Alan Whittle
Player Valuation: £60m
On this day (yesterday) November 20
My Evertonian lads birthday, and this;
Lovely stuff
My Evertonian lads birthday, and this;
Lovely stuff
On This Day;
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On this day (yesterday) November 20
My Evertonian lads birthday, and this;
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Lovely stuff
….belated Happy Birthday to the Toffee.
BigMick
Player Valuation: £20m
Today is the 47th anniversary of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Israel, the 1st visit by an Arab leader to Israel. 'Historic' is probably too tame a word to describe it - at the time it was thought to be world-changing. It led to the first peace treaty between an Arab nation and Israel, a treaty which, remarkably, still holds to this day.
Egypt, like all the Arab nations was still at war with Israel but Sadat had the bravery to choose peace in a world plagued by conflicts. The treaty restored Egypt's sovereignty over the Sinai Peninsula, but it also meant breaking with much of the Arab world and facing accusations of treachery, and ultimately cost Sadat his life when he was assassinated in 1981.
The Camp David accords were supposed to be a step to solving all the Arab-Israeli conflicts, not only Egypt -Israel. Sadat offered to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians, using the trust he had built up with the Israelis, but Arafat turned him down. The bravery it took for Sadat to go against the tide, to take a step toward peace despite the personal, political risks, was way beyond Yasser Arafat, who believed violence was the route to Palestinian success. In 2000 Arafat told Bill Clinton that if he was to sign the peace treaty the had been agreed after months of negotiations he "would soon be drinking tea with Sadat."
I first came to appreciate Sadat's greatness when I spent a year living and studying in Egypt where his legacy is mixed - he certainly made mistakes. However, his brilliance at playing the Soviets against the USA, outwitting both, then shifting Egypt from the failing Soviet sphere to the western one, as well as bringing longstanding peace to his country shows he was a visionary who was not only brave but also pragmatic and politically astute.
The world would be in a better place had more leaders the world over shared those qualities.
Egypt, like all the Arab nations was still at war with Israel but Sadat had the bravery to choose peace in a world plagued by conflicts. The treaty restored Egypt's sovereignty over the Sinai Peninsula, but it also meant breaking with much of the Arab world and facing accusations of treachery, and ultimately cost Sadat his life when he was assassinated in 1981.
The Camp David accords were supposed to be a step to solving all the Arab-Israeli conflicts, not only Egypt -Israel. Sadat offered to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians, using the trust he had built up with the Israelis, but Arafat turned him down. The bravery it took for Sadat to go against the tide, to take a step toward peace despite the personal, political risks, was way beyond Yasser Arafat, who believed violence was the route to Palestinian success. In 2000 Arafat told Bill Clinton that if he was to sign the peace treaty the had been agreed after months of negotiations he "would soon be drinking tea with Sadat."
I first came to appreciate Sadat's greatness when I spent a year living and studying in Egypt where his legacy is mixed - he certainly made mistakes. However, his brilliance at playing the Soviets against the USA, outwitting both, then shifting Egypt from the failing Soviet sphere to the western one, as well as bringing longstanding peace to his country shows he was a visionary who was not only brave but also pragmatic and politically astute.
The world would be in a better place had more leaders the world over shared those qualities.
….28th/29th November 1940, the Durning Road bomb disaster. I remember being told of this tragedy and often think of it when driving down Edge Lane.
The Ernest Brown School was chosen as a WW2 bomb shelter as its basement boiler room had a reinforced ceiling. When air raid signals started on evening of 28th Nov, over 300 men, women & children made their way to the shelter. At around 1.55am on 29th the school took a direct hit from a parachute mine, the building collapsed and the boiler burst, sending out boiling water.
Churchill called it ‘the single worst civilian incident of the war’;
The Ernest Brown School was chosen as a WW2 bomb shelter as its basement boiler room had a reinforced ceiling. When air raid signals started on evening of 28th Nov, over 300 men, women & children made their way to the shelter. At around 1.55am on 29th the school took a direct hit from a parachute mine, the building collapsed and the boiler burst, sending out boiling water.
Churchill called it ‘the single worst civilian incident of the war’;
On this day 7 years ago, if only we knew what lay ahead!
NeilMorepies
Player Valuation: £30m
On this day in 1974. The final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on BBC TV.
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
55years ago yesterday Sandy Brown score his famous Oggy
Bryan+
Player Valuation: £35m
Look at them players names NONE OF THESE FORRIN MUCK
8/12/80
As if that wasn't enough, my (then 18-year old) dad's mother dropped dead of a heart attack running for a bus eight days later.
On a happier note. Deulofeu rinsed Arsenal back in 2013...
…I visited the site when in NY and found it quite poignant.
That's OK. Mediocre 1st division team back then , one consolation was Lee Hughes, decent striker for us
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
And yes I do remember where I was....do you?8/12/80
As if that wasn't enough, my (then 18-year old) dad's mother dropped dead of a heart attack running for a bus eight days later.
On a happier note. Deulofeu rinsed Arsenal back in 2013...
TGW89
Player Valuation: £35m
Probably enjoying my previous life as a war criminal / drug lord. Would certainly explain why i'm an Evertonian now.
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