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Winston: "Marshal Stalin, I believe God is on our side. At least i have done my best to make him a faithful ally."
Uncle Jo: " And the devil is on my side. Because, of course, everyone knows that the devil is a Communist and God, no doubt, is a good Conservative."
(Teheran Conference, November 1943)
NOTE: Here Stalin has contrived for NKVD spy Ana Pauker, (later to become Romania's Foreign Minister) to double as Roosevelt's hotel chamber maid... the devil never left to chance any such minor details!
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Churchill si Stalin la Conferinta dela Teheran, Noiembrie 1943:
CHURCHILL:
"Maresale Stalin, stiu ca Dumnezeu este de partea noastra, sau cel putin am facut tot posibilul ca sa fie un aliat de nadejde."
STALIN:
"Iar dracul este de partea mea, pentru ca asa cum se stie, dracul este comunist, iar Dumnezeu, fara doar si poate este un Consevator convins."
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During WWII Princess Marthe Bibesco (1883-1973), a sister-in-law of Lady Elizabeth Asquith, wrote several times to Churchill, on one occasion to pass on a request from the Romanian Government for a separate peace with the Allies. From recently released documents in British archives it appears clear that British civil servants were not keen to use Princess Bibesco’s offer, stating that such potential intermediaries ‘were not in short supply’ – a typical arrogance of faceless and myopic power broking civil servants at Whitehall at the sunset of the British Empire. Had they grasped the nettle, the political map of Europe might have been quite different, with eastern Europe not being enslaved and Churchill not having any reason to coin the expression ‘Iron Curtain’, as a metaphor for the division of Europe. But this was not to be and it is an instance where poets could show a better intuition than mandarins, or politicians.
Source; "Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of romanian Women".
Handmade mug from the Old Station Pottery & Bookshop, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. Books from charity shops.
I intend to read this book in its original outmoded solid physical book format.
For Our Daily Challenge "LOW TECH."
ODC
I added the many spherical bodies using the app Pixelmator that resides on my iPhone 7 Plus.
Happy Sliders Sunday HSS
Since i'm limited to a mere 200 pics without a pro account, i try to keep them mostly for archiving my mocs, but i thoght it might be fun to give you guys a small peek into my world... Which is ofcourse incredibly nerdy
"I know that people say you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true..." --- Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“The strange and savage life of Hunter S. Thompson” …… this story was in my mailbox today. I look forward to opening the hard bound cover after I go to bed tonight. It seems a strange combo of a fashionista writer and Gonzo from Doonesbury. The juxtaposition could be volatile…..a real Molatov cocktail, to those of us old enough to recall that era. I enjoyed Ms. Carroll’s recent release and look forward to this earlier title. Hunter was larger than life and his character larger than life. As Duke in Doonesbury he was fictionalized but real life did not take a back seat to his print exploits.
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Edit: The text for this photograph had been changed, and now I can't remember what it originally said :(
I have many knitting books in my library that are mostly patterns, but these are the ones that I turn to if I have a question or want to know how to do something.
Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non #fiction, #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting
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A importância da imaginação para superar o fracasso, nesse novo livro J. K. Rowling nos trás exemplos muito pessoais sobre como essas duas coisas podem ser importantes em nossas vidas para que sejam muito boas. • Novo post no blog •
"Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women"
Presented and Selected by Constantin ROMAN
Anthology E-BOOK (11BM)
DISTRIBUTION: Online with credit card
COST: $ 54.99, £34.99 (ca Euros 35.50)
LINK: www.blouseroumaine.com/orderthebook_p1.html
CONTENTS:
2,250,000 words,
over 1,000 pages,
ca 160 illustrations in text
160 critical biographies,
58 social categories/professions,
600 quotations (mostly translated into English for the first time),
circa 3,000 bibliographical references (including URLs and credits)
6 Indexes (alphabetical, by profession, timeline, quotation Index, place
index and name index)
AUTHOR: Constantin Roman is a Scholar with a Doctorate from Cambridge and a Member of the Society of Authors (London). He is an International Adviser, Guest Speaker, Professor Honoris Causa and Commander of the Order of Merit.
