This Fort Worth native joined about 90 African Americans who fought in Spain’s civil war
Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...
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In search of George: Maidenhead’s ‘forgotten’ Spanish Civil War veteran
George Norman Rodney Drury Fuller was a young medical student from Maidenhead who volunteered to join the war aged just 18 and who fought in one of its most ferocious battles.
National Observer9dOpinion
The climate movement needs its own ‘drill, baby, drill’
Ordinary and simple language is the key to effective rhetoric. But unlike much of the sloganeering from the right, it must be ...
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Understanding Orwell on the Lesser Evil
“Five years later, Orwell published an essay called ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War,’ in which he states, ‘War is evil, and ...
The News Letter16d
George Orwell is the most influential post-war British author, and his prescient writing remains part of our language
George Orwell was the most influential ... In his essay ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War’ (1943) Orwell wrote: ‘I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and ...
The New Yorker19d
The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
To people who happen to be admirers of Spanish Civil War literature ... frenetic planning and propagandizing that a reader of George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway half expects to come across ...
The Indian Express19d
The British Raj through George Orwell’s eyes: How colonial India shaped the literary legend
The Champaran region in Bihar — known for being the launching ground for Mahatma Gandhi’s historic 1917 Civil Disobedience Movement — has another claim to fame: it is the birthplace of George Orwell .
New York Post21d
Overdue copy of George Orwell’s ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ returned to library 50 years later – and it ‘smelled downright awful’
A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the ... The first part discusses the working class in the North of England before World War One, while the second provides insight into his own ...
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Chef George Rodrigues on bringing the heart of Spanish tapas to Maryland
Chef George Rodrigues, owner and chef of El Mercat Bar de Tapas, is redefining the Spanish dining experience in Maryland with a personal touch rooted in tradition, creativity, and resilience.
The Daily Telegraph22d
Why everything you thought you knew about George Orwell is wrong
75 years on, here’s all the ways the 1984 author’s legacy has been abused Seventy-five years after his death on January 21 1950, George Orwell ... of a nuclear war. 10. Orwell was, in any ...