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We All Shine On with John Lennon
We can’t let this day go by without mentioning October 9th would have been John Lennon’s 68th birthday. Artist, Beatle, songwriter, musician, husband, father, activist and MBE, he just wanted to ‘imagine peace for all the world.’
Top 10 Extraordinary Stamps of 2008
StampNews.Com has come up with a list of the "Top 10 Extraordinary Stamps of 2008."These are;#1. Embroidered stamp of Austria.#2. UEFA EURO 2008 Ball Stamp.#3. Imagine Peace Tower on New Icelandic Stamp.#4. Rally Driver Shows his View of Aland.#5. Lithuania's drop-shaped stamp.#6. Living images on Alpine Skiing stamps.#7. Experience a movie on Australian stamp.#8. Hong Kong stamps feature glow-in-the-dark jellyfish.#9. 'Abstract Guernsey' stamps.#10. Austria: The Willendorf Venus.For more inform
Imagine Peace, Cultivate Happiness
Imagine PeaceImagine Peace, Cultivate HappinessBy Richard PowerThe IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in Reykjavik has gone dark again. Dedicated on October 9th 2007, Lennon’s 67th birthday, it is "an outdoor work of art conceived by Yoko Ono in memory of John Lennon" and "symbolizes Lennon’s and Ono’s struggle for world peace which began in the sixties."Yoko Ono has it lit every year from October 9th (the anniversary of John Lennon's birth) to December 8th (the anniversary of his assassination) as a symbol, a
The Wish Tree
Englemann Oak at Santa Rosa Plateau, my photo. Early in August, Yoko Ono opened a project in Pasadena. The installation, "Wish Trees", is 21 small crape myrtle trees at the One Colorado mall. Passer-bys are invited to write a wish and tie it to a tree. Ono doesn't plan to read the wishes; she plans to store them in the Imagine Peace Tower of the coast of Iceland. A local reporter and many visitors to the trees have read some of them. Here is a sampling: I wish for my brother to get off drug
Lennon-Ono Peace Prize goes to 300,000 people
The first Lennon-Ono Peace Prize was awarded this afternoon in a ceremony in Reykjavik on John Lennon’s birthday. Yoko is in Iceland to light the Imagine Peace Tower which will shine until 8 December, the day Lennon was shot. In a rare piece of good news for Iceland, the entire country was chosen to receive the [...]
Yoko Ono celebrates John's birthday in Iceland
Yoko Ono arrives in Iceland today to present the Lennon-Ono Peace Prize and to reignite the Imagine Peace Tower. The Peace Prize will be presented in Reykjavik tomorrow, October 9, John Lennon's birthday. The Tower is inscribed with "Imagine Peace" in many languages and shines a bright light pointing upwards which can be seen for many miles.
Yoko Ono to Iceland
Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon, arrives in Iceland today to present the Lennon-Ono Peace Prize and to reignite the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island in Reykjavik Bay. The Peace Prize will be presented in Reykjavik at 14.00 tomorrow, 9th October, John Lennon’s birthday, Visir.is reports. Tomorrow evening Ono will sail to Videy Island [...]
