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The Independence Day of Indonesia (in Indonesian formally known as Hari Ulang Tahun Kemerdekaan Republik Indonesia shortened "HUT RI", or simply Hari Kemerdekaan, and colloquially referred by the people as Tujuhbelasan, meaning "the Seventeenth") is a national holiday in Indonesia commemorating the anniversary of Indonesia's proclamation of independence on 17 August 1945. [1]
Anwar first read "Aku" at the Jakarta Cultural Centre in July 1943. [1] It was then printed in Pemandangan under the title "Semangat" ("Spirit"); according to Indonesian literary documentarian HB Jassin, this was to avoid censorship and to better promote the nascent independence movement. [2] "
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.
Wang Wei (Traditional Chinese: 王維; Simplified Chinese: 王维, pinyin: Wáng Wéi, 699–761) [1] was a Chinese musician, painter, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty.
In 705, when Li Bai was four years old, his father secretly moved his family to Sichuan, near Chengdu, where he spent his childhood. [17] Currently, there is a monument commemorating this in Zhongba Town , Jiangyou , Sichuan province (the area of the modern province known then as Shu, after a former independent state which had been annexed by ...
Many more served in the same roles under the designations CB-17 and VB-17, respectively. The first of them, designated XC-108, was a B-17E partially stripped of military equipment and outfitted for passengers. It served as a V.I.P. transport for General Douglas MacArthur. A similar conversion was made on a B-17F, designated YC-108.
The Requiem on Convoy PQ-17, Russian novel by Valentin Pikul; Memoirs of Chief Steward Horace Carswell DSM, MM, BEM during Convoy PQ.17; Coxswain Sid Kerslake of armed trawler "Northern Gem" in PQ.17; Convoy PQ.17, a primary source diary and supporting material by Jack Bowman, ERA aboard HMS La Malouine. PQ 17 at Convoyweb; Helgason, Gudmundur.