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Archaeology in the area has found a Roman villa (country-house) belonging to some rich person who lived here in the late 3rd century, judging from the coins.
Records show the land was part of the manor of John the Dane before the Norman Conquest, and Giso, bishop of Wells afterward.
Yatton Parish Council
Backwell is a village in the county of Avon, in North Somerset.
5,455 people live in Backwell.
It is 7 miles from Bristol.
Nailsea, Flax Bourton, Yatton, Brockley and Barrow Gurney are nearby.
There is a railway station in the village called Nailsea and Backwell.
Bristol International Airport is less than three miles away.
Nailsea is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England.
In 2011, there were 15,630 people living in Nailsea.
Clevedon is a town in the county of Somerset, in England.
The name comes from Old English and means "divided hill".
Archaeology shows that many people lived here during the Roman occupation.
Just before the Norman Conquest in 1066 it was part of a huge manor held by John (Gunni?)
the Dane.
At the time of the Domesday Book (1086) it belonged to Matthew of Mortaigne and had only a few people living there.
The town of today was not built until around 1800 as a seaside resort.
Clevedon Civic Society
Weston-super-Mare, sometimes known as just Weston is a sea-side town in Somerset, England.
Weston is  from the city of Bristol.
It also includes the suburbs of Oldmixon, West Wick and Worle.
The beach is a popular tourist destination and includes many museums, a pier and an aquarium.
South Somerset is a district in the county of Somerset.
Its council is based in the town of Yeovil.
The district was formed on 1 April 1974 and was originally called Yeovil.
District and borough councils in England
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A scone is a kind of bread that is baked on a griddle or sheet.
Scones are very small, and are in the same group as the crumpet or muffin.
It is made of wheat, barley, or oatmeal and baking powder to make it rise.
The scone is shaped closely like the North American biscuit, and its recipe is almost the same with it as well.
Sometimes scones may have raisins, currants, cheese, or dates in them.
In the United States, however, scones include more sweet kind of fillings like cranberries, chocolate chips, or nuts.
They can often be found in coffee shops and in a great variety in the British Isles.
It is generally thought that scones are best eaten when they are very hot and freshly baked right from the oven, accompanied with melting warm butter.
Some think that scone comes from the Gaelic "sgonn", which meant a piece of dough that has been cooked for a couple of minutes, shapeless mass or large mouthful; and the Dutch "schoonbrot", which meant fine white bread; or, for last, the German "sconbrot", which meant fine or beautiful bread.
The Oxford English Dictionary believes the German and Dutch is more accurate.
It is sometimes debated on the correct pronunciation for "scone".
In Scotland and North England, the word is pronounced as "skawn", or "skahn", while in Southern England, it is pronounced as "skoan" or "skown".
The latter pronunciation came from the United States and Canada.
Scones are connected traditionally with England, Scotland, and Ireland, but nobody knows which country invented it.
However, the first known mention of a scone that was printed is from the translation of The Aenaid (1513) written by a Scottish poet named Gavin Douglas.
Scones are related to the ancient Welsh tradition of cooking small round yeast cakes on stones, that later changed to griddles.
First-made scones included oats inside them, and were baked over an open fire.
However, today's scones are more like American biscuits.
They are made with wheat, and baked in the oven.
The most popular scones are soda scones, wholemeal scones, rich white scones, treacle scones, potato scones, ballater scones and drop scones.
Scones usually take about four to ten minutes to bake.
Sweet breads
Ankara is the capital city of the country of Turkey.
It is in the center of Anatolia.
Ankara is the second largest city after Istanbul.
The city has a population of 4,319,167 (2005) (Province 5,153,000), and an elevation of 938 meters (3080 feet).
It was formerly known as Engürü the city is also the capital of Ankara Province
Ankara is a very modern city.
Ankara was made the capital of Turkey in 1923.
Ankara is known for its performing arts, home to the State Opera and Ballet, the Presidential Symphony Orchestra and several national theater companies.
In Ankara there’s a place called Anitkabir, which is a big hilltop mausoleum that was built to celebrate Kemal Atatürk who was the first president.
Ankara is a city that has a lot of history.
Ankara was invaded many times.
In 546 BCE, Achaemenid Persians was in control of Ankara (approximated date).
Ankara was then invaded by the Romans in 25 BCE.
At the time, Ankara was controlled by Augustus.
Ankara castle was captured by the Crusaders in 1101.
Ankara castle was captured again by the Seljuks in 1227.
Ankara was controlled again by the Ottomans in 1403.
In October 13, 1923 Ankara became the capital of Turkey.
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (more commonly known as Johannes Gutenberg) (1390s – 3 February 1468), was a German metal-worker and inventor.
He is famous for his work in printing in the 1450s, and is specifically known for inventing typography.
Gutenberg was born in Mainz, Germany, as the son of a merchant, Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden.
Gutenberg's father took the surname "zum Gutenberg" after the name of the place they now lived.
