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Hanami 
 This 'temporary' view of life is very popular in Japanese culture and is usually considered as an admirable form of existence; for example, in the samurai's principle of life ending when it's still beautiful and strong, instead of slowly getting old and weak.
Hanami 
 The Heian era poets used to write poems about how much easier things would be in Spring without the sakura blossoms, because their existence reminded us that life is very short:
Hanami 
 Hanami was used as a term that meant "cherry blossom viewing" for the first time in the Heian era novel Tale of Genji (chapter 8, 花宴 Hana no En, "Under the Cherry Blossoms").
Hanami 
 From then on, in tanka and in haiku poetry, "flowers" meant "sakura", and the terms "hanami" and "flower party" were only used to mean sakura blossom viewing.
Hanami 
 At the beginning, the custom was followed only by the Imperial Court, but the samurai nobility also began celebrating it during the Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568–1600).
Hanami 
 In those years, Toyotomi Hideyoshi gave great hanami parties in Yoshino and Daigo, and the festivity became very popular through all the Japanese society.
Hanami 
 Shortly after that, farmers began their own custom of climbing nearby mountains in the springtime and having lunch under the blooming cherry trees.
Hanami 
 This practice, called then as the "spring mountain trip", combined itself with that of the nobles' to form the urban culture of hanami.
Hanami 
 By the Edo Period (1600–1867), all the common people took part in the celebrations, in part because Tokugawa Yoshimune planted areas of cherry blossom trees to encourage this.
Hanami 
 In more than half of Japan, the cherry blossoming days come at the same time of the beginning of school and work after vacation, and so welcoming parties are often opened with hanami.
Hanami 
 Usually, people go to the parks to keep the best places to celebrate hanami with friends, family, and company co-workers many hours before.
Hanami 
 In many places such as Ueno Park, temporary paper lanterns are hung for night viewing of the flowers.
Hanami 
 The blossom forecast or cherry blossom front is announced each year by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Hanami 
 The first cherry blossoms happen in the subtropical southern islands of Okinawa, while on the northern island of Hokkaido, they bloom much later.
Hanami 
 In most large cities like Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, the cherry blossom season normally takes place around the end of March and the beginning of April.
Hanami 
 The television and newspapers closely follow this "cherry blossom front", as it slowly moves from south to north.
Hanami 
 In Macon, Georgia, another cherry blossom festival called the International Cherry Blossom Festival is celebrated every spring.
Hanami 
 Macon is known as the "Cherry Blossom Capital of the World" because 300,000 sakura trees grow there.
Hanami 
 In Brooklyn, New York, the Annual Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival takes place in May at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Landmarks 
 Originally, a landmark literally meant a prominent, easily identified geographic point, (like a mountain, a cliff, or a river) used by explorers and others to find their way back or through an area.
Landmarks 
 In modern use, it includes anything that can be recognized easily, such as a monument, building, or other structure.
Landmarks 
 In American English it is the main word used to call places that are tourist attractions because they are beautiful, or big, or they have historical importance.
Landmarks 
 Landmarks in the British English are normally used for casual navigation, such as giving directions to someone to get somewhere.
Landmarks 
 Landmarks also can be of two different categories: natural (e.g., physical features such as waterfalls and mountains), and structures constructed by humans.
Neighbourhood 
 Neighbourhoods are often social communities because the people that live in them commonly talk with each other.
Neighbourhood 
 Archaeologists have found evidence of neighbourhoods in the ruins of most of the earliest cities around the world.
Neighbourhood 
 Historical documents give information about neighbourhood life in many historical preindustrial or nonwestern cities.
Neighbourhood 
 They are local social groups larger than households that are not under the control of city or state officials.
Neighbourhood 
 In some early urban traditions, basic municipal functions such as protection, marriages, cleaning and repairs are done by neighbourhoods.
Neighbourhood 
 Economic specialists, including craft makers, merchants, and others, could be grouped together in neighbourhoods.
Neighbourhood 
 One important part to neighbourhood being different from each other and their people getting along well was how people moved from rural areas to the cities.
