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List of World Heritage Sites in Mongolia
List of World Heritage Sites in Southern Asia
List of World Heritage Sites in Afghanistan
List of World Heritage Sites in Bangladesh
List of World Heritage Sites in Nepal
List of World Heritage Sites in Pakistan
List of World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka
List of World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
List of World Heritage Sites in Cambodia
List of World Heritage Sites in Indonesia
List of World Heritage Sites in Malaysia
List of World Heritage Sites in the Philippines
List of World Heritage Sites in Thailand
List of World Heritage Sites in Viet Nam
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has 19 World Heritage Sites in six countries of Central and North Asia.
The countries are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and the Asian part of Russia.
The European part of Russia is included in Eastern Europe.
Russia is home to the most sites with 7.
One shares a border with Mongolia in Eastern Asia.
The first site from the region was the Itchan Kala in Uzbekistan added in 1990.
Northern and Central Asia
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has 71 World Heritage Sites in 16 countries of Western Asia.
The countries are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
Qatar and Kuwait, which are also in the region, do not have any World Heritage Sites.
Playing the Field is an American romantic comedy movie.
It stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Uma Thurman and Jessica Biel.
The movie was released on December 7, 2012, in the United States and Canada.
2012 romance movies
Agbioeletric is the first transformer oil made of vegetable seeds.
Developed in Brazil by Faculdade Assis Gurgacz and produced in the city of Cascavel.
Site FAG (Faculdade Assis Gurgacz)
Falabella started acting in 1998 on Rede Globo's teen telenovela Malhação, as Antônia.
She's also appeared in other Rede Globo telenovelas like Um Anjo Caiu do Céu, O Clone and Senhora do Destino.
In cinema, she's acted in Brazilian movies like Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára, Dois Perdidos numa Noite Suja and A Dona da História.
In the miniseries JK she played the role of Sarah Kubitschek, wife of Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek.
In 2006, she was cast to the leading role in the telenovela Sinhá Moça.
The Library of Celsus is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, now part of Anatolia, Turkey.
It was built in honor of the Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, known as Celsus.
Celsus paid for the construction of the library with his own personal wealth.
Celsus was Consul in 92 AD, Governor of the Roman province of Asia in 115 AD, and a rich and popular local citizen.
He was a native of nearby Sardis and amongst the first Greek men to become a consul in the Roman Empire.
He is honoured both as a Greek and a Roman on the library itself.
The library was built to store 12,000 scrolls and to serve as a monumental tomb for Celsus.
Celsus is buried in a sarcophagus beneath the library, in the main entrance.
which is both a crypt containing his sarcophagus and a sepulchral monument to him.
It was unusual to be buried within a library or even within city limits, so this was a special honour for Celsus.
The building is important as one of few remaining examples of an ancient Roman-influenced library.
It also shows that public libraries were built not only in Rome itself but throughout the Roman Empire.
The interior of the library and all its books were destroyed by fire in the devastating earthquake that struck the city in 262.
Only the facade survived.
About 400 AD, the library was used for other purposes.
The facade was completely destroyed by a later earthquake, likely in the late Byzantine period.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the facade was restored.
It now serves as a prime example of Roman public architecture.
The building had a single hall which faced east toward the morning sun, as Vitruvius advised, to benefit early risers.
Beside the entrances are four pairs of Ionic columns on pedestals.
A set of Corinthian columns stands directly above the first set, adding to the height of the building.
It is thought there once may have been a third set of columns.
This type of facade with inset frames and niches for statues is like that found in ancient Greek theatres,  and so is described as "scenographic".
Libraries in Asia
Guyancourt is a French commune.
It is in the south-western suburbs of Paris 21.2 km (13.2 mi) from the center.
About 28,670 people lived here in 2006.
Ma Mère (My Mother in French) is a 2004 drama movie focusing on mother-son incest.
This drama was rated NC-17 in the United States.
It received mixed although largely negative review by the critics.
Portuguese movies
Movies directed by Christophe Honoré
A pseudoscorpion (or book scorpion) is an arachnid.
They can be  long.
The largest known species is Garypus titanius of Ascension Island at  .
Pseudoscorpions eat clothes moth larvae, carpet beetle larvae, booklice, ants, mites, and small flies.
Because of this, they are liked by humans.
The pseudoscorpions are small and cannot harm humans.
They are rarely seen because of their size.
Some species of pseudoscorpions do a "mating dance" to attract mates.
The eggs will stay with the mother until the pseudoscorpions are about a month old.
There are more than 3,300 species of pseudoscorpions recorded.
The oldest known fossil of pseudoscorpions dates back 380 million years to the Devonian period.
Harvey M.S. 2011.
Pseudoscorpions of the World, version 2.0.
Western Australian Museum, Perth.
Pseudoscorpions of the World
Joseph C. Chamberlin 1931.
The Arachnid Order Chelonethida.
Stanford University Publications in Biological Science.
7(1): 1–284.
W.B. Muchmore 1982.
Pseudoscorpionida.
In Synopsis and classification of living organisms.
Vol 2, Parker, S.P.
The Astacus astacus (or noble crayfish, European crayfish, and broad-fingered crayfish) is a species of crayfish in Europe.
Like other crayfish, the Astacus astacus lives in fresh water.
