Tag: history
member name: Svetlana Goryacheva
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September 17, 2007 04:10 AM EDT --
Dear friends -
below is the sample for the article in progress I intend to send to ATLA (the association which sponsored my trip to the US in 2005). All Hebrew symbols, for technical reasons, . . .
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December 10, 2008 06:07 PM EST --
"...O, noble Athenians!
I just hadn't got enough impudence
To tell you the things you wanted
To hear from me, that's all.
O, credulous Athenians! . . .
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January 03, 2009 03:47 PM EST --
The Emperor Conrad III, having besieged Guelph, Duke of Bavaria,--[In 1140, in Weinsberg, Upper Bavaria.]--would not be prevailed upon, what mean and unmanly satisfactions soever were tendered to him, . . .
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March 01, 2009 04:45 AM EST --
March, 8, is the International Women's Day, celebrated widely in my country.
I am a Russian woman
Born out of white birches' whispers,
Tchaikovsky's . . .
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April 15, 2009 05:24 PM EDT --
(Hopefully, the honorable Sir Paul McCartney won't sue me for the title... :-) )
...If you ask me, my dear friends,
How we lived, how we breathed
Back in the strange . . .
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May 08, 2009 08:25 PM EDT --
...She looks from outside
Like a pretty regular urban creature -
Diminutive, in blue jeans, with hair cut short -
Who every morn grabs her rucksack and leaves
To be . . .
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July 03, 2009 10:21 AM EDT --
This poetic experiment was inspired by my research on the New Testament and early Christian women, notably Mary Magdalene, Junia (Rom 16:7), Prisca (1 Cor 16:19; Rom 16:3-4; Acts 18), Phoebe . . .
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July 12, 2009 09:03 AM EDT --
Once there was a tribe called Los Incas
Who didn’t know any money or currency,
And what natural gold they obtained
They used only to create the things . . .
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January 12, 2009 05:26 PM EST --
My little, but heartfelt tribute to one of the most remarkable masterpieces of Russian science fiction literature ever written. This novel has been among my favorites from high school years... . . .
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February 10, 2009 08:04 AM EST --
Inspired mainly by Ivan Efremov's SF novel, The Andromeda Nebula.
You, the people of the Great Circle Era
Who will traverse across the cyberspace,
Speaking with . . .
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March 16, 2009 11:54 AM EDT --
There was once a fairy land named Atlantis,
The fabulous continent of the seven cities -
Praised by rhapsodists, unconquered by warriors,
The aim for the bravest and the dream . . .
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April 12, 2009 04:54 AM EDT --
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the . . .
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May 15, 2009 10:08 AM EDT --
The caravan of loaded camels begins its way
At the foot of the Great Chinese Wall,
Drifting slowly, but steadily, from the East to the West
And carrying the . . .
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May 06, 2009 09:59 AM EDT --
Inspired by the best Russian movie on the WW II ever made, "V boi idut odni 'stariki'" ("Only the 'oldies' go to fight") and dedicated to the upcoming Victory Day in Russia, May 9. Memory eternal . . .
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July 23, 2007 06:06 AM EDT --
Dear all,
On July, 22, the Western Church celebrates the memory of one of my most favorite saints and by far the most remarkable of women followers of Jesus – St. Mary Magdalene (for the . . .
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March 18, 2009 05:50 AM EDT --
Inspired both by El Greco's fabulous art and the autobiographical novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, with the same title.
What would I say
Meeting you one sultry morning . . .
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