In late 1914, the fields of Northern France and Flanders were once again ripped open as World War One raged through Europe's heart. Once the conflict was over the poppy was one of the only plants ...

The poppy symbol is believed to have come from the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae, a poem about World War I. The opening stanza reads: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the ...

Eating even a small amount of food containing poppy seed can lead to a false positive on drugs tests. You probably know that poppies sprung up in their thousands on Flanders fields after the ...

Across the UK, poppies are worn each year to mark Remembrance ... Colonel John McCrae wrote his famous war poem, In Flanders ...

Although the poppy is a universal symbol of Remembrance ... Madame Anna Guérin were inspired by the moving poem 'In Flanders Fields by Canadian doctor and soldier Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae ...

She was particularly affected by the last lines — ‘If ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep/though poppies grow in Flanders Fields’ — and went out to search the shops of New York for ...