It can live in streams, rivers, and lakes if it is not polluted.
The Astacus astacus can be found living in France, Central Europe, Balkan peninsula, the British Isles, Scandinavia, and western parts of the former Soviet Union.
Males can reach 16 cm long and females can reach 12 cm.
The Astacus astacus is nocturnal, which means that it is only active at night.
They eat worms, aquatic insects, mollusks, and plants.
They spend the day resting in a burrow.
They are sexually mature after three to four years.
They breed in October and November of every year.
The eggs will stay with the female until May.
There are many predators that eat the Astacus astacus such as, minks, eels, perch, pike, otters, and muskrats.
Because of the crayfish plaque that was brought from the American species the signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus), it is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List.
Dermestidae are a family of Coleoptera.
They are also known as skin beetles, larder beetles, hide beetles, leather beetles, carpet beetles, and khapra beetles.
There are 500 to 700 species of dermestids.
They can be up to 112 mm in length.
Adults have round oval-shaped bodies covered in scales or setae.
Most dermestids are scavengers that feed on dry animal or plant material.
This includes skin or pollen, animal hair, feathers, dead insects, and natural fibers.
Dermestids can be found living in dead animals and feeding on them.
Others can be found living in mammal, bird, bee, or wasp nests.
Thaumaglossa only lives in the egg cases of mantids.
Many Trogoderma species are pests that eat grain.
The beetles found living in dead animals are studied in criminal investigations (forensic entomology).
Many species are pests which can damage natural fibers in homes and businesses.
Dermestids are sometimes used by natural history museums to clean animal skeletons.
Pasquerault T. et al 2008.
Répartition des espèces du genre Dermestes L. 1758 récoltés sur des cadavres humains (Coleoptera Dermestidae).
L'entomologiste Tome 64 N°4 pp 221–224.
Hinton H.E. 1945.
A monograph of the beetles associated with stored products.
1, 387–395 British Museum (Natural History), London.
Keys to world adults and larvae, genera and species; excellent figures, full species information.
Freude H; Harde K.W. & Lohse G.A. 1979.
Dermestidae.
Die Käfer Mitteleuropas 6: Diversicornia (Lycidae — Byrrhidae) 1206 text figs.
367pp.
Goecke & Evers.
Text in German; the Dermestidae are on pages 304–327.
Dermestidae of the World
List of North American Species
Dermestidae-Literature
Russian Atlas of Carpet Beetles-excellent images
USDA Leaflet on Carpet beetles
on the University of Florida / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
Anthrenus flavipes, furniture carpet beetle
Anthrenus scrophulariae, common carpet beetle
Dermestes atar, black larder beetle
Dermestes maculatus, hide beetle
Carpet Beetles, Kansas State University
The Dytiscidae (Greek dytikos ("able to dive") is a family of water beetles.
They are called predaceous diving beetles.
They are about 25 mm (one inch).
The largest beetle, Dytiscus latissimus, can reach 45 mm long.
Most Dytiscidaes are dark brown, black-ish or dark olive in color with golden highlights in some subfamilies.
The larvae are called "water tigers".
The water tigers will eat tadpoles and glassworms.
They will also eat anything small living in the water.
There are about 4,000 species in over 160 genera of Dytiscidae.
The Cybister can be eaten by humans.
In Mexico, C. explanatus are roasted and salted onto tacos.
In Japan, C. japonicus is used as food.
In Guangdong Province, China, several species are eaten.
The great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis) are bred for human food.
Dytiscidae have been eaten in Taiwan, Thailand, and New Guinea.
Birds and other small mammals eat Dytiscidaes.
(2004): Water for a Healthy Country - Family Dytiscidae.
Version of 2004-JUL-02.
Retrieved 2008-AUG-04
(2002): Chapter 26 - Eastern Asia: China, Japan, and other countries .
In: The Human Use of Insects as a Food Resource:  A Bibliographic Account in Progress.
(2003): Fried water beetles Cantonese style.
American Entomologist 49(1): 34-37.
Video of the dangerous mandibles of a Dytiscidae larva
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is a 2004 American teen comedy movie.
It was written by Gail Parent and is based on the novel of the same name by Dyan Sheldon.
It was directed by Sara Sugarman.
It was produced by Robert Shapiro and Matthew Hart.
It is narrated by and stars Lindsay Lohan as Lola Cep, a 15-year-old girl who wants to be an actress.
She moves from New York City to New Jersey.
Her classmates include Ella Gerard (Alison Pill) and Carla Santini (Megan Fox).
Adam Garcia plays rock singer Stu Wolff.
Glenne Headly plays Lola's mother Karen Cep.
Endosperm is a food reserve tissue inside the seeds of most flowering plants.
It surrounds the embryo and provides nutrition in the form of starch.
It may also have oils and protein.
The endosperm of cereal plants can be a source of energy for humans.
Wheat endosperm is ground into flour for bread.
With whole wheat bread the bran (cover of seed) and the germ is also in the flour.
Barley endosperm is the main source for beer production.
Other examples of edible endosperms are coconut 'meat' and coconut 'water', and corn, including popcorn.
Some plants, like the orchids, lack endosperm in their seeds.
Origin of endosperm
Primitive (basal) flowering plants have seeds with small embryos and big endosperms.
