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Teen drama is used to refer to either movies, or TV series, where many of the important characters are teenagers. These kinds of series first started in the 1980s, with serials such as Degrassi Junior High. A TV series that was successful satarting with the 1990s was Beverly Hills, 90210. The target audience for teen dramas are usually teenagers, and young adults. Very often, the themes covered include issues that are important to this group, such as the first love, teenage pregnancy, abortion, but also homelessness, and addiction to drugs or alcohol.
Charlotte Delavelle was a French swimmer from Paris. As a member of Mouettes de Paris she competed in the 1900s, in the earliest women's French aquatics history. In 1908 she finished third at the World Championships. Biography. Her earliest swimming achievement was on 16 May 1908. She finished third place at the annual CNP swimming festival. On 9 August she finished third in the 60 metre event at the "Fête de la Villette" and she finished again third in the 100 metre race at the "Joinville-le-Pont" meeting. In August, the sixth edition of the FSAPF world championships, organized by "L'Auto" was held in Bois de Boulogne. On the second day, the Prix Femina was held over 100 meters in the waters of the Seine. Delavelle finished in this race third behind Jeanne Decorne and Eugenia Decorne. Delavelle competed in several races in 1909 and 1911. Her last achievement was on 13 April 1912 after finishing second in a handicap-style race at the UFN festival.
The sprite melon is a kind of melon. It's similar to honeydew and it comes from Japan. Since the late 1990s it has been grown in North Carolina. Sprite melons are round and are about as big as a grapefruit. They are usually eaten for dessert and it tastes similar to pears and honeydew. Sprite melons have seeds. The melon is a part of the family Cucurbitaceae, with cucumbers, gourds, and pumpkins.
Tim O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War. Much of his writing is about wartime Vietnam, and his work later in life often explores the postwar lives of its veterans. O'Brien is perhaps best known for his book "The Things They Carried" (1990), a collection of linked semi-autobiographical stories inspired by his wartime experiences. In 2010, "The New York Times" described it as "a classic of contemporary war fiction." O'Brien wrote the war novel, "Going After Cacciato" (1978), which was awarded the National Book Award. O'Brien taught creative writing, holding the endowed chair at the MFA program of Texas State University–San Marcos every other academic year from 2003 to 2012. Biography. Early life. Tim O'Brien was born in Austin, Minnesota on October 1, 1946, the son of William Timothy O'Brien and Ava Eleanor Schultz O'Brien. When he was ten, his family – including a younger brother and sister – moved to Worthington, Minnesota. Worthington had a large influence on O’Brien's imagination and his early development as an author. The town is on Lake Okabena in the southwestern part of the state and serves as the setting for some of his stories, especially those in "The Things They Carried". Military service. O'Brien earned his BA in 1968 in political science from Macalester College, where he was student body president. That same year he was drafted into the United States Army and was sent to Vietnam, where he served from 1969 to 1970 in 3rd Platoon, Company A, 5th Battalion, 46th Infantry Regiment, part of the 23rd Infantry Division (the Americal Division) that contained the unit that perpetrated the My Lai Massacre the year before his arrival. O'Brien has said that when his unit got to the area around My Lai (referred to as "Pinkville" by the U.S. forces), "we all wondered why the place was so hostile. We did not know there had been a massacre there
Watch the Throne is a collaborative studio album by American rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z. It was released on August 8, 2011. The album has 7 singles. All 7 of those singles have music videos. They originally planned to make a five-single EP. But soon after that, that project evolved to a seven-single studio album. The album features guest appearances from Frank Ocean, The-Dream, Beyoncé, and Mr Hudson. It also features samples of vocals by soul musicians Otis Redding and Curtis Mayfield. Many critics and publicators named "Watch the Throne" to their year-end best-of lists. A few notable examples are The Rolling Stone" and The Washington Post. The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. This is because the album sold 436,000 copies in the first week. It also broke the iTunes first week sales record at the same time. Because of this, it was the fourth top selling album on iTunes in 2011. It also reached the top 10 in a few countries. Examples are Canada and the United Kingdom. It was also certified quintuple platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in November 2020. Next Kanye West album is Yeezus Track listing. Total length:46:12 Deluxe edition (bonus tracks). 13. "Illest Motherfucker Alive" (8:23) 14. "H.A.M. (4:35) 15. "Primetime" (3:19) 16. "The Joy" (featuring Curtis Mayfield) (5:17) Total length:64:37
Gloria Hallelujah Woods (born July 28, 1999), better known as GloRilla, is an American rapper. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2022, her song "F.N.F. (Let's Go)" (with producer Hitkidd) was nominated for Best Rap Performance at 65th Annual Grammy Awards.
Movietone News is a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States. It was also in France and in Australia and New Zealand until 1970. It was in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986 as British Movietone News. In Germany, it was Fox Tönende Wochenschau. History. Movietone News started from an earlier newsreel called Fox News. It made silent newsreels. When Fox started making movies with sound in 1928 with "Mother Knows Best", the name Fox Movietone was used for Fox's sound movies. Fox Films joined with 20th Century Pictures in 1935 to become 20th Century-Fox. Fox Movietone News was shortened to Movietone News. In Australia, Movietone and Cinesound competed for newsreel coverage. Later, they joined and became the Australian Movie Magazine. Status and licensing. The University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections has some of the Fox Movietone newsreel collection. Fox News Channel has the rest. Licensing for Fox Movietone newsreels owned by the University of South Carolina is handled by the Moving Image Research Collections. Licensing for Fox Movietone News is still owned by Fox Corporation and handled by Fox News Channel. British Movietone is owned by British Movietonews Ltd. In 2016, the British Movietone archive had been acquired by Associated Press. The Movietone News Australia archive was given to the National Film and Sound Archive in 1988. Archive. The Academy Film Archive has the 20th Century Fox Movietone Shorts and Documentaries Series Collection. In 2015, British Movietone and Associated Press's archival footage was put on YouTube.
Blåhaj (stylized BLÅHAJ, , ; also pronounced , or in English) is a plush toy of a blue shark made and sold by the Swedish company IKEA. It has been used as an official mascot in some countries. Properties. There are and versions. It is stuffed with recycled polyester. It can be machine-washed at 40 °C (104 °F). Culture. In 2018, Blåhaj became a popular internet meme when social media users posted humorous photos of it in their homes. It became popular with LGBT (particularly transgender) individuals due to its similar colors to the transgender flag. It was thought IKEA acknowledged this by using it in an series of advertisements supporting the 2021 Swiss same-sex marriage referendum. In September 2021, when customers asked about the toy, it was announced to be no longer be sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland from April 2022 due to supply issues, which did not happen. "Blåhaj" trended on social media for several days, as fans said it was becoming "extinct". A similar response happened when it was used to demonstrate vacuum bags in some stores in Hong Kong. However, it was announced it would still be sold in the United States. In early 2022, Blåhaj plushes started to be made in Indonesia. Blåhaj is popular in some countries. Blåhaj shopping bags are sold in Taiwan and Malaysia. Blåhaj has also been used in advertisements, such as for tiny apartments in Japan (as a real estate agent) and Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui branch, which was nicknamed "Tsim Shark Tsui". Colored Blåhaj-shaped red bean and sesame filled buns were sold for a limited time in Malaysia and Taiwan respectively. In November 2022, IKEA Canada gave transgender individuals a transgender flag-colored Blåhaj with their name embroidered on its fin. It was once seen briefly in the Marvel Studios television series "Hawkeye".
Khoisan languages is the name for a group of languages that are spoken in Southern Africa. All of these languages have click consonants, and they are not part of the Niger–Congo languages, the Nilo-Saharan languages, or the Afroasiatic languages. These languages are not in one common language family, there are at least three such families. There are also some language isolates on the territory where Khoisan languages can be found. It is not possible to construct or find a language that is the common ancestor of the other languages. The San, Khoekhoe, Damara, Nama, as well as the Hadza and Sandawe are all speakers of Khoisan languages. Many of these languages only have very few speakers, or they have become extinct. Many are only spoken, and not written. The only widespread Khoisan language is Khoekhoe (also known as Khoekhoegowab, Nàmá or Damara) of Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, with a quarter of a million speakers; Sandawe in Tanzania is second in number with some 40–80,000, some monolingual; and the ǃKung language of the northern Kalahari spoken by some 16,000 or so people. Language use is quite strong among the 20,000 speakers of Naro, in Botswana and in eastern Namibia, half of whom speak it as a second language.
Zurg is a fictional character created for the movie Toy Story and is the enemy of Buzz Lightyear.  Role in Toy Story. Buzz Lightyear is a toy but thinks he’s a real superhero trying to stop an evil emperor named Zurg from destroying the Galactic Alliance. Buzz says that Zurg wants to create a weapon that can destroy an entire planet. Role in Toy Story 2. In Toy Story 2, Zurg is played by Andrew Stanton. Zurg is introduced in a Buzz Lightyear video game where Zurg kills Buzz but it turns out it is only a video game. Later on, a toy Zurg believes he’s actually an evil emperor and fights Buzz Lightyear. When Buzz says he won’t give up because Zurg killed Buzz’s father, Zurg says he is Buzz’s father. After Zurg falls out of an elevator and gets amnesia, then Zurg remembers he’s Buzz’s father and plays catch with him. Role in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins. In the movie , Zurg pays Buzz’s friend Warp Darkmatter to become a supervillain called Agent Z, invades a planet, steals something called the Unimind and turns it into a mind control weapon that he uses to enslave every planet in the Universe but Buzz Lightyear beats Zurg and Zurg runs away. Zurg is played by Stephen Knight.  Role in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Zurg is the main villain of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and is in most episodes. The episode Stranger Invasion reveals that Zurg was lying when he said he was Buzz’s father. Role in Toy Story 3. Zurg has a cameo appearance in Toy Story 3. Role in Lightyear. In the movie Lightyear, Zurg is played by James Brolin. Zurg turns to be an evil version of Buzz Lightyear who came from the future using time travel.
Australian Light Horse were mounted troops similar to both cavalry and mounted infantry. They fought in the Second Boer War and World War I. By the outbreak of World War I, there were 23 light horse regiments within Australia's part-time military force, consisting of 9,000 personnel. These were organised as follows: World War I. Formation and organisation. Light horse were like mounted infantry. They usually fought on foot. They used their horses as transport to the battlefield. A famous exception to this rule though was the charge of the 4th and 12th Light Horse Regiments at Beersheba on 31 October 1917. In 1918, some light horse regiments were equipped with sabres, so they could fight in a conventional cavalry role in the attack on Damascus.  Popular culture. Movies. Several movies include the charge at Beersheba in 1917: References. Citations
Beauty Behind the Madness is the second studio album by the Weeknd. The Weeknd is a Canadian singer. The album was released on August 28, 2015. It was released by XO and Republic Records. Other musicians are on the album, such as Lana Del Rey, Ed Sheeran, and Labrinth. The album had five singles. Two of them went to the number one spot on the "Billboard" Hot 100 (an American music chart). These were "The Hills" and "Can't Feel My Face". The album also has a song that was nominated for an Academy Award. This song is named "Earned It". It was in the movie "Fifty Shades of Grey". Many critics liked "Beauty Behind the Madness". It went to number one on album charts in many countries. It was the Weeknd's first number one album in the United States. It was one of the best-selling albums of 2015. It sold over 1 million copies. It won a Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album. Background. The Weeknd's first studio album was released in 2013. It was named "Kiss Land". After making it, the Weeknd made music for movie soundtracks. He was on the soundtrack for "" (2013). He also made the songs "Earned It" and "Where You Belong" for "Fifty Shades of Grey" (2015). "Earned It" went into the number three spot on the "Billboard" Hot 100. On July 5, 2015, Ed Sheeran said he worked with the Weeknd on the album. He also said Kanye West worked on it. The Weeknd revealed the album's name on July 9. He also showed art made for it. Track listing. Notes
"The Hills" is a song by the Weeknd. The Weeknd is a Canadian singer. The song was released on May 27, 2015. It was released as a single. It is the second single from "Beauty Behind the Madness" (2015). The single was very successful. The song went to number one on Canada's music chart. It also went to number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100. It was number one the week after "Can't Feel My Face". This is another song by the Weeknd. It went into the top ten on music charts in many other countries. The song has a music video. The video was released on the same day as the single. There are 2 remixes, one with the rapper Eminem and the other with rapper Nicki Minaj. "The Hills" was certified diamond by the RIAA. It gave the Weeknd his first diamond certification. Track listing. The single was released digitally. There were also remixes of the single.
Penumatsa Venkata Ramaraju, popularly known by his name PVR Raja (born 1 June 1985) is an Indian music composer, record producer and guitarist. He mainly works in Telugu cinema. He is nicknamed "Short films Maestro" and "Ilaiyaraaja of Short films". He entered the "India Book of Records" for composing the most number of short Telugu films. Raja has composed music for the films "Vitamin She" (2020) and "Madhi" (2022). Career. He has predominantly composed music over 250 digital short films and Independent films from 2013 to present in English, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi languages.
"Summertime Sadness" is a pop/trip hop song by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey. It is from her second studio album, "Born to Die" (2012). It was released on June 22, 2012. In the spring of 2013, it reached number one in Poland, Ukraine, and Armenia. It also reached the top 10 in 6 european countries. Trap and House remixes of the song helped Del Rey break into the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart. That chart is where the song became a modest hit. Because of this, the single gave Del Rey her first US number-one single in August 2013. There was a remix of the song by Cedric Gervais in the summer of 2013. It was released to American contemporary hit radio during the same time the remix was released. Because of this, it helped the single become a sleeper hit. The song's lyrics according to Lana are about a good friend of hers who died by his own hand and she is sad this summer as he is gone and summer is in full bloom.
Joris Duytschaever (16 March 1944 – January 2023) was a Belgian academic. He was professor in English literature at the University Institution Antwerp. Biography. Duytschaever was born in Merksem in 1944. He studied Germanic philology at the Ghent University He obtained his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He teached in Dutch literature at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Indiana University in the United States. He started working at the University Institution Antwerp in 1972 where he became professor in the English literature. He was guest professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977 and at the University of Georgia in 1985. Duytschaever was coordinator of the European Studies Program for American students. Duytschaever also ensured cooperation with the "Faculté des Lettres" of the university in the Moroccan capital Rabat. Duytschaever published on Alfred Döblin, Hugo Claus, Simon Vestdijk, Hella Haasse and various English-language authors including James Joyce and William Faulkner. He translated of Edmund Husserl from 1977. He published on the of Hugo Claus. He was director of the "Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire". Together with Geert Lernout he was editor of "History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Literature". He was from 1987 co-editor of "Post-war Literatures in English. A Lexicon of contemporary Authors". Duytschaever was also editor of the literary magazine .  Duytschaever had Parkinson He died in January 2023, at the age of 78.
Seán Cullen (born August 29, 1965) is a Canadian actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for combining improvisation with mimicry and music. He is known for providing voices of characters in shows like "Best Ed", "Seven Little Monsters," and "Almost Naked Animals". Cullen was born on August 29, 1965 in Peterborough, Ontario. He studied at the Saint Bonaventure University. He is married to Kimberley Temple and currently lives in Toronto, Canada.
Carrot juice is juice made from carrots. Nutritional information. 100 grams of canned carrot juice contains the following nutritional information according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA):
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American poet. He was closely connected to the modernist movement. He attended Harvard University. He received a degree from New York Law School in 1903. He practiced law for a number of offices and companies until 1916. In 1916, he got a job with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. He worked for this insurance company for the rest of his life. While he worked in his business life, he also worked at writing poetry. He became friends with many other poets, such as William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and E. E. Cummings. In 1914 and 1915, he wrote poems that are now well-known such as "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock," and "Sunday Morning." "Harmonium", his first book of poems, came out in 1923. That book had other poems that are now famous, like “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," and “The Emperor of Ice-Cream." Stevens often wrote very long poems. "The Man with the Blue Guitar" (1937) had 33 parts. In poems like this and many others, Stevens talked about the power of imagination to change ordinary life.
Angus MacLane is an American director, cartoonist and screenwriter who was one of the directors of Finding Dory and who also wrote and directed the movie Lightyear. It known for working at Pixar (1997–2023), and DreamWorks Animation (2024–present).
Khorasan Wars were a series of battles that took place in the early 1580s in the cities of Mashhad, Nishapur, Torbat Heydarieh and other regions of Khorasan. These wars broke out due to the challenges between the "Shamlu" and "Stajalu" clans (supporting Abbas the Great) and the "Teklo" and "Turkmen" (supporting king Mohammad Khodabandeh) clans. Khorasan conflicts were a beginning to the coming to power of Abbas the Great and his kingdom. Abbas Mirza (later title: Abbas the Great) fought with Ali Qali Beg Gurkan Shamlu in Khorasan wars, the siege of Neishabur Castle, the siege of Torbat Castle and the Battle of Tirpul against his father king Muhammad Khodabande (current king).
Edna Thomas (November 1, 1885 – July 22, 1974) was an American stage actress. She is most famous for her acting in the Federal Theater Project's theater in Harlem, New York, United States. That theater group was part of the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. She played Lady Macbeth in a very popular production of the play "MacBeth". Thomas also appeared in the 1951 movie "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Elizabeth S. Greene (born December 2nd, 1970) is a North American archaeologist. In 2023, she became the president of the Archaeological Institute of America. She was First Vice President (2020-2023). Before that, she was the institute's Vice President for Cultural Heritage (2017-2020).  Her specialty is in underwater archaeology ("maritime archaeology"). Her geographical and cultural special area is the Classics. Greene led a team of divers to study harbors in Turkey. She did this work with Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey and Stanford University, California. She and her team also worked with Institute of Nautical Archaeology and the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Bodrum, Turkey. Greene got her PhD from Princeton University. Greene won the Marilyn Robinson Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2014-15 at Western University. She is a full professor of Classics and archaeology at Brock University in Canada. Greene researches seaborne mobility and interaction across the Mediterranean. Her work uses physical remains to show how trade, fishing, communities, and human migration happened over long periods of time. She has said, "'We look for stories that are told, not just written text but through oral traditions, through art, through painting and the sources that we don't always see.'"