All the best and worst what is in me because of my mama and papa. They influenced on me from my first step and until now. Sometimes memory is working in strange ways catching the single moment of mother’s hands or how Grandfather is reading me a book… Listen to the songs:“Mamma”, R. Loretti; “Mama’s…
One. Kandrix Foong, creator of the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, and his wife Laurie Breitkreuz eat, sleep and breathe art. This year’s Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo takes place on April 24th and 25th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the BMO Round Up Centre, Halls D and E. Two. The 28th annual…
One. Centenarian Ted Broostad, one of Calgary’s oldest seniors, was born in Saskatchewan. Ted celebrated his 100th birthday, now embraces cyber world. To see this energetic and vibrant great-great grandfather on the go, you would never believe he is that old. Look at his photo to yourselves. Two. There’s a new theatre company in town…
One. Moscow, Russia. From 11.00 a.m. to 12.00 a.m. there was held the civil farewell ceremony of famous singer, People’s Artist of the Russian federation Valentina Tolkunova, died at the Botkin hospital in Moscow on Monday morning of March 22. She was 63, the singer’s family told Itar-Tass. Her portrait is to the left, and…
Neither Herzen, nor Chernyshevsky with his socialist ideas, nor Nechaev and the next generation of Communists. Oh, no,no,not them. Who, then? Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, a great Russian mind. Look at his photo to the left and listen to his voice reading from “Every Day Thoughts”. Leo Tolstoy’s Voice It was very hard to find his family…
One. For three hours on Sunday afternoon it was as if this vast nation of 33 million was confined – but deliriously so – to a patch of ice 200 feet long and 85 feet wide, with two blue lines, a red centre line and a team of 20 men wearing maple leafs on their…
One. Mourners carried the coffin with the body of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian luger killed in a practice run at the Olympics, during his funeral in Bakuriani, Georgia. Thousands of Georgians paid their last respects to the young luger, whose death cast a pall over the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics and sent his…
One. Ukraine. According to the data of the Central Election Commission of the Ukrainian President, the results of 99.44% of processed protocols say that presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych has gained 48.81% and Yulia Tymoshenko has got 45.61%. Hence, the gap between the two candidates is 3.20%. 4.37% of voters did not support any of candidates….
One. Cyber crooks are rigging the Internet with booby-trapped blog commentary, chat rooms, e-mail messages and websites, according to a Websense report released on Thursday, Agency France-Press San Francisco. Two. Skrunda, Latvia. Latvia’s State Privatization agency is putting an entire town up for auction on Friday. It has been empty since the departure of Russian…
One. Russia. Mr. Putin and Mr. Medvedev are sending their Happy New 2010 Year greetings from Russia to all the people of the Universe in a funny way. Listen to the You Tube: Medvedev and Putin singing and dancing Two. Ukraine. Mr. Yushchenko was voted out at the latest Ukrainian President Elections and the first…