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Triumf
Google translation of introduction: Triumph Cliff, Today, Europe would have looked different if Wilhelm had not conquered England at Hastings in 1066. In Falaise, in the north of France, his native castle invites you to really get to know this character.
Falaise, 2016
Azi, Europa ar fi arătat altfel dacă Wilhelm n-ar fi cucerit Anglia, la Hastings, în 1066.
La Falaise, în nordul Franței, castelul său natal te invită să cunoști cu adevărat acest personaj.
Renumele burgului i se datorează integral. Filiația sa este banală, era fiul ilegitim al marelui duce al Normandiei și al fiicei unui de tăbăcar din sat. Tatăl său, Robert le Diable, a plecat în pelerinaj la Ierusalim și nu s-a mai întors, așa că Wilhelm a început lupta din copilărie. Mai întâi, lupta de a-și recupera bunurile, fiind bastard, apoi implicarea în revoltele din ținut. S-a născut chiar aici, în acest castel impunător, unde a prins contur aspirația sa de a cuceri Anglia.

Așadar, să nu vă mirați. Turiștii englezi sunt majoritari și în jur auzi vorbindu-se doar engleza, ca și cum ai fi complet separat de Franța. Prima impresie a fost ca mă aflam într-o…
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Filosofa’s Pet Peeves
A few things annoy the bloody heck out of me these days. We all have our pet peeves, things that for whatever reason grate on our nerves like fingernails on a chalkboard. Mine used to be confined to such things as drivers who don’t move when the traffic light turns green because they are too busy playing or talking on their cell phone, but lately there is a whole new crop of things to annoy us.
One is that any time I visit a news website such as the New York Times or The Washington Post, they have some video that loops the first few seconds repeatedly. I find this so distracting, having something moving in my field of vision while I’m trying to read that I cannot help but wonder how many people with epilepsy have been sent to the hospital for seizures from these annoying videos. Sometimes…
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Chidam
In the heart of the traditional northern localities of India’s Kolkata city, right opposite to the Mukul Bithi Children’s School on the Abhedananda Road previously known as the Beadon Street; survives a hundred-year-old barbershop under the main staircase of an equally antique mansion in a room measuring ten feet by four feet.
Rain, hail, or thunderstorm, right at 6:00 AM every morning barring holy Thursdays dedicated to Goddess Lakshmi, Chidam Napit would lift the clangy corrugated shutters of ‘Lokhi Art Saloon,’ his beloved haircutting enterprise, a barely surviving flicker amidst an inferno of dazzling and fast-evolving businesses in the cosmopolitan city at the end of the twentieth century.
While the central throne in this business establishment, a reclining metal barber chair reserved for special loyal customers was operated by Chidam himself, three four-legged wobbly wooden ones were manned by his second in command baldy barber Konok Kanti and two apprentices…
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Theodore Roosevelt
Google translation of quote: “It is much better to risk great things, to achieve triumphs and glories, even exposing yourself to defeat, than to line up with the poor in spirit who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in this gray shadow that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
” É muito melhor arriscar coisa grandiosas, alcançar triunfos e glórias, mesmo expondo-se a derrota, do que formar fila com os pobres de espírito que nem gozem muito nem sofrem muito, porque vivem nessa penumbra cinzenta que não conhece vitória nem derrota.”
Theodore Roosevelt.
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Pacific War in art – 1943
TO CONTINUE OUR MINI-GALLERY OF DISTINGUISHED ARTIST’S VIEW OF WWII ……
RAAF Kittyhawk Squadron, Milne Bay, New Guinea, by: William Dargie
5th Air Force & RAAF, Battle of the Bismark Sea
USS Bailey, Battle of Komandorski, by I.R. Lloyd
“Mission Accomplished”, Yamamoto shot down, 18 April 1943, by Roy Grinnell
Japanese postcard, Aleutian Campaign
The Solomons, by: Peter Dennis
‘Marine Raider’ Bougainville, by: Marc Erickson
Pappy Boyington, F-4U Corsair, by: Craig Tinder
Cape Gloucester, Solomons, 26 Dec. 1943
Resources:
IHRA: for their blog and their books and prints
Jack Fellows website
William Dargie artwork
“WWII: A Tribute in Art and Literature” edited by David Colbert
Nicholas Trudgian
http://www.nicolastrudgian.com/
I.R. Lloyd
Roy Grinnell
https://www.roygrinnellart.com/
Craig Tinder artwork
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Farewell Salutes –
Jack D. Baker – New Salisbury, IN; US Navy, WWII, USS Iowa
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World leaders ‘ignoring’ role of destruction of nature in causing pandemics | Coronavirus | The Guardian
The root cause of pandemics – the destruction of nature – is being ignored, scientists have warned. The focus of world leaders on responding to future outbreaks overlooks the far cheaper and more effective strategy of stopping the spillover of disease from animals to humans in the first place, they have said.
The razing of forests and hunting of wildlife is increasingly bringing animals and the microbes they harbour into contact with people and livestock. About 70% of new infectious diseases have come from animals, including Covid-19, Sars, bird flu, Ebola and HIV.
However, preventing this root cause of spillover is scarcely mentioned by leaders and authorities, said the scientists behind a new independent taskforce, which will report to the coalition on Preventing Pandemics at the Source. The PPS said the issue has been ignored by the World Health Assembly, and a recent report for the World Health Organization on the coronavirus pandemic.
Amazônia: life and death in the Brazilian rainforest | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian
In the middle of the great rainforest, entire cities have arisen and keep expanding without control. They are the gateway to modernity into the region, but also the symbol of its gradual destruction. The suburbs are growing fast, in a total absence of sewerage and public services, killing the forest. The concept of preservation should start right here. In order to preserve the Amazon ecosystem, should we not start looking for a sustainable model for its cities?
Source: Amazônia: life and death in the Brazilian rainforest | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian
Zombie Fires in the Arctic Are an Environmental Time Bomb – Mother Jones
That kind of outbreak may be a sign of things to come in a rapidly warming Arctic. While 2008 was a notably bad year, it was no fluke. Instead, it was part of a pattern of conditions in which zombie fires are most likely to arise. “They appear more often after hot summers and large fires,” says earth systems scientist Rebecca Scholten of the research university VU Amsterdam, lead author on the new paper. “And indeed, that is something that we could show has increased over the last 40 years.” For example, the particularly active fire years of 2009 and 2015 in Alaska, and 2014 in the Northwest Territories, generated multiple overwintering fires the following spring.
Northern soils are loaded with peat, dead vegetation that’s essentially concentrated carbon. When a wildfire burns across an Arctic landscape, it also burns vertically through this soil. Long after the surface fire has exhausted the plant fuel, the peat fire continues to smolder under the dirt, moving deeper down and also marching laterally. In their analysis, Scholten and her colleagues found this is most likely to happen following hotter summers, because that makes vegetation drier, thus igniting more catastrophically. “The more severe it burns, the deeper it can burn into that soil,” says VU Amsterdam earth systems scientist Sander Veraverbeke, coauthor on the new paper. “And the deeper it burns, the higher the chances that that fire will hibernate.” Even when autumn rain falls or the surface freezes in the winter, water isn’t able to penetrate the soil enough to entirely extinguish it.
Then spring arrives and the ice retreats. These hot spots can flare up, seeking more vegetation to burn at the edges of the original burn scar. “Basically, right after the snow melts, we already have dry fuel available,” says Scholten.
Source: Zombie Fires in the Arctic Are an Environmental Time Bomb – Mother Jones





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