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Bauer Media Group
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The portfolio includes print shops, postal, distribution and marketing services. Bauer Media Group has a workforce of approximately 11,000 employees in 17 countries, Bauer Verlagsgruppe has been managed by five generations of the Bauer family. Originally a small printing house in Germany, Bauer Media Group entered the UK with the launch of Bella magazine in 1987, under the name of H Bauer Publishing they became Britains third largest publisher. Bauer further expanded in the UK with the purchase of Emap Consumer Media, the group acquired Australian magazine publisher, ACP Magazines from a London-based private equity firm, CVC Capital Partners, in 2012. That increased the turnover to more than €2 billion. In November 2010, Heinz Heinrichs daughter Yvonne Bauer became CEO, in the UK there are two divisions of the Bauer Media Group. The original UK business trades as H Bauer Publishing under CEO David Goodchild and its sister company is known as Bauer Media with CEO Paul Keenan. David Goodchild is also CEO of Bauers Australasian businesses, titles include womens weekly and TV listings magazines, namely Bella, Take a Break, thats life. This is as well as a number of puzzle magazines, in 1987 Bella was H Bauers first venture into publishing in the UK. In 1990, H Bauer launched a womens magazine named Take a Break. H Bauer also has a title, thats life. The H Bauer Publishing brand also includes puzzle magazines that carry the Take a Break name,1991 saw H Bauers first TV listings publishing with the launch of TVQuick magazine. TVQuick ceased publication in July 2010, in 1999 H Bauer launched TVChoice at a much lower price point than other titles on the market. TVChoice overtook its competitor in the February 2008 audited ABCs and has been the number one weekly newsstand magazine in the UK since. In September 2003, H Bauer launched Total TVGuide to cover the number of programmes available on Freeview. Bauer Media is a media group, with locations across the UK. Following their purchase of Emap in 2007, The Bauer Media Group acquired a collection of media brands and this includes heat and Grazia as well as a radio portfolio of national radio brands such as KISS FM UK and Magic, and regional radio brands across major UK cities. In 2013, Bauer Media also acquired the Absolute Radio Group from Times of India, Bauer Media also broadcasts TV music channels including The Box TV, in a joint venture with Channel 4
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Ascential
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Ascential plc, formerly EMAP, is a British business-to-business media business specialising in exhibitions & festivals and information services. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE250 Index, Richard Winfrey purchased the Spalding Guardian in 1887 and later purchased the Lynn News and the Peterborough Advertiser, he also started the North Cambs Echo. Sir Richard Winfrey was a Liberal politician and campaigner for agricultural rights, during World War II Winfreys newspaper interests began to be passed over to his son, Richard Pattinson Winfrey. The Peterborough Advertiser Co. the West Norfolk and Kings Lynn Newspaper Co. and commercial printing sections at Rushden, Kings Lynn, the magazine division was founded on a hunch when the companys printing presses lay dormant between printing issues of the local papers. The staff gambled that a weekly angling publication would be a hit - and this was soon joined by another weekly heavyweight when EMAP bought Motor Cycle News from its founder in 1956 for a hundred pounds. EMAP grew significantly in the late 1970s under the guidance of the successful partnership of Sir Robin Miller. In 1996 EMAP PLC agreed to sell its 65 newspaper titles, including the 300-year-old Stamford Mercury, scottish Radio Holdings was acquired by EMAP on 21 June 2005. In 2006, EMAP sold its French division to Italys Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, on 27 July 2007, EMAP announced that it was undertaking a review of the structure of the group in response to receiving a number of unsolicited proposals to purchase parts of the company. On 12 September 2007, EMAP announced that it had completed the disposal of its Australian consumer magazine division, on 29 January 2008, EMAP completed the sale of its radio, television and consumer media businesses to German company Bauer for £1. 14bn. In March 2012, the announced that it would be renamed Top Right Group. The EMAP name would continue to be used for the magazines operation, the database business was renamed 4C Group, and the events unit was renamed I2i Events Group. Then in October 2015 the company announced that the EMAP brand would be scrapped as all its titles move to digital-only format, in December Top Right Group rebranded as Ascential. The company was the subject of an initial public offering in February 2016
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Zoo Weekly
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Zoo was a British lads magazine published weekly by Bauer Media Group in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 29 January 2004, and for a time was the UKs only mens weekly after the similar, on 17 November 2015, Zoo announced on its website that it would be suspending publication. Zoo consisted of a mix of news, sports commentary, photos of glamour models, jokes. Zoo was a news magazine aimed at the male market. It was launched on 29 January 2004, as the second weekly mens magazine in the UK, the magazine was published by German company Bauer Media Group. The Zoo website is a continuation of the content that also includes original articles, videos. Readers are also invited to create a profile and post pictures via the Zoo Bloggers section, on 8 August 2013, a spokesman for Bauer Media announced that it would not be placing Zoo in modesty bags. The announcement came after the UKs Co-op supermarkets asked for publishers of lads mags to mask their explicit front covers or face being taken off the shelves, the Co-op said that it was responding to consumer concern. As a result of Bauer Medias decision, the Co-op ceased to stock Zoo in its stores, on 17 November 2015, Zoo announced that it would be suspending publication alongside that of fellow mens magazine FHM. An Australian edition of Zoo was introduced on 27 February 2006 with a promotional issue that was free of charge. The first official issue came out a week later on 20 February 2006 and it features Krystal Forscutt and David Boon as columnists, and much the same features as its British counterpart, except the sport commentary is mainly rugby league and Australian rules football. Spokesperson/models used regularly in Zoo Weekly included Brooke Evers, former Big Brother Australia contestants Krystal Forscutt, Emma Cornell, resident sex and relationship advice columnists for 2009–2010, The Threesome Monica Lee Paige, Bonnie Edwards & Ardina Voogt. From 2012 til present day, the sex and relationship advice column is presented by regular cover model, on 16 September 2007, it was reported that the professional golfer Nikki Garrett had instructed her lawyers to begin an action against Zoo Weekly in the Australian Federal Court. On the 17 September 2015 Bauer Media issued a release confirming the closure of the Australian weekly edition. The closure of Zoo Weekly magazine encompassed all platforms, print, website and social media assets, the magazine was published in both English, as Zoo Weekly, and Afrikaans, as Zoo Weekliks. The edition was discontinued by February 2008, Nuts FHM Zip Ralph Lad culture Playboy 12. Http, //www. abc. net. au/news/2015-09-18/zoo-weekly-to-publish-its-last-issue-in-october/6786730 Zoo Weekly UK Zoo Weekly Australian edition Stealing content
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Germany
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Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,021 square kilometres, with about 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. After the United States, it is the second most popular destination in the world. Germanys capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, other major cities include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Leipzig. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity, a region named Germania was documented before 100 AD. During the Migration Period the Germanic tribes expanded southward, beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation, in 1871, Germany became a nation state when most of the German states unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire. After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Empire was replaced by the parliamentary Weimar Republic, the establishment of the national socialist dictatorship in 1933 led to World War II and the Holocaust. After a period of Allied occupation, two German states were founded, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, in 1990, the country was reunified. In the 21st century, Germany is a power and has the worlds fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP. As a global leader in industrial and technological sectors, it is both the worlds third-largest exporter and importer of goods. Germany is a country with a very high standard of living sustained by a skilled. It upholds a social security and universal health system, environmental protection. Germany was a member of the European Economic Community in 1957. It is part of the Schengen Area, and became a co-founder of the Eurozone in 1999, Germany is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G8, the G20, and the OECD. The national military expenditure is the 9th highest in the world, the English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. This in turn descends from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz popular, derived from *þeudō, descended from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂- people, the discovery of the Mauer 1 mandible shows that ancient humans were present in Germany at least 600,000 years ago. The oldest complete hunting weapons found anywhere in the world were discovered in a mine in Schöningen where three 380, 000-year-old wooden javelins were unearthed
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Claudia Schiffer
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Claudia Schiffer is a German model, actress and fashion designer. She rose to fame in the early 1990s as one of the worlds most successful models, in her early career, she was compared to Brigitte Bardot. She has appeared on more than one thousand magazine covers and holds the record for the model with the most magazine covers, in 2002, Forbes estimated her net worth to be around US$55 million. Claudia Schiffer was born in Rheinberg, a small town 15 kilometres northwest of Duisburg, on 25 August 1970 to Gudrun and Heinz Schiffer and she has two brothers, Stefan and Andreas, and one sister, Ann Carolin. Schiffer is fluent in three languages – German, English and French, Schiffer originally aspired to become a lawyer and used to work in her fathers law firm. In October 1987, at age 17, she was spotted in a nightclub in Düsseldorf by Michel Levaton, the head of Metropolitan Model Agency, shortly after this, she met Patrick Lafontaine at a beach resort, who then saw her connected with Elite Model Management. After leaving high school, Schiffer flew to Paris for a photo shoot. In the early 1990s, she starred in campaigns for Guess, co-founder Paul Marciano said in E. Forbes Top 15 Supermodel Beauties Who Made Bank, Guess. Name became really much more known around the world because Claudia, after several other magazine appearances including the cover of British Vogue, shot by Herb Ritts, Schiffer was selected by Karl Lagerfeld to become the new face of Chanel. In May 1997, Schiffer was featured on the cover and in the pictorial of Playboy, Schiffer appeared on the November 1999 millennium cover of Vogue as one of the Modern Muses. Named one of the most beautiful women in the world, her ability to appeal to a global audience assured a successful career spanning over 25 years. Other magazines Schiffer has appeared on the covers of include Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, People, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, Cosmopolitan, salvatore Ferragamo, Neiman Marcus, Gap, Dillards, Saks Fifth Avenue, LOréal, Revlon, Intergaz and Pepsi. From her appearances in a 1998 Citroën advertisement she allegedly earned £3 million, Schiffer still holds a contract with LOréal and is one of their longest standing ambassadors. Schiffer was a judge on Fashion Fringe in 2011, in 2012, she posed for Guess. Again, marking the brands 30th anniversary, Schiffer launched her eponymous cashmere collection during Paris Fashion Week in March 2011. The Autumn–Winter 2011 season saw her fashion design debut and was followed by a Spring–Summer 2012 collection, Schiffer made her film debut in the childrens movie Richie Rich, and then starred opposite Dennis Hopper and Matthew Modine in The Blackout. She then went on to appear in Friends & Lovers, Black and White, In Pursuit, Life Without Dick, films in which Schiffer has made cameo appearances include Ben Stillers Zoolander. She made a appearance in the music video for Bon Jovis Say It Isnt So in 2000
