Here is all that you need to understand about Mirai in short.
It all started in the 1990s. An Evolution of mobile, home, and embedded applications is pictured as IoT, that are connected to the internet integrating greater computer capabilities and using data analytics to extract meaningful information. Billions of devices are connected to the internet. Hundreds and billions of the connected devices become an integrated system of systems. And when these devices and system of systems share data over the cloud and analyze it, they transform our businesses, our lives, and our world in many countless ways.
Routers, Web IP cameras, Linux servers, and other devices that are running Busybox.
Reasons why IoT devices are infected?
Many IoT devices have poor security which makes them soft targets and attackers often pre-program their malware with commonly used and default passwords. Processing power limitations and basic operating systems state that many IoT devices do not have advanced security features. IoT devices are frequently designed to be plugged in and forgotten about. It gets easier for an attack to take place on such devices when the security updates are not applied.
How does Mirai Malware Infect?
Mirai Malware scans for vulnerable IoT devices. The ease of accessibility determines the weakness of the device over the internet and whether they have default passwords. It operates by continuously scanning for IoT devices.
For telnet or SSH accounts, Mirai uses the default password to gain shell access. Once it gains access to an account, the malware is installed. The installed malware creates delayed processes and then the files that might alert the antivirus software of its presence are deleted.
Due to all this, it is difficult to identify an infected system without doing a memory analysis.
Mirai opens ports and a connection is created with botmasters and starts looking for other devices it can infect. The malware forces infected systems to report to a central control server, thus turning them into a bot that can be used in various DDoS attacks.
After this, it will wait for more instructions. While it is still waiting, it conducts no activity and no files left on the system due to which it becomes difficult to detect.
Where has Mirai been used?
Mirai was utilized in an attack which took place on a French hosting company OVH that peaked at 1Tbps. This attack on Dyn brought the internet to a standstill. The attack had grabbed a lot of attention and had also raised questions about how powerful these DDoS attacks could become. It was observed that 10s of millions of discrete IP addresses associated with Mirai botnet were a part of the attack.
Steps to protect devices and prevent them from getting infected?
Before you purchase an IoT device research about the capabilities and its security features.
An audit should be performed on the IoT devices used on your network.
When setting up a Wi-Fi network access, use a strong encryption method.
Features and services which are not required should be disabled.
Telnet login must be disabled and SSH must be used wherever possible.
In IoT devices, modify the default privacy and security settings as per your requirements and security policy.
Wherever possible use wired connections instead of wireless.
For firmware updates, regularly check the manufacturer's website.
It is said that Mirai's source code was leaked on the internet. Attackers can modify the source code for creating a variant of this malware for targeting IoT devices. The variant could be more powerful. Security researchers have uncovered a whole host of compromised home routers, which is hijacked and enslaved as part of a new Mirai variant botnet. For more information, read here.


Kaing Guek Eav during his sentencing at the war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, July 26, 2010. Pic: AP.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A U.N.-backed tribunal says the appeals over the convictions and 19-year sentence for the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer will be heard in March.
Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was convicted in July of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was the first major Khmer Rouge figure to face trial more than three decades after the genocide of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians.
Duch's lawyers say he merely followed orders and was wrongfully convicted. Prosecutors say his sentence is insufficent to his crimes and want a life term.
A tribunal statement Thursday said both appeals will be heard the last week of March.
Duch admitted overseeing the torture and deaths of as many as 16,000 people in prison.


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In this review we build the Pro Pan and Tilt and test the Pro 700N FPV camera from RMRC.
These two FPV units work together to make your FPV experience better.
I was looking to upgrade my FPV cam and pan and tilt on my Penguin aerial platform. The word from Tim at ReadyMadeRC is that he feels the Pro 700N is one of the best FPV cams out there. The retail price is $149.99. While I have yet to attempt low light FPV flying I can say the Pro 700N was a big jump up from my old Fat Shark unit.
Here is the Pro 700N and the Pro Pan and Tilt mounted in my Finwing Penguin.
One interesting thing about this camera is that it has 960 horizontal pixels of resolution but standard definition video is limited to 700 TVL. So while this camera has a higher TVL it can only really be rated as a 700 TVL.
Here is the view from my goggles using the Pro 700N over my home field.
The camera also has built in menu buttons on the back. That means you can tweak your settings on the fly unlike some cameras that have to have an external button pad connected to make changes. Don't be too quick with changing the settings. RMRC ships each unit with the settings they feel work best for the 700N.
It also has 5-15V input range. This allowed me to plug it directly into my flight controller (FY 41AP) for power. My old camera needed a UBEC for power.
Unlike most FPV cams this one has buttons to control the camera's functions on the back.
The ReadyMade RC Pro 700N.
The Pro Pan and Tilt is carbon fiber reinforced plastic that starts at $34.99. The pieces are cut well and it goes together without a hitch. Be sure to make sure you have each piece put together the right way before you hit it with CA. You can accidentally get some pieces backward. The design works like a standard pan and tilt but with an extended travel servo or a servo stretcher you can get a 360 degree pan. The pan is mounted to a metal mechanism rotating on precision bearings for better durability.
The camera mount works with full size FPV cams including the RMRC-420, RMRC-480, RMRC-540, RMRC-600XV, RMRC-700XV. It also has a cutout in the back for the menu buttons (nice!).
You can mount smaller cameras with double stick tape.
Here is the unit as it ships.
Here are all the parts popped out.
Make sure you have your parts on the right way before you glue them with CA. Some can be put on backwards.
This piece holds the tilt servo. I used a 8 gram servo here.
This is the camera mount. Be sure everything is square or your camera could sit at an odd angle.
I used a 9 gram servo for the tilt.
I used a larger servo for the pan. You can order this unit with servos. I suggest the stronger ones.
Manual for the pro pan and tilt.
I clipped the red lead going to the RX from the FY unit and powered the RX with a lipo and UBEC.
Here is a post showing how to do that.


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Even injured and absent, Kyrie Irving isn't welcome in Boston
BOSTON — Walk the streets of Beantown and you'll see posters calling Nets guard Kyrie Irving a coward and posters portraying him as the Cowardly Lion from "The Wizard of Oz." Inside TD Garden on Wednesday, the vibe was even worse, if not unexpected.
Though Irving was injured and absent for what would've been his return to Boston, it didn't stop fans from spewing venom at him or prevent former Celtic Kendrick Perkins from tweeting the guard "planned" his injury to avoid facing his old team.
Even Celtics coach Brad Stevens is not a fan of that kind of outsized negative attention.
"That's one of the things that, unfortunately, when you're really, really good at something, the level of scrutiny is even higher," Stevens said. "He's one of the best players in the NBA. The level of scrutiny is unfair, but it comes with the territory of all those guys. That's why it's so important that we constantly remind ourselves of how good they are.
"The way people talked about his time here … he was second-team all-NBA last year, he was ridiculous the year before. He's a heck of a player. He gets to choose where he wants to play, he gets to go home. That's something we all respect. We wish him nothing but health and happiness. This is the world we live in. I don't particularly like it … but we've got to react to something, and unfortunately we're very reactionary."
Oh, there was a reaction all right, even if Irving wasn't there to see it, hear it or feel it.
Irving missed a seventh straight game with a shoulder impingement. Coach Kenny Atkinson was noncommittal about the guard's odds of playing in Friday's rematch at Barclays Center, but he and his Nets were fully braced for a hostile environment in Boston despite Irving's absence.
Kyrie Irving "coward" posters were hung throughout Boston.Brian Lewis (2)
There were loud "Kyrie sucks" chants from Boston fans before and during Wednesday's game.
"If I wear a bad tie, there's a reaction from the crowd here — it's Boston. So I totally expect, me, guys on the bench, it's just part of it," Atkinson said with a shrug. "It also makes what's special about being here. They're passionate, like New York. There can be some ribbing in there. That's part of it. But I take it in good faith. We're expecting it."
Irving had a stellar first season in Boston and said he hoped to stay. But after being shaken by the death of his grandfather, he admitted he failed to lead them during a tumultuous second campaign.
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BOSTON — The Celtic faithful had worked themselves into a...
Boston general manager Danny Ainge said Tuesday on ESPN that the blame lies with him. And Stevens said before Wednesday's game that the failure was team-wide — though the buck stops with him as coach, not with Irving.
"We've said many times that whatever we didn't achieve that we wanted to achieve as a team is on the team. It's not for one person," Stevens said. "I've also said many times that I really enjoyed Kyrie and I wish him nothing but the best. I think everybody that was on that team last year will be better because of that experience.
"Incredible player. We won a ton of games when he was here. We didn't get to where we ultimately wanted to go last year, and that leaves a sour taste in everybody's mouth that was a part of that team and that was all on our team. I've said many times, if you're the one that has to put it all together and the team's not as good, that's on me."
But that hasn't stemmed the hate many Celtics fans are spewing at Irving, and it likely won't. Atkinson said it might just be part and parcel of his stardom.
"I don't have the answer to that. I think it's the play, how dynamic he is — he's an incredibly dynamic player," Atkinson said. "I see it with LeBron [James], all the greats, we just pay more attention. Fans do, press does, it's part of the business."
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Here's a howto for setting up your own online internet radio station. This was done on a CentOS 6.2 platform but it's pretty much the same for others as well. Most of the installs are source compiles, yum has been used for some libraries you could use your favourite package manager on your server.


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iClick Interactive, BTG WELINK and Tencent form strategic partnership to set lifestyle service O2O benchmark in China
iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited ("iClick") (Nasdaq: ICLK) an independent online marketing and enterprise data solutions provider in China today announced a strategic partnership with BTG WELINK ("BTGW"), an online retail services arm of Beijing Tourism Group ("BTG") and Tencent Holdings (News - Alert) Limited ("Tencent") (00700.HK), China's leading provider of internet value added services. The partnership will leverage the digital strengths, data capabilities and payment technologies of the three companies to help BTG establish a new customer relationship management system providing its customers with an array of smart lifestyle O2O solutions.
BTG is one of the top ten tourism service groups in China which operates across a range of related sectors including dining, lodging, transportation, travel, shopping and entertainment. Its network spans across 4,000 hotels in 380 cities in China with 10 million registered users. Under the new partnership, customers of the BTG business will have access to a wide range of personalized mobile services powered by iClick and Tencent including reservation, quick pay, spending notification via the Official WeChat Account, Mini Programs and WeChat Pay. The parties will collaborate to build a large unified membership system for the business sectors of BTG to ensure its entire membership can enjoy the same benefits and quality of experience. The new offerings under this tri-party partnership will be first rolled out at the Beijing Scitech Premium Outlet Mall.
As part of this partnership with BTGW and Tencent, iClick will apply its upgraded solutions to build a private DSP (Demand Side Platform) system for BTG. Using Tencent's big data advertising platform, iClick can assist BTG to develop precision marketing campaigns. By leveraging iClick's smart retail CRS (Customer Relationship Service based on Enterprise WeChat) system, BTG's frontline staff will be equipped with mobile apps that support smart shopping, marketing and member retention. This will also help to motivate BTG's staff as brand ambassadors increasing brand awareness and improving sales performance for BTG.
Ms. Hongtao Wei, Deputy Secretary of CPC (News - Alert) Committee, Member of the Board, Executive Deputy General Manager of BTG, said, "Together with Tencent and iClick, the tri-party partnership will further enhance the smart products and services offered by BTG and make a breakthrough in the traditional 'exchange environment' with intelligent services and smart offerings.By combining online and offline, a unified force will be formed and lead BTG to become a unique lifestyle service enterprise that offers 'Chinese-oriented services'."
With the largest social networking platform in China, Tencent is committed to providing users with more valuable internet services and a better digital experience. Mr. Davis Lin, Vice President of Tencent, said, "Tencent endeavors to connect brands with consumers by making use of our own networking strengths. Being consumer-focused is the core value of the retail ecosystem, which is in line with what we believe in retail decentralization. We believe that the new partnership will be able to bring together strong support and value to modern enterprises and customers."
iClick will utilize its competitive advantages and strengths in business intelligence and digital marketing in this new collaboration. Dr. Jian Tang, Co-founder, COO & CTO of iClick, said, "The new partnership marks a significant milestone in our business evolution. iClick has a deep understanding of enterprise needs in digital transformation as our clients are continually looking for ways to increase operational and marketing efficiency. Our collaboration with BTGW and Tencent will enable us to explore more innovative ways to enhance our data capabilities and online marketing solutions which is what enterprises value the most in this era of lifestyle service O2O."
About iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited
iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited (NASDAQ:ICLK) is an independent online marketing and enterprise data solutions provider that connects worldwide marketers with audiences in China. Built on cutting-edge technologies, our proprietary platform possesses omni-channel marketing capabilities and fulfills various marketing objectives in a data-driven and automated manner, helping both international and domestic marketers reach their target audiences in China. Headquartered in Hong Kong, iClick was established in 2009, currently operating in nine locations worldwide including Asia and Europe.
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Klaberjass (Bela)
Klaberjass (Klabberjaß), also known under a variety of alternate names and spellings, such as Kalabrias, Clobyosh, Clob, and Bela, is a two-player melding and trick-taking game that likely originates from the Low Countries. It is particularly commonly played in Scotland and in Jewish communities worldwide.
Klaberjass heads up a family of games known as the Jass or Jack-Nine games, so named because the jack and 9 are the highest trumps in the game. This family also includes the popular French game Belote. Klaberjass, whose name is derived from clover Jack (i.e. the J♣), bears some similarity to Piquet, but with more emphasis placed on the game's trick-taking aspects.
Object of Klaberjass
The object of Klaberjass is to be the first player to score 501 or more points by forming melds and taking tricks.
Klaberjass is played with a stripped 32-card deck identical to that used in Piquet. Starting from a deck of Denexa 100% Plastic Playing Cards, remove all the 2s through 6s, leaving the aces through 8s in all four suits. You'll also need something to keep track of the score with, such as a pencil and paper or score-keeping app on a smartphone.
Determine the first dealer by some random method. Shuffle and deal six cards to each player, in two batches of three. Place the deck stub in the center of the table and turn one card, the upcard, face up next to it.
Card ranking
One of the distinguishing features of Klaberjass is its idiosyncratic card ranking. As in Pinochle, the 10 ranks higher than the face cards, just under the ace, giving a full ranking of (high) A, 10, K, Q, J, 9, 8, 7 (low). In the trump suit, however, the jack and 9 are elevated to the highest and second-highest trumps, and are known as jass and menel respectively. In the trump suit, the cards rank (high) J, 9, A, 10, K, Q, 8, 7 (low).
Note that although these rankings apply to most aspects of the game, for the purposes of sequences, the "natural" order still applies, with ace high (A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7). So the highest four-card sequence would be A-K-Q-J, not A-10-K-Q or J-9-A-10 in trump.
Establishing trump
Selecting the trump suit in Klaberjass comes with a fair degree of danger. The player that chooses the trump is essentially declaring that if they get the chance to choose the trump suit, they will win the hand; if they fail, then any points they scored are attributed to the opponent instead! Therefore, it's quite important to not agree to choose trump lightly.
The non-dealer gets first opportunity to select the trump suit. They may either accept the suit of the upcard as trump or reject it by passing. They may also schmeiss (see below). If they pass, the dealer then has the opportunity to accept the upcard's suit as trump, pass, or schmeiss. If both players pass, then it goes back to the non-dealer, who then has the option to declare any one of the other three suits trump, pass, or schmeiss. If they pass, the dealer gets the same option. If the dealer passes, then the hands are discarded, the pack shuffled, and a new hand is dealt by the same dealer.
A schmeiss is an offer to throw the hands in and have the same dealer deal a new hand. The opponent says "yes" or "no" to this offer. A "yes" results in a redeal. If the response is "no", then the player who called schmeiss is compelled to either accept the trump suit as turned up (in the first round of bidding) or name one of the other suits (in the second round).
The player who eventually declared the trump suit is called the maker. After the trump suit is determined, each player is dealt three more cards, giving them each a total of nine. If the upcard was used to determine the trump suit and a player holds the 7 of trump, called the dix (pronounced deece), they have the option to lay the dix on the table and take the upcard into their hand instead.
After trump has been established, the players may declare any melds they have in their hand. There are two possible melds in Klaberjass, the twenty (so called because it's worth 20 points), which is a sequence of three consecutive cards of the same suit, and the fifty (50 points), such a sequence of four or more. (Note that any sequences of five or higher do not score any extra points, unfortunately.)
Melds are declared through a series of formalized messages designed to allow the pertinent information to be collected without unduly revealing the contents a the player's hand to their opponent. The non-dealer declares their highest sequence first, saying either "I have a twenty" or "I have a fifty." If the dealer cannot or does not wish to declare a better sequence, they simply say "Good", and the hand proper begins. If the dealer unquestionably has a higher sequence (as would happen if the non-dealer had a twenty while the dealer holds a fifty), they reply with "Not good".
If the dealer holds a sequence of the same length as the non-dealer, more information is needed to ascertain whose sequence is better. If so, the dealer asks "How high?" The non-dealer replies with the highest card in their sequence. If the dealer cannot best it, they say "Good," with precedent going to the non-dealer. Otherwise they say "Not good, mine is [rank] high," establishing the dealer as the one with the best meld. If the dealer's sequence has a high card of the same rank, they say "I have also." The non-dealer then declares the suit of their sequence. The dealer does likewise; if either of these sequences are in trump, then the trump sequence wins. Two non-trump sequences simply tie and no melds are scored for that hand.
After the first trick has been played, but before the second begins, the player who was established to hold the higher meld reveals all of the melds in their hand. These points are not actually added to the hand score until this player wins a trick, however.
Note that declaring sequences is entirely optional. If there is a decent chance that the maker may not win the hand, they may choose to forego any points available from melding to avoid risking the opponent scoring them.
Play of the hand
The non-dealer leads any card to the first trick. The dealer then must follow these rules in determining their response:
On a trump lead, they must play higher trump if possible.
If they can follow suit, they must.
If they cannot follow suit, but can trump, they must.
If they cannot follow suit or trump they may play and card.
The highest trump wins the trick, or the highest card of the suit led, if there was no trump played. The winner of the trick collects the cards into a won-tricks pile in front of them, then leads to the next trick.
The king and queen of trump form a meld called bela. Bela is not declared at the beginning of the hand with the other melds. Instead, the player simply calls "bela" when the first card of the combination is played, and "from the bela" when the second card is played. Bela is then added to the hand score, with a value of 20 points.
The hand ends when all nine tricks have been played. The players then total up the point values of all cards in their tricks won, as follows:
Jass: 20.
Menel: 14.
Aces: 11.
Tens: 10.
Kings: 4.
Queens: 3.
Jacks (other than jass): 2.
Last trick: 10.
These scores are added to the amount scored through melds on that hand to arrive at the final hand score. The maker and the opponent's hand scores are then compared. If the maker's score is higher, both players score their respective hand scores to the game score. If they are tied, the opponent scores their hand score. If the opponent has the higher hand score, then the maker is said to have gone bate, and the opponent scores both their own hand score and the maker's.
The winner of each hand deals the next one. Game play continues until one player scores 501 points or more. The player with the higher score is the winner.
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2 responses to "Klaberjass (Bela)"
I have 3 siblings and we live in different countries and grew up playing a card game called Klaberjass.
I've been trying to find a way for us to play online against each other (it's a game where 4 people play – each with a partner, much like bridge).
Do you have any idea how we might go about doing that – I've been looking online but struggling to find a solution.
John Simpson says:
Kobi Reiter had a free Kalabraisz program on the web, but I think this link is now defunct. Klob is a great game, and the three-handed version is similar to the normal 2-player game. Whoever cuts low card deals, bidding and the right to nmae trump passing to the left. The Bidder has to score more than the combined total of his/her opponents; if they fail in their bid, going bete, each opponent divides Bidder's score equally between them.
Bela can be played at meingames.de as Debertz.


