#National Library of Kosovo

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national library of kosovo, pristina

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The National University Library of Kosovo "Pjetër Bogdani", Prishtina, Kosovo

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Architect - Andrija Mutnjaković

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National Library of Kosovo

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Does anyone ever talk about the Third Reich bombing of Belgrade in 1941, which led to the National library of Belgrade which was stocked historical and literature documents and writings being completely destroyed, and in 1944? NATO bombing of Belgrade in 1999? The Ottoman rule over the Balkans that lasted for around 400 to 500 years and then 36 of the Austrian-Hungarian? Historical sightings and documents and eastern orthodox churches being destroyed, non-ottoman men and women dying out of hunger all because they rejected to convert to islam, being raped and dehumanized for five centuries? Ćele kula? The ACTUAL! history of Kosovo? Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina claiming Serbian history as their own, such as king Stefan Tvrtko I Kotromanić and much more, making monuments for him in Sarajevo while removing Stefan from his name which indicated his serbian origin and completely ignoring the fact that he was related to the serbian dynasty Nemanjić? Ignoring the fact that charter of Kulina ban, who they also claim, starts with "In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit"? Preaching that Ivo Andrić was a bosniak just because he was born in the part of BiH where the major population was muslim bosniaks, even tho he openly introduced himself as a Serb and winning the Nobel prize in literature in 1966. for Serbia? Croats claiming Nikola Tesla just because he was born in the croatian part of the Austrian Hungary, while his father was an eastern orthodox priest and also openly introducing himself as a Serb? The fact that Mileva Marić, Einsteins first wife contributed a lot to his work and him never crediting her? Well no. Because they DONT CARE about Slavic people. They dont care about Slavs, whether they are the Southern, the Eastern or the Western ones and they hate us. It had always been that way and that will never change. And it will only keep growing more and more with time. Fuck the NATO and fuck the west.

eastern europeans on here: hey here's an example of the ways the west exploits eastern europe and here's an example of the west's incredibly strong anti-slav sentiment with the rhetoric literally being indistinguishable from the nazi doctrine

smartest westoid degenerate in the notes: lol white on white crime

[colin-ross]

A day of sightseeing in Pristina.

First up was the clock tower, then the Imperial Mosque, a memorial of thanks to countries that helped Kosovo during the War, a Mother Teresa statue, the Newborn statue, the Heroinat Memorial to the 20,000 women raped during the War, the new Cathedral for Mother Teresa, an abandoned Orthodox Church, the National University Library and finally a strange mural of Dua Lipa on a random thing!

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Holidays 4.10

Holidays

ASPCA Day

Black Hole Day

Commodore Perry Day

Day of the Builder (Azerbaijan)

Dust the Ceiling Fan Day

Encourage a Young Writer Day

Every Day Is Earth Day

410 Day

Frances Perkins Day

Global Work From Home Day

Godfather of Soul Day (South Carolina)

Golfer's Day

Humane Day

Hung Kings Festival (Vietnam)

Internal Troops Day (Tajikistan)

International Day of Sterilization Sciences

International Safety Pin Day

International Spy Day

Juan Santamaria Day (Costa Rica)

Judas Tree Day (French Republic

Lachesis Asteroid Day

Larry the Lobster Day (SNL)

National Biomechanics Day

National Bookmobile Day

National Calvin Day

National Erase Your Self-Negativity Day

National Farm Animals Day

National Femboy Day

National Hug Your Dog Day

National Library Outreach Day

National Love Our Children Day

National Nana Day

National Report IRS Tax Fraud Day

National Rubber Day (Thailand)

National Siblings Day

National Sprint Car Day

National Tamara Day

National Transplant Financial Coordinator Day

National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day

Ram Navami (India, Nepal)

Safety Pin Day

Salvation Army Founder's Day

Semana Santa (Nicaragua)

Siblings Day

Son-in-Law Day

World Baton Twirling Day

World Day of West Syndrome

World Homeopathy Day

World Jaguar Day

World Sindhi Language Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cinnamon Crescent Roll Day

Tipopils Day (Italy)

2nd Wednesday in April

International Day of Pink [2nd Wednesday]

International Provenance Research Day [2nd Wednesday]

National Bookmobile Day [Wednesday of 2nd Full Week]

Festivals Beginning April 10, 2024

Wisconsin Association of Meat Processors Conventtion (Middleton, Wisconsin) [thru 4.14]

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Vernum X (Pagan)

Alfredo Sauce Day (Pastafarian)

April 10th Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Bademus (Christian; Saint)

Ben Nicholson (Artology)

Chocolate Overindulgence Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Clicksnizz (Muppetism)

Cybelle's Day (Ancient Roman Great Mother Goddess)

Day of Bau (Goddess Mother of Ea; Ancient Babylonia)

Feast of Bau (Ancient Babylonia)

Feast of Rivers and Seas (Ancient Sumerian)

Feast of the Third Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law (Thelema)

Fulbert of Chartres (Christian; Saint)

Holy Mother Earth Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

James, Azadanus and Abdicius (Christian; Saints)

Jean-Baptiste Isabey (Artology)

Kenneth Noland (Artology)

Macarius of Ghent (Christian; Saint)

The Martyrs under the Danes (Christian; Martyrs)

Mechtildes (Christian; Saint)

Michael de Sanctis (Christian; Saint)

Mikael Agricola (Lutheran)

Paternus of Abdinghof (Christian; Saint)

Paul Theroux (Writerism)

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Episcopal Church)

Pytheas (Positivist; Saint)

Sun Dances Day (Everyday Wicca)

William of Ockham (Anglicanism)

William Law (Anglicanism)

Islamic Moveable Calendar Holidays

Eid al-Fitr (Islam; 1 Shawwal) (a.k.a. …

Aïd al Fitr (Morocco)

Aid-El-Fithr (Burundi, Ivory Coast, Tunisia)

Aïd el-Fitr (Gabon, Mauritania)

Aïd el Fitre (Djibouti)

Aïd el Segheir (Burkina Faso, Mauritania)

Djouldé Soumaé (Cameroon)

Eid

Eid Al-Fater (Eritrea)

Eid Al Fetir (Ethiopia)

Eid al Fitr (Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, Yemen)

Eid al-Fitr (Kosovo)

Eid-e-Fitr (Iran)

Eid’l Fitr (Philippines)

Eid-ul-Fiter (Bangladesh)

Eid-Ul-Fitr (Sierra Leone)

Eid ul-Fitr (Maldives)

Eidul Fitr (Pakistan)

Festival of Breaking the Fast

Hari Raya Aidil Fitri (Brunei)

Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1442 Hijriyah (Indonesia)

Hari Raya Puasa (Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Malaysia, Singapore)

Idd el-Fitre (Uganda)

Iddi El Fitry (Tanzania)

Ide el Fitr (Comoros, Mayotte)

Id el Fitri (Nigeria)

idi Ramazon (Tajikistan)

Idulfitri (East timor)

Id-ul-Fitr (Parts of India)

Ied-Ul-Fitre (Suriname)

Iyd ul Fitr (Uzbekistan)

Korité (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo)

Kuthba-e-Ramzan (India)

Lesser Bajram (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Lesser Eid

Ozara Baramy (Turkmenistan)

Orozo Ait (Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan)

Ramadan Bairam (Suda)

Ramazan (India)

Ramazan Bajram (Macedonia)

Ramazan Bayram (Azerbaijan, Cyprus)

Ramazan Bayramy (Turkey)

Ramazan Hayit (Uzbekistan)

Sugar Feast

Sweet Eid

Uraza-bairam (Kosovo)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 7 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [7 of 24]

Fatal Day (Pagan) [7 of 24]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [13 of 30]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [20 of 60]

Premieres

Th Baby Seal (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

The Barber of Seville (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1944)

Birds of a Feather (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1965)

The Boundary Bounders or Some Like it Show (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 39; 1960)

The Carpet People, by Terry Pratchett (Novel; 1971)

City of Angels (Film; 1998)

Come On In! The Water’s Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1968)

Daredevil (TV Series; 2015)

Deep Freeze Squeeze (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1964)

Donald’s Snow Fight (Disney Cartoon; 1942)

East of Eden (Film; 1955)

Elton John, by Elton John (Album; 1970)

Even in the Quietest Moments…, by Supertramp (Album; 1977)

Excalibur (Film; 1981)

Ex Machina (Film; 2015)

Fear of a Black Planet, by Public Enemy (Album; 1990)

Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (Animated Film; 1992)

For the Stars, by Elvis Costello with Anne Sofie Von Otter (Album; 2001)

A German Requiem, by Johannes Brahms (Choral & Orchestral Work; 1868)

Going to Blazes (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1933)

The Great Gatsby (Novel; 1925)

Hannah Montana: The Movie (Film; 2009)

Hound About (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1959)

House of Wax (Film; 1953) [1st Color 3-D Film]

The Infernal Machine, by Jean Cocteau (Play; 1934)

Kubla Khan (Poem; 1816)

Newsies (Film; 1992)

Observe and Report (Film; 2009)

People Are Funny (Radio Game Show; 1942)

People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, by A Tribe Called Quest (Album; 1990)

Pipeye, Pupeye, Poopeye, and Peepeye (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1942)

The Player (Film; 1992)

Psycho, by Robert Bloch (Novel; 1959)

Saint Louis Blues, by W.C. Handy (Song; 1925)

The Secret of My Success (Film; 1987)

She Was the Acrobat’s Daughter (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Sonic Temple, by The Cult (Album; 1989)

Titanic Requiem, by Robin Gibb (Orchestral Piece; 2012)

12 Angry Men (Film; 1957)

The Two Ronnies (UK TV Series; 1971)

Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry (Novel; 1947)

The Washington Whirl or Rocky Off the Record (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 40; 1960)

Today’s Name Days

Ezechiel, Gernot, Holda (Austria)

Bonifacije, Ezekijel, Magdalena, Sunčica (Croatia)

Darja (Czech Republic)

Ezechiel (Denmark)

Hindrek, Imre, Indrek, Ints (Estonia)

Tero (Finland)

Fulbert (France)

Engelbert, Ezechiel, Gernot, Holda (Germany)

Anaksimenis, Dimosthenes, Dionisis, Epaminondas, Eteoklis, Fokion, Hercules, Herakles, Homer, Ifestion, Isocrates, Maximos, Miltiadis, Parmenion, Pelopidas, Pericles, Philopimin, Pindaros, Polyvios, Promitheas, Socrates, Sofocles, Themistoklis, Theofrastos, Thiseas, Timothy, Xenofon, Zinon (Greece)

Zsolt (Hungary)

Terenzio (Italy)

Anita, Anitra, Turaida, Zīle, Zilite (Latvia)

Agna, Apolonijus, Margarita, Mintautas (Lithuania)

Ingvald, Ingveig (Norway)

Antoni, Apoloniusz, Daniel, Ezechiel, Grodzisław, Henryk, Makary, Małgorzata, Michał, Pompejusz (Poland)

African, Maxim, Pompie, Terentie (Romania)

Igor (Slovakia)

Ezequiel, Miguel (Spain)

Ingvar, Ingvor (Sweden)

Caley, Callie, Cayla, Cayley, Ezechiel, Ezekiel, Ezequiel, Torey, Tori, Torrance, Torrence, Torrey, Tory (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 101 of 2024; 265 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 15 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 2 (Jia-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 2 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 1 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 11 Cyan; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 28 March 2024

Moon: 5%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 17 Archimedes (4th Month) [Aristarchus]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 23 of 92)

Week: 2nd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 21 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Man (Human Being) [Half-Month 8 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 4.24)

Shawwāl [شَوَّال] (Islamic Calendar) [Month 10 of 12] (Raised)

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Holidays 4.10

Holidays

ASPCA Day

Black Hole Day

Commodore Perry Day

Day of the Builder (Azerbaijan)

Dust the Ceiling Fan Day

Encourage a Young Writer Day

Every Day Is Earth Day

410 Day

Frances Perkins Day

Global Work From Home Day

Godfather of Soul Day (South Carolina)

Golfer's Day

Humane Day

Hung Kings Festival (Vietnam)

Internal Troops Day (Tajikistan)

International Day of Sterilization Sciences

International Safety Pin Day

International Spy Day

Juan Santamaria Day (Costa Rica)

Judas Tree Day (French Republic

Lachesis Asteroid Day

Larry the Lobster Day (SNL)

National Biomechanics Day

National Bookmobile Day

National Calvin Day

National Erase Your Self-Negativity Day

National Farm Animals Day

National Femboy Day

National Hug Your Dog Day

National Library Outreach Day

National Love Our Children Day

National Nana Day

National Report IRS Tax Fraud Day

National Rubber Day (Thailand)

National Siblings Day

National Sprint Car Day

National Tamara Day

National Transplant Financial Coordinator Day

National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day

Ram Navami (India, Nepal)

Safety Pin Day

Salvation Army Founder's Day

Semana Santa (Nicaragua)

Siblings Day

Son-in-Law Day

World Baton Twirling Day

World Day of West Syndrome

World Homeopathy Day

World Jaguar Day

World Sindhi Language Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cinnamon Crescent Roll Day

Tipopils Day (Italy)

2nd Wednesday in April

International Day of Pink [2nd Wednesday]

International Provenance Research Day [2nd Wednesday]

National Bookmobile Day [Wednesday of 2nd Full Week]

Festivals Beginning April 10, 2024

Wisconsin Association of Meat Processors Conventtion (Middleton, Wisconsin) [thru 4.14]

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Vernum X (Pagan)

Alfredo Sauce Day (Pastafarian)

April 10th Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Bademus (Christian; Saint)

Ben Nicholson (Artology)

Chocolate Overindulgence Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Clicksnizz (Muppetism)

Cybelle's Day (Ancient Roman Great Mother Goddess)

Day of Bau (Goddess Mother of Ea; Ancient Babylonia)

Feast of Bau (Ancient Babylonia)

Feast of Rivers and Seas (Ancient Sumerian)

Feast of the Third Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law (Thelema)

Fulbert of Chartres (Christian; Saint)

Holy Mother Earth Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

James, Azadanus and Abdicius (Christian; Saints)

Jean-Baptiste Isabey (Artology)

Kenneth Noland (Artology)

Macarius of Ghent (Christian; Saint)

The Martyrs under the Danes (Christian; Martyrs)

Mechtildes (Christian; Saint)

