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During the years of World War II it is not unusual to see institutional figures – mayors, Masters, priests – who took part to the historical events of the community loud and determined.
It is precisely during the Resistance campaign cuneese, on the slopes of Monviso, who operated a priest who lived day after day the drama of his parishioners and its people, whose name is don Michele Lam. "Chaplain of the partisans", Don Lama was imprisoned four times and was woken up thousands of times during those long nights to try to save someone whose fate was already written.
Don Lam is the author of the book "a priest in resistance piemontese" published in 1977, text that represents today a glossy and clear testimony of some of the facts that struck Revello and neighbouring communities from 1943 at 1945.
The book, written like a diary, He remembers in an orderly manner the salient events that affected the Po Valley and adjacent ones. Imprisoned several times by the Germans, Don Lam held various activities "partisan pro" in the years of resistance, without forgetting however people easier, He suffered the war passively, and that they lost their loved ones during the bombing.
The bombardment perhaps best known, and the effects of which can still be seen today in Revello, is that of the 17 August 1944, as described by don Lam:

17 August 1944 – Cannonade of Revello
German and fascist teams arrive at the Airale: place a row of cannons against Revello and start shooting against the Bell and against that of the Church of San Leonardo. The Bell is struck in part and still carries the marks of howitzers, San Leonardo is hit and the Germans menano credit to passing in the shoot the fascists who shoot against the Bell of "hours" […]. Fearing that the brutal initiative continues, I leave the Rectory and I headed to the firing range […]. However, joint between the military find a freezing cold, I would say snide […]. I went away, but the path for about twenty metres with his face to the military. After taken the road home, However, the Germans and turned frequently to this fear that I got shot in the back, as they used to do, While I won't be shot in the back, but in the chest.

As recalled by the same don Lam, "a bright page of patriotism and charity have written during the liberation priests": When one thinks of the great world events, It's easy to remember the names and actions of the most famous characters; However, narrowing it down as soon as the goal, also lesser known personalities emerge, but that none have been able to defend their fellow citizens, helping them to overcome difficult times, without asking anything in return and leaving a huge inheritance, too often forgotten.

Maria

 

The 7 December 1972 the last American Mission to the Moon: is the Apollo XVII. His three astronauts, Commander Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, and the two pilots, are the last humans to set foot on the face of the Moon. Main purpose is to analyze the oldest Lunar Highland material produced as a result of impact with an asteroid: the collision created a deep and wide Groove, named by Nasa as the Mare Imbrium (Shadow sea or Sea of rains). The Mission in addition to be successful as it completes all its goals also sets several records, including: the longest tenure by a mission with humans on the Moon, extra vehicular activity time and the longest mission ever stay with humans in lunar orbit. In addition, for the first time in the Apollo missions, the rocket is launched at night, at hours 05:33, by John F. Kennedy Space Center. However, as a result of the high costs related to Moon exploration missions, later missions, Apollo respectively 18, 19 and 20 were cancelled. During his journey to the lunar orbit, the crew of Apollo XVII snapped one of the most important historical photographs: from a distance of about 29.000 They photographed the Earth in darkness of astronauts km universe.

Roberto Rossetti

The 80th birthday of Woody Allen are l’ opportunity to celebrate a movie theater other than the one that Hollywood has accustomed us since the beginning. Allan Stewart Konigsberg, the real name of New York Director, Jew who has exported the irony of Jewish culture in film through a bewildering and often deviant use of’ irony. Allen has touched all registers of cinema from comedy to drama. His ironic target yields flogging the bourgeoisie and capitalism. Among the roads to get to laugh there are literary and musical knowledge, the assiduous frequentation of psychoanalysis also routes from a skills with it for most of his controversial existence. He has said anything and everything, but for his 80th birthday maybe is better to venture into the film sphere by quoting some of his catchphrase often inspired all’ humor of Groucho Marx.

“My only regret in life is not to have been another”

“I think of that old joke, You know, the one where one goes to a psychiatrist and says: "Doctor, my brother is crazy, thinks he's a chicken!”. And the doctor says: "Why don't you inside?”. And that responds: "And then to me eggs who me?”. Well, I think it matches very much what I'm thinking of male-female relationships: that are absolutely irrational, and crazy, and absurd ... But I think that they continue because most of us need the eggs.”

“I always think that for my birthday I make a party with a huge cake which comes out of a naked woman and gigantic. He beat me and then goes into the cake.”

“I was thinking that I must have something wrong, because I've never had a relationship with a woman that has lasted longer than the one between Hitler and Eva Braun.”

“There is then there's that other joke – important to me – attributed to Groucho Marx ... but I think it goes back to Freud, When he speaks of wit and its relation to the unconscious. Says I am quoting from memory ... say ... I paraphrase ... says: "I would never accept to be part of a club that would accept among his associates one like me". That's the key joke of my adult life regarding my relationships with women.”

“The psychiatrist asked if I had a girl, and I said no. And then she asked me if I had ever been in love. Here's, Therefore, Once I believed to be: MI ears, my heart beat, I was all red ... I had the chicken pox.”

"Have you ever taken a political position in your life?”. "Yes, by small I declined the spinach for 24 hours!”.

“I quit smoking. I live an extra week and in that week it will rain coming down hard.”

“Americans don't ever throw away their rubbish. Turn them on television shows.”

Hector Parker

 

After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, Palestinian territory came under British control. At the end of World War II, However, the British preferred to renounce their mandate and put the area in the hands of the UN, because it was no longer possible for the British Kingdom maintain order in those territories. The United Nations established a Special Committee, the UNSCOP, United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, in order to find a business solution that would provide long term stability. UNSCOP's proposal was to create two States, one Arab and one Jewish, and to consider Jerusalem corpus separatum under the supervision of the United Nations.
From a territorial point of view, the partition proposal favoured slightly the Jewish State, that would cover the 56% of the total territory; from the point of view of population, Palestine was then occupied for 2/3 from Arabs and one for 1/3 by Jews: The 2% of the Jews, i.e. 10.000 people, After partition they wouldn't have found neither in Israel, nor in the international area of Jerusalem; the 31% of the Arabs, i.e. 405.000 people, would not have been found to live nor in Arabic, nor in Jerusalem.
The reactions to this proposal were disparate and required lengthy negotiations started: the Jews accepted willingly the plan, While the Arabs rejected it from the beginning; the UN had to resort to more votes to get to the final version of the 29 November 1947, the so-called "UN resolution 181", the UNSCOP plan is approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Immediately followed clashes and skirmishes between the Jewish and Arab population; the departure of British troops in may ' 48 the conflict expanded and gave rise to the Arab Israeli war –.
The "catastrophe", so it is called in Arabic this conflict, led to the origin of the State of Israel, that less than two years after approval of the partition plan extended over an area almost twice that laid down by the UN and the remnants of the planned Palestinian State was annexed to Transjordan and Egypt.
The "two-State solution", the theory that to resolve the conflict in Palestine's need to create two separate States brokered for Arabs and Jews, is considered far more than just a hypothesis, and denotes all the despair and the drama of a coexistence impossible and utopian peace.

Maria