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Gillian Anderson
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Gillian Leigh Anderson, OBE, is an American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer. Among other honours, Anderson has won a Primetime Emmy Award, after beginning her career on stage, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully on the American sci-fi drama series The X-Files for all ten seasons. Her film work includes the dramas The Mighty Celt, The Last King of Scotland, Shadow Dancer and she will be appearing as Media in the upcoming TV series American Gods. Anderson is the co-writer of The EarthEnd Saga novel trilogy and the guide book WE. Aside from film and TV, Anderson has taken on the stage, Anderson has been active in supporting numerous charities and humanitarian organizations. She is a spokesperson for the Neurofibromatosis Network and a co-founder of South African Youth Education for Sustainability. Anderson was appointed an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2016 for her services to drama. Anderson was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Rosemary Posie Alyce, a computer analyst, and Homer Edward Ed Anderson III and she is of English, German, and Irish ancestry. Soon after her birth, her parents moved to Puerto Rico for 15 months, then to London, the family relocated so that her father could attend the London Film School. She spent her growing up in north Londons Crouch End. She was a pupil of Coleridge Primary School, when Anderson was 11 years old, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan. They continued to have a flat in London, where she spent her summers, Anderson later said that she has always intended to return to England. In Grand Rapids, she attended Fountain Elementary and then City High-Middle School, following the move to Grand Rapids, Anderson went through a rebellious stage, experimenting with drugs, dating a much older boyfriend, and having a punk appearance. She was put in therapy at the age of 14, Anderson listened to bands such as Dead Kennedys and Skinny Puppy. She was voted by her classmates, class clown, most bizarre girl and she was, in fact, arrested on graduation night for breaking and entering into her high school in an attempt to glue the locks of the doors. She later managed to reduce the charges to trespassing and she also served as a student intern at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre & School of Theatre Arts. After graduating high school in 1986, she attended The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, Anderson also participated in the National Theatre of Great Britains summer program at Cornell University. Anderson is the eldest of three siblings and her brother Aaron – who was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis – died in 2011 of a brain tumor, at the age of 30
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Teri Hatcher
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Teri Lynn Hatcher is an American actress, writer, presenter, singer, and former NFL cheerleader. Hatcher was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of Esther, a programmer who worked for Lockheed Martin. Her father is of English, Welsh and Irish descent, her mother is of half Syrian and half Czech and Irish, Hatcher took ballet lessons at the San Juan School of Dance in Los Altos. She grew up in Sunnyvale, California, and attended Mango Junior High, Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza College in Cupertino. In March 2006, Hatcher alleged that she was sexually abused from the age of five by Richard Hayes Stone and she said her parents were unaware of the abuse at the time. In 2002, she assisted Santa Clara County prosecutors with their indictment of Stone for a more recent molestation that led his female victim to suicide at the age of 14. Stone pleaded guilty to four counts of molestation and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Hatcher said she told the prosecutors about her own abuse because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, Stone died of colon cancer on August 19,2008, having served six years of his sentence. Hatcher studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater, one of her early jobs was as an NFL cheerleader with the San Francisco 49ers. From September 1985 to May 1986 she joined the cast of the TV series The Love Boat, playing the role of Amy, from 1986 to 1989, she appeared in the recurring role of Penny Parker opposite Richard Dean Andersons eponymous hero on the TV series MacGyver. In 1987, she played the daughter of Patty Dukes lead character in the short-lived Fox comedy Karens Song, in 1988, she made a guest appearance in Star Trek, The Next Generation as Lt. Robinson. In 1989, she guest-starred in an episode of Quantum Leap titled Star Crossed, Hatchers next TV series role, in 1991, was in the Norman Lear creation Sunday Dinner. She portrayed a 26-year-old lawyer in an affair with a widowed businessman twice her age, the series had a brief run on CBS that summer but was not renewed. In 1992, Hatcher tried out for the role of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You, Hatcher landed a starring role of Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane in Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman from 1993 to 1997. Its a great shot, she said, not so much because its me. In Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman, the cast was worried that she would be taller than Superman in heels as she was 58 1⁄2, ABC cancelled Lois & Clark in 1997. Hatcher won the role of Paris Carver in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, Hatcher was three months pregnant at the filmings start, by her then husband, Jon Tenney. A publicist said the pregnancy did not affect the production schedule and she was voted the worlds sexiest woman by readers of popular mens magazine FHM in the same year
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Jenny McCarthy
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Jennifer Ann Jenny Wahlberg is an American actress, model, television host, comedian, author, screenwriter, and anti-vaccine activist. She began her career in 1993 as a model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then parlayed her Playboy fame into a television and film acting career and she is a former co-host of the ABC talk show The View. McCarthy has written books about parenting and has become an activist promoting research into environmental causes and she has promoted the idea that vaccines cause autism and that chelation therapy helped cure her son of autism. Both claims are unsupported by medical consensus, and her sons autism diagnosis has been questioned, McCarthy has been described as the nations most prominent purveyor of anti-vaxxer ideology, but she has denied the charge, stating, I am not anti-vaccine. McCarthy grew up in Evergreen Park, Illinois and South West Chicago and she was born to a working-class Catholic family, and has Irish, German, and Polish ancestry. She lived in the West Elsdon neighborhood of Chicago and she is the second of four daughters, her sisters are named Lynette, Joanne, and Amy. Actress Melissa McCarthy is her cousin, McCarthys mother, Linda, was a housewife and courtroom custodian, and her father, Dan McCarthy, was a steel mill foreman. She spent two years at Southern Illinois University, in 1993, Playboy magazine offered McCarthy $20,000 to pose for its October issue. McCarthy became the Playmate of the Month for October 1993, Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner cites McCarthys wholesome Catholic girl persona as the unique quality for which she was selected out of 10,000 applicants. Her layout emphasized her Catholic upbringing with a schoolgirl theme, McCarthy was later made the Playmate of the Year, and was paid a $100,000 salary. In 1994, because of her newfound public attention, McCarthy moved to Los Angeles and, for a time, hosted Hot Rocks, in 1995, when MTV chose McCarthy to cohost a new dating show called Singled Out, she left Hot Rocks. Her job as a host was a success, and Playboy wanted her to do more modeling and that same year, she also appeared at World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view event WrestleMania XI as a guest valet for villain Shawn Michaels, who faced heroic WWF Champion, Diesel. She left after the match with the victor, Diesel, McCarthy returned to World Wrestling Entertainment on the edition of August 2,2008 of Saturday Nights Main Event to thank the fans for supporting Generation Rescue, an autism advocacy organization. In 1996, she landed a part in the comedy The Stupids. In 1997, McCarthy launched two shows, the first one was an MTV sketch comedy show The Jenny McCarthy Show, which was sufficiently popular for NBC to sign her for an eponymous sitcom later that year, Jenny. Also in 1997, she appeared on one of two covers for the September issue of Playboy, McCarthy also released an autobiography, Jen-X, Jenny McCarthys Open Book. In 1998, McCarthys first major role was alongside Trey Parker
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Sarah Michelle Prinze is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. After being spotted by an agent at the age of four in New York City, Gellar went on to appear in numerous television series and commercials. Her first leading part was in the 1992 miniseries Swans Crossing, the character was widely popular during the airing of the show and became recognized as one of the 100 greatest female characters in U. S. television. Gellar also gained significant attention for her appearances in the slasher movies I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and she appeared as Daphne Blake in Scooby-Doo, her biggest live action commercial success. She subsequently appeared in smaller movies such as The Return and Southland Tales. Her later film credits include The Air I Breathe, Possession and she headlined the short lived television series Ringer and The Crazy Ones, which co-starred Robin Williams. In October 2015, Gellar co-founded Foodstirs, a food crafting brand, Gellar was born in New York City. She is the child of Rosellen, a nursery school teacher, and Arthur Gellar. Both of her parents were Jewish, though Gellars family also had a Christmas tree during her childhood, in 1984, when she was seven, her parents divorced and she was raised by her mother on the citys Upper East Side. Im not being deliberately evasive about him, its just that theres so little to say, besides being a working child at the time, Gellar was a competitive figure skater, finishing in third place at the New York State regional competition. She also placed fourth at a Tae Kwon Do competition at Madison Square Garden, Gellar was given a partial scholarship to study at the Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, as her mother was not able to pay full tuition, for which she was constantly bullied. She said in an interview with The Independent, I was different and thats the one thing you cant be at school, I didnt have the money these kids had. I was telling them that I had back problems and had to go to the doctor the whole time, Gellar then briefly attended the Fiorello H. Gellar graduated from the Professional Childrens School, in 1994 as a straight A student with a 4.0 grade average. As Gellar spent significant time working on All My Children while trying to graduate, at the age of four, she was spotted by an agent in a restaurant in Upper Manhattan. Two weeks later, she auditioned for a part in the television film An Invasion of Privacy, with Valerie Harper, Carol Kane, at the audition, Gellar read both her own lines and those of Harper, impressing the directors enough to cast her in the role. The film aired on CBS in January 1983 and she subsequently appeared in a controversial television commercial for Burger King, in which her character criticized McDonalds and claimed to eat only at Burger King. The ad led to a lawsuit by McDonalds, naming Gellar and banning her from eating at the chain, she recalled in a 2004 interview. It was tough because, when you’re a little kid, McDonald’s is where all your friends have their birthday parties, while growing up, Gellar also worked as a model for Wilhemina and acted in numerous television commercials
