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TV review - MONGRELS
The root problem with Television, Movies, Books, Comics, Art, is that we have seen everything and there's little to none creativity left in this World. That is not a problem though (if you are James Cameron or Christopher Nolan) but it actually turns into one if people and "creators" don't wrap the plots and ideas into refreshing concepts with good writing and a scoop of aggressive personality. To put it simple, what John Doe said at the end of "SE7EN" about calling the attention of people using a sledge-hammer happens to be the most needful thing in any entertainment media since 1999, but sometimes is used the wrong way.
Nothing is safe from the lack of originality of today's world, that thanks to the internet has turned deader than usual, and that when a movie that presents a refreshing concept of a very clichéd, very manned, used by everybody-plot gets mauled by the critics, the nerds, the assholes and every fucker in sight. So the only way to make something original anymore is by trying to wrap an existing concept in as many layers of flimsy wrapping paper as possible, such as political message, gore, sex, swears, bad taste, terrible writing, pretty visuals, and furries.
Well look no further because "Mongrels", a TV series starting puppets made by BBC One and aired halfway through 2010, is pretty much that, minus the bad taste, the terrible writing and the pretty visuals. "Mongrels" is what would happen if you let Peter Jackson in control of a low budget team of puppeteers, after he had finished the shoot of "The Lovely Bones", but while many (unfair) people have compared it to "Meet the Feebles" it only shares with that movie the fact that it's starred by animal puppets, and that they swear and make sexual jokes. It is difficult for a concept like this to stand out and resist the pass of time and several views of it. Like what happened with the actual "Meet the Feebles" and basically any Peter Jackson film, after you watched it 3 or 4 times the novelty wears off and you just move back to watch something else. Whatever your concept is you need good writing, even if it's a stokehold of clichés, you need writing solid enough to withstand a nuclear explosion. Luckily, "Mongrels" has that.
"Mongrels" is one of those rare shows where everything should fail and fall apart like cards in a castle made by an epileptic, but surprisingly enough it all works extremely well, so before going to criticize the bad aspects let me gush a little and talk about the things I really like about this series, and since we started with the writing let's go with it. "Mongrels" is the day to day life of five animals that live outside a pub in the center of London, being: A metro sexual Fox called Nelson, his sociopath brother Vince, an afghan female self-centered dog called Destiny, a socially retarded insert-nationality-here-but-definitely-foreign house cat called Marion, and an aggravating angsty pigeon named Kali. The structure of this show is like a mix of several other shows if they were given a shot of steroids. We have the obligatory guest stars, though only for those living in the UK will the joke it is still funny to se these people sacrificing some dignity to have a laugh. We have the very usual "cuts to past events" that were patented by "Family Guy" but this time they actually take a massive piss on whatever they are mentioning (again very UK related, but hey it is still funny). At least every episode features a full blown musical number with subjects ranging from "Paedophilia", "Animal Abuse", "Castration", "Xenophobia" and "Divorce" (and yes, they are glorious, each one of them). But what makes the writing so incredibly good is how solid it is. You know how "Seinfeld" stopped being funny after the 5th time they aired it on TV? Well, that happens with "Mongrels" in certain episodes, but they are still an enjoyment to watch because the writing is good enough to stand on its own without needing comedy and gags. That's a claim not everybody can make, not even in movies, and especially comedy ones. They break so many rules and no-noes you just keep watching to see what border they cross next, which few other shows can claim.
But if the writing is so good, what about the characters, you may be wondering. Well the five protagonists are really well written and thankfully have more characteristics than a videogame character. Nelson is a metro sexual fox obsessed with beauty and fashion, who likes to transvestite, refined cook, is a pansy and is in love with Destiny, the afghan female dog with such a high concept of herself you think she might suffer from vertigo. Her defining character moment is when she lets a kid drown in national television so she doesn't ruin her fur. She is also self-centered, egoist, selfish, and quite stupid, but has a cunning sense of murderous rage that only shows up when her goals are threaten. Marion, the cat without a defined nationality is a stupid ass who just gets in troubles once and again for being a gullible idiot leading to him becoming an addict to catnip, a Guy Fawkes avatar, a Christian and castrated. He also has some of the best lines in the entire show, being the best this one:
- Marion: "I don't drink no more. Not after what happened with Oliver Reed"
- Destiny: "What happened with Oliver Reed?"
- Marion: "He got cirrhosis of the liver and he died"
Kali is a pigeon whose goal in life is insulting every single individual in the show, no matter how cruel, low or soon it is, with a murderous obsession with killing humans only matched by that of Bender from "Futurama". She is fowl, she has no morals and she will go to any length just to reach her objective, though this paints her like a sociopath it's nothing compared to Vince. Vince is Nelson's brother, and maybe the only true animal of the entire group. He is a sociopath who eats his own children, beats his wife, screws his own sister and greets everyone with a cockney accent and a cheerful "Morning c*nts!". He is, by far, my favorite character and, while this sounds totally biased, he is as over the top as subtle. Every time he says a swear worst than bastard he gets bleeped, which makes the comedic effect even more powerful. Yeah, swearing can get tiring, but the bleeping is wonderful as it lets your imagination fill in the gaps (even if such imagination only fills it with two or three different swears each time).
So story and characters are very solid, as well as the setting, the gags and the writing, what can be negative about this show? Well, let's take into account the fact that these guys are working on a budget, and I am pretty sure they had less than a million pounds to do puppets, hire actors and build sets, sot he amount of characters, special effects and celebrities they have for this is outstanding. They recycle some of the puppets various times, sometimes with different colors, sometimes with different voices, which might be confusing sometimes. In one episode a kitten has a lovely young female voice, and in another episode the same kitten has the voice of Jimmy Hoffa. But this is due to the limitations so I think my only negative criticism for this show goes towards BBC One. Come on guys! Give them more money so in season 2 Nelson tries to go to Space only to fall in love with the remains of the Laika Dog, and then have a musical number with aliens about the necrophilia.
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Home > Journals > International Development Planning Review > Volume 42 (2020), Issue 3 > Social differentiation and access to clean water: a case study from Bac Ninh, Vietnam
International Development Planning Review
Social differentiation and access to clean water: a case study from Bac Ninh, Vietnam
Drummond, Lisa
Thi Van Le, Hue
International Development Planning Review (2020), 42, (3), 357–379.
I thought you would find this interesting: International Development Planning Review, Volume 42, Issue 3 Social differentiation and access to clean water: a case study from Bac Ninh, Vietnam Drummond, Lisa; Thi Van Le, Hue Editors: Daniel Hammett; Glyn Williams International Development Planning Review (2020), 42, (3), 357–379.
https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2019.30
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Bac Ninh, a province adjacent to the Hanoi Capital Region of Vietnam, has long been renowned for its centuries-old craft villages. Today, Bac Ninh is becoming renowned for the toxic environments produced by its contemporary craft industries, such as the recycling of scrap metals and electronic waste. In this context, this paper considers how residents of a commune in peri-urban Hanoi perceive the cleanliness of their water, and how, accordingly, the social differentiation which has emerged since doi moi ('economic renovation') shapes their practices in procuring water they deem fit for household use. Analysis reveals a complicated picture of the ways in which households access water for everyday domestic use. In spite of the rollout of piped water infrastructure, we find residents relying on a mix of water sources, with private sources clearly preferred but access to those restricted by wealth. The results of these considerations offer glimpses both of the unintended consequences of doi moi and of how future events, including a diminishing supply of water and potential climate change impacts may affect residents of the expanding zones of peri-urban Vietnam.
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IMHO, Apple's motivation for their changes to the iPhone SDK developer agreement are clear: They want you to write your code in Objective C, written to the iPhone API, so your apps will run on their phone, and nowhere else.
As I've started to work on designing an HTML editor I'd like for the Mac platform, a little irony has set in: I find that I don't want to write it in Objective C. Given my history with Java, I find that I don't want to be tied to one platform, even Mac OS X. What if I install Ubuntu later this week (as scheduled) and fall madly in love with it? I want my application to work there also.


