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The successful Jong Batak chess club continued to compete for several years after the dissolution of the parent organization.. Amir Sjarifoeddin in 1947. Although the organization was short-lived, many of the members and leaders of Jong Batak went on to become influential in the Indonesian nationalist movement and in politics after Indonesia gained its independence in the 1940s.
Based on witness information, Oto is believed to have been murdered on a beach in Mauk District, Tangerang Regency in Banten (formerly West Java).He was abducted by a group called "The Black Troop" (Indonesian: Laskar Hitam), who killed him and dumped his body into the sea; the body was never found.
Collins, J.T. 2000. Negeri dan bahasa: Sempadan politik, sempadan linguistik. In Di sekitar konsep negeri, edited by Daniel Perret, pp. 75–97. Kuala Lumpur: Kementerian Kebudayaan, Kesenian dan Pelancongan Malaysia, École française d’ Extrême-Orient, Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Journal articles
An anecdote [1] [2] is "a story with a point", [3] such as to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative or to characterize by delineating a specific quirk or trait.
Russian political jokes are a part of Russian humour and can be grouped into the major time periods: Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.In the Soviet period political jokes were a form of social protest, mocking and criticising leaders, the system and its ideology, myths and rites. [1]
Proto-Malayic is the language believed to have existed in prehistoric times, spoken by the early Austronesian settlers in the region. Its ancestor, the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language that derived from Proto-Austronesian, began to break up by at least 2000 BCE as a result possibly by the southward expansion of Austronesian peoples into the Philippines, Borneo, Maluku and Sulawesi from the ...
Jessie Coulson, in the introduction to a 1966 Penguin publication that includes the story, states of "A Nasty Story": Its theme is the terrible gulf between a man's idea of himself, his ideals, and his motives, and what they prove to be in the harsh light of reality.
Poruchik (First Lieutenant) Dmitry Rzhevsky (Sometimes spelled Rzhevskiy) of the jokes is a cavalry officer, a straightforward, unsophisticated, and innocently rude military type whose rank and standing nevertheless gain him entrance into high society.