Robert Fuller

Robert Fuller

Robert Fuller (born Leonard Leroy "Buddy" Lee, July 29, 1933) is an American horse rancher and retired actor. He began his career on television, guest-starring primarily on Western programs, while appearing in several movies, including: The Brain from Planet Arous; Teenage Thunder (both in 1957); Return of the Seven (1966); Incident at Phantom Hill (also 1966); and The Hard Ride (1971). In his five decades of television, Fuller was known for his deep, raspy voice and was familiar to television viewers throughout the 1960s and 1970s from his co-starring roles as Jess Harper and Cooper Smith on the popular 1960s Western series Laramie and Wagon Train, and was also well known for his starring role as Dr. Kelly Brackett in the 1970s medical /action drama Emergency!

Fuller was born as Leonard Leroy Lee on July 29, 1933, in Troy, New York, the only child of Betty Simpson, a dance instructor. Prior to his birth, Betty married Robert Simpson, Sr., a Naval Academy officer. In 1939, at the age of 6, his family moved to Key West, Florida, where, already known by the nickname of "Buddy," he took the name Robert Simpson Jr. The early highlights of his life were acting and dancing. His parents owned a dancing school in Florida. His family also moved to Chicago, Illinois, where they lived for 1 year, before moving back to Florida. Simpson Jr., as he was then still formally known, attended the Miami Military School for fifth and sixth grade, and Key West High School for ninth grade. He dropped out in 1948, at the age of 14, due to the fact that he disliked school and was doing poorly there. In 1950, at the age of 16, he traveled with his family to Hollywood, California, where his first job was as a stunt man. He also worked at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, beginning as a doorman and working his way up to Assistant Manager by age 18. At the urging of friends, the up-to-then Simpson Jr. joined the Screen Actors Guild, embarked on a career in acting, and changed his name from Robert Simpson Jr. to Robert Fuller, the name by which he would be known at his most prominent

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ماريا كاري

ماريا كاري

ماريا كيري (من مواليد 27 مارس 1970) هي مغنية أمريكية، كاتبة أغاني، منتجة إسطوانات، وممثلة. ولدت ونشأت في لونغ آيلند، نيويورك، ظهرت ماريا على الساحة الفنية لأول مرة بعد ما صدر ألبومها الإستديو الأول الذي يحمل اسمها ماريا كاري في عام (1990); الذي حصل على العديد من شهادات البلاتينيوم وأربعة أغاني متتالية في المركز الأول على الرسم البياني الأمريكي بيلبورد هوت 100. تحت إشراف منفذ تسجيلات كولومبيا تومي موتولا الذي أصبح في وقت لاحق زوجها، واصلت النجاح مع عدة ألبومات إيموشن (1991)، ميوزك بوكس (1993)، ماري كريسماس (1994)، أصبحت ماريا أعلى مغنو تسجيلات كولومبيا مبيعاً. ألبومها الإستديو الخامس داي دريم (1995) صنع تاريخ الموسيقى عندما صدرت أغنيته المنفردة الثانية "ون سويت داي"، مع اشتراك بويز II مين، التي أمضت ستة عشر أسبوعاً على الرسم البياني بيلبورد هوت 100، والتي لا تزال أطول أغنية تصدرت المركز الأول في تاريخ هذا الرسم البياني. أثناء تسجيل الألبوم، بدأت ماريا تنحرف عن الآر أند بي والبوب وتتجه إلى الهيب هوب. أصبح هذا التغيير واضحاً موسيقياً بعد ما صدر ألبومها الإستديو السادس بترفلاي (1997)، في الوقت الذي انفصلت ماريا عن تومي.

غادرت ماريا كولومبيا في عام 2000، ووقعت عقداً مع تسجيلات فيرجن بقيمة 100 مليون دولار. قبل صدور أول فيلم روائي طويل لماريا بعنوان جليتر (2001)، تعرضت لانهيار جسدي وعاطفي وأدخلت المستشفى لإنهاك الشديد. بعد فشل الفيلم، اشترت العقد من تسجيلات فيرجن بمبلغ 50 مليون دولار، والذي أدى إلى انخفاض في مسيرتها الفنية. وقعت عقد صفقة بملايين الدولارات مع تسجيلات آيلاند في عام 2002، بعد فترة غير ناجحة مع تشارم بريسلت (2002)، عادت إلى النجومية العالمية مع ألبومها العاشر إيمانسبيشن أوف ميمي (2005). أغنيته المنفردة الثانية "وي بيلونق توقيذر" أصبحت أنجح أغنية لها في عقد 2000s، سميت في وقت لاحق "أغنية العقد" من قبل مجلة بيلبورد. عندما صدر ألبومها الإستديو الحادي عشر إي=إم سي² (2008)، حصلت ماريا على الأغنية الثامنة عشر في المركز الأول على الرسم البياني الأمريكي بيلبورد هوت 100 بعد ما صدرت أغنية الألبوم المنفردة الأولى "تتش ماي بودي". غامرت ماريا مرة أخرى في مجال السينما مع دور مساند الذي حصل على استقبال جيد في فيلم برشز (2009); منحت جائزة "أفضل أداء جديد" في مهرجان بالم سبرينغز السينمائي الدولي.

