Piers Morgan

Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (/pɪərs/; né O'Meara; born 30 March 1965) is an English broadcaster, journalist, writer, and television personality. He is currently a co-presenter of the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain from Monday to Wednesday each week.

Morgan began his career in Fleet Street as a writer and editor for several tabloid papers, including The Sun, News of the World, and the Daily Mirror. In 1994, aged 29, he was appointed editor of the News of the World by Rupert Murdoch, which made him the youngest editor of a British national newspaper in more than half a century.  On television, he hosted Piers Morgan Live on CNN from 2011 to 2014, replacing Larry King Live in the timeslot following King's retirement.  He was a judge on America's Got Talent and Britain's Got Talent.  In 2008, Morgan won the seventh season of the US Celebrity Apprentice.  In the UK, he has presented Piers Morgan's Life Stories since 2009, and Good Morning Britain since 2015.  Morgan has written eight books, including four volumes of memoirs.

While working at Daily Mirror, he was in charge during the period that the paper was implicated in the phone hacking scandal. In 2011, Morgan denied having ever hacked a phone or "to my knowledge published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone". In 2012, he was criticised in the findings of the Leveson Inquiry by chair Brian Leveson who stated that comments made in Morgan's testimony about phone hacking were "utterly unpersuasive" and "that he was aware that it was taking place in the press as a whole and that he was sufficiently unembarrassed by what was criminal behaviour that he was prepared to joke about it". 

Morgan was born Piers Stefan O'Meara on 30 March 1965 in Surrey, the son of Vincent Eamonn O'Meara, an Irish dentist from County Offaly,  and Gabrielle Georgina Sybille (née Oliver),  an English woman who raised Morgan Catholic.  With regard to his religious views, Morgan still identifies as a Catholic due to his mother's influence, and believes in an afterlife, but does not "go to Confession, probably because it would take [him] too long".  He has a brother, Jeremy, who is older than him by two years.  A few months after his birth, the family moved to Newick, East Sussex.  His father died when Morgan was 11 months old; his mother later married Glynne Pughe-Morgan,   a Welsh pub landlord who later worked in the meat distribution business, and he took his stepfather's surname.  He was educated at the independent Cumnor House prep school between the ages of seven and 13, then Chailey School, a comprehensive secondary school in Chailey.   After nine months at Lloyd's of London, Morgan studied journalism at Harlow College  Morgan joined the Surrey and South London Newspaper Group in 1985.

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

 John Michie

John Michie (born 25 October 1956) is a Scottish television and film actor, known for his roles as DI Robbie Ross in the STV detective drama series Taggart, as Karl Munro in Coronation Street from 2011–2013 and his role as CEO Guy Self in Casualty and Holby City.

Michie was born in Burma and boarded at Windlesham House School while his family were based in Kenya. The family later settled in Edinburgh, where was sent to study at Glenalmond College from the age of twelve. At the age of nineteen, he worked his passage to Australia on a cargo ship, where he spent a year as a jackaroo herding cattle before returning to Scotland. He took a job as a stagehand at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, where his interest in acting started. He returned to Kenya when he was 22, beginning his acting career in A Private Matter at the Donovan Maule Theatre, Nairobi in 1980.

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

 بن كروس

بن كروس (بالإنجليزية: Ben Cross)‏ هو ممثل بريطاني، ولد في 16 ديسمبر 1947 بلندن في المملكة المتحدة.

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 Ben Cross

Harry Bernard Cross (16 December 1947 – 18 August 2020), known professionally as Ben Cross, was an English stage and film actor, best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire and as Sarek in the 2009 film Star Trek.

Cross was born Harry Bernard Cross in London, to a working class family.  His mother was a cleaning woman and his father a doorman and nurse. He was raised Catholic, and had English and Irish ancestry.  Cross was educated at Bishop Thomas Grant Comprehensive School in Streatham, South London. 

Cross initially worked in manual jobs, including work as a window cleaner, waiter, and joiner. He worked as a carpenter for the Welsh National Opera, and was the Property Master at The Alexandra in Birmingham.

In 1970 at the age of 22, he was accepted into London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), but later expressed little interest in pursuing the classical route. 

After graduating from RADA, Cross performed in several stage plays at The Dukes, Lancaster where he was seen in Macbeth, The Importance of Being Earnest and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. He then joined the Prospect Theatre Company and played roles in Pericles, Twelfth Night, and The Royal Hunt of the Sun. Cross also joined the cast of the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and played leading roles in Sir Peter Shaffer's Equus, Mind Your Head, and the musical Irma la Douce – all at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre.

Cross's first big screen film appearance came in 1976 when he went on location to Deventer, Netherlands, to play Trooper Binns in Joseph E. Levine's World War II epic A Bridge Too Far which starred an international cast, including Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery, Michael Caine and James Caan.

In 1977, Cross became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed in the premiere of Privates on Parade as "Kevin Cartwright" and played Rover in a revival of a Restoration play titled Wild Oats. Cross's path to international stardom began in 1978 with his performance in the play Chicago, in which he played Billy Flynn, the slick lawyer of murderess Roxie Hart.

