Today is The Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War, a public holiday in North Korea. Also known as Armistice Day, this day commemorates the signing of the armistice agreement on July 27th 1953 that brought to an end the fighting in the Korean War – but not the end of the war.
The Korean War began when North Korean military forces, supported by the Soviet Union and China, crossed the border into South Korea on June 25th 1950. The US-backed United Nations gave military support to the South Koreans, turning the conflict into the largest conflict since the second world war.
After three years of devastating bombing raids and a traumatic ground campaign, around three million Koreans – 10% of the overall population – were estimated to have been killed, injured, or missing. Though it was clear that the war had reached a stalemate by the middle of 1951, it took two years of negotiations to reach an armistice.
On July 27th 1953 the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed between China, North Korea, the United States and the United Nations. South Korea never signed the Armistice Agreement due to President Syngman Rhee’s refusal to accept the division of Korea. The armistice is yet to be replaced with a peace treaty, meaning the Korean Peninsula is technically in a state of war.
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I need to teach my facial expressions how to use their inside voice.
I think outside is low on Freon.
Diet Diary, Day 1: I removed all the fattening food from the house. It was delicious.
I need to teach my facial expressions how to use their inside voice.
I think outside is low on Freon.
Them: Listen to your body more. Body: You’re old. And you want ice cream.
It doesn’t matter if the answer to your problems wasn’t at the bottom of that carton of ice cream. The important thing is that you tried.
A productive hour of therapy can be wiped out by one bad driver on the way home.
Husband: There’s a credit card charge for $200 to a store called Petacular. Do you know what that is? *dog walks by in a Statue of Liberty costume* Me: Nope.
My body is not a temple. It’s a Federation Starship with critical hull damage and shields at 0%.
Today is the birthday, in 1944, of Bobbie Gentry, US singer, songwriter, notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material. Gentry rose to international fame with her intriguing Southern Gothic narrative ‘Ode to Billie Joe’ in 1967. The track spent four weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and sold over three million copies all over the world. Her album Fancy brought her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaRacIzZSPo
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