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acquariusgb · 3 years ago

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9/11 Bill POV

While Hillary was in Washington and Chelsea in New York, Bill was in Australia. Here's an extract from Man of the World by Joe Conason, describing the events from that day.

In Clinton’s suite at the Sheraton Mirage, a luxurious hotel surrounded by palm trees, he turned on the television to see the nightmarish images that would soon become a historic symbol of horror for Americans. Across the bottom of the screen, a crawling ticker listed the names of passengers on the four flights hijacked by the al Qaeda terrorist teams. Suddenly, Clinton saw the name of a friend, someone who had worked with him for years, a man with a family of his own. “Oh my God,” he breathed.

He knew Chelsea was in New York City, visiting a friend before her scheduled departure for England. Now he had to find out exactly where she was and who was with her, but nobody had been able to find her yet. When Hillary finally got through to his room, she pretended to know already that their daughter was safe, hoping to calm him—even though she felt inwardly frantic as her Senate staff continued to try to locate their daughter.

By her own account, Chelsea had been watching television at her friend’s apartment in Union Square when the second plane hit, and quickly tried to call her mother in Washington—but as she spoke with an aide in Hillary’s office, overburdened phone lines went dead. In a panic, she left the apartment and headed downtown, searching desperately for a pay phone to reach Hillary’s Senate office again. She was standing in line at a pay phone, about twelve blocks from the disaster scene, when she heard the deafening roar of the second tower collapsing. She headed back toward Union Square, eventually found her friend, and they walked uptown, like thousands of other New Yorkers. When she found a working phone and reached Hillary, her mother burst into tears of relief.

At Clinton’s office in Harlem, Karen Tramontano and members of the foundation staff were meeting in a conference room with a panoramic southward view when they saw the first plane. Someone came running into the room and suddenly they were watching the catastrophe on television. Tramontano picked up a phone immediately, trying to reach Band in Australia.

With all flights into the United States canceled, the Clinton entourage was stranded in Australia. After talking with Band, Tramontano placed a call to Condoleezza Rice to ask for help. After some wrangling that involved more calls from Band to the Secret Service and to Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, the Pentagon dispatched a military aircraft to pick them up at Cairns Airport in Port Douglas. “It won’t be very comfortable,” Rice warned, “but it’s the only plane we have available out there right away.”

It wasn’t comfortable at all aboard the C-130 cargo plane and the trip took almost twenty-four hours. There were no seats, there was no food, and at thirty thousand feet, the interior of the plane was cold—very, very cold. They stopped in Guam and switched to a refueling plane, which was no better. Band had tried to scrounge some sweaters and other warm clothing at the hotel, but they were all bone-chilled, starved, and exhausted when the plane finally landed at Stewart Airport, a New York National Guard airbase about fifty miles north of Chappaqua. Almost immediately they departed for Manhattan, where they headed to Union Square.

Despite their ordeal, Clinton was grateful to have gotten home, unlike thousands of Americans left overseas with no way to return until the airports reopened. Among them was Al Gore, who had been in Vienna when the terrorists struck, giving a speech to an Austrian Internet forum.

Evidently the Bush White House was not prepared to provide military transportation for the former vice president, who could find no way to get back except via Gander Airport, a tiny facility in Newfoundland. From there, he and an aide would have to drive southward across the Canadian border.

While seeking help with their predicament, a former Gore aide—who had also worked in the Clinton White House—called the Harlem office. Gore and Clinton had exchanged messages within the first hours after the terrorist attack, but had not spoken yet. Distant as relations between their bosses had become, the staffers remained friendly. When Gore’s aide reached Tramontano, they talked casually about “the crap that’s gone on for far too long” between Gore and Clinton—who literally had not spoken since a bitter two-hour argument about who was to blame for the disastrous outcome of the 2000 election. She suggested that on the long drive down from the Canadian border, Gore might stop in Chappaqua. When Tramontano reached Clinton to discuss the proposed sleepover, she wasn’t surprised by his enthusiasm. That evening around 8 p.m., the former vice president picked up his cell phone to speak with the former president for the first time in many months.

“Why don’t you come down here, and then we’ll fly down together Friday morning?” Clinton asked. An Air Force jet provided by the White House would take them to the capital for the special memorial service on September 14 at the National Cathedral.

Hours after midnight, driving a rented car, Gore arrived at the five-bedroom colonial on Old House Lane. Clinton was waiting for them in the living room, where he had been napping on and off, and got up to greet Gore.

As he climbed the steps to the front porch, the former vice president noticed a refrigerator, sitting where it had been moved while the kitchen was undergoing renovation—a tableau that struck him as more hillbilly Ozarks than chic Westchester. Eyeing the fridge, he cracked, one Southerner to another: “Well, you’ve really come a long way, haven’t you?” At the door, Clinton roared with laughter.

They stayed up almost until dawn, talking mostly about the 9/11 attacks, their own efforts to deal with terrorism, and the murky times ahead. Chelsea met them in the morning at Westchester Airport to fly to Washington. On the flight down, Gore invited the Clintons to join his family after the memorial service for lunch at his home in Arlington, Virginia.

At the cathedral, a century-old Gothic Revival structure on the northern outskirts of the capital, Clinton sat in a front pew alongside President Bush and the other living former presidents, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H. W. Bush. He listened as the president delivered words of compassion for the bereaved and a warning to the enemy. He was speaking out forcefully in support of Bush at every opportunity, starting with his departure from Australia. He had canceled all of his speaking engagements abroad to remain in Manhattan, spending hours at local vigils and especially at the Armory on Park Avenue, where he tried to comfort families whose loved ones were missing and presumed dead.

“They cheered, they wept, they hugged him,” wrote a reporter for London’s Daily Mirror. “All around him, New Yorkers gathered, some to pass on their thanks that he had rushed to their side, others to grab his hand and use him as an emotional crutch. . . . All felt lifted to be in the presence of the man they had looked to for most of the past decade when their country was in its hour of need.”

The Mirror correspondent was not alone in contrasting Clinton’s instinctive leadership with the unsteadiness displayed by his successor in the early hours following the attack, although Bush soon righted himself and took command. America and the world had turned a page, moving beyond the petty controversies that had almost consumed Clinton in the days after he left office. Gaunt, somber, and worried, he and his fellow Americans now found themselves in a very different world.

Not everyone was willing to leave old habits behind, however, especially among Clinton’s most rigid detractors on the right. Even as Bush and congressional leaders prayed for the nation to unite, the habitual haters simply could not resist a fresh opportunity to target him. Nothing mattered more than proving (or at least asserting) that the terrorist attacks of September 11 should be blamed not on the current president, but the one who preceded him. Before long a writer for National Review warned, only half-jokingly: “If we members of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy don’t get back to our daily routine of obsessive Clinton-bashing, then the terrorists will have won.”

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goodcryunicorn · 2 years ago

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007 || James Bond

Name: James Bond Age: 34 - 49 Relationship: married to Teresa di Vicenzo (verse depending) open for ships Sexuality: pansexual Job: spy Faceclaims: Sean Connery; George Lazenby; David Niven; Timothy Dalton; Roger Moore; Pierce Brosnan; Daniel Craig; Idris Elba Blog written by: @goodcryunicorn3

James Bond was born on April 13, 1968. His father Andrew Bond was a Senior Accounts Manager for Vickers Defence Systems (now BAE Systems Land & Armaments Group), while his mother Monique Bond (née Delacroix) was originally from Yverdonm Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. Until age 11, Bond was educated in Switzerland and Germany, where his father was stationed as a Vickers executive. Both parents died tragically in a climbing accident while attempting to scale north-east ridge of the Aiguille de la Persévérance. After the death of his parents, he was privately tutored while he lived at the family's estate in Scotland, Skyfall Lodge. Royal Navy Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond has an an enjoyment of cars, a love of food and drink, and an average intake of sixty custom-made cigarettes a day. Bond's parents (Andrew Bond of Scotland and Monique Delacroix Bond of the Canton de Vaud, Switzerland) were tragically killed during a climbing accident in the French Alps when he was eleven. During his teens, he spent time studying both climbing and skiing with local Austrian instructor Hannes Oberhauser of Kitzbühel during school holidays from Fettes, as he grew up alongside Oberhauser's son, Franz Oberhauser. Bond's one strong relationship, this friendship ended when Oberhauser disappeared mysteriously. Bond has referred to Oberhauser as a second father. During a stint at the University of Geneva under an exchange program with Fettes, Bond led an expedition to the very mountain where his parents had died. Bond climbed it with friends and never told them of his personal and tragic link to the location. Bond conducted his year of Sea Service with high recommendations from his Chief Petty Officers and Warrant Officers. He applied for and was uniformly recommended for work in Naval Intelligence. Bond served as an intelligence officer on HMS Exeter both before and during Operation Granby, and later was able to transfer to submarine service, serving aboard HMS Turbulent. His natural abilities, mental quickness and confidence impressed his commanding officers. Within the year of being assigned to Turbulent, it became apparent that Bond was not being sufficiently challenged with his duties, so Bond volunteered for the Special Boat Service. Bond excelled at SC3 and Underwater and Aquatic Warfare training. He constantly equaled or bested his superior officers and instructors in all areas after nominal amount of experience. He had acquired a first-class command of the French and German languages during his early education, which he received entirely abroad due to his father's work as a Vickers armaments company representative. After the death of his parents, Bond goes to live with his aunt, Miss Charmian Bond in the small village of Pett Bottom, Canterbury, where he completed his early education. Later, he briefly attends Eton College at "12 or thereabouts", but is removed after two terms because of girl trouble with a maid. After leaving Eton, Bond was sent to Fettes College in Scotland, his father's school. On his first visit to Paris at the age of sixteen, Bond lost his virginity, later reminiscing about the event in "From a View to a Kill". After leaving Fettes, Bond studies briefly attending the University of Geneva, before being taught to ski in Kitzbühel by Hannes Oberhauser. Following his graduation, Bond joined the Ministry of Defence shortly before the outbreak of World War II. Bond applied to M for a position within the "Secret Service", part of the Civil Service, and rose to the rank of principal officer. It was not until the penultimate novel, You Only Live Twice, that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background, using a fictional obituary, purportedly from The Times. The book was the second to be written after the release of Dr. No in cinemas and Sean Connery's depiction of Bond affected Fleming's interpretation of the character, to give Bond both a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories. Shortly before his next assignment, M, Bond's superior in MI6, gave him the choice of either selecting a new weapon on a mission to investigate the recent disappearance of British Secret Service operative John Strangways or to return to standard intelligence duties after an incident with his Beretta M1934. He was then given a choice by Major Boothroyd of using a Walther PPK or a Smith & Wesson .38 Special 5-round hammerless revolver. Bond reluctantly decided to take the weapons on the mission and the Walther proved valuable in Jamaica, where Strangways had gone missing. Although Bond's life was threatened on the mission several times by various murderous operatives, one of whom placed a tarantula in his bed, Bond found help in CIA agent Felix Leiter and native fisherman, Quarrel, who aided Bond in his investigation of Strangways' disappearance. After finally determining that a Dr. No was responsible for Strangways' murder, Bond killed Dr. No in revenge and destroyed his island, Crab Key, before escaping in a boat with a beautiful Jamaican native named Honey Ryder. The two later encountered a Navy ship whose crew offered to tow their boat back to the Jamaican mainland. Bond later returned to London but, six months after he had left the city, he was sent on a mission to Istanbul in an attempt to obtain the Lektor decoder device from a stunning Russian cipher clerk named Tatiana Romanova, who had supposedly fallen in love with a photograph of him. Yet Tatiana had unknowingly been set up by the No. 3 of the criminal organization SPECTRE, Rosa Klebb who sought to avenge the murder of Dr. No. Bond was aided by Kerim Bey, who helped the British agent bring both the device and Romanova from Istanbul to Venice. But despite several SPECTRE agents attempting to kill Bond, most notably Bulgarian assassin Krilencu at a Gypsy camp and the devious assassin Red Grant, who attempted to garrote Bond on the Orient Express before he was killed himself after being tricked into opening Bond's attaché case in a manner that detonates a tear gas booby trap, allowing Bond to attack and kill him. Bond and Romanova escape with the lektor to Venice. Rosa Klebb, disguised as a hotel maid, attempts to steal back the lektor and kill Bond, but ends up being shot by Romanova. Subsequently, Bond was sent on a mission to Mexico, where he ensured that a revolutionary named Mr. Ramirez could no longer finance his revolutions. After the successful completion of his mission, Bond was attacked by an assailant, who he killed before taking a plane to Miami. In Miami, Bond was instructed to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger, who was staying at the same hotel. However, Bond became romantically involved with Goldfinger's girlfriend, Jill Masterson, who later died of skin suffocation as a result of being entirely covered in gold. Bond returned to London, where he was ordered to investigate Goldfinger's involvement in the possibly illegal transportation of gold, but he was warned that, if he treated the assignment as a personal vendetta, he would be replaced on the mission by 008. Alfred Blacking, manager of the golf club, introduces Bond to Goldfinger noting Bond is an old club member. Bond and Goldfinger play a round of golf together in which Goldfinger cheats, but Bond still wins. While investigating Goldfinger, Bond traveled from England to Geneva, Switzerland, where he met Jill Masterson's vengeful sister, Tilly Masterson, before she was killed by Goldfinger's henchman, Oddjob, with the modified bowler hat that he always wore. Bond determined that Goldfinger was indeed illegally smuggling gold but he was soon imprisoned by the criminal, who ordered his transportation to the United States, where Bond learned the specifics of the criminal's planned Operation Grand Slam (the robbery of Fort Knox). Bond ultimately prevented the criminal's destructive plan from becoming a reality and managed to kill both Oddjob by electrocuting him through his hat and, finally, Goldfinger himself. Shortly thereafter, Bond traveled to Japan, where he faked his own death to avert attention from SPECTRE. However, he was then sent by M to investigate the capture of a U.S. spacecraft in Japan to by an unidentified spacecraft. Upon his arrival, Bond is contacted by Aki, assistant to the Japanese secret service leader Tiger Tanaka. Bond established that the mastermind behind the hijacking is Ernst Stavro Blofeld head of SPECTRE and follows the trail to Blofeld's island headquarters. Bond is then tasked with investigating a major diamond smuggling ring which begins in Africa and runs through Holland and the United Kingdom to the United States. Disguised as professional smuggler and murderer Peter Franks, Bond travels to Amsterdam to meet contact Tiffany Case: he is given the diamonds and travels on to the US, where he is met by Felix Leiter. Bond moves through the chain, which leads to the Whyte House, a casino-hotel owned by the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte. Bond is driving on a country coastal road in Portugal in his Aston Martin DBS when he's passed by a woman driving a Mercury Cougar. The woman drives to a nearby beach and tries to drown herself in the surf. When Bond drags her back, he is attacked by two thugs, whom he is able to beat in hand-to-hand combat. When he turns his attention back to the mysterious woman, he sees her drive his car back to her own before switching vehicles and driving off. Bond, puzzled by the turn of events, returns to his car. Later at a casino, the same woman Bond found on the beach, Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo, is gambling and places an enormous bet that she is unable to pay off. Bond pays the tab for her and meets with her at a table. After she questions why he is constantly trying to rescue her and implies that she is seeking death. However, she invites him to her room to "repay" him. Bond is sucker-punched by another man, whom he disarms and throws to the floor. When he returns to his own room, Tracy is there waiting, steals Bond's Walther PPK and threatens to kill him "for a thrill". Bond disarms her and demands to know about the man in her room; Tracy is apparently unaware of what he is talking about, promising that while she is many things, she is not a liar. Tracy leaves the hotel the next morning and when James tries to trail her, he is apprehended by several more men who take him to Tracy's father, Marc-Ange Draco, head of a powerful European crime organization which is called Union Corse. The gangster offers Bond a £1,000,000 dowry if he'll marry his troubled daughter after he tells Bond about Tracy's suicidal depression since her mother's death. Feeling that she needs therapy and not needing the money, Bond turns down the offer but agrees to continue courting Tracy if Draco will help him find SPECTRE's sinister leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, whom Bond has been unsuccessfully tracking for the past two years. When he returns to MI6 in London, M tells Bond that his obsession with finding Blofeld must end. Bond gives Miss Moneypenny his resignation and begins cleaning out his office, but M accepts his apparent leave without much reaction. Moneypenny then reveals that she subverted Bond's wishes and entered a request for two weeks leave instead, allowing Bond to pursue Blofeld on his own time. Bond goes back to Portugal for a birthday party being thrown for Draco. While there, Tracy reveals that she knows about the deal her father struck with Bond; Not wanting to be used in this way, she demands her father help Bond anyway before storming off, hurt. Draco relents and tells Bond to check out a lead in Bern, Switzerland. Feeling genuinely fond of her, Bond catches up with Tracy before she can drive away and the pair officially begin their courtship. In the morning, Tracy and Bond ski away from the barn, with Blofeld and a few of his men close behind. One henchman is shredded to pieces and killed by a patrolling snowblower as Bond and Tracy ski into a treacherous area. Blofeld causes an avalanche that they are unable to stay ahead of and are buried by. Blofeld has his men retrieve Tracy and leaves Bond for dead. Bond, having slipped their notice, wakes up and returns to London, seeking a way to rescue Tracy and stop Blofeld's plan. M refuses to launch an assault on Piz Gloria for diplomatic reasons, saying that such a plan is too risky and that they plan to fulfill Blofeld's wishes instead. Bond goes home and enlists the help of Draco, who provides helicopters disguised as Red Cross choppers and a strike team from Union Corse. A lavish wedding is thrown for Bond and Tracy in Portugal and they are married. After the reception, Bond leaves with Tracy in his Aston Martin. They travel a few miles and Bond stops to remove some of the flower chains decorating their car. Tracy reflects that Bond has given her more than a husband, she now has a future. Suddenly, a car driven by a very-much alive Blofeld (now wearing a neck brace) races by and Irma Bunt opens fire on Bond's car with an assault rifle. Bond survives the drive-by attack by ducking behind the car and recognizes Blofeld immediately and jumps back in the car with Tracy to give chase, but Tracy is dead; shot in the head by a bullet that went through the windshield. As Bond holds her, too grief-stricken to give chase, a policeman stops by after hearing the shooting. Bond, who is close to tears, tries to assure him that Tracy is not dead, that there's "no hurry" and that they "have all the time in the world" as he starts to cry. After being tasked with finding missing British scientist, Gibson who has invented the Solex Agitator a device to harness solar power, thereby solving the global energy crisis, but after receiving a golden bullet with the code "007" etched into its surface, M relieves Bond of the mission. The bullet signifies Bond is a target of hired assassin Francisco Scaramanga and Bond sets out unofficially to find him. From a spent golden bullet, Bond tracks Scaramanga to Macau, where he sees Scaramanga's mistress, Andrea Anders, collecting golden bullets at a casino. Bond follows her to Hong Kong, where he witnesses Scaramanga murder Gibson the missing scientist, the theft of the Solex agitator and kidnapping of Mary Goodnight. Bond is tasked with investigating the disappearance of British and Soviet submarines, along with their payload of atomic intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the subsequent offer to sell a submarine tracking system. For this new mission, Bond works alongside Major Anya Amasova of the KGB. The pair track the plans across Egypt and identify the person responsible for the thefts as shipping tycoon, scientist and anarchist Karl Stromberg. Bond travels to Brazil looking for Drax's research facility, where he is captured. He and Goodhead escape and pose as pilots on one of six space shuttles being sent by Drax to an hidden orbital space station. There Bond finds out that Drax plans to destroy all human life by launching fifty globes containing the toxin into the Earth's atmosphere. Bond and Goodhead disable the radar jammer hiding the station from Earth and the U.S. sends a platoon of Marines in a military space shuttle. During the battle, Bond kills Drax and his station is destroyed. After a British spy boat sinks, a marine archaeologist, Sir Timothy Havelock, is tasked to retrieve its Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC) communication system before the Russians do. After Havelock is murdered by Hector Gonzales, a Cuban hitman, Bond is ordered to find out who hired Gonzales. While investigating, Bond is captured, but Gonzales is subsequently killed by Havelock's vengeful daughter, Melina and she and Bond escape. Bond identifies one of those present with Gonzales as Emile Leopold Locque and so follows a lead to Italy and meets his contact, Luigi Ferrara, and a well-connected Greek businessman and intelligence informant, Aris Kristatos. Kristatos tells Bond that Locque is employed by Milos Columbo, Kristatos' former partner in the Greek resistance during World War II. Bond is sent to South America to impersonate Colonel Luis Toro, who is in charge of enemy spy planes factory and destroy the factory. After successfully infiltrating the premises with the help of his co-agent Bianca, Bond attaches bombs to radar and weapons equipment but is caught in the act by the real Toro. After being take prisoner, Bianca helps Bond escape in his one-seater fighter jet and evades capture after he is attacked by a missile which he directs into the path of Toro's weapons factory, destroying both Colonel Toro and the spy plane. Bond then investigates the murder of 009, who is found dead in East Berlin while dressed as a circus clown and clutching a fake Fabergé egg. An identical egg, "The Property of A Lady", appears at an auction in London and Bond establishes the buyer, exiled Afghan prince, Kamal Khan is working with General Orlov, a renegade Soviet general, who is seeking to expand Soviet borders into Europe. Bond travels to India and meets Octopussy, a wealthy woman who leads the Octopus Cult. Bond finds out that Orlov has been supplying Khan with priceless Russian treasures, replacing them with replicas, while Khan has been smuggling the real versions into the West, via Octopussy's circus troupe's railcars. Bond investigates into the operations of millionaire industrialist Max Zorin, who is trying to monopolise the world market in microchips. He establishes that Zorin was previously trained and financed by the KGB, but has now gone rogue. Zorin unveils to a group of investors his plan to destroy Silicon Valley which will give him a monopoly in the manufacturing of microchips. James Bond is assigned to aid the defection of KGB officer, General Koskov, covering his escape from a concert hall in Bratislava during the orchestra's intermission. During the mission, Bond notices that the KGB sniper assigned to prevent Koskov's escape is a female cellist from the orchestra. He notices her holding a rilfe improperly and immediately thinks she's not a sniper. Disobeying his orders to kill the sniper, he instead shoots the rifle from her hands, then uses the Trans-Siberian Pipeline to smuggle Koskov across the border into Austria and then on to Britain. Bond returns to Bratislava to track down the cellist, Kara Milovy. He determines that Koskov's entire defection was staged and that Kara is actually Koskov's girlfriend. Bond convinces Kara that he is a friend of Koskov's and persuades her to accompany him to Vienna, supposedly to be reunited with him. During his brief tryst with Kara in Vienna, Bond meets up with his MI6 ally, Saunders, who discovers a history of financial dealings between Koskov and arms dealer Brad Whitaker. As he leaves their meeting, Saunders is killed by assassin Necros, who leaves the message "Smiert Spionam". DEA agents collect Bond and Felix Leiter, on their way to Leiter's wedding, to assist in capturing drug lord Franz Sanchez. Bond and Leiter capture Sanchez by attaching a hook and cord to Sanchez's plane in flight near The Bahamas and pulling it out of the air with a Coast Guard helicopter. Afterward, Bond and Leiter parachute down to the church in time for the ceremony. When Bond learns Sanchez has escaped, he returns to Leiter's house to find his wife Della dead and Felix alive, but seriously wounded; Bond swears to take his revenge on Sanchez. As the DEA refuses to help because Sanchez is out of their jurisdiction, Bond, with Felix's friend Sharkey, start their own investigation into what happened to Felix. The pair discovers a marine research center run by Milton Krest, one of Sanchez's associates. After Bond kills Ed Killifer by pushing him into the tank with the shark that maimed Leiter, M meets Bond in Key West's Hemingway House and orders him to an assignment in Istanbul, Turkey. Bond resigns after turning down the assignment, but M suspends Bond instead and immediately revokes his licence to kill. Bond flees from MI6 custody and becomes a rogue agent, bereft of official backing but later surreptitiously helped by Miss Moneypenny and MI6 armourer Q. In 1986, Bond is paired with his close friend Alec Trevelyan, agent 006, and the two are tasked with destroying the Arkhangelsk chemical weapons facility. In the course of the mission, the two plant explosive charges into the main chamber of the facility but are surrounded by Soviet Colonel Arkady Ourumov and his men and Trevelyan is supposedly taken prisoner at gunpoint. Under the pretence of allowing Bond to surrender, Ourumov gives him ten seconds to come out. On reaching one, Alec is shot in the head. 007 manages to escape and succeeds in destroying the facility by setting limpet mines with a three minute fuse. Nine years later, Bond gets into a car chase with a young woman in Monte Carlo. He later meets her at a casino, his suspicions raised by her taste for expensive vehicles (with fake number plates) and her suspicious relationship with Canadian Navy admiral, Chuck Farrel. Suspecting her, he places her under surveillance, and runs a background check of her via MI6, learning that she is an operative of criminal organisation Janus. 007 later witnesses the theft of a prototype Eurocopter Tiger helicopter that can withstand an electromagnetic pulse by Onatopp and an unidentified accomplice, presumably Ourumov. Janus then uses the helicopter to steal the control disk for the dual GoldenEye satellite weapons, using the GoldenEye to destroy the complex with an electromagnetic pulse; there is one survivor of the attack, a programmer, Natalya Simonova. M later sends Bond on a mission to investigate the sinking of a British warship in the South China Sea, the mysterious theft of one of the ship's cruise missiles and the subsequent shooting down of a Chinese fighter plane. The spy is sent in Hamburg in order to "pump information" from his old flame, Paris Carver, now married to suspicious media mogul, Elliot Carver. Posing as a banker, Bond meets Carver and his associates during a party celebrating the launch of a new CMGN satellite at Carver's Hamburg media center. However, sensing that the agent means trouble, Carver uses a pretext to leave him and tells his right-hand man, Stamper, to take care of him. Many henchmen are sent to brutally beat 007, but are soon outwitted by him, and the spy later interrupts Carver's speech by switching off the electricity. After made love with Paris, Bond infiltrates Carver's printing company while Paris is killed by Dr. Kaufman, Carver's personal assassin. Holding Bond at gunpoint when he returns to his hotel, Kaufman reveals that he was assigned to make the deaths look like a murder-suicide; Bond killing Paris and then himself but 007 is able to turn the tables on Kaufman and kill him before escaping Carver's henchmen with a GPS encoder obtained by terrorist Henry Gupta at the terrorist arms bazaar. Bond investigates North Korean Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, who is illegally trading African conflict diamonds for weaponry. Moon is apparently killed but Bond is betrayed by an MI6 mole and is captured by the North Korean army and tortured for 14 months. Circa March 2002, he is exchanged for Zao, Moon's right-hand man. Despite being suspended on his return (M believes he had cracked under torture and was haemorrhaging information), Bond decides to complete his mission and tracks Zao to a gene therapy clinic in Cuba, where patients can have their appearances altered through DNA restructuring. He also crosses paths with NSA agent Jinx, on her own hunt for the arms dealer. Zao escapes, but Bond acquires a diamond leading back to British billionaire Gustav Graves. In Iceland, Graves unveils a mirror satellite, "Icarus", which is able to focus solar energy on a small area and provide year-round sunshine for crop development. Bond discovers Moon has also undergone the gene therapy and has assumed the identity of Graves and identifies MI6 mole as Miranda Frost, an agent assigned by M to investigate Graves. With help from Jinx, Bond then exposes Moon's plan: to use the Icarus to cut a path through the Korean Demilitarized Zone with a concentrated solar-powered laser, allowing North Korean troops to invade South Korea unopposed and reunite the peninsula under communism. Bond disables the Icarus controls, kills Moon and stops the invasion while Frost is killed by Jinx. On his first mission as agent 007, Bond and an agent named Carter worked cooperatively in an attempt to capture international bomb-maker, Mollaka. At a mongoose/cobra fight in Madagascar, Bond and Carter conducted surveillance on Mollaka but, due to a foolish mistake made by Carter, the suspected criminal realized he was being watched and attempted to escape. Bond pursued Mollaka through the jungle, up an enormously high construction site, where the two engaged brutally in hand-to-hand combat, and finally to the Nambutu Embassy, where he attempted to arrest the suspected bombmaker. However, since Bond found himself surrounded by Nambutu soldiers, he manages to escape after he shot and killed Mollaka and caused an explosion that partly also destroyed the embassy. The incident infuriated the British Government, as Bond had only been instructed to capture Mollaka, but the criminal's cell phone led Bond to discover a terrorist plot to blow up a gigantic prototype Skyfleet airliner at Miami International Airport. Having lost several high-ranking operatives in his organization and needing to recoup his clients' money, Le Chiffre had set up a high-stakes poker tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro. Hoping that a defeat would force Le Chiffre to aid the British government in exchange for protection from his creditors, MI6 entered Bond into the tournament. He was assisted in the mission by a fellow MI6 officer named René Mathis and Vesper Lynd, a foreign liaison agent from HM Treasury's Financial Action Task Force. She was sent to make sure that Bond adequately managed the funds provided by MI6. Bond overcame several obstacles: He was forced to save Le Chiffre from a vengeful Steven Obanno which resulted in the latter's death. In Venice, Italy, where he was enjoying his time off, Bond recieved a phonecall from M, about his resignation and noted that the British government wants the money returned. Vesper Lynd arranged a secret meeting to a man named Adolph Gettler and his cronies. Bond ensued a gunfight with the men, where he overpowered and killed them. Lynd, however, locked herself inside a sinking lift and took her own life by drowning herself. Bond managed to recover her and attempted to revive, but to no avail. At the party, Bond rescues Camille from Greene. Leaving, Bond and Camille are pulled over by Bolivian police working for Medrano. They had earlier attacked Mathis and put him in the boot of Bond's car to frame Bond; and, in the ensuing struggle, Mathis is killed. Bond is forced to go rogue, after Fields is killed off by mysterious assailants. James Bond, six years after the Casino Royale and the Bolivia mission, is in Istanbul, Turkey, late July/August 2012 teamed up with Miss Moneypenny and Sebastian Ronson to protect a computer drive later revealed to contain the identities of every NATO agent embedded in terrorist organizations the world over. A French mercenary called Patrice eludes Bond and ransacks the safehouse, where he fights and kills Ronson and steals the computer drive. Bond, armed with his standard-issue Walther PPK, finds Ronson's body and briefly tries to save the latter, but M coerces him into pursuing the Frenchman. Leaving Ronson to die, Bond and Moneypenny briefly pursue him in a van, but they eventually corner him in the Grande Bazaar. The local police try to defuse the situation. Patrice unsheathes a machine-gun and mows down the police, cornering Bond. Moneypenny distracts him and Patrice tries to escape on a motorbike, but Bond steals a motorbike himself and gives chase, going over the rooftops of the Bazaar. The chase drives the two of them to a bridge, where Patrice boards the top of the train and Bond heroically severs the motorbike in an attempt at boarding the train too. After a destructive chase, Bond corners Patrice and they fight. Patrice manages to hold out against the 00 agent and soon manages to gain the upper hand, despite the use of a knife, a machine-gun and a brilliantly convenient chain. In the ensuing brawl, Bond is about to beat Patrice before Moneypenny unwillingly shoots him. Bond is thrown from the train, into the waterfall, allowing Patrice to escape with the computer drive. Moneypenny reports that Bond is down. It is revealed that Bond has survived the bullet, the fall, the water and the asphyxiation. He is somewhere in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, engaging in gambling, alcoholism ,and prostitution almost obsessively. When news arrives of the attack on MI6 headquarters, Bond finally decides to go back to England and protect M. The following morning, they arrive on a deserted island, where the settlers had been tricked into retreating after a faux gas leak. Bond was tied down and left alone in a church hall, where Raoul Silva revealed himself. They talked for a long time and Silva revealed that he attacked the SIS Building and hired Patrice. He then unearthed that M had lied to Bond, and that he had actually failed all the tests, but M sent him anyway because she trusted him to save the day. Silva later made it absolutely clear that he hated M, and then took Bond outside, where a bloodied Sévérine was being held captive against a pillar. Silva challenged Bond to a marksmanship contest, as he placed a glass of scotch onto Sévérine's head, and challenged Bond to shoot the glass off without hitting her head. Bond deliberately missed in an attempt to save her life, but Silva arrogantly saw through him and shot her in the head, killing her and spilling the scotch. Bond showed no emotion to this, but he was clearly devastated. He then attacked Silva's men, overwhelming and killing all of them in a matter of seconds, and then held Silva at gunpoint. Bond revealed that he had used his Radio Transmitter to call MI6 after arriving on the island, and Silva was swiftly overpowered and arrested. Having managed to escape from Raoul Silva and his men, Bond managd to get M out of sight, and led her to his Aston Martin DB5 to take her to a safe house. However, believing that Silva would be able to figure out how to get into their safe houses, Bond instead took her another way, and they escaped to Skyfall Lodge. As they drove together, M complained to Bond about the situation, causing him to jokingly threaten to use the ejector seat to get rid of her. Upon arriving in Scotland, Bond was quietly traumatized by his return to his childhood home, as he took a minute to overlook the country side, before they stepped back into the Lodge. Upon arriving, Bond was reunited with Kincade, who he introduced to M and noted his surprise that Kincade was still alive. Understanding the seriousness of the situation, Kincade helped to arm Bond with several minor weapons, but they made up for it with several traps and explosives in preparation for Silva's return. Bond was coming past Lorenzo, who was suspicious, by showing him the Octopus Ring on his finger, that he had stolen from Marco Sciarra while battling with him. Bond overheard the meeting standing at a balcony. First Dr. Vogel told the group at a large table on the ground floor that they made large progress with taking migrant women into the leisure industry, which pointed to white pornographic slavery. She was interrupted by doors opening and a man coming in. As he stood at the table, all there stood up to show their respects. A few moments passed before the man said that he did not want to interrupt, to which all sat down again and Dr. Vogel finished her report. After that, Moreau, the spokesman brought the matter to the death of Sciarra and asked the Spaniard Guerra, at the other side of the table, if he wanted to fulfill Sciarra's task by going to Altausee and terminate the "Pale King". Bond and Madeleine Swann, now on vacation in Matera, Italy, both agreed that in order to live their lives together, they must first let go of the past, namely Vesper Lynd's death and Swann's personal trauma that she had suffered as a child, which she promised to explain to Bond once he said goodbye to Lynd. Bond lives in a flat off the King's Road in Chelsea, in London. His flat is looked after by an elderly Scottish housekeeper named May, In 1955 Bond earned around £2,000 a year net (£47,321 in 2017 pounds), although when on assignment he worked on an unlimited expense account. Bond suffers from amnesia and has a relationship with an Ama diving girl, Kissy Suzuki. As a result of the relationship Kissy becomes pregnant, although she does not reveal this to Bond before he leaves the island. At some point in his life Bond visited Disney World with a girlfriend, intending to stay only two days, but liked the park so much that they had stayed for a whole week. Bond also showed that he recognized a great deal of Disney's characters.

