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I corni d'oro di Gallehus (DR 12 †U) sono due corni costruiti in oro, uno più corto dell'altro, scoperti a Gallehus, a nord di Tønder nello Jutland meridionale, in Danimarca. Il più lungo dei due venne ritrovato nel 1639, mentre il secondo nel 1734, a 15-20 metri dal luogo della prima scoperta. Si crede che i corni vadano datati al V secolo, e vi sono raffigurate figure mitologiche di origine incerta. Il più piccolo dei due contiene un'iscrizione in proto-norreno, e per la precisione in fuþark antico.

I corni originali vennero rubati e fusi. Sono state prodotte alcune copie basate sulle illustrazioni degli originali, oggi in mostra presso il Museo Nazionale Danese di Copenaghen e presso il Museo Moesgaard (nei pressi di Århus, Danimarca). Dopo la ricostruzione, le copie dei corni sono state rubate (e ritrovate) due volte.

Descrizione

Entrambi i corni erano fatti in oro puro e costituiti da anelli, ognuno coperto da figure saldate sugli anelli, con molte figure piccole scolpite tra quelle grandi. Queste figure rappresentano eventi della mitologia germanica non riportati da nessun'altra parte. Le illustrazioni potrebbero anche derivare dalla mitologia celtica invece che da quella germanica: le illustrazioni raffigurano un uomo con corni ed un collare, molto simile nell'aspetto al dio celtico Cernunnos (soprattutto confrontandolo col Cernunnos ritratto sul calderone di Gundestrup, anch'esso trovato in Danimarca), oltre a numerosi altri elementi iconografici quali un caprone, serpenti, un cervo ed altri animali comunemente associati a Cernunnos.

I corni dovevano essere stati un tempo della stessa lunghezza, ma un segmento della parte stretta del secondo (il più corto), mancante al momento del ritrovamento (1734), era stato già ritrovato durante un'aratura e recuperato prima del 1639. Anch'esso venne in seguito fuso e perduto. Il più grande dei due (perfettamente intatto) era lungo 75,8 cm, misurato lungo il perimetro esterno; l'apertura era larga 10,4 cm, e l'intero corno pesava 3,2 kg.

Origine

Si ritiene che i corni siano stati forgiati dalle tribù dello Jutland, per la precisione da Cimbri e Juti, ma esistono molte teorie riguardo alla storia precisa. Corni del genere venivano probabilmente usati per bevute rituali, e quindi in seguito sacrificati alla terra o sepolti come tesoro, ma questa ipotesi non è sicura. Simili corni in legno, vetro, osso o bronzo sono stati ritrovati nella stessa zona, alcuni usati come segnalatori acustici, altri come coppe per bere.

Scoperta

Primo corno

Il più lungo dei corni venne scoperto il 20 luglio 1639 da una contadina di nome Kirsten Svendsdatter, nel villaggio di Gallehus, vicino a Møgeltønder (Danimarca) dove ne vide una parte emergere dal terreno. La ragazza scrisse una lettera a re Cristiano IV di Danimarca che lo recuperò consegnandolo al principe danese (anch'esso chiamato Cristiano), che lo rimise a nuovo. L'antiquario danese Olaus Wormius (1588 - 1654) scrisse un trattato intitolato De aureo cornu nel 1641, ed il primo disegno del corno si trova su quest'opera. Nel 1678 venne descritto anche sulla comunicazione scientifica Journal de Savants.

Secondo corno

Circa un secolo dopo, il 21 aprile 1734, l'altro (più corto e danneggiato) corno venne ritrovato da Erich Lassen non lontano dal primo. Lo diede a Schackenborg che a sua volta lo consegnò a re Cristiano VI di Danimarca ricevendo in cambio 200 Rigsdaler. A questo punto i due corni vennero conservati presso il Det kongelige Kunstkammer (Camera Reale d'Arte) a Christiansborg, l'odierno Rigsarkivet (archivio nazionale). Il secondo corno venne descritto in un trattato dall'archivista Richard Joachim Paulli nel corso dello stesso anno.

Iscrizione

Il secondo corno riporta la seguente iscrizione in Fuþark antico:
 (disegno del 1734 tratto dall'originale)
ᛖᚲ ᚺᛚᛖᚹᚨᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ ᚺᛟᛚᛏᛁᛃᚨᛉ ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ ᛏᚨᚹᛁᛞᛟ (Unicode runico)

La traslitterazione in caratteri latini è:
ek Hlewagastiz Holtijaz horna tawidō

La traduzione in italiano è:
"Io, Hlewagastir di Holt, feci il corno"

Questa iscrizione è una delle prime in Fuþark antico senza nessuna caratteristica dialettale, è un verso di tipo allitterativo.
Presenta inoltre la tipica struttura sintattica S O V con verbo alla fine.

Furto e distruzione

Corni originali

Il 4 maggio 1802 i corni vennero rubati da un orefice ed orologiaio di nome Niels Heidenreich, che entrò nel magazzino che ospitava i corni con una chiave forgiata da lui stesso. Heidenreich portò i corni a casa propria fondendoli per riciclare l'oro. Il furto venne scoperto il giorno successivo, e venne pubblicata su tutti i giornali la notizia di una taglia di 1000 rigsdaler.

