Michail SERGEEV
ALMATY � KAPCHAGAI, May 30
(THE GLOBE)
From May 29 to 30 the second international beach-volleyball competition �Kapchagai-99� was held in Kapchagai, in the territory of the �Aqua park�.
Thirty men�s teams and 20 women�s teams from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan took place in the competition. The Volleyball Federation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, sport club �Kazakhtelecom� and the akimat of Kapchagai were the organisers of this sport event.
In the result of persistent competition CSKA-3 (Almaty) team was the winner among the men�s teams, and among women�s teams � �Kalkaman� (Almaty) won. The best players of this competition were named Yevgeny Mashebin and Dmitry Gorbatkov.
The sponsors of the international competition �KAPCHAGAI-99� were the company �K� Cell� and the �Aqua park�, in the territory of which this competition was held.
This type of volleyball has not been widely spread as a classical sport. In 1996 beach volleyball was included in the program of the Olympic Games in Atlanta for the first time. this fact, according to sport experts, proves a growing popularity of beach volleyball. It is especially popular in USA and Southern America.
1 June 1926 - Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker Mortenson) (actress: Gentleman Prefer Blondes, The Seven-Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, The Asphalt Jungle, Diamonds are a Girl�s Best Friend, The Misfits; famous centerfold: Playboy [1952])
3 June 1951 - Mel Gibson (actor: The Road Warrior, Lethal Weapon[s])
1 June 1908 - John Krohn decided to take a walk around the United States this day � with his wheelbarrow! He completed the walk around the perimeter of the U.S. in 357 days, (it�s a good thing Alaska & Hawaii weren�t states then). He walked 9,024 miles, went through 11 pair of shoes, 112 pair of socks, five wheels for his trusty wheelbarrow and never walked on Sunday. You remember the refrain, �Never on Sunday...� Well, John just had a slightly different interpretation.
2 June 1953 - The coronation of 27-year-old Queen Elizabeth II was broadcast on this day. The crowning of the new Queen of England became one of the first international news events to be given complete coverage on television. All three American TV networks, plus the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) provided colorful descriptions of the pomp and circumstance. Most viewers saw the coronation in black and white because color TV was not yet the standard of the industry. Quality of the pictures, in fact, was lacking compared to today�s international, and often instantaneous broadcasts, as there was no satellite TV transmission at the time. The �live� pictures were relayed by telephone cable.
3 June 1924 - King Tut�s Sarcophagus Uncovered. Two years after British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt, they uncover the greatest treasure of the tomb�a stone sarcophagus containing a solid gold coffin that holds the mummy of Tutankhamen. When Carter first arrived in Egypt in 1891, the majority of the ancient Egyptian tombs had been discovered, although the little-known Pharaoh Tutankhamen, who had died when he was only nineteen, was still unaccounted for. After World War I, Carter began an intensive search for �King Tut�s Tomb,� finally finding steps to the burial room hidden in the debris near the entrance of the nearby tomb of King Ramses VI in the Valley of the Kings. On November 26, 1922, Carter and fellow archaeologist Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb, finding it miraculously intact. Thus began a monumental excavation process in which Carter carefully explored the four-room tomb over four years, uncovering an incredible collection of several thousand objects. The most splendid architectural find was a stone sarcophagus containing three coffins nested within each other. Inside the final coffin, made out of solid gold, was the mummy of the boy-king Tutankhamen, preserved for over three thousand years.
The Kosteyev State National Museum. Exhibition of the works of S. Kalmykov, I. Itkind, V. Eifert, and Rudolf Nuriev�s painting.
From 10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Closed on Monday.
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