Svetlana's (sv_iv) Blog

Just a nice puzzle to warm a bit your brain:

Have you ever seen the written form of the Sanskrit language? If so, you probably are amazed at how different this ancient language from India looks from ours. Some English words, however, are based on Sanskrit. For example, cup comes from the Sanskrit work kupo, which means water well. This puzzle requires several water wells.

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A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, rocks about 2" in diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, olled into the open areas between the rocks.

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In the list of my musical posts related with the Norse mythology there are 2 posts:

FOLKEARTH. Wolfsong In Moonlight (Fenris Unbound)

http://blog.bitcomet.com/svetlana/post_42742/ 

SLEIPNIR. Connection of runes with metal music

http://blog.bitcomet.com/svetlana/post_41324/

Both Fenris and Sleipnir are  children of Loki. This is why I decided to tell about him. And also, because I like the Manowar album "Goods of war" and they......

I was asked by my Romanian friends, why I don't post in our common Romanian/Moldavian language, because on our blog there are many people from Romania.

I want today to tell you briefly about our very nice poet Mihai Eminescu and to give you possibility to read one of his beautiful love poems translated in English and to listen how it sounds in original Romanian language and for my Romanian friends to remind one more time these nice verses.

What a Woman Wants In A Man, Original List ... (at age 22)
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1. Handsome
2. Charming
3. Financially Successful
4. A Caring Listener
5. Witty
6. In Good Shape
7. Dresses with Style
8. Appreciates the Finer Things
9. Full of Thoughtful Surprises
10. An Imaginative, Romantic Lover

What a Woman Wants In A Man, Revised List ... (at age 32)
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1. Nice Looking - preferably with hair on his head......

Do you think only people can understand music and dance?

Of course NO.

Here is a video about a nice and tallented dog, which can dance :

But if with dancing dogs we are already familiar, dancing birds is something unusual:

Meet Snowball!

I didn't have dancing pets myself, but I had 10 years ago a nice white cat called Snowflake......

Today I want to bring for your attention my second post about the international musical project  FOLKEART.

The first post and information about the project you can find here:http://blog.bitcomet.com/svetlana/post_41853/

And, as yesterday, when I prepared the information for the post, was 7th July, and it was my friend's monti http://blog.bitcomet.com/monti84metal/) birthday, I want to dedicate this post for him. (

Happy birthday, my dear friend and thank......