Dozens of mummies discovered in a necropolis in Egypt
April 22, 2009 by
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“The mission found dozens of mummies in 53 graves dug into the rock,” said Zahi Hawass to AFP.
“Four of the mummies date to the 22nd dynasty (931 to 725 BC) and are considered the most beautiful mummy ever discovered,” he added. Others date from the Middle Empire (2061-1786 BC), said.
Mummies, covered with linen, are well preserved.
The necropolis was discovered near the pyramid Ilahun in Fayum, south of Cairo.
According to Abdel Rahman Ayedi the team leader, also discovered a funerary chapel which probably functioned until the Roman era (30 BC to 337).
The team also found 15 painted masks, as well as amulets and pottery, as Zahi Hawass.
Willie Colon hospitalized in NY
March 13, 2009 by
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NEW YORK (AP) – The Puerto Rican singer Willie Colon was hospitalized in New York to undergo an operation of the gall bladder and had to cancel a presentation on Thursday in Lima.
The trombonist also could not participate in the concert film of Salsa “with Marc Anthony at the Estadio Monumental in the Peruvian capital, which would bring tribute to the late Hector Lavoe.
Columbus adviser said the situation is not serious, but delicate.
“Because I have witnessed a sharp pain to the doctor, who has advised me not to ride it would risk my life and in fact I will shortly be subjected to surgical intervention,” Colon said through his representatives to the AP in an e-mail address.
“I want you to know that I have a commitment to you and that my representatives and entrepreneurs are working together to find the most appropriate time in the coming weeks so that, once recovered, can meet with you,” the creator of hits as Idilio “and” great man “.
“I am very grateful for your understanding and affection,” the singer finished, the weekend gave two concerts in Mexico.
For its part the company Freelance, producer of the recital, said that he regretted what happened and who sympathizes with him and his entire family. ”
“The maestro Willie Colon has been placed in emergency (on Wednesday) at a clinic in New York due to a calculation of biliary colic caused by stones in the gallbladder,” reported the company press release.
The company confirmed that the concert will go ahead and that people may refrain from going to receive back their money.
Italians dig “vampire” in former pit Venice
March 13, 2009 by
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Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of a “vampire” Female Venice, buried with a brick between his jaws to prevent the feeding of the victims of a plague that swept the city in the sixteenth century.
Borrini Matteo, an anthropologist at the University of Florence, said the discovery in the small island of Lazzaretto Nuovo, in the Venice lagoon, it supports the medieval belief that vampires were behind the spread of pests such as the Black Death.
“This is the first time that archeology has managed to reconstruct the ritual of exorcism of a vampire,” Borroni told Reuters by telephone.
“It helps to (…) to test how the myth of vampires,” he added.
The skeleton was unearthed in a mass grave of plague in Venice in 1576 Lazzaretto Nuovo, an island located about three miles northeast of Venice used as a sanatorium for those suffering from the plague.
The succession of plagues that ravaged Europe between 1300 and 1700 promoted the belief in vampires, mainly due to the decomposition of the bodies was not well understood, said Borrini.
The gravediggers who reopened the mass graves are sometimes inflated by the gas bodies, with blood and hair still growing out of their mouths and think they are still alive.
The shrouds used to cover the faces of the dead often rotted by bacteria in the mouth, revealing the teeth of corpses. Vampires are popularly known as “canteens shrouds.”
According to medieval religious and medical texts, “not dead” spreading pestilence to be able to suck the remaining life of the bodies until they gained the strength to return to the streets.
“To kill a vampire you must remove the shroud of his mouth, which was their food and milk for a child, and make something that could not eat there,” said Borrini.
“It is possible that other bodies have been found with bricks in their mouths, but this is the first time that the ritual has been recognized,” he added.
While the legends about blood drinkers go back thousands of years ago, the modern figure of the vampire was summarized in the 1897 novel “Dracula,” by Irish author Bram Stoker, based on folk tales from Eastern Europe of the eighteenth century.
Museum discovers a “secret” in Lincoln’s clock
March 13, 2009 by
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The museum said they had agreed to open the watch to find out whether the message was actually there after the great-great-grandson of a watchmaker, Doug Stiles, of Waukegan, Illionis, liaise with the institution.
The American Civil War began when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumpter in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861.
Forty-five years later, the watchmaker Dillon said the New York Times that he had been repairing the watch pocket Licoln when he heard that there had been the first shots of war.
The craftsman said he had unscrew the casing of the machine and used a sharp instrument to mark the historic day in the president’s watch. Told the newspaper that, as far as he knew, nobody had ever seen enrollment.
“Lincoln never knew the message he was carrying in his pocket,” said the director of the National History Museum, Brent Glass, in a statement. “It’s a personal side of the story about an ordinary watchmaker inspired to record something for history,” he added.
Lincoln was elected the sixteenth president of the United States in November 1860. In the preliminaries of the war, South Carolina and six other states declared their secession from the Union before the inauguration of Lincoln in March 1861.
Pamela Anderson fuss fashion in Paris
March 6, 2009 by
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PARIS (Reuters) – Actress Pamela Anderson is a gateway for contoneó on Friday against a cheerful audience in Paris, while the designer Vivienne Westwood asked fashion lovers struggling against the economic crisis making the most of the clothes.
Large blankets turned into pink tulle dress and joined the rebel Westwood distinctive stamp on the show, culminating in Anderson along the first platform with a tutu and then with a tight shirt.
In racks after the parade held in the elegant Place Vendome, close to the Ministry of Justice of France, a redhead Westwood shared a few details to pass the economic hard time while the women parade in Paris began to take color.
