World War I

FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT: FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT becomes PULLUP ENTERTAINMENT on 1 April 2024

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

PARIS, FRANCE – 28 February 2024 - FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT (FR0012419307 - ALFOC) is changing its name to PULLUP ENTERTAINMENT effective from 1 April 2024 and implementing a new organisation structure to support the Group’s ambitions.

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  • PARIS, FRANCE – 28 February 2024 - FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT (FR0012419307 - ALFOC) is changing its name to PULLUP ENTERTAINMENT effective from 1 April 2024 and implementing a new organisation structure to support the Group’s ambitions.
  • The Company's shareholders today voted in favour of changing the company name from FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT to PULLUP ENTERTAINMENT effective from 1 April 2024.
  • A NEW ORGANISATION STRUCTURE TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF PULLUP ENTERTAINMENT, EFFECTIVE FROM 1 APRIL
    On 2 January, Geoffroy Sardin, with 25 years of experience at Ubisoft Entertainment, took up the position of Deputy Chief Executive Officer for all the business activities of the PULLUP ENTERTAINMENT Group.
  • Published by FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT, the highly anticipated Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 [5] , a cult license of Games Workshop, will be released on 9 September 2024.

Anne Angelo's 'A Sprig of White Heather and a Scottish Lass' is set for a new press campaign this 2024

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

PERTH, Australia, March 6, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- After receiving seven literary awards, including the recent 2023 Readers' Choice Book Awards, Anne Angelo's poignant memoir "A Sprig of White Heather and a Scottish Lass" (published by Xlibris AU) is set for a new marketing push this year to reach a wider audience.

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  • He prevented Anne from sitting her examinations in Edinburgh as a pharmacist so, in desperation, she gained a position as governess in the north of France.
  • Anne's life changed completely for the better, including accompanying the family on holidays around Europe.
  • This transitioned to running the grand house as a small private hotel.
  • When asked he wants readers to take away from the book, he answers, "That life can be so difficult, but change your life when you need to.

1,000th PERFORMANCE OF DAILY TAPS AT THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON, DC

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Monday, February 19, 2024

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Doughboy Foundation are marking the 1,000th performance of Daily Taps at the National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC. 

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  • WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Doughboy Foundation are marking the 1,000th performance of Daily Taps at the National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC.
  • The Doughboy Foundation operates the Daily Taps program.
  • It is a testament that speaks to the strength of our musicians, of our staff, and of our public supporters, who make the Daily Taps program happen," he said.
  • Like all the Daily Taps performances, the 1,000th performance can be viewed online .

Should Taylor Swift be taught alongside Shakespeare? A professor of literature says yes

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

It’s 2024 and he was born in 1564, and she’s only 34.

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  • It’s 2024 and he was born in 1564, and she’s only 34.
  • Sliding her into the classroom would be yet another example of a dumbed-down curriculum.
  • Well, the dates might be, but not the assumptions – about Shakespeare, about English, about teaching, and about Swift.
  • In Sweet Nothing, on the Midnights album, she sings:
    On the way home
    I wrote a poem
    You say “What a mind”
    This happens all the time.
  • Read more:
    How did Taylor Swift get so popular?

An ally of literature

  • Regardless of what The Tortured Poets Department ends up being about, Swift is already a firm ally of literature and reading.
  • It’s that the discipline of English literature is flexible, capacious and open-minded.
  • A class on reading Swift’s work as literature is just another English class, because every English class requires grappling with the idea of reading anything as literature.
  • A class on reading Swift’s work as literature is just another English class, because every English class requires grappling with the idea of reading anything as literature.
  • I will be teaching Midnights and Shakespeare’s Sonnets together in a literature unit at the University of Sydney this semester.

Teaching Midnights and Shakespeare’s Sonnets

  • I also teach three modern artworks that shed contemporary light on the sonnets.
  • Bervin prints a selection of the sonnets, one per page, in grey text.
  • In each of these grey sonnets, some of Shakespeare’s words and phrases are printed in black and thus stand out boldly.
  • Unlike Bervin’s and Kennard’s collections, in which individual pieces relate to specific sonnets, there is no explicit adaptation.