The evolutionary development of flowering plants tends to show a trend towards plants with seeds with little or no endosperm.
In more derived flowering plants the embryo occupies most of the seed and the endosperm is not developed or consumed before the seed matures.
In these plants, the cotyledons contain the food reserve.
Double fertilization
Endosperm is formed when the two sperm nuclei inside a pollen grain reach the inside of an ovule or embryo sac.
One sperm nucleus fertilizes the egg, forming a zygote, while the other sperm nucleus usually fuses with the two polar nuclei at the center of the embryo sac.
This makes the first endosperm cell, which develops into the endosperm.
Because it is formed by a separate fertilization, the endosperm is an organism distinct from the embryo (though placed next to it in the seed).
About 70% of angiosperm species have endosperm cells that are polyploid.
These are typically triploid (containing three sets of chromosomes) but can vary widely from diploid (2n) to 15n.
A teen movie is a movie that are made for teenagers or has teen actors.
The plots of teen movie are about coming of age, first love, conflicts with parents, and bullying by other teens.
Movies in this movie genre are usually set in high school.
In some movies, there may be some sexual scenes.
Teen drama (like The Black Balloon)
Teen comedy (like American Pie series)
Teen horror (like Halloween)
Teen musicals (like High School Musical)
Teen romance (like Gidget)
Teen sci-fi (like Back to the Future)
Entertainment Weekly's 50 Best High School Movies
High School Reunion Collection
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Wet 'n Wild Orlando was a water park in Orlando, Florida.
It was founded by Sea World creator George Millay on March 13, 1977.
Wet 'n Wild Orlando is the first major water park in the United States.
Millay won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Waterpark Association.
They later named him "Father of the waterpark".
The water park has 8 single-person rides, 6 multi-person rides, 1 kids park (a miniature version of all the rides in the park), and 3 other activities (lazy river, volleyball, and surfing).
Official Facebook pages
Wet 'n Wild Guide
Terry and June is a British sitcom that was shown on BBC One from 1979 until 1987.
It stars Terry Scott and June Whitfield as Terry and June Medford, a middle class, middle aged, married couple who live in Purley, London.
was a Japanese writer, poet, playwright, actor and film director.
One of is closed friends was Yasunari Kawabata.
On November 25, 1970, he tried to make a coup d'état for military force but in vain and killed himself be seppuku.
When he was child, he stuttered.
In 1941, Mishima wrote his first notable story.
In , he described a feeling that his ancestors lived within him.
Mishima worked in the Japanese Ministry of Finance.
At the same time, he was writing.
In 1949, he published his first major novel, Confessions of a mask.
Confessions of a mask, 1949
The sound of waves, 1952
The temple of the golden pavilion by Yukio Mishima, 1956
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea, 1959
After the banquet, 1960
Death in midsummer, and other stories, 1966
Spring snow, 1968
Runaway horses, 1969
The temple of dawn, 1969
The decay of the angel, 1971
Books and Writers bio
Mishima chronology, with links
, also lnown as , was a Japanese  actor and playwright.
His career in Noh theater was supported by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
After Yoshimitsu's death, the later Ashikaga shoguns were less supportive.
In 1434, Zeami was exiled to Sado Island.
He returned only a few years before his death.
Kadensho, 1420-1430
Hagoromo
Shunkan
Tadanori
Kinuta
Izutsu
1443 deaths
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a horror-drama movie of 2005.
Laura Linney and Mary Beth Hurt star.
This horror movie got mixed reviews.
Religious horror movies
Hylidae is a family of tree frogs.
Some of the Hylids are semi-aquatic, and others are terrestrial frogs.
Most hylids have forward-facing eyes that gives them binocular vision.
These hylids are arboreal species, meaning they live in trees.
Non-arboreal species do not have any of these advantages.
The Cyclorana species are burrowing frogs.
They spend most of their time underground.
Hylids will eat insects and other invertebrates.
Larger species can eat small vertebrates.
Hylids lay their eggs in ponds.
Some lay their eggs in puddles that in holes inside trees.
Others lay their eggs on plants, if water is near.
The tadpoles will drop from the plants and into the pond when they hatch.
In South America, female hylids carry the eggs on their backs until they hatch.
The European tree frog (Hyla arborea) lives in middle and Southern Europe.
They can also be found in Asia and North Africa.
These species are noisy during rainstorms.
Many Hylidae live in North America, for example Hyla versicolor (Grey Tree Frog) and Hyla cinerea (American Green Tree Frog).
The spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) can also be found in the eastern United States.
The spring peeper makes loud noises during the spring and summer.
The word "tree frog" is a popular term for many Hylidae.
For example, Hyla versicolor is the name of the changeable tree frog, Trachycephalus lichenatus is the name of the lichened tree frog, and Trachycephalus marmoratus is the marbled tree frog.
However, the name "tree frog" is not unique to this family. "
Tree frog" is used more often for many species in Rhacophoridae.
Subfamily Pelodryadinae (Austro-Papuan tree frogs)
Pelodryas
Subfamily Phyllomedusinae (Leaf frogs)
Agalychnis
Cruziohyla
Hylomantis – Rough Leaf Frogs
Pachymedusa – Mexican Leaf Frogs
Phasmahyla – Shining Leaf Frogs
Phrynomedusa – Colored Leaf Frogs
Phyllomedusa
Subfamily Hylinae
Acris – Cricket Frogs
Anotheca – Spiny-headed Treefrogs
Aparasphenodon – Casque-headed Frogs
Aplastodiscus – Canebreak Treefrogs
Argenteohyla – Argentinian Frogs
Boana – Gladiator Frogs
Bokermannohyla
Bromeliohyla
Charadrahyla
Corythomantis – Casque-headed Treefrog
Duellmanohyla – Brook Frogs
Ecnomiohyla – Fringed Treefrogs or Marvelous Frogs
Exerodonta
Hyla – Common Treefrogs
Hyloscirtus
Isthmohyla
Itapotihyla
Lysapsus
Megastomatohyla
Myersiohyla
Nyctimantis – Brown-eyed Treefrogs
Osteocephalus – Slender-legged Treefrogs
Osteopilus – Cuban Treefrogs
Phyllodytes – Heart-tongued Frogs
Plectrohyla – Spike-thumb Frogs
Pseudacris – Chorus Frogs
Pseudis – Swimming Frogs
Ptychohyla – Stream Frogs
Scarthyla – Madre de Dios Treefrogs
Scinax – Snouted Treefrogs
Smilisca – Burrowing Frogs
Sphaenorhynchus – Lime Treefrogs
Tepuihyla – Amazon Treefrogs
Tlalocohyla
Trachycephalus – Casque-headed Treefrogs
Triprion – Shovel-headed Treefrogs
Xenohyla
This article incorporates text from the Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921).
http://www.tolweb.org/Hylidae
http://amphibiaweb.org/lists/Hylidae.shtml
http://www.floridanature.org/family.asp?family=Hylidae
http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/amphibians/family_hylidae.htm
http://www.livingunderworld.org/anura/database/hylidae/
Frugality is a quality of spending money very carefully and in limited amounts.
This decision can be made for various reasons.
Some are: to save money, make costs smaller and get the most possible value from purchases.
Some ways of attempting to be frugal could be to make less waste, stop doing things (such as travel or entertainment) with high costs and having control over spending desires.
Also, being careful to get all the use out of an item before replacing it and not agreeing with customs that have high costs.
More ways could be using zero cost choices, using barter (trading without money), and having a good knowledge of prices.
Some people will use a discount store to find low cost things.
Some will buy things used by other people in thrift stores, garage sales, flea markets, or from classified advertising in a newspaper or on the internet from a site similar to Craigslist.
Frugality in some philosophies is when a person does not agree with experts who say they know what is good for everybody.
This is a special use of the word for philosophers.
Many religions think frugality is important and good.
The Quakers and Puritans are two examples of Christian religions that put high value on frugality.
The base of this idea is that people should store money to use when any person (not only friends) needs help.
Environmentalists think that being frugal is good.
They think because ancient humans did not need many things and were able to get happiness from nature it is more natural to be frugal than to agree with the customs of modern living.
Tineidae (or clothes moth) is a family of moths.
They are known as fungus moths or tineid moths.
There are more than 3,000 species in over 300 genera.
Most of the tineid moths are small or medium-sized.
They have wings over their bodies.
They are common in the Palaearctic.
Others found elsewhere were introduced
Tineids will eat living plants, fungi, lichens, and detritus.
The most known members of the family are the clothes moths.
They eat on stored fabrics.
The most widespread species are the Common Clothes Moth (Tineola bisselliella), the Case-bearing Clothes Moth (Tinea pellionella) and the Carpet Moth (Trichophaga tapetzella).
The Brown-dotted Clothes Moth (Niditinea fuscella) will feed on feathers in a bird's nest.
The genus Ceratophaga, members will eat on dead animals such as mammals and the shells of dead tortoises.
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Entomologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, 46: 121-150.
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Beitrag zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Tineiden: Gattung Obesoceras Petersen, 1957 (Lepidoptera).
Entomologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, 48: 167-181.
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The larvae of the species of Tineidae of economic importance.
Bulletin of Entomological Research, 47: 251-346.
Leraut, P., 1985.
Mise a jour de la liste des Tineides de la faune de France.
Entomologica Gallica, 1(4): 319-325.
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Common Clothes Moth
A Caterpillar that Eats Tortoise Shells
Tineid of Korea
Fauna Europaea
Tanisha Thomas (born on August 28, 1985 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American reality television participant.
She first appeared on the Oxygen show Bad Girls Club in 2008.
She was on the second season to become a role model for young women and change her bad behavior.
She became a fan favorite for her catchphrase "Pop Off!".
After the show was done airing, Thomas was called the "godmother" to all "bad girls".
Thomas later hosted the spin-off dating game show Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too starting with its second season in 2011.
She also competed on the VH1 show Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp 2.
Thomas was on the show to loose weight.
Her team the "blue team" won and took home $17,500 each.
A year later, Thomas was given her own show on Oxygen.
It was called Tanisha Gets Married.
The show was about Thomas' and her fiancee
s journey on planning their wedding.
It aired in May 2012 and beat all the key demos of Oxygen that were set in April 2012.
Thomas along with her ex-husband appeared on first season of the show Marriage Boot Camp, which aired on May 30, 2014.
Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too is a reality television show.
It first premiered on Oxygen on March 16, 2010.
Its a spin-off show from the Bad Girls Club.
American comedian Bret Ernst was the host of the first season.
The show was renewed for its third season Second season of Bad Girls Club Tanisha Thomas began hosting the season starting with the second season.
There has been three complete seasons of Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too'.
The show is about past season "bad girls" looking for love.
Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1993 erotic drama movie in which Rachel Ward, Karina Lombard and Naomi Watts star.
Wide Sargasso Sea is rated NC-17 because of sexual content.
It is based on the 1966 Jean Rhys book of the same name.
Roger Ebert gave the movie three and a half stars.
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist.
He greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period.
Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba and Paris.
Carpentier always said he was Cuban.
He traveled a lot, mostly in France, and to Mexico.
He sided with revolutionary movements, such as Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution in Cuba in the mid-century.
Carpentier was jailed and exiled for his leftist political philosophies.
Carpentier studied and understood music.
He wrote a book La música en Cuba in the music of Cuba.
He put in musical themes and literary techniques in his writing.
Although Carpentier wrote many types of writing, such as journalism, radio drama, playwrighting, academic essays, opera and libretto, he is best known for his novels.
He was among the first to use magical realism.
He explored the fantastic quality of Latin American history and culture.
Carpentier's writing style used the Baroque style which had become popular again.
It was called New World Baroque.
It was a style that Latin American artists took from the European model.
Carpentier also brought the Surrealist theory to Latin American literature.
Carpentier had parts of Latin American political history, music, social injustice and art in his writings.
His writing influenced younger Latin American and Cuban writers like Lisandro Otero, Leonardo Padura and Fernando Velázquez Medina.
Carpentier died of cancer in Paris in 1980.
He was buried in Havana's Colon Cemetery.
Ecue-yamba-o! (
La música en Cuba (1946) (The Music of Cuba), an ethno-musicological study of Cuba starting from the sixteenth century, the arrival of European explorers, till the present day of publication, the mid twentieth century.
El reino de este mundo (1949) (The Kingdom of this World)
Los pasos perdidos (1953) (The Lost Steps)
El acoso (1956) (Manhunt)
Guerra del tiempo (1958) (War of Time)
El siglo de las luces (1962) (Explosion in a Cathedral)
El Recurso del método (1974) (Reasons of State)
Concierto barroco (1974) (Concierto barroco; English: Baroque Concert), based on the 1709 meeting of Vivaldi, Handel and Domenico Scarlatti, with cameo appearances by Wagner and Stravinsky, and fictional characters from the new world who inspire the Venetian composer's opera, Motezuma.
La consagración de la primavera (1978) (The Rite of Spring; Le Sacre du Printemps, ballet by Igor Stravinsky)
El arpa y la sombra (1978) (The Harp and the Shadow) dealing with Columbus.
Cuban writers
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American slag, screenwriter, movie director, producer and activist.
Penn won an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Mystic River and an Academy Award for Milk (movie).
Penn was married to  Madonna from 1985 until they divorced in 1989.
He and Robin Wright had a daughter in 1991 and a son in 1993.
The couple married in 1996 and divorced in 2010.
As of February 24, 2022, Penn is in Ukraine doing (or filming) a documentary movie about the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Penn went to press briefings in Kyiv, met with officials and spoke to journalists and military personnel about the Russian invasion.
He was born in Los Angeles, California, the middle son of actor Leo Penn (1921-1998) and actress Eileen Ryan (born 1928).
His brothers are musician Michael Penn (born 1958) and actor Chris Penn (1965-2006).
Penn has starred in many movies, including: Taps, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Colors, Casualties of War, We're No Angels, Carlito's Way, Dead Man Walking, U Turn, The Game, The Thin Red Line, Being John Malkovich, The Weight of Water, I Am Sam, Mystic River, 21 Grams, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, The Interpreter, All the King's Men, Persepolis, Milk, Fair Game, The Tree of Life and This Must Be the Place.
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, poet, and activist.
She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender.
She is best known for the novel The Color Purple (1982).
She won the National Book Award  and the Pulitzer Prize for the novel.
Walker is an African American who was born in Eatonton, Georgia.
She is the youngest of eight children.
Her parents were Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant.
Her father, who was, in her words, "wonderful at math but a terrible farmer," earned only $300 a year from sharecropping and dairy farming.
Her mother added to the family income by working as a maid.
She worked 11 hours a day for USD $17 per week to help pay for Alice to attend college.
In 1952, Walker was accidentally hit in the right eye by a BB gun fired by one of her brothers.
Because the family had no car, the Walkers could not take their daughter to a hospital for immediate help.
By the time they reached a doctor a week later, she had become permanently blind in that eye.
When a layer of scar tissue formed over her wounded eye, Alice became self-conscious and painfully shy.
She felt like an outcast and turned for comfort to reading and to writing poetry.
When she was 14, the scar tissue was removed.
She later became valedictorian and was voted most-popular girl, as well as queen of her senior class.
After high school, Walker went to Spelman College in Atlanta.
She later moved to Sarah Lawrence College near New York City, graduating in 1965.
Walker became interested in the U.S. civil rights movement.
