#croatian parliament day

[murderousink23]

10/08/2022 is World Octopus Day 🐙🌏, Bookshop Day 🌏, Croatian Parliament Day 🇭🇷, Indian Air Force Day 🇮🇳, American Touch Tag Day 🇺🇲, National Fluffernutter Day 🇺🇲, National Pierogi Day 🇺🇲, National Chess Day 🇺🇲, National Costume Swap Day 🇺🇲, National Motorcycle Ride Day 🇺🇲, World Migratory Bird Day 🇺🇳

[aristotels]

i wish i could translate everything in this article to my international followers because. I cannot even begin. Croatian politics, the parliament elections taking place on the world circus day, ava karabatić coming back into politics

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 6.7

Holidays

Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)

Battle of Arica Day (Chile)

Beatles Day

Betamax Day

Croatian Diplomacy Day (Croatia)

Daniel Boone Day (Kentucky)

Dunmow Flitch Day

Father’s Day (Lithuania; Switzerland)

Festival of All Possible Worlds

Financial and Economic Sector Workers Day (Kyrgyzt=stan)

Flag Day (Peru)

Fleur-de-Lis Day

International Supply Chain Specialists Day

International Tourettes Awareness Day

Journalist Day (Argentina)

June Bug Day

Kataklysmos (Flood Festival; Cypress)

Land O’Lakes Day

Liberation Day (Norway)

Lime Tree Day (French Republic)

Love Island Day (UK)

Mother’s Day (France; French Antilles)

National Alexandra Day

National Arc Flash Awareness Day (UK)

National Benjamin Day

National Blepharoplasty Day

National CAPHPACH Day (a.k.a. National Citizens Against Police Harassment Police Against Citizen Harassment Day)

National Elias Day

National Goonies Day

National Journalist Day (Argentina)

National Military Working Dog Day (Australia)

National Oklahoma Day

National RV Day

Prince Day

Prince Joachim Day (Denmark)

Sette Giugno (Malta)

Shirone Takogassen (Kite Fighting Festival; Japan)

Sir Randol Fawkes Day (a.k.a.Labour Day; Bahamas)

607 Day

Trial Technology Day

Union Dissolution Day (Norway)

VCR Day

Vivien Kellems Memorial Day

World Caring Day

World Day for the Sanctification of Priests

World Day of Birth Rights

World Hemochromatosis Day

World LPG Day

World Swift Day

Write to Your Father Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Bartender Day

National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

World Food Safety Day

World Poha Day

Independence & Related Days

Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)

Erephisian Technocracy (f.k.a. Orbis; Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]

Norway (from Sweden, 1905)

Parliament Day (Northern Ireland)

Temotu Province Day (Solomon Islands)

1st Friday in June

Action Mesothelioma Day (UK) [1st Friday]

Clean Air Day (Canada) [1st Friday]

European Dental Technicians Day [1st Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Horseradish Weekend begins [1st Friday]

Hospitals Against Violence Day [1st Friday]

Hug an Atheist Day [1st Friday]

International Socks4Docs Day [1st Friday]

National Banana Split Weekend (Begins 1st Friday]

National Day Against Gun Violence (Canada) [1st Friday]

National Donut Day (a.k.a. National Doughnut Day) [1st Friday]

National Fish & Chip Day (UK) [1st Friday]

National Gun Violence Awareness Day [1st Friday]

National Lemonade Days begin [1st Friday]

National Wear a Jockstrap to Work Day [1st Friday]

Salvation Army Day [1st Friday]

Senior Race Day (Isle of Man) [1st Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning June 7 (1st Full Week)

Shampoo Week (thru 6.13)

Superman Week (thru 6.9)

Wear Orange Days [thru 6.8]

Festivals Beginning June 7, 2024

Action in Jackson (Jackson, Wisconsin) [thru 6.8]

Bloodroot Ramble (Healdsburg, California) [thru 6.8]

Cajun Heritage Festival (Larose, Louisiana) [thru 6.9]

Capital Jazz Fest (Columbia, Maryland) [thru 6.9]

Children KinoFest (Kyiv, Ukraine) [thru 6.16]

Fan Expo Dallas (Dallas, Texas) [thru 6.9]

Farmington Strawberry Festival (Farmington, Iowa) [thru 6.9]

Flemington Opa Festival (Flemington, New Jersey) [thru 6.9]

Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival (Fredericksburg, Texas) [thru 6.8]

A German Sommerfest (Lancaster, Texas) [thru 6.8]

Gheens Bon Mange' Festival (Gheens, Louisiana) [thru 6.9]

The Great New York State Food & Wine Festival (Clayton, New York) [thru 6.9]

Greek Festival (Randolph, New Jersey) [thru 6.9]

Grove City Strawberry Days (Grove City, Pennsylvania) [thru 6.9]

Guadalajara International Film Festival (Guadalajara, Mexico) [thru 6.15]

Hartford Taste (Hartford, Connecticut) [thru 6.8]

Huntington Trails Beer and Wine Festival (Huntington, Indiana)

International Documentary Film Festival Artdocfest (Tbilisi, Georgia) [thru 6.9]

International Horseradish Festival (Collinsville, Illinois) [thru 6.8]

Lander Brew Fest (Lander, Wyoming) [thru 6.8]

Lincoln Square Greek Fest (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 6.9]

Norfolk Harborfest (Norfolk, Virginia) [thru 6.9]

Orange Warsaw Festival (Warsaw, Poland) [thru 6.8]

Pork Rind Heritage Festival (Harrod, Ohio) [thru 6.8]

Rhubarb Fest (Aledo, Illinois) [thru 6.8]

Rock am Ring (Nürburg, Germany) [thru 6.9]

Rosedale Strawberry Festival (Rosedale, Indiana) [thru 6.9]

South Dakota BBQ Championships (Huron, South Dakota) [thru 6.8]

Strawberry Festival (Forestville, New York) [thru 6.9]

Strawberry Festival (Hartford, Michigan) [thru 6.8]

Strawberry Festival (Mystic, Connecticut) [thru 6.8]

Sundance Solstice Festival (Anchorage, Alaska) [thru 6.9]

Taste of Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) [thru 6.9]

Taste of Muskegon (Muskegon, Michigan) [thru 6.8]

Taste of Syracuse (Syracuse, New York) [thru 6.8]

Up North Beerfest (Eagle River, Wisconsin) [thru 6.8]

