What do you think? Number 12.

Today in Britain was Armistice Sunday. It commemorates the ending of World War I. On this day British people wear a poppy (the image to the left of this post is a poppy) to remember all those people who died in this horible war and all the other wars that came after. World War I was such a terrible experience that people called it 'the war to end all wars'. Unhappily, it was not and many wars have happened since then.

In August 1914, when Germany, France, Austria, Serbia and Russia had already started fighting and just before Britain entered World War I, Edward Grey, the British Foreign Minister, looked out of his office window and saw the lamplighters lighting the gas streetlamps. He then said these famous words -

"The lights are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."

What do you think he meant by that?