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batboyblog · 6 months

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A Call for Empathy for Innocent Israelis

Open Letter: A Call for Empathy for Innocent Israelis

OCTOBER 19, 2023

To the Editor: Every Tisha B’av, the national day of communal mourning, Jews read liturgy recounting the horrors of our slaughtered ancestors throughout history and around the world. Every year, our blood runs cold rereading accounts of those nightmares. This year those nightmares became real. Earlier this month, the slaughter in southern Israel has matched the brutality of that liturgy: 1,400 people murdered at a concert, in their cars, in their homes, and nearly 200 taken as hostages. These are scenes we never thought we would see. We are heartbroken and disgusted by the shocking lack of empathy on much of the self-professed global left for the innocent Israelis who were murdered and kidnapped, and for the Jews in the diaspora who watched helplessly around the world as the most catastrophic slaughter in our history since the Holocaust was perpetrated. For much of the left, however, this was “resistance.” Furthermore, it was “justified,” as if the Jews murdered in their beds and the closets of their own homes somehow deserved to die. Jews and Palestinians have something in common: the dead bodies commentators around the world either pretend to care about or grotesquely dehumanize were once people we loved. The body count only grows. In the wake of Israeli retaliation the number of civilian Gazan deaths approaches 4,000. We can extrapolate from our own pain, and we recognize the despair and horror haunting Palestinians in and outside of Gaza. Grief should be respected. It would be an expression of gross inhumanity to demand that the Palestinians are only entitled to their grief if they publicly blame the deaths of their loved ones on their leadership. Jews deserve the same respect and the same degree of empathy. The victims in Israel were civilians. They were not “partisans,” merely because they lived within Israel’s borders. Much of the conversation since the dark events of October 7 has focused on distinguishing Hamas “militants” from innocent Palestinians, a distinction that is real and significant. But why does the same distinction not apply to Israel and its people? Why are Jews living in the Jewish state seen as justifiable collateral damage? Those who in any way justify the actions of Hamas should consider the macabre tradition in which their rhetoric falls: the mass murder of innocent Jews in cold blood, justifying this mass murder as necessary policy, and celebrating the bloodthirsty evil that is, that has always been, antisemitism. That tradition reached its apex in the Holocaust, an epochal catastrophe that changed the face of Jewish and world history forever but whose legacy is somehow vanishing by the day. The events of October 7 only underscore how much. Celeste Marcus James McAuley David Grossman Cynthia Ozick Simon Sebag-Montefiore Anita Shapira Leon Wieseltier Simon Schama Michael Walzer Natasha Lehrer Lauren Elkin Robert Alter Etan Nechin Arash Azizi Oksana Forostyna Dexter Filkins Alex Levy Natalie Livingstone David Avrom Bell Elliot Ackerman Anne Sebba Noga Arikha Kati Marton Daphne Merkin Matti Friedman Marie Brenner Elisabeth Zerofsky Names added after publication: Anshel Pfeffer Daniel Mendelsohn Enrique Krauze Nicholas Lemann Ruth Rosengarten Judith Shulevitz

#Israel #Israelis #antisemitism #war crimes #Hamas #humanity

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444names · 7 months

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Names generated from Swedish forenames, forced to end with "S"

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florxncxpugh · 2 months

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📲Sebba

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#text message #texting with sebastian

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paulinedorchester · 1 year

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We Followed Our Stars, by Ida Cook. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950; rev. ed., Toronto: Harlequin, 1976. Reprinted, as Safe Passage: The Remarkable Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis, with a new foreword by Anne Sebba, Toronto: Harlequin, 2008; reprinted again, as The Bravest Voices: A Memoir of Two Sisters’ Heroism During the Nazi Era, Don Mills, Ont.: Park Row Books, 2021.

Overture of Hope: Two Sisters’ Daring Plan That Saved Opera’s Jewish Stars from the Third Reich, by Isabel Vincent. Washington, D.C.: Regnery History, 2022.

As soon as I learned of Isabel Vincent’s book, I knew that it would need to be read with great caution. That feeling was reinforced when I read the “about the author” blurb on the book’s dust jacket. Then I looked at the bibliography, and wondered if I really needed to read it at all. (Here I must stop and thank the collection development, acquisitions, and cataloguing staffs of the Chicago Public Library. This is the second time in less than three years that they’ve purchased a book at my request, and in both cases they’ve managed to put it into my hands in less than a month.)

Why the unease? To begin with, Regnery Publishing’s stable of authors includes Ann Coulter, Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, David Horowitz, Sarah Palin, and similar types.

Second, it turns out that Isabel Vincent isn’t a historian: like Lynne Olson, she’s a journalist writing about history. Not only that: Vincent is an investigative reporter for the New York Post! One has to wonder what the phrase “investigative reporter” actually means in the context of that truly filthy tabloid, a jewel in the crown of Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp. On the other hand, I must say that Vincent seems far more comfortable using primary sources than Olson does — her research for Overture of Hope included examining 33 archival collections in seven countries. As well, the book carries an endorsement from the historian Blanche Wiesen Cook, who is not exactly a darling of the right.

