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Yi Jianlian (born October 27, 1984 in Heshan, Guangdong) is an Chinese basketball player who currently plays for the Guangdong Southern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association. Yi began his professional career in China with the Tigers, and was chosen with the sixth pick in the 2007 NBA Draft by the Milwaukee Bucks. He played for the Bucks from 2007-08, the New Jersey Nets from 2008-10, and the Washington Wizards in 2010–11, after which he became a free agent. Because the NBA's owners locked out the players at the start of the 2011–12 season, Yi returned to China to play with the Tigers. Once the lockout ended, he returned to the U.S. and signed with the Dallas Mavericks. He played two games with the Texas Legends of the D-League before joining the Mavericks for the rest of that season. After the 2011–12 season, Yi once again returned to his original Chinese team.

Yi was featured on the cover of the August 24, 2003 issue of Time magazine.

Age dispute
Since he was drafted by the Bucks, his age has been the subject of controversy. There is strong evidence that he was actually born in 1984 not in 1987 as first thought. It is widely thought that Chinese officials lied about his age so that he could play for more years in tournaments for younger players (under 19, or under 21). One Chinese basketball official admitted in 2006 that past Chinese junior teams included over-age players, and an American who played with Yi in China has said that players' ages were often changed.  Yi has never commented on his age. In 2007 and 2008, Yi's date of birth was further scrutinized as being 27 October 1984, including a Chinese reporter discovering a high school enrollment form from 1997 that listed Yi as being born on 27 October 1984.

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The National Geographic Society is one of the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations. Founded in January 27, 1888 to "increase and diffuse geographic knowledge," the Society works to inspire people to care about the planet. It reaches more than 350 million people worldwide each month through its official journal, National Geographic, and four other magazines; National Geographic Channel; television documentaries; radio programs; films; books; DVDs; maps; and interactive media. National Geographic has funded more than 8,000 scientific research projects and supports an education program combating geographic illiteracy.

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The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation, and the study of world culture and history. The National Geographic Society’s logo is a yellow rectangular border, which became famous while appearing around each front page of the society's magazine.
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Joanna Clare "Jo" Yeates (19 April 1985 – 17 December 2010), was a 25 year-old English woman who disappeared on 17 December 2010 in Bristol. Yeates' boyfriend reported her missing on 19 December. An investigation into her disappearance was soon afterwards started. Yeates' dead body was found on 25 December. Police stated that she had been strangled and had been dead for several days before being found. On 30 December, Yeates' landlord, 65-year-old Christopher Jefferies, was arrested on suspicion of Yeates' murder, and was released on bail in early 2011. Avon and Somerset Police received help from a criminal profiler, clinical forensic psychologist Doctor Glenn Wilson who has worked on other high profile criminal cases.

In October 2011, Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 20 years.

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Quillajaceae is a flowering plant including two species, i.e. Q.saponaria and Q.brasiliensis. Formely included in Rosaceous taxa

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The City of Seinäjoki is the center of the Southern Ostrobothnia in Finland and one of the fastest growing urban city centers in Finland. Seinäjoki has a population of more than 60 000 inhabitants and in the Southern Ostrobothnia region there are about 200 000 inhabitants.

Seinäjoki is established 1868.

Seinäjoki offers high-quality education from primary school to university level as well as good jobs and living conditions for all age groups. Seinäjoki region is Finland's sixth largest market area and offers very competitive and attractive trade services.
A pleasant urban and garden-like environment, short distances, and a wide range of housing types is typical to the city's daily life.

Seinäjoki is known for the unique administrative and cultural center designed by architect Alvar Aalto. The city hosts various summer festivals such as Provinssirock, Tango Festival and Race and Rock Festival (Vauhtiajot), which attract tens of thousands of people to enjoy the city year after year.

Seinäjoki is good living 24 hours a day.

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Susan Lucci (born December 23, 1946) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Erica Kane on the award winning soap opera All My Children on ABC. Some information sources say Lucci was born during 1946, while others say that she was born in 1948.

Lucci was born in Scarsdale, New York. She has been married to Helmut Huber since 1969. She has a daughter, actress Liza Huber and a son, Andreas Huber.

