the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
In December 2011, Khan won permanent custody of her granddaughter, Daija Jade Holland.
Khan said the mother was unable to raise her due to her drug addiction.
It was reported that Khan's son was also addicted to drugs.
To date, Chaka Khan has won 10 Grammy Awards, including two as a member of Rufus.
She has received 22 Grammy Award nominations, including three as a member of Rufus.
1998 Lena Horne Award (Career Achievement) (Recipient)
2009 Legends Award (Career Achievement) (Recipient)
United Negro College Fund Award
2011 UNCF: Award of Excellence (Recipient)
American Music Award nominations
Favorite Female Artist - Soul/Rhythm & Blues (Nominee only.
Award recipient was Tina Turner)
Favorite Female Video Artist - Soul/Rhythm & Blues (Nominee only.
Award recipient was Stephanie Mills)
Award recipient was Diana Ross)
Chaka  (1978)
Naughty (1980)
What Cha' Gonna Do for Me (1981)
Chaka Khan (1982)
I Feel for You (1984)
Destiny  (1986)
CK (1988)
The Woman I Am (1992)
Come 2 My House (1998)
ClassiKhan (2004)
Funk This (2007)
Genes, Brain and Behavior (also known as G2B) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the fields of the genetics of behavior, the nervous system (neurogenetics), and mental illness (psychiatric genetics).
It began in 2002.
It is the official journal of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2010 impact factor is 4.061.
It was ranked 63rd out of 237 listed journals on Neurosciences, and 6th out of 48 listed journals in the category "Behavioral Sciences".
Suzanne Nadine Vega (born 1959 in Santa Monica, California) is an American singer, recording artist and songwriter.
She is best known for her songs "Luka" and "Tom's Diner".
She wrote her first song at age fourteen.
She attended New York's High School of Performing Arts.
There she studied modern dance and graduated in 1977.
On March 17, 1995, Vega married Mitchell Froom, a musician and a record producer.
They have a daughter, Ruby Froom (born July 8, 1994).
The band Soul Coughing's Ruby Vroom album was named after her.
Recently Ruby sang with her mother.
1 Days of Open Hand made #2 in Norway albums chart
2 Nine Objects of Desire made #20 in Finland, #23 in Switzerland, #39 in Sweden
3 Beauty & Crime made #9 in Estonia, #13 in Finland, #37 in Czech Republic, #49 in Poland, #74 in Italy
Close-Up Vol.
2, People & Places Number 2 Top Purchased Album (Amazon.com) 11th October-13th October
Orleans are an American soft rock band who were extremely popular during 1970s.
Their song, Dance with Me was a highly popular single, though they have had other songs.
Orleans (1973)
Orleans II (1974)
Let There Be Music (1975)
Waking and Dreaming (1976)
Forever (1979)
Orleans (1980)
One of a Kind (1982)
Grown Up Children (1986)
Analog Men (1994)
Ride (1996)
Dancin' in the Moonlight (2005)
Obscurities (2008)
Live (1991)
Live Volume 2 (1993)
Still the One, Live (2002)
We're Still Havin' Fun (2007)
Before the Dance (1978)
Love Takes Time (1986)
Dance with Me – The Best of Orleans (1997)
No More Than You Can Handle: A 40 Year Musical Journey (2013)
Playlist: The Very Best of Orleans'' (2017)
Cornus canadensis is a herbaceous member of the Cornaceae (dogwood) family.
It has various common names, such as the Bunchberry dogwood, Canadian Bunchberry, Quatre-temps, or Crackerberry.
It is a widespread plant of the northern hemisphere.
It grows about 20–30 cm tall and bears tiny flowers a few millimetres across.
They form an inflorescence at the center of four white, petal-like bracts 3–4 cm diameter.
Each flower has highly elastic petals that flip backward, releasing springy filaments that are cocked underneath the petals.
The filaments snap upward flinging pollen out  in less than half a millisecond.
The pollen experiences a force two to three thousand times the force of gravity.
The Bunchberry has one of the fastest plant actions found so far.
It needs a camera capable of shooting 10,000 frames per second to catch the action.
"One of the fastest actions in the plant world is the explosive opening of flowers on the bunchberry dogwood, which happens in just under 0.5 milliseconds.
As the flowers burst open, the petals quickly separate and flip back, exposing the stamens.
During the first 0.3 milliseconds, researchers have calculated the stamens are exposed to a force 800 times greater than astronauts experience during blast-off.
The mechanism, it is understood, allows pollen to be thrown upwards in order for it to be transported by the wind".
The fruits are edible with a mild flavour somewhat like apples.
The large seeds within are somewhat hard and crunchy.
Birds are the main dispersal agents of the seeds, consuming the fruit during their fall migration.
In Alaska, bunchberry is an important forage plant for mule deer, black-tailed deer and moose, which consume it throughout the growing season.
Where bunchberry, a forest species, and Cornus suecica, a bog species, grow near each other in their overlapping ranges in Alaska, Labrador, and Greenland, they can Hybrid ize by cross-pollination, producing plants with intermediate characteristics.
Gore Vidal (born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer.
Vidal was born at West Point, New York, the only child of Eugene Luther Vidal (1895-1969) and Nina Gore (1903-1978).
He was promiscuous in his youth and was openly bisexual.
