#cyprus archive

[archiveofcyp]

Palestinian family reunion in Cyprus, 1960s.

Taken in 1961, these photographs show Hanna Nakkarah’s Family during their first gathering following the 1948 Nakba.

Image source and information provided by Na'ela Nakkara (Daughter of Hanna Nakkara). "Hanna Nakkara Collection". Interview with Nadine Ghawanmeh and Noor Abu Khdeir. 19 April 2021. The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive.

#cyprus #cypriot #cyprus history #cypriot history #palestine #palestinian #palestinian history #cyprus archive #palestinian cypriots #history #photography #palestine archive

[the-puffinry]

Limestone statue fragment of a left hand resting on a dove, Cypriot 3rd–1st century BCE

Limestone statuette of a temple boy holding a bird, Cypriot 4th century BCE

Limestone statuette of a temple boy holding a bird, Cypriot 4th century BCE.

Limestone hand holding a bird, Cypriot 3rd–1st century BCE.

#you must HOLD the borb... #birds #ancient art #sculpture #archaeology #lost in the archives pt 3 lol #cyprus

[penguineatingblueberries]

I’ve come to the realization that most people that are writing mock trial fanfiction for this case (and we are few) are shipping De la Porta with someone else.

Except for that one person on AO3 who’s doing “cops and robbers” with Kit and Poe. I kiss you <3

#mock trial #american mock trial association #amta #de la porta #b. f. de la porta #emory sands #shar burke #kit bahmani #poe cameron #cyprus cosmos #they’re all gay your honor #i don’t make the rules #‘fuck the police but literally’ I am on the ground #fanfics #fanfiction #archive of our own #ao3

[qqueenofhades]

“Its not like she was evil or anything”…. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😂😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂LMFAOOEIJDJEJJFJFJFJDJJKEE

I mean... I put "tired historian" in my bio. One day people will learn not to come for me if they do not want to get a faceful of receipts, but today is not that day.

A few others I didn't get around to in my last post:

The brutal British treatment of Cyprus in the 1950s and how they generally fanned ethnic tensions to control and divide the island;

The absolutely horrifying role the Anglican church (during her reign, until the 1990s!) played in the Canadian Indigenous residential school system, forcing the Archbishop of Canterbury to personally apologize (not until earlier this year when they found all those skeletons buried in unmarked graves);

HOLY SHIT THE BRITISH LITERALLY DESTROYED THE ENTIRE COUNTRY OF KENYA'S HISTORY IN PHYSICAL/LITERAL/ARCHIVAL WAYS (related to my mention of concentration camps in the last post) in order to cover up their own crimes, in something called "Operation Legacy"; literally there are so many sources for this and even today historians are often blocked from investigating what really happened (again, this was all happening DURING THE QUEEN'S REIGN, not in some imagined benighted past)

QE2's own extensive lobbying efforts to keep her personal net worth secret and to hide Prince Philip's will for 90 years, while running the $28 billion imperial money machine of "The Firm"

(We all remember what a racist goblin Philip was, right?)

Likewise, Buckingham Palace, for a long time, banned LGBTQ and "visible" ethnic minorities from working there, even in office jobs, and the queen personally exempted herself from compliance with civil rights/sexual/racial discrimination laws;

And the Diana thing, which I'm not going to link to because we all know what happened, but the Queen was always known to act in ways that would preserve the monarchy "at all costs"

(But sure. Respect.)

#anonymous #ask #history #british history #history of empire

[ask-but-beware-the-consequences]

Early days with the family! :D After Magnus Archive was... sent off. :'D

I love the idea of hanging out with your friends at night in parking lots after just finishing buying stuff. I had my share of it too irl, one of the best moments ever spent. (If you want to try this, but too scared because of your gender, but can afford to travel, try Cyprus, it's a really chill country).

Besides that I just had to include badly made up psychology texts about their backstabbing experience bc why not.

#mtl #metalocalpyse #metalocalypse fanart #mtl fanart #william murderface #nathan explosion #pickles the drummer #skwisgaar skwigelf

[allr8letsgo]

Archives

Cyprus | Summer 2021

#35mm #35mm film #film photography #filmisnotdead #leicaminilux #analogue #original photography #streetphotography #photography #fotografia #photo #фотография #плёночная фотография #плёнка #travelphotography #travel photo diary #cyprus

[kyndaris]

A Great Detective's Beginning

I think I've said before that Sherlock Holmes is a character I greatly admire. Ever since reading about his adventures in a huge omnibus collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work, I wanted to emulate the great detective in all things with a doctor companion by my side. The art of observation was something I attempted to train my younger self in by studying the fingers of a stranger or the scuffs on their shoes for just a hint of what it might tell me about their life.

