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Echternach () is a commune in eastern Luxembourg, capital of the Echternach canton.  It is the oldest town with city rights in Luxembourg.

History

The town grew around the walls of the Abbey of Echternach, which was founded in  698  by St. Willibrord, an English monk from Ripon, Northumbria (in present-day North Yorkshire, England), who became the first bishop of Utrecht and worked to Christianize the Frisians.

The abbey were closed during the French revolution in 1797. Echternach was given city rights in the year 1236.

Geography
Echternach is in the east of the country near the border with Germany, on the banks of the Saar River.

The commune has an area of . The altitude is  high. At the city hall, the altitude  is  high.
Echternach is surrounded by four communes of Luxembourg: Rosport to the east and south, Bech to the southwest, and Berdorf and Consdorf to the west. To the north, the commune borders the Echternacherbrück municipality of the  Bitburg-Prüm district in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate; and to the northwest the Bollendorf municipality, also in the Bitburg-Prüm district of the Rhineland-Palatinate.

Population
There were 5,530 persons living in the commune in 2017, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Evolution of the population in Echternach

Gallery

Related pages
 Cantons of Luxembourg
 Communes of Luxembourg
 List of cities in Luxembourg

References

Other websites

 Official website 
Tourist attractions in Echternach 
Surroundings of Echternach
Harmonie Municipale Echternach
Intramuros asbl. - For the development of the historical center of Echternach 
Everything about Echternach

Communes of Echternach
Breast cancer is cancer in the breast.

Statistics
Breast cancer is the fifth-most common cause of cancer death in the world. The first four are lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, and colon cancer. In 2005, breast cancer caused 502,000 deaths (7% of cancer deaths; almost 1% of all deaths) in the world. Among all women in the world, breast cancer is the most common cancer.

In the United States, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and the second most common cause of cancer death in women (after lung cancer). In 2007, breast cancer caused about 40,910 deaths (7% of cancer deaths; almost 2% of all deaths) in the U.S. Women in the United States have a 1 in 8 chance of getting breast cancer in their lives. They have a 1 in 33 chance of death from breast cancer.
There are many more people getting breast cancer since the 1970s. This is because of how people in the Western world live. Because the breast is composed of identical tissues in males and females, breast cancer also occurs in males, though it is less common.

Treatment
When a person gets breast cancer, they can try to cure it in three ways. Doctors can cut out the cancer (mastectomy or lumpectomy). They can give the person drugs (chemotherapy). They can also try to kill the cancer with energy (radiation). If one cure does not work, they may need to try another.
Who is mainly affected by breast cancer? 
The most common cancer among women is breast cancer, followed by skin cancer. It’s most likely to affect women over the age of 50. Breast cancer can also occur in men, although it is rare. Approximately 2,600 men are diagnosed with male breast cancer every year in the United States, making up less than 1% of all cases. Breast cancer is more prevalent in transgender women than in cisgender men. Furthermore, transgender men are less likely to develop breast cancer than cisgender women.

Risk breast cancer 

 Age
 Consuming alcohol
 Dense breast tissue
 Gender
 Having a baby at a later age
 Hormone therapy
 Menopause begins late
 History of breast cancer

References

Other websites  

 

Breast cancer
Cue sports are games played with balls on a cloth-covered table that has rubber railings (called "cushions") around it to keep the balls on the table.  Two or more people use sticks (called cues) to make one ball (the cue ball) hit other balls. In the past, all cue sports were called billiards, but that term has various different meanings in different areas.
There are different kinds of cue sports, including:
Pool or pocket billiards, in which the goal is to use the cue ball to knock other balls into "pockets" (holes cut into the rubber cushions, so that the balls can drop down into nets or a collection tray).  There are many different pool games, such as "eight-ball", "nine-ball", "cutthroat" and "killer".  Pool is usually played with either nine or fifteen balls (besides the cue ball).
Carom billiards, usually played with three balls, uses a table without pockets.  The goal is to use the cue ball to hit one of the other two balls, then hit one or more of the cushions, and finally hit the second other ball.  There are several different kinds of carom games, too; they are different mostly because of how many cushions must be hit.
Snooker, which is similar to pool, is played on a large (6 foot wide by 12 foot long) table, with small balls and small pockets, making the game very challenging.  Snooker also uses more balls than pool.
Cherilyn Sarkisian, better known as Cher, (born May 20, 1946) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and television personality. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. She is well known for her deep contralto vocal range.

Her mother is singer and actress Georgia Holt.

Cher first became well known in 1965 as one half of the pop rock duo Sonny & Cher. She has also released 25 albums as a solo artist, and has 22 Billboard Top 40 entries over her career. These include twelve Top 10 singles and five number one singles.

She became a successful television star in the 1970s and a movie actress in the 1980s. In 1987, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the romantic comedy Moonstruck.

In 2023 Cher released her first ever festive album, called Christmas’ and entertainment website icymi.co.uk, she will headline this year’s NBC Christening at Rockefeller.

Discography
Discography

Studio albums
 All I Ready Went to Do (1965)
 The Sonny Side of Cher (1966)
 Cher (1966)
 With Love, Cher (1967)
 Backstage (1968)
 3614 Jackson Highway (1969)
 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves (1971)
 Foxy Lady (1972)
 Bittersweet White Light (1973)
 Half-Breed (1973)
 Dark Lady (1974)
 Stars (1975)
 I'd Rather Believe in You (1976)
 Cherished (1977)
 Take Me Home (1979)
 Prisoner (1979)
 I Paralyze (1982)
 Cher (1987)
 Heart of Stone (1989)
 Love Hurts (1991)
 It's a Man World (1995)
 Believe (1998)
 Not.com.mercial (2000)
 Living Proof (2001)
 Closer to the Truth (2013)
 Dancing Queen (2018)
 Christmas (2023)

References

Other websites
cher.com — Official website.
officialcherfanclub.com  — Official Fan Club website.
Cher Net Worth — Children's Craniofacial Association. National Chairperson: Cher.
cherconvention.com  — Cher Convention Foundation dedicated to raising funds for CCA kids.
Eulogy for Sonny Bono
Academy Award winning actors
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Frunzik (Mher) Mkrtchyan (July 4, 1930 – December 29, 1993) was a popular Soviet Armenian actor who was named a People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1984.

Life 
Even though he was a comedian, Frunzik's personal life was very sad. His first wife, Donara Mkrtchyan, became mentally ill and was sent to a mental institution for the rest of her life and Frunzik became a single parent of two young kids.

His son inherited his mother’s mental illness and, according to people close to Frunzik, he suffered from severe depression in the last few years of his life, and became a heavy alcoholic. In 1993, his brother found him lying dead in his home in Yerevan. Thousands of people attended his funeral.

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Pest could mean:
Pest, an archaic term for pestilence, specifically the Black death
Pest (hockey), an ice hockey player specialising in aggravating opponents
Pest (music), a British music group
Pest (biology), a characteristically  undesirable animal or insect
The Pest, a 1997 film starring John Leguizamo
PEST analysis (Political, Economic, Social and Technological), a framework for analysis of macroenvironmental factors

Places with the name Pest:
Pest, Hungary
Pest county
Yuzu () is a Japanese popular music duo.  Its members are Kitagawa Yujin () and Iwasawa Kouji (). Both of the band members come from Yokohama in the Kanagawa Prefecture. At first, they sung on the street in Yokohama. They have known each other since they were small children.

They are famous for their concerts in front of the department store, Matsuzakaya in Isezakicyo in Yokohama. They officially debuted in 1997. The first CD was 'Yuzu no Moto'.

Singles

Albums
 Yuzu no Moto (1997)
 Yuzuman (1998)
 Yuzu Ikka (1998)
 Utajiki -Sakura Saku Hen- (1999)
 Yuzuen (1999)
 Yuzuman no Natsu (2000)
 Tobira (2000)
 Utajiki -Futari no Biggu (Eggu) Sho Hen- (2001)
 Yuzumoa (2002)
 Sumire (2003)
 Yuzu Sumairu (2003)
 1 -ONE- (2004)
 Home [1997-2000]
 Going [2001-2005]
 Ribon (2006)
 Yuzunone(2007)
 Wonderful World(2008)
VHS
 Futari (March 17, 1999)
 Rokkasen Kin (February 16, 2000)
 Rokkasen Gin (February 16, 2000)
 Futari Akiaji (April 12, 2000)
 TOBIRA TOUR 2000-2001 (April 4, 2001)
 Futari no Biggu (Eggu) Sho -2jikan 53fun TOKYO DOME Kanzen Nokattoban- (December 26, 2001)
 Sutajiamu Manin On(raku)satsu -Netto! Bomb Odori- (January 23, 2002)
 Koi no Kayobi (August 7, 2002)
 Rokkasen Kurenai (January 22, 2003)
 Rokkasen Sumire (May 21, 2003)
 Sumire (October 22, 2003)

Other websites

 Yuzu Net  - An official website
 Yuzu Official Website

J-pop bands
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Pestilence is a word that is used for any highly infectious disease that can cause an epidemic or even a pandemic. It is commonly used for parasites too, but only when they cause large scale sickness or death, such as the Guinea worm.

The word meant the disease plague, which is called pestis in Latin.
It was used for the Black Death as well, an epidemic of the 14th century that killed Millions of people in Europe.

Related pages
Disease
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Article in International Herald Tribune 22 March 2006, describing Guinea worm as a pestilence  (Linked 23 April 2006)

Infectious diseases
This list contains famous or well documented outbreaks of plagues or disease. They are examined in individual entries.

Before 1000 A.D.

 Great Plague of Athens (430–427 BC) 
 May have been caused by: Bubonic plague, smallpox, measles, typhus, anthrax, or typhoid
 Antonine Plague (165–180)
 Cause: Probably smallpox
 Plague of Cyprian (250)
 Cause: Probably smallpox
 Plague of Justinian (541–542)
 Cause: Bubonic plague
 Plague of Emmaus (18 A.H./639 A.D.)
 Cause: Unknown (possibly bubonic plague)
 Plague of Constantinople (747–748)
 Cause: Bubonic plague
The "Black Death" of 13471353
 Great Plague of England (1348–1350)
 May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague
 Great Plague of Ireland (1348–1351) 
 May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague
 Great Plague of Scotland (1348–1350)
 May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague
 Great Plague of Russia (1349–1353)
 May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague
 great plague of asia and middle east

