Meet The Press

Meet The Press

Meet the Press is a weekly American television news/interview program broadcast on NBC. It is the longest-running program in television history, though the current format bears little resemblance to the debut episode on November 6, 1947.  Meet the Press specializes in interviews with leaders in Washington, D.C., across the country and even the world on issues of politics, economics, foreign policy and other public affairs, along with panel discussions that provide opinions and analysis. It originates from NBC's bureau in Washington, D.C. (WRC-TV).

The longevity of Meet the Press is attributable in part to the fact that the program debuted during what was only the second official "network television season" for American television. It was the first live television network news program on which a sitting President of the United States appeared; this occurred on its broadcast on November 9, 1975, which featured Gerald Ford. The program has been hosted by 12 different moderators to date, beginning with creator Martha Rountree. The show's moderator since 2014 is Chuck Todd, who also serves as political director for NBC News. 

Currently, the hour-long program airs in most markets on Sundays at 9:00 a.m. live in the Eastern Time Zone and on tape delay elsewhere. Meet the Press is also occasionally pre-empted due to network coverage of sports events held outside the U.S. The program is also rebroadcast on Sundays at 6:00 p.m., and Mondays at 4:00 a.m. Eastern Time on MSNBC, whose audio feed is also simulcast on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio. The program is also syndicated by Westwood One to various radio stations around the United States, as well as on C-SPAN Radio as part of its replays of the Sunday morning talk shows.

The program's format consists of an extended one-on-one interview with the host, and is sometimes followed by a roundtable discussion or one-on-two interview with figures in adversarial positions, either Congressional members from opposite sides of the aisle or political commentators. Originally a half-hour program for most of its history, the show expanded to 60 minutes starting with the broadcast on September 20, 1992. 

The program also features in-depth examinations of facts behind political and general news stories (particularly as part of a segment called the "Data Download", introduced after Chuck Todd assumed duties as moderator, which is conducted on a touchscreen within the main set).

Reference

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

Biz Markie

Biz Markie

Marcel Theo Hall (born April 8, 1964),  better known by his stage name Biz Markie, is an American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, actor, comedian, television personality and spokesperson. He is best known for his 1989 single "Just a Friend", which became a Top 40 hit in several countries. In 2008, "Just a Friend" made #100 on VH1's list of the 100 greatest hip hop songs of all time. 

Markie has been called the "Clown Prince of Hip Hop".  

Markie's career began on Long Island  and he graduated from Longwood High School in 1982. 

Reference

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

Spencer Grammer

Spencer Grammer

Spencer Karen Grammer (born October 9, 1983)  is an American actress best known for her roles as the voice of Summer Smith in the Adult Swim animated science fiction series Rick and Morty and as Casey Cartwright in the ABC Family college comedy-drama series Greek.

Grammer, born in Los Angeles, California, is the child of comedian and actor Kelsey Grammer and Doreen Alderman, and was named after her paternal aunt, who was murdered in 1975 ^] She has six paternal half-siblings: three half-sisters (the actress Greer Grammer, Mason, and Faith) and three half-brothers (Jude, Gabriel, and James).^[ She also has a maternal half-sister named Madison.  She attended Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.

References

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

Justin Verlander

Justin Verlander

Justin Brooks Verlander (born February 20, 1983) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has also played in MLB for the Detroit Tigers.

From Manakin-Sabot, Virginia, Verlander attended Old Dominion University (ODU) and played college baseball for the Monarchs. He broke the Monarchs' and Colonial Athletic Association's career records for strikeouts. At the 2003 Pan American Games, Verlander helped lead the United States national team to a silver medal.

The Tigers selected Verlander with the second overall pick of the 2004 MLB draft. He made his major league debut with the Tigers in 2005, and played there for 12 years as the ace in their starting rotation, as a key figure in four consecutive American League (AL) Central division championships (from 2011 to 2014) and two AL Pennants (in 2006 and 2012). He is among the career pitching leaders for the Tigers, including ranking second in strikeouts (2,373), seventh in wins (183), and eighth in innings pitched (2,511). The Tigers traded Verlander to the Astros before the 2017 trade deadline, and he went undefeated in his first five starts heading into the postseason. He was named ALCS MVP, and was co-winner of the Babe Ruth Award as the Astros won the 2017 World Series. In 2018, Verlander became the 114th pitcher in major league history to earn 200 career wins, also becoming the 20th-fastest to reach the milestone (412 starts).[1] In 2019, Verlander became the sixth pitcher in MLB history to throw three career no-hitters  and struck out his 3,000th batter, becoming the 18th pitcher in major league history to do so.