INDEX BY PROSFESSION: 58 CATEGORIES by Call, Profession or Social Status
Academics (22), Actresses (9), Anti-Communist Fighters (14), Architects/Interior Designers (2), Art Critics (9), Artist Book Binders (1), Ballerinas (6), Charity Workers/Benefactors (20), Communist Public Figures (2), Courtesans (3), Designers (2), Diplomats (4), Essayists (11), Ethnographers (6), Exiles & First-generation Romanians born abroad (87), Explorers (1), Feminists (12), Folk Singers (1), Gymnasts, Dressage Riders (2), Historians (5), Honorary Romanian Women (15), Illustrators (3), Journalists (13), Lawyers (4), Librarians (3), Linguists (2), Literary Critics (1), Media (15), Medical Doctors/Nurses (5), Memoir Writers (16), Missionaries and Nuns (4), Mountainéers (2), Museographers (1), Musical Instruments Makers (1), Novelists (24), Opera Singers (16), Painters (14), Peasant Farmers (6), Philosophers and Philosophy Graduates (4), Pianists (6), Pilots (4), Playwrights (5), Poets (29), Political Prisoners (30), Politicians (5), Revolutionaries (2), Royals and Aristocrats (34), Scientists (8), Sculptors (4), Slave (1), Socialites/Hostesses (20), Spouses/Relations of Public Figures (51), Spies (2), Tapestry Weavers (4), Translators (25), Unknown Illustrious (6), Violinists (4), Workers (3)
NOTE:
Most of the above 160 Romanian women, in the best tradition of versatility, are true polymaths and therefore nearly each one of them falls in more than just one category, often three or more. This explains why adding the numbers of the 57 individual categories bears no relation to the actual total of the above 160 women included in Blouse Roumaine.
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LIST OF 160 CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES (each supported by Quotations and Bibliography)
AA *Gabriela Adamesteanu *Florenta Albu *Nina Arbore *Elena Arnàutoiu *Ioana Raluca Voicu-Arnàutoiu, *Laurentia Arnàutoiu *Mariea Plop - Arnàutoiu *Ana Aslan *Lady Elizabeth Asquith Bibescu
BB *Lauren Bacall *Lady Florence Baker *Zoe Bàlàceanu *Ecaterina Bàlàcioiu-Lovinescu *Victorine de Bellio *Pss. Marta Bibescu *Adriana Bittel *Maria Prodan Bjørnson *Ana Blandiana *Yvonne Blondel *Lola Bobescu *Smaranda Bràescu *Elena Bràtianu *Élise Bràtianu *Ioana Bràtianu *Elena Bràtianu- Racottà *Letitzia Bucur
CC *Anne-Marie Callimachi *Georgeta Cancicov *Madeleine Cancicov *Pss. Alexandra Cantacuzino *Pss.Maria Cantacuzino (Madame Puvis de Chavannes) *Pss. Maruca Cantacuzino-Enesco* Pss. Catherine Caradja *Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu *Marta Caraion-Blanc, *Nina Cassian, *Otilia Cazimir *Elena Ceausescu *Maria Cebotari *Ioana Celibidache *Hélène Chrissoveloni (Mme Paul Morand)*Alice Cocea *Irina Codreanu *Lizica Codreanu *Alina Cojocaru *Nadia Comàneci *Denisa Comànescu *Lena Constante *Silvia Constantinescu *Doina Cornea *Hortense Cornu *Viorica Cortez*Otilia Cosmutzà *Sandra Cotovu *Ileana Cotrubas *Carmen-Daniela Cràsnaru *Mioara Cremene *Florica Cristoforeanu *Pss. Elena Cuza
DD *Hariclea Darclée *Cella Delavrancea *Alina Diaconú *Varinca Diaconú *Anca Diamandy *Marie Ana Dràgescu *Rodica Dràghincescu *Bucura Dumbravà *Natalia Dumitrescu
EE *Micaela Eleutheriade *Queen Elisabeth of Romania (‘Carmen Sylva’) *Alexandra Enescu *Mica Ertegün
FF *Lizi Florescu, *Maria Forescu *Nicoleta Franck *Aurora Fúlgida
GG *Angela Gheorghiu *Pss Grigore Ghica *Pss. Georges Ghika (Liane de Pougy) *Veturia Goga *Maria Golescu *Nadia Gray *Olga Greceanu *Pss. Helen of Greece *Nicole Valéry-Grossu *Carmen Groza
HH *Virginia Andreescu Haret *Clara Haskil *Lucia Hossu-Longin
II *Pss. Ileana of Romania *Ana Ipàtescu *Marie-France Ionesco *Dora d’Istria *Rodica Iulian
JJ *Doina Jela *Lucretia Jurj
KK *Mite Kremnitz
LL *Marie-Jeanne Lecca *Madeleine Lipatti *Monica Lovinescu *Elena Lupescu
MM *Maria Mailat *Ileana Màlàncioiu *Ionela Manolesco *Lilly Marcou *Silvia Marcovici *Queen Marie of Romania *Ioana A. Marin *Ioana Meitani *Gabriela Melinescu *Veronica Micle *Nelly Miricioiu *Herta Müller *Alina Mungiu-Pippidi *Agnes Kelly Murgoci
NN *Mabel Nandris *Anita Nandris-Cudla *Lucia Negoità *Mariana Nicolesco *Countess Anna de Noailles *Ana Novac
OO *Helen O’Brien *Oana Orlea
PP *Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu *Milita Pàtrascu *Ana Pauker *Marta Petreu *Cornelia Pillat *Magdalena Popa *Elvira Popescu
RR *Ruxandra Racovitzà *Elisabeta Rizea *Eugenia Roman *Stella Roman *Queen Ana de România, *Pss. Margarita de România *Maria Rosetti *Elisabeth Roudinesco
SS *Annie Samuelli *Sylvia Sidney *Henriette-Yvonne Stahl *Countess Leopold Starszensky *Elena Stefoi *Pss. Marina Stirbey *Sanda Stolojan *Cecilia Cutzescu-Storck
TT *Maria Tànase *Aretia Tàtàrescu *Monica Theodorescu *Elena Theodorini
UU *Viorica Ursuleac
VV *Elena Vàcàrescu *Leontina Vàduva *Ana Velescu *Marioara Ventura *Anca Visdei *Wanda Sachelarie Vladimirescu *Alice Steriade Voinescu
WW *Sabina Wurmbrand
ZZ *Virginia Zeani
Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, near Dublin, Ireland. Raised in a middle class, Protestant home, the son of a quantity surveyor and a nurse, he was sent off at the age of 14 to attend the same school which Oscar Wilde had attended. Looking back on his childhood, he once remarked, "I had little talent for happiness."
