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May 2,1945: Flag on the Reichstag

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:20:12 GMT

clipped by: Charolastra

In the closing days of World War II the Communist Russian Red Army smashed it’s way into Berlin. In the Nazi capital, the German army was overwhelmed into pockets of resistance that either surrendered or fought fanatically to the last man. On the front lines with the Red Army was Yevgeny Khaldei, Soviet war photographer. In the future, he would say that he spent every 1,481 days of the Russian-German war covering the Soviet battle for the motherland, but in Nazi Berlin he was looking for one thing, his Iwo Jima shot. Khaldei had seen the pictures of American GI’s raising the flag over the Japanese volcano and before the war ended he wanted to snap a similar scene in Berlin.

Clip Source: www.famouspictures.org

Tags: berlin, reichstag, ussr, flag, yevgeny khaldei, meliton kantaria

5 Cats that Look Like Wilford Brimley

Fri, 02 May 2008 20:32:18 GMT

clipped by: Charolastra

Clip Source: gatoisland.com

Tags: cats, wilford brimley

Japan worker in 780,000 porn hits

Fri, 02 May 2008 19:47:05 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A local council employee in Japan has been punished after it was discovered he had accessed porn websites at work more than 780,000 times in nine months.

His superiors were alerted to the problem only when his computer became infected with a virus.

The 57-year-old man, who has not been named, works for the city of Kinokawa in southern Japan.

He held on to his job, but has been demoted and his wages have been cut by about 20,000 yen ($190; £80) a month.

Tags: japan, porn, websites, computer

Madonna at Roseland Ballroom

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:53:42 GMT

clipped by: Charolastra

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Tags: madonna, concert, roseland ny, ballroom