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ANGELINA JORDAN.

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Angelina Jordan is a young Norwegian singer who won - when she was just eight years old - the 2014 season of Norway's Got Talent with jazz songs. Her perfomances are viral on YouTube.  In 2015, Angelina published the book Mellom to hjerter (Between two hearts) illustrated by her grandmother Mery Zamani. The book tells the story of Angelina's meeting with a poor motherless girl in Asia to whom Angelina gives her shoes. In return the girl promises to always pray for Angelina. It is allegedly based on a true story which Angelina cites as reason for always performi ng barefoot. She lives in Oslo with her family, and is a pupil at Oslo Waldorf School.

CHRISTMAS LEGEND.

One winter,  a bird broke its wing while she was flying   and was left behind. Soon frost and snow covered the forest and she was cold and hungry. So she asked the trees to help her and let her stay in their branches. The birch tree was proud of being beautiful and haughtily replied to the bird's pleas by saying that he could not possibly help her because he had to look after the birds of the forest first. The strong oak tree was reluctant because it was afraid that the bird would have to live there till spring time and would eat up some of its acorns. Even the willow tree that seemed to be gentle otherwise refused to help or even talk to the strangers.  At that point, the bird was in much distress and tried to fly some more but she was still injured. By seeing her struggling like this, the spruce tree offered her the warmest branch to stay. Inspired by the kindness of spruce tree, the pine tree also volunteered to protect the spruce tree and the bird from the North ...

HOLLYWOOD BOWL.

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↬ The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheater in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.  The Hollywood Bowl is known for its band shell, a distinctive set of concentric arches that graced the site from 1929 through 2003, before being replaced with a larger one beginning in the 2004 season. The shell is set against the backdrop of the Hollywood Hills and the famous Hollywood Sign to the northeast.  The "bowl" refers to the shape of the concave hillside the amphitheater is carved into. The bowl is owned by the County of Los Angeles and is the home of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the host of hundreds of musical events each year.  It is at 2301 North Highland Avenue, west of the (former) The French Village, north of Hollywood Boulevard and the Hollywood/Highland subway station and south of Route 101. 

AURORA BOREALIS.

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↬ The aurora borealis, also called ''The Northern Lights'', is a multi-colored brilliant light show in the Earth's atmosphere that is caused by the collision of gas particles, with charged electrons from the sun's atmosphere. It is most often viewed at high latitudes close to the magnetic north pole. Usually is only seen in places like Alaska, Canada, and Norway. In addition we have also the aurora australis (Southern Lights) but in the southern hemisphere. Green is the most common color to see, while red is the rarest. In general colors can also appear to flow, from various shapes and dance in the sky. This happens because the collisions between the atoms and the charged particles are constanly shifting along the magnetic currents of the Earth's atmosphere, and the reactions of these collisions follow the currents. The peak of aurora activity typically follows an eleven sunspot cycle (for example, in this case, 2013 - 2024). During times of sunspots the sun...

JAPANESE SCHOOL SYSTEM.

↬ The Japanese educational system was reformed after the second World War and it's a 6 - 3 - 3 - 4 system ( 6 years of elementary school and 3 years of junior high school that are compulsory, and them 3 years of high school and 4 years of University). Japanese has one of the world's best educated populations, 100% enrollment in compulsory grades and zero illiteracy. The school starts in April and ends in March of the following year. Except for the lower grades of elementary school, the average school day on weekdays is 6 hours, but students tend to be busy even after because of homework and activities. Vacations are 6 weeks in summer and about 2 weeks for winter and spring breaks.
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↬ The origin of the surname dates back to the ancient Romans, which distinguished people with three names: praenomen  ( our name ), nomen  - that recognizes the family that you belong to - and the cognomen, a kind of family' nickname. The contemporary last name was born just when they felt the need - for the population's growth - to identify people and gather those who were the same lineage's members. My surname should comes from other surnames connected to the symbolic meaning bestowed to the ''source of spirituality and feelings' purity'', but also people who used to live near to a fountain. There are three emblems for this surname:

CURIOSITIES & STUFF.

↬  A Swiss agricultural institute made a revelation of why Swiss cheese has holes in it. A long time ago, people used to put milk into buckets open to the air, in this way small particles of hay  get into the milk, which creates big holes when the liquid matures into cheese. Now scientists have found why these holes are getting smaller or disappearing during the last fifteen years: this happens because of industrial milking systems that make milk cleaner.