Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Mirra Andreeva vs. Olga Danilovic | 2024 Iasi Semifinal | WTA Match Highlights - YouTube - Romania

Mirra Andreeva of Russia,white skirt,vs.Olga Danilovic of Serbia

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Friday, March 27, 2015

About DJ Layla;Trophee Hassan II Golf

Tonight is featured another track by DJ Layla&Dee-Dee,"Planet Mars."DJ Layla,27,is a Romania-based DJ who has worked with the Bucharest singer Dee-Dee several times,as well as with vocalists Sianna,Lorina and Alissa.She has become quite popular on the Eurodance music scene since 2009.Closely associated with singer-songwriter and producer Radu Sirbu,her real name is Natalia Ostasina.A native of Moldova,she also lived in Ukraine for a number of years.She studied law at the State University of Moldova.*
The European Tour's Trophee Hassan II golf tournament,named for King Hassan II,is underway at the Golf Palais du Royal in Agadir,Morroco.It is an exclusive golf course actually located on the palace grounds,complete with crenellated,reddish brown palace walls with towers and views of the Atlantic Ocean and Atlas Mountains.The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones,Sr.
After two rounds,the lead was shared by four golfers at six under par:Rafael Cabrera-Bello (ESP);Richard Green (AUS);Richie Ramsay (SCO);and Oliver Farr (WAL).






Friday, February 14, 2014

Tonight's People:Anna Lesko;Noelle Pikus-Pace;Alla Tsuper

The music tonight is by the international pop star Anna Lesko,35,a native of the former Soviet Republic of Moldova who moved to Romania at age 17.Moldova is a small independent country now with just over three million people.It is located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the east.Lesko is ethnic Ukrainian and sometimes sings in Russian,as well as English,Romanian and Spanish.
A large minority in Lesko's homeland Moldova is ethnic Russian and Ukrainian and speak Russian as their first language.Russian is in fact spoken throughout the country and in daily life,and the Eastern Orthodox faith is predominant.Romanian is also spoken by the majority Bessarabian population.
The video for "Go Crazy" was filmed in Thailand and features Latin rapper Gilberto.In "Get It,"Lesko interestingly makes a soft wolf howl and sings about a pack of wolves.*
At the Sochi Winter Olympics,American mother Noelle Pikus-Pace achieved her longstanding dream of winning an Olympic medal in skeleton,which is a small,thin sled.She won the silver,after 12 years of struggle,behind Great Britain's Lizzy Yarnold,who took GB's second medal of these Games and its first gold.Russia's Yelena Nikitina won the bronze.When she realised she won a medal,Pikus-Pace trembled with joy and scaled a fence to hug her family.It was the biggest display of emotion.
Also with a big smile on her face was Alla Tsuper of Belarus,another former Soviet Republic,who won the gold in the women's freestyle skiing aerials,which involves soaring off a steep slope and executing dangerous maneuvers in the air.At 34,Tsuper was the oldest athlete competing and not favoured for a medal.China's Xe Mengtao took the silver,and Australian mother Lydia Lasila,32,the defending gold medalist,won the bronze.*
American alpine skiers Bode Miller and Ted Ligety were not so happy,as they failed to medal in the men's Super Combined event,which couples a downhill race with a slalom.They will ski again on Sunday in the Super Giant Slalom.

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Scotland Marks St.Andrew's Day

Scotland and other countries,as well as the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches,are observing St.Andrew's Day today,November 30.It is a bank holiday in Scotland-an optional day off which will take place on Monday,since November 30 is on Saturday this year.The weekend will be celebrated with parties,dances and dinners.People will paint their faces with the Saltire,the X-shaped St.Andrew's cross,which is also the flag of Scotland.
This year,the event is marred by tragedy,the dimensions of which are still unclear as of time of publication.A police helicopter crashed into a crowded pub,Clutha Vaults,in Glasgow,causing a roof collapse.Many people were trapped inside and rescue teams are gingerly extricating them.The structure is very unstable.Casualty figures are not being released yet,but several injuries and some fatalities are anticipated.
St.Andrew's Day is being observed with church services;the wearing of kilts;the ceilidh,or traditional dancing;preparation of traditional Scottish food;and the playing of bagpipes.
It is also celebrated in Romania;Greece;Russia;Ukraine;the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople;St.Andrew's Barbados;and in churches and ethnic communities worldwide.St.Andrew was one of the Apostles of Jesus Christ.He and his brother Peter left the fishing trade when they were called to be "fishers of men" by the Lord.According to tradition,he preached along the shores of the Black Sea and as far east as Kiev,founding the see of Byzantium-later called Constantinople and today Istanbul,Turkey-and installing its first permanent bishop,Stachys.Eventually he irked the pagans and was crucified for his faith by being bound to an X-shaped cross,according to the Acts of Andrew,an early text familiar to historian St.Gregory of Tours in the sixth century.
Scottish tourism publicises the holiday extensively.