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A celebration of long-serving Jim’s life
www.shieldsgazette.com
[Shields Gazette] - Grandson Paul Rowley went on to read one of his beloved grandfather's favourite poems, If, by Rudyard Kipling, including the famous lines which could have applied to his grandad: “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs.
The Softer Side of Peshawar
latitude.blogs.nytimes.com
[New York Times (blog)] - To Rudyard Kipling, it was a “city of evil countenances.” To journalists stationed here during the Afghan-Soviet war of the 1980s, it was a “hotbed of spies.” More recently it has become famed for accommodating militants. This feverishness isn't
Victoria Coren
www.pokerplayer.co.uk
[Poker Player] - …All poker players should read Rudyard Kipling's If. Especially the second and third verses. Everyone's soul is exposed by how they cope with winning and losing. I hope that my table personality would reveal that I can do both calmly and without a
The forward march of culture
www.newstatesman.com
[New Statesman] - Among them, too, were men of classless heroism and Rudyard Kipling's vision of one sceptred nation united in a noble cause and embracing a common death was, for some, a bringer of equality. But after the war, it soon subsided.
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