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Holocaust in Kyiv

samba07 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:23:56 +0000

Our Composition class, which we had last week, was absolutely different than every other before. Mrs. Gray had invited four old ladies who were giving an interview for all of us with a big pleasure. Our class was divided in four groups and each of them had their own widow to talk with. I was in the first group and we got a talk with Margarita.

Margarita told us a terrible story about her childhood. She was only 15 years old when the WWΙΙ had started. Her mother worked as a conductor on train and she had an opportunity to take three of her children to secure place before the German soldiers would come. But Margaritas’ mother couldn’t find her children in the city that day and she had another choice than to leave all of them in Kyiv and to go by herself. Of course, she came back later but her own children had to live alone more than three months. Then she told us lots of information about WWΙΙ in Kyiv.

But the most difficult situation in her life was on the beginning of the War, when all Jews were invited to one place, now it is Babij Yar, to be killed. They didn’t know why were they going there but they had to. There were thousands of Jewish people on the streets and all of them were going to that ‘’bloody‘’ place. There were a big gates before Babij Yar, where were standing two Russian officers. And when Margarita came to those gates one of the officers told her to go away from that place because she didn’t looks like a Jew. So, she was saved from the death.

Now Margarita is 81 years old, but she still couldn’t remember that day. And that horrible day makes her believe in fete and God.

Personal interview: Margarita, 3/20/07

Reader’s Digest. Everyday Heroes

samba07 — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:39:32 +0000

After nine years when John Beal returned home to
Seattle from
Vietnam, he overcame three heart attacks in seven months. One day, when he had a stress and heart disease, he had only two options: an “open-heart surgery the next morning, or be dead within a year”. John decided to run away from the hospital and walked the mile and a half home.

One day Beal was drawn to Hamm Creek, it was very dirty and almost destroyed place. And suddenly he knew that he had to spend the time left to him to clean up the creek. He began hauling out garbage. After time Hamm Creek was saved from rubbish and John noticed that a large weight had begun lifting from his heart.

After that Beal figured out how to bring the creek back to life. He seeded the banks with buttercups, planted bushes and saplings. A fisherman brought him two salmon, but they died without spawning. Disappointed but determined, John opened the female and placed her caviar into the water. He didn’t know if what he had done made sense. But soon the creek glistened with baby salmon.

Now Beal patrolling in a boat, videotaping factories that dumped chemicals. He doesn’t worry about the enemies he’s made from different factories near the creek. The great-great-grandchildren of his first two salmon have come back to Hamm Creek to spawn. Birds nest in the trees he has planted. And John Beal is happy!

Ukrainian Pilot

samba07 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:25:24 +0000

Fedorov Ivan Evgrafovich was born on February, 10th (23), 1914 in
Kharkov (
Ukraine). He has left school after 5 classes in 1928. After that, he worked as a toolmaker at an engine-building factory in Lugansk (1929-1930). Since February, 1932 Fedorov was in Red Army. He ended a military aviation school of pilots in Lugansk in August, 1932. Then, he served in front parts of the Air Forces as the younger pilot and the commander in
Zhitomir (
Ukraine). Ivan Fedorov participated in operations in
Spain since May, 1937 till January, 1938. On a plane I-16 he has brought down two planes of the opponent. Fedorov Ivan Evgrafovich also was a participant of the Great Domestic war. During this war he has made hundred fourteen fighting starts on fighters Yak-7 and Yak-9, he has lead fifteen air fights in which he has brought down personally eleven and in group-one plane of the opponent. For courage and the heroism shown at a test of the new aviation technics, to colonel Fedorovu Ivan Evgrafovich was given a rank of the Hero of Soviet Union. Since March, 1954 he was in a stock. Up to 1974 worked as the head of department in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the
USSR. Fedorov Ivan Evgrafovich was rewarded with order of Lenin, four awards of the Red Banner, order of Alexander Nevskyy, four awards of Domestic war. Also he was rewarded with the Red Star, medals and many foreign awards.

http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=414

Charles Augustus Lindbergh

samba07 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:46:35 +0000

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974), the American pilot, was born on February 4th, 1902 in
Detroit, Michigan. He received an elementary education in
Minnesota, in 1920-1922 studied in

Wisconsin
International
University. In 1924 he became the cadet of a school of an air reserve of the
USA in
Texas, than he served as the pilot of military-post service. After that he took part in a struggle for 25 000 dollars, appointed for the first successful transatlantic flight. D.Khollom designed by his order the plane “Spirit of
Saint Louis”, that has been constructed in firm “Ryan” in
San Diego, California. On May, 10th 1927 Lindbergh flew from
San Diego to
New York with intermediate landing in
Saint Louis; full flight time was 21 hours and 45 minutes. On May, 20th Lindbergh has started from
Roosevelt fild in
New York and later, after 33 hours 30 minutes has landed at airport Le-Burzhe near
Paris.

In 1936 Lindbergh visited the German aviation centers. While visiting
Germany in 1938 German government has presented him for a medal. This fact, and also his public appeals to a neutrality have caused the sharp criticism from president Franklin Roosevelt. After the war Lindbergh was a member of the delegation which have gone to
Germany for studying of achievements of this country in aircraft construction. In 1954 he received a rank of the brigade general.

Lindbergh is an author of several books: We (1927), Of Flight and Life (1948), The Spirit of St. Louis (1953), Wartime Journals (1970). He also was rewarded with a medal of the Congress and a cross “For merits”. Lindbergh died on August, 26th 1974 in
Hawaii.http://www.krugosvet.ru/articles/51/1005142/1005142a1.htm

Amy Johnson

samba07 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:44:21 +0000

Amy Johnson was born on July 1st, 1903 in a seaport
Hull. In 18 years she has entered in

Sheffield
University on economic faculty. Then she did not know, that absolutely soon she will start to dream of much less peace and comfortable profession – aviatresses. In 1920s years it was not even a profession, it was a risky and expensive hobby, passion, madness!

The first independent flight took place on June 9th, 1929, and later, this month Amy Johnson has received the treasured license.

After that, in 1928 Bert Hinkler has made an impressing single flight from
London to
Australia. The world was ill with aviation records. And Amy Johnson has solved, that her hour has come: she has intended to break record of Hinkler. Amy wanted to reach the remote continent in 15 day instead of 16.

Start of historical flight on May 5th, 1930 almost has not caused responses in press. Later Amy Johnson recollected, that she has gone to this adventure not because nothing was afraid, but because she did not expect that she will be involved in such adventure. When she made the longest non-stop flight, on May 24^th, Amy Johnson has landed on northern extremity of the Australian continent – in the city of
Darwin.

On January 5th, 1941, Amy Johnson lost her course in bad weather conditions near
Oxford. In ice water of
Thames was found her pilots tablet.

The destiny has given her a gift; it has passed more than half a century, and
England still remembers Amy Johnson. Her legendary plane decorates the National museum of a science and technics, and British association of women-pilots annually awards the premium of her name for professional achievements. The contemporaries have remembered Amy Johnson in an aura of glory – the heroine, the goddess of the sky, the subjugator of the sixth ocean!

http://prestos.ru/aero_ru/09_2006/avia9.html

Amelia Earhart

samba07 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:36:43 +0000

Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in
Atchison, Kansas. Her grandparents raised her during her early childhood. From the age of ten, she lived with her mother and father. She was a tomboy – climbing trees, sledding in the snow, and hunting. When she became older, she served as a nurse in World War One, and took her first ride in an airplane in 1920. After her flight with barnstormer Frank Hawks, she said “As soon as we left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly.” Indeed, within a few days, she took her first flying lesson, in a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny. Six months later, she bought her own airplane, that she dubbed “The Canary”. From 1925, she began flying more seriously. She became the first woman to fly across the
Atlantic on June 18-19, 1928. She was a charter member and first president of the “Ninety Nines,” an organization of women in aviation, so named for the original number of members. On May 21, 1932, five years to the day after Lindbergh’s flight, she took off in a Lockheed Vega, in an attempt to become the second person after Lindbergh (and first woman) to fly solo across the
Atlantic. Starting from Harbour Grace,
Newfoundland, her flight lasted almost 15 hours, when she touched down in a pasture near
Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Ironically Amelia Earhart has become more famous for disappearing than for her many real aviation achievements.

http://chwaul.by.ru/MSFS/reportag/Erchart/Erchart.htm

“Cruel Intentions”

samba07 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:11:44 +0000

Most of all people allover the world can’t imagine their life without television. Even if we are very busy or tired after a hard day we come home, take something tasty to eat and sit comfortable in front of a TV set. Some of us like to watch horror movies, another have fun while watching science fiction, fantasy, actions or animation.

As for me I like watching comedies, dramas and romantic stories. One of my favorite movies is “Cruel Intentions”, directed by Rodger Cumble in 1999. Main actors in this film are Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon. For the first time I watched this movie on TV four years ago and it made me think about some things I had never paid attention to. Then I became older, watched “Cruel Intentions” for the second time by chance and the movie was perceived by me from another side but this side was as interesting as the first one. Since that time I watched this film many times but still it is not boring for me.

The “Cruel Intentions” shows us a story about Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe), two wealthy and manipulative teenagers who conspire against other students in their college. Kathryn makes a bet that her step-brother, Sebastian, won’t be able to make Annette (Reese Witherspoon), a daughter of the new headmaster fell in love with him before the start of the school year. If he loses, Kathryn gets his1956 Jaguar, if he wins, he gets Kathryn. Sebastian won this bet, but it was very hard for him because he fall in love with Annette. When they understand that they love each other and want to be together… Sebastian dies while rescue Annette.

The “Cruel Intentions” is one of the most interesting movies about teenage way of life, about their glades and sorrow, success and failure. I like this film very much and can recommend you to watch it.

About Love

samba07 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:09:52 +0000

Love… I know that love is very strange and unbelievable feeling. People start to show their love almost from their birth. First of all we show our love to the parents, then to our relatives. Even when we start to get to know our first friends we show them our sympathy by giving toys to them. When we become older, boys start to pull girls’ hair, to bite them and so on. Then in high school boys shows their love by carrying girls’ bags, helping them with homework, buying ice-cream and candies.

When we become adults we start to have better understanding, what love really means for every one of us. Boys and girls start to take care of each other, to make different surprises, to spend as much time as it is possible together, to help each other with everything. After a time spends in such relations people start to think about marriage and having their own children…

And all this words above are about LOVE…

Movies of 1930s

samba07 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:08:27 +0000

Beginning of 1930s was a time of black and white movies. I have read plots of some movies like “Madam Satan” (1930), “City Lights” (1931), “A Bill of Divorcement” (1932), “No Marriage Ties” (1933) and “The Merry Widow” (1934). As for me, the main themes of these movies were love, money and maybe criminality. These films were photographed in 10 years period of time but they are sufficiently different. Some of these movies are comedies, another are dramas. Nowadays, the theme of our movies is the same as it was in 1930s. But now, we have more opportunities and much more better technics to make the highquality films. Also we have many new, interesting books, that could be photographed. Of course, we can see difference between movies, that were made in 1930s, in 1970s-1980s and those movies that are making now. But all of them had, have and will have the main theme of peoples relations, that develop in different aspects of our life. Movies are very important part of our life. That is why we should create new films and we shouldn’t forget the old ones.

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