Enlish Russia, WW2 Like Reconstruction: “A few days ago an anniversary for the blockade of St. Petersburg city during the World War 2. For more than two years the city was in the tight circle of German troops. The front line was already in the suburbs and the downtown was bombed constantly. People suffered from [...]
Entries Tagged as 'ussr'
Anniversary Blockade of St. Petersburg
January 29th, 2008
Tags: russia · st. petersburg · ussr · war · wo2
George Koval
November 12th, 2007
NY Times, A Spy’s Path: Iowa to A-Bomb to Kremlin Honor: “On Nov. 2, the Kremlin startled Western scholars by announcing that President Vladimir V. Putin had posthumously given the highest Russian award to a Soviet agent who penetrated the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb.” Zie ook: Putin.
Tags: atomic bomb · espionage · george koval · history · manhattan project · usa · ussr
links for 2006-05-29
May 29th, 2006
Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing “Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D.” (tags: economics web crowdsourcing) From a Small Stream, a Gusher of Movie Facts – New [...]
Tags: acting · cinema · communism · crowd sourcing · design · economics · imdb · music · photography · talking heads · ussr · video · web
links for 2006-02-24
February 24th, 2006
YouTube – The Red Army Choir: Soviet Anthem The Soviet Anthem (With Lyrics.) (tags: video anthem soviet trendbeheer ussr) Blogging for newbies – Scripting News: 2/24/2006 “When I encourage people to start a blog here’s what I suggest they do.” (tags: weblogs) The Botmatrix: Heddatron “Meredith Finkelstein and Cindy Jeffers developed five robots for Heddatron, [...]
Tags: anthem · astronomy · bbc · music · robots · rufus wainwright · space · supernova · theater · ussr · ute lemper · video · weblogs