John Bird's assertion (Letters, 11 November) that "no one alive now can personally remember a single one of the millions of young men who were persuaded to kill each other a century ago" is an insult to my generation.
The byword is "lest we forget", but the truth is, no one alive now can personally remember a single one of the millions of young men who were persuaded to kill each other a century ago.
To help jog the lost memories of the town, the commission placed movie-poster-size markers around Fort Lee, which described the studios that existed at each spot a century ago.
But it is not for the off-spinner that Brisbane will be remembered, it is for Cook's unbeaten 235, for Jonathan Trott's 135 not out and for Andrew Strauss's 110 – the first time since 1924 that the top three in England's order had each made a century.
Ryan ten Doeschate and Tom Westley each hit a century as Essex pulled off an exciting four-wicket win over Yorkshire in a match featuring 581 runs.
Everyday, the colonizing US federal government is in violation of treaties and agreements they made with each tribe a century or so ago.
In the drawn first Test at Wellington, the Chappells became the first brothers to each score a century in both innings of a Test match.
Few would think to compare him to Susan B. Anthony, the great pioneer for votes for women, but their lives paralleled each others', a century apart, in startling ways.
Palairet and his fellow opener Len Braund both of whom had been out without scoring in the first innings then scored 222 runs together in 140 minutes at the start of Somerset's second innings, each scoring a century.
Michael G. Wilson also explained Bolivia was appropriate to the plot, because of the country's history of water problems, and was surprised the two countries disliked each other a century after the War of the Pacific.
