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I really did feel my hair stand on end when I saw this. It was unexpected, and unassuming in a simple display case next to exhibits on the firebombing of Tokyo.
The text reads as follows:
We, acting by command of and in behalf of the Emperor of Japan, the
Japanese Government and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters,
hereby accept the provisions set forth in the declaration issued by the heads
of the Governments of the United States, China and Great Britain on 26
July 1945, at Polsdam, and subsequently adhered to by the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics, which four powers are hereafter referred to as the Allied
Powers.
We hereby proclaim the unconditional surrender to the Allied
Powers of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and of all
Japanese armed forces and all armed forces under Japanese control
wherever situated.
We hereby command all Japanese forces, wherever situated and
the Japanese people to cease hostilities forthwith, to preserve and save
from damage all ships, aircraft, and military and civil property and to
comply with all requirements which may be imposed by the Supreme
Commander for the Allied Powers or by agencies of the Japanese
Government at his direction.
We hereby command the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters
to issue at once orders to the Commanders of all Japanese forces
and all forces under Japanese control wherever situated to surrender
unconditionally themselves and all forces under their control.
We hereby command all civil, military and naval officials to
obey and enforce all proclamations, orders and directives deemed
by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to be proper to
effectutate this surrender and issued by him or under his authority
and we direct all such official to remain at their posts and to
continue to perform their non-combatant duties unless specifically
relieved by him or under his authority.
We hereby undertake for the Emperor, the Japanese
Government and their successors to carry out the provisions of the
Potsdam Declaration in good faith, and to issue whatever orders
and take whatever action may be required by the Supreme Commander
for the Allied Powers for the purpose of giving effect to that Declaration.
We hereby command the Japanese Imperial Government and
the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters at once to liberate all
allied prisoners of war and civilian internees now under Japanese
control and to provide for their protections, care, maintenance and
immediate transportation to places as directed.
The authority of the Emperor and the Japanese Government to
rule the state shall be subject to the Supreme Commander for the
Allied Powers who will take such steps and he deems proper to
effectuate these terms of surrender.
Signed at Tokyo Bay, Japan at 0904 on the Second day of September, 1945.
The document is housed at Edo-Tokyo Museum which is well worth a visit.
The highlights of the museum for me were the recreation of Hokusai's studio and the ingenious way in which water was transported around Edo. The life-size reconstruction of buildings were also fascinating. Seeing the document above was chilling, but also gave me a weird feeling of a connection with that moment. Just as I felt seeing Lincoln's death mask in Washington. Reading about history is one thing, standing there looking at it is something else entirely.
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Modelo: Letícia Lima
Don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream would never do
I'd still miss you baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing
Miniature scene
Found a dead wasp in my room and was stung (pun intended) with how pretty it actually is.
Trying to relax and get things organized before the chaos of the construction being done on the house starts.
***grrr why did flickr make this all grainy :(
Yorktown Day 2016 - 235th anniversary of the 19 October 1781 British Surrender at Yorktown to American and French Forces.
Sweet DC at the age of 11 years old was surrendered by his owners. Being forced to leave the only home he's ever known, he is very unsure about the hustle and bustle of shelter life. This darling needs to be found a furever home quickly. Sweet, shy and loving, DC is hoping a patient loving human would find his way to him soon. His ideal furever home would be indoor only. We do not know yet whether DC is OK with cat-friendly cats, dogs, our young children.
"Unconditional Surrender", the 26 foot tall bronze sculpture created by the acclaimed artist, Seward Johnson, © 2004,2005 is on display at 44th Street and Broadway in Times Square August 12-16, 2010. Located at the exact spot the famous kiss took place, the sculpture was inspired by the famous moment in Times Square on August l4, 1945, the day that WW II ended. The artwork memorializes the celebratory moment in US history marking the conclusion of World War II.
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A visit to Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum and Village in Wiltshire.
Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order. The abbey remained a nunnery until the suppression of Roman Catholic institutions in England in the 16th century; it was then sold to Sir William Sharington who converted the convent into a residence where he and his family lived. It was fortified and remained loyal to the crown during the English Civil War, but surrendered to the Parliamentary forces once Devizes had fallen in 1645.
