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The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work", and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel.

The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by the publishing house Scribner's. A year later, the London publishing house Jonathan Cape published the novel with the title of Fiesta. Since then it has been continuously in print.
Hemingway began writing the novel on his birthday (21 July) in 1925, finishing the draft manuscript barely two months later in September. After setting aside the manuscript for a short period, he worked on revisions during the winter of 1926.

The basis for the novel was Hemingway's 1925 trip to Spain. The setting was unique and memorable, showing the seedy café life in Paris, and the excitement of the Pamplona festival, with a middle section devoted to descriptions of a fishing trip in the Pyrenees. Equally unique was Hemingway's spare writing style, combined with his restrained use of description to convey characterizations and action, which became known as the Iceberg Theory.

On the surface the novel is a love story between the protagonist Jake Barnes—a man whose war wound has made him impotent—and the promiscuous divorcée Lady Brett Ashley. Brett's affair with Robert Cohn causes Jake to be upset and break off his friendship with Cohn; her seduction of the 19-year-old matador Romero causes Jake to lose his good reputation among the Spaniards in Pamplona. The novel is a roman à clef; the characters are based on real people and the action is based on real events.

GEN. ARTEMIO RICARTE VISITS MABALACAT, APPEALS FOR JAPANESE COOPERATION
Gen. Artemio Ricarte, (b. 20 Oct. 1866/ d. 31 July 1945) was a general of the Philippine Revolution who fought against Spain and America. He never pledged allegiance to the U.S., so he self-exiled himself in Japan, where he continued to hope for Philippine independence.

In 1942, when Japan's military forces occupied Manila, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo asked Ricarte to return to the Philippines to help maintain peace and order. Ricarte agreed, but in return, he asked Tojo to give his country its real independence from American rule, which the minister promised.

In June 1943, the 78 year old veteran Ricarte returned to the Philippines and went on a campaign tour starting in Manila, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija and Pampanga. He arrived in Mabalacat on June 16 and spoke to its citizens urging cooperation with Japan because, as he told the crowd, “I am absolutely convinced of Japan's good faith in her protestation of love for the Filipino people, which she has repeatedly demonstrated even in the course of the present war, and in the sincerity of her promise of independence."

The thousands who heard him were deeply impressed by the emotional plea of the general who had fought against 2 colonizers in the past.Aside from Mabalacat, the general went to Angeles, San Fernando, Mexico, Floridablanca and Guagua, sending the same message to Kapampangans.

In 1943, Japan nominally granted the Philippines “independence” when Second "Republic of the Philippines" was established, which in reality was only a Japanese puppet state.

𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗠𝗠𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 🔥

“Flammable” and “inflammable” may seem like opposites, but both mean that something can catch fire easily and burn rapidly.

Examples of inflammable materials include gasoline, alcohol, kerosene, acetone, propane, paper, dry leaves, and certain cleaning solvents.

Although the prefix in- often means “not” (as in inactive or inaccurate), in inflammable it actually means “to cause to be,” similar to words like indent or indebted.

𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 & 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 – 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗿𝘆

For over 2,500 years, the power in Persia, now Iran has stood face to face with the West.

First against Greece.
Then against Rome.
Today, against the United States.

Empires changed. Borders shifted. Weapons evolved.
But the struggle for influence in the Middle East never truly disappeared.

From Marathon to Mesopotamia… from Roman legions to modern sanctions, the rivalry echoes through history.

Is today’s tension just modern politics or the continuation of an ancient geopolitical story?

Amid concerns that Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) sites could become potential targets, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) reassured the public on Tuesday that there is no threat to the country from Iran’s missile capabilities, stressing that the ongoing hostilities remain confined to the Middle East. https://tinyurl.com/5n8hryrr | via ONE News