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911 for Peace is a song of the american band Anti-Flag from Pittburgh. It was released in 2002 in album Mobilize. Words from Dr. Martin Luther King famous speech “I Have a Dream” are used in the song. 911 for Peace Lyrics It’s in the paper every dayI see it in the headlines and I […]

The other day I happened to observe for a long time the relationship between a mother and her son, about 3 years old. Everything was as usual. On the part of the child – a desire to play and moderate disobedience, on the part of the mother – care and moderate irritability. And suddenly, angry

Today, walking along the path, I suddenly saw a swift floundering helplessly on the ground. Swifts cannot walk on the ground. They can’t take off from the ground. Swifts live in nests located at a height, and begin their flight, rushing down from them, and at the end of the flight they return to the

The poem “Buchenwald alarm”, which later became a famous song, was written by the Soviet poet, front-line soldier Isaak Sobol (pseudonym Alexander Sobolev) in 1958. The reason was the opening of a memorial complex on the site of one of the largest Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Thuringia (East Germany). In Buchenwald, more than 56,000

“Get Along” is a song performed by American country genre singer Kenny Chesney. The song says about simple things in life that make a person happy and poses a question: “Can’t we all get along?” Chesney told about this song in an interview: “Get along… find the common ground… know the basic stuff is where

Russian song “Tomorrow and Always” was written by Yuri Chichkov (music) and Mikhail Plyatskovsky (lyrics). It was performed by the Great Children’s Choir of the All-Union Russian Radio and Central Television Under the control of Viktor Sergeevich Popov. Here is the video taken in 1986: Tomorrow and Always lyrics: 1If a good wizard said to

The song “Heal the World” was written by Michael Jackson. It was released in 1992 and became a part of his eighth album Dangerous. Ideas of humanism, peace and making the world a better place run through the whole song. In one of his interviews Michael Jackson said that “Heal The World” is the song

May There Always Be Sunshine is one the most popular Soviet/Russian children’s songs. The melody is of Arkady Ostrovsky and the text is of Lev Oshanin. Soviet singer Tamara Miansarova performed “Let there always be sunshine” at the VIII World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki. She became the laureate of the festival and

George Harrison wrote Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) over 1971 and 1972. That time he devoted considerate attention to providing help to refugees from Bangladesh during and after the Liberation War of 1971. The song was released in 1973 as the first track of the album Living in the Material World. It

The song “What a Wonderful World” was written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss. Louis Armstrong’s 1967 recording of the song was the first one. It was the time when Vietnam War was well under way. Louise Armstrong’s performance of “What a Wonderful World” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.