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JOSEPH E. MORRIS BEAUTIFUL EUROPE - BELGIUM

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It needs, indeed, an effort of the imagination at the moment of writing to think of Belgium as in any sense a component part of "Beautiful Europe." The unhappy "cockpit" of the Continent at the actual hour is again in process of accomplishing its frightful destiny--no treaty, or "scrap of paper," is potent to preserve this last, and weakest, of all the nations of Western Europe from drinking to the dregs the cup of ruin and desolation. [more]

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Joseph E. Morris Beautiful Europe - Belgium

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Joseph Henry Morris (July 12, 1867 – April 19, 1939)[1] was a politician and municipal councillor in Edmonton, [more]

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Henry Sessions Souttar A Surgeon in Belgium

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Sir Henry Sessions Souttar, (December 14, 1875 – November 12, 1964), was a surgeon with a wide breadth of interests. He trained first as a mathematician and engineer. His engineer’s training enabled him to design and make new types of surgical instrument. His mathematical training made him a leader in setting out the first British guidelines for Radiotherapy. In 1925 he pioneered “blind” open heart surgery on a patient with congenital heart defect. This was not repeated until 1948.[1] [more]

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EMILE CAMMAERTS BELGIUM FROM THE ROMAN INVASION TO THE PRESENT DAY

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Émile Leon Cammaerts CBE (March 16, 1878 in Brussels, Belgium – November 2, 1953, Radlett, Hertfordshire) was a Belgian playwright, poet (including war poet) and author who wrote primarily in English and French. Demonstrating his interests, Cammaerts translated three books by art, history and landscapes expert John Ruskin [n 2] and selected G. K. Chesterton Father Brown detective stories in La clairvoyance du père Brown. [more]

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George W. T. Omond Peeps At Many Lands: Belgium

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G. W. T. Omond, M.A., FRHistS, (1846–1929) was a Scottish advocate and a prolific writer of history books. [more]

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George W. T. Omond Peeps At Many Lands: Belgium

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G. W. T. Omond, M.A., FRHistS, (1846–1929) was a Scottish advocate and a prolific writer of history books. He was born at Craigentor, near Crieff, Perthshire on 13 September 1846. His father was the Rev. John Reid Omond, Minister of the Free Church of Scotland at the parish of Monzie, Perthshire, and his mother Margaret Jane Thomson. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh where he graduated in 1868 with first class honours in classics and second class in philosophy. [more]

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Hugh Gibson A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium

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BRUSSELS, July 4, 1914.--After years of hard work and revolutions and wars and rumours of war, the change [more]

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May Sinclair A Journal of Impressions in Belgium

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May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a [more]

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May Sinclair A Journal of Impressions in Belgium

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May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a [more]

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May Sinclair A Journal of Impressions in Belgium

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May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. May Sinclair was also a significant critic in the area of modernist poetry and prose, and she is attributed with first using the term stream of consciousness in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence Pilgrimage (1915–67), in The Egoist, April 1918. [more]

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