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It was praised for its animation - regarded as some of the best among the Disney direct-to-video sequels - but the story was thought to be lacking and easy to make.
Movie fans were much more positive, according to ratings on Amazon.com.
Bambi II'''s musical score includes instrumental pieces by Bruce Broughton, and new vocal songs by several noted artists, including Alison Krauss, Martina McBride, and Anthony Callea.
Coinciding the with film's DVD release, the soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records in the United States on February 7, 2006.
Produced by Matt Walker, the CD included 9 songs from the movie, as well as three tracks from the original movie.
"There is Life" (Alison Krauss) – 2:19
"First Sign of Spring" - (Michelle Lewis) – 3:49
"Through Your Eyes" - (Martina McBride) – 4:07
"The Healing of a Heart" - (Anthony Callea) – 2:43
"Snow Flakes in the Forest" - (Bruce Broughton) – 1:40
"Bambi's Dream (Broughton) –  1:27
"Being Brave (Part 1) (Broughton) –  1:22
"Being Brave (Part 2) (Broughton) – 1:13
"Bambi and the Great Prince/End Credit Suite" (Broughton) – 3:34
"Little April Shower" (Chorus) – 3:54
"Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song" (Chorus) – 1:44
Time period changes
In the original book on which Bambi was based, Ronno was already a stag when Bambi was born, instead of being mere weeks-to-months older than he was as in the movie.
An additional twist is that in the book, Ronno was quite respectable (though a bit of a whiner as he is portrayed in the movie), and there was nothing at all personal about his rivalry with Bambi over Faline.
Ronno's character is never named in the original movie.
However, documentation from Disney clearly indicates that the Ronno in Bambi II is the same deer which Bambi fought in the original, right down to the same moves each deer makes during their fight in the sequel.
The age of the Great Prince changes as compared to the original movie.
In the original, the Great Prince is said to be twice as old as the oldest deer.
In this movie, the Great Prince is said to have been the same age as Bambi's mother.
Double-Takes
There are several scenes in Bambi II which are noticeably similar to scenes from the first movie, Bambi.
In one scene Bambi is shown following his father through snow that, while barely knee-deep on the Great Prince, is neck-deep (and at one point even deeper) on Bambi.
The scene is reminiscent of Bambi's first encounter with snow in the original movie.
The scene where Bambi and Thumper wake Flower up for Groundhog Day is quite similar to the  scene in Bambi where the animals all go to see Bambi in the beginning. "*
Friend Owl* Well... [chuckle] this is quite an occasion."
In this movie, he says "Oh!
The young prince!
Also, when Bambi and Thumper wake up Flower, the entire background painting used for Flower's den is the same painting used when they woke him up in the original movie.
When the song "Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song" was played in Bambi, Friend Owl was annoyed by all the singing birds keeping him awake.
In Bambi II, after the groundhog announces that spring has come, all the gathered animals start singing the song, to which Friend Owl moans, "Oh, not that song."
When Ronno meets Bambi and Faline, he says "Where's everybody going?
Forest on fire?"
This was similar to the end of the first movie when Bambi and the Great Prince escape the forest fire.
In Bambi II, Ronno finds himself buried in snow when a great heap of it falls on him from a branch, similar to what happened to Bambi in the first movie.
The difference is that Bambi suffered it only by curiosity, whereas Ronno quite literally brought it upon himself.
While trying to teach Bambi to growl, Thumper adjusts the position of Bambi's front legs much as he did while trying to teach Bambi to ice-skate in the original movie.
Following Bambi's less-than-fortunate encounter with a porcupine, Ronno attempts to drive Faline along with his budding antlers, much the same as he did in Bambi'' when he tried to break up a romantic scene between the pair.
Bambi's jump across the small chasm over a stream while fleeing from Ronno mirrors his jump across a larger chasm in the first movie after he buried a pack of dogs in a rockslide.
After Bambi's fight with Ronno and Mena's encounter with the trap in Bambi II, she shouts at Bambi the same words that his mother spoke before she was shot: "Faster, Bambi!
Keep running!
Keep running!"
When Bambi is trying to escape the pack of dogs later in the movie, after deterring them from Mena, he struggles and jumps up a cliff which is reminiscent of the cliff that Faline tried to escape the dogs from in the original.
A scene in which the Great Prince repeatedly tells Bambi to get up is reminiscent of a scene in the original movie when Bambi had been shot.
The Great Prince says the same words as the forest fire closes in.
Towards the end, as Bambi's antlers begin to emerge, they are momentarily snagged in a low-hanging branch laden with what appear to be cherry blossoms.
This directly mirrors the scene where he becomes "twitterpated" in the original movie.
After Bambi and Faline kiss, Friend Owl says "Oh, twitterpated!"
Flower wonders what "twitterpated" is, and Friend Owl responds "I'll tell you when you're older."
Naturally, Friend Owl did explain what "twitterpated" is when Bambi, Thumper, and Flower got older in the original movie.
The scene in which Bambi and Ronno fight mirrors their fight over Faline in the original movie.
Third sequel
In 2007, Pimental expressed interest of making a third movie, which was supposed to continue were the original left off.
The movie was originally meant to be released direct-to-DVD in the U.S and in European theaters in late 2011.
However, since DisneyToon Studios was shut down.
