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A keep (from the Middle English kype) is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word keep, but usually consider it to refer to large towers in castles that were fortified residences, used as a refuge of last resort should the rest of the castle fall to an adversary. The first keeps were made of timber and formed a key part of the motte-and-bailey castles that emerged in Normandy and Anjou during the 10th century; the design spread to England as a result of the Norman invasion of 1066, and in turn spread into Wales during the second half of the 11th century and into Ireland in the 1170s. The Anglo-Normans and French rulers began to build stone keeps during the 10th and 11th centuries; these included Norman keeps, with a square or rectangular design, and circular shell keeps. Stone keeps carried considerable political as well as military importance and could take up to a decade to build.
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1. Policeman slashing poppies with a cane, part of Afghan governments plan to eradicate the world's largest opium crop 2. Men hacking down poppies 3. Close up slashing 4. Mid shot group of police and officials slashing poppies 5. Haji Mohammed, the district police official talking to farmer Lal Mohammed 6. SOUNDBITE: (Pashtu) Lal Mohammed, Poppy farmer: "They destroyed all of our crop. We have spent a lot of money on it and put a lot of work in as well as giving so much of our time. Now we need the government to assist us." 7. Haji Mohammed, the district police official listening to farmer 8. SOUNDBITE: (Pashtu) Lt. Col. Haji Mohammed, Sanzeri district police chief: "We have been ordered by the President (of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai) to destroy all the poppy fields in this area, ...
your mother was crying
your father passed her a handkerchief
their tear-stained faces
looked to mine for a sign of grief
a thousand raincoats
always stand around too long
but i stayed to talk with you
after they had gone.
the flowers i brought you
were beginning to fade under the heavy rain
your name on the card had run
so i tried in vain to write it again
they didn't understand you - no!
they didn't even try
i'm so glad that you left us now
before you had the chance to die.
i sat there for a long time,
expecting to turn and see you there
i ran my fingers through the long grass
willing it to turn into your hair - and oh
i'm gonna miss you, dear
but i don't have to cry
i'm so glad that you left us now,
before you had the chance to die
and oh, i'm going to miss you dear,
but i'm not going to cry
i'm so glad that your life stopped now,
before it had the chance to die.