THE GREEN FLAG IS OURS !!!!

WE DID IT!!!

I've not been online a lot recently and this is part of the reason why..............thought you may like an update.
The School where I work is now the first senior school in our education authority to be awarded the ‘Green Flag’ from the organisation Eco-Schools. I’ve written about this before but for those who still don’t know what Eco-Schools is; it’s an international organisation for schools aimed at raising awareness of and supporting action to protect our environment. I am the eco-schools co-ordinator for our school and the ‘Green Flag’’ is the award every school aspires too. I am so proud of these kids, they recycle just about any thing and evey thing that can be recycled from the school and they have spent hours planting and tending our gardening projects. We will recieve a 'real' flag in the post very soon,but untill then the kids made lots of small green paper flags and ran around the school telling every one we had passed our assessment.
Every thing you could ever possibly want to know about Eco-Schools can be found here
http://www.ecoschoolsscotland.org/

Obviously I can’t name the kids or show the photographs of them, but we were in a couple of the local newspapers and one of the newspapers  can be found  online.  You may find this particular link interesting.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2009/11/19/newsstory14130792t0.asp

And to show their appreciation management presented me with a bouquet………………would you believe a GREEN BOUQUET!! I love it

FOR MOTHERS EVERYWHERE

I know I said I was taking a break from multiply, and so I am, BUT; ...............just checking my emails before bed and found this. I just know you're going to love it   lol

Get up now, Get up now, Get up out of bed, Wash your face, Brush your teeth, Comb you sleepy head, Here's your clothes, And your shoes, hear the words I said, Get up now! Get up and make your bed! Are you hot? Are you cold? Are you wearing that? where's your books? and your lunch, and your homework at? grab your coat, and your gloves and your scarf and your hat. Don't forget you gotta feed the cat. Eat your breakfast, the experts tell us, its the most important meal of all! take your vitamins, so you will grow up, one day to be big and tall! please remember the orthodontist will be seeing you at 3 today. Don't forget your Piano lesson is this afternoon, So you must play! Don't shovel, chew slowly, but hurry, the bus is here, be careful, come back here! did you wash behind your ears? Play outside, Don't be rough, would you just play fair? Be polite, Make a friend, Don't forget to share, work it out, wait your turn, never take a dare, get along, don't make me come down there, clean your room, fold your clothes, put your stuff away, make your bed, do it now! Do we have all day? Where you born, in a Barn? would you like some Hay? Can you even hear a word i say? Answer the phone! get off the phone! Don't sit so close, turn it down, no texting at the table! No more computer time tonight! Your IPod's my IPod, if you don't listen up. Where are you going? And with Whom? And what time, do you think you're coming home? Saying Thank You, Please, Excuse me, makes you welcome, everywhere you roam! You'll appreciate my wisdom. Someday when you're older, and you're grown. Can't wait till you have a couple little children of your own. You'll thank me for the counsel i gave you. so willingly, but right now I'll thank you not to roll your eyes at me. Close your mouth, when you chew. We'd appreciate take a bite maybe two of the stuff you hate. Use your fork, don't burp, or I'll set you straight, Eat the food, I'll put upon your plate. Get an "A", Get the door, Don't get smart with me. Get a grip, Get in here, I'll count to 3! Get a Job, Get a Life, Get a PhD, Get a dose of..... I don't care who started it, You're Grounded, until you're 36. Get your story straight! and tell the truth for once, for heaven's sake. And if all your friends jumped off a cliff, Would you jump too? If i said it once, I've said it at least a thousand times before, that you're too old to act this way. It must be your father's DNA. Look at me when I'm talking, Stand up straighter when you walk. A place for everything, And everything MUST BE in place. Stop crying, or I'll give you something real to cry about! (OH!)...Wash your face, Brush your teeth, get your PJ's on! Get in bed, Give a hug, Say a prayer with mom. Don't forget I LOVE YOU..... AND, TOMORROW, WE WILL DO THIS ALL AGAIN..BECAUSE A MOM'S WORK NEVER ENDS. YOU DON'T NEED THE REASON, WHY, BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE! I SAID SO, I SAID SO, I SAID SO, I SAID SO! I AM THE MOM! THE MOM, THE MOM, THE MOM...THE MOM...TA-DA!

A NOTE TO ALL MY FRIENDS; I WILL BE OFFLINE FOR A WHILE. Nothing to worry about, I just need some time out to complete a couple of projects I'm in the middle of. I'm in the process of submitting two paintings to an exhibition, which is something I've never done before and I'm not sure they will be accepted. I have a stall booked in December at a local craft show and I need time to finish some of my craft work and drawings to sell. On top of that I'm deeply involved in a project at work. Over the last 4 years I've founded and nurtured the school environmental group from nothing, to the point where our school is now in the process of being assessed for the top award from ''Eco-Schools''. If you don't know what eco-schools is log onto www.ecoschoolscotland.org and find out.............this is what i've been working toward for ages. If we get this ''Green flag'' award we will be the first senior school in the whole of this area to get it and ...... well no pressure of course :-) So.......... will not be around much for a while cos I'm just a little busy. Before I go I'm going to make sure I post my Song Saturday and Art Sunday for the week. I'm also going to TRY to post something that is half done, full of memories and been sitting on my computer for a month or so. I'll do this especially for the person who shall remain nameless but has beautiful long blond hair, was recently married on the beach, wore a stunning white wedding dress, had a fabulous honymoon, and who hasn't shut up about it for months............................:-)) catcha all later

Art Sunday; the eighteenth century

The last time Lina posted anything was on Nov 16, '08  at 1:38 PM,
That was exactly one year ago. I’ve done what others have done over the last couple of weeks, looked back through her posts and fallen upon something that spoke to me at the time. The post I found this time was one about the 18th century, the thing about her posts were that she actually KNEW what to write. The knowledge was hers, it was her vast and seemingly endless store of knowledge that I most admired.

My posts are usually re-hashed, second hand information taken from other sites on the net. She has prior knowledge of virtually every thing, whereas  I need to look every thing up, this post is no different.

The inspiration for this came from her post which is here;
http://wickedlyinnocent.multiply.com/journal/item/389/Art_Sunday_

and the quotes for it came from here;

http://www.brainyquote.com/

the information for it cam from here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

and there is much more information about all of these people to be found on these links.

