Jessica Watson's first attempt was in September 2009, when she left from Mooloolaba in Queensland in attempt to sail around the world. About 15 hours after she left, her yacht, "Ella's Pink Lady", collided with a bulk carrier near Stradbroke Island. Watson was uninjured in the incident, but her yacht was badly damaged. After the repairs to her yacht were completed, Watson sailed from Queensland's Gold Coast to Sydney and then left from Sydney on October 18, 2009 (five months after her sixteenth birthday) to sail around the world.
The distance of her voyage is about 19,000 nautical miles (35,000 kilometres) and took almost seven months to complete, as she finished her journey on May 15, 2010.
Astrolabe
The astrolabe is a tool using the positions of the stars or sun. It was formerly used in navigation to help explorers and sailors figure out where they were. They found their distance north and south of the equator by measuring the distance of the sun and stars above the horizon. Astronomers used other kinds of astrolabes, usually larger ones.
An early astrolabe was made in the Hellenistic world in 150 BC. It is often attributed to Hipparchus. The astrolabe was a marriage of the planisphere (a star chart analog computing instrument) and dioptra (a tool to measure angles). It was a calculator able to work out many kinds of problems in astronomy. Theon of Alexandria wrote a complex book on the astrolabe. Lewis says that Ptolemy used an astrolabe to make the astronomical observations recorded in the "Tetrabiblos".
Electric Avenue (song)
"Electric Avenue" is a reggae song released by Guyanese singer Eddy Grant on his "Killer on the Rampage" album in January 1983. It is a reggae, synthpop, new wave, and disco song. Grant wrote and produced the song himself.
It reached #2 on both the United States and UK singles charts.
The song is named after a market street in Brixton, London, England. It has been covered by many artists.
Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey), best known under the name Queen Latifah is an American, rapper singer, actress and model. She has won a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination.
Queen + Paul Rodgers
Queen + Paul Rodgers was a rock band formed by Brian May and Roger Taylor, formerly of Queen, and Paul Rodgers of Bad Company, Free and The Firm.
Because of the popularity of Freddie Mercury, it was made clear that Paul Rodgers would not be replacing the former Queen lead singer, who died in 1991 from complications due to AIDS. Rodgers would be called ""featured with"" along with the former Queen members. When in concert Brian May, Roger Taylor and Paul Rodgers would be helped by keyboard player Spike Edney, rhythm guitarist Jamie Moses and bassist Danny Miranda.
The band recorded an album called The Cosmos Rocks. It was released in 2008.
In May, 2009 Paul Rodgers announced that Queen + Paul Rodgers had come to an end. He said "It was fun but was never meant to be a permanent arrangement". He said it was always possible that the band would get together again.
The Cosmos Rocks
The Cosmos Rocks is an album by Queen + Paul Rodgers. It was released on 15 September, 2008 in the Europe and on 28 October, 2008 in North America. The album has 14 songs written by Brian May, Paul Rodgers and Roger Taylor. It is the only studio album the former Queen members recorded with Paul Rodgers. The album received mostly bad reviews and it did not sell very many copies.
Kenji Onitake
Kenji Onitake (born 19 September 1939) is a former Japanese football player.
Manabu Nakamura
Manabu Nakamura (born 26 June 1977) is a former Japanese football player.
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Marián Gáborík
Marián Gáborík (born February 14, 1982 in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak ice hockey right winger the plays for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. He was drafted by the Minnesota Wild in the 2000 NHL entry draft where he played 8 seasons with them.
MAR
MAR, short for Marchen Awakens Romance is a Japanese manga and anime. The manga ran from 2003-2006, while the anime ran from 2005-2007, made up of 102 episodes. A sequel was made named MAR Omega.
The story is about a Japanese boy named Ginta who journeys into a world named MAR Heaven, which is like a fairy tale. Here, magical items known as ARMs are used to perform different tasks. Ginta meets a witch named Dorothy who wants to find a powerful ARM called Babbo. Ginta and Dorothy find Babbo, but find he is alive and can talk, which other ARMS can't do. Babbo has no memory of who he is other than his name and becomes Ginta's friend.
Ginta travels around MAR Heaven, forming a group of friends which he calls Team MAR. Team MAR fight the Chess Pieces, an evil group of people who wish to turn MAR Heaven into a nightmare. Team MAR is forced to fight in the War Games, a fighting tournament, to defeat the Chess Pieces. Ginta also wishes to return home, looking for the ARM that brought him to MAR Heaven in the first place.
It is revealed near the end of the story that the King and Queen of the Chess Pieces are Ginta's father Danna controlled by an evil spirit called Caldia's Orb, and Dorothy's older sister Diana. Team MAR battles Caldia's Orb, Diana and the leader of the Chess Pieces' Knights, Phantom, in the floating Lestava Castle, and win, saving MAR Heaven. Ginta and Danna return home at the end of the story.
Team MAR is made up of the main heroes and characters of MAR. The team's goal is to defeat the Chess Pieces and save MAR Heaven from destruction. The members are:
The Chess Pieces are the main villains of MAR. They want to turn MAR Heaven into a nightmare. They are in groups named after the pieces of a chess game. The King and Queen, Caldia's Orb and Diana, are not in groups.
MyLifeIsAverage
MyLifeIsAverage (MLIA) is a website where people submit stories about their day. MLIA is similar to FMyLife, except the stories are about average things, rather than bad things. The stories are judged by several users. If enough users vote that the story is worthy of being posted, then it becomes the first story on the home page, and will later be pushed down the page. Anyone can submit a story. Users may click on a story to leave a comment.
The stories almost always begin with the words "Today" and end with the phrase "MLIA".
MLIA has received more than 100,000 stories. Most of the users are students in high school or college.
The co-founder of the site, Guru Khalsa, says that MLIA tries to "bring to light how much stupid and boring stuff gets posted on the Internet."
Check
The word Check has a number of meanings:
Chuck Knoblauch
Edward Charles "Chuck" Knoblauch (born July 7, 1968) is a retired Major League Baseball player. He played for the Minnesota Twins (1991–97), New York Yankees (1998–2001) and Kansas City Royals (2002). He played mostly as a second baseman before moving to left field for his last two seasons.
Romeo Crennel
Romeo Crennel (born June 18, 1947 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is the former head coach of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League.
Der Rosenkavalier
Der Rosenkavalier (in English: The Knight of the Rose) is a comic opera by Richard Strauss. The words (libretto) were especially written for the opera by the German poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
It was first performed in Dresden on 26 January 1911 and was an immediate success. It continues to be a very popular opera in opera houses all over the world and has been performed more often than any other German language 20th century opera.