Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893–3 April 1943), an actor whose life was nearly as interesting as his films. From Ufa to Hollywood, from silents to sound, from Dr Caligari’s somnambulist to Casablanca’s Nazi major—his life spanned two world wars (fighting the first and a refugee from the second).
As if his iconic status in giants of film history such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Casablanca were not enough, he bears yet another standard: as The Man Who Laughs. Veidt played a man whose punishment was to have his face carved into a permanent grin—a role that served as inspiration for the Batman comivs villain, the Joker:
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Aida Vainieri and Dominique Mercy in Pina Bausch’s “Cafe Muller” - photo by Maarten vanden Abelle
From 149 to 146 BC, The Battle of Carthage took place at the end of the Third Punic Wars, a long struggle between the Carthaginians of modern-day Tunisia and the eminent Romans of Italy. With 80,000 troops and 4,000 cavalry, Scipio Aemilianus besieged the 500,000 inhabitants of the city of Carthage. The city was blocked in at all sides, and by setting up a mole in the port, the city could not receive supplies from the rest of the Empire (or what was left of it).
As the siege went on, the people of Carthage began to starve. Disease, squalor, and hunger were widespread, and mass graves were dug to keep up with the increasing amounts of corpses.
But finally, in the Spring of 146 BC, Scipio began his final assault upon the city by breaking through the city walls. Scipio was forced to root out all of the inhabitants house-by-house as Carthaginians took up arms to protect their homes. By the end of the assault, all but 50,000 of the people of Carthage were killed in their own city, and those survivors were sold into a lifetime of slavery.
Some tried to hold on, though. A few took refuge in a burning temple, one of them being Hasdrubal, the commander of the Carthaginians. But not at after long, he was forced to surrender and begged for mercy. As this occurred, Hasdrubal’s wife ran out with her two children, cursed her husband, and jumped into the fire. The rest of the refugees did so as well, and with that, the 700 year Carthaginian state was over.
Scipio was hailed as a hero when he returned to Rome, even given the name “Africanus” or “The African”. As well, it ushered in hundreds of years of Roman dominance in the Mediterranean.
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Noble and Ever Loyal City: PGH 1945: Days of terror, nights of fear -
This is a pretty amazing first-hand account by a living witness.
By Miguel P. Avanceña
Philippine Daily Inquirer(Editors Note: The author, a retired officer of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, is the youngest son of the late Chief Justice Ramon Q. Avanceña, who served during the American and Commonwealth eras.)
The battle for the liberation of the…
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Manila Bay in 1920s:
Taft Venue in mid 30s:
Escolta Street 1940s:
Quezon Boulevard 1942:
Manila 1950s:
Manila 1960s:
Luneta Park 1960s:
Quiapo Church 1960s:
Dewey Boulevard 1965 (now Roxas Blvd):
Escolta 1968:
CCP 1970s
A bus from 1983 :)
Rizal Park:
The old Manila is beautiful! No traffic, no pollution, we have lots of trees, wide sidewalks, and no dirts. Stunning and very historical.
2 deck bus? Srsly?
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My little workspace in CdO (Taken with instagram at Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro)
Stowe Boyd: The Defection Of RSS Reader Readers -
But but but … I read this in GReader. I never saw in in my Twitter stream.
Everyone is stressing the wrong part of the dynamic about Bloglines being shut down. It’s not that RSS is dead, or that RSS readers are dead, it’s the defection of RSS Reader readers — we, the edglings — from those tools to other ones:
…I don’t like the Pez dispenser feel, where all posts…
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