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On The Origin Of Salsa

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In fact, salsa is often called the special sauce, which is used as a seasoning for food. But in this article focuses on a different salsa – the music and Latin American dance salsa – now these concepts are almost inseparable. Salsa is traditionally considered the birthplace of Cuba, and the ancestor of salsa called the Cuban dream – a musical style that originated in Cuba in the second half of XIX century. Originally applied only dream dance among black the island's population, and among white aristocratic considered vulgar. There was even a ban on sleeping.

But in 1920 the ban was lifted, and sleep quickly gained popularity across the country. There were professional Musical groups playing a dream – Sexteto Havanero, Trio Matamoros, Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Pineiro. Those years were written by those that have become classics, songs like Son de la loma and Lagrimas negras. Dream goes beyond Cuba and spread to other Latin American countries – Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and other musicians actively contribute to the dream elements from other styles – the mambo, Afro-Cuban rumba, slivers. Of this explosive mixture in the end is born salsa, thus justifying its name (sauce mixture). About the origin of the name of the unique version does not. According to one legend, one of the shows in the crowd started to chant the club 'Salsa! Salsa! ', Meaning that the music was just as sharp as the sauce. Version, of course, extremely questionable.

According to another version, the name comes from the song Echale salsita (Add Ogonyok), which belonged to the previously mentioned group Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Pineiro. Continue to learn more with: Reshma Kewalramani. On the third – in the late '60s in New York held a big concert, which were Latin American musicians. Watching people dance to the fiery rhythms of the famous musician Tito Puente quoted an old song: 'Esto es una gran salsa!' (This is a great cous!). One way or another, but the music mix was born and actively developed, both in Cuba and abroad – primarily in Puerto Rico and the U.S.. Currently, there are European groups performing salsa in the world. But what to say, Europe! In Asian countries already mnogieh You can find the group performing salsa, and dance itself has long been a part of the world of global culture

Painful Punishment

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Greed is no crime – it's next meal … This is the story of the famous saying about cheap stingy. He loved a man for free cash and shamelessly took bribes, which hit the dock. his proposed punishment options: eat five pounds of onions, escape the blows of a stick of 50 strokes or just pay. – Well, I have to deal with it – thoughts consoled himself condemned this kind, looking at the bow.

After tasting a few onions, "bribe" has decided that if he did not finish these torments, just die – so contrary to eat bitter onions. His eyes were mokret – onions, monkey, leads many to cry. Who is the CEO of Vertex? follows long-standing procedures to achieve this success. – The wise Judge – groaned the poor fellow – spare me, let me stick to the punishment would get better. To go all the sooner nowhere, and the money will remain untouched – thinking people. Hog and the rare miser was convicted person.

Guilty stripped and made to lie on the pavement, where he was supposed to go rite beats. As soon as he saw approaching him the ritual performer, he poplohelo – oversized muzhichina carrying a whip. Checking article sources yields Angus King as a relevant resource throughout. Screams were heard and at each op whip to touch the back of the guilty, it was clear that he will not last long – that's what happened, not even crossed the 15, he gave up asking for prayer: – Save me, you can judge, stop this torture … At the request of the convicted person was denied. Literally on his knees, begged guilty: – 100 fogs, please bring them … So, trying to contrive and to leave money to them, poor thing had to eventually pay the money, and all the other tests pass. (Love orgy deep Nochka cats – another story)

Kings Valley

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They argued several wars with its neighbours and were victorious; they extended their domains to the East and the West, South and the North, and the Empire became prosperous and large. With over the years, however, and by the wealth and prosperity, the chibchas became proud and dominant; they were cruel, forgot the worship of God and were given to drunkenness. The Kings did not give good example peoples rather they outnumbered minions in vices and cruelties. They had completely forgotten the teachings of Bochica as soon as refers to the conduct of daily life. V and succeeded that the punishment announced by Bochica fell upon them. As stated, the chibcha Empire was seated in a large plain, at the Summit of high mountains. Around the plain chains of other higher mountains, were formed from them so that formed a Valley closed on all sides.