For the past three years, the team at MFA Incorporated has been working with the Adapt-N platform. After these years of experience, the cooperative is now expanding its use of Adapt-N across its Precision Advantage, Crop-Trak and Nutri-Track platforms.
Adapt-N is a real-time nitrogen recommendation tool that uses crop modeling, soil information, field data, and weather data. Adapt-N was developed by Agronomic Technology Corporation and was acquired by Yara International in late 2017.
MFA serves Missouri and parts of eastern Kansas, and Becker estimates across their trade area adoption of their precision platforms ranges from 5-50% of the total acres.
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European conservative leaders call on Western Balkans to refrain from ethnic provocations and fight corruption
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St. Julian, Malta | Tirana Echo – Europe's center-right conservative leaders have called on the Western Balkan countries to refrain from ethnic provocations and do more to strengthen the rule of law and fight corruption as they reaffirm their unequivocal support for the European accession perspective of the region.
Meeting at the European People's Party (EPP) congress in Malta this week, European conservative leaders agreed on a joint resolution on the Western Balkans, which calls on all EU Member States, as well as on EU institutions, to pay more focused attention to the Western Balkans region, by drawing up a set of concrete steps and measures.
Fearing a Russian counter offensive diplomatic effort in recent months to increase its sphere of influence over south east Europe, EPP leaders have shown a determination to keep European integration perspective open, despite ongoing enlargement fatigue across the EU member states.
The EPP invited "all EU Member States to counter by all possible means the negative and disruptive role of external actors in the region and calls on the EU institutions and on all EU Member States to intensify their support for all European or national funds and projects in connection to the economic development of the Western Balkans region in order to curb the increasing economic and political influence of third countries".
Concerned by recent developments in Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania EPP leaders also called on their leaders to refrain from ethnic provocations and condemned "all provocative and aggressive behaviour, which poses a threat to stability and peace, bearing in mind that peace can be neither built nor maintained based on nationalistic, populist and radical rhetoric."
Europe's strongest political family is worried that bringing up controversies from the past will not help the countries of the region to move further down their European path, but rather that populism and nationalism will only distract them, sending them towards old conflicts of the past.
Fearing a surge in nationalist tendencies which could hamper EU values in these countries, the EPP recommended that "Western Balkan countries intensify their efforts in fighting corruption on all levels, including in politics and in society, applying a zero – tolerance policy".
The full text of the EPP Malta Resolution on the Western Balkans can be found here.
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Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is the most contagious viral disease of all food animals (except poultry), and poses a substantial economic risk to the agricultural sector in the developing world. Although FMD causes fewer animal deaths than other diseases, its impact is colossal because of the large numbers of animals affected and the fact that countries endemic for FMD are not allowed to export their animal products. Estimated economic losses due to FMD are up to US$7 billion annually.
Why is a new FMD vaccine necessary?
The most cost-effective method for preventing and controlling FMD is vaccination. Current FMD vaccines consist of killed viruses, which present major challenges for FMD control. These challenges include poor stability, which hinders efficient production and storage; incomplete protection, which requires frequent boosters; and the inability to protect against all circulating FMD virus strains.
To overcome these challenges, researchers will use an innovative modified nanoparticle approach to produce a synthetic RNA vaccine that can be assembled within a very short time and has the capacity to protect livestock against multiple FMD virus strains. The technology is based on biochemical engineering approaches that will replace the traditional use of infectious virus and culture intermediates and will thus be easier to produce, even in facilities that do not require high levels of pathogen containment.
The expected outcome of this project is a synthetic RNA vaccine against FMD that is expected to be thermostable, easily deployable, and will protect against multiple strains of the FMD virus. Since FMD is widespread in Africa and Asia, this vaccine has the potential to increase economic security for smallholder farmers in these regions.
This project is a collaboration between Tiba Biotechnology in the USA, the Agricultural Research Council-Ondestepoort Veterinary Institute of South Africa, and the Moredun Research Institute in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.


