It’s said that McCrae, a poet and physician, was sitting on the back of a field ambulance overlooking a mass field of graves when he noticed red poppies growing. “In Flanders fields ...

But how did the distinctive red flower become such a potent symbol ... the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the immeasurable sacrifice ...

Many California natives require fire to germinate their seeds and so we could see some of them sprouting this winter and ...

It all began with Walther Nernst, a German chemist. He was born in 1864 in Poland, which was part of Prussia at the time. Nernst was a smart boy, mechanically minded – the type who always ...

Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature, reflects on the wild, red poppy and WW1 ... Commemorative poppies were a direct response to a poem - In Flanders Fields - published in the Christmas ...