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Luol Deng (born 16 April 1985) is a former South Sudanese-born British professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Chicago Bulls (2004–2014), the Cleveland Cavaliers (2014), the Miami Heat (2014–2016), the Los Angeles Lakers (2016–2018) and the Minnesota Timberwolves (2018–2019). He became a British citizen in 2006, and played for the Great Britain national team. He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils.

Deng was born in Wau, Sudan (now South Sudan). His father is politician Aldo Deng. His older brother, Ajou Deng, was also a basketball player.

References

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1985 births
Living people
Black British sportspeople
Chicago Bulls players
Cleveland Cavaliers players
Los Angeles Lakers players
Miami Heat players
Minnesota Timberwolves players
Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
People from Wau, South Sudan
Pedro Troglio (born 28 July 1965) is a former Argentine football player. He has played for Argentina national team.

Club career statistics

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|1985/86||rowspan="3"|River Plate||rowspan="3"|Primera División||1||0||||||||||1||0
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|1986/87||23||1||||||||||23||1
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|1987/88||33||2||||||||||33||2

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|1988/89||Hellas Verona||Serie A||32||1||||||||||32||1
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|1989/90||rowspan="2"|Lazio||rowspan="2"|Serie A||24||0||||||||||24||0
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|1990/91||16||1||||||||||16||1
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|1991/92||rowspan="3"|Ascoli||Serie A||32||4||||||||||32||4
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|1992/93||rowspan="2"|Serie B||38||6||||||||||38||6
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|1993/94||36||3||||||||||36||3

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|1994||Fujieda Blux||Football League||0||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||1||0
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|1995||Fukuoka Blux||Football League||29||10||3||1||colspan="2"|-||32||11
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|1996||Avispa Fukuoka||J. League 1||27||10||1||0||14||2||42||12
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|1996/97||rowspan="6"|Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata||rowspan="6"|Primera División||15||0||||||||||15||0
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|1997/98||6||1||||||||||6||1
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|1998/99||35||3||||||||||35||3
|-
|1999/00||28||0||||||||||28||0
|-
|2000/01||13||0||||||||||13||0
|-
|2001/02||27||0||||||||||27||0
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|2002/03||Unión||Primera División||31||4||||||||||31||4
212||11||||||||||212||11
178||15||||||||||178||15
56||20||5||1||14||2||75||23
446||46||5||1||14||2||465||49
|}

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|1987||||
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|1988||||
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|1989||8||0
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|1990||9||1
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!Total||||
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1965 births
Living people
Footballers from Buenos Aires
Argentine football managers
Marcos Nozomi Munakata (born 3 February 1959) is a former Brazilian football player.

Club statistics

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|1981||Toyo Kogyo||J. League 1||0||0||||||||||||
0||0||||||||||||
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References

1959 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Ademir Santos (born 28 March 1968) is a former Brazilian-Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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|1987/88||rowspan="4"|Yamaha Motors||rowspan="4"|JSL Division 1||||||||||||||||
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|1989/90||||||||||||||||
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|1990/91||12||1||||||0||0||12||1
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|1992||rowspan="5"|Shimizu S-Pulse||rowspan="5"|J. League 1||colspan="2"|-||0||0||1||0||1||0
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|1993||2||0||0||0||0||0||2||0
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|1994||0||0||1||0||0||0||1||0
|-
|1995||8||2||0||0||colspan="2"|-||8||2
|-
|1996||1||0||0||0||0||0||1||0
23||3||1||0||1||0||25||3
23||3||1||0||1||0||25||3
|}

1968 births
Living people
Brazilian-Japanese footballers
Abraxas is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae. They are called the 'magpie moths'.

Most of these moths have been given different names at different times. Abraxus was the name chosen by Linnaeus, and used today. It was first used by Leach in 1815.

References

 Abraxas at funet.fi

Geometridae
Baltoro Kangri (or Golden Throne) is a mountain in the Karakoram mountain range in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. It lies to the south of the Gasherbrums and east of Chogolisa Peak (7,665 m). The huge Baltoro Glacier, which is one of the largest glaciers outside polar regions, rises from the foot of Baltoro Kangri. In the north of Baltoro Kangri is the Abruzzi Glacier.

Related pages
Baltoro Muztagh

References

Mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan
Accomack County, which used to be called Accomac Shire, is a U.S. county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The 2000 census said that 38,305 lived there.  Its county seat is Accomac.

Accomack and Northampton Counties comprise the Eastern Shore of Virginia, part of the Delmarva Peninsula.

References

Other websites 
 Official Website of Accomack County, VA
 Accomack County, Virginia Genealogy, History and Records 

Virginia counties
1671 establishments
1670s establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
17th-century establishments in Virginia
The University of New Hampshire is a university in Durham, New Hampshire. They are called the Wildcats. The UNH business school is one of the top in New England. The former Chairman of UNH was Stephen Reno.

New Hampshire's sports teams, known as Wildcats, mostly play in the America East Conference. The football team plays in the Colonial Athletic Association, and the men's and women's ice hockey teams play in Hockey East.

Colleges and universities in New Hampshire
Hockey East
1866 establishments in the United States
19th-century establishments in New Hampshire
The University of Vermont is a university in the U.S. state of Vermont. The university has over 10,000 students. The school was found in 1791, and is one of the oldest universities in the United States.

Colleges and universities in Vermont
1791 establishments in the United States
18th-century establishments in Vermont
Immunosuppressant drugs are simply drugs which suppress the immune system. In other words, they reduce the effect of the tiny germs that protect your body from dangerous germs. This makes the body open to disease but it is useful in other ways:

When someone receives an organ transplant, the body thinks the new organ is dangerous and tries to get rid of it. This is called organ rejection. If immunosuppressant drugs are taken the body usually accepts the new organ.

Drugs
Sigur Rós (, ) is an Icelandic post-rock band. The band was started in 1994 by Jón Þór "Jónsi" Birgisson, Georg Hólm, and  Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson. In 1997 they released their first album Von. Their best known tune is Hoppipola released in 2006

which has seen extensive use in TV shows, adverts and films.

Discography

Von (1997)
Ágætis byrjun (1999)
( ) (2002)
Takk... (2005)
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (2008)
 Valtari (2012)
 Kveikur (2013)
 Átta (2023)

People from Reykjavík
Rock bands
1990s music groups
2000s music groups
2010s music groups
Icelandic musicians
Millbrook is a suburb and a former parish of Southampton, England.

Southampton
Totton and Eling is a town and civil parish in Hampshire, UK. It has a population of around 28,000 people.

Towns in Hampshire
The following is a list of the municipalities in the state of Acre, Brazil.

Acre
settlements in Acre
Marshal Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca (Alagoas City, August 5, 1827 - Rio de Janeiro, August 23, 1892) was the first president of the Republic of Brazil and he reached this position after a military strategy that put down the Emperor Pedro II.

Biography

Family

Son of Manuel Mendes da Fonseca (1785-1859) and Rosa Maria Paulina da Fonseca (1802-1873). His father was also a soldier and belonged to the Conservative Party. He had two sisters and seven brothers and three of them died in the Paraguay War: Afonso Aurélio da Fonseca (the youngest), ensign of the 34º Voluntários da Pátria Battalion; captain Hipólito Mendes da Fonseca, dead in the Battle of Curupaity; and major Eduardo Emiliano da Fonseca, dead in the Battle of Itororó.

His elder brother, Hermes Ernesto da Fonseca, father of Hermes da Fonseca, was a marshal in the Brazilian Army, president of Mato Grosso province, governor of Bahia province and commander-in-chief in Bahia and Pará provinces.
Two other brothers also had brilliant military and political careers: Severiano Martins da Fonseca, who reached the rank of field marshal, received the noble title of Barão de Alagoas (Baron of Alagoas) and was the director of the Military School of Porto Alegre; and Pedro Paulino da Fonseca, who was an honorary colonel of the Brazilian Army, head of government of Alagoas and Senator of the Republic for the same Brazilian state.

Youth
In 1843, at the age of sixteen, Deodoro enrolled himself in the Rio de Janeiro Military Academy and finished the artillery course in 1847. In 1845, he was already a 1st class cadet. In 1848, he took part in his first military action, helping to repress the Praieira Revolt, an insurrection promoted by the Liberal Party of Pernambuco.
He got married when he was 33 years old, on April 6, 1860, to Mariana Cecília de Sousa Meireles, who was considered by biographers a very well educated woman, religious, modest and full of domestic attributes. They did not have any children. His nephew Hermes da Fonseca, who also reached the Brazilian presidency, was treated like a son by Deodoro.

Presidents of Brazil
1827 births
1892 deaths
Alagoas
The arrondissement of Caen is an arrondissement of France. It is in the department of Calvados, in a region called Basse-Normandie. It has 24 cantons and 288 communes.

Arrondissements of Calvados
Băileşti is a city in Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania. As of 2011, 22,231 people live here.

The Romanian actor and comedian Amza Pellea and Romanian actor and theatre actor Marcel Iureş were born here.

Other websites
Map of the city

Cities in Romania
Municipalities of Romania
Filiași is a town in Dolj County, Romania, on the Jiu River. In 2002, the population was 18,848.

Filiasi
Bechet is a town in Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania. It is on the river Danube. This is near the Bulgarian city of Oryahovo. In 2002 it had a population of 3,864.

Towns in Romania
The arrondissement of Lisieux is an arrondissement of France. It is in the department of Calvados, in a region called Basse-Normandie. It has 13 cantons and 204 communes.

References

Lisieux
Northern Rhodesia was a territory in south central Africa. It was founded in 1911. It became independent in 1964 as Zambia.

The term "Rhodesia" in geography meant a region which is now Zambia and Zimbabwe. From 1964 on, it only meant Southern Rhodesia.

Related pages 
 Southern Rhodesia

References 

20th-century establishments in Zambia

1911 establishments
1964 disestablishments
Former British colonies
Former colonies in Africa
The Dominican city of San Juan de la Maguana, or simply San Juan, is the head municipality of the San Juan province, on the west of the country.

It is the largest city of western Dominican and the centre of the region. It was one of the first European city founded in the Hispaniola island.

Name
The city was named after St. John Baptist; Maguana is the Taíno name meaning "small valley". In the area, there were Taíno people living here before the Spanish invasion.
History
The valley area of San Juan was the seat of Maguana whose leader was Caonabo. Caonabo in aboriginal language means "gran señor de la tierra or Great Lord of the Earth".  Caonabo was the cacique or chief of the Taínos, upon the death of his uncle and became the most important and powerful ruler in Hispaniola at the time. He led the Taíno revolt against the Spanish invaders and was captured and died in a shipwreck while being taken to Spain as a prisoner. A brother of Caonabo and other allied Taíno caciques led the revolt against the Spanish and finally lost the battle in 1495.

San Juan de la Maguana was founded by the Spanish in 1503 by Diego Velázquez, who later went to conquest the island of Cuba, when Nicolás de Ovando was the Spanish governor of the island.

In 1606, those that were living in San Juan de la Maguana were ordered by the Spanish king to move to a place to the northwest of the city of Santo Domingo and the region was left without people for several years.
After the Dominican independence in 1844, there were some battles in this region between the Haitian and Dominican armies. The most important battle was the Santomé Battle on 22 December 1855 in a savanna to the west of the city where the Dominican army won the fight.

