ArCtic MonKeys!

Arctic Monkeys are an English Indie band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield. Formed in 2002, the band currently is formed for Alex Turner on lead vocals and guitar, Jamie Cook on guitar, Matt Helders on drums and backing vocals and Nick O'Malley on bass guitar and backing vocals, who replaced Andy Nicholson.

Now something of his history.

In 2001, neighbours Turner and Cook asked for instruments as Christmas presents and both received guitars. After teaching themselves to play, the pair formed a band with Turner's schoolmates Andy Nicholson and Matt Helders. Nicholson already played bass, so Helders ended up on drums—"that was all that were left...they all had guitars so I bought a kit after a bit." An article in Blender magazine in May 2006 suggested that Turner was not the original vocalist of the band: "When their first vocalist, Glyn Jones, left after a few months, Turner cautiously stepped up to the microphone." This was soon followed by a more detailed article in UK tabloid The Sun, who reported that in the very early days of the band — before they had played a gig — Glyn Jones, another attendee of Stocksbridge High School, used to be the band's singer. Jones said that he and Turner "were bored [after our GCSE exams] so we started writing a song about a geek in our year...". Jones says that he was lead singer only because "Alex was really humble and didn’t realise how great his own voice was... he was happy just playing his guitar." However, Jones says that he "did not have the dedication to take it any further... to me we were just a gang of kids messing around because we were bored." Although reports suggested they named themselves after Helders' uncle's (or even father's) band, Helders later admitted that these reports were false, claiming "we made that up ‘cause we got so many people asking us that in the UK, so we just started making stories up", and that he just didn't have the heart to tell the original reporter he'd been lying.

The Arctic Monkeys achieved chart success with their first single, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor", which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart. Their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, released in January 2006, was at the time the fastest-selling debut album in British music history, surpassing Oasis' Definitely Maybe. It remains the fastest-selling debut album for a group. It received critical acclaim, winning both the 2006 Mercury Prize and the 2007 Brit Award for Best British Album. The band's second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, was released on 23 April 2007, sold over 225,000 copies in its debut week, and was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Prize. The group also picked up the award for Best British Album and Best British Group at the Brit Awards in 2008.

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Credits

Isabel Allende

I don't usually read much, but when I read "La ciudad de las bestias" one of her books that I like very much, and this book is the first form the trilogy of: "La ciudad de las bestias", "El reino del dragón de oro" and "El bosque de los pigmeos", I have read two books of this trilogy. These books are about a boy and a girl, Alexandre Cold meets Nadia Santos when Alexander and his grandmother kate undertake a travel of the Internacional Geographic magazine, where kate works, to Brazil, and after that Nadia, Alexander and Kate have more adventures in the Tibet and in Africa.

Isabel allende was born in Lima, Peru, August 7, 1942, where his father was intended as a diplomat. He attended various private schools and traveled through several countries before returning to Santiago, Chile to complete their studies and work in the Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO), United Nations agency. In 17 years in Chile began his career as a journalist, wrote articles on highly controversial issues. Furthermore made film and television. His personal life is marked by the history of Chile, the country had to abandon in 1975 when the situation became untenable after the murder of his uncle in the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet.

In 1962, he married Miguel Frias, who has two children: Paula and Nicolas. Was divorced in 1987. In exile he wrote his first novel when a letter written on the occasion of the death of his grandfather eventually become his first novel, "The House of the Spirits" (1982), a family chronicle set in the whirlwind of political and economic changes developments in Latin America. The novel was well received by critics, who saw in it some elements of magic realism, a literary technique that involves mixing the real with the supernatural and whose principal exponent is the Colombian novelist awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Gabriel García Márquez . This novel was made into a film by Danish director Bille August.

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Present Perfect Continuous!

The present perfect continuous is formed with: has/have + been + present participle.

Ex:
You have been waiting here for two hours.
Have you been waiting here for two hours?
You have not been waiting here for two hours.

We use the Present Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the past and has continued up until now. "For five minutes," "for two weeks," and "since Tuesday" are all durations which can be used with the Present Perfect Continuous.

Ex:
They have been talking for the last hour.
She has been working at that company for three years.
What have you been doing for the last 30 minutes?
James has been teaching at the university since June.
We have been waiting here for over two hours!
Why has Nancy not been taking her medicine for the last three days?

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Present Perfect Simple!

The present perfect simple is formed with: has/have + past participle.

Ex:
You have seen that movie many times.
Have you seen that movie many times?
You have not seen that movie many times.

We use the present perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important. You can't use the present perfect with specific time expressions such as: yesterday, one year ago, last week, when I was a child, when I lived in Japan, at that moment, that day, one day, etc. We can use the present perfect with unspecific expressions such as: ever, never, once, many times, several times, before, so far, already, yet, etc.

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I have seen that movie twenty times.
I think I have met him once before.
There have been many earthquakes in California.
People have traveled to the Moon.
People have not traveled to Mars.
Have you read the book yet?
Nobody has ever climbed that mountain.

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