Gutenberg invented a sort of metal alloy for printing; inks; a way to fix type (metal letters) very accurately; and a new sort of printing press.
He took the idea for his printing press from the presses wine-makers used.
Many people say Gutenberg invented printing with moveable type, but it was already invented in China before that: see printing.
Before movable type, people used block printing, where the printer prints a whole page from one piece of metal or wood.
With movable type, the printer makes a letter (A, B, C ...) from a piece of metal or wood, and can use it again and again in different words.
Together, all Gutenberg's inventions made printing fast.
In Renaissance Europe, the improved information technology made an information explosion – in a short time, people printed many new books about many topics.
The high number of new books was partly because of the popular Bible Gutenberg printed – the Gutenberg Bible.
This was the first Bible people made in large numbers; Gutenberg started on 23 February 1455.
Gutenberg was not a clever businessman, and did not get much money from his system.
He had legal problems, and lost his machines to his partner, Johann Fust.
The Archbishop at the time sympathized with Gutenberg because of his contributions to society, so told him that he would receive a pension each year with clothes, wine, and grain.
Gutenberg died in Mainz, Germany, in 1468.
In his lifetime Gutenberg was not successful, but his invention was very important.
In a short time, news and books were traveling around Europe very fast.
Scientists could communicate better, which helped bring the scientific revolution and new technology.
More Europeans, not just priests, scribes and scholars, learned to read.
Today, there are still 60 Gutenberg Bibles.
They are probably the oldest books that printers made with moveable type.
The Gutenberg Galaxy and Project Gutenberg use Gutenberg's name.
The city of Guttenberg, Iowa in the United States is named after him.
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Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was the Queen of England and Ireland.
She was Queen from 17 November 1558 until she died in March 1603.
She was also called Good Queen Bess or the Virgin Queen or Gloriana.
She was the daughter of King Henry VIII of England and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, and was the last of the Tudor dynasty of monarchs.
When Boleyn was disgraced at court and executed, Elizabeth's life became a troubled one, including being locked up in the Tower of London, an old prison, as punishment for not being a male heir.
Despite that, Elizabeth reigned with intelligence and hard work.
Her reign was distinguished with great achievements in the arts, trade, and exploration.
She ably defended her country through the days of the Spanish Armada.
She never married, but claimed that she was married to England.
She also had a few other favourites, including the Earl of Leicester.
At her death in 1603, King James VI of Scotland was named her successor.
Elizabeth was born in 1533 at Greenwich, England.
She was the daughter of King Henry VIII of England and his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
She had an older half-sister Mary, and, later, a younger half-brother Edward.
Elizabeth was given a good education.
She could speak and read six languages: her native English, as well as French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, and Latin.
When she was thirteen and a half years old, on 28 January 1547, King Henry died.
Elizabeth's half-brother, Edward, became King Edward VI of England.
He died age 15.
Mary succeeded him in 1553, and after Queen Mary's death in 1558, Elizabeth became Queen.
Achievements as Queen
Mary I had brought back the Roman Catholic religion in England.
Elizabeth returned the nation to the Church of England of her father.
She did however retain some of the Catholic traditions.
She wanted her subjects to make it look like they were being Protestant even if they were not.
The years of Elizabeth's reign had many artistic achievements.
William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, and other writers created enduring drama and poetry.
Composers Thomas Tallis and William Byrd worked at Elizabeth's court.
During her reign, many men sought adventure abroad.
Elizabeth rented a slave ship to John Hawkins and gave him weapons and equipment to keep slave trading.
Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Humphrey Gilbert, and other "sea dogs" looted Spanish ships.
They also sailed to the Americas.
In 1580, Drake became the first Englishman to sail around the world.
The expeditions of these men prepared England for an age of discovery and international trade and owning other parts of the world.
In 1600, Elizabeth herself established a trading company known as the East India Company that became an important tool of the British Empire.
England and Spain had long quarrelled.
Elizabeth encouraged Protestants in the Spanish-held Netherlands to rebel against Spain.
She also encouraged her "sea dogs" to raid Spanish ships.
In 1588, King Philip II of Spain sent an armada (a large fleet of ships) to invade England.
The Spanish Armada was met by England's smaller ships on 29 July 1588.
They defeated the Armada.
The Armada was driven by southwest winds to the north.
The English fleet harried it up the east coast of England.
The Armada returned to Spain round the north of Scotland and south around Ireland.
It was hit by bad weather near Scotland and Ireland, and some ships were wrecked on those coasts.
More than a third of the ships did not return to Spain.
Queen's noblemen
Elizabeth never married, and she had no children.
However, she was fond of several noblemen in her court.
Prominent among these noblemen was Robert Dudley, the 1st Earl of Leicester.
Later, she turned to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
He wanted to overthrow the government of the Queen.
He was defeated and executed.
Elizabeth's death
Elizabeth died at Richmond Palace on 24 March 1603.
The Protestant King of Scotland James VI became King of England.
He was the son of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots.
