Caricature of Gracia y Justicia, conservative magazine of political humor published in Spain during the Second Republic. It shows a woman with her boyfriend, both humble, planning her marriage to a wealthy man (Don Gregorio) only to get his fortune after the divorce. The vignette is part of the campaign organized by Catholic right media and parties in order to avoid the legalization of divorce.
Nando Cordel, stage name of Fernando Manoel Correia (1953), is a Brazilian singer, composer and instrumentalist.
Manuel García (1966) is a Spanish poet, essayist, translator, literary critic, bookbinder, editor and viola gamba player.
His love of books has led him to dedicate himself to various trades related to books. As a bookbinder he is in the artistic line of the bookbinders Juan Argenta and Sebastián Rodríguez. As a bibliophile, an old bookseller and an expert in antique books, he has worked in the elaboration of numerous catalogs, in addition to carrying out restoration and binding works of important works of the Spanish literary heritage for various bookstores, especially for the now-defunct "El Desván" bookstore. from Seville (from 1992 to 2005), where he was taught by the bookseller Luis Andújar and Miguel Castilla.
Manuel Antonio Caballero Agüero (1931 - 2010) was a notable Venezuelan historian, journalist, best-selling author and professor of contemporary Venezuelan History at the Central University of Venezuela.
Caballero was born in Barquisimeto, studied History at the Central University of Venezuela and obtained a PhD at University College London. With the publication of his PhD dissertation he became the first Venezuelan author to be published by Cambridge University Press.
In 1989 he was invited to teach at the Universitá degli Studi di Napoli in Italy. He wrote regularly for Venezuelan newspapers El Nacional, El Diario de Caracas and most recently El Universal. Despite his past as a left-wing thinker and political activist, in particular against President Rómulo Betancourt, in his later years he became one of the most vocal and vehement critics of President Hugo Chávez and his administration. He revised his perspective on President Betancourt in a biography written in 2004.
On 2010, he underwent a prostate surgery that triggered a series of infections unresponsive to antibiotics, further complicated by diabetes. He died on 12 December 2010.
Jean Vallette d'Osia (1898 - 2000) was a French officer, best known for his actions in the French Resistance during World War II in Haute-Savoie, notably supervising the liberation of Lyon.
He ended his career in 1958 with the rank of Général de
corps d'armée after having commanded the 27th Chasseurs Alpins Brigade.
Vallette d'Osia was also a staunch anti-communist and in
later life linked to the far-right National Front.
Gary George Wetzel (1947) is a former United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Vietnam War.
Wetzel joined the United States Army from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at age 18 in 1965. By January 8, 1968 he was a private first class serving as a door gunner in the 173rd Assault Helicopter Company. On that day, near Ap Dong An, Republic of Vietnam, his helicopter was shot down and the survivors, including Wetzel, came under heavy enemy fire. Severely wounded by an explosion that nearly severed his left arm, he continued to man his machine gun and help other injured soldiers.
Wetzel survived his wounds, although his left
arm had to be amputated. He was subsequently promoted to specialist four and
awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.
Roger Rössing (1929 - 2006) was a German photographer,
author and publicist. He was one of the most famous photographers in East Germany.
Rössing studied photography from 1948 to 1951 with Johannes
Widmann at the Leipzig College of Graphics and Book Art. He and his wife RenateRössing belonged to the Leipzig group “action fotografie” in the 1950s. Both
published about 90 books.
Rössing has also been active as a publicist and author, and
not only in photographic literature. In the couple's last book, which was
published in April 2006, both recorded their observations in their hometown of
Leipzig over five decades. The Rössing Foundation, which supports authors and
photographers, is named after the couple.
A Cautionary Tale (from the High Atlas mountains of Morocco)
Our latest label and beret design is inspired by a sad but true encounter which Mister Childish had whilst enjoying a walking/sketching trip to the High Atlas Mountains with his good wife in the early 2000's. Sitting himself beneath an ancient juniper tree he took up brush and paper and proceeded to sketch the vista before him.
It was whilst so engaged that he felt his beret being lifted from his head.
Turning sharply, he was confronted by a white billy goat, his beret dangling from its laughing mouth.
Before a man could utter 'billy goat gruff' the goat sprang into the bows of the ancient juniper and then with great agility ascended to the highest branches of the tree from where it looked down upon mister Childish in what he later described 'a look of malevolent glee'.
