Saturday, 9 October 2010
CELEBRATING JOHN LENNON
ON HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY
Luxembourg...
Friday, 1 October 2010
Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. Luxembourg has a population of over half a million people in an area of approximately 2,586 square kilometer.
Luxembourg is a parliamentary representative democracy with a constitutional monarch; it is ruled by a Grand Duke. It is the world's only remaining sovereign Grand Duchy.
Luxembourg is a trilingual country; German, French and Luxembourgish are official languages
Luxembourg is a trilingual country; German, French and Luxembourgish are official languages
Hugo Queiros
Agatha Christie
Friday, 17 September 2010
Very prolific British author of mystery novels and short stories, creator of Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, and Miss Jane Marple. Christie wrote more than 70 detective novels under the surname of her first husband, Colonel Archibald Christie. She also published a series of romances and a children's book.
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, in the county of Devon, as the daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller, an American with a moderate private income, and Clarissa Miller. Her father died when she was a child. Christie was educated home, where her mother encouraged her to write from very early age. At sixteen she was sent to school in Paris where she studied singing and piano. Christie was an accomplished pianist but her stage fright and shyness prevented her from pursuing a career in music. In her books Christie seldom referred to music, although her detectives, Poirot and Miss Marple, show interest in opera and Poirot sings in THE A.B.C. MURDERS (1936) a World War I song. When Christie's mother took her to Cairo for a winter, she wrote there a novel. Encouraged by Eden Philpotts, neighbor and friend in Torquay, she devoted herself into writing and had short stories published.
In 1914 Christie married Archibald Christie, an officer in the Flying Royal Corps; their daughter, Rosalind, was born in 1919. During World War I she worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Torquayas a hospital dispenser, which gave her a knowledge of poisons. It was to be useful when she started writing mysteries. Christie's first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, who appeared in more than 40 books, the last of which was CURTAIN (1975). The Christies bought a house and named it 'Styles' after the first novel.
"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes", Agatha Christie
Universal Child by Annie Lennox - Idol Gives Back 2010
Saturday, 11 September 2010
"And when I look into your eyes, so innocent and pure
I see the shadow of the things that you've had to endure
I see the tracks of every tear that ran down your face.
I see the hurt, I see the pain, I see the human race."
Annie Lennox
I wish I had better words to describe it. I wish I had words at all...but I don't. Sometimes I think I wish too much but wishes have no limits and I'm thankful for that.
I hope you enjoy it! :)
Daniela
A challenge
Small ugly things I brought home with me and have in my bath. Good to feed with rude students.
Sunset at the beach
My boyfriend and IWHERE WAS I?
Madonna - Devil Wouldn't Recognize You (Live Sticky & Sweet Tour)
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Hello!!
I find this song amazing, so, I decided to share it with you!
I hope you like it to!
Keep having fun and "DON'T LET THE BLOG DIE"!,(You probably already heard this, at least once! ;) ), it's what I'm doing!
Raquel Moreira