John McCutcheon--X'mas in the Trenches--song starts at 2.10--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5on4WK1MpA

Lefty Frizzell--The Long Black Veil--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyRgLcx_eYY

Johnny Cash--The Long BlackVeil--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnXUPlsn31o

Cat Stevens--My Lady D'Arbanville--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZjw-lVpYY

warning graphic--from Irrawaddy--Dying in Prison.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/stories-that-shaped-us/dying-behind-bars.html

Angelina Jolie will star in movie Callas--

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/pablo-larrain-angelina-jolie-afraid-singing-maria-callas-1235039756/

Cat Stevens--Morning has Broken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmAOBosGlHY

Panis Angelicus--Sting-Pavarotti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbi1gxQDBK0

Arakan Army takes last outpost Thandweu + UWSA-- 3 videos--Rohingya--Sean Turnell--Ro Nay San Lin--Democracy Now Fri, Aug 30 at 8:53 AM

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/arakan-army-penetrates-myanmar-junta-naval-base-in-rakhine-state.html

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/29/asia/myanmar-massacre-survivor-testimonies-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

https://www.voanews.com/a/myanmar-s-largest-rebel-group-quietly-gains-strength-amid-civil-war/7763683.html

Just Google"Myanmar" daily.

end

check Irrawaddy today--conscripts over age 35, Tahbeiikkyin, Thai PM Paetongtarn--pro military + https://www.irrawaddy.com/stories-that-shaped-us/the-worst-sinners-against-democracy-in-myanmar.html

Due to his sinful actions over the course of 26 years, dictator Gen. Ne Win faced a political storm, known as the ’88 uprising. The nationwide pro-democracy movement forced him to step down on July 23, 1988, after promising to hold a multiparty, democratic election.

The original sinner had finally fallen into disgrace.

Successors sin more harshly

Naing Khit/Kyaw Zwa Moe

Irrawaddy

Accessed 8-27-2024

Image--Sagaing wedding massacre--Irrawaddy.

Jeremy Brett--On the Street where You Live. From My Fair Lady.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=On+the+street+where+you+live#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ea761bae,vid:0udu4KYv1zI,st:0

Julie Andrews --All I want is a room somewhere--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZx1zKoNBx4

Pressley--It's now or never, my love won'twait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwelrtb8Oho

Elvis Pressley--I Can't Help Falling in Love with You.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGJTaP6anOU

Mary Martin, Ezio Pinza--Some Enchanted Evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drHTYCRVoYQ

Juan DeigoFlorez--Un aura amorosa.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Florex--Un+aura+amorosa#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4e3d2bc1,vid:z3b9ZwrKwEo,st:0

Ethel Merman--I got lost in his arms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0NR5C7flSw

Nat King Cole--When I fall in love.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Nat+King+Colewhen+I+fallinlove#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:943c05e2,vid:GfAb0gNPy6s,st:0

Legend of Shen Li--ep 2. "chicken"changes back to Phoenix Goddess-set up "intervention"

to bring dead husband of war widow back to life--but it can't last. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RMQP3YHwuQ

Based on brilliant novel--but modern terms like "intervention" are jarring.

Beautiful animation, casting and special effects.

kmk

8-26-2024

Magical--Chinese rom com--princess nearly made into chicken soup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhhnQca5yNQ

Bertil Lintner--M junta may be turning to Wagner Group,+Pavel Durov--Telegram founder arrested in France.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/is-myanmar-junta-turning-to-russias-wagner-as-relations-with-china-sour.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/pavel-durov-mysterious-and-controversial-telegram-founder.html

Note: Not good news but on the flip side, m a H probably on last legs and his face shows it. China may get him before Reistance does.

We will then break out the porverbial champagne, but it may not be a good future.

Overall, the prognosis for Burma is very weak and bleak. kmk 8-26-2024

Graphic--Sagaing Massacre at wedding. This year.

The Magic Flute--Zurich Opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdd6OinqEtI

Dr. Sean Turnell--military rule has crushed the Myanmar economy--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/sean-turnell-military-rule-has-crushed-myanmars-economy.html

Anthony Fauci--On Call

https://www.amazon.com/Call-Doctors-Journey-Public-Service/dp/B0CWWSBJ7K/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title

William Manchester--Death of a President

https://www.amazon.com/Death-President-November-20-November-1963/dp/0316370711?asin=B00EHMFBQK&revisionId=8ca4edec&format=1&depth=1

Ultimately--very sad--Jackie O.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Kennedy_Onassis

One writer called her and her sister Lee Radziwell as "The last of the great courtersans."

Maurice Tempelsman--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Tempelsman

Onassis--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle_Onassis

Books/novels on Jackie, Callas, Onassis--

https://www.amazon.com/Jackie-Maria-Novel-Kennedy-Callas/dp/0062952498/ref=asc_df_0062952498/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6143740370367851975&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007768&hvtargid=pla-2281435178098&psc=1&mcid=6223e5f93d463fc385cab3a1712b8d17&hvocijid=6143740370367851975-0062952498-&hvexpln=73&gad_source=1&asin=0062952498&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

Also--Peter Evans Onassis

Nicholas Gage--Greek Fire.

Mary Trump-strong critic of her uncle--gives debate advice to Kamala Harris--

https://www.aol.com/news/mary-trump-niece-critic-donald-184748356.html

I agree with her--pay the baffoon back in his own coin.

My suggestion--DONATE--to independent media covering Burma/Myanmar--

Irrawaddy

Myanmar Now

Mizzima.com

Himal Southasia.

Without knowing what's going on,there will be no action.

without action/activism nothing will change

people will continue to die in droves

caught between junta orgres and many hard places

without independent journalists and civilian journalists

we will know nothing, we will be ostriches heads in sand.

our butts will be blown off and our super eggs will never hatch

warriors and poets.

That's all.

I'm tired though I just woke up.

I need a cup of coffee.

KyiMay Kaung

8-23-2024

Black Sheep.

Thailand and India failing Myanmar refugees + more from Himal Southasia

https://www.himalmag.com/topic/myanmar

Thomas Mallory--Le Morte d'Arthur

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1251/1251-h/1251-h.htm#chap01

T H White--The Once and Future King--book.

https://www.amazon.com/Once-Future-King-Penguin-Galaxy/dp/0143111612/ref=asc_df_0143111612/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14252928821561016081&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007537&hvtargid=pla-2281435178618&psc=1&mcid=1bbfd9cc4cb03ea5b74361604cd7e559&hvocijid=14252928821561016081-0143111612-&hvexpln=73&gad_source=1&asin=0143111612&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

T H White--The Once and Future King--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Once_and_Future_King

First Knight--I've seen this movie before--in a theatre--I just didn't realise it's a Lancelot-Guinevere story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRw3PgkWSqM

The actress looks Medieval--but Arthur lived abt 450 BC.

First Knight--movie starring Richard Gere, Sean Connery--

First Knight First Knight is a 1995 medieval historical drama film based on Arthurian legend, directed by Jerry Zucker. It stars Sean Connery as King Arthur, Richard Gere as Lancelot, Julia Ormond as Guinevere and Ben Cross as Malagant.

First Knight - Wikipedia

A lesser-known characteristic of the great hero, however, is his Welsh heritage. Whichever way you slice it, the iconic Arthur character originated from Wales (or at least the part of the British isles that would eventually come to be known as “Wales”).

King Arthur's connections to Wales

https://www.visitwales.com/info/history-heritage-and-traditions/discover-king-arthurs-wales

Erase that--frst mention was Welsh--

The earliest stories of Arthur originated from Wales, with the Welsh monk Nennius the first to write about a hero named Arthur in the ninth century. At this time, it is plausible that this “Arthur” was based upon a real-life Welsh tribal leader, who fought a number of battles against the Saxons.

Welsh places connected to the King Arthur legend - Visit Wales

First mention of Lancelot-Guinevere story--commissioned by a Lady.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot,_the_Knight_of_the_Cart

Myingyan steel mill knocked out by Resistance--entire Mon family executed, nighttime Mandalay conscription raids

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-steel-plant-knocked-out-by-resistance.html

scroll around Irrawaddy.

Salute--Daw Radi Ohm and Others--they do what we cannot.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/in-person/profile/revolutionary-stories-teacher-turned-midwife-delivering-hope-on-myanmars-frontline.html

So sad--Ishi--"the last wild Native-American"--genocide on which thiscountry was based.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi

junta recaptures Depayin--earlierLoikaw

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/myanmar-junta-recaptures-depayin-town-from-resistance-forces.html

Democratic National Convention

https://www.aol.com/news/hollywood-stars-add-sizzle-democrats-100524928.html

amazing spiritual journey of German-born Friedgard Lottermosser--Bikhuni is a female monk--not a nun

Obituary | Friedgard Lottermoser: A Life Bridging Myanmar and the West, Through Buddhist Meditation and the Quest for Freedom

