#monte carlo and new zealand

[aimeedaisies]

✨ 15 days of Princess Anne ✨

August is Princess Anne’s birth month and her 73rd birthday is on the 15th so until then we will look at her fascinating life, one photo for every year!

The seventies

1970 Princess Anne with her brother Prince Charles in an open top car on parade during their tour of New Zealand, March 1970.

1971 Princess Anne with Crown Prince Harald and Crown Princess Sonja of Norway in June 1971.

1972 Princess Anne, Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Princess Grace of Monaco (AKA Grace Kelly) at the Opera de Monte-Carlo in Monte-Carlo, Monaco, 7th July 1972.

1973 Prince Philip walking his daughter, Princess Anne, down to aisle at her wedding to Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey, November 14 1973. (Don’t do it Anne 🙈)

1974 Princess Anne, wearing the festoon tiara, inspecting the 48th Canadian Hussars whilst on tour of Canada, 15th November 1974.

1975 Princess Anne, Mark Phillips, Lord Louis Mountbatten and King Carl Gustaf of Sweden attending a banquet at Claridges, 10th July 1975.

1976 Princess Anne riding Goodwill, in the dressage class of the Montreal Olympics, July 1976.

1977 Princess Anne with her newborn son Peter Phillips on his christening day, 12th December 1977.

1978 Princess Anne visiting the 4th Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signal Squadron at Lahr, West Germany, 20th October 1978.

1979 Princess Anne and her mother Queen Elizabeth II, out riding their horses in the snow, during their New Year holiday at Sandringham, 2nd January 1979.

[nuagederose]

following up to my original post for “vostok” (the antarctic mermaid and the pinned post—the dtiys for that goes all the way to may 1, too!), i give you my prompts for mermay around the world. i tried to get all the continents—it’s tricky here with the states because we’re such a melting pot of cultures and dialects, so i picked two of the cities i can readily represent through art (i was going to use new orleans or nashville but i’m slightly more drawn to vegas and hawai’i).

this is inspired by three things:

planetary coalition (the obvious one).

some time ago, i was looking into art of the middle east, namely israel and iran (before the revolution of 1979, of course) and feeling enamored by it all.

the third thing that inspired it was thinking about east asian art and how i’ve always been drawn to it. i don’t know how my mind jumped to it but i thought about angkor wat and block paintings of temples in southeast asia, and my mind being the rocket it is went from there.

***i also don’t want to hear any objections to tel aviv and kiev being on here. if you don’t like it, do your own or use someone else’s list.

i’m dropping these now to give plenty of time to study the art and culture of each city. i’d rather let people be influenced and inspired than appropriate 😉

Kingston (Jamaica) 🇯🇲

Las Vegas (United States) 🇺🇸

Mexico City (Mexico) 🇲🇽

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 🇧🇷

Santiago (Chile) 🇨🇱

Honolulu (United States) 🇺🇸

Manila (Philippines) 🇵🇭

Tokyo (Japan) 🇯🇵

Shanghai (China) 🇨🇳

Phnom Penh (Cambodia) 🇰🇭

Auckland (New Zealand) 🇳🇿

Sydney (Australia) 🇦🇺

Suva (Fiji) 🇫🇯

New Delhi (India) 🇮🇳

Kathmandu (Nepal) 🇳🇵

Istanbul (Turkey) 🇹🇷

Tel Aviv (Israel) 🇮🇱

Cairo (Egypt) 🇪🇬

Yamoussoukro (Ivory Coast) 🇨🇮

Freetown (Liberia) 🇱🇷

Fez (Morocco) 🇲🇦

Porto (Portugal) 🇵🇹

Monte Carlo (Monaco/the French Riviera) 🇲🇨

Geneva (Switzerland) 🇨🇭

Athens (Greece) 🇬🇷

Kiev (Ukraine) 🇺🇦

Prague (the Czech Republic) 🇨🇿

Brussels (Belgium) 🇧🇪

Helsinki (Finland) 🇫🇮

Vilnius (Lithuania) 🇱🇹

Dublin (Ireland) 🇮🇪

[goalhofer]

2024 olympians representing non country of residence part 1

USA: Jaime Czarkowski, swimming (Calgary, Alberta); Catalina Gnoriega, archery (Mexicali, Mexico); Colin Heathcock, fencing (Beijing, China) & Jennifer Mucino-Fernandez (Ciudad Mexico, Mexico) Afghanistan: Kamia Yousufi, athletics (Mashhad, Iran) Albania: Chermen Valiev, wrestling (Moscow, Russia) Algeria: Saoussen Boudiaf, fencing (Roubaix, France); Mehdi Bouloussa, table tennis (Saint-Denis, France); Carole Bouzidi, canoeing (Paris, France); Messaoud Dris, judo (Paris, France); Zohra Kehli, fencing (Bagnolet, France); Koceila Mammeri, badminton (Lyon, France); Tanina Mammeri, badminton (Lyon, France) & Kaylia Nemour (Saint-Benoît-La-Forêt, France) Antigua & Barbuda: Ellie Shaw, swimming (Fairfax County, Virginia) & Tiger Tyson, sailing (Auckland, New Zealand) Argentina: Pascual Di Tella, fencing (Brooklyn, New York); Emiliano Grillo, golf (San Diego, California); Nadia Podoroska, tennis (Alicante, Spain); Alejandro Tosti, golf (Gainesville, Florida) & Rocco Ríos-Novo, soccer (Los Angeles, California) Aruba: Philip Elhage, shooting (Willemstad, Curaçao) & Just Van Aanholt, sailing (Willemstad, Curaçao) Australia: Alex De Minaur, tennis (Alicante, Spain); Thaisa Erwin, equestrian (Middleburg, Virginia); Raphaelle Gauthier, swimming (Montreal, Quebec); Daniel Golubovic, athletics (Manhattan Beach, California); Min Jee, table tennis (Seoul, South Korea); Miloš Maksimović, water polo (Novi Sad, Serbia); Jacob Merčep, water polo (Dubrovnik, Croatia); Kathryn Mitchell, athletics (Monte Carlo, Monaco); Georgii Okorokov, wrestling (Yakutsk, Russia); Hilary Scott, equestrian (Valkenswaard, The Netherlands); Ajla Tomljanović, tennis (Boca Raton, Florida); Josh Turner, rugby (Hamilton, New Zealand); Samantha Whitcomb, basketball (Ventura, California) & Joshua Yong; swimming (Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei) Austria: Lorena Abicht, sailing (Hamburg, Germany); Valentin Bontus, sailing (Poetto, Italy); Alina Kornelli, sailing (Munich, Germany); Lukas Mähr, sailing (Eichenzell, Germany); Elisabeth Straka, archery (Hamburg, Germany) & Josef Straka, golf (Vestavia Hills, Alabama) Azerbaijan: Tiffany Hayes, basketball (Winter Haven, Florida); Uşangi Kokauri, judo (Gori, Georgia); Zelym Kotsoiev, judo (Vladikavkaz, Russia); Magomedkhan Magomedov, wrestling (Aleksandriskaya, Russia); Georgi Meshvildishvili, wrestling (Tbilisi, Georgia); Alexandra Mollenhauer, basketball (Lindale, Texas); Mariya Stadnyk, wrestling (Lviv, Ukraine) & Marcedes Walker, basketball (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Bahrain: Amani Al-Obaidli, swimming (Brisbane, Australia); Tigist Gashaw-Beday, athletics (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia); Askerbii Gerbekov, judo (Roscha, Russia); Gor Minasyan, weightlifting (Gyumri, Armenia); Lesman Paredes (Buenaventura, Colombia) & Akhmed Tazhudinov (Gergebil, Russia) Belgium: Thomas Detry, golf (Dubai, U.A.E.); Adrien Dumont-De Chassart, golf (St. Johns County, Florida) & Delphine Nkansa, athletics (Paris, France) Benin: Valentin Houinato, judo (Sainte-Geneviève-Des-Bois, France) & Alex Kpade, swimming (Le Havre, France) Bermuda: Dara Alizadeh, rowing (Brookline, Massachusetts) & Erica Hawley, triathlon (Boulder, Colorado) Bolivia: Esteban Núñez, swimming (Antibes, France) Brazil: Nicolas Albiero, swimming (Louisville, Kentucky); Angelina Costantino, soccer (Jersey City, New Jersey); Laura De Andrade, tennis (Barcelona, Spain); Tatiana Dos Santos, surfing (Kauai County, Hawaii); Camilla Gluckstein, gymnastics (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey); Nathalie Mollhausen, fencing (Milan, Italy); Thiago Monteiro, tennis (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Rodrigo Pessoa, equestrian (Wilton, Connecticut); Luana Silva, surfing (Honolulu County, Hawaii); Felipe Toledo, surfing (San Clemente, California) & Thiago Wild, tennis (Buenos Aires, Argentina) British Virgin Islands: Adaejah Hodge, athletics (Douglasville, Georgia) Brunei: Hayley Wong, swimming (Pudong, China) Bulgaria: Aik Mnatsakarian, wrestling (Akhalkalaki, Georgia); Kevin Penev, gymnastics (Penfield, New York) & Magomed Ramazanov, wrestling (Khasavyurtovsky, Russia)

