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Anah or Ana (, ʾĀna, ), formerly also known as Anna, is an Iraqi town on the Euphrates river, approximately midway between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf. Anah lies from west to east on the right bank along a bend of the river just before it turns south towards Hit.

Name
The town was called (d)Ha-na-at in cuneiform texts from the Old Babylonian period, A-na-at by the scribes of Tukulti-Ninurta  BC, and An-at by the scribes of Assur-nasir-pal II in 879 BC. The name has been connected with the widely worshipped war goddess Anat. It was known as Anathō () to Isidore Charax and  to Ammianus Marcellinus; early Arabic writers described it variously as ʾĀna or (as if plural) ʾĀnāt.

History

Middle Bronze
The earliest references to Anah are probably found in letters of the period of Zimri-Lim of Mari.

Under Hammurapi of Babylon the town was under Babylonian control, being included in the governorate of Sūḫu. Later, the town was under Assyrian rule.

Iron Age
At the beginning of the 8th century BC, Šamaš-rēša-uṣur and his son Ninurta-kudurrī-uṣur succeeded in creating an independent political entity, and called themselves "governors of Sūḫu and Mari". The land of Sūḫu occupied a quite extensive region on the Middle Euphrates, approximately from the area near Falluja in the southeast to the area of Ḫindanu (modern Tell Jabiriyah, near Al-Qa'im) in the northwest. Important evidence for this period was recovered during English and Iraqi salvage excavation campaigns at Sur Jurʿeh and on the island of ʿAna (Anah) in the early 1980s.

Xenophon recorded that the army of Cyrus the Younger resupplied during a campaign in 401 BC at "Charmande" near the end of a 90-parasang march between Korsote and Pylae, which likely intends Anah. It was the site where the Roman emperor Julian first met opposition in his AD 363 expedition against the Sassanid Empire. He got possession of the place and relocated its inhabitants.

Medieval and Ottoman Era

In 657, during the Muslim conquest of Iraq, Ali's lieutenants Ziyad and Shureih were refused passage across the Euphrates at Anah. Later, in 1058, Anah was the place of exile of the caliph Qaim when al-Basasiri was in power. In the 14th century, Anah was the seat of the catholicos who served as primate over the Persian Christians. Throughout early Islamic rule, it was a prosperous trade town, well known for its date palms and gardens; in the 14th century, Mustafi wrote of the fame of its palm groves. Medieval Arab poets celebrated Anah's wine;

Between the 14th and 17th centuries, Anah served as a headquarters for a host of regional Arab tribes. Starting around 1535, the town served as the de facto capital of the Abu Rish Bedouin emirs, whom the Ottomans appointed as governors of several s (provinces) as well as çöl beyis or "desert emirs". In 1574, Leonhart Rauwolff found the town divided into two parts, the Turkish "so surrounded by the river that you cannot go into it but by boats" and the larger Arabian section along one of the banks. In 1610, Texeira said Anah lay on both banks of the river, with which Pietro Della Valle agreed. In that year, Della Valle found the Scot George Strachan resident at Anah, working as the physician to the emir and studying Arabic; he also found some "sun worshippers" (actually Alawites) still living there. Della Valle and Texeira called Anah the principal Arab town on the Euphrates, controlling a major route west from Baghdad and territory reaching Palmyra.

Late Ottoman era
About 1750, the Ottomans installed a rudimentary administration to run Anah and its district. After roughly a century, a more organized local government was put in place, whereby Anah became the center of a kaza belonging to the Baghdad Vilayet.

At the beginning of the 19th century, G.A. Olivier found only 25 men in service of the local prince, with residents fleeing daily to escape from bedouin attacks against which he offered no protection. He described the city as a single long street of five or six miles along a narrow strip of land between the river and a ridge of rocky hills. W. F. Ainsworth, chronicling the British Euphrates expedition, reported that in 1835 the Arabs inhabited the northwest part of the town, the Christians the center, and the Jews the southeast. The same year, the steamer Tigris went down in a storm just above Anah, near where Julian's force had suffered from a similar storm.

