امل عرفة

أمل عرفة (18 مارس 1972 -)، ممثلة ومغنية وكاتبة سورية.

هي ابنة الملحن سهيل عرفة، تخرجت من «المعهد العالي للفنون المسرحية» بدأت حياتها بالمشاركات الغنائية سوأ في سياق الأعمال التلفزيونية، أول ظهورٍ غنائي لها كان في سهرة تلفزيونية بعنوان «حمام القدس» في عام 1982 وخلال المهرجانات الخاصة كما قدمت عدد من الأغاني المنفردة وكان أول عمل غنائي لها هو «صباح الخير يا وطنا» مع فهد يكن، وكان دخولها للتمثيل عندما منحها المخرج هيثم حقي فرصة المشاركة في عملين هما «نجمة الصبح» و«شبكة العنكبوت»، ومنذ أول ظهور لها حققت خلالهما النجاح على الرغم من صغر مساحة دورها. إلا بدايتها الفعلية كانت بدور بهيرة في مسلسل «نهاية رجل شجاع» مع الفنان أيمن زيدان للمخرج نجدة إسماعيل أنزور واستطاعت خلال العمل تحقيق الشهرة ومعرفة الجمهور بها، بالإضافة لموهبتها في التمثيل والغناء فقد قامت بتأليف عدد من الأعمال وكان العمل الأول الذي قامت بكتابته وتأليفه مسلسل «دنيا» وهو العمل الذي قامت ببطولته أيضًا ولقبت بشخصية المسلسل «دنيا أسعد سعيد»، وهي عضو في «نقابة الفنانين السوريون» منذ عام 1991.

قدمت العديد من اللوحات الاستعراضية وأهمها في حفل افتتاح «مهرجان دمشق السينمائي» في عام 1996 بمناسبة مئوية السينما من إخراج جمال سليمان، وأغنية «غزالة» التي قدمتها في إحدى دورات مهرجان الأغنية السورية.

المراجع

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%84_%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%A9

بهيجة حافظ

بهيجة حافظ (4 أغسطس 1908 - 13 ديسمبر 1983)، ممثلة ومخرجة وكاتبة مصرية. هي أول امرأة قامت بتأليف الموسيقى التصويرية للأفلام في السينما المصرية. وكانت من أوائل الرائدات في صناعة السينما وأكثرهن تثقيفًا. هي ابنة إسماعيل باشا حافظ الذي كان ناظراً للخاصة السلطانية في عهد السلطان حسين كامل وكان إسماعيل صدقي رئيس وزراء مصر في عهد الملك فؤاد الاول من أقربائها. ولدت بحي محرم بك بالإسكندرية ودرست في مدرسة الفرنسيسكان ومدرسة الميردي ديو. ثم سافرت إلى فرنسا عندما كان عمرها 15 عامًا وحصلت على شهادة جامعية من الكونسرفتوار في الموسيقى عام 1930. لم يقتصر عملها في الاخراج والتمثيل وتأليف الموسيقى فقط، ولكنها عملت ايضًا في مجال المونتاج وتصميم الأزياء السينمائية و الكتابة.

ولدت الفنانة "بهيجة حافظ" في 4 أغسطس عام 1908 في الإسكندرية وتعلمت هناك، ودرست الموسيقى في باريس. و"بهيجة حافظ" هي ابنة إسماعيل محمد حافظ باشا. كانت من عائلة موسيقية فقد كان والدها "إسماعيل حافظ باشا" هاوياً للموسيقى، وقد مارس تأليف الأغاني وتلحينها، وكان يعزف على العود، والقانون، والرق، والبيانو. وكانت والدتها تعزف على الكمان والفيولنسيل، بينما أخوتها يعزفون على الآلات المختلفة، أما بهيجة فكانت تعزف على البيانو.

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https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A9_%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8

John Tortorella

John Tortorella

John Robert Tortorella[1] (born June 24, 1958) is an American professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the head coach for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). Tortorella was previously the head coach of the New York Rangers, the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Vancouver Canucks; he led Tampa Bay to the 2004 Stanley Cup championship. 

He is the first American-born NHL coach to reach 500 wins, and has twice won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's top coach.

Tortorella is well-known for his outspoken and sometimes confrontational nature, which has included criticizing his own players as well as media members. 

Tortorella attended Concord-Carlisle High School in Concord, Massachusetts, and he is listed on the school's athletic Hall of Fame wall (1976). He also attended the University of Maine, graduating in 1981.  John's brother Jim Tortorella, a goaltender, is also listed on the wall.

