Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was the third of seven children in the family, lived very hard life in Taganrog. (Photo of the book and our improvisations in the post).
There was no denying the Chekhovs’ lowly origins, but one cannot exaggerate the influence of the steppe on Anton Chekhov’s love of personal and spiritual freedom. In the [...]

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Listen to the music:Chorale la Cle des Chants- Shalom Aleichem
Page 46 from this book reads:”Writing about his childhood playmate in Woronko, Shmoulik the Orphan, who was raised by the local Rabbi, half a century later in “From the Fair”, my father still marveled at that small boy’s inexhaustible imagination, which, he said, enriched his own [...]

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First, attune your ear, please, to Halloween: Horror Music
Second of all, Happy Halloween 2010 to everybody!
Let us make something with our hands, to the right is a photo of my things being prepared for Halloween 2010, those creatures are very easy to be done especially now before Halloween time when the whole Halloween industry is [...]

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First.Congratulations, Calgary! Newly elected mayor Naheed Nenshi , 38- year-old Mount Royal University business professor, won the elections on Monday the 18th, whose campaign team seems at times both at ease and surprised by its come-from-behind victory. Calgary has transcended itself and will now be seen as a city of difference, a city that elected [...]

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We, rank-and-file people, need to be alert not to be indifferent, passive in our attitudes. Especially now, before the elections for Calgary mayor 2010. Look at the seven key positions of Barb Higgins’ Program (the portrait of her to the left). To make the right choice of a candidate is very important, and by all [...]

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First. Local songwriter Sora was commissioned to write a song to help commemorate the 100th anniversary of Calgary Family Services, the organization founded by the McKillop family a century ago. Sora is a local singer and a mother of four young kids who gets a lot of her inspiration from ancient Greek and Сeltic myths, [...]

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The two Ivans met each other on the Canadian soil. They both had families back in Russia, and here,too. Both became widowers, both have daughters who emigrated recently and brought their fathers with, they both are veterans of WWII, now they are of age of late seventieth. Both they are big readers. They talk about [...]

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