I did something quite similar tho this last May on her birthday, and that's here;
http://forgetmenot525.multiply.com/journal/item/299/ART_SUNDAY_HAPPY_BIRTHDAY_Friday_15th_May_To_Our_Art_Loving_Friend

I did find out something interesting, the name Baroque came from Baroque pearls which are simply pearls that have an irregular shape. They have all the luster and allure of any other pearl but their shape is irregular and intricate.

On Jul 6, '08 4:26 PM  she wrote;

If I lived to be eighty, there was no telling how far out of it I might eventually go; perhaps I could slip all the way back into the eighteenth century, which has always seemed to me a nice place to visit. ( from Joseph Epstein's essay Nicely Out of It)

I too love the 18th century, not only because of all the cultural diversity, but also because some of my favourite people lived their whole lives or were born within that period of time, people like Voltaire, Diderot, Fielding, Fragonard, Goethe , Jane Austen, Madame de Staël and many others.

She loved the eighteenth century and these people in particular; 
François-Marie Arouet (November 21, 1694 – May 30, 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and his defense of civil liberties, including both freedom of religion and free trade. Voltaire was a prolific writer and produced works in almost every literary form including plays, poetry, novels, essays, historical and scientific works, more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize Catholic Church dogma and the French institutions of his day.
Voltaire Quote; All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie.Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with Jacques le fataliste et son maître (Jacques the Fatalist and his Master), which emulated Laurence Sterne in challenging conventions regarding novels and their structure and content, while also examining philosophical ideas about free will. Diderot is also known as the author of the dialogue, Le Neveu de Rameau (Rameau's Nephew), upon which many articles and sermons about consumer desire have been based. His articles included many topics of the Enlightenment.
Diderot Quote; Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones.Aside from his literary achievements, he has a significant place in the history of law-enforcement, having founded (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, using his authority as a magistrate.
Fielding quote;
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( 5 April 1732– 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism. The art works on this page are his.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 28 August 1749  – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science. His magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Goethe Quote; All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist, whose realism, biting social commentary and use of free indirect speech have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature. Austen lived her entire life as part of a small and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry
Austin Quote; A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Ill not write another post for Lina, one year has passed and maybe its time to say we love you, we miss you, we’ll never forget you and good bye dear friend.

Video 18th Century European Portraits

0:09 - Thomas Gainsborough - "The Blue Boy"
0:19 - Angelica Kaufmann - "Portrait of a Woman Dressed as Vestal Virgin"
0:31 - Allan Ramsay - "Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau"
0:44 - William Hogarth - "David Garrick with His Wife Eva-Maria Veigel"
0:58 - Jacques-Louis David - "Portrait of Anne-Marie-Louise Thelusson, Comtesse de Sorcy"
1:11 - Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder - "Portrait of Prince Boris Golizyn"
1:24 - Francis Boucher - "Young Woman with a Bouquet of Roses"
1:39 - Maurice Quentin de La Tour - "Self Portrait"
1:52 - Francisco de Goya Y Lucientes - "Portrait of Marqueza Pontejos"
2:05 - Heinrich-Friedrich Fueger - "Portrait of Franz Joseph Graf Saurau"
2:20 - Jean-Marc Nattier - "Marie Adelaide of France as Flora"
2:31 - John Singleton Copley - "Portrait of Mrs. Humphrey Devereux"
2:43 - Anton Raphael Mengs - "Self Portrait"
2:57 - Antoine Pesne - "Portrait of Maria Susanne Dinglinger"
3:11 - Joshua Reynolds - "Colonel George K. H. Coussmaker, Grenadier Guards"
3:24 - Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun - "Portrait of Marie Antoinette"

Music: Final Movement from Mass No. 7 in B flat major composed by Joseph Haydn

Song saturday; from the 18th century

Song Saturday; From the 18th Century

A performance of Anthony L'Abbé's solo Passacaille to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully from the tragédie en musique "Armide".(photo above is a statue of Lully)

This solo choreography was published in Beauchamp-Feuillet dance notation in 1711 by Edmund Pemberton, and was adapted from an earlier (c.1706) Passacaille for two women that is also extant in notation. Here it has been reconstructed by Philippa Waite with reference to dancing manuals from the first half of the 18th century.

Poetry Wednesday; 11.11.2009

06-28 - 1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir-apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary) is Assassinated in the city of Sarajevo along with wife “Sophie”.

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
"Anthem for a Doomed Youth"

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
--Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
 Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries for them from prayers or bells,
 Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
 And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?
 Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
 The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of silent minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

The total number of casualties in World War I, both military and civilian, were about 37 million: 16 million deaths and 21 million wounded. The total number of deaths includes 9.7 million military personnel and about 6.8 million civilians.

AND AS IF THAT ISN’’T HORRIFIC ENOUGH.....................
THIS IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED FROM THEN UNTILL  1999,

information from
http://www.onwar.com/aced/chrono/index1995.htm

1915

Armenian Genocide 1915-17
Anti-Imperial Revolt in China 1915-16
Haitian Revolt 1915

1916 

Basmachi Rebellion in Russia/USSR 1916-31
Irish Easter Rising 1916
Poncho Villa's Raids 1916-17
Preparedness Day Bombing in America 1916

1917

Costa Rican Revolution 1917
Cuban Revolt of 1917
Dominican Occupation Revolt 1917-21
February Revolution in Russia 1917
July Days in Russia 1917
Kornilov Revolt in Russia 1917
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia 1917
Estonian Secession 1917
1918 

Russian Civil War 1918-20
Finnish Civil War 1918
Haitian Occupation Revolt 1918
Hungarian Revolution 1918-19
Kiel Mutiny in Germany 1918
Lithuanian Secession 1918-20
The Teschen Dispute 1918-20
1919 

Armenian Rebellion 1919
Turkish War of Independence 1919-23
Spartacist Revolt: Germany 1919
Bavarian Communist Republic 1919
British Yemeni Consolidation 1919-1937
Bulgarian Transport Strike 1919-20
May 4th Movement: China 1919
Chinese Reoccupation: Mongolia 1919
Costa Rican Counterrevolution 1919
D'Annunzio's War 1919-20
Finish-Soviet Border Dispute 1919-20
French Occupation of Syria 1919-20
Irish War of Independence 1919-21
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 1919
Egyptian Revolution 1919
Milner Mission: Egypt 1919
"Red Terror" in Hungary 1919
Hungarian-Czechoslovakian War 1919
Hungarian-Romanian War 1919
"White Terror" in Hungary 1919
Latvian Secession 1919-20
North Yemeni Consolidation 1919-34
Portugal Monarchists Civil War 1919
Riff War 1919-26
Samil Independence Movement 1919-20
Anglo-Yemeni Border Dispute 1919-34
First Saudi-Sharif War 1919
Soviet-Polish War 1919-20
Assassination of Habibullah Khan 1919
Third Anglo-Afghan War 1919
Masud Insurrection: Waziristan 1919
1920 

