{"id":52804,"date":"2014-08-04T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T10:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=52804"},"modified":"2014-08-04T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T10:08:11","slug":"100-years-first-world-war-a-sea-of-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8bflowers-at-the-tower-of-london-uk-news-52804","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/100-years-first-world-war-a-sea-of-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8bflowers-at-the-tower-of-london-uk-news-52804\/","title":{"rendered":"100 years First World War: A sea of \u200b\u200bflowers at the Tower of London \/ UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Poppies<\/a><\/h1>\n

Red, where the eye falls: Am Tower of London Volunteers distribute currently almost 900,000 poppies of ceramic. You remember the victims of the First World War.<\/h1>\n

An art project at the Tower of London recalls in the coming months to soldiers who died in the First World War. The installation by the artist Paul Cummins is called “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red ‘.<\/p>\n

The artwork consists of exactly 888 246 poppies ceramic. It is inspired by a line that Cummins found in the will of an unidentified British soldier who died in battle in Flanders. It told the artist the “Guardian”. The soldiers were stopped, her will always carry with you, often with moving letters to their families – so should the men can be identified if they died in battle.<\/p>\n

\"Poppies<\/a>
Poppies lie in Tower of London moat to commemorate WW1 victims<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each flower is a dead man the British armed forces and the armies of the British colonies in the First World War, in which a total of approximately 17 million people died. The last flower is added on November 11 – the day in 1918 the armistice was signed, ending the war.<\/p>\n

Volunteers put the flowers in the dry moat of the Tower of London. After 11 November, they are sold for 25 pounds a piece. So to come together for charity around 15 million pounds.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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