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Hasegawa was born in Uji on February 11, 1969.
After graduating from Osaka University of Economics, he joined Japan Soccer League club Honda in 1991.
He mainly played as regular player in 1990s.
The club won the champions J1 League 4 times, J.League Cup 3 times and Emperor's Cup 2 times.
He retired in July 2003.
On 15 February 1995, Hasegawa debuted for the Japan national team against Australia.
He was also selected Japan in 1996.
He played 6 games for Japan until 1996.
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Trevor Kell (born June 23, 1986 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was drafted 131st by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.
Malcolm MacMillan (born February 8, 1982, in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player.
MacMillan spent four seasons in the Ontario Hockey League with three different teams and turned pro in 2003.
He played in the ECHL and split the 2003–04 season with the Peoria Rivermen, Cincinnati Cyclones and the Florence Pride.
After spending 2004–05 in the United Hockey League with the Port Huron Beacons, MacMillan returned to the ECHL with the Reading Royals.
He also had short spells in the American Hockey League with the Hershey Bears and the Albany River Rats.
In 2008, MacMillian moved to the United Kingdom, signing with the Belfast Giants scoring 36 points in 47 games.
Bobby Bolt (born April 29, 1987 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was drafted 127th by the Anaheim Ducks in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.
Maleficium is a term from Latin.
It can be translated as wrongdoing or evil doing, or mischief.
It was used to refer to dangerous and harmful magic, and to acts of witchcraft.
Komodo is one of the 17,508 islands in the Republic of Indonesia.
The island has a surface area of 390 km² and over 2000 people live there.
The people on Komodo are descendants of former convicts.
They were sent away to the island and mixed with the Bugis from Sulawesi.
Most people are Muslim, but there are also smaller groups of Christians and Hindus.
Komodo is part of the Lesser Sunda chain of islands.
It is part of the Komodo National Park.
The Komodo dragon is especially famous here.
Also, the island is a popular place for Scuba diving.
It is part of the East Nusa Tenggara province.
Komodo is between two much larger islands.
Sumbawa is on the west side and Flores is on the east.
Ella Jane Fitzgerald  (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), was an American jazz singer.
She was called "Lady Ella", the "Queen of Jazz", and the "First Lady of Song".
Her voice spanned three octaves.
She could sing very high notes and very low notes.
She was famous for her scat singing.
She won 14 Grammy Awards.
She was awarded the National Medal of Art and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Ella Fitzgerald was born in 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, United States to William and Temperance "Tempie" Fitzgerald.
Soon after Ella was born, her parents separated.
She went to live in Yonkers, New York with her mother and her mother's boyfriend, Joseph Da Silva.
In 1923, Fitzgerald's half-sister, Frances Da Silva, was born.
When she was a child, Fitzgerald lived in the Colored Orphan Asylum in Riverdale, the Bronx.
As a youngster, Fitzgerald wanted to be a dancer.
She loved listening to jazz music by Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and The Boswell Sisters.
She especially liked the lead singer Connee Boswell, later saying, "My mother brought home one of her records, and I fell in love with it....I tried so hard to sound just like her."
In 1932, Fitzgerald's mother died.
Ella began doing badly at school.
At one time, she had a job as a lookout at a brothel and a job with some people with Mafia connections.
She got into trouble with the police, and was sent to a reform school.
She escaped from the reformatory, and for a time was homeless.
Fitzgerald had her first job as a singer when she was 17 on November 21, 1934 at the Harlem Opera House in Harlem, New York.
She was able to compete in one of its famous "Amateur Nights".
At first she was going to go on stage and dance but, intimidated by some local dancers, she decided to sing instead.
She won the first prize of US$25 singing Connee Boswell's "Judy" and "The Object of My Affection".
Big-band singing
In January 1935, Fitzgerald won the chance to perform for a week with the Tiny Bradshaw band at the Harlem Opera House.
She met a drummer and bandleader called Chick Webb here.
Webb had already hired a singer called Charlie Linton to work with the band.
According to The New York Times, Webb was "reluctant to sign her....because she was gawky and unkempt, a diamond in the rough."
Webb let her try singing with his band when they played a dance at Yale University.
Fitzgerald began singing often with Webb's Orchestra during 1935, at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom.
She recorded several hit songs with them, including "Love and Kisses" and "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)".
In 1938 she co-wrote and sang a version of the nursery rhyme, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket".
After this, she started getting famous.
Chick Webb died on June 16, 1939, and his band was renamed "Ella Fitzgerald and her Famous Orchestra".
Fitzgerald became the bandleader.
She recorded nearly 150 sides during her time with the orchestra.
Singing with Decca
In 1942, Fitzgerald left the band and began to work as a solo singer.
She was signed to the Decca label, and she had several popular hit songs.
She recording with other musicians like the Ink Spots, Louis Jordan, and the Delta Rhythm Boys.
Decca's Milt Gabler became her manager and she began working often for the jazz producer Norman Granz.
She often sang in his Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts.
Then, Granz became her manager, but he did not record her on any of his record labels for nearly a decade.
In the mid-1940s, after the swing era, and the end of the great touring big bands, jazz music became quite different.
A new kind of jazz called bebop became popular and Fitzgerald changed her style of singing.
She worked with Dizzy Gillespie's big band and started including scat singing as a big part of her performances.
About singing with Gillespie, Fitzgerald said, "I just tried to do [with my voice] what I heard the horns in the band doing."
Her 1945 scat recording of "Flying Home" was later described by The New York Times as "one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade....Where other singers, most notably Louis Armstrong, had tried similar improvisation, no one before Miss Fitzgerald employed the technique with such dazzling inventiveness."
Her be-bop recording of "Oh, Lady be Good!" (
1947) was also very popular, and made people think of her as one of the most important jazz singers.
Granz did not like some of the music Fitzgerald was given at this time, so during her last years on the Decca label she recorded some duets with pianist Ellis Larkins, released in 1950 as Ella Sings Gershwin.
Singing with Verve
In 1955, Fitzgerald left Decca, and joined Granz's new record label, Verve Records.
She said later, "I had gotten to the point where I was only singing bebop.
I thought bebop was 'it', and that all I had to do was go some place and sing bop.
But it finally got to the point where I had no place to sing.
I realized then that there was more to music than bop.
Norman....felt that I should do other things, so he produced The Cole Porter Songbook with me.
It was a turning point in my life."
A new album, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, was released in 1956.
It was the first of eight multi-album "Songbook" sets that she would record for Verve between 1956 and 1964.
Many of the songs were standards and Fitzgerald tried to cross over into a non-jazz audience.
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook was the only Songbook on which the composer of the songs also played with her.
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, who had worked together for a long time, both played on half the set's 38 tracks, and wrote two new pieces of music for the album: "The E and D Blues", and a musical piece about Fitzgerald (the only "Songbook" track that Fitzgerald does not sing on).
The Songbook series became the Fitzgerald's most critically acclaimed and popular work.
The New York Times wrote in 1996, "These albums were among the first pop records to devote such serious attention to individual songwriters, and they were instrumental in establishing the pop album as a vehicle for serious musical exploration."
Ella Fitzgerald also recorded albums of the songs of Cole Porter and George Gershwin in 1972 and 1983.
The albums were called Ella Loves Cole and Nice Work If You Can Get It.
A later album of songs by a single composer was released when she was with Pablo Records, Ella Abraça Jobim, with songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
While she was recording the Songbooks and the occasional studio album, Fitzgerald toured 40 to 45 weeks per year in the United States and internationally, with Norman Granz.
Granz helped her to become one of the most important live jazz performers.
In the mid-1950s, Fitzgerald became the first African-American to perform at the Mocambo (a Hollywood nightclub), after Marilyn Monroe had persuaded the owner to make the booking.
This was very important in Fitzgerald's career.
The event was turned into a play by Bonnie Greer which is to receive a production in London's West End from November 2009.
Some live albums on Verve that she recorded are well thought of by critics: Ella at the Opera House, Ella in Rome and Ella in Berlin.
In later life, Fitzgerald kept a busy concert schedule, but her health worsened.
She had heart surgery in 1986.
She had diabetes, which accounted for her failing eyesight.
Her diabetes worsened, and both legs were cut off (amputated) below the knees.
She never completely recovered.
She was unable to perform often.
She spent time with family.
Fitzgerald died in her Beverly Hills, California home on June 15, 1996 from a stroke.
She was interred in the Sunset Mission Mausoleum at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.
By the 1990s, Fitzgerald had recorded more than 200 songs.
In 1991, she gave her final concert at Carnegie Hall.
She had performed there 26 times.
She received numerous awards.
In 1979, she received Kennedy Center Honors.
In 1987, she received the National Medal of Arts.
She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
France presented her with the Commander of Arts and Letters award.
Yale University, Dartmouth, and other schools awarded her honorary doctorates.
Several of Fitzgerald's awards, significant personal possessions, and documents were given to the Smithsonian Institution, the library of Boston University, the Library of Congress, and the Schoenberg Library at UCLA.
In 1941, Fitzgerald married Benny Kornegay, a convicted drug dealer.
The marriage was annulled after two years.
In December 1947, she married double bass player Ray Brown.
They adopted a child of Fitzgerald's half-sister, Frances.
They named him Ray Brown, Jr.. Fitzgerald and Brown divorced in 1953.
In July 1957, Reuters reported that Fitzgerald had secretly married Thor Einar Larsen, a young Norwegian, in Oslo.
The affair was quickly forgotten when Larsen was sentenced to five months hard labor in Sweden for stealing money from a young woman.
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter.
She was also called "Lady Day", a nickname that her friend and musical partner Lester Young gave her.
Holiday was a very important influence on jazz and pop singing.
The way that she sang was similar to the way jazz musicians played their instruments.
She was admired for her very personal and intimate way of singing.
Critic John Bush wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever."
She co-wrote some songs which have become jazz standards, like "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", and "Lady Sings the Blues".
She also became famous for singing jazz standards written by other people, like "Easy Living" and "Strange Fruit".
Holiday was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1915, a Roman Catholic.
She had a difficult childhood, which affected her life and career.
Not much is known about her early life, but there are stories about it in her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, which was published in 1956.
Later, it was found out that some parts of this book were wrong.
Holiday got her pseudonym, or stage name, from Billie Dove, an actress she admired, and Clarence Holiday, the man who was probably her father.
At the beginning of her career, she spelled her last name "Halliday", but then changed it back to "Holiday" (they are pronounced the same, 'Hahliday', in American English).