Walleye Weekend (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) [thru 6.9]

WHITE SQUARE International Advertising and Marketing Festival (Minsk, Belarus)

Wimborne Minster Folk Festival (Wimborne Minster, United Kingdom) [thru 6.9]

Feast Days

Amazing Mumford (Muppetism)

Antonio Maria Gianelli (Christian; Saint)

Antony of Gianelli (Christian; Saint)

Captain Jack Sparrow Impersonation Day (Pastafarian)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Artology)

Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)

Colmán of Dromore (Christian; Saint)

Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Damien Hirst (Artology)

Edtors’ Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Flowers Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Gottschalk (a.k.a. Godeschalc, Prince of the Western Vandals; Christian; Martyr)

Gwendolyn Brooks (Writerism)

Judgment Day (Leaping Songs; Shamanism)

Landulf of Yariglia (Asti; Christian; Saint)

Lanfranc (Positivist; Saint)

Louise Erdrich (Writerism)

Ludi Piscatorii (Ancient Rome)

Meriadoc (Christian; Saint)

Meriasek (Christian; Saint)

Paul I of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Paul Gauguin (Artology)

Robert of Newminster (Christian; Saint)

Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière (Christian; Blessed)

Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA))

Smilin’ Ed (Muppetism)

Vestalia begins (until 15th; Old Roman festival to Vesta, goddess of the hearth, home & family)

Vulfagius (a.k.a. Wulphy; Christian; Saint)

Willibald (Christian; Saint)

Christian Liturgical Holidays

Sacred Heart Day [Friday after 2nd Sunday after Pentecost; 68 days after Easter] a.k.a. ... 

Divine Compassion of Christ (Anglican Franciscans)

Feast of the Sacred Heart (Roman Catholic)

Sagrado Corazon (Colombia)

Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (f.k.a.)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [19 of 32]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 26 of 60)

Premieres

Alexander’s Ragtime Band, recorded by Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan (Song; 1911)

Captain Fantastic and the Brown First Cowboy, by Elton John (Album; 1975)

City Slickers (Film; 1991)

Cloak & Dagger (TV Series; 2018)

Dark Phoenix (Film; 2019)

The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth (Novel; 1971)

Dance of the Weed (MGM Cartoon; 1941)

Dinky Finds a Home (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1946)

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Film; 2002)

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (Film; 1991)

El Dorado (Film; 1967)

Face/Off (Film; 1997)

Feedin’ the Kiddie (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1957)

Fields of Gold, by Sting (Song; 1993)

Ghostbustrs (Film; 1984)

The Goonies (Film; 1985)

Grease (Broadway Musical; 1972)

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (WB Animated Film; 2011)

The Hasty Hare (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)

The Heat of the Day, by Elizabeth Bowen (Novel; 1948)

High School Confidential (Film; 1958)

The Honourable Schoolboy, by John le Carré (Novel; 1977)

Horse’s Mouth, by Joyce Cary (Novel; 1950)

I Am Mother (Film; 2019)

The Johnny Cash Show (TV Series; 1969)

Jungle Fever (Film; 1991)

Kim Possible (Animated TV Series; 2002)

Mr. Fore by Fore (Phantasies Cartoon; 1944)

Mr. Money Gags (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

The Mummy (Film; 1999)

Old McDonald Had a Farm (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1946)

The Old Rugged Cross, by George Bennard (Christian Hymn; 1913)

Peep in the Deep (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1946)

Perfect (Film; 1985)

Peter Grimes, by Benjamin Britten (Opera; 1945)

Post, by Björk (Album; 1995)

The Producers (Film; 2002)

Purple, by Stone Temple Pilots (Album; 1994)

Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! (WB LT Cartoon; 1969)

The Rock (Film; 1996)

Salmon Loafer (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1963)

A Satire of the Three Estates, by David Lyndsay (Play; 1552)

The Secret Life of Pets 2 (Animated Film; 2019)

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Bourgeoisie, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (Ballet; 1933)

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

Squatter’s Rights (Disney Cartoon; 1946)

Vincent, recorded by Don McLean (Song; 1971)

What—No Spinach? (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1936)

The Wily Weasel (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1937)

Wimmin is a Myskery (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

The Wise Little Hen (Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1934)

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (Film; 2019)

Today’s Name Days

Anita, Eoban, Gottlieb, Robert (Austria)

Valeri, Valeria (Bulgaria)

Antun, Radoslav, Robert (Croatia)

Iveta (Czech Republic)

Jeremias (Denmark)

Robert, Robi (Estonia)

Robert, Robin, Roope, Suvi (Finland)

Gilbert (France)

Anita, Gottlieb, Raimund, Robert (Germany)

Panagis, Sebastian, Zinais (Greece)

Róbert (Hungary)

Geremia, Landolfo, Roberto, Sabiniano (Italy)

Arnis, Gaida, Gijs (Latvia)

Lukrecija, Radvydė, Ratautas, Robertas (Lithuania)

Robert, Robin (Norway)

Antoni, Ciechomir, Jarosław, Lukrecja, Paweł, Robert, Roberta, Wiesław, Wisław (Poland)

Teodot (România)

Róbert (Slovakia)

Isaac, Roberto (Spain)

Robert, Robin (Sweden)

Theodot (Ukraine)

Keenan, Melody, Nidia, Nydia, Nylene, Whitney (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 159 of 2024; 207 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 23 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Geng-Wu), Day 2 (Ren-Yin)

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

Hebrew: 1 Sivan 5784

Islamic: 30 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 9 Blue; Twosday [9 of 30]

Julian: 25 May 2024

Moon: 2%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 18 St. Paul (6th Month) [Lanfranc]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 81 of 92)

Week: 1st Full Week of June

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 18 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Sīwān (a.k.a. Sivan, Siwan or Simanu) [סִיוָן / סיוון‎] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 3 of 12]

[kilar]

CAS - service - 10th Simulated session of Parliament for high school students

On Monday May 8th 2023, my dear colleagues Erik Černeka, Ena Šoić, Maxim Debelić, Mia Baškovič and I visited the Croatian Parliament along with our mentor and professor Marko Miočić. The reason we went to the Croatian Parliament was to attend the 10th Simulated session of Parliament for high school students[1]. The session is described as “the most demanding program of the Citizen Service of the Croatian Parliament, which is based on cooperation with educational institutions and begins with preparatory education for high school students who visit the Parliament during the school year as part of extracurricular/field lessons from the subject curriculum, and concludes in the Parliament”. In short terms the session could be called a pretend Croatian Parliament session that high school students attend in and discuss a specific topic. The topic of discussion at this year’s simulated session was the Law on Environmental Protection and the Declaration on Environmental Protection in the Republic of Croatia. The session was attended by 151 student-representatives (41 high schools in total), student-president of the session, student-secretary of the session, student-president deputy and student-secretary deputy. All of the students considered a Draft Law on Environmental Protection, then conducted a Final Draft (recommendation)  of the now changed Law as well as an open discussion for the Proposal for a Declaration on Environmental Protection in the Republic of Croatia. Prhg had two representatives – Ena Šoić and Erik Černeka that held a speech regarding the said topic.