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Helfert, Joachim Murat, Chapter 3, Part 2

(We left Murat claiming to British visitors that he, despite wanting Napoleon to drive the Bourbons out of France, was still totally in the Alies' camp.)

In spite of these assurances, everyone now knew very well what to expect from his side. Moreover, the facts were in stark contradiction with his words. All kinds of armaments were brought to completion with restless haste, throughout the kingdom the press of sailors was ordered to man the vessels; the royal guards, all troops were ordered to be ready to march; his aides-de-camp were constantly on the move in this or that direction. A year earlier Joachim had already begun to give the civil militia a better establishment, this was now continued most assiduously. The capital also received a military guardia di sicurezza, six battalions on foot and an escadron; property and the intelligentsia formed the elements drawn to their service: the wealthy privateers, merchants and tradesmen, professors, civil servants of all grades; a special medal of merit with the motto: "Onore e fedeltà" was created to stimulate their zeal. Ever since the world peace had been concluded, and with explicit reference to this change, Joachim had also tried to create a Sicilian regiment, Neapolitans who had followed Ferdinand IV to the island, but for whom there was now, as Murat thought, no longer any reason to stay abroad; but the influx was very small, the intended regiment never came into being. Among the officers' corps, a very dangerous increase consisted of many Lombards and Romagnoles who had formerly served in the army of the Kingdom of Italy and who, according to the custom of such fugitives from the country, had their mouths full of lofty words, pushed for an immediate upsurge in arms, which would be met with the most brilliant successes: old comrades would flock to them from all parts of Italy, hundreds, thousands of them armed and uniformed, gladly joining the King's army.

These military precautions went hand in hand with some personnel changes in the upper circles of government. The Minister of Finance, Mosbourg, a Frenchman by birth, asked for and received his dismissal - he had made his penny dry and did not want to expose it again to all the storms and rigours of the weather; he became Secretary of State in place of Prince Pignatelli-Cerchiara, who took over the vice-presidency of the Council of State from Cianciulli. The portfolio of finances was given to Baron Nolli, who had to begin his office with the most hateful measures: the merchant class was hit with a compulsory loan of 2 million francs; all the coffers, not excluding those of the hospitals and charitable foundations, were emptied to the last penny. Maghella was once again put in charge of the police; General Manhès became the governor of the capital, two personalities whose very names were disgusting to the people.

The author here in a footnote quotes Mier from a letter of 12 March: "Ces deux individus jouissent de la plus mauvaise réputation et sont détestés comme étrangers".

Under these circumstances, Mier's position in Naples became a very unpleasant one, and he urgently begged Prince Metternich "not to forget him". In the face of Joachim's assertion and that of his organs, in particular the government newspaper, maintaining that the King was in full harmony with Austria, that his policy was also that of Austria, Mier took every opportunity to loudly contradict this: "Austria is rather resolutely opposed to having the peace of Italy disturbed; the King, by pursuing his warlike desires and a delusion of greatness, will drag himself and his own to ruin". He sent a confidential letter to the queen, imploring her to do everything in her power to prevent her husband from making a hasty decision. He had discussions with Gallo, to whom he gave his unreserved opinion and drew his attention to the fact that the first step taken by a Neapolitan soldier across the demarcation line agreed on 28 April at Bologna would have the immediate consequence of breaking the Austrian alliance.

As early as the 12th of March it was said that the King would leave for the army, Mosbourg and Zurlo with him, Gallo and Macdonald to follow, and the Duke of Carignano to conduct foreign affairs in the meantime. The Princess of Wales, on hearing this decision, had offered to precede the King to Ancona; but he had sent her his regrets through the Duke of Roccaromana that he would not be able to receive her there, whereupon she angrily departed that very morning for Civita Vecchia, and from thence to Genoa. But the king's departure did not come to pass for the time being. Once again, doubts had intervened: repeated and strong hints from the Austrian envoy, requests and ideas from the queen, insistent advice from serious men who were in Joachim's confidence [footnote see below, as somewhat longer]. For a moment it had seemed as if everything was to be reversed, regiments that were about to march had been ordered to halt, others had even said that they would be recalled from the Marches.

Then new favourable news arrived of Napoleon's advance in France - from the evening of 10 March, when he entered Lyon, which might have been reported in Naples on the 15th - and now there was no more rest and no more peace for Joachim. He hastily summoned the Council of State, which was attended by the Queen, all the ministers, and the top generals, not to hear the opinion of those present, but to win them over to his own, which he did with all the grandiloquent exuberance of a Gascogner: 8,000 of his own troops, 14 battalions of provincial militia, civic militia without number; in addition, appeals from all parts of the peninsula, here a letter speaking of 12 regiments in readiness, of 12,000 shotguns in stock, there a letter with the promise of four fully equipped regiments, another promising the whole mass of the disbanded Italian army. The majority of those assembled listened to these reckless reports in incredulous distrust; with regret they saw the King's self-deception, and urgently advised against a hasty step: "one should rather await the answers from Vienna and London, the last success of Napoleon's enterprise, the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna on this unexpected change of affairs". Joachim suspended the meeting without passing a resolution that he did not like, sent Count Beaufremont to France with the declaration that the Emperor could count on his services, and let the Roman Court know through Cardinal Fesch that he regarded Napoleon's cause as his own and soon intended to prove to the world that it had never been alien to him.

On the evening of March 15, the Austrian envoy had a conversation with the Duca di Gallo, the contents of which left no further doubt. Joachim's minister complained about the obvious cooling in Austrian sympathies; about the neglect of his monarch's interests on the part of the Viennese Cabinet; about the small amount of effort the Cabinet had made to obtain the king's recognition from the other powers; about the humiliating way in which the king's ministers and other trusted individuals sent there by him were treated in Vienna. "The Congress will come to an end," Gallo concluded, "and Austria will not have fulfilled the promise she made to us. From this we can conclude no other than that she will abandon us in an extreme case, from which it further follows that the King must seek assistance where it is offered and resort to those means which he can hope will help him to his goal...". The next day, Mier appeared before the queen, who, as she complained to him, had been brought completely down by her sorrow, as well as by the continual quarrelling and disputes. "The King thinks," she said, "that Napoleon's successes will help to keep him on the throne. You know my opinion on this point. I will not cease to advise him that if the Vienna Cabinet should decide to oppose Napoleon, there is nothing left for him but to join Austria and follow her system and policy. You see, I am sacrificing my personal feelings and the agony of seeing my family persecuted, covered with shame and reproaches, to the duties of a mother, to the duties of a Queen of Naples. Emperor Francis has remained our loyal ally until this moment, and I am convinced that he will continue to do so in the future, if we know how to deserve it. This is his duty: but his own best interests also require him to do so".