People have never been sure who Holiday's father was.
This is because her birth certificate said her father was called Frank DeViese.
Some people now think that this was a mistake that somebody made when she was born.
Holiday's mother was called Sadie Fagan.
Fagan became pregnant when she was 13 years old.
Her parents threw her out of her home in Baltimore, and she went to Philadelphia where her daughter Eleanora (Billie Holiday) was born.
Fagan moved back to Baltimore and married Clarence Holiday, who was probably her baby's father, but they later divorced.
When she was 10 years old, Holiday often missed school.
When she said that she had been raped, she was sent to The House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic reform school.
She was allowed out two years later, with the help of a family friend.
Holiday moved to New York City with her mother in 1928.
In 1929 Holiday's mother saw a neighbor, Wilbert Rich, raping Holiday.
Rich was sentenced to three months in jail.
But after her incident as a rape victim she was still constantly raped by drunk men in her neighborhood.
She almost got pregnant by a drunk man walking down their street.
Early singing career
Holiday later said that in 1930 she worked as a prostitute in a brothel, and was imprisoned for a short time for solicitation (prostitution).
In the 1930s in Harlem, New York City, she started singing for tips in night clubs, and got a job at Pod's and Jerry's, a famous Harlem jazz club.
In 1933 she was working at a club called Monette's.
She was discovered by a talent scout called John Hammond.
Hammond helped Holiday to record her first songs in November 1933 with Benny Goodman: "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" and "Riffin' the Scotch".
In 1935 she recorded more songs with a group led by pianist Teddy Wilson.
They recorded "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" and "Miss Brown To You".
Teddy Wilson was signed to Brunswick Records by John Hammond to record pop songs in the new 'swing' style for jukeboxes.
They were allowed to improvise the music.
Holiday was very good at improvising the melody line to fit the emotions.
A tenor saxophonist called Lester Young often accompanied Holiday.
He had been a boarder at her mother's house in 1934 and she got on well with him.
Young gave her a nickname, "Lady Day" and she called him "Prez."
She spent three months working at Clark Monroe's Uptown House in New York in 1937.
In the late 1930s, she also worked as a big band singer with Count Basie and Artie Shaw.
She was one of the first black women to work with a white orchestra (Artie Shaw's).
In the 1930s, Holiday was recording for Columbia Records.
She heard of a song called "Strange Fruit".
It was based on a poem about lynching written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx.
The poem had been set to music and was performed at teachers' union meetings.
It was heard by a night club owner called Barney Josephson and he told Holiday about it.
She sang the song at Josephson's club in 1939.
At first she was worried that it might make people angry.
She later said that the song reminded her of her father's death, and that this was partly why she did not want to perform it at first.
In a 1958 interview, she also said that many people did not understand what the song meant: "They'll ask me to sing that sexy song about the people swinging", she said.
The music producers at Columbia Records thought that subject of the song (the lynching of black people)  might upset people.
A music producer called Milt Gabler said that Holiday could record it for his label called Commodore Records.
That was done in April 1939 and Holiday sang "Strange Fruit" over the next twenty years.
The song did not get played on the radio but still sold well.
Gabler said that this was because the other side of the record was "Fine and Mellow", which was a jukebox hit.
Later, she recorded "Strange Fruit" again for Verve.
In 1944, Holiday went to work, still with Milt Gabler, at Decca Records.
She was 29 years old.
Her first songs for Decca were called "Lover Man" and "No More". "
Lover Man" was a song written for her.
It is about a woman who has never known love, and it became one of her biggest hits.
In November 1944, Holiday recorded three songs, "That Ole Devil Called Love", "Big Stuff", and "Don't Explain".
Holiday wrote "Don't Explain" after she caught her husband, Jimmy Monroe, with lipstick on his collar.
After that, Holiday didn't record any songs until August 1945.
She recorded, "Don't Explain", "Big Stuff", "You Better Go Now", and "What is This Thing Called Love?".
In 1946, she recorded songs called "No Good Man" and "Good Morning Heartache", "The Blues Are Brewin", and "Guilty".
In February 1947, Holiday recorded two hits, "There Is No Greater Love" and "Deep Song".
She also recorded "Solitude" and "Easy Living", songs that she had recorded with Teddy Wilson in the 1930s.
Holiday's next recording was after she came out of prison in 1948.
She recorded this time with a vocal group called the Stardusters.
She recorded "Weep No More" and "Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys".
She was worried that people wouldn't like the recordings and recorded two more songs without the group, "My Man" and Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy".
These became very popular.
The next year, Billie had more hits.
She sang a version of Bessie Smith's, song "T'Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do", "Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle of Beer)", "Do Your Duty", and "Keeps on Rainin'", to her lush "You're My Thrill" and "Crazy He Calls Me".
She also recorded a song that she wrote called "Somebody's On My Mind".
In her last recording in 1950, she recorded two songs.
Both of them were backed by strings, horns, and a choir.
She recorded her own "God Bless the Child" and "This is Heaven to Me".
In 1947, Holiday was in a film with Louis Armstrong called New Orleans.
The musical drama film featured Holiday singing with Armstrong and his band and was directed by Arthur Lubin.
Holiday was not pleased that she had to play a maid.
In her autobiography she said:
"I thought I was going to play myself in it.
I thought I was going to be Billie Holiday doing a couple of songs in a nightclub setting and that would be that.
When I saw the script, I did.
You just tell one Negro girl who's made movies who didn't play a maid or a whore.
I found out I was going to do a little singing, but I was still playing the part of a maid."
Holiday was also in the 1950 Universal-International short film 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet, where she sang "God Bless the Child" and "Now, Baby or Never".
1947 arrest and comeback
On May 16, 1947, Holiday was arrested for the possession of narcotics and drugs in her New York apartment.
On May 27, 1947, she had to go to court.
Holiday pleaded guilty (admitted that she had the drugs) and was sentenced to Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia.
Holiday said she never "sang a note" at Alderson even though people wanted her to.
She was released early (March 16, 1948) because of her good behavior.
When she arrived at Newark, everybody was there to welcome her back, including her pianist Bobby Tucker.
Her manager Ed Fishman thought of the idea to have a comeback concert at Carnegie Hall.
Holiday was worried at first because she thought that nobody would want her back, but she decided do it.
On March 27, 1948, the Carnegie concert was very successful.
She did sang songs like Cole Porter's "Night and Day" and "Strange Fruit".
The concert was not recorded.
Holiday said that she began using hard drugs in the early 1940s.
She had married trombonist Jimmy Monroe on August 25, 1941.
When she was still married to Monroe, she started a romantic relationship with trumpeter Joe Guy, who was also her drug dealer.
She lived with him as his wife (called a common law wife) and divorced Monroe in 1947.
She also separated from Guy.
After of she was arrested and convicted for possessing drugs in 1947, she was not allowed to work in clubs in New York for the rest of her life.
The only time she was able to was when she sang at the Ebony Club in 1948, where she had the permission of John Levy.
In the 1950s, Holiday's health became bad, because of her drinking alcohol, using drugs and her relationships with abusive men.
Her voice became rough, but some people say that her singing became more emotional.
On March 28, 1952, Holiday married Louis McKay, a man who worked for the Mafia.
McKay, like most of the men in her life, was abusive, but he did try to get her to stop using drugs.
Holiday went on  tour Europe for the first time in 1954 with Buddy DeFranco and Red Norvo.
When she went back to Europe, almost five years later, she went on television for Granada's Chelsea at Nine, in London.
This was one of the last times she was on television.
Her last studio recordings were made for MGM in 1959, with Ray Ellis and his Orchestra, who had also accompanied her on Columbia's Lady in Satin album
in 1958.
The MGM recordings were released after Holiday's death on an album called Last Recordings.
Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, was published in 1956.
It was ghostwritten by William Dufty, a New York Post writer and editor who was married to Holiday's close friend Maely Dufty.
He wrote the book quickly after talking to Holiday in his apartment, as well as using earlier interviewers.
His wanted to let Holiday tell her story her way.
On May 31, 1959, Holiday was taken to the Metropolitan Hospital in New York.
She had liver and heart disease.
Police officers were at the door to her room.
She was arrested for drug possession as she lay dying and her hospital room was raided by the police.
They kept guarding her at the hospital until she died from cirrhosis of the liver on July 17, 1959.
In the last years of her life, she had gradually lost her earnings, and she died with $0.70 in the bank and $750 in cash.
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Julia Blackburn, With Billie,
John Chilton, Billie's Blues: The Billie Holiday Story 1933-1959,
Donald Clarke, Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon,
Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday,
Leslie Gourse, The Billie Holiday Companion: Seven Decades of Commentary,
Farah Jasmine Griffin, If You Can't Be Free, Be A Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday,
Billie Holiday with William Dufty, Lady Sings the Blues,
Chris Ingham, Billie Holiday,
Burnett James, Billie Holiday,
Stuart Nicholson, Billie Holiday,
Robert O'Meally, "Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday",
Edinaldo Batista Libânio  (born 2 April 1979) known by the name Grafite, is a Brazilian football player.
He plays for Wolfsburg and Brazil national team.
On 24 August 2009, before the Wolfsburg game against Hamburg he received the very important and highly regarded "Prêmio Futebol no Mundo" ("Worldwide Football award"), as the promising newcomer ("revelação") of the 2008/09 season.
He also got the top goalscorer award of the same season.
The prize is from ESPN Brasil, the Brazilian division of ESPN.
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|2006/07||34||12
|2007/08||6||2
|2007/08||rowspan="3"|Wolfsburg||rowspan="3"|Bundesliga||24||11
|2008/09||25||28
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York City F.C. is an association football team in York, England.
They started in 1922.
In 2021, the team were in the sixth level of English football.
They play their home games at York Community Stadium.
Official club website
Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist.
Simone did not like people to classify her music, or say what genre it fell into, but people often call her a jazz musician.
She was often called "The High Priestess of Soul".
Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina in 1933.
She was one of eight children in a poor family.
She began playing the piano when she was age of three.
The first song she learned was "God be With You, Till we Meet Again" and she played at her local church.
Her first concert was a classical piano recital, when she was twelve.
Her parents sat on the front row to watch her, but were made to move to the back of the hall to make way for white people.
Simone said she would not to play until her parents were moved back to the front.
She remembered this event later when she got involved with the civil rights movement.
Simone's mother, Mary Kate Waymon was a strict Methodist minister.
Her father, John Divine Waymon, was a handyman, and sometimes a barber, who was often ill.
Mrs. Waymon worked as a maid and her employer, hearing of Simone's talent, gave them money for piano lessons.
After that, a local fund was made to help in carrying on her education.
When she was 17, Simone moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
She found more racism here when she applied for a scholarship at a local college.
She had to take a test, and passed it, but she was not given the scholarship.
When she asked the examiner why she was not given a scholarship, the examiner told her "because you're black."
After this, Simone became very passionate about the civil rights movement.
She began to earn money teaching piano and accompanying singers.
This money helped her to study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
She applied to study piano at the Curtis Institute, but was not successful.
She believed that this too was because she was black, and because she was a woman.
Early career (1954–1959)
Simone played the piano at the Midtown Bar & Grill on Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City to earn money for her studying.
The owner said that she would only get the job if she would sing as well as play the piano.
She did not want her mother to know that she was playing "the devil's music", so she started using the stage name Nina Simone.
She got "Nina" from a nickname given to her by a boyfriend, and "Simone" from a French actress called Simone Signoret.
Simone played and sang a mixture of jazz, blues and classical music at the bar.
She began to get fans.
In 1958 she recorded a song called "I Loves You Porgy", from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin.
She had learned the song from a Billie Holiday album, and performed it as a favor for a friend.
It became her only Billboard top 40 success in the United States.
Soon, she recorded her first album Little Girl Blue on Bethlehem Records.
Simone never earned money from the album because she sold the rights for $3000, missing out on more than $1 million of royalties.
Simone then signed a contract with the record company Colpix Records and released several studio and live albums.
Colpix let her have control over choosing the material that she recorded.
Simone made sure she had control and did not really mind whether she had a recording contract or not.
She only played pop music to make money for her classical music studies.
Civil rights era (1964–1974)
In the 1960s, Simone was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
In 1964, Simone began to work with the Dutch record label Philips.
She began to record songs about her African-American origins and racial inequality.
She recorded a live album called Nina Simone In Concert which included the song "Mississippi Goddam".
It was about the murder of Medgar Evers and the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four black children.
The song was boycotted in some southern states.
With "Old Jim Crow" on the same album she reacts to the Jim Crow Laws.
After that, a civil rights was a common theme in Simone's songs.
Simone performed and spoke at many civil rights meetings, like the Selma to Montgomery marches.
She sang a version Billie Holiday's song "Strange Fruit" (on Pastel Blues), a song about the lynching of black men in the South.
She also a poem by  W. Cuney called "Images" on her 1966 album Let It All Out, about the lack of pride in African-American women.
Simone wrote "Four Women", a song about four different stereotypes of African-American women.
It was on her 1966 album Wild Is the Wind
Simone moved from Philips to RCA Victor in 1967.
She sang "Backlash Blues", written by her friend Langston Hughes on her first RCA album, Nina Simone Sings The Blues.
On Silk & Soul she recorded Billy Taylor's "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" and "Turning Point".
The 1968 album Nuff Said has some live recordings from the Westbury Music Fair, April 7, 1968, three days after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. She dedicated the whole performance to him and sang "Why? (
The King Of Love Is Dead)".
This was a song written by her bass player straight after they heard the news of King's death.
Together with Weldon Irvine, Simone turned Lorraine Hansberry's unfinished play To Be Young, Gifted and Black into a civil rights song.
She performed it live on her 1970 album Black Gold.
A studio recording was released as a single, and the song has been covered by Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway.
Later life (1974–2003)
Simone left the United States in September 1970.
She flew to Barbados.
She thought that her husband and manager, Andrew Stroud, would tell her when she had to perform again.
However, Stroud thought that Simone's sudden disappearance (and the fact that she had left behind her wedding ring) meant that she wanted a divorce.
As her manager, Stroud was also in charge of Simone's income.
This meant that after their separation Simone did not know anything about how her business was managed and what she was actually worth.
When she came back to the United States, she found out that she was wanted for not paying taxes.
She went back to Barbados again to get away from the authorities and prosecution.
She stayed in Barbados for quite some time, and had a long affair with the Prime Minister, Errol Barrow.
A close friend, singer Miriam Makeba, persuaded her to go to Liberia in Africa.
After that she lived in Switzerland and the Netherlands.
She went to live in France in 1992.
She recorded her last album for RCA Records, It Is Finished, during 1974.
In 1978 CTI Records owner Creed Taylor persuaded her to record another album, Baltimore.
This album got good reviews, but did not make much money.
Four years later Simone recorded Fodder On My Wings on a French record label.
During the 1980s Simone performed regularly at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London.
She recorded an album there in 1984 called Live at Ronnie Scott's.
On stage, Simone often seemed to be haughty and aloof but seemed to enjoy talking to her audiences.
In 1987, her 1958 song "My Baby Just Cares For Me" was used in an advert for Chanel No.
5 perfume in the UK.
After that, the song was released again and it went to number 5 in the UK singles chart, making Simone more popular in the UK.
Her autobiography, I Put a Spell on You, was published in 1992 and she recorded her last album, A Single Woman, in 1993.
In 1993 Simone went to live near Aix-en-Provence in Southern France.
She was ill with breast cancer for several years.
She died of the disease in her sleep at her home in Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône on April 21, 2003.
Her funeral service was attended by singers Miriam Makeba and Patti LaBelle, poet Sonia Sanchez, actor Ossie Davis and hundreds of other people.
Elton John sent a flowers with the message "We were the greatest and I love you".
Simone's ashes were scattered in several African countries.
She left behind a daughter, Lisa Celeste, who is now an actress and singer who took on the stage name Simone.
A star cluster is a group of stars.
They are held together by mutual gravitation.
They are related by common origin, and have similar or identical ages.
open star clusters.
Open clusters are loose, and they have less than a few hundred stars, which are often very young.
A famous star cluster is the Pleiades, which is an open cluster.
globular clusters.
Globular clusters are tight groups of hundreds and thousands of stars.
Every large galaxy has hundreds or thousands of globulars revolving round it at great distances, usually outside the disk of the galaxy.
Super star clusters
Super star clusters of very young large stars are known.
They are thought to be precursors of globular clusters.
The short-lived huge blue stars emit lots of UV radiation which ionises the surrounding gas.
Examples are Westerlund 1 and 2 in the Milky Way, and R136 in the Larger Magellanic Cloud.
The giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), colloquially tatou, ocarro, tatu-canastra or tatú carreta, is the largest living species of armadillo.
It was once found widely through the tropical forests of eastern South America.
It now ranges throughout varied habitat as far south as northern Argentina.
Island Def Jam Music Group is a record label in the United States.
Universal Music Group is the founder of Island Def Jam.
"Genie in a Bottle" is a 1999 pop song by American singer Christina Aguilera, from her first album Christina Aguilera.
It was her first hit single and got to number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Aguilera got a Grammy Award nomination for it and a Grammy Award for Best New Artist later in the year.
Arista Records is a record label in the United States.
Sony Music Entertainment controls Arista.
It distributes albums in United Kingdom and United States.
Bessie Smith (July 9, 1892 or April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer.
She was sometimes called "The Empress of the Blues" and was very popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
A lot of people think that she was one of the best singers of her time, and along with Louis Armstrong, she was an important influence on later jazz singers.
In the 1900 American census, Bessie Smith's mother, Laura Smith, said that Bessie was born in Chachanooga, Tennessee in July 1892.
In the census  in 1910, her sister, Viola Smith said that Bessie's birthday was April 15, 1894.
That is the date that is on all later documents, and was the one that Smith used.
She was the daughter of Laura and William Smith.
William Smith was a laborer and part-time Baptist preacher who died before his daughter was old enough to remember him.
By the time she was nine, her mother had died as well, and her older sister Viola had to look after for her sisters and brothers.
To earn money for their poor family, Smith and her brother Andrew began Busking (performing) on the streets of Chattanooga as a duo.
She sang and danced, and he accompanied her on guitar.
They liked to perform in front of the White Elephant Saloon in the middle of Chattanooga's African-American community.
In 1904, Smith's oldest brother, Clarence, ran away from home and joined small traveling troupe owned by Moses Stokes. "
If Bessie had been old enough, she would have gone with him," said Clarence's widow, Maud. "
That's why he left without telling her, but Clarence told me she was ready, even then.
Of course, she was only a child."
In 1912, Clarence came back to Chattanooga, with the Stokes troupe and helped Smith get an audition.
She got a job as a dancer, not a singer, because the company already had a singer called Ma Rainey.
By the early 1920s, Smith starred a musical called How Come?
with Sidney Bechet.
The musical went to Broadway.
Smith had an argument with the producer of How Come?
and she was replaced by Alberta Hunter.
Smith went back to Philadelphia, where she now lived.
She met and fell in love with a security guard called Jack Gee.
They got married on June 7, 1923.
At this time, Smith made her first song recordings with Columbia Records.
Her marriage was difficult and both of them had affairs.
Smith became the biggest headliner on the black Theater Owners Booking Association circuit.
She ran a show that sometimes had as many as 40 people and made her the highest-paid black entertainer of her day.
Gee liked the money she was earning, but did not like her show business life.
In particular, he did like the fact that Smith was bisexual.
In 1929, Smith found out that Gee was having an affair with another performer called Gertrude Saunders.
Smith separated from Gee but they never got divorced.
Smith went to live with a man called Richard Morgan, as is they were husband and wife.
He was an old friend and the uncle of a jazz musician called Lionel Hampton.
Smith and Morgan stayed together for the rest of her life.
Ma Rainey helped Smith to get better as a performer, but she did not teach her to sing.
Smith began started her own act around 1913, at Atlanta's "81" Theatre.
By 1920 she had got a good reputation in the South and along the Eastern Seaboard.
In 1920, a singer called Mamie Smith recorded a song called "Crazy Blues,".
This was one of the first blues songs recorded by an African-American singer, and was very popular.
The recording industry realised that there were lots of black people who would buy blues records.
Smith was signed by Columbia Records in 1923 when the label decided to make a "race records" series.
Her first recording, a coupling of "Gulf Coast Blues" and "Downhearted Blues," was very popular.
Smith became a headliner on the black T.O.B.A. circuit and was its top attraction in the 1920s.
She worked very hard, in theatres during the winter, and touring for the rest of the year.
She became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day.
Somebody from Columbia Records gave her a nickname, "Queen of the Blues".
Soon, the press were calling her the "Empress of the Blues".
On September 26, 1937, Smith was seriously injured in a car accident while traveling between Memphis, Tennessee, and Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Her boyfriend Richard Morgan was driving.
