Rock al parque 2007.Rock al Parque, Spanish for Rock at the Park, is a rock music festival that takes place in Bogotá, Colombia every year. The festival is very popular since it is a free entry event and it is sponsored by Bogotá's district government.ContentsHistory 1996-2000In 1996, three simultaneous stages gave place to the second version. There were more than sixty national bands such as Dogma, Sagrada Escritura, Policarpa y sus viciosas, La pestilencia, Agony, among others. The foreign contributors were Lucy Bell and Los Tetas from Chile; Autenticos Decadentes from Argentina; Spias and Zapato 3 from Venezuela, Zopilotes from Peru; La Lupita from Mexico and Puya from Puerto Rico. Around 105.000 people attended the concerts.The continuity of the festival was kept and as of year 2000 there were more international well-known artists. During that year artists such as Manu Chao from France and La mosca Tse Tse from Argentina stunned the audience with monumental performances. This year the festival goes under the motto "It is up to us that the music continues".21st Century For 2003 the festival continued and it was more commercialized than ever. After the success of Aterciopelados which became a Latin Grammy nominee, more local bands thought of Rock al Parque as a starting point to be discovered by the music entrepreneurs and the media as well. Nationwide broadcasting radiostations gave more importance to the events and committed themselves to the discovery and support of new artists. The band 1280 almas (1280 souls) celebrated its ten years with its fans. The closing events took place under a rainy day but this did not stop the 400.000 people that attended the concerts.2005 saw the light of experimentation for the festival. The band Kraken opened the festival by playing with the Philarmonic Orchestra of Bogotá. For the first time the festival has an opening attendance of more than 400.000 people. The band Apocalyptica from Finland surprised the audience with its original performance and creativity on stage.In 2006 among the bands that played were Fear factory, Horcas and Manu Chao2007 was a uncommon year for Rock al Parque since the first festival's day was joined of huge hailstorm that made the fest be cancelled for that day.Recovering the lost presentations, next Saturday (November 10th), bands that were canceled due the hailstorm matter, played at the same stage in a "sub-festival" called "Metal al Parque", because of the numerous heavy metal bands that showed during the day.Among the groups playing at Rock al Parque 2007 are Aterciopelados, Agony and Ultrageno (as a tribute to National Rock Bands, closing the festival every day), Nepentes, Agent Steel, Coheed and Cambria, Have heart, Carajo, Nadie, Alerta, De bruces a mi, Sigma, Injury, Grito,Brujeria among others.
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In 1996, three simultaneous stages gave place to the second version. There were more than sixty national bands such as Dogma, Sagrada Escritura, Policarpa y sus viciosas, La pestilencia, Agony, among others. The foreign contributors were Lucy Bell and Los Tetas from Chile; Autenticos Decadentes from Argentina; Spias and Zapato 3 from Venezuela, Zopilotes from Peru; La Lupita from Mexico and Puya from Puerto Rico. Around 105.000 people attended the concerts.
The continuity of the festival was kept and as of year 2000 there were more international well-known artists. During that year artists such as Manu Chao from France and La mosca Tse Tse from Argentina stunned the audience with monumental performances. This year the festival goes under the motto "It is up to us that the music conti
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Early 1990s


The festival originated in 1995 as a supporting event for new local bands by Bogotá's government. The Institute for Culture and Tourism developed a project that could bring together both new local bands and rock music fans in a city where international rock tours rarely occur. The project also aimed to teach tolerance among Bogotá's youth.Mario Duarte, a Colombian singer from the rock band La Derecha (The Right) supported by Julio Correal and Bertha Quintero, then vice president of the Institute for Culture and Tourism embarked in the adventure of organizing a festival in which young adults would become the main characters. The response to the call was remarkable; more than 120 bands from all towns attended to the casting.The first festival took place from may 26 1995 to may 29 1995 at the Olaya Herrera Stadium, the Mediatorta open field theatre, Simon Bolivar District Park and The Santamaria Bullfighting ring. The final participants and contributors for the first festival were a total of 43 bands, among the most recognized ones were AterciopeladosThe Velvet Ones, Morfonia, 1280 Almas, Catedral and La Derecha. The foreign bands were Fobia from Mexico and Seguridad Social from Spain.

abraham lincoln biography

AN OVERVIEW OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S LIFE
Abraham Lincoln was born Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was the son of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and he was named for his paternal grandfather. Thomas Lincoln was a carpenter and farmer. Both of Abraham's parents were members of a Baptist congregation which had separated from another church due to opposition to slavery.


