MOBILE PHONES

Mobile phones have made a big difference in our lives. It has changed our daily basis for example, communication. Mobile phones have made communication easier. It allows people from such a distance to communicate easily without having to meet, sending letters or sending a messenger. By hitting a few buttons, these people can be easily connected and communicate with each other. In the past, for a distance communication, the people would have to send letter to the people they would like to communicate with. After sending the letter, they would have to wait for a few days for the letter to arrive to the rightful owner and again, wait for a few days for the reply. This type of communication takes time but with mobile phones, it had made a big difference. With mobile phones, word can be expressed in words. It is also fast and efficient. Plus with today’s leading lifestyle, speed and efficiency is important. That is why mobile phones is needed nowadays, to make difference, and for better speed and efficiency in communication.

THE INDEPENDENCE OF ALBANIA

The first of the Balkan Wars , in 1912, gave the Albanians an opportunity to proclaim their independence. During the Second Balkan War (1913), Albania was occupied by the Serbs. A conference of Great Power ambassadors defined the country's borders in 1913 and destroyed the dream of a Greater Albania by ceding large tracts to Montenegro, Serbia, and Greece. The ambassadors at the conference placed Albania under their guarantee and named William, prince of Wied , as its ruler. Within a year he had fled, as World War I erupted and Albania became a battleground for contending Serb, Montenegrin, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, and Austrian forces. Secret treaties drafted during the war called for Albania's dismemberment, but Albanian resistance and the principle of self-determination as promoted by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson helped to restore an independent Albania. In 1920 the Congress of Lushnje reasserted Albanian independence. The early postwar years witnessed a struggle between conservative landlords led by Ahmed Zogu and Western-influenced liberals under Bishop Fan S. Noli. After Noli's forces seized power in 1924, Zogu fled to Yugoslavia, where he secured foreign support for an army to invade Albania. In 1925, Albania was proclaimed a republic under his presidency; in 1928 he became King Zog . Italy, whose political and economic influence in Albania had steadily increased, invaded the country in 1939, forcing Zog into exile and bringing Albania under Italian hegemony. The Albanian puppet government declared war on the Allies in 1940; but resistance groups, notably the extreme leftist partisans under Enver Hoxha , waged guerrilla warfare against the occupying Axis armies. In 1943-44, a civil war also raged between the partisans and non-Communist forces within Albania. Albania was liberated from the Axis invaders without the aid of the Red Army or of direct Soviet military assistance, and received most of its war matériel from the Anglo-American command in Italy.

Fossils from the 'Missing Years' in Africa

Researchers say they have identified animal fossils from 27 000 000 years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The remains are from the middle of a time called the "missing years" or the "dark period ." This is because scientists have so little information about the mammals that lived then. The period began 32 million years ago. Africa and Arabia were a single continent, a huge island known as Afro - Arabia. The period ended 24 000 000 years ago, after a land bridge formed with Eurasia.

John Kappelman is an anthropologist at the University of Texas in Austin and leader of the American and Ethiopian search team. Mr Kappelman says 8 000 000 years is a long time to lack information about a continent. He says scientists have only been able to guess what happened to African mammals during that period. The remains found in the Chilga area of Ethiopia offer important evidence.

The remains include teeth, skull pieces and other bones. The scientists found them in a farming area about 2000 meters above sea level, in the highlands of Ethiopia. Satellite pictures helped the researchers decide where to dig. The fossils came from about 70 different digs. The magazine Nature published the findings. The scientists say the fossils come from before large numbers of animals began to arrive in Africa from Europe and Asia. The fossils also show that some animals existed millions of years before scientists had thought.

The researchers found several kinds of ancient proboscideans. These are animals with trunks. Modern elephants are proboscideans. Scientists have long thought elephants began in Africa. They say this discovery proves that theory. The ancestors weighed about 1000 kilograms, a lot smaller than African elephants today.

John Kappelman says the elephant ancestors were one of the few African mammals that survived the invasion of mammals from Eurasia. He says elephants got their start in Africa during the eight - million - year period, and then spread around the world. The researchers also found the remains of an ancient animal with two horns on its head, called the arsinoithere. The scientists were excited, because this is the youngest set of such remains yet discovered. The animal is much larger than its ancestors. Earlier forms were about the size of pigs. But the arsinoithere found at Chilga was about two meters tall and weighed more than two tons.

They were similar to the modern rhinoceros. The two are not related. In fact, scientists thought arsinoitheres had disappeared from the Afro - Arabian continent once rhinos arrived from Eurasia. One researcher says it now appears they did not compete for survival. Scientists say they expect more discoveries to come about the mammals that lived during the so - called missing years.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor and film director of the silent film era, and became one of the best-known film stars in the world before the end of the First World War. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing, and from 1918 composing the music. With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919.
Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent movie comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the Music Hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, until close to his death at the age of 88. His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin's identification with the left ultimately forced him to resettle in Europe during the McCarthy era in the early 1950s.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time. In 2008, Martin Sieff, in a review of the book Chaplin: A Life, wrote: "Chaplin was not just 'big', he was gigantic. In 1915, he burst onto a war-torn world bringing it the gift of comedy, laughter and relief while it was tearing itself apart through the First World War. Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of Hitler, he stayed on the job. It is doubtful any individual has ever given more entertainment, pleasure and relief to so many human beings when they needed it the most". George Bernard Shaw called Chaplin "the only genius to come out of the movie industry".

