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A prion disease (also called transmissible spongiform encephalopathy) is a disease which is caused by prions. Prions are structurally altered versions of small proteins that are normally expressed in cells. Unlike diseases that are caused by gene mutations resulting in the expression of a mutant protein, prions are able to replicate and transmit diseases through physical contact with normal proteins. This causes a protein's structure to change from the normal state to the prion state.  Unlike bacteria, prions are not considered to be alive because they do not have their own metabolism, they do not possess genes and cannot naturally reproduce outside a host cell. Prion diseases are very rare, and no treatment is available for most of them. There is no cure for prion diseases, and they will always result in death. Almost all of the known prion diseases are neurologic diseases. There are two common signs which are seen in typical prion diseases: Prion diseases. Few types of prion diseases are known. The most important ones are: Prion diseases are very rare. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease makes up about 85% of the cases, but there are about 1 to 1.5 cases per one million people per year.
Help! is a 1965 movie starring The Beatles, and also the name of the movie's theme song, and of its soundtrack album. The movie was directed by Richard Lester, the same as their first movie, "A Hard Day's Night". While "A Hard Day's Night" was filmed in black-and-white, "Help!" was in color. George Martin produced the Beatles's songs for the album, and all their recordings for the movie. Movie. "Help!" is a fantasy story, that makes fun of spy movies, which were popular at the time. A religious cult has lost a special ring, worn by people they plan to sacrifice to their goddess, Kaili. It turns out one of their members sent the ring to Ringo Starr (drummer for the Beatles, who loved to wear rings). When the cult finds out, they try to capture Ringo, and either sacrifice him to Kaili or get their ring back. He tries to give it back, but the ring will not come off his finger. The other Beatles try to help, but also end up in danger. A defector (quitter) from the cult tries different ways to remove the ring, and a scientist also tries to steal it. Scotland Yard hides the Beatles at Buckingham Palace, but the cult even sneaks in there. The band escapes to the Bahamas in disguise, but are followed. Tired of running, the Beatles finally face down the cultists. The movie's co-stars were Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Roy Kinnear, and Victor Spinetti. Spinetti also appeared in "A Hard Day's Night", and later in "Magical Mystery Tour". The movie was going to be called "Eight Arms to Hold You", but the title was changed when John Lennon wrote a song titled "Help!" that suited the movie's theme. "Help!" was filmed partly in England, partly in Austria, and partly in the Bahamas. The Beatles started a company in the Bahamas, as a tax shelter, but it did not work out. While they were filming, a Hindu believer gave each Beatle a book about reincarnation. George Harrison resonated very strongly with Hindu ideas and beliefs, and
The Musée Maritime, Fluvial et Portuaire de Rouen (English: Maritime, Fluvial and Harbor Museum of Rouen) is a museum in France. It is about the history of the port of Rouen, which is one the greatest ports of France. The main themes are: It is possible to see a 38 meter long barge which can be visited, trawler and barge motors and a whale skeleton. The museum is in a former hangar of the port, not far from the new bridge.
Echternach () is a commune in eastern Luxembourg, capital of the Echternach canton. It is the oldest town with city rights in Luxembourg. History. The town grew around the walls of the Abbey of Echternach, which was founded in 698 by St. Willibrord, an English monk from Ripon, Northumbria (in present-day North Yorkshire, England), who became the first bishop of Utrecht and worked to Christianize the Frisians. The abbey were closed during the French revolution in 1797. Echternach was given city rights in the year 1236. Geography. Echternach is in the east of the country near the border with Germany, on the banks of the Saar River. The "commune" has an area of . The altitude is high. At the city hall, the altitude is high. Echternach is surrounded by four "communes" of Luxembourg: Rosport to the east and south, Bech to the southwest, and Berdorf and Consdorf to the west. To the north, the "commune" borders the Echternacherbrück municipality of the Bitburg-Prüm district in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate; and to the northwest the Bollendorf municipality, also in the Bitburg-Prüm district of the Rhineland-Palatinate. Population. There were 5,530 persons living in the "commune" in 2017, for a population density of inhabitants/km². Evolution of the population in Echternach
Breast cancer is cancer in the breast. Statistics. Breast cancer is the fifth-most common cause of cancer death in the world. The first four are lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, and colon cancer. In 2005, breast cancer caused 502,000 deaths (7% of cancer deaths; almost 1% of all deaths) in the world. Among all women in the world, breast cancer is the most common cancer. In the United States, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and the second most common cause of cancer death in women (after lung cancer). In 2007, breast cancer caused about 40,910 deaths (7% of cancer deaths; almost 2% of all deaths) in the U.S. Women in the United States have a 1 in 8 chance of getting breast cancer in their lives. They have a 1 in 33 chance of death from breast cancer. There are many more people getting breast cancer since the 1970s. This is because of how people in the Western world live. Because the breast is composed of identical tissues in males and females, breast cancer also occurs in males, though it is less common. Treatment. When a person gets breast cancer, they can try to cure it in three ways. Doctors can cut out the cancer (mastectomy or lumpectomy). They can give the person drugs (chemotherapy). They can also try to kill the cancer with energy (radiation). If one cure does not work, they may need to try another. Who is mainly affected by breast cancer? The most common cancer among women is breast cancer, followed by skin cancer. It’s most likely to affect women over the age of 50. Breast cancer can also occur in men, although it is rare. Approximately 2,600 men are diagnosed with male breast cancer every year in the United States, making up less than 1% of all cases. Breast cancer is more prevalent in transgender women than in cisgender men. Furthermore, transgender men are less likely to develop breast cancer than cisgender women.
Cue sports are games played with balls on a table. The table has rubber around the sides (called "cushions") around it to keep the balls on the table. It has cloth on it. Two or more people use sticks (called cues) to make one ball (the cue ball) hit other balls. There are lots of different cue sports. These include billiards, pool and snooker. "Pool" is also sometimes called "pocket billiards". The aim is to use the cue ball to knock other balls into "pockets" (called "potting"). These pockets are holes cut into the rubber cushions. When balls go into the pockets they drop down into nets. There are many different pool games. In "eight-ball", players must pot their eight balls before their opponent. In "nine-ball" the balls are numbered. They must be potted in numbered order. In "straight pool" players must pot a certain amount of balls.  "Billiards" is usually played with three balls, uses a table without pockets. The goal is to use the cue ball to hit one of the other two balls, then hit one or more of the cushions, and finally hit the second other ball. This is called a "carom". There are different billiards games. "English Billiards" is similar to the carom game, but the table has pockets. "Snooker", which is similar to pool, is played on a large (6 foot wide by 12 foot long) table, with small balls and small pockets, making the game very challenging. Snooker also uses more balls than pool.
Cheryl Sarkisian, better known as Cher (born May 20, 1946), is an American singer, actress and television star. She is often called the "Goddess of Pop". Cher became famous in 1965 as part of the singing duo Sonny &amp; Cher. She also became a solo singer and had hit songs like "Bang Bang", "Gypsys, Tramps &amp; Thieves", "Half-Breed" and "Dark Lady". In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she had more hit songs like "If I Could Turn Back Time" and "The Shoop Shoop Song". Cher's song "Believe" used Auto-Tune in a new way, which became known as the "Cher effect". It was the best-selling single of 1999 in the US and the UK. She kept releasing music in the 2000s and 2010s. "Closer to the Truth" (2013) and "Dancing Queen" (2018) were big successes in the United States. In the 1970s, Cher was also a popular TV star. Later, she acted in many movies. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the movie "Moonstruck". She also acted in "Silkwood", "Mask", "The Witches of Eastwick", "Mermaids", "Burlesque" and "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again". Cher is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She has sold over 100 million records. She is the only solo artist with number-one songs on the "Billboard" charts in seven different decades, from the 1960s to the 2020s. She has won many awards, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. She was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her 2002–2005 tour earned $250 million and was the most successful tour by a female artist at that time. Cher also supports causes like HIV/AIDS prevention and rights for LGBTQ people.
Frunzik (Mher) Mkrtchyan (July 4, 1930 – December 29, 1993) was a popular Soviet Armenian actor who was named a People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1984. Life. Even though he was a comedian, Frunzik's personal life was very sad. His first wife, Donara Mkrtchyan, became mentally ill and was sent to a mental institution for the rest of her life and Frunzik became a single parent of two young kids. His son inherited his mother’s mental illness and, according to people close to Frunzik, he suffered from severe depression in the last few years of his life, and became a heavy alcoholic. In 1993, his brother found him lying dead in his home in Yerevan. Thousands of people attended his funeral.
Yuzu () is a Japanese popular music duo. Its members are Kitagawa Yujin () and Iwasawa Kouji (). Both of the band members come from Yokohama in the Kanagawa Prefecture. At first, they sung on the street in Yokohama. They have known each other since they were small children. They are famous for their concerts in front of the department store, "Matsuzakaya" in Isezakicyo in Yokohama. They officially debuted in 1997. The first CD was 'Yuzu no Moto'.
Pestilence is a word that is used for any highly infectious disease that can cause an epidemic or even a pandemic. It is commonly used for parasites too, but only when they cause large scale sickness or death, such as the Guinea worm. The word meant the disease plague, which is called "pestis" in Latin. It was used for the Black Death as well, an epidemic of the 14th century that killed Millions of people in Europe.
A pandemic (from Greek παν "pan" all + δήμος "demos" people) is an epidemic (an outbreak of an infectious disease) that spreads across a large region (like a continent), or even worldwide. Common killers and pandemics. According to the World Health Organization, a pandemic exists when three conditions have been met: A disease or condition is not a pandemic merely because it is widespread or kills many people. It must also be infectious. For example, cancer causes many deaths, but it is not a pandemic because it is usually not infectious. World Health Organization pandemic phases. The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a plan to prepare the global fight against influenza. It defines the stages of a pandemic and makes recommendations about what countries should do before and during a pandemic. The phases are: Interpandemic period: Pandemic alert period: Pandemic period:
Training means learning to "do" something. It includes practicing skills. The term is used for learning to do jobs, or play games. Examples: Training means changing behavior through learning new requirements and methods. Its effect is measured by testing to see if the behavior has been successfully changed. Follow-up sessions may be repeated until the desired behavior has been achieved. Exercise may or may not be part of training. When it is, it is called physical training. It is specific and done to improve one's capability, capacity, and performance; see, e.g., strength training or flexibility training. Other websites.
Demi Moore (born November 11, 1962 as Demi Gene Guynes) is an American actress. She became well known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood. She is best known for her roles in "Ghost", "A Few Good Men", "Disclosure", "Indecent Proposal", and "G.I. Jane". In 2025, Moore won a Golden Globe Award for her role as Elisabeth Sparkle in "The Substance". She has been married to musician Freddy Moore and actors Bruce Willis and Ashton Kutcher. All her marriages ended in divorce. She has three daughters by Willis: Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah. She dated Tobey Maguire in 2002 to 2003. She has French origins.
Fergie Duhamel (born Stacy Ann Ferguson; March 27, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, fashion designer, television host, and former dancer. She is a former member of the kids' TV series "Kids Incorporated", and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ferguson was also a co-host of the TV series "Great Pretenders". She was also in the movie "Nine." She was a vocalist for the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas and is a solo artist. She released her debut solo album, "The Dutchess", in 2006. Her second solo album, "Double Dutchess", was released in 2017 through her own label, Dutchess. She has achieved three number-one singles on the "Billboard" Hot 100: "London Bridge", "Glamorous", and "Big Girls Don't Cry". Early life. Ferguson was born in Hacienda Heights, California. She is the daughter of devout Roman Catholic school teachers Theresa Ann (née Gore) and Jon Patrick Ferguson. Her ancestry includes Irish, Scottish, English, Mexican (from a great-grandmother) and Native American. She was raised Roman Catholic. She attended Mesa Robles Middle School and Glen A. Wilson High School. She was a cheerleader, straight-A student and spelling bee champion, as well as a Girl Scout. Her great-great-great-grandfather John Ribton was the Archdeacon of Achonry. Her great-great-granduncle John Ellard Gore was an astronomer. Singing career. She has a contralto vocal range. In 2018, at the NBA All-Star Game, Fergie sang a jazz/swing version of "The Star-Spangled Banner". Critics panned her performance, but she apologized and claimed she was trying a new style. Personal life. On January 10, 2009, she married actor Josh Duhamel. Fergie and Duhamel are both Catholic. Their son, Axl Jack Duhamel, was born on August 29, 2013. In 2017, Fergie announced that she and Duhamel were divorcing. In 2017, Fergie left the hip hop group the Black Eyed Peas to focus on her solo career.
