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Bare Theatre's 2016 production of Henry VI. Clifford slays Richard, Duke of York, to get revenge for his father's death.
July 7, 1865: Adjusting the ropes before hanging the conspirators,
fltr Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and Georg Atzerodt.
A detail from one of the photographs of the execution by Alexander Gardner.
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La Calle Takeshita (en japonés: 竹下通り) es una calle solo peatonal llena de tiendas de moda, cafés y restaurantes de Harajuku en Tokio, Japón. Las Tiendas en Takeshita incluyen grandes cadenas como The Body Shop, McDonalds y 7-Eleven, pero la mayoría de las empresas son pequeñas tiendas independientes que abarcan una gran variedad de estilos. Las tiendas de esta calle son a menudo un referente más amplio, y algunas son conocidas como "tiendas de antenas".
Takeshita era un lugar confiable para ir y comprar bienes de marca y falsos para japoneses y extranjeros en la década de 1990 a 2004. Desde 2004, la nueva política del gobierno metropolitano sobre mercancía falsificada ha llevado a una disminución de este tipo de artículos disponibles al público. Situada justo enfrente de la salida de la estación de Harajuku, Takeshita es muy popular entre los jóvenes adolescentes, en especial aquellos que visitan Tokio en viajes escolares o jóvenes locales que quieren comprar pequeños artículos los fines de semana.
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Takeshita Street (竹下通り, Takeshita-dōri) is a pedestrian shopping street lined with fashion boutiques, cafes and restaurants in Harajuku in Tokyo, Japan. Stores on Takeshita Street include major chains such as The Body Shop, McDonald's, and 7-Eleven, but most of the businesses are small independent shops that carry an array of styles. The shops on this street are often a bellwether for broader fads, and some are known as "antenna shops," which manufacturers seed with prototypes for test-marketing.
Located directly across from the exit of JR East's Harajuku Station, Takeshita Street is very popular with young teenagers, particularly those visiting Tokyo on school trips, or local young people shopping for small "cute" goods at weekends.
Takeshita Street was a reliable place to go and purchase fake Japanese and American street brand goods from the early 1990s to 2004. Since 2004, a stronger metropolitan government stance on counterfeit merchandise has led to a decrease of such items being available to the public.
During the early morning of January 1, 2019, a 21-year-old man named Kazuhiro Kusakabe drove his minicar into the crowd of pedestrians celebrating New Year's Day on Takeshita Street. The man claimed his actions were a terrorist attack, and later stated that his intention was to retaliate against the usage of the death penalty. The man attempted to flee from the scene but was soon apprehended by authorities in a nearby park. It is believed that the attack has some connection to the execution of Shoko Asahara leader of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult in July of 2018
The whole palazzo was covered with reproductions of Persian rugs for the exhibit. --- --- --- Rudolf Stingel conceived this exhibition especially for Palazzo Grassi. Given the utmost freedom of execution, Stingel has completely transformed the museum, filling the entire space with an oriental carpet. Moving beyond the idea of two-dimensionality that is conventionally associated with painting, the exhibition aims to subvert the usual spatial relationship between a painting and viewer.
The carpet evokes the thousand-year history of Venice, the ‘Most Serene Republic’, but also recalls the Middle-European culture so loved by the artist; for example, we are reminded of Sigmund Freud’s early twentieth-century Viennese study. This reference undoubtedly provides a key to interpreting this installation: on entering the ‘labyrinth’, an all-encompassing feeling and sensorial experience transport us towards the transcendence of the Ego, by means of its removal and its ghosts. The nearly thirty paintings exhibited suggest presences that are ‘buried’ in memory, and removed experiences that thrive again. The architectural space becomes an introspective and projective space, silent and welcoming, suitable for meditation: but Stingel’s work alters our visual and spatial perception of it, suggesting a new, rarified and suspenseful atmosphere in which the silver, white and black of the paintings stands out like so many other ‘openings’ on Venice, in an another dimension.
From the Palazzo Grassi website
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Armenian Church Of Our Lady Of The Spasm was built in 1881. It is at the site where Jesus encounters Mary, his mother, whose grief over the torture and execution of her son is unimaginable.
Archaeological remains from former Byzantine buildings were found here, including a mosaic from the 5th century AD. The mosaic shows a pair of sandals symbolizing the place where Mary stood weeping for her son. This is the source of the name of the church (“spasm” refers to an emotional state resulting from extreme sorrow or grief).
The first outdoor event in London, UK, since the beginning of the troublesome virus and I was a little rusty.
Commemoration of the execution of King Charles Ist.
台南市神農街 - 老屋商店 / 神農九二有夠讚
Tainan Shen Nong street - Old house store / Shennong 92 has enough praise
Calle de Tainan Shen Nong - Tienda de la casa vieja / Shennong 92 tiene suficientes elogios
台南市の神農の街 - 古い家の店 / 神農92は十分な賞賛を持っています
Straße Tainan-Shen Nong - Alter Hausladen / Shennong 92 hat genug Lob
Rue de Tainan Shen Nong - Old house store / Shennong 92 a assez d'éloges
Tainan Taiwan / Tainan Taiwán / 台灣台南
管樂小集 2017/10/07 台南孔子廟 Confucian temple Tainan performances 1080P
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家住安南鹽溪邊
The family lives in nearby the Annan salt river
隔壁就是聽雨軒
The next door listens to the rain porch
一旦落日照大員
The sunset Shineing to the Taiwan at once
左岸青龍飛九天
The left bank white dragon flying in the sky
The sad sight of the former Blakeley's Commercial Recycling scrapyard in Platt Bridge, Wigan. The company went under in c.2018, leaving around ten buses and a large number of lorry trailers open to the elements and subject to vandalism, with almost no windows left intact on site and severe fire damage to several of the carcasses. Somebody is making slow progress in scrapping them - Google Maps appears to show that several Dennis Darts and at least one Olympian have disappeared since the 2019 survey - but for now it seems most of these are here to stay. Sadly I imagine all are beyond rescue and will eventually be scrapped, although I have the faintest glimmer of hope for a couple of vehicles which appear to be in reasonable external condition given their history so far. I've certainly seen vehicles saved from worse condition, with a lot of time, funding, and love.
Edit as of September 2023: apparently within a couple of months of me making my visit, Blakeley's Commercial Recycling was completely cleared. All of the vehicles listed here, as well as the vast number of lorry trailers stored on-site, are presumed to have been scrapped. Looks like I timed this visit just right after all.
I'll now attempt to list the vehicles present in order from the north-west corner of the site - that is, from left to right, farthest to nearest in this photograph - but obviously I'll never know for certain whether I got them all.
Registration: R422 WPX (1998)
Livery: First Kernow 'Barbie' (42522)
Chassis: Dennis Dart SLF
Bodywork: Plaxton Pointer II B37F
First 42522 was with the company for its entire life before withdrawal came in April 2016. By May the vehicle was in this position at Blakeley's, and has not moved since. It is in poor external condition with a lot of broken windows et cetera, but appears to be materially complete. It is visible on the far left of this photo.
Registration: T301 JLD (1999)
Livery: First Glasgow 'Barbie' (41301)
Chassis: Dennis Dart SLF
Bodywork: Marshall C39 Capital B22D
Again new to First at the turn of the century, this Dart had the significantly rarer Capital bodywork, and was withdrawn in May 2014, moving to Blakeley's at some point that year. Sadly, at some point around January 2019, the vehicle was the victim of an arson attack and was almost completely destroyed. Its wreck is mostly occluded from this photo, but can just be made out behind the red Merc.
Registration: PLZ 5590 (1993, original registration L733 LWA)
Livery: Darwen Coach Services unbranded maroon
Chassis: Mercedes-Benz 709D
Bodywork: Alexander Sprint B25F
This little minibus was new to Stagecoach East Midlands thirty years ago, but passed on to Darwen Coach Services around 2007 and was painted in a plain maroon colour. I wasn't able to ascertain a withdrawal date but by 2016 the minibus was stored in the scrapyard, where it remained until it too was destroyed by arson around early-2019. Now, the only part which remains in near-original condition is the front bumper - which unusually still carries the registration plate.
Registration: R330 HYG (1998)
Livery: First Potteries 'Barbie' (40179)
Chassis: Dennis Dart SLF
Bodywork: Plaxton Pointer II B37F
Another career First bus, 40179 was withdrawn in late-2013 and after some time as a spares donor was moved to Platt Bridge in late-2014. Like several vehicles here, it too was destroyed in the arson attack, being reduced to a mostly-empty shell with only the rear bulkhead and engine having survived. It is just about visible in the centre of this photo if you have an eagle eye through the burnt and twisted framework.
Registration: N649 VSS (1996)
Livery: ex-Stagecoach 'Beachball' unbranded (40649)
Chassis: Mercedes-Benz 709D
Bodywork: Alexander Sprint B25F
The second 709 present was new to Stagecoach Manchester before transfer to more rural duties in Cumbria. The vehicle was also transferred to Darwen Coach Services, this time in 2009, and was withdrawn around the same time as her older sister, although this one never received a repaint out of Stagecoach colours and even kept the fleet number. Surviving the arson attack, the vehicle is nevertheless in very poor condition and has been heavily stripped for parts.
Registration: T160 BBF (1999)
Livery: First Potteries 'Barbie' (40007)
Chassis: Optare M850
Bodywork: Optare Solo B27F
The first of two Solos stored at the back of the scrapyard, this vehicle was withdrawn in mid-2014 and heavily cannibalised for spares before being moved to the scrapyard by the end of that year. By early-2016 it had moved into its current position and has not been touched since, except by vandals and the occasional urban explorer. It appears to be mostly in the condition in which it arrived at the scrapyard with many components missing and has since suffered minor vandalism such as broken windows; its rear is just about visible through the burnt-out wrecks in the rear of this photo.
Registration: W313 DWX (2000)
Livery: First Midland Red 'Barbie' (50282)
Chassis: Optare M850
Bodywork: Optare Solo B27F
The second Solo has seen several operators; new to First Bradford and then transferring to First West Yorkshire, First Wyvern, and then finally First Midland Red before withdrawal came in mid-2014. By late-2014 the Solo was at Blakeley's, and has been in the same position alongside its sister since at least early-2016, seven years ago. It is also in largely the same condition.
Registration: L630 VCV (1994)
Livery: Darwen Coach Services white
Chassis: Mercedes-Benz 709D
Bodywork: Plaxton Beaver B25F
The third and final Merc on site, but with slightly better bodywork and in slightly better condition. The vehicle was new to Western National but by 2006 was in service with Darwen Coach Services, from whom it was withdrawn by 2018, probably around the same time as the other two present. It is by far the most intact of the three, but that is not to say that it is in good nick, and it is clearly rotten with many smaller components damaged or missing.
Registration: T579 JNG (1999)
Livery: First Eastern Counties 'Barbie' (65579)
Chassis: Scania L94UB
Bodywork: Wright Axcess Floline B43F
After spending over fifteen years with First Eastern Counties, this Scania was transferred to First Kernow for its final few months, being transferred in c.March 2015 and withdrawn by the end of that year. The vehicle was also moved to this position in the scrapyard by April 2016, and has not moved since, visible on the right of this photo. Another bus which seems to be fairly materially complete, but nevertheless missing a lot of glass and a few bodyside panels.
Registration: W825 PFB (2000)
Livery: First Devon & Cornwall 'Barbie', Ugobus branding (48225)
Chassis: Volvo B6BLE
Bodywork: Wright Crusader II B36F
Another southern bus to end up dying this far north, this vehicle spent its entire career in and around Plymouth until the axe came in March 2016. Dropped off at Platts Bridge the following month, it too has not moved since, and has now been heavily vandalised and stripped. It is juuuust about visible behind the Scania in this photograph.
