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The "Torenza" story may have been borrowed from the 1954 urban legend of the "Man from Taured," a supposed traveller with a passport from a fictional nation who vanished from custody. The Torenza woman's case also bears resemblance to the real 1959 case of John Zegrus, a conman who forged passports from fake countries like "Tuarid" to scam banks.
As AI use gains pace across the globe, it is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate fact from fiction. Videos created using the latest AI tools claim to show - often convincingly - that an event or accident has taken place.
Last month, a disturbing video showed a marine trainer named "Jessica Radcliffe" being fatally attacked by an orca, also known as the killer whale, during a live show.
Despite being shared widely, there is no credible evidence to support the claim that a marine trainer named Jessica Radcliffe was attacked by a killer whale. Authorities, marine parks and established news outlets found no record of her existence or the incident.
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Truth Behind The Viral Torenza Passport Woman Video
A video depicting a woman arriving at the John F Kennedy (JFK) International Airport, USA from Tokyo with a passport from "Torenza," a nonexistent country, has been circulating widely on social media. First posted on TikTok and later on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this month, the bizarre video shows the woman arriving at the immigration counter with Torenza's passport and explaining its location to the confused officers.
The incident led to wild theories about parallel dimensions, time travel and government cover-ups. However, as it turns out, the video is an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated fiction.
No statement corroborating such an incident has been released by JFK authorities, US Customs and Border Protection, or any credible news outlet. No official reports and no passenger records further highlight that the video may have been conjured by someone hoping to receive a quick payout online.
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A Wreath for Udomo - Wikipedia
A Wreath for Udomo is a 1956 novel by the South African novelist Peter Abrahams. The novel follows a London-educated black African, Michael Udomo, who returns to Africa to become a revolutionary leader in the fictional country of Panafrica and is eventually martyred. The novel explores a revolutionary politics
A Wreath for Udomo
Front Cover
Peter Abrahams
Faber & Faber, 1956 - Africa - 309 pages
"The white man was generally considered the chief hurdle to African freedom by the young revolutionaries exiled to England. But when Udomo, whose fire and drive seemed to fit him to be the one to go out to Queensland to lead revolution, is himself the leader he finds there are two other enemies,- poverty and the traditions of his people. Udomo- back in London- had betrayed the white woman who loved him. For this some of their mutual friends could not forgive him. But in Africa, he learns to compromise with conditions with one sole goal in view. He sends for the others of the group, once the revolution has won control, politically, for the blacks. One of his comrades he returns to his mountain people to cope with some of the ritual problems, to lay the groundwork for education. Another -- whose first attempt at revolution had failed and whose life might be forfeit -- seeks out a secret way through the jungle, and launches a peaceful campaign of sabotage. Then Udomo is threatened with the end of his goal of economic recovery- and again he sacrifices the individual for the cause, or so he feels. But he reckons without the abiding sense of loyalty, and he dies at the hands of fanatics who cannot forgive. It is a powerful story, disturbingly violent. It has its moments of tenderness in first one, then another love story. It has several unforgettable figures. But it won't be an easy book to place, for the moral code, the sexual code is remote from our understanding. Abrahams is not to be overlooked- as witness Mine Boy and Tell Freedom."--Kirkus
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About the author (1956)
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras was born in Vrededorp, South Africa on March 3, 1919. Before entering school at the age of 11, he sold firewood and worked for a local tinsmith. He completed a three-year course at a colored school in Vrededorp in one year and won a scholarship to the Diocesan Training College in Grace Dieu. He later studied at St. Peter's, an elite school for blacks in Rosettenville. While working as an editor at a socialist magazine in Durban in 1939, he found work as a stoker aboard a freighter and made his way to London. Once there, he was hired as a dispatch clerk at a socialist bookstore and did editing for The Daily Worker, the newspaper of the British Communist Party. He eventually moved to Jamaica and broadcast political commentaries on Radio Jamaica for four decades. His novels and journalism explored the injustices of apartheid and the complexities of racial politics. His novels included Song of the City, Mine Boy, The Path of Thunder, A Night of Their Own, The View from Coyaba, A Wreath for Udomo, and This Island, Now. His other works included Dark Testament, Return to Goli, Jamaica: An Island Mosaic, Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa, and The Black Experience in the 20th Century: An Autobiography and Meditation. He died on January 18, 2017 at the age of 97.
Bibliographic information
Title A Wreath for Udomo
African/American library
Faber paper covered editions
Faber paperbacks
Author Peter Abrahams
Edition reprint
Publisher Faber & Faber, 1956
ISBN 0571063462, 9780571063468
Length 309 pages
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Le Triptyque... wikipedia
Un triptyque (du grec τρίπτυχος / tríptukhos, « triple, plié en trois ») est — dans le domaine des beaux-arts — une œuvre peinte ou sculptée en trois panneaux, dont les deux volets extérieurs peuvent se refermer sur celui du milieu.