Michael de Sanctis (Christian; Saint)

Mikael Agricola (Lutheran)

Paternus of Abdinghof (Christian; Saint)

Paul Theroux (Writerism)

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Episcopal Church)

Pytheas (Positivist; Saint)

Sun Dances Day (Everyday Wicca)

William of Ockham (Anglicanism)

William Law (Anglicanism)

Islamic Moveable Calendar Holidays

Eid al-Fitr (Islam; 1 Shawwal) (a.k.a. …

Aïd al Fitr (Morocco)

Aid-El-Fithr (Burundi, Ivory Coast, Tunisia)

Aïd el-Fitr (Gabon, Mauritania)

Aïd el Fitre (Djibouti)

Aïd el Segheir (Burkina Faso, Mauritania)

Djouldé Soumaé (Cameroon)

Eid

Eid Al-Fater (Eritrea)

Eid Al Fetir (Ethiopia)

Eid al Fitr (Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, Yemen)

Eid al-Fitr (Kosovo)

Eid-e-Fitr (Iran)

Eid’l Fitr (Philippines)

Eid-ul-Fiter (Bangladesh)

Eid-Ul-Fitr (Sierra Leone)

Eid ul-Fitr (Maldives)

Eidul Fitr (Pakistan)

Festival of Breaking the Fast

Hari Raya Aidil Fitri (Brunei)

Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1442 Hijriyah (Indonesia)

Hari Raya Puasa (Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Malaysia, Singapore)

Idd el-Fitre (Uganda)

Iddi El Fitry (Tanzania)

Ide el Fitr (Comoros, Mayotte)

Id el Fitri (Nigeria)

idi Ramazon (Tajikistan)

Idulfitri (East timor)

Id-ul-Fitr (Parts of India)

Ied-Ul-Fitre (Suriname)

Iyd ul Fitr (Uzbekistan)

Korité (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo)

Kuthba-e-Ramzan (India)

Lesser Bajram (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Lesser Eid

Ozara Baramy (Turkmenistan)

Orozo Ait (Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan)

Ramadan Bairam (Suda)

Ramazan (India)

Ramazan Bajram (Macedonia)

Ramazan Bayram (Azerbaijan, Cyprus)

Ramazan Bayramy (Turkey)

Ramazan Hayit (Uzbekistan)

Sugar Feast

Sweet Eid

Uraza-bairam (Kosovo)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 7 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [7 of 24]

Fatal Day (Pagan) [7 of 24]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [13 of 30]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [20 of 60]

Premieres

Th Baby Seal (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

The Barber of Seville (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1944)

Birds of a Feather (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1965)

The Boundary Bounders or Some Like it Show (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 39; 1960)

The Carpet People, by Terry Pratchett (Novel; 1971)

City of Angels (Film; 1998)

Come On In! The Water’s Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1968)

Daredevil (TV Series; 2015)

Deep Freeze Squeeze (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1964)

Donald’s Snow Fight (Disney Cartoon; 1942)

East of Eden (Film; 1955)

Elton John, by Elton John (Album; 1970)

Even in the Quietest Moments…, by Supertramp (Album; 1977)

Excalibur (Film; 1981)

Ex Machina (Film; 2015)

Fear of a Black Planet, by Public Enemy (Album; 1990)

Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (Animated Film; 1992)

For the Stars, by Elvis Costello with Anne Sofie Von Otter (Album; 2001)

A German Requiem, by Johannes Brahms (Choral & Orchestral Work; 1868)

Going to Blazes (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1933)

The Great Gatsby (Novel; 1925)

Hannah Montana: The Movie (Film; 2009)

Hound About (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1959)

House of Wax (Film; 1953) [1st Color 3-D Film]

The Infernal Machine, by Jean Cocteau (Play; 1934)

Kubla Khan (Poem; 1816)

Newsies (Film; 1992)

Observe and Report (Film; 2009)

People Are Funny (Radio Game Show; 1942)

People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, by A Tribe Called Quest (Album; 1990)

Pipeye, Pupeye, Poopeye, and Peepeye (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1942)

The Player (Film; 1992)

Psycho, by Robert Bloch (Novel; 1959)

Saint Louis Blues, by W.C. Handy (Song; 1925)

The Secret of My Success (Film; 1987)

She Was the Acrobat’s Daughter (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Sonic Temple, by The Cult (Album; 1989)

Titanic Requiem, by Robin Gibb (Orchestral Piece; 2012)

12 Angry Men (Film; 1957)

The Two Ronnies (UK TV Series; 1971)

Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry (Novel; 1947)

The Washington Whirl or Rocky Off the Record (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 40; 1960)

Today’s Name Days

Ezechiel, Gernot, Holda (Austria)

Bonifacije, Ezekijel, Magdalena, Sunčica (Croatia)

Darja (Czech Republic)

Ezechiel (Denmark)

Hindrek, Imre, Indrek, Ints (Estonia)

