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BIG Yarns of the Beaulieu International Group based in Waregem
is to invest €25 million in new spinning technology at its plant in Comines
The investment includes new one-step BCF (bulk continuous filament) lines
reinforcing the company’s position in the market for three-ply yarns to meet the need for flexibility and broader design possibilities in the carpet tile segment
A newly developed machine park represents a crucial step in the company’s growth strategy
faster and more flexible production system
By enabling smaller batch sizes and more adaptable production runs
BIG Yarns will provide its contract customers with a highly competitive service programme
we believe in the power of innovation and operation expertise to offer our customers best in class solutions,” said Emmanuel Colchen
“This investment underscores our long-term commitment to the European market and our ability to deliver superior and sustainable yarn solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers.”
BIG Yarns is making a strong statement about its dedication to local service in a highly competitive industry
While market pressure continues to grow from manufacturers in the Middle East and Asia
BIG Yarns leverages its strategic location in Europe – within 500 km of its most important customers – to ensure faster delivery
closer collaboration and an unparalleled service level
The BIG Yarns team will be at the upcoming Clerkenwell Design Week 2025 in London from May 20 to 22 showcasing its latest innovations in design
colour and contrast and explaining how its advanced one-step
three-layer yarns can enhance carpet tile creations
www.bintg.com
China’s Kingsway expands industrial yarns capacity
Iserbyt takes win ahead of Niels Vandeputte in second
Eli Iserbyt claimed a third career Eact Cross Kortrijk title on Saturday
combining well with his Pauwels Sauzen–Bingoal teammate Michael Vanthourenhout to claim the victory
The two riders attacked in tandem on several occasions during the first half of the race
seeking to work over the Alpecin-Deceuninck pair of Niels Vandeputte and Jente Michels.
Iserbyt made his winning move on the sith of the race’s nine laps
countering an attack from Vanthourenhout just after Michels had brought him back
Opening an immediate gap as Michels hesitated to respond
and soloed the rest of the race to seal the win
Vandeputte and Michels remained together at the end
with Vandeputte taking second-place in the sprint ahead of Vanthourenhout in third
“It feels very good,” were Iserbyt’s words at the finish
when asked how it felt to take what was his second win of the season.
“I think the most important period of the season is coming with the World Cup
It’s good for the head to get a victory.”
Iserbyt had made his first committed move on the third lap
using the sand section to counter a move from Vanthourenhout and go clear out front
his momentum stalled as he crashed going round a corner
Vanthourenhout attacked again on the fifth lap
gaining a lead of a few seconds and forcing Vandeputte and Michels to chase
It was when Michels eventually managed to bring that move back that Iserbyt made what turned out to be the race-winning move
from 13 seconds at the end of the sixth lap
Iserbyt is now looking ahead to tomorrow and Antwerp
But I hope to do a good race tomorrow as well.”
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Stephen Puddicombe is a freelance writer based in Bristol
and has covered cycling professionally as a freelancer since 2013
He is the author of The World of the Tour de France
Outside of cycling he is a passionate cinephile
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The French production site Ideal Fibres & Fabrics Comines is the second in the Beaulieu International Group to reach HPR status
Transport/Aerospace
a leading supplier of high-quality polyamide and polypropylene yarns
has announced the achievement of Highly Protected Risk (HPR) status for its French production site
HPR designation means a facility meets the highest industry standards for property protection
“This HPR yarn production site reinforces strongly our supply chain security and demonstrates our engagement towards our customers and partners
Our contingency planning and risk management are essential
well-considered elements within our long-term business strategy to demanding sectors such as Automotive and Commercial & Residential floor covering contracts,” said Emmanuel Colchen
Global Sales Director Yarns within BU Beaulieu Engineered Products
Beaulieu International Group’s (B.I.G.) industrial property and business interruption insurer for the past two years
offers a unique concept that supports the Group in reducing its exposure to loss and increases its business resilience
A dedicated team of engineers focuses on providing assistance and protection of its assets
helping the Group to achieve a higher level of risk protection
The Ideal Fibres & Fabrics Comines site produces high quality yarns for a large variety of application and market segments
It scored well in its FM Global assessment which focused on aspects including fire protection
mechanical breakdown of machinery and also cyber risks
Its overall risk mark of 76 ranks it within the top 25% of its industry for fire risk prevention and protection
Ideal Fibres & Fabrics Comines is the second facility in the Group to attain HPR status
Pinnacle Polymers LLC in the USA also achieved the HPR as a chemical plant
which is a rare achievement within the chemical business
Fire risk prevention is part of the Group’s broader risk management activities
is investing in increasing the level of protection at all B.I.G
plants in order to protect its business continuity
are also implementing a number of safety programmes to raise awareness of workplace safety and to maintain strong safety records
“I am proud of Beaulieu Yarns for achieving the highly-regarded FM Global HPR Award and setting an example for the whole Beaulieu International Group
This positive step reflects the strong commitment of the Engineered Products division and the rest of the Group to improving safety and protecting our workplaces and our production facilities,” said Karena Cancilleri
Vice President BU Beaulieu Engineered Products
Beaulieu Yarns received the HPR Award at a ceremony on 7 November
Beaulieu Yarns Management and FM Global Management
www.beaulieuyarns.com
BFI site awarded Highly Protected Risk status
Beaulieu International safety-awareness initiatives in full swing
How do you learn the stories of people who are too impoverished
or uneducated to write their stories themselves
through leaps of empathetic imagination—as Harriet Beecher Stowe did with Uncle Tom’s Cabin
awakening the conscience of the nation by exposing the cruelties of American slavery
or as Jane Wagner did with her 1969 children’s book
calling attention to the plight of the urban poor in a novella about a boy who rescues a stray cat whose miseries resemble his own
authors who have overcome daunting circumstances emerge from profoundly adverse environments to give voice to personal travails in their own words
The experiences they describe land in us with disturbing power and commanding authenticity
Consider Jeanette Walls’s The Glass Castle
Her novels and short stories about the Italian immigrant community in France in the middle of the 20th century resurrect a transitional era that might otherwise have passed without leaving a trace
which won France’s Prix Roger Nimier in 1973
offers an insider’s view of what it feels like to be an outsider
not only in the land in which you live but in the family to which you were born
an unprecedented “massive” and “sudden” wave of immigration flooded the southern French region of Aquitaine
moved to the severely underpopulated departments of Lot-et-Garonne and Midi-Pyrénées
and “dreams of El Dorado.”* Illiterate for the most part and unable to speak French
many of these economic refugees found work on marshy
rocky farmland that had been abandoned by Frenchmen who had fallen in the Great War or who had moved to the city
The arrival of the Italians revived a failing region
but it also prompted French anxieties about alien invasion and cries for quotas
How did the French farmers in the region treat the economic refugees
How did the Italian newcomers treat one another
And what were the actual conditions of daily life in the tightly knit rural communities where the newcomers settled
a symposium in Bordeaux addressed these questions
The historians and sociologists in attendance concurred that Cagnati’s “lucid and unsparing” fiction was an “indispensable” resource
and built upon it by soliciting oral histories of other first- and second-generation Italo-French southerners
of course (population figures and percentages)
the scholars needed to speak with individual men and women who remembered what it had been like to be a child in that time of privation
“A child is life’s memory of itself.” And for those stories to gain a human complexion
“It’s important for every thing to have its own name,” Cagnati emphasized
people can know them and talk about them.” In Free Day
she gives names to the unnamed and voices to the voiceless
she tells her story from the point of view of a little girl—as helpless as the child narrator of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows—who relates her daily life without judgment and with brutal
unrestrained truthfulness that kindles pathos in the reader
white-skied winter weekend in southern France in the 1950s
Fourteen-year-old Galla is cycling the twenty miles between the Catholic girls’ school she attends
where she is scorned as an uncouth scholarship student and mocked for her ugly homemade clothing
and the remote hardscrabble farm where her family lives
Her parents had not wanted her to go to school at all; they needed her at home to do the work that her addled
perpetually pregnant mother was no longer capable of doing
Galla has always been the family’s workhorse
and looking after her four little sisters (especially the youngest
and deflecting the fury of her brutal father
in an act of rebellion and self-preservation
stubbornly insists on pursuing her education
squealing bicycle that is her only reliable companion and support
The bike’s wheels are caked with icy mud from the riverine path that laces through the fields
and bogs that lie between the farm and the road to town
the fields and the ditches gone wild with flowers and all their mingled scents.” But it is winter now
Whenever the bike hits a patch of black ice and shoots off the asphalt
skidding down sleet-encrusted slopes towards the riverbank
sometimes getting off to gently guide my bicycle.” She sees the bicycle as her friend
I would have liked to be able to sing to cheer us up
This is a journey Galla usually makes every two weeks
But this particular journey cannot be repeated
The reasons why emerge through recollections and reveries that race through Galla’s mind as she rides
some of them fanciful dreams of lands “where the days are gilded with sunshine
where you sleep at night cradled in the blue of the waves of the sea.” Like another unhappy literary child
but they cannot analyze their feelings,” and “know not how to express the result of the process in words.”
