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10 years 11 months ago #229
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You will not grow if you are not willing to change yourself
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Today Polish volleyball team win the world championship in volleyball 
You will not grow if you are not willing to change yourself
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10 years 11 months ago - 10 years 11 months ago #230
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September 23, 1913
With the flight Fréjus - Bizerte, the French airman Roland Garros achieved the first air crossing of the Mediterranean Sea.
Originally, the flight was planned to Tunis, about 60 kilometers south from Bizerte but, casually, that has been a rather epic flight for Garros, i quote the French Wikipedia : " The monoplane Morane-Saulnier, equipped with an engine Gnome of 80 hp and a propeller Chauvière takes off at 5:47 am, weighed down of 200 liters of gasoline and 60 L of castor oil. Garros goes at the compass, with an engine which undergoes two breakdowns and loses a part, off Corsica and over Sardinia. He has 5 liters of gasoline when he lands at Bizerte at 1:40 pm, having traveled about 780 kilometers. "
With the flight Fréjus - Bizerte, the French airman Roland Garros achieved the first air crossing of the Mediterranean Sea.
Originally, the flight was planned to Tunis, about 60 kilometers south from Bizerte but, casually, that has been a rather epic flight for Garros, i quote the French Wikipedia : " The monoplane Morane-Saulnier, equipped with an engine Gnome of 80 hp and a propeller Chauvière takes off at 5:47 am, weighed down of 200 liters of gasoline and 60 L of castor oil. Garros goes at the compass, with an engine which undergoes two breakdowns and loses a part, off Corsica and over Sardinia. He has 5 liters of gasoline when he lands at Bizerte at 1:40 pm, having traveled about 780 kilometers. "
"In one single flight, i carried Garros from France to Tunisia"
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10 years 11 months ago - 10 years 11 months ago #231
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September 30, 1938
76 years ago, in Munich, France and United Kingdom, represented respectively by Édouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain, lowered their pants in front of the dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini, in order to, according to them, save the peace at all costs, even at the cost of dishonor, as Winston Churchill will say it so well.
Chamberlain and Daladier will both be wildly applauded by their people, on their return to the country after the signing of the " Munich Agreement ". But, sometimes, people are wrong...
The continuation is well known, but is the lesson too...?
76 years ago, in Munich, France and United Kingdom, represented respectively by Édouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain, lowered their pants in front of the dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini, in order to, according to them, save the peace at all costs, even at the cost of dishonor, as Winston Churchill will say it so well.
Chamberlain and Daladier will both be wildly applauded by their people, on their return to the country after the signing of the " Munich Agreement ". But, sometimes, people are wrong...
The continuation is well known, but is the lesson too...?
“ You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war. ”
Winston Churchill
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10 years 11 months ago - 10 years 11 months ago #233
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Yes, Benjamin Franklin said something about that but, in this case of the Munich agreement, it was worse because France and United Kingdom sacrificed the freedom of Czechoslovakia for their own illusory security. Shame and double shame.
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10 years 9 months ago - 10 years 9 months ago #234
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November 22, 1963
" It’s hard for me to look at politics today, see how petty we’ve become. Kennedy’s assassination was an end and a beginning. He was the last President to get a pass on his personal life. The first president to use electronic media to win an election. It was the beginning of a political divide that keeps getting deeper with each passing year.
Politics isn’t about real issues anymore. It’s insinuation, innuendo and rumor. How narrow-minded and hateful we’ve become. It will pass I suppose. All things do. But when? For more than half a century, we’ve been marching down this ugly road to which I see no end. "
" It’s hard for me to look at politics today, see how petty we’ve become. Kennedy’s assassination was an end and a beginning. He was the last President to get a pass on his personal life. The first president to use electronic media to win an election. It was the beginning of a political divide that keeps getting deeper with each passing year.
Politics isn’t about real issues anymore. It’s insinuation, innuendo and rumor. How narrow-minded and hateful we’ve become. It will pass I suppose. All things do. But when? For more than half a century, we’ve been marching down this ugly road to which I see no end. "
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