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Glay

Glay is a Japanese rock band. There are 4 men in the band. The member's names are Takuro (guitar & piano), Teru (vocals), Hisashi (guitar), and Jiro (bass). They are one of the most popular rock bands in Japan. They are from Hakodate in Hokkaido.  "HOWEVER" is their most famous song. This song made them famous. Many of their CDs and albums have sold millions of copies .

Since 2007, Teru has been in ads shown on television and in theaters to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS.

Studio albums

Speed Pop (1995)
Beat Out! (1996)
Beloved (1996)
Pure Soul (1998)
Heavy Gauge (1999)
One Love (2001)
Unity Roots and Family, Away (2002)
The Frustrated (2004)
Love Is Beautiful (2007)
Glay (2010)
Justice (2013)
Guilty (2013)

Japanese rock bands
Aiko (singer)

Aiko (born November 22, 1975) is a Japanese singer and guitar player. She has a high popularity among young people. Her most famous song is "Kabutomushi". Aiko has won several Japan Gold Disc Awards.

Aiko debuted in 1998. She sings songs about love and girls' feelings. Her famous songs are "Hanabi", "Boyfriend", "Kabutomushi", "Kirakira", and so on. "milk/Nageki no Kisu", her mukaiawase　double A-side single, was her first single to hit #1 on Oricon since her debut..She do many concerts at everywhere in Japan.

References

Japanese singers
1975 births
Living people
People from Osaka Prefecture
Ringo Shiina

Ringo Shiina (born November 25, 1978) is a Japanese singer and guitarist. She is a member of Tokyo Jihen. Shiina is from Fukuoka. 

She was the creative supervisor and music director of the Flag Handover Ceremony at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics / Paralympics.

She stayed in the UK from January to March 1997.

Career 

1998
Debut 

1999
Released the fourth single Honno(instinct). This single has become a million seller

2004-2012
in TOKYO JIHEN(INCIDENTS TOKYO)

2018
Participated in the 69th NHK Red vs. White Song Battle

1978 births
Living people
Singers from Fukuoka Prefecture
Songwriters
Japanese guitarists
GO!GO!7188

GO!GO!7188 was a band from Japan with three members. One plays guitar, one plays drums, and one plays bass. The main vocalist is a woman. One of their famous songs is "Koinouta".

GO!GO!7188 formed in 1998 by YUU (singer/guitarist) and AKKO (singer/bassist); high school classmates in Kagoshima prefecture. In 1999, they headed to Tokyo where they meet drummer TURKEY.

Ever since they have released 9 full-length albums, 12 singles and 3 DVDs.

When they made their debut in the Japanese music scene, they were quoted to be one of the leading girl's punk band which mixes rock'n roll music with Japanese pop.

They have raised their evaluation as one of most important Japanese rock bands, making performances in live houses events to Nippon Budokan hall, with songs rich and full of originality and high performance ability.

Members
Yu (Yumi Nakashima)
Akko (Akiko Noma)
Tacky (Takayuki Hosokawa)

Discography

single

Other websites
 Official site
 Polish unofficial site

Japanese rock bands
Porno Graffitti

Porno Graffitti is a Japanese J-Pop band. The members of the band are Akihito Okano (vocals) and Haruichi Shindo (guitar). The band is from Innoshima in Hiroshima. The band first started playing in 1999 with three members. The third member, Tama, left the band in 2004. The band has become one of the duos leading the music in Japan.

J-pop bands
Japanese rock bands
People from Hiroshima Prefecture
1990s music groups
Yuki (singer)

Yuki Isoya (born February 17, 1972) is a Japanese singer. Isoya debuted as a singer of the group Judy and Mary in 1993. Judy and Mary broke up in 1999. She began her solo singing career in February, 2002. Isoya has released four albums. 

Japanese singers
1972 births
Living people
People from Hokkaido
Mr. Children

Mr. Children, usually called , is a Japanese rock band made in 1988. They belong to Oorong-sha (). Their record company is Toy's Factory.

Members
 Kazutoshi Sakurai (; Vo&G)
 Kenichi Tahara (; G)
 Keisuke Nakagawa (; B)
 Hideya Suzuki (; Dr)

Supporting members
Current
Takeshi Kobayasi (Keyboard)

Past
Naoto Inti Raymi (G&chorus)
Sunny (; Keyboard & chorus)

Success 
They are one of the most successful Japanese bands, selling over 50 million records.

Fan Club 
The official fan club of Mr. Children is called Father & Mother.  The fan club was started in 1994. The fan club can only be joined by mail and requires an admission fee of 3.500 yen, with yearly re-applications for membership. And there are concert ticket only for the members.

