La Grande Guerre
Lorraine: Verdun
Simone Clay
UCDavis
24.7.04
Normandy June 1944
U.S. Coast Guard Collection
Naval Historical Center
U.S. National Archives
Descartes's Lover
...skull, pheasant,
pear, wine glass. You're troubled
especially by the red brocade...
Erin Murphy
Verse Daily
Jul.24.04
23.7.04
Web Sites of Interest to ICTM(International Council for Traditional Music) Members
Gulag: On the traces of a vanished world
Musée d'ethnographie de la Ville de Genève
Books of Memory
The perpetuation of the memory of the victims is one of the most important, but also one of the most difficult tasks of Memorial. It was around this very idea that Memorial formed in 1988. Quite a bit has been accomplished during the past decade, but much more remains to be done.
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Through the extermination and the persecution of millions of people, the Soviet government attempted to conceal its crimes. Who knows exactly how many victims of terror there were? Where were the executed buried? Where were the countless camps and what transpired behind the barbed wire? Even the relatives of the deceased do not know the truth: "10 years without the right to correspondence" – this was the only information given about the fate of the convict under Stalinism, the short formula of his life and death.
How can one find the truth in a world full of lies that obstruct our history? And it is it worth trying? It is, after all, easy to live in a nice and simple world of illusions. The reality of history does not lend comfort, does not lead to success and prosperity, but rather complicates everything. It creates problems of guilt and responsibility, opens old wounds, and awakes shame where only pride should exist.
Yet leaving behind the tragic truth means abandoning one’s own memory. A society without memory will obediently play into the hands of any demagogue; people in such a society are no better than nuts and bolts in the state machine. They are worthless slaves to an inhumane ideology that promises everyone happiness.
However horrible the past may have been, forgetting it would make the future even worse.
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The perpetuation of the memory of the victims is one of the most important, but also one of the most difficult tasks of Memorial. It was around this very idea that Memorial formed in 1988. Quite a bit has been accomplished during the past decade, but much more remains to be done.
From the very outset, three areas of work assumed top priority: the establishment of a list of the names of all victims and the publication of these names; the clarification of the places of burial of the deceased, and the establishment of memorial signs on these burial places.
Museum
Handmade Items:
Kotschi (Austrian prisoner)
963. Case for spectacles
Karlag (Dolinka)
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Levina, Zinaida Semenovna 1904-1991
901. Napkin
Kolyma: camp
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Unidentified master
903. Embroidered inset for woman's undergarment
Temniki camp (Potma)
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Rogalskaya, Dora Moiseevna
924.The Virgin and Child, embroidered icon
Karlag (Dolinka)
Thus, we find and collect facts.
Corporal J. D. M. Pearson, GC, WAAF
Dame Laura Knight
Daphne Pearson, WAAC (born 26 May 1911), was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal, subsequently exchanged for the George Cross, for her bravery in rescuing the pilot of an aircraft which had crashed at Detling, Kent, in the early hours of 31 May 1940. As she helped the pilot to get clear of the wreckage one of the aircraft's 120lb bombs exploded. She threw herself on top of the pilot to protect him from the blast and shrapnel.Myths and Heroes
Truth and Propaganda
Imperial War Museum Collections Online
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Laura Knight "...was made a Dame in 1929 for her services to art and in 1936 became the first woman to be elected to the Royal Academy."
22.7.04
Tandem Bicycle Power Generator used for Field Wireless Sections
Caricature and Comedy
Truth and Propaganda
Imperial War Museum Collections Online
"Reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the Passions"
David Hume
cited by Peter Gay in his article, “The Enlightenment” in Horizon Volume XII Nº2 page 43
cited in turn by Sprezzatura, Jul.15.04
and now, again, here.
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Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Harvard Classics & Shelf of Fiction
bartleby
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Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature Chapter 63
eBooks@Adelaide: Free Web Books, Online
University of Adelaide Library
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. "
mimi smartypants has earned four stars for invention, and one-half demerit for mechano-facetious misleading behavior, in a recent posting filled with wry yet winsome observations, such as we have come to depend on her to provide. Acupuncture and other so-called alternative therapies are also touched upon.
The editor of this business, myself, weighed in on the general topic of non-traditional therapies, at Barista, on the Fourth of July.
Ken "Capn Skyp" Babbs has written up his reunion with his helicopter squadron (Viet Nam, early 60's). After 40 years. It is, like most everything else I ever read by his hand, inspirational in its selfless strength and good-natured humor.
21.7.04
He would be buried alive for sometimes up to two days with the vital assistance of a hidden breathing apparatus after audiences would pay 25 cents to witness his burial and then were issued return tickets to see him being "revived" again. Tod's act became one of the top attractions and by 21 years of age he had worked at every carnival and sideshow job imaginable including a time with Ringling Brothers Circus as a clown. Furthermore he appeared in vaudeville with such acts as "Mutt and Jeff" and "The Lizard and the Coon" for the Willard & King Company and then for Chicago's Whallen & Martel Burlesque Company where he appeared as an illusionist, an acrobat, a singer and dancer, and in a blackface routine called "The Whirl of Mirth" with comedian Charlie Murray who later became a favourite of Mack Sennett. The acts took young Tod on tours of Europe, the Far East and Africa.Tod Browning
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