Blondie of the Follies is a 1932 American comedy movie directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Flóahreppur
Flóahreppur is a municipality in southern Iceland. It is part of the Southern Region. In 2019, 667 people lived there.
Sabadell
Sabadell is a municipality of 213,644 people (2019). It is found in the province of Barcelona in the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain.
Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Tomaszów Mazowiecki is a town in Łódź Voivodeship in Poland. In 2019, 61,960 people lived there.
Fomalhaut b
Formalhaut b is an object in the vicinity of the star Formalhaut, about 25 light years away. The object was first postulated in 2008. In 2012, it could be observed for the first time. The nature of the object is unknown. While it was first thought to be an exoplanet, the opinion in 2021 is that it might be a dust cloud.
The Pirate
The Pirate is a 1948 American musical movie directed by Vincente Minnelli and was based on the 1942 play of the same name by S. N. Behrman. It stars Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, George Zucco, Lester Allen, Lola Albright and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1949.
The Emperor Waltz
The Emperor Waltz is a 1948 American musical movie directed by Billy Wilder and starring Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Roland Culver, Lucile Watson, Richard Haydn, Sig Ruman. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and was nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1949.
Serial rapist
A serial rapist is a person that commits several rapes. Some people rape different people, others rape the same person over and over again.
Horseshoe Theory
Horseshoe Theory is an idea in political science. It says the Far Right is more similar to the Far Left than to the center-right and the Far Left is more similar to the Far Right than it is to the center-left. Horseshoe Theory is often used as argument for the Center (politics). Horseshoe Theory has many critics.
The name Horseshoe Theory comes from the idea that politics is not a straight line from left to right but bent like a horseshoe so that the two ends are closer to each other than to the middle.
Philosopher Jean-Pierre Faye invented Horseshoe Theory after seeing the Nazis (far right) and Soviets (far left) invade Poland near the beginning of World War II.
Criticism of Horseshoe Theory questions the idea of whether far-left political bodies really are as likely to supporty tyrrany as the far right. It also criticizes when people who are not really far left are called so, for example calling student protesters "Communists" or saying members of far-left groups such are as violent as their far-right counterparts, even if evidence says they are not.
Haane Manahi
Haane Te Rauawa Manahi, DCM (28 September 1913 – 29 Marh 1986) was a Māori soldier from New Zealand. He fought in the Second World War. People wanted him to have the Victoria Cross (VC) for his work in the Tunisia campaign. He got the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), which is lower than the VC. This made other soliders ask for Manahi's work to be more known. In 2007, he was given an award of an altar cloth, a sword to celebrate his work, and a letter from Queen Elizabeth II.
Manahi was born in Ohinemutu, New Zealand. He worked as a labourer (jobs that use manual labour). In November 1939, he joined the Māori Battalion. In 1941, he was part of the Battle of Greece and fought in the Battle of Crete. He was wounded in the Battle of Crete. After he was better, he fought in the Western Desert and the Tunisian campaign. Some people wanted him to get a VC because of his work at Takrouna. However, he was given a DCM in April 1943.
In June 1943, he came back to New Zealand after being gone for 3 months. He did not have to come back to the Māori Battalion if he did not want to. He was given a job as an inspector of traffic in 1946. He died in a traffic collision in 1986. After he died, a committee wanted the New Zealand Government to give him an award. This did not happen because the end of the Second World War was too long ago.
Austrian Canadians
Austrian Canadians (, ) are Canadian citizens who are of Austrian ancestry or Austrian-born people who reside in Canada. According to the 2016 Census there were 207,050 Canadians who claimed either full or partial Austrian ancestry.
Austrian Canadian communities can be found throughout the country but with a higher number mainly in Western Canada.
2021 Myanmar coup d'état
On 1 February 2021, there was a coup d'état in Myanmar. Important leaders including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint were detained as the military (Tatmadaw) took control of the government.
Myanmar (also known as Burma) has been under military rule before. General Ne Win led a coup in 1962. In 1988, many people protested against the military government because they were not happy with it. They wanted elections with many parties running so that normal people could change the government. The military killed many protestors.
Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of General Aung San, who helped free Burma from British rule. After 1988, she became a pro-democracy activist. In 1990, her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), won the elections in a landslide. However, the government refused to say that her party won.
In 2011, Suu Kyi's party won the elections. However, she is not allowed to be president of the country because her family (her late husband Michael Aris and two sons) are British citizens. So she became State Counsellor, which is like a prime minister.
In 2020, there was an election in Burma. The NLD won the election. However, the military said that there was cheating during the voting.
Early in the morning of 1 February, Suu Kyi and other leaders in her party were taken away in a raid. Then the Internet and phone lines were cut off so that people could not talk to others inside or outside the countries.
A lot of leaders in other countries around the world said that they were really worried about what was going on in Burma.
The Sea Hawk (1940 movie)
The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American adventure movie directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Flora Robson, Henry Daniell, Una O'Connor, Montagu Love, Julien Mitchell, William Lundigan, Ellis Irving, Francis McDonald, Ian Keith, Alec Craig. It was distributed by Warner Bros and was nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 1941.
National Foundation Day
National Foundation Day (建国記念の日, Kenkoku Kinen no Hi) is a national holiday in Japan celebrated annually on 11 February. It celebrates the legendary foundation of Japan, and the accession of its first emperor, Emperor Jimmu, at Kashihara gū.
According to Shinto tradition, Emperor Jimmu ascended the throne in 660 BC. During the Meiji period, historians said this was 11 February 660 BC.
The holiday was celebrated for the first time in 1873 AD. They called it National Empire Day. Historians believe the Meiji government did this to make the Meiji Emperor look like a successor of Emperor Jimmu. The Meiji-era constitution was announced on February 11 1889.
After the occupation ended, nationalist groups in Japan tried to convince the government to bring back the holiday. After a few years, they did. They called it National Foundation Day instead of National Empire Day and removed most of the imperial imagery.
Today, some groups in Japan like National Foundation Day and other groups protest it because they think it is too close to the actions that led up to World War II.
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