Finally, the Cook sisters’ story is far from untold. I’ve known of them for at least the past several years, although I’m no longer sure how I learned: I could swear that there was an article about them in Opera News four or five years ago, but I can’t locate it. In any case, as early as 1950 Ida Cook wrote a memoir of their exploits (revising it in 1976), which is why this is a review of two books, not just one. She was the subject of a 1956 episode of This is Your Life. In 1964 Yad Vashem honored the Cook sisters as Righteous Among the Nations. They were interviewed in McCall’s in 1966 (the article was reprinted the same year in The Australian Women’s Weekly). They also inspired an essay in Granta in 2007, and I found a goodly number of other newspaper and magazine articles about them while searching for image files to use in this post.

Ida (at left; 1904-1986) and Louise (1901-1991) Cook seem to me slightly too young to be classed with the hundreds of thousands of British women for whom marriage became, if nothing else, a simple numerical impossibility in the wake of the First World War and the influenza pandemic that overlapped it. Nevertheless, that’s where Vincent situates them. The daughters of a Customs and Excise officer, they had both entered civil service themselves by the end of 1920, as typists. They were then living with their parents and younger brothers in Wandsworth, London, but the family had moved several times while they were growing up. During a stint in Alnwick, Northumberland, they attended The Duchess’ School, where music was one of their exam subjects: Louise was a pianist and Ida was a violinist.

Their passion for opera seems to have come about more or less by accident. One day in 1923 Louise, who worked for the Board of Education, wandered into a lunchtime lecture on music being given on the premises, returned home in a daze, and announced that she simply had to have a gramophone. She proceeded to buy one on an installment plan, along with ten records. (These would have been 78rpm discs, with a single track, three or four minutes long, on each side.) They were mostly of instrumental works, but also included recordings by two sopranos, Amelita Galli-Curci and Alma Gluck.

These quickly eclipsed everything else for the Cook sisters, who pooled their savings to buy the cheapest available tickets to three performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden: they saw Tosca, Rigoletto, and La Traviata, all excellent ways to get started with opera. I was startled to learn that the Covent Garden opera season was only two months long in those days; apparently, the opera house was used as a dance hall during the rest of the year.

When the Cooks learned that Galli-Curci was to give five concerts in London in late 1924 (her first appearances in the U.K.), they bought tickets to all of them. After the first one they wrote her a fan letter, enclosing a handkerchief that Ida had embroidered, and received a letter back by return post, inviting them to come back stage and say hello after the last, which they did.

Having learned in the meantime that Galli-Curci confined her operatic engagements to the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, the Cooks decided that they would travel there to see her perform — and figured out it would take them two years to save up the money that they would need in order to do so. They wrote to Galli-Curci about their plans, and she urged them to contact her when they had an itinerary. She would reserve seats for them, she said. (Galli-Curci's behavior wasn't unusual at the time, at least for singers who could pick and choose their engagements. As late as the 1970s, Dame Janet Baker was appearing in opera only in England, while continuing to tour all over the world as a concert artist.)

And that’s exactly what happened. Their arrival in New York, on January 4th, 1927, attracted the attention of The New York Times; and when they went, as instructed, to Galli-Curci’s agent’s office they found main-floor tickets to several performances waiting for them, along with Galli-Curci’s husband, Homer Samuels (a composer and pianist who was her recital accompanist), who invited them to dinner at their apartment a couple of nights later. They asked the Cook sisters to visit them in Autumn at their home in the Catskills, north of New York City — and that happened as well, though it took another two years of saving to bring it about. Ida’s account of this visit in We Followed Our Stars is not to be missed. She makes it sound like Downton Abbey on a smaller scale. (I feel compelled to add, however, that her description of Catskills social life has absolutely nothing to do with my understanding of what went on there, as recounted by my mother, who spent many summers at Catskills resorts during the 1930s and 40s. See also the films Dirty Dancing and A Walk on the Moon.)

They paid for all of this fun by scrimping and saving, skipping many lunches, and getting up before dawn to join the queue to buy cheap tickets at the Royal Opera House, where they made many like-minded friends and had the opportunity to meet world-class artists arriving for rehearsals. As we’ve seen, they were very outgoing — or at any rate Ida was outgoing and Louise was nearly always willing to follow where her sister led — and by 1934 they had befriended, and been befriended by, Galli-Curci, Ezio Pinza, Rosa Ponselle, Elisabeth Rethberg and — most crucially, in view of what was to come — Viorica Ursuleac and her husband, the conductor Clemens Krauss.

