#november 17

[probablyasocialecologist]

Doctors Without Borders has been present in a lot of horrific conflict zones, and I’m wondering how what you’re dealing with now is similar or different from other places you have experienced? It’s different. And yes, I have worked in conflict zones. And they’re always very nasty. But this is a particularly brutal thing because of the huge number of civilian casualties. And they can’t escape it. They can’t move. They’re told to displace down south. But are we talking about just reducing the area from forty-five kilometres to twenty kilometres in length and trying to put two million people in there, which is . . . It’s just an extraordinary situation. And no, I haven’t seen it. They haven’t stopped bombing. They’re still bombing. They’ve got troops in there with tanks. And it’s just consistent. It’s well documented. We are seeing it all over the world in all the newspapers and television. So it’s like people know exactly what’s happening. And yet it doesn’t stop. I haven’t seen that before. Where else have you been stationed? I’ve been in Congo, I’ve been in Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire. Gosh. Many. Do you need more? No. There has been a lot of large-scale violence against civilians in the past two decades in many of these places. So you saying that this is still different is notable. It’s notable in the sense that to have such a volume of people—civilians—that can’t move very easily. And they’re being bombed and shot at. And I just haven’t seen that type of violence. We are also talking about a population that’s around seventy per cent women and children. And so the figures that we’ve seen around mortality are at more than ten thousand deaths. But with the Ministry of Health now being really decimated, it’s very difficult for them even to track it. But then you know that with ten thousand deaths, that seventy per cent are probably women and children, according to the Ministry of Health. And the number of wounded is very, very high. And there’s also people under the rubble, and we can’t get them out. So the figures are just astounding.

#palestine #israel #gaza #doctors without borders #november 17

[happybirthday-unusannus]

Happy 4th Birthday to

“Hot Dog'd to Death”

#unus annus #markiplier #crankgameplays #ethan nestor #November 17

[typelikeagirl]

#quotes #quote of the day #love quotes #relationship quotes #quotes to remember #november 17

[gemsofgreece]

Happy November 17th with music!!!

Greece has three national holidays; March 25th, the Independence Day, October 28th, the ΟΧΙ (No) Day aaaaand November 17th, the Polytechneio Day.

In fact, November 17th is considered a semi-national day, as it doesn't commemorate an ethnic uprising against some foreign oppressor or invader but the political intranational uprising against the Colonel Dictatorship of 1967-1974. It is the anniversary of the revolt that took place in the National "Metsovion" Technical University of Athens (Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο - Ethnikó Metsóvio Polytechnío) by its students in November 1973. (Greek Polytechneia are high education engineering universities, so they are not the equivalent to technical schools.) The uprising was the most impactful anti-junta movement in Greece - students commandeered the University, operated a radio station and started protesting against the junta and spreading effectively the message to the Greek people, who started gathering around the school. Their effective protests harmed the dictators, who sent the army to surround the university and threaten the students. While the students and the junta were still in negotiations, the army broke the academic asylum, a tank demolished the gates and soldiers invaded the school. During the episodes that ensued, there were 40 deaths and more than 2,000 injured reported. The Polytechnic movement did not bring down the junta, however it was a crucial contributor to its weakening and to the spread of awareness against it across the globe. (The dictatorship eventually fell about half a year later, during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in which Greece failed to provide significant assistance to Cyprus or even protect its own interests.)

The spirit of the university's revolutionaries as well as the general hardship Greece went through in those seven years were the inspiration for a lot of great artists, particularly poets and musicians, and birthed numerous classic Greek songs. Below are four of my favourite ones, from the many that became symbols of this era, and are today sung by school choirs across the country!

Ὀταν σφίγγουν το χέρι - When they clench their fist

Ο Δρόμος - The Road

Θα σημάνουν οι καμπάνες - The bells will toll

Είμαστε δυο - We are two

Lyrics of the last one in English:

We are two, we are two, it's eight o'clock, turn off the light, the guard knocks, they'll come again at night one in the front, one in the front, and the rest will be following him, then silence and what follows is the usual again. They hit twice, they hit thrice, they hit one thousand thirteen times, you are hurting, I am hurting too but who is hurting the most, only time will tell.

We are two, we are three, we are one thousand thirteen, we ride the times, in time, in rain blood thickens in the wound and the pain turns into a nail. (x2)

The avenger, the saviour, we are two, we are three, we are one thousand thirteen.