Unfortunately, it's not every day one stumbles on a murder. Second, it's not like many a policeman would allow a random civilian to take part in their investigations. Life, it seems, is unlike the world of my many stories. A shame, really. I feel like I would have been an excellent sidekick to the great Sherlock Holmes.

Since my childhood dream is but an impossibility, playing as Sherlock Holmes in a series of video games has become the next best thing for someone like me.

Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One released in 2021 and was developed by Frogwares, a video game developer headquartered in Ukraine. Over the years, I've played many a game that they've churned out. While the quality is middling at best - given the studio straddles the line of indie developer and triple-A studio - there is something endearing about their games that keep me coming back for more. Jankiness be damned!

Chapter One is set in Sherlock's younger years before he meets his erstwhile companion, Dr John Watson. While the game demonstrates that Sherlock has always had a special talent for deduction, there is an uncertainty to the character that we meet as he ponders the best way to utilise the truth. For example, one of the latter cases involved handing over incriminating evidence of a leading political leader of Cordona to better the lives of all African refugees. True, Sherlock could publish the information and see another corrupt politician fall, but doing so would not serve to benefit many an individual. Nor would it see restitution to the victim.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Chapter One centres on Sherlock visitng the island of Cordona, a fictional island that feels like it borrows elements from Cyprus and Malta's history. Our not-quite-great detective arrives to visit his mother's, Violet Holmes, grave. Upon immediately disembarking, he is embroiled in one mystery of another sparked by a challenge from his companion, Jon.

The Jon that stars in Chapter One is no doctor, however. Rather, he is Sherlock's imaginary friend. Because of this, Frogwares is able to incorporate their janky gameplay for narrative purposes, such as the teleporting John Watson from the good old days, the vanishing and clipping of Jon as he fades in and out of existence, or the fact that he is able to walk up walls.

He's not real to the people of Cordona and is a figment of Sherlock's imagination.

This plays into the story of the game as well, culminating in a showdown as Sherlock reckons with a traumatic event from the past. While I didn't like the choices that eventuated - agreeing with many people on Reddit that the logic Sherlock incorporated in his assessment of what had happened to his mother when he was ten was a little harsh - I did very much being given the opportunity to take a peek at a Sherlock before the one many of us fans see in his first novel appearance: A Study in Scarlet.

From a gameplay perspective, Chapter One incorporated many elements from the previous games including the mind palace and the connecting of clues to make deductions. Though 221b Baker Street didn't exist, Sherlock was able to make use of the archives in the city of Cordona and seemingly carried a box of chemicals with him to deduce whatever strange fluid he stumbled upon. This streamlined a lot of the gameplay from older games and also made sense from a story narrative.

My main issue, of course, was failing to take into consideration elements of the environment or character writing/ behaviour when making my deductions to certain cases and allowing my own biases to shine through. For example, the very first case. I very much wanted it to be the prone-to-anger partner, who acted like a rich entitled arsehole.

Alas, it was the poor spirit medium.

The other cases didn't have such clear cut culprits, with many open to interpretation. Fortunately, there were three major side quests that were able to fill the void left open by the need to have a very obvious antagonist - leading up to Sherlock wowing them with his deductive prowess before breaking down.

This added additional flavour to the island of Cordona, even as it worried me that so many murders or accidental manslaughter could be happening in and around the island.

Still, as a mystery nut, I very much appreciated how much of these cases Frogwares scattered throughout the game and probably would have preferred some more if I'm being perfectly honest.

Then, of course, there were the combat elements Frogwares included in their game. While previous titles didn't have as much action sequences beyond a few quick-time action button presses, here, Sherlock was facing off against various thugs. Most of these involved stunning them by shooting at weakpoints (such as their hat or a molotov cocktail strapped to their back) before rushing forward to knock them out.

While these encounters added a little spice to the usual 'go here' and 'search for clues' aspect of the game, these elements did also become quite repetitive due to how little these elements changed from encounter to encounter.

