Abstinence...

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The time has come...

...Only 4 days left to my exam! Glubs!

Europe - The Final Countdown



We're leaving together,
But still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back,
To earth, who can tell?
I guess there is no one to blame
We're leaving ground
Will things ever be the same again?

It's the final countdown...

We're heading for Venus and still we stand tall
Cause maybe they've seen us and welcome us all
With so many light years to go and things to be found
I'm sure that we'll all miss her so

It's the final countdown!

Doomsday? ...Yesterday?

Oh-oh! What will this guy do now, that he failed in his predictions (third time he does)! Will he retire like Paco Rabanne when he predicted that MIR Space Station was going to fall over Paris? Mmmm... Bad stuff, predictions! When it comes to statements, it's better to talk about the past, don't you think? ;)

Did you see the rain?

I simply love this song... :)



Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have you ever seen the rain?

Someone told me long ago
There's a calm before the storm,
I know; It's been comin' for some time.
When it's over, so they say,
It'll rain a sunny day,
I know; Shinin' down like water.

I want to know,
Have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know,
Have you ever seen the rain
Comin' down on a sunny day?

Yesterday, and days before,
Sun is cold and rain is hard,
I know; Been that way for all my time.
'Til forever, on it goes
Through the circle, fast and slow,
I know; It can't stop, I wonder.

I want to know,
Have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know,
Have you ever seen the rain
Comin' down on a sunny day?

Yeah!

I want to know,
Have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know,
Have you ever seen the rain
Comin' down on a sunny day?

"Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat"

"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."

Churchill's speech after Dunkirks' evacuation, May 26 1940.

"Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Forces:

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944. Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned. The free men of the world are marching together to victory.

I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory.

Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking."

Dwight D. Eisenhower's, D-Day's Preinvasion Speech to Soldiers

4 years between the two speeches... Years of blood, toil, tears and sweet, as Churchill said at the House of the Commons... That lead to a path of glory and victory...

Because today, ladies and gentlemen, is the 65th Anniversary of the D-Day, The Normandie Invasion... A day to remember, again, because, according to Churchill: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".


So, thank you very much!

Titanic's last passenger...

So, as if I was making some kinf of prophecy, yesterday, the last survivor of the Titanic sinking, died aged 97 years old... Millvina Dean was only 9 weeks old when she embarked the ship, being the youngest person aboard, so it's quite obvious she didn't remember anything about the shipwreck... However, she always thought it had shaped her life, as she ysed to say, because she was going to live in the United States, but after the death of her father in the wreck, she had to return to the United Kingdom...

In her last she was forced to sell some of her Titanic mementoes to pay her bills, just for example a canvas mailbag, relic of her rescue... Lately, some of the people involved in the filming of the multiawarded movie Titanic, like Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet or James Cameron contributed towards her care costs by donating 40.000 $ to the Millvina Fund, set up by her friends...

For her and her family, the journey began by chance. They had booked tickets to another White Star ship, but because of a coal strike, they were transfered to the Titanic...

At 11:40 PM, that 14th of April 1912, baby Millvina was asleep in her cot when her father heard a crash, woke the family and told them to dress warmly.

"It was so dreadful for my mother," Millvina later recalled. "It was heartbreaking. "She said goodbye to my father and he said he'd be along later." Millvina Dean said her father's quick actions had saved his family. He had felt the ship scrape the iceberg and hustled the family out of its room and towards the lifeboat that would take them to safety. "That's partly what saved us – because he was so quick," she explained.

A sailor bundled her into a sack and put her into lifeboat 13, which was lowered into the freezing Atlantic. It was a cold night, but after several hours Millvina, her mother Ettie, and brother Bertram were picked up by the Carpathia.

The surviving Deans returned to England aboard the liner Adriatic, Millvina being the object of some astonishment that such a tiny baby should have made it to safety. First and second class passengers on Adriatic queued to hold her, and many took photographs of her, her mother and brother, some of which accompanied breathless stories in the newspapers.

The Daily Mirror, for example, reported that Millvina "was the pet of the liner during the voyage, and so keen was the rivalry between women to nurse this lovable mite of humanity that one of the officers decreed that first and second class passengers might hold her in turn for no more than 10 minutes".

And that's all! No more witnesses of the most famous shipwreck in all history... Isn't it sad? It is very sad for me... Historians can't do nothing without people's stories... And so, this keeps happening and happening... What's next? Every soldier of Wolrd War I will die... and in Spain, all those people who had lived personally our Civil War will die... No more grandpa's stories near a bonfire... No more anecdotes, no more lap-stories to grandchildren... Only History books left... Don't misunderstand me, I love History books, but... it's not the same!

So, Requiescat in Pace, Millvina...