Elizabeth I was the last Tudor monarch, and reigned for 44 years.
Her accession date was a national holiday for two hundred years.
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Catherine Elise Blanchett  (; born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress, producer, and theatre director.
She was born in Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia.
In 1998 she won an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for playing Elizabeth I in Elizabeth.
In 2005 she won Best Supporting Actress for playing Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator.
Regarded as one of the greatest actresses of her generation, she is noted for her versatile roles in blockbusters, independent films, and in her stage work in various theatre productions.
She has received  numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Film Awards.
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Kylie Ann Minogue,  (; born 28 May 1968) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress, sometimes known simply as Kylie.
She became popular in the late 1980s, because of her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before becoming a dance-pop singer.
Minogue was born in Melbourne to a Welsh immigrant mother and Irish-Australian father.
Her sister Dannii Minogue is also a singer and actress, and her brother Brendan works as a cameraman.
She was signed to a contract by British songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman, she got hit records throughout the world.
Her popularity began to decline by the early 1990s and she left Stock, Aitken & Waterman in 1992.
For years she tried to become an independent performer and songwriter.
Her projects were widely talked about, but her albums resulted in the lowest sales of her career.
In 2000, Minogue became popular again as a dance-pop singer and became well known for her sexual music videos and elaborate concerts.
She has one of the longest and most successful careers in pop music, and she has become one of the most recognisable celebrities and sex symbols.
In Australia, she holds the record for the highest concert ticket sales for a woman, and has had nine singles at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart.
On 17 May 2005, Minogue was diagnosed with breast cancer.
She was on tour at the time, and the rest of it had to be cancelled.
Minogue had surgery for it on 21 May 2005 at a hospital in Malvern, Victoria, and started chemotherapy soon afterwards.
She finished her chemotherapy treatment in January 2006 but still needed six more weeks of radiotherapy to stop any new cancerous tumours from growing.
Minogue began a relationship with Joshua Sasse in 2015.
The couple became engaged in February 2016.
They said in February 2017 that they had split up.
Kylie (1988)
Enjoy Yourself (1989)
Rhythm of Love (1990)
Let's Get to It (1991)
Kylie Minogue (1994)
Impossible Princess (1997)
Light Years (2000)
Fever (2001)
Body Language (2003)
X (2007)
Aphrodite (2010)
Kiss Me Once (2014)
Kylie Christmas (2015)
Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition (2016)
Golden (2018)
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Natalie Jane Imbruglia  (born 4 February 1975) is an Australian actress and singer-songwriter.
Imbruglia began acting in Australian television commercials and was in spots for Coca-Cola and the popular Australian snack Twisties.
By age 16, she left high school to start a career in acting.
She soon had the chance to play a regular role on the Australian soap opera Neighbours.
She left the show to move to London in 1994.
She received an MTV Award for Best New Artist in 1998.
She had 3 Grammy Award nominations in 1999.
That same year, she also won two Brit Awards for Best International Newcomer and Best International Female.
She has sold over 9 million albums worldwide.
Left of the Middle (1997)
White Lilies Island (2001)
Counting Down the Days (2005)
Come to Life (2009)
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Nicole Mary Kidman, AC  (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian-American actress, singer and film producer.
She began acting in movies in 1983.
She starred in various Australian movies and television shows.
Her first major role was in Dead Calm in 1989.
Her performance in the musical Moulin Rouge! (
2001) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
She later won the award in this category for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002).
Kidman appeared as Atlanna, Aquaman's mother, in the 2018 DC Comics-Warner Bros. movie Aquaman (2018).
She played Lucille Ball in the 2021 biographical drama movie Being the Ricardos.
She won a Golden Globe Award and earned an Academy Award nomination in 2022 for her role as Ball.
Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii while her Australian parents were temporarily in the United States on educational visas.
Kidman can therefore claim citizenship in Australia and the United States.
Her father, Antony David Kidman (1938-2014) was a biochemist, clinical psychologist, and author.
Her mother, Janelle Ann (née Glenny), is a nursing instructor who edits her husband's books and was a member of the Women's Electoral Lobby.
Kidman is of Scottish and Irish ancestry.
At the time of Kidman's birth, her father was a graduate student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
He soon became a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health of the United States.
Opposed to the war in Vietnam, which was causing social unrest in both Australia and the United States, Kidman's parents participated in anti-war protests while they were living in Washington, D.C. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four and her parents now live on Sydney's North Shore.
Kidman has a younger sister, Antonia Kidman, a journalist and TV presenter.
Kidman's first movie was in 1983.
It was called BMX Bandits.
Her first famous movie was Dead Calm in 1989.
Her first major movie was called Days of Thunder, which also starred Tom Cruise.
They fell in love during the filming of that movie and  married.
Kidman was then in more movies like Flirting, Billy Bathgate, Far and Away, Malice, My Life and To Die For.
All of these movies were successes.
She was then in movies like Batman Forever and Practical Magic.
In 1999 she starred in a movie with Cruise called Eyes Wide Shut.
They played a married couple in the movie.
It was the last movie directed by director Stanley Kubrick.
They separated and divorced after making Eyes Wide Shut.
Since Kidman and Cruise divorced, she has been in movies including: Moulin Rouge!,
The Others, Cold Mountain, The Stepford Wives and Bewitched.
She was married to Tom Cruise until 2001.
She is now married to Keith Urban.
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Hugh Michael Jackman AC (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor, singer and producer.
He plays on different roles and various genres of movies like romance, superhero, musical, drama, action and comedy.
Early and personal life
Jackman was born on 12 October 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia to English parents.
He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men movie series.
His performances in The Fountain, Les Misérables and Prisoners garnered strong critical acclaim.
His work in Les Misérables earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award in 2013.
In theater, he won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz.
Jackman married Deborra-Lee Furness in 1996 in Melbourne.
The couple adopted a son and daughter.
Jackman has been described as one of the world's most attractive man, by various media outlets and his perceived sex appeal has been picked up by many sources, including Empire, who named him one of the sexiest stars in movie history and People, who named him one of the World's Most Beautiful People.
In 2008 Jackman won People's Sexiest Man Alive.
Jackman appeared on Forbes's annual Celebrity 100 list of the 100 most powerful celebrities and In 2013, he topped Forbes'''s Most Powerful Actors list.
Jackman plays multiple sports, plays the guitar, piano and violin and does dancing.
He is also a philanthropist.
In November 2013, Jackman announced he had skin cancer removed from his nose.
He had a second cancer removed from his nose in May 2014, and said that the cancer will always return.
MoviesErskineville Kings (1999)Paperback Hero (1999)X-Men (2000)Kate & Leopold (2001)Someone Like You (2001)Swordfish (2001)X2 (2003)Profile of a Serial Killer (2004)Van Helsing (2004)Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004)The Prestige (2006)The Fountain (2006)Scoop (2006)X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)Deception (2008)Australia (2008)X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)X-Men: First Class (2011)Real Steel (2011)Les Misérables (2012)The Wolverine (2013)Prisoners (2013)X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)Chappie (2015)Pan (2015)Eddie the Eagle (2016)X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)Logan (2017)The Greatest Showman (2017)Missing Link (2019)
Video GamesVan Helsing (2004)X-Men: The Official Game (2006)X-Men Origins: Wolverine (video game) (2009)
TheatreThe Season at Sarsaparilla (Australia-1994)Thark (Australia-1994)Beauty And The Beast (Australia-1995)Sunset Boulevard (Australia-1996)Oklahoma! (
West End-1998)Carousel (Broadway-2002)The Boy From Oz (Broadway-2003)The Boy From Oz Arena Spectacular (Australia-2006)A Steady Rain (Broadway-2009)Hugh Jackman, in Performance (California-2011)Hugh Jackman, in Concert (Canada-2011)Hugh Jackman, Back On Broadway (Broadway-2011)The River (Broadway-2014)Broadway To Oz'' (Australia-2015)
‘’The Music Man‘’ (Broadway 2022)
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Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson  (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.
He is mostly known for his roles in action movies.
Some of his most famous roles are in Mad Max (1979), Gallipoli (1981), The Bounty  (1984), Lethal Weapon (1987), and Braveheart (1995).
He directed The Passion of the Christ in 2004.
He loosely based it on the visions of St. Catherine Emmerich.
Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, United States.
His father, Hutton Gibson, was a veteran soldier during World War II and was also a famous writer.
His family moved to Australia in 1968, when he was 12.
He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.
He also has Irish citizenship.
Awards and accomplishments
Australian Film Institute Awards: Best Actor in a Lead Role, for Tim (1979) and Gallipoli (1981)
Academy Award: Best Picture, for Braveheart (1995)
Academy Award: Best Director, for Braveheart (1995)
People's Choice Awards: Favorite Motion Picture Actor (1991, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004)
People's Choice Awards: Favorite Motion Picture Star in a Comedy (2001)
ShoWest Award: Male Star of the Year (1993)
ShoWest Award: Director of the Year (1996)
American Cinematheque Gala Tribute: American Cinematheque Award (1995)
Hasty Pudding Theatricals: Man of the Year (1997)
Australian Film Institute Awards: Global Achievement Award (2002)
Honorary Doctorate Recipient and Undergraduate Commencement Speaker, Loyola Marymount University (2003)
World's most powerful celebrity by US business magazine Forbes (2004)
Hollywood Reporter Innovator of the Year (2004)
Honorary fellowship in Performing Arts by Limkokwing University (2007)
Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema Award at the Irish Film and Television Awards (2008)
Gibson, Mel at the Open Directory Project
1956 births
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Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag; ; June 9, 1981) is an Israeli-American actress and filmmaker.
She was born in Jerusalem, Israel.
Portman is an only child.
She lived in Washington, D.C. and Connecticut before coming to Long Island, New York with her parents.
