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The fastest woman on Earth:Marion Jones

Jones vented her grief and anger on the track. In 1991, at age 15, she ran the 200 meters in 22.87 seconds, breaking the national high school record. She faltered later that year at the TAC Nationals, placing fourth in the 200 and eighth in the 100. Coaches were awed by her potential, however, and came knocking. Her mother hired Elliott Mason as a private coach.

2000 Olympics

Jones made history at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She landed three gold medals, winning the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, and the 1,600-meter relay, and two bronze medals, in the long jump and the 400-meter relay. She became the first woman to win five medals at one Olympics.

On October 5, 2007 Jones announced her retirement from track and field after pleading guilty to Federal charges for use of performance-enhancing drugs. She also confessed to making false statements during two different government drug investigations. Jones claims that her former coach, Trevor Graham, gave her a substance he told her was flaxseed oil in 2000, but a year later discovered was the designer steroid THG, known as “the clear.” She will be sentenced on January 11, 2008 with a maximum sentence of five years. In the meantime, Jones was released from prison after yielding her United States and Belize passports to the U.S. government. In November 2007, the International Association of Athletics Federation decided that Jones must return all medals and money, including the $700,000 prize money, and forfeit all race results since September 1, 2000. Jones is officially suspended from competition until October 7, 2009.

This is another two-thumbs up for Josh Groban! It’s a classic album to add the warmth of the season’s sprit. It’s a perfect gift to a loved one and family members. He really has the capacity to move the listeners with his vocal range and of course, with an amazing collaboration with David Foster and great musicians like Brian McKnight and Faith Hill. People would still buy this album in the years to come. It’s timeless.

Josh Groban Noel

This is an eclectic mix of traditional hymns and carols, with only two songs straying from that overall theme. The holiday favorite “I’ll be Home For Christmas” is given a contemporary, yet desperate sound as messages to and from those serving in the armed services are weaved between the verses and choruses. Grobin’s deep passionate voice only adds to the gloomy feel of someone who is far away from the ones he loves during the holidays.

Eva Longoria

Date of Birth
15 March 1975, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
Birth Name
Eva Jacqueline Longoria

Height
5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
Mini Biography
The youngest of four sisters who grew up on a ranch near Corpus Christi, Texas, Longoria attended Texas A&M University-Kingsville, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology. After graduating from college, she entered a talent contest that brought her to Los Angeles, where she was spotted and subsequently signed by a theatrical agent. After landing roles on “The Bold and the Beautiful” (1987), “General Hospital” (1963) and co-starring on “Beverly Hills, 90210″ (1990), she auditioned for and won the role of “Isabella” on the popular series, “The Young and the Restless” (1973). After Y&R, Eva Longoria became well known worldwide thanks to “Desperate Housewives” (2004) where she plays adulteress “Gabrielle Solis”. She also has a contract with L’Oreal and has been named one of the most beautiful people.

Angelina Jolie tiene un hermano llamado James Haven que nació en 1973, dos años antes que la actriz.
Los dos son hijos de Jon Voight y su segunda esposa, la también actriz francesa Marcheline Bertrand.
Jon Voight estaba en el mejor momento de su carrera profesional ya que ganó un oscar por “El regreso”, en 1978.
Se separaron cuando Angelina tenía apenas dos años. El divorcio se formalizó dos años después.
Marcheline se marchó a Nueva York con sus hijos, pero el contacto con su padre nunca se perdió.
Jon Voight siempre tuvo presente la posibilidad que sus hijos se dedicaran al mundo del cine, como él. Por ese motivo, les bautizó con nombres compuestos, para que pudieran prescindir del apellido paterno si no querían cargar con el peso de ser hijo de.

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie is known as much for her offscreen romances, adoptions and political activism as for her movie roles. Jolie first made a small splash in 1998, playing doomed model Gia Marie Carangi in the HBO movie Gia. She was a hit as the love interest in the offbeat air-traffic-controller drama Pushing Tin (1999, with John Cusack), but winning an Oscar for her supporting role as a troubled mental patient in the 1999 Winona Ryder film Girl, Interrupted made her a big-time movie star. She sealed her international fame by playing the video game heroine Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (2001) and Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life (2003).