ITU, the global spectrum-allocating organization, has reportedly agreed on speed criteria for 5G.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has defined 5G network speeds as being 20 Gigabits per second (Gbps), according to an article in the Korea Times.
However, an ITU spokesperson says it will be more like 10 Gbps with peak speeds at 20 Gbps, according to a separate Fierce Wireless report.
The ITU, a United Nations organization, has also come up with a name for the 5G standard – "IMT-2020."
The ITU allocates global radio spectrum and is also responsible for coordinating mobile radio strategy and regulations.
How do we know this? The Korean government recently sent a 12-person delegation to an ITU meeting in San Diego. They reported the 20 Gbps insider details back to a Korean newspaper.
The Korea Times quotes an unnamed Ministry of Science official who said that the ITU decided at the visit that 5G should be defined as 20 Gbps.
"The vision for the 5G network and its global standardization schedule has been agreed based on our suggestion," the official said. "This has shown that Korea is leading the world's mobile communication technology and related policies."
"We will beef up international cooperation to have the agreement approved without any problems," the official added.
However, Sanjay Acharya, a spokesperson for the ITU, told Fierce Wireless that "as of now, I understand the peak data rate is expected to reach 10 Gbps. However, under certain conditions and scenarios, IMT-2020 would support up to 20 Gbps peak."
For comparison, current wireless speeds with the latest LTE standard can be from 5 to 12 Mbps, with peak speeds approaching 50 Mbps, according to Verizon Wireless' unrelated marketing materials on its website.
The Korea Times goes on to say that Korea will showcase "a successful example" of the tech "at the upcoming 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Games." Korean telco KT is an official sponsor of the games.
The network will also have capacity to provide "more than 100 Mbps average data transmission to over one million Internet of Things (IoT) devices within one square kilometer," the Korea Times article went on to say, quoting the ministry official.
The ITU, on the other hand, has been more muted. Its website merely says that it has now defined its vision and roadmap for 5G mobile development.
It says it defined goals, processes, and timelines at the San Diego meeting.
"The next step is to establish detailed technical performance requirements," the group said in a press release.
I've written about Korean company Samsung's interest in 5G millimeter spectrum in the past, in "Samsung lurking in Millimeter spectrum," and potential new spectrum technology in "How new radio tech will solve the upcoming spectrum crunch," if you're interested in checking out some options available to the ITU.
The ITU reckons it will complete the IMT-2020 standard in 2020, with spectrum being allocated by 2019 and commercial service available from 2020.
Attention is "now focused on enabling a seamlessly connected society," ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao says on the ITU website of the 5G roadmap.
And now we know that will likely be at 10 to 20 Gbps—with that commercial service just five years from now.


Single Muslim Ltd - Wakefield, United Kingdom.
The success of SingleMuslim.com, the world's largest online community for Muslims seeking a marriage partner, supports research showing that British Muslims are the social group most committed to the institution of marriage.
Research by the Office of National Statistics into the UK's marriage trends has revealed that marriage rates have been in decline over the past few decades and in 2008 (the most recent year for which figures are available) provisional marriage rates for England and Wales reached the lowest point since 1862, when these rates were first calculated.
Of the 228,204 marriages that took place in 2008, two thirds of all marriages were civil ceremonies following a 25 per cent decrease in the popularity of religious ceremonies over the past decade.
These facts make depressing reading for supporters of the institution of marriage, yet there is at least one social group which is bucking the trend. Figures from the last census in 2001 show that young Muslims (16-24 years of age) were the most likely to be living as a married couple.
SingleMuslim.com, which has over half a million registered users worldwide, is a keen supporter of marriage and proof that British Muslims are withstanding the general trend.
Managing Director Adeem Younis commented: "These results should come as no great surprise to Muslims as marriage is central to Islam. The Muslim community as a whole agrees that marriage is a serious and permanent commitment and an act of worship in itself; a Muslim completes half the faith - or 'deen' - when they marry."
The average age at which people marry has continued to increase in recent years and provisional results show that, in 2008, the average age for men to marry was 36.5 years and for women 33.8 years.
Again, in contrast to these results, young Muslims were much more likely to be married at 22 per cent, 10 per cent higher than Sikhs, the second highest group. Christians and people who stated that they have no religion showed the lowest rates of marriage among young people (16-24 years) with only 3 per cent of them married.
Adeem Younis continued: "The success of matrimonial websites such as SingleMuslim.com shows that Muslims are not only very committed to marriage but they are also accepting new ways of finding a marriage partner. By searching online in a safe, Islamic environment, members can find someone who is compatible. And with four success stories a day, we'd certainly agree that the institution of marriage is still extremely strong among Britain's Muslims."
For further information about Singlemuslim.com, please visit the website at www.singlemuslim.com.
SingleMuslim.com has more than 500,000 registered users worldwide.


