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Ferrovia Mesolcinese | Continued and

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

The Ferrovia Mesolcinese is a touristic railway in Canton Ticino, Switzerland. It is 13 km long and links Castione with Cama. The line continued from Castione to Bellinzona and from Cama to Mesocco totalling about 30 km, but this part doesn’t exist anymore.

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The Wedding Album | album

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
  • For the John Lennon and Yoko Ono album, see Wedding Album
  • For the Duran Duran album commonly known as such, see Duran Duran (1993 album)
  • For the upcoming FOX network show, see The Wedding Album (TV series)

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Merry Christmas, Baby | Christmas

Monday, December 31st, 2007

“Merry Christmas, Baby” is a Christmas song written by Brian Wilson for the American pop band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1964 album The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album.


Details

  • Written by: Brian Wilson
  • Album: The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album
  • Time: 2 min 20 sec
  • Produced by: Brian Wilson


Performers

  • Mike Love: Lead Vocals
  • Hanson: Vocals, music


See also

  • List of songs by The Beach Boys

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The Grudge (single) | World…Ever!. edit Other versions

Monday, December 24th, 2007

The Grudge is the single release by Norwegian industrial-rock solo artist, Mortiis. The tracks are alternate versions of those found on the album The Grudge. Available as a 3 track Digipack CD single and 7″ posterbag vinyl.


Track listing


Digipack CD version

  1. “The Grudge (single edit)” - 4:02
  2. “The Grudge (despectus)” - 4:41
  3. “Decadent & Desperate (flickin’ the bitch switch mix)” - 4:35


7″ Posterbag version

  1. “The Grudge (single edit)” - 4:02
  2. “Decadent and Desperate” - 3:24

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Oakland Park | park. Beginning

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Oakland Park is the name of several places in the United States:

  • Albert Oakland Park in Columbia, Missouri
  • Oakland Park, Florida, a city
  • Oakland Park, Missouri, a former village
  • Oakland Park, New Jersey, a temporary home (two games in 1889) of the New York Giants baseball team

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The Best of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas | Christmas

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

The Best of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas is a compilation of tracks that were recorded live at the Acoustic Christmas by the Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ, released in 1999.


Track listing

  1. “Dammit” - Blink-182 – 2:58
  2. “Stupid Girl” - Garbage – 3:58
  3. “What It’s Like” - Everlast – 7:48
  4. “Doll Parts” - Hole – 3:51
  5. “Walkin’ On The Sun” - Smash Mouth – 3:22
  6. “Spiderwebs” - No Doubt – 4:21
  7. “I Will Buy You A New Life” - Everclear – 4:32
  8. “Everything Zen” - Bush – 7:15
  9. “The Distance” - Cake – 3:05
  10. “Fake Plastic Trees” - Radiohead – 4:44
  11. “I Alone” - Live – 3:49
  12. “Blister In The Sun” - Violent Femmes – 2:40

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Kevin and Bean: Swallow My Eggnog | Christmas

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Swallow My Eggnog is the twelfth Christmas album released by KROQ show Kevin and Bean.


Track listing

  1. “Swallow My Eggnog” – 4:25
  2. New Found Glory: “Ex-Miss” – 3:27
  3. Remy Zero: “Someday at Christmas” – 2:45
  4. Seth Green: “Seth Green’s Holiday Message” – 0:13
  5. Chillaz: “Clint Frostwood” – 2:39
  6. “Cookin’ With Walken” – 3:38
  7. Pudie Tadow: “Get Your Dreidel On” – 3:06
  8. P.O.D.: “Christmas in Cali” – 2:44
  9. “Steve Erwin’s Crocodile Christmas” – 0:24
  10. “Harry Blotter & The Sorcerer’s Bone” – 4:57
  11. Jimmy Eat World: “Last Christmas” – 4:25
  12. Cypress Hill: “The Night Before Christmas” – 2:04
  13. “Silent Bob’s Christmas Memory” – 0:24
  14. The Naked Trucker & T-Bones Show: “Little Girls and Hobos” – 4:00
  15. Unwritten Law featuring Sum 41: “Unwritten Christmas” – 3:52
  16. Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine: “Christmastime Is Here” – 1:30
  17. Johnny Knoxville: “A Very Jackass Christmas” – 1:15
  18. Blink 182: “Happy Holidays, You Bastard” – 0:44
  19. Dave Gahan: “Dave Gahan’s Christmas Message” – 0:13
  20. Dr. Dyke & The Cinnamon Cowboys: “Westside” – 3:05
  21. Gorillaz: “Don Quixote’s Christmas Bonanza” – 3:42
  22. “Under the Mistle-Toke with Mole” – 2:37
  23. “A Family Guy Christmas” – 3:49
  24. Coldplay: “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” – 0:40
  25. Sum 41 Vs. Tenacious D: “Things I Want” – 3:44
  26. Jackie Chan: “Jackie Chan’s Christmas Message” – 0:27
  27. “Santa Bob” – 3:01
  28. Afroman: “Afroman’s Christmas Joint” – 1:05
  29. Weezer: “Always” – 2:40
  30. Armenian Comedian: “Rock ‘n Pot Christmas” – 4:00

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  • Mexican Traditions for Christmas For example, the Posadas are now nine parties that are celebrated in differentes friends homes before Christmas. Also, with the North American Free Treaty
  • This Christmas (2007) - Movie Info - Yahoo! Movies This Christmas (2007): find the latest news, photos and trailers, as well as local showtimes and dvd info at Yahoo! Movies.
  • Seasons Greetings Christmas links for teachers and students of French to things linguistic,cultural, musical and fun. Contains an on line scavenger hunt, a word search,
  • Christmas Crafts for Kids - Enchanted Learning Software Christmas Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple crafts with things found around the house.
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  • Christmas Around The World Christmas traditions Around The World. christmas traditions. traditional christmas.
  • Christmas Stories and Articles Religious Christmas stories and articles for the entire family.
  • Christmas Movies Christmas Movies. 3 Godfathers (1948); All I Want for Christmas (1991); American Christmas Carol, . Return to Christmas 'round the World (Wide Web)
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Double consciousness | Wishes

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Double consciousness, in its contemporary sense, is a term coined by W.E.B. Du Bois. The term is used to describe an individual whose identity is divided into several facets.


Origin

The term originated from an 1897 Atlantic Monthly article titled “Strivings of the Negro People.” It was later republished and slightly edited under the title “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” in his collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk. He spoke of “this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity”, and of a two-ness, of being “an American, a Negro; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”

Du Bois explained:

The concept of Du Boisian “double consciousness” has three manifestations. First, the power of white stereotypes on black life and thought (being forced into a context of misrepresentation of one’s own people while also having the knowledge of reflexive truth). Second, the racism that excluded black Americans from the mainstream of society, being both American and not American. Finally, and most significantly, the internal conflict between being African and American simultaneously.

Double consciousness is an awareness of one’s self as well as an awareness of how others perceive that person. The danger of double consciousness resides in conforming and or changing one’s identity to that of how others perceive the person.
In simple terms, it could be said, that as an African American is eating fried chicken and watermelon, two very stereotypical notions of their culture, they might see a white person staring and wonder to themselves if the white person is looking at them because they expect to see this or if it is because they want fried chicken too. It is the sense of always having to second guess your actions in the presence of others.


See also

Paul Gilroy. 1993. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, London: Verso.

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Christmas Wrapping | Christmas

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

“Christmas Wrapping” (sometimes misspelled as “Christmas Wrappings”) is a Christmas song performed in 1981 by The Waitresses and later covered by the Spice Girls. Save Ferris also recorded a version with different lyrics.

The song is narrated from the point of view of a busy single woman who is adamant that she will try to sit-out the exhausting Christmas period, not participating in the traditional Christmas activities (except for making dinner, see below).

She reveals that, during the course of the year, she has attempted to meet up with a man she encountered in a ski shop the previous year. Despite the couple’s attempts to meet, a succession of mishaps conspires to keep them apart.

Finally on Christmas Eve, while the protagonist (after stating that A&P provided her with “the world’s smallest turkey”) is doing last-minute shopping for cranberries at a local convenience store, ends up running into the man after discovering that he, too, forgot to buy cranberries.

This coincidence seems to hint that the narrator, and therefore the listener, shouldn’t completely abandon their faith in the magic of Christmas.


External links

  • How an obscure 80s punk band created a Christmas classic

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Switched on Christmas (Venus Hum) | Christmas

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Switched on Christmas is a CD from Venus Hum. Originally distributed for free at concerts, it can now be found on the iTunes Music Store.


Track listing

  1. “Let It Snow”
  2. “Suzy Snowflake”
  3. “Silent Night”
  4. “St Mary’s Lake”
  5. “Silver Bells”
  6. “The Christmas Song”

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Wilfrid E. Reid | 1973 with

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Wilfrid Ewart Reid (1884—1973)

  • Born: Bulwell, Nottingham, England
  • Died: West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Professional golfer and golf course designer.

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Retlaw Enterprises | Walt Disney

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Retlaw Enterprises is a privately held company owned by the heirs of entertainment mogul Walt Disney. Disney formed the company to control the rights to his name and to manage two Disneyland attractions that he personally owned. It is the successor company to WED Enterprises.


History

Retlaw was formed after Walt Disney Productions, bought WED Enterprises. Walt Disney created WED Enterprises in December 1952 to oversee the design of his theme park, Disneyland. He also assigned the rights to his name and likeness to the company as well as ownership of two Disneyland attractions, the Disneyland Railroad and the Disneyland Monorail, that Disney personally owned. The theme park design business, now known as Imagineering, became so integral to the Disney studio’s operations that the studio bought it in January 1965.

