Today is Peace Day, a public holiday in Angola. Día da Paz, the Day of Peace and Reconciliation commemorates the end of the Angolan Civil War on this day in 2002.
Independence from Portugal came to Angola in 1975. Two guerrilla groups had been instrumental in the armed struggle against the Portuguese colonization – the communist People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Almost immediately after independence, a power struggle between the two groups led to the Angolan Civil War. The MPLA seized power in the capital Luanda. With only a few interludes in the fighting, the war was to last 27 years. The conflict is estimated to have cost the lives of more than 500,000 civilians with over a million being displaced.
We don’t need no stinking math!
Bada Bing!
Too many birthdays can kill you.
Senior bumper sticker…I’m speeding because I have to get there before I forget where I’m going.
Tough day on Facebook. I still don’t know what you’re supposed to comment under a photo of a new baby, but I’ve learned it isn’t ‘Yikes!’.
I’m not lazy. I’m in my energy saving mode.
If everybody in the world held hands around the equator, most of them would drown.
Did you know that after all these years, the swimming pool on Titanic is still filled with water?
Everything on earth is either a potato or not a potato.
If you’re defusing a bomb, you’re either right, or it’s not your problem anymore
If I had a nickel for every time I didn’t know what was going on, I’d probably wonder where all the nickels came from.
SIGNZZZZ
Lots of birthdays today including, in 1948, Pick Withers, drummer, with English rock group Dire Straits who played on their first four albums, which included hit singles ‘Sultans of Swing,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Private Investigations’. Withers also played drums on Bob Dylan’s 1979 album Slow Train Coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ffIJ7ZO4U
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