Great Iraqi Revolution 1920
Conquest of Asir by the Ikhwan 1920
Second Saudi-Rashdi War 1920-22
Assassination of Britons in Egypt 1920-24
"Red" Invasion of Persia 1920
"White" Occupation of Mongolia 1920
Mexican Civil War 1920
Kapp Putsch: Germany 1920
1921 

Costa Rican-Panamanian Border Clash 1921
Arab-Jewish Rioting in Palestine 1921
Ikhwan Raiding of British Allies 1921-22
Irish Civil War 1921-22
Karl IV's March Restoration 1921
Karl IV's October Restoration 1921
Kronstadt Rebellion in the USSR 1921
"Red" Invasion of Mongolia 1921
Reza Khan's Coup: Persia 1921
Second Greco-Turkish War 1921-22
Zaghlul's Deportation: Egypt 1921
1922

Colombian-Peruvian Border 1922
Copacabana Revolt in Brazil 1922
Kurdistan Occupation Revolt 1922
March on Rome 1922
1923 

Barcelona Revolt: Spain 1923
Bulgarian Communist Uprising 1923
Communist Suppression: Japan 1923-9
Second Italo-Sanusi War 1923-31
Memel Insurrection in Lithuania 1923
Occupation of the Ruhr Valley 1923
Beer Hall Putsch in Germany 1923
1924 

Assassination of Matteotti 1924
Chilean Anti-Alessandri Coup 1924
Estonian Communist Coup 1924
Hindu-Muslim Riots 1924
Prestes Column: Brazil 1924-27
Second Saudi-Sharif War 1924
1925

Chilean Pro-Alessandri Coup 1925
Druse Revolt 1925-27
Kurdish Rebellion in Turkey 1925
Greco-Bulgarian Crisis 1925
May 30th Movement in China 1925-26
Panama City Rent Riot 1925
1926

Indonesian Revolution 1926-27
March on Lisbon 1926
Northern Expedition in China 1926-28
Polish Military Coup 1926
Conservative Coup in Nicaragua 1926
1927

Shanghai Massacre in China 1927
Nanchang Uprising in China 1927
Autumn Harvest Uprising 1927
Canton Commune in China 1927
The Chaco Dispute 1927-29
Mexican Catholic Revolt 1927-29
Nicaraguan Civil War 1927-33
First Ikhwan Rebellion 1927-28
1928 

Afghan Civil War 1928-29
Assassination of Zhang Zuolin 1928
Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt 1928-49
Regent's Coup in Ethiopia 1928
Stalin's "Revolution From Above" 1928-32
1929 

Arab-Jewish Rioting in Palestine 1929
Escobar's Rebellion in Mexico 1929
Mongolian Collectivization 1929-32
Second Ikhwan Rebellion 1929-30
Soviet Invasion of Manchuria 1929
Women's War 1929-30
1930 

Brazilian "Tenentes" Revolt 1930
Cuban Students Agitation 1930
Cuban ABC Terrorism 1930-33
Dominican "Era of Trujillo" 1930
Dervish Rebellion: Turkey 1930
Kurdish Rebellion in Iran 1930
Kurdish Rebellion in Iraq 1930-31
Communist Urban Revolt in China 1930
Yen Bai Uprising in French Indochina 1930-31
1931

Ecuadoran Military Coup 1931
Gibara Rebellion in Cuba 1931
Greco-Bulgarian Crisis 1931
Republican Revolution in Spain 1931
Irgun Terrorism in Palestine 1931-48
Mao's Chinese Soviet Republic 1931-35
Manchurian Incident 1931
Hamaguchi Osachi: Assassination 1931
October Incident in Japan 1931
1932 

Albanian Uprising 1932
Seville Revolt in Spain 1932
Chaco War 1932-1935
Ecuadoran Civil War 1932
Letica War 1932-33
Paulist Revolt in Brazil 1932
Peruvian APRA Rebellion 1932
"Bonus Marchers" Intervention 1932
Kurdish Rebellion in Iraq 1932
The Shanghai War 1932
Assassination of Takuma Dan 1932
Assassination of Inukai Tsuyohi 1932
Thai "Promoters" Coup 1932
1933 

Nazi Revolution in Germany 1933
Anarchists in Barcelona: Spain 1933
Cuban Military Rebellion 1933
Cuban Batista Coup 1933
March Revolution: Uruguay 1933
Japanese Invasion of Jehol 1933
Thai Military Coup 1933
Thai Royalist Revolt 1933
Assassination of Nadir Shah 1933
Young Egypt Movement 1933-49
1934

Alexander I's Assassination 1934
Bulgarian Right-Wing Coup 1934
Asturian Uprising in Spain 1934
Catalan Revolt in Spain 1934
Italo-Ethiopian Border Clash 1934
Saudi-Yemeni War 1934
Socialist Uprising in Austria 1934
Austrian Nazi Putsch 1934
Night of Long Knives in Germany 1934
Stavisky Affair in France 1934
The Great Terror in the USSR 1934-38
Mao's Long March 1934-35
1935 

Albanian Reformist Uprising 1935
Cretan Anti-Royalist Uprising 1935
Greek Coup 1935
Second Italo-Abyssinian War 1935-36
Sakdal Uprising in the Philippines 1935
Brazilian Communist Revolt 1935
Ecuadoran Military Coup 1935
1936 

February 26th Incident in Japan 1936
Kuomintang Mutiny in China 1936
Anglo-Egyptian Treaty Protests 1936
Palestinian Arab Revolt 1936-39
North West Frontier Revolt 1936-37
Rhineland Crisis 1936
Spanish Civil War 1936-39
Mexican Conservative Revolt 1936
1937 

Albanian Reformist Uprising 1937
Austro-German "Anschluss" Crisis 1937-8
Ecuadoran Military Coup 1937
Dominican Massacre of Haitians 1937
Panay Incident in China 1937
Sino-Japanese War 1937-45
1938 

Chilean National Socialist Putsch 1938
Soviet-Japanese Border Clash 1938
Polish-Lithuanian Crisis 1938
Munich Crisis 1938
Danzig Crisis 1938-9
Kristallnacht in Germany 1938
Italo-French Colonial Dispute 1938-9
1939 

