An ice palace or ice castle is a castle-like structure made of blocks of ice. These blocks are usually harvested from nearby rivers or lakes when they become frozen in winter. The first known ice palace (or, rather, ice house, ледяной дом in Russian) appeared in St. Petersburg, Russia and was the handiwork of Empress Anna.
In the cold winter of 1739–1740, Anna Ivanovna gave an order to build a palace made of ice in St. Petersburg. The palace and the surrounding festivities were part of the celebration of Russia's victory over the Ottoman Empire. She ordered the architect Pyotr Yeropkin to design the building. It was built under the supervision of Georg Kraft, who left a detailed description of the palace.
The palace was 20 meters tall and 50 meters wide. Huge ice blocks were "glued" together with water. The garden was filled with ice trees with ice birds and an ice statue of an elephant. The outer walls were lined with ice sculptures. Before the palace there were artillery pieces also made of ice. The palace was also furnished with furniture made of ice, including an ice bed with ice mattress and pillows. The whole structure was surrounded with a tall wooden fence.
Ice Palace (Russian: Ледовый Дворец, Ledovy Dvorets) is an arena in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was built for the 2000 IIHF World Championship and opened in 2000. It holds 12,300 people.
Ice Palace is primarily used for ice hockey and is the home arena for SKA St. Petersburg. It hosted the IIHF European Champions Cup in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. It is also used for concerts, exhibitions and as a skating rink.
American superstar Cher performed during her marathon Living Proof: The Farewell Tour on June 24, 2004.
Sting performed during his Symphonicities Tour on September 13, 2010, along with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Jennifer Lopez took her first world tour Dance Again World Tour on November 8, 2012.
Placebo performed here on July 7, 2014 on their Loud Like Love Tour.
Fall Out Boy is performing on Oct. 25th, 2015.
The Ice Palace is a 6,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Cherepovets, Russia. It was open in 2007. It replaced Sports-Concert Hall Almaz as the home of Russian ice hockey team Severstal Cherepovets.
Coordinates: 59°5′18″N 37°55′11″E / 59.08833°N 37.91972°E / 59.08833; 37.91972
"Slow Motion" is a song by rapper Juvenile featuring Soulja Slim. It was released as a single in March 2004 and is Juvenile's only number one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The song is an original production by Danny Kartel. It held the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks from August 7, 2004, and was the first number one for both Juvenile and Soulja Slim. It was the seventh song to reach #1 posthumously for a credited artist and also the first #1 hit for Cash Money Records.
Although not planned as a tribute, it came out as one of the more popular posthumous songs because of Soulja Slim's sudden death in November 2003, before the recording process was released (though the beat and lyrics had already been recorded by Soulja).
The "slow motion" of the title is the movement of a woman's body, with the lyrics proclaiming: "Uh, I like it like that / She working that back; I don't know how to act / Slow motion for me, slow motion for me / Slow motion for me; move it slow motion for me".
Slow Motion is a composition for accordion by Toshio Hosokawa written in 2002 for Teodoro Anzellotti, who premiered it in Vienna's Konzerthaus on April 3 that year. Lasting circa 13 minutes, it is a contemplative work inspired in gagaku and its integration of the dancer's bodies with the earth, with the accordion emulating a shō playing a nocturnal dance in the moonlight.
The Long Road is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Nickelback, released on September 23, 2003.
The album was certified 3x Platinum by the RIAA in March 2005 and it had sold 3,591,000 copies as of April 2011. It has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and in the year 2003, was only the album to have sold over 2 million copies worldwide. It debuted at #6 on the Billboard 200 and was ranked #157 on Billboard's 200 Albums of the Decade.
It is the band's last album with Ryan Vikedal as drummer.
Country music singer Travis Tritt released a cover version of the track "Should've Listened" on his August 2007 album, The Storm.
The songs "Flat on the Floor" and "Believe It or Not" are featured in the game FlatOut 2.
All lyrics written by Chad Kroeger except "Someday" by Ryan Peake, Chad Kroeger & Mike Kroeger and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" by Bernie Taupin, all music composed by Nickelback except "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" by Elton John.
Slow, slow fall, slow fall backwards
Slow, slow fall, slow fall backwards
Turn, a turn, a turn with closed eyes
Turn, I took a turn, a turn with closed eyes
When I brought a tear,
A tear to my mama’s eye
When I brought a fear,
A fear to my mama’s eye
Play a dark night, dark night by the steep
Play a dark night, dark night by the steep
When I brought a tear,
A tear to my mama’s eye
When I brought a fear,
A fear to my mama’s eye
Slow, slow fall, slow fall backwards
Slow, slow fall, slow fall backwards
When I brought a tear,
A tear to my mama’s eye
When I brought a fear,