Tero (Finland)

Fulbert (France)

Engelbert, Ezechiel, Gernot, Holda (Germany)

Anaksimenis, Dimosthenes, Dionisis, Epaminondas, Eteoklis, Fokion, Hercules, Herakles, Homer, Ifestion, Isocrates, Maximos, Miltiadis, Parmenion, Pelopidas, Pericles, Philopimin, Pindaros, Polyvios, Promitheas, Socrates, Sofocles, Themistoklis, Theofrastos, Thiseas, Timothy, Xenofon, Zinon (Greece)

Zsolt (Hungary)

Terenzio (Italy)

Anita, Anitra, Turaida, Zīle, Zilite (Latvia)

Agna, Apolonijus, Margarita, Mintautas (Lithuania)

Ingvald, Ingveig (Norway)

Antoni, Apoloniusz, Daniel, Ezechiel, Grodzisław, Henryk, Makary, Małgorzata, Michał, Pompejusz (Poland)

African, Maxim, Pompie, Terentie (Romania)

Igor (Slovakia)

Ezequiel, Miguel (Spain)

Ingvar, Ingvor (Sweden)

Caley, Callie, Cayla, Cayley, Ezechiel, Ezekiel, Ezequiel, Torey, Tori, Torrance, Torrence, Torrey, Tory (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 101 of 2024; 265 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 15 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 2 (Jia-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 2 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 1 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 11 Cyan; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 28 March 2024

Moon: 5%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 17 Archimedes (4th Month) [Aristarchus]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 23 of 92)

Week: 2nd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 21 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Man (Human Being) [Half-Month 8 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 4.24)

Shawwāl [شَوَّال] (Islamic Calendar) [Month 10 of 12] (Raised)

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National Library of Kosovo

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

World Population Milestone (1440) Earth’s population will reach 8 billion people today, according to projections from the United Nations. The number is three times the population in 1950 and eight times that of the early 1800s. The 200 years since the Industrial Revolution began have seen a massive population explosion due to a reduction in child mortality and an increase in life expectancy. Improvements in food production, sanitation, and medicine—as well as widespread access to household items like refrigerators and ammonia—have drastically reduced hunger and disease globally. Annual population growth peaked at just over 2% in the early 1960s and has since declined to under 1% amid a decrease in fertility rates. By the end of this century, total annual deaths are expected to surpass births, likely resulting in a decline in population. Overall, demographers estimate almost 120 billion people have lived on Earth.

As the Pandemic Drags On, Americans Find New Balance (NYT) Jordi Salomon put the pandemic in the rearview mirror long ago. Her two little boys are back at school, where there has been no mask requirement since the spring. They attend birthday parties and theme parks, visit the library and play with friends. Ms. Salomon, 35, of Orange County, Calif., makes sure the family eats well and gets outdoors as much as possible, and she is careful to respect the wishes of friends and relatives who are comfortable meeting only in masks. “But I can’t live in fear,” she said. “My kids are only kids once. There is so much to do and experience in that magical time.” For Americans like Ms. Salomon, life has in many ways returned to something like the Before Times. Restaurants are packed, and cultural performances sold out. Children are sitting in schools, and workers are trickling back into offices. Masks are no longer required in public, even in New York City’s subways. Most Americans want to get back to normalcy and are unwilling to let Covid rule their lives any longer. But the coronavirus has not gone away. While deaths have plummeted since the beginning of the year, about 315 Americans are still dying of Covid on the average day.

Britain’s vulnerable await PM’s spending plans with anxiety (AP) Thirugnanam Sureshan maneuvers his wheelchair into the tiny kitchen of his one-bedroom apartment, flips the switch on an electric kettle and brews a mug of instant coffee. It’s his second hot drink of the day, and it will be his last. The humble countertop kettle has become a luxury for Sureshan and his wife, Sridevi, after their monthly electricity bill almost doubled over the past year. Sureshan, a former airport security guard who is disabled by health problems including a rare foot condition, struggles to stay warm. He is cutting down wherever possible to ensure he can keep the heat on this winter amid soaring prices for electricity, food and gasoline. Sureshan is among the millions hoping Prime Minister Rishi Sunak finds money to help them survive Britain’s cost-of-living crisis when the government releases its spending plans Thursday. The demands are many—ranging from pay increases for nurses and police officers to increased welfare benefits, higher pensions and more funding for free school meals—as 40-year-high inflation erodes families’ buying power. And resources are limited, with Sunak facing a budget shortfall of up to 60 billion pounds ($71 billion) that he says will require both tax increases and spending cuts to close.