The 1400s and 1500s
 Great Plague of Iceland (1402–1404) 
 Caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague (not bubonic plague, as there were no rats in Iceland)
 Plague of 1575, Italy, Sicily, and parts of Northern Europe (1571–1576)
 May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague
 London Plague (1592–1594)
 May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague
The 1600s
 Italian Plague of 1629-1631 or Great Plague of Milan (1629–1631) 
 May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague
 Great Plague of Seville (1649) 
 May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague
 Great Plague of London (1664–1665) 
 May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague
 Great Plague of Vienna (1679–1680s) 
 May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague

1700 and after
 Great Plague of Marseille (1720–1722)
 May have been caused by: Bubonic plague
 Plague Riot in Moscow (1771)
 May have been caused by: Bubonic plague
 The Third Pandemic (started in China; 1855–1950s)
 Caused by: Bubonic plague

Related pages
 Bubonic plague
 Epidemic
 List of epidemics
 Pandemic
 Influenza pandemic of 1918 (Spanish flu)

References

Infectious diseases
Historical plagues
Worldwide Pandemics 
 1194-1184 BCE: influenza: Trojan War epidemic
 713 BCE: influenza: Assyrian epidemic
 430-425 BCE:  influenza (?): Plague of Athens
 165-180: Antonine Plague, perhaps smallpox
 541: the Plague of Justinian
 591-592:  influenza: Extreme Cough
 1300-50s: The Black Death in Europe and Asia during the Late Middle Age (Killed 60% of the population) 
 1501-1587: typhus
 1729: influenza
 1732-1733: influenza
 1775-1776: influenza
 1781: influenza
 1816-1826: cholera
 1829-1851: cholera
 1830: influenza
 1847-1848: influenza
 1852-1860: cholera
 1855-1950s: bubonic plague: Third Pandemic in China and India
 1857-1859: influenza
 1870-1874: smallpox
 1863-1875: cholera
 1881-1893: cholera
 1889-1892: influenza
 1899-1923: cholera
 1918-1920: avian flu: Spanish flu: more people were hospitalized in World War I from this epidemic than wounds. Estimates of the dead range from 20 to 40 million worldwide (WHO)
 1957-1958: influenza: avian flu: Asian flu
 1961-present: cholera called El Tor
1981-present: HIV/AIDS (As of 2018, more than 32 million have died from AIDS) 
 1968-1969: influenza: avian flu: Hong Kong flu
 2002-2003: SARS
 2009-2010: 2009 flu pandemic (swine flu) 
 2019 to present: COVID-19 pandemic (Ongoing pandemic)
Asia 
 165: Antonine Plague - Seleucia, Iraq
 541: Plague of Justinian - Pelusium, Egypt
 735: 735–737 Japanese smallpox epidemic - Dazaifu, Fukuoka, Japan
 1772: 1772–1773 Persian Plague - Baghdad, Iraq
 1826: 1826–1837 cholera pandemic - Ganges, India
 1846: Third cholera pandemic - Mecca, Saudi Arabia
 1855: Third plague pandemic - Yunnan, China
 1889: 1889-1890 pandemic - Bukhara, Russia
 1890: Russian flu - Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China
 1918: 1918–1922 Russia typhus epidemic - Siberia, Russia
 1957: 1957-1958 influenza pandemic - Guizhou, China
 1968: Hong Kong flu - Hong Kong, China
 1997: Avian flu - Hong Kong, China
 2002: SARS - Foshan, Guangdong, China
 2003: Avian influenza epidemic - Fujian, China
 2012: 2012 MERS epidemic - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
 2015: 2015 South Korea MERS epidemic - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
 2019: 2019 Philippines measles outbreak - Manila, Philippines
 2019-present: COVID-19 - Wuhan, Hubei, China
 2019: 2019–20 Brucellosis outbreak - Lanzhou, Gansu, China
2020: 2020 Hantavirus outbreak - Luxi, Yunnan, China
 2020: 2020 G4 EA H1N1 outbreak - Hebei, China
 2020: 2020 Inner Mongolia bubonic outbreak - Bayannur, Inner Mongolia
 2020: SFTS bunyavirus outbreak - Jiangsu, China
 2020: 2020 Idiophatic outbreak - Eluru, India
 2021: India fungus epidemic - New Delhi, India
 2021: Hong Kong Streptococcus outbreak - Hong Kong
 2021: Flurona - Petah Tikva, Israel
 2022: 2022 Henan H3N8 outbreak - Zhumadian, Henan, China
 2022: 2022 Langya virus outbreak in China - Shandong, China
 2022: 2022 HFMD outbreak in the Philippines - San Pascual, Batangas
 2023: 2023 North Korea respiratory disease outbreak - Pyongyang, North Korea
Central and South America 
 1493: influenza - Hispaniola
 1518: smallpox - Hispaniola
 1520: smallpox - Mexico
 1527-1530: smallpox - Peru
 1530-1531: measles - Mexico, Peru
 1546: typhus - Mexico, Peru
 1558-1559: influenza - Mexico, Peru
 early 1600s: malaria
 1648: yellow fever
 2009: 2009 swine flu pandemic - Veracruz, Mexico

