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Jay Mohr

Jon Ferguson Mohr (born August 23, 1970) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and comedian. He played Marty in Are We There Yet? (soon replaced by Christian Finnegan) and voiced Paulie in Paulie.

Filmography 
 Suburgatory (2011)
 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2011)
 Outlaw (2010)
 Hereafter (2010)
 Monk (2009)
 Lonely Street (2009)
 Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust (2009) (Video game)
 Gary Unmarried (2008–2010) (TV)
 Saints Row 2  (2008) (Video game)
 Street Kings  (2008)
 Even Money (2007)
 Christmas Do-Over (2006)
 Ghost Whisperer (2006–2008)
 Community Service (2006)
 Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006) (Video game)
 The Groomsmen (2006)
 Las Vegas (2005) (TV)
 King's Ransom (2005)
 Are We There Yet? (2005)
 Seeing Other People (2004)
 Shorties Watchin' Shorties (2004)
 CSI: Miami (2003)
 Scrubs (2003)
 Fastlane (2002) (TV)
 S1m0ne (2002)
 The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
 Speaking of Sex (2001)
 Black River (2001)
 Cherry Falls (2000)
 Family Guy (2000) (TV)
 Pay It Forward (2000)
 200 Cigarettes (1999)
 Go (1999)
 Playing by Heart (1999)
 Action (1999) (TV)	
 Small Soldiers (1998)
 Paulie (1998)
 Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
 From The Earth To The Moon (1998)
 Suicide Kings (1997)
 Picture Perfect (1997)
 Jerry Maguire (1996)

References

Other websites
 Jay Mohr official website
 
 Jay Mohr SI.com archive 
 Weekly column on FOXSports.com
 Jay Mohr on the Jim Rome Show

1970 births
Actors from New Jersey
American movie actors
American stand-up comedians
American television actors
American television talk show hosts
Living people
Comedians from New Jersey
Christian Finnegan

Fletcher Christian Finnegan (born April 1, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and comedian. He currently plays Marty in Are We There Yet?, replacing Jay Mohr.

Other websites
 Christian Finnegan's official site
 
 

1973 births
Actors from New York
American movie actors
Game show hosts
American stand-up comedians
American television actors
Living people
Comedians from New York
Siri

Siri is a virtual assistant application built into certain iOS devices. It hears what the user says and responds by web services. At first, Siri was an app in the App Store, but Apple bought the company that owned it, on April 28, 2010.  Siri has been supported by all devices since the iPhone 4S, and is in iOS 5 devices other than the third generation iPad. When iOS 6 came out, the third generation iPad got Siri, as well as the iPhone 5, iPod Touch (5th generation), fourth generation iPad, and iPad Mini. 

A similar system is built into Android (Google Now), Samsung (S-voice) and Windows Phone (Microsoft Cortana).

References

Software
Daniel Avilés

Daniel Avilés Valiente (born April 4, 2001; Madrid, Spain), is a Spanish actor. He is best known for playing Carlitos in a series Los Protegidos.

References

Other websites 

 
 
 

2001 births
Living people
Actors from Madrid
List of cities in Sri Lanka

The following is a list of cities in Sri Lanka.

References
General 

Sri Lanka, List of cities in

Sri Lanka
List of cities in Sudan

This is a list of cities and towns in Sudan:

Sudan, List of cities in
Sudan
List of settlements in Suriname

This is a list of cities and towns in Suriname:

Acaribo
Abenaston
Albina
Alliance
Anapaike
Apetina 
Apoera
Aurora 
Batavia
Benzdorp
Bitagron
Boskamp
Botopasi
Brokopondo
Brownsweg
Corneliskondre
Cottica
Djumu
Friendship
Goddo
Groningen
Jenny
Kajana
Kwakoegron
Kwamalasamutu
Lelydorp
Lebidoti
Moengo
Nieuw Amsterdam
Nieuw Jacobkondre
Nieuw Nickerie
Onverwacht
Paramaribo (Capital and largest city)
Paranam
Pelelu Tepu
Pokigron
Pontoetoe
Totness
Wageningen
Wanhatti
Washoda
Zanderij

Lists of settlements
List of cities and towns in Syria

Syria is divided into 14 governorates.  Those governates are divided into 64 districts.  Every governorate and district has a capital city, except of the Rif Dimashq Governorate and Markaz Rif Dimashq district. 

In all districts of Syria, the district has the same name as its capital.  The one exception is the Mount Simeon District where the capital is the city of Aleppo.  

This is a list of all Governorate and District capitals.

Other cities and towns
Other large cities and notable towns include:

References 

Syria

Syria
List of cities in Tanzania

This is a list of cities and towns in Tanzania.
 

Tanzania, List of cities in

Tanzania
List of settlements in Trinidad and Tobago

List of cities, towns  and villages in Trinidad and Tobago:

A

B

C

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

References
 Spanish place names in Trinidad  - Trinidad Guardian, August 31, 2005.

Trinidad and Tobago
Natasha Gregson Wagner

Natasha Gregson Wagner (born September 29 1970) is an American television and movie actress from Los Angeles. She is the daughter of actress Natalie Wood. She starred in the 1992 comedy Buffy the Vampire Slayer alongside Kristy Swanson. She also starred in the television series ER for several episodes.

