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Picture taken on the Luxembourg American war hero cemetery. The cemetery contains the remains of 5076 American service members. Most of the interred died during WW 2 at the battle of Bulge which was fought nearby in winter 1944/1945
Damsquare in Amsterdam is devided with a road. For longer period of time on one side of that road demonstrates 1 pro Israel person (on the picture) and on the other side 1 pro palestina person. They both call each other nazi and say they will continue demonstrating untill the other gives up. War on a small scale...
#WarandPeace
Saw the x2 fighter aircraft #flyover while eating #lunch at the bowling green in #Knaresborough (but missed the pic doh!) so this'll have to do 😎👍™️
Māori culture (Māoritanga) is the customs, cultural practices, and beliefs of the indigenous Māori people of New Zealand. It originated from, and is still part of, Eastern Polynesian culture. Māori culture also forms a distinctive part of New Zealand culture and, due to a large diaspora and the incorporation of Māori motifs into popular culture, is found throughout the world. Within Māoridom, and to a lesser extent throughout New Zealand as a whole, the word Māoritanga is often used as an approximate synonym for Māori culture, the Māori-language suffix -tanga being roughly equivalent to the qualitative noun-ending -ness in English. Māoritanga has also been translated as "[a] Māori way of life."
There have been four distinct but overlapping cultural eras—before Māori culture had differentiated itself from other Polynesian cultures (Archaic period), before widespread European contact (Classical period), the 1800s in which Māori began interacting with European visitors and settlers, and the modern era since the beginning of the 20th century. Māoritanga in the modern era has been shaped by increasing urbanisation, closer contact with New Zealanders of European descent (or Pākehā) and revival of traditional practices.
Traditional Māori arts make up a large section of New Zealand art and include whakairo (carving), raranga (weaving), kapa haka (group performance), whaikōrero (oratory), and tā moko (tattoo). The patterns and characters represented record the beliefs and genealogies (Whakapapa) of Māori. Practitioners often follow the techniques of their ancestors, but today Māoritanga also includes contemporary arts such as film, television, poetry and theatre. The Māori language is known as te reo Māori, shortened to te reo (literally, "the language"). At the beginning of the twentieth century, it looked like te reo Māori as well as other aspects of Māori life might disappear. In the 1980s, however, government-sponsored schools (Kura Kaupapa Māori) taught te reo, educating those of European descent as well as Māori. (Wikipedia)
My uncle fought in Iraq, he's home now, but won't speak. As a result his wife has divorced him, leaving my cousins without a father. When the rich wage war its the poor who die.
Save the children & you save our future & theirs!
Children accept the conditions they are born into, and, to a degree, I was getting used to the bombings, fires, and death around me. I remember that I thought those things were normal. It is grown-ups who worry about things, and this ... this was total panic! I could taste the fear, and I could see that my mother was frightened, which I had never seen before, and this made me even more frightened.”
― Alfred Nestor, Uncle Hitler: A Child's Traumatic Journey Through Nazi Hell to the Safety of Britain
Save Ukraine and other war torn countries from a fate woth than death... Children thinking all this is normal.
Frühling ohne Micki ist taurig...
Der Frühjahrsputz im Garten hat mit Micki soviel Spaß gemacht!
Er war bei jedem Handgriff zur Stelle, nicht immer hilfreich, denn so manches mühsam Zusammengeharktes hat er mühelos auseinander gewirbelt. Es gab keinen Zweig, an dem er sich nicht hängte, wenn ich diesen durch den Garten trug.
R.I.P.
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This is a shot I took about 2 1/2 years ago at a Civil War Muster in Holland at Van Raalte Farm Park.
With hand on hip and confident bearing,this woman is self-assured and elegant.She was probably from the Philadelphia area,where the artist Laura Wheeler Waring lived and worked.Like Waring's other portraits of urbane and sophisticated or dignified working class African Americans,this painting countered the many racial stereotypes that were prevalent at the time.Waring's work with its strong color palette and energetic brushwork,flourished during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s,a period of great African American Artista m artistic and cultural production-Brooklyn Museum
"Droids!"
('Sandtrooper' by Hasbro / Star Wars - The Black Series / 6-inch Back: 'Sandtroopers' and 'Dewback' by Kenner)
Diorama by RK
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This is my latest creation: The citadel from Star Wars The Clone Wars.
After months of work it's finally finished and I'm very happy to show it to you today. I really hope you like it and I'd be happy to read your comments. Favs appreciated (as always;D).
Some background info (from jedipedia):
The Citadel, also known as Citadel Station, was a prison constructed on the planet Lola Sayu by the Galactic Republic to hold rogue Jedi. Early in the Clone Wars, it was captured by the Confederacy of Independent Systems and Osi Sobeck became its warden.
Under Separatist control, the Citadel became known as the Confederacy's most isolated holding facility that held their high value detainees. The prison was heavily guarded by a number of droids including droid commandos. The clone trooper training facilities in Tipoca City on Kamino used a Citadel Challenge training course.
I didn't stick to the original model 100 %, mainly due to the fact that I wanted to build an interior. That's why my citadel appears to be a bit "thicker" than the one you've seen in TCW. Also I added some things such as the details on the walls and the hangar inside the mountain. I was generally quite creative. Obviously, because I enjoy it and it's probably the most fun part about building with LEGO, but also because there weren't a lot of high res shots of the citadel available. So I had to come up with quite a few solutions of my own in order to finish this MOC.
I think the end result is pretty good and I really enjoyed working on this big project.
- Julius
background image: CLAUDIO SANTANA/AFP/Getty Images
eScootering Around Auckland
Last day of Winter 2022.
Minolta Alpha 7 on Fuji Velvia
I have converted some to B&W because I think colour adds nothing to them.
Sigma 17mm f3.5, Sigma 12-24mm f4, Sigma 28mm f1.8
USATC 'S160' 2-8-0 no.6046 makes a magnificent sight as she brings the military goods train through Williton station.
2018 WSR Spring Steam Gala
"Cheskopokuta klees ka tlanko ... ya oska." ("I've been looking forward to this for a long time.")
('Greedo' by Hasbro / Star Wars - The Black Series / 6-inch)
Diorama by RK
Video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a9jfck9rrc&list=UUMT8imvk7fz...
Farm animals rebel against their farmers
This weeks Macro Mondays effort on the theme of ' My Favourite Novel ', the inspiration being ( as if you couldn't guess ) 'War and peace' by Leo Tolstoy. I'm sure he would've been proud...HMM y'all!
This figure is inspired by the Rogue One designs and a Vietnam War era uniform. The skull on the helmet is a reference to Straight To Hell by The Clash. Enjoy!
The war in Ukraine, violent as it is on the ground, has also produced elsewhere a most confrontational mindset. Each side is generating its own "narrative" with its related truth claims. Their thought police would accuse anybody of heresy who dared to look at the other narrative. These attempts at silencing more nuanced ways of thinking must be resisted. As for me, living in the UK with its very outspoken support for Ukraine, some reminders may be in order. 1. Putin's regime is the enemy, not the Russian people. 2. It is not Tolstoi or Shostakovich we have issues with. 3. Thinking about a possible postwar order must be allowed if it helps to prevent a global or nuclear confrontation.
The War Memorial in Wilton, Wiltshire, in the grounds of the Italianate Church of St Mary and St Nicholas I presume it was erected in the early 1920s, but I can find no further information on its construction.
The ancient town of Wilton was founded by the Anglo-Saxons and was until 1889 the county town of Wiltshire. Just over 3 miles or 5 km west of Salisbury, it has a small but rapidly growing population, 4,305 people in 2021, an increase of 20% in a decade. Its centre has a particularly fine collection of Georgian architecture.
Wär ich ein Baum, stünd ich droben am Wald.
Trüg Wolke und Stern in den grünen Haaren.
Wäre mit meinen dreihundert Jahren
noch gar nicht sehr alt.
Wildtauben grüben den Kopf untern Flügel.
Kriege ritten und klirrten im Trab
querfeldein und über die Hügel
ins offene Grab.
Humpelten Hunger vorüber und Seuche.
Kämen und schmölzen wie Ostern und Schnee.
Läg ein Pärchen versteckt im Gesträuche
und tät sich süß weh.
Klängen vom Dorf her die Kirmesgeigen.
Ameisen brächten die Ernte ein.
Hinge ein Toter in meinen Zweigen
und schwänge das Bein.
Spränge die Flut und ersäufte die Täler.
Wüchse Vergissmeinnicht zärtlich am Bach.
Alles verginge wie Täuschung und Fehler
und Rauch überm Dach.
Wär ich ein Baum, stünd ich droben am Wald.
Trüg Wolke und Stern in den grünen Haaren.
Wäre mit meinen dreihundert Jahren
noch gar nicht sehr alt ..
"Trostlied im Konjunktiv" von Erich Kästner
"Rumors Of War" statue by artist Kehinde Wiley depicts an African American man dressed in streetwear in the pose of a Confederate War Statue. In a statement by Wiley " “The inspiration for Rumors of War is war—is an engagement with violence. Art and violence have for an eternity held a strong narrative grip with each other. Rumors of War attempts to use the language of equestrian portraiture to both embrace and subsume the fetishization of state violence. New York and Times Square in particular sit at the crossroads of human movement on a global scale. To have the Rumors of War sculpture presented in such a context lays bare the scope and scale of the project in its conceit to expose the beautiful and terrible potentiality of art to sculpt the language of domination.”
The statue temporarily installed in New York's Times Square until December will be permanently installed outside the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts less than a mile from the Confederate Statue that was its inspiration.
The War Memorial of Korea
Seoul, South Korea
In 2006 I spent a summer in South Korea teaching English. If you would like to learn more about my experience, check out my post Challenged by Korean Cultural and Social Differences on my blog Batteredsuitcase.net
Take your mind back, I don't know when
Some time when it always seemed to be just us and them
Girls that wore pink, and boys that wore blue
Boys that always grew up better men than me and you
What's a man now, what's a man mean
Is he rough or is he rugged, is he cultural and clean
Now it's all changed, it's got to change more
'Cause we think it's getting better but nobody's really sure
And so it goes, go round again
But now and then we wonder who the real men are
Oh, oh...
See the nice boys, dancing in pairs
Golden earring, golden tan, blow wave in their hair
Sure they're all straight, straight as a line
All the gays are macho, can't you see their leather shine
You don't want to sound dumb, don't want to offend
So don't call me a faggot, not unless you are a friend
Then if you're tall and handsome and strong
You can wear the uniform and I could play along
Time to get scared, time to change plan
Don't know how to treat a lady, don't know how to be a man
Time to admit what you call defeat
'Cause there's women running past you now and you just drag your feet
Man makes a gun, man goes to war
Man can kill and man can drink and man can take a whore
Kill all the blacks, kill all the reds
And if there's war between the sexes then there'll be no people left