Ce format se développe essentiellement aux xiie et xiiie siècles, dans le cadre des retables, la peinture religieuse en Europe.
Les triptyques entrent dans la famille plus large des tableaux polyptyques.
Acception en littérature
C'est également une œuvre littéraire ternaire, par exemple La Divine Comédie de Dante où trois pôles se distinguent : l'Enfer, le Purgatoire et le Paradis.
Un exemple plus contemporain serait celui du roman Amour, Colère et Folie de Marie Vieux-Chauvet, publié en 1968 et faisant figurer les trois thèmes éponymes.
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Tontine
From Wikipedia
A tontine is an investment linked to a living person which provides an income for as long as that person is alive. Such schemes originated as plans for governments to raise capital in the 17th century and became relatively widespread in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Tontines enable subscribers to share the risk of living a long life by combining features of a group annuity with a kind of mortality lottery. Each subscriber pays a sum into a trust and thereafter receives a periodical payout. As members die, their payout entitlements devolve to the other participants, and so the value of each continuing payout increases. On the death of the final member, the trust scheme is usually wound up.[1]
Tontines are still common in France.[2] They can be issued by European insurers under the Directive 2002/83/EC of the European Parliament.[3] The Pan-European Pension Regulation passed by the European Commission in 2019 also contains provisions that specifically permit next-generation pension products that abide by the "tontine principle" to be offered in the 27 EU member states.[4]
Questionable practices by U.S. life insurers in 1906 led to the Armstrong Investigation in the United States restricting some forms of tontines. Nevertheless, in March 2017, The New York Times reported that tontines were getting fresh consideration as a way for people to get steady retirement income.[5]
History
The investment plan is named after Neapolitan banker Lorenzo de Tonti, who is popularly credited with inventing it in France in 1653. He more probably merely modified existing Italian investment schemes;[6] while another precursor was a proposal put to the Senate of Lisbon by Nicolas Bourey in 1641.[7] Tonti put his proposal to the French royal government, but after consideration it was rejected by the Parlement de Paris.[8]
The first true tontine was therefore organised in the city of Kampen in the Netherlands in October 1670, and was soon followed by three other cities.[9] The French finally established a state tontine in 1689[8] (though it was not described by that name because Tonti had died in disgrace, about five years earlier). The English government organised a tontine in 1693.[10] Nine further government tontines were organised in France down to 1759; four more in Britain down to 1789; and others in the Netherlands and some of the German states. Those in Britain were not fully subscribed, and in general the British schemes tended to be less popular and successful than their continental counterparts.[11]
By the end of the 18th century, the tontine had fallen out of favour as a revenue-raising instrument with governments, but smaller-scale and less formal tontines continued to be arranged between individuals or to raise funds for specific projects throughout the 19th century, and, in modified form, to the present day.
Uses and abuses
Louis XIV first made use of tontines in 1689 to fund military operations when he could not otherwise raise the money. The initial subscribers each put in 300 livres and, unlike many later schemes, this one was run honestly; the last survivor, a widow named Charlotte Barbier, who died in 1726 at the age of 96, received 73,000 livres in her last payment.[14][15][16] The English government first issued tontines in 1693 to fund a war against France, part of the Nine Years' War.[10][16]
Tontines soon caused financial problems for their issuing governments, as the organisers tended to underestimate the longevity of the population. At first, tontine holders included men and women of all ages. However, by the mid-18th century, investors were beginning to understand how to game the system, and it became increasingly common to buy tontine shares for young children, especially for girls around the age of 5 (since girls lived longer than boys, and by which age they were less at risk of infant mortality). This created the possibility of significant returns for the shareholders, but significant losses for the organizers.[17] As a result, tontine schemes were eventually abandoned, and by the mid-1850s tontines had been replaced by other investment vehicles, such as "penny policies", a predecessor of the 20th-century pension scheme.[citation needed]
A property development tontine, The Victoria Park Company, was at the heart of the notable case of Foss v Harbottle in mid-19th-century England
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AFRICANS FOUND AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS #africanhistory
In this video, you’ll learn the real history they don’t teach in school.
Before 1492, Africa’s King Abu Bakr II of Mali set sail with 2,000 ships—exploring the Atlantic centuries before Columbus. Archaeologists in Mexico have found African cotton, tools, and plants… along with the famous Olmec heads showing African features. The truth is simple: Columbus didn’t discover America—he found a world Africans had already touched. This is the history they tried to erase.
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