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100 RIBU KEDUA

Sekarang agustus ya? Mengembalikan ingatan Nia pada bulan yang sama di tahun 2016. Sore terakhir masa orientasi kampus ketika itu berhamburan keluar ribuan mahasiswa baru (maru) untuk pulang, ada sekitar 8000 maru yang Nia ingat ketika MC memberitahukan di hari pertama. Diantara mereka saling melambaikan tangan, sekedar mengucapkan salam perpisahan, berjabat tangan, melempar senyum, menepuk pundak, berbagi tawa, bertukar kontak, mengabadikan foto, bahkan ada yang meloncat-loncat riang sambil merangkul, juga ada yang berlalu begitu saja tanpa perlu berinteraksi.

“keren! empat hari masa orientasi kampus yang berkesan, makasih orang-orang berperan yang telah menyiapkan semua ini. Kalian berhasil!” pendapat Nia dalam hati usai memerhatikan sekitar.

Tiga hari lalu menjadikan Nia tidak pemalu pada situasi baru yang dihadapi, sejak hari pertama datang seorang diri diantara ribuan wajah yang tidak dikenali, Nia tak sungkan mengawali perkenalan. Bermula dari gerbang masuk kampus, bola mata Nia sudah otomatis berputar menyapu sekeliling mencari sasaran sebagai berikut: perempuan memakai kemeja putih, rok hitam, menggantung nametag dileher, sepatu tali hitam dan sedang tidak mengobrol. Yaps asal memenuhi kriteria sasaran, Nia tak acuh membiarkan macam-macam respon yang akan diterima. Melancarkan aksi menjadikan dirinya perempuan paling ramah. Kalau yang diajak kenalan tidak memberikan respon baik, yasudah toh watak manusia memang beragam. Jadi Nia meninggalkannya “eh, aku duluan ya” berpamitan ramah dengan senyum dan lambaian tangan. Lalu cari yang lain, sesingkat itu.

Empat hari selama acara dalam gedung berlangsung, selama itupun setiap harinya teman duduk disebelah kanan kiri Nia tak pernah sama. Maka Nia berkenalan kembali, tak jarang bukan Nia yang mengawali. Hal paling singkat padat jelas dan pasti dijawab sebagai pembuka pintu perkenalan ialah mengawali dengan menanyakan nama target kenalan, kemudian memperkenalkan nama sendiri atau sebaliknya. Cara lain yaitu melirik terlebih dahulu nametag dengan huruf besar yang jelas terbaca itu, lalu bertanya sambil mengulurkan tangan “Desi ya?” “i…ya” “kenalin, nama aku Nia” selanjutnya bla bla bla. Lagipula moment ini adalah kesempatan untuk mengetahui keragaman. Pasti akan ada hal baru yang Nia dapatkan dari orang baru, hal yang membuat Nia membuka pemikirannya. Maka memutuskan sendirian bukanlah pilihan bagi Nia. Lingkungannya benar-benar baru, saatnya memberanikan diri dan menerapkan kembali istilah adaptasi. Menjadi ramah itu perlu, tetapi terlalu sok kenal sok dekat belum tentu berhasil.

Hari terakhir justru pulang lebih awal, ba’da salat asar. Sudah direncanakan jika pulang hari itu tujuannya bukan rumah seperti biasa, melainkan rumah teman mamahnya. Nia pernah berkunjung kesana satu kali ketika pindahan, tepatnya satu minggu sebelum masa orientasi kampus dimulai. Ya, teman mamahnya sukarela memberikan tumpangan untuk Nia setelah mendengar kabar Nia diterima kuliah tetapi tidak akan bisa jika harus menyewa kost, juga dikasihani jika harus pulang pergi sejauh 30 KM memakai angkutan umum. Di rumah itu Nia boleh menempati satu petak kamar berpintu tanpa gagang yang sudah berisi masing-masing satu buah kasur lipat, meja kecil, dan lemari. Disana berarti menjadi genap ada 6 orang tidak termasuk teman mamahnya, tetapi sepasang suami istri bernama kak Eza dan kak Ira, anak laki-laki mereka Adi yang berumur 5 tahun, adik perempuan yang sedang bekerja yaitu kak Revi, adik perempuan satu lagi yang berkuliah semester 7 namanya kak Reva dan ditambah Nia.

Malam pertama Nia akan satu atap bersama keluarga yang baru berkenalan satu kali. Sekaligus pertama kalinya Nia naik angkutan kota (angkot) rute menuju arah sana, meski Nia telah hafal sesuai intruksi yang diberikan yaitu dua kali naik angkot. Namun Nia sepakat dengan istilah malu bertanya sesat dijalan sehingga yakin akan menaiki angkot yang benar setelah bertanya ke orang sekitar. Nia naik angkot pertama, duduk dibelakang pak supir dengan maksud mudah bertanya dan suaranya jelas terdengar karena suara Nia bervolume kecil, untungnya penumpang masih lima orang karena ini terminal. Angkot melaju lambat dijalanan kota yang padat, memang sepertinya selalu seperti itu apalagi sore hari jam pulang kerja.

Semburat jingga diatas sana terlihat jelas seperti sedang mengikuti laju angkot, sesekali hilang tertutupi bangunan, kendaraan juga pepohonan. Ada yang menenangkan ditengah keramaian, senja tak pernah mengecewakan ya! Menikmatinya sampai benar-benar berganti menjadi gelap. Akhirnya sampai dipemberhentian terakhir angkot pertama, Nia turun dan melanjutkan naik angkot kedua setelah bertanya. Angkot warna kuning itu penuh sekali, lebih dari muatan seharusnya tetapi masih dijejel, Nia yang berbadan kecil terhimpit sebelah kanan kiri, menyebalkan ketika harus salah tingkah juga karena jarak antar penumpang sungguh berdekatan, apalagi dengan orang yang ada didepan Nia. Sore hari pula ih bau keringat, begitupun Nia yang setengah hari berkegiatan hehhehe. Angkot kedua melaju sampai bertemu rute yang sama dengan ketika pertama Nia kesana, sudah lewat waktu magrib sehingga cukup gelap. Jarak yang dilewati angkot kedua tidak lebih dari sepuluh menit dari pertama kali berangkat.

Nia melihat sekeliling dari balik kaca jendela angkot, Nia melewati arah jalan yang benar. Tetapi… semua gang disekitar sana ternyata sama, yaitu gapura berbentuk gedung sate, yang membedakan adalah bertuliskan nama gang dan nomor RT RW. Ini akhir agustus kan biasanya memang tiap gang selalu dikreasikan. Nia hanya mengingat gapura gang saja, tidak dengan nama dan RT RW nya. Nia baru menyadari hal itu, kepanikan menyelimutinya, kemudian mengeluarkan handphone dari dalam tas untuk mengirim pesan ke nomor kak Riva. Tak dibalas, ditelepon tidak diangkat. Percuma Nia jika nanya ke supirpun, supir tidak akan tahu dengan alamat yang tidak jelas. Nia pun memutuskan untuk turun di area yang Nia ingat, patokan rumahnya sebelum lampu merah. “kiriii” dan menyerahkan uang 2000 rupiah. Menyebrang diperempatan lampu merah, ahhhh ini bukan gangnya, bukan kearah sini karena setidaknya Nia ingat bagaimana penampakan jalan yang pernah Nia lewati. Hari semakin gelap, sudah malam. Ini pertama kalinya Nia tersesat, sendirian ditempat asing.

Nia berjalan masuk melewati gang yang cukup untuk satu mobil, gelap taka da lampu yang menerangi karena sepanjang pinggir kiri hanyalah tembok besar tinggi dan pinggir kanan rumah yang menghadap bukan kea rah jalan gang sehingga cahaya lampu yang menyinari remang-remang. Dipinggir kiri ada pedagang es krim dan satu pembeli. Nia melewatinya, percuma pikirnya jika bertanya! Nia tak tau alamat, Nia hanya sedang mencoba mengingat penampakan jalan menuju rumah itu. Ternyata juga bukan gangnya, kemudian Nia kembali memutar menuju keluar gang. Sebelum itu Nia mengeluarkan handphone kembali mencoba menghubungi, tidak ada jawaban, ia sangat bingung. Membalikkan badan kearah tembok, menghindar dari orang yang lewat agar tak terlihat sedang menangis. Menangis sesenggukan, Nia tak cukup berani untuk situasi saat itu. Nia hanya bisa berdo’a.

Meskipun Nia berbalik tapi sudut matanya bisa menangkap orang yang lewat.

“de kenapa?” suara seorang pria dari belakang dengan logat yang berbeda, sepertinya bukan orang sunda, gumam Nia dalam hati.

Ini kan pria yang tadi lewat, kemudian balik lagi dan menyapa Nia?

“kesasar” ia menjawab dengan suara diselingi tangisan, air matanya justru membasahi pipi semakin deras.