People think he might have fallen asleep at the wheel or that he could not tell what speed a slow-moving truck was driving in front of him.
Tire marks at the scene showed that Morgan tried to hit the truck by driving around its left side but he hit the back of the truck side-on very fast.
Smith, who was in the passenger seat, was hit worst in the crash.
Morgan did not have any major injuries.
One of the first people to see her after the crash was a doctor.
He said that she had a bad injury to her arm which made her lose a lot of blood.
She also had bad injuries to the side of her body, and was in shock.
An ambulance took Smith to Clarksdale's Afro-American Hospital and her right arm was amputated (taken off).
She did not wake up and died that morning.
After she died, some people said that it was because a hospital for white people would not treat her, but in those days, an amubulance driver would never have taken a black person to a "Whites only" hospital at all.
Road accident deaths in Mississippi
Brian Molko (born 10 December 1972) is a Scottish singer and songwriter.
He  is part of the rock band Placebo.
He is considered to be the leader of Placebo.
He is the rhythm guitarist of the band.
British rock guitarists
Musicians from Brussels
Scottish rock singers
The roe deer or (Capreolus capreolus) is a deer species of Europe and Asia Minor.
It is also called European roe deer to not confuse it with the related Asian species, the Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus).
The roe deer is a smaller deer.
In the summer its fur is reddish-brown, in the winter it is greyish brown or dark brown.
Fawns have a reddish-brown fur, with white spots on their back and sides.
Male roe deer have antlers, which are small compared to other deer species.
The antlers can become up to 20-25 cm (8-10 in) long, with two or three (rarely four) points.
Range and habitat
Roe deer mate during July and August.
After 10 months the female gives birth to 1-3 (usually 2) fawns, usually in May/June.
They become mature when they are 1 1/2 year old.
Roe deer can live up to 10-12 years in the wild, in captivity up to 17 years.
Bambi, a famous fictional roe deer
The Wapiti or elk (Cervus canadensis) is a species of deer.
It lives in North America and eastern Asia.
The SR-71 Blackbird is a supersonic reconnaissance aircraft.
It was built by Lockheed's "Skunk Works" in the 1960s for the United States Air Force (USAF).
In other words, it was a spy plane.
The Blackbird was designed to fly at more than Mach 3 – three times the speed of sound.
This meant it would become very hot during flight.
To help with this, most of the aircraft was made of titanium.
Radar absorbing material was also used to make the aircraft more difficult to detect.
SR-71 Blackbird used a special fuel called JP-7.
Before the flight, the fuel tanks used to leak.
This is because at ground altitude the tolerances (distance between parts of the fuel tank) were larger than at the plane's cruising altitude.
Once in the air, because of the speed and air resistance, the parts became very hot.
Because of this heat, the distance between the parts shrank stopping the loss of fuel.
The first Blackbird flight happened on December 22, 1964 in Palmdale, California.
In January 1966, the first aircraft entered service with the USAF.
No aircraft were lost in war but one crashed in an accident in 1969.
Only 32 aircraft were built.
Its final flight was on March 6, 1990, Blackbird S/N 61-7972.
The SR-71 program was retired from service in 1998.
The aircraft flew at an altitude of over  and at speeds over .
It held the world record for the jet-powered flight, flying at Mach 3.2.
The record was broken in March 2004 by NASA's X-43A aircraft.
Specifications (SR-71A)
SR-71
Keith Allen (born 2 September 1953) is a Welsh actor and comedian.
He is also a musician, author and television presenter.
He is the father of British singer Lily Allen.
British comedians
Doctor Yellow are  a group of Japanese trains which are used to test the condition of Shinkansen high-speed train lines.
The trains check the tracks on the ground and also the wires which run above the trains.
Their name comes from their unusual equipment onboard "Doctor", and the color that they are painted in "Yellow".
The color scheme was made from reversing the color scheme (blue with a yellow stripe) used on test trains on non-high speed lines into yellow with a blue stripe.
Gallery on the doctor yellow
Rail transport in Japan
Fabrício de Souza (born 5 July 1982) is a Brazilian football player.
|2001||rowspan="5"|Corinthians Paulista||rowspan="5"|Série A||8||1||||||||||8||1
|2002||19||0||||||||||19||0
|2003||40||3||||||||||40||3
|2004||2||0||||||||||2||0
|2005||16||0||||||||||16||0
|2006||rowspan="2"|Júbilo Iwata||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||31||4||3||0||7||1||41||5
|2007||25||2||1||0||4||0||30||2
|2008||rowspan="2"|Cruzeiro||rowspan="2"|Série A||26||2||||||||||26||2
Honda was born in Kitakyushu on June 25, 1969.
After graduating from Teikyo High School, he joined Japan Soccer League club Honda in 1988.
The club won the champions at J1 League 4 times, J.League Cup 3 times and Emperor's Cup 2 times.
He played 400 games and scored 6 goals in the league at both clubs.
On October 24, 1995, Honda debuted for the Japan national team against Saudi Arabia.
In 1996, he played in all matches including 1996 Asian Cup.
In 1997, although he played at 1998 World Cup qualification, his opportunity to play decreased in the latter half.
