Amelie is a fantastic story of a girl who was not able to adapt to the reality of the surrounding world. She has created her own universe in which each character is essentially trivial and she acquires an almost mythological aura and where even the most insignificant event can cause major changes in the lives of those involved. This is a movie that makes you more attentive to small things around that can be more important than one might think. A lesson on how to live...
The Reader is the Bernhard Schlink' s novel inspired and then published in 1995, which is based on the story of an affair between a teenager and an older woman. These two protagonists begin an affair, passionate and intense, which abruptly ends when Hanna (Kate Winslet) disappears without any explanation. The story starts with an interesting event when a teenager of 15 years,Michael Berg, suffering of scarlet fever and collapses on the street, is resc...
“The Notebook” is a movie about an old man who read a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he read was about two young lovers, Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who met each other one special evening at a carnival. In the '40s a young woman comes to the coastal city of Seabrook, North Carolina to spend the summer with her family. Here, compared to even 20 years, Allie Hamilton meets local young Noah Calhoun at a wonderful carnival, and ...
Georgios Kyriakos Panayotou was born on June 25, 1963 in London. He is better known under the pseudonym George Michael. He is a popular British singer. George Michael was born in the family of a Cypriot and a British Jew. His musical career began in 1981 when he along with his school friend Andrew Ridzhli created the group «The Executives». As the band was not a success,Michael together with his friend decided to act, taking the name of «Wham!». After the collapse ...
James Morrison was born on 10 July 1984 in the UK. He is a professional musician that conquered the hearts of many music lovers. James Morrison grew up in the provincial town of Rugby, which is located in the county of West Midlands. He was interested in music from an early age. His parents’ large record library had a great influence on him. As a little boy, he listened in awe Otis Redding’s, Al Green’s, Van Morrison’s songs. The idols of the novice musician were such artists as L...
Johnny Cash was born on February 26, 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas and he died on September 12, 2003. He is an American singer, a key figure in country music culture of the second half of XX century. He was respected in the large circles of music lovers far beyond the genre of country music. He was generally associated with the English Man In Black as he was constantly wearing black since 1960.Johnny Cash was born into a family of farmers. Three years later after his birth, the family moved to northeast of Arkansas. Afte...
Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications that impresses all the tme for its amazing technology and operating system. The ringtone "Nokia tune" is actually based on a guitar song named "Gran Vals", composed by the Spanish musician Francisco Tarrega. Nokia Tune was originally named "Grande Valse" on Nokia phones but was later changed to its actual name "Nokia Tune" in 1998 when it was well known to people and they all referred to as the "Nokia Tune". ...
It started in 1876, in a workshop for telegraph instruments, only 13 square meters, from the shopping district of Stockholm. The mechanic of only 30 years, Lars Magnus Ericsson founded one of the largest telecommunications companies worldwide, with his colleague of team, Carl Johan Anderson. By coincidence, this happens exactly in the same year when Alexander Graham Bell patented a new phone in the United States.
Sony Ericsson is a commerc...
LG mobile phones are characterized by perfect harmony between elegant style and functionality. Sleek design, touch screen, performing camera, advanced features, these are sufficient reasons to convince yourself that LG phones are the best choice.
LG, unlike Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola, appeared relatively late in the European market for mobile phones. The first devices were launched in Europe sometime in 2002, without too...
Heidi Samuel was born on 1st of June 1973, and is more known as Heidi Klum, who is an actress, model, presenter, fashion designer, businesswoman, television producer, artist and occasional singer. She is married to the singer Seal. Heidi was raised by her parents: Günther, the director of the cosmetic company and Erna, a hairdresser in Bergisch, Gladbach, Germany.
A friend of her family suggested to her parents to let them to take the...
Tyra Lynne Banks was born on December 4, 1973 and is an actress, a talk-show presenter, an American supermodel and business woman. She became famous after working as a model in Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo and New York, but the appearances at the television really have assured the commercial success. She is also known for presenting the show America's Next Top Model which was created in 2003. Currently she hosts her own talk show called The Tyra Banks Show.
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The Brazilian Adriana Lima was born on 12 June 1981, in Salvador, Bahia. Abandoned by parents, she grows up in the orphanage "Caminos da Luz". Adriana Lima becomes good friend with the nuns who were at the orphanage, one of which is her mother and father. She managed to make herself remarked since childhood, although she wanted a life of nun to help the poor people. At 15 she met her father for the first and last time, from whom she needed the signatures to compe...
Agassi was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, the son of Emmanuel "Mike" Aghassian and Elizabeth "Betty" Agassi. His father is an Iranian of Armenian-Assyrian origin, representing Iran at the Olympics in 1948 and 1952, in box, before emigrated to the United States. His desire was to have a child who could win all four Grand Slam tournaments. He learned tennis by watching tapes with great champions. When Agassi started playing tennis, he had a collection of 18,000 bal...
Rafael Nadal has won the Wimbledon tour in July 2008, defeating his main opponent, the famous Roger Federer, and he is also quintuple champion at the Grand Slam tournament, has won for 4 times the tennis tournament Roland Garros and won all the matches played in the French tour until now. It's no wonder that after so many performances, the name of the tennis star Rafael Nadal was given to a 4 km diameter asteroid, located between the planets Mars and Jupiter, moving with a speed...
Pete Sampras - the embodiment of tennis itself, quiet, modest, and a beautiful tennis champion. His career is detached from a story with heroes with so many won titles and many of them "framed" at the beginning or at the end on an U.S. Open, won against another tennis hero, Andre Agassi. We grew up seeing the hero winning the 7 magic awards, we are talking here about the seven Wimbledon titles, a total of 14 Grand Slam titles, in important matches against: Andr...
Aquarium of Western Australia is situated in Hillarys, Western Australia. This is a privately owned Aquarium. It is the largest in Australia, and one of the largest in the world AQWA assures a fascinating journey through the underwater world of Western Australia. There live more than 400 species of marine life forms.
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The main tank is 40 metres (130 ft) long and 20 metres (66...
This aquarium is one of the world's largest aquariums in the world. It is situated in Atlanta, Georgia. The capacity of a giant reservoir is more than 30 million liters. There are already 100 000 inhabitants that live in its water depths.
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The shape of the aquarium is interesting. It is a huge cruise ship, divided into 60 separate chambers. The biggest of these is about three-fourths of the ...
Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) was founded in 1984. It is located on the territory of the former sardine cannery on Cannery Row from the coastline of the Pacific in Monterey, California. It has an annual attendance of 1.8 million visitors.
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It contains thousands of plants and animals, representing 623 species of ocean crea...
Christianity is the largest world religion by number of followers. It appeared in Palestine as a result of the activity of Jesus Christ and his closest followers. The Christianity was spread very quickly, especially in the first five centuries of our era. The main part of Christians worships Jesus Christ as the second person of the Divine Trinity, God in three persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The Old and the New Testaments are ...
Islam in Arabic means "submission". This is a monotheistic religion, one of the world religions (along with Christianity and Buddhism), and its followers are Muslims. Islam was originated in Arabia in VII. The founder of Islam is Mohammed. Islam was formed under the significant influence of Christianity and Judaism. As a result of the Arab conquests, Islam was spread to the Middle East, and later in some countries in the Far East, Southeast Asia...
Judaism is the oldest monotheistic religion that underlies the beliefs, lifestyles and culture of the Jews. Judaism began in the 2nd millennium BC among the pastoral and agricultural population of the eastern Mediterranean. This was the period when a new religious concept of God, creator and ruler of the universe was introduced, which stood in the center of the formation of Israel and its covenant with God (Jewish were chosen and considered to be God’s people). ...
Natalie Portman is a famous Israel and American actress. She was born on June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem (Israel). Shelley Stevens, Natalie’s mother, a formerly a housewife, and now her agent. Avner Hershlag, Natalie’s father , an infertility and reproductive endocrinology expert . The actress took her grandmother's maiden name as a pseudonim. When Natalie was three years old, her family was forced to move out of Israel to the United States. At first, the family moved to Washington in order to provi...
Evan Rachel Wood was born on September 7, 1987 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA in a Jewish family of actors. Evan's mother, Sara Lynn Moore, is an actress and filmmaker, her father is an actor, director, scriptwriter, theater director and singer. From early childhood she was involved in theatre acting. Her first role was when she was some months old, it was in A Christmas Carol, then the Miracle Worker followed and she played alongside her mother. She began her great acting career in 9...
Keira Knightley was born in March 1985, in London, England, in the family of the prosperous well-known British actor Will Knightley and Sherman McDonald. Keira appeared as a result of a bet: if Sherman who decided to become a playwright sold his first play, they would have another child. By the time the couple had already had a son Caleb, born in 1979. Sherman won the bet. As a result the British literature got a playwright, Sherman McDonald, and the world cinema got a new star, Keira Kn...
