Happy birthday to a special friend ..

Love knows no limits and friendship lasts a life time .

La multi ani,George. Have a wonderful day ! This is for you !

You really must see the video ! [Nu este regizat]

Happy birthday, you fine piece of ass ..

I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to Steven Tyler who brings me more joy with his musical works than I could ever express. You keep me sane quite often.

Not to mention how hot he is !

I would like to wish Steven Tyler, the longtime singer for Aerosmith a Happy 61th Birthday.

Yes, Steven Tyler just turned 61 years old today. Still performing with Aerosmith and singing strong.

Here’s a video where I find Steven so.. damn..sexy! Enjoy!

Apropo, sa va bagati in cur viitoarele (potentiale) comentarii sinistre la adresa lui Steven Tyler! You know I love him. )

March, 14

Pi (3.14159265…) Day

Pi, Greek letter (), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi = 3.1415926535… Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th.

It’s the 21st anniversary of the celebration of Pi Day, an international holiday born at San Francisco’s Exploratorium. The number is Pi, 3.1415926535…ad infinitum. It’s today’s date and the starting time, the number you get when you divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter, and it cannot be expressed as a fraction. It continues forever. In an era when math and mathematicians have become sexy again, it’s worth recounting how Pi Day came to be and why it is that people still go to the Exploratorium and gather around the Pi Shrine to perform pi-related rites and eat ritual food — be it apple pie or pizza pie — in honor of this special number. People sing Pi Day songs, bead a pi string (a physical manifestation of the never ending value of pi), and circumnavigate a pi shrine. Pi Day celebrations culminate, appropriately enough, on March 14 at 1:59pm. That’s the third month, the fourteenth day, at 1:59pm, corresponding to the first 6-digits of Pi. And as an added bonus, 3/14 is also Einstein’s birthday.

The birthay of  Iurie Darie

Sa traiesti coane Darie ! Multi ani cu sanatate !

The death of Karl Marx – march,14

Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, sociologist, humanist, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism.

Marx moved to London in May 1849 and remained there for the rest of his life.  In London Marx devoted himself to two activities: revolutionary organizing, and an attempt to understand political economy and capitalism. Having read Engels’ study of the working class, Marx turned away from philosophy and devoted himself to the First International, to whose General Council he was elected at its inception in 1864.

Karl Marx’s Tomb at Highgate Cemetery London

To be continued with my own pictures from Marx’s Tomb .

March, 13

What do we celebrate today ?

The birth of Mircea Eliade

Romanian-born historian of religion, fiction writer, and one of the pre-eminent interpreters of world religion in this century. Eliade was an intensely prolific author of fiction and non-fiction alike, publishing over 1,300 pieces over 60 years. He earned international fame with LE MYTHE DE L’ÉTERNAL RETOUR (1949, The Myth of the Eternal Return), an interpretation of religious symbols and imagery. Eliade was much interested in the world of the unconscious. The central theme in his novels was erotic love.

“In archaic and traditional societies, the surrounding world is conceived as a microcosms. At the limits of this closed world begins the domain of the unknown, of the formless. On this side there is ordered – because of inhabited and organized – space; on the other, outside this familiar space, there is the unknown and dangerous region of the demons, the ghosts, and the dead and foreigners – in a world, chaos or death or night. This image of an inhabited microcosm, surrounded by desert regions as a chaos or a kingdom of the dead, has survived even in highly evolved civilizations such as those of China, Mesopotamia and Egypt.” (from Images and Symbols, 1952)

Some of his works:

