931 to:
Mrs. L. Willey,
Holcombe Hall,
Dawlish,
S. Devon.
The very brief message on the divided back was as follows:
"D. K.
Bill".
Queen's College Oxford
Queen's College Oxford was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Queen Philippa of Hainaut (wife of King Edward III of England). The college is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassical architecture, which includes buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor.
In 2015, the college had an endowment of £265 million, making it the fifth wealthiest college (after St. John's, Christ Church, All Souls and Merton).
In April 2012, as part of the celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, a series of commemorative stamps were released featuring A-Z pictures of famous British landmarks. Queen's College's front quad was used on the Q stamp, alongside other landmarks such as the Angel of the North on A and the Old Bailey on O.
The most famous feast of the College is the Boar's Head Gaudy, which originally was the Christmas Dinner for members of the College who were unable to return home over the Christmas break between terms, but is now a feast for old members of the College on the Saturday before Christmas.
Queen's College Alumni
Alumni of Queen's include:
- Tony Abbott, 28th Prime Minister of Australia
- Rowan Atkinson, actor and comedian, known for Blackadder and Mr. Bean
- Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher, and legal and social reformer
- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
- Cory Booker, United States Senator from New Jersey
- Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles
- Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, English jurist and judge
- Edmund Halley, English astronomer
- King Henry V of England
- Edwin Powell Hubble, American astronomer
- Sir John Peel, gynaecologist to H.M. Queen Elizabeth II
- Leopold Stokowski, conductor.
John Bailey
So what else happened on the day that Bill posted the card?
Well, the 29th. June 1931 was not a good day for John Bailey, because he died on that day.
John Cann Bailey, who was born on the 10th. January 1864, was an English literary critic, lecturer, and chairman of the National Trust.
Bailey qualified as a barrister, but did not practise law. He attempted unsuccessfully to enter politics, and later became a leading figure in the National Trust.
As a literary critic he wrote twelve books and many reviews in literary journals. He was assistant editor of The Quarterly Review, and chairman (later president) of the English Association.
-- John Bailey's Life and Career
Bailey was born in Wymondham, Norfolk, the third son of Elijah Crosier Bailey, a solicitor, and his wife, Jane Sarah née Cann.
He was educated at Haileybury College and, from 1882 to 1886, at New College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class degree in classics. He made many friends in the literary and artistic circles of Oxford, and developed his love of fine arts and Greek and Latin classics.
He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1892, but never practised law; he had a private income adequate to sustain him.
John made an unsuccessful attempt to enter politics as a Conservative candidate, losing at parliamentary elections in 1895 and 1900. Among those elected to parliament at the first of these elections was Alfred Lyttelton, to whom Bailey was for a time assistant private secretary.
In April 1900 he married Lyttelton's half-sister, Sarah Kathleen (1879–1941), the eldest daughter of the second marriage of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton. They had three daughters, the youngest of whom predeceased Bailey.
Bailey was a prominent member of the Literary Society, of which he eventually became president. He was also active in the affairs of the Johnson Society. His principal activity in public affairs was with the National Trust, of which he was chairman from 1923 until his death. The Times commented in 1931:
"The strong position which the National
Trust now occupies is largely due to him,
and it will perhaps never be known how
many generous gifts of rural beauty and
historic interest the nation owes, directly
or indirectly, to his persuasive enthusiasm."
Of Bailey's output as a literary critic, his biographer Algernon Cecil wrote:
"Bailey's intense pleasure in good talk may
possibly have restricted his literary output,
but his literary ambition was always
circumscribed.
He related that when people asked him to
write a magnum opus he used to counter by
enquiring: "If I write it, will you buy it, and will
you read it?"
It is arguable that his best work was, in fact,
slight in compass. He himself may have rated
highest his Milton (1915), a little book, but many
of his contemporaries felt that Dr Johnson and
his Circle (1913) gave his particular powers their
fullest scope".
Bailey was deputy editor of The Quarterly Review, 1907–08 and 1909–10. He also wrote articles on literary subjects for The Edinburgh Review, The Fortnightly Review and other Reviews.
A leading member of the English Association, he was its chairman from 1912 to 1915, and president from 1925 to 1926. John was a frequent lecturer on literature; among his appointments were those of Warton Lecturer to the British Academy, 1919; Clark Lecturer, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1921; Taylorian Lecturer in the University of Oxford, 1926; and Fry Lecturer to the University of Bristol, 1927.
During the First World War Bailey worked for British intelligence, where he was responsible for propaganda in France, Spain, and Italy. In 1918, transferred to the Foreign Office he was involved in the planning for the Paris peace conference. After the war he was a candidate for the chair of poetry at Oxford, but the election was won by H. W. Garrod.
-- The Death of John Bailey
Bailey died at his house in South Kensington, London, aged 67. He was laid to rest at Wramplingham, Norfolk, near his birthplace.
Published Author: Robert Boyd - as photographed for his book jacket - " The Road To Nowhere."
Robert's non-fiction book on Canadiana, was published in 06 or 07 by local publishing firm - Granvile Island Publishing.
My happy homeschooler loved the book and found it very fascinating!
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The Postcard
An S.B. Series greetings postcard published by Solomon Bros. Ltd. of Graphic House, New North Road, London.
The card was posted on Wednesday the 21st. June 1916 to:
Mrs. W. H. Clarke,
3 Newby St.,
Wandsworth Road,
Clapham,
London SW.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Horrie,
Just to wish you many happy
returns and good luck.
So sorry I have not written
before I am rather busy now.
Have you heard from Will?
I owe him a letter I think.
When does he come home?
Elsie is coming to see you
tomorrow evening.
Love from all, Kate".
The Battle of Carrizal
So what else happened on the day that Kate posted the card to Horrie?
Well, on the 21st. June 1916, close to 100 United States Cavalry and militia loyal to Venustiano Carranza clashed at the town of Carrizal, Chihuahua, Mexico.
The battle resulted in 14 Americans killed, 39 wounded and 24 captured, with 27 Mexicans being killed and 11 wounded.
Joseph Bamford
The day also marked the birth in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire of Joseph Cyril Bamford CBE, British business executive and founder of the multinational JCB manufacturing company, manufacturing heavy plant.
Biography of Joseph Bamford
Joseph Bamford was born into a recusant Catholic family which owned Bamfords Ltd., an agricultural engineering business.
Joseph's great grandfather Henry Bamford was born in Yoxall, and had built up his own ironmongery business, which by 1881 employed 50 men, 10 boys and 3 women.
Bamfords International Farm Machinery became one of the country's major agricultural equipment suppliers, famous for its balers, rakes, hay turners, hay wufflers, mangold cutters, and standing engines, which were exported all over the world. The company eventually ceased trading in 1986.
After attending Stonyhurst College, Joseph joined the Alfred Herbert company in Coventry, at the time the UK's largest machine-tool manufacturer, and rose to represent the firm in Ghana.
He returned home in 1938 to join the family firm, but in 1941 was called up by the RAF to serve in World War II. Working in supply and logistics, he returned to the African Gold Coast, to run a staging post for USAF planes being ferried to the Middle East.
JCB
On returning home in 1944, Bamford initially worked for English Electric developing electric welding equipment in Stafford. A short return stint with the family firm proved too stifling, and his Uncle Henry released him, saying he thought:
"Joe has little future ahead of him."
After selling Brylcreem for a short while, in October 1945 Bamford rented a 10 feet (3 m) by 15 feet lock-up garage for 30 shillings (£1.50) a week, and made a farm trailer from scrap steel and war surplus Jeep axles, using a prototype electric welder bought for £2-10s (= £2.50).
He opened for business on the day his first son, Anthony, was born, and sold the trailer for £45 and a cart, which he also repaired and sold for another £45.
