May You Have a Happy 2012 New Year !

2012 (MMXII) is a leap year starting on Sunday, in the Gregorian calendar, and it is the current year in Oceania (to the West of the International Date Line), Asia, Eastern Africa and Eastern Europe. It is the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the…

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Janko Eats His B-day Cake ans Has It…

The explanation of this expression lies in the following: one cannot eat the cake twice, i. e. one tries to combine that it is incompatible. To refute it, on December 27, 1947 janko was born. Right on this occasion the beautiful cake has arrived and Janko eats it and has it. His Birthday cake was…

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BADEK NEWS 47

First. On December 4, 2011 there were the elections to GosDuma in Russia. To-day there were shown the results of these elections. The distribution of the seats at GosDuma: the United Russia-238 seats, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation-92 seats, the True Russia-64 seats, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia-56 seats. The Regional Government…

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A Generous Russian Soul, Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1832-1898), a Founder of Moscow Tretyakov Art Gallery

The Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia, a world-famous museum of Russian art, was founded by Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1832-1898), a highly educated man with wide-ranging interests. The cover of the book “The State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow”, Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1975 is shown here alongside with his portrait done by I. Repin. When he first…

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BADEK NEWS 46

First. It’s not a secret that Calgary is a magnet for immigration, but here’s an example of just how diverse the city really is: in the 2006 census, Calgarians identified themselves by more than 250 ethnic and/or national origins. That’s more than there are countries in the world. Second. Alberta consistently ranks first among provinces…

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