beautiful disaster

Word for the day: fait accompli.

"An accomplished, presumably irreversable deed or fact."

As in, "Here every delay in the beginning of war operations is regarded as signifying the dancer that foreign powers might interfere. We are urgently advised to proceed without delay and to place before the world a fait accompli."--Austro-Hungarian Ambassador for Berlin, Szogyeny, July 1914.

5 essays in two days. Jac, you rule :)

(p.s. 2 more to go, but I'm so used to writing about WWI that it's getting easier to sound intelligent about it.)

jac was here with you 3/23/2006 06:06:00 pm

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My Destiny
Psalm 46 (NASB)
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;
Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride.

There is river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold.

Come, behold the works of the Lord,
Who has wrought desolations in the earth.
He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariots with fire.
"Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold.