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💰 Special Characters Map for use on Twitter, FaceBook, Blogs and Social Media Sites

★ Free character maps online where you can copy and paste a special character from a Web page into

Here are some to get you started:

♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ✐ ❂ ♓ ☨ ☧ ☦ ✁ ✃ ✄ ✎ ☬ ☫ ❉ ❆ ♅ ♇ ♆ ♙ ♟ ♔ ♕ ♖ ♗ ♘ © ® ™ … ∞ ≤ ≥ « » ç ∫ µ ◊ ı ¥ € £ ƒ $ º ª ‽ ♤ ✈ ♪ ☤ ♀ ☾ ☝ ♖ ✽ ☯ ♥ ☺ ♬ ☹ ☑ ✩ ☠ ✔ ✉ ♂ ✖ ✏ ♝ ❀ ♨ ❦ ☁ ✌ ♛ ❁ ☪ ☂ ★ ✇ ♺ ☭ ☃ ☛ ♞ ✿ ☮ ♘ ✾ ☄ ☟ ✝ ☼ ☚ ♟ ✺ ☥ ✂ ✍ ♕ ✵ ☉ ☇ ☈ ☡ ✠ ☊ ☋ ☌ ☍ ♁ ✇ ☢ ☣ ✣ ✡ ☞ ☜ ✜ ✛ ❥ ♗ ♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ Ω ≈ * § ∆ ¬ † & æ π ¡ ¿ ø å ∂ • ¶ œ Æ ß ÷ ‰ √ ª % ♠ ☎ ☻ ♫ ☒ ˚ ¯ º ‽ ≠ ˆ ˜ ˘ ∑ ƒ

❄ Add Special Characters in Twitter With the Windows Character Map

1. Click Start, open your list of All Programs, and open the Accessories folder. Navigate to System Tools and open the Character Map program.

2. Select a font from the list.

3. Check the Advanced view box.

4. In the Character set list, select Unicode.

5. In the Group by list, select All to browse all available characters by font, or select Unicode Subrange to browse characters by category.

6. Collect characters by highlighting them and clicking Select. When you are finished collecting, click Copy to copy the characters to the clipboard. You can now paste them into your message.
Use Facebook Emoticons

Here is the complete list of Facebook Chat emoticons and what character combinations create them. Note that these currently only work in Facebook Chat and will not display correctly in Facebook status updates or comments.

Smile 🙂 🙂 :] =)

Frown 😦 😦 :[ =(

Tongue 😛 😛 :-p :p =P

Grin 😀 😀 =D

Gasp :-O :O 😮 😮

Wink 😉 😉

Glasses 😎 8) B-) B)

Sunglasses 8-| 8| B-| B|

Grumpy 😡 >:-(

Unsure :-\

Cry 😥

Devil 3:) 3:-)

Angel O:) O:-)

Kiss :-* :*

Heart :O >:-O >:o >:-o

Pacman :v

Curly Lips :3

Robot :|]

Chris Putnam :putnam:

Shark (^^^)

Penguin <(“)

42 :42:

Using Emoticons in Gmail, Gchat, and Other Google Services

To unlock all available emoticons in Gmail:

1. Click the Gear icon in the top right corner, then click Labs.

2. Type emoji in the Search for labs box.

3. Enable Extra Emoji and click Save Changes. Enable the Extra Emoji option in Google Labs.

4. When composing a message, click the Insert Emoticon symbol to browse. Click any symbol to insert it into your message.

You must be in rich formatting mode to insert emoticons. In GChat, some emoticons are easy to select, but others are hidden:

1. Click the Gear icon in the top right corner, then click Mail Settings.

2. In the Chat tab, select Emoticons on at the bottom. Click Save Changes. Switch on emoticons in the Chat tab.

3. Open a new chat window and click the emoticon in the corner to browse GChat emoticons. Nice job!

One final tidbit: The emoticons listed in the GChat window aren’t all that are available.

Here is a top-secret list of hidden GChat emoticons:

Devil }:-)

Moustache :{

Robot [:|]

Poo ~@~

Rock Out \m/

Monkey :(|)

Bell +/’\

Crab V.v.V Wince >.<

Broken heart

Pig :(:)

Kiss 😡

Use your number keypad (ALT + Number Pad.) for these special characters

Special characters work on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Tumblr.

☺           ALt+1

☻          ALt+2

♥            ALt+3

♦             ALt+4

♣            ALt+5

♠             ALt+6

•             ALt+7

◘            ALt+8

○             ALt+9

◙            ALt+10

♂          Alt + 11

♀          Alt + 12

♪             ALt+13

♫            ALt+14

☼           ALt+15

░            ALt+176

▒            ALt+177

▓            ALt+178

│             ALt+179

┤            ALt+180

╡            ALt+181

╢            ALt+182

╖            ALt+183

╕            ALt+184

╣            ALt+185

║            ALt+186

╗            ALt+187

╝            ALt+188

╜            ALt+189

╛            ALt+190

┐             ALt+191

└             ALt+192

┴            ALt+193

┬            ALt+194

├            ALt+195

─             ALt+196

┼            ALt+197

╞            ALt+198

╟            ALt+199

╚            ALt+200

╔            ALt+201

╩            ALt+202

╦            ALt+203

╠            ALt+204

═            ALt+205

╬            ALt+206

╧            ALt+207

╨            ALt+208

╤            ALt+209

╥            ALt+210

╙            ALt+211

╘            ALt+212

╒            ALt+213

╓            ALt+214

╫            ALt+215

╪            ALt+216

┘             ALt+217

┌             ALt+218

Special Characters in HTML

left single quote		‘	‘
right single quote		’	’
single low-9 quote		‚	‚
left double quote		“	“
right double quote		”	”
double low-9 quote		„	„
dagger		†	†
double dagger		‡	‡
per mill sign		‰	‰
single left-pointing angle quote		‹	‹
single right-pointing angle quote		›	›
black spade suit		♠	♠
black club suit		♣	♣
black heart suit		♥	♥
black diamond suit		♦	♦
overline, = spacing overscore		‾	‾
leftward arrow		←	←
upward arrow		↑	↑
rightward arrow		→	→
downward arrow		↓	↓
trademark sign	™	™	™
unused	�- 
horizontal tab
line feed
unused	
space
exclamation mark	!		!
double quotation mark	“	"	“
number sign	#		#
dollar sign	$		$
percent sign	%		%
ampersand	&	&	&
apostrophe	‘		‘
left parenthesis	(		(
right parenthesis	)		)
asterisk	*		*
plus sign	+		+
comma	,		,
hyphen	–		–
period	.		.
slash	/	⁄	/
digits 0-9	0- 9
colon	:		:
semicolon	;		;
less-than sign	<	&lt;	<
equals sign	=		=
greater-than sign	>	&gt;	>
question mark	?		?
at sign	@		@
uppercase letters A-Z	A- Z
left square bracket	[		[
backslash	\		\
right square bracket	]		]
caret	^		^
horizontal bar (underscore)	_		_
grave accent	`		`
lowercase letters a-z	a- z
left curly brace	{		{
vertical bar	|		|
right curly brace	}		}
tilde	~		~
ellipses	…	&hellip;	…
en dash	–	&ndash;	–
em dash	—	&mdash;	—
unused	˜- Ÿ
nonbreaking space		&nbsp;
inverted exclamation	¡	&iexcl;	¡
cent sign	¢	&cent;	¢
pound sterling	£	&pound;	£
general currency sign	¤	&curren;	¤
yen sign	¥	&yen;	¥
broken vertical bar	¦	&brvbar; or &brkbar;	¦
section sign	§	&sect;	§
umlaut	¨	&uml; or &die;	¨
copyright	©	&copy;	©
feminine ordinal	ª	&ordf;	ª
left angle quote	«	&laquo;	«
not sign	¬	&not;	¬
soft hyphen	­	&shy;	­
registered trademark	®	&reg;	®
macron accent	¯	&macr; or &hibar;	¯
degree sign	°	&deg;	°
plus or minus	±	&plusmn;	±
superscript two	²	&sup2;	²
superscript three	³	&sup3;	³
acute accent	´	&acute;	´
micro sign	µ	&micro;	µ
paragraph sign	¶	&para;	¶
middle dot	·	&middot;	·
cedilla	¸	&cedil;	¸
superscript one	¹	&sup1;	¹
masculine ordinal	º	&ordm;	º
right angle quote	»	&raquo;	»
one-fourth	¼	&frac14;	¼
one-half	½	&frac12;	½
three-fourths	¾	&frac34;	¾