Having no interest in taking over rival businesses, Joseph's philosophy was:
"Focus on what you do best, be innovative,
and re-invest in product development and
the latest manufacturing technologies."
His strategy resulted in a series of market-leading innovations:
-- 1948 – Introduced the first hydraulic tipping trailer in Europe.
-- 1950 – Moved to an old cheese factory in Rocester, Uttoxeter, where the workforce totalled six.
-- 1951 – Began painting his machinery yellow.
-- 1953 – Brought out his breakthrough product, the backhoe loader.
-- 1957 – Brought out the "Hydra-Digga", incorporating the excavator and the major loader as a single all-purpose tool which was useful for both the agricultural as well as construction industry, which JCB grew with.
-- 1958 -- Bought ten motor-scooters with the number plates JCB1 to JCB10, to get their number plates to transfer to his firm's vehicles.
-- 1991 – Brought out the JCB Fastrac high speed agricultural tractor.
With exports to the United States beginning, profits increased from 1960 onwards. JCB won seven Queen's Awards for Exports as its sales spread to more than 130 countries around the world, while Bamford himself was appointed a CBE for Services to Export in 1969.
In 1993, he became the first British citizen to be honoured in the Association of Equipment Manufacturers Hall of Fame, and remained the only British inductee until his son Anthony was inducted in 2008.
Marketing
What made Bamford different from many engineers was that he was also a marketeer. Bamford personally demanded to know daily from his staff how many "JCB Yellow" vehicles were off the road awaiting spares. Bamford created an image that JCBs were there to work, and if an owner-operator's machine was down, then Bamford wanted to know about it—which gained him 95% of the owner-operator market in the UK.
Bamford placed a 12 V socket into the cab of his vehicles, and delivered the first 100 personally, arriving in his Rolls Royce with number plate JCB1.
One of the first Lear jets in Europe was purchased to fly in non-UK customers (the fleet has since got larger), who were met by another European first, a stretched Cadillac with the same number of seats as the jet. Bamford also conceived the "Dancing Diggers," whose 1999 display in Las Vegas stopped the gamblers.
Personal Style
A non-smoking teetotaller, who was so careful with his money that he claimed his wife still made their own curtains, Bamford worked from 09:00 until 23:00 every day. He saw his role in life to be like the Nonconformist Cadbury and Lever families.
He built Rocester along the lines of Bournville and Port Sunlight into an effective marketing home for the company, and an efficient production centre and a virtual "home" for his employees.
He saw no need to recognise trade unions. The Rocester works were surrounded by 10,000 acres (40 km2) of landscaped grounds in which his company's employees could shoot, fish, swim, and sail.
Bamford paid more than fair wages, which rose regularly, and annual bonuses based on reports of individual worth. In 1967 Bamford stood on a farm cart and handed out personal cheques totalling £250,000.
This extraordinary focus in return gave unprecedented levels of workforce flexibility, with the average JCB employee through the strike-dominated 1970's and early 1980's, being seven times more productive than the average British manufacturing worker.
Retirement
In 1975, Bamford left his wife Marjorie (née Griffin – married 1941), handed over the business to their two sons, and set up home with his secretary, Jayne Ellis, in Switzerland as tax exiles.
He continued to design both boats and diesel engines. Bamford was awarded the honorary degree of a Doctor of Technology from both Loughborough University in 1989 and Keele University in 2000.
The Death and Legacy of Joseph Bamford
Bamford died at the age of 84 in a London clinic on the 1st. March 2001.
At his death, JCB was the largest privately-owned engineering company in Great Britain, employing 4,500 people and manufacturing 30,000 machines a year in 12 factories on three continents.
JCB had revenues of £850m in 1999, earned from 140 countries.
Joseph's portraits by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies and Leslie Smithers (whilst he was still the head of his JCB empire) are in the National Portrait Gallery.
William B. Ruger
Also born on that day was William B. Ruger, an American inventor who developed the Ruger Standard firearm.