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Q: VS code not underlining errors Problem: VS Code is not underlining errors (with wavy red underlining) as it used to.
Problem exists for me and my friend (macOS and Windows)
Linter: mypy
settings.json:
{
"python.pythonPath": "/Users/username/.pyenv/versions/3.8.5/bin/python",
"python.linting.pylintEnabled": false,
"python.linting.mypyEnabled": true,
"python.linting.enabled": true
}

After running the script VS will underline found errors, but still wont underline any newly written errors.
When typing anything in the script, OUTPUT:python shows the following (or simular), which i dont understand and am not sure if its relevant:
Error 2020-11-09 20:20:07: stderr jediProxy Error (stderr) /Users/username/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.10.332292344/pythonFiles/completion.py:584: DeprecationWarning: Deprecated since version 0.16.0. Use Script(...).get_names instead.
  jedi.api.names(

Error 2020-11-09 20:20:27: stderr jediProxy Error (stderr) /Users/username/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.10.332292344/pythonFiles/completion.py:592: DeprecationWarning: Providing the line is now done in the functions themselves like `Script(...).complete(line, column)`
  script = jedi.Script(
/Users/username/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.10.332292344/pythonFiles/completion.py:592: DeprecationWarning: Deprecated since version 0.17.0. Use the project API instead, which means Script(project=Project(dir, sys_path=sys_path)) instead.
  script = jedi.Script(

Error 2020-11-09 20:20:27: stderr jediProxy Error (stderr) /Users/username/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.10.332292344/pythonFiles/completion.py:105: DeprecationWarning: Deprecated since version 0.16.0. Use Script(...).get_signatures instead.
  call_signatures = script.call_signatures()
/Users/username/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.10.332292344/pythonFiles/completion.py:230: DeprecationWarning: Deprecated since version 0.16.0. Use Script(...).complete instead.
  completions = script.completions()

Thanks for helping!

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Under Armour, Inc. este un producător de articole sportive american cu sediul în Baltimore, Maryland. Compania are birouri suplimentare situate în Amsterdam, Austin, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Houston, Jakarta, Londra, Mexico City, München, New York, Ciudad de Panamá, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Francisco, São Paulo, Santiago, Seul, Shanghai (sediul central din China) și Toronto.

Under Armor din 1996 este producător și furnizor de îmbrăcăminte sport pentru echipe americane și sportivi în diverse sporturi, începând cu anul 2006 - un furnizor de pantofi de sport.

Istorie

Under Armour a fost înființat pe 25 septembrie 1996 de Kevin Plank, fost căpitan al echipei de fotbal a Universității din Maryland. Plank inițial a început afacerea de la subsolul bunicei sale din Washington, D.C., apoi s-a mutat în Baltimore, iar, după ceva timp, în sediul său actual din Tide Point.

Evoluție
Under Armor a primit prima sa lovitură în 1999, când Warner Brothers a contactat Under Armor pentru a-și susține două dintre filmele sale de lung metraj, regizate de Oliver Stone - Any Given Sunday și The Replacements. În Any Given Sunday Willie Beamen (interpretat de Jamie Foxx) poartă un suspensor Under Armor. Folosind lansarea filmului Any Given Sunday, Plank s-a abonat pentru anunțuri în revista ESPN The Magazine. Anunțurile plasate au generat aproape 750.000 de dolari din vânzări.

Produse

Produsele fabricate de Under Armor includ pantofi de sport, tricouri, jachete, hanorace, pantaloni, jachete, Leggings  și accesorii, cum ar fi pungi, mănuși.

Cooperare

Cluburi de fotbal

Referințe

Companii din Maryland
Companii producătoare de echipament sportiv
Baltimore, Maryland
Fondări în 1996


Despite numerous advances in road and pedestrian safety, 2016 saw the biggest single-year increase in pedestrian fatalities nationwide on record, and the highest total number of pedestrian deaths in over 20 years. That's according to a report from the Governors Highway Safety Association, as reported by NPR. Nationwide, the number of pedestrians killed in traffic was almost 6,000, an 11 percent increase compared to 2015.
Traffic deaths overall were also up in 2016, by 6 percent nationwide. It's widely believed that part of that trend is due to a stronger economy and low gas prices, which means people are driving more often. More cars on the road naturally means there will be more accidents, including pedestrian accidents.
But given that pedestrian fatalities increased more than twice as fast as traffic fatalities in general, something else is likely at play. As we've seen time and again, part of the explanation is likely distraction.
It's well known that texting while driving is a serious safety issue on our roads. Motorists who text while behind the wheel not only take their eyes off the road, but are also mentally distracted: Even while they're looking at the road, they can't see things in front of them. Because pedestrians are smaller and quieter than cars, they often go unnoticed by distracted drivers, leading to serious accidents.
But pedestrians themselves may also contribute to the danger by engaging in distracting activities. Whether talking on the phone, taking pictures or texting while walking, distracted pedestrians may have trouble seeing where they're going - which makes them vulnerable to injuries. Today, distractions are the third leading cause of pedestrian fatalities, and electronic devices are the top cause of distraction.
Other factors are certainly at play as well. Higher speeds contribute to more and more serious accidents, for instance. Alcohol is a contributor in many pedestrian fatalities, some of which are caused by drunk drivers, and others of which involve intoxicated pedestrians. Drinking and walking can be just as dangerous as drunk driving.
Whether you're behind the wheel or on the sidewalk, safety should always be your first priority. Stay alert and keep your eyes on the road or path in front of you, not on your phone. If you need to send a text, take a picture or make a call, it's always worthwhile to sit down or pull over to do so. And if you're injured by a distracted driver, know your rights - and contact an experienced injury lawyer. In over 40 years, the Law Offices of Joe Bornstein has helped more than 25,000 injured or disabled Mainers get the justice they deserve. Contact us today for a free and confidential evaluation.


