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The Princess of Wales can always be relied upon for a strong fashion look. This visit to Boston, her first overseas trip since the death of the late Queen, is no exception.

Through her wardrobe, Catherine has delivered on the style moments that her fans so love, whilst keeping the message focused on the Earthshot Prize and its goals. 

Here, we break it down, piece by piece ...

The Emilia Wickstead dress

For an engagement at Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child, Catherine wore a bespoke version of Emilia Wickstead's 'Miles' pencil dress.

Credit: Paul Edwards / The Sun | Source: PA

The Mulberry bag

Catherine carried a pale blue Mulberry 'Harlow' bag. The label is a savvy choice for this trip, as the heritage brand now boasts a transparent and sustainable 'farm to finished product' supply chain.

Source: Getty Images

The Solace London gown

Catherine walked the Earthshot Prize Awards green carpet in a Solace London gown, which was rented from Hurr. The neon hue also reflected the evening's planet-conscious theme.

The gown was teamed with Queen Mary's Art Deco emerald and diamond choker, which was previously on lifetime loan to Princess Diana. The diamond and emerald earrings are new, by Asprey.

Credit: Karwai Tang | Source: WireImage

The Alexander McQueen coat

For a walk along Boston Harbour on Thursday, Catherine wore a new bespoke Alexander McQueen coat and bespoke Gianvito Rossi brown suede boots, her go-to brand for formal footwear.

The Gabriela Hearst knitwear

Underneath her coat, the Princess wore a vibrant new cashmere and silk poloneck and skirt set by New York-based Gabriela Hearst, a fashion industry leader when it comes to sustainable manufacturing and business practices.

The Daniella Draper earrings

She completed the look with her gold and diamond maxi Cupid hoops by Daniella Draper.

Credit: Chris Jackson | Source: PA

The Roland Mouret suit

For a visit to Greentown Labs, North America’s largest climate technology start-up incubator, Catherine wore a burgundy tailored suit by London-based label Roland Mouret, which featured a fitted jacket and 1970s-inspired flared trousers.

Credit: Kirsty O'Connor | Source: PA

The pussy-bow blouse

She enhanced the Seventies look of the Mouret suit with a pale pink pussy-bow blouse - making for a stylish colour combination too. 

Credit: Karwai Tang | Source: WireImage

The Chanel handbag

Catherine carried a Chanel top handle bag, which we first saw her carry on a visit to Paris in 2017.

Credit: Reuters

The Laura Lombardi necklace

The Princess accessorised with earrings by Shyla London (the Biarritz Squiggle style) and a chunky gold chain necklace by sustainable US jewellery label Laura Lombardi.

The vintage Chanel jacket

Courtside seats at the basketball call for some glamour, and Catherine delivered a fashion flex in a 1995 vintage Chanel tweed jacket. 

Credit: Paul Edwards / The Sun | Source: PA

The Alexander McQueen coat

Catherine wore a deep green Alexander McQueen coat and Emmy London heels for an engagement at Speaker's Corner, where, alongside the city's mayor Michelle Wu and Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, they formally launched Earthshot by lighting up Boston.

Credit: Chris Jackson | Source: Chris Jackson Collection

The Burberry dress

Another bespoke piece, this time a dress from Burberry in the label’s exaggerated viridian green and navy tartan-inspired check.

Credit: Paul Edwards / The Sun | Source: PA

The Shyla London earrings

The earrings were a new addition to her jewellery collection, the chunky knot baroque pearl style by Shyla London.

The Mulberry bag

Catherine's look was completed by a new bag, Mulberry's small Amberley satchel in heavy grain Mulberry green.

Credit: Samir Hussein | Source: WireImage

The Alexander McQueen suit

Catherine stepped off the plane at Logan airport in a deep indigo Alexander McQueen suit with a neat leather belt, polo neck knit and Gianvito Rossi courts.

Credit: Chris Jackson | Source: PA

Princess Diana's earrings

Catherine teamed her suit with William's late mother's sapphire and diamond double drop earrings for her arrival in Boston.

Credit: Chris Jackson | Source: PA

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REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS / The First Speech (DC) from Giordano Maestrelli on Vimeo.

Production Company - Stink Films, Berlin Director - Giordano Maestrelli Director of Photography - Konrad Losch Managing Director - Justin Stiebel Executive Producer - Moritz Merkel Executive Producer - Florian Hülbig Producer - Melody Micmacher Creative Assistant - Bruno Beserra Editor - Simon Klinkertz Colorist - Joseph Bicknell @ Company 3 Color Producer - Cassidy Conway Music & Sound Design - Satelite Audio Music Direction - Hurso Ambrifi Client Service - Fernanda Costa Post Production & Mixing - Carla Cornea, Andre Giannini, Vithor Moraes, Arthur Dossa Production Coordinator: Camila Guedes, Leticia Oliveira, Bea Vieira Sound Studio  - Studio Funk Berlin Executive Producer - Uta Wittchen & Katharina Knieling Sound Engineer / Audio & Music - Marius Wiechmann Storyboard Artist - Eilis Scally

Reporters Without Borders Germany (RSF): Head of Communications - Sylvie Ahrens-Urbanek Public Relations Officer - Prisca Martaguet

INNOCEAN Berlin: CCO - Gabriel Mattar ECD - Ricardo Wolff Head of Art - Maso Correa Heck Associate Design Director - Will Cega Art Director - Leon Celay Copywriter - Juan Andrés Kebork Motion Designers - Carlos Suárez and Alexander Aleksidze Head of Capacity Management - Paulina Gonzalez Producer / Head of Production - Fabian Barz Post Production Producer - Jan Scholz Strategy Director - Jörn Ballentin Sr. Strategist - Odile Breffa Senior Media Manager - Maja Lah

Service Production Georgia - Metro Productions Executive Producer - Aleksandre Gabilaia Head of Production - Maia Gurabanidze Head of Bidding - Mariam Tevdorashvili 1st AD - Sopio Parjiani 2nd AD - Mariami Gugushvili Production Manager - Tato Pantsulaia Production Coordinator - Nino Megrelishvili Unit Manager - Merab Rostomashvili Location manager - Natia Chomakhidze Location manager assistant - Zaza Chigladze Transportation Manager - Davit Peradze Transportation Manager - David Maghlakelidze PA / Chaperone - Mariam Tsiklauri PA - Irakli Kakabadze

Set Manager - Konstantine Chkhaidze Set helpers - Buba Kupatazde Set helpers - Lasha Kupatadze Set helpers - Saba Sagrishvili Cleaner - Svetlana Bagdasarian

Art Director - Sopo Bazghadze Set Dresser - Shota Bagalishvili Production Designer Assistant - Achiko Shamakhia Art Assistant - Nina Jandieri Art Assistant: MURAL - Giorgi Khavelashvili Art Assistant: MURAL - Erekle Gordeladze

Stylist - Ketevan Kalandadze Stylist Assistant - Nino Chkoidze MUA - Veriko Bedeladze HAIR - Nino Dashniani

Focus Puller - Irakli Jgenti Camera AC - Guram Mosikashvili Camera AC - Khatia Khalvashi Playback Assistant - Koba Rostiashvili DIT - Gosha Tabidze Gaffer - Shalva Leluashvili Key Grip - Tengo Kasradze Grip / Light - Mikheil Gvalia Grip / Light - Giorgi Gogbaidze Grip / Light - Davit Eremadze Grip / Light - Gia Guluashvili Grip / Light - Davit Gogichaishvili Grip / Light - Vako Leluashvili Grip / Light - Giorgi Eremadze Dolly Crew - Giorgi Zakaidze Dolly Crew - Lasha Gugushvili Dolly Crew - Teimuraz Kupradze