Albums 
As of 2007, Mr. Children has published twelve original studio albums and 30 singles, three compilation albums, a live album, and ten home video releases.
 Everything (1992)
 Kind of Love (1992)
 Versus (1993)
 Atomic Heart (1994)
  (1996)
 Bolero (1997)
 Discovery (1999)
 Q (2000)
 It's a Wonderful World (2002)
 Shifuku no Oto () (2004)
 I Love U (I♥U) (2005)
 Home (2007)
 Supermarket Fantasy (2008)
 SENCE (2010)
 Mr.Children 2001-2005 <micro> (2012)
 Mr.Children 2005-2010 <macro> (2012)
 ［(an imitation) blood orange］ (2012)

Compilations 
 Mr. Children 1992-1995 (2001)
 Mr. Children 1996-2000 (2001)
 B-side (2007)

Live albums 
 1/42 (1999)

Singles 
 ""
 ""
 "Replay"
 "CROSS ROAD"
 "innocent world"
 "Tomorrow Never Knows"
 ""
 "【es】 ~Theme of es~"
 ""
 ""
 ""
 ""
 "Everything (It's You)"
 ""
 ""
 ""
 "I'LL BE"
 ""
 "NOT FOUND"
 ""
 "youthful days"
 ""
 "Any"
 "HERO"
 ""
 "Sign"
 ""
 ""
 ""
 ""
 ""
 "GIFT"
 "HANABI"
 ""

References

Other websites 
 Official website
 Mr. Children at Toy's Factory

Japanese musical groups
3B LAB.*

3B LAB.* is a Japanese punk band. They are all men. The vocalist also sang in the folk-rock band 19. Their most popular song is "Ichigo Ichi". They're now called 3B Lab.☆S. Tamakoshi Masahiro left this group in 2009.

J-pop bands
Ellegarden

Ellegarden is a Japanese band formed in 1998 by four young men.Their activity pauses now.

Members
Hosomi Takeshi(Guiter&Vocal)
Ubukata Shinichi(Guiter)
Takada yuichi(Bass)
Takahashi Hirotaka(Drums)

References 

Japanese rock bands
Punk bands
Emo bands
Japanese musical groups
Musical groups established in 1998
Musical quartets
Pop punk bands
Def Tech

Def Tech is a Japanese group. The band has three members: Shen, Micro and Playa T. They have sold more than 2.8 million copies of their albums Def Tech and Lokahi Lani. The band took a break in September 2007 and have since reunited as of June 2010.

References

Japanese musical groups
Ai Otsuka

Ai Otsuka (born September 9, 1982) is a Japanese pop female singer-songwriter and pianist from Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Her music is famous because it varies a lot in style but is mainly happy pop. Her first single was called Momo No Hanbira, but it was not until her second single, which was called Sakuranbo, that people really noticed her music.

Japanese singers
J-pop
1982 births
Living people
People from Osaka
Remioromen

Remioromen are a three-man band from Japan that started in 2000. 

Japanese rock bands
J-pop bands
Ayaka

Ayaka Iida (born December 18, 1987 in Moriguchi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese female singer signed and songwriter. 
Ayaka is married to Hiro Mizushima. Her favorite singer is the Beatles, DREAMS COME TRUE, Mr.Children and so on. She started musical activities when she was 1st high school student.She released "I believe" and she made her debut in 2006. She sufferd from Basedow's disease and she stopped musical activity in 2009 in order to concentrate on getting well. But she started activities again in 2011 and announced that she made her own record company.

Discography

Singles
 I believe (2006)
 melody〜SOUNDS REAL〜 (2006)
 Real voice (2006)
  (2006)
 Jewelry day (2007)
 CLAP&LOVE/Why (2007)
  (2008)
  (2008)
  (2009)
  (2009)

Albums
original album
 First Message (2006)
  Sing to the Sky (2008)
  The beginning (2012)

best album
 ayaka's History 2006-2009 (2009)
 ayaka's BEST -Ballad Collection- (2012)

References

Japanese singers
1987 births
Living people
People from Osaka Prefecture
Kyu Sakamoto

Kyu Sakamoto "坂本九" (real name "Hisasi Osima") was a singer and actor, born on December 10, 1941 in Kanagawa, Japan.

Sakamoto's song "Sukiyaki" became the first Japanese song in the United States to sell a million copies and reached No.1 on a popular chart on June 15, 1963. Its original (Japanese) title is "上を向いて歩こう" which means "I look up as I walk". He died on August 12, 1985 by an airplane accident during a flight on Japan Airlines Flight 123) aboard from Kanagawa in Japan.

His hit songs 
His major hit songs were as follows.

何もいらない俺だけど (1959)
悲しき六十才 (1960)
ステキなタイミング (Good Timi`n) (1960)
月夜に歩けば (Walkin' in The Moonlight) (1961)
カレンダーガール (Calendar Girl) (1961)
見上げてごらん夜の星を (1963)
上を向いて歩こう (Sukiyaki) (1963)
幸せなら手をたたこう (1964)
涙くんさよなら (1965)

Notes

Outer links 
Kyu Sakamoto Official Web Site
Sukiyaki (上を向いて歩こう) with English translation and lyrics at YouTube

1941 births
1985 deaths
Singers from Kanagawa Prefecture
Japanese movie actors
Orange Range

is a Japanese rock band from Okinawa signed to Sony Music. They are a group of 5, and they were all born in the mid-80s.

History
On March, 2001, the present members were composed of the classmates from the preschool and YOH’s younger brother, RYO. When they were indies, they did lots of their concerts on the street, and the audience was surely increased. On July 4, 2003, they debuted and became major by their 1st single, “Kirikirimai”. Their 2nd single, “Shanghai Honey” was appreciated by the mass media and became a hit. On February 25,2004, they released their 5th single, “Michishirube～a road home～” came in 1st place in the Japanese single charts for the first time in themselves, and since then, their singe continued to come in 1st place to their 13th single, “Champione”.

