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Yuriko Kimura (木村百合子) is a Japanese modern dancer. She was a primary dancer for the Martha Graham Dance Company.  Early Life. Kimura was born in Kanazawa, Japan. When Martha Graham came to Japan Kimura took a dance class from her company. She then came to the USA through a Fulbright Scholarship to study with Martha Graham. Career. Kimura studied with Graham from 1966 in New York City, USA. At first she danced small roles. One of her younger roles was ‘the girl holding a vase.’ Over time, she became recognized for her intense expression. She was also known for her beautiful lines. These led her to become one of the best dancers of all time. Through the fame, she also became a guest dancer for other prestigious companies. She attended summer courses through different dance workshops. Some of her major roles consisted of Medea and Clytemnestra from major dance Productions. The two roles are the main characters. They are very important to the overall stage.  Present. Kimura now teaches dance in .
A tiny house, also known as a tiny home, is a type of house that is very small (up to 37 square metres or 400 sq ft). Tiny houses can stand on a fixed place, but they can also be mobile. For example, a tiny house with wheels can be transported. They may also solve other kinds of problems. They may be a way for older children to have independence, yet also stay near their parents. Sometimes the family home is too small for children to have their own bedroom. A tiny house built in the grounds of a regular property may be the solution to allowing independence whilst keeping a degree of parental supervision. History. The tiny house movement originated in the United States.  Tiny houses gained more attention after the Great Recession, when houses became very expensive in many places. Media. The tiny house movement has inspired many reality television series:
On Monday, June 8, 1953, a powerful F5 tornado went right across the city of Flint, Michigan and its suburb Beecher. The latter city had 113–114 people dead following the severe tornado. Before the 2011 Joplin tornado in Joplin, Missouri, it was the final tornado that lead to triple-digit death tolls in the United States. Related tornadoes. Other tornadoes also hit lower Michigan and northern Ohio. The overall outbreak killed 116 or 117 in Michigan alone. Affected states also included Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, New York and Massachusetts. The overall people who died from June 6 through 9 was 247 (some reports mention higher numbers). The full damage went beyond $340 million (1953 USD; almost $3.3 billion 2021 USD). Michigan's deaths alone were 125. Others were killed across Nebraska, northern Ohio and east-central Massachusetts (mostly around Worcester). The last-said state's tornado was its very most expensive (costing $53 million) before 1979.
Jeanne Baret (; 27 July 1740 – 5 August 1807, also spelled Barré or Barret) was a French explorer. She was the first woman to travel around the world. She was a botanist. Her trip was from 1766-1769. Early life and career. Jeanne Baret was born on July 27,1740.She was born in France. Her family wasn’t wealthy. She learned a lot about botany from a young age. She knew a lot about plants.  She worked for Philibert Commerson. Commerson was a botanist. He studied medicine, natural history and botany. Baret and Commerson also had a relationship. They never married. They had a son. He was adopted by another family. Voyage. Commerson agreed to join a voyage around the world. The expedition was led by Louis de Bougainville. Commerson was the botanist. Baret went with him. Women were not allowed to be on ships at that time. She disguised herself as a man. She took a job as his cabin boy. She called herself "Jean" Baret. Reason for Voyage. France was looking for territory and trade at that time. The king funded the around the world trip. The two ships were the Boudeuse and the Etoile. Commerson and Baret were on the Etoile.  Aboard the Etoile. Commerson was often sick. Jeanne tended to him. She helped him with his work. The trip set off from Nates, France and stopped at Montevideo, Uruguay. They went from Uruguay to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They went to Tahiti after Brazil. Bougainville named the island of Tahiti New Cythera. Baret revealed her true identity at Tahiti. She revealed that she was a woman. Bougainville let her stay on board for the rest of the trip. They sailed to New Ireland in Papua New Guinea after Tahiti. They went to Mauritius after New Ireland. Commerson and Jeanne stayed in Mauritius. Botanist Work. Commerson and Baret made many accomplishments in