Other websites 

Actors from Los Angeles
American movie actors
1970 births
Living people
Carlos Finlay

Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3, 1833 – August 20, 1915) was a Cuban physician and scientist who started the interest in yellow fever research.

Early life and education
Finlay was born Juan Carlos Finlay y Barres, in Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Cuba. His family is of French and Scottish heritage. In 1853 he went to Jefferson Medical college in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1855. He finished his studies in Havana and in Paris. Later he moved to Havana and started a medical practice.

Professional career
Finlay continued his work in the 1870s. He was the first to come up with the idea that a mosquito was a carrier for a disease that causes yellow fever. He discovered that the spread and cause of yellow fever was from a  mosquito. The mosquito would bite a person with the disease and would then bite and infect a healthy person. A year later Finlay identified the mosquito of the genus Aedes as the insect transmitting yellow fever. His research led to the control of the mosquito population as a way to control the spread of the disease.

Dr. Finlay was a member of Havana's Royal Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences. He was fluent in French, German, Spanish, and English, and could read Latin. He was interested in a lot of things but his main interest was yellow fever. He wrote 40 articles on this disease. His theory was that an intermediary host was responsible for the spread of the disease. As a result of his work, Dr. Finlay was nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, but it was never awarded to him. He received the National Order of the Legion of Honour of France in 1908.

In 1990, the Walter Reed Commission confirmed what Carlos found. Reed was known to all as being the one that discovered the connection of yellow fever and the mosquito but he gave the credit to Finlay. He used Finlay's information to help with his research.  Soon Finlay became the chief health officer of Cuba from 1902-1909. 

Finlay died from heart failure caused by pneumonia in his home in Havana, Cuba.

1833 births
1915 deaths
Cuban scientists
Physicians
Wen Tingyun

Wen Tingyun (812–870) was an important Chinese lyricist of the late Tang Dynasty. 

He was born in Qin, Shanxi province, China.  Wen became regarded as the first truly distinctive writer of ci, the song-verse style of poetry that dominated Chinese poetry during much of the late Tang dynasty and the Song dynasty.  Most of his poems are "boudoir"-style verses that described the opulent furnishings and gardens of solitary women and their hidden desires. This style of poetry was commonly used for romantic communications between men and women in the entertainment districts of the Chinese capital Chang'an during the Tang dynasty.

References

Chinese writers
Lyricists
812 births
870 deaths
Jill Arrington

Tiffany "Jill" Arrington (born July 27, 1972) is an American sportscaster. She works for Fox Sports. 

Arrington was the feature reporter on Fox NFL Sunday and co-hosted NFL Under the Helmet. For the Arena Football League, she was the studio host and field reporter for the TNN Network. Arrington also worked at CBS Sports. She was the sideline reporter and court reporter for Tennis on CBS and SEC on CBS and was a feature reporter on The NFL Today a pregame show for the NFL on CBS. Then she worked with Mike Tirico and Kirk "Herbie" Herbstreit for ESPN College Football as lead sideline reporter. Arrington has hosted programs for FOX Sports such as Totally NASCAR, Verizon NFL Mobile Updates, College Football Saturday Preview, and FoxSportsFlash. She was added to the NBA on TNT in 2012.

Arrington was born in Conyers, Georgia. She studied Journalism and Political Science at the University of Miami. In 2001, Arrington was voted the "Sexiest Sportscaster" by Playboy magazine. Arrington is the aunt of actresses Dakota and Elle Fanning.

References

1972 births
Living people
Tennis broadcasters
Motorsports broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
College football broadcasters
Arena Football League broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
Sportspeople from Georgia (U.S. state)
Tim Brando

Tim Brando (born February 27, 1956) is an American sportscaster. He works for CBS Sports. He is the current preseason voice of the New Orleans Saints with Solomon Wilcots. Brando called basketball games for the LSU Tigers and LSU Lady Tigers.

Career 
He is also one of the studio hosts for College Basketball on CBS and serves the same capacity for College Football on CBS/SEC on CBS with Spencer Tillman and Tony Barnhart. He also does play-by-play for College Basketball on CBS, College Basketball on FSN, College Basketball on Raycom (formally Jefferson-Pilot) and formally with Jefferson-Pilot.

On the professional basketball side, he provided play-by-play for the Atlanta Hawks, TNT, and Turner Sports. He currently hosts College Football Preview, Football Saturdays in the South, and The Tim Brando Show. He has provided play-by-play for College Football on CBS and NFL on CBS and serves the same capacity with the New Orleans Saints. Before working for CBS and Raycom, he was an anchor for SportsCenter as well as a studio host for college basketball and football on ESPN as well as providing some play-by-play for ESPN's coverage of college football. In addition to football and basketball, Brando also called Atlanta Braves games.

References
 

College basketball broadcasters
College football broadcasters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
1956 births
Living people
SportsCenter anchors and reporters
Gary Bender

Gary Nedrow Bender (born September 1, 1940, Ulysses, Kansas) is a retired American sportscaster. Bender has worked for CBS, ABC and TNT. While working at CBS, he covered 27 different sports. His play-by-play jobs include:

Wisconsin Badgers football
Wisconsin Badgers basketball
Kansas Jayhawks football
Kansas Jayhawks basketball
Wisconsin Athletis Association championships
Green Bay Packers
Milwaukee Brewers
NFL on CBS
NBA on CBS
College Basketball on CBS
College Football on CBS
MLB on ABC
USFL on ABC
Monday Night Football

College Football on ABC
College Basketball on ABC
Phoenix Cardinals
NFL on TNT
College Football on TBS
NBA on TNT
Phoenix Suns
St. Louis Rams
Tampa Bay Buccaneers preseason
Chicago Bears
College Football on Versus
College Football on MountainWest Sports Network
College Basketball on MountainWest Sports Network.

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Living people
1940 births
American Christians
Major League Baseball broadcasters
College basketball broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
United States Football League broadcasters
College football broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
People from Kansas
Bonnie Bernstein

Bonnie Bernstein (born August 16, 1970) is a sportscaster. She is best known for her works at CBS Sports and ESPN.

References 

Living people
1970 births
Tennis broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
College basketball broadcasters
College football broadcasters
American sports commentators
Mike Emrick

Michael "Doc" Emrick (born August 1, 1946) is a sportscaster. He is best known for calling ice hockey games especially for the NHL. He is called The Voice of Ice Hockey.

Career
Emrick has been a sportscaster professionally since 1973. He was hired by the Port Huron Flags. In 1977 he started to work for the Maine Mariners. Emrick then was the Devils first voice in New Jersey. He was there from the 1982–83 NHL season until 1986. In 1993, he returned to the team to replace Gary Thorne. He continued to be the team's voice until July 2011. He announced the team's 1995 Stanley Cup victory.

Emrick became the lead play-by-play announcer for the NHL on Fox Game of the Week. He called regular-season games and Stanley Cup Finals from 1995 to 2000. He has called eight NHL All-Star Games.  He called the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and  the 2004 World Cup of Hockey.

Emrick has worked on many Olympic Games.  He has called both ice hockey and water polo.

He also called some National Football League and men's NCAA basketball tournament games. He called the National Lacrosse League All-Star Game and Championship Game.

Awards
Emrick received the NHL's Lester Patrick Award in 2004.  He was the first of three people to get the award for media work. He got the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award by the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008. Emrick was the first member of the media to be in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. This was on December 12, 2011.

In 2011, Emrick won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Sports Personality - Play by Play."

References

1946 births
College basketball broadcasters
Foster Hewitt Memorial Award winners
Lacrosse announcers
Living people
National Football League broadcasters
National Hockey League broadcasters
Olympic Games broadcasters
Emmy Award winners
Dick Enberg

Richard Alan "Dick" Enberg (January 9, 1935 – December 21, 2017) was an American sportscaster. He was the voice of the San Diego Padres. He also announced or hosted the Tournament of Roses Parade for many years, sometimes with the help of family members.

Enberg was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan. He began his career calling games for UCLA Bruins basketball, Los Angeles Rams football and California Angels baseball.

In the 1970s, Enberg hosted the television game show Sports Challenge.  He co-produced the Emmy Award-winning sports-history series The Way It Was for PBS.

He broadcast for many sports and events for NBC, including the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the U.S. Open golf championship, college football, college basketball, the Wimbledon and French Open tennis tournaments, heavyweight boxing, Breeders' Cup and other horse racing events, and the Olympic Games.

Honors
Enberg received many awards and honors in his lifetime.  These include 13 Sports Emmy Awards (as well as a Lifetime Achievement Emmy), nine National Sportscaster of the Year awards from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (and is in that organization's Hall of Fame), five Sportscaster of the Year awards from the American Sportscasters Association, the Pete Rozelle Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Curt Gowdy Award from the Basketball Hall of Fame, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Enberg is the only sportscaster so far to win Emmys in three categories (broadcasting, writing, and producing). In 1973, he was the first U.S. sportscaster to visit the People's Republic of China.

References

1935 births
2017 deaths
Tennis broadcasters
Olympic Games broadcasters
Golf broadcasters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
College football broadcasters
College basketball broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
Curt Gowdy

Curtis Edward "Curt" Gowdy (July 31, 1919 – February 20, 2006) was an American sportscaster.  He was well known as the longtime "voice" of the Boston Red Sox.

In 1949 Gowdy began his Major League Baseball broadcasting career working as an announcer with Mel Allen for New York Yankees games on radio and television. In 1951 he began working for the Red Sox.  He left the Red Sox after the 1965 season.

He covered the first five seasons of the American Football League with broadcast partner Paul Christman. Other sports he has called include: 
Wyoming Cowboys football and basketball
Oklahoma Sooners football and basketball
National Hockey League on NBC 
Olympic Games
New England Patriots play-by-play
National Basketball Association

Movies
Gowdy made cameo appearances in the movies The Naked Gun (1988) and Summer Catch (2001), and his voice can be heard in Heaven Can Wait (1978) and BASEketball (1998).

Awards
In 1970, Gowdy became the first sportscaster to get the Peabody Award. He was elected to the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame in 1981. In 1985, he was inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame. He was given the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984. He received the Pete Rozelle Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.  He got a lifetime achievement Emmy in 1992. He was selected to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 1995. He is also in many local Hall of Fames.

On October 12, 2006, the United States Postal Service building in Green River, Wyoming, was named the "Curt Gowdy Post Office Building".

A state park in Wyoming was named for Gowdy on March 27, 1972. The Curt Gowdy State Park is halfway between his highschool hometown of Cheyenne and his college town of Laramie.

References

1919 births
2006 deaths
College basketball broadcasters
Olympic Games broadcasters 
College football broadcasters 
National Football League broadcasters
National Hockey League broadcasters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
People from Cheyenne, Wyoming
Peabody Award winners
Emmy Award winners
Sportspeople from Wyoming
Jim Gray

Jim Gray (born November 11, 1959 in Denver, Colorado) is an American sportscaster. He works for the Sacramento Kings.  He also worked during the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Gray has won 11 Emmy Awards. He has twice been named the Sports Reporter of the Year by the ASA. Gray has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Gray has worked on many major sporting events including many Super Bowls, World Series, NBA Finals, NCAA Final Fours, Olympics, The Masters and World Boxing Title Fights. Gray was named as one of the 50 Greatest Sports Broadcasters of All-Time by David Halberstam.

The most notable interview of Gray's sportscasting career occurred with former baseball player Pete Rose.  During Game 2 of the 1999 World Series, Rose was named as a member of the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. After the ceremony, Gray asked Rose about gambling on baseball.  Rose repeatedly said he did not gamble on baseball.  Later Rose's book said that he did gamble.

References

Living people
1959 births
Boxing broadcasters
Golf broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
College basketball broadcasters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
College football broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
Emmy Award winners
Jim Hill

James Webster "Jim" Hill (born October 21, 1946 in San Antonio, Texas) is a retired American football defensive back.  He played in the National Football League.  He is now a Los Angeles-based sportscaster. He is a Studio Host for the both the LA Dodgers and LA Lakers games.

He played college football at Texas A&M University–Kingsville. In the National Football League he played for the Green Bay Packers and San Diego Chargers.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

References
Jim Hill's bio on CBS2.com

Other websites

Living people
1946 births
San Diego Chargers players
Green Bay Packers players
Olympic Games broadcasters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
Boxing broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
Dan Kelly (sportscaster)

Dan Kelly (September 17, 1936 – February 10, 1989) was a Canadian sportscaster. He was best known for calling games for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. He also called games for the NHL on CBS, USA, CBC, CTV and Global as well as the 1988 Winter Olympics (Ice Hockey for CTV) and the 1987 Canada Cup. Other than hockey, Kelly called games for the St. Louis Cardinals, Missouri Tigers football, CFL on CBC and the NFL on CBS. Dan Kelly was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame on October 3, 1989.

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1936 births
1989 deaths
College football broadcasters
Deaths from lung cancer
Foster Hewitt Memorial Award winners
Major League Baseball broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
National Hockey League broadcasters
Jim Kelly (sportscaster)

Jim Kelly is a former sportscaster who worked at ESPN and CBS Sports. He called golf tournaments on Golf Network which was heard on Mutual and NBC Radio. Kelly then moved to CBS and CBS Radio calling NFL and golf tournaments for both networks. For CBS television, he provided play-by-play for the NBA on CBS, track-and-field, and bowling. He also hosted Thoroughbred Racing on CBS, CBS Radio's Sports World Roundup and CBS Sports Saturday and was a sports anchor for CBS Morning News, WCAU-TV, and WNEV-TV were he called preseason games for both the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After leaving CBS, he joined ESPN where he called and covered tournaments and games for college football, college basketball, bowling, golf, the NHL, tennis, and the America's Cup.

College basketball broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
Golf broadcasters
Tennis broadcasters
Bowling broadcasters
Horse Racing broadcasters
National Hockey League broadcasters
College football broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Godfrey Kneller

Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723) was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.  He was court painter to English and British monarchs from Charles II to George I.  

His major works include The Chinese Convert (1687); a series of four portraits of Isaac Newton; a series of ten reigning European monarchs, including King Louis XIV of France; over 40 "Kit-cat portraits" of members of the Kit-Cat Club; and ten "beauties" of the court of William III. The beauties series was to match a similar series of ten beauties of the court of Charles II. The earlier portraits were painted by court painter before him, Sir Peter Lely.

Selected works

References

1646 births
1723 deaths
English painters
People from Lübeck
Input

Input is information that is "put in" to something. For example, when people talk, that is input for ears. The word is usually used when talking about computers. When someone types on a computer, the thing that they type is input. Usually, input is used to make output.

Input may refer to:

 Advice (opinion), an opinion or recommendation offered by someone
 Input (computer science), the act of entering data into a computer
 Information, any data entered into a computer or data processing system
 Input/output, the communication between a digital processing system
 Input device, a hardware device that is used to provide data for processing
 Power consumption, an amount of power used by a system

Communication
Computer science
Output

Output is what comes out of something. An example of output is when someone talks. The word is usually used when talking about computers. When someone tells a computer to do something, what it does is the output. Usually, output changes when someone changes the input.

Communication
Computer science
Orlando Figueroa

Orlando Figueroa (b. September 9, 1955) was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. When he was a child he loved to learn how mechanical toys worked. When he was in elementary school, he spent most of his time building things and looking for solutions to problems. In high school he was in advanced mathematics. He fell in love with space after that. He would gaze at the stars and moon and would try to imagine what it would be like to travel into space.

After high school Figueroa attended the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and in 1978, he earned his Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering. While at school in Puerto Rico he took a few advanced courses in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Works
In 1982, Figueroa was hired by NASA and was named Head of the Cryogenics Technology Section at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Among the other positions that Figueroa has held are Lead Cryogenic Engineer for the Cryogenic Optical Assembly of the Cosmic Background Explorer, Manager for the Superfluid Helium On Orbit Transfer Shuttle Experiment, Manager for the Small Explorer Project, Manager for the Explorer Program and Director of the Systems, Technology and Advanced Concepts Directorate.

In 1997, Figueroa was a member of the Senior Executive Service of the U.S. Federal Government. On September 2003, he was the Director for the Solar Systems Division in the Space Science at NASA Headquarters and he also held the position of Director for Mars Exploration.

Accomplishments
As Director of Mars Exploration, Figueroa led a team of hundreds of scientists, engineers and program specialists in one of the agency's most important projects to determine if life ever existed on Mars. The program's plan is to put humans on Mars. Under his directorship the Mars Explorer Rover mission launched Spirit and Opportunity in 2004. The launching of two rovers within days of each other had never been done before, and it was accomplished in three years. 

In August 2005, Figueroa was the Director for System Safety and Mission Assurance at the Goddard Space Flight Center. In October 2005, Figueroa was named Director of Applied Engineering and Technology at Goddard. He was responsible for 1,300 employees and provided guidance on engineering and system technology. In January 2010, he became Deputy Center Director for Science and Technology of Goddard Space Flight Center. Mr. Figueroa now lives in Maryland with his family.

1955 births
Living people
People from San Juan, Puerto Rico
Félix Soto Toro

Félix Soto Toro (born 1967) is an astronaut applicant and an electrical designs engineer at NASA. He developed the Advanced Payload Transfer Measurement System.

Life

Soto Toro was raised in a poor section of the City of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico called El Barrio Amelia. When he was young, he was interested in everything that had to do with light bulbs and electricity. He went to elementary school in his hometown. He went to high school at the Colegio Madre Cabrini in San Juan. 
In 1984, after graduating from high school, Soto Toro studied at the Florida Institute of Technology  in Melbourne, Florida. In 1986, he joined the Cooperative Education Program while still in college. He joined the program because he wanted to become an engineer. Soto Toro earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in electrical engineering and applied to become an astronaut candidate.

Work

In 1990, Soto Toro earned his Bachelor's Degree of Science in Electrical Engineering. He was hired by NASA, a month later. He worked at the Design Engineering Networks Communications section at Kennedy Space Center. In 1992, he graduated with his Masters Degree of Science in Electrical Engineering. In 1997, he went back to school for another Masters in Science degree. 

At the Kennedy Space Center, Soto Toro reviews, designs, builds, and tests  engineering designs used in the Space Shuttle and Payload Operations Development Laboratories. The main project he developed was the Advanced Payload Transfer Measurement System. This system  measures the spherical coordinates offset between the trunnion and their supports during transfer operations.

Awards

Soto Toro was presented with the 2003 "El Premio Coqui" by La Casa de Puerto Rico in Florida for his assistance in the field of science. On November 9, 2003, Soto Toro was named the Grand Marshal of the Puerto Rican Day Parade held in Palm Bay, Florida.

1967 births
Living people
Engineers
Puerto Rican scientists
Sixto González

Sixto González (born 1965) is the first Puerto Rican to be named Director of the Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest single dish radio telescope.

Life
González was born Sixto A. González Edick in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Soon after his birth his family moved to the city of Yabucoa. He went to school in Humacao. As a child, he would take things apart and put them back together again. From that he developed a curiosity about the world around him. He graduated with honors (very good grades) from high school.
In 1983, he traveled to Massachusetts and enrolled in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at MIT. González went back home in 1985 and enrolled, studied at the Humacao campus of the University of Puerto Rico to study physics and electronics, earning his Bachelors of Science degree in 1988. While at the university he was able to do research at the Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest single dish radio telescope.

In 1988, González enrolled in the Department of Physics and Center for Space and Atmospheric Sciences at Utah State University. He was able to base his thesis "Radar, satellite, and modeling studies of the low latitude protonosphere" from experiments he performed at the observatory. He completed his PhD in 1994.

Puerto Rican people
Astronomers
1965 births
Living people
Dirk Bach

Dirk Bach (April 23, 1961 – October 1, 2012) was a German television comedian, actor, voice actor and moderator. He is best known as Pepe in the German version of Sesame Street (Sesamstraße).

Bach was born in Cologne, Germany on April 23, 1961 and died on October 1, 2012 in Berlin, Germany from heart failure. Bach was openly gay and had a partner, Thomas. Bach was an activist for LGBT rights.

Television

Movies 
 1983: Kiez – Aufstieg und Fall eines Luden
 1984: Im Himmel ist die Hölle los / Hullygully in Käseburg
 1985: Peter macht den Acker frisch!
 1985: Bas-Boris Bode
 1988: Krieg der Töne
 1989: Im Jahr der Schildkröte
 1993: Kein Pardon
 1995: Nich’ mit Leo
 1997: Rendezvous des Todes
 1998: Frau Rettich, die Czerni und ich
 1999: Zum Sterben schön
 2001: Das Rätsel des blutroten Rubins
 2001: Der Mann, den sie nicht lieben durfte
 2003: Karlchens Parade
 2003: Suche impotenten Mann fürs Leben
 2003: Crazy Race
 2004: Crazy Race 2 – Warum die Mauer wirklich fiel
 2005: Popp Dich schlank!
 2005: Urmel aus dem Eis
 2006: Zwei zum Fressen gern
 2006: Rock ’n’ Roll Wild Boys
 2006: Crazy Race 3 – Sie knacken jedes Schloss
 2007: ProSieben Märchenstunde – Des Kaisers neue Kleider
 2008: African Race – Auf der Jagd nach dem Marakunda
 2008: ProSieben Märchenstunde – Dornröschen
 2008: Treuepunkte
 2008: Tom und das Erdbeermarmeladebrot mit Honig
 2008: Dornröschen
 2008: Il Giardino
 2009: Lauras Stern und der geheimnisvolle Drache Nian (voice actor)
 2009: Oben (voice actor)

Shows 
 1986: Kir Royal
 1992–1994: Dirk Bach Show
 1994: Die Weltings vom Hauptbahnhof – Scheidung auf Kölsch
 1994: Drei zum Verlieben
 1995: Marys verrücktes Krankenhaus
 1996–2001: Lukas
 1998: Varell & Decker
 1999–2002: Oggy und die Kakerlaken (voice actor)
 2000–2007: Sesamstraße
 2002: Der kleine Mönch
 2004–2012: Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!
 2004–2011: Schillerstraße
 2006–2008: Frei Schnauze/Frei Schnauze XXL
 2009: Einfach Bach!
 2010: Verbotene Liebe
 2011: Die ARGE Talk Show
 2011: Bauernfrühstück – der Film

References

Other websites 

1961 births
2012 deaths
Actors from North Rhine-Westphalia
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Germany
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Beatrice Rosen

Beatrice Rosen, also credited as Béatrice Rosen and Béatrice Rosenblatt, (born November 29, 1977) is an American-French actress.

Personal life 
She was born in 1977 New York City in the United States, although raised in Paris.

1977 births
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Juan R. Cruz

Dr. Juan R. Cruz, Ph.D. (born January 5, 1946) is a Puerto Rican scientist who played a very important role in the design and development of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) parachute.

Life
Cruz was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He has a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, and a Bachelor of Science from MIT university. Both of his degrees are in aerospace engineering. When he was at MIT he was involved with the Monarch and Daedalus human powered airplane teams.

Work
Cruz is a senior aerospace engineer in the Exploration Systems Engineering Branch at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Hw was responsible on the development of entry, descent and landing (EDL) systems for robotic and human missions in space. He was a member of the highly successful Mars Exploration Rover (MER) project that placed two rovers (machines) on the surface of Mars in 2004. The project was focused on the parachute that he designed.

According to Cruz, "There are challenges to testing these parachutes because we can not test it at exactly the right conditions. Earth's atmosphere is the one we have to work with and the Martian atmosphere, air in Mars, is very different, so you have to make adjustments in how you test the parachute".

Cruz is also a member of the Phoenix (Mars 2007), Mars Science Laboratory (Mars 2009), and Crew Exploration Vehicle EDL teams. He was a part of a lot of research on missions to Mars, including robotic airplanes

1946 births
Living people
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Engineers
Antonia Novello

Antonia Coello Novello, M.D., (born August 23, 1944) is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as fourteenth Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993. Novello is the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as Surgeon General. Novello was married to former U.S. Navy flight surgeon and psychiatrist, Joseph R. Novello.

Career
Novello served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New York from 1999 to 2006.

Public Health Service
In 1979, Novello joined the Public Health Service. Her first assignment was as a project officer at the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). From 1976, she was a pediatric (doctor for children) at Georgetown University Hospital. During her years at NIH, Novello worked on a Masters of Physical Health degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She finished her degree in 1982.

In 1986, Novello became the Assistant Surgeon General grade in the PHSCC and the Deputy Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). In this role, she became interested in children with AIDS.

Novello was a big help in the planning of the Organ Transplantation Procurement Act of 1984. She did this when she was working at the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. 

Novello was appointed Surgeon General by President George H. W. Bush. She was the first woman and the first Hispanic to hold the position. During her time as Surgeon General, Novello focused her attention on the health of women, children and minorities, (people with little political power). She also focused on underage drinking, smoking, and AIDS. She played an important role in starting the Healthy Children Ready to Learn Initiative. She spoke out often and forcefully (very strong and loud) about illegal underage drinking, and called to the United States Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General to issue a series of eight reports on the subject.

Novello also worked to stop illegal tobacco use by young people. After leaving the position of Surgeon General, Novello stayed in the regular corps of the Public Health Service. She was assigned the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Special Representative for Health and Nutrition from 1993 to 1996.

Awards
In 2002, Novello was awarded the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal. She was also presented with the Legion of Merit Medal by the United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. In 2006, she was a finalist for the Hispanic Business magazine Woman of the Year Award  in the April 2006 issue.

1944 births
Living people
Puerto Rican scientists
Physicians
Surgeon Generals of the United States
Lissette Martinez

Lissette Martinez (born 1971), is the lead electrical engineer for the Space Experiment Module program at the Wallops Flight Facility, which is part of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Life
Martinez was born in Brooklyn, New York to Puerto Rican parents. She was raised in Yauco, Puerto Rico where her family had moved when she was still a child. In Puerto Rico she went to school from k-8th grade. When she was in 8th grade, she was given a homework assignment to study the moon which. She spent a lot of time on the roof of her house every night for a month. She wrote down and detailed everything about the moon, the way the moon looked. That report made her interested in the moon.

Education
After she graduated from high school, she studied at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. During her third year as an electrical engineering student she was accepted into the NASA Cooperative Education Program. She was started working at NASA right away. Martinez earned, finished, her degree in electrical engineering in 1993 and was offered a job in NASA.

Work
Martinez was part of the team that launched a rocket from White Sands, New Mexico to gather information on the Hale-Bopp Comet, a comet. She is responsible for providing, giving electrical engineering support to Code 870 Space Experiment Module (SEM) program. She is also responsible for the testing of ground and flight hardware. Martinez works with students around the world, helping them with science experiments that will actually ride along on Space Shuttle missions and blast into space.
Martinez continues to work at Wallops Flight Facility located in Virginia. She lives with her son in Salisbury, Maryland.

Living people
1971 births
Scientists from New York City
Puerto Rican people
Engineers from New York
Asking Alexandria

Asking Alexandria are a British metalcore band from York, North Yorkshire. Asking Alexandria have five members in the band; the current band members are Ben Bruce, James Cassells, Danny Worsnop, Cameron Liddell and Sam Bettley.

They released their first album Stand Up and Scream on September 15, 2009. Their newest album Reckless & Relentless was released on April 5, 2011. They will release their third studio album in 2013.

In 2012, Asking Alexandria received an 11th Annual Independent Music Award for the best metal/hardcore album for Reckless & Relentless.

Band members 
Current
Ben Bruce - lead guitar, backing vocals (2008–present)
James Cassells - drums (2008-present)
Cameron Liddell - rhythm guitar (2008-present)
Sam Bettley - bass guitar (2009–present)
Ryan Binns – keyboards, synthesizers, programming (2008;2015-present)
Danny Worsnop - lead vocals, keyboards, programming (2008–2015)

Former
Joe Lancaster – bass guitar (2008–2009)
Denis Stoff - lead vocals

Discography

Studio albums
 Stand Up and Scream (2009)
 Reckless & Relentless (2011)
 From Death to Destiny (2013)
 The Black (2016)
 Asking Alexandria (2017)
 Like a House on Fire (2020)

Extended plays
Life Gone Wild (2010)
Under the Influence: A Tribute to the Legends of Hard Rock (2012)

Remix albums
Stepped Up and Scratched (2011)

References

Other websites 
Official website 

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List of cities in Turkmenistan

This is a list of the main towns and cities in Turkmenistan. Some might be listed by older, Soviet-era names and spellings. 

 Abadan
 Akdepe
 Aşgabat - Capital state
 Baýramaly
 Bäherden
 Bekibent
 Bokurdak
 Bygdaili
 Burdalyk
 Çarşaňňy
 Çagyl
 Çeşme
 Darganata
 Daşoguz
 Davaly
 Deverze
 Djachev
 Ekezhe
 Ýolöten
 Ýerbent
 Esenguly
 Garryqala
 Gazandzhyk
 Gumdag
 Gyshgy
 Gyzyletrek
 Jasga
 Kaka
 Karabogazkel
 Keneurgench
 Kerki
 Kunya Urgench
 Lekker
 Mary
 Balkanabat
 Ogryda
 Repatek
 Saragt
 Serdar (Gyzylarbat)
 Shasenem
 Tagtabazar
 Tejen
 Turkmenabat (formerly Chardzhev)
 Turkmenbashi (formerly Krasnovodsk)
 Uchadzhy

Turkmenistan
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Al-Fatiha Foundation

The Al-Fatiha Foundation is an organization which advances the cause of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims. It was founded in 1997 by Faisal Alam, a Pakistani American, and is registered as a nonprofit organization in the United States. Imam Daayiee Abdullah is also a board member of the Al-Fatiha Foundation.

History

The organization grew out of an internet listserve that brought together many gay, lesbian, and questioning Muslims from 25 countries, and by 1998 had developed numerous in-person chapters. Al-Fatiha has 14 chapters in the United States, as well as offices in England, Canada, Spain, Turkey, and South Africa.

The name means "the Opening" and is shared with Al-Fatiha or the first surah of the Qur'an. In the beginning of that surah, Allah is described as compassionate and merciful; the organization's founders believe that these attributes characterize Islam, rather than hatred and homophobia.

Each year, Al-Fatiha hosts an international membership retreat and conference. Early conferences took place in Boston, New York, and London in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and focused on issues such as the reconciliation of religion and sexual orientation.

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Reagent bottle

A reagent bottle is a bottle designed to hold chemical liquids and solution for long-term storage. A reagent jar contains solid powder or crystals. Each bottle or jar is labelled with the name of the substance, details of the purity and safety precautions. Reagent jars or bottles are kept in chemical storeroom. The reagent bottle is usually made of glass but can be made from plastic.

Laboratory equipment
Jim Lampley

Jim Lampley (born April 8, 1949) is an American sportscaster, news anchor, movie producer, and restaurant owner. Lampley has covered 14 Olympic Games on U.S. television.

Lampley has announced Major League Baseball, the Indianapolis 500, college basketball, United States Football League, Super Bowl XIX, and boxing.

He has earned three Emmy awards.

Olympic Coverage

1976 Winter Olympics (play-by-play for ABC)
1976 Summer Olympics (play-by-play for ABC)
1980 Winter Olympics (play-by-play for ABC)
1984 Winter Olympics (daytime host for ABC)
1984 Summer Olympics (late-night host for ABC)
1992 Winter Olympics (coverage for KCBS-TV)
1992 Summer Olympics (late-night host for NBC)
1996 Summer Olympics (late-night host for NBC)
1998 Winter Olympics (primetime host for TNT)
2000 Summer Olympics (cable host for MSNBC)
2002 Winter Olympics (cable host for both MSNBC and CNBC)
2004 Summer Olympics (daytime host for NBC and cable host for USA Network)
2006 Winter Olympics (daytime and late-night host for NBC)
2008 Summer Olympics (daytime host for NBC)

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Bill Mazer

Bill Mazer (November 2, 1920 – October 23, 2013) was an American sportscaster. He was the host of the first sports talk radio show in history.  It started in March of 1964 on WNBC (AM).

Bill Mazer was a color commentator and a studio host for the NHL. He did play-by-play for the NFL on CBS as well as the American Basketball Association. Mazer was also one of the voices of the Milwaukee Braves of Major League Baseball. He called golf tournaments for CBS and NBC. Then he was a sports anchor for WNEW-TV for almost twenty years. He was a host for Sports Extra teaming up with Lee Leonard.

He filled in for Hugh Downs on the game show Concentration. Then he was given his own show, Reach for the Stars. However, the show was quickly canceled. During the 1960s and 1970s, Mazer did much voice-over commercial work, from L&M Cigarettes, Kodak, Ford automobiles to Trident chewing gum, among many others.

Mazer won three National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association's Sportscaster of the Year awards for New York from 1964–66. Mazer was inducted into the hall of fame for both the Buffalo Broadcasters Association (1999) and the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum (1997).

Mazer died on October 23, 2013 from unknown causes at a hospital in Danbury, Connecticut, aged 92.

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Jim McKay

James Kenneth McManus (September 24, 1921 – June 7, 2008), better known by his professional name of Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist.

McKay is best known for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961–1998). He covered 12 Olympic Games. He earned respect for his memorable reporting on the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

McKay covered a wide variety of special events, including horse races such as the Kentucky Derby, golf events such as the British Open, and the Indianapolis 500.

Honors
McKay won many awards for journalism and auto racing. McKay won the George Polk Award for his sports and news coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics.
McKay won over twelve Emmy Awards in his lifetime.
In 1987, McKay was inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame. 
In 1988, McKay was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.
In 1993, TV Guide named McKay the best sportscaster of the 1970s. 
McKay was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame during its 11th induction.
He was selected as the first Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism recipient in 2002.
The NBC broadcast of the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony was dedicated to McKay, per a message at the closing of the broadcast.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has dedicated a scholarship for college athletes for postgraduate study in McKay's honor.

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Brent Musburger

Brent Musburger (born May 26, 1939) is an American sportscaster. He began nationally as a sportscaster with CBS. Musburger currently works for ABCSports and ESPN. He calls play-by-play on a variety of sports. These include baseball, football, basketball, tennis and golf. He has been a studio host for broadcasts of Soccer, cycling, auto racing and horse racing.

Life
Musberger was born on May 26, 1939 in Portland, Oregon. Musberger was raised in Billings, Montana and in Chicago, Illinois. He studied at Northwestern University. He has been married to Arlene Clare Sander since 1963. They have three children. He made the voice of Brent Mustanberger in Cars 2 and in Planes.

Works
Musburger's career began during the 1970s and later would announce formally with CBS until 1990. He currently works for ABC Sports and ESPN.
Here are his jobs:

References

Other websites
 ESPN profile
 

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