Driver - Gia Tetrazde Driver - Avto Ugulava Driver - Gigo Lomtatidze Driver - Zaza Magaldadze Driver - David Odishelidze Driver - Roland Gogokhia Driver - Giorgi Koshadze Driver - Anatoli Kliushnichenko Driver - Ramaz Davitiani Driver - Giorgi Gogashvili

Service Production Brazil - Stink Saõ Paulo / Yatta Films Executive Producer - Rafa Rocha Production Manager - Maria Eduarda Caldeira Brino Production Manager - Daniel Lombardi Production Assistant - Sofia Lombardi Production Assistant - Victoria Valenti Chaperone - Nahaiana Vieira Cardoso 1st AD - Jan Monczka 2nd AD - Juliana Dias Caldas

Set Manager - Marcelo de Menezes Cachapuz Set Manager Assist - Marcelo Pasin Set Manager Assist - Jones silva de Oliveira Set Manager Assist - Adriano Pereira

Location Manager - Bruno De Souza Palaoro Location Manager Assist - Marcelo Araujo Frangipani

Production Designer - Martino Piccinini Art Assistant - Alice Goulart Furtado Art Producer - Soraia De Matia Props Coordinator - Camila Vettorazi Franzen Set Decorator - Julia Perez Paiva Melgarejo Props Master - Andre Luiz Micael Valli Castilho Props master Assist - Rafael Serpa Gerchmann Props master Assist - Victoria Perez Paiva Melgarejo Props master Assist - Lucas Rodrigues Do Amaral Props master Assist - Joabel Fontoura De Azevedo [Biel] Props master Assist - Maria Vitória Reimundo Varante Props master Assist - João Vitor Copetti Teixeira Helper - Maurício Ignácio Silveira Helper - Alisson Barboza Maciel

Costume Designer - Isadora Bertolucci Costume Assist - Samara Raquel Pereira Da Silva Costumer - Adriana Talaveira [Mana] HMU - Luana Ramos Zinn HMU - Gabrielle Ávila de Oliveira HMU - Eduarda Lombardi Pellenz Brum [Dudinha]

1st AC - Marcelo Ostrovski Bevilacqua 2nd AC - Gabriela Bortolon De Oliveira Video Assist - Laurie Braatz DIT - Juliano Rodrigues Moreira

Gaffer - Roberto Ramos Best Boy - Flavio Pinheiro De Souza [Cabeça] Electrician - Frederico Barbosa Ramos Electrician - Jefferson dos Santos Oliveira Helper - Vinícius Rojas Lopes Helper - Filipe Rodrigues Alves

Key Grip - Andre Luis Da Cunha Campanhol Best Boy Grip - Fabio Da Silva Dias Grip - Rodrigo Lopes Espíndola Grip - Ismael Borges Santos Helper - Josué Da Costa Celaro Helper - Nicolas Gabriel Luciano Huf

Casting Producer - Amanda Michelini Schmitz Casting Assistant - Pedro Alberto Santana Sanhudo [Pepa]

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REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS / The First Speech (DC) from Giordano Maestrelli on Vimeo.

Production Company - Stink Films, Berlin Director - Giordano Maestrelli Director of Photography - Konrad Losch Managing Director - Justin Stiebel Executive Producer - Moritz Merkel Executive Producer - Florian Hülbig Producer - Melody Micmacher Creative Assistant - Bruno Beserra Editor - Simon Klinkertz Colorist - Joseph Bicknell @ Company 3 Color Producer - Cassidy Conway Music & Sound Design - Satelite Audio Music Direction - Hurso Ambrifi Client Service - Fernanda Costa Post Production & Mixing - Carla Cornea, Andre Giannini, Vithor Moraes, Arthur Dossa Production Coordinator: Camila Guedes, Leticia Oliveira, Bea Vieira Sound Studio  - Studio Funk Berlin Executive Producer - Uta Wittchen & Katharina Knieling Sound Engineer / Audio & Music - Marius Wiechmann Storyboard Artist - Eilis Scally

Reporters Without Borders Germany (RSF): Head of Communications - Sylvie Ahrens-Urbanek Public Relations Officer - Prisca Martaguet

INNOCEAN Berlin: CCO - Gabriel Mattar ECD - Ricardo Wolff Head of Art - Maso Correa Heck Associate Design Director - Will Cega Art Director - Leon Celay Copywriter - Juan Andrés Kebork Motion Designers - Carlos Suárez and Alexander Aleksidze Head of Capacity Management - Paulina Gonzalez Producer / Head of Production - Fabian Barz Post Production Producer - Jan Scholz Strategy Director - Jörn Ballentin Sr. Strategist - Odile Breffa Senior Media Manager - Maja Lah

Service Production Georgia - Metro Productions Executive Producer - Aleksandre Gabilaia Head of Production - Maia Gurabanidze Head of Bidding - Mariam Tevdorashvili 1st AD - Sopio Parjiani 2nd AD - Mariami Gugushvili Production Manager - Tato Pantsulaia Production Coordinator - Nino Megrelishvili Unit Manager - Merab Rostomashvili Location manager - Natia Chomakhidze Location manager assistant - Zaza Chigladze Transportation Manager - Davit Peradze Transportation Manager - David Maghlakelidze PA / Chaperone - Mariam Tsiklauri PA - Irakli Kakabadze

Set Manager - Konstantine Chkhaidze Set helpers - Buba Kupatazde Set helpers - Lasha Kupatadze Set helpers - Saba Sagrishvili Cleaner - Svetlana Bagdasarian

Art Director - Sopo Bazghadze Set Dresser - Shota Bagalishvili Production Designer Assistant - Achiko Shamakhia Art Assistant - Nina Jandieri Art Assistant: MURAL - Giorgi Khavelashvili Art Assistant: MURAL - Erekle Gordeladze

Stylist - Ketevan Kalandadze Stylist Assistant - Nino Chkoidze MUA - Veriko Bedeladze HAIR - Nino Dashniani

Focus Puller - Irakli Jgenti Camera AC - Guram Mosikashvili Camera AC - Khatia Khalvashi Playback Assistant - Koba Rostiashvili DIT - Gosha Tabidze Gaffer - Shalva Leluashvili Key Grip - Tengo Kasradze Grip / Light - Mikheil Gvalia Grip / Light - Giorgi Gogbaidze Grip / Light - Davit Eremadze Grip / Light - Gia Guluashvili Grip / Light - Davit Gogichaishvili Grip / Light - Vako Leluashvili Grip / Light - Giorgi Eremadze Dolly Crew - Giorgi Zakaidze Dolly Crew - Lasha Gugushvili Dolly Crew - Teimuraz Kupradze

Driver - Gia Tetrazde Driver - Avto Ugulava Driver - Gigo Lomtatidze Driver - Zaza Magaldadze Driver - David Odishelidze Driver - Roland Gogokhia Driver - Giorgi Koshadze Driver - Anatoli Kliushnichenko Driver - Ramaz Davitiani Driver - Giorgi Gogashvili

Service Production Brazil - Stink Saõ Paulo / Yatta Films Executive Producer - Rafa Rocha Production Manager - Maria Eduarda Caldeira Brino Production Manager - Daniel Lombardi Production Assistant - Sofia Lombardi Production Assistant - Victoria Valenti Chaperone - Nahaiana Vieira Cardoso 1st AD - Jan Monczka 2nd AD - Juliana Dias Caldas

Set Manager - Marcelo de Menezes Cachapuz Set Manager Assist - Marcelo Pasin Set Manager Assist - Jones silva de Oliveira Set Manager Assist - Adriano Pereira