Chilean Coup 1939
Peruvian Military Coup 1939
Italian Invasion of Albania 1939
Soviet-Japanese Border War 1939
Japanese Blockade of Tientsin 1939
World War II 1939-45
The Winter War 1939-40
1940 

The Katyn Massacre 1940
Stern Gang in Palestine 1940-48
1941 

Ecuadoran-Peruvian Border War 1941
New 4th Army Incident in China 1941
1942

Internment of Japanese-Americans 1942-45  
1943 

Italian Anti-Facist Coup 1943  
1944 

Nationalist Uprising in Ecuador 1944
Salvadoran Military Revolt 1944
Greek Civil War 1944-49
Guatemalan Teachers Protest 1944
Guatemalan Military Coup 1944
Latvian Partisan War 1944-49
Lith
1945 

AD Coup in Venezuela 1945
Algerian May Day Demonstration 1945
The Setif Demonstration in Algeria 1945
Chinese Civil War 1945-46
Palestinian Mandate 1945-48
Burmese Rebellion 1945-46
Indonesian Independence 1945-50
Kurdish Mahabad Republic 1945-46
1946 

Bolivian Popular Revolt 1946
Chinese Civil War 1946-49
Haitian Military Coup 1946
Huk Rebellion in the Philippines 1946-54
French Indochina War 1946-54
Korean Occupation Rebellion 1946
Paraguayan Coup 1946
Partition of India 1946-47
Portuguese Military Coup 1946
1947 

Pakistani Annexation of Kalat 1947-48
Indian Annexation of Junagadh 1947
Ecuadoran Military Coup 1947
Kashmir War 1947-49
Madagascar Revolt 1947-48
Paraguayan Civil War 1947
Sino-Mongolian Border Clashes 1947-48
Thai Coup d'Etat Group 1947
Triest Incident 1947-53
1948 

Communist Purge in Albania 1948-9
Deir Yasin Massacre in Palestine 1948
Israeli War of Independence 1948-49
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi 1948
Annexation of Hyderabad 1948
Berlin Blockade 1948-9
Karen Revolt in Burma 1948-Present
The "Bogotazo" in Colombia 1948
The "Violencia" in Colombia 1948-58
Costa Rican Civil War 1948
Calderonista Invasion of Costa Rica 1948
Enmore Shootings in British Guiana 1948
Jamaican Military Coup 1948
Malayan Emergency 1948-60
Paraguayan Military Coup 1948
Peruvian Naval Mutiny 1948
Salvadoran Military Revolt 1948
Sino-Taiwanese War 1948-65
Reformers Coup in North Yemen 1948
Korean Guerrilla War 1948-9
Venezuelan Reactionary Coup 1948
Ysu Rebellion in US Occupied Korea 1948
1949 

Bolivian MNR Coup 1949
Congo War 1949-67  
Libyan Revolt 1949-51
Thai Naval Revolt 1949
1950 

Attack on Blair House 1950
Anglo-American Plot: Albania 1950-2
Chinese Communist Terror 1950-58
Chinese Occupation of Tibet 1950
Delgado Assassination: Venezuela 1950
Indochina War 1950-54
Indonesian Civil War 1950-61
Korean War 1950-53
Nationalist Uprising in Puerto Rico 1950
Nepali Congress Rebellion 1950-51

1951 

Argentine Revolt 1951
Bolivian Military Coup 1951
Bulldozing Incident in Egypt 1951
Thai Naval Revolt 1951
Thai Government Coup 1951
Vice Presidential Coup in Panama 1951
1952 

Buraimi Oasis Dispute 1952-55
Bolivian MNR Revolution 1952
"Enosis" Campaign in Cyprus 1952-59
Egyptian Police Militancy 1952
Free Officers' Coup in Egypt 1952
Textile Workers' Strike in Egypt 1952
Tunisian War of Independence 1952-55
"New National Ideal" in Venezuela 1952-54
Maronite Coup in Lebanon 1952
Second Batista Coup in Cuba 1952
Thai Anti-Chinese Campaign 1952-55
Mau Mau War 1952-56
1953 

26th of July Movement in Cuba 1953
Achinese Rebellion in Indonesia 1953-7
British Intervention in Guyana 1953
Colombian Military Coup 1953
East German Uprising 1953
Loatian Rebellion 1953-87
Moroccan Rebellion 1953-55
Druse Uprising in Syria 1953-54
Anglo-American Plot: Iran 1953
Iranian Military Coup 1953
1954 

Algerian Independence 1954-62
Batdambang Massacre 1954
Nagaland Insurgency 1954-Present
Guatemalan Revolution 1954
Paraguayan Coup 1954
Pathet Lao Insurgency 1954-59
Tibetan Uprising 1954
Viet Minh Incursion: Cambodia 1954
1955

Military Revolt in Buenos Aires 1955
Military Revolt in Argentina 1955
Buddhist Rebellion in South Vietnam 1955
Calderonista Invasion of Costa Rica 1955
Israeli Raid on Gaza 1955
Pakhtunistan Crisis 1955-57
"Black Thursday" in Singapore 1955
Student Rioting in Singapore 1955
Sudanese Civil War 1955-Present
1956

Assassination of Anastasio Somoza 1956
Nationalization of the Suez Canal 1956
The Sinai War 1956
Cameroon Rebellion 1956-59
Castro's Revolution in Cuba 1956-59
August Uprising in Honduras 1956
Honduran Military Coup 1956
Hungarian Revolt 1956
Peronist Unrest in Argentina 1956-7
Poznan Rioting in Poland 1956
October Confrontation in Poland 1956
Sino-Burmese War 1956
Tamil-Sinhalese Unrest in Ceylon 1956
Tibetian War 1956-59
Viet Cong Insurgency 1956-65
1957 

Franco-Tunisian Border Clashes 1957
Invasion of Ifni by Moroccan Irregulars 1957-8
Iman's Revolt in Oman 1957
Syrian War 1957  Tunisian Revolt 1957-62
Turko-Syrian Border Incidents 1957
Warsaw Riot: Poland 1957
1958 

Achinese Rebellion in Indonesia 1958-9
Army Coup in Burma 1958
Colombian Civil War 1958-87
French Officers' Revolt 1958
Indonesian PRRI Revolt 1958-61
Iraqi Army Revolt 1958
Lebanese Civil War 1958
Paraguayan Exile Insurgency 1958-9
Communal Violence in Ceylon 1958
Sudanese Military Coup 1958
Thai-Cambodian Border Clash 1958
Venezuelan Military Revolt 1958
1959 

