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Á baðkari til Betlehem

The show follows two eight-year-old children, Hafliði and Stína, who embark on an adventurous journey to Bethlehem, in order to bring Baby Jesus the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

Aldeia do Mato

The Recreational and Leisure Nautical Park attracts tourists from within the country, owing to biodiversity (that includes various species of wild pine, eucalyptus, strawberry tree, heather, olive trees), water sports (swimming, sailing, kayaking, canoeing, windsurfing), and recent developments that have attracted new tourists, including hiking trails, motocrossing, repelling and other trips orientated towards the more adventurous;

Brotas

Despite its coffee-oriented historical economic development, Brotas is known internationally for its specialization in adventure tourism, hosting the practice of several adventurous sports such as rafting and canoeing, taking advantage of the Jacaré Pepira River.

Caucasian Journey

Colin Thubron described the book as a classic, calling it "the record of an unrepeatable journey - adventurous, wry and robustly evocative."

David Hassell

The idea for 15Five originated with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, who implemented a weekly "5-15 report" to keep track of his employees and business while he enjoyed his adventurous life.

Deirdre Hyde

In her twenties she was inspired by the adventurous tradition of Maria Sibylla Merian, Emilio Spann, Frederick Catherwood, Margaret Mee and Marianne North.

Fernanda

Fernanda (pronounced fer-NAHN-dah) is a Portuguese, Spanish and Italian feminine equivalent of Fernando, a male given name of Germanic origin, with an original meaning of "adventurous, bold journey".

Francis Rawdon Chesney

This was the original basis of Lesseps’ great undertaking (in 1869 Lesseps greeted him in Paris as the “father “ of the canal); and in 1831 he introduced to the home government the idea of opening a new overland route to India, by a daring and adventurous journey along the Euphrates valley from Anah to the Persian Gulf.

Helena Kaut-Howson

Her vision and adventurous policy raised the profile of that theatre to an international league and attracted many major artists, including Anthony Hopkins and Julie Christie.

Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland

After succeeding to the Dukedom on the death of his father, 11 October 1988, he was noted for planting many trees at Syon House, the Ducal residence at Brentford; for an unsuccessful foray into film-making involving the Duke in front of and behind the camera; for a relationship with Naomi Campbell's mother Valerie; and for excessive and adventurous drug taking.

Hickory, Oklahoma

Hickory was the birthplace and childhood home of Zack Mosley, the creator of the comic strip The Adventures of Smilin' Jack, an adventurous aviator, inspired by Mosley witnessing an early plane crash in Hickory.

Hugh Hastings Romilly

He was of adventurous disposition, and joined in Fiji in October 1879 Sir Arthur Gordon, the governor (afterwards Lord Stanmore).

Irene Mayer Selznick

She was an adventurous young girl of considerable intellect who became a lifelong friend of actress Katharine Hepburn.

Jim Sharman

The ensemble included many major Australian artists, including actors Geoffrey Rush, Gillian Jones, John Wood and Kerry Walker and associate director Neil Armfield, who would further develop this adventurous tradition at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre.

Joseph Storey

Storey maintained an excellent working relationship with the sisters of the Ursuline convent who were encouraging and adventurous clients, and subsequently recommended him highly to become the architect for a similar project for the Ursuline Religious Order in Lima, Peru.

Kirsten Munk

One of Kirsten's daughters, Countess Leonora Christina, distinguished herself by an internationally adventurous life, followed by imprisonment for decades in Denmark's royal dungeon, and by the posthumous publication of her memoirs, still well regarded both as Scandinavian prose and as early feminist literature.

Koby Israelite

King Papaya, his most adventurous record to date, was independently released in 2009 to positive reviews.

Los autonautas de la cosmopista

It also contains a great amount of photography taken by Carol Dunlop during the span of their adventurous tour.

Mark Anstice

Mark Anstice (born 17 May 1967 in the Angus Glens area of Scotland) is a Scottish explorer, adventurous documentary reality television film maker and writer.

Mark Wingfield

"A fantastic, expansive and adventurous album from two master musicians. Unquestionably, one of the best albums of this or any other year." Anil Prasad of Innerviews

Meat Is Murder

Musically, the band had grown more adventurous, with Marr and Rourke channelling rockabilly and funk influences in "Rusholme Ruffians" and "Barbarism Begins at Home".

Melinda Looi

Melinda’s favourite designer is Jean Paul Gaultier for his ever changing bold and adventurous style that dares to be different.

Nancy Harkness Love

Although she went to all the right schools, including Milton Academy in Massachusetts and Vassar in New York, she was restless and adventurous.

Neten Chokling

The film is about the adventurous years of the legendary buddhist mystic, Milarepa (1052-1135), who is one of the most widely known Tibetan Saints, and who initially set out for vengeance and retribution.

Paras Arora

Moreover, because of his adventurous role in "Veer Shivaji", he has also learnt Horse-riding, Sword-fighting, handling various types of weapons, etc.

Raichak

Those who are more adventurous can make also use the Raichak jetty or the nearby Nurpur jetty and take a ferry across the river to go to Kukrahati in East Midnapore district or Gadiara in Howrah district.

Remembering John

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states that "McCoy Tyner still sounds enthusiastic and adventurous performing the timeless music".

Restoration comedy

They stole freely from the contemporary French and Spanish stage, from English Jacobean and Caroline plays, and even from Greek and Roman classical comedies, and combined the looted plotlines in adventurous ways.

Rustle the Leaf

Also in the cast were 6 other characters: "Dandy" (a persecuted, paranoid Dandelion seed), "Fuego" (a firefly), "Paige" (a water drop), "Dizzy" (a helicoptering Silver Maple seed), "Professor Oakmont" (a sagacious Oak tree), and "Amelia" (an adventurous dragonfly).

Sage Reynolds

Sage has performed and recorded with many different musicians and groups such as Sage Reynolds Quartet, Sienna Dahlen, Stars, Amon Tobin, Ismail Fencioglu, Kaba Horo, Sean Craig Quintet, Michel Berthiaume Quintet, Rita Chiarelli, and Lenya B. He is currently collaborating with local bassist/composer Miles Perkin in the organization of “Mont-Royal Composers Forum”, a project that showcases new and adventurous original music.

Spicers Gap Road Conservation Park

Until the late 1990s, Spicers Gap Road was a popular diversion from the Cunningham Highway for adventurous off-roaders.

Trosley Country Park

An 'Adventurous Pub Walk' (of 8.5 miles) starts in the park and leads to Ryarsh and Addington, before returning to the park.

Umbrella Music

Last year's Umbrella Music festival was called Chicago's second-most "impressive and adventurous jazz festival of the year" and featured European musicians together with Chicagoans such as John Herndon and Ken Vandermark.

Valerie Grosvenor Myer

"These episodes suggested that Valerie's life was becoming more adventurous and dangerous as she neared retirement age," wrote Sue Limb in her obituary in The Guardian.

Victor Willing

Willing was admired by his fellow students for his adventurous talent and intellectual zest and was denoted 'spokesman for his generation' by the critic David Sylvester.

We Couldn't Leave Dinah

Later Caroline compares their gloomy attitude unfavorably to the adventurous spirits of two sets of children in popular books of the time, the Arthur Ransome children (of the Swallows and Amazons series of books) and M. E. Atkinson's Lockett family (from August Adventure, Mystery Manor etc.): “each child brooded upon those fascinating, incredible spirits of the nursery bookshelf, each the irresistible magnet of adventure”.


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