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    A remembrance poppy is an artificial flower worn in some countries to commemorate their military personnel who died in war. Remembrance poppies are produced...
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    Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day owing to the tradition of wearing a remembrance poppy) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states...
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    the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium, during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died...
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    wreaths at local War Memorials throughout the country. Wreaths of remembrance poppies are laid on the memorials, and two minutes' silence is held at 11...
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    bonds. Its references to the red poppies that grew over the graves of fallen soldiers resulted in the remembrance poppy becoming one of the world's most...
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    The white poppy is a flower used as a symbol of peace, worn either in place of or in addition to the red remembrance poppy for Remembrance Day or Anzac...
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    The purple poppy is a symbol of remembrance in the United Kingdom for animals that served during wartime. The symbol was created in 2006 based on the principle...
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    prevented 18-year-old Harriet Phipps from wearing a remembrance poppy, which is worn as part of the Remembrance Day commemorations in the United Kingdom and...
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    Papaver rhoeas (redirect from Red poppy)
    common poppy, corn poppy, corn rose, field poppy, Flanders poppy, red poppy, and Odai, is an annual herbaceous species of flowering plant in the poppy family...
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    professor and humanitarian who conceived the idea of using poppies as a symbol of remembrance for those who served in World War I. Michael was born in 1869...
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    The Poppy Factory is a factory in Richmond, London, England, where remembrance wreaths are made. It was founded in 1922 to offer employment opportunities...
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    with the Sunderland supporters after he refused to wear a poppy in the run-up to Remembrance Day, which led to his departure in August 2013. Speaking in...
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    Vallon (-Pont-d’Arc), Ardèche, France. She was the originator of the Remembrance Poppy Day. Prior to this, she was a teacher in Madagascar; a lecturer for...
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  • Poppies can refer to: Poppy, a flowering plant The Poppies (disambiguation) - multiple uses Poppies (film) - Children's BBC remembrance animation "Poppies"...
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  • fund-raising drive each year in the weeks before Remembrance Sunday, during which artificial Remembrance poppy red poppies, meant to be worn on clothing, are offered...
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    victims of war, widows, and orphans, similar to the Commonwealth remembrance poppy. The sale of "bleuet de France" badges on 11 November and 8 May is...
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    the period of the annual Poppy Appeal. Remembrance crosses are produced by the Poppy Factory in Richmond and Lady Haig's Poppy Factory in Edinburgh, which...
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    National Independence Day (Poland) National Vietnam War Veterans Day Remembrance poppy St. Martin's Day Volkstrauertag Social history of soldiers and veterans...
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    from wearing remembrance poppies". Daily Mirror. 29 October 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2017. "Poundland uniform policy bans staff wearing poppies". Poundland's...
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    of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II 1939 – 1945 and the Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for the Fallen is the red poppy (remembrance...
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    victims of war, widows, and orphans, similar to the Commonwealth remembrance poppy. The French flag is a tricolour that consists of three vertical stripes...
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  • up Poppy or poppy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A poppy is any flower in the plant family Papaveraceae which has the common name poppy. Poppy may...
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  • black armband with a remembrance poppy emblem on it. In 2016, the Home Nations games clashed again with the United Kingdom's Remembrance Day period, however...
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    The Field of Remembrance is a memorial garden organised annually by the Poppy Factory in Westminster, London. For eight days, from the morning of the Thursday...
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  • The Remembrance Day bombing (also known as the Enniskillen bombing or Poppy Day massacre) took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh...
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    Michigan. The poppy is a powerful symbol associated in Canada with loss, sacrifice and remembrance. With the formation of the Legion in 1925 the poppy was adopted...
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  • funding is the Scottish Poppy Appeal, organised in conjunction with the Royal British Legion in Scotland, which sells remembrance poppies in early November...
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  • Armed Forces up to the present day. Its members sell remembrance poppies in the weeks before Remembrance Day/Armistice Day. Australian Returned Soldiers and...
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    Military Cemetery at Casamassima "In Flanders Fields" Papaver rhoeas Remembrance poppy Brian Murdoch (24 May 1990). Fighting Songs and Warring Words: Popular...
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    FIFA's ruling that the England national football team could not wear a Remembrance poppy symbol on their shirts. For this he was fined £3,000 and jailed for...
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