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Marguerite Georges (1787–1867) was a French stage actress. She was one of the most famous French actresses of her time. She is also known for her affair with Napoleon, but also claimed to have had an affair with the Duke of Wellington, a claim which is considered probable by some historians. She published under the name Marguerite-Josephine Weimer George.

Biography
Marguerite Georges was born Marguerite-Josephine Weimer in Bayeux, the daughter of a German employed in the theatre orchestra in Amiens. She debuted on stage in 1802 at the age of fifteen at the Théâtre Français in Paris; she was made sociétaire in 1804.  Her affair with Napoleon took place between 1802 and 1804, and was rumoured to be the reason she left France in 1808.

She was active in Saint Petersburg in Russia in 1808–1812, debuting at St. Petersburg, in Phèdre, and alternating nights with the Russian actress Ekaterina Semenova.
She toured Europe in 1812–1813, during which she performed at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and Dresden. She then returned to France. She was active at the Théatre Français in 1813–1818, at the Odéon Theatre and in 1831–49 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin. Her affair with Wellington is supposed to have taken place in 1814, and would make her one of two women known to have shared the two opponents' beds, the other one being Giuseppina Grassini. Unlike Grassini, she was indiscreet enough in later life to compare their sexual performances, her opinion being that "Monsieur le Duc était de beaucoup le plus fort" ("The Duke was by far the stronger").

In 1814 she had a child, Maria Alexandrovna Parijskaia, fathered by Tsar Alexander I of Russia.

She lived at 25 Rue Madame, but moved to a boarding house at Rue de Helder.
She retired in 1853, and received a pension from Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother. She died in Passy.

References

External links

 http://runeberg.org/nfbi/0520.html
 http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/biography/p022534.htm

1787 births
1867 deaths
19th-century French actresses
French people of German descent
French stage actresses
Mistresses of Napoleon
People from Bayeux
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française
Mistresses of Alexander I of Russia

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