Bambi II at the Big Cartoon DataBase(BCDb)
2006 animated movies
Disney direct-to-video movies
The Deportivo Saprissa is a football team of Costa Rica.
The team was founded on July 16, 1935.
It became a part of the top league, Primera División de Costa Rica on August 21, 1949.
Saprissa was founded because of a group of players and leaders.
Ricardo Saprissa Aymá was a part of this group.
In 1952, the team won its first national championship.
Juani Saprissa Aymá was the president of the Saprissa.
Jose Francisco “Pachico” García was their manager when the team started in the Third Division.
The Deportivo Saprissa won the championship of Third Division in 1947.
In 1948, they played in the Second Division.
They won the championship of Second Division that year, with no games lost.
In March 1959, the team became the first Latin American team to go the around the World.
The "Morados", which is the team's nickname, played 25 matches in 22 countries of the world.
They won 14, tied 1 and lost 7.
The team scored a total of 66 goals and had 46 goals scored against them.
During the 1970s, the Deportivo Saprissa won 6 championships.
They won every championship from 1972 to 1977.
On October 12, 1966, the construction of their stadium started.
It is called "La Cueva del Monstruo" or simply La Cueva.
After 6 years, the opening of Saprissa Stadium was held on Sunday August 27, 1972.
National Titles
26 National Championships:
15 national Sub- championships
6 championships consecutively from 1972 to 1977
International Titles
3rd place in the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2005
3rd place in the Cup RICARD, Uruguay 2006.
A  Central American tournament (1970)
Three tournaments of  Central American Fraternity (1972 and 1973 and 1978).
A Camel Cup in the United States(1985).
Two tournaments CONCACAF (1993 and 1995).
Two sub- championships Inter-American Cup.
LG Cup (1998).
The Uncaf Cup 2003.
CONCACAF Champions 2005.
Statistics taken from the official website
Sport in Costa Rica
1935 establishments in North America
Chirripó National Park is a national park in Costa Rica.
It is located in Talamanca Mountain,  northeast of San Isidro de El General.
This park forms part of La Amistad International Park between Costa Rica and Panama.
Chirripó National Park was created on August 19, 1975.
The park includes the highest mountain in Costa Rica, Cerro Chirripó.
The mountain has an altitude of .
In the indigenous language, "Chirripó" means Land of Eternal Waters.
The park protects many rivers such as Rio Chirripó Atlántico, Rio Telire, Rio Chirripó Pacífico and the Rio Ceibo.
The weather changes often and depends of the altitude.
The lowest temperature recorded in Costa Rica was  in the Mount Chirripó.
The warm season goes from December to May.
It is recommended to visit the park in those months.
There are many habitats in the Chirripó National Park.
This is because of the differences of altitude and climate.
There are large trees like oak and sweet cedar.
There are also many different types of orchids.
The most common animals in this region are coyotes, jaguars, squirrels, frogs, rabbits, and quetzals.
The first person known to climbed Mount Chirripó was the priest Agustin Blessing in 1904.
Other expeditions before the park was created were in 1905, 1913, 1915, 1920, 1932 and 1942.
The park now has trails leading to the top of the mountain.
It also has a ranger station.
There are 26 National parks in Costa Rica.
These parks are managed by SINAC (Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservacion).
SINAC is part of Costa Rica's Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE).
List of  National Parks of Costa Rica
Barbilla National Park
Barra Honda National Park
Braulio Carrillo National Park
Cahuita National Park
Carara National Park
Cocos Island National Park
Diria National Park
Guanacaste National Park
Irazú Volcano National Park
Juan Castro Blanco National Park
La Amistad International Park
La Cangreja National Park
Las Baulas National Marine Park
Maquenque National Park (proposed)
Palo Verde National Park
Piedras Blancas National Park
Rincón de la Vieja Volcano National Park
Tapantí National Park
Tenorio Volcano National Park
Tortuguero National Park
Turrialba Volcano National Park
Manuel Antonio
Manuel Antonio National Park was listed by Forbes as one of the world's 12 most beautiful national parks.
This park is located on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, in the province of Puntarenas.
It has an area of 682.7 mm.
It is one of Costa Rica's most scenic parks.
Manuel Antonio receives a lot of national and international tourism.
Another important attraction is the tropical rainforest inhabited by species of flora and fauna in danger of extinction, such as the Tití monkey.
Arenal
Arenal National Park is located in the North Region, north of the Sierra de Tilarán.
It belongs to the cantons of Tilarán, San Carlos and San Ramon.
Coocoo Island
Cocos Island is a territory rich landscape and a true laboratory for the study of nature.
Many ferns, bromeliads, rivers, creeks and waterfalls, valleys, cliffs and islands frequented by countless seabirds and place of nesting gulls.
The Blue Flag is a certification given to beaches by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE).
A beach that has been awarded the blue flag means that it meets the organisation's standards of environmental management.
These standards are for water quality, safety, and public environmental education.
Local governments try to get the Blue Flag for their beaches and marinas, to show people that they have high environmental and quality standards.
The Blue Flag is a trademark owned by FEE which is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation.
It is made up of 65 organisations in 60 member countries in Europe, Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Americas.
FEE refers to the Blue Flag certificates as awards.
They are issued for one year to beaches and marinas of FEE member countries.
The awards are announced every year on 5 June for Europe, Canada, Morocco, Tunisia and other countries in a similar geographic location, and on 1 November for the Caribbean, New Zealand, South Africa and other countries in the Southern Hemisphere.
