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Pythagorean theorem
the sum of the squares of the lengths of the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the length of the hypotenuse.
Time for a double dip into the dictionary of image, with a couple of floral abstracts, i cant decide which one works best, if any, so as always would like to hear what you think?
And if you have a better idea yourself, you could always join in at The Dictionary of Image Group on Flickr
Or see some of my favourites on The Dictionary of Image Website
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LGBTQIA+-Archives: the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation took place in Washington DC on 25 April 1993. On the Mall, the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was displayed. The impressive and moving AIDS Quilt was solemnly unveiled on 24 April 1993.
World AIDS Day takes place on 1 December each year. It’s an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness.
Equal parts art and engineering to figure out how to wear a convertible bra under this halter neckline.
Школьники не станут хуже говорить на русском языке, от того, что их учительница лесбиянка.
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Students will not make more mistakes while speaking Russian , if they are taught by Lesbian teacher
ITU staff members showing their support for the UN Women/ ITU Equals partnership
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Made from Goodwill shirts and denim; blogged here: entropyalwayswinsblog.com/2015/05/06/all-things-being-equal/
Small budget equals less of quality logos, but I like this sample out of the 8 I delivered to the client.
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[...] All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws [...]
-- quote by Voltaire (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)
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Fiano Romano, Italy (April, 2010)
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One of seven installations during the event Lights in Alingsås 2016 – the theme of the year is Enlightenment. It is based on the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development agreed to by 193 world leaders. This installation is inspired by the goal "5 Gender equality".
Workshop head: Sabine De Schutter, Germany: "When I was a child, everything seemed equal. I thought I could do anything and everything. I´ve realized our world isn´t equal at all! I understand why they said not to play football or to go out after dark. My voice isn´t heard equally, I don´t have the same opportunities. I am a woman.
One day I wish to see equal chances and respect for all girls and women. That we feel safe whenever and wherever we go. I wish for a better world!"
Every year in september/october leading international lighting designers come to Alingsås to hold a week´s workshop with participants from all over the world. Together they light a number of buildings and locations around the town centre. Around 80 000 people come every year to see the designs during the month-long event.
www.lightsinalingsas.se/en (website about this year´s event in English and Swedish)
Blackpool Transport Services Limited 631, a Brush Electrical Engineering Company Limited tram with Electro-Mechanical Brake Company Limited 4’ 3” wheelbase equal wheel bogies, two The English Electric Company Limited 305A 57 horsepower motors and The English Electric Company Limited DB1 Z6 controllers with a Brush Electrical Engineering Company Limited B48CD body built 1937 passes through Waterloo Road tram stop on the reserved track on the Promenade in Blackpool with a heritage tram tour to the Pleasure Beach during the Blackpool & Fleetwood Tramway 130th Anniversary Weekend. Sunday 27th September 2015
Note, 631 was originally operated by Blackpool Corporation as number 294, entering service on 21st August 1937. The seating was reduced from B50CD circa 1938-39 by the removal of two folding seats in the centre vestibule and the original two Crompton Parkinson & Company Limited C162 57 horsepower motors were replaced in the mid 1960s by motors removed from a The English Electric Company Limited Railcoach. It was renumbered 631 in early 1968 and the original Allen West & Company Limited controllers were replaced by controllers removed from a The English Electric Company Limited Railcoach at some time. Blackpool Corporation became Blackpool Borough Council on 1st April 1974 due to local government reorganisation and Blackpool Borough Council Transport’s operations passed to Blackpool Transport Services Limited on 26th October 1986 due to bus deregulation. 631 was withdrawn from normal service on 6th November 2011, the final day for the traditional fleet
Ref no Canon EOS60D 3rd series - IMG_8659
I hope and wish to all the women their legitimate aspirations of equal opportunity, dignity and respect see soon a goal. In the world the feminine condition is still a lot (too much!) far from a joint relationship with we males. Courage! Intelligence and force of heart do not lack you... everywhere you operate you give a great demonstration.
In Flickr the feminine contribution of commitment, quality and artistic talents is remarkable not only in quantity but above all in quality.
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Spero ed auguro a tutte le donne che le loro legittime aspirazioni di pari opportunità, dignità e rispetto vedano presto un traguardo. Nel mondo la condizione femminile è ancora molto (troppo!) lontana da un rapporto paritetico con noi maschi. Coraggio! Intelligenza e forza d'animo non vi mancano... ovunque vi si lasci operare ne date ampiamente dimostrazione.
