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"Indradhanush (English: Rainbow) is an Indian children's television series, a mixture of science fiction and fantasy, aired on DD National channel. The series was produced and directed by Anand Mahendroo. It also featured several young actors like Karan Johar, Urmila Matondkar, Vishal Singh, Ashutosh Gowarikar, and Akshay Anand. The show used tracks from Maurice Jarre's score for A Passage to India. Plot The shows follows the story of a group of kids, who assemble a computer. The computer becomes the host to an alien prince from a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy on the run from his enemies. The following events take a lot of weird turns leading to one of the friends, Appu, getting kidnapped by one of the enemies of the Prince. The Prince gives the friends a time-travel machine. With this machine they travel to the past and future (1942 and 2013) to rescue their friend. Cast * Jitendra Rajpal as Appuswamy Krishnamurthy, known as Appu * Girish Karnad as Krishnamurthy Appuswamy, Appu's Father * Deepa Lagoo as Mrs. Ishwari Krishnamurthy, Appu's mother * Akshay Anand as Balachandran Krishnamurthy, known as Bala, Appu's elder brother * Vishal Singh * Karan Johar as Srikant, Appu's classmate and close friend * Sagar Arya, Appu's friend * Kamla Devi as Saroja Appuswamy, Appu's Grandmother * Sridevi Mukhi as Jayashree Krishnamurthy, Appu and Bala's elder sister, a doctor * Ameesha Jhaveri as Preeti, Appu's classmate =Guests= * Ashutosh Gowariker as Mr. Appuswamy, Appu and Bala's grandfather * Urmila Matondkar as Sunita Shirodkar, Cloned Bala's girlfriend in future * Vikram Gokhale as a professor, who creates a clone from Bala's DNA. * Siraj Syed as Seth Jamnadas * Vishwajeet Pradhan as Joseph * Gavin Packard as Android * Daryl Packard as Joshua * Brij Gopal as Raja Episodes Reception The show was an instant hit and kept viewers hooked because of its fresh content. It is still considered an important show in the history of Indian television. References External links * Category:Indian children's television series Category:DD National original programming Category:Indian science fiction television series Category:1989 Indian television series debuts Category:1989 Indian television series endings "
"The Kelasuri Wall () or Great Abkhazian Wall () is a stone wall located to the east of Sukhumi in Abkhazia, Georgia. The exact time of its construction is not known; several dates ranging from antiquity to the 17th century were suggested, although more recent works have provisionally favoured construction in the 6th century AD. The wall featured about 300 towers, most of them now entirely or largely ruined. Location The wall begins near the mouth of Kelasuri and ends on the right bank of Enguri The wall begins near the mouth of Kelasuri River where the ruins of a large tower remained. It goes to the east crossing Kodori River near Tsebelda, then passes near Tkvarcheli and terminates near the village of Lekukhona on the right bank of Enguri. Most of the fortifications are located in the western part of the wall between Kelasuri and Mokvi Rivers. Kelasuri's left bank and mountain passes were most heavily fortified. On the other hand, only four towers were found between Tkvarcheli and Enguri. Towers The wall was not continuous as its builders made use of natural obstacles such as steep slopes and gorges. 279 towers belonging to the wall have been identified, about a hundred of them are extant. The usual distance between towers is 40–120 m, where there was no continuous wall some towers were 300, 500 and 1000 m apart. All the towers are rectangular (7 by 8 or 8 by 9 metres), 4–6 m high and have shallow foundations. Each tower had a door in its southern wall framed by massive stone beams, sometimes a narrow staircase was also added. Embrasures were usually located in the towers' northern and western walls on the second floor. History of construction Since the wall was first examined scientifically in early 19th century, many hypotheses on who and when built it were published. История изучения средневековых памятников Абхазии , Материалы по археологии Абхазии. Тбилиси, 1967, с. 115-128 For example, the Swiss traveller Frédéric Dubois de Montpéreux (fr) asserted that the wall was built by Greeks in the last centuries BC to protect their colony of Dioscurias (which he erroneously placed near the Kodori capeVoyage autour du Caucase: chez les Tcherkesses et les Abkhases, en Colchide, en Géorgie, en Arménie et en Crimée ; avec un atlas géographique, pittoresque, archéologique, géologique, etc. par Frédéric Dubois de Montpéreux. Paris, Libr. de Gide, 1839-1843. 