في حياة مهنية امتدت أكثر من عقدين، قد باعت ماريا أكثر من 200 مليون من التسجيلات في جميع أنحاء العالم، مما يجعلها واحدة من الفنانين الموسيقين الأكثر مبيعاً في كل العصور. في عام 1998 تم تكريمها من أجل اعتبارها أفضل فنان مبيعاً في العالم في التسعينات في حفل توزيع جوائز الموسيقى العالمية. أيضاً سميت الفنانة الأكثر مبيعاً في الألفية في عام 2000. وفقاً لاتحاد صناعة التسجيلات الأمريكية، تعتبر ماريا ثالث فنان في قائمة الأكثر مبيعاً من الإناث في الولايات المتحدة، مع 63.5 مليون ألبوماً. في 2012، أدرجت ماريا في المرتبة الثانية في قائمة في إتش 1 "100 أعظم النساء في الموسيقى". بصرف النظر عن إنجازاتها التجارية، فازت ماريا بخمس جوائز غرامي، 17 جائزة موسيقية عالمية، 11 جائزة موسيقية أمريكية، و31 جائزة بيلبورد الموسيقية. ويشار إلى أن موسوعة جينيس للأرقام القياسية، سميت ماريا بلقب "Songbird Supreme". تشتهر ماريا بمدى صوتي يصل إلى خمسة أوكتاف، سيور صوتية، وأسلوب الميليسماتيك وأيضاً القدرة الصوتية على التصفير أثناء الغناء.

ولدت ماريا كاري في لونغ آيلاند، هنتنغتون، نيويورك. والدها، ألفريد روي، أمريكي من أصل أفريقي وفنزويلي، بينما والدتها، باتريشيا، أمريكية من أصل أيرلندي. بعد انفصال والديها في سن الرابعة، أشارت ماريا بأنها كانت تتسلل وتأخذ الراديو وتضعه تحت غطاء سريرها في الليل، وكانت تغني من قلبها، لمحاولة إيجاد السلام في الموسيقى. بدأت ماريا في كتابة القصائد وإضافة الألحان لهم، وهكذا بدأت تعتبر نفسها بمغنية وكاتبة أغاني بينما كانت تدرس في ثانوية هاربوفيلدز في قرينلان، نيويورك. حتى في سن مبكرة، برعت ماريا في موسيقاها، واستطاعت أن تتقن قدرتها على التصفير أثناء الغناء، من خلال التدريب مع والدتها. بعد تخرج ماريا من الثانوية، تزوجت والدتها مرة أخرى، مما دفعها للخروج من شقة والدتها باتريشيا، والسكن في شفة بغرفة نوم واحدة في مانهاتن، التي تشاركت مع أربع طالبات أخريات. خلال هذه الفترة، عملت ماريا كنادلة في عدة مطاعم. في حين إنها تحتاج إلى العمل من أجل دفع الإيجار، عقل ماريا وجهدها لا يزال مع طموحاتها الموسيقية، كما تابعت العمل حتى ساعات متأخرة من الليل مع المنتج مارغوليز، وكانت على أمل في الانتهاء من شريطها التجريبي الذي من الممكن أن يحصل عليه بعض المسؤولين التنفيذيين في شركات الإنتاج. بعد ذلك بوقت قصير، تم تقديمها إلى مغنية البوب بريندا كي. ستار.

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Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970)  is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actress, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Renowned for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, and signature use of the whistle register, Carey is referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by Guinness World Records. She rose to fame in 1990 after signing to Columbia Records and releasing her eponymous debut album, which topped the US Billboard 200 for eleven consecutive weeks.

In 1993, Carey married Sony Music head Tommy Mottola, who signed her to Columbia. She achieved worldwide success with follow-up albums Music Box (1993), Merry Christmas (1994), and Daydream (1995). These albums spawned some of Carey's most successful singles, including "Hero", "Without You", "All I Want for Christmas Is You", "Fantasy", "Always Be My Baby", as well as "One Sweet Day", which topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for 16 weeks and became Billboard's Song of the Decade (1990s Decade). After separating from Mottola, Carey adopted a new image and incorporated more elements of hip hop into her music with the release of Butterfly (1997). Billboard named her the country's most successful artist of the 1990s, while the World Music Awards honored her as the world's best-selling music artist of the 1990s, and the best-selling female artist of the millennium.

