Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
2016/06/14
2016/04/27
2016/04/14
Biography: Mikel Laboa, by Txaro Bolinaga
Mikel Laboa
was born on 15th June 1934 in Donostia, Gipuzkoa.
He was one of
the most important songwriters in Basque language of the XX. Century, he was
considered the patriarch of Basque music. And his music has influenced young
people.
In the 1950s
he studied medicine and psychiatry in Pamplona-Iruña. During his student years
he became interested in music and he always balances his artistic career with his
medical career.
Laboa would
identify himself as a “political artist” and he play music for the first time
in Gayarre theatre in Pamplona in 1958.
He worked as a doctor in the unit of
child neuropsychiatry of the Patronato San Miguel in Donostia.
During the
1960s he, with other Basque artist, founded the cultural group “Ez dok Amairu. They
dedicated their focus on the revival and social status of the Basque language.
Laboa´s music can be described as a
combination of tradition, poetry and experimentalism, with a strong personal
touch and unique voice.
One of his
most well-known song, “Txoriak txori”, has been sung by other famous singers.
Laboa was
creative force for 35 years, continuing well into his old age, until his
fragile health kept him away from the stage.
Mikel Laboa died on 1 December 2008 at
the hospital in Donostia-San Sebastian at the age of 74.
In 2009, the gipuzkoan town of Usurbil dedicated a square and one of the squares in the
Leioa campus also has his name.
My favourite song is Bi Kate
2016/04/07
Biography: Audrey Hepburn, by Mirari Guridi
Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4,
1929 in Brussels, Belgium. Her mother, Ella van Heemstra, was a Dutch baroness,
and her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born in Úzice, Bohemia. After
her parents divorced, Audrey went to London with her mother where she went to a
private girl’s school. While she was on holiday with her mother in Arnhem,
Netherlands, Hitler's army took over the city. Audrey suffered malnutrition
After the liberation, she went to a ballet school in
London and later began a modelling career. In 1953 make the role in the film of
“ Rome vacations” (1957)”. This film
turned out to be a smashing success, and she won an Oscar as Best Actress.
On 25 September 1954, she married in Bürgenstock (Switzerland)
while she was preparing to record together in the film “War and Peace (1955)”. Hepburn had two children, Sean, with Mel Ferrer, born on 17 July of
1960 and Luca, with Andrea Dotti,
born on 8 February of 1970.
In 1988, Audrey became a special ambassador to the
United Nations UNICEF fund helping children in Latin America and Africa, a
position she retained until 1993. After returning from Somalia in 1992 Audrey
Hepburn developed cancer of the colon. The disease proved to be untreatable in
January 1993 she died in Switzerland at the aged of 63.
2016/03/03
2016/03/02
2016/02/18
BIOGRAPHY: Amelia Mary Earth, by Pili Azkarateazkazua
Amelia was an American aviator who disappeared in the Pacific Ocean, famous for being the first woman to fly around the world.
She was born in Atchison, Kansas, on 24th July 1897.
She received her first flying lesson from Neta Suak, another pioneering pilot. In 1922 she got her first record, flying at 14,000 feet and in 1923 she obtained a pilot's license.
In 1935 she began to plan a trip around the world.
What happened to Amelia is an unsolved mystery. Although there are three theories of what happened:
The first theory says that In 1939 there was a plane crash on the island of Nikumaro in the Pacific Ocean with two survivors, a man and a woman that fit with the descriptions of Amelia and her co-driver.
The second theory says that Amelia crashed near her destination, in Howland island. And the third theory says that they didn’t find Howland island and they went to Marshall islands, at that time occupied by the Japanese. There they were accused of being American spies.
Other theory says that they didn’t find Howland island and returned to the US with false names.
The official US version is that the plane ran out of fuel and crashed in the Pacific Ocean.
Pili Azkarateazkazua
2016/01/13
List of Top 100 Famous People
A list of famous people, chosen mainly from the Nineteenth, Twentieth or Twenty First Century. This list includes famous actors, politicians, entrepreneurs, writers, artists and humanitarians.
(click HERE to go to the list)
2015/12/12
The United Kingdom
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The UK is made up of three different countries: Wales, England and Scotland and one province: Northern Ireland.
The capital city of Wales is Cardiff. The capital city of England is London. The capital city of Scotland is Edinburgh and the capital city of Northern Ireland is Belfast.
Other large cities in the UK are Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne, Leeds, Sheffield, Glasgow, Southampton, Leicester, Coventry, Bradford and Nottingham.
Around 65 million people live in the UK. Most people in the UK speak English. There are five native languages other than English. They are Welsh in Wales, Gaelic and Scots in Scotland and Northern Ireland, Irish in Northern Ireland, and Cornish in Cornwall
The UK is north-west off the coast of mainland Europe. Around the UK are the North Sea, the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean.
The UK also rules, usually indirectly, a number of smaller places (mostly islands) round the world, which are known as overseas territories. They are remnants of the British Empire.
The weather of the United Kingdom is changeable and unpredictable. Summers are moderately warm, winters are cool to cold. Rain falls throughout the year.
(Source: Wikipedia https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom)
2015/12/03
Christmas in Great Britain
In Great Britain, families often celebrate Christmas together, so they can watch each other open their presents!
Most families have a Christmas Tree (or maybe even two!) in their house for Christmas. The decorating of the tree is usually a family occasion, with everyone helping. Christmas Trees were first popularised the UK by Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria. Prince Albert was German, and thought that it would be good to use one of his ways of celebrating Christmas in to England.
Most villages, towns and cities are decorated with Christmas lights over Christmas. Often a famous person switches them on. The most famous Christmas lights in the UK are in Oxford Street in London. Every year they get bigger and better. Thousands of people go to watch the big 'switch on' around the beginning of November.
Children believe that Father Christmas or Santa Claus leaves presents in stockings or pillow-cases. These are normally hung up by the fire or by the children's beds on Christmas Eve. Children sometimes leave out pies and brandy for Father Christmas to eat and drink when he visits them. Now, some people say that a non-alcoholic drink should be left for Santa as he has to drive!
2015/03/21
Easter
Easter, which celebrates Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead, is Christianity’s most important holiday. It is a moveable feast because it doesn’t fall on a specific date every year. Christian churches in the West celebrate Easter on the first Sunday that follows the full moon after the equinox on March 21. Therefore, Easter is celebrated anywhere between March 22 and April 25 every year.
Orthodox Christians use the Julian calendar to calculate when Easter occurs and usually celebrate the holiday a week or two after the Western churches, which follow the Gregorian calendar.
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Decorating eggs is a popular Easter tradition. They symbolize new life and rebirth
Info and picture's source: http://www.history.com/
2015/03/16
March 17th: Saint Patrick's Day
Saint Patrick's Day is the feast day of Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland and a day of celebration for Irish people. It is
celebrated on March 17 all over Ireland and everywhere in the world where
Irish people or their descendants live. New York City has one of the biggest
parades. It is a very Irish festival and it involves a lot of feasting and
celebrations, which includes traditional Irish music, drinking stout beer and eating bacon and cabbage. Another tradition is one has to wear green clothing or they
will be pinched. Green is the color for Saint Patrick's day as it is the
national color of Ireland and people often wear green on that day or have some
type of shamrock on their clothing (From Wikipedia)
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