#swamp hungary

[loving-n0t-heyting]

On Friday, Florida lawmakers passed a bill that would make it illegal for cities or counties to enforce the likes of mandated shade breaks or access to water on companies whose workers operate predominantly outside. If Republican governor Ron DeSantis signs it, the law — whose backers include the Florida Chamber of Commerce, the Florida Home Builders Association, and the National Utility Contractors Association — would also bar local governments from even asking companies with whom they contract about their heat-exposure standards.

“This is very much a people-centric bill,” remarked Esposito in response to concerns about its proposed elimination of local heat exposure ordinances. “And if you want to talk about health and wellness, and you want to talk about how we can make sure that all Floridians are healthy, you do that by making sure that they have a good job. And in order to provide good jobs, we need to not put businesses out of business.”

[yourbelgianthings]

aforementioned giant list of mountain goats songs for taz

sadly some characters i couldn’t find a song i thought fit for (i.e. angus) that doesn’t mean i don’t like them!!

Magnus- Against Pollution, Spent Gladiator 2, Training Montage, Billy the Kid’s Dream of Magic Shoes

Merle- Hebrews 11:40, Harlem Roulette, January 31 438, Noche Del Guajalote

Taako- Up the Wolves, Get Lonely, Get Famous

Barry- Blues in Dallas, Love Love Love

Johann- Your Belgian Things, Harlem Roulette

Lucretia- Old College Try, Heel Turn 2, Game Shows Touch Our Lives

Davenport- Idylls of the King, Maybe Sprout Wings

Hurley- Magpie, Love Love Love

Sloane- Dilaudid

Lucas- In Memory of Satan

Lup- Going Invisible 2

Taakitz- The Age of Kings, The Coroner’s Gambit

Blupjeans- Bluejays and Cardinals

Carey and Killian- Animal Mask, 1 Corinthians 13: 8-10

IPRE- High Hawk Season, Corsican Mastiff Stride, When A Powerful Animal Comes

Aubrey- There Will Be No Divorce, Dinu Lipatti’s Bones, Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1, Shadow Song, Song For An Old Friend

Duck- Midland, New Monster Avenue, In the Hidden Places, As Many Candles As Possible

Ned- Cotton, Wild Sage, Estate Sale Sign, Prowl Great Cain, The Mess Inside, Bleed Out, Going to Hungary

The Pine Guard- Fire Editorial

Pigeon- Jeff Davis County Blues

Mama- Midland, Bones Don’t Rust

Barclay- Color in Your Cheeks, If You See Light, Harbor Me

Minerva- The Young Thousands, Luna, Mobile, Clean Slate

Dani- Blueberry Frost

Keith- Alpha Rats Nest

Hollis- Alpha Rats Nest, Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1, Guys on Every Corner

Boyd- The House that Dripped Blood

Indrid- Alabama Nova

Thacker- Elijah, How to Embrace A Swamp Creature

Amber- The Recognition Scene, International Small Arms Traffic Blues, Oceanographer’s Choice, 1 John 4:16, Bones Don’t Rust, The Young Thousands, Family Happiness, Game Shows Touch Our Lives, Genesis 3:23

Devo- Cotton, Up the Wolves, Get Lonely, New Zion, Outer Scorpion Squadron, Hopeful Assassins of Zeno, Never Quite Free, Cry for Judas, Mark on You, Autoclave, Genesis 3:23

Zoox- Song for Lonely Giants, Incandescent Ruins, Autoclave

Oksana/Kodira- The Recognition Scene, Oceanographer’s Choice, Luna, Genesis 3:23

Orlean- Trick Mirror, New Zion, In Memory of Satan

The Curator- Deuteronomy 2:10

The Shoreside Community- Letter from Belgium, Going to Lebanon 2

The Coriolis Crew- Steal Smoked Fish

[mesetacadre]

Stalin’s radio speech seems to have reached all Europe on the day that it was delivered. In spite of German attempts to suppress it, it was posted and circulated in all the oppressed lands. Many letters of acknowledgment reached Moscow from Bulgaria. In Serbia and Croatia, the statement that the Red Army was fighting for all Europeans enslaved by fascism was especially stressed. The people of Carpathian Ukraine – the eastern tip of Czechoslovakia given by Hitler to Hungary – organized guerrillas, attacked the German airdromes on their territory and claimed to have destroyed 27 German planes, large quantities of gasoline, and many trains loaded with German troops. They sent a report about it to Moscow and added: “We consider our country as one of those territories referred to by Stalin as ‘temporarily occupied’.” How the people in Poland learned of the Soviet-Polish alliance signed in London is unknown. The German press did not mention it and death was the penalty for listening to a foreign broadcast. But the day after the agreement was signed, the body of a commander of a Nazi Storm detachment was found in the street in Lodz. On his chest a note was pinned by a dagger reading: “The Soviet-Polish Treaty has entered into force.” Long before any actual Polish battalions could be organized in the U.S.S.R. to fight at the front, guerrilla actions spread widely through Poland itself. Soviet planes are reported to be dropping ammunition to thousands of armed Polish soldiers who had been hiding in the forests and swamps for nearly two years. A manifesto from Poland smuggled to London disclosed that more than two thousand organized groups were carrying on active opposition to the Nazi war machine. Thirteen illegal Polish daily newspapers keep the population informed about their activities. Through these channels the appeal issued by the Moscow “Rally of Slav Peoples” was posted in Warsaw and Cracow and circulated throughout the villages only a few hours after it was made. This rally appealed for unity of all the Slav peoples against Hitler, a unity based on the equality of Slav nations and not on the old Pan-Slav concept of Russian dominance.