Neighbourhood 
 The people moving to the cities often moved in with relatives and people they knew from before moving to the city.
Neighbourhood 
 In the mainland of the People's Republic of China, the term is usually used for the urban administrative division.
Neighbourhood 
 In most urban areas of China, neighbourhood, community, residential community, residential unit, residential quarter have the same meaning.
Neighbourhood 
 It is often used by local boroughs for sub-divisions of their area for the delivery of certain services and functions.
Neighbourhood 
 The term is commonly used to refer to organisations which deal with such a very local issues, such as neighbourhood policing or Neighbourhood watches.
Neighbourhood 
 Government statistics for local areas are often called neighbourhood statistics even though the data is usually broken down into districts and wards.
Lantern 
 A lantern is a device that can be moved from one place to another, used to create light and to light up open areas.
Cherry blossom 
 Japanese Cherry blossom or sakura (Japanese kanji and Chinese character: 桜 or 櫻; katakana: サクラ) are cherry trees, Prunus serrulata, and their blossoms.
Cherry blossom 
 The traditional custom of Hanami or Flower viewing involves visiting places where sakura are blooming.
Cherry blossom 
 Most of the flowers are white or pink with five petals, but there are some flowers with almost a hundred petals.
Cherry blossom 
 Cosmos flowers are called Akizakura (autumn cherry blossoms) because the flower's shape is similar to a cherry blossom.
Cherry blossom 
 Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia  Information about cherry trees and Philadelphia's Cherry Blossom Festival.
Filamentation 
 Filamentation is the anomalous (not normal) growth of certain bacteria, such as E. coli, in which cells continue to elongate but do not divide (no septa formation).
Filamentation 
 Bacterial filamentation is a defect in completing replication and is observed in bacteria responding to a various stresses.
Septum 
 A septum (Latin: something that encloses; plural Septa) is a partition separating two cavities or spaces.
Septum 
 Cephalopod Septa: walls between each chamber, or siphuncle, in shells of nautiloids, ammonites, and belemnites; i.e. cephalopods that retain an external shell.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 
 The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO) is an orchestra for young musicians in the United Kingdom.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 
 Children who want to play in the National Youth Orchestra have to be able to play their instrument very well.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 
 They need to be at least Grade 8 Distinction standard and they need to be very good at sightreading so that they can learn very quickly.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 
 The orchestra meet three times a year during the school holidays at New Year, Easter and Summer for about two weeks.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 
 They rehearse very hard together and then give one or two concerts in famous concert halls in Britain such as Barbican Hall in London, Symphony Hall in Birmingham, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, St David's Hall in Cardiff and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 
 The trumpeters and drummers  woke people up with Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man  In April 2008 the NYO played Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in Birmingham Symphony Hall, and in August they will play at the Snape Maltings and at the BBC Proms conducted by Antonio Pappano with the pianist Boris Berezovsky as soloist.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 
 Usually the famous conductor will come to rehearse the orchestra for the last few days of the course.
Flag of Canada 
 This is because the white stripe in the middle (called a pale in heraldry) was not the usual narrow stripe but was half the width of the flag.
Flag of Canada 
 The Royal Union Flag is the British Union Jack, and is a symbol that Canada is a member of the Commonwealth, and that Canada and Britain share a history and a monarch.
The Wee Free Men 
 The Queen of the Elves tries to invade the Discworld again by stealing children and invading dreams.
The Wee Free Men 
 When Tiffany's baby brother is stolen by the evil queen, Tiffany enters the elves' world to save him with the help of "The Wee Free Men" and Miss Tick. "
Vandals 
 The Vandals may have given their name to the region of Andalusia, which according to one of several theories of its etymology was originally called Vandalusia or land of the Vandals.
Vandals 
 This would be the source of Al-Andalus — the Arabic name of Iberian Peninsula, in the south of present-day Spain, where they settled before pushing on to create a Vandal Kingdom in North Africa.
Vandals 
 The Goth Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals, as well as with the Burgundians and the Franks under Clovis I.
Order of the Thistle 
 The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry, associated with Scotland.