William, who was born in New York City, was co-founder of Sturm, Ruger & Co. William died in 2002.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by Ern. Thill of Brussels.
The monument in the Place du Faubourg St. Paul in Dinant records the execution by firing squad of 83 Dinant citizens, of whom 45 were women, by the invading Germans on the 23rd. August 1914.
The Battle of Dinant
The Battle of Dinant was an engagement fought by French and German forces in and around the Belgian town of Dinant in the Great War, during the German invasion of Belgium.
On the morning of the 15th. August 1914, German troops captured the Citadel of Dinant which overlooked the town; the Citadel was recaptured by a French counter-attack during the afternoon.
French troops spent the next few days fortifying the Meuse crossings and exchanging fire with German troops on the east bank.
A German raiding-party drove into Dinant on the night of the 21st. August, but the attack degenerated into a fiasco in which the Germans fired at each other.
Rather than assume that the small-arms fire had come from the French on the west bank, the Germans blamed Belgian civilians, killing seven and burning down 15 to 20 houses in reprisal. The raiders ran away, with 19 dead and 117 wounded.
On the 23rd. August, the Germans attacked Dinant again, under the impression that the town was full of francs-tireurs (snipers; terrorists to the Germans) and massacred 674 unarmed Belgian civilians, while fighting the French, who were dug in along the west bank and on the east end of the bridge.
The massacre was a systematic attack on assumed civilian resisters, and was the largest German atrocity perpetrated during the invasion, which became known as The Rape of Belgium.
Background to the Battle
In 1914, Dinant had a population of 7,000 people, and was an important strategic crossing on the Meuse, where the river flows through a south–north gorge. Three roads and a path converged on the town from the east, over an escarpment and down into the town, along which an attack from the east would come.
The wooded ridge on the east bank was topped by the Napoleonic era stone Citadel of Dinant overlooking the town and the Meuse bridge, 100 m (330 ft) below.
In 1914 there was a ribbon of streets about 4 km (2.5 mi) long on the east bank, a few hundred metres wide. Before the battle, the Mayor of Dinant urged the population to not take part in the fighting, and forbade manifestations in support of the Allies.
Prelude to the Battle: 6th. - 14th. August
The first steps in the German invasion of France began with the Occupation of Luxembourg and the invasion of Belgium on the 4th. August. Five German infantry brigades, three cavalry divisions with horse artillery and machine-gun detachments and ten Jäger battalions crossed the Belgian border.
The 5th. Cavalry Division advanced through Luxembourg and entered Belgium on the 10th. August, with orders to advance 60 km (37 mi) north-west to Dinant and then scout the Meuse as far as the French border near Givet.
The town of Dinant was close to the French border, between Liège and Mons on the east bank of the Meuse. On the 6th. August, Belgian engineers dispersed a patrol of German hussars at Anseremme and on the 12th. August, French infantry at Dinant destroyed a cavalry patrol.
By the 14th. August, the French Fifth Army had occupied Dinant and the west bank of the Meuse. The next day, the main force of the German 3rd. Army, commanded by Colonel-General Max von Hausen, arrived.
The 15th. August
On the 15th. August, the 12th. Freyberg Jäger Battalion and the 13th. Garde-Jäger Battalion supported by horse artillery and machine-guns, attacked the town and citadel. The Germans got a machine-gun into the citadel around 11:45 a.m. and the French retreated through a small stairway along the cliff, having had 50 percent casualties. Jäger descended the stairway and advanced into the town by 1:30 p.m.
In Dinant a civilian had been killed, one had been wounded and the hospital and houses on the east bank had been hit by shells.
Night raid, 21st. August
A German raiding party mounted in motor vehicles attacked Dinant on the night of 21st. August and killed seven civilians and burned 15 to 20 houses. Germans claimed later that civilians had attacked them, although the civilians stated that it had been an attack by drunken soldiers. A German soldier wrote later that they had been ordered to:
"Kill everyone and wipe off the map one part
on the left bank of the Meuse!!!