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.24 (before 1960)

1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6. 1387 – English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate. 1401 – Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1603 – James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I. 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan. 1663 – The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne. 1720 – Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February. 1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051. 1765 – Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops. 1794 – In Kraków, Tadeusz Kościuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces. 1829 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament. 1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith. 1854 – President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela 1860 – Sakuradamon Incident: Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke is assassinated by rōnin samurai outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle. 1869 – The last of Tītokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising. 1870 – a Chilean prospecting party led by José Díaz Gana discovers the silver ores of Caracoles in the Bolivian portion of Atacama Desert,[leading to the last of the Chilean silver rushes and a diplomatic dispute over its taxation between Chile and Bolivia. 1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300. 1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. 1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. 1900 – Carnegie Steel Company is formed in New Jersey; its capitalization of $160 million is the largest to date. 1921 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad began in Monte Carlo, becoming the first international women's sports event. 1927 – Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defence of the foreign citizens within the city. 1934 – The Tydings–McDuffie Act is passed by the United States Congress, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth. 1939 – The 1939 Liechtenstein putsch takes place; approximately 40 members of the VBDL starting from Nendeln march towards Vaduz with the intention of overthrowing the government and provoking Liechtenstein's annexation into Germany. 1944 – German troops massacre 335 Italian civilians in Rome. 1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III. 1946 – A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership. 1949 – Hanns Albin Rauter, a chief SS and Police Leader, in the Netherlands, is convicted and executed for crimes against humanity.

[carfreakclassics]

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[snowmains]

Dirt rally 2

#Dirt rally 2 drivers#

Content is something DiRT Rally 2.0 Game of the Year Edition is not short of. If Rallycross is more your thing, there’s another thirteen circuits including official courses from the FIA World Rallycross Championship. That’s a whopping thirteen rally locations and more stages than a manned mission to Mars. This includes locations such as Finland, Germany, Sweden, Scotland, Wales, Greece and Monte Carlo to join the original six rally locations of the USA, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Poland and Spain. It’s still not a walk in the park and learning to play on a controller will take time and practice but it is possible and very, very rewarding.Īs is typical of Game of the Year editions, this release includes all the cars and tracks that were locked behind DiRT Rally 2.0’s Year 1 pass. One positive out of this change however, is that it’s easier to play on a controller which makes it far more accessible than DiRT Rally ever was. That being said, moving to a model that causes such a drastic change regardless is an odd choice given how good things already were. Given wheel support varies between hardware it may just be that our Thrustmaster TX wheel isn’t as well supported as others. Every surface feels pretty much the same and it's much harder to judge where the grip is. However it seems to have made its way into DiRT Rally 2.0 and it’s pretty disappointing. It felt a little lacklustre when compared to its simulation stablemate but then, given DiRT 4’s more arcade leanings, this could be forgiven. McRae’s Subaru and a rally game, simply iconicĭiRT 4 followed two years later, more a sequel to Dirt: Showdown than DiRT Rally and with it a new handling model. Each surface could be differentiated through the force feedback helping you navigate the stage alongside your co-driver’s pace notes. Updated visuals aside, it was the deftness in the handling and the feel, especially if you had a wheel setup, that really set it apart. Steeped in simulation, it was precisely what sim rally fans had been after. It was with shock and sheer delight then that in 2015 Codemasters released, originally in Steam’s early access, DiRT Rally. This isn’t to say they were bad games but it left those who enjoyed playing sims with a game that would slowly but surely show its age when it came to not only graphics but compatibility. Whilst it strove for realism, the McRae titles slowly but surely tilted towards arcade mayhem. It goes without saying that in reality, the best rallying experience up until recently for full-on realism belonged to Richard Burns’ Rally.

