Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Sunday, 3 November 2024

We have become so efficient in killing each other!

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My grandfather who fought in World War I (1914-1918) and came back injured but alive was one of the lucky ones. The total loss of soldiers i...
Monday, 20 March 2017

A Plague of Our Times

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The plague has struck humanity repeatedly over our long history. An early mention of the plague occurs in 1 Samuel, in the old Testament, w...
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Saturday, 26 March 2016

Grandmaster Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII meet up

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Crac des Chevaliers In 1142 Crac des Chevaliers, a Crusader castle in Syria was built by the Knights Hospitaller.  The Order of St Jo...
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Thursday, 19 March 2015

The Charge of the Light Brigade and Florence Nightingale

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(first part of this story is given in   Sa Maison and Lady Lockwood  this is part 2) After a peaceful decade of living in Malta with he...
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Do you ever get sick of yourself?

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Do you ever get sick of yourself? I mean really weary and fed up. When, if it were anyone else you’d just walk way? But that’s it...
Sunday, 25 November 2012

"How does one look forward to the goal of any journey? With hope and with expectation.”

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We are born, we live and we die.  Life on this material plane exists of these three stages.  Birth is pretty traumatic, you emerge down a ...
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