“mau kemana emang?” Tanya pria itu kembali

“pulang kerumah teman mamah tapi lupa alamatnya, tapi gangnya daerah sini” jawab Nia sembari sesenggukan dan menunduk mengusap air matanya dengan ujung kerudung segiempat yang dikenakan.

“oh, yaudah hayu saya antar nyari gangnya, tapi saya ambil motor dulu biar cepat.”ajak pria itu

“makasih a” jawab Nia singkat

Nia menerima ajakan pria itu tanpa menunggu lama, masih sambil menangis. Berbarengan keluar dari gang.

“mau minum nih?” pria itu menawari cup minuman dingin yang dia pegang

“engga a makasih” Nia menjawab sambil menggelengkan kepala

Trotoar disepanjang jalan itu cukup lebar, Nia masih berjalan mengikuti pria itu untuk mengambil motor terlebih dahulu.

“habis darimana?” pria itu bertanya lagi.

“habis pulang orientasi kampus a hari terakhir” jawab Nia sambil menoleh ke arah pria itu yang sedang menyeruput minumannya dengan pandangan lurus kedepan, rambut pendeknya tersapu kebelakang oleh angin.

Pria berkaos hitam lengan pendek, memakai celana jeans dan ditangan kirinya memegang keresek putih berisi satu cup minuman berwarna cokelat, lebih tinggi dari Nia, Nia tak terlalu jelas mengingat wajahnya karena tak pernah menatapnya dengan jelas, hanya saja pria itu berambut hitam dengan kulit agak putih, usianya 20han terlihat masih muda, mungkin hanya beberapa tahun diatas Nia. Nia tak ada merasa takut sekarang, air matanya sudah tidak jatuh.

“oh mahasiswa, saya kira anak smp tadi, soalnya pake baju putih rok navy bawa tas, hehehhe” pria itu mengeluarkan nada kaget sambil tertawa kecil.

Mungkin karena gelap, sebenarnya rok Nia warna hitam.

“hehehhe iya a” Nia menjawab

Belum lama berjalan Nia sekarang mengingat gang yang jaraknya beberapa meter lagi didepannya.

“a itu a gangnya iya kayanya itu yang didepan” tunjuk Nia kearah gang yang ia maksud.

“mana? Yaudah hayu kesana” pria itu membalas ucapan Nia sambil langsung berjalan menuju kesana.

Mereka berbelok dan Nia yakin kalau itu adalah gangnya, penampakannya sama persis seperti yang Nia ingat. Mereka berjalan lurus dan menemukan belokan ke kiri, benar Nia menemukan rumahnya diujung belokan itu.

“ini a gangnya, udah ketemu” Nia berbicara dengan raut senang

“Bener ini?yakin kamu?” pria itu berbicara tegas dengan tampak kurang yakin

“mana rumahnya?” sambung pria itu

“itu yang disana, bener a udah ketemu. Alhamdulillah” Nia mengucap syukur sambil menunjuk ke arah rumah

“oh yaudah, kamu ada duit ga?” Tanya pria itu

Nia tidak menjawab.

Kemudian pria itu mengulurkan tangan ke arah Nia, hendak memberikan uang 100 ribu.

Nia terdiam cukup lama, bergelut dengan pikirannya sendiri. Membiarkan pria itu menunggu jawaban. Nia memang sedang tidak punya uang, ia hanya punya uang untuk ongkos esok berangkat hari pertama masuk kampus.

“udah a gausah a makasih” Nia menolak dengan sopan, melambai lambai tangan kepada laki-laki itu memberikan isyarat tidak.

“udah ambil aja” pria itu masih mengulurkan tangannya.

Nia terpikir mungkin ini memang adalah rezeki baginya. Kebetulan juga Nia memang sedang tidak ada uang. 100 ribu adalah jumlah yang besar bagi Nia.

“ah, beneran a? makasih banyak, maaf ya a” Nia mengambil uang 100 ribu dengan malu-malu tapi mau, mengalahkan gengsinya sambil tetap menunduk dan sesekali menatap ke arah pria itu

“kurang ga?” pria itu bertanya kembali

“engga a, udah. Makasih banyak” jawab Nia dengan terheran-heran karena dengan sukarelanya pria itu memberikan uang

“yaudah, sana. Nih minumnya mau ga?” sambil menawarkan keresek yang berisi minumannya

“engga a, makasih” Nia menjawab sambil tersenyum ke arah pria itu.

Raut wajah dan bicara pria itu amat tegas, pria itu terdengar amat peduli kepada Nia, itu yang Nia rasakan.

Mereka kemudian berpisah disana. Berpamitan. pria itu berjalan lurus sedangkan Nia belok ke arah kiri

“eh a, siapa namanya?” Nia menoleh ke arah belakang, pria itu baru beberapa langkah berjalan dan masih terlihat, kemudian menoleh ke arah Nia.

“Ade” pria itu menjawab singkat

“oh, makasih banyak a Ade” teriak Nia

“yooo”pria yang bernama Ade itu menjawab lalu berjalan lurus kembali menatap kea rah ia berjalan.

Nia sampai dirumah, mengucap salam dan masuk. Tadi kak Riva ga pegang handphone. Wajah Nia bengkak terlihat sisa menangis. Kemudian tak banyak bercerita dan langsung masuk ke kamar.

Setelah isya, pukul 20.00 Nia keluar memutuskan membelii flatshoes untuk dipakainya besok ke kampus karena sepatu yang Nia pakai selama orientasi kampus sudah kotor dan kucel. Biasanya flatshoes harganya tidak terlalu mahal. Kali ini Nia kembali berani jalan kaki menuju pasar yang hanya beberapa meter dari rumah, letaknya diseberang jalan gang. Area pasar itu luas sekali terletak disamping lapangan besar tempat olahraga dan sesekali dipakai menyelenggarakan acara musik. Area luar dan dalam dipenuhi pedagang, sepanjang jalan. Dingin, bising kendaraan, warna-warni lampu, lalu lalang orang. Nia berjalan memasukan kedua tangan kedalam saku jaketnya. Terdengar suara laki-laki memanggil Nia uhmm istilahnya cat calling, Nia mempercepat langkah. Baginya jam segitu belum terlalu malam, dan selama masih ditempat ramai maka ia merasa aman. Nia juga melihat laki laki dan perempuan duduk diatas trotoar menyender ke pagar seperti hilang kesadaran. Beragam orang disepanjang jalan area luar pasar. Nia masuk area dalam pasar, cepat-cepat mencari flatshoes yang cocok dengannya, setelah menemukan maka Nia langsung pulang ke rumah, masuk kedalam kamar.

Pukul 21.00 ternyata satu jam berlalu, Nia meletakan bantal dengan posisi berdiri ke tembok kemudian menyandarkan badannya. Mengingat kejadian beberapa jam tadi sejak Nia tersesat sampai bertemu pria itu. Mempertanyakan kenapa Nia begitu saja langsung percaya mau ikut dengan pria yang baru dikenalnya? bahkan tanpa menaruh rasa curiga. Nia baru menyadarinya. Kenapa Nia malah diam hanya mencari sendiri alamat tanpa bertanya pada orang lain yang ada apakah kenal keluarga Kak Ira? Kenapa Nia tidak tau malu menerima saja uang dari pria itu? Kenapa pria itu amat baik pada Nia? Kenapa pria itu juga ga terpikirkan kalau kalau Nia bisa aja seorang penipu yang pura-pura nyasar? Kenapa pria itu begitu peka berani bertanya kepada Nia? kenapa ? sedangkan orang lain tak memperhatikan

Padahal Nia selalu waspada terhadap orang yang baru dikenalnya, meskipun Nia sangat senang punya kenalan baru. Tetapi situasinya berbeda, ketika bersama pria itu Nia merasa aman dan dilindungi dan beranggapan bahwa pria itu memang niat tulus ingin membantu. Ternyata benar, pria itu amat baik. Nia hanya mengetahui namanya, mungkin rumah pria itu juga terletak di daerah sana.

Kenapa skenario Allah begitu tak terduga, baru saja Nia merasa kebingungan dan amat sedih sampai menangis, tetapi tiba-tiba ada seseorang yang menolongnya bahkan sampai memberikan apa yang Nia perlukan. Allah amat baik kepada Nia, mungkin memang jalan rezeki Nia. Tetap selamat meski malam hari tersesat juga mendapatkan uang 100 ribu yang Nia langsung belikan flatshoes seharga 35 ribu, sisanya Nia akan pakai untuk keperluannya. Nia pikir pria itu malaikat, haha saking baiknya. Nia akan selalu mendo’akan agar pria yang bernama Ade itu mendapatkan pahala atas kebaikan yang dia lakukan serta digantikkan dengan yang lebih untuk harta yang telah dia berikan. Mungkin saja memang rumah pria itu juga ada di gang yang sama. Entah bisa bertemu lagi atau tidak, Nia amat berterima kasih kepada pria itu.