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Q: How to make changes via PyGitHub stick This is my first experience using PyGitHub.
I have written code to update my repo using repo.create_file, repo.update_file and repo.delete_file, but after execution, these changes are not reflected in GitHub.
When using git from the command line I have to stage the file using "git add" and "git rm" and then use "git commit" to commit the changes then "git push" to push the changes to the remote URL.
There must be similar things to "git commit" and "git push" that must take place with PyGitHub, but I am unable to figure out what they are.  Every example I have seen ends with create_file, update_file, or delete_file.
What am I missing?


Ruthlessly cut down to only 80 minutes of a three day festival, DA Pennebaker's seminal concert film captures in celluloid the moment in 1967 when a whole generation was about to lose its mind, but with a killer soundtrack. As the festival sits in the transition between festivals of the past and the rapidly approaching future (it was the first major rock festival, modeled after various Jazz and Folk fests), so the film has one foot in the past and one in the future. In the rhythm of cutting between performers and audience, interstitial shots of people (with an especial focus on beautiful women, with whom this camera crew seem particularly obsessed) and the festival environment, it's essentially Jazz on a Summer's Day, the 1960 concert film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. But at times it breaks into something far stranger, as in the cameraman who stares directly into a light during Otis Redding's set, the silhouette of the star only occasionally breaking up the blinding whiteness, or in the particularly cruel cut from Canned Heat's blistering "Rollin' and Tumblin'" to Simon & Garfunkel's simple syrup "The 59th Street Bridge Song". It's a culture on the edge, one which would reach it's apotheosis in Woodstock and begin its rapid decline just a few months later with Gimme Shelter (whose co-director, Albert Maysles, served as a camera operator on Monterey Pop).
Most of the bands get only a single track in the film, and some big names are cut out entirely (including, famously, the Grateful Dead, who objected to the commercialism of the project). It's a particular shame that we only get to see the incandescent finale of Jimi Hendrix's brilliant set (you see watch most of it, his introduction to American audiences, in Pennebaker's 1986 film Jimi Plays Monterey). Pennebaker's decision to devote almost a quarter of the film's runtime to Ravi Shankar is some kind of perverse genius. But with apologies to Hendrix and Shankar, the MVP of the film is Janis Joplin, without a doubt. Her performance of "Ball and Chain" is the reason we have music.


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Charie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in "The Kid".
For those that know me, know that I enjoy old movies, especially the classic comedians. Charlie Chaplin has always been one of my favorites and I have watched ever silent film to talkie he ever made.
Recently a friend forwarded a short article to me about Chaplin's humanitarian efforts. It was widely known that Chaplin was a humanist often engaging in efforts to assist mankind. This unfortunately caused him some trouble in the later years being accused of not being an American.
Primarily remembered for his role of "the Tramp" – which became an icon of the silent film era – he played numerous other roles thanks to his talent. His ability was testified by not only by his roles but also the fact that he did most of the job in the creation of his films.
However, Charlie Chaplin's film career isn't the only thing he is remembered for.
Few people actually remember that in the years of the Armenian Genocide, Charlie Chaplin established a fund to help Armenian children. He donated virtually all his earnings to this foundation.
In the 1920s, Charlie Chaplin made a tour in European countries, in which he raised $1 million (approximately $12 million as of 2018 when adjusted for inflation). He transferred the entire amount to his relief foundation to aid Armenian and Greek orphans who had fled from the Ottoman Empire. He personally visited these children and helped build shelters for Armenian and Greek orphans.
Also, Chaplin's co-star from 'The Kid', the child actor, Jackie Coogan was also very instrumental in the Near East Relief Fund (NER) efforts in the early 1920s. NER's mission was to provide humanitarian efforts to Armenian Genocide survivors/refugees. Read more about this by clicking on this link.


