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Brdo pri Kranju | hosted at

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Brdo pri Kranju is an estate near to Ljubljana in Slovenia. It is the site of a 16th century castle. The Castle was for a time a summer retreat of Tito, and it was here that he collapsed in 1980. Since then it has hosted a number of major national and international conferences. Notably in 1990 it was the site of a conference between the leaders of Yugoslavia, who attempted (unsuccessfully) to prevent the union from splitting up. On June 16 2001 it hosted a summit between George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin.

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Jehangir Kothari Parade | Day Parade

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Jehangir Kothari Parade is located in Clifton beach in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Access to the sea at Clifton is provided by the terraced Parade known as the Jehangir Kothari Parade. The site, owned by Mr. Jehangir Kothari, an eminent Karachi citizen, who gifted it along with a handsome donation Rs. 300,000 to the Municipality for the development of recreational facilities. The foundation stone was laid by the Governor of Bombay, Sir George Lloyd on 10th February, 1919 and formally opened by Lady Lloyd on 5th January, 1920. The Lady Lloyd Pier was also opened by her on 21st March, 1921.

The Kiosk at one end of the parade, with its elliptical roof structure, built in Jodhpur stone, has an octagonal seat in the center and was used as a Bandstand in yester-years. The pier is 1300 ft long, 15 ft wide and ends in a 70 ft by 50 ft sea-side Pavilion constructed on piles. Gizri limestone and Jodhpur stone were used for its construction.


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  • Clifton monuments decaying fast

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Jack Masters | Rare Masters

Monday, April 7th, 2008

John Gerald (Jack) Masters (born September 27, 1931 in Fort William, Ontario) is a former Canadian politician. He served as mayor of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, and as a federal Member of Parliament.

He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal for the constituency of Thunder Bay—Nipigon in the 1980 federal election, and served as the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of State (Mines) and the Minister of Communications in the final government of Pierre Trudeau. He was defeated in the 1984 federal election by Ernie Epp.


External link

  • Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament

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Kings Park | MVMCP Park

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Kings Park is the name of several parks and locations:

  • Kings Park, Western Australia, a park near central Perth
  • Kings Park, New South Wales
  • Kings Park, South Australia
  • Kings Park, Victoria
  • Kings Park, New York
  • King’s Park, Glasgow
  • King’s Park, London, a ward in the London Borough of Hackney
  • King’s Park, Hong Kong, in the Kowloon area of Hong Kong.
  • Kings Park, Rhode Island, a park in Newport, Rhode Island.
  • Kings Park Stadium and Kings Park Soccer Stadium are two sporting venues in Durban, South Africa
  • King’s Park F.C., a defunct football club in Stirling

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When I Get Where I’m Going | Ho! Who’d

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

“When I Get Where I’m Going” is Brad Paisley’s second single from his album Time Well Wasted and is his fourteenth career single (not counting album cuts). Written by George Teren and Rivers Rutherford, the song features harmony vocals from Dolly Parton.

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Chart performance

The song reached #1 on March 4, 2006, giving Brad Paisley the fifth #1 of his career. It also gave Parton her first foray into the top of the country chart since 1991’s “Rockin’ Years”, a duet with Ricky Van Shelton. At age 60 years, one month and 14 days, Parton became the oldest woman to have a No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, and the third-oldest overall (behind Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers, who were 70 and 61, respectively).


Overview

The video of this song features footage of Paisley singing in a forest, as well as home movies of Brad with his granddad, Warren L. Jarvis. He also holds up photos of himself with Jarvis and his aunt Rita Takach. The extended version of the video ends with Jarvis in a home movie saying “Come on in and rock awhile!” and Brad smiling when he looks up from his guitar playing and sees this. It also features many different people holding photographs of loved ones who have presumably died. Two notable people featured in this video are Michael Reagan, who is shown holding a photograph of his father Ronald Reagan, and Teresa Earnhardt, who is shown sitting in front of a painted portrait of her husband, the late NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt. Although she does vocals on the song, Dolly Parton is not shown singing in the video. However, she is shown holding a picture of a her grandfather, Rev. Jake Owens, who’d died a few years earlier. She kisses her hand then touches the photograph in this scene. John Carter Cash is featured holding a photo of his parents, Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Various unknown people hold up photos of relatives who have passed on throughout as well.


