Welcome to May 5th…Mexican (not latino) style: Hillary Clinton’s Cinco de Mayo Visit to Los Angeles Attracts Latino Protesters | L.A. Weekly

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Where demoncracy goes all the way to MEXICO CITY, SND THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAS: WHAT A SHAME!  STOP THEM AT THE BORDER!

Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite, Op. 57: III. The three wonders

 

Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite, Op. 57: III. The three wonders

Various Artists – Topic

Published on Apr 11, 2014

Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite, Op. 57: III. The three wonders

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

℗ 1997 Capriccio

Released on: 1997-01-01

Conductor: Michail Jurowski
Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composer: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov

 

Gounod Charles, “Petite Symphonie”, Pour instruments à vent, Conductor : Ohan Duryan: make music part of your life series

Gounod Charles, “Petite Symphonie”, Pour instruments à vent, Conductor : Ohan Duryan

Alice Chamirian

Gounod Charles “Petite Symphonie”
Pour instruments à vent
Conductor : Ohan Duryan

Part 1.- Adagio allegretto
Part 2.- Andante cantabile
Part 3.- Scherzo
Part 4.- Finale

The World’s Longest Escalators

The escalator has come a long way since being patented in 1859. Hong Kong’s Central-Mid-Levels escalator system is one of the world’s most impressive, stretching about 2,600 feet (790 m). Colombia boasts a 1,260-foot (384-m) set of escalators that transformed a 35-minute foot climb into a six-minute ride. The longest single-span escalator in the Western Hemisphere can be found in the Wheaton Metro station in Washington, DC. How long does it take riders to ascend this 230-foot (70-m) escalator? More… Discuss

today’s holiday/Feast of Saint: Feast of St. Frances Cabrini

Feast of St. Frances Cabrini

The first American citizen to be proclaimed a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, Francesca Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) was born in Italy. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart in 1880 and went on to establish orphanages, schools, and hospitals in many American cities, as well as in Europe and South America. She was canonized on July 7, 1946. Her feast day is commemorated in many places, but particularly at Mother Cabrini High School in New York City, in whose chapel she is buried, and at every establishment of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. More… Discuss
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More Saints of the Day

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini St. Abbo St. Arcadius and Companions Bl. Vincent Bossilkov St. Brice St. Caillin St. Chillien St. Dalmatius of Rodez

St. Devinicus St. Didacus St. Gredifael St. Homobonus St. Maxellendis St. Mitrius St. Quintian

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Health and Civilization: Happiness and Aging (

Happiness and Aging

Polls of populations around the globe show that life satisfaction often waxes and wanes with age and differs depending on where people live. In Western nations, happiness bottoms out between the ages of 45 and 54 before rising again into old age, while in the former Soviet Union and Latin America, it declines throughout life. The reasons for these trends are complex and multifaceted, but one factor that seems to have a strong influence is a region’s economic prosperity, suggesting that money does in fact buy some measure of happiness. More… Discuss

Ancient Easter Islanders Mingled with South Americans

Easter Island is perhaps best known for its mysterious, monolithic stone statues that have been the subject of countless investigations, but the ancient Polynesian people who populated the island are also a focus of study. Easter Island is separated from South America by 2,300 miles (3,700 km) of ocean, ostensibly leaving its population fairly isolated prior to the arrival of Westerners in 1722. However, genetic analysis shows that the islanders had intimate contact with native South Americans sometime between 1300 and 1500, suggesting that a migration route between Polynesia and the Americas had been established by this period. More… Discuss

Machu Picchu

Perhaps the most spectacular ruin in the Americas, Machu Picchu is an ancient Incan fortress city in Peru. Once the retreat of an Incan ruler, the terraced city is perched upon a narrow saddle between two sharp peaks high in the Andes Mountains and sprawls across 5 square miles (13 sq km). Rediscovered in 1911, it is one of the largest and most intact pre-Columbian sites yet found and contains rare examples of religious monuments. What does “Machu Picchu” mean in the Quechua language? More… Discuss

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this day in the yesteryear: Ferdinand Magellan Sets Sail to Circumnavigate Globe (1519)

Ferdinand Magellan Sets Sail to Circumnavigate Globe (1519)

In 1518, Spanish king Charles I approved navigator Ferdinand Magellan’s plan to sail to the Spice Islands by a western route. On the way, Magellan crossed the “Sea of the South” and renamed it the Pacific Ocean because of the calm crossing. His ambitious voyage proved definitively the roundness of the Earth and revealed the Americas as a new world, separate from Asia. Though Magellan is often credited with being the first to circumnavigate the globe, he never actually returned to Europe. Why? More… Discuss

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