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Another delicious pun!

Another long due article: Lauranouille's on charities!

What would be the organization which I shall want to support when I shall be an adult  is a good question, because there are a lot.

The association which interests me is called the UNICEF. 

This association consists in reducing the extreme poverty and the hunger, and the reduction of the poverty begins with the children, because in developing countries, it is generally the children of less than 5 years that starve. 

Poverty creates conditions which damage the development of the child: mental, physical, emotional… 

The UNICEF is going to allow the child to survive, to bloom, for it the UNICEF is going to give shots to the children, it is the main supplier of vaccines in the world. 

The organization is also going to allow to strengthen the local health systems. 

I shall want to support this organization because I find that it is important, you should not neglect organizations because they allow to decrease the poverty and the suffering in the world. 

A lot of people do not care about these problems. Here is the conviction of the UNICEF: all the children have the right to survive, to bloom and to realize all their potential to build a better world. 

Enjoy this long week-end!

Myths and heroes

                     

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An interesting mockumentary...

And another "What if..."...

An interesting piece of Uchronia...

                       

. The Abolitionists , a PBS trailer

TjPlus Article on charities

[For technical reasons which I can't explain to myself, this artclecould not be published before and the photos can't be added... Sorry about that.  Mrs P.]

When I am older I would like to get involved whith the UNICEF association because I think it's  very important to help children across the world for their education, evolution, and living conditions but especially their health!!!

I have discovered many charity causes and associations which organize sponsorships between us and poor children in many poor countries and of many differents ages. After your inscription you can send them money every month and you receive in return a letter sent by the child who has received your money. You can communicate with them in English or Spanish for example so they can tell us about their life and their evolution.

So we can follow the education of our sponsored child and help him to evolve to a better life and create a very strong link with a new culture. 
But the most positively for me it's to receive letters or pictures of a person somewhere in the world who is a little more happy thanks to you and thanks to this charity  created to make the world better.

And I really think that we cannot live and be totally happy without helping at least one person into the world. It makes us feel better and it makes us rich inside!

What's this?????????? It's Clyde's long overdue article about time travel!!!!

[And some people say, better late than never...  Mrs P.]

Hi everybody !

I'm going to talk to you about the 15^th - 16^th century ! 

Because if I would travel in the past I would like to be there. 

So I'll talk precisely of The Tudors !

  Illustration : this is the symbol of the Tudors.

MEMBERS OF THE TUDOR FAMILY

Illustration : Henri VII

captured the crown of England  

Son of Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort and descendant of Edward III of England . He became king after his victory over Richard III AND putting an end to the Wars of the -Roses .

Illustration : Henri Vlll

Son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York . Is the origin of the birth of Anglicanism (Doctrine , principles and institutions of the official Church of England. Constituting a middle way between Catholicism and Protestantism , Anglicanism includes , besides the official Church of England Churches Say " Episcopalian " Mainly established in South Africa, Australia , Canada and the United States.) when he breaks with the papacy to divorce Catherine of Aragon and to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn.

 

Illustration : Edward VI

 Son of Henri VIII and his third wife Jane Seymour. He rises on the throne to the age of only nine years, it was also one of the youngest English sovereigns.

illustration : Mary the first

Daughter of Henri VIII and of his first wife Catherine d' Aragon. She is nicknamed "Bloody Mary" by the Anglican Protestants, because of the persecutions which she led against them during her reign to restore  Roman Catholicism.

illustration : Elizabeth 1st

Daughter of Henri VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn. In her death without descent the throne passes to her cousin king Jacques VI of Scotland. It was one of the biggest queens of England. Her long reign of 44 years defines the Elizabethan period, which knew an age of incomparable gold.

The Tudor family is at the origin of a royal dynasty which gave its name to the period of the English history situated between 1485 and 1603. The era Tudor marks the end of the civil war which established the Wars of the Roses and cover the reign of five monarches who contributed to make of England a major European power.

The dynasty Tudor or House Tudor sees its origin going back to the XIIIth century. It englobes a continuation of five monarchs of  Welsh origin who reigned over the kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Ireland from 1485 to 1603. Three main monarches, Henri VII of England, Henri VIII of England and queen Elizabeth Ist, orchestrated the transfer of the kingdom of England of an European backyard always plunged into the Way.

The time Tudor is a member the most popular historic English periods of the literature and the legend.

The house Tudor supplied in particular a whole series of with a ruddy complexion characters which seized the poets, the playwrights and later the novelists and the film-makers. 

From the XVIth century, the entry in the throne of the first king of the dynasty, Henri VII is staged in Richard III of Shakespeare. 

Henry VIII, Shakespeare's play and John Fletcher sees the birth of queen Elisabeth I. 

The Protestant martyrology, John Foxe, will be at the origin of the Marie Tudor's black legend with Acts and Monuments, whereas Sir Edmund Spenser forges Elisabeth's golden legend I, Gloriana of the epic poem Tea Faerie Queene which will inspire later Gloriana, opera in three. 

I really like these series because the costumes and the actors are really beautiful and real.

[So what about a history quiz on that period? That was on British TV... Mrs P.]

And nowadays...

 The Jefferson Davis Monument, located at the intersection of Monument Avenue and Davis Avenue in Richmond.

Richmond during the Civil War...

Remember: Richmond was the Capital of the Confederate States...

People often say they see ghosts on the location of the Battle of Gettysburgh...

The Battlefield at Gettysburg Pennsylvania is said to be one of if not the most haunted locations in the United States.

Do you think it's possible? Is it metaphorical? What does it say about that Battle?

The idea of progress...

Dr. Mary Walker was a feminist, abolitionist, dress reform advocate (she nearly always wore pants, as women's clothing was too restrictive for work), suffragist and Civil War doctor. 

She was a doctor when female physicians were practically unheard of, and she was the first female surgeon in the US Army.

There hasn't been a game in ages!!!!

So here is one!

Explain this:

That would be an interesting read...

Do you remember who Sherman was? The one with the Indian middle name... Check your notes!

Any comment?

The first & last portrait photos of Lincoln as President: May 1860 & Feb 1865.

What is strange with this genuine (= authentic) American Civil War photo?

Starting today, a series of Food for Thoughts, on the American Civil War...

This one will be of no use whatsoever for your oral, but it's an interesting piece of trivia anyway!^^