Among the traditions of the Catalans, one of the most well-known is the castells or castles, usually translated into English as human towers. It is also a highly symbolic tradition, although to the eye of a tourist or a passer-by, this may just look like a spectacular but crazy thing with children doing the risky part. However, the risks of it are much fewer than it first seems, and the fun, sense of collectivity, mix of decision, courage, accuracy, and balance exceed by far every other feeling. ...
The official Flag of Georgia is the "Five-cross Flag", restored to official use on January 14, 2004, after a break of some 500 years. It was previously the flag of the medieval Georgian kingdom. Originally, the white flag with the single red St. George's cross was used by the Georgian King Vakhtang Gorgasali in the 5th century as the national symbol of the Georgian state and nation. During the golden age of the ...
Following the celebration of the ten year anniversary of the Russian Revolution, three young Berlin communists from the Köpernick district committed suicide after they had taken a touching farewell from their comrades. They explained calmly that they had lost faith in the future of the International. It is said of Ernst Thälmann, the communist leader, that during the Hamburg uprising he laid ...
1. The Ideological Reason why Russia is so hostile to the West. 2. Russians and other Orthodox Christian Girls and Women used to wear headscarfs in the past like Muslims. 3. Russians invented Artistic Style of Japanese Anime Characters. 4. Surprising difference in Halogroups between Russians and Ukrainians show that Russians could ethnically be considered their own Slavic group like North Slavs. 5. Surprising map showing how rich Russia and other eastern european countries used to be in 1965. ...
Updated 02-16-2013 at 11:05 PM by RussiaPrussia
So, I do this poetry thing sometimes where I have a person give me 3-5 words and then I write a poem for them. Below are some of my PWW for others. Would you like a painting with words? Submit your five words then please . ----- "Creeper Set 1" (conglomerate- absolution- parsimony) He counted his coins with a final sigh, A brief release, a small piece of love Embedded sweet in a catcher in the rye. Each moment, ...
Uğur Ümit Üngör ‘Either the Armenians would eliminate the Turks or the Turks would eliminate the Armenians. I didn’t hesitate for one moment when confronted with this dilemma. My Turkish identity won out over my profession. I thought: we must destroy them before they destroy us. If you ask me how I as a doctor could commit murder, my answer is simple: the Armenians had become dangerous microbes in the body of this country. And surely it is a doctor’s duty to kill bacteria?’ ...
Updated 04-30-2019 at 01:34 PM by Tigranes
THE GEOPOLITICS OF RUSSIA: Permanent Struggle Russia’s defining characteristic is its indefensibility. Unlike the core of most states that are relatively defensible, core Russia is limited to the region of the medieval Grand Principality of Muscovy. It counts no rivers, oceans, swamps or mountains marking its borders — it relies solely on the relatively inhospitable climate and its forests for defense. Russian history is a chronicle of the agony of surviving invasion after ...
Updated 12-28-2013 at 04:01 PM by Aunt Hilda
If you've been long in North Carolina, chances are you've met someone with the surname of Campbell, McNeill, or Stewart. It's also very likely that you've come across more than a few Presbyterian churches, particularly in the more rural areas. These are two of the legacies that have been brought here by immigrants from the highlands of Scotland. Something rather unique to these immigrants is the way they moved in large, organized groups directly from their homes, to the new and uncertain landscape ...
I have met quite a few people who claim that youth today are more enlightened and questioning than their forefathers. They claim that they are brilliant as they have come to question the nature of their ancestral Christian faith and put on the weapons and armour of Atheism. I would like to disagree. Before I go on, I want to say that this is not a blog on the nature and doctrine of Christianity or Atheism, or which is actually correct. I will focus mainly on the secularization ...
Updated 07-13-2012 at 10:55 AM by Siegfried (Just Editing)
Under Soviet Russia there were many Turkic people and in WW2 they were drafted (estimated over 150.000) into the army and fought battles againt Nazi Germany. Ahiska Türks (in English Meskhetian Turks) from teenagers to men as old as 40s also took part in the conflict. They joined the ranks (estimated over 40.000) of the Soviets without any resistance, in fact many of them were thinking they were defending their villages from a possible Nazi invasion. Some of them went as far as into to Germany, ...
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