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College Football Rich with Tradition (The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
Other traditions highlighted at the Hall include the 18 mile per hour speed limit at Ole Miss, the Smurf Turf at Boise State, the Blackshirts at Nebraska, the pink locker room at Iowa, Tightwad Hill at Cal, the Oklahoma RUF/NEK Paddles, and the Minnesota-Wisconsin Paul Bunyan Axe ... · Blackshirts, name given to the defensive starters and dating back ......

Michael Brenek Presents Senior Recital (University of Mary Hardin-Baylor)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
(Source. University of Mary Hardin-Baylor) ... A senior Music Education major, Michael is a member of the Wind Ensemble and the BlackShirt Cru Spirit Band at UMHB ... F. Handel, Walter Hartley, and Johannes Brahms....

Sir Arnold Wesker obituary

Edit The Guardian 13 Apr 2016
Playwright who presented a vibrant view of working-class life in his celebrated trilogy, and championed proper recognition for Jews in British culture. Arnold Wesker, who has died aged 83, shot to fame as one of the wave of British playwrights spearheaded by John Osborne and John Arden ... Chicken Soup With Barley (1958) tells the story of the Kahn family, antifascist East End Jews fighting Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts in 1936 ... Related ... ....

Nebbiolo's Other Kingdom

Edit Huffington Post 10 Apr 2016
The tiny, impossibly steep vineyards of the Valtellina. The Nebbiolo grape variety has long been associated with Italy's Piedmont region. There it is used to produce two of Italy's greatest wines, Barolo, the long heralded king of Italian wines, and its equally distinguished cousin Barbaresco ... the Valtellina ... Mussolini was convinced that with 50,000 of his Blackshirt supporters, he could hold out indefinitely in the Valtellina ... ....

Donald Trump And America's 'Second Civil War'

Edit Huffington Post 25 Mar 2016
Despite everyone calling him a fascist, Donald Trump may have more in common with Jefferson Davis than he does with Benito Mussolini ... It's not that all of Trump's supporters want to own slaves or secede from the United States ... "And they're angry about that ... Mussolini's blackshirts, Adolf Hitler's brownshirts and William Dudley Pelley's silver shirts were all militant enforcers of their movement's tough-guy nationalist cause ... ....

How GOP Anti-Intellectualism Created a Modern Fascist Movement in America

Edit Alternet 12 Mar 2016
Fascism is about the most powerful epithet one can use -- but it fits with Donald Trump. A historian explains why. In an interview with Slate, the historian of fascism Robert Paxton warns against describing Donald Trump as Fascist because “it’s almost the most powerful epithet you can use.” But in this case, the shoe fits. And here is why ... To borrow from Paxton again ... So, Trump’s blackshirts are not marching on Washington, yet....

Meet 90-year-old Foggia fan, Nonno Ciccio, the oldest ultra in Italy

Edit The Guardian 10 Mar 2016
Nonno Ciccio has been watching Foggia since 1937 (give or take those years he lost to the second world war) and he’s still travelling across Italy to see them play. By Copa90, part of the Guardian Sport Network. Facebook. Twitter. Pinterest ... Nonno Ciccio is something of a cult hero in Italy ... Since that day he has been transfixed ... During the second world war, he was conscripted to the Italian Blackshirts and sent to fight in North Africa ... ....

It Can't Happen Here?

Edit Huffington Post 02 Mar 2016
The most nefarious aspects of Mussolini's regime were still years away, but each of these journalists turned their backs on the loss of Italy's free press, its wrathful nationalism, the extreme violence of the Blackshirts who beat their opponents to death (or at a minimum beat and force-fed large doses of castor oil to any who showed disobedience), ......

Elvis Costello: 10 of the best

Edit The Guardian 27 Jan 2016
He emerged in 1977 as the archetype of the angry young man, but it didn’t take Elvis Costello long to realise he needed to slow down and try something different. 1. Less Than Zero. That Declan MacManus had been renamed Elvis Costello in the year that Elvis Presley died was merely a stroke of luck ... Mosley had apparently been the subject of a then recent TV documentary in which he reminisced misty-eyed about the Blackshirts ... 2. Radio Radio ... ....

A Girl's Guide to Denver's Craft Breweries

Edit Huffington Post 26 Jan 2016
I love beer. If it's a Corona poured over ice with a squeeze of lime juice ... It's not that I'm not a beer girl; it's just that I'm not a beer girl ... (Read ... (Me ... or something like that ... According to co-owner Chad Miller (who was very nice), it took 14 years for his brothers and him to build their "eponymously" named brewery (the brothers and their father earned the nickname "The Blackshirt Boys" early in life for wearing black t-shirts only ... ....

Editorial - Sir Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts no longer compulsory

Edit The Guardian 19 Jan 2016
It is to be divided into two parts - a Blackshirt and a political organisation. First, he is going to “preserve, pure and immutable, the fine flame of the original Blackshirt movement”; henceforth the uniform is to be reserved for those who perform “conspicuous service,” give up at least two evenings a week, and submit to a scheme of discipline that is outlined in detail....

Donald Trump May Not Be a Fascist, But He Is Leading Us Merrily Down That Path

Edit Huffington Post 14 Jan 2016
This post originally appeared on David Neiwert's blog ... Nor is this phenomenon just a flash in the pan ... ... And indeed it was ... ... A ... B ... C ... 218. ... ... Fascists have, in the past, always relied upon an independent, movement-driven paramilitary force capable of enacting various forms of thuggery on their opponents (as in the Italian Blackshirts, aka the Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale, and the German Brownshirts, the Sturmabteilung)....

Life less ordinary

Edit Deccan Herald 09 Jan 2016
It is somewhat difficult, if not unnerving, for a reviewer to come out unscathed after reading Sweet Caress ... On Grenville’s advice, she turns to Lockwood Mower ... P G Wodehouse and H G Wells, among others, have used Sir Oswald Mosley, the fascist leader as a fictional character, but Boyd sweeps him in as the real-life leader of the Blackshirts with pages and pages on the Maroon Street Riot and the Battle of Cable Street ... ....
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