Members 

Naoto Hiroyama - guitar (born May 8, 1983)
Also, a member of other bands, including "Soy-sauce" and "Pechuniarokkusu". He writes more than half of all Orange Range songs.

Ryo Miyamori - low vocals (bass) (born October 1, 1985)
Before joining the group Orange Range, he was a member of another band, "Ruse". He and Yoh are brothers.

Yamato Ganeko - high vocals (alto) (born January 14, 1984)
He has not cut his hair since releasing the song "Hana".

Yoh Miyamori - bass (born December 11, 1983) 
He usually plays bass, but uses a guitar when he makes songs.

Hiroki Hokama - mid-range vocals (born June 29, 1983)
It is said that he has a screwdriver when he records music because it makes him relaxed, but sometimes its sound is also recorded and they have to record again.

Discography

Singles

Albums

References

Other websites
Orange Range's official website (in Japanese)
Okinawan Music web radio (Brazil)  (in Portuguese)

Japanese rock bands
Bump of Chicken

Bump of Chicken is a Japanese rock music group. The members are four men. All members in this group were born in 1979. The vocalist of the group is Fujiwara Motoo. The bassist of the group is Naoi Yoshifumi. The guitarist of the group is Masukawa Hiroaki. The drummer of the group is Masu Hideo. They have been friends since they started school at a young age. The voice of Fujiwara Motoo and the words of their music, which he writes, are popular. They released the debut album “FLAME VEIN” in 1999.

Members
Motoo Fujiwara (Vocal&Guitar)
Hiroaki Masukawa (Guitar)
Yoshifumi Naoi (Base)
Hideo Masu (Drums)

Singles
 1999: LAMP
 2000: Daiamond

Other websites
 Bump of Chicken Official Website

Japanese rock bands
Kumi Koda

is a Japanese pop singer from the city Kyoto who started in the year 2000 with the album  Take Back. Her most well known song is Butterfly, and this song made her well known. She got Japanese record grand prix, an award. Her new album Kingdom was released on January 30, 2008, and her new single was released on January 23, 2008. Her young sister is misono who is J-pop singer.

Other websites

1982 births
Living people
Japanese singers
Musicians from Kyoto Prefecture
Zeebra

Zeebra ( , born April 2, 1971 in Tokyo, Japan) is a famous Japanese hip hop artist, who is known as the first rapper in Japan. He was born and raised in Tokyo. He made his first appearance in 1995. Zeebra was a member of the hip-hop group King Giddra, which also included DJ Oasis and K Dub Shine. He became a solo artist in 1997. Because he has been in many TV commercials, started hip-hop television programs, and produced songs for upcoming rappers, Zeebra could be called the father of the Japanese rap scene.

1971 births
Living people
Musicians from Tokyo
Rap musicians
Dreams Come True

Dreams Come True is a Japanese J-Pop music group.

The group is made up of a woman and a man. The vocalist is Miwa Yoshida and the bassist is Masato Namamura. They made their debut in 1988. The group tends to use humorous and ambiguous language in their songs.

Japanese musical groups
J-pop bands
Jazz bands
KAT-TUN

KAT-TUN is a Japanese J-Pop band.

History
The group is made up of six young Japanese men. Their debut was announced January 29, 2006. The debut was accompanied by a concert tour of Japan. They released a single ("Real Face"), an album ("Best of KAT-TUN"), and a DVD (Real Face Film) on the same day, March 22, 2006.　

KAT-TUN is now made up of three members:
 Kamenashi Kazuya (born February 23, 1986)
 Ueda Tatsuya (born October 4, 1983)
 Nakamaru Yuichi (born September 4, 1983)
Members who left the group:

Akanishi Jin (born July 4, 1984)
 Tanaka Koki (born November 5, 1985)
 Taguchi Junnosuke (born November 29, 1985)

KAT-TUN not only sings and dances.  KAT-TUN also acts.

References

Japanese rock bands
J-pop bands
Japanese boy bands
BoA

Kwon Bo-ah (born 5 November 1986 in Guri, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) is a South Korean singer. She is commonly known by her stage name BoA. She has been active in both South Korea and Japan. Aside from Korean, BoA also speaks Japanese and English and has released songs in those languages. She also released some Chinese songs, but she does not know Chinese. BoA succeeded not only in Korea, but in all of East Asia as well.

BoA was born and raised in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. She was discovered by SM Entertainment talent agents when she accompanied her older brother to a talent search. In 2000, after two years of training, she released ID; Peace B, her debut Korean album. Two years later, she released her debut Japanese album, Listen to My Heart.
On October 21, 2008, BoA debuted in the United States with the single "Eat You Up", and released her debut English-language album, BoA on March 17, 2009.

Discography

Korean albums
 ID; Peace B (2000)
 No. 1 (2002)
 Atlantis Princess (2003)
 My Name (2004)
 Girls on Top (2005)
 Hurricane Venus (2010)
 Only One (2012)
 Kiss My Lips (2015)
 Woman (2018)
 Better (2020)

Japanese albums

 Listen to My Heart (2002)
 Valenti (2003)
 Love & Honesty (2004)
 Outgrow (2006)
 Made in Twenty (20) (2007)
 The Face (2008)
 Identity (2010)
 Who's Back? (2014)
 Watashi Kono Mama de Ii no Kana (2018)

English albums
 BoA (2009)

References

Other websites 
 BoA Kwon Toplist 

1986 births
Living people
South Korean singers
K-pop singers
J-pop singers
C-pop singers
Namie Amuro

Namie Amuro () is a Japanese singer, born September 20, 1977 in Naha, Okinawa. She was the top J-Pop star of the 1990s, with a long string of number-one hits.

