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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Garry Kasparov



Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 225 out of 228 months.p
Yet 20 years on Garry Kasparov is still considered the greatest chess player in history, a genius so special he became world champion at 22 and was then almost invincible for two decades. Now, 12 years after he turned his back on the professional game, the king is back.The study found that intelligence was linked to chess skill for the overall sample, but particularly among young chess players and those at lower levels of skill. This may be because the upper-level players represent a winnowed distribution of cognitive ability -- in other words, they all tend to be fairly bright.

fia'oFa'amausili

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Fiao'o Fa'amausili ONZM is a New Zealand female rugby union player. She plays for New Zealand and Auckland. She was a member of the winning Black Ferns squad for the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup. She is a police officer in Auckland.Fa'amausili was named as captain of the Black Ferns for the inaugural 2015 Women's Rugby Super Series held in Canada.[2] She was named in the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squad.[3][4]
In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, Fa'amausili was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to rugby.[5]
In 2019, Faamausili was on the voting panel for the World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year award.

Monday, December 9, 2019

Fraser-Pryce




Fraser-Pryce is the only sprinter, male or female, to be crowned world champion over 100 m four times (2009, 2013, 2015 and 2019).[8][9] Since 2008, she has won four of the five world 100 m titles she has contested, as well as two of the last three Olympic 100 m titles.[10] She is the second female sprinter to hold world and Olympic 100 m titles simultaneously—and the first female sprinter to do so twice. In 2013 she became the first female sprinter to win gold medals in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m in a single World Championship, and also became the first woman to hold world titles at 60 m, 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay simultaneously.[11]
With over a decade of dominance in the sport, Fraser-Pryce has won more global 100 m titles than any other female sprinter in history.[12][13] Nicknamed the "Pocket Rocket"[11] for her petite frame (she stands 5 feet tall) and explosive block starts, she is ranked fourth on the list of the fastest 100 m female sprinters of all time, with a personal best of 10.70 seconds.[14] Due to her achievements and consistency, many publications and sports analysts, including former Olympian Michael Johnson,[15] refer to Fraser-Pryce as the greatest female sprinter of all time.[16][17][18][19][20] World Athletics calls her “the greatest female sprinter of her generation".

Roald Dahi



As at 2019, Dahl's works have been translated into 63 languages and have sold more than 200 million books worldwide.[16][17] His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. In 2008 The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[18] He has been referred to by The Independent as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".[19] On his death in 1990, Howard considered him "one of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation"

Taika waitika




filmmaker, actor, and comedian. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his 2004 short film Two Cars, One Night. He is married to Chelsea Winstanley, who produced several of his films.
His feature films Boy (2010) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) have each been the top-grossing New Zealand film, with the latter still holding that title as of 2018.[2][3][4] He co-directed and starred in the horror comedy film What We Do in the Shadows (2014) with Jemaine Clement. Waititi's most recent directing credits include the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and the satirical black comedy Jojo Rabbit (2019), the latter of which he also wrote


Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Lorde

Born on November 7, 1996, Lorde is a singer/songwriter who became an international crossover hit in 2013 with her debut studio album, Pure Heroine. The album's debut single, "Royals," soared to no. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 100 — making her the youngest pop star to achieve this feat since 1987 — and won two Grammys.