Order of the Thistle 
 The Order is the Sovereign and sixteen Knights and Ladies, as well as certain "extra" knights (members of the British and foreign royal families).
Order of the Thistle 
 The Order's main emblems are the thistle, the national flower of Scotland, and Saint Andrew holding a saltire (X shaped cross).
Order of the Thistle 
 The motto is Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin for "No one provokes me with impunity"); the same motto is also on the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom for use in Scotland and on some pound coins.
Order of the Thistle 
 Most British orders of chivalry cover all of the United Kingdom, but the three most most senior ones each cover only one constituent country .
Order of the Thistle 
 Its equivalent in England, The Most Noble Order of the Garter, is the oldest order of chivalry in the United Kingdom, dating to the middle fourteenth century.
Order of the Thistle 
 In 1783 an Irish order, The Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick, was founded; but since the independence of the Republic of Ireland the Order has fallen dormant.
Order of the Thistle 
 One story says that Achaius, King of Scots,  was fighting King Aethelstan of East Anglia and he saw cross of St Andrew in the sky.
Order of the Thistle 
 Even though Achaius and Aethelstan never fought, this story of the foundation, is given in the Royal Warrant 'reviving' the Order in 1687.
Order of the Thistle 
 Another story says that the Order was instituted, or re-instituted by Robert I at the Battle of Bannockburn.
Order of the Thistle 
 King James II and VII issued letters patent "reviving and restoring the Order of the Thistle to its full glory, lustre and magnificency" in 1687.
Order of the Thistle 
 The Kings of Scotland–later the Kings of Great Britain and of the United Kingdom–have served as Sovereigns of the Order.
Order of the Thistle 
 When James VII revived the Order, the statutes said that the Order would continue the ancient number of Knights, which was described in the preceding warrant as "the Sovereign and twelve Knights-Brethren in allusion to the Blessed Saviour and his Twelve Apostles.
Order of the Thistle 
 George VI created his wife Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon a Lady of the Thistle in 1937, and in 1987 Elizabeth II allowed the regular admission of women to both the Order of the Thistle and the Order of the Garter.
Order of the Thistle 
 Members of the British Royal Family are normally admitted by special permission; the first was Prince Albert.
Order of the Thistle 
 King Olav V of Norway, was the first foreigner to be admitted to the Order, was also admitted by special permission in 1962.
Order of the Thistle 
 From the eighteenth century onwards, the Sovereign made his or her choices upon the advice of the Government.
Order of the Thistle 
 George VI felt that the Orders of the Garter and the Thistle had been used only for political patronage, rather than to reward actual merit.
Order of the Thistle 
 Therefore in 1946, with the agreement of the Prime Minister (Clement Attlee) and the Leader of the Opposition (Winston Churchill), both Orders returned to the personal gift of the Sovereign.
Order of the Thistle 
 But this has happened only once, to John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar who was deprived of  both the knighthood and the earldom after taking part in the Jacobite rising of 1715.
Order of the Thistle 
 For the Order's great occasions, such as its annual service each June or July, as well for coronations, the Knights and Ladies wear an elaborate costume:
Order of the Thistle 
 The hat is made of black velvet and has white feathers with black egret or heron's feathers in the middle.
Order of the Thistle 
 It comprises a gold enamelled picture of St Andrew, wearing a green gown and purple coat, holding a white saltire.
Order of the Thistle 
 Aside from these special occasions, however, much simpler badges are used whenever a member of the Order attends an event at which decorations are worn.
Order of the Thistle 
 In the centre is depicted a green circle bearing the motto of the Order in gold letters; in the circle is a thistle on a gold field.
Order of the Thistle 
 The broad ribbon is a dark green sash worn across the body, from the left shoulder to the right hip.
Order of the Thistle 
 When James VII revived the Order in 1687, he wanted the Abbey Church at the Palace of Holyroodhouse to be the Chapel for the Order of the Thistle, perhaps copying the idea from the Order of the Garter (whose chapel is located in Windsor Castle).
Order of the Thistle 
 James VII was deposed by 1688 and the Order did not have a Chapel until 1911, when one was added onto St Giles High Kirk in Edinburgh.
