Nino Basharuli war born in Tbilisi , on 28 January, 1979. In 1996 she entered the Institute ,the faculty of Arts and Philology. After graduating it she began studing at the University of the Foreign Language.Nino Basharuli has loved singing from her childhood. Everyone in her Family were fond of singing, especially her mother and grandmother. The grandmother used to play the Fanduri (Georgian musical instrument) and sing the Georgian national songs. Her mother had a unique tone of voice and sang Romances. Nino has practised Yoga since she was 5 years old and her first Guru was her father Ilia Basharuli. At the same time she was practising Gymnastics. She mastered many professions and also wrote poems, but her love to music was her only priority.In 2004 she sang the jewish National Song on the Day of Independence of Jews at the Opera of Zaqaria Paliashvili and in the same year came out the album on Hebrew. In 2007 Nino's dream comes true and she leaves for Madrid, Spain. In Madrid she fundamentally studied the Spanish language and got acquanted with their folk music "Flamenco" and also got interested in the Portugese musical genre "Fado" and began to sing in the same genre in a very short time. She took part at the Madrid Jazz Festival and gained a lot of attention from many Spanish musicians and directors. She received a lot of proposals in the cinema. But she prefered to go back to Georgia and formed her musical Band with great success.In 2009 she takes part at the Musical Television Show "Geostar" and there starts her musical career. At present she is working on the Folklore of many different countries, among which are India, Africa, Spain ,Brazil, Portugal and intends to create her own musical style in combination with Georgian Folklore. She is an author of  33  songs, the most popular is “ Is vaji”.

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The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. During the 1920s, Mr. Mellon began collecting with the intention of forming a gallery of art for the nation in Washington. In 1937, the year of his death, he promised his collection to the United States. Funds for the construction of the West Building were provided by The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. On March 17, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the completed building and the collections on behalf of the people of the United States of America.

The paintings and works of sculpture given by Andrew Mellon have formed a nucleus of high quality around which the collections have grown. Mr. Mellon's hope that the newly created National Gallery would attract gifts from other collectors was soon realized in the form of major donations of art from Samuel H. Kress, Rush H. Kress, Joseph Widener, Chester Dale, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, and Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch as well as individual gifts from hundreds of other donors.

The Gallery's East Building, located on land set aside in the original Congressional resolution, was opened in 1978. It accommodates the Gallery's growing collections and expanded exhibition schedule and houses an advanced research center, administrative offices, a great library, and a burgeoning collection of drawings and prints. The building was accepted for the nation on June 1, 1978, by President Jimmy Carter. Funds for construction were given by Paul Mellon and the late Ailsa Mellon Bruce, the son and daughter of the founder, and by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

On May 23, 1999 the Gallery opened an outdoor sculpture garden designed to offer year-round enjoyment to the public. Located in the 6.1-acre block adjacent to the West Building at 7th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., the garden provides an informal, yet elegant setting for works of modern and contemporary sculpture.

The Collectors Committee, an advisory group of private citizens, has made it possible to acquire paintings and sculpture of the twentieth century. Key works of art have also come to the Gallery through the Patrons' Permanent Fund. In addition, members of the Circle of the National Gallery of Art have provided funds for many special programs and projects. The Sculpture Garden is a gift to the nation from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.

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Mikho Mosulishvili was born in 1962 (tiger’s year), December 10th. In 1986 he has graduated from Tbilisi state university (TSU), geological-geographical faculty on a specialty of the engineer-geologist (specialization: geological shootings, searches, and investigation of mineral deposits). And also 1981-1984 He studied as secondary faculty Scriptwriting (creative masterful Erlom Ahvlediani and Davit Agiashvili). Afterward, he worked as a geologist and as a journalist in various newspapers. He published several stories, novels and plays into the Georgian language. His plays were performed in Georgia at theaters, on television, and on the radio. Some of his works have been translated into the English, Germans, Armenian and Russian.

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