Sarchi is a city in Costa Rica.
It is famous for its art and hand-crafted furniture.
Sarchi is also known for its colorful hand carts that the people there have been making for centuries.
Sarchi has several small communities.
One of the most famous is "Los Bajos del Toro".
It is  northeast from the center of Sarchi.
Although the road is very old, travelers  will be able to see one of the best views in Costa Rica. "
Los Bajos" has a climate that is very humid and rainy.
Sarchi is a community made up of artists and craftsmen.
It is well known for its ox carts.
Most of the ox carts in Costa Rica are created in Sarchi and are sold throughout the country and to tourists.
They are usually painted in very bright colors and patterns.
In the past, these ox carts were used to carry coffee to the markets.
There are many shops in the town that sell hand-made wooden furniture and souvenirs.
Some of the many items that are sold are: tables, rocking chairs, beds, jewelry, sculptures, and paintings.
Cities in Costa Rica
José María Hipólito Figueres Ferrer (September 25, 1906 – June 8, 1990) was president of Costa Rica three times.
He was also the rebel leader during the Costa Rican civil war.
Also known as Don Pepe, José Figueres Ferrer was born in San Ramón, Alajuela, Costa Rica.
His parents were from Cataluña, Spain: Mariano Rodríguez Borges and Francisca Ferrer Mendiola.
Figueres entered the Primary Boys School in San Ramón of Alajuela in 1913.
He got in Costa Rica’s Lyceum finishing his Secondary studies in 1920.
He went to Boston, United States to travel and study.
He returned to Costa Rica in 1928 and bought a coffee farm.
In 1942, Figueres made a speech on Latin America Radio.
In this speech, he objected to the situation in Costa Rica under president Rafael Ángel Calderón.
Because of this speech, he was arrested and forced to leave the country.
Figueres return to Costa Rica in 1944.
He started a political party, the Democratic Party.
A main goal of the party was to go against Calderon's party, the National Republican Party.
In 1948, supporters of Calderón caused problems with an election for president in which Calderón lost to Otilio Ulate.
Because of this, the results of the election were not used.
This led to the start of the civil war in 1948.
In March 11, 1948, Don Pepe began a war to support the peoples decision at the previous election.
Figueres and his troops won.
President of Costa Rica
In the same year, José Figueres Ferrer became president of the Second Republic Founder Assembly.
He became president of Costa Rica for the first time and eliminated the Costa Rica army.
He became President of Costa Rica for the second time in 1953 winning the election with 65% of the votes.
In 1970, he became Costa Rica’s President for the third time.
Figueres died June 8, 1990.
Five months later he was declared Benemérito de la Patria.
In the 1953-1958 administration, very important institutions are created.
Living and Urbanism National Institute (INVU).
Costarrican Turism Institute (ICT).
He promulgated the Production National Council Organism Law (CNP).
Municipal Foment and Consultancy Institute (IFAM).
Costa Rica’s Technological Institute (ITCR).
Costa Rica’s National College.
Culture, Youth and Sports Ministry.
For the movie about a shark, see Jaws (movie).
The jaw is the part of an animal's body that it uses to grab and chew food.
In humans, the jaws are two bones in the mouth, the mandible (lower jaw) and maxilla (upper jaw), that let the teeth move up and down in order to chew.
The mandible is joined to the skull.
However, in insects, the jaws may open left and right instead, and they are usually outside the mouth instead of inside it.
Some animals, even some vertebrates, do not have jaws.
A body part is called a jaw based on what it does, not what it is made of or how it grows.
In different animals, it can be made of different kinds of cells and tissue.
In the embryos of different animals, it may come from different original places.
Even within arthropods, the group that contains insects and lobsters and trilobites and spiders, the jaws of different animals may grow from different original tissues, even though they end up looking similar in adult animals.
A pair of appendages that become jaws in one species may become antennae in a different species or legs in another.
Moray eels and some other fish have two sets of jaws.
The outer jaws in their faces grow from the same tissues as the jaws of other fish, and the inner jaws, called pharyngeal jaws, can come from the same tissue that becomes gills or muscles in other fish.
Marsupials and monotremes are born before their jaws have grown enough for them to drink their mothers' milk the way other baby mammals do.
Scientists from Kings' College London found that opossums and other marsupials use tissue from their inner ear to make a temporary jaw so they can feed and grow.
They found that baby echidnas also form a temporary jaw using the bones of their inner ear so they can feed and grow.
The Battle of Santa Rosa was a battle between the forces of Costa Rica and those of Nicaragua.
It was one of the most important battles in the history of Costa Rica.
The battle took place on March 20, 1856 at Santa Rosa, Costa Rica.
The cause
The fighting was caused by the arrival of William Walker in Nicaragua.
Walker was an American soldier who believed slavery was good.
He told the people of Nicaragua that he wanted to help the country.
What he really wanted was to conquer the five free nations of Central America.
The president of Costa Rica, Juan Rafael Mora Porras thought that Walker wanted to conquer them.
On February 27, 1856, Mora declared the war against Walker and Nicaragua.
The fighting
President Mora called all of his forces to fight.
On March 4th, Mora led the forces as they started their march towards Nicaragua.
On March 12th, they arrived in Liberia.
There they join with Jose Maria Cañas and his battalion.
When the filibusters found out what was happening in Costa Rica, they sent troops.
Their troops got to Hacienda Santa Rosa on March 19th.
On March 20th, the three thousand Costa Ricans walked to Hacienda Santa Rosa where the filibusters had formed their post at La Casona.
At four o’clock, the Costa Rican battalions began the attack against the invaders.
After fourteen minutes, the Costa Rican forces won the battle.
The few filibusters that had escaped went to Nicaragua.
William Walker armed a new army.
President Mora quickly moved on to Rivas with his 3000 men, and the Battle of Rivas started.
History of Costa Rica
History of Nicaragua
19th century in North America
Editus is a Costa Rican  music group.
The group included Ricardo Ramírez, Edín Solís and Carlos “Tapado” Vargas.
Their music styles were a combination of modern, jazz, new age, classical music, and the unique sound of Latin America.
Editus went to over 30 countries in North America, Europe and Latin America to give shows.
They performed in places like The New York’s Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center Washington D.C., The Olimpia in Paris, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Monterrey Jazz Festival, Auditorio Nacional and Plaza del Sócalo in Mexico City.
They have worked with famous artists like León Gieco, Danilo Pérez, Aterciopelados, Tania Libertad, Armando Manzanero, Pedro Aznar, and Rubén Blades.
They won the Grammy Award in 2000 with Blades for “Best Latin Pop Presentation” for the song called “Tiempos.”
They have also won awards in the categories “Best World Music Album” and “Best Tropical Contemporary Album” for their album Mundo.
Ilusiones (1994)
Siempre Vol.
I (1995)
Inéditus (1996)
Dibujando Memorias (1997)
Calle del Viento (1998)
De cada uno (2001)
Poética (2002)
II (2003)
Lo mas “ New Age” (2004)
Editus Clásico (2005)
360 (2009)
Members Information
Ricardo Ramírez (Violinist)
He was born in November 11th, 1967 in San José, Costa Rica.
He is graduated from the University of Costa Rica in 1990.
From 1983 to 1988 he was part of the Juvenile Symphonic Costa Rican Orchestra.
He won the “Soloist teenagers” contest.
In 1989 he worked as a soloist with the National Symphonic Orchestra.
He has played in national performances like “Inconsciente Colectivo,” “Gandhi,” Bernardo Quesada, María Prétiz, Patricia Torres, Duvalier Quirós, Cantoamérica, and Arnoldo Castillo.
Out of the country, he record productions with “Son Miserables,” “Congreso” group and Alvaro Aguilar.
Edín Solís (Guitarist)
Solís was born in Zarcero on November 22nd, 1963.
He is graduated in Classical Guitar from the University of Costa Rica Conservatory.
He learned how to play the guitar with the Argentinean teachers Jorge Cardoso and Miguel A. Girolet, a Spanish teacher Demetrio Ballesteros, Francisco Ortíz and Víctor Monge.
From 1985 through 1990 he toured with Cantoamérica Guitarist.
He traveled to the United States and Guatemala to show their music style.
In 1991, he went to Europe to give his tour as a soloist in Paris, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Bonn and Köln, both cities of Germany.
Carlos "Tapado" Vargas (Percussionist)
He was born in January 22nd, 1971 in San José, Costa Rica.
He is graduated in 1987 from the Castella Conservatory.
He studied with the percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo and in the teen program of the National Symphonic Orchestra.
He is part of the National Symphonic Orchestra and The Juvenile Symphonic Orchestra of Costa Rica.
Also he has participated in Marfil, Gaviota y Amarillo and Cian Magenta groups.
He has played for Paquita D’Rivera and Victor Monge (known as Serranto), Abraham Laboriel, Alvaro López, Justo Almario, Diego Urcola.
He was part of Cantoamérica and Cono Sur and also Probus Ensamble Group.
At present, he is the percussionist of Malpaís, Kool Jazz and Jazz Latino Sextet.
San José is the capital of Costa Rica, head of San José Province, and the nation's largest city.
It is named in honor of Saint Joseph.
It is in the center of the Gran Area Metropolitana (metropolitan area) of the Central Valley.
San José is the center of political and economic activity and the main transportation center of Costa Rica.
Few people live in the city center but it is still the most important working area of the entire country.
More than a million people come to work in San José daily from the surrounding areas.
Despite its problems, according to studies in Latin America, San José is still one of the safest and least violent cities in the region.
In 2006 the city was appointed Ibero-American Capital of Culture.
San José is also the sixth most important destination in Latin America, according to The MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Index 2012.
In the global ranking, San Jose obtained the 15th position among the world’s top 20 fastest growing destination cities by visitor cross-border spending.
San José was founded in 1738 and became the capital of Costa Rica in 1823.
It is one of the youngest capitals of Latin America.
The climate is generally the same throughout the year.
The city has an average temperature is 23C gets about 150 mm of rain each month.
Costa Rica developed high literacy rates and education levels.
Most of the people are literate and many have high-school level diplomas.
Costa Rica has the best education levels of all the Central American nations, and one of the best in Latin America.
This is especially true for San José, because it is the nation's main education center.
San José has many education institutions; including public and around 51 private universities.
University of Santo Tomas was the first university of Costa Rica.
It was established in San José in 1843.
This university had close relations with the Roman Catholic Church and was closed in 1888 by the anti-clerical government of President Bernardo Soto Alfaro.
The schools of law, agronomy, fine arts, and pharmacy continued independently, but Costa Rica had no other university until 1940, when those four schools (law, agronomy, fine arts, pharmacy) were united to form the  University of Costa Rica (UCR), during the government of President Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia.
San José's public education system is made up of pre-schools, elementary and high schools (from grades 7 to 11), which are in all of the city's districts and are under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Education.
There are also private schools.
These private schools go from pre-schools to universities.
Many are bilingual, teaching subjects in foreign languages such as German, French, or English.
San José city is one of Latin America's safest cities.
On June 19, 2012, the city and nation reduced their respective criminality indexes.
Criminality, nationwide, was reduced from 12.5% to a 9.5% (per 100,000 inhabitants).
In 2012, new police equipment was given by the nation government; as well as receiving an increase in security budget.
President Laura Chinchilla's government has donated vehicles and other equipment to the police department in at least two occasions.
Main City Landmarks
Theaters and Auditoriums
San José has many beautiful theaters which are mostly inspired by European architecture.
These buildings also serve as main tourist attractions; not only because of their beauty, but also because of cultural, musical, and artistic activities which happen regularly.
National Theater of Costa Rica (Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica)
Mélico Salazar Theater (Teatro Popular Mélico Salazar)
The National Auditorium of The Children's Museum of Costa Rica
The National Theater (Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica) and the Mélico Salazar Theater present drama, dance performances and concerts  year long.
Also, there are other 'smaller' theaters in the city and provide other types of entertainment.
National Museum: Visitors can see the history of pre-Columbian culture, the weapons of the 1948 civil war, and religious pieces.
The Children’s museum: The old national penitentiary was changed to create the actual Children’s Museum.
At the museum, children can learn about the Costa Rica’s natural resources.
They can also lean about famous people like Franklin Chang, Carmen Lyra, and Clodomiro Picado.
There are also fun areas of knowledge and recreation.
Gold Museum: The Gold Museum is a place to show the gold pieces which were created by the first Costa Rican indigenous communities.
There are several special buildings that have historic importance in San José.
National Theater: This was built in 1897.
It is still used for some shows.
Colegio Superior de Señoritas: It was founded in 1888.
The building has a renaissance style.
Mail Central building: This building has many of the first mail boxes in the history of Costa Rica.
Many old houses in Barrio Amon are now used as hotels.
Their architecture is considered national history.
Parks, Plazas, and Zoos
The National Park (Parque Nacional)
Morazán Park; where you can find the Temple of Music (Templo de la Música)
San José Central Park (Parque Central)
La Sabana Metropolitan Park (Parque Metropolitano La Sabana)
Peace Park (Parque de la Paz)
Parque Okayama, which has Japanese inspired architecture, artificial lakes, and sculptures.
San José's largest park and is La Sabana Metropolitan Park.
It is in the western part of the city, in the district of 'Mata Redonda'.
Plazas, or squares, are very prominent in San José.
La Plaza de La Cultura ('Culture Square'), is one example.
Municipalidad de San José.
Mayor of San José's Office
Infoweb.co.cr.
Galería San José.
Some pictures of the city
San José Costa Rica Maps.
Google Maps of the City
Photos San José
Events calendar for San José and Costa Rica
1738 establishments
Establishments in Costa Rica
1730s establishments in North America
CowParade is one of the largest public art events of the world.
First it began in Chicago and New York.
This was in 1999 and 2000.
The Cow Parade runs many cities of the United States up to the year 2001.
In 2002 it moved to Europe, in London.
This Parade has covered a lot of countries through all the five continents.
In 2008 they moved to the fourth Latin-American country, Costa Rica.
The Cow Parade has been in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, also.
This public art event is about painting cows with some cultural messages.
It doesn’t need to be a professional sculpture.
You can find urban and crazy sculptures too.
This exhibition is taking place on the principal parks and boulevards of San José, Costa Rica.
In San José there are a total of one hundred twenty cows, each one with their topic.
There is an amazing level of creativity from the national sculptors who painted and sculpted the cows.
They are a lot of beautiful cows made of several material including the rice and beans of the traditional breakfast.
Some of the cows have the message of doesn’t forget the traditional customs.
Also, some cows have a message to make a country with more love, generosity and with more solidarity.
Some cows also encourage people to take care of Costa Rican nature and all the biodiversity that this small country has.
The principal message is just to create a better planet for the future.
The official (US) Cowparade website
CowParade Rio de Janeiro 2007 - pictures
Cow Parade Europe
The Poás Volcano is an active volcano near the town of Poás, Alajuela, Costa Rica.
Poas Volcano has two craters.
The larger crater is one of the biggest crater in the world.
It is  in diameter and  deep.
The biggest known eruption was in 1910.
The area around the volcano is a national park.
It is a place where many tourists from Costa Rica and other countries visit.
At the bottom of the main crater is a lagoon.
The lagoon is an acidic lake with boiling sulfuric gases.
The temperature of the lake varies between  and .
Because of changes in the chemistry of the lake and its temperature, the color of the lake also changes.
The second crater has a cold water lake in it.
This lake is connected to the nearby river, Rio Angel.
Pictures and information of the Poas Volcano
Gandhi is a rock band from Costa Rica.
