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She refused the invitation of men's magazine Playboy to pose nude.
In 2010 Great Little attended the show, the children's musical based on the book was titled CD released by Jair Oliveira in 2009 and was nominated for a Grammy Latino in the same year.
We recently debuted the piece ?,
with text by Mario Viana and opposite Dalton Vigh.
In 2010 the actress involved with a children's project, launched in October, Acampamento de Férias 2 - A Arvore da Vida, where he plays Debora.
In the movie, the actress will work with Murilo Rosa and Isaiah Washington in the sci-fi Area Q, a co-production between Brazil and the United States, which deals with the appearance of aliens in Quixadá and Quixeramobim, Ceará cities.
She will live Valkyrie, a reporter at the service of self-interested superpower.
The movie is directed by Gerson Sanginitto Halder Gomes and production of the recordings take place in Ceará and Los Angeles.
In 2011 was in the telenovela Fina Estampa, playing the teacher Letícia.
In 2012 interpreted the turquoise Ayla in the telenovela Salve Jorge of Glória Perez.
On December 10, 2005, married the singer Jair Oliveira, who in childhood was part of the group Turma do Balão Mágico, known then as Jairzinho in the church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in São Paulo, officiating a marriage that lasted four years, she met her husband when he sang in a bar in São Paulo.
Jair Before, she had three boyfriends long.
The couple have two daughters, Isabella, born July 10, 2007 in São Luiz hospital, and Laura born March 5, 2011 in São Luiz hospital, as well as his sister.
Hazrat Hafiz Barkhurdar (1658–1707), was a Punjabi Sufi Jatt poet from the village of Takhat Hazara in Sargodha District in modern-day Pakistan.
His shrine where he was buried stands in the village of Chitti Sheikhan in Sialkot District.
Mindless Behavior is an American boy band.
They are best known for the singles "My Girl" and "Mrs. Right", which were produced by Walter Millsap.
The band was put together in Los Angeles in 2008, by Keisha Gamble, Walter Millsap (who has previously worked with Beyoncé and Timbaland) and Vincent Herbert (Lady Gaga, Toni Braxton).
The band trained in dance and singing for two years before releasing anything.
The members are all in their early teens.
They performed "My Girl" on The Today Show in November 2010.
Their first album,  #1 Girl, was released on September 20, 2011.
It appeared on the Billboard 200 album chart at number 7.
Mindless Behavior toured with the Backstreet Boys, Justin Bieber and Jason Derülo.
They were the opening act for Janet Jackson's 2011 tour.
The rufous treepie (Dendrocitta vagabunda) is a species of bird in the Corvidae (crow) family.
The rufous treepie is native to the Indian Subcontinent and adjoining parts of Southeast Asia from Pakistan to Vietnam.
Woodland, forest edges and gardens are the habitat of this species.
It feeds on various fruits, insects and carrion.
Distribution and subspecies
The rufous treepie builds its nest 6−8 meters above the ground in trees.
Both male and female take turns breeding and feeding the young.
There are usually 3-5 eggs laid.
After the young have hatched, the remain with their parents for several months.
Rufous treepies form pair bonds for life.
The species was first described in 1790 by John Latham.
A previous description as "Dendrocitta rufa" is not valid.
It belongs to the Treepie genus Dendrocitta which is Southeast Asian in distribution.
According to ornithologist Derek Goodwin, the rufous treepie may be closely allied to the hooded treepie (D. frontalis).
There are eight recognized subspecies.
There are no estimates for the population of this species.
It is common throughout its range, but rare in Vietnam.
The Rufous Treepie is shorter and smaller than the European magpie.
The head, neck and breast are grey, although sometimes they are slightly brown.
The underparts and lower back are orange-brown.
The tail is a light blue color with a black tip.
Salím Ali, S. Dillon Ripley: Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan.
Volume 5: Larks to the Grey Hypocolius.
Oxford University Press, London 1972.
Joseph del Hoyo, Andrew Elliot, David Christie (Hrsg.):
Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 2009, .
The Greater Los Angeles Area, or the Southland, is a term used for the group of metropolitan areas over five counties in the southern part of California.
It includes Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County and Ventura County.
It has been one of the fastest growing regions in the United States for decades.
The growth started in Los Angeles County, then Orange County, and now in the Inland Empire.
As of 2005, the population of the Los Angeles metropolitan area was more than 12.9 million people.
In 2009 the larger five-county region had a population of over 17.6 million.
It the second-largest statistical area in the country.
Only the New York metropolitan area is larger.
The Greater Los Angeles area is centered on the county of Los Angeles, California.
The term is defined to refer to the area from Ventura to the southern border of Orange County, and from the Pacific Ocean to the Inland Empire.
The Greater Los Angeles area includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Inland Empire, and Ventura County.
The term "Greater Los Angeles" does not include San Diego and Imperial counties.
The United States Census Bureau has named the five county region as the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA combined statistical area.
Their January 1, 2009 population estimate was 17,786,419 people.
The Los Angeles metropolitan area has a total area of .
The wider combined statistical area covers .
More than half of this is the thinly populated eastern areas of Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
The following is a list of main  cities in the Greater Los Angeles Area with estimates of their population:
Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana MSA
Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario MSA
Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura MSA
Oxnard (197,067)
Thousand Oaks (128,564)
Simi Valley  (125,814)
Ventura (108,787)
Camarillo (66,149)
Walter Chauncey Camp (April 17, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer.
He is known as the "Father of American Football".
Camp was born in New Haven, Connecticut on April 17, 1859.
His parents were Leverett and Ellen Camp.
He attended Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven.
He went to Yale in 1876.
He graduated in 1880.
Camp played college football at Yale from 1876 to 1882.
He was head football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892.
He was in the first class to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.
Camp's football inventions include the eleven-man team and the gridiron marking of the field.
He also invented the line of scrimmage and the modern point system.
He invented the "All-American team" of college players. "
All-American" has since become a part of American-English.
In time, he began to think of American football as his private property.
He did not want new additions to the game, like the forward pass.
He stayed at Yale for two more years to study medicine.
He started working for a watch company in 1882.
In 1888, he married Alice Graham Sumner.
In 1903, he became president of the watch company.
Camp died of a heart attack on March 15, 1925 in New York City, New York, aged 65.
Jessica Ellen Cornish (born 27 March 1988), better known by her stage name Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter.
She was born and raised in London where she studied at the BRIT School before signing with Gut Records.
Jessie J became better known after the release of her debut single "Do It Like a Dude" which peaked at number two in the UK.
She achieved her first number one in the UK, France, Ireland and New Zealand with the song "Price Tag".
After those two singles, she released her debut album Who You Are in 2011.
The album charted at number two in the UK.
Other singles from the album included "Nobody's Perfect", "Who's Laughing Now" and "Who You Are" which charted within the top 20 in the UK but the release of fifth single "Domino" became international chart success, peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming her second UK number one.
She is the first British female artist to have six top ten singles on one album.
Jessie J is recognized for an unconventional musical and performing style.
It mixes her soul voice with contemporary R&B, pop music and hip-hop influences.
She has several awards and nominations.
These include the 2011 Critics' Choice BRIT Award and the BBC's Sound of 2011.
As of April 2012, Jessie has sold over 11 million singles and 2.5 million albums worldwide.
On 4 October 2011, Jessie said that she will be one of four coaches for new BBC program, The Voice UK.
The other coaches are will.i.am (of The Black Eyed Peas), Tom Jones and Danny O'Donoghue (of The Script).
Asked about her bisexuality in an interview on the "In Demand" radio show on 3 March 2011, Jessie J stated, "I've never denied it.
Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys – get over it."
According to The Guardian, Jessie J's sexuality is valuable to young teens, especially for young girls unsure of themselves because of their sexuality and identity, to feel "that this does happen and this is normal."
In April 2014, Jessie J renounced her bisexuality in an interview with Daily Mirror's "3am" celebrity tabloid; "For me, it was a phase.
But I'm not saying bisexuality is a phase for everybody", she said.
On 12 June 2011, at the Capital Radio Summertime Ball, Jessie ruptured several tendons in her foot during rehearsals.
She performed for several weeks while sitting on a gilded throne.
Who You Are (2011)
Alive (2013)
Sweet Talker (2014)
R.O.S.E. (2018)
Jessie J – official website
People from the London Borough of Redbridge
The Pentamerone or Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille (The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones) is a seventeenth-century collection of fairy tales by Giambattista Basile.
The collection consists of a frame story and 49 fairy tales.
Ten old women tell the tales over five days.
The collection contains many famous fairy tale types such as "Cinderella" and "Puss in Boots".
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"La vita di Giambattista Basile"  (in Italian)
The complete text of Lo cunto de li cunti (in Neapolitan)
SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages: Il Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile
Illustrations  by George Cruikshank
Professor S. Cicciotti's page about G. B. Basile (in Italian)
Online text of some stories, in English (from Taylor translation)
Curling is a sport played on ice.
Players slide curling stones on the ice towards a target, called the house.
There are two teams with four players on each team.
Each team slides eight stones, this is called an end.
After an end the team with the stone closest to the centre of the house (target) scores points.
The game is over after eight or ten ends.
The player sliding the stone can make it turn or curl slowly.
Two other players on the team sweep the ice in front of the stone with brooms.
This is to make the stone stop in the right place.
Curling was invented in Scotland in medieval times.
It was played outside in the winter because there was lots of ice.
Today curling is played all over Europe and in many other countries such as Canada, the United States, Japan and South Korea.
The ice is called a curling sheet.
It is a rectangular sheet of flat ice, between 146 and 150 feet (45-46 metres) long and 14.5 to 15.5 feet (4.4-5.0 metres) wide.
The house, or target, is marked at the end of the sheet by coloured rings.
The rings help players to aim for the centre of the house.
They are also useful to decide which stone is closest to the centre when scoring.
There is also a hack at the end of the sheet which players push against when sliding a stone.
Curling stones are made of granite.
They are heavy, weighing 38-40 pounds (17-20kg).
There is a handle on the top of each stone to help slide and turn the stone.
The handles are different colours for each team.
The stones are usually red for one team and yellow for the other team.
Players wear special shoes for curling.
One shoe has a smooth surface for sliding on the ice and the other rough.
The purpose of the game is to score points by getting stones close to the centre of the house.
Players from each team take turns to slide a stone towards the house.
This is called delivering or throwing a stone.
An end is completed when all stones have been delivered.
There are eight stones for each team.
The winner is the team with the most points after all ends have been played.
There are usually eight or ten ends.
Delivery and sweeping
The captain of the team is called the skip.
