آدم سافاج

آدم سافاج

آدم سافاج (بالإنجليزية: Adam Savage)‏ (ولد في نيويورك 1967م) هو ممثل، مذيع، ومنتج أفلام، ومهندس، وفنان، وصحفي، من الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. ولد في مدينة نيويورك . عمل في مجال المؤثرات الخاصة لفترة طويلة واشتهر بتقديم برنامج مدمروا الخرافات على قناة ديسكفري.

تخرج من مدرسة سليبي هولو الثانوية في عام 1985  جده كوشمان هاجنسن كان جراحا رائدا في جراحة سرطان الثدي. كان والده، ويتني لي سافاج ( 1998-1928) رساما ومخرج معروف بعمله في شارع سمسم، ولديه معرض دائم في متحف أفامباتو ديسكوفيري. وكان ويتني لي معروف أيضا وتوجيه الفيلم القصير تحت الأرض عام 1968، ميكي ماوس في فيتنام. والدته هي معالجة نفسية، وكان ثاني أصغر 6 أطفال، مع 4 أطفال أكبر سنا  لديه اثنين من الاخوة الأكبر سنا، شقيقتين كبار السن وشقيقة أصغر. شقيقته كيت سافاج هي أيضا فنانة.

مراجع

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%AF%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AC

Adam Savage

Adam Savage

Adam Whitney Savage (born July 15, 1967) is an American special effects designer and fabricator, actor, educator, and television personality and producer, known as the former co-host (with Jamie Hyneman) of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction.  His model work has appeared in major films, including Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and The Matrix Reloaded. He is the host of the TV program, Savage Builds, which premiered on the Science Channel on June 14, 2019

Savage was born in New York City and was raised in Sleepy Hollow, New York.  He graduated from Sleepy Hollow High School in 1985.  His maternal grandfather Cushman Haagensen was a surgeon who pioneered breast cancer surgery.  His father Whitney Lee Savage (1928–1998) was a painter, filmmaker, and animator known for his work on Sesame Street, and he has a permanent exhibit in the Avampato Discovery Museum in Charleston, West Virginia  Whitney Lee was also known for directing the 1968 underground short film Mickey Mouse in Vietnam.  His mother Karen is a psychotherapist. He was the second youngest of six children, with the four older children coming from his parents' previous marriages. He has two older brothers,  two older sisters, and one younger sister.[10] His sister Kate Savage is also an artist. As a teenager in Sleepy Hollow, he routinely visited the local bike shop to have flat tires fixed. The shop showed him how to do the repairs himself. From this experience, Savage said, "I realized you could take a bike apart and put it back together and it wasn't that hard…. I've been building and putting bicycles together since then." 

Savage began acting as a child and has had five years of acting school.  His early credits include voicing animated characters that his father produced for Sesame Street, Mr. Whipple's stock boy Jimmy in a Charmin commercial, a helper in the special effects of Star Wars, and a drowning young man saved by a lifeguard in the 1985 Billy Joel music video "You're Only Human (Second Wind)". 

Savage abandoned acting by the time he was 19. "I had passed on that in favor of doing stuff with my hands", he said. He describes MythBusters as "the perfect marriage of two things, performance and special effects."  On November 25, 2011, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) for popularizing science and technology.

Reference

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

Maple Leaf

Maple Leaf

The maple leaf is the characteristic leaf of the maple tree. It is the most widely recognized national symbol of Canada

By the early 1700s, the maple leaf had been adopted as an emblem by the French Canadians along the Saint Lawrence River. 

Its popularity with French Canadians continued and was reinforced when, at the inaugural meeting of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste in 1834,  the maple leaf was one of numerous emblems proposed to represent the society. Speaking in its favour, Jacques Viger, the first mayor of Montreal, described the maple as "the king of our forest; ... the symbol of the Canadian people."

The maple leaf slowly caught on as a national symbol: in 1868, it was included in the coat of arms of Ontario and the coat of arms of Quebec, and was added to the Canadian coat of arms in 1921. Historically, the golden maple leaf had represented Ontario, while the green maple leaf had represented Quebec.  In 1867, Alexander Muir composed the patriotic "The Maple Leaf Forever", which became an unofficial anthem in English-speaking Canada. From 1876 until 1901, the leaf appeared on all Canadian coins, and remained on the penny after 1901. During the First World War, badges of the Canadian Expeditionary Force were often based on a maple leaf design. The use of the maple leaf as a regimental symbol extended back to the 1800s, and Canadian soldiers in the Second Boer War were distinguished by a maple leaf on their sun helmets. In 1957 the maple leaf colour on the Canadian arms was changed from green to red - some maple leaves are commonly red even in spring as they bud & no seasonal colouring has been assigned heraldically.

The maple leaf finally became the central national symbol with the introduction of the Canadian flag (suggested by George F. G. Stanley and sponsored by M.P. John Matheson) in 1965, which uses a highly stylized eleven-pointed maple leaf, referring to no specific species of maple. Earlier official uses of a maple leaf design often used more than 30 points and a short stem. The one chosen is a generic maple leaf representing the ten species of maple tree native to Canada—at least one of these species grows natively in every province.[5] The maple leaf is currently used on the Canadian flag, logos of various Canadian-based companies (including Canadian subsidiaries of foreign companies and small businesses with only local operations) and the logos of Canadian sports teams. Examples include Air Canada, McDonald's Canada, General Motors Canada, the Toronto Maple Leafs and Winnipeg Jets NHL franchises, the Toronto FC soccer club, and Wendy's Canada (using the maple leaf in place of the normal apostrophe found at U.S. locations). It is also used by the Federal Government as a personification and identifier on its websites, as part of the government's wordmark.

Since 1979, the Royal Canadian Mint has produced gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion coins, which are officially known as Maple Leafs, as geometric maple leaves are stamped on them. The Trans Canada Highway uses a green maple leaf.

Reference

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

ليلي راينهارت

ليلي راينهارت

ليلى بولين راينهارت (ولدت في 13 سبتمبر 1996) ممثلة ومغنية أمريكية، عرفت بظهورها في المسلسل التلفزيوني ريفرديل.

المراجع

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA

Fête du Canada

Fête du Canada

La fête du Canada1, aussi appelée le Jour de la Confédération, est un jour férié commémorant la date de formation de la fédération canadienne. C'est la reine Victoria, alors reine du Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande, qui a, le 22 mai 1867, pris une proclamation fixant la date de formation au 1er juillet 1867.

La fête est célébrée le 1er juillet. Il s'agit aussi d'un jour férié légal qui est reporté au 2 juillet si la fête du Canada tombe un dimanche2. Ce jour est observé par toutes les institutions fédérales. Des spectacles, des défilés et des feux d'artifices sont alors organisés à travers tout le pays pour célébrer l'événement.

Au Québec, de nombreux citoyens changent de domicile à cette date ou autour de cette date, notamment parce que la majorité des contrats de bail prennent fin le 1er juillet ; c'est ce qu'on appelle au Québec la Fête du déménagement ou la « journée nationale du déménagement ». C'est pour ne pas perturber l’année scolaire des enfants affectés par les déménagements qu'une loi a été adoptée en 1974 pour changer la date de fin des baux du 1er mai au 1er juillet.

référence

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_du_Canada

Amy McGrath

Amy McGrath

Amy Melinda McGrath (born June 3, 1975) is an American politician and former Marine fighter pilot. During her 20 years of service in the Marine Corps, McGrath flew 89 combat missions against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.  McGrath was the first woman to fly a combat mission for the Marine Corps, as well as the first to pilot the F/A-18 on a combat mission.  Toward the end of her service, McGrath worked domestically as a political adviser, a liaison officer, and an instructor at the United States Naval Academy.

Following her retirement from military service in 2017, McGrath entered politics. She was the Democratic nominee for Kentucky's 6th congressional district in the 2018 election, losing to incumbent Republican Andy Barr  by 9,732 votes out of over 300,000 votes cast.  In July 2019, she announced her campaign for the United States Senate in the 2020 election, seeking to challenge incumbent Mitch McConnell. In a close primary, McGrath defeated state representative Charles Booker to gain the nomination for the Democratic Party.

McGrath was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She grew up in Edgewood, Kentucky, just outside of Covington, the youngest of three children.  Her father, Donald McGrath, was a high school teacher who taught in Cincinnati for 40 years. Her mother, Marianne McGrath, is a psychiatrist who was one of the first women to graduate from the University of Kentucky's medical school.  

McGrath graduated in 1993 from Notre Dame Academy in Park Hills, Kentucky, where she played varsity soccer, basketball, and baseball, and was captain of the soccer team her senior year.  In her senior year, she received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy, the same year Congress lifted the Combat Exclusion Policy which banned women from becoming fighter pilots. 

In 1997, McGrath graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in political science.  While there, McGrath was the student director of the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference. She was also a member of the Academy's first women's varsity soccer team. 

McGrath received a graduate certificate in legislative studies from Georgetown University in 2011.  In 2014, she earned a Master of Arts in international and global security studies from Johns Hopkins University

Reference

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

August Alsina

August Alsina

August Anthony Alsina Jr.  (born September 3, 1992) is an American singer-songwriter from New Orleans, Louisiana, formerly signed to Def Jam Recordings.   He is best known for his single "I Luv This Shit" with Trinidad James. His debut studio album Testimony was released on April 15, 2014.

Alsina was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.  He attended middle school in New Orleans.  Although no one in his family was musically inclined, he was inspired to sing by Lauryn Hill in Sister Act 2. Alsina first uploaded videos to YouTube in 2007 at age 14, starting with a cover of "Hypothetically" by Lyfe Jennings. 

With both his father and stepfather battling crack cocaine addiction, Alsina's mother moved him to Houston, Texas in search of a fresh start after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Then, Alsina's father died.  Alsina had disagreements with his mother at some point and was "kicked out." After his older brother, Melvin La'Branch III, was shot and killed on August 31, 2010, he became more committed to his music, and relocated to Atlanta in 2011

Reference

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