Walt Disney kept the rights to his name and to the two theme park attractions, however, and on February 5, 1965, he assigned those properties to a new company, Retlaw Enterprises. (Retlaw is Walter spelled backwards). Retlaw paid rent for the attractions’ rights-of-way and employed the attraction administrators. It also owned the small apartment atop the fire house on Main Street, U.S.A. Finally, in 1982, the Disney family sold the naming rights and rail-based attractions to the Disney film studio for 818,461 shares of Disney stock. The remaining divisions of Retlaw, after the majority of the company was sold to Walt’s larger public company, were several television stations and real estate holdings that continue to be owned by the Disney family. <ref name=”MP=MKC”>Magic Kingdom Chronicles, by Jason Schultz in Mouse Planet; Accessed October 20, 2007</ref>

In 1999 Relaw sold its remaining 11 television stations to Fisher Communications, including all of the related assets to those propersties. <ref>Sec 8-K Filing on July 1, 1999; Accessed [[October 20], 2007</ref>

In 2005 the remaining divisions of Retlaw officially became part of the Walt Disney Family Foundation, a non-profit organization led by Diane Disney Miller.<ref name=”MP=MKC”/>


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Purée Mongole | included

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

There’s nothing authentically Mongolian about Purée Mongole, which was invented by Louis Diat, chef at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City, where he invented that American classic vichyssoise,

Purée Mongole is approximated with one can Campbell’s Pea Soup, one can Campbell’s Tomato Soup, sufficient milk and water, pinch of curry powder. The Campbell Soup Company included a recipe for it in their 1949
recipe booklet Easy Ways to Good Meals, and Dinah Shore included it in her cookbook, Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah (with a dash of sherry). Purée Mongole was J. Edgar Hoover’s favorite soup.

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Magic Box | Magic Kingdom

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Magic Box may refer to:

  • Magic Box (album), a 1996 album by Bel Canto
  • The Magic Box (film), a 1951 British movie.
  • The Magic Box, a fictional place in the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • The Magic Box, a television show which aired on TLC in the mid-1990s. The show taught viewers how to read.
  • Magic Box (TV), first private TV channel of Turkey.
  • A device used on sailboats to adjust the side-to-side angle of the sail.

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Blow up | External links

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Blow up can refer to:

  • Blow Up, a club night in London, established in 1993
  • Blowup, a film by Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Blowing up, a mathematical operation
  • Blow Up, A 1991 album by The Smithereens

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Christmas EP 2004 | Christmas

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Christmas EP 2004 is an album by Seven Nations.

  1. “2000 Miles”
  2. “Carol of the Bells”
  3. “Away in a Manger”
  4. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
  5. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
  6. “The Rebel Jesus”
  7. “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”

1 E11 s | years

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 1011 seconds and 1012 seconds (3,200 years and 32,000 years) See also times of other orders of magnitude.

  • Shorter times (see also 2nd millennium BC)
  • 3,200 years — time since the Greek Dark Ages and the beginning of the Iron Age
  • 3453 years — time since The Exodus from Egypt
  • 3,800 years — time since alphabetic writing emerged
  • 4200 years — time (estimated) since the completion of Stonehenge.
  • 4,500 years — approximate time since the domestication of the horse
  • 4567 years — time, in 2007, since the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
  • 4,700 years — estimated age of oldest living plant, a bristle-cone pine
  • 5,300 years — time since Sumerians developed cuneiform writing (and thus the boundary between history and prehistory)
  • 5,400 years — time since Neolithic Age ended and Bronze Age began
  • 5,715 years — half-life of Carbon-14
  • 6,010 years — age of the earth according to the calculation of Bishop James Ussher (in 2006)
  • 6,500 years [3500 in the Dutch version of Wikipedia] — time since the invention of the wheel
  • 7,370 years — half life of americium-243
  • 8,500 years — half life of curium-245
  • 11,000 years — time since city of Jericho was founded
  • 12,000 years — time since end of Pleistocene Epoch
  • 12,000 years — time since beginning of Holocene Epoch
  • 12,000 years — time since beginning of Neolithic Age
  • 12,000 years — time since the land ice left Denmark and southern Sweden
  • 20,000 years — approximate age of the Ishango Bone, the oldest known tally stick
  • 20,300 years — half life of niobium-94
  • 21,000 years — time since the Last Glacial Maximum
  • 24,110 years — half life of plutonium-239
  • 25,000 years — time since the first colonisation of North America
  • 29,000 years — time since the extinction of Homo neanderthalensis.
  • 30,000 years — approximate age of Haplogroup X (mtDNA) and Haplogroup I (mtDNA)
  • Longer times

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The Disney Treasures | Walt Disney

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

The Disney Treasures ISBN 0-7868-5390-5) is a 64 page book written by Robert Tieman describing the history of Disney. It was published by Disney Editions, and includes a CD-ROM. It was released September 1, 2003.