Nia pun intropeksi diri untuk lain kali harus punya alamat yang lengkap bukan hanya daya ingat ketika pergi ke tempat baru, tidak pernah ada yang tahu niat seseorang menolong karena apa. Di situasi yang berbeda meningkatkan kewaspadaan dan tidak terlalu panik sampai tidak bisa memikirkan solusi bijak itu Nia perlu mempunyainya. bahkan kejadian itu membuat Nia melupakan kalimat yang disepakatinya “malu bertanya sesat dijalan.”

Nia tidak menyangka bahwa ia mendapat 100 ribu kedua yang tidak terduga dan tak akan pernah dilupakannya, setelah 100 ribu pertama Nia dapatkan dari dalam kacang tanah ketika Nia masih SD. Waktu itu Nia membeli jajanan kacang tanah seharga 500 rupiah, ketika dibuka ternyata salah satu kacang ada yang kulitnya dibalut perekat bening, memang kacang tanah itu tertulis bacaan berhadiah jika beruntung, Nia membukanya dan ternyata 100 ribu isinya, maka Nia dan mamahnya sujud syukur. Esoknya Nia pergi ke pasar membelikan baju muslim hitam putih seharga 65 ribu dari uang hadiah kemarin. Di pengajian Nia memang seragamnya hitam putih, dan Nia salah satu yang belum punya karena belum ada uang untuk membeli.

Sungguh maha kuasa Allah dan kasih sayangnya, jalannya amat tidak terduga, Allah sebaik-baiknya pemberi pertolongan, sebagai hamba maka berusaha, berdo’a dan berserah dirilah kepada-Nya.

Sekarang agustus 2020, sudah 4 tahun dan Nia masih mengingat pria baik itu, Nia hanya bertemu satu kali dimalam itu dan belum pernah melihatnya lagi, bahkan Nia sekarang lupa wajah pria itu. Tetapi Nia tak akan pernah melupakan kebaikannya, akan selalu mendoakannya. Dan mengikuti hal baik yang ditularkan pria itu kepada Nia. Menolong. Ya, selalu ada hal baru dari orang baru.

Aksaraya, agustus 2020

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491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. 1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrarese forces led by Gaston de Foix and Alfonso I d'Este win the Battle of Ravenna against the Papal-Spanish forces. 1544 – Italian War of 1542–46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory. 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain. 1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht. 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig 1809 – An incomplete British victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Basque Roads results in the court-martial of James, Lord Gambier. 1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time. 1856 – Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up. 1868 – Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. 1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized. 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women. 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched. 1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded. 1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan. 1935 – Stresa Front: opening of the conference between the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Pierre Laval to condemn the German violations of the Treaty of Versailles. 1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951 – Korean War: President Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan. 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey. 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. 1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule. 1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. 1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms. 1964 – Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected President by the National Congress. 1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people. 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1968 – Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement. 1970 – Apollo 13 is launched. 1976 – The Apple I is created. 1977 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched. 1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed. 1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. 1986 – FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed. 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. 1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. 1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. 2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released. 2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. 2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed. 2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium. 2007 – Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others. 2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others. 2012 – A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias. 2018 – An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.

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Director: Cara Stricker | Anonymous Content Creative Director: Kwasi Fordjour | Parkwood Entertainment Director of Photography: Ryan Marie Helfant | Gersh Featuring: Ashton D Sanders Choreographer: Nina Mcneely | Maavven Produced by: Jeff Kopchia | Freenjoy Produced by: Lauren baker | Parkwood Entertainment Executive Produced by: Nathan Scherrer Executive Produced by: Erinn Williams Colour: Sean Coleman | Company 3 Edit: Andrew Morrow | Cara Stricker | Andre Jones Music Producer: Chloe Bailey Sound Mixer: Eric Hoffman Music Supervisor: Teresa Labarera Production Design | Sonja Kroop Stylist: Zerina Akers Hair Stylist: Kim Mcallister Makeup Artist: Christina Cassell Glitter Artist: Hector Luna Makeup Artist Assistant: Jocelyn Molinaa 1st AD: William Lambe 2nd AD: Aida Lembo 2nd 2nd AD: Billy Dogers 1st AC: Kevin Anderson 2nd AC: Bram Weinkselbaum Camera Ultility: Darren Masters 2nd Unit Camera: Nia Phillips VTR/Playback: Georg Gomez Movi: Aaron Marquette Gaffer: Mike Misslin Best Boy: Tigran Aghasaryan Key Grip: Marlow Nunez Grip: Luis Santos | Dan Miller Audio Mixer: Joe Bartone VFX: Tony Hunter Rivas Anton Anderson Pierna Bustamante Matt Stroub Ross Vincent Techinal Editor: Alex Tedesco Title Design: Nigel Zeff