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Jennifer Lopez
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Jennifer Lynn Lopez, also known as JLo, is an American singer, actress, dancer, fashion designer, author, and producer. Lopez gained her first high-profile job as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color in 1991 and she received her first leading role in the Selena biopic of the same name in 1997, a portrayal that earned her a Golden Globe nomination. For her role in Out of Sight the following year, Lopez became the first Latina actress to earn over US$1 million for a film. She ventured into the industry in 1999 with her debut studio album On the 6. With the simultaneous release of her studio album J. Lo and her film The Wedding Planner in 2001, Lopez became the first woman to have a number one album. Her 2002 remix album, J to tha L–O, the Remixes, became the first in history to debut at number one on the U. S. Billboard 200. Following her second divorce, Lopez had a relationship with Ben Affleck. Then, while also overshadowing the release of Gigli, a critical and commercial failure and she subsequently married longtime friend Marc Anthony, and rebounded with the box office successes Shall We Dance. and Monster-in-Law. Her fifth studio album, Como Ama una Mujer, received the highest first-week sales for a debut Spanish album in the United States, in 2016, she began starring as Harlee Santos in the crime drama series Shades of Blue. Time listed her as one of the 25 most influential Hispanic Americans, for her contributions to the arts, Lopez has received a landmark star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Billboard Icon Award, among other honors. Beyond entertainment, she enjoys a successful business career consisting of various clothing lines, accessories, fragrances, a company. Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24,1969, in the Castle Hill neighborhood of The Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez and she has an older sister, Leslie, and a younger sister, Lynda, a journalist. David worked the night shift at the Guardian Insurance Company before becoming a technician at the firm. When Lopez was born, the family was living in a small apartment, a few years later, her parents had saved up enough money to be able to purchase a two-story house, which was considered a big deal for the relatively poor family. At the age of five, Lopez began taking singing and dancing lessons and she toured New York with her school when she was seven years old. Her parents stressed the importance of work ethic and being able to speak English and they encouraged their three daughters to put on performances at home—singing and dancing in front of each other and their friends so that they would stay out of trouble. Lopez spent her academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at Preston High School. In school, Lopez did gymnastics, ran track on a national level and she excelled athletically rather than academically, competing in national track championships
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Russia
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Russia, also officially the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. The European western part of the country is more populated and urbanised than the eastern. Russias capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a range of environments. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, the East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, in 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of states, most of the Rus lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion. The Soviet Union played a role in the Allied victory in World War II. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the worlds first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the second largest economy, largest standing military in the world. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic, the Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russias extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the producers of oil. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. The name Russia is derived from Rus, a state populated mostly by the East Slavs. However, this name became more prominent in the later history, and the country typically was called by its inhabitants Русская Земля. In order to distinguish this state from other states derived from it, it is denoted as Kievan Rus by modern historiography, an old Latin version of the name Rus was Ruthenia, mostly applied to the western and southern regions of Rus that were adjacent to Catholic Europe. The current name of the country, Россия, comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Kievan Rus, the standard way to refer to citizens of Russia is Russians in English and rossiyane in Russian. There are two Russian words which are translated into English as Russians
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Anna Kournikova
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Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a Russian former professional tennis player. Her appearance and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, at the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on Google Search. Despite never winning a title, she reached No.8 in the world in 2000. She achieved greater success playing doubles, where she was at times the World No.1 player, with Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002, and the WTA Championships in 1999 and 2000. They referred to themselves as the Spice Girls of Tennis, Kournikovas professional tennis career ended prematurely at the age of 21 due to serious back and spinal problems, including a herniated disk. She lives in Miami Beach, Florida, and plays in occasional exhibitions and she was a new trainer for season 12 of the television show The Biggest Loser, replacing Jillian Michaels, but did not return for season 13. Anna Kournikova was born in Moscow, Russia, on 7 June 1981 and her father, Sergei Kournikov, a former Greco-Roman wrestling champion, eventually earned a PhD and was a professor at the University of Physical Culture and Sport in Moscow. As of 2001, he was still a part-time martial arts instructor there and her mother Alla had been a 400-metre runner. Her younger brother, Allan, is a youth world champion who was featured in the 2013 documentary film The Short Game. Sergei Kournikov has said, We were young and we liked the clean, physical life, Kournikova received her first tennis racquet as a New Year gift in 1986 at age 5. Describing her early regimen, she said, I played two times a week from age six, and it was just for fun, my parents didnt know I was going to play professionally, they just wanted me to do something because I had lots of energy. It was only when I started playing well at seven that I went to a professional academy, I would go to school, and then my parents would take me to the club, and Id spend the rest of the day there just having fun with the kids. In 1986, Kournikova became a member of the Spartak Tennis Club, in 1989, at the age of eight, Kournikova began appearing in junior tournaments, and by the following year, was attracting attention from tennis scouts across the world. Kournikova signed a management deal at age ten and went to Bradenton, Florida, following her arrival in the United States, Kournikova became prominent on the tennis scene. At 14, she won the European Championships and the Italian Open Junior tournament and she became the youngest player to win the 18-and-under division of the Junior Orange Bowl tennis tournament. By the end of the year, Kournikova was crowned the ITF Junior World Champion U-18, in 1994, Kournikova received a wild card into ITF tournament in Moscow qualifications, but lost to third seeded Sabine Appelmans. She debuted in professional tennis at 14 in the Fed Cup for Russia, in 1995, she turned pro, and won two ITF titles, in Midland, Michigan and Rockford, Illinois. The same year Kournikova reached her first WTA Tour doubles final at the Kremlin Cup, partnering with 1995 Wimbledon girls champion in both singles and doubles Aleksandra Olsza, they lost to Meredith McGrath and Larisa Neiland
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Halle Berry
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Halle Maria Berry is an American actress. She won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama Monsters Ball, as of 2017, she is the only black woman to have won a Best Actress Academy Award. Berry was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s and has involved in the production of several of the films in which she performed. She is also a Revlon spokesmodel, before becoming an actress, she started modeling and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant and coming in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in 1986. She then appeared in the X-Men sequels, X2 and X-Men, in the 2010s, she appeared in movies such as the science fiction film Cloud Atlas, the crime thriller The Call and X-Men, Days of Future Past. Berry was formerly married to baseball player David Justice, and singer-songwriter Eric Benét and she has a daughter by model Gabriel Aubry, and a son by actor Olivier Martinez. Berry was born Maria Halle Berry, her name was changed to Halle Maria Berry at age five. Her parents selected her name from Halles Department Store, which was then a local landmark in her birthplace of Cleveland. Her mother, Judith Ann, who is of English and German ancestry, was a psychiatric nurse and her father, Jerome Jesse Berry, was an African-American hospital attendant in the psychiatric ward where her mother worked, he later became a bus driver. Berrys maternal grandmother, Nellie Dicken, was born in Sawley, Derbyshire, England, while her maternal grandfather, Berrys parents divorced when she was four years old, she and her older sister, Heidi Berry-Henderson, were raised exclusively by their mother. Berry has said in published reports that she has been estranged from her father since her childhood, noting in 1992 and her father was very abusive to her mother. Berry has recalled witnessing her mother being beaten daily, kicked down stairs, Berry graduated from Bedford High School where she was a cheerleader, honor student, editor of the school newspaper and prom queen. She worked in the department at Higbees Department store. She then studied at Cuyahoga Community College, in the 1980s, she entered several beauty contests, winning Miss Teen All American in 1985 and Miss Ohio USA in 1986. She was the 1986 Miss USA first runner-up to Christy Fichtner of Texas, in the Miss USA1986 pageant interview competition, she said she hoped to become an entertainer or to have something to do with the media. Her interview was awarded the highest score by the judges and she was the first African-American Miss World entrant in 1986, where she finished sixth and Trinidad and Tobagos Giselle Laronde was crowned Miss World. According to the Current Biography Yearbook, Berry. pursued a career in Chicago. Berrys first weeks in New York were less than auspicious, She slept in a homeless shelter, in 1989, Berry moved to New York City to pursue her acting ambitions
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Britney Spears