inverted question mark	¿	&iquest;	¿
uppercase A, grave accent	À	&Agrave;	À
uppercase A, acute accent	Á	&Aacute;	Á
uppercase A, circumflex accent	Â	&Acirc;	Â
uppercase A, tilde	Ã	&Atilde;	Ã
uppercase A, umlaut	Ä	&Auml;	Ä
uppercase A, ring	Å	&Aring;	Å
uppercase AE	Æ	&AElig;	Æ
uppercase C, cedilla	Ç	&Ccedil;	Ç
uppercase E, grave accent	È	&Egrave;	È
uppercase E, acute accent	É	&Eacute;	É
uppercase E, circumflex accent	Ê	&Ecirc;	Ê
uppercase E, umlaut	Ë	&Euml;	Ë
uppercase I, grave accent	Ì	&Igrave;	Ì
uppercase I, acute accent	Í	&Iacute;	Í
uppercase I, circumflex accent	Î	&Icirc;	Î
uppercase I, umlaut	Ï	&Iuml;	Ï
uppercase Eth, Icelandic	Ð	&ETH;	Ð
uppercase N, tilde	Ñ	&Ntilde;	Ñ
uppercase O, grave accent	Ò	&Ograve;	Ò
uppercase O, acute accent	Ó	&Oacute;	Ó
uppercase O, circumflex accent	Ô	&Ocirc;	Ô
uppercase O, tilde	Õ	&Otilde;	Õ
uppercase O, umlaut	Ö	&Ouml;	Ö
multiplication sign	×	&times;	×
uppercase O, slash	Ø	&Oslash;	Ø
uppercase U, grave accent	Ù	&Ugrave;	Ù
uppercase U, acute accent	Ú	&Uacute;	Ú
uppercase U, circumflex accent	Û	&Ucirc;	Û
uppercase U, umlaut	Ü	&Uuml;	Ü
uppercase Y, acute accent	Ý	&Yacute;	Ý
uppercase THORN, Icelandic	Þ	&THORN;	Þ
lowercase sharps, German	ß	&szlig;	ß
lowercase a, grave accent	à	&agrave;	à
lowercase a, acute accent	á	&aacute;	á
lowercase a, circumflex accent	â	&acirc;	â
lowercase a, tilde	ã	&atilde;	ã
lowercase a, umlaut	ä	&auml;	ä
lowercase a, ring	å	&aring;	å
lowercase ae	æ	&aelig;	æ
lowercase c, cedilla	ç	&ccedil;	ç
lowercase e, grave accent	è	&egrave;	è
lowercase e, acute accent	é	&eacute;	é
lowercase e, circumflex accent	ê	&ecirc;	ê
lowercase e, umlaut	ë	&euml;	ë
lowercase i, grave accent	ì	&igrave;	ì
lowercase i, acute accent	í	&iacute;	í
lowercase i, circumflex accent	î	&icirc;	î
lowercase i, umlaut	ï	&iuml;	ï
lowercase eth, Icelandic	ð	&eth;	ð
lowercase n, tilde	ñ	&ntilde;	ñ
lowercase o, grave accent	ò	&ograve;	ò
lowercase o, acute accent	ó	&oacute;	ó
lowercase o, circumflex accent	ô	&ocirc;	ô
lowercase o, tilde	õ	&otilde;	õ
lowercase o, umlaut	ö	&ouml;	ö
division sign	÷	&divide;	÷
lowercase o, slash	ø	&oslash;	ø
lowercase u, grave accent	ù	&ugrave;	ù
lowercase u, acute accent	ú	&uacute;	ú
lowercase u, circumflex accent	û	&ucirc;	û
lowercase u, umlaut	ü	&uuml;	ü
lowercase y, acute accent	ý	&yacute;	ý
lowercase thorn, Icelandic	þ	&thorn;	þ
lowercase y, umlaut	ÿ	&yuml;	ÿ
Alpha	&Alpha;		Α
alpha	&alpha;		α
Beta	&Beta;		Β
beta	&beta;		β
Gamma	&Gamma;		Γ
gamma	&gamma;		γ
Delta	&Delta;		Δ
delta	&delta;		δ
Epsilon	&Epsilon;		Ε
epsilon	&epsilon;		ε
Zeta	&Zeta;		Ζ
zeta	&zeta;		ζ
Eta	&Eta;		Η
eta	&eta;		η
Theta	&Theta;		Θ
theta	&theta;		θ
Iota	&Iota;		Ι
iota	&iota;		ι
Kappa	&Kappa;		Κ
kappa	&kappa;		κ
Lambda	&Lambda;		Λ
lambda	&lambda;		λ
Mu	&Mu;		Μ
mu	&mu;		μ
Nu	&Nu;		Ν
nu	&nu;		ν
Xi	&Xi;		Ξ
xi	&xi;		ξ
Omicron	&Omicron;		Ο
omicron	&omicron;		ο
Pi	&Pi;		Π
pi	&pi;		π
Rho	&Rho;		Ρ
rho	&rho;		ρ
Sigma	&Sigma;		Σ
sigma	&sigma;		σ
Tau	&Tau;		Τ
tau	&tau;		τ
Upsilon	&Upsilon;		Υ
upsilon	&upsilon;		υ
Phi	&Phi;		Φ
phi	&phi;		φ
Chi	&Chi;		Χ
chi	&chi;		χ
Psi	&Psi;		Ψ
psi	&psi;		ψ
Omega	&Omega;		Ω
omega	&omega;		ω
password dot	●		●
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Victory Day 8-9 May – 68th Anniversary of Victory in World War II

Victory Day on May 8 and May 9 Two separate capitulation events took place at the time

Tuesday 8 May 1945 was ‘Victory in Europe’ (VE) Day, and it marked the formal end of Hitler’s war.

