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- WWII Jewish Insurgent Leader Remembers | Danger Room | Wired.com
 Jun 27, 6:36pm  (1 review) history, warsaw-ghetto, world-war-2, wwii http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/04/...
WWII Jewish Insurgent Leader Remembers
From the page: "In April 1943 a few hundred young Jewish insurgents were all that stood between the German Army and thousands of Warsaw ghetto residents marked for extermination. They failed, but not for a lack of trying and dying. Marek Edelman was one of their leaders:
Then 24 years old, Edelman took command of one of the revolt's three groups. His fighters, between the ages of 13 and 22, scraped together guns and ammunition that they and the Polish resistance managed to smuggle in from the outside.
His brigade included 50 fighters known as "brush men" because their base was a brush factory.
"There weren't enough guns, ammunition. There was not enough food, but we were not starving. You can live for three weeks just on water and sugar," which they found in the homes of those deported to death camps, he said.
They adopted hit-and-run tactics. With time, as supplies and forces began to run low, they resorted to attacks at night, for more safety.
"Every moment was difficult. It was two or three or 10 boys fighting with an army," Edelman said. "There were no easy moments."
But they were outnumbered and outgunned. ...
The uprising ended when its main leaders -- rounded up by the Nazis --
committed suicide on May 8, 1943. The Nazis then burned down the ghetto, street by street.
About 40 fighters escaped through Warsaw's sewers and joined the Polish partisans.
"No one believed he would be saved," Edelman said. "We knew that the struggle was doomed, but it showed the world that there is resistance against the Nazis, that you can fight the Nazis.""
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- Jun 27, 5:02pm (1 review) arts, quotes, pablo-picasso http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd266...
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Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso
Quotes
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
If there is something to steal, I steal it!.
I am always doing things, I can't do, that's how I get to do them..
Every positive value has its price in negative terms...The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
People want to find a "meaning" in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Photograph by Irving Penn
- Masterpiece: The Alexander Sarcophagus -- Judith H. Dobrzynski - WSJ.com...
- Jun 27, 3:29pm (1 review) history, alexander-the-great, sarcophagus, mysteries http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...
Who's in the Alexander Sarcophagus?
From the page: "Sidon, a port city about 25 miles south of Beirut whose rich history dates to 4000 B.C., was among the most successful of the Phoenician city-states. In the fourth century B.C., it fell to Alexander the Great, entering a Hellenistic age that lasted for more than 100 years until the Romans took over. It changed hands several more times before becoming part of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century.
So it is not surprising that when, in the mid-1800s, archaeologists started exploring Sidon, they found treasures. The French turned up (among other things) a sarcophagus that belonged to a Phoenician king named Eshmunazar II and sent it back to the Louvre. Later, a Turk named Osman Hamdi Bey, who had studied in Paris, became director of the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul and began leading his own excavations in Sidon. In 1887, his team hit upon more than two dozen sarcophagi. Many were stunning, including the Sarcophagus of Mourning Women, which shows 18 comely, elegant females in varying expressions of grief; it's now in the Istanbul museum.
But the star discovery was clearly a fantastically beautiful burial chamber depicting Alexander in battle and at hunt in high-relief. One glance told the Ottoman archaeologists that it was made for someone special. Given its date--fourth century B.C.--and its Hellenistic style, they proposed that it belonged to Alexander.
It didn't, everyone now says. Alexander's tomb has never been found (though a few academics argue that a sarcophagus found in Alexandria and now at the British Museum is his; the British Museum disagrees). The specimen in question, which nevertheless became known as the Alexander Sarcophagus, was likely carved for Abdalonymos, a gardener of royal blood who was made Sidon's king by Alexander in 332 B.C. (some scholars disagree about this, too).
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On this frieze, Alexander rides a rearing horse, charging a Persian and trampling another one underfoot. The sculpture is so three-dimensional that it practically steps off the stone. Alexander, his face intense, makes eye contact with a Persian he targets with a spear (presumably made of metal, and missing, as are all the spears made for the sarcophagus); the Persian cowers in fear. Nearby, an equally fervent pair of warring foot soldiers are at each other's throats. And so it goes throughout what could be construed as six scenes: Alexander's army shows its muscles, literally (especially the leg muscles), while the Persians are covered in historically accurate trousers and head coverings that conceal theirs. You can read the agony on the face of a dying Persian, one among many scattered on the ground. Alexander's army simply shows determination.
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No one knows who made this exquisite object. Some experts have suggested that the hand of as many as six sculptors can be detected, but the work is so consistently good that you could have fooled me.
There was a painter, too. Near the sarcophagus in the Archaeological Museum, the Turks have placed a model displaying what one part of the sarcophagus, Alexander on his charging horse, would have looked like had its colors remained. To eyes now expecting Greek artifacts to be white marble, the magenta, red and gold seem to clash. But even then, it's easy to see a jewel of a piece."
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- Jun 26, 8:46pm (1 review) photography, poetry, love, poem http://farm1.static.flickr.com/194/48903...
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Poem sent by Prince Otsu to Lady Ishikawa
Gentle foothills, and
in the dew drops of the mountains,
soaked, I waited for you--
grew wet from standing there
in the dew drops of the mountains.
Poem by Lady Ishikawa in reply
Waiting for me,
you grew wet there
in gentle foothills,
in the dew drops of the mountains--
I wish I'd been such drops of dew.
Written 7th C. CE
- At first glance. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- Jun 26, 4:44pm (1 review) photography, man, poems, poetry, love http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaquelineva...
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WITHOUT thee what are song and dance to me?
