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UK and US, "Britain and America . . . two great nations divided by the same language," observed once Sir Winston Churchill. Similarly, Oscar Wilde elaborated, "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language." Yes, both of them were joking about our language differences, in reality only minor and insignificant, between the British English and American English.

American take on the same has never been so brilliant as in 1955 Meeting the Queen episode of the famous "I Love Lucy Show." Lucy and Ethel, standing in front of the Buckingham Palace, are trying unsuccessfully to understand Cockney accent of a mumbly Londoner. Ethel, "Sir, you have to pardon us, we're Americans. We don't understand English!" Lucy, "Could you perhaps talk just a bit slower?"

A good news for all Englishmen and New Englanders: No other speech in the USA is as close to British English as the New England's American English. You are going to "Pa[r]k the ca[r] in Ha[r]va[r]d Ya[r]d" only in Massachusetts! And now, after we have established the common ground, the English language, between England and New England, we may move to more important issues, such as . . . photography!

NEW ENGLAND is a region in the northeastern corner of the US, borthering Canada and New York. Its six states are: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. According to the 2006 – 2008 survey, the population of New England was 14,250,000. The majority of them having European ancestry: Irish (21.1 %), French (15.3 %), Italian 14.4 %), English (13.7 %), German (8.2 %), Polish (5.6 %), Portuguese (3.5 %), Scottish (3.1 %), Scotch-Irish descent (2.1 %).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England

In one of the earliest English settlements in North America, Pilgrims from England first settled in New England in 1620, to form Plymouth Colony. Ten years later, the Puritans from the UK settled north of Plymouth Colony in Boston, thus forming Massachusetts Bay Colony. Over the next 130 years, New England fought in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their native allies. In the late 18th century, the New England Colonies initiated the resistance to the British that led to the American Revolutionary War in 1775, the expulsion of the British from New England in spring 1776, and the Declaration of Independence in July 1776.

Blackout in SOPA Protest

Many large websites will go dark on Wednesday Jan. 18, 2012. to protest an anti-piracy SOPA bill that critics say will wreck the Internet as we know it. The controversial legislation has turned into an all-out war between Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Media companies have united in favor of it, while tech's power players are throwing their might into opposing it. Proponents of the SOPA bill dismiss accusations of censorship, but SOPA's critics saythat the bill's backers don't understand the Internet, and therefore don't appreciate the implications of the legislation they're considering.

Thanks to bittbox for the texture!

Our new group "GAGA 4 ARTS" is up and running! It's a group where you may post your best ARTS photographs (= pics that are in themselves ART and present you as an artist) as well as ARTISTIC photographs which show ARTS (= pics depicting ART done & performed by others).

I hope that many of you will join us in this innovative and challenging "GAGA 4 ARTS" project. Please, check our new group @ ₪ GAGA 4 ARTS ₪ [+Add 1/ Award 3+] and join us if you wish!

Wishing you a Happy New Year, dear Flickr friends!
Cheers from Boston,
Felix