It was a tremendously colossal honourable task,
and if successful, it would be famous for all time".
The Massacres of the 23rd. August
At 4:50 a.m. on the 23rd. August, in a thick fog, 57 German artillery batteries began to bombard Dinant.
Two German columns advanced into the Dinant town centre, along rue Saint-Jacques and a road down into Faubourg Saint-Nicolas and the Place d'Armes.
Three civilians were shot at the riverbank where they had fled from the soldiers, who later admitted that they had no idea if the victims had taken up arms. The Germans killed male civilians during the day, and at 5:30 p.m., 27 men were shot in the Rue des Tanneries.
The German troops barricaded streets with furniture and soldiers from IR 182 captured a man on suspicion of firing at them, although he was unarmed, and tied him to a barricade as a human shield. When German artillery mistakenly bombarded the force, the man was shot before the Germans withdrew.
German troops set fire to houses, and by late afternoon the area was on fire; in Leffe and St. Jacques 312 civilians had been killed by the Germans.
Near the town centre, Grenadier Regiment 100 entered Faubourg Saint-Nicolas, where they were fired on by French troops. The Germans had anticipated attacks by civilians, and each time they reached a door they stopped, fired through windows and threw bombs into the cellars.
To cross the Place d'Armes, which was visible to the French across the river, the Germans used civilians as a human shield. Dinantais forced from houses were held at an iron works and the prison in the Place d'Armes. German soldiers on high ground outside the town fired on civilians in the prison courtyard for a time.
In the late afternoon, 19 men at the ironworks were shot; the rest were taken to the Place d'Armes, being made to shout, "Long live Germany! Long live the Kaiser!" along the way.
Soldiers of GR 100 separated 137 men, lined them up against a garden wall and shot them, on the orders of Lieutenant-Colonel von Kielmannsegg, the Battalion commander.
A local magistrate was sent across the river to warn francs-tireurs that the hostages would be shot if the firing continued. The magistrate returned having been shot and wounded by the Germans on the way and said that only French soldiers were firing.
After more gunfire, civilians were lined up against a wall and shot. Of the 77 victims, seven were men over 70, 38 were women or girls, and 15 were children under 14 (seven being babies).
When the Grenadiers reached the west bank, they killed 86 civilians in Neffe; 23 civilians found hiding under a railway viaduct were shot, and 43 were taken to the east bank and shot there.
Aftermath of the Battle
On the 24th. August, the area of Dinant south of the bridge, which had not been attacked on the 23rd., was systematically burned down by the Germans.
Dinant was looted, and German troops destroyed public and historic buildings, including the collegial church and the town hall.
When IR 178 crossed the Meuse to Bouvignes, 31 villagers were killed. The Germans claimed that the civilians helped the French, and 19 people, including two ten-year-olds from Hastière-par-Delà, were killed and the village burned.
Survivors later gave evidence recorded by the Belgian Second Commission report. The Tschoffen wall massacre was not committed to punish alleged francs-tireurs, because the soldiers knew the victims were innocent as individuals.
However they perceived them as collectively responsible for the actions of supposed francs-tireurs. When people asked the guards why they had been assembled in the iron works:
"Some said it was for our own safety.
Others said we were to be executed
for shooting".
Casualties and Commemoration
Fires set by the Germans on the night raid of the 21st. August provoked the flight of 2,500 inhabitants the next day.
On the 23rd. August, about 674 civilians were massacred, 1,200 houses were burned down and 400 people were deported to Germany and interned until November.
This massacre was the largest of "The Rape of Belgium", which was instrumental in the US involvement in the war.
The killings continued on the 24th. August; houses burned for days and lit up the countryside and the stench of corpses polluted the air as they decomposed in the sun.
The Germans lost 1,275 men killed and about 3,000 wounded, and the French had about 1,100–1,200 casualties in the fighting around Dinant.
