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1976 At precisely 9:47 am on April 1, Pluto will pass behind Jupiter, causing a brief reduction in Earth's gravitational pull. Astronomer Patrick Moore urges his BBC Radio audience to jump into the air at that exact moment to experience a floating sensation. At 9:48, dozens of light-headed listeners begin calling the station to report their success.
1984 Never mind the Cold War; the Soviets want to initiate unfettered discussions with Americans via Usenet newsgroups. This according to a message from what appears to be a Kremlin server (kremvax.UUCP). Thus the Internet hoax is born. When Moscow's first real Usenet site appears years later, it's named kremvax.
1994 A proposed law will ban online sex chat and inebriated Web surfing. "Congress apparently thinks being drunk on a highway is bad no matter what kind of highway it is," editorializes PC Computing. The bill's supposed sponsor, Senator Ted Kennedy, is not in on the joke. After an onslaught of complaints from drunken perverts, he issues a formal denial.
1997 Between March 31 and April 2, the World Wide Web will be closed for cleaning. Five Japanese-built, multilingual Internet-crawling robots will remove "electronic flotsam and jetsam." But don't believe everything you read in an email.
1998 In accordance with a biblical passage describing the circumference-to-diameter ratio of a bowl in the Temple of Solomon (1 Kings 7:23), the Alabama legislature has voted to round the value of pi to 3.0. Well, that was the claim made by the New Mexicans for Science and Reason in their newsletter ... or rather, circular.
1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion. The School of Engineering will be renamed the School of Imagineering and the campus will move to Orlando, according to hackers who altered the MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena cluster.
1999 To fund the US government's $4 billion next-gen Internet project, millions of Internet nodes are available for an initial price of $100 each at Webnode.com. The Business Wire press release induces nearly 2,000 would-be investors to try to buy in. Another name for this April foolery was "the tech boom."
2003 Bill Gates is dead, shot by a lone gunman at a charity event in Los Angeles. After three South Korean networks broadcast the story on local TV, ensuing panic triggers a 1.5 percent drop in the Seoul stock exchange — a value loss of $3 billion. Just another Windows-related crash.
"To the citizens of the United States of America :
In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas , which she does not fancy).
Your new prime minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections.
Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.
1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour', "humour", "lanour" and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix -ize will be replaced by the suffix -ise.
Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up 'vocabulary').
3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as 'like' and 'you know' is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.
There is no such thing as US English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell- checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of -ize. You will relearn your original national anthem, God Save The Queen.
4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent.
Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.
6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
7. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
8. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left immediately. At the same time, you will go metric - without the benefit of conversion tables.
Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
9. The Former U.S.A. will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have erroneously been calling gasoline)-roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.
10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
11. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager.
South African beer is also acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting Nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth - see what it did for them.
12. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters.
Watching Andie McDowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.
13. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football - you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds, calling for a tweebie "free catch", or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). Don't try Rugby - the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, just like they regularly thrash us.
14. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America . Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.
You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
15. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
16. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
17. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups, never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; and, of course, strawberries in season.
God save the Queen.
Only He can.
John Cleese"

Foi inaugurado o Museu Virtual de Aristides Sousa Mendes, aconselho-vos a visita. Pena é que o Museu Real de Aristides Sousa Mendes na Casa do Passal não seja também uma realidade. Esperemos que um dia venha a ser.Maui viveu em Hawaiiki e tinha uns poderes mágicos que poucos conheciam. Um dia quando era pequeno, escondeu-se no fundo do barco dos irmãos para ir poder pescar com eles. Remaram e remaram e quando já estavam em alto mar, Maui foi descoberto por eles, mas não o puderam levar de volta, porque tinha usado os seus poderes mágicos, para fazer parecer a costa muito mais longe do que estava na realidade.
Sem poder voltar para trás, os irmãos continuaram a remar. Quando já estavam em alto mar Maui deitou o seu anzol pela borda da canoa (waka), como era um anzol mágico passado um bocado sentiu um forte puxão na linha, mas não era um puxão qualquer era demasiado forte para ser de peixe normal, por isso pediu ajuda aos seus irmãos.
Depois de muito puxar e lutar, de repente emergiu Te Ika a Maui ( o peixe de Maui), hoje conhecido como a North Island da Nova Zelândia. Maui disse aos seus irmãos que os deuses poderiam ficar zangados com isto, e pediu-lhes para esperar um pouco enquanto fazia as pazes com os deuses.
No entanto, assim que Maui desapareceu os seus irmãos começaram a discutir a posse da nova terra, pegaram nas suas armas e começaram a bater repetitivamente com violência no chão, estes golpes na terra criaram as muitas montanhas e vales da North Island que podemos ver hoje em dia.
A South Island que é conhecida como Te Waka a Maui (a canoa de Maui) e a Stwart Island que fica no sul da Nova Zelândia, é conhecida como Te Punga a Maui ( o ancoradoro de Maui), pois era o ancoradoro que segurava a canoa de Maui enquanto este puxava o peixe gigante.
Fonte:The New Zealand Encyclopedia 4th Edition
Uia mai koia,
Whakahuatia ake;
Ko wai te whare nei e?
Ko Te Kani
Ko wai te tekoteko kei runga?
Ko Paikea! Ko Paikea!
Whakakau Paikea. Hei!
Whakakau he tipua. Hei!
Whakakau he taniwha. Hei!
Ka ū Paikea ki Ahuahu. Pakia!
Kei te whitia koe
ko Kahutia-te-rangi. Aue!
Me awhi o ringa ki te tamahine
a Te Whironui. Aue!
Nāna i noho Te Roto-o-tahe.
Aue! Aue!

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Acordei, sentido-te ainda ao meu lado, embora saiba que não estás lá, o meu corpo não se habituou ainda à ausência do teu. O coração sente o imenso vazio, mesmo que este seja apenas de umas horas, está dilacerado, está a aprender a dar os primeiros passos neste estado de ausência de ti.
Tenho de te deixar ir, tenho de te deixar ir para que percebas o que há muito eu já percebi.
Eu por meu lado, tenho que deixar de sentir por uns tempos, para que a dor não me avassale o espírito, do mesmo modo em que vai rasgando o corpo e a alma. O teu sorriso está sempre presente, a tua voz, o teu corpo junto do meu, os teus dedos entrelaçados nos meus, o sabor dos beijos que teimas não deixar…
Fazes-me falta. Adoro-te!
Acordei, sentido-te ainda ao meu lado, embora saiba que não estás lá..
in http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/1093/wolf.html"A warrior must prepare for battle even on her deathbed, my mother used to say. Though when they came, she looked up from her bones and with one crack in the stuff of her, she was gone. They put us in sheets and took us. Where were we? My life slipped out of me and down, when now the sun, my enemy, has baked up all the holes. I ask the rain to soften the earth so my life may come back to me, upwards (...) Then the compound, our play. The churning orphans gallop. I make my place by the long wall. My sister crawls under the thorn bushes and hisses. I am a coward. If I was a true daughter to my mother the wolf, I would put my teeth on the red leg of the nearest girl of all. White ghost, white ghost, she sings. But my eyes are bad. I will not leave the shadows."
Wolf-girl (c. 1909 - c. 1936)
From The Diary of the Wolf Girls of Midnapore by the reverend Joseph Singh. Two girls, aged one and seven years old, were found by the Rev. Singh, suckling a wolf in a cave in West Bengal, India, in 1916. The wolf was killed, then the sisters taken to his Mission Orphanage to be raised as "human beings again". The younger one died in a couple of weeks.