The session started at noon and ended at 4.30 pm. The session followed a plan which all of the students had printed and we all listened, talked, discussed, and at last had lunch. I took part in the 10th Simulated session of Parliament for high school students to acquire knowledge about the legislative procedure and the process of passing laws and other acts passed by the Parliament. Basically, I took part to see how our country actually works and how specific rules and declarations, laws are made. I wanted to acquire knowledge that will prepare me to be a good and active citizen of Croatia, and to further understand the politics that take place in my country.

This experience was very valuable not just for me, but for every individual student that now raised their level of knowledge about the highest representative and legislative body of the Republic of Croatia. I believe this type of political activity is very important for the young minds of our country because soon enough the law will be in our hands which is an important step to realizing and understanding our role as citizens in a democratic country.

I found it very interesting listening to all the proposals the student representatives talked about, as well as the open discussions we were able to participate in. I think it’s very important to show encouragement and passion for communities that surround us every day, and I think we did just that by participating and showing our hard work to other fellow students and therefore expanding our knowledge, expanding the community and understanding the importance of love and unity.

[1] https://www.sabor.hr/hr/o-saboru/ustrojstvo-sabora/sluzba-za-gradane/edukativni-centar/simulirana-sjednica

[mariacallous]

Bosnia and Herzegovina completed the formation of a state-level government on Wednesday, several months after the October 2022 general elections, with the approval of the new Council of Ministers led by Borjana Kristo, vice-president of the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, the main Bosnian Croat party. 

Kristo and her council of nine ministers received minimum support in the House of the Representatives of the state parliament, with just 23 out of 42 members voting in their favour. 

Dragan Covic, president of the HDZ, congratulated his party colleague, Kristo. “Fast formation of the Council of Ministers proves that constructive political dialogue in BiH exists. Sincere congratulations to all,” Covic wrote. 

Others criticised the lack of gender equality among the new ministers. Zlatko Miletic, representative of For the New Generations, Za nove generacije, said: “Bosnia and Herzegovina has ratified UN Convention 1325, which talks about gender equality. Bearing in mind that only the HDZ nominated two women, and if that had not happened we would have had a council of men,” Miletic said prior to the vote. “Not to mention the competence and expertise of individual candidates,” he added. 

The state-level coalition in the House of Representatives of the state-level parliament and in the Council of Ministers comprises eight parties: the main Bosnian Serb party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, the HDZ, and six parties from the so-called “Osmorka” (“Eight”) – a group of Bosniak and civic parties.

Two of those eight, the Party for BiH and People’s European Alliance, NES, quit the coalition only 20 days after it was formed, demanding retraction of a new law on state property adopted by the assembly of Republika Srpska, the country’s mainly Serb entity, on December 28.

[brookston]

Holidays 6.7

Holidays

Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)

Battle of Arica Day (Chile)

Beatles Day

Betamax Day

Croatian Diplomacy Day (Croatia)

Daniel Boone Day (Kentucky)

Dunmow Flitch Day

Father’s Day (Lithuania; Switzerland)

Festival of All Possible Worlds

Financial and Economic Sector Workers Day (Kyrgyzt=stan)

Flag Day (Peru)

Fleur-de-Lis Day

International Supply Chain Specialists Day

International Tourettes Awareness Day

Journalist Day (Argentina)

June Bug Day

Kataklysmos (Flood Festival; Cypress)

Land O’Lakes Day

Liberation Day (Norway)

Lime Tree Day (French Republic)

Love Island Day (UK)

Mother’s Day (France; French Antilles)

National Alexandra Day

National Arc Flash Awareness Day (UK)

National Benjamin Day

National Blepharoplasty Day

National CAPHPACH Day (a.k.a. National Citizens Against Police Harassment Police Against Citizen Harassment Day)

National Elias Day

National Goonies Day

National Journalist Day (Argentina)

National Military Working Dog Day (Australia)

National Oklahoma Day

National RV Day

Prince Day

Prince Joachim Day (Denmark)

Sette Giugno (Malta)

Shirone Takogassen (Kite Fighting Festival; Japan)

Sir Randol Fawkes Day (a.k.a.Labour Day; Bahamas)

607 Day

Trial Technology Day

Union Dissolution Day (Norway)

VCR Day

Vivien Kellems Memorial Day

World Caring Day

World Day for the Sanctification of Priests

World Day of Birth Rights

World Hemochromatosis Day

World LPG Day

World Swift Day

Write to Your Father Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Bartender Day

National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

World Food Safety Day

World Poha Day

Independence & Related Days

Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)

Erephisian Technocracy (f.k.a. Orbis; Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]

Norway (from Sweden, 1905)

Parliament Day (Northern Ireland)

Temotu Province Day (Solomon Islands)

1st Friday in June

Action Mesothelioma Day (UK) [1st Friday]

Clean Air Day (Canada) [1st Friday]

European Dental Technicians Day [1st Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Horseradish Weekend begins [1st Friday]

Hospitals Against Violence Day [1st Friday]

Hug an Atheist Day [1st Friday]

International Socks4Docs Day [1st Friday]

National Banana Split Weekend (Begins 1st Friday]

National Day Against Gun Violence (Canada) [1st Friday]

National Donut Day (a.k.a. National Doughnut Day) [1st Friday]

National Fish & Chip Day (UK) [1st Friday]

National Gun Violence Awareness Day [1st Friday]

National Lemonade Days begin [1st Friday]

National Wear a Jockstrap to Work Day [1st Friday]

Salvation Army Day [1st Friday]