The skip chooses how hard the stone should be delivered, the direction of delivery, and the amount of turn (curl) that the stone should be given.
The skip can choose to aim the stone for the house, hit one of the other team's stones out of play, or make a stone stop before the house as a guard if their team has a stone in a good position.
The player delivering the stone starts at the hack.
The skip stands at the other end of the curling sheet behind the house.
The skip shows where to aim the stone.
The other two players sweep the ice in front of the stone as it slides.
The players take turns to deliver stones.
When the skip is delivering a stone another player stands behind the house instead.
To deliver a stone the player puts one foot on the hack.
The player lines up towards the skip.
The stone is on the ice in front of the foot in the hack.
The player then slides the stone back before sliding forwards on their other foot.
The player lets go of the stone, gently turning the handle just before letting go to give the stone curl.
Then the other players can sweep the stone.
Sweeping helps the stone to travel faster, and makes it curl less.
The aim of sweeping is to help the stone stop in the right place.
Points are scored at when an end has finished.
The team with the stone closest to the centre of the house wins the end.
The team scores one point for every stone that is closer to the centre than the other team's closest stone.
Only stones that are in the house count for scoring.
If it is difficult to see which stone is closest to the centre of the house there are special measuring devices to help.
Sometimes neither team scores any points, this is called a blank end.
World Curling Federation website
Drive-Thru is a 2007 horror movie, directed by Brendan Cowles and Shane Kuhn, starring Leighton Meester and Nick D'Agosto.
It is set in Orange County, California and involves a serial killing clown mascot Horny the Clown.
The movie was released on May 29, 2007.
The Muppets is a 2011 American musical comedy movie.
It starred Jason Segel and Amy Adams.
The movie was directed by James Bobin.
It was made by Walt Disney Pictures.
It involves The Muppets reuniting to put on a show in order to save their theater from a businessman who wants to tear it down to drill for oil.
Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie (born 26 June 1976) is a New Zealand comedian, actor, musician and producer.
He is best known as one half of the Grammy Award-winning comedy duo Flight of the Conchords with Jemaine Clement.
For The Muppets (2011), he won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
He also played Lindir in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movie trilogy.
McKenzie was born in Wellington.
He has two children with his wife, publicist Hannah Clarke.
New Zealand comedians
Peter Szymon Serafinowicz ( /sɛrəˈfɪnəwɪtʃ/; born 10 July 1972) is an English actor, comedian, writer, composer, voice artist, television producer and writer.
He is married to Sarah Alexander; the couple have a son and daughter together.
Pease 1 is a planetary nebula.
It is in the globular cluster Messier 15 in the constellation of Pegasus.
It is the first planetary nebula discovered within a globular cluster.
Three more have been discovered in other clusters.
Roller skating is a physical activity on roller skates.
Roller skating is also a sport when the skaters form a team and compete in events such as roller hockey or roller derby.
Roller skating is also performed with certain styles of music and dance steps such as Jam Skating.
The Nutcracker Suite, Op.
71a is a selection of 8 musical numbers Tchaikovsky made from The Nutcracker ballet for a concert performance before the St. Petersburg branch of the Musical Society on March 19, 1892.
Every number was acclaimed and repeated, and the suite became an instant hit.
The complete ballet was first performed on December 17, 1892.
It did not gain any popularity until George Balanchine staged a production in New York City.
The suite however was very popular in concert.
It was featured in Disney's Fantasia.
The Nutcracker Suite should not be mistaken for the complete ballet.
The numbers chosen by Tchaikovsky for The Nutcracker Suite and their sequence within the suite are as follows:
I. Miniature Overture
Danses caractéristiques
a. Marche
b. Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy [ending altered from ballet-version]
c. Russian Dance (Trepak)
d. Arabian Dance
e. Chinese Dance
f. Reed-Flutes
I Did It Again!
is the second album released by American pop music singer Britney Spears on Jive Records.
The Million Pound Drop Live is a British quiz show.
It began on 24 May 2010 and is shown on Channel 4.
It is presented by Davina McCall.
2010 establishments in the United Kingdom
2010 British television series debuts
"Touch My Body" is a song co-written by American singer Mariah Carey,  Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Crystal "Cri$tyle" Johnson and Terius "The-Dream" Nash for Carey's 11th studio album, E=MC².
It is the first single off E=MC².
The single was produced by Carey and Stewart.
The song was chosen as the lead single of the album during a vote with producer L.A. Reid and staff in Island Records.
Carey stated that the group "decided to just go with the mid-tempo and everybody kinda liked the song 'cause it's just fun and cute and sexy and sweet".
The song was transmitted digitally to radio stations on February 12 at 6:30pm ET for immediate airplay via All Access.
The single went for adds on radio station playlists on February 19."Touch My Body" premiered on Chicago's hit rhythmic radio station, B96, ahead of schedule at 4:00pm.
Reviews of the song by critics were mostly good.
Blender said that it was a "pop genius making genius pop".
Bill Lamb from About.com gave "Touch My Body" 4 out of 5 stars.
Newsday named it as the "Song of the Week", saying that it was her best first single on an album since "Heartbreaker".
Brett Ratner is the director of the video.
Ratner also directed Carey's videos for "I Still Believe", "Heartbreaker", "Thank God I Found You", "It's like That", and "We Belong Together".
In an interview with AllHipHop.com, Ratner said, "Mariah is musically at the top of her game and has never looked better... This will be our 6th music video we have collaborated on and definitely the best one yet visually, as well as musically.
