Mémorial à la 9ème Division Ecossaise à Athies (62)
Le 9 avril 1917, au premier jour de la bataille d’Arras, les soldats de la 9e Division Ecossaise libèrent le village d’Athies. En l’honneur de cette division, au lieu-dit le Point du Jour au bord de la route Arras-Douai, un mémorial en forme de tour a été édifié comme un « cairn » : des pierres, ici des blocs de granit apportés d’Ecosse, amoncelées en mémoire des morts suivant la tradition celtique. Ce cairn porte les noms des batailles auxquelles la Division a participé au cours de la Grande Guerre.
Tout autour du monument, 26 pierres rappellent les unités qui la composaient.
2nd Lieutenant Ian Campbell Chrystal Memorial Gravestone Necropolis Glasgow Scotland
Tour Scotland video of 2nd Lieutenant Ian Campbell Chrystal Memorial gravestone on ancestry visit to the Necropolis in Glasgow. Son of WJ and Marie Chrystal, of Auchendennan, Arden, Dunbartonshire. Killed in Action near Cavrelle, France, 1st May 1917, aged 29. Remembered here but buried at Point-du-Jour Military Cemetery, Athies, France. Also, William James Chrystal of Auchendennan, born 1854, died 1921. The surname Chrystal is first recorded in Scotland in the mid 15th century, when William Christole was recorded as being a burgess of Prestwick. On June 1st 1844, a Bridget McCrystal aged twenty, was a passenger on the ship Adirondack, which originally sailed from Liverpool to New York on September 1st 1846, calling at Belfast Lough. This was a ' coffin ' ship, chartered to carry people fleeing the worst effects of the Potato Famine of 1846 in Ireland
Cimetiere militaire de la Couture (62)
La couture (Vieille-Chapelle) n'est un village nord-est de Béthune.
Le vieux cimetière militaire (maintenant supprimé) a été fermé en Novembre 1915, comme étant trop près de l'école et le nouveau cimetière militaire a été lancé en ce mois et utilisé par les unités combattantes et les ambulances de campagne jusqu'en Mars 1918. Le village et le cimetière sont tombés aux mains des Allemands dans le mois qui suit, dans les batailles de la Lys, mais repris en Septembre 1918, lors de la retraite allemande. Le cimetière a été agrandi après l'Armistice, par les Affaires indiennes et portugaises de soldats tombes s le voisinage des champs de bataille et des cimetières s environs, mais les tombes Portugais ont été enlevés et transféré à Richebourg-L'Avoue Cimetière portugais en 1925. Presque tous tombés en 1914, 1915 ou 1918 sont ceux qui sont tombés en 1918 et appartenait aux 55e (West Lancashire) Division. Parmi ceux-ci, plus d'un tiers ne sont pas identifiées et des monuments commémoratifs spéciaux ont été érigés (cinq soldats du Royaume-Uni, censé être enterré parmi eux).Un autres monument commémoratif spéciaux enregistre les noms de neuf soldats du Royaume-Uni, dont les tombes ont été détruites par des obus. Le cimetière couvre une superficie de 4.111 mètres carrés et est entouré par un mur de moellons. Le cimetière communal contient un mémorial à cheval le 1er roi Edward, qui a défendu le village en Avril 1918.
Il contient 918 soldats britanniques , 1 canadien et 71 indiens
Un autre cimetiere dans la méme ville c'est celui indiens (Zelobes indian cemetery) , on y trouve 105 tombes indiennes
Cimetière de st Laurent Blangy (hervin farm) (62)
Saint-Laurent-Blangy, située aux abords immédiats d'Arras
- Hervin Farm British Cemetery (sentier d'Athies et chemin de Fampoux, lieu-dit la Ferme d'Hervin, superficie : 547 m2). La ferme Hervin, a été prise par la 9e division (Ecossaise) le 9 avril 1917. Le cimetière fut ouvert durant ce mois par les unités combattantes et les ambulances. Contient près de 50 tombes. Cimetière aménagé par N.A. Rew.
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The Ode of Remembrance is an ode taken from Laurence Binyon's poem, For the Fallen, which was first published in The Times in September 1914.
