Ketevan "Katie" Melua (born 16 September 1984) is a British-Georgian
singer, songwriter and musician.
She was born in the country of Georgia, but moved to Northern Ireland at the
age of eight and then relocated to England at the age of 14. Melua is signed
to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of songwriter Mike
Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003.
In 2006, she was the United Kingdom's
biggest-selling female artist and Europe's highest selling European female artist
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MORE INFO ABOUT GEORGIA REPUBLIC:
"...Situated at the strategically important crossroads where Europe meets
Asia, Georgia has a unique and ancient cultural heritage, famous traditions
of hospitality and cuisine and an Alphabet which is entirely its own.
It also has a history of winemaking said to date back thousands of years....
" - BBC NEWS
History > Origins of the Georgian nation:
btw: KATIE was Born in ancient Georgian (Mengrelian/Colchis) city KUTAISI ! More Info about Colchians:
"...Early in the 1st millennium BC, the ancestors of the Georgian nation emerge in the annals of Assyria and, later, of Urartu. Among these were the Diauhi (Diaeni) nation, ancestors of the Taokhoi, who later domiciled in the southwestern Georgian province of Tao, and the Kulkha, forerunners of the Colchians, who held sway over large territories at the eastern end of the Black Sea. The fabled wealth of Colchis became known quite early to the Greeks and found symbolic expression in the legend of Medea and the Golden Fleece...
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In Greek mythology Colchis was the home of MEDEA and the destination of the Argonauts, a land of fabulous wealth and the domain of sorcery..."
- Encyclopedia Britannica ( http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-44320/Georgia )
The recorded history of Georgia dates back more than 4,000 years and the Georgian language is one of the oldest living languages in the world. More info here:
History of Georgia
"..........Caucasoid race is a term used in physical anthropology to refer to people falling within a certain range of anthropometric measurements. The concept of a "Caucasian race" or Varietas Caucasia was first proposed under those names by the German scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840). His studies based the classification of the Caucasian race primarily on skull features, which Blumenbach claimed were optimized by the Caucasian Peoples. Blumenbach writes:
"........Caucasian variety - I have taken the name of this variety from Mount Caucasus, both because its neighbourhood, and especially its southern slope, produces the most beautiful race of men, I mean the Georgian; and because all physiological reasons converge to this, that in that region, if anywhere, it seems we ought with the greatest probability to place the autochthones of mankind.........."
This 1.75-million-year-old skull from the republic of Georgia might have belonged to one of the first humans to leave Africa. And it doesnt look anything like what scientists thought it would...
National Geographic:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0208/feature1/
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Watch Famous & Perfect & Cutest' Katie Melua' Interview & hear her Singing:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Katie+Melua&search=Search
We Support Republic of Georgia, Georgia All Alone in Standoff with Russia:
Republic of Georgia looks to the international community for help, Read UN Human Rights Watch reports:
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/200 8/08/13/russia19620.htm ,
+100.000 Refugees need YOUR support now!
Did you know that the UN refugee agency relies on voluntary contributions for 96.5 percent of its income? The 3.5 percent of funding we receive from the UN is spent entirely on administration costs – meaning more of YOUR money goes to where it is needed most: http://www.unhcr.org/donate/index.htm
More Info: www.SOSGeorgia.org & www.GeoTimes.ge + read Georgia Info here