I've been listening to a song called The White Cliffs of Dover by Vera Lynn.
Click of the link to hear it on youtube
It's a Beautiful song but why write a song about them during WWII? They even made movie about them.
Wikipedia says "The white cliffs of Dover are cliffs which form part of the Britsh coastline facing the Strait of Dover and Frace. The cliffs are part of the North Downs formation. The cliff face, which reaches up to 106 metres high(a little less than 350 feet), owes its striking façade to its composition of chalk(pure white calcium carbonate) accentuated by streaks of black flint. The cliffs spread east and west from the town of Dover in the county of Kent, an ancient and still important English port.
The cliffs have great symbolic value for Britain because they face towards Continental Europe across the narrowest part of the English Channel, where invasions have historically threatened and against which the cliffs form a symbolic guard. Because crossing at Dover was the primary route to the continent before air travel, the white line of cliffs also formed the first (or last) sight of the UK for travellers."
3 comments:
Wow, thank you. I had never known any of that. I had seen that coast line but now I am putting all the pieces together. Thank you. Your grandmother, my mom, probably listened to Vera Lynn. Remember the picture of her in her uniform?
love you
You are SUCH a home school mom ;-) a good one, too. interesting stuff, thanks for sharing it. love you!
Thanks for the lesson! :) Nice song. Your tastes in music run wide, don't they? Mine, too.
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