In Maribor, 11 November isn't Remembrance Day but St Martin's Day, a drunken party to mark the end of the Old Vine festival and honour the saint who turned grape juice into wine.
And remembrance about both "difficult pasts" – whether in the form of museums or the activities of associations in civil society, or the Stasi archive in Berlin — remains generously funded.
Child's play Watch out for Mr Blair The spies they are a-changin' Still fizzy Rock and remembrance ReprintsWhich brings us to Bruce Springsteen.
Rolling Thunder blends remembrance with protest (it is officially a "First Amendment demonstration", asserting the right of citizens to assemble and demand redress from the government).
In last week's review of Richard Flanagan's "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" ("Remembrance", July 5th) we claimed that David Niven was the moustachioed actor in "Bridge on the River Kwai".
That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever".In this section Remembrance Jogo complicado Shaped by water Freedom fighter ReprintsThomas Paine's "Rights of Man", which was published in 1791, is a direct riposte to Burke; indeed, Paine's tract is subtitled, "Being An Answer to Mr Burke's Attack on the French Revolution".
It is not for nothing that Proust's reverie in "Remembrance of Things Past" was inspired by a madeleine cake, and why some dishes are known as "comfort foods".
Britain is just starting its annual wallow in nostalgia for wartime simplicities in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday on November 14th.
The book's last sequence, Lucinda's Way, is the sweetest – a fond remembrance of a lovely sounding marriage, one in which she never threw away a scrap of his writing "without kissing it first", and in which Reid, as he puts it, was "second always to you, the dashing heroine".
Some outside observers picked up on this peculiar form of pride – a kind of anti-nationalist nationalism – and gently mocked it: Timothy Garton Ash, for instance, spoke of Deutsche Industrie-Normen – a German industrial standard – in "coming to terms with the past"; others crowned the Germans "world champions in remembrance".
A few of the dead have memorials here; many more have their names recorded in the books of remembrance that are stored in the vaults.