The Soviets Expected It, Anna Louise Strong, 1941

[just-1-scorpio]

It's my time to read into a line more then it probably means, and probably being wrong.

Spoiler warning for Echoes in the Mountain.

So in the last stage in Echoes in the Mountain, in Semmelweis's hallucination there is this line:

Basicly the doctor telling her that her ignoring her condition, and working as a field agent will lead to her doom.

But I have a theory, that this line has an another meaning.

In Hungarian mythology two brothers Hunor and Magor, were hunting, when they saw a deer. The deer was the Csodaszarvas, "Miraculous Stag" in English, in many depictions the Csodaszarvas depicted with white fur (Yes I'm awear that there are other depictions with defrent fur colour, but white as a fur colour apears often). The brothers wanted to chogh it, so they pursued it. They chased it into the swamps (swamps of Meotis), here the stag disappeared, the brothers tryd to find it, but they faild at it. But by exploring the swamps they found land suitable for living. Here they they foubded Hungary.

Yes this is a brief explonetion, but it's needed to understand my point.

So my theory is that the second meaning of the line is that, it posably can mean that by contenuing to work as a field agent, Semmelweis might posibly find something (posably Lorelei's help).

An another thing that might support this theory is that Semmelweis probably was named after Semmelweis Ignác, who was Hungarian, so she is posably Hungarian, or partialy Hungarian.

Or I'm just reading into this line to much, or just overthinking it.

Sorry for the bad English.

[izzyliker]

let me recommend a different less tumblr famous the mountain goats song to you based on your fav song from tallahassee

01 tallahassee

* there will be no divorce (x)

* then the letting go (x)

* going to queens (x)

* going to port washington (x)

02 first few desperate hours

* damn these vampires (x)

* you or your memory (x)

* cry for judas (x)

* pale green things (x)

* going to scotland (x)

* tahitian ambrosia maker (x)

* aulon raid (x)

* birth of serpents (x)

03 southwood plantation road

* going to kansas (x)

* orange ball of love (x)

* dance music (x)

* alpha incipiens (x)

04 game shows touch our lives

* fault lines (x)

* the mess inside (x)

* riches and wonders (x)

* minnesota (x)

* baboon (x)

* mark on you (x)



05 the house that dripped blood

* new chevrolet in flames (x)

* twin human highway flares (x)

* onions (x)

* broom people (x)

* hast thou considered the tetrapod (x)

* the autopsy garland (x)

06 idylls of the king

* sax rohmer #1 (x)

* training montage (x)

* against pollution (x)

* how to embrace a swamp creature (x)

07 no children

* going to georgia (x)

* family happiness (x)

08 see america right

* dilaudid (x)

* going to hungary (x)

* alpha omega (x)

* going to maine (x)

09 peacocks

* wild sage (x)

* deianara crush (x)

* sept 16 triple x love! love! (x)

* the last place i saw you alive (x)

* beautiful gas mask (x)

10 international small arms traffic blues

* your belgian things (x)

* flashing lights (x)

* love love love (x)

* snow crush killing song (x)

* chinese rifle song (x)

11 have to explode

* orange ball of pain (x)

* downtown seoul (x)

* omega blaster (x)

* seeing daylight (x)

12 old college try

* up the wolves (x)

* in the craters on the moon (x)

* standard bitter love song #8 (x)

* waving at you (x)

* going to maryland (x)

* jenny (x)

* chinese house flowers (x)

13 oceanographers choice

* psalms 40:2 (x)

* alpha desperation march (x)

* resonant bell world (x)

14 alpha rats nest

* standard bitter love song #7 (x)

* insurance fraud #2 (x)

[ropuszysko]

Just yesterday I remembered that Huntik was a thing™ and I also remember how absolutely *obsessed* my little tween/kid self was with the series. To find that there's still an active (if comically small) fandom for this obscure series that has one of THE MOST BANGER INTROS EVER MADE NO CAP is a delight.

Especially because everyone seems to be from different countries like, yeah that's the resident polish person, that's the one native english speaker etc etc

This does lowkey feel like the collective hallucinations of a bunch of strangers ngl lol

Possibly thinking about rewatching the series 🤔

But absolutely *not* the English dub because from what I'd seen my country's one is so much better.

Oh right, greetings from Hungary 👋

Sorry for the ramble, I just wanted to hit up someone else who knows what the hell Huntik is/was

uhuhuhu, welcome to the fandom (its me and like. 15 other people. but we're here xD)

english dub isnt the worst out there, but i've never heard the hungarian one, so maybe it is in fact better

either way have fun and let us drag you into our swamp

(theres also only a HALF-dead discord server, where i think @twitchystitchwitch is an admin, so you can talk to them)

[darkmaga-retard]

Ben Bartee

Sep 12, 2024

“Get on the bus, Mohammed, sweetie. We’re taking you West to New Eden for 72 Belgian virgins. Greet your gracious new hosts and their children with your scimitar.”

If Brussels wants Diversity™, Fidesz is going to give it to them good and hard.

Of course, swamping EU headquarters with “migrants” isn’t any kind of meaningful solution to the hostile takeover of the West by its civilizational enemies, but menacing it with marauding vans of hostile foreigners does paint a poignant visual that in no uncertain terms exposes the deep hypocrisy of the social engineers — who champion Diversity™ on one hand and on the other want them as far away from their own backyard as possible.  

“Don’t shit where you sleep, boy-o,” my Midwestern Irish-Catholic grandmammy used to say as she fingered her rosary beads and worked on her crossword puzzle in the Topeka Capital-Journal. 

Via Remix News (emphasis added):

“Hungary has upped the ante in the migration debate with Brussels by presenting the buses it can use to send migrants to the EU capital, with a Hungarian politician repeating the threat on Monday after Belgium said it would reject the buses.

[mariacallous]

Northern Russia must have felt bitterly cold to U.S. soldiers, even though nearly all were from Michigan. On Sept. 4, 1918, 4,800 U.S. troops landed in Arkhangelsk, Russia, only 140 miles from the Arctic Circle. Three weeks later, they were plunged into battle against the Red Army among towering pine forests and subarctic swamps, alongside the British and French. Ultimately, 244 U.S. soldiers died from the fighting over two years. Diaries of U.S. troops paint a harrowing picture of first contact:

We run into a nest of machine-guns, we retire. [Bolsheviks] still shelling heavily. Perry and Adamson of my squad wounded, bullet clips my shoulder on both sides. … Am terribly tired, hungry and all in, so are the rest of the boys. Casualties in this attack 4 killed and 10 wounded.

These unlucky souls represented just one prong of the sprawling and ill-fated Allied intervention in the Russian civil war. From 1918 to 1920, the United States, Britain, France, and Japan sent thousands of troops from the Baltics to northern Russia to Siberia to Crimea—and millions of dollars in aid and military supplies to the anti-communist White Russians—in an abortive attempt to strangle Bolshevism in its crib. It’s one of the most complicated and oft-forgot foreign-policy failures of the 20th century, captivatingly retold in technicolor detail by Anna Reid in her new book, A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention Into the Russian Civil War.

The specifics of the conflict, which Reid brilliantly weaves alongside personal diaries from the participants, often feel otherworldly. Japanese troops occupied Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East. The mercurial French—at first the most hawkishly pro-intervention out of all the Allies—led the occupation of southern Ukraine, tussling with the Reds over cities now familiar to readers: Mykolaiv, Kherson, Sevastopol, Odessa. The British—who invested the most in the intervention, including 60,000 troops—were crawling all over Russia’s fringes: defending Baku from the oncoming Turks, conducting naval sabotage against the Bolsheviks in the Baltics, and ultimately evacuating the Whites from Black Sea ports as they crumbled in the face of a Red Army onslaught.

The disturbing question hanging over Reid’s excellent book is whether the West is doomed to repeat history. The intervention failed, and if you squint hard enough, today’s intervention in Ukraine may appear similarly futile in the face of a vast and determined Russia with a seemingly endless well of materiel, manpower, and political will. It’s what the far-right flank of Republicans in Congress, Viktor Orban in Hungary, and former U.S. President Donald Trump would lead you to believe. A sense of hopelessness articulated by Edmund Ironside, the British commander of Allied forces in northern Russia during the intervention: “Russia is so enormous that it gives one a feeling of smothering.”

But despite the strong historical echoes, the differences between the two interventions are more instructive than their similarities. A close study poses perhaps an even bigger question: What conditions make for a successful foreign intervention? Yes, the Allies bungled things, but in fairness, they mostly failed because of what was out of their control, rather than what was in it. The most limiting factor was their feckless (and noxious) White Russian allies, a disparate group of anti-Bolshevik socialists and incompetent former Tsarist officers who were Great Russian autocrats at heart. They had the buy-in of neither the Russian population nor, critically, Tsarist Russia’s tapestry of ethnic minorities—from Ukrainians to Balts—whom they sought to restore under Russia’s heel.

The circumstances today are much more favorable. The United States and Europe have a unified and determined partner in Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukraine, in a struggle with blinding moral clarity. Russia’s economy may be on wartime footing, but collectively the West has significantly more resources at hand. And the task—defending a motivated Ukraine against a hostile invasion—is much less ambitious than trying to topple the government of the largest country in the world. A sober comparison of the two interventions should, in fact, fortify Western resolve that it can see Ukraine through—as long as its own political will, waning now as it did in Western capitals then, doesn’t get in the way.

The critical ingredients of any foreign intervention are clear and achievable objectives, reliable allies on the ground, an assailable adversary, material means, and the political will to finish the job. On nearly every measure, the Allied intervention in Russia was fatally lacking.

Perhaps most striking about Reid’s narrative is that it’s often unclear what exactly the Allied troops were meant to do in Russia. Yes, all Western governments loathed Bolshevism and feared its expansionist and infectious potential. But beyond that, there was little in the way of shared strategy or purpose. In fact, Western troops were initially sent to guard railways and Allied military stores in northern and eastern Russia that they feared would reach German hands. But this was slightly complicated after Germany surrendered in November 1918. As George F. Kennan put it in his masterful volume The Decision to Intervene, the “American forces had scarcely arrived in Russia when history invalidated at a single stroke almost every reason Washington had conceived for their being there.”

Zealous British officers on the ground—egged on by hawkish ministers at home such as War Secretary Winston Churchill, who nearly depleted his own political capital advocating for the quixotic Russian adventure—soon took the initiative to actively intervene and fight the Reds. In other arenas, including southern Ukraine, the mission was clearer in support of the local White forces—though France quickly lost heart and sailed home in April 1919 after it suffered a series of setbacks and mutinies.

Encapsulating this ambiguity were instructions for the U.S. military intervention written personally in a July 1918 memo by President Woodrow Wilson, who was characteristically tortured by the decision and “sweating blood over what is right and feasible to do in Russia.” He opened the memo by warning that military intervention would “add to the present sad confusion in Russia rather than cure it”—yet then committed U.S. troops to aid the Czech Legion operating in Siberia and to northern Russia to “make it safe for Russian bodies to come together in organized bodies in the north.” Hardly clarifying stuff.

U.S. officers took these instructions quizzically. Gen. William Graves, in charge of the 8,000 doughboys in Siberia, was decidedly skeptical about the United States playing a role in the conflict and interpreted Wilson’s instructions as permitting him only to guard railways, not fight the Reds. He later wrote in his memoirs that he had no idea what Washington was trying to achieve. This was all to the chagrin of his more pro-interventionist British colleagues in Siberia, who instead proactively aided the Whites’ monstrously incompetent “supreme ruler,” Adm. Alexander Kolchak, a former head of the Russian Black Sea Fleet who incongruously found himself fighting deep in landlocked Siberia. (He was also, incidentally, a dead ringer for current Russian President Vladimir Putin.)

Which brings us to the White Russians. Perhaps the sine qua non of any foreign intervention, especially one as ambitious as the Western intervention in both Ukraine and in the Russian civil war, are allies on the ground. It’s the difference between the chaos that followed Western intervention in Libya and the successful intervention in the Balkans. On this score, the Whites failed miserably.

It’s hard to know where to begin. Beyond Kolchak, there was the overmatched Gen. Anton Denikin leading White forces in southern Russia, who dissembled to Allied governments about the horrific pogroms against the Jewish population of Ukraine perpetrated by Whites under his watch. And beyond operating across an impossibly large and disconnected front covering the entire periphery of Russia—a country of 11 time zones—the different White factions acted essentially as warlords, with little loyalty or coordination among them.

Just as fatal to the Whites was a conspicuous vacancy: any coherent or compelling ideology. Antony Beevor, in his fabulous new history of the Russian civil war, pins the White loss on both their lack of political program and fractious nature: “In Russia, an utterly incompatible alliance of Socialist Revolutionaries and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against a single-minded Communist dictatorship.”

Contrast all this with the Reds. They controlled the industrial heartland of Moscow and St. Petersburg, operating from the inward out with stronger interior lines of communication. It allowed Commissar Leon Trotsky—who, Reid notes, “blossom[ed] into a war leader of near-genius: shrewd, decisive and boundlessly energetic”—to hop on his armored train to shore up flagging fronts as the Whites advanced from the east and south. The Bolsheviks—though enacting ruinous economic policies and initiating the first waves of terror at home—were motivated and possessed a clear ideology that held, at least at that juncture, some appeal to the local population.

And, fundamentally, their will was much stronger than the Whites’ or the West’s. After the devastation of World War I, Allied governments feared the spread of Bolshevism but couldn’t bring their exhausted publics along with them. Here, the historical echoes are most troubling. Public support understandably flagged, and budgetary pressures mounted. As Britain’s Daily Express put it in 1919, in echoes of today’s Republican rhetoric in the United States: “Great Britain is already the policeman of half the world. It will not and cannot be the policeman of all Europe. … The frozen plains of Eastern Europe are not worth the bones of a single British grenadier.” Rolling White setbacks in Siberia and southern Russia were the nail in the coffin. Then, as now in Ukraine, foreign political support for intervention depended most on the sense of momentum on the battlefield.

The job of foreign-policy makers is to distinguish between what is in versus out of their control. To the degree that they intuit favorable conditions—allies, geography, the enemy’s vulnerability—then the task is to focus on and optimize the things they can manage: strategy and objectives, mobilizing political will, providing the materiel to support the effort, and coordinating with allies.

Despite the current pall of pessimism pervading Western capitals, today’s war in Ukraine presents some of the more propitious circumstances a policymaker could hope for—unlike those faced by the Allies during the Russian civil war. Ukraine is a worthy and competent ally, fighting to defend its territory with a highly motivated population behind it. The Ukrainian cause is a righteous one, with a Manichean quality to it easily explained to Western publics. While Putin’s personal will to win is strong, it’s clear by his actions and hesitancy to fully mobilize Russian society that he senses a ceiling on what he can ask from his population. Though Russia’s manpower and materiel are larger than Ukraine’s, the amount needed to keep Ukraine armed and in the fight is completely manageable. A $60 billion aid supplement from the United States—currently held up by far-right Republicans in the House of Representatives—is a pittance compared with the returns: holding the line on international norms; standing up for the Ukrainians and, in doing so, Western values; bogging down Russia in a strategic sinkhole and reducing its capacity to threaten the rest of NATO’s eastern flank; and fortifying the trans-Atlantic alliance. Today, Western capitals are much more united than they were in 1918, and defense coordination among them is strong. Though they can sharpen the shared sense of an endgame in Ukraine, everybody knows that the conflict will end in some sort of negotiated settlement—the questions will be on whose terms.

