The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don’t agree. If you look at the Cold War, you could argue that a war was bound to happen between the Soviet Union and its allies and the United States and its allies, but it didn’t.
I’m interested in helping people obtain the benefits enjoyed by the First World of efficient government. I want people in sub-Saharan Africa and other extremely impoverished parts of the world to acquire those same opportunities.
I have to say I really was surprised on my first world tour. It was amazing to see what we’ve always dreamed of, right before our eyes.
If ‘Sajjan Singh Rangroot’ showed seriousness through the First World War, ‘Carry On Jatta 2’ had a great dose of comedy.
‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ is just sort of there isn’t it? Every single trope of the First World War, and anti-war writing in general, is in there.
There’s no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. ‘Elysium’ could be a metaphor for just Jo’burg, but it’s also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.
Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had a cordial relationship, and, indeed, Mehmet Ertegun may have helped insure that Turkey did not ally itself with Germany, as it had in the First World War.
Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?
I remember listening to my first World Cup in 1966. I was with my parents, helping them build our house and listening to it on the radio. We still didn’t have a TV back then, but fortunately the first time I listened to a World Cup Jose Maria Munoz was commentating, and he’s one of the best there is.
I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual perspective. To sidestep any biases I might have, I use the objective lens of the stock market to discover which policies actually delivered prosperity to emerging markets.
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.
A lot of my father’s family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country.
I am constantly accused of being ‘First World.’ So what should I do? I can’t apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
The first ‘world’ war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes – the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War – they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.
What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists.
I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
It wasn’t until ’79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by ’81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.
Economic, political and military intervention following the first world war is frequently blamed for current friction between east and west.
I think 1GOAL is so important. I’m proud that we could make education for all the legacy of Africa’s first World Cup.
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century’s first genocide – the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.
Attack those concepts such as ‘third world.’ Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the ‘first world.’
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I’ve always known, and it is that music that’s most important to me.
Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life.
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