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Tennis at Windmill

Tennis at Windmill

Vietnam - 1915

Vietnam - 1915

In 1909 the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, and for, the peoples of the world. As an idealist and an internationalist, Kahn believed that he could use the new autochrome process, the world’s first user-friendly, true-colour photographic system, to promote cross-cultural peace and understanding.

Kahn used his vast fortune to send a group of intrepid photographers to more than fifty countries around the world, often at crucial junctures in their history, when age-old cultures were on the brink of being changed for ever by war and the march of twentieth-century globalisation. They documented in true colour the collapse of both the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires; the last traditional Celtic villages in Ireland, just a few years before they were demolished; and the soldiers of the First World War — in the trenches, and as they cooked their meals and laundered their uniforms behind the lines. They took the earliest-known colour photographs in countries as far apart as Vietnam and Brazil, Mongolia and Norway, Benin and the United States.

At the start of 1929 Kahn was still one of the richest men in Europe. Later that year the Wall Street Crash reduced his financial empire to rubble and in 1931 he was forced to bring his project to an end. Kahn died in 1940. His legacy, still kept at the Musée Albert-Kahn in the grounds of his estate near Paris, is now considered to be the most important collection of early colour photographs in the world. Read more…

via: http://www.albertkahn.co.uk/about.html

View Large - 35th Anniversary Black April Commemoration

35th Anniversary Black April Commemoration in Little Saigon, Southern California

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Linh Nguyễn/Người Việt

SANTA ANA (NV) – Với hơn một nửa số phiếu đã đếm xong, LS Nguyễn Xuân Nghĩa vẫn đứng đầu danh sách người đắc cử, và bà Ðào Bích Ty hạng nhì với khoảng cách trên 2,000 phiếu.

Các thiện nguyện viên kiểm phiếu tại Trung Tâm Công Giáo ngày 22 tháng 4, 2010.

Thông cáo báo chí ngày 22 tháng 4 do Ban Tổ Chức Bầu Cử Ðại Diện Cộng Ðồng Nam California gởi ra cho biết, “Sau lần kiểm phiếu tính đến 2 giờ sáng ngày Thứ Năm, 22 tháng 4, 2010, Ban Tổ Chức Bầu Cử (BTC) đã đếm được 9,929 phiếu trong tổng số hơn 18,000 phiếu.”

Kết quả sơ khởi được cập nhật sau khi đếm 32 trong tổng số 48 thùng phiếu cho thấy số phiếu của mỗi ứng cử viên như sau:

Nguyễn Xuân Nghĩa: 7,743 phiếu. continue reading…

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