TO OLD FRIENDS: A TIP OF THE HAT TO A.R.M.

TO OLD FRIENDS

A TIP OF THE HAT

TO A. R. M.

RUSSIA CELEBRATES VICTORY IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR SIXTY-FIVE YEARS ON: PART OF THE PRICE PAID

RUSSIA CELEBRATES VICTORY

IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

(WORLD WAR II)

SIXTY-FIVE YEARS ON

THE ETERNAL FLAME

AND SOME OF THE NAMES

OF THE DEAD

IN THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD

VOLGOGRAD (RUSSIA)

BACK IN THE USSR

1984

SOME OF THE PRICE PAID

TED SORENSEN, JFK SPEECHWRITER & CONFIDANTE, b. May 8, 1928

THEODORE SORENSEN

JFK SPEECHWRITER

& CONFIDANTE

b. May 8, 1928

TED SORENSEN

 at

THE JOHN F.

KENNEDY LIBRARY

JACQUES CHIRAC ELECTED PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, May 7, 1995

JACQUES CHIRAC 

ELECTED PRESIDENT

OF FRANCE

May 7, 1995

Served until May 16, 2007

A BBC summing up/appreciation here

("The house that Jacques Chirac built") 

TONY BLAIR, FORMER PRIME MINISTER, b. May 6, 1953, CELEBRATES A BIRTHDAY AS THE U.K. GOES TO THE POLLS

TONY BLAIR

FORMER PRIME MINISTER

b. May 6, 1953

CELEBRATES A BIRTHDAY

AS THE U.K. GOES TO THE POLLS,

AND THE FATE OF

THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT

LOOKS, AT BEST, UNCERTAIN

THE G-8 LEADERS POSE FOR

THEIR "FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH"

IN COLOGNE, GERMANY, IN 1999

TONY BLAIR IS

THIRD FROM CAMERA RIGHT

CARNEGIE HALL ("MUSIC HALL") OPENED IN NEW YORK CITY, May 5, 1891

CARNEGIE HALL

(ORIGINALLY NAMED "MUSIC HALL")

OPENED IN NEW YORK CITY

May 5, 1891

THE MUSICIANS FILE INTO CARNEGIE HALL

FOR A PERFORMANCE

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

("Please turn off your cellphones and

other electronic devices. Thank You.")

KURT MASUR CONDUCTING

TWENTY YEARS SINCE LATVIA DECLARED INDEPENDENCE FROM THE SOVIET UNION

LATVIA

DECLARES INDEPENDENCE

FROM THE SOVIET UNION

May 4, 1990

MONUMENT

TO LIBERTY

RIGA (LATVIA), USSR 1984

IN HONOR OF VALERY GERGIEV: THE KIROV BALLET II

IN HONOR OF

VALERY GERGIEV

(GENERAL DIRECTOR OF

THE KIROV BALLET)

II

THE KIROV BALLET

Photographed at the Kirov Theater

(now the Mariinsky)

in Leningrad (St. Petersburg)

USSR 1984

IN HONOR OF VALERY GERGIEV: THE KIROV/MARIINSKY THEATER

IN HONOR OF VALERY GERGIEV

THE KIROV/MARIINSKY THEATER

Leningrad (St. Petersburg)

Photographed in 1984

Back in the USSR

Gergiev, the General Director of the Mariinsky,

was born May 2, 1953

A GLIMPSE OF SHANGHAI'S PAST AS SHANGHAI WORLD EXPO 2010 OPENS

A GLIMPSE OF

SHANGHAI'S PAST AS

SHANGHAI WORLD EXPO 2010

OPENS

May 1, 2010

SHANGHAI RIVER SUNSET

June 1981

Some Shanghai Preservation Efforts here