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79Now It's 'All Quiet on the Western Front'
During 'The Great War' ~ World War One ~ it certainly was not 'all quiet on the western front'. War poetry bears witness to this! But it is peaceful there now. Where once there was death and horror, there is now agriculture once again. And the quietest spots in Northern France are the military cemeteries, where the graves of dead young soldiers can still be seen ~ standing 'row on row'.
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78English Author Daniel Defoe: "Moll Flanders"
Daniel Defoe rightly deserves to be noted as one of the finest novelists to come out of the 18th Century. Readers will find Defoe was a man of intelligence, that he had a sensitive awareness and that he used his own experiences in life to unfold his language from his mind.
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81Visiting Steenwerck, France: Romanesque-Byzantine monumentality in a Flemish town heavily marked by World War One
This church building at Steenwerck, near the Lys River, in France's Nord department, is a noted structure in Romanesque-Byzantine style. (The name 'Steenwerck' is of Dutch origin. However, in the Dutch language, the conventional spelling for the...
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76Celebrities ~ Famous People From Vermont: Popular Vermonters
Ahhh, Vermont! One of the United States actual foundation blocks! Although it wasn't among the original thirteen colonies, it's been around around a long time. It couldn't be decided at the beginning if this territory should belong to New York or...
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75Arturo Pérez- Reverte : His pen and his (s)words
Arturo Pérez- Reverte is the bestselling novelist in Spain. His historical adventures featuring the world weary swordsman for hire, Captain Diego Alatriste, are popular amongst the young and the old. For someone who came late to writing, at 35 years of age, he has certainly made up since. His 23 years as a war correspondent, chasing breaking news amidst dangerous surroundings like Bosnia, Sarajevo, Iraq and Nicaragua, has given him the penchant for adventure. He is sparse with his prose, meticul
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83The Holy Blood of Bruges, a New Jerusalem
The Holy Blood of Christ seems to have turned medieval Bruges (in Flanders, Belgium) into a Holy City. It's what, since the 19th century, made tourism popular in Bruges. But maybe this Holy City is not as holy as it seems...
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80The Code of the Holy Blood
In 1890, the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote to a young Dutch novelist he was searching for "a demoniac sodomite priest" who performed the black mass. Joris-Karl - "J.K." for the friends - needed this man for a new book about satanism which...
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77The Story of the Grail by Chretien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet who was the first to write about the Grail, but what is the Grail... and where can the Grail be? Some believe the Grail is the Holy Blood of Christ, or his royal bloodline... and this Holy Blood was brought to Bruges, by the Templars.
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77Hubber's Celebrity Look-A -Likes
Ever thought you resembled someone famous. When you look at that handsome, rugged clean-shaved face in the mirror do you see a Clint Eastwood staring back at you? They say everyone looks like someone and here on Hubpages it applies
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76History of World War I Part II Fight at Two Fronts
Visit History of World War I Part I for previous details The Western Front The initial plan of the German strategy was to defeat France in the west shortly, while a small part of the German Army and all the...
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