Overall, I enjoyed my time with Chapter One much more than I did Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong solely because of how open the game world was and how much it tickled the itch I had to deduct the events of what happened. While I appreciated Jon's commentary of my greatness, I was also aggrieved when certain things I did, which felt logical at the time, were gated by how the game wished for Sherlock to proceed with a certain clue or piece of information.

In the end, though Chapter One still made me feel like I knew what I was doing. And honestly, that's probably the only real way to make a consulting detective of a modern-day 30 year-old woman who grew up reading tales of Victorian England and obsessing over the BBC version of Sherlock in the year of 2010, starring the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.

#video games #sherlock holmes: chapter one #detective #island of cordona #221b #john watson #sherlock holmes #mycroft holmes #frogwares

[irithnova]

Pattern is Sarwa/Cyprus Tree Ramallah (8) from the Tatreez/Palestinian cross-stitch pattern archive website:

Border was made up by me

Learn more about the significance of Tatreez to Palestinians here:

You can donate on the same website! Please consider doing so

#Palestine #Gaza #free palestine #Free Gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #From the river to the sea #Israel #israel is a terrorist state #israel is an apartheid state #Donations #Charity #cross stitch #tatreez #Palestinian art #ceasefire #Ceasefire now #liberate palestine

[abyrondeans]

Kidnapping Threat and How It Was Handled

I contacted the High Commission in Nicosia about a crystal clear kidnapping threat, and was told they don't deal with that. I did skim the document they referred me to about kidnapping, and I'm almost 100% certain a threat of kidnapping isn't in it, just the use of or threat of force at the time of the kidnapping itself. That would mean there's a specific threat, like a gun in the person's face, as opposed to a more vague threat of force (or being drugged, which they say is typical in Cyprus) and in the future. The crystal clarity that someone is trying to kidnap you isn't on the list, so they send an email saying what they do cover, which includes being hospitalised or imprisoned and so on.

I didn't go through the document using my slow mind for two hours, and then do a traditional bow, sharpen my traditional Asian knife, and then do martial arts in really precise way up to Asian standards, so I might be wrong. Maybe broad threats of kidnapping are in there, but I think not. I think it's clear, and it connects to Taylor's album Folklore: there's a Taylor's version and a folk version of things, and then there's an official version, is essentially what's going on. And the two don't have much to do with each other, in my humble opinion. So maybe I am a folk legend; it doesn't seem like it would take much to be one, while officially being nobody, and having my Twitter account disappear, for example, if people start reading it, which I document did happen in my archive on byrondeans.com.

My response was

"Dear [named redacted].,

I understand: it’s a joke.  Kidnapping threats aren't on the list, just actual kidnapping with the immediate threat of force at the time of the kidnapping, no matter how crystal clear the future threat of kidnapping.  I’m laughing.  I’m glad the government has a sense of humour.

Yours sincerely,

Byron Deans"

In my archive, I also mention my British passport I was anticipating would be reliable for getting me out of a war zone, which is something that's happening right now.

[longliverockback]

Van Morrison It’s Too Late to Stop Now 1974 Warner Brothers ————————————————— Tracks Disc One: 01. Ain’t Nothin’ You Can Do 02. Warm Love 03. Into the Mystic 04. These Dreams of You 05. I Believe to My Soul 06. I’ve Been Working 07. Help Me 08. Wild Children 09. Domino 10. I Just Want to Make Love to You

Tracks Disc Two: 01. Bring It on Home to Me 02. Saint Dominic’s Preview 03. Take Your Hand out of My Pocket 04. Listen to the Lion 05. Here Comes the Night 06. Gloria 07. Caravan 08. Cyprus Avenue —————————————————

Terry Adams

Bill Atwood

Nancy Ellis

David Hayes

Jef Labes

Van Morrison

John Platania

Nathan Rubin

Jack Schroer

Dave Shaw

* Long Live Rock Archive

#VanMorrison #Van Morrison #Terry Adams #Bill Atwood #Nancy Ellis #David Hayes #Jef Labes #John Platania #Nathan Rubin #Jack Schroer #Dave Shaw #It’s Too Late to Stop Now #Live #Folk #1974

[whencyclopedia]

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

As the title suggests, Caroline Elkins's book tells the history of what historians call the “second British Empire” - the imperial developments that took shape after the disastrous loss of the rebellious American colonies in 1783 - through the lenses of imperialism and the violence that it has caused. Elkins’s geographic scope is breathtaking. She analyzes imperial violence in Ireland, Palestine, Kenya, India, Jamaica, Cyprus, South Africa, and many other regions. The periodization of the book is no less ambitious, beginning with the trial of Warren Hastings in 1787 and ending in the 21st century. In this regard, Legacy of Violence is a remarkable synthesis of two decades of scholarship about the British Empire, buttressed by Elkins’s own extensive archival work. Scholars, students, and enthusiasts with some prior knowledge about this topic would find this book insightful and enjoyable.