#greece #europe #history #greek history #music #songs #polytechneio day #polytechnic uprising #november 17 #greek songs #greek music #lyrics #greek culture #Youtube

[renegadesstuff]

Happy birthday to the one and only, Kate Beckett ❤️

#kate beckett #Katherine houghton beckett #katherine beckett #stana katic #castle #caskett #castle rewatch #castle series #castle edit #happy birthday kate beckett #november 17

[dailykafka]

— November 17, 1913 / Franz Kafka diaries

#November 17 #1913 #november #franz kafka #daily kafka #franz kafka diaries #quotes #id #id text

[divinationdrawings]

Part 2 - Zack finally feels like Italian

#What if i don't feel like Italian that day?! #november 16th #zack and cody #suite life of zack and cody #suite life #fanart #cole sprouse #november 16 #november 16 2023 #dylan sprouse #stopreadingmytagsillblush #november 17

[callmefirefly]

The song’s getting released on September 29th!

#movies #film #dreamworks #trolls #trolls band together #nsync #brozone #its happening #new music #November 17 #my inner millennial is screaming #taylor swift was right #90s kid #meme #callmefirefly

[dasenergi]

To those who celebrate, Happy Life Day!

"A Day To Celebrate" Performed by Carrie Fisher The Star Wars Holiday Special November 17, 1978

#carrie fisher #star wars #life day #kashyyyk #tree of life #family #love #happiness #november 17

[tomblyth95]

Tom Blyth for VMAN 💥💥💥

📸 by Nicole Plett

#tom blyth #he looks great #the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds & snakes #vman magazine #vman #Nicole Plett #November 17

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)

(Photo by Kirk Swenson)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- Western United States; Central America; South America

Size (Weight/Length)- 170 g; 25 cm

Diet- Insects; Small mammals; Small birds

Cool Facts- The ultimate homeowner, the burrowing owl make their homes in abandoned prairie dog dens. Active during the day, these tiny owls eat almost exclusively large insects. When you’re small, it pays to have a defensive mechanism. When bison walk over the owl’s burrow and threaten to cave it in, burrowing owls can mimic a rattlesnake rattle and scare the bison away. Parents are fearless when it comes to threats towards their chicks. Both mom and dad will divebomb coyotes and badgers with their sharp claws and beaks to chase them out of town. 

Rating- 11/10 (Not a thief, opportunistic.)

#Animal of the day #Animals #Birds #Owls #Thursday #November 17 #Burrowing owl #biology #science #conservation #the more you know

[todayinonedirectionhistory]

November 17, 2010

Soccer game!

*I don't own any of these pictures or gifs so credits to the owners.

**this is a new project I am starting, so if I've missed any important things that have happened on this day please send them to me and I will make sure to add them to the Post.

***I am a Larrie so my post will include Larry moments, but I want to make sure to cover everything that happened.

#one direction history #on this day #one direction #niall horan #harry styles #history #larry #x factor larry #louis tomlinson #fetus larry #liam payne #zayn mailk #November 17 #11/17 #2010

[chalamet-chalamet]

11/17/23-New IG stories 🍫✨🎩

#timothee chalamet #timothée chalamet #IG stories #willy wonka #wonka 2023 #wonka #november 17

[musickickztoo]

Gene Clark *November 17, 1944

#gene clark #the byrds #november 17

[candycanetheeevee]

my s drawing from the movie trolls band together! Saw it with my mom.and I have to say it was better than. All of the other movies combined. Finding out that poppy has a sister was mind blowing, and also HOW THE F- COULD TINY DIAMOND DRIVE! HE’S FRICKING ONE MONTH OLD. (Trolls world tours is my second fav) but overall this one was the best. I literally freaked out when I saw baby branch.(P.s it’s done without color btw) I also wanna know why Brozone did broke up.

#trolls band together #trolls john dory #trolls floyd #spruce #branch #trolls 3 #november 17 #trolls poppy #trolls clay

[kilandra-mordea]

hello! i just found out ur birthday on our discord server haha :D

OMG! I have a shirtless Nanadaime in my inbox!

Thank you, @saradesuchiha! You definitely made getting older worth it! 😊😊😊🥵

#happy birthday to me #november 17 #naruto uzumaki #shirtless nanadaime