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On this day in rock’n’roll history - Jethro Tull was formed. #JethroTull #progrock #rockhistory #onthisday
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#onthisday , 624 years ago, the Battle of Kosovo was fought between Sultan Murad I’s Ottoman Empire and a Serbian coalition army led by Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović near Priština.
“And Milosh says to Ivan Kosanchich: / "My brother, have you seen the Turkish army? / Is it vast? and do we dare attack them? / Can we conquer Murad here at Kosovo?" / And Ivan Kosanchich answers him like this: / "My noble friend, O Milosh Obilich! / I have spied upon the Turkish army / And I tell you it is vast and strong. / If all the Serbs were changed to grains of salt /We could not even salt their wretched dinners!” (“Captain Milosh and Ivan Kosanchich”, Serbian epic poem from Battle of Kosovo cycle)
After the end of Tsar Stephen Dušan’s Serbian empire following the defeat at the Battle of Maritsa nearly twenty years before, the road lay open for an Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. Most of the empire’s remaining princedoms submitted to Sultan Murad and the Ottomans prepared their big push to subjugate the last independent ones in 1387.
Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, ruler of Moravian Serbia, the largest and most powerful of them, gathered what local potentates were willing to ally with him and assembled an army of about 25.000 men to confront Murad’s 40.000. Quite large armies for late 14th century Europe. The battlefield and the day of battle were apparently carefully selected by Lazar – June 15th is traditionally St Vitus’ Day, Vidovdan, a remnant of the formerly dominant Catholic faith in the region or even the feast day of Svantovit, the god of war of the old Slavs, as the 19th century Pan-Slavists claimed.
Sources about the actual course of battle are rare. Lazar personally led the heavy cavalry in the Serbian centre, opposed by Murad himself, Prince Vuk Branković commanded the right wing against Murad’s son Yakub and the Bosnian Vlatko Vukotić on the left against Murad’s eldest son Bayezid. Ottoman artillery opened fire against Lazar’s charging Serbian knights, Ottoman archers fired their arrows and the Ottoman centre finally held against the charge and light troops tackling the heavily armoured knights who gut stuck in the lines of infantry, while Bayezid successfully counterattacked on the Ottoman right wing. From there legend begins. Allegedly, Miloš Obilić, a Serbian knight, feigned surrender, was brought before the Sultan and slashed open Murad’s belly with a hidden knife, Prince Lazar fell in battle and the initially successful Vuk Branković saw that all hope was lost and left the battlefield with his men.
Whoever won the battle was unclear even to the contemporaries. The losses must have been heavy on both sides, both leaders were dead and Ottoman expansion to the west was over for the present. Bayezid, who succeeded his father Murad, didn’t leave it at that, called reinforcements from Anatolia, led a new campaign into the bled-out Balkans, defeated a Hungarian crusade and subjugated most of the region’s remaining princes and shaping the conflict for the next 150 years with its never ending wars.
Prince Lazar was canonised a year after the battle and the conflict was transfigured into a powerful myth of self-conception and identity during Serbia’s strife for independence and national identity to this day.
Depicted below is Adam Stefanović’s history painting “The Battle of Kosovo“ (1871)
A translated version of the “Battle of Kosovo cycle“ folk epic can be found here
http://www.rastko.org.rs/knjizevnost/usmena/battle_of_kosovo.html
More on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo
#history #medievalhistory
“And Milosh says to Ivan Kosanchich: / "My brother, have you seen the Turkish army? / Is it vast? and do we dare attack them? / Can we conquer Murad here at Kosovo?" / And Ivan Kosanchich answers him like this: / "My noble friend, O Milosh Obilich! / I have spied upon the Turkish army / And I tell you it is vast and strong. / If all the Serbs were changed to grains of salt /We could not even salt their wretched dinners!” (“Captain Milosh and Ivan Kosanchich”, Serbian epic poem from Battle of Kosovo cycle)
After the end of Tsar Stephen Dušan’s Serbian empire following the defeat at the Battle of Maritsa nearly twenty years before, the road lay open for an Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. Most of the empire’s remaining princedoms submitted to Sultan Murad and the Ottomans prepared their big push to subjugate the last independent ones in 1387.
Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, ruler of Moravian Serbia, the largest and most powerful of them, gathered what local potentates were willing to ally with him and assembled an army of about 25.000 men to confront Murad’s 40.000. Quite large armies for late 14th century Europe. The battlefield and the day of battle were apparently carefully selected by Lazar – June 15th is traditionally St Vitus’ Day, Vidovdan, a remnant of the formerly dominant Catholic faith in the region or even the feast day of Svantovit, the god of war of the old Slavs, as the 19th century Pan-Slavists claimed.
