O Curso de Geologia de 85/90 da Universidade de Coimbra escolheu o nome de Geopedrados quando participou na Queima das Fitas.
Ficou a designação, ficaram muitas pessoas com e sobre a capa intemporal deste nome, agora com oportunidade de partilhar as suas ideias, informações e materiais sobre Geologia, Paleontologia, Mineralogia, Vulcanologia/Sismologia, Ambiente, Energia, Biologia, Astronomia, Ensino, Fotografia, Humor, Música, Cultura, Coimbra e AAC, para fins de ensino e educação.
Kirsty Anna MacColl (Croydon, 10 October 1959 – Cozumel, Quintana Roo, 18 December 2000) was an English
singer and songwriter. She wrote and recorded several pop hits between
the early 1980s and the 1990s. In addition, she sang on hit recordings
produced by her then-husband Steve Lillywhite, notably on tracks by The Smiths and The Pogues.
At the age of 41, MacColl died after being hit by a boat in Mexico.
Early career
Kirsty MacColl was the daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl and dancer Jean Newlove. She and her brother, Hamish MacColl, grew up with their mother in Croydon,
where Kirsty attended Park Hill Primary School, Monks Hill High School
and John Newnham High School, making appearances in school plays. At
the time of her birth, her father had been in a relationship with folk
singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Peggy Seeger since 1956 (a relationship that would continue until his death in 1989), and already had a son with her.
She came to notice when Chiswick Records released an EP by local punk rock band the Drug Addix with MacColl on backing vocals under the pseudonym Mandy Doubt (1978). Stiff Records executives were not impressed with the band, but liked her and subsequently signed her to a solo deal.
Debut single
Her debut solo single "They Don't Know",
released in 1979, peaked at number two on the Music Week airplay chart.
However, a distributors' strike prevented copies of the single getting
into record stores, and the single consequently failed to appear on the UK Singles Chart.
MacColl recorded a follow-up single, "You Caught Me Out", but felt she
lacked Stiff's full backing, and left the label shortly before the song
was to be released. The single was pulled, and only a few "white
label" promo copies of the single are known to exist.
MacColl moved to Polydor Records in 1981. She had a UK number 14 hit with "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis", taken from her critically acclaimed debut album Desperate Character. In 1983, Polydor dropped her just as she had completed recording the songs for a planned second album (to be called Real) which used more synthesizers and had new wave-styled tracks. She returned to Stiff, where pop singles such as "Terry" and "He's On the Beach" were unsuccessful but a cover of Billy Bragg's "A New England"
in 1985 got to number 7 in the UK charts. This included two extra
verses specially written for her by Bragg. Also around this time,
MacColl wrote and performed the theme song "London Girls" for Channel 4's short-lived sitcom Dream Stuffing (1984).
In the United States, MacColl was probably most recognisable as the writer of "They Don't Know". Tracey Ullman's
version, reached #2 in the UK in 1983 and #8 in the United States in
early 1984; Ullman's video for the song featured a cameo by Paul McCartney
near the end. MacColl also sang back-up on the track, providing the
"Baay-byy" as the range was too high for Ullman to reach. It was also
played over the closing credits of Ullman's HBO show Tracey Takes On...
in 1996. Ullman also recorded three more of MacColl's songs, "You
Broke My Heart In 17 Places" and "You Caught Me Out", as the title
tracks of her first and second albums respectively, and "Terry" which
was released as a single in 1985.
MacColl re-emerged in the British charts in December 1987, reaching Number 2 with The Pogues on "Fairytale of New York", a duet with Shane MacGowan.
This led to her accompanying The Pogues on their British and European
tour in 1988, an experience which she said helped her temporarily
overcome her stage fright. In March 1989, MacColl sang backing vocals on the Happy Mondays' Hallelujah EP.
After the contract issue was resolved, MacColl returned to recording as
a solo artist and received critical acclaim upon the release of Kite (LP) in 1989. The album was widely praised by critics, and featured collaborations with David Gilmour and Johnny Marr. MacColl's lyrics addressed life in Margaret Thatcher's Britain on "Free World", ridiculed the vapidity of fame in "Fifteen Minutes", and addressed the vagaries of love in "Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim!" Although Kite contained many original compositions, MacColl's biggest chart success from the album was the cover of The Kinks' song "Days", which gave her a UK Top 20 hit in July 1989. A bonus track on the CD version of Kite was a cover of the Smiths song "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby".
During this time, MacColl was also featured on the British sketch comedy French and Saunders, appearing as herself, singing songs including "15 Minutes" and "Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sunny Jim!" (from Kite),
"Still Life" (the B-side of the "Days" single), "Girls On Bikes" (a
reworking of B-side "Am I Right?") and, with comedy duo Raw Sex, the Frank and Nancy Sinatra hit "Somethin' Stupid". She continued to write and record, releasing the album Electric Landlady (coined by Johnny Marr, a play on the Jimi Hendrix album title Electric Ladyland), including her most successful chart hit in North America, "Walking Down Madison" (co-written with Marr and a Top 30 hit in the UK), in 1991. Despite the song's U.S. chart success, Landlady was not a hit for Virgin Records, and in 1992, when Virgin was sold to EMI, MacColl was dropped from the label.
Later work
She released Titanic Days, informed by her failing marriage with Lillywhite, in 1993, but ZTT Records
had agreed only to release the album as a "one-off" and declined to
sign her to a contract. In 1995, she released two new singles on Virgin,
"Caroline" and a cover of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" (a duet with Evan Dando), together with the "best of" compilation Galore.
Galore became MacColl's only album to reach the top 10 in the UK Albums Chart,
but neither of the new singles, nor a re-released "Days", made the Top
40. MacColl did not record again for several years; her frustration
with the music business was exacerbated by a lengthy case of writer's
block. MacColl herself admitted that she was ready to give up her music
career and become an English teacher in South America.
In 1998, the album What Do Pretty Girls Do? was released, containing BBC Radio 1 live sessions (featuring Billy Bragg on two songs) that were broadcast between 1989 and 1995.
After several trips to Cuba and Brazil, MacColl recorded the world music-inspired (particularly Cuban and other Latin American forms) Tropical Brainstorm,
which was released in 2000 to critical acclaim. It included the song
"In These Shoes?", which garnered airplay in the U.S., was covered by Bette Midler and featured in the HBO show Sex and the City. After MacColl's death it was adopted by Catherine Tate as the theme tune for her BBCTV show and featured on the soundtrack to British film Kinky Boots.
TV work
MacColl featured regularly in the third series of the French and Saunders Show,
a comedy show on the BBC. Unlike other guests on the show, she was not
part of any of the sketches but sang her songs whilst performing as in
a music video. She also made regular appearances on Jools Holland's TV shows, also on the BBC, singing during the 1995 Hootenanny a rendition of "Miss Otis Regrets" with the Pipes and Drums of the Irish Guards.
MacColl appeared in the 1991 Channel 4 historic musical fantasy The Ghosts of Oxford Street as Kitty Fisher, performing "Fairytale of New York" opposite Shane MacGowan as the Duke of York.
Death
In 2000, following her participation in the presentation of a radio programme for the British Broadcasting Corporation in Cuba, MacColl took a holiday in Cozumel, Mexico,
with her sons and her partner, musician James Knight. On 18 December
2000 she and her sons went diving at the Chankanaab reef, part of the
National Marine Park of Cozumel, in a designated diving area that
watercraft were restricted from entering. With the group was a local
veteran divemaster, Iván Díaz. As the group were surfacing from a dive a
powerboat moving at high speed entered the restricted area. MacColl
saw the boat coming before her sons did; Louis (then 13) was not in its
path, but Jamie (then 15) was, she was able to push him out of the way
(he sustained minor head and rib injuries) but in doing so she was
struck by the boat and died instantly. MacColl's body was repatriated
back across the Atlantic Ocean to the United Kingdom, and was cremated after a humanist funeral at Mortlake Crematorium in South-West London.
The powerboat involved in the collision was controlled by Guillermo González Nova, multimillionaire president of the Comercial Mexicana
supermarket chain, who was on board with members of his family. The
boat was owned by Carlos González Nova, brother and founder of the
chain. One employee of Guillermo González Nova, boathand José Cen Yam,
stated that he was in control of the boat at the time of the incident.
Eyewitnesses said that Cen Yam was not at the controls and that the boat
was travelling much faster than the speed of one knot that González Nova said.
Cen Yam was found guilty of culpable homicide and was sentenced to 2 years 10 months in prison. He was allowed under Mexican law to pay a punitive fine of 1,034 pesos
(about €63, £61 or US$90) in lieu of the prison sentence. He was also
ordered to pay approximately US$2,150 in restitution to MacColl's
family, an amount based on his wages. People who said they spoke to Cen
Yam after the killing said he received money for taking the blame.
Joseph Barbera nasceu no Lower East Side, em Manhattan, Nova Iorque, filho dos imigrantes Vincenzo Barbera e Francesca Calvacca, nascidos em Sciacca, Agrigento, Sicília, Itália, crescendo a falar italiano.
Barbera exibiu um talento para o desenho, logo no seu primeiro ano. Estudou na Erasmus Hall High School, em Brooklyn, que terminou em 1928. Ainda na
escola, Barbera ganhou vários títulos de boxe.
Firme defensor da resistência não-violenta (tendo passado cinco anos
preso, por defender as suas convicções), tornou-se um ícone da Revolução de Veludo no seu país, em 1989. Em 29 de dezembro de 1989, na qualidade de chefe do Fórum Cívico, foi eleito presidente da Checoslováquia, pelo voto unânime da Assembleia Federal.
Manteve-se no cargo após as eleições livres de 1990. Apesar das
crescentes tensões, Havel apoiou a preservação da federação entre checos
e eslovacos durante a dissolução da Checoslováquia.
Em 3 de julho de 1992, o parlamento federal não logrou elegê-lo - o
único candidato a presidente - devido à falta de apoio dos deputados
eslovacos. Após a declaração de independência da Eslováquia, Havel
renunciou à presidência, em 20 de julho. Quando da criação da República Checa, candidatou-se ao cargo de presidente e venceu as eleições em 26 de janeiro de 1993.
Após combater um cancro do pulmão,
Havel foi reeleito presidente em 1998. O seu segundo mandato presidencial
terminou a 2 de fevereiro de 2003, sucedendo-lhe o seu grande
adversário, Václav Klaus.
Encontra-se sepultado no Cemitério Vinohradsky, em Praga, na República Checa.
Nació en 1947 en Madrid, aunque a los pocos días de nacido fue llevado al País Vasco,
región de origen de sus padres y tierra con la que desde muy pequeño se
sintió profundamente identificado, dadas las raíces familiares. No
obstante, siendo pequeño fue trasladado a Madrid para realizar los
estudios de primaria. De origen humilde, ello no fue un impedimento para
que siempre se procurase que en su casa hubiese libros, por lo que
desde niño fue un ávido lector. Su padre incluso fue combatiente en las
filas republicanas durante la guerra civil española. Se convirtió en cantautor en los convulsos años 70, colaborando con diversas organizaciones antifranquistas (UPA, FRAP), lo que le obligó a exiliarse en París - donde conoció casualmente a Jacques Brel,
quien lo influyó después en su quehacer artístico - e incluso llegó a
hacerse a la mar como parte de la tripulación de un barco pesquero, con
el que dio la vuelta a medio mundo. Se inició en la música en la década
de los sesenta formando parte de agrupaciones que no trascendieron como
Los Dingos o Los Camperos, las cuales interpretaban lo que hoy se conoce
como temas clásicos del Rock and roll tales como «Popotitos».
El apogeo de su carrera musical abarcó el periodo comprendido
entre 1971 y 1978, durante el cual publicó temas como «Puedo inventar»,
«La casa se queda sola», «Tiempo, tiempo», «Quién sabe si volverá otra
vez a amanecer», «Una dos y tres», «Sonetos 37-73», «Porque me duele la
voz», «Como tú», «Entre tu piel», «Samaritana», «A donde el agua», «La
bohemia», «Estrella de la mar», entre otras. A partir de 1979, fue
adquiriendo un estilo cada vez más personal, lo cual fue alejándolo
paulatinamente de los circuitos comerciales. Se considera que otro
factor importante que afectó su carrera pudo haber sido su breve
matrimonio con la actriz y modelo Amparo Muñoz —considerada la mujer más bella de España en aquella época, elegida Miss Universo en 1974 - con quien coprotagonizó la película La otra alcoba
en 1976, casándose ese mismo año en un santuario navarro. Esto fue
considerado como un gesto un tanto frívolo por parte de Patxi
Andión entre los integrantes de aquellos círculos intelectuales de la
izquierda progresista en los cuales se le admiraba y respetaba como
cantautor y como hombre de convicción izquierdista. Como cantautor se
mantuvo en una línea que lo hizo inconfundible: componer canciones con
temática social y romántica principalmente, pero siempre desde una
perspectiva íntimamente personal, profunda y poética, en amalgama con
aquella voz ronca y deslavazada con la que cantó.
En su periodo madrileño y en una nueva faceta, aprovechó su
condición de sociólogo y periodista y se hizo profesor. Impartió clases
de comunicación audiovisual, producción, realización y operaciones
artísticas y producción audiovisual práctica en la Escuela Universitaria
Politécnica de Cuenca de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. También fue director de la Escuela Española de Caza, de la Federación Española de Caza.
Murió el 18 de diciembre de 2019 a causa de un accidente de tráfico, fue enterrado en el Cementerio de la Almudena de Madrid.
Após o triunfo contra a Monarquia Espanhola, Bolívar participou da fundação da primeira união de nações independentes na América Latina, nomeada Grã-Colômbia, na qual foi Presidente, de 1819 a 1830.
Simón Bolívar é considerado por alguns países da América Latina como
um herói, visionário, revolucionário e libertador. Durante o seu curto
tempo de vida, levou a Bolívia, a Colômbia, Equador, Panamá, Peru e Venezuela
à independência e ajudou a lançar bases ideológicas democráticas na
maioria da América Hispânica. Por essa razão, é referido por alguns
historiadores como o "George Washington da América do Sul".
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Em 17 de dezembro de 1830, com a idade de quarenta e sete anos, Simón Bolívar morreu, após uma batalha dolorosa contra a tuberculose, na Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, em Santa Marta, Grande Colômbia (atual Colômbia). No seu leito de morte, Bolívar pediu ao seu ajudante-de-campo, o general Daniel F. O'Leary,
para queimar o extenso arquivo remanescente de seus escritos, cartas e
discursos. O'Leary desobedeceu à ordem e os seus escritos sobreviveram,
proporcionando aos historiadores uma vasta riqueza de informações sobre o
pensamento e a filosofia liberais de Bolívar, bem como detalhes da sua vida pessoal, como o seu caso amoroso, de longa data, com Manuela Sáenz.
Nascido em Chicago, Butterfild começou a tocar ainda adolescente, logo formando uma banda com Jerome Arnold e Sam Lay. A banda The Paul Butterfield Blues Band assinou contrato com a Elektra Records depois de entrar o guitarrista Michael Bloomfield. O seu álbum homónimo foi lançado em 1965. Depois de várias mudanças na formação e no estilo musical da banda, Paul iniciou uma carreira a solo nos anos 70.
Bryan James "Chas" Chandler (Heaton, 18 December 1938 – Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 July 1996) was an English musician, record producer and manager, best known as the original bassist in The Animals. He also managed the band Slade and Jimi Hendrix, about whom he was regularly interviewed until his death in 1996.
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Chandler died of an aortic aneurysm at Newcastle General Hospital on 17 July 1996,
days after performing a solo show. Chandler's former home at 35 Second
Avenue, Heaton, hosts a blue plaque placed on the wall by Newcastle City Council,
which reads: "Chas Chandler 1938–1996. Founder member of the 'Animals'.
Manager of Jimi Hendrix & Slade. Co-founder of Newcastle Arena.
Lived in this house 1938–1964."
Chandler had one son, Steffan, from his first marriage. He later
married Madeleine Stringer, with whom he had a son, Alex, and two
daughters, Elizabeth and Katherine.
Brønsted realizou também expressivas contribuições na termodinâmica, nomeadamente na termoquímica.
Porém, formular a teoria ácido-base, que também leva o seu
nome, é o que efetivamente o imortalizou na comunidade científica.
Marguerite Yourcenar foi educada em casa e de maneira excecional: lia Jean Racine com oito anos de idade e o seu pai ensinou-lhe latim aos oito anos e grego aos doze.
Em 1929, publicou o seu primeiro romance, Alexis ou o Tratado do Vão Combate (Alexis ou le traité du vain combat) inspirado em André Gide,
escrito num estilo preciso, frio e clássico. Trata-se de de uma longa
carta em que um homem, músico de renome, confessa à sua esposa a sua homossexualidade
e a sua decisão de a deixar. Após a morte de seu pai, em 1929, (depois de
ter lido o primeiro romance de sua filha), Marguerite Yourcenar levou
uma vida boémia entre Paris, Lausana, Atenas, as ilhas gregas, Constantinopla e Bruxelas. Nesta época, Marguerite Yourcenar apaixonou-se pelo escritor e editor André Fraigneau.
Na década de 30 escreveu Fogos (1936), composto por
textos com inspirações mitológicas ou religiosas, em que a autora trata
de diversas formas o tema do desespero amoroso e dos sofrimentos
sentimentais, tema retomado mais tarde em Le Coup de grâce (1939), romance curto sobre um triângulo amoroso durante a guerra russo-polaca de 1920. Em 1939, ela publicou Contos Orientais,
com histórias que fazem referência às suas viagens. Naquele mesmo ano,
dez anos depois da morte do seu pai e com a Europa conturbada pela
proximidade da Segunda Guerra Mundial, mudou-se para os Estados Unidos, onde passou o resto de sua vida, obtendo a cidadania norte-americana em 1947 e ensinando literatura francesa até 1949. Até 1979, Yourcenar morou com Grace Frick, professora de literatura britânica em Nova Iorque.
As suas Mémoires d´Hadrien (Memórias de Adriano), de 1951, tornaram-na internacionalmente conhecida. Este sucesso seria confirmado com L'Œuvre au Noir (A Obra ao Negro, 1968), uma biografia de um herói do século XVI, chamado Zénon, atraído pelo hermetismo e a ciência. Publicou ainda poemas, ensaios (Sous bénéfice d'inventaire, 1978) e memórias (Archives du Nord, 1977), manifestando uma atração pela Grécia e pelo misticismo oriental patente em trabalhos como Mishima ou La vision du vide (1981) e Comme l´eau qui coule (1982).
Marguerite Yourcenar foi a primeira mulher eleita da Academia Francesa de Letras, em 1980, após uma campanha e apoio ativo de Jean d'Ormesson, que escreveu o discurso da sua admissão.