Interfax Reports: Fans greeted each other on Easter at a Sunday evening soccer match at Moscow Lokomotiv stadium. At the beginning of the second half of the match thousands of fans of Dynamo team started chanting “Christ is Risen!”, an Interfax correspondent reports. Thousands of fans of Lokomotiv teeam on the opposite side of the [...]
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I remember when I saw the Sistine Chapel in person. I was traveling around Europe with my friend Mike Clark. We were told to get to the Vatican Museum long before it opened, be the first in line, and then RUN to the Sistine Chapel (which is far from the entrance) in order to beat [...]
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Car cleaning fun —
This is very cool. A 26 gigapixel image of Paris. The top of the Eiffel tower is small, but zoom in and see the people standing there. www.paris-26-gigapixels.com
This is a companion to a previous post and is really rotten; but it makes sense if you know about Russia. From English/Russia [with a little editing from me]: One of the St. Petersburg rope access techs who was involved in cleaning city roofs this winter posted some interesting photos on his blog. Remember a [...]
A dangerous Russian bridge, 570 meters (1870 feet) across the Siberian Vitim River. The old railway bridge is 15 meters (45 feet) above the water.
I just ran across this on the internet. It’s pretty amazing and gives a look into a part of the Soviet/Stalinist way of thinking: massive projects that capture the imagination. In 1940s and 1950s, right after the World War 2, Russia had to recover from the consequences of the Nazi invasion. Much had to be [...]
Wait for it . . . . Ice fishing!
Another note from Stoneworks missionary Liz Hulley – This week, Russia celebrates 20 years of….McDonald’s! I would like to leave the fast-food (health) debate for the moment and comment on the culture implications. This kind of anniversary is interesting when looked at in the light of what was going on the world at the time. [...]
