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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

How Politics Saves Lives – The New York Times

On a Sunday in July 2014, a man boarded a plane in Monrovia, Liberia, and flew to Lagos, Nigeria. He felt sick with a fever when the trip began and was in worse shape by the time he landed. The Nigerian authorities took him to a hospital, where doctors eventually diagnosed Ebola.

From that first patient, infections soon began to spread in Lagos, which is Africa’s most densely populated city. It was the most terrifying period during any Ebola outbreak, Dr. Thomas Frieden, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has said.

But two months later, the crisis was over. Nigeria had no more Ebola cases, and fewer than 10 people, including the man from Liberia, had died. How did Nigeria prevent an epidemic? It wasn’t science, or at least not science as people typically define it. It was more basic than that.

Le fate del bosco

le pagine dei nostri libri

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Anche quell’anno in primavera

le fate del bosco fecero fiorire

le primule che si trovarono, così,

abbracciate alle odorose verbene

ed all’edera sfrontata e vigorosa.

E quello stesso giorno il sole

riprese a vegliare su di te e raccolse

nella sua luce il tuo sconforto.

Lo trasportò lontano oltre

le terre infuocate, attraversando

la barriera di quelle ombre bizzarre

che si accatastavano scomposte

lungo i pontili scardinati di quel

maleodorante ed ombreggiato porto.

E fu un’aurora ardente

quella che capovolse il sole

ed albeggiò inebetita e luminosa

circondando ed intrecciando,

con puntiglio, la tua chioma

morbida e scontrosa.

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Dread No More

Shayan's Sphere

Dread no more the darkling sky,
Nay, the thousand vicious blows;
For the gloom is brief and so shall die
Like weird feeling that daily goes.

And again shall shine the golden sun,
And soon shall flow the tender breeze;
And play the kids, do leap and run
In the fair meadows with charming trees.

And again shall rush in human breast
The endless streams of tranquil words,
And soon shall sing the beaming chests
With the sweet rhythms of warbling birds.

So lose not hope in the stygian cage
But recall rather by wiping tears,
Those heroic stories of bygone age
Heard and praised in the yesteryears.

And recall rather, do wake and take
Those sterling features of thy own race;
Recall how they for others’ sake
Had fought and died with a smile on face.

And recall how they had faced such days
With aches in heart and…

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Naturwunder im Südwesten der USA

Senioren um die Welt

Im Südwesten der USA haben jahrtausendlange Erosion, Wind und Wetter Landschaften von atemberaubender Schönheit entstehen lassen. Die Kräfte der Natur haben Canyons ausgewaschen, Sandsteinbögen im weichen Gestein geformt und rostrote Monolithen geschaffen. Meine Verwandten in den USA hatten mir schon viel von diesen grandiosen Naturwundern erzählt.

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Pacific War in art – 1941 – 1942

Pacific Paratrooper

From some of our most prestigious artists come their depictions of the war…

PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO GET THE FULL EFFECT.

“Tora, Tora, Tora”, by Robert McCall

“Battle of Slim River” by: Mark Stille

Japanese and war horses in Hong Kong

Japan in Dutch East Indies

Japan bombs Darwin, Australia, by” James Baines, Feb. 1942

Bataan Death March, by Ben Steele, himself a death march survivor from Montana, April 1942

Doolittle Raid, B-25 over Japan, by: Francis Bergese
18 April 1942

“Cactus Air Force” by: Jack Fellows, Guadalcanal

RAAF Kittyhawk Squadron, Milne Bay, New Guinea, by: William Dargie, Sept. 1942

“Action Over Salamaua”, by: Jack Fellows

Pictorial series to be continued…

Resources:

IHRA: for their blog and their books and prints

Jack Fellows website

William Dargie info

“WWII: A Tribute in Art and Literature” edited by David Colbert

This idea for this post arose from a discussion with…

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True Happiness is Internal

Saania's diary - reflections, learnings, sparkles

The other day when I was texting a friend, I noticed how impatient and grumpy I felt when she didn’t reply and get back to me. There were similar instances with other people wherein I felt irked the same way. However, it made me wonder why my happiness is dependent on external factors. And, ultimately, just how wrong this is!

We haven’t actually ever been taught to look inside of ourselves. Our worlds are not exactly set up to help us discover our personal boundaries in pursuit of growth, and we are therefore encouraged to cling onto external events in the hopes that we will be happy after, and with the hopes that they will calm our troubled hearts and minds. But quite fortunately enough, true happiness can be found within us.

Internal happiness is when our happiness is influenced by our own realizations, mindsets or thought processes. The weight…

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As We grow older!

Soni's thoughts

As we grow older, we become mature…
All our childishnes lowers!😐

As we grow older, we become responsible…
We leave way behind our childhood!👋🏻

As we grow older, we feel somewhat burdened…
We remininsce old days and feel saddened!🤔😦

As we grow older, loads get piled up…
To go back to nonage days, we wonder!🤷🏻

As we grow older, we miss sweet banter with friends…🤼‍♀️
We miss our tittle tattle moments!🤗👯

As we grow older, life makes us occupied with stuffs…
We want to get peace we cry out for!🙏🏻

As we grow older, we let our childish side fade…🖼️
We let ourselves adjust to hands of fate!🤦🏻‍♀️

As we grow older, somewhere we leave carefree ‘US’…
When we hark back and think, we find an unlike ‘US’!🤐

As we grow older, no choice than giving in to change…
All our old sweet…

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« Ces étrangers se sont précipités dans la forêt pour en arracher de l’or! » These foreigners rushed into the forest to grab gold! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro: « Nous, nous sommes différents. Nous n’avons jamais pensé à envoyer notre peuple sur la terre des Blancs pour tout détruire sans dire un mot! Les Blancs peuvent se trouver très intelligents, mais leur pensée reste fixée sur ces mauvaises choses qu’ils convoitent toujours. C’est aussi à cause de…

« Ces étrangers se sont précipités dans la forêt pour en arracher de l’or! » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Not Rasputin

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A man once said, “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing”. We are talking about Socrates, the great Greek philosopher (470 BCE to 399 BCE). He died defending his ideas and beliefs adamantly before the law. Ironically, he fought that he knew he knew nothing.

He knew he knew nothing? Nothing? Which dimension are we talking in?

Once, an oracle announced, that no one is wiser than Socrates. Baffled by this news, Socrates went on a search to find someone wiser than him, to prove his friend wrong 😆. As you might have guessed, he never found one.

Socrates himself wrote nothing, his ideas were spread by his small circle of followers. His admirers consider him as a man of great insight, wisdom, and analytic skills. I am mostly fascinated by the events leading to his death. (Rasputin, you listening? )

Searching for the truths of the universe…

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Diego Rivera, o marido de Frida Kahlo — Culturalizando

Frida Kahlo teve uma vida muito sofrida, além de suas deficiências físicas graças a um acidente, ainda acabou casando com Diego Rivera um homem que trouxe bastante sofrimento a Frida, principalmente após traí-la com a irmã dela (clique aqui para ver a biografia de Frida Kahlo). Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de […]

Diego Rivera, o marido de Frida Kahlo — Culturalizando