Deep connection

  • The fun challenge of writing a pop song is squeezing those evocative details into the catchiest melody you can possibly think of.
  • I thrive on the challenge of sprinkling personal mementos and shreds of reality into a genre of music that is universally known for being, well, universal.
  • Her point is that the pop songs that “cut through the most are actually the most detailed” in their snippets of reality and biography.
  • She says “people are reaching out for connection and comfort” and “music lovers want some biographical glimpse into the world of our narrator, a hole in the emotional walls people put up around themselves to survive”.
  • Swift claims that Midnights lets listeners in through her protective walls to enable deep connection:
    I really don’t think I’ve delved this far into my insecurities in this detail before.
  • This connects very well with the agenda of Midnights.
  • Swift’s songs and Shakespeare’s Sonnets are meditations on deeply personal aspects of their narrators’ experiences.
  • Swift’s persona is that of a self-reflective singer, just as Shakespeare’s is that of a self-reflective sonneteer.

Close reading


Shakespeare’s sonnets are rewarding texts for close reading because of their poetic intricacy. Students can look at end rhymes and internal rhymes, the way the argument progresses through quatrains, the positioning of the “turn”, which is often in line 9 or 13, and the way the final couplet wraps things up (or doesn’t).

  • Karma and Mastermind are simpler, yet contain plenty of metaphoric language to be unpacked for meaning and aesthetic effectiveness.
  • Such unexpected pairings are valuable because they require close attention and careful articulation of what is similar and what is not.
  • How about High Infidelity and Sonnet 138 (where love and self-deception coexist), considered in terms of truth in relationships?
  • There is nothing to lose and plenty to gain in teaching Swift’s Midnights and Shakespeare’s Sonnets together.


Liam E Semler receives research funding from the Better Strangers project which is a collaborative education research project between the University of Sydney and Barker College. Better Strangers hosts the Shakespeare Reloaded website (https://shakespearereloaded.edu.au/) and explores innovative approaches to teaching and learning Shakespeare.

Europe Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Aircraft and Drones Industry Analysis 2023-2033: AI Integration and C5ISR Adoption Propel Business Strategies, M&A for Market Expansion Crucial

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

DUBLIN, Feb. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Europe Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Aircraft and Drones Market - Analysis and Forecast, 2023-2033" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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  • DUBLIN, Feb. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Europe Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Aircraft and Drones Market - Analysis and Forecast, 2023-2033" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft and drones are at the cutting edge of modern military and strategic technology.
  • The Europe intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft and drones market has seen major development by key players operating in the market, such as business expansion, partnership, collaboration, and joint venture.
  • Key players in the Europe intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft and drones market analyzed and profiled in the study involve major intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft and drones offering companies providing aircraft and drones for the purpose.

Europe Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Aircraft and Drones Market Analysis and Forecast, 2023-2033 with Focus on United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Russia - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The "Europe Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Aircraft and Drones Market - Analysis and Forecast, 2023-2033" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • The "Europe Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Aircraft and Drones Market - Analysis and Forecast, 2023-2033" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft and drones are at the cutting edge of modern military and strategic technology.
  • ISR aircraft are manned aircraft built for gathering intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance activities.
  • Key players in the Europe intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft and drones market analyzed and profiled in the study involve major intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft and drones offering companies providing aircraft and drones for the purpose.

How do we commemorate the New Zealand Wars? The history of Anzac Day can be a guide

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Historians and Māori leaders are now worried about the mixed impact of the day – known as Te Pūtake o te Riri – amid wider fears it is already slipping from public attention.

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  • Historians and Māori leaders are now worried about the mixed impact of the day – known as Te Pūtake o te Riri – amid wider fears it is already slipping from public attention.
  • Unlike Anzac Day, however, Te Pūtake o te Riri was not made an official holiday – and this may partly explain its struggle for wider recognition.

A question of timing

  • It emphasises Māori experiences, and each year’s commemoration is hosted by different hapū and iwi.
  • In 2023, for example, it focused on Ngai-te-rangi perspectives of the battle of Pukehinahina – “Gate Pā” – in Tauranga.

Evolution of Anzac Day

  • The comparison with the first world war invites an intriguing question: what lessons might we learn from the history of our most visible war commemoration, Anzac Day?
  • Indeed, in 1965, the 50th anniversary of Gallipoli, there were real doubts Anzac Day could survive the passing of the last Anzac veterans.
  • Read more:
    New lessons about old wars: keeping the complex story of Anzac Day relevant in the 21st century

    Instead, it has survived as a sacred day – helped perhaps by the 1920 Anzac Day Act which made it an official public holiday.