If the United States and its allies can avoid the pitfalls of the Western intervention in the Russian civil war—developing a clear long-term strategy, continuing to coordinate closely, and reinforcing domestic support by making the case to their own populations—then they have a real shot of prevailing over Putin. Given the auspicious conditions, the main, perhaps only obstacle to long-term success is the political will to see the job through.

[jarellquansah]

hiya ❤️

15, 17, 30 for the ask game if you like 😊

hi lacey <333

15. what do you think of when you hear the word “home”?

lake balaton <3 i've lived near it my entire life, unfortunately i cannot imagine living anywhere else at this stage of my life even though it comes with The Horrors (=being in hungary)

17. name 3 things that make you happy

friends and family; liverpool fc; good music <3

30. what’s one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier?

i've been super stressed and swamped with uni work lately so even having a little bit of time to myself watching the footy in the evening or calling my friends for a quick chat makes me happy 💔 but we'll persevere xx

[nanshe-of-nina]

Favorite History Books || The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary by Pál Engel ★★★★☆

This book was written for the non-Hungarian reader who wishes to discover what happened in the Carpathian basin during the Middle Ages. It is to be hoped that nobody living in that region who has strong national feelings will find comfort in it. Each of the nations of the region has its own vision of the past, incompatible with that of the others, and it was my firm intention that none of these visions should be represented in this volume. ...

Hungary is now one of the smallest countries of Europe. This book, however, is concerned with the medieval period, and here the name ‘Hungary’ will refer to the former kingdom of Hungary, which (even without the kingdom of Croatia which was once united with it) was more than three times larger than the present-day republic, and also somewhat larger than the combined area of Great Britain and Ireland. It extended over the whole of the Carpathian basin, including not only present-day Slovakia, but also considerable parts of Romania, Ukraine, Austria, Yugoslavia and Croatia. Although the kingdom of Hungary ceased to exist as an independent country at the end of the Middle Ages, politically it survived as an autonomous part of the Habsburg Empire until the end of the First World War in 1918.

The medieval kingdom of Hungary was born in a geographically well-defined region that is usually called the Carpathian basin. This is the drainage-area of the middle Danube valley, and is named after those mountain ranges with 2000 metre peaks that border it to the north, the east and the south. It is divided by the Danube into two parts of unequal proportions, and its centre is surrounded by mountain ranges of medium height. The region to the west of the Danube has been called Transdanubia since the period of the Ottoman occupation when the capital of the country was temporarily moved from Buda to Pressburg, on the northern bank of the river. The climate here is predominantly temperate, with a relatively heavy rainfall. This is a fertile landscape with hills of modest elevation interrupted by valleys and basins, and with the Balaton, the largest warm-water lake in Europe, at its heart. There are also mountain ranges – the Mecsek in the south-east, the Bakony and the Vértes north of the Balaton – but none rises higher than 600 metres. The landscape east of the Danube is profoundly different. The Great Hungarian Plain, which stretches without a single hill from Budapest to Oradea in the east and Belgrade in the south, can be regarded as a kind of appendix to the Eurasian steppe. The climate is rather more extreme here, with hot, dry summers, but the region is abundantly supplied with water by its main river, the Tisza, and its tributaries, which, before the nineteenth-century regulation works, meandered across the Great Plain. These rivers were flanked by marshlands, swamps and inundation forests, and also by fertile pastures and meadows, offering favourable conditions for fishing and livestock breeding. To the north, east and south-east of the Great Plain, in present-day Slovakia and Romania, there are mountain ranges that become progressively higher as one travels outwards from the Plain. They were formerly extremely rich in minerals; but, with the exception of the valleys, they have never been propitious to human settlement. Consequently, until the late Middle Ages these mountains were covered by forests and largely uninhabited, and colonization of them continued into the early modern period.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

They are going to scrap the free expression clause for parts and tell you it’s to fight censorship

I have surely mentioned the impression it made on me to see Hungarian nationalists extolling the orban govt while decrying social media cancel culture as “orwellian”

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 5.21

Holidays

Afro-Colombian Day (Colombia)

Agricultural Fair Day

Anti-Terrorism Day (India)

Battle of Iquique Anniversary Day (Chile)

Capitol Build Day (New York)

Circassian Day of Mourning

Daylilly Day (French Republic)

Day of Patriots and Military (Hungary)

Emergency Medical Services Day

EMS Health, Wellness & Resilience Day

End of the World Day

Feast of the Triple Scoop

521 Day

Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Hug Your Interior Designer Day

Hummel Day (a.k.a. Sister Maria Hummel Day)

"I Need A Patch For That" Day

International Day of Statistical Literacy

Journée Nationale des Patriotes (National Patriots' Day; Quebec)

Keanu Reeves Day

Lilies and Roses Day (UK)

National American Red Cross Founder’s Day

National Mamey Day

National Memo Day

National Talk Like Yoda Day

Natura 2000 Day (EU)

Navy Day (Chile)

Passion Play Day (Germany)

Pogo Stick Day

Polar Explorer’s Day (Russia)

Purple Star of Jerusalem Day (a.k.a. Jack-Go-To-Bed-At-Noon)

Rapture Party Day (2011 prediction by Harold Camping)

Recommerce Day

Red Cross Day

Saint Helena Day (Saint Helena)

Sanja Matsuri begins (Tokyo, Japan)