Il Gran Maestro della gilda degli orefici, Andreas Holm, sospettò che Heidenreich fosse coinvolto, dato che aveva tentato di vendere ad Holm "pagode" (monete indiane con raffigurate divinità), forgiate con pessimo oro misto a ottone. Holm ed i suoi colleghi tennero d'occhio Heidenreich vedendolo gettare in un fossato le monete. Venne arrestato il 27 aprile 1803, e confessò il 30 aprile. Il 10 giugno Heidenreich venne condannato al carcere, e fu rilasciato solo nel 1840. Morì quattro anni dopo. I suoi compratori restituirono l'oro riciclato che venne trasformato in monete, e non usato per la riproduzione delle copie dei corni.

Alcuni corni in intonaco vennero creati per un cardinale di Roma, ma vennero persi in un naufragio al largo delle coste corse. Alcune copie approssimative vennero create a partire dagli schizzi. I corni conservati al museo danese sono invece copie recenti, costruite solo nel 1980.

Copie

Nel 1993 le copie dei corni vennero rubate dal museo Moesgaard, e ritrovate poco dopo abbandonate in una foresta nei pressi di Hasselager. Queste copie erano fatte in ottone dorato.

Il 17 settembre 2007 altre copie in argento dorato vennero rubate dal museo di Kongernes Jelling alle 4:30 del mattino, ma vennero recuperate due giorni dopo.

Interpretazione

Willy Hartner, professore di Storia della Scienza, è uno dei molti scienziati che hanno interpretato le figure e le iscrizioni sui corni. Hartner affermò che i corni furono costruiti a causa dell'eclissi solare del 413. I corni erano oggetti magici destinati ad evitare l'imminente fine del mondo.

Note

Bibliografia

 Willy Hartner, Die Goldhörner von Gallehus, In Bild der Wissenschaft, Stoccarda, 1972, 11, 1210-1216
 Willy Hartner, Die Goldhörner von Gallehus, F. Steiner, Stoccarda, 1998, ISBN 3-515-00078-X

Altri progetti

Alfabeto runico
Opere nel Museo nazionale danese
Siti archeologici germanici
Reperti archeologici germanici

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The National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council sent a letter to Eric Holder Wednesday asking him to include gas in the total tally of hydrocarbons released into the Gulf. Even if BP is still being cagey about the amount of crude dumped from its well, the government has estimated that upwards of 4.9 million barrels of oil were spilled. Roughly forty percent of what was spewing out of that well was actually natural gas, mostly methane, and if you included the oil and gas in the total, it would be more like 6 million barrels. The groups raised concerns that the gas could be harmful to fish and other marine life.
The Oil Spill Pollution Act, passed in 1990 following the Exxon Valdez, amended the Clean Water Act to levy a fine of $1,000 to $4,300 per barrel of oil spilled. The groups argue that the gas should also be included in the assessment of fines in the BP disaster. That starts to add up; if investigators determine that it was BP's negligence that caused the spill, the company could owe as much as $25.8 billion in Clean Water Act fines alone.
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VATICAN CITY, JAN 27, 2004 (VIS) - United States Vice President Dick Cheney, his wife and an entourage were welcomed to the Vatican at 11 this morning by Pope John Paul II. A subsequent meeting with Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano also took place.
"I am pleased to welcome you and your family to the Vatican and to receive the cordial greetings which you bring from President Bush," said the Holy Father. "The American people have always cherished the fundamental values of freedom, justice and equality. In a world marked by conflict, injustice and division, the human family needs to foster these values in its search for unity, peace and respect for the dignity of all. I encourage you and your fellow citizens to work, at home and abroad, for the growth of international cooperation and solidarity in the service of that peace which is the deepest aspiration of all men and women. Upon you and all the American people I cordially invoke the abundant blessings of Almighty God."
Following the encounter, Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls made the following statement:
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VATICAN CITY, JAN 27, 2004 (VIS) - John Paul II will preside at a Mass on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord on Monday, February 2, the Eighth Day of Consecrated Life, at 5:30 p.m. in St. Peter's Basilica, according to a communique from the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff.
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Happy April! These pop tarts may look rather plain and ordinary, but they are something special. Two things: Leaf lard and the fig-tamarind combo. I searched for a fig-tamarind jam combo online back in November, but didn't find any, but now there is a company that puts out a Fig Tamarind Jam!! But since I already had some tamarind paste in my pantry, I went ahead and made my own. It's really good because the tamarind adds a tartness to the fig jam where there was none. And leaf lard makes the flakiest thing you've ever made, and without really trying!
This was my second time using leaf lard, which I am really digging. For those of you unfamiliar with leaf lard, it is the fat from the area around the kidneys of a pig that has been carefully rendered into an almost odorless, tasteless soft and spreadable fat. It looks similar to vegetable shortening, but is actually somewhat more healthy, and makes pies and other pastries much flakier.
You can sometimes buy leaf lard from your local butcher or at a local farmer's market, and sometimes they sell it already rendered for you and ready to go. Or you can render it yourself. There is an online slow cooker recipe that does a great job of rendering it without it stinking up your whole house. You can also order it online already rendered and ready to go!
optional icing topping: I made a spreadable icing by mixing 2 cups of confectioners sugar, 2 Tablespoons of whole milk and 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract. Adjust to desired consistency by adding either more sugar or more milk.
Combine the flour, sugar, and salt into the bowl of a food processor. Add the butter and leaf lard to it and pulse until the mixture resembles a coarse meal. Slowly add some of the water, one tablespoon at a time, until the dough starts to hold together. You may not need all the water. Don't overprocess.
Gather the dough together and divide in half. Form each half into a disc. Wrap each disc tightly and refrigerate for at least half an hour to overnight.
Make the filling by first combining the water and cornstarch and stirring with a whisk until dissolved and smooth. Add the fig jam and tamarind paste and stir again until combined thoroughly. Heat on medium heat until mixture comes to a boil. Simmer and continue stirring for about 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside until ready to use.
Remove each disc of dough from the refrigerator, unwrap one of them, and place on a cleaned floured work surface or counter. If it is very cold it may be too hard to mold, so let it sit for several minutes until it is softer and more pliable.
Dust the first disc of dough with a little additional flour and roll the dough to about an eighth of an inch in thickness, and form into a 9" x 12" rectangle. You will be cutting this larger rectangle into smaller equal rectangles that are 3" x 4" in dimension.
Transfer each of the smaller rectangles unto a baking sheet, or baking sheets.
Beat together the egg and milk until thoroughly mixed. Brush each of the rectangles on the baking sheet(s). Place 1.5 tablespoons of the jam filling mixture on the centers of each of the rectangles and spread to close to the edges of each rectangle.
Unwrap and roll out the second disc of dough to the same dimensions and cut into the same sized smaller rectangles.
Prick the tops of these rectangles with the tines of a fork a few times. To create vent holes.
Transfer each of these rectangles above each of the nine bottoms with the jam filling spread and press down with the tines of a fork all on the edges on all four sides of each pop tart to seal.
Brush the tops of each pop tart with more of the egg/milk mixture and let them rest in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Bake in heated oven for about 30 minutes or until tops are lightly golden brown.
Remove from oven to a wire rack to cool and frost with icing or glaze, if desired.
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These look delicious and pretty uncomplicated to make, which is always a plus.


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Obit: Yiddish writer Yehuda Elberg (1912-2003)
Six years after his two brilliant novels, Ship Of The Hunted and The Empire of Kalman the Cripple, rolled off the presses in English for the first time, Yiddish author Yehuda Elberg has died in his sleep in Montreal at the age of 91.
A Holocaust survivor who helped set up a network of safe houses for Jews escaping the Warsaw Ghetto, Elberg wrote about Jewish life in his native Poland before and during the Holocaust, and about Jewish immigrants transplanted to America after the European devastation. Some of his stories and novels, like those of his associate and distant cousin Isaac Bashevis Singer, were first serialized in the New York Daily Forward and other Yiddish journals.
Well known within the relatively tiny world of Yiddish letters, Elberg won the Itzhak Manger Prize, often described as the Nobel Prize of Yiddish literature. Golda Meir, in her last public appearance, presented it to him at Tel Aviv's Habima Theatre in 1977. He also won an Israeli prize, the Prime Minister's Award, in 1984.
He remained largely unknown to English-speaking readers, however, until Syracuse University Press published the books in translation in 1997 to a chorus of critical acclaim. Writing in The Globe and Mail, Alberto Manguel called them "unequivocal masterpieces" and hailed Elberg as "an unsung master in our midst."
After years of toiling in obscurity, Elberg relished the sudden attention, as he did the invitations to read at literary festivals and to spend his summers as a scholar-in-residence at Oxford and other universities. "At the age of 85, I gave birth to twins," he would boast, with all the pride of a new father.
A perfectionist who worked closely with his translators and wouldn't approve publication of a manuscript if he felt it could still be improved, Elberg left behind unpublished translations of at least three novelettes and story collections, some of which will likely be published posthumously.
Although he had worked as a textile engineer in Poland and as a real estate developer in Montreal, he "saw himself first and foremost as a writer and lecturer," said his son, Nathan Elberg.
Having received rabbinical ordination as a youth, he never practiced as a rabbi. But he filled his works with the richness of Jewish knowledge and lore and became a noted collector of rare old Hebraic manuscripts and Judaica.
"Sometimes, I'd go there and there'd be some Hassidic book dealers in his place," recalled his friend and translator, Barbara Galli, a teacher of religious studies at McGill University. "One time he told me that he sold a couple of manuscripts for $1.5 million. His collection of books was really part of his art. He put so many Talmudic sayings and so much Jewish thought into his writings that you could learn a tremendous amount about Jewish history, religion and life just by reading his novels."
Elberg was born in Zgierz, a suburb of Lodz, in 1912, into a distinguished rabbinical family that could trace its lineage back to the revered medieval sage known as Rashi. His father was the head of a regional rabbinical court and a renowned author of biblical commentaries. His maternal grandfather was the senior rabbi in Warsaw at the time of the Holocaust. The family were connected to the Ger branch of Hassidic Jewry.
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Sent as a child to study at a notable yeshiva in Warsaw, the boy soon attained a thorough grounding in the Bible, and evidently Jewish law as well. When a woman came to his father to ask whether an imperfectly salted piece of meat could still be regarded as kosher, the youngster was asked for an opinion. "Not only is the meat not kosher, but also the pot in which it was cooked is no longer kosher," the five-year-old correctly replied.
After his ordination as a rabbi, he withdrew into the secular world and trained and found work as a textile engineer. His first published short story appeared in a Lodz newspaper on May 15, 1932, his 20th birthday; many more stories followed. He also wrote a long narrative work about two 17th-century Hamburg rabbis and the religious controversies that surrounded them, as well as an historical novel about the Jews in the time of Herod the Great. Both manuscripts were destroyed in the Warsaw Ghetto.
"I never came back to these books," he told The Forward last year. "The thought of researching them again! I thought, 'The Holocaust is more important.' I felt obliged to write about the Holocaust as a witness. That's what I told myself — I have to save my life to be a witness."
In the Warsaw Ghetto, Elberg, who had given up his Hassidic garb, once joined a group of rabbis who were studying Talmud in a tea room. "There was a discussion of a difficult section of Gemorrah, and my father gave a very satisfactory explanation," said son Nathan. "The rabbis were asking, 'Who is this man who gave such an answer to this difficult Gemorrah?' and my grandfather said, 'This is my son.'"
Involved with the Ghetto underground and with the Jewish partisan resistance, he once found himself stranded in the woods during the snowy Chanukah season. Although he had a limited supply of matches, he fashioned a menorah from some of them and lit it. "Although it wasn't logical and was wasteful of matches, it gave him enough of a spiritual lift that he was able to keep going," Nathan said.
Having lost most of his immediate and extended family in the Nazi conflagration, Elberg set out in its aftermath to help as many survivors as he could. Gaining accreditation as a journalist with the American military, he was one of the earliest observers on the scene after a postwar pogrom in Kielce. He also assisted in regenerating Jewish cultural life in Lodz by establishing a writers' union and press agency.
Moving to Paris, he edited a Yiddish magazine and contributed to numerous Yiddish newspapers. After about 18 months he went to New York, where he met and married Tehilla (Tillie) Feinerman in 1948; she died in 1956, leaving him with two small children. A few years later, he met a Shaindle Stipelman Bloomstone while in Montreal to deliver a lecture. They married and he settled in Montreal, where he lived for the rest of his life.
Under Copper Skies, a collection of Yiddish stories, was published in Buenos Aires in 1951; it was his first book in print; others followed. The Yiddish original of Ship Of The Hunted appeared in 1974; that of The Empire of Kalman the Cripple in 1983.
A gripping and realistic Holocaust novel, Ship Of The Hunted captures one family's horrendous experiences as its various members try to survive the Nazi scourge in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Polish countryside; its final, redemptive scenes show survivors on a boat — the Exodus — bound for Palestine. The Empire of Kalman The Cripple hearkens back to the interwar period and records the colorful characters — saints, dunces, Jews, non-Jews, rabbis and petty politicians — that populated a Polish shtetl. At first presented as a scheming, ill-tempered rogue, the book's unforgettable protagonist, Kalman, changes during the story and ultimately redeems himself.
Like other Yiddish writers of his generation, including Singer, Elberg credited Fyodor Dostoyevski as an important literary influence, and once explained that he let his characters' inner natures determine the story rather than autocratically imposing a plotline upon them from above. Although few readers may guess it, he likely inserted a self-portrait into The Empire of Kalman The Cripple in the guise of the rabbi's son, Berish, who leaves the religious sphere to become a secular Jew.
"In my opinion, this is very much Elberg's life," said Montreal Yiddish scholar Pierre Anctil, whose French translation of the novel came out in Montreal and in France in 2001. "When I brought this up with him, he smiled, so I think that this is what he meant. Knowing him and his life, this is as close as you could get to anything resembling his own life in the novel."