[Footnote] Among them, in the first row, Pietro Colletta who, on March 11, "in his capacity as Councillor of State", sent a letter to the King urging him against any daring enterprise. The unification of Italy was a dream, "un filone di uomini caldi si abbandonerà a questa idea lusinghiera, ma la massa degl' italiani o la spregerà o la riguarderà con indifferenza o si armerà contro di essa". Twenty-five years of war and revolution had created a deep need for peace; the fine phrases used to flatter the passions of the people had lost their power. And how much preparation was needed to bring the war power up to the proper level! "L'armata di V. M. potrebbe esser battuta prima che aiutata!" The King should keep calm, so that time would pass which would only benefit the existence of his dynasty ... F. Palermo who published the letter in Arch. stor. ital. 1856 III p. 62-65, declares himself unable to state whether the letter really reached the king's hand or not.

Okay, this seems huge to me. I had no idea how much Joachim had suffered from being branded a traitor and how much it had weighed on his conscience. "[...] he regarded Napoleon's cause as his own and soon intended to prove to the world that it had never been alien to him." I guess the need to prove to both himself and to the world that he was not a dishonourable being played a huge role in his disastrous decision. (This actually reminds me of a dissertation on Austrian general Mack - the one from the campaign of 1805 - that claimed that similar mental stress led to the latter's irrational behaviour during the time auf Ulm.)

"Onore e fedeltà" may actually be a direct reference to Eugène's (at the time often quoted) proclamation to the people in the Kingdom of Italy, dated February 1, 1814, which publically announced Murat's defection and declared the Neapolitans an enemy to Napoleon's cause. ("Français! Italiens! j'ai confiance en vous; comptez aussi sur moi! Vous y trouverez toujours votre avantage et votre gloire. Soldats! ma devise est Honneur et Fidelité! Qu'elle soit aussi la vôtre; avec elle et l'aide de Dieu nous triompherons enfin de nos ennemis.") Murat basically claims that phrase - that had been directed against him - back.

Naturally I'm also interested in those "fugitives" from Lombardy who had come to Naples and may have presented a highly misleading picture of people's attitude in Northern Italy at the time. In truth, the different political factions there seem to have agreed pretty soon in their dislike of their new Austrian masters (I believe it is in August 1814, only four months after taking over, that Bellegarde has to send military to the Scala of Milan because riots were about to break out) but that does not necessarily mean they were friendly towards the Neapolitans - who by most were considered as foreigners just as much as the French had been. Also, the Austrians seem to have taken immediate measures to remove all rebellious elements from the country; I believe it is Méneval who mentions how all the Lombardian officers suspicious of still being too attached to the old regime, were transferred to Hungary and, on their way there during the Congress in Vienna, stopped by one by one to see their old viceroy. And to probably reproach him for not having marched on Milan in April when the riots broke out.

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zakuwatorka · 4 years ago

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Strajk Kobiet

反堕胎禁令示威波兰这事闹大了 Protest against abortion ban; Poland is making a big noise

[I copied, translated and write down the most important words from Chinese article about Strajk Kobiet in Poland; article’s source of the bottom of the post]

反 fǎn - anti-, to oppose, against 堕胎 duò tāi - to induce to abortion 禁令 jìn lìng - prohibition, ban 示威 shì wēi - to demonstrate (as a protest) “这是女性的革命！”德国电视一台27日称，波兰反堕胎禁令示威运动已持续数日。当地时间26日，在华沙等近50个城市，女性示威者上街堵住街道，表达不满。上周日甚至还有示威者大闹教堂，这在波兰可谓开了先例。 "This is a women's revolution!" German TV One said on the 27th that Poland's anti-abortion ban demonstrations have been going on for several days. On the 26th local time, in nearly 50 cities including Warsaw (capital of Poland), female demonstrators went out to the streets to block them to express their dissatisfaction. There were even demonstrators rioting in the church last Sunday, which set a precedent in Poland. 革命 gé mìng - revolution 示威者 shì wēi zhě - demonstrator 堵住 dǔ zhù - to block up 表达不满 - to express dissatisfaction 可谓 kě wèi - it could even be said 先例 xiān lì - precedent

　　周一，数万名波兰女性在全国各地抗议堕胎禁令。她们坐汽车或推着自行车，或以徒步方式阻挡在各城市的主干道路口，造成严重的交��堵塞。一些人高举“够了”“我不会当你的烈士”“我要（堕胎）选择权，不要恐惧”等标语。 On Monday, tens of thousands of Polish women protested the abortion ban across the country. They ride cars or bicycles, or walk around and block the main road junctions in various cities, causing serious traffic jams. Some people hold up slogans such as "Enough", "I will not be your martyr", "I want (abortion) the right to choose, not to be afraid". 徒步 tú bù - to be on foot 阻挡 zǔ dǎng - to stop, to resist 堵塞 dǔ sè - blockage 高举 gāo jǔ - to lift up 烈士 liè shì - martyr 选择 xuǎn zé - to choose 恐惧 kǒng jù - to be frightened 标语 biāo yǔ - written slogan

　　在华沙一个十字路口，随着人群越聚越多，有女性抗议者跳到汽车上，脱下上衣，并挥动旗帜，引发了一场骚动。由于一些人不戴口罩，让各地政府也非常着急，担心疫情因此恶化。华沙市长特扎斯科夫斯基当天呼吁示威者不要违反防疫规则：“你的愤怒行为不应该伤害到无辜民众。” At crossroads in Warsaw, as the crowd gathered, female protesters jumped into the cars, took off their jackets, and waved flags, causing an uproar. Because some people do not wear masks, local governments are also very anxious, worrying that the epidemic will worsen. Warsaw Mayor Trzaskowski (特扎斯科夫斯基) called on the demonstrators not to violate the epidemic prevention rules: "Your angry behavior should not harm innocent people." 挥动 huī dòng - to wave sth 旗帜 qí zhì - flag, ensign 引发 yǐn fā - to lead to 骚动 sāo dòng - disturbance, to become restless 恶化 è huà - to worsen 违反 wéi fǎn - to violate (a law) 防疫 fáng yì - disease prevention 愤怒 fèn nù - angry 无辜 wú qū - innocent

　　不仅在波兰，邻国乌克兰也有人加入了这场大规模抗议活动。乌克兰女权组织“费曼”的一名成员在波兰驻乌克兰大使馆前赤裸上身抗议。该女子在自己的身上用英文写了“我的身体由我决定”，并用波兰语高喊 “姐妹们武装起来！”她随后被警方带走。警方周一称，上周末，波兰几个大城市有100多场抗议活动，每场抗议活动都��数千人参加。参加者大多数是女性，但也有男性支持者。 Not only in Poland, but neighbouring Ukraine also joined this large-scale protest. A member of the Ukrainian feminist organisation Feynman protested naked in front of the Polish embassy in Ukraine. The woman wrote "My body is up to me" in English on her body and shouted in Polish "Sisters! Armed!". She was taken away by the police. On Monday police said that there were more than 100 protests in several major cities in Poland last weekend, with thousands of people participating in each protest. Most of the participants were women, but there were also male supporters. 邻国 lín guó - bordering country 大规模 dà guī mó - large scale, wide scale 女权 nǚ quán - women’s rights 赤裸 chì luǒ - naked, bare 武装 wǔ zhuāung - arms, equipment 支持者 zhī chí zhě - supporter

　　这已经是波兰连续第5天出现反堕胎禁令的抗议活动。而原因则归咎于波兰法院22日通过的堕胎禁令。该禁令几乎禁止了所有的堕胎行为，规定孕妇在只有强奸、乱伦或孕妇健康有危险的情况下才可以堕胎。这意味着，即使胎儿出现缺陷，孕妇也不可寻求堕胎。为此，欧洲人权委员会委员米亚托维奇表示，这是“妇女权利悲伤的一天”。欧盟委员会至今没有发表评论，观察家认为，这是因为欧盟一直对波兰近几年的法律改革有意见。

This is the fifth consecutive day of protests against abortion bans in Poland. The reason is the abortion ban which was accepted by the Polish court on the 22nd. The new rule bans almost all abortions, stipulating that pregnant women can only abort when rape, incest, or the health of the pregnant woman is at risk. This means that even if the fetus is defective, pregnant women cannot seek abortion. For this reason, European Commissioner Mijatovic said that this is "a sad day for women's rights." The European Commission has not commented on this issue so far. Observers believe that this is because the EU has always had “special” opinions on Poland's legal reforms in recent years. 归咎 guī jiù - to put the blame on, to accuse 法院 fǎ yuàn - court of law 孕妇 yùn fù - pregnant woman 强奸 qiáng jiān - to rape 乱伦 luàn lún - incest 胎儿 tāi ér - unborn child, fetus 缺陷 quē xiàn - defect, physical defect 寻求 xún qiú - to look for 人权 rén quán - human rights 委员会 wěi yúan hùi - committee 欧盟委员会 Oū méng Wěi yuán hùi - Commission of European Union 欧盟 Oū méng - European Union

　　禁令一��布，马上在波兰掀起一轮女性抗议潮。上周日，波兰甚至还出现了前所未有的场面：在南部城市卡托维兹，约7000名示威者聚集在天主教教堂外，高呼“这是战争”及“人道法，非教会法”等口号，又在墙上喷写“无国界堕胎”“手上沾满鲜血”等字句，抗议以宗教教条凌驾法律。发起人苏尔温斯基表示，禁令等于“把女性推进地狱”。在波兹南，还有女性冲入教堂，手持描绘被钉十字架的孕妇海报，以及“天主教徒也需要堕胎”等标语，并向神职人员发放抗议卡，之后与警方发生冲突。