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Rosa Goldschmidt and Her Family: The Final Chapter
Posted on October 9, 2018 by Amy
This is the final post about the family of my three-times great-aunt Rosa Goldschmidt and her husband Bernhard Metz. In 1900, Rosa and Bernhard and three of their four surviving children were all living together in New York; Bernhard was still in the import-export business, and his sons Edwin and Joseph were merchants. Their daughter Hattie was working as a saleswoman, and her husband George Gattel was a commissioner. Rosa and Bernhard had already lost three of their children: Siegfried had died in 1880, Emily in 1885, and Bertha in 1892; also, their oldest son Paul had abandoned the family and disappeared in 1900.
Bernhard Metz family 1900 US census, Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Page: 19; Enumeration District: 0661; FHL microfilm: 1241110
Rosa, Bernhard, Hattie and her husband George, Edwin, and Joseph were all still living together in 1905. Edwin was a "nit goods salesman;" Joseph was a dry goods clerk, George Gattel was some kind of salesman, and Bernhard was a commercial merchant. There were also two boarders and two servants living in the household at 209 East 61st Street.
Bernhard Metz family 1905 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1905; Election District: A.D. 24 E.D. 16; City: Manhattan; County: New York; Page: 48. Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1905
Things changed between 1905 and 1910. We saw that Edwin, who had married Gertrude Becker in 1903, was living in Chicago in 1910. The youngest sibling, Joseph George Metz, also married during those years. He married Florence W. Wolf on December 31, 1905.
New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2497-DHX : 10 February 2018), Joseph Metz and Florence Wolf, 31 Dec 1905; citing Marriage, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York City Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,558,583.
Florence was the daughter of Louis Wolf and Rebecca Stiefel, and she was born on September 20, 1884, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.1 Florence was living in New York City in 1900 with her parents and siblings; her father was a manufacturer.2 Florence and Joseph had their first child, Robert, on August 19, 1907, in New York.3
In 1910, Joseph Metz was enumerated as the head of household at 149 West 135th Street; in addition to his wife Florence and their son Robert (2), his parents Rosa and Bernhard were living there as well as two servants. Joseph was a ladies' underwear manufacturer, and his father Bernhard was working as an insurance agent.
Joseph Metz and family 1910 US census, Census Place: Manhattan Ward 12, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1027; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 0710; FHL microfilm: 1375040
Not too far away at 607 West 136th Street, Joseph's sister Hattie was living with her husband George Gattel; George was now a silk merchant. Living with them was Hattie's niece, the daughter of her deceased sister Bertha, eighteen-year-old Bertha Katzenstein. As you may recall, Rosa and Bernhard's daughter Bertha Metz died shortly after the birth of her daughter Bertha from puerperal fever. I don't know whether the child was named Bertha before her mother died or afterwards in her memory.
Hattie Metz Gattel and family 1910 US census, Census Place: Manhattan Ward 12, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1027; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 0709; FHL microfilm: 1375040
Bertha Katzenstein's father Adolf had remarried in 1895, three years after the death of his first wife Bertha Metz. His second wife, Lisbeth Schierstad, was a German immigrant like Adolf.4 I could not locate Adolf, Lisbeth or Bertha (the daughter) on the 1900 US census. Since Adolf was in the import-export business and traveled many times to Europe, I suppose that he and Lisbeth and Bertha might have been abroad when the 1900 census was taken. But Adolf and Lisbeth are listed on the 1905 New York State census, and Bertha was not with them at that time,5 nor was she with her grandparents or aunt or uncles. She would have been only thirteen at the time. Was she in boarding school? Still abroad? I don't know. At any rate, in 1910, Bertha was back in New York City, living with her aunt Hattie.
Thus, in 1910, Rosa and Bernhard had only two of their seven children still living nearby: Hattie and Joseph. Paul had disappeared, Edwin was in Chicago, and Siegfried, Emily, and Bertha had passed away. They had five grandchildren: Bertha's daughter Bertha Katzenstein, Edwin's son Walter, Joseph's son Robert, and the two sons of Paul Metz, Elwood and George.
On May 16, 1911, my three-times great-aunt Rosa Goldschmidt Metz passed away at age 73 from colon and liver cancer as well as kidney disease.
New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WMM-ZTL : 20 March 2015), Rosa Metz, 16 May 1911; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives
When I first opened this death certificate, I panicked. It showed Rosa's parents as Jacob Goldsmith and Gretchen Stern, not Seligmann Goldschmidt and Hincka Alexander. Had I been researching the wrong Rosa Goldschmidt? But then I noticed her very specific age—73 years, 6 months, 19 days. Using a web date calculator, I determined that since she died on May 16, 1911, that meant she was born on October 27, 1837. Bingo! That is EXACTLY the date for Rosa's birth on the Oberlistingen birth register, showing her parents as Seligmann and Hincka. Phew! But where in the world did the family come up with the names Jacob Goldsmith and Gertrude Stern?? I don't know.
Two years after Rosa's death her son Joseph named his second child for her; Rosalind Metz was born on May 21, 1913, in New York City.6
The following year Bernhard Metz died on August 10, 1914, in New York; he was 81.7
Meanwhile, Bertha Katzenstein was married on February 9, 1913, in Harburg, Germany, to Hermann Nathan. It was this fact that also led me to think that she had been living abroad for some part of her childhood. She was only twenty when she married, and six years later they were divorced on July 3, 1919, in Hannover, Germany. (Thank you to Matthias Steinke of the German Genealogy group for translating this document for me.)
