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Leaflets being handed out in New York City (1973). A flyer (or flier) is a form of paper advertisement intended for wide distribution and typically posted or distributed in a public place, handed out to individuals or sent through the mail.
The term "parade" may also be used for multiple different subjects; for example, in the Canadian Armed Forces, "parade" is used both to describe the procession and in other informal connotations. [1] Protest demonstrations can also take the form of a parade, but such cases are usually referred to as a march instead.
Blighty was launched in 1916 by W. Speaight & Sons, intended as a humorous magazine for servicemen during the First World War. [2] (" Blighty" is a British English military slang term for Great Britain, or often specifically England.) [3] The magazine competed against publications such as Tit-Bits and Reveille; it appears to have ceased publication in 1920.
February 7 – Viscount Harold Alexander of Tunis, governor general of Canada; May 2 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, president of Mexico; November 18 – U.S.-to-Europe "Friendship Train" bearing gifts and supplies. 1948 March 9 – Éamon de Valera, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland. July 7 – Rómulo Gallegos, president of Venezuela; 1949
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