Showing posts with label 2010 Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2010 Olympics. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Norway, Switzerland And Sweden Are The Real 2010 Winners

As the imported snow starts to melt, the nation of Canada are furiously pounding their collective calculators to add up how much the last two weeks has cost them. Actually, they will probably spend the next fortnight gloating about the ice hockey gold medal - the finances can take a back seat for the time being.

Record Level Of Seismic Activity At GameLive.com

The highly sensitive seismic monitoring equipment at GameLive.com went off the charts yesterday with the epicenter believed to have been in a Canadian indoor location on some solidly frozen ice. The incident is believed to have occurred at 3/4" above the earth's crust and lasted more than 90 minutes with the most violent activity occurring around 5pm local time.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Switzerland's Women Need A Miracle

February 22nd 1980 is a date that it etched in the minds of a lot of people. Most will remember it as the sad day when Oskar Kokoschka, an Austrian artist and playwright most famous for his expressionistic paintings, died at the age of 93. After fleeing Austria from the Nazis in 1934 he lived in Czechoslovakia, the United Kingdom, the United States before moving to Switzerland where he died in the Montreux region.