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We call this article The Fifth Element because our main character fits the description of a character in a movie with the same title.
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The Fifth Element-The Movie
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This over-the-top, sci-fi, action movie is a joyride to the distant future. Costumes, makeup, and sets are outlandish and innovative, and the soundtrack adds a sense of fun to this future world.
In 1914 Egypt, four "stones"--the elements wind, earth, fire, and water--are removed for safe-keeping by the Mondoshawan, as is the fifth element. The fifth element is life--a supreme being--which, when joined with the other elements, is the only sure force against pure evil. Every 5000 years, a portal opens between good and evil, and the elements must be aligned.
It is now the year 2259, the earth is being threatened by evil (seen as a fireball in space), and the vicious Mangalores have been dispatched to collect the five elements. The ship carrying the fifth element is destroyed, but the other four stones are not onboard. The fifth element is retrieved, and revived by a medical team unaware of it's importance; the supreme being is a young woman named Leeloo (Milla Jovovich), and possesses miraculous strength and ability. She escapes onto a precarious ledge, and to avoid the police, dives head first into the maze of traffic below.
Meanwhile, the evil force has made a deal with Zorg (Gary Oldham), the unscrupulous mega-conglomerate owner, to find and deliver the stones. But, a priest has also assumed the duty of delivering the stones; Cornelius (Ian Holm) has advised President Lindberg (Tom 'Tiny' Lister, Jr.) that they must find the stones before the Mangalores, but Lindberg decides that General Munro (Brion James) must find a way to locate the stones instead. Munro arranges for former Special Forces major Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) to search for the stones, which by now have been traced to Fhloston Paradise, famous as a tourist destination.
It is arranged that Dallas will win a trip to Fhloston Paradise to investigate, but he is hesitant to involve himself. Now a struggling cab driver in New York, Leeloo's free fall lands her in the back seat of Dallas' cab, with the police in hot pursuit. Her pleads persuade Dallas to take her to Cornelius; they escape the police and the Mangalores to board the jet at the airport. Dallas is unwillingly tagged by outrageous DJ Ruby Rhod (Chris Tucker) as his vacation partner to Fhloston Paradise.
Also arriving at the resort is Diva Pavalaguna, who has been transporting the other four elements. The diva is shot during her performance, but Dallas discovers the stones are hidden inside her, and entrusts them to Ruby while fighting off the Mangalores. Dallas, Leeloo, Cornelius and Ruby escape the planet, Zorg's ship is destroyed, and they once again assemble the five elements within the Egyptian temple.
Leeloo questions whether the earth is actually worth saving--after witnessing the destruction of war--but Dallas explains to her that the reason for existence is to love. The five elements join forces to ward off evil, and the earth is safe once again.
| Boron |
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Atomic Number: 5
Atomic Symbol: B
Atomic Weight: 10.81
Electron Configuration: 23 |
Allrefer.com Encyclopedia
Boron is a nonmetallic element existing as a dark brown to black amorphous powder or as an extremely hard, usually jet-black to silver-gray, brittle, lustrous, metallike crystalline solid...
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Boron was discovered in 1808 and large-scale mining of borax took place during the 1880s in Death Valley, California. Since then, principal boron ores are found in evaporated lake beds in the southwestern United States in the form of borax.
Pure boron is a crystalline, high-melting substance having very low electrical and thermal conductivity. It is almost as hard as diamond. Boron and its compounds are widely used.
Boron Web
The Birth of Boron in the Cosmos
Elemental boron is a consequence of fragmentation reactions, often referred to as spallation, engendered by galactic cosmic ray bombardment (the X-process). Cosmic rays, consisting of nuclei ranging from hydrogen to uranium traveling at relativistic velocities over huge distances, occasionally collide with atoms of interstellar gas.
These colossal impacts invariably cause heavier nuclei to fragment - forming lighter elements. This is the origin of 10B and 11B, the stable isotopes of boron.
In addition to spallation it is also believed that interstellar a-decay reactions, initiated by supernova shock waves, may also contribute to boron synthesis. For example, the addition of a high-energy proton to a 13C nucleus followed by a-emission is a possible route to 10B.
And so, it is almost due to sheer circumstance that boron even exists - proving it to be a most exciting, even the most special, of elements.
Chemistry 105
Boron has been used as far back in history as early Egypt. Mummification was a regular practice for the burial of the deceased. Mummification depended upon an ore known as natron, which contained borates as well as some other common salts. Natron was a highly prized substance and was very expensive. Boron was also used for welding in China and glassmaking in ancient Rome. Boron minerals were discovered in Southern California about 1869. Currently about one-half the mined borax used each year in the world comes from U.S. Borax in California. They produce 500,000 metric tons or 1,100,000,000...
If researchers could selectively incorporate boron-10 into cancer cells, they could then irradiate the patient with thermal neutrons. The destruction of tissue would be localized to only the cancerous cells, since they are the only ones that contain boron-10. The BNC (boron neutron capture) would kill the targeted tumor cells and the body could heal itself, replacing the dead tumor tissue with normal tissue. The attractive part of this treatment is that the length of travel of the lithium and helium ions produced from BNC is only about one cell thick. Due to their weight and energy, they virtually tear the cell to pieces, but the damage ends there...
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• American Beach Photos-Poetics in Observation by Ital Iman I
An American Beach-Brief history of American Beach, photos of the beach, A.L. Lewis, and the Beach Lady
Southern Journey-A Saturday in the South...We just happended to stumble upon this website and found some old pictures of American Beach and also picture of our house...
Heritage Matters-Brief article on American Beach Florida
Sunshine State-{The Movie} A "Hollywood" version of life for the residents of American Beach and its surrounding communities etc. Of course, like always "half the story has never been told"...
Trail reveals a wealth of African-American history
Blacks Fight To Save Heritage
Beaches for info about American Beach.
The Last Resort A family -- and cultural -- saga by Susan Anderson
MaVynee Betsch
The Beach Lady
SOUTHERN ROOTS
"An American Beach Original: Mystical Figure Fights for History,"
"The American Dream: WJCT Documentary
"Ma Vynee Oshun Betsch: 'The Beach Lady'," by Kimberly N. Martin, at Blacksonville.com. br>
Info about Betsch, from a web page called "Our Environment."
"'Beach Lady' Faces a Problem ,"
Profile from magazine.com.
SunshineParadise.com.
Asheville Global Report.
PowerHouseSpeakers.com.
Stetson Kennedy Image Gallery
The Third Annual National Black Herstory Conference & Awards Banquet
Beach Lady MaVynee Betsch wants to memorialize a haven for African-Americans in the time of Jim Crow
TourTime, Inc. Meet your TourTime guide. Her name is MaVynee Betsch, known as the "Beach Lady"
Miz Thang's Friends
Kingsley Plantation
Notes on the Life of Anna Kingsley"
The Richest Woman in Florida
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