My Favorite Retro Barbie

This Barbie from a series «Time Capsule» is will be invaluable gift to real collectors and fan of a Barbie doll!

The First Barbie 1959

All owners «the First Barbie 1959» — have fantastic possibility to contemplate the very first doll Barbie. Manufacturers have tried to keep all smallest details: dresses, a hairdress, design of packing.

In a set two complete sets of clothes for a doll: a bathing suit and a black evening dress with gloves to an elbow. The first Barbie, certainly, will take a visible place in any doll collection.

Barbie. Since 1959

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Google: "Bye-bye, China!"

Corporation Google has decided to finish the activity in China and will officially inform on the decision within the next few days. It the decision became known thanks to Chinese edition The China Business News, informs AFP.

The categorical decision

According to the influential Chinese newspaper which refers to anonymous advertising agency, Google plans to stop the cooperation with China by April, 10th, 2010. Also will stop work all services under Google control.

As it is specified in the message, the American corporation plans to declare officially the the decision on Monday, on March, 22nd. In Chinese representation Google do not make comments.

Messages about that Google plans to stop the activity in China appeared in mass-media and earlier. The Chinese newspapers asserted that users Google was informed about a stop of a webhosting for Gmail.com in the end of March, 2010.

Also, March, 17th users of the Chinese segment of the Internet could see a web sites which earlier were filtered by search system Google. Down with dictatorship! Only freedom censorship!

Chinese Shutting Down

New evolutionary phase of the Darvinian centre

The Darwin Centre Phase II, additional case Natural History Museum in London, project C. F. Møller Architects became the main winner 2009 Concrete Society Awards.

Outstanding technologies

The building form-cocoon has been poured out on a site — this criterion became solving for a jury estimation. To reach such result, outstanding technologies and efforts were required. The concrete cockleshell impresses with the weight and the sizes.

In the estimate three key problems have been specified in building; the building should contain 20 million plants and insects, a working zone for scientists, and also spatial possibility for interaction of scientists and public. Visitors can make own round on a museum on a cocoon circle.

The Darwin Centre Phase II

Traffic control on Olympic games in Los Angeles

Flags and Decorations. Olympic Games

Doll reflexion

The English word doll, under the most widespread version, is formed from Greek eidolon (idol).

The first stage of relations of the person and a doll — a stage of idols. The thought on turning a doll, say, in a sexual rag and to try to play in "daughter-mother", or about, say, to put a doll a head in a toilet bowl in the course of game in the water-nymph, would seem V - VI century BC same blasphemous, what blasphemous the thought would seem to us to do today all the same with the live baby.

By the way, with live babies of business then were absolutely differently: the baby, generally, was created without intention, value by itself, with rare exception, did not represent, and the baby quite could sacrifice to gods, the senior members of a family or spirits of the died ancestors.

The doll became intentionally and embodied the important occult idea: in a doll there could live spirit of the died ancestor, — and to put such doll anywhere a head it would seem, to put it mildly, gesture strange and unreasonable.

On this theme it is possible to argue long, recollecting and those dolls, for which malicious fairies substituted the kid stolen from a cradle, and dolls, which Tatars buried during heavy illness to deceive death, and "pack" — a log in the lady's wears, sacrificed to gods instead of the live lying-in woman.

Idea of independent will, malicious or kind "spirit" in a doll little body on the former it is kept, and ability of a doll to "substitute" the person we see in a large quantity the pagan rites which have remained to this day. And dolls-idols — true — still exist, and not somewhere in wild tribes, and in each European city, yes that there — hardly probable not in each quarter. Even the awkward touch to these perfectly executed, bright, remembered creatures appears blasphemy.

And still ourselves, own imagination have given to this doll a certain set of qualities and even if to turn a doll in cellophane and on tens years to put in a church cellar to wait the best times, we again will see before ourselves not a doll, but Maiden Maria. However fall a doll into hands the people not familiar with symbols of Christianity, — and in ten days on a head at a doll the straw hat will flaunt, in prayerfully combined hands there will be a dandelion, and mournful lips will be brought by mum's lipstick — a doll as a doll.

This ability to allocate a doll human qualities also creates all our history of relations with dolls, moreover — explains the fact of their existence, degree of their importance in our life.

Olympic Golds in Los Angeles

Musical montage from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. From highlights of the BBC Olympic Coverage. Copyright BBC (1984).

Los Angeles Olympics Opening Ceremony 1932

Shotokan Legend

Master Hidetaka Nishiyama is one of the most senior Instructors ever to study and teach shotokan karate-do. As a student of Master Gichin Funakoshi at the Shotokan, and a founding member of the JKA, he's author of the world's biggest selling Martial Arts book "The Art Of Empty Hand Fighting", which is in its 70th re-printing according to reports.

The Games of the Xth Olympiad