Saturday, September 17, 2005

Real Photos on The American Civil War

Fort Sumter after the surrender of Major Anderson.
The Union dead at the battle of Bull Run, 1861.
The Confederate dead at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
Confederate dead at the siege of Vicksburg in 1863.
A Union mortar at the battle of Cold Harbor in 1864.
Union troops resting in the trenches before making another assault at the Siege of Petersburg from 1864 to 1865.

Pictures on The American Revolution

View of the Battle of Saratoga from air
North Carolina regulars opened fire on British positions at the Battle of Bunker Hill
George Washington's militia brigade preparing to open fire.
The 23rd British battalion opened fire and began the first attack on American positions at the Battle of Saratoga.
George Washington's 1st Virginian regulars broken at the first British attack at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.
American troops taking positions at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775.
George Washington's men under fire at the Battle of Elizabethtown, Virginia in on November 1776 where he was defeated by the British.

Friday, September 16, 2005

Scientists Challenged to Teach Computers to Talk

You'll never meet "Crystal', but this disembodied computer voice will read aloud whatever you ask her to say. Type a few sentences and "Crystal" will pronounce your message almost as well as a human would. Only a slightly robotic accent betrays the fact that a machine is talking. Reading aloud is the simplest challenge in the 40-year struggle to teach human languages to the computers. Other computer-language skills are more complicated. They include taking dictation, responding to questions or commands, identifying a person who's speaking, translating speech from one language to another, and carrying on a modestly intelligent conversation on a limited subject.

The Coolest and Best Song?

"The way you move, it's to good to be true,
I ain't believe an ass like that,
you make my pee pee go
Doing, Doing, Doing"

"Ass Like That" is rated as one of the coolest and best songs in the song industry.
Composed by Eminem, it is rated as a five star song while others rate it as a four star song.
It was a hit in 2005 when the song was sang on the radio. Almost everyone all over the globe knew who the composer was and the title of the song. Eminem was awarded a award and medal at the University of Liverpool for this outstanding music. He has also composed other songs like the Mockingbird which was another hit two years ago. Eminem said on the radio, "I did not dream of becoming a composer, but my friends and parents encouraged and inspired me to go further on composing music."

Dynasty Warriors

LuBu, a famous character in Dynasty Warriors 3

Dynasty Warriors 5 has just came out in the Singapore game market. Invented by Koei, the game's graphic is much better than Dynasty Warriors 2,3 and 4. There are new characters like PangDe, CaoPi and LingTong. The best warriors in Dynasty Warriors 5 is believed to be ZuoSi and LuBu. LuBu has been the best warrior in Dynasty Warriors 2,3 and 4 but shared the title with ZuoSi in Dynasty Warriors 5. The game's not cheap, it's about S$112 but you get what you pay for. If you are playing Dynasty Warriors 5, you need a 8mb PS2 memory card to save the game. Dynasty Warriors could be played by two players. You can buy Dynasty Warriors 5 at Sony stalls. Everytime you complete a character's story mode, you can get a new character who has better moves and attacks. You can also do special codes to get special items like the Redhare. If you want to buy the guidebook, go to Taiwan or Japan's markets to buy it. It's not on sale in Singapore or Malaysia. Dynasty Warriors also came out on PSP. Dynasty Warriors PSP is very different from the PS2 game but is based on the characters in Dynasty Warriors 4.
Dynasty warriors is a very popular PS2 game and I think you should buy it. Please give comments if you want more imformation. Go to www.dynastywarriors5-images-ps2.blogspot.com for more pictures.