Send a Letter Day

Slap a Patch On It Day

United States Cyber Command Day

World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (UN)

World Fish Migration Day

World Meditation Day (UK)

World Tree Kangaroo Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Tea Day [also 12.15]

International Tennessee Whiskey Day

National Mourvèdre Day

National Waitstaff Day (a.k.a. Waiters and Waitresses Day)

Strawberries and Cream Day

World Chardonnay Day

Independence & Related Days

Malabon (City Founded; Philippines)

Montenegro (from Serbia, 2006)

New Zealand (Proclaimed a British Colony; 1840)

Southwest Vineland (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

Valentia Riqueza and Grandeza (a.k.a. ValeVRG; Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

3rd Tuesday in May

International Dinosaur Day [3rd Tuesday; also 6.1]

National Stop Nausea Day [3rd Tuesday]

Sex Differences in Health Awareness Day [3rd Tuesday]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Festivals Beginning May 21, 2024

The Batch Festival (Bath, UK) [thru 5.26]

Sommeliers Choice Awards (Chicago, Illinois)

Feast Days

Adílio Daronch and Manuel Gómez González (Christian; Saint)

Agonalia (Ancient Rome) [also 1.9 & 12.11]

Albrecht Dürer (Artology)

Alexander Pope (Writerism)

Anastenaria (Fire-Walking Ritual; Ancient Greece)

Andrew Bobola (Christian; Martyr)

Arcangelo Tadini (Christian; Saint)

Chen Dayu (Artology)

Christopher Magallanes, and other Saints of the Cristero War (Christian; Saint)

Day of the Twins: Beginning of Gemini (Astrology/Pagan)

Édouard-Henri Avril (Artology)

Emperor Constantine I (Christian; Saint)

Eugène de Mazenod (Christian; Saint)

Felix of Cantalicio (Christian; Saint)

Festival for Vevodus (God of the Dead, Swamps & Volvanic Movements; Ancient Rome)

Festival of Demeter (Greek Barley Mother Goddess)

Festival of Vejovis (Roman God of Healing)

42 Day (Pastafarian)

Franz Jägerstätter (Christian; Saint)

Free Money Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Godrick of Finkley (Christian; Saint)

Green Four-Net (Muppetism)

Harold Robbins (Writerism)

Helena of Constantinople (a.k.a. "Feast of the Holy Great Sovereigns Constantine and Helen, Equal-to-the-Apostles,” Eastern Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion)

Henri Rousseau (Artology)

Hospitius (Christian; Saint)

John Elliot (Episcopal Church)

Nestinarstvo (Fire-Walking Ritual; Ancient Bulgaria)

Nost-na-Lothion (Elven feast for the birth of flowers; Lord of the Rings)

Ponder Pointlessness Day (Pastafarian)

Rudolf Koller (Artology)

Saint Camping’s Day (Discordian)

St. Luke (Positivist; Saint)

Theophilus of Corte (Christian; Saint)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown]

Pesach Sheni (2nd Passover) [13-14 Iyar]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 24 of 60)

Premieres

Agents of Fortune, by Blue Oyster Cult (Album; 1976)

Alison, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1977)

Annie (Film; 1982)

The Conquest of Everest, by John Hurt (Memoir; 1954)

Curtain Razor (WB LT Cartoon; 1949)

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (Film; 1982)

The Deep Blue Good-By, by John D. MacDonald (Novel; 1964)

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Silent Film; 1908)

The Egg Hunt (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1940)

The Foxy Pup (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1937)

Gimme All Your Lovin’, by ZZ Top (Music Video; 1983)

Godzilla vs. Kong (Film; 2021)

Gypsy (Broadway Musical; 1959)

Hassle in a Castle (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1966)

Hot Shots! Part Deux (Film; 1993)

Injun Trouble (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories, by Ray Bradbury (Short Stories; 1969)

Lunch Poems, by Frank O'Hara (Poetry; 1963)

Mad Max 2 (Film; 1982)

Mask of Orpheus, by Harrison Birtwistle (Opera; 1986)

Maybellene, recorded by Chuck Berry (Song; 1955)

McCartney II, by Paul McCartney (Album; 1980)

Mouse for Sale (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1955)

Naked Came the Stranger (Adult Film; 1975)

Notting Hill (Film; 1999)

Ohio, by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Song; 1970)

The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty (Novella; 1972)

Pagliacci, by Ruggero Leoncavallo (Opera; 1892)

Past Perfumance (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be, sung by Doris Day (Song; 1956)

The Real World (TV Series; 1992)

The Return of the Pink Panther (Film; 1975)

The Rhinemann Exchange, by Robert Ludlum (Novel; 1974)

Riptide, by Vance Joy (Song; 2013)

The Road Warrior (Film; 1982)

The Secret of the Hittites, by C.W. Ceram (History Book; 1956)

Shrek Forever After (Animated Film; 2010)

Snow Excuse (WB MM Cartoon; 1966)

Sour, by Olivia Rodrigo (Album; 2021)

Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (UK Film; 1980)

Terminator Salvation (Film; 2009)

Touch of Evil (Film; 1958)

Twin Peaks: The Return (TV Series; 2017)

The Twisker Pitcher (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1937)

Under the Boardwalk, recorded by The Drifters (Song; 1964)

What’s Going On, by Marvin Gaye (Album; 1971)