“Buy less, choose well, Mézclenlo everything. Use your shirts backwards, and have two ways to carry,” said British designer to the press.
Aside from the flamboyant tulle, Westwood included a range of jackets and dresses that could easily be used in the office, continuing the trend of showing usable parts at affordable prices as we saw in New York and Milan.
“I sell a lot, does not seem to affect me,” said Westwood on the setback suffered by large retail chains to major labels spend a common framework.
Westwood wanted to “kidnap” her fashion show to talk about climate change, describing it as a greater threat to the financial collapse.
“We’re in a terrible state. We need to save the human race,” he said with a sigh.
With its roots in punk rock, Westwood is known for inserting political messages in their shows.
But even the house Christian Dior, unknown as to its social, also suffered the impact of the crisis.
While the recession Dior challenged a few weeks ago with a show full of haute couture dresses to gala rioja Marie Antoinette, his collection Fall / Winter tried to have a balance between creativity and the more sober garments.
The Spanish designer John Galliano offered a glimpse of the Middle East for inspiration, with caps as Genghis Khan skin and coats with fur cuffs, dress canary yellow and red cherry, with many details in silver and jewels.
But like many of his colleagues, the Spaniard added a lot more practical clothing. Jackets with balloon sleeves and a similar polleras color best suited to the environment: gray.
“Slumdog,” and Ledger Cross triumph at the Oscars
February 23, 2009 by
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The prize for best actress went to Britain’s Kate Winslet for her role as an illiterate former Nazi guard who has an affair with a teenager in “The Reader,” and best actor for Sean Penn for his interpretation of gay leader murdered Harvey Milk Civil Rights in “Milk.”
It was the first victory for Kate Winslet after six nominations, and the second for Penn, who had already received the same recognition for his performance in “Mystic River” (2003).
“Slumdog Millionaire,” a raw and poignant story of a teenage orphan of the low districts of Mumbai emerging from poverty to succeed in a televised version of “Who wants to be millionaire?”, Competing in 10 sections.
“Just to say to Mumbai, all of you who helped us to make the film and all those who did not, thank you very much. You do look a little to this type,” Boyle said in reference to the statue.
The directors accepted the trophy for best film surrounded by the film’s protagonists, including some children who chose Boyle of the slums of Mumbai.
The multi box office hit, which was about to go directly to DVD, also won awards for best adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound mixing, original score, original song and editing.
Cruz, with her lunatic ex-wife role in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” was imposed as Best Supporting Actress the following year that his compatriot Javier Bardem achieved the same feat in the male under the same name.
“Have you ever lost someone here, because I think I will be the first, were the first words of Cruz, who looked obviously overwhelmed on receiving his award, announced the first of the night.
After Woody Allen to thank him “for entrusting this beautiful character, and the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and Fernando Trueba, Bigas Luna, who have been instrumental in her career, she dedicated the Oscar to his parents, his brother and sister and before leaving the stage he addressed his compatriots in Spanish:
“All those from Spain are now sharing this moment with me and also feel that this is theirs, they are dedicated. And to all the players in my country.”
Later Winslet joked in accepting his award: “OK, (I) that the faint, Penelope.”
And more seriously, with the tip of nerves also acknowledged that “lying if I said that I had never prepared a version of this speech. I think that was probably 8 years when I started looking in the mirror in the bathroom and this would be a bottle of shampoo “he said in reference to his trophy. “But now this is not a bottle of shampoo.”
Penn used his acceptance speech to condemn an anti-gay protest which took place near the Kodak Theater and criticized the recent ban on gay marriage in California.
“I think it is a good time for those who voted for the ban on gay marriage feel and reflect on his great shame and disgrace in the eyes of their grandchildren if they continue with this,” he said. “We need equal rights for all.”
Ledger, meanwhile, won the prize for best supporting actor for his dark version of the Joker in Batman film “The Dark Knight” and became the second player to win the statuette posthumously. The first was Peter Finch, who won the Oscar for best actor for “Network” (1976).
Ledger died 13 months ago by an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, the same day as the nominees were announced last year. The parents and sisters of the Australian actor accepted the honor on behalf of his daughter Matilda.
The epic of love “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” which topped the list of nominees with 13 nominations, won three statuettes, a visual effects, art direction and makeup. For this latest award-competed the U.S. mexico Mike Elizalde, for his work on the film by Guillermo del Toro “Hellboy II”.
In a major change to the traditional format, five winners of the past had the acting categories in which once won, including Marion Cotillard, Tilda Swinton, Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Kevin Kline, Sophia Loren, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley MacLaine and Robert De Niro.
For years, the winners of the previous year gave the statuette to the new winner of the opposite sex, and have maintained the tradition Cruz would have touched to receive your prize from the hands of Bardem. The actor was filming in Barcelona “Biutiful,” the new film by Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu.
After the Oscars had their ratings under the past year, producers made sure to fan the show with some surprises. Instead of hiring a comedian as host, as has been customary, decided by the Australian singer and actor Hugh Jackman, who has been master of ceremonies for the Tony Awards on Broadway.
Jackman, stole the show when it opened with a musical number in which artfully waved the nominees, which won a standing ovation. Later performed a medley mounted by the director of “Australia” with Baz Luhrmann and stars Beyonce Knowles of “High School Musical” Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron.
Among other winners, “WALL-E” won as best animated feature film, “Milk” also won the prize for best original screenplay and “The Dark Knight” the sound editing. The honor for best foreign language film went to the Japanese “Departures.”
The ceremony for the Academy Awards, in its 81st edition, also included the participation of Queen Latifah, Sarah Jessica Parker, Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Aniston, among other stars.
