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10th Day of April – Fatcowco – 1925 – The Great Gatsby is first published

1925 – The Great Gatsby is first published

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby’s obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

1925 – The Great Gatsby is first published

After its publication by Scribner’s on 10th April 1925, The Great Gatsby received generally favorable reviews, bu some literary critics believed it did not hold up to Fitzgerald’s previous efforts and signaled the end of the author’s literary achievements.

Despite the warm critical reception, Gatsby was a commercial failure.

The book sold fewer than 20,000 copies by October, and Fitzgerald’s hopes of a monetary windfall from the novel were unrealized.

Source: 10th Day of April – Fatcowco

AstraZeneca Vaccine and Blood Clots: What Is Known So Far – The New York Times (Me: 34 million shots(!) and 222 blood clots = over-reaction by bureaucrats…)

As of April 4, European regulators had received reports of 222 cases of the rare blood-clotting problem in Britain and the 30-nation European Economic Area (the European Union plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein). They said that about 34 million people had received the AstraZeneca vaccine in those countries, and that the clotting problems were appearing at a rate of about one in 100,000 recipients.

April 9, 2021 – Letters from an American – (Me: a year of pandemic…)

The 1918 influenza pandemic killed at least 50 million people across the world, including about 675,000 people in the United States. And yet, until recently, it has been elusive in our popular memory. America’s curious amnesia about the 1918 pandemic has come to mind lately as the United States appears to be shifting into a post-pandemic era of job growth and optimism.

A year ago today, I noted that we were approaching 17,000 deaths from Covid-19. Now our official death count is over 560,000. If anyone had told us a year ago that we would lose more than a half million of our family and friends to this pandemic, that number would have seemed unthinkable.

Source: April 9, 2021 – Letters from an American

Genghis Khan |

Genghis Khan (1162-1227 AD) was the founder of the Mongol Empire and his eldest son started the Yuan dynasty in China. In the Mongolian language Genghis means ‘great and powerful’ and Khan means chief or king. It was named after it unified all the tribes of the Mongolian prairie but its real name was Temujin, which historians think meant ‘fine steel’. Temujin was born into the family of a tribal chief but his father was poisoned by the Tartars when he was still a child. The family was then abandoned by their tribe and lived in poverty and had to go through many great difficulties living as nomads and without protection…

When Genghis Khan died in 1227, aged 72, his empire also included all of Central Asia, Iran, Pakistan, Korea and southern Russia, a territory four times larger than that conquered by Alexander the Great. .

He was a great strategist, showed exceptional ability in building alliances or isolating the enemy and showed great tolerance towards the traditions or customs of the conquered populations, provided they offered him loyalty. Along its territorial expansion, many religions such as Buddhism, Taoism and Islam were then introduced to Mongolia.

Source: Genghis Khan |

Začini – ljekovite biljke

Chili pepper stimulates blood circulation, lowers blood pressure and cholesterol levels. It causes increased sweating, which helps treat colds, sinus problems and fever. Promotes the expulsion of mucus from the lungs.

Myrela

  • ČILI – Čili paprika podstiče cirkulaciju krvi, snižava pritisak i nivo holesterola. Izaziva pojačano znojenje, čime pomaže u liječenju prehlade, problema sa sinusima i groznice. Pospješuje izbacivanje sluzi iz pluća.

  • CELER – Ljekovite tvari najbolje ostaju sačuvane u svježe iscjeđenom soku sirovog korijena, listova i stabljike, ali, preporučuje se što manje listova, jer, čine sok gorkim. Napitak djeluje kod rumatizma i gihta, snižava krvni pritisak i nivo šećera u krvi, povoljno djeluje na regulaciju mjesečnog ciklusa i preporučuje se kao pomoć pri mršavljenju.

  • ŠAFRAN – Šafran se prepisuje kod nervoze, pa se vjeruje da djeluje kao umirujuće sredstvo. Istraživanje je pokazalo da ekstrakt šafrana djeluje protivupalno, te kao sredstvo protiv bolova. Naučnici intenzivno istražuju njegov uticaj na uništavanje ćelija raka.

  • BIBER – Crni biber podstiče probavu i koristi se za liječenje usporene probave, nadimanja stomaka, vjetrova i gubitka apetita. Istraživanja su pokazala da crni biber uništava bakterije koje izazivaju trovanje…

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On Winning #poem #short prose #literature – Short Prose

…I needed a God to lead me to the sea. In mama’s stories there were too many Gods leading souls to heaven. I did not want to go to heaven. I wanted to go to the sea….

Prose Poem by Gabriela Marie Milton 2019 Author of the Year at Spillwords Press and Author of Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings.

Source: On Winning #poem #short prose #literature – Short Prose