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La Vita Nuova or Vita Nova (in English: The New Life) is a book written by Dante Alighieri in 1295. It is an expression of the medieval courtly love and it is written in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse. It tells the story of his love for Beatrice Portinari, who also served as the ultimate symbol of salvation in The Divine Comedy.

Vita Nuova, La
The Caribbean Netherlands () is the part of the Netherlands that is in the Caribbean. The rest of the country is in Europe. The Caribbean Netherlands is made up of three special municipalities (): the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. They are also called the BES islands.

The Caribbean Netherlands does not include the other Dutch countries in the Caribbean (Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten). Those are three of the four countries that make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The fourth country is the Netherlands proper. The islands of the Caribbean Netherlands are fully part of the Netherlands proper. They were made a part of the Netherlands when the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved (broken apart) on 10 October 2010.
Although the islands are now part of the Netherlands, they are not yet part of the European Union. They will instead remain overseas territories until at least 2015. They are different to other municipalities in the Netherlands. Unlike normal municipalities, they do not form part of a Dutch province.

Bonaire is located east of Aruba and Curaçao, close to the coast of Venezuela. Sint Eustatius and Saba are located south of Sint Maarten and northwest of Saint Kitts and Nevis. The BES islands have a total population of 21,000 and a total area of .

References

Other websites

Official website of the National Office for the Caribbean Netherlands

 
2010 establishments in North America
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born 18 June 1952) is an Italian-American actress and writer. She has performed in many movies. She has written a lot of books. She is also a philanthropist.

Rossellini is the daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian movie director Roberto Rossellini.

Awards
Rossellini received a 1987 Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her role in Blue Velvet. In 1997, she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for her role in Crime of the Century.  She received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her work on the television series Chicago Hope. Also in 1997, Rossellini was awarded The George Eastman Award. In 1998, she received an Honourable Mention at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival for her role in the movie Left Luggage.

Personal life
Rossellini has dual United States and Italian citizenship.
She was married to Martin Scorsese from 1979 to 1982. After her marriage to Scorsese ended, she married Jon Wiedemann (1983–1986).  He is a Harvard-educated model from Texas. Later, she dated David Lynch, Gary Oldman, and Gregory Mosher.

She has a daughter, Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann (born 1983), and an adopted son, Roberto (born 1992).

Credits
Filmography
 A Matter of Time (1976)
 Il Prato (The Meadow)
 Il Pap'occhio (1980)
 White Nights (1985) Darya Greenwood
 Blue Velvet (1986) Dorothy Vallens
 Oci Ciornie (1987)
 Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987) Madeleine Regency
 Siesta (1987) Marie
 Zelly and Me (1988)
 Cousins (1989)
 Red Riding Hood (1989) Lady Jean
 Wild at Heart (1990)
 Dames Galantes (1990)
 Caccia Alla Vedova (1991)
 Lies of the Twins (1991)
 Death Becomes Her (1992) Lisle von Rhoman
 The Pickle (1993)
 The Innocent (1993)
 Fearless (1993) Laura Klein
 Wyatt Earp (1994)
 Immortal Beloved (1994)
 Croce e delizia (1995)
 Big Night (1996)
 The Funeral (1996)
 The Odyssey (1997)
 Left Luggage (1998)
 The Impostors (1998)
 Merlin (1998)
 Il Cielo cade (2000)
 Empire (2002)
 Roger Dodger (2002)
 The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003)
 The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
 The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)
 King of the Corner (2004)
 Heights (2004)
 La Fiesta Del Chivo (2005)
My Dad is 100 Years Old (2005)
 The Architect (2006)
 Infamous (2006)
 Infected (2006)
 Oh La La (2006)
 The Last Jews of Libya (2007)
 The Accidental Husband (2008)
 Green Porno (2008)
 Two Lovers (2009)
 My Dog Tulip (2009)
 The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2010)
 Keyhole (2011)
 Chicken with Plums (2011)
 Silent Life (2011)
Television
 The Tracey Ullman Show (3 episodes, 1989–1990)
 Ivory Hunters (1990)
 Lies Of the Twins (1991)
 Fallen Angels (1 episode, 1993)
 The Gift (1994)
 Tales from the Crypt (1 episode, 1995)
 Friends (1 episode, 1996)As herself
 Crime of the Century (1996)
 Chicago Hope (2 episodes, 1997)
 The Odyssey (1997)
 Merlin (1998)
 The Simpsons (1 episode, in 'Mom and Pop Art' 1999)
 Don Quixote (2000)
 Napoleon (2002)
 Monte Walsh (2003)
 Earthsea (2004)
 Alias (5 episodes, 2004–2005)
 Filthy Gorgeous (2006)
 Discovery Atlas: Italy Revealed (2006)
 Iconoclasts (2006)
 30 Rock (2 episodes, 2007)
 Green Porno (Sundance Channel)-18 episodes (2008–2009)
 The Phantom (2009)

Theatre
 The Stendhal Syndrome (2004) (off-Broadway)

References

Other websites
Other websites

 

Living people
1952 births
American activists
American movie actors
American television actors
American television directors
American television producers
American television writers
Italian activists
Italian philanthropists
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Italian writers
Actors from Rome
American philanthropists
The Alfa Romeo 146 is a car produced by Alfa Romeo. It replaced the Alfa Romeo 33 in 1995, and was replaced by the Alfa Romeo 147 in 2000.