Location Manager - Bruno De Souza Palaoro Location Manager Assist - Marcelo Araujo Frangipani

Production Designer - Martino Piccinini Art Assistant - Alice Goulart Furtado Art Producer - Soraia De Matia Props Coordinator - Camila Vettorazi Franzen Set Decorator - Julia Perez Paiva Melgarejo Props Master - Andre Luiz Micael Valli Castilho Props master Assist - Rafael Serpa Gerchmann Props master Assist - Victoria Perez Paiva Melgarejo Props master Assist - Lucas Rodrigues Do Amaral Props master Assist - Joabel Fontoura De Azevedo [Biel] Props master Assist - Maria Vitória Reimundo Varante Props master Assist - João Vitor Copetti Teixeira Helper - Maurício Ignácio Silveira Helper - Alisson Barboza Maciel

Costume Designer - Isadora Bertolucci Costume Assist - Samara Raquel Pereira Da Silva Costumer - Adriana Talaveira [Mana] HMU - Luana Ramos Zinn HMU - Gabrielle Ávila de Oliveira HMU - Eduarda Lombardi Pellenz Brum [Dudinha]

1st AC - Marcelo Ostrovski Bevilacqua 2nd AC - Gabriela Bortolon De Oliveira Video Assist - Laurie Braatz DIT - Juliano Rodrigues Moreira

Gaffer - Roberto Ramos Best Boy - Flavio Pinheiro De Souza [Cabeça] Electrician - Frederico Barbosa Ramos Electrician - Jefferson dos Santos Oliveira Helper - Vinícius Rojas Lopes Helper - Filipe Rodrigues Alves

Key Grip - Andre Luis Da Cunha Campanhol Best Boy Grip - Fabio Da Silva Dias Grip - Rodrigo Lopes Espíndola Grip - Ismael Borges Santos Helper - Josué Da Costa Celaro Helper - Nicolas Gabriel Luciano Huf

Casting Producer - Amanda Michelini Schmitz Casting Assistant - Pedro Alberto Santana Sanhudo [Pepa]

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REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS / The First Speech (DC) from Giordano Maestrelli on Vimeo.

Production Company - Stink Films, Berlin Director - Giordano Maestrelli Director of Photography - Konrad Losch Managing Director - Justin Stiebel Executive Producer - Moritz Merkel Executive Producer - Florian Hülbig Producer - Melody Micmacher Creative Assistant - Bruno Beserra Editor - Simon Klinkertz Colorist - Joseph Bicknell @ Company 3 Color Producer - Cassidy Conway Music & Sound Design - Satelite Audio Music Direction - Hurso Ambrifi Client Service - Fernanda Costa Post Production & Mixing - Carla Cornea, Andre Giannini, Vithor Moraes, Arthur Dossa Production Coordinator: Camila Guedes, Leticia Oliveira, Bea Vieira Sound Studio  - Studio Funk Berlin Executive Producer - Uta Wittchen & Katharina Knieling Sound Engineer / Audio & Music - Marius Wiechmann Storyboard Artist - Eilis Scally

Reporters Without Borders Germany (RSF): Head of Communications - Sylvie Ahrens-Urbanek Public Relations Officer - Prisca Martaguet

INNOCEAN Berlin: CCO - Gabriel Mattar ECD - Ricardo Wolff Head of Art - Maso Correa Heck Associate Design Director - Will Cega Art Director - Leon Celay Copywriter - Juan Andrés Kebork Motion Designers - Carlos Suárez and Alexander Aleksidze Head of Capacity Management - Paulina Gonzalez Producer / Head of Production - Fabian Barz Post Production Producer - Jan Scholz Strategy Director - Jörn Ballentin Sr. Strategist - Odile Breffa Senior Media Manager - Maja Lah

Service Production Georgia - Metro Productions Executive Producer - Aleksandre Gabilaia Head of Production - Maia Gurabanidze Head of Bidding - Mariam Tevdorashvili 1st AD - Sopio Parjiani 2nd AD - Mariami Gugushvili Production Manager - Tato Pantsulaia Production Coordinator - Nino Megrelishvili Unit Manager - Merab Rostomashvili Location manager - Natia Chomakhidze Location manager assistant - Zaza Chigladze Transportation Manager - Davit Peradze Transportation Manager - David Maghlakelidze PA / Chaperone - Mariam Tsiklauri PA - Irakli Kakabadze

Set Manager - Konstantine Chkhaidze Set helpers - Buba Kupatazde Set helpers - Lasha Kupatadze Set helpers - Saba Sagrishvili Cleaner - Svetlana Bagdasarian

Art Director - Sopo Bazghadze Set Dresser - Shota Bagalishvili Production Designer Assistant - Achiko Shamakhia Art Assistant - Nina Jandieri Art Assistant: MURAL - Giorgi Khavelashvili Art Assistant: MURAL - Erekle Gordeladze

Stylist - Ketevan Kalandadze Stylist Assistant - Nino Chkoidze MUA - Veriko Bedeladze HAIR - Nino Dashniani

Focus Puller - Irakli Jgenti Camera AC - Guram Mosikashvili Camera AC - Khatia Khalvashi Playback Assistant - Koba Rostiashvili DIT - Gosha Tabidze Gaffer - Shalva Leluashvili Key Grip - Tengo Kasradze Grip / Light - Mikheil Gvalia Grip / Light - Giorgi Gogbaidze Grip / Light - Davit Eremadze Grip / Light - Gia Guluashvili Grip / Light - Davit Gogichaishvili Grip / Light - Vako Leluashvili Grip / Light - Giorgi Eremadze Dolly Crew - Giorgi Zakaidze Dolly Crew - Lasha Gugushvili Dolly Crew - Teimuraz Kupradze

Driver - Gia Tetrazde Driver - Avto Ugulava Driver - Gigo Lomtatidze Driver - Zaza Magaldadze Driver - David Odishelidze Driver - Roland Gogokhia Driver - Giorgi Koshadze Driver - Anatoli Kliushnichenko Driver - Ramaz Davitiani Driver - Giorgi Gogashvili

Service Production Brazil - Stink Saõ Paulo / Yatta Films Executive Producer - Rafa Rocha Production Manager - Maria Eduarda Caldeira Brino Production Manager - Daniel Lombardi Production Assistant - Sofia Lombardi Production Assistant - Victoria Valenti Chaperone - Nahaiana Vieira Cardoso 1st AD - Jan Monczka 2nd AD - Juliana Dias Caldas

Set Manager - Marcelo de Menezes Cachapuz Set Manager Assist - Marcelo Pasin Set Manager Assist - Jones silva de Oliveira Set Manager Assist - Adriano Pereira

Location Manager - Bruno De Souza Palaoro Location Manager Assist - Marcelo Araujo Frangipani

Production Designer - Martino Piccinini Art Assistant - Alice Goulart Furtado Art Producer - Soraia De Matia Props Coordinator - Camila Vettorazi Franzen Set Decorator - Julia Perez Paiva Melgarejo Props Master - Andre Luiz Micael Valli Castilho Props master Assist - Rafael Serpa Gerchmann Props master Assist - Victoria Perez Paiva Melgarejo Props master Assist - Lucas Rodrigues Do Amaral Props master Assist - Joabel Fontoura De Azevedo [Biel] Props master Assist - Maria Vitória Reimundo Varante Props master Assist - João Vitor Copetti Teixeira Helper - Maurício Ignácio Silveira Helper - Alisson Barboza Maciel

Costume Designer - Isadora Bertolucci Costume Assist - Samara Raquel Pereira Da Silva Costumer - Adriana Talaveira [Mana] HMU - Luana Ramos Zinn HMU - Gabrielle Ávila de Oliveira HMU - Eduarda Lombardi Pellenz Brum [Dudinha]

