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West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club that plays its home matches in Stratford, East London. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club plays at the London Stadium, having moved from their former home, the Boleyn Ground, in 2016. West Ham United was founded in 1895 as ...
Early life and education. Amanpour was born in the West London suburb of Ealing, the daughter of Mohammad Taghi Amanpour (Iranian) and Anne Patricia Hill (British). [1] [4] She was baptized at the Church of Saint Benedict in Ealing and was raised in Tehran until the age of eleven. [5] [6] Her father was Shia Muslim and her mother was Roman ...
While use of the word "purgatory" (in Latin purgatorium, a place of cleansing, from the verb purgo, "to clean, cleanse") as a noun appeared perhaps only between 1160 and 1180,: 362 giving rise to the idea of Purgatory as a place, the Catholic tradition of purgatory as a transitional state or condition has a history that dates back, even before Jesus Christ, to the worldwide practice of caring ...
Gotye. Wouter André " Wally " De Backer (born 21 May 1980), known professionally as Gotye ( / ˈɡɒtiːeɪ / GOT-ee-ay ), is an Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His 2011 single "Somebody That I Used to Know", reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the best-selling song of 2012. [2]
The Nakba ( Arabic: النَّكْبَة an-Nakba, lit. 'the catastrophe') was the ethnic cleansing [1] of Palestinians in Mandatory Palestine during the 1948 Palestine war through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society, and the suppression of their culture ...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances ( PFAS [1] or PFASs [2]) are a group of synthetic organofluorine chemical compounds that have multiple fluorine atoms attached to an alkyl chain. The PubChem database lists more than 6 million unique compounds in this group. [3] PFASs started being used in the mid-20th century to make fluoropolymer coatings ...
Roger introduces Aren to The American Society of Magical Negroes, a group aiming to safeguard African Americans by appeasing white individuals. Aren witnesses historical acts of reassurance by Black men towards whites, embodying the Society's mission. Under Roger's mentorship, Aren helps a shy white police officer gain confidence at a dance club.
Chicago. (musical) Chicago is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the jazz age, the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same title by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported. The story is a satire on corruption ...