Today’s Name Days

Christoph, Constantin, Josef, Julio (Austria)

Elena, Konstantin, Kosta, Kostadin, Kostadinka, Lenko, Stoyan (Bulgaria)

Dubravka, Eugen, Kristofor (Croatia)

Monika (Czech Republic)

Helene (Denmark)

Kindel, Konstantin, Kostel, Tiino (Estonia)

Konsta, Konstantin, Kosti (Finland)

Constantin (France)

Hermann, Konst, Wiltrud (Germany)

Constantine, Constantina, Elena, Elene, Eleni, Helen, Konstantina, Konstantinos, Lena, Nantia (Greece)

Konstantin (Hungary)

Angelo, Giulia, Vittorio (Italy)

Ernestine, Ingmārs, Vinija (Latvia)

Vaidivutis, Valentas, Vydmina (Lithuania)

Eli, Ellen, Helene (Norway)

Donat, Donata, Jan, Kryspin, Przecława, Pudens, Tymoteusz, Walenty, Wiktor, Wiktoriusz (Poland)

Constantin, Elena (România)

Zina (Slovakia)

Cristóbal, Virginia (Spain)

Conny, Konstantin (Sweden)

Constance, Constantine, Helen (Ukraine)

Adelric, Adiel, Audric, Keaton, Kendrick (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 142 of 2024; 224 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 21 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ji-Si), Day 14 (Yi-You)

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

Hebrew: 13 Iyar 5784

Islamic: 13 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 22 Magenta; Oneday [22 of 30]

Julian: 8 May 2024

Moon: 96%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 1 St. Paul (6th Month) [St. Luke]

Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 64 of 92)

Week: 3rd Full Week of May

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 1 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Gemini (The Twins) begins [Zodiac Sign 3; thru 6.21]

Saint Paul (Catholicism) [Month 6 of 13; Positivist]

[workersolidarity]

🇵🇱 🇺🇦 Poland Announces it Will No Longer Send Weapons to Ukraine Amid Grain Imports Row

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has announced that Poland will no longer be sending weapons to Ukraine after a diplomatic spat over Ukrainian Grain imports led Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to criticize Poland and other European Countries banning Ukrainian Grain at the UN General Assembly.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday night on Polsat News, "We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine, because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons."

The dispute over Grain Imports began when the Russo-Ukraine War began and Russian Forces cut off Ukrainian Grain exports through the Black Sea. This led to huge quantities of cheap Ukrainian Grain swamping Central European Markets as grain now came over land borders.

In response to growing concerns from member countries, the EU decided to ban Ukrainian Grain imports into five member States: Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. When the ban ended on Sept 15th, the EU chose not to renew the ban. However, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland have maintained the ban despite the European Commission warning Member States that trade policy cannot be conducted by individual members. However, so far the three EU countries have refused to end the ban.

In response to the ban, Ukraine has filed a World Trade Organization complaint against Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.

"It is crucially important for us to prove that individual member states cannot ban imports of Ukrainian goods" said Ukrainian Economy Minister, Yulia Svyrydenko.

Poland has responded by stating it will not be ending the ban on Ukrainian Grain and stating that "a complaint before the WTO doesn't impress us."

French Foreign Minister Catherina Colonna claimed on Wednesday that Ukrainian Grain imports would not cripple European Farmers.

Despite the active ban on Ukrainian Grain, product is still being shipped through the three countries on its way to other member States.

Up until now, Poland has been one of Ukraine's strongest backers, having already sent Ukrainian Forces 320 Soviet-era MBTs, as well as 14 MiG-29 Fighter Jets, but Polish authorities have now said that Poland has nothing left to send.

Poland has sent over $3.3 Billion in Military Aid to Ukraine since the SMO began in February 2022.

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Books of 2023

Book 36 of 2023

Title: Alone in the Valley: A Soldier's Journey in the Vietnam War Authors: George R. Lanigan ISBN: 9781518825378 Tags: AUS ADF AA Australian Army, AUS ADF AA SAS Special Air Service (ASAS), AUS ADF Australian Defence Force, AUS Australia, B-52 Stratofortress, Bolivia, Buddhism (Religion), C-119 Flying Box Car, C-123 Provider, Catholic, Che Guevara, Cold War (1946-1991), HUN Hungarian Revolution of 1956, HUN Hungary, KHM Cambodia, KHM Cambodian Army (Vietnam War), KHM Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975), KHM Dr Son Ngoc Thanh, KHM FANK Khmer Army / Forces Armees Nationals Khmeres (1970-1975) (Cambodian Civil War), KHM General Lon Nol, KHM Khmer Rouge, KHM Khmer Serei (Cambodia Civil War), KHM Prince Norodom Sihanouk, M-113 APC, Medevac helicopter, Nungs, OV-10 Bronco, PAN Chagres River, PAN Colon, PAN Panama, PAN USA Fort Sherman, PAN USA Fort Sherman - Jungle Operations Training Center, PAN USAF Howard Air Force Base, POW, Rangers, SpecOps, Tamara Bunker Bider (East German Guerilla/KGB), U-10 Helio Courier, US AK Alaska, US AK ALCAN highway, US AK Delta Junction, US AK Gulkana Glacier, US CIA Central Intelligence Agency, US George Peppard (Actor), US Lodge Act, US Martha Raye (Actress), US Medal Of Honor, US OH Kent State University, US OH Kent State University Shootings (1970) (Vietnam War), US OH Ohio, US President Richard M. 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Description: In 1968, George Lanigan leaves the University of Maryland and sets off on the journey of his life. He volunteers to serve his country in the Vietnam War and enlists in the army where he becomes an elite Special Forces advisor in a top-secret program. The United States is clandestinely training the Cambodian Army, Forces Armees Nationales Khmeres, and Lanigan is at the heart of the mission. In this personal memoir, LTC George R. Lanigan, USA (Retired), adapts his forty-year-old letters and correspondence to his parents into an emotionally compelling and suspenseful narrative that relates his daily life of survival and political tension. It's an inside, firsthand look at a rare, and previously classified, Vietnam War experience. But its scope reaches beyond the war itself and illuminates the realities soldiers face returning home, building a life, and even visiting war zones four decades later. Its openness and honesty will resonate with war veterans, their friends and family members, those suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, and people of all ages who are interested in American history. Readers will learn about war life, a volatile political environment, and how personal experiences weave together to create the person one eventually becomes.