1st AC - Marcelo Ostrovski Bevilacqua 2nd AC - Gabriela Bortolon De Oliveira Video Assist - Laurie Braatz DIT - Juliano Rodrigues Moreira

Gaffer - Roberto Ramos Best Boy - Flavio Pinheiro De Souza [Cabeça] Electrician - Frederico Barbosa Ramos Electrician - Jefferson dos Santos Oliveira Helper - Vinícius Rojas Lopes Helper - Filipe Rodrigues Alves

Key Grip - Andre Luis Da Cunha Campanhol Best Boy Grip - Fabio Da Silva Dias Grip - Rodrigo Lopes Espíndola Grip - Ismael Borges Santos Helper - Josué Da Costa Celaro Helper - Nicolas Gabriel Luciano Huf

Casting Producer - Amanda Michelini Schmitz Casting Assistant - Pedro Alberto Santana Sanhudo [Pepa]

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Events 4.18 (before 1940)

796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days. 1428 – Peace of Ferrara between Republic of Venice, Duchy of Milan, Republic of Florence and House of Gonzaga: ending of the second campaign of the Wars in Lombardy fought until the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, which will then guarantee the conditions for the development of the Italian Renaissance. 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid. 1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland. 1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication. 1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros. 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid. 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements. 1783 – Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution. 1831 – The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 1847 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico. 1857 – "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France. 1864 – Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement. 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. 1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria. 1902 – The 7.5 Mw  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000. 1906 – The 7.9 Mw earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California, killing more than 3,000 people, making one of the worst natural disaster in American history. 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. 1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City. 1915 – World War I: French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines. 1916 – World War I: During a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army. 1930 – A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services. 1939 – Robert Menzies, who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons.

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UKRAINE/UE : VERS UN SUICIDE GÉOPOLITIQUE EUROPÉEN N’oublions jamais que les États-Unis sont en grande partie responsables, depuis 25 ans, de la situation actuelle.

Henry Kissinger l’a toujours rappelé : « Nous n’avons fait aucun effort sérieux pour associer la Russie à une nouvelle architecture de sécurité en Europe ».

Washington n’a jamais cherché véritablement à profiter, au début des années 2000, et durant ses premiers mandats, des dispositions de Vladimir Poutine de s’ouvrir à l’Europe et l’Occident.

Le président russe songeait même, à l’époque, à rejoindre l’Alliance atlantique avec l’espoir d’une redéfinition du rôle de l’OTAN ou en créant « une nouvelle entité dans laquelle la Russie deviendrait un partenaire égal »

La Russie d’aujourd’hui n’a plus rien à voir avec l’URSS d’hier qui avait elle aussi des vues sur l’Europe de l’ouest. Poutine, lui, n’a pas d’idéologie à infliger ni d’espace vital à conquérir. Il a lui-même déclaré, et ce à plusieurs reprises, qu'entre Moscou et Vladivostok, il y avait 9 000 kilomètres et que la Russie avait d'autres projets que d'envahir les pays baltes (membres de l’OTAN de surcroît !).

Soyons sérieux !

Actuellement, nous ne sommes plus au temps des grandes conquêtes et des grandes invasions. L’Union soviétique a d’ailleurs connu le prix à payer lors d’une occupation d’un pays tiers et hostile comme en Afghanistan.

L’affaire ukrainienne, même si les Russes ont démontré depuis ces dernières semaines qu’ils ont appris de leurs erreurs initiales et qu’ils ont réactualisé et réadapté avec succès leur stratégie dans l’est du pays a sûrement dû échaudé plus que jamais le Kremlin à propos de ce genre d’aventure…

Au final, le vrai problème de l’Europe et sûrement sa principale menace, avant même celles que nous venons d’énumérer, est peut-être simplement sa classe dirigeante technocratique, déconnectée du réel et manichéenne.

Qu’attendre de politiciens européens otages des « États profonds» atlantistes et empêtrés dans des conflits d’intérêts personnels avec les « puissances de l’argent » anglo-saxonnes ou chinoises.

De véritables petits télégraphistes de Washington et des boy-scouts irresponsables qui, par leur inconséquence, leur hystérie suicidaire et leur folle idéologie, veulent, comme le rappellent si justement Henri Guaino et Pierre Lellouche, nous entraîner tels les somnambules de 1914 vers une troisième guerre mondiale !

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Un lampion pour Volodymyr. Allez ! On vous a donné trois doses de vaccins, vous pouvez faire un p'tit effort, non ? Dieu, le Pape et notre vice première ministre canadienne vous en seront gré ad vitam æternam.

[megashadowdragon]

Metryllis' Paladin Problems: Valentines by Volume

source : www . reddit . com/r/grandorder/comments/ey7s5b/metryllis_paladin_problems_valentines_by_volume/Commentary:

Just in time for the Month of Love. It’s something horrible!

I guess this is more of a Kiara’s Paladin Problems strip, but I’m on a roll with that “M” theme linking them all together.

Kiara's opening lines were inspired by lyrics from The Rocky Horror Picture Show track "Don't Dream It, Be It". Astolfo speaks for himself.

There’s a reason why only certain Servants (if any) are allowed to accompany you in Singularities/EoRs/Lostbelts. Some would resolve them too easily!

Yes, in addition to being a Prince and a Duke, Astolfo was a King of Lombardy as well!

Like the overview of Durandal’s ownership in a previous comic, Astolfo’s telling of his sordid saga is mostly without embellishments. It only omits that he only became friends with Giocondo (Jocundo, in some translations) when he heard that he was a man whose beauty rivaled his own. To see if the rumors were true, he invited him to his kingdom in Lombardy (Astolfo’s brother had recently died, leaving him to inherit it), but when Giocondo arrived, he was bedraggled and sallow. Astolfo’s would-be competition had recently chanced upon his wife in the arms of another man (a crucifix was involved). Later, through a crack in his guest room, Giocondo spied Astolfo’s queen having an affair with the aforementioned dwarf. And you know the rest. Oh, except the part where Astolfo and Giocondo gave Fiammetta and her third lover their blessing and a large dowry with which they could wed each other. Also, the little wrinkle that the entire tale might be completely fictitious. Even more so than usual, I mean.

Rodomonte, having had his fiancé choose Mandricardo over him, languishes in an inn and bemoans the supposed promiscuity of women, the innkeeper kindly tells him the story of Astolfo’s thousand THOT march to make him feel better. Ariosto, the writer, prefaces the story assuring the reader that it is nonsense and also very offensive and can be skipped. Not that this stopped me.

Of course, this allegedly improbably tale is told a few cantos before Astolfo goes to Hell, Heaven, Eden, and the Moon. Which actually happens. So the milli-mistress misadventure could have also been true.

It’s charming either way, I find. Astolfo is such a ridiculous character that people can just attribute all sorts of deranged deeds to his ledger and they’d suddenly become plausible by association.

After the story is told, some of the bar’s partrons agree with the sentiment that they must be wary of womanly wantonness. Others, surprisingly, side with the women and claim that men are just as likely to be unfaithful and they shouldn’t hold it against each other too brutally if infidelity should occur.

I must stress that whether you believe Astolfo’s story is about letting your freak flag fly or waving away loyalty lapses in non-open relationships, Ariosto has strong moral ideals on romance (even while putting Charlemagne’s own…wanderings…into consideration) to buoy all this crudeness. If not modern, then very far-reaching ones.

Bradamante and Ruggiero’s love, for how much trouble it gets them in and how Ariosto might have been playing to the vanity of his patrons (who believed themselves descended from the pair), is comprehensively portrayed as a very good and very beautiful thing in a tale rife with the mad and the macabre.

