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Mads Pedersen started a solo with 56 kilometres to go and held his own against the peloton. Tim Merlier was second at the ...
One hundred and ten years ago, Lt.-Col. John McCrae wrote In Flanders Fields after the funeral of a close friend who had died in battle in the First World War. More than 30 years later ...
Here are seven things people think are British but actually aren’t. There’s no denying that a ‘cuppa’ is a quintessential ...
Fast finishers Jasper Philipsen and Lorena Wiebes will be among the riders most likely at Sunday's Gent-Wevelgem, as the Classics season continues apace. At a monstrous 250km for the men's event and ...
To the staff of Flanders Field Cemetery and the people ... In 1915, a Canadian doctor named John McCrae sat in the back of an ambulance not far from here, and wrote a poem about the heavy ...
OTTAWA - War poet John McCrae, who helped make the poppy an ... has just signed his name to what would be published as "In Flanders Fields." He is sitting on a broken tree branch, his cap perched ...
Graham Broad says a compelling excerpt from a textbook or a passion-filled lecture from a professor does not compare to being physically present in a setting where history occurred.
Even if you’re not into poetry, you will surely recognise the legacy of a lament written on 3rd May 1915 by a Canadian doctor, Lt-Col John McRae. It’s called In Flanders Fields and it goes ... On 28th ...