This was partly due to the influence of activist Howard Zinn, who was one of her professors at Spelman College.
Walker returned to the South where she became involved with voter registration drives, campaigns for welfare rights and children's programs in Mississippi.
Alice Walker met Martin Luther King Jr. when she was a student at Spelman College.
Walker credits King for her decision to return to the American South as an activist for the Civil Rights Movement.
She marched with hundreds of thousands in August in the 1963 March on Washington.
As a young adult, she volunteered to register black voters in Georgia and Mississippi.
On March 8, 2003, International Women's Day, on the eve of the Iraq War, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Terry Tempest Williams were arrested  with 24 others for crossing a police line.
This was during an anti-war protest rally outside the White House.
In March 2009, Alice Walker traveled to Gaza in response to the Gaza War.
She was with a group of 60 other female activists from the anti-war group Code Pink.
Their purpose was to deliver aid, to meet with NGOs and residents, and to ask Israel and Egypt to open their borders into Gaza.
In 1965, Walker met Melvyn Roseman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer.
They were married on March 17, 1967 in New York City.
Later that year the couple moved to Jackson, Mississippi.
They became "the first legally married inter-racial couple in Mississippi".
They were harassed and threatened by whites, including the Ku Klux Klan.
The couple had a daughter Rebecca in 1969.
Walker and her husband divorced on friendly terms in 1976.
Walker and her daughter grew apart.
Rebecca felt herself to be more of "a political symbol... than a cherished daughter".
She published a memoir called Black White and Jewish, about the complexities of her parents' relationship and her childhood.
Rebecca recalls her teenage years when her mother would go to her far-off writing studio while “I was left with money to buy my own meals and lived on a diet of fast food.”
Since the birth of Rebecca’s son Tenzin, her mother has not spoken to her.
Rebecca has learned that she was cut out of her mother’s will in favor of a distant cousin.
In 2011 shooting began on Beauty in Truth, a documentary film about Walker's life directed by Pratibha Parmar.
Walker is a feminist.
She made the word womanist for African American feminism against female genital mutilation.
Selected awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983) for The Color Purple
National Book Award for Fiction (1983) for The Color Purple
O. Henry Award for "Kindred Spirits" 1985.
Honorary Degree from the California Institute of the Arts (1995)
American Humanist Association named her as "Humanist of the Year" (1997)
The Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters
The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
The Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York
Induction to the California Hall of Fame in The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts  (2006)
Domestic Human Rights Award from Global Exchange (2007)
Novels and short story collections
The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
Meridian (1976)
The Color Purple (1982)
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
To Hell With Dying (1988)
The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
Finding the Green Stone (1991)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
The Complete Stories (1994)
By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
Now Is The Time to Open Your Heart (2005)
Everyday Use (1973).
Short stories, essays, interviews
Once (1968)
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973)
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
Collected Poems (2005)
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
"Rage"
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
Living by the Word (1988)
Warrior Marks (1993)
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
Go Girl!:
The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)
Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)
Overcoming Speechlessness (2010)
Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer.
He received three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award.
He was named the third Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) in 1977.
Simak was born in Millville, Wisconsin to parent's John Lewis and Margaret (Wiseman) Simak.
He married Agnes Kuchenberg on April 13, 1929.
They had two children, Scott and Shelley.
Simak attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He later worked at various newspapers in the Midwest.
He began to work with the Minneapolis Star and Tribune (in Minneapolis, Minnesota).
This went from 1939 to his retirement in 1976.
Simak became interested in science fiction after reading the works of H. G. Wells as a child.
He started writing for science fiction pulp magazines in 1931.
The only science-fiction piece that he published between 1933 and 1937 was The Creator (Marvel Tales #4, March–April 1935).
In late 1937, Simak returned to science fiction.
He was a regular contributor to Astounding Stories during the Golden Age of Science Fiction (1938–1950).
His first publications, such as Cosmic Engineers (1939), were in the style of the earlier superscience type.
He soon made his own style, which is usually described as gentle and pastoral.
During this period, Simak also published a number of war and western stories in pulp magazines.
His best known novel may be City, a collection of short stories with a common theme of mankind's eventual leaving from Earth.
Simak continued to write award-nominated novels during the 1950s and 1960s.
Helped by a friend, he continued writing and publishing science fiction and, later, fantasy, into his 80s.
International Fantasy Award for best fiction book (1953) for City
Hugo award for best novelette (1959) for The Big Front Yard
Hugo award for best novel (1964) for Way Station
Minnesota Academy of Science Award for distinguished service to science 1967
First Fandom Hall of Fame award 1973
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award 1976
Jupiter Award for best novel (1978) for A Heritage of Stars
Hugo award for best short story (1981) for Grotto of the Dancing Deer
Nebula award for best short story (1981) for Grotto of the Dancing Deer
Locus Award for best short story (1981) for Grotto of the Dancing Deer
Analog Analytical Laboratory award for best short story (1981) for Grotto of the Dancing Deer
Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement award 1988
Gerald Patrick "Jerry" Mathers (born June 2, 1948) is an American actor and writer.
He played Beaver Cleaver in the sitcom television series Leave It to Beaver.
In 1998 he wrote a book called  ...And Jerry Mathers as "The Beaver".