Banadaranaike's Assassination 1959
CPT Insurgency: Thailand 1959-
Rwandan Independence 1959-61
Sieu Heng's Defection 1959
Guatemalan Rebellion 1959-74  
Iraqi Pan-Arab Revolt 1959
Iraqi Antigovernment Rebellion 1959
Paraguayan State of Siege 1959-60
Tibetan Uprising 1959
USR Secession: Maldives 1959-62
1960

Algerian Colonists' Revolt 1960
Guatemalan Army Revolt 1960
Greater Somalia Movement 1960-64
Franco-Moroccan Dispute 1960
Indo-Chinese Skirmishing 1960
Israeli Capture of Eichmann 1960
Iraqi Annexation Threat: Kuwait 1960
Katangan Secession: Congo 1960-64
Laotian Military Coup 1960
Army Coup: Congo 1960
Stanleyville Secession: Congo 1960-1
Ethiopia-Somalia: Border Clashes 1960
Imperial Guards' Coup: Ethiopia 1960
French Army Revolt: Algeria 1960
Salvadoran Military Coup 1960
Sharpeville: South Africa 1960
South Vietnamese Military Revolt 1960
Soviet Plot: Albania 1960
April 19th Students Revolution 1960
Rebel Invasion: Nicaragua 1960
The U-2 Incident 1960 
1961 

Angolan War of Independence 1961-74
Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961
Berlin Wall Crisis 1961
Ecuadoran Coup 1961
Eritrean Secession: Ethiopia 1961-93
Guatemalan Civil War 1961-96
Laotian Civil War 1961-62
Nepali Congress Rebellion 1961-62
Nigerian Civil War 1961-74
Pakhtunistan Crisis 1961-63
Sandinista Insurgency 1961-78
South Korean Military Coup 1961
Syrian Revolt 1961-66
Salvadoran Young Officers' Coup 1961
Yeman War 1961-70
Iraqi Kurd Revolt 1961-63
1962 

Algerian Revolt 1962-65
Argentina's "Black Year" 1962-3
Burmese Military Coup 1962
Cameroon Rebellion 1962-71
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Guatemalan Student Riots 1962
Guinea-Bissau Indepenence 1962-74
Insurrection in Brunei 1962
Pathet Lao Insurgency 1962-75
Dutch New Guinea Guerrillas 1962
Mozambique Independence 1962-75
Rwandan Civil War 1962-63
Sino-Indian War 1962-63
North Yemeni Civil War 1962-70
United Arab Republic Dissolution 1962
1963

Algerian-Moroccan War 1963-64
British Honduras Crisis 1963
Cypriot Civil War 1963-64
Congolese Military Coup 1963
Ecuadoran Coup 1963
Military Coup: Dahomey 1963
Dominican Embassy Raid: Haiti 1963
Dominican-Haitian Clash 1963
Dominican Military Coup 1963
FLQ Terrorism: Canada 1963-70
Guatemalan Military Coup 1963
Haitian Rebel Invasion 1963
Honduran Military Coup 1963
Indonesia Confronts Malyasia 1963-66
South Vietnamese Military Coup 1963
Syrian Nasserite Coup 1963
Tupamaros Terrorism 1963-73
Togolese Military Coup 1963
Tutsi Massacre: Rwanda 1963
1964

Brazilian Military Revolt 1964
Dhofar Rebellion: Oman 1964-75
Maly-Chinese Violence: Singapore 1964
Panama: Anti-American Rioting 1964
Thailand War 1964-87
VP Coup: Bolivia 1964
Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964 
PRP Rebels: Congo (Zaire) 1964-97
Gbenye's Insurrection: Congo 1964
Rann of Kutch Dispute 1964-5
Syrian Urban Unrest 1964
Tanganyikan Army Mutiny 1964
Zanzibar's Revolution 1964
1965

Bolivian Workers' Uprising 1965
Chadian Civil War 1965-90
Mobutu Coup: Congo 1965
Dominican Civil War 1965
Indonesian PKI Purge 1965
Muslim Brotherhood: Syria 1965-85
Nigerian Electoral Dispute 1965-66
First Burundian Republic 1965-66
Thai Rebellion 1965-87
Vietnam War 1965-75
Military Coup: South Vietnam 1965
Second Kashmir War 1965
South Yemeni Independence 1965-67
1966 

Black Panthers in America 1966-73
Chinese Cultural Revolution 1966-69
Central African Republic Coup 1966
Military Coup: Ghana 1966
ELN Insurgency: Colombia 1966-Present
Namibian Independence 1966-88
Nigerian Ethnic Violence 1966
Nigerian Coup 1966
N. Korean Infiltration Campaign 1966-71
1967 

Algerian-Moroccan Border Clash 1967
Biafran Secession 1967-70
Cambodian Tax Revolt 1967-70
Catavi-Siglo Massacre: Bolivia 1967
ELN Insurgency: Bolivia 1967
Cypriot Crisis 1967
Katanga Revolt: Congo 1967
Exiles Invasion: Congo 1967
Colonels Coup: Greece 1967
Honduran-Salvadoran Tension 1967
Officials' Plot: Egypt 1967
Sierra Leone 1967-71
Six Day War 1967
1968 

Basque Terrorism: Spain 1968-
FARC Insurgency: Colombia 1968-
Prague Spring 1968
Dhofar Revolt 1968-74
Malaysian Rebellion 1968-87
Northern Ireland Sectarianism: 1968-94
Panamanian Military Coup 1968
Pueblo Incident 1968
Iraqi Kurd Uprising 1968-70
Sentencing Demonstrations: Egypt 1968
Reform Demonstrations: Egypt 1968
Israeli Raid on Beirut 1968
Peruvian Military Coup 1968
Mali Military Coup 1968
NLF Insurgency: Muscat & Oman 1968
Yemeni Civil War 1968-9
Baath Party Coup: Iraq 1968
1969 

Panamanian January Coup 1969
Panamanian December Coup 1969
Sino-Soviet Border Clash 1969
Sudanese Military Coup 1969
Libyan Military Coup 1969
Shatt al Arab Dispute 1969-71
Palestinian-Lebanese Hostility 1969
Christian-Shia Violence: Beirut 1969-70
Free Papau Movement 1969-Present
FLQ Crisis: Canada 1969
Guyanan Rebellion of 1969
Sanwi Secession 1969
The Soccer War 1969
War of Attrition 1969-70
1970

