Hoxton (origin Hoc's farm) is an area of London (UK) in the London Borough of Hackney, immediately north of the financial district of the City of London. Formerly the home to furniture craftsmen and shoemakers, the industrial lofts and buildings were occupied by young artists in the early 1990s. Their presence gradually drew other creative people into the area (especially magazines, design firms, and dot-coms) so that by the turn of the century, Hoxton had become a vibrant arts and entertainment district boasting a large number of bars, nightclubs, restaurants, and art galleries. In this period, the new Hoxton residents could be identified by their obscurely fashionable (or "ironically" unfashionable) clothes and their hair (the so-called "Hoxton Fin", as exemplified by Fran Healy of Travis).
Hoxton has long been the home of Hoxton Market, a once popular market that has declined over many years. It has lost its status to neighbouring markets such as Bethnal Green and Dalston. The area has recently become gentrified as a result of attempts at regeneration that have aroused hostility among some local residents. These projects have invested millions of pounds in new housing close to the City.
Although Hoxton and neighbouring Shoreditch were once separate places, the two now have ill-defined borders and are often deliberately or unwittingly conflated into "Hoxton" or "Shoreditch", though the portmanteau word "Hoxditch" is also used. The confusion originates from prior to 1965 when both areas formed part of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch and is compounded by some street signs in the area which still bear this name instead of the London Borough of Hackney which replaced it.
Hoxton (and Shoreditch) denizens have been satirised in the satirical magazine Shoreditch Twat, on the TVGoHome website, and in its sitcom incarnation Nathan Barley. In recent years, Shoreditch and Hoxton have been home to pop musicians Jarvis Cocker and Future Sound of London, fashion designerAlexander McQueen, and artists Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Gilbert and George, along with actor and heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal. The focal point in the area is Hoxton Square, a small park bordered by industrial buildings, one of which was home to Dr James Parkinson, the 19th century physician who first diagnosed Parkinson's Disease.
As private developers moved in to cash in on the area's trendy image, property prices rose steeply. In response, the local council formed a not-for-profit corporation, Shoreditch Our Way (ShOW), to buy local buildings and lease them out as community facilities and housing.
Zorro
Zorro
In limba spaniola Zorro inseamna vulpe. Numele a fost folosit pentru un caracter intr-un roman de fictiune. Personajul Zorro este un erou mascat din perioada dominatiei Mexicane a Californiei. Numele real al lui Zorro ar fi Don Diego de la Vega. El este un spadasin desavarsit care lupta pentru a scapa poporul Californio (populatia Hispanofona din California) de sub tirania guvernatorului Spaniol. Zorro-vulpe a capatat aceasta porecla datorita istetimii lui si a capacitatii de a scapa de sub nasul autoritatilor si a le ridiculiza incontinuu.
Uniforma lui Zorro este un costum negru cu o tu
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani ( - 12 iulie1884, Livorno - †24 ianuarie1920, Paris) a fost un pictor şi sculptor italian stabilit în Franţa, reprezentant al "Şcolii Pariziene" ("École de Paris"), evidenţiat
Antimetafizică
Volum inedit al poetului român Nichita Stănescu (1933 - 1983), apărut postum. În această carte extrem de interesantă, o carte-încercare, conţinând interviuri, poeme, poeme-dialog între interveviat şi reporter, eseuri şi chiar proză scurtă, marele poet român este insoţit de Aurelian Titu Dumitrescu (ATD). De fapt, volumul şi ideea sa s-au concretizat la insistenţa lui ATD,
Igris
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În anul 1179 a fost înălţată aici mănăstirea călugărilor cistercieni, distrusă apoi de invazia tătară din anul 1241.
Mănăstir
Marele Premiu al Australiei
Foster's Australian Grand Prix
Albert Park
220 Albert Road
South Melbourne
Australia
Tel: (+61) 392587100
Fax: (+61) 396993727
Pagina oficiala a circuitului
http://www.grandprix.com.au/
Cand Formula 1 a venit in Australia in 1985, si-a stabilit cartierul general in Adelaide. Chiar si in acest caz, Bob Jane, un fost pilot transformat in antreprenor de curse auto, vroia un Mare Premiu in Melbourne. El a creat un mare "thunderdrome" si a inventat campionatul AUSCAR, astfel aducand actiunea NASCAR-ului in Australia.
Dorinta de a avea o cursa in Melbourne insa nu a disparut. In ciuda sfarsit
