Media Planet: 01/01/2009

The Last Templar Knights NBC - Raymond Khoury Best-Seller

NBC The Last Templar - NBC.com/the-last-templar : Inspired from the best-seller of Raymond Khoury, with which one also gives us - Dinotopia - and - The Sanctuary -, and in the same line as - The Da Vinci Code and - Angels and Demons - of Dan Brown, this NBC 4 mini-series episodes will be broadcast tonight January 25th, 2009, a story surrounding the mythical Templar knights and the quest of the Holy Grail. The Synopsis: New-York, nowadays: Four masked Knight horsemen, dressed as Templar Knights emerge in the New-York Metropolitan Museum, where an exhibition of great Vatican Treasures is unfolding. The masked Knight terrorize visitors of the exhibition and stole some artefacts and disappear. An archeologist, Tess Chaykin (Mira Sorvino) witness the scene, with the help of FBI agent Sean Daley (Scott Foley, "The Unit," "Felicity") an enthusiast catholic, they will be drawn into a fast-paced, romantic adventure as they attempt to uncover the lost secrets of the legendary medieval Knights Templar History. In order to discover the secrecy of these Templars, Tess and Daley will face the dark force of evil as they embark in a dangerous adventure which will as well lead them from the sewers of Manhattan to mountains in Turkey to an island in Greece. See the conclusion tommorow on NBC.

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2009 Academy Award Nominees

2009 Oscar Nominations The movie - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button directed by David Fincher witch is about a man who is born in his 80s and gets younger by the day, instead of older just leads all films with 13 Academy Award nominations. It garnered nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress. This was announced today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The English drama Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle, which has won four Golden Globes on January 11th, follows with ten nominees. Just a few surprises for these so much awaited nominations: put aside the astonishing absence fromthe movie The Revolutionary Road, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Leonardo DiCaprio , the list takes again almost the same nominees as the Golden Globes 2009 and Bafta 2009 nominations. Here's the list of 2009 Academy Award Nominees:

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Richard Jenkins--The Visitor
Frank Langella--Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn--Milk
Brad Pitt--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke--The Wrestler

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Josh Brolin--Milk
Robert Downey Jr.--Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman--Doubt
Heath Ledger--The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon--Revolutionary Road

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Anne Hathaway--Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie--Changeling
Melissa Leo--Frozen River
Meryl Streep--Doubt
Kate Winslet--The Reader

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams--Doubt
Penelope Cruz--Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis--Doubt
Taraji Henson--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei--The Wrestler

BEST DIRECTOR
David Fincher--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard--Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant--Milk
Stephen Daldry--The Reader
Danny Boyle--Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Frozen
Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges
Milk
Wall-E

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Eric Roth--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley--Doubt
Peter Morgan--Frost/Nixon
David Hare--The Reader
Simon Beaufoy--Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

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Sultan of Brunei’s Istana Nurul Iman Palace

Sultan of Brunei’s Istana Nurul Iman Palace - Here the largest residential palace in the world and the world's largest residence of any type, the Istana Nurul Iman Palace which is the Palace of the Sultan of Brunei, is located a small State between Malaysia and the Philippines whose richness is based on gas and oil. It is a tax haven, health and education are completely there and the mortgage real estate are to 0%. What a paradise! Istana Nurul Iman contains 1,788 rooms, 257 bathrooms, and a floor area of 2,152,782 square feet. Amenities include 5 swimming pools, and an air conditioned stable for the Sultan's 200 polo ponies, a 110-car garage, a banquet hall that can be expanded to accommodate up to 4,000 guests, and a mosque accommodating 1,500 people. The Sultan of Brunei Palace was built in 1984 at a cost price of around $1.4 billion USD. The son of the Sultan collects the boats and works of art. This residence is 40 times larger than the White House. (above an image from Google Earth)

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Dubai's Palm Islands

Dubai's Palm Islands are artificial islands created in the Persian Gulf of Dubai to accommodate thousands of villas, luxury hotels and a whole high class tourism infrastructure. The construction of Palm Islands was brought by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum which dreams was to develop tourism in Dubai. The construction is realize by Nakheel Properties, a property developer in the United Arab Emirates, who hired the Belgian company Jan De Nul and the Dutch company Van Oord a dredging and marine contractor. The three islands have the shape of a palm tree and name Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali and Palm Deira. These islands built with rocks and sands are surrounded by a dam intended for protected from the waves. The Smallest islands, Palm Jumeirah, already received its first inhabitants in 2006. The trunk of the palm tree or the main road to enter the island is one and half mile long and makes it possible to connect tourist accommodations to the town center.

Palm Island Real Estate - Tourists will find their needs in luxury apartments, hotels, high gastronomy restaurants and marinas which offer 2000 places for the pleasure sailors. According to Construction Properties officials, the process of adding 78 kilometers of beach is almost completed, while 32 hotels construction on The Palm Jumeirah including the Taj Exotica Resort and Spa, are planned to be completed in early 2009.

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Fulcanelli Mystery - The Alchemist

Fulcanelli (certainly a pseudonym) is a famous and mysterious French alchemist who lived in the late 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. His legend says that towards the end of his life he would have realized and found the secret of the Alchemy ultimate challenge by carrying out the mystery of the philosopher's stone and discovered the eternal life, indeed to control life and matter before disappearing mysteriously at the beginning of the 20th century.

Fulcanelli is the author of The Mystery of the Cathedrals and The Dwellings of the Philosophers, two of the most important esoteric works. The real identity of Fulcanelli always makes debate. The pseudonym of Fulcanelli appears to be a phonetic cabal on Vulcan-Helios or Vulcan-Hellé (The Sun's Fire). It is possible that Fulcanelli was the collective pseudonym of a group of alchemists.

Fulcanelli is mentioned in Novelist Paulo Coelho's 1993 bestseller, The Alchemist - frases de paulo coelho

Esoteric definition: obscur, secret
Esotericism definition: esoteric doctrine or principles.
Alchemy definition: pseudoscientific predecessor of chemistry

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