As the years went on, however, a new source of income emerged. Ida Cook was clearly a born storyteller. She had written articles for The Duchess’ School Magazine as a student; in 1928, as an old girl, she sent in an account of her and Louise’s trip to America, which was published, along with an article in the Daily Mail. After the Catskills visit, she sent an article on that experience to Mabs Fashions, a magazine that published sewing patterns, romantic fiction, and non-fiction on whatever topics seemed likely to interest their audience, including travel. This, too, was published, and the editor, a Miss Taft, invited Cook to lunch. (Vincent refers to the Mabs Fashions article, but doesn’t quote from it, as she does from the Duchess’ article, or even supply its title. From this I surmised that Mabs Fashions is poorly documented, and sure enough, WorldCat shows only scattered holdings in fewer than half a dozen libraries in the U.K. I can tell you that it was a monthly, and that it seems to have run from 1924 until some point in the mid-1930s, but much of its contents appear to have been lost to history. That’s a real pity, as it sounds very interesting.) Miss Taft asked Cook to write additional travel articles for the magazine. “Apart from the American journeys, a very short trip to Brussels was the full extent of our foreign travels,” Cook recalled. “But I said, ‘Yes, certainly,’ bought a series of guidebooks and set to work.”

A year or so later Miss Taft offered her a job at Mabs Fashions, as fiction sub-editress. This was a big leap — Cook had a responsible job in the Law Courts, with an assured pension when she turned 60, and in fact had just been promoted — but she decided to take the offer, even though she didn’t know what the position entailed. Her account of this experience is very funny, and I won’t spoil it for you, except to quote her about one part of it: “On press day I was faced with ... adding perhaps five hundred words to a story, without altering its sense, and so that no one could detect the ‘joins’. This was the only part of my work at which I became adept.”

Indeed, she became so adept that after several months the long-suffering Miss Taft asked her to write a story of her own. And then another, and so on. One of them grew into a novel, Wife to Christopher, which appeared in 1936 and was the first of Ida Cook’s more than 120 romantic novels, written over the course of 50 years, all under the name Mary Burchell.

In short order, she was earning as much as £1,000 per year. That money was going to prove very useful. (All of her novels were published by Mills & Boon, which later became an imprint of the romance giant Harlequin, thus explaining We Followed Our Stars’ reprint history.)

“I realize now that, even though we were in our late twenties, we were not entirely grown up,” Cook wrote of the plans she and her sister had been making during the first half of the 1930s. Indeed, when Englebert Dollfuss, the Austrian chancellor, was assassinated on July 25th, 1934, their main concern was that this might disrupt their planned first visit to the Salzburg Festival. (It didn’t.) They were no more politically aware when, during a visit to Amsterdam near the end of that year, Ursuleac asked them to “look after” a friend of hers: Mitia Mayer-Lismann, a German pianist and educator, who was soon to visit London to give a series of lectures. The Cooks assumed that this meant showing her the sights, which they did. When she asked whether St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey were Protestant or Catholic, they wondered if she was a Catholic and shouldn’t have been taken to see a Protestant church — so they asked.

What they learned was that Mayer-Lismann was Jewish, and it was she who explained the Nuremberg laws to them. Her other purpose in visiting the U.K. was to see if there was any way of moving there with her family. The Cook sisters offered to do what they could to help. The U.K. wasn’t making things easy for would-be refugees from the Nazis (nor was any other country), and half of the Cooks’ work as the decade went on would consist of cutting through reams of red tape. Word of their willingness to do this spread through the Jewish communities of Germany and, later, Austria, keeping the sisters active until just days before war was declared.

The other half of the task was helping those for whom they were able to secure visas to smuggle out whatever portion of their assets hadn’t been seized by the authorities, which by this time consisted mostly of furs and jewelry. This was a genuine cloak-and-dagger operation, if only because it involved making repeated visits to the countries in question at a time when the authorities there were beginning to view British visitors with suspicion. It was at this point that Clemens Krauss got involved: he kept the Cooks informed about when and where he was conducting what, so that when they were questioned at the border they could say that they were going to hear Krauss conduct this opera in that city on that date.

As a side note, Ida’s new prosperity allowed the Cooks to buy a long lease a one-bedroom apartment in Dolphin Square, which had just been built (and where their neighbors included politicians, spies, and Oswald Mosely). Ostensibly, this was so that they would have a crash pad in central London after late nights at the opera. In reality, it served as a dormitory for newly-arrived refugees. Ida recalled that at one point there were twelve people sleeping there.

While Ida seems to have been the family dynamo, Louise’s contributions shouldn’t be overlooked. One of her hobbies was teaching herself languages; she learned German at top speed in 1937 in order to facilitate the sisters’ work. She also put all of her (apparently quite generous) allowance of vacation time during that period into the rescue effort, and also seems to have been the uncredited co-author of, or at least an essential consultant on, Louise’s novels.

At this point I’m going to stop summarizing the Cooks’ story and tell you that if you’re going to read either or both of these books, you should begin with Ida Cook’s memoir, if only because it’s a primary source. It’s also a very useful insight into how an opera buff’s mind works.