In 1999, she graduated from Syosset High School.
Portman attended Harvard University, studying Psychology.
In 2010, She won the Academy, BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards for "Best Actress" for her acting in the movie Black Swan.
She is most famous for starring in Star Wars Episodes I, II and III as Padme in the early 21st century.
She has also appeared on Saturday Night Live.
Song to Song (2017)
Planetarium (2016)
Jackie (2016)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Jane Got a Gun (2016)
A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
Knight of Cups (2015)
The Seventh Fire (2015)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Thor (2011)
Your Highness (2011)
No Strings Attached (2011)
Black Swan (2010)
Hesher (2010)
Brothers (2009)
New York, I Love You (2009)
The Other Woman (2009)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Paris, je t'aime (2006)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Closer (2004)
Garden State (2004)
Cold Mountain (2003)
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Where the Heart Is (2000)
Anywhere but Here (1999)
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Mars Attacks! (
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Heat (1995)
Léon aka The Professional (1994)
2002 - Teen Choice Awards, Choice Movie Actress: Drama/Action Adventure: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
2005 - Golden Globe Awards, Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Closer
2005 - National Board of Review Awards, Best Acting by an Ensemble: Closer
2005 - San Diego Film Critics Society Awards, Best Supporting Actress: Closer
2007 - The Constellation Awards, Best Female Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Film, TV Movie, or Mini-Series: V for Vendetta
2007 - Saturn Awards, Best Actress: V for Vendetta
2010 - Academy Awards, Best Actress: Black Swan
2010 - BAFTA Awards, Best Actress: Black Swan
2010 - Golden Globe Awards, Best Actress - Motion Picture: Black Swan
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Alyson Lee Hannigan is an American actress.
She was born March 24, 1974 in Washington, D.C. She moved to Atlanta, Georgia when she was 2 years old to live with her mother.
She started to act in commercials for McDonalds, Six Flags amusement parks and Oreo cookies when she was small.
When she was 11, she went to Los Angeles with her mother to go to school and become famous.
She started getting noticed with her roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Willow Rosenberg and in the American Pie movies as Michelle Flaherty.
She is currently on the television series How I Met Your Mother.
The Indy Channel interview  (February 15, 2006)
Sun Times interview  (July 21, 2005)
Actors from Washington, D.C.
Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is a businesswoman, American television and movie actress, and model.
She started her business, The Honest Company, in 2011.
Alba made her first movie, Camp Nowhere, at age 13 and in the television drama series Dark Angel (2000–2002).
Alba later acted in several movies, such as Honey (2003), Sin City (2005) and Good Luck Chuck (2007).
Alba has won several awards for her acting.
These awards include the "Choice Actress" award at the Teen Choice Award and a Saturn Award.
Both of these awards were for her acting in the series Dark Angel.
She has been listed in the "Hot 100" section of Maxim magazine every year from 2003 to 2007, and she was voted "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM in 2007.
In March 2007, a picture of her was used on the cover of Playboy.
Playboy did not ask her if they could use the picture or tell her they were going to use it.
This caused a lawsuit that was later dropped.
Alba was born in Pomona, California.
Her mother, Catherine, is of Danish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, German and French Canadian ancestry and her father, Mark, is Mexican American, and is of Indigenous Mexican, Sephardic Jewish, Spanish and Mayan ancestry.
She has a younger brother named Joshua.
Alba's father was in the Air Force and his career caused them to live in many different places.
They lived in Biloxi, Mississippi and Del Rio, Texas before returning to California at age 9.
When she was young, Alba was ill many times.
She had a collapsed lung twice, had pneumonia four or five times each year and had problems with her appendix and tonsils.
She was in hospitals for much of her childhood.
This meant Alba did not spend much time with other children.
Alba has also said that she had obsessive-compulsive disorder when she was a child.
The disorder affected her much less when her family moved to California.
She graduated from high school when she was 16 years old.
After high school, she went to the Atlantic Theater Company.
Alba wanted to act since she was five.
She took her first acting class at age twelve.
An acting agent signed her nine months later.
Her first movie work was a small role in the 1994 movie Camp Nowhere.
At first, she was only hired for two weeks but ended up working for two months because another actress dropped out.
Alba starred in two national television commercials when she was a child.
One of these was for Nintendo and the other was for J.C. Penney.
She played Jessica in three episodes of the Nickelodeon comedy series The Secret World of Alex Mack.
Alba was then Maya in the television series Flipper.
Her mother was a lifeguard and had taught Jessica to swim before she could walk.
In 1998, she acted in Brooklyn South, in two episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210 and in an episode of The Love Boat: The Next Wave.
After Alba graduated from high school, she studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, at the Atlantic Theater Company.
She became more famous in Hollywood in 1999 after acting in the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, and as the main female character in the 1999 comedy-horror movie Idle Hands.
She was chosen from a group of 1,200 actresses for the role of the genetically-engineered soldier, on the FOX sci-fi television series Dark Angel.
