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Rasputin, The Sorcerer Of The Romanovs 2008-01-30 15:06:06 Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born in 1869 in Pokrovskoye (Russia). Many kings, tsars and emperors have had the advice of a wise man, or a wizard, but it could be said that Rasputin is the last known sorcerer that a tsar had.Rasputin grew up in the beautiful fields of Siberia without any kind of studies or education, and survived stealing cattle. He had two brothers that died drowned. He named his children with the same names as his brothers. When he was eighteen, he was punished and sent to Verkhoturye Monastery.After three months in this monastery, he had a vision of the Virgin Mary, and this started his life as a mystic.Short time after this, he joined a sect called the Khlysts, that used to make many parties and orgies. Rasputin had to abandon this sect for being a conspirator.He me
Unicorns, Symbols Of Purity 2008-01-28 14:56:43 In its origins, the Unicorn was a creature depicted as a white horse, with antelope hooves, billy-goat beard, and a horn in its forehead.But with the pass of time, fantasy artists have depicted the Unicorn as a horse with a horn in its forehead and lacking of the other elements. Some also depict the Unicorn winged.There are ancient Greek, Roman, and Macedonian stories that tell about a creature with a single horn.Some say that the origin of those stories may lay in the travels that they did into the India, and they are describing the Indian rhinoceros.Other origins of the Unicorn can be found in the viking mythology and tell about a sea creature that has a horn in its forehead and probably it's actually a cetacean called narval.But both the narval and the rhinoceros are very different from Read more:Unicorns
Rugs, A Tradition Of Centuries 2008-01-27 13:18:27 Rugs are present in many cultures and they are always an excellent decorative item. They also condense the most powerful symbols of those cultures.A good rug can change completely the style of a place, and also enhance or improve it. Their colors and textures can change the perception of everything around it.There are some on-line stores that sell area rugs. Among the bests of them is www.superiorrugs.com.In Superior Rugs there are traditional hand made rugs (of wool, silk and other fibers) as well as machine made rugs (of natural and synthetic fibers).They have rugs of many styles: Oriental, Persian, Berber, Native American, contemporary... And also using different manufacturing techniques, like woven, tufted, bordered, textured, and more.A rug can be a very important element of a room. Y Read more:Tradition
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Top Best 50 Blogger & Wordpress Customizations Tips ( Hacks ) 2008-01-24 13:07:51 Sometimes we like a template, but we would like to change some things. Or to add some things that are not present.This changes are called "hacks", and they make that our blog fulfills all our needs, and that it becomes unique.You don't need to be an expert to do this, just copy and paste code where they tell you.Applying hacks like those in this list, you can have all those visual effects and features that almost everybody wants in his/her blog: rotating images in header, random quotes, social bookmarking buttons, background musics, smilies, 3 columns templates... to name a few.25 Blogger
HacksRandom background Image, This article gives you the possibility of having a background image for your blog selected randomly between a set on each page reload.Random Header Banner, This easy but very Read more:Wordpress
The 60 Firefox Extensions That Will Make You Forget IE 2008-01-17 13:08:44 Firefox is a concept of browser much superior to Internet Explorer. IE was born just to browse pages, and although it has some extensions, they can't be compared to those that Firefox has.With Firefox extensions, you can communicate with other Internet users that are browsing the same page as you, post to your blog, to know if your favorite page has updated, and have a much more customized way to browse the Internet and work.Without a doubt, the best alternative for browsing.BloggingScribeFire, A powerful extension for bloggers that own several blogs. Allows to post directly to your blogs, saving time.Text Formatting Toolbar, A toolbar with all that you need for forums and even for HTML. For example for using bold or italic fonts, or use background colors or underline something of your mes Read more:Firefox
Paulo Coelho, A Free Spirit 2008-01-17 13:02:33 Paulo Coelho
was born in Rio de Janeiro in Agust 1947. His family was rather strict y disciplined. And he was quite rebel, so they interned him up to three times in a mental institution before he was 17 for trying to "moderate" his personality.But his free spirit prevented him from following the same path that others had decided for him. He started to study law, but he abandoned in the 60s, influenced by the hippie culture. He went to travel all over the world, through America, Europe, and Africa. He was traveling for two years, and when he returned, he started to write song lyrics.He also worked as journalist, scriptwriter, theater director, executive in the music company Polygram, and directed the Express Underground newspaper.In 1974 he was sent to jail, accused of subversive activities Read more:Paulo
Odilon Redon, A Painter Full Of Melancholy 2008-01-15 05:14:25 Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was born in Bordeaux (France). Actually, his name is Bertrand-Jean Redon. Odilon is a nickname derived from the name of his mother who was Odile.His father was an adventurer that had made a fortune. When Odilon was a child, he had many health problems so they send him to live in the house of his uncle, in the country.Redon was always a dreamer and introverted being. Since he was very young, he felt a great interest for art, which allowed him to express his inner life.The dream of his father was that Redon become an architect, but that never happened. Although sculpture was one of his first passions, he felt very early on a closeness to painting. One of the artist that did a greater influence over him was the watercolor painter Stanislas Gorin, that was his master.R Read more:Painter
Mount Everest And Its First Heroes: Hillary And Norgay 2008-01-14 13:22:23 Mount Everest
is located in the Asian Himalaya range. Himalaya means in Sanskrit "abode of the snow".The Himalayas are the highest range in the Earth, being the Everest the highest mountain in the planet. Mount Everest separates Nepal from Tibet, and is also called "the top of the world".Mount Everest is called Sagarmatha in Nepal (which means "Goddess of the sky"), and in China it's known as Chomolungma o Qomolangma Feng ("the mother of Universe").This mountain was called Everest in honor of Sir George Everest (a British surveyor-general of India) in the year 1865. They were the British who sought for the highest mountain in the Earth, and that took them to the Himalayas. When they found that mountain, the Everest, always covered by the clouds because of its altitude, they knew they had f Read more:First
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More Than 150,000 Free Fonts And Dingbats 2008-03-13 13:27:58 A good font can become a logo by itself alone. It can express fun, transgression, design...Another good resource are dingbats, funny and original images that you can be an important element in a banner, a button...This list contains more than 150,000 free fonts and dingbats. Its purpose is to compile together the best sites. Use it as your main bookmark for finding good fonts.RFonts
, Excellent resource. Fonts are ordered by categories and subcategories, and are of high quality and very original.Abstract Fonts, More than 11,300 free fonts. You can also download the catalog of fonts in PDF, and choose them carefully.Betterfonts, More than 10,000 text free fonts of many different styles.TypeNow, 305 fonts of movies, music, games... Surprise with the font of Alien, Mario Bross...Dafont, Over
Interesting Links 03/16/08 2008-03-16 15:58:39 ResourcesThe secrets of grunge design. These are backgrounds, textures... sometimes urban, sometimes not.Designs that are top fashion, a style followed by many designers.The secrets of grunge designCorporate images. Logotypes and corporate image define the public image of a business. Watch some of the most successful ones is a source of inspiration.Ateneu PopularVideoA stunning video. It starts in a theater, and suddenly the musician translates himself to... Have a look and you'll see.Giovanni SollimaPhotographyHerbert Wong is an experienced traveller and makes awesome photographies of his travels.Herbert Wong photographyArtKyle M. Stone is a great illustrator, with a very personal style. Drop by his official website and by his gallery. An artist full of imagination.Kyle M. Stone illustrat
Free Wallpaper For Xubuntu 2008-03-18 16:35:08 I've done this wallpaper. Its size is 1600x1200 pixels. It's free, and you can download it from here:Free Xubuntu WallpaperAs I know that some of you are Linux users, I wanted to tell you. The wallpaper is of Xubuntu as it uses its logo, but if you just like it, go and download it.And please don't drive me crazy :P telling me that I should use a penguin, why not Ubuntu and Xubuntu instead... so you know, all that... Why Xubuntu? Because I love that little mouse :)
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The Pink Panther , The Pink Star 2008-03-19 13:58:16 The Pink Panther
