title: Wen-Ying Tsai
Arlene Francis
Jubilee!
Leon Danielian
John Richardson (author)
Flora Nwapa
Nellie Melba
Gifted Awareness Week
Laila Pullinen
International Twelve Foot Dinghy
sentences: Wen-Ying Tsai (October 13, 1928 – January 2, 2013) was an American pioneer cybernetic sculptor and kinetic artist best known for creating sculptures using electric motors, stainless steel rods, stroboscopic light, and audio feedback control.
 As one of the first Chinese-born artists to achieve international recognition in the 1960s, Tsai was an inspiration to generations of Chinese artists around the world.
Arlene Francis (born Arline Francis Kazanjian; October 20, 1907 – May 31, 2001) was an American actress, radio and television talk show host, and game show panelist.
 She is known for her long-standing role as a panelist on the television game show " What's My Line?
", on which she regularly appeared for 25 years, from 1950 through the mid-1970s, on both the network and syndicated versions of the show.
Jubilee!
 was a long-running Las Vegas Strip-based spectacular revue.
 It opened on July 31, 1981 at an initial cost of 10 million dollars and was originally produced by Donn Arden.
 Donn Arden set the standard for all the spectacular Las Vegas shows that celebrated female beauty, in combination with a demand for only the best; in costumes, set, and talent.
 When it closed in 2016, this resident show at Bally's Las Vegas was the longest-running production show in Las Vegas.
 The "Jubilee!"
 showgirls were an icon of old Vegas.
 The show used costumes designed by Bob Mackie and Pete Menefee.
 UNLV Special Collections houses many of the original costume design drawings which can be accessed online through the "Showgirls" collection from UNLV Digital Collections.
 Many of the show's sets date back to the original production and include the sinking of the "Titanic" and the bull used in Samson and Delilah.
 The bull is 27 feet tall and collapses down to 13 feet after it has been destroyed.
 The bull is the heaviest single piece of scenery in the show weighing 3 tons.
 It takes 9 stagehands to move it from one position to another.
 "Jubilee!
's" longest serving principal dancer from the opening night until her departure 23 years later was Linda Green.
 The final closing cast consisted of 3 female singers, 3 male singers, 18 male dancers, 23 topless dancers, and 19 female dancers.
 Within the female covered and topless dancers, they are further categorized as "short" and "tall" dancers.
 A "short" dancer is a female dancer between 5'8" and 5'9" and a "tall" female dancer is between 5'10" and 6'2."
 One may be surprised at how tall the dancers are because of the proportions of the stage, which is three and a half stories high, giving the illusion that the performers are smaller in relationship to the stage.
Leon Danielian (31 October 1920 – 8 March 1997) was an American ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and educator.
 As guest artist with ballet companies around the world, he became one of the first American male dancers to achieve international recognition.
John Richardson (4 October 1796 – 12 May 1852) was a British Army officer and the first Canadian-born novelist to achieve international recognition.
Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa ( ) (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993) was a Nigerian author best known as Flora Nwapa, who has been called the mother of modern African literature.
 The forerunner to a generation of African women writers, she is acknowledged as the first African woman novelist to be published in the English language in Britain and achieve international recognition, with her first novel "Efuru" being published in 1966 by Heinemann Educational Books.
 While never considering herself a feminist, she is best known for recreating life and traditions from an Igbo woman's viewpoint.
Dame Nellie Melba GBE (19 May 186123 February 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, was an Australian operatic soprano.
 She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian era and the early 20th century.
 She was the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician.
 She took the pseudonym "Melba" from Melbourne, her home town.
Gifted Awareness Week is celebrated in New Zealand to draw attention to gifted people and the nature of giftedness.
 Gifted Awareness Week is held for the full week (Monday-Sunday) including 17 June each year.
 17 June is significant because it was the birthday of George Parkyn, the first New Zealander to achieve international recognition in the field of gifted education.
Laila Annikki Pullinen-Ramsay (21 July 1933 Terijoki – 4 November 2015 Helsinki) was a Finnish artist and sculptor.
 Her work exemplifies modernism, in particular classical modernism in sculpture.
 She was one of the few Finnish women artists to achieve international recognition.
The International Twelve Foot Dinghy was designed by George Cockshott, an amateur boat designer from Southport, England in response to a 1912 design contest.
 It became the first one-design racing dinghy to achieve international recognition.