Beckett finally settled down in Paris in 1937. Shortly thereafter, he was stabbed in the street by a man who had approached him asking for money. He would learn later, in the hospital, that he had a perforated lung. After his recovery, he went to visit his assailant in prison. When asked why he had attacked Beckett, the prisoner replied "Je ne sais pas, Monsieur", a phrase hauntingly reminiscent of some of the lost and confused souls that would populate the writer's later works.
During World War II, Beckett stayed in Paris--even after it had become occupied by the Germans. He joined the underground movement and fought for the resistance until 1942 when several members of his group were arrested and he was forced to flee with his French-born wife to the unoccupied zone. In 1945, after it had been liberated from the Germans, he returned to Paris and began his most prolific period as a writer. In the five years that followed, he wrote Eleutheria, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, the novels Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Mercier et Camier, two books of short stories, and a book of criticism.
His works have been translated into over twenty languages. In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He continued to write until his death in 1989, but the task grew more and more difficult with each work until, in the end, he said that each word seemed to him "an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
source:
www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc7.htm
A few Quaotes from Samuel Beckett's:
"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. "
"Make sense who may. I switch off. "
"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. "
'In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness."
"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. "
"Birth was the death of him. "
NOTE:It is clear from the random selection of Becketts quotes not onlythat he was a pessimist but that he professed a deep-seated depression (see above biographical outline). However it is rather surreal to think that on making friends with another foreign exile in Paris, the Romanian philospher Emil CIORAN, Beckett appears to have lost sympathy for Cioran because of his pessimism: it takes one to know one as Cioran excelled at writing a philosophical romance on modern themes of alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease.'
Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non #fiction, #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting
Surgery & days off ... I think books are best way to fight anxiousness before & pain after the nose (and no not plastic) surgery :(((
London SW3 Regency House in a street just off King's Rd and close to Sloane Square.
one of the few surviving independent bookshops in London, founded in 1957, where the owners know their stuff, mix with the litterati and even write fiction - not yet shortlisted for the Booker Prize ;0)
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Here, mainly biographies
In the box, I put the porcelain beans that we use to put in the french cake for the day of Epiphany, this cake is named "Galette des Rois" in the north of France and "Gâteau des Rois" in the south. It's not the same cake in the north than in the south.
Capturing Camelot:
Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys
Kitty Kelley
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The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary
Civil Aircraft:
300 Of The World's Greatest Civil Aircraft (Expert Guide Series)
by Robert Jackson
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These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
by Gerald Posner
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These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary
Sitting Bull is best known for defeating General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books that I have read or will read at some point. The books are non fiction, history,biographies and autobiography’s of people and historical events I found to be interesting.
Rage
by Bob Woodward
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non fiction, history,biographies , autobiography’s and historical events I found to be interesting.
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non fiction, history,biographies , autobiography’s and historical events I found to be interesting.
By Truman Capote
Capote wrote the book but when the movie was made , he hated it.
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I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary
I love to see what other people read, so here's another peek at a few of my books.
And yes, i've read them all. I get that question a lot. ;-)
Actually, all of them except Team of Rivals - it's coming up soon.
The Cigar Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide
by Anwer Bati, Simon Chase
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary