Buy yourself some earphones from ipad accessories uk and have a litsen (and a look) at Shakira. Born on February 2nd 1977, Shakira was born Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll in Barranquilla in Colombia. She began performing at school, showing all her vocal and dancing abilities. The amount of languages Shakira can speak is truly startling, fluent English and Portugese and some Italian, French and Arabic!
Shakira released Pies Descalzos in 1995 which brought her great success in Spain and Latin America. Shakira’s 1998 album ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? brought Shakira further fame selling 7 million copies around the world. Her first English single “Whenever, Wherever” of 2002 became the best selling single of the year, gaining Shakira worldwide fame. Her subsequent album, Laundry Service, sold over a whopping 13 million copies.
Shakira founded the Pies Descalzos charity in 1995 in Colombia. The charity has set up a network of special schools for poor children around Colombia. Throughout her career, Shakira has performed at numerous benefit concerts including the Live 8 concert in 2005 and the Live Earth concert in Hamburg which she headlined.
The first photograph ever taken was in 1826, captured by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a French inventor. Niépce utilized a pewter plate which he covered with bitumen of Judea, a derivative of petroleum, which he used white petroleum to dissolve. As bitumen becomes hard with light exposure, when the unhardened material is washed away, an image remains on the pewter plate composed of dark regions of bare pewter and light regions of the hardened bitumen. Unfortunately, Niépce’s first successful image on pewter was accidentally destroyed. The photo below is the earliest existing image he produced.
In 1827 Johann Heinrich Schultz discovered that silver nitrate (AGNO3) becomes dark when it is exposed to light. Niépce, in partnership with Louis Daguerre, succeeded in refining this silver process discovered by Shultz. The following year Niépce passed away after a stroke leaving Daguerre to develop the process further which he did, inventing the daguerreotype which the French government quickly purchased the patent of on August 19th 1839. It truly makes one appreciate how easy it is to take a photo in this day and age, if one has a li-42b charger that is!
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play written by Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900). It is a farcical comedy whose main two protagonists utilise fictitious personae in the hopes of eluding burdensome social obligations. The play is a satire of Victorian ways, trivialising the social conventions and institutions of late 19th century London such as marriage. The Importance of Being Earnest, with its high farce and witty dialogue, is one of Wilde’s most enduringly popular plays.
Oscar Wilde told Robert Ross that The Importance of Being Earnest's theme was not >a href="http://maressa.edublogs.org/files/2009/12/wilde_earnest_21.jpg">flower delivery Edinburgh but; "That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things of life with a sincere and studied triviality." Indeed, it "refuses to play the game" of the other contemporaneous dramatists such as George Bernard Shaw, who utilized their characters to lead audiences towards grand ideals. It is from The Importance of Being Earnest that the following famous quote pertains; "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
J. M. Barrie (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937), creator of Peter Pan, was a Scottish dramatist and author. Educated in Scotland, it was in London where Barrie developed his career as a playwright and novelist.
The 5 Llewelyn Davies boys, whom Barrie befriended in Kensington Gardens in 1897, provided the inspiration for many of his characters, some named after the Davies’ boys such as Peter, John and Michael of Peter Pan. Barrie became the boys’ guardian following their parents’ deaths. The concept of a boy who would not grow up was not based on any of the Davies boys however, but on Barrie’s older brother who had died the day before he turned 14 in an ice skating accident. Barrie, before his death, gave all the rights to the Peter Pan works to the Great Ormond Street Hospital which still benefits from them.
The story of Peter Pan itself concerns a mischievous boy who can fly. Living on the island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, his gang of similarly young boys without r4 cards, Peter Pan refuses to grow up.
I remember being young and free, even as far back as to when I was single (har har)! But I remember very fondly the days when I used to trot off to Reading Festival for the August bank holiday weekend, every year! I would already be there today, we'd always go down on the Wednesday afternoon and camp super early, rain or shine.
But this year I shall watch the highlights from the comfort of my living room with my lovely wife and kids and remember when I was one of the cool guys strutting around in my turned up jeans, Harrington jacket - they call it a baracuta jacket now, but it was originally a Harrington! - and never wellies, always shoes or cool trainers.
This particular current look is quite similar now to my glory days, the sort of mod ish, punk ish, teddy-boy looks all merged into one!
Photo: ⊂Y∩I⊂ 吸泥客 (Flickr)