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15.01.2021
Heydar Aliyev Foundation donated New Year gifts to orphanages and boarding schools
Every year, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, led by First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva, on the eve of the Day of Solidarity of World Azerbaijanis and the New Year organizes a celebration in the Buta Palace for children from orphanages and boarding schools. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's celebration was contrary to the rules of the quarantine regime, so the Foundation congratulated the children in a different format.
In order to please the pupils of orphanages and boarding schools, representatives of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation visited them and handed them holiday gifts. In order to create a festive mood for children this year, who are always looking forward to the actions organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the Foundation prepared gifts in accordance with the taste and wishes of the children. Children were presented with soft toys that are a symbol of 2021, their favorite sweets and Lego bricks.
Along with Baku, gifts from the Heydar Aliyev Foundation were transferred to orphanages, boarding schools in Ganja, Lankaran and Sheki, social institutions for children in need of special care, and the Children's Psychoneurological Center.
The festive action organized by the Fund covered about two thousand children.
Children's center "18 -" as a club for children and parents
A new cozy and hospitable children's space, where you can sing, dance, play, study, learn new things and find friends, has opened at the Yeltsin Center. The club for children of different ages was named Children's Center "18 -".
Children's club "18 -" is located on the third floor of the Yeltsin Center. There is already a spacious play area where you can run and jump, a comfortable classroom, a specially equipped kitchen, which has everything you need not only for a tea break, but also for cooking lessons. And many more smart and kind toys and books, puzzles, wooden constructors and Lego. Very soon, children will also have the opportunity to practice choreography, yoga and drawing, and drawing classes will be available to both children and adults.
Designating the new space as "18 minus", its inspirers and creators, including, of course, children, were guided by the fact that it would be open and comfortable for everyone who feels 18 years old and younger.
JFK Presidential Library
Frank Sinatra and John F. Kennedy Had One of the Most Powerful Friendships in History
The ’50s were marked by several historic milestones — the escalating Cold War, the launch of Sputnik 1, and the invention of the polio vaccine. But it also marked the peak of an unlikely, historic friendship between politician John F. Kennedy and musician Frank Sinatra.
The former was still a U.S. senator and had yet to declare his candidacy to be 35th president of the United States, and the latter had just started his music career revival and his so-called Capitol years. But the two formed a powerful friendship that would change the course of history forever.
Elvis Met Nixon 50 Years Ago Today in One of the Weirdest White House Meetings in History
Fifty years ago today, Elvis Presley decided to drop by the White House on a whim to meet Richard Nixon. The strangely funny encounter has become one of the most enduringly popular Oval Office moments in history: The bejeweled rock icon, in purple velvet pants and a matching cape blazer, shakes hands with the staid president for a photo-op that looks like it could’ve been fake. It’s the most requested photograph from the U.S. National Archives - an item more coveted than copies of the Constitution.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
This day in history
President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe as part of Operation Overlord. This is Christmas Eve.
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library hosts virtual birthday celebration
Monday would have been Woodrow Wilson’s 164th birthday. Usually, on this day, the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum opens its doors to the public for a free open house and tours of Wilson’s birthplace. Except this year, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum hosted a virtual birthday celebration.
President Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton on December 28, 1856. The museum celebrated the occasion with a virtual talk about Wilson’s 1912 visit.
In 1912 Woodrow Wilson had been elected president of the United States, but not yet inaugurated,” said Museum Curator Andrew Phillips. “He chose to celebrate that birthday, his 56th, at his birthplace”.
And they launched a new 360 tour of the president’s birthplace which has been closed since March due to social distancing restrictions.