Chinua Achebe (/ËtÊɪnwÉË ÉËtÊÉbÉ/, born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe; 16 November 1930 â 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He was best known for his first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African literature.
Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Kate Austen in ABC’s Lost, a role for which she won multiple Saturn Awards and Teen Choice Awards and a Golden Globe nomination. Lilly is also known for her roles in the feature films Afterwards, The Hurt Locker, and Real Steel. Lilly will appear in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Hobbit: There and Back Again, the final two films of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy.
Zitrr Camera is an iPhone Camera app developed by Zitrr â a division of Rootwork Systems. The app can be used to apply real-time filters, effects and lenses to both photos and videos. Zitrr Camera provides 8 different shooting modes and 6 grid modes, has a gallery that allows the user to add tags, search for photos by location, tags and date, and view the captured photos as a slideshow. Zitrr Camera also provides integrated sharing options via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Instagram, Tumblr, Google+ and direct emailing.
The 2013 Denver Broncos season is the franchise’s 44th season in the National Football League and the 54th overall. This season also marks the 30th under the ownership of Pat Bowlen the third under head coach John Fox.
The Golden Globe Award is an American accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual formal ceremony and dinner at which the awards are presented is a major part of the film industry’s awards season, which culminates each year with the Academy Awards.
Karlie Elizabeth Kloss (born August 3, 1992) is an American fashion model. Kloss is ranked seventh on the Top 50 Models Women list by Models.com. Vogue Paris declared her one of the top 30 models of the 2000s. She is a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
Michelle “Shelly” Jenneke (born 23 June 1993) is an Australian hurdler and model, who won a silver medal for the 100 m hurdles at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. She received worldwide media attention in 2012 for her pre-race warm-up, which involved dancing.
Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe (Spanish: Virgen de Guadalupe), is a title of the Virgin Mary associated with a celebrated pictorial image housed in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in México City.
Idina Kim Menzel (/ɪËdiËnÉ mÉnËzÉl/; born Mentzel on May 30, 1971) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She rose to prominence for her performance as Maureen Johnson in the Broadway musical Rent, a role which she reprised for the 2005 feature film adaptation. In 2004, she won the Tony Award for originating the role of Elphaba in the Broadway blockbuster Wicked. In 2014, she will be returning to Broadway in the musical If/Then. Menzel is also known for her portrayal of Shelby Corcoran, the biological mother of Lea Michele’s character Rachel Berry, on the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee, and as the voice of Queen Elsa in Frozen.
Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, is a term used by critics of consumerism. The book Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic defines it as “a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more”.