#Dirt rally 2 drivers#

Don’t get me wrong, I have every respect for drivers in the current WRC Championship and for sheer success no-one gets close to the likes of Sébastien Loeb - yet Colin McRae and his rally game brought forth my first real taste of what rallying was like and I doubt I am alone in that respect. Even now, listing the names of the rally drivers I watched as a kid gives me chills: Richard Burns, Carlos Sainz Sr, Juha Kankkunen, Tommi Mäkinen and of course Colin McRae. As a kid born in the eighties I’ve been fortunate enough to say I’ve seen some of the titans of motorsport duel it out. Move your cursor over the value to see individual results.When it comes to motorsport icons I count myself lucky. The value in the fields displays the average frame rate of all values in the database. Uncertain – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game and no reliable interpolation can be made based on the performances of surrounding cards of the same class or family. A slower card may be able to achieve better and more consistent frame rates than this particular GPU running the same benchmark scene. Uncertain – This graphics card experienced unexpected performance issues during testing for this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, fluent frame rates are expected. May Run Fluently – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, stutters and poor frame rates are expected.įluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 25fpsįluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 35fpsįluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 58fps May Stutter – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, average frame rates are expected to fall below 25fps Stutters – This game is very likely to stutter and have poor frame rates. n123 Number of benchmarks for this median value / * Approximate position

[maniacwatchestheworld]

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[Clip from Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, “Monte Carlo and New Zealand”]

I gotta say. I love how even when no one else wants to applaud him, The Great Fondoo believes in himself! I could only hope to have his kind of confidence and self-love one day.

[monacowsla]

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[diabolus1exmachina]

Nissan 240 RS 

The 240RS celebrated its debut at the Rallye Monte Carlo 1983 with Timo Salonen at the wheel. In addition to the Nissan Team Europe, the Japanese company itself also used some vehicles in rally events, especially in Europe, Great Britain and in some World Rally events. After some failures in Europe they concentrated more on endurance events in Africa like at the Ivory Coast or in Kenya. An exceptionally good result was achieved with second place in New Zealand in the same year. Between 1983 and 1985, international starter lists recorded a total of 20 participations of the 240RS in WRC events, with a total of four podium finishes. Victories were impossible against the upcoming AWD cars from competitors, especially the Audi quattro – probably also because Nissan didn’t use a turbocharger or even an electronic fuel injection system. Instead they relied on classic Solex double carburetors with a diameter of 50 millimeters. Thus, only 275 hp were available in the competition cars and 240 hp in the street version, both times transmitted to the rear wheels via a manual five-speed gearbox. Thanks to their lightweight construction, the car only weighs around 970 kilograms.While rally cars are known for diverse bodywork extensions and spoilers made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic, in the 1980s also homologation specials received these attachments. Thus, the street versions of the Nissan 240RS were painted in innocent white, but showed marzial optics. Also the bootlid was replaced with a significantly lighter part made of plastic, while instead of normal glass they used polycarbonate for the rear side windows and the rear window. Inside a plastic dashboard in typical 80s boxy design with only four analogue round instruments replaced the normal Silvia dashboard.Despite its unusual design and only a few rally successes, Nissan could easily sell all 200 copies. 50 of them were RHD, 150 LHD. Many of them were used by privateers for rallying, so the street version is exceptionally rare today 

[scotianostra]

September 15th 2007 saw the tragic death of Scottish  world rally champion, his son Johnny, the boy’s friend Ben Porcelli and Graeme Duncan, when his helicopter came down near McRae’s home in Lanark.

Born on 5th August 1968 in Lanark, McRae was part of a racing family from the start alongside future rally driving brother Alastair McRae. As the son of rally legend Jimmy McRae, Colin got involved in autotesting from the age of 16 and quickly excelled on rough surfaces.

