#1917-2017

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Danielle Darrieux - By Ray Jones (1938)

Pic Source: @ForeverLouiseB1 (Twitter)

[tokupedia]

See 100 Years of Anime in Under 15 Minutes in this Special Retrospective Video

See 100 years of anime in under 15 minutes in this special retrospective video.

Before the year closes, let’s wish a Happy 100th anniversary to the medium of anime!

[fromthesomewhere]

Christmas 1917 - Manitoba’s University and Colleges

Over the past 4 years we have written a number of posts here about Christmas during wartime, both at home and on the front lines. This year, we thought we’d highlight Christmas at the University of Manitoba and at Wesley College (now the University of Winnipeg).

The 1 December 1917 issue of The Manitoban, the University of Manitoba student newspaper, opened with a Christmas message written by Professor W.F. Osborne. Osborne's 1917 Christmas message was less of a religious or celebratory message, and was instead heavily inspired by the Great War. He framed the war as exemplary of the eternal clash of Good and Evil and wrote "let us not lose our hope", writing with hope of a "Good" (Britian and British allies) victory over "Evil" (Germany and German allies).

The December 1917 issue of Vox Wesleyana, the Wesley College student newspaper, opened with a poem from Tennyson (not pictured), a holiday themed editorial, and a Christmas message by C.R. Flanders, Pastor at the nearby Broadway Methodist Church. Flanders’ message was a reminder to students at the Christian college that Christmas was to be a celebration of Joy and Love. Like Osborne, Flanders also touched on the war. He chose to memorialize fallen soldiers, and those still fighting at the front, “Wesley’s sacrifice of heroic youths has not been in Her long Honor Roll, inscribed with blood and tears, can never be effaced - can never grow dim”.

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate.

Tyyne & Andrea

[tirsu]

~ HYVÄÄ 100:tta ITSENÄISYYSPÄIVÄÄ, SUOMI! ~

~ Happy 100th Independence Day, Finland! ~

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12 Dicembre 1917 L'incidente ferroviario Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne Sono le 19:30 e nella stazione di Modane, nei pressi del confine italo-francese, è appena arrivato un treno pieno di soldati francesi parte del contingente alleato inviato in Italia dopo lo sfondamento di Caporetto. Ora stanno rientrando in patria, per le licenze di Natale. Ora il treno deve affrontare, fino alla stazione di Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, un tratto di circa 14 km di pendenza continua. Il treno, composto da 19 vagoni, riparte alla 23:15, durante la fermata a Modane molti degli ufficiali hanno lasciato il treno per prendere l'espresso per Parigi. A Freney il treno incomincia ad acquistare velocità, arrivando, nonostante i disperati tentativi dei macchinisti che cercano di far rallentare il treno, alla impressionante velocità di 135 km/h su una linea che ne può sopportare massimo 40 km/h. Il disastro è inevitabile, qualche km prima della stazione di Saint-Michel, il primo vagone, più leggero in quanto vuoto, deraglia e finisce di traverso sul binario, gli altri vagoni uno dietro l'altro si scontrano. La locomotiva e il tender, dopo la rottura dei ganci, proseguono la loro corsa e un chilometro dopo si fermano alla stazione. Tra i 1000 soldati sul treno, il conteggio dei morti è alto, la cifra reale è difficile da stabilire, l'incidente fu infatti coperto dalla censura militare, si parla di 600-700 morti, è di sicuro il peggiore incidente ferroviario nella storia della Francia e uno dei più gravi della storia mondiale. Le responsabilità non verranno mai ufficialmente accertate. Nella seconda foto, la lapide che ricorda l'incidente posta sul luogo del deragliamento. 12 December 1917 - The Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment 19:30, A train full of French soldiers has just arrived in the Modane station, near the Italian-French border, it's a part of the allied contingent sent to Italy after the break-up of Italian front during the battle of Caporetto. Now they are returning home, on leave for the Christmas holidays. On leaving Modane, the train descends into a valley, quickly gaining speed. The driver applies the brakes to no effect, owing to the heavy load, and quickly losing control of the train. After continuing at dangerous and uncontrolled speeds of up to 135 kilometres per hour (84 mph) for nearly 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi), the first coach derails at Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, causing a pile-up and resultant fire. The locomotive and the tender, after breaking the hooks, continue their run for one kilometer and they stop at the station. Among the 1,000 soldiers on the train, the death toll is high, the real figure is difficult to establish, the incident was in fact covered by military censorship, the deaths were between 600-700. The derailment remains the greatest rail catastrophe in French history. In the second picture, the commemorative plate placed on the site of the accident.

[scienceoftheidiot]

Hyvää syntymäpäivää Suomi ! 

Happy 100th to all you finns ! :D 

[ghostmeteor]

German communists comemorate the 100th aniversary of the russian revolution in Berlin by going around the streets in trucks and with a small tank replica.

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Lunch gathering with veterans from WWI (Lisbon, Portugal) in 1921.

Source: Arquivo Municipal Lisboa