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Britney Jean Spears is an American singer, dancer, and actress. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, she performed acting roles in stage productions, Spearss first and second studio albums. Baby One More Time and Oops. I Did It Again, became international successes, with the former becoming the album by a teenage solo artist. Title tracks. Baby One More Time and Oops, I Did It Again broke international sales records. In 2001, Spears released her third studio album, Britney. She assumed creative control of her studio album, In the Zone. In 2007, Spearss much-publicized personal issues sent her career into hiatus and her fifth studio album, Blackout, was released later that year, and spawned singles such as Gimme More and Piece of Me. Her erratic behavior and hospitalizations continued through the year, at which point she was placed under a still ongoing conservatorship. Spearss sixth studio album, Circus, included the international chart-topping single Womanizer and her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale, became her first to yield three top-ten singles in the United States. She released her studio album Britney Jean in 2013. Later that year, Spears began the four-year residency show, Britney, Piece of Me, in 2016, Spears released her ninth studio album, Glory. Spears is regarded as a pop icon and credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and she became the best-selling teenage artist of all time and garnered honorific titles including the Princess of Pop. In 2009, Billboard ranked her as the 8th overall Artist of the Decade, the Recording Industry Association of America lists Spears as the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 34 million certified albums. She has sold 100 million albums and over 100 million singles worldwide making her one of the music artists of all time. According to Billboard Spears has sold about 22.38 million singles in digital downloads in US and is the fourth best-selling female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began. Forbes reported that Spears was the highest paid musician of 2012, with earnings of $58 million. Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi, the child of Lynne Irene Bridges and James Parnell Spears. Her maternal grandmother, Lillian Portell, was English, and one of Spearss maternal great-great-grandfathers was Maltese and her siblings are Bryan James and Jamie Lynn
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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Kelly Brook
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Kelly Brook is an English model, actress and television presenter best known in the US for her roles in the 2010 horror comedy remake Piranha 3D and in the NBC sitcom One Big Happy. Brook was born and raised in Rochester, Kent as Kelly Ann Parsons, the daughter of Sandra Kelly, a cook, and Kenneth Parsons, a scaffolder. She has a brother, Damian, and an older half-sister. Kenneth Parsons died, aged 57, in Rochester from lung cancer, on 26 November 2007, Brook attended the Thomas Aveling School in Warren Wood, Rochester. She then studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London for three years becoming a professional model. Brooks modelling career began at 16 after she won a beauty competition and her figure eventually caught the eye of the editorial team of the Daily Star tabloid, which began featuring her as a Page Three girl. Brooks picture soon began appearing in other lads mags such as GQ, Loaded, in April of the same year, a poll over 5,000 women for Grazia magazine considered her to have the best British female body. She also topped the FHM100 Sexiest Women in the World list in 2005, appearing in this list every year since 1998, she ranked No.34 in 2008, No.67 in 2009 and No.7 in 2010. She was the star of FHMs World Cup 2010 special issue. In February 2007, it was announced that Brook had signed a contract, reported to be worth around £1m, to represent Unilevers Lynx body spray, known as Axe in the US and she has appeared on billboards, in newspapers and on-line as part of their advertising campaign. She has also appeared in commercials for Sky + and T Mobile, in 2010, she was chosen as the new face and body of lingerie maker Ultimos advertising campaign. In September 2010, Brook appeared in the American edition of Playboy magazine, in October 2010, Brook appeared live at Clapham Picture House to surprise cinemagoers as part of a promotion for Carlsberg and Sky 3D. In November 2010, Brook presented an award at MTVs EMAs in Madrid, Brook produces a line of swimwear with New Look, for which she herself has modelled. In September 2014, Brook launched a line for Simply Be. The following year, she became an ambassador for Skechers. In 1997, aged eighteen, Brook started presenting youth television programmes on MTV, Granada Television and the Trouble TV channel. Brook had a breakthrough into mainstream presenting in January 1999, when she was chosen to replace Denise van Outen as the half of The Big Breakfast hosting team. She left the show in July 1999, in 2005, she hosted the reality television programme Celebrity Love Island for ITV
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Keira Knightley
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Keira Christina Knightley is an English actress. She began acting as a child on television and made her debut in 1995. She had a role as Sabé in Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace. In 2014, she was nominated for a Golden Globe, a SAG, a BAFTA Award, in October 2015, Knightley made her Broadway debut in the title role of Thérèse Raquin. Knightley was born in Teddington, London, England, the daughter of Sharman Macdonald, an actress turned playwright, and Will Knightley and her Scottish-born mother is of Scottish and Welsh descent, while her father is English. She was meant to be named Kiera, after the Russian ice skater, Kira Ivanova and she has an older brother, Caleb. Knightley lived in Richmond, attending Stanley Junior School, Teddington School and she requested an agent at the age of three. Knightley has noted that she was single-minded about acting during her childhood and she performed in a number of local amateur productions, which included After Juliet, written by her mother, and United States, written by her drama teacher, Ian McShane. She focused on art, history, and English literature while at Esher, after getting an agent at six, Knightley worked mostly in commercials and small TV roles. Her first role was Little Girl in Royal Celebration, a 1993 TV film, a year later, she had a small role in the film A Village Affair. She later starred in 1995s Innocent Lies and 1998s Coming Home and she was a princess in the 1996 film The Treasure Seekers. Later in 1999, she appeared as Rose in Oliver Twist, sabés dialogue was dubbed over with Natalie Portmans voice. This was to hide the fact that the handmaiden Padmé was actually disclosed as the real Queen Amidala at the end of the film. Knightley was cast in the role because of her resemblance to Portman. Knightleys first starring role was in 2001, when she played the daughter of Robin Hood in the made-for-television Walt Disney Productions feature Princess of Thieves and she trained for several weeks in archery, fencing and horse riding. During this time, Knightley also appeared in The Hole, a thriller that received a release in the United States. Its director Nick Hamm described her as a version of Julie Christie. She appeared in the adaptation of Doctor Zhivago as Lara, alongside Scottish actor Hans Matheson in the title role
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Jessica Alba
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Jessica Marie Alba is an American actress and businesswoman. Alba began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and she rose to prominence as the lead actress in the James Cameron television series Dark Angel when she was 19 years old. Alba later appeared in Honey, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue, Fantastic Four, Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck. In January 2012, Alba co-founded The Honest Company, a consumer goods company that sells household products. Alba was born in Pomona, California, to Catherine Louisa and her mother has Danish, Welsh, German, English, and French ancestry, while her paternal grandparents, who were born in California, were both the children of Mexican immigrants. She has a brother, Joshua. Her third cousin, once removed, is writer Gustavo Arellano and her fathers Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi, and Del Rio, Texas, before settling back in Claremont, California, when she was nine years old. Albas early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies, during childhood, she suffered from partially collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia four to five times a year, as well as a ruptured appendix and a tonsillar cyst. Alba became isolated from other children at school, because she was in the hospital so often due to her illnesses that no one knew her well enough to befriend her, Alba has also had asthma since she was a child. Alba has said that her familys frequent moving also contributed to her isolation from her peers and she has acknowledged that she suffered from obsessive–compulsive disorder during her childhood. Alba graduated from Claremont High School at age 16, and she attended the Atlantic Theater Company. Alba expressed interest in acting from the age of five, in 1992, the 11-year-old Alba persuaded her mother to take her to an acting competition in Beverly Hills, whose grand prize was free acting classes. Alba won the prize, and took her first acting lessons. An agent signed Alba nine months later and her first appearance on film was a small role in the 1994 feature Camp Nowhere as Gail. She was originally hired for two weeks but her role turned into a job when one of the prominent actresses dropped out. Alba appeared in two television commercials for Nintendo and J. C. Penney as a child. She was later featured in independent films. She branched out into television in 1994 with a role as the vain Jessica in three episodes of the Nickelodeon comedy series The Secret World of Alex Mack
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Megan Fox
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Megan Denise Fox is an American actress and model. She began her career in 2001, with several minor television and film roles. In 2004, she made her debut with a role in the teen comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. In 2007, she co-starred as Mikaela Banes, the love interest of Shia LaBeoufs character, in the action film Transformers. Fox reprised her role in the 2009 sequel, Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen, later in 2009, she starred as the eponymous lead in the black comedy horror film Jennifers Body. Fox is also considered one of the female sex symbols and has appeared in magazines such as Maxim, Rolling Stone. Fox was born on May 16,1986 in Oak Ridge and her parents are Gloria Darlene and Franklin Thomas Fox. Foxs father, an officer, and her mother divorced when Fox was three years old. Her mother later remarried, and Fox and her sister were raised by her mother and her stepfather and she was raised very strictly Pentecostal, but later attended Catholic school for 12 years. Foxs parents divorced when she was young and she said that the two were very strict and that she was not allowed to have a boyfriend or invite friends to her house. She lived with her mother until she made enough money to support herself, Fox began her training in dance and drama at age five, in Kingston, Tennessee. She attended a class at the community center there and was involved in Kingston Elementary Schools chorus. At 10 years of age, after moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, when she was 13 years old, Fox began modeling after winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. At age 17, she tested out of school via correspondence in order to move to Los Angeles, Fox has spoken extensively of her time in education, that in middle school she was bullied, consequently she ate lunch in the bathroom to avoid being pelted with ketchup packets. She said that the problem was not her looks, but that she had gotten along better with boys. I’ve had only one great girlfriend my whole life, in the same interview, she mentions that she hated school and has never been a big believer in formal education and that the education I was getting seemed irrelevant. So, I was sort of checked out on part of it. At 15, Fox made her debut in the 2001 film Holiday in the Sun, as spoiled heiress Brianna Wallace and rival of Alex Stewart
