Female farm worker pulling Flax in Yeovil, Somerset 🇬🇧

Dad showing off his skill to the surprise of his little daughter in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺
Circa 1940

"We expected that by the onset of winter, Moscow would fall and Bolshevism would end. A very successful initiative was undertaken—though for some reason it was canceled by the main command—namely, General Mamontov's raid, which gathered several cavalry divisions and, having crossed the Red Front, was moving in the direction of Moscow. I can't quite understand why, but I think that among General Denikin's surroundings there were also Red agents who recalled parts of General Mamontov's forces, leading him to cross back over the Red Front and return. It would have been different if, instead of Denikin, our army had been commanded at that time by General Wrangel.

So, after Shchigry, we continued our movement northward, closer to Moscow, and without any fighting, occupied the town of Livny. In Livny, we stopped to rest, feed the horses, and push forward, as we thought, towards Moscow. Unfortunately, this did not come to pass."

Erasht Nikolaevich Giahintov, head of the mounted reconnaissance team of the 2nd Division of the Markov Artillery Brigade, "Notes of a White Officer."

«Записки белого офицера» представляют собой хронику событий гражданской войны 1919–1920 гг.

Past Times
Zurich in 1963
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The swastika on the Roman Temple at et-Tell.

"Honour your tribe, for they are the wing with which you fly."

"Son of man, if you have no self-respect, do what you will."

"No wise man will be bitten twice from the same den."

"Ignorance is death in life."

"Consult an older man and a younger, then decide for yourself."

"Beware of saying anything of which you may be ashamed."

"He is better to suffer hardship in one's own country than to enjoy ease in a foreign land."

"An unmarried daughter has a broken wing."

"Idle hands are unclean."

"He who lives on expectations dies in poverty."

"When evil befalls you, you will know the value of a brother."

"The best friend is he who changeth not with the changes of time."

"Children are a gift from God."

"Blame not, nor boast, until a year and a half shall have passed away."

"When you are angry be silent."

"The first duty of a host is cheerfulness."

"God loves a cheerful man."

"Lamentation is the weapon of the weak."

"Avarice and faith in God can never live together in the heart of man."

"To every Moses there is a Pharaoh."

"When Fortune brings a great good, she follows it by a great evil."

"Seize a thief before he seizes you."

"Beware of giving up hope in what you earnestly seek."

"When the mind becomes large speech becomes little."

"Be firm after you have been kind."

"He who humbleth himself, God lifteth him up."

"He who respects not himself can have no respect for others."

John Wortabet (1916). Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic. Available at: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33109/pg33109-images.html