He lived with a man for over fifty years until he died in 2003.
Vidal died of pneumonia at his home in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California.
Essays and non-fiction
Rocking the Boat (1963)
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation)
Homage to Daniel Shays (1972)
Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)
Views from a Window Co-Editor (1981)
The Second American Revolution (1983)
Vidal In Venice (1985)
Armageddon? (
1987) (UK only)
At Home (1988)
A View From The Diner's Club (1991) (UK only)
Screening History (1992)
Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993)  — National Book Award
Palimpsest: a memoir (1995)
Virgin Islands (1997) (UK only)
The American Presidency (1998)
Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000 (2001)  (there is also a much shorter UK edition)
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, (2002)
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2002)
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003)
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (2004)
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir (2006)
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008)
Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009)
Visit to a Small Planet (1957)
The Best Man (1960)
On the March to the Sea (1960–1961, 2004)
Romulus (adapted from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1950 play Romulus der Große) (1962)
Weekend (1968)
Drawing Room Comedy (1970)
An Evening with Richard Nixon (1970)
On the March to the Sea (2005)
Williwaw 1946
In a Yellow Wood 1947
The City and the Pillar 1948
The Season of Comfort 1949
A Search for the King 1950
Dark Green, Bright Red 1950  (prophecy of the Guatemala coup d'état of 1954, see "In the Lair of the Octopus" Dreaming War)
The Judgment of Paris 1952
Messiah 1954
A Thirsty Evil 1956 (short stories)
Julian 1964
Washington, D.C. 1967
Myra Breckinridge 1968
Two Sisters 1970
Burr 1973
Myron 1974
1876 1976
Kalki 1978
Creation 1981
Duluth 1983
Lincoln 1984
Empire 1987
Hollywood 1990
Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal 1992
The Smithsonian Institution 1998
The Golden Age 2000
Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories 2006 (short stories, this is the same collection as A Thirsty Evil (1956), with one previously unpublished short story — Clouds and Eclipses — added)
Climax!:
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1954) (TV adaptation)
I Accuse! (
The Scapegoat (1959)
Ben Hur (1959) (uncredited)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The Best Man (1964)
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
Caligula (1979)
Dress Gray (1986)
The Sicilian (1987) (uncredited)
Billy the Kid (1989)
Dimenticare Palermo (1989)
Works under pseudonyms
A Star's Progress (aka Cry Shame!) (
1950) as Katherine Everard
Thieves Fall Out (1953) as Cameron Kay
Death Before Bedtime (1953) as Edgar Box
Death in the Fifth Position (1952) as Edgar Box
Death Likes It Hot (1954) as Edgar Box
Billy Ocean  (born Leslie Sebastian Charles; 21 January 1950) is a songwriter, recording artist and musician.
He was born in Fyzabad, Trinidad to Grenadan parents.
He has many hit singles.
Most were put out in the 1980s.
He was the most popular British-based R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s.
On 29 July 2011, Ocean became a Companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
His title was presented by Sir Paul McCartney.
Billy Ocean official website
Soul musicians
Natalie Merchant (born October 26, 1963 in Jamestown, New York) is an American musician, recording artist and singer-songwriter.
Her hit singles include Carnival and Trouble Me.
She was part of 10,000 Maniacs until 1993.
She then left the group for a solo career.
In 2003, Merchant married Daniel de la Calle.
They had a daughter named Lucia.
However, in an interview in 2012, she indicated that she is now divorced.
Some paintings can be seen at her official website.
She has been a vegetarian since 1980.
With 10,000 Maniacs
Human Conflict Number Five (EP) (1982)
Secrets of the I Ching (1983)
The Wishing Chair (1985)
In My Tribe (1987)
Blind Man's Zoo (1989)
Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982-1983 (1990)
Our Time in Eden (1992)
MTV Unplugged (1993)
Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings (2004)
1995: Tigerlily
1998: Ophelia
2001: Motherland
2003: The House Carpenter's Daughter
2005: Retrospective (1990 - 2005)
2010: Leave Your Sleep
Emil Mihai Cioran (, ; 8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher and essayist.
He was known for his antinatalism, pessimism, skepticism, nihilism and gnosticism.
Pe culmile disperării
Cartea amăgirilor
Schimbarea la faţă a României
Lacrimi şi Sfinţi
Îndreptar pătimaş
Mon pays/Ţara mea
Précis de décomposition
Syllogismes de l'amertume
Histoire et utopie
La chute dans le temps
Le mauvais démiurge
De l'inconvénient d'être né
Exercices d'admiration
Cahiers
Œuvres
Des larmes et des saints
Sur les cimes du désespoir
Le crépuscule des pensées
Jadis et naguère
Valéry face à ses idoles
De la France
Transfiguration de la Roumanie
Cahier Cioran
The Angels are an American girl group who had most of the popularity in the 1960s.
Their song My Boyfriend's Back hit #1 in 1963, although the band has had many other songs.
Barbara Allbut Brown
Phyllis Allbut Sirico
Peggy Santiglia Ricker
Bernadette Carroll
...And the Angels Sing (1962)
My Boyfriend’s Back (1963)
A Halo to You (1964)
Love, The Angels (2008)
sv:Angel#Musikgrupper
Nick Nolte (born February 8, 1941) is an American actor.
He has acted in many movies, including the dramas I'll Do Anything and Blue Chips.
Nolte has won a Golden Globe Award.
Nolte was born in Omaha, Nebraska on February 8, 1941.
Nolte was educated at the University of Arizona.
Nolte was married three times; first to Sheila Page from 1966 until they divorced in 1970.
Second he married Sharyn Haddad from 1978 until they divorced in 1983.
Lastly he married Rebecca Linger from 1984 until they divorced in 1994.
He was partners with; Karen Louise Ecklund from 1970 until they separated in 1977.
Then he was partners with Vicki Lewis from 1994 until they separated in 2003.
He is currently partners with Clytie Lane since 2003.
With Linger Nolte has a son Brawley Nolte, and with Lane he has a daughter Sophie Lan Nolte.
The Mandalorian - Kuiil
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - Butch
Chicago 10 - Thomas Foran
Over the Hedge - Vincent
Woody's Roundup: The Movie - Bank Robber
Zookeeper - Bernie the Gorilla
Nu Shooz are an R&B group based in Portland, Oregon.
They formed in 1979.
They released many records in the 1980s.
However, they did not hit the mainstream until after their 1986 album Poolside was released.
The song I Can't Wait was among their many hit songs.
In 1988 the band broke up.
In 2007 they got back together.
Robert Allen Palmer (January 19, 1949 – September 26, 2003) was a British musician, singer-songwriter and recording artist who released many hits during the 1970s and the 1980s.
His hits include Addicted to Love and "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)".
Robert Palmer married Susan Eileen Thatcher in 1971.
They had two children together, James and Jane.
They divorced in 1999.
In 1993, Palmer moved from the Bahamas to Lugano, Switzerland.
He thought the islands were overrun with drugs and guns and were no longer safe.
Palmer's companion at the time of his death was Mary Ambrose.
Palmer moved to Lugano, Switzerland, in 1986.
He became a naturalized citizen of Switzerland in 1993.
A heavy smoker, he died in Paris, France, from a heart attack on 26 September 2003 at the age of 54.
He was holidaying with his close friend, Jack Bruce, and conducting publicity appearances for his most recent release Drive prior to his death.
Edwin Starr (January 21, 1942 – April 2, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician.
He had many hit songs.
His most notable song was War.
The song sold over one million copies.
He was very popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
On April 2, 2003, at the age of 61, Starr suffered a heart attack and died while taking a bath at his home in Bramcote near Nottingham.
He left a wife, Annette Mary Hatcher, a son André Hatcher, and two grandchildren Alonté Renfroe and Maryah Hatcher.
Soul Master (1965)
25 Miles (1969) (#73 US) (#9 R&B)
War and Peace (1970) (#52 US)(#9 R&B)
Involved (1971) (# 178 US)(# 45 R&B)
Hell Up in Harlem (1974)
Free to Be Myself (1975) (#43 R&B) (#210 US)
Clean (1979) (#80 US) (#22 R&B)
Happy Radio (1979) (#115 US) (#44 R&B)
Stronger Than You Think I Am (1979) (#203 US)
For Sale (1983)
Blackstreet is an American R&B group.
It began around 1991.
It was created through Teddy Riley.
The group was very strong during the 1990s.
Their songs included "No Diggity" and "Booty Call".
Blackstreet Tour (1994-1995)
Another Level Tour (1997)
Finally Tour (1999-2000)
Level II Tour (2003-2004)
The Bartons Arms is a pub in the Newton neighborhood of Aston, Birmingham.
It is in the country of England.
The pub was built in 1901.
It had special walls built that let middle class people drinking in the bar see the working class drinkers on the other side, but the working class drinkers could not see the middle-class people watching them.
Laurel and Hardy visited the pub.
There are photographs of them serving beer to bar visitors.
The Bartons Arms is in the movie Felicia's Journey and a book, The Last Viking: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Heist, by Ron Dawson.
In 2006 the pub had a fire due to electrical problems.
In the 2011 England riots the pub was attacked.
Astonbrook through Astonmanor - Photographs and plans
Robert Golden "R. G." Armstrong, Jr. (April 7, 1917  July 27, 2012) was an American movie, stage, television actor, and playwright.
Armstrong was born on April 7, 1917 in Pleasant Grove, Alabama and raised in on a small farm near Birmingham, Alabama.
Armstrong was educated at Howard College and went to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with late actor John Forsythe and late actor and friend Andy Griffith.
After graduated he the Actors' Studio.
Armstrong's career began in 1959 when he starred in the movie The Fugitive Kind and later appeared in other movies like; El Dorado, Race with the Devil, The Car, Dick Tracy, Predator, and his final movie Purgatory.
Armstrong was married to Ann Neale from 1952 until they divorced in 1972, they had four children.
Later he married Susan M. Guthrie from 1973 until they divorced in 1976.
Lastly he married Mary Craven from 1993 until she died in 2003.
Armstrong died on July 27, 2012 in his home in Studio City, California from natural causes.
He was 95.
He is survived by his four children from his first marriage.
The Fugitive Kind (1959)
Ride the High Counrty (1962)
Major Dundee (1965)
El Dorado (1966)
The Great White Hope (1970)
The Ballard of Cable Hogue (1970)
J. W. Coop (1972)
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
My Name is Nobody (1973)
White Lightning (1973)
White Line Fever (1975)
Race with the Devil (1975)
Stay Hungry (1976)
The Car (1977)
Heavan Can Wait (1978)
The Time Machine (1978)
Fast Charlie...the Moonbeam Rider (1979)
Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
Children of the Corn (1984)
The Best of Times (1986)
Red Headed Stranger (1986)
Jocks (1987)
Purgatory (1990)
Catherine Elise "Kate" Jackson (born October 29, 1948 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American actress.
She has acted in many movies and television programs.
She was in Charlie's Angels during the 1970s to early 1980s.
Chick-fil-A is an American fast food restaurant chain known for not being open for service on Sundays.
The franchise is based in Atlanta and has places in parts of the United States.
S. Truett Cathy opened a restaurant called the Dwarf Grill (now known as the Dwarf house) in Atlanta, in 1946.
In 1961, he found a fryer that is quicker in frying the chicken.
After the discovery, he changed the name to Chick-fil-A inc.
The slogan, "We Didn't Invent the Chicken, Just the Chicken Sandwich" refers to their top menu item, the chicken sandwich.
Dreyfuss was born on October 29, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York to Norman Dreyfuss, a lawyer, and to Geraldine Dreyfuss, a peace activist.
Dreyfuss was raised Bayside, Queens, New York.
Dreyfuss and his family first moved to Europe, because his father dislike New York City.
Later they moved to Los Angeles, California when he was just 9 years old.
He was educated at Beverly Hills High School.
His career began during the late 1960s and had appeared in movies such as; American Graffiti, Inserts, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Whose Life Is It Anyway?,
Always, What About Bob?,
Poseidon, Mr. Holland's Opus, and James and the Giant Peach.
Dreyfuss has won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for his role in The Goodbye Girl and was nominated for another Academy Award for Best Actor in 1995 for his role in Mr. Holland's Opus.
He has won a Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, and in 2002 he was nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Dreyfuss was married to Jeramie Rain from 1983 until it ended in divorced in 1995, they had three children.
Later he married Janelle Lacey in 1999 until they divorced in 2005.
He is currently married to Svetlana Erokin since 2006.
They currently live in Carlsbad, California and in Encinitas, California.
Dreyfuss suffers from bipolar disorder.
In 2006, he appeared in Stephen Fry's documentary Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, which documented Stephen Fry's life with the disease.
Paradise Valley is a major river valley of the Yellowstone River in southwestern Montana.
It is just north of Yellowstone National Park in Park County, Montana.
The Absaroka Range is on the east and the Gallatin Range on the west.
The Paradise Valley is separated from the Gallatin Valley and Bozeman, Montana by the Bozeman Pass.
The valley lies mostly along a north-south axis.
It is anchored to the north by Livingston, Montana and to the south by Yankee Jim Canyon which is about fifteen miles north of Gardiner, Montana.
The Paradise Valley was the original entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
Today, the other entrances to the park are at West Yellowstone, Montana from the west, from the northeast at Cooke City-Silver Gate, Montana, from the east at Cody, Wyoming, and from the south at Grand Teton National Park and Jackson, Wyoming.
The Yellowstone River flows through the valley.
It is noted for world-class fly fishing in the river and nearby spring creeks such as DePuy Spring Creek.
The valley has other natural wonders such as several natural hot springs, including Chico Hot Springs near Emigrant, Montana, La Duke Hot Springs near Gardiner, and Hunter's Hot Springs near Livingston.
Emigrant Peak is the largest peak near the valley.
It is 10,921 feet in elevation.
It is in the southern part of the valley on the eastern side of the river.
It is in the Absaroka mountain range.
Al Agnew
Peter Fonda, actor/director
Margot Kidder, actress
Church Universal and Triumphant, religious organization
Christopher Paolini, writer
Richard Brautigan, poet
John Mayer, singer-songwriter
Jeff Bridges, actor
Patrick Markey, producer
Casey Anderson, Grizzly Bear specialist, animal magnet
Missi Pyle, Actress
Al Feldstein, Mad Magazine founder
Dennis Quaid, Actor
Hardee's is an American fast food franchise which first began on September 3, 1960.
It operates mainly across the Midwestern States of the United States.
The restaurant sells chicken strips, French fries and burgers.
Wilbur Hardee was the founder of Hardee's.
Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie directed by Dennis Hopper, and written by Hopper, Peter Fonda and Terry Southern.
It tells the story of two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South for freedom.
The success of the movie helped spark the New Hollywood phase of movie making during the early 1970s.
The movie was added to the Library of Congress National Registry in 1998.
The movie was said to be a counterculture movie.
Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise and fall of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle.
Easy Rider is famous for its use of real drugs in its portrayal of marijuana and other substances.
Hopper received the First Film Award (Prix de la première œuvre) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.
At the Academy Awards, Nicholson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The movie was also nominated for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced.
1960s drama movies
Gabriella "Gaby" Hoffmann (born January 1982) is an American movie and television series actress who also did some commercials.
She starred in the 1988 comedy Uncle Buck and Field of Dreams, a 1989 movie.
Bob Newhart (born September 5, 1929) is an American actor and stand up comedian.
He has performed on many television sitcoms.
One of them was his self-titled sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and other one Newhart.
He also appeared in the Christmas comedy movie Elf.
In 2011, Newhart made a cameo in the movie Horrible Bosses, and in 2013 he guest starred in an episode of The Big Bang Theory, for which he won his very first acting Emmy Award on September 15, 2013.
Newhart was born in Oak Park, Illinois on September 5, 1929.
Newhart studied at Loyola University at Chicago.
He served in the United States Army before his acting career began.
Newhart has been married to Virginia Quinn since 1963.
Bob Newhart profile from American Masters
Archive of American Television Interview with Bob Newhart May 29, 2001 on Google Video
Bob:The Last Interview
Bob Newhart four-part interview with Horace J. Digby on A3Radio
Della Reese (July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017) was an American singer, (television) actress, and Christian minister.
She started acting in the 1950s.
She was best known for performing as Tess in the CBS drama Touched by an Angel (which began September 1994 and ended in 2003).
Valerie June Carter Cash (June 23, 1929 - May 15, 2003) was an American singer, actress, and dancer.
She was the second wife of singer Johnny Cash.
She and Johnny had many hit records in their careers.
She died due to complications of surgery.
Her widower, Johnny, died four months after her.
She was the cousin of President of the United States Jimmy Carter.
June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle Carter and Ezra Carter.
She was born into country music and performed with the Carter Family from the age of ten, beginning in 1939.
June and her sisters, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining in from time to time, reclaimed the name The Carter Family for their act during the 1960s and 1970s.
Carter was married three times and had one child with each husband.
All three of her children would go on to have successful careers in country music.
Her last marriage was to Johnny Cash.
In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario, Canada.
They married on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky, and remained married until her death in May 2003, just four months before Cash died.
The couple's son, John Carter Cash, is a musician, songwriter and producer.
Tanya Roberts (born Victoria Leigh Blum; October 15, 1955 – January 4, 2021) was an American actress, producer, and model.
She appeared in many movies and television series.
Roberts was born in Bronx, New York, and has both an English and a Jewish background.
She was known for her role as Julie Rogers on the fifth and final season of Charlie's Angels (1980–81) and as Midge Pinciotti on That '70s Show (1998–2001).
She was a Bond girl in A View to a Kill (1985).
On December 24, 2020, Roberts collapsed suddenly at her home in Los Angeles.
She was hospitalized under critical condition at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and she developed a urinary tract infection and sepsis.
Roberts died on January 4, 2021 at aged 65.
"Miss You" is a song by American singer Aaliyah.
It was written in 1998, by Johnta Austin, Ginuwine and Teddy Bishop.
The song was recorded for Aaliyah's third album (2001).
However, it was decided not to be included on the album. "
Miss You" remained an unreleased song.
When Aaliyah died in the Bahamas in August 2001, it was released on her greatest hits album I Care 4 U (2002).
It was released as the first single from the album in 2003.
The song is a ballad.
It reached the top twenty in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
In the US, the song reached number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
It then became Aaliyah's highest-charting single after her 2000 number one single "Try Again" featuring Timbaland.
It was directed by Darren Grant.
It features Aaliyah's friends and other artists lip synching the song.
These artists include Missy Elliott, Lil' Kim, Toni Braxton, Queen Latifah, Rosario Dawson and Quincy Jones among others.
The music video was nominated for Best R&B Video at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.
American rapper Jay-Z used the instrumental and chorus of "Miss You" for its official remix version.
"Miss You" was written by Johnta Austin and Teddy Bishop.
It was produced by Bishop.
It was originally written for American R&B singer Ginuwine's second album 100% Ginuwine (1999).
During the fall of 1999, when Aayliah was recording songs for her next album in the Manhattan Center Studios, she asked Austin and Bishop if she could hear what they written for other artists.
Ginuwine had already recorded "Miss You", which was originally titled as "I Miss You".
Bishop told in an interview, "She was like, 'I want to cut this record' [...] She got on the phone, called him and said 'Hey I know you cut this record already, but I would love to cut it'."
Ginuwine, who also co-wrote the song, allowed her to record her own version.
Aaliyah redone the entire song and recorded that night.
Aaliyah wanted the song to be on her next album.
However her record company, Blackground Records, did not believe it would be successful.
It was left unreleased until her death in August 2001.
Slant Magazine called the single "Aaliyah-lite".
MusicOMH.com gave a positive review of the song and said that it is the best new song from her album.
A writer from Allmusic believed "Miss You" was not the best of her productions with Timbaland but said it "stand[s] up well".
"Miss You" debuted at number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
It then reached number three.
It was the eighth best-song of that year for the Hot 100.
It was the third best-song of that year on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
In the week of November 22, 2008, "Miss You" debuted at number 38 on the Top Ringtone chart.
This marked its fifth year since it was first released.
A music video for the song was released.
It features Aaliyah's friends and other artists lip synching to the song.
The video was shot in two locations.
These include Long Island City, New York and Los Angeles, California.
American artists Tweet, Lil' Kim, Jaheim, and Lil' Jon were among those who came to the Long Island shoot.
However, Jamie Foxx, DMX, Quincy Jones, and Ananda Lewis were some of the celebrities who appeared at the Los Angeles shoot.
There are clips of Aaliyah on the music video.
These include some footage's of her in her music videos and in others. "
Miss You" reached number 23 on BET: Notarized Top 100 videos of 2003.
List of cameos
La-La
U-God of the Wu-Tang Clan
A. J. Calloway
Quddus
Dallas Austin
Big Tigger
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Documents on the Persian Gulf's name the eternal heritage ancient time is a book and atlas written and compiled by Dr. M. Ajam.
It was published first on 2004.
A second edition was published under the supervision of Dr. Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh and Dr.Mohammad Hassan Ganji in 2009.the book collects maps and historical documents about the Indian Ocean and its related bays and seas, especially the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman.
At the eleventh International Festival of Iran's Best Research and Researchers of 2010, this book received the Gold Coin of best Award presented by the Vice President of Iran.
This book has received many other awards and numerous other letters of appreciation, among them former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani The book was candidate  to receive prize of the  year book in Iran.
The book was considered among the best books in the last 50 years on Persian Gulf issues in Iran.
A documentary film titled Persian Gulf's Name in the Course of History has been filmed, mainly based on this book.
Part of the book was published in the website  the UNGEGN.
This book was first published online in 2001.then was published in 2004 in color and a newer version of it was released in 2009.
The contents of this book have been repeatedly published in the Persian media.
According to the suggestion of this book, the Persian Gulf National Day was registered by the Iranian government in 2005.
A summary of the book had been published on the UN website in 2006   under the title: A glance at the Historical, Geographical and Legal Validity of the term.
The 2006 UN report prepared by a panel of experts regarding the names
part of the book also had been included  in the book “Persian  Gulf"  by Javad Nourouzi and published into 10 languages : Persian, Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Urdu
also a famous documentary film titled Persian Gulf, in the Course of  History by  Orod Atarpour has been produced  and broadcasted in IRIB TV and Press TV mainly based on the document of this book.
VOA Voice of America in a documentary named Citizen Observer | roots of the name of the Persian Gulf in historical documents had used several maps and document from this book.
1-1 The records and description of the Persian Gulf by early Travelers and Geographers, including written description by Muslim travelers and European geographers.
Recorded  the 300  historians, travelers and geographers of  the Middle Ages, especially those writing in Arabic and Persian from the 9th to the 15th century.
According to the book “Documents on the Persian Gulf's Name, the Eternal Heritage of Ancient Time,” the term Persian Gulf and its equivalents have been used continuously since 400 BC in all languages, especially in the Arabic language.
Following British attempts to control the seaway in the late 1830s, the Times Journal, published in London in 1840, referred to the Persian Gulf as the "Britain Sea", but this name was never used in any other context.
part 1: talks about the different Names of Iran from 500 BC till now.especially the name Iran and Persia.
part 2: discusses maps, atlases, and history of maps.
and documents about Persian Gulf in different era since Alexander the great, page 52-92.
and also some famous contract and treaties which mentioned the Persian Gulf.
page 98 -122 explain some of the most important historical atlases which have the Persian Gulf name such as:
- Atlas  The Arabian Peninsula in Old European Maps (253 maps) by Khaled Al Ankary, Institute du Monde Arabe,Paris and Tunisia University,2001.all 253 maps of  this atlas have been printed in color and 3 languages and have the correct name of Persian gulf.
MEI: Issue No.
22 : Occassional Paper
part 2: page 170-216 ,view points of those defending  the name and says any change in geographical names should consider the facts as :
Historical & geographical facts and 2500 years continuous use of the term in all languages.
Contracts and legal and geographical facts in Arabic texts.
all Arabs letter and contracts before 1960 used the name as Persian Gulf(خلیج فارس).
United Nations Document
According to the book (Documents on the Persian Gulf's) pages ( 92–98), the United Nations Secretariat and its specialized agencies have requested its staff many times to use only "Persian Gulf" as a standard geographical designation.
The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names discussed the naming issue during its 23rd session, held in Vienna from 28 March to 4 April 2006.
According to the report of the meeting, "It is interesting that from among 6000 existing historical maps published up to 1890, there are only three maps mentioning the names of Basreh Gulf, Ghatif Gulf, and Arabic Gulf, which are in fact bays but in local language both the bays and the gulf  is called khaleej(Gulf) but such names are not applied to the entirety of the Persian Gulf.
It is obvious that the promotional use by the Arabs of the three aforementioned maps, whose identity and originality are not clear, in comparison with 6000 maps and more than 200 historical and tourism books from Irastus to Herodotus to Estakhri and Ibn Houghal, who have all called the water body, Persian Gulf, shall lack any value."
The United Nations has 8 times  stated in its statements, amendments and resolutions that the name "Persian Gulf" is official, and called on the staff of the Secretariat and other affiliated organizations to use the full name of the Persian Gulf in official correspondence.
some of the enlistments are as follow:
Circular No.
CAB/1/87/63 dated 16.02.1987 of Managing Director of UNESCO.
ST/CS/SER.A/29/Add.2 dated Aug. 18, 1994.ST/CS/SER.A/29/ADD.2 - E - ST/CS/SER.A/29/ADD.2
UN   UNSC in Arabic
2008 ,4 April UN.
Department of Economic and Social Affairs(DESA)
ST/CS/SER.A/29/Add.
۲ (UN)
S/RES/2182 (2014) Para 15 S/RES/2182%20(2014) - E - S/RES/2182%20(2014)
A/RES/51/21 4 December 1996 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Para 3.A/RES/51/21 - E - A/RES/51/21
Documents-dds-ny.un.org UNLA 1984
Documents UNAD 311/Qen 1971
UN's maps Asia، map No 3978 ( 2007)
No 3891 UN (2004Jan)
UN map Asia No 3978 .1998).
The report further notes that "any change, destruction, or alteration of the names registered in historical deeds and maps is like the destruction of ancient works and is considered as an improper action.
Therefore, the names of geographical features profiting from a unique historical identity, should not be utilized as political instruments in reaching a political, tribal, and racial objective, or in any clash with national interests and other's values".
The United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency GEOnet Names Server (GNS) is the "official repository of standard spellings of all foreign place names"  The GNS lists "Persian Gulf" as the Conventional name.
Viewpoint of Iran‌ (Persia)
Iran uses only Persian Gulf since 1980S Some atlases and media outlets have taken to referring to it as"The Gulf" without adjective.
Iran does not consider this an impartial usage and views it as the ignore of the historical and legal facts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a speech to the United Nations General Assembly during which he said that the only correct name of the sea between Iran and the Arabian peninsula was the Persian Gulf, and he dismissed the use of any other names as “illegitimate and void.
Iran officially designated 30 April as National Persian Gulf Day.
The date coincides with the anniversary of Abbas I of Persia's successful military campaign when the Portuguese navy was driven out of the Strait of Hormuz in the Capture of Hormuz (1622).
The decision was taken by the High Council of Cultural Revolution,  noting that the campaign launched in 2009 by certain Arab states to rename Persian Gulf was the driver behind the decision.
Confession of Arabs scholars
Gamal Abdel Nasser and other Arabs leaders were using the Persian gulf.
Abdel Khaleq al-Janabi, a Saudi Arabian historian, said "It's this name [Persian Gulf] that has been retained by history books and Arab historians, like Ibn Khaldoun and Ibn al Athir.
It's also in treaties signed between the governors of the gulf and the British who dominated the region from the beginning of the 20th century ... From a scientific and historical point of view, it has been called the Persian Gulf since Alexander the Great".
He said that it was "without foundation" to claim the Romans named it "Arabian Gulf". "
Things didn't change until Nasser came to power and the rise of Arab nationalism.
And many prominent scholars and political and religious leaders such as Professor Abdelhadi Tazi, Ahmad al-Saraf,  Abdelilah Benkirane (Prime Minister of 2011-2013 Morocco), Abdul Monem Saeed, Abdul Khaliq al-Janabi,  Qaradawi, Gen. Majdi Omar, Former First Deputy of the Egyptian National Defense Council in recent decades have commented on the authenticity of the name of the Persian Gulf and the lack of justification for changing the name.
chapter3 part one: page 142-155 .talk about  viewpoints of Arabs:
Arabs countries around the Gulf have the right to name it according to what fit to them.
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (Pliny) had mentioned it as Persian gulf or Arabian gulf?
part 2 page 170-216 .view points of those defending  the historical name and says any change in geographical names should consider the facts as :
Historical & Geographical facts and 2500 years continuous Universal use of the term in all languages.
all Arabs letter and contracts before 1960 used the name as Persian gulf(خلیج فارس).
Chapter 3 also discusses the history of falsification of the name of the Persian Gulf.
In this chapter, the role of Arab nationalist leaders - the role of religious leaders - the role of the Arab media is examined.
and focus on the controversy between Iran and Arab countries and how it developed.
part 7 page 87 is about British control and colonialist time of controlling the Persian gulf .
Portuguese, Netherlands and British.
For about 200 years, from 1763 until 1971, the United Kingdom kept some control over some of the Persian Gulf lands.
The lands were current states of the United Arab Emirates and at various times Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar.
printed in the Book's Documents.
Differentiation between  Indian Ocean, Persian Sea and Persian Gulf and Oman sea/gulf.
In ancient times usually persian were considering there is a long sea all around the world called(Mohit) the Ocean and from this long round ocean separate two large sea called Persian sea and (Rum ) Mediterranean sea.
even in Quran it mentions 2 seas (Bahrain).
some other geographer mentioned the world has 7 seas and the most important seas are : Bahr Mohit (ocean) , Persian sea ,Mediterranean sea , Africa sea (Habasha) and china sea.
Erythraean sea
In the old time The Indian ocean and Arabian sea historically and geographically has been referred to with different names by Turks, Persian and Arabs, and others.
According to the the book of Wilfred Harvey Schoff The name of the Erythraean Sea.-By WILFRED H. - jstor1913,  oldest text which tells about Erythraean Sea was Herodotus (484-425BC) after him others also mentioned the name until 18 century Herodotus was telling about the sea from Babylon to the east toward (India) it means current Arabian sea and gulf of Oman .
but later the total part of Indian ocean was called Erythraean Sea, in “the Voyage around the Erythraean” first century  called all north part of  Indian ocean as Erythraean Sea and also  mentioned the Persian Sea, in para33-34-35.,
.also  in the book  the sea of Erythraeo  by Agatharchides it of the Erythraean Sea and then this term applied by Greek and Roman geographers to the Indian Ocean until 18 century and the term was including its adjuncts, the Red Sea and the Persian sea(Gulf) and Arabian Sea .
Erythra means Red, but we are assured by Agatharchides that it means, not Red Sea, but Sea of King Erythras, following a Persian legend and the island of Erythra.
according to the The Histories of Herodotus book 7 page 785 Sumerian and Akkadian were calling the Persians as Arthaians (Artaioi) or Erythraean.
most probably related to the Aratta    .
and Pliny in Natural History 6.96-111. (
On India) wrote : XXVIII.(107) Moreover in this region the Erythraean sea then makes a double inroad, into the land; the name given to it by our countrymen is the Red Sea, while the Greeks call it Erythrum, from King Erythras a persian name ,related to the Ṛta , Hr̥tás,the "truth" and the Sun wheel .and Aratta also has a relation with this words.
Persian sea
Expert of Geography and cartography in medieval Islam, usually  named it as Persian sea a  vast sea from  Vak Vak island (including Thailand coast and Andaman sea to the west Basra bay and to the red sea.
some of them called all body of water in north Indian ocean as the Persian sea (Bahre Fars)  and the south part as Erythraean sea European geographers and travelers, also Differentiated   between Persian sea and Persian Gulf and Indian ocean.
geographers in medieval Islam were using the word Bahre Fars بحر فارس (Persian sea) to mention the current body of water in the north of Indian Ocean, In the Book Documents on the Persian Gulf's name,  Pages 60 to 84 explained  the description of the Persian Sea in the 40  books of Muslims from 10 to 18 centuries .
they called the seas of south part of Iran, Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Peninsula  as the Persian Sea, sometimes Indian sea and rarely Macran or Makaran , and Oman sea among the scholars:
Ibn Khordadbeh,  Muhammad al-Idrisi, Istakhri, Mahmud, al-Khwarizmi , Zakariya al-Qazwini, Al-Masudi , Ibn Hawqal,  Ibn al-Faqih, Ibn Rustah, Sohrab, Ramhormozi, Farisi al Istakhri,Tahir al-Maqdisi (d. 966), Ibn Khaldun, Mohammad ibn Najub Bekiran, Abu Rayhan Biruni, Yaqut al-Hamawi,Abu'l-Fida, Al-Dimashqi, Hamdollah Mostowfi, Al-Nuwayri, Ibn Batutta,Katip Çelebi have used the terms, "Bahr-i Mohit i Ajam",  "Bahr-i-Fars", (Persian sea), and "Bahr-i Mokaran/Mecran", "Bahr-e Al Akhzar" (green) to refer to the current Arabian sea.
None of them used the term Arabian sea.
the book cited  description of the Persian sea from the book (Sourat Ard)Face of the Earth page 42 Written by Ibn Hawql: ”  … after Arabs lands should be mentioned The Sea of Persia because Persian sea includes most of Arabs borders, the Arab peninsula  are connected to this sea ,the Persian  sea connected  to many countries of Islam.
this sea  start from  the Qulzam(Red sea ) it ends to Eble (Basra bay), then It crosses Siraf (Bushehr) then extends to the Hormuz and  Macran  and the coasts of Multan, which is the coasts of Sindh (Pakistan) which the boundaries  of the countries  of Islam is ended then the Persian sea continues to the coasts of India finally in east it connect to  the sea of China”.
at least 40 Muslim geographers explained  Persian sea, they were considering the world only have 7 seas and the vast sea was Persian sea and Rum sea.
they did not mentioned Arabian Sea at all  this name first used by European cartographer of 17 century .
another name was makran sea this name was used mostly by Muslims.
Macaran or Makaran (most probably related to Diety called Makara Persian plural is Makaran ,in English this Crocodile is called Mugger crocodile)  or maybe have root in Persian word Mahikhoran(fish eater).
Chapter six Documents
part 11 is about important Documents, Maps and Pictures on the museums and archives in different countries .
also answers to the question of those say the names should change.
Gallery Documents from the Book
Names of Iran
List of cartographers
Full word text of the book in Persian.(edition 2009)
Arabic documents
Documents on the Persian Gulf's name Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran - Tokyo- Introducing a Book and Atlas
Documents on the Persian Gulf's name Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran - Tokyo- A book and atlas
Documents from the book in flickr: 32 historical map of Persian gulf,from the Documents on the Persian Gulf's name.
Documents from the book in flickr: 3d pan white
Documents from the book
more Maps and documents from this book:
Documents from the book in parssea
Persian Gulf: From rich history to security depth Persian Gulf: From rich history to security depth - Tehran Times
times of India
Documentary film:Documentary film of the Persian Gulf
UNGEGN UNGEGN Working Paper No.
Voice of America.(voanews.com)VOA documentary
Documents on the Persian Gulf's name facts
Documents PGSC Persian Gulf Studies Center
Atlas of geographical maps and historical documents about the Persian Gulf from prehistoric times to the present Published by Sahab Institute of Geography and Cartography , 1971 , and 2005 ,Tehran .
Atlas of maps"Description of the Persian Gulf in Historical Maps", the Iranology Foundation,Tehran , 2008.
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