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President Ulysses S. Grant signs a bill creating what we now call the National Weather Service
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Chris Garner Google Videos
Chris Garner is a self-made millionaire, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and philanthropist who, during the early 1980s, struggled with homelessness while raising his toddler son, Christopher, Jr. As of 2006, he is CEO of his own stockbrokerage firm, Gardner Rich & Co, based in Chicago, Illinois, where he resides when he is not living in New York City. Gardner credits his tenacity and success to the "spiritual genetics" handed down to him by his mother, Bettye Triplett. Gardner's personal struggle of establishing himself as a stockbroker while managing fatherhood and homelessness is portrayed in the 2006 motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith.
Kevin Warwick Google Videos
Kevin Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. He is best known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, although he has done much research in the field of robotics.
Daniel Bernoulli Google Videos
Daniel Bernoulli is remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics
and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics. Bernoulli's Principle
Amber Valletta Google Videos
Amber Valletta is an American model and actress. She is best
known for her roles in the movies Hitch, Transporter 2 and Gamer.
Mia Farrow Google Videos
Mia Farrow is an American actress, singer, and former fashion model. Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award (and seven additional Golden Globe nominations), three BAFTA Film Award nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Farrow is also notable for her extensive humanitarian work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She advocates for involvement in humanitarian activities in Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic. In 2008, she was selected by Time magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.
Judith Light Google Videos
Judith Light is an American actress. Her television roles include Angela Bower on the sitcom Who's the Boss?, and Claire Meade on ABC's TV series Ugly Betty and Judge Elizabeth (Liz) Donnelly on Law & Order Special Victims Unit.
Irina Slutskaya Google Videos
Irina Slutskaya is a Russian figure skater. She is a two-time World Champion, seven-time European Champion, two-time Olympic medalist, and four-time Grand Prix Final Champion. Slutskaya, known for her athletic ability, was the first female skater to land a triple lutz-triple loop combination. She is also known for her trademark double Biellmann spin with a foot change, which she also invented. She is generally considered to be the most successful ladies singles skater in Russian history.
Svetlana Boginskaya Google Videos
Svetlana Boginskaya is a Soviet/Belarusian gymnast. She was called the "Belarusian Swan" and the "Goddess of Gymnastics" due to her height, balletic grace, and long lines. She is especially renowned for the drama and artistry she displayed on floor exercise. Boginskaya is a three-time Olympic Champion, winning individual gold medals in Vault at the 1988, and team golds in 1988 and 1992.
George Stephanopoulos Google Videos
George Stephanopoulos is an American broadcaster and former political adviser. He is currently ABC News's Chief Washington Correspondent and the host of ABC's Sunday morning news show This Week with George Stephanopoulos. On December 14, 2009 he became co-anchor of Good Morning America.
Leontyne Price Google Videos
Leontyne Price is an African-American opera singer (soprano) best known for her Verdi roles and above all the title role of Aida. Born in the segregated South, she rose to international fame in the 1950s and 60s, and became the first black "superstar" at the once-segregated Metropolitan Opera. For almost 40 years, she was one of America's most beloved and widely recorded sopranos.
Åsne Seierstad Google Videos
Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones - most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2003 and the ruined Grozny in 2006. As a reporter she is particularly remembered for her work in war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq and most recently Chechnya, as well as for her reports on the September 11 attacks in the US.
Elizabeth Banks Google Videos
Elizabeth Banks is an American actress best known for guest starring on Scrubs and starring in the feature length films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, W., Zack And Miri Make A Porno and the Spider-Man films.
Tolstoy Google Videos
Count Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy was a Russian artist who served as Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for forty years (1828-1868). His works were wax-reliefs, watercolors, medallions, and silhouettes. Fyodor Tolstoy came from the famous Russian Tolstoy family.
