lunes, 14 de diciembre de 2009

My Top Five favourite Painters

Dali :
Birth Name:Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
Born:Figueres 1904
Died:1989
Nationality:Spanish
Movement:Renassentist
Self-Portrait




Da Vinci:

Birth Name:Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Born:Vinci 1452
Died:1519
Nationality:Italian
Movement:Renassentist
Monalissa






Frida Kahlo:
Birth Name:Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
Born:Coyoacán1907
Died:1954
Nationality:Mexican
Movement:Realism
Self-Portait




Van Gogh:

Birth Name:Vincent Willem van Gogh
Born:1853
Died:1890
Nationality:Dutch
Movement:Impressionism
Branches





Picasso:
Birth Name:Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso Born:1881
Died:1973
Nationality:Spanish
Movement:Cubism
Bust

lunes, 30 de noviembre de 2009

Different types of Chili Peppers



Paprika chili pepper : 250 - 1000 Scovilles. A large, cone-shaped chili pepper. It is dried and ground to make the more familiar powdered spice.




Santa Fe Grande chili: 500 - 700 Scovilles. Also known as the yellow hot chile and the guero chile. Approximately 5 inches long and ripen from greenish-yellow, to orange-yellow to red.




Anaheim chili pepper: 500 - 1,000 Scovilles. Also known as the yellow hot chile and the guero chile. Approximately 5 incheslong and ripen from greenish-yellow, to orange-yellow to red.




Poblano chili pepper: 1,000 - 2,000 Scovilles. The poblano is an extremly popular chili peppers. 4 inches long, very dark green in color, ripening to dark red or brown.




Ancho chili pepper: 1,000 - 2,000 Scovilles. An Ancho pepper is dried form of the poblano chili pepper.

Jalapeno Pepper: 2,500 - 8,000 Scovilles. The world's most popular chili pepper! Harvested when they are green or red if allowed to ripen, about 4-6 inches long. A chipotle is a smoked jalapeno chili pepper.




Chipotle Pepper: 2,500 - 8,000 Scovilles. A chipotle is a smoked jalapeno chili pepper. You'll notice the distinctive smoky flavor of certain foods like salsas that have been prepared with chipotle peppers. Very delicious.




Morita Chili Pepper: 2,500 - 8,000 Scovilles. A smoked red jalapeno, similar to a chipotle pepper.




Serrano pepper: 5,000 - 23,000 Scovilles. A smaller version of the jalapeno, similar in color, but smaller, about 1 to 2 inches long, 1/2 inch wide. Dark green to redish in color. Getting spicier!




Tabasco pepper: 30,000 - 50,000 Scovilles. Yep, this is the chili pepper used in Tabasco sauce. The fruit is tapered and under 2 inches long. The color is usually creamy yellow to red.




Cayenne pepper: 30,000 - 50,000 Scovilles. A thin chile pepper, green to red in color, about 2 to 3 inches long. The "cayenne pepper" spice you use is the dried, ground version of this pepper.
Tien Tsin Pepper: 50,000 - 75,000 Scovilles. Popular in Asian fare. Very hot, bright red in color, 1 to 2 inch Chinese pods. You'll find these in Kung Pao chicken.




Rocoto Pepper: 50,000 - 100,000 Scovilles. AKA the Manzano pepper. This chili pepper is normally found in South America. It is among the oldest of domesticated chili peppers, and was grown up to as much as 5000 years ago. It is probably related to undomesticated chili peppers that still grow in South America.




Thai chili pepper: 50,000 - 100,000 Scovilles. These chili peppers seldom grow larger than 1 to 3 inches long. They are normally less than 1/2 inch wide, but pack a heck of a punch! These chili peppers are bright red or deep green, and end in a sharp point.




Scotch bonnet: 100,000 - 325,000 Scovilles. This is probably the cultivar of chili pepper that Christopher Columbus tried. Tam-shaped and found in the Caribbean. Other names for these chili peppers include booney peppers, bonney peppers, and goat peppers. They are usually red or yellow at maturity




Habanero chili pepper: 100,000 - 350,000 Scovilles. Related to the Scotch Bonnet. This one is the granddaddy of all the hot peppers in terms of heat level. Grown mainly on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, its coloring is yellow-orange, orange or bright red, depending upon when it's harvested. Average Size 1 to 2 1/2 inches long and 1 to 2 inches diameter and tam-shaped.



Red Savina Habanero: 350,000 - 580,000 Scovilles. The hottest chili pepper on record, until the Bhut Jolokia came along!




Bhut Jolokia: 1,001,304 Scovilles. Now, truly the hottest chili pepper around!







lunes, 23 de noviembre de 2009

American Cocker Spaniel




The American Cocker Spaniel is a medium size breed of dog . It is one of the Spaniel type breeds, similar to the English Cocker Spaniel, and was originally bred as a gun dog. In the United States, the breed is usually referred to as the Cocker Spaniel, while in Canada and elsewhere in the world, it is called the American Cocker Spaniel. The word cocker is commonly held to stem from their use to hunt woodcock in England. Although the Cocker Spaniel type originated in the United Kingdom, by the 1940s the American breed was recognized as distinct from the English breed.



martes, 10 de noviembre de 2009

The 30 Languages Most Spoken In The World




There are approximately 6900 languages currently spoken around the world, the majority of which have only a small number of speakers. About 4 billion of the earth's 6.5 billion people, or over 60% of the earth's population, speak one of the following 30 languages as their native tongue.Languages are ordered in the table below by numbers of native speakers. Numbers of second-language speakers are given where known. Second language speakers are those whose native language is typically a minority language of the country in which they live and who learn the second language because it is the official national language of the country where they reside.


1.
Mandarin Chinese
NATIVE: 873 million2nd: 178 millionTOTAL: 1.051 billion.

OFFICIAL: People's Republic of China, Republic of China, Singapore.


2.
Hindi
NATIVE: 370 million2nd:120 millionTOTAL: 490 million.

OFFICIAL: India, Fiji.


3.
Spanish
NATIVE: 350 million2nd: 70 millionTOTAL: 420 million.

OFFICIAL: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, United States (New Mexico, Puerto Rico), Uruguay, Venezuela.


4.
English
NATIVE: 340 millionTOTAL: 510 million.

OFFICIAL: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong (People's Republic of China), India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Maritius, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevs, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somolia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe.


5.
Arabic
NATIVE: 206 million2nd: 24 millionTOTAL: 230 million[World Almanac est. total 255 million]

OFFICIAL: Modern Standard Arabic: Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Quatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen. Hasaniya Arabic: Mauritania, SenegalNATIONAL: Mali
Note: These figures combine all the varieties of Arabic. Some data sources, e.g. CIA World Fact Book, World Almanac, Ethnologue, treat these varieties as separate languages.


6.
Portuguese
NATIVE: 203 million2nd: 10 millionTOTAL: 213 million.

OFFICIAL: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macau (People's Republic of China), Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé e Príncipe.


7.
Bengali
NATIVE: 196 millionTOTAL: 215 million.

OFFICIAL: Bangladesh, India (Tripura, West Bengal).


8.
Russian
NATIVE: 145 million2nd: 110 millionTOTAL: 255 million.

OFFICIAL: Abkhazia (part of Georgia), Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyyrgyzstan, Russia, Transnistria (part of Moldova).


9.
Japanese
NATIVE: 126 million2nd: 1 millionTOTAL: 127 million.

OFFICIAL: Japan, Palau.


10.
German
NATIVE: 101 million2nd: 128 millionTOTAL: 229 million.

OFFICIAL: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy (South Tyrol), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Siwtzerland.


11.
Panjabi
Western: 60 millionEastern: 28 millionTOTAL: 88 million.

OFFICIAL: India (Punjab)NATIONAL: Pakistan.


12.
Javanese
76 million.

OFFICIAL: Indonesia (esp. Java).


13.
Korean
71 million.

OFFICIAL: North Korea, South Korea.


14.
Vietnamese
NATIVE: 70 million2nd: 16 millionTOTAL: 86 million.

OFFICIAL: Vietnam.


15.
Telugu
NATIVE: 70 million2nd: 5 millionTOTAL: 75 million.

OFFICIAL: India (Andhra Pradesh).


16.
Marathi
NATIVE: 68 million2nd: 3 millionTOTAL: 71 million.

OFFICIAL: India (Daman and Diu, Goa, Maharashtra).


17.
Tamil
NATIVE: 68 million2nd: 9 millionTOTAL: 77 million.

OFFICIAL: India (Tamil Nadu), Singapore, Sri Lanka.


18.
French
NATIVE: 67 million2nd: 63 millionTOTAL: 130 million.

OFFICIAL or NATIONAL: Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, French Polynesia, Gabon, Guernsey, Guinea, Haiti, India (Karikal, Pondicherry), Italy, Jersey, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Monaco, New Caledonia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, United States (Louisiana), Vanuatu.


19.
Urdu
NATIVE: 61 million2nd: 43 millionTOTAL: 104 million.

OFFICIAL: India (Jammu and Kashmir), Pakistan.


20.
Italian
61 million.

OFFICIAL: Croatia (Istria Country), Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland.


21.
Turkish
NATIVE: 60 million2nd: 15 millionTOTAL: 75 million.

OFFICIAL: Bulgaria (Kurdzhali Province and areas of South and East Bulgaria), Cyprus, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Turkey.


22.
Persian
54 million.

OFFICIAL: Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan.


23.
Gujarati
46 million.

OFFICIAL: India (Gujarat, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli).


24.
Polish
46 million.

OFFICIAL: Poland.


25.
Ukrainian
39 million.

OFFICIAL: Ukraine, Transnistria (part of Moldova).


26.
Malayalam
37 million.

OFFICIAL: India (Kerala, Lakshadweep, Mahe).


27.
Kannada
NATIVE: 35 million2nd: 9 millionTOTAL: 44 million.

OFFICIAL: India (Karnataka).


28.
Oriya
32 million.

OFFICIAL: India (Orissa).


29.
Burmese
NATIVE: 32 million2nd: 10 millionTOTAL: 42 million.


OFFICIAL: Myanmar.


30.
Thai
NATIVE: 20 million2nd: 40 millionTOTAL: 60 million.

OFFICIAL: Thailand.