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Gee Wines! Congratulations!

Down House: Gee & Adrian Play Chess – Gee Wins! (7.3.2026)

Whilst visiting the Games Room of Down House – Kai-Lin played with the dinosaurs and the globe – whilst Mei-An watch myself and Gee play chess on a huge set of pieces and large board! Mei-An filmed and photographed whilst the game ebbed and flowed. I started really strongly – but made a poor move that sacrificed my Queen unnecessarily – Ge quite rightly pounced – turned the game in her favoured – and wiped the board with me. It was a great and explosive match and I definitely went-out on my shield! We try and play each other at least once a week to keep our thought processes subtle and sharp. I find the processes of intense thought relieves the fatigue my academic work often induces,

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Nadia Lauricella, the Sicilian Ironwoman

Italy: The Life-Story of Nadia Lauricella [“Iron-Nadia”]! (12.6.2025)

I believe that everyone must play an active role in their own reality: only in this way can institutions be brought closer to the real needs of citizens, especially in terms of disability. For a disabled person sometimes a step is a problem, a road with potholes, the lack of traffic lights with acoustic signals… Therefore, it is the duty of every citizen to commit ourselves to achieving a truly inclusive society, where everyone’s needs are taken into consideration by those involved in urban planning, architecture and social policies.

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Dan Halutz: Israel’s “Accumulated Deterioration”! (23.10.2023)

Seventeen-years have passed since a Regular Army numbered no less than a million, between conscripts and reserves, and possessed the most powerful air and surface-to-air defence weapons, the finest armour, the most insidious intelligence apparatus, and the most modern weapons and means of communication. Behind it were the “greatest” countries and all the world’s technology at its disposal, all of that, and it did not learn from its mistakes! A war over only 79 kilometres with a small armed group whose greatest military weapon at the time was the Kornet anti-tank missile, accompanied by a set of tactics, deceptions, and camouflage methods.

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