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Josephine Baker: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Entertainer and activist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Josephine Baker</a> is the subject of today’s <a href="http://heavy.com/tag/google-doodle/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google Doodle</a>. June 3rd, 2017, would be her 111th birthday. Baker is best known for being the first African American to become an internationally recognized performer, and the first to headline her own film, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zouzou_(film)" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Zouzou</em></a>, in 1934. Today, she remains a defining cultural figure of the period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Baker, also known by a variety of different nicknames, including “Bronze Venus,” “Creole Goddess,” and “Black Pearl,” was born on June 3rd, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri and died on April 12th, 1975 in Paris, France.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“With her kohl-rimmed eyes and exotic costumes, Josephine Baker pounced onto the global stage in the 1920s, becoming a Jazz Age icon and one of the first internationally recognized African-American entertainers,” Google says. “A celebrity in Europe – and one of the most photographed women on the planet – Baker nonetheless faced racially charged comments from the press when she returned to the U.S. in 1936 for a short-lived starring turn in the Broadway series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziegfeld_Follies" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ziegfeld Follies</em></a>. Championing diversity and fighting for civil rights would become an enduring concern throughout her life…There’s little doubt why Ernest Hemingway once called her “the most sensational woman anybody ever saw—or ever will.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Learn more about Baker, her personal life, and her groundbreaking career here:</span></div>

Josephine Baker: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Entertainer and activist Josephine Baker is the subject of today’s Google Doodle . June 3rd, 2017, would be her 111th birthday. Bake...

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Top 10 Facts you probably did not know about Estonia

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Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia (meaning “free state” in Estonian) is a republic of the Baltic countries, including the neighboring countries of Latvia and Lithuania. The country covers more than 1,500 islands in the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland, which lies between Estonia and Finland .</div>
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The islands make up about 10% of the country’s total area. From the 13th century to the 20th century Estonia was ruled by foreign men, first Danes and Germans, and from the 16th century Sweden. In 1721, Russia took over power over Estonia and ruled the country for almost 200 years.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">After that, the country has been occupied by both the Soviet Union and Germany, and only in 1991, the country became again independent. But you have probably read this in school now, so now we go into ten facts that you may not know about the Baltic country, Estonia.</span><br />
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<li>The women have a much longer life expectancy than men … The <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">country has considerably more women than men. For every hundred women  in Estonia there are 84 men . On average, Estonian women live about ten years further than Estonian men do.</span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Finland’s remarkable sport has been infected with Estonia … The<br style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Estates are also skilled at the non-Olympic sport where one is to run with his wife on his back. Although it originates in Finland, Estonia has won World Cup gold in sport for ten consecutive years between 1998-2008 . The winner combines his frozen weight in beer , so it’s about having a powerful wife and a pair of strong muscles.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">One of Europe’s most sparsely populated countries …<br style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Estonia is one of Europe’s most sparsely populated countries  , with a population density of 28.4 people per square kilometer. Only Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia can beat it. It is also the least populated country of all EU Member States (1.35 million).</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">2 222 islands … The<br style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">country has a total of 2 222 islands and islets in the Baltic Sea. It’s a lot, but far less than the country that claims to have the most – Finland , with its  179,000 islands (who did all of them really count?).</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Like Latvia and<br style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Lithuania , they have a tragic story … Estimately 7.3% of the country’s population died during World War II . A further 10% were also deported to labor camps in the Soviet Union.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">stonian loves to sing …<br style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">The events that led to the restoration of Estonian independence are usually called the singing revolution . The term was coined after a series of mass demonstrations where the singers sang national songs and patriotic visions, strictly forbidden during Soviet conditions.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">You have been able to vote online for over ten years …<br style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Internet is important for the Baltic countries. Neighbors Latvia has the seventh fastest average rate on its internet in the world and Estonia was the first in the world to vote  online at municipal and parliamentary elections. This could be the esters already doing in 2005 !</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">84 percentage points less religious than Indonesians … According<br style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">to a Gallup survey, Estonia is at least religious throughout the world. Only 16% of respondents responded that religion was an important part of their lives, compared with 27% of the British , 65% of Americans and 100% of Bangladesh  and Indonesians .</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">They love chess …<br style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">One of the biggest and most famous Estonian people throughout the ages was Paul Keres (in the middle of the picture below), a chess master from the 1930s until the mid 1960s. A total of 100,000 estates mourned and attended his funeral in 1974 , which represented almost 10% of the country’s population!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Tartu, Narva and Tallinn …<br style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Only three cities in the country have a population of more than 50,000 inhabitants – Tartu , Narva and the capital Tallinn . The capital is by far the largest with over 400,000 inhabitants .</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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Top 10 Facts you probably did not know about Estonia