The series ran for two seasons from 2000 until 2002.
Alba was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work on that series.
When she trained to be in Dark Angel, Alba had to exercise very much and she starved herself.
She said "A lot of girls have eating disorders and I did too.
I got obsessed with it."
She also had obsessive compulsive disorder and panic attacks.
She said she has been cooking for herself since the age of twelve so she would not become as fat as her family members.
Some of Alba's most famous movie roles are a dancer in Sin City and as Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four.
She also acted in Into the Blue in 2005 and Good Luck Chuck a few years later.
In 2008, Alba played her first horror-movie role in The Eye, a remake of the Hong Kong original.
In February, she hosted an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences's ceremony.
Later in the year, she starred in The Love Guru.
In 2010, Alba appeared in five movies including Little Fockers and The Killer Inside Me.
The following year she appeared in Spy Kids 4,  a sequel to Spy Kids.
In 2007, Maxim Magazine listed Alba as number 2 in their "Top 100", after Lindsay Lohan.
GQ had her picture on their June covers.
In May, after eight million votes, FHM (UK and US editions) named Alba the winner as "2007’s Sexiest Woman in the World".
She received the Teen Choice Award for Choice Actress and Saturn Award for Best Actress (TV) for her role in Dark Angel, along with a Golden Globe nomination.
In 2006, she received an MTV Movie Award for "Sexiest Performance" for Sin City.
Some people have said Alba's acting was bad.
She was nominated for a 2007 Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her work in Awake, Good Luck Chuck, and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
On the cover of the March 2006 issue, Playboy magazine named Alba among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities and the "Sex Star of the Year".
She took Playboy to court for using a picture of her without her permission.
However, she later dropped the lawsuit when she got a personal apology from Playboy owner Hugh Hefner.
He agreed to make donations to two charities that Alba supports.
Alba was raised in the Roman Catholic religion.
When she was a teenager she became a born-again Christian.
However, she left the church after four years because she believed that she was being judged by the way she looked.
She has said that she still believes in God even though she is not a member of the church.
Alba has not performed naked.
She was given the option to appear nude in Sin City by the movie's directors, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez.
She said no to the offer saying, "I don't do nudity.
Maybe that makes me a bad actress.
But I have too much anxiety".
While filming Dark Angel, Alba began a romance with another member of the cast, Michael Weatherly.
This caused controversy because he was 12 years older than she was.
He asked her to marry him on her twentieth birthday but she said no.
They eventually broke up after a four-year relationship.
When talking about children, she said, "I'm really girly when it comes to kids.
I've been surrounded by children my whole life because I'm the oldest of 15 cousins - I've been changing (nappies) since I was six... I want to have a couple, for sure.".
Alba is a Democrat and attended the 2012 Democratic National Convention in support of President Obama's re-election.
Alba married Cash Warren on May 19, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.
She met him while making Fantastic Four in 2004.
On June 7, 2008, Alba gave birth to a baby girl called Honor Marie Warren.
She also does some charity work, including clothes charity Clothes Off Our Back and women's charity Step Up Women's Network.
On August 13, 2011, she gave birth to her second daughter, Haven Garner Warren.
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William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a school counsellor, and William Alvin Pitt, who ran a trucking company.
The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his younger siblings, Doug (born 1966) and Julie Neal (born 1969).
He was born into a conservative household.
He was raised as Southern Baptist.
Pitt has described Springfield as "Mark Twain country, Jesse James country", having grown up with "a lot of hills, a lot of lakes".
Pitt's television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World.
In 1995 Pitt won two MTV Movie Awards for his role in Interview with the Vampire.
He played Tyler Durden in Fight Club.
Pitt produced the 2013 movie 12 Years a Slave.
He also played a small role in the movie.
He starred in two Quentin Tarantino movies: Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
In 2020, he won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born March 11, 1969) is an American actor, movie producer, and television producer.
She is best known for her starring role on the television program Friends.
For this she won an Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Since then she has been in many different movies.
Jennifer Aniston was born on February 11, 1969, in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California.
She is the daughter of John Aniston and Nancy Dow.
Her father is Greek and a native of Crete, while her mother was born in New York City.
Dow died of a stroke in May 2016.
One of her maternal great-grandfathers was an Italian immigrant, and her mother's other ancestry is Scottish, Irish, and a small amount of Greek.
Aniston has two half-brothers, John Melick, her maternal older half-brother, and Alex Aniston, her younger paternal half-brother.
Aniston's godfather was actor Telly Savalas, one of her father's best friends.
She was married to Brad Pitt from 2000 until they divorced in 2005.
They acted together in the episode "The One with the Rumor" on Friends.
She began a relationship with Justin Theroux in 2011.
The couple married in 2015 in Bel Air, Los Angeles.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress and singer.
She is most known for playing "Sarah Reeves" in the Fox television series Party of Five from (1995-1999),  and as "Julie James" in the I Know What You Did Last Summer movies.
