summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
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BigMick
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Munich Olympic massacre when eight terrorists from the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Black September group infiltrated the Olympic Village in Munich, broke into an apartment housing Israeli athletes, and took 11 of them hostage.
Wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and wrestler Yousef Romano, who attempted to resist, were murdered immediately, with Romano castrated after he was shot. while the others were tortured and abused by their Palestinian captors.
Just after midnight the next day a botched rescue attempt resulted in the deaths of wrestling referee Yossef Gutfreund, track and field coach Amitzur Shapira, fencing master Andre Spitzer, shooting coach Kehat Shorr, weightlifting judge Yakov Springer, wrestlers Eliezer Halfin and Mark Slavin, and weightlifters David Berger and Ze'ev Friedman. A West German policeman was also killed.
Five of the terrorists were killed, while the three others spent just a month in prison before being released in a hostage exchange following a plane hijacking bu Palestinian terrorists.
Last month the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, was invited to Germany where he refused to apologise for the massacre. His party, Fatah, not regarded as a terrorist organisation and thought by many as the best hope for peace partners with Israel, issued a statement commemorating the massacre as, 'A heroic operation that was carried out by the Fatah Movement’s foreign special operations branch.' The Palestine Authority has since named four schools after two of the terrorists involved in the massacre.
At the behest of Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage the games, having been suspended for 24 hours, continued the next day. I doubt that would happen today.
Wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and wrestler Yousef Romano, who attempted to resist, were murdered immediately, with Romano castrated after he was shot. while the others were tortured and abused by their Palestinian captors.
Just after midnight the next day a botched rescue attempt resulted in the deaths of wrestling referee Yossef Gutfreund, track and field coach Amitzur Shapira, fencing master Andre Spitzer, shooting coach Kehat Shorr, weightlifting judge Yakov Springer, wrestlers Eliezer Halfin and Mark Slavin, and weightlifters David Berger and Ze'ev Friedman. A West German policeman was also killed.
Five of the terrorists were killed, while the three others spent just a month in prison before being released in a hostage exchange following a plane hijacking bu Palestinian terrorists.
Last month the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, was invited to Germany where he refused to apologise for the massacre. His party, Fatah, not regarded as a terrorist organisation and thought by many as the best hope for peace partners with Israel, issued a statement commemorating the massacre as, 'A heroic operation that was carried out by the Fatah Movement’s foreign special operations branch.' The Palestine Authority has since named four schools after two of the terrorists involved in the massacre.
At the behest of Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage the games, having been suspended for 24 hours, continued the next day. I doubt that would happen today.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Great photograph, and scary to boot.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Abertonian
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and it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for?
don't ask me, I don't give a damn
next stop is vietnam
and it's 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates
well there ain't no time to wonder why
whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Best thing Harold Wilson ever did keeping Me...and many others...out of that coque - up
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I was always told they were just Tories without the jackboots onNever worked out what the Liberal's actually stand for.
4737carlin
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British Tank Corp's mascot, 'Stunter', and a officer, on the Western Front in France, during WW1.
‘Stunter’ was a clever mascot of the Tank Corps who, owing to his experience gained by riding about in tanks, could balance himself on the bars of a motor-bicycle.
Mascots were kept by many groups of soldiers. Often they were strays which were picked up on the move.
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‘Stunter’ was a clever mascot of the Tank Corps who, owing to his experience gained by riding about in tanks, could balance himself on the bars of a motor-bicycle.
Mascots were kept by many groups of soldiers. Often they were strays which were picked up on the move.
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Incredible. About 20 years ago I had a job interview in the Chrysler Building. The interior of the elevators is exquisite. Beautiful inlaid wood patterns in an Art Deco style
4737carlin
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The health and safety on these is amazing
Bluerover
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Fascinating.
Bluerover
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The centenary of this tragic event of the Civil War is coming up on 19th December. My Great Uncle (my grandfather's brother) was one of the seven.
We will commemorate them but also all who died on both sides in a public Mass in Kildare Parish Church and a ceremony at the grave in the Grey Abbey Kildare, where they are buried together, on Sunday 18th, while on Monday 19th, relatives of the men have been invited by the Irish Army Chief of Staff to a ceremony at the Glasshouse, in the Curragh Camp at 8.30 a.m. - one hundred years to the day and the exact time that the seven were shot.
The bodies of the 77 were initially buried where they were executed, in various camps, and prisons around the country but they were finally released to the families in October 1924 and they could then be buried in proper graves. However, the Parish Priest in Kildare refused to allow the seven coffins into his church, and they were waked in Kildare Courthouse - probably acting on orders from the Archbishop. It will be nice to put that right finally on the 18th.
We will commemorate them but also all who died on both sides in a public Mass in Kildare Parish Church and a ceremony at the grave in the Grey Abbey Kildare, where they are buried together, on Sunday 18th, while on Monday 19th, relatives of the men have been invited by the Irish Army Chief of Staff to a ceremony at the Glasshouse, in the Curragh Camp at 8.30 a.m. - one hundred years to the day and the exact time that the seven were shot.
The bodies of the 77 were initially buried where they were executed, in various camps, and prisons around the country but they were finally released to the families in October 1924 and they could then be buried in proper graves. However, the Parish Priest in Kildare refused to allow the seven coffins into his church, and they were waked in Kildare Courthouse - probably acting on orders from the Archbishop. It will be nice to put that right finally on the 18th.
DEATH IN DECEMBER … 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF CURRAGH EXECUTIONS
Death in December … 90th anniversary of Curragh executions With much of the attention regarding the struggle for Irish independence looking ahead to the centenary of the 1916 Rising, events in Kildare 90 years ago this December bring into sharp
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