Registration: S725 AFB (1998)
Livery: First Devon & Cornwall 'Barbie' (42725)
Chassis: Dennis Dart SLF
Bodywork: Plaxton Pointer II B37F
The fourth Dart on site, this vehicle was new to First Bristol and was finally withdrawn from First Devon and Cornwall in c.2016. Little is known about the vehicle since then, as it was next recorded in the scrapyard in 2022, already in very poor condition with a lot of missing windows, body panels, and displaying damage to the bumpers. Even the eagle-eyed will do very well to see it through the tangled mess of wreckage in this photograph; I certainly can't.
Registration: G301 UYK (1990)
Livery: Pilkingtonbus cream and red
Chassis: Leyland Olympian
Bodywork: Leyland H47/31F
Woo, on to the deckers! The first featured here is the oldest bus on-site, built 33 years ago at the time of writing. This vehicle was new to London United but later transferred to East Yorkshire Motor Services, where during 2007 it entered immortality as an EFE die-cast model, code 29614. Transferred first to Coachmasters around 2009 and painted a luminous yellow, the bus was with Pilkington by the end of that year, with final withdrawal coming in early-2016, as a non-disability-compliant vehicle. It was in position in the scrapyard by May and has again not really moved since, but nevertheless appears to be in tolerable condition, even in spite of its geriatric age. Its red top deck can clearly be seen in the photograph.
Registration: N430 FKK (originally Irish 96-DD-277, 1996)
Livery: Ebley Coaches red and cream
Chassis: Volvo Olympian
Bodywork: Alexander RH H47/27D
The final bus visible in the scrapyard is a Volvo Olympian, new to Dublin Bus in 1996 and exported in 2007. The vehicle for almost its entire British existence wore the bright pink-and-purple colour scheme of Uno, despite later transferring to Southern Transit in 2010 and then North Somerset Coaches in 2015. North Somerset appears to have focused on vehicle preservation since 2013, so whether this vehicle constituted preserved for a short while is up in the air, but before too long it was with Ebley Coaches and painted in their maroon and cream livery, which it still carries to this day. It was sadly not with them long, certainly under a year, before fate took control - by May 2016 the bus had appeared in Blakeley's scrapyard, withdrawn not due to her age but due to a massive gash in the roof, clearly due to collision with some kind of obstacle, perhaps a bridge, a building, or even a particularly obstinate tree. The 'Dubliner' has seemingly not moved since June 2016, its interior still exposed to nature thanks to the roof damage and it has apparently been stripped of a few parts.
ODC - Scissors, Saw, Knife
Post Christmas execution of a credit card as part of a New Year's resolution!
CSX E803 screams through the town of Walkerton with BNSF 9669, a SD70MAC still sporting its OG BN Executive Scheme, on a coal empty from the LSRC in Wixom.
Not actually Execution Dock but close to. Located on the river behind the Prospect of Whitby pub, Wapping Wall.
Povero Sonny ...
Povero giovane orsetto dal grande testone...era poco più di un cucciolo, si affacciava alla vita solitaria, nei suoi primi tempi da individuo indipendente, senza la mamma .
Inesperto e fiducioso, muoveva i suoi passi nel bosco e nelle valli.
Lui non dormiva al sicuro in qualche tana, ma girovagava in cerca di cibo.
Il bel sonno del letargo non ha protetto Sonny.
Peccato si sarebbe salvato.
Le invernate miti, infatti, hanno ormai confuso e influenzato il ciclo naturale degli orsi.
Il loro ritmo sonno/veglia, legato alle stagioni, si è alterato.
L'incontro da lontano con due persone gli è costato la vita... per aver solo incrociato lo sguardo del bipede tiranno .
Non ha mai fatto male a nessuno Sonny. Condannato, braccato e freddato a fucilate per non aver fatto niente.
Tutto in modalità rapida come conviene ai vili che agiscono a tradimento.
Un esecuzione contestuale all'emissione del decreto di uccisione, senza lasciare spazio alla società civile di impostare un' azione volta a salvarlo, ricorrendo al Tar.