Unfortunately that is the last document or record I have for Bertha Katzenstein. I don't know whether she returned to the US, but if she did, I can't find her in the US nor can I find her in Germany—not as Bertha Nathan or Bertha Katzenstein. If she remarried, I have no record of it and thus do not know her married name.
Ancestry.com. Hamburg, Germany, Marriages, 1874-1920.
Original data: Best. 332-5 Standesämter, Personenstandsregister, Sterberegister, 1876-1950, Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Hamburg, Deutschland. Certificate Number: 62
Reference Number: 332-5_11409
In 1920, Hattie and George Gattel were still living in New York City, and George was still selling silk. Ten years later they were still living in New York, and George was no longer working.8 Hattie died on December 11, 1930, at the age of 66;9 George died less than a year later on September 24, 1931.10 He was seventy. Having lost both of their children as babies, they have no direct descendants.
Joseph Getz, the remaining and youngest sibling, must have hit some hard times after 1910. In 1915, he and his wife Florence were living with Florence's mother and brother Milton at 243 West 99th Street, and Joseph had no occupation listed on the 1915 New York State census.11 Their two young children, Robert, who would have been eight, and Rosalind, who was two, were not listed with them nor can I find them elsewhere on the New York State census. Could they have been omitted by mistake? Or were they living some place outside of New York, perhaps with a different relative?
I don't know, but in 1920 Robert and Rosalind were again living with their parents in New York City; Joseph was now a commercial traveler. Florence's mother Rebecca Wolf was also living with them.12 In 1925 they were all still living together, and Joseph was now an insurance broker.13 Five years later the 1930 US census shows them all living at the same place, Joseph still working as an insurance broker.
Joseph Metz and family, 1930 US census, Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Page: 17B; Enumeration District: 0465; FHL microfilm: 2341292
Joseph and Florence's two children married in the 1930s. Robert married Anna Steinhardt on June 29, 1934, and Rosalind married John L. Swartz on June 2, 1935.
Certificate Number: 17141, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937. Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003, Ancestry.com
Sadly, the decade ended with Joseph's death on March 4, 1939. He was sixty years old.14 His wife Florence outlived him by more than 25 years, dying at 85 in September 1965.15 They were survived by their children and grandchildren.
With that, I come to the conclusion of the story of Rosa Goldschmidt, her husband Bernhard Metz, and their seven children. It was quite a wild ride at times. Rosa's children faced many challenges and provided me with many research challenges. She was the youngest child of my three-times great-grandparents Seligmann Goldschmidt and Hincka Alexander. She was the second to last of their children to come to the US.
Her oldest sister and Seligmann and Hincka's oldest child, Sarah, was the very last of the Goldschmidt siblings to come to the US. Her story comes next.
Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, SSN: 058221651 ↩
Louis Wolf and family, 1900 US census, Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Page: 6; Enumeration District: 0832; FHL microfilm: 1241118. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census ↩
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Extracted Birth Index, 1878-1909. Certificate Number: 3926. ↩
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937, Certificate Number: 13289. Lisbeth Schierstad Katzenstein passport application, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Roll #: 1744; Volume #: Roll 1744 – Certificates: 85500-85875, 23 Sep 1921-24 Sep 1921. Ancestry.com. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 ↩
Adolf Katzenstein, 1905 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1905; Election District: A.D. 31 E.D. 14; City: Manhattan; County: New York; Page: 42. Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1905 ↩
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Birth Index, 1910-1965, Certificate Number 27?? (not legible on index) ↩
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948 , Certificate Number: 23969. ↩
Hattie and George Gattel, 1920 US census, Census Place: Manhattan Assembly District 7, New York, New York; Roll: T625_1197; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 555.
Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census. 1930 US census, Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 0385; FHL microfilm: 2341288. Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census ↩
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948, Certificate Number: 28089 ↩
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948, Certificate Number 22939 ↩
New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 16; Assembly District: 17; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 01. Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1915 ↩
Joseph Metz and family, 1920 US census, Census Place: Manhattan Assembly District 23, New York, New York; Roll: T625_1226; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 1489. Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census ↩
Joseph Metz and family, 1925 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 34; Assembly District: 09; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 10. Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1925 ↩
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948, Certificate Number 5487. ↩
New York Times, September 13, 1965, p. 35. ↩
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30 thoughts on "Rosa Goldschmidt and Her Family: The Final Chapter"
Peter Klopp on October 9, 2018 at 9:04 am said:
