A fishing boat in the Hawizeh Marsh in Maysan province, southern Iraq, after water returned due to rainfall following a long period of drought.
The Group of 77 (G77) at the United Nations (UN) is a coalition of developing countries, designed to promote its members’ collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations.: 79 The group consists of a diverse set of states with a common South-South ideology. There were 77 founding members of the organization headquartered in Geneva, but it has since expanded to 134 member countries.
The Group of 77 lists China as one of its members. The Chinese government provides consistent political support to the G77 and has made financial contributions to the Group, but it does not consider itself to be a member. As a result, official statements of the G77 are delivered in the name of The Group of 77 and China or G77+China.
I set out alone, having neither fellow-traveler in whose companionship I might find cheer, nor caravan whose part I might join, but swayed by an overmastering impulse within me and a desire long-cherished in my bosom to visit these illustrious sanctuaries. So I braced my resolution to quit my dear ones, female and male, and forsook my home as birds forsake their nests. My parents being yet in the bonds of life, it weighed sorely upon me to part from them, and both they and I were afflicted with sorrow at this separation.
Dreams and hallucinations seen just before death:
tunnels, bright lights, staircases, loved ones, and sometimes, cosmic or geometric patterns
侍さんでもな、死のうごつはなかろもん。田んぼの藁小積みば間にしてな、両方とも斬られんごつぐるぐる廻ってなあ、おめき合うたり、突っこけたりして、勝負のつくまではそらもう大事、畠も作もそこらじゅう踏んで踏んたくって、しちゃくゎちゃ使いもんにならん如してしもうて、殺す方も殺される方も泥まみれになって、何のわけで殺し合いばしなはるだろうか。おるげの息子もあぎゃん目に遭うたっだろ、よう生きて戻ったたい。いくさのなんの、しんからの百姓なら出来んばい。暗きから暗きさね起きて作ばつくろうちゃ、どういう大ごつな。踏んで踏み固めてなあ、畠も田も使いもんにならんようにしてしもて。いくさの通った跡は、百姓がどのくらい大事か。迷惑なこつ、ほんなこて。