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Featured article: May 2, 2008 Satyajit Ray was a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College and at the Visva-Bharati University. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing the Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves during a visit to London. Ray directed thirty-seven films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali, won eleven international prizes, including Best Human Document at Cannes film festival. Along with Aparajito and Apur Sansar, the film forms the Apu trilogy. Ray worked on an array of tasks, including scripting, casting, scoring, cinematography, art direction, editing and designing his own credit titles and publicity material. Apart from making films, he was a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, graphic designer and film critic. Ray received many major awards in his career, including an Academy Honorary Award in 1992. (more...) Recently featured: Discovery Expedition – Anabolic steroids – Prince's Palace of Monaco

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Featured picture: May 28, 2008 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (left) and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, stand together on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. In the background can be seen Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls. During this trip in 1903, Muir convinced Roosevelt to add Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove to the park, which had been established in 1890. Photo credit: Underwood and Underwood Recently featured: Lawn mower racing – Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana – Kinhyōshi yōrin

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This is a categorized list of the bird species recorded in the archipelago of Puerto Rico which consists of the main island of Puerto Rico, two island municipalities off the east coast (Vieques and Culebra), three uninhabited islands off the west coast (Mona, Monito, and Desecheo) and more than 125 smaller cays and islands. The avifauna of Puerto Rico includes a total of 349 species, of which 166 (47.56%) are accidental, 42 (12.03%) are introduced by humans and 16 (4.58%) are endemic. Around 120 of these species breed in Puerto Rico while the majority of the others overwinter in the archipelago. This list does not include extinct species. Grebes Order: Podicipediformes. Family: Podicipedidae Pied-billed Grebe, commonly known as Zaramago in Spanish. Grebes are small to medium-large sized freshwater diving birds. They have lobed toes, and are excellent swimmers and divers. However, they have their feet placed far back on the body, making them quite ungainly on land. There are 20 species worldwide and 2 species which occur in Puerto Rico. Least Grebe, Tachybaptus dominicus Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps Shearwaters and petrels Order: Procellariiformes. Family: Procellariidae The Procellariids are the main group of medium-sized 'true petrels', characterised by united nostrils with medium septum, and a long outer functional primary. There are 75 species world wide and 8 species which occur in Puerto Rico. Black-capped Petrel, Pterodroma hasitata (A) Herald Petrel, Pterodroma arminjoniana (A) Cory's Shearwater, Calonectris diomedea (A) Greater Shearwater, Puffinus gravis (A) Sooty Shearwater, Puffinus griseus (A) Manx Shearwater, Puffinus puffinus (A) Little Shearwater, Puffinus assimilis (A) Audubon's Shearwater, Puffinus lherminieri See full list...

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