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In 1938 Czechoslovakia mobilized against the German threats of war, but hat to give in to the Munich Agreement and withdraw from the border fortifications, even if the army was fully capable to stand against the Wehrmacht. After this not only Germany, but also Poland and Hungary ripped pieces of land from the country, and there were also extensive fights with insurgents, which cost lives of many Czechoslovak soldiers and gendarmes. Today it´s a tradition to reenact how the situation could be, when we would have defended ourselfs. It´s a fact that Hitler was affraid of the Czechoslovak military, which at that time had better tanks, more heavy guns, and a very effective fortification system. Of course we win in the reenactments :-)
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Museo del Ejército de Toledo.
Durante la Guerra Civil Española, el régimen nazi de Alemania trajo a España, de la mano de la Legión Cóndor el carro de combate ligero Panzerkampfwagen I, en las versiones A y B, hasta un total de 122 unidades. Fueron apodados en España como "negrillos" por el color gris oscuro con el que iban pintados, y al modelo B se le conoció como Maybach. Al acabar la guerra quedan operativos 81 carros. La versión B se diferenciaba de la anterior en que fue dotada de un motor Maybach NL-38TR de 100cv en vez del Krupp de 57cv. El armamento del que iba dotado eran dos ametralladoras DREYSE MG 13 de 7´62mm, muy inferior al armamento y el blindaje del T-26B soviético.
Aunque el carro se encuentra en la exposición del Museo del Ejército de Toledo, pertenece al Museo de Medios Acorazados del Ejército de Tierra.
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― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer
GBRf 59003 'Yeoman Highlander' working 6V41 14.48 Eastleigh-Westbury Down Yard, being formed of empty ballast hoppers, it negotiates the pointwork at Westbury to access the 'virtual quarry' which is in the Up Yard...., 30/12/19.
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The Baionetta-class Signal Ship was commissioned in the aftermath of the Pan-Eurasian War. This conflict had seen the European Union Navy beaten on several significant occasions by modern groups of mercenaries equipped with cutting edge technology. Their targeting sensors were frequently jammed, their formidable ships taken by surprise by sensor ghosts and trickery.
The Baionetta is an Italian capital-ship designed to support larger fleet actions. It is able to co-ordinate and process very complex information streams in real-time, aiding the accuracy of weapon fire and fleet formation. Conversely, the ship concentrate on output of information - sending out huge volumes of ‘garbage’ information to cloud the sensors of opposing forces. Layers upon layers of this sensor ‘noise’ make it more difficult for the Baionetta’s enemies to track and strike accurately.
It’s communication technology is it’s only real defence. Although the ship is armed with two flak turrets, they are computer targeted: the ship is seldom crewed by battle-hardened veterans.
Complex or sensitive information is often transported on a Baionetta, especially if the files aren’t trusted to the ExtronNet.
Manufacturer: EAS-Spaceworks
Role: Information Warfare/Transport, Battlefield Coordination
Length: 52m
Crew: 35
Weaponry: 2 x flak turrets
Shields/Armour: Light/Medium
FTL: Capable
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"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. “Sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nations” –US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).
Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.
According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.
United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia and Africa, have already endured.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India and other Asian countries. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
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The kindness and love that I experience in Second Life far out weighs the negative drama that sometimes occurs between avies. We are people behind our artfully designed avatars. And with this community, sometimes, people have conflicts that can be overwhelming.
I don't like to feel rage for anyone or any circumstance, so I search for beautiful places to meditate and to focus once again on the positive energy in this place.
Sometimes, I find it in music and other times I find it in a singular vision or an artist. This past week, I needed to find spiritual nourishment and Second Life did not disappoint me.
I arrived at LA 2019 City with a haphazard LM that didn't arrive at the destination of the club. Several of us were left standing wondering what had gone wrong. I saw Billynom8 and he manged to fly up to the 2,351 meter mark. He so graciously tp'ed me to the party. That was my first contact with pure kindness. Thank you Billy!
DJ Voyager Xue was pounding the hardcore. Deep inside me, I let the music just take over to numb the negative away. I must come back to this place, the club was very cool.
Xavier donned his enormous white wings and enveloped me in his angelic protection. We had to go to Organica. One of the most spiritual musical places full of loving people in SL. DJ Qee was there and we just became lost in the beautiful sounds of psy and goa.
Montana sent us a tp to hear Joaquin Gustav, a live musician who plays flamenco guitar. Next to the ocean, Sasi's club presents a beautiful and casual setting for Joaquin's music. Unpretentious, his flamenco music captures your spirit and brings you to exotic places far away. We danced in each others arms on his musical notes.
But, my soul and spirit needed more. Both Xavier and I come from Catholic backgrounds. I asked him if he would go to church with me. So off we went in search of beautiful churches. I especially love stain glass windows and I am enchanted by religious art.
We found Walsingham Church with its simple interiors, St Paul and its large stained glass windows, the sweet gilt display of the blessed child at St George and the wonderous Basilica Cardinale. Basilica was stunning with stain glass, ornate alter and prayer pews for the patrons. I loved it here and we stayed for about an hour.
I felt refreshed. And I wanted to see art. Cherry had sent a tp to Galerie Francane, so I arrived ready. Colorful psy art and photographs lined the walls, but I was enchanted with the waterfall and river sculpture. Very spiritual with a reverence for nature and water. I loved it.