Engines

Petrol 
 1.4 66 kW (90 hp)
 1.4 Twin Spark 16V 76 kW (103 hp)
 1.6 76 kW (103 hp)
 1.6 Twin Spark 16V 88 kW (120 hp)
 1.7 16V 95 kW (129 hp)
 1.8 Twin Spark 16V 103 kW (140 hp) and 106 kW (144 hp)
 2.0 ti 110 kW (150 hp) and 114 kW (155 hp)

Diesel 
 1.9 JTD 77 kW (105 hp)
 2.0 TD 66 kW (90 hp)

146
1990s automobiles
2000s automobiles
The Alfa Romeo 166 is a car produced by Alfa Romeo. It replaced the Alfa Romeo 164 in late 1998 and facelifted in 2003 with right hand drive production ending in 2005. It was produced until 2007 with no direct successor.

Engines

Petrol 
 2.0 Twin Spark 110 kW (150 hp) and 114 kW (155 hp)
 2.0 V6 TB 151 kW (205 hp)
 2.5 V6 138 kW (188 hp) and 140 kW (190 hp)
 3.0 V6 162 kW (220 hp) and 166 kW (226 hp)
 3.2 V6 177 kW (241 hp)

Diesel 
 2.4 JTD 100 kW (136 hp) and 110 kW (150 hp)
 2.4 Multijet 129 kW (175 hp) and 136 kW (185 hp)

References

166
1990s automobiles
2000s automobiles
is a Japanese athlete.  He is best known as an equestrian who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics and in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Career
In the 2012 Olympics at London, he ranked first after dressage in the three-day eventing competition. He made history as the first Asian rider to lead any four-star three-day event after dressage.

Related pages
 Sports in Japan
 Japan at the Olympics

References

Other websites
  Yoshiaki Oiwa at Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) 

1976 births
Living people
2012 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
Japanese equestrians
Bose Corporation is a company that makes speakers and audio products. It is based in Framingham, Massachusetts in the United States. Bose Corporation was founded by Dr. Amar Bose, a sound engineer.

Other websites

American technology companies
Companies based in Massachusetts
1964 establishments in the United States
Vocational Independence Program or VIP was one of only 10 postsecondary schools in the United States that is known by the U.S. Department of Education as a Comprehensive Transition and Postsecondary (CTP) program for students with an intellectual disability.  In order to be accepted into the VIP program, students must be enrolled in the summer program and the interconnected program is for students 16 to 22 with special needs and provides job training and coursework in independent living, social and academic skills. Any student admitted to the VIP program must be at least 18 years of age. The IQ scores of these students are 70-143. The program was ended in June 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

References 

Schools in the United States
2020 disestablishments in the United States
1987 establishments in the United States
is a female Japanese athlete.  She is best known as a judoka who competed in the Summer Olympic Games.

She was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa.

Career
Matsumoto won the gold medal in the lightweight (57 kg) division at the 2010 World Judo Championships.

She won gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's 57 kg category.

Related pages
 Sports in Japan
 Japan at the Olympics

References

Other websites
 Kaori Matsumoto (JPN) at JudoInside.com

1987 births
Living people
Japanese Olympic gold medalists
Japanese judoka
Sportspeople from Ishikawa Prefecture
is a Japanese sportswoman.  She is best known as an archer who competed in the Summer Olympic Games.

Career
Hayakawa was part of a team which won the bronze medal in women's archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics.  Hayakawa shot her arrow into the 10-point area in her final shot of the match.

This was Japan's first Olympic medal in any team archery event.

Related pages
 Sports in Japan
 Japan at the Olympics
 Miki Kanie
 Kaori Kawanaka

References 

1987 births
Living people
Japanese Olympic bronze medalists
Japanese archers
The Spoiler is a novel written by journalist Annalena McAfee.  It is about two women who work at a newspaper. It was published in the United States on April 10, 2012.

References 

2012 books
21st-century American novels
Annalena McAfee (born c.1952)  is a British writer, journalist and was the editor of The Guardian's literary supplement, the Guardian Review until July 2006. She has written children's books. Some of them have been translated into French, German and Dutch. McAfee is also the editor of a collection of literary profiles from The Guardian.

She married the British novelist Ian McEwan in 1997.

Selected works

Mainstream fiction
 The Spoiler (2012)

Youth titles
 All the Way to the Stars
 Busy Baby
 Kirsty Knows Best
 Patrick's Perfect Pet
 The Girl Who Got to No. 1
 Dreamkidz and the Ice Cream that Conquered the World 
 Why Do Stars Come Out at Night?
 The Visitors Who Came to Stay

References 

English children's writers
Living people
English journalists
Steven Frederic Seagal (born April 10, 1952) is an American martial artist, movie actor, producer, writer, guitarist and former reserve deputy sheriff. Seagal began his adult life as an Aikido instructor in Japan. He became the first foreigner to have an Aikido dojo in Japan. He later moved to Los Angeles, California.  There he made several movies.  Under Siege (1992) brought him the most fame. Credited with popularising aikido in film, Seagal is considered an important figure in the development and popularization of martial arts in the West.

In 2009, the A&E Network began showing his reality show Steven Seagal: Lawman.  This show focused on his work as a deputy sheriff.  In 2011, Steven Seagal produced and starred in a 13 episode television series called True Justice.

From 1996 to 2010, multiple women have accused Seagal of sexual harassment or assault.

Views
Seagal is known as an environmentalist, an animal rights activist and as a supporter of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.
He is also known for his outspoken support of Vladimir Putin. Seagal once called Putin "one of the great living world leaders". He was granted Russian citizenship in 2016. In 2018, the Russian foreign ministry announced that Seagal was appointed as a special envoy to improve ties with the United States. In 2023, Putin bestowed a state decoration on Seagal, awarding the Order of Friendship.

Personal life
Seagal owns a dude ranch in Colorado and a home in Brentwood. He has adopted many animals from shelters. Seagal is a Buddhist.

Seagal has seven children from four relationships.

In Japan, Seagal married his first wife, Miyako Fujitani.  They had a son and daughter.  The daughter is actress and writer Ayako Fujitani.
In the United States, he married former Days of our Lives actress Adrienne La Russa. During this marriage, he began a relationship with Kelly LeBrock.  LeBrock became pregnant.  He then ended the marriage with La Russa and married LeBrock. They had 3 children.  During his marriage to LeBrock, Seagal was having a relationship with their nanny, Arissa Wolf.  She had a daughter.

Seagal is currently married to Erdenetuya Batsukh, called Elle. They have a son. Elle is from Mongolia.

In addition to his biological children, he is the guardian to a Tibetan child, Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo.

Filmography

Discography
 2005: Songs from the Crystal Cave
 2006: Mojo Priest

References

Other websites

 

American movie actors
Russian movie actors
American television actors
American environmentalists
American animal rights activists
1951 births
Living people
Actors from Michigan
People from Lansing, Michigan
American police officers
The Mitsubishi Grandis is a car produced by Mitsubishi Motors. It replaced the Mitsubishi Space Wagon in 2003.  It was sold in Japan, Asia, Europe, Oceania, Mexico, Honduras, Jamaica, and South America.

It won the Best MPV award at the Bangkok International Motor Show from 2005 to 2010.

Production ended in 2011.

Engines 
 2.4 121 kW (165 hp)
 2.0 DI-D 100 kW (136 hp)

References

Grandis
Front wheel drive vehicles
2000s automobiles
2010s automobiles
"Il Canto degli Italiani" (, meaning "The Song of the Italians") is the Italian national anthem. The words were written by Goffredo Mameli in the autumn of 1847 in Genoa when he was just twenty years old. The author of the song died shortly after. The words were later set to music by Michele Novaro in the same year. The song was successful during the Risorgimento because of hopes in the unification of the Italy.

After the unification in 1861, however, the "Marcia Reale" was adopted as Savoy's official anthem. "Il Canto degli Italiani" became the anthem of Italy after 1946, when Italy became a republic.

In 2012, a bill was pass in making schools to teach the line "Fratelli d'Italia" in the anthem.

Lyrics

While the official lyrics are in Italian, the anthem has been translated into other regional languages, such as Neapolitan and Venetian.

Notes

References

National anthems
Italian music
 
1847 establishments in Europe
1840s songs
National symbols of Italy
Dr. Shannon Lucid (born 1943) is a biochemist and a retired NASA astronaut. At one time she had the longest duration in space for an American astronaut.  She has flown in space five times.  This includes a long mission on the Mir space station.

Lucid was born in Shanghai, China.  She grew up in Bethany, Oklahoma.  She attended the University of Oklahoma.

Lucid was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in December 1996.  She is the tenth person and first woman to be given that honor. In 1993 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame. 

On January 31, 2012, Lucid said she was retired from NASA.

References

Other websites

American astronauts
1943 births
Scientists from Oklahoma City
American biochemists
Living people
Recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Educators from Oklahoma City
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 is a Japanese athlete.  She is best known as a weightlifter who has competed in three Summer Olympic Games.

Career
In July 2012, Miyake won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 48 kg category.

Timeline
 2004: Athens Olympics
 2008: Beijing Olympics
 2012: London Olympics

Related pages
 Sports in Japan
 Japan at the Olympics

References

Other websites 
  Hiromi Miyake at London212.com 

1985 births
Living people
Japanese Olympic silver medalists
Weightlifters
Jacob Wukie (born May 11, 1986) is an American athlete.  He is best known as an archer who competed in the Summer Olympic Games.

Career
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was part of the men's archery team that won a silver medal.

Related pages
 United States at the Olympics
 Brady Ellison 
 Jake Kaminski

References

Other websites
 Jacob Wukie at London2012.com 

1986 births
Living people
American archers
American Olympic silver medalists
Sportspeople from Ohio
People from Massillon, Ohio
A county-equivalent in the United States is a type of area that is not inside any county. The county-equivalents are defined by the federal government. They are used for administrative and statistical reasons.

As of the 2000 census there were 3,141 county-equivalents in the United States. The number went down to 3,140 in 2001. That is because the city of Clifton Forge, Virginia changed from being a city to being a town.

Types of county-equivalents
There are three types of county-equivalents.

First type
The first type of county-equivalent is an area of a state which is similar to a county.