Jolie’s plush-lipped, brooding Gothic presence (and ample tattoos) made her a hit with the younger generation, and her wild-life offscreen antics made her a hit with the tabloids, especially while she was married to her Pushing Tin co-star, Billy Bob Thornton (2000-2003). Jolie has since become famous for her charitable impulses: she was named a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees in 2001. She adopted a Cambodian boy, Maddox (in 2002), a daughter born in Ethiopia, Zahara (in 2005), and a boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien (in 2007). She and Brad Pitt starred in the action film Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2005, but whatever excitement the movie generated was overshadowed by the real-life drama of Pitt leaving Jennifer Aniston to move in with Jolie. Jolie’s first biological child with Pitt, a daughter named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, was born in 2006 at a resort in Namibia.

Extra credit: Jolie is the daughter of Jon Voight, who won a best actor Oscar for the 1978 movie Coming Home (the same movie for which Jane Fonda won best actress)… Jolie played Cornelia Wallace, wife to Alabama governor George Wallace, in the 1997 TV movie George Wallace… The birth order of Jolie’s children is: Maddox (b. 2001), Pax (b. 2003), Zahara (b. 2005) and Shiloh (b. 2006).

In December of 2007, the 16-year-old Spears announced in OK magazine that she was pregnant and planned to keep the child. The father was reported to be her boyfriend, Casey Aldridge.

• Birth Name: Jamie Lynn Marie Spears
• Birth Place: McComb, MS
• Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: April 4, 1991, Aries
• Profession: Actor; singer

Jamie Lynn Spears is the younger sister of pop star Britney Spears and the star of the Nickelodeon television comedy Zoey 101. Spears grew up in Louisiana and started her professional career tagging along with her sister on commercial shoots and performances. In the 2002 movie Crossroads Jamie Lynn played the younger version of Britney’s character, Lucy. Her “rising star” status led to a job as a regular cast member on Nickelodeon’s All That, the comedy sketch show that made Amanda Bynes a star. In 2004 Jamie Lynn was tapped to star in her own show on Nickelodeon, Zoey 101. The success of the show — and her famous sister — helped make Spears a favorite of pre-teen viewers. Also a singer, Spears recorded a remake of the hit “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” (2003) and sings the theme song for her TV show.

How Tall Is Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin’s height is 5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Russian Leader. Sometimes gets mentioned at 5ft 9. Originally had him 5ft 7.5, now he’s been scraped down to 170cm on the nose. Unsure if he’s from the ‘Silvio Berlusconi’ school of footwear though, or the more extreme Kim Jong shoe-school, the one where you’re 5ft 3, have a height complex and resort to wearing elaborate 4-inch elevator shoes to compensate.

As the hand-picked successor of Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin was elected president of the Russian Federation in 2000. After earning a law degree in 1975, Putin joined the KGB, the security force of the former Soviet Union. He spent years working primarily in East Germany, then left the service in 1991 and became active in the politics of St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad). He was brought to Moscow by Yeltsin in 1996 and served as an administrator in the Kremlin and an official for the security organizations which replaced the KGB. In 1999 Putin became Yeltsin’s fifth prime minister in 17 months, then became acting president when Yeltsin left office. He was officially elected to the office in 2000 and then re-elected in a landslide vote in March of 2004.

Joe Hill was born Joel Emmanuel Haggland in Sweden, the ninth son of a railroad worker. His father died when Hill was eight years old, and he went to work in order to help support his mother and six siblings. When Hill’s mother died in 1902, he emigrated to the United States. Until 1910 practically nothing is known of where Hill lived or what he did. It is known that he was in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake, as Hill sent back an eyewitness account of the horror and devastation caused by this disaster to Sweden, where it was published in a local newspaper. Somewhere along the line he changed his name to “Joseph Hillstrom,” possibly to avoid arrest. By the time Joe Hill finally surfaces in San Pedro, CA, in 1910, it is clear …

 Biography for Sarah Shahi

Date of Birth
10 January 1980, Euless, Texas, USA

Birth Name
Aahoo Jahansouzshahi

Height
5′ 3″ (1.60 m)

Trivia

Attended Southern Methodist University

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders 2000 Swimsuit Calendar Covergirl.

The great-great-granddaughter of a 19th century Iranian Shah, Fath Ali Shah Qajar.

Moved to Los Angeles in 2000

When she got the part of “Carmen De La Pica” she wasn’t sure she wanted it, but now considers it her dream role.

Studied Opera

Named #90 on the Maxim magazine “Hot 100 of 2005″ list.

Her father is of Persian origin, her mother is Spanish.