as a cartoon appeared by chance. There was a movie called "The Pink Panther", by Blake Edwards, released March 20 1963. They needed an animation for illustrating the credits at the beginning of the film. So Edwards called Friz Freleng (the creator of Bugs Bunny) for making a cartoon that may be fun, that doesn't speak, and be of pink color.The character that was created for that opening sequence was so eye-catching that appeared in "The Times" cover.The Pink Panther, with some aristocratic look and some pop-art style, had great possibilities. So the producers thought in doing a cartoon movie, independently from the movie.So they did an animation short film. Its star was the Pink Panther, and that same year it won an Oscar for the best animation short.With this short film s
Cave Of Crystals 2008-03-21 16:29:24 In the year 2000, and by chance, the Cave Of Crystals
was discovered. It is in the mines zone of Chihuahua (Mexico).In this area, there are the most valuable mines of silver and lead in the world. This cave is filled with crystals of selenite (gypsum), some of the biggest ones in the world. Many of them are longer than 11 meters (36 feet).This was possible due to the high temperatures reached inside the cave during thousands of years, approximately 58º Celsius (136.4º Fahrenheit). It is thought that these macro-crystals were formed under water, in a complex crystallization process, with uncommon conditions.Nowadays there's no water in the Cave Of Crystals. Currently, the temperature of the cave is kept constant by a ventilation system, but there's some areas in the cave that reach 45º C
10,000 B.C. A Mythical And Not Historical Movie 2008-03-21 16:27:46 10,000 B.C. was shown for first time on March 7th in all over the world. Its director is Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day", "Godzilla"...).The reviews on this movie are really terrible. But the truth is that I've watched this movie recently and I liked it, and I can recommend it.It has the quality of the big movies of the mythical genre (Conan The Barbarian, Scorpion King...).Maybe the problem of this movie is its name. It is based on a fictional story with fantasy elements: a witch, some prophecies, a mixture of civilizations that never lived together. Just like in Conan. But there's many people that took it seriously.There are critics that, trying to analyze the film from the historical point of view, come to be hilarious.In some reviews I've read complaints about the presence of dinos Read more:Mythical
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Professional Icons For Professionals 2008-03-24 12:59:52 Icons are a very important piece of an application. Both for web applications and web pages, or for software solutions, they are widely used to make them more user friendly and easy.Icon design is a very specialized branch of graphic design. Not all the graphic designers can make professional-looking icons, or they don't have the time for designing them.Also, software developers need icons for their applications, and they need professional icons.Although there are many sites that offer free icons, professionals need quality icons that they can add to their commercial applications without being forced to link or credit anyone. It also addsreliability to their product.Finding a provider that fulfills these requisites can be hard. But there's one that stands out for its advantages and quality Read more:Icons
Free Photoshop Brushes: Butterflies 2008-03-26 17:35:31 I've done these Photoshop
brushes. They are butterflies, glowing butterflies, and fantasy butterflies, with different effects and sizes. And I want to share them with you.Download them for free, but before please read and understand the terms of use.Terms of useThese brushes are free to use in commercial and non-commercial designs, as long as you follow these conditions:- The brushes can't be sold. You can sell the designs you make with the brushes, but not the brushes themselves.- They must be downloaded clicking the links from this article in www.emmaalvarez.com. If you like the brushes and want your visitors to download them, place a link to this post, so they come and download them from here. Don't directly link them. - You can't redistribute the brushes without my explicit consent. If
The Flower Of Vanity 2008-03-26 15:24:11 There was a conceited woman that loved to stare her face reflected in a pond. She used to go there when the full moon shone in the sky, because it made her reflection become more enigmatic and beautiful.But as time and years passed away, when the woman saw her face in the pond, she used to cry. The pass of time had marked her, and that gave her a big anguish.One day, when she was knelt in the pond, feeling depressed for her reflection, she saw a strange flower. Its petals were white as snow, white as the moon. When she saw it, she was amazed, and forgot her suffering.Since then, her main purpose was that pale flower, that bloomed into the night. Each night, she gave it all her care. She awaited the night with anxiousness, as if her life depended on it, to go to the pond were this strange f Read more:Vanity