Senior Race Day (Isle of Man) [1st Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning June 7 (1st Full Week)

Shampoo Week (thru 6.13)

Superman Week (thru 6.9)

Wear Orange Days [thru 6.8]

Festivals Beginning June 7, 2024

Action in Jackson (Jackson, Wisconsin) [thru 6.8]

Bloodroot Ramble (Healdsburg, California) [thru 6.8]

Cajun Heritage Festival (Larose, Louisiana) [thru 6.9]

Capital Jazz Fest (Columbia, Maryland) [thru 6.9]

Children KinoFest (Kyiv, Ukraine) [thru 6.16]

Fan Expo Dallas (Dallas, Texas) [thru 6.9]

Farmington Strawberry Festival (Farmington, Iowa) [thru 6.9]

Flemington Opa Festival (Flemington, New Jersey) [thru 6.9]

Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival (Fredericksburg, Texas) [thru 6.8]

A German Sommerfest (Lancaster, Texas) [thru 6.8]

Gheens Bon Mange' Festival (Gheens, Louisiana) [thru 6.9]

The Great New York State Food & Wine Festival (Clayton, New York) [thru 6.9]

Greek Festival (Randolph, New Jersey) [thru 6.9]

Grove City Strawberry Days (Grove City, Pennsylvania) [thru 6.9]

Guadalajara International Film Festival (Guadalajara, Mexico) [thru 6.15]

Hartford Taste (Hartford, Connecticut) [thru 6.8]

Huntington Trails Beer and Wine Festival (Huntington, Indiana)

International Documentary Film Festival Artdocfest (Tbilisi, Georgia) [thru 6.9]

International Horseradish Festival (Collinsville, Illinois) [thru 6.8]

Lander Brew Fest (Lander, Wyoming) [thru 6.8]

Lincoln Square Greek Fest (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 6.9]

Norfolk Harborfest (Norfolk, Virginia) [thru 6.9]

Orange Warsaw Festival (Warsaw, Poland) [thru 6.8]

Pork Rind Heritage Festival (Harrod, Ohio) [thru 6.8]

Rhubarb Fest (Aledo, Illinois) [thru 6.8]

Rock am Ring (Nürburg, Germany) [thru 6.9]

Rosedale Strawberry Festival (Rosedale, Indiana) [thru 6.9]

South Dakota BBQ Championships (Huron, South Dakota) [thru 6.8]

Strawberry Festival (Forestville, New York) [thru 6.9]

Strawberry Festival (Hartford, Michigan) [thru 6.8]

Strawberry Festival (Mystic, Connecticut) [thru 6.8]

Sundance Solstice Festival (Anchorage, Alaska) [thru 6.9]

Taste of Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) [thru 6.9]

Taste of Muskegon (Muskegon, Michigan) [thru 6.8]

Taste of Syracuse (Syracuse, New York) [thru 6.8]

Up North Beerfest (Eagle River, Wisconsin) [thru 6.8]

Walleye Weekend (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) [thru 6.9]

WHITE SQUARE International Advertising and Marketing Festival (Minsk, Belarus)

Wimborne Minster Folk Festival (Wimborne Minster, United Kingdom) [thru 6.9]

Feast Days

Amazing Mumford (Muppetism)

Antonio Maria Gianelli (Christian; Saint)

Antony of Gianelli (Christian; Saint)

Captain Jack Sparrow Impersonation Day (Pastafarian)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Artology)

Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)

Colmán of Dromore (Christian; Saint)

Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Damien Hirst (Artology)

Edtors’ Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Flowers Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Gottschalk (a.k.a. Godeschalc, Prince of the Western Vandals; Christian; Martyr)

Gwendolyn Brooks (Writerism)

Judgment Day (Leaping Songs; Shamanism)

Landulf of Yariglia (Asti; Christian; Saint)

Lanfranc (Positivist; Saint)

Louise Erdrich (Writerism)

Ludi Piscatorii (Ancient Rome)

Meriadoc (Christian; Saint)

Meriasek (Christian; Saint)

Paul I of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Paul Gauguin (Artology)

Robert of Newminster (Christian; Saint)

Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière (Christian; Blessed)

Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA))

Smilin’ Ed (Muppetism)

Vestalia begins (until 15th; Old Roman festival to Vesta, goddess of the hearth, home & family)

Vulfagius (a.k.a. Wulphy; Christian; Saint)

Willibald (Christian; Saint)

Christian Liturgical Holidays

Sacred Heart Day [Friday after 2nd Sunday after Pentecost; 68 days after Easter] a.k.a. ... 

Divine Compassion of Christ (Anglican Franciscans)

Feast of the Sacred Heart (Roman Catholic)

Sagrado Corazon (Colombia)

Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (f.k.a.)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [19 of 32]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 26 of 60)

Premieres

Alexander’s Ragtime Band, recorded by Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan (Song; 1911)

Captain Fantastic and the Brown First Cowboy, by Elton John (Album; 1975)

City Slickers (Film; 1991)

Cloak & Dagger (TV Series; 2018)

Dark Phoenix (Film; 2019)

The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth (Novel; 1971)

Dance of the Weed (MGM Cartoon; 1941)

Dinky Finds a Home (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1946)

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Film; 2002)

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (Film; 1991)

El Dorado (Film; 1967)

Face/Off (Film; 1997)

Feedin’ the Kiddie (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1957)

Fields of Gold, by Sting (Song; 1993)

Ghostbustrs (Film; 1984)

The Goonies (Film; 1985)

Grease (Broadway Musical; 1972)

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (WB Animated Film; 2011)

The Hasty Hare (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)

The Heat of the Day, by Elizabeth Bowen (Novel; 1948)

High School Confidential (Film; 1958)

The Honourable Schoolboy, by John le Carré (Novel; 1977)

Horse’s Mouth, by Joyce Cary (Novel; 1950)

I Am Mother (Film; 2019)

The Johnny Cash Show (TV Series; 1969)

Jungle Fever (Film; 1991)

Kim Possible (Animated TV Series; 2002)

Mr. Fore by Fore (Phantasies Cartoon; 1944)

Mr. Money Gags (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

The Mummy (Film; 1999)

Old McDonald Had a Farm (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1946)

The Old Rugged Cross, by George Bennard (Christian Hymn; 1913)

Peep in the Deep (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1946)

Perfect (Film; 1985)

Peter Grimes, by Benjamin Britten (Opera; 1945)