For the Fallen was specifically composed in honour of the casualties of the British Expeditionary Force, which by then already suffered severely at the Battle of Mons and the Battle of the Marne in the opening phase of the war on the Western Front. Over time, the third and fourth stanzas of the poem (usually nowadays just the fourth) have been claimed as a tribute to all casualties of war, regardless of state, and it is this selection of For the Fallen to which the term Ode of Remembrance usually refers.
Harrogate Herald - 1st December 1915
Heatherdene Hospital
Private W Evans, of the 9th Welsh Regiment, who is in the Heatherdene Hospital, is among the first lot to arrive in Harrogate this autumn suffering from frostbite. He arrived here a week last Sunday, and was in the trenches at Loos. He was in the big advance on that place, and had the painful experience in having his brother killed before his eyes. His brother, who was only a few yards from him at the time, was struck by an explosive bullet. The nose of an explosive bullet on impact opens like the petals of a flower and inflicts a jagged wound. Sometimes the Germans obtain this effect by reversing the cartridge in its case and firing the broad end first. The use of these bullets is against the rules of war, and a short shrift is given to Germans when found using them. How Evans came through the Loos fighting is considered little short of a miracle, as men were falling on both sides of him, yet he came through without a scratch, only to contract frostbite.
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W EVANS
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DIED ON 23 APRIL 1917 AGE UNKNOWN
POINT-DU-JOUR MILITARY CEMETERY, ATHIES
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Remembrance Day, The flower of English youth and a generation lost, on the first day of the battle of the Somme.
The first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916, was the most disastrous the British Army has ever suffered. The soldiers advancing slowly over no-man’s land in long lines, side by side, were told that the German trenches had been destroyed. Instead they were met with a hail of German machine gun and artillery fire and huge numbers of soldiers were quickly cut down. The surviving attackers dived for cover and advanced slowly from shell-hole to shell-hole. Nearly all the attacks were defeated and 58,000 British and Empire troops, about half of the force, fell in battle with nearly 20,000 dead. Many of the Pals Battalions were decimated.
In the UK, large-scale recruitment to the Army and the formation of battalions of volunteer soldiers meant that virtually no part of the country was left unscathed by the events of July to November 1916. For many people the Battle of the Somme, especially the disastrous first day, brought home for the first time the true horrors of warfare in the First World War and was seen as a tragic waste of life. The numerous memorials and military cemeteries that lie across the Picardy countryside continue to serve as a poignant reminder of enormous sacrifices made in the summer and autumn of 1916. Further south, at Verdun, the remains of the French forts, the Douaumont Ossuary, and the voie sacree keep alive memories of the Western Front’s other great battle of 1916. Men from every walk of life, village, hamlet, towns, and cities answered the call and many of them lifetime friends.
Lincolnshire Regiment The Forgotten Daybreak
The Forgotten Point of the Day
Buried arm in arm, the Grimsby Potes, English volunteers of the Great War, remained fraternally united even in death.
* Afan: Association for National Archaeological Excavations.
We had never experienced such an experience, says, still moved, Alain Jacques, head of the Regional Department of archeology Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais.
At the end of May 2001, while the researchers continue the exploration of a 300-hectare site in the course of preventive excavations between Saint-Laurent-Blangy and Athies, in the Scarpe Valley, one of them falls by chance on a mass grave. There, in what had once been the tragic battlefield of the hills of Artois, lie twenty bodies. Twenty British soldiers killed during the First World War. That of 14-18, the Great War.
Extended, side by side, buried in front of the enemy and arranged in formation of combat, the soldiers, united in the death, are buried arm in arm, in a final macabre choreography. Never, at that time, soldiers and officers had been buried, together, in this way. It is a unique case, a behavior that signifies an act of camaraderie of immense scope, the archaeologist continues. All were dressed in their uniforms, but without the equipment or armament.
Further, in a shell hole, another body, isolated, is wrapped in a tarpaulin. A soldier of the Royal Naval Division. Then, a few meters further, three bodies. Still in a shell hole. Papers and personal effects were collected. “These men were all declared dead during the battle of Arras, even though the place of their burial was forgotten. They are not missing, such as the tens of thousands of men sacrificed 'has never found the trace' , says Gilles Prillaux, specialist of Afan (*).