The hollowness of Ruggiero’s partially enchanted affair with Alcina regresses his reputable countenance into that of a placid imbecile who’s almost plantlike even before he’s turned into an actual tree.

Roland’s pursuit over a woman who does not love him, transforms him into a monster.

Doralice so swiftly switching affections for Mandricardo to his killer, Ruggiero is depicted negatively.

Paladin Rinaldo, a married man and Bradamante’s brother, temporarily redeems himself for his own pursuit of Angelica by leading the reinforcements he’d collected (a task he was penalized with by a disappointed Charlemagne) to save Paris, his king, and his fellow knights during a terrible siege. Then he greedily goes out to pursue Angelica again, this time under the pretense that he’s actually hunting down Gradasso and the stolen Durandal. He is repaid for his deception by a gorgon attack (yes, really) and his lack of effort in actually finding his purported targets leads to him missing the climactic 3-on-3 duel wherein Roland, Oliver, and Brandimart are grievously harmed by the blade he was supposed to retrieve.

But although Ariosto prizes Love and Loyalty, he’s as mentioned previously, very fond of Mercy. Princess Genevra of Scotland is accused of fornication and is to be sentenced to death. While she is eventually revealed to be innocent, that is a moot point for Rinaldo and her fiancé Ariodantes. Had she been guilty, the two of them would have still viewed her punishment as far too harsh and would have rushed to save her regardless. And they’d have succeeded in that scenario just the same.

Angelica, so frequently accosted and made captive, finds a man of sincere affection in the humble Medoro.

Proud Marfisa, finding the hamlet of the tyrant Marganor’s discarded and dishonored women, might have mocked them for allowing themselves to be victims, for not being as mighty, rich, and unstoppable as she. Instead, the glib cruelty of the Amazons and the vulnerable magnificence of Bradamante & Ruggiero’s bond have made her more worldly and considerate, and she stages a rebellion to not just punish Marganor but to reinstate his mistresses as full citizens of their home village worthy of sympathy, protection, and perhaps even true love rather than leave them ostracized for being made targets for wickedness they had little hope of defying on their own.

By the by, I hope you got a good laugh out of this comic. Cheers

[ohwhenthesaints21]

Jeudi 13 Mai

Sainte Rolande

Aujourd'hui encore une histoire de meuf qui a voulu vivre sa vie loin du patriarcat moyenâgeux et des mariages forcés !

On peut dire qu'il y en a une tripoté de saintes qui auraient bien fait de mettre un petit coup de genou bien placé là où je pense (je sais que vous aussi vous y pensez)! Bien que ce ne soit pas très catholique j'en convient.

Donc sainte Rolande (qui s'écrivait Rolende au moyen-âge, pas du tout le féminin de Roland mais le dérivé d'un prénom germanique, faut arrêter de vouloir tout rattacher aux hommes comme ça ) vécut au VIIIeme siècle en Lombardie. Et Rolende elle était quand même bien canon et à l'époque une fille bien canon comme ça c'était super utile pour la diplomatie et la politique, suffisait de la marier à un roi bien puissant et hop une petite alliance bien négociée !

Pour Rolende ce fût le roi d'Ecosse! Pour info et pour résumer un peu simplement : la Lombardie c'est en italie, il fait beau et chaud; l'Ecosse c'est le Nooord et on se les pèle grave faut le dire.

Vous pensez bien que ça n'a pas trop trop enchanté Rolande mais c'est pas comme si on lui avait demandé son avis hein ! Surtout que je vous rappelle que c'est une sainte c'est à dire qu'elle voulait consacrer sa vie à Dieu elle !

Du coup, comme il n'y avait pas de train ni de taxi à l'époque, on envoyait des petits seigneurs écossais en Lombardie qui étaient tout contents de se la péter en ramenant la princesse du sud jusqu'au grand chef suprême du Nord.

Mais Rolende elle a préféré leur fausser compagnie au milieu du chemin ( y a pas d'emoji bras d'honneur, dommage), aux environs de la Belgique pour rejoindre un monastère près de Cologne ! Tchuss les gars ! 👋🏻

Malheureusement pour elle le froid a eu raison de sa foi et elle est morte d'une pneumonie sur le chemin. Elle est enterrée à Gerpinnes (près de Liège) où chaque année le lundi de Pentecôte des milliers de pélerins font un petit bout de son chemin(30 km pour les plus courageux, faut compter 8h de marche pour info! ça dépend si les pèlerins ont plus ou moins la flemme et la foi !) jusqu'à l'église de Gerpinnes où elle repose.

Respect Rolende ✊🏻

[quadrantvideogames]

The original donkey kong had four stages. Later Donkey kong games still included these four stages or at least one of them. The killscreen is at the 22nd level because it reaches the 256 limit. 256 is four to the fourth power.

http://errors.wikia.com/wiki/DK_kill_screen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(video_game)

Legend of Zelda, a Link to the Past and Four Swords has four Zeldas and four Great fairies. Zelda games are permeated with fours. There is even a Zelda tetraforce theory that argues that the triforce is in fact the tetraforce. In Four Swords Adventures, four Links are always at play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Four_Swords_Adventures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_A_Link_to_the_Past_and_Four_Swords

In Zelda Oracle of the Seasons the environment shifts between the Four Seasons, and there is a lot of repetition of four in the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Oracle_of_Seasons_and_Oracle_of_Ages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox

There are four action buttons in the X box. The x in the X box controller is the quadrant.

A

X

B

Y

The X in Direct X is the quadrant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX

Left 4 Dead is a popular video game

William "Bill" Overbeck (voiced by Jim French), a Vietnam veteran; Zoey (voiced by Jen Taylor), a college student; Louis (voiced by Earl Alexander), an IT analyst, and Francis (voiced by Vince Valenzuela), an outlaw biker—make their way through the city of Fairfield, only to discover that the infection is creating more dangerous mutations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_4_Dead

https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario_Kart_64

There are four cups in Mario Kart 64

Mushroom cup

Star Cup

Flower cup

Special Cup

http://mariokart.wikia.com/wiki/Mario_Kart:_Double_Dash!!

There are 16 tracks in Mario Kart Dash. There is 16 squares in the quadrant model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Kart

Each Mario Kart game has 16 courses in four Cups. Therefore Mario Kart is a four by four quadrant model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Kart:_Double_Dash

Mario Kart Dash has 16 courses divided into four tracks. It also allows 16 players. There are 16 squares in the quadrant model.

The four Bosses in Street Fighter II are shown below.

http://archive.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2011/10/16/multiplied_by_four/?page=2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Kart_DS

Each cup in Mario Kart DS has four levels too. But there are eight cups. So there is 32 levels in all.

Sagat

Balrog

Vega

M. Bison

There are four elements in a 4X video game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X

Explore

Exploit

Expand

Exterminate

The Bartle taxonomy of video game players elucidates four types

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_types

Jon Radoff has a four quadrant model of video game players

immersion

achievement

cooperation

competition

https://www.slideshare.net/gzicherm/jon-radoff-designing-for-user-motivation-understanding-the-four-quadrants-how-they-affect-your-product-design

Tetris is one of the most popular video games of all time. Tetra means four. The game pieces are made up of four segments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetromino

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Controller

The playstation controller has four action buttons in a quadrant formation. They are

green triangle

a blue cross

a red circle

pink square

One of the buttons is a cross.

