Jackie Chan's biography

Name: Chan Kong-sang Date of birth: April 7, 1954 Place of birth: Hong Kong Star sign: Aries. (Horse) Marital status: Married Likes: Martial arts, actuation, sing, acrobacies, global issues... Dislikes: Unknown Hobbies: Kung Fu Unusual facts: He's a great acrobat and he never used doubles at the rodation of films.

The Story

Early life:
Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on April 7th, 1954. His parents, Charles and Lee-lee Chan named him Chan Kong-sang which means "born in Hong Kong."

Together, the Chan family lived on Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. When Jackie was young, his father would wake him early in the morning and together they would practice kung fu.

When Jackie was seven years old Charles took a job as the head cook at the American embassy in Australia. He felt that it would be best for Jackie to stay behind in Hong Kong to learn a skill and so enrolled him in the China Drama Academy where Jackie would live for the next 10 years of his life.

Career history:
When Jackie was 17, he graduated from the China Drama Academy. Unfortunately the Chinese opera was no longer very popular, so Jackie and his classmates had to find other work.
Over the next few years, Jackie worked as a stuntman, but when the Hong Kong movie industry began to fail, he was forced to go to Australia to live with his parents.

His salvation came in the form of a telegram from a man named Willie Chan. Willie Chan worked in the Hong Kong movie industry and was looking for someone to star in a new movie being made by Lo Wei, a famous Hong Kong producer/director. Willie had seen Jackie at work as a stuntman and had been impressed. Jackie called Willie and they talked. Jackie didn't know it but Willie would end up becoming his best friend and manager. Soon Jackie was on his way back to Hong Kong to star in "New Fist of Fury." It was 1976 and Jackie Chan was 21 years old.

How I became a fan
I became a fan after saw a lot of Jackie's films, specially after seeing "The Forbidden Kingdom".
I enjoyed Jackie's films since I was I child and I'll still enjoying it in the future. Specially the drunken master.

Why I like him / her:
I like J. Chan because he does chinese martial arts and I love chinese martial arts. Because I like his job with the children and because he does an excellent charity work. Also because he have a very good talent at different things live music, martial arts...

Links

http://www.jackiechan.com/

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Dani Martin's Biography

This page is dedicated to Dani Martin, who I think is the best looking man of all time. Who don't know him? For if someone is lost, is the singer of one of the most important groups of music at the moment: EL CANTO DEL LOCO! All those who know me know that it's my idol! Here I leave you his fact file:

Name	Dani Martín
Date of birth:	February 19, 1977
Place of birth:	Madrid
Star sign:	Piscis
Marital status:	Bachelor
Likes:	Music
Dislikes:	The envy
Hobbies:	The cars
Heroes:	David Summers (Hombres G)
Unusual facts:	To take part in Almodóvar's film

He always says that the most important thing in the life is to be happy and fighter. He says too that we must support the illusion that we take inside and demonstrate what really we are.

Early life:
With only 14 years old, Dani gave the jump to the small sreen presenting a TV show for the young people that it said: "Ponte las pilas". Then, he discovered his passion for the interpretation, so that he decided to study it for 7 years. It was in the school of theatre when "El Canto del Loco" borned at 1997.

Career history:
At the beginning the components of "ECDL" were Dani and Iván, because they were friends of the theatre's academy. Then, David Otero (the Dani's cousin) and Jandro (son of a friends of Dani's parents) entered in the group and finally Chema (friend of David of the faculty).

From this moment, ECDL has been winning an important place in the musical world and after more than 10 years, ECDL is a symbol for the Spanish pop-rock, and the flight of two of his components (Iván and Jandro) has not been an obstacle for his great success.

How I became a fan:
Since the first moment, I've been feeling very identified with his songs, for me the songs of ECDL are more than a few songs. The last 23 of December I was present at my second concert and it is an unforgettable experience.

Why I like him:
I love him for his way of seeing the life: he's a bit crazy! And he obtains to transmit to us this philosophy. I admire him because he has taught me that we must give importance to the really important things.

The Christmas day

THE CHRISTMAS DAY

 

INTRODUCTION

Christmas Day isDecember 25when itcommemoratesthe birth of Jesus Christ inBethlehem as the gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke.After the EasterResurrection is the mostimportant festival of theChurch year.

Christmas Day is preceded bya good night on day 24 atnight, it is assumed that thenight of the 24th, Santa Clausleft a gift in their homes forall children in the world.
Santa Claus is represented bya white-bearded man, wearinga fat suit and red, whichalways comes with a sled andhis reindeer.

DECORATION

The decoration is based on atree and a belen showingrepresented the arrival ofthree wise men to Bethlehemwhere Portal Jesus was born.
In the different treeornaments are placed mainlyred.

The decoration can becomplemented withdecorations on the doors ofthe houses and lights on thebalconies, it is also a typicaldoll santa claus hanging fromthe windows of the houses.

THE FAMILY

At this time aroundChristmas, including this, thefamily and loved ones oftenmeet for dinner or lunch andsing Christmas songs as atypical fish in the river or onbell bell. 

The family used to meet the24 day which is good night,the 25th for the Christmasmeal, and the 26 day that iscelebrated San Estebanwhicht only takes place inCatalonia.

THE CHRISTMAS MEAL

In Catalonia the day of Christmas Day is December25, the day of the Christmasmeal is based on the typicalGalets soup as a starter in thesecond to make a small picapica, a little sausage iberico,typical in Spain, with shrimpand mixed seafood, food canbe supplemented with meat, and finally, for dessert“polvorones” and “mazapanes”.

In this meal you can drink anydrink, but you can not missthe typical toast withchampang.

 

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• Edgar Sánchez
• Edgar Cabrera
• Tere Ramírez
• Sarai Herrera
• Ana Castilla
• Miriam Romero

The Three wise men

• The night before of the three wise men someone childrens dress up pages.They distributed sweets and collected letters from other children.

• In the night the “pages” parade through the streets with the three wise men: Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar. The three wise men are on floats.

• When the childrens arrive to her house they leave a glass of milk and cookies.The three wise men travel by camel and they leave presents for the childrens.

• In the morning the childrens open the presents.
  - After the family meets for lunch.
  - To end everyone eat the “roscón”.

• In the “roscón” have a king and a bean.if you touch the king you take the crown but if you touch the bean you pay the “roscón”.

• The legend said that when Jesus born in a stall of Jerusalen, the three wise
  men went to the stall but they lost and saw appear a shooting star that told the
  road. When they arrived they offered to the virgin gold, frankincense and myrrh.
  

•At Christmas, three stupid vermin disguised barbs with plastic parade through the houses with the idea of distributing gifts. One black, one white and a coffee with milk. Normally, the only black face is black, because the bitumen is difficult to remove, and the person who interprets it does not want to stain too.
•We grew confident that the kings were magicians, who were three and, following the star of Bethlehem, brought gifts to baby Jesus. Well it seems that there is no such. In fact, according to one theory, it was decided that the Magi were three in the third century, became kings in the V century and took over 500 years to become magicians.


•The origin of the Magi The only thing that becomes clear when reading the Gospel is that they were several who visited Herod and who gave the child Jesus. What is not at all clear is how many they were, how old were, where they came from, their race or appearance. The story was built gradually over the centuries, according to the book''Myths and Rites of Christmas''Pepe Rodriguez. Until the tenth century is credited as priests Persian Mithras. In the beginning were white, or, in some versions of the early church, the three were from the three races known to humanity: European, Asian and African, but all in the artistic images of those times, were more white flour. It is not until the sixteenth century that Baltazar appears black. The three races Melchor well, according to legend, is the oldest and went on to symbolize the Europeans, offering the gold to Jesus; Gaspar represents the Semites of Asia and brings incense, and Baltazar comes from Africa with its myrrh.
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•The three wise men bring gifts compared to the gifts they brought him to the child Jesus, but only to those who have behaved well. For this reason, almost no one has the gifts at Christmas. No, I'm kidding. ALL have gifts, whether as have been ported. Amazingly ads Christmas gifts for the broadcast at the end of summer, surely time for us to buy them :)


The three wise men were traveling in original camel, but over the years has evolved so that now the wheels are camelback. Exactly, traveling in caravans or failing vans with a blanket over that gives them the magic touch that fascinates both children and the elderly.



Before sharing their gifts if they do not hit as a gift, the innocent children send letters with endless lists of all the gifts they want, without knowing that these letters never came to fruition and that will never be read by the three wise men .

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FAME

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1. Edit your home page. When it's finished send the link to your teacher.

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3. Publish your own keypal message and answer an existing one.

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