Both authors provide their readers with excellent summaries of political events in Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1939 — and both do so without ever talking down to their readers or implying that they shouldn’t need to provide them with this information, which is quite an accomplishment. Cook can be vague about the dates and chronology of personal events, while Vincent simply is vague on music in general and opera in particular, subjects in which she clearly has no genuine interest. (As Fred Cohn points out in his review of Vincent’s book in Opera News — which is how I learned of it; here’s a link, but I’m not sure that it will work for non-subscribers — her subtitle is a complete howler: there were no “stars” among the Cooks’ refugees; in fact, many of the people they helped weren’t involved with music at all. In spite of this, the Library of Congress has classed Overture of Hope as ML (Literature on Music).) As well, Vincent gives short shrift to the war years. (Louise was evacuated to Wales with her office; Ida was an assistant warden in a Bermondsey air-raid shelter, while continuing to write; the Royal Opera House became a dance hall year-round.) On the other hand, she provides us with a firm chronology of the Cooks sisters’ pre-war lives, and she also reveals the hard facts of how the people whose escapes they facilitated fared, which are not happy stories in all cases.

It is also Vincent who relates that Clemens Krauss fared badly in denazification proceedings. Despite his efforts on behalf of his Jewish associates and their families (as well as many complete strangers), he was widely denounced in 1945, and it’s undeniably true that he displayed a Machiavellian streak that led him to consolidate his artistic influence by securing the directorships of both the Vienna and Munich State Operas under the Third Reich. He ended up being banned from conducting for two years, but Vincent documents that just about all of his denouncers were his professional rivals. (The same thing frequently happened in France during the search for collaborators.)

Finally, Vincent quotes extensively from a film treatment that Ida Cook wrote, based on We Followed Our Stars, that is languishing in Joshua Logan’s papers at the Library of Congress. That document needs to be plucked out of purgatory and produced. Right now!

#world war ii #the holocaust #righteous among the nations #first-hand accounts #retrospective accounts #a long post for sunday #lots of history #lots of links #and even some footnotes #oh and this is also about #opera #also #yom hashoah #begins monday evening

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mercurygray · 9 months

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Currently Reading - July 2023

Signing up for summer reading was the best thing I did for myself last month, because now I get PRIZES for reading. (A lil watercolor set!)

Currently Reading:

To Shape a Dragon's Breath, by Moniquil Blackgoose - I heard about this book here on tumblr and roped Book Club into reading this with me, because I knew I was going to want to talk about it. So far it is very thought-provoking, and very fun. Dragons. Boarding schools. Indigenous rights issues. Colonialism. Steampunk stuff. All the things.

Currently Watching:

New Nurses, Season 3 (Hoopla) - A drama set in Denmark in the 1950s chronicling the admission of men to a nursing program for the first time. Seasons are 6 episodes long and so far it's a fun little program. Kind of a Call the Midwife vibe.

Just Finished: I didn't do a post for June so this is really long.

Endeavor, Season 9 (PBS Passport) - loved the way this finished.

Foundation, Season 1 (Apple TV) - Help, another space opera. (And shirtless Lee Pace…)

Van Der Valk, Season 2 (PBS Passport) - I just really wanted a crime procedural, and Marc Warren's Piet Van Der Valk (and his whole team, really) is kind of fun.

National Treasures, by Caroline Shenton - a nonfiction book about the evacuation of art from British Museums in the lead up to the Blitz. Sort of like Monuments Men, but with more stuffy academics in tweed. Very interesting and a gift from @junojelli

Cranford Short Stories, by Elizabeth Gaskell - This was an impulse buy at the library booksale, and I don't regret any of it. A fun and short read that made me want to rewatch the PBS miniseries.

The Gift of Rain, by Tan Twan Eng - Another impulse booksale buy. I loved Eng's Garden of the Evening Mists and couldn't pass up the chance to read the book that was nominated for the Booker Prize. I think I liked Evening Mists more, but this story was still really good - a story set in British-held (and Japanese occupied) Malaya during World War Two.

Good Night, Irene, by Luis Urrea - This book was amazing, and I hope everyone reads it. Urrea's ability to tell a story is great and I love that it was based on experiences his mom had during World War Two with the Red Cross Clubmobile service. Reading this one (sort of) with @shoshiwrites

The Rose Code, by Kate Quinn - Quinn is an excellent writer with a great grasp of historical detail and I've enjoyed everything of hers I've read. This book follows several Bletchley Park codebreakers. (Are we sensing a theme here??)

In the TBR Pile: mostly booksale buys I need to just buckle down and read.

Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s, Anne Sebba Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat, Giles Milton Sisters in Arms, Nicola Tyrer * Millions like Us, Virginia Nicolson* (* Because @windylizmt figured out a GAP in my bookshelf re: British women's WWII experiences) An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I, Chris Dubbs, Bernadette Dunne, et al. A Thousand Years over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances, Laura Schenone

#currently reading

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skippyv20 · 2 years

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I have a question about the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson. Apparently letters from the Duchess to her former husband Ernest Simpson were in the possession of Mohammed al Fayed and then a batch of 15 letters were given to author Anne Sebba. Who gave them the letters and where did they originally come from? These were mailed by the Duchess of Windsor to Ernest Simpson. Were they sold by his family after he died for a profit? How come no one cares if they were stolen or sold?

Anne Sebba speaks of “her host”…..no idea who that is though….❤️

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zirhlikuzgun · 2 months

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[273] [2210 newborn friends and play/roommates]

[274] [524 newborn cousins and siblings]

[275] [721 newborn babies]

[276] {111} ♂ Henke Andersson

[277] {112} ❤️ ♀ Alice Andersson

[278] [2180 newborn friends and play/roommates]

[279] [508 newborn cousins and siblings]

[280] [818 newborn babies]

[281] {113} ♂ Ronny Andersson

[282] {114} ❤️ ♀ Paula Andersson

[283] [2408 newborn friends and play/roommates]

[284] [573 newborn cousins and siblings]

[285] [716 newborn babies]

[286] {115} ♂ Ludde Andersson

[287] {116} ❤️ ♀ Hella Andersson

[288] [2242 newborn friends and play/roommates]

[289] [510 newborn cousins and siblings]

[290] [704 newborn babies]

[291] {117} ♂ Hugo Andersson

[292] {118} ❤️ ♀ Asta Andersson

[293] [2784 newborn friends and play/roommates]

[294] [607 newborn cousins and siblings]

[295] [738 newborn babies]

[296] {119} ♀ iLisa Andersson

[297] {120} ❤️ ♂ Mika Andersson

[298] [2398 newborn friends and play/roommates]

[299] [584 newborn cousins and siblings]

[300] [810 newborn babies]

[301] {121} ♀ Nora Andersson

[302] {122} ❤️ ♂ Dino Andersson

[303] [2911 newborn friends and play/roommates]

[304] [511 newborn cousins and siblings]

[305] [809 newborn babies]

[306] {123} ♂ Santos Fernandez

[307] {124} ❤️ ♀ Mimi Fernandez

[308] [2764 newborn friends and play/roommates]

[309] [533 newborn cousins and siblings]

[310] [853 newborn babies]

[311] {125} ♂ Ambjörn Andersson

[312] {126} ❤️ ♀ Daisy Andersson

[313] [2582 newborn friends and play/roommates]

[314] [594 newborn cousins and siblings]

[315] [749 newborn babies]

[316] {127} ♀ Alexa Andersson

[317] {128} ❤️ ♂ Elmo Andersson

[318] [2346 newborn friends and play/roommates]

[319] [532 newborn cousins and siblings]

[320] [823 newborn babies]

[321] {129} ♀ Amanda Andersson

[322] {130} ❤️ ♂ Yvor Andersson

[323] [3283 newborn friends and play/roommates]

[324] [638 newborn cousins and siblings]

[325] [755 newborn babies]

[326] {131} ♂ Beiron Andersson

[327] {132} ❤️ ♀ Maja Andersson

[328] [2326 newborn friends and play/roommates]

[329] [513 newborn cousins and siblings]

[330] [821 newborn babies]

