Independentist associations from Euskal Herria and Catalunya - Gure Esku DagoandAssemblea Nacional Catalana among others - have announced they have started an incredible projectto draw attention to their cry for freedom: they will connect Euskal Herria and Catalunya by lighting up more than 300 Pyrenean summits at the same time. Let’s remember that the Pyrenees are 430km long and connect the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
They’re currently asking for hikers and volunteers to help in this huge project, so if you’re interested you can visit their websites for more info. The event will take place on July 2nd.
Of course some people are already getting nervous, like the President of Aragón - and @minglana ‘s favorite person - Javier Lambán, that has said he “won’t consent any organic or inorganic rubbish in the Pyrenees, as I won’t consent that some ideological or political stravaganzza damages them”.
Between August 24 and September 7, 1937, loyalist Spanish Republican and rebel General Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War fought the Battle of Belchite in and around the town.
After 1939 a new village of Belchite was built adjacent to the ruins of the old , which remain a ghost town as a memorial to the war.
Then Aragorn entered first and the others followed. And there at the door were two guards in the livery of the Citadel: one tall, but the other scarce the height of a boy; and when he saw them he cried aloud in surprise and joy.
‘Strider! How splendid! Do you know, I guessed it was you in the black ships. But they were all shouting corsairs and wouldn’t listen to me. How did you do it?’
Aragorn laughed, and took the hobbit by the hand. ‘Well met indeed!’ he said. ‘But there is not time yet for travellers’ tales.’
But Imrahil said to Éomer: ‘Is it thus that we speak to our kings? Yet maybe he will wear his crown in some other name!’
And Aragorn hearing him, turned and said: ‘Verily, for in the high tongue of old I am Elessar, the Elfstone, and Envinyatar, the Renewer’: and he lifted from his breast the green stone that lay there. ‘But Strider shall be the name of my house, if that be ever established. In the high tongue it will not sound so ill, and Telcontar I will be and all the heirs of my body.’
—JRR Tolkien, The Return of the King, The Houses of Healing
You know how whenever six has an emergency debut they wear a band costume commonly called the emergency shorts? Thats the whole concept. A while back I fell in love with the idea of cosplaying that. While I fully plan to make the leather shorts and band top. A couple of weeks ago when I finally decided my Parr hair I just had to make a closet version. So black shorts+sleeveless top+all my six accesories=a lot of fun.
Master of Affligem [Netherlandish. c. 1480 - c.1520] Philip the Fair and Joan the Mad. c. 1495 - 1506
Maximilian I was supported in his struggle against France by England and Spain; in the latter case, the alliance was to be consolidated with a marriage. Although the widower Maximilian initially wanted to marry a Spanish princess himself, the royal house of Spain expressed a preference for the younger generation. In 1496 there was a double wedding: the children of Ferdinand and Isabella, Joan (Juana) of Castile and Aragon and her brother Don John (Juan), Prince of Asturias, were married to Maximilian’s children Philip and Margaret of Austria.
The marriages were thus not part of some cleverly conceived Habsburg strategy for acquiring the Spanish throne but, rather, a means of strengthening an alliance: the Austrians and the Spanish were to join forces in order to drive the French out of Italy and each take a share of the peninsula for themselves. However, the double wedding was followed by a sequence of strokes of good fortune that favoured the Habsburg cause: not only did Margaret’s new husband Don John die but so did all the other Spanish royal heirs, putting Joanna and her husband Philip first in line for the throne. In 1500, furthermore, they consolidated their claim to the succession by producing a son, the future Emperor Charles V, so that when Philip became King of Castile in 1504, Spain and all its possessions fell into Habsburg hands.
Only a few years later, however, Philip died, after which Joanna is said to have lost her mind – thus going down into history as Joanna the Mad – and was in any case not capable of governing. In 1506 her young son Charles was named as Philip’s successor; his grandfather Maximilian took measures to guarantee that the young boy would indeed one day accede to the throne. So it was that in 1516, as a result of a sequence of accidents, Charles became king in Spain, Naples and Sicily, and the Spanish colonies.- Read more on habsburger.net.
![Master of Affligem [Netherlandish. c. 1480 - c.1520]Philip the Fair and Joan the Mad. c. 1495 - 1506](https://64.media.tumblr.com/8eda8ffc6737882d4ae30c8c348689fc/a12cf2d04ec0e714-34/s1280x1920/edd9320195c2b3dc795aaa567a18d4d1899613eb.png "Master of Affligem [Netherlandish. c. 1480 - c.1520]Philip the Fair and Joan the Mad. c. 1495 - 1506")