Free Day reflects a good deal of the author’s own history
was born in the French town of Monclar-d’Agénais
Her parents were both Italian—her father from Treviso
her mother from Vicenza—and she would never consider herself French
In one of her extremely rare television appearances
Les Pipistrelles (named for a species of bat common in southern France)
speaking fluent French that retained an Italianate stamp
she and her family and their immigrant neighbors “had the misfortune of being foreigners
and always being regarded as strangers.” “But
So I was nothing.” “Was childhood a happy time for you?” asked the benighted moderator
and only learned French upon arriving at school
because adults objectify children as something “little,” something other
Children and the elderly (the subject of her 1979 novel
or The Lizard That Cried”) or “crazy people” (the subject of her 1977 novel Génie la folle) are “not like other people
they’re not perceived to be like other people,” she explained
seems to be the family unit.” “Yes,” she agreed
“because it’s the only foothold you have in the world
even if they did not do for you what they could have done
given her success on the French literary scene
Cagnati often addresses the specific hardships faced by immigrant girls and women of her era
both in the wider society and in their own households
Barred from full inclusion in their new country
they also suffered in their villages and homes from a sexism that limited their freedoms
and blamed them if they were sexually attacked
Galla fears a sexual predator who lurks in the marshes near her home; she knows that if he attacks her or her sisters
In an introduction to her novel Génie la Folle
who didn’t know how to protect her virtue outside of marriage
is seen as guiltier than the man who raped her; who
was only fulfilling his role as a male.” She asks: “Where is common sense to be found?” Galla
does not ask that question; she simply accepts that this is how things are
The scholars in Bordeaux buttressed their research and the oral histories they had collected with an interview Cagnati gave to a regional newspaper in 1984
she spoke at length about the difficulties that she
had encountered as an immigrant high-school student
my world turned upside down,” Cagnati told the reporter
I didn’t know what they wanted.” The French schoolchildren made fun of her
I didn’t understand their language or their rules
or what I was supposed to do in order to be tolerated
or at least to be pardoned for being myself
“I think it was the same for the others.” She added
“I think we were rejected more because we were poor than because we were Italian.” Cagnati’s impressions were confirmed by the accounts of several of her immigrant contemporaries
“You can’t say they were mean,” countered another
At a contemporary geopolitical moment when populist leaders across the globe are demonizing immigrants and outsiders
and when the xenophobic rhetoric and punitive
inhuman policies of President Donald Trump target the foreign-born
Cagnati’s searing evocation of the immigrant experience in Free Day moves the heart and stirs the conscience
Cagnati was luckier than today’s immigrants
In spite of the rough transition period that shaped her and some of her peers
the integration of the interwar Italian boom generations into the French community proceeded with remarkable smoothness
No anti-immigrant protests broke out in Lot-et-Garonne or Midi-Pyrénées; the Italians were needed
such that today young generations of Italian-descended French in the southwest don’t question their nationality
can understand the distance that their predecessors—like Galla
like Cagnati—traveled to earn their sense of belonging
*From a study of the 20th-century Italian immigration wave in southwestern France
“L’arrivée et l’implantation des Italiens dans le sud-ouest (1920–1939)” by Monique Rouch
in Les Italiens en France de 1914 à 1940 (Rome: École Française de Rome
From Free Day by Inès Cagnati
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John Deere announced the newest S-Series combines will have a new suspension track system
and harvest-specific enhancements to the MyOperations app
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It's hugely influential even though the vast majority of the drills only have a tangential relationship to the game of football
Here's a perfect example of how the Combine is dumb:
Tyrann Mathieu — the former LSU Heisman Trophy finalist who was kicked off the team for using marijuana — only bench-pressed 225 pounds four times yesterday
That number tied for the weakest weight-lifting showing of any defensive back at the Combine
Even though bench pressing is meaningless when it comes to playing cornerback
Michael David Smith at PFT said:
"It’s easy to scoff at the bench press as irrelevant to what a defensive back does on a football field
but an extremely low bench press is indicative of a player who isn’t working hard enough in the weight room."