They play music using distorted guitars and rhythm.
The band members are Abel Guier (bassist), Massimo Hernández (drummer), Federico Miranda (guitarist) and Luis Montalbert-Smith (singer and pianist).
The lyrics of Gandhi songs are written mainly by Montalbert-Smith.
Some of the bands that influenced their songs are Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Queen and Soda Stereo.
Montalbert-Smith is a very important part of the band's performances because of his charisma and stage presence.
These characteristics makes the shows very interesting and full of adrenaline for their fans.
The band began when Miranda and Montalbert-Smith met in high school in the mid 1990s.
The complete group of four members started playing at universities and local bars.
One of the things that made their shows so well liked was the many different types of art offered.
The fans could not only listen to the music, but also see very good scenery design, body painting and their performance.
The band won the Costa Rican award "Album of the Year" in 2004 for the album Ciclos.
The album “Páginas Pérdidas” got three local awards in 2000.
They have played in Costa Rica but also in Central America, Mexico and the United States.
The band was chosen to be part of the Tribute to Soda Stereo (Tributo a Soda Stereo).
They played a version of "En el sétimo día" ("In the Seventh Day").
They have opened concerts for many international artists.
1997: En el jardín del corazón (In the Garden of the Heart)
2000: Páginas perdidas (Lost Pages)
2002: BIOS
2004: Ciclos (Cycles)
2006: Un ciclo más (One Cycle More) - double DVD
2009: Arigato NO!
1993 establishments in North America
Clodomiro Picado Twight (April 17, 1887 - May 16, 1944) was a Nicaraguan born Costa Rican biologist.
Picado may have been the first to have learned about penicillin.
Picado was born in San Marcos, Nicaragua but moved, with his parents, to Costa Rica in 1890.
In 1908, Picado won a scholarship of the Costa Rican Congress to study in Paris, France.
In 1913, he finished his university studies in La Sorbonne, where he earned his BSc in zoology and botany, as well as a doctorate degree.
In the same year, he came back to Costa Rica to run the laboratory of San Juan de Dios Hospital.
At the same time, he was teaching sciences at San Luis Gónzaga School in Cartago city.
Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish scientist, is commonly said to be the person who learned about the antibacterial attacks of a fungus known as Penicillium notatum in 1928.
But in March 2000, Costa Rican doctors showed some notebooks with research belonging to Picado.
In these notebooks, he explained his experiments between 1915 and 1927.
These experiments had been developed to explain that Penicillium decreased bacterial activity.
Picado had reported his work to the Paris Academy of Sciences in France, but this academy did not patent it, even though Picado had studied the fungus years before Fleming.
Picado studied the creation of various anti-venom serums.
This led to the create of the Instituto Clodomiro Picado in 1970.
It is a research unit of the University of Costa Rica The unit is works on research in Toxicology, Herpetology and Immunology.
It also deals with the production of anti-venom.
It was named for him in honor of his life’s work.
http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/publications/articles/journal_37_1/T-letters93.pdf
http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/NoteofMonth/matthew_patayMarch2006CostaRica.htm
http://www.micit.go.cr/programas/premio_biografia.htm
"From Me to You" is a song by The Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Released in 1963 as a single, it was their first big hit, staying on top of the chart for seven straight weeks. "
From Me to You" comprises five verses and two bridges.
It lasts less than two minutes.
1963 songs
Ephesians, is the forty-ninth book in the Christian Bible, and the tenth in the New Testament.
This book is thought to have been written by the Apostle Paul to the people of Ephesus while he was imprisoned in Rome, around 62 A.D.  However, the words "in Ephesus" do not appear in the best and earliest hand copies of the letter, leading most textual critics, like Bart Ehrman, to regard the words "in Ephesus" as a later addition.
Copies of the letter may have been sent to other churches also, since it contains no personal references to people at Ephesus.
The Church at Ephesus
Paul's first short visit of three months to Ephesus is recorded in Acts Chapter 18, verses 19–21.
The work he began then was continued by Apollos (Acts Chapter 18 verses 24–26) and Aquila  and Priscilla.
On his second visit early in the next year, he stayed at Ephesus "three years", and from there visited the western parts of Asia Minor.
From Ephesus the gospel spread abroad "almost throughout all Asia Minor."
On his last journey to Jerusalem, the apostle landed at Miletus and, called together the leaders of the church from Ephesus, and said "good bye" to them expecting to see them no more. (
Acts Chapter 20, verses 18–35)
Content of the letter
Frank Charles Thompson,  says that the main theme of Ephesians is to tell the newly converted Jews not to separate themselves from their Gentile fellow Christians.
The unity of the church, especially between Jew and Gentile believers, is the main thing in the book.
The purpose of the epistle, and to whom it was written, are matters of much speculation.
It was regarded by C.H. Dodd as the "crown of Paulinism."
meaning the most important part of Paul's teachings.
The author strongly tells the church again and again to have a certain view of salvation, which he then explains.
Chapter 2, verse 6, states "By grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works so that no one should boast"
In Chapter 6 Paul tells about how families should treat each other.
He says that children should love their parents, fathers should not make their children angry, servants should serve their masters, and masters should not threaten their servants, since God does not favor any group above another.
The ending of the letter mentions truth, peace, salvation and prayer as "armor of God".
that will enable the Christians to stand firm.
