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Leader of African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem dies – Israel News – Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Leader-of-African-Hebrew-Israelites-of-Jerusalem-dies-385978
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“clothes” – from my perspective: impossible to pronounce
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clothes How will I ever be able to pronounce almost properly? I got suggested to use “clothing” instead, but I …
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my 1st Christmas Eve movie: Birdman (2014)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232 http://www.yorck.de/yorckplus/veranstaltungen/show/1078 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000474 – Michael Keaton – he was the 1st Batman / Bruce Wayne (in a movie): http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000177 – the “Batman” / “Bruce Wayne” character
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my 3rd Christmas Eve movie: Frau Müller muss weg (Germany 2015)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4216934 http://www.yorck.de/yorckplus/veranstaltungen/show/1078 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2617178 – Alwara Höfels – she played “Katja Grabowski” (a GDR mother) – she is in some way my favourite character, or better: my favourite actor in this film, maybe I … (YKWIM) – she is so sweet, don’t you agree?
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my 2.5th Christmas Eve movie: (the London) National Gallery (2014)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3720794 http://www.yorck.de/yorckplus/veranstaltungen/show/1078 A documentary – very nice pictures, too many words for that night – so we left for #3.
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my 2nd Christmas Eve movie: wild tales – (in German) jeder dreht mal durch – (in Spanish) relatos salvajes (Argentina 2014)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3011894 http://www.yorck.de/yorckplus/veranstaltungen/show/1078 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Almodóvar – he is on the board of producers of this film; it’s actually his style of film, but the episodes made up from Argentinian news / material
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“Lady and Bird” – a collaboration between the singer/songwriter Keren Ann and Barði Jóhannson, the lead singer of the Icelandic band Bang Gang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_and_Bird http://www.amazon.de/dp/B0000CGEB6 – Album: Lady & Bird (2003) http://www.amazon.de/dp/B002GNBMTW – Album: La Ballade de Lady & Bird (2009)
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first time to connect something through an “S/P DIF” (Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format) fibre optic cable with TOSLINK connectors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF http://www.logitech.com/en-roeu/product/speaker-system-z906 – a Logitech “Surround Sound Speakers” system (Z906) http://www.logitech.com/assets/36226/z906620-002920006ug403.pdf – the Z906’s User’s Guide a Samsung SmartTV Being connected to both a Mac mini and also the SmartTV, I now have to choose explicitly on the “sound system”, which input to use.
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DMOZ.org – “the Open Directory Project” – they are so useful for finding “the right” (hierarchical) categories
https://www.curlie.org What would I do without these categories??? Today I used it for categorising quite some books.
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Keren Ann Zeidel (born 10 March 1974 in Caesarea, Israel) is a singer, songwriter, composer, producer and engineer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keren_Ann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hrURzVLktI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song) I got aware of her on 2014-12-22, when I browsed through a Facebook friend’s timeline. I 1st heard her version of the marvelous Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. http://www.youtube.com/v/7hrURzVLktI