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The first three months of a panda bear’s life
A baby panda’s growing process is interesting but very difficult, because they are extremely fragile and can easily get sick and die. At breeding centers, 90% of baby pandas can survive nowadays, compared to no more than 30% in the 1960s. The Giant Panda is an endangered species. According to the latest report, China has 239 giant pandas in captivity (128 of them in Wolong and 67 in Chengdu), and another 27 pandas living outside the country.

April to May is the breeding season. Female and male pandas will have their rare moments together. After May, they drift apart. When the female one is 4-5 months pregnant, she will be anxious to find a hollow tree or cave as the delivery room. When the cub is born, she will raise her baby by herself.
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The world’s most popular singer of French chanson, coupled with the blues and jazz, Patricia Kaas is the owner of the inimitable voice – elegant, sensual and mysterious. Born in France in December 1966, Patricia Kaas has big sad eyes, teenage awkwardness and boyish haircut. Thin and fragile with a minimum of makeup on her face, thus she appeared on the stage. Meanwhile, her wardrobe consisted of a cap and modest little jackets, which are now hardly anyone remembers. Today she is elegant, refined, a femme fatale, who reduces men crazy with just one look of her bottomless blue eyes. Noteworthy, French pop singer and actress Kaas is the first international artist to visit 28 Russian cities, where she is the most favorite singer.
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Born on May 20, 1974 in Zelenograd, Moscow region, Olesya Sudzilovskaya is one of the most beautiful Russian actresses. She grew up in a family of engineers, where her mom and dad graduated from the Institute of meat and dairy products. At the age of four Olesya started doing artistic gymnastics and succeeded in it, having become a candidate for Master of Sports.

Interestingly, Olesya didn’t dream about movie career, and saw herself in a big sport.
Meanwhile, Olesya was fourteen years old when assistant director, who was searching for the actors, came to her class. No wonder, she picked up Olesya for the filming in Vladimir Potapov’s film ‘Mediator’. Olesya always showed excellent results, in sports and actress career. In total, her movie list consists of more than 55 films.
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Vintage futurism of retro inspired ads
Sao Paulo ad agency Moma Propaganda has created some hilarious vintage 1960s-style ads for Facebook, YouTube, Skype, and Playstation.

Well, just imagine how these net sites would look in the past. Outdated and aged images still inspire advertising campaigns today. Undoubtedly, the charm of passed era will never end. Its style, design and typography will always belong to the future. Meanwhile, Vintage powerfully conquers the fashion world. These wrapping and presenting current products and brands in ‘vintage’ style appear as Vintage futurism. And the creative connection between past and future will always attract us. According to Leo Burnett (October 21, 1891 – June 7, 1971), advertising executive and one of the most ‘creative’ men in the advertising business, ads should be simple. “Make it simple, memorable, and inviting to look at. And make it fun to read.” This is also true about retro inspired ads – simple, memorable, and fun to look at”.
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Metro stations hidden architecture
All the great cities of the world have their metropolitan net. At the most part of the cases, they are only functional infra-structures with thousands daily passersby. In other cases, like Moscow, lines and tunnels link stations with grandiose and retro architecture, where the passengers feel like guests of a solemnity. Through all over the world, we can find beautiful metropolitan stations, ancient or modern ones. It’s a pity that, at the daily rushing around, we have no time to take a long lasting kind of look…
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Live photographs by Arthur Mole
British-born American commercial photographer Arthur Samuel Mole (January 7, 1889, – 14 August 1983) became known for the series of his human photo compositions made during World War I. In particular, Woodrow Wilson, the Liberty Bell, Statue of Liberty, an American eagle, an emblem of the YMCA, and the Allied flag. Some massive compositions required the placement of to 30,000 people – soldiers, members of the military. John D. Thomas was his partner in this endeavor.

Noteworthy, Arthur Mole is a pioneer in the field of performed group photography. Executing photographs using such large numbers, and relying on lines of perspective stretching out more than a hundred meters, required a week of preparation. In addition, hours to actually position the formations. Mole would stand on his viewing tower and shout into a megaphone or use a long pole with a white flag to arrange the tens of thousands of soldiers into position.
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Georges Melies the First Cinemagician
French filmmaker Georges Melies was born on December 8, 1861. He was famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. Very innovative in the use of special effects, he accidentally discovered the stop trick, or substitution, in 1896. Besides, was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his films. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Georges Melies – often referred to as the First “Cinemagician”.

Exercising total control over all aspects of the filmmaking process, Georges Melies created perfectly self-contained worlds, most of them shot within the confines of his glass-walled studio in Montreuil.

Journey to the Moon, 1902. Georges Melies filmed this remarkable work of art, the first science fiction film in the history of cinema. This Short-farcical comedy, parodied scenes by Jules Verne’s “From the gun to the Moon” and HG Wells’ First Men in the Moon”. The film was made with a simple decor, in a private studio by Georges Melies and his acting troupe.