In the 4th. Infantry Brigade (Général de Brigade Philippe Pétain), Lieutenant Charles de Gaulle was among the first to be wounded, receiving a bullet in the fibula.
On the 6th. May 2001, Walter Kolbow, a high secretary at the German Ministry of Defence, placed a wreath and bowed before a monument in Dinant to the victims bearing the inscription:
'To the 674 Dinantais martyrs,
innocent victims of German
barbarism'.
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First Minister: “Choice is between economic recovery or economic retreat."
Growth in Scotland’s onshore revenues last year has more than offset the downturn in oil revenues, figures published today in Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland 2015-16 (GERS) have shown.
The Postcard
A postally unused Victoria Series postcard that was published by J. Davis of 24, Queen Victoria Street, London E.C. and printed at their works in Hamburg.
In the space for the stamp they state that a half-penny stamp is required,. This indicates a publication date prior to the summer of 1918 which is when the rate was doubled to one penny in order to help pay for the Great War.
The card has a divided back, and at the top of the left hand side the publishers have printed:
'This space may now be
used for communication'.
The divided back was introduced in the UK in 1902, therefore the card was published early in the first decade of the 20th. century.
Battle Abbey
Battle Abbey is a partially ruined Benedictine abbey in Battle, East Sussex. The abbey was built on the site of the Battle of Hastings, and is dedicated to St. Martin of Tours.
The Grade I listed site is now operated by English Heritage, and includes the abbey buildings and ruins, a visitor centre with a film and exhibition about the battle, audio tours of the battlefield site, and the monks' gatehouse with recovered artefacts.
The visitor centre includes a children's discovery room and a café, and there is an outdoor themed playground.
In 1070, Pope Alexander II ordered the Normans to do penance for killing so many people during their conquest of England. In response, William the Conqueror vowed to build an abbey where the Battle of Hastings had taken place, with the high altar of its church on the supposed spot where King Harold fell in the battle on Saturday, 14 October 1066.
William started building it, but died before it was completed. Its church was finished in about 1094 and consecrated during the reign of his son William known as Rufus.
William I had ruled that the church of St Martin of Battle was to be exempted from all episcopal jurisdiction, putting it on the level of Canterbury. It was remodelled in the late 13th. century, but virtually destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538 under King Henry VIII.
The abbey and much of its land was given by Henry VIII to his friend and Master of the Horse, Sir Anthony Browne, who demolished the church and parts of the cloister and turned the abbot's quarters into a country house.
It was sold in 1721 by Browne's descendant, Anthony Browne, 6th Earl of Montagu, to Sir Thomas Webster, MP and baronet. Sir Thomas had married the heiress Jane Cheek, granddaughter of a wealthy merchant, Henry Whistler, to whose vast inheritance she succeeded in 1719.
Webster was succeeded by his son, Sir Whistler Webster, 2nd Baronet, who died childless in 1779, being succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother. Battle Abbey remained in the Webster family until 1857, when it was sold to Lord Harry Vane, later Duke of Cleveland. On the death of the Duchess of Cleveland in 1901, the estate was bought back by Sir Augustus Webster, 7th baronet.
Sir Augustus (son of Sir Augustus, 7th baronet) was born in 1864 and succeeded his father as 8th baronet in 1886. In 1895, he married the only daughter of Henry Crossley of Aldborough Hall, Bedale. Sir Augustus was formerly a captain in the Coldstream Guards.
The descendants of Sir Augustus Webster, 8th baronet (died 1923) who brought the extinction, finally sold Battle Abbey to the British government in 1976 and it is now in the care of English Heritage.
It was an all-girls boarding school when Canadian troops were stationed there in the Second World War, and continues to this day as a successful school for both boys and girls.
All that is left of the abbey church itself today is its outline on the ground, but parts of some of the abbey's buildings are still standing: those built between the 13th and 16th century. These are still in use as the independent Battle Abbey School.
Visitors to the abbey usually are not allowed inside the school buildings, although during the school's summer holidays, access to the abbot's hall is often allowed.
The church's high altar reputedly stood on the spot where Harold died. This is now marked by a plaque on the ground, and nearby is a monument to Harold erected by the people of Normandy in 1903. The ruins of the abbey, with the adjacent battlefield, are a popular tourist attraction, with events such as the Battle of Hastings reenactments.
Schmap Oxford Tenth Edition
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Mapmaker: Royal Geographic Society
Published: 1899
A fine map from the great Royal Geographical Society that strove to understand some of the more remote regions of the world. This map Lake Urmia Basin, spans from Tabriz and Urmi, south into the hills. Notes the major rivers and tributaries, as well as towns and cities.
Urmia (Turkish language: Urmu, Urmiyə, اورمیه; farsi: ارومیه) variously translitterated as Oroumiyeh, Orūmīyeh and Urūmiyeh, is a city in and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 577,307, with 153,570 households.
The city lies at an altitude of 1,330 m above sea level on the Shahar Chay river (City River). Urmia is the 10th most populated city in Iran. The population is mainly mainly Azerbaijanian Turkish(85-90%), with Kurdish, Assyrian Christian, and Armenian minorities.
Urmia is situated on a fertile plain called Urmia Plain, on western side of Lake Urmia; and eastern side of Turkish border and marginal range of mountains.
Urmia is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit (especially Apple and Grape) and Tobacco are grown. An important town by the 9th cent., Urmia was seized by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks.
Urmiye (Türkçesi:اورمو, Urmu, اورمیه, Urumiyə;Farsça: ارومیه, Orumieh), İran'ın Batı Azerbaycan Eyaleti'nin yönetim merkezi olan şehir. Şehir, bağlı olduğu eyaletin orta kısmında, Urmiye Gölü ile Türkiye sınırı arasında, kendi adıyla anılan ovada kuruludur. Nüfusu 2006 yılı verileriyle 577,307 kişidir ki Urmiye ülkenin en büyük 10. şehridir.
Urmiye şehrinde nüfusun çoğunluğunu (tahmini 90%) Türklerdir, azınlık kısmınıysa Kürtler, Süryaniler ve Ermeniler oluşturuyor.
Photograph published 14th December 1918
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognize anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
[Published by] Otto Schmidt, Höchenschwand
Feldpost (military mail that required no postage), postmarked January 28, 1916
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 10th of September 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by L. C. H. The card has a divided back.
Enemy artillery during the Great War targeted churches, cathedrals and other tall buildings because of their value as observation posts. Shells aimed at churches which just missed their target tended to fall in the churchyards, throwing up gravestones, coffins and corpses.
'The Shell' by H. Smalley Sarson
'Shrieking its message the flying death
Cursed the resisting air,
Then buried its nose by a battered church,
A skeleton gaunt and bare.
The brains of science, the money of fools
Had fashioned an iron slave
Destined to kill, yet the futile end
Was a child's uprooted grave'.
Abba Eban
"History teaches us that men and
nations behave wisely when they
have exhausted all other alternatives".
This was said during a speech in London UK on 16th. December 1970 by Abba Eban (1915-2002), an Israeli diplomat and writer.
Visé Paris
The reference to 'Visé Paris' means that the image has been inspected by the military authorities in the French capital and deemed not to be a security risk.
'Visé Paris' signifies that the card was published during or soon after the end of the Great War.
Vermandovillers
Vermandovillers is a commune in the Somme département in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is situated 26 miles (42 km) east of Amiens.
A Great War Battle at Vermandovillers
A German attack occurred on the 24th. September 1914. It was partially blocked by the 75th. Infantry Regiment at Vermandovillers’ Etoilé woods near to Herleville.
The front was stabilised for two years until the spearhead attack of the 4th. September 1916 at edge of Etoilé woods. The attack had been assigned to the 132nd. Division of the 10th. Army, against heavily concreted machine gun bunkers that the Germans had been building for 2 years.
