Obama on ISIL
On September 5, the United States convened with its NATO allies in Wales and announced that a coalition (Britain, France, Australia, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Poland, and Denmark) would wage an … Continue reading →
NYTimes Daily Review for September 11, 2014
New York Times Daily Israeli Review for September 11, 2014 by: Joshua Ben Aryeh I srael, Facing Criticism, to Investigate Possible Military Misconduct in Gaza – Israel announced it had begun criminal investigations into five instances of possible military misconduct in the 50-day Gaza war, an implic ...
Beer Group September Tasting (#3)
Tuesday was our beer tasting group's third monthly tasting. Membership was a little down, four people attended (since 6 yes RSVPS decided day of to become no RSVPS...understandably conflicts arise that cannot be rescheduled, but anyone else annoyed by the RSVP system--yes should mean yes, not maybe ...
29th year - N° 255 Friday, 12 September 2014
BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 29th year - N° 255 Friday, 12 September 2014 12 September / Today's 23 Events: (-) 652 years ago Monday 12th of September 1362 199th Pope Innocentius VI, originally Étienne Aubert dies of unknown causes at the age of 80 in Palais des Papes, Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ...
The Summer of 2014: BOYHOOD dominates first-run movies
FIRST-RUN FILMS OF SUMMER 2014 The highlights of our film-going this summer mostly consisted of revivals, especially restored prints, and there will be a separate posting on this topic. Meanwhile, here is our assessment of the first-run films we saw, which was a bit lean as far as truly “great” movi ...
b-a-c-u: Residential building(Russian embassy), Warsaw, Poland,...
> b-a-c-u: Residential building(Russian embassy), Warsaw, Poland, built in 70-s > Arch. Peter Sembrat and Janusz Nowak< span>
semiticsemantics: returnofthejudai: robowolves: bemusedlybespe...
> semiticsemantics: returnofthejudai: robowolves: bemusedlybespectacled: gdfalksen: Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote t ...
“Not An Easy Feat”
In a 9.10 piece called “Deathbed State of Film Criticism Plays Key Role in Endless Awards Prognostication,” Fishbowl NY‘s Richard Horgan suggests that awards-blogger coverage by the top few is…well, it’s a little complex as he acknowledges the death of old-style film criticism as practiced by Paulin ...
Poland says Russia cuts down gas deliveries
According to the article, published by Reuters (but also published by The Moscow Times) less natural gas from Russia is being exported. The shortage of natural gas can create tensions between two countries. So far, there weren’t any signs of shortages of Russian gas in the rest of Europe. It is impo ...
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> ultrafacts: woensdag333: ultrafacts: Source For more facts follow Ultrafacts OMG, I read about that. His name was Wojtek. He was a bear in a Polish army, and a badass. Somewhere in Poland there is a statue of him, I believe.