Tortorella, nicknamed "The Paper Italian",  played right wing for three years (1978–1981) at the University of Maine. While at Maine, he played with his brother Jim, who now serves as a men's assistant coach for the Providence Friars. After college Tortorella went to Sweden to play a year in Kristianstads IK (1981–1982), after which he came back to the United States to play four years of minor pro hockey (1982–1986) in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League (ACHL). During these years he skated with the Hampton Roads Gulls, Erie Golden Blades, Nashville South Stars and the Virginia Lancers. 

During his days in the ACHL, Tortorella briefly played with Oren Koules while with the Hampton Roads Gulls. The two later reunited in Tampa Bay, as Tortorella was the coach and Koules was one of the new owners of the Lightning. He never played a game in the NHL

Reference

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

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart

Martha Helen Stewart (née Kostyra; Polish pronunciation: [kɔ'stɨra]; born August 3, 1941) is an American retail businesswoman, writer, television personality, and former model. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, merchandising and e-commerce. She has written numerous bestselling books, is the publisher of Martha Stewart Living magazine and hosted two syndicated television programs: Martha Stewart Living, which ran from 1993 to 2004, and Martha, which ran from 2005 to 2012.

In 2004, Stewart was convicted of charges related to the ImClone stock trading case. There was speculation that the incident would effectively end her media empire,  but in 2005 Stewart began a comeback campaign  and her company returned to profitability in 2006. Stewart rejoined the board of directors of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in 2011  and became chairwoman of her namesake company again in 2012. The company was acquired by Sequential Brands in 2015. 

Martha Stewart was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on August 3, 1941. She is the second of six children born to middle-class parents, Edward Kostyra (1912–1979) and Martha Ruszkowski Kostyra (1914–2007), and is of entirely Polish heritage.  When Stewart was three years old, the family moved to Nutley, New Jersey.  She adopted the name "Grace" for her Catholic confirmation name. 

When Stewart was 10, she worked as the occasional babysitter for the children of Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Gil McDougald, all players for the New York Yankees.  Mickey and Merlyn Mantle had four sons, for whom Stewart watched and organized birthday parties.  She also began modeling. At 15, Stewart was featured in a television commercial for Unilever.  She went on to appear in television commercials and in magazines, including one of Tareyton's "Smokers would rather fight than switch!" cigarette advertisements. During her college years, she supplemented her scholarship money through "modeling jobs at $50/hour — which was a lot of money at that time."  Her clients included Chanel. 

Stewart's mother taught her how to cook and sew.  Later, she learned the processes of canning and preserving when she visited her grandparents' home in Buffalo, New York.  Her father had a passion for gardening and passed on much of his knowledge and expertise to his daughter.  Stewart was also active in many extracurricular activities, such as the school newspaper and the Art Club. 

Stewart graduated from Nutley High School. She attended Barnard College of Columbia University, originally planning to major in chemistry, but switching to art, history, and later architectural history. To help pay her college tuition, she did fashion modeling for Chanel.  During this time, she met Andrew Stewart, who finished his law degree at Yale Law School.  They married in July 1961.  She returned to Barnard a year after their marriage to graduate with a double major in history and architectural history

Reference

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

Civic Holiday

Civic Holiday

Civic Holiday is the most widely used name for a public holiday celebrated in most of Canada on the first Monday in August,  though it is officially known by that term only by the governments of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories where it is a territorial statutory holiday. The name "Civic" is in reference to municipalities (such as cities, towns, etc.) as this day is not legislatively mandated a public holiday across the country by the Canadian federal government and is often given a different, more specific name by some municipalities.

The holiday is known by a variety of names in other provinces and municipalities, including British Columbia Day in British Columbia, New Brunswick Day in New Brunswick, and Saskatchewan Day in Saskatchewan, where the day is a provincial statutory holiday across each province. The holiday is celebrated as Natal Day in Nova Scotia,  in commemoration of the founding of the Halifax–Dartmouth area, and Terry Fox Day in Manitoba, in honour of the nationally renowned Manitoba-born athlete.  Despite its special designations in Nova Scotia and Manitoba, the day is not a statutory holiday in those provinces, nor in Prince Edward Island.

Other than in Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and British Columbia, civic holidays are not considered Statutory Holidays but rather public holidays. Most businesses still chose to close and award employees the day off.

