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Q: What song about a little eagle is the widow of a Chernobyl clean-up worker referring to?

TsundokuIn Chernobyl Prayer (or Voices from Chernobyl), the widow of a clean-up worker talks to Svetlana Alexievich about the heroism they believed in before the demise of the Soviet Union and says, At one time, I envied heroes. Those people who had a part in great events, when everything was in the bal...

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One Minute Reviews: Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich
posted on November 01, 2024

After the reactor explosions in Chernobyl on 26 April 1986, Armand Pien, the most popular weatherman in the history of Belgian television, said in one of his weather forecasts that the cloud of radioactive dust that was spreading over much of Europe was not passing over Belgium. Many television viewers were sceptical and it later transpired that the Belgian government had told Armand Pien to ma…

 
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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
10:38
@Bookworm HNQ migrated from Russian SE.
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Q: Announcing the December 2024 – January 2025 topic challenge: Juan Rulfo

Rand al'ThorIn accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month, it is today time to announce the December 2024 – January 2025 topic challenge. Based on the number of votes (+4/-0), the unique t...

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Bookworm
Bookworm
11:42
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Q: Why did Anna Akhmatova use that last name?

Rand al'ThorWhen I heard the name "Anna Akhmatova", I assumed she'd be from Central Asia, with a surname consisting of a typical Muslim name as a root followed by the Russian-style "-ova" ending, similar to the Azerbaijani name Ahmadova but presumably from some other Turkic language rather than Azerbaijani, ...

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Bookworm
Bookworm
12:04
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Q: meaning of "something" in this context

user211842https://vivfortoday.com/relationships/dear-mom/ (I wish you weren’t a stranger. Mark remembers you. He was eight when you passed away. Sometimes I envy the fact that he has his memory to go on. Other times, though, I think I got off lucky. Especially when it comes to Mimi. She married dad a coupl...

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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
17:44
@Bookworm The little eagle is soaring above the Chernobyl HNQ reactor.
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
20:28
Less than a quarter of the authors that have been chosen for our topic challenges were women.
25 of the topic challenges we have accepted so far involved literature in English. That's almost 30%.
 
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Peter Shor
Peter Shor
23:40
@Tsundoku A couple of comments about your comment. First, English is the language that most of us have in common, so books not available in English are probably not very suitable for topic challenges. Second, 19th century (or earlier) women authors are less likely to be translated into English than 19th century (or earlier) male authors, so there are fewer women authors to choose from.
@Tsundoku: and finally, when we choose Jhumpa Lahiri as our topic challenge, will she count as an English or an Italian author?

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