The Loch Ness Monster, The Legend 2008-03-25 18:06:50 Loch Ness is in Scotland, near the city of Inverness. Loch Ness is a lake of fresh water, with warm waters in the surface and very cold in the depths. It has 56.4 square Km (21.8 square miles).There are some points where the depth reaches 200 meters , in addition to numerous underwater canals that flow to the sea.It's a lake surrounded by mountains, what makes it very shady. It is said that the Loch Ness Monster
, also known as Nessie, lives there.The characteristics of the lake make very hard to investigate about the existence of Nessie.Around the legend, it has been created a commerce that benefits the zone: hotels, merchandising, souvenirs, photomontages...But the belief in the existence of a huge creature that inhabits the Loch Ness is not modern. The first reference to the Loch Ness Mo Read more:Legend
How To Recover Your PC Files 2008-03-27 16:40:30 Sometimes you delete some important file by mistake, or worser, you crash your entire partition or format it to reinstall Windows, and then you remember that you forgot to backup some important file.The kind of programs that can save you in these situations are called data recovery software. Some people are forced to pay big amounts of money to bring their hard drives to specialists that use that software to recover lost data.Anyway, there are some affordable alternatives for this. One of them is this program that you can test: Handy Recovery.It is able to recover deleted files from hard drives, and also performs data and image recovery on memory cards like those used for digital cameras (CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards). It can restore files deleted from the
Most Useful 50 CSS Tips And Tools For Webmasters 2008-04-03 15:09:48 The style of a website is defined by the CSS. CSS describes text fonts, if images must have borders or shadows, etc. Simply changing the CSS styles, you can change the appearance of your website completely, without changing the contents (text, images...).For changing the CSS styles, there's no need to be an expert webmaster, as there are tips and tools that can ease this task.Here you are a list of the 50 most useful tips and tools for customizing your website easily with CSS.Message boxes, You may have seen those color boxes with bright borders and icons inside in some websites, to highlight a note, warning or info. This post shows how to do it.Photo Galley With CSS, Code for making a photo gallery in CSS that looks really impressive.Spiffy Corners, Free online tool that generates CSS sty Read more:Useful
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Antonio Gaudi, The Awesome Architect 2008-04-03 14:15:56 Antonio Gaudi was born in Reus (Spain) in 1852. He was a very sickly child, and suffered from rheumatism. His personalty was very shy and reserved.From the beginning he had always been a remarkable drawer. This allowed him to make the illustrations of a school magazine called Arlequin.Gaudi's father had to sell some land properties to be able to pay the studies of Antonio and his brother.Gaudi was not a good student. His interests were beyond the academic studies. He was imaginative, revolutionary. Elies Rogent, the director of the Architect
ure College, said once: "I don't know if we've given the degree to a genius or to a lunatic. Time will give the answer".His politic ideas were those of the Utopian Socialism.He worked as a draftsman for important architects. This was a positive step to Read more:Antonio
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Jeff Healey) 2008-04-03 14:14:43 "I look at you all, see the lovethere that's sleepingWhile my guitar gently weeps.I look at the floor and I see it needs sweepingStill my guitar gently weeps.I don't know why nobody told you,how to unfold your loveI don't know how someone controlled you.They bought and sold you.I look at the world, and I notice it's turningWhile my guitar gently weeps.From every mistake we must surely be learningAnd still my guitar gently weeps.I don't know how you were divertedYou were perverted too.I don't know how you were invertedNo one alerted you.I look at you all, see the lovethere that's sleepingWhile my guitar gently weeps.Look at you all...Still my guitar gently weeps."-lyrics of the original song-This song, "While my guitar gently weeps", is a version of a song by George Harrison, performed by t Read more:Guitar
Fairy Portraits Fantasy Artshow 2008-04-07 16:57:09 Daniela Colleo is the author of Fantasy Portraits
, whose purpose is to show artworks featuring fairies, gnomes, pixies and other inhabitants of the fairy tales.The show is open for different kinds of artists: photomanipulation art, digital art, and traditional. There's also a section for under 14 years old artists.The rules for the show and for submitting works are here: show is still open and is receiving the first artworks.Daniela asked me to participate, and this is my fairy for her beautiful art show:Don't forget to drop by the Fairy Portraits Fantasy Artshow as there are very good artworks there, and more will be added.