Evening came and Xavier and I headed for the special Sunday evening ballroom dancing at Phantom Rose Opera House. We danced among patrons enjoying several operatic selections. The music was divine. And we ended up almost being the last ones to leave.
Next stop in our ballroom attire was Bella Vida Velvet Jazz Lounge. I love this place for the world music it always plays. DJ Jen Noel plays here frequently as well as DJ Angelsmoon. Angelsmoon was spinning tonight with his special mixes of Moroccan, Indian and electronica fusion. I was truly in heaven at this point with his world music. I simply love his sound.
We ended out evening at Garden of Dreams locked in an embrace by the river. This is a very spiritual place with a reverence for all things natural. A glorious river flows through the sim with each area set aside for meditation and reflection. We have been here several times just to renew ourselves and our commitment to each other.
Second Life is truely a blessed place full of life's hardships and rewards. I am reminded that this small world is definitely a reflection of the larger one we live in... and I appreciate the kindness and beauty here very much.
In 1938 Czechoslovakia mobilized against the German threats of war, but hat to give in to the Munich Agreement and withdraw from the border fortifications, even if the army was fully capable to stand against the Wehrmacht. After this not only Germany, but also Poland and Hungary ripped pieces of land from the country, and there were also extensive fights with insurgents, which cost lives of many Czechoslovak soldiers and gendarmes. Today it´s a tradition to reenact how the situation could be, when we would have defended ourselfs. It´s a fact that Hitler was affraid of the Czechoslovak military, which at that time had better tanks, more heavy guns, and a very effective fortification system. Of course we win in the reenactments :-)
Soldiers from the HCMR wait for the Parade and Service of The Combined Cavalry Old Comrades Association at the Cavalry Memorial to start.
In a quintessentially British scene, more than two thousand serving and former Cavalrymen marched through Hyde Park today, immaculate in suits with bowler hats and furled umbrellas, to pay their respects to fallen comrades. They were accompanied by Army Musicians to the delight of visitors to the capital enjoying the Royal Park's open spaces.
The Cavalrymen were taking part in the 93rd Annual Parade and Service of The Combined Cavalry Old Comrades Association at the Cavalry Memorial. The parade remembers all those who have given their lives to conflict since the First World War.
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In 1938 Czechoslovakia mobilized against the German threats of war, but hat to give in to the Munich Agreement and withdraw from the border fortifications, even if the army was fully capable to stand against the Wehrmacht. After this not only Germany, but also Poland and Hungary ripped pieces of land from the country, and there were also extensive fights with insurgents, which cost lives of many Czechoslovak soldiers and gendarmes. Today it´s a tradition to reenact how the situation could be, when we would have defended ourselfs. It´s a fact that Hitler was affraid of the Czechoslovak military, which at that time had better tanks, more heavy guns, and a very effective fortification system. Of course we win in the reenactments :-)
A re-creation of Malmo's city walls in Kungsparken (King’s Park) in Malmö the capital of Scania, in Øresund, Sweden.
The original walls were used as a fortification during the Belägringen av Malmö (Siege of Malmö) was a conflict between Danish troops and Swedish defenders of the city of Malmö, fought in Jun 1677. It was fought toward the end of the Scanian War, the siege was one in a string of Danish losses that saw the Swedish forces under King Charles XI of Sweden take control of the land battles in southern Sweden.
Malmö was the only Swedish stronghold that had not fallen into the hands of the Danes and during 1676-1677 it was used as a base for Swedish operations in the southwest corner of Scania. To win the war, King Christian V of Denmark therefore had to capture Malmö. The siege began on June 10, when the Danish navy anchored in the roadstead north of the town and the Danish army camped on the plain south of the town. Danish engineers soon began digging trenches leading up to the castle in the west and to the eastern and southern gates in the town wall. On the 12th, the Danes brought in 28 siege guns and 27 mortars that started bombarding the castle and the town walls.
The bombardment became more intense on the evening of the 25th, and at 1 o'clock in the morning the battle began with a Danish sham attack on Malmöhus (Malmö Castle) followed by two full attacks on the city, one at the southern gate (Söderport) and one at the eastern gate (Österport).
The Danes used fascines, ladders, and pontoons to cross the moat. After a fearsome fight, the Danish guard under command of Siegfried von Bibow was able to break through the defence close to the eastern gate. However, as soon as Danish troops reached the crest of the town wall the Danish artillery ceased to fire, which gave the defenders the opportunity to man their guns.
The Swedish artillery soon began firing on Danish troops making their way across the moat, which killed several Danish soldiers and made it impossible for the Danes to bring reinforcements to von Bibow. Inside the town, von Bibow had too few men to force his way to the gate and open it, and eventually he and all his men were cut down by Swedish soldiers and townsmen. Another attack on the other side of the eastern gate made it to the crest of the wall, but no further, while the attacks at the southern gate failed to even cross the moat.
The Danes had lost the initiative in the war, as well as its best troops and some of its most skilled commanders. It has been suggested that the later may have affected the outcome of the subsequent Slaget vid Landskrona (Battle of Landskrona) which followed on the 14th of July. While the Danish navy had the upper hand over the Swedish, the siege was one of several Swedish victories on land that would, in the end, restore the status quo of Scania being under Swedish control.
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