6 v. According to Mikhail Ivashchenko, the wall was built by Byzantines in the 4th century to protect their possessions and control mountain passes. He connected the name of the river Kelasuri with Byzantine Greek kleisoura, a Byzantine territorial unit smaller than a theme. Several other historians supported this date although they could not agree on the length and orientation of the wall. Yuri Voronov, a well-known Abkhazian historian and archaeologist, examined the Abkhazian wall in 1966-1971 and proposed a new date of its construction. According to Voronov, Prince of Mingrelia, Levan II Dadiani built Kelasuri Walls between 1628 and 1653 to protect his fiefdom from the Abkhaz invasions (though at that time Principality of Abkhazia was a nominal vassal of Mingrelia). Per Voronov's work the embrasures in the wall were made for firearms; he also quoted Georgian historian Vakhushti and Italian missionary Arcangelo Lamberti who both wrote about the wall built by Megrelian princes for protection from the Abkhaz.Ю.Н. Воронов (Yury Voronov), "Келасурская стена" (Kelasuri wall). Советская археология 1973, 3. References Category:Fortifications in Abkhazia Category:Ruins in Georgia (country) Category:Border barriers Category:Fortification lines "
"Jean Hubeau (22 June 191719 August 1992) was a French pianist, composer and pedagogue known especially for his recordings of Gabriel Fauré, Robert Schumann and Paul Dukas, which are recognized as benchmark versions. Biography Admitted at the age of 9 years to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, he studied composition with Paul Dukas, piano with Lazare Lévy, harmony with Jean Gallon, and counterpoint with Noël Gallon. He received first prizes in piano and in harmony in 1930 at 13 years.Landormy P. La Musique Française après Debussy. Gallimard, Paris, 1943, p369-70. Aged 14 he won the first prize for accompanists, and in 1934, he received the second Prix de Rome with his cantata The legend of Roukmani (first prize was awarded to Eugène Bozza). The following year, he was honored by Louis Diémer. With Henry Merckel Hubeau made a highly praised recording of Mozart's violin sonata K454 in 1941. In 1941, when Claude Delvincourt was appointed director of the Conservatoire, HubeauJean-Pierre Thiollet, 88 notes pour piano solo, Neva Editions, 2015, p.52. was appointed to the vacancy left by Delvincourt at the head of the Music Academy in Versailles. In addition, he took the post of professor of chamber music of the Paris Conservatory from 1957 to 1982 where he trained many students such as Jacques Rouvier, Géry Moutier, Michel Dalberto, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Olivier Charlier, Roland Daugareil, Cécilia Tsan, and Sonia Wieder-Atherton. Landormy described Hubeau's compositional style as using a simple language, with no revolutionary intent, but displaying a freshness of invention evident in thematic material, rhythm and use of timbres. Compositions *The Legend of Roukmani, cantata (1934) *Concerto Héroique for piano and orchestra *Concerto for violin and orchestra in C major (1939) *Concerto for cello and orchestra in A minor (also reduction for cello and piano) *Tableaux hindous, for orchestra (1935) *La Fiancée du Diable, ballet *Trois Fables de La Fontaine, ballet *Un coeur de diamant ou l'Infante, ballet *Sonata for chromatic trumpet and piano (1943) *Violin sonata *Rondes pastorales and ballads *Humoresque Sonatina for horn, flute, clarinet and piano *Huit Rondeaux et Ballades de François Villon *Piano variations Additional works from: Almanach de la musique 1950, ed Sarnette E. Editions de Flore & La Gazette des Lettres, Paris, 1950 Discography *Trumpet and piano with Maurice André *Gabriel Fauré - Complete works for solo piano *Gabriel Fauré - Elegie Op.24, Cello Sonatas No.1 Op.109 & No.2 Op.117 (Paul Tortelier, cello) *Claude Debussy - Cello Sonata (Paul Tortelier, cello) *Camille Saint-Saëns - Works for violin and piano (Olivier Charlier, violin) *Georges Onslow - Grand Sextet, Op. 77b and Grand Septet, Op. 79 *Paul Dukas - Works for piano *Jean Hubeau - Quatre Rondels de François Villon Mario Hacquard et Claude Collet References Category:1917 births Category:1992 deaths Category:Musicians from Paris Category:Conservatoire de Paris alumni Category:20th-century French composers Category:French male composers Category:French classical pianists Category:Male classical pianists Category:French male pianists Category:20th-century classical pianists Category:20th-century classical musicians Category:Prix de Rome for composition Category:20th-century French male musicians "