By the mid-19th century, the houses were separated from one another by fruit gardens, which also filled the riverine islands near the town. The most easterly island contained a ruined castle, while the ruins of ancient Anatho extended a further two miles along the left bank. It marked the boundary between the olive (north) and date (south) growing regions in the area. With the positioning of Turkish troops in the town around 1890, the locals no longer had to pay blackmail () to the bedouins. Through the early 20th century, coarse cotton cloth was the only manufacture. In 1909 Anah had an estimated population of 15,000 and 2,000 houses.  Most of the inhabitants were Sunni Muslim Arabs, though a small Jewish community lived on the town's southern edge.

Kingdom of Iraq
In 1918, the town was captured by British forces and by 1921, became incorporated into the Kingdom of Iraq. It remained an administrative center of a qadaa, part of the larger Ramadi-based liwa of Dulaym. Anah's qadaa also included the subdistricts of Hīt, al-Qa'im and Jubba. The townspeople's long feud with the inhabitants of Rawa was settled diplomatically by 1921. Its territory to the west was dominated by the subtribes of Anizzah, while to the east the Jarba branch of the Shammar held sway.

Most of Anah's building were located among a dense belt of date palms and was "reckoned as healthy and picturesque", according to historian S. H. Longrigg. The date palms were irrigated by water wheels. There were also more scattered dwelling in the mid-stream islands of the Euphrates near the town center. The women of the town were well known for their beauty and the weaving of cotton and wool textiles. The men, many of whom were compelled to emigrate to lack of living space, were largely engaged as boatmen and transporters of water to Baghdad. The town had relatively high educational standards, with eight schools built there by 1946.

F. R. Chesney reported about 1800 houses, two mosques, and 16 waterwheels. One minaret is particularly old. Northedge reported the locals commonly attributed it to the 11th century but opined that it was more likely from about a century after that. It rose from one of the islands and belonged to the local mosque. Dr. Muayad Said described it as an octagonal body "enhanced by alcoves, some of which are blind" and noted earlier conservation work undertaken in 1935, 1963 and 1964. When the valley was flooded by the Haditha Dam in 1984/85, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities cut it into sections and removed it to the new Anah, where it was re-erected to a height of  at the end of the 1980s.

ISIS captured the town in 2014. On September 19, 2017, an offensive to retake the town from ISIS control began. After two days of fighting the town was recaptured by the Iraqi army.

Climate
Anah has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh). Most rain falls in the winter. The average annual temperature in Anah is . About  of precipitation falls annually.

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Populated places in Al Anbar Governorate
Populated places on the Euphrates River
District capitals of Iraq
First Babylonian Empire
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Q: AWS KMS (Key Management Service) My team is working on a customer facing piece of hardware which will store various physical items. To gain access to this hardware, the customer will enter a pin - the pin that was created by a manager from an internal amazon dashboard. We are trying to determine the best way to encrypt these pins from the dashboard into our RDS and decrypt from the customer entry entry. Here are our current workflows but looking for guidance on if we're thinking about this;
From Dashboard (Pin Creation):
Managers enters pin > Triggers api call into Gateway > Triggers Lambda which triggers the createalias and encryptkey API for KMS and imports it into KMS.
From Hardware (Customer Entry)
Customer enters pin > triggers API call into gateway > triggers lambda which triggers the decrypt API into KMS > once the password has been decrypted we need a way for this decryption to then trigger various workflows that will take place in our RDS eventually leading to a door on the locker open
The question we have here is once the key has been decrypted within KMS at customer entry, what is the best way to then trigger the next RDS function? Can KMS make API calls out? Do I need a lambda function in between the KMS and RDS? Also want to ensure our thought process about the workflow above makes sense. Any advice is appreciated.

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Key to obeying God is appreciating the new light, and being able to accept it and put it into practice. Only this is true obedience. Those who do not have the will to thirst for God are incapable of being of a mind to obey God, and can only oppose God as a result of their satisfaction with the status quo.


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Sports Soccer Women's World Cup
Friendly game in Winnipeg is part of a trip of a lifetime for young soccer players from Australia
By: Jeff Hamilton
Posted: 06/10/2015 11:12 PM	| Comments:
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Team Australia raised their banner over the Subway Soccer Field Wednesday and their older more experienced squad showed a "hybrid" Bonivital U14 Girls Premier team the ropes from down under.
On the surface, it looked like any other soccer game between teenage girls.
If you were to have stopped by the Winnipeg Indoor Soccer Complex Wednesday night, nothing would have seemed out of the ordinary: tight battles for the ball on the pitch, coaches on the sideline screaming directions with every pass and parents in the stands providing support while gripping the edge of their seats.
In fact, there was something extraordinary about a game in which they didn't even keep score.
On one side a local club, the U14 Bonivital Flames dressed in bright red.
The other, a slightly older and more talented group just three days into the trip of lifetime that began in Winnipeg Sunday night after a 27-hour flight from Australia.
The visitors, an elite group of 16 girls aged 13 to 16 from Canberra and Sydney, are in Winnipeg following the FIFA Women's World Cup for the next two weeks, cheering on their home country while also taking part in exhibition games along the way, starting with Wednesday's tilt against the Flames.
Gesturing at half time, the Bonivital coach did his best to illustrate how the Australians were mopping the pitch with his team.
Led by coach Rae Dower, a recently retired police officer who spent the last 20 years tackling drug busts, prostitution and murder as a member of the major crimes unit, together they'll spend the next 10 days travelling from Winnipeg to Edmonton and finally to Vancouver playing and watching the game they love.
"Those lifelong experiences, those lifelong memories; they'll take that away for the rest of their days," said Dower when asked what she hopes her girls will get out of the trip.
As for their recent days, the team has seen and done so much in a city they knew little about just last week. They've already seen two World Cup games at Investors Group Field, which included watching their fellow Aussies fall 3-1 to the Americans. Making it even more special was the girls were invited to watch the Matildas practise Wednesday morning, ending with an exclusive meet-and-greet that included snapping photos with their favourite players.
"It was just such a great experience for everyone," said 16-year-old striker Nickoletta Flannery. "It inspires me to proceed in my career path, to keep playing and training hard because at the end of the day that's all the Matildas did to get there. We're just so excited to watch them play and support them."
This is the third time Dower has taken a team to the Women's World Cup.
She went to China in 2007 and Germany in 2011. To suggest it's old hat by now would be misguided. The two other times she took an older group. This time, her heart is set on growing the game for girls at an earlier age.
"It's about getting that addiction to football at a young age, and then it's really hard to leave," she said.
Australia's #7 Nickoletta Flannery (in blue) is pursued down the field by Bonivital's #26 Abby Laurin.
In many ways, Canada is just like Australia when it comes to soccer; a constant struggle to grow a game that will always play second, or third fiddle.
In Canada, it's hockey and football. Down Under, soccer competes with rugby and cricket.
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But Dower credits Canada as leaders in growing the women's game, especially since the start of the World Cup where advertisements and profiles of the Canadian team can be seen all over TV and around the city.
"The more you put it out there, the more you engage those young ones at an early age, the better chance they'll stick with it for life," said Dower.
Life has never been better or busier for the visiting Aussies. They have two more exhibition games in Winnipeg before they head to Edmonton Sunday night.
They're scheduled to take on FC Northwest U16 today at 6 p.m. at Shaughnessy Park and the Bonivital Flames U16 team at Waverley Soccer Complex on Saturday at 6:30.
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Jeff Hamilton
After a slew of injuries playing hockey that included breaks to the wrist, arm, and collar bone; a tear of the medial collateral ligament in both knees; as well as a collapsed lung, Jeff figured it was a good idea to take his interest in sports off the ice and in to the classroom.