Baader-Meinhof Gang/RAF 1970-92
Bete Rebellion 1970
Cambodian Civil War 1970-75
Black September: Jordan 1970-71
Lebanese-Palestinian Clashes 1970
NPA Rebellion: Philippines 1970-99
Polish Revolt 1970
Syrian Military Coup 1970
Iranian Plot: Iraq 1970
Syrian Sponsored Terrorism 1970-86
Trinidadian Rebellion 1970
1971

Bangladesh Independence 1971
Bolivian Rightist Revolt 1971
Corrective Revolution: Egypt 1971
Lebanese-Palestinian Violence 1971
PLF Uprising: Ceylon 1971
Monima Revolt: Madagascar 1971
Moroccan Rebellion 1971-73
Rhodesian Civil War 1971-79
Thai Government Coup 1971
Amin's Coup: Ugandan 1971
1972

British Honduras Crisis 1972
Burundian Genocide 1972
Ecuadoran Military Coup 1972
Lithuanian Students Revolt 1972
M-19 Terrorism: Colombia 1972-91
Moro Rebellion 1972-86
North-South Yemen War 1972
Salvadoran Military Youth Coup 1972
Student Unrest: Madagascar 1972
1973

Afghan Military Coup 1973
Balochistan Insurgency 1973-77
Chilean Coup 1973-75
Greek Military Coup 1973
Jumma Insurgency: Bangladesh 1973-97
Israeli Raid on Beirut 1973
Lebanese-Palestinian Clashes 1973
Rwandan Coup 1973
Syrian Constitutional Violence 1973
Thai Students & Workers Revolt 1973
Yom Kippur War 1973
1974

Iraqi Kurd Uprising 1974-75
Madagascar Coup 1974
N. Korean Infiltration Campaign 1974-82
AFM Coup: Portugual 1974
Turkish Invasion: Cyprus 1974
Ethiopian Civil War 1974-91
Malian-Upper Voltan War 1974-75
1975

Angolan Civil War 1975-91
Assassination of Ratsimandrava 1975
Belize Crisis 1975
Cambodian Refugees: Thailand 1975-95
Khmer Raids: Thailand 1975-9
Kampuchean Killing Fields 1975-9
Lebanese Civil War 1975-76
Libyan RCC Coup 1975
Mayaguez Incident: Cambodia 1975
Rightist Coup: Portugal 1975
Leftist Coup: Portugal 1975
Nigerian Military Coup 1975
Pathet Lao Occupation 1975
Panama Canal Negotiation Crisis 1975
Renamo Insurgency 1975-92
South African Rebellion 1975-87
Saharan War 1975-91
San Salvador Demonstration 1975
Syrian Revolt 1975-82
Occupation of East Timor 1975-89
Ogaden War 1975-78
UNF Coup: Comoros 1975
1976

Argentina's "Dirty War" 1976-83
Israeli Raid on Entebbe 1976
Second Burundian Republic 1976
South African Language Rioting 1976
Thammasat Massacre: Thailand 1976
Thai Naval Coup 1976
Nigerian Coup 1976
Peace Village Incident 1976
1977

Hmong Guerrilla War: Loas 1977-92
Bengali Military Coup 1977
Jumblat's Assassination 1977
FRG Commando Raid: Somalia 1977
Comoran Massacre: Madagascar 1977
Coal Miners Strike: Romania 1977
Cost-of-Living Strike: Colombia 1977
"Infitah" Rioting: Egypt 1977
Libyan-Egyptian War 1977
Pakistani Army Coup 1977
Panama Canal Treaty Ratification 1977
Salvadoran Electoral Protest 1977
1978

Iranian Revolution 1979-89
Afghan Marxist Coup 1978
Dominican Electoral Intervention 1978
Drug War: Colombia 1978-
Israeli Invasion of Lebanon 1978
Jonestown, Guyana 1978
Majeerteen Coup: Somalia 1978
SSDF Insurgency: Somalia 1978-86
Mercenary Coup: Comoros 1978
Red Brigades Terrorism: Italy 1978-
Sandinista Revolution: Nicaragua 1978-9
Uganadan-Tanzanian War 1978-79
Kampuchean Intervention 1978-91
Student Riots: Madagascar 1978
Zaire Rebellion 1978-87
1979 

US Ambassador: Afghanistan 1979
Amin's Coup: Afghanistan 1979
Dacko's Revolt: CAR 1979
Soviet Occupation: Afghanistan 1979-88
Military Youth Coup: El Salvador: 1979
Grenadan Military Coup 1979
Iran Hostage Crisis 1979-81
Libyan Invasion of Chad 1979
Y.H. Incident: South Korea 1979
Park's Assassination: South Korea 1979
Second Kurdistan Movement 1979-95
Military Coup in Ghana 1979
Sino-Vietnamese War 1979
Bakalori Protests in Nigeria 1979-80
Ugandan Rebellion 1979-87
North-South Yemen War 1979
Vietnamese Raids: Thailand 1979-88
1980

Catalan Terrorism: Spain 1980-
Liberian Coup 1980
Libyan Army Revolt 1980
Salvadoran Civil War 1980-92
Spanish Embassy: Guatemala 1980
Student Protests in South Korea 1980
Kwangju Uprising: South Korea 1980
Honduran Rebellion 1980-87
Iran-Iraq War 1980-90
Maldivian Coup 1980
Mozambique Rebellion 1980-87  
Military Coup: Guinea-Bissau 1980
Nigerian Maitatsine Rioting 1980-82
Rwandan Coup 1980
Shining Path Rebellion 1980-99
Solidarity Movement: Poland 1980-81
Surinamese Military Coup 1980
Thai-Loation Patrol Boat Incident 1980
Turkish Military Coup 1980
West Nile Terror: Uganda 1980-5
Zimbabwe Rebellion 1980-87
1981

Ecuador-Peru Border War 1981
Contra Insurgency: Nicaragua 1981-90
Comoran Coup 1981
Honduran Leftist Insurgency 1981-90
Assassination of Sadat: Egypt 1981
Israeli Reactor Raid: Iraq 1981
Libyan Invasion of Chad 1981
Libyan Airspace Incident 1981
Marshal Law in Poland 1981-83
Mercenary Coup: Seychelles 1981
Military Coup in Bangladesh 1981
Military Coup in Ghana 1981
Spanish Military Coup 1981
War in the Bush: Uganda 1981-6
1982

