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Laos is blessed with some of Asia’s nicest rivers, and many of them are mellow. Children spent the day at school, and by the afternoon they were doing the chores required of them…building a fire for the kitchen, sweeping the leaves into a pile, or caring for the young siblings strapped to their back …young boys and girls from the age of seven or eight attentive to the baby’s every need. Amongst this was the laughter of children playing in the river. But sometimes they skip their days at school, going fishing and collecting snails from the river, or using long bamboo poles to knock crickets from the trees. They eat the crickets live or drop them into bottles and take them home for lunch or dinner.
Photo taken nearby the Tad Lo waterfall near the little town Kieng Than Lei - Laos. These ragged little urchins spend most of their days not at school, but fishing and collecting snails from the river. School is important for ethnic minority kids, they should attend and complete primary education in order to overcome rural/urban, ethnic in the area of literacy and education. But it isn't that easy. The reason to skip school are the family economic considerations, involvement in family maintenance and subsistence tasks, the lack of perceived benefits from education. While poverty and lack of access are issues. In addition to these, ethnic minority kids have to face further barriers to education, including the distance from school facilities, their extreme poverty, and additional cultural barriers and the lack of fluency in the national language, Lao. The ethnic kids speak their own language. About 32% of all Laotians are related to Ethnic groups. Totally 160 ethnic groups and speak 82 distinct living languages.
...an old lady washing her clothes in the river gave us a beautiful smile; the Laos people are so friendly. Kids have a great time running on the rampart, swimming in the Sexet river at the Tad Lo waterfall, taking boat rides along the river and playing. A bit futher south men washing their elephants in the river. Lao seems a bit like heaven, the laughter is often & sincere, the rivers are cool and clean and not a speck of modern civilization in sight. In my perspective it is some of the best Laos can offer.
Io, una domenica a Madrid...la fortuna di stare in un albergo in centro, affacciarsi al balcone e vedere la città che inizia lentamente a risvegliarsi dopo la movida notturna finita da poche ora . Una domenica diversa...persone diverse...luoghi diversi...il piacere di fare la turista da sola, godersi la città in tutto e per tutto come ami tu, sedersi in una piazzetta in centro e vedere quanto è variegata la popolazione di Madrid....e capire quanto riesce a essere provinciale l'Italia, godersi il sole sdraiata su una panchina accanto a giovani alternativi, famiglie con bambini chiassosi e tranquille coppie innamorate di ogni genere e provenienza.
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taken on the longtailboat boat towards Bamboo Island, Koh Phi Phi, Thailand.
June 2008
The Phi Phi Islands (Thai: หมู่เกาะพีพี) are located in Thailand, between the large island of Phuket and the western Andaman Sea coast of the mainland. Phi Phi Don, the larger and principal of the two Phi Phi islands, is located at [show location on an interactive map] 7°44′00″N, 98°46′00″E. Both Phi Phi Don, and Phi Phi Leh, the smaller, are administratively part of Krabi province, most of which is on the mainland, and is located at [show location on an interactive map] 8°02′30″N, 98°48′39″E.
Ko Phi Phi Don ("ko" (Thai: เกาะ) meaning "island" in the Thai language) is the largest island of the group, and is the only island with permanent inhabitants, although the beaches of the second largest island, Ko Phi Phi Lee (or "Ko Phi Phi Leh"), are visited by many people as well. There are no accommodation facilities on this island, but it is just a short boat ride from Ko Phi Phi Don. The rest of the islands in the group, including Bida Nok, Bida Noi, and Bamboo Island, are not much more than large limestone rocks jutting out of the sea.
Phi Phi Don was initially populated by Muslim fishermen during the late 1940s, and later became a coconut plantation. The Thai population of Phi Phi Don remains more than 80% Muslim.But the actual population if counting laborers, especially from the north-east, from the mainland is much more Buddhist these days.
Ko Phi Phi Leh was the backdrop for the 2000 movie The Beach. Phi Phi Leh also houses the 'Viking Cave', from which there is a thriving bird's nest soup industry. There was criticism during filming of 'The Beach' that the permission granted to the film company to physically alter the environment inside Phi Phi Islands National Park was illegal. [1] The controversy cooled down however, when it was discovered that the producers had done such a decent job of restoring the place that it finally looked better than it had done before.
Following the release of The Beach, tourism on Phi Phi Don increased dramatically, and with it the population of the island. Many buildings were constructed without planning permission.[citation needed]
Ko Phi Phi was devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, when nearly all of the island's infrastructure was wiped out. Redevelopment has, however, been swift, and services like electricity, water, Internet access and ATMs are up and running again, but waste handling has been slower to come back online.
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but danielle has been on of my closest friends since we were in the third grade. this makes me want to take intimate portraits of all of my close friends and family. i want to keep a piece of them with me forever. i want to shoot them the way that i see them.
An old lady sat right in front of me, by a window side of a train compartment. She wore aristocracy like no other; around 75-80 years old, travelling alone from Kolkata. Her son would receive her from the station. She was communicating with her son over the cell phone. She was on the edge of her mood, at times relaxed and sometimes fidgety, as the train was running late. She was an expressive woman, as her gestures reflected her mood. She was ignorant about everything happening in the compartment, as she was eager to reach the station on time. I took a few shots of her gestures with my cell phone camera, secretly. They turned out to be pretty productive, as natural documentation of one’s body languages.
Tŷ Mawr Wybrnant is owned by the National Trust and has been restored to its probable 16th-century appearance.
Tŷ Mawr,translates as "Big House"
It was the birthplace of Bishop William Morgan, first translator of the whole Bible into Welsh.
He began work on his own translation of the Old Testament in the early 1580s and published this, together with a revision of Salesbury's New Testament, in 1588.
Wales 2013 05 688 Ty Mawr Wybrnant HDR
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Line by line, painting after painting while repeating shapes and patterns, a creation evolves into new shapes and patterns. With a determination that reaches obsession, Mirit
Ben-Nun keeps on returning to her art of meticulousdecoration. A strong presence of primitive ornamentation provides the artwork with a tribal facet on one hand and a feminine touch on the other, encompassing embroidery, bead threading and weaving among others. Ben- Nun’s beautifying urge carries within it an archetypal strata, mythic at times, which empowers her authentic expression.
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St. Patrics Cathedral on 2016 Christmas Eve.
New York’s First Cathedral: The Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral
Written by Joyce Mendelsohn, 2001
Edited and updated by James E. Garrity, 2015
The Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral is the original Cathedral of the Archdiocese of New York. Since its construction 200 years ago on the corner of Mott and Prince, it has stood as the heart of old New York; a beacon for the Catholic faithful and an American symbol of religious freedom. Originally the center of a once impoverished Irish community, St. Patrick’s has expanded to serve a diverse community of Catholics from Italian, Hispanic, Asian, and various other origins. Today, our Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral remains a vital force in the community which proudly unites Catholics through worship, social groups and spiritual guidance.
The History of Catholicism in New York
The history of our city's Catholicism begins in the 17th century with French-born Fr. Isaac Jogues, a Jesuit who landed in New York State. Fr. Jacques was one of the North American Martyrs sent as missionaries to the Quebec Hurons in the early 1640s. He escaped capture and torture by an Iroquois war party in 1643 with the help of Dutch Calvinists who smuggled him by boat to New Amsterdam (later renamed New York) where he was warmly welcomed as “a martyr of Jesus Christ” by Willem Kieft. Father Jogues sailed back to Europe upon learning that 18 different languages were spoken among the settlement population numbering some 500, described as having “the arrogance of Babel.” He later returned as an Iroquois missionary though he was seized and murdered in 1649 by a member of the Mohawk tribe. His canonization was in 1930 by Pope Pius XI.
Peter Stuyvesant proceeded Kieft with openly hostility to public worship by religions other than the Dutch Reformed Church which remained even after the British gained control in 1664 of what became New York. The small Catholic population only gained esteem in 1674, when King James II (a Roman Catholic convert) granted religious liberty to the province which still lacked a its own place of worship. In 1683, King James II appointed an Irish Catholic Colonel Thomas Dongan to govern New York under his “Charter of Liberties and Privileges” which granted religious freedom to all Christians. However, the fall of the Catholic Stuarts in England due to the Protestant “Glorious Revolution” of 1688 drove Dongan from his post, ending the brief religious liberty in the province and ushering in a law in 1700 that prohibited Catholic priests from entering the city as per the provincial assembly. Despite these restrictions, Jesuit Ferdinand Steenmayer snuck into the city to celebrate Mass in secret on several brave occasions.
Upon the anti-Catholic law being repealed (1784) in the now sovereign state of New York, an Irish Capuchin friar Charles Whelan arrived in the city to help organize what would become the first Catholic parish in the independent United States. New York’s Catholic community numbered less than 1,000 of the total 230,000 populating the land from French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Irish descent. Nevertheless, the Roman Catholic Church in the City of New York was incorporated in 1785, led by the French consul and largely financed by a donation from King Charles III of Spain. Construction then commenced on the first Catholic house of worship in the city - St. Peter’s Church.
Opening Mass was celebrated on November 1, 1786, in the small, Georgian- style building located on the corner of Barclay and Church streets in lower Manhattan. Severely damaged in the Great Fire of 1835 (a conflagration that raged for three days and destroyed 674 buildings), the original wood frame building was replaced in 1840 by the present monumental granite structure, designed in the classicaltradition.