After eleven consecutive years charting a US number-one single, Carey parted ways with Columbia in 2000 and signed a $100 million recording contract with Virgin Records. However, following her highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the critical and commercial failure of her film Glitter (2001) and its accompanying soundtrack, her contract was bought out for $50 million by Virgin and she signed with Island Records the following year. After a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the top of music charts with The Emancipation of Mimi (2005), the world's second-best-selling album of 2005. Its second single, "We Belong Together", topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks and became Billboard's Song of the Decade (2000s Decade). In 2009, she was cast in the critically acclaimed film Precious, which won her the Breakthrough Actress Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Throughout her career, Carey has sold over 200 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. With a total of 19 songs topping the Billboard Hot 100, Carey holds the record for the most number-one singles by a solo artist, a female songwriter, and a female producer.  According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the second-highest-certified female artist in the United States, with 66.5 million certified album units.  In 2012, she was ranked second on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music. In 2019, Billboard named her the all-time top female artist in the United States, based on both album and song chart performances.  Aside from her commercial accomplishments, Carey has won five Grammy Awards, nineteen World Music Awards, ten American Music Awards,  and fifteen Billboard Music Awards.  An inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame,  she is noted for inspiring other artists in pop and contemporary R&B music

Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, New York,  on March 27, 1969 or 1970.  Her name was derived from the song "They Call the Wind Maria," originally from the 1951 Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon.  She is the third and youngest child of Patricia (née Hickey), a former opera singer and vocal coach of Irish descent, and Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer of African-American and Afro-Venezuelan lineage.  The last name Carey was adopted by her Venezuelan grandfather, Francisco Núñez, after he emigrated to New York.  Patricia's family disowned her for marrying a black man.  Racial tensions prevented the Carey family from integrating into their community. While living in Huntington, neighbors poisoned the family dog and set fire to their car.  After her parents' divorce, Carey had little contact with her father, and her mother worked several jobs to support the family. Carey spent much of her time at home alone and began singing at the age of three, often imitating her mother's take on Verdi's opera Rigoletto in Italian. While her elder sister Alison moved in with their father, the singer and her older brother Morgan remained with their mother. 

During her years in elementary school, she excelled in the arts, such as music and literature. Carey began writing poetry and lyrics while attending Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York,  where she graduated in 1987.  Carey began vocal training under the tutelage of her mother. Though a classically trained opera singer, Patricia never pressured her daughter to pursue a career in classical opera. Carey recalled that she had "never been a pushy mom. She never said, 'Give it more of an operatic feel.' I respect opera like crazy, but it didn't influence me." In high-school, she was frequently absent because of her work as a demo singer; her classmates consequently gave her the nickname Mirage.  Her work in the Long Island music scene gave her opportunities to work with musicians such as Gavin Christopher and Ben Margulies, with whom she co-wrote material for her demo tape. After moving to New York City, Carey worked part-time jobs to pay the rent, and she completed 500 hours of beauty school.  Carey moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, which she shared with four other female students.  She landed a gig singing backup for Puerto Rican freestyle singer Brenda K. Starr.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariah_Carey

Jason Manford

Jason Manford

Jason John Manford  (born 26 May 1981) is an English comedian, singer, television presenter, radio presenter and actor. He is currently playing the lead in the musical Curtains.

Previously he was a team captain on the Channel 4 panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats from 2007 until 2010, and has presented numerous television shows for the BBC and ITV including Comedy Rocks (2010–2011), The One Show (2010), Show Me the Funny (2011), A Question of Sport: Super Saturday (2014) and Bigheads (2017).

Manford was born in Salford, Greater Manchester.  His mother, Sharon (née Ryan), is of Irish Catholic extraction, her mother, Nora (née Peate), having been born in Dublin. His father, Ian Manford, is a courtroom stenographer. Jason and his four siblings grew up in a terraced house in the Whalley Range area of south Manchester. 

He attended St. Margaret's Primary School, Whalley Range and Chorlton High School, when it was known as Oakwood High School, where he formed a band with two friends, Simon and Neil. His mother later said that this was what got him into singing.