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 Arlene Francis (born Arline Francis Kazanjian; October 20, 1907 – May 31, 2001) was an American actress, radio and television talk show host, and game show panelist.
 She is known for her long-standing role as a panelist on the television game show " What's My Line?
", on which she regularly appeared for 25 years, from 1950 through the mid-1970s, on both the network and syndicated versions of the show. 

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 Jubilee!
 was a long-running Las Vegas Strip-based spectacular revue.
 It opened on July 31, 1981 at an initial cost of 10 million dollars and was originally produced by Donn Arden.
 Donn Arden set the standard for all the spectacular Las Vegas shows that celebrated female beauty, in combination with a demand for only the best; in costumes, set, and talent.
 When it closed in 2016, this resident show at Bally's Las Vegas was the longest-running production show in Las Vegas.
 The "Jubilee!"
 showgirls were an icon of old Vegas.
 The show used costumes designed by Bob Mackie and Pete Menefee.
 UNLV Special Collections houses many of the original costume design drawings which can be accessed online through the "Showgirls" collection from UNLV Digital Collections.
 Many of the show's sets date back to the original production and include the sinking of the "Titanic" and the bull used in Samson and Delilah.
 The bull is 27 feet tall and collapses down to 13 feet after it has been destroyed.
 The bull is the heaviest single piece of scenery in the show weighing 3 tons.
 It takes 9 stagehands to move it from one position to another.
 "Jubilee!
's" longest serving principal dancer from the opening night until her departure 23 years later was Linda Green.
 The final closing cast consisted of 3 female singers, 3 male singers, 18 male dancers, 23 topless dancers, and 19 female dancers.
 Within the female covered and topless dancers, they are further categorized as "short" and "tall" dancers.
 A "short" dancer is a female dancer between 5'8" and 5'9" and a "tall" female dancer is between 5'10" and 6'2."
 One may be surprised at how tall the dancers are because of the proportions of the stage, which is three and a half stories high, giving the illusion that the performers are smaller in relationship to the stage. 

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 Leon Danielian (31 October 1920 – 8 March 1997) was an American ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and educator.
 As guest artist with ballet companies around the world, he became one of the first American male dancers to achieve international recognition. 

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 John Richardson (4 October 1796 – 12 May 1852) was a British Army officer and the first Canadian-born novelist to achieve international recognition. 

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 Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa ( ) (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993) was a Nigerian author best known as Flora Nwapa, who has been called the mother of modern African literature.
 The forerunner to a generation of African women writers, she is acknowledged as the first African woman novelist to be published in the English language in Britain and achieve international recognition, with her first novel "Efuru" being published in 1966 by Heinemann Educational Books.
 While never considering herself a feminist, she is best known for recreating life and traditions from an Igbo woman's viewpoint. 

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 Dame Nellie Melba GBE (19 May 186123 February 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, was an Australian operatic soprano.
 She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian era and the early 20th century.
 She was the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician.
 She took the pseudonym "Melba" from Melbourne, her home town. 

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 Gifted Awareness Week is celebrated in New Zealand to draw attention to gifted people and the nature of giftedness.
 Gifted Awareness Week is held for the full week (Monday-Sunday) including 17 June each year.
 17 June is significant because it was the birthday of George Parkyn, the first New Zealander to achieve international recognition in the field of gifted education. 

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 Laila Annikki Pullinen-Ramsay (21 July 1933 Terijoki – 4 November 2015 Helsinki) was a Finnish artist and sculptor.
 Her work exemplifies modernism, in particular classical modernism in sculpture.
 She was one of the few Finnish women artists to achieve international recognition. 

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Answer: Leon Danielian