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Group of mountain bike riders stop to take a quick break before descending the trails in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park
On the morning of Friday, April 23, the intermediate students, accompanied by their teachers, headed to the Saint Joseph College of Aintoura, where they placed flowers on the graves of the Armenian orphans, victims and survivors of the Armenian Genocide. Patil Kevorkian of the 9th grade delivered her words to the victim orphans, saying “…Surely you have undergone great sacrifice by enduring the barbarianism and injustice of the Turks. However, you never forgot to be an Armenian and you survived. Today we are standing before your graves to feel your tortures, to be proud of the will of survival of the Armenian nation and to tell you that we will not forget you, that today, after decades of your martyrdom, we are still Armenian, we speak Armenian, we write in Armenian, we think in Armenian, we feel Armenian, we dream Armenian, and will continue surviving in the Armenian way. Your martyrdom has been more than rewarding, dear orphans.” Afterwards, she thanked Missak Keleshian, thanks to whom the students visited the grave of the Armenian orphans lying at a corner of the school, and also to the director of the school, which gave them the opportunity to pay their respect to the Armenian martyrs.
Afterwards, Father Antoine Nakat, the director of Saint Joseph College, delivered a speech. He featured the deplorable conditions of the orphans who arrived at the orphanage in 1915 and 1916 and the hardship they had endured, such as starvation and epidemics, as well as their torments and the policy of turkification by the Turks. He added that Armenian orphans and clergy are buried under that ground. He recommended that these innocent victims, these angels not to be forgotten and that frequent visits are paid to their graves.
Taline Kertershian of the 9th grade read her words dedicated to the Armenian orphans in French. Afterwards, memory boards prepared by the students of the 8th grade and featuring pictures of the Armenian stone cross (khachkar) and a writing dedicated to the memory of the martyrs were placed on the grave of the orphans.
After the visit to the grave, the students, lead by Missak Keleshian, went to the place, where in 1916 the Armenian orphans had been photographed with Halide Edib and Kemal Pasha. The students gathered in front of the same door, where Missak Keleshian said: “You are the first group of students visiting this school to pay respect to the memory of the Armenian orphans.” He advised the students to remain faithful to the memory of the innocent orphans, the victims of the Armenian Genocide, and not to forget the tortures of our ancestors. The students, together with their teachers and Missak Keleshian, were photographed in front of the same door. Upon their return to the school, the all the students received the photographs of the orphans of Aintoura, with scripts by Missak Keleshian. copyright@Ashnag
Intermediate Egret in breeding plumage (red bill, green face, reddish legs, plumes on back and breast) on Townsville's Town Common Conservation Park in January.
(Latrodectus hesperus)
Another black widow spider, not fully mature. Notice the reddish pattern down the back. Soon, this will disappear and she will turn black except for the hourglass on the underside.
The perfect place to use solar panels (Western Sahara). So why are there not greater efforts to develop and distribute them in the developing world? Perhaps because a UN effort to promote them was sabotaged by Opec, who want poor people to use fossil fuels. Good old Saudis, eh!
Intermediate School students in Mrs. Beckett’s ESL (English as a Second Language) class are working on close reading, which is a skill that prepares them to deeply engage in the text and answer detailed questions about what they’ve read. The students are learning how to use tools to find evidence in the texts they read. In addition, they are learning how to apply those skills to their writing.
McElvaney’s Waste & Recycling 2021 Intermediate Football Championship 2021 Final 2021 Aughnamullan v Donaghmoyne
The real nightmare of Europe - Soviet RSD-10 Pioneer ground transporter-erector-launcher of intermediate range strategic missiles. NATO's code - SS-20 Saber.
In fact it was the greatest mortar in the World because so called 'mortar' or 'cold' method of launch has been specially invented. Enormous exhaust of giant missile would simply annihilate the TEL together with a staff if to launch missile with engine switched on. Thus the missile was thrown away from cannister in a cold state using powerful powder charge - just like as medieval mortar ball. And missile engines were switched on the safe altitude - far enough from the TEL. Only muzzle of this 'mortar' was not pig-iron or bronze but glass-and-epoxy.
Missile - two-stage, action radius 5500 km (Azores+ if been launched from the European part of USSR). Warheads - 3x0.15 Megatones, MIRV, Thermonuclear (i.e. Paris+Rome+London per single launch),
Accuracy at the target - 1500 feet.
Launch weight - 37 metric tonnes.
Weight with cannister - 42.7 metric tonnes.
650 pieces at combat service in 1987.
Chassis - MAZ-547 12x12, three front axis - steerable. 650 h.p.
Overall length with missile canister - 19.316 m
I reckon this is the same bird as spent some time in this location last October. In October it had its breeding plumage but not the green face seen here. They are quite uncommon in our parts and both this one and the October bird spent their time in the same section of Kelly's swamp - handily right in front of one of the hides.
In taking this I fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never hope for a good result when taking photos of white birds in full sun against darkish backgrounds. (With apologies to Princess Bride).