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2006-07-03 09:42:04 by GyK

In my opinion the best of the living statues in Covent Garden... Note: YouTube disabled the original audio, hence the current song is no longer ...

I have started with a story. As of now I have done the character sketch of the main characters. Please read and give in your feedback.

Amy:

Amy Newton was born in New York and had stayed with her father in the city forever. Her father, Herbert Newton, a famous businessman was travelling most of the time to different countries because of work. Lucy Newton, her mother had passed away when she was only two. Brought up by nannies and maid’s Amy was closer to them during her initial years of growing up. Yet she respected and loved her father more than anyone in this world. Herbert fulfilled all her desires and wishes... expect one. He was not able to spend “Quality” time with his daughter. Amy had travelled with her father across the world during her summer vacations and had enjoyed those days the most as they brought her closer to her father. She detested when the vacations came to an end.

The Newton’s had a huge mansion in New York. It was an 8 Bedroom, 3 floored house with a swimming pool in the backyard and a garden in the front which was the size of a baseball field. Built by a famous architect from Rome, the house had ethnic and classical touch of the Roman civilization. Paintings from famous artists hung on the carved walls. The Mansion depicted the wealth of Mr. Newton who was a self-made man. Every room had a different theme. There were rare pieces of decorations brought from different parts of the world to enhance the beauty of the mansion. It was the most aesthetic white structure that the city had ever seen. Milky white marble statues found place in the gardens of the house, which were illuminated with bright lights during the night. The place was no less than a fairy tale castle sitting magnificently in the city, praised by all its audience.

Amy was a very beautiful girl. She had the perfect features and perfect body. Long brown hair which were never out of place. It seemed like she never had a bad hair day. Big green eyes which never missed any detail. A smile so warm that it made a dull day bright and shinny. She looked like a ramp model which made boys go all ‘oohh and aahh’ and girls all jealous. A down to earth girl Amy was. Talented and intelligent, she had always been a topper in her school and college. She never mentioned that she was “AMY NEWTON” infront of a crowd, because she wanted to be just Amy. Her father’s name when attached with hers changed things completely. People almost fell to their knees. And she loathed this.

Amy enjoyed being outside her home though. An independent soul, she didn’t like to be dependent on her father. Her father on the other hand did not approve her taking up summer jobs when she was not travelling with him. Peacefully both father and daughter used to discuss this issue.

Now as she was going to be 20, Amy had decided that she will not join her father’s business. Instead she had a different plan sketched up for her life. But Herbert was hell bent for her to join him as soon as possible. She was delaying the option with excuses that made her father angry.

It was her 20th birthday that changed things for Amy.



Mark:

Mark Stevens was a born rebel. His father, Andrew Stevens, was a famous Lawyer of London. His mother, Emily Stevens, was the owner of one of the most expensive boutique in London. Rich and Famous list was not complete if ‘The Stevens’ were not mentioned in it. And Mark never left any opportunity to use his “Status” to get things done. His father did not like it when he misused their family name. A lot of arguments took place between the father and the son on almost daily basis. Emily was the pacemaker. She took time out of her busy schedule to sit with Mark and talk to him. This made Mark closer to his mother. He confided his deepest secrets to her.

In London, the Stevens had a “Palace” in which they lived. It was indeed a palace, which belonged to one of the royalties of the country in the early centuries. Andrew Stevens had bought the property at a very handsome price. Emily had decorated their “Home” in the most beautiful manner. Everything was exquisite, expensive and exotic. A library which was bigger than the town library, an indoor sports area constructed which was well equipped. Both Mark and Andrew enjoyed sports a lot. Andrew was the football team captain when he was in high school. And Mark had led his school team to victory in swimming and basket ball. Their beautiful garden had flowers which were of rare species. The Palace was made of grey brick and stones. A long drive way from the main gate which was huge and made up of wrought iron. Tall and beautiful trees covering the drove way on both sides. A fountain was in the middle of the enormous garden. The palace was included in the most exotic and breath taking palaces of the country.

When Mark was 5, his father wanted him learn how to play tennis but Mark was keener on learning swimming. He felt ‘the water’ belonged to him. Mark had created a big scene
When Mark was 5, his father wanted him learn how to play tennis but Mark was keener on learning swimming. He felt ‘the water’ belonged to him. Mark had created a big scene and finally his father had to agree with Mark and grant him his wish. Usually when there was a conflict between Mark and his father, Mark won. One reason was that Emily supported Mark. She was the only person who understood... or atleast kind of understood her son. “Brat” was what his father called him when he was upset with Mark.

While he was growing up, his father fed into his mind that Mark should become a Lawyer – Just like him – in future. Mark was not fond of this particular career option. He felt he will be overshadowed by his father’s name once he took up law. Though he was a brilliant student and could easily make it big in any of the professions he would have chosen, but being a lawyer was something he had absolutely rejected since childhood.
He did not want to be like his father.
Mark was a handsome boy. He had the looks of a royalty. Bright blue eyes which pierced easily through anybody’s soul, Pearly white skin with a face and body which belonged to only Greek gods. He was every girl’s dream come true. He was in reach of every soul around him, yet so far. He was a kind of person who understood the situation well and manipulated it according to his benefits. His mind worked in a manner which nobody could ever understand. Not a predictable person Mark was but he could easily predict others.

He had already planned his future and was quiet determined on going against his father’s wishes. He knew his mother would support him, like she always had. He also knew that when he would tell his father about his plans, his father would throw a fit around the house which would be extremely difficult to handle. But Mark was ready for all that.

Honestly.. I'm not diggin it. I'm not into the narrartion.. its boring. I would try writing it in a mysterious kind of way. But, kudos for posting your work!

2009-02-22 00:16:19 by Shining Star

This statue can be found in the garden area of the Hollywood Tower Hotel while waiting in the queue for "The Twilight Zone TOWER OF TERROR" in Disney Hollywood Studios theme park (Walt Disney World).

I do know that this is a reproduction of a classic statue, but I'm not sure of the original era and country (Greek?, Roman?, etc.) or the name of the figure depicted. It appears that the figure is possibly holding a stock of wheat, so it could be some sort of harvest god.

Here is the link to a picture of the statue:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2150/1903 709660_d4d2450232.jpg?v=0

Please... can any ancient history or art/sculpture buffs help me out

Shiriki Utundu

go here and read

http://www.tdrfan.com/tds/american_water front/tower_of_terror/index.htm

2009-03-22 14:26:12 by Andrew

This statue can be found in the garden area of the Hollywood Tower Hotel while waiting in the queue for "The Twilight Zone TOWER OF TERROR" in Disney Hollywood Studios theme park (Walt Disney World).

I do know that this is a reproduction of a classic statue, but I'm not sure of the original era and country (Greek?, Roman?, etc.) or the name of the figure depicted. It appears that the figure is possibly holding a stock of wheat, so it could be some sort of harvest god.

Please... can any ancient history or art/sculpture buffs help me out?
Here is a link to a picture of the statue:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2150/1903 709660_d4d2450232.jpg?v=0

It is the Roman goddess Ceres or the Greek goddess Demeter. A variation of the sculpture can be seen here: http://blog.beliefnet.com/astrologicalmu sings/images/Ceres.jpg

2009-03-22 14:14:14 by Andrew

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Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.

A 2000 year old toilet complete with running water, a stone seat, and an armrest was discovered in the tomb of an ancient Chinese king, of the Western Han Dynasty.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A

Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.

Starfish have no brain.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".

No president of the United States was an only child.

Bulls are color blind.

Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.

A can of SPAM is opened about every 4 seconds somewhere in the world.

"Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.

Ants never sleep.

The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.

The largest pumpkin weighed 1006 lbs. - **Thank you AL for pointing this correction out! - fp

The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.

The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.

The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave it to Beaver, though only the tank of it was shown.

The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

The shortest commercial ever was only 4 frames of a second.

Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.

The billionth digit in Pi is 9.

The first 100 numbers of Pi are:

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.

A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.

There are 86,400 seconds in day.

The hundred billionth Crayola crayon was Perriwinkle Blue.

Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" so it rhymed with "rejoice".

Babies are born without knee caps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of bear are called a sleuth.

12 or more cows are called a flink.

A baby oyster is called a spat.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive for several months that way.

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.

Pinocchio was made of pine, and the name even means 'pine head'

A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button (it was eliminated during surgery).

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge, while a dime has 118. A Susan B Anthony has 133 grooves.

Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Every time you lick a stamp you consume approx. 1/10 of a calorie.

Jewish stamps are certified Kosher.

The pound sign (#) is called an octothorpe.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.

There was once a town in West Virginia called "6".

Singapore has only one train station.

The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.

Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.

If you eat too many carrots you will turn orange (temporarily).

Pluto's orbit crossed Neptune's, occasionally making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun from 1979 until 1999.

The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.

Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.

The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".

Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.

Hilary Clinton once said 'We are the President'.

The reported percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.

The reported percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.

There are typically 333 toilet paper squares on a new toilet paper roll.

The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.

On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

The average American eats 2 donuts a day.

The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.

The longest recorded time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.

Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.

It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.

About 2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.

A baby is born approx. every 7 seconds.

An estimated 10 tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.

On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.

Blue and white are the most common school colors.

Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up about 20 pounds of dust a year.

The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: 'What hath God wrought?'

The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: 'Watson come here, I need you'.

The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: 'Mary had a little lamb'

The four words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum, triduum and continuum.

A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. (His middle name is George James).

It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if you have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The average American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat in their lifetime.

A new book is published about every 13 minutes in America during business hours.

America's best selling ice-cream flavor is vanilla.

American's eat about 18 billion hot dogs a year.

The average American eats 134 pounds of sugar a year.

Every year the sun loses approx. 360 million tons.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

You can tell if a skunk is close by if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.

Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.

The following are sounds as interpreted by the corresponding languages:
A dog in East Africa says "woo-woo".

A dog in Bangkok says "bahk-bahk".

A dog in Japan says "wan-wan".

A dog in Russia says "gahf-gahft".

A cow in Thailand says "oo-ah"

A cat in Japan says "neow".

A cat in Thailand says "mao".

A pig in Japan says "moo-moo".

A pig in Thailand says "oot-oot".

A pig in Russia says "ha-roo".

A rooster in Germany says "ay-ee-ache-ache"

Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.

India has about 50 million monkeys.

By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.

Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.

Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.

You breathe about 10 million times a year.

You have a better chance of having a bad dream in a cold room than a warm one.

The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.

Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mug shot number 54018.

The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.

The bulls eye on a regulation dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.

The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.

The doorbell was invented in 1831.

There are 225 squares on a Scrabble board.

The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.

Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.

There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.

There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.

The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.

The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.

A squid has 10 tentacles.

A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.

A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.

The world AND appears 46,277 times in the Bible.

The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "Horn."

The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.

There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holmes' apartment.

Anthony Robbins' infomercial airs every half an hour, 24 hours a day somewhere in the USA.

When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes.

Napoleon was terrified of cats.

The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.

Thanks i will sleep better tonight knowing all of that!

2007-06-02 11:44:09 by Rumplestiltskin.