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A member of the Jerusalem Armenian scouts marches past Palestinian security, during the welcome ceremony at Manger Square by the Church of Nativity, as the Armenian community of Jerusalem celebrates Christmas in Bethlehem, West Bank, on January 18, 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90
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An Armenian woman prays at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for the Sunday morning mass in Jerusalem’s Old City, on January 10, 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90
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Armenian priests and seminar students attend a prayer welcoming the New Year, at midnight, in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, on January 13, 2016, according to the old Orthodox calendar. Photos by Hadas Parush/Flash90
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Tune into Horizon TV tonight at 7pm, I’ll be discussing my new film Dead on Arrival which will be screening for one night only this Saturday night at The Arpa International Film Festival (tickets DOAfilm.com). Watch the interview on Charter 387, Digital Antena 10.3, www.horizonatv.com or YouTube.com/HorizonArmenianTV. **Note this interview will be in Armenian @DOAfilm @arpafilmfestival @hboya @arawoland @avojohn #film #actor #interview #tv #onset #setlife #bts #armenian #losangeles #la #filmfestival #hollywood #hye #armenians #littlearmenia #glendale #burbank #thevalley #cali #news #imdb
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Soghomon Tehlirian (1896-1960), Talaat’s assassin, pictured in 1921.
March 15 1921, Berlin–The day after Turkey left the war, much of the Young Turk leadership, including Talaat, Djemal, and Enver Pasha, fled Constantinople with German help. In 1919, courts-martial established under Allied pressure in Constantinople sentenced them to death in absentia. Djemal had thence gone to Afghanistan and Enver to Moscow, but Talaat had remained in Berlin, and German authorities had no plans to extradite him to Turkey.
The Armenian nationalist Dashnaks decided to carry out justice for the Armenian Genocide themselves, and ordered assassinations of the leading Young Turks and other major figures deemed responsible for the genocide. On March 15, Soghomon Tehlirian shot Talaat as he exited his house in Charlottenburg. He did not attempt to flee the scene, and was promptly arrested.
At his trial, which included such witnesses as Liman von Sanders, Tehlirian testified:
I do not consider myself guilty because my conscience is clear…I have killed a man. But I am not a murderer.
After an hour’s deliberation, the jury acquitted him.
Sources include: Raymond Kévorkian, The Armenian Genocide.
Armenia Fashion Week: Tamzara by the Teryan Cultural Center in the Megerian Carpet showroom
Բարձրադիր գյուղերում ձնհալից հետո անասուններին «սար» են տանում՝ գյուղի մոտակայքում գտնվող արոտավայր։ Լոռու մարզի Շնող գյուղի «սար»-ը Մեծ Ուրթատեղն է, գյուղից հեռու է մոտ 15 կմ։ Առաջ ամռան ամիսներին գյուղացիներն ամբողջ ընտանիքով էին բարձրանում Մեծ Ուրթատեղ, այժմ հիմնականում ընտանիքի ավագ անդամներն են այդ գործն անում, մնացածը գյուղի աշխատանքներով են զբաղված, պարբերաբար գնում են Մեծ Ուրթատեղ՝ ուտելիք տանելու և խոտհունձի համար։ Շնողցի երեխաներից շատերի ամառային արձակուրդներն անցկացնում են այնտեղ։
«Մեծ Ուրթատեղ»[Mets Ourtategh] (“Great Ourtategh”) by Նարեկ Ալեքսանյան (Narek Alek’sanyan) – village life in Lori, Armenia
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Armenia Fashion Week: Some interesting recipes and products:
1. PERFUMED COMPOSITION “AROMA OF PARADISE - Tested during centuries in the sphere of Armenian folk medicine this recipe of incomparable aroma contains the essential oils of 40 species of medicinal plants. It will introduce harmony and cheerfulness in your life.
Breathing this unique aroma will help you restoring emotional and mental equilibrium, it will bring you good mood and, according to the definition of medieval physicians, “You will feel the aroma of Paradise”.2. Beauty oil “Vordan karmir” (Cochineal) - In ancient times this magic oil was used by the noble Armenian women to preserve their beauty and youth. It is prepared according to ancient Armenian medical recipes, and contains cochineal from Ararat Valley and essential oil of herbs grown in Armenia.
“VORDAN KARMIR” has remarkable medicinal and restorative properties. It eliminates the signs of ageing, refreshes and maintains the resilience of the skin and softens it. The Beauty Oil is provided for the face skin care, particularly around eyes.
Apply it to the cleaned skin.3. ROYAL ELIXIR - The Royal balsamic elixir is prepared in accordance with medieval Armenian traditional and encrypted medical recipes and special distillation technology. In the Middle Ages this elixir was used by kings and was proved to give them youthfulness and zest.
As a result of long studies and researches, the elixir’s recipe was discovered and decoded by Deacon Armen Sahakyan, PH.D., phyto-therapist and senior researcher at the Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, the Matenadaran of Yerevan, Armenia.
In the past it was prepared and kept in monasteries, with special rites accompanied by prayers. Currently the elixir is prepared at the Matenadaran and preserved in oak barrels. According to ancient traditions barrels are then transported to the “Hermit Caves” in the region of Vayots Dzor where monks realize Church rites, accompanying them with healing prayers and sacred chants.
The ceremony of collecting and harvesting of the rare mountainous herbs takes place according to the way described in manuscripts, on specific lunar days, which fortifies the elixir’s strength, aroma and flavor.
Contents: The elixir is prepared from the Armenian hawthorn fruits, extracts of 54 aromatic herbs, roots and flowers, including Mastica mutica, Herba Ziziphorae, Rhizoma Calami, Radix Nardostachyos, Flores Cephalariae, Semen Myristicae, Fructus Cubebae, Stigmata Croci, Rhizoma Iridis, Folia Melissae, Herba Majoranae, Flores Xeranthemi, Folia Myrti, Hermit Herb, Cochineal from Ararat Valley. It contains also natural mountain honey. The preparation of the elixir lasts three years.
Benefits: Since ancient times, the Elixir is well known for its healing and strengthening action. The Elixir stimulates the immune system, improves blood circulation, as well as respiratory, digestive and nervous systems’ functions. It also contributes to overcoming fatigue, feelings of anxiety and depression. According to medieval physicians, it “heals the heart and makes the spirit happy”.
It is also recommended for elderly people as preventive maintenance from risk of strokes and heart attacks. In case of senile sclerosis it improves memory.
Drink 5-10 ml before eating.
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“Strength must build up, not destroy.
It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker.
Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death.
I can lift the heaviest weights, but I can not take the responsibility off my shoulders.
Because the way we use our strength defines our fate.
What traces will I leave on my path into the future,
Do we really have to kill in order to live?
My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness.
My strength needs no victims.
My strength is my compassion.”
-Patrik Baboumian
Armenianvegan strongman competitor, strength athlete and animal rights activist. Patrik Baboumian is one of the worlds strongest men and holds several world records.
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Bikers Sylvia Leimgruber and Susanne Huth are exploring very beautiful country in the Caucasus - Armenia. This film tells us about Armenia’s nature, wildlife, ecotourism opportunities, Armenian hospitality and culture.
More than twenty years WWF is helping to protect Caucasus natural regions under threat from people and to make these areas available to the public for sustainable tourism.
Pope Francis and Catholicos KarekinII release dovesat the Khor Virap monastery towards Mount Ararat in Armenia.
and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. - Genesis 8:11
So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dovefrom the ark. The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noahknew that the water was abated from the earth. Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she did not return to him again. - Genesis 8:11
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On 28 May 1919, on the first anniversary of the Republic of Armenia, the government of the newly founded country symbolically declared the union of EasternandWesternArmenia, the latter of which was still under the full control of the Turks. Alexander Khatisian, the Armenian Prime Minister, read the declaration:
”To restore the integrity of Armenia and to secure the complete freedom and prosperity of its people, the Government of Armenia, abiding by the solid will and desire of the entire Armenian people, declares that from this day forward the separated parts of Armenia are everlastingly combined as an independent political entity.
Now in promulgating this act of unification and independence of the ancestral Armenian lands located in Transcaucasia and the Ottoman Empire, the Government of Armenia declares that the political system of United Armenia is a democratic republic and that it has become the Government of the United Republic of Armenia.
Thus, the people of Armenia are henceforth the supreme lord and master of their consolidated fatherland, and the Parliament and Government of Armenia stand as the supreme legislative and executive authority conjoining the free people of United Armenia”.
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We are few, but we are called Armenians.
We do not put ourselves above anyone.
Simply our fortune has just been so different.
Simply we have just shed too much blood.
Simply in our lives of centuries long.
When we were many and when we were strong.
Even then we did not oppress any nation.
See, centuries have come and centuries have passed,
yet over no one have we become tyrants.
If we have enslaved, only with our eyes.
And if we have ruled, only with our books.
If we have prevailed, only with our talents.
And if we have ever oppressed,
it has only been with our wounds.
Մենք քիչ ենք‚ սակայն մեզ հայ են ասում by Paruyr SevakpartII
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Armenian girl with identification scaring on chest and face, 1919.
Credit: Underwood & Underwood/Corbis
In the 1920’s thousands of Armenian girls and women managed to escape the Armenian Genocide by fleeing to Syria. Armenian girls were kept in slavery and forced into prostitution. In order to identify them and prevent their escape, their Turkish pimps tattooed their face, arms and chest.
The girl in the photo had just been rescued from a Turkish house and was cared for by the Y.W.C.A workers at Aleppo.
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Faces of political demonstration
Portraits made at one of the Armenian electional meetings of opposition.
Political corruption in Armenia is a widespread and growing problem in Armenian society. Armenia is facing problems by being bullied into decisions by the Russian federation. Armenia is often described as the country in exile as its borders are one of the most closed in the world. Turkey and Azerbaijan lead an aggressive genocidal policy towards Armenia backed by our northern neighboring country Georgia as their ally. Armenia has also faced in the past hundred years Genocide, Invasion by Soviet, Multiple massacres by the Azeri and Soviet regime. Economic, cultural and political abuse by Soviet, Collapse of the Soviet Union, earthquake, war with neighboring Azerbaijan, a decreasing population and an inability to maintain a democratic society. This only the past hundred years, beforehand Armenia and Armenians were heavily abused, neglected, raped, mistreated and persecuted by Ottomans, Seljuk’s, Turks, Kurds, Arabs and have had from less to none freedom both in a political and cultural, spiritual and individual sense in the one thousand years
Photographs taken by the very talented Suren Manvelyan
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Book Illustrations From The Daredevils Of Sassoun: Part II
TheArmenian epic Daredevils of Sassoun recounts the story of David of Sassoun, a defiant and self-reliant youth, who by the grace of God defends his homeland in an unequal duel against the evil. The epic falls within the tradition of heroic folktales that dramatize and voice the deepest sentiments and aspirations of a nation. The epic is told in a lyrical voice with rhythmic enunciation, while separate cantos are sung in a rhyming poetic style. It is performed annually on the first Saturday of October (Epic Day holiday in some villages), during weddings, birthdays, christenings and major national cultural events. Usually the epos teller sits, wearing national costume and is accompanied on the duduk, a woodwind instrument. The epic-telling art has no gender, age or professional limitations. It is transmitted through families as a vocation, most strongly in rural communities with close links to folklore culture. There are 160 variants. Performances nowadays last up to two hours with the epic narrated in parts. It is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Armenian folklore, functioning as an encyclopaedia and repository of the entire range of knowledge about the heritage of Armenian people, their religion, mythology, philosophy, cosmology, customs and ethics.
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I was recently inspired to write a song for the people of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh). These people have lived on those lands for thousands of years. They have struggle but also great beauty written on their forheads. The whimsical appropriation of land by an empire (Stalin) placed them under Azerbaijan. They have since gained their independence and have lived a prosperous existence for the last 20 or so years. I do not believe in wars and ultimately borders but i deeply believe in self determination and life without oppression. Therefor it is time for the world to recognize them as the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh). - Serj Tankian
Translated Lyrics (English)
We’ve always lived on these lands,
Reaped and Harvested these fields,
Generations sprung from your rivers,
Children born from your mountains,
The public mask of tradition,
The struggle for liberation or death,
The enemy’s gaze at your terrain,
Our smiles at your bosom,
At your bottomless will.
We’re going to sing with our fists
With the tricolor flag of justice,
Humanitarian love of peace
With the holy blessing of a child’s face,
We are going to prevail with culture
We are going to prevail with culture
We are going to prevail by being Armenian.
Իվետա Մուկուչյան
Iveta Mukuchyan
Armenian singer, songwriter, model and actress from the Armenian diaspora. She will represent Armenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song “LoveWave”.
Iveta Mukuchyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1986 . When she was five years old, her family moved to Germany where she was educated, she specialised as a linguist. She returned to Armenia in 2009 and started studying jazz-vocal at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. It was there that she realised that music is her greatest passion.
In 2010, Mukuchyan received the Discovery of the Year award at the Armenia Awards, which was held in Moscow, Russia. In 2012 Iveta participated on the second season of The Voice of Germany song contest. Mukuchyan was the winning contestant with the song "Many Rivers to Cross". In December 2012, El Style named her “Sexiest Armenian” and featured her on the magazine’s cover.
Iveta Mukuchyan was chosen for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. The decision made by the Public Television Company of Armenia was announced in October last year. After that an open call for submissions was launched to find the best possible song for Stockholm, and in the end, LoveWave was chosen, with music written by Lilith Navasardyan and Levon Navasardyan, and lyrics by Iveta Mukuchyan herself and Stephanie Crutchfield.
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TheArmenians of Simpsons
The Simpons is a award winning American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television, and many aspects of the human condition.
The Simpsons has been running for 27 years and features a small number of unexpected Armenian characters.
Seymour Skinner, formerly known as Armen Tamzarian, is the principal of Springfield Elementary School, and a stereotypical educational bureaucrat. Seymour is ethnically Armenian, the name “Armen Tamzarian” would suggest he is from Eastern Armenian heritage. In the episode “The Principal and the Pauper”, it was revealed that Skinner is actually Armen Tamzarian. Tamzarian was a troubled orphan until he joined the Army and was befriended by Sgt. Skinner, whom he came to idolize. Believing himself responsible for the real Skinner being killed, he returned to Springfield to tell Skinner’s mother, but she mistook him for Seymour, and he followed the true Skinner’s dream of becoming a school principal.
Moe Szyslak also known as Moe the Bartender, is the owner and bartender of “Moe’s Tavern”, a Springfield bar frequented by Homer and his friends. Moe is portrayed as often irritable and rude to all except his bar friends Homer, Lenny, and Carl, whom he sometimes treats as respected customers. His easy-to-lose harsh temper usually turns down women and finding a girlfriend for Moe has therefore been a running joke. In the episode entitled “Lisa Goes Gaga,” Moe said that he was “Half monster, half Armenian." Moe had previously hinted at being Armenian in "Judge Me Tender” (2010), claiming that ArmenianIdol is his favorite show.
Dr. Egoyan is an Armenian American doctor who works at a Euthanasia Clinic. He kills off people by connecting them to a diePod (a big iPod), then asking them how they want to be killed (Instant Death/Slow Painful Death/Megadeath) He may be based on real Armenian American doctor Jack Kevorkian, who also helped assist people wishing to undergo suicide.
Chuck Garabedian once held a Mega-Savings Seminar inSpringfield that the Simpsons attended. Chuck promotes extreme frugality, going so far as to steal the Simpsons’ uneaten plankton from their trash. He has a West Armenian last name and is listed as an “Armenian Characters” by the Simpsons Wikia.
Armenians form a unique part of American history, the show has been running for 27 years and there are of course a lot other Armenian references, but these are the most notable characters. All of them are confirmed Armenian by the Simpsons Wikia.
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Armenia, Armenians and our Armenian brothers and sisters in Artsakh, although headed into a brighter future are constantly reminded of the bleak and dark past. Sometimes the present seems to resemble the past all too well. One thing that is most certainly the same is the fire in the people of Artsakh that burns for freedom. And that will never change, or be broken.
Photographs by Giorgi Tsagareli of Armenians in Artsakh(Nagorno-Karabakh)
1.Protest meeting, with local police on the Armenian citizens’ side, Stepanakert, 1989.
2. Armenian school, set-up by an Armenian couple from Lebanon – Shusha, 1994.
3.Funeral of an Armenian soldier – Stepanakert, 1994.
4.Boy with a toy gun in a ruined building – Stepanakert, 1994.
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Նահապետ Քուչակ
Nahapet Kuchak
Armenian medieval poet. One of the first bards of the Caucasus. Kuchak is one of the brightest figures in the medieval Armenian lyrical poetry
A memorial manuscript tells us that Nahapet Kuchak was born in the Kharakonis village near the city of Van. He later married a women named Tangiatun. The poet lived his entire life near the Lake Van area until his death in 1592. Kuchak was buried in the cemetery of Kharakonis St. Theodoros Church and his grave became pilgrimage site.
Kuchak wrote airens (հայրեն) Armenian writing style of songs consisting of quatrains in which each line has fifteen syllables and is divided by a caesura into seven and eight syllables. He brought this ancient form of Armenian verse to its pinnacle. Most of his airens are concerned with love—earthly and free from any dogmas. But the poet saw the people’s suffering and social inequality, grieved for the Armenian exiles (the “airens of wandering”), and philosophically considered the events and fates of men (the “airens of meditation”). Democratic and humanistic in its essence, antifeudal in its orientation, the poetry of Kuchak was a challenge to medieval dogmatism. By later poets, the hayrens of Kuchak have been praised as works of true lyricism and great individual creativity.
“My soul left my body,
I sat down to lament:
‘My soul, if you leave me
my life is spent!’
And my soul replied:
‘Where is your wisdom, pray?
When a house is collapsing
why should its master stay?’
Some of his work can be heard beautifully sung by Lilit Danelian. The album is a collection of musical pieces inspired by Nahapet Kuchak’s Hayrens.
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The month of March has begun and with it marks the end of winter. Life will yet again prevail and find a way. Let us celebrate this years winter in Armenia with beautiful photography by the amazing Suren Manvelyan and with the poem ‘The Snow’ by the great Paruyr Sevak.
I love the snow,
when it falls down from the invisible sky
down to the sidewalks.
And swiftly, slowly there you go to wander.
Without knowing yourself, you go on to dream.
That, in life, is noble and flawless.
Սիրում եմ ես ձյունը,
Երբ որ նա իջնում է
Անտես երկինքներից այս մայթերին,
Եվ մեծաքա՜յլ , դանդա՜ղ դու շրջում ես,
Ինքդ էլ չիմանալով անրջում ես Այն,
ինչ կյանքում վեհ է և անթերի:
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