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Dogs have the ability to know when someone is sad and you're likely to get closer when she cries to offer comfort

Many distinctive Native-American cultures existed when Europeans arrived in the mid-1500s. An estimated 10 million Indians then lived in cultures with several hundred mutually incomprehensible languages and widely varying social structures. Any survey of cultural regions in such a diversity of group must focus on broad similarities. In the woodland Eastern half of the country were areas now known as the Northeastern and Southeastern Maize regions, where a variety of native cultures depended on different combinations of hunting, fishing, farming and gathering. These are called maize cultures because maize or corn was the most important staple of the Indians' diet. The longer growing season in the Southeastern Maize Region resulted in more extensive and highly developed agriculture. In the East as a whole, most housing was constructed of wood, bark, and thatch. Women ans children usually farmed while men hunted and fished. Well-known cultural groups here were the Iroquois, Huron, Mohican, Delaware and Shawnee in the North and the Powhatan, Creek, Cherokee, Seminole, and Natchez in the South. The Indian cultural area in the prairies and Great Plains is known as the Plais or Bison Region. For thousands of years the population of this area was sparse compared with other parts of the continent. People lived along waterways and depended on riverbank farming, small-game hunting, and gathering. Lacking any other means of transportation, they went on a communal buffalo (bison) hunt once a year on foot. Then between 1700 and 1750 they discovered how to use the horses that reached them from Spanish-controlled areas to the south, and Native-American Plains culture was transformed. The population grew because the food supply increased dramatically when bison were hunted on horseback. Learning of this, some tribes, such as the Dakota, migrated from nearby woodlands to the open steppes farther west. Plains people exchanged their settled farming customs for the nomadic culture of year-round buffalo hunters, discarding sod lodges for the poprtable tipi and evolving a society dominated by a warrior hunting-class. The groups transformed by the arrival of the horse ( the Blackfoot, Crow, Cheyenne, and Dakota) are among the best-known of Indians, largely because of their fierce resistance to white settlement on their hunting grounds.

The Ebola virus causes an acute, serious illness which is often fatal if untreated. Ebola virus disease (EVD) first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, one in Nzara, Sudan, and the other in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter occurred in a village near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name.

goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.

Beyoncé just released a new video of the live collaboration of Flawless with Nicki Minaj, which initially garnered attention in September. The clip was first seen in HBO's "Beyonce and Jay Z On the Run," which became available on Sept. 20.
In an interview immediately following the show, Minaj said that it was a very emotional night. "I was very honored to be a part of it," she said. “To me, they represent drive and passion and they represent everything that I would like to be, in terms of being an artist and a businesswoman at the same time."

Tim Burton - a short biography
Tim Burton is one of the best known directors in American cinema today. He has directed and produced some of the most original films in the world.
How it all started !
Tim Burton was born on August 25, 1958 in Burbank, California. His favourite activities were drawing cartoons, watching old movies and dreaming. By the time he was sixteen, he had left home. In 1976 he won a scholarship at the California Institute for the Arts and in 1979, though he was only twenty-one, he started working as an animator for the Disney Studios.
Piling up hits !
When Disney refused his short film, Frankenweenie, which was considered too scary for children, Burton left the studios. Five years later, he reached world fame with big box-office hits such as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) and Beetlejuice (1988) which is a strange gothic comedy. However, it was Batman, an enormous hit which established Burton as one of the rising stars in the world of cinema. Burton went on piling hits such as this first film with his friend Johnny Depp Edward Scissorshands (1990), and Batman returns (1992). In 2001 he meets the actress Helena Bonham Carter, who is now his partner in life. He also directed successful and very original films like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride (2005), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Tim Burton won a Golden Globe for Best Picture in 2007 for Sweeney Todd.
More than a director
Tim Burton is not just a director. He has also produced such varied box-office successes as The Nightmare before Christmas (1993) and Batman Forever (1995). And besides his work as a director and producer, he also wrote a book with a very strange title The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and other stories. He has a son called Billy Ray and a daughter called Nell.
With all of this to Burton's credit, it's no wonder that he is regarded as one of the greatest figures in entertainment. He is one of the wealthiest film makers in the world. Thanks to such creative films, he has a very devoted and enthusiastic fan club.
"One person's craziness is another person's reality." -Tim Burton

Patellar tendinopathy (jumper’s knee) is a clinical diagnosis of pain and dysfunction in the patellar tendon. It most commonly affects jumping athletes from adolescence through to the fourth decade of life. This condition affects health and quality of life by limiting sports and activity participation for recreational athletes and can be career-ending for professional athletes. Once symptoms are aggravated, activities of daily living are affected, including stairs, squats, stand to sit, and prolonged sitting.

Chips
South American Indians ate potatoes 4000 years ago.
Potatoes arrived in Europe nearly five centuries ago, but they weren´t popular al first.
People didn´t eat them –because they thought they were poisonous-.
The most popular fast food is “French fries”, or in the USA, just “fries”. The British call them “chips”, is the traditional British fast food.

One summer day in frog creek a mysterious tree house

1. Shonda Rhimes was obsessed with watching surgical shows on the Discovery Channel.
2. But her idea for Grey’s Anatomy really started to develop after a doctor told her how hard it is to shave her legs in a hospital shower.
3. Rhimes almost set Grey’s Anatomy in her hometown, Chicago, but decided not to in order to not have the show feel too similar to another medical drama, E.R., which is set in the same city.
4. Grey’s Anatomy was going to be called Complications.
5. Miranda Bailey was the only role written with a character description: “tiny blonde with curls.”
6. She was loosely based off Rhimes’ mother.
7. But when Chandra Wilson auditioned, Rhimes was convinced she was perfect.
8. Sandra Oh originally auditioned for the part of Bailey.
9. But Oh loved the character of Cristina Yang and asked if she could read for her.
10. Ellen Pompeo wanted to do a different ABC pilot, written by Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman, called Secret Service. When that didn’t get picked up, she was asked to play Meredith Grey.
11. When Patrick Dempsey first auditioned, he was terrified of Rhimes because of her stone-cold expression.
12. But Rhimes was actually trying to figure out what she could write for the, in her words, “dreamy” actor.