Ephesians (KJV)
Ephesians (NIV)
His story is told by various ancient authors.
In most versions he is a shepherd, and a young man of unusual handsomeness – so much so that the Moon goddess Selene falls in love with him.
She uses her divine power to keep him asleep forever, preserving his youth and beauty.
The Endymion story has been re-told by poets and playwrights.
The English playwright John Lyly wrote one version; and the poet John Keats used the story as the basis for his long poem Endymion.
The name also inspired Prince Endymion, the name of Momaru Chiba's (Darien in the English version) past life character and the lover of the reincarnated Princess Serenity, Usagi (Serena) Tsukino from the popular anime and manga Sailor Moon.
In the future he becomes King Darien (キング・エンディミオン King Endymion), ruler of Crystal Tokyo, husband of Neo Queen Serenity and father of Rini.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet.
Together with his friend William Wordsworth, Coleridge is often said to have started the Romantic movement in English literature.
He was also a literary critic, philosopher and theologian.
Coleridge was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon.
He was the son of a minister, and the youngest of ten children.
He attended the University of Cambridge, Jesus College, though he never earned his degree.
He met Wordsworth, another young poet, in 1795.
They became close friends, and in 1798 they published their poems in a book called Lyrical Ballads, which many critics consider a key event in English Romanticism.
Most of the poems in the book were written by Wordsworth, though it also contained Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which many people call his masterpiece and one of the great poems in English. (
In it, Coleridge used old-fashioned spellings, like "rime" for "rhyme," to give the poem an antique feeling.)
In 1796, Coleridge wrote his poem Kubla Khan — along with the Ancient Mariner, it is his best-known work.
At about the same time, in the later 1790s, Coleridge became addicted to opium.
At that time the drug was legal, and was widely used as a painkiller.
Coleridge's addiction to opium marked the rest of his life.
His health suffered, and he had trouble supporting his wife and children.
He also had a hard time finishing the writing projects he started.
Coleridge had a reputation as a great talker, and people often invited him to their dinner parties to hear him speak.
He was a successful lecturer at times in his later life.
He gained a reputation as a thinker and philosopher as well as a poet.
He died in Highgate, Middlesex.
Scholars and critics of English literature have regarded Coleridge as a major figure.
In his 1927 book The Road to Xanadu, John Livingston Lowes used Coleridge's poetry, especially Kubla Khan, to study the working of the human imagination.
Critics have argued about the role that opium addiction played in the poet's life and work.
In his 1971 book Coleridge, the Damaged Archangel, Norman Furman showed that Coleridge was guilty of plagiarism in many of his later works.
His opium addiction may have left Coleridge unable to tell when he was repeating the work of other writers that he had read.
With the Beatles is The Beatles' second UK album.
It was recorded four months after the band's first album, Please Please Me and was released on 22 November, 1963.
The album sold so well in England, it qualified to enter the hit singles charts.
Most of the songs were used again in the first American Beatles album issued by Capitol Records, Meet The Beatles!
Other songs appeared on The Beatles' Second Album.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 420 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Beatles for Sale is The Beatles' fourth album.
It was released in late 1964.
Many of its songs went into an American release, Beatles '65, from Capitol Records, while the rest went into Beatles VI, a compilation album.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who wrote most of the band's songs, had filled their earlier album, A Hard Day's Night, with original songs.
The band began recording their next album only a week after finishing A Hard Day's Night, and they had little time to compose new music.
The band filled the album with cover versions, of songs they had performed live in Hamburg, Germany and the Cavern in Liverpool, their hometown, before the Beatles were famous.
Press agent Derek Taylor explained in the album's liner notes that all the recordings on Beatles for Sale were how the band played the music onstage.
The original songs on the album were praised, for showing Lennon and McCartney had grown and improved as writers. "
I'm A Loser" was compared to Bob Dylan's work. "
I'll Follow The Sun" was an early song, that was given a rewrite. "
What You're Doing" imitated the musical style of The Byrds, who were just becoming popular.
"No Reply" +
"I'm a Loser" +
"Baby's in Black" +
"Rock and Roll Music" (Chuck Berry) +
"I'll Follow the Sun" +
"Mr. Moonlight" (Roy Lee Johnson) +
"Kansas City" (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller)/"Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" (Richard Penniman) ++
"Eight Days a Week" ++
"Words of Love" (Buddy Holly) ++
"Honey Don't" (Carl Perkins) +
"Every Little Thing" ++
"I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" ++
"What You're Doing" ++
"Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" (Carl Perkins) +
All songs by Lennon/McCartney, unless credited differently
+ Also appeared on Beatles '65 in the United States
++ Also appeared on Beatles VI
Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.
It was released on 3 December 1965 in the United Kingdom, on EMI's Parlophone label.
The double A-side single "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out" was released at the same time.
The first North American version of the album from Capitol Records had ten of the fourteen songs from the British Parlophone version.
Rubber Soul was very popular with critics.
It was at the top of sales charts in Britain and the United States for many weeks.
The album proves the Beatles were starting to use LSD and marijuana.
The album was recorded in London over four weeks in October–November 1965.
Most call it a folk rock album, especially in its Capitol (North American) version.
Rubber Soul has a mix of pop, soul and folk musical styles.
The songs show the Beatles' improving as songwriters.
They also used brighter guitar tones and new instrumentation such as sitar, harmonium and fuzz bass.