When Abraham was seven, the family moved to southern Indiana. Abraham had gone to school briefly in Kentucky and did so again in Indiana. He attended school with his older sister, Sarah (his younger brother, Thomas, had died in infancy). In 1818 Nancy Hanks Lincoln died from milk sickness, a disease obtained from drinking the milk of cows which had grazed on poisonous white snakeroot. Thomas Lincoln remarried the next year, and Abraham loved his new stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln. She brought three children of her own into the household.
As Abraham grew up, he loved to read and preferred learning to working in the fields. This led to a difficult relationship with his father who was just the opposite. Abraham was constantly borrowing books from the neighbors.


In 1828 Abraham's sister, who had married Aaron Grigsby in 1826, died during childbirth. Later in the year, Abraham made a flatboat trip to New Orleans. In 1830 the Lincolns moved west to Illinois.


The next year Lincoln made a second flatboat trip to New Orleans. Afterwards he moved to New Salem, Illinois, where he lived until 1837. While there he worked at several jobs including operating a store, surveying, and serving as postmaster. He impressed the residents with his character, wrestled the town bully, and earned the nickname "Honest Abe." Lincoln, who stood nearly 6-4 and weighed about 180 pounds, saw brief service in the Black Hawk War, and he made an unsuccessful run for the Illinois legislature in 1832. He ran again in 1834, 1836, 1838, and 1840, and he won all four times. (Lincoln was a member of the Whig Party; he remained a Whig until 1856 when he became a Republican.) Additionally, he studied law in his spare time and became a lawyer in 1836. Stories that Lincoln had a romance with a pretty girl named Ann Rutledge may well be true. Sadly, Ann died in 1835.


In Springfield in 1839 Lincoln met Mary Todd. Three years later they were married and over the next 11 years had four children: Robert (1843-1926), Edward ("Eddie") 1846-1850, William ("Willie") 1850-1862, and Thomas ("Tad") 1853-1871. Lincoln became a successful attorney, and the family bought a home at the corner of Eighth and Jackson in 1844.


In 1846 Lincoln ran for the United States House of Representatives and won. While in Washington he became known for his opposition to the Mexican War and to slavery. He returned home after his term and resumed his law practice more seriously than ever. Early in 1851 Lincoln's father died.


Lincoln's declining interest in politics was renewed by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. He made an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate but received some support for the Republican vice-presidential nomination in 1856. Also, in 1856 Lincoln gave his Lost Speech. He opposed the Dred Scott decision in 1857 and gave his famous "House Divided" Speech on June 16, 1858. Additionally, he engaged in a series of debates with Stephen A. Douglas in 1858.


Lincoln was against the spread of slavery into the territories but was not an abolitionist. Douglas won the Senatorial race, but Lincoln gained national recognition. In 1860 he furthered his national reputation with a successful speech at the Cooper Institute in New York.


Although William Seward was the pre-convention favorite for the Republican presidential nomination in 1860, Lincoln won on the third ballot. With Hannibal Hamlin as his running mate, Lincoln was elected the 16th president on November 6, 1860, defeating Douglas, John Bell, and John C. Breckinridge.


In February of 1861 the Lincolns left by train for Washington, D.C. The president-elect was now wearing a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl. Lincoln was sworn in on March 4, 1861.
After Lincoln's election, many Southern states, fearing Republican control in the government, seceded from the Union. Lincoln faced the greatest internal crisis of any U.S. president. After the fall of Ft. Sumter, Lincoln raised an army and decided to fight to save the Union from falling apart. Initially Lincoln anticipated a short conflict; he called for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months. Despite enormous pressures, loss of life, battlefield setbacks, generals who weren't ready to fight, assassination threats, etc., Lincoln stuck with this pro-Union policy for four long years of Civil War. On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. This was Lincoln's declaration of freedom for all slaves in the areas of the Confederacy not under Union control. Also, on November 19, 1863, Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address which dedicated the battlefield there to the soldiers who had perished. He called on the living to finish the task the dead soldiers had begun.