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Jadwiga Andegaweńska' (1374-1399) became the  King of Poland on 16 October 1384 at the age of eleven. She was crowned as a king, not queen. Her royal title was:  Hedvigis Dei Gracia Rex Poloniae, necnon terrarum Cracoviae, Sandomiriae, Syradiae, Lanciciae, Cuyaviae, Pomeraniaeque domina et heres, (Jadwiga the grace of God, the Polish king, and heir to the land in Kraków, Sandomierz, Sieradz, Łęczyca, Kujawy and Pomerania). She was the daughter of Louis Hungarian, King of Poland and Hungary).

Jadwiga married a Lithuania Grand Duke, Jogaila (Władysław Jagiełło) on 18 February 1386. After her death during childbirth on 17 July 1399, her husband became the King Ladislaus II of Poland.

In 1997 she was made a saint by Pope John Paul II.

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Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress. She  has acted in many sitcoms, television programs and movies. She starred in Moonlighting with Bruce Willis.

Shepherd had melanoma in 2002.

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The Peugeot 207 is a car produced by Peugeot from 2006 to 2014. It is available with 4-cylinder petrol and diesel engines. It is based on the same platform as the Citroën C3. It was sold as a 3 or 5-door hatchback with a hard-top convertible and estate versions added in 2007, facelifted in 2009 and was replaced in 2012 by the 208, the estate was replaced by the 2008 crossover in 2013 but the convertible was not replaced.

Engines 
 1.4 54 kW (73 hp)
 1.4 16V 65 kW (88 hp)
 1.4 VTi 70 kW (95 hp)
 1.6 16V 80 kW (109 hp)
 1.6 VTi 88 kW (120 hp)
 1.6 THP 110 kW (150 hp)
 1.6 RC 128 kW (174 hp)
 1.4 HDi 50 kW (68 hp)
 1.6 HDi 66 kW (90 hp) and 80 kW (109 hp)

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Francisco I. Madero (October 30, 1873 - February 22, 1913) was a reformist politician and writer. He was President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913 and never held any other political office. He helped engineer the overthrow of entrenched dictator Porfirio Díaz by starting the Mexican Revolution. Unfortunately for Madero, he found himself caught between the remnants of Díaz' power structure (who hated him for overthrowing the old regime) and the revolutionary forces he unleashed (who despised him for not being radical enough). He was deposed and executed in 1913 by Victoriano Huerta, a general who had served under Díaz.

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Alvaro Obregón Salido (February 19, 1880 - July 17, 1928) was a Mexican farmer, warlord and general. He was one of the key players in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) and it is his election as President in 1920 that is considered by many as the ending point of the Revolution, although the violence continued afterwards. A brilliant and charismatic general, his rise to power is contributed to his effectiveness, ruthlessness, and the fact that he was the only one of the Revolution's “Big Four” still standing after 1923, as Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata and Venustiano Carranza all were assassinated.

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Sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) is also called gender reassignment surgery,  sex reassignment surgery or a sex change. SRS is one or more surgeries that are done to change the body's genitals or other sexual characteristrics. Transgender people may get SRS to make their body match their gender identity.

There are many different kinds of surgeries that fall under the category of "sexual reassignment surgery."

For transgender women ("male-to-female" transgender people), some types of sexual reassignment surgery are:
Phallectomy (removing the penis)
Orchiectomy (removing the testicles)
Vaginoplasty (where a surgeon creates a vagina)
Breast implants
Voice therapy

For transgender men ("female-to-male" transgender people), some types of SRS are:
Mastectomy (removing the breasts)
Hysterectomy (removing the uterus)
Phalloplasty (where a surgeon creates a penis; however, this surgery is more difficult and dangerous than vaginoplasty for transgender women)

Transgender people may get one of these surgeries, a combination, or no surgeries at all. Every person is different.

Some international laws on human rights cover SRS. For example, the Declaration of Montreal and the Yogyakarta Principles say that transgender people must be allowed SRS. These laws say that if health insurance companies did not cover SRS, they would be discriminating against transgender people.

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Artificial insemination is when sperm is put into the cervix of a female to make her pregnant without sexual intercourse. It is often used for breeding livestock. It can also be used in human women insemination. It is the process of breeding without sexual inter course. It is when a males sperm is extracted from the body and inserted the cervix and which in theory will make a woman pregnant.

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 What's the Difference Between IUI and IVF? 
 What happens after IUI day by day?
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Sultan Iskandar Ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail (April 8, 1932 - January 22, 2010) was the sultan of the southern Malay state of Johor. He had held this position since 1981. In the 1960's he won the first Johor Grand Prix. In 1977 he shot and killed a man he thought was a smuggler. Iskandar was going to go to prison for six months, but his father gave him a royal pardon. He also caused trouble in 1993, when he assaulted a hockey coach who had not followed his son's instructions. This led to a change in Malayasian law that means in future, sultans would have to obey the laws.