Some badges still legible reveal that they are from the 10th Battalion of Lincolnshire, based in the north of England. A regiment belonging to the 101st Brigade and the 34th British Division. The Grimsby Chums! The Grimsby Potes! This was their nickname. Their nickname. 1915 it was in Arras that the first major French offensives took place, the mortality was higher than in all the known places, more dead than in Verdun or on the Somme ...
On these hills of Artois, indeed, while the Canadians take care of the West front and illustrate at Vimy, the English must attack the East and take the Point du Jour, a fortified hill located on the same ridge.
On the 9th of April, 1917, in a deluge of fire and steel, in the terror and fury that simultaneously engenders fear, they are two hundred of Lincolnshire to engage. Most of them are pulverized, liquefied by shells between 9 and 14 April.
They are definitely forgotten, including the grouping of burials that takes place after the war. As soon as we discovered the bodies, we contacted the office of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is based in Beaurains (Pas-de-Calais), says anthropologist Pascal Bura.
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NouArm - 2 731 soldats canadiens reposent au cimetière de Brookwood
Surrey (Royaume-Uni) - Des soldats sont morts dans des hôpitaux londoniens pendant les deux Grandes Guerres.
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The five major world religions - John Bellaimey
Explore the intertwined histories and cultures of the major religions: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.
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It's perfectly human to grapple with questions, like 'Where do we come from?' and 'How do I live a life of meaning?' These existential questions are central to the five major world religions -- and that's not all that connects these faiths. John Bellaimey explains the intertwined histories and cultures of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.
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Repentance (1987) dir. Tengiz Abuladze (english subtitles)
Repentance (Georgian: მონანიება translit. Monanieba, Russian: Покаяние, translit. Pokayaniye) is a Georgian film directed by Tengiz Abuladze. The movie was made in 1984, but its release was banned in the Soviet Union for its semi-allegorical critique of Stalinism.[1][2] It premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, winning the FIPRESCI Prize, Grand Prize of the Jury, and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.[3] The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Cast
Abuladze cast several of his family members in leading roles in the film.
Avtandil Makharadze as Varlam Aravidze and as middle-aged Abel Aravidze
Dato Kemkhadze as young Abel Aravidze, son of Varlam Aravidze
Ia Ninidze as Guliko, Abel's wife
Zeinab Botsvadze as Ketevan Barateli
Ketevan Abuladze as Nino Barateli
Edisher Giorgobiani as Sandro Barateli
Kakhi Kavsadze as Mikheil Koresheli
Merab Ninidze as Tornike, Abel's and Guliko's son
Nino Zaqariadze as Elene Korisheli
Nano Ochigava as Ketevan as a child
Boris Tsipuria
Akaki Khidasheli
Leo Antadze as Levan Antadze
Rezo Esadze
Mzia Makhviladze as M. Makhazadze
Amiran Amiranashvili
Le canal de la Scarpe
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¿Por qué algunos espíritus se quedan aquí tras morir? por Sol Blanco Soler PARTE1
¿Por qué algunos espíritus se quedan aquí tras morir? por Sol Blanco Soler PARTE1, en el 1er Foro de las Ciencias Holísticas Akasha33, que tuvo lugar en Fuente el Saz los días 16, 17 y 18 de octubre de 2015.
¿Qué ocurre cuando nos vamos? ¿Por qué unos se elevan a otros niveles y otros se quedan? Debemos aprender todo lo que podamos sobre la vida en el Más Allá mientras estamos aquí, porque la única luz que tendremos al pasar al otro lado es el conocimiento que hayamos adquirido.
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Patient P.S. suffered a stroke that damaged the right side of her brain, leaving her unaware of everything on her left side. If someone threw a ball at her left side, she might duck. But she wouldn’t have awareness of the ball or know why she ducked. Where does consciousness come from? Michael Graziano explores the question that has vexed scientists and philosophers for centuries.