In the popular video game Borderlands there are four main characters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderlands_(video_game)

Roland the Soldier

Lilith the Siren

Mordecai the Hunter

Brick the Berserker

The tetractys appears in Assassin's Creed. The gematria of the tetragrammaton tetractys is 72. The number 72 plays a significant role in Assassin's Creed

http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Pythagoras

A tetractys of the letters of the Tetragrammaton adds up to 72 by gematria.

The 72 names of God, according to Jewish mystics, are divided into four columns. The four columns are represented by the four letters of the tetragrammaton. Again, other numbers appear, but the four is still dominant.

http://ataribreakout.org/atari-breakout-game

Atari breakout is a classic video game. In the game there were four colors of blocks. Each color of block would deflect the ball at a different speed.

In 2010 taco bell had a rerelease of Breakout. Four classic atari games were sold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)

http://www.zeldainformer.com/the_entirely_valid_completely_believable_theory_of_a_tetraforce/

In Zelda there is a theory called the tetraforce theory.

The triforce is made up of three yellow triangles. The three triangles represent wisdom, power, and courage. The Hylian Shield in Ocarina of Time, however, has a fourth triangle below the triforce symbol. THe shield is illustrated above. It was hypothesized that this fourth triangle was the fourth force in the triforce. We see, thereby, the quaternity principal at play. The three is becoming four, or at least there is a different fourth component that does not seem to belong.

The number four is significant in Zelda. The prominence of the number four in Zelda leads “tetraforce conspirators” to believe that there is a fourth part of the triforce.

Some examples of four in Zelda are

There are four giants in Majora's Mask.

https://zelda.gamepedia.com/File:Four_Giants.jpg

https://zelda.gamepedia.com/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Four_Swords

In The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, there is a legendary sword that can turn a person into four persons. Link in the game, uses the magical sword and becomes four persons.

The light spirits in Zelda are four God like entities.

http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Light_Spirits

Ordona

Eldin

Faron

Lanayru

In Zelda there are four mirror shards, but only three need to be retrieved by Link.

http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Mirror_of_Twilight

The mirror shards are in four locations

The Mirror Chamber atop the Arbiter's Grounds

The Temple of Time in the Sacred Grove

The Snowpeak Ruins at the summit of Snowpeak

The City in the Sky located in the heavens

In the game Zelda, Zelda is Tetra. Tetra is also called Dazel in the game. Dazel is an anagram of Zelda. Tetra means four.

Artwork of Tetra from The Wind Waker

“Tetra may also be a pun of the word Tetrahedron as the symbol of the Triforce is the net of a tetrahedron.”

A swastika shaped third dungeon in Zelda.

The Book of Magic in Zelda has a cross on it.

http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Book_of_Magic

http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Hyrule_Warriors

In Hyrule Warriors, a legendary figure defeats an evil being and splits his soul into four pieces. Three of the pieces are scattered across space and time, but the fourth piece is held at the Temple of the Sacred Sword.

http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Cross

The cross is a quest item in Zelda II the Adventures of Link.

There is a game called Dance Dance Revolution X. X is a quadrant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Dance_Revolution_X

Dance Dance revolution dance platforms have four pads pointing to the four directions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Dance_Revolution

Dance pads can be used with a controller for dance dance revolution, and soft, portable dance pads can be used at home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_pad

Gauntlet was one of the first arcade games where you could play more than two players at once. Gauntlet allowed for four players to play at one time. The four players are

Questor, an Elf

Thor, a Warrior

Thyra, a Valkyrie

Merlin, a Wizard

Pac Man was one of the most popular video games/arcade games of all time. In the game Pac Man must run from four multi colored ghosts. The four ghosts fit the quadrant pattern, in that the fourth ghost is different. The first three ghost’s names rhyme, but not the fourth’s.  Also, at the beginning of each level, three of the ghosts are together in a rectangular box, but the fourth is outside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man

The initial configuration of Google's Pac-Man banner is shown above

There are four different mazes that appear in different color schemes in Ms. Pac Man. They are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Pac-Man

The pink maze appears in levels 1 & 2

the brown maze appears in levels 6 through 9

the light blue maze appears in levels 3, 4, & 5

and the dark blue maze appears in levels 10 through 14. After level 14, the maze configurations alternate every 4th level.

Three of the four mazes have two sets of warp tunnels (four warp tunnels). The fourth is different.

The Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System, and NES versions, by Tengen, and the Super NES version, by Williams Electronics, used four sets of mazes for Ms. Pacman. They were

the original arcade mazes

smaller mazes

bigger mazes

"strange" mazes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Fox_characters

In star fox assault there are four members of the Star Fox team. Star Fox is one of the most popular video games of all time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Fox_characters

, Slippy Toad

Falco Lombardi

Fox McCloud

Krystal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokémon_X_and_Y

Pokemon X is a role playing video game. The X is the quadrant.

The game space invaders is infamous for its musical four note loop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders

There are four base shelters in the original space invaders video game.

http://www.classicgaming.cc/classics/space-invaders/play-guide

There are also four types of villains that you have to destroy. There is the small invaders, the medium invaders, the large invaders, and there is the transcendent fourth mystery ship/ufo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_elements_in_popular_culture

Atari’s Swordquest featured four video games. The four video games were titled under the four elements.

SwordQuest: EarthWorld

SwordQuest: WaterWorld

SwordQuest: FireWorld

SwordQuest: AirWorld

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9gARUDTuCGo/WDoihSxdseI/AAAAAAACcXQ/H0WKF_x5ARIafmAP11ZVoqR0GTNw7184gCLcB/s1600/assassins%2Bcreed%2Bmovie%2Bbillboard.jpg

http://www.dailybillboardblog.com/2016/12/assassins-creed-movie-billboards.html

Quadrant

The Assassin's Creed poster shows the assasin in cruciform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X

The term "4X" originates from a 1993 preview of Master of Orion in Computer Gaming World by Alan Emrich, in which he rated the game "XXXX" as a pun on the XXX rating for pornography. The four Xs were an abbreviation for "EXplore, EXpand, EXploit and EXterminate".[1]

Explore means players send scouts across a map to reveal surrounding territories.

Exploit means players gather and use resources in areas they control, and improve the efficiency of that usage.

Expand means players claim new territory by creating new settlements, or sometimes by extending the influence of existing settlements.

Exterminate means attacking and eliminating rival players. Since in some games all territory is eventually claimed, eliminating a rival's presence may be the only way to achieve further expansion.

[chez-mimich]

MARCO COLONNA: “POST COLONIAL BLUES”