With it came the end of six years of misery, suffering, courage and endurance across the world.

Two separate capitulation events took place at the time. First, the capitulation to the Allied nations in Reims was signed on 7 May 1945, effective 23:01 CET 8 May. This date is commonly referred to as the V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) in most western European countries. The other World War II victory day, the V-J day (Victory in Japan Day) is commemorated in August, and is of considerably lesser significance in Europe.

However, the Soviet Union’s only representative in Reims was General Ivan Susloparov, the Military Liaison Mission Commander. General Susloparov’s scope of authority was not entirely clear, and he had no means of immediate contact with the Kremlin, but nevertheless decided to sign for the Soviet side.
Susloparov was caught off guard; he had no instructions from Moscow. But if he did not sign, he risked a German surrender without Soviet participation. However, he noted that it could be replaced with a new version in the future. Joseph Stalin was later displeased by these events, believing that the German surrender should have been accepted only by the envoy of the USSR Supreme command and signed only in Berlin and insisted the Reims protocol be considered preliminary, with the main ceremony to be held in Berlin, where Marshal Zhukov was at the time, as the latter recounts in his memoirs:

“ [Quoting Stalin:] Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender.The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary. ” (

Therefore, another ceremony was organized in a surviving manor in the outskirts of Berlin late on 8 May, when it was already 9 May in Moscow due to the difference in time zones. Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel submitted the capitulation of the Wehrmacht to Marshal Georgy Zhukov in the Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst. To commemorate the victory in the war, the ceremonial Moscow Victory Parade was held in the Soviet capital on 24 June 1945 (four years and two days after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa – the invasion of the Soviet Union).

Victory Day Parade in Moscow every year May 9

Victory Day 9 May marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in the Second World War (also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union). It was first inaugurated in the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the surrender document late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May, by Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.

Though the official inauguration happened in 1945 (which means it has been celebrated since 1946), the holiday became a non-labour day only in 1965 and only in some of the countries.

In the former Soviet Union this festival was celebrated to commemorate the Red Army’s victory over the Nazi forces.

National WWII Memorial “Save Our History” Teachers Guide and Interactive TimelineThe History Channel� developed a teacher’s manual that accompanied its special on the National World War II Memorial. You can download the guide by clicking on the links below. The document is in two parts and can be viewed with Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. (Download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.) Download: Part 1 (334k) Part 2 (205k) Note: The American Battle Monuments Commission is no longer raising funds for the WWII Memorial. Please do not implement the fund raising suggestions provided in chapter IV of the Teacher’s Guide unless for a cause other than the National WWII Memorial.

Victory in World War II References:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/veday_germany_01.shtml
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_%289_May%29
• http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/public-programming/index.html
• The War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick  This documentary film tells the story of the Second World War through personal accounts of men and women from four American towns. – http://www.pbs.org/thewar/
• http://www.pbs.org/search/?q=world%20war%202
• http://www.pbs.org/
• By Tank into Normandy by Stuart Hills (Cassell & Co, 2002)
• Never Again by Peter Hennessy (Vintage, 1993)
• Chinthe Women by S. Jaffe (The Authors, Chipping Norton, 2001)

Showcase Your Creativity

Showcase Your Creativity and  Enhance Your Site with Post Formats – Re-blogged from WordPress.com

With over 30 portfolio themes to choose from (and over 200 total themes in our Theme Showcase), there’s surely one that reflects your style.

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Turn your portfolio site into a work of art in itself with the Custom Design upgrade. Choose the fonts and colors that match your personal style, and tweak your design even further with Custom CSS.

Manage your portfolio

In addition to themes, WordPress.com provides heaps of tools you can use to maintain your online portfolio and communicate with clients and prospective employers.

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You can Also Enhance Your Site with Post Formats:

A simple way to add visual variety to your site’s front page is to publish your content using Post Formats. Over 50 of our themes support Post Formats, which means they can display various types of content — including images, videos, quotes, links, audio, and short snippets called “asides” — with different formatting, adding subtle but nice touches to your site.

The types of Post Formats you can choose from depends on your theme. To see what Post Formats your current theme supports, go to Posts » Add New in the dashboard and look for a Format module on the right, with various options like the one below:

Using Post Formats is optional — if your theme supports them, you don’t have to use them, since the default (standard) format works well with any content you publish. Using Post Formats is also free: you don’t need to purchase the custom CSS upgrade to enable different Post Formats.

Our Top Themes Now Support Post Formats

Recently, we made our top 25 themes — from popular free themes like Pilcrow, Manifest, and Bueno to premium themes such as Elemin — look even better with Post Formats. Here’s a sampling of how Post Formats look different, using the Elemin theme as an example:

Image Format:

Video Format:

Quote Format:

Link Format:

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