SAHARA

The Sahara At over 9,000,000 square kilometres, it is almost as large as the United States, and is larger than the 48 contiguous states.
The climate of the Sahara has undergone enormous variation between wet and dry over the last few hundred thousand years. During the last ice age, the Sahara was bigger than it is today, extending south beyond its current boundaries.
the collapsing ice sheets to the north.
The Sahara has one of the harshest climates in the world. It has many strong winds that blow from the north-east. Sometimes on the border zones of the north and south, the desert will receive about 25 cm of rain a year. The rainfall happens very rarely, but when it does it is usually torrential when it occurs after long dry periods, which can last for years. Daytime temperatures can be 58 °C.
but freezing temperatures aren't uncommon at night, reaching as low as −6 °C





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saint valentine

Saint Valentine refers to one of several martyred saints of ancient Rome. The feast of Saint Valentine was formerly celebrated on february 14 by the Roman Catholic Church until a revised calendar was issued in 1969, pursuant to the Second Vatican Council.His feast day is July 30 in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
His birth date and birthplace are unknown. Valentine's name does not occur in the earliest list of Roman martyrs, which was compiled by the Chronographer of 354.
The feast of St. Valentine was first decreed in 496 by Pope Gelasius I, who included Valentine among those (" whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose acts are known only to God.") As Gelasius implied, nothing is known about the lives of any of these martyrs.

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second life*

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 6,843,184 people from around the globe.
Residents are the users of Second Life, and their appearance is their avatar.
The basic avatar is human in appearance, but avatars may be of either sex, have a wide range of physical attributes, and may be clothed or otherwise customized to produce a wide variety of humanoid and other forms.





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mall rats

i think it's a fantastic film because it shows an informal life that you can't see every day in tv.

the director for being the most important has a little paper in the film.

the film is abaut the live of frikies in a grand store with many adventures.
it's a very funny film and enterteining and I recomend it to everybody.

opinion of director->

Kevin: I think Mallrats is very funny. I'm on your side. It's a movie that's very dear to my heart, but it went right in the shitter. When you do a movie like Clerks, then a movie like Mallrats that goes right in the shitcan, everyone says, "Ha ha, wiseass." So rather than subject yourself to that, you steal their thunder by saying it first.
There's this infamous moment where I was on stage giving an award away with Laura Dern, and I opened up by saying, "I want to take this time to apologize for Mallrats. I don't know what I was thinking." It was said in a very tongue-in-cheek fashion; it was a joke. But some people thought it was serious. Roger Ebert, in his review of Chasing Amy, said, "He started out with a great movie called Clerks, then followed up with a movie that was so bad that he apologized for it."

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spain

Different cultures have settled in the area of modern Spain, such as the Celts, Iberians, Romans, Visigoths, and Moors. For just over five centuries, during the Middle Ages, large areas were under the control of Islamic rulers, a fragment of which survived as late as 1492, when the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragón completed the 770 years long process of driving the Moors out.
The historical peoples of the peninsula were the Iberians and the Celts, the former inhabiting the southwest part of the peninsula and along the Mediterranean side through to the northeast, the latter inhabiting the north and northwest part of the peninsula. In the inner part of the peninsula, where both groups were in contact, a mixed, distinctive, culture was present, known as.

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interchange with carcasson

the past Thursdays 8 of March came to Spain our friends from carcasson to spend a great week with us.

the truth is that this interchange is a fantastic experience since few schools you have the oportinidad to make it.

the week transcurried of this form:

Friday:

we went to the school and later we went to see the exhibition of (ninot). later we went 2 hours to the oceanographic one and ate in the city of the arts and sciences, and in the evening we went by in (la cañada)

Monday:

we went to the albufera that we had planned a trip in boat on the albufera but it could not be since the time I do not let it do.

Tuesday:

we remained to all the day in the school doing factories of (la semana de)

Wednesday:

we went to see the (mascleta) and we ate by valence, in the evening we made a great celebration of goodbye.

Thursday:

Thursday to 15:00 began their trip towards carcasson.

fallas

Formerly, much time would also be spent at the Casal Faller preparing the ninots for puppets or dolls¡l. During the week leading up to 19 March, each group takes its ninot out for a grand parade, and then mounts it, each on its own elaborate filled cardboard and artistic monument in a street of the given neighborhood. This whole assembly is a falla.
The ninots and their falles are developed according to an agreed upon theme that was, and continues to be a satirical jab at anything or anyone unlucky enough to draw the attention of the critical eyes of the fallers (the celebrants themselves). In modern times, the whole two week long festival has spawned a huge local industry, to the point that an entire suburban area has been designated the City of Falles. Here, crews of artists and artisans, sculptors, painters, and many others all spend months producing elaborate constructions, richly absurd paper and wax, wood and styrofoam tableaux towering up to five stories, composed of fanciful figures in outrageous poses arranged in gravity-defying architecture, each produced at the direction of the many individual neighbourhood Casals faller who vie with each to attract the best artists.

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