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Sunshine Heartbeat
{{Infobox television , native_name = 赤沙印記@四葉草2 , image = SunshineHeartbeat2004.jpg , image_size = 255 , caption = Promo poster , genre = Modern Drama , runtime = 20 minutes (approx.) , creator = , director = , producer = , writer = , starring = Charles Szeto Vin Choi Vivien Yeo Charmaine Li Yoyo Chen Joe Ma Cathy Chui Kelly Fu , opentheme = "Find Your Love" by Fiona Fung, Roxane Lo, & Peggy Lee , endtheme = , country = Hong Kong , language = Cantonese , network = TVB , first_aired = {{start date, 2004, 10, 3 , last_aired = {{end date, 2004, 12, 26 , num_episodes = 13 , related = Sunshine Heartbeat (Chinese title: 赤沙印記@四葉草.2) is a 2004 Hong Kong television series. The story centres on volleyball and high school. Synopsis This series is based on high school life, love, and one sport - volleyball. When Mia ( Vivien Yeo) was young, she and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Charles Szeto
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (< Latin ''-us'', see Spanish/ Portuguese ''Carlos''). According to Julius Pokorny, the historical linguist and Indo-European studies, Indo-Europeanist, the root meaning of Charles is "old man", from Proto-Indo-European language, Indo-European *wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chinese Language
Chinese ( or ) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and List of ethnic groups in China, many minority ethnic groups in China, as well as by various communities of the Chinese diaspora. Approximately 1.39 billion people, or 17% of the global population, speak a variety of Chinese as their first language. Chinese languages form the Sinitic languages, Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The spoken varieties of Chinese are usually considered by native speakers to be dialects of a single language. However, their lack of mutual intelligibility means they are sometimes considered to be separate languages in a Language family, family. Investigation of the historical relationships among the varieties of Chinese is ongoing. Currently, most classifications posit 7 to 13 main regional groups based on phonetic developments from Middle Chinese, of which the most spoken by far is Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin with 66%, or around 800&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jolie Chan
Angelina Jolie ( ; born Angelina Jolie Voight, , June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Angelina Jolie, numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Tony Award and three Golden Globe Awards, she has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times. Jolie made her screen debut child actor, as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in ''Lookin' to Get Out'' (1982). Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production ''Cyborg 2'' (1993), followed by her first leading role in ''Hackers (film), Hackers'' (1995). After starring in the television films ''George Wallace (film), George Wallace'' (1997) and ''Gia'' (1998), Jolie won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1999 drama ''Girl, Interrupted (film), Girl, Interrupted''. Her portrayal of the Lara Croft, titular heroine in ''Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' (2001) established her as a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Maria Chan (actress)
Maria Kai Yee Chan is an American materials science, materials scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory. Her research involves the applications of machine learning to nanomaterials and renewable energy, including the prediction of material properties and the retrieval of data from the published literature. Chan became interested in physics at age 11 after reading a book about Theory of relativity, relativity. She has a bachelor's degree in physics and applied mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her 2009 dissertation, ''Atomistic and ab initio prediction and optimization of thermoelectric and photovoltaic properties'', was jointly supervised by Gerbrand Ceder and John Joannopoulos. She joined the Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher before continuing there as a staff researcher. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2024, after a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jenny Yan
Jenny may refer to: * Jenny (given name), a popular feminine name and list of real and fictional people * Jenny (surname), a family name Animals * Jenny (donkey), a female donkey * Jenny (elephant), a female elephant in the German Army in World War I * Jenny (gorilla), the oldest gorilla in captivity at the time of her death at age 55 * Jenny (orangutan), an orangutan in the London Zoo in the 1830s Films * ''Jenny'' (1936 film), a French film by Marcel Carné * ''Jenny'' (1958 film), a Dutch film * ''Jenny'' (1962 film), an Australian television film * ''Jenny'' (1970 film), a film starring Alan Alda and Marlo Thomas Music * "Jenny" (EP), a 2003 song released as an EP single by stellastarr* * "Jenny" (The Click Five song) (2007) * "Jenny" (Nothing More song) (2015) * "Jenny" (Studio Killers song) (2013) * "867-5309/Jenny", a 1982 song by Tommy Tutone * "Jenny", a 1968 song by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers * "Jenny", a 1973 song by Chicago from '' Chicago VI'' * "Jenny" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Patricia Liu
Patricia is a feminine given name of Latin origin. Derived from the Latin word '' patrician'', meaning 'noble', it is the feminine form of the masculine given name Patrick. Another well-known variant is Patrice. According to the US Social Security Administration records, the use of the name for newborns peaked at #3 from 1937 to 1943 in the United States, after which it dropped in popularity, sliding to #745 in 2016.Popularity of a NameSocial Security Administration''ssa.gov'', accessed June 26, 2017 From 1928 to 1967, the name was ranked among the top 11 female names. In Portuguese and Spanish-speaking Latin-American countries, the name Patrícia/Patricia is common as well, pronounced in Portuguese and in Spanish. In Catalan and Portuguese it is written Patrícia, while in Italy, Germany and Austria Patrizia is the form, pronounced in Italian and in German. In Polish, the variant is Patrycja, pronounced . It is also used in Romania, in 2009 being the 43rd most common name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vivien Lok Lok
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Vivien may refer to: * Vivien (name), variant spelling * Vivien, Western Australia, an abandoned town in Australia * , a British destroyer launched in 1918 and sold in 1947 for scrapping See also * Saint-Vivien (other) * Vivienne * Vivian (other) * Viviana (other) Viviana is a female given name, and may refer to: * ''Viviana'' (film), a 1916 American film * ''Viviana'' (telenovela), a 1978 Mexican telenovela * Saint Bibiana, or Viviana, 4th-century Roman martyr * Viviana (given name) See also * * Bibiana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Monie Tung
Monie Tung (; born 26 November 1980) is a Hong Kong film and television entertainer, programme host and stage actress. Early life Tung started in the industry when she was 6 years old, appearing in the children's television show '' 430 Space Shuttle''. She attended the Sheng Kung Hui Lam Woo Memorial Secondary School, and later graduated from the University of Hong Kong College of Arts (majoring in French literature). Career In 2004 she began her entertainment career. Beginning as a singer, she released her debut album ''Monie Monie''. She later became a film and television actress starring in many films of which her most significant works are '' My Mother Is