Elkins consistently shows how the British government and its state apparatus used the law to sanction violence against colonial subjects.

It is commonly accepted among historians that Britain’s version of “liberal imperialism” was premised on spreading freedom and the rule of law to countries or communities that they deemed as “backward.” The primary idea behind Legacy of Violence is that Britain viciously warped these promises to justify violence against colonized peoples, especially in the name of preserving core imperial ideals: white supremacy, wealth extraction, imperial prestige, and the endurance of the empire itself. Elkins consistently shows how the British government and its state apparatus used the law to sanction violence against colonial subjects. This “legalized lawlessness,” as Elkins terms it, was not distinct from, or in opposition to, the broader project of liberal imperialism but was intrinsic to the reformist vision for Britain’s colonies.

Continue reading...

#19thCentury #BritishEmpire #Imperialism

[archiveofcyp]

Coloured photographs of a celebration held by the Union of Cyprus Youth for the Wounded from the war on Lebanon while receiving treatment in Cyprus.

Image source and information by Samar Ozrail, "The Palestine Red Crescent Society Collection". Archival Inventory. 30 April- 5 June 2018. The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive.

#cypriot #cyprus #archive #history #photography #union of cyprus #lebanese civil war #lebanese history #cyprus archive #cypriot traditional clothes #cypriot clothes #cypriot dance #cyprus history #cypriot history

[littlesparklight]

Chapter title: Hearts, Separated and United Chapters: 4/11 Ships: Helen/Paris (minor/background Helen/Menelaos, Menelaos/Paris, Agamemnon & Menelaos, Aphrodite & Paris and Aphrodite/Helen)

Summary: As she and Paris reach Cyprus, Helen is torn.

Filled with so many things, but torn, and Aphrodite putting an appearance in at her temple changes nothing of that. King Kinyras of Cyprus, offering hospitality, adds onto Helen's cares. Not out of his own fault; this is simply the first suggestion of how people might react to her and the lover she should not have, even less have left Sparta with.

#greek mythology #trojan war #helen of sparta #paris of troy #aphrodite #lightart

[cloudyfacewithjam]

Words: 1,515 Fandom: SAS: Rogue Heroes (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Paddy Mayne/Eoin McGonigal Characters: Paddy Mayne, Eoin McGonigal Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Introspection, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary: Eoin laid his hands on Paddy and struck invisible chords inside, and adjusted the tension of the strings – tuned him like Paddy was a beloved piano in all of those Cyprus bars. Paddy didn't mind those capable hands on him, as long as strings didn't cut.

#sas: rogue heroes #sas rogue heroes #my fic #yeah let's ignore that I have brainrot that huge size #I had to dust off my “likes and bookmarks only” account to post fic of questionable quality #paddy x eoin

[iveneverbeenmorestressedinmylife]

Εμ. Παραμύθι αλλιώς φανφικ. Πήγαινε να το διαβάσεις τώρα.

#παραμύθι αλλιώς #fanfic #τα παραμιλητά της Αλεξάνδρας #Al's ramblings #παραμύθι αλλιώς φανφικ....και δεν το έγραψα εγώ.....i never thought i would see the day....

[trulymadlydeeplyfest]

💜It’s time for another TrulyMadlyDeeplyFest reveal

💜“I Will Be Waiting” by @cyprus-green

💜Pairing: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy

💜Archive warnings: Major Character De@th; Graphic Depictions of Violence

💜Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45659803

💜Summary: Draco and Hermione hunt each other throughout time. Throw in a time-turner, some romance, a lot of death, some emotions, and a desperate sex scene.

#trulymadlydeeplyfest #harrypotterfanfic #dramione #hpfanfic #dramionefanfic