Examples of this type:
Louisiana has parishes instead of counties
In Alaska:
Alaska has boroughs instead of a counties
The city of Anchorage is considered a borough under state law

Second type
The second type of county-equivalent is a city that is not inside any county.
Examples of this type:
 In Virginia, cities are not legally part of the counties that they are in, so they are considered county-equivalents.
 Three other cities in the United States are not legally part of any county: Baltimore, Maryland; Carson City, Nevada; and St. Louis, Missouri. These three cities are also county-equivalents.
Washington, D.C. is a county-equivalent.
Prior to 1997, the Census Bureau had recognized the portion of Yellowstone National Park within Montana as separate from any county, despite the fact that the State of Montana had recognized this land as being within adjacent counties since 1978. This area is no longer considered a county equivalent.

Third type
The third type of county-equivalent is an area that doesn't have any county-level government and the United States Census Bureau decides to treat it as a county-equivalent.
Example of this type:
Alaska has boroughs, but the boroughs do not cover the whole state. The area not covered by boroughs is called the Unorganized Borough. In 1970, the Unorganized Borough was divided into areas for statistical reasons. Each of those areas is considered a county-equivalent.

References

Other websites
County or Statistically Equivalent Entity at the United States Census Bureau website
Melanie Thandiwe Newton  (; born 6 November 1972) is a British actress. She has performed in numerous British and American movies, including The Pursuit of Happyness and Mission: Impossible II. She was born in London to a black Zimbabwean mother and white British father. She grew up in Africa, London and Penzance.

Personal life
Newton says that director John Duigan made her have a relationship with him. She was sixteen years old and he was 39. The relationship lasted 6 years.

She married English writer/director/producer Ol Parker in 1998. The couple have two daughters: Ripley, born in 2000, and Nico, born in 2004. Her daughters are named after the character Ellen Ripley in the Alien movies and the singer Nico.

Newton has suffered from bulimia.

Newton is a Buddhist.

Filmography

References

Other websites

 

1972 births
Living people
Actors from London
Black British actors
Buddhists
English movie actors
English television actors
Entertainers from Cornwall
Jennifer Mary "Jenna" Elfman (born September 30, 1971, Los Angeles) is an American movie and television actress. She is highly known for her role as Dharma in the television sitcom Dharma & Greg

She began taking ballet class at the age of five and became a classically trained ballet dancer.  She attended high school at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA).  She then attended college at California State University, Northridge (CSUN)

Elfman began her professional career as a dancer.  She appeared in the music video for "Halo", a song by Depeche Mode.She also danced in the video for Chris Isaak's 1995 single "Somebody's Crying".  She toured with the rock band ZZ Top on their 1994 World Tour.

She was in a number of national television commercials.  Her first television program role was on the short-lived 1996 American sitcom called Townies.  This role led to her part in Dharma & Greg.

Personal life
Personal life 

Elfman met her husband, actor Bodhi Elfman, at a Sprite commercial audition in February 1991. They married on February 18, 1995.

On July 23, 2007, Elfman's first child, a son, Story Elias, was born in Los Angeles. On September 16, 2009, Elfman said she was expecting her second child. On March 2, 2010, their son Easton Quinn Monroe was born.

Filmography

References

Other websites 

 Jenna Elfman's official site
 

1971 births
Living people
American television actors
Actors from Los Angeles
American movie actors
Joseph "Joey" Lawrence (born Joseph Lawrence Mignogna Jr., April 20, 1976 in Philadelphia) is an American actor and R&B singer.  He is best known for his character roles in the television series Gimme a Break, Blossom and Melissa & Joey. Other television series include the hit show Brotherly Love. He has also acted in several movies.

He has two younger brothers, Matthew and Andrew, who are also actors.

He attended the University of Southern California.

Lawrence's first acting role was in a Cracker Jack commercial. At the age of five, he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.  He sang the song "Give My Regards to Broadway".

Personal life 
Lawrence married Michelle Vella in 2002. The couple divorced in 2005. He met his second wife, Chandie Yawn-Nelson, while on vacation in Disney World when the two were teenagers. They married there 13 years later, in July 2005. The couple have two daughters, Charleston (born 2006) and Liberty Grace (born March 2010).

Filmography
Filmography

Studio albums
Joey Lawrence (1993) #74 US Album Charts
Soulmates (1997)

References

Other websites 

 Official Website
 
 

1976 births
Living people
Actors from Philadelphia
American child actors
American R&B singers
American television actors
Singers from Philadelphia
History
Showa Women’s University as we know it today is a women’s private university. It was opened in 1920 and was named ‘Japan Women’s Institute’. The ‘Institute’ as it was known at that time, was founded by Mr. Hitomi Enkichi, whose educational ideas were influenced by the infamous Lev Tolstoy. The institute was in the Bunkyo Ward of Tokyo. In 1922, the school changed its name from ‘Japan Women’s Institute’ to ‘Japan Women’s College’. They had moved location from Bunkyo Ward in Tokyo to its present location in Taishido, Setagaya Ward, in Tokyo. In 1949, the College had changed its name one final time from ‘Japan Women’s College’ to ‘Showa Women’s University’ as they are known today. Showa Women’s University has been offering excellent educational opportunities from Kindergarten to Graduate School.

Departments

Undergraduate School
Faculty of Humanities & Culture
Department of Japanese Language & Literature
The 3 fields of Japanese studies include Japanese Literature, Japanese Language and Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language.

Department of English Language and Communication
Students have the opportunity to work on their English skills by studying abroad at Showa Boston Institute of Language and Culture in Boston, Massachusetts.

Department of History & Culture
Students study and compare history and culture between Japan and the rest of the world.

Department of International studies
Students learn and study global issues while attaining fluency in both English and other foreign languages.

Faculty of Human & Social Sciences
Students investigate and study the social groups in human society using history, economics, geography, law, psychology and international relations.
Department of Psychology
Students use scientific processes to study both human and animal behavior, with the object of understanding why living beings behave as they do.

Department of Welfare Society
Students may choose from 3 courses that include Social Work, Welfare Career and Parenting Support.

Department of Contemporary Liberal Arts
Students learn social sciences including subjects such as literature, languages, philosophy, history, mathematics, and science.

Department of Elementary Education
Students learn to become educators and obtain multiple licenses allowing them to teach nursery school, kindergarten and elementary school.
Faculty of Human Life & Environmental Sciences
Students learn a wide variety of professional careers that include community service, education, business, government and industry. From these careers, finds ways of improving life for individuals and/or families to live and function in society. Furthermore, students also study the management of resources, human goals and needs for family relationships, working environments, human development, living environments, food and apparel.

Department of Human Environmental Science and Design
Students study more in depth the following four fields including costume design management, product design, design production and architecture interior design.

Department of Human Health and Design
Students learn the health science] and can choose to specialize in either exercise, perception or food science.
Department of Food Science & Nutrition
Students study food science which is the chemical, biological, and physical nature of food components – and the technology to bring good, healthy food from the farm to the table. Nutrition is where students study various foods chemistry, ways of cooking and eating well so they can prescribe diets for both health and disease.

Junior College
Is a two-year college program aimed at offering students academic, professional and vocational training and education. An associate degree is the highest certificate offered at the Junior College level. Students may opt to transfer their Junior College credits to a four-year college or university.

Department of Culture and Creative Arts
Students learn the differences and similarities of English and Japanese cultures using television, film, theatre, music and art history.
Hitomi Memorial Hall
The Showa Women’s University Hitomi Memorial Hall on the university campus is famous for its great acoustics. Many classical concerts with many famous conductors have used this now famous concert hall. In 1986, the Suntory Hall at Akasaka opened in central Tokyo causing a slight decrease in the number of concerts in the Hitomi Memorial Hall. It is still used for concerts for the public still.

The General Education Center
This education center offers students teacher training programs, foreign language studies and liberal arts.
Graduate School Of Letters
This consists of the Doctoral and Master of Arts programs that consists of 12 subjects including Department of Japanese Language and Literature, Department of English and American Literature,
Department of Language Educational Communication, Graduate School of Human Life Sciences, Department of Human Science and Culture, Department of Psychology, Department of Welfare Society, Department of Education, Department of Environmental Design, Department of Human Science and Design, and Department of Human Life Science and Culture.

Showa Junior & Senior High School
Showa Junior & Senior High School is included in the Showa School network and was established in 1922. Students study for 6 years. This school is in Taishido, Setagaya Ward in Tokyo. Currently, approximately 44.2%, or 100 students, enter the Showa Women’s University after graduating from Showa Junior & Senior High School.
Showa Elementary School
Showa Elementary was established in 1953. This is a coed elementary school. About 75% of the girls that complete Showa Elementary School enter Showa Junior & Senior High School.

Showa Kindergarten
Showa Kindergarten was established in 1951. Children here learn English, science, and arts. Most students from the kindergarten enter Showa Elementary School.
Study Abroad
Showa Women’s University has numerous programs to study abroad in the USA and around the world. Showa Women’s University places a heavy emphasis on study-abroad programs because of the growing demand for global communications and business. Many students are currently involved in these exchange programs.
Showa Boston Institute for Language and Culture in Massachusetts opened in 1988 and is a key campus in our study abroad program. Because of Boston’s rich academic, culture and history, it helps in the cultural experience the students. Over 700 students travel to the Boston campus to experience the school and its culture every year. Showa was recognized by the Foreign Minister in 2010 for this ongoing effort. The Japanese students learn English and about American culture while experiencing schooling in an American school environment. English majors spend up to three (3) semesters there. For Nutrition, Teaching Japanese and Early Elementary Education there is a specialized two-week program.
There is a 15-week program that focuses mainly on English. Students can learn about American society and culture by experiencing their community learning and field work.
There is also a one-month Summer Session during their summer break that gives students one (1) choice out of seven (7) programs to choose from based on their interest.
American Culture, Volunteer, American Food and Culture, Museum, Education, Psychology, Business English
Other Showa Campuses
Include Boshu, Tomei, Aizu, Boston

Other websites
 Map in English  to Showa.

Colleges and universities in Tokyo
1920 establishments in Asia
1920s establishments in Japan
The Spinners is a Detroit-based R&B club.  They have had many hit records and singles since the late 1960s. Some people in the group have died, though this group continues touring and making records.

The band is also sometimes called the Detroit Spinners, or Motown Spinners. These group names were used in the UK to avoid confusion with a British folk group also called The Spinners.

