Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (June 28, 2014)

Culpability

Some old men continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

… Alexander Pope

Armenian Proverb

He who does not fast cannot taste the true flavor of Easter.

Enigma

The foremost philosophical question that should concern all humanity is that of identity. In other words, why am I me?

From the Trivia File

The story of John the Baptist is about a fella who lost his head over a dancing girl.

Questions for Armenian Historians

It takes money to mount a successful revolution such as that which deposed Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Where did it come from?

How did Mehmed Talaat, a minor postal official, as the result of a revolution become the most powerful figure in the Ottoman Empire?

For whom did Talaat keep an incriminating black book, recording the numbers and locations of the victims of the genocide?

What did Talaat mean when he told his friend, Aubrey Herbert, a British intelligence officer, that he was innocent of what happened to the Armenians?

Why did British intelligence send Herbert, as a Scotland Yard inspector, to meet with Talaat in Germany where he was hiding after the war?

What’s in a Name?

Mampreyan: Biblical Hebrew in derivation, identified as a proper noun, mampre is defined as fertile, fruitful.

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CK Garabed

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C.K. Garabed (a.k.a. Charles Kasbarian) has been active in the Armenian Church and Armenian community organizations all his life. As a writer and editor, he has been a keen observer of, and outspoken commentator on, political and social matters affecting Armenian Americans. He has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Reporter and the AGBU Literary Quarterly, “ARARAT.” For the last 30 years, Garabed has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Weekly. He produces a weekly column called “Uncle Garabed's Notebook,” in which he presents an assortment of tales, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and trivia; for the past 10 years, each column has contained a deconstruction of an Armenian surname. He believes his greatest accomplishment in life, and his contribution to the Armenian nation, has been the espousing of Aghavni, and the begetting of Antranig and Lucine.

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