The Mysterious Portrait, 1899 is a very simple little short, with Melies going back to the magician role as he presents a trick for us. It’s him again in the lead role, and he presents to us a frame in the middle of a room. He walks around it and inside of it to show that it is a normal frame.
The two of them make exchanges for several seconds, until Melies asks him to do something and the frame distorts and the Melies double goes out of view. Melies than dances around the set excited about the success of his trick.

Le chateau hante, 1897. Man defies the warnings of his friend and going to spend the night in a haunted castle. He nonchalantly sitting in a chair that suddenly disappears and reappears on the other side of the room, making the daredevil fall to the ground. A man stands up, looks around indignantly and goes to the chair, about to put it in its place, but suddenly there is a mystery man in white robes and a hood-wielding box. Drawing his sword, the man lunged, but in place of a stranger appears skeleton. He shakes the skeleton, and he turns into a big guard, dressed in armor. Then he disappears, but the other man appears behind, pointing to the new appearance of a stranger in white.

La lune a un metre, 1898. An astronomer observes through a telescope on the moon. Suddenly, he sees a girl on the moon and goes to her. But it eats the moon. Then he realizes it was a dream.

First and foremost, Georges Melies films are the work of a showman, the tricks proudly displayed while the wizardry is kept under wraps. Usually prized for their intricate mise-en-scene, his films are also feats of editing-as-illusion, a fact easily missed by those accustomed to associating cuts with spatial transitions.

Instead, many of Me´lie`s’s disguised cuts operate to facilitate a transformation; accordingly, all elements of the mise-en-scene must remain in the same place while a single object is removed or re-positioned to enable the visual trick to work effectively. Through these substitution splices, Georges Melies engaged in a form of invisible editing, though not the type associated with later classical storytelling methods.

Illusions phantasmagorias, 1898. The magician conjures a dove and place it in the box. Out of the box appears a boy whom the magician divides in two with an ax. The two boys quarrel, and the magician turns one of them into a sheet of paper, which he tears into pieces. He puts the second boy in the box. Then the magician hammer smashes box to show that the boy had disappeared. The Boy reappears and turns into flags. Magician disappears in a puff of smoke and re-enters through the door to bow to the audience.

Un homme de tetes, 1898. The magician takes off his three heads and plays the banjo. Then he hits all three heads with banjo and adds himself another head.

Georges Melies the First Cinemagician

Beautiful Russian actress Evgenia Kryukova was born on June 11, 1971 in Moscow. She is a Soviet-Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia (2005), laureate of Youth Award “Triumph” (2005). Evgenia was born into a family of engineers. After leaving school she entered the Moscow Institute of Architecture, but left it. In 1988 Kryukova became an artist at the Moscow Youth Theater. Then she married an actor Mikhail Zhukov, with whom began to appear on stage as an actress. Her husband helped her acting career. In 1990 Evgenia entered GITIS. One day Evgenia was invited to star in a movie at “Belarusfilm” studio. However, her debut in the movie did not take place, but the desire to become an actress had become stronger.
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Seahorse facts
According to the Guinness Book of World Records (2009), seahorse if the slowest moving fish. In fact, the dwarf seahorse speed is about 5 feet (150 cm) per hour. Meanwhile, when seahorses find a mate, they wrap their tails around each other so the tide doesn’t drift them apart. During this time they may change color. Also, swimming side by side holding tails or grip the same strand of sea grass with their tails and wheel around in unison, so-called “pre-dawn dance”.

Noteworthy, they have that one mate for the rest of their lives! And when the mate dies, its partner dies too.

Seahorse is the title given to 54 species of marine fish in the genus Hippocampus. “Hippocampus” comes from the Ancient Greek hippos meaning “horse” and kampos meaning “sea monster”.

Reproduction is energetically costly to the male. This brings into question why the sexual role reversal even takes place. In an environment where one partner incurs more energy costs than the other, Bateman’s principle suggests that the lesser contributor takes the role of the aggressor. Male seahorses are more aggressive and sometimes “fight” for female attention.

Seahorse populations are thought to have been endangered in recent years by over fishing and habitat destruction. The seahorse is used in traditional Chinese herbology, and as many as 20 million seahorses may be caught each year and sold for this purpose.

Maybe the ocean is beyond powerful, for it holds precious jewels and nutrients that help humanity survive. We need its waters, we crave its roughness, and depend on it to teach us lifelong lessons.

Sea horses have bony rings instead of scales, and their eyes can move independently. They swim upright, propelling themselves horizontally with their fins and vertically with their swim bladder. They catch small organisms by sucking them quickly into their small mouths. The female deposits her eggs into a brood pouch beneath the male’s tail, and the male expels the newly hatched young.

Radical new armor based on sea creature’s tail revealed by Researchers who found interlocking plates on the tail can withstand huge amounts of pressure. The now hope to develop a ‘skin’ based on the design, which could be used to protect bomb disposal robots, and even soldiers. The tail’s exceptional flexibility is due to its structure, made up of bony, armored plates, which slide past each other, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, found.

Seahorse facts