Studio albums

References

Other websites
The Spinners  official website

Musical groups from Detroit
1954 establishments in the United States
American R&B bands
1950s establishments in Michigan
Angel on My Shoulder may refer to:

Angel on My Shoulder (movie), starring Paul Muni
"Angel on My Shoulder" (song) by Gareth Gates
"Angel on My Shoulder" (song) by Kaskade
Angel on My Shoulder, autobiography of singer Natalie Cole
Shoulder angel
AS or as may refer to:

Science and technology
 A. S. (car), a small French car built in the 1920s
 ActionScript, a programming language developed by Macromedia and Adobe
 Aggregate supply, the total supply of goods, in economics
 Almost surely or a.s., in probability theory, an event with probability 1
 Associate of Science, an American associate degree
 Arsenic, chemical symbol "As"
 Australian Standard, usually followed by the standard number
 Autonomous system (Internet), a collection of IP networks
 Arcsecond,  arcminute, a unit of angular measurement
 Attosecond or as, one trillionth (long scale) (10−18) or one quintillionth (short scale) (10−18) of a second, a unit of time
 Attosiemens or aS, one trillionth (long scale) (10−18) or one quintillionth (short scale) (10−18) of a siemens, a unit of electric conductance
Medicine
Angelman syndrome, a neuro-genetic disorder
Ankylosing spondylitis, arthritis of the spine and joints near to the spine
Aortic stenosis, a type of heart disease
Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder
Autism spectrum

Places
.as, the Internet country code top-level domain for American Samoa
As, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium
Ås, a municipality in Akershus county, Norway
Ås, Sør-Trøndelag, a village in Tydal municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway
Ås, Swedish name for Harju quarter in Helsinki, Finland
Aš, a town in the Czech Republic

People
Æsir are called "ás", "áss", or "ǫ́ss" in Norse.
Ossetians were called As or Asi by the Georgians and Russians in the past
Organizations
Aksjeselskap or A/S, a type of Norwegian stock-based company
Aktieselskab or A/S, a type of Danish stock-based company
Aktsiaselts, a type of Estonian stock-based company
Abilene and Southern Railway
Akademiska Sångföreningen or The Academic Male Voice Choir of Helsinki, a Finnish choir
Alaska Airlines, IATA airline designator
A.S. Roma, Italian football club based in Rome
Australian Standards
Diario AS, a Spanish sports newspaper

Other uses
As (Roman coin), a coin and weight unit
"As" (song), a song by Stevie Wonder
Anglo-Saxon, ancestor of modern English language
Anti-submarine warfare
Assamese language, ISO 639 alpha-2 language code
Adult Swim, an adult-oriented block of programming on Cartoon Network
AS Level, a qualification in the United Kingdom; half an A Level
Anabolic Steroids, AS is an abbreviation often used on online bodybuilding forums

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The Pointer Sisters are an American R&B girl group. They were founded in 1969 and are based out of Oakland, California who first achieved mainstream success in the 1970s and 1980s. Their genres are bebop, disco, blues, country and rock. The group were a duo when they started, though they became trio, then a quartet in the later years. The Pointer Sisters had their greatest and highest success in the 1980s. They are best known for a song called "I'm So Excited".

1969 establishments in the United States
1960s American music groups
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African-American musical groups
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Musical groups established in 1969
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Kerri Allyson Strug (b. November 19, 1977 in Tucson, Arizona) is a retired American gymnast. She won a gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics. She is remembered for performing the vault despite hurting her ankle.

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Kim Zmeskal (born February 6, 1976 in Houston) is a retired gymnast. She went up against Shannon Miller during the 1992 Summer Olympics but was beaten.

Zmeskal retired from gymnastics in 2000.

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American gymnasts
Sportspeople from Texas
1976 births
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Jamie Rae Salé (born near Edmonton, Alberta, April 21, 1977) is a Canadian pair skater.  She and David Pelletier won a gold medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics. The gold medal, however, was shared by a Russian pair skating couple after a figure skating scandal hit through the Olympics.

Salé was born in Calgary, Alberta. She competed first as a singles skater.  She and Jason Turner placed 12th at the Lillehammer Olympics.

After the 2002 win, the pair has turned professional and are now touring North America with Stars on Ice, a figure skating show.

Salé and Pelletier were engaged on Christmas Day of 2004 at their Edmonton, Alberta home. They married on December 30, 2005 at the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel in Alberta.   Their son, Jesse Joe Pelletier, was born on September 30, 2007.

Salé and Pelletier were inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame in 2008. They were inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame on March 26, 2009.
On June 4, 2010, it was reported that Salé and Pelletier would divorce; however, they will remain skating partners.

On June 20, 2012 Salé married her Battle of the Blades partner, Craig Simpson.

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Other websites

Canadian figure skaters
Canadian Olympic gold medalists
Sportspeople from Edmonton
1977 births
Living people
The Indigo Girls are an American folk and rock music duo. Their names are Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They met during elementary school. They began performing together while in high school near Atlanta, Georgia. They began performing with the name Indigo Girls close to 1986. They have had many hit songs. They got a Grammy Award in 1990.

Solo projects
In 1990, Ray founded Daemon Records.  The company has signed Magnapop, Ellen James Society, Kristen Hall, Rose Polenzani, Girlyman, Athens Boys Choir, and James Hall among others.

