Source: United Nations Women’s Guild
By Dorothy Roigt
There shall be peace on earth,
but not until
All children daily eat their fill,
go warmly against the winter wind
And learn their lessons with a tranquil mind.
And thus released from hunger
fear and need,
Regardless of their color race or creed,
Look upward smiling to the skies.
Their faith in life reflected in their eyes.
The U.S. Army JFK Special Warfare Center and School has released a video called “Knowledge Wins Episode 4 – Great Power Competition – Part 1”
The video starts by asking for a definition of competition, and the answer is…open. There are many different and relative definitions of competition, although in my research so far I’ve found universally that knowledge competes with privacy.
The video starts with this war-time poster encouraging people to gain knowledge:
And that reminded me of two posters below that hinted at war-time issues of privacy, information and knowledge.
This is one of my all-time favorites:
If I remember right, I found this one in Bletchley Park:
In the late 1930s the US government sponsored Works Progress Administration (WPA) developing silk-screen techniques to simplify serial production of colorful posters. The WPA handbook How to Make and Reproduce Posters (1943) promoted poster-making as a democratic activity, declaring “Anyone can make a poster”. Anyone with knowledge…
By Abdukhebir Qadir Erkan
Source: Uighur Poets on Repression and Exile
Building his dwelling in the winds,
gifting the grubs the sun of his skies,
he left for the roads that run dark among letters.
Thirsting for seas that flow from night drops,
living his days outside of the seasons,
sketching his cry in a blossoming chest,
he left his flower with his dark lover.
The buds of his comforting shadows
dug ever deeper in his chest
as he stuttered like a speechless man
through canyons with word-choked memories.*
Now grant him permission
to die as gloriously as a grub.
Let the tongue that darkened as his hair grew white
be a grave in his soul’s ruined temple.
Make a coffin from the blackboard that ate his lungs,
as we mourn him let it be our wake.
—August 3, 2017
Spoiler Alert: Hungarians allegedly threw this enigma machine into a pig sty near the Czech/Polish border. Literally sloppy.
While this is called the G-110, the Crypto Museum has a special page dedicated to the G-111 version of the Enigma, which notably has support for five wheels and a 1929 design for connecting a printer (unique features found also in the 1939 Italian Alpha).