Dresden

The following successes are noteworthy.

Walking, Karl Mann, Dresden to Berlin, Championship of Germany.

George Allen, Landsend to Jonnegrotz.

Running, E.R. Voigt, Olympic Championship, etc.

So far, the Israelis have destroyed 92% of all homes in Gaza and 34 of the 36 hospitals.

By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombing of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city's inhabited buildings.

Holy shit.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide.

So far, the Israelis have destroyed 92% of all homes in Gaza and 34 of the 36 hospitals.

By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombing of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city's inhabited buildings.

The war crime of the bombing of Dresden destroyed half of the buildings.

And you should see the video of Dresden.

It's just like a big fireball.

I don't know how any building survived that.

And may they please note that Mr. Phipps is a wise as well as a liberal giver, for he requires the city to maintain these conservatories, and thus secures for them forever the public ownership, the public interest, and the public criticism of their management.

had he undertaken to manage and maintain them it is probable that popular interest in this gift would never have been awakened the parks and pleasure-grounds of small towns throughout europe are not less surprising than their libraries museums and art galleries i saw nothing more pleasing during my recent travels than the hill at bergen in norway it has been converted into one of the most picturesque of pleasure-grounds fountains cascades waterfalls delightful arbours fine terraces and statues adorn what was before a barren mountain-side here is a field worthy of study by the millionaire who would confer a lasting benefit upon his fellows another beautiful instance of the right use of wealth in the direction of making cities more and more attractive is to be found in dresden the owner of the leading paper there bequeathed its revenues for ever to the city to be used in beautifying it an art committee decides from time to time what new artistic feature is to be introduced or what hideous feature is to be changed and as the revenues accrue they are expended in this direction thus through the gift of this patriotic newspaper proprietor his native city of dresden is fast becoming one of the most artistic places of residence in the whole world a work having been completed it devolves upon the city to maintain it forever may i be excused if i commend to our millionaire newspaper proprietors the example of their colleague in the capital of saxony scarcely a city of any magnitude in the older countries is without many structures and features of great beauty much has been spent upon ornament decoration and architectural effect We are still far behind in these things upon this side of the Atlantic.

Our republic is great in some things, in material development unrivaled, but let us always remember that in art and in finer touches we have scarcely yet taken a place.

had the exquisite memorial arch recently erected temporarily in new york been shown in dresden the art committee there would probably have been enabled from the revenue of the newspaper given by its owner for just such purposes to order its permanent erection to adorn the city for ever footnote by the editor popular subscriptions have accomplished this result in the case referred to the washington monument and two other memorial arches have been designed and are to be erected here footnote while the bestowal of a park upon a community will be universally approved as one of the best uses for surplus wealth in embracing such additions to it as conservatories or in advocating the building of memorial arches and works of adornment it is probable that many will think i go too far and consider these somewhat fanciful the material good to flow from them may not be so directly visible but let not any practical mind intent only on material good depreciate the value of wealth given for these or for kindred aesthetic purposes as being useless as far as the mass of the people and their needs are concerned as with libraries and museums so with these more distinctively artistic works they perform their great use when they reach the best of the masses of the people it is better to reach and touch the sentiment for beauty in the naturally bright minds of this class than to pander to those incapable of being so touched for what the improver of the race must endeavour is to reach those who have the divine spark ever so feebly developed that it may be strengthened and grow for my part i think mr phipps put his money to better use in giving the working men of alleghany conservatories filled with beautiful flowers orchids and aquatic plants which they with their wives and children can enjoy in their spare hours and upon which they can feed their love for the beautiful than if he had given his surplus money to furnish them with bread for those in health who cannot earn their bread are scarcely worth considering by the individual giver the care of such being the duty of the state the man who erects in a city a conservatory or a truly artistic arch statue or fountain makes a wise use of his surplus man does not live by bread alone fifth we have another good use for surplus wealth in providing our cities with halls suitable for meetings of all kinds and for concerts of elevating music our cities are rarely possessed of halls for these purposes being in this respect also very far behind european cities SPRINGER HALL IN CINCINNATI, A VALUABLE ADDITION TO THE CITY, WAS LARGELY THE GIFT OF MR. SPRINGER, WHO WAS NOT CONTENT TO BEQUEATH FUNDS FROM HIS ESTATE AT DEATH, BUT GAVE DURING HIS LIFE, AND IN ADDITION GAVE WHAT WAS EQUALLY IMPORTANT, HIS TIME AND BUSINESS ABILITY TO ENSURE THE SUCCESSFUL RESULTS WHICH HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED.