The house was built over the old cloisters and its main rooms are on the first floor. It is a stone house with stone slated roofs, twisted chimney stacks and mullioned windows. Throughout the life of the building, many architectural alterations, additions, and renovations have occurred so that the house is a mish-mash of different periods and styles. The Tudor stable courtyard to the north of the house has retained many of its original features including the brewhouse and bakehouse.
The house later passed into the hands of the Talbot family, and during the 19th century was the residence of William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1835 he made what may be the earliest surviving photographic camera negative, an image of one of the windows.
In 1944 artist Matilda Theresa Talbot gave the house and the surrounding village of Lacock to the National Trust. The abbey houses the Fox Talbot Museum, devoted to the pioneering work of William Talbot in the field of photography. The Trust markets the abbey and village together as "Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village". The abbey is a Grade I listed building, having been so designated on 20 December 1960.
A look around Lacock Abbey. The cloisters were used for the filming of some of the Harry Potter movies.
Grade I Listed Building
Description
LACOCK LACOCK ABBEY
ST 9168
4/118 Lacock Abbey
with Stable yard
20.12.60
GV I
Country house, mid C16 remodelling and extension of cloister court
of C13 to C15 Augustinian nunnery founded 1229 and sold to Sir W.
Sharington at the Dissolution 1540. Some alterations of c1700 and
c1740 for Sir John Talbot and John Ivory Talbot and entrance front
rebuilt as Gothick great hall 1754-5 by Sanderson Miller for J.I.
Talbot. South front alterations in Tudor style 1828-30 for W.H.
Fox-Talbot and c1900-10 restoration of medieval parts by H.
Brakspear for C.H. Talbot. Ashlar and rubble stone with stone
slate roofs generally and numerous ornate C16 twisted stacks.
Mostly 2 storeys, the major part of the house on first floor only
over unaltered medieval basement. The medieval basement comprises
three sides of a lierne-vaulted C15 cloister with two C14 bays at
south-west angle. Largely C14 spaces off. To east fine series of
vaulted rooms, sacristy, chapter house and warming house, intact
apart from openings on east side that are of c1900. This part was
under the Dormitory. West side, under great hall, but originally
under Abbess' lodging has 2 rooms and main entrance passage. North
side is undercroft to refectory. In upper part of house medieval
roofs survive, concealed, to north side refectory, C15 with arch
braced collar trusses and 3 tiers of windbracing, and to south side
dormitory, C14 with 3 tiers of cusped windbracing. Exterior: west
front has 1754-5 ashlar fronted hall-to centre, full-height, with
slate half-hipped valley roof. Octagonal angle turrets with ogee
cupolas, delicate pierced parapet and 2 large ogee-headed windows
flanking central door reached by two-arm balustraded outside stair.
An important landmark of the C18 Gothic revival. To left, former
medieval kitchen refronted in C18. Balustraded parapet, buttresses
and two 2-light pointed windows similar to those on Bath House at
Corsham Court by Capability Brown (q.v. Corsham C.P.). To right a
plain parapetted range with two 15-pane C18 sashes and heavy
stepped corner buttress. South front is similarly severe, being
essentially the inside north wall of the Abbey church with
balustrading and south-east tower added by Sharington and 3 oriels
of varied sizes added 1828-30. The north-west angle of the church
is marked by a heavily buttressed projection, west of this, in
plain walling, another 15-pane sash. Sharington's tower possibly
designed by John Chapman, octagonal, 3-storey, divided by string
courses, has top belvedere, balustrade and stair turret. Finely
detailed 2-light mullion windows. East front is the most medieval
in outline, but C13 style Gothic ground floor windows are of 1900-
10. Adjoining tower, 2-storey range parallel to main range, the
ground floor the medieval east end of chapter house and sacristy,
the parapetted upper floor with 6 stone cross windows added in mid
C16. To right, the main range has buttressed ground floor and,
above, four C18 Gothic 4-light windows, 2 each side of fine C16
outside stack. Battlemented parapet. South end cross-wing appears
largely C16 with coped gables, heraldic finials and dentil eaves
cornice. Mullion-and-transom windows of flush chamfered type with
unusual roundel motif on intersections. Medieval stonework to
ground floor. Two-gabled C16 north extension with first floor C18
sashes and attic mullion windows. North of house is stable court,
mid C16 on east and north sides, an exceptionally complete Tudor
service court, notable for the large timbered gabled dormers, some
with deep eaves on scroll brackets and higher cross-gabled clock-
tower at west end of north range. Mullion windows, dripcourse and
Tudor-arched doorways but 4 doorways in the Renaissance style of
some of the interior C16 work. C19 low coach-houses and 2 early to
mid C18 lodges form a screen across west side linking to an
apparently late C17 addition to north of former kitchen, 2-storey,
5-window with sashes replacing cross-windows above and chamfered
recessed mullion windows below. Fine timber dentil cornice. South
end wall bolection moulded doorcase. From here projects a mid C18
Gothick ogee-headed carriage-arch with screen wall each side.
Interiors: outstanding mid C18 Gothick work in great hall with
exuberant terracotta figures by V.A. Sederbach in canopied niches
and shallow tunnel vault with armorial decoration. c1740 south-
west room in style of William Kent. South Gallery remodelled 1828-
30. Panelled parlour beyond of c1700-20. South-east tower has
vaulted octagonal strong room with pendants to vaults and
magnificent stone table attributed to J. Chapman. Similar but
damaged table in belvedere. Stone gallery in east range is C16
with Renaissance style fireplace and doorcase, and Brown Gallery in
north range has fine C16 windows to courtyard. Corbels of
refectory roof visible. In service court a complete surviving
brewery at west end of north range. W.H. Fox-Talbot 1800-77,
pioneer of photography spent his life here and made his first
photographic experiments here.
(National Trust, Lacock Abbey, 1984; N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975,
284-9; Country Life, 3, 10 and 17 March 1923; J. Summerson,
Architecture in Britain 1530 to 1830, 1970, 42-5, 399-400)
Listing NGR: ST9194768469
The unspoiled snow
Those solitary footprints
I am almost alien to all of these
The sun shining through a thin veil of cloud
Dwarfing me
Powerless
Like thrown into an intrepid exploration
Not knowing the outcome
and I surrender
Words of Dimitri, December 2018
I surrender, I surrender
I'm giving up the role of pretender
I remember, I remember
Can't you feel the love that I send ya
I surrender.
- Russ Ballard
Unconditional Surrender, aka Kissing Couple Statue, by William Salisbury, USS Midway Museum, San Diego, CA.
"(Cosmic) Surrender" by David Goodrich
View "(Cosmic) Surrender" at goodrichpaintings.com: www.goodrichpaintings.com/paintings/2000s/46.htm
or visit www.goodrichpaintings.com
Every year on the anniversary marking the end of World War II, the Times Square Alliance invites couples (though strangers would be more appropriate) to come make out in the same spot this nameless couple did just 62 years ago.
"Couples of all ages and from all walks of life were invited to meet in front of the sculpture “Unconditional Surrender”, which was created by acclaimed artist Seward Johnson, memorializing a famous photo snapped by Lieutenant Victor Jorgenson and evoking the iconic LIFE magazine cover photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt.", reported the Alliance website.
Kissers were handed out a sailor cap, roses and... breath mints!
For more, much better pictures, visit the Times Square Alliance website.
For clues that reveal who might have been the passionate nurse and sailor of the picture, read Sewell Chan's article "When a Kiss Isn’t Just a Kiss" in The New New York Times.
This is creepy. And it didn't come out exactly as I wanted. They never do though, right?
Random fact about me: I have a mole on my palm since the day I was born. It's chocolate brown so people always think that I was eating chocolate and I didn't clean my hand properly. I used to hate having it but as I grew older I started loving it day by day. It's one of the things that make me me. :)
Ask me something in my formspring. I'll post the answers here.
'Laying on your holy bed
By the hallowed door
Feeling like an infidel
Not worthy of your call
Tempted by your innocence
Beckoned to my fate
I won't face the consequence
I wouldn't hesitate
I'm a man of flesh and bone
Rapture
Rushing through my veins
Passion
Flaming
In my heart
Heavenly surrender once again'
lyrics by DM - Surrender