Northern Lights

This video is a time lapse of a really beautiful Aurora Borealis recorded near Murmansk, Russia.

Murmansk is almost as far north in Russia as you can go and sits right in the arctic circle.

The Aurora is caused by electrically charged particles colliding into each other in a magnetic field almost 60 miles above the earth and create a stunningly beautiful display of color. 

Meanwhile in Russia...

So for unit 8 I decided to once again focus on my favorite person in the world.

Vladimir Putin. 

"What is he doing this week?" you ask. Threatening protesters? Crying over an election victory? Flying a plane? Putting out a forest fire? Whale hunting? Riding a horse? Driving a race car? Dominating opponents in Judo?

NO 

Something much more cuddly. 

Here we have Vlad swimming with dolphins. How Cute.

Vladimir Putin Cries Too!

This article is about two months old but still pretty relevant.
In this video Vladimir Putin is delivering his victory speech and tears up, which is quite strange and out of character for the Former Prime Minister/Current president (again.)

The article goes on to pose possible reasons for the tears, reasons ranging from his fear of the street protests to his apparent facelift.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/05/putin-tears-vlad-election?CMP=twt_gu

Emmy and Billie Dialogue unit 6

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0saDvugXj04

We did dialogue 4 on pg. 196

WE DID DIALOGUES (expletive deleted)!!!

Awesome Russian Photos! (Unit 6)

I stumbled upon this website which I think is pretty awesome.
This man named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii who was a chemist turned photojournalist took these pictures of pre-revolution Russia from 1909 through 1912.
But perhaps the coolest part (especially if you're a photography nerd like I am) is that color film wasn't invented yet so he made his own. He would take color-filtered glass plates and photograph a scene. He would photograph a subject in all red, blue, and green and then put them together to make colorized prints.

They're pretty fun to look at and a genuine look at Russian history. (In Color!)


http://flavorwire.com/205115/100-year-old-color-photographs-from-the-russian-empire#1