In Flickr l'apporto femminile di impegno, qualità e talenti artistici è notevole non solo in quantità ma soprattutto in qualità.
Not sure whether this was an exercise, an attempt to hide the equipment, or something seriously wrong!
This a Vietnamese Navy, Soviet built, Osa II class, missile ship no. HQ-358 (1 of 8 run by the Vietnamese Navy). The Vietnam People's Navy (commonly, Vietnamese Navy - Vietnamese: Hải quân nhân dân Việt Nam) is part of the Vietnam People's Army.
Project 205 Tsunami, more commonly known by their NATO reporting name Osa, are a class of missile boats developed for the Soviet Navy in the early 1960s. The Osas are probably the most numerous class of missile boats ever built, with over 400 vessels constructed for both the Soviet Navy and for export to allied countries. "Osa" means "wasp" in Russian, but it is not an official name. The boats were designated as "large missile cutters" in the Soviet Navy.
The Project 205 boats are bigger than the pioneering Project 183R (NATO: Komar class) boats, with a mass four times greater, and nearly double the crew. They were still meant to be 'minimal' ships for the planned tasks.
The hull was made of steel, with a low and wide superstructure made of lighter AMG alloys, continuous deck, and a high free-board. The edges of the deck were rounded and smooth to ease washing off radioactive contamination in case of nuclear war. The hull was quite wide, but the Project 205 boats could still achieve high speeds as they had three Zvezda M503 radial diesel engines capable of a combined 12,000 hp (15,000 hp on Project 205U onward) driving three shafts. The powerful engines allowed a maximum speed of about 40 knots together with reasonable endurance and reliability. There were also three diesel generators. Two main engines and one generator were placed in the forward engine room, the third main engine and two generators in the aft engine room. There was a control compartment between the two engine rooms.
The problem related to the weak anti-aircraft weaponry of the earlier Project 183R was partially solved with the use of two AK-230 turrets, in the fore and aft deck. An MR-104 Rys (NATO: "Drum Tilt") fire-control radar was placed in a high platform, and controlled the whole horizon, despite the superstructures that were quite wide but low. Even if placed in the aft, this radar had a good field of view all around. The AK-230 turrets were unmanned, each armed with two 30 mm guns capable of firing 2,000 rpm (400 practical) with a 2,500 m practical range. Use against surface targets was possible, but as with the previous Komar ships, once all missiles were expended it was planned to escape and not fight. Truly effective anti-surface weaponry was not available until the introduction of the Project 12341.1 Molniya (NATO: "Tarantul") class corvettes, with 76 mm guns.
The missile armament consisted of four box-shaped launchers (protected from bad weather conditions) each with one P-15 Termit (NATO: SS-N-2 "Styx") missile. This doubled the available weapons compared to the Project 183R, giving greater endurance. The missiles were controlled by a MR-331 Rangout (NATO: "Square Tie") radar and a Nikhrom-RRM ESM/IFF that even allowed targeting over the horizon, if the target's radar was turned on.
With all these improvements, these ships were considerably more effective. They had one of the first, if not the first close-in weapon systems (CIWS). The survivability rating was improved to 50%, and the required volley of 12 missiles could be launched by only three ships. Sinking a destroyer was therefore regarded as 'assured' using only six ships (two squadrons of three vessels), making the Project 205 vessels easier to coordinate and even cheaper than would be the required number of Project 183R boats to achieve the same effectiveness.
As a result of these improvements, Project 205 boats were without equal in the late 1950/early 1960s. Over 400 were made in USSR, and another 120 in China. Some of the improved Project 205U (Osa II) were equipped with the 9K32 Strela-2 (NATO: SA-N-5 "Grail") surface-to-air missiles in MTU-4 quadruple launchers, in an attempt to improve air-defences. This new model also had improved, more powerful engines, and new cylindrical missile boxes, with the improved P-15U missiles. The later 205M and 205mod boats had longer tubes for the further-improved P-15M missiles.