1986 saw the young star behind the wheel of a Talbot Sunbeam in the Scottish Rally Championship, and two years later he claimed the championship title after beating off competition in his rally-prepared Vauxhall Nova. After upgrading to a Ford Sierra XR 4x4i and latterly a Sierra Cosworth, McRae stunned crowds at the 1987 Rally New Zealand by finishing 5th in the heavy, rear-wheel drive coupe in a field dominated by grippier four-wheel-drive machines.

Only four years later, McRae turned professional and started a world-famous association with the Prodrive rally team and their blue-and-gold Subaru Impreza WRC cars. As a curious aside in 1992, McRae also competed for Prodrive in a BMW 3-series coupe at the Knockhill round of the British Touring Car Championship, where he was disqualified for causing an avoidable collision with fellow racer Matt Neal.”

The Scot’s first professional World Rally Championship win came in 1993 at Rally New Zealand where he had shocked crowds in the Ford before. McRae by this point was reaching the peak of his career, with an out-an-out duel with world champion teammate Carlos Sainz seeing McRae crowned as World Rally Champion for 1995.

Subsequent seasons saw him fail to better his second place, and he completed a move to rivals Ford in 1999.

At Ford, McRae’s rapid pace and flamboyant driving style remained while the American company paid him approximately six million pounds over two years; making him the highest-paid rally driver in history at the time. Reliability issues with the Ford Focus WRC - and McRae’s penchant for rally-ending flips and crashes - meant that he would again finish fourth in 2000 and second in 2001, behind Finn Tommi Makkinen and fellow Brit Richard Burns.

Eventually, McRae’s contract with Ford expired at the end of 2002 and the Scot made the move to up-and-coming hopefuls Citroen. Alongside former teammate Carlos Sainz and then-rookie Sebastian Loeb, McRae secured a second-place finish on that year’s Monte Carlo rally, which was to be his highest rally finish for the remainder of that season where he finished seventh in the championship rankings.

After being let go by the French outfit due to 2004 rule changes that reduced the number of championship drivers in a team from 3 to 2, McRae was left without a drive for the new season. It was in this year that he decided to try out different forms of motorsport, with an entry into the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race with a Prodrive-entered Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello rewarding him with a third place podium spot in his class and ninth place finish overall. McRae would also enter the Dakar Rally event in latter years and even make a surprise return to the WRC in a semi-works team Citroen Xsara in 2006 after Loeb had broken his hand.

McRae’s unexpected death in September 2007 came not behind the wheel of a car but in a helicopter accident which also took the lives of his son and family friends. Reacting to the news of his death, close friend and then F1 racer David Coulthard said: “He was fearless, flamboyant, [and] blindingly quick in the car. He had all the good Scottish traits.”

Coulthard then opted to race the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix with a commemorative helmet design to honour the Lanark icon, as seen in the pics.

Since the death of Colin McRae, the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally has been run in Perth since 2008 and attracted big-name rally stars such as Ari Vatanen, Stig Blomqvist, Travis Pastrana and Colin’s father, Jimmy McRae. McRae is frequently cited as one of the most exciting and talented drivers by spectators, thanks to his fluid driving style which often saw the car pitched sideways through corners.

[a-valorant-effort]

can u do enemies to lovers w yoru 🥺 like maybe their rlly good partners in valorant but their both too stubborn 2 admit they like eachother n all the other agents r like 😉😏😏 tysm!!!!!!

*sees enemies to lovers request*

Cass:

Keep it Together

Yoru x GN!Reader

I got carried away with this one oop-

“Would you get out of the way? I can’t even see through the scope.”

“I’m in the rift, Y/N.”

“Oh, my bad. You’re big blue ego must have leaked back into this dimension, you’ll be spotted quick.”

It’s like this. Everyday. Back and forth. Left and right. Yin and Yang. Y/N and Yoru haven’t gotten along since the day they showed up. Yoru, a flashy radiant with the power to travel through dimensions and become invisible to the enemy team, was a force to be reckoned with when it came to being a ground fighter. Y/N, was the opposite. Powerless, dull, armed with nothing but their quick wit and lethal aim. It was in this clause where they differed so heavily. No one really knows why they do it. Jealousy? Intimidation? Or simply pure hatred? One claiming to be better than the other, competing for kills on deadly missions and high stakes infiltrations. Y/N, the eyes in the sky, while Yoru lie low.

“Both of you, stop bickering. Your target is in there, kill him, then get out.” Brimstone sounded tired over the communicator, more so than usual.

Through a stroke of chance, Yoru was able to sneak past the guards and saw their target. Pulling out his knife, he slowly crept up to the man before his heart almost dropped at the sound of a bullet coming through the window. The target lie dead.

“Got em.” Y/N giggled through the com.

“Oh, fuck you.”

The bickering never stops, not even once their mission is over.

“I don’t need a flashy power to be better than you.” Y/N leaned over the couch, their arms swung over the cushions.

“Neither do I.”

Y/N scoffed. “You’re nothing without that radianite.”

“The same can be said about your weapon and you. You’re nothing without that either.” Yoru looked into their eyes, smirking.

“Y/N. A word.” Brimstone called from the hall.

“Daddy’s calling.” Yoru laughed.

“At least mine came back.” Y/N shoved a pillow in his face and walked off.

“Jesus christ. Do you two ever stop arguing?” Viper rubbed her temples.

Jett nonchalantly tuned in, her eyes still trained on a video game on the tv. “Yeah dude, you two need to fuck already.”

Yoru coughed. “What?!”

“Yeah bro, you two got something going on there.” Phoenix was beside her, focusing just as intently.

“You’re hysterical. I don’t like Y/N, I just want to put them in their place.”

“In your be-,”

“No.”

Phoenix and Jett laughed.

“I’m serious. I despise Y/N. I would rather listen to Killjoy talk about astrophysics all day.”

“Oh really? What do you hate about Y/N?”

“Oh wow, where do I start? They’re useless. They can’t do anything but aim really well from a distance. I have to save their ass everytime they get into a little bit of danger. I hate how they look when they get a good shot with the operator. I hate that stupid little giggle they have. I hate the way their uniform perfectly hugs their hips a certain way. I hate it when their pupils dilate slightly when the get excited, I hate it.” Yoru took a breath. Phoenix and Jett stared at him, their attention fully drawn to him.

“What?”

“Dude, you’ve got it so bad.” Jett laughed.

It struck him like a hammer to a nail. The more he thought about Y/N, the more endearing the thoughts became. Oh god, he liked them. He loved them.

“Well no point in standing here loverboy!” Yoru hadn’t realized he said it out loud, so Phoenix’s response caught him off guard. “You gotta tell them!”

“No chance, they hate me. No way they feel the same.”

~~~

“This fighting needs to stop.”

Brimstone had Y/N in the briefing room, sitting on opposite sides of the long ovular table.

“It’s not my fault he gets on my nerves at every turn.” Y/N kicked their feet up. “And if you hate us fighting so much, why don’t you just separate us? Seems to me anytime I need a partner you’re putting me with the rift-rat.”

Brimstone put his hand to his forehead. “Y/N, do you know why I pair you up with Yoru?”

“Clearly not.”

“Because mission success rates are the highest when you two are put back to back. Monte Carlo, Venice, New Zealand, all of your duo missions have come back successful, the only error is when you two decide to turn it into some sort of competition.” Brimstone laid out a file folder that was labeled “Rift-shot” Y/N opened it to find all of their and his statistics lying within it. “Think about what you two could do if you stopped trying to step on each other and instead tried to lift each other up. You’ve done it before.”

That last part was interesting to Y/N because, well... yeah, they have. They can remember all of the times Yoru has bandages them up in a clutch situation, or the times Yoru was about to get caught but a piercing bullet to the head deliver by them had saved him. Whether they liked it or not, Y/N and Yoru were perfect for each other. Back and forth. Left and right. Yin and Yang.

“We’ve got reports of a radianite shipment getting lost somewhere in Croatia, you think you’re up for the task?” Y/N lifted their head and looked Brimstone in the eye who gave them a knowing look.

“Fine. I can do it.”

“Not the answer I’m looking for.”

Y/N sighed. “We can do it.”

Brimstone smiled. “Dropship will be ready for you first thing tomorrow morning, I expect no issues.”

