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Posted on February 1, 2010 by Toplica
Jammin’ the Blues is a 1944 short film in which several prominent jazz musicians got together for a rare filmed jam session.
It featured Lester Young, Red Callender, Harry Edison, Marlowe Morris, Sid Catlett, Barney Kessel, Jo Jones, John Simmons, Illinois Jacquet, Marie Bryant, Archie Savage and Garland Finney.
Barney Kessel is the only white performer in [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2010 by Toplica
Arlinde Kasapi from Cambridge who is originally form Kosova is taking part in the Adidas Silverstone Half Marathon 2010 on 14/03/2010 to raise money for Medecins Sans Frontieres (UK) and she would really appreciate your support.
It’s easy to donate online with a credit or debit card - just go to my JustGiving page: http://www.justgiving.com/Arlinde-Kasapi
JustGiving sends [...]
Posted on January 21, 2010 by Toplica
Haiti authorities estimated 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless in the quake-ravaged heart of this tragic land, where injured survivors still died in the streets, doctors pleaded for help.
The world pledged more money, food, medicine and police. Some 2,000 U.S. Marines steamed into nearby waters. And ex-president Bill Clinton, special U.N. envoy, flew in to [...]
Posted on January 21, 2010 by Toplica
Gressenhall Albanian, Anila Bido, baked biscuits for the Princes Royal when the princess visited Sense’s new Dereham Resource Centre yesterday.
For a deaf-blind Albanian immigrant baking biscuits for the Princess Royal would have been unimaginable during her hard childhood as an orphan in Albania.
The princess which is the patron of the deaf-blind charity will officially open [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2010 by Toplica
A party to raise money for Spring tree planting in Kastriot (formerly Obiliq) near Prishtina, Kosova. Live music by Albanian folk-rockers The Bloody Foreigners, supported by London instrumental indie trio, Open\Field and stand up comedians.
We hope to announce more this week about the entertainment line-up for the night.
A limited number of advance tickets, £30 each, [...]
Posted on January 14, 2010 by Toplica
A court in Albania on Tuesday sentenced two Englishmen to long prison terms for sexually abusing and molesting children at an orphanage in Albania.
Dino Christodoulou, 45, and Robin Arnold, 56, received prison sentences of 20 and 15 years and six months respectively for sexually abusing children aged six to nine in the orphanage.
The two were [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2010 by Toplica
It was a big joy for young parents Dritor and Aneda to have their baby Ester delivered as it made a history as the 100th birth at the 2-year-old Breath of Life Women’s Health Services and Birth Center on East Bay Drive, in Largo USA.
The Papas currently live in Tampa while Dritor, an Albanian Army [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2010 by Toplica
The U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday said Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa and Hollywood actress Katharine Hepburn will be honored in 2010 with their own mail stamps.
The stamp honoring Mother Teresa, an ethnic Albanian who died in India in 1997 after devoting her life to helping the sick and poor, shows the Roman Catholic [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2010 by Toplica
About 30 divers from Macedonia and Albania decorated a Christmas three submerged in the waters of Lake Ohrid, a seven years old tradition.
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Posted on December 30, 2009 by Toplica
The representative for Albania in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest is going to be Juliana Pasha. The 48th annual Festivali i Këngës competition chose Juliana Pasha with her entry ‘Nuk mundem pa ty’ (’I Can’t Without You’) to represent the country in Oslo, Norway in May.
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