Pierre Toussaint And Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton
Two extraordinary parishioners are connected with St. Peter’s Church: Pierre Toussaint, who is being considered for canonization, and Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first native-born American saint.
Toussaint, born in Haiti in 1766, was brought as a slave to New York in 1787. When his owners fell upon hard times, he became a successful hairdresser, at the same time quietly waiting on and supporting the household. After the death of his owners, the former slave purchased his wife’s freedom and became a leader of the free black community in New York.
Pierre Toussaint devoted his life to aiding the poor and the sick—opening his home to black orphans, raising funds to support a Catholic orphanage and school, and entering quarantined zones to nurse victims of epidemics that ravaged the city.
Toussaint worshiped at St. Peter’s Church for sixty-six years and was buried in the cemetery of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in 1853. In 1989, his remains were removed and brought to St. Patrick’s Cathedral uptown as the first step in the cause for his beatification. Within St. Peter’s Church is a life-size marble statue of Elizabeth Ann Seton, who was born in New York in 1774 into a devout Episcopalian family. At age nineteen, Elizabeth Ann Bayley married wealthy businessman William Seton. They raised a family of five children in a gracious home at 7 State Street facing Battery Park, which is now the Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. As a young wife and mother who became deeply involved in assisting the poor, Mrs. Seton was widely known as the “Protestant Sister of Charity.” After her husband’s death, the widow—always deeply spiritual—was drawn to Catholicism and in 1805 was received into the Catholic faith at St. Peter’s Church.
Elizabeth Ann Seton turned for guidance to BishopJohnCarroll. He had been appointed as the first Bishop in the United States in 1789 and in Baltimore presided over America’s first diocese— encompassing all of the thirteen original colonies. At Bishop Carroll’s urging, she moved her family to Baltimore in 1808 to open a Catholic girls’ school—marking the beginning of the Catholic system of parochial schools in the United States. Mother Seton founded the Sisters of Charity—the first Catholic religious order in America. Her order was successful in establishing orphanages and hospitals and developing the parochial school system. Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton died at age fifty- two in 1821 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.
Father Antony Kohlmann
In response to the needs of a growing number of Catholic immigrants, Pope Pius VII established the Diocese of New York in 1808, which included all of New York State and a portion of northern New Jersey. Archbishop Carroll chose Alsatian-born Father Antony Kohlmann, along with several of his fellow Jesuits, to organize the new diocese. When Father Kohlmann arrived in the new diocese, he described the Catholic population as consisting “of Irish, some hundreds of French and as many Germans; in all according to the common estimation of 14,000 souls.” A parcel of land on Mott Street on the comer of Prince Street was chosen for the construction of New York’s first Cathedral. It was to rise on land that had been purchased in 1801 and 1803 by St. Peter’s Church for a burial ground. (The graves were removed to another site.) At the time, Canal Street was the northern boundary of the built-up portion of Manhattan. The Cathedral, erected in the midst of meadows, hills, and woodlands, was referred to as the “new church out of town.” (It was still a rural area in 1820 when a fox was caught in the churchyard!) Funds for construction came from large numbers of poor Irish immigrants—at considerable personal sacrifice—and from several wealthy Catholic laymen, including Andrew Morris (an Irish immigrant) —the first Catholic ever to be elected to public office in New York State to serve on the Common Council—and Cornelius Heeney (another immigrant from Ireland), a business partner of John Jacob Astor. On June 8, 1809, Father Kohlmann officiated before an assembled crowd of 3,000 at the laying of the cornerstone for St. Patrick’s Cathedral—the second Roman Catholic Cathedral in America (Baltimore’s Cathedral was the first) and the second Catholic church in New York (after St. Peter’s).
The new Cathedral was the first house of worship in the United States to be dedicated to Ireland’s patron saint, Saint Patrick, who organized the Irish Church in the fifth century. Known as the Apostle of Ireland, Patrick was consecrated as Bishop circa 432. He traveled tirelessly throughout Ireland, preaching, writing, and teaching, converting chiefs and bards, gathering followers, establishing churches and schools, building monasteries, and performing miracles. Since specific rules for canonization were not set down until the tenth century, local veneration of St. Patrick evolved into his sainthood.
The new Cathedral was designed by Joseph Mangin, a French-born architect and engineer, who arrived in New York in 1745 and soon established a reputation as a skilled architect and builder. In 1802, Mangin, along with native- born architect John McComb Jr., won the competition for the design of New York’s present City Hall (completed in 1812) with their plans for an exquisite French Renaissance exterior and a splendid Federal-style interior.
Mangin designed a grand and magnificent structure for St. Patrick’s Cathedral—proclaiming the strength and presence of the Catholic community as a force within the city. At the time of construction, it was the largest church building in the city—over 120 feet long and 80 feet wide and rising to a height of 75 feet with an 85-foot inner vault. The Cathedral—with its massive rough-cut stone facade punctuated by niches for statuary, pointed-arch doorways, and a large tracery-ornamented gable window—was one of the first Gothic Revival churches in America. The interior space was marked by tall, clustered iron columns that divided the body of the church into three naves surmounted by Gothic arches. Painted wall surfaces and natural light streaming through tall windows added to the spiritual quality of the interior. The Cathedral formally opened on Ascension Day, May 4, 1815, with a crowd of 4,000 worshippers and dignitaries, including Mayor DeWitt Clinton, and a greater number overflowing into the streets.
The first Bishop appointed to the diocese was Irish-born Richard Luke Concanen.The Napoleonic Wars prevented him from reaching New York and he died in Italy in 1810. The work of governing as administrator of the diocese continued to be carried out by Father Kohlmann, who devoted himself to fund raising and overseeing construction of the Cathedral. He maintained those responsibilities until the arrival in November 1815 of the second Bishop, sixty-five-year-old John Connolly, an Irish Dominican theologian who was held in high repute by both Pius VI and Pius VII. Bishop Connolly directed the construction of several new churches in the diocese and founded an orphanage in a wood-frame building at 32 Prince Street, across from the Cathedral, that was staffed in 1817 by three Sisters of Charity sent to New York by Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton. Pierre Toussaint, a leading financial supporter, generously contributed funds to the orphanage for close to forty years.
The Sisters established St. Patrick’s School in 1822. The original orphanage and school building was replaced in 1826 by the present red-brick convent and school designed in the Federal style and distinguished by an exquisite doorway of the period. For more than 180 years, the Sisters of Charity continued their tradition of service— first in the orphanage and then in St. Patrick’s School. The school had educated generations of Irish, Italian, French, Hispanic, Chinese, and German children. St. Patrick’s School boasted a distinguished roster of graduates—leaders in business, film, theater, arts, teaching, and the full spectrum of vocations and professions. The school (which had been New York’s oldest surviving parochial school) was forced to close in 2010 due to insufficient enrollment. In 1823, Bishop Connolly invited Cuban-born Fr. Felix Varela to New York to start a pastoral ministry among poor Irish immigrants, who made up the majority of the 35,000 Catholics living in the city. Father Varela—a social activist and advocate of Cuban independence—served as pastor in several diocese churches and is best remembered for his staunch support for the Irish in the face of growing anti-Catholic sentiment.
Bishop Connolly’s entire episcopacy was plagued by a severe shortage of priests. He brought Fr. Michael O’Gorman (who he ordained in Ireland before leaving for New York) with him from Ireland, and in 1820, he ordained Fr. Richard Bulger (another Irishman) to the priesthood. Father Bulger thus was the first priest to be ordained in New York City. Fathers Bulger and O’Gorman regularly traveled to New Jersey, to upstate New York, and to Brooklyn on Long Island to celebrate Masses for the Catholics there, since there were no resident priests in those locations at that time. Both Father Bulger and Father O’Gorman became ill in November of 1824 as a result of tending to the sick and dying of the diocese, and they both passed away within a week of each other at their residence on Broadway. They had been living in the same residence as Bishop Connolly, and when they died, the Bishop, who officiated at both of their burials, caught a bad cold and he died a few months later in February of 1825. Fathers O’Gorman and Bulger (and other early priests of the diocese) were buried in the courtyard in front of the church. A commemorative bronze plaque was placed upon the gravesite in 2010.
At the time of Bishop Connolly’s death, the diocese was composed mainly of working class Irish parishioners. The appointment of his successor, Fr. John Dubois—a French educator and missionary—was viewed with disappointment by the Irish community. Forced out of France in 1791 by the French Revolution, Father Dubois arrived in America with letters of introduction from the Marquis de Lafayette to James Monroe and Patrick Henry. Father Dubois settled in Virginia, where he built a church and opened a school in Emmitsburg, Maryland, that became Mount St.Mary’s College. In 1826, when he was consecrated the third Bishop of New York, there were twelve churches in the diocese for a Catholic population of about 150,000, served by only eighteen priests. By 1837, the numbers had grown to thirty-eight churches and forty priests. Plagued by ill health, Bishop Dubois requested a coadjutor. In 1838, the Rev. John Joseph Hughes was elevated to the episcopy as Bishop of Basileopolis at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and was then appointed coadjutor bishop to Dubois. In the following year, he was made administrator-Apostolic of New York. Bishop Dubois died in 1842 at the age of seventy-eight and is buried in front of the Cathedral, as he had personally requested.
St. John Neumann
Six years before his death, Bishop Dubois had welcomed a twenty- five-year-old theological student named John Neumann to the diocese. Neumann—who was canonized by Pope Paul IV in 1977 as America’s first male saint—was born in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and attended seminary in Prague. Since his ordination had been delayed by the government, Neumann came to New York as a missionary. The young man was ordained to priesthood at St. Patrick’s on June 28, 1836, and sent to upstate New York to work among German-speaking Catholics. Renowned for his outstanding mission and pastoral work and for his holiness and charity, Neumann was appointed the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia in 1852, where he died in 1860.
