Welsh soldier was war spy suspect

"Emaciated, tired and confused following a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp, soldier William Roberts faced the prospect of being shot as a German spy on his return home to Britain - and all because he spoke Welsh."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/8248350.stm

The Blue Valley Foundation

"In the ancient land of Tibet, cultural traditions that have endured for millennia are rapidly being lost. In rural Golok, better education, good economic planning and environmental preservation are necessary for the continuation of those traditions.

The Blue Valley Foundation” has been established to help preserve traditional Tibetan culture and society and to improve the quality of life for Tibetans in Qinghai Province, The State of Golok, and elsewhere in Tibet. Our mandate is to support education, conservation, language and crafts, and scalable livelihood and energy production."

http://www.bluevalleyfoundation.org/

The joyous support created by one model's picture

"this extraordinary image of a woman with wobbly bits that have not been airbrushed away has sparked a whirlwind of reaction - almost all of it positive."


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1210814/Lizzie-Millers-Glamour-magazine-shoot-How-models-picture-shook-world-flabby-tummy-all.html

"Unless we start addressing the issues, unless we wise up to the fact that our body fantasies can never be fulfilled, we'll continue to be pointlessly unhappy for a long time to come."

WWII prisoners' publishing feat

"... some Welsh prisoners of war overcame adversity with a remarkable series of morale-boosting magazines about their homeland called Cymro (Welshman).

They stole medicine to make ink, while their meagre rations were used to stick illustrations onto pages from school exercise books. "