Europe 
 415 BCE: Athenian army in Sicily
 393 BCE: Carthaginian siege of Syracuse
 1347-1351: Black Death - Xi'an, China
 1582-1583: plague - San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain)
 1629: 1629–1631 Italian plague - Milan, Italy
 1613: diphtheria - "El año de los Garotillos"
 1656: Naples Plague - Naples, Italy
 1665-1666: Great Plague of London - London, UK
 1720: Great Plague of Marseille - Marseille, France
 1782: Influenza: Russian Katarrh
Egypt & North Africa 
 212 BCE: Second Punic War epidemic
 1801: plague
 1831: cholera
 1834-1836: plague
 1848, 1865, 1881: cholera
 1902: cholera
 1942-1944: falciparum malaria
 1946: relapsing fever
 1947: cholera
 2022: 2022 monkeypox outbreak - Lagos, Nigeria
 2022: 2022 Marburg virus disease outbreak in Ghana - Ashanti, Ghana
 2022: 2022 Uganda Ebola outbreak - Mubende, Uganda
North America 
 1657: measles - Boston, Massachusetts
 1687: measles - Boston, Massachusetts
 1690: yellow fever - New York, New York
 1713: measles - Boston, Massachusetts
 1721-1722: smallpox - Boston, Massachusetts
 1729: measles - Boston, Massachusetts
 1738: smallpox - South Carolina
 1739-1740: measles - Boston, Massachusetts
 1747: measles - Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina
 1759: measles - North America
 1761: influenza - North America and West Indies
 1772: measles - North America
 1775: unknown cause - North America, particularly in the northeast
 1783: Bilious fever - Dover, Delaware
 1788: measles - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York
 1793: influenza and "putrid fever" - Vermont
 1793: influenza - Virginia
 1793: yellow fever - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 1793: unknown - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
 1793: unknown - Middletown, Pennsylvania
 1794: yellow fever - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 1796-1797: yellow fever - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1798: yellow fever - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 1803: yellow fever - New York
 1820-1823: fever - United States spreading from the Schuylkill River
 1831-1832: Asiatic cholera - United States (brought by English immigrants)
 1832: cholera - New York City and other major cities
 1833: cholera - Columbus, Ohio
 1834: cholera - New York City
 1837: typhus - Philadelphia
 1841: yellow fever - United States (especially severe in the South)
 1847: yellow fever New Orleans
 1848-1849: cholera - North America
 1849: cholera New York
 1850: yellow fever - United States
 1850-1851: influenza - North America
 1851: cholera Coles County, Illinois, The Great Plains, and Missouri
 1852: yellow fever - United States (New Orleans-8,000 die in summer)
 1855: yellow fever - United States
 1860-1861: smallpox - Pennsylvania
 1865-1873: smallpox - Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, New Orleans
 1865-1873: cholera - Baltimore, Maryland, Memphis, Washington, DC
1865-1873: recurring epidemics of typhus, typhoid, scarlet fever, and yellow fever
 1873-1875: influenza - North America and Europe
 1876: smallpox - Deadwood, South Dakota
 1878: yellow fever - Memphis, New Orleans
 1885: typhoid - Plymouth, Pennsylvania
 1886: yellow fever - Jacksonville, Florida
 1918-1920: Spanish flu - Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.
 2022: 2022 United States listeriosis outbreak - Maryland, U.S.
 2022: 2022 North America tridemic - Ontario, Canada
References 

 Kuhnke, Laverne. Lives at Risk: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990.
 Gallagher, Nancy. Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health. Syracuse University Press, c1990. Published by the American University in Cairo Press. 
 Kinch, Michael. Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity. New York: Pegasus Books, 2018. ISBN 9781681777511
 Rosen, William, Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe, New York: Penguin Random House, 2008 ISBN 9780143113812

Related pages 

 List of historical plagues

History-related lists
Epidemiology
A pandemic (from Greek παν pan all + δήμος demos people) is an epidemic (an outbreak of an infectious disease) that spreads across a large region (like a continent), or even worldwide.

Common killers and pandemics 
According to the World Health Organization, a pandemic exists when three conditions have been met:

 A disease emerges that is new to a population.
 The agent that causes the disease infects humans, causing serious illness.
 The agent spreads easily and sustainably among humans.

A disease or condition is not a pandemic merely because it is widespread or kills many people. It must also be infectious. For example, cancer causes many deaths, but it is not a pandemic because it is usually not infectious.

World Health Organization pandemic phases 
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a plan to prepare the global fight against influenza. It defines the stages of a pandemic and makes recommendations about what countries should do before and during a pandemic. The phases are:
Interpandemic period:
 Phase 1: No new influenza virus subtypes have been detected in humans. 
 Phase 2: No new influenza virus subtypes have been detected in humans. However, a variant of the virus causes disease in animals. This means there is a threat of human disease.
Pandemic alert period:
 Phase 3: Humans get infected with a new subtype of the flu virus. However, the virus is not spreading from person to person.
 Phase 4: There are small cluster(s) of flu infection. Person-to-person spread is limited and localized.
 Phase 5: There are larger cluster(s) of flu infection. Person-to-person spread is still localized.
Pandemic period:
 Phase 6: Pandemic: The flu has spread throughout the general population. Person-to-person spread is increased and sustained..

Related pages
 Epidemic
 List of epidemics

References 

 Steward's "The Next Global Threat: Pandemic Influenza".
Other websites 
 WHO - Authoritative source of information about global health issues
 Past pandemics that ravaged Europe
 CDC: Influenza Pandemic Phases
 U.S. government's pandemic flu and avian flu information site

Infectious diseases
Epidemiology
Training means learning to do something. It includes practicing skills. The term is used for learning to do jobs, or play games.