Tengku Mahkota of Johor Tunku Ibrahim Ismail, his eldest son, was appointed to be the new sultan.

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The Staffordshire Bull Terrier, sometimes nicknamed as a Staff, is an English dog breed.It is  a medium-sized dog- Originally, it was bred for dog fighting. It is related to the Bull Terrier. Its appearance is similar to the American Staffordshire Terrier and American pit Bull Terrier, but it is smaller than both of them. It grows to a wrist height of 12-17cm and a weight of about 11-17 kg.

In Great Britain, the dog is often kept as a "family dog". Staffordshire Bull Terriers have also been trained as search and rescue dogs.

In other countries, such as Germany, this dog breed is seen as problematic; these countries may have put restrictions in place regarding the breeding and keeping such dogs. The people keeping such dogs may need to undergo tests to determine whether they are allowed to keep them. Most people think that this type of dog is very dangerous, but they are not.They are known to be called the 'Nanny Dog' and are great with babies and small children. They usually have a bad name because people train them to be bad. 

Terriers
Francis Bouillon (born October 17, 1975 in New York City, New York) is an American professional ice hockey defenceman for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played in the QMJHL with the Laval Titan. Bouillon has also played for the Montreal Canadiens for 8 seasons before signing a one-year contract with the Predators.

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An unconformity is a gap in the sequence of rocks in a geologic column. It is a buried erosion surface separating two rock strata of different ages. It shows that sediment deposition was broken for a time, usually because the land was above sea level at that time. 

Usually, the older layer was exposed to erosion for some time before deposition of the younger. However, the term is used to describe any break in the sedimentary record.

Many millions of years may separate the rocks above and below the discontinuity.  

James Hutton found examples of unconformity in Scotland, at Jedburgh in 1787 and at Siccar Point in 1788.

The rocks above an unconformity are younger than the rocks beneath (unless the sequence has been overturned). An unconformity represents time during which no sediments were preserved in the region. 

The local record for that time interval is missing and geologists must use other clues to discover that part of the geologic history of that area. The interval of geologic time not represented is called a hiatus (= 'gap').

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Gerald Wesley "Jerry" Moran (born May 29, 1954) is an American Republican politician. He is the senior U.S. Senator from Kansas since 2011. Moran was a U.S. Representative from 1997 to 2011.

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The Dong-a Ilbo (, Hanja:東亞日報) is a big South Korean newspaper.

Other websites 
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 Economydonga
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Walter Mummery (born September 10, 1893, date of death unknown) was a professional ice hockey player. He played for the Quebec Bulldogs from 1914 until 1917. His brother Harry also played professional hockey.

Playing career
Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, the Mummery family moved to Brandon, Manitoba. In 1913, Walter joined the Brandon Wheat Cities of the Manitoba Hockey League. The next season, 1914–15, Walter joined the Quebec Bulldogs of the National Hockey Association (NHA), where he played until the end of the 1916–17 NHA season. The following year, the Quebec club did not operate in the new National Hockey League (NHL) and Mummery was assigned to the Montreal Canadiens. Mummery was loaned to the Montreal Wanderers in December 1917, but did not play a game for the Wanderers either. Before Mummery played a game, the Wanderers arena burned down. Mummery did not play pro hockey until 1919–20, when he joined Edmonton of the Big 4 League for one season. By then, Quebec was operating in the NHL and his rights were assigned to Quebec but he did not return.

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Munmu of Silla (, , 626 - 681) was the 30th king of Silla, ruling from 661 to 681.  His family name was Kim (, ), while his surname was Beopmin (, ).  Munmu was the first monarch to unify southern Korea.  The Korean people usually call him Munmu the Great (, ). 

He was the son of King Muyeol of Silla.  Before his father died, he sought an alliance with Tang China. In 660, with the help of the Tang army, he and Kim Yushin conquered Baekje. Japan sent reinforcements for Baekje.

Munmu was with the Tang army at the attack of Koguryo and the destruction of it in 668.

Other websites 
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 Great Munmu:Naver Cast

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Auburn Williams (born 1990, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a singer, rapper and songwriter who performs as Auburn. In July 2010 her first single, a song called "La, La, La" went into the Billboard Hot 100 music charts at Number 74. It was produced by J.R. Rotem. In 2007 she had made an independently released album called Same Girl.