Details:
Type:Fast attack craft
Displacement:171.5 tons standard, 209 tons full load
Length:38.6 m
Beam:7.64 m
Draught:3.8 m
Installed power:
3x 4000 hp M-503G diesel engines (205)
3x 5000 hp M-504B diesel engines (205U onwards)
Propulsion:3 shafts
Speed:
38.5 knots (205)
42 knots (205U onwards)
Range:1,800 nmi (3,300 km) at 14 knots,
800 nmi (1,500 km) at 30 knots,
500 nmi (930 km) at 35 knots
Endurance:5 days
Complement:
28 (Osa I)
29 (Osa II)
Sensors and
processing systems:
MR-331 Rangout (Square Tie) radar
Klyon fire-control system for P-15 Termit
Nickel IFF
MR-104 Rys (Drum Tilt) fire-control radar for AK-230
ARP-58SV radio direction finder
Electronic warfare
and decoys:
Nikhrom-RRM IFF/ESM
Armament:
2x AK-230 twin 30 mm CIWS
4x P-15 Termit (SS-N-2 Styx) anti-ship missiles
Until a Supreme Court decision in 1967, I wouldn't have been able to marry the love of my life in all states because I am white and she is black. Here is my take on the HRC equal sign, based on the photo I took for my own wedding invitation. Regardless of your personal comfort about same sex marriage, I believe that just because people aren't the same doesn't mean they shouldn't be treated equally. All kinds of differences are featured in my community No Evil Project.
Red-winged blackbirds have returned to our neighborhood. The beautiful birds are a real challenge to capture, especially with a zoom lens, a 2X extender, high winds, and waving reeds. But I enjoy the challenge.
Warm greetings go out to my Flickr friends.
Blessings,
Sheree
Accidentally came across this protest today.
They were protesting against homophobia in schools.
Made for an interesting discussion with my kids while I was processing the photos.....
Nikon FE - AI-S Nikkor 35mm 1:2.8 (Yellow-12) - Eastman Double-X @ ASA-250
Kodak D-76 (1+1) 10:00 @ 20C
Scanner: Nikon Coolscan V ED
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
I'm back! Here is a new blog post about Ilya and Rita on my blog - foreverornot.blogspot.ru/2013/09/equals-two.html
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they say dogs resemble their masters, wonder if that works for cats and their humans too..
Thanx to Dhamp1 for pointing out to make this image into a diptych
13 - Equal, for 118 pictures in 2018
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ITU staff members showing their support for the UN Women/ ITU Equals partnership
More informations :
© ITU/ J. Marchand
Some aspects of Equality needed now
Equal pay:
Women in Washington average 77 cents for every dollar paid to men
www.nationalpartnership.org/research-library/workplace-fa...
Equal sexual and reproductive rights:
My Body My Rights - Amnesty International's global campaign www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/campaigns/my-body-my-rights
Let's finally get the Equal Rights Amendment (1923) passed:
The Equal Rights Amendment, in its most recently proposed form, reads, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.”
www.eracoalition.org/files/ERA_Polling_Press_Release.pdf
"As the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stated: “Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn’t.”
In the United States, some of us may feel equal, but we aren’t in the eyes of the law.
And for our sisters all over the world who deal with a huge host of obstacles and inequalities; we're with you in spirit and support you, too. (!)
Amateur Category: Winner Goal 3
Joydeep Mukherjee, India
A woman joins her two male co-workers at a brick field in West Bengal, India.
Manuel Francisco dos Santos (October 28, 1933 – January 20, 1983), known by the nickname "Garrincha" ("little bird"), was a Brazilian football right winger and forward who helped the Brazil national team win the World Cups of 1958 and 1962, and played the majority of his professional career for Brazilian club Botafogo. FIFA considers him the best Brazilian player ever after Pelé,[4] and in 1999, many eminent football historians in Brazil have also referred to him being at least the equal of Pelé. Widely regarded as the best dribbler in football history, he was also an excellent crosser and free-kick taker.
The word garrincha itself means wren. Garrincha was also known as Mané (short for Manuel) by his friends, a name which in Brazil also means "fool" or "half wit".[6] It was possibly used in that sense at some point – or even as a double entendre due to Garrincha's child-like personality. The combined "Mané Garrincha" is common among fans in Brazil. Due to his immense popularity in Brazil, he was also called Alegria do Povo (Joy of the People) and Anjo de Pernas Tortas (Angel with Bent Legs)
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist, composer and jazz icon.
