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“Lemberg, Lwów, L’viv, 1914–1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City”
― Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, 1914 - 1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City
― Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, 1914 - 1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City
“the remains of Yaroslav the Wise disappeared from Kyiv in 1944, during the German occupation of the city. By some accounts, they ended up in the hands of Ukrainian Orthodox hierarchs in the United States and were spotted in Manhattan after the war. Some suspect that they may now be in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn.”
― The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
― The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
“Poor little Hilary Thorpe wasn’t in church,’ she observed. ‘Such a nice child. I should have liked you to see her. But she’s quite prostrated, poor child, so Mrs Gates tells me. And you know, the village people do stare so at anybody who’s in trouble and they will want to talk and condole. They mean well, but it’s a terrible ordeal.”
― Nine Tailors
― Nine Tailors
“Thank God!’ said Wimsey. ‘Where there is a church, there is civilisation.”
― Nine Tailors
― Nine Tailors
“The art of change ringing is peculiar to the English, and, like most English peculiarities, unintelligible to the rest of the world. To the musical Belgian, for example, it appears that the proper thing to do with a carefully tuned ring of bells is to play a tune upon it. By the English campanologist, the playing of tunes is considered to be a childish game, only fit for foreigners; the proper use of bells is to work out mathematical permutations and combinations.”
― Nine Tailors
― Nine Tailors
Great War (1914-1918): The Society and Culture of the First World War
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A place to discuss the cultural milieu of the Great War (also referred to as the First World War, World War I, WWI, World War One). The intent of this ...more
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