War Diary of Yeugenia Belorusets, Ukraine 2022 The Beginning Air Raids Tense Silence Bomb Shelter An Extinguished City Time to Be Brave “It’s 3:30 p.m. and we’re still alive” A Way of Life that Swallows Everything “The night is still young” A Blemish on the Landscape Illusions Too Tired for the Shelter An Unexpected Gift Rockets Over Kyiv In War, One Thinks Only of War Tactical Retreat The Picture of the Man and the Cat Deceptive Illusion The Houses That Disappeared “Kyiv will be as clean as Berlin” “Risk of injury” The Smell of Burning Forests Here in Kyiv Endless Cannonades Islands of Temporary Calm In the Nerve Center of Catastrophy A Changed City Laughter Returns to Kyiv A City Drowns in Blood “This diary cannot be completed; it can only be interrupted” An Ya’s Ghost Music I was certain this was a dream Everything besides the mushroom was buried in darkness “It’s normal that you don’t understand.” the mushroom said. I had no choice but to trust the mushroom It was not until later, after the sonata had ended and I was stepping into the shower, that I noticed the musky smell on my fingers.” “Can you tell Bowen our town has turned orange?” “I can send you a picture if you like.” “It happened the night the dust landed on the river.” “He fell in and nobody was there to help.” Apparently, Julia hung herself in the middle of the night She must have taken a shower beforehand because when they found her, her hair was frozen through “From afar she looked like a giant icicle.” “I didn’t think she was real.” I wasn’t sleeping at all at night I unfolded the instructions that came with one of the mushroom kits Watch the mushrooms grow Random Entries From R. Crumb’s Dream Journal Dream of Burning Insects Dream of Right-Wing Christians: I am murdered Recurring Travel Anxiety Dream Dream I Will Myself to Shrink in Size Erotic Dream of Patty and Aline Dream of Throwing Snowballs Recurring Dream of Underground Caves Dream of Being Captured by Government Agency Dream of Cruel, Sarcastic Brazilian Man Dream of Double Sex with Aline Same Day: Dream of Zaro’s Death Ray Machine Deam of Playing Old-Time Music with Some Young Men and Boys Dream of Runaway Camel Dream of Assertive Girl at a Party Dream of Miniature Gothic Sculpture Dream of Fucking a Woman Dream of Finding Old Records and Talking to My Mother on the Telephone Dream of Scorpion and Shit Dream of Family of Giants Dream of Advancing Flood Waters Nightmare of Hovering Presence Dream of Flying Saucers and Talking to Aliens Marianne Faithfull You can’t always get what you want As tears go by This little bird Sister morphine Just like a woman First person to say fuck in a mainstream movie The Girl on the Motorcycle Naked Under Leather The Seven Deadly Sins Pirate Jenny Ophelia Florence Nightingale Maria Theresa Alice in Wonderland Irina Palm Memories, Dreams, Reflections Three Penny Opera I Got You Babe Duet with David Bowie Broken English 20 the Century Blues A Secret Life Dangerous Acquaintance(s) Vagabond Ways Easy Come, Easy Go Kissin’ Time: Parental Warning Explicit Content Blazing Away: Explicit Content with no Parental Warning Myths to Live By: Official U.S. Government Booklet 1950 Your chances of surviving an atomic attack are better than you thought Close to an explosion, your chances are one out of ten Beyond a half mile, your chances of survival increase rapidly Injury by radioactivity does not necessarily mean you are doomed to die or be crippled Don’t be misled by wild talk of “super super bombs” Doubling a bomb’s power doesn’t mean doubling the damage it will do Blast and heat are the biggest dangers To protect yourself from blast, lie down in a shielded spot In your house lie down against a wall Outdoors: get next to a solid building To escape temporary blindness, bury your face in your arms Flash burns are a serious cause of injury: shield yourself from the flash Even a little material gives protection from flash burns so be sure to dress properly Radioactivity is the only way besides size in which atomic bombs differ from ordinary ones We know more about radioactivity than we do about colds Injury from radioactivity depends upon the power of the rays and particles, how long you were exposed and much of your body was hit Explosive radioactivity is the most important kind, but it is only for a moment Even canned and bottled foods may be irradiated, but will be safe to sue them Vomiting and diarrhea are the first signs of radioactivity sickness Even if you should get severe radiation sickness you would have a better than even chance of recovery There is little you can do to protect your house from the blast It is better to figure on collapse of the upper floors and to take cover in the basement YOU CAN SURVIVE Aspects of Barthes' Mourning First wedding night. But first mourning night? She would say with relief: the night is finally over In the sentence, “She is no longer suffering.” To what, to whom does she refer? What does the present tense mean? Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic: I’m not mourning. I am suffering. How am I going to manage to live here all alone? And, at the same time, it’s clear there is no other place. Sometimes, very briefly, a blank moment-a kind of numbness- which is not a moment of forgetfulness. That terries me. …henceforth and forever, I am my mother I was not like her, since I did not die (at the same time) as her. The measurement of mourning. Eighteen months for mourning a father, a mother.
