Author: Lorian Mr
•10/24/2008 09:52:00 PM
In my opinion, this is a very good website. There’re many famous photos which tell you something about this world: good or bad, that is for you to judge.

In this post, I introduce some photos. Please visit http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com to read stories behind photos.

1. Stricken child crawling towards a food camp (1994)

The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine.
The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who
left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.

Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.



2. Palestinian martyr (2000)

Jamil ad-Durra, trying to protect his son from israeli gunfire moments before the boy was shot dead, the father wounded and a Palestinian ambulance driver who came to rescue them, also killed.

Reporters watched helplessly as the boy and his father became trapped against a wall with nothing but a small concrete block for cover as bullets rained around them on a road near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip. Mohammed crouched weeping behind his father, who tried in vain to shield him with his arms and body. At one point, the father raised his head and wagged his finger, as if to scold. Some time later, both were shot and Mohammed slumped into his father’s lap.

Mohammed died, while his father survived badly wounded. An ambulance driver, who braved the fierce shooting to try to rescue them, also killed.



3. Tiananmen Square (1989)

This is probably the most famous picture you know. This is the picture of a student who tries to stop the tanks in Tiananmen Square standing in front of them. The tank driver didn’t crush the man with the bags but shortly after, the square filled with blood. The photo showed the Chinese that there is hope. However, China is still controlled by a communist regime.



4. Oklahoma City Bombing (1995)

The image of firefighter Chris Fields holding the dying infant Baylee Almon won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1996.Two people, Lester LaRue and Charles Porter, standing just three feet apart took almost the same image yet it was Charles Porter’s image that won the Pulitzer.

At 9:02, on April 19, 1995, Gulf War vet, Timothy McVeigh detonated 4,800 lbs of fertilizer and fuel oil. The resulting blast destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal government Building and killed 168 people. The bombing, largest act of domestic terrorism, in America, shattered pre-911 America’s innocence.

As the fires raged rescue services and bystanders rushed to pull victims out of the twisted wreckage. Sifting through the rubble police officer, Sgt. John Avera found a small half buried body. Shouting. “I have a critical infant! I have a critical infant!” he thrust the, 1-year-old Baylee Almon into the arms of nearby firefighter Oklahoma City fire Capt. Chris Fields.



5. The plight of Kosovo refugees (1999)

The photo is part of The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning entry (2000) showing how a Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania. The members of the Shala family were reunited here after fleeing the conflict in Kosovo.

Author: Lorian Mr
•10/19/2008 02:43:00 PM
You have a flash video file (*.flv), but you want to listen that music clip with the extension *.mp3. This software will help you to convert *.flv to *.mp3: Freez FLV to MP3 converter 1.2

It’s easy to use, just few steps:
+ Choose the *.flv file you want to convert (you can choose more than 1)
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+ Choose output directory
+ Finally, press “Start converting” button
+ After finally, enjoy the music in *.mp3 extension.


You can download this software for free at: http://www.smallvideosoft.com (2.82MB)

Author: Lorian Mr
•10/15/2008 12:01:00 AM
Now is the time for another song: Green Fields by The Brothers Four, an American folk group includes 4 members: Mark Pearson, Mike McCoy, Bob Flick, Karl Olsen (see the photos from left to right).

The Brothers Four: Perhaps best known for their hits in the 1960s "Greenfields" and "Yellow Bird," the group has recorded several albums of original and traditional folk songs.



Here's the lyric:

Greenfields
Brothers Four
Music & Lyrics : Terry Gilkyson - Rich Dehr - Frank Miller

Once there were green fields, kissed by the sun.
Once there were valleys, where rivers used to run.
Once there were blue skies, with white clouds high above.
Once they were part of an everlasting love.

We were the lovers who strolled through green fields.

Green fields are gone now, parched by the sun.
Gone from the valleys, where rivers used to run.
Gone with the cold wind, that swept into my heart.
Gone with the lovers, who let their dreams depart.
Where are the green fields, that we used to roam ?

I'll never know what made you run away.
How can I keep searching when dark clouds hide the day.
I only know there's, nothing here for me.
Nothing in this wide world, left for me to see.

Still I'll keep on waiting, until you return.
I'll keep on waiting, until the day you learn.
You can't be happy, while your heart's on the roam,
You can't be happy until you bring it home.
Home to the green fields, and me once again.

Enjoy listenning the song:


Author: Lorian Mr
•10/10/2008 02:23:00 AM
I heard this song when I watched film “camp rock” on Disney Channel. This is a song with a meaning lyric: Show yourself to let the world knows who you are and what you can do. Don’t live in the dark while you wanna live in the sun.

Here's the lyric:
This is me
[Mitchie Torres / Demi Lovato]
I've always been that kind of girl
That hid my face
So afraid to tell the words
What I've got to say

But I have this dream
Bright inside of me
I'm gonna let it show
It's time to let you know
To let you know

[Chorus]
This is real, this is me
I'm exactly where I'm supposed
To be now
Gonna let the light shine on me
Now I've found who I am
There's no way to hold it in
No more hiding who I want to be
This is me

Do you know what it's like
To feel so in the dark
To dream about a life
Where you're the shining star

Even though it seems
Like it's too far away
I have to believe
In myself, it’s the only way

[Chorus]
This is real, this is me
I'm exactly where I'm supposed
To be now
Gonna let the light shine on me
Now I've found who I am
There's no way to hold it in
No more hiding who I want to be
This is me

[Shane Gray / Joe Jonas]
You're the voice I hear inside my head
The reason that I'm singing
I need to find you
I gotta find you
You're the missing piece I need
The song inside of me

[Shane & Mitchie]
I need to find you
.. I gotta find you

[Chorus]
This is real, this is me

[Shane&Mitchie]
I'm exactly where I'm supposed
To be now
Gonna let the light shine on me
Now I've found who I am
There's no way to hold it in
No more hiding who I want to be
This is me

You're the missing piece I need
The song inside of me (This is me)

You're the voice I hear
Inside my head (yeah yeah)
The reason that I'm singing

Now I've found who I am
There's no way to hold it in
No more hiding who I want to be
This is me