EU warns Serbia, Kosovo against returning to the past (AP) The European Union warned Serbia and Kosovo on Monday that they are on the edge of a precipice and must resolve their dispute over vehicle license plates before next week or face the prospect of a return to their violent past. Long-simmering tensions between Serbia and its former province mounted in recent weeks over the Kosovo government’s decision to ban Serbia-issued license plates. On Nov. 5, 10 Serb lawmakers, 10 prosecutors and 576 police officers in Kosovo’s northern Mitrovica region resigned over the move. About 6,300 ethnic Serbs owning cars with number plates deemed to be illegal in Kosovo were to be warned until Nov. 21, then fined for the following two months. From April 21, they would only be permitted to drive with temporary local plates. Kosovo unilaterally broke away from Serbia in 2008. The Serbian government has refused to acknowledge Kosovo’s statehood.

Poland says Russian-made missile fell in its east, killing 2 (AP) Poland said Wednesday that a Russian-made missile fell in the country’s east, killing two people, though U.S. President Joe Biden said it was “unlikely” it was fired from Russia. The blast, which Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy decried as “a very significant escalation,” prompted Biden to call an emergency meeting of G-7 and NATO leaders. A deliberate, hostile attack on NATO member Poland could trigger a collective military response by the alliance. But U.S. officials said preliminary assessments suggested the missile was fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian one amid the crushing salvo against Ukraine’s electrical infrastructure Tuesday.

Russia Tried to Absorb a Ukrainian City. It Didn’t Work. (NYT) Iryna Dyagileva’s daughter attended a school in Kherson where the curriculum included memorizing the Russian national anthem. But teachers ignored it, instead quietly greeting students in the morning with a salute: “Glory to Ukraine!” The occupation authorities asked Olha Malyarchuk, a clerk at a taxi company, to settle bills in rubles. But she kept paying in Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia. “It just didn’t work,” Ms. Malyarchuk said of the Russian propaganda that was beamed into televisions and plastered on billboards for the nine months of Russia’s occupation of Kherson. On Sunday, she was walking in a park, waving a small Ukrainian flag. The Ukrainian Army, defying the odds after its much more powerful neighbor invaded in February, has reclaimed hundreds of villages and towns in three major counteroffensives north of Kyiv, in the northeastern Kharkiv region and now in the southern Kherson region. But the city of Kherson stands out: It was the focus of an ambitious Russian campaign to assimilate the citizenry and stamp out Ukrainian identity. National songs were banned. Speaking Ukrainian could lead to arrest. Schools adopted Russian curriculums, and young students were to be told that they were Russians, not Ukrainians. It appears that those Russian efforts were largely futile.

Both Russia and Ukraine tortured prisoners of war, UN says (Reuters) The U.N. human rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday that both Russia and Ukraine have tortured prisoners of war during the nearly nine-month conflict, citing examples including the use of electric shocks and forced nudity. The U.N. Ukraine-based monitoring team based its findings on interviews with more than 100 prisoners of war on each side of the conflict. The interviews with Ukrainian prisoners of war were conducted after their release, since Russia did not grant access to detention sites, it said.

Turkey detains Syrian suspect in deadly Istanbul bombing (AP) Turkish police yesterday arrested a Syrian woman who they say confessed to the weekend blast on a busy street in Istanbul that left six dead and more than 80 injured. Officials allege the suspect is connected to Kurdish militants. Both the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and the militia group, the People’s Defense Units, have denied involvement in the attack. Istanbul police viewed footage from 1,200 security cameras and carried out raids in 21 locations. The suspect was captured on camera departing the scene of the blast after leaving TNT-type explosives on the pedestrian street.

China sends more students to US universities than any other nation, survey finds (SCMP) Despite soaring tensions between Washington and Beijing, China continued to send more students to study at US universities last year than any other nation, according to an annual State Department survey made public on Monday. A total of 290,086 Chinese students came to US institutions of higher education for undergraduate study, graduate work and short-term postgraduate employment in the 2021-2022 academic year, the survey found. Half of the Chinese students came to the US to study maths, computer science, engineering and other “STEM” subjects, according to the survey. “Over time, the data has been pretty consistent, independent of the state of relationships or political tensions,” said Dr Allan Goodman, CEO of the Institute of International Education, a non-profit organisation that conducted the survey for the State Department.

Congress seeks to arm Taiwan quickly as China threat grows (NYT) Mindful of lessons learned from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Congress is pushing to arm and train Taiwan in advance of any potential military attack by China, but whether the aid materializes could depend on President Biden himself. Deliberations on an unprecedented package of billions of dollars in military assistance to the self-governing island democracy come as Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet in Bali on Monday, with maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait a top item of discussion. The bipartisan effort would enable the U.S. military to dip immediately into its own stocks of weapons such as Javelins and Stingers—something done at this scale only for Ukraine, officials said—and provide weapons for the first time to Taiwan through the foreign military financing program, paid for by the United States. The idea is essentially to do for Taipei what is being done for Kyiv—but before the bullets start flying, lawmakers said. But there is no money for this package in the 2023 budget proposal that Congress is working to pass, and if appropriators don’t find cuts to cover the weapons assistance, Biden will have to submit an emergency request to finance the spending for Taiwan and make the case for why it’s necessary, congressional aides say. Administration officials declined to say whether they would do so.

Stymied by Protests, Iran Unleashes Its Wrath on Its Youth (NYT) One girl, a 14-year-old, was incarcerated in an adult prison alongside drug offenders. A 16-year-old boy had his nose broken in detention after a beating by security officers. A 13-year-old girl was physically attacked by plainclothes militia who raided her school. A brutal crackdown by the authorities in Iran trying to halt protests calling for social freedom and political change that have convulsed the country for the past two months has exacted a terrible toll on the nation’s youth, according to lawyers in Iran and rights activists familiar with the cases. Young people, including teenage girls and boys, have been at the center of the demonstrations and clashes with security forces on the streets and university campuses and at high schools. Iranian officials have said the average age of protesters is 15. The authorities are targeting thousands of minors, under the age of 18, for participating in the protests, according to interviews with two dozen people, including lawyers in Iran involved in cases and rights activists, as well as parents, relatives and teenagers living in the country. Rights groups say that at least 50 minors have been killed.

‘Reverse mentorship’: How young workers are teaching bosses (BBC) Senior executives with years of experience have valuable advice for junior employees—but their decades-younger colleagues also have lots to teach their higher-ups, too. That’s the idea behind ‘reverse mentoring’, a technique first developed in the 1990s to share technology skills. Now, in the pandemic era, the practice has fresh potential to help companies overcome new challenges. Think about reverse mentorship as flipping traditional mentoring on its head: instead of senior staff supporting lower-level employees in their careers, younger generations help teach their managers about everything from consumer desires and TikTok to changing attitudes around social issues. There are myriad potential benefits of reverse mentorship, from sparking innovation and boosting retention of younger workers, to helping employees decades apart better understand each other. And it’s relatively easy for companies to adopt alongside existing mentoring programs. This can explain why the concept is gaining steam in the current world of work.

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Holidays 4.9

Holidays

Air Force Day (Indonesia)

All Over Again Day

A-ma Festival (a.k.a. Matsu; Pagan Macau) [Fishers, Sailors]

Anniversary of the German Invasion of Denmark (Denmark)

Appomattox Day

Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor; Philippines)

Astronauts' Day

Baghdad Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Bataan Day (Araw ng Kagitingan a.k.a. Day of Valour; Philippines)

CSS Naked Day

Day of the Finnish Language (Finland)

Day of National Unity (Georgia)

Dry Milk Day

Easter Rising Anniversary Day (Ireland)

Free Cone Day

Hive Day (French Republic)

International Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) Day

International Songwriters Day

International Twitter Men’s Day

Jenkins' Ear Day

Jumbo Day

Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Listening Day

Maha Thingyan (Water Festival; Myanmar)

Maia Asteroid Day

Martyr’s Day (Tunisia)

Mikael Agricola (Finland)

Name Yourself Day

National Bodhi Day

National Cherish An Antique Day

National Chicken Little Awareness Day

National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day

National Health Day (Kiribati)

National Library Workers Day

National Mature Women’s Day

National Nuclear Technology Day (Iran)

National Unicorn Day

Observational of Nazi Occupation (Denmark)

Play True Day

Polling Day (Samoa)

Riot Grrl Day (Boston, Massachusetts)

Royal Thai Air Force Day (Thailand)

Seersucker Day

Sourdough Sam Day (San Francisco 49ers)

Special Forces Day

3-D Movie Day

Vimy Ridge Day (Canada)

Winston Churchill Day

World IoT Day

World Konkani Day (Goa)

Youth Homelessness Matters Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Black Beans and Rice Day

National Chinese Almond Cookie Day

National Gin & Tonic Day

National Pancit Day

National Pimento Cheese Day

2nd Tuesday in April

Be Kind to Lawyers Day [2nd Tuesday]

Identity Management Day [2nd Tuesday]

Independence & Related Days

Dita e Kushtetutes (Constitution Day; Kosovo)

Georgia (a.k.a. Independence Restoration Day; from USSR, 1991)

Mëcklewmburg-Wladir (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Hindu New Year (Indonesia)

Ougadi (Mauritius)

Telugu New Year (Puducherry, Tamil Nadu; India)

Ugadi (a.k.a. Yugadi or Samvatsarādi (Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Goa; India)

Festivals Beginning April 9, 2024

Brussels International Fantasy, Fantastic, Thriller and Science Fiction Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium) [thru 4.21]

Edinburgh Science Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 4.24]

Food Northwest (Portland, Oregon) [thru 4.10]

Ice Cream Technology Conference (Clearwater, Florida) [thru 4.10]

Yogurt & Cultured Innovation Conference (Clearwater, Florida) [thru 4.10]

Feast Days

Amazon Goddess Day (Everyday Wicca)

Cereal Festival begins (Ancient Rome)