As soon as the ban was announced, a wave of female protests was immediately set off in Poland. Last Sunday, an unprecedented scene appeared in Poland: in the southern city of Katowice, about 7,000 demonstrators gathered outside the Catholic church, chanting "This is war" and "Humanitarian law, non-canon law" and other slogans. Demonstrates sprayed the words "abortion without borders" and "blood on hands" on the wall to protest against the overriding of the law by religious dogma. Sulwinsky, the initiator, said that the ban is tantamount to "pushing women into hell." In Poznan, women also rushed into the church, holding posters depicting pregnant women who were “crucified”, and slogans such as "Catholics also need abortions," and handing out protest cards to clergy, before they were clashed by the police. 口号 kǒu hào - slogan 沾满 zhān mǎn - covered in (mud, blood) 凌驾 líng jià - to be above 发起人 fā qǐ rén - proposer, initiator 地狱 dì yù - hell 海报 hǎi bào - poster

　　《法兰克福汇报》说，90%以上的波兰人为天主教徒，女性大闹教堂非常不寻常。这被认为是对神职人员的侮辱，此类事件发生在这个天主教国家几乎是无法想象的。不过，波兰教会主动给事件降温，提出加强对话。波兰主教大会主席加德奇大主教呼吁保护“生命权和妇女权利”。同时，他强调，庸俗的言论、暴力、打断教堂礼拜活动和亵渎教会，不是民主国家所允许的。

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung stated that more than 90% of Poles are Catholics, and it is very unusual for women to riot in churches. This is considered an insult to the clergy, and such incidents are almost unimaginable in this Catholic country. However, the Polish church took the initiative to cool the incident and proposed to strengthen dialogue. Archbishop Gadądecki, chairman of the Polish Conference of Bishops, called for the protection of the "right to life and women's rights". At the same time, he emphasised that vulgar speech, violence, interruption of church services, and desecration of churches are not allowed in democratic countries. 天主教徒 Tiān zhǔ jiào tú - Catholic; follower of Catholicism 大闹 dà nào - to cause havoc 神职 shén zhí - clergy, clerical 侮辱 wǔ rǔ - to insult, to humiliate 降温 jiàng wēn - to become cooler, to lower the temperature 大主教 dà zhǔ jiào - archbishop 庸俗 yōng sú - vulgar 暴力 bào lì - violent, force 亵渎 xiè dú - to profane

　　德新社27日称，波兰著名女性组织“全国妇女罢工”还呼吁，全国女性周三进行大罢工。同时，波兰的右翼团体也宣布成立“国民警卫队”，以保护天主教教堂和教徒免受骚扰。波兰一些政治家担心，女性抗议者与右翼团体成员会爆发激烈冲突。尤其是在疫情不断扩大的背景下，抗议示威运动会让波兰疫情“雪上加霜”。

Deutsche News Agency said on the 27th that the famous Polish women’s organization "National Women’s Strike" also called for women across the country to go on strike on Wednesday. At the same time, Polish right-wing groups also announced the establishment of the "National Guard" to protect Catholic churches and believers from harassment. Some Polish politicians worry that there will be fierce clashes between female protesters and members of right-wing groups. Especially in the context of the expanding epidemic, the protest demonstrations will make the Polish epidemic worse. 组织 zǔ zhī - organization 罢工 bà gōng - a strike, to go on strike 右翼团体 yòu yì tuán tǐ - right-wing party 宣布 xuān bù - to proclaim, to declare 成立 chéng lì - to establish, to set up 天主 Tiān zhǔ - Catholicism 教徒 jiào tú - follower of a religion 免受 miǎn shòu - to avoid suffering, to prevent (sth bad); to protect against 骚扰 sāo rǎo - to disturb, to cause a commotion 爆发 bào fā - to break out 激烈 jī liè - intense 冲突 chōng tū - conflict 疫情 yì qíng - epidemic situation 示威运动 shì wēi yùn dòng - rally 雪上加霜 xuě shàng jiā shuāng 　　奥地利《新闻报》报道称，自1993年以来，堕胎禁令一直有效。长期以来，波兰在堕胎法这一微妙的问题上，争议不大。近年来，波兰女性运动兴起，反堕胎禁令已成为她们的主要目标之一。据称，波兰每年有20万妇女在国内非法堕胎或出国堕胎。 The Austrian Newspaper reported that the abortion ban has been in effect since 1993. For a long time, Poland has had little controversy over the delicate issue of abortion law. In recent years, the Polish women’s movement has risen, and the anti-abortion ban has become one of their main goals. It is said that every year 200,000 women in Poland have illegal abortions in the country or go abroad for abortions. 奥地利 Aò dì lì - Austria 有效 yǒu xiào - effective, valid 长期以来 cháng qī yǐ lái - ever since a long time ago 微妙 wēi mìao - subtle 争议 zhēng yì - controversy, dispute 兴起 xīng qǐ - to rise 据称 jù chēng - it is said; according to reports 国内 guó nèi - domestic 非法 fēi fǎ - illegal My previous post about Strajk Kobiet: (CLICK) My Chinese studygram (Source: Sina Weibo)

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DENIZ BAYSAL, 24, ESMA SULTAN. ❝ ⤚⟶ EUROPE, 1458. THANKS IS GIVEN BY THE SULTANA , ESME SULTAN FROM OTTOMAN EMPIRE. THEY ARE AT BEST AMIABLE, AND AT THEIR WORST WEAK-WILLED. WHILST ABROAD, THEIR AMBITION IS TO INTEGRATE INTO EUROPEAN CULTURE. SHE SEEM/S TO REMIND EVERYONE OF DENIZ BAYSAL & CAREFUL CLEASING OF THE HANDS AND FEET IN PREPARATION FOR PRAYER, GLIMMERS OF GEMS WITHIN MIDNIGHT-DARK HAIR, ELABORATE ARABIC SCRIPT WRITTEN IN GRACEFUL PENMANSHIP. ❞

FULL NAME : esma sultan of the ottoman empire

TITLES : sultana

BIRTHPLACE : constantinople, anatolia

AGE : 24

LANGUAGES :

native : arabic, ottoman turkish

high proficiency : persian

intermediate : latin, french

learning : german

DYNASTY / HOUSE: osman

MOTHER & FATHER : sultan iskender and haseki sultan nehir

SPOUSE : n/a

ISSUE : n/a

SIBLINGS : murad, mihrimah, hiranur’s daughter (half), branimira’s son (half)

OTHER : engaged to the prince of austria

ZODIAC : cancer

RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION : muslim

ORIENTATION : biromantic

PERSONALITY TYPE : infp

VICES : sloth, pride

VIRTUES : patience, charity

FACECLAIM : deniz baysal

HEIGHT : 5'7

RECOGNISABLE FEATURES : wide smile, strong brow

REPUTATION IN FLORENCE : graceful, witty and kind, a person who easily extends the hand of friendship to others and is known for their sweet and patient countenance

WANTED CONNECTIONS : female friendships of all kinds and creeds, relationships with other characters with a high degree of piety, regardless of their faith, perhaps somebody who doesn’t like her to explore how she would react to this happening, relationships with somebody politically inclined who can take advantage of her naivety.

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Esma knows too much, and that has long been her problem in life. She knows much, but says nothing, keeping her mouth occupied with pretty smiles and honeyed words rather than speaking her mind. This passive countenance has led to two situations that she isn't entirely pleased with, the first being her elder brother's claim. Whilst Esma does not scorn or dislike Murad, she is aware of the instability that comes with a position in the Ottoman court - especially the most prestigious of all, that of the sultan. She worries for him, should he ever succeed their father, believing his ailments render him unsuitable for the role, unable to see the snakes in the grass, and more than that, worries that he will be unable to maintain the glorious victories their father has achieved over the years. The second is a far more personal matter. Esma is truly dedicated to the Ottoman Empire, willing to serve however she can, however, she isn't certain that renouncing her faith in order to take her place in the Holy Roman Empire is the best way to do so. A devout woman, she greatly fears the day she will have to wed, and does not want any children she bears to grow up outside of the Islamic religion. She isn't used to speaking her mind, keeping her opinions veiled behind what she thinks others want to hear, but time is rapidly running out, and with the walls closing in, she must find her tongue or else lose her chance to shape her own destiny.

The model of an Ottoman princess, Esma is beautiful, and known to be a kind and popular figure. The grace she exudes does not come naturally to her, though, but is the result of years of careful work and tutoring to cultivate her outer façade - though she does not see this as an act on her part, rather than a deep desire to better herself. A selfless woman, everything she does is in service of her father's rule, and her devotion to her faith, the two most important things in her life. Academic and intelligent, her wit quickly earns the friendship of others, though her inherent sweetness helps to maintain those friendships, and she never uses her humour against others. However, Esma is a coward, unable to voice her true feelings for fear of having others think ill of her. She can flawlessly speak what she believes others want to hear from her, but bites her tongue when it comes to her own opinions - particularly if those opinions are set to rock the boat. Indecisive, and perhaps a little shallow, she can easily be won over by well-placed words and pretty things, and can be a little naïve to the machinations of others, leaving her vulnerable to be used as a pawn by other's scheming. Though she is aware of such plots occurring, she is not as bright as she believes she is, and struggles to see such things when aimed at her, or when coming from somebody she has already put her easily-earned trust in.

Esma has often dreamed of being married since childhood, idealising the view of her future husband in her head. As a young girl, she could often be found playing with dolls, imagining the day when they would be replaced by her own sweet babes in her arms. As she’s grown older, the desire for matrimony and motherhood has only intensified, but Esma never imagined she would be marrying into a European country. In her mind, the only option was ever a Muslim prince, or at worst, a worthy man from her own country. The idea of conversion is terrifying to the young Sultana, who despite her vast knowledge of the world, knows little of Catholicism, and fears what awaits her in the afterlife should she turn her back on the religion she has devoted her life to. Similarly, the idea of raising her children in a different faith fills her with revulsion. She does not see the path ahead of her, as consort to an Austrian Prince, as anything but a tool from which the sultan can expand his power, and whilst she is usually more than eager to aid in bettering the empire by however she can, she sees this move less as betterment and more as a means of control by European factions. Thus, she quietly works to convince her family to support her in ending the relationship as subtly as she can for fear of worsening international relations.