Ucciso perché confidente, perché si serviva dei cassonetti sempre disponibili e mai modificati, ucciso perché anche i sentieri in Trentino non sono mai stati ben disciplinati e tutti possono spingersi ovunque, per poi creare allarmismi collettivi.
Mentre gli orsi non hanno più una zona sicura e devono solo scomparire.
Presi i denari del progetto di reintroduzione Life Ursus, ora i plantigradi sono di troppo in quelle valli e forse di intralcio per qualche altro disegno che porta soldi .
Il suo giudice e carnefice è il Presidente della tristissima Provincia autonoma di Trento, Fugatti, determinato a farli fuori tutti.
Questo soggetto ostile e sprezzante della vita dei selvatici, ricorderà bene questi giorni. Segneranno la sua esistenza perché tutto il Paese ha conosciuto bene il suo cinismo, la sua ossessione fuori controllo per queste creature e verrà ricordato come l'odiatore degli orsi, aguzzino dalle doppiette e dagli ergastoli facili ...
Re indiscusso del Casteller.
Ruth Lemma
Poor Sonny...
Poor young bear with the big head... he was little more than a puppy, he was facing a solitary life, in his early days as an independent individual, without his mother.
Inexperienced and confident, he took his steps in the woods and valleys.
He did not sleep safely in some den, but wandered around looking for food.
The beautiful sleep of hibernation did not protect Sonny.
Too bad he would have been saved.
The mild winters, in fact, have now confused and influenced the natural cycle of bears.
Their sleep/wake rhythm, linked to the seasons, has altered.
The encounter with two people from afar cost him his life... for just having met the gaze of the bipedal tyrant.
He never hurt anyone Sonny. Condemned, hunted down and shot dead for doing nothing.
All in rapid mode as befits cowards who act treacherously.
An execution at the same time as the issuing of the killing decree, leaving no room for civil society to take action aimed at saving him, resorting to the TAR.
Killed because he was confident, because he used the bins that were always available and never modified, killed because even the paths in Trentino have never been well regulated and anyone can go anywhere, and then create collective alarmism.
While bears no longer have a safe area and just have to disappear.
Having taken the money from the Life Ursus reintroduction project, now the plantigrades are too many in those valleys and perhaps an obstacle to some other project that brings money.
His judge and executioner is the President of the very sad autonomous province of Trento, Fugatti, determined to kill them all.
This hostile and contemptuous subject of the life of wild animals will remember these days well. They will mark his existence because the whole country knew well his cynicism, his out of control obsession with these creatures and he will be remembered as the hater of bears, a tormentor with doubles and easy life sentences...
Undisputed king of Casteller.
Ruth Lemma
'Here on Felucia, a Stormtrooper is about to be promoted for tracking down the fled female Jedi Sinn-Tah, just 10 days after the execution of order 66. All hopes are lost for this Jedi, and the same applies to most Jedis lately. Dark Times are approaching...'
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台南市北門區 - 南鯤鯓代天府 / 執符迎神供自家 - 新年長佑萬事順
North Gate area of Tainan - Nankunshen Temple / Holding the banner with God back home to worship - New Year long bless all things smoothly
North Gate área de Tainan - Nankunshen Temple / Sostener el estandarte con Dios de vuelta a casa para adorar - Año Nuevo bendiga todas las cosas sin problemas
台南市北門区 - 南鯤鯓代天府 / 神を迎えて自分を供えるのに合いをとります - 新しくて年上な祐の万事が順調です
North Gate Bereich der Tainan - Nankunshen Temple / Halten Sie die Fahne mit Gott zurück nach Hause zu verehren - Silvester segnen alle Dinge reibungslos
North Gate région de Tainan - Nankunshen Temple / Tenir la bannière avec Dieu à la maison pour adorer - Nouvel An bénir toutes choses en douceur
Tainan Taiwan / Tainan Taiwán / 台灣台南
管樂小集 2016/12/31 台南孔子廟 Confucian temple Tainan performances 1080P
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Melody 曲:JAPAN / Words 詞:Sheesen / Singing : Sheesen
{ 夢旅人 1990 Dream Traveler 1990 }
家住安南鹽溪邊
The family lives in nearby the Annan salt river
隔壁就是聽雨軒
The next door listens to the rain porch
一旦落日照大員
The sunset Shineing to the Taiwan at once
左岸青龍飛九天
The left bank white dragon flying in the sky
Delivered new to BR in February 1960 having been built by BRC&W Co. Smethwick the loco spent the first 7 months of its career stored pending introduction into service on the newly electrified southern section of the West Coast mainline. Its first official BR depot was Longsight in Manchester "9A" before a move to the generic 5H or ACL shed code which was an umbrella code covering all the new WCML electric depots. Home became Glasgow Shields Road depot in January 1975 and that's where it gained the leaping salmon bodyside logo in the 1980's.