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444namesplus · 3 months

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Adarid Adavia Adavisage Adrie Adris Afrannattop Afred Afret Agabelle Aleodorneas Alfra Alfraid Alfre Alfredvilda Alfreja Alian Aliant Alicton Alielleones Alinustay Alisamilia Alkentona Alker Alkeraid Alkevinus Allar Alleo Almatin Alose Aloui Alovin Alteo Altor Altorand Alvan Alvard Alvina Alvineon Amelmaximoa Ampusta Amuel Annatton Arisara Arlia Asmus Augus Austa Austilova Aximirik Aximolly Becarry Becarvicia Belivid Caraspa Caria Carie Carry Casel Casmuse Cause Celleo Cenja Cenry Chara Charon Charvinna Coliam Damilie Danna Doneedvis Doneo Donja Dorge Ebasmuelin Ebbasmus Ebbelke Ebbelvalie Ebben Edvian Edvid Edwand Edwarvilde Eliam Eliampus Elian Eliank Elicia Elielicton Elippack Elivik Elixter Elleodon Ellia Ellian Ellias Ellician Ellielleian Ellykke Ellykkevis Elmalician Elmate Elsagneo Elvalbine Elvian Elvid Emelip Emera Emilda Emilma Emils Emina Emira Emirast Emmalia Emmarl Emmaxels Emmaximone Estage Felia Felicob Felis Filda Fildamer Filhe Filicor Filla Filsa Forge Foria Forid Foridante Fornes Frejack Freta Gabrianna Gabrik Grida Gustalia Halio Handa Hatel Hatenda Hatilla Helvilgo Heodon Hilderid Hilils Hilton Hjalia Hjasmueliam Hugottornes Hugus Idanna Idante Inate Indera Isabellex Isabentelle Isabris Isaga Isagabelvin Isaran Ithalilte Ithan Ivant Jacente Jaloveak Jalte Jaltelvin Jalten Jampuse Joelielip Joellenja Jolea Jolex Jolia Jolice Jolielip Jolisabenry Jolleo Joscara Joscasmus Josebasmin Josebbecar Julicia Julie Julin Julina Julinde Julip Julis Julivida Junicia Junilly Jusellisage Justay Kevian Kevicia Klard Klarone Klarry Lease Leasmilleas Leiante Leodor Lexan Lexannater Lianter Licia Liciampust Licolia Licolleia Licto Lictona Lielin Lilteo Linna Linnatheak Linne Linoah Liotto Lippacellip Lisard Livera Livik Livis Lokevian Lokevik Losebasmine Losebba Losel Losella Lovaline Lovalixte Lovan Lovara Loveak Lover Loveraspa Loviamelice Lucander Lucarikton Lucasmiri Ludvik Ludvingre Ludvirid Ludvis Lunie Lunill Majam Majke Majkend Majkenry Majkevigre Majkevis Malie Mandrid Manne Mater Matham Mathen Matheones Mathis Matiliell Matina Maxel Maximohn Meddie Medie Mejace Mejacorge Mejalea Melip Mella Mellippacob Melly Mellykke Melma Melvid Milda Milgo Milia Milip Milisamuste Mille Millian Milly Milman Minda Mindrida Mineavin Mines Mineste Mingridant Miotten Mirid Mollix Movera Märtage Märtalvid Märtav Needie Needwarl Nelia Neodone Nesto Noeliviame Noell Noelly Norid Norne Norneo Novaline Novan Novant Noveah Noveria Novian Novigred Novilly Olicia Olinathen Olinow Olisage Olivinor Onatinne Onelmally Osebba Ottella Otter Ottona Ottor Ottora Ovard Ovillia Plent Plexanteona Raidan Ranto Rejack Retaverise Retay Rones Ruthalie Ruthedvin Ruthel Sabecas Sabel Sabrik Salicia Salive Saman Samelken Samust Sarry Sebbas Siggo Signeas Signelly Signestona Sigret Sigrie Sigrissa Similia Similis Similline Simole Simollin Simova Sixte Speasmusta Speavill Staltorge Stavinna Stilisam Stilsa Svalma Svank Sveriktop Taget Tagneavida Taleavis Talivalian Tallie Taloscaron Telvira Teodon Thalvine Thamus Thara Thathamine Theas Theddaver Thedditheo Thedie Thelivil Thenry Theodo Theodone Theon Thilm Thilman Thiloke Thisa Thiselia Tildant Tilder Tilgo Tiliamalker Tiliv Tilmath Tinea Truthedvil Tuvalmajker Tyraid Valia Viasper Vicellianna Vicoliv Victon Viktorge Viktorik Vilda Vilder Vilildanna Vilmara Viloui Vingredvid Vingrik Vinna Visagnel Visard Warlincel Wilda Wildam Wilde Wilictone Wiliv Willilm Willixte Willy Wiloscant Wilovar Wilsak

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huariqueje · 2 years

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Figure - Siegfried Shalom Sebba , 1937.

Israeli , 1897 - 1975

Tempera on gray paper, 54 x 30 cm.

#Siegfried Shalom Sebba #israeli artist #figure

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amazoniaonline · 4 months

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Atos pró-democracia marcam um ano de ações golpistas de 8 de janeiro

