Justin Ernest George Morneau (born May 15, 1981) is a Canadian Major League Baseball player who plays first base for the Pittsburgh Pirates. At 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and 220 pounds (100 kg), Morneau was drafted as a catcher by the Minnesota Twins in 1999. He converted to first base in the minor leagues and made his MLB debut in 2003. He has held that position throughout his career and became the first Twin since Gary Gaetti in 1987â1988 to hit 30 home runs in consecutive seasons.
College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.
In fifteen years, Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote more than 725 letters, 315 of which are preserved. Although Dostoyevsky hated writing letters (but enjoyed reading letters), as he believed that he could not impress himself properly, they form a majority of his works. They are such important resources of his life and beliefs that the whole corpus of letters equals to a biography.
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt (/ËleɪtÉn ËhjuËɨt/; born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former World No. 1.
David Khari Webber “Dave” Chappelle (/ÊÉËpÉl/; born August 24, 1973) is an American comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer, actor, and artist. Chappelle began his film career in the film Robin Hood: Men in Tights in 1993 and continued to star in minor roles in the films The Nutty Professor, Con Air, and Blue Streak. His first lead role in a film was in Half Baked in 1998. In 2003, he became widely known for his popular sketch comedy television series, Chappelle’s Show, which ran until his abrupt retirement from the show in 2005. Chappelle is ranked forty-third in Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.
Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (born September 27, 1982), known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1991, at the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.’z, with fellow New Orleans-based rapper B.G.. In 1996, Lil Wayne joined Southern hip hop group Hot Boys, which also included rappers Juvenile, B.G., and Young Turk. Hot Boys debuted with Get It How U Live! that same year. Lil Wayne gained most of his success with the group’s major selling album Guerrilla Warfare (1999).
USC football refers to either of two NCAA Division I FBS college football programs:
Seamus Heaney (/ËÊeɪmÉs ËhiËni/; 13 April 1939 â 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, translator, lecturer and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born at Mossbawn farmhouse between Castledawson and Toomebridge, County Derry, he resided in Dublin until his death.
There are five members in the London-based English-Irish pop boy band One Direction: Niall James Horan, Zain Javadd “Zayn” Malik, Liam James Payne, Harry Edward Styles, and Louis William Tomlinson. Horan is originally from Ireland, while all other members of One Direction are originally from England. Below are biographies of all the members of the group, as well as a picture of the person right in each one.
Daniel is a 1983 film which was adapted by E. L. Doctorow from his novel The Book of Daniel. It was directed by Sidney Lumet.