The multitudes of Irish Catholics who arrived in New York in the 19th century were mainly uneducated peasants leaving behind an impoverished existence in their native homeland due to harsh British colonial rule. And, after 1845, they were also fleeing from the Great Hunger—the potato famines that killed more than one million Irish and drove some two million more to America. The new immigrants lived in squalor, crowded into rotting structures and wretched tenements, eking out a miserable living, and suffering from disease and extreme poverty. These Famine Irish turned in large numbers to the church for solace.
The fourth Bishop of St. Patrick’s, who succeeded Bishop Dubois in 1842, was himself the son of poor Irish farmers and weavers. In 1817, at age twenty, John Joseph Hughes (born in Annaloughan, County Tyrone)emigrated to the United States and briefly settled in Pennsylvania before entering Mount St. Mary’s College, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1826. Father Hughes spent the next twelve years in Philadelphia serving as pastor of several churches and was widely admired for his skillful management, strong leadership qualities, and outspoken defense of the church. Arriving in New York in 1838, Father Hughes served first as coadjutor and later administrator-Apostolic of New York. He was appointed a bishop in 1842—the first prelate to be consecrated at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Bishop Hughes faced two daunting challenges—presiding over a diocese that was experiencing unprecedented growth and protecting Catholics and their churches from the growing hostility of native-born Protestants.
Beginning in the 1830s, the city had experienced several outbreaks of violence led by nativists against Catholics. In 1831, the tiny, wood-frame structure of St. Mary’s Church (the third Catholic church in New York, organized in 1826) on Sheriff Street was burnt to the ground by arsonists. (A substantial stone church, still standing, was built to replace it in 1833 on Grand Street.) The burning of St. Mary’s Church compelled the Trustees of the Cathedral to approve the construction of the brick wall— which surrounds the church—in 1834. Frequent brawls and street riots between Protestants and Catholics led to the founding in 1836 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (Latin for “Irish”) as a mutual benefit society and self- defense group. In the following years, nativist mobs had advanced on St. Patrick’s several times but were turned back after receiving reports that armed Irish defenders— posted by Bishop Hughes—were stationed along Prince Street and behind those brick walls which had been specifically constructed to protect the Cathedral.
In 1844, James Harper (of the famed Harper publishing family) was elected Mayor of New York as the candidate of the anti-immigrant American Republican Party. At the same time, Protestants and Irish Catholics in Philadelphia clashed in rioting that claimed the lives of some thirty Irishmen and resulted in the burning of Catholic churches and convents. Bishop Hughes vigorously defended the rights of Irish Catholics against this rising movement of bigotry and bloodshed. He organized thousands of Irish men to defend the Cathedral. As a massive anti-Catholic torchlight parade gathered in City Hall Park, ready to march up the Bowery to the Cathedral, he stationed sharpshooters on the protective walls surrounding the building. Bishop Hughes sent a letter to Mayor Harper warning that if any harm came to a single Catholic person or Catholic church, the city would be turned into “a second Moscow” (referring to the burning of Moscow during Napoleon’s invasion in 1812). The Bishop’s powerful message and forceful actions are credited with averting the anticipated violent anti-Catholic outbreak in New York.
In 1851, young men from the neighborhood around the Cathedral organized a militia regiment, known locally as the Second Regiment of Irish Volunteers. It was officially accepted as part of the New York State Militia and designated as the Sixty-Ninth Regiment. Commonly called the “Fighting Irish,” its green insignia was composed of a decorative shield flanked by two Irish wolfhounds standing on a ribbon inscribed with the Regimental motto, “Gentle When Stroked, Fierce When Provoked.” The Sixty-Ninth Regiment served in every campaign from Bull Run to Appomattox during the Civil War and fought in the Spanish-American War and the Mexican Border Campaign. Legendary hero Colonel William “Wild Bill” Donovan, chaplain Father Francis P. Duffy, and poet Joyce Kilmer were with the Regiment in bitter fighting in France during World War I. The “Fighting Sixty- Ninth” has been a fixture in the United States Army ever since and last saw action in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 1907, the Regiment has been a unit of the New York Army National Guard.
Bishop Hughes was consecrated as Archbishop of New York in 1850 and continued a vigorous mission of building churches, schools, and hospitals. In 1842, when appointed bishop, he presided over a diocese of fifty churches, forty priests, and 200,000 Catholics. At his death in 1864, the numbers had increased to eighty-five churches, 150 priests, and a population of over 400,000 Catholics.
In a far-seeing move that many ridiculed at the time as “Hughes’ Folly,” the Archbishop proposed the construction of a new Cathedral in an undeveloped area far uptown on Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st streets. Andrew Morris and Cornelius Heeney had purchased the rural property in 1810 on behalf of Father Kohlmann for the sum of $11,000 for the use of the Jesuit boys’ school that he had started downtown. In 1812, he established a school for girls near the boys’ school, run by the Ursuline nuns. The schools were no longer in existence when Archbishop Hughes laid the cornerstone for the new Cathedral on August 15, 1858.
During the Civil War, Archbishop Hughes served as the envoy of President Lincoln on a successful overseas mission to dissuade European countries from supporting the Confederacy. In gratitude, Lincoln petitioned Pope Pius IX to name Archbishop Hughes as America’s first Cardinal. But the death of this indomitable leader in January 1864 came before that honor could come to pass. His memory was honored by tributes from President Lincoln and other statesmen and his body viewed by over 200,000 common people who solemnly came to worship in the Cathedral. He was entombed in the crypts below the Cathedral and remained there until the “New” Cathedral was completed uptown—his remains were then removed to a crypt there in 1883. The Cathedral uptown holds the remains of all of the archbishops and cardinals that have served the Archdiocese since the death of Archbishop Hughes.
Archbishop Hughes’ successor in 1864 as the second Archbishop of the diocese was Bishop John McCloskey. He was born in Brooklyn in 1810 to Irish immigrant parents (his parents are both interred in the cemetery surrounding the Old Cathedral) and, at age eleven, entered Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, distinguishing himself as an outstanding student. After graduation, the fifteen-year-old returned to New York with the intention of pursuing a career in law. But after a near-fatal accident in 1827, the young man decided instead to study for the priesthood. Young McCloskey was under the guardianship of Cornelius Heeney (who dedicated his fortune to the care of poor children at the end of his life), and the young man was taught Latin by Thomas S. Brady (buried in the crypts below the Cathedral). He was taught proper English elocution by Charlotte Melmoth, the first Shakespearean actress to come to America, who opened a school in Brooklyn when her acting career ended. (She was buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard cemetery surrounding the Cathedral.) McCloskey returned to Emmitsburg as a seminarian and later taught Latin at the college. In 1830, he was ordained to the priesthood at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral and remained until 1834 before taking a leave to study in Rome. Upon his return, Father McCloskey was instrumental in starting a seminary in Nyack under Bishop Dubois. (The seminary was destroyed by fire just prior to its opening in the 1830s. Arson was suspected, but the case was never investigated fully.) Father McCloskey became the first president of St. John’s College (later renamed Fordham University), founded by Archbishop Hughes in 1841.
Reverend McCloskey served as coadjutor bishop of New York from 1844–1847 and first Bishop of Albany from 1847 to 1864 before his appointment as Bishop to the New York diocese. Later raised to archbishop, he was highly respected as a pioneer in Catholic education and a clergyman of great spiritual strength and humility. During the tenure of Archbishop McCloskey, a disaster of tragic proportions struck on the night of October 6, 1866, when a catastrophic fire destroyed all but the outer walls of the Old Cathedral.
The five-alarm fire began in the packing room (filled with straw and wood shavings) of a porcelain dealer at 44 Crosby Street and quickly spread to nearby buildings. Showers of sparks fell on the lath and plaster roof of St. Patrick’s, which was soon a blazing inferno. As huge fragments of the burning roof crashed down into the sanctuary, filling the building with flames and smoke, a crowd of parishioners, led by Fathers McGeehan and Mullen, rushed inside to remove precious religious articles. They were successful in rescuing the Blessed Sacrament, vestments, several vessels, a number of oil paintings, and silver candlesticks just moments before the entire structure was engulfed by fire.
Archbishop McCloskey resolved to rebuild the Cathedral and commissioned architect Henry Engelbert (known for his designs of the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale) to reconstruct St. Patrick’s. Engelbert designed a severely plain facade of smooth brown stucco, facing Mott Street, lacking the detail and grace of the original exterior. The splendid interior, however, was rebuilt with a ceiling of ribbed vaults and arches carried on clustered piers. An altar screen of carved figures, representing the Apostles, is surmounted by a pointed arch stained-glass window above a painting of the figure of Christ. Completed in less than two years, the Cathedral was rededicated by Archbishop McCloskey on the Feast of St. Patrick—March 17, 1868.
The foremost ecclesiastical event in the history of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral took place in the restored structure on April 27, 1875, with the investiture of Archbishop McCloskey as the first American to be named Cardinal. Several Papal emissaries, seven archbishops, twenty bishops, hundreds of priests, and thousands of laymen attended the ceremony of solemnity and celebration. After its construction was completed, His Eminence John Cardinal McCloskey moved his seat uptown to the magnificent new St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, which was formally dedicated on May 25, 1879. The historic St. Patrick’s downtown then became a simple parish church.
Since that time, the church has remained the heart of an active parish with an ever-changing population. (Parish boundaries run from Wooster Street to the Bowery, between Hester Street and East Fourth Street.) Beginning in the 1880s, Italian immigrants poured into the area centered on Mulberry Street that came to be known as Little Italy. (Earlier in the 1800s, Lorenzo Da Ponte, who had written librettos for several of Mozart’s operas, lived on Spring Street, and his opulent Funeral Mass took place in the Cathedral in August of 1838.) Large numbers of Hispanic and Chinese newcomers to America make up a significant portion of the present population. Recent years have seen the transformation of previously commercial areas, such as SoHo and NoHo, into residential communities largely populated by people in the arts and media. Currently, many young people are making the entire area their home. Their youthful energy has breathed much life into St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral parish.
As the 200th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the Old Cathedral approached, Msgr. Donald Sakano, who had been appointed pastor of the venerable church in 2007, began to plan for what would be a six-year Bicentennial Celebration (since it took six years for the church o be completed in the early 1800s). Monsignor Sakano marshaled the assistance of historians familiar with church and city history as well as people in the parish community for the purpose of putting together a celebration that would highlight the great history of the church.
A slogan for the Bicentennial Celebration (which we are currently in the midst of) was selected: “Embracing the future as we celebrate our past.”
The Bicentennial Celebration of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral began with a Mass celebrated by His Excellency, Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York, held in the Old Cathedral on June 7, 2009, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the laying of the church’s cornerstone. Various church and civic leaders attended Mass and the related events. A parade was held in which, among other events, (a) the Ancient Order of Hibernians, or “AOH,” marched to the church and stood shoulder-to-shoulder around its perimeter wall in commemoration of the AOH’s defense of the church against physical attack by the nativist, anti-Catholic “Know-Nothings” at the request of then-Bishop (later Archbishop) “Dagger John” Hughes and (b) the April 1861 parade of the famed “Fighting 69th” regiment—a unit of the Irish Brigade—as it marched off to the Civil War was re-enacted.
At that same June 7, 2009, Mass celebrating the laying of the cornerstone of the church, Archbishop Dolan announced from the pulpit that an application would be made to the Holy See requesting that St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral be awarded basilica status. This honor is bestowed upon churches that have historical or other kinds of significance for the Catholic Church and which affords certain ceremonial privileges for a church so honored.
It did not take a long time for the application to be honored; His Excellency Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan announced from the altar of the “new” Cathedral at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Mass on March 17, 2010, that His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI had awarded Basilica status to the Old Cathedral, effective (fittingly) on March 17, 2010.
All of the people who have had connections over the years with the Old Cathedral are rightfully proud to learn that this wonderful old church has been so honored by His Holiness Pope Benedict. Old St. Patrick’s is the only church within The Archdiocese of New York to have ever attained Basilica status—a fitting honor for such a historically and ecclesiastically significant edifice within the great City of New York.
Deeply rooted in the community, The Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral continues its tradition of providing for the spiritual needs of Catholics of all ages. In 2013, the Basilica once again became a place where Roman Catholics could be buried on the island of Manhattan. A columbarium was erected early in the year for the purpose of accepting the cremated remains of parishioners and friends of the Basilica, and more columbaria are in the building stages as of this writing. Once again, Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral is an honored burial place for the faithful departed of New York City—the exact purpose that the pioneer Catholic community of New York City had originally intended for the land when it was purchased in 1801.
A little excerpt from my favourite piece of music. Bach's Chaconne for Classical Guitar. And yes, it is as difficult as it looks.
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আন্তর্জাতিক মাতৃভাষা দিবস
বাংলাদেশ❤️❤️❤️
21 February
International Mother Language Day
Bangladesh
Humble tribute to all language martyrs
Shaheed Minar (Martyr Monument) commemorates the 21 February 1952 Bengali Language Movement demonstration.
The bimble's over, its time to call it a day !
They've already had their dinners.
Next, the chauffeur must feed himself.
(And that will reawaken the Girls interest)
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雪ノ下
鶴岡八幡宮 TSURUGAOKA HACHIMANGU
小町
宝戒寺（はぎ寺）HOKAIJI TEMPLE
妙隆寺（みょうりゅうじ）MYORYUJI TEMPLE
本覚寺（ほんがくじ） HONGAKUJI TEMPLE
山ノ内
建長寺（けんちょうじ）KENCHOJI TEMPLE
円覚寺（えんがくじ） ENGAKUJI TEMPLE
浄智寺（じょうちじ）JOCHIJI TEMPLE
明月院 (めいげついん）MEIGETSUIN TEMPLE
円応寺（えんのうじ）ENNOJI TEMPLE
扇ケ谷
寿福寺（じゅふくじ）JUFUKUJI TEMPLE
英勝寺（えいしょうじ）EISHOJI TEMPLE
浄光明寺（じょうこうみょうじ）JOKOMYOJI TEMPLE
海蔵寺（かいぞうじ）KAIZOJI TEMPLE
梶原
葛原岡神社（くずはらおかじんじゃ）KUZUHARAOKA SHRINE
佐助
銭洗弁財天宇賀福神社ZENIARAIBENTEN UGAFUKU SHRINE
佐助稲荷神社（さすけいなりじんじゃ）SASUKEINARI SHRINE
西御門 NISHIMIKADO
来迎寺（らいこうじ）RAIKOJI TEMPLE
二階堂 NIKAIDO
荏柄天神社 EGARATENJINSHA SHRINE
鎌倉宮 KAMAKURAGU SHRINE
覚園寺（かくおんじ）KAKUONJI
杉本寺（すぎもとでら）SUGIMOTODERA TEMPLE
瑞泉寺（ずいせんじ）ZUISENJI TEMPLE
浄明寺
浄妙寺 (じょうみょうじ) JOMYOJI TEMPLE
報国寺（ほうこくじ）HOKOKUJI TEMPLE
十二所 JUNISO
五大堂 明王院（ごだいどう みょうおういん）GODAIDO MYO-OIN
大町
妙本寺（みょうほんじ）
八雲神社
安養院（あんよういん）
妙法寺（苔寺）
安国論寺（あんこくろんじ）
材木座
光明寺（こうみょうじ）
長谷
長谷寺（はせでら）
高徳院（鎌倉大仏）
光則寺 (こうそくじ)
甘縄神明神社（あまなわしんめいじんじゃ）
坂ノ下
御霊神社
極楽寺
極楽寺（ごくらくじ）
成就院（じょうじゅいん）
腰越
満福寺（まんぷくじ）
小動神社（こゆるぎじんじゃ）
大船
大船観音寺（おおふなかんのんじ）
江の島
江ノ島神社
片瀬
龍口寺（りゅうこうじ）
常立寺
藤沢
清浄光寺（遊行寺）
大宝寺（だいほうじ）材木座に行った帰りにでも
虚空蔵堂（こくうぞうどう）星の井寺の 旗がいっぱいの
青蓮寺（しょうれんじ）腰越から山側の道を行くと左側の手広エリアの
光触寺（こうそくじ）明石橋交差点からすぐ右側 朝比奈インター方面への
薬王寺（やくおうじ）
成福寺（じょうふくじ）
宝善院（ほうぜんいん）
蓮乗院（れんじょういん）
千手院（せんじゅいん）
九品寺（くほんじ）材木座に行くなら
五所神社（ごしょじんじゃ）
上行寺（じょうぎょうじ）
延命寺（えんめいじ）
実相寺（じつそうじ）
補陀洛寺（ふだらくじ）
称名寺（しょうみょうじ）
常栄寺（じょうえいじ）
常楽寺（じょうらくじ）
大巧寺（だいぎょうじ）
長勝寺（ちょうしょうじ）
白山神社 （はくさんじんじゃ）
龍宝寺（りゅうほうじ）
鎌倉二十四ヶ所地蔵めぐり
鎌倉十三仏霊場めぐり
鎌倉、湘南エリア 店舗。
２０２０年から在住中に行った店。
七福神
オステリアコマチーナ
ヴイ 浮 長谷
ロンディーノ
