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"Little Boxes" is a song written and composed by Malvina Reynolds in 1962. The song was first released by her friend, Pete Seeger , in 1963, and became his only charting single in January 1964. The song is a social satire [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] about the development of suburbia and associated conformist middle-class attitudes.
A pill box forming part of the southern section of the Outer London Defence Ring on the North Downs near Westcott, Surrey. The Outer London Defence Ring was a defensive ring built around London during the early part of the Second World War. It was intended as a defence against a German invasion, and was part of a national network of similar ...
Reynolds' song "Little Boxes" was used as the theme for Showtime's TV series Weeds (2005–2012). The TV show Big Sky featured the song "Little Boxes" at the end of the episode aptly titled "Little Boxes". In 2020, most of the second verse of her one-minute ditty "Place to Be," as recorded by her, was used as the sound for a Zillow commercial.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
British (upper) and German (lower) frontline trenches, 1916 German soldiers of the 11th Reserve Hussar Regiment fighting from a trench, on the Western Front, 1916 Plan of Ruapekapeka Pā 1846, an elaborate and heavily fortified Ngāpuhi innovation, which James Belich has argued laid the groundwork for or essentially invented modern trench warfare.
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Rise Against's best charting singles are "Help Is on the Way", which reached number eighty-nine on the Billboard Hot 100; [17] and "Savior", which held the record for the most consecutive weeks spent on both the Hot Rock Songs and Alternative Songs charts, with sixty-three and sixty-five weeks respectively.
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