Order of the Thistle 
 Each year, the Sovereign stays at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in June or July; during the visit, a service for the Order is held.
Nasal septum 
 The nasal septum can depart from the centreline of the nose; this condition is known as a deviated septum.
Nasal septum 
 Injury, excessive nose-picking and cocaine usage can cause septum perforations, or holes developing in the septum.
Nostril 
 In birds and mammals, they contain branched bones or cartilages called turbinates, whose function is to warm air on inhalation and remove moisture on exhalation.
Nostril 
 Fish do not breathe through their noses, but they do have two small holes used for smelling which may be called nostrils.
Nostril 
 In humans, the nasal cycle means that during the course of a day, the nostrils will switch over approximately every four hours or so, meaning that only one nostril is used at any one time.
Ethmoid bone 
 The ethmoid bone (from Greek ethmos, "sieve") is a bone in the skull that separates the nasal cavity from the brain.
Ethmoid bone 
 Blows to the head can shear off the olfactory nerves that pass though the ethmoid bone and cause anosmia, an irreversible loss of the sense of smell and a great reduction in the sense of taste (most of which depends on smell).
Ethmoid bone 
 This not only deprives life of some of its pleasures, but can also be dangerous, as when a person fails to smell smoke, gas, or spoiled food.
Bundesverdienstkreuz 
 It is officially called the Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany).
Bundesverdienstkreuz 
 The Cities of Bremen and Hamburg do not have an order, and by old tradition its citizens will refuse any decoration in form of an order.
Bundesverdienstkreuz 
 Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband (Great Cross of Merit with Star and shoulder ribbon)
Bundesverdienstkreuz 
 The Chancellor, the President of the Bundesrat and the President of the Bundesverfassungsgericht attend this ceremony.
Bundesverdienstkreuz 
 Other than the President of the Federal Republic, only a foreign head of state can receive the highest class award.
Austin Lightning 
 It is in the Mid South division of the South Conference of the Premier Development League of the United Soccer Leagues.
Austin Lightning 
 The team finished last in the division in the 2007 season, due in part to scheduling difficulties caused by record amounts of rain in Austin, which cause fields to be closed on match days.
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
 As well as these principal conductors there have been others, including the famous Arturo Toscanini, who made a series of recordings with the orchestra in the Queen's Hall from 1937 to 1939.
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
 Composers whose new works they have performed include Sally Beamish, Harrison Birtwistle Elliott Carter, James MacMillan, John Tavener and Mark-Anthony Turnage.
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
 The orchestra plays a big part in the BBC Proms, the season of concerts played every summer at the Royal Albert Hall.
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
 There are other professional BBC orchestras and groups: the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the BBC Big Band and the BBC Singers.
Jiří Bělohlávek 
 He won the 1970 Czech National Conducting Competition and soon became famous in his country and abroad.
Jiří Bělohlávek 
 Then he founded the Prague Philharmonia (Pražskou komorní filharmonii) in 1994, They gave concerts all over the world together and made many recordings.
Jiří Bělohlávek 
 He first conducted at the Metropolitan Opera (Met) in  December 2004, conducting Leoš Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová" with Karita Mattila in the title role.
Jiří Bělohlávek 
 He returned to the Met in January and February of 2007 for the same composer's "Jenůfa", once again with Mattila, and with Anja Silja as the Kostelnička.
Jiří Bělohlávek 
 Other guest conducting appearances in the US have been with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Arturo Toscanini 
 He had an incredibly good memory and could remember every single note of the large number of works he conducted.
Arturo Toscanini 
 He also had a fiery temperament and there are movies of him shouting angrily at his orchestra in rehearsals.
Arturo Toscanini 
 In the early days of gramophone recordings he made some of the first recordings of famous orchestral works.
Arturo Toscanini 
 While performing Verdi’s opera  Aida in Rio de Janeiro the audience did not like the conductor and they booed him so that he had to leave the stage.
Arturo Toscanini 
 No one knew what to do at first, but then they persuaded Toscanini, who was only 19 years old, to put down his cello and conduct the orchestra.
