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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Russia’
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 [...]
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day was yesterday. Most American’s don’t know this holiday as our government has chosen to ignore it for some unknown reason. Our equivilent is Mother’s Day I guess. My wife went to a party with a bunch of local Russian women to celebrate. Anyway, congratulations go out to all the women in the [...]
Simply, Russian Women
What is it that intrigues a guy so much that he wants to marry a Russian woman? What is it that attracts him to Russian women in the first place? These are questions that have been going through my mind for years. There are so many things written about Russian and eastern European women on [...]