Eliza Burton (Lyda) Conley (1869-1946) was the first female lawyer of Indian descent. She was the first Native American to argue in front of the Supreme Court. She was known as the "Guardian of the Huron Cemetery." Early Life. Lyda Conley was born in 1869. She was a member of the Wayandotte Tribe. She lived in Wyandotte County, Kansas. Her mother, Eliza Burton Zane Conley, was a member of the Wyandotte Tribe. Her mother was a descendant of Chief Andrew Conley. Her mother and her grandmother, Hannah Zane, were buried in the Huron cemetery.  Her father, Andrew Serenes Conley, was from New York. He met and married Conley's mother in Ohio. They moved to Kansas with the Wyandotte Tribe.  The Wyandotte Tribe was from Ohio. The US government forced the Wyandotte to give up their land in 1842. They were forced to move to Kansas. They were forced to a reservation on land bought from the Lenape peoples. The new Wyandot land was protected by treaty with the federal government.  Eliza Burton Conley had three sisters. Two of her sisters were Helena (Lena) Gros Conley and Ida Conley. They helped her defend the graves of their family and ancestors at Huron Cemetery in Kansas City.  Career. Eliza Burton Conley graduated from the Kansas City School of Law in 1902. She went to law school because the government threatened to sell her tribe's cemetery.  Conley was admitted into the Missouri Bar Association in 1902. and Kansas Bar Association in 1910. She became the first female lawyer of Indian descent.  She was the first Native American to argue in front of the Supreme Court. She argued that the federal government had a duty to protect Native American burial sites.  Huron cemetery case. The United States government guaranteed the protection of the Wyandotte Tribe's Huron Cemetery in a treaty. The treaty was written in 1855. In 1890 the government broke the treaty. The government was going to sell the land to
Tong Yang-Tze is a Chinese calligrapher. Her work is part of everyday life in Taiwan. She designed the passport stamp that you receive when you enter Taiwan. She is very educated but still chose to pursue her dreams of art. She is known for bringing calligraphy from the past to the present. Early Life. Tong moved to Taiwan in 1952. She grew up with four siblings. Her dad taught her and her siblings calligraphy. She started learning calligraphy when she was eight years old. Tong graduated from National Taiwan Normal University. She earned a master’s degree in fine arts. She also received a postgrad degree from University of Massachusetts. She was accepted into Taiwan’s most prestigious business university. She rejected them and chose to follow her passion for art. She also became a graduate designer in New York. Her style of calligraphy is known for mixing traditional calligraphy with modern art. Accomplishments. You can see Tong Yang-Tze’s work everywhere in Taiwan. It is used in signs at train stations. It is in theatre, bookshop, and anniversary campaign brands. It is Taiwan’s passport stamp. Exhibitions. Tong’s work has been shown in many places. "Atelier 320: Upending" was an exhibit at the Johnson Museum. "From Ink to Apparel: A Crossover between Calligraphy Art and Fashion Design" was shown at the World Design Capital in Taipei. Another exhibition was the M+ commission. Collaborations. Tong has worked on many collaborations. "From Ink to Apparel: A Crossover between Calligraphy Art and Fashion Design" combined the work of Tong and six young fashion designers. "Atelier 320: Upending" combined calligraphy and dance. "Silent Symphony, Musical Calligraphy" combined the work of Tong and the music of Mayday.
Sangduen "Lek" Chailert is an animal rights advocator and entrepreneur. She was born and raised in Thailand. She is known as Thailand’s “Elephant Whisperer”. She has dedicated her life to fighting for animal rights and putting an end to animal abuse. She has influenced others to advocate for the welfare of animals. She founded Elephant Nature Park and Save Elephant Foundation. Early life. Sangdeaun “Lek” Chailert was born in 1961. She was born in a village in Thailand called Baan Lao. This village was located in the Northern Mountains of Thailand. Starting from a young age, she spent a lot of time with animals and loved them. She looked up to her grandfather. He was a shaman, which is a traditional healer. He helped sick and injured people within his community, and would also help sick animals. Chailert helped her grandfather take care of the animals. She developed a passion for it. She witnessed the horrible abuse of elephants when she was sixteen years old. The elephants were forced to carry logs into the jungle. Chailert graduated from Chiang Mai University, a public university in Northern Thailand. Career. Chailert advocates for Asian Elephants. She founded Elephant Nature Park (ENP). Elephant Nature Park is a sanctuary for abused Asian Elephants in Chiang Mai Province in Thailand. It provides a home and basic necessities for elephants who were abused. It takes up 250 acres. She rescued over 200 elephants and many other animals. Chailert also founded Save Elephant Foundation. It is a non-profit organization. The main purpose of this organization is to protect Asian Elephants. People are able to volunteer or become an Elephant Ambassador. She first started taking action after witnessing elephants being forced to carry logs into the jungle. She realized that the abuse affects the elephants' mental health. Chailert treats elephants as a part of her family. Her main focus has been to educate people around the world on the safety of elephants. She wants people to use the information they learn to inform others and advocate for animals. Save Elephant Foundation. Save Elephant Foundation is a a non-profit organization. The main purpose of this organization is
Jillian Tamaki (born April 17, 1980) is a Canadian American illustrator. She draws graphic novels. Tamaki received the Printz and Caldecott medals and the Governor General Award for Children’s Literature Illustration. She has also been published by The New York Times, The Guardian, Esquire, and National Geographic. Drawn &amp; Quarterly and Penguin Books have published her works. Early Life. Tamaki was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and raised in Calgary, Alberta. She grew up reading Archie comics and horseback riding, eventually making Zine comics in high school.  Tamaki is mixed race. Her father is Japanese Canadian and mother is Egyptian American. Her childhood neighborhood was mostly white people. Tamaki was the only mixed race student at her school. She draws many different people in her pictures. She thinks it helps other mixed race children feel comfortable.  Education. Tamaki went to the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD). She graduated in 2003. Her training was very traditional. She was not allowed to use color until her 3rd-4th year. She learned anatomy in her first year. She used her computer in her 3rd year. She learned a lot about how to draw at ACAD.  Tamaki still draws by hand. She does not use a computer. She adds color with her computer.  Career. Right after college Tamaki worked at a video game company. It was called Bioware.  She moved to New York in 2005. She was 25 when she moved.  Tamaki started teaching at Parsons School of Visual Arts in 2007. She enjoys teaching.  Books. Tamaki has published many books. Two of her books are "Skim" and "This One Summer". She drew the pictures and her cousin, Mariko Tamaki, wrote the stories. Her she also wrote and illustrated "SuperMutant Magic and" "Indoor Voice". "Gilded Lilies" was her earliest publication. She originally published her illustrations online.  She has drawn book covers for Penguin Books. Three of her Penguin book covers are embroidered art: "The Secret Garden", "Emma
Male portrait (also known as Ritratto del commendatore Attilio Brivio) is a 20th-century painted in oil by the italian painter Adriano Gajoni, made in 1961 in the collection of Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milano (n.inv.501). Description. Adriano Gajoni trained in Milan at Giovanni Borgonovo and later at the Brera Academy, where he taught for eight years.
Sana Amanat is an American comic book editor and the Director of Content and Character Development at Marvel. She is a Pakistani-American Muslim. She worked on comics like Captain Marvel, Hawkeye and Ms. Marvel. Ms. Marvel is the first Muslim-American superhero. Amanat runs the annual Women of Marvel panel at Comic Con. She does work to make Marvel characters more diverse. She had a TED talk about diversity in comic books. Early life. Amanat grew up in New Jersey. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Pakistan. She lived in the suburbs. There were not many other Muslim families in her town. She felt different from other people. The comic X-Men had lots of different kinds of people in it. Reading X-Men made her feel more normal. Amanat went to Barnard College. She studied political science. She wanted to be a journalist. The Barnard class of 2019 awarded Amanat the Barnard Medal of Distinction. Career. Amanat worked at a magazine. Amanat started editing comic books in 2007. She edited comic books for a small, independent publishing company called Virgin Comics. Mackenzie Cadenhead was her mentor. Amanat joined Marvel in 2009.  Amanat co-created the character of Ms. Marvel, the first Muslim-American Superhero. She worked with Steve Wacker, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona to create Ms. Marvel. The first volume has been printed seven times. That is a lot of times for one volume of comics. Character development. In 2015, Amanat became Marvel's Director of Content and Character Development. When she introduced President Barack Obama at a Women's History Month celebration in 2016, she noted that "being different is being American." Amanat helps Marvel create more characters of different genders, races, religions, and other identities. She knows that most people who work in comics are white men. Most superheroes are also white men. Amanat wants to help everyone imagine more kinds of superheroes. She helped create the Women of Marvel platform. As a result of Amanat's work, there are about twenty female superheroes in
Tanya Selene Saracho is a Mexican-American actress, playwright and screenwriter. She co-founded "Teatro Luna", an all Latina theater company in Chicago, Illinois. She is the co-founder of the Untitled Latinx Program. The Untitled Latinx Program tries to make television more diverse. Saracho has written many episodes for television programs. These include "How To Get Away With Murder", "Looking", "Devious Maids", "Girls", and "Vida". Saracho is also a Spanish voice-over artist. Early life. Saracho was born in Los Mochis, Mexico. She moved to Chicago, Illinois. Career. She started out as a playwright. She wrote many plays. These plays include "Lunaticas", "Our Lady of the Underpass", and "Kita y Fernanda". Saracho was named “Best new playwright” by Chicago Magazine. Her plays have been staged many places, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, NEXT Theater, Teatro Vists, Teatro Luna, and more. Saracho then started writing for television. Her first show was Devious Maids. Then she wrote for Looking and Girls. She also wrote episodes for How To Get Away With Murder. She created and produced Vida. Vida got a lot of positive recognition. Saracho found the Untitled Latinx Project Universal Studios hired her to find and share LatinX people in entertainment.
Carina Curto is an American mathematician. She studies neuroscience and math. She explores how neurons in the human brain understand the world. She is a professor and co-Associate Head for Graduate Studies at the Department of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Curto the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2011, an award that is given annually to the best scholars across the US and Canada. Early life and education. Curto was raised in Iowa City, IA. Her father was a mathematician. As a child, Curto though studying math was too ordinary.  Her parents are from Argentina. She spoke Spanish at home. She graduated from Iowa City West High School. She loved to learn. Curto took many classes at University of Iowa while she was in high school. She was on the debate team. Curto was also a high-ranked tennis player for the state of Iowa. Curto received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 2000. In high school she planned to study physics. She studied math and physics. Curto went to Duke University for graduate school. She planed to study string theory. Instead, she got interested in neuroscience. She earned her Ph.D in 2005.  Career. Curto studied mathematics in graduate school. She started studying the math for physics. Curto learned about neurology in her fourth year of graduate school. She became interested in neuroscience and switched her research.  After earning her Ph.D., Curto spent three years as Rutgers University doing more research at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience. She was an instructor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Studies. She then joined the Math Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 2014, Curto joined the Pennsylvania State University math faculty. She got tenure in 2019. She uses math to improve neuroscience. She builds mathematical models for understanding how neurons work. Curto also finds new ways to use math to understand biology. As a part of her research, Curto created network songs based on firing rates of neurons, which showed the rhythmic activity of neurons. Curto's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National
Alice Hamilton (born 1869) focused her life on workplace safety. Her dedication made the government improve health conditions for workers. She worked in several medical jobs. Before she retired, she was a research assistant, a pathology professor, a bacteriologist, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. She was the first female professor at Harvard Medical School. She was a consultant of the U.S. Division of Labor Standards and the President of the National Consumers League after she retired. Alice Hamilton was born with 4 siblings. Hamilton wanted to be a medical doctor when she was a child. She attended the University of Michigan Medical school. She was not allowed to study in German Universities. So, she went back to the United States. She worked as a research assistant at Johns Hopkins Medical School. In 1897, Hamilton became a pathology professor at the Women’s Medical School of Northwestern University. After that, she worked as a bacteriologist at Chicago’s Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases.
Adriano Gajoni, (Milan, October 29, 1913 - Milan, March 26, 1965) was an Italian painter. Life. Gajoni was born in Milan, he was also active in Paris. He initially studied with Giovanni Borgonovo, then at a very young age he was admitted to the Accademia di Brera, starting his artistic activity early, he became passionate about the study of painters ombard seventeenth century, still At a very young age he taught drawing for four years to support himself in fine arts studies. He will then become Professor for eight years at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. He preferred landscapes, still life and portraits. He mainly practiced oil painting on wood and hardboard. He never liked to appear, preventing his works from arriving at auction. He died in 1965 at the age of 52 from the consequences of a car accident, leaving his two daughters, Cristina and Rita, and his wife Dolores. He was buried in the Milan Cemetery. Painting style. The art critic Angelo Panerai writes: " «Rigorous balance, wise distribution of lights and volumes, impression of solidity and architecture. All so thought out, so necessarily functional that the eye passes over this intelligent painting without ever noticing the slightest imbalance. The tones themselves obey this harmonious criterion that does not admit of coloristic affectation: a few whites and abundant warm colors unmistakably mark this nourished painting, but where one never feels the labor of creation »". Still lifes reflect the humble things of our home and our canteen, emanating that almost religious sense of secular use that dresses them with unexpected nobility [...] oriented towards a constant search for color and formal perfection. "Tradition felt not as an empty resonance, but an elaboration of a loving study by the great Lombard seventeenth century artists by a cultured and severe spirit". Adriano Gajoni, is " «Milanese painter of strict figurative observance, mainly devoted to Still life, to" fairy tale compositions "and allegorical and to" fantasies with mannequins and statues "» (Bruno Rosa Stincone). The
Haben Girma (born in 1988) is an American lawyer, writer and disability rights advocate. She is deaf and blind. She uses the word "deafblind" to describe herself. Girma was the first person who is deafblind to graduate from law school in the United States. President Barack Obama recognized her as a 2013 White House Champion of Change. She was recognized by Forbes Magazine as a 2016 "30 Under 30." In 2018, the American Foundation for the Blind awarded her the Helen Keller Achievement Award. Her work was recognized by both Justin Tredeau and Angela Merkel. Early Life. Haben Girma was born in 1988 in California. Girma’s mother, Saba Gebreyesus, Came to the United States from Eritrea. Her father is Ethiopian. Girma also had a brother who was deafblind.  She attended school in Oakland, California. When she was in elementary school, she communicated with a keyboard that was linked to a braille reader. The Oakland schools acknowledged disability rights and made sure she had the tools she needed to learn. Girma did not start advocating for ability rights until she attended college. She studied at Lewis and Clark College located in Portland, OR, USA. The menu in the cafeteria was only in print. The manager would not help her. She had to eat whatever someone put on her plate. This experience made her realize that she also had a right to make choices like other people do. She learned that the Americans with Disabilities Act required the cafeteria to give her a menu she could read. Girma earned her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. To help herself study and learn, Girma invented a new machine to make communicating easier. People can type into the machine and it gives her Braille to read. She speaks in response.  Career. Girma is a civil rights attorney. Much of her work focuses on fighting for equal access to educational opportunities. She wants strong schools for Black American children. She also argues that people with disabilities can contribute in the workplace and also buy useful products. They are productive members of the economy. She helped fight a legal case against Scribd, a digital library
Enka is a type of music from Japan that resembles traditional Japanese music. Modern Enka is a more recent form, but more traditional in style. Modern enka, as growing in the postwar era, is a form of sentimental ballad music.