Charles Baudelaire (Writerism)

Charles E. Burchfield (Artology)

Cook Couscous Day (Pastafarian)

Day of the Amazon (Pagan)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Anglicanism, Lutheranism)

Dotto, Abbot of Orkney (Christian; Saint)

Eudoxus (Positivist; Saint)

Eupsychius (Christian; Saint)

Feast of A-Ma (Ancient Portuguese Goddess of Fisherman)

Feast of Jalal (Glory; Baha’i)

Feast of the Second Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law (Thelema)

Gaucherius (a.k.a. Gautier; Christian; Saint)

Hocktide (Ancient Saxons)

Hugh of Rouen (Christian; Saint)

Madrun (Celtic Book of Days)

Materiana (Christian; Saint)

Mary of Egypt (a.k.a. Mary of Cleophas; Christian; Saint)

Remembrance for Haakon Sigurdsson (Asatru/Norse/The Troth)

Tommy Georgiarides Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Uramar (Christian; Saint)

Verruca Day (Goblins Again; Shamanism)

Victor Vasarely (Artology)

Waltrude (Christian; Saint)

The Woodsman (Muppetism)

Yasurai Matsuri (Festival to Prevent Ill Health; Japan; Shinto)

Islamic Moveable Calendar Holidays

Eid al-Fitr (End of Ramadan; Islam; 30 Ramadan) (a.k.a. …

Eid al Fitr Holiday (Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen)

End of Ramadan Holiday (Egypt)

Ide el Fitr (Comoros)

id el Fitri (Nigeria)

Korité (Mali)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Nēmontēmi, Day 5 (of 5) [Aztec unlucky or fasting days, taking place between 4.5-4.18]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [15 of 37]

Premieres

All the President’s Men (Film; 1976)

Au Clair de la Lune, recorded by inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville (Song; 1860) [1st known recording of human voice]

Batman: Strange Days (WB Animated Film; 2014)

The Big Clock (Film; 1948)

Bodies, Rest & Motion (Film; 1993)

The Bored Cuckoo (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1948)

Date Night (Film; 2010)

The Day Lincoln Was Shot, by Jim Bishop (Book; 1955)

Ella Enchanted (Film; 2004)

Family Plot (Film; 1976)

Far Beyond Driven, by Pantera (Album; 1994)

Field and Scream (MGM Cartoon; 1955)

Fosse/Verdon (TV Mini-Series; 2019)

The Girl Next Door (Film; 2004)

Go (Film; 1999)

Happiness Is A Warm Puppy, by Charles M. Schulz (Cartoon Book; 1963)

How Do You Live?, by Genzaburo Yoshino (Novel; 1937)

Nashville Skyline, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1969)

Never Been Kissed (Film; 1999)

Nights in the Garden of Spain, by Manuel de Falla (Orchestral Work; 1916)

Parks and Recreation (TV Series; 2009)

Patriotic Pooches (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1943)

Reckoning, by R.E.M. (Album; 1984)

The Sandlot (Film; 1993)

Scarface (Film; 1932)

Single & Single, by John le Carré (Novel; 1999)

Time (West End Musical; 1986)

Voltaire in Love, by Nancy Mitford (Novel; 1958)

Today’s Name Days

Casilda, Waltraud (Austria)

Bozhan, Bozhana, Violeta, Vurban, Vurbana, Yasen, Yasna, Yavor, Zdravka, Zdravko (Bulgaria)

Celestina, Demetrije, Marija, Zdenko (Croatia)

Dušan (Czech Republic)

Otto, Procopius (Denmark)

Iiris, Kaira, Kaire, Kairi (Estonia)

Eeli, Eelis, Elia, Elias, Eliel, Eljas (Finland)

Gautier (France)

Casilda, Hugo, Waltraud (Germany)

Iosif, Sifis, Vaia, Vaios (Greece)

Erhard (Hungary)

Demetrio (Italy)

Valērija, Valtrauta, Varpa, Zubite (Latvia)

Aurimas, Dalia, Kleopas, Rasa (Lithuania)

Rannveig, Rønnaug (Norway)

Dobrosława, Dymitr, Maja, Marceli, Matron (Poland)

Eupsihie (Romania)

Milena (Slovakia)

Casilda, Demetrio (Spain)

Ottilia, Otto (Sweden)

Cortney, Courtney, Kortney, Kourtney (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 100 of 2024; 266 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 15 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 24 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 1 (Guy-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 1 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 30 Ramadan 1445

J Cal: 10 Cyan; Threesday [10 of 30]

Julian: 27 March 2024

Moon: 1%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 16 Archimedes (4th Month) [Pytheas]

Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 22 of 92)

Week: 2nd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 20 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Nīsān (a.k.a. Abib) [נִיסָן‎] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 1 of 12]

桃月 [T��oyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 3 of 12] (Peach Month) [Earthly Branch: Dragon Month] (Sānyuè; Third Month)