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Cheryl (entertainer)
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Cheryl Ann Fernandez-Versini is an English singer, dancer, and television personality. Born and raised in Tyneside, she rose to fame in late 2002 upon winning a place in girl group Girls Aloud after participating in ITVs Popstars, The Rivals. While still in the group, she began a career in April 2009, releasing her first solo studio album,3 Words. The album gave rise to three singles, including Fight for This Love, which entered at number one on the UK charts. In October 2010, Cheryl released her studio album, Messy Little Raindrops. She released her solo album, A Million Lights, in June 2012. Cheryl became a judge on the UK version of The X Factor in 2008 and she mentored two of the eventual winners of the competition, before resigning in 2011 and joining the panel of the American version. However, she left the show during the stage, fuelling rumours that she had been sacked. She would later return to judge series 11 and 12 of the UK version, Cheryl has become a recognised and photographed style icon, being referred to as a fashionista by the press. She has been photographed for the covers of British Vogue, Elle and Harpers Bazaar and her net worth was estimated at £20 million in October 2014. Cheryl was married to England footballer Ashley Cole from July 2006 to September 2010 and she married Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini in July 2014, and was granted a decree nisi from him in October 2016. She is currently in a relationship with One Direction singer Liam Payne, Cheryl Ann Tweedy was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 30 June 1983, and grew up on council estates in the suburbs of Walker and Heaton. She is the fourth of five children of Joan Callaghan, Callaghan and Tweedy were together for more than a decade but never married each other, they separated when Cheryl was eleven years old. As a young child circa 1990, she appeared in an advert for British Gas with her younger brother Garry Jr. Interested in dancing from an age, she began sequence dancing at the age of four. She occasionally appeared doing dance recitals on different television shows in the UK, such as Gimme 5 and she made appearances in British Gas adverts for a second time, an SCS furniture store advert, and an Eldon Square Christmas advert with her younger brother Garry. She sang Have You Ever in her audition, and was one of twenty contestants chosen as finalists by judges Pete Waterman, Louis Walsh, the finalists performed live on Saturday evenings, with one gender performing each week. Each week, the contestant polling the fewest phone votes was eliminated, Cheryl was in danger of elimination twice, surviving over Emma Beard and Aimee Kearsley in consecutive performing weeks
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
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Rosie Alice Huntington-Whiteley is an English model and actress. Huntington-Whiteley was born in Plymouth, Devon, the daughter of Fiona, an instructor, and Charles. She grew up on a farm near Tavistock, Devon, rosies paternal grandmother, Gillian, also from a Jewish family, was the daughter of Jacob Franks, a prominent surgeon in Sussex. Educated at Tavistock College, she revealed that she was bullied and teased at school for having a double-barrelled name, small breasts. While a 15-year-old student, she undertook work experience at London West End-based model agency Profile, signed after leaving school in summer 2003 aged 16, her first modelling session was for a Levis jeans commercial. She got her first big break in January 2004 when she travelled to New York City for a shoot with Teen Vogue and she later made her catwalk début alongside Naomi Campbell in New York City in Spring 2004, and was then photographed by Bruce Weber for Abercrombie & Fitch. In early 2006, she was signed to American lingerie brand Victorias Secret and she got her first British Vogue cover on the November 2008 issue, alongside Eden Clark and Jourdan Dunn in a feature celebrating British models. The following year, she was featured as the face of Karen Millens spring/summer 2009 advertising campaign and she starred in a short film for Agent Provocateur playing a woman whose boyfriend forgets Valentines Day. For fall/winter 2009, she modelled in campaigns for Godiva and Miss Sixty, in February 2010, Huntington-Whiteley officially became a Victorias Secret Angel modelling for the Victorias Secret Fashion Show in New York City. In 2010, she posed nude for the Pirelli Calendar, which was photographed by Terry Richardson, Huntington-Whiteley hit the runway for designers Prada in Milan and Giles Deacon in Paris. For SS10 her advertising campaigns included Monsoons first underwear line, Thomas Wylde, Full Circle, in March, she collaborated with VOGUE. COM to share her outfit choices daily for the Today Im Wearing feature. She appeared on the covers of the May 2010 issues of Harpers Bazaar Russia and she was featured on the cover of LOVE Magazines September issue, styled as a pinup girl. For FW10 she modelled for Burberry as well as the companys first Beauty line, her advertising campaigns included Thomas Wylde. Fashion photographer Rankin devoted a book entirely to her entitled Ten Times Rosie, Rankin opined that Huntington-Whiteley brought something different to modelling, We’ve been looking at very, very skinny, almost masculine girls for a long time. Really is the model of the moment, she’s the actress of the moment. She’s definitely going to something much, much bigger. Celebrity make-up artist Ruby Hammer, who has worked with Huntington-Whiteley for years, in March 2011, Huntington-Whiteley landed her first solo British Vogue cover and appeared on the covers of the UKs July issues of Elle and GQ. She was unveiled as the face of Burberrys newest fragrance, Burberry Body, in 2013, Huntington-Whiteley starred alongside Helena Bonham Carter and David Gandy in the Marks & Spencer Christmas advert
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Tulisa
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Tula Paulina Tulisa Contostavlos is an English singer-songwriter, The X Factor judge, actress, and television personality. Tulisa is known for her role in Demons Never Die, for her debut single as a solo artist titled Young, Tulisa has also released a fragrance line named The Female Boss. In 2011 and 2012, Tulisa was a judge on The X Factor, the following year Tulisa again mentored budding stars with her mentoring Ella Henderson and Lucy Spraggan, both of these acts have gone on from The X Factor to have careers in singing. As an actress, Tulisa has notably starred in the British horror films Demons Never Die, Tulisa was born on 13 July 1988 in Camden Town, London, to a Northern-Irish mother Anne Byrne and Greek Cypriot father Plato Contostavlos. When Tulisa was five, her mother, who has bipolar disorder and they started performing together as a group around Camden from young ages. For N-Dubzs second album, Tulisa did a song called Comfortable. Performing as the Lickle Rinsers Crew, they released the singles Bad Man Riddim and Life Is Getting Sicker by the Day and it wasnt until 2007s Feva Las Vegas that the group appeared on the UK charts, peaking at No.57. In May 2008, a song entitled Ouch surfaced along with a music video, the video for Ouch attracted over 4 million viewers on networking site YouTube in just over a month after release. On 6 August 2008, it was announced that the group had left Polydor Records and had signed to All Around the World records, the label predominantly specializes in dance music, however, they have occasionally released hip hop records such as Ice Cubes You Can Do It. The press release stated that the label would be releasing Ouch as the groups first single on the label in September 2008, the groups first album, Uncle B, was released on 17 November 2008. The album includes You Better Not Waste My Time, I Swear, Feva Las Vegas, Love for My Slums, Ouch, Defeat You, the song charted for five weeks in the UK Singles Chart, peaking highest at number 24. Group member Dappy was featured in Tinchy Stryders 2009 No.1 single tentatively titled Number 1, due to the success of their debut album, the group embarked on their first headlining tour, Uncle B tour. The tour was planned for 16 dates but due to high demand 5 extra dates were added. The tour was supported by Stevie Hoang and Tinchy Stryder with whom N-Dubz collaborated with on his No.1 single Number 1, during one performance, Tulisa fainted on stage. Multiple news sources reported that it was due to suspected swine flu, the song Wouldnt You was then announced to be the seventh, and last, single to be released from the Uncle B debut album. The song was released digitally on 25 May 2009 and peaked at No.64 in the UK, the lead single from the groups second album titled I Need You was released on 9 November 2009 and charted at No.5 in the UK Singles Chart. The album Against All Odds, was released on 16 November 2009, the album went platinum within approximately 2 months of release. The second single, Playing with Fire features R&B/pop musician, Mr Hudson, the song reached No.15 in the UK Charts on album downloads alone, however, when the single was released, it fell to No
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Ukraine
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Ukraine is currently in territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014 but which Ukraine and most of the international community recognise as Ukrainian. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of 603,628 km2, making it the largest country entirely within Europe and it has a population of about 42.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world. The territory of modern Ukraine has been inhabited since 32,000 BC, during the Middle Ages, the area was a key centre of East Slavic culture, with the powerful state of Kievan Rus forming the basis of Ukrainian identity. Following its fragmentation in the 13th century, the territory was contested, ruled and divided by a variety of powers, including Lithuania, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. A Cossack republic emerged and prospered during the 17th and 18th centuries, two brief periods of independence occurred during the 20th century, once near the end of World War I and another during World War II. Before its independence, Ukraine was typically referred to in English as The Ukraine, following independence, Ukraine declared itself a neutral state. Nonetheless it formed a limited partnership with the Russian Federation and other CIS countries. In the 2000s, the government began leaning towards NATO, and it was later agreed that the question of joining NATO should be answered by a national referendum at some point in the future. Former President Viktor Yanukovych considered the current level of co-operation between Ukraine and NATO sufficient, and was against Ukraine joining NATO and these events formed the background for the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014, and the War in Donbass in April 2014. On 1 January 2016, Ukraine applied the economic part of the Deep, Ukraine has long been a global breadbasket because of its extensive, fertile farmlands and is one of the worlds largest grain exporters. The diversified economy of Ukraine includes a heavy industry sector, particularly in aerospace. Ukraine is a republic under a semi-presidential system with separate powers, legislative, executive. Its capital and largest city is Kiev, taking into account reserves and paramilitary personnel, Ukraine maintains the second-largest military in Europe after that of Russia. Ukrainian is the language and its alphabet is Cyrillic. The dominant religion in the country is Eastern Orthodoxy, which has strongly influenced Ukrainian architecture, literature, there are different hypotheses as to the etymology of the name Ukraine. According to the older and most widespread hypothesis, it means borderland, while more recently some studies claim a different meaning, homeland or region. The Ukraine now implies disregard for the sovereignty, according to U. S. ambassador William Taylor. Neanderthal settlement in Ukraine is seen in the Molodova archaeological sites include a mammoth bone dwelling
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Mila Kunis