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Two more Iowans have tested positive for West Nile Disease. The only case reported up till now this year was also a fatal one, a west-central Iowa man whose death was blamed on the mosquito-borne disease after an autopsy. 62-year-old William Brower of Harlan died at the VA hospital in Omaha June 21, after his heart, lungs and kidneys failed. Friday the Iowa Department of Public Health reported that two people are recovering at home, a northwest Iowa woman in her thirties, and a south-central Iowa man in his 80's Health officials are cautiously optimistic that the disease may be following its typical pattern, declining after a peak the first couple years it's found in a new state. Last year Iowa had 147 human cases of the disease and six people died.


A towering dust devil, casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in this image acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
A towering dust devil, casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in this space wallaper acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The length of the dusty whirlwind's shadow indicates that the dust plume reaches more than half a mile (800 meters) in height. The plume is about 30 yards or meters in diameter.


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Recording studio schedule template, A scheduling template is a blueprint of your perfect day prepared ahead of time. It complies with a prepared appointment guideline based upon individual desires and appointment history. The idea is very similar to"painting by number". Every possible or desired appointment is reserved in advance for up to a year at a time. Appointments are scheduled by referencing the principle then finding the next available appointment of this type.
Regain control of your time. The greatest benefit realized is the return of control over how your day is scheduled. Everybody seems to want everything yesterday or last week. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to respond that fast, yet we are often forced to try. This is particularly true if others are scheduling your appointments without a clear and specific set of directions. A natural byproduct of this scheduling template is the evolution of a very clear set of scheduling instructions.
The formation of a strategy for scheduling is a massive benefit. According to this is a natural byproduct of the template. Once created, it is easily learned and followed permitting anybody to schedule an appointment by simply referencing the guideline. Individuals can be taught quickly, it is easily understood so they can begin scheduling immediately.
Incorporating personal desires with professional desires is often challenging. In fact, it's typical for personal desires to be overlooked or skipped due to lack of time. A scheduling blueprint is a reflection of personal and professional needs. When creating the template, both are coordinated so the ideal day includes time allocated to reach both.
Remove stress and fatigue. The scheduling guideline identifies all possible appointments including a listing of activities which could be completed within each one. Reviewing each appointment to guarantee the time allocated is adequate for the action aids in removing problems experienced routinely in the past. The ideal day is constructed using the guideline to reserve each predetermined appointment removing conflicts throughout the day. Since they conflicts are solved in advance, tension and anxiety are reduced or eliminated. Have a look the sample of recording studio schedule template below at the attachment page.


During each worship service or event at Our Saviour's, a dedicated team of people serve behind the scenes to ensure that the message and music will be heard and seen clearly and effectively. Contact Michele Kolodjski to be a part of this ministry.
Learn to use the Easy Worship software that projects words, images, PowerPoint, and video onto the screen during Our Saviour's worship services, Sundays or Wednesdays. Training is provided. No experience necessary and training is provided. Volunteers are always needed and appreciated!
Individuals (high school to adult) will operate video camera for worship services, weddings, special services, and events using a professional grade video camera. The recordings will be broadcast weekly on cable television. Training is provided. No experience necessary.


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As part of the Council's review of library services, our consultants gave two presentations to the Library Taskforce, which met during February 2013.
Presentation 1 reviews the library survey which the Council undertook in December-January. Presentation 2 shares thoughts about the future of libraries, based on overseas and NZ experience. To view the commentary that accompanies the images, you will need to open this file using Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 of later version.


In creating the 'Fortnight in 1916' project, I've developed a set of general guidelines and rules for how historically accurate it should be.
#1 – I'm not allowed to do anything that will endanger my health.
This one is pretty obvious. I've run the project by my doctor, I'll have a checkup before I do it, and if anything seems to be going wrong, I have to modify or pull the plug on it.
I don't handle winter very well. I get really terrible chillblains, so my clothing and our house heating has to do as much as possible to alleviate them, 1916 or otherwise. I also had a really serious lung infection this autumn, and while 4 weeks in Hawaii seems to have effected a complete recovery, I can't afford another bout of it.
I've chosen to live circa 1916 in the middle of winter because winter is already miserable, so it can't be any worse in wool stockings and a corset, and I already spend 6 months of the year in wool socks, so I draw the line at wearing them at any point in the year when I don't absolutely have to, but it is a slightly risky time of year.
#2 – The project must not negatively impact on Mr D.
Mr D accepts my weird interests, but they definitely aren't his, and it's not fair of me to completely hijack his life for two weeks just because I've decided to do this. So, even while I'm living in 1916, he needs to be able to live in 2016, which means that I can't completely disable the TV for the fortnight (darn it), and meals still have to involve huge amounts of vegetables (yay!), though, of course, that doesn't necessarily mean I get to eat them (boo 🙁 ).
I'll be dressing entirely in reproduction 1916 clothing for the fortnight, from the skin out, day and night.
Where exact replicas can't be obtained, it's most important that my clothes act as much like ca. 1916 items as possible, even if they don't look as period as other option – i.e. a shoe that fits and hugs the foot like a 1910s shoe is more important than one the superficially looks like a 1910s shoe.
My diet will represent a plausible mid 1910s middle-class NZ diet, rather than what may have been the most common diet of the time. Switching to a totally middle-of-the-road 1910s (or, for that matter, modern American) diet will completely throw my body for a loop, which won't yield an accurate representation of what life was like, so I'm sticking to something that is period, but is a lot closer to how I eat now. My research indicates that by 1916 people were eating less meat due to the war (which may have been disappointing to them, but is a great relief to mostly-vegetarian me), and lots of lentils (yay!). I've been delighted to find vegetarian menus and recipe suggestions in 1910s NZ newspapers too, so those will feature in my cooking.
I've decided that I can eat any meat, vegetable, legume, grain, spice, seasoning etc that I can find mentioned in a recipe, menu column, gardening article etc in a NZ newspaper from 1900-1918, or in a cookbook or book that can be documented as in use in NZ at the time. In the spirit of WWI home gardens (yes, they were a thing) I can also eat any vegetable I can grow in my garden in Wellington at this time of year.
The one serious exception to the diet is that we eat venison stew with kai choi (Chinese mustard) once a week, and Mr D will not be happy if that disappears. The ingredients may be a little exotic, but the style of cooking is still very much in the spirit of 1916, so I don't feel it's too far off.
We live in a mid 1920s house. I can't change that. However, the room layout, with lots of small rooms and no open-plan, is more like an earlier house than a modern one, so how we live in it will still match how you would live in a 19th or early 20th c house.
Like houses in 1916, and in common with far too much of the housing in NZ, our house has no insulation, no double glazing, and no central heating. In fact, except for a bit more electricity, our house isn't measurably more comfortable than it would have been in 1910.
Transport is a real problem. The obvious answer is public transport, which is what would have been used in 1916, but Wellington, like many, many cities around the world, has significantly worse public transport today than it did during WWI. Because of this (and also the part where I'm often carrying two sewing machines around with me), I can't catch buses to work, because I'd get home at almost 10 at night, instead of at 9.
My compromise will be to walk and bus whenever possible (I can walk to the supermarket – yay!), and to not drive out of the small circle that would have been easily accessibly by the Wellington trolley system in 1910 for the duration of the fortnight.
Because I'm self-funding the project, I still need to be able to work. Luckily, I've picked the perfect period for this. During WWI many middle class women were working for the first time, taking on clerical work to replace men who were overseas fighting, and extending the organisational work they had done on church and social committees to a much bigger level as part of the war effort.
I'll be re-framing the usual work I do within these contexts: I'll confine computer work to a set timeframe within the day, as a stand-in for a clerical job. I'll be blogging a journal of my experiences and insights in lieu of a written journal, and answering emails in lieu of correspondence, which was an important part of a WWI housewife's weekly routine, as it was the main form of contact with friends, relatives, and spouses overseas and in other towns. My evening sewing classes will fill the same function as planning meetings, socialising and classes would have for a Wellington woman in 1916.
Two email checks at set times in a day, taking no more than 1 hour in total.
1 hour of online research is allowed every three days, to answer any questions that may have come up.
10 minutes of FB a day, to post a link to my blog posts, and to deal with any issues in the HSF FB group and other groups I manage.
No browsing, surfing, and clicking on random articles.
When I answer an email or write a blog post, that's ALL I do. Nothing on in the background, no extra tabs, etc.
Such a grand idea! Looking forward to your posts!
So, I have a question about food: I know in Hawaii, that it was possible for European-descended population to eat the local (and Asian) food. What about NZ? Or was food also segregated?
All your guidelines sound reasonable. Looking forward to following. Have fun!
What a great plan! Looking forward to hearing how it all pans out!
You have made an excellent plan! I'll be reading along!
This is so interesting! Looking forward to hearing more about your 1916 wardrobe and just the experience overall.
Glad to hear it wasn't mutton chops every day. I presume you have an electric stove rather than a coal range? Are there any other kitchen mods?
One big change to your house, I hope, is that you'll have an inside toilet. Or would the middle classes have had this in 1916? Many pre-1920 houses I've been in had a flushing loo but you had to go outside and along the porch to get to it. I don't know when they were brought inside, but I'm pleased about it. Good luck!
Far, far worse than mutton chops every day. Boiled mutton!
We have a gas stove. I'd love to do this with a coal range, but for now, a gas stove that works very badly is going to have to do.
I'll be posting more about house details, so will cover things like loos.
Also, you may want to consider using Hootsuite or Tweetdeck to schedule tweets. Both are free and easy to use.
Can't wait to follow along on your time travelling.
Fascinating project, I'm looking forward to reading your posts.
I'm excited to read what you post about this experience.


I have been working on the routing capabilities of the T2080 and have run into some issues regarding one of the 10G Ethernet ports on the board.
The TX and RX lights both turn on when the ethernet cable is inserted into the ETH0 port just like it does when inputted into the ETH1 port so it seems that a connection is read. Is there any reason why this should not be working; I am running the same commands but get different responses? I have tried the same thing with multiple cables and computers and keep getting the same issue. Is this a hardware issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am completely stumped.
Please enter u-boot prompt, and configure the parameters as the following, please check whether this 10G Ethernet port can work under u-boot.
In addition, would you please send the whole u-boot and Linux Kernel booting up log to me? I will do more investigation for you.


The winter season is almost over, and it seemed like it was always good conditions for the whole winter unless you talked to someone who doesn't snowboard or ski and spent the majority of their winter shovelling snow off the driveway. I was employed as Ski Patrol at Silver Star Mountain this winter season with Marisa, and there was weeks when it would be powder days everyday for an entire shift. Then for our days off, since it was still snowing we would travel elsewhere in BC or to Alberta to shred.
By the end of the ski season at Silver Star Marisa and I had traveled to 8 different resorts, stayed in two different huts, splitboarded many new objectives, and boarded more pow than we could have ever believed was possible in a season.
Anyone who works in the outdoors industry knows that you don't get into it for the money. The monetary sacrifices we make to live this lifestyle are made up by endless pow shots in the face! For anyone who has experienced this feeling knows no amount of money beats the feeling of climbing to the top of a mountain and getting first tracks down.
Many days in the mountains make you go through a spectrum of feelings and emotions, but the reason we do what we do is for the feeling of happiness. Completing an objective you set out to do in the morning and being out in the mountains with good company is the recipe for smiles.
A common thought I hear is if you work doing what you love it will ruin what you once loved doing and make it just work. I don't believe that this is true and I believe working as a ski patroller has made me love snowboarding even more. Especially since I was doing it day in, day out with Marisa. Neither one of us had an excuse for not being in shape when it would come to ski-touring on our days-off.
With all these good things said, ski patrolling is still a job and isn't all glorious all the time. It comes with its work drama like any other job, but once you get past all that, it feels pretty good strapping on your board everyday for work. I am very excited to see what I get up to next winter, but until then I will be in my van living amongst the mountains and trying to figure IT out.


The exhibition has been created in collaboration with the Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation and the Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation.
Alexandre Vassiliev, the famous art historian and collector, speaks briefly about the new exhibition: "The exhibition shows fashion between 1912 and 1924. This time included three distinctive periods. The first one was peacetime and the flourishing of fashion at the beginning of the 20th century or the so-called Belle Époque or beautiful times when aesthetics of art nouveau dominated. Women used to change their clothes five or six times a day. The ideal of beauty at that time was a lady dressed in silk, muslin, and oriental draperies who walked slowly and gracefully. Luxury fashion designers worked with all the cloths available – expensive fabrics, fine embroideries and intricate dress styles. The sensual tango became the most popular dance of the time.
The First World War began in 1914 and it changed normal life completely. Women started to work and became nurses, drivers, factory workers, secretaries, civil servants, telephonists... Fashion experienced lightning-fast changes too: it became simpler and more practical. Skirts became shorter and wider which resulted in a silhouette called "the war crinoline". Instead of wide hats, women started to wore small tight-fitting hats that resembled soldiers helmets. It became rare for women to afford servants and clasps were moved from the back to the front of clothes. Elegant and reserved black became the fashionable colour, whereas before black was associated with the colour of mourning.
The "1918. The Luxury of Freedom" Exhibition displays clothes, accessories and furniture from the collection of Alexandre Vassiliev and includes items from the influential fashion houses and designers of the time, such as Worth, Redfern, Lanvin, Cheruit and Callot Soeurs. Many exhibits are newly acquired items and have been bought specifically for the exhibition.
The exhibition will be open at the Fashion Museum for six months, from the beginning of October 2018 to the end of April 2019. Exhibits from the collection of Alexandre Vassiliev, who has one the three largest private collections of clothes and accessories in the world and contains more than 60 000 items, will be supplemented by clothes from the Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation and by unique video and audio material. The exhibition will also feature lectures and masterclasses to help visitors learn more about the fashion of this period of time, its design, lifestyles and personalities. The museum will also maintain the traditions of previous exhibition such as opportunities for visitors to try on clothes of the period of the exhibition. Visitors will also be able to complete a quiz to find out which of the directions of the avant-garde style suits them best as well as getting answers to important and not so important questions in the esoteric style of the beginning of the 20th century. There will also be fun-filled entertainment for children.
The Fashion Museum at 24 Grecinieku Street in Riga was opened in 2016 in collaboration with the Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation. It is a private museum created and managed by architect Natalia Muzychkina. Its thematic exhibitions and the small permanent exhibition enable visitors not only to see clothes and accessories but also to experience the atmosphere of past years as well as to participate interactively in the world of fashion. Both adults and children can live and learn from the experience. "1918. The Luxury of Freedom" will be the fifth exhibition of the Fashion Museum in Riga. The previous exhibitions were "The Elegance of the 1930's", "The Secrets of the East. Western Fashion and China" and "Dior". You can visit the "The Golden 20's" Exhibition until 25 September; it includes items from the unique collection of shoes and clothes of Nazim Mustafaev.
The museum is open daily from 11.00 to 18.00; during the summer season from 15 May to 30 September it is open from 11.00 to 19.00.
Ticket prices: €7 for individuals; €6 for individuals in groups; €5 for school children, students, pensioners and the disabled. There is a discount for schoolchildren, students, pensioners and the disabled on the first Tuesday of each month – €3.