She also played "Melinda Gordon" on the CBS television series Ghost Whisperer.
Early life and career
Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas.
Her father is Herbert Daniel Hewitt.
Her mother was Patricia Mae (née Shipp, died 2012).
She moved to Garland, Texas in 1987.
Hewitt grew up in Killeen, Texas.
After the divorce of her parents, Hewitt and her only sibling, Todd Hewitt, grew up with her mother.
As a young girl, Hewitt liked music.
At the age of three, she sang The Greatest Love of All at a livestock show.
By the time she was five, Hewitt did tap dancing and ballet.
At the age of ten she moved to Los Angeles, California, with her mother for a career in both acting and singing.
After moving to Los Angeles, Hewitt was in more than twenty television commercials.
She was a child actor on the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated (1989–1991).
Hewitt became a young star after getting the role of 'Sarah Reeves' on the Fox Television show Party of Five (1995–1999).
She joined the cast during its second season.
Movie and music career
Hewitt's first movie role was in the independent movie Munchie (1992).
Hewitt became very well known after a lead role in the horror movie I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).
She also played in the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998).
Other  movie roles included the high school comedy Can't Hardly Wait (1998) and the romantic comedy Heartbreakers (2001).
In 2002, she worked with Jackie Chan in the action comedy The Tuxedo.
She has released four albums with some success, mostly in Europe and Japan.
Her first album was released in Japan, where she is widely known.
Hewitt married actor Brian Hallisay in 2013.
The couple's daughter named Autumn James Hallisay, born on November 26, 2013.
Their son named Atticus James Hallisay, born on June 24, 2015.
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Katherine Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress.
She was born in Toledo, Ohio.
She was "Joey" on the WB network TV show Dawson's Creek.
Her mother's name is Katherine Ann Holmes
Holmes dated her Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson early in the show's run.
Holmes met actor Chris Klein in 2000.
Klein and Holmes were engaged in late 2003.
In early 2005 she and Klein ended their relationship.
Weeks after her relationship with Klein ended, Holmes began dating actor Tom Cruise.
She and Cruise married on November 18, 2006.
On April 18, 2006 their daughter named Suri was born.
In June 2012, Holmes filed for divorce.
This was the first divorce for Holmes and the third for Cruise.
In early March 2011, Holmes filed a $50 million libel lawsuit against the Star.
They had a cover story which made it seem that she took drugs.
The suit was settled on April 27, 2011.
The Star wrote a public apology in the May 6, 2011 issue.
They also made a "substantial" donation to Katie's charity Dizzy Feet Foundation.
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Sigourney Weaver (born as Susan Alexandra Weaver on October 8, 1949, in New York City) is an American actress.
Weaver played the role of Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in the movie series Alien, in the four movies Alien, Aliens, Alien³, and Alien: Resurrection.
She is also well known for playing Dana Barrett in the movies Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II or for the role Dian Fossey in the movie Gorillas in the Mist.
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Born in Brussels, Belgium, to an English father and a Dutch mother who were divorced in 1935.
She grew up in Arnhem municipality in the Netherlands during the war, with her mother and two maternal half-brothers.
When World War II ended, she and her mother moved to England.
There, she studied ballet, and began working as a model and appearing in bit parts in the theatre and in movies.
Hepburn got her first major break in 1951, when she was chosen by French writer Colette to play the lead role in the English version of her play Gigi on Broadway.
This led to her being cast in the lead female part in the movie Roman Holiday (1953), opposite Gregory Peck.
The movie  made her an instant international star.
Her performance won her the Academy Award, the Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA for best actress.
She then appeared in a string of successful romantic comedies, such as Sabrina (1954), Love in the Afternoon (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), How to Steal a Million (1967), etc.
She also appeared in two musicals; Funny Face (1957) and My Fair Lady (1964) and tackled more dramatic roles in movies such as War and Peace (1956), The Nun's Story (1959), The Children's Hour (1961), Two for the Road (1967) and the thriller Wait Until Dark (1967).
After an eight years absence from the screen to take care of her family, she returned with Robin and Marian (1976), opposite Sean Connery.
She also appeared in Bloodline (1979) and They All Laughed (1981) but retired for good shortly after.
In later life, she worked as a Goodwill Ambassasor for UNICEF and hosted a television series The Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn.
She was married twice; first to actor/director Mel Ferrer in 1954, with whom she had a son Sean (b. 1960), and second to Italian psychiatrist Doctor Andrea Dotti in 1969, with whom she had a second son Luca (b. 1970).
Death and legacy
Hepburn died of appendix cancer in January 1993.
Her elder son, Sean Ferrer, later wrote a book about his mother, called Audrey Hepburn: an elegant spirit.
The asteroid 4238 Audrey is named after her.
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress.
Her career lasted 66 years.
She is thought of as one of the top screen actresses in movie history.
She was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning four.
Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut and went to Bryn Mawr College.
She got her degree in 1928 and started on Broadway that same year.