Everywhere except North America
Abbey Road is the twelfth official album recorded by The Beatles.
It was released in September 1969.
Side one consisted of hits, while side two consisted of short songs to make up a story.
"Her Majesty" is a hidden track.
Between "The End" and "Her Majesty" is 14 seconds of silence.
Later releases of the album included the song on the track listing.
One cassette tape version in the US had "Come Together" and "Here Comes the Sun" swapped so that Harrison's song starts the album.
All other versions (including the CD) have restored the track listing to its original order.
Tracks 9 through 13 are sometimes noted as one song (medley) called "The Abbey Road Medley".
Tracks 14 through 16 are sometimes noted as one song called "The Golden Slumbers Medley".
All songs written by Lennon/McCartney unless credited differently.
Magical Mystery Tour is a 1967 television movie made by The Beatles.
It is also the movie's title song, and the name of its soundtrack recording.
Paul McCartney had the original idea for Magical Mystery Tour, coming back from the Monterey Pop Festival in California, during the summer of 1967.
He drew a clock face on a paper plate, and filled it with parts of the show he imagined.
McCartney based the idea on Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, who travelled the United States in a bus, and also "", which were low-budget weekend vacation trips taken in England.
The other Beatles liked the idea for the show, and made plans to produce and direct it themselves.
After they stopped giving concerts in 1966, they had started making their own promotional films (called "promos"), much like today's music videos.
They had success with promos, and wanted to try making a whole programme, to appear on television during the Christmas holidays.
Beatles manager Brian Epstein helped set up the production, and the Beatles asked friends, members of their staff, and some professional actors to ride with them in a rented bus over a holiday weekend, and film whatever happened, with magical elements to be added later.
Making the movie was one of the first jobs of the Beatles's new company, Apple Corps.
Epstein unfortunately died before filming began.
Without him to look over business details, things ran into trouble.
By the time things were set up, John Lennon and George Harrison had changed their minds about performing, and spent much of the bus trip asleep.
There also was not much for scenery along the roads, or entertainment among the passengers.
What turned into a bigger event than filming Magical Mystery Tour was the  that began to surround the bus, wondering what the "tour" was all about.
People followed the bus for miles, and caused .
People who saw the bus go by expected a "happening" of some kind, but none had been planned.
In trying to be , nobody had worked out a  for the bus, or the trip.
Most of the commotion ended after Lennon personally removed the MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR lettering from the sides of the bus.
Later a Beatles assistant said the traffic jams should have also been filmed.
Spots for songs and performances were included in Magical Mystery Tour, and so was a  explaining what the trip was about.
The songs featured in the show included "The Fool on the Hill", "I Am The Walrus", "Blue Jay Way", an instrumental song, "Flying", and "Your Mother Should Know", with a choreographed dance sequence.
Another band, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, played live during a striptease performance.
Magical Mystery Tour appeared on British television on Boxing Day in 1967, and was a surprising flop.
Part of the reason for its failure was because it was shown in black-and-white, while colour was an important feature.
Another part was because most of the viewers did not understand what was supposed to be happening.
Another part was that not much had happened on camera, for long parts of the programme, and it showed.
Ringo Starr made a personal appeal to the BBC to show Magical Mystery Tour again, in full colour.
The BBC gave it a second broadcast, but it did not change opinions.
ABC in the United States cancelled plans to show Magical Mystery Tour in America. (
It later appeared as a "midnight movie", shown in small cinemas and on college campuses.)
Even though Magical Mystery Tour was not a television success, its soundtrack still sold well.
The show's songs were released as a double EP in England, with a storybook and pictures from the show.
In America, Capitol Records added songs from recent Beatles singles to the show songs, and released a whole album.
The American version outsold the EP in England, and in 1977 Parlophone Records released a British version of the album.
"Magical Mystery Tour" +
"The Fool On The Hill" +
"Flying" (instrumental) +
"Blue Jay Way" +
"Your Mother Should Know" +
"I Am The Walrus" +
"Hello Goodbye"
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
"Penny Lane"
"Baby You're A Rich Man"
"All You Need Is Love"
+ appeared in the show Magical Mystery Tour
One example of hyperinflation is in Germany in the 1920s.
In 1922, the largest bank note was 50,000 Reichsmark, In 1923 the largest bank note was 100,000,000,000,000 Mark.
In December of 1923 the exchange rate was 4,200,000,000,000 Marks to 1 US dollar.
These bank notes were so worthless that people would burn them in fires to keep them warm.
The notes would burn longer than the amount of wood you could buy with them.
Sometimes the rate of inflation was so high that prices doubled every two days.
The Rentenmark was introduced to stop this problem.
The exchange rate was set at 4.2 Rentenmarks to 1 US Dollar.
Brian Harold May  (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, songwriter and astrophysicist, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen.
He uses a guitar he built himself with the help of his father.
The guitar they built is called the "Red Special".
Apart from music, May earned his PhD in astrophysics in 2007 and is currently the Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.
Together with Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott, he wrote a book called Bang!
The Complete History of the Universe.
Brian Harold May, the only child of Harold and Ruth May, was born on 19 July 1947 in Hampton, Middlesex and attended Hampton Grammar School (now Hampton School).
During this time he formed his first band with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell named Nineteen Eighty-Four after George Orwell's novel of the same name.