Майкл Джексон
<span>Jackson's skin had been a medium-brown color for the entire duration of his youth, but starting in the mid-1980s, it gradually grew paler. The change gained widespread media coverage, including rumors that he might be bleaching his skin. According to J. Randy Taraborrelli's biography, in 1986, Jackson was diagnosed with vitiligo and lupus; the vitiligo partially lightened his skin, and the lupus was in remission; both illnesses made him sensitive to sunlight. The treatments he used for his condition further lightened his skin tone, and, with the application of pancake makeup to even out blotches, he could appear very pale. Jackson was also diagnosed with vitiligo in his autopsy. By the mid-1990s several surgeons speculated that he had undergone various nasal surgeries, a forehead lift, thinned lips, and cheekbone surgery—although Jackson denied this and insisted that he only had surgery on his nose. Jackson claimed that he had only two rhinoplasties and no other surgery on his face, although at one point he mentioned having a dimple created in his chin. Jackson lost weight in the early 1980s because of a change in diet and a desire for "a dancer's body". Witnesses reported that he was often dizzy and speculated that he was suffering from anorexia nervosa; periods of weight loss would become a recurring problem later in life.</span>
Я умею кататься на коньках, ездить на велосипеде, выгуливать собаку, смотреть за братом и сестрой, кататься на скейте.
Music plays a very important role in our life. We can almost hear music anywhere. Different music serves different functions in our life. Why is music important to many people? The reasons are presented below.
Music is a very important form of art. Like other arts, music is ubiquitous and has become a part of our life. The whole lifetime of most people is accompanied by music. A baby falls in sleep in the music of a lullaby; a young student may learn to play a musical instrument and listen to music from the radio, TV and a Walkman. There is music for birthdays, for weddings, for Christmas, and for New Year"s Day. There is music for every single occasion in our life.
We are surrounded by various kinds of music since we were born and music has become an integral part of our life. Interesting enough, music often serves as an important part to other art forms, such as music in dancing, drama and movies. As a matter of fact, many famous music pieces come from dancing and movies, such as the theme from "Love Story".
Music is part of the history. The history of music is almost as long as the history of human civilizations. Music from old times has become the great culture heritage to us. One of the examples is classic music of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. People enjoy their music from generation to generation.
Listening to music is one of the most popular forms of entertainment. There are so many kinds of music that can suit tastes of different people. Young people like pop music and Rock-and-Roll and older people may enjoy classical music and opera. Whether we are happy or sad, there will always be music that we can listen to.
People can express their feelings and emotions through music. Lovers often play soft love songs to show their love and devotion to each other.
For the reasons presented above, we can see how important music is to our life. It is hard to imagine a history without music, and a life without music.
It was founded in 1716 as a fortress by a colonel of Preobrazhensky regiment Ivan Buchweitz. The first Omsk fortress was built on the left bank of the river On which gave its name to the future town. It was situated 200 meters from the place of confluence of the Om and the Irtysh. This fortress served up to the 1870 -ies. When it came very old a new fortress was founded on the right bank of the Om. Omsk fortress served as a gate to the whole region of West Siberia. But it served also as a prison ( a place for exile as Omsk was famous for its cold climate and was vary far from the heart of Russia). In the 19-th century Omsk was simply a large village. The streets were narrow, dirty, unpaved and badly lighted. There were no parks and squares. The houses were wooden and one-storeyed. In 1996 the 280-th anniversary was commemorated. There are many big factories and plants in Omsk. According to the volume of industrial output Omsk took one of the leading places in Russia. We have a large oil-refining complex, enterprise of machine-buildings and light industries. It was called a city of great chemistry. But nowadays the situation at the majority of the plants of Russia including Omsk ones is deplorable the plants, the factories have gone bankrupt. Omsk is a rather important port. It connects our region with the Far North Gas, oil, timber, grain are transported along the Irtish and Ob rivers. Our city is an important railway junction on the way from Europe to the Far East, China, Mongolia. The Omsk airport accepts all kinds of planes from all over the country. We call Omsk a city of students. All necessary specialist - teachers, doctors, transport and road engineers,builders, journalists, economist, musicians, officers and so on - are trained at out numerous schools, colleges, universities, academies. I should not say there are very many monuments and historical places, but we can see some places of interests here. There are not many museums in Omsk, but they are famous for their rich and interesting exposition: the Art Museums situated in the former place of general-governor, contains a good collection of pictures of Russian and European painters; the Art Gallery, Liberov Centre, the Museums of Dostoevsky, of K.P Belov. Three are also some theatres Musical ( where operas, ballets, musical comedies are performed ), Omsk Drame theatre is worthy to be noted where Russian and foreign classics are staged, besides the building of the theatre is remarkable for its architecture. The Theatre of Young Spectators; the puppet theatre, "Galerka", the Fifth Theatre. Those who come to Omsk as tourists will see the old and modern buildings. Here the past and the present are mixed together. For instance, a wonderful masterpieces of Russian architecture-the old building of Pushkin library and the modern building of the Musical Theatre next to it. The Concert Hall and the former Organ Hall ( Nikolskaya Church ) demonstrate the Irtysh Sport Complex, Pushkin Library are good examples of the modern architecture.
