Raja Ampat Islands


Raja Ampat Islands




Located off the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, in Indonesia's West Papua province, Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands, cays, and shoals surrounding the four main islands of Misool, Salawati, Batanta, and Waigeo, and the smaller island of Kofiau.
Raja Ampat Regency is a new regency which separated from Sorong Regency in 2004. It encompasses more than 40,000 km² of land and sea, which also contains Cenderawasih Bay, the largest marine national park in Indonesia. It is a part of the newly named West Papua (province) of Indonesia which was formerly Irian Jaya. Some of the islands are the most northern pieces of land in the Australian continent.

History

The name of Raja Ampat comes from local mythology that tells about a woman who finds seven eggs. Four of the seven eggs hatch and become kings that occupy four of Raja Ampat biggest islands whilst the other three become a ghost, a woman, and a stone.
History shows that Raja Ampat was once a part of Tidore Kingdom, an influential kingdom from Maluku. Yet, after the Dutch invaded Maluku, it was shortly claimed by the Netherlands. The main occupation for people around this area is fishing since the area is dominated by the sea. They live in a small colony of tribes that spreads around the area. Although traditional culture still strongly exists, they are very welcoming to visitors. Their religion is dominantly Christian.

Geography

The oceanic natural resources around Raja Ampat give it significant potential as a tourist area. Many sources place Raja Ampat as one of their top ten most popular places for diving whilst it retains the number one ranking in terms of underwater biodiversity.
According to Conservation International, marine surveys suggest that the marine life diversity in the Raja Ampat area is the highest recorded on Earth. Diversity is considerably greater than any other area sampled in the Coral Triangle composed of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste. The Coral Triangle is the heart of the world's coral reef biodiversity, making Raja Ampat quite possibly the richest coral reef ecosystems in the world.
The area's massive coral colonies along with relatively high sea surface temperatures, also suggest that its reefs may be relatively resistant to threats like coral bleaching and coral disease, which now jeopardize the survival of other coral ecosystems around the world. The Raja Ampat islands are remote and relatively undisturbed by humans.
The high marine diversity in Raja Ampat is strongly influenced by its position between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as coral and fish larvae are more easily shared between the two oceans. Raja Ampat's coral diversity, resilience, and role as a source for larval dispersal make it a global priority for marine protection.
1,309 fish species, 537 coral species (a remarkable 96% of all scleractinia recorded from Indonesia are likely to occur in these islands and 75% of all species that exist in the world), and 699 mollusk species, the variety of marine life is staggering. Some areas boast enormous schools of fish and regular sightings of sharks, such as wobbegongs.
Although accessing the islands is not that difficult, it takes some time. It takes six hours flight from Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia to Sorong. Then, taking boat to reach the islands is necessary.

Documentary film

The documentary film EdiesParadies 3 (by Otto C. Honegger) has been broadcast by the biggest Switzerland television broadcaster, SchweizerFernsehen. The film tells about Raja Ampat's natural underwater beauty which is likened to Switzerland's only inhabited area of the region of around 50,000 residents and is considered like the "Amazon" because of the underwater world located in the heart of the world's Coral Triangle.


