Watch the scene from Mariinsky Ballet “The Waltz of Flowers” (Nutcracker)
Our first English teacher Doba Mikhailovna Einstein was a magician, and we, her students of Grade 5 of  Bryansk All Girls’ School #1 even did not realize it. Look at her photo to the left and ours below.
I counted honestly, we were 34 pupils [...]

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The weather is fine, our spirits are high. On May 24th, 2011 the whole group of CPR pensioners’ club are on the way through Central Alberta to Wetaskiwin.
Listen to the music:Mississipi Fred McDowell-John Henry
Because trembling aspen trees are pervasive in the area, the region is sometimes referred as the Aspen Parkland or Aspen Land.
The region [...]

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“Dear Evgeny, This is your comment on my article about Leo Tolstoy :
[4/8/2011 10:17:22 AM] Евгений859: Валентина, добрый день! Я искал свой комментарий, но не смог его найти. Может быть, комментарий я написал, но не отослал? Странно. Комментарий мой посвящался Л. Толстому. Моя мысль заключалась в том, что Юнеско объявило 2010 год годом Толстого, но [...]

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James Holly was asked by Gleb upon arriving back from work : “What impression stayed with you the most about Canada?
“The length of trains. Nowhere in the world I saw it before, Gleb.”
Watch video:CPR train, downtown Calgary, 2007
“Did you count how many cars in that train, my friend?”
“No, but it’s a lot.”
The greatest historic news of [...]

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First of all, listen to the Song:“City of New Orleans”
Then to the right and to the left one can see a book of poems dedicated to the railwayworkers.
That is what the author writes at the beginning; “I send out this volume, like former ones, in the hope that it may interest my fellow-workers on the [...]

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To talk about poetry first sit and relax listening to the wonderful music:“Beautiful Russian relaxing song”
Take a look at a small book of verses by Fyodor Tyutchev “Renew, renew the Charm Endearing”, M. Vagrius, 2008, and recite yourself or listen to somebody’s reciting for you:“Stalker’s wife and child’s reciting Tyutchev’s poem”Your eyes”
“Люблю глаза твои, мой [...]

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