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Dancing kept our spirits up during war - memories of Glasgow's great dance halls

AS A teenager in the 40s and 50s, Glasgow was the place to be if you loved a dance - the Locarno, the Barrowland, the Majestic and more were the stuff of legend.




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Jiving with the GIs in Glasgow's George Square - VE Day memories

BONFIRES so hot they cracked tenement windows. Jiving with the GIs in George Square. Singing and dancing with joy, knowing that finally, the war was over….




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Dennistoun veteran featured in online exhibition commemorating VE Day

Legion Scotland and Poppyscotland commissioned a series of portraits of WW2 veterans as part of the national celebration.




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Cirque du Soleil: Amaluna - Ermelinda Rediscovered - Leif Ove Andsnes - The Art of Memoir Writing

This week on Open Air, KALW’s radio magazine for the Bay Area performing arts, host David Latulippe talks with cellist and singer Amanda Zidow (pictured), who plays the role of the Island Queen Prospera, in Cirque du Soleil’s production Amaluna , currently visiting the Bay Area.




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Mindfulness and Memory

When it comes to mindfulness there is clear evidence that practicing it can be beneficial, but perhaps not for everyone all the time. It might even have some adverse effects on memory. In our final piece in our series on mindfulness, Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman, and Dr. Bob Duke talk about...




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Flashbulb Memories and Decision Making

It turns out there is a lot to learn about when studying the psychology of near misses. One thing we learn is that the memories of these events–like the time you almost ran into a tree with your bike, or the time you stuck your head out of a moving train and then pulled it...




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Memory, Trauma, and Treating PTSD

We may underestimate the role that our emotions of an event play in our memory of that event. But it turns out there are ways to manipulate those memories and separate the emotion out; even from Flashbulb memories. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman, and Dr. Bob Duke talk...




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War Memorials, Trauma and Identity

This month on In Perspective, our roundtable participants discuss public memory in relation to grief, war, and memorials such as the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Two of our guests represent that museum, which commemorates the September 11 attacks of 2001 and the World Trade Center bombing of 1993. Also joining us are two...




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Here are the 10 most memorable moments from the WSU Cougars basketball season


WSU's season was cut short -- along with all of college basketball -- due to fears about the spread of coronavirus. But the season was certainly entertaining, considering expectations. Here are the 10 most memorable moments.




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Take a trip down memory lane with the best — and worst — memories of the Kingdome


On the anniversary of the Kingdome's implosion, we take a trip down memory lane to relive its best and worst moments.




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‘SNL’ writer’s memoir co-stars Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner


LOS ANGELES (AP) — You may not know it, but if you treasure the early years of “Saturday Night Live” or are a fan of “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” or “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Alan Zweibel makes you laugh. In nearly 50 years and counting as a writer, Zweibel helped shape the tone of “SNL” and […]




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The Backstory: Larry Stone has seen it all in 35 years of Arizona spring training — much of it unexpected, and all of it memorable


IT WAS ONE of my first years covering spring training in Arizona, during a stint in the early 1990s as the San Francisco Giants beat writer for the San Francisco Examiner. Every day, after our work was done, Bay Area media members would assemble at a Scottsdale park for a pickup basketball game, spirited affairs […]



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Saturday Memo: STP … Big road closures … milk-carton madness … royal baby watch


Ten thousand bicyclists: The grand parade of neon and spandex is under way as thousands of bicyclists departed Husky Stadium this morning for the Rose City. It’s an annual classic where the greyhound riders will finish the 200-mile ride in a single day. The big pack will finish Sunday, exhausted but happy to be in […]




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Saturday Memo: Thunder and more showers…ride to end cancer…Ken Griffey Jr.


That was loud. Unstable air mass triggered a lightning and thunder show over many parts of Puget Sound last night. And there’s a chance today for more flash showers, especially near the Cascade foothills. A whole lot of bikers with a cause. The  weekend-long ride Obliteride continues today through Sunday. Hundreds of bicyclists will be riding 25, […]




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Jefferson school days echo in the May memories of its West Seattle students


IN OUR CORONAVIRAL days of school closures and social distancing, and with May Day here, this week’s “Then” image might be poignant. It depicts 130 people posing for a group photo at West Seattle’s Jefferson Elementary School on Saturday, June 1, 1985, just 17 days before it fell victim to the wrecking ball. As editor […]



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President Trump commemorates VE Day

President Donald Trump has joined World War Two veterans at a wreath laying ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe. President Trump and First Lady Melania paid their respects at a memorial in Washington.




