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The Rhino: Years
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Following the triple-platinum success of "Barry Manilow: Music And Passion" -- released last year by Rhino -- this boxed set is the very first to spotlight Manilow's beloved television specials. The collection features "The First Barry Manilow Special" (1977), "The Second Barry Manilow Special" (1978), "The Third Barry Manilow Special" (1979), "One Voice" (1980) and "Barry Manilow: Big Fun On Swing Street" (1988).
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Tony Fitzjohn is more aware than most of the dire situation for the Black Rhino. In 30 years he has watched Tanzania's black rhino population nosedive, from more than 10,000 in 1975 to just 30 in the 1990s. Now, with generous support from Suzuki and the Tanzanian government, Fitzjohn has begun to reverse the slide. A breeding program at the Mkomazi game reserve in northern Tanzania that Fitzjohn calls home has begun to kick-start the slow process of returning them to the wild. Handling African animals is what Fitzjohn does best - a skill he learnt from George Adamson, the legendary "lion man" of Africa. It was Born Free, Joy Adamson's story of Elsa the lioness that made George famous.
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CHARGING THE RHINO is a documentary comprised of footage collected over a decade. It explores the relationship between filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and his late father, Joseph, who on June 29, 1941 was shot and left for dead among his family in Iasi, Romania. It ... explores the shadowy past of Simcha's first cousin, Sasha, who was forced to act in a 1960 heist movie produced by the communist regime and then - along with his fellow "actors" - was shot behind a Bucharest prison. CHARGING THE RHINO poses questions such as: how do you live for fifty years after you've been shot in the heart? And what was behind the world's strangest bank robbery? The answers are found in the tale of the Jacobovici family.
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The demise of any one of these five rhino species would be amajor loss to the earth's biological diversity. Rhinoceroses areclassed as perissodactyls, or odd-toed ungulates, and have roamedthe earth for over 50 million years. The habitat and feedingdifferences that exist between the five remaining specieshighlights this versatility. Some have adapted to desertconditions, while others live in tropical forests.
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The restoration process offered a truly original opportunity, as neither Rhinoceros nor Lion had been touched for more than 150 years. Both pictures were covered with heavy layers of grime and discolored varnish, making them very difficult to view. In addition, Lion was folded on its central seam, then rolled and crushed on one side, leading to cracks, creases, and numerous missing flakes of color. There were ... structural repairs needed to mend numerous old tears and losses. However, the parts of the paintings that remained intact were in exquisite condition—the old varnish that appeared so dark and discolored had in fact offered protection to the original painted areas, and the paintings’ physical inaccessibility meant that no one had made any potentially misguided attempts to clean or restore them in the past.
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Rhinos are another of Africa's animals that fall into the "instantly recognizable" class. A huge, primordial-looking beast, the rhino is second in size only to the elephant among all land animals. The name means 'nose-horn', from the most obvious unique feature. But the protuberance is not true horn, and is in fact made of fused hair. The precise function of the horn is not known to this day, but it is certainly the main cause of the demise of the rhino. In the last 50 years, both species have been pushed to the brink of extinction by hunters who can get thousands of dollars for a single horn.
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