His career started with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in both classical music and jazz, as a group leader and a solo performer. His improvisation technique combines not only jazz, but also other forms of music, especially classical, gospel, blues and ethnic folk music. One of Jarrett's trademarks is his frequent, highly audible vocalization (grunting, groaning, and tuneless singing), similar to that of Glenn Gould, Thelonious Monk, Erroll Garner, and Oscar Peterson. Jarrett is also physically active while playing, writhing, gyrating, and almost dancing on the piano bench. Jarrett is notoriously intolerant of audience noise, including coughing and other involuntary sounds, especially during solo improvised performances. He feels that extraneous noise affects his musical inspiration. As a result, cough drops are routinely supplied to Jarrett's audiences in cold weather, and he has even been known to stop playing and lead the crowd in a "group cough."
Nastassja Kinski (born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski, January 24, 1961) is a German actress, who appeared in more than 60 international movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of 'Tess Durbeyfield' in Roman Polanski's film Tess, her roles in two erotic films (Stay As You Are and Cat People), and her parts in Wim Wenders' films The Wrong Move, Paris, Texas, and Faraway, So Close!. During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Kinski was widely regarded as an international sex symbol.
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, comedian, and playwright.
Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American directors. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, European cinema, and New York City, where he was born and has lived his entire life.
Allen is also a jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his Manhattan hometown, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals.
Major Anya Amasova (aka Agent XXX) is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, portrayed by Barbara Bach. In the film Amasova is an agent of the KGB. Barbara Bach (born August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model, best-known as the Bond girl from the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She is married to musician Ringo Starr, former drummer of The Beatles.
Max Zorin is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. He was portrayed by Christopher Walken, (born March 31, 1943) is an American film and theatre actor.
Walken is a prolific actor who has spent more than 50 years on stage and screen. He has appeared in over 100 movie and television roles, including The Deer Hunter, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, At Close Range, King of New York, Batman Returns, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, The Funeral, and Catch Me If You Can, and in TV's Kojak and The Naked City. Walken gained a cult following in the 1990s[citation needed] as the Archangel Gabriel in the first three The Prophecy movies, as well as his frequent guest-host appearances on Saturday Night Live. In the United States, films featuring Walken have grossed over $1.8 billion. He has also played the main role in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. His most famous film roles were Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter and in Pulp Fiction, as Captain Koons, a Vietnam War veteran, which has since become a pop culture icon, despite his appearance being less than ten minutes at length.
John Steinbeck III (February 27, 1902—December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Seventeen of his works, including The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1952), went on to become Hollywood films (some appeared multiple times, i.e., as remakes), and Steinbeck also achieved success as a Hollywood writer, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Story in 1944 for Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was a novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.The influence of Hemingway's writings on American literature was considerable and continues today. James Joyce called "A Clean, Well Lighted Place" "one of the best stories ever written". (The same story also influenced several of Edward Hopper's best known paintings, most notably "Nighthawks."[41] ) Pulp fiction and "hard boiled" crime fiction (which flourished from the 1920s to the 1950s) often owed a strong debt to Hemingway.
During World War II, J. D. Salinger met and corresponded with Hemingway, whom he acknowledged as an influence.[42] In one letter to Hemingway, Salinger wrote that their talks "had given him his only hopeful minutes of the entire war," and jokingly "named himself national chairman of the Hemingway Fan Clubs."[43]
Hunter S. Thompson often compared himself to Hemingway, and terse Hemingway-esque sentences can be found in his early novel, The Rum Diary. Thompson's later suicide by gunshot to the head mirrored Hemingway's.
Hemingway's terse prose style is known to have inspired Charles Bukowski, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Coupland and many Generation X writers. Hemingway's style also influenced Jack Kerouac and other Beat Generation writers. Hemingway also provided a role model to fellow author and hunter Robert Ruark, who is frequently referred to as "the poor man's Ernest Hemingway".
Popular novelist Elmore Leonard, who has authored scores of western- and crime-genre novels, cites Hemingway as his preeminent influence, and this is evident in his tightly written prose. Though Leonard has never claimed to write serious literature, he has said: "I learned by imitating Hemingway.... until I realized that I didn't share his attitude about life. I didn't take myself or anything as seriously as he did."
Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American actress, director, television and film producer. Hayek has appeared in more than thirty films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in Mexico and Spain.
