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Stalin's daughter died

Posted by Calypso on November 29, 2011 at 1:41am

Stalin's daughter Lana Peters, or in Russian Светлана Аллилуева, passed away in the state of Wisconsin on 22 November, US officials have confirmed to BBC Russian. why only today, i wonder, if this actually happened on Nov 22?

What the secrets they were trying to hide or to find, why did they need this week pause?

 

 

 

She graduated from Moscow University in 1949, initially working as a teacher and translator. 

Peters was married four times - three of them in Russia - and left two children behind in her homeland.

She took the name Lana Peters upon marrying architect William Wesley Peters in the US.

The couple settled in central Wisconsin and had a daughter, Olga, before divorcing in 1973.

Svetlana was the last Stalin's child.

Her brother, Jacob, died in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War when her father refused to exchange him for a German general, while her other brother, Vasili, died aged 40.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8wZzCcM9Js

 

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Only beauty could help us withstand the hard times

Posted by Calypso on October 6, 2011 at 2:30am

My dear-dear beloved friends! It's the strong belief of mine that in this difficult times the best of what the mankind has produced in its spiritual travel could help us. make us stronger. fill us with light and love. I mean the best of human culture - music, dances, literature, painting. I want to post several masterpieces of famous russian painter Konstantin Makovsky to give you a splinter of natural old-fashioned beauty... this is how russian girls looked a hundred years ago... the soft shadow of memories. of past lives.

 

 

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The painting from early 1880, it is called "Cup of honey drink", in ancient Russia there was so called braga, an alcohol drink made of honey.

And there is another version of this painting, produced in 1910... ))

 

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and some more beautiful faces and costumes.... these are the girls in so called "kokoshnik" - an ancient russian headdress

 

 

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German X-ray space observatory will tumble to Earth in early November

Posted by Calypso on September 29, 2011 at 8:27pm
A defunct NASA satellite that fell to Earth last week sparked some worldwide buzz, but it's not the only spacecraft falling out of space.The decommissioned German X-ray space observatory, called the Roentgen Satellite or ROSAT, will tumble to Earth sometime in early November, but it's still too early to pinpoint exactly when and where debris from the satellite will land, according to officials at the German Aerospace Center.The 2.4-ton spacecraft's orbit extends from the latitudes of 53 degrees north and south, which means the satellite could fall anywhere over a huge swath of the planet — stretching from Canada to South America, German Aerospace officials said.The latest estimates suggest that up to 30 large pieces of the satellite could survive the intense and scorching journey through Earth's atmosphere. In all, about 1.6 tons of the satellite components could reach the surface of the Earth, according to German Aerospace officials.The re-entry will be similar to NASA's 6-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), which plunged into the southern Pacific Ocean on Saturday .In 1998, ROSAT's star tracker failed, which caused its onboard camera to be pointed directly at the sun. The event permanently damaged the spacecraft and ROSAT was officially decommissioned in February 1999.Scientists are actively tracking the dead satellite, but many of the details will remain uncertain until roughly two hours before it hits Earth."It is not possible to accurately predict ROSAT's re-entry," Heiner Klinkrad, head of the Space Debris Office at the European Space Agency, said in a webcast posted on the German Aerospace Center's website. "The uncertainty will decrease as the moment of re-entry approaches. It will not be possible to make any kind of reliable forecast about where the satellite will actually come down until about one or two hours before the fact."It will, however, be possible to rule out certain geographical regions from the potential drop zone about a day in advance, Klinkrad said. The largest piece of debris is expected to be the telescope's heat resistant mirror."Generally speaking, whenever a satellite re-enters the atmosphere, about 20 to 40 percent of its mass actually reaches the Earth’s surface," Klinkrad said.Fragments from ROSAT could fall back to Earth over a 50-mile (80-kilometer) wide path, but despite the uncontrolled nature of ROSAT's re-entry, the odds of personal injury or property damage are extremely remote, German Aerospace officials said.http://www.space.com/13111-falling-satellite-rosat-november-crash.html
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Beautifull music full of light

Posted by Calypso on September 26, 2011 at 5:30pm

 

Dear friends. I live in Russia and there is a great writer Dostoevsky, who lived in 19 century in my beloved city, who wrote: Beauty will save the world.

Somehow it is true. Watch please a very beautiful singing, a late concert in Berlin, august 16, Russian singer Anna Netrebko & German Jonas Kaufmann. it is full of tenderness & passion. thank you.

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