The goat then began chomping on Mister Childish's beret consuming it entirely, bite by goaty bite.
It is in commemoration of the sad but true destruction of an otherwise impermeable beret that we have created this special Goat in a Tree - Chyldish Fear Naught Beret.
Wear your beret with pride, but when walking in the mountains, never turn your back on a goat.
The Goat in a Tree series is a line of full weight (110 - 130 grams) heavy duty berets. These berets come in three stunning colours and in three plateau's/diameters of approximately 27, 29 and 30.5cm.
The available colours are Winter-Green ("Feldgrau"), Russet (Chestnut) and Pine (Jade).
The making of the beret label in four colours; Black, Orange, Turquoise and Silver:
He is often considered one of the best pelotaris of all
time, dominating the 1st hand-pelota category from 1926 to 1948 and winner of 4
championships (1940, 1942, 1944 and 1946).
Mariano Mendizábal was born on 1904 in Azkoitia, Guipúzcoa
in the Caserío Atano from which his family pseudonym comes. The Juaristi (or
Atano) family formed a pelotari dynasty, six of them were pelotaris and one of
them manufactured balls. Mariano, Atano III, was the most well-known of them.
Atano VII, his younger brother, also was an important
player, as was Atano X, son of Atano I.
Mendizábal lost the ability to walk and was limited to a
wheelchair in his last years, dying on January 12, 2001.
Heinrich Vogeler (1872 –1942) was a German painter, designer, and architect, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
He volunteered for military service in World War I in 1914, and he was sent to the eastern front in 1915. Vogeler came to know of the Bolsheviks ideology during his time at the front as well as through his trips to Poland, Romania, Dobrudscha and Russia. After he made a written appeal for peace to the German Emperor, he was briefly sent to a mental hospital in Bremen before being discharged from military service.
After the war he became a pacifist. In 1931 Vogeler and his
second wife Zofia "Sonja" Marchlewska emigrated to Russia. After the
German invasion of the Soviet Union he along with other German citizens was
deported in 1941 to Kazakhstan by the Soviet authorities and died there in
1942.
Kord Baeumer (1926 - 1998) was a German crop scientist.
From 1967 to 1992 he taught at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. His research focus was the development of extensive, long-term stable arable farming systems.
In his lectures, Kord Baeumer covered the entire field of
arable and crop production and also represented the subject of grassland
teaching in lectures and exercises. He was an enthusiastic university lecturer,
for whom the personal conversation with the students was very important. A
particular concern for him was the training of the next generation of
scientists for his subject. However, he was reluctant to have a doctoral thesis
written for every current problem. As a doctoral supervisor, he gave his
doctoral students maximum freedom in carrying out their experiments as soon as
he was convinced that they had the right flair for scientific research.
Hèctor Moret i Coso (1958) is a poet, essayist and narrator in the Catalan language; a linguist, literary critic, historian and researcher of language and literature.
Since the age of 10 he has lived in Barcelona, where he graduated in Catalan Philology. Currently he is a secondary school teacher and teaches Catalan language and literature.
Özdemir Asaf (1923 -1981) was one of the most prominent figures of contemporary Turkish Literature. His real name was Halit Özdemir Arun.
He studied Law at the Istanbul University and Economics and was always more interested in theoretical subjects.For a few years he worked as a journalist and in 1951 he set up his own printing house.
His poetry and his translations from French poets and writers have been published in journals and anthologies since 1940. For Özdemir Asaf every man is sensitive and wise. Yet not at the same moment. Therefore, he does not tie poetry only to the feelings or only to the mind. Neither does he divide it between the two.
Tariq Aziz (1936 –2015) was Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister (1979–2003) and Foreign Minister (1983–1991) and a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein.
Their association began in the 1950s when both were activists for the then-banned Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. Although he was an Arab nationalist, he was in fact an ethnic Assyrian, and a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush claimed Aziz as one of the Iraqi regime who was responsible for hiding Iraqi WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction).
President Bush expressed unshakable confidence about finding banned weapons in Iraq and complained that Tariq Aziz was not cooperating with U.S. forces who had him in custody. Bush said the deputy prime minister, the most visible face of the former Iraqi government other than Hussein, 'still doesn't know how to tell the truth'…