Population
The city had, in , a total population of 78,313: 39,631 men and 38,682 women. The urban population was  of the total population.

Geography
San Juan de la Maguana is in the centre of the San Juan Valley, the old Taíno Maguana, with the Cordillera Central ("Central mountain chain") to the north and east, and the Sierra de Neiba to the south. To the west there is a chain of low hills.

The San Juan river is the main river of the region and the city was founded on the left (eastern) side of this river.
San Juan de la Maguana has a total area of (without including its municipal districts), about  of the total area of the province of San Juan. The city is an elevation of  above sea level, and at  to the west of Santo Domingo. It has 10 municipal districts (subdivisions of a municipality);

Climate
San Juan de la Maguana has a tropical wet and dry/savanna climate (Köppen-Geiger classification: Aw) with a pronounced dry season in winter.

The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is . The month with the most precipitation on average is September with  of rainfall, followed by May with .

The driest season is winter. The month with the least rainfall on average is January with an average of  and the second is February with .

San Juan de la Maguana is in a warm region; the average temperature for the year is . The warmest month, on average, is August with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .
Administrative division
The municipality of San Juan de la Maguana has 10 municipal districts:

Economy
The main economic activity of the province is agriculture and the main crops are rice in the summer, and beans in winter.

References

Settlements in the Dominican Republic
1500s establishments in the Spanish Empire
Bloody Mary could refer to:

 Bloody Mary, a type of cocktail
 Mary I of England, former Queen of England and Ireland 
 Bloody Mary (folklore), a ghost said to appear when summoned
A chess club is a place where people come to play chess. Sometimes, chess clubs host chess tournaments. Many chess clubs are open to the public, while others are for groups of people in a specific area or people in a specific school.

Related pages
Chess pieces
Checkmate
Master (chess)
Grandmaster (chess)

Chess
Assis Brasil is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Acre. In 2007, 5,351 people lived there. Its total area is 2,875,915 km².

Vicente Bessa founded the municipality on March 1, 1976. It was separated from another municipality called Brasiléia.

Municipalities in Acre (state)
1976 establishments in Brazil
Armageddon was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on December 18, 2005 at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island, It was a Smackdown-only PPV. There were eight matches on for the event's card.

Results

Related pages
WWE Armageddon
List of WWE pay-per-view events

References

Other websites
Official Armageddon 2005 website

2005 in professional wrestling
History of Providence, Rhode Island
WWE Armageddon
2005 in the United States
2000s in Rhode Island
December events
Nesquehoning is a borough in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. The population is 3,336 as of the 2020 census count.

Former WWE star Gene Snitsky was born here.

References

Boroughs in Pennsylvania
Jessica Watson (May 18, 1993 – ) is an Australian teenager who became the youngest person to sail around the world alone. She did it without stopping or getting assistance during the journey.

Jessica Watson's first attempt was in September 2009, when she left from Mooloolaba in Queensland in attempt to sail around the world. About 15 hours after she left, her yacht, "Ella's Pink Lady", collided with a bulk carrier near Stradbroke Island. Watson was uninjured in the incident, but her yacht was badly damaged. After the repairs to her yacht were completed, Watson sailed from Queensland's Gold Coast to Sydney and then left from Sydney on October 18, 2009 (five months after her sixteenth birthday) to sail around the world.

The distance of her voyage is about 19,000 nautical miles (35,000 kilometres) and took almost seven months to complete, as she finished her journey on May 15, 2010.

References
References 

1993 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Queensland
People from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Australian sailors
The astrolabe is a tool using the positions of the stars or sun.  It was formerly used in navigation to help explorers and sailors figure out where they were.  They found their distance north and south of the equator by measuring the distance of the sun and stars above the horizon.  Astronomers used other kinds of astrolabes, usually larger ones.

An early astrolabe was made in the Hellenistic world in 150 BC. It is often attributed to Hipparchus. The astrolabe was a marriage of the planisphere (a star chart analog computing instrument) and dioptra (a tool to measure angles). It was a calculator able to work out many kinds of problems in astronomy. Theon of Alexandria wrote a complex book on the astrolabe. Lewis says that Ptolemy used an astrolabe to make the astronomical observations recorded in the Tetrabiblos.

Related pages 
Antikythera mechanism

References 

Measuring tools
"Electric Avenue" is a reggae song released by Guyanese singer Eddy Grant on his Killer on the Rampage album in January 1983.  It is a reggae, synthpop, new wave, and disco song.  Grant wrote and produced the song himself.

It reached #2 on both the United States and UK singles charts.

The song is named after a market street in Brixton, London, England. It has been covered by many artists.

References 

1983 songs
Reggae songs
Songs about London
Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey), known professionally under the name Queen Latifah is an American, rapper, actress and singer. After she signed with Tommy Boy Records in 1989, Latifah released her first album All Hail the Queen. She has won a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination.

She is in a partnership with Eboni Nichols and has a son Rebel.

Discography 
Studio albums
 All Hail the Queen (1989)
 Nature of a Sista' (1991)
 Black Reign (1993)
 Order in the Court (1998)
 The Dana Owens Album (2004)
 Trav'lin' Light (2007)
 Persona (2009)

Filmography

Movies

Television

References
References

1970 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
Rappers from New Jersey
Models from New Jersey
Actors from Newark, New Jersey
Singers from Newark, New Jersey
American voice actors
LGBT actors
LGBT singers
LGBT models
LGBT people from New Jersey
American singer-songwriters
Writers from Newark, New Jersey
Television personalities from New Jersey
Businesspeople from Newark, New Jersey
American television producers
Movie producers from New Jersey
Queen + Paul Rodgers was a rock band formed by Brian May and Roger Taylor, formerly of Queen, and Paul Rodgers of Bad Company, Free and The Firm.

Because of the popularity of Freddie Mercury, it was made clear that Paul Rodgers would not be replacing the former Queen lead singer, who died in 1991 from complications due to AIDS. Rodgers would be called "featured with" along with the former Queen members. When in concert Brian May, Roger Taylor and Paul Rodgers would be helped by keyboard player Spike Edney, rhythm guitarist Jamie Moses and bassist Danny Miranda.

The band recorded an album called The Cosmos Rocks. It was released in 2008.

In May, 2009 Paul Rodgers announced that Queen + Paul Rodgers had come to an end. He said "It was fun but was never meant to be a permanent arrangement". He said it was always possible that the band would get together again.

Notes
Notes 

English musical groups
Musical groups established in 2004
2004 establishments in England
Musical groups disestablished in 2009
2009 disestablishments in England
The Cosmos Rocks is an album by Queen + Paul Rodgers. It was released on 15 September, 2008 in the Europe and on 28 October, 2008 in North America. The album has 14 songs written by Brian May, Paul Rodgers and Roger Taylor. It is the only studio album the former Queen members recorded with Paul Rodgers. The album received mostly bad reviews and it did not sell very many copies.

2008 albums
Queen (band) albums
Rock albums
Kenji Onitake (born 19 September 1939) is a former Japanese football player.

References

1939 births
Living people
Footballers from Hiroshima
Manabu Nakamura (born 26 June 1977) is a former Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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|1996||rowspan="3"|Brummell Sendai||rowspan="3"|Football League||13||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||13||0
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|1997||17||2||2||0||0||0||19||2
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|1998||23||1||3||0||3||0||29||1
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|1999||rowspan="3"|Vegalta Sendai||rowspan="3"|J. League 2||22||1||1||0||0||0||23||1
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|2000||2||0||0||0||1||0||3||0
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|2001||7||0||0||0||0||0||7||0
84||4||6||0||4||0||94||4
84||4||6||0||4||0||94||4
|}

References

1977 births
Living people
Footballers from Iwate Prefecture
is a former Peruvian-Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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|1992||rowspan="4"|Urawa Red Diamonds||rowspan="4"|J. League 1||colspan="2"|-||2||0||8||1||10||1
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|1993||19||1||0||0||2||0||21||1
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|1994||4||0||0||0||0||0||4||0
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|1995||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
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|1996||Tosu Futures||Football League||21||4||||||||||21||4
44||5||2||0||10||1||56||6
44||5||2||0||10||1||56||6
|}

References

1969 births
Living people
Japanese footballers
Footballers from Lima
Marián Gáborík (born 14 February 1982) is a Slovak former professional ice hockey winter. He played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Minnesota Wild, New York Rangers, Columbus Blue Jackets, Los Angeles Kings, and Ottawa Senators. He served as the captain of the Minnesota Wild from March until April of 2008. Gáborík was the first player to score a goal for the Wild.

On March 5, 2014, Gáborík was traded to the Los Angeles Kings. On June 13, 2014, he won his first Stanley Cup when the Kings defeated the New York Rangers 4 games to 1. During the playoffs, Gáborík led the league with 14 goals.

On November 4, 2021, Gáborík announced that he was retiring from playing professional ice hockey.

References

Other websites 

1982 births
Columbus Blue Jackets players
Los Angeles Kings players
Living people
Minnesota Wild players
New York Rangers players
Ottawa Senators players
Slovak ice hockey players
Stanley Cup champions
Swedish Hockey League players
MAR, short for Marchen Awakens Romance is a Japanese manga and anime. The manga ran from 2003-2006, while the anime ran from 2005-2007, made up of 102 episodes. A sequel was made named MAR Omega.

Story
The story is about a Japanese boy named Ginta who journeys into a world named MAR Heaven, which is like a fairy tale. Here, magical items known as ARMs are used to perform different tasks. Ginta meets a witch named Dorothy who wants to find a powerful ARM called Babbo. Ginta and Dorothy find Babbo, but find he is alive and can talk, which other ARMS can't do. Babbo has no memory of who he is other than his name and becomes Ginta's friend.
Ginta travels around MAR Heaven, forming a group of friends which he calls Team MAR. Team MAR fight the Chess Pieces, an evil group of people who wish to turn MAR Heaven into a nightmare. Team MAR is forced to fight in the War Games, a fighting tournament, to defeat the Chess Pieces. Ginta also wishes to return home, looking for the ARM that brought him to MAR Heaven in the first place.

It is revealed near the end of the story that the King and Queen of the Chess Pieces are Ginta's father Danna controlled by an evil spirit called Caldia's Orb, and Dorothy's older sister Diana. Team MAR battles Caldia's Orb, Diana and the leader of the Chess Pieces' Knights, Phantom, in the floating Lestava Castle, and win, saving MAR Heaven. Ginta and Danna return home at the end of the story.

Characters
Team MAR
Team MAR is made up of the main heroes and characters of MAR. The team's goal is to defeat the Chess Pieces and save MAR Heaven from destruction. The members are:
Ginta Toramizu: The main character and leader of the team. Ginta is from Tokyo, Japan. He has a strong imagination and becomes a great fighter in MAR Heaven. He lives with his mother and missing father.
Babbo: A talking ARM who has a human soul. He appears as a ball and chain with a hammer-shaped handle at the end. He has a pointed nose and a moustache. Babbo is very proud and calls himself a "gentleman". Babbo, being an ARM, can change into stronger forms using magical orbs. These forms include a hammer/sword weapon, a gun that can fire exploding bubbles, a winged monster named "Gargoyle", a woman named, a forcefield, a Puss in Boots-like cat, and a powerful attack that can bring back the dead.
Dorothy: A pink-haired witch who searches for powerful ARMs. She flies on a broomstick and is a skilled magician. She comes from a land called Caldia, where her older sister Diana turned against her people and turned evil. She searches for powerful ARMs to use against Diana when she must fight her.
Jack: A boy who resembles a monkey. He lives with his mother on a farm growing vegetables for a living. He uses a shovel-shaped ARM and can grow plants to use as weapons. His father was killed in the first War Games, and Jack wants to be stronger than him and then grow a beanstalk that will grow above the clouds.
Snow: A young princess who is the rightful ruler of Lestava Castle. She and her servant Edward ran away from Lestava when Diana became the Queen, and they later joined Ginta's group. Snow is very polite and kind, but can be hyperactive and strange at times. She uses ARMs that can fire out ice attacks.
Alviss: A young man who summoned Ginta to MAR Heaven. He is cursed with a Zombie Tattoo that will cause him to die if it covers his whole body.
Nanashi: The leader of a group of thieves called Luberia, Nanashi joins Team MAR to avenge a large number of thieves who were killed by the Chess Pieces. He can be lazy and flirts with women when not fighting.
Alan: Snow's protector, Alan fought in the first War Games but was cursed to share a body with Edward. He is later freed from the curse. He is calm and a good battle, but is allergic to cats.
Belle: A fairy who is friends with Alviss.
Edward: A dog who wears glasses, Edward is Snow's servant. He is cursed to share a body with Alan, but is later freed.
Supporting Characters
Koyuki: Ginta's friend in Tokyo. She looks a lot like Snow and dreams of Ginta's adventures from Snow's point of view.
Danna: Ginta's father. He fought in the first War Games, but died when fighting Phantom. His body was taken over by Caldia's Orb, until its death, bringing Danna back from the dead and allowing him to reunite with his family.
Ginta's Mother: Ginta's unnamed mother. She writes fantasy novels.
Jack's Mother: Jack's unnamed mother who runs a farm with her son.
Gaira: A man who fought with Danna and Alan in the first War Games.
Pozun: A purple, pointy-earred creature who acts as a referee for the War Games.
Caldia's Grand Elder: An old man but a powerful wizard who is the leader of Caldia.

The Chess Pieces
The Chess Pieces are the main villains of MAR. They want to turn MAR Heaven into a nightmare. They are in groups named after the pieces of a chess game. The King and Queen, Caldia's Orb and Diana, are not in groups.
Caldia's Orb: The King and creator of the Chess Pieces. Caldia's Orb is made up of evil creatures sealed inside a glass orb. He at first had control of Babbo's body but later changed to take over Danna's body.
Diana: The Queen of the Chess Pieces. Diana is Dorothy's older sister. She left Caldia after turning evil, becoming the Queen of Lestava but planned to kill Snow to have full power. She collects powerful ARMs and is greedy. Dorothy wishes to kill her for turning against her and Caldia.
Phantom: Leader of the Thirteen Zodiac Knights. Phantom lives in the floating Lestava Castle. While he is kind and caring, he is also a cruel person and hates humans.
Peta: Phantom's close friend. He killed Luberia, causing Nanashi to join Team MAR.
Halloween: A Knight who is named after Halloween. He wears a large pumpkin as a mask and has a tombstone attached to his back. He was once Alan's friend but was bullied until he found an ARM that could create fire. He is cruel and scary.
Chimera: A mysterious Knight who wears a skull-shaped mask and does not talk much. Chimera is really a scorned woman named Eileen who was left as a widow when her husband was killed. She uses Ghost ARMs.
Rolan: A friendly man who sees Phantom as a dear friend. He can sprout bird wings and fly.
Weasel: An old man who has a tree growing out of his head. He is 84 years old. He can use plants as weapons, and killed Jack's father in the first War Games.
Ian: Ian was first a Rook, but later became a Knight. He is in love with Gido, a Pawn, who is cursed by Chimera, leaving Ian vengeful.
Magical Roe: A clown who cheered up Snow when she was younger. He is a servant of Diana and captures Snow during the War Games. He turns against Diana to save Snow but dies in the process.
Galian: The former leader of Luberia, who he left to join the Chess Pieces.
Ash: A cheerful man who loves children. He wears a skull-shaped mask that has its tongue poking out.
Candice: A woman who is in love with Phantom. She enjoys both giving and having pain.
Pinocchion: A living toy puppet named after Pinocchio. He was built by Diana, at first as a present for Dorothy. His nose grows when he lies until it turns into a cannon.
Rapunzel: A cruel and insane woman who likes killing people. Ian kills her to earn a spot in the Knights.
Kouga: A large Knight who hides his ugly face under a mask. He believes his ugliness is his best strength.
Chaton: A girl who has the ears, tail and personality of a cat. She is very playful and falls in love with Alan.
Aqua: A mermaid girl who is always smiling, even when hurt. She is horribly killed by Rapunzel.
Loco: A girl who uses voodoo-like ARMs. She is cursed whenever she uses a certain ARM, causing her to get younger until she turns into a baby. Her ARMs are placed in a suitcase.
Pano: A young green-haired girl who falls in love with Jack.
Garon and Leno: Pano's father and older brother.
Gido: A Pawn, and Ian's lover.
MyLifeIsAverage (MLIA) is a website where people submit stories about their day. MLIA is similar to FMyLife, except the stories are about average things, rather than bad things. The stories are judged by several users. If enough users vote that the story is worthy of being posted, then it becomes the first story on the home page, and will later be pushed down the page. Anyone can submit a story. Users may click on a story to leave a comment. 

The stories almost always begin with the words "Today" and end with the phrase "MLIA". 

MLIA has received more than 100,000 stories. Most of the users are students in high school or college.

The co-founder of the site, Guru Khalsa, says that MLIA tries to "bring to light how much stupid and boring stuff gets posted on the Internet."

References

Other websites
 Official website 
 Texts from Last Night, a similar site

Websites
The word Check has a number of meanings:

Check, to stop something happening.
 Checks and Balances
Check, to investigate.
Check, a chequered pattern or design.
Check on a list, to place a tick against.
Check, a threat to capture the king in chess.
Check, declining to bet in a game of poker
Check, a fine dining receipt given at the end of the meal.
Edward Charles "Chuck" Knoblauch (born July 7, 1968) is a retired Major League Baseball player. He played for the Minnesota Twins (1991–97), New York Yankees (1998–2001) and Kansas City Royals (2002). He played mostly as a second baseman before moving to left field for his last two seasons.

References

Other websites
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1175848/ IMDB

1968 births
Living people
American baseball players
Sportspeople from Houston
New York Yankees players
Kansas City Royals players
Minnesota Twins players
Romeo Crennel (born June 18, 1947 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is the former head coach of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League.

Other websites 
Cleveland Browns head coach Romeo Crennel 

1947 births
Living people
People from Lynchburg, Virginia
Der Rosenkavalier (in English: The Knight of the Rose) is a comic opera by Richard Strauss.  The words (libretto) were especially written for the opera by the German poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

It was first performed in Dresden on 26 January 1911 and was an immediate success.  It continues to be a very popular opera in opera houses all over the world and has been performed more often than any other German language 20th century opera.

The story is supposed to be happening in Vienna in the time of  the Empress Maria Theresa (mid to late 18th century).  The music and the words deliberately show the elegant life of aristocratic society of that time.  For example: the title of the opera is about the silver rose which traditionally was sent by a bridegroom to his bride and was brought by a knight (the Knight of the Rose).

The story of the opera
Act I takes place in the Marschallin’s bedroom.  The Marschallin is an aristocratic lady aged 32.  She has a lover, a young boy aged 17 called Octavian.   When the opera starts, we first hear an orchestral prologue.  The music suggests that the Marschallin and Octavian are making love.  Then the curtain opens and we see the two together.  They hear a noise and the Marschallin thinks her husband is coming, so Octavian hides.  It is not her husband, but her cousin Baron Ochs.  Ochs is a very rude man with bad manners.  He marches in to the Marschallin’s room although the servants had asked him to wait.  Octavian manages to change his clothes and appears dressed as a maid called Mariandel.  Ochs thinks “she” is pretty and wants “her” to meet him.  Then he tells the Marschallin what he has come for:  he wants a young knight to deliver the silver rose to his bride Sophie.  He also needs a notary to sign the legal documents of the wedding.  Ochs sings about the fun of making love
.  He wishes he were like Jupiter who was able to disguise himself in many ways.
The morning levée begins.  This means: the ceremony of the Marschallin getting up.  Several people come in.  They include: an Italian tenor who sings an aria, two Italian people called Valzacchi and Annina, who are always spreading gossip, and a notary.  When the notary tells Ochs that he needs to pay a dowry to his bride, not the other way round, Ochs is very angry.

When the Marschallin is left alone she sings a song about how she is losing her youthful looks.  Octavian returns and cheers her up a bit, but she feels sad when he says goodbye very politely and formally, not even kissing her.  The Marschallin sends her little black pageboy to run after him with the silver rose.
Act 2
The story continues in the large room of the house of Herr von Faninal, the father of Sophie whom Ochs wants to marry.  Sophie is waiting for the silver rose to arrive (the convention of the time says that her father must not be there).  Octavian enters and gives her the rose.  The music at this moment is very beautiful and very famous.  The people in the room are talking, then Baron Ochs enters rudely.  Sophie is shocked about his bad manners.  Ochs hums his favourite waltz, then goes to the next room to sign a marriage contract.  Sophie sinks into Octavian’s arms.  When Ochs comes back, Octavian tells him Sophie does not want him, but Ochs will not listen.  Eventually Ochs takes his sword and starts to fight Octavian, who wounds Ochs slightly.  Ochs is furious, but calms down a little after he is given some wine.
Octavian has fallen in love with Sophie, and Sophie with him.  He wants to use Valzacchi and Annina to help him with a plan.  He writes a note to Ochs, which is supposed to be from the maid Mariandel, asking him to meet her.  He gets Annina to take the note to Ochs, who is delighted when he reads it.  He sings his favourite waltz.

Act 3
The scene is an inn near Vienna.  Valzacchi and Annina now work both for Octavian and for Ochs.  They prefer working for Octavian because he pays them more money.  They are planning tricks on Ochs.
Ochs meets Mariandel (Octavian dressed up as the maid again).  He tries to get "her" drunk, but "she" shyly sings “Nein, nein!  i’ trink kein Wein.” (“No, no, I don’t drink wine”).  Ochs thinks "she" looks like Octavian.  Then strange figures of people appear at a window.  Then Annina comes in and says she is Ochs’s wife whom he has deserted.  Then some children come in and say that Ochs is their father.  Ochs is very embarrassed when Faninal comes in and says Mariandel is his fiancée.  He tells the people he has never seen Faninal before.  Then the Marschallin appears and also the police.  The evening is a disaster for Ochs.  The Marschallin tells the police it is just a joke.  She sends Ochs away.
The Marschallin, Sophie and Octavian sing a beautiful trio (using some of the music from the song “Nein, nein, i’ trink kein Wein”).  Octavian is forgiven.  He is left alone with Sophie and they sing a duet together, then go off hand in hand.  She has left a handkerchief on the floor.  The little black pageboy picks it up and runs after them.

Roles

Language 
The language used by Hofmannsthal changes according to who is speaking.  The members of the nobility speak in very elegant language which is often old-fashioned and always very polite.  When good friends speak to one another they often use the familiar (du) (“you” when used between very close friends).  For example: Octavian and the Marschallin often use the familiar "you" but sometimes use (Sie) when they are being more formal.
Baron Ochs is always showing off and the words he uses show this.  When Octavian pretends to be the maid Mariandel he speaks in an Austrian dialect.  Valzacchi and Annina also speak in a dialect, but their German is not perfect and often mixed with Italian.

All this makes it particularly difficult to sing the opera in any other language.

References
The New Kobbé Opera book, ed. The Earl of Harewood and Antony Peattie; 

Compositions by Richard Strauss
1910s operas
1911 works
A dagger is a knife which is used to stab people.  It has a double-edged blade, so it cannot be used for normal cutting like a knife.

Daggers are small, so they can often be hidden under the attacker's clothing and then suddenly produced.

They were also used in the Middle Ages for the infantry armies to defend or attack their opponents.

Some people like Julius Caesar were assassinated with a dagger.

Blades
Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock guitarist and bassist.

Overview

Faces 
Prior to his work with the Rolling Stones, Wood was the guitarist in the English rock band Faces. He was in Faces from 1969 until the band broke up in 1975.

The Rolling Stones 
He is best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. He first worked with the band as a touring guitarist for their 1975 world tour. 

In February 1976 he was made a full-time member and has recorded and toured with the band ever since. 

In addition to the Rolling Stones, Wood has maintained a solo music career. 

Since 1974 he has recorded and released 12 studio and live albums. 

Ronnie Wood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 as a member of The Rolling Stones.

Jeff Beck Group 
From 1967 until 1969 Wood was the bass guitar player for The Jeff Beck Group.
Artistry 
Wood has also had a lot of success as a painter. In the early 1960s, he trained at Ealing Art College. His paintings and prints have been shown in art galleries all over the world. A London art gallery named "Scream" is co-owned by Wood and his sons. The clothing company "Liberty & Co." have produced a clothing line using fabric that has been printed with Wood's art.

Discography

The Rolling Stones
Studio albums
 Black and Blue (1976)
 Some Girls (1978)
 Emotional Rescue (1980)
 Tattoo You (1981)
 Undercover (1983)
 Dirty Work (1986)
 Steel Wheels (1989)
 Voodoo Lounge (1994)
 Bridges to Babylon (1997)
 A Bigger Bang (2005)
 GRRR! (2012)

1947 births
Living people
British bass guitarists
English painters
English rock guitarists
English songwriters
Musicians from Middlesex
The Rolling Stones members
Michael Kevin "Mick" Taylor (born 17 January 1949) is an English musician best known as a former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and The Rolling Stones. He is well known for his skills as a slide guitar player. He also plays piano, bass and drums.

Life

Taylor was born in Welwyn Garden City. He was raised in Hatfield.

He formed his first band The Gods in 1965. He played together with Ken Hensley (later with Uriah Heep). Other musicians were  Greg Lake  (later with Emerson, Lake and Palmer) and John Glascock. 1966 he left the band and joined John Mayall´s Bluesbreakers. He replaced there Peter Green. In June 1969 the Rolling Stones looked for a new guitarist and they found Mick Taylor. His first gig as band member of the Stones was the concert in Hyde Park on 5 July 1969 . The concert was in memory of the late Brian Jones.
Like Bill Wyman he was never the show man on stage. Due to Richards drug problem he did a lot of guitar work for the albums. Jagger and Taylor recorded Sway, Moonlight Mile, Winter, Till the Next Goodbye and Time Waits For No One. But Taylor never earned money for this work. As Richards critizied his guitar playing he decided in December 1974 to leave the Stones.

Taylor's onstage presence with the Rolling Stones is preserved on the album Get Yer Ya-Yas Out!, recorded in New York and  Boston in November 1969; in the documentary films Stones in the Park (released on DVD in 2001), Gimme Shelter (released in 1970) and Cocksucker Blues (unreleased); and in the concert film Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (shown in cinemas in 1974). Bootleg recordings from the Rolling Stones' tours from 1969 through 1973 also document Taylor's concert performances with the Rolling Stones.
Compared to the Rolling Stones time his solo career was not very successful. After leaving the Stones he formed together with  Jack Bruce, Carla Bley and Bruce Gary  the Jack Bruce Band. The project failed due to musical differences between Bruce and Taylor. But despite the split Taylor was often guitar player on solo projects of Rolling Stones members. For example he played om Richards album "Talk is cheap" from 1988. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Mick Taylor along with the Rolling Stones in 1989.In the early 1990s he played for Bill Wyman´s Rhythm Kings.

Discography

With John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
Crusade (Decca, 1967/LP, 1987/CD)
Diary of a Band Volume 1 & 2 (Decca, 1968/LP)
Bare Wires (Decca, 1968/LP, 1988/CD )
Blues from Laurel Canyon (Decca, 1968/LP, 1989/CD)
Primal Solos (Decca, 1969/LP)
Back to the Roots (Decca, 1971/LP, 2001 on 2CD)
Return Of The Bluesbreakers (AIM, 1985/LP, 1993/CD)
The 1982 Reunion Concert (Repertoire records, 1994/CD) with John Mayall, Mick Taylor, Colin Allen and John McVie
Wake Up Call (1993)
Silver Tones - The Best of John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers (Silvertone Records, 1998)
Along For The Ride (2001)
Rolling With The Blues (2003) - selection of live recordings '72-'82
Essentially John Mayall (Eagle Rock Records, 2007) 5 CD Box Set

With The Rolling Stones
Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (1969) (compilation)
Taylor plays on "Honky Tonk Women"
Let It Bleed (1969)
Taylor plays on "Country Honk" and "Live With Me"
Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! (1970)
Sticky Fingers (1971)
Hot Rocks, 1964-1971 (1972) (compilation)
Exile on Main St. (1972)
Goats Head Soup (1973)
It's Only Rock 'n Roll (1974)
Made in the Shade (1975) (compilation of hits 1971-1974)
Metamorphosis (1975)
Taylor plays on "I Don't Know Why" and "Jiving Sister Fanny".
Sucking in the Seventies (1981) (compilation of hits, album cuts and outtakes 1974-1981)
Tattoo You (1981)
Taylor plays on "Tops" and "Waiting on a Friend", both tracks recorded in 1972 during the Goats Head Soup sessions.
Rewind (1971-1984) (1984) (compilation of hits 1971-1983)
Singles Collection: The London Years. (1989) (compilation of singles 1963-1971)
Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones (1993) (compilation of hits 1971-1989)
Forty Licks (2002) (compilation 1964-2002)
Rarities 1971-2003 (2005)
Non-Rolling Stones work with Rolling Stones members:
Pay, Pack and Follow (John Phillips, first official release by Eagle Rock Records, 2001)
from 1973-1979 recording sessions in London aka "Half Stoned" sessions
produced by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
I've Got My Own Album to Do (Ronnie Wood solo album) (1974)
 Now Look (Ronnie Wood solo album) (July 1975)
Talk Is Cheap (Keith Richards solo album) (1988)

With Jack Bruce
Live on the Old Grey Whistle Test (Strange Fruit, 1995). Tracks from several Whistle Test shows recorded between '75 and '81. Seven of the songs feature Taylor on guitar.
Live at the Manchester Free Trade Hall (2 CD, Polydor, 2003)

With Bob Dylan
Infidels (1983)
Real Live (In Europe, 1984) (1984)
Empire Burlesque (1985)
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 (1991)
Solo discography
Mick Taylor (1979) US #119 [5 wks on top 200]
Stranger in This Town (1990) (Recorded Live, Produced by Mick Taylor and Phil Colella)
Arthur's Club-Geneve 1995 (Mick Taylor & Snowy White) (Promo CD/TV Especial)
A Stone's Throw (2000)
Coastin' Home aka Live at the 14 Below (1995) re-issued 2002
14 Below (2003)
Shadow Man (2003)

With Carla Olson
Too Hot For Snakes (Live at the Roxy) (1991 live album)
Within An Ace (1993)
Reap The Whirlwind(1994, Virgin Records Europe)Special - The best of Carla Olson (1995, Virgin Records Sweden)
The Ring of Truth (2001)
Too Hot For Snakes plus (2008, Collectors' Choice) 2-CD set of the Roxy album plus "You Gotta Move" and a 2nd disc of 13 studio tracks 1993 - 2004 including a previously unreleased version of "Winter" and "Think I'm Goin' Mad" from the Carla-produced Barry Goldberg album Stoned Again.
Other session work
Tubular Bells Premiere Mike Oldfield (June '73)  Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield) Telecast Tubular Bells Part One and Tubular Bells Part Two. Recorded at BBC Broadcasting House November 1973 and aired in early '74 and June '74. Available on Oldfield's Elements DVD.
The Tin Man Was A Dreamer (Nicky Hopkins) (1973)
"London Underground" (Herbie Mann 1974)
Live European Tour Billy Preston -  (A&M Records, 1974). Recorded with Stones Mobile Studio during the '73 tour. Preston opened up for the band with Mick Taylor on guitar.
released on CD (A& M - Japan, 2002)
Have Blues Will Travel (Speedo Jones) (Integrity Records, 1988)
Reggae II (Herbie Mann) (Atlantic, 1976)
Just A Story From America (Elliott Murphy) (Columbia 1977)
Waiting for Columbus (Little Feat) (1978) double CD released 2002
Expresso II (Gong) (1978)
Downwind (Pierre Moerlen's Gong) (1979) lead guitar on What you knowAlan Merrill (Alan Merrill)'s solo album (Polydor, 1985) recorded in London in 1977Vinyl (Dramarama) (1991)Burnin' Blues (Coupe De Villes) (1992)Once in a Blue Moon (Gerry Groom) (1993)Cartwheels (Anthony Thistlethwaite) (1993)Hecho en Memphis (Ratones Paranoicos, Sony Music) (1993)Let's get stoned (The Chesterfield Kings) (Mirror Records,1994)Crawfish and Caviar (Anthony Thistlethwaite)Blue Night (Percy Sledge, Virgin Records, 1994)Mick & I (2001) Miyuki & Mick TaylorFrom Clarksdale to Heaven (BlueStorm, 2002) John Lee Hooker Tribute Album.Stoned Again (Barry Goldberg, Antone's Records, 2002)
Meaning Of Life (Todd Sharpville) (Cathouse/Universal, 2003)
Key To Love (Debbie Davies) (Shanachie Records, 2003)
Shadow Man (re-release of a Sasha album from '96) (2003)
Originally released by Alpha Music in 1996, this "Mick Taylor featuring Sasha" album should have read "Sasha featuring Mick Taylor", but the company felt it would sell better under a household name. It features Mick Taylor on guitar, but is basically a Sasha Gracanin album.
Treasure Island (Nikki Sudden) (Secretly Canadian, 2004)
 Unterwegs (Crazy Chris Kramer) (2009)