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/obituaries/friedgard-lottermoser-a-life-bridging-myanmar-and-the-west-through-buddhist-meditation-and-the-quest-for-freedom.html

200 Rohingya--Guardian--August 2024--beautiful photo

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/12/children-rohingya-killed-myanmar-drone-attack

Musk--X--Tesla

Musk--he isn't a good businessman after all--X losses. Tesla stock.

https://fortune.com/2024/08/15/elon-musk-tesla-stock-sale-twitter-x-advertiser-boycott-finances-bradford-ferguson/

So I was right about X too--

Falafel recipe--Middle eastern--

https://downshiftology.com/recipes/falafel/

https://www.google.com/search?q=How+to+makefalafel+at+home+youtube&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=e02c8f39a8b85279&sca_upv=1&ei=AwjAZor4Md7m5NoP2uKACQ&ved=0ahUKEwjKhbHS-vqHAxVeM1kFHVoxIAEQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=How+to+makefalafel+at+home+youtube&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiIkhvdyB0byBtYWtlZmFsYWZlbCBhdCBob21lIHlvdXR1YmUyBxAAGIAEGA0yCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFMgsQABiABBiGAxiKBTIIEAAYgAQYogRIxiZQxA9Y2yNwAXgBkAEAmAHJAaABugeqAQUxLjYuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCCaAChQjCAgoQABiwAxjWBBhHwgIGEAAYFhgewgIIEAAYFhgeGA-YAwDiAwUSATEgQIgGAZAGCJIHBTIuNi4xoAf4Kw&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6b1248f3,vid:NZcWedPKysk,st:0

Complete opera I Lombardi--not my favorite production--but I could not find the Pavarotti, Flanigan, Ramey version--

https://www.google.com/search?q=I+lombardi+you+tubeRamey&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=5b125c52761e21d8&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIIbi39smsmcb3o1zqQQVj4y7gVOWA%3A1723836555277&ei=i6i_ZuLEEIWf5NoPsrTZ0QI&ved=0ahUKEwiitpzMn_qHAxWFD1kFHTJaNioQ4dUDCA8&oq=I+lombardi+you+tubeRamey&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiGEkgbG9tYmFyZGkgeW91IHR1YmVSYW1leTIHECEYoAEYCjIHECEYoAEYCjIHECEYoAEYCkjqWFCQBViDQ3ACeACQAQCYAYkBoAHPB6oBAzEuN7gBDMgBAPgBAZgCCqACoAjCAgoQABiABBiwAxgNwgILEAAYsAMYBRgNGB7CAgcQABiABBgNwgIIEAAYBRgNGB7CAgcQIxiwAhgnwgIIEAAYCBgNGB7CAggQABiABBiiBMICCBAAGKIEGIkFwgIFECEYqwKYAwDiAwUSATEgQIgGAZAGCpIHAzIuOKAH4Co&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:cb0178a5,vid:fIkU7vwQUYw,st:0

Complete opera Aida.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Aida+Metroplotican+opera#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:7db596aa,vid:I_vvJYLlnX8,st:0

pay attention to Triumphal March, Dances, when Princess comes out with peacock fans--

Radames the general has just come back--the slave Aida is in love with him--but the Princess might get him--

This is a lavish production with real horses, a magnificent set. 8-16-2024

La Boheme--3 versions--incld Zeferelli--Pavarotti/Freni--list--pl Google on yr own

La Boheme - Freni, Pavarotti - G. Puccini - OPERA ... YouTube · Opera Lovers 1.3M+ views · 4 years ago 1:57:52 La Boheme - Freni, Pavarotti - G. Puccini - OPERA COMPLETA - FULL OPERA · Comments565.

La bohème full opera with English subtitles (Zeffirelli, 1965) YouTube · Rosina Almaviva 186.5K+ views · 4 years ago 1:43:14 Music: Giacomo Puccini Libretto: Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan. Director: Franco Zeffirelli. Orchestra and ...

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Puccini: La Bohème (Full Opera) YouTube · HALIDONMUSIC 92.1K+ views · 4 years ago 1:59:30 Buy the MP3 album on the Halidon Music Store: https://bit.ly/2DuyZ5B Stream i

3 Tenors, 1996 London concert--re-mastered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSPuY-YLe-w

Blind Revenge--movie--rather disturbing.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=youtube+blind+rveneg#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:a742a1d8,vid:3WAbGrbCLU0,st:0

List--movies involving blindness--

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls027551063/

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi rebukes m a h + New Thai PM Shinawatra etc

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmar-china-watch/chinese-foreign-minister-delivers-thinly-veiled-rebuke-to-myanmar-junta-boss.html

John Gardner's magnificent retelling of Jason and Medea.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Jason_Medeia.html?id=Ehn_Aju9ywoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Ko Aung Zaw on a roll--etc--from Irrawaddy

Ko Aung Zaw on a roll--military can't accept failure--etc

https://www.irrawaddy.com/video/myanmars-incompetent-military-has-no-friends-left.html

Burmese glossary:

daun(t) hpyoke te= take struts out from=diss

pyaypa arrr koe, p'sane yoe= axe handles of the West.

Tagaung falls to Resistance.

one typo--

n

ot "comprises"--compromises.

kmk

8-15-2024

Euripides' play Media--

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35451/35451-h/35451-h.htm

Medea--wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea

Exercises for seniors and what to avoid.

https://www.seniorlifestyle.com/resources/blog/7-best-exercises-for-seniors-and-a-few-to-avoid/

Jason and the Argonauts--Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCG1CZfxhVo

Jason and the Argonauts--1963 film--Part 1,

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=jason+and+tha+arginauts+yuotube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:7115da5d,vid:ztv4mLg0MKE,st:0

UAW files charges against Musk, Trump.

https://www.aol.com/news/uaw-files-labor-charges-against-141622974.html

George Bernard Shaw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw

David Scott Mathieson--Megalomaniacal Mendacity of Mynmar--m a h

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/the-megalomaniacal-mendacity-of-myanmar-junta-boss-min-aung-hlaing.html

Rats leaving sinking ship--BangkokPost--Singapore/Myingyan based power plant to shut down

https://www.irrawaddy.com/business/myanmar-power-plant-shut-down-amid-escalating-unrest.html

Battle for Bago escalates--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/battle-for-bago-escalates-knu-says-myanmars-junta-on-verge-of-being-wiped-out.html

From Irrawaddy--NUG: junta controls only less than 100 of 350 townships Myanmar

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/junta-controls-fewer-than-100-of-myanmars-350-towns-nug.html

Greek Martial Arts--graphic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration

Groom cries as bride (paralyzed) walks down the aisle--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDTelNGfp38

I met a woman who had only one leg and a hole in her throat,and lived with a man who made leg protheses for Vietnam war veterans.

One Thanksgiving she baked a roast turkey and brought it (20 + lbs) to the table by herself.

But they broke up.

She gave me the novel"Henderson the Rain King" by Saul Bello

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson_the_Rain_King

Women's power walk--don't do anything suddenly and streneously--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=how+does+a+big+woman+wlak--video#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c442d31b,vid:p2ggHwtb-Zg,st:0

DW--interviews of Poppy McPherson Reuters and Kyle Matthews --Genocide Expert--drone attack on Rohingya--150 killed incld children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIO28rnMxWI

New Chinese ambassador to myanmar--etc--check Irrawaddy daily

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmar-china-watch/ma-jia-named-as-chinas-new-ambassador-to-myanmar.html

Special post--French film--William the Conqueror--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spwxG4ew5_I

Does not cover after 1066.

8

-12-2024

Oscar Wilde--so very sad--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

Two Straight Lines.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/37357-in-an-old-house-in-paris-that-was-covered-with

Simon and Garfunkle--El Condor Pasa--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqJvqMeaDtU

AP--at least 150 Rohingya killed by Arakan Army attack--Maungdaw-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqLvzw6u8Uo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTZ7FMr1I8U

https://apnews.com/article/rohingya-rakhine-maungdaw-bangladesh-refugees-edb7b9df01ae4c20795c9c149c9bbcc0

Panic--Russia evacuates towns in Kurst after Ukraine attack--

https://www.aol.com/news/russia-evacuates-towns-kursk-over-163703110.html

High fiber summer dinners

https://www.eatingwell.com/theprep-high-fiber-summer-dinners-ready-in-30-minutes-or-less-8691843

Leon Wu C-dramas

https://www.soompi.com/article/1678426wpp/5-leo-wu-c-dramas-that-showcase-his-enduring-charm-and-versatility

Sixth Banksy taken down to boos--

https://www.indy100.com/news/crowds-boo-as-sixth-banksy-artwork-of-cat-removed-hours-after-being-unveiled

Mongla Group--Kokang, BCP background

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/obituaries/mongla-army-founder-dies-of-lung-cancer.html

Truly Amazing--Charles Dickens--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens

Please try to read at least Little Dorrit and Tale of Two Cities.

There is a very good TV series based on Little Dorrit.

5 new Banksys--"worthy of Royal Collection"

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/aug/09/speculation-banksy-london-murals-after-five-appear-in-a-week?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAQ3oiR0P_Ok9RgGJGulLOB8OanhwEqEAgAKgcICjDCjqoLMMKZwgM&utm_content=rundown

They will help revitalize the run-down areas where he placed them.

Thank you,Banksy.

k

8-9-2024

pdf of Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex

https://www.slps.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?FileName=Sophocles-Oedipus.pdf&dataid=25126&moduleinstanceid=22453

I'm looking for someone who will let me read a part in a Zoom production.

Kyi May Kaung

8-9-2024

Uber lyricist Sir Tim Rice--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Rice

Cartoon version--Beauty and the Beast--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=beauty+and+the+beast+song+cartoonversiob+youtube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:1c2b146d,vid:trGgItcyEsI,st:0

Note: The story is told by an off stage--narrator--"Teapot" sung by Landsbury.

Angela Landsbury and Alan Menken--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Beauty+and+the+Beast+angelalandbury+youtube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e0a22729,vid:48fzJttqb4Q,st:0

"

I'm going to use this in the current story I am writing--

"And look at her clothes--updated "flare" version of Chanel Suit.

"And hear her perfect enunciation.

"And Alan Menken's composition, I think the lyrics by Sir Tim Rice.

"S

tories exist because we need them.

"

Kyi May Kaung

"8-9-2024

I prefer this one--1937 Snow White--

https://www.google.com/search?q=fisney+SnowWhite+tradutiona+ltraler&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=dd3e0ad41e7d7f86&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIKKRACR41-A7UjSCoJ5N92unB0_Yw%3A1723267477185&ei=lfm2Zv3_Csyr5NoPk-y9sA0&ved=0ahUKEwi9ntLO1-mHAxXMFVkFHRN2D9YQ4dUDCA8&oq=fisney+SnowWhite+tradutiona+ltraler&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiI2Zpc25leSBTbm93V2hpdGUgdHJhZHV0aW9uYSBsdHJhbGVyMggQABiABBiiBDIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIESKPPAVCnZ1ihvgFwBngBkAEAmAGdAaAB-wiqAQMyLji4AQzIAQD4AQGYAg-gAuEIwgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR8ICCBAAGKIEGIkFmAMA4gMFEgExIECIBgGQBgiSBwM4LjegB64q&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:a4dd2625,vid:5fzZFQBXSLM,st:0

Disney new Snow White trailer--

https://x.com/FilmUpdates/status/1822130674197004637?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Beautiful couple--

https://www.aol.com/adele-rich-paul-reportedly-engaged-212840008.html

Nekkei Asia--Burma businesses follow--

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myanmar-Crisis/Myanmar-businesses-flood-Thailand-to-follow-fleeing-customer-base

Dylan Thomas reading his poem--Prologue--

https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2016/09/interlude-dylan-thomas-constructs.html

I call this--To Wales in My Arms.

pdf--my interview and poetry of Tin Moe--Burma Debate--Winter--2000-2001

https://www.burmalibrary.org/sites/burmalibrary.org/files/obl/docs15/U_Tin_Moe-poems.pdf All translations by Kyi May Kaung. Due to this article,commissioned by Burma Debate--Tin Moe won the Prince Claus Prize.

Tree of Life--Profile of Kyi May Kaung--by Wendy Steginsky--

http://treeoflifereview.com/profile_kaung.php

My poem "I come from--"

https://www.bethesda.org/sites/default/files/LWS/2024/Poetry%20Honorable%20Mention_Kaung.pdf

Ukraine hits convoy inside Russian Kurtz --

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7rn98l8kjo

In house interview of Irrawaddy AungZaw--English subtitles--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/video/myanmar-military-grip-slips-on-mandalay.html

Burma's "West Point"may be on the verge of falling--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-garrison-town-sees-exodus-as-junta-faces-humiliating-loss-of-its-west-point.html

NW must be flipping in his grave.

8-8-2024

myanmar junta tightens conscription noose at airports--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-junta-has-tightened-its-conscription-noose-at-airports.html

Michael Wood--#4--Tudors, War of Roses, Education, Literacy--Lollards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouxN07Br8Fk

Amazing records and reforms from the bottom up.

Myanmar--increased VPN, Internet control by junta

https://www.voanews.com/a/in-myanmar-internet-restrictions-and-surveillance-increase/7733716.html

Francis Bacon's Essays--Of Love--

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/575/575-h/575-h.htm#link2H_4_0010

Michael Wood-- #3 of 6--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Michael+Wood-story+of+England+3+youtube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:852283c4,vid:cJSK8_atMJY,st:0

Black Death.