Trivia

  • This song was redone on Christian band 33Miles self-titled CD.
  • This song was also redone by Geoff Moore and Christy Nockels.


Succession


External links

  • When I Get Where I’m Going lyrics at Dolly Parton On-Line


Sources

Reuters Music Article

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Inside Out (John Martyn album) | 1973. Though it

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Inside Out is an album released in 1973 by Scotland-based singer-singwriter John Martyn. It was his fifth solo album, and his seventh in total, including the albums he made with his wife, Beverley. It was his jazziest release to date. It featured two of his best-loved songs by fans, “Fine Lines” and “Make No Mistake,” as well as two songs that he enjoys playing live as jazz epics, “Outside In” and “Look In.” An 18-minute live version of “Outside In” appears on his self-distributed Live at Leeds album.


Tracks:

  1. Fine Lines
  2. Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail
  3. Ain’t No Saint
  4. Outside In
  5. The Glory Of Love
  6. Look In
  7. Beverley
  8. Make No Mistake
  9. Ways To Cry
  10. So Much In Love With You


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Yen Chow Street | main street

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Yen Chow Street (Chinese: 欽州街) is a main street in Sham Shui Po of New Kowloon in Hong Kong. The street runs from hill side towards the shore. It spans from Castle Peak Road to Sham Mong Road. Its extension Yen Chow Street West (欽州街西) spans further to the reclamation shore.

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Name

The street was named after Yen Chow, a coastal city in western Guangdong in China at that time. The city was currently under the administration of Guangxi.


Yen Chow Street

Yen Chow Street (欽州街) crosses many main streets like Castle Peak Road, Cheung Sha Wan Road and Lai Chi Kok Road. Featured landmarks and attractions in the area could be found on both side of the street. Golden Computer Centre, Sham Shui Po Police Station, Dragon Centre and Apliu Street are some of examples.


Yen Chow Street West

Yen Chow Street West (欽州街西) is a street extension on West Kowloon Reclamation. The interchange station of KCR West Rail Nam Cheong Station and MTR Nam Cheong Station is located near its junction with Sham Mong Road and Nam Cheong Park on the other side. Near the end of the street is Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale Fish Market.


See also

  • List of streets and roads in Hong Kong

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Sambadrome | Parade

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

The Sambadrome (Sambódromo in Portuguese, full name Sambódromo da Marquês de Sapucaí) is a purpose-built parade area in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where samba schools parade competitively each year during Carnival. The parades attract many thousands of Brazilians and foreign tourists each year.


The venue

The Sambadrome was designed by Oscar Niemeyer and built in 1984. It consists of 700 m stretch of the Marquês de Sapucaí street converted into a permanent parade ground with bleachers built on either side for spectators. Its capacity is 65,000. The complex includes an area located at the end of the parade route, the Praça da Apoteose (Apotheosis Square), where the bleachers are set further back from the parade area, creating a square where revelers gather as they end their parade.

Outside Carnival season, the Praça da Apoteose is occasionally used as a venue for international music concerts. Notable artists who performed there include The Rolling Stones, Roger Waters, Eric Clapton,Phil Collins Oasis, Avril Lavigne, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Carlos Santana. In December, the samba schools begin holding technical rehearsals at the Sambadrome, leading up to Carnival.


The Carnival parade events

The official Carnival parades take place just before the start of Lent. They are held for four consecutive nights, during which schools parade one after another from 8pm until the morning. Grupo de Acesso A samba schools are hosted on Saturday, Grupo Especial on Sunday and Monday and Grupo de Acesso B on Tuesday. The Grupo Especial nights are by far the biggest attractions. The parades are televised nationally and are watched by large audiences.

Each samba school has a preset amount of time (80 minutes) to parade from one end of the Sambadrome to the other with all its thousands of dancers, its drum section (bateria), and a number of floats. Each school has its own unique qualities according to its own traditions. Schools are graded by a jury, and the competition is ferocious. On Ash Wednesday (quarta-feira de cinzas), grades are gathered and one school is declared the winner. A Desfile de Campeões (Parade of Champions) is held the following Saturday featuring the five winning samba schools in the Grupo Especial category.

In 2006, ticket prices for normal bleacher seats in the Sambadrome on Grupo Especial nights ranged between R$150 and R$500 (US$60 to US$220), with VIP camarote seating (which includes breakfast) and scalped tickets costing much more. The Parade of Champions was half price, and the Grupo de Acesso A was between R$10 and R$30 (US$5 and $13).

Inflated prices to watch star samba schools exclude many Brazilians from attending. As a reaction to high levels of commercialization, Rio de Janeiro has experienced a resurgence in free block parties (Street Bands and Groups: Blocos) that take place in suburbs all over the city.

It is possible for a person who is not a member of any samba school to buy a costume and arrange for a spot as a dancer in one of the parade groups.

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Christmas in Kabul | before Christmas

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Rick Mercer’s Christmas in Kabul is a CBC Christmas special about comedian Rick Mercer going to Afghanistan to bring Christmas cheer to the Canadian troops stationed outside Kabul. Mercer’s performances could be compared to those of Bob Hope for the USO.

Music stars Damhnait Doyle, Kevin Fox and Tom Cochrane accompanied Mercer to Camp Julien, where many of the troops live in large tents.

It originally aired December 21 2003, on CBC.


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Godless | written

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Godless can refer to:

  • Godlessness, i.e., the absence of theism (the belief in the existence of deities)
  • , a non-fiction book written by Ann Coulter
  • Godless (novel), written by Pete Hautman
  • Godless, Drew Stepek’s novel about male bulimia
  • Godless (band) The Black Metal Music Band (U.S.A.)
  • Godless, a song by the Dandy Warhols, the first track from their album Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor

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Slither (1973 film) | 1973 with the

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Slither is a 1973 comedy film starring James Caan as an ex-convict. Georgia Skoirchet played Wanda, the next-door neighbour of James Caan’s character.


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The Echoing Green | Merry

Friday, February 1st, 2008

The Echoing Green is a poem by William Blake published in Songs of Innocence in 1789.

The poem follows the structure of a day— ‘the sun does arise’ in the beginning of the first verse, and ‘the sun does descend’ in the middle of the third verse. The poem is the contrast of innocence and experience, but also the contrast between perception of joys and sorrows. What is happening on the Green will happen again, shown by the ‘old folk’ who watch the children and reminisce about their own childhood on the Green. The whole poem is written in 6 sentences with much repetition. The poem could also be attributed to the life of a person— birth, life, death.


Poem text

The Sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bell rings
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The bird of the bush,
Sings lounder around
To the bell’s chearful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the Echoing Green.
Old John, with white hair,
Does laugh away care,
Sitting under the oak,
Among the old folk.
They laugh at our play,
And soon they all say:
“Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls & boys,
In our youth time were seen”
On the Echoing Green.
Till the little ones, weary,
No more can be merry;
The sun does descend,
And our sports have on end.
Round the laps of their mothers
Many sisters and brothers,
Like birds in their nest,
Are ready for rest,
And sports no more seen
On the darkening Green

References

  • Oxford Student Study Guide, ‘William Blake’.


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A Faithful Christmas | Christmas

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A Faithful Christmas is an album by Faith Evans. It was released October 25, 2005 on Capitol Records. A collection of holiday songs, it contains songs such as White Christmas and Santa Baby. The tracks “Happy Holiday” & “Christmas Wish” were written with her daughter Chyna Griffin.


Track listing

  1. “Happy Holiday” (Evans, Chyna Griffin) – 5:19
  2. “The Day That Love Began” (Miller, Miller) – 3:26
  3. “Soulful Christmas” (Ballard, Brown, Ellis) – 3:06
  4. “Santa Baby” (Javits, Springer, Springer) – 3:19
  5. “Merry Christmas Baby” (Baxter, Dudley) – 4:33
  6. “Mistletoe and Holly” (Sancola, Sinatra, Stanford) – 2:16
  7. “Christmas Wish” (Baxter, Coleman, Evans, Griffin, Moore) – 3:31
  8. “Christmas Song” (Torme, Walls) – 3:35
  9. “This Christmas” (Hathaway, McKinnor) – 3:51
  10. “White Christmas” (Berlin) – 3:26
  11. “O Come All Ye Faithful” (Wade) – 3:37


External reference

  • AllMusic entry

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Renate Blauel | Elton

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Renate Blauel is a German music engineer who was married to Elton John.

Already a sound engineer, she had engineered albums including Hysteria for the Human League and Croatia Records. http://www.discogs.com/release/454720 Blauel was then a recording engineer on John’s 1983 album Too Low For Zero in Sydney, Australia. John admitted that his bisexuality was a “compromise”. They were married on Valentine’s Day, 1984, in Sydney, Australia, after he had proposed to her four days earlier in a restaurant. Attendees included Olivia Newton-John. A second service was held for John’s family members later in England. Blauel also worked as a recording engineer on John’s 1984 album Breaking Hearts. They divorced in 1988 when both she and Elton felt that he could no longer deny his sexual orientation.


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Foolish Pleasure | Ho! Who’d Be

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Foolish Pleasure (1972-1994) is an American bay thoroughbred race horse who was one of the top three three-year-old colts of his time.

Owned by John L. Greer and trained by LeRoy Jolley, who had previously been partners in the colt Ridan, Foolish Pleasure was undefeated as a two-year-old and in 1975 at age three, he won the Flamingo Stakes, Wood Memorial Stakes, and the Kentucky Derby. Although heavily favored to win, he finished second to longshots in both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes.

He was racing at the same time as Ruffian, the “Queen of the Fillies,” who’d won all ten of her races, including the Fillies’ Triple Crown. Foolish Pleasure and Ruffian had the same jockey-B. Vasquez. In July 1975, a match race was arranged between the two horses. Vasquez chose to ride Ruffian This race became more than a horse race. It became a highly publicized “battle of the sexes” contest, similar to the tennis matches between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs which occurred about the same time. Thousands of fans gathered at the track, and the race was also televised. While on the lead, Ruffian broke the sesamoid bone in her leg. She continued to run, further damaging her leg, for another hundred yards, trying to finish the race. Post-surgery, she did even further damage to herself in panic, and finally had to be euthanized. Technically, Foolish Pleasure had “won”, and it was several more years before other owners and trainers would risk entering females into the Kentucky Derby and other male-dominated races.

Foolish Pleasure was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1995 and in the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, he was ranked #97.


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  • Foolish Pleasure’s pedigree
  • Foolish Pleasure’s Kentucky Derby

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Snow Island (South Shetland Islands) | Wishes Snow on

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Snow Island () is a completely ice-covered island, 16 by 8 kilometres (10 x 5 mi) in size, lying 6 kilometres

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Christmas in Kabul | Christmas

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Rick Mercer’s Christmas in Kabul is a CBC Christmas special about comedian Rick Mercer going to Afghanistan to bring Christmas cheer to the Canadian troops stationed outside Kabul. Mercer’s performances could be compared to those of Bob Hope for the USO.

Music stars Damhnait Doyle, Kevin Fox and Tom Cochrane accompanied Mercer to Camp Julien, where many of the troops live in large tents.

It originally aired December 21 2003, on CBC.


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John Latham | John

Monday, January 7th, 2008

John Latham may refer to:

  • John Latham (ornithologist) (1740–1837), English physician, naturalist and author
  • John Latham (jurist) (1877–1964), Australian judge and politician
  • John Latham (artist) (1921–2006), a conceptual artist born in Zambia
  • John Latham (Whitewater), U.S. bank executive involved in Whitewater controversy, 1990s

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Christmas in the Aire | Christmas

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Christmas in the Aire was the third Christmas album released by new age musical group Mannheim Steamroller. The album was originally released in 1995.


Track listing

  1. “Joy to the World” – 3:36
  2. “Joseph Dear, Oh Joseph Mine” – 3:08
  3. “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” – 3:11
  4. “Herbei, oh ihr Gläubigen (Oh Come All Ye Faithful)” – 3:30
  5. “Pat-A-Pan” – 4:48
  6. “O Little Town of Bethlehem” – 3:55
  7. “Angels We Have Heard on High” – 3:53
  8. “Gagliarda” – 3:00
  9. “Los Peces en el Rio” – 3:50
  10. “Christmas Lullaby” – 4:06
  11. “Kling, Glöckchen” – 1:46
  12. “Jingle Bells” – 4:28

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Bedroom Acoustics | with the B-Side

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Bedroom Acoustics is a song by the British rock band Muse. It appeared as a B-side on the popular single Plug In Baby, found on their second album Origin of Symmetry. It is an instrumental song featuring just an acoustic guitar.

The song was written and performed by Matthew Bellamy.

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