The twisted logic here: Even though the bench press is irrelevant
it reflects poorly on Mathieu that he didn't work harder at the bench press
NFL.com's Gil Brandt viewed it different. He says that the poor bench can only be remedied by a strong 40-yard dash:
Tyrann Mathieu about to run his 40 at #NFLCombine
Had just four bench reps and needs to run well today
This is the stupidity of the NFL Combine in a nutshell.
The point of the Combine is to do well at the Combine. Everyone, like Smith
concedes that the drills themselves are "irrelevant." But at the same time the drills come to represent something incredibly meaningful to NFL insiders
Suddenly the bench press at the NFL Combine isn't about judging strength
it's about judging "work ethic" — which is actually more important than strength.
Since the drills themselves tell you nothing from an objective football standpoint
you make the drills stand-ins for something the they were never meant to quantify.
Last year linebacker Vontaze Burfict — a standout at Arizona State — did horribly at the Combine. He was slow and out of shape and petulant
and he went undrafted as basically a direct result of being awful at these drills
he was starting for the Bengals and playing better than any linebacker on the team.
NFL commentators take banal exercises and construct false (yet meaningful) narratives out of them at the Combine
the fact that Mathieu can't lift weights well means nothing
it will legitimately affect on NFL people view him
• Ghesquière was born in Comines, Province, in 1971.
• At the age of 15, he interned at Agnès B in Paris during his school summer holidays. "I watched, I photocopied, I made the coffee," he told the New York Times.
• After leaving school, Ghesquière achieved his childhood dream: scoring an internship with Jean Paul Gaultier.
• His creations went down as well with Balenciaga's loyal following as they did with the fashion press. His collections were in such high demand that the label's flagship store in Paris was unable to meet the demands of the crowds that gathered there daily.
• His hobbies extend beyond fashion. "I love art. I love music. It's more about the lifestyle you yourself have-that's the most inspiring thing," he has said. "The way you share relationships with the people around you."
• On October 28 2010, Ghesquière was crowned Fashion Group International's Superstar. "Nicolas Ghesquière defines the word 'superstar,'" FGI president Margaret Hayes told WWD. "Said to be one of the most intriguing and original designers of his generation, he has reinvented the House of Balenciaga and endowed its legacy with a cool, modern edge."
On November 5, 2012 it was announced that Ghesquiére was to leave his role as creative director of Balenciaga after 15 years in the role. The designer was praised by François-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of PPR, who said: "With an incomparable creative talent, Nicolas has brought to Balenciaga an artistic contribution essential to the unique influence of the house."
Almost a year to the day later, on November 4 2013, it was announced that Ghesquiére was the new artistic director of Louis Vuitton - just weeks after Marc Jacobs had announced that he was retiring from the house after his swan song Parisian show during the spring/summer 2014 season.
"Louis Vuitton has always incarnated for me the symbol of ultimate luxury, innovation and exploration," he said. "I am very honoured of the mission that I am entrusted with, and proud to join the history of this great maison. We share common values and a vision."
