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^ the most important website

((in slovene si means ‘you are’, so bimbo si literally reads “you’re a bimbo”))

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PIRAN, Slovenia - the coastal town of Piran and the Adriatic Sea with Slovenia’s highest mountain Mt. Triglav and the Slovenian Alps in the background – an incredible showcase of Slovenian diversity. (Image by Jost Gantar)

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Human Development Index scores by country 2019

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A map of the oldest company in almost every country in the world (that is still operating today).

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The Water Man by France Prešeren

Though long for its beauties Ljubljana was known, Than Urška there never was any more fair, No maidens, no women were known anywhere In flow’ring allurement with her to compare. – The star of the morning midst stars is most bright: So also did Urška midst girls most delight.

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Zdravljica (“A Toast” in English) is a poem of the great France Prešeren. Since 1991 it’s the national anthem of Slovenia (or rather its 7th stanza is) and it was the anthem of Socialist Slovenia (then still within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) from 1989 until its independence in 1991 – its adoption as the anthem was one of the first official indicators of change and of the country’s aspirations for independence.

It was first written in 1844, but it got its form as we know it in 1846 when Prešeren submitted his poems to the censor before publishing (parts of Zdravljica were scrapped and Prešeren subsequently crossed out the entire poem (as seen in the picture above)). It was published in 1848 following the March revolution.

Although it is formally a toast and a carmen figuratum (its verses form a shape) in the shape of a cup, its message is political: it calls for national liberation of Slovenes and for freedom and equality of all nations.

The 7th stanza:

        Živé naj vsi naródi,    ki hrepene dočakat’ dan,      da, kóder sonce hodi,  prepir iz svéta bo pregnan,                da rojak            prost bo vsak, ne vrag, le sosed bo mejak!

In English translation (by Tom Priestly and Henry Cooper):

      Let’s drink that every nation Will live to see that bright day’s birth     When ‘neath the sun’s rotation  Dissent is banished from the earth,                     All will be                   Kinfolk free    With neighbours none in enmity!

The entire Zdravljica in Janko Lavrin’s translation can be found here. Translations of the 7th stanza into Hungarian, Italian, German, French, Spanish and Croatian (BCS) can be found here.

Zdravljica was musically adapted multiple times. The melody of the anthem is that composed by Stanko Premrl in 1905. You can listen to it below:

A rock version from 1987 also exists.

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Today (8th February) is Slovenia’s biggest cultural holiday. It’s the day our greatest poet, France Prešeren, died. So enjoy listening to his ode to his birthplace, a village called Vrba, by one of our greatest musicians, Vlado Kreslin. 

(in anyone’s interested, you can find a video of one of his concerts here)

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Prešeren Day, or as I like to call it ‘Poezije and chill’

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TREETOP WALK POHORJE, Rogla, Slovenia - an amazing panoramic treetop trail, where you walk along the elevated pathway among the treetops. This attraction, called Pot Med Krosnjami Pohorje in Slovene, is accessible to nature lovers of all ages and abilities. (photos: Iztok Medja)

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Europe: regions with bears (blue) & regions suitable for bears (green).

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Čas je za drugo številko naše biseksualne revije Bizine! Vabimo vse pišoče, rišoče in drugače kreativne biseksualne duše, da nam pošljete svoje eseje, kratke zgodbe, poezijo, ilustracije, stripe, kolaže in druge stvaritve. 💌 Tokrat si še posebej želimo poglobljenih, političnih in osebnih prispevkov - rad⁞e bi slišale o razkritju, razmerjih, bifobiji, našem mestu v skupnosti in družbi, biseksualni solidarnosti, zgodovini, politiki in modi, o odkrivanju svoje spolne usmerjenosti in o tem, kako biseksualnosti oblikuje naš pogled na svet. Seveda pa sprejemamo tudi vse ostale prispevke! Za navdih lahko prelistate prvo številko Bizina: ➡️ https://kvartir.org/bizine/ ali pokukate v Kvartirjevo trans revijo Transzine: ➡️ https://kvartir.org/transzine/ ❗ Prispevke pošljite na info@kvartir.org. Rok za oddajo je 15. februar 2020! Prosimo, da nam ob prispevku sporočite tudi, ali želite biti objavljen⁞e s svojim imenom, vzdevkom ali anonimno. Veselimo se vaših prispevkov! ✨

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anyway i was on the laibach website 

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and they have a fanart section and 

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i regret to inform you the furries have found out about laibach

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There's three kinds of slovene people: 1. Those that will never read Pod svobodnim soncem. 2. Those that will read it. and 3. Those that will only be able to read half of the book.

I’m 1. ig

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When compared to U.S. data, European cities can be considered much safer in terms of murder rates. Europe does not contain any of the top 50 cities in the world with the highest murder rate. The "deadliest” city in Europe has less than one-tenth of the homicides per 100,000 than the U.S. city with the highest homicide rate.

Here are the 10 European cities with the highest homicide rates, according to a report UN Office on Drugs and Crime released in 2019:

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6. Celje, Slovenia

Celje, the third-largest city in Slovenia, had a murder rate of 2.6 per 100,000 in 2017, however, it carried a population of only about 38,000 that year within city limits.

So Fox News declared Celje the 6th deadliest city in Europe, even though if you do the math, you’ll find that in a town of 40k people a murder rate of 2.6 per 100k people per year amounts to one (1) murder happening in the whole of 2017.

And then the town’s Police Department came out to say that they don’t have any murders on record for 2017, only an attempted manslaughter – which means that no one actually died ...

So yes ..... one of the deadliest cities ..... where one person a year almost dies ........

Anyway, to save you from having to open the article, here’s the “deadly” list:

10. Amsterdam, Netherlands: 2.2 murders per 100,000 people 9. Budapest, Hungary: 2.2 8. Tampere, Finland: 2.2 7. Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom: 2.4 6. Celje, Slovenia: 2.6 5. Debrecen, Hungary: 3.0 4. Marseille, France: 3.5 3. Klaipeda, Lithuania: 3.9 2. Vilnius, Lithuania: 3.9 1. Kaunas, Lithuania: 5.4

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MARIBOR, Slovenia - the second largest city in Slovenia with about 95,000 residents lies on the Drava river and is one of the most beautiful in the country thanks to its lovely medieval core known as Lent. (Images by Andrej Tarfila)

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this is a very niche pet peeve but it drives me crazy that Slovene furniture stores think retro means ugly distressed furniture from the set of That 70s Show

retro furniture in the Slovene context can only mean one of two things: