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Bandola | versions It

Friday, February 8th, 2008

The Bandola is a small pear-shape chordophone found in Venezuela and Colombia. It is related to the Bandurria.

There are 3 main types of Bandolas:

  • Bandola Llanera - These have 7 Frets and 4 strings and are said to be the oldest. Special ones have also been made with 10 frets used by Prof. Saúl Vera and a 14 fret version used by Prof. Moisés Torrealba.
  • Bandola Andina Colombiana - This one has 6 courses. They are made in four different styles: 12 string versions where each course is doubled. 14 string versions where the first two courses are tripled and the rest are doubled. 16 string versions where the first four courses are tripled and the last two are doubled. Finally, there is an 18 string version with 6 triple courses.
  • Bandola Oriental - This one is like the Bandola Lianera but with a deeper body and 4 double courses with 8 strings in all.


See also

  • Venezuela
  • Venezuelan music

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Light show | Christmas is

Friday, February 8th, 2008
  • Christmas lights
  • Wizards in Winter (song) Christmas light show
  • Laser lighting display Laser show

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Köse | Turkey at

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Köse is a town and a district of Gümüşhane Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.


External links

  • District governor’s official website

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Big Shot (The Tick) | also appears on

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Big Shot is a fictional character from the animated series, The Tick. He is a parody of The Punisher and Deadshot. In the tv series, Big Shot carries guns, grenades and other weaponry on his back. He appears in the first episode, doggedly pursuing the Tick but always just missing him. In his frustration, he fires upon nearby structures (such as chimneys) and reduces them to skull-shaped sculptures resembling the Punisher’s skull emblem. This habit leaves him without ammunition when he finally catches up with the Tick, and he collapses into a weeping fit while tearfully admitting, “My mommy never loved me!”

He appears later in the series, having seen an anger management therapist where he learns how to be more sensitive. Far more stable, he is now unable to say the word “guns” without stammering and twitching. He is voiced by actor Kevin Schon.

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Christmas Pie | Christmas Party

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Christmas Pie is a village, in Surrey, England. Named after Christmas Pie Farm (1823) a name probably associated with the Christmas family that is mentioned in 16th century records.


References


External links

  • Normandy and Christmas Pie, local history site

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Southern Life Centre | 1973 with

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The Southern Life Centre is a skyscraper in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1973 to a height of 138 metres.

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Bhringi | Continued and The Best

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

According to Hindu mythology, Bhringi (the wanderer) was an ancient sage (rishi), and a great devotee of Shiva,the Hindu God of destruction and rejuvenation. The legend states that he had three legs. According to mythology, all the rishis once paid homage to both Shiva and Parvati, the second consort of Shiva, but Bhringi would not worship Parvati and dedicated himself solely to Shiva. Enraged, Parvati reduced Bringi to a skeleton. In this form he was not able to stand and so Shiva provided him with a third leg. Bhringi remained undaunted, and continued to worship only Shiva. To force him to worship Parvati as well, Shiva transformed himself into his androgynous form of Ardhnarishvar, in which state he was combined with his consort Parvati. Bringi remained undeterred. Transformed himself in a bee, he bored his way through the male part of androgynous Shiva and continued his worship. He generally appears beside Shiva during his cosmic dance of tandava.


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Elton, Cambridgeshire | Elton

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Elton – in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), England – is a village near Haddon west of Yaxley.

Elton lies on the B671 road, the hamlet of Over End is located on that same road a mile south of the village.

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You Can Be Special Too | album Hit Parade II

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

You Can Be Special Too is the debut album of Evil Nine. It was released on 2 August 2004 on the Marine Parade Records label.

The album includes four skits that are short tracks containing lots of samples.

Tracks 12 and 13 are mislabeled on the album. The song “Restless” actually plays during track 13 and “Even the Smells” plays on track 12. It is unknown what order the tracks were meant to appear on the album. The correct times are listed below according to the track name, not number.


Track listing

  1. “Crooked” – 5:46
  2. “Devil Stuff” – 4:52
  3. “Earth” – 4:56
  4. “You Can Be Special (Skit)” – 0:36
  5. “We Have the Energy” – 5:16
  6. “Snack Bar Lounge” – 2:55
  7. “Help (Skit)” – 0:22
  8. “Pearl Shot” – 5:19
  9. “You Are Not Through” – 4:48
  10. “Richard & Jane (Skit)” – 0:30
  11. “For Lovers Not Fighters” – 4:11
  12. “Restless” – 4:54
  13. “Even the Smells” – 2:03
  14. “You Can Be Special 2 (Skit)” – 0:31
  15. “Hired Goons” – 5:45

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Green Chri$tma$ | Christmas

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Green Chri$tma$ is a piece of audio theater written and performed by Stan Freberg and Daws Butler, released by Capitol Records in 1958 (catalog number F 4097). Mr. Scrooge (Freberg), the head of an unnamed advertising agency, has gathered a group of clients to discuss tying their products into Christmas. One attendee, Bob Cratchit (Butler), wants to resist tying his spice company into Christmas, preferring to send Christmas cards with a simple message of “Peace on Earth.” Scrooge extols the virtues of making money off of Christmas, and Cratchit counters by reminding Scrooge “whose birthday we’re celebrating.”

The piece is a scathing indictment of the commercialization of Christmas, with references of Christmas-themed advertising by Coca-Cola and Chesterfield Cigarettes, among others. The names of the characters are taken from A Christmas Carol In Prose by Charles Dickens, as is one of the products “advertised” (”Tyn-E-Tim Chestnuts”). Green Chri$tma$ also contains a parody of the Christmas carol The Twelve Days Of Christmas and an original song by Freberg, Christmas Comes But Once A Year.

Of especially noteworthy importance is the impact of this song’s message in the heart of corporate America, as reflected in the fact that it received no commercial AM radio airplay until 1983; only getting a little FM airplay before that (such as on the Doctor Demento Show) and only slightly more AM airtime after 1983. Beginning in 1972, Capitol reissued the single as catalog number 3503, dividing the piece into two parts; it remained in the Christmas singles section of record stores for years thereafter.

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Karasuma Station | previous years

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
is one of the busiest stations outside of Umeda Station and Kawaramachi Station on the Hankyu Kyoto Line. Located at the intersection of Karasuma and Shijo Streets, the station is located underground from the myriad banks and financial institutions that populate the intersection. Daimaru and a few other stores on are located near the station, and there is a long underground walkway linking Karasuma Station with Kawaramachi Station.

Shijō Station on the Karasuma Line subway is connected with Karasuma Station by a short underground walkway.

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New Fraternity Party | Party

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

The New Fraternity Party (新党友愛 Shinto Yuai) was a Japanese political party that existed in early 1998. It was founded by Diet members (almost from Former Democratic Socialist Party) that broke away from the New Frontier Party in January 1998. It was a liberal and democratic Socialist party espousing various left of centre causes.

The name has its origins in the Taisho era democracy and Labour movements, which used the word yuai (fraternity) as a motto. The party also claimed that yuai had a phonetic similarity to the English “you and I”, representing their hope of cooperating with ordinary Japanese.

The party was led by Lower House member Nakano Kansei, now a member of the Democratic Party .

In April 1998, the New Fraternity Party merged with the Good Governance Party, the Democratic Party of Japan (1996) and the Democratic Reform Party(民主改革連合, Minshu-Kaikaku-Rengo) to form the Democratic Party .


See also

  • Democratic Socialist Party

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  • Progressive Labor Party A Stalinist party in the US, this site contains a number of articles and essays outlining the PLP's views on current events as political theory.

Christmas is all in the Heart | Christmas

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Christmas is all in the Heart is a 2003 album by Steven Curtis Chapman.