扉（鳩サブレーがやってる大人のカフェ）オムライスが鎌倉No.１
ヨリドコロ（稲村ガ崎、レンバイ）
キャラウェイ（カレー）
江ノ島亭（江ノ島丼）
カフェ・マディ 江の島店
カザリス食器店 鎌倉本店 ( 雪ノ下）
あしなや（小町）
コバカバ（レンバイ横）
KAN （平塚）
LAINE レネ (御成町）
cafe RONDINO （御成）裏駅 タバコ可
ベルグフェルド（長谷店）
鎌倉 鉢の木（新館）(北鎌倉）
かまくら 長谷食堂 ( 江ノ電 長谷駅前）
レスポアール（小町）タバコ可
游古洞 ゆうこどう（御成町）
古書 アトリエ くんぷう堂 （佐助） (この時は欲しいものがなくて立ち読み）
松原庵 （由比ヶ浜）（両方とも）
古我邸 （扇ガ谷）
カフェ・ヴィヴモン・ディモンシュ（小町） カフェヴィヴモンディモンシュ
一平（写真はおイヤだそうです）
アマルフィイ・デラセーラ ( アマルフィ）
アマルフィイ・デラセーラ
岩本楼 (江ノ島島内）２０１９年に
GARDEN HOUSE （鎌倉市役所前）
石窯ガーデンテラス（鎌倉五山第五位の 浄妙寺の奥）
SURFERS ( 逗子のサーファーズ ）
以志橋 （長谷）
しまむらストアー すみれ平店（平塚）たまたまデスソースの購入
トラットリア エ ピッツェリア ヤンモ （平塚）
店内にイタリアの喜劇役者トトの珍しいイラストや写真が・・
BRANDIN ブランディン ( 茅ヶ崎）
サザンオールスターズの名付け親のカフェ。
１万枚のレコードとともに。
洋書も素晴らしい。
サザン、山下達郎 関連のお店
えぼし本店（茅ヶ崎）
BRANCH茅ヶ崎店（缶コーヒー）
湘南クッキーアウトレット（平塚本店）複数回
湘南クッキー辻堂（辻堂駅側）
湘南クッキー
cafe murasaki（カフェ・ムラサキ・茅ヶ崎）
MOKICHI モキチフーズガーデン（茅ヶ崎市 元町）
MOKICHI 熊澤酒造株式会社 モキチ本店 ( 茅ヶ崎市 香川）
妻ビール の酒造元と書けばお分かり？
茅ヶ崎珈琲倶楽部 （茅ヶ崎）
湘南珈琲 茅ヶ崎北口店 （茅ヶ崎）
コナズ珈琲（茅ヶ崎店）
カロ（長谷）極楽寺坂下、成就院の坂下
竹扇 ( 鎌倉市役所前）
リゾートショップ ねぎし（小坪）オリジナルTシャツ、缶コーヒー、ガム
ENGAWA CAFE （葉山）
レストラン ラ・マーレ・日影茶屋
冨士見亭（江ノ島）
あぶらや（江ノ島）ポストカード
ロンカフェ（江ノ島）
イワタ珈琲（小町）
ミルクホール（小町）
つるや ( 由比ヶ浜）
浅羽屋 (長谷）
天ぷら ひろみ（小町）
KANNON COFFEE KAMAKURA（長谷）
VUORI ブオリ（長谷）山テーマの喫茶店。書籍も秀逸。
納言志るこ店（小町）
AWkitchen GARDEN 鎌倉（御成通り突き当たり）
ダンデライオン・チョコレート（鎌倉駅西口・閉店以前）
WANDER KITCHEN（御成）
なみまちベーグル（長谷）
café recette 鎌倉（ ルセット )（長谷）
小満ち（小町）
KINOKUNIYA 鎌倉店 (コーヒー）
鎌倉市農協連即売所（市場、レンバイ）主に３、４班の時
無心庵
江ノ島電鉄株式会社（乗車と鎌倉駅構内の売店）
ル・ミリュウ鎌倉山（鎌倉山）
らいてい（鎌倉山）
CAFE LUONTO ルオント（長谷）
カフェレストランGEN（報国寺入り口）
藤沢 峰本そば店 (鎌倉峰本 暖簾分け店）
くら寿司（回転寿司）辻堂店・辻堂団地 前店
力餅家 (長谷）
島森書店（バーズアイで俯瞰した鎌倉地図、鎌倉春秋のバックナンバー）
たらば書店 （裏駅、黄色目印）
松林堂書店 （閉店以前、立ち読み）写真なし
現在は ”ブック居酒屋” に
大里書店 （小町）（鎌倉春秋の購入）
メッゲンドルファー
YAMAKA 鎌倉店（コーヒー）やまか
もとまちユニオン鎌倉店 ( パスタソース）
DS NEW KAMAMAN 鎌万水産 （せんべい）
鎌倉駅構内 加藤売店 （ガム）
鎌倉市役所（1階,4階の自販機と分庁舎のトイレ）
駄菓子屋 長谷店 大仏飴
Peony symbolizes many thing In the language of flowers,
a happy marriage and virility in Japan,
prosperity in China,
to the French hardiness or heaviness
for the British bashful shame
and in an American language of the flowers: anger or a frown
also his meaning has found like an aphrodisiac
Paeonia officinalis or European peony,is accepted in my country as a symbol of happy marriage and prosperity, and it's called a Božur.
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10th century.The Chinese name for the peony is "sho yu'"; meaning, most beautiful.
and represents prosperity. A legend says it was created by the moon goddess to reflect the moon’s beams during the night.
A similar belief about the peony lighting up the night comes from a Greek writer Aelianus (3rd century) who writes of one kind of peony that grows by the sea, opens at Summer solstice and shines like fire, while another kind, hidden away among the herbs during the day, at night shines like a star.
During the Middle Ages, "lunatics" were covered with peony leaves and petals, to cure them.
It was also believed that keeping peony seeds under your pillow, could prevent nightmares.
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Texture by les brumes
This mural on the side of Burdock & Co from the 2017 Vancouver Mural Fest is by Vancouver based comic book artist Johnnie Christmas.
Johnnie Christmas is the co-creator of the graphic novel series ANGEL CATBIRD (with writer Margaret Atwood).
Christmas co-created the critically acclaimed Image Comics series SHELTERED, which has gone on to translation in multiple languages.
Christmas is the creator, writer and artist of FIREBUG, serialized in ISLAND Magazine; as well as co-creator of the sci-fi series PISCES.
Christmas is a graduate of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, earning a BFA in Communication Design/Illustration.
Christmas makes Vancouver, B.C. his home.
The Hall of Languages is a Syracuse University building designed by Horatio Nelson White and built in 1871-73. It is made of Onondaga limestone and features three large towers or cupolas. It was the first building constructed on the Syracuse University campus and the building originally housed the entire university
Built:1871
Architect:Horatio Nelson White
Architectural style:Second Empire
Governing body:Private
NRHP Reference#:73001236
Acholi – Mot ki Yomcwing Botwo Me Mwaka Manyen
Adhola – Wafayo Chamo Mbaga & Bothi Oro Manyeni
Aeka- Keremisi jai be
Afrikaans – Geseende Kerfees en ‘n gelukkige nuwe jaar
Ahtna – C’ehwggelnen Dzaenh
Aklanon – Malipayon nga Paskwa ag Mahigugmaon nga Bag-ong Dag-on
Albanian – Gëzuar Krishlindjet Vitin e Ri!
Aleut – Kamgan Ukudigaa
Alsatian – E gueti Wïnâchte & E glecklichs Nej Johr!
Alur – Wafoyo Kado Oro & Wafoyo Tundo Oro manyeni
Alutiiq – Spraasnikam & Amlertut Kiaget!
American Sign Language
Amharic – Melkam Yelidet Beaal
Amuesha – Yomprocha’ ya’ nataya
Andalusian – Felíce Pahjcua y Felí Año, or Felí Navidá y Próhjpero Año Nuevo
Angami – U kenei Christmas mu teicie kes a-u sie teicie
kesa-u sie niepete keluo shuzaie we
Apache (Western) – Gozhqq Keshmish
Arabic – I’D Miilad Said ous Sana Saida
Aragonese – Nabidà! & Goyosa Añada benién.
Aramaic – Edo bri’cho o rish d’shato brich’to!
Aranés – Bon Nadau!
Arawak – Aba satho niw jari da’wisida bon
Armenian – Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Soorp Janunt
Aromanian – Crãciunu hãriosu shi unu anu nãu, bunu!
Araucanian – Wi tripantu in che
Asturian – Bones Navidaes & Gayoleru anu nuevu!
Assamese – Rongaali Bihur xubhessaa lobo
Ata – Maroyan na Pasko woy kaopia-an ng Bag-ong
Tuig kaniyo’t langon mga sulod
Aukan – Wi e winsi i wan bun nyun yali
Aymara – Sooma Nawira-ra
Azeri – Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bafut – Mboni Chrismen & Mboni Alooyefee
Bahasa/Malaysia – Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru
Bamoun – Poket Kristmet & Poket lum mfe
Banen – Enganda ye hiono mes & Hion Hios Hes
Bandang – Mbung Mbung Krismie & Mbung Mbung Ngouh Suiie
Basque – Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bassa – Ngand Nwi Lam & Mwi Lam
Batak Karo – Mejuah-juah Ketuahen Natal
Bemba – Kristu abe nenu muli ino nshiku nkulu ya Mwezi
Belorussian – Winshuyu sa Svyatkami i z Novym godam!
Bengali – Shuvo Baro Din – Shuvo Nabo Barsho
Bhojpuri – Naya Sal Mubarak Ho
Bicolano – Maugmang Capascuhan asin Masaganang Ba-gong Taon!
Bislama – Mi wisim yufala eerywan one gutfala Krismas
& mo wan hapi New Year long
Blaan – Pye duh di kaut Kristo klu munt ug Felemi Fali!
Blackfoot – I’Taamomohkatoyiiksistsikomi
Bohemian/Czech – Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a Stastny novy rok
Brahui – Arkas caik xuda are
Breton – Nedeleg laouen na bloav ezh mat
Bulgarian – Chestita Koleda i Shtastliva Nova Godina
Bulu – Duma e bo’o
Bura – e be Zambe e Usa ma ka Kirisimassu
Catalan – Bon Nadal i feliç any nou!
Cantonese – Seng Dan Fai Lok, Sang Nian Fai Lok
Carib – Sirito kypoton ra’a
Carrier – Zoo dungwel & Soocho nohdzi doghel
Carolinian – Ameseighil ubwutiiwel Layi Luugh me raagh fee
Cebuano – Malipayong Pasko ug Bulahang Bag-ong Tuig!
Chamorro – Filis Pasgua & Filis Anu Nuebo
Chaha Bogem h n mh m & Boxem as nana-h m
Chamba – Wi na ge nyare Su dome Kirismass
Chavacano – Felices Pascua y Prospero Anyo Nuevo
Cherokee – Danistayohihv & Aliheli’sdi Itse Udetiyvsadisv
Cheyenne – Hoesenestotse & Aa’e Emona’e
Chichewa – Moni Wa Chikondwelero Cha Kristmasi
Chiga – Mwebare khuhika – Ha Noel
Choctaw – Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Cornish – Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsican – Bon Natale e Bon capu d’ annu
Cree – Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Creek – Afvcke Nettvcakorakko
Creole/Seychelles – Bonn e Erez Ane
Croatian – Sretan Bozic
Dagbani – Ni ti Burunya Chou & Mi ti yuun
Damara/Nama – Khiza
Danish – Glædelig Jul og godt nytår
Dibabawon – Marayaw na Pasko aw Bag-ong Tui g kaniyo tibo na mga soon
Dinka – Miet puou yan dhiedh Banyda tene Yin
Dine/Navajo – Ya’at’eeh Keshmish
Divehi – Ufaaveri aa ahareh
Dschang – Chrismi a lekah Nguo Suieh
Duri – Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch – Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
Egyptian – Colo sana wintom tiebeen
English – Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Eritrean – Rehus-Beal-Ledeat
Esperanto – Gajan Kristnaskon & Bonan Novjaron
Estonian – Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi ja Head uut aastat
Ethiopian – enkuan le berhane ledtu adrswo
Éwé – Blunya na wo
Ewondo – Mbemde abog abyali nti! Mbembe Mbu!
Faroese – gleðilig jól og eydnuríkt nýggjár!
Fali – Use d’h Krismass
Farsi – Sal-e no mubarak
Fijian – Me Nomuni na marau ni siga ni sucu dei na yabaki vou
Finnish – Hyvää Joulua or Hauskaa Joulua – 0nnellista uutta vuotta
Flemish – Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French – Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année!
Frisian – Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Friulian – Bon Nadâl e Bon An Gnûf
Fulfulde – Jabbama be salla Kirismati
Gaddang – Mangamgam Bawa a dawun sikua diaw amin
Galician – Bon Nadal e Bo Ani Novo
Gari – !Soalokia God i gotu vasau, mi lao ke ba na
rago vanigira ara dou i matana!
Gciriku – Mfiyawidi yaKrisimisa & Marago ghaMwaka waUpe
Georgian – Gilotsavt Krist’es Shobas & Gilosavt akhal ts’els
German – Fröhliche Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr!
Gikuyu – Gia na Thigukuu njega Na MwakaM weru wi Gikeno
Gitskan – Hisgusgitxwsim Ha’niisgats Christ gankl Ama Sii K’uuhl!
Golin – Yesu kule nongwa kaun umaribe ongwa ena mone di mile wai wen milo
Greek – Kala Christougenna Ki’eftihismenos O Kenourios Chronos
Greenlandic – Juullimi Ukiortaassamilu Pilluarit
Guahibo – Pexania Navidadmatacabi piginia pexaniapejanawai paxainaename
Guambiano – Navidadwan Tabig tugagunrrigay & Sru pilawan kasrag utunrrigay
Guarani – Avyaitete ahi ko Tupa ray arape qyrai Yy Kapyryin rira
Guarayu – Imboeteipri tasecoi Tupa i vave! & Ivve ava Tupa
rembiaisu toyuvirecoi turpi oyeaisusa pipe!
Gujarati – Natal ni shub kaamnao & Saal Mubarak
Gwere – Osusuku Omusa & Masuke Omwaka
Gwich’in – Drin tsal zhit shoh ohlii & Drin Choo zhit zhoh ohlii
Han – Drin tsul zhit sho ahlay & Drin Cho zhit sho ahlay
Hausa – Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian – Mele Kalikimaka & Hauoli Makahiki Hou
Haya – Waihuka na Noeli & Waihhuka n ‘Omwaka
Hebrew – Mo’adim Lesimkha. Shanah Tova
Heiban – Ati kalo gathje uwa gigih
Herero- Okresmesa ombwa Ombura ombe ombwa
Hiligaynon – Malipayon nga paskua & Malipayon Nga Bag-ong tuig
Hindi – Shubh Naya Baras
Holo – Seng-tan khoai-lok!
Hmong – Nyob Zoo Xyoo Tahiab
Hungarian – Kellemes karácsonyi ünnepeket és Boldog újévet!
Hungduan – Maphon au nitungawan. Apo Dios Kituwen baron di toon
Iban – Selamat Ari Krismas enggau Taun Baru
Ibanag – nga Pascua
Icelandic – Gleðileg Jól og Farsaelt Komandi ár!
Igbo – Ekelere m gi maka Keresimesi na ubochi izizi afo ozo
Ikiribati – Te Mauri, Te Raoi ao Te Tabomoa nakoimi nte Kirimati ao te Ririki ae Bou
Ilocano – Naimbag a Pascua ken Naragsac nga Baro nga Tawen!
Imbongu – Gotenga malo Jisasi Karaist
Indonesian – Selamat Hari Natal & Selamat Tahun Baru
Inuktitut- quviasupvisiutsiarit arraagurmilu nutaami !
Inupiaq – Annaurri Aniruq & Paglaun Ukiutchiaq
Inupiatun – Quvianaq Agaayuniqpak
Iraqi – Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish – Nollaig Shona Dhuit
Iroquois – Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson homungradon nagwutut & Ojenyunyat osrasay
Italian – Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo
Japanese – Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Javanese – Sugeng Natal lan warsa enggal
Jèrriais – Bouan Noué et Bouanne Année
Kabyle – Assegwas ameggaz
Kadazan – Kotobian Tadau Do Krimas om Toun Vagu
Kahua – Na vagevageha surireua na Kirisimasi ma na harisi naoru
Kala Lagaw Ya – Ngi ngayka Koei trimal Kaz
Kambaata – eman haaro wegga illisholce
Kamba – Ithiwa na Kisimsi Kiseo & Na Mwaka Mweu Museo
Kannada – Hosa Varushada Subhasayagalu
Karelian – Rastawanke Sinun, Uvven Vuvenke Sinun
Kaqchiquel – Dios tik’ujie’ avik’in
Kashmiri – Christmas Id Mubarak
Kawalib – Amirnar Krismas Gi
Khasi – Krismas basuk & Snem thymmai basuk
Kimeru – ugie na thigunku ijega na mwaka jumweru
Kinyarwanda – Umunsi Mwiza
Kirundi – Noeli Nziza & Umwaka Mwiza
Kom – Isangle Krismen & Isangle beng i fue
Konkoni – Khushal borit Natalam
Korafe – Keremisi ewewa
Korean Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Kosraean – Tok Tapeng & Engan ya sasu
Koyukon – Denaahto’ Hoolaank Dedzaanh Sodeelts’eeyh
Krio – Appi Krismes en Appi Niu Yaa
Kuanua – A Bona Lukara na Kinakava
Kurdish – Seva piroz sahibe u sersala te piroz be
Kwangali – Kerekemisa zongwa & Erago moMumvho gomupe
Kyrghyz – JangI jIlIngIz guttuu bolsun!
Ladin – Bon Nadel y Bon Ann Nuef
Lakota – Wanikiya tonpi wowiyuskin & Omaka teca oiyokipi
Lamnsó – Kisheri ke Kisimen & Vijung ve kiya kefiyki
Lango – Afoyo Chamo Mwake & Apoyo Mwaka Manyeni
Latin – Pax hominibus bonae voluntatis
Latvian – Prieci’gus Ziemsve’tkus un Laimi’gu Jauno Gadu!+
Lausitzian – Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lebanese – Milad Saeed wa Sanaa Mubarakah
Limburgisch – ne gooie keersmès en e zaolig nujjaor!
Lithuanian – Linksmu Kaledu ir laimingu Nauju metu
Livonian – Jovi talshpivdi un Vondzist uto aigasto
Lower Tanana – Bet’oxdilt’ayi bedena’ ch’exulanhde dranh ninoxudedhet
Lozi – Kilisimasi ya nyakalalo & Silimo se sinca sa tabo
Luganda – Amazalibwa Agesanyu & N’Omwaka Omujaa Ogwemirembe
Lugbara – Enyaa Krismas moke dika efii eli o’diru ria moke
Luhya – Isuguku Indahi & Nu Muhiga Musha
Luo – Sikuku Mar Higa Kod Mor & Mar Kiga Manyien
Luritja – Wai! Nyuntu Larya?
Luxembourgeois – Schéi Krëschtdeeg an e Schéint Néi Joer
Macedonian – Srekan Bozik I Nova Godina
Madura – Pada salamet sabhala bengko areja
Makassar – Salama’ Natal & Selamat Tahun baru
Arahaba tratry ny Krismasy
Mambwe – Kristu aye namwe umu nsikunkulu ino iya Mwezi
Malayan – Selamat Hari Natal
Malayalam – Christumas Mangalangalangal & Puthuvalsara Aashamsakal
Maltese – Nixtieqlek Milied Tajjeb u Sena Tajba
Mandarin – Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
Mandobo – Mepiya Pagasaulog sa pagka-otawni Jesus aw maontong kaling Omay!
Mangyan – Mayad paq Pasko kag
Mansaka – Madyaw na Pasko aw malipayong Bag-ong Tuig kamayo, mga lumon
Manx – Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori – Kia orana e kia manuia rava i teia Kiritimeti e te Mataiti Ou
Marathi – Shub Naya Varsh
Margi – Use aga Kirismassi
Marshallese – Monono ilo raaneoan Nejin & Jeramman ilo iio in ekaal
Mataco-Mataguayo – Lesilatyaj ihi Dios ta i ppule ye, Letamsek ihi wichi ta Dios ikojejthi ta i honat e
Maya/Yucateco – Utzul mank’inal
Medlpa – Enim Mutuiyo!
Meithei – Krismas Hlomum & Kumthar Lawmum
Mingrelian – k’irses mugoxuamant & axal ts’anas mugoxuamant
Mongolian – Zul saryn bolon shine ony mend devshuulye
Monégasque – Festusu Natale e Bona ana noeva
Moro – Nidli pred naborete nano
Moru – Medu amiri ovuru Yesu opi amaro
Muyu – Lip Ki amun aa Natal Kowe
Naasioi – Tampara Kirisimaasi
Naskapi – miywaaitaakun mikusaanor & kiyaa maamiyupiyaakw minuwaach pipuun
Ndjem – Mbeya mbeya Ebiel & Mbeya mbeya mbu
Ndogo – Esimano olyaKalunga gwokombandambanda! & Nombili kombanda yevi maantu e ya hokwa!
Ndonga – Okrismesa iwa & Omude Mupe wa Punikwa
Nepali – krist Yesu Ko Shuva Janma Utsav Ko Upalaxhma Hardik Shuva & Naya Barsa Ko harkik Shuvakamana
Newari – Nhu Da Ya Vintuna
Nii – Nim Ono
Niuean – Monuina a Aho Kilisimasi mo e Tau Foou
Norweigan/Nynorsk – eg ynskjer hermed dykk alle ein god jul og godt nyttår
Norweigan/Bokmål – God Jul og Godt Nyttår
Notu/Ewage – Keremisi dave be
Nyanja – Kristu akhale ndi inu munyengo ino ya Christmas
Nyankore Mukhulukhe Omwaka
Occitan – Polit nadal e bona annada
Ojibwe (Chippewa) – Niibaa’ anami’egiizhigad & Aabita Biboon
Oneida – Wanto’wan amp; Hoyan
Oriya – Sukhamaya christmass ebang khusibhara naba barsa
Orokaiva – Keremisi javotoho
Oromo – baga wagaa hara isinin gaye
Palauan – Ungil Kurismas
Pompangan – Malugud Pascu at saca Masayang Bayung Banua!
Pangasinan – Maabig ya pasko & Maliket ya balon taon
Papiamento – Bon Pasco i Feliz Aña Nobo
Pashto – De Christmas akhtar de bakhtawar au newai kal de mubarak sha.
Pennsylvania German – En frehlicher Grischtdaag unen hallich Nei Yaahr!
Pohnpeian – Peren en Krismas & Peren en Parakapw
Polish – Wesolych Swiat i Szczesliwego Nowego Roku.
Portuguese – Boas Festas e um feliz Ano Novo
Punjabi – Nave sal di mubaraka
Pashto – Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Q’anjob’al – chi woche swatx’ilal hak’ul yet yalji Komami’
Quechua – Sumaj kausay kachun Navidad ch’sisipi & Mosoi Watapi sumaj kausay kachun
Quiche’ – Dioa kkje’ awuk’
Rapa-Nui – Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi & Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rarotongan – Kia akakakaia te Atua i runga i te rangi Teitei,
e ei au to to teianei ao, e kia aroaia mai te tangata nei.
Rengma – Anu keghi Christmas nu amapi kethighi wa salam pi nthu chupenle
Rheto-Romance – Bella Festas daz Nadal ed in Ventiravel Onn Nov
Romani – Bachtalo krecunu Thaj Bachtalo Nevo Bers
Romanian – Craciun fericit si un An Nou fericit!
Rongmei – Mei kathui nata neila mei Khrisrmas akhatni gai mei tingkum kathan tu-na arew we
Roviana – Mami tataru Kirisimasi koa gamu doduru meke qetu qetu vuaheni vaqura ia
Russian – Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva i s Novim Godom
Salar – YangI yilingiz gotlI bulsIn!
Sambal – Maligayang Pasko at Masayang Ba-yon Taon!
Sámi – Buorit Juovllat ja Buorre Oddajahki
Saamia – Muwule Omwaka Enjaya
Samoan – Ia manuia le Kilisimasi ma le tausaga fou
Sango -Gloire na Nzapa na ndouzou aho kouè, Na siriri na ndo sessé na popo ti ajo so amou nguia na Lo.
Santali – Raska nawa Serma
Saramaccan – Nuan wan suti jai o!
Sardinian – Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Scots Gaelic – Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ur!
Secoya -Sihuanu’u Ejaerepa aide’ose’ere & Sihuana’u huaje ametecahue
Semandang – Selemat gawai Natal
Seneca – a:o’-e:sad yos-ha:-se:’
Serbian – Sretan Bozic. Vesela Nova Godine
Sicilian – Bon Natali e Prosperu Annu Novu !
Sinhala – Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slavey – Teyatie Gonezu
Soga – Mwisuka Sekukulu
Songe – Kutandika kua Yesu kuibuwa! & Kipua kipia kibuwa!
Sorani – Newroz le to Piroz be
Sorbian – Wjesole hody a strowe Nowe leto.
Somali – ciid wanaagsan iyo sanad cusub oo fiican.
Sotho/North – Mahlatsi a Matswalo a Morena le Ngwaga o Moswa
Sotho/South – Litakalerso Tse Monate Tsa Kere Semese Le Mahlohonolo a Selemo Se Secha
Slovakian – Vesele Vianoce a stastny novy rok
Slovene – Vesele bozicne praznike in srecno novo leto
Sorbian – Wjesole hody a strowe Nowe leto
Spanish – Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Sranan – Wan switi kresneti nanga wan bun nyun yari!
Subanen – Piak Pasko Pu Piag Bago Tawn
Sudanese – Wilujeng Natal Sareng Warsa Enggal
Suena – Kerisimsi kokopai
Surigaonon – Malipayon na pasko sanan bag-on tuig!
Swahili – ºKrismas Njema Na Heri Za Mwaka Mpyaº
Swazi – sinifisela khisimusi lomuhle nemnyaka lomusha lomuhle
Swedish – God Jul och Gott Nytt År
Tagalog – Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon
Tahitian – Ia ora i te Noere e ia ora na i te matahiti ‘api
Tagakaulu – Madyaw Pagsalog sa Pagka-otaw ni Jesus & Aw mauntong na bago Umay!
Tala Andig – Maayad ha pasko daw bag-ong tuig
Tamazight – Asseggwas Ameggaz
Tarifit – Asuggas Asa’di
Tamil – Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal
Tanaina – Natukda Nuuphaa
Tasmanian – munto ag lag unti frinto ling dum ach tak
Tayal – Pqaquasta ta. Pquasta hentang na Jesu
Telugu – Christmas Shubhakaankshalu & Nootana Samvatchara Subhakanshalu
Thai – Suksan Wan Christmas lae Sawadee Pee Mai
Tlingit – Xristos Khuwdziti kax sh kaxtoolxetl
Tok Pisin – Meri Krismas & Hepi Nu Yia
Tokelau – Ke whakamanuia te Kirihimahi & Tauhaga Fou fiafia
Tonga – Kristo abe anduwe muciindo ca Christmas
Tongan – Kilisimasi Fiefia & Ta’u fo’ou monu ia
Toraja – Salama’ Natal & Selama’ taun baru
Trukese – Neekirissimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Tshiluba – Diledibua dilenga dia Mfumu – Tshidimu tshipia – tshipia th silenga
Tswana – Keresemose o monate le masego a ngwaga o montsha
Tubetube – Yayaliyaya Yesu sikabi kaiwena
Tumbuka – Kristu wabe namwe munyengo ya Christmas
Turkish – Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Tutchone/Northern – Ut’ohudinch’i Hulin Dzenu & Eyum nan ek’an nenatth’at danji te yesohuthin ch’e hadaatle sh’o
Ukrainian – Veseloho Vam Rizdva i Shchastlyvoho Novoho Roku!
Umbundu – Natale, Natale, Oyo O Natale & Eteke Lio Bowano, Illimo Ciwa
Urdu – Naya Saal Mubarak Ho
Uvean – Italo fa ide tau fou nei eseke
Uyghur – YanghI yiling ahlqIs bolgey!
Valencian – Bon Nadal i millor any nou
Vespi – Rastvoidenke i Udenke Vodenke
Vietnamese – Chuc Mung Giang Sinh – Chuc Mung Tan Nien
Votian – Yvaa rashtagoa! & Yvaa uutta vootta!
Waray-Waray – Maupay nga Pasko ngan Mainuswagon nga Bag-o nga Tuig!
Warlpiri – Miri Kirijimiji & Nyuntunpa Ngurrju nyayirni yapa
Welsh – Nadolig LLawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
Yup’ik/Central – Alussistuaqegcikici
Yupik/Siberian – Quyanalghii Kuusma & Quyangalleq Nutaghamun Aymiqulleq
Xhosa – Siniqwenelela Ikrisimesi EmnandI Nonyaka Omtsha Ozele Iintsikelelo Namathamsanqa
Yiddish – Gute Vaynakhtn un a Gut Nay Yor
Yoruba – E ku odun, e ku iye’ dun!