In 1932 she got a role in the George Cukor movie A Bill of Divorcement, with John Barrymore.
She was very successful in the early 1930s, but then she became unpopular.
She became popular again with the movie The Philadelphia Story.
In 1942 she starred in Woman of the Year with Spencer Tracy.
They made eight more movies together, including Adam's Rib and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
They also had an off-screen romance that lasted until Tracy's death in 1967, but they never married because Tracy did not want to divorce his wife.
Before this, Hepburn was married to Ludlow Ogden Smith from 1928-1934, and also had relationships with Leland Hayward and Howard Hughes.
Her autobiography, Me: Stories of My Life, came out in 1991.
She died on June 29, 2003 at 2:50 p.m., at Fenwick, the Hepburn family home, in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
She was 96.
Stage work
These Days - 1928
Art and Mrs. Bottle - 1930
The Warrior's Husband - 1932
The Lake - 1933
The Philadelphia Story - 1939
Without Love - 1942
As You Like It - 1950
The Millionairess - 1952
The Merchant of Venice; Measure for Measure; The Taming of the Shrew - 1955, On tour in Australia with the Old Vic
The Merchant of Venice; Much Ado About Nothing - 1957, Stratford, Connecticut Shakespeare Theatre
Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night - 1960, Stratford, Connecticut Shakespeare Theatre
Coco - 1969
A Matter of Gravity - 1976
The West Side Waltz - 1981
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Charles Kay Ogden (1 June 1889 – 21 March 1957) was an English linguist, philosopher, psycholinguist and writer.
He is a well-known book writer about the controlled language called Basic English.
He is known for his work with I. A. Richards on The Meaning of Meaning (1923).
He also translated Tractatus, a book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, into English.
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"God Save the Queen" has been the national anthem of the United Kingdom since 1745.
Its also the royal anthem of the Commonwealth realms, played alongside their official national anthems.
Its composer remains unknown to this date.
The tune for "God Save the Queen" was used in many countries as a national anthem.
Apart from the German state, many of which were linked to Great Britain by marriage, Liechtenstein and Switzerland used the tune.
Switzerland changed to a different tune in the 1960s.
Liechtenstein still uses the tune.
The tune is both American and British.
In the 1930s the United States chose an official anthem. "
The Star-Spangled Banner" was chosen instead of the equally popular "My Country 'tis of Thee" which used the "God Save the Queen" tune.
God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen:
Send her victorious,
Long to reign over us:
Scatter her enemies,
And make them fall.
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign:
May she defend our laws,
To sing with heart and voice
Original lyrics: "God Save the King"
God save great George our king
God save our noble king,
God save the king!
Send him victorious
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us
Latin verse
O Deus optime
Salvum nunc facito
Regem nostrum
Sic laeta victoria
Comes et gloria
Salvum iam facito
Tu dominum.
French version used in Canada
Dieu protège la Reine
Vive la Reine !
Māori version used in New Zealand
Me tohu e t'Atua
To matou Kuini pai:
Kia ora ia
Meinga kia maia ia,
Kia hari nui, kia koa,
Kia kuini tonu ia,
Tau tini noa.
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The lion (Panthera leo) is a large mammal of the Felidae (cat) family.
Some large males weigh over .
Today, wild lions live in sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia.
Lions are adapted for life in grasslands and mixed areas with trees and grass.
The relatively small females are fast runners over short distances, and coordinate their hunting of herd animals.
Lions have disappeared from North Africa and southwest Asia in historic times.
Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans.
They were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru.
The lion is now a vulnerable species.
There was a decline in its African range of 30–50% over two decades in the second half of the 20th century.
Habitat loss and conflicts with humans are the greatest causes of concern.
Lions are often called the "king of the beasts".
They are used as symbols representing courage.
They appear in heraldry more often than any other animal.
They are an icon of courage and royalty.
Lions live for 10 to 14 years when they are in the wild.
When they are captured, they can live longer than 20 years.
In the wild, males do not usually live longer than 10 years.
This is because wounds from fighting with other males make their lives shorter.
They usually live in savanna and grassland.
These areas do have bushes and trees, but lions are mainly adapted to catch prey on grasslands.
Compared to other cats, lions are social.
A group of lions is called a pride.
In a pride of lions, there are related females, their young, and one or two adult males.
Groups of female lions often hunt together.
Lions are carnivores and scavengers.
Lions are apex predators.
Lions eat antelope, buffalo, zebras, warthogs, wildebeest, birds, hares, turtles and fish.
Lions scavenge animals either dead from natural causes (disease) or killed by other predators.
They keep a constant lookout for circling vultures, because this means there is a dead or injured animal close by.
They have long, retractable claws which help the lion to grab and hold prey.
They also have a rough tongue that helps them peel the skin of prey animals away from flesh and flesh away from bone.
Across their belly, they have loose skin which allows the species to be kicked by prey with little chance of an injury.
There are about 30,000 lions left in the wild in Africa.