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And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: "Play up! play up! and play the game!" This is the word that year by year, While in her place the school is set, Every one of her sons must hear, And none that hears it dare ...
In November 2011, Book Drum launched a world map plotting all of the settings of the books covered on the site. The Map was cited by The Guardian, [9] The New Yorker, [10] January Magazine [11] and The Independent, which wrote, "we join a number of book geeks in our addiction to Book Drum's new global map of literary stars and scenes". [12]
To fill his "A Wine of Wizardry" book, George added 34 shorter poems and his play The Triumph of Bohemia. He included a dedication page: “To my uncle Frank C. Havens Oakland, California". Due to post-earthquake financial troubles, Alexander Robertson took a year to publish A Wine of Wizardry and Other Poems. [42] He bound the book in a dark ...
The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced [diː ˈblɛçˌtʁɔml̩] ⓘ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film , which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.
"Rosetta Stoned" is a song by American rock band Tool.It was released on April 28, 2006, as the eighth track off their fourth studio album, 10,000 Days. Structurally, the song contains complex fast-to-slow drum fills, performed by the band's drummer Danny Carey. [1]
"The terms riff and fill are sometimes used interchangeably by musicians, but [while] the term riff usually refers to an exact musical phrase repeated throughout a song", a fill is an improvised phrase played during a section where nothing else is happening in the music. [2] While riffs are repeated, fills tend to be varied over the course of a ...
The Walking Drum is a novel by the American author Louis L'Amour. Unlike most of his other novels, The Walking Drum is not set in the frontier era of the American West , but rather is an historical novel set in the Middle Ages —12th-century Europe and the Middle East .
Drums of Autumn is the fourth book in the Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Centered on time travelling 20th century doctor Claire Randall and her 18th century Scottish Highlander warrior husband Jamie Fraser , the books contain elements of historical fiction , romance , adventure , and fantasy .