Thomas Sankara, fu un leader rivoluzionario dello stato del Burkina-Faso, ma per estensione fu leader di tutta l'Africa Occidentale. Le parole che pronunciò davanti all'Assemblea della Nazioni Unite, il 4 ottobre 1984, passarono alla storia: " I miei obiettivi sono due: in primo luogo, parlare in nome del mio popolo, il popolo del Burkina Faso, con parole semplici, con il linguaggio dei fatti e della chiarezza; e poi, arrivare ad esprimere, a modo mio, la parola del “grande popolo dei diseredati”, di coloro che appartengono a quel mondo che viene sprezzantemente chiamato Terzo mondo“. Sankara, poneva l'accento su un tema sotto gli occhi di tutti, ma sempre volutamente ignorato, quello della diseguaglianza tra il nord e il sud del mondo e non solo. L'enorme ed incolmabile debito dei paesi africani aveva, secondo Thomas Sankara, una origine precisa: il colonialismo, poiché i creditori, sono gli stessi colonizzatori, in un cortocircuito tanto tragico, quanto evidente. Se mi è concessa una piccola digressione, alla luce dei tragici fatti che accompagnano le nostre vite in queste settimane, dovremmo interrogarci anche sul ruolo che riveste l’ONU oggi, ma il discorso sarebbe lungo (e sconsolante), quindi meglio proseguire ricordando che sono proprio quelle parole ad essere state il filo conduttore del magnifico lavoro di Marco Colonna e del suo “New Ethic Society Sextet”, dal titolo “Post Colonial Blues" (edito dall'etichetta “NES”) e dedicato alla figura di Thomas Sankara. E' inutile sottolineare, ancora una volta, oppure non è affatto inutile, come il mondo del jazz contemporaneo internazionale, sia sempre più attento ai temi dello sfruttamento, delle migrazioni, dell'ecologia, della guerra e di tutte quelle tematiche universali che per qualcuno non esistono o, quanto meno, non sarebbero parte diretta della nostra vita quotidiana. Certo, un disco si può ascoltare anche solo per la musica, poiché esiste comunque una "autonomia del significante", secondo la nota teoria di Roland Barthes, ma è anche evidente che il catalogo delle note e della loro infinita combinatoria, avrebbe persino poco senso, se non fossero supportate da una intenzionalità. "L'art pour l'art" è sempre un filo teso sull'abisso della banalità e quindi saluto sempre con grande entusiasmo un lavoro musicale che oltre ad avere a cuore l'autonomia del significante, la sappia legare alla costante di un "significato". E allora fuoco alle polveri, con la voce chiara e stentorea di Giulia Cianca che introduce proprio il testo di Sankara, accompagnato dallo “strisciante” clarinetto basso di Marco Colonna, autore di tutta la composizione, dal trombone di Giorgio Tebaldi e da qualche rintocco discreto di batteria. Sono però le parole rivoluzionarie di Sankara ad essere in evidenza, almeno fino a quando le corde del basso di Luca Corrado non introducono i vocalismi molto” terzomondisti” di Giulia. I ritmi sono interrotti da una parentesi rumorista a bassa intensità, ma molto evocativa della batteria di Cristian Lombardi e dal trombone di Tebaldi che conduce una meditazione intima e pacata, fino a quando non è ancora la voce, questa volta struggente e lamentosa che imbastisce un canto atonale e conturbante che riequilibra (o disequilibra) l’intro perentoria del recitativo del discorso di Sankara. É poi la volta del clarinetto di Marco Colonna che intraprende un commento sonoro di rara bellezza e che ci riporta a ritmi quasi folk. Si va avanti cosi tra avanguardia ed etno-music , con gli inserti del recitativo delle dure parole di Sankara, con molte concessioni ad una ardita improvvisazione nelle contorsioni vocali della bravissima Giulia Cianca. L’amalgama tra parti didascaliche e parti poetiche, se mi è concessa la teoria vagamente crociana, è perfetta. “Post Colonial Blues” riporta alla mente i ricordi di tanto jazz “politicamente impegnato”, come si diceva un tempo, a cominciare da quello del grande Charlie Haden. Nom solo parole dunque e nemmeno solo musica, ma fatti concreti, un motivo in più per non fare mancare questo CD nella propria discoteca.

[thelivesofthesaints]

January 28 - Bl. Charlemagne, Emperor - 814 A.D

Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, son of king Pepin, was born in 742, and crowned king of France in 768; but his youngest brother Carlo man reigned in Austrasia till his death, in 771. Charlemagne vanquished Hunauld, duke of Aquitaine, and conquered the French Gothia or Languedoc; subdued Lombardy; conferred on pope Adrian the exarchate of Ravenna, the duchy of Spoletto, and many other dominions; took Pavia, (which had been honored with the residence of twenty kings,) and was crowned king of Lombardy in 774. The emir Abderamene in Spain, having shaken off the yoke of the caliph of the Saracens, in 736, and established his kingdom at Cordova, and other emirs in Spain setting up independency, Charlemagne, in 778, marched as far as the Ebro and Saragossa, conquered Barcelona Gironne, and many other places, and returned triumphant. His cousit. Roland, who followed him with the rear of his army, in his return was set upon in the Pyrenean mountains by a troop of Gascon robbers, and slain; and is the famous hero of numberless old French romances and songs. The Saxons having in the king’s absence plundered his dominions upon the Rhine, he flew to the Weser, and compelled them to make satisfaction. Thence he went to Rome, and had his infant sons crowned kings, Pepin of Lombardy, and Lewis of Aquitaine. The great revolt of the Saxons, in 782, called him again on that side. When they were vanquished, and sued for pardon, he declared he would no more take their oaths which they had so often broken, unless they became Christians. Witikind embraced the condition, was baptized with his chief followers in 785, and being created duke of part of Saxony, remained ever after faithful in his religion and allegiance. From him are descended, either directly or by intermarriages, many dukes of Bavaria, and the present houses of Saxony, Brandenburg, &c, as may be seen in the German genealogists. Some other Saxons afterwards revolted, and were vanquished and punished in 794, 798, &c., so that, through their repeated treachery and rebellions, this Saxon war continued at intervals for the space of thirty-three years. Thassillon, duke of Bavaria, for treasonable practices, was attacked by Charlemagne in 788, vanquished, and obliged to put on a monk’s cowl to save his life: from which time Bavaria was annexed to Charlemagne’s dominions. To punish the Abares for their inroads, he crossed the Inns into their territories, sacked Vienna, and marched to the mouth of the Raab, upon the Danube In 794, he assisted at the great council of Frankfort, held in his royal palace there. He restored Leo III. at Rome, quelled the seditions there, and was crowned by him on Christmas-day, in 800, emperor of Rome and of the West: in which quality he was afterwards solemnly acknowledged by Nicephorus, emperor of Constantinople. Thus was the western empire restored, which had been extinct in Momylus Agustulus in the fifth century. In 805, Charlemagne quelled and conquered the Sclavonians. The Danube, the Teisse, and the Oder on the East, and the Ebro and the ocean on the West, were the boundaries of his vast dominions. France, Germany, Dacia, Dalmatia, Istria, Italy, and part of Pannonia and Spain, obeyed his laws. It was then customary for kings not to reside in great cities, but to pass the summer often in progresses or campaigns, and the winter at some country palace. King Pepin resided at Herstal, now Jopin, in the territory of Liege, and sometimes at Quiercy on the Oise: Charlemagne often at Frankfort or Aix-la-Chapelle, which were country seats; for those towns were then inconsiderable places: though the latter had been founded by Serenus Granus in 124, under Adrian. It owes its greatness to the church built there by Charlemagne.

This prince was not less worthy of our admiration in the quality of a legislator than in that of a conqueror; and in the midst of his marches and victories, he gave the utmost attention to the wise government of his dominions, and to every thing that could promote the happiness of his people, the exaltation of the church, and the advancement of piety and every branch of sacred and useful learning. 564 What pains he took for the reformation of monasteries, and for the sake of uniformity introducing in them the rule of St. Bennet. appears from his transactions, and several ecclesiastical assemblies in 789. His zeal for the devout observance of the rites of the church is expressed in his book to Alcuin on that subject, and in his encyclical epistle on the rites of baptism, 565 and in various works which he commissioned Alcuin and others to compile. For the reformation of manners, especially of the clergy, he procured many synods to be held, in which decrees were framed, which are called his Capitula. 566 His Capitulars, divided into many chapters, are of the same nature. The best edition of these Capitulars is given by Baluzius, with dissertations, in 1677, two vols. folio. The Carolin Books are a theological work, (adopted by this prince, who speaks in the first person,) compiled in four books, against a falsified copy of the second council of Nice, sent by certain Iconoclasts from Constantinople, on which see F. Daniel567 and Ceillier. 568