Her song "Perfect Two" is a hit single

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Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri (born March 15, 1943, in Tehran, Iran) better known by his ring name, The Iron Sheik, is a semi-retired Iranian professional wrestler that is best known for wrestling for NWA and WCW under the ring name The Iron Sheik. 

He is a one-time WWF Champion, three-time WWF Tag Team Championship with Nikolai Volkoff and was also inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 by Sgt. Slaughter.

He ended the near six year World Wrestling Federation Championship reign of Bob Backlund and was the man Hulk Hogan defeated for his first WWF Championship. He is also known for his shoot interviews on The Howard Stern Show, Opie and Anthony and Kidd Chris and also the internet.

His finishing move was the Camel clutch.

Other websites
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The Iron Sheik's WWE Hall of Fame profile at WWE.com

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Mountain are an American hard rock band. The band was formed when Leslie West, formerly from the Long Island R&B band The Vagrants had recorded a solo album entitled Mountain (which was a reference to West's one-time physical bulk) and had former Cream collaborator and bassist Felix Pappalardi producing it and former Remains drummer N.D. Smart. The current members of the band are  Leslie West (lead vocals, guitar), Corky Laing (Drums, percussion), Rev Jones (bass). They are probably best known for their song, Mississippi Queen which was also featured in the video games, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Rock Band.

Discography
Studio albums
Climbing! (1970)
Nantucket Sleighride (1971)
Flowers of Evil (1971)
Avalanche (1974)
Go for Your Life (1985)
Man's World (1996)
Mystic Fire (2002)
Masters of War (2007)

Live albums
Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On (1972)
Twin Peaks (1974)

Compilation albums
The Best of Mountain (1973)
Over the Top (2001)

Other websites 
 Official Site

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Mohammad Ali Jinnah University is a large private university in Karachi, Pakistan. It is named after Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who was one of the leaders of Pakistan independence and who became the first Governor General of Pakistan. The university is part of the Punjab Group of Colleges, and offers courses in Banking and Finance, Management Information Systems, Computer Science and Telecommunication.

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John Foster Dulles (25 February 1888–24 May 1959) was a US Secretary of State between 1953 and 1959 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Biography
Dulles was born on 25 February 1888 in Washington, DC. He went to public school in Watertown, New York, and also went to three different colleges.  In 1908, he graduated from Princeton University, went to the Sorbonne in Paris for two years, and after this learned law at the George Washington University until 1911. That same year, he became a lawyer in New York City.

He was part of the US Army in World War I in 1917 and 1918. After the war, he served as part of many groups involved in world and economic issues.

On 7 July 1949, he became part of the United States Senate after Robert F. Wagner left the Senate.  Dulles was part of the Senate until 8 November 1949, when an election for the position was held and he lost. In 1950, he was made a US representative to the United Nations.

In 1953, he became Secretary of State, and served as such until 15 April 1959, when he left the position because of colorectal cancer. He died on 24 May 1959.

Awards and honors
In 1954, Dulles was named the "Man of the Year" by Time Magazine. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1959, just before he died.  Washington Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia is named for Dulles, as is the community of Dulles, Virginia

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Soldier Field is a large stadium in Chicago. It is the home of NFL team Chicago Bears and MLS team Chicago Fire FC. The stadium is also used for concerts by  the Rolling Stones, U2, and Bon Jovi as well as special events such as the American Idol auditions and the 2006 International Gay Games opening ceremony. It seats 61,500 people.

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Bill O'Reilly (born September 10, 1949) is an American conservative political commentator who hosted The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News from 1996 until 2017, after Fox News fired him. O'Reilly also hosted The Radio Factor (2002-2009) and Inside Edition (1989-1995).

O'Reilly was born in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City. He has written some books including Pinheads and Patriots. He was raised in New York City and Westbury, Connecticut.

Criticism
O'Reilly has been criticized for claims he reported events in the Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom incorrectly. He also has been criticized by former Washington Post editor Jeff Morley for claiming he was outside George de Mohrenschildt's house when he committed suicide.

In April 2017, Fox News Channel fired O'Reilly from the network due to sexual harassment accusations.

Books
O'Reilly is known for his Killing series of historical nonfiction books, all written with Martin Dugard. The first five books in the series are about the violent deaths, or attempted assassinations, of historic figures. The next four deal with major episodes in American military history. The most recent involves the U.S. government's battle against organized crime. These are:
 Killing Lincoln (2011; about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln)
 Killing Kennedy (2012; about the assassination of John F. Kennedy)
 Killing Jesus (2013; about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ)
 Killing Patton (2014; about the possibility of George Patton being assassinated)
 Killing Reagan (2015; about the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan)
 Killing the Rising Sun (2016; about Harry S. Truman ordering the United States' bombing Japan and ending World War II)
 Killing England (2017; about the American Revolutionary War)
 Killing the SS (2018; about the end of Nazi Germany and the hunt for Nazi war criminals after World War II)
 Killing Crazy Horse (2020; about the American Indian Wars, specifically those west of the Mississippi River in the 19th century)
 Killing the Mob (2021; about the federal government's battle against organized crime, especially the Mafia)
Some of his Killing books have been made into television movies for National Geographic.

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Reba McEntire (born March 28, 1955) is an American country music singer, songwriter and actress. She has many hit songs. She acted in a TV comedy called "Reba".

Early life
McEntire was born in Kiowa, Oklahoma. She was raised in Denison, Texas.

Albums
A list of albums from 1977 to 2010:
 Reba McEntire (1977)
 Out Of My Dream (1979)
 Feel The Fire (1980)
 Heart To Heart (1981)
 Unlimited (1982)
 Behind The Scene
 Just A Little Love
 My Kind Of Country
 Have I Got A Deal For You
 Reba Nell McEntire
 What Am I Gonna Do About You
 Whoever's In New England
 Merry Christmas To You
 Reba McEntire's Greatest Hits
 The Last One To Know
 Reba
 Reba Live
 Sweet Sixteen
 Rumour Has It
 For My Broken Heart
 It's Your Call
 Greatest Hits Vol.2
 Oklahoma Girl
 Read My Mind
 Starting Over
 What If It's You
 If You See Him
 The Secret of Giving: A Christmas Collection
 So Good Together
 I'll Be
 Greatest Hits Vol.3: I'm A Survivor
 20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection
 Room To Breathe
 Reba's #1's
 20th Century Masters: The Millenium Collection
 Reba Duets (2007)
 50 Greatest Hits (2008)
 Keep On Loving You (2009)
 All The Woman I Am (2010)

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 Reba McEntire official website

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Baby blue is the color in the box to the right.  Baby blue is a pastel color.  "Baby blue" is a light tone of azure. 

The first recorded use of baby blue as a color name in English was in 1892.

Meaning of baby blue

In Western culture, since the late 19th century, the color baby blue has been associated with baby boys.

Tones of baby blue color comparison chart

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Geraldine Ferraro (Newburgh, Orange County, N.Y., August 26, 1935 - March 26, 2011, in Boston, Mass.) was an American politician. She ran for Vice President in the 1984 US Presidential Election with Walter Mondale. She was the first woman to be a major party vice-presidential nominee. Mondale and Ferraro lost to Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, who won their second term. She was also a member of and politician from the Democratic Party. She served as a Congresswoman from New York, representing Queens in the 96th-98th Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1985). Ferraro was also an attorney, District Attorney and teacher. Ferraro was a permanent member of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, from 1993 to 1996

She died from multiple myeloma (a type of cancer), twelve years after being diagnosed.

Related pages
Ferraro, Geraldine A., with Linda Bird Francke. Ferraro: My Story. New Edition. Foreword by Marie C. Wilson. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2004.

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New jack swing is a type of music that combines dance, hip hop, R&B and other musical genres. It was extremely popular between 1984 and 1997. The artists of new jack swing include TLC, Bell Biv Devoe and New Edition. Teddy Riley started new jack swing. Michael Jackson's 1991 album Dangerous is the most successful new jack swing album.

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Shannen Maria Doherty (born 12 April 1971 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American actress. She is known for her roles including Beverly Hills, 90210, Little House on the Prairie and Charmed. She has also starred in many movies, including Heathers. Doherty also starred on the series Charmed.

In February 2020, Doherty announced that she has stage-4 breast cancer.

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Robert Barisford Brown (born February 5, 1969) is an American R&B singer-songwriter and a member of New Edition. He left the group in 1986 and has many hits, including Don't be Cruel, Every Little Step and Roni. Brown is an African-American and was born in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts.
 
Brown married Whitney Houston in 1992. They had a daughter, Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown, in 1993. The couple separated in 2006; Houston divorced him in 2007.

Brown has been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder.