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Simone de Beauvoir | Wikipedia audio article
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (; French: [simɔn də bovwaʁ] (listen); 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.De Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, autobiography and monographs on philosophy, politics and social issues. She was known for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism; and for her novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins. She was also known for her lifelong relationship with French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
Sheep Among Wolves Volume II (Official Feature Film)
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Where Stalin grew up - From Sochi to Yerevan
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Stalin was born in the town of Gori, in the mountains of Georgia. Stalin spent his young life in various places in the Caucasus. His birth house is still there, complete with a gift shop where you can buy Stalin snow globes. How do the Georgians look back on Stalin? Is it a hero or a villain, or both? Jelle passes by the grave of Stalin's first wife, the prison in Baku where Stalin was once trapped, and then went into the mountains. Even Stalin's hand can be felt even in the most remote villages.
Original title: Achter de bergen van Sotsji
Jelle Brandt Corstius goes looking for answers in The Mountains Behind Sochi. In this six-episode series he travels from Sochi in Russia through the Caucasus. Far from political power games and war intrigues, he visits remote mountain villages and meets proud peoples with a strong desire to be independent.
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Jews in Russia have historically constituted a large religious diaspora; the vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. Within these territories the primarily Ashkenazi Jewish communities of many different areas flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions, while also facing periods of anti-Semitic discriminatory policies and persecutions. The largest group among Russian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews, but the community also includes a significant number of other Diasporan Jewish groups, such as Mountain Jews, Sephardic Jews, Crimean Karaites, Krymchaks, Bukharan Jews, and Georgian Jews.
The presence of Jewish people in the European part of Russia can be traced to the 7th–14th centuries CE. In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Jewish population in Kiev, in present-day Ukraine, was restricted to a separate quarter. Evidence of the presence of Jewish people in Muscovite Russia is first documented in the chronicles of 1471. During the reign of Catherine II in the 18th century, Jewish people were restricted to the Pale of Settlement within Russia, the territory where they could live or immigrate to. Alexander III escalated anti-Jewish policies. Beginning in the 1880s, waves of anti-Jewish pogroms swept across different regions of the empire for several decades. More than two million Jews fled Russia between 1880 and 1920, mostly to the United States and what is today the State of Israel.The Pale of Settlement took away many of the rights that the Jewish people of the late 17th century Russia were experiencing. At this time, the Jewish people were restricted to an area of what is current day Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. Where Western Europe was experiencing emancipation at this time, the laws for the Jewish people were getting more strict. The general attitude towards Jewish people was to look down on the religion and the people. It was as both a religion and a race, something that one could not escape if they tried. Slowly, the Jewish people were allowed to move further east towards a less crowded population. This was a small change, and did not come to all Jewish people, and not even a small minority of them. In this more spread out area, the Jewish people lived in communities, known as Schtetls. These communities were very similar to what would be known as ghettos in World War II, with the cramped and subpar living conditions.Before 1917 there were 300,000 Zionists in Russia, while the main Jewish socialist organization, the Bund, had 33,000 members. Only 958 Jews had joined the Bolshevik Party before 1917; thousands joined after the Revolution. The chaotic years of World War I, the February and October Revolutions, and the Russian Civil War had created social disruption that led to anti-Semitism. Some 150,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms of 1918–1922, 125,000 of them in Ukraine, 25,000 in Belarus. The pogroms were mostly perpetrated by anti-communist forces; sometimes, Red Army units engaged in pogroms as well. After a short period of confusion, the Soviets started executing guilty individuals and even disbanding the army units whose men had attacked Jews. Although pogroms were still perpetrated after this, mainly by Ukrainian units of the Red Army during its retreat from Poland (1920), in general, the Jews regarded the Red Army as the only force which was able and willing to defend them. The Russian Civil War pogroms shocked world Jewry and rallied many Jews to the Red Army and the Soviet regime, and also strengthened the desire for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people.In August 1919 the Soviet government arrested many rabbis, seized Jewish properties, including synagogues, and dissolved many Jewish communities. The Jewish section of the Communist Party labeled the use of the Hebrew language reactionary and elitist and the teaching of Hebrew was banned ...