Rupert Everett (Rupert James Hector Everett, born 29 May 1959) is an English actor, singer and writer. He became famous when he appeared in Julian Mitchell's play and movie "Another Country" playing an openly homosexual student at an English public school in the 1930s. He has since appeared in many other works, including "My Best Friend's Wedding", "The Next Best Thing" and the "Shrek" sequels. Everett left school at 16 and ran away to London to become an actor. In order to support himself, he worked as a prostitute for drugs and money—he disclosed this information in an interview for "US" magazine in 1997. After being dismissed from the Central School of Speech and Drama, he travelled to Scotland and got a job at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. In the 21st century, Everett has been writing. He has been a "Vanity Fair" contributing editor, has written for "The Guardian" and wrote a film screenplay on playwright Oscar Wilde's final years. In 2006 Everett published a memoir, "Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins", in which he reveals his six-year affair with British television presenter Paula Yates. Although he is sometimes described as bisexual, as opposed to homosexual, he described his heterosexual affairs during a radio show with Jonathan Ross as the result of adventurousness: "I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything". Everett criticised the introduction of same-sex marriage, claiming, "I find it personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this institution that is so clearly a disaster".
Shiri Maymon (born 17 May 1981 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli (pop) singer. She represented her country in Eurovision Song Contest 2005 where she reached the final.
Robert Michael Schneider (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director. Early life. Schneider was born in San Francisco, California and grew up in the nearby suburb of Pacifica. He is the son of Jewish-American real estate broker Marvin Schneider, and Pilar, a former kindergarten teacher and ex-school board president; his grandfather on his mother's side of the family was a European American soldier and his grandmother on the same side of the family was a Filipina. Schneider graduated from Terra Nova High School in 1982. Career. After becoming a famous stand-up comedian and expert at NBC sketch comedy series "Saturday Night Live", Schneider now has a career in movies, including main roles in the comedies ', ', "The Animal" and "The Hot Chick".
Carolina Evelyn Klüft (born February 2, 1983) is a Swedish athlete. She competes in heptathlon, long jump and pentathlon. She is the current Olympic, World (twice) and European (twice) heptathlon champion and is regarded as one of the best female athletes in the world. Since 16/09/2002, Klüft has been continuously ranked as the world's leading heptathlete, by the IAAF. This is currently the longest of any athlete. She is also normally a member of the Swedish 4 × 100 m relay team at international competitions, and was part of the team that set the national record. Her main coach is Agne Bergvall. She is 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) tall and weighs 65 kg. On 2 September 2012, during the Finland-Sweden athletics international at Ullevi, Carolina Klüft officially ended her career and retired from sports.
Myleene Angela Klass (born 6 April 1978) is an English classical pianist, commercial model, television and radio presenter, and former member of British pop group Hear'Say. She was born in Gorleston, Norfolk to a Filipino mother and Anglo-Austrian father. Her pop success achieved 4 Top 10 singles, 2 of which were UK Number Ones. Hear'Say also released 2 albums, "Popstars" and "Everybody".  Almost a year after the Hear'Say break-up on 13 May 2003, Klass signed a five-album deal with Universal Classics and Jazz. Klass's album, called "Moving On", was sold on 20 October 2003 at Harrods, London. It was nominated as "Peoples' Album Of The Year" in the Classical BRIT Awards. On 23 October 2004 Klass said she would not be releasing any further material through the label. Klass was a contestant in the 2006 series of "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!". She finished in second place, behind Matt Willis. Klass returned to the show in 2023 during the All-Stars series. She won the show.  Her net worth was about £11 million in April 2012.
Kimberley Gail "Kym" Ratcliff (née Marsh; formerly Ryder, and Lomas born 13 June 1976) is an English actress, singer and television presenter. She grew up in Garswood, Merseyside. Marsh rose to fame when she and four other contestants won reality TV show "Popstars" and formed manufactured pop quintet Hear'Say. She is most recognised however for her role as Michelle Connor on the long-running ITV soap opera "Coronation Street", which she played from 2006 to 2019. Marsh was one of the contenders to represent the UK in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest; she was third place and as such did not take part in the ESC. In 2022, she competed in BBC's dance contest "Strictly Come Dancing". From January 2023, she began portraying Nicky Walters in the revived BBC school-based drama series "Waterloo Road".  Personal life. Marsh has two children, David Ryan (born April 1995) and Emily May (born November 1997). They are from a relationship with Dave Cunliffe.  Marsh married former "EastEnders" actor Jack Ryder in St Albans, Hertfordshire, on 10 August 2002. On 20 March 2008 the couple said they would separate and may divorce. On 26 March 2009, Marsh said she had committed adultery during her marriage. Marsh and Ryder decided to divorce on 12 August 2009.  Marsh began dating "Hollyoaks" actor Jamie Lomas in July 2008. She and Lomas said they were expecting a baby due in the summer of 2009. On 12 February 2009, Marsh said their son, Archie Jay Lomas, was born 18 weeks early on 11 February. He died moments after birth. Marsh and Lomas ended their relationship on 9 October 2009. The couple got back together the following month as Marsh won Mother of the Year 2009. On Christmas Day 2009 Lomas proposed to Marsh and she accepted. Marsh announced that she was three months pregnant on 26 October
David Lee Gallagher (born February 9, 1985) is an American actor. He began his career as a and when he was two years old and is best known for his role as Simon Camden on the television series "7th Heaven". He is also known for his feature film roles; as Mikey Ubriacco in ', as Kevin Harper in ' and as in "". During his career as a child and teen star, he was nominated for five Young Artist Awards and won a Teen Choice Award. He is also known for voicing the character Riku in the "Kingdom Hearts" video game series.
Jessica Claire Biel (born March 3, 1982) is an American actress, Vocalist and former fashion model.  Biel became known for her early television role of Mary Camden in the long-running family drama series "7th Heaven". She is perhaps best known for appearing in several Hollywood movies. These include "Summer Catch", the remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Illusionist".  Biel is also known for her beauty and is considered a sex symbol. In 2005 Esquire magazine declared her the "Sexiest Woman Alive". In 2007 she was voted number 1 in a poll by Stuff magazine. In 2012, she married singer Justin Timberlake. They have two sons together, Silas Randall (born 2015) and Phineas (born 2020).
Nanne Grönvall (born Marianne Elisabeth Nordqvist on May 18, 1962 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She's married to Peter Grönvall, who's the son of ABBA's Benny Andersson. Nanne has participated in the National part of Eurovision Song Contest 8 times, won it once with their group One More Time and ended up in 3:rd place in the international competition. She has, beside her musical career, had her own radiotalkshow and hosted many other radioshows, acted in several theatre and musical-productions, among others she did the leading part of Sweet Charity. She has toured Sweden many times in her own name and also had her own shows in the two biggest cities in Sweden, Stockholm and Gothenburg. She had great success around in Europe together with her group One More Time in the 90s and later on Ritchie Blackmore recorded their hitsong Highland with his group Blackmore's Night. Nannes musical career started in the 1980s group "Sound of Music". The trio participated twice in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest selections, Melodifestivalen, finishing fourth both times; in 1986 with "Eldorado" and in 1987 with "Alexandra". Over the following ten years she established herself as a songwriter in Melodifestivalen, writing two songs for the 1992 competition and the 1995 runner-up "Det vackraste" ("The Most Beautiful Thing") performed by Cecilia Vennersten.
Human biology is part of biology, biological anthropology, and medicine. It looks at humans. It is related to primate biology, and some other areas. Human biology research includes: It deals with human evolution, adaptation, and population genetics.