Featuring Branson Bailey Fulani Bahati Charles R Williams Lashae Zilmer Chris Bordenave Symone Farrar Farrah Saucett Nick & Navi Ashley Lee Edie Mathieu Walt Grizzly Sabrae Danielle Ali-Khan Lochin Julia Sklar Armand De La Torre Chandler Lafee

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VARRIC'S COMMENT ON ROOK'S BACKSTORY, EACH FACTION ft. MY ROOKS

#let the debauchery begin (and by debauchery i mean me giffing my ocs)#dragon age the veilguard #dragon age #datv #datv spoilers #rook #varric tethras #archer's gifs #archer's ocs #dinalen ingellvar #nia de riva #elgaris thorne #enasalin thorne #imli laidir #kost aldwir #asala mercar

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491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. 1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland. 1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna. 1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole. 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain. 1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht. 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig 1809 – Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom 1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time. 1856 – Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up. 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. 1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized. 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women. 1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated. 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, launches. 1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded. 1913 – The Nevill Ground's pavilion is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes. 1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded. 1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan. 1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea. 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey. 1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island takes place. 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. 1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule. 1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. 1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone. 1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people. 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1970 – Apollo 13 is launched. 1976 – The Apple I is created. 1977 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched. 1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed. 1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. 1986 – FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed. 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. 1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. 1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. 2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released. 2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. 2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed. 2004 – Ingoldmells bus crash: A double-decker bus collides with pedestrians in Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom. Five people are killed and six injured. 2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium. 2007 – Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others. 2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others. 2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1976 relating to Somalia is adopted. 2012 – A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.

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491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. 1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna. 1544 – Italian War of 1542–46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory. 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain. 1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht. 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig 1809 – An incomplete British victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Basque Roads results in the court-martial of James, Lord Gambier. 1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time. 1856 – Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up. 1868 – Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. 1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized. 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women. 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched. 1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded. 1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan. 1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea. 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey. 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. 1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule. 1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. 1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms. 1964 – Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected President by the National Congress. 1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people. 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1968 – Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement. 1970 – Apollo 13 is launched. 1976 – The Apple I is created. 1977 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched. 1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed. 1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. 1986 – FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed. 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. 1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. 1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. 2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released. 2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. 2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed. 2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium. 2007 – Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others. 2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others. 2012 – A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias. 2018 – An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.

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491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. 1034 – Emperor Romanos III Argyros is drowned in his bath on Empress Zoë's orders. 1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland. 1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna. 1544 – Italian War of 1542–46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory. 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain. 1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht. 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig 1809 – An incomplete British victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Basque Roads results in the court-martial of James, Lord Gambier. 1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time. 1856 – Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up. 1868 – Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. 1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized. 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women. 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, launches. 1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded. 1919 – The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea is established. 1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan. 1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea. 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey. 1954 – The Belgian general election occurred, replacing the Christian Social Party's majority government with a Socialist-Liberal coalition. 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. 1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule. 1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. 1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics. 1964 – Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected President by the National Congress. 1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people. 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1968 – Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement. 1970 – Apollo 13 is launched. 1976 – The Apple I is created.[citation needed] 1977 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched. 1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed. 1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. 1986 – FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed. 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. 1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. 1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. 2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released. 2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. 2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed. 2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium. 2007 – Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others. 2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others. 2012 – A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias. 2018 – An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.

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491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. 1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland. 1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna. 1544 – Italian War of 1542–46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory. 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain. 1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht. 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig 1809 – An incomplete British victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Basque Roads results in the court-martial of James, Lord Gambier. 1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time. 1856 – Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up. 1868 – Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. 1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized. 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women. 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, launches. 1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded. 1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan. 1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea. 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey. 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. 1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule. 1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. 1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics. 1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people. 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1968 – Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement. 1970 – Apollo 13 is launched. 1976 – The Apple I is created. 1977 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched. 1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed. 1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. 1986 – FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed. 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. 1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. 1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. 2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released. 2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. 2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed. 2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium. 2007 – Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others. 2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others. 2012 – A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.

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