It’s true. Children conquered the World! What a wonderful country is a Children-land! Where everybody believes in a wonder, beautiful friendships, truth and justice.
To-day 5 hours in a row without intervals or breaks the six: Gleb, Liza, Jonathan, Christian, Frank and Curtis played the table game “RISK”, one can see them on the pictures.
The three [...]

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Back in 1885 the park’s ‘ town’ was a stopping place along the brand new Canadian Pacific Railway called siding 29.  As visitors began discovering  the newly established park, services moved closer to the main attraction at the time – the mineral springs. The name “BANFF” comes from Banffshire, Scotland, the birthplace of one of [...]

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One. The sheep let their hair grow long, but that is generally the extent of their cooperation at the North American Sheap Shearing Challenge at Calgary Stampede on July 09-19, 2010. Successful shearers must therefore perfect the viselike leg clamp that keeps the animal in one place. At Agrium Ag-tivity in the City.
Two. Blacksmith Competition [...]

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Here is a video about Hiroyuki Suzuki, the winner of ” Yo-yo God Tournament of 2005″:   Hiroyuki Suzuki
1. Gleb, when did you start yo-yoing?
2. Since March of this year.
1. What is it? How did it happen? Where did you see yo-yo for the first time?
2. At school. The neighboring class mates, all played yo-yo [...]

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Summer in Calgary is very unusual : twenty times a day the weather is changing: a rainy morning, in an hour everything dried out, the sun showed up, the air is dry and clean, we are situated at 1500 meters above the sea level, the mountain ridge is on the horizon. It seems that they [...]

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My workshop lately is full of young blood reps: competition in better painting of figurines and tanks, making different costumes for dolls.
The night we had visited the ballet performance “The Snow White’, which was mentioned in our “Social Club” category before. The idea to design new costumes came up all of a sudden during the [...]

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One. Students in a Nia class fly like butterflies, bend like flowers, tickle the air and leave embarrassment at the door. It draws from nine well-established forms of mind-body exercise from the three categories of martial, dance and healing arts: tae kwon do, Tai Chi and aikodo; jazz, modern and Duncan dance (from Isadora); Feldenkrais, [...]

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Everybody knows that night dreams are a reflection of the days’ activities. It’s definitely, yes. And definitely, no.
Liza’s night dream was lately a replay of the day. About her house on the fourteenth floor hanging somewhere in the air. She saw herself and her Mom, sitting at her kitchen table and talking. All of a [...]

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