Post, by Björk (Album; 1995)

The Producers (Film; 2002)

Purple, by Stone Temple Pilots (Album; 1994)

Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! (WB LT Cartoon; 1969)

The Rock (Film; 1996)

Salmon Loafer (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1963)

A Satire of the Three Estates, by David Lyndsay (Play; 1552)

The Secret Life of Pets 2 (Animated Film; 2019)

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Bourgeoisie, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (Ballet; 1933)

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

Squatter’s Rights (Disney Cartoon; 1946)

Vincent, recorded by Don McLean (Song; 1971)

What—No Spinach? (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1936)

The Wily Weasel (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1937)

Wimmin is a Myskery (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

The Wise Little Hen (Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1934)

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (Film; 2019)

Today’s Name Days

Anita, Eoban, Gottlieb, Robert (Austria)

Valeri, Valeria (Bulgaria)

Antun, Radoslav, Robert (Croatia)

Iveta (Czech Republic)

Jeremias (Denmark)

Robert, Robi (Estonia)

Robert, Robin, Roope, Suvi (Finland)

Gilbert (France)

Anita, Gottlieb, Raimund, Robert (Germany)

Panagis, Sebastian, Zinais (Greece)

Róbert (Hungary)

Geremia, Landolfo, Roberto, Sabiniano (Italy)

Arnis, Gaida, Gijs (Latvia)

Lukrecija, Radvydė, Ratautas, Robertas (Lithuania)

Robert, Robin (Norway)

Antoni, Ciechomir, Jarosław, Lukrecja, Paweł, Robert, Roberta, Wiesław, Wisław (Poland)

Teodot (România)

Róbert (Slovakia)

Isaac, Roberto (Spain)

Robert, Robin (Sweden)

Theodot (Ukraine)

Keenan, Melody, Nidia, Nydia, Nylene, Whitney (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 159 of 2024; 207 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 23 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Geng-Wu), Day 2 (Ren-Yin)

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

Hebrew: 1 Sivan 5784

Islamic: 30 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 9 Blue; Twosday [9 of 30]

Julian: 25 May 2024

Moon: 2%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 18 St. Paul (6th Month) [Lanfranc]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 81 of 92)

Week: 1st Full Week of June

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 18 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Sīwān (a.k.a. Sivan, Siwan or Simanu) [סִיוָן / סיוון‎] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 3 of 12]

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On this day in Wikipedia: Monday, 1st January

Welcome, ยินดีต้อนรับ (yin dee dtôn rab), mirë se vjen, ласкаво просимо (laskavo prosymo) 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 1st January through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

1st January 2023 🗓️ : Event - Croatia Croatia officially adopts the Euro, becoming the 20th Eurozone country, and becomes the 27th member of the Schengen Area. "Croatia ( , kroh-AY-shə; Croatian: Hrvatska, pronounced [xř̩ʋaːtskaː]), officially the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska ()), is a country situated at the crossroads of Central Europe and the Mediterranean, geographically located in the northwestern part of the Balkan peninsula. Its..."

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1st January 2019 🗓️ : Event - NASA The NASA space probe New Horizons flew by the trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, making it the farthest object visited by a spacecraft. "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. Established in 1958, NASA succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the..."

Image by National Aeronautics and Space Administration

1st January 2014 🗓️ : Death - William Mgimwa William Mgimwa, Tanzanian banker and politician, 13th Tanzanian Minister of Finance (b. 1950) "William Augustao Mgimwa (20 January 1950 – 1 January 2014) was a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kalenga constituency from 2010 to 2014. He also served as Tanzania's Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014...."

1st January 1974 🗓️ : Birth - Christian Paradis Christian Paradis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Industry "Christian Paradis (born January 1, 1974) is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mégantic—L'Érable from 2006 to 2015. A member of the Conservative Party of Canada, he was first elected in the 2006 federal election and served as parliamentary secretary to the..."

Image licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0? by Firefingers10

1st January 1924 🗓️ : Birth - Francisco Macías Nguema Francisco Macías Nguema, Equatorial Guinean politician, 1st President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (d. 1979) "Francisco Macías Nguema (born Mez-m Ngueme, later Africanised to Masie Nguema Biyogo Ñegue Ndong; 1 January 1924 – 29 September 1979), often mononymously referred to as Macías, was an Equatoguinean politician who served as the first President of Equatorial Guinea from the country's independence in..."

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1st January 1823 🗓️ : Birth - Sándor Petőfi Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and activist (d. 1849) "Sándor Petőfi (Hungarian: [ˈʃaːndor ˈpɛtøːfi] []; né Petrovics; Slovak: Alexander Petrovič; Serbian: Александар Петровић; 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849) was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary. He is considered Hungary's national poet, and was one of the key figures of the..."

Image by Miklós Barabás

1st January 🗓️ : Holiday - Dissolution of Czechoslovakia-related observances: Day of the Establishment of the Slovak Republic (Slovakia) "National holidays in Slovakia..."

[brexiiton]

Czech Republic mourns victims of Prague university mass shooting

By Oliver Slow, BBC News

People gathered for Mass at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague to remember those killed

The Czech Republic observed a minute's silence at midday (11:00 GMT) to commemorate those killed in Thursday's mass shooting at a Prague university.

Flags on official buildings were flown at half-mast to mark a day of national mourning.

Fourteen people were shot dead at the Faculty of Arts building of Charles University in the capital by a student who then killed himself.

Police are working to uncover the motive behind the attack.

It is one of the deadliest assaults by a lone gunman in Europe this century.

Those killed in Thursday's attack included Lenka Hlavkova, head of the Institute of Musicology at the university.

Other victims were named as translator and Finnish literature expert Jan Dlask and student Lucie Spindlerova.

The shooting began at around 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) at the Faculty of Arts building off Jan Palach Square in the centre of the Czech capital.

The gunman opened fire in the corridors and classrooms of the building, before shooting himself as security forces closed in on him, police say.

US tourist Hannah Mallicoat told the BBC that she and her family had been on Jan Palach Square during the attack.

"A crowd of people were crossing the street when the first shot hit. I thought it was something like a firecracker or a car backfire until I heard the second shot and people started running," she said.

"I saw a bullet hit the ground on the other side of the square about 30ft [9m] away before ducking into a store. The whole area was blocked off and dozens of police cars and ambulances were going towards the university."