Ray has put out five solo albums.  They are called Stag, Prom, Live from Knoxville, Didn't It Feel Kinder and "Amy Ray: Live MVP". She has toured with both The Butchies and her band The Volunteers.
Saliers is also planning a solo album.  She is co-owner of Watershed Restaurant in Decatur, Georgia. Saliers was an initial investor in the Flying Biscuit Cafe in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2005, Saliers and her father, Don Saliers, a theology professor at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, released the book A Song to Sing, a Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice. They promoted the release of the book together including several days of speaking and performing together at the Washington National Cathedral College in Washington D.C.

Personal lives
Both Ray and Saliers have long identified themselves as lesbians. They have never been a couple. Because of their work for LGBT rights they are seen as icons of the movement.
Studio albums
Indigo Girls (EP, 1987)
Strange Fire (1987, independent 11-song version, re-released 1989 in major-label 10-song version) US #159
Indigo Girls (1989) US #22
Nomads Indians Saints (1990) US #43
Rites of Passage (1992) US #21
Swamp Ophelia (1994) U.S #9, UK #66
Shaming of the Sun (1997) US #7
Come on Now Social (1999) US #34
Become You (2002) US #30
All That We Let In (2004) US #35
Despite Our Differences (2006) US #44
Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (2009) US #29
Holly Happy Days (2010)
Beauty Queen Sister (2011) #35

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Other websites

Indigo Girls official site

1985 establishments in the United States
1980s American music groups
1990s American music groups
2000s American music groups
2010s American music groups
Folk music groups
American rock bands
Grammy Award winners
LGBT musical groups
LGBT-themed musical groups
Musical groups from Atlanta
1980s establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Yvette Marie Stevens (better known as Chaka Khan and born March 23, 1953 near Chicago) is a ten time Grammy Award winning American singer and songwriter.  She first became famous in the 1970s as the main singer for the funk group Rufus. Khan went solo around 1978, and her hit songs include I Feel for You, I'm Every Woman, Sweet Thing and Through the Fire. She also got several nominations for American Music Awards.

On May 19, 2011, Khan was given the 2,440th Hollywood Walk of Fame star plaque on a section of Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Personal life
Khan has been married twice and is the mother of two children, daughter Indira Milini and son Damien Holland. Khan's first marriage was to Hassan Khan, in 1970, when she was 17. They divorced a short time later. Milini's birth was the result of a relationship between Khan and Rahsaan Morris. Khan married her second husband, Richard Holland, in 1976. The marriage reportedly caused a rift between Khan and several members of Rufus. Khan dated a Chicago-area schoolteacher in the mid-1980s in the middle of her solo stardom. Following their separation, Khan moved to Europe.  She first lived in London, later living in Germany.
In the past, Khan struggled with drug abuse and alcoholism. Her drug use, which at times included cocaine and heroin, ended sometime in the early 1990s. Khan would have an on-again, off-again struggle with alcoholism.  In 2005 she said she was sober. In 2006, her son Damien Holland was accused of murder after 17-year-old Christopher Bailey was shot to death. Khan testified on her son's behalf defending her son's innocence. Holland said the shooting was an accident and was found not guilty.  Though she sang at both the 2000 Democratic and Republican conventions, Khan says that she is more of a "Democratic-minded person".

In December 2011, Khan won permanent custody of her granddaughter, Daija Jade Holland.  Khan said the mother was unable to raise her due to her drug addiction. It was reported that Khan's son was also addicted to drugs.

Awards
Awards

Grammy Awards
To date, Chaka Khan has won 10 Grammy Awards, including two as a member of Rufus. She has received 22 Grammy Award nominations, including three as a member of Rufus.

Soul Train Awards
 1998 Lena Horne Award (Career Achievement) (Recipient)
 2009 Legends Award (Career Achievement) (Recipient)

United Negro College Fund Award
 2011 UNCF: Award of Excellence (Recipient)

American Music Award nominations
To date, she has had four American Music Award nominations.
  Favorite Female Artist - Soul/Rhythm & Blues (Nominee only. Award recipient was Tina Turner)
  Favorite Female Video Artist - Soul/Rhythm & Blues (Nominee only. Award recipient was Tina Turner)
  Favorite Female Artist - Soul/Rhythm & Blues (Nominee only. Award recipient was Stephanie Mills)
  Favorite Female Artist - Soul/Rhythm & Blues (Nominee only. Award recipient was Diana Ross)
References:
Discography
Chaka  (1978)
Naughty (1980)
What Cha' Gonna Do for Me (1981)
 Chaka Khan (1982)
I Feel for You (1984)
Destiny  (1986)
CK (1988)
The Woman I Am (1992)
Come 2 My House (1998)
ClassiKhan (2004)
Funk This (2007)

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1953 births
Living people
Singers from Chicago
American R&B singers
American funk singers
American soul singers
American hip hop singers
American dance musicians
American disco singers
American jazz singers
American gospel singers
American singer-songwriters
Warner Bros. Records artists
Genes, Brain and Behavior (also known as G2B) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the fields of the genetics of behavior, the nervous system (neurogenetics), and mental illness (psychiatric genetics). It began in 2002. It is the official journal of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society.

Impact 
According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2010 impact factor is 4.061. It was ranked 63rd out of 237 listed journals on Neurosciences, and 6th out of 48 listed journals in the category "Behavioral Sciences".

Article categories 
The journal publishes these types of articles:

References

Other websites 
 
 

Journals
Genetics
Psychiatry
Neuroscience
Suzanne Nadine Vega (born 1959 in Santa Monica, California) is an American singer, recording artist and songwriter. She is best known for her songs "Luka" and "Tom's Diner". 