Revolt.

End of Feudalism

Michael Wood--Story of England 2--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=MichalelWood--Dooomsday+Book#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:fdfb7989,vid:Hxf0qtuo4kw,st:0

Doomsday Book.

Norman Apartheid.

Genocide.

Field Jury--

Land strips.

Simon de Montford Rebellion--13th century.

Merton College--oldest surviving working library in the world.

Michael Wood--Story of England--Roman to Norman, Anglo-Saxon.

https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Story+of+England--Michael+Wood--youtube&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=1926c2955f272b3e&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIJdkEJG3870fK4Bhtfn4Bh9fE93Yg%3A1723064084643&ei=FN-zZprpJqnk5NoPg9KqqAc&ved=0ahUKEwiaw8L14eOHAxUpMlkFHQOpCnUQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=The+Story+of+England--Michael+Wood--youtube&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiK1RoZSBTdG9yeSBvZiBFbmdsYW5kLS1NaWNoYWVsIFdvb2QtLXlvdXR1YmUyBhAAGBYYHjILEAAYgAQYhgMYigUyCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFMggQABiABBiiBDIIEAAYgAQYogRIjFZQlQhYxFNwBXgBkAEAmAGRAaABuhWqAQQ4LjE3uAEDyAEA-AEBmAIeoAKwF8ICChAAGLADGNYEGEfCAgUQIRigAZgDAIgGAZAGCJIHBDkuMjGgB8J2&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:3e72f9d7,vid:NeQBVZbVmHI,st:0

Origins of the Mortimer family--

https://mortimerhistory.com/medieval-mortimers/chapter-1/

Harlech Castle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlech_Castle

More Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey (Ynys Mon)

King Edward I was known as Longshanks because of his great height. https://cadw.gov.wales/more-about-beaumaris-castle

W

e can safely assume that residents of 13th-century Anglesey had one or two less complimentary names for him. But they would have whispered them very carefully.

What Edward did in Beaumaris was typical of the ruthless way he stamped his authority on his newly conquered territories in Wales. He didn’t just build castles. He created English towns to go with them – and rode roughshod over centuries of Welsh culture and history.

The island of Anglesey, or Ynys Môn, held a special place in Welsh hearts long before Beaumaris was ever thought of. It was celebrated as ‘Môn mam Cymru’ (‘Mona, mother of Wales’) because of its mild climate and fertile fields. The so-called ‘bread basket of Wales’ helped to sustain the nation and support its independence.

In the early 13th century a town called Llanfaes in the south-east corner of Anglesey grew up under the patronage of Llywelyn the Great. His royal palace or ‘llys’ was nearby and he founded the first of just three Franciscan friaries in Wales there.

By the 1280s Llanfaes was a busy port trading with other towns in Britain and on the Continent. But none of this mattered to King Edward I. It was just a mile from the spot he’d identified for his new town and castle of Beaumaris. It had to go.

As soon as Edward’s troops arrived in 1295 they started to demolish Llanfaes. The frantic townspeople petitioned the king: ‘They cannot buy or sell as they used to and ships are not allowed to land in the town’s harbour. Their houses have been carried off to Beaumaris and nothing is left.’

I

t did no good. By Edward’s death in 1307 only a windmill, a parish church and the friary were still standing. Many of the residents were forcibly resettled in a second new town at Newborough 13 miles/20km away.

Meanwhile Beaumaris soon outstripped its doomed predecessor. It received its first royal charter in 1296 and by 1305 contained 132 ‘burgages’ or properties – making it the biggest borough in north Wales. It remained the most important town on Anglesey for most of its history.

No other new castle in north Wales saw such a massive redistribution of land. Beaumaris was the final link in the great chain of Edward’s castles stretching along the north Wales coast. By now he must have felt he could behave as he pleased.

E

ven in its unfinished state Beaumaris Castle combines the beauty of its perfect symmetry with an overwhelming sense of ruthless power.

Beaumaris Castle in Wales--In Riche's novel Owen--Owen Tudor tries to start a new life as custodian

of Beaumaris Castle after the death if his wife catherine de Valois in childbirth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumaris_Castle

Conway Castle in N.Wales--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conwy_Castle

Tony Riches talks about his best selling novel Owen--about Owen Tudor--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Tony+Riches+podcast+Owen#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:9907dd51,vid:-VZ9rCH2ocE,st:0

How the Olympics changes athletes bodies--

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/world/olympics/athlete-injuries.html

Nobel Laureate Yunus to lead Bangladeshi interim government

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/6/nobel-laureate-yunus-to-lead-bangladesh-interim-govt-presidents-office

Bridge of Sighs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_Sighs

Benazir Bhutto--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto

Ashkenazi Jews--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews

Giant Pigeon coming to High Line Park in NY City--

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/02/style/giant-pigeon-nyc-high-line-tan/index.html

I still remember my visit in 2012, while attending Rohingya Confce at Columbia U--that I helped plan--

w my 2 first cousins and their spouses.

High Line Park is one of the most imaginative uses of an old railway line--

one of my most favorite places in NYCity.

We walked from South to Chelsea Market--

Not sure if I can do that walk today. Physically challenged.

km

8-6-2024

Art--Banksy--2 elephants and a goat--Orange Man--not Banksy

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/aug/06/banksy-second-animal-artwork-london

https://www.whmi.com/news/article/orange-man-artist-says-lyon-twp-cut-down-his-sculpture

Harris selects Tim Waltz--Yeah!

https://www.aol.com/tim-walz-kamala-harris-vp-130233616.html

Not interested in reading these at all--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_of_Grey

Kokang wiki--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokang

Vivek Shankar--NYT--Myanmar--NE Command

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/world/asia/myanmar-rebels-lashio.html

National Health Service--Menstrual cycle--women need to understand and men too--animation

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/periods/fertility-in-the-menstrual-cycle/

Aung Zaw--NE Command has fallen--What's next?

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/commentary/the-myanmar-juntas-north-eastern-command-has-fallen-whats-next.html

Edward Snowden--Permanent Record

https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Record-Edward-Snowden/dp/1250772907/ref=asc_df_1250772907/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14846193591369398385&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007769&hvtargid=pla-2281435177138&psc=1&hvocijid=14846193591369398385-1250772907-&hvexpln=73&gad_source=1&asin=1250772907&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

Release date in October--can pre-order now--Steampunk Fiction--

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Over-Bright-Haven-Novel/dp/0593873351?asin=B0CVLFJMV2&revisionId=a5ea29ca&format=3&depth=1

Beautiful new novels with Asian characters--I have no connection whatsover with the writers nor publishers.

https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Kaigen-Theonite-War-Story/dp/172019386X/ref=asc_df_172019386X/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3769583958907296971&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007769&hvtargid=pla-2281435180938&psc=1&mcid=bddc363ba9a53650bf46ae23de53357b&hvocijid=3769583958907296971-172019386X-&hvexpln=73&gad_source=1&asin=172019386X&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

K.M.Kaung--Dancing like a Peacock and Koel Bird--stories--

https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Like-Peacock-Koel-Bird/dp/1497514851

Garment workers in Cambodia--

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/3/12/in-cambodia-workers-rights-for-women-slow-to-come

Nathan A. Thompson--from Cox's Bazaar etc--

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/world/asia/rohingya-coxs-bazar-bangladesh-myanmar.html?curator=SportsREDEF

From 2015--my poem Geese--Tin Moe etc. by Nathan Thompson

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/poetry-myanmar-southeast-asia-globe/

Special post--Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island--Gutenberg Project

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/120/pg120-images.html#chap03

Queen Isabella of France--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_France

Sheikh Hassina resigns and flees Bangladesh

https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-hasina-student-protest-quota-violence-fdc7f2632c3d8fcbd913e6c0a1903fd4

The Legends of King Arthur--

https://gutenberg.org/files/12753/12753-h/12753-h.htm

Republicans for Harris launches--

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/04/politics/republicans-for-harris-anti-trump-gop-voters/index.html

Zelensky receives fighter jets--NYT

elsewhere--Zelensky said yesterday he recd. F16 fighter jets fr W.

Ukraine Has Received F-16 Fighter Jets, Zelensky Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/world/europe/ukraine-f-16-fighter-jets.html

Khin Yi asks for direct assistance from Russia.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/desperate-myanmar-junta-seeks-russian-intervention-against-armed-resistance.html

Francis Bacon--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon

Owain Glyndwr Society web page

https://www.owain-glyndwr.wales/glyndwr_final_days.html

Warning--graphic--the remains of Hugh Despenser--from wiki-

What may be the remains of Despenser were identified in February 2008 in the village of Abbey Hulton in Staffordshire, the former site of Hulton Abbey. The skeleton, which was first uncovered during archaeological work in the 1970s, appeared to be that of a victim of a drawing and quartering as it had been beheaded and chopped into several pieces with a sharp blade, suggesting a ritual killing. Furthermore, it lacked several body parts, including the ones given to Despenser's wife. Radiocarbon analysis dated the body to between 1050 and 1385, and later tests suggested it to be that of a man over 34 years old; Despenser was 39 at the time of his execution. In addition, the abbey is located on lands that belonged to Hugh de Audley, Despenser's brother-in-law, at the time.[19] Legacy

Try to Remember--The Brothers Four--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUZpjW7QHGo

David Howarth --1066--The Year of the (Norman)Conquest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_(book)

https://www.amazon.com/1066-Year-Conquest-David-Howarth/dp/0140058508

From Irrawaddy--dictator extends emergency, teak trader to arms importer--MAH blames China--admits defeat Nn Shan

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/politics/myanmars-dictator-extends-emergency-rule-again-citing-election-preparations.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/junta-crony/son-of-former-regimes-ecotourism-minister-now-supplies-arms-to-current-junta.html

end

Welsh hero--Owain Glyndwr--Welsh spelling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owain_Glynd%C5%B5r

Owen Glendower--novel--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Glendower_(novel)

Shakespeare's Henry V--remastered--Laurence Olivier--

https://www.google.com/search?q=Shakespeare+Henry+V+youtube&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=7afc0fcbda33a418&sca_upv=1&ei=YFutZsacL4bQ5NoPz5WI-Qc&ved=0ahUKEwjGzMW8q9eHAxUGKFkFHc8KIn8Q4dUDCBE&oq=Shakespeare+Henry+V+youtube&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiG1NoYWtlc3BlYXJlIEhlbnJ5IFYgeW91dHViZTIGEAAYCBgeMgsQABiABBiGAxiKBTILEAAYgAQYhgMYigUyCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFMgsQABiABBiGAxiKBTIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiiBBiJBTIIEAAYgAQYogRInc0BUP4WWNS3AXADeACQAQCYAdkEoAHmEKoBCjEwLjUuMS41LTG4AQzIAQD4AQGYAhOgArsRwgILEAAYsAMYogQYiQXCAggQABgIGA0YHsICBRAhGKsCmAMA4gMFEgExIECIBgGQBgGSBwoxMC43LjEuNS0xoAfWew&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:7a11f44c,vid:5BLBQIwZ_h4,st:0

House of Tudor--family tree

https://www.famsf.org/stories/tudors-whos-who

Remembrance of Times Past--James C. Scott--NYT obit etc

James C Scott--half page obit in NYT--7-30-2024

Thu, Aug 1 at 4:53 PM

I do so wish I had jumped off the stage in 2002 in Gottenberg, when I was on a panel--with the late Dr. Chao Tzang Yawngwe , U Thet Htun (former Dr. Central Stats and Ecos Dept--Burma) and others incld Steinberg and Zarni--

Zarni almost felled Steinberg, a known junta-apologist. S. got his nose out of joint, snatched the mic from my hand--I was the MC who invited all these anti-junta folks--

and did not allow Ko Aung Zaw--(Irrawaddy) in--saying "Enough of your people."

I took a photo--Zarni probably has his copy.

Scott later was walking at the back of the room--after the panel.

I wish I had jumped off the stage and gone to talk to Scott.

Excuse my sentence.

James C. Scott was of course already famous.

I knew his first book was based on his observations of the hill people of Burma--he was there on a fellowship in 1958-59. From this book I thought he was an anthropologist.

But I did not know he was a political scientist, and I did not know he was more a systems person than an area specialist.

I am more a systems person than a area/regional person.

I received my Ph.D. in 1994.

F

YI--Burma Studies Center based in DeKalb IL is very Burma-focused (area)-- moreover to my very great annoyance, they only look at before 1886--

Look what has come of this selective blind spot.

Bah!

I

studied command economies and their problems--like then USSR, India, Zaire, China and of course, Burma.

BTW--it was David Steinberg who came to The Burma Fund--affiliated to the Burmese Exile Govt. in the Bowen Building in downtown DC--and asked me to co-chair the Burma Studies panel--

I a

sked if he wished to see Dr Sein Win, P.M of Exile Govt.

I went upstairs --Dr. Sein Win said, in his very mild manner, "Why should I see him just because he wants to see me?"

I went downstairs and lied, "I'm so sorry. Dr. Sein Win just stepped out."

He knew I was lying.

His face fell to the ground floor.

I don't have the link to James C. Scott's NYT obit--I read it at the Village Center--you can Google on your own.

Kyi May Kaung

8-1-2024