Examples:
 
 training for the armed forces
 apprenticeships
 learning how to play a game, such as contract bridge or chess
 or sport such as football
 professional development in law, medicine, management, etc.

Training means changing behavior through learning new requirements and methods. Its effect is measured by testing to see if the behavior has been successfully changed. Follow-up sessions may be repeated until the desired behavior has been achieved.

Exercise may or may not be part of training. When it is, it is called physical training. It is specific and done to improve one's capability, capacity, and performance; see, e.g., strength training or flexibility training.

Related pages 
 Training camp

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Other websites 

 Training Within Industry  - A national conference for those interested in deploying the TWI training methodology.
 Fitness training for kids
 Fitness training for seniors

  
Learning
Demi Moore (born November 11, 1962 as Demi Gene Guynes) is an American actress. She became well known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood. She is best known for her roles in Ghost, A Few Good Men, Disclosure, Indecent Proposal, and G.I. Jane.

She has been married to musician Freddy Moore and actors Bruce Willis and Ashton Kutcher. All her marriages ended in divorce. She has three daughters by Willis: Rumer, Scout and Tallulah. She dated Tobey Maguire in 2002 to 2003.

Other websites 
 

Actors from Idaho
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1962 births
Living people
Fergie Duhamel (born Stacy Ann Ferguson; March 27, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, fashion designer, television host, and former dancer. She is a former member of the kids' TV series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ferguson was also a co-host of the TV series Great Pretenders. She was also in the movie Nine. She was a vocalist for the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas and is a solo artist. She released her debut solo album, The Dutchess, in 2006. Her second solo album, Double Dutchess, was released in 2017 through her own label, Dutchess.

She has achieved three number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100: "London Bridge", "Glamorous", and "Big Girls Don't Cry".
Early life
Ferguson was born in Hacienda Heights, California. She is the daughter of devout Roman Catholic school teachers Theresa Ann (née Gore) and Jon Patrick Ferguson. Her ancestry includes Irish, Scottish, English, Mexican (from a great-grandmother) and Native American. She was raised Roman Catholic. She attended Mesa Robles Middle School and Glen A. Wilson High School. She was a cheerleader, straight-A student and spelling bee champion, as well as a Girl Scout.

Her great-great-great-grandfather John Ribton was the Archdeacon of Achonry. Her great-great-granduncle John Ellard Gore was an astronomer.

Singing career
She has a contralto vocal range.

In 2018, at the NBA All-Star Game, Fergie sang a jazz/swing version of "The Star-Spangled Banner". Critics panned her performance, but she apologized and claimed she was trying a new style.
Personal life
On January 10, 2009, she married actor Josh Duhamel. Fergie and Duhamel are both Catholic. Their son, Axl Jack Duhamel, was born on August 29, 2013. In 2017, Fergie announced that she and Duhamel were divorcing.

In 2017, Fergie left the hip hop group the Black Eyed Peas to focus on her solo career.

Discography
 The Dutchess (2006)
 Double Dutchess (2017)

Notes

References

Other websites
 Official website

Black Eyed Peas members
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Rappers from California
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1975 births
Living people
People from Whittier, California
Rappers
Zuleyka Jerrís Rivera Mendoza (born October 3, 1987 in Cayey, Puerto Rico, and raised in Salinas, Puerto Rico) is a beauty queen who has held the titles Miss Puerto Rico and Miss Universe 2006. 

1987 births
Living people

Puerto Rican models
Miss Universe winners
Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American movie and television actress. She has acted in television commercials and several movies. She recently appeared at the television series Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, where her character Jordan McDeere is the president of the fictional network National Broadcasting System (NBS).

Other websites 

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Actors from New York City
1972 births
Living people
Rupert Everett (Rupert James Hector Everett, born 29 May 1959) is an English actor, singer and writer. He became famous when he appeared in Julian Mitchell's play and movie Another Country playing an openly homosexual student at an English public school in the 1930s.  He has since appeared in many other works, including My Best Friend's Wedding, The Next Best Thing and the Shrek sequels.

Everett left school at 16 and ran away to London to become an actor. In order to support himself, he worked as a prostitute for drugs and money—he disclosed this information in an interview for US magazine in 1997. After being dismissed from the Central School of Speech and Drama, he travelled to Scotland and got a job at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.

In the 21st century, Everett has been writing. He has been a Vanity Fair contributing editor, has written for The Guardian and wrote a film screenplay on playwright Oscar Wilde's final years.
In 2006 Everett published a memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, in which he reveals his six-year affair with British television presenter Paula Yates. Although he is sometimes described as bisexual, as opposed to homosexual, he described his heterosexual affairs during a radio show with Jonathan Ross as the result of adventurousness: "I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything".

Everett criticised the introduction of same-sex marriage, claiming, "I find it personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this institution that is so clearly a disaster".

Filmography

References

Other websites

In-depth biography with many quotes from Everett and friends
Interview and review of Everett's memoir
Rupert fires himself on Celebrity Apprentice 

1959 births
Living people
Actors from Norfolk
Gay men
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Shiri Maymon (born May 17, 1981 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli (pop) singer. She represented her country in Eurovision Song Contest 2005 where she reached the final.

1981 births
Living people
Eurovision Song Contest entrants
Israeli pop singers
Israeli singers
Jewish Israeli musicians
People from Haifa
Tom Selleck (born January 29, 1945) is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning American actor, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his role on the long-running television show Magnum, P.I. and Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Baby and Three Men and a Little Lady. He stars on Blue Bloods. He has also acted in many movies and had a recurring role as Dr. Richard Burke on Friends, who was a love interest to the character of Monica Geller (Courteney Cox).

Other websites 

 
 Selleck's Political Views 
 TRANSCRIPT: Tom Selleck at "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" 
 Selleck! The Movie
 Selleck! The Fan club 

Actors from Detroit
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American television producers
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Emmy Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
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1945 births
Living people
Robert Michael Schneider (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director.

Early life 
Schneider was born in San Francisco, California and grew up in the nearby suburb of Pacifica. He is the son of Jewish-American real estate broker Marvin Schneider, and Pilar, a former kindergarten teacher and ex-school board president; his grandfather on his mother's side of the family was a European American soldier and his grandmother on the same side of the family was a Filipina. Schneider graduated from Terra Nova High School in 1982.

Career 
After becoming a famous stand-up comedian and expert at NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, Schneider now has a career in movies, including main roles in the comedies Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, The Animal and The Hot Chick.

Other websites 

 Official website
 
 The Rob Schneider Music Foundation 
 Environmental Media Awards

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1963 births
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Actors from San Francisco
American movie actors
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Movie directors from California
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Växjö (Swedish IPA: []) is a city in Småland in southern Sweden. It has a population of 55,600 (2005).  Växjö is the seat of Växjö Municipality and is the administrative, cultural and industrial centre of Kronoberg County.  Furthermore, it is the seat of the Diocese of Växjö.

Famous people from Växjö 
Karl-Birger Blomdahl, 20th century music composer
Carolina Klüft, track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist in Athens 2004
Pär Lagerkvist, author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1951
Otto Lindblad, 19th century music composer
Christina Nilsson, 19th century soprano celebrity
Joachim Björklund, Footballer
Carolus Linnaeus, Botanist, physician and zoologist
Mats Wilander, tennis player with seven Grand slam victories 1982-1988
Jonas Björkman, tennis player with 50 doubles titles including Grand Slams

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Carolina Evelyn Klüft (born February 2, 1983) is a Swedish athlete. She competes in heptathlon, long jump and pentathlon. She is the current Olympic, World (twice) and European (twice) heptathlon champion and is regarded as one of the best female athletes in the world. Since 16/09/2002, Klüft has been continuously ranked as the world's leading heptathlete, by the IAAF. This is currently the longest of any athlete.

She is also normally a member of the Swedish 4 × 100 m relay team at international competitions, and was part of the team that set the national record.

Her main coach is Agne Bergvall. She is 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) tall and weighs 65 kg.

On 2 September 2012, during the Finland-Sweden athletics international at Ullevi, Carolina Klüft officially ended her career and retired from sports.

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Jonas Lars Björkman (born March 23, 1972, Alvesta, Sweden) is a Swedish professional male tennis player and former World No. 4 in singles and World No. 1 in doubles. He is as of the 2006 season the oldest player in the ATP Top 100 (singles). He has also played in numerous Wimbledon tournaments.

Other websites
jonasbjorkman.com  - official website

Swedish sportspeople
1972 births
Living people
Male tennis players
Do As Infinity is a Japanese pop / rock band.  They had their first song on September 29, 1999, "Tangerine Dream". Their name is sometimes shortened to D.A.I. The band was named after the their guitarist and composer, Dai Nagao. The singer was  Van Tomiko. The group ended on September 29, 2005. They started again 3 years later.

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Japanese rock bands
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Myleene Angela Klass (born 6 April 1978) is an English classical pianist, commercial model, television and radio presenter, and former member of British pop group Hear'Say. She was born in Gorleston, Norfolk to a Filipino mother and Anglo-Austrian father. Her pop success achieved 4 Top 10 singles, 2 of which were UK Number Ones. Hear'Say also released 2 albums, Popstars and Everybody. 

Almost a year after the Hear'Say break-up on 13 May 2003, Klass signed a five-album deal with Universal Classics and Jazz.  Klass's album, called Moving On, was sold on 20 October 2003 at Harrods, London.  It was nominated as Peoples' Album Of The Year in the Classical BRIT Awards.  On 23 October 2004 Klass said she would not be releasing any further material through the label.

Klass was a contestant in the 2006 series of I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!.  She finished in second place, behind Matt Willis. Klass returned to the show in 2023 during the All-Stars series. She won the show.
Her net worth was about £11 million in April 2012.

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Classical pianists
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1978 births
Living people
British classical musicians
Kimberley Gail "Kym" Ratcliff  (née Marsh; formerly Ryder, and Lomas born 13 June 1976) is an English actress, singer and television presenter. She grew up in Garswood, Merseyside.

Marsh rose to fame when she and four other contestants won reality TV show Popstars and formed manufactured pop quintet Hear'Say. She is most recognised however for her role as Michelle Connor on the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which she played from 2006 to 2019. Marsh was one of the contenders to represent the UK in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest; she was third place and as such did not take part in the ESC. In 2022, she competed in BBC's dance contest Strictly Come Dancing. From January 2023, she began portraying Nicky Walters in the revived BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road.

Personal life
Marsh has two children, David Ryan (born April 1995) and Emily May (born November 1997). They are from a relationship with Dave Cunliffe.
Marsh married former EastEnders actor Jack Ryder in St Albans, Hertfordshire, on 10 August 2002. On 20 March 2008 the couple said they would separate and may divorce. On 26 March 2009, Marsh said she had committed adultery during her marriage. Marsh and Ryder decided to divorce on 12 August 2009. 

Marsh began dating Hollyoaks actor Jamie Lomas in July 2008. She and Lomas said they were expecting a baby due in the summer of 2009. On 12 February 2009, Marsh said their son, Archie Jay Lomas, was born 18 weeks early on 11 February. He died moments after birth. Marsh and Lomas ended their relationship on 9 October 2009. The couple got back together the following month as Marsh won Mother of the Year 2009. On Christmas Day 2009 Lomas proposed to Marsh and she accepted.
Marsh announced that she was three months pregnant on 26 October 2010. On 23 March 2011, Marsh gave birth to her and Lomas' daughter, Polly. She was delivered five weeks early and weighed just over 4lb. Marsh married Lomas in 2012. The couple divorced in 2014.

Discography

Albums
Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

As part of Hear'Say

Awards and nominations
2007: 
 Won Best Newcomer at The British Soap Awards
 Won Best Newcomer at the TV Quick Awards
 Won Favourite Newcomer at the TV Now Awards
 Won Most Popular Newcomer at the National Television Awards

2008:
 Won Best TV Soap Personality at the TRIC Awards
 Won Best Celeb Mum at the Tesco Awards
 Won Favourite Actress at the TV Now Awards
 Won Best Dressed Soap Star at the Inside Soap Awards

2009:
Won Bounty Celebrity Mum of the Year

References

Other websites

 
 Morning Live (BBC One)

1976 births
Living people
English pop singers
English television actors
Reality television participants
Singers from Merseyside
Mackenzie Ryann Rosman (born December 28, 1989) is an American actress.  She is best known for her role as Ruthie Camden on The CW's 7th Heaven.

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David Lee Gallagher (born February 9, 1985) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and model when he was two years old and is best known for his role as Simon Camden on the television series 7th Heaven.  He is also known for his feature film roles; as Mikey Ubriacco in Look Who's Talking Now, as Kevin Harper in Angels in the Endzone and as Ri¢hie Ri¢h in Ri¢hie Ri¢h's Christmas Wish.  During his career as a child and teen star, he was nominated for five Young Artist Awards and won a Teen Choice Award. He is also known for voicing the character Riku in the Kingdom Hearts video game series.

Filmography

Other websites 

1985 births
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American television actors
Actors from New York City
Jessica Claire Biel (born March 3, 1982) is an American actress, Vocalist and former fashion model. 

Biel became known for her early television role of Mary Camden in the long-running family drama series 7th Heaven. She is perhaps best known for appearing in several Hollywood movies. These include Summer Catch, the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Illusionist. 

Biel is also known for her beauty and is considered a sex symbol. In 2005 Esquire magazine declared her the "Sexiest Woman Alive". In 2007 she was voted number 1 in a poll by Stuff magazine.

In 2012, she married singer Justin Timberlake. They have two sons together, Silas Randall (born 2015) and Phineas (born 2020).

Movies

References

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1982 births
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American television actors
Actors from Minnesota
7th Heaven was an American television series about a Protestant minister's family living in the fictional town of Glenoak, California. It was created and produced by Brenda Hampton. The series premiered on Monday, August 26, 1996, on the WB Television Network, the first time that the WB aired Monday night programming. The series finale was scheduled for May 8, 2006; however, the show was renewed by the CW Television Network when the intended final episode received high ratings. The 11th and final season premiered on September 25, 2006 and ended on May 13, 2007. Reruns of 7th Heaven can now be seen on the UP channel weekdays from noon-4 p.m. ET.

Cast
Stephen Collins as Reverend Eric Camden
Catherine Hicks as Annie Camden
Barry Watson as Dr. Matt Camden (1996-2002; recurring thereafter)
David Gallagher  as Simon Camden (1996-2003; 2004-2006)
Jessica Biel as Mary Camden-Rivera (1996-2002; recurring thereafter)
Beverley Mitchell as Reverend Lucy Camden-Kinkirk
Mackenzie Rosman as Ruthie Camden
Adam LaVorgna as Robbie Palmer (1999-2000; starring 2000-2002)
Nikolas Brino as Sam Camden (2001-2007) {the role originally played by all four Brino Quads before Season 6}
Lorenzo Brino as David Camden (2001-2007) {the role originally played by all four Brino Quads before Season 6}
Geoff Stults as Ben Kinkirk (2001-2006; starring 2002-2003)
George Stults as (former) Officer Kevin Kinkirk (starring 2002-2007)
Ashlee Simpson as Cecilia Smith (starring 2002-2004)
Rachel Blanchard as Roxanne Richardson (starring 2002-2004)
Jeremy London as Chandler Hampton (starring 2002-2004)
Scotty Leavenworth as Peter Petrowski (2002-2006; starring 2003-2004)
Tyler Hoechlin as Martin Brewer (starring 2003-2007)
Sarah Thompson as Rose (starring 2005-2006)
Haylie Duff as Sandy Jameson (starring 2005-2007)
Megan Henning as Meredith Davis (2004-2005; starring 2005)
Happy as Happy
Chaz Lamar Shepherd as John Hamilton (1996-1999; starring 1999-2001)
Maureen Flannigan as Shana Sullivan (1998-2002; starring 1999-2000)
1996 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
1990s American television series
2000s American television series
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Television series set in California
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Beverley Ann Mitchell (born January 22, 1981) is an American actress and country music singer. She is perhaps best known for her role as Lucy Camden-Kinkirk on the television series 7th Heaven.

Movies and television

American movie actors
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1981 births
Living people
Nannes musical career started in the 1980s group Sound of Music. The trio participated twice in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest selections, Melodifestivalen, finishing fourth both times; in 1986 with Eldorado and in 1987 with Alexandra. Over the following ten years she established herself as a songwriter in Melodifestivalen, writing two songs for the 1992 competition and the 1995 runner-up Det vackraste (The Most Beautiful Thing) performed by Cecilia Vennersten.

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1962 births
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Swedish singer-songwriters
Writers from Stockholm
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Human biology is an area of study that is part of biology, biological anthropology, and medicine which looks at humans; it is closely related to primate biology, and a number of other areas.

Human biology research includes:
 Genetic differences across human populations, present and past
 Biological differences related to climate and other elements of the natural environment
 Finding the risk of degenerative disease and infectious disease for different populations of people
 Human growth and development

There are not exact boundaries between human biology and regular medical research. However, human biology usually focuses more on health for an entire group of people, and on human evolution, adaptation, and population genetics rather than individual health.

Other websites
Human Biology Association
Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series 

Branches of biology
Biology
Anthropology
Physical anthropology
William Jonathan Drayton Jr. (born March 16, 1959), known by the stage name Flavor Flav, is an American rapper and television personality. He is a member of the hip hop group Public Enemy. He raps about politics.  After several years of quiet, he has been seen again lately as a star of American reality television. He has starred in some VH1 programs, most recently the Flavor of Love series.

Flav was born in Roosevelt, New York and grew up in Freeport, New York.

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Schapelle Leigh Corby (born 10 July 1977) is an Australian woman convicted and imprisoned in Indonesia for drug smuggling. She is a former shop assistant and beauty therapy student from Queensland.

Corby served a twenty-year sentence for the importation of 4.1 kg (9 lb) of cannabis into Bali, Indonesia. She was convicted and sentenced in Bali on 27 May 2005 by the Denpasar (Indonesia) District Court and was serving her sentence in Kerobokan Prison, Bali. On appeal, her conviction and sentence have been confirmed with finality by the Indonesian Supreme Court, with legal maneuvers continuing on her behalf.

She says that the drugs were put in her bag by someone else and that she did not know about them. Her trial and conviction were a major focus of attention for the Australian media. Corby was released on parole on 10 February 2014 after serving nine years in prison. In her parole conditions, Corby cannot leave Indonesia until July 2017.
Controversy 
On 3 March 2008 Australian television show "Current Affairs" showed pictures of what was believed to be Corby and her sister Mercedes dining in a restaurant. This is proof that Corby had bribed the prison guards to let her out for the evening claimed the show, this has made many Australians upset as Corby earlier has claimed she never goes outside Kerobokan Prison.

References

Other websites 
 Schapelle Corby official homepage
 Corby's final appeal rejected

1977 births
Living people
Australian criminals
Australian prisoners
Drug dealers
People convicted of drug offenses
People from Queensland
Autogenic training is a relaxation technique developed by the German psychiatrist Johannes Schultz and first published in 1932.

The technique involves the daily practice of sessions that last around 15 minutes, usually in the morning, at lunch time, and in the evening. During each session, the practitioner will repeat a set of visualisations that induce a state of relaxation. Each session can be practiced in a position chosen amongst a set of recommended postures (e.g. lying down, sitting meditation, sitting like a rag doll, etc.). 

Schultz emphasized parallels to techniques in yoga and meditation. However, unlike some forms of yoga and meditation, autogenic training is devoid of any mysticism.  It is a method for influencing one's autonomic nervous system.
Example of an autogenic training session
 sit in the meditative posture and scan the body
 "my left arm is heavy and warm" (repeat 3 times)
 "my arms and legs are heavy and warm" (repeat 3 times)
 "my heartbeat is calm and regular" (repeat 3 times)
 "my solar plexus is warm" (repeat 3 times) 
 ...
 finish part one by cancelling
 start part two by repeating from steps 2 to cancelling
 part three repeat steps 2 to cancelling

Counter-indications
Autogenic Training is counter-indicated, or needs to be adapted, for a series of conditions including: heart problems such as myocardial infarction, diabetes, psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia, glaucoma, alcohol or drug abuse, epilepsy.

References
References

 

 Luthe Dr W & Schultz Dr JH, "Autogenic Therapy", first published by Grune and Stratton, Inc., New York, (1969). Republished in (2001) by The British Autogenic Society. 
In six volumes.
Vol. 1 Autogenic Methods 
Vol. 2 Medical Applications 
Vol. 3 Applications in Psychotherapy 
Vol. 4 Research and Theory 
Vol. 5 Dynamics of Autogenic Neutralisation 
Vol. 6 Treatment with Autogenic Neutralisation

Other websites
The British Autogenic Society 
Spanish Society of Psychotherapy and the Institute for Autogenic Psychotherapy (in Spanish)
An audio version of the Autogenic Training 
Autogenics: A self-help training schedule.

Psychology
Meditation