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Motown Records is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. In the 1960s, Motown and its subsidiary labels were the most successful proponents of the Motown sound, a style of soul music with...
Anthony Edward Sowell was an American serial killer, rapist, and necrophile known as the Cleveland Strangler. He was arrested in October 2009 after the bodies of 11 women were discovered at his home in Cleveland, Ohio. Most of the victims were killed by manual strangulation and others were gagged or had ligatures on their bodies when they were discovered. Sowell...
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. As of October 2020, 65 Nobel laureates, 5 Fields Medalists and 3 Turing award winners have been affiliated with Yale University. The university’s assets include an endowment valued...
John Timothy Griffin is an American politician serving as the 20th and current Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas. He previously was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas between 2006 and 2007 and U.S. Representative for Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015. Griffin announced his candidacy for the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election in summer 2020.
Richard Craig Shelby is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Alabama. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, succeeding Thad Cochran. In 1994, the day after the Republican Revolution, Shelby switched party affiliations and became a Republican. Shelby was re-elected by a large margin in 1998 and has faced no significant electoral...
Michael Dean Cohen is an American disbarred lawyer who served as an attorney for U.S. president Donald Trump from 2006 to 2018. Cohen was a vice-president of the Trump Organization, and the personal counsel to Trump, and was often described by media as Trump’s “fixer” He pleaded guilty on August 21, 2018, to eight counts including campaign finance violations, tax...
A baby shower is a party of gift-giving or a ceremony that has different names in different cultures. Traditionally, baby showers are given only for the family’s first child, and only women are invited. Typical gifts related to babies include diapers, blankets, baby bottles, clothes, and toys.
ESPN Latin America is the Latin American division of ESPN Inc. It broadcasts sports-related programming for the region in Spanish. It was launched on 31 March 1989. In 2011 ESPN launched a new channel, named ESPN 3, which is divided in four segments: Live, Compact, ESPN 3 0 and ESPN Series.
Pedro Gomez was a Phoenix-based reporter for ESPN’s SportsCenter show. He covered 25 World Series, 22 MLB All-Star Games and was a voting member for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Gomez was the son of Cuban refugees, born just 20 days after his parents arrived in the United States.
Jovenel Moïse was born in Trou-du-Nord, Nord-Est on June 26, 1968. In 1996, he married his classmate Martine Marie Etienne Joseph. In 2012, he founded AGRITRANS SA, introduced the agricultural project NOURRIBIO to Trou du Nord.
