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,,In 1814 we took a little trip
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Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'
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We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
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And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans
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We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
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There wasn't as many as there was a while ago
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We fired once more and they began to runnin'
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico"
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~ Johnny Horton
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elvispresley · 6 months
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John Lennon as Gripweed in How I Won The War (1967)
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lady-jane-asher · 1 month
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New released picture!
Beautiful Jane Asher posing with boyfriend Paul McCartney during the premiere of “How I won the war” movie where John Lennon acted on.
October 19th, 1967.
📸: Topfoto
First picture my colourisation, edition and enhancement. Second picture my edition and enhancement from the original picture.
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sounwise · 2 years
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The Beatles at the memorial service for Brian Epstein held on 17 October 1967 at the New London Synagogue, St John's Wood.
[Brian Epstein’s] body was returned to his home in Liverpool, where his funeral took place, quietly and privately. The Beatles didn’t attend because the family didn’t want the attention their presence would attract. Instead, in October, we all went to his memorial service, at the New London Synagogue in St John’s Wood, not far from the EMI studio. It was a memorable, moving occasion, a tribute to a man we had loved and would never forget.
[—from John, Cynthia Lennon]
We all went to the funeral [actually the memorial service]. I remember the Beatles coming into the synagogue, their faces white and pinched still with shock. Out of respect for Brian, they were all wearing yarmulkes. They had all washed their hair for the occasion, and the little round caps kept slipping off, falling to the floor. Wendy Hanson [Brian’s former assistant], who was standing behind the Beatles, had to keep picking their yarmulkes up and fixing them back on to their mop-tops. Somehow, that made me feel so sad; sadder than anything.
[—from With a Little Help from My Friends: The Making of Sgt. Pepper, George Martin]
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likeapomegranate · 3 months
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John Lennon, 1966, on the set of How I Won The War
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midchelle · 7 months
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German Promotional Advertisement Poster & Press Notes Leaflet for How I Won The War (1967) dir. Richard Lester.
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ludmilachaibemachado · 7 months
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Jane Asher and Paul McCartney, at the premiere of How I Won the War, October 18th 1967🌺
Via @mccartneysteam on Instagram🌺
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dostoyevsky-official · 5 months
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Biden’s Gaza Stance Spurs Stunning Drop in Arab American Support
The first national poll of Arab Americans since the war in Gaza began shows how deep that sense of betrayal goes, with only 17% of Arab American voters saying they will vote for Biden in 2024—a staggering drop from 59% in 2020.  [...] The poll results are likely to increase concerns among Democrats about Biden’s standing with Arab Americans heading into 2024, particularly in Michigan, where roughly 277,000 Arab Americans call home, and Biden won in 2020 by 155,000 votes. But the smaller Arab American populations in Pennsylvania and Georgia were also larger than Biden’s margins of victory there. All three states are ones Biden flipped after Trump won them in 2016. [...] “This is an issue on which Joe Biden’s views have not evolved,” says Matt Duss, who supported Sanders in 2020. After Sanders ended his bid, Duss recalls helping draft the Democratic Party’s 2020 platform and facing pushback from Biden’s foreign policy team over using the term “occupation” to describe the Israeli military’s control over the Palestinian territories that began in 1967. “That was too far for them,” Duss adds. “If you’re not going to even say the word occupation, in my view, this is like an oncologist who won’t say the word cancer.” [...] “Arab Americans should not be put in this position by President Biden,” [Amer Zahr, the president of the Dearborn-based New Generation for Palestine] says. “And I think if [Democrats] now turn and say, ‘Well, you got no choice—it’s us or Trump,’ if that’s the best argument they have, well, that’s a verdict on this administration too. I don’t find that to be a very inspiring bumper sticker.”
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October 18th, 1967, Pattie Boyd and George Harrison at the premier of “How I Won The War”
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javelinbk · 6 months
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John Lennon and Leo McKern in Help! (1965) John Lennon and Roy Kinnear in How I Won The War (1967)
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queenie-blackthorn · 6 months
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Pls rant about something. infodump to me. I want a loooooong one about your interests. I require something to read
not really an interest, more something i dont shut up abt, but here you go: the rant about an arab muslim about palestine and israel (imma try to explain the whole situation from the beginning but dont surprised if i get pissy at times)
zionists, not jews
first off, i wanna clarify this: zionists are who i blame for palestine. not jews. jews are an ethnoreligious group, zionists are people who support the creation of israel and encourage the literal recreation of the holocaust that theyre creating. im not anti-semitic, im anti-zionist. know the difference.
okay, now thats out of the way, lemme explain this next point: how did the conflict even begin? (i feel the need to explain this bc the media never does and the history is so so important)
the history
zionist movements began in maybe mid 19th century, jews worldwide were being persecuted and they wanted a land to themselves. they had their eyes set on palestine, even tho the palestinian bedouins there have been living in palestine for at least 1500 years
wwii left millions of jews stranded, so in 1947, the united nations suggested dividing palestine into a jewish and arab state. the jews accepted, but the arabs rejected it. this rejection was ultimately ignored, and israel declared itself a state in 1947, leading to palestinian arabs being displaced and a war starting between israel and arab nations. this was known as nakba—literally the arabic word for disaster, it mainly refers to palestinians being displaced after israel declared independence
the six-day war of 1967 was a conflict ultimately won by israel—they took control of the west bank, the gaza strip, and east jerusalem. conflicts got worse from here, and violence against civilians grew. its been snowballing since then
is it between jews and muslims?
no. its between jews and arabs. palestinian christians are some of the oldest communities of christianity worldwide, some being able to trace their history back to the birth of the church. its between the jews that claim the land to be theirs, and the arabs who have actually been on the land for longer than the 75 years since israel was formed (nearly 14 centuries longer, to be exact)
why i care so much
its not just because im arab, or just because im a muslim. of course, it is partially that—seeing my brothers and sisters get killed hurts me, esp knowing that theres not much i can do except pray to god that this ends.
yes, israeli citizens die every year bc of the conflict. im not saying that number is nothing. but the palestinian civilian fatalities are so much worse.
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the total deaths from 2008 to 2020 for palestine is over 20 times more than israeli deaths. (note that this graph is not up to date and does not include the hundreds of palestinians who have died since 2020. no, im not exaggerating. hundreds. i wish i was.)
some of my best friends are palestinian. the idea that they know people, or their parents know people, who have died at the hands of israelis, is absolutely not acceptable.
like my friends, millions of palestinians are now scattered across the globe, or in danger in their own country where zionists are trying to take their land.
this conflict is disgusting and wrong. jews have less of a right to that land than arabs. yes, jews have been living w arabs in that land for centuries, but its always been predominantly arabs. always has been, always should be.
and yet zionists refuse to accept it. take a look at this article from the times of israel:
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kanye is infamous for supporting hitler. all jenna did was say that palestinians deserve to live.
this honestly tells you more than anything else can.
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beatsfornone · 8 months
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Paul McCartney and Jane Asher Oct 1967 at premier of the film How I Won The War
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harrisonarchive · 1 year
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George Harrison and John Lennon at the special Magical Mystery Tour screening party they hosted for the Area Secretaries of the Official Beatles Fan Club (including Freda Kelly) and other friends (such as Spencer Davis). The event - during which The Beatles At Shea Stadium was also screened - was held at the Hanover Banqueting Rooms in London on 17 December 1967. Photos: Gotta Have Rock and Roll Auctions; Freda Kelly; The Beatles Book.
“'I had a soft spot for all of them,’ [Freda Kelly] says diplomatically.” - The Toronto Star, 28 April 2013
Ryan White, director [of Good Ol’ Freda]: “George is Freda’s favorite Beatle too. She would never admit it, but from years of being around her, that’s what I think. [Freda laughs and shrugs, but her lips are sealed] - “SXSQ interview: Former Beatles Secretary Freda Kelly Finally Speaks,” Film School Rejects, 26 March 2013
George Harrison: "Nobody else has said anything yet about our fan club secretaries, Anne Collingham and Bettina Rose, not to mention Freda Kelly in Liverpool.”
[The Beatles shouting] “Good ol’ Freda!”
George: “So on behalf of us all, I’d just like to say a great, big thank you to Anne, Bettina and Freda for all the hard work they’ve done and we just hope we can go on pleasing you for a long time.” - The Beatles Christmas Record, 1963 (x)
“Oh, there were quite a few, and they’re all fun for different things. The How I Won the War premiere after party was quite fun because, God, I was so drunk. I was 22, and because it was a premiere, I was all dolled up and thought I was the bee’s knees. I didn’t have any ballroom gowns, so Mo Cox, Ringo’s wife, lent me a beautiful evening dress, and Elsie [Ringo’s mom] lent me a mink fur. They dolled me up! I’m not very good with makeup, so I bought false eyelashes and put them on. You always forget, and I’m always rubbing my eyes, so I’m dancing with George, and he’s oiled up more than I am, and he’s holding me up and says, ‘You’ve got a spider on your face!’ And I go, ‘What are you talking about? Oh, it’s me eyelash!’ [laughs]” - Freda Kelly (in response to the question, “What was the wildest, most fun night out with the Beatles?”), The Daily Beast, March 14, 2013
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eretzyisrael · 5 months
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We Forgot
You shall remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you went out of Egypt,
how he happened upon you on the way and cut off all the stragglers at your rear, when you were faint and weary, and he did not fear God.
It will be, when the Lord your God grants you respite from all your enemies around in the land which the Lord, your God, gives to you as an inheritance to possess, that you shall obliterate the remembrance of Amalek from beneath the heavens. You shall not forget! — Dvarim 25:17-19
I have heard this read in the synagogue numerous times, and taken part in discussions of the meaning of this mitzvah (commandment). But I did not truly understand it until Simchat Torah of this year.
A mitzvah can always be understood in relation to actions. The well-known injunction to “love thy neighbor” in Lev. 18:19 appears in context as “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.” It does not require me to have a warm feeling toward the residents of the apartment next to mine. Rather, it orders me to avoid feuding with other Jews (not always an easy thing).
The commandment to remember Amalek does not mean to produce in myself a certain state of mind, similar to what I aspire to when my wife tells me to remember to bring home a carton of milk. That would be impossible anyway, because I wasn’t there in the desert when Amalek first did its dirty deeds. How can I remember what I didn’t experience? So what does “remember” mean here?
What I realized on Simchat Torah was that it means that we must not only keep in mind the evil that Amalek intends, but we must act on that awareness. It means that we must not let our guard down, we must take positive actions to prepare for Amalek’s viciousness. Only after we have achieved our independence in the land of Israel and fully defeated all of our enemies, can we stand down from our condition of high alert. Only when Amalek is finally obliterated will it be safe to obliterate our memory of it.
This has actually been the human condition for ages, and remains the condition of most of the world’s population today. If a tribe forgets that it has enemies, it will soon be swallowed up. But recently, several generations have grown up in North America and Western Europe whose enemies have been kept far enough away from them that they’ve come to believe that it’s normal to live in peace. It is actually exceptional. I think that shortly they may find out that this isn’t true.
For Jews, the wolf of Amalek is always at the door. This is certainly true in Eretz Yisrael, where Amalek has been battering at us for at least the last 100 years. But since 1967, many Israeli Jews have lost the existential anxiety that gripped the generation of 1948. The Yom Kippur War was a reminder of it, but the fact that we recovered from the initial defeat and won a clear-cut military victory (though it was taken from us diplomatically) and that our enemies didn’t penetrate our home front, soon erased the fear of the first days of the war. There were other warnings, but the desire to live as though we were one of the large Western democracies made us suppress the precarious reality of the Middle East in which we live.
So we reduced the size of our ground army, and relaxed many of the procedures that were, it turns out, essential to protecting our people. We have become dependent: on America, on technology, on our Air Force. Officers assumed that we were so strong that nobody would challenge us, so it was safe for them to fudge a little on their reports to higher-ups. What could happen? Our General Staff decided that technology could replace boots on the ground; they advocated for a “digital battlefield” on which every soldier would be tied into to sophisticated information systems that would provide real-time intelligence and command, blah blah blah. Their reports all said that goals were achieved. A whole paper structure was built that did not reflect reality. The map was not the territory. “We’ve never been stronger,” said the top generals, until Hamas revealed their nakedness on October 7.
Our leaders should have known the intentions of our enemies. All they had to do was listen to what the spokespeople of Hamas, Hezbollah, the PLO, and Iran said in public. But perhaps because they themselves were so easily bought, they held our enemies in contempt. They assumed that quiet could be purchased with American dollars to the PLO and Qatari cash for Hamas. But it turns out, as anyone who has studied the Middle East even a little knows, that money was only a means to an end. They were happy to take it and build fancy villas for themselves, but they also dug tunnels and manufactured rockets. And they never lost their aspiration to once and for all kill and drive out the Jews from what they claim as their land.
The generals and the politicians forgot that we are not a large western democracy, but rather a small country in the Middle East. They forgot that our enemies are not stupid. They forgot that honor and deterrence go together. They forgot that the more complicated a system, the more weak points it has, and that technology can fail. They forgot that Maginot Lines never work. They forgot that only ground forces can hold territory.
Most importantly, they forgot how much our enemies hate us and how this motivates them. They forgot Amalek.
Abu Yehuda
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monkberrys · 1 year
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JOHN LENNON in How I Won The War, 1967 (photo taken in 1966
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likeapomegranate · 4 months
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There was no reason for this to be his first line in the damn movie...... ehehe..... whatt
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