The video for "Touch My Body" is the perfect combination of fantasy and comedy with Mariah looking more beautiful than she has ever looked, ever.".
The video also stars Jack McBrayer from 30 Rock, a show that Carey is a fan of.
Carey appeared on MTV's TRL and BET's 106 & Park on Wednesday, February 27, 2008, to premiere the video for "Touch My Body"; BET also played the video all day, every hour on the hour, until 106 & Park.
VH1 posted a 45-second sneak peek on their blog on February 26, and subsequently posted the video in its entirety at midnight on February 27, 2008; the video was also posted on the Island Records website.
Following the song's February 12 digital transmission, after only a day's worth of airplay, "Touch My Body" entered the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart at #78 the chart week of February 23, 2008.
It is currently at #15 in its fourth chart week.
It also debuted on airplay alone at #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 as the "Hot Shot" debut of the week, and is currently #24.
It also debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at #97 and has since risen to #59.
Ned Thomas Beatty (July 6, 1937 – June 13, 2021) was an American actor.
He was known for his movie work including Nashville (1975), All the President's Men (1976), Network (1976), The Big Easy (1987) and Prelude to a Kiss (1992).
Samson and Delilah (Fr: Samson et Dalila) is a three-act French opera.
It is based on the story of Samson and Delilah in the Old Testament of the Bible.
The words and story of the opera (the libretto) were written by Ferdinand Lemaire.
The music was written by Camille Saint-Saëns.
The opera was first performed in Weimar, Germany on 2 December 1877.
It was sung in German instead of French.
Saint-Saëns thought the Samson story would make a good oratorio.
He was persuaded by Lemaire to write an opera on the subject instead.
When the opera was completed, Saint-Saëns met some stiff opposition about staging it in France.
It was considered sacrilegious to stage a work based on a Bible story.
Additionally, Saint-Saëns was considered a "symphonist" rather than an opera composer.
People were not interested in Samson.
Liszt staged the work in Germany.
It was soon staged in America and in England.
Roles in the opera include Samson (tenor), Delilah (mezzo-soprano), and the High Priest of Dagon (baritone).
The story tells of the enslavement of the Hebrews by the Philistines.
Samson urges them to resist their masters.
The High Priest of Dagon uses Delilah to destroy Samson.
Musical highlights include "" and "" The opera finally played the Paris Opéra.
It ranked second in popularity to Charles Gounod's Faust.
Composition of the opera
Saint-Saëns thought the Samson and Delilah story would make a good oratorio.
Oratorios were popular in the late 1860s.
The city of Paris was offering a prize for a new one.
Saint-Saëns asked a relative, Ferdinand Lemaire, to write the libretto.
Lemaire thought the story of Samson and Delilah was better suited to an opera.
He persuaded Saint-Saëns to write an opera instead of an oratorio.
Saint-Saëns was drawn to the story because it gave him the opportunity to compose a grand duet against a rising storm.
He knew Rameau's take on the story from Voltaire's libretto for an opera on the subject (now lost), but Rameau's storm was a metaphor for the wrath of God.
Rossini's Otello was nearer to what Saint-Saëns had in mind.
He wrote, "I imagined a storm that would no longer be an hors-d'œuvre (a tidbit eaten before a meal) but adhere to the action and become one with it."
Saint-Saëns set to work in 1868.
He wrote an aria for Delilah, a duet for Samson and Delilah, and the Prelude.
He tried them out at home.
Friends were not very interested.
The composer put the work aside for a time.
He met Liszt in Weimar, Germany about 1870.
Liszt encouraged him to take up the project again.
He promised Saint-Saëns he would stage the opera.
Early performances
In 1873 Saint-Saëns finished the score.
Pauline Viardot staged Act 2 in a garden at Croissy.
The director of the Paris Opera was present.
He found the opera too Wagnerian.
He also thought it neglected French opera tradition.
Biblical stories were not staged in France.
It was considered sacrilegious.
Act 1 was performed "concert style" in 1875.
This means it was performed without costumes, scenery, or "acting".
Saint-Saëns kept working.
He published the score.
He wrote a dedication to Viardot.
In 1877 Liszt staged the work at the Weimar Court Theatre in Germany.
The opera was well received.
Paris wasn't very interested, though.
In 1890 the opera was staged in Rouen at composer Gabriel Faure's urging.
It was staged the same year in Paris.
Two years later it was finally staged at the Paris Opéra.
The opera ranked second in popularity to Gounod's Faust.
Other early performances
Once the opera gained favor with audiences it quickly spread outside France.
The first production in America was at New Orleans in 1893.
In 1894 it was staged at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
In these early days, productions were mounted in Milan, St Petersburg, and Moscow.
French singers walked out on a concert performance in London in 1893.
They were expected to sing in English instead of French.
Biblical stories were banned from the stage in Britain.
The first full production of Samson took place in 1909.
King Edward VII of England was said to have helped get the opera staged.
Goodwin writes that Saint-Saëns's pupil and friend Gabriel Faure always said that the reason Samson and Delilah met with disinterest in France was the fact that the composer was viewed as a symphonistnot because the opera was based on a Biblical text. "
Symphonist" was a pejorative term at the time.
It was tossed about by opera and ballet fans.
Samson and Delilah was also a departure from 19th century opera traditions.
This was another reason for some to ignore it.
