To start with, listen to the beautiful music :Walking in the Air (Declan Galbraith & Peter Auty)
How many times while dreaming at nights we are walking in the air, falling down, stumbling but never kicking our noses. never. How many times one is running-running somewhere, at times chsed by somebody or all of a sudden [...]
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Dec
Walking in the Air or Dreams Before a New year
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31
Dec
All preparations for New Year are over: it is already on the threshold.Welcome, welcome, our little darling dove!
Someone has shopped, someone has done crafts, and everybody is ready to celebrate the most cheerful holiday of the year: meeting New 2011 Year. The table is lain, Champaign is poured into the Champaign glasses and it is sparkling.
Happy [...]
30
Dec
One does not need to rush to the Time Square in new York, or to the Winter Palace Square, in St. Petersburg (Russia) to feel the festival of meeting a New Year.
New technology became different nowadays and changed us completely. To the left a Russian photo of “New Year is coming soon”.
It is enough to [...]
30
Dec
Everybody knows “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, a story about greedy ans miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors. Dickens created a vivid Christmas fable about the message of goodwill towards mankind. To the left is this book at our presentation.
On page 153 of [...]
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Dec
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was born into a wealthy family, lived in the old style of a princely country house, life of magnificence. He was well educated. To the left is the book cover by Leonardo Schapiro about him.
Turgenev in 1846 was an unusually handsome man, to judge by numerous contemporary descriptions. He was very [...]
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Dec
First. On December 13, 1871 Emily Carr was born, the Mother of Modern Arts. She found her muse: native culture-totem poles from Ucluelet to Skidegate-and the dark and slightly dangerous beauty of the dense forest. After she visited France, Carr’s literal depictions of native art and life developed into passion-swept modernist masterpieces of the West.
The [...]
15
Dec
Mama! Our beloved mama, how many beautiful sounds in this simple word”mama”! How these sounds caress you, wrap you up in warmth, tenderness and happiness.
This is ” A Letter to Mother” by Sergey Esenin performed by one Russian artist. Listen to this video:“You are still alive, my old little lady”
“Are you still alive, my little [...]
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Dec
November 29, 2010 by Andy Greenberg, Photo of the by Jillian Edelstein for Forbes. This is my Christmas present for you, my dear readers.
Here is an edited transcript of that discussion:
Forbes: To start, is it true you’re sitting on trove of unpublished documents?
Julian Assange: Sure. That’s usually the case. As we’ve gotten more successful, [...]
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Dec
First. Russia. On December 3, 2010 the hottest news arrived from Zurich: The Russian Federation won the bid for hosting 2018 World Football Championship. Watch video to yourselves:Viataly Mutko
Second. Calgary. A Canadian Tenors Christmas returned on December 8, 2010 at 8-00 p.m. It is an exciting blend of classical and contemporary pop that is thrilling [...]
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Dec
First. Russia, Moscow. Bella Akhmadulina, one of the most daring poets of the Soviet era, died aged 73, on Monday. Writer Yevgeny Popov said she died in her home ouside Moscow, in Peredelkino, of heart condition.
President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have expressed their condolences to the poet’s relatives. During the thaw of [...]
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