Verlander is an eight-time MLB All-Star, and has led the AL in strikeouts five times, and in wins twice. He was the AL Rookie of the Year in 2006,  and in 2007 pitched the first no-hitter at Comerica Park, versus the Milwaukee Brewers.  In 2009, he led the AL in wins and strikeouts, both for the first time. Verlander produced his most successful season in 2011, including his second career no-hitter versus the Toronto Blue Jays.  By season's end, Verlander won the Pitching Triple Crown, the AL Cy Young Award unanimously, the AL Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award,  and the Sporting News Player of the Year Award. In 2019, Verlander had his first career 300-strikeout season and won his second Cy Young award. 

Verlander's father Richard sent him to The Richmond Baseball Academy when he was young. He was able to throw his fastball 84 mph (135 km/h) shortly after joining the academy. His velocity plateaued at 86 mph (138 km/h) during his senior year at Goochland High School, during which he was sidetracked by strep throat.  Verlander's velocity reached 87 mph (140 km/h) during his first year at Old Dominion.

Reference

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

Edmund Pettus

Edmund Pettus

Edmund Winston Pettus (born July 6, 1821 – July 27, 1907) was an American politician who represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1897 to 1907. He previously served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. After the war, he was politically active in the Ku Klux Klan, serving as a grand dragon. 

The Edmund Pettus Bridge across the Alabama River in Selma, built in 1940, was named in his honor. The bridge became a landmark of the American civil rights movement in 1965 when armed Alabama police attacked unarmed peaceful civil rights demonstrators, including John Lewis and Hosea Williams, as they sought to march to the state capital of Montgomery. The incident became known as Bloody Sunday.

Edmund Pettus was born in 1821 in Limestone County, Alabama.  He was the youngest of nine children of John Pettus and Alice Taylor Winston, a brother of John J. Pettus, and a distant cousin of Jefferson Davis.  Pettus was educated in local public schools, and later graduated from Clinton College located in Smith County, Tennessee.  

Pettus then studied law in Tuscumbia, Alabama, under William Cooper and was admitted to the state's bar association in 1842. Shortly afterward he settled in Gainesville and began practicing as a lawyer. On June 27, 1844, Pettus married Mary L. Chapman, with whom he had three sons, two of whom died in infancy, and two daughters. Also that year he was elected solicitor for the seventh Judicial Circuit of Alabama. 

During the Mexican–American War in 1846–48, Pettus served as a lieutenant with the Alabama Volunteers, and after the end of hostilities he moved to California, where he participated in ethnic cleansing of Yukis and other Native Americans. 

By 1853, he returned to Alabama, serving again in the seventh circuit as solicitor. He was appointed a judge in that circuit in 1855 until resigning in 1858. Pettus then relocated to the now extinct town of Cahaba  in Dallas County, Alabama, where he again took up work as a lawyer. 

Reference

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

Kargil Vijay Diwas

Kargil Vijay Diwas

Kargil Vijay Diwas is a holiday observed in India on the 26th of July. On this date in 1999 india successfully took command of the high outposts. The Kargil war was fought for more than 60 days, ended on 26 July.On this date in 1999 Pakistan army taking advantage of the melting snow and betraying the bilateral understanding of both the nations (that the post would remain unattended during the winter season) took command of the high outposts of  India. Pakistan army refused the claims that it's soldiers were involved in the war and claimed that they were the rebels from Kashmir itself , but the ammunition, identity cards, rations  stores and other evidence prove that the Pakistan army was behind this cowardly act. The Kargil war was fought for more than 60 days, ended on 26 July and resulted in loss of life on both the sides. The war was finally over after India regained control over the post and threw the unwanted guests out of the Indian territory.

Till date Pakistan tells stories of winning Kargil war, which are definitely baseless. ( This has been said by the retired army personnel of the Pakistan Army itself on national television.) .

  Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated on 26 July every year in honour of the Kargil War's Heroes. This day is celebrated in the Kargil–ctor and the national capital New Delhi, where the Prime Minister of India pays homage to the soldiers at Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate every year.  Functions are also organized all over the country to commemorate the contributions of the armed forces. 

History

After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, there had been a long period with relatively few direct armed conflicts involving the military forces of the two neighbours – not with standing the efforts of both nations to control the Siachen Glacier by establishing military outposts on the surrounding mountains ridges and the resulting military skirmishes in the 1980s. During the 1990s, however, escalating tensions and conflict due to separatist activities in Kashmir, as well as the conducting of nuclear tests by both countries in 1998, led to an increasingly belligerent atmosphere. 