It was a three-act opera rather than a standard five-act opera as laid down by Meyerbeer.
The opera featured only three principal charactersSamson, Delilah, and the High Priestthus creating another departure from the norm.
Saint-Saëns was almost an atheist.
He did not point out a moral in this opera but let the work speak for itself.
He admired the operas of Verdi.
He liked the oratorios of Handel and Mendelssohntwo composers whose influence is felt in the choruses of Samson.
He framed the central seduction scene with the two outer acts.
In contrast with Samson (strength) and the High Priest (power), Delilah is a character of seductive strength and power.
She wants Samson on her sidenot for lovebut for her own vanity and sexual gratification.
She puts everything she has into successfully seducing him because, if she fails, her head will be on the chopping  block.
Roles in the opera
Samson (tenor) is a Hebrew hero and leader who urges the Hebrews to turn against their Philistine enemies and slave masters.
Delilah (mezzo-soprano) is a beautiful woman.
She is friendly with the Philistines, the enemies of the Hebrews.
High Priest of Dagon (baritone) is a Philistine who plots with Delilah the overthrow of Samson.
Abimelech, Governor of Gaza (bass) is a Philistine whom Samson kills in Act 1.
He is a character invented by Lemaire and does not appear in the Bible story.
First Philistine (tenor) reports Samson's deeds to Dagon.
Second Philistine (bass) reports Samson's deeds to Dagon.
Philistine Messenger (tenor)
Old Hebrew (bass) advises Samson to be wary of Delilah's attractiveness.
In a square in Gaza, the Hebrews pray for release from slavery to the Philistines.
Samson tries to lift their spirits.
Abimelech taunts the Hebrews.
He says his god Dagon is greater than the Hebrew god.
Samson defies him.
Abimelech attacks Samson with a sword.
Samson disarms and kills him.
The Hebrews flee.
The High Priest of Dagon makes plans to use Delilah to trap Samson.
Delilah enters with the priestesses of Dagon.
She flirts with Samson.
She invites him to her home in Sorek.
An old Hebrew warns Samson about loving Delilah.
Samson prays for God's protection.
Delilah and the priestesses begin to dance.
Samson fights his desire for Delilah.
The old Hebrew repeats his warning.
As the curtain closes, Samson meets Delilah's gaze.
It is clear he will join her in Sorek.
In Sorek Delilah sings about her power over Samson.
The High Priest arrives.
He reports that Samson and the Hebrews have destroyed the harvest.
He offers gold to Delilah to trap Samson.
She refuses to take the money.
She wants only revenge.
Delilah vows to find the secret of Samson's strength.
The High Priest leaves.
Delilah considers her chances of success.
Samson arrives to say farewell.
He plans to lead the Hebrew revolt.
Delilah tells Samson that she loves him.
He admits that he loves her.
They sing rapturously.
Delilah wants to know the secret of his strength.
Samson will not tell her.
She weeps and runs into her house.
Samson follows.
She learns the secret of his strength.
She calls to Philistine soldiers hiding nearby.
They capture Samson and blind him.
Samson is chained to a mill-wheel in a dungeon.
He prays for his people.
They will suffer for his sin.
Samson offers his life as a sacrifice.
The Hebrews are heard in the distance singing sorrowfully.
The Philistines are preparing a victory celebration in the temple of Dagon.
The priests and priestesses sing softly.
The priests dance a wild Bacchanale.
Samson enters led by a boy.
He is mocked by the High Priest.
Delilah taunts him.
The priests try to force him to kneel before a statue of Dagon.
The boy leads him to the two main pillars in the temple.
Samson prays for strength.
He pulls down the pillars.
The temple collapses.
Samson is crushed with his enemies beneath the stones.
Musical highlights
Amour!
viens aider ma faiblesse
Vois ma misère, hélas!
Bacchanale
from Encyclopedia Americana, 2002; volume 24, pages 185-86
The , also known as the ,  is one of Japan's traditional regions.
The Japanese conventions of geography and history divide the nation into eight regions, including the Chūgoku region.
In the late 7th century, the San'indō and San'yōdō were identified as two of the eight largest administrative areas of the Imperial system (ritsuryo seido).
Gokishichidō is an ancient system of names for parts of the country, including San'indō and San'yōdō.
Chūgoku covers a western part of the island of Honshū in roughly the same area as the traditional San'indō and San'yōdō.
Japan was divided into regions (chihō ), including the Chūgoku region.
Table: Chūgoku
"We Belong Together" is a 2005 hit song by Mariah Carey off of her album The Emancipation of Mimi.
The song is available in several versions.
It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for 14 weeks.
With the song, Carey holds the record for having the longest-running and second-longest running songs at #1 in the US (her song "One Sweet Day" with Boyz II Men stayed on top for 16 weeks).
It was also No.1 in Australia and the Netherlands.
It was the best-selling song in the US of 2005 and later became Billboard's Song of the Decade for the 2000s (2000–09).
"Vision of Love" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey.
It was Carey's debut single and the first from her self-titled debut album.
Written by Carey and Ben Margulies, "Vision of Love" was released on May 15, 1990, by Columbia Records.
After being featured on Carey's demo tape for Columbia, the song was re-recorded and produced by Rhett Lawrence and Narada Michael Walden.
It was Carey's first Billboard Hot 100 number one.
