"Swish Swish" is a song by American singer Katy Perry. It features a rap from American rapper Nicki Minaj. The song is from Perry's fifth studio album, "Witness". It talks about overcoming bullying and has sounds of house music throughout it. It was released in May 2017 as a promotional single with the pre-order of "Witness", but it was released later as an official single on May 19.
The song entered the "Billboard" Hot 100 at number 46.
Perry and Minaj first performed the song on TV at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, which Perry hosted.
Critics have said that the song is about singer Taylor Swift. She and Perry have had a rivalry since 2013, when Swift accused Perry of "stealing" backup dancers on tour. Swift released the song "Bad Blood" in 2014, which was rumored to be about her feud with Perry. Perry has revealed that she is ready to move on from the feud.
The music video stars several celebrities, such as actor Terry Crews and Internet personality Christine Sydelko. The setting is a basketball game against the Tigers (Perry's team) and the Sheep. A contest was held to determine what fans would appear in the video. The video is over six minutes long.
Irina Popova
Popova Irina Fedorovna (; born September 28, 1961), Russian sinologist and historian, Doctor of Sciences (2000), Director of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint-Petersburg (since April 2003), Head of the Department of Manuscripts and Documents of the IOM RAS, Full Professor in St Petersburg State University
Popova was a visiting scholar with the Center for Chinese Studies in Taipei (Taiwan), the Pennsylvania University (USA), School Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Copenhagen, Denmark), Peking University (China).
Popova graduated in 1983 from the St Petersburg State University, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Department of the History of Far East; completed her Ph.D. in 1989 at Russian Academy of Sciences, holds Doctor of Sciences degree in history (2000) from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Subject of her Ph.D. thesis: “Rules for Emperors” (“Ti-fan”) by T'ang T'ai-tsung as a source on the Chinese Political Thought of the 7th century” (in Russian); subject of Doctoral thesis: “The Theory of the State Rulership in the Early T'ang China” (in Russian).
Chinese history and historiography; Dunhuang and Central Asian studies;
political thought, government and administrative system of pre-modern China;
Tang studies; history of Oriental studies; textual research; bibliography.
Basing primarily on the documents of the Tang dynasty, Popova has contributed into the study of the imperial rulership in medieval China and into the study of the interinfluence of the political practice and imperial ideology in pre-modern China; she has introduced into the academic use the original documents from Dunhuang and Turfan, Chinese epigraphic texts, visual sources on the history of Qing dynasty, archival material on the history of Russian expeditions in Central Asia and history of the Oriental studies
200 articles, 5 monographs (3 in cooperation with other researchers) and 10 edited collections of articles
Head of the Editorial Board of the periodicals: “Pis’mennye pamiatniki Vostoka”, “Written Monuments of the Orient”, “Strany i narody Vostoka” (“Countries and Peoples of Orient”), “Tulufan janjiu”, “Minzu guji yanjiu”, “Zhongguo lishi gudai wenxian” (China), “Studia Orientalia Slovaca” (University of Bratislava, Slovakia), “Shygys-Orient” (Kazakhstan); Deputy Head of the Editorial Board of the academic series “Pamiatniki pismennosti Vostoka’ (Written Monuments in the Oriental Scripts)
2013 – St Petersburg City Government Prize in science and engineering (Prize
in philology named after S.F. Oldenburg);
2016 – Honorary rank “Yangzi Scholar” 长江学者by Ministry
of Education of China.
Honorary Professor of Lanzhou University (China), Ningxia University (China), Shandong
University (China), Minzu University of China (Beijing, China), Shaanxi Normal
University (Xi'an, China); honorary doctor of the Institute of History of the Academy of Social Sciences of China
Roy Barraclough
Roy Barraclough, MBE (12 July 1935 – 1 June 2017) was an English comic actor. He was best known for his role as Alec Gilroy in the long-running British TV soap "Coronation Street", and for the double-act Cissie and Ada with comedian Les Dawson.
In the 2006 New Year Honours, Barraclough was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to drama and to charity in the North West. He was the recipient of three "Manchester Evening News" Theatre Awards including the Reader's Award, a "Liverpool Echo" Theatre Award and a Royal Television Society Award.
Barraclough died aged 81, at the Willow Wood Hospice in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, on 1 June 2017, after a short illness.
Alois Mock
Alois Mock (10 June 1934 – 1 June 2017) was a politician. He was a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He was Vice Chancellor of Austria from 1987 to 1989. As foreign minister, from 1987 through 1995, he helped take Austria into the European Union.
Mock died on 1 June 2017 from complications of Parkinson's disease at the age of 82.
Nara
Nara, Na-ra or NARA may refer to:
Studio B Productions
Studio B Productions was a children's entertainment logo united by DHX Media and founded as DHX Media/Vancouver in 1988. In 1993, it was joined forces with Magnet Productions due to the fact Gullah Gullah Island had that logo the next year. Three years before, it was joined with Tooniverse, which turned into Tooniverse Songs then. When it joined forces with Moonscoop, it turned into Wildbrain.
Dub of Scotland
Dub or Duff was king of Scotland after the death of Indulf/Indulphus in 962, he reigned for 4-5 years until 967 when he died and was succeeded by Cuílen he was the son of king Malcolm I and most likely Bethoc. He was born circa 915 making him nearly 50 before he became king. He had 2 children with NN, Kenneth III who later reigned and Grimus II mac Duibh, prince of Scotland.
His reign began in 962 after the death of Indulf, king of Scots. It lasted until 967, he was succeeded by Cuilén who ruled until 971 and was succeeded by Dub's son Kenneth III.
He died in 967 aged 52 (circa), leaving behind 2 children. His burial place has been lost and no one knows the exact place of his burial although it was most likely in 967 just after his death and in Iona, Scotland.
Roberto De Vicenzo
Roberto De Vicenzo (14 April 1923 – 1 June 2017) was an Argentine professional golfer. He won more than 230 tournaments worldwide in his career including eight on the PGA Tour and most famously the 1967 Open Championship. He was born in Villa Ballester, Argentina.
De Vicenzo died on 1 June 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the age of 94.
Peter Thomson (golfer)
Peter William Thomson AO, CBE (23 August 1929 – 20 June 2018) was an Australian professional golfer. He was best remembered for his five wins in The Open Championship.
Thomson was born in Brunswick, a northern suburb of Melbourne, Australia. His Open Championship wins came in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, and 1965. He was the only man to win the tournament for three consecutive years in the 20th century. Thomson died in Melbourne on 20 June 2018 from Parkinson's disease, aged 88.
Doug Ford (golfer)
Douglas Michael Ford, Sr. born Fortunato (August 6, 1922 – May 14, 2018) was an American professional golfer and two-time major golf champion.
Ford's first major was the 1955 PGA Championship. Ford was that season's PGA Player of the Year.
Ford played on four Ryder Cup teams: 1955, 1957, 1959, and 1961. He was inducted into the Connecticut Golf Hall of Fame in 1972. He was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 1992. Ford was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2010 and was inducted in May 2011.
Ford died May 14, 2018 at the age of 95.
1977 Chicago Loop derailment