![]() In addition, according to Peter Damian, the Byzantine princess Maria Argyropoulina brought some golden forks to Venice, when she married Giovanni Orseolo, the son of the Doge Pietro II Orseolo in 1004. Ĭhronographers mention the astonishment that the Byzantine princess Theophanu caused to the westerners, because she was using a fork instead of her hands when she was eating (she moved to the west because she married the Holy Roman Emperor Otto II). By the 10th century, the table fork was in common use throughout the Middle East. Records show that by the 9th century in some elite circles of Persia a similar utensil known as a barjyn was in limited use. Use varied according to local customs, social class, and the type of food, but in earlier periods forks were mostly used as cooking and serving utensils.Īlthough its origin may go back to Ancient Greece, the personal table fork was most likely invented in the Eastern Roman ( Byzantine) Empire, where they were in common use by the 4th century. ![]() In the Roman Empire, bronze and silver forks were used, many surviving examples of which are displayed in museums around Europe. In Ancient Egypt, large forks were used as cooking utensils. Similar forks have also been depicted on top of a stove in a scene at another Eastern Han tomb (in Suide County, Shaanxi). A stone carving from an Eastern Han tomb (in Ta-kua-liang, Suide County, Shaanxi) depicts three hanging two-pronged forks in a dining scene. 1050 BC), as well as later Chinese dynasties. Bronze forks made in Persia during the 8th or 9th century.īone forks have been found in archaeological sites of the Bronze Age Qijia culture (2400–1900 BC), the Shang dynasty (c.
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![]() It's just an expression of what you're feeling. "I don't think about that because I don't think about emoting with my face. Hawkeye killed Norman Osborn (Earth-11223) Bullseye The Green Goblin Stole. We heard it enough that it was probably a consideration, to change it up a little bit," he said. The cast also includes Vera Farmiga, Fra Fee, Tony Dalton, Zahn McClarnon. Entertainment Movies See the 'Spider-Man' Casts Side-by-Side with the Other Actors Who Played Their Characters There have been three live-action film adaptations of Spider-Man starring Tobey. Willem Dafoe loved returning as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man: No Way Home, but the film proves he was right about the Green Goblin. "I must be honest, I am aware that there was some criticism of that mask in the original one. Published Willem Dafoe said Norman Osborn was more interesting than Green Goblin because of the specifics of the role, and No Way Home leaned into this. He then appears in a hood with his face visible. In the film, Dafoe first appears in a similar costume to the original, but the mask is smashed and destroyed early on. Dafoe reprises the character in No Way Home after Tom Holland's Peter Parker opens a portal to other universes, bringing villains and heroes from previous Spider-Man movie series into his own world.ĭafoe, plus Spider-Man 2's Alfred Molina (Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2's Jamie Foxx (Max Dillon/Electro) spoke to The New York Times about returning for the crossover event 20 years in the making.Īccording to Dafoe, his character's look was reimagined because fans of his original performance expressed disappointment that his Goblin mask didn't move and appeared overly cartoonish. While he ended up imprisoned after trying to kill. He initially took it to cure a disease he had but got turned into a hideous, goblin-like creature. ![]() He got mutated and became a version of the Green Goblin after injecting a special spider-venom serum into his body. And if MCU ever looks for an actor who could replace Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin, they should consider him. A more likely option would be Dane DeHaan's Harry from The Amazing Spider-Man 2. He has a strong presence and tends to appear to be the protagonist of every scene he is a part of. ![]() He takes up his part seriously and immerses himself in the character. schizophrenic Green Goblin in the hit comic book adaptation of. Dae Kim is an actor who can convey deep emotions without speaking much. The 66-year-old actor first played Norman Osborn, aka the villain Green Goblin, in Sam Raimi's 2002 Spider-Man, which starred Tobey Maguire as the superhero. Reuniting with Stone, the actor saw the other side of the Vietnam War as a paralyzed. Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Lizard and Electro are all involved, with Willem Dafoes Green Goblin making an epic return too. Willem Dafoe says past criticism of his Green Goblin costume prompted a redesign for his return in Spider-Man: No Way Home. With the official trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home finally dropping, fans have been parsing it for Easter eggs as to what or who else has come over from the previous Sony films from Sam Raimi and Marc Webb. The actor known for his iconic villain role as Norman Osborne aka Green Goblin, in Sam Raimi’s 2000s Spider-Man trilogy and beyond, said as much in a recent interview with Inverse, telling. Warning: This post contains spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Rolling Stone Patrick Page as the Green Goblin, a mad scientist who created the Sinister Six mutants, gives the performance of a lifetime. USA Today Patrick Page is the production’s consistent scene-stealer. Avenge me.Moviestore/Shutterstock Sony Pictures Releasing Actor) for portraying Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Dafoe portrayed the supervillain Norman Osborn / Green Goblin in the superhero film. Green Goblin actor Willem Dafoe has revealed that he has 'fantasised' about playing an imposter Joker alongside Joaquin Phoenixs Joker in a pitch that we really need to happen. Luckily, Patrick Page, the veteran actor who plays Osborn and the Goblin, is an exuberantly entertaining villain. You were always weak and you will always be weak until you take control! Dafoe played the supervillain the Green Goblin in Sam Raimis 2002 superhero film Spider-Man, starring Tobey Maguire as the titular Marvel Comics superhero. The world was a cruel and perilous place, be it the crowded streets or open road, the inner city or a rural outpost. ![]() When he wasn’t a truth-seeker, our protag was often a criminal, at the very least someone of ambivalent moral code or weakness, a fall-guy running out of time, and hope for redemption. The attraction was as ugly as the repulsion. Everyone was out for themselves, phonies subject to their basest fears and vices. Everyone was running some kind of scam, even the cops-especially the cops. Its characters were dirty, displaced, disillusioned, distrustful, just plain dumb. Like the ink on those yellow hard-boiled pages, film noir was a smeared affair from the start-hard to define and harder to reconcile. was linear: Talk it out, trace the clues, tell us about it with a voiceover.Įxcept it wasn’t that easy. (Had Will Hays, Joseph Breen, and their censoring kind not been around, noir would’ve been an even more nihilistic realm.) In any case, the M.O. Remember: The folks at the Hollywood Production Code couldn’t handle it either, mandating changes in service of propriety, i.e., social conformity. ![]() It’s not overreaching to read all of this from the 300 or so titles generally considered the classic noir canon. Put the femme fatale in her place, show the girl-the world-who’s boss. Extrapolated to the off-screen world, the logic was, solve the crime, solve the problem. Unless they were a good, subservient girl, women were brazen, sexual bitches, more often than not smarter, and more powerful, than the guys-at least at the outset. You couldn’t say the same for the ladies, what with that Madonna-whore complex running rampant through noir’s icky Freudian gender dynamics. All that paranoia and pathos, before the second Red Scare.Įnter the private detective and his antihero ilk-a scarred, brooding fella who for his considerable flaws was sympathetic. The roles were reversed, the world was upside down. Homes they didn’t recognize, communities that had gone on in their absence, workplaces that no longer needed them, and wives who weren’t dependent on them anymore. Think about it: As the classic period of noir, generally regarded as 1940-58, wore on, more jaded and pessimistic, shell-shocked soldiers were returning to a forever changed urban and suburban landscape. Life had grown profoundly strange for its first-generation audience … off-balance, alienating, lonely. Noir is a state of mind, of subconscious, a fever dream, an existential crisis. Some define noir as or by a tone, and it’s very much a mood, a sensibility. Though its blueprints were everywhere, noir forged its own language, its own playbook, its own universe. We talk about noir plotting and tropes, but in fact it drew liberally from the gangster pics of the Depression/Prohibition era, crime procedurals, heist movies, horror films (again, the German Expressionist influence), romantic melodrama, Gothic thrillers, tawdry B-movies, and that other quintessentially American breed, the Western. We admire its heavily stylized approach-exaggerated camera angles, tension-crafting mise-en-scène, flashbacks, deep focus and trademark shadows-but also its neo-realist and documentary-like experiments. We think of a never-ending, rain-soaked night-sunlight replaced with neon and nocturnal reflections, the optical trickery of mirrors and shadows-but in contrast, the days of noir scorched its characters. and N.Y.C.-set saga, there’s a small, heartland tragedy. We think of noirs as urban stories, but that’s not always the case-for every L.A. See, noir didn’t play by any rules, not really. International directors like Fritz Lang, Michael Curtiz, and Robert Siodmak, who’d honed the dramatic visuals of German Expressionism, fled their war-torn homes for the plentiful opportunities in Tinseltown.īut things get complicated here, and fast. The men-including the screenwriters-had gone off to fight, and as the women stepped up, into the public sector and newfound independence, studio chiefs turned to the fast-and-cheap pulp mysteries of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Noir was nothing if not a reaction, a reflection of a nation reeling from despicable evil overseas and revolutionary upheaval on the domestic front. Is it a genre? A subgenre? A movement? A trend? A commentary? A style? For the purposes of this introduction, let’s call it a response. ![]() Since its coining in 1946 by French critic Nino Frank, who observed from afar something dark, quite literally, going on at the American cinema, the term “film noir” has been debated and debated and debated some more. ![]() Of the 230 major medical issuers in states that reported for the 2021 plan year, 162 reported receiving at least 1,000 in-network claims and show data on claims received and denied. From the public use file, we developed a working file that is posted with this brief. ![]() Our analysis excludes stand-alone dental plans and issuers with incomplete data or less than 1,000 claims submitted. This brief focuses on transparency data for the 2021 calendar year submitted by qualified health plans (QHPs) offered to individuals on as part of the 2023 plan certification process. Nor has it required any further detailed reporting (e.g., on claims or appeals by type of service or diagnosis.) Federal agencies have yet to require transparency in coverage data reporting by other non-group plans or employer-sponsored plans. 1 CMS does not collect data on all fields enumerated in the ACA, including out-of-network claims submitted and out-of-network enrollee cost sharing and payments. As a result, for any given issuer, the total plan-level claims reported may not equal the issuer-level claims reported for the 2021 coverage year. Issuers only report plan-level transparency data plans they seek to offer on in the coming year. Since 2018, issuers are also required to report data at the health plan level, including certain reasons for claims denials. In 2022, issuers reported aggregated data on all QHPs they offered in 2021. Aggregate data are reported at the issuer level. Issuers report only on the number of in-network claims submitted and denied, the number of such denials that are appealed, and the outcome of appeals. To date, reporting is required only by issuers for their qualified health plans (QHP) offered on. Partial implementation of ACA transparency data reporting began with the 2015 plan year. The law requires data to be available to state insurance regulators and to the public. Other information as determined appropriate by the Secretary.Information on enrollee and participant rights under this title.Information on cost-sharing and payments with respect to any out-of-network coverage.Data on the number of claims that are denied. ![]() Under the ACA, required reporting fields for transparency-in-coverage data include: Transparency data also are not used in oversight nor to develop other tools or indicators to help consumers see and compare differences across plans. Data to answer these questions are not collected and data that are collected are not audited, for example, to ensure issuers report data consistently. Yet, the federal government’s broad authority to require transparency data reporting has not been fully implemented. It could also make more transparent trends in the incidence and handling of claims for surprise medical bills, now protected under the No Surprises Act. For example, transparency data could be helpful in oversight of compliance with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), revealing how or whether claims denial rates differ for behavioral health vs other services. Data are to inform regulators and consumers about how health plans work in practice. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires transparency data reporting by all non-grandfathered employer-sponsored health plans and by non-group plans sold on and off the marketplace. In 2021, consumers appealed less than two-tenths of 1% of denied in-network claims, and insurers upheld most (59%) denials on appeal. Most plan-reported denials (77%) were classified as ‘all other reasons.’