In the movie version the Beaver was portrayed by Cameron Finley.
In Beaver's BIG Day, he was Malia Ashley Kerr.
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of crime fiction, a screenplay writer, and political activist.
Some of the characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse).
In addition to the large influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time".
Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on a list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.
Hammett was born on a farm in St. Mary's County, in Maryland.
His parents were Richard Thomas Hammett and Anne Bond Dashiell.
Hammett was baptized a Catholic.
He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. "
Sam," as he was known before he began writing, left school when he was 13 years old.
He had several jobs before working for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
He served as an operative for the Pinkertons from 1915 to February 1922.
He took time off to serve in World War I. He did not like the agency's role in union strike-breaking.
Hammett enlisted in the United States Army in 1918.
He became ill with the Spanish flu and later got tuberculosis.
He spent most of his time in the Army as a patient in Cushman Hospital, Tacoma, Washington.
While there he met a nurse, Josephine Dolan, whom he later married.
Hammett and Dolan were married, and they had two daughters, Mary Jane (born 15 October 1921) and Josephine (born in 1926).
Because of Hammett's tuberculosis, Josephine and the children could not live with him full time.
Josephine rented a home in San Francisco, where Hammett would visit on weekends.
The marriage soon ended.
He continued to financially support his wife and daughters with the income he made from his writing.
Hammett used his experiences as a Pinkerton operative.
Hammett said: "All my characters were based on people I've known personally, or known about."
Hammett wrote most of his detective fiction during the time he was living in San Francisco (the 1920s).
Specific streets and locations in San Francisco are frequently mentioned in his stories.
From 1929 to 1930 Dashiell was romantically involved with Nell Martin, an author of short stories and several novels.
He dedicated The Glass Key to her, and in turn, she dedicated her novel Lovers Should Marry to Hammett.
In 1931, Hammett started a 30-year affair with playwright Lillian Hellman.
This relationship was shown in the film Julia.
Hammett was played by Jason Robards and Hellman by Jane Fonda.
He wrote his final novel in 1934.
He spent the rest of his life to left-wing activism.
He was a strong anti-fascist through the 1930s.
In 1937 he joined the American Communist Party.
In early 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hammett again enlisted in the United States Army.
He was a disabled veteran of World War I, and a victim of tuberculosis, but he was allowed to join.
He served in the Aleutian Islands.
He edited an Army newspaper.
He also got emphysema. .
After the war, Hammett returned to political activism.
He was elected President of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) on June 5, 1946.
During the 1950s he was investigated by Congress.
This was part of Senator Joseph McCarthy's attempt to identify Communists.
He refused to share information and was blacklisted.
A lifetime's heavy drinking of alcohol and cigarettes made Hammett's tuberculosis worse.
As the years of the 1950s went on, Hammett became "a hermit".
Hammett no longer could live alone, so the last four years of his life he spent with Hellman.
On January 10, 1961, Hammett died in New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital, of lung cancer.
He had been diagnosed just two months before.
As a veteran of two World Wars, he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
All the novels except The Thin Man were originally in three, four, or five parts in various magazines.
Red Harvest (published on February 1, 1929)
The Dain Curse (July 19, 1929)
The Maltese Falcon (February 14, 1930)
The Glass Key (April 24, 1931)
The Thin Man (January 8, 1934)
"The Gatewood Caper", 1923
"Nightmare Town", 1924
"The Tenth Clew", 1924
"The House in Turk Street", 1924
"The Girl with the Silver Eyes", 1924
"Dead Yellow Women," 1925
"The Gutting of Couffignal", 1925
"The Scorched Face", 1925
"Corkscrew", 1925
"The Whosis Kid", 1925
"The Main Death," 1927
"The Big Knockover", 1927
"$106,000 Blood Money", 1927
"This King Business", 1928
"Fly Paper", 1929
"The Farewell Murder", 1930
"A Man Called Spade", 1932
"Too Many Have Lived", 1932
"They Can Only Hang You Once", 1932
Collected short fiction
$106,000 Blood Money (Bestseller Mystery, 1943) A paperback digest that collects two connected Op stories, The Big Knockover and $106,000 Blood Money.
Blood Money (Tower, 1943) The hardcover edition of the Bestseller Mystery title.
The Adventures of Sam Spade (Bestseller Mystery, 1944).
Paperback digest that collects the three Spade stories and four others.
This and the following eight digest collections were compiled and edited by Fred Dannay (one-half of Ellery Queen) with Hammett's permission.
All of these were reprinted as dell map-back paperbacks.
The Continental Op (Bestseller Mystery, 1945) Paperback digest that collects four Op stories.
The Adventures of Sam Spade (Tower, 1945).
The hardcover edition of the digest of the same title—this was the last time the digests were reprinted in hardcover.
The Return of the Continental Op  (The Jonathan Press, 1945;  Paperback digest that collects five further Op stories).
Hammett Homicides (Bestseller Mysteries, 1946).
Paperback digest that collects six stories, including four that feature the Op.
Dead Yellow Women (The Jonathan Press, 1947).
Nightmare Town (American Mercury, 1948).
Paperback digest that collects four stories, two of which feature the Op.
The Creeping Siamese (American Mercury, 1950).
Paperback digest that collects six stories, three of which feature the Op.