For Robert Mandel, the book editor who formerly oversaw Syracuse University Press's prestigious "library of modern Jewish literature," receiving Elberg's two unsolicited manuscripts remains a highlight of his career. He began reading them chiefly in order to seek a reason to reject them, he explained. "I read the entire first novel, Kalman, in one night, and I said to myself, 'This is an amazing writer, there's no doubt that this book has to be published.' The fact that commercial houses had not discovered him was just shocking to me." After reading the second manuscript, Mandel decided to publish both books simultaneously.
Despite all evidence to the contrary, Elberg remained forever optimistic about the future of his beloved mother tongue and took heart that it is being studied on many university campuses. "I don't accept what people say that Yiddish is dead or dying," he said last year. "Something that is dead doesn't still grow. There are still new words being created and new books being written in Yiddish. It's a living literature."
He died on October 18, on the Jewish holiday of Shmini Atzeret. Predeceased in 1987 by his wife Shaindle, he is survived by daughter Eva Elberg of New York, son Nathan Elberg, stepson Gary Bloomstone, brother Shmuel Harel in Israel, and six grandchildren and five great-granchildren. ♦
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Turkey Joins Sunni "Anti-Terrorist" Military Coalition
December 17, 2015 by islandersvoice1
A picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on December 10, 2015 shows Saudi Interior Minister and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef (C) and Defense Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (L) welcoming members of Syrian opposition during their meeting in Riyadh. / AFP / AFP AND SPA / FAYEZ NURELDINE
Let's hope that this agreement is not just words but leads to decisive political, social, economic, and military action by the Sunni countries to eliminate the ISIL scourge.
Published in Hurriyet Daily News, Istanbul, Turkey, on December 15, 2015
Turkey has joined a 34-state Islamic military alliance that consists solely of Sunni states to fight terrorism amid a continuing war on jihadists in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Turkey would lend support to all initiatives against terror, noting that its participation in the military alliance against terrorism was a reflection of such resolve, reiterating his government's resolve in fighting against global terror.
"The countries here mentioned have decided on the formation of a military alliance led by Saudi Arabia to fight terrorism, with a joint operations center based in Riyadh to coordinate and support military operations," the statement said, according to Saudi Arabia's official news agency SPA.
The Saudi-led alliance does not include the kingdom's Shiite regional rival Iran, or Syria and Iraq.
States from the Middle East, Africa and Asia states will participate in the coalition.
The coalition will tackle "the Islamic world's problem with terrorism and will be a partner in the worldwide fight against this scourge," said Saudi Defense Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at a press conference in Riyadh, according to Reuters.
"The raising of Muslim countries' voices together against terror is the best response to those who try to associate terror with Islam. In this context, Turkey is ready to make its best contribution … in the struggle against terror. We consider this effort by Muslim countries as a step taken in the right direction," Davutoğlu told reporters on Dec. 15 at a press conference before departing from Ankara for an official visit to Sofia.
Arrangements would be made for "coordination with friendly peace-loving nations and international bodies for the sake of supporting international efforts to combat terrorism and to save international peace and security," SPA added.
The states listed among the 34 countries will include – apart from Turkey and Saudi Arabia – Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Tunisia, Djibouti, Sudan, Somalia, Palestinian territories, Comoros, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Yemen, Benin, Chad, Togo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives and Malaysia.
The 34 members all belong to the Jeddah-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Later in the day, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said the new "anti-terrorism" coalition would share intelligence and deploy troops if necessary.
"If countries need help they can ask for assistance… on a case-by-case basis," he told reporters in Paris on Dec. 15. "In terms of the operations nothing is off the table."
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said on Dec. 15 that the Saudi-based alliance was in line with U.S.' calls for greater involvement by Sunni Muslim countries to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
"We look forward to learning more about what Saudi Arabia has in mind in terms of this coalition," Reuters quoted Ash Carter as saying at the İncirlik Air Base in Turkey on Dec. 15.
"But in general it appears it is very much in line with something we've been urging for quite some time, which is greater involvement in the campaign to combat ISIL by Sunni Arab countries," he added.
Meanwhile, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said Dec. 15 that she welcomed Saudi Arabia's announcement on the formation of the alliance.
"I think it's right that the opposition is forming a group but it needs to be – and this is important – part of the Vienna process that includes all countries fighting against ISIL like the U.S., Europe, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, but also Iran and China," she told German broadcaster
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Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier
by Jim Ottaviani (text) & illus. by Maris Wicks
First Second. Feb. 2020. 176p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9781250760036; pap. $12.99. ISBN 9781626728776.
Gr 4-7–Focusing on the space race through the eyes of the women who made it possible, Ottaviani and Wicks, the creative team behind Primates, return with another accurate, informative, people-focused historical account. Narrator Mary Cleave, a former American astronaut, introduces readers to influential women such as Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space; engineer Dottie Lee, who worked on the Apollo space shield; and aviator Jerrie Cobb, who, as part of the Mercury 13, endured the same physiological and psychological evaluation as astronauts aboard the Mercury Seven. The nonlinear storytelling can be challenging at times, as the plot leaps across years and countries with minimal flagging for the reader. The clever use of a faux Cyrillic font, however, makes it easy to tell when characters are Russian. The artwork is cartoonish and appealing. Though the book includes details that make the subject accessible (one scene discusses the number of tampons needed by female astronauts), technical complexity is never oversimplified. Readers will be intrigued and inspired to dive into further research to understand some of the jargon and learn more about the women profiled here.
VERDICT Fans of Ottaviani's T-Minus: The Race to the Moon, as well as those interested in science or space travel, will eagerly gravitate to this title. A stellar addition to all collections.
Reviewed by Tammy Ivins, University of North Carolina at Wilmington , Mar 20, 2020
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The British investigative journalist and author, Ian Cobain, has published a new book examining the United Kingdom's post-WWII record of covert government actions and cover-ups. Included in "The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation" are accounts of Britain's colonial wars in the 1960s and '70s, the rise of mass surveillance and the undermining of the country's criminal justice system. Of particular interest to Irish readers will be the chapter dealing with the UK's past counter-insurgency operations on this island, "The Vault: Secrecy and Northern Ireland's Dirty War". Regular followers of An Sionnach Fionn will recognise many of the revelations, not least the strange phenomenon of spontaneous combustion among official documents in British military installations while investigations were being carried out into the more unsavoury aspects of the forty year conflict.