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Milena Markovna Mila Kunis is an American actress. In 1991, at the age of seven, she moved from Ukraine to Los Angeles with her family, after being enrolled in acting classes as an after-school activity, she was soon discovered by an agent. She appeared in television series and commercials, before acquiring her first significant role prior to her 15th birthday. Since 1999, she has voiced Meg Griffin on the animated series Family Guy and her breakout film role came in 2008, playing Rachel in the romantic comedy-drama Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Milena Markovna Kunis was born on August 14,1983 in Chernivtsi and her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher who runs a pharmacy, and her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer who works as a cab driver. Kunis has a brother named Michael. She stated in 2011 that her parents had amazing jobs, in 1991, when she was seven years old, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, with $250. That was all we were allowed to take with us and my parents had given up good jobs and degrees, which were not transferable. We arrived in New York on a Wednesday and by Friday morning my brother, Kunis comes from a Jewish family and has cited antisemitism in the former Soviet Union as one of several reasons for her familys move to the United States. She has stated that her parents raised Jewish as much as they could, on her second day in Los Angeles, Kunis was enrolled at Rosewood Elementary School, not knowing a word of English. She later recalled, I blocked out second grade completely, I have no recollection of it. I always talk to my mom and my grandma about it and it was because I cried every day. My first sentence of my essay to get into college was like, Imagine being blind, and thats kind of what it felt like moving to the States. In Los Angeles, she attended Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle School and she used an on-set tutor for most of her high school years while filming That 70s Show. She briefly attended UCLA and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, at age nine, Kunis was enrolled by her father in acting classes after school at the Beverly Hills Studios, where she met Susan Curtis, who would become her manager. On her first audition she landed the role for a Barbie commercial, shortly after, she did a commercial for the Lisa Frank product line. Her first television roles took place in 1994, first appearing on Days of Our Lives, and a few months later doing her first of two appearances on Baywatch. She had a role on 7th Heaven and supporting roles in Santa with Muscles, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
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Jennifer Lawrence
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Jennifer Shrader Lawrence is an American actress. Since 2015, Lawrence has been the actress in the world. She appeared in Times 100 most influential people in the world in 2013 and Forbes Celebrity 100 the following year, during her childhood, Lawrence performed in church plays and school musicals. When she was 14, a talent scout spotted her in New York and she then moved to Los Angeles and began her acting career by playing guest roles in television shows. Her first major role came as a main cast member on the sitcom The Bill Engvall Show, Lawrence made her film debut with a supporting role in Garden Party, and had her breakthrough playing a poverty-stricken teenager in the independent drama Winters Bone. She achieved wider recognition for playing the mutant Mystique in X-Men, First Class, Lawrences fame continued to grow with her starring role as Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games film series, which established her as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. She went on to earn various accolades from her collaborations with director David O. Russell and her performance as a depressed widow in the romance film Silver Linings Playbook received an Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the second youngest Best Actress Oscar winner. Lawrence subsequently won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing a wife in the black comedy American Hustle. She also received Golden Globe Awards for her roles in both of these films and for playing the eponymous inventor in the biopic Joy. Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on August 15,1990, in Indian Hills, Kentucky, to Gary, a worker, and Karen. She has two brothers, Ben and Blaine, and her mother brought her up to be tough like them. Lawrences mother did not allow her to play other girls in preschool as she deemed her too rough with them. The actress was educated at the Kammerer Middle School in Louisville and she did not enjoy her childhood due to hyperactivity and social anxiety, and considered herself a misfit among her peers. Lawrence says that her anxieties vanished when she performed on stage, a cheerleader at school, Lawrence also played softball, field hockey and basketball, which she played on a boys team that her father coached. She was fond of riding while growing up and frequently visited a local horse farm. She has a damaged coccyx from being thrown off a horse, the actress has said that she knew she would be famous from an early age. When her father worked from home, she performed for him, for the next few years, she continued to take parts in church plays and school musicals. During a family vacation to New York, when Lawrence was 14, Lawrences mother was not keen on allowing her to pursue an acting career, but briefly moved to the city to let her read for roles
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Michelle Keegan
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Michelle Keegan is an English actress. Keegan is known for portraying Tina McIntyre in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street between 2008 and 2014, in 2015, Keegan played the role of Tracy in the BBC drama series Ordinary Lies. In 2016 she played Corporal Georgie Lane in BBC hit drama series Our Girl taking over the role from EastEnders actress Lacey Turner. She was awarded FHM Sexiest Woman in The World in 2015, Keegan was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester. Her father is English, while her Spanish maternal grandmother hailed from Gibraltar and she attended St Patricks RC High School in Salford, and later the Manchester School of Acting. She worked at Selfridges in the Trafford Centre, and as an agent at Manchester Airport. In late 2007, in only her second audition, Keegan was offered the chance to play the part of Tina McIntyre in Coronation Street and she left the show in May 2014. In 2009, she went on Stephen Mulherns Anonymous, a show on ITV. On 14 June 2009, Keegan made her radio debut co-hosting the BBC Radio 1 programme The Official Chart, Keegan was on the cover of FHM magazine in January 2011, and placed number 30 and number 26 in their 100 Sexiest Women poll for 2010 and 2011, respectively. She would then appear in FHM again in March 2013 and was placed at four in the 2013 poll. Keegan joined Coronation Street in 2008, beating around 900 other people who were trying out for the part. She played Tina McIntyre until the death in late May 2014. Keegans last episode on the soap was aired on 27 May 2014, Keegan later flew out to South Africa to film a special film for Coronation Street, and starred in the 2009 Red Dwarf Easter special. In June 2014, Keegan went on a European tour to perform as Tinkerbell in Peter Pan, in 2015, she played the role of Tracy in the BBC television drama series Ordinary Lies. On 20 June 2015, it was announced that Keegan would play the role in BBC Ones drama Our Girl. The same year, Keegan landed a guest role on the ITV2 comedy series Plebs which aired in 2016, Keegan was engaged to singer Max George of The Wanted after meeting him at one of the bands concerts in December 2010. She began dating Mark Wright in December 2012, on 9 September 2013, it was confirmed the two were engaged and they married on 24 May 2015. Michelle Keegan at the Internet Movie Database
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Australia
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the worlds sixth-largest country by total area, the neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. Australias capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney, for about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages classifiable into roughly 250 groups. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades, and by the 1850s most of the continent had been explored, on 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Australia has since maintained a liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy comprising six states. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard, Australia has the worlds 13th-largest economy and ninth-highest per capita income. With the second-highest human development index globally, the country highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom. The name Australia is derived from the Latin Terra Australis a name used for putative lands in the southern hemisphere since ancient times, the Dutch adjectival form Australische was used in a Dutch book in Batavia in 1638, to refer to the newly discovered lands to the south. On 12 December 1817, Macquarie recommended to the Colonial Office that it be formally adopted, in 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as Australia. The first official published use of the term Australia came with the 1830 publication of The Australia Directory and these first inhabitants may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, were originally horticulturists, the northern coasts and waters of Australia were visited sporadically by fishermen from Maritime Southeast Asia. The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland, and the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent, are attributed to the Dutch. The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, the Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines and named the island continent New Holland during the 17th century, but made no attempt at settlement. William Dampier, an English explorer and privateer, landed on the north-west coast of New Holland in 1688, in 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain. The first settlement led to the foundation of Sydney, and the exploration, a British settlement was established in Van Diemens Land, now known as Tasmania, in 1803, and it became a separate colony in 1825. The United Kingdom formally claimed the part of Western Australia in 1828. Separate colonies were carved from parts of New South Wales, South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, the Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia
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Margot Robbie