Sources about the actual course of battle are rare. Lazar personally led the heavy cavalry in the Serbian centre, opposed by Murad himself, Prince Vuk Branković commanded the right wing against Murad’s son Yakub and the Bosnian Vlatko Vukotić on the left against Murad’s eldest son Bayezid. Ottoman artillery opened fire against Lazar’s charging Serbian knights, Ottoman archers fired their arrows and the Ottoman centre finally held against the charge and light troops tackling the heavily armoured knights who gut stuck in the lines of infantry, while Bayezid successfully counterattacked on the Ottoman right wing. From there legend begins. Allegedly, Miloš Obilić, a Serbian knight, feigned surrender, was brought before the Sultan and slashed open Murad’s belly with a hidden knife, Prince Lazar fell in battle and the initially successful Vuk Branković saw that all hope was lost and left the battlefield with his men.
Whoever won the battle was unclear even to the contemporaries. The losses must have been heavy on both sides, both leaders were dead and Ottoman expansion to the west was over for the present. Bayezid, who succeeded his father Murad, didn’t leave it at that, called reinforcements from Anatolia, led a new campaign into the bled-out Balkans, defeated a Hungarian crusade and subjugated most of the region’s remaining princes and shaping the conflict for the next 150 years with its never ending wars.
Prince Lazar was canonised a year after the battle and the conflict was transfigured into a powerful myth of self-conception and identity during Serbia’s strife for independence and national identity to this day.
Depicted below is Adam Stefanović’s history painting “The Battle of Kosovo“ (1871)
A translated version of the “Battle of Kosovo cycle“ folk epic can be found here
http://www.rastko.org.rs/knjizevnost/usmena/battle_of_kosovo.html
More on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo
#history #medievalhistory
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Born #OnThisDay 1879 Swiss-German artist and soldier, Paul Klee #Expressionist #Cubist #Surrealist #Abstractionist who, with Wassily Kandinsky, taught at the #Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. This picture, entitled 'Temple Gardens', is influenced by his trip to Tunis in 1914.
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Charles Dickens' story 'A Christmas Carol' was first published #onthisday in1843. https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A973631
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Schools : Music education: Let's play Beethoven !
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Today we celebrate the incredible feat by the Wright Brothers #OnThisDay 115 years ago! We strive to follow in their footsteps in search of #newhorizons.
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At 22nd October of 1982, "First Blood" premiered in US theaters. "First Blood" is an American action adventure film directed by Ted Kotcheff. It is co-written by and starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled and misunderstood veteran who must rely on his combat and survival senses against the abusive law enforcement of a small town. The film's success spawned a franchise, consisting of three sequels (all which were co-written by and starred Stallone), an animated series, comic books, and novels.
Amidst the action movies of the 80's, "First Blood" is one of the greatest. Not for the action or the explosions but for the stand out performance by Sylvester Stallone. The film is based on the novel by the same name written by David Morrell and tells the tale of John Rambo. A Vietnam war veteran who on his return home finds that his country doesn't want to accommodate him anymore.
Stallone stars as John Rambo, a Vietnam Vet who starts the film by learning every single other member of his company has died an early death. Aimless and unsure of what to do next, Rambo simply wanders. Coming into a small town much like any other, he crosses the path of Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy), who takes one look at Rambo and decides he does not want this scruffy looking vagrant in his town.
He drives Rambo to the edge of town and tells him, not so politely, to beat it. Rambo, not understanding the reason for Teasle's hostility, defiantly walks back into town. At this point, Teasle arrests him. At the sheriff's office, Rambo receives some less-than-hospitable treatment that triggers flashbacks to his time in a Vietnam prison camp. He freaks, busts out, and dashes into the surrounding forest.
Teasle, now taking things personally, goes after Rambo. But what he doesn't realize is that Rambo was a Green Beret, and understands guerilla warfare better than almost anyone else. In no time at all, Rambo has entrenched himself in the forest, and every time Teasle attempts to extract him, he suffers heavy losses. The cat and mouse game escalates when Rambo's former commanding officer Col. Trautman (Richard Crenna) shows up, determined to bring Rambo back to the civilized world.