The battle ended on the 9th. September 1916 because of lack of troops. The 158th., the 366th. Infantry Regiment and the 1st. Battalion Chasseurs showed exemplary conduct and suffered heavy losses.
Between the 4th. and 9th. September 1916, the 86th. Brigade lost 1,071 men, the 264th. Brigade lost 1,513 and 108th. Brigade 1,580.
These figures account for the fact that within a 5 kilometre (3 mile) radius around Vermandovillers, there are buried 1,261 French soldiers. 22,632 German soldiers lie in the Vermandovillers German war cemetery, including the writers Reinhard Johannes Sorge and Alfred Lichtenstein.
In the Somme there are 410 Commonwealth cemeteries,
22 French Military cemeteries and 14 German cemeteries.
The largest of them is the German cemetery situated on the
French front at Vermandovillers. 10,000 men were laid to rest under black crosses; the remainder were buried in 15 mass graves.
The British are not counted because although many were killed in the fighting, they are buried mainly near the Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial.
A Poem About the Battle of the Somme
'It was 1916 on the 1st of July
That artillery and smoke blackened the sky.
Shots rang out and men fell dead,
The sky was black, while the ground was red.
To battle the Germans the French and British had come,
To the bloodiest fight of the War, The Battle of the Somme.
While artillery rained down on the German side
The allies swallowed their fear and stood with pride.
Waiting to be ordered over the top,
To run without question, don’t look back and don’t stop.
But this is when the slaughter started,
Machine guns screamed out as bodies and limbs became parted.
Fifty-eight thousand casualties in one single day
‘A necessary loss’ the Generals would say.
‘We will rest for now and recommence tomorrow
No time for the men to indulge in their sorrow’
So they readied the next batch of men for the slaughter,
Would they fare better when faced with the mortars?
The answer to this question was obviously no
As the casualty counts continued to grow.
For every single centimetre of ground that was taken
The lives of two men were sadly forsaken.
And so the battle waged on and on,
The bloodiest battle of World War One.
Yet as they made progress towards German lines,
The allies had one thing in the front of their minds.
For the Germans had a weapon the allies had yet to discover
One that would find men even if they took cover.
As the allied assault drew nearer and nearer
The time to use this weapon had never been clearer.
The little grey canisters flew through the air
Giving the allied forces more than a scare.
The men now engaged in a fight for their lives,
They could not protect themselves with their guns or their knives.
Their only weapon now was a mask
But fitting it in time was a very hard task.
‘Gas, Gas!’ some men would cry
Most had masks, the rest would die.
Their screams could be heard as they approached their death,
Blood curdled in their lungs as they drew their last breath.
Eventually their eyes would roll back in their head
And with a final twitch and spasm they lay still, dead.
And so the battle waged on and on,
The bloodiest battle of World War One.
Even with the threat of the German gas,
It was time for a final allied assault to mass.
And with this Britain unveiled their tank
When the battle ended they had this to thank.
It stormed over No-Man’s Land, through German wire,
The Germans shook in fear as it prepared to fire.
For the British troops it opened the way,
For the deaths of their comrades the Germans would pay.
And the German death count grew and grew
As the allied assault continued to break through.
And though the fighting had not ended,
The morale of the allies began to get mended.
They pushed with valor towards their objective,
With a new vigour the Germans had not expected.
Although the enemy held, and did not retreat
This battle is viewed as a German defeat.
It was 1916 on the 21st of November
That the five month long battle was finally over.
No shots rang out but thousands were dead,
The sky was still black, the ground was stained red.
To battle the Germans the French and British had come,
To the bloodiest fight of the War, The Battle of the Somme'.
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
If the 170m rounds were on average two feet long, and if they were laid end to end, they would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres); the line would go round the equator over two and a half times. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous. For more on this, please search for "Cotehele Chapel"
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 20th of July 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.