History of Music

Classical Period

The saying Established has solid intentions, conjuring up the craftsmanship and rationality of Aged Greece and Rome on top of their goals of parity, size and taught outflow. The late Elaborate style was polyphonically unpredictable and melodically resplendent. The arrangers of the early Traditional period updated bearing, composing music that was much more effortless in texture. It is in certain ways humorous that two of J.S. Bach's youngsters, Carl Philipp Emanuel (C.P.E.) and Johann Christian (J.C.), were near the guides of this new masterful development. Their father had been the most fantastic expert of the towering Extravagant style, and it was his kids who made that style out of date. Homophony--music in which tune and supplementary part are different--overwhelmed the Traditional style, and new manifestations of piece were advanced to oblige the change. Sonata structure is beyond question the most essential of these structures, and one that pressed on to develop all through the Established period. Granted that Elaborate authors additionally composed pieces called sonatas, the Traditional sonata was very distinctive. The force of the Established sonata is clash. A profoundly streamlined sample of quite an impressive clash may be between two topics of differentiating element. This difference might be strengthened throughout the course of the sonata, then irrevocably determined. In certain ways, there is a likeness to the skeleton of a play: we meet elements, a clash is advanced and beyond any doubt a determination arrived at. Sonata structure permitted writers to give immaculate instrumental music an unmistakable memorable shape. Each major instrumental type of the Traditional period, incorporating the string quartet, orchestra and concerto was shaped on the tragic structure of the sonata. A standout amongst the most significant improvements of the Traditional period is the development of people in general show. Even though the nobility might press on to play a noteworthy part in musical essence, it was presently conceivable for writers to make due without being the worker of one individual or crew. This additionally indicated that shows were no longer restricted to royal residence drawing rooms. Arrangers began forming shows offering their particular music, and regularly pulled in impressive gatherings of people. The expanding notoriety of the general population show had a solid effect on the development of the symphony. In spite of the fact that orchestral compositions and solo works were played in the home or other private settings, instrumental shows appeared to be regularly configured for colossal open spaces. Thus, symphonic music (incorporating musical show and oratorio) came to be more extroverted in element. Arrangers steadily developed the extent of the symphony to oblige this stretched musical vision

Sound
-Orchestra that has about 50 people
-Trombone is introduced
-Piano replaces Lute, Harpsichord, and Organ
-Opera becomes popular
             -Opera is forerunner to Musicals
 
Texture
-very clear
-mostly homophonic
             -melody & accompaniment
-Alberti Bass
             -Alberti did this
             -outlines triads 1-5-3-5-1-5-3-5-1-5-3-5 etc.
 
Harmony
-Tonal System
             -major minor stuff
-Slow harmonic rhythm (harmony moves slow)
-All triads and simple 7ths (Same as Baroque)
-Progression is IV-V-I.
 -This replaces ii-V-I
 
Melody
-is more lyrical than Baroque
-has smooth contour
-four bar and eight bar phrases become popular
-question and answer is used in melody
 
Rhythm
-simple rhythm
-very symmetric
-some simple syncopation (not as much as Renaissance)
-Tempo changes used a lot
-Silence is used as an effect
 
Composer
Carl Philipp Emanuel (C.P.E.) Bach (1714-1788)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Johann Christian (J.C.) Bach (1735-1782)
Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(1756-1791)
    Serenade No. 13 in G major K. 525
        Allegro (7 '50)
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    The Magic Flute K. 620
        Overture (7 '21)
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Early years
        Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor op. 27/2 "Moonlight"
            Adagio sostenuto (6 '16)
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        Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major op. 15
            Allegro con brio (16 '57)
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        Andante - Beethoven
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Form
-Sonata
             -multi-movement form
             -usually four movements
                        I.  Allegro
                                     -Written using the Sonata Allegro Process
                                                    A.  Exposition
                                                            1.  Theme I- (sometimes there’s an intro before this)
                                                            2.  Transition
                                                            3.  Theme II- usually lyrical and in a different key
                                                    B.  Development- develop ideas from exposition
                                                    C.  Recapitulation
                                                            1.  Theme I  (These are usually the same,
                                                            2.  Transition,    but sometimes varied)
                                                            3.  Theme II- sometimes played in first key
                                                    D.  Coda- end part
                        II.  Adagio
                        III.  Scherzo or Minuet
                                      -A minuet is usually in 3
                        IV.  Allegro
             -can be written for any instrument
             -usually piano or orchestra accompaniment
-Symphony
             -a Sonata for orchestra (same as above)
             -First movement also uses Sonata Allegro Process
-Overture
             -the first movement of an Opera
             -no voices
             -played by pit orchestra
             -plays some melodies from the whole piece
-Chamber Music
             -small groups
             -Quartets
             -Quintets
             -elevator music of the 1700’s
             -background
             -played some dance music
-Solo Concerto
             -no Grosso concerto
             -features a soloist
Miscellaneous
-Forms and melodies are clearer
-Everything becomes distinct
-There’s symmetry
-The music was written for the middle class.
-There’s a lot of tension and release