"On the evening of Monday 8 January 1990, a group of British detectives decided that they had done enough for one day. It was getting late now, and some of the officers had been working for thirteen hours on a complex and politically fraught investigation that was being conducted against a backdrop of escalating violence.
Northern Ireland's savage little war had just entered its twenty-second year. Eighty-nine people had died the previous year. One, Pat Finucane, a lawyer, had been shot fourteen times after gunmen used sledgehammers to smash down his front door while he was having Sunday dinner with his wife and three children. Another was Loughlin Maginn, a father of four who was shot dead at his home in a village south of Belfast. It was the circumstances surrounding these murders, along with a string of others, that the police team led by John Stevens were investigating. At just past 9 p.m. they flicked off the lights of their incident room, locked up, and left the building.
The facility from which they were working was no ordinary police station. It was located beyond the chain-link fences, the razor wire and the CCTV that protected a seventeen-acre complex that the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) operated on the outskirts of Carrickfergus, a coastal town twelve miles north of Belfast. Known as Seapark, the complex was home to forensic science laboratories, exhibit stores, a suite of offices and no end of confidential archives. It was one of the most secure policing facilities anywhere in the world.
Twenty minutes later, four members of Stevens' team who had been conducting inquiries elsewhere arrived back at the incident room, intending to lock some paperwork away for the night.
A heat-sensitive intruder alarm had also failed. Bynum raced to the guardhouse at the entrance to the complex, where an armed officer from the RUC was on duty. 'My first word to him was to call for the fire brigade and he replied that the phones were down. I then told him to get on his radio to call for help and his reaction was one of almost disinterest, of: "Well what do you expect me to do about it?"' By the time the fire was eventually extinguished, the team's desktop computers had melted into pools of metal and plastic; steel filing cabinets had buckled, and the documents inside had incinerated.
Whoever started the fire clearly intended to destroy every scrap of documentary evidence that the police team had gathered.
This of course was just one of many incidences throughout the Long War when the documented records of the British authorities in the north-east of Ireland, civil, military and paramilitary, were "accidentally" or deliberately destroyed, or simply went missing. Invariably these losses coincided with research being carried out by third parties from the United Kingdom or in the wake of some notable atrocity.
Of further interest to Irish readers will be Cobain's detailed examination of the activities of Brian Nelson, the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi of UK terrorism in Ireland. The former British soldier from Belfast began his murderous career by taking a blowtorch to a young, disabled Irishman named Gerald Higgins, proceeding to torture him to near-death in 1974 (he succumbed to his injuries several weeks later). At the time Nelson was a member of the UDA-UFF, a militant pro-Britain or "loyalist" faction, while also serving as an agent for the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), the UK's regional paramilitary police force. In 1985 he was recruited by the British Army's Intelligence Corps (IntCorps) while temporarily living in Germany.
Returning to the Six Counties and the UDA-UFF, the Belfast man led a reign of terror against the Irish nationalist community the likes of which had not been seen since the late 1960s and early '70s. Under the direction of the counter-insurgency strategists of the RUC, IntCorps and MI5, the Security Service in London, the agent transformed the "loyalist" gangs into a body of organised death squads spreading murder and mayhem across the north-east of the country. Answering to his immediate superiors in the infamous Force Research Unit (FRU), one of the many acronyms making up the British intelligence agencies, he became the United Kingdom's most effective weapon in its war with the (Provisional) Irish Republican Army and the population supporting it.
"Soon he was appointed as the intelligence officer for the UDA in west Belfast, playing a central role in selecting and locating targets for assassination. Although he occasionally kept this information to himself, Nelson would frequently pass details of these planned murders to the FRU.
In June 1985, Nelson embarked upon the most extraordinary operation of his undercover Army career. The UDA's leadership asked him to help arrange a deal with Armscor, apartheid South Africa's arms corporation. A unionist from Armagh who had emigrated to Durban and was working for the company had been identified as a possible source of weaponry, and Nelson was asked to meet this man. The FRU not only encouraged him to do this, it paid for his airline tickets to South Africa and met his hotel bills. One of Nelson's FRU handlers, a man whom he knew as Ronnie, had told him: 'You've really hit the big time here Brian.' While some have claimed the FRU sponsored this arms-trafficking enterprise in order to intercept the weapons and prevent them from falling into loyalist paramilitaries' hands, others suspect that the FRU, and some of their political masters, were determined to help arm Ulster's loyalists.
In Durban, Nelson examined a number of weapons, and was particularly taken with an automatic shotgun called the Striker which 'could be used to devastating effect . . . in close-quarter combat'. Armscor made it clear that it would accept a cash sale, but also wanted to know whether the UDA could provide it with one of the latest generation of ground-to-air missiles that were under development at Shorts, an aircraft and armaments factory in east Belfast.
Armscor provided weapons to loyalist paramilitaries in a trafficking operation that was financed by a £325,000 robbery from a bank in Portadown, thirty miles south-west of Belfast. The corporation's European agent, an American called Douglas Bernhardt, had learned that a large cache of arms held by a Lebanese militia in Beirut had come onto the market. Bernhardt arranged for the arms to be loaded into a container, which was shipped to Belfast via Liverpool, accompanied with bills of lading and notes of origin that indicated it held ceramic floor tiles.
The weapons arrived at Belfast docks in late December, and were smuggled into the country undetected. Early the following month, at a farmhouse in County Armagh, the arsenal was divided three ways between the UDA, the UVF and a third loyalist paramilitary group, Ulster Resistance. The UDA lost its entire portion within minutes: its share of about 100 weapons was loaded into two hire cars, which were stopped and seized at a nearby police roadblock. Some of the UVF's weapons were also recovered over coming weeks, but most remained in the group's hands, and transformed the loyalists' firepower over the years that followed. The portion that went to Ulster Resistance was never captured, however. Nor were these weapons decommissioned during the peace process: they remain hidden today.
"The British state has been conspiring to murder its own citizens in Northern Ireland.
That is the only credible conclusion that can be drawn from the evidence that has seeped slowly into the public domain over the past decade. It now seems clear that members of the security forces, acting in cahoots with loyalist paramilitaries, have facilitated sectarian and political killings.
Hopefully there are some revelations about Robin "the jackal" Jackson. An even more shadowy murderous figure.
Dammit man, just shoot the lot of them, the Irish that is, then the Empire might have some peace again. And if they can be persuaded to shoot one another all the better and more fool them.


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Favorite movies so many to choose from Favorite TV shows Marvel Agents of SHIELD Favorite bands / musical artists Beach Boys are still number one. Favorite books All of them. Favorite writers Jim Butcher, Brad Thor, Robert Jordan, Harry Turtuledove, Ben Bova Favorite games Stardew Valley; Star Trek Online Favorite gaming platform XBOX One Tools of the Trade paper and pencil; pen; and now a lot of paint for miniature wargamming Other Interests Miniature Wargaming, online RP in various forms, Reading. Lots of Reading.
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John T. Brownlee III, 76, of Irmo, SC passed away Jan. 16, 2019. He is survived by his wife Kathy, a son Rhett Brownlee (Allison) of Charleston, a daughter Lisha Wade (Jay) of Charleston, a stepson Derrick Horton (Tara) Of Blythewood, a brother, Robert Brownlee (Sara) of Asheville, NC and 7 grandchildren. A Memorial Gathering will be held Sunday, Jan. 27th at Sandy Level Baptist Church, 408 Blythewood Rd., Blythewood, SC 29016 from 2pm -4pm.
Memorials may be made to Sandy Level Baptist Church in Blythewood.


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Раптове Спалахування () — епізод 302 (№ 33) серіалу «South Park», прем'єра якого відбулася 14 квітня 1999 року.

Сюжет
Кайл дізнається, що у його батьків проблеми в стосунках, і вирішує з іншими хлопцями (Кенні, Стеном і Картманом) спробувати відшукати свого батькові ерекцію, не знаючи, що це таке насправді. Тим часом, Кенні, а потім і інші різні жителі міста, починають раптово спалахувати, і мер Мекденіелс наказує Ренді Маршу з'ясувати причину загорянь, не звертаючи уваги на те, що він - геолог і майже не розбирається в будові людського тіла.

Під час відспівування Кенні в церкві батько Максі доручає хлопчикам інсценувати хресний шлях Ісуса Христа, з Картманом в ролі Ісуса, бо той без кінця повторює, що більше жодна роль йому не підійде. Хлопчики розігрують біблійні події, в результаті встановлюючи хрест з прив'язаним Картманом на міському пагорбі, щоб він помер і дав ерекцію для батька Кайла (гра слів:  - , і  — ). Тим часом Ренді вдається з'ясувати, що загоряння відбувається через те, що люди утримуються від метеоризму в присутності своїх партнерів (Кенні проводив час з  Келлі, дівчинкою з  попереднього епізоду), тому він закликає всіх жителів міста пускати гази кожні кілька секунд. За це відкриття Ренді виграє Нобелівську премію, до великої досади другого вченого Саут-Парку, доктора Мефесто, який сподівався отримати премію за створення черепахи з сімома дупами. Мефесто вирішує помститися.

У місті настає чергова криза, коли настає небувала спека; Ренді знову отримує завдання з'ясувати причини того, що відбувається. Мефесто випереджає його, відкривши, що метан міститься в кишкових газах, що випускаються усіма жителями міста, веде до  глобального потепління. Ренді оголошують головним винуватцем того, що відбувається, зривають з нього медаль Нобелівського лауреата і змушують тягти на спині свою власну статую через все місто, попутно кидаючи в нього камінням. Тим часом, батькові Кайла вдається повернути собі ерекцію при вигляді трьох привабливих молодих клієнток в своєму офісі (роздяглися, щоб продемонструвати рак шкіри, у якому вони звинувачують Ренді).

Ренді не хоче шукати вирішення проблеми, тому що городяни все одно будуть ненавидіти його, навіть якщо він зможе розгадати головоломку «загоряння / потепління». Проте, Стен говорить йому, що дечого навчився з Біблії — хоча Ісуса ненавиділи всі навколо і відкинули всі друзі, він продовжував робити те, що повинен, і перед смертю сказав «Потреби більшості переважують потреби меншості» (Стен плутає цитату з Біблії з фразою з фільму Зоряний шлях: Гнів Хана). Ренді проголошує, що пускати гази потрібно обмежено, і всі знову починають до нього добре ставитися. Три тижні тому він отримує Нобелівську премію назад, і в цей момент хлопчики згадують про Картмана, якого вони залишили висіти на хресті. Вони поспішають до нього, і знаходять його там, живим, але тільки завдяки великому запасу свого підшкірного жиру.

Смерть Кенні
Кенні гине практично на самому початку епізоду, коли хлопчики йдуть з магазину, де Кайл намагався купити своєму батьку ерекцію. Кенні несподівано спалахує посеред розмови і перетворюється в купку попелу.

Пародії
 Меморіальна статуя на честь Ренді зроблена в тому ж стилі, що і статуя Мікеланджело «Давид».
 Сцена зі сном Ренді пародіює мультсеріал «Скубі-Ду».
 Коли Ренді несе свою статую, а решта люди кидають в нього камінням, він зустрічає містера Гаррісона. Ренді просить його про допомогу, але містер Гаррісон вдає, що не знає Ренді — пародіюючи таким чином муки Ісуса, описані в  Біблії, коли Петро (як містер Гаррісон) прилюдно відрікається від Ісуса.
 Коли Стен вимовляє фразу «Потреби більшості переважують потреби меншості» він тримає пальці у вигляді «вулканського салюту» з  Зоряного шляху.

Інші факти
 Поява інопланетян: особа прибульця з'являється на Місяці в нічній сцені з хрестом Картмана.
 У місті настає така спека, що всі ходять в футболках, проте сніг чомусь не тане.

Посилання

 «Spontaneous Combustion» на South Park Studios
 Сценарій серії «Spontaneous Combustion»
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Телевізійні епізоди 1999


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NGC 4603 ist eine Spiralgalaxie vom Hubble-Typ Sc im Sternbild Zentaur am Südsternhimmel. Sie ist schätzungsweise 108 Millionen Lichtjahre von der Milchstraße entfernt und hat einen Durchmesser von etwa 110.000 Lichtjahren.

Die Galaxie ist Mitglied des Centaurus-Galaxienhaufens. Die lokale Gruppe, zu der auch unsere Milchstraße gehört, nähert sich diesem Galaxienhaufen mit einer Geschwindigkeit von etwa 1,5 Millionen Kilometer pro Stunde, angezogen von dessen Gravitation.
Im selben Himmelsareal befinden sich u. a. die Galaxien NGC 4601, NGC 4616, NGC 4622, NGC 4650.

Die Typ-II-Supernova SN 2008cn wurde hier beobachtet.

Das Objekt wurde am 8. Juni 1834 von dem britischen Astronomen John Herschel entdeckt.

Siehe auch
NGC 4603A, NGC 4603B, NGC 4603C und NGC 4603D

Weblinks

 SIMBAD Astronomical Database

 Galactic Close-Up

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Jacob's ladder grows 50 centimetres (20 in) tall, with pinnate leaves up to 20 centimetres (8 in) long with 5–13 leaflets. The leaves and flower stems grow from a vertical crown with abundant fibrous roots.
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Polemonium reptans is typically found in rich, moist woods, often along streambanks. Its range extends from Minnesota to New Hampshire in the north, and from Georgia to Mississippi in the south. It is most abundant west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The plant prefers partial shade and mesic soil. It tolerates full sun, but requires constantly moist soil.
The dried roots have a slightly bitter and acrid taste. P. reptans has been traditionally used as an herbal medicine for febrile and inflammatory diseases, to ease coughs, colds and bronchial complaints, and to encourage perspiration. It is furthermore said to bring relief in cases of inflammations and infections. The root is rarely used in modern herbalism. It is harvested in the autumn and dried for later use.
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^ a b c Heather Holm (2014). Pollinators on Native Plants. Minnetonka, MN: Pollinator Press. pp. 160–161.
^ a b Carman, Jack B. (2001). Wildflowers of Tennessee. Highland Rim Press. p. 206.
^ a b c Horn, Dennis; Tavia Cathcart (2005). Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians. Edmonton: Lone Pine Publishing. p. 243. ISBN 1-55105-428-0.
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Project Angel Food was created by a group of compassionate volunteers who were concerned about our most fragile community members suffering in silence from malnutrition and the many other ravages of HIV/AIDS. We expanded our service to any person battling critical illness.
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Will I receive any notification, a rejection letter, and/or feedback about my show?
Once you submit, you'll receive email confirmation from APF staff that your materials have been received. APF will not provide notification to the writer(s) if shows are not advancing. APF does not provide feedback.
I don't have an agent, may I still submit?
Any writer whose show fits the guidelines is eligible, with or without representation.
What constitutes a "production commitment"? If I don't have an opening date scheduled may I still apply?
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The application asks for an Artistic Statement, what should this be?
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