With the arrival of class 90's from late 1987 onwards many of the remaining first generation AC electrics were side-lined to freight workings or simply withdrawn. 81 002 got a stay of execution by being transferred to Willesden Depot in March 1989 to act as a carriage shunt engine working between London Euston and Wembley Depot and this is where it got its washed out appearance as the exmover acid from the carriage washing plant soon attacked the paintwork. The advent of DVT's (Driving Van Trailers) greatly reduced the requirement for shunt release and ECS move locomotives at Euston. By January 1990 no.81 002 was stored unserviceable. Its journey north to an uncertain future in the scrap lines at Crewe ETD took place in July 1990 where the paperwork caught up and it was officially withdrawn on 17/10/90 pending scrapping. Salvation came in June 1992 when it was sold to a private buyer, Peter Holt. It then moved to Crewe Heritage Centre before eventually passing into the care of the AC Locomotive Group based at Barrow Hill.
鹿耳門天后宮 - 狗年迎新春 / 香柱敬天 - 福祐臺灣
The luerhmen Matsu temple - Dog Spring / Incense column for God - Bless Taiwan
El templo de Matsu del luerhmen - Dog Spring / Columna de incienso para Dios - Bendiga a Taiwán
鹿耳門天后宮 - 戌年に新春を迎えます / 複雑な寺院の装飾 - カラフルで豪華な
Der luerhmen Matsu Tempel - Dog Spring / Weihrauchsäule für Gott - Segen Taiwan
Le temple de Matsu de luerhmen - Chien Printemps / Colonne d'encens pour Dieu - Bless Taiwan
Tainan Taiwan / Tainan Taiwán / 台灣台南
管樂小集 2018/01/20 安平古堡 Fort Zeelandia performances 1080P
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Melody 曲:JAPAN / Words 詞:Sheesen / Singing : Sheesen
{ 夢旅人 1990 Dream Traveler 1990 }
家住安南鹽溪邊
The family lives in nearby the Annan salt river
隔壁就是聽雨軒
The next door listens to the rain porch
一旦落日照大員
The sunset Shineing to the Taiwan at once
左岸青龍飛九天
The left bank white dragon flying in the sky
Views with the blue sky from outside the Colosseum itself - perhaps the iconic view people are used to.
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The Martyring of Che Guevara
By Robert Scheer
The 40th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara elicited considerable media attention, mostly about his iconic image captured on T-shirts throughout the world. There were the standard snarky asides that many young people wearing those T-shirts have scant notion of who Che was, but the journalists reporting the story seemed equally ignorant. Little was reported about Che's life and what led him to shun the comforts of a physician's lifestyle in Argentina to fight as a revolutionary in the rugged terrains of Cuba, the Congo and finally in Bolivia - or why someone who claimed to be obsessed with helping the world's poor was executed, gangland style, on the order of a CIA agent.
One exception was the BBC, which bothered to send a reporter to Florida to interview Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban-born CIA agent who was part of a team of CIA operatives and Bolivian soldiers who captured Che. "Mr. Rodriguez ordered the soldier who pulled the trigger to aim carefully, to remain consistent with the Bolivian government's story that Che had been killed in action in a clash with the Bolivian army," said the BBC report. Che's hands were then cut off and put in formaldehyde to preserve his fingerprints.
In his interview with the BBC, Rodriguez claimed that the order to kill Che came from the Bolivian government, and that he went along: "I could have tried to falsify the command to the troops, and got Che to Panama as the U.S. government said they wanted," he recalled, but he didn't. Clearly, the U.S. government was not unhappy with Rodriguez's role in the bloody affair, for he went on, as he boasts, to train the Nicaraguan Contras and advise the repressive Argentine military government in the 1980s. He showed the BBC reporter his CIA medal for exceptional service along with a picture of him with the first President Bush in the White House. George H. W. Bush, it should be remembered, had been the head of the CIA during some of the years that Rodriguez worked there and was not put off by the man's past deeds, including his part in Che's assassination.
So, what's the big deal? Che was a Cuban Communist, and it's a good thing that folks like Bush and Rodriguez were able to defeat him before he spread his evil message further - right? False, on every count.
First off, he was either an Argentine Trotskyite or an anarchist but Che was not a Communist in what we think of as the heavily entrenched, bureaucratized Cuban mold. Che was restless in post-revolutionary Cuba because his anarchist temperament caused him to bristle at the emerging bureaucracy. He was, like Trotsky in his dispute with Stalin, skeptical that the kind of socialism that truly served the poor could survive in just one country; hence, he died attempting to internationalize the struggle.
It also turned out that killing Che was a big mistake, as his message was spread more effectively by his execution than by his guerrilla activities, which were, after he left Cuba, quite pathetic. This is the case in Latin America, where political leaders he helped inspire are faring better than those coddled by the CIA. Daniel Ortega, whom the CIA worked so doggedly to overthrow, is the elected president of Nicaragua. Almost all of Latin America's leaders are leftists, some more moderate (as in Brazil), and others as fiery as Che (in Venezuela), but all determinedly independent of yanqui control. Fortunately, they differ from Che in preferring the ballot to the gun. But all recognize that poverty remains the region's No. 1 problem and that the free-market model imposed by the United States hardly contains all the answers. Recall that the U.S. break with the Cuban revolution came before the Castro's turn toward the Soviets, and that it was over his nationalization of American-owned business assets in Cuba ranging from Mafia-run casinos to the electric power grid.
These days, few politicians in the United States even seem to care about the subversive Cuban influences in our own backyard that once haunted them. The embargo on Cuba remains to mollify Florida's aging Cuban community, but the prize is Mideast oil, not protecting the peasants of Bolivia from the likes of Che Guevara. On Monday, Che's death was marked, in the Bolivian village where he was killed, by Bolivian President Evo Morales, who proclaimed his movement "100 percent Guevarist and socialist," which hardly registers as a propaganda success story for those favoring CIA assassinations. They turned a failed - and flawed - guerrilla fighter into an enduring symbol of resistance to oppression.
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The article appeared on www.sfgate.com/
Edith Cavell statue, St Martin's Place, London
EDITH CAVELL, Brussels, Dawn, October 12th 1915
Patriotism is not enough I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone
Edith Lousia Cavell was born in Swardeston near Norwich in 1865, the daughter of the local vicar. Edith's letters reveal that her low church father was a stern, unapproachable man, and so she would spend much of her early life wandering the parish, drawing and painting. At school, she showed a talent for languages, particularly French, and in 1890, at the age of 25, she set off for Brussels to work as a governess. Five years later, she was back in Swardeston, nursing her father through an illness, and this seems to be what set her mind to training as a nurse.
She worked in hospitals in Kent, London and Manchester, before setting off back to Brussels in 1906. She ran a training school for nurses there, but often returned to Norfolk, and it was while in the county that she heard of the German invasion of Belgium in 1914. She made her fateful decision to return there, and would never see England again.