War memorials and public memory

  • The growing public ownership of Anzac Day ran parallel to the decline of Armistice Day, which marked the end of the World War I on November 11.
  • As the sculptor Brett Graham has noted, war memorials became the dominant sculptural form of public life.
  • Nowadays, they are among the nation’s most prominent public sites, including the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Pukeahu National War Memorial in Wellington, and Christchurch’s Bridge of Remembrance.

Gallipoli and national unity

  • Significantly, the Gallipoli story – the central focus of our Anzac mythology – has been adapted and retold by each generation.
  • Māori Television (Whakatā Māori) established a national Anzac Day broadcast in 2005, deepening the shared cultural languages and motifs of April 25.
  • Since the 1990s, successive governments – especially Helen Clark’s in the early 2000s – invested in Anzac Day as a commemoration of national unity.

Need for a national policy

  • Some have suggested Te Pūtake o te Riri will never achieve the necessary public attention until it becomes a statutory holiday.
  • As Joanna Kidman noted, many New Zealand Wars cemeteries, memorials and battlefields have been neglected or are on private land.
  • The issues raised all point to the need for a national policy on the commemoration of the New Zealand Wars – guided by iwi, with critical input from scholars – that enhances community relationships.

New ways of remembering

  • After its service on October 28, the museum hosted whānau descendants of 28th Māori Battalion veterans who had never claimed their medals for serving in World War II.
  • By choosing Te Pūtake o te Riri for the ceremony, the organisers were able to bridge past and present through themes of service, sacrifice and citizenship.
  • As trusted institutions of public memory, museums are ideally placed to tell the stories of the New Zealand Wars.


Rowan Light does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Perdue Truck Drivers Conduct Wreaths Across America Wreath Laying Ceremony at Wicomico War Veterans Memorial in Maryland

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Thursday, December 14, 2023

The ceremony included the placement of seven ceremonial wreaths at the memorial by Perdue drivers, who are veterans themselves, and who will help deliver thousands of wreaths to veterans’ cemeteries on the East Coast.

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  • The ceremony included the placement of seven ceremonial wreaths at the memorial by Perdue drivers, who are veterans themselves, and who will help deliver thousands of wreaths to veterans’ cemeteries on the East Coast.
  • “Wreaths Across America asks us, in the midst of all the holiday activities, to remember our fallen military, including those from our community who are memorialized at the Wicomico Veterans War Memorial,” said Jim Perdue, chairman of Perdue Farms.
  • Since 2007, Perdue drivers have delivered more than 350,000 wreaths for Wreaths Across America™.
  • “Perdue Farms and Perdue Transportation drivers, many of whom are veterans themselves, have been supporting the Wreaths Across America mission for more than a decade.

Wilridge Winery Looks Back at 35 Years of Being Washington’s Greenest Winery and a Mover of State Wine Regulations

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Wilridge Winery , a family-owned vineyard, orchard, winery and distillery headquartered in Seattle, Washington, is marking its 35th year in business.

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  • Wilridge Winery , a family-owned vineyard, orchard, winery and distillery headquartered in Seattle, Washington, is marking its 35th year in business.
  • As the first certified organic, Biodynamic vineyard and winery in the state, Wilridge lays claim to the title of Washington’s greenest winery.
  • Founded in 1988 by former environmental lawyer Paul Beveridge, Wilridge has also contributed to changes in laws governing the sale of wine and alcoholic beverages in the State of Washington.
  • However, Washington still had “tied house” laws that prohibited manufacturers of alcoholic beverages from owning retail outlets that sold wine.

Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation Welcomes the 1918 Cadillac Type 57 from the National Historic Vehicle Register

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Friday, November 17, 2023

DEARBORN, Mich., Nov. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The 1918 Cadillac Type 57, with engine number 57A704, is currently on display in the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation's National Historic Vehicle Register exhibit, powered by the Hagerty Drivers Foundation. On display until July 2024, this vehicle has a strong connection to America's involvement in World War I.

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  • The 1918 Cadillac Type 57, with engine number 57A704, is currently on display in the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation's National Historic Vehicle Register exhibit, powered by the Hagerty Drivers Foundation.
  • DEARBORN, Mich., Nov. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The 1918 Cadillac Type 57, with engine number 57A704, is currently on display in the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation's National Historic Vehicle Register exhibit, powered by the Hagerty Drivers Foundation.
  • The rotating exhibit is part of a partnership between The Henry Ford and the Hagerty Drivers Foundation to display cars from the National Historic Vehicle Register that tell the story of the automobile in American history.
  • The Cadillac was the fourth vehicle added to the National Historic Vehicle Register and archived in the Library of Congress.