Esma is a gifted writer and meticulous diary keeper. As a woman who keeps so much hidden away inside, locked away for herself and herself alone, she finds writing her thoughts and feelings down to be the sole way in which she can fully express herself, a therapeutic endeavour that helps her maintain her placid countenance. She fears what would happen if anybody were to find and read her writings, especially with so much weighing on her mind. Recently, she has taken to developing her own code, so that anybody who stumbles across her diaries would find nothing they could possibly hope to decipher, and the thoughts within her mind remain as private as possible

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Princess Marie-Louise Thérèse of Savoy: Marie Antoinette's best friend

She was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Savoy, better known as Princess de Lamballe. After her marriage, she went to the french court and became the closest confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette. She will be killed in the massacres of September 1792 during the French Revolution.

She was there along the other dukes and the duchess when Marie Antoinette arrived in France in 1770. The two girls grew close rather quickly and they had become truly devoted to each other.

The pair was rarely seen apart, and if they were, Marie Antoinette would draw images of the Princess and weep about missing her.

Marie Antoinette was reportedly charmed by Marie Thérèse, and overwhelmed her with attention and affection that spectators did not fail to notice.

In March 1771 the Austrian ambassador reported:

"'For some time past the Dauphiness has shown a great affection for the Princesse de Lamballe. . . . This young princess is sweet and amiable, and enjoying the privilèges of a Princess of the Blood Royal, is in a position to avail herself of her Royal Highness's favour."

Their friendship was so close that Lamballe managed to marry her cousins to Marie-Antoinette's brothers-in-law, and Marie Therese came to be treated by Marie Antoinette as a relative, and they spent most of the time together.

During these first years, many counts and countesses formed a circle of friends with Marie Antoinette and the princess de Lamballe, who was as almost constantly by Marie Antoinette's side.

Madame de Campan, a lady in waiting, described her and the Queen as twins.

On 18 September 1775, following the ascension of her husband to the throne in May 1774, Queen Marie Antoinette appointed Marie Thérèse "Superintendent of the Queen's Household", the highest rank possible for a lady-in-waiting at Versailles.

Her new role meant that the Princesse was elevated above all other women at court, on top of this she had to organise all entertainments for the Queen and she received all of the Queen’s letters and petitions.

After Marie Antoinette became queen, her intimate friendship with Lamballe was given greater attention and Mercy reported:

"Her Majesty continually sees the Princesse de Lamballe in her rooms [...] This lady joins to much sweetness a very sincere character, far from intrigue and all such worries. The Queen has conceived for some time a real friendship for this young Princess, and the choice is excellent, for although a Piedmontese, Madame de Lamballe is not at all identified with the interests of Mesdames de Provence and d'Artois. All the same, I have taken the precaution to point out to the Queen that her favour and goodness to the Princesse de Lamballe are somewhat excessive, in order to prevent abuse of them from that quarter."

Marie Antoinette said herself to Louis XVI: "Ah, sire, the Princesse de Lamballe's friendship is the charm of my life."

Princesse de Lamballe was described as proud, sensitive and with a delicate though irregular beauty.

Despite envy and jealousy of the court, she was mostly regarded as an honest and true friend who stayed away from plotting and gossip: not a wit and not one to participate in plots; she was able to amuse Marie Antoinette, but she was of a reclusive and quiet nature and preferred to spend time with the queen alone rather than to participate in high society.

In 1775, however, Lamballe was gradually replaced in her position as the favorite of the queen by duchesse de Polignac. The two didn't get along and Polignac always tried to overshadow Lamballe's presence at court.

Though de Lamballe was replaced by de Polignac as favorite, the friendship with the Queen nevertheless continued and it resisted through the time and the revolution: Marie Antoinette occasionally visited her in her rooms, and reportedly appreciated her serenity and loyalty in between the entertainments offered her by Polignac. "She is the only woman I know who never bears a grudge; neither hatred nor jealousy is to be found in her."

After the death of her mother, Marie Antoinette isolated herself with Lamballe and Polignac during the winter to mourn.

On 7 October 1789, Lamballe was informed of the events of the Revolution, and immediately joined the Royal Family to the Tuileries Palace in Paris, where she reassumed the duties of her office for being side by side with the Queen.

Even in those terribile moments she's always seen at the queen's side both in public as well as in private, and rallying support for the family.

The Princess de Lamballe became much more protective at this time, interrogating members of the Queen’s household to find out if those surrounded the Queen were truly loyal to her.

After the departure from France of the duchess de Polignac and most of the other of the queen's intimate circle of friends, Marie Antoinette warned Lamballe that now her visible role attracted much of the anger among the public toward the favorites of the queen, and that libels circulating openly in Paris would expose her to slander.

The King and the family tried to escape in June 1791, but they were caught in a town called Varennes and brought back to Paris.

The Princess de Lamballe was not told about the escape attempt until afterwards, she would have received a note from Marie Antoinette who told her to meet her in Brussels.

Princess de Lamballe was long in doubt as to whether she would be in most use for the queen in or outside of France, and received conflicting advice: her friends M. de Clermont and M. de la Vaupalière encouraged her to return to the service of the queen, while her relatives asked her to return to Turin in Savoy.

During her stay abroad, she was in correspondence with Marie Antoinette, who repeatedly asked her not to return to France.

"No, once again, do not return, my dear heart. Do not throw yourself into the tiger’s jaws. I suffer already too much uneasiness for my husband and my poor little children … Adieu, my dear heart; your friendship is my consolation and my only happiness."

However, in October 1791, the new provisions of the Constitution came into operation, and the queen was requested to set her household in order and dismissed all office holders not in service: she accordingly wrote officially to Lamballe and formally asked her to return to service or resign. This formal letter, though it was in contrast to the private letters Marie Antoinette had written her, reportedly convinced her that it was her duty to return, and she announced that the queen wished her to return and that "I must live and die with her."

During the Demonstration of 20 June 1792, she was present in the company of the queen when a mob broke into the palace. Marie Antoinette immediately cried that her place as by the king's side, but Lamballe then cried: "No, no, Madame, your place is with your children!", after which a table was pulled before her to protect her from the mob. Lamballe, alongside and a few noblemen belonged to the courtiers, surrounding the Queen and her children for several hours when the mob passed by the room shouting insults to Marie Antoinette. According to a witness, princess de Lamballe stood leaning by the queen's armchair to support her through the entire scene: "Madame de Lamballe displayed even greater courage. Standing during the whole of that long scene, leaning upon the Queen's chair, she seemed only occupied with the dangers of that unhappy queen without regarding her own"

Marie Louise de Lamballe continued her services to the Queen until the attack on the palace on 19 August 1792.

She and the other ladies-in-waiting were separated from the Royal Family and transferred to the La Force prison, though the Queen fought to keep the Princess de Lamballe with her and wept while she knelt at her feet and kissed her hands.

The two left each other with deep sorrow and the queen advised her to spend some days in the country for the sake of her health before she retired. In secret the Queen prayed the governess of her children, Elizabeth de Tourzel, to take great care of Madame de Lamballe and prevent, as far as possible, her having to reply to captious questions.

During the September Massacres, the prisons were attacked by mobs, and the prisoners were placed before hastily assembled people's tribunals, who judged and executed them summarily.

Princess de Lamballe was brought before a temporary tribunal, where she was asked to swear an oath to liberty and equality and to swear against Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. It is believed that she refused to swear the oath against the king and queen, as it was “not in her heart.”

After this, agents of her father-in-law told her to swear the oath so that she might be spared, but she refused to do so and reportedly said: “I have made the sacrifice of my life”.

She was condemned, then released outside to the street to a waiting crowd, where she was murdered.

She was escorted by two guards to the door of the yard where the massacre was taking place: when the door was opened and she was exposed to the sight of bloody corpses in the yard, she reportedly cried: 'I am lost!'

One of her murderers, long years after, described her as a little lady dressed in white, standing alone a moment above the carnage...

She was first struck by a man with a pike on her head, which caused her hair to fall down upon her shoulders, revealing a letter from Marie Antoinette which she had hidden in her hair. She was decapitated, with its head placed upon a pike and paraded beneath Marie Antoinette’s window at the Temple.

Marie Antoinette did not actually see the head of her long-time friend, but was aware of what happened...

One of the officers told the king: "they are trying to show you the head of Madame de Lamballe". The Queen then fainted away.

Marie Antoinette's daughter said that her mother was seized with horror, that was the sole moment when her firmness abandoned her.

The murder of the Princesse de Lamballe marked Marie-Antoinette deeply; she never got over it.

"Adieu, my dear Lamballe, I embrace you again with my whole heart, as I shall love you all my life"

[Portraits by Elisabeth Le Brun]

Princess of Lamballe was described as sensitive and simple. "She had no love for intrigue, struggle, decision, anxious excitements, yet she, of all the Court, proved as a rock of friendship among shifting sands." - Blanche Hardy ~ Princess de Lamballe: A Biography

The Princesse de Lamballe’s body was never found despite her father-in-law searching desperately for it.

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Genealogical research and Family history in Ukraine

What is Genealogical research:

Genealogical research is the tracing of an individual's ancestral history to find identifying data about that individual, using historical records, both official and unofficial. The field of family history is broader than genealogy, and covers not just lineage but also family and community history and biography.

Genealogical research in Ukraine:

Genealogical research in Ukraine is a guide to ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. An initial manual for parentage research, including methodologies and strategies, records look in Ukraine and abroad, records investigation, the utilization of authentic guides, and with various reference areas on letter sets and dialects, family name and given name customs, and the historical backdrop of the district.

A program coordinated by the State Archival Service of Ukraine to oversee and help genealogists wishing to explore their family backgrounds utilizing chronicled records. Gives exhortation on performing research, an email address explicitly for parentage questions, a charge-based examination administration, and a site page.

What is a family history:

Family history is a record of the family construction and connections inside the family, remembering data about infections for relatives. It gives a prepared perspective on issues or sicknesses inside the family and encourages examination of legacy or familial examples.

Family history can take numerous structures, including the accompanying:

•A record of your family with you as a kid, containing memories of your folks and other living predecessors. •A record of your family with you as a parent, containing memories of your kids and your different relatives. •A recorded history of a progenitor containing a few ages of family data returning on schedule. •A genealogical family ancestry with a part for the couple you start with and extra sections for every relative family. •An assortment of family customs and their sources. •Newsletters. •Time cases. •Family association books. •Posters. •A hereditary family ancestry, which recognizes explicit actual characteristics (eye tone, stature, weight, composition, etc), reasons for death, family sicknesses. •Family formula assortments. •Heritage collections. Above a scrapbook; a legacy collection is a record of the existence of a family and incorporates photos, archives, etc. •A record of your discoveries and encounters as you start with one progenitor and work in reverse, an account of exploration and revelations.