Arturo Toscanini 
 When he got back to Italy Toscanini returned to his chair in the cello section, and took part as cellist in the first performance of Verdi's Otello (La Scala, 1887).
Arturo Toscanini 
 Verdi was there and was very impressed when Toscanini asked him about a mistake he noticed in the score.
Arturo Toscanini 
 In 1896 he conducted his first symphonic concert (works by Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner), in Turin.
Arturo Toscanini 
 By 1898 he was conductor at La Scala, Milan and he stayed there until 1908, but returned during the 1920s.
Arturo Toscanini 
 He took the Scala Orchestra to the United States on a concert tour in 1920-21; it was during that tour that Toscanini made his first recordings (for the Victor Talking Machine Company).
Arturo Toscanini 
 Toscanini started conducting outside Europe: at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City (1908–1915) as well as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1926–1936).
Arturo Toscanini 
 In the 1930s he conducted at the Salzburg Festival (1934–1937) and the first concert in 1936 of the newly formed Palestine Symphony Orchestra (now the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) in Tel Aviv, and later performed with them in Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo and Alexandria.
Arturo Toscanini 
 At first Toscanini agreed with Fascism but later, when the dictator Mussolini came to power, he became against it.
Arturo Toscanini 
 He refused to perform an opera at La Scala and was beaten up, so he left Italy and went to the United States.
Arturo Toscanini 
 He conducted the first broadcast concert on December 25, 1937, in NBC Studio 8-H in New York City's Rockefeller Center.
Arturo Toscanini 
 Toscanini was often criticized for not performing much American music and contemporary music (music by living composers).
Arturo Toscanini 
 However, in 1938, he conducted the world premieres of two orchestral works by Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings and Essay for Orchestra (Barber)|Essay for Orchestra.
Arturo Toscanini 
 In 1945, he led the orchestra in Carnegie Hall recording sessions of American music including An American in Paris by George Gershwin.
Arturo Toscanini 
 He also conducted broadcast performances of Copland's El Salon Mexico and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with soloists Earl Wild and Benny Goodman and Concerto in F with pianist Oscar Levant, as well as music by other American composers, including two marches of John Philip Sousa.
Arturo Toscanini 
 Although they agreed in the end it was this time that Leopold Stokowski began conducting some of the concerts and continued to appear sometimes as a guest conductor of the orchestra.
Arturo Toscanini 
 Due to World War II, the score was microfilmed in the Soviet Union and brought by courier to the United States.
Arturo Toscanini 
 Unfortunately for New York listeners, a big thunderstorm made it difficult to hear the music on the radio.
Arturo Toscanini 
 In a programme of music by Richard Wagner in 1954 Toscanini was not well and forgot how the music went.
Arturo Toscanini 
 He worked with many great singers and musicians, including the pianist Vladimir Horowitz who was a great friend.
Arturo Toscanini 
 When he died of a stroke in New York City at the age of 89, his body was returned to Italy and was interred in the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan.
Philip K. Dick 
 I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards," Dick wrote of these stories. "
Philip K. Dick 
 In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real."
Philip K. Dick 
 In 2007, he became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series (#173).
Philip K. Dick 
 Under the supervision of the United Nations authority, mankind has colonized the solar system's every habitable planet and moon.
Philip K. Dick 
 Life is physically daunting and psychologically monotonous for most colonists, so the UN must draft people to go to the colonies.
Philip K. Dick 
 Most entertain themselves using Perky Pat dolls and accessories manufactured by Earth-based P.P. Layouts.
Philip K. Dick 
 The company also secretly creates Can-D, an illegal but widely available hallucinogenic drug allowing the user to "translate" into Perky Pat (if the drug user is a woman) or Pat's boyfriend, Walt (if the drug user is a man).
Philip K. Dick 
 This recreational use of Can-D allows colonists to experience a few minutes of an idealized life on Earth by participating in a collective hallucination.
Philip K. Dick 
 All  "successful" humans have left, the only remaining inhabitants of the planet are people with no prospects off-world.
Philip K. Dick 
 What important factor defines humanity as distinctly alive, versus those merely alive only in their outward appearance?