Cloverfield, A Different Catastrophe Film 2008-04-07 13:27:28 I've recently watched Cloverfield. Maybe you have heard that Cloverfield is another movie about catastrophes in New York and a remake between "The Blair With Project" and "Godzilla", and yes, part of it is true. But Cloverfield adds a new vision to the typical movie about catastrophes. In this movie there aren't heroes, only common people. And it's about how a small group of friends feel that all around them collapses, and the only main thing is to continue alive.The movie is a mix of several genres: science-fiction, terror, and action.The movie has an hyper-realistic format. All is recorded through a home camera. Some things in the tape have been recorded before the day of the catastrophe, and appear as fast flashbacks between the action.Rob will move to life in Japan, and his friends hav Read more:Catastrophe
Inspirational And Original Pages 2008-04-08 13:46:44 Sometimes, browsing through Internet, you find small jewels, original and unique. These pages are very immersive, and highly inspirational. Enjoy them.They sometimes take long to load, but it's worthClick the images to go to the pagesATG WebsitePlantageInfinite OzConclave ObscurumModern LivingSaizen Media StudiosCreaktifNAWLZFlash Nature AnimationRiver StyxPhatterismMcCain Potato ParadeVR Starry SkyAdobe CreativeWhale FootageMuseum Of Lost Wonder
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Iron Man, The Story Of Tony Stark 2008-04-10 13:08:36 Iron Man is a character of Marvel Comics. Like all the super-heroes, he is the alter ego of Anthony Stark
, a wealthy and successful businessman.His creators were Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The first appearance of Iron Man was in 1963, in the number 39 of the comic Tales Of Suspense.The character of Tony Stark was born in New York, and inherited, when he was 21 years old, Stark Industries, after his parents died.No one suspects that Tony Stark is Iron Man, because he pretends to be frivolous and arrogant.The super-hero suit of Iron Man is an armor that gives him a super-human strength. He can handle different weapons with it. It also has the ability of flying. The powers of the armor change in time, as well as his appearance, as the armor evolves in technology level.In the beginning the armor Read more:Iron Man
Template Solutions For Businesses And Professionals 2008-04-16 05:11:00 Every serious business needs a well-designed corporate website. The website's contents tell the clients what they will find there, what is it all about.But the design of a website does much more than just displaying information. Through its shapes and colors, the website design can give a first feel of quality and reliability to clients and visitors.That's why every business or individual that is serious about his enterprise must use a quality business web site design. Also, web designers may need some professional templates as a base to begin their creative work, or as a toolbox that can save them from situations of lack of time for designing.BuyTemplates.net has solutions for these 3 types of clients:For the business man, they have customization services. Your business can have its own a
When Flaws Become Virtues 2008-04-15 15:24:00 There was a disabled old woman that lived in a forest. She had two nephews. One was tall and strong, the other was very lame and rather clumsy.Each day, her nephews brought all that the old woman may need to her house. But the weaker nephew always felt ashamed for bringing much less things than his cousin. He always lost something in the way. He was tormented by that.He felt very unhappy, and started a competition with his cousin in which he never won. One day, in despair, he went to visit the old woman sooner, and said her: "Dear Aunt, I will never come back here. Mi cousin can look after you much better than me. I am just a hindrance... I always end losing everything and I'm not useful for caring about anyone".The old woman looked at him with sweetness. "You, my nephew, are who brings mo Read more:Become
The News Of The Day: Rearrange Of Alexa 2008-04-17 13:00:08 These days Alexa
has rearranged its index of sites. This has caused a real collapse in Internet, as many well-known sites have seen their Alexa rank worsened.For those who don't know what Alexa is: it's a toolbar that you can add to your browser: Alexa Rank indicates how much visited a website is. Websites with a lesser number are more visited than others with bigger numbers. For example, a website with 50,000 of Alexa has more visitors than one with 8,000,000 of Alexa.Having a good Alexa Rank is very important, specially for people that are freelancers (like in my case) or people that have their main income from their websites, businesses, etc. Having a good Alexa Rank makes advertisers and clients to trust more in you.Previous to this change, Alexa gave better positions to those sites th
Sirens And Their Songs 2008-04-18 08:48:33 The belief in sirens has its origin in the Ancient Greece and they've populated literature and legends of the Western world until our times.In their origin, the Sirens
were hybrid beings between women and birds. Later, they were depicted as half woman half fish.In the Greek mythology, the voice of these creatures, beautiful and enchanting, was called the Sirens' Song. This song of the Sirens was described as hypnotic and, in many occasions, it meant the ruin for sailors.This appears in many important literary works like the Odyssey of Homer.Odysseus asks his men to protect their ears with beeswax, to avoid the temptation of the Sirens' Song. Circe the sorceress told Odysseus to not listen the Sirens' Song, but Odysseus was curious and ordered his men to tie him to the mast of his ship. Whe
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