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Margot Elise Robbie is an Australian actress. Robbie started her career by appearing in Australian independent films in the late 2000s and she was later cast in the soap opera Neighbours, which earned her two Logie Award nominations. After moving to the United States, Robbie starred in the short-lived ABC drama series Pan Am, in 2013, she made her big screen debut in Richard Curtiss romantic comedy-drama film About Time and co-starred in Martin Scorseses biographical black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street. In 2015, Robbie co-starred in the romantic comedy-drama film Focus, appeared in the romantic World War II drama film Suite Française and that same year, she played herself in The Big Short. In 2016, she portrayed Jane Porter in the action-adventure film The Legend of Tarzan, Robbie was born in Dalby, Queensland, Australia, later moving to the Gold Coast. Her parents are Sarie Kessler, a physiotherapist, and Doug Robbie and she has three siblings, older brother Lachlan or Lockie, younger brother Cameron and a sister, Anya. Robbie and her siblings were raised by their single mother and she has minimal contact with her father. She grew up in a farming family, to make ends meet, Robbie worked three jobs simultaneously at the age of 16. She studied drama at school, graduating from Somerset College, when Robbie was 17 years old, she moved to Melbourne to begin acting professionally. Robbie has been acting professionally since 2007, when she starred in two films, I. C. U. and Vigilante. After impressing the director with her performance during an audition, she won the lead in I. C. U. without an agent at the time, Robbie also acted in commercials and had guest roles in The Elephant Princess and City Homicide as Caitlin Brentford. Robbie began appearing as Donna Freedman on Neighbours from June 2008, the character was originally only a guest role, but she was soon promoted to a regular cast member. In early 2009, Robbie appeared in various Network Ten promotions, in July 2009, she filled the Generation Y guest spot on the Network Ten show Talkin Bout Your Generation. Robbie also became a Youth Ambassador for missing persons as part of National Youth Week, in the same year, Robbie was nominated for Most Popular New Female Talent at the Australian Logie Awards. She was also nominated for Favorite Hottie at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and was up against her Neighbours co-star Dean Geyer, in September 2010, Robbie announced that she was to leave Neighbours after almost three years to pursue an acting career in Hollywood. Her final scenes aired on 26 January 2011 and in April of that year, after arriving in Los Angeles for pilot season, Robbie auditioned for the new series of Charlies Angels. However, the producers at Sony Pictures Television preferred her for a role in ABC drama series Pan Am alongside Christina Ricci, Robbie landed the role of Laura Cameron, a newly trained flight attendant. Pan Am was cancelled after one season due to falling ratings, in May 2012, Robbie joined the cast of Richard Curtis romantic comedy About Time alongside Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy
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Israel
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Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea. The country contains geographically diverse features within its small area. Israels economy and technology center is Tel Aviv, while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, in 1947, the United Nations adopted a Partition Plan for Mandatory Palestine recommending the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states and an internationalized Jerusalem. The plan was accepted by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, next year, the Jewish Agency declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel. Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab states, in the course of which it has occupied territories including the West Bank, Golan Heights and it extended its laws to the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, but not the West Bank. Israels occupation of the Palestinian territories is the worlds longest military occupation in modern times, efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have not resulted in peace. However, peace treaties between Israel and both Egypt and Jordan have successfully been signed, the population of Israel, as defined by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, was estimated in 2017 to be 8,671,100 people. It is the worlds only Jewish-majority state, with 74. 8% being designated as Jewish, the countrys second largest group of citizens are Arabs, at 20. 8%. The great majority of Israeli Arabs are Sunni Muslims, including significant numbers of semi-settled Negev Bedouins, other minorities include Arameans, Armenians, Assyrians, Black Hebrew Israelites, Circassians, Maronites and Samaritans. Israel also hosts a significant population of foreign workers and asylum seekers from Africa and Asia, including illegal migrants from Sudan, Eritrea. In its Basic Laws, Israel defines itself as a Jewish, Israel is a representative democracy with a parliamentary system, proportional representation and universal suffrage. The prime minister is head of government and the Knesset is the legislature, Israel is a developed country and an OECD member, with the 35th-largest economy in the world by nominal gross domestic product as of 2016. The country benefits from a skilled workforce and is among the most educated countries in the world with one of the highest percentage of its citizens holding a tertiary education degree. The country has the highest standard of living in the Middle East and the third highest in Asia, in the early weeks of independence, the government chose the term Israeli to denote a citizen of Israel, with the formal announcement made by Minister of Foreign Affairs Moshe Sharett. The names Land of Israel and Children of Israel have historically used to refer to the biblical Kingdom of Israel. The name Israel in these phrases refers to the patriarch Jacob who, jacobs twelve sons became the ancestors of the Israelites, also known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel or Children of Israel. The earliest known artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt. The area is known as the Holy Land, being holy for all Abrahamic religions including Judaism, Christianity, Islam
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Gal Gadot
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Gal Gadot-Varsano is an Israeli actress and model. As an actress, Gadot is known for her role as Gisele Yashar in The Fast, in 2016, Gadot began playing the role of Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, starting with Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice and continuing as the lead in Wonder Woman. She is the first person to portray Wonder Woman in a live-action film and she is a former Israel Defense Forces soldier and served in the Israeli military for two years. In 2013, she was ranked as one of the highest earning models in Israel, behind Bar Refaeli and she is the face of Guccis Bamboo perfume. Gadot was born and raised in Rosh HaAyin, Israel, in Hebrew, her first name means wave and her surname means riverbanks. She is the daughter of Irit, a teacher, and Michael Gadot and her parents were both born in Israel, and they had Hebraized their surname from Greenstein to Gadot. Her maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors and her ancestry is Polish-Jewish, Austrian-Jewish, German-Jewish, and Czech-Jewish. Her high school major was biology and she says that in high school she was successful at basketball due to her height. After high school, she started studying law twice at the Reichman Law School, from the age of 20, Gadot served for two years as an enlisted soldier of the Israeli military. There, she excelled in a grueling three-month boot camp that prepared her to serve as a combat trainer, Gadot was criticized for being Zionist on Twitter, in reaction to her military service. She says of her time in the army, You give two or three years, and its not about you and you give your freedom away for a while. The things Ive been through as a soldier prepared me to deal with things as well. At the age of 18, Gadot won the 2004 Miss Israel competition, following her participation in the competitions, she joined the Israeli Army where, as a citizen of Israel, she completed her two years of mandatory military service. After leaving the army, Gadot studied law and it was when she had completed her first year of school that a casting director called her to audition for the part of Bond girl Camille Montes in the film Quantum of Solace. Although she lost the part to Olga Kurylenko, the casting director hired Gadot for the role of Gisele in Fast & Furious. Gadot said, I think the reason was that Justin Lin really liked that I was in the military. Gadot performed her own stunts in the Fast & Furious films, in 2007, the 21-year-old Gadot took a part in the Maxim photo shoot Women of the Israeli Army, and as a result she was featured on the cover of the New York Post. In April 2012, Shalom Life ranked her Number 5 on its list of the 50 most talented, intelligent, funny, in 2014, Gadot was one of two Israeli actresses, along with Odeya Rush, listed as an upcoming leading lady by InStyle magazine
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FHM Australia
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FHM was the Australian edition of the British monthly mens lifestyle magazine called FHM. The magazine was published between April 1998 and May 2012 in Australia, FHM Australia was first published in April 1998. The founding company was EMAP Australia, the magazine was part of and published by ACP Magazines. The company acquired EMAP Australia in 2008, guy Mosel served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine, which was published on a monthly basis. In 2006, Lauryn Eagle won the FHM Lara Croft Challenge involved physical challenges of shooting, running, ropes, ladders, FHM Australia went defunct with its May 2012 issue. Each of FHMs international editions publish yearly rankings for the sexiest women alive based on public, dates of magazine issues, winners, ages of winners at the time of selection, and pertinent comments are listed below for the Australian edition
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FHM (India)
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FHM India is the Indian edition of the British monthly mens lifestyle magazine called FHM. It is now published in India by TCG Media Limited and is the 32nd international edition of FHM, the first issue of the Indian edition of FHM was the October 2007. FHM India claims to have 10,00, 000+ reach per month, FHM was published by NGPL, from its inaugural issue up to the July 2010 issue. From August 2010 to March 2015, a company out off Delhi published FHM. Bauer Media shut down FHM & Zoo in UK in early 2016 along with some major license editions in few countries, TCG Media Limited decided to continue publishing FHM India with consent from Bauer Media. TCG Media Limited is headquartered in New Delhi and also has offices in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, each of FHMs international editions publish yearly rankings for the sexiest women alive based on public and editorial voting through the magazines website. Dates of magazine issues, winners, ages of winners at the time of selection, and pertinent comments are listed below for the Indian edition
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Bonnier Group
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Bonnier AB is a privately held Swedish media group of 175 companies operating in 15 countries. It is controlled by the Bonnier family, the company was started in 1804 by Gerhard Bonnier in Copenhagen, Denmark, when Bonnier published his first book, Underfulde og sandfærdige kriminalhistorier. Gerhards sons later moved to Sweden, Bonnier Tidskrifter publishes magazines, including Veckans Affärer, Damernas Värld, Amelia, Sköna Hem, Teknikens Värld, Resume, nearly a dozen crossword magazines, and the tablet magazine C Mode. In Germany, Bonnier Media Deutschland includes Ullstein Buchverlage, Piper Verlag, Thienemann Verlag and Carlsen Verlag, in Norway, along with magazines from Bonnier Media and the movie chain SF Kino and film distribution company SF Norge, subsidiaries include book publisher Cappelen Damm. In January 2007, the Bonnier Magazine Group acquired 18 magazines from Time Inc, book publisher Weldon Owen is also part of the company. Bonnier Publishing USA was formed in August 2016, composed of the publisher Weldon Owen, the president of Little Bee, Shimul Tolia has become the CEO of this group. Bonnier owns business newspapers in Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia, as well as journals in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Poland. Bonnier is also several digital startups, including the tablet publishing platform Mag+ and childrens toy app producer. Bonnier is controlled by around 75 family members, including some seventh-generation heirs, some well-known relatives and descendants of the Bonnier family include, In January 2007, the Bonnier Magazine Group agreed to acquire 18 magazines that Time Inc. was divesting. s Time4 Media Group. Also included were Parenting, and Babytalk, which were part of the Parenting Group and that price was believed to be a multiple of about 11 times cash flow for a group that had net income of around US$20 million and revenue of around $230 million. We think we did a deal, and we think Time did as well, said Jonas Bonnier. Official website Company Overview of Bonnier AB by Bloomberg Businessweek
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Summit Media
