Showing posts with label ww1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ww1. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

thou dost in us command

Restore the inclusive language of Canada's nathional anthem. Lyrics changed in 1913.

a. original - "thou dost in us command"
b. current - "in all thy sons command"
c. proposed modified original - "in all of us command"


I like #a. And never mind Diane Francis or an order of the golden fleece man, Archduke Karl Thomas Robert Maria Franziskus Georg Bahnam Habsburg-Lothringen, whose uncle Franz Ferdinand and aunt Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo by black hand secret society and who says nationalism's not relevant well, as transnationalists, they wouldn't care.

wiki: referred to in Austria as Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, in France as Charles de Habsbourg-Lorraine, in the Czech Republic as Karel Habsbursko-Lotrinský, in Hungary as Habsburg Károly, and by his royal name as Archduke Karl of Austria

Saturday, July 30, 2011

a wortzel about chuckles and paramilitary parapoops

"The last First World War combatant, who has died aged 110, was staunchly anti-war and snubbed remembrance day despite a 41-year navy career that began when he was just 14. He refused to mark Armistice Day or join other veterans' events like Australia's annual ANZAC Day commemorations." (Claude Chuckles Choules, d. 5 May 2011)

In Canada, the last WWI vet didn't want fanfare, so the government gave it to him. In Calgary, the Calatrava Bridge controversy with overruns and improper approvals nearly bent itself sideways into The Bow - with the other real estate scandal (or another or other or other) - to become the pricey Piece Bridge to honour soldiers, so everyone just forgot about the issues, and the fact there are 2 other foot bridges, not far away, and it appears this one is for the high-end condos?

Memorial drive flags, the foliage hides 'lest we.' And that's not even half of it: the Centre Street Bridge rebuilt upper lion lower deck's vibrations in a jumpy, jumpy late 2008 and the satellite crashes with an (almost) in February '09 on Friday 13th. There were big dreams about it, a city on a big terrible fire, followed by a prorogue or 2 or three, and now there is public transit on the vista.
Initially, the information indicated the space debris was headed for Calgary, but a short time later that was revised to an area 110 kilometres east of the city. read more
A post-blast Аэрофлот space junk.