A long time from Monday, 16 April 2007, when this blog was opened with the post Welcome to the Leipzig Project.
Today, 13 July 2010, the visitor number 50,000 arrived to this blog, your house. I don't know him/her but he/she was transferred here, from WAB corner.
My initial plans are not fully achieved but, I am still on way.
Many thanks to everybody!
Enjoy the Iniesta's goal in the final match of the FIFA World Cup 2010
Lasalle won the HMGS Award for “Best Miniatures Rules” of the year at HISTORICON 2010, one of the larger US wargaming events.
Well done, Sam!
Spain rules the football world, winning the World Cup at long, long last.
It came after an exhausting 1-0 victory in extra time over the Netherlands on Sunday. Two years after winning the European title, the stylish Spaniards did even better.
This was a physical test of attrition that sometimes turned dirty - a finals-record 14 yellow cards were handed out and the Dutch finished with 10 men. In the end, it was Andres Iniesta breaking free in the penalty area, taking a pass from Cesc Fabregas and putting a right-footed shot from 8 yards just past the outstretched arms of goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg with about seven minutes still to play, including injury time.
GO SPAIN!
See the AAR at the main web-page
Wargaming with Napoleonic Miniatures
A scheme, without comments, of the battle as uploaded to Picasa
Spain will play for the World Cup title for the very first time, thanks to Carles Puyol’s goal on a powerful header in the second half Wednesday night. The 1-0 victory was the same score as the European Championship final two years ago, which Spain won to end a 44-year major title drought. Spain has been the best team in Europe — all the world, really — for much of the last four years. It’s lost all of two games since November 2006, one a shocker to Switzerland in the group-stage opener. With all but two of the starting lineup playing for either Barcelona or Real Madrid, the Spanish play with a seamlessness and fluidity that’s almost intuitive. Granted, Spain hasn’t had its usual polish in South Africa, with injuries taking a big toll. Fernando Torres, normally so devastating offensively, is still struggling to recover from knee surgery in April, and was dropped from the starting lineup Wednesday night. Cesc Fabregas played all of two games before the World Cup after breaking a bone in his leg in March. But with the World Cup title so close — not to mention Queen Sofia on hand — the Spanish came through with their best game yet. They dominated possession the entire night, and they peppered Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer so many times that a goal seemed inevitable. Finally, they did.
This is the year of the South Africa Football World Cup. I still remember the apartheid and the fight of Nelson Mandela against the racism. For all of you, "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" a song originally by Eddy Grant, a well-known anti-apartheid reggae anthem from the 1980s, during apartheid. The song was banned by the South African government when it was released.
See the lyrics (from Song traducidas)
Well Jo'anna she runs a country
She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don't care about the rest at all
She's got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo'anna see
How everybody could a live as one
[chorus:]
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come
I hear she make all the golden money
To buy new weapons, any shape of guns
While every mother in black Soweto fears
The killing of another son
Sneakin' across all the neighbours' borders
Now and again having little fun
She doesn't care if the fun and games she play
Is dang'rous to ev'ryone
[chorus]
She's got supporters in high up places
Who turn their heads to the city sun
Jo'anna give them the fancy money
Oh to tempt anyone who'd come
She even knows how to swing opinion
In every magazine and the journals
For every bad move that this Jo'anna makes
They got a good explanation
[chorus]
Even the preacher who works for Jesus
The Archbishop who's a peaceful man
Together say that the freedom fighters
Will overcome the very strong
I wanna know if you're blind Jo'anna
If you wanna hear the sound of drums
Can't you see that the tide is turning
Oh don't make me wait till the morning come
[chorus]
Spanish translation
Bueno Jo’anna dirige un país
Gobierna en Durban y el Transvaal
Hace feliz a un poco de su gente, oh
No le interesa el resto para nada
Tiene un sistema al que le llaman apartheid
Que mantiene a los hermanos sometidos
Pero tal vez la presión hará que Jo’anna pueda ver
Como todos pueden vivir unidos
[Coros:]
Dame esperanzas, Jo’anna
Esperanzas, Jo’anna
Dame esperanzas, Joa’nna
Antes que llegue la mañana
Dame esperanzas, Joa’nna
Esperanzas, Jo’anna
Esperanzas antes que llegue la mañana
He escuchado que hace todo el dinero dorado
Para comprar nuevas armas, cualquier tipo de armas
Mientras que cada madre en el negro Soweto teme
La muerte de otro hijo
Escabulléndose por las fronteras de los vecinos
Ahora y otra vez divirtiéndose un poco
No le importa si la diversión y los juegos que juega
Son peligrosos para todos
[Coros]
Tiene partidarios en altas posiciones
Quienes vuelven la cabeza a a la 'Ciudad del Sol'
Jo’anna les da mucho dinero
Oh, para tentar a cualquiera que venga
Hasta sabe como cambiar la opinión pública
En cada revista y periódico
Por cada mal movimiento que hace esta jo’anna
Ellos tiene una buena explicación
[Coros]
Incluso el predicador que trabaja para Jesús
El arzobispo que es un hombre de paz
Juntos dicen que los luchadores de la libertad
Vencerán al muy fuerte
Quiero saber si es que estás ciega Jo’anna
Si quieres escuchar el sonido de los tambores
No puedes ver que la marea está cambiando
Oh, no me hagas esperar a que llegue mañana
[Coros]
Fight the racism!
This is the newer work of my Argentinian friend Armand d'Arc. This time is the turn of two exotic units.
The 'Dio lo volve' (God want it!) is a 95-men squadron of ultra-catholic volunteers raised by the Pope himself to fight the Turkish Ottomans in the Serengethi War. They are a sort of Crusaders, armed with cuirasses, lance, axes, swords, shields, with a long history going back to the Crusades. This big men riding big horses are a strange anachronism in this horse and musket era. Their uniform is violet with a bishop-like round hat and a cross in the breast and shield.
The 'Caciatore a cheval' (Chasseurs) are a 70-men Neapolitan light cavalry squadron, dressed in green and red brilliant and colorful uniforms, wearing plumed shakos and armed with sabre and carbine.
Both units along the Cuirassiers (still sailing from Europe) form part of the Italian contingent commanded by the Corsican General Sebastiani de la Porta, from Napoleonic fame and a former French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire . He can be seen in the fourth picture, while parading his troops.
David Villa scored in the 83rd minute Saturday to give Spain a 1-0 win over Paraguay and its first-ever spot in the World Cup semifinals. The goal starts in Iniesta and the ball fell to Villa in the area after Pedro Rodriguez hit the post and Villa took one touch before curling a shot in off the far post. Paraguay's defense mostly kept Spain's vaunted attack at bay, and neither team couldn convert a penalty kick. Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas saved a 59th-minute penalty by Oscar Cardozo and Paraguay captain Justo Villar matched him on a retaken shot by Xabi Alonso two minutes later. Paraguay didn't sit back on defense but pressured Spain high to disrupt its slick passing game. Paraguay blocked Spain's first chance in the seventh minute - from Xabi Alonso - before Sergio Ramos nearly headed in from a corner kick. The South Americans swarmed around Spain's area to force turnovers and Cristian Veros headed high in the ninth before Claudio Morel's shot was off two minutes later.
European champion Spain has fielded an unchanged lineup for the third straight game as it attempts to win a World Cup quarterfinal match for the first time against Paraguay. Coach Vicente del Bosque stuck with misfiring striker Fernando Torres up front alongside David Villa, who has scored four of Spain's five goals to be joint-leading scorer in South Africa. The striker's tournament-high fifth goal sets up a semifinal against Germany in Durban on Wednesday. Taken from CBS news
Generallieutenant Kapzevich, commander of the Russian 10th Corps, has saved his heavy baggage train from the vanguard of the French/Saxon VII Corps, commanded by the Général de Division Guilleminot. Düben is now in French hands, but the Russian column is retiring towards the north safety, thanks to a combination of rain, mud and a stubborn defense.
Above we can see the last combat of the day fought under the rain, between the square of the Russian Olonetz Infantry Regiment and the Saxon Hussar Regiment. Despite heavy losses, the Russians were able to stand the cavalry onslaught forcing the Saxons to retire.
Last, a general view of the battlefield with the Russians leaving the battlefield under the protection of their cavalry and artillery, whereas the French/Saxons remain jammed around Düben and the bridge over the Mulde River.
A Russian victory without any doubt!
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