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210 Vitamins a Day

2008-07-19T13:08:00.002+02:00

Ray walked on stage, played a composition on an old upright piano, and then whispered to I've Got a Secret host Steve Allen "I built my own computer". "Well that's impressive," Steve Allen replied, "but what does that have to do with the piece you just played?" Ray then whispered the rest of his secret: "The computer composed the piece I just played." During the yes or no

Book Obsessed on Allenby St.

2008-07-19T09:08:00.007+02:00

Hebrew Bibliomaniacs On Israeli TV Bibliomania is an obsessive-compulsive disorder involving the collecting or hoarding of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged. One of several psychological disorders associated with books, bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have no use to the collector nor any great intrinsic value to a genuine book

You shall not marry your wife's sister

2008-07-18T22:03:00.005+02:00

J. Jacobs is a New York Times bestselling author, Esquire editor and human guinea pig. Among Jacobs’ life experiments: --The Know-It-All. The bestselling memoir of the year he spent reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in a quest to become the smartest person in the world. --The Year of Living Biblically. The soon-to-be-released book about his life as the ultimate biblical man. He

Hey diddle diddle, I am playin' my fiddle

2008-07-18T11:51:00.003+02:00

More than 10,000 people are descending on a 17th century castle to watch a line-up including rock and roll legend Chuck Berry, singer Kate Nash and alternative band The Flaming Lips.The organisers behind the Bestival on the Isle of Wight, Hants, have turned their sights to the family audience with the launch of Camp Bestival in the grounds of Lulworth Castle, Dorset.The inaugural three-day

Rock and Roll: The Early Days

2008-07-17T20:56:00.003+02:00

A History of Rock and Roll from its origins up to the early 1960's. Includes performances by Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Comets, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, The Treniers, Big Joe Turner,and others. Narrated by John Heard. Written by Patrick Montgomery

Meshal Ha-Kadmoni : Rare Hebrew fable book

2008-07-17T17:38:00.007+02:00

(from Oxford Digital Library) Rare Hebrew fable book by the 13th century Hebrew poet, scholar and cabbalist, Isaac ben Solomon Abi Sahula (born 1244). His fables were originally written in 1281 with the intention to replace the light foreign literature with an original Hebrew literary work. The fables came from India, from the 'Pantscha Tantra', very popular among Jews in the Middle Ages. Sahula

Nature Sucks! Bookworm Vipera palaestinae got The Mouse

2008-07-17T10:59:00.005+02:00

These cute customers surprised me yesterday in my bookstore

Private Library

2008-07-16T16:35:00.004+02:00

In 2002 Bravo’s Arts and Minds shot this piece on my career as a private librarian. The channel, then devoted to the arts, was purchased by NBC and remodeled into a vehicle for Reality based TV – Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Project Runway – and never showed in the US. My family and I have since moved from Brooklyn Heights to Sugar Hill in Washington Heights/Harlem, where in 2005 I opened

Can Nurses Be Wrong?

2008-07-15T10:37:00.003+02:00

In “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions” (Harper; $25.95), Dan Ariely, a professor at M.I.T., offers a taxonomy of financial folly. His approach is empirical rather than historical or theoretical. In pursuit of his research, Ariely has served beer laced with vinegar, left plates full of dollar bills in dorm refrigerators, and asked undergraduates to fill out

Faked Phaistos

2008-07-15T09:34:00.007+02:00

In July of 1908, Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier was excavating at the Minoan site of Phaistos when he stumbled upon one of the great enigmas of archaeology: The Phaistos Disk. The Phaistos Disk is a flat circular disk of about 15 centimeters (six inches) in diameter and made of fired clay. Both sides of this disk have been stamped with a series of mysterious symbols that have been compared

A Forger and an Artist

2008-07-15T06:35:00.003+02:00

The pianist Glenn Gould (1932-1982) profoundly affected the way people hear, perceive and appreciate music in one of the most unique and fascinating careers in the modern history of classical music. For most of his mature career, Gould did not perform live, reaching his audience instead through a remarkable legacy of recordings and broadcasts. IN AN UNGUARDED MOMENT some months ago, I

Lidantiu faram:Iliazd and the Illustrated Book

2008-07-14T18:53:00.004+02:00

Within original illustrated wrappers with a collage by Granovskii of onlaid gold and silver paper, cork and synthetic material. Text includes letterpress typographic designs by Iliazd. Iliazd published the play shortly after he moved to Paris from Russia. "The play, which combines slapstick with the solution of aesthetic problems...is unquestionably a masterpiece of the Russian poetic

Too darn Hot

2008-07-14T17:52:00.002+02:00

Conceptually speaking, air conditioning has been around since the first primitive humans ducked into cool, damp caves to take refuge from summer heat. But aside from fans of various shapes and sizes, the technology of temperature control didn’t progress beyond the stone age until the 1830s. That’s when John Gorrie, a doctor from Florida, decided to do something about the stifling heat in his

I'm Steve Suffet ...

2008-07-14T17:19:00.004+02:00

I'm Steve Suffet and I call myself an old fashioned folksinger. I was born in 1947, and I've been singing as far back as I can remember. My Mom was a jazz singer and she played the ukulele. She couldn't stand what she called "hillbilly music," so rebel that I was, when I was about five years old I used to insist on listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford sing Sixteen Tons. Around the same time I

Is it Legal In Ein Hod?

2008-07-10T15:25:00.003+02:00

In Wednesday's 5-2 decision, the high court said Wisconsin law makes sex acts with dead people illegal because they are unable to give consent. The ruling reinstates the attempted sexual assault charges against twin brothers Nicholas and Alexander Grunke and Dustin Radke, all 22. The charges carry a punishment of up to 10 years in prison. Justice Patience Roggensack, writing a majority opinion

From Druze to Dada

2008-07-09T07:48:00.002+02:00

Road to Ein Hod.(כביש מדאלית אל-כרמל לעין הוד) First 30 sec.shop ad.

Jasmin's Wall

2008-07-08T19:35:00.000+02:00

The Ein Hod Gate: 1996 Golden Calf

2008-07-08T12:39:00.006+02:00

Directed by Doron Shapiro. Nobuya Yamaguchi has been working with metal for 20 years, creating sculptures and forged iron works and designs including Ein-Hod's sculpture-gate. Four years ago, he started to be interested in the sounds of the metal while forging it and created several sculptures that produced various sounds when spectators hit them like gongs or xlylogong. Both were in the

Jack Pajack and Kirkas Kiss

2008-07-08T08:28:00.006+02:00

Jack Pajack joins Kirkas Kiss (Pocket Circus in hebrew)is the name of a theatre group from Ein Hod. Yael and Alain Koginsky, both members of UNIMA, founded the group, create the puppets props and costumes, produce and act in its shows. The repertoire includes puupet shows for all ages as well as street events with giant puppets & actors.. Kirkas Kiss productions have toured in all National

Tali Cohen and Ein Hod

2008-07-08T07:44:00.002+02:00

Angels in Ein Hod

2008-07-06T15:55:00.005+02:00

ממערת האצבע אנו ממשיכים לעין הוד, בכניסה יוצרים קשר עם הד שמואלי אחד מ"מלאכי השביל" ושואלים במה הוא יכול לסייע בידינו. קבלנו רשימה של כעשרה חבר'ה, פזורים על פני הארץ כולה, אשר בהתנדבות מסייעים בידי מטיילי "שביל ישראל" בחזקת מצווה לשם מצווה וזכו לכינוי "מלאכי השביל". הד, בחור טוב מראה כבן שלושים ופסל באומנותו לוקח אותנו לביתו, מכיר לנו את אשתו בת אל, אתיופית יפהפייה ומקסימה ובנם התינוק שניאור

Aztec Ocarinas of Death

2008-07-06T14:14:00.004+02:00

Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand. But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle.If death had a sound, this was it. Roberto Velazquez believes the Aztecs played this mournful wail from the so-called

Dead Erection

2008-07-05T12:32:00.005+02:00

Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina Senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died July 4, 2008. He was 86. Citing the "proliferation of immoral and offensive material throughout America's museums and schools," and waving placards emblazoned with agit-prop fotocollage reading, "diE

The merry cemetery of Sapanta

2008-07-05T11:15:00.007+02:00

The merry cemetery of Sapanta has been, for more than fifty years, the creation of sculptor Stan Patras, the successor of several generations of wood artists that bequeathed their trade from father to son. In the beginning he sculpted about ten crosses a year. The method of work has been preserved unaltered to thisday. The oak wood is cut into beams that are then allowed to dry one or two years.

Lenka Reinerova - The Last Yekke

2008-07-05T10:10:00.003+02:00

Lenka Reinerova, the last of Prague's circle of authors who wrote in German, has died.She died Friday in Prague, Czech public radio said. She was 92.Reinerova was one of a number of German-speaking authors — Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel and Rainer Maria Rilkewere among the others — who lived and wrote in Prague before World War II. The city, then the Czechoslovak capital, had strong German and