Woman in the Dark (The Jonathan Press, 1951).
Paperback digest that collects six stories, including three that feature the Op, and the three-part novelette Woman in the Dark.
A Man Named Thin (Mercury Mystery, 1962).
The last paperback digest, collects eight stories, including one Op story.
The Big Knockover (Random House, 1966; an important collection, edited by Lillian Hellman, that helped revive Hammett's literary reputation; includes the unfinished novel Tulip).
The Continental Op (Random House, 1974; edited by Steven Marcus).
Woman in the Dark (Knopf, 1988; hardcover edition that collects the three parts of the title novelette; introduction by Robert B. Parker).
Nightmare Town (Knopf, 1999; hardcover collection, contents different from the digest title of the same name).
Lost Stories (Vince Emery Productions, 2005; collects 21 stories that have not been collected previously in hardcover or, in several cases, ever.
Emery provides several long commentaries on Hammett's career that provide context for the stories; introduction by Joe Gores).
The Diamond Wager (Detective Fiction Weekly, October 19, 1929).
On the Way (Harper's Bazaar, March 1932).
Other publications
Creeps by Night; Chills and Thrills (John Day, 1931; Anthology edited by Hammett)
Secret Agent X-9 Book 1 (David McKay, 1934; collection of the comic strip written by Hammett and illustrated by Alex Raymond)
Secret Agent X-9 Book 2 (David McKay, 1934; a second collection of the comic strip).
The Battle of the Aleutians  (Field Force Headquarters, Adak, Alaska, 1944; text written by Hammett, with illustrations by Robert Colodny).
Watch on the Rhine (screenplay of Hellman's play, in Best Film Plays 1943-44, Crown, 1945; also includes the screenplay for Casablanca'').
The Kasai River (called Cassai in Angola) is a river in central Africa.
The river begins in Angola.
It makes a border between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
It joins the Congo at Kwamouth.
The Kasai's tributaries include the Fimi, Kwango, and Sankuru rivers.
Tony Dow (born April 13, 1945 ) is an American actor, director, and movie producer.
He played Wally Cleaver in the sitcom television series Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963).
Dow was born in Hollywood, California.
The Ubangi River, also spelled Oubangui, is a river of Central Africa.
It is the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River.
It begins where the Mbomou and Uele Rivers come together.
It flows west, then bends to the southwest and passes through Bangui.
Then the river flows south to the Congo at Liranga.
The Ubangi's length is about .
The Ubangi's drainage basin is about .
The basin includes parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, and Republic of Congo.
Some people want the water from the Ubangi to go to the Chari River.
The Chari River empties into Lake Chad.
They say this will help with fishing and make agriculture better.
The Benue River is a river in Africa.
It is the major tributary of the Niger River.
The river is about 1,400 km long.
People can travel on it for nearly the whole length in the summer months.
It is an important transportation route in the places it flows through.
It starts in the Adamawa Plateau of northern Cameroon.
It flows west, and through the town of Garoua and Lagdo Reservoir, into Nigeria south of the Mandara mountains.
Then it goes through Jimeta, Ibi and Makurdi before meeting the Niger at Lokoja.
Large tributaries are the Gongola River and the Mayo Kébbi.
Other tributaries are Taraba River and River Katsina Ala.
Regina Blois Duarte (born February 5, 1947]) is aBrazilian actress.
From March to May 2020, she served as Special Secretary of Culture, a cabinet position in President Jair Bolsonaro's administration.
Anna Muzychuk  (born 28 February 1990) is the third-rated woman chess player in the world.
She earned the title of Woman Grandmaster in 2004, and the title of
Grandmaster in 2012.
In 2004 she became a member of the Slovenian chess federation, where she is the strongest female chess player.
Her younger sister Mariya  is an International master.
Muzychuk has played on first board for the Slovenian team since 2004.
In 36th Chess Olympiad, she defeated, among others, the former Women's World Chess Champion grandmaster Antoaneta Stefanova.
In the 37th Chess Olympiad she helped the Slovenian women's team, seeded 17th, to finished tenth.
Chessbase.com: An interview with Anna Muzychuk
Interview with Anna Muzychuk
Chessgames.com: The chess games of Anna Muzychuk
World champion in 2005 (girls U16) - photo
Do not confuse with mamba, which is a snake
Mambo is a word with Afro-Latin connections.
Most common meanings are:
Mambo (rhythm): a Cuban or AfroCuban musical rhythm and its associated dance.
Invented around 1950 in Havana.
Mambo section: a musical bridge or section in some kinds of Cuban (and Caribbean) music.
Mambo (Voodoo): A Haitian word for a Voodoo priestess.
Bionics (also known as biomimetics) is the science about studying nature to create modern technology with biological method.
The name "biomimetics" was coined by Otto Schmitt in the 1950s.
The term "bionics" was coined by Jack E. Steele in August 1958.
He was then working at the Aeronautics Division House at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
However, terms like biomimicry or biomimetics are more preferred in the technology world in efforts to avoid confusion between the medical term "bionics."
Coincidentally, Martin Caidin used the word for his 1972 novel Cyborg, which inspired the series The Six Million Dollar Man.
The study of bionics often emphasizes implementing a function found in nature rather than imitating biological structures.