Cate Blanchett is a very famous actress as well as screen director. She was born in Melbourne Australia in 1969, and has been acting for at least half of her life. Here are some other interesting facts about the star. Number Fifteen: She Enjoyed Theater at a Young Age Cate took part in various theater events in her youth, not just acting, but also behind the scenes in stage production. Some of these plays include The Seagull and Hamlet. Number Fourteen: She Kept Her Elf Ears Many of us know the actress for her part as Galadriel in the extremely popular Lord of the Rings films. It turns out she grew quite attached to her elf ear prosthetics, and when the films were done, ended up bronzing them and keeping them. Number Thirteen: Cate Blanchett
Claudia Gordon, the first deaf woman with African decent to be an attorney in the United States was an important figure head. To talk about her, however, we have to look deeper, towards some of her actions.
Mary Sorrells was born on December 23, 1963 at Kings Daughters Hospital in Staunton, Virginia. She was the middle child in a family of four brothers, and four sisters. At the age of eighteen, she graduated high school, and worked in a factory while obtaining a nursing license. On September 3, 1983, she married Gary Spangler in a Pentecostal church in Staunton, Virginia. Thirteen years later, on March 12, 1997, Mary gave birth to her first child (Jacob) at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where our journey begins. So, after fifty-one years of maturing into a wise adult, this is what this five foot tall woman is today.
Reba Nell McEntire is a legendary country singer. She grew up in the small town of McAlester, Oklahoma, and is now a star in Nashville, Tennessee. She is still going strong at the age of sixty. Reba was born on March 28, 1955. Her profession is being a country singer and an actor. She is married and has one child.
Miss Universe Olivia Culpo broke up with NFL player Tim Tebow after months of dating. Rumor has it that their "no sex" relationship was to blame for the break up.
Rashelle Rogers was born to the parents of the Late Rev. Brenda Rogers Edge and Roosevelt Rogers Jr. She was reared in the Duval County School System in Jacksonville, FL. Rashelle matriculated at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University and received a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Master of Environmental Science.
Bette Ellen (Conrad) Cunningham 83 of Simsbury, CT, former wife of the late William Cunningham, passed away peacefully Sunday, April 26, 2015 at Apple Rehab in Mystic, CT. Born in Springfield, MA, she was the daughter of Ralph and Marion (Short) Conrad and sister of Barbara Bousquet of Putney, VT. She grew up in Springfield and graduated from Technical High School. In 1950 she married her high school sweetheart William Cunningham, who was then serving in the United States Air Force in Tucson, AZ. After starting a family in Tucson they returned to the Springfield area where they raised five children. Once her children were grown, Bette launched a career in food service becoming head cook at Mary Lyons Nursing Home of Hampden, MA. At Mary Lyons
Brenna Wise, RN, MSN, FNP-C, is one of the faces you might see when you visit our Austin obgyns. As an experienced nurse practitioner, she provides patients with compassionate and comprehensive women healthcare.
After dating for five months, Daisy Fuentes, 49 and Richard Marx, 52 have been pronounced man and wife. The love birds tied knot in Aspen jus before Christmas. The pair doubled their Christmas fun with tying their lives together in wedding knot.
Have you ever put much thought into how an uneducated woman with a disability in reading and writing, could still find a way to work and fight for not only her rights but others too? Isabella Baumfree was a phenomenal woman . She took a stand for women’s rights, blacks rights, and anti-slavery. She was a well-known abolitionist and orator.Isabella Baumfree, was born in 1797, to parents who were enslaved; she was one of twelve children. She had a rough childhood. She was sold at the age of eleven, along with a flock of sheep for the price of one hundred dollars. She experienced countless beatings and sexual abuse from her master (slave owner). Later, she married a man named Thomas and had children of her own. Her children were eventually sold to different plantations. She was only left with her infant daughter . Isabella Baumfree was a runaway slave. As the result of her children being sold, she was only able to escape to freedom with her infant daughter. After she obtained her freedom ,she went to court and challenged the validity of her son being sold into slavery. She was successful against so many odds in the court case. She won. Isabella Baumfree continued down her religious
One warm day in late May of 1951, young Sally Kristen Ride came into the world. However, a whole new world would soon be open to her. She would leave the warmth of her home and soar into space. Her supreme qualities of braveness and determination would let her pursue her dreams, accomplish her goals, and make history. Sally Ride would one day be looked upon generations of people, especially women, in so many more ways than one.
What can be said about the accuracy of the historical references shown in the movie “Gladiator?” “Gladiator” is both accurate and inaccurate in its historical perception of the Roman Empire in AD 180, although there is a larger amount of inaccurate references than there is of accurate ones. This will be an evaluation of areas of the movie “Gladiator” that contain historical accuracies and inaccuracies in the portrayal of the Roman Empire. We will focus first on the inaccuracies and accuracies of Romans’ military strategies and weapons in “Gladiator,” followed by the historical events and important figures of the Roman Empire, and we will end with the politics and governmental structure of the Roman Empire. For instance, the last great battle
You can thank Diane Nash for the integration at lunch counters. DIane Nash is an African-American civil rights leader and renowned activist, who was very involved in the most important equality and desegregation movements and campaigns like the Freedom Rides, and the Selma Voting Rights Campaign,the Dr. Martin luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Diane Judith Nash was born May 15, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois. She grew up in a middle class Catholic family, where her father, Leon Nash worked as a clerk in the military during WWII and her mother, Dorothy Bolton Nash who worked as a keypunch operator.Nash, attended both public and catholic schools growing up and once considered becoming a nun. As a teenager she won several beauty contests and in 1956, Nash graduated from Hyde Park High School in Chicago.
Julie Andrews was born Julia Elizabeth Wells on 1 October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. She is a born natural at performing, and she loves the stage. She made her first stage appearance at the very young age of two, as a fairy. Her aunt, Joan worked for dancing school where her mother, Barbara provided piano accompaniment for classes and performances, and her father, Ted made the stage sets. It was all too natural for her to come to be on the stage. Due to her mother’s stage ambitions for her, she was home taught and as her father was a teacher, it became convenient.
Lady Macbeth’s gentlewoman has just seen her wandering the castle at night for the first time prior to Act 5, Scene one. She does not know what to do – she is hesitant to tell the doctor because she is uncertain about what will happen to her career. She knows that the Macbeths killed Banquo partly because of his suspicion regarding King Duncan’s murder, so now she is uncertain about what they would do to her if she said anything. She is concerned about the natural order of the world, and what has happened due to the divine right of kings. The gentlewoman is holding a candle, sitting down on a chair in the centre of the stage. There are Rosary Beads on the table next to her.
The great field of mathematics stretches back in history some 8 millennia to the age of primitive man, who learned to count to ten on his fingers. This led to the development of the decimal scale, the numeric scale of base ten (Hooper 4). Mathematics has grown greatly since those primitive times, in the present day there are literally thousands of laws, theorems, and equations which govern the use of ten simple symbols representing the ten base numbers. The field of mathematics is ever changing, and therefor, there is a great demand for mathematicians to keep improving our skills in utilizing the numeric system. Many great people, both past and present, have made great contributions to the field.