Tracks

  1. Silver Bells
  2. Winter Wonderland
  3. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
  4. Go Tell it on the Mountain
  5. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
  6. O Little Town of Bethlehem
  7. O Come All Ye Faithful
  8. This Baby
  9. O Come O Come Emmanuel
  10. Home for Christmas
  11. Silent Night Medley

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Maharashtra Vikas Party | Party

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Maharashtra Vikas Party (Maharashtra Development Party), a political party in the Indian state of Maharashtra. MVP evolved out of the Maratha Mahasangh. MVP had some influence in Akola. In the 1998 local elections, the party had a tie-up with Indian National Congress.

The current status of the party is unclear.

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Gecarcoidea | Christmas

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Gecarcoidea is genus of terrestrial crabs. It includes the two species G. lalandii and G. natalis, the Christmas Island red crab.

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Conceição (Ribeira Grande) | Map from

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Conceição is a parish in the district of Ribeira Grande in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 1,797, its density is 141.1/km² and the area is 12.74 km².

  • Location:

    • Latitude: 37 N
    • Longitude: 25 W
  • Altitude: 7 m (26 ft)

Conceição has a school, a lyceum, a gymnasia, a church and a square (praça).

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Señor Boombox | on the albums

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Señor Boombox (2002) is an album by Disco Biscuits.

The album charted on two Billboard Magazine entries; Top Electronic Albums at #13 and Top Independent Albums at #46.


Track listing

  1. “Hope” – 4:35
  2. “Float Like a Butterfly” – 4:27
  3. “In the Sky” – 0:46
  4. “Floodlights” – 2:40
  5. “Jigsaw Earth” – 7:15
  6. “Sugarcane” – 1:08
  7. “Sound One” – 3:30
  8. “The Tunnel” – 7:46
  9. “Sprawl” – 0:29
  10. “Floes” – 7:24
  11. “Triumph” – 3:33
  12. “Hope II” – 4:15
  13. “Hope III” – 15:37

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Christmas Wonderland | Christmas

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Christmas Wonderland is an instrumental Christmas album by Bert Kaempfert and his orchestra from 1963.


Tracks

  1. The Little Drummer Boy
  2. Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
  3. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
  4. Holiday For Bells
  5. Winter Wonderland
  6. Children’s Christmas Dream
  7. Sleigh Ride
  8. White Christmas
  9. Toy Parade
  10. Christmas Wonderland
  11. Jingo Jango
  12. Jumpin’ Jiminy Christmas

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Muş | Turkey at Christmas

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Muş (alternative spelling: Mush) is the provincial capital of Muş Province in Turkey. Population of the municipality of Muş: 64,088 (1997 census)

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Seamus Martin | covered by

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Seamus Martin is the retired international editor of The Irish Times and is the brother and only sibling of Diarmuid Martin the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. He is one of Ireland’s most versatile journalists, having been a leading sports commentator in his younger days in the Irish Press and the Irish Independent, sports editor of the Sunday Tribune and a columnist in the Evening Herald. Later he became Features Editor of The Irish Times, a columnist in that newspaper and afterwards a foreign correspondent who covered the two most important stories of the late 20th century.

As Moscow Correspondent of The Irish Times, he covered the collapse of communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. As South Africa correspondent, he covered the rise of Nelson Mandela from prisoner to president, the collapse of the apartheid regime and the arrival of democracy in South Africa. Later he became Editor of the electronic editions of The Irish Times, winning several international awards, including one from Switzerland for the world’s best news site.

In the course of his career, his political views have moved from left wing to left of centre though he never supported extreme left views. He remains vehemently opposed to those who try to tell the world that support for Nazism is excused by opposition to communism.

His novel Duggan’s Destiny received favourable reviews in Ireland and the United States. In retirement, he divides his time between Ireland and France where he maintains a small house and a smaller vineyard.

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