Family history in Ukraine:

Ukraine was the focal point of the main eastern Slavic state, Kyivan Rus', which during the tenth and eleventh hundreds of years was the biggest and most impressive state in Europe. However, it was debilitated by inside fights and Mongol attacks. Different pieces of what's presently Ukraine have now and again been asserted by Russia, Poland, the Austrian Empire, Hungary, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. Present limits were set in 1954, with the exchange of Crimea from Russia to Ukraine. Ukraine at long last got free in 1991.

Intricate details Ukrainian migration to North America happened in waves, Peach says. We'll zero in on assisting you with discovering family in these three waves: Ukrainians started showing up in huge numbers in the United States by 1870, most to get away from the tzarist principle. Some went to Alaska before the United States bought it in 1867, with numerous proceeding with south to California. Others ran to work in Pennsylvania mines and the production lines and factories of modern urban areas in New York, Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan. Exactly 250,000 Ukrainians showed up in the United States by 1914, when World War I and movement quantities of the 1920s ended the inundation. In Canada, whose Ukrainian-plunged populace surpasses that of the United States, above 171,000 Ukrainians showed up somewhere in the range of 1891 and 1914. Most wanderers were workers from Galicia and Bukovina. Rather than their US partners, many set out toward ranches in the grassland regions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, in light of Canada's settlement crusade. Winnipeg and Edmonton had coalition settlements, however, different Ukrainians looked for work in Quebec or Ontario. A more modest influx of Ukrainian workers, numbering around 15,000, showed up in North America between the universal conflicts. Another significant movement wave followed World War II. It comprised fundamentally of accomplished understudies, researchers, and different experts who had invested energy in evacuee camps in Austria and Germany.

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How To Find a Job in Austria as a Foreigner

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Europe Confronts Coronavirus as Italy Battles an Eruption of Cases https://nyti.ms/2SPybgt

Europe Confronts Coronavirus as Italy Battles an Eruption of Cases

The country announced more than 150 cases, many in the densely populated region around Milan, as officials closed schools and canceled Venice’s carnival celebrations.

By Jason Horowitz and Elisabetta Povoledo | Published Feb. 23, 2020 Updated 7:57 p.m. ET | New York Times | Posted February 23, 2020 |

CASALPUSTERLENGO, Italy — Europe confronted its first major outbreak of the coronavirus as an eruption of more than 150 cases in Italy prompted officials on Sunday to lock down at least 10 towns, close schools in major cities and cancel sporting events and cultural touchstones, including the Venice carnival.

The worrisome spike — from fewer than five known cases in Italy before Thursday — shattered the sense of safety and distance that much of the continent had felt in recent months even as the virus has infected more than 78,000 worldwide and killed more than 2,400, nearly all in China.

The perception of a rising threat was amplified on television channels, newspaper headlines and social media feeds across Europe, where leaders could face their greatest challenge since the 2015 migration crisis.

That surge of people into Europe radically altered the politics of the European Union and exposed its institutional weaknesses. This time, it is an invisible virus from abroad that has slipped past Europe’s borders and presents its bickering coalitions with a new potential emergency.

If the virus spreads, the fundamental principle of open borders within much of Europe — so central to the identity of the bloc — will undergo a stress test, as will the vaunted but strained European public health systems, especially in countries that have undergone austerity measures.

Already, a new nervousness has pervaded Europe.

Austrian officials stopped a train en route from Italy to Austria and Germany to test passengers for the virus. The Austrian interior minister, Karl Nehammer, said the tests came back negative so the train got the “all clear.”

In France, the new health minister, Olivier Veran, stressed the country’s preparedness, saying it would significantly ramp up its testing.

“There is a problematic situation at the door, in Italy, that we are watching with great attention,” he said on Sunday, adding that a Europe-wide discussion between health ministers was in the works.

On Sunday night, an aid ship bringing hundreds of migrants, who had been rescued off the coast of Libya, to a Sicilian port received instructions from the Italian government to remain in quarantine for 14 days as a precaution, according to the ship’s Twitter account.

Fears of foreigners spreading the virus across oceans has already prompted some governments around the world to impose new border or travel controls.

The Trump administration has barred entry to the United States by most foreign nationals who have recently visited China, where the virus first appeared and spread. Much of the world has adopted similar controls, but the virus has continued to spread, most notably to South Korea, where more cases have been recorded than anywhere else outside China, and this past week to Iran, where eight deaths have been reported.

Israel on Monday will block entry to all nonresidents who have visited Japan and South Korea in the 14 days before their arrival. On Sunday, President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, which has 602 confirmed infections and six deaths, put the country on the highest possible alert, empowering the government to ban visitors from China and take other sweeping measures to contain the outbreak.

“The coming few days will be a critical time for us,” Mr. Moon said at an emergency meeting of government officials.

Even China — with an authoritarian government that has locked down areas with tens of millions of people in an attempt to stamp out the epidemic — has struggled to contain the virus, which has no known cure.

But the scores of new cases in Italy, mostly in the Lombardy region that includes densely populated Milan, present a new challenge for a country with a wobbly government often paralyzed by infighting.

That government has now become the reluctant laboratory to test whether the virus can be successfully contained in an open European society with a liberal approach to restrictions.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy said on Italian television on Sunday that the country had taken precautions, including barring flights from China in January. These measures seemed to have paid off “even if now it looks like it didn’t,” he said.

He suggested that the surge of Italian cases only reflected Italy’s casting a wider net in terms of testing.

“We cannot exclude that after tests that are equally rigorous, the numbers can go up in other countries,” Mr. Conte said.

Beatrice Lorenzin, a former Italian health minister, said the sharp rise in cases in Italy resulted from systematic checks that discovered a “second generation of contagion.”

She said this was probably caused by infected people who traveled to Italy from China using indirect flights without declaring their original departure point or putting themselves in voluntary quarantine during the virus’ incubation period.

“I hope similar things did not happen in other countries,” she said.

In the Lombardy region, which has reported the majority of cases in Italy, 10 towns were locked down after a cluster of cases emerged in the town of Codogno, about 60 kilometers southeast of Milan.

At least 50,000 people are affected by the lockdown. Residents were supposed to leave or enter the towns only with special permission.

The outbreak in Codogno was detected after a 38-year-old man was admitted to the city’s hospital and diagnosed with the virus on Thursday. But the man had developed symptoms perhaps five days before that, potentially allowing the virus to spread.

Health officials are trying to figure out how he contracted the virus; he had not been to China. Many cases in Lombardy, officials say, may be traceable to that one case.

At least five members of the hospital medical staff and several patients have been infected. Other persons who tested positive include the man’s pregnant wife, some friends, and others who spent time with them. The towns surrounding the ones where the man works and lives have been included in the shutdown.

On Sunday night on a road outside Casalpusterlengo, one of the locked-down towns, police officers in surgical masks waved down cars, asking what business they had in the town. The officers suggested that motorists take an alternate route and urged them against going any further.

Most of the drivers didn’t need much convincing.

Bahije Mounia, a 42-year-old caretaker from a nearby town who wore a surgical mask, turned right back around. She said the government should have let people in the area know how dangerous things were much earlier. With the spike of cases in the region, she said, “It’s almost like we’re in China.”

The exaggeration could be forgiven considering the dramatic turn of events in Italy in recent days.

What had seemed like a contained few cases spread throughout the country’s wealthy north. So did the precautions.

People wore surgical masks in Aosta, which is on the Swiss border. Officials in the Piedmont region closed schools in Turin, and Venice cut its Carnival short. The patriarch of Venice, the Reverend Francesco Moraglia, suspended all religious ceremonies, including Ash Wednesday celebrations that mark the beginning of Lent.

Two elderly people who tested positive for the coronavirus were in intensive care at Venice’s municipal hospital.

In the regional capital of Milan, officials closed museums, schools, its cathedral, and halted religious and cultural events. Many other venues, aside from those providing essential services, have been closed, including most bars and nightclubs.

Fears that the city could be quarantined triggered a run on supermarkets. By 5 p.m. on Sunday, at least one supermarket had run out of fruit, vegetables, meat and nearly all canned food.

Some of the customers wore masks, and they all seemed in a hurry to fill up their carts with whatever was left on the shelves.

Vanessa Maiocchi, 45, said she worried about getting her children enough food. She was also concerned that her brother, who has a weak immune system, might be more vulnerable, especially if his company kept making him go to work.

“At least in these cases,” she said, “the state should intervene.”

So far, the virus has killed three people in Italy, including a 78-year-old man from Veneto who died Friday; an elderly woman who died in Crema on Sunday; and a 77-year-old woman who died in her home in Casalpusterlengo and posthumously tested positive for the virus.

The Italian state, which leads the third largest economy in the eurozone, has not inspired much confidence of late, as it has been consumed by internal machinations. But health experts said they were more worried because the Italian health ministry appeared to have moved aggressively to prevent an outbreak, to no avail.

Francesco Passerini, the mayor of Codogno, said in an interview on Sunday evening that he still had not received concrete logistical instructions from Rome.

“Who is going to bring essential goods here?” he said. “Who is going to take care of provisions and medical transportation?”

Two military structures in Lombardy are being prepared to become isolation camps. A military base in Rome has been housing evacuees from Wuhan, China, where the virus began, and the Italian passengers of the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship that has been under quarantine in Yokohama, Japan.

Lockdown procedures like the ones in Lombardy will be applied to other towns if new clusters emerge, officials said. Quarantine measures will also be applied to anyone who has close contact with someone who has the virus.

Elia Delmiglio, the mayor of Casalpusterlengo, said people continued going in and out of his town for most of the day on Sunday.

“We got the decree, but not a precise schedule for when it will be implemented,” he said.

But by late Sunday night, police began arriving to seal the town off.

“People are worried,” said Paolo Camia, a 55-year-old manager of a software company from Casalpusterlengo, who drove out of town in his blue surgical mask to take some pictures of the police checkpoints. “Basically, we can’t leave.”

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Jason Horowitz reported from Casalpusterlengo, Italy, and Milan, and Elisabetta Povoledo reported from Rome. Katrin Bennhold contributed reporting from Berlin, Constant Meheut from Paris, and Emma Bubola from Milan.

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