Zarma – Barka da Issa hay-yan hann & Barka da djiri barey-yan
Zaza – Newroz’a tu Piroz be
Zia – Kerisimasi wosewa
Zime – El ma ka bar vra aso vei Lu & El ma ka kim na mireu
Zulu – Sinifesela Ukhisimusi Omuhle Nonyaka Omusha Onempumelelo
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Italian actress Claudia Cardinale (1938) is one of Europe's iconic and most versatile film stars. The combination of her beauty, dark, flashing eyes, explosive sexuality and genuine acting talent virtually guaranteed her stardom. Her most notable films include 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963), Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) and Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968).
Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale was born in La Goulette in Tunisia in 1938 (some sources claim 1939). Her mother, Yolande Greco, was born in Tunisia to Italian (Sicilian) emigrants from Trapani, Italy. Her father was an Italian (Sicilian) railway worker, born in Gela, Italy. Her native languages were Tunisian Arabic and French. She received a French education and she had to learn Italian once she pursued her acting career. She had her break in films after she was voted the most beautiful Italian girl in Tunisia in 1957. The contest of the Italian embassy had as a prize a trip to the Venice Film Festival. She made her film debut in the French-Tunisian coproduction Goha (Jacques Baratier, 1958) starring Omar Sharif. After attending the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome for two months, she signed a 7-year contract with the Vides studios. The contract forbade her to cut her hair, to marry or to gain weight. Later that year she had a role in the heist comedy I soliti ignoti/Big Deal On Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli, 1958) with Vittorio Gassman and Renato Salvatori. The film was an international success, and her film career was off and running. At this point, the press, noting her initials, announced that CC was the natural successor to BB (Brigitte Bardot), and began beating the drum on her behalf. Dozens of alluring photographs of Claudia Cardinale were displayed in newspapers and magazines throughout the world. According to IMDb, she has appeared on more than 900 magazine covers in over 25 countries. The contrast between these pictures and those of Marilyn Monroe or Jayne Mansfield is striking. Cardinale never appeared in a nude or fully topless scene. Her pictures promoted an image of a shy family girl who just happened to have a beautiful face and a sexy body. A photograph of Cardinale was featured in the original gate fold artwork to Bob Dylan's album Blonde on Blonde (1966), but because it was used without Cardinale's permission, the photo was removed from the cover art in later pressings.
Claudia Cardinale's early career was largely managed producer Franco Cristaldi. Because of her film contract, she told everyone that her son Patrizio was her baby brother. He was born out of wedlock when she was 17; the father was a mysterious Frenchman. She did not reveal to the child that he was her son until he was 19 years old. In 1966, she married Cristaldi, who adopted Patrizio. In only three years she made a stream of great films. First she made three successful comedies, Un Maledetto imbroglio/The Facts of Murder (Pietro Germi, 1959), Il Bell'Antonio/Bell'Antonio (Mauro Bolognini, 1960) featuring Marcello Mastroianni, and Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti/Fiasco in Milan (Nanni Loy, 1960). Cardinale had a supporting part in the epic drama Rocco e i suoi fratelli/Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960) in which she played the sister-in-law of Alain Delon and Renato Salvatori. And then followed leading parts in La Ragazza con la valigia/Girl with a Suitcase (Valerio Zurlini, 1961), La Viaccia/The Lovemakers (Mauro Bolognini, 1961) with Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Senilità/Careless (Mauro Bolognini, 1961). Claudia Cardinale had a deep, sultry voice and spoke Italian with a heavy French accent, so her voice was dubbed in her early films. In Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963), she was finally allowed to dub her own dialogue. In the film, she plays a dream woman - a character named Claudia, who is the object of the fantasies of the director in the film, played by Marcello Mastroianni. With Fellini's surrealistic masterpiece she received her widest exposure to date with this film. That same year, she also appeared in another masterpiece of the Italian cinema, the epic Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) with Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon. The combined success of these two classic films made her rise to the front ranks of the Italian cinema. And it also piqued Hollywood's interest.
In 1963 Claudia Cardinale played the princess who owned the Pink Panther diamond in The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1963) which was filmed in Italy. It was the first in the series of detective comedies starring Peter Sellers as bumbling French Inspector Jacques Clouseau (the mishap-prone snoop was actually a supporting player in his debut). The film was an enormous success and brought CC to English speaking audiences. In 1964 she co-starred with John Wayne and Rita Hayworth in her first American production, Circus World (Henry Hathaway, 1964). It was another box-office hit. The following year she appeared with Rock Hudson in Blindfold (Philip Dunne, 1966), an offbeat mixture of espionage and slapstick comedy. The Professionals (Richard Brooks, 1966) is her favourite among her Hollywood films. In this Western she is a gutsy Mexican woman married against her will to a rich American. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Direction (Richard Brooks), Best Screenplay (Brooks again), and Best Cinematography (Conrad L. Hall). Cardinale continued dividing her time between Hollywood and Europe for the remainder of the decade. Throughout the 1960s, Claudia Cardinale also appeared in some of the best European films. In France she appeared in the Swashbuckler Cartouche (Philippe de Broca, 1962) featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo. Back in Italy, she played in I Giorno della civetta/The Day of the Owl (Damiano Damiani, 1968) with Franco Nero, and Nell'anno del Signore/The Conspirators (Luigi Magni, 1969) with Nino Manfredi. Mesmerizing is her performance in Sandra/Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... (Luchino Visconti, 1965) as a Holocaust survivor with an incestuous relationship with her brother (Jean Sorel). Another highlight in her career is C'era una volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968), the ultimate Spaghetti Western. Lucia Bozzola writes in her review at AllMovie: "In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. (...) As in his 'Dollars' trilogy, Leone transforms the standard Western plot through the visual impact of widescreen landscapes and the figures therein. At its full length, Once Upon a Time in the West is Leone's operatic masterwork, worthy of its legend-making title."
In the following decades, Claudia Cardinale remained mainly active in the European cinema. She played a small part for Visconti in Gruppo di famiglia in un interno/Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti, 1974) starring Burt Lancaster and Silvana Mangano. She worked with other major Italian directors at Goodbye e amen (Damiano Damiani, 1977), the TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth (Franco Zeffirelli, 1977) as the adulteress, and La Pelle/The Skin (Liliana Cavani, 1981) starring Marcello Mastroianni and based on the bitter novel by Curzio Malaparte concerning the Allied liberation of Naples. An international arthouse hit was Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982), the story of an obsessed impresario (Klaus Kinski) whose foremost desire in life is to bring both Enrico Caruso and an opera house to the deepest jungles of South America. In his diary of the making of Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog writes: "Claudia Cardinale is great help because she is such a good sport, a real trouper, and has a special radiance before the camera. In her presence, [Klaus Kinski] usually acts like a gentleman." Other interesting films include the Luigi Pirandello adaptation Enrico IV/Henry IV (Marco Bellocchio, 1984) with Marcello Mastroianni, the epic La révolution française/The French Revolution (Robert Enrico, Richard T. Heffron, 1989), the nostalgic drama Mayrig/Mother (Henri Verneuil, 1991), and the romantic thriller And now... Ladies and Gentlemen (Claude Lelouch, 2002) starring Jeremy Irons. On Television she gave another well-received performance in the TV drama La storia/History (Luigi Comencini, 1986), in which she plays a widow raising a son during World War II.
Claudia Cardinale is a liberal with strong political convictions. She is involved in many humanitarian causes, and pro-women and pro-gay issues, and she has frequently stated her pride in her Tunisian and Arab roots - as evidenced by her appearance as herself in the Tunisian film Un été à La Goulette/A Summer at La Goulette (Férid Boughedir, 1996). She has managed to combine her acting work with a role of goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, and advocate for the work of Luchino Visconti with whom she made four films. She wrote an autobiography, Moi Claudia, Toi Claudia (Me Claudia, You Claudia). In 2005, she also published a French-language book, Mes Etoiles (My Stars), about her personal and professional relationships with many of her directors and co-stars through her nearly 50 years in show-business. In 2002, she won an honorary Golden Bear award of the Berlin Film Festival, and previously in 1993 she was awarded an honorary Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Cardinale works steadily on and in recent years she has also worked in the theatre. In the cinema she appeared recently in the French-Tunisian gay drama Le fil/The String (Mehdi Ben Attia, 2009), the Algerian drama Un balcon sur la mer/A View of Love (Nicole Garcia, 2010) in which she played the mother of Jean Dujardin, and the costume drama Effie Gray (Richard Laxton, 2014) with Dakota Fanning. Claudia Cardinale currently lives in Paris. She has made over 135 films in the past 60 years and still does two or three a year.
Sources: Lucia Bozzola (AllMovie), Steve Rose (The Guardian), IMDb, and Wikipedia.
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Rakaposhi, is a mountain in the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan.[1] It is situated in the Nagar Valley approximately 100 km north of the city of Gilgit in the Gilgit District of the Gilgit–Baltistan province of Pakistan. Rakaposhi means "Snow Covered" in the local language. Rakaposhi is also known as Dumani ("Mother of Mist"). It is ranked 27th highest in the world and 12th highest in Pakistan, but it is more popular for its beauty than its rank might suggest. In a colloquial sense, i.e. measured from base to summit, Rakaposhi with its uninterrupted ~6000 m vertical rise,[3] is the tallest mountain on Earth.
Rakaposhi was first climbed in 1958 by Mike Banks and Tom Patey, members of a British-Pakistani expedition, via the Southwest Spur/Ridge route.[4] Both of them suffered minor frostbite during the ascent. Another climber slipped and fell on the descent and died during the night.