Worldwide 7" single
"Vision of Love"
Special excerpts from the debut release "Prisoner/All in Your Mind/Someday"
UK 7" single
"Sent from Up Above"
Credits adapted from the Mariah Carey linear notes.
Songwriting – Mariah Carey, Ben Margulies
Production – Rhett Lawrence, Narada Michael Walden
Instruments and programming – Rhett Lawrence, Jimmy Ripp
Recording – Rhett Lawrence
Audio engineering – Narada Michael Walden
Background vocals – Mariah Carey
Programming – Ben Margulies, Marcus Miller, Ren Klyce
Mixing – Rhett Lawrence, Narada Michael Walden
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The  is one of Japan's traditional regions  The area is also known as the  or as the .
The Japanese conventions of geography and history divide the nation into eight regions, including the Kansai region.
These have been used since 1905 as basic units for description and comparison.
and as cultural markers.
In the late 7th century, the Kinki region were identified as one of the eight largest administrative areas of the Imperial system (ritsuryo seido).
Gokishichidō is an ancient system of names for parts of the country, including Kinki or Kansai.
Kansai covers the area around the capital city of Kyoto on the island of Honshū in roughly the same area as the traditional Kinki.
Japan was divided into regions (chihō ), including the Kinki region.
Table: Kansai region
Places named with Kansai
Kansai Ki-in (Organization for Go)
"Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" is a mezzo-soprano aria from Camille Saint-Saëns's opera Samson and Delilah.
It is known in English as "Softly awakes my heart", or "My heart opens itself to your voice".
It is sung by Delilah in act 2 as she tries to get Samson to reveal the secret of his great  strength.
In the opera, Delilah is responding to Samson's words "Dalila!
Dalila!
Je t'aime!" (
Delilah!
I love you!)
which he repeats between the first and second verses of her aria.
These interjections are omitted in recital performances or sometimes sung to the changed words "Samson!
Samson!
Je t'aime!".
Samson's part in the final 22 bars of the stage aria where he joins Delilah in a duet is also omitted in a recital, although some performers, notably Marilyn Horne, have sung Samson's final words – changed as above, rising to a high B-flat.
A performance takes between 5 1/2 and 6 1/2 minutes.
The aria is written in D-flat major.
The verse has a time signatures of 3/4 but the refrain ("Ah!
réponds") has a time signature of 4/4.
The tempo indication is andantino (=66) for the verse and un poco più lento (a little slower) for the refrain.
The vocal range extends from B-flat4 to G-flat5, with a tessitura from E-flat4 to E-flat5.
The instrumentation calls for flute, oboe, clarinet, horns, harp and strings.
All instrument lines, except the harp, make intensive use of divisi (cellos play in four divisi).
The orchestral accompaniment consists mainly of reiterated notes for the first verse and of falling chromatic lines for the second verse.
The refrain is accompanied by ascending broken chords.
Audio file: "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" sung by Louise Homer.
Recorded October 11, 1909.
The  is one of Japan's regions.
The Japanese conventions of geography and history divide the nation into eight regions, including the Kantō region.
In the late 7th century, the Tōkaidō region were identified as one of the eight largest administrative areas of the Imperial system (ritsuryo seido).
Gokishichidō is an ancient system of names for parts of the country, including Tōkaidō.
Kantō covers an east-central area of the island of Honshū in roughly the same area as the traditional Tōkaidō.
Japan was divided into regions (chihō ), including the Kantō region.
Table: Kanto Region
1923 (Taishō 12): Great Kantō earthquake has its epicenter near Tokyo and Yokohama.
The region includes the Greater Tokyo Area.
The Kantō covers seven prefectures: Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa.
covering Ibaraki, Tochigi, and Gunma.
covering Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo and Kanagawa.
South Kantō is often used as synonymous with the Greater Tokyo Area.
: Ibaraki, Tochigi and Chiba.
: Gunma, Saitama, Tokyo, Kanagawa (and Yamanashi Prefecture may be included).
: Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama (and Yamanashi may be included).
: Ibaraki, Chiba, Tokyo and Kanagawa.
Greater Kantō
The Japanese national government defines the  as the Kantō region plus Yamanashi Prefecture.
Japan's national public broadcaster NHK defines the  which includes Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata Prefectures for regional programming.
"Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" () is an aria for the Queen of the Night in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute ().
Mozart's friend Emanuel Schikaneder wrote the words.
The aria is written in D minor.
The voice ranges over two octaves.
It is known for being difficult to perform well.
Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer was the first to sing the aria on stage.
The Queen of the Night is a role for a coloratura soprano.
She has two arias in the opera.
The other is "Oh, tremble not, my beloved son" ().
Both arias are famous. "
Hell's vengeance" is highly memorable, fast paced and menacingly grandiose.
It is scored for pairs of flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns, trumpets, timpani, and the string section.
It is a larger orchestra than that for "".
It comprises all the players from the opera as a whole, except the clarinets and trombones.
The aria is sung in act 2.
It is famous for being difficult to perform well.
The Queen of the Night is in a fit of rage.
She gives a knife to her daughter Pamina.
She tells her to kill the priest Sarastro.
If she refuses, the Queen will curse her.
The aria's range is two octaves, from F4 to F6 and requires a very high tessitura.
The first singer to perform the aria onstage was Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer.
She was 33.
Mozart wrote the two Magic Flute arias to showcase her voice.
He was very impressed with Hofer's performance.
In the fifth week of the opera's run, Mozart lay dying.
