The Suite bergamasque is one of the most famous piano suites by Claude Debussy (1862-1918). He commenced the suite in 1890 at age 28, but he did not finish or publish it until 1905, when he was 43.
The third and most famous movement of Suite bergamasque is "Clair de Lune," meaning "Moonlight" in French. Its name comes from Paul Verlaine's poem of the same name.
Clair de Lune expresses a sense of floating, ethereal harmony.
Israel's Ramat Gan Safari announced the birth of a rare red-haired baboon girl.
Just like humans, the gene for red hair amongst Hamadryas Baboons is recessive and it was exactly 30 years ago when the last red-haired baboon was born at the old Tel Aviv Zoo.
More pictures at http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2011/02/rare-red-haired-babooon-.html.
Bibi Aisha, an 18-year-old woman from Afghanistan, who fled back to her family home from her husband's house, complaining of violent treatment. The Taliban arrived one night, demanding Bibi be handed over to face justice. After a Taliban commander pronounced his verdict, Bibi's brother-in-law held her down and her husband sliced off her ears and then cut off her nose. Bibi was abandoned, but later rescued by aid workers and the American military. After time in a women's refuge in Kabul, she was taken to America, where she received counseling and reconstructive surgery. Bibi Aisha now lives in the US.
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Jules Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author from Brittany who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated individual author in the world. Some of his books have been made into films. Verne, along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction".in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne
