George Lansbury (1859–1940) was a British socialist, editor and campaigner who led the
Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. Throughout his political life he fought for equality, social justice, women's rights and world disarmament. Before entering the national scene he served in the East End of London in numerous local government posts. Elected to
parliament in 1910, he resigned his seat two years later on the issue of women's suffrage, and was briefly imprisoned after publicly supporting militant action. Lansbury became editor of the Daily Herald newspaper, which maintained a strong pacifist stance during the First World War and supported the 1917
Russian Revolution. Although he returned to parliament in 1922 he was excluded from the brief
Labour government of 1924, but served as
First Commissioner of Works in the
Labour government of 1929–31. After the economic crisis of August 1931 Lansbury refused to join the
National Government under
Ramsay MacDonald and became leader of the Labour Party in opposition. His
pacifism in the face of rising
European fascism put him at odds with his party, and in 1935 he resigned the leadership. He spent his final years travelling in the United States and Europe in the cause of peace and disarmament. (
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The Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a
milkweed butterfly and perhaps the best known of all North American butterflies (though it sometimes wanders to Oceania and Europe). Every year the population east of the
Rocky Mountains goes on a southward migration and northward return, the only butterfly species to do so. Females, such as the one pictured here, will lay eggs during the trip; the migration spans the life of three to four generations.
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