Īs in our previous analysis of claims denials, we find that consumers rarely appeal denied claims and when they do, insurers usually uphold their original decision. Of in-network claims, about 14% were denied because the claim was for an excluded service, 8% due to lack of preauthorization or referral, and only about 2% based on medical necessity. Insurer denial rates varied widely around this average, ranging from 2% to 49%.ĬMS requires insurers to report the reasons for claims denials at the plan level. We find that, across insurers with complete data, nearly 17% of in-network claims were denied in 2021. Data were reported by insurers for the 2021 plan year and posted in a public use file in October 2022. In this brief, we analyze transparency data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on claims denials and appeals for non-group qualified health plans (QHPs) offered on. ![]() Mountain biking consists of sprinting, drifting and doing basic flips wingsuiting and rocket wingsuiting use inverted controls, with the latter adding a boost function skiing and snowboarding have the highest learning curve, requiring button combos to execute mid-air spins, flips and grabs. Each sport has its own set of controls, each with varying complexity, though none took more than a few runs to master. But when it comes to gameplay, Ubisoft Annecy kept things simple - perhaps too simple. With a large map, more than 50+ players (on Xbox Series X and PS5) and five types of activities, Riders Republic is undoubtedly ambitious. And when a team controls an entire zone, they can score huge points by landing more tricks in the "District on Fire." My team got crushed, but I was yearning to give it another shot after I'd learned how the mechanics worked. Adding a twist to the formula is a multiplier boost that engages when teammates are close to each other (a laser beam will link them when they're in close proximity). ![]() Sounds a lot like Graffiti, right? Well, in Riders Republic teams win by gaining the most points, not by controlling the most ramps or rails. Two teams of six are fighting to take zones on a map by nailing tricks on objects, which then turn the color of the respective team (red or blue). Perhaps the most creative mode in the game, Trick Battles felt like a mix of Tony Hawk's Graffiti and Battlefield's Conquest. It includes Trick Battles and Free for All as well as Shack Daddy events and Mass Races (the latter two I'll describe later). That said, PVP mode is where Riders Republic could really shine. Ubisoft told me there are 33 events in the snow tricks career alone with three more career modes to unlock afterward, so there should be plenty to do. Unfortunately, local co-op, a staple of the classics in this genre, is not supported. Want to know more about us? Head here.Career mode consists of beating races or freestyle events either solo or with a group of up to five players. In no time, our stories got picked up by the likes of Forbes, Foxnews, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Macrumors, and many others. PiunikaWeb started as purely an investigative tech journalism website with main focus on ‘breaking’ or ‘exclusive’ news. To conclude, if there is news related to the Axie Infinity graphic issues in the next few days, update this article to keep you informed. In fact, some players already have their normal SLP stats. It is expected that the accounts of all players will gradually be corrected. Please look this issue.īut actually, this is reportedly a graphical bug. Many have issue about lost slp this new update they did not claim slp or transfer their slp to ronin Wallet, since day 1 they play axie. Tried to re install but still it’s not reflecting. After the updated version, MY SLP’s WERE LOST. This made many players think that the SLP they had in inventory was lost with the update, as various reports show ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10). The interface shows a wrong amount of SLP. SourceĪnother issue that Axie Infinity players report after the update is related to the SLP inventory, which is bugged for many. In addition to the above, Axies cards are now reportedly displayed at low resolution. The problem seems to be that the animations were sped up, sometimes overlapping each other. ![]() I am trying to keep up with the animations but they just make me dizzy and sick. But now, I am getting motion sickness and feeling like I’m about to throw up watching axies move and just playing the game. I thought I can work with it for now as I enjoyed playing the game. Like what has been said by a whole lot of posts, this update sucked. This is because there is a kind of desync between the animation and the gameplay, generating a confusing effect ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). The developers sought to add richness and dynamism to the matches, but it was not done correctly.