Yesterday we went up to Denver and attended the European Festival. Was a bit typical with vendors and ethnic food. Was a bit small though. Not enough food or vendors. However the entertainment was outstanding. Their was a lot of Russian kids performing traditional dances and singing Russian songs. All in all, we had a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Russia’
She Went To Russia
The title says it all. My wife’s friend Olga, went to Russia for the holidays to visit her family. She is a doctor living in St. Petersburg, Florida. She took her roommate/boyfriend - let’s call him John - with her and this where it gets interesting. You see he had never been to Russia and [...]
Doomsday Prediction?
Vanga (Vangelia) Pandeva was born on January 31st, 1911 and spent her life living in Bulgaria until she died on August 11th, 1996. She lost her sight when she was 12 years old when she was swept away by a tornado. She was found alive with sand in her eyes, which was the reason for [...]
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2010.
What will you do this year? Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Personally I gave those up decades ago. Yes I have desires I wish to fulfill, but no resolutions. One of my desires is to get better at writing. I will be honing my skills over the next few months in order to get [...]
The October Revolution
I thought this would be fitting since my domain is Red October. Borrowed most of this from Wikipedia.
A little history - On October 25, 1917 (November 7, 1917 GC), Bolsheviks led their forces in the uprising in Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd and later as Leningrad), the capital of Russia, against the ineffective Kerensky [...]
