Birds in Winter: Ducks, Egrets and More
Just a few photos of our local birds in Ponte Vedra Beach taken during an afternoon walk in January 2022: On the cover, Snowy Egret greets a Mottled Duck in a local pond. Northern...
Author: achidlovski
Birds in Winter: Snowy Egret
There is no snow in Florida in January. There are plenty of snowy egrets though. As seen in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL in January 2022.
Eugene Katsura: 1963 Prize of Moscow
History in Color: March 15, 1963, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Soviet featherweight Eugene Katsura of Kazan, Russia performs a split-style snatch in the 60kg class at the 1963 Prize of Moscow International tournament in...
60 Years Ago: Weightlifting Legends Zhabotinsky and Stogov in Training
History in Color: USSR Training Hall, 1962 – Legends of the Soviet and World Olympic weightlifting, a 24-year old super heavyweight Leonid Zhabotinsky and a 32-year old bantamweight Vladimir Stogov are having a friendly...
Viktor Mazin (1954-2022)
Minusinsk, Russia – Legendary Soviet Olympic weightlifter, Olympic champion, Viktor Mazin died at the age of 67. Viktor Mazin won the 1980 Summer Olympics in the featherweight class and, at 26, earned the highest...
Going for the World Records in Press in 1968, Part 3: Kaarlo Kangasniemi (Finland)
With 3 months left to the Olympic tournament in Mexico City, three outstanding pressers managed to set world records in the mid heavyweight (90kg class) . Part 1. June 3, 1968, Rattvik, Sweden –...
Going for the World Records in Press in 1968, Part 2: Karl Pumpurins (Latvia, USSR)
With 3 months left to the Olympic tournament in Mexico City, three outstanding pressers managed to set world records in the mid heavyweight (90kg class) . Part 1. June 3, 1968, Rattvik, Sweden –...
Going for the World Records in Press in 1968, Part 1: Bo Johansson (Sweden)
With 3 months left to the Olympic tournament in Mexico City, three outstanding pressers managed to set world records in the mid heavyweight (90kg class) . Part 1. June 3, 1968, Rattvik, Sweden –...
Happy New Year 2022
The lovely New Year has arrived to us here in subtropics of Florida. It’s January 1, 2022 in terms of time and 66 degrees in terms of temperature. From our gazebo to yours: Happy...
