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Lizzie McGuire – You’re Good Man, Lizzie McGuire
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Yet, another thing Jordin Sparks and Nick Jonas have in common — they’re both big fans of former President Ronald Reagan.
So big, in fact, that they’re teaming up to co-chair The National Youth Leadership Committee of the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration.
The committee includes athletes, entertainers and student leaders who are under age 25. They have all been inspired in a personal way by Reagan’s vision and the committee will honor Reagan’s 100th birthday on February 6th.
Pretty cool!
Source: http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2010/08/02/nick-jonas-jordin-sparks-rev-up-for-ronald-reagan
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Whether you like her or not, one thing is for sure: Lady Gaga is one of the biggest music icons of the 21st century.
Because of her incredible outfits, her wild concerts and over-the-top videos, Lady Gaga is well-known all over the world. Some people have even found inspiration in Lady Gaga.
Veil is one example. This Japanese artist has turned sweet Barbie into pop Dive, Lady Gaga.
The artist took a pair of scissors and some glue and careful made these little dolls in Lady Gaga’s image. Some of them are pretty good.
Check them out!
Source: http://www.wambie.com/tuttifrutti_us/photos/LADY_GAGA_OR_BARBIE_DOLL_-photo_en-962.html
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Usain St. Leo Bolt C.D (born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican sprinter. Bolt holds the Olympic and world records for the 100 meters at 9.69 seconds, the 200 meters at 19.30 seconds and, along with his teammates, the 4×100 meters relay at 37.10 seconds, all set at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Bolt became the first man to win all three events at a single Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984, and the first man in history to set world records in all three at a single Olympics. His name and achievements in sprinting have earned him the media nickname “‘Lightning’ Bolt”. At the 2009 Berlin World Championships on Sunday 16 August, he won the 100m final in a new world record time of 9.58 seconds.
The Bugatti Veyron may no longer be the world’s fastest car. Today — following a number of teasers and leaks — Barabus officially unveiled the TKR: a new 1005 horsepower supercar the automaker says is capable of doing zero to 98kph in 1.67 seconds. What’s more, the car reportedly has a top speed of 270 mph — nearly 20 more than the Veyron. Power comes from a 6.0 liter V8 twin-turbocharged with dual intercoolers.
The fastest land animal in the world, the cheetah is a marvel of evolution. Capable of running up to 70 miles per hour, the cheetah’s slender, long-legged body is built for speed. Its spotted coat, small head and ears, and distinctive “tear stripes” from the corner of the eyes down the sides of the nose make the cheetah highly recognizable among the large cats of Africa.
Roadrunner is a supercomputer built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA. Currently the world’s fastest computer, the US$133-million Roadrunner is designed for a peak performance of 1.7 petaflops (1 petaflop = over 10^15/1,000,000,000,000,000/ 1 quadrillion calculations per second!), achieving 1.026 on May 25, 2008, and to be the world’s first TOP500 Linpack sustained 1.0 petaflops system. It is a one-of-a-kind supercomputer, built from off the shelf parts, with many novel design features.
Sailfish are two species of fishes in the genus Istiophorus, living in warmer sections of all the oceans of the world. They are blue to grey in color and have a characteristic erectile dorsal fin known as a sail, which often stretches the entire length of the back. Another notable characteristic is the elongated bill, resembling that of the swordfish and other marlins. Individuals have been clocked at speeds of up to 110 km/h (70 mph), which is the highest speed reliably reported in a fish. If this fish could travel on land, it can easily outrace a driver on a typical freeway. (Imagine the wreckage if this thing crashed…)
Japan has a demonstration line in Yamanashi prefecture where test trains JR-Maglev MLX01 have reached 581 km/h (367 mph), slightly faster than any wheeled trains (the current TGV speed record is 574.8 km/h, 357.0 mph). These trains use superconducting magnets which allow for a larger gap, and repulsive-type electrodynamic suspension (EDS). In comparison Transrapid uses conventional electromagnets and attractive-type electromagnetic suspension (EMS). These “Superconducting Maglev Shinkansen”, developed by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, are currently the fastest trains in the world, achieving a record speed of 581 km/h on December 2, 2003. Yamanashi Prefecture residents (and government officials) can sign up to ride this for free, and some 100,000 have done so already.
The Insano is the highest water slide in the world at 41 meters high, a record listed in the Guinness Book of Records. Its height is equivalent to that of a 14-story building. As a consequence of its height and slope, this water slide provides an extremely rapid descent – taking between four and five seconds – at a speed of 105 km/h (65mph). Because of these characteristics, the Insano is considered the most extreme of this type of equipment on the planet. At the end of the track, the Insano provides you with a relaxing dive into the swimming pool.
K-222, formerly K-162, was the only Papa ever constructed (“Papa” is the western name for the Soviet Union’s Anchar submarine class). It was laid down December 28, 1963, and commissioned on December 31, 1969, at Severodvinsk. It was assigned to the Soviet Northern Fleet for the duration of its career. It was the world’s fastest submarine, reaching a record speed of 44.7 knots on trials. However, that speed came at the price of high costs during construction, and both excessive noise and significant damage to hull features when used.
The North American X-15 rocket-powered aircraft was part of the X-series of experimental aircraft, initiated with the Bell X-1, that were made for the USAF, NASA, and the USN. The X-15 set speed and altitude records in the early 1960s, reaching the edge of outer space and returning with valuable data used in aircraft and spacecraft design. It currently holds the world record for the fastest speed ever reached by a manned aircraft. During the X-15 program, 13 of the flights (by eight pilots) met the USAF spaceflight criteria by exceeding the altitude of 50 miles (80.47 km. 264,000ft.), thus qualifying the pilots for astronaut status; some pilots also qualified for NASA astronaut wings. Its fastest speed recorded is 4,519 mph (7,273 km/h) while manned by pilot Pete Knight.
Keep in mind that the maximum speed a rotor helicopter can reach, in theory, before spinning out of control is just over 250 miles per hour. Now that you know that, at an European air show on August 6, 1986 a Westland Lynx ZB500, that was slightly modified, reached a speed of 249.1 miles per hour or 400.8 km/h, making it the world’s fastest helicopter.
On May 3, 1999 as tornadoes ravaged Oklahoma scientists measured the highest recorded wind speed at about 7:00 p.m. near Moore, Oklahoma. A wind speed of 318 mph was recorded where a tornado killed four people and destroyed 250 homes. The fastest wind measured prior was 286 mph on April 26, 1991 in a tornado near Red Rock, Oklahoma. The 318 mph speed placed the tornado 1 mph below an F6 on the 0 to 6 Fujita scale. No tornado has ever been classified as an F6.
The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the Peregrine, and historically as the “Duck Hawk” in North America, is a cosmopolitan bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is a large, crow-sized falcon, with a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and “moustache”. It can reach speeds over 322 km/h (200 mph) in a dive, making it the fastest animal in the world.
New Horizons is a NASA robotic spacecraft mission currently en route to the planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, and Hydra. New Horizons was launched on 19 January 2006 directly into an Earth-and-solar-escape trajectory. It had an Earth-relative velocity of about 16.26 km/s or 58,536 km/h (10.1 mps or 36,360 mph) after its last engine shut down. Thus, it left Earth at the fastest speed ever recorded. It will arrive at Pluto on 14 July 2015 then continue into the Kuiper belt.
In modern physics, light is regarded as the fastest thing in the universe, and its velocity in empty space as a fundamental constant of nature. The speed of light in a vacuum is presently defined to be exactly 299,792,458 m/s (about 186,282.397 miles per second). That’s basically the fastest thing the human species has ever experienced today. If you travel around the earth’s equator at the speed of light you will travel around the entire planet earth 7.4 times in approximately one second. While we have not been able to discover anything faster, there is speculation about superluminal particles – which leads us to number one on the list:
Tachyons are a putative class of particles which able to travel faster than the speed of light. Tachyons were first proposed by physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, and named by Gerald Feinberg. The word tachyon derives from the Greek tachus, meaning “speedy.” Tachyons have the strange properties that, when they lose energy, they gain speed. Consequently, when tachyons gain energy, they slow down. The slowest speed possible for tachyons is the speed of light.
Source: http://listverse.com/2009/08/16/15-fastest-things-in-the-universe
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Happy Birthday To:
* 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, biographer, art historian and architect (d. 1574)
* 1549 – Ferdinando I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
* 1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
* 1751 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (d. 1829)
* 1763 – Samuel Rogers, English poet (d. 1855)
* 1809 – Charles Chiniquy, Quebec excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899)
* 1818 – Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
* 1818 – Jan Heemskerk, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1897)
* 1825 – Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian inventor, academic and memoirs writer (d. 1893)
* 1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
* 1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929)
* 1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
* 1863 – Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
* 1872 – Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955)
* 1889 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist (d. 1982)
* 1890 – Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d. 1975)
* 1895 – Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
* 1898 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
* 1899 – Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987)
* 1901 – Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
* 1904 – Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
* 1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (d. 1993)
* 1909 – Magda Schneider German actress (d. 1996).
* 1910 – Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)
* 1914 – Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
* 1916 – Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
* 1919 – Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
* 1921 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
* 1922 – Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
* 1925 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984)
* 1925 – Jacques Sernas, French actor
* 1926 – Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
* 1927 – Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (d. 2004)
* 1927 – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
* 1928 – Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
* 1928 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
* 1929 – Sid Krofft, Canadian children’s television producer
* 1933 – Edd Byrnes, American actor
* 1934 – Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball
* 1935 – Ted Rogers, English comedian and game show host (d. 2001)
* 1936 – Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer
* 1936 – Infanta Pilar of Spain
* 1936 – Ralph Taeger, American actor
* 1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician
* 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
* 1940 – Pat Schroeder, American politician
* 1940 – Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor
* 1941 – Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
* 1943 – Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician
* 1945 – Patrick Modiano, French novelist
* 1945 – David Sanborn, American saxophonist
* 1946 – Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
* 1947 – William Atherton, American actor
* 1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder and politician, 38th Governor of California
* 1948 – Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
* 1948 – Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer and pianist (d. 2010)
* 1949 – Duck Baker, American guitarist
* 1950 – Frank Stallone, American singer and actor
* 1951 – Alan Kourie, South African cricketer
* 1954 – Ken Olin, American actor
* 1956 – Delta Burke, American actress
* 1956 – Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1956 – Soraida Martinez, American painter, creator of Verdadism
* 1957 – Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
* 1957 – Bill Cartwright, American basketball player
* 1957 – Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
* 1957 – Rat Scabies, English drummer (The Damned)
* 1958 – Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter
* 1958 – Neal McCoy, American singer-songwriter and humanitarian
* 1958 – Daley Thompson, English decathlete
* 1960 – Richard Linklater, American filmmaker
* 1961 – Laurence Fishburne, American actor
* 1962 – Alton Brown, American television host and chef
* 1962 – Jay Feaster, American National Hockey League executive
* 1963 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress
* 1963 – Chris Mullin, American basketball player
* 1964 – Vivica A. Fox, American actress
* 1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager
* 1964 – Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-born American film director
* 1965 – Tim Munton, England cricketer
* 1966 – Allan Langer, Australian Rugby League Player
* 1968 – Terry Crews, American football player and actor
* 1968 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish racewalker
* 1968 – Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
* 1969 – Simon Baker, Australian actor
* 1969 – Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer
* 1970 – Dean Edwards, American comedian
* 1970 – Christopher Nolan, English film director
* 1971 – Elvis Crespo, Puerto Rican singer
* 1971 – Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
* 1971 – Sagi Kalev, Israeli-born American bodybuilder
* 1971 – Christine Taylor, American actress
* 1973 – Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1973 – Sonu Nigam, Indian singer and actor
* 1974 – Sandra Diaz-Twine, American winner of Survivor: Pearl Islands and Survivor: Heroes vs. Villians
* 1974 – Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer
* 1974 – Jason Robinson, English dual-code rugby player
* 1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress
* 1975 – Graham Nicholls, English artist
* 1975 – Cherie Priest, American writer
* 1977 – Diana Bolocco, Chilean television presenter
* 1977 – James Branaman, American model and reality show contestant (The Amazing Race)
* 1977 – Jaime Pressly, American actress
* 1977 – Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
* 1979 – Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player
* 1979 – Show Luo, Taiwanese singer, television host, dancer and actor
* 1979 – Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
* 1980 – Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
* 1980 – Justin Rose, British golfer
* 1980 – Chuck Thomas, British TV producer and presenter
* 1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
* 1981 – Juan Smith, South African rugby player
* 1982 – James Anderson, English cricketer
* 1982 – Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer
* 1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
* 1983 – Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
* 1984 – Gabrielle Christian, American actress
* 1984 – Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
* 1985 – Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
* 1990 – Coco Sumner, Italy-born English singer-songwriter and guitarist, daughter of Sting
* 1991 – Diana Vickers, English singer and stage actress
* 1999 – Joey King, American actress (Ramona And Beezus, Horton Hears A Who!, Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs)
* 2002 – Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_30
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