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Carmina Burana: Fortune plango vulnera by The Cleveland Orchestra

Carmina Burana: Fortune plango vulnera by The Cleveland Orchestra

Names of Jews in Rome In the 1550's Compiled by Yehoshua ben Haim haYerushalmi (MKA Zachary Kessin) © 2002-2003 Zachary Kessin The court of records of the Jews in Rome from the 1550's have suvived these records provide a look into the Jewish community at the time. These records show the life of a community and show buisness partnerships, marages being aranged, and broken divorces and the like. Sources These names were drawn from the Archive known as the Nota Ebrei wich cover the period from 1536 to 1558 which is the generation before he creation of the Rome Getto and the first three years of the getto. Men's Names the most common form of a name in these documents was a given name with a patronymic joined by a ``di'' however both the Hebrew ``Ben'' and the Arabic ``Ibn'' also show up in these documents. Women's Names Most of the women's names in the list are from documents realated to marriage.

stixta.com – Rebrand your MacBook Tamora Pierce On The Reason Her Brilliant Books Haven’t Been Brought To The Screen (Yet) Tamora Pierce has written dozens of incredibly-beloved medieval fantasy books about young women doing amazing things. So why, in this era of wildly-successful YA and fantasy book adaptations, do Pierce’s books remain un-filmed? Pierce, who says she gets asked this all the time, had the following to say over on her LiveJournal about her characters’ lack of screen time: My film agent tells me that the largest barrier to my getting a film deal is one of the things my fans like best: the fact that, for 14 of my Tortall books, and 10 of my Circle books, there is a good chance the reader will encounter friends from the earlier books. Tragically, I don’t doubt that Pierce’s agent is correct; but that’s why I’ve always thought her books would work better as a TV show, anyways. To her credit, Pierce takes it all incredibly well. When I’m not writhing with envy, I actually don’t much mind. (via io9, image via Minuiko)

babbel by Ed M Wood As I settled into the barber’s chair and once again attempted to allay my long-held fear of a man with a sharp implement in his hand and questionable politics, I readied my mind. I had been coming to this barber ever since my follicles first demanded it, but had never satisfactorily fielded his cutting remarks, which, just like his politics, had not become blunted with time. I knew it would be particularly difficult on this occasion. I was visiting family in England having just moved from Spain to Germany. In his eyes this was like swapping a paradise life of perennial sunshine and booze for teutonic dreariness and the ignominious fate of being surrounded by the old enemy following their efficiently inevitable defeats of the England football team. So young man, what are you doing with yourself these days? Teaching is a virtuous occupation, I thought. A terrible entry point. The meaning of cool has changed since my day, if clunky is the new cool. He didn’t use the word clunky.

Netherland Samantha was sitting on a lawn chair in her parents’ garage, smoking a joint, when she decided to run away. She had just graduated from high school, where she had few friends, and felt invisible. She went to class stoned and wrote suicidal poems about the shame of being molested by a family friend: “why try when there is no hope / for my dirty soul there is no soap.” Samantha had got A’s in high school and had planned to escape to college, until she realized she couldn’t afford it. Throughout the summer of 2009, Samantha researched the logistics of being homeless in New York, reading all the articles she could find online, no matter how outdated. In a purple spiral-bound notebook, she created a guide for life on the streets. On September 5, 2009, she bought a Greyhound bus ticket using the name Samantha Green. Samantha’s parents came home six hours after she left and found a note on her bed: “I’m not coming back for a long time. . . . Sasha’s studies extended to sexual interactions.

Historical Software Collection : Free Software : Download & Streaming E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (also referred to simply as E.T.) is a 1982 adventure video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 video game console. It is based on the film of the same name, and was designed by Howard Scott Warshaw. The objective of the game is to guide the eponymous character through various screens to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone that will allow him to contact his home planet. Warshaw intended the game to be an innovative adaptation... favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Atari 2600, E.T., Howard Scott Warshaw, Atari Akalabeth: World of Doom /əˈkæləbɛθ/ is a role-playing video game that had a limited release in 1979 and was then published by California Pacific Computer Company for the Apple II in 1980. Richard Garriott designed the game as a hobbyist project, which is now recognized as one of the earliest known examples of a role-playing video game and as a predecessor of the Ultima series of games that started Garriott's career.

7 Surprisingly Famous “Fan-Fictions." You'll Want To Read Them All! We all love books and if you’re anything like us, when you finish a truly great book you want more! Your eyes crave another sentence to feed to your hungry imagination. You want another chapter so that you can stay with those characters for just a moment more. There are some authors, though, who’ve acted on this desire and created works of their own that extend the universe of another author. You’ll be surprised by who has written “fan-fiction!” 7. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire, takes the universe of L. 6. Written in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys was written as prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s, Jane Eyre. 5. In 1991, Alexandra Ripley extended the universe of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind (1936). 4. Do you recognize the names Rozencrantz and Gildenstern? 3. What happens when you take a titan of an epic poem like Beowulf and give a voice to its antagonist? 2. Robert Jordan had been working on the Wheel of Time series since he published The Eye of the World in 1990. 1. Ulysses v.

PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language index The TIOBE Index is a lagging indicator. It counts the number of web pages with the language name. has over 20 million pages on the web, [s] while has only 11 million. [s] This explains why Objective-C has a high TIOBE ranking. But who is reading those Objective-C web pages ? Hardly anyone, according to Google Trends data. is searched 30 times less than .

How To Write A Novel Using The Snowflake Method Writing a novel is easy. Writing a good novel is hard. That’s just life. If it were easy, we’d all be writing best-selling, prize-winning fiction. Frankly, there are a thousand different people out there who can tell you how to write a novel. In this article, I’d like to share with you what works for me. This page is the most popular one on my web site, and gets over a thousand page views per day, so you can guess that a lot of people find it useful. Good fiction doesn’t just happen, it is designed. For a number of years, I was a software architect designing large software projects. I claim that that’s how you design a novel — you start small, then build stuff up until it looks like a story. If you’re like most people, you spend a long time thinking about your novel before you ever start writing. But before you start writing, you need to get organized. Step 1) Take an hour and write a one-sentence summary of your novel. Some hints on what makes a good sentence: Shorter is better.

HTML5, CSS3, JS Demos, Creations and Experiments | CSSDeck Daily Deviant - light a fire Title: light a fireAuthor: trysloraCharacters/Pairings: Luna/Hermione, Hermione/Draco, Luna/Hermione/Draco (various background sightings as well)Rating: NC-17Kinks/Themes Chosen: dancing, fire play, melolagnia, outdoor sex, Hermione/LunaOther Warnings: Beltane orgy?Word Count: 1,616Summary/Description: The music thrums within her bones, tempts her, toys with her, dances across her skin until she has no choice but to dance as well.Author's Notes: Maybe I took the themes as a challenge this month, but it was FUN. The music thrums within her bones, tempts her to shed her clothes and get up and move so she can feel it dance upon her skin. Perhaps warm from other things, too, as figures move to the music, sliding, hopping, skipping and twirling around the flames. The spring air is cool but Hermione doesn’t feel it; all she feels is the heat. “Come dance with me.” Luna’s laugh is soft as she crouches down, her knees parted, giving a glimpse of the soft lips hidden by those curls. “What next?”

RSOE - Emergency and Disaster Information Service Devil's Bride Chapter 4: Wiggle Room, a Harry Potter + Eyeshield 21 Crossover fanfic Drabble set featuring the start, the end, the ups and the downs of Youichi Hiruma's attempts and success of courting (re: blackmailing) Primrose Dorea Potter into being his girlfriend. I do not own Eyeshield 21, if I did... the games would be more interesting! There's only so many times I can see the same formula of a match before it gets old. Also, there would be more character exploration. Talking to the blond pest was... not so bad, she guessed. He certainly had a... way about him. Sipping at the red coloured sweet drink (pomegranate green tea – served chilled), she watched him with a wary eye and half an ear as he went about explaining American Football with almost fanatical enthusiasm, using salt-shakers, napkins, condiments, his cigarettes and lighter along with their empty dishes to explain the rules and player positions. "And you're the Quarter-Back? The blond pest nodded with a fanged grin, "Bin-goh," he drawled in his slurred Japanese accent. It was a tiny thing. Then she ran.

How You Will Die So far we’ve seen when you will die and how other people tend to die. Now let’s put the two together to see how and when you will die, given your sex, race, and age. I returned to the Underlying Cause of Death database maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It provides data for the number of people who died in the United States between 1999 and 2014. The records are based on death certificates, which require an entry for a single cause of death. The CDC classifies the causes into 113 subcategories, which fit under the umbrella of 20 categories of disease and external causes. The simulation below covers the main categories, or chapters, as they’re referred to by the ICD. Enter your sex, race, and age. Try shifting age down to zero and watch the rate of change. The main point, which is what you’d expect, is that mortality rate is much lower in the earlier years of life than in the older years. You can also look at it the other way. How Other People Die Nerd Notes

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