Jennifer Aniston Google Videos
Jennifer Aniston is an American actress. She became famous in the 1990s for her role as Rachel Green in the US sitcom Friends, a role for which she won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has starred in many Hollywood films. While most of her film roles have been in comedies such as Bruce Almighty, Office Space, Rumor Has It, and the romantic comedies Along Came Polly and The Break-Up, she has also appeared in films from other genres, such as the comedy-horror Leprechaun, the crime thriller Derailed and the musical drama movie, Rock Star.
Sarah Palin Google Videos
Sarah Palin is an American politician who served as Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. On January 11, 2010, it was announced that Sarah Palin signed a multi-year contract to provide political commentary on Fox News as a contributor.
Taylor Lautner Google Videos
Taylor Lautner is an American actor and martial artist. His roles include the family films The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Jacob Black in the Twilight film series, and the 2010 film Valentine's Day.
Thomas Edison Google Videos
Thomas Alva Edison was called The Wizard of Menlo Park and is considered
one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents.
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, will be held on February 12-28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia. The 2010 Winter Olympics will be the third Olympics hosted by Canada, and the first by the province of British Columbia. Previously, Canada was home to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.
Olympics organizers desperate for climate change AFP - February 7, 2010 Winter Olympics chiefs will not sanction a desperate last-minute venue switch despite unseasonably warm temperatures continuing to curse Cypress Mountain, the host of the freestyle events at the Games which begin on Friday. The host city enjoyed highs of 11 degrees again on Saturday while meteorological officials said that the warm weather, which has led to 300 dumper trucks and even helicopters being used to transport snow from higher elevations, will continue right up to the opening ceremony on February 12.
Abraham Lincoln Google Videos
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, saving the Union and ending slavery, only to be assassinated as the war was virtually over.
Josh Brolin Google Videos
Josh Brolin is an Academy Award nominated American actor. He has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985, and won acting awards for his roles in the films No Country for Old Men and Milk. His biggest box office success to date was as the menacing Detective Trupo in American Gangster (2007). Brolin also starred in director Oliver Stone's 2008 film W., a biopic about key events in the life of President George W. Bush. His father is James Brolin who is married to Barbra Streisand.
Darren Aronofsky Google Videos
Darren Aronofsky is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. Aronofsky was born in Brooklyn, New York to Abraham and Charlotte Aronofsky, both school teachers. His father taught science and was a dean at Bushwick High School. [I went to school with his mother Charlotte and my daughters went to school with Darren and his sister in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. I was also a teacher]
Sarah Lancaster Google Videos
Sarah Lancaster is an American actress best known for her roles of Rachel in Saved by the Bell: The New Class and Madison Kellner on Everwood. She also had a recurring guest role on NBC's Scrubs as JD's love-interest, Lisa the Gift-Shop Girl, and played Marjorie in ABC's TV series What About Brian. In 2005 she starred in the TV movie Living With the Enemy with Mark Humphrey. Currently, Lancaster is co-starring in the NBC comedy-spy series Chuck, as the title character's sister, Ellie Bartowski.
Charles Darwin Google Videos
Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who realized and demonstrated that all species of life
have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection.
William Shockley Google Videos
William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. His attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 60s led directly to the creation of Silicon Valley.
New Moon 25º Aquarius
The first picture of our solar system looking back from deep space is sent to Earth by Voyager 1. The image captures the sun and six planets, including Earth, in a single frame. The sun appears much as another star would from Earth, and the planets are barely visible as dots on the frame.
Galen Gering Google Videos
Galen Gering is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald on the NBC daytime soap opera Passions and playing the role of FBI agent Rafe Hernandez on Days of Our Lives.
Jerry Springer Google Videos
Jerry Springer is is an American television presenter, best known as host of the tabloid talk show The Jerry Springer Show since its debut in 1991. He is a former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, a former newsreader and a musician.
Chinese New Year - Year of the Tiger
White Tigers Wikipedia
In China, the tiger is considered the king of all beasts and represents powerful energy. Further, the tiger is associated with Tsai Shen Yeh, the Chinese God of Wealth usually seen sitting on a tiger in Asian art. Asian lore considers the tiger the protector of the dead, and will often be seen in graves as a mark of protection, assuring peace for those who have passed. Tigers are considered a yang energy, and are also a solar animal which associates them with symbolisms of the sun, summer and fire. In ancient Chinese myth there are five tigers that hold the balance of cosmic forces in place and prevent chaos from collapsing into the universe.
These five tigers are:
Chinese animal symbolism of the tiger deals with (but is not limited to):
Ancient Kissing Wasn't Just for Valentines National Geographic
Valentine's Day Rx: Four Future Love Drugs National Geographic
Valentine's Day Facts: Gifts, History, and Love Science National Geographic
The Romantic Evolution of True Love Live Science
The Most Tragic Love Stories in History Live Science
The Strangest Valentine's Day Stories Live Science
Elephant Love Calls and Triangles Science Daily
Wildlife Salute Valentines Day Of Their Own Science Daily
Valentine's Day 'Zoorotica' tour offers glimpse into the sex lives of animals MSNBC
Presidents' Day Discovery - George Washington - Freemason National Geographic
Josh Marshall Google Videos
Josh Marshall is an American Polk Award-winning journalist who founded Talking Points Memo, which The New York Times Magazine called "one of the most popular and most respected sites" in the blogosphere. He currently presides over a network of sites that operate under the TPM Media banner and average 400,000 page views every weekday and 750,000 unique visitors every month. Marshall and his work have been profiled by The New York Times the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, National Public Radio, The New York Times Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bill Moyers Journal, and GQ.
Jane Seymour Google Videos
Jane Seymour is an English actress, best-known as a Bond girl, in the 1973 James Bond film, Live and Let Die, and the star of the 1990s American television series, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and its telefilm sequels. In 1980, Seymour returned to the big screen, in the comedy Oh Heavenly Dog opposite Chevy Chase, and as Elise McKenna, in the romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time, opposite Christopher Reeve. In 2004, she made several guest appearances, in the WB Network series, Smallville.
Galileo Galilei Google Videos
Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, astronomer, astrologer, and philosopher who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. He is often referred to as the "father of modern astronomy," the "father of modern physics", and the "father of science".
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali Google Videos
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali is an American actor. He is perhaps most well known for his portrayal of Richard Tyler in the USA Network program The 4400 and "Tizzy" in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Kim Jong-il Google Videos
Kim Jong-il is the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (also known as North Korea). He is the Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (the ruling party since 1948). He succeeded his father Kim Il-sung, founder of North Korea, who died in 1994, and commands the fourth largest standing army in the world. North Korea officially refers to him as the "Dear Leader" and the "Great Leader".
Nichiren was a Buddhist monk of 13th century Japan. A controversial figure during his lifetime, he is founder of Nichiren Buddhism, a major Japanese Buddhist stream encompassing several schools of often widely conflicting doctrine.
Francis Galton Google Videos
Sir Francis Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician.
Mardi Gras (French for "Fat Tuesday") is the day before Ash Wednesday, and is also called "Shrove Tuesday" or "Pancake Day". Mardi Gras is the final day of Carnival, though the term is often used incorrectly to describe the days and weeks preceding Fat Tuesday. Carnival begins 12 days after Christmas, or Twelfth Night, on January 6 and ends on Mardi Gras, which always falls exactly 46 days before Easter. Perhaps the cities most famous for their Mardi Gras celebrations include Venice, Italy; Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many other places have important Mardi Gras celebrations as well. Carnival is an important celebration in most of Europe, and in many parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.
If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.
There can be no absolute reality,
there can be no absolute truth.
There is always some of me in every character that I play.
Judith Light Quotes
By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are
discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport.
But most importantly, we are losing the beauty of our sport.
We do not want gymnastics to lose what makes it so great - its artistic beauty.
Svetlana Boginskaya
When I was on the ice, I felt like a flamenco dancer.
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