The Origins and History of Italian Food

The unimportant notice of Italian sustenance calls upon particular symbolism, plates, and even a couple fundamental elements. While the stereotypical Italian restaurant in America (and to an extraordinary degree any nation outside of Italy) dependably serves up plates of sultry pasta with tomato or cream-based sauces, this is far from correct Italian cooking. Then again, at any rate, the stereotype stands for just a modest part of the numerous assorted and multi-local styles that make up Italy's aggregate gastronomic picture. The culinary history of Italy is profoundly obligated to diverse momentums of individuals and publicly accepted norms from over several thousand years of history that inefficiently characterized the Italian landmass as a land, political, and social element--and that was in length before anything even remotely taking after a national food might be created. Surely, universal Italian cooking frequently has particular, effectively identifiable, normal aspects that could be followed to particular districts or that look like traditions as a rule use all through the nation. Anyhow the topographically demarcated zone distinguished today as Italy itself has a cooking as different and multifaceted as it long, complex history.

Apicius and the Establishments of an Italian Gastronomic Society

Italy may be home to the planet's eldest known cookbook. This recommends the potential for unifying qualities inside such differences. Off and on again credited to the celebrated around the world epicure Marcus Gavius Apicius of the first century A.D., the cookbook De re coquinaria (On Cookery) is an accumulation of countless old Roman methods for getting ready plates. The gathering was less formulas in the current sense as they were essential headings for the planning of elements planned for the encountered gourmet specialist. Apicius, a name ordinarily connected with the adoration for sustenance, conceivable explains the greater part of the cookbook, however the harmed original copies saved from a later century are really an accumulation of formulas from various origins gathered at a certain point in the fourth or fifth century A.D. (Web Origin). Other antiquated Roman journalists--incorporating Cato, Pliny, and Horace--recognized early put names and their acclaimed merchandise, from the wild hog of Tuscany and the onions of Pompeii to the growed asparagus of Ravenna and the semolina wheat of Campania (Capatti and Montanari 2003). The records are broad and are a clear predecessor of acclaimed local features that demarcate areas inside Italy and are ready at strength import showcases globally today.

The food that improved in Italy throughout the Mid life years had various customary starting points. These impacts were profoundly established in the promontory such that when the formulas and thoughts were flowed in humanist writings and different cookbooks in different dialects opposite the mainland, Italy was starting to without a doubt recognize itself from the other political substances that were moreover developing around then. The original copies of Roman journalists discovered their direction go into Italy in the midst of the fifteenth century, throughout the Renaissance's humanist recovery of days of yore. Anyhow the field of gastronomy may have obtained less from times long past than did other savvy and creative hunts for the Renaissance. Renaissance works in gastronomy for example Bartolomeo Sacchi's De honesta voluptate et valetudine (On Genuine Delight and Great Health, around 1470) based much upon the prompt establishments of the Mid life years as it did established origins (Capatti and Montanari 2003).

The Making of an Early Culinary Society

Multifaceted impact on the early character of the Italian landmass was enhanced by Italy's closeness to the awesome kingdoms of the Etruscans, Greeks and, later, the Saracens from the Bedouin domain reaching opposite the Mediterranean. In spite of the fact that the inception of the Etruscan individuals is unverifiable, the major commitment of the Etruscans to Italian cooking was a sort of porridge inevitably called pulmentum, a soft-grain dish that was an ancestor to the cornmeal-based polenta famous all through Italy and globally (once corn landed in Europe from America). The oceanic Greek country promoted the sort of fish chowder unmistakably brought bouillabaisse in French and brodetto all through the south of Italy (Root 1971). The Bedouins were in particular persuasive in the south and specifically Sicily, where the birthplaces of dried pasta handling could be followed. An ancestor to the up to date lasagna, called lagana, existed in old Rome and focuses to a more senior traditions of making batter out of flour and water, however the innovation of the sort of dried pasta in far reaching utilization today has clear Middle Easterner birthplaces (Capatti and Montanari 2003). Other remarkable foreign societies could be the Germanic Lombards who deserted their imprint in the north of Italy and additionally the Hapsburg Spanish impact particularly on the rich and exquisite parts of Neapolitan cooking (based on the city southwestern port city of Naples) (May 2005).

The Saracen impact on Italian cooking was gotten from attacks the eighth century and again throughout the Campaigns starting in the eleventh century, when Crusaders carried back new items from the grounds and individuals upon whom they waged religious war. The eighth-century commitment was a puff cake that came to be called millefoglie and is utilized as a part of sweet and exquisite plates. Crusaders inevitably got an extensive variety of merchandise from rice, buckwheat, and spinach to tarragon and the accurate, sweet orange. Foods grown from the ground for example the lemon and the pomegranate (awhile ago accessible throughout the time period characterized by the Roman Domain yet lost after Brute strikes cut off tracks of exchange and correspondence) and additionally various flavors discovered their direction go into Italy throughout the Campaigns. Also, new procedures in sustenance conservation, frozen dessert and sorbet readiness, and distillation were obtained, with roots going from China to the Bedouin realm. Present day relatives of these advances incorporate Italian frozen custard, or gelato, and grappa, an elevated-spirits-content spirit dist

history of halloween

Ancient Origins of Halloween

Halloween's roots date back to the old Celtic celebration of Samhain (affirmed sow-in). The Celts, who existed 2,000 years prior here that is currently Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, partied about their new year on November 1. This day stamped the finish of hot time of year and the harvest and the starting of the gloom, cool winter, a time of year that was frequently connected with human passing. Celts accepted that on the night soon after the new year, the limit between the worlds of the living and the dead got smudged. On the night of October 31 they partied about Samhain, when it was accepted that the apparitions of the dead came back to earth. In a bad way and harming yields, Celts felt that the presence of the supernatural spirits made it less demanding for the Druids, or Celtic ministers, to make forecasts regarding the fate. For an individuals quite reliant on the volatile regular planet, the aforementioned predictions were a vital origin of solace and heading throughout the long, dim winter.

To celebrate the occasion, Druids manufactured gigantic hallowed campfires, where the individuals assembled to smolder yields and creatures as reparations to the Celtic gods. Throughout the festival, the Celts wore outfits, commonly comprising of creature heads and skins, and endeavored to tell one another's fortunes. Any time the festival was over, they re-lit their hearth fiery breakouts, which they had doused prior that night, from the sacrosanct blaze to accommodate secure them throughout the nearing winter.

By 43 A.D., the Roman Realm had prevailed over the larger piece of the pie of Celtic domain. Sometime during the four hundred years that they administered the Celtic terrains, two celebrations of Roman beginning were joined with the accepted Celtic festival of Samhain. The principal was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans generally honored the death of the dead. The second was a day to respect Pomona, the Roman goddess of foods grown from the ground. The image of Pomona is the fruit and the joining of this festival into Samhain presumably clarifies the custom of "bouncing" for fruits that is drilled today on Halloween.

On May 13, 609 A.D., Pope Boniface IV committed the Pantheon in Rome in respect of all Christian saints, and the Catholic blowout of All Saints Day was secured in the Western God's house. Pope Gregory III (731–741) later unfolded the celebration to incorporate all paragons of piety and additionally all saints, and moved the recognition from May 13 to November 1. By the 9th century the impact of Christianity had spread into Celtic terrains, where it steadily mixed with and supplanted the more advanced in years Celtic customs. In 1000 A.D., the church might make November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to respect the dead. It is broadly accepted today that the chapel was trying to displace the Celtic celebration of the dead with an identified, however mass-authorized occasion. All Souls Day was partied about likewise to Samhain, with colossal campfires, parades, and sprucing up in outfits as holy persons, holy messengers and fiends. The All Examples of piety Day festival was additionally called All-praises or All-hallowmas (from Center English Alholowmesse importance All Paragons of piety' Day) and the night before it, the universal night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, started to be called All-praises Eve and, inevitably, Halloween.

Halloween Comes to America

Festival of Halloween was greatly confined in pioneer New England due to the inflexible Protestant acceptance frameworks there. Halloween was significantly more normal in Maryland and the southern states. As the credences and traditions of diverse European ethnic aggregations and also the American Indians coincided, a particularly American form of Halloween started to rise. The primary festivals incorporated "play parties," open occasions expected to remember party about the harvest, where neighbors might impart stories of the dead, tell one another's fortunes, move and sing. Pilgrim Halloween merriments likewise emphasized the telling of apparition stories and fiendishness-making of various sorts. By the center of the nineteenth century, yearly harvest time merriments were regular, yet Halloween was not yet partied about all around in the nation.