There never was a truly great man, who was not a lover and encourager of learning, as of the highest improvement of the human mind. Charlemagne, by most munificent largesses, invited learned men over from foreign parts, as Alcuin, Peter of Pisa, Paul the deacon, &c., found no greater pleasure than in conversing with them, instituted an academy in his own palace, and great schools at Paris, Tours, &c., assisted at literary disputations, was an excellent historian, and had St. Austin’s book, On the City of God, laid every night under his pillow to read if he awaked. Yet Eginhard assures us that whatever pains he took, he could never learn to write, because he was old when he first applied himself to it. He was skilled in astronomy, arithmetic, music, and every branch of the mathematics; understood the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac, also the Sclavonian, and several other living languages, so as never to want an interpreter to converse with ambassadors of neighboring nations. He meditated assiduously on the scriptures, assisted at the divine office, even that of midnight, if possible; had good books read to him at table, and took but one meal a day, which he was obliged to anticipate before the hour of evening on fasting days, that all his officers and servants might dine before midnight. He was very abstemious, had a paternal care of the poor in all his dominions, and honored good men, especially among the clergy. Charlemagne died January the 28th, in 814, seventy-two years old, and was buried at A x-la-Chapelle. The incontinence into which he fell in his youth, he expiated by sincere repentance, so that several churches in Germany and France honor him among the saints. In the university of Paris, the most constant nation of the Germans, (which was originally called the English nation, in 1250, when the distinction of nations in the faculty of arts was there established,) take Charlemagne for their patron, but only keep his festival since the year 1480, which is now common to the other three nations of French, Picards, and Normans, since 1661.569

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.18

796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days. 1428 – Peace of Ferrara between Republic of Venice, Duchy of Milan, Republic of Florence and House of Gonzaga: ending of the second campaign of the Wars in Lombardy fought until the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, which will then guarantee the conditions for the development of the Italian Renaissance. 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid. 1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland. 1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication. 1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros. 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid. 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements. 1783 – Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution. 1831 – The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 1847 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico. 1857 – "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France. 1864 – Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement. 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. 1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria. 1902 – The 7.5 Mw  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000. 1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California. 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. 1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City. 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I. 1916 – White war on the Italian front (World War I): during a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army. 1917 – The II Italian Corps in France leaves from Italy for the western front. It will distinguish itself during the Third Battle of the Aisne and the Second Battle of the Marne, in Bligny and on the sector Courmas – Bois du Petit Champ, where it will considerably contribute to stop the German offensive on Eparnay, aimed to outflank Reims. 1930 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced that "there is no news" and plays piano music in their evening report. 1939 – Robert Menzies, who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons. 1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed. 1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France. 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. 1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany. 1945 – Italian resistance movement: In Turin, despite the harsh repressive measures adopted by Nazi-fascists, a great pre-insurrectional strike begins. 1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. 1947 – The Operation Big Bang, the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion to that time, destroys bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of Heligoland, Germany. 1949 – The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force, declaring Éire to be a republic and severing Ireland's "association" with the Commonwealth of Nations. 1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt. 1955 – Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference. 1972 – East African Airways Flight 720 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing 43. 1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency. 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II. 1988 – In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II, although the verdict is later overturned. 2018 – King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini. 2019 – A redacted version of the Mueller report is released to the United States Congress and the public.

[pieces-lie-herein]

DESTINED TO BE MINE

a one-act play

written by Jazmien Ruth Gomez

CHARACTERS

Hybris Leymonde – The 2nd Prince of Asmodian empire

Roland Bourchu – A powerful duke who’s known as the Devil’s eye.

Agnus Cesar – The son of Prophecy

Edward – Hybris’ knight

TIME

Year 9843

PLACE

Asmodian Empire, Helios

Afternoon. At the Emperor’s office. EDWARD opens the door and walks towards HYBRIS.HYBRIS who is writing stops and puts down the pen he is holding. EDWARD presents the paper he is holding to HYBRIS.

SCENE 7

EDWARD

I present myself, Edward Lombardi to the Emperor, the Light and Future of Asmodian empire (Bows). I came here to report that the Devil’s eye requests you to go down from your throne, your highness.

HYBRIS

What for? What kind of reason he has for him to take down the fated emperor that will bring the empire a good life! (He slams his fist to the table).

EDWARD

According to the letter delivered by Duke Roland himself says that you don’t fit to the position you are in and if your highness’ life is important, you should take initiative to dethrone yourself or else a war will take place.

(HYBRIS stays silent for a moment, thinking on why the duke would be trying to commit treason when he is the late-emperor ANASTACIOUS trusts. He then looks at AGNUS who have been listening to the conversation.)

AGNUS

You don’t need to worry about the throne, your Highness. It is meant for you and only you. Base from the prophecy that I got 7 years ago, there is no one beside you that fits the throne. You are the future of this Empire your Highness, don’t let a merely duke orders you to give up the position that you worked hard for.

HYBRIS

(Stands and walks towards the door)

Send him a response that says I’ll be meeting him at the battlefield.

EDWARD

Understood, your Highness (Bows).

(After HYBRIS opens and walks out of the office, EDWARD lifts his head and proceeds to the Training camp to inform the knights regarding the war that is about to come)

On the same day at nightfall. In the battlefield, stands hundreds of knights from both sides. HYBRIS and ROLAND get near to each other with smile on their faces.

HYBRIS

Didn’t expect that we’ll be meeting each other at this place Duke Bourchu.

ROLAND

I anticipated this situation but didn’t know I’ll be right, that you’re going choose violence and brutality just because of a position that doesn’t belong to you.

HYBRIS

You don’t know anything, duke. You don’t know what I sacrificed for me to achieve and sit on the throne that is meant for me.

ROLAND

So, you have chosen this path, (slowly takes out his sword) Hybris.

HYBRIS

(Takes out his sword, aiming at duke ROLAND)

I have no intention to give up the throne in the first place.

ROLAND AND HYBRIS

CHARGE!

Swords clashing, blood stains, life being at stake, pile of dead bodies, injured knights can be seen at the battlefield.

(ROLAND then manages to corner HYBRIS with his sword pierce through HYBRIS’ body.)

ROLAND

Any last words, your Highness?

HYBRIS

I will not yield. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Roland, and damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough! (Coughs up blood) Remember this, I am the destined emperor… That is what the Gods decided to give to me as a compensation of years of sufferings in the hands of my Father.

ROLAND

What you may know might not be the truth. Agnus Cesar is not the real Son of Prophecy, your Highness. We already captured and locked him up in prison for using the name of our Gods for his own greed. We could’ve ended this peacefully if you didn’t choose this war, you could also have known the truth on why your personal knight, the maid, and Agnus would be in a plan where it will bring the empire to ruins. But you threw away your chance. You were blinded by the power and revenge and even the prophetic lies saying you are destined to be an emperor of this empire. The empire already suffered enough to your tyranny, goodbye.

HYBRIS

NO! IT IS DESTINED TO BE MI- (Before HYBRIS could finish his sentence, ROLAND slashes HYBRIS’ head with knights watching and determining who wins the war.)

………

PEOPLE AT THE EMPIRE

(ROLAND enters through the Palace door)

ALL HAIL DUKE ROLAND! ALL HAIL THE FUTURE OF THE EMPIRE! Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands. The usurper's cursed head: the time is free!

ROLAND

I see thee compass'd with thy empire's pearl, That speak my salutation in their minds; Whose voices I desire aloud with mine: Hail, Emperor of Asmodian! We shall not spend a large expense of time Before we reckon with your several loves and make us even with you. As calling home our exiled friends abroad. That fled the snares of watchful tyranny; So, thanks to all at once and to each one, whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.

(ROLAND gets crowned)

BLACKOUT

[atelier-temeraire]

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