#casablanca ii

[tybarious-ii]

President Franklin D. Roosevelt Seated in Jeep with Hat over his Heart, Reviewing Troops with General George Patton, Casablanca.

Date: January 18, 1943

NARA: 6728535

[eopederson]

Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca, 2019.

Tilework, Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca, 2019.

Sorry for not including a label in Arabic, but the combination of my iMac and tumblr do not like a language written from right to left.

Eid al-Fitr

[foreverrgrateful]

[moviesiveseenandwanttoremember]

Michael Curtiz’ “Casablanca” November 26, 1942.

[frosthexe]

The Fundamental Things Apply - TroubleIWant - Teen Wolf (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Casablanca AU started in that period when everything made me go STEREK!

- OR -

There’s only one song that Boyd isn’t allowed to play, which seems like a fair restriction. It’s Derek’s bar, after all - says so right on the sign. He’s well within his rights to banish one silly song.

Yet for some reason, that’s the melody pouring forth from the piano tonight. Derek is overseeing the craps tables in the far back room, but the first run of notes is instantly recognizable. In the space of a breath he's dragged viscerally back to Paris, to a carefree time of tree-lined boulevards and brown eyes gone whiskey bright in the sunlight...

Derek pulls himself back to the present day, and makes for the front room in a poorly-tempered rage. Why now? “Erica,” Derek interrupts. “Boyd. I thought I told you never to play--” and his voice cuts off.

It’s Stiles, sitting there in the flesh, right at one of Hale’s Cafe Americano’s tiny, imported tables. He’s sitting there as real as anyone, as if the intensity of Derek’s memories somehow dragged him out of the past and into the present moment.

“Hello, Derek,” Stiles says into the loaded silence.

[laviedebosso]

Morocco On Film.

[lonestarbattleship]

Drawing of USS Massachusetts (BB-59) engaging the incomplete French Battleship Jean Bart during the Battle of Casablanca, on November 8, 1942.

United States Navy, "A pictorial history of the U.S.S. Massachusetts" (1945). World War Regimental Histories. 150. https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/150

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Interior of the Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca, MOROCCO

[paulpingminho]

[teanicolae]

"The Universe belongs to God." is written on the walls of the Hassan II Mosque. 🤍 Morocco weaves beauty and devotion magnificently within itself, and it has left a profound mark on me. seeing those splendid lands filled me with joy and almost recognition, as if i had been there before, perhaps in another life. what was most significant for me was witnessing the calls to prayer. it moved me to tears - to see people drop their everything to join prayer, with fervour and innocence. from truck drivers parking their car on the side of the road and kneeling before their devotion on the land, to workers kneeling on the pavement on busy streets with folded hands... truly a most touching sight for sore eyes.what is more, the scents, the architecture, the nature, the monuments - "deeply fulfilling to the senses", as my beloved teacher wrote, who, as grace happens, had just experienced Morocco before i did! Casablanca, Rabat, Essaouira, Marrakesh, Fes.

[arctic-hands]

One of my favorite (hopefully true but I don't know for certain) stories about WWII was that spies for the fascists sent out the intel that FDR was going to be in Casablanca and vulnerable to attack, only the fascists (I can't remember if they were mussolini's people or the nazis) translated "Casablanca" as "White House" and were like "no merda/scheisse, he's always at the White House what are we supposed to do with this information?" and FDR attended the Casablanca Conference unscathed

[eopederson]

Tilework, Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca, 2019.

Sorry for not including a label in Arabic, but the combination of my iMac and tumblr do not like a language written from right to left.

First day of Ramadan

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Casablanca - Pounded by Allied Warships," Ottawa Citizen. November 10, 1942. Page 19. --- Pictured above are French warships at Casablanca, important naval base and second city of French Morocco. From it Vichy's ships steamed out to battle the Allied fleet which covered American landings. The port, which contains large electric power works, was heavily bombarded by big guns and dive-bombers from Allied warships. "Oran - Entered by the A lies From Land and Sea," Ottawa Citizen. November 10, 1942. Page 19. --- Pictured above is part of the huge harbor at Oran, important Algerian port, which the Allied forces entered from land and sea after some of the most severe fighting of the Allied "second front" campaign in French North Africa. Oran is the terminus of several North African railways, including the one from Algiers, now in Allied hands.

[dlyarchitecture]

[jossarisfoto]

Marokko | Betoverende Ontdekkingen Casablanca en Rabat

Zondag 10 maart 2024 | Klaar voor een dag vol avonturen! De metropool Casablanca verwelkomt ons met een boeiende mix van traditie en moderniteit. Gisteren ben ik vertrokken voor een 11-daagse groeps rondreis door Marokko, waarbij we o.a. de vier Koningssteden – Fès, Marrakech, Meknes en Rabat – bezoeken. We startten vandaag meteen met een hoogtepunt: de majestueuze Hassan II-moskee. Statig…