YES! Got my hands on the Sperling & Kupfer edition of the Thrawn trilogy, which is in fact the first italian edition of Zahn's books:
(Actually, what you see here is the 1997 2nd printing of "Heir to the Empire", the 1997 3rd printing of "Dark Force Rising" and the very first edition of "The Last Command". "Heir to the Empire" was first published in Italy in 1992.)
Second book's title's been adapted in italian as "Challenge to the New Republic" which, I'm honest here, I really like ^^ Looks like "Dark Force Rising" is a challenge in itself to get translated... I don't think it ever got translated literally in any language.
Plus, I also got the 2012 italian edition of "Heir to the Empire", that prints the 20th Anniversary Special Edition:
So I can finally say I've got all the 2012 Multiplayer edition of the trilogy. "Heir to the Empire" was the only one I was missing, and now it's not missing anymore!
And my Empire shelf's getting more and more crowded... ❤️
yugioh isn't "good" i.e. its hardly a cowboy bebop or NGE or FLCL or mushishi but if anyone was like "it's bad" i'd be like be quiet. kaiba's about to summon obelisk out of the fucking ground
"and then you look at it, and it looks... otherworldly. this is denis. he just creates this shape. it's not perfect. it's timeless. it reminds me of... do you remember arrival? you know those big alien creatures? that's the shape."
— rebecca ferguson in an interview with hollywood insider
International Swifties! 1989 (Taylor's Version) Tangerine Edition Vinyl is now available for pre-order at select stores outside the US, while supplies last! 🍊
The International Criminal Court seeks a warrants against Netanyahu and Yahya Sinwar
The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, the court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday.
Khan said the ICC is also seeking warrants for Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as two other top Hamas leaders — Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri, the leader of the Al Qassem Brigades and better known as Mohammed Deif, and Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ political leader.
The warrants against the Israeli politicians mark the first time the ICC has targeted the top leader of a close ally of the United States. The decision puts Netanyahu in the company of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, for whom the ICC issued an arrest warrant over Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
A panel of ICC judges will now consider Khan’s application for the arrest warrants.
Khan said the charges against Sinwar, Haniyeh and al-Masri include “extermination, murder, taking of hostages, rape and sexual assault in detention.”
“The world was shocked on the 7th of October when people were ripped from their bedrooms, from their homes, from the different kibbutzim in Israel,” Khan told Amanpour, adding that “people have suffered enormously."
The charges against Netanyahu and Gallant include “causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies, deliberately targeting civilians in conflict,” Khan told Amanpour..”
You can read the statement by the ICC prosecutor here
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happy intl women’s day to women in palestine, in sudan, in yemen, in the congo, and everywhere else in the world.