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A row of giant Easter eggs is gliding towards me in a perfect line – and it takes all my will power not to reach out
The heady smell of melted chocolate fills the air and I feel like I’m on the set of Charlie and the Chocolate factory with real life Willy Wonka Pieter Libeert making sure I don’t do an Augustus Gloop and start slurping from the vats
but at the Italo Suisse chocolate factory in the Belgian town of Comines – 10 miles from Lille across the border in France – the atmosphere has eggs-factor
the 200 staff are making Asda’s £10 egg which recently scooped an industry award from Good Housekeeping
It saw off competition from Fortnum & Mason’s £25 Eggsploding Egg and the £26 Eggsibitionist Egg from Hotel Chocolat
Shoptalk was invited behind the scenes to see how the 1kg Belgian treat for Asda’s The Collection is created as Brits get ready to scoff £280million of eggs this Easter
Pouring out a bowl of melted chocolate onto a marble table
master chocolatier Stefaan Gillioen uses a supersize scraper to shape a small river of chocolate
He then ripples the liquid backwards and forwards before expertly folding it and scraping it back into the bowl
shaken to make sure the chocolate is distributed evenly and popped into the fridge for 50 minutes to cool and set before it’s ready to be packaged
“Conching and tempering is the key to great chocolate,” says Pieter
gives it the gloss and how it feels in your mouth
When the chocolate arrives in heated tankers at 45C
in the machines to give it shape so it doesn’t crumble.”
While Stefaan demonstrates the painstaking method by hand
the machines are working away churning out 1,000 giant eggs an hour
I man the production line for a shift to open the moulds and put on a purple bow as a finishing touch
Eggs are coming at me so fast I miss a few
There are five packing stations with two workers at each ready to add the Cellophane
I struggle for around ten minutes to gather the edges evenly
secure the top and add a bow and label before the eggs are bar coded
covered in bubble wrap and boxed ready to be ferried to Asda stores
the wrap-to-box process should only take three
Asda’s chocolate expert Julia Willows first dreamt up the idea of a giant egg a year ago
She told me: “It doesn’t matter who you are or what mood you’re in
“But we are mindful of the economic climate and have mini eggs in nets for £1 and hollow bunnies for £2
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La Luck - InstagramOn fait quoi cet automne/hiver à Lille
tantôt activités indoor !
si vous voulez passer une soirée dans une ambiance chill pour boire un verre et même dîner
Véritablement devenu incontournable à Lille
cette ludothèque vous promet de folles soirées entre amis
On profite d'une bonne bière et on se régale de la poutine du moment (leur plat chouchou)
Une publication partagée par La Luck Lille (@lalucklille)
La Wilderie est un coup de coeur ultime pour les amoureux de plantes
Lieu hybride qui fait shop de choses green et aussi bonne table pour se régaler
on aime y flâner même pour du coworking dans un spot bien cocooning
la carte ultra courte change toutes les 2 semaines afin d’utiliser des produits frais et locaux pour réduire l’empreinte carbone de nos plats
Un vrai lieu pour se ressourcer et se faire plaisir
Une publication partagée par La Wilderie (@lawilderie.lille)
Pour ceux qui veulent sauter l'étape automne et filer tout droit sur les pistes de ski
on vous conseille Ice Mountain à quelques minutes en voiture de Lille à la frontière belge
fausse piste de ski pour faire du sport d'hiver mais aussi un snowpark
du gellyball et même du indoor skydiving (simulation de vol)
De quoi y passer une journée entière et profiter des restos montagnards sur place
Une publication partagée par Ice Mountain Adventure Park (@icemountainadventurepark)
Ice Mountain16 rue de Capelle, 7780 Comines, BelgiqueSite web
Une publication partagée par La Croix ou Pile (@aubergelacroixoupile)
Comme un goût d'été en plein automne
Une publication partagée par RODIZIO BRAZIL 1ER DE FRANCE® 🇧🇷 (@rodizio.brazil)
La brioche c'est ... tout moelleux, tout doux, tout réconfortant... Pile ce qu'il nous faut pour l'automne ! Tant mieux car la première briocherie de Lille a ouvert ses portes. Un vrai temple de douceur pour pimper vos petits dej' ou vos goûters
Elle est aussi twistée en version salée
3 formats de brioche seront à découvrir pour les petits et grands plaisirs : la joufflue
la gonflée et la queen (celle-ci une taille XXL à partager)
De quoi se goinfrer sur son canapé toute une soirée
Une publication partagée par 🍞Sylvana - Briocherie Gonflée (@briocheriesylvana)
Al'Carbone est un restaurant à volonté situé à Lomme, à deux pas de Lille
Le concept est doublement intéressant puisqu'il s'agit d'un établissement qui fait la part belle aux carbonades (toujours 6 carbonades différentes à déguster) tout en vous plongeant dans l'univers de la mafia
"AL'CARBONE vous propose d'entrer dans l'univers de la mafia et de déguster
6 carbonades différentes aux noms de crimes qui peuvent varier au fil des saisons." De quoi satisfaire les gros mangeurs et se réchauffer avec pleeeein de carbonades ! Le plus ouf
Ce buffet à volonté est au prix de... 15,70€
une fois passée la porte de La Petite Auberge
vous vous retrouverez directement en Haute-Savoie
Obligé de mettre Hall U Need dans ce top
Devenu une valeur sûre en métropole Lilloise
ce complexe indoor ne désemplit pas ! Inspiré du concept Nord-Américain du "Eats and Entertainment"
c'est pourtant un concept tout à fait inédit en France. Alors
que trouve-t-on dans ce gigantesque site ? Resto
des jeux interactifs ou à sensation... En bref
Le site a de quoi plaire à tous : réalité virtuelle
Certains jeux sont même accessibles au public pour la première fois en France
parfait pour une journée d'activités en famille ou amis
Une publication partagée par Hall U Need (@halluneed)
Piscines : notre top 5 pour faire un plongeon à Lille et ses alentours
5 balades en Belgique à faire pour se déconnecter sans s’éloigner de Lille
Les plus belles escapades à moins d'1h de Lille sans voiture
In order to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele
one of the bloodiest battles of World War I
professional photo colorizer has Tom Marshall restored some remarkable images that reveal the living and fighting conditions of British and Commonwealth troops from Canada
This is not the first series of historic photographs restored by Marshall
he colorized a handful of photos from another infamous World War I encounter
The Vintage News asked him to colorize a selection of portraits of immigrants who had arrived in the United States through Ellis Island during the early years of the 20th century
Marshall’s most recent selection of colorized photos from the Battle of Passchendaele show soldiers resting
“I decided to colorize these images as a tribute to the men pictured because I believe that color adds another dimension to historic images
and helps modern eyes to connect with the subjects
more than with a black and white photo,” explains Marshall on his website
but he hopes that his work will help change that
fostering more interest in learning about the subjects and what the men went through during the Great War
but there was nothing familiar about the Battle of Passchendaele
which has been described as a vivid symbol of the mud
and senseless slaughter of the First World War
The scale of casualties in Passchendaele is what makes this battle so infamous
but the fighting conditions and the incredible challenges soldiers had to face is beyond the imagination
British and Commonwealth troops spent over three months on the muddy battlefield of Passchendaele and heroically managed to overcome almost intolerable levels of hardship before they eventually won an impressive victory in November 1917
The road to victory was not an easy one and it cost an incredible number of human lives
but most agree that during the three months of fighting there were around 325,000 Allied and over 260,000 German casualties
The village of Passchendaele is located in the Ypres area of Belgium
where several more battles were fought during the war
Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres
have come to represent the horrors of World War I
Little did they know that the Germans were not their only enemy at Passchendaele; they were also forced to struggle through stinking mud while being under constant heavy fire from the enemy
The attack at Passchendaele was Douglas Haig’s decision
the commander of the British armies in Europe
The main goals were to take the pressure off the French forces to the south
and to destroy the German submarine bases along the coast
Check out Marshall’s website or Facebook page to see more of his work
The Allies opened the attack with a pounding artillery barrage
but heavy rains filled the shell holes with filthy water
It’s been more than 30 years since the Ypres area suffered heavier rain than the summer of 1917
and many soldiers lost their lives by drowning in the swamp
this wasn’t their biggest problem because many soldiers were under constant threat by the German machine gunners
Despite the fighting conditions and the lack of success at the beginning
the Allied forces continued their offensive
and by September the authorities in London advised Haig to halt the offensive
Read another story from us: Brazilian artist brings the past to life by colorizing old black & white photos
Australian and New Zealand divisions joined the effort in September
but it wasn’t until Haig asked Canadian Forces for help that they managed to capture what remained of Passchendaele and claimed victory
Goran Blazeski is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
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