When she had a baby in the late 1990s her popularity went down, but her albums became popular again when she released Queen of Hip-Hop. Her next album Play became #1. Her 2008 hit single, 60s 70s 80s, sold about 293,000 copies and came #1. That was her first #1 single since 1999.

In July 2008, Namie released her third greatest hits album BEST FICTION, which sold over 1.500,000 copies. It was the year's the most selling female album in Japan and second most selling album of 2008 in Japan.

Discography

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Singles

Awards

Other websites 

 Namie Amuro Official Site 
 Namie Amuro Official Management Site

1977 births
Living people
Japanese singers
People from Okinawa Prefecture
Saturn (mythology)

Saturn (Latin: Sāturnus) was a Roman god of agriculture and harvest.  He was the father of Ceres, Jupiter, Veritas and others.  He was associated with wealth, liberation, and time.  He was identified with the Greek titan Kronos, whose reign (often referred to as the Golden Age) was regarded as a time of abundance and peace.  

The Temple of Saturn situated within the Roman Forum housed the state treasury.  In December, the festival of Saturnalia, perhaps the most famous of all the Roman festivals, was held in his honor — it largely consisted of a public banquet, role reversals, private gift-giving and revelry.  The planet Saturn is named after him and the modern English weekday Saturday (Latin diēs Sāturni - "Day of Saturn") bears his name.

Roman gods and goddesses
Comanche

Comanche peoples are Native Americans who lived in an area called the Comancheria. This is where Eastern New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Southern Kansas, all of Oklahoma and most of Northern and Southern Texas are today. There once were as many as 20,000 Comanches. Today the Comanche Nation has 10,000 members, most in Oklahoma (centered at Lawton) and the rest in Texas, California, and New Mexico. The Comanche speak a language of their own, the Comanche language that is related to other Native American ones, called Uto-Aztecan language family.

The name Comanche was given by the Mexicans and it was the word the Comanche used to call them, komantsia (enemy, foreigner). But the Comanches' call themselves Numunuu, meaning "human being" or "the People". They were very good warriors and fought the white settlers and army for many years until they gave up in 1875.

The woman in the family made the teepees. They gathered wild potatoes, fruits, nuts and berries. The woman in the family cooked, cleaned and made their clothing. The clothing was made out either bear, deer, bison, buffalo, wolves or coyotes.

Notes

Further reading
Thomas, Alfred Barnaby (1940) The Plains Indians and New Mexico, 1751-1778: A collection of documents illustrative of the history of the eastern frontier of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, OCLC 3626655
Wolff, Gerald W., and Cash, Joseph W. (1976) The Comanche People Phoenix, Arizona: Indian Tribal Series.

Other websites

Comanche Nation
 The Comanche Language and Cultural Perservation Committee

Native American
Cuvette

A cuvette is a kind of laboratory glassware, usually a small tube of circular or square cross shape, closed at one end and open at the other, made of plastic, glass, or optical grade quartz and made to hold samples for spectroscopic experiments.  The best cuvettes are as clear as possible, without impurities that might affect a spectroscopic reading.  Like a test tube, a cuvette may be open to the air on top or have a glass or other material to close it.

Laboratory equipment
John Abbot

John Abbot (1587/1588 – c. 1650) was an English Roman Catholic priest and poet. Nobody knows where he was born, he might have been from either London or Leicester. Abbot was from a strongly Protestant family because he was the nephew of George Abbot, the Archbishop of Canterbury, but after being educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he travelled to the  European continent where he was converted to Roman Catholicism. On returning to England he was in Jesuit orders for a while, before working as a priest. In 1635 he was put in jail. He was released within a year, but in 1637 he was again arrested, and spent the rest of his life in prison.

His best known work is his poem Devout Rhapsodies (2 vols., 1647), about the war between Good and Evil and the temptation and fall of man.

Selected works 

Jesus Praefigured (1623)
The Sad Condition of a Distracted Kingdome (1645)
Devout Rhapsodies (2 vols., 1647)

References
 Jordan, Richard D., "Abbot, John", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford, 2004)

1587 births
1650 deaths
English poets
English priests
English Roman Catholics
Roman Catholic priests
Lemuel Abbott

Lemuel Abbott (c. 1730 – April, 1776) was an English priest and poet. Little is known of his background, but he worked as a priest in Ansty, Leicestershire and Thornton. He is known mostly for his collection of poems called Poems on Various Subjects, whereto is Prefixed a Short Essay on the Structure of English Verse, published in 1765. Abbott and his wife Mary were probably the parents of the artist Lemuel Francis Abbott.