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

 Mali

officially the Republic of Mali (French: République du Mali; Bambara: Mali ka Fasojamana; N'Ko script: ߡߊߟߌ ߞߊ ߝߊߛߏߖߊߡߊߣߊ), is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of just over 1,240,000 square kilometres (480,000 sq mi). The population of Mali is 19.1 million.  67% of its population was estimated to be under the age of 25 in 2017.  Its capital is Bamako. The sovereign state of Mali consists of eight regions and its borders on the north reach deep into the middle of the Sahara Desert, while the country's southern part, where the majority of inhabitants live, features the Niger and Senegal rivers. The country's economy centers on agriculture and mining. Some of Mali's prominent natural resources include gold, being the third largest producer of gold in the African continent,  and salt. 

Present-day Mali was once part of three West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire (for which Ghana is named), the Mali Empire (for which Mali is named), and the Songhai Empire. During its golden age, there was a flourishing of mathematics, astronomy, literature, and art.  At its peak in 1300, the Mali Empire covered an area about twice the size of modern-day France and stretched to the west coast of Africa. In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan. French Sudan (then known as the Sudanese Republic) joined with Senegal in 1959, achieving independence in 1960 as the Mali Federation. Shortly thereafter, following Senegal's withdrawal from the federation, the Sudanese Republic declared itself the independent Republic of Mali. After a long period of one-party rule, a coup in 1991 led to the writing of a new constitution and the establishment of Mali as a democratic, multi-party state.

In January 2012, an armed conflict broke out in northern Mali, in which Tuareg rebels took control of a territory in the north, and in April declared the secession of a new state, Azawad.  The conflict was complicated by a military coup that took place in March  and later fighting between Tuareg and other rebel factions. In response to territorial gains, the French military launched Opération Serval in January 2013.  A month later, Malian and French forces recaptured most of the north. Presidential elections were held on 28 July 2013, with a second-round run-off held on 11 August, and legislative elections were held on 24 November and 15 December 2013.

A coup d’etat is currently taking place in Mali. On August 18, 2020, the nation’s president and prime minister were arrested by the military following a mutiny spawned on by protests over continuing economic woes and a worsening national security situation, and the following day both resigned.

The name Mali is taken from the name of the Mali Empire. The name means "the place where the king lives"  and carries a connotation of strength. 

Guinean writer Djibril Niane suggests in Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (1965) that it is not impossible that Mali was the name given to one of the capitals of the emperors. 14th-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta reported that the capital of the Mali Empire was called Mali.  One Mandinka tradition tells that the legendary first emperor Sundiata Keita changed himself into a hippopotamus upon his death in the Sankarani River and that it's possible to find villages in the area of this river, termed "old Mali", which have Mali for a name. A study of Malian proverbs noted that in old Mali, there is a village called Malikoma, which means "New Mali", and that Mali could have formerly been the name of a city. 

Another theory suggests that Mali is a Fulani pronunciation of the name of the Mande peoples.  It is suggested that a sound shift led to the change, whereby in Fulani the alveolar segment /nd/ shifts to /l/ and the terminal vowel denasalises and raises, leading "Manden" to shift to /mali/

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

 إمينيم

مارشال بروس ماذرز الثالث (بالإنجليزية: Marshall Bruce Mathers III)‏، والمعروف فنيا باسم إمينيم (بالإنجليزية: Eminem)‏، (من مواليد 17 أكتوبر 1972؛ في سانت جوزيف (ميزوري)، الولايات المتحدة –) هو رابر، ومنتج أفلام، وملحن، وممثل، وكاتب سير ذاتية، وكاتب أغاني، ورجل أعمال، ومقدم برامج إذاعية، ومنتج أغاني أمريكي. اشتهر بمهارته في السجع وقدرته علي تغيير سرعته الشفوية، بحيث يؤقت أسلوبه ضمن الأغنية الواحدة دون أن يفشل في التوافق مع الإيقاع. مما مكنه من الحصول علي الكثير من الاحترام والتنويه من قبل زملائه، ومحبي أغاني الهيب هوب، ومعجبيه لمواهبه وتفانيه وعمله الجاد والمُتقن.

تعدت مبيعاته 160000000 ألبوم، 50000000 ألبوم منها في الولايات المتحدة وحدها فقط. يُعتبر إمينيم من أفضل مغني الراب مبيعا خلال العقد الماضي {عقد 2000} في العالم علي الإطلاق، حيث صنفته مجلة رولينغ ستون في المرتبة 83 ضمن قائمة أعظم الفنانين في التاريخ، كما أطلقت عليه سنة 2011 لقب ملك الراب بسبب الإنجازات التي حققها.

وخلال مشواره الفني حاز إمينيم علي أكثر من 244 جائزة و360 ترشيحاً، أبرزها جائزة الأوسكار لأفضل أغنية أصلية، 15 جائزة غرامي، 17 جائزة بيلبورد الموسيقية، 12 جائزة إم تي في الأغاني المصورة، 10 جوائز الموسيقى الأمريكية، 4 جوائز بريت وغيرها. ليكون بذلك أول وأكثر مغني راب فوزا علي الإطلاق. كما شكل إمينيم مع مكتشفه مغني الراب ومنتج الأغاني الأمريكي دكتور دري ثنائي ناجح فتح له باب الشهرة بمصراعيه في وقت قصير.

قوبل نجاحه الساحق وأسلوبه اللاذع في كلماته وكليباته الساخرة من بعض النجوم بوابل من الانتقادات من قبلهم ومن قبل العديد من المنظمات الحقوقية، أبزرها منظمة جلاد (منظمة تحالف المثليين والمثليات ضد التشهير)، خصوصا منذ إطلاقه لألبوم ذا مارشال ماذرز إل بي في يونيو 2000 الذي رد فيه علي كل من انتقده، ورشحه لأربعة جوائز غرامي، من بينها جائزة أفضل ألبوم في السنة. وبينما كان يتفادي تدخل أغانيه بالسياسة، أصدر إمينيم أغنية "موش"، والتي انتقد فيها الرئيس جورج دبليو بوش بقسوة وصلت لحد إهانة الرئيس بكلمات نابية، وكان ذلك في أواخر 2004 قبل الانتخابات الرئاسية. أصدر ألبومه إنكور في وقت لاحق من ذلك العام، ثم أصدر ألبومين علي التوالي وهما نداء الستائر: ذا هيتس؛ وهو عبارة عن مجموعة من أنجح أغانيه، وإمينيم يقدم: ذا ري-أب الذي يُعتبر مجموعة من الريمكسات وأغاني لمغنيين آخرين في بداية طريقهم إلي الفن.

ولد مارشال بروس ماذرز الثالث المعروف باسم إمينيم في 17 أكتوبر 1972، في سانت جوزيف، كانساس سيتي (ميزوري)، حيث يعد الطفل الوحيد لدي "مارشال بروس ماذرز جونيور" (مواليد 30 يونيو 1951، والمعروف باسم "بروس"، توفي في 26 يونيو 2019) و"ديبورا راي نيلسون" (مواليد 6 يناير 1955، والمعروفة باسم "ديبي"). كانت والدة إمينيم "ديبي" في 14 من العمر عندما التقت بوالده "بروس" البالغ من العمر 18 عاما أنذاك، وفي سن السابعة عشر أنجبت "ديبي" ابنها، بعد أن نجت بأعجوبة من الموت أثناء الولادة.

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 Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (/ˌɛmɪˈnɛm/; often stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Credited with popularizing hip hop in Middle America, Eminem's global success and acclaimed works are widely regarded as having broken racial barriers for the acceptance of white rappers in popular music. While much of his transgressive work during the early 2000s made him hugely controversial, he came to be a representation of popular angst and the American underclass. He has been influential for many artists of various genres and is often cited as one of the greatest rappers of all time. 

After his debut album Infinite (1996) and the extended play Slim Shady EP (1997), Eminem signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with The Slim Shady LP. His next two releases The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and The Eminem Show (2002) were worldwide successes and were both nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. After the release of what was considered to be his final album, Encore (2004), Eminem went on hiatus in 2005 partly due to a prescription drug addiction.  He returned to the music industry four years later with the release of Relapse (2009), and Recovery was released the following year. Recovery was the best-selling album worldwide of 2010, making it Eminem's second album, after The Eminem Show in 2002, to be the best-selling album of the year worldwide. In the following years, he released the US number one albums The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Revival, Kamikaze and Music to Be Murdered By.

Eminem made his debut in the motion picture industry with the musical drama film 8 Mile (2002), playing a fictionalized version of himself, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Lose Yourself", making him the first hip hop artist to ever win the award.[5] He has made cameo appearances in the films The Wash (2001), Funny People (2009), and The Interview (2014), and the television series Entourage (2010). Eminem has developed other ventures, including Shady Records, with manager Paul Rosenberg, which helped launch the careers of artists such as 50 Cent, Yelawolf and Obie Trice, among others. He has also established his own channel, Shade 45, on Sirius XM Radio. In addition to his solo career, Eminem was a member of the hip hop group D12. He is also known for collaborations with fellow Detroit-based rapper Royce da 5'9"; the two are collectively known as Bad Meets Evil.

Eminem is among the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated worldwide sales of more than 220 million records. He was the best-selling music artist in the United States of the 2000s and the best-selling male music artist in the United States of the 2010s. Billboard named him the "Artist of the Decade (2000–2009)". The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show, "Lose Yourself", "Love the Way You Lie" and "Not Afraid" have all been certified Diamond or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)  Rolling Stone included him in its lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. He has won numerous awards, including 15 Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, 17 Billboard Music Awards, an Academy Award and a MTV Europe Music Global Icon Award. He has had ten number one albums on the Billboard 200, which all consecutively debuted at number one on the chart making him the only artist to achieve this, and five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100

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