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Gripen yet again. That is a peculiar consonant. Listen to him say industry at :43.
If you see his "Ukraine Gains Ground at KHERSON!" video, that will give you both a worthwhile charity for trauma kits as well as some Swedish language.
And here is some Swedish chef. That's funny from the first syllable.
That is a moose. Not to be confused with the French word mousse, which means foam, froth, also moss.
But Swedish people would not call the animal a moose.
Some Persian for you:
Javun means young (and youngster), so javun e means (s/he) is young.
The Persian word for boy is pesar. Girl in this Indo-European language is dokhtar.
People is mardom.
While we're at it, God is khoda (dating back to Zoroastrians). Allah is for the Arabs. I've heard Khoda as a lady's name..
I was never full of anticipation for any of the Star Wars films. Even as a kid I recognised that Star Wars was made with a combination of mysterious magic pixie dust and production muscle. I understood that this delicate situation
would be difficult to reproduce. As a result I always had tempered expectations for subsequent Star Wars films.
Deep Space Nine at Red Letter Media. I only watched one episode. Odo was impressive.
The The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 happens late in this 45-minute video. Welcome to the confusing, shifting world of Europe. The Battle of Solferino in 1859 sticks in my mind because the suffering of the wounded inspired a businessman from neutral Switzerland to start the Red Cross. The revolutions of 1848 - multiple countries - are something to look into another day.
What else happened in 1867? Ontario, Quebec, and the old maritime provinces in British North America became Canada ("confederation"). U.S.A. bought Alaska from Russia, ending the North America part of the Russian Empire. Prince Mutsuhito took over as the Emperor Meiji of Japan, with the society-changing Meiji Restoration starting in 1868.
Do you remember the slick Winnipeg cat burglar? He stole the treasured Star of Empress Sisi.
Do you know anything at all about the war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia? The first 33 minutes are about this (the Battle of Tannenberg is unrelated).
I remind you that the assassination of Austrian Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo by a Serbian assassin set off the mousetrap leading to the Great War.
It would be interesting to go back to Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary was .. I don't know, and I wouldn't know without a time machine. I'll just mention two words: Austrian waltz.
What would it be like if you had a pet that is some iron filings?
The proper version has more features, but I think this is likable.
Blizzard! Snow Storm short
Blizzard conditions hit Winnipeg /
Winnipeg residents help shovel out a fire truck stuck in the snow
Why are Canadians stereotypically polite? One theory is people have to get along to survive the winter.
We had an especially cold snap. Orange level, whatever that means. When I walked a dog I walked backwards so the cold wind wouldn't freeze my face. I tried to open the door at a friend's place to see what it was like outside, but because the door was frozen the handle ripped off.
Driving down the road with the traffic going along, I did a shoulder check to make a lane change, the car in front stopped, brakes didn't work because of the ice, and I got into a fender bender crash with
the car in front.
NEW I drove back in the icy weather after the accident, telling myself I refuse to drive for the next few days. At a challenging underpass I rolled down the window to help merge.
The window refused to roll back up because it was frozen.
Headed into the core area for some dim sum, we encountered a man who was kind of crouched into a ball, bare hands touching snow, not moving (alive?). I kept thinking of a deleted scene from
Alien: Prometheus. He was a fentanyl-consuming fellow who turned out to be friendly, although mumblesome. We called
the appropriate people and made sure he didn't freeze outside.
But for the people of Ukraine, they went through the height of winter with their power and heat systematically taken out by the Russians, who attempted to freeze the Ukrainians into surrender.
Can you imagine what it would be like to live like that?
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