In a statement, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said the country had been shocked by this "horrendous act".

"It is hard to find the words to express condemnation on the one hand and, on the other, the pain and sorrow that our entire society is feeling in these days before Christmas."

The gunman is thought to have killed his father at a separate location. He is also suspected in the killing of a young man and his two-month-old daughter who were found dead in a forest on the outskirts of Prague on 15 December.

The attack had one of the largest death tolls of any mass shooting by a lone gunman in Europe this century:

Norway, July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people by planting a car bomb that killed eight at an Oslo government building and then shooting dead 69 more, most of them teenagers, at an island summer camp run by the ruling Labour Party's youth wing

Germany, April 2002 Robert Steinhauser, 19, killed 16 people - 13 teachers, two pupils, and a policemen - at the Gutenberg Gymnasium secondary school in the city of Erfurt. He had been expelled from the school the previous autumn

Germany, March 2009 Tim Kretschmer, 17, killed 15 people in a shooting that began at his former school in the town of Winnenden, near Stuttgart. He shot dead nine students and three teachers at the school before going on to the nearby town of Wendlingen, where he shot another three passers-by.

Switzerland, September 2001 Friedrich Leibacher entered the regional parliament building in the city of Zug dressed in a police uniform and shot dead 14 people and injured another 10

Serbia, April 2013 Ljubisa Bogdanovic shot dead thirteen people, including a two-year-old boy, and injured his wife in a village outside Belgrade. Bogdanovic was a military veteran who had fought with Serb forces in the Croatian War of Independence in the early 1990s.

Founded in 1347, Charles University is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic and one of the oldest such institutions in Europe.

[hardynwa]

Czech Republic declare national mourning for mass shooting victims

The Czech Republic is holding a day of national mourning for those killed in Thursday's mass shooting at a Prague university. Flags on official buildings are being flown at half-mast and a minute's silence will be observed at midday. Fourteen people were shot dead at the Faculty of Arts building of Charles University in the capital by a student who then killed himself. Police are working to uncover the motive behind the attack. It is one of the deadliest assaults by a lone gunman in Europe this century. Those killed in Thursday's attack included Lenka Hlavkova, head of the Institute of Musicology at the university. Other victims were named as translator and Finnish literature expert Jan Dlask and student Lucie Spindlerova. The shooting began at around 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) at the Faculty of Arts building off Jan Palach Square in the centre of the Czech capital. The gunman opened fire in the corridors and classrooms of the building, before shooting himself as security forces closed in on him, police say. US tourist Hannah Mallicoat told the BBC that she and her family had been on Jan Palach Square during the attack. "A crowd of people were crossing the street when the first shot hit. I thought it was something like a firecracker or a car backfire until I heard the second shot and people started running," she said. "I saw a bullet hit the ground on the other side of the square about 30ft away before ducking into a store. The whole area was blocked off and dozens of police cars and ambulances were going towards the university." In a statement, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said the country had been shocked by this "horrendous act". "It is hard to find the words to express condemnation on the one hand and, on the other, the pain and sorrow that our entire society is feeling in these days before Christmas." The gunman is thought to have killed his father at a separate location. He is also suspected in the killing of a young man and his two-month-old daughter who were found dead in a forest on the outskirts of Prague on 15 December. The attack had one of the largest death tolls of any mass shooting by a lone gunman in Europe this century: - Norway, July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people by planting a car bomb that killed eight at an Oslo government building and then shooting dead 69 more, most of them teenagers, at an island summer camp run by the ruling Labour Party's youth wing - Germany, April 2002 Robert Steinhauser, 19, killed 16 people - 13 teachers, two pupils, and a policemen - at the Gutenberg Gymnasium secondary school in the city of Erfurt. He had been expelled from the school the previous autumn - Germany, March 2009 Tim Kretschmer, 17, killed 15 people in a shooting that began at his former school in the town of Winnenden, near Stuttgart. He shot dead nine students and three teachers at the school before going on to the nearby town of Wendlingen, where he shot another three passers-by. - Switzerland, September 2001 Friedrich Leibacher entered the regional parliament building in the city of Zug dressed in a police uniform and shot dead 14 people and injured another 10 - Serbia, April 2013 Ljubisa Bogdanovic shot dead thirteen people, including a two-year-old boy, and injured his wife in a village outside Belgrade. Bogdanovic was a military veteran who had fought with Serb forces in the Croatian War of Independence in the early 1990s. Founded in 1347, Charles University is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic and one of the oldest such institutions in Europe. Related Topics Read the full article

[fannicroy]

                       MODERN HISTORY OF HUNGARY

Modern Magyar history is tightly entwined with Austrian history. The Habsburg dynasty’s talons were sunk into the tender flesh of Hungary for centuries. Numerous wars, uprisings, rebellions and one assassination after the Magyar people were given their own nation. Even to this day Hungarians avoid clicking glasses/bottles of beer when they toast — it was a Habsburgian custom and one that they did whenever excessive amounts of Hungarian blood had been spilled on the battleground. 

1800s — The Hungarian Constitution dates back centuries but there have been times when it has not been observed. The last time that happened was in the 19th century before the Habsburg king set up the two-kingdom system in Austria-Hungary. Hungary was finally after a long break allowed their own constitution, parliament, laws... Everything but their own king and military. In 1868 there was a time when Croatia became part of Hungary  officially— an autonomous region under Hungary’s protection. The Croatian-Hungarian Agreement existed until Croatia escaped the Habsburgian regime. What it left behind was a strong bond between the countries that was later respected by the marriage of King Màtyàs of Hungary and Princess Ava of Croatia. 

1900s — The 20th century is more interesting when it comes to understanding the Croÿ dynasty. 