From the stories, it is easy to imagine some dynamic, flighty young girl putting the world to rights, but of course Cavell was forty-eight years old when she headed back across the German Ocean. From then on, the story is well known. Her training school nursed soldiers of both sides, but she also saw it as her humanitarian duty to help hunted British soldiers escape back to England. Inevitably, she was caught, and shot by the Germans on the morning of October the 12th, 1915, a few weeks before her fiftieth birthday. Her last words would have been familiar to any English person in the first half of the 20th century: Standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realise that Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone.
She was buried in a military cemetery, and part of the cross which marked her grave is now in a glass case in Swardeston church, like a holy relic. After the War, Cavell's body was brought back to England, and, after a funeral in Westminster Abbey, she was buried in the Cathedral close in Norwich.
This fine, dramatic monument to her stands outside of the National Portrait Gallery near Trafalgar Square, and there is also a fairly awful one outside the Erpingham Gate of Norwich Cathedral. Other memorials include those in Peterborough Cathedral and at Steeple Bumpstead in Essex. Perhaps the best memorial, though, is the east window of Swardeston church, completed before the end of the War by Ernest Heasman. In light, muted colours, Edith Cavell kneels in her nurse's uniform at the foot of the cross, accompanied by smaller, appropriate figures, including St Agnes, St Margaret and Florence Nightingale.
Auburn Correctional Facility is a state prison located on State Street in Auburn, New York, built on land that was once a Cayuga Indian Village. It is classified as a maximum security facility.
Constructed in 1816 as Auburn Prison, it was the second state prison in New York (after New York City's Newgate, 1797-1828), the site of the first execution via electric chair in 1890, and the namesake of the "Auburn System," a correctional system believed to rehabilitate prisoners. The prison was renamed the Auburn Correctional Facility in the 1970s.
The prison charged a fee for tourists in order to raise funds for the prison. Eventually, to discourage most visitors, the fee was increased.
Entering the execution cell at Crumlin Road prison. It's actually just off the Condemned Man's cell, where I'm standing to take the picture - not a long last journey.
Grain added for extra grimness.
The East Yorkshire mainline from Gilberdyke to Hull has had a stay of execution on its semaphore signalling with a proposed resignalling date now looking like 2019 at the earliest. So with the last vestiges of autumn in the trees and some winter sunshine it was too good an opportunity to miss a day out on the line with some Flickr railway friends.
Here FTP 'Desiro' DMU no. 185 116 approaches Gilberdyke foot crossing at speed with train 1K13 the 11.39 Hull to Manchester Piccadilly.
SS personal about to execute some Partisans after having a recon patrol attacked.
Not all fun and games children.
In 1611, at Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, Father Louis Gaufridi was burnt alive for allegedly sending demons into the Ursuline nuns at Aix. At the age of 19, a nun named Madeleine fell victim to what those around her considered to be unmistakable demonic possession. Her body was contorted, and in a fit of rage she destroyed a crucifix calling out that Father Gaufridi had given her the "green devil". After physical and mental torture inflicted on Father Gaufridi during his time in prison, a pact with the Devil was produced in court, allegedly signed in Gaufridi's own blood.
Immediately following Gaufridi's execution, Sister Madeleine suddenly appeared free of all possession. Two years later, the possession hysteria spread to Lille, France, where three nuns claimed to have been bewitched by Sister Madeleine. Madeleine herself was charged with witchcraft, and despite being found to have the Devil's mark and being sentenced to imprisonment, she was eventually released to the custody of a relative and died in 1670 at the age of 77.
Because of Queen Apailana's polite and subtle refusal to accept the New Order, the Empire harbored suspicions about her true allegiance.
until Darth Vader found out that Naboo were hiding Jedi refugees trying to escape the Great Jedi Purge. Vader ordered Apailana's execution on the charges of treason, but knowing her guards would expect the assassination attempt on her, he sent the 501st Legion, an elite group of stormtroopers, to deal with the Royal Naboo Security Forces_ Wookiepedia
Based on the Battlefront 2 campaign. Hopefully ill make more. Brickbuilt sniper is fun plz ignore bad background