When Manford was younger, he got a job as a glass collector at a local pub.  While working there, Manford became interested in comedy after watching the likes of Peter Kay, Eddie Izzard and Johnny Vegas perform at the local comedy club. Kay recommended him to do the Higher National Diploma in media and performance at the University of Salford, a course Kay himself had taken.  Despite not having the required A Level grades, Manford was accepted into the programme and eventually upgraded to a full degree. Manford's brother, Colin, also a University of Salford graduate, followed him into performing  and is also a stand-up comedian, based in Manchester

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Manford

Ricky Valance

Ricky Valance

Ricky Valance (born David Spencer, 10 April 1936 – 12 June 2020) was a Welsh pop singer. He was best known for the UK number one single "Tell Laura I Love Her", which sold over a million copies in 1960.  He was the first male Welsh singer to have a UK number one single hit.

Born David Spencer in Ynysddu, Monmouthshire, Wales, he was the eldest of seven children.  He sang in his church choir, and worked in a coal mine and a factory before joining the RAF at the age of 17

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Fourniers gangrene

Fourniers gangrene

Fournier gangrene is a type of necrotizing fasciitis or gangrene affecting the external genitalia or perineum. It commonly occurs in older men, but it can also occur in women and children. It is more likely to occur in diabetics, alcoholics, or those who are immunocompromised.

About one per 62,500 males are affected per year.  Males are affected about 40 times more often than females.  It was first described by Baurienne in 1764 and is named after a French venereologist, Jean Alfred Fournier, following five cases he presented in clinical lectures in 1883

Initial symptoms of Fournier gangrene include swelling or sudden pain in the scrotum, fever, pallor, and generalized weakness. It is characterized by pain that extends beyond the border of the demarcated erythema.   Most cases present mildly, but can progress in hours. Subcutaneous air is often one of the specific clinical signs, but is not seen in >50% of presenting clinical cases. More marked cases are characterized by a foul odor and necrotic infected tissue. Crepitus has been reported.  It begins as a subcutaneous infection. However, necrotic patches soon appear in the overlying skin, which later develop into necrosis

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fournier_gangrene

Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926)  is the Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. 

Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth). Her father ascended the throne on the abdication of his brother King Edward VIII in 1936, from which time she was the heir presumptive. She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In 1947, she married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, a former prince of Greece and Denmark, with whom she has four children: Charles, Prince of Wales; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.

When her father died in February 1952, Elizabeth became head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon. She has reigned as a constitutional monarch through major political changes, such as devolution in the United Kingdom, Canadian patriation, and the decolonisation of Africa. Between 1956 and 1992, the number of her realms varied as territories gained independence, and as realms, including South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon (renamed Sri Lanka), became republics. Her many historic visits and meetings include a state visit to the Republic of Ireland and visits to or from five popes. Significant events have included her coronation in 1953 and the celebrations of her Silver, Golden, and Diamond Jubilees in 1977, 2002, and 2012, respectively. In 2017, she became the first British monarch to reach a Sapphire Jubilee. She is the longest-lived and longest-reigning British monarch. She is the longest-serving female head of state in world history, and the world's oldest living monarch, longest-reigning current monarch, and oldest and longest-serving current head of state.

Elizabeth has occasionally faced republican sentiments and press criticism of the royal family, in particular after the breakdown of her children's marriages, her annus horribilis in 1992, and the death in 1997 of her former daughter-in-law Diana, Princess of Wales. However, in the United Kingdom, support for the monarchy has been and remains consistently high, as does her personal popularity.

Elizabeth was born at 02:40 (GMT) on 21 April 1926, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King George V. Her father, the Duke of York (later King George VI), was the second son of the King. Her mother, the Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother), was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. She was delivered by Caesarean section at her maternal grandfather's London house: 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair.  She was baptised by the Anglican Archbishop of York, Cosmo Gordon Lang, in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on 29 May,  and named Elizabeth after her mother; Alexandra after George V's mother, who had died six months earlier; and Mary after her paternal grandmother.  Called "Lilibet" by her close family,  based on what she called herself at first,  she was cherished by her grandfather George V, and during his serious illness in 1929 her regular visits were credited in the popular press and by later biographers with raising his spirits and aiding his recovery

Elizabeth's only sibling, Princess Margaret, was born in 1930. The two princesses were educated at home under the supervision of their mother and their governess, Marion Crawford. Lessons concentrated on history, language, literature, and music.  Crawford published a biography of Elizabeth and Margaret's childhood years entitled The Little Princesses in 1950, much to the dismay of the royal family.  The book describes Elizabeth's love of horses and dogs, her orderliness, and her attitude of responsibility.  Others echoed such observations: Winston Churchill described Elizabeth when she was two as "a character. She has an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant." Her cousin Margaret Rhodes described her as "a jolly little girl, but fundamentally sensible and well-behaved"

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II