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 info via FB posts: author of the post is Achkhen S-V Charlie Chaplin about the music of Gomidas & the meeting with Aram Khachadourian. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝟭𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗨𝗦𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟮𝟭, 𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗶𝗱 for 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱e & His connection with Gomidas.   Today marks the birthday of Charlie Chaplin. He is considered as the greatest actor of 20th century and a person with unique human values. However, not many know that during the years of the Armenian Genocide, Charlie Chaplin started a foundation to help Armenian children & transferred all the collected money 2 this fund. Charlie traveled all over Europe in the 1920's, where He raised 1 million USD (worth 15 million USD value nowadays) & donated all the money to help Armenian orphans fleeing the Ottoman Empire. He personally visited these children, helped build orphanages & special rehabilitation ...

  "What made Vartan Gregorian (1934-2021) such a great man?” In this absolutely inspiring 3-hour video, world leaders gather in Manhattan on 4/13/2022 to answer this question. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=xV7e6Pf27j8&list= PLBteWF2j6pdTfRer4sRGgWGXIOHUC XE7z&t=7159s

  History for Fun a A t p r i h 0 3 f p l t   1   1 2022 a t   9 c : 1 s 4 3 l   f r f A M e d m i    ·  The Basque language throughout history. Via the above Facebook group, here are some posts by people responding: - No, France won't give their independance to districts that have a local language. In France there is too many of them. -  Same trend also with Slovenian language. And many more, I guess. We should take better care of global lingual diversity, not just biodiversity. - Spain is often criticized for its historic oppression of the Basque people … but by this map, one could think that France has been equally oppressive. -  definitely, the French Revolution basically killed it - Worst. The Révolution killed any regionalist identity. The Republic is Jacobinist, only Central French language (Paris) and culture have to exist. And, contrary to Spain. There is no regional autonomy in France. The exemple is actually the Basque languag...

from some comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKXnz9YMa9A Asier Urteaga 10 months ago Asier Urteaga 10 months ago The songs that appear on the video are called "bertso", there are a form of improvised poetry that our "bards" (bertsolari) sing in our festivals. Usualy, a judge gives them a premise for the song and qualified theyr job by theyr sagacity, speed of answer and veracity. National winners (txapeldun) of those contests are consider as celebrities and honorable people in the entire Basque lands (Euskal Herria)

  (Via Joice Joyce Chorbajian ) Gomidas and Other Armenian Materials in Spanish Archives Interview with Iván Gaztañaga MADRID/YEREVAN – Iván Gaztañaga is young Spanish political scientist and PhD in international law and international relations (University of Granada) and expert in Middle East Studies (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). The subject of his research is “The Genocide Against the Armenian People in Diplomatic and Consular Letters (1914-1925).” His article on the Armenian Genocide was published in the April 24 issue of the major Spanish newspaper El Pais.We met in 2017, during his first visit to Armenia, during which he conducted research at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute as a Lemkin scholarship winner. Dear Iván, as far as I know you are the first Spanish scholar the studying Armenian Genocide.To be honest, I don’t really know if I am the first Spanish scholar researching this topic, but I think I was the first researcher discovering and analyzi...

  Ashkhen Hovakimian (Agnes Joaquim), a prominent Singaporean Armenian horticulturist, creator of the first hybrid orchid and the creator of Singapore’s National Flower Vanda 'Miss Joaquim'. Ashkhen Hovakimian (Agnes Joaquim) was born on 7 April 1854, in Singapore. She was the eldest daughter and the second child of Parsick (Basil) Joaquim, an Armenian merchant and commercial agent, and Urelia Joaquim. Agnes was an avid gardener as was her mother. Besides her interest in gardening, Agnes was also an active member of the Armenian Church and a skilled embroiderer. Agnes Joaquim won prizes at annual flower shows and famously won the prize for the rarest orchid at the 1899 annual flower show. The first prize was for a hybrid that was named after her, Vanda 'Miss Joaquim'. Already suffering from cancer at the time, she died three months after receiving this prize. In 1947, Vanda 'Miss Joaquim' was chosen as the most fitting emblem for the nascent Progressive Party. I...

 Various information from Social Media Aintab groups. S Saving them in here: Cesar J. Ch.:  Europeans started showing up in Aintab with Napoleon invading Egypt in late 18th century and Egypt’s Wazir Ali taking over Aintab as his capital in the 1840s. The Missionaries “invaded” Asia Minor after the liberation of Greece in the 1830s. No doubt there was a mandate for Armenian women to be veiled, which would have been at remote non Christian villages. Otherwise, bigger towns were teeming with Europeans and European fashion since the early 1800s. Today in parts of Iran, same veiling requirements apply to all women, including Armenians.

  https://vimeo.com/562254195   watch Benon Sevan: "This video  was televised on 25 May 2021 in Dari and a few days later in Pashtu, as well - both languages of Afghanistan. Unfortunately, it was not televised in English. I also received very positive messages from Afghans, both from Afghanistan and those living abroad. By end of May, the interview in Dari and Pashtu was very well received with almost 2 million hits and close to 30 thousand shares. I also received very positive messages from Afghans, both from Afghanistan and those living abroad. This was my first interview concerning Afghanistan since I left my post as the Personal Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan and Pakistan (1990-1992), serving also concurrently as the Secretary-General's Representative o the implementation of the Geneva Accords on Afghanistan, as well as being responsible for the overall direction and administration of the Office for the Co-ordination of United Nations Humanita...

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