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The Truth about horse race Kentucky Derby

<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "youtube noto" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Kentucky Derby /ˈdɜːrbi/ is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of one and a quarter miles (2 km) at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57 kilograms) and fillies 121 pounds (55 kilograms).[1]</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "youtube noto" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The race is known in the United States as "The Most Exciting Two Minutes In Sports" or "The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports" for its approximate duration, and is also called "The Run for the Roses" for the blanket of roses draped over the winner. It is the first leg of the American Triple Crown and is followed by the Preakness Stakes, then the Belmont Stakes. Unlike the Preakness and Belmont Stakes, which took hiatuses in 1891–1893 and 1911–1912, respectively, the Kentucky Derby has been run every consecutive year since 1875. A horse must win all three races to win the Triple Crown. In the 2015 listing of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA), the Kentucky Derby tied with the Whitney Handicap as the top Grade 1 race in the United States outside of the Breeders' Cup races.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "youtube noto" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The attendance at the Kentucky Derby ranks first in North America and usually surpasses the attendance of all other stakes races including the Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, and the Breeders' Cup.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "youtube noto" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The 2017 Kentucky Derby will be the 143rd running, and is set for Saturday, May 6, 2017 with a $2 million guaranteed purse.</span><br />
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The Truth about horse race Kentucky Derby

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The Truth about Dunkirk (2017 film):co-production between the Netherlands, U.K, France, U.S

<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "youtube noto" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dunkirk is a 2017 English-language war film[4][nb 1] written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. Set during World War II, it concerns the Dunkirk evacuation. The film is a co-production between the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "youtube noto" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Nolan wrote the story with the intention to tell it from three perspectives – the air, land and sea. Efforts were made to create suspense solely through details, as the script contained little dialogue. Filming began on 23 May 2016 in Dunkirk, France, and was shot on IMAX 65 mm and 65 mm large format film stock by cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "youtube noto" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dunkirk is scheduled to be released on 21 July 2017 in IMAX.</span><br />
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The Truth about Dunkirk (2017 film):co-production between the Netherlands, U.K, France, U.S

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Chris Lopez, Kailyn Lowry’s Baby Daddy: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Kailyn Lowry, one of the stars of <a href="http://heavy.com/tag/teen-mom-2/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;">Teen Mom 2</a> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">16 And Pregnant</i>, has finally confirmed that Chris Lopez is the father of her third child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The 25-year-old Lowry, who wrote the bestsellers <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Love Is Bubblegum</i> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pride Over Pity</i>, is already the mother of Lincoln Marshall Marroquin, 3, and Isaac Elliot Rivera, 7. Both of her sons are from previous relationships. Isaac’s father is Jo Rivera, an ex-boyfriend. Lincoln’s father is Javi Marroquin, to whom she was married to from 2012 to 2016.</span></div>
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Emilia Clarke plays the leading role in the movie "Voice From The Stone". Video is about the actress.<br />
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Emilia Isabelle Euphemia Rose Clarke (born 23 October 1986) is an English actress. Brought up in Berkshire, she first gained an interest in acting as a child after seeing the musical Show Boat, on which her father was working as a sound engineer. She was educated at Rye St Antony School, Headington and graduated from secondary school at St. Edward's in Oxford, where she appeared in two plays, before studying at the Drama Centre London, where she graduated from in 2009, and appeared in ten different stage productions. Some of her earliest work following graduation included a role in a play by the Company of Angels, two commercials for Samaritans, and a University of London students' short film. Her television debut came with a guest appearance in an episode of the British soap opera Doctors and she was named as one of the UK Stars of Tomorrow by Screen International magazine for her role in Syfy's film Triassic Attack (2010).<br />
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Clarke rose to prominence in 2011 for her breakthrough role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO series Game of Thrones, a performance that has gained her both critical and popular acclaim. She has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2013, 2015-2016), four Screen Actors Guild Awards (2012, 2014-2016), and two Critics Choice Television Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2013, 2016), among other numerous accolades. In 2017, Clarke became one of the highest paid actors on television for earnings of £2 million per episode of Game of Thrones.<br />
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Clarke made her Broadway debut as Holly Golightly in a production of Breakfast at Tiffany's in March 2013. In 2015, she was named Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive. She is also known for her starring roles as Sarah Connor in the science fiction film Terminator Genisys (2015) and as Louisa Clark in the romance film Me Before You (2016). In November 2016 she was cast as the female lead in the upcoming Star Wars Han Solo anthology film.

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