1730 births
1776 deaths
Abbott, Lemuel
Thomas Eastoe Abbott

Thomas Eastoe Abbott (1786/1787|7 – 18 February 1854) was an English poet. He was born in East Dereham, Norfolk. He lived in Darlington, where he worked at the Royal Free Grammar School. He wrote many books like Peace, a Lyric Poem (1814); Resignation (1817); The Triumph of Christianity (1819); and The Soldier's Friend (1828). Abbott died in Darlington, County Durham in 1854.

Other websites 
 Thompson Cooper, Abbott, Thomas Eastoe (1786/7–1854), rev. Megan A. Stephan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 21 March 2007)

1780s births
1854 deaths
English poets
Writers from Norfolk
Division of labour

In ancient history, a division of labour (or specialisation) was when some people in a city stopped growing crops and took other jobs. This usually happened because of a surplus of food. This means that there was more than enough food for everyone, so some people did not have to grow crops anymore.

Xenophon was a philosopher of the 4th century BC. In his book Cryopedia (The Education of Cyrus) he writes about the division of labour: 

"Just as the various trades are most highly developed in large cities, in the same way food at the palace is prepared in a far superior manner. In small towns the same man makes couches, doors, ploughs and tables, and often he even builds houses, and still he is thankful if only he can find enough work to support himself. And it is impossible for a man of many trades to do all of them well. In large cities, however, because many make demands on each trade, one alone is enough to support a man, and often less than one: for instance one man makes shoes for men, another for women, there are places even where one man earns a living just by mending shoes, another by cutting them out, another just by sewing the uppers together, while there is another who performs none of these operations but assembles the parts, Of necessity, he who pursues a very specialised task will do it best."

References

Other websites 
 Summary of Smith's example of pin-making

Sociology
Anthropology
Euphrates

The Euphrates is the western of the two rivers that define the borders of Mesopotamia. The other is the Tigris, which joins the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab and flow into the Persian Gulf. Several dams have been built since the 1970s. As a result, less water flows down the river into the sea. 

Rivers of Iraq
Rivers of Turkey
Rivers of Syria
Mesopotamia
JC Chasez

JC Chasez (born Joshua Scott Chasez on August 8, 1976 in Washington, D.C.), is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and producer. He is best known as one of the lead singers in the boy band NSYNC. On February 24 2004 Chasez's solo album Schizophrenic was released. Three singles were released from the album. Chasez made a girl group called Girl Radical with Jimmy Harry.

Discography
NSYNC
*NSYNC (1998)
No Strings Attached (2000)
Celebrity (2001)

Solo Career
Schizophrenia (2004)

References

1976 births
Living people
American songwriters
Mouseketeers
NSYNC
Singers from Washington, D.C.
Herl

Herl is a municipality and a part of the Ruwer (municipality) in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. As of 31 December 2018, 253 people lived there.

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate
Trier-Saarburg
Ricky Martin

Enrique Martin Morales (born on December 24, 1971), also most commonly or better known by his stage name as Ricky Martin, is a two-time Grammy Award and 4 Latin Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican-American pop singer, dancer, musician, recording artist and actor. He has since then rose up to fame and super stardom with such an excellent and a prestigious track record, first as an elite member of the Latin boy band Menudo, and then as a prominent solo musical pop artist ever since then from 1991-present, and throughout over his entire singing career, he has annually recorded, released and sold out over 95 million singing albums and groundbreaking records all over around the world, while charting up with nearly and about up to 27 top 10 greatest hits as of on the US Latin Charts, and with over and about 11 breaking records of which have overly reached up with number one and a total of over 40 hit released singles.

Ricky Martin is an international pop icon and is also considered and widely regarded as being hunky and toned and is overly admired by many stunning and gorgeous-looking women and various fans from all over around the world. He is also thus officially tagged and is widely regarded as the King of Latin Pop.

Discography 

Studio Albums
 1991: Ricky Martin
 1993: Me Amarás
 1995: A Medio Vivir
 1998: Vuelve
 1999: Ricky Martin
 2000: Sound Loaded
 2003: Almas del Silencio
 2005: Life
 2011: Música + Alma + Sexo
 2015: A Quien Quiera Escuchar

Extended Plays
 2020: PAUSA

Live Albums
 2006: MTV Unplugged
 2007: Black & White Tour

Compilation Albums
 2001: La Historia
 2001: The Best of Ricky Martin
 2008: Ricky Martin 17

DVDs
 1999: One Night Only
 1999: Ricky Martin: The Video Collection
 2001: Ricky Martin: The European Tour
 2001: La Historia"
 2006: MTV Unplugged
 2007: Black & White Tour
 2008: Ricky Martin 17

Ricky Martin
1973 births
Living people
People from San Juan, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican actors
Puerto Rican singers
Latin singers
American dancers
American pop musicians
American movie actors
American television actors
LGBT actors
LGBT musicians
Grammy Award winners
Fiefdom

In feudalism, a fiefdom (also called a fief, feud, feoff, or fee) was a property or right that an overlord gave a vassal in exchange for military service. This property, of whatever size, could be inherited by the man's heirs.  However, not only land but anything of value could be held in fee, including a political office, hunting or fishing rights or monopolies in trade. A fief included the right of possession of something but with conditions.

References

Middle Ages
Nicky Hilton Rothschild

Nicholai "Nicky" Olivia Hilton (born October 5, 1983, in New York City, New York) is an American fashion model, socialite, and fashion designer. Hilton is also an heiress to a part of the Hilton Hotels chain, as well as to about 5–15% of her father's real estate fortune and investments. She shares her nickname with her grandfather's brother, Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, who died 14 years before she was born. She is the sister of celebrity Paris Hilton.

References

American fashion designers
Models from New York City
American socialites
1983 births
Living people
American bloggers
Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann (born 12 May 2003) was reported missing on the evening of Thursday, 3 May 2007 from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve, Portugal. One newspaper said it was "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". It is still not known where she is or what happened to her.

Madeleine was on holiday with her parents, her two-year-old twin brother and sister, and family friends. She and the twins had been left asleep at 20:30 in a ground floor apartment, while the McCanns and friends had dinner in a restaurant  away. The parents checked on the children every so often, until it was discovered Madeleine was missing at 22:00. Over the next few weeks, the Portuguese police started to believe that Madeleine had died in an accident in the apartment and the parents had covered it up.

There was a lot of news coverage around the world about the case. Rumours that Madeleine has been taken to countries such as Morocco and Malta have all turned out to be untrue.

Madeleine's parents have started a website in their daughter's name where people can keep up to date on events and write to the family. They have also started Madeleine's Fund to which people can give money.

Robert Murat was the first official suspect. On 8 September 2007, Madeleine's mother, Kate McCann, and her father, Gerry McCann, were declared official suspects as well, after the finding of blood and fluids in their apartment. Murat stopped being an official suspect in July 2008, Kate and Gerry in August 2008.

The case remains unsolved. However, in June 2020 a possible suspect who is yet to be named is being held in custody for question by German authorities. The person being held is known to have committed other sexual asaults on children.

References

Other websites 
 Official website

2007 crimes
2007 in Europe
2000s crimes in Europe
2000s in Portugal
May events
Missing people
Linda Thelenius

Linda Thelenius (born Linda Maria Elisabeth Gedin later Linda Rosing 21 January 1974 in Västerås, Sweden) is a model and was a participant in the 2003 edition of Big Brother in Sweden. In the Big Brother house, she and another participant, Micke, became involved in a relationship which was followed closely by the producers. During the show, she had sex on live TV, making her an instant tabloid celebrity.

Thelenius released her debut single, "Summer Love", in 2004. In 2006, she released her autobiography, Den nakna sanningen ("The naked truth"), written together with journalist and television host Daniel Nyhlén.

In the summer of 2006, Thelenius became the leader of a new political party, 'Unika Partiet', or 'The Unique Party'. This is a so-called non-registered party, meaning that there is no official record of the party. Thelenius was listed as the only candidate for the party, listed as an author on the party ballot. She received 222 votes out of more than 5.6 million votes cast in the election. Thelenius is also famous for her many plastic surgery operations. She has breast implants, has had a facelift, and uses botox injections.

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Linda Bengtzing

Linda Bengtzing (born March 13, 1974 in Gullspang, Sweden) is a singer and television host. She has sung three times in the Swedish Melodifestivalen.

Gallery

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 Linda Bengtzing official homepage

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Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen, translated as the "Melody Festival", is an annual music competition organised by Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR) to determine Sweden's representative song and performer at the Eurovision Song Contest.

History 
It has been staged under various formats almost every year since Sweden first participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958. The first year, no TV or radio broadcasted event was held, but in 1959., the first public competition was held. The competition is the most popular television programme in Sweden, a title it has held since 2000, at times eclipsing even Eurovision itself. In 2007, an estimated four million Swedes—almost 44% of the country's population—watched the final, while the semifinals averaged around 3.1 million viewers.

The winner is chosen by a number of regional juries and a national televote. Until 2001 the competition was normally limited to between eight and twelve songs (in 1981, only five songs), but since the introduction of semifinals in 2002 that number has risen to thirty-two.

The Melodifestival has produced five Eurovision-winning songs and fifteen placings in the top five for Sweden at the Contest. The event is often seen as being dominated by light orchestrated pop songs, known locally as Schlager. music—so much so that it is sometimes referred to as "Schlagerfestivalen" (the "Schlager Festival") or "Schlager-SM" ("Swedish schlager championship") by the Swedish media but other styles of music such as rap, reggae and glam rock have made an appearance since the competition's expansion. 

The competition makes a significant impact on music charts in Sweden; twenty-three participants reached the domestic singles chart in 2006 and twenty-one in 2007. There would have been more people taking part, but Agnes Carlsson was disqualified because she discussed her song in an interview with the Aftonblad newspaper.

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Katie Price

Katie Price (Katrina Amy Alexandra Alexis Infield Price, born 22 May 1978) is an English television personality and glamour model. She was born in Brighton, East Sussex, England, and was previously known as "Jordan".

She first became known as a topless female glamour model in a pictorial Page 3 tabloid newspaper The Sun. Later, her life in the public spotlight allowed her to develop a variety of different activities including television, books, fashion and music.

Her singles include "A Whole New World" with Peter Andre. It peaked at number 12. A solo "Free To Love Again" peaked at number 60.

She won the January to February 2015 series of Celebrity Big Brother (UK).

Personal life
Price has had many plastic surgeries on her breasts and her face. In 2002, Price had a leiomyosarcoma (a type of cancer) removed from her finger. Although estimates of her net worth were approximately £40 million, on November 26th 2019 she was declared bankrupt, details can be seen on the UK insolvency register here.