He whispered to his wife Constanze on December 4, 1791: "Quiet, quiet!
Hofer is just taking her top F; – now my sister-in-law is singing her second aria, "Der Hölle Rache"; how strongly she strikes and holds the B-flat: ''"
The cavatina "Se vuol ballare" is an aria from The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The lyrics are by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
It portrays Figaro's intent to foil Count Almaviva's womanizing, but can also be read as a political attack on the power-wielding nobility of the time.
The song is sung in act 1.
Figaro discovers Count Almaviva intends to exercise his feudal right to sleep with Figaro's wife Susanna before they consummate their marriage.
Figaro sings of how he will unravel the Count's schemes and thwart him.
Beethoven wrote a series of 12 variations on the theme of Se vuol ballare.
It bears the Number WoO 40 (=Werk ohne Opuszahl, work without opus number)
Lorenzo da Ponte (10 March 1749 – 17 August 1838) was an opera librettist and poet.
He is best known for having written the libretti for three of Mozart's operas, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni,  and Così fan tutte.
Da Ponte was born Emanuele Conegliano to Jewish parents near Venice, Italy.
He became a Christian, and took the name Lorenzo da Ponte from the bishop who baptized him.
He became a priest at the church of San Luca in Venice.
He took Anzoletta Bellaudi as his mistress.
They ran a brothel.
Da Ponte was banished from Venice for 15 years.
He went to Austria where he became court librettist to Emperor Joseph II.
About 1792, da Ponte married Ann Celestine Grahl.
When Joseph II died, da Ponte lost his job.
He got into debt, and went to the United States.
He ran a grocery store in Pennsylvania for a short time.
He moved to New York City and opened a bookstore.
He became the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia College.
He produced Don Giovanni in New York in 1826.
In 1828, da Ponte became a naturalized US citizen.
Da Ponte died in 1838 in New York.
His funeral was held in New York's old St. Patrick's Cathedral.
His final resting place is uncertain.
All of da Ponte's libretti were adaptations of pre-existing plots, except L'arbore di Diana and Così fan tutte.
His adaptations are of the highest order.
The Don Giovanni character was given new life in da Ponte's hands.
The character is now considered the archetypical libertine.
Acocella, Joan, "Nights At The Opera: The Life of the Man who put Words to Mozart", The New Yorker, 8 January 2007
Holden, Anthony, “The phoenix”, ‘’The Guardian’’ (London), 7 January 2007
Keats, Jonathan, "Lorenzo's Toil: How the Son of an Impoverished Leatherworker Came to Write Mozart's Libretti", Washington Post, 16 July 2006 — book review
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A magnetic pendulum is an experiment where a metal ball on a thread (a pendulum) can be influenced by a number of magnets on the ground.
The length of the rope is such that the ball cannot touch the magnets, but is still influenced by them.
If the ball is moved, its movement will be influenced by both gravitation and the fields the magnets generate.
If the movement is so large that the ball can get outside the influence of the magnets, the resulting movement will look irregular.
Amahl and the Night Visitors is a one-act opera.
The words and music were written by Gian Carlo Menotti.
Menotti took inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch's The Adoration of the Magi, a painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
It was the first opera written for television.
Its first performance was on Christmas Eve 1951 on NBC.
It was the first show in the famous Hallmark Hall of Fame series.
About five million people watched the program.
It was the largest audience to ever see an opera on television.
Amahl was shown every year until 1966.
Menotti wanted Amahl to always be performed by a boy.
He wrote, "It is the express wish of the composer that the role of Amahl should always be performed by a boy.
Neither the musical nor the dramatic concept of the opera permits the substitution of a woman costumed as a child."
Amahl is a crippled shepherd boy who uses a crutch.
He sees a huge star in the night sky.
His mother thinks he is lying and sends him to bed.
She worries that they will become beggars.
Three kings ask for a place to rest.
They are on their way to Bethlehem to find a newborn child.
Amahl pesters them with many questions.
Shepherds arrive to dance for the kings.
The kings grow sleepy and the shepherds go home.
The room is dark and everyone is asleep.
The mother tries to steal a piece of gold from the kings.
She is caught by their servant.
Amahl wakes and beats the servant.
He falls exhausted.
The kings tell the mother to keep the gold.
They tell her the wonderful baby they are seeking has no need for gold because his kingdom is Heaven.
Amahl offers his crutch to this wonderful baby.
He takes a few stumbling steps.
A miracle has occurred.
He leaves with the kings to give his crutch to the baby himself.
His mother waves good-bye.
Compositions by Gian Carlo Menotti
The Medium is a two-act opera with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti.
It was commissioned by Columbia University.
Its first performance was there on May 8, 1946.
The opera's first professional production was presented on a double bill with Menotti's The Telephone.
This occurred at the Heckscher Theater, New York City, on February 18-20, 1947 by the Ballet Society.
The Broadway production took place on May 1, 1947, at the Ethel Barrymore Theater with the same cast.
In 1951, Menotti directed, with the help of filmmaker Alexander Hammid, a movie version made to resemble film noir.
It starred Anna Maria Alberghetti.
A live television production starring Marie Powers took place on December 12, 1948 on the TV series Studio One.
The medium's parlor
Monica, Madame Flora's daughter, and Toby, a mute servant boy rescued from "the streets of Budapest" play dress-up.
