Friday, June 7, 2013

Rembrandt painting - live, email from Lesley Sirimanne




Subject: FW: LET'S BRING REMBRANDT TO THE PEOPLE !!!
The Rijksmuseum museum in Holland had an idea:  Let's bring the art to the people and then, hopefully, they will come t o see more - at the museum.  They took one Rembrandt painting from 1642, "Guards of the Night" and brought to life the characters in it, placed them in a busy mall and the rest you can see for yourself!

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Poem - email Piyusha



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The computer swallowed Grandma,
Yes, honestly it�s true!
She pressed 'control and 'enter'
And disappeared from view.
It devoured her completely,
The thought just makes me squirm.
She must have caught a virus
Or been eaten by a worm.
I've searched through the recycle bin
And files of every kind;
I've even used the Internet,
But nothing did I find.
In desperation, I asked Mr. Google
My searches to refine.
The reply from him was negative,
Not a thing was found 'online.'
So, if inside your 'Inbox,'
My Grandma you should see,
Please 'Copy, Scan' and 'Paste' her,
And send her back to me.
This is a tribute to all the Grandmas & Grandpas
who have been fearless and learned to use the Computer.........
They are the greatest!!!
We do not stop playing because we grow old;
We grow old because we stop playing ..
NEVER Be The First To Get Old!
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The Most Touching Speech Made by Bride's Father to the Groom - email Kamalini Kanapathippillai

The Most Touching Speech Made by Bride's Father to the Groom
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Public education - email from Gallege De Silva.

 You have to love this one !!
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>     *Subject:*School Answering Machine....this is great, Love those Aussies
>     There is no sound for about the first 20 seconds.  The whole video
>     is about a minute long.   Very Funny!!
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>     http://www.youtube.com/embed/Pwghabw4N80?rel=0
>     *TURN ON YOUR SOUND AND CLICK ON THE ABOVE*
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Interesting Old Photos - email from Leslie Sirimanne





 
 
These are fascinating. Wonder which photos of today they'll show in 100 years?

A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.



Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.

A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941

Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios.


The Microsoft staff in 1978.

The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.



Winston Churchill out for a swim.


Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.

Google begins.

Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.

A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.

The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.

A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.

The original Ronald McDonald -- played by Willard Scott!

Hitler in Paris.

Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 await orders.

British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.

Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.

The first McDonalds.

Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.


California lumberjacks work on Redwoods.


Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914,
an event that helped spark World War I.




Elvis in the Army.

The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.

Child laborers in 1880.

New York's Times Square in 1911.

Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil.

Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907.

Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.

The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.

The construction of Disneyland.



Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right.

Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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