Relationships
She married Peter Andre in September 2005; they divorced in 2009. She married Alex Reid in February 2010; they divorced in 2011. In January 2013, she married Kieran Hayler. Price has a son, Harvey (born in May 2002), by footballer Dwight Yorke. He is blind, has ADHD and Prader-Willi syndrome and is autistic. She has a son Junior (born June 2005), and daughter, Princess (born June 2007), by Andre. She has a son, Jett (born August 2013), by Hayler. The couple separated in May 2014. Their daughter was born in August 2014.

She got engaged to Kris Boyson in July 2019.

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Nikki Grahame

Nicola Rachele-Beth "Nikki" Grahame (28 April 1982 – 9 April 2021) was a British television personality.

Big Brother
Grahame rose to fame in the UK when she was chosen to be a housemate on Big Brother 7 in 2006. A former model and promotions girl, Grahame has become renowned for throwing temper tantrums — behaviour that divided viewer opinion during her time on Big Brother.  It led to her being given her own reality television show called Princess Nikki.

Grahame won a National Television Award for most popular TV contender in 2006. As of 2007, Grahame writes a regular column in OK!'s "Hot Stars" magazine.

She returned to the Big Brother house in June 2015 as a special guest at Big Brother 16, spending a total of 16 days inside the house. She was an HouseGuest in season 4 of Big Brother Canada, having entered the house in March 2016.

Health
Grahame spent most of her adolescence in psychiatric hospitals.  She had the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, a condition that left her comatose and near death at the age of 12. She has told about her experience in two autobiography books called "Dying To Be Thin - The True Story Of My Lifelong Battle Against Anorexia" released in 2009 and "Fragile - The True Story of My Lifelong Battle With Anorexia" released in 2012.  In October 2011, Grahame said she had relapsed and was suffering from anorexia again. She had checked into her 11th institution and weighed just 
. In 2012, Grahame was put in hospital after she took an overdose of pills.

Death
Grahame died in a private hospital in England on 9 April 2021 from anorexia at the age of 38.

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Serena Williams

Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. She is the younger sister of another former world no. 1 professional female tennis player, Venus Williams.

Personal life
The Williams sisters grew up in Los Angeles. She lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States with her husband Alexis Ohanian and daughter. She is a Jehovah's witness.

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Miki Ando

is a Japanese athlete.  She is best known as a figure skater.

Ando was born in Nagoya.

Career
Ando won the 2004-2005 Japanese National Championship; and she placed first again in 2011.

She won the World Championships in 2007 and 2011.

She was a member of the Japanese team at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin in Italy.  She also competed at Vancouver in the 2010 Winter Olympics.

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 Sports in Japan
 Japan at the Olympics

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 http://www.miki-ando.jp/ 
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Kelly Ripa

Kelly Maria Ripa (born October 2, 1970) is an American actress, talk show host, and television producer. Ripa, who played Hayley Vaughan on the television soap opera All My Children from 1990–2002, is best known as co-host of the popular syndicated morning talk show Live! with Kelly and Ryan. She is also known for her role as Faith Fairfield on Hope & Faith. Additionally, Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos own a New York based production company, Milojo.

In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the Most Powerful People in Media.

Early life
Ripa was born in Stratford, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Esther, a homemaker, and Joseph Ripa, a labor-union president and bus driver. She has a younger sister, Linda, who is a children's book author. She is of Italian and Irish ancestry. Her father has been the Democratic County Clerk for Camden County, New Jersey since June 2009. She is the first in her family to enter the acting profession. She has studied ballet since age three, plays the piano, and, in her words, is "no Barbra Streisand," but can carry a tune.

Ripa graduated from Eastern High School in Voorhees Township, New Jersey, where she became a cheerleader and was later encouraged by her drama teacher to pursue acting. "I owe so much of my career to Jim Beckley," she said. "He thought I was a natural performer and so he gave me the lead in the next show." She starred in local theatre productions and was discovered while performing in the comedy play The Ugly Duckling (c. 1941), by A.A. Milne, during her senior year. She attended Camden County College studying psychology, but dropped out and moved to New York City to be an actress.

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Faith Ford

Faith Alexis Ford (born September 14, 1964, in Alexandria, Louisiana) is an American television and movie actress. She is best known for her role as Corky Sherwood on Murphy Brown and as Hope in the television series, Hope & Faith.

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Hope & Faith

Hope & Faith was an American television series. It was a sitcom that aired for three seasons on ABC from 2003 to 2006. For its first two seasons the series was part of a revived TGIF comedy block.

The series starred Faith Ford as Hope and Kelly Ripa as Faith. Ford plays a homemaker with a husband (played by Ted McGinley) and three children. Ripa plays her sister, a soap opera star whose character is killed off, leading her to move in with her sister's family. The series is based in part on the life of its creator, Joanna Johnson, a former cast member of The Bold and the Beautiful. The series featured guest stars such as Tony Curtis, Dean Cain, Robert Wagner, Regis Philbin (Ripa's co-host on Live with Regis and Kelly), Kathie Lee Gifford, and Mark Consuelos (Ripa's husband).

The series was primarily filmed at New York City's Silvercup East, a sister studio to Silvercup Studios, to accommodate Ripa's schedule with Live with Regis and Kelly.

All 73 episodes were picked up by the American television network WE: Women's Entertainment, as the total number of produced episodes was short of what was required for American television syndication.

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Live! with Kelly

Live! with Kelly and Ryan is a syndicated American television talk show, hosted by Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest.

The show began in 1983 as a local New York City program called The Morning Show, hosted by Regis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey (then the wife of Major League Baseball player Steve Garvey). A year later, Garvey left the show and was replaced by Ann Abernathy. In 1985, after Abernathy married and moved to Los Angeles, Kathie Lee Gifford became Philbin's co-host. The show went into national syndication in 1988 as Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee. Gifford left the show in 2000; the show continued as Live! with Regis while Philbin and the show's producers teamed him with several potential co-hosts.

In 2001, Ripa was named as Philbin's co-host, with the show then being renamed Live! with Regis and Kelly. Philbin and Ripa remained a team until 2011; in January of that year, he announced he was leaving the show, with his last show airing on November 18. The show then became Live! with Kelly, with Ripa appearing with a wide array of guest co-hosts. Former New York Giants star defensive lineman Strahan became the new full-time co-host effective with the 2012–13 season premiere. At that point the show became Live! with Kelly and Michael.

Live!'s mixture of A-list guests and the interaction between co-hosts have made it one of daytime's most popular and venerable talk shows.

In 2016, Strahan announced he was leaving the show to join Good Morning America. Seacrest began hosting in 2017.

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Sven-Göran Eriksson

Sven-Göran Eriksson (born 5 February 1948) is a Swedish football manager. He was recently the football manager of Manchester City after agreeing a 3-year-deal with the club. He is set to earn £2 million per year plus bonuses. He was sacked by Manchester City.  Eriksson stepped down from his most recent position as the English national team manager following England's exit from the 2006 World Cup; there was, however, considerable speculation that he was forced out by the English football authorities due to his tenure being punctuated by well-documented tabloid reports of his private life. Erikkson currently manages the Côte d'Ivoire national team.

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Jade Goody

Jade Goody (5 June 1981 – 22 March 2009) was a British television personality. She became famous when she was in the third series of the reality television show Big Brother in 2002. She had been a dental nurse before she went into the Big Brother house. Goody starred in fitness DVDs, got somebody to write a book about her, had her own beauty salon and line of perfume. Goody was a housemate once again in Celebrity Big Brother 2007. People said that she was racist towards her Indian housemate Shilpa Shetty. She had two sons by Jeff Brazier. She married Jack Tweed on 22 February 2009 and died from metastatic cervical cancer a month later (on the 22 of March). She was 27 years old.

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Sara Rue

Sara Rue (born January 26, 1979 in New York City, New York) is an American actress.  She played the roles of "Carmen Ferrara" on the drama Popular and "Claudia Casey" on the sitcom Less Than Perfect.

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Less Than Perfect

Less Than Perfect was an American television series. It was a sitcom that began airing on ABC on October 1, 2002 and ended on June 6, 2006. The series is about a young female office employee (played by Sara Rue) and her co-workers  The series was directed by Skip Collector and Ted Wass, among others.

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Larry King

Larry King (November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American writer, journalist and broadcaster.

Career
For many years, he hosted a nightly interview program on the Cable News Network (CNN) called Larry King Live. The program ran from 1985 to 2010. It was simulcast on Westwood One radio network until 2009.  Before that, he hosted a radio talk show on Mutual Radio called the Larry King Show.  There he sometimes told funny stories.  He interviewed some 40,000 politicians, athletes and entertainers.

King won several awards. He hosted a talk show called Politicking. That show is on Russia Television, an English language television network run by the Russian state.

His first show of Larry King Live was in 1985. He interviewed every President of the United States since Gerald Ford.

King stated he was liberal politically.

King had a heart attack in 1987 and wrote two books about life with a heart disease. He founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988 to help people who have no insurance cover the costs of treatment.

Early life
King was born Lawrence Leibel Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York City to immigrant parents. His father was from Austria and his mother was from Belarus. Both parents were Orthodox Jews.

Personal life
Larry King married eight times. His wives include:
Freda Miller (1952–1953)
Annette Kaye (1961)
Alene Akins (1961–1963)
Mickey Sutphin (1963–1967)
Alene Akins (1967–1972)
Sharon Lepore (1976–1983)
Julie Alexander (1989–1992)
Shawn Southwick (from 1997)

Death
On December 22, 2020, King was hospitalized in Los Angeles with COVID-19. King died a month later at the age of 87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on January 23, 2021 from sepsis caused by COVID.

Sources

Other websites
Larry King Live
Biography at CNN.com
Larry King Cardiac Foundation 

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is a large city in Virginia, United States. It is the 78th largest city in the United States. It is home to the Norfolk Admirals of the AHL.

As of the census of 2000, there were 234,403 people, 86,210 households, and 51,898 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,684.4/km² (4,362.8/mi²). There were 94,416 housing units at an average density of 678.5/km² (1,757.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 48.36% White, 44.11% African American, 0.46% Native American, 2.81% Asian, 0.11% Pacific Islander, 1.67% from other races, and 2.48% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.80% of the population.

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 Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance  (serving Norfolk)
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 Norfolk Highlights 1584 - 1881  by George Holbert Tucker