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Michael Savage (born as Michael Alan Weiner in 1942) is a conservative radio host and commentator. He is the host of the Savage Nation.

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Sally Ann Struthers (born July 28, 1948) is an American actress, spokeswoman and activist. Her most famous acting was in the classic television series All in the Family. Struthers also acted in many movies and other television programs. Struthers also plays Babette in the television series Gilmore Girls. She also provided the voices for animated characters in television cartoon programs.

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Earthquake performance simulation is meant to study effect of earthquakes on building structures and is a practical way of seeing a thing to happen without it actually taking place in the same way.

Physical earthquake performance simulation 
  
The best way to do it is to put the structure on a shake-table that simulates the seismic loads and watch what may happen next (if you have no time to stand out in the field and wait for a real earthquake to strike, of course). The earliest experiments like this were performed more than a century ago.

Computational earthquake performance simulation 
Another way is to evaluate the earthquake performance analytically. The very first earthquake simulations were performed by statically applying some horizontal inertia forces, based on scaled peak ground accelerations, to a mathematical model of a building. With the further development of computational technologies, statics approaches began to give way to dynamics ones.

References

Other websites
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) 
AEM Earthquake Simulation 

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Nicole Margaret "Nikki" Blonsky (born November 9, 1988) is an American actress. She played Tracy Turnblad in the 2007 adaptation of Hairspray. Blonsky is from Great Neck, New York.

1988 births
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Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman and businessman. He started his career in New York City by showing off a slave he owned named Joice Heth. He told people that Joice was 161 years old, Barnum removed her teeth to make her look older. This made him famous at a young age. After her death, he showed off her dead body in a public autopsy.

In New York City, Barnum founded two American Museums. In these museums, he showed real acts such as General Tom Thumb and hoaxes such as the Fiji mermaid. He introduced Jenny Lind to the public. After fire destroyed his second museum, Barnum created a circus. In the circus he displayed Jumbo the elephant. He suggested the circus setting for Horatio Alger, Jr.'s book The Young Acrobat.  Barnum is also well known for saying "There's a sucker born every minute."

He may have been the first "show business" millionaire. Barnum said "I am a showman by profession," but he was also an author and publisher. For a while, he was also a politician.

Movies 
Barnum was represented by Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman (2017).

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Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz) (August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was a Czech-American biochemist.

Early life 
Cori was born in Prague in 1896, which is now in the present-day Czech Republic. "Cori, Gerty Theresa." World Book Student, World Book, 2017, World Book. Accessed 10 May 2017. She was the first of three daughters.  Her father was a manager at a sugar factory. Cori’s work was influenced by her parents. Her family encouraged her to pursue a career in science. She went to a special high school. Gerty Cori then entered the German-language University where she received an M.D. degree. There, she met her husband, Carl Ferdinand Cori.[1] They both took the same classes and studied human complement. In 1922, they moved to the United States to get a stabler life after World War I. In America, Ferdinand Cori worked at the University of Graz and the University of Vienna. Gerty's job involved her being an assistant at the Karolinen Children's Hospital. Her work there sparked her interest in the thyroid gland.

Accomplishments 
Cori became the third woman ever and the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in physiology. They researched the way a cell is able to use glycogen. In 1922 they moved to the United States. "The 1940s Science and Technology: Headline Makers." UXL American Decades, edited by Julie L. Carnagie, et al., vol. 5: 1940-1949, UXL, 2003, pp. 134-135. Student Resources in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3436900272/SUIC?u=palo88030&xid=9aa421ad. Accessed 10 May 2017. They were given the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947. She and her husband were only the third husband-and-wife team to receive this award. They discovered how glycogen is broken down in muscle tissue into lactic acid. After this, it is absorbed by the body and stored as a source of energy. This process is called the Cori cycle. They also found the important catalyzing compound, the Cori ester. In 2004, Cori and her husband's work was designated an ACS National Historical Chemical Landmark for carbohydrate metabolism.

Cori died at the age of 61 on October 26, 1957, in Missouri. She died because of myelosclerosis, a blood disease. Her husband remarried Anne Fitzgerald Jones three years after her death. In addition to her accomplishments with the Nobel Prize, Gerty Cori also received the Garvan Medal for women chemists from the American Chemical Society and gained membership to The National Academy of Sciences.

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John Royce "Johnny" Mathis (born on September 30, 1935) is an American singer and songwriter. He has had many hit songs. Mathis was born in Gilmer, Texas and raised in San Francisco, California. He is openly gay.

Business life 
In 1956 Mathis' first album Johnny Mathis was released. Mathis' first single "Wonderful! Wonderful!" was released in 1957. One of his well-known hit songs is "Misty". This song was written in 1954 by a jazz pianist Erroll Garner. Johnny Burke wrote a lyrics later for this melody and became popular as Mathis recorded this song and made public on September 1, 1959. Nowadays "Misty" is considered as one of American standards.

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Other websites
Official website of singer, Johnny Mathis
NNDB profile
A song "Misty" sung by Johnny Mathis at YouTube

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Reese Witherspoon (also known as Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon, born March 22, 1976) is an American actress and film producer.

She lived in Wiesbaden, Germany for four years when her father worked for the U.S. military. After returning to the U.S., she spent her childhood in Nashville, Tennessee. She was raised as an Episcopalian. She attended Stanford University as an English literature major.

Career 
Witherspoon was selected as a fashion model for a florist's television advertisements at age seven.  This made her want to take acting lessons. She has starred in many motion pictures. Notable movies by Witherspoon include Election, Legally Blonde, and Walk the Line. Witherspoon owns a production company called Type A Films. The company was at first believed by the media to be named after her childhood nickname "Little Miss Type A". Witherspoon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on December 01, 2010, at 6262 Hollywood Blvd. In 2018, she appeared alongside Oprah Winfrey and Mindy Kaling in support of the Time's Up movement against sexual assault in the workplace and in A Wrinkle in Time.

Personal life 
Witherspoon married Ryan Phillippe from 1999 to 2008. They have two children together — daughter Ava Elizabeth Phillippe (born September 9, 1999) and son Deacon Reese Phillippe (born October 23, 2003). Witherspoon married talent agent Jim Toth on March 26, 2011. They have a son, Tennessee James Toth (born September 27, 2012).

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Discography

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Jennifer Marie Capriati (born March 29, 1976) is an American retired tennis player. Capriati made her professional debut in 1990 at fourteen years old. In 1992, Capriati defeated Steffi Graf during the Barcelona Olympics to win a Gold medal.

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The Great Seal of the State of Kansas is the seal of Kansas. The seal is used on the Flag of Kansas.

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The Western Meadowlark is a bird that lives in the middle-western United States of America. The Western Meadowlark is the state bird of Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon and Wyoming. 

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The Perciformes  is the largest order of vertebrates. They have about 40% of all bony fish.p151  

Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and have over 7,000 species in almost all aquatic environments.

They have the widest range of sizes of any order of vertebrates, ranging from the 7 mm Schindleria brevipinguis to the 5 metre Makaira species. They first appeared and diversified in the Upper Cretaceous.

Some well-known members of this group are angelfish, barracuda, bass, blenny, cichlids, damselfish, filefish, goby, grouper, remora, swordfish, mackerel, pufferfish, tilefish, tuna, whiting, and of course perch.

Characteristics

The dorsal and anal fins are divided into front spiny and back soft-rayed portions, which may be partially or completely separated. 

The pelvic fins usually have one spine and up to five soft rays, positioned unusually far forward under the chin or under the belly. Scales are usually ctenoid (rough-edged).

Taxonomy
They are grouped as in the text Fishes of the World. The order is probably polyphyletic, and changes may occur in this and other teleost orders.

Recent morphological and DNA sequence analysis has shown that several of the higher-level groupings of teleosts are evolutionary grades rather than clades. Examples of demonstrably paraphyletic groups include the Perciformes.

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The Santa Clause is a 1994 comedy movie distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and Hollywood Pictures. It was directed by John Pasquin. The movie starred actors Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, and Wendy Crewson.

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Air navigation is navigation while flying. It is used by pilots in aircraft to know their exact position and fond their way. That is important because if they get lost, they can hit a mountain or fly into a dangerous area or not find a place to land. There are generally two types of air navigation depending on weather. In good weather, pilots navigate themselves visually with maps. But when the weather is bad and they do not see the ground, they use special radio navigational instruments or the air traffic controller navigates them. The first kind of navigation is called VFR (visual flight rules) navigation. The second is IFR (instrument flight rules) navigation.

VFR navigation 
Under Visual Flight Rules, pilots use a map and compass, and look on the ground.  When preparing for a flight they choose big visible points on the map, for example large cities, lakes, hills, rivers, roads or forests. When in the air, they seek the chosen points to make sure of going the right way way. The weather must be good enough to let them see the ground.  They cannot fly into clouds, because they can get lost. Pilots also have to look for other aircraft. It is their responsibility to make sure they do not get too close to other aircraft.  This is called "see and avoid".

