Manastir svetih arhanđela Mihaila i Gavrila

Google translation: Not far from the city of Prizren, in the basin of the river Bistrica, there is a monastery of the holy archangels Michael and Gabriel.

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Nedaleko od grada Prizrena, u slivu rijeke Bistrice, nalazi se manastir svetih arhanđela Mihaila i Gavrila. Manastirski kompleks, opasan masivnim zidom, nekad su činili: velika crkva, konaci, biblioteka, bolnica, trpezarija i mala crkva Svetog Nikole. Manastir je građen na starijem crkvištu u vremenu od 1343. godine do 1352. godine, kao zadužbina cara Dušana. O izgradnji se starao otac Jakov, kasnije mitropolit u Serezu. Posebnom poveljom car Dušan darovao je Svetim arhanđelima 93 sela i rudnik gvožđa u Toplici. Car Dušan sahranjen je u svojoj zadužbini.

Kad su Turci zauzeli Prizren 1455. godine, manastir je stradao, a od druge polovine 16. vijeka počinje njegovo neumitno propadanje. Lijepo obrađeni kamen ovog manastira, Turci su iskoristili (1615) za izgradnju Sinan-pašine džamije u Prizrenu. Tako zapušten, manastir Svetih arhanđela ostao je sve do 1929. godine, kad je dr Radoslav Grujić počeo obimnija arheološka istraživanja. Poslije Drugog svjetskog rata ostaci manastira su konzervirani.

Glavna crkva…

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Military Radio – Armed Forces Network

Pacific Paratrooper

1943 ‘G.I. Jive’ sheet music by Johnny Mercer

ARMED FORCES NETWORK

Although American Forces Network Radio has officially been on the air for 60 years, listeners began tuning in at the end of World War I.

A Navy lieutenant in France broadcasted information and live entertainment to troops accompanying President Wilson to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.  Radio was a novelty then, and little equipment was given to overseas military broadcasting until the United States started gearing up for World War II.

playing music for the troops

Bored soldiers in Panama and Alaska created makeshift transmitters and aired records, according to an Armed Forces Radio pamphlet. The U.S. military was unaware of the broadcasts until celebrities wrote asking how to send the stations recordings.

During the first days of the U.S. entry into World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s staff members set up military radio stations in the Philippines. Their…

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“TOP 10 ARTICLE WRITING WEBSITES THAT WILL PAY YOU MONEY”

Beyond The Lines

Who doesn’t want money for 5% work and 95% fun? A stupid man perhaps! Well, I will not let you make that mistake.

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•Spyre Studios

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أسطورة شهرزاد

حلم الدرويش

شهرزاد هى رمز الخيال والسحر فى الأدب العربى والعالمى ، تحكى الحكايات المليئة بالإثارة والتشويق كل ليلة على مسمع الملك شهريار فتسلب منه العقل وروح الانتقام والبطش والغضب بداخله ويتحول إلى طفل وديع ينتظر أن تنتهى الحكاية ، يمر الوقت وتمر الليالى ولا تنتهى الحكايات أبداً . نشأت شهرة شخصية (شهرزاد) لارتباطها بالكتاب ذائع الصيت (ألف ليلة وليلة) أو (الليالى العربية) كما تم تسميته فى الترجمة للغات الأجنبية . يبدأ الكتاب بقصة الملك (شهريار) وأخوه (شاه الزمان) ، حين يشتاق شهريار لرؤية شاه الزمان الذى لم يره منذ مدة طويلة فيُرسل له يدعوه للحضور فيوافق الأخ ويجمع الخدم ويتوجه لمملكة شهريار ، وفى الليل يتذكر أنه نسى إحضار شيء ما فيعود مُسرعاً للقصر فيجد زوجته فى الفراش مع أحد العبيد السود فيقوم بقتلهما ويتوجه ثانية لزيارة شهريار الذى يسعد جداً لرؤيته لكنه يُلاحظ الحزن والغم على وجه (شاه الزمان) فيحاول التسرية عنه ويدعوه للخروج معه للصيد وقنص الحيوانات لعله يشعر…

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Welcome to The Gun Show

sad and no end in sight –

Grounds For Hope

Stockpile military weapons, 
Stockpile high-volume gun clips
Spread of infested rats through the country. 
Is it our fate?
Is this the end? Predicted apocalypse?
Registered, unregistered, and ghost weapons
are used to kill at a family dispute. 
With a single trigger within seconds
They silence us; they make us strangely mute. 
A simple graduation party, a school, a mall, a club,  
A postal office or a quiet walk on a beach 
Become target zones – this is no figure of speech. 
America, the land of free without freedom
A gun behind the back and friendly “Hello” 
Hunting own demons every season
America, welcome to the gun show.

Images from: https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-violence-statistics/ and https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ & https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/u-s-has-been-wracked-with-several-mass-shootings-in-2021-1.5389930

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Attacks make Vancouver ‘anti-Asian hate crime capital of North America’ | Canada | The Guardian

Steven Ngo had stopped at a traffic light in a residential neighbourhood in the eastern part of Vancouver when passengers in another car tossed garbage at him, shouting racial slurs as they sped off. The lawyer, a lifelong resident of the city, was stunned – but not surprised. “The racism has never been as overt and apparent,” said Ngo. “I’ve never seen it so brazen.” Over the last year, Vancouver, a cosmopolitan metropolis set between mountains and ocean, has experienced a 717% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes. The grim figures, which experts believe underreport the problem, reflect a legacy of discrimination in a city and country widely seen as welcoming of newcomers.

Source: Attacks make Vancouver ‘anti-Asian hate crime capital of North America’ | Canada | The Guardian

Pfizer, AstraZeneca COVID jabs ‘highly effective’ against India variant, study shows | Euronews

Public Health England (PHE) said on Sunday that the Pfizer vaccine was 88 per cent effective against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant — named B.1.617.2 — two weeks after the second dose.

Source: Pfizer, AstraZeneca COVID jabs ‘highly effective’ against India variant, study shows | Euronews

Texas Governor Knew of Natural Gas Shortages Days Before Blackout, Blamed Wind Anyway – Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes Ars Technica: Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s office knew of looming natural gas shortages on February 10, days before a deep freeze plunged much of the state into blackouts, according to documents obtained by E&E News and reviewed by Ars. Abbott’s office…

Source: Texas Governor Knew of Natural Gas Shortages Days Before Blackout, Blamed Wind Anyway – Slashdot

Freedom from Torture and Degrading Treatment — Educating for Future Democracy Collaborative

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This year (2021), I am going through all the 30 basic rights and add my personal view. I would like to encourage you to look up our Human Rights, not to take these for granted or to misuse, but as a reminder we are all Human beings, Beautiful Souls and therefore we all matter… [READ MORE] Freedom […]

Freedom from Torture and Degrading Treatment — Educating for Future Democracy Collaborative

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Snarky Sunday Snippets

Filosofa's Word

I look at the news these days, and there are no headlines screaming at me, no nefarious tweets by the former guy that send me straight into fight mode, but still … it takes only about 5 minutes of trolling the news to set my teeth on edge.  Too many things just aren’t right in this country.  And so … sigh … it’s time for me to share a few snarky snippets from the aged, ancient mind.


WHY NOT???

At least five members of the United States military have been charged for participating in the attack on the Capitol on January 6th, and yet not a single one has been relieved of their duty in the military.  In other words … to put it quite bluntly … the very people who attempted to overthrow our government are still the ones we are relying on to defend us against…

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