Indian Jungle In The Centre Of London

Mangoes, bamboo, lotus flowers, coconut palms ... the typical flora of the Hindu landscape have sprung up in the esplanade in front of the British Museum, as magic of the living art, converting that open space into real tropical heaven right in the heart of the British capital. This original installation, directly inspired by the collections of the museum and of the Botanic Gardens, intent to show the rich variety of plants and trees that grow in India, and their direct connections with the traditional culture of the country. Through the path surrounded by leafy vegetation, the visitors can observer from the rocky ambience of the Himalayas till the tropical splendour of exuberance of the south of India. Quite an ingenious idea to create the Indian jungle right amongst the hustle and bustle of one of the world's most cosmopolitan and busiest cities. Inside the museum is the exhibition 'Garden & Cosmos', where 56 paintings of the royal court, unedited; none of which had been seen in Europe before, from the collection of Mehrangarh Museum Trust of Jodhpur, . In these the richness of the jungle forest of Rajastan region is reproduced The most distinctive species can also be admired in the exterior. Until the 27th of September. I wished to find a picture of the finished garden but got only this one when they began to work on it. Tags:India,London,Museum,jungle

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A Mixed Bag Of Nonsense

** The computer
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.

I wish life had an UNDO function.

If your computer says, "Printer out of Paper," this problem cannot be resolved by continuously clicking the "OK" button.

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

A program is a device used to convert data into error messages.

** Gender of flies
A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.

“What are you doing?” She asked.
“Hunting Flies” He responded.
“Oh. Killing any?” She asked.
“Yep, 3 males, 2 Females,” he replied.
Intrigued, she asked. “How can you tell them apart?”
He responded, “3 were on a beer can, 2 were on the phone.”

** The only love

Wife : "How many women have you slept with?"
Husband : "Only you Darling; with all the others, I stayed awake!"

If you never see him again, check behind the backwall of the kitchen.

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Rita, Gilda & Salome

Occasionally I have company in my morning ritual of coffee and paper in the 'Office'. I did yesterday and was told to watch out for the movie 'Gilda', on late in the evening (nearly all worthwhile films are only put on late night here in Spain). So I stayed up for 2 extra hours to see it, again, for must have been the 3rd time if not the 4th!! Mind you, over a period of 10 or more years. And, I found that I still prefer the oldies than a lot of the present day films.

If you, like me, appreciate a good story, excellent acting, and terrific direction, beautiful music and atmospheric photography and settings, you will like this one too. It's made in 1946, a skillfully put together romantic melodrama that has since been classified as film noir, and justifiably became a mythical reference - amongst other reasons, for the glamorous composition of Rita Hayworth, anthological (her and her long gloves), singing 'Put the blame on Mame', the most famous, insinuated striptease in the film history. Nearly as famous is the slap on her face proffered by Glen Ford.

'Gilda' has it's morbid side, contemplated not as a classic melodrama of a typical love triangle (2 men in love with the same woman), but in it's underground slope: the ambiguous homosexual current that runs between Ford and the proprietor of the casino, an extraordinary George Macready. The flaming chemistry between Hayworth and Ford, which had already sparked in 'The lady in question' under the direction of the same director here, Charles Vidor, continued to spark and later on, in lesser degree, in 'The loves of Carmen' and 'The lady of Trinidad', going on after this to collaborate together in 1966, in 'The money trap'.

Each time I see an old film of Rita Hayworth, I almost always immediately recall her very, very sensual dance of the 7 veils in the film 'Salome', with 'Gilda' only as the 2nd reminder of her. Don't miss that dance if you should be lucky enough to come across it (not so much the movie, just the dance). Although many beautiful actresses and marvellous dancers have performed the same dance, nobody but nobody had ever come even close to Rita's incredibly sexy interpretation. I believe probably never again to be achieved by any other.

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