Was Dante a Guelph or a Ghibelline? In the late 13th century, two major parties controlled Florence: the Black Guelphs who were nominally aligned with the Pope, and the White Guelphs who supported independence for the city-state. When the Guelphs won the struggle for control of Florence (at the 1289 Battle of Campaldino, in which Dante fought), they broke into two further factions: the Whites and the Blacks. Dante became a White Guelph, siding with those who wanted less interference from the Pope in the temporal affairs of the city. The Guelphs supported the papacy, and the Ghibellines supported the Holy Roman Emperor; Dante was a Guelph. However, he was a white Guelph (as opposed to a black Guelph): his group were seen to be unfaithful to the papacy and therefore many of their important figures were exiled from Florence.
ellauri471.html on line 503: 1955 saw the United States welcome West Germany into its alliance, NATO. United States leadership thought that German reunification was important to secure, and they thought rearming West Germany could give them the leverage needed to achieve that goal. The United States and West Germany were alone in this goal however, as The United Kingdom and France did not support the reunification by this time. The United States also wanted Germany to stay aligned with the Western Powers, even if it should just be Western Germany in that case. The United States and other Western Powers first agreed to let West Germany conventionally rearm, but West German leadership would complain about "discrimination" when denied nuclear weapons as part of the rearmament. West Germany would demand tactical nuclear weapons or a general disarmament throughout much of 1956 and 1957. Eisenhower proposed in 1957 that West Germany would get nuclear capable launchers, and the United States would have control over the warheads themselves. In 1958 Konrad Adenauer, the leader of West Germany, would begin work to try to arm West Germany with its own nuclear weapons in 1958. Lotsa trigger happy warheads round again now that practically all WW2 participants are dead.
ellauri476.html on line 356: The Vienna Circle (1920s–1930s) was ideologically split between a left-wing faction (Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, Hans Hahn) that promoted logical empiricism as a tool for social engineering, socialism, and "Red Vienna" reforms, and a more right-leaning or neutralist wing (Moritz Schlick) focused on pure science, epistemology, and individualistic liberalism. While the "Left" aimed to make the Vienna Circle's philosophy a political, socially active movement, the rest of the group was more aligned with traditional, objective, non-political academic research, and some members, like von Mises, leaned further toward a right-wing perspective. No niinpä tietysti. Ludi pelasi taantumuxen tiimissä. von Mises oli varsinainen konna miehexeen.
ellauri490.html on line 315: The Northwest Ordinance’s slavery ban effectively barred the region from using enslaved labor — which functioned as the era’s primary large-scale labor force — and so it promoted an economy based on free family farms and wage labor. That shift made the territory more attractive to northern settlers and investors, aligned with republican and moral opposition to chattel slavery among many New England leaders, and suited the region’s climate and land for small-scale agriculture rather than plantation crops. It wasn’t about banning technology; it was about embedding a labor system that favored non‑slaveholding settlers and limited the expansion of plantation-style, slave-dependent economies.
ellauri498.html on line 480: The founding group, described as resilient and God-fearing families, arrived amid the mass immigration waves of the early 1950s, contributing to national goals of populating underutilized lands and fostering self-reliance through agriculture. Initial settlement focused on reclaiming arab land for crops and livestock, with motivations rooted in pronatalism and religious ideology rather than secular Zionism, distinguishing it from contemporaneous kibbutzim. Rabbi Zimmerman's efforts involved extensive recruitment across camps, underscoring the deliberate selection of settlers aligned with ultra-Orthodox values to ensure communal cohesion.
ellauri499.html on line 197: “Edited” ≠ “reversed meaning” Redaction can change emphasis (e.g., what’s blamed, who gets portrayed sympathetically, how villains are framed), but it rarely flips a story from “Baal is good” to “Baal is bad and Yahweh is bad.” If the editors wanted to defend the Yahweh-only reform program, the stories are likely kept aligned with that.
ellauri502.html on line 315: The Traditional Theological Counter-Argument - A Shift in Perspective: Most historical theologians (like Thomas Aquinas or Augustine) argued that heavenly joy is not dependent on earthly attachments or satisfying every human preference. Alignment with Divine Justice: Traditional teaching suggests that in heaven, human perception is so perfectly aligned with God's justice that the absence of a loved one does not cause sorrow. Instead, souls accept the ultimate reality of moral choices without grief. Actuslly you'll be passing glad that your wife gets what was coming to her.
ellauri507.html on line 361: Conversely, from the perspective of anti-communists, dissidents, and western nations, leaving the USSR was seen as an act of resistance against a repressive, totalitarian system. In that view, writers who stayed and aligned with the Soviet state—like those producing official socialist realism—were viewed as compromising their artistic and moral integrity to support an oppressive government.
xxx/ellauri149.html on line 521: Rockwell denied the Holocaust and believed that Martin Luther King Jr. was a tool for Jewish Communists wanting to rule the white community. He blamed the civil rights movement on the Jews. He regarded Hitler as the White savior of the twentieth century. He viewed black people as a primitive, lethargic race who desired only simple pleasures and a life of irresponsibility and supported the resettlement of all African Americans in a new African state to be funded by the U.S. government. As a supporter of racial segregation, he agreed with and quoted many leaders of the Black nationalism movement such as Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X. In later years, Rockwell became increasingly aligned with other Neo-Nazi groups, leading the World Union of National Socialists.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 608: Young Hemingway vilified James for his choice of themes and characters, but more importantly, he viciously maligned him for the traumatic but obscure accident that had occurred in his youth. Leon Edel has summarized the known facts of the injury as gathered from James´ writings and other sources. The "obscure hurt" was reported by James to have happened at the "same dark hour" of the onset of the Civil War, in other words, May 1861 (Edel, Years 176-77). But actually the causative factor, the fire at West Stables in Newport, occurred on the night of October 28, 1861 (177). James relates that he had jammed himself into "an acute angle between two fences" trying to make "a rusty, quasi-extemporised old engine work" in order to help put out the stable fire. Injured in this attempt, James later provided only incomplete details and stated that the disaster was "intimate, odious, horrid, catastrophe, obscure, and most entirely personal" (175).
xxx/ellauri250.html on line 743: Several of the women who spoke to TIME said that EA’s polyamorous subculture was a key reason why the community had become a hostile environment for women. One woman told TIME she began dating a man who had held significant roles at two EA-aligned organizations while she was still an undergraduate. They met when he was speaking at an EA-affiliated conference, and he invited her out to dinner after she was one of the only students to get his math and probability questions right. He asked how old she was, she recalls, then quickly suggested she join his polyamorous relationship. Shortly after agreeing to date him, “He told me that ‘I could sleep with you on Monday,’ but on Tuesday I’m with this other girl,” she says. “It was this way of being a f—boy but having the moral high ground,” she added. “It’s not a hookup, it’s a poly relationship.” The woman began to feel “like I was being sucked into a cult,” she says.
xxx/ellauri380.html on line 358: The whole world is laughing at Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive, which captured nothing more than a couple patches of trees and trenches? How did the Russians, armed with shovels, defeat the “brave” Ukrainian Nazis armed with NATO weapons? No dear. It is definitely not. The “whole world” does not laugh at an invaded sovereign nazion that for over two years and against all odds has made a mockery out of the supposed "second best" army in the world. Don't pretend you’re aligned with the rest of the world. You are not! There is no "rest of the world" in fact!
xxx/ellauri472.html on line 295: Nyt kun lukee Graham Greenen Salaista asiamiestä 1939 näkee että Len Deighton on sen nolo kopio. Onkohan nää D ja L epsanjalaisia? Bingo! Written in six weeks during 1938 while Greene was fueled by Benzedrine, the book draws on the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) to depict ideological conflicts in Europe on the eve of World War II. the Spanish Civil War was his main inspiration for the book's depiction of a left-leaning, popular revolutionary. The novel’s portrayal of the Spanish Civil War also drew criticism from some readers who felt that Greene’s sympathies were too clearly aligned with the Republican side. Tääkin jamppa D oli harras katoliikki. Greene subtitled the work "An Entertainment," distinguishing it from his more serious Catholic-themed novels.
xxx/ellauri485.html on line 148: Michta has written a number of editorials from a standpoint sympathetic to or aligned with right wing populism.
xxx/ellauri489.html on line 208: Roberto Farinacci and other intellectuals in fascist regimes also promoted literary works aligned with regime ideology.
xxx/ellauri506.html on line 296: Alexander Igorevich Kots (born September 3, 1978) is a prominent Russian journalist, war correspondent, and influential blogger. He is recognized as one of the most visible faces of Russian state-aligned military reporting. Why he is younger than Mikko Alapuro!
xxx/ellauri506.html on line 321: In 2026 Mendel caused severe outrage in Ukraine following a highly controversial, explosive interview with right-wing American commentator Tucker Carlson. During the interview, she made several severe claims that directly aligned her with critics of the Ukrainian government. She labeled her former boss "a dictator" and "the greatest obstacle to peace," repeating unverified personal smears.
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