Congratulations on bringing the Rosa Goldschmidt story after many challenges to your detective skills to a successful conclusion. Of course, as with all research in genealogy, many questions will for ever remain unanswered. Have a great day, Amy!
Amy on October 9, 2018 at 9:30 am said:
Thank you, Peter. That is what makes such a challenging and fun project—there are always more questions.
Luanne on October 9, 2018 at 10:12 am said:
That is frustrating about the "disappearance" of Bertha from records. That's the problem with women taking their husband's surnames haha. I mean it's likely that that is what happened. As far as Edwin working in "nit goods," I was wondering if nits need their own little clothes and furniture ;). No spelling tests for census workers, I assume. Wonderful work as usual, Amy.
Amy on October 9, 2018 at 10:14 am said:
Thanks, Luanne! Yes, women should never change their surnames! And take their mothers' surnames! Or something like that. LOL re nits!! It sure had me confused for a while. 🙂
Having dealt with a colony of huge nits in one of my kids' heads, I can say that those guys already have their full war gear on and don't need any help from anybody. The surname problem is so real in genealogy.
Please—don't remind me. When Maddy was in 5th grade, it kept going around the entire grade. We finally cut her hair short!
Haha, yeah, what a nightmare. My daughter got a special case from New Jersey camp–huge and OTC nit killer did not touch them. Right at the time of brother's bar mitzvah, too.
Amy on October 9, 2018 at 12:19 pm said:
Never a good time, but that's awful!
Luanne on October 9, 2018 at 3:31 pm said:
It lasted three months.
Amy on October 10, 2018 at 8:03 am said:
Ugh. It seems like three years to me.
Luanne on October 10, 2018 at 6:08 pm said:
🤣 I hear you!
Cathy Meder-Dempsey on October 9, 2018 at 10:42 am said:
Amy, I expect finding the wrong names for the parents on Rosa's death record was great cause for panic. But think of it this way, at least you noticed it right away, worked it out, and didn't ignore it. Some would have not even noticed this or if they did would have immediately discounted it as the correct person. Good work!
Thanks, Cathy. You can imagine how my heart sank when I saw that certificate. I could understand Jacob since there were so many Jacobs in the family. But Gretchen!? (Maybe that's why my eyes saw Gertrude—that would have made more sense!)
nwpaintedlady on October 9, 2018 at 12:51 pm said:
I've had a few battles with 'nits' as well, also having to check heads during my career in school…back to the blog and the mention of Rabbi Dr. Stephen S. Wise who married Anna and Robert Metz. Wise is who the Jewish Louise Wise Adoption Agency (NY) was named for. First the Free Synagogue Adoption Committee – started by his wife Louise Waterman Wise This was the adoption agency I was placed with. You had me with this – Awesome blog post!
Wow, I had not noticed that Stephen Wise performed the ceremony. He is extremely well-known, perhaps best known for speaking out against the Nazis and trying to get FDR to do something about it, just in the period that he married Anna and Robert. Impressive! Thanks for pointing that out!!
nwpaintedlady on October 9, 2018 at 1:01 pm said:
Yes ~ both him and his wife along with their daughter were quite the leaders in civil our country! 🙂
John N. Cohen on October 10, 2018 at 12:11 pm said:
Amy, your enthusiasm and skill " never ceases to amaze me"!. Love, Daddy.
Amy on October 10, 2018 at 1:27 pm said:
Thank you! And I guess this means your email is working again?? 🙂 xo
EmilyAnn Frances on October 10, 2018 at 12:33 pm said:
Hi Amy! Regarding the name changes to:
Seligmann Goldschmidt to Jackob Goldsmith
Hincka Alexander to Gretchen Stern
I just looked at your 1/16/18 posting your ancestors also named Seligmann Goldschmidt (b.c. 1783 Oberlisten Germany) and Hincka Alexander (b. 1797 Wolfhagen). They were your Third Great Grandparents. Blog posting: https://brotmanblog.com/2018/01/16/seligmann-goldschmidt-and-hincka-alexander-my-3x-great-grandparents-of-oberlistingen/
They were Rosa's parents? I don't know how you keep all the names straight at the pace with which you make new findings and create the postings!
Hi Emily—I am confused by your question. Yes, Seligmann and Hincka were my 3x-great-grandparents, and Rosa was their daughter. That's why I was thrown by Rosa's death certificate which named her parents as Jacob and Gretchen! My guess is that when she died, no one knew her parents' names as Seligmann and Hincka had never left Germany so the grandchildren never knew them. Whoever was the informant just made up names, I assume. Seligmann and Hincka never changed their names.
As for how I keep the names straight—I always have my family tree and the blog to refer back to as I am writing new posts. But for Seligmann and Hincka, I knew those well since the last ten months or so I have been focused just on them and their children and descendants!
EmilyAnn Frances on October 10, 2018 at 1:52 pm said:
Hi Amy. You read and answered my question correctly. Thanks.
Good–thanks!!
Sorry if I am a bit fuzzy-wuzzy lately. There's a lot at work so I'm reading up during lunch and posting on the go.
I understand! I just worry that I haven't been clear in my writing. 🙂 Thanks as always for reading and for your feedback.
Never worry, Amy, you're doing fine.
Debi Austen on October 14, 2018 at 5:59 pm said:
I just cannot believe how you put all the pieces of the puzzle together and then wrap it up with a bow.
Thanks, Debi!
Bobbi on May 17, 2019 at 3:27 pm said:
We are two of George B. Metz's (step) grandchildren. We came across your blog accidentally and were quite intrigued with it. George was married to our paternal grandmother, Helene, from around 1943 to his death in 1986. He was a wonderful, loving grandfather to us and is still remembered fondly. Bobbi and Missy Dormer
Hi! Then you must be also related to Conrad Metz, without whom I never would have uncovered the story of your step-great-grandfather Paul. It is wonderful to hear that George is so well remembered. Are you in touch with Conrad? I will email you to follow up. Thank you for getting in touch!