When Madame Flora, or "Baba" as they call her, arrives home drunk, she violently chastises them for not preparing for that night's seance.
Soon the guests arrive, Mr. and Mrs. Gobineau, regulars, and the widow Mrs. Nolan who is attending for the first time.
With Madame Flora in a trance in her chair, a fake seance is held where Mrs. Nolan speaks with what she thinks is her deceased sixteen-year-old daughter but is really Monica behind a screen.
As Monica disappears, Mrs. Nolan rushes toward the figure and is restrained by the Gobineaus.
When order is restored, Mr. and Mrs. Gobineau "communicate" with their deceased two-year-old son Mickey who does nothing but laugh.
After they say goodbye to him, Madame Flora "suddenly, with a loud gasp... clutches at her throat with both hands."
She feels a phantom hand clutching her throat and is "terror-stricken."
After demanding that the guests leave, she calls for Monica and tells her what she felt, eventually blaming Toby who was in the other room the whole time.
In an effort to calm Baba's drunken rage toward Toby, Monica sings her the dark lullaby "The Black Swan" which is interrupted by a voice that Baba hears causing her to fly into a terrified rage at Toby for not telling her where the voice is coming from.
The act ends with Monica again singing the lullaby while Baba recites her Hail Marys.
A few days later
Toby is giving a puppet show for Monica, their mutual love becomes more obvious.
When Baba comes home, she resumes her accusations on Toby, sure that he knows what went on that night.
The guests again arrive, expecting another seance but are driven away by Madame Flora who tries to convince them that the whole thing was a sham by revealing all the tricks that she and Monica used.
But the guests are not convinced and leave claiming that while she might have thought she was cheating them, she in fact was not.
Once the guests are gone, she drives Toby out despite Monica's pleas on his behalf.
With everyone gone, and Monica in her room, Baba pours herself another drink and questions her own sanity, becoming wild with drink and eventually passing out.
Once she has fallen asleep, Toby sneaks back in and tries to get into Monica's room, but finds it locked and eventually goes to the trunk to find his tambourine.
While searching, he knocks the lid of the trunk down waking Baba.
Toby quickly hides in the puppet theater.
As Baba tries to see where the noise came from and fetches a revolver from a drawer in the table. "
Hysterically" she shouts out "Who is it?
Speak or I'll Shoot!"
and the puppet theater curtain moves. "
Baba screams and fires at it several times."
As Toby's bloody body collapses grasping the curtain, Baba says "I've killed the ghost!
I've killed the ghost!"
Monica, hearing the gunshots, enters, sees Toby's lifeless body and runs for help.
As the final curtain falls "very slowly" Baba asks "in a hoarse whisper," "Was it you?"
"Monica's Waltz" (Monica)
"The Black Swan" (Monica)
"Afraid, am I afraid?" (
Baba)
Synopsis and performance history from USOpera.com
The Medium (1951) at IMDB
The Medium (1948) at IMDB
1940s works
The word "Negro"  was used in the English-speaking world to refer to a person of black ancestry or appearance.
It has been used for people of African ancestry as well as people from other places.
Negro means 'black' in Spanish and Portuguese.
It comes from the Latin word niger which means 'black'.
It is usually considered an offensive term nowadays.
Words such as 'black' or 'African American' are preferred.
"Negro" replaced the term "colored" as the more polite term.
This was done when the term "black" was more offensive.
This use of the word was accepted as normal during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
It was accepted even by the people it was used to describe.
One example of this is Martin Luther King, Jr. using the term "negro" when talking about his own race in his 1963 speech "I Have a Dream".
During the Civil Rights Movement, some African American leaders in the United States did not like this word.
People like Malcolm X wanted the word "Black" to be used.
This was because they saw a connection between the term "Negro" and slavery, segregation, and discrimination.
The word is now usually considered offensive and outdated.
Since the late 1960s, many other terms have been more commonly used.
These include "Black", "Black African", "Afro-American" and "African American".
The words "African American" have been used in the United States to refer to Black Americans.
The term "Negro" is still used in some ways.
It is used by the United Negro College Fund and the Negro league in sports.
The United States Census Bureau said that "Negro" would be used on the 2010 United States Census, with "Black" and "African-American".
This was because some older black Americans still feel this is the word that describes them.
Around 1442 the Portuguese first went to sub-Saharan Africa.
They were trying to find a way to get to India by boat.
The term "negro" was used by the Spanish and Portuguese as a simple description of people.
It means "black".
From the 18th century to the late 1960s, "negro" was the proper English-language term for most people of sub-Saharan African origin.
Most people stopped using the word "Negro" by the early 1970s in the United States.
Many older African Americans grew up when "Negro" was widely said to be the correct term.
They thought the term "Black" was more offensive than "Negro."
This can be seen by the use the word by historical African-American organizations and institutions.
Currently, "Negro" is generally thought to be not offensive when used in a historical way.
For example, baseball's Negro Leagues of the early and mid-20th century.
It is also used in the name of older organizations.
These include Negro spirituals, the United Negro College Fund or the Journal of Negro Education.
The U.S. Census now uses "Black, African-American or Negro."
The term "Negro" is used to try to include older African Americans who think it is a better term.
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op.
48 is a work for string orchestra by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
It premiered in 1880.
The serenade consists of four movements:
Pezzo in forma di sonatina: Andante non troppo — Allegro moderato
Valse: Moderato — Tempo di valse
Élégie: Larghetto elegiaco