100 years ago today: The Irish rugby 'Pals' slaughtered at Gallipoli
Orders were received for an attack on Chocolate Hill known for a time as Dublin Hill Casualties occurred as the men traversed a narrow sand pit of which the Turks had the exact range, but the regiment was fortunate compared with some others at this point.
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My Irish clean plates neurosis
For years this parental order "to get the calories in while they were there" was balanced out by the rate at which calories were being burned. Without wishing to paint the past or the childhoods of 30-somethings as being some sort of Famous Five idyll …
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2015 Arlington Million Day Recap
WALKING THE KITTEN, MISS CHATELAINE, URTHEONEEYELOVE, GIANT DEDUCTION, UNBRIDLED COURAGE, and AHH CHOCOLATE completed the order of finish. There was a pair of objections after the runners crossed the wire, alleging interference on the …. He was bred …
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The Future of Europe
The meeting began with good-humored gesture, as Herr Schäuble presented to his colleague a handful of chocolate Euros, “for your nerves.” Yanis shared these around, … It also destroyed the entire political order, dominated until then by New Democracy …
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