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T/A Summit Media, is a consumer magazine publisher in the Philippines, founded in June 1995. Its first published magazine was called Preview, since then, it turned into a publication conglomerate which publishes several lifestyle magazines titles, including Candy for young Filipino girls and Yes. The company is owned by Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng, the daughter of Filipino businessman John Gokongwei. It has expanded to publishing specialized magazines for companies and occasions in the Philippines, the company also dominated the local book publishing measurement with seven out of 10 books sold. Its different magazine titles are printed to copies that run over 100,000 and it has been cited in Philippine Business magazine and Eventsite. As of January 2016, titles published by Summit Media include, Preview - A local fashion magazine and it was the very first magazine of Summit, leading to its establishment. Cosmopolitan - A female fashion magazine, it was launched in 1997, - A local showbiz-oriented magazine, it was launched in 2000. Candy - A female teen-oriented lifestyle magazine, it was launched in 1999, FHM - A sexy mens lifestyle magazine for all men, it was launched in 2000, the Philippines leading magazine. Esquire - A latest mens fashion & lifestyle magazine, it was launched in 2011, top Gear - A number #1 car magazine for all car and all other auto enthusiasts, it was launched in 2004. Disneys Princesses - A female kids story magazine from Disney, k-Zone - A kids magazine for all ages, it was launched in 2002. Total Girl - An all girl kids magazine, it was launched in 2004, town & Country - A luxury lifestyle magazine, it was launched in 2007 Yummy - A food magazine, it was launched in 2007. Sparkling - A K-Pop entertainment and lifestyle magazine, it was launched in 2010, Forbes Philippines - A business magazine, it was launched in 2015. T3 Marie Claire November 2005-April 2009 Martha Stewart Weddings OK, good Dog Seventeen Womens Health Runners World ELLE Decoration Total Girl Summit Media operates web-exclusive sites of its published magazines. Philippine Entertainment Portal, Inc. a joint venture with GMA New Media, Inc. operates Philippine Entertainment Portal, BBC Worldwide Bauer Media Group Blackpencil Manila Disney Publishing Worldwide Egmont Group Entrepreneur Media Forbes Inc. Future plc GMA New Media Hearst Corporation Immediate Media Company Lagardère Active Meredith Corporation Northern & Shell Pacific Magazines Publicis-JimenezBasic Recruit Japan Ringier Rodale Inc
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Impresa
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Impresa is a Portuguese media conglomerate, headquartered in Paço de Arcos, in Oeiras municipality. It is the owner of SIC TV channel, and Expresso newspaper, among other leading media, a third online business segment was launched under the name Impresa Digital The company, which was founded by Francisco Pinto Balsemão, is listed on the Euronext Lisbon stock exchange. The origins of Impresa goes back to 1972, in 1991 the company established a holding company, the Balsemão group. Next year it started the first private channel, SIC. In 2011 the company established Media Rumo SA in Angola
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Editora Abril
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Editora Abril is a major Brazilian publisher and printing company and one of the biggest media holdings in Latin America. The company was founded in 1950 by Victor Civita in São Paulo and is now part of Grupo Abril, Civita had initially founded his publisher as Editora Primavera, publishing an unsuccessful comic magazine named in Brazil Raio Vermelho. Under its name it publishes titles like AnaMaria, Tititi, Minha Novela, Sou+Eu. Quatro Rodas, Veja, Nova, Placar, Claudia, Boa Forma, Manequim, and Exame, as well as the Brazilian editions of Disney comics, Cosmopolitan, Mens Health, Womens Health, Runners World and it also owns the Brazilian MTV and cable company Abril Grafica. In May 2006, Naspers acquired a 30% interest in Editora Abril, on the internet, Abril owns the most popular website aimed to women, named MdeMulher, with 5 million visitors monthly
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Mediacorp
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Currently, Mediacorp runs 7 television channels and 12 radio channels, making it the largest media broadcaster and provider in Singapore, and the only terrestrial TV broadcaster in the city-state. It is wholly owned by Temasek Holdings, an investment arm. The company group began with the advent of broadcasting in Singapore when the broadcasting licence was awarded to the British Malaya Broadcasting Corporation in 21 July 1935. The company officially opened its studios and transmitters at Caldecott Hill two years later in 1 March 1937, the corporation was taken over by the Straits Settlement government in 1940 as a part of the British Department of Information known as Malaya Broadcasting Corporation. Not long after Singapore reached self-government status in 1959, there were plans to television transmission rights. This manifested into the entity Television Singapura in 4 April 1961, Television Singapura began transmission tests from 21 January to 15 February 1963, where it was launched as Singapores first television station and officially began broadcasting. Regular broadcasts there since 3 April were mainly in English and Malay, on 23 November of the same year, a second channel was launched as Channel 8, airing programmes mainly in Mandarin and Tamil. Meanwhile in Kuala Lumpur, Talivishen Malaysia began broadcasting on 28 December in time for the New Year on the next year, Television Singapura was subsequently rebranded as sister channel Television Malaysia. The first advertisement was aired on 1 January 1964 to reduce the reliance on subsidies. RTS was officially dissolved in 31 January 1980 by announcer David Gabriel, on 3 February 1980, SBCs flagship guide Radio and TV Times were printed for the very first time, becoming an important source of weekly radio and television programme schedules serving the island. First published in English and Mandarin, these magazines also served up local and international entertainment news, the companys digital audio broadcasting service was discontinued on 1 December 2011. Mediacorp offers free-to-air and pay-to-air over-the-top broadcasting website Toggle on 1 April 2015, after Xinmsn, Toggle provides additional content pertaining entertainment, lifestyle tips, news and information, and is accessible online on smart phones, tablets and connected TVs
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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Australian Geographic
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Australian Geographic is a media business that produces the Australian Geographic magazine, DMag magazine, specialist book titles, travel guides, diaries and calendars and online media. It published editions of the Australian Encyclopaedia and it previously operated the Australian Geographical retail chain stores and Australian Geographic Travel and Australian Geographic Adventures. Australian Geographic magazine, originally titled Dick Smiths Australian Geographic, is a geographical journal created by Dick Smith in 1986. The magazine focuses mainly on stories about Australia, or about Australian people in other countries, the six editions published each year are available by subscription and on newsstands. They include posters or sheet maps in each edition, as well as photographs, Australian Geographic also has a website that includes the entire magazine digital archive. Each year, a portion of the profits is provided to the Australian Geographic Society, members of the public were invited to become members and make financial contributions to the Society. In a circular relationship, the magazine was represented to be the official journal of the Australian Geographic Society, through its Society, Australian Geographic supports scientific research as well as environmental and community projects. Funds are also used to highlight and support Australian adventurers and produce related diaries, calendars, the Australian Geographic magazine, originally titled Dick Smiths Australian Geographic, was initially published by Australian Geographic Pty Ltd, a private company controlled by Dick Smith. Smith, the founder of Dick Smith Electronics and Dick Smith Foods, after two years he removed his name from the magazine cover. Australian Geographic Pty Ltd also operated the Australian Geographic chain of retail stores, the publications offices were originally based in Terrey Hills north of Sydney. Smith wanted the publication to focus on accuracy by exclusively including articles that were peer-reviewed, Australian Geographic acquired rights to the Australian Encyclopaedia and published editions in 1988 and 1996. In 1995, when subscriptions totalled more than 200,000, in December 1998, the business was bought out by its management. From September 2000 to December 2001, Australian Geographic published a bimonthly science, there were, however, only eight issues published before the magazine went permanently out of print. In November 2006, PBL Medias ACP Magazines purchased the Australian Geographic publishing division, today the Australian Geographic magazine is based at Park Street Sydney. The current editor-in-chief of Australian Geographic is Chrissie Goldrick, while the editor is John Pickrell, from 2007 to 2016 Australian Geographic Retail was owned by Myer Family Investments but after large operating losses it was sold in August 2016 to The Co-op, a retail supplier to universities. The Australian Geographic Society Adventure Award has been awarded since 1987 and is Australias longest-running award for adventure and it is judged on merit and therefore not all of the categories are awarded annually. The award is a celebration of achievement and is not a competition, the award is given in two categories – Adventurer of the Year, and Young Adventurer of the Year. Geographic magazine Australian Geographic 10th Anniversary Collectors Edition No.40 Oct – Dec 1995 Australian Geographic
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The Australian Women's Weekly
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The Australian Womens Weekly, sometimes known as simply The Weekly, is an Australian monthly womens magazine published by Bauer Media Group in Sydney. For many years it was the one magazine in Australia but it is now outsold by the Australian edition of the American publication Better Homes. The magazine was started in 1933 by Frank Packer as a weekly publication, the first editor was George Warnecke and the initial dummy was laid out by William Edwin Pidgeon who went on to do many famous covers over the next 25 years. The Weekly celebrated its 50th anniversary of publication in June 1983, PBL launched Womens Weekly versions in Singapore and Malaysia, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, which follow The Weeklys style while containing largely local content. In 2012 the parent company of the magazine, ACP Magazines, audited circulation in June 2013 was 459,175 copies monthly. Readership numbers for September 2014 were estimated to be 1,828,000, the magazine is usually 240 pages long and printed on glossy paper trimmed to A4 page size, although it originally was a Tabloid in size and layout. It typically contains feature articles about the modern Australian woman, for many years, it included a lift-out TV guide. In 1982, publication frequency was reduced from weekly to monthly, Weekly was retained in the name for reasons of familiarity and because a womans monthly was a slang term for menstruation. The final weekly edition was dated 15 December 1982, followed by the first monthly edition dated January 1983, the TV guide was discontinued on introduction of the monthly format. Previous editors of The Weekly have included Alice Mabel Jackson, Deborah Thomas, Julie Zaetta, Ita Buttrose, Jennifer Rowe, the editor was Helen McCabe until January 2016, who has held this position since August 2009. She attempted to improve The Weeklys news coverage, in late 2009, she hired Jordan Baker, formerly a reporter and travel writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, as news editor. In February 2016 Kim Wilson was named as the editor of the magazine
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