In 1974 the Government of Alberta, acting through Minister of Culture Dr. Horst A. Schmid, declared the first Monday in August an annual holiday to recognize and celebrate the varied cultural heritage of Albertans, known as "Heritage Day". This gave rise in 1976 to the Edmonton Heritage Festival, a three-day celebration of food, dance, and handicrafts of cultures from around the world. Heritage Day is a statutory holiday.

Reference

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

نيكي بيلا

نيكي بيلا

ستيفاني نيكول غارسيا-كولس (بالإنجليزية: Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace؛ مواليد 21 نوفمبر 1983) هي عارضة أزياء أمريكية ومُصارِعة محترفة تُعرف باسم نيكي بيلا (بالإنجليزية: Nikki Bella)‏ ولها شقيقتها التوأم بري بيلا يشار إليهما مجتمعتين بالتوأم بيلا أو (ذا بيلا توينز)، تعملان لصالح دبليو دبليو إي.

قبل أن تتم ترقيتهما وضمهما إلى الطاقم الرئيسي في الWWE تصارعتا في بطولة المصارعة بفلوريدا، حيث تم تدريبهم من قبل توم بريتشارد. وكانتا تتنافسان بشكل تاغ تيم بصورة رئيسية.بري ظهرت أول مرة على سماك داون في أغسطس 2008، هي ظهرت أولاً قبل نيكي. وكجزء من أعمال شخصيتها في برنامج المصارعة كانت تختفي تحت الحلبة أثناء المباراة وتعود لتظهر من جديد وبحيوية. وفي نهاية المطاف تم اكتشاف إنها كانت تبدل الأماكن مع توأمها نيكي وذلك سعياً للأفضلية على الخصم. ثم بدئتا بالتنافس على شكل تاج تيم.

وقعت عقود تنموية من قبل المصارعة العالمية للترفيه (WWE) في يونيو 2007 وتم تعيينها بالمصارعة الحرة بفلوريدا(FCW).وفي 15 سبتمبر، ظهرت لأول مرة عام 2007 في FCW، تحت اسم نيكي بيلا وبرى بيلا، بفوزه على ناتاليا نيدهارت وكريسي فين بوجود فيكتوريا كراوفورد، أليشا فوكس كضيف حكم خاص.الثنائي سرعان ما دخلا في سيناريو من شجار ومنافسة مع نيدهارت وكراوفورد، وكان لهما سلسلة من المباريات ضدهما طوال أكتوبر عام 2007. كجزء من شخصيتهما على الشاشة كانتا تتبادلا الأماكن إذا كانت إحداهما قد أُصيبت أثناء المباراة. أيضاً كانتا احياناً تشكلا جزء من أفرقة ثنائية مختلطة، حيث كان التوأم ينضم إلى الذكور لتشكيل أفرقة ثنائية بما في ذلك كوفي كينغستون وروبرت أنتوني.

المراجع

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7

Nikki Bella

Nikki Bella

Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace  (born November 21, 1983) is an American retired professional wrestler signed to WWE under the ring name Nikki Bella.  In June 2007, Bella signed with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and was assigned to developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) alongside her twin sister Brie Bella, forming the duo The Bella Twins.  She made her debut on SmackDown in November 2008.  Bella is a two-time WWE Divas Champion and holds the record for the longest reign with that title. 

Bella ranked No. 1 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Female 50 in November 2015,  and was named Diva of the Year by Rolling Stone in December 2015.   She also won the award for Choice Female Athlete alongside her sister at the Teen Choice Awards in 2016. 

Born sixteen minutes before her twin sister, Brianna, to parents Jon Garcia and Kathy Colace,  Garcia-Colace was born in San Diego, California, and raised on a farm in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona. She is of Mexican and Italian descent.  Keen soccer enthusiasts, she along with her twin sister played for the Scottsdale club in elementary school. She graduated from Chaparral High School in 2002.  She then returned to San Diego for college where she played soccer for Grossmont College,  but relocated to Los Angeles a year later, where she worked as a waitress at the Mondrian Hotel while trying to find an agent 

She then started modeling, acting, and doing promotional work.  She made her first national TV appearance on the Fox reality show Meet My Folks.  Following this appearance, the Garcia twins were hired to be the World Cup Twins for Budweiser and were photographed holding the World Cup trophy.  Nikki and her sister Brie were contestants in the 2006 "International Body Doubles twins search". Nikki and Brie later participated in the 2006 WWE Diva Search, but they did not make the cut. 

Reference

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