Ethiopian-Somalian Border Clash 1982
Falkland Islands War 1982
Guatemalan Military Coup 1982
Islamic Repression: Algeria 1982
Israeli Invasion of Lebanon 1982
Military Coup: Bangladesh 1982
Military Coup: CAR 1982
N. Korean Assassination Plot 1982
SNM Insurgency: Somalia 1982-88
Hindu-Muslim Violence: India 1982
Sikh Separatism: India 1982
Surinamese Unrest 1982
Thai Drug War 1982
1983

Aquino's Assassination 1983
GAL Terrorism: Spain 1983-
Guatemalan Military Coup 1983
Invasion of Grenada 1983
Maldivian Coup 1983
Military Coup: Upper Volta 1983
Nigerian Coup 1883
PLO Terror 1983-87
Rangoon Bombing 1983
Said Ali Kemal's Plot: Comoros 1983
Shooting Down of KAL 007: 1983
Tamil Insurgency 1983-Present
Sudanese Revolt 1983-87
1984

Cameroonian Revolt 1984
Golden Temple Massacre 1984
Indira Gandhi Assasination 1984
Kanak Rebels: New Caladonia 1984-5
Sindhi-Muhajir Conflict 1984-92
Thai-Laotion Border Clash 1984
Turk Assimilation: Bulgaria 1984-5
1985

Agacher Strip War 1985
Comoran Military Revolt 1985
Haitian Revolution 1985-86
Israeli Raid: PLO Headquarters 1985
Nigerian Coup 1985
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior 1985
Sudanese Military Coup 1985
Thai Military Coup 1985
Ugandan Military Coup 1985
1986

Ugandan Civil War 1986-95
American Raid on Libya 1986
Nigerian Student Protests 1986
Philippine Revolution 1986
South Yemeni Civil War 1986
Surinamese Revolt 1986-89
Nicaraguan Incursions: Honduras 1986-7
1987

Battle at the Grand Mosque 1987
Brasov Protest: Romania 1987
Burkina Faso Rebellion 1987
Fijian Military Coup 1987
GP Violence: Comoros 1987
National Civic Crusade: Panama 1987
Student Agitation: South Korea 1987
Bombing of KAL 858 1987
Barracks Uprising: Argentina 1987
Stark Incident 1987
Third Burundian Republic 1987
Thai-Laotion Border Clash 1987-88
1988

Algerian Antigovernment Rioting 1988
Armenian-Azerbaijani War 1988-94
Bougainville Revolt 1988-98
Burundian Pogrom 1988
Burmese Spring 1988
Haitian June Coup 1988
Haitian September Coup 1988
Kanak Separatism: New Caladonia 1988
Kashmiri Insurgency: India 1988-
Lockerbie Incident 1988
Mercenary Coup: Maldives 1988
Palestinian "Intifada" 1988
Panamanian Military Coup 1988
Strait of Hormuz Incident 1988
Venezuelan Fishermen Massacre 1988
1989

Babri Masjid Destruction 1989-93
Casamance Secession 1989-91
Denard's Coup: Comoros 1989
Election Fraud: Madagascar 1989
Georgian April Tragedy 1989
SPM Insurgency: Somalia 1989-90
USC Insurgency: Somalia 1989-90
Romanian Revolution 1989
Liberian Civil War 1989-95
Libyan Fighters Incident 1989
Namibian Transition Crisis 1989
Panamanian Military Coup 1989
Paraguayan Military Revolt 1989
Philippine Military Revolt 1989
Senegal-Mauritania Border War 1989-91
Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989
US Invasion of Panama 1989
Venezuelan Food Riots 1989
Collapse of the Berlin War 1989-90
1990

ANC-Inkatha Violence 1990-94
Mass Demonstrations: Albania 1990
Student Protests in Albania 1990
Mercenary Uprising: Comoros 1990
Democracy Protests: Nepal 1990
Tuareg Separatism: Mali 1990-96
Nigeria: Jukun-Tiv Violence 1990-92
Osh Riots: Kyrgyzstan 1990
Transylvanian Violence: Romania 1990
Tuareg Separatism: Niger 1990-5
Persian Gulf War 1990-91
Philippine Army Rebellion 1990
Somalian Revolution 1990-91
South Ossetian Rebellion 1990-92
Surinamese Revolt 1990-92
Syrian-Phalangist Coup: Lebanon 1990
Trinidadian Rebellion 1990
Tutsi Insurgency: Rwanda 1990-91
Walvis Bay Dispute 1990-4
1991

August Coup: USSR 1991
Croatian Secession 1991-95
Djibouti Civil War 1991-4
Honduran Peasant Massacre 1991
Kurdish Revolt in Iraq & Turkey 1991-
Palace Massacre: Madagascar 1991
Shi'ite Rebellion: Iraq 1991
Slovenian Secession 1991
Sierra Leonean Civil War 1991-6
Somalian Civil War 1991-93
Soviet Intervention: Latvia 1991
Thai Military Coup 1991
Togolese Civil War 1991-2
Tontons Macoutes Revolt: Haiti 1991
Moldovan Civil War 1991-92
Neo-Duvalierists Revolt: Haiti 1991-94
Georgian Civil War 1991
1992

Abkhazian Rebellion 1992-93
Algerian Civil War 1992-
Angolan Civil War 1992-
Bosnian Civil War 1992-95
Bangkok Massacre: Thailand 1992
Comoran Military Coup 1992
February Coup: Chad 1992
May Coup: Chad 1992
Hindu-Muslim Riots 1992
Khmer Rouge Insurgency 1992-8
Nigeria: Kataf-Hausa Violence 1992
Military Coup: Sierra Leone 1992
Dushanbe Demonstration 1992
Tajikistani Civil War 1992-4
Mahore's Anti-Comoran Violence 1992
Venezuelan February Coup 1992
Venezuelan November Coup 1992
1993

Burundian Civil War 1993-4
Georgian Civil War 1993-94
Russian Communist Revolt 1993
Somalian Clan Warfare 1993-
1994

Bajaur Insurgency 1994
Chechen Revolt: Russia 1994-6
Chiapas Rebellion: Mexico 1994
Ghana - Ethnic Violence 1994-5
Rwandan Genocide 1994
1995 
Ecuador-Peru Border War 1995
Ghana - Tribal Violence 1995
Hutu Infiltration: Burundi 1995
Zapatista Suppression 1995
LRA Insurgency: Uganda 1995-
1996 
Burundian Hutu Rebellion 1996-
Burundian Military Coup 1996
Colombian Peasant Uprising 1996
North Korean Infiltration Campaign 1996
Liberian Civil War 1996-7
Military Coup: Sierra Leone 1996
EPR Revolt Mexico 1996
Northern Ireland Sectarianism 1996
1997 
Albanian Rebellion 1997
Anjouan & Moheli Secession 1997
Cambodian Civil War 1997
Sierra Leonean Mutiny 1997
ECOWAS Intervention: 1997-8
1998 
Ethiopian-Eritrean Border War 1998
Kosovo Uprising 1998-9
Northern Ireland Sectarianism 1998
RUF Resistance: Sierra Leone 1998-
Tutsi Rebellion: Congo 1998-
1999 
Ethiopian-Eritrean Border War 1999-

THIS PARTICULAR WEB SITE FINISHES AT 1999 BUT WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE LAST TEN YEARS.  WHEN YOU WEAR YOUR POPPY WITH PRIDE AND WHEN YOU HONOUR AND REMEMBER THE WAR DEAD……………..