Sylvester Stallone really gets under the skin of Rambo. It's no secret why Stallone became so associated with the character, at least as much as people know him for Rocky. He makes us feel the angst and rage of this man who's been beaten by the world.
Richard Crenna is an excellent counterpoint as the poised and controlled Col. Trautman. Crenna famously got the part after Kirk Douglas tried to rewrite the entire film. Crenna got called in after shooting had commenced, not even having read the script. But from the first moments he appears on screen, he makes the role his own, providing much-needed balance between the broken Rambo and bloodthirsty Teasle.
Director Ted Kotcheff wanted nothing but perfection from this magical masterpiece, and that's exactly what he got. With minimal special effects, Kotcheff directed the cast and crew to present a brilliant and effective film, with an explosive ending. This is one of those films which cannot be ever made again. That time, that era won't come back and such performances cannot be repeated.
#FirstBlood #Rambo #SylvesterStallone
#80sMovies #Movies #Drama
#DramaFilm #ActionAdventure #ActionFilm
#Thriller #Onthisday #MovieReview
#FirstBlood_35ThAnniversary
At 22nd October of 1982, "First Blood" premiered in US theaters. "First Blood" is an American action adventure film directed by Ted Kotcheff. It is co-written by and starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled and misunderstood veteran who must rely on his combat and survival senses against the abusive law enforcement of a small town. The film's success spawned a franchise, consisting of three sequels (all which were co-written by and starred Stallone), an animated series, comic books, and novels.
Amidst the action movies of the 80's, "First Blood" is one of the greatest. Not for the action or the explosions but for the stand out performance by Sylvester Stallone. The film is based on the novel by the same name written by David Morrell and tells the tale of John Rambo. A Vietnam war veteran who on his return home finds that his country doesn't want to accommodate him anymore.
Stallone stars as John Rambo, a Vietnam Vet who starts the film by learning every single other member of his company has died an early death. Aimless and unsure of what to do next, Rambo simply wanders. Coming into a small town much like any other, he crosses the path of Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy), who takes one look at Rambo and decides he does not want this scruffy looking vagrant in his town.
He drives Rambo to the edge of town and tells him, not so politely, to beat it. Rambo, not understanding the reason for Teasle's hostility, defiantly walks back into town. At this point, Teasle arrests him. At the sheriff's office, Rambo receives some less-than-hospitable treatment that triggers flashbacks to his time in a Vietnam prison camp. He freaks, busts out, and dashes into the surrounding forest.
Teasle, now taking things personally, goes after Rambo. But what he doesn't realize is that Rambo was a Green Beret, and understands guerilla warfare better than almost anyone else. In no time at all, Rambo has entrenched himself in the forest, and every time Teasle attempts to extract him, he suffers heavy losses. The cat and mouse game escalates when Rambo's former commanding officer Col. Trautman (Richard Crenna) shows up, determined to bring Rambo back to the civilized world.
Sylvester Stallone really gets under the skin of Rambo. It's no secret why Stallone became so associated with the character, at least as much as people know him for Rocky. He makes us feel the angst and rage of this man who's been beaten by the world.
Richard Crenna is an excellent counterpoint as the poised and controlled Col. Trautman. Crenna famously got the part after Kirk Douglas tried to rewrite the entire film. Crenna got called in after shooting had commenced, not even having read the script. But from the first moments he appears on screen, he makes the role his own, providing much-needed balance between the broken Rambo and bloodthirsty Teasle.
Director Ted Kotcheff wanted nothing but perfection from this magical masterpiece, and that's exactly what he got. With minimal special effects, Kotcheff directed the cast and crew to present a brilliant and effective film, with an explosive ending. This is one of those films which cannot be ever made again. That time, that era won't come back and such performances cannot be repeated.
#FirstBlood #Rambo #SylvesterStallone
#80sMovies #Movies #Drama
#DramaFilm #ActionAdventure #ActionFilm
#Thriller #Onthisday #MovieReview
#FirstBlood_35ThAnniversary
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#OnThisDay in 1775, Jane Austen was born. To celebrate, see how well you know the characters from one of her most beloved works—Pride and Prejudice. https://on.nypl.org/2RWYzlL
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Teaching Arts : Wassily Kandinsky : resources
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#OnThisDay 100 years ago #Markievicz stood for election and became the first female cabinet minister in the world. #Herstory started the #Votail100 #Suffrage celebrations early at #IlluminateHerstory for #NollaignamBan #2018. Art: Markievicz by #jimfitzpatrick
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