Uma série de atos marcarão, nesta segunda-feira (8), um ano da invasão e depredação do Palácio do Planalto, Congresso Nacional e Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) por vândalos e golpistas inconformados com a vitória do então presidente empossado, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. O evento mais significativo ocorrerá no Congresso Nacional, em Brasília, às 15h, e reunirá Lula, os presidentes do Senado, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG); da Câmara dos Deputados, Arthur Lira (PP-AL) e do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), Luis Roberto Barroso, além de governadores, ministros, parlamentares e representantes da sociedade civil e do Poder Judiciário. Proposto pelo próprio presidente da República, o evento, batizado de "Democracia Inabalada", busca reafirmar a importância do regime democrático. "É um momento de festa para celebrar a democracia revigorada após os atos inaceitáveis do dia 8 de janeiro de 2023”, afirmou o ministro da Justiça e Segurança Pública em exercício, Ricardo Cappelli, no último dia 26. O Congresso Nacional espera reunir cerca de 500 convidados para a solenidade, que será marcada pela reintegração simbólica ao patrimônio público de uma tapeçaria de Burle Marx e de uma réplica da Constituição Federal de 1988. A obra de Burle Marx (sem título) foi criada em 1973 e vandalizada durante a invasão do Congresso Nacional em 8 de janeiro. Após minucioso trabalho de restauração, a tapeçaria voltou ao patrimônio do Senado. Já a réplica da Constituição foi recuperada, sem qualquer dano, após ter sido furtada da sede do Supremo, também no dia 8 de janeiro. Ruas Entidades, movimentos sociais e partidos políticos também promoverão atos em diversas cidades do país. Centrais sindicais como Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) convocaram as entidades filiadas a realizarem atos e atividades em todo o país a fim de “marcar um ano da tentativa de golpe imposta por aliados do ex-presidente , derrotado nas urnas em 2022”. Em Brasília, as primeiras manifestações ocorreram nesse domingo (7). Partidos de esquerda e organizações sociais, incluindo a CUT-DF, aproveitaram que a rodovia DF-002 (Eixão) é fechada para o trânsito de veículos e liberada para pedestres e ciclistas e promoveram o chamado Ato em Defesa da Democracia, na altura do 208 Norte. A proposta de antecipar o evento era, além de aproveitar a concentração de frequentadores do chamado Eixão do Lazer, não concorrer com o ato oficial, no Congresso. De acordo com os movimentos Brasil Popular e Povo sem Medo, para esta segunda estão programados atos nas seguintes capitais, entre outras cidades: Aracaju (SE) - 8h no calçadão da Rua João Pessoa, próximo ao Museu Palácio Olímpio Campos Belo Horizonte (MG) - 16h, na Casa do Jornalista, na Avenida Álvares Cabral, nº 400, Centro. Campo Grande (MS) - 17h, no sindicato Sintell, à Rua José Antônio nº 1682 Goiânia (GO) - 9h, Cepal do Setor Sul (Rua 15 com Rua Fued José Sebba) João Pessoa (PB) - 15h, na Lagoa do Parque Solon de Lucena Porto Alegre (RS) - 17h, no Sindicato dos Bancários, na Rua General Câmara nº 424 Recife (PE) - 10h, no Monumento Tortura Nunca Mais, na Rua da Aurora, bairro da Boa Vista Rio de Janeiro (RJ) - 17h, na Cinelândia Salvador (BA) - 9h, no Centro Administrativo, da Assembleia Legislativa (ALBA) São Paulo (SP) - 17h, na Avenida Paulista, em frente ao Masp Vitória (ES) - 16h30, na Assembleia Legislativa do Espírito Santo (Américo Buaiz nº 205) Reprodução Agência Brasil. Read the full article

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smol-grey-tea · 5 months

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Making a Pinned Post

My name's Sebba, but I like to be called Link online and by friends :) I'm 20, British and pronounce are he/they

My primary special interest is Nameless/Cheritz and that's what I'd like to dedicate 99% of this blog to, tho it used to be for MaDD and it's also my main blog, so I may post a couple other things here and I also follow and like from here. I tend to use likes just to mark posts I've already seen so pls forgive for like spamming if it's smth you don't like

@aro-thoughts is my blog for aspec centred stuff. Used to also be a big special interest but is more lesser now. I don't rly post much on there anymore but would still love interaction

@lliinnkk is my blog for fiction, more specifically the making or reviewing of it, specifically movies, tv shows and literature. Includes fanfic, whump, book reviews and such

@chocolatemooseperson is my blog that basically centres on health. From tasty recipes to disability to self care

@webbedsitee is my blog centred on all things internet, like social media, piracy and other stuff

@peacenloveontheplanetearththx fiber arts related blog

@meowmeowhospital my blog for fandom misc stuff - basically any fandom other than Cheritz

@mindyolanguage <- I just created this one. Another of my biggest special interests now dormant, learning different languages

@poppoppoppoppopppppoppop is a spam blog, for anything that doesn't fit into the above categories

@alwaysminiatureking <- not me but my bestest friend in the whole world :333333333

Super special mention to our local Cheritz Discord

As well as our beloved Ssum Discord too

#my post #you can tell they're all me from their Nameless themes #Awwwwwwww what I coulda done was put each w a different character #oh well

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Pujo bhog @ SEBBA ~ South East Bangalore Bengali Association 😝 Durga Puja community feast, Bengali style @ South Bangalore 💯

#food #india #bengali #cuisine #foodie #foodblogger #foodpics #foodlover #foodphotography #foodphoto #foodphotographer #foodphotographyandstyling #foodphotooftheday #foodpictures #foodpicsdaily #foodpicoftheday #foryoupage #explorepage #explore #exploremore #foryou #foodblog #foodblogfeed #foodblogging #foodblogeats #foodvlogger #foodvlog #foodvlogging #biriyani #biriyanilovers #dinner #dinnerideas #dinnertime

#foodlover #food #baked goods #cooking #food aesthetic #foodblogger #foodie #foodporn #sweet food #instafood

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444names · 1 year

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swedish forenames + goblin and dwemer names from tes

Adorejack Adrie Agard Agnte Agrik Aleonak Alfreta Alilivida Aline Alisarl Alive Aliviand Almajke Almanchen Almarry Alton Altor Alvic Amdie Amelton Amilovid Anchar Anchoggo Anchumack Annaker Aramanton Arejac Arenthu Aretage Arlia Arlina Arrog Arron Arrumz Arrut Asmus Axelia Aximilda Aximot Bagard Bagne Bagren Benja Bonac Boomac Boomather Boothann Bthar Bthen Bther Carizt Casterks Charks Coblip Coblivac Colia Cuole Cuolin Cuolinog Cuollat Cuolly Damedvia Damin Darnog Demer Demilm Demin Demma Demmster Dhailter Dhamed Dharks Dumack Dumard Durasperk Duraug Durot Durta Dwemmst Dzefk Ebbas Ebbasteo Ebbelip Eddit Eliamirie Eliel Elielive Elila Elinfanch Elinn Elisak Elisebs Eliver Eliviggo Elivis Elivithan Ellar Ellenda Ellia Ellin Ellix Ellykken Elvack Elvid Emedda Emestin Eminch Emothen Emothogh Estrimmy Famin Famuste Felleodor Felva Felvine Femiri Femmy Filda Filder Filisefk Filovind Filsa Framus Frejac Frejalton Frenilo Freta Gamaz Gamer Games Ghandes Glova Glovanda Glovea Glovian Goblicent Gobliot Gogge Golte Goltor Goltora Goretav Gridam Grulie Hadav Halmaja Hanic Hazzeizt Helma Heodorry Herise Hildack Hilia Hilin Hilio Hiloui Ihlda Ihldan Ihldestia Ihlen Ihleo Infanth Ingreja Irimmy Isabe Isakemogh Isard Isaridam Ivgreja Ivgrejac Ivgrenjac Ivgrid Ivgrik Ivgrim Ivgrizik Jnacolia Joelie Joellin Johnch Jolec Jonacob Jonja Joscara Joscasch Julin Julip Julis Julisa Julith Julivalea Julivicob Juluncen Julungne Julut Juluthed Jungris Kagar Kagnes Kagretaga Kamus Kerid Kevis Kladowke Klaedda Klard Klaria Klatias Kloui Kothai Kotheodor Kothog Kotte Kuram Kuraug Kurgoc Kurowken Kurta Lexand Liamajkey Liamil Liande Liasper Licia Linna Linnak Linoa Lisabrik Lisamel Liselin Lissabe Livines Lixter Lootheah Loothmole Lorak Lorand Lorenja Lorgich Lornelin Lorry Louin Louind Lovalive Lovanth Lover Lovin Lucard Lucatte Luchanch Ludvia Lunak Lunvanch Lunvarid Lutbug Majack Majke Malfra Malft Malisa Mangthuan Marlic Mathalia Matte Mazzef Mebasmina Mebbaren Melia Melie Melind Meline Mezailgoc Mhucar Mhucas Mhumz Mhuva Mhuvalisa Milie Milla Milma Milteo Minelton Mineon Mingus Mirimohai Mithmoth Mohnchar Molex Molin Molinda Mollia Monac Monjack Morrumz Mzalec Mzalio Mzuli Mzunac Mzunaga Mzunak Mzunch Märthlde Namdie Namel Nbthehn Nbtheo Nbthu Nbthuna Nched Ncher Nelleo Nevid Neviggo Nevil Nevinde Nevingne Nevinne Nibom Nicolia Nielvar Nilde Nilhea Nilixte Noelive Noren Nornes Novea Novinelio Ofiangren Olian Olielip Olines Osebbarp Osebben Outbug Outharl Outharry Radard Radras Radrid Rasper Razkadam Razkadrid Regsrog Regsron Rorks Rotheo Rottonja Ruine Rulch Ruthehn Sagabe Salin Samel Scara Scasmirim Sebbas Selsa Shamue Shanch Shard Sharks Sigga Siggabrid Siggo Siggoc Siggot Signter Sigre Sigrimmy Sigris Simiraug Simmstina Simog Sirak Siraug Siraz Sirazak Sixte Sixteo Skyra Skyria Steli Sthen Stheo Sther Stilmelle Stine Stuna Stuvalec Stuvna Svalmer Svank Tagnes Tagrida Tazkades Thena Thenagne Thera Thldarp Thovines Thzga Tiampus Tiann Tildav Tilmack Tiras Tirazake Tirisabe Tirizik Tonja Tunaw Verakerk Vicolton Vigne Vikto Vinchog Vinder Vineahnch Vinna Vinne Vinoah Viseba Wilda Wildack Wilgot Wilia Wilianter Wiliv Wiliva Wilmajkey Wilmard Wiltenda Wilthug Winch Withu Zakevid Zatheo Zathone Zathova Zatilovig Zatton Zicel Zicia Ziciank

#444 names #444names

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