Ricky Martin
International pop music superstar Ricky Martin is back with a brand-new album, Life, the artist's most eclectic cross-cultural collection to-date, and his first English ******** album since 2000's Sound Loaded.
Collaborating with a "dream team" of writers, producers, and artists, Ricky Martin co-wrote many of the songs on Life and played a direct role in the record's production, working with some of the hottest ****s in the business including Scott Storch, Sean Garrett, will.i.am, Luny Tunes, George Noriega and Danny López, and the hitmaking songwriting/production team The Matrix, among others. Guest artists on Life include Fat Joe & Amerie (on "I Don't Care"), Voltio (on "I Am"), and Daddy Yankee and Taboo from B.E.P. (on "Drop It On Me"). Portions of Life were recorded in Miami, Los Angeles, and Cairo.
"I believe this album is global. My dream is to unite lifestyles with my music. That's why I went from rock to Middle Eastern sounds, from Asian to hip-hop, from pop to Reggaeton, making it easy for people from all over the world to relate."
"I Don't Care," the first single from Life, features guest artists Fat Joe and Amerie on a track that Billboard praised for its "crafty melody that takes less than one listen to haunt the eardrums.a track deserving of a welcome home celebration.it is great to have this class act back in the game."
Life is the first Ricky Martin album since his worldwide smash, Almas del Silencio (Souls of Silence) debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart with the largest first week's sales (65,063) of any all-Spanish ******** album in the SoundScan era in May 2003.
Almas del Silencio, the artist's first Spanish ******** album since 1998's Grammy-winning Vuelve and first album in any ******** since 2000's multi-platinum selling Sound Loaded, went straight to #1 in Argentina and #2 in Mexico.
Almas del Silencio was the latest in a series of record-breaking recordings for Ricky Martin, the Grammy-winning international pop superstar who's sold more than 20 million albums worldwide. With his "Livin' La Vida Loca" single in 1999, Ricky Martin became the first solo Latin male artist of the SoundScan era to hit #1 on the Hot 100. He won the Best Latin Pop Performance Grammy for Vuelve, a full-length Latin recording, at the 41st Annual Grammy ceremony in 1999. Among Ricky's numerous awards, he was ****d World's Best-selling Pop Male Artist and World's Best-selling Latin Artist at the 12th Annual World Music Awards. At the 10th Annual Billboard Music Awards, Ricky Martin was ****d Male Artist Of The Year and Male Hot 100 Singles Artist Of The Year.
Following the chart-topping international achievements of his self-titled English ******** debut, which was certified 7x platinum by the RIAA, Ricky Martin rode the success of Sound Loaded, which has sold more than 5.4 million copies worldwide since its release on November 14, 2000, has been certified gold and/or platinum in 26 countries, and is RIAA double-platinum in the U.S.
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Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, born on July 3rd 1962 in Syracuse, New Jersey, to a family of 6. He was the only boy in the family as he had three sisters. His parents traveled around because of his father’s job with General Electric. Tom’s parents got divorced when he was around 12, his father died because of cancer not long after the divorce.
Now came a difficult time where the family had to struggle for a living. As they moved to Taylorsville Road, Kentucky, all the family had to work; young Tom became the “Man of the Family.” A while after that, Tom’s mother Marry Lee remarried, and they started moving again, by the time Tom was 14 he had gone to 15 different schools, but after getting in Glen Ridge High School in New Jersey, Tom took the acting route.
He left school at the age of 18 and went to New York, he took several jobs to support himself, while attending drama classes in the evening, auditioned for TV ads anytime he could, sadly he didn’t get much of a chance.
His moving around from place to another helped him, as a kid he was trying to fit in so he did all he could to pick the proper accent for each place he stayed in, he was actually “acting” all the time. Tom went to Los Angeles to try his luck again, he auditioned for TV roles, but his chance didn’t come then, not till he signed with Creative Artists Agency.
Franco Zeffirelli’s Endless Love (1981) was the first movie he ever appeared in, although it wasn’t a big role, it was Tom’s first step. Another audition called for him when he returned to New Jersey, he was asked to do a one-line role in the movie Taps (1981), but his performance was so good that director Harold Becker gave him a better chance: he played cadet Dick Shawn. He didn’t want to just appear on the screen, he wanted to work with top directors, and luckily he got the chance to be in The Outsiders (1983) with director Francis Ford Coppola. Tom made a couple of other movies, none of which was a hit, till Top Gun (1986) came to lift him up, the movie was a big hit, yet he wanted the actor in him to grow.