Īxie Infinity players report that the game’s new animations are ‘dizzy’. One of the improvements that the update brought is related to animations. The glitch causes to show a wrong amount of SLP available.Īxie Infinity dizzy animations and low-res cards issues In addition to the above, some players are suffering from a bug in their inventory SLP. According to multiple reports, currently the graphic add-ons present issues like dizzy animations, low-res cards and others. However, this update did not come as polished as it should. The update in question brought improvements regarding the graphics and animations, in addition to adjustments designed to improve the experience in battles and balance statistics, as well as correct errors. Recently, its developers sent an update that adds various new features and improvements. Axie Infinity is one of the most popular NFT games out there. ![]() Dongle for dashcam in the back of the mirrorģk miles oil change with OEM Filter+M1 have Black stone analysis. It has been modified in the following ways:Ģ. Toyota 4Runner 2021 TRD Pro 4WD 4.0L V6 SMPI DOHC 5-Speed Automatic with Overdrive Lunar Rock Recent Arrival Price does not include dealer installed. It has only been hand washed by me, and has never seen an automatic car wash. This Florida SUV has a 4.0L V6 SMPI DOHC engine. I am pretty anal when it comes to both maintenance and care for the truck. Lunar Rock 2021 Beaver Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro is a 4D Sport Utility 4WD. It has been in no accidents and I hold the clear California title. It smells/looks like new, I don't eat or drink inside of it. Save 8,405 this June on a 2021 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro 4WD on CarGurus. The truck spent a total of maybe 10 days out of the last year outside, it has been perpetually garaged. Browse the best June 2023 deals on 2021 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro 4WD vehicles for sale. code: 6X3, grade: trdoff-road, name: Lunar Rock. I have owned the truck since day 1, and I am the original owner. year: 2023, series: tacoma, color: 4W5, grade: trdpro, trim: 7597. Thanks in advance also for your valuable input.Somewhat reluctantly listing my 2021 TRD PRO Taco for sale. PLANO, Texas (July 8, 2020) With a striking new debut, TRD Pro models are carrying on the color tradition with the introduction of Lunar Rock for 2021. But then again this vehicle is selling for $10k over today at various dealerships, maybe i should just take it?įor now i still have the deposit in place and i can take this Lunar Rock TRD Pro but let me know what you guys think and if you have any advice for me. This sounds like just another way of placing a premium pricing on a 4runner. ![]() I haven’t done mods on trucks before so i looked up how much a typical lift would cost and it looks like about $1,500 so just having extra tires for $8,400 total sounds like a complete rip off. The manager calls me later that day and explains that the lift is 1 inch in the front and not 100% sure for the back and that the “special” wheels are not new wheels but just different Offroad tires (which does not include the original tires btw, if i want the original tires, it’ll be $400 extra) and that package is $8,400 in addition to the MSRP. So i put a $500 refundable deposit down right away. The sales person said he doesn’t know much about it and that another manager will call me back but if i decide not to put a deposit down now, it can go to another person on the waiting list. ![]() Not so fast,… they tell me that this particular 4Runner will come with a Lift and “special” set of wheels which costs $8,400 extra. I immediately confirm that I’d put a deposit down IF they are selling it at MSRP and they say that they don’t sell any 4Runners above MSRP. Messages: 56 Gender: Male Chicago 2021 TRD PRO LR Leitner ACS, Decked, CBI Sliders, Skids, Air Bags, Gizmos I am selling my 2021 TRD Pro Lunar Rock Automatic to move to something bigger (a TRX), the dealer is trying to screw me on the trade, so I would love for my baby to go to a good home. So I’ve been on a hunt for a TRD Pro (in LR or MGM) or the ORP in MGM and i finally got a call from a local dealer that they have a TRD Pro in LR that’s being built in Japan right now that I can put my name on. TikTok video from □♦️□□.Sims 4.□□♦️□ "Replying to #voiceeffects Sorry it cut off at the end but here's an tip: DO NOT an I mean PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ON OF THEM! They are very important both of them you need them both for it to work but here's the tutorial on how to download #wickedwhims! Tags: #sims #sims4 #ea #fx #thesims4 #thesims #easports #games #gaming #game #gamergirl #gamer #fakebody #viral #trending #viralvideos #viralpost #foryou #fyp #fypシ #fypage #foryourpage #tiktok #followme #like #share #loveyou #loveyourself #likes #support #explorepage #explore #video #popular #exploremore #viralvideo #foryoupage". It starts up as a cute little goose that wanders around your desktop (on top of all over windows), making quacking and waddling sound. ![]() Undertale, Super Meat Boy, Portal, The Ghost in the Pool, Final Fantasy I. Desktop goose portal mod series Although the early games in the series were well-received, Kensuke Tanabe wanted each one to have different genre and core gameplay elements. 