HERE AT THE ALBANIAN FESTIVAL!!!

HELLO ANN!!!


I'M WRITING TO YOU TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF THESE DAYS. I'M HERE TO THE CENTRE OF THE CAPITAL CITY OF OUR COUNTRY TIRANA ENJOYING THE FESTIVAL WITH MY FRIENDS.IT'S GREAT HERE. THERE IS A CONCERT WITH OUR BEST SINGERS AND THEY ARE PERFORMING LIVE. WE ARE DANCING AND GOING CRAZY (I'M KIDDING). I CAN'T BELIEVE. THERE IS MY FAVOURITE SINGER IN FRONT OF ME. HE IS SO CUTE. BEING HERE IS JUST WONDERFUL. NOW I'M EATING A BIG HAMBURGER WITH A LOT OF SAUCE. THAT'S DELICOUS....HAHA... HAPE YOU ARE NOT HUNGRY RIGHT NOW. THERE ARE AND SOME OTHER ACTIVITIES ROUND HERE LIKE: PLAYING SOME GAMES , SOME COMPETITIONS OF DANCING.... ETC.

EVERYTHING IS ORGANISED IN THE RIGHT WAY!!!

I WESH YOU WERE HERE WITH US.... THAT WOULD BE GREAT... WRITE ME SOON!!!

KISS YOU

ELVA ^_^

PLACES TO EAT

EATING IN A RESTAURANT

HERE ARE SOME TIPS OF WHAT YOU CAN ORDER:

Clear broth-based soups like Chinese won ton or hot and sour soup, consumee, tortilla soup, or minestrone.
Lettuce or spinach salads with vegetables and dressing on the side. Go easy on the bacon bits, croutons, cheese, and mayonnaise-based items like macaroni salad or tuna salad (1/4 cup tuna salad = 190 calories).
Raw vegetables (crudités) with a small amount of low-calorie dip.
Steamed vegetables with a slice of lemon; grilled veggies if not drenched in oil.
Meats that are grilled, broiled, roasted or baked without added fat. Choose seafood that is broiled, baked, steamed, blackened, or poached—think tender sole poached in parchment with broth, savory vegetables and herbs.
A reasonable portion of steak – 3-6 oz.; other lean meat cuts served au jus, with a piquant fruit sauce, or stir-fried with vegetables. Again, go easy on the rich sauces.
A baked potato with a pat of butter or small amount of sour cream. Top with broccoli, low-fat chili, or salsa .
Sandwiches on whole wheat, pita, multigrain breads; with low-fat deli meats and cheeses; mustard, relish, ketchup, or low-fat mayonnaise. Add flavor and vitamins with roasted sweet peppers, lettuce, tomato, jalapenos, and chopped olives (small amount).
Fresh fruit, sherbet, and angel food cake are good choices for dessert.

EATING IN A FAST FOOD

Fast Food: It's fast! It's easy! It tastes good! There are lots of reasons why people cruise through fast food restaurants. "I'm trying to lose weight," is not usually one of them.People on fast foods can eat things with lots of fat like: hamburgers , cheeseburgers, pizzas, fried patatoes, etc.

They are not healthy but people don't care. They like like them very much and that is the reason why nowdays people are getting fatter and fatter.

EATING AT HOME

Home is the place where you can feel yourself comfortable and where you can eat as you want. You can eat things that your mother cooks and of course you can give your opinon. That's the place i like to eat because i don't mind if i get dirty or if i don't like the food because i can take something else. I like to eat at home because my mother is a great cooker especially for desserts.

FLEA MARKETS

Set against a backdrop of the almost vertical wall of the kruja mountains,the small town of Kruja is known by many as the ‘Balcony of the Adriatic’. Kruja's mountain citadel affords magnificent views of the surrounding region and across the coastal plains to the sea.The most interesting thing about Kruja is its bazaar.(except its castle).Although small, Kruja Bazaar is also worth exploring with its single street of quaint shops which have undergone extensive restoration.Kruja's old bazaar is well preserved, but now houses mainly souvenir shops where traditional Albanian costumes, musical instruments etc can be bought; also old books and memorabilia of the Communist days are for sale. Still, with its cobbled streets and little mosques it's a very photogenic place.Although only a single street of shops, the wooden buildings are of a very high architectural quality, and contain the kind of pleasant mixture of cafés and small souvenir and antique shops.That is a lovely place.There is the answer for all those people who want to know more about albanian culture and traditions.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU CAN FIND AT THE FLEA MARKETS IN KRUJA BAZAAR.

It's just wonderful to see places like these in your country because they are like a document that shows every detail of the past . These flea markets are very cheap and they have very beautiful things like those i mentioned before. Every toursit should visit Kruja city because it is a very beautiful experiense.