~~~

Yeah. There were issues.

Why Y/N had agreed to a mission when they couldn’t even look at each other now wasn’t their best move. They uncomfortably shuffled next to their partner who was also trying to mask his discomfort. They stayed like this, two trained killers who couldn’t even look each other in the eye for more than a second. Through apologies, awkward shuffling and flinching at even the smallest touch, they found it difficult not to say anything.

Y/N was the first to speak. “Hey.” Yoru turned his head. “I uh, I’m sorry I took that knife kill from you. I probably should have-”

Yoru interrupted. “No!” He coughed, and readjusted his tone. “You did well. As long as the target is dead we did our jobs well.”

“I guess so.” Y/N leaned in a bit more towards Yoru, more comfortable in his presence now. “And the look on your face was pretty funny.”

They giggled, and for once Yoru didn’t find it obnoxious or annoying. It was, cute. Comforting. And it made Yoru laugh along too. “I can’t say I disagree.”

Y/N held out their hand. “We make a good team, don’t we?”

Yoru held his out with a smile. “Yeah. I guess we do.”

And in that moment, everything felt right.

~~~

So why did everything go wrong?

Y/N hit the ground running, as fast they could even though they were carrying a whole human over their shoulder. Yoru was loosing blood quick, they knew that, but there wasn’t much they could do until they were out of harms way.

“The drop ship isn’t far, come on, you have to stay with me.” Y/N went as fast as they could, trying to make Yoru comfortable but also rushing at the same time.

The two hobbled into the ship, dodging bullets on their way. Once they were safe, Yoru collapsed on the cool metal floor, blood seeping through his clothes and violently coughing dead air.

“Hey hey hey.” Y/N frantically kneeled next to him and cupped his face. “It’s a 90 minute flight home, you have to hold on a little longer, I’ll do what I can to keep you around until then.”

His face may have been bloody and pale, but Y/N still saw him as the beautiful boy he was. Stroking his cheek and gingerly running their fingers through his hair, Yoru tried his best to muster a smile.

Yoru held the back of Y/N’s neck, trying to bring their face closer down. “Come here.” Y/N leaned down and Yoru lifted his head slightly to meet them with a kiss.

“Keep it together ok?” Y/N said after they broke the kiss. “I can’t lose you.”

Yoru pressed another kiss to their cheek and closed his eyes, knowing that his Y/N would be there when he woke.

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February 13, 1971: THE INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL IN MONTE CARLO.

New Zealand actress Myree Dawn Porter (left) well known for her part as Irene in the television series The Forsyte Saga, is seen with Princess Grace of Monaco when they attended the International Television festival in Monte Carlo.

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Laff-a-Lympics Ep. 20 “Monte Carlo and New Zealand”

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2024 olympians representing non country of residence part 4

Greece: Nick Calathes, basketball (Winter Park, Florida); Dauren Kurugliev, wrestling (Derbent, Russia); Maria Sakkari, tennis (Barcelona, Spain); Stamatia Scarvelis, athletics (Santa Barbara, California); Theodoros Tselidis, judo (Vladikavkaz, Russia); Stefanos Tsitsipas, tennis (Monte Carlo, Monaco) & Thomas Walkup, basketball (Deer Park, Texas) Grenada: Tilly Collymore, swimming (Norfolk, Virginia); Zackary Gresham, swimming (Miami, Florida) & Halle Hazzard, athletics (Huntington, New York) Guam: Nicola Lagatao, weightlifting (Manila, The Philippines) Guatemala: Luis Grijalva, athletics (Fairfield, California) Guinea: Safiatou Acquaviva, athletics (Aix-En-Provence, France); Aliou Baldé, soccer (Ziguinchor, Senegal); Marie Branser, judo (Leipzig, Germany); Rayane Doucouré, soccer (Paris, France); Mariana Esteves, judo (Lisbon, Portugal); Haladj Keita, soccer (Angers, France) & Abdoulaye Touré, soccer (Nantes, France) Guyana: Aliyah Abrams, athletics (Grayson, Georgia) & Chelsea Edghill, table tennis (Aveiro, Portugal) Haiti: Christopher Borzor, athletics (Hempstead, New York); Lynnzee Brown, gymnastics (State College, Pennsylvania); Emelia Chatfield, athletics (Miami, Florida); Mayah Chouloute, swimming (Boca