6 Popularity Windows 7/8/10/11 Portable View all screenshots an annoying little goose prank for the desktop Desktop Goose is a funny prank app that will wreak havoc on your desktop. El gansito pixelado interactúa con el usuario mientras este utiliza su ordenador o portátil siempre que tenga instalado el sistema operativo Microsoft Windows o Mac. You can use OpenAsar for some basic Discord improvements and theming (Custom/Quick CSS). XP with a great silver theme look and feel. Desktop Goose - Mods & Resources by the DsktpGoose Modding Community. GooseMod is now discontinued as of September 27th, it is not usable. Mouse over at Flickr to see how everything is put together. ![]() ![]() Replying to #voiceeffects Sorry it cut off at the end but here's an tip: DO NOT an I mean PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ON OF THEM! They are very important both of them you need them both for it to work but here's the tutorial on how to download #wickedwhims ! Tags: #sims #sims4 #ea #fx #thesims4 #thesims #easports #games #gaming #game #gamergirl #gamer #fakebody #viral #trending #viralvideos #viralpost #foryou #fyp #fypシ #fypage #foryourpage #tiktok #followme #like #share #loveyou #loveyourself #likes #support #explorepage #explore #video #popular #exploremore #viralvideo #foryoupageģ84 Likes, 37 Comments. I have a really bad pc that can barely run garrys mod on low with some npcs. Desktop Goose es un programa gratuito que permite que un ganso virtual camine libremente por la pantalla del ordenador y controle el ratón. Laptop Desktop Windows Vista desktop with its icons blending well into the wallpaper. ^ Information for the Triangle™ Mastercard® and Triangle™ World Elite Mastercard®:Īnnual Interest Rate(s): All charges to your account (excluding cash transactions and related fees) - 20.99%Ĭash transactions (for example: cash advances, balance transfers, convenience cheques, money transfers, purchase of travellers cheques and gambling transactions) and related fees - 21.99% (if you reside in Quebec) or 22.99% (if you reside outside Quebec).įor the Triangle Mastercard only: If you are not approved for a card at the above rates, Canadian Tire Bank may still issue you a card at the following annual interest rates: (i) if you are a resident of Quebec, 21.99% for all charges or (ii) if you reside outside of Quebec, 25.99% for all charges (excluding cash transactions and related fees) and 27.99% for cash transactions and related fees.įoreign Exchange Conversion: All transactions made in a foreign currency will be converted to Canadian currency at the then current Mastercard conversion rate plus 2.5% (for charges to your account) or minus 2.5% (for credits to your account) when the transaction is posted to your account.Ĭash Advance Fee: $4 - Charged when the transaction is posted to your account. 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Selection and availability may vary by location. **Online prices and sale effective dates may differ from those in-store and may vary by region. ![]() Before each station stop Another welcome after each station stop The buffet is open and situated in the centre of the train There’s a trolley service of light refreshments making its way through the train the buffet will be closing in 10 minutes etc, etc. ![]() There will be many more announcements before we get to York. ![]() This one to welcome us on board and something about hand-held devices we couldn’t quite understand. The first of many tinny announcements breaks the spell. Then the magic continues with the effortless glide out of the platform and into and out of the tunnels beyond. The standard rule of thumb applied: if you buy your ticket in advance, you will get a discounted fare and you will get a seat as far away from the entrance barriers as is possible. Walking along the platform we pass carriage after carriage, each with large windows clean as a whistle interspersed periodically by wide doors open and welcoming. With Platform 9 3/4 nothing more than a Harry Potter-themed retail outlet offering its own brand of magic, we boarded our train from Platform 0 instead. It took me ages to find a toilet, but otherwise all the facilities you would expect are on hand. The redevelopment work has all finished and the station is clean and airy. The magic starts with the cathedral-like surroundings of