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March of the ANZACs: For piano solo , c.1916

Sheet music of Alexander F. Lithgow's 'March of the Anzacs: For piano solo'.
Cover illustration depicts Gallipoli Peninsula and the landing of troops and supplies at Gabatepe.
University of Otago via DigitalNZ

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#Music #WorldWarI #SheetMusic #Museums #UniversityOfOtago

March of the ANZACs: For piano solo , c.1916

Sheet music of Alexander F. Lithgow's 'March of the Anzacs: For piano solo'.
Cover illustration depicts Gallipoli Peninsula and the landing of troops and supplies at Gabatepe.
University of Otago via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/35201335/source

#Music #WorldWarI #SheetMusic #Museums #UniversityOfOtago

March of the ANZACs: For piano solo , c.1916

Sheet music of Alexander F. Lithgow's 'March of the Anzacs: For piano solo'.
Cover illustration depicts Gallipoli Peninsula and the landing of troops and supplies at Gabatepe.
University of Otago via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/35201335/source

#Music #WorldWarI #SheetMusic #Museums #UniversityOfOtago

March of the ANZACs: For piano solo , c.1916

Sheet music of Alexander F. Lithgow's 'March of the Anzacs: For piano solo'.
Cover illustration depicts Gallipoli Peninsula and the landing of troops and supplies at Gabatepe.
University of Otago via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/35201335/source

#Music #WorldWarI #SheetMusic #Museums #UniversityOfOtago

America’s first female soldiers served during WWI. Here’s why they were known as ‘Hello Girls.’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/americas-first-female-soldiers-served-during-wwi-heres-why-they-were-known-as-hello-girls/

America’s first female soldiers served during WWI. Here’s why they were known as ‘Hello Girls.’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/americas-first-female-soldiers-served-during-wwi-heres-why-they-were-known-as-hello-girls/

America’s first female soldiers served during WWI. Here’s why they were known as ‘Hello Girls.’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/americas-first-female-soldiers-served-during-wwi-heres-why-they-were-known-as-hello-girls/

America’s first female soldiers served during WWI. Here’s why they were known as ‘Hello Girls.’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/americas-first-female-soldiers-served-during-wwi-heres-why-they-were-known-as-hello-girls/

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.

Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/100-years-ago-students-across-the-us-took-the-first-sat-today-relatively-few-colleges-require-the-test-where-is-it-headed-180988997/

#history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ SMS Westfalen ✧

SMS Westfalen was a Nassau-class dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial German Navy. Laid down in 1907 and launched in July 1908, she was commissioned into the High Seas Fleet in November 1909. She was equipped with a main battery of twelve 28 cm (11 in) guns in six twin turrets using an unusual hexagonal arrangemen...

#smswestfalen #nassau #imperialgermannavy #northsea #worldwari. #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Westfalen

Yazids

Also spelled Yesidis.

They’re a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, & Iran, with small numbers living in Armenia & Georgia (the country). Endogamy is the cultural practice of only marrying within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group. The majority of the Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the governorates of Nineveh & Duhok.

Yazidism came about through a complex historical process involving a pre-Islamic Kurdish religious substratum & teachings of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir. Generally, scholars regard Yazidism as an independent religious tradition with deep roots in ancient Iranian beliefs, shaped by later Sufi influences. Yazidism was adopted by many Kurdish tribes & Emirates. It reached as far west as Antioch & as far east as Sulaymaniyah. Sulaymaniyah/Slemani is a city in the East of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Yezidi manuscripts (called misurs) were written in the 13th century. It contains lists of Kurdish tribes affiliated with Yezidi Pir saints. Only 2 of the 40 total manuscripts have been published so far. Namely, the Misur of Pir Sini Darani & the Misur of Pir Xetib Pisi. The list in the Misur of Pir Sini Darani includes several large tribes that have been largely or fully Islamized today.

From the 14th century on, Yazidis developed their own religious & political institutions in the areas where they lived. The Yezidi territories were divided into 7 administrative centers. Each has its own Sincaq (This is an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire). More commonly known as Tawis among the Yezids. Sincaqs are sacred bronze effigies bearing the image of a bird or peacock to symbolize Tawusi Melek. They serve as symbols of power for each administrative center.

Every 6 months, the Yezidi Quwals, who are trained reciters of Qewls & other forms of sacred oral Yezidi tradition, were sent out to other Yezidi-inhabited areas with military protection from the central administrative region of Shekhan & the spiritual center of Lalish.

This tradition serves to preserve the Yazidi faith & doctrine. The Qewals, supported by voluntary alms, led a Sincaq through Yazidi villages to maintain spiritual legitimacy & symbolize the authority of Lalish & the Mir.

During WWI, the Armenian genocide of 1915 caused a mass exodus of Yazidis from Van, Kars, & Bazid, Turkey. Together with many Armenians, they fled from the Ottoman Empire in masses to Transcaucasia (a.k.a. South Caucasus. This is located on the border of Eastern Europe & West Asia, which straddles the southern Caucasus Mountains.).

They followed their families/relatives who had already migrated to the territories of the Russian Empire after fleeing during the Russo-Turkish wars in 1828-1829 & 1877-1878. In May 1918, Ottomans crossed the Akhuryan River to invade the Armenian Republic. The Yezidi participation in the decisive Battle of Sardarabad is still commemorated by Armenians.

Yazidism is a monotheistic faith based on belief in 1 God, who created the world & entrusted it into the care of a Heptad of the 7 Holy Beings. Often known as angels or heft sirr (the 7 Mysteries). Preeminent among these is Tawusi Melek (also known as Melek Taus), the Peacock Angel. Traditionally, Yazidis who marry non-Yazidis are considered to have converted to the religion of their spouse.

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A quotation from A. A. Milne

Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Peace with Honour, ch. 16 “Patriotism and Pledges,” sec. 5 (1934)

More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/82508/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #casusbelli #death #proportionality #war #worldwari #ww1

Mutual Aid or Mutual Assured Destruction
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/26/mutual-aid-or-mutual-assured-destruction/
Cooperation is more important than competition in human survival, argued Peter Kropotkin. After competition brought two world wars, mutual aid twice sought to rescue humanity. Will there be a third chance? asks Joe Lauria. The following is the full text…
#Politics #Analysis #AncientWorld #Books #Brics #Britain #Commentary #Europe #France #History #NuclearWeapons #Revolution #Russia #Switzerland #UnitedNations #UnitedStates #WorldWarI #WorldWarIi #Anarchism #CoordinatorOfGovernmentActivitiesInTheTerritories #Habsburg(austriaHungary) #Hohenzollern(germany) #JoeLauria #MargaretThatcher #MiddleAges #MihailBakunin #MutualAid #NationalHealthService(nhs) #PetrKropotkin #Romanov(russia) #RonaldReagan #VladimirLenin

Please have a think about submitting a proposal for this conference on Richard Aldington I'm co-organizing on 2 Dec 2023 in London. The CfP deadline is next Friday, 28 April. Drop me a line if any questions. https://nclsn.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/cfp-survival-and-exile-richard-aldingtons-response-to-his-war-london-sat-2-dec-2023/

#FirstWorldWar #WorldWarI #Modernism #ModernistStudies #RichardAldington #Aldington #Survival #Exile #Interwar #interwarmodernism #PostWar