[jadetuin]

Urban fantasy whatever thing that I'm writing is mostly in my head. It's so fun to write about bureaucracy and murder and fake political dilemmas and wizards just summoning shit in the middle of state legislature meanings to prove a point bc it's NOT illegal. And also about hereditary burdens and estranged families and love between siblings who only have each other left and finding your own family that doesn't have any blood ties to you in the end and also consists of 4 people "parenting" 1 child (who is 19). And also about an illustrious magical tradition going back thousands of years and a weird cult that's based around knightly ideals of chivalry and about the Louisiana swamp magicians and the one orb in Hungary that causes earthquakes if you drop it too hard. I love stories

[budapestbug]

Indulge yourself in north-east Hungary’s nature-carved cave bath. Miskolctapolca is a resort with a special microclimate in the southern part of Miskolc, offering a chance to recharge your batteries, with a boating lake and healing thermal water welling up from the depths of the mountain. The water carved out the cave system – now transformed into a bath – from the hard limestone over millennia. The pools inside the caves are perfect for relaxing all year round. In fact, thanks to the warm karst water from the depths of the mountain, winter bathing may be even more refreshing. This is your chance to take part in an experience normally reserved for trained cavers when they discover a cave – but they have to wear protective gear while they do so. The cave pools have been formed in natural passages and halls, with underwater jets at the bottom to massage guests. A little further away, moving against, or possibly riding the current of an “underground river” moved by a hidden structure, you can get to the swimming pool of the oldest excavated, most beautiful cave section. Swimming in passages that are hundreds of thousands of years old, a pleasant tingling feeling pervades your body, as the wild water currents under the surface gently caress you. From here you reach the Star Hall, where it feels as though you’re swimming under the starry sky. You’ll enter a meditative state, while listening to the mysterious echo of the Star Hall, or simply admiring the special shapes of this rare natural phenomenon. By the way, this thermal water is less dense than other healing waters, which is why many prefer it: you can stay in this water as long as you like and try the magnificent kneading and other water attractions. This also allows children to paddle along with their parents all day. So it makes no difference whether you’ve come to rejuvenate or revitalise, for preventive or healing purposes or to play together: everything is possible here. The 30°C water and the climate of the cave both have a healing effect and are particularly recommended for degenerative joint diseases. Rheumatic and musculoskeletal problems are treated in a pleasant environment and a familiar atmosphere. Balneo- and aqua-therapy are a long-standing tradition here. In addition to healing and thermal pools, visitors looking for more of a sense of freedom can choose from several outdoor pools. The cave is a masterpiece of nature, but the lake pools and the gracefully elegant shell roof leaning over it are a tribute to human creativity. One of the most relaxing place in Hungary But you’ll also find a children’s pool, a lake spa experience, a swimming pool and a sauna park. In the latter, guests looking to relax, refresh and detoxify have a choice of three lava-stone Finnish saunas, three infrared saunas and a steam cabin. After the sauna, you can cool off in the 16‑18°C plunge pool. The ruins of the Benedictine monastery built in the 13th century are visible at the entrance to the Cave Bath. Monks lived here from the second half of the 14th until the beginning of the 16th century. The abbey suffered several attacks over the years, until finally members of the order fled. The abandoned buildings were destroyed, after which the area became a swamp. In 1711, the abbot of Tapolca had doctors brought from Košice to prove the healing effect of the water and the area. The description of the wooden bath building dates back to 1743, so the bath was definitely completed by then, but Miskolctapolca only truly became a resort area in the 1920s and 30s. As you can see, neither winter nor summer exist at the Cave Bath. Spring rules eternal in the cave passages, whether it’s sweltering hot or bitterly cold outside. The exciting Avalon Park Avalon Park, including the Maya Play Park, as well as an electric go-kart track offer high-standard entertainment in the region. An assortment of safe equipment for agility, climbing and jumping, as well as slides, ensure that kids of all ages will have fun at the play park. Entering the play park, children forget about time altogether and become completely engrossed in playing. For young adults, the tree-lined electric go-kart track at the HELL Kart & Event Centre offers a suitable programme with ferocious speeds for technical sports enthusiasts. If, however, you’re obsessed with active leisure, choose the tracks of the nearby adventure park, where you can test your skills on a blue, a red and a black route. Come and dip into the experiences available at the Miskolctapolca Cave Bath.