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Poetry from Mahbub Alam
For the face of Love I gain the power to fly in the sky The charm that always knits me The glow of sunrise Of threads in a space so sweet Unconsciously where I go and come back No hindrance or bar to cross the Red Only its your face of love Make me so powerful to win the race You stand by me and I like a phoenix revive For a love bird I fight from my birth I die and survive till the last sigh The green always smiles over On the seedlings of the paddy I ride on the cart and reach my home Sing out the song ‘Bohu diner pirit go bondhu Ekey dine vengo na’. Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh 18 June, 2024. Md. Mahbubul Alam is from Bangladesh. His writer name is Mahbub John in Bangladesh. He is a Senior Teacher (English) of Harimohan Government High School, Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh. Chapainawabganj is a district town of Bangladesh. He is an MA in English Literature from Rajshahi College under National University. He has published three books of poems in Bangla. He writes mainly poems but other branches of literature such as prose, article, essay etc. also have been published in national and local newspapers, magazines, little magazines. He has achieved three times Best Teacher Certificate and Crest in National Education Week in the District Wise Competition in Chapainawabganj District. He has gained many literary awards from home and abroad. His English writings have been published in Synchronized Chaos for seven years.
Essay from Mashkhura Usmonova
Effects of mobilephones in society Due to the fact that we live in the age of technology, today many people prefer online communication instead of face-to-face meetings. Firstly, one of the biggest reasons for this is our smartphones and the fact that people spend so much time on social media these days. for example, they waste time reading posts on channels in Telegram groups and as a result they do not have time for other household chores and plans. Secondly, there are mobile phones from adults to young children and parents do not give enough time to their children. As an example, young children watch cartoons or videos on YouTube channels from morning to night this is a leading them to grow up unkind and aggressive. In general, socialize meetings are not popular among people today because of telephones, which in the future may cause psychological diseases such as depression, loneliness, and longing. Usmonova Mashkhura Shukhratovna
Essay from Aziza Saparbaeva (July 15th)
Aziza Saparbaeva, student of the 3rd stage of history education, Urganch State University, Faculty of Socio-Economic Sciences, winner of the state scholarship named after Navoi. The event that happened in the life of Amir Temur and left a scar on him for life took place in Seistan in 1362. At the suggestion of Malik Qutbiddin, governor of Seistan, two friends go to fight against his enemies. During the battle, Amir Temur was seriously injured by a bow and arrow on his right elbow and right leg. As a result, he will be lame for life. Amir Temur remembers this in his "Tuzukoti Temuriy": "On my way to Baktarzamin and Kandahar, I stopped and built a village [2] when I reached the Hirmand [1] river. I stood by that river for several days to rest my soldiers. At that time, about a thousand Turkish and Tajik horsemen from the Garmsir [3] region and their troops joined me. In this way, Garmsir region came under my control. Then I decided to travel to Seistan [4]. When this news reached the governor of Seistan, he sent gifts and greetings through the ambassador and asked for my help: "My enemies oppressed me and took my seven fortresses from my hands. If they cut the hand of the enemy from me, I would supply their soldiers with food for six months.'' After consulting on my own, I decided to march towards Seistan. Seeing that I took five of the seven fortresses captured by the enemy by force and anger, fear fell into the heart of the governor of Seistan, and he took his yesterday's enemies as his friends, and held such a council among themselves: "If Amir Temur stays here as long as I stay, it is certain that the property of Seystan will be lost from our hands", saying that all the Sipah and raiyats of Seystan united and attacked me. Because the governor of Seistan did not keep his promise, I was helpless and started fighting against them. At that moment, a bullet hit my elbow and another shot hit my leg. Even so, I won over them in the end. But I didn't like the climate of that country, so I left there and went to Garmsir again. I stayed in that region for two months until my wounds healed." The Spanish ambassador de Clavijo, who traveled to Samarkand in 1404, wrote that Amir Temur lost many of his troops when he faced the cavalry of Seistan. "They also knocked Temur off his horse and injured his right leg. After that, he became lame for life and got the name Temurlang," writes Claviho. He also says that Amir Temur's right hand was injured, he was paralyzed, and then he lost his finger. Because of these injuries, the Persians called him "Temurlang". Therefore, in Russian and Western sources, his name is given as "Tamerlan", "Tamerlain". 1) Hirmand - the Helmand River in the south of present-day Afghanistan. 2) Land means residence here. 3) Garmsir (Persian - hot country) - adjacent lands of Seistan and Baluchistan. 4) Seistan is a country located in the south-east of present-day Iran and south-west of Afghanistan. In 1872, it was divided between Iran and Afghanistan. The part up to the Helmand River passed to Iran, and east of it to Afghanistan. In the first and second picture, we see the statue of Amir Temur and the state he built.
Poetry from Luis Berriozabal
Into the Valley After Gil Vicente I go out into the valley, out into the valley, I go, where a nightingale sings of lost hope. I go out into the valley, where bitter lemons grow. I go out into the valley where my rosy cheeks have enough of the sun. There is no fruit for my labor. There is no love. I go out into the valley, out into the valley I go, as I sing of false hope. My gentle skin burns. I’m too pale for the sun. I go out into the valley where the nightingale sings the saddest of songs. * 57 Going on 60 I am not only alive and in the present, I am not in the future and the past is gone. My memory is the worst of all. I might as well be dead. I have two years left. I have one toe in the grave. That is the future. I may not have two years left. Who really knows? The present is fleeting. The past was a blur. And I never believed in the fountain of youth. * Moving Around I hide at night in a home by a river of debris and mice. Of Mice and Men, I read that book. I used to love The Moon is Down. Moving around makes me so tired. * Bundle of Dreams I was born and I will die. I will die and I will have dreams. I will meet my grandparents on the other side. My hair will grow long again and I will be young. Isn’t it great? This is one of my dreams. I have a bundle of them. * Words Words betray me. I leave them stranded in retaliation. They get dirty with no one to tend to them. Blank-eyed, they look at me with numb attention. Their false smiles sting. The words convince me to take them back. In a stream of consciousness the words start a poem on the importance of second chances. More poems come out wrapped in barbed wire about America’s wall. I take a mop to the blood on the page. I can’t clean it. The killing has been going on for years. Our life, our lives are fed to the black night in the desert. Off the rails, a would be leader peddles fear to his lot. My vote and my words are my most useful weapon. I take a pen. I write down the story I have to tell. Nobody can stop me. I must keep faith in myself.
Essay from Dr. Reda Abdel Rahim
The royal tombs of Tanis are falling silent!!
Do you see why this important archaeological discovery has not received a share of publicity?
And a luck of Fame!
Perhaps the timing of the disclosure in 1940 was a hindrance to its popularity.
Where most of the countries of the world were participating in another-humanitarian – disclosure:
“The Second World War”!! The world only needed to hear the aircraft shells and the sound of guns.
As for the greatest archaeological discoveries about the tombs of the Kings of the Twenty-First and twenty – second dynasties in San al-Hajar, an event equal in importance-and perhaps surpassing-the discovery of the Tomb of King Tutankhamen in 1922.And the accompanying resounding fame shook the corners of the world. It seems that in 1940, the world did not need more shaking and destruction!
In 1940, the French archaeologist Pierre Montet unveiled the missing “Tanis” after more than twelve years of research and excavation, and also found a complex of royal tombs consisting of three intact burial chambers, which is a rare and amazing discovery.. These tombs contained precious and dazzling funerary collectibles, such as golden masks, coffins made of silver, and elaborately made stone, and were also filled with some other precious items, such as bracelets, necklaces, pendants, tableware, and amulets.. In addition, those tombs were teeming with various relics from statues, vases, jars and others that still testify to the power and wealth of the rulers of that city in that period.. The discoveries of Monte also had other important consequences; one of the Kings of Tanis, the previously unknown king shashang II, was found wearing precious jewels that belonged to the famous King shashang I, whose name is mentioned in the Bible, which prompted Silverman to say: “this proves to you how important the Kings of Tanis were at that time”.
The hill “San al-Hajar” is located at the entrance to the town named after the hill, and administratively belongs to the center and city of Husseiniya, Sharqiya governorate.It is located northeast of the city of Cairo and is about 130 km away from it and about 20 km south of Manzala Lake, and The Hill area is about 3 km north-south, 1.5 km east-west. It was formerly the capital of Egypt during the 21st Dynasty (1078-945 BC).M) for reasons related to the privileged location and the religious conflict that erupted in the city of barramsis, “the village of Tel El Dabaa currently or qantir – the center of Fagus – Sharqiya governorate”.
Tanis enjoys a strategic and vital location because of its supervision of the Tanis branch of the Delta and the possibility of access by ships through Lake Manzala, and the receding water and the drying of the” belozi” branch, which was passing through the city of “barramsis”, the large capital of Egypt before the establishment of “Tanis” led to the migration of that city and at the same time the activity of the Tanis branch led to the prosperity and reconstruction of the city of Tanis.
As for the origin of the name of Tanis as the creator of the stone ; where the Egyptian traveler ( one Ammon), during his famous visit to Pylos, raised the late reign of the Ramesses-he lived during the reign of Ramses Xi (Twentieth Dynasty) – He passed by the city of “ajnet” and from this hieroglyph it turns out that it is a maritime city and a large port and it was mentioned that it was the seat of cymindis without a royal reference to him, which suggests that cymindis was the ruler of Tanis before the foundation of the 21st Dynasty and he is credited with moving the capital from bramses to Tanis .Some Assyrian sources described this city as Sanu Sanu, and the Greek sources of Tanis TANIS, and in the Middle Ages Tanis became a large quarry and was called the Tanis stones, and then finally the stone maker.The men of the French scientific expedition were the first to visit the”stone maker” area in 1799, and recorded and described its apparent effects.
The famous French archaeologist “Mariette” was the first to carry out scientific excavations in four seasons in 1859, 1860, 1861, and then the 1865 season. The second excavator who shed light on the archaeological area was the “Flinders Petrie”who came to the site in 1884.Since the first discoveries, the site of Tanis has been linked to the capital of the Hyksos”oaris” due to the many traces found there dating back to this era.
It was also possible to link this site with “Ramses” after traces of “Ramses II”were found there in large quantities. Some researchers have argued that oaris, Tanis and perramsis are three names of one city. In 1940, the expedition of the University of Strasbourg, headed by the French archaeologist”Monet”, succeeded in revealing the royal tombs of the Pharaohs of the Twenty-First and twenty-second dynasties. The most famous pharaohs who based Tanis include the Pharaohs psosenes I, osorkon II and Shasha naq III.
1-the Tomb of susins I ( 1040 – 993 BC.M)
Symonds-the Twenty-First founder of the dynasty-entrusted his powers before his death to his son psosenes I, who ruled the whole country for seventeen years ( 1040 – 993 BC.His name means “the star shines in the city “and he also took for himself the nickname “Ramses psocenes”, one of the greatest participants in the construction of the temple of Tanis; where he built the wall of the temple. The first”psocenes” ordered that his tomb be built southwest of the temple Sanctuary, between the Great Temple and the brick wall. His tomb consists of:
A well-constructed of limestone, almost square in shape, without its walls of Inscriptions, a passage on the eastern side, two granite stones and two stones were added in a later era, and the tomb is built for the Pharaoh “psosens” and his funeral furniture in Room No. 1, as well as for his wife “death of a star” in Room No. 2. “Monte” 1940 revealed her inscriptions and titles on many of them include a gold mask inlaid with precious stones, a necklace of gold and turquoise, pots and dishes of gold, all in the Egyptian Museum.
2-The Tomb of “oserkun II” (945-712 BC.M)
When “osercon II” took over the reign-the twenty-second dynasty-he was about fifty years old, and he made several important renovations in the temple of Bubastis, also dedicated a compartment in Thebes, and issued his orders for the restoration of the Great Temple in Al-fentin. His tomb consists of:
A granite chamber surrounded by limestone and on the East a chamber opens to Chambers 3, 2 and its current entrance to the West, it happened as a result of internal modifications made in chamber No. 4, which is the chamber where osercon II was buried: a rectangular chamber whose walls were covered with pieces of pink granite stones and blocked its entrance with a large block of granite and a large sarcophagus occupied the chamber.
And this granite sarcophagus was huge. The lid of the coffin was also a large piece of granite stone, taken from one of the statues of King “Ramses II”.The tomb is rich in religious inscriptions that shed light on the religious ideas widespread in Egypt in those periods of belief in reckoning, punishment, the trial of the dead and the journey of the deceased into the other world.
3-the Tomb of shashang III: (945-712 BC.M)
Takelot II – the twenty-second dynasty-was succeeded by his grandson shashang III, who was a young man about eighteen years old. His tomb is characterized by the simplicity of construction:
It consists of a well with a base area of about 2 × 3 M and a funeral chamber with an area of about 3×5 m connected to each other through a narrow corridor about 1 m wide .
The burial chamber was built on two granite sarcophagi. The four walls of the chamber also appeared almost intact, and the inscriptions painted on it were not affected by anything, but it turned out that some of the colors of the inscriptions were still fresh when the tomb was revealed. The four walls of the burial chamber are decorated with engravings and colorful images that address some of the religious themes that we used to see in other royal tombs, such as the trial of the deceased, the repudiation of all sins, the journey of the sun, the procession of the gods, in addition to some other funeral scenes. As for the walls of the well, they were left empty without an inscription or decoration, and the coffin was also found empty.
The San al-Hajar area is the best royal tombs area in the Delta, and it still contains many of its architectural and decorative elements, which can be a tourist attraction. The region can be invested in tourism and culture before it’s too late!!
Short story from Habibullayeva Madinabonu
Last Regret
– Didn’t you wait? Maryam said in a sad tone. – I’m here. I have a good time. Let’s talk more today. After all, you wanted me to stay with you and talk for a long time. You kept calling. I never answered. I’m not good at talking like a human. I did not ask for encouragement. How selfish I have been. I’m sorry, please forgive me.
As the girl lay her head on her mother’s grave with tears in her eyes, she didn’t want to admit that she was useless.
About the author
Habibullayeva Madinabonu Abdurashid’s daughter (Madina Rashid) She was born on July 12, 2007, Torakurgan district, Namangan region. She is currently studying at the Russian language school No. 75 in Chust district. She can communicate in Russian, Turkish, and Kazakh languages.
Chairman of the Youth Wing of the Democratic Party of Justice.
Head of Torakurgan district’s “Girls’ Voice”.
Winner of a medal and certificate from the Association of Double Wing Writers of Kazakhstan.
Writer, author of works, stories and articles.
Winner of Handball and Handball competitions