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Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The club was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to its current stadium in 1910. United have won more trophies than any other club in English football, with a record 20...
End SARS is a decentralised social movement, and series of mass protests against police brutality in Nigeria. The slogan calls for the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a notorious unit of the Nigerian Police with a long record of abuses. The protests which takes its name from the slogan started in 2017 as a Twitter campaign using the hashtag...
Thomas Teye Partey is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Arsenal. He began his professional career at Spanish club Atlético Madrid, going on loan to Mallorca and Almería. He won the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Super Cup in 2018. In 2020, he joined Arsenal in a transfer worth £45 million, becoming the...
Rayne Dakota Prescott is an American football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He played college football for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and was selected by the Cowboys in the fourth round of the 2016 NFL Draft. He is the youngest of Peggy Prescott’s three children. Peggy had colon cancer and died on November 3, 2013.
Maya Lakshmi Harris is an American lawyer, public policy advocate, and writer. She was appointed as one of three senior policy advisors to lead the policy agenda for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. She is the daughter of Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a breast cancer researcher who emigrated from Chennai, India in 1960. She gave birth to her only child, Meena...
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Juventus. He has won 30 major trophies in his career, including seven league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA European Championship, and one UEFA Nations League title. He holds the records for the most goals...
Eugene Levy CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, and writer. From 1976 until 1984, he appeared in the Canadian television sketch comedy series SCTV. He has won multiple accolades throughout his career including four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. He is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest.
The Boys is an American comic book series written by Garth Ennis and co-created, designed, and illustrated by Darick Robertson. The series concluded in November 2012 with the release of the 72nd and final issue. The book was adapted by Amazon Studios into a television series that premiered on July 26, 2019.
In 1971, Shirley Wheeler was charged with manslaughter after Florida hospital staff reported her abortion to police. Her conviction was overturned by the Florida Supreme Court, and she was possibly the first woman to be held criminally responsible for submitting to an abortion. Wheeler was released from prison and moved back to North Carolina, where she lives with her husband...
Melania Trump was born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, on April 26, 1970. She worked as a fashion model through agencies in Milan and Paris and moved to New York City in 1996. She was featured in a sexually explicit photo shoot for the January 1996 issue of Max, a now-defunct French men’s magazine, with another female model. In 2010, Melania...