Hayek is the first Mexican national to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. She is one of the most prominent Mexican figures in Hollywood, since the legendary Dolores del Rio. She is also, after Fernanda Montenegro, the second of four Latin American actresses to achieve a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino (May 18, 1895 – February 21, 1934) was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion against the U.S. military presence in Nicaragua between 1927 and 1933. He was labeled as a bandit by the U.S. government, and his exploits made him a hero throughout much of Latin America, where he became a symbol of resistance to U.S. domination. Drawing the United States Marines into an undeclared guerrilla war, his guerrilla organization suffered many defeats, but he successfully evaded capture. US troops withdrew from the country after overseeing the inauguration of President Juan Bautista Sacasa. Sandino was assassinated by General Anastasio Somoza García, who went on to seize power in a coup d'état two years later, establishing a family dynasty that would rule Nicaragua for over forty years. Sandino's legacy was claimed by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which overthrew the Somoza government in 1979.
Roberto Boninsegna (born November 13, 1943 in Mantua) is an Italian former football player. He started his career in Serie B (Italian 2nd division) with Prato in 1963-64 season. He transferred to FC Potenza, who was Serie B team in 1964-65 season. He also played for Varese in 1965-66 and Cagliari between 1966-1969. Boninsegna gained a status as an efficient striker with Internazionale and Italy in the 1970s. In Series A he totaled 171 goals in 281 games, and was top goalscorer in Italy in 1971 and 1972. He transferred to Juventus F.C. in 1976 and played 3 seasons for them. He finished his career at Verona end of 1979-80 season.
Boninsegna scored Italy's only goal (though at the time it was an important equaliser) in the 1970 FIFA World Cup final against Brazil, which Italy ultimately lost 4–1.
Leighton Koizumi was and is the lead singer of Gravedigger V and the Morlocks, two seminal garage punk band of the 80's. After the third album in the 1991, Leighotn Koizumi haddisappeared; someone guessed the aids killed him in 1990 but two years later some rumours from San Diego gave him out clean and ready to start again, then nothing else… Till the beginning of 1998 when they spread the groundless piece of news that he left us forever…but finally in the 1999 Koizumi had reformed the Morlocks.
Alberto Juantorena Danger (born 3 December 1950) is a former Cuban track athlete. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, White Lightning became the first and so far only athlete to win both the 400 and 800 m Olympic titles.
Born in Santiago de Cuba, Juantorena first played basketball, until he was discovered by a Polish track coach, Zygmunt Zabierzowski, who convinced him to start running. Only a year later, Juantorena was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 400 m event at the Munich Olympics (1972).
Juantorena became better known in the next years, winning a gold medal at the World University Games (1973) and a silver at the 1975 Pan American Games, both in the 400 m. He only seriously took up running the 800 m in 1976, so few thought he was a serious candidate for the Olympic gold that year. However, Juantorena made it to the Olympic final, and led the field for most of the race, eventually winning in a world record time of 1:43.50. Three days later, he also won the 400 m final, setting a low-altitude world record of 44.26.
Juantorena, now known at home as El Caballo (the horse), continued his career, although he would never reach the same level as in Montreal. He just missed out on a medal in the 400 m at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, placing fourth. At the 1983 World Championships, his last international appearance in a major event, he broke his foot when he stepped on the inside of the track after qualifying in the first round of the 800m. Juantorena later served as the Vice Minister of Sports for Cuba.
Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle on July 20, 1964) is an American rock musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter for rock bands Soundgarden (1984–1997) and Audioslave (2001–2007). He was the founder and frontman for Temple of the Dog.
Philippe Leroy , of his true name Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu , is a Acteur French, born on October 15th 1930 in Paris. It is revealed by the Film the Hole (1960) of Jacques Becker. It is directed quickly towards the Italy, where he becomes a much in demand actor. It obtains a great success by holding the main role of the whodunnit Seven men out of gold (1965) of Mario Vicario, where it interprets the organizer of a daring holdup. It shares then its career between the France and Italy, with a very clear preference for Italy, where it resides.
Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character and the antagonist from the James Bond film and novel From Russia with Love. She was played by Lotte Lenya in the film version. Her name punningly derives from the popular Soviet phrase for women's rights, khleb i rozy, which in turn was a direct Russian translation of the internationally used Labor slogan bread and roses. Lenya was born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer (October 18, 1898 – November 27, 1981) to working class Roman Catholic parents in Vienna, Austria. She moved to study in Zürich, Switzerland in 1914, taking up her first job at the Schauspielhaus using the stage name Lotte Lenja.
Vladimir Pyotrovich Tkachenko (September 20, 1957 in Golovinka, USSR) is a retired Ukrainian basketball player. The 7'3" (2.21m), 243 lbs, (110 kg) center won two Olympic medals and three FIBA World Championship medals in a career that lasted 16 years. He was named Mr Europa player of the year in 1979.
A great defensive player, Tkachenko could block out 2-3 opponents to give teammates a chance to grab a rebound. His offensive ability was however important too: His post up moves were basic but effective and his shooting was good for a player his size, with a range of approximately 17 feet.
Tkachenko began playing for Stroitel Kiev in 1973-74, when he was 16 years old. He continued to play for them through the 1980-81 season. In 1983 he began playing for CSKA Moscow and he stayed there until his retirement after the 1988-89 season.
From 1976 to 1987 Tkachenko played on the Soviet national team, participating in many European and World competitions. Highlights would include the two bronze medals at the Olympics (1976 and 1980), the gold medal at the 1982 FIBA World Championship (also silver medals in 1978 and 1986) and three gold medals in the European Championship in 1979, 1981 and 1985 (and silvers in 1977 and 1987).
Emilio Largo is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the James Bond novel Thunderball. In the novel he is depicted according to the British stereotypes about Italians as a large, olive-skinned, powerful man exuding animal charm, with a profile of a Roman emperor and hairy hands which are likened to crawling tarantulas. He also appears in the 1965 film adaptation, with Italian actor Adolfo Celi filling the role. Born in Messina in the 1922, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 movies, specializing in international villains. He also appeared as a protagonist in some Italian comedies like Amici Miei and Brancaleone alle Crociate. Another well-known role of his was as camp commandant Battaglia opposite Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard's Allied POWs in the 1965 World War II escape drama Von Ryan's Express.
Celi was fluent in several languages, but his thick Sicilian accent meant that he was usually dubbed when appearing in an English language film.
During his early career, Celi was also successful as a stage actor in Argentina and Brazil, where he owned an actors' company along with the Brazilian stage greats Paulo Autran and Tonia Carrero. He directed three films in South America in the 1950s, including the Brazilian hit Tico-Tico no Fubá in 1952.
Fabrizio De André (Genova, February 18, 1940 - Milano, January 11, 1999) was an Italian singer-songwriter and poet. In his works he often told stories of prostitutes, marginalized and rebellious people. In Italy he is considered as a poet because of the quality of his lyrics.
Alessandro (Sandro) Pertini (September 25, 1896 - February 24, 1990) was an Italian socialist, probably the most popular President of the Italian Republic.Born in Stella (Province of Savona) as the son of a well to do landowner, Alberto, he studied at a Salesian college in Varazze, and completed his schooling at the "Chiabrera" lyceum (high school) in Savona. His philosophy teacher was Adelchi Baratono, a reformist socialist who contributed to his approach to Socialism and probably introduced him to the inner circles of the Ligurian labour movements. Pertini obtained a Law degree from the University of Genoa. Sandro Pertini was against Italy's participation in World War I, but served as a lieutenant and was awarded several medals as for bravery. In 1918 he joined the United Socialist Party, PSU, then he settled in Florence where he also graduated in political science with a thesis entitled La Cooperazione ("Cooperation"; 1924). While in the city, Pertini also came into contact with people such as Gaetano Salvemini, the brothers Carlo and Nello Rosselli, and Ernesto Rossi. Pertini was physically beaten by Fascist squads on several occasions, but never lost faith in his ideals. In 1935 he was interned on Santo Stefano Island, Ventotene (LT), Pontine Islands, an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, where he remained through Italy's entry into World War II and until 1943. There he saved the famous diaries of Antonio Gramsci. Although he had begun suffering from severe illness, Pertini never demanded pardon. He was released a month after Benito Mussolini's arrest, and joined the Italian resistance movement against the Nazi German occupiers and Mussolini's new regime - the Italian Social Republic. Arrested by the Germans, he was sentenced to death but freed by a partisan raid. After April 25, 1945 (the end of the war in Italy) he was elected to the first Parliament of the Italian Republic (the parliament which created the modern Italian Constitution, and thus was called La Costituente). In the postwar era he was a prominent member of the directive board of the Italian Socialist Party. He was appointed president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1968, and in 1978 President of the Italian Republic, the highest office in the Republic. As President he succeeded in regaining the public's trust in the State and institutions. During the Brigate Rosse terrorism period of the Anni di piombo, Pertini was a defender of the institutions he represented. His death in Rome was viewed by many as a national tragedy, and he is arguably one of modern Italy's most accomplished politicians.