King’s Cross Station. There is something magical about a long-distance train journey. Regardless of this, well done Cathy Fradley!! What was his problem? All the euphoria of our excellent journey with Cathy and her team evaporated, so I hope Derek can be sent on a Customer care course. He took the two packs I had taken from the Trolley and gave me two packets from inside the Buffet. His name was Derek and he was odious, refusing to acknowledge my request for crisps for my wife. I picked up two packets and at that moment, the new Guard appeared and he was quite objectionable, accusing me of stealing. The Buffet was completely closed, but next to it was a Buffet Trolley with crisps on it. Shame for the Aberdeen passengers! On leaving Edinburgh, my wife asked if I could find her a bag of crisps from the Buffet Car. The only problem was that the relief catering team did not board and so the buffet was shut at Edinburgh. They all delivered exemplary service - we enjoyed the food and the wine and the journey passed very quickly and enjoyably. Crew Leader was Carol Fradley, helped by Paula, David, Jamie, Cheryl and Cathy. We had reserved first class seats and had a great team looking after us. We returned to the UK after a month's cruising and caught the 1400hrs Virgin East Coast train from Kings Cross to Leuchars on Tuesday 10th May. ![]() 'Second Nationalist-Communist Cooperation') was the alliance between the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to resist the Japanese invasion of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which suspended the Chinese Civil War from 1937 to 1945. The Second United Front ( traditional Chinese: 第二次國共合作 simplified Chinese: 第二次国共合作 pinyin: dì èr cì guógòng hézuò lit. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.ĭecember 24, 1936 ( ) – January 1941 ( 1941-01)Ī Communist soldier waving the Nationalists' flag of the Republic of China after a victorious battle against the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Chinese Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. 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Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.The claim that Stalin could have beaten Hitler without help from the Western Allies has meanwhile sparked a debate between British historians Sir Antony Beevor, who points out that the Combined Bombing Offensive and huge Anglo-American aid to Russia were vital in allowing Russia to survive Operation Barbarossa, and Sir Max Hastings, who believes Russia “probably could have won the war on its own, because the German war economy was much weaker than everyone understood at the time. Alexei Navalny, the charismatic Russian opposition leader, is also being barred from contesting the presidential elections against Putin in March next year because he has a criminal conviction for fraud, also on trumped-up charges. Dmitriev played a huge role in uncovering the hidden history of the Solovetsky Islands and the White Sea Canal, and the accusations made against him appear to be a pure act of vengeance carried out by the FSB–the institutional descendant of the NKVD and KGB.Ĭampaigners such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag, who demand that the accusations against Dmitriev are investigated properly and independently, point out how the FSB persecution tactics come straight out of the old Soviet playbook. ![]() This was taken to a new level in June when Yuri Dmitriev, who dedicated his life to finding and identifying the burial sites of Stalin’s victims in his native Karelia, was arrested for child abuse. History is a political battlefield in modern Russia, where the historical and civil rights society Memorial, which investigates the extent of Stalinist crimes in the Gulags, has been repeatedly disrupted and attacked by the FSB (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation). ![]() In June Putin claimed that “excessive demonization” of Stalin had been used to “attack” and slander post-Soviet Russia. Whereas 34% of Russians in 1997–the year Putin came to power–believed that the fact that “Stalin acted regardless of casualties” and that was the main reason that 27 million Russians died in World War Two, today only 12% believe that, a tribute to the two decades of Putin’s ceaseless propaganda sanitizing Stalin’s role. “The Red Army could have defeated Nazi Germany without Allied help,” records The Times of London, “according to two thirds of Russians, who are adopting an increasingly positive view of Joseph Stalin’s wartime leadership despite the enormous casualties suffered under his command.” This worrying sign of increased ultra-nationalism under Vladimir Putin was based on findings from a poll conducted by the respected Levada Center in Moscow. |
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