Raton, Florida); Alexandre Grand'Pierre, swimming (Atlanta, Georgia) & Philippe Metellus, judo (Montreal, Quebec) Honduras: Julimar Ávila, swimming (Boston, Massachusetts) & Melique García, athletics (Watervliet, New York) Hong Kong: Ian Ho, swimming (Blacksburg, Virginia) & Chengzhu Zhu, table tennis (Houyangzhou, China) Hungary: Geraldine Mahieu, water polo (Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France); Bányai Márk, water polo (Oradea, Romania); Rebecca Parkes, water polo (Hamilton, New Zealand); Pedro Rodríguez, handball (Vigo, Spain); Omar Salim, taekwondo (Carson, California) & Márton Viviana, taekwondo (Madrid, Spain) Iraq: Hussein Ali, soccer (Malmö, Sweden); Josef Al-Imam, soccer (Malmö, Sweden); Kumel Al-Rekabe, soccer (Aarau, Switzerland) & Youssef Amyn, soccer (Essen, Germany) Ireland: Sophie Bideau-O'Sullivan, athletics (Melbourne, Australia); Victoria Catterson, swimming (Belfast, U.K.); Madison Corcoran, canoeing (Montgomery County, Maryland); Michaela Corcoran, canoeing (Montgomery County, Maryland); Ross Corrigan, rowing (Enniskillen, U.K.); Daniel Coyle, equestrian (Ardmore, U.K.) Erin Creighton, cycling (Belfast, U.K.); Tim Cross, field hockey (Melbourne, Australia); Grace Davison, swimming (Bangor, U.K.); Philip Doyle, rowing (Banbridge, U.K.); Thomas Fannon, swimming (Torquay, U.K.); Eric Favors, athletics (Haverstraw, New York); Conor Ferguson, swimming (Belfast, U.K.); Jude Gallagher, boxing (Newton Stewart, U.K.); Ben Healy, cycling (Kingswinford, U.K.); Danielle Hill, swimming (Newtonabbey, U.K.); Liam Jegou, canoeing (Huningue, France); Stephanie Kallan, golf (Phoenix, Arizona); Abigail Lyle, equestrian (Bangor, U.K.); Imogen Magner, rowing (Ely, U.K.); Max McCusker, swimming (Harlow, U.K.); Ciara McGing, diving (London, U.K.); Rory McIlroy, golf (Jupiter, Florida); John McKee, field hockey (Banbridge, U.K.); Peter McKibbin, field hockey (Belfast, U.K.); Ryan Mullen, cycling (Colwyn Bay, U.K.); Chay Mullin, rugby (Bristol, U.K.); Kelly Murphy, cycling (London, U.K.); Sean Murray, field hockey (Lisburn, U.K.); Matthew Nelson, field hockey (Belfast, U.K.); Christopher O'Donnell, athletics (Loughborough, U.K.); Ashleigh Orchard, rugby (Belfast, U.K.); Nick Page, field hockey (London, U.K.); Jake Passmore, diving (Leeds, U.K.); Michael Robson, field hockey (Belfast, U.K.); Shane Ryan, swimming (Haverford Township, Pennsylvania); Alice Sharpe, cycling (Cambridge, U.K.); Nathan Timoney, rowing (Enniskillen, U.K.); Aidan Walsh, boxing (Belfast, U.K.); Michaela Walsh, boxing (Belfast, U.K.) & Daniel Wiffen, swimming (Magheralin, U.K.)

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Events 11.19 (after 1950)

1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe. 1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece. 1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III. 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue. 1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong. 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon. 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal. 1977 – TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131. 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran. 1984 – San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people. 1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty. 1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud. 1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia. 1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers. 1996 – A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing 14. 1998 – Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton. 1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft. 1999 – John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 76,000 m3 (20 million US gal) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history. 2004 – The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery. 2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand. Twenty-nine people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914. 2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others. 2022 – A gunman kills five and injures 17 at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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1974 Chevrolet Monte Carlo by Stephen Trinder Via Flickr: VCC Christchurch Swap Meet October 2017