PLEASE REMEMBER ALL OF THEM

 

Twenty Years Ago Today ; The Wall

No words needed................who could forget??

Odd title I know, was going to use The Beatles but then thought floyd says it so much better.

Art Sunday; Bernini

Bernini;

source of the Italian Baroque

 

Another one for Lina...........she always seemed very fond of Baroque and Bernini.

Bernini was a sculptor, painter and architect and a formative influence as an outstanding exponent of the Italian Baroque. He was an exceptional portrait artist and owes to his father his accomplished techniques in the handling of marble and also an impressive list of patrons that included the Borghese and the Barbarini families.

Bernini originally worked in the Late Mannerist tradition but rejected the contrived tendencies of this style. By 1624 he had adopted an expression that was passionate and full of emotional and psychological energy. His figures are caught in a transient moment from a single viewpoint, bursting into the spectator's space. In 1644 such interpretation reaches maturity in his rendition of the vision and Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.

The Spanish nun swoons in heavenly rapture at the point of an angel's arrow. The work is a prime example of Bernini's vision of a decorative whole combining different materials and colours within an architectural space.

A succession of powerful patrons in Rome and in Paris assured his reputation as an entrepreneurial artist who captured the spirit of the Counter-Reformation.

His extreme and intense characterizations have fallen in and out of favor but his Baroque legacy remains intact."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/bernini.html

Remembrance Sunday 2009

   THE AVERAGE AGE OF 'THE FALLEN' IN THE WAR GRAVES

OF WW1 IS 21 YRS.

For The Fallen
    With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
    England mourns for her dead across the sea.
    Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
    Fallen in the cause of the free.

    Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
    Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
    There is music in the midst of desolation
    And a glory that shines upon our tears.

    They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
    Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
    They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
    They fell with their faces to the foe.

    They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
    At the going down of the sun and in the morning
    We will remember them.

    They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
    They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
    They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
    They sleep beyond England's foam.

    But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
    Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
    To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
    As the stars are known to the Night;

    As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
    Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
    As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
    To the end, to the end, they remain.

AND SO IT GOES ON...........................................................

Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), the poet and art critic, was born in Lancaster in 1869.  He worked at the British Museum before going to war, having studied at Trinity College, Oxford where he won the Newdigate poetry prize.  Whilst on the staff of the British Museum he developed an expertise in Chinese and Japanese art.

Aside from his best known poem For The Fallen (1914), most notably the fourth stanza which adorns numerous war memorials, Binyon published work on Botticelli and Blake among others.  He returned to the British Museum following the war.  His Collected Poems was published in 1931.

   

Song Saturday, Riders on the Storm... (and photos)

Today I went for a walk along St Cyrus beach and stood transfixed by the devastation before me. Last week we had storms and floods. Roads were closed, trees uprooted and farmers fields left looking like lakes.

As I wandered along taking photos of the beach this song just kept buzzing around my head. No video to the music but the sound quality is pretty good
……ahhhhhh the memories this brings back!!!

Art Sunday; The Glasgow Girls (because Lina said she really liked this one)

When I first discovered  ''Art Sunday'' I tended to stick to what I knew, which is Scottish Art. I remember Lina telling me she really liked these posts because Scottish Art is still relitivly unknown outside  Scotland. Her knowledge and understanding of ''The Arts'' far suppassed any thing I could ever  aspire too but still she took a genuine interest in what ever we posted. This particular post was one she contacted me about, I emailed her the original piece of work it was taken from and she wrote thanking me. And so..............because I know she liked it... I'm just re-posting the links to the original, the blog and the album, both exactly as they were when she read them in july last year. I was going to 're-hash' it a bit but then decided not to, this one is for Lina and this is how she liked it. 

Where ever you are Lina this one is for you because I know you liked it.

 

http://forgetmenot525.multiply.com/journal/item/60/Art_Sunday_The_Glasgow_Girls

 

http://forgetmenot525.multiply.com/photos/album/68/Art_Sunday_The_Glasgow_Girls

Poetry Wednesday; My November Guest

My November Guest
By Robert Frost (1874–1963).  
From A Boy’s Will.  1915.

MY Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.
Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She's glad the birds are gone away,

She's glad her simple worsted gray
Is silver now with clinging mist.
The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,

And vexes me for reason why.
Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell her so,
And they are better for her praise.


AUTHOR:Frost, Robert, 1874–1963.
TITLE:A boy’s will, by Robert Frost.
PUBLISHED:New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915.
Originally published: 1st ed. London: David Nutt, 1913.

Maybe it’s possible to see things through the eyes ofsomeone else. I used to hate the winter, it’s cold, grey, damp and unappealing. But after living here on the east coast for over twenty years I find I relate to this poem. Sometimes there is a beauty in the leafless trees and grey sky that is different, but in its own way just as beautiful, as a warm sunny day, and I find the people who have always lived here recognise this.

ART WORK BY AMERICAN ARTIST
LESLIE MCCALLEN GILBERT
WEB SITE FOR ARTIST HERE

http://www.lesliemccallengilbert.com/

A lifelong resident of Nashville. Lesley left the area briefly to study art and photography at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee and  earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990. Continued to study art independently and through classes and workshops in painting and drawing.  Studied for six years  under the tutelage of local portrait artist Michael Shane Neal in Nashville.

Work shown  locally at the annual Harding Academy Art Show, the University School of Nashville's Artclectic Show, the Central South Art Exhibition, Belle Meade Plantation, and the Temple Arts Festival at The Temple Congregation Ohabai Sholom,  Local Color Gallery on Broadway in Nashville and at Willis Gray Gallery in Decatur, Alabama.