• ISABEL SI APELE DIAVOLULUI, 1930
• SOLILOQUII, 1932
• MAITREYI, 1933 – Bengal Nights (translated by Catherine Spencer)
• OCEANOGRAFIE, 1934
• INTOARCEREA DIN RAI, 1934
• INDIA, 1934
• LUMINA CE SE STINGE, 1934
• HULIGANII, 1935
• DOMNISOARA CHRISTINE, 1936
• SARPELE, 1937
• NUNTÁ ÍN CER, 1938
• FRAGMENTARIUM, 1939
• MITUL REINTEGRARII, 1942
• COMENTARII LA LEGENDA MESTERULUI MANOLE, 1943
• INSULA LUI EUTHANASIUS, 1945
• TRAITÈ D’HISTOIRE DES RELIGIONS, 1949 – Patterns in Comparative Religion (translated by Rosemary Sheed)
• IPHIGENIA, 1951
• IMAGES ET SYMBOLES, 1952 – Images and Symbols (translated by Philip Mairet)
• LA FORÊT INTERDITE, 1954 / NOAPTEA DE SÂNZIENE – The Forbidden Forest (tr. by Mac Linscott Ricketts and Mary Park Stevenson)
• MÉPHISTOPHÉLÈS ET L’ANDROGYNE, 1957 / MEFISTOFEL SI ANDROGINUL – Mephistopheles and the Androgyne (translated by J. M. Cohen) / The Two and the One (translated by J. M. Cohen)
• LE SACRÉ ET LE PROFANE, 1959 – The Sacred and the Profane (trans. by Willard Trask) – Pyhä ja profaani (suom. Teuvo Laitila)
• NAISSANCES MYSTIQUES, 1959 – Birth and Rebirth (tr. by Willard R. Trask) / Rites and Symbols (translated Willard R. Trask)
• INITIATIONS, RITES, SOCIÉTES SECRÈTES, 1959
• From Primitives to Zen, 1967
• PE STRADA MANTULEASA, 1968 – La vieil homme et l’officier (1977) – The Old Man and the Bureaucrats (translated by Mary Park Stevenson)
• LA TIGÁNAGI, 1969
• Fantastic Tales, 1969 (translated and edited by Eric Tappe)
• LA NOSTALGIE DES ORIGINES, 1969 – The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion
• DE ZALMOXIS À GENGIS-KHAN, 1970 – Zalmosis: The Vanishing God (translated by Willard R. Trask)
• FRAGMENTS D’UN JOURNAL I (1945-1969), 1973 – Journal I: 1945-1955, 1990 (tr. by Mac Linscott Ricketts); No souvenirs: Journal II: 1957-1969, 1977 (tr. by Fred H. Johnson, Jr.)
• Occultism, Witchcraft and Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religions, 1976
• DIE PELERINE, 1976
• ed.: HISTOIRE DES CROYANCES ET DES IDÉES RELIGIEUSES, 1976-89 (3 vols.: De l’âge de la pierre aux mystères d’Eleusis; De Gautama Bouddha au triomphe du christianisme; De Mahomet à l’âge des Réformes) – A History of Religious Ideas (tr. by Willard R. Trask) /LI>
• IN CURTE LA DIONIS, 1977
• TINERETE FARA TINERETE, 1980 – Youth Without Youth (translated by Mac Linscott Ricketts) / Youth Without Youth and Other Novellas (translated by Mac Linscott)
• The Eliade Guide to World Religions, 1991 (with Ioan P. Couliano, with Hillary S. Wiesner)

Dunblane massacre

On 13 March 1996, unemployed former shopkeeper and former Scout leader Thomas Watt Hamilton walked into the school armed with two 9 mm Browning HP pistols and two Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolvers. He was carrying 743 cartridges, and fired 109 times^. The subsequent police investigation revealed that Hamilton had loaded the magazines for his Browning with an alternating combination of full metal jacket and hollow point ammunition.

After gaining entry to the school, Hamilton made his way to the gymnasium and opened fire on a class of five- and six-year-olds, killing or wounding all but one person. Fifteen children and a teacher, Gwen Mayor, died at the scene. Hamilton then left the gymnasium through the emergency exit. In the playground outside he fired a number of shots into a mobile classroom. A teacher in the mobile classroom had previously realised that something was wrong and told the children to hide under the tables. Most of the bullets became embedded in books and equipment, though “one passed through a chair which seconds before had been used by a child.He also fired at a group of children walking in a corridor, injuring one teacher. Hamilton went back into the gym and fired one shot with one of his two revolvers pointing upwards into his mouth, killing himself instantly. A further eleven children and three adults were rushed to the hospital as soon as the emergency services arrived; one of these children was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

With the consent of Bob Dylan, a Dunblane musician named Ted Christopher wrote a new verse for “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” in memory of the Dunblane school children and their teacher. The recording of the revised version of the song, which included brothers and sisters of the victims singing the chorus and Mark Knopfler on guitar, was released on 9 December 1996 in the UK, and reached number 1. The proceeds went to charities for children.

Victims killed

Victoria Elizabeth Clydesdale Emma Elizabeth Crozier Melissa Helen Currie Charlotte Louise Dunn Kevin Allan Hasell Ross William Irvine David Charles Kerr Mhairi Isabel MacBeath Brett McKinnon

Abigail Joanne McLennan Gwen Mayor (schoolteacher) Emily Morton Sophie Jane Lockwood North John Petrie Joanna Caroline Ross Hannah Louise Scott Megan Turner

2 martie – Ce mai sarbatorim astazi ?

The birthday of Elmer J. Fudd

Elmer J. Fudd is a fictional cartoon character and one of the most famous Looney Tunes characters. He has one of the more disputed origins in the Warner Brothers cartoon pantheon . His aim is to shoot Bugs, but he usually ends up seriously injuring himself. He has a speech sound disorder that makes his tongue slur.

Fudd was originally voiced by radio actor Arthur Q. Bryan.

Old Stuff Day

When asking someone “What’s new?” or “What’s happening?”, how often do you hear “Nothing really, same old stuff”.

Well, today, is Old Stuff Day, in recognition of this all too common response. It is suggestive of a boring time period, or a boring life style. ….how sad.

Old Stuff Day is not a day to do the same old stuff. Rather, it’s a time to recognize the boring nature of your daily routine, and make some exciting changes. Find new and different activities, projects, and hobbies. Attend an event. Do something, anything, different. You will be glad that you did!

Happy birthday to Jon Bon Jovi

Lead singer and founder of Bon Jovi.

Here’s the best song in the world . Signed by Bon Jovi .

Happy birthday to Chris Martin,too!

English singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, best known for his work as lead vocalist of the band Coldplay.

Here’s my favourite song from Coldplay ! Enjoy !