The millets are a group of small-seeded species of cereal crops or grains, widely grown around the world for food and fodder. They do not form a taxonomic group, but rather a functional or agronomic one. Their essential similarities are that they are small-seeded grasses grown in difficult production environments such as those at risk of drought. They have been in cultivation in East Asia for the last 10,000 years.
Millets have been important food staples in human history, particularly in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa. They grow in harsh environments where other crops do not grow well. Improvements in production, availability, nutritional content, storage and utilization technology for millets may significantly contribute to the household food security and nutrition of the inhabitants of these areas.
The most popular staple amongst millets is the pearl millet. India is the world's largest producer of millets. In the 1970s, all of the millet crops harvested in India were used as food staple. By 2000s, the annual millets production had increased in India, yet per capita consumption of millets had dropped by between 50% to 75% in different regions of the country. As of 2005, the majority of millets produced in India is being used for alternative applications such as livestock fodder and alcohol production.
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Rocky (JC de Vera) is a jeepney driver whose charm and street smart background often leave all the girls hooked, except for his usual enemy, Gabrielle (Danita Paner), a cranky and workaholic hotel heiress. The history of fighting cat and dog began in an orphanage-a young Rocky was abandoned by his father; while Gabrielle was an obese, lost squire who was brought there after an attempted kidnap to steal her inheritance. But when Gabrielle was accidentally reunited with her family, the two had lost contact until they crossed paths at present. Separated by fate, their gap grows wider through an intense dislike and a yawning divide brought by class and money. The cunning Monique (Arci Muñoz) makes Gabrielle's life even more difficult as she pulls everything to steal Rocky from her. Will Rocky and Gabrielle rediscover each other before he falls for Monique's trap?
It's Only A Dream
Gordon Driffield: They didn't belong here either.::Dr. Ellie Hallstróm: Is that when you woke up?::Gordon Driffield: I don't remember how it ends...
Ron: If Hughie.Greene saw him he would spew up.
Sherry Sheridan: Every body here loves Sherry,S-h-e-r-r-y.here to make your evening merry, Sherry your song and dance man.
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A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the country. Hamlin finds Lydia and, against the background of war and rebellion, they fall in love while helping the Haitians against the French.
Keywords: 1800s, america, atlantic-ocean, attorney, based-on-novel, black-man, boston-massachusetts, character-name-in-title, country, dancer
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De Lesseps is a young aristocrat who conceives the idea for the Suez Canal. When Napoleon fails him, the British show interest. Though the production values make the film entertaining its historical content is generally agreed to be awful.
Keywords: 1850s, alexandria-egypt, ambition, arc-de-triomphe-paris, award, betrayal, broken-promise, burial, camel, canal
A man of two loves and one mighty deed !
HE CHANGED THE MAP of the World!
The stirring saga of the world's most astonishing engineering achievement!
Benjamin Disraeli: [to the House of Commons] By all means support this policy; by all means rally round the Prime Minister; by all means follow cheerfully and unquestioningly his leadership. All of you... who are as anxious as he to see England reduced to the standing of a third-rate power!
[His party appears to be losing the election]::Benjamin Disraeli: Yes, I'm afraid you're right. Apparently the present government have temporarily averted the danger of England taking over the leadership of the world, huh?
Ferdinand de Lesseps: Oh, Eugenie, darling, I'm leaving for Egypt in an hour and 45 minutes. Will you marry me?::Countess Eugenie de Montijo: What?::Ferdinand de Lesseps: I'm going there as secretary to the Consulate. Marry me, come with me. Rene's going for the license.::Countess Eugenie de Montijo: What license? What are you talking about?::Ferdinand de Lesseps: The marriage license! Quick, pack your things, we've just time to get to the church.::Countess Eugenie de Montijo: But I couldn't possibly do a thing like that, you know I couldn't...::Ferdinand de Lesseps: Don't you understand, I may be gone a year, five years... this may be our last chance!::Countess Eugenie de Montijo: Oh, Ferdinand, are you insane?::Ferdinand de Lesseps: No. [pause] Yes.
[Toni's donkey has pulled her bathing machine away from the water]::Ferdinand de Lesseps: At your service, mademoiselle.::Toni Pellerin: Make him bring back my little house. My clothes are in it.::Ferdinand de Lesseps: Well, why don't you come out and get them yourself?::Toni Pellerin: Shame on you.::Ferdinand de Lesseps: My dear young lady, I don't mind seeing you in your bathing dress. [pause] Ohhh! Tch, tch, tch, tch -- shame on YOU!
Toni Pellerin: Look! A rainbow! Oh, Grandfather says there's a pot of gold at the end.::Ferdinand de Lesseps: One end in the Mediterranean and the other in the Red Sea. What a pot of gold for the world if they could be joined: the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Look, Toni! That water in the old gulf. Just as it was centuries ago, when the Phoenicians sailed through. Can you imagine ships sailing right through here where we're standing?::Toni Pellerin: Ships?::Ferdinand de Lesseps: Yes. Not ancient galleys but modern ships, steamers, sailing a short trade route to the East. It could be done: no elevations, no rock formations, just a simple sand... ditch. (Heh heh heh. And I was told I was going to dig ditches.) There's fate in this, Toni. Something sent me here to Egypt when I didn't want to come, kept me here when I wanted to leave. I thought it was a dead end, has been up to now. But I can make this -- I can make this spot that we're standing on the crossroads of the Earth. Why, think of it, Toni, a canal stretching through to the Mediterranean, open to the ships of all nations! It could be done, and I can do it. I was looking for a way to serve France, and I think... I think I've found a way to serve the world.
Ferdinand de Lesseps: Oh, but it's absurd to think that any one nation would dominate the canal!
Prime Minister: [to the House of Commons] Our first duty is to the mother country, England.::Members: Hear, hear!::Prime Minister: I would not trade the meanest English county for all our colonial possessions!