The castagnettes I throw down wearily.
My heart and thoughts are ever filled with thee,
So rhymes and verses leave me, one by one.
How can one bandage serve for gashes twain?
How on two masters wait a single swain?
Would not one gardener tend two groves in vain?
For he must graft the saplings one by one.
Well said our fathers, speaking of such woes,
"I made a garden, others plucked the rose.
Theirs was the sweetness, mine the thorny close."
In sooth these things befell me one by one!
Without thee what are riches unto me?
What worth could I in silks or cashmeres see?
Arrayed in rags and sackcloth I would be,
Wandering around the convents, one by one,
To meet perchance with some one, who might tell,
My fair one, how to free me from thy spell;
For Sayat Nova's torments far excel
The Seven Wise Men's complaints told one by one!
Sayat Nova
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- Jun 26, 2:05pm
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- It Felt Love: A Hafiz Poem - Inspirational Articles, Poems, Quotes, Stories...
- Jun 26, 10:33am (1 review) poetry, poem, hafiz, rose http://www.zimbio.com/Inspirational+Arti...
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It Felt Love
How
Did the rose
Ever open it's heart
And give this world
All its
Beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
Against its
Being,
Otherwise,
We all remain
Too
Frightened
Hafiz
- Men &Love Relationships
- Jun 25, 7:21am (1 review) psychology, love, men, relationships http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/...
Men & Love Relationships
From the page: "... Research has shown that men often experience gender role strain or conflict. For example, while men desire intimacy and collaborative relationships, internal opposing forces often lead them to develop avoidant and competitive attitudes. The ultimate result of this psychological state is stifling of the human potential for personal development in men and of those they hold dearest. O'Neil (1997) identified a number of key areas of conflict resulting in 1) restricted emotionality, 2) health care problems, 3) obsession with achievement and success, 4) restrictive affectionate behaviour between men, 5) socialised control power and competition issues, and 6) homophobia. One must understand that men experience strong but muted needs in the opposing direction too - thus, for example, men experience conflict when the innate need to express oneself is inhibited by an inability or a disabling fear resulting in emotional impoverishment. Empirical research has substantiated most of these assertions and clinical experience clearly illustrates how these tensions restrict men's ability to enjoy the quality of life they long for, particularly in the relational sphere (for more detailed information visit the gender role conflict research website at: web.uconn.edu/joneil/GenderHome.html [web.uconn.edu/joneil/GenderHome.html] ).
The experience of internal conflict is rendered more taxing in romantic relationships. Here partners are faced with a clear expectation that they will find emotional companionship in each other, partnership in activity and a sense of equality. This may place some men in an untenable position if they have not resolved the conflicts mentioned earlier as relationships involve a sensitive and in many ways complex dance around the key issues of intimacy and power.
Men who have not sufficiently developed their capacity to express deeply felt feelings often make dull and impoverishing partners (and parents). And yet these men still long for the intimacy offered by close relationships but they have often been socialised to experience a sense of dread related with this desired state. Likewise men who are overly concerned with competition and achievement are unlikely to offer much encouragement of their partners' development. Such fears are often irrational, perhaps even unconscious but many women (and children) can give testimony to the subtle (or direct) manner in which many men manoeuvre to maintain their position of prominence and privilege. These internal conflicts often results in arrangements that men find convenient but ultimately deeply unsatisfying.
Moreover, a closer analysis of masculinity norms across cultures shows us that being male is intimately related to self-sacrifice (e.g. Gilmore's Manhood in the Making, 1990 provides a valuable anthropological perspective). While this may not seem apparent at first, it is also true that throughout the ages, men have sacrificed their lives for the good of the community they belonged to - in protecting their home and country from threats and enduring hardship and perilous working conditions to provide for those they cherished (this of course does not negate women's exposure to their fair share of peril). Unfortunately men's actions have often been shrouded in such pride or violence that their altruistic value has often remained unseen ..."
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- Jun 25, 4:45am (1 review) poetry, arts, poems, illustration http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/e/h/eho5/07_Ki...
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Peanut-Butter Sandwich
I'll sing you a story of a silly young king
Who played with the world at the end of a string,
But he only loved one single thing --
And that was just a peanut-butter sandwich.
His scepter and his royal gowns,
His regal throne and golden crowns
Were brown and sticky from the mounds
And drippings from each peanut-butter sandwich.
His subjects all were silly fools
For he had passed a royal rule
That all that they could learn in school
Was how to make a peanut-butter sandwich
. . .
Shel Silverstein
- Stone Age Flutes Found in Germany Offer Clues to Early Music - NYTimes...
- Jun 24, 8:09pm (1 review) archaeology, history, music, arts, flute http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/scienc...
Flutes Offer Clues to Stone-Age Music
From the page: "... Archaeologists Wednesday reported the discovery last fall of a bone flute and two fragments of ivory flutes that they said represented the earliest known flowering of music-making in Stone Age culture. They said the bone flute with five finger holes, found at Hohle Fels Cave in the hills west of Ulm, was "by far the most complete of the musical instruments so far recovered from the caves" in a region where pieces of other flutes have been turning up in recent years.
A three-hole flute carved from mammoth ivory was uncovered a few years ago at another cave, as well as two flutes made from the wing bones of a mute swan. In the same cave, archaeologists also found beautiful carvings of animals.
But until now the artifacts appeared to be too rare and were not dated precisely enough to support wider interpretations of the early rise of music. The earliest solid evidence of musical instruments previously came from France and Austria, but dated much more recently than 30,000 years ago..."
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