Air Mata Iboe ('"A Mother's Tears") is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) directed and written by Njoo Cheong Seng. Starring Fifi Young, Rd Ismail, Ali Sarosa, and Ali Joego, it follows a mother who raises her children lovingly but is ultimately betrayed by her wealthy eldest sons, who refuse to take her in when she falls on hard times. Unwilling to burden her destitute daughter, she depends on the kindness of strangers. The black-and-white film, billed as a musical extravaganza, features a soundtrack by R. Koesbini, and an eponymous title song written by Njoo. Eleven keroncong songs (a folk style with Portuguese influences) were written by music director R. Koesbini, who also appeared in the film. The last production completed by Fred Young's Majestic Film Company, Air Mata Iboe was released in December 1941, shortly before the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. This film, now possibly lost, received positive reviews. Young retook her role in a remake produced under the same title in 1957.
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1775:
American Revolutionary War: After their loss in the Battle of Great Bridge, British authorities were forced to evacuate from the Colony of Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Great_Bridge
1897:
French actress, journalist and leading suffragette Marguerite Durand founded the feminist newspaper La Fronde. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fronde_(newspaper)
1917:
First World War: Hussein al-Husayni, the Ottoman mayor of Jerusalem, surrendered the city to the British. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jerusalem
1931:
The approval of the Spanish Constitution by the Constituent Cortes paved the way to the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Constitution_of_1931
1979:
A World Health Organization commission of scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, making it the only human infectious disease to date to have been completely eradicated from nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox
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genticide: 1. (rare) The killing of a race or nation of people; the slaughter of an ethnic group; a genocide. 2. (rare) The killing of a kinsman or kinswoman; the murder of a blood relative. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genticide
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Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. --William Wordsworth https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth