Tanya Plibersek served in both the Rudd and Gillard governments as Minister for Health, Minister for Human Services and Minister for Housing. She has been Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Deputy Leader of the Labor Party since 2013.
Anu
In Sumerian mythology, Anu (also An) was a sky-god. He was the god of heaven, lord of constellations, and king of the gods, spirits and demons. He lived in the highest heavenly regions. People believed that he could judge people who had committed crimes. His attendant and minister of state was the god Ilabrat.
He was one of the oldest gods in the Sumerian religion. He was a part of a triad with Enlil (god of the air) and Enki (god of water). He was called Anu by the Akkadians in Babylonian culture. His Greek name is Uranos. The planet Uranus got its name from the Greek god Uranos.
Just a Girl
"Just a Girl" is a popular song by No Doubt. It was released in 1995. The song peaked at #23 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 around the United States. This helped No Doubt get into the mainstream music.
The single was released in the United Kingdom in 1996. It reached only #38. When "Don't Speak" was released, however, "Just a Girl" was released again and peaked at #3.
The song was featured in two movies in the 1990s.
Spiderwebs
"Spiderwebs" is a pop rock song by No Doubt. The lyrics are about a man who keeps calling Gwen and reciting bad poetry to her. It was released as a single in 1995. On the record charts it peaked near #5 three weeks after release.
Two separate music videos were made. One had exploding telephones. The other was set in a Japanese restaurant. Music Television (MTV) thought the telephone explosions were not good for young viewers to see, so they added more footage of the band.
Don't Speak
"Don't Speak" is a popular song by No Doubt. The lyrics are about heartache, pain and trouble in relationships. It was released as a single in 1995. The single did not chart on the "Billboard" Hot 100 (rules at the time required that a commercial single were released, one was not issued on the song). It did, however, reach #1 on Hot 100 Airplay for 16 weeks. The song also hit #1 in United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and New Zealand.
This was the most successful international song from the group.
Al Suomi
Albert William Suomi (October 29, 1913 – September 23, 2014) was an American retired professional ice hockey player. He played as a left winger. He played a total of five games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1936-37 season.
He played his final season in professional hockey with the Chicago Hornets of the Arena Hockey League. He retired in 1937. Since retiring, Suomi started a hardware store called "Al's Hardware" in Countryside, Illinois. This is now run by his children. He is currently the oldest living former NHL player since Louis Holmes died in March 2010.
Allison Williams
Allison Williams (born April 13, 1988) is an American actress and comedian. She plays Marnie Michaels in the television drama "Girls". She plays Jillian in "The Mindy Project".
Allison Williams was born in New Canaan, Connecticut. Sources claim either 1987 or 1988 as her year of birth.
Agent Orange (band)
Agent Orange is an American punk rock band. They are from Orange County, California. The band became well known after the release of their song "Bloodstains". This was released on their first extended play "Bloodstains 7" E.P." The song was featured in the video game "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4" in 2002. Their song "Bored of You" was featured on the Channel X radio station in the video game "Grand Theft Auto V" (2013).
Gherkin
Gherkin might mean:
Willow Smith
Willow Camille Reign Smith (born October 31, 2000) is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. She began acting in 2007 in the movie "I Am Legend". She released her first single "Whip My Hair" in 2010. She released a single with Nicki Minaj in 2011.
Criminal law
Criminal law is the part of law that is about social norms. People who violate these norms are punished for their violation. It is different from civil law. Criminal law wants to protect certain values, such as life and limb, or property.
Criminal law has different objectives:
Emmalyn Estrada
Emmalyn Estrada (born April 5, 1992) is a Canadian pop/R&B singer-songwriter, dancer, actress and musician. She sang hit songs such as "Get Down" in 2009.
Estrada was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is of Filipino descent.
Loan shark
A loan shark is a person that sells loans with very high interest rates. People go to loan sharks for many reasons. It is often because no one else will lend them money. Loan sharks tend to ask for something beforehand, like someone's passport. Loan sharks are often illegal.
Loan sharks are called 'loan sharks' because they are like sharks; aggressive, angry, and greedy. They can do many illegal things to just get repayment, like kidnapping or even killing.
Thomas Mesereau
Thomas Arthur Mesereau, Jr. (born 1950) is an American lawyer. He is best known for defending Michael Jackson in his child molestation trial during 2005. He works with another lawyer called Susan Yu. Mesereau lives in Los Angeles.
He was born in New York.
Mesereau started a free legal clinic in the Morningside United Church of Christ in Los Angeles. He wrote the foreword for Aphrodite Jones' book "Michael Jackson Conspiracy" (2007).
In 2005 the magazine "GQ" put him on their list of "Men of the Year".
Free University of Berlin
The Freie Universität Berlin ("Free University of Berlin", often abbreviated as "FU Berlin") is a university in Berlin. It is known for its research in the humanities and social sciences, as well as in the field of natural and life sciences.
The university was founded in Berlin-Dahlem, a district in the south west of Berlin during the time of the Cold War in 1948. Today, the university has three bigger campuses: the main campus Dahlem, the "Campus Düppel" with animal clinics and other institutes related to veterinary medicine and the "Geocampus" in Lankwitz, which is home to the "Department of Earth Sciences". The medical department of the FU Berlin is part of the "Charité - University Medicine Berlin", a joint institution with the Humboldt University.
The university library has a total of about 8.5 million volumes and is the biggest university library system in Germany. Freie Universität has over 400 partner universities all over the world, many of them through the "ERASMUS programme". According to various international rankings, Freie Universität is one of the best universities in Germany. In 2007 (and 2012 again), the Freie Universität was one of eleven universities to be successful in the "German Excellence Initiative", a national competition by the German government. University alumni include five Nobel Prize winners and 15 winners of the national Leibniz Prize.
Freie Universität offers over 150 different subjects in 12 departments and three central institutes:
The "Botanical Garden" with over 22,000 different kinds of plants is one of the biggest in the world.
Shmuley Boteach
Shmuel "Shmuley" Boteach (born November 19, 1966 in Los Angeles) is an American Orthodox rabbi, politician and writer. He hosted a reality television series called "Shalom in the Home" on the TLC network.
Boteach ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2012 elections. He received the support of then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in April. Boteach won the Republican primary for New Jersey's 9th congressional district seat on June 5, and lost to 8th District Representative Bill Pascrell in the November election, by a margin of 73.6% to 25.4%.
Boteach is married to Debbie Boteach. He became friends with Michael Jackson in the 1990s. He was Jackson's Rabbi for two years.
Gloria Allred