In an attempt to defuse the situation, both countries signed the Lahore Declaration in February 1999, promising to provide a peaceful and bilateral solution to the Kashmir conflict. During the winter of 1998–1999, some elements of the Pakistani Armed Forces were covertly training and sending Pakistani troops and paramilitary forces,into territory on the Indian side of the line of control (LOC). The infiltration was code named "Operation Badri". The aim of the Pakistani incursion was to sever the link between Kashmir and Ladakh and cause Indian forces to withdraw from the Siachen Glacier, thus forcing India to negotiate a settlement of the broader Kashmir dispute. Pakistan also believed that any tension in the region would internationalize the Kashmir issue, helping it to secure a speedy resolution. Yet another goal may have been to boost the morale of the decade-long rebellion in Indian State of Kashmir by taking a proactive role.

Initially, with little knowledge of the nature or extent of the infiltration, the Indian troops in the area assumed that the infiltrators were jihadis and declared that they would evict them within a few days. Subsequent discovery of infiltration elsewhere along the LOC, along with the difference in tactics employed by the infiltrators, caused the Indian army to realize that the plan of attack was on a much bigger scale. The total area seized by the ingress is generally accepted to between 130 km² – 200 km².

The Government of India responded with Operation Vijay, a mobilization of 200,000 Indian troops. The war came to an official end on July 26, 1999, thus marking it as Kargil Vijay Diwas.

527 soldiers from Indian Armed Forces lost their lives during the war.

Reference

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

أبو بكر زين العابدين عبد الكلام

أبو بكر زين العابدين عبد الكلام

أبو بكر زين العابدين عبد الكلام المشهور باسم عبد الكلام (15 أكتوبر 1931 - 27 يوليو 2015)، هو الرئيس الحادي عشر للهند، حيث ترأس بلاده من 2002 وحتى 2007. يشار إليه في اللغات الغربية باسم Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (اختصار Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam). قبل توليه الرئاسة كان أحد أبرز علماء ومهندسي الهند، وكثيراً ما كان يدعى "الرجل الصاروخ" بسبب عمله ضمن برنامج التسلح النووي والصاروخي الهندي. وقد حظي عبد الكلام بشعبية واسعة وسط الهنود حتى لقب "رئيس الشعب". وهو لم يتزوج وليس لديه انتماء سياسي معين، ويعتنق الدين الإسلامي ومعروف عنه احترامه للديانات الأخرى كالهندوسية والسيخية.

حصل عبد الكلام على أرفع درجات الشرف في الهند مراراً فضلاً عن درجات دكتوراة فخرية من نحو 40 جامعة.

ولد أبو بكر عبد الكلام في 15 أكتوبر عام 1931 في بلدة راميسوارام التي تقع بولاية تاميل نادو بجنوب الهند ، وترعرع في كنف والديه اللذين ينتميان لعائلة تاميلية مسلمة فقيرة، وكان أبوه "زين العابدين" يملك قاربا يكسب عيشه منه، أما أمه "أشيامّا" فكانت ربة بيت  .

عمل في فترة صباه لمساعدة أسرته على مواجهة أعباء الحياة الصعبة  . وبعد أن أنهى دراسته الابتدائية عمل موزعا للصحف  ، وفي سنوات الدراسة وصفه مدرسوه وزملاؤه بأنه كان يتمتع بذكاء وجدية في التعلم وخاصة في مادة الرياضيات  ، وبعد تخرجه في مدرسة "راماناثابورام شوارتز الثانوية" التحق بكلية القديس يوسف في مدينة تيروشيراباللي بولاية تاميل نادو ، ومنها أكمل دراسته في الفيزياء بجامعة مدراس وتخرج فيها عام 1954  . وفي عام 1955 تخصص في دراسة هندسة علوم الفضاء  . وعندما كان يعمل في مشروعه الدراسي كان عميد الكلية غير راضي عنه بسبب عدم إحرازه تقدما في مشروعه العلمي المكلف به، وهدده بإلغاء منحته الدراسية إلا إذا أنهى مشروعه على الوجه المطلوب ومنحه ثلاثة أيام فقط كمهلة، وعمل عبد الكلام في مشروعه ليلا ونهارا بشكل متواصل خلال هذه الأيام الثلاثة حتى حقق ما طلب منه مما أبهر عميد الجامعة الذي قال فيما بعد (.. إنني وضعتك ياعبد الكلام تحت ضغط وطلبت منك مواجهة مدة زمنية قصيرة صعبة..)  ، ولقد قال عبد الكلام في حديث له أنه خاب أمله في تحقيق حلمه بأن يصبح طيارا عسكريا مقاتلا ولكن وضع في الترتيب التاسع في تصفيات النخبة على مستوى دولة الهند التي أختيرت لهذا العمل حيث لم يكن هناك سوى ثمانية فرص فقط متوفرة في القوة الجوية الهندية.

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