He played 29 games and scored 1 goal for Japan until 1997.
|1988/89||rowspan="4"|Honda||rowspan="4"|JSL Division 1||9||0||||||0||0||colspan="2"|-||9||0
|1989/90||22||1||||||2||3||colspan="2"|-||24||4
|1990/91||21||1||||||4||1||colspan="2"|-||25||2
|1991/92||20||0||||||3||0||colspan="2"|-||23||0
|1992||rowspan="15"|Kashima Antlers||rowspan="15"|J1 League||colspan="2"|-||3||0||10||0||colspan="2"|-||13||0
|1993||35||0||5||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||46||0
|1994||43||0||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||45||0
|1995||49||3||4||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||53||3
|1996||29||0||3||0||13||0||colspan="2"|-||45||0
|1997||21||0||5||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||28||0
|1998||21||0||4||1||5||0||colspan="2"|-||30||1
|1999||17||0||0||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||21||0
|2000||29||0||5||0||5||0||colspan="2"|-||39||0
|2001||24||0||1||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||31||0
|2002||22||0||4||0||9||1||colspan="2"|-||35||1
|2003||19||0||4||0||5||0||1||0||29||0
|2004||7||0||0||0||5||0||colspan="2"|-||12||0
|2005||4||1||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||6||1
|2006||8||0||1||0||3||1||colspan="2"|-||12||1
Total||29||1
|1998||Júbilo Iwata||J. League 1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|2001||rowspan="10"|Ventforet Kofu||rowspan="5"|J. League 2||35||4||3||0||2||0||40||4
|2002||33||5||2||0||colspan="2"|-||35||5
|2003||39||9||1||0||colspan="2"|-||40||9
|2004||28||2||1||0||colspan="2"|-||29||2
|2005||41||10||2||0||colspan="2"|-||43||10
|2006||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||26||2||3||1||1||0||30||3
|2007||32||2||1||0||7||0||40||2
|2008||rowspan="3"|J. League 2||38||3||1||0||colspan="2"|-||39||3
|2009||50||2||2||0||colspan="2"|-||52||2
Magrão (born 20 December 1978) is a Brazilian football player.
He plays for Al-Wahda.
|2000||rowspan="2"|Palmeiras||rowspan="2"|Série A||21||2||||||||||21||2
|2001||22||0||||||||||22||0
|2002||São Caetano||Série A||21||4||||||||||21||4
|2003||rowspan="3"|Palmeiras||Série B||25||4||||||||||25||4
|2004||rowspan="2"|Série A||38||3||||||||||38||3
|2005||2||0||||||||||2||0
|2005||rowspan="2"|Yokohama F. Marinos||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||13||1||2||0||2||0||17||1
|2006||17||6||0||0||7||1||24||6
|2006||rowspan="2"|Corinthians Paulista||rowspan="2"|Série A||12||2||||||||||12||2
|2007||0||0||||||||||0||0
|2007||rowspan="3"|Internacional||rowspan="3"|Série A||19||3||||||||||19||3
|2008||21||1||||||||||21||1
|2009||13||2||||||||||13||2
|2009/10||Al-Wahda||UAE League||||||||||||||||
Fábio Júnior Pereira (born 20 November 1977) is a Brazilian football player.
|1997||rowspan="2"|Cruzeiro||rowspan="2"|Série A||8||0||||||||||8||0
|1998||32||18||||||||||32||18
|1998/99||rowspan="2"|Roma||rowspan="2"|Serie A||7||3||||||||||7||3
|1999/00||9||1||||||||||9||1
|2000||Cruzeiro||Série A||18||7||||||||||18||7
|2001||Palmeiras||Série A||20||3||||||||||20||3
|2002||Cruzeiro||Série A||25||12||||||||||25||12
|2002/03||Vitória SC||Portuguese Liga||4||0||||||||||4||0
|2003||Atlético Mineiro||Série A||34||14||||||||||34||14
|2004||Kashima Antlers||J. League 1||13||1||2||1||2||0||17||2
|2005||Atlético Mineiro||Série A||15||3||||||||||15||3
|2005/06||Al-Wahda Abu Dhabi||UAE League||0||0||||||||||0||0
|2005/06||rowspan="2"|Bochum||2.
Bundesliga||15||1||||||||||15||1
|2006/07||Bundesliga||16||2||||||||||16||2
|2007/08||Hapoel Tel Aviv||Premier League||33||7||||||||||33||7
|2008||Bahia||Série B||0||0||||||||||0||0
|2009||rowspan="2"|Brasiliense||rowspan="2"|Série B||23||10||||||||||23||10
Marco Zanchi (born 15 April 1977) is an Italian football player.
|1994/95||rowspan="2"|Atalanta||rowspan="2"|Serie A||9||0
|1996/97||Bari||Serie B||0||0
|1996/97||ChievoVerona||Serie B||6||0
|1997/98||rowspan="3"|Udinese||rowspan="3"|Serie A||7||0
|1999/00||23||0
|2000/01||Juventus||Serie A||5||0
|2000/01||Vicenza||Serie A||14||3
|2001/02||Hellas Verona||Serie A||30||1
|2002/03||rowspan="2"|Bologna||rowspan="2"|Serie A||18||0
|2004/05||rowspan="4"|Messina Peloro||rowspan="3"|Serie A||28||0
|2006/07||32||2
|2007/08||Serie B||24||0
|2008/09||rowspan="2"|Vicenza||rowspan="2"|Serie B||37||1