The Color of Money (1986) was kind of a turning point for Cruise, he played a role alongside Paul Newman. Newman received an Oscar for his role, but Cruise’s life changed after that movie, because of Newman. Paul got Cruise unintentionally married to Mimi Rogers who was at Paul’s Road Racing Classic Show, he also go Tom to be interested in car-racing.
The desire of the actor in him grew more and more, and playing Charlie Babbitt alongside Dustin Hoffman, a star who’d steal the lights in Rain Man (1988), had fed his desire; Cruise was the one who made the movie, as Hoffman wanted someone to react to his character, a retarded person. Cruise got his first Golden Globe for playing Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July (1989) he was also nominated for an Oscar but didn’t get it.
With Days Of Thunder (1990) came a new wife, Nicole Kidman took Tom’s heart after starring in the film together, although they first met at Kidman’s movie premiere Dead Calm (1989). The couple starred together again in Far and Away (1992). In 1993, came another hit for him when he was in The Firm(1993) with Gene Hackman, Cruise became big, but there’s still something inside him he wanted people to see, the Actor not just the pretty face.
Next Tom played vicious vampire Lestat in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) alongside Brad Pitt. Although the author herself didn’t like the casting much, after she saw the movie, she said that the role of Lestat played by Tom Cruise will be remembered like Hamlet when played by Laurence Olivier.
Mission: Impossible (1996) got Tom some Impossible success, the movie was a big hit, which turned into a sequel later on. Now comes the time for his second Golden Globe and Oscar nomination, again he got the Golden Globe but not the Oscar, that was for Jerry Maguire (1996).
Although he played a short role in Magnolia (1999) but he gained a lot of respect for his role, it was a different role from what he had played before; this actually won him a third Golden Globe, another Oscar nomination but not the Oscar itself. The same year the movie Eyes Wide Shut (1999) came out, Tom and Nicole teamed up in front of the screen for the 3rd time, with director Stanley Kubrick, the movie wasn’t a big success.
Now to go on with his second mission, Ethan Hunt returned in Mission: Impossible II (2000), a massive hit, with $70 million in the opening weekend and $215 million total gross in the US alone.
Tom Cruise was a part of the love triangle which had Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky (2001), the movie was not bad, but his life took yet another turn; he and Nicole Kidman got divorced the same year of the movie, August 2001. Minority Report (2002) was yet another different role, a science fiction thriller about future cops, with Colin Farrell and the ever famous director Steven Spielberg.
Now Tom wanted to experience a different era, he went back in time to play The Last Samurai (2003), with director Edward Zwick, Cruise was showing people the Actor in him with such a role. Cruise’s latest movie is Collateral (2004) directed by Michael Mann, an action-thriller where Cruise plays a cab driver who finds himself a hostage, and must find a way to save himself and some other hostages from a contact killer.
Ethan Hunt will be returning on his third mission in 2006, in Mission: Impossible
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Indira Gandhi
Gandhi, Indira (1917-1984), was the first woman prime minister of India. She held the office from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 until her death in 1984. She was assassinated by two of her security guards, who were members of India's Sikh religious group. Much friction had arisen between the Sikhs and Gandhi's government.
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, who served as India's first prime minister from 1947 to 1964. She was an adviser to her father during his term. Gandhi was first elected to Parliament in 1964. She was minister of information and broadcasting from 1964 until she became prime minister. Indira Gandhi became prime minister in 1966 on the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri. At first she was regarded as a weak leader. She soon strengthened her position and revived her party's popularity, which had slumped badly during the 1967 elections. In 1971, she called an early election and fought a campaign on the platform of garibi hatao (abolish poverty). Her remarkable personal campaign produced a striking victory for the Congress Party.
Indira Gandhi's career reached its peak in 1972. After this year her attempts at social and economic reforms were only partly successful, and the nation's economy began to falter. Her aggressive control of the Congress Party antagonized important groups.
In June 1975, a court found Gandhi guilty of using illegal practices during India's 1971 parliamentary election campaign. Gandhi's opponents demanded that she resign from office because of the conviction, but she refused. Criticism of Gandhi grew, and she declared a state of emergency two weeks after the court ruling. She had her major opponents arrested and imposed press censorship. In November 1975, the Supreme Court of India overturned Gandhi's conviction. In 1977, Gandhi's Congress (Ruling) Party was defeated in India's parliamentary elections. Gandhi lost both her post as prime minister and her seat in Parliament. Following her defeat, she organized the Congress-I Party. The I in the party's **** stands for Indira. In 1980, she won a seat in Parliament, and her party gained control of Parliament. Gandhi again became prime minister.
Gandhi was born in Allahabad. Her maiden **** was Indira Priyadarshini Nehru. She attended Santiniketan University in India and Oxford University in England. In 1942, she married Feroze Gandhi (no relation to Mohandas Gandhi). Gandhi and her husband were imprisoned for 13 months for their part in India's campaign for independence from Britain. They had two sons, Rajiv and Sanjay. Feroze Gandhi died in 1960. In the 1970's, Sanjay Gandhi became his mother's chief political adviser and gained much power in Indian politics. He was killed in an aeroplane crash in 1980. Rajiv Gandhi then became a key aide to his mother. When Indira Gandhi died, the Congress-I Party chose Rajiv as its head. As party head, Rajiv succeeded his mother as prime minister.
وهذا بحث طويل عنMichael Owen
Michael James Owen (born December 14, 1979 in Chester, UK) is an English football player currently playing for Newcastle United F.C.. He has also famously played for Liverpool F.C. and Real Madrid. He plays as a striker, and is noted particularly for his speed, acceleration and clinical finishing. He has enjoyed a hugely successful and high-profile career at both club and international level and was the European Footballer of the Year in 2001.
Club career
He first played for his primary school team in Hawarden, Wales, breaking all local scoring records in his first season. From the age of 14 he attended the FA's School of Excellence in Staffordshire but also continued to study at the local Hawarden High School and picked up ten GCSEs.
Liverpool signed Owen as an apprentice while in his teens, although as a boy he had been a supporter of their local arch-rivals Everton. With Owen's help, Liverpool's youth team won the FA Youth Cup in 1996. He signed professional forms for the senior team just after his seventeenth birthday in December 1996, making a sensational debut for the team against Wimbledon in May 1997, coming on as a substitute and scoring a goal. With an injury to Robbie Fowler, he was thrust immediately into action as a first team regular alongside the likes of newcomer Paul Ince and veteran playmaker Steve McManaman in the following 1997-98 season. Owen ended that season as joint top scorer in the Premier League, scoring eighteen goals (equal with Chris Sutton and Dion Dublin), as well as getting voted as the PFA Young Player of the Year.
He continued to be a consistent goalscorer for Liverpool, and in 2001 helped the club to their most successful season for several years. The team won the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup, with Owen scoring two goals in the last few minutes against Arsenal in the FA Cup final to turn what appeared to be a 1-0 defeat into a 2-1 victory. Surprisingly, however, he failed to score in the team's incredible 5-4 victory against Deportivo Alavés in the UEFA Cup, and was substituted in that game. At the end of the year, he became the first British player for twenty years to win the European Footballer of the Year award.
Due to Liverpool's continued failure to win the Premier League or the Champions League, Owen was often linked with moves to other clubs, although he initially remained loyal to his first employers. However, due to stalled contractual talks in the summer of 2004, and with only one year remaining on his contract before he could leave the club on a free transfer like Steve McManaman did, Liverpool sold Owen to the same destination, Real Madrid, in Spain, but unlike the McManaman situation, pocketed a fee of 12 million euros on 13 August 2004, with midfielder Antonio Nunez moving in the other direction.
Owen had a slow start to his Madrid career and drew some criticism from fans and the Spanish press for his lack of form, often being confined to the substitutes bench during matches. However, a successful return to action with the England team in October 2004 seemed to revive his morale, and on his first match back with Madrid following this he scored his first goal for the team, the winner in a 1-0 UEFA Champions League group game victory over Dynamo Kiev. He quickly followed this up just a few days later with his first Spanish league goal for the team in a 1-0 victory over Valencia, and also hit the target in the three of the next four games to make it 5 goals in 7 successive matches. He ended the season with a highly respectable 13 goals in La Liga (the season's highest ratio of goals scored to number of minutes played), as Real finished runners-up in the Spanish championship. In August 2005 speculation arose that Owen would soon part company with Real Madrid in order to join one of the English Premier League's more dominant teams and also to secure his position as England's first choice striker, following Real's signing of two more forwards. This is only possible if Owen continues to play first team football in a competitive league, although England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson has said that Owen will always be likely to be selected in the team.
On August 24, 2005, Newcastle United F.C. announced that they had agreed a club record fee of £17 million with Madrid for Owen, although they still had to negotiate with the player's advisers. [1]. However, Owen claimed that he would only be willing to spend a year on loan to them. This came just a day after Everton, traditional rivals of Owen's beloved Liverpool, had a bid for the player turned down by the Spanish club [2].
On August 31, 2005 Owen finally signed a four-year contract to play for Newcastle United, despite initial press speculation that he would rather have returned to Liverpool. [3] Roughly 20,000 fans were present at Newcastle's home ground of St James' Park for Owen's official unveiling as a Newcastle player. [4] He scored his first goal for the club on his second appearance, the middle goal in a 3-0 away win at Blackburn Rovers on September 18 – Newcastle's first win of the season.
Clubs:
Liverpool (1996-2004)
Real Madrid (2004-2005)
Newcastle United (2005-present)
Honours:
FA Cup (2001)
UEFA Cup (2001)
League Cup (2001,2003)
European Super Cup (2001)
Charity Shield (2001)
European Footballer of the Year (2001)
PFA Young Player of the Year (1998)
International career
Owen had a highly successful record at Youth and Under-21 international level, although he was only briefly a member of the England Under-21 team before he made his debut for the senior team in a friendly match against Chile in February 1998. Playing in this game made Owen the youngest player to represent England in the whole of the 20th century.
Owen's youthful enthusiasm, pace and talent made him a popular player across the country, and many fans were keen for him to be made a regular player for the team ahead of that year's World Cup. His first goal for England, against Morocco in another friendly game just prior to this tour****nt, only increased these calls. The goal also made him the youngest ever player to have scored for England, until his record was surpassed by Wayne Rooney in 2003.
Although he was selected for the World Cup squad by manager Glenn Hoddle, he was kept on the bench as a substitute in the first two games. However, his substitute appearance in the second game against Romania saw him score a goal and hit the post with another shot, almost salvaging the defeat. After that, Hoddle had little choice but to play him from the start, and in England's second round match against Argentina he scored a sensational goal, voted by many as the goal of the tour****nt and really bringing him to the attention of the world football scene.
England lost that match and went out of the tour****nt, but Owen had sealed his place as an automatic England choice and his popularity in the country was huge. At the end of the year he won a public vote to be elected winner of the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year title, the award's youngest ever recipient.
He has since played for England in the 2000 and 2004 European Championships and the 2002 World Cup, scoring goals in all three tour****nts. This makes him the only player to ever have scored in four major tour****nts for England. He even scored a hat-trick against Germany in the 2001 qualifying campaign for the 2002 World Cup, the first English player to score a hat-trick against Germany since Geoff Hurst, who scored his hat trick in the 1966 World Cup Final.
In April 2002, he was ****d as England's captain for a friendly match against Paraguay in place of the injured regular captain David Beckham. Owen was the youngest England skipper since Bobby Moore in 1963, and since then has regularly captained England during any absence for Beckham.
As of October 2005, Owen has been capped seventy-four times for England and scored thirty-three goals: he is fourth in the list of all-time top scorers for the England team, behind Bobby Charlton (49 goals), Gary Lineker (48) and Jimmy Greaves (44). He and Lineker jointly hold the record of twenty-two goals for England in competitive matches, i.e. World Cup and European Championship games and the qualifiers for those tour****nts.
Private Life
Owen married his childhood sweetheart, Louise Bonsall, on 25 June 2005. [5] They were engaged for over a year, from February 14, 2004. The couple have a daughter, Gemma Rose Owen, born on May 2, 2003 in the same place where both her parents were born - the Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester, England. The couple's second child is due to be born in February 2006.
The couple had initially planned to get married at their home, Lower Soughton Hall (near Northop Hall), but changed plans when they were informed that if a licence was granted for a marriage ceremony the venue must be made available for other weddings for three years.
