Consumos web. 10/30/2016

• John Lennon MBE return letter valued at £60k - BBC News

  One expert believes the text is a draft of the letter Lennon sent in 1969, which remains in the Royal archives.

  tags: JohnLennon beatlehistory beatlethings

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Consumos web. 10/29/2016

• Por qué causan polémica las toneladas de maní que EE.UU. quiere enviar a Haití - BBC Mundo

  Quienes se oponen a la misión justifican que no es la primera vez que EE.UU. compromete la frágil economía del país caribeño con un programa alimenticio.

  tags: imperialismo crisis alimentaria Haití

• In Beatles '66, Steve Turner Explores a Revolutionary Year in the Band's Life :: Books :: Reviews :: the beatles :: Paste

  Beatles ‘66 is almost like a coming-of-age story for John, Paul, George, and Ringo. All four had their perceptions of the world challenged, with an accompanying reconfiguration of their individual and collective priorities.

  tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlebooks

• La broma de los Simpsons a Yoko Ono que se volvió real | Beatles, Claro, John Lennon

  Según el portal Mashable, varios artistas fueron invitados a colaborar en la exposición Yoko Ono: One More Story... y entre ellos el artista de Islandia, Ragnar Kjartansson, decidió colaborar con, justamente, un sombrero con ciruelas.

  tags: YokoOno arte de vanguardia

• Ozzy Osbourne wants Beatles to be played at his funeral - Birmingham Mail

  he said: "I really need a few more years to think this over, but probably something from 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' or 'Revolver.'

  tags: OzzyOsbourne Beatles beatlepeople beatlesongs

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Consumos web. 10/27/2016

• Descubren una microalga que aumenta la supervivencia de juveniles del caracol rosado — Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (Amazings® / NCYT®)

  La microalga mide aproximadamente 10 micras y se sabe que cuando se aloja en un organismo, hace fotosíntesis y muta genéticamente los productos al hospedero, aportando una significativa cantidad de alimento.

  tags: evolución ecosistemas alternativos

• El libro que podía matarte — Agente Provocador

  Cualquier investigador puede acceder al libro de Kedzie, pero previamente debe utilizar guantes. Su vida, al fin y al cabo, podría estar en peligro.

  tags: libros

• What’s new: ‘Beatles ’66’ by Steve Turner, ‘Television: A Biography’ by David Thomson, ‘Black Elk’ by Joe Jackson | Newsday

  when “four lovable guys from Liverpool who wore identical suits” recorded “Revolver,” started “Sgt. Pepper,” and became psychedelic artists who were “more popular than Jesus,” in John Lennon’s words.

  tags: Beatles beatlebooks

• Lounge Loves: The Beatles timepiece - Livemint

  The 13th album, Help, is represented through a silhouetted image of the Fab Four at the 4 o’clock mark, as in the album cover. The official logo of the band is above the 6 o’clock position, and the date window at 3 o’clock.

  tags: Beatles beatlethings

• Paul Howard: Why I wrote story of Guinness heir Tara Browne, the man immortalised in a Beatles song

  Browne, he explained, was an icon of the times because of what he symbolised. He was at the centre of the London scene when, for one brief moment, social barriers ceased to matter.

  tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlepeople beatlesongs

• The Beatles officially licensed knitwear from Niko And… now available | Retro to Go

  But if you are in Japan (or have worked out the shipping thing), then you can order the knitwear right now to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the band’s first visit to Japan.

  tags: Beatles beatleclothes beatlethings

• ♫ ALMA COGAN, LA AMANTE SECRETA DE JOHN LENNON | Archivos musicales, Noticias Musica

  Hubo preguntas sobre su sexualidad y los rumores de un romance secreto con John Lennon , que ya había sido denunciado por su esposa Cynthia.

  tags: Beatles beatlehistory JohnLennon beatlepeople

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Consumos web. 10/23/2016

• The tardigrade genome has been sequenced, and it's even weirder than we thought - ScienceAlert

  The foreign DNA comes primarily from bacteria, but also from plants, fungi, and Archaea. And it’s this incredible variety of genes that researchers suggest has allowed the water bear to survive in such extreme conditions.

  tags: mecánica genética evolución

• Publisher wins rights to Voynich manuscript, a book no one can read | World news | The Guardian

  But after a 10-year appeal for access, Siloe, a small publishing house in northern Spain has secured the right to clone the document – to the delight of its director.

  tags: Voynich libros edición

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Consumos web. 10/21/2016

• "Estimado Kafka, por favor dígame qué pensar al leer La Metamorfosis" - BBC Mundo

  Sólo usted me puede ayudar. Tiene que hacerlo pues fue usted el que me metió en este lío. Así que por favor dígame qué debe pensar mi prima cuando lee Metamorfosis.

  tags: FranzKafka

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Consumos web. 10/20/2016

• The Beatles book

  "Inside the Beatles" un album de 300 photos qui se referme sur les séances d'enregistrement au studio EMI de Londres le 4 juin 1968

  tags: Beatles beatlebooks

• A Journal of Musical ThingsWho "Blew His Mind Out in a Car" in the Beatles' "A Day in the Life?" - A Journal of Musical Things

  John Lennon, suffering from writer’s block during the making of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, propped a copy of the Daily Mail on his piano music stand and turned over the front page.

  tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlesongs beatlepeople

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Consumos web. 10/14/2016

• LEGO Ideas - Blog - Introducing LEGO® Ideas 21306 Yellow Submarine

  You can find this iconic submarine and its legendary passengers in stores from the 1st of November, 2016 for a recommended retail price of USD 59.99 / EUR 59,99 / GBP 49.99. The set consists of over 550 LEGO bricks including the 4 minifigures representing John, Paul, George and Ringo, as well as a Jeremy figure

  tags: Beatles beatlethings yellow submarine

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Consumos web. 10/13/2016

• LEGO Ideas - Beatles Yellow Submarine

  some colours were altered and colour schemes simplified due to limitations of LDD. George's longer hair reflects him during a different phase of the Beatles, but was used here to help distinguish him from the other three members.

  tags: Beatles yellow submarine beatlethings

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Consumos web. 10/12/2016

• 25 Years Ago: The Beatles' Apple Corps Reaches a New Settlement with Apple Computer

  The story goes that George Harrison was the one who first heard of Apple Computer, just after the company was founded in 1977. He alerted the staff of Apple Corps,

  tags: Beatles Apple beatlehistory

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Consumos web. 10/11/2016

• Cómo combatir el dolor real que causan las enfermedades imaginarias - BBC Mundo

  parece que estuvo luchando contra el estrés del trabajo, los niños y un marido dominante y, a medida que aprendió a hacer frente a esos problemas, comenzó a recuperar su vista poco a poco.

  tags: cerebro enfermedades extremas

• La protección y repatriación del patrimonio cultural peruano en el exterior: entre las negociaciones políticas y las estrategias judiciales contra la Universidad de Yale por la Colección Machu Picchu

  En octubre de 2005, el Embajador del Perú ante los Estados Unidos envió una carta al Presidente de la Universidad de Yale, mediante la cual solicitó formal y oficialmente el retorno de todas las momias, cráneos, huesos y restos humanos, objetos de cerámica, utensilios, objetos de arte y todo otro ítem que hubieran sido extraídos de Machu Picchu y de sus áreas circundantes, y que fueron transportados a la Universidad de Yale, en New Haven, Connecticut, en el período 1911-1916.

  tags: expolio Perú pueblos originarios

• Danny Trejo: The 10 Albums That Changed My Life - Metal Hammer

  I heard it in prison. When it started playing, it got quiet. It never gets quiet in prison at night, but it went dead silent! Then it gets to the part where he’s going [sings] ‘Hey Judy, Judy, Judy, Judy!’, and the whole place just went crazy! We were banging on the walls singing and all of the toilets got broken!”

  tags: Beatles beatlesongs beatlepeople

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