Lincoln's domestic policies included support for the Homestead Act. This act allowed poor people in the East to obtain land in the West. Also, Lincoln signed legislation entitled the National Banking Act which established a national currency and provided for the creation of a network of national banks. In addition, he signed tariff legislation that offered protection to American industry and signed a bill that chartered the first transcontinental railroad. Lincoln's foreign policy was geared toward preventing foreign intervention in the Civil War.


In 1864 Ulysses S. Grant was named general-in-chief of the armies of the United States. The South was slowly being worn down. Lincoln was reelected president with Andrew Johnson as his running mate. Lincoln defeated the Democrat George McClellan on November 8, 1864. On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant. Two days later Lincoln addressed a crowd outside the White House. Among other things, he suggested he would support voting rights for certain blacks. This infuriated a racist and Southern sympathizer who was in the audience: the actor John Wilkes Booth who hated everything the president stood for.


On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, the Lincolns attended a play entitled Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. During the performance Booth arrived at the theater, entered the State Box from the rear, and shot the president in the back of his head at about 10:15 P.M. Lincoln was carried across the street to the Petersen House where he passed away the next day at 7:22 A.M. This was the first presidential assassination in American history, and the nation mourned its leader. His death was the result of the deep divisions and hatreds of the times. Lincoln's body was taken to Springfield by train, and he was buried in the Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery on May 4, 1865. Because of the assassination, Reconstruction took place without Lincoln's guidance and leadership.


Abraham Lincoln is remembered for his vital role as the leader in preserving the Union during the Civil War and beginning the process that led to the end of slavery in the United States. He is also remembered for his character, his speeches and letters, and as a man of humble origins whose determination and perseverance led him to the nation's highest office.

Biography Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. He became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest. As the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years hard labour after being convicted of "gross indecency" with other men. After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry. He never returned to Ireland or Britain.

Oscar Wilde was the second son born into an Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Wilde (née Elgee) (her pseudonym being Speranza). Jane was a successful writer, being a poet for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848 and a life-long Irish nationalist. Sir William was Ireland's leading Oto-Ophthalmologic (ear and eye) surgeon and was knighted in 1864 for his services to medicine. William also wrote books on archaeology and folklore.

Wilde studied classics at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1871 to 1874, sharing rooms with his older brother Willie Wilde for two years. He was an outstanding student, and won the Berkeley Gold Medal, the highest award available to classics students at Trinity. He was awarded a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he continued his studies from 1874 to 1878 and where he became a part of the Aesthetic movement, one of its tenets being to make an art of life.

Wilde had a less than happy relationship with the prestigious Oxford Union. On matriculating in the autumn of 1874, Wilde applied to join the Union, but failed to be elected, a fact which came to light only recently. When the Union's librarian requested a presentation copy of Poems (1881), Wilde complied. After a debate called by Oliver Elton, the gift was condemned for supposed plagiarism and returned.

Though Wilde's sexual orientation has variously been considered bisexual and homosexual, Wilde himself felt he belonged to a culture of male love inspired by the Greek paederastic tradition.In describing his own sexual identity, Wilde used the term Socratic. He may have had significant sexual relationships with (in chronological order) Frank Miles, Constance Lloyd (his wife), Robert Baldwin Ross, and Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie"). Wilde also had numerous sexual encounters with working-class male youths, who were often rent boys.

Wilde made a complaint of criminal libel against the Marquess of Queensberry based on the calling card incident, and the Marquess was arrested but later freed on bail. The libel trial became a cause célèbre as salacious details of Wilde's private life with Alfred Taylor and Lord Alfred Douglas began to appear in the press.

Prison was unkind to Wilde's health and after he was released on 19 May 1897, he spent his last three years penniless, in self-imposed exile from society and artistic circles. He went under the assumed name of Sebastian Melmoth, after the famously "penetrated" Saint Sebastian and the devilish central character of Wilde's great-uncle Charles Robert Maturin's gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer.

Wilde died of cerebral meningitis on 30 November 1900. Different opinions are given as to the cause of the meningitis; Richard Ellmann claimed it was syphilitic; Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson, thought this to be a misconception, noting that Wilde's meningitis followed a surgical intervention, perhaps a mastoidectomy; Wilde's physicians, Dr. Paul Cleiss and A'Court Tucker, reported that the condition stemmed from an old suppuration of the right ear and did not allude to syphilis.