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    with "grow" instead of "blow", as discussed under Publication:                  In Flanders Fields     In Flanders fields, the poppies blow          Between...
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    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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  • Poppies of Flanders is a 1927 British drama film directed by Arthur Maude and starring Jameson Thomas, Eve Gray and Henry Vibart. It was based on a novel...
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    millions of scarlet poppies." The opening lines of the World War I poem "In Flanders Fields" refer to Flanders poppies growing among the graves of war victims...
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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 during...
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    Flanders Fields is a common English name of the World War I battlefields in an area straddling the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders...
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    John McCrae (category Canadian people of Scottish descent)
    was published after his death.                  In Flanders Fields     In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow           Between the crosses, row on row,        That...
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  • War II and sung with irony as they fought in France and saw the poppies of Flanders Fields. Another English-language version for the American market...
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    Moina Michael (category University of Georgia faculty)
    American 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...
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    the poppy was the emblem of the goddess Demeter. According to Theocritus for the Greeks Demeter was a poppy goddess bearing sheaves and poppies in both...
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  • Daisy Campbell (silent film actress) (category Year of birth unknown)
    She is perhaps best remembered as Countess of Strangeways in Arthur Maude's 1927 film Poppies of Flanders. Her final appearance was as Mrs. McPhillip...
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    Haig Fund (category Aftermath of World War I in the United Kingdom)
    Earl Haig. In response to the poem In Flanders Field by John McCrae, Moina Michael started selling silk poppies in 1918 to raise funds for ex-servicemen...
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    We Shall Keep the Faith (category Poems set in Flanders)
    inspiration for this poem from "In Flanders Fields". The "poppy red" refers to Papaver rhoeas. Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet – to rise...
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  • drama film Poppies of Flanders Bob Standish, fictional character in 1950 American Western film Border Rangers Bob Standish, pseudonym of American comic...
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  • Flanders Field can refer to: Flanders Fields, the name of World War I battlefields in the medieval County of Flanders, which spans southern Belgium and...
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    Remembrance Day (redirect from Poppy day)
    Commemoration – Red poppies Archived Royal Canadian Legion Returned & Services League of Australia South African Legion Canadian Poppy Coin Wikimedia Commons...
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    singing Red poppies on Monte Cassino, we all cried. Soldiers cried with us. Red poppies, which bloomed over night, became one more symbol of bravery and...
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    line of poplars on either side of the pool to symbolise the French battlefields. Dellit also wanted beds filled with the red poppies of Flanders and other...
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    Antidote (1927, Short) - Prof. Gilbert Olives Roses of Picardy (1927) - Georges d'Archeville Poppies of Flanders (1927) - Jim Brown The White Sheik (1928) - Westwyn...
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  • A list of British films released in 1927. 1927 in British music 1927 in British television 1927 in film 1927 in the United Kingdom Brian McFarlane, ed...
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  • Camrades, Poppies of Flanders, and Shoulder Arms indicate that the most contemporary views of the war were overall far more positive. Likewise, the art of Paul...
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  • [needs update] This is a list of films and TV productions made at Elstree Studios in Shenley Road, Borehamwood, England. Some dates represent production...
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    Dutch-speaking part of the Kingdom of Belgium. It contains within it the original core of the old county, West Flanders and East Flanders, plus three more...
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    Robert Vonnoh (category Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni)
    the National Academy of Design in 1906. His most well-known work In Flanders Field (also known as Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow or Coquelicots)...
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    Story of the London Fog (1927) - Showgirl Victim (uncredited) The Silver Lining (1927) - Lettie Deans Poppies of Flanders (1927) - Beryl Kingwood One of the...
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  • 1929 After the Verdict Jim Gordon 1928 The Carnival of Venice Edward Jefferson 1927 Poppies of Flanders Bob Standish 1926 The Woman Tempted Basil Gilmore...
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  • Pompadour (1927) - Comte Maurepas The Arcadians (1927) - Peter Doody Poppies of Flanders (1927) - Shorty Bill The White Sheik (1928) - Jock The Farmer's Wife...
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  • Violet E. Powell (category Year of birth missing)
    Suppose (1926) The White Black Sheep (1926) The Rolling Road (1927) Poppies of Flanders (1927) King's Mate (1928) Toni (1928) Paradise (1928) Kitty (1929)...
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    Alexis Helmer (category Military history of Canada)
    part of the inspiration for "In Flanders Fields" through his friendship with John McCrae. Helmer was born on June 29, 1892, in Hull, Quebec, the son of Brigadier...
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    women and girls were the mainstay of her operations; poppy sellers wore sashes bearing “In Flanders Fields the poppies grow”.  American Legion National...
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