the gift of a hall to any city lacking one is an excellent use for surplus wealth for the good of a community the reason why the people have only one instructive and elevating or even amusing entertainment when a dozen would be highly beneficial is that the rent of a hall even when a suitable hall exists which is rare is so great as to prevent managers from running the risk of financial failure if every city in our land owned a hall which could be given or rented for a small sum for such gatherings as a committee or the mayor of the city judged advantageous the people could be furnished with proper lectures amusements and concerts at an exceedingly small cost the town halls of european cities many of which have organs are of inestimable value to the people utilized as they are in the manner suggested let no one underrate the influence of entertainments of an elevating or even of an amusing character for these do much to make the lives of the people happier and their natures better if any millionaire is born in a small village which has now become a great city is prompted in the day of his success to do something for his birthplace with part of his surplus his grateful remembrance cannot take a form more useful than that of a public hall with an organ provided the city agrees to maintain and use it sixth in another respect we are still much behind europe a form of beneficence which is not uncommon there is providing swimming baths for the people the donors of these have been wise enough to require the city benefited to maintain them at its own expense and as proof of the contention that everything should never be done for any one or for any community but that the recipients should invariably be called upon to do a part it is significant that it is found essential for the popular success of these healthful establishments to enact a nominal charge for their use in many cities however the school children are admitted free at fixed hours upon certain days different hours being fixed for the boys and the girls to use the great swimming baths hours or days being also fixed for the use of these baths by women In addition to the highly beneficial effect of these institutions upon the public health in inland cities, the young of both sexes are thus taught to swim.

Swimming clubs are organized and matches are frequent at which medals and prizes are given.

Olva had only seen the girl Margaret once.

She had been finishing her education in Dresden, and he remembered her as dark, reserved, aloof, opposite indeed from her brother's cheerful good fellowship.

But for Rupert Craven, this girl was his world.

She was obviously cleverer, more temperamental than he, and he felt this and bowed to it.

One never knows.

It is all so strange.

There in Dresden, everything was so happy, so undisturbed.

The music and one's friends, it was all so natural.

when the storm was over the composer went forth and still haunted by the rhythm of the pounding set down the melody and then proceeded to write variations on it this air and variations form part of handel's fifth suite of clavisine pieces but it was not until eighteen twenty that some imaginative publisher taking his cue from an apprentice who continually whistled handel's tune invented the fanciful title and not until eighteen thirty five that the london times published an anonymous letter retailing the legend of the blacksmith and his forge we have no place here to recount the complex ramifications of the amiable myth which culminated in the auctioning off of an old anvil supposedly the very one which the composer heard struck but the publisher had the last word and to the end of time the fifth suite will assuredly remain the harmonious blacksmith far more important in the development of handel's style are the jandos anthems or psalms composed during the years from seventeen seventeen to seventeen twenty while the master at canons was steadily evolving they fill three volumes of the complete handel edition and stand in relationship to handel's oratorios in the same position as his italian cantatas stand to his operas in these religious cantatas written for the duke's chapel handel gives the first place to the chorus there is already in them the spirit and the style of israel in egypt the great monumental lines the popular feeling it was only a step from this to the colossal biblical dramas roland and handel took the first step with esther called in its first form haman and mordecai a masque it was staged on august twenty ninth seventeen twenty Almost simultaneously he wrote the exquisite pastoral tragedy Assis and Galatea, a Sicilian legend he had already treated during his Neapolitan days, but which in its later shape took on an insurpassable element of classical finish.

yet there were breakers ahead whether or not he could discern them from afar it is probably unlikely that the prospect of conflict would have troubled overmuch a nature as powerful and combative as handel's indeed difficulties were what this prodigious vitality and ever-renewing creative inspiration best throve upon as so often happens in lands where opera is fundamentally an exotic, people again wanted opera it was a logical time to end the canon's interlude the psychology of the moment to which hendel was sensitive came just when company promoting took on almost the aspect of a hobby there was money aplenty and the south sea bubble which was indeed swelling had not yet burst so lord burlington and other peers raised capital for a new season of italian opera appointed handel director-in-chief made the ugly but efficient heidegger stage manager rounded up librettists and sent handel to the continent to engage singers for what was to be known as the royal academy of music an english duplication of the official name of the paris opera and the weekly journal soon announced that mr handel a famous master of music is gone beyond the sea by order of his majesty to collect a company of the choicest singers for the opera in the haymarket mr handel visited hanover dsseldorf dresden and halle where he went to his birthplace am schlamm saw his old mother who was going blind and her aging spinster sister and at this point occurred one of the most poignant incidents of musical history that meeting of handel and bach thwarted by an inscrutable destiny bach learned that his contemporary was in halle went there on foot from ktten to seek him out and missed him by a day even bach's subsequent despatch of his son wilhelm friedemann to invite handel to visit him misfired and the two were destined forever to remain personal strangers handel secured some extraordinary singers in dresden where the italian opera was blooming in addition to bocce the bass who had sung in rinaldo he bagged the great signora d'uristanti and the castrato senesino who until the subsequent coming of the mighty farinelli was perhaps the artificial soprano whom london most worshipped at a time when castrati were completely the rage senesino played incredible havoc with the hearts of deluded women handel in addition to the countless duties of a music director had also operas to compose and in due season he was somehow turning out three a year nicola francesco heim supplied him with a libretto adopted from tacitus radamisto and this work produced on april twenty seventh seventeen twenty was a triumph such as even handel had never experienced it ran till the season ended late in june crowds flocked to radamisto like a modern mob to a notorious prize fight newman flower the first season of the royal academy finished in a flourish aided by the circumstance that the metropolis was in the throes of an orgy of financial speculation we can read of incredible schemes and bubbles with the help of which money was to be lured from private pocket-books newman flower tells us of one for trading in hair another for the universal supply of funerals in great britain one for a wheel of perpetual motion one for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage but nobody to know what it is.

Still another project contemplated to breeding silkworms in Chelsea Park.

By the time things were ready for the opening of the Academy's second season, Lord Burlington imported from Rome the composer Giovanni Battista Bononcini, possibly not dreaming that he was introducing a dangerous rival to Handel.

While the remains did not display any apparent signs of violence, Sheriff's Lieutenant Jack Goodrich believes foul play was involved.

And then in July 1996, four tourists from Dresden, Germany visited Death Valley to enjoy its scenic views.

The group included Cornelia Meyer, 27, her 4-year-old son Max, her boyfriend Egbert Remkes, 34, and his 10-year-old son George Weber.

They rented a Plymouth van and explored Las Vegas and its surroundings.

So far, the Israelis have destroyed 92% of all homes in Gaza and 34 of the 36 hospitals.

By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings in Dresden, which was a fire-rampaging massacre of innocent Germans, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city's inhabited buildings.

By any definition, let me also add this.

So when we were doing the exchange, the prisoner exchange with the Palestinian side, not the PA, this is Hamas and the IDF, the prisoner exchange.

That is why I went on the protest and that is why I asked Trump to take his 60 million tons of rubble home.

That is in comparison with the destruction of Dresden in 1945 when the Allies flattened or destroyed a huge proportion of Dresden.

If you absolutely a vengeful act.

Gaza has had four times the amount of rubble left on their land from the vast bombing campaign that Israel did to it from October 23 on.