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Curling concerns, homeless memorials and 2010 Olympics gold ski cross

Quebec bonspiel organizers and concerns about future of curling, Kelowna B.C. memorializing homeless and Ashleigh McIvor on her 2010 gold medal memories



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40 acts of kindness,2010 Olympic memory,bisons and black history month

Winnipeg woman celebrates her fortieth birthday with forty acts of kindness,Shane Koyczan at 2010 Olympics,details on bison re-introduction program and Periodic Table of Black Cdn History in Ottawa



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Parents of Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan say a memorial is more important than an inquiry

This week on The House, two Conservatives join us to talk about what's next for the party now that Andrew Scheer has resigned. Bloc MP Stephane Bergeron lays out his party's demands to work co-operatively with the Liberals. Finally, the parents of a soldier who died in Afghanistan talk about media reports saying that the war was a failure.



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'The terror was brought to us': Memories of Oka resurface as rail blockade crisis continues

Thirty years after she was wounded during the clash between soldiers and Mohawk activists at Oka, Que., ex-Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller reflects on how the country has changed — and how the rail blockade crisis could end badly.



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Sarah Broom on family bonds and the meaning of home in her award-winning memoir, The Yellow House

The New Orleans-born author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about generational love and the power of place.



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Alison Roman, urban politics of COVID-19, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Berlin




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Hero's bravery award brings back memories for girl saved from sheep station fire 80 years ago

One man's rescue of a four-year-old girl from a fire 80 years ago has been formally recognised, and now the girl he saved wants to give something back to his family.





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Mary Poppins memorabilia at Maryborough Story Bank



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Tony Hutchison's memorabilia



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Black hat memorial



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Memories of outback waterholes, water tanks and sometimes a swimming pool were lifeline to those on the land

As landowners clean out enormous water tanks in the hope of rain, their fond childhood memories of swimming in tanks and troughs are in stark contrast to today's dry and parched landscape.



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Traders urged to unite to meet Anzac commemorations demand

Albany's peak business lobby is calling for closer cooperation between the city's businesses, in a bid to ensure the region capitalises on November's Anzac centenary commemorations.




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Anzac commemorations spark accommodation worries

Several accommodation providers in Albany have expressed frustration at delays in finalising plans for the city's Anzac centenary commemorations.




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Malcolm Turnbull – a memoir

Malcolm Turnbull reflects on his time on politics, his achievements and the challenges he has faced during his time as 29th prime minister. In the past decade of climate and energy warfare in Australian federal politics, Malcolm Turnbull is the only leader to have lost his job over the issue twice. He talks with Annabelle Crabb about his new memoir A Bigger Picture.



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Thousands commemorate Anzac Day on the Sunshine Coast

Thousands of residents across the Sunshine Coast pay their respects on Anzac Day — standing in driveways, paddling on the water, and dressing up — despite COVID-19 restrictions.




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Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

Neither the people in favour of Polanski being granted unconditional liberty nor the moral guardians and self righteous accusers are likely to have their opinion much altered as a result of this superficial, yet devastatingly powerful record of an extraordinary life.




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Arlo Guthrie salutes father's legacy in commemorative concert

In musical circles, there's a mythical quality to that name, attached as it is to the father of American protest song, Woody Guthrie.




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A Bunbury war historian finds magnificent memorials and quiet graves of South West soldiers

It was bitterly cold at Anzac Cove on the 25th April. In order to attend the Dawn Service marking 100 years since the landing at Gallipoli, Jeff Peirce went 34 hours without sleep.





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Far north Queensland commemorates Vietnam Veterans' Day

More than 40 years after the conclusion of the Vietnam War many of those who served still bear physical and psychological scars as a result of the conflict. On Vietnam Veterans' Day members of the far north Queensland community paused to pay tribute to those who fought in the name of their country.




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70 years of memories for the class of '45

Nineteen members of the graduating class of 1945 have returned to the Toowoomba East State School for a 70 year reunion.




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Crafty ladies commemorate the Anzac tradition with hand-embroidered postcards

The Anzac Commemoration Postcards Exhibition features 90 hand-embroidered postcards compiled by the ladies from NSW Embroiderers' Guild. The travelling exhibition includes embroidered replicas of postcards sent to and from the war front during World War I as well as postcards designed by the guild.




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Memorial to Australia's fallen jockeys being hand-carved at Condobolin

A tribute to the hundreds of jockeys who have been killed during races in Australia since European settlement is being created by a stonemason in the heart of inland New South Wales.




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Clare Calvet's Book of the Week: Country Girl - a Memoir

COUNTRY GIRL A memoirby Edna O'Brien






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Ipswich council allegedly used ratepayers' money to buy up memorabilia including boxing gloves

A south-east Queensland council with more than 700 memorabilia items the bulk of which is believed to have been bought with ratepayers' money is asking the community what should be done with the haul.




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PETA calls for roadside memorial to be erected in tribute of chickens 'burned alive' in truck fire

An animal rights group calls for a roadside memorial to be erected for a number of chickens killed in a truck fire on Adelaide's Northern Expressway this morning.








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ABC News Quiz: Test your memory of news from around the world

There's been big news from all around the world this week — reckon you've kept up with it all? Test yourself with our news quiz.