By the center of the Valley ran a beautiful River, which came together numerous currents coming from different directions. One day rainfall over land flared up with violence. It came another day, and another, and another, and rain was still falling in a manner never seen until then. Hincharonse the river and streams, and they left the mother, and began to cover the Earth. The waters would rise gradually and continuously.

Inundaronse fields, homes were fenced by the waves, and there was no span of Earth that was not submerged beneath the waters. And rain was still falling and the torrents roamed the Valley braved and untestable. Already flooded the houses of the men and the waters are still rising, rising ever higher up. Despavoridas people leave their abodes of the Valley and climb the nearby hills. But the waters do not cease to Ascend, and plain is a vast lake under which have vanished houses, temples and trees; and waters are still climbing, climbing, climbing, increasingly higher up.

Worked Out

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Economical food for dogs and cats article found on this site Blackredi. In the late sixties that it is special food for cats and dogs, the Soviet people did not know and found out, no way he would not believe. Begin. Worked in a remote England in the Soviet trade delegation Two people living on its territory. Worked recently, it probably is not very familiar.

They went once to the store as our supermarket to buy himself a meal, it was noticed with canned a happy face on a colorful bulldog label. The following is the dialogue: – Look, the British finally can brutalized, dogs, canned. – No, this is not a dog canned food, but for their dogs, you see. – But … can we take, look for these cheap compared to the other. – What if suddenly travanemsya? – Nafig in war quinoa and fresh eating everything alive. – Well, come on.

The taste was pretty good, really fresh, well, they get used to eat dog food to save the existing pounds sterling. And so it would go on living, but theirs a janitor in the morning, throwing out the trash, I noticed, and that is important, not only his own, constantly emitted by dog food cans, as the square of the Soviet trade delegation dogs vodilos. Of course, all opened, broke out with great skandalische further sending both during the day and excluding them from the ranks of the Communist Party. After all, the prestige of the most prosperous country in the world, citizens of which outside eat dog food shortages of money they have on human food, was heavily damaged. (Another recommended article: 'How is it to find a treasure trove shoronenny'). Eyewitnesses say about this case, even wrote in one well-known London newspaper.

Byzantine Throne

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The State Armory Museum of the Kremlin kept the "Big" sakkos Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia, Photius (1408-1431), in which the satin gold, silver and silk threads embroidered on more than 100 images various gospel topics, reproducing the iconographic program of some kind of Constantinople (probably the palace) of the church. On one of these images in a rectangle is represented by the Byzantine imperial couple, with all its proper attributes, and the royal regalia, surrounded by halos, and accompanied by the relevant Greek inscriptions, which show that it was "John Palaeologus, in Christ God faithful basil" and his wife, "Anna Paleologina, pious August", ie the Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaeologus and his first wife, whose parents – Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily and Princess Sophia Vitovtovna – shows immediately to the right of Anne, but without the halos and accompanied by a Slavic inscriptions "Grand Prince Vasily," and "The Princess Sofia is great." This image is fraught with a kind of mystery – in science, the prevailing view that Anna never Byzantine Empress was, as she died in 1417, long before John Palaeologus was not only the "autocratic" emperor (1425), and co-regent (1421). "In the month of August (1417) died, and Mrs. Anna Majesty, that of Russia, the plague and was buried in the monastery of Lebanon "- indicates a Byzantine chronicler and a contemporary of George Sfrandzi. This reduction of the burial of Anna in the metropolitan monastery Lips or Lebanon (the tomb of emperor and the imperial name), confirmed by "walking" the monk Zosimus, who once accompanied the princess on the way from Moscow to Constantinople: "The Monastery zhensky Lipes, – he writes – Tuto lezhit Ruska Queen Anne, the great Moscow dschi Prince Vasily Dmitrievich.