Araçaí

Araçaí is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 2,384 people living in a total area of 185 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the micro-region of Sete Lagoas. It became a municipality in 1962.

Location

The city center of Araçaí is located at an elevation of 739 meters directly north of Sete Lagoas. Neighboring municipalities are: Cordisburgo (N), Jequitibá (E), Sete Lagoas (S), and Paraopeba (W).

Distances

Economic activities

Services, mining, agriculture, and small industries are the main economic activities. The main industries are textile and dairy products. The GDP in 2005 was approximately R$13 million, with 1 million reais from taxes, 7 million reais from services, 2 million reais from industry, and 3 million reais from agriculture. There were 113 rural producers on 141,000 hectares of land (2006). Approximately 350 persons were occupied in agriculture. The main crops are rice, beans, and corn. There were 7,800 head of cattle, of which 800 were milk cows (2006). Only 34 of the rural properties had tractors in 2006.

Arača

Arača is a medieval Romanesque church ruin located about 12 km north of Novi Bečej, Serbia. The Department for protection and scientific study of Cultural Monuments in Belgrade issued a decision in 1948, in which the Romanesque church of Arača was placed under state protection.

History

It was built around 1230 during administration of the Kingdom of Hungary. It was robbed and devastated in 1280 and reconstructed in 1370 as required by the Queen Elizabeth, and that’s when the Gothic tower that exists today was, probably, built.

In 1417 it came into possession of the Serbian despot Stefan Lazarević. Later it belonged to Serbian despot Đurađ Branković who gave it, as a present, to Pál Birinyi. In 1551 Ottomans burned the cathedral down and it was never reconstructed again. In the end of the 18th century it was a possession of Sissány family.

Extensive excavation and general protection of sites and conservation-restoration works were performed in the period 1970-1978. Works were organizes by Regional Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments / Vojvodina, Novi Sad /, and they were managed by Sandor Nagy, archaeologist of Vojvodina Museum in Novi Sad. Conservation and restoration work, and work on technical documentation were organized by Miomir Petrović, technician conservator of the Provincial Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, with the involvement of Milka Čanak, conservator of the Republic Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments, Belgrade.

Anya Corazon

Anya Sofia Corazon is a fictional half Mexican and half Puerto Rican superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She initially went by the pseudonym Araña, but later changed to using Spider-Girl.

Publication history

Araña was created by writer Fiona Avery and artist Mark Brooks and is based on ideas J. Michael Straczynski used in his run on The Amazing Spider-Man. She was the star of the resurrected Amazing Fantasy comic book in 2004. After her storyline ended in Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #6 she appeared in her own twelve issue series, Araña: The Heart of the Spider, starting in March 2005 as part of Marvel Next. Anya next appeared in the Ms. Marvel title as a recruit for service as a licensed superhero under the Superhuman Registration Act.

She next appears teaming up with Nomad to fight the secret empire in a backup story in Captain America #602-605. Chronologically, her next appearance was during the "Grim Hunt" storyline in The Amazing Spider-Man; however, her appearance in the new Young Allies series was published first.