Paul Mescal

Paul Mescal

Paul Mescal (born 2 February 1996) is an Irish actor who made his debut in theatre. He starred as Connell in the Hulu and BBC Three series Normal People in 2020, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Mescal was born and reared in Maynooth, County Kildare to parents Dearbhla, a Garda, and Paul, a schoolteacher who also acted semi-professionally. 

Mescal was an under-21 Gaelic footballer for Kildare and was a member of the Maynooth club.  Former Tipperary and Kildare Gaelic footballer Brian Lacey praised his skills as a defender.  His former county minor manager Brendan Hackett had Mescal down as a centre-back who would match Glenn Ryan, while Cian O'Neill described Mescal as "mature beyond his years for someone that young. Physically, he was very developed and very strong, he was strong in the tackle and a tight marker" and said Mescal reminded him of Paul Dempsey. He gave up the sport after a jaw injury. 

Mescal graduated BA in Acting from The Lir Academy at Trinity College Dublin in 2017. 

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

فران توريس

فران توريس

فران توريس (بالإسبانية: Ferrán Torres)‏ (29 فبراير 2000 في إسبانيا - ) هو لاعب كرة قدم إسباني في مركز الهجوم. لعب مع نادي فالنسيا.

مراجع

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3

Ferran Torres

Ferran Torres

Ferran Torres García (Valencian pronunciation: [fəˈran ˈtorez]; born 29 February 2000) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Valencia as a right winger. He has represented Spain internationally at U17, U19, and U21 youth levels.

Born in Foios, Horta Nord, Valencian Community, Torres joined Valencia CF's youth setup in 2006, aged six. On 15 October 2016, while still a junior, he made his senior debut with the reserves by coming on as a substitute for Grego Sierra in a 0–2 Segunda División B home loss against Mallorca B. 

Torres was definitely promoted to the B-side ahead of the 2017–18 campaign, and scored his first senior goal on 26 August 2017 by netting his team's second in a 4–1 home routing of Peralada-Girona B.   On 5 October, after being strongly linked to FC Barcelona and Real Madrid,   he renewed his contract, which increased his release clause to €25 million. He was also promoted to the first team on 1 January 2018. 

Torres made his first team debut on 30 November 2017, replacing fellow youth graduate Nacho Gil in a 4–1 home routing of Real Zaragoza, for the season's Copa del Rey.  He made his La Liga debut on 16 December, playing the last nine minutes in a 1–2 loss at Eibar, becoming the first player born in the 2000s to play in the league.  Torres made his European and Champions League debut on 23 October 2018, starting in a 1–1 draw against Young Boys.  He scored his first La Liga goal on 19 January 2019, ten minutes after coming on as a substitute in a 2–1 victory against Celta Vigo.  He remained on the bench as Valencia defeated Barcelona 2–1 in the 2019 Copa del Rey Final at the Estadio Benito Villamarín in Seville, on 25 May  

On 5 November 2019, Torres scored his first Champions League goal, netting his team's last goal in a 4–1 home win against Lille,  becoming Valencia's youngest goalscorer in the competition's history  as well as the first player born in 2000 from Spanish teams to score in Champions League.[14] On 23 November 2019, Torres marked his 50th appearance in La Liga for Valencia with a 1–2 away defeat against Real Betis, becoming the youngest Los Ches player to play 50 league games at the age of 19 years and 324 days, breaking 40-year old record of Miguel Tendillo (19 years and 351 days). 

Reference

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

ستونهنج

ستونهنج

ستونهنج (بالإنجليزية: Stonehenge)‏ هو أثر صخري من نوع كرومليش يرجع لعصر ما قبل التاريخ في سهل ساليسبري بمقاطعة ويلتشير جنوب غرب إنجلترا. يرجع تاريخه لأواخر العصر الحجري وأوائل العصر البرونزي (3000 ق.م. –1000 ق.م.). وهذا الأثر رغم شهرته حالياً أصبح أطلالاً. ويتكون من مجموعة دائرية من أحجار كبيرة قائمة محاطة بتل ترابي دائري. ويعتبر ستونهنج من أكثر الأثار الحجرية الضخمة شهرةً وحفاظاً في أوروبا. ضمت اليونسكو ستونهنج وفبوري والموقع المحيط في عام 1986 إلى قائمة التراث الثقافي العالمي.

حتي الآن لايعرف مايرمز إليه ولكن البعض يحدس أنه كان مركزاً احتفالياً أو دينياً، وحاليا يعتقدأن شعب جزر بريطانيا قد بدؤوا يشيدون هذا الأثر منذ 5000 سنة، وقد بينت الحفريات أن موقع ستونهنج قد بني علي ثلاث مراحل رئيسية:

المرحلة الأولى : تمت عام 2900 ق.م. وكانت عبارة عن خندق دائري قطره 110 متر وعمقه واحد ونصف متر. وعلي حافة الخندق الدخلية بني سد به تجاويف عددها 56 تجويفا.ويقال أنها كانت لحمل أعمدة خشبية.

المرحلة الثانية : البناء التي استمرت من سنة 2900 ق.م. –2500 ق.م. أقيمت مبان خشبية حيث أقيمت أعمدة خشبية جديدة قائمة في الأرض المستوية داخل مركز الخندق الدائري. كمانصبت أعمدة في منطقة منزوية شمالي شرق الخندق حيث مدخل الموقع.

المرحلة الثالثة : نقلت الأعمدة للبناء التي استمرت حوالي 2550 ق.م. – 1600 ق.م. وتتكون من 80 عمود من صخور بركانية زرقاء.

وهذه الأعمدة نصبت قرب مركز الموقع على شكل دائرتين متداخلتين. وكل صخرة تزن 4 طن متري.وأثناء هذه المرحلة كانت الحجارة الزرقاء بالدائرتين يعاد تفكيكها وترتيبها بطريقة معقدة. وكانت حجارة رملية كبيرة قد جلبت يطلق عليها سارسين قد نصبت على شكل دائرة قطرها 33 متر وتتكون من 30 عمود حجري على بعد 40 كم من شمال الموقع. ويطلق عليها نصب دائرة سارسين وكل عمود ارتفاعه 4 متر. وفوق قمم الحجارة الثلاثين دائرة منتظمة من حجارة سارسين يطلق عليها العتبات. ومثبتة بطريقة عاشق ومعشوق (لسان في تجويف بالنقر).

مراجع

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AC

Stonehenge

Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli (burial mounds). 

Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the first bluestones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC,  although they may have been at the site as early as 3000 BC. 

One of the most famous landmarks in the United Kingdom, Stonehenge is regarded as a British cultural icon. It has been a legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument since 1882, when legislation to protect historic monuments was first successfully introduced in Britain. The site and its surroundings were added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986. Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage; the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.  

Stonehenge could have been a burial ground from its earliest beginnings.  Deposits containing human bone date from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug, and continued for at least another 500 years. 

The Oxford English Dictionary cites Ælfric's tenth-century glossary, in which henge-cliff is given the meaning "precipice", or stone; thus, the stanenges or Stanheng "not far from Salisbury" recorded by eleventh-century writers are "stones supported in the air". In 1740 William Stukeley notes, "Pendulous rocks are now called henges in Yorkshire...I doubt not, Stonehenge in Saxon signifies the hanging stones." Christopher Chippindale's Stonehenge Complete gives the derivation of the name Stonehenge as coming from the Old English words stān meaning "stone", and either hencg meaning "hinge" (because the stone lintels hinge on the upright stones) or hen(c)en meaning "to hang" or "gallows" or "instrument of torture" (though elsewhere in his book, Chippindale cites the "suspended stones" etymology). Like Stonehenge's trilithons, medieval gallows consisted of two uprights with a lintel joining them, rather than the inverted L-shape more familiar today.

The "henge" portion has given its name to a class of monuments known as henges  Archaeologists define henges as earthworks consisting of a circular banked enclosure with an internal ditch.  As often happens in archaeological terminology, this is a holdover from antiquarian use. Because its bank is inside its ditch, Stonehenge is not truly a henge site.

Despite being contemporary with true Neolithic henges and stone circles, Stonehenge is in many ways atypical—for example, at more than 24 feet (7.3 m) tall, its extant trilithons' lintels, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, make it unique 

Reference

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

Andi Peters

Andi Peters

Andrew Peters (born 29 July 1970),  known professionally as Andi Peters, is a British television presenter, producer, journalist and voice actor, currently employed by ITV and best known for roles on breakfast TV shows Live & Kicking, GMTV, Good Morning Britain and Lorraine, and for hosting Dancing on Ice: Extra and The Big Reunion. He competed in the first series of the ITV skating competition Dancing on Ice. He is of British Jamaican descent.

During his early television career, Andi Peters worked for ITV as an in-vision continuity announcer for Thames Television. 

In 1989 has was taken on by the BBC as a presenter on Children's BBC for The Broom Cupboard, appearing alongside Phillip Schofield and Andy Crane. Peters was accompanied by a hand puppet with a green mohican called Edd the Duck. Peters hosted The Broom Cupboard for just over four years, leaving in 1993.  He went on to present the BBC Children's television programme Live & Kicking with Emma Forbes and John Barrowman. 

Subsequently, Peters went on to work at LWT and then for Channel 4 Television as commissioning editor for youth and children's programmes. Among his TV producer credits are The Noise (ITV), The O-Zone (BBC), Top of the Pops (BBC) and Shipwrecked (Channel 4). 

Since 2013, Peters has been narrating the ITV2 reality series The Big Reunion, which shows the reunions of pop groups. 

He appeared in the ITV daytime show Show Me the Telly a number of times towards the end of 2013. Since 28 April 2014, Peters has hosted competitions on the breakfast news programme Good Morning Britain, and also the ITV daytime game show Ejector Seat, which aired for a very short period in 2014 as a temporary replacement for Tipping Point 

He stars on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway as a competition presenter.

Reference

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

Princess Anne

Princess Anne

Anne, Princess Royal, KG, KT, GCVO, GCStJ, QSO, CD  (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950) is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She is 14th in line to the throne as of August 2019  and has been Princess Royal since 1987. 

Anne is known for her high-profile charity work, which involves her patronage to more than 200 organisations. In her youth, Anne was known for her equestrian talents: she won two silver medals (1975) and one gold medal (1971) at the European Eventing Championships.  She is the first member of the British royal family to have competed in the Olympic Games.

In 1973, Anne married Captain Mark Phillips, but they separated in 1989 and divorced in 1992. The couple had two children and four grandchildren. Within months of her divorce, Anne married Commander (now Vice Admiral) Sir Timothy Laurence, whom she had met while he served as her mother's equerry between 1986 and 1989.

Anne was born during the reign of her maternal grandfather, King George VI, at Clarence House on 15 August 1950 at 11:50 am, as the second child and only daughter of Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. A 21-gun salute in Hyde Park signalled the birth.  Anne was baptised in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace on 21 October 1950, by Archbishop of York, Cyril Garbett. 

At the time of her birth, she was third in the line of succession to the British throne, behind her mother – at that time Princess Elizabeth – and older brother, Charles. She rose to second after her mother's accession but is 14th in line as of August 2019. 

A governess, Catherine Peebles, was appointed to look after Anne and was responsible for her early education at Buckingham Palace;  Peebles also served as early governess for Anne's older brother, Charles. After the death of George VI in February 1952, Anne's mother ascended the throne as Queen Elizabeth II. Given her young age at the time, Anne did not attend the coronation in June 1953.

A Girl Guides company, the 1st Buckingham Palace Company to include the Holy Trinity Brompton Brownie pack, was re-formed in May 1959, specifically so that, as her mother and aunt had done as children, Anne could socialise with girls her own age. The Company was active until 1963, when Anne went to boarding school.  Anne enrolled at Benenden School in 1963. In 1968, she left school with six GCE O-Levels and two A-Levels. 

In the next couple of years, Anne started dating. In 1970, her first boyfriend was Andrew Parker Bowles, who later married Camilla Shand. (Shand much later married Anne's brother, Prince Charles, as his second wife.) 

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Princess_Royal