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The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London. It holds a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was the first portrait gallery in the world when it opened in 1856.  The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, next to the National Gallery. It has been expanded twice since then. The National Portrait Gallery also has three regional outposts. It is not connected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. The NPG is a quango sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The collection. The gallery houses portraits of historically important and famous British people, selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, such as royalty, not that of the artist. The collection includes photographs and caricatures as well as paintings, drawings and sculpture.  One of its best-known images is the 'Chandos portrait', the most famous portrait of William Shakespeare although there is some uncertainty about whether the painting actually is of the playwright. Not all of the portraits are exceptional artistically, although there are self-portraits by William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds and other British artists of note. Some, such as the group portrait of the participants in the Somerset House Conference of 1604, are important historical documents in their own right. Often, the curiosity value is greater than the artistic worth of a work, as in the case of the portrait of Edward VI by William Scrots, Patrick Brontë's painting of his sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne, or a sculpture of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in medieval costume. Portraits of living figures were allowed from 1969.  In addition to its permanent galleries of historical portraits, the National Portrait Gallery exhibits a rapidly changing collection of contemporary work, stages exhibitions of portrait art by individual artists and hosts the annual BP Portrait Prize competition. The Gallery has many portrait busts by sculptors. The sculptors are mostly British or resident in Britain, and the subjects are British. Sculptors include poineers of modern sculpture such as Sir Jacob Epstein (14 examples), Dame Elizabeth Frink (5 examples), Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (four self-portrait busts).
Matthew Todd "Matt" Nolan (born July 8, 1970) is an American Actor and voice actor. Best known for "Peter Genco" in Oscar Winning Best Picture, ARGO. Vice (2018) Directed by Adam McKay. Only the Brave (2017), Directed by Joseph Kosinski. Jersey Boys (2014), Directed by Clint Eastwood. Stolen (2012), Directed by Simon West. Television Credits include; NCIS (2018) Love (2018), The Librarians (2014), 2 Broke Girls (2013), Grimm (2015). Voice Over in Features, Animation, Commercials, Video Games; including FROZEN II (2019) Black Panther (2018), Deadpool 2 (2018), The Avengers (2012), Deadpool (2016), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). He also has worked on Disney Animated Series AMERICAN DRAGON: JAKE LONG, Nickelodeon's PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR. Video Games include CALL OF DUTY, HALO, and MADAGASCAR.  Also played Dustin in The Rookie, Season 4, Episode 20.
Bank of America is a multinational bank group. Its headquarters is in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company has 5,600 branches in over 150 countries. It is the fifth largest company in the United States. It is one of the "Big Four" Banks in the United States. It manages about 10.73% of all money put into banks. It directly competes with other big banks, like as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo. Several of the banks which became Bank of America were involved in the slave trade. Bank of Italy. Bank of America was created in October 17, 1904. However, it was not called Bank of America yet. It was called Bank of Italy. Bank of Italy was created by Amadeo Pietro Giannini in San Francisco. A different bank, which was called Bank of America, was created in 1922, in Los Angeles. In 1928, the two banks merged with other banks, and created another bank, also called Bank of Italy. In November 3, 1930, the bank's name was changed into Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association. Afterwards, they merged with many more banks (such as Banca d'America e d'Italia, Bancitaly Corporation, and many more banks).
Daydreaming is a short-term detachment from one's immediate surroundings. During a daydream, a person's contact with reality is blurred. External reality is second to a visionary fantasy. There are many types of daydreams, and there is no agreed definition. However, the characteristic that is common to all forms of daydreaming is a mild separation from the person's surroundings. Daydreams are under conscious control, so they differ from dreams, but they do have a kind of dream-like fantasy quality. Although daydreaming in children may be frowned upon by parents and teachers, it seems quite normal. There is evidence which suggests daydreaming is associated with mental health and stability.
Charles Koppelman (March 30, 1940 – November 25, 2022) was the chairman of EMI Records, an American recording label. He was once a chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Currently, he is the CEO of CAK Entertainment.
Jon Ferguson Mohr (born August 23, 1970) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and radio host. He played Marty in "Are We There Yet?" (soon replaced by Christian Finnegan) and voiced Paulie in "Paulie".
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. in 2024 Apple now redesigned Siri with apple intelligence and works operating systems Including iOS, MacOS, WatchOS, HomePod, iPadOS, Vision OS, Audio OS and TV OS. A similar system is built into Android (Google Assistant), Samsung (Bixby)
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:
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 to 1909. Finlay died from heart failure caused by pneumonia in his home in Havana, Cuba.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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. He died in San Diego California from cardiac arrest 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.
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:  Movies. Gowdy made cameo appearances in the movies "" (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.
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.
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&amp;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.
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.
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:
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
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.
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.