Russian-American Bluegrass Harmony in St. Petersburg!
On July 22-23, 2010, St. Petersburg hosted Pete & Joan Wernick from Colorado. The sound of bluegrass filled St. Petersburg's airwaves when Pete Wernick (Dr. Banjo) along with guitarist-wife Joan Wernick and fiddler-friend Justin Hoffenberg played live on Radio Peterburg -- Russia's oldest radio station with an estimated 600,000 listeners. They later teamed up with St. Petersburg's Fine Street to hold a special concert for the local press and musical community at the U.S. Consul General's Residence before performing at the jam-packed Jazz Fusion Club. The following night, St. Petersburg's historic Rodina Movie Theater showed William S. Hart's 1925 masterpiece 'Tumbleweeds' to the lonesome twang of Pete Wernick's banjo.
Sponsored by the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg.
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Leon Trotsky The sold out revoluton Who paid Trotsky? Secrets of the World Revolution
Secrets of the World Revolution. Who paid Trotsky? Who did fund the Bolschevic Revolution? Rothschilds , German , Bankers, Schiff. Marx, Russian. English Subtitles , Лев Троцкий. Тайна мировой революции ,Galina Ogurnaya,Director: Галина Огурная.
UNDERGROUND: How not to Become a Star (ENG subtitles)
Music Documentary (International version, Russian/English soundtrack with ENG subtitles)
Rock stars fill stadiums and get millions of dollars. But this is only the top of the iceberg of music. What about other musicians, unknown to the general public, who are called underground? What drives them? Hope to become rock stars? Strife for fame and fortune? Or just a getaway from the drab existence?
Over 2 years the filmmakers followed the musicians and their fans in concert halls and backstage, in music stores and studios, often with a hidden camera. The film is featuring such bands as ITEM, NU-NATION, Vergeltung, Stalwart, [AMATORY], Finntroll, Korpiklaani, KOMA, Atomica, Lowriderz and many, many others.
It is the funniest, the saddest, the most unusual and the most truthful film about musicians.
Production: Green Elephant Pictures (c) 2012
Directed by: Xenia Alzey & Alissa Alexina
Three years Audiobook by Anton Chekhov | Audiobook with subtitles
Laptev, the rich but unattractive scion of a merchant, renounces his independent-minded, intelligent, devoted, but equally unattractive mistress Polina in order to marry the beautiful young gold-digger Yulia. Their life together quickly deteriorates into a loveless agony, Laptev seeking some sort of meaning in his life while Yulia whiles away her youth with the sparkling young Moscow social scene. The compelling question of the story is whether or not Laptev and Yulia can redeem something of lasting value from what seems to be a hopelessly empty relationship. Here Chekhov again explores the subtle dilemmas of modern conventional marriage and its effects, both positive and negative, on the hapless humans caught up in it. (summary by Expatriate)
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Three Years
Anton CHEKHOV , translated by Constance GARNETT
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Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordion, from Akkord - musical chord, concord of sounds) are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. The concertina and bandoneón are related; the harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family.
The instrument is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing valves, called pallets, to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called reeds, that vibrate to produce sound inside the body. The performer normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the right-hand manual, and the accompaniment, consisting of bass and pre-set chord buttons, on the left-hand manual.
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Auschwitz | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:57 1 History
00:03:06 1.1 Background
00:05:55 1.2 Auschwitz I
00:09:29 1.3 Auschwitz II-Birkenau
00:12:51 1.3.1 Family camps
00:15:10 1.4 Auschwitz III
00:18:30 1.5 Subcamps
00:20:06 1.6 Evacuation and death marches
00:22:31 1.7 Liberation
00:26:21 1.8 Trials of war criminals
00:28:22 2 Command and control
00:31:47 3 Life in the camps
00:38:20 4 Selection and extermination process
00:44:29 4.1 Medical experiments
00:46:30 4.2 Death toll
00:49:57 5 Escapes, resistance, and the Allies' knowledge of the camps
00:54:51 5.1 Individual escape attempts
00:56:29 5.2 iSonderkommando/i revolt
00:57:51 6 Legacy
01:00:02 6.1 Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
01:03:04 7 See also
01:03:13 8 Notes
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Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original concentration camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combined concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps.
Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941. Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish Question during the Holocaust. From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe, where they were killed en masse with the cyanide-based poison Zyklon B, originally developed to be used as a pesticide. An estimated 1.3 million people were sent to the camp, of whom at least 1.1 million died. Around 90 percent of those were Jews; approximately one in six Jews killed in the Holocaust died at the camp. Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Romani and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, 400 Jehovah's Witnesses, and tens of thousands of others of diverse nationalities, including an unknown number of homosexuals. Many of those not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, forced labor, infectious diseases, individual executions, and medical experiments.
In the course of the war, the camp was staffed by 7,000 members of the German Schutzstaffel (SS), approximately 12 percent of whom were later convicted of war crimes. Some, including camp commandant Rudolf Höss, were executed. The Allied Powers did not act on early reports of atrocities at the camp, and their failure to bomb the camp or its railways remains controversial. At least 802 prisoners attempted to escape from Auschwitz, 144 successfully, and on 7 October 1944 two Sonderkommando units, consisting of prisoners assigned to staff the gas chambers, launched a brief, unsuccessful uprising.
As Soviet troops approached Auschwitz in January 1945, most of its population was sent west on a death march. The prisoners remaining at the camp were liberated on 27 January 1945, a day now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the following decades, survivors such as Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, and Elie Wiesel wrote memoirs of their experiences in Auschwitz, and the camp became a dominant symbol of the Holocaust. In 1947 Poland founded the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, and in 1979 it was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
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China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.404 billion. Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area, depending on the source consulted. Governed by the Communist Party of China, the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
China emerged as one of the world's earliest civilizations, in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies, or dynasties, beginning with the semi-legendary Xia dynasty in 21st century BCE. Since then, China has expanded, fractured, and re-unified numerous times. In the 3rd century BCE, the Qin unified core China and established the first Chinese empire. The succeeding Han dynasty, which ruled from 206 BC until 220 AD, saw some of the most advanced technology at that time, including papermaking and the compass, along with agricultural and medical improvements. The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty (618–907) and Northern Song (960–1127) completed the Four Great Inventions. Tang culture spread widely in Asia, as the new maritime Silk Route brought traders to as far as Mesopotamia and Horn of Africa. Dynastic rule ended in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution, when a republic replaced the Qing dynasty. The Chinese Civil War resulted in a division of territory in 1949, when the Communist Party of China established the People's Republic of China, a unitary one-party sovereign state on Mainland China, while the Kuomintang-led government retreated to the island of Taiwan. The political status of Taiwan remains disputed.
Since the introduction of economic reforms in 1978, China's economy has been one of the world's fastest-growing with annual growth rates consistently above 6 percent. As of 2016, it is the world's second-largest economy by nominal GDP and largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). China is also the world's largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. China is a recognized nuclear weapons state and has the world's largest standing army and second-largest defense budget. The PRC is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council as it replaced the ROC in 1971, as well as an active global partner of ASEAN Plus mechanism. China is also a leading member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), WTO, APEC, BRICS, the BCIM, and the G20. China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia, and has been characterized as a potential superpower.