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Re: Moskow

ISU_152 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:23:10 GMT

My work was very intensive in the last weeks but no looses without gaining : I make some photo , during my trips:

Moskow modern history museum

Old building - former "english club" - place , where moskov aristocracy meet for cup of coffe , delicious dinner and quiet discussion about liberalism , parlamentarism ant another things. After revolution former owners must run for his live . Bolsevik recolor building in "politically correct" red color and made here a museum of revolution. New goverment made here museum of modern russia history but forgot about new repainting back in yellow

Lions on the gate - looking unhappy

Interesting , can engineers of Rolls-Roys recogize his work after some improvements ?

this gun fire at Kremlin in 1917 year , during rebel of military school

Hotel "Beijing"

Wooden church into suburb.

Warren Zevon

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:59:29 GMT

Warren Zevon
he has been on fire...I can see v. high activity on the internet search for Warren Zevon
Anybody, why is now such a demand for Warren Zevon?

sentence structures!!! need your comment

hazeleyedgirl — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:11:34 GMT

Is this correct:

Draw the phrase markers of the following phrase and sentence:

1. these incredibly tasty sandwiches with butter and cheese

2. We were crosing the river in the valley at noon.

Thank you for reply

Re: Omelettes

Bushee — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:00:00 GMT

LOL I have a funny one but the wording its't as funny without the situation so I feel a picture is in order.

Re: Helsinki pictures

Cool Breeze — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:59:43 GMT

ISU_152
Thanks CB , your photos really great . Suomenlinna - its same place , called Sveaborg in russian history book`s ? He amaze my imagination

Sorry I hadn't noticed your question ISU. Yes, Suomenlinna and Sveaborg are the same, Sveaborg is its Swedish name and Finland and Sweden were one country in the 18th century when Suomenlinna was built.

I am posting a few pictures now that represent the residence of President Kekkonen and an adjacent island called Seurasaari where he liked to take walks and jog. Kekkonen was our president from 1956 until 1981 when he had to retire due to senility. He was very popular and people jokingly said that Kekkonen is the president of Finland and he is elected every six years. Well, he was! Kekkonen wasn't a tyrant but such a long reign obviously meant that he slowly acquired a little too much power mainly because the weak politicians paid lip service to him in order to strengthen their positions in politics. Of course there were people and politicians who didn't like him at all but they were a minority.

After his death in 1986 the then president Mauno Koivisto, who was just as popular as Kekkonen, suggested that Parliament pass a law to the effect that a person can be elected president only for two six-year terms and he wanted that law to apply to himself as well. The law was passed and the president lost some of his power in the process too.

Today our president is a woman who would never be elected president in the USA. She belongs to no church, she had a common-law husband when she was elected and in her younger days she used to have strong ties with an organization that promotes the rights of sexual minorities. Her second term in office expires in 2012.

Except for a couple of exceptions, presidents used to reside at the official Presidential Residence in the heart of Helsinki until 1956 but Kekkonen was an outdoor man, keen on jogging and skiing, and he didn't want to live there. Like three presidents before him, he preferred Tamminiemi, which was originally a private villa built in 1904. In 1940 its owner had donated it to the State of Finland. It was ideally located for Kekkonen as the open-air museum island of Seurasaari was only 100 metres from it. There was a footbridge to the island, where Kekkonen spent a lot of time jogging and enjoying the scenery.

Above is the entrance to Tamminiemi, which today is the Kekkonen Museum, open to the public. As you can see, the fence isn't very high and no barbed wire was needed to keep people outside. Actually, anyone could have climbed the low fence and entered the grounds. There used to be one guard at the gate. Kekkonen was normally unattended on his walks on the island in the early days. I think it was in the 70s that he finally gave in under pressure and allowed two body guards to jog with him. The young body guards had a hard time keeping abreast with the 70-odd-year-old president.

The main Tamminiemi building.

Kekkonen had a sauna built by the seashore. It's the low building on the left. Kekkonen and his friends took a swim in the sea when they were going in and out of the sauna. Nothing prevented people from approaching the sauna and the grounds from the sea by boat but people never came too close. A president's privacy is respected in Finland.

This bridge is 15 metres from the Tamminiemi grounds entrance (first picture). It leads to the island Kekkonen liked so much. The island was and is open to all people 24 hours a day. There is no admission charge.

A Seurasaari view. Tamminiemi is in the distance.

A pond on Seurasaari island.

There are hundreds of squirrels on the island and they are only too happy if tourists feed them peanuts, which are sold in the island's kiosks. If a squirrel likes you, he may stand on your shoulder eating a peanut as you walk and then climb down into your pocket for more peanuts and back up on the shoulder again where it's easier to eat.

A view from the bridge.

The island is a museum exhibiting dwellings dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries.

Cheers, CB

Re: Crop circles - first impression! - poll

oOoSehamoOo — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:19:28 GMT

Amazing!!

I like this one more than the others.

Just back from Thailand && Japan

KAKATHY — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:13:34 GMT

Hi there!
I just came back from Thailand ( Bangkok ) and Japan ( Tokyo & Osaka )
Okay... I'm not going to talk a lot
Pictures time lol =]

From Pullman Hotel ( Bangkok )

High Tea @ Bangkok Peninsula Hotel

Delicious!!!

Bangkok Taxi ( really colourful isn't it ?! )

Taken in a boutique ( Bangkok @ Siam )

The new airport of Bangkok ( Awesome escalator )

Taken in Japan Hello Kitty Land

Re: What's one of the last pictures you took?

Cool Breeze — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:40:47 GMT

This the greenest lamppost in Helsinki.

First photo in the world - made in 1828 year

ISU_152 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:11:55 GMT

Author need 8 hour to make this photo .

Re: What's one of the last pictures you took?

ISU_152 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:00:21 GMT

View from my window - last night