At the age of nine she began to write poetry. She wrote her first song at age fourteen. She attended New York's High School of Performing Arts. There she studied modern dance and graduated in 1977.

Personal life
On March 17, 1995, Vega married Mitchell Froom, a musician and a record producer. They have a daughter, Ruby Froom (born July 8, 1994). The band Soul Coughing's Ruby Vroom album was named after her. Recently Ruby sang with her mother.
Vega and Froom separated in 1998.

On February 11, 2006, Vega married Paul Mills, a lawyer and poet.

Studio albums
Studio albums

1 Days of Open Hand made #2 in Norway albums chart
2 Nine Objects of Desire made #20 in Finland, #23 in Switzerland, #39 in Sweden
3 Beauty & Crime made #9 in Estonia, #13 in Finland, #37 in Czech Republic, #49 in Poland, #74 in Italy
 Close-Up Vol. 2, People & Places Number 2 Top Purchased Album (Amazon.com) 11th October-13th October

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1959 births
American folk musicians
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American rock singers
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Singers from California
Orleans are an American soft rock band who were extremely popular during 1970s. Their song, Dance with Me was a highly popular single, though they have had other songs.

Discography

Studio albums
 Orleans (1973)
 Orleans II (1974)
 Let There Be Music (1975)
 Waking and Dreaming (1976)
 Forever (1979)
 Orleans (1980)
 One of a Kind (1982)
 Grown Up Children (1986)
 Analog Men (1994)
 Ride (1996)
 Dancin' in the Moonlight (2005)
 Obscurities (2008)

Live albums
 Live (1991)
 Live Volume 2 (1993)
 Still the One, Live (2002)
 We're Still Havin' Fun (2007)

Compilations
 The ABC Collection (1976)
 Before the Dance (1978)
 Love Takes Time (1986)
 Dance with Me – The Best of Orleans (1997)
 No More Than You Can Handle: A 40 Year Musical Journey (2013)
 Playlist: The Very Best of Orleans'' (2017)

American rock bands
American pop music groups
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Cornus canadensis is a herbaceous member of the Cornaceae (dogwood) family. It has various common names, such as the Bunchberry dogwood, Canadian Bunchberry, Quatre-temps, or Crackerberry. It is a widespread plant of the northern hemisphere.

It grows about 20–30 cm tall and bears tiny flowers a few millimetres across. They form an inflorescence at the center of four white, petal-like bracts 3–4 cm diameter.

Each flower has highly elastic petals that flip backward, releasing springy filaments that are cocked underneath the petals. The filaments snap upward flinging pollen out  in less than half a millisecond. The pollen experiences a force two to three thousand times the force of gravity.  The Bunchberry has one of the fastest plant actions found so far. It needs a camera capable of shooting 10,000 frames per second to catch the action.
"One of the fastest actions in the plant world is the explosive opening of flowers on the bunchberry dogwood, which happens in just under 0.5 milliseconds. As the flowers burst open, the petals quickly separate and flip back, exposing the stamens. During the first 0.3 milliseconds, researchers have calculated the stamens are exposed to a force 800 times greater than astronauts experience during blast-off. The mechanism, it is understood, allows pollen to be thrown upwards in order for it to be transported by the wind".

In other words, it is a mechanism for cross-pollination by air.

The fruits are edible with a mild flavour somewhat like apples.  The large seeds within are somewhat hard and crunchy. Birds are the main dispersal agents of the seeds, consuming the fruit during their fall migration. In Alaska, bunchberry is an important forage plant for mule deer, black-tailed deer and moose, which consume it throughout the growing season.
Where bunchberry, a forest species, and Cornus suecica, a bog species, grow near each other in their overlapping ranges in Alaska, Labrador, and Greenland, they can Hybrid ize by cross-pollination, producing plants with intermediate characteristics.

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Asterids
Rapid plant movement
Gore Vidal (born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer.

Vidal was born at West Point, New York, the only child of Eugene Luther Vidal (1895-1969) and Nina Gore (1903-1978). He was promiscuous in his youth and was openly bisexual. He lived with a man for over fifty years until he died in 2003. Vidal died of pneumonia at his home in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California.

Bibliography
Essays and non-fiction
Rocking the Boat (1963)
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation)
Homage to Daniel Shays (1972)
Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)
Views from a Window Co-Editor (1981)
The Second American Revolution (1983)
Vidal In Venice (1985) 
Armageddon? (1987) (UK only)
At Home (1988)
A View From The Diner's Club (1991) (UK only)
Screening History (1992) 
Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992) 
United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993)  — National Book Award
Palimpsest: a memoir (1995) 
Virgin Islands (1997) (UK only)
The American Presidency (1998) 
Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000 (2001)  (there is also a much shorter UK edition)
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, (2002) 
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2002) 
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003)
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (2004) 
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir (2006) 
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) 
Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009)
Plays
Visit to a Small Planet (1957) 
The Best Man (1960)
On the March to the Sea (1960–1961, 2004)
Romulus (adapted from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1950 play Romulus der Große) (1962)
Weekend (1968)
Drawing Room Comedy (1970)
An Evening with Richard Nixon (1970) 
On the March to the Sea (2005)