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Twenty-five years ago: Remembering the night "Operation Desert Storm" was launched on Iraq
By Blue Woman
European Turkish Friendships 16 January 2016
'Operation Desert Storm', the massive air and missile aggression on Iraq was launched on January 17, 1991 at 2:30 a.m. local time.
That night as we were watching the TV, the programme was suddenly interrupted and we saw pictures of the Baghdad sky illuminated with what seemed to be anti-aircraft fire; we realized with horror that the war on Iraq had started. We stayed up all night, terrified, watching with dismay how beautiful Baghdad, the city of One Thousand and One Nights, was being massively bombarded.
Our thoughts and prayers were for our relatives and friends and for all Iraqis who could not escape from this hell. How many would die under the bombs and missiles which were falling 'at random' on residential areas all over Baghdad and other Iraqi cities?
I still shudder when remembering that awful night and all the other terrible nights of the 'First Gulf War', there was no possibility to communicate with our loved ones in Iraq, the U.S.'s first targets had been the telecommunication centres and electrical grid on which they had dropped Tungsten bombs. Iraqis were completely isolated, alone, desperately alone…in the dark…in the chaos, amidst the destruction caused by these brutal attacks from the air.
We watched in dismay how the beautiful country that many generations of Iraqis had worked so hard to build and develop was being destroyed. We watched with horror how the American and British 'boys' cheered whenever their bombs hit some 'target', killing Iraqis. No doubt that George Bush was enjoying it too, 'bringing Iraq back to pre-industrial era'.
USAF F-117 : vampire in the Iraqi sky
Many Americans thought it was right to attack Iraq, they had no qualms that the country's civil infrastructure was being purposely destroyed and that many thousands of Iraqis were dying. They believed the coalition troops were attacking Iraq to 'liberate' Kuwait* and to prevent an Iraqi attack on the zionist entity.
Some westerners who had never met an Iraqi and who could not even locate Iraq on the map, were filled with hatred towards the Iraqi people, because they had been told 'how Iraqi soldiers were taking premature babies out of incubators in Kuwait' !!! (1) and some other terrible stories fabricated by the western media,. Others were so gullible that they really believed there was such a thing as the 'Iraqi Super canon'!!!
The western media were the accomplices of the warmongers, continuously diffusing their lies and propaganda. According to Fair,the US media allowed less than 1% of their space to those who were opposed the war. Day after day they repeated George Bush's mantra: 'about establishing a New World Order' and many people in the west believed that the destruction of Iraq was worthwhile to establish this so-called 'New World Order'.
Seventeen years have passed, but the pain and outrage I felt that night have not diminished, neither has my resentment towards all those who participated in this criminal aggression on Iraq.
George Bush, Dan Quayle, James Baker, Dick Cheney, William Webster, Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf and many others who share responsibility in attacking and destroying Iraq still remain to be judged for crimes against peace, for war crimes, for crimes against humanity and for other criminal acts committed in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, in violation of the international law, in violation of the Conventions of Geneva and The Hague, in violation of the Charter of Nürenberg and in violation of the laws regulating armed conflicts. By waging this illegal war on Iraq George Bush also violated the Constitution of the United States.
Bush's imperialist 'New World Order' was based on the capitulation and submission of the people in the Middle East, principally on the surrender of oil-rich Iraq.
On this sad seventeenth anniversary of the launching of the criminal aggression on Iraq my thoughts are with all Iraqi patriots who are fighting to free their country from the foreign occupiers.
On this day, one of the beautiful Irish patriotic song comes into my mind (I have substituted the name Ireland with Iraq)
Come the day and come the hour
Come the power and the glory
We have come to answer
Our Country's call
From all the provinces of Iraq
Iraq, Iraq,
Together standing tall
Shoulder to shoulder
We'll answer Iraq's call
And heads unbowing
Vowing never to be broken
We will fight, until
We can fight no more
(1) It was the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador in the US who made these false accusations in front of the cameras, pretending to be a Kuwaiti nurse who had witnessed these barbaric acts!!!
*Kuwait: an invention of the British Foreign Office 'around an oil well ' to deny Iraq access to the sea and so limit its influence in the Gulf and maintain it under British dependence.
The original source of this article is European Turkish Friendships
Copyright © Blue Woman, European Turkish Friendships, 2016
http://www.globalresearch.ca/twenty-five-years-ago-remembering-the-night-operation-desert-storm-was-launched-on-iraq/5501927
Tagged Desert Storm, destruction of civillian infrastructure, electrical grid, George Bush, Iraq, Kuwaiti ambassador, New World Order
US-NATO launch new proxy war front in Crimea: Neo-Nazis bomb electrical grid causing national blackouts
By 21st Century Wire
Global Research, November 26, 2015
21st Century Wire 26 November 2015
In 2014, US and EU installed its own hand-picked puppet regime in Kiev, Ukraine. This caused a chain of epic failures that have made many ardent cheerleaders for 'regime change' to question whether or not tipping over the elected government in 2014 was a very good idea.
The worst part of the whole operation was that US and EU central planners thought it prudent to activate and partner with NeoNazis and proto-fascist militants in order to achieve their short-term regime change goals. Once the coup d'etat had taken place in February 2014, western agents of change were stuck with a horrific political Frankenstein they had created.
While the battles have been raging in Syria and elsewhere, few in the west have been aware that the architects of instability have been busy opening up a new front for proxy, asymmetric warfare – in Crimea. To add to the shock and awe, western agents have brought together two of the worst groups of miscreants the world has ever known.
Counterpunch reports on the western media and government collusion in recent attacks on Crimea:
"Ever since the Maidan coup of February 2014, Western media and governments have all but incited violent actions by extremists against the Crimean people. Unknown to people in the West is the aforementioned, food transport blockade, ongoing since September 20. Western media has self-censored reports of that, including the central role played by the neo-Nazi Right Sector group."
That's not all…
Ever since then, Crimea has been the focal point of the NATO strategic offensive against Russia in the region. Most disturbingly recently, a GLADIO-style terror campaign seems to have targeted Crimea, and like clock-work, western media outlets in the process of inventing a tidy narrative in order to package what is clearly new campaign of terror that's currently being unleashed in the region.
WASHINGTON'S PROXY: US planners would refer to working with Ukraine's Nazis as a 'necessary evil' in order to achieve geopolitical objectives in the region.
After putting NeoNazi paramilitary groups to work terrorizing the Russian-speaking population in eastern Ukraine, even Kiev struggled to get them back under control. It seems someone has decided to put them to work doing another 'off-the-books' operation which requires a lot of deniability – terrorizing the population of newly independent Crimea peninsula.
On Monday,the Crimea government declared a "State of Emergency" this week when Kiev-backed 'nationalists' blew up the country's electrical infrastructure causing mass blackouts, with "Crimea is completely cut off," says Director of Crimea Energy, Viktor Plakida, .
In what appears to be a true-to-form, classic false flag attack – a 'Crimean Tatar' flag was placed at the site of explosion. It's more likely that the guiding hand of NATO Intelligence is active behind the scenes to intensify the situation.
Naturally, western media outlets are trying to frame the narrative as a 'internal dispute' between ethnic Tartars and 'Russian speakers in Crimea' (as part of the western media's ongoing effort to isolate and demonize Russia at every turn). Still, a number of likely CIA-run editorial desks, and Mockingbird-type media outlets still refer to the Crimean referendum in winter of 2014 as "Russia's bloodless invasion in February and March 2014".
The reality on the ground is everyone's worst nightmare come true: fighting has now begun between US-backed proxy militants and ethnic Russian and Russian-speaking forces as Washington and NATO continues to arm-up a flagging Ukrainian military, and supply their new 'deniability brigades', NeoNazis paramilitary platoons, Right Sector and Tatar militias, some of whom have been implicated in terrorist attacks in recent months.
CIA-NATO Dream Team: Nazis and ISIS Fighting Side-By-Side in Ukraine
Other US State Department-aligned foreign policy blogs have even admitted that US military Special Forces have been training new Ukrainian special forces, and seem to be ramping-up the rhetoric in the hopes of trigger more instability in the region.
Another disturbing development which has been all but blacked-out by US TV media, is that either CIA or NATO Intelligence (or both) appear to have drafted in Islamic Battalions, stocked with militant Chechens (likely many of the same fighters rotating through Syria fighting for ISIS), to help the US-backed regime in Kiev defeat Russian-speaking Rebels in eastern Ukraine.
So it's another US-NATO proxy war beginning in Crimea.
As the US hasn't done enough damage by funding and creating ISIS and other Jihadist terrorists in Syria.
Looks like Washington is really keeping busy these days…
The original source of this article is 21st Century Wire
Copyright © 21st Century Wire, 21st Century Wire, 2015
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-nato-launch-new-proxy-war-front-in-crimea-neo-nazis-bomb-electrical-grid-causing-national-blackouts/5491589
Tagged blackout, bombs, Crimea, electrical grid, Neo-Nazis, Pravy Sector, Right Sector


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