WWI — 1914: That very fateful year which lead to years of war in Europe. Serbia declared war on Austria-Hungary, which dragged numerous countries into the WWI. H ungary separated from Austria and established its own sovereign nation. This was when the Croÿs stepped into the picture. They were a silly insignificant aristocratic family that happened to have family members spread through Austria-Hungary ( and Europe but that’s far too irrelevant, tiny families, forgettable names ). Nearly everyone who was someone had a spouse or a brother-in-law or a mother who bore the Croÿ name. It was pure dumb luck that the head of the Croÿ family ( who, back then, was married to the countess of Ráckeve ) was crowned king. He was demure, unthreatening, and most importantly, well-liked. Everyone could agree to be ruled by him, by the Croÿs because everyone thought they had a more important connection to the ruling family than everyone else. The ascension was by no means easy and clean, but at least the monarchists had one clear opinion and that was that the Croÿs should be the next rulers. There were many skirmishes, assassination attempts, actual murders before Hungary became an official monarchy in 1919. Three monarchist prime ministers were murdered in two years after that. It wasn’t a good start. The Croÿs have the pacifistic democratic government to thank for for their crown. Had the first prime minister done a better job, it’s possible that the monarchists wouldn’t have become so popular. On European standards the Croÿs are the royal equivalent of nouvea-riche — their claim to the throne does not date back centuries, only some decades. A family that had ever only been relevant in Hungary suddenly became a lead actor in East European politics. 

PARABELLUM — It was a rough few decades for Hungary and for the Croÿs. No one was happy, Romania was a bully, pacifism was proven to be inefficient, the Entente forces took what they wanted and there was little broken and instable Hungary could do to stop them. The Treaty of Trianon was a public embarrassment to the Croÿs. It was one of the first major papers the recently chosen king signed. Hungary lost 72% of its land area, but it gained peace. Transylvania was lost, Czechoslovakia and Croatia as well. These areas were never regained. 

WWII — Hungary aligned itself with Germany and Italy. The rise of irredentism and the popularity of Magyarization made it a no-brainer so to speak. The bad blood that existed between Hungary and most of its neigbours was another reason too. With the Axis powers by their side, it seemed possible that Hungary would be able to regain all the lost territories. This did not happen of course. Pride comes before a downfall and Hungary’s was bloody, violent, and shameful. 

POST-WAR ERA — Hungary paid a high price for its stupidity. The Soviet Union got its hand tightly around Hungary’s neck. It was a time to bow down and kiss the feet of Soviet leaders. Or at least it was for a while. The Croÿs gave it a go for a few years but as the atmosphere in Hungary changed drastically with the rise of communism, the Croÿs escaped Hungary for a period of a decade. Getting disposed by the new overlords did not seem too tempting. Vienna was a much more pleasant place. They were never officially overthrown, they even had some sway in Hungarian politics even beyond the border, but it was very clear that things wouldn’t go to the way things had been before the war. 

THE FALL OF THE USSR — The Croÿs have the Romanovs to thank for their current position. Had communism prevailed in Hungary, the Croÿs would have gone out like a flame in a lidded jar. When the Romanovs took over Russia and the Croÿs seized the opportunity to reclaim their position as the head of the country. It started by imprisoning dozens of opposition politicians, handing out power to every ally they could think of, using mercenaries to create an illusion of a real army. 

MODERN ERA — The Croÿs' adopted a new way of conducting business: befriend everyone. One strategy had earned them the throne and one strategy would help them keep it: marriages. All of the living Croÿs are either unmarried or married to someone influential. They say it just happened to happen that way but everyone can decide what is the truth. The Croÿs try to please the people. No more uprisings is very much the slogan of their reign. No more uprisings and fuck no to communism. It is one of the reasons why Hungary has been very reluctant to make big moves when everyone around them have been going crazy. The only reason why they attempted to help Spain during the Spanish-Portuguese war was because they could not eat their words. Levente had married Ines, the pact needed to be respected. It was a shame that Queen Ava’s sister did not feel quite so strongly about her sister’s marriage pact. 

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Croatian Anti-Fascist Struggle Day is Based on a Lie

Croatian Anti-Fascist Struggle Day is Based on a Lie

Anti-Fascist Struggle Day is a public holiday in Croatia. It is observed on 22nd of June, and commemorates the formation of the First Sisak Partisan Detachment, a Communist-led guerilla unit, on 22nd June 1941., as well as the general uprising of Communist Partisans against the Axis. The public holiday was introduced by the Croatian Parliament in 1991, replacing the commemoration of the Chetnik…

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10/08/2023 is World Octopus Day 🐙🌎, Croatian Parliament Day 🇭🇷, Grandparents Day 👵👴🇩🇪, Indian Air Force Day 🛩🇮🇳, American Touch Tag Day 🇺🇲, National Fluffernutter Day 🇺🇲, National Pierogi Day 🇺🇲, Clergy Appreciation Day 🇺🇲, World Migratory Bird Day 🐦🇺🇳

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Famous murals from around the world 🎨

Explore some of the world’s best murals, courtesy of MSN!

Lonac, “Nitpicking” – Rijeka, Croatia

Croatian artist Lonac created this photorealistic mural of a man (his father) focused on the model of a ship for the MMSU Rijeka Spajalica public art project. He used around 100 cans of spray paint with some 50 different color tones and worked seven days to create this piece.

Hosier Lane – Melbourne, Australia

Perhaps one of the most famous street art locations in the world, Hosier Lane in Melbourne is essentially an open canvas, meaning that any artist can go and add to the murals. The result is an impressive mishmash of different styles. You can get lost in this eclectic lane and revisit many times, having a completely different experience each time.

Multiple artists – Incheon, South Korea

Incheon’s mural, painted over silos, is the largest outdoor mural in the world, according to Guinness World Records. The mural resembles a set of 16 books and shows the story of a boy growing into an adult.

Artist unknown, “I love you so much” – Austin, USA

Perhaps not an impressive street mural per se, this phrase, graffitied on the side of Jo’s Coffee on South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, has become one of the most famous pieces of street art in the world and an attraction in its own right. Apparently, the owners of the coffee shop, who are a couple, got into a fight and one of them painted this love declaration on the side of the building.

Petit Champlain Murals – Old Quebec, Canada

Old Quebec is known for its beauty, and the Petit Champlain trompe l’œil murals are no exception. The area between this neighbourhood and Parliament Hill is home to remarkable works of art, including Fresque du Petit-Champlain.

Muralis – Sherbrooke, Canada

The thing that makes Sherbrooke’s murals special is that Easter eggs are hidden in all of the paintings. Visitors to this city in Quebec are invited to try and find them thanks to an app—which also makes the murals come alive!

Guido van Helten, “No Exit” – Reykjavik, Iceland

These beautiful black-and-white murals are based on Andrés Kolbeinsson’s photographs of a local production of the Jean-Paul Sartre play “No Exit” in the 1960s. They are located on the Loftkastalinn building, a former theatre space in Reykjavik, Iceland and were pained in the winter of 2013-14.

