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Magic Order iyi büyücüler ve bu iyi büyücülerden ayrılıp kötü tarafa geçen büyücüler arasındaki mücadeleye odaklanan sonu gayet sürprizli, içinde evladını kaybeden bir baba ve onun acıları ve bir de bir kitap var. Bu kitap üstün güçlere sahip olmak isteyenlerin hedefindedir. Babasında bulunduğu için bu kitabın kendinin olmasını, kendisine miras kalması gerekir diyen kötü bir büyücü var.


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Germany's Far Right Wing Duchess: Beatrix of Oldenburg

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Duchess Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika of Oldenburg was born 27 May 1971 at Lübeck, Germany, as the eldest daughter of Duke Huno of Oldenburg (b.3 June 1940) and Countess Felicitas-Anita Schwerin von Krosigk (b.5 July 1941). Beatrix was shortly followed by a youngest sister, Duchess Sophie (b.6 November 1972). The paternal grandparents of Beatrix are Hereditary Grand Duke Nikolaus of Oldenburg (1897-1970) and his first wife Princess Helene of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1899-1948); her maternal grandparents are Count Johann Ludwig "Lutz" Schwerin von Krosigk (1887-1977) and his wife Baroness Ehrengard von Plettenberg (1895-1979).

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Duchess Beatrix of Oldenburg began her professional career by completing an apprenticeship as a bank clerk in Hamburg. She went on to study law in Heidelberg and Lausanne, where she focused on anti-trust as well as family and inheritance law. In 1996, Beatrix completed an internship under Representative Lee H Hamilton, a member of the Democratic Party who represented the US 9th District in the House of Representatives from 1965 until 1999.

Duchess Beatrix of Oldenburg with her husband Sven von Storch and their parents

On 22 October 2010 at Schloß Eutin, Beatrix of Oldenburg married Chilean born Sven von Storch (b.23 December 1970). The following day, 23 October, the couple were joined in an ecumenical religious ceremony as Beatrix is Lutheran and Sven is Roman Catholic. The duchess announced that she would be taking her husband's name: thus becoming known as Beatrix von Storch. The couple had been together since at least 2004; they met whilst skiing. Beatrix and Sven von Storch do not have children.

The duchess receives a cream pie to the face in 2016

In 2014, Beatrix von Storch was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the far-right Germany political party Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland; aka AfD). During her political tenure, the duchess has adopted inflammatory positions: advocating for the shooting of refugees from the Middle East who are trying to reach Europe (...though she later back-peddled on that statement) and opposing same-sex marriage, in addition to accusing school gay youth networks of using "forced sexualization" on students. The fact that extreme factions of the AfD have espoused racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, and xenophobic views have also made Beatrix, especially as a member of a formerly reigning German regnal family, open to intense criticism. In February 2016, a protester dressed as a clown delivered a special surprise to the duchess while she was attending an AfD party conference in Kassel: the clown gave Beatrix von Storch a cream pie to the face while singing Happy Birthday (which was a tad premature, as Beatrix would not celebrate her 54th birthday until May). The Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, a cousin of the duchess, had given an interview in February 2016 in which he stated: "That the AfD is so on the rise, I personally find very disturbing. Especially because a relative of mine works there in a leading position." Alexander of Schaumburg-Lippe made it clear that he was flummoxed by his cousin's involvement with the AfD: "I consider Beatrix a very intelligent, thoughtful and by no means radical person. At the moment, however, it seems to me that she is simply playing in the wrong movie."

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In 2017, after having served as a MEP for three years, Beatrix was elected to represent the AfD in the Bundestag (German Federal Parliament). The duchess has also served as the Deputy Leader of AfD since 2015. Beatrix von Storch has not meaningfully retracted any of her very controversial stances.

Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk with Adolf Hitler

To royal watchers, what is terribly troublesome about Duchess Beatrix of Oldenburg's involvement in German politics, and, especially, her actual political positions, is the fact that members of her own family held high offices in the Third Reich...and their stances on certain important issues echo hers. Beatrix's maternal grandfather Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk served as Adolf Hitler's Minister of Finance from the 1930s until the collapse of the regime in 1945. Schwerin von Krosigk was put on trial at Nuremberg, along with other leading members of the Nazi government. At the conclusion of the Ministries Trial in 1949 he was found guilty of laundering property stolen from Nazi victims and financing the concentration camps, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. His sentence was reviewed by the "Peck Panel". He was released during an amnesty in 1951.

Prince Josias of Waldeck and Pyrmont after his arrest

Furthermore, Beatrix von Storch's double great-uncle was Prince Josias of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896-1967), the husband of Beatrix's paternal great-aunt Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg (1903-2001) and the brother of Beatrix's paternal grandmother Princess Helene of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Josias of Waldeck and Pyrmont joined the Nazi Party in 1929 and became a member of the SS in 1930. Later that same year, the prince became Heinrich Himmler's adjutant and staff chief. Josias was elected as the Reichstag member for Düsseldorf-West in 1933 and was promoted to the rank of SS Lieutenant General. He was promoted again in 1938, to the Higher SS and Police Leader for Weimar. In this position he had supervisory authority over Buchenwald concentration camp. Prince Josias of Waldeck and Pyrmont was arrested on 13 April 1945, and sentenced to life imprisonment by an American court at Dachau during the Buchenwald Trial on 14 August 1947. In 1953, the prince was granted amnesty and released from prison.

Beatrix von Storch on the floor of the Bundestag in 2019

As aforementioned, Beatrix von Storch currently serves as a member of the German parliament. She continues to espouse the controversial line of her Alternative for Germany political bloc. What is most worrisome is that, given her family history, the duchess seems to have learned nothing from it whatsoever. As the Spanish-born philosopher George Santayana noted: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

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Duchess Beatrix of Oldenburg is first cousin of Duke Christian of Oldenburg, Head of the Grand Ducal House, as well of Archduchess Eilika of Austria (née Oldenburg), wife of Archduke Georg, the brother of the Head of the Imperial House of Austria, Archduke Karl.

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Musical Love Letters: Dedications By LGBT Composers

Aaron Copland with Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti
in Bernardsville, New Jersey, 1945

By Heather O'Donovan
June 7, 2019

June is Pride Month, commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which took place in 1969 in New York City. To mark 50 years since those history-changing events, we've decided to compile a special playlist of musical dedications by LGBT composers – musical love letters, if you will – in honor of Pride.

In 1969, for many composers, dedicating their compositions to a same-sex romantic partner, or even referencing aspects of their lives in their work, could be considered risky, to say the least. From societal prejudices to legal ramifications, the world did not – and still does not always – look kindly upon the LGBT community. Today, these musical love letters can be viewed in the greater history of Pride as small acts of subversion and assertions of the fundamental rights owed to everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identification.

Richard Chanlaire: Nature morte aux fleurs, tableau

Francis Poulenc to Richard Chanlaire: Concert champêtre

Francis Poulenc's first serious love was a painter by the name of Richard Chanlaire. In a letter accompanying the original score of Concert champêtre, Poulenc addressed Chanlaire: "Here is the best gift I can offer you – accept it along with my heart as it contains all the best parts of myself. These are my tears, my joy, my blood and flesh itself that I have put into this Concerto. I offer it to you today because you are the being that I cherish most upon this earth. You have changed my life, you are the sunshine of my thirty years, my reason for living and for working. During my long months of solitude, I called to you without knowing you... Thank you for finding me at last".

The letter was dated May 10, 1929, although the pair had already established a friendship long before then. In 1927, Poulenc used an inheritance to purchase an estate. Rumors circulated that he was preparing for marriage, and perhaps wanting to dispel the gossip, and maybe in an attempt to grapple with his own "Parisian sexuality", as he referred to it, Poulenc proposed to long-time friend Raymonde Linossier. But she refused him, sparking Poulenc's first real relationship with a man, Chanlaire. Poulenc's letters became suffused with declarations of love for the painter.

After his short-lived affair with Chanlaire, Poulenc went on to have relationships with other men, and also fathered a daughter with Fréderique Lebedeff. Even when Poulenc's religious faith deepened in his mid-30s, he clarified in a letter to a friend that he remained "as sincere in my faith, without any messianic screaming, as I am in my Parisian sexuality".

Ethel Smyth

Emmeline Pankhurst

Ethel Smyth to Emmeline Pankhurst: The March of the Women

Ethel Smyth – the first female composer to have her work performed at the Metropolitan Opera –  was a strong figure who played an important role in the development of England's women's suffrage movement, and scholars today believe she was involved romantically with several women. As a female composer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smyth experienced significant prejudice and resistance, which hindered her ability to get her works performed, particularly at the beginning of her career. When she heard Women's Social and Political Union leader Emmeline Pankhurst deliver a speech in 1910, she was immediately drawn to the cause – and Pankhurst. Smyth gave up music for the ensuing two years, devoting herself instead entirely to the suffrage movement.

The evidence surrounding the actuality of a romantic relationship between Smyth and Pankhurst is somewhat speculative, as it is mostly based upon snippets from letters. Virginia Woolf (another intimate acquaintance) wrote, "In strict confidence, Ethel used to love Emmeline – they shared a bed". In 1914 Smythe wrote to Pankhurst, "Goodnight my darling amd thank you for your letters... Do you really know, I wonder, what they are to me? how I devour them... how I live on one, and all its wonderful news, till the next comes!" Regardless of the romantic extent of their relationship, Smyth was undeniably drawn to the "quiet, exceedingly feminine-looking companion" she found in Pankhurst.

In 1911, Smyth returned to composition briefly in order to compose The March of the Women, which she dedicated to Pankhurst. It became the official anthem of England's women's suffrage movement.

Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten to Peter Pears: My Beloved Is Mine

Composer Benjamin Britten met tenor Peter Pears through a mutual friend in 1937. What initially began as a fruitful professional relationship soon blossomed into a meaningful personal bond as well. When Britten was nearing the end of his life, he asked a friend to promise that he would "tell the truth about Peter and me" once the composer had passed. It was important to Britten and Pears that their love not be struck from history, even if they were careful about the people with whom they shared their open secret.

Pears was Britten's "beloved man", and the composer wrote many of his greatest works for his voice, including Canticle I: My Beloved is mine, an effusive declaration of passionate and uninhibited love. The dedication says only, "This Canticle was written for the Dick Sheppard Memorial Concert on 1 November 1947, when it was performed by Peter Pears and the composer". The text comes from 17th-century poet Francis Quarles, who intended the poem to be a declaration of religious love for God. But we can confidently infer that Britten's relationship with Pears served as a major influence on his setting of the text and that, for him, it was an undeniable homage to romantic, rather than religious, passion. Its closing text beautifully summarizes the love the couple shared: "He gives me wealth; I give him all my vows: I give him songs; he gives me length of days; With wreaths of grace he crowns my longing brows, And I his temples with a crown of Praise, Which he accepts: an everlasting sign, That I my best-beloved's am; that he is mine".

Gian Carlo Menotti & Samuel Barber

Gian Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber: Vanessa

Composers Gian Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber met at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1928. Menotti had come to the school with very little knowledge of the English language. He did, however, speak Italian and French, and soon became acquainted with another student – one year older than himself – who also spoke French. Menotti's friendship with Barber ("Sam") may have been born out of practicality (in fact, for about two years the pair spoke almost exclusively French), but it soon turned into something deeply meaningful that would profoundly touch both their lives for over three decades.

In 1956, the pair began working on an opera – Barber's first – entitled Vanessa. Menotti crafted the libretto and Barber, the music. By that point they had been partners for much of their lives, and so the work they completed together was born out of their deep understanding of and love for one another. Reminiscing on the intimate nature of Menotti's libretto, a pupil of Barber's remarked that small details like a character borrowing a comb harken back to Barber himself, who never had one. Other references to the intimate details of a life shared for many years come to life as mini love letters throughout the otherwise unhappy story of Vanessa.

Sergey Kireyev

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to Sergey Kireyev: My Genius, My Angel, My Friend

Tchaikovsky's sexuality, once covered up by Soviet censors, has since become a topic of significant research. We know that Tchaikovsky had relationships with many men throughout his life, although the nature of some of his adorations, such as that of his nephew Vladimir Davidov, give today's reader pause. Tchaikovsky struggled to come to terms with his sexuality. At 36 years old, he even resolved to marry a woman, "so as to shut the mouths of assorted contemptible creatures whose opinions mean nothing to me, but who are in a position to cause distress to those near me".

One of Tchaikovsky's earliest infatuations was with Sergey Kireyev, a student four years his junior that he met at school when the composer was 16. It is believed that Tchaikovsky dedicated his first surviving song, My Genius, My Angel, My Friend, to Kireyev. The dedication reads only "To . . . . . . . . . . . . ." It is believed that these 13 dots refer to the 13 letters in Kireyev's name. The pair had a tempestuous relationship during their school days – possibly due to teasing from his schoolmates, Kireyev began to treat Tchaikovsky cruelly, flattering him one moment and mocking him the next. In 1867, 10 years following the composition of the song, Kireyev visited Tchaikovsky in Moscow. Tchaikovsky was happy to see him, but less smitten with him than he had formerly been.

Victor Kraft, 1935 (Photo by Carl Van Vechten)

Aaron Copland to Victor Kraft: El Salón México

Victor Kraft began studying music with Aaron Copland during his teenage years. Although Kraft would eventually turn to a career in photography, he remained a constant in Copland's life. The pair traveled to Mexico together in the fall of 1932 (when Kraft was 17 and Copland 32), and not long after their return, Kraft moved into the composer's Manhattan residence.

Copland dedicated El Salón México to Kraft. Named after a popular dance hall in Mexico City, Copland was determined to create the next España or Bolero, a piece devoid of any pretensions, which can be beloved by all. The orchestral work is a reflection of the Mexican spirit as perceived from the outside eye, suffused with Latin dance rhythms and quotes from Mexican folk music. This musical dedication demonstrates the extent to which Copland was inspired by his travel companion.

Kraft later fathered a son named Jeremy, requesting that Copland be the boy's godfather. After Kraft's death, Copland continued to provide financial support for the boy, even leaving $25,000 in his will to the mother in order to support Jeremy.

Michael Tippett (right) with Wilfred Franks in Spain in 1933

Michael Tippett and Wilfred Franks: String Quartet No.1

Michael Tippett met Wilfred Franks in the spring of 1932 on a train platform in Manchester, introduced through a mutual friend. "Wilf" was unmistakable, wearing a green shirt and green shorts. His personality was marked by what the friend described as "a taxi driver's fund of knowledge, irreverence and humour". Tippett quickly became enamored, and Franks became an embodiment of the sort of freedom that Tippett found elusive. Franks was a Marxist who represented a starkly different outlook on life, and through him, Tippett's understanding of music as a vehicle for social change grew.

In 1934-1935, Tippett wrote his String Quartet No.1, ascribing the piece's beauty to his "deepest, most shattering experience of falling in love", and dedicating it to Wilf. As he described it, "all that love flowed out in the slow movement of my First String Quartet, an unbroken span of lyrical music in which all four instruments sing ardently from start to finish". Tippett revised the work in 1943 after his relationship with Franks had ended, transforming the four-movement version into another with three movements, retaining only the last two of the original score.

Lou Harrison & Bill Colvig, Cabrillo College, 1967

Lou Harrison to Bill Colvig: Music for Bill and Me

Lou Harrison and Bill Colvig met in San Francisco in 1967 after a concert featuring the composer's works. Just weeks later, the pair moved into Harrison's woodland cabin together. They shared many interests, including a deep fascination with and love of non-Western musical traditions. They became particularly interested in the gamelan, a set of pitched percussion instruments from Indonesia. Together, Harrison and Colvig developed and built three "American" gamelans featuring such materials as tin cans and oxygen tanks. Outside of music, the pair were also active members in the Society for Individual Rights, a San Francisco-based organization for protecting gay rights. In 1975, Harrison performed at the very first Santa Cruz Pride celebration, playing one of the gamelans that the couple had built together.

Harrison was happy to live what he called "a life of mountains and music" with Colvig. He composed Music for Bill and Me shortly after the pair's meeting in 1967. The couple remained together for 33 years, until Colvig's death in March 2000.

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After a long wait (the book was sent to print in the earlier part of the year), we are delighted to bring to you EUROHISTORY's latest contribution to royal history studies!

The Royal House of Bavaria (Volume 1) is dedicated to the history of the Wittelsbach dynasty, one of Germany's longest-lasting royal dynasties!

This newest EUROHISTORY production was authored by Arturo E. Beéche and Coryne Hall. Both authors, among them have not only written nearly 30 books, but also published more than a hundred articles inside the pages of today's most prominent royalty magazines and journals: MAJESTY, EUROHISTORY, and Royalty Digest Quarterly. Furthermore, both Ms Hall and Mr Beéche have lectured extensively on royal topics in Europe and America.

The storyline inside this book begins with the Bavarian Succession Crisis of 1777, when for the first time in centuries the dynasties two main thrones were occupied by the same person after centuries of being separated in two lines. Then, the authors bring us back to the very beginning of the dynasty and meticulously go through the centuries during which the Wittelsbachs served as Electors Palatine, Electors of Bavaria, and Counts Palatine. Following this very comprehensive study, the authors allocated separate chapters for each of the Bavarian kingdom's six monarchs (Maximilian I Jospeh, Ludwig I, Maximilian II, Ludwig II, Otto, and Ludwig III). Prince Regent Luitpold and his immediate family are included in the chapter on King Otto, since Luitpold served as his nephews's regent for over a quarter of a century. The last chapter is dedicated to Crown Prince Rupprecht, "the best king Bavaria never had." The book's Epilogue explains the complicated set of circumstances that brought there Jacobite rights to the throne of England and Scotland from the Stuarts to the shoulders of the present Head of House Bavaria, Duke France, and eventually into the House of Liechtenstein.

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Brick House: Living Room and Entry Before & After

One last Before & After to finish up the Brick House! I am so excited to have good people living here. They love the backyard and appreciate all the space. Though it is really weird not going over to work on the Brick House every morning. That has been the hardest to get use to....

Do you remember what the living/dining room looked like before? I didn't! Ha! Going back and looking at these Before pictures is a bit scary! Yikes! I don't remember it looking this bad..... I guess I really had a vision. And I am so glad the house has lived up to the vision!

 Oh those dark walls!

The front entry just looks filthy! At lest this is an after-carpet picture or it would have been worse...

 Let's get back to the pretty photos, shall we? 

It is hard to portray how large and bright this room is. Even on a cloudy day it is bright! Those big picture windows is my favorite feature! And the window seat looking things under each window? Those are radiator covers. They do make great window seats though! The warmest seat in the house during winter!

 From the kitchen doorway looking toward the living room.

The living/dining room needed the lest amount of work. All last summer it was the "store" room for tools and materials. We primed and painted the walls and ceiling; and washed and shellacked the floors. Other then washing the windows that was it!

 The entry needed a little bit more love. Besides needing to remove icky carpet, we also had to get two spots of cat pee to get out. (Our tried and true recipe is Time, Bleach and Nature's Miracle Stain remover. We had spray bottles of bleach and Nature's Miracle in the hall for weeks! Every time arrived and left we would spray the spots down with either bleach of Nature's Miracle. We tried to alternate. After four months there was only a faint whiff left when you got close! And the shellac took care of that.)  And then there was the stairs to deal with..... Read about the Stairs here.

 I know that light fixture isn't original, but it lends a nice touch of elegance to the hall!

Thanks for coming along on this journey with me! As with any journey there is mountains and valleys, but it has been fun! I hope you enjoyed it too! 

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