IFR navigation 
Flying under Instrument Flight Rules, pilots cannot fly wherever they want. They have to fly only on specified routes.  The aircraft must have many special devices working with radio waves such as GPS or radar.  The air routes lead mostly from radio beacon to beacon. Pilot must set the correct frequency of the beacon to determine the bearing and fly to it. GPS helps to find exact position. Each aircraft also has a radar transponder sending a special code that is indicated on air traffic controller’s radar screen. Because pilot does not see outside, he has to do what the controller says.  The controller makes sure that the aircraft does not crash.

Effect of wind 
The wind is a great problem in navigation. Imagine that pilot sets the plane to fly eastwards (90°). If the wind blows from the north, it will blow the plane to the south. And the aircraft will fly to south-east (135°). So, to fly exactly to the east, pilot must set the plane to north-east. This was just an example. In reality, wind can blow from any direction and at any speed. So pilots must also watch the wind and know how to compensate the effect of the wind on the aircraft.

When airplanes go faster, wind is less important. So for a small slow training aircraft, the wind is always changing the aircraft's direction. But for a big airliner which goes much faster, the wind doesn't have an impact apart from take off and landing.

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Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi  (born July 1971) is a retired American figure skater. She was the first Asian American to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating. Her skills have inspired many people.

Childhood 
Yamaguchi was born in July 12 1971 in Hayward, California. As a child, she had a bad foot condition. She had to wear casts on her legs when she was young. Her mother said this could be why she is such a hardworking person. She was inspired by Olympic gold medalist, Dorothy Hamill and other famous figure skaters. She started figure skating at a young age and worked very hard through her teenage years.

Awards 
When she was 20, Yamaguchi won an Olympic gold medal for figure skating in the 1992 Winter Olympics. She also won many other awards. She is also a member of the United States figure skating Hall of Fame.

Accomplishments 
After she retired from skating, she continued to inspire and prove herself to the world. She wrote many books, Including Figure skating for Dummies, Always Dream, and Dream Big, Little Pig. These books are about figure skating and dreaming big. Yamaguchi started the “Always Dream Foundation” to help kids pursue their dreams. She is also a mother of 2 kids and continues to figure skate for fun.

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Sarah Elizabeth Hughes (born May 2, 1985 in Great Neck, New York) is an American figure skater. Hughes won a gold medal during the 2002 Winter Olympics.

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A parallelogram is a polygon with four sides (a quadrilateral). It has two pairs of parallel sides (sides which never meet). The opposite sides of a parallelogram have the same length (they are equally long). The word "parallelogram" comes from the Greek word "parallelogrammon" (bounded by parallel lines). Rectangles, rhombuses, and squares are all parallelograms.

As shown in the picture on the right, because triangles ABE and CDE are congruent (have the same shape and size),

In all Parallelogram's opposite angles are equal to each other.
Angles which are not opposite in the Parallelogram will add up to 180 degrees.

Characterizations
A simple (non self-intersecting) quadrilateral is a parallelogram if and only if any one of the following statements is true:
Two pairs of opposite sides are equal in length
Two pairs of opposite angles are equal in measure
The diagonals bisect each other
One pair of opposite sides are parallel and equal in length
Adjacent angles are supplementary
Each diagonal divides the quadrilateral into two congruent triangles
The sum of the squares of the sides equals the sum of the squares of the diagonals. (This is the parallelogram law)
It has rotational symmetry of order 2
It has two lines of symmetry

Properties 
 Opposite sides of parallelogram are parallel.
 Any line through the midpoint of a parallelogram bisects the area.
 Parallelograms  are quadrilaterals.

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Other websites 

 Parallelogram and Rhombus - Animated course (Construction, Circumference, Area)
 Interactive Parallelogram --sides, angles and slope

Polygons
The Chicks are an American country band. They have had many hit songs. They are from Texas. The Dixie Chicks are Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Robison. The group formed in Dallas, Texas in 1989. They have won 13 Grammy Awards. When performing a concert in 2003 they garnered controversy afterward for Natalie Maines' comments about being ashamed that George W. Bush was from Texas.

In June 2020, during the George Floyd protests, the band changed their names from The Dixie Chicks to The Chicks.

Singles

"Not Ready to Make Nice" (2006)

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