Dmitri Vrubel, “My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love” – Berlin, Germany

This political mural depicts a 1979 photograph where Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the Soviet Union, and Erich Honecker, the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of the German Democratic Republic, share a socialist fraternal kiss.

It is located on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall and has become an emblem of the city.

Patrick Commecy, multiple murals – France

Patrick Commecy and his team, under the name A.Fresco, have painted over 300 trompe l’œil murals to beautify existing buildings. Each piece is custom to the building it is located on to make sure that it fits the décor and story of the place. This one is “Levallois en fleurs.”

Millo, “Everyone Is Searching for It” – Milan, Italy

Painted in 2015 and depicting a man searching for love in the big city using a fortune stick and a woman hopefully catapulting her heart, Millo’s Everyone Is Searching for It is a great example of the artist’s signature style.

Louis Gan, “Brother and sister having fun on the swing” – George Town, Malaysia

George Town is known for its street art (amongst many other things, of course) and this mural, Brother and sister having fun on the swing, is probably one of the city’s most photographed, because passersby can include themselves in the art!

Banksy, “Girl with Balloon” – London, UK

Arguably one of the most famous murals in recent years, Banksy’s Girl with Balloon was first painted on Waterloo Bridge in 2002, and other similar murals were also painted around London, although none remain today. In fact, in 2018, a framed copy of the painting spontaneously shredded while it was being auctioned, thanks to a mechanical device that the artist had hidden in the frame.

ChemiS, “House of Cards” – San Nicolas, Aruba

Painted as part of the Aruba Art Fair, ChemiS’s House of Cards takes up the whole façade of the Winter Garden bar restaurant and nightclub. Its trompe l’œil effect is really impressive!

Comic Book Route – Brussels, Belgium

In 1991, the City of Brussels authorities and the Belgian Comic Strip Center undertook the project of creating a comic strip route in the city of Brussels, covering up plain walls. The project has since grown to over 50 murals.

Belfast Murals – Belfast, Ireland

Northern Ireland has a complicated and tumultuous political and religious history and the Belfast Murals depict this, highlighting important moments and people of the last 40 years. One of the best ways to visit is with a black cab tour, to admire the works of art and learn about the local history.

El Mac & Gene Pendon, “Leonard Cohen” – Montreal, CA

Montreal is a city renowned for its street art and holds the annual Mural street art festival. In recent years, two gigantic murals honouring the late Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen have sprung up on building façades. The most impressive one is located on Crescent Street and can be admired from the city’s Kondiaronk belvedere.

Keith Haring, “We the Youth” – Philadelphia, USA

Created in 1987 in collaboration with the CityKids Foundation and restored in 2013, We the Youth is the only Keith Haring mural that remains intact in its original site. The mural was painted to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the United States Constitution and is a play on the phrase “We the people.”

The mural is located at 22nd and Ellsworth Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Thanks to MSN for the images and text provided above.

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Events 9.14 (after 1940)

1940 – Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing. 1943 – World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons. 1944 – World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces. 1948 – The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo. 1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village. 1958 – The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere. 1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded. 1960 – Congo Crisis: Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution. 1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI. 1979 – Afghan leader Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party. 1982 – President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated. 1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean. 1985 – Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic. 1989 – The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide. 1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal. 1993 – Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people. 1994 – The rest of the Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike. 1997 – Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India. 1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom. 1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations. 2000 – Microsoft releases Windows Me. 2001 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital. 2002 – Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 crashes near Paranapanema, Brazil, killing both pilots on board. 2003 – In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union. 2003 – Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia Seabra. 2007 – Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years. 2008 – Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board. 2015 – The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016. 2019 – Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. 2022 – Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with the queue of mourners stretching for miles along the River Thames.

[mariacallous]

According to the first unofficial results of the State Election Commission, Croatia’s governing centre-right party, the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, convincingly won the parliamentary elections on Wednesday and took 61 of the 151 seats.

Its main challenger, the “River of Justice” coalition, gathered around the Social Democratic Party, SDP, won 42.

The rightist Homeland Movement came third with 14 seats, Most (The Bridge) won 11, and Mozemo! (We Can!) won 10. The Istrian Democratic Parliament, IDS, and Independent Platform North won two seats each, and the Fokus-Republika coalition won one.

No party has an absolute majority in parliament, which requires the support of 76 votes. The post-election coalitions that will be negotiated in the coming days will form the majority that will elect the Prime Minister and members of the government.

Croatia’s parliament consists of 151 seats, of which 140 are elected in ten territorial units in Croatia. Three seats are elected by the diaspora and eight by national minorities, three by the Serbian national minority. The other 21 minorities elect five. The special constituency for Croatian citizens without residence in Croatia gave the HDZ three mandates, with 79.87 per cent of the votes.

The elections were marked by a high turnout, which was attributed in part to a short but stormy campaign between HDZ Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and President Zoran Milanovic, who was not even a candidate, but acted as an unofficial representative of the opposition.

On Thursday, Plenkovic said the new government should be formed by the winner of the election, meaning the HDZ. In his speech, he also attacked Milanovic’s “flagrant violation of the Constitution”.

“There is a big difference between us and other political parties, especially those that tonight again articulated a kind of hate speech against the HDZ … I invite all those parties that have won the trust of Croatian citizens, and do not show this kind of a priori exclusivity, like those who we defeated by almost 20 points,” Plenkovic said.

But Sandra Bencic from Mozemo! said it was still possible to keep the HDZ from power.

“The scenario that the HDZ is removed from power and the right does not enter the government is achievable, I call on all political actors from left to right who swore that their main goal is to destroy the corrupt octopus and that they will never be with HDZ, to be consistent like us, to respect citizens and voters and say no to the HDZ,” she said.

“These results are certainly not what we wished for,” said SDP president Pedja Grbin, “but they showed that two-thirds of the citizens want changes, that they are not satisfied with what is happening in Croatia, and we will not let them down.”

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hey jason, can you say "The assassination of Croatian politician Stjepan Radić in the Yugoslav parliament on the 20th of June 1928 by member of parliament Puniša Račić was a travesty that exemplified the attitude of the autocratic Yugoslav government towards those they saw a threat to their centralization policies." 🥺🥺🥺

Sorry I didn’t have time to read that dono 🥺 Thanks for the ten though I hope you have a good day 🥺🥺