In the second a large part of the nineteenth century, America was overwhelmed with new migrants. These new foreigners, particularly the millions of Irish escaping Ireland's potato starvation of 1846, served to advance the festival of Halloween broadly. Taking from Irish and English conventions, Americans started to spruce up in ensembles and head off house to house soliciting nourishment or cash, a practice that after all ended up being today's "trick-or-treat" convention. Adolescent ladies accepted that on Halloween they might divine the name or manifestation of their fate spouse by doing tricks with yarn, fruit parings or mirrors.

In the late 1800s, there was a move in America to form Halloween into an occasion more about group and neighborly get-togethers than about apparitions, tricks and witchcraft. At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both youngsters and grown-ups ended up being the most regular route to party about the day. Parties centered on recreations, nourishments of the time of year and bubbly outfits. Guardians were empowered by daily papers and group guides to take anything "terrifying" or "bizarre" out of Halloween festivals. In view of these ventures, Halloween lost the majority of it superstitious and religious suggestions by the starting of the twentieth century.

By the 1920s and 1930s, Halloween had come to be a common, however neighborhood-focused occasion, with parades and far reaching gatherings as the emphasized stimulation. Notwithstanding the best enterprises of numerous schools and neighborhoods, vandalism started to torment Halloween festivals in numerous groups throughout this time. By the 1950s, town guides had effectually confined vandalism and Halloween had advanced into an occasion regulated fundamentally at the youthful. Because of the heightened various green kids throughout the fifties toddler blast, parties moved from town metro focuses into the classroom or home, where they might be all the more effectively obliged. Between 1920 and 1950, the centuries-old practice of tri.

The History of Football

The contemporary history of the planet's favourite amusement compasses more than 100 years. It all started in 1863 in England, when rugby football and companionship football diverge on their distinctive courses and the Football Companionship in England was shaped -coming to be the game's first overseeing form.

Both codes stemmed from a regular root and both have a long and unpredictably expanded genealogical tree. An inquiry down the centuries uncovers anyhow a large part of twelve distinctive diversions, changing to diverse degrees, and to which the chronicled improvement of football has been followed back. If this could be supported in certain occurrences is debatable. By the by, the fact remains that individuals have delighted in kicking a ball about for many years and there is definitely no explanation for why to recognize it an abnormality of the more 'characteristic' type of playing a ball with the hands.

Actually, separated from the requirement to utilize the legs and feet in strong tussles for the ball, frequently without any laws for insurance, it was recognised right at the start that the specialty of regulating the ball with the feet was not simple and, as being what is indicated, needed no minor measure of ability. The precise most punctual manifestation of the diversion for which there is deductive confirmation was a practice from a military manual dating back to the second and third centuries BC in China.

This Han Administration progenitor of football was called Tsu' Chu and it comprised of kicking a cowhide ball loaded with feathers and hair by way of an opening, measuring just 30-40cm in width, into a minor net altered onto long bamboo sticks. Consistent with one variety of this action, the player was not allowed to point at his target unimpeded, yet needed to utilize his feet, midsection, back and shoulders while attempting to withstand the assaults of his adversaries. Utilization of the hands was not allowed.

An additional manifestation of the amusement, additionally beginning from the Far East, was the Japanese Kemari, which started around 500-600 years later and is still played today. This is a game failing to offer the aggressive component of Tsu' Chu with no battle for ownership included. Standing in a ring, the players needed to pass the ball to one another, in a moderately minor space, attempting not to give it a chance to touch the ground.

The Greek 'Episkyros' -of which few cement items survive -was much livelier, as was the Roman 'Harpastum'. The last was played out with a more modest ball by two groups on a rectangular field stamped by limit lines and a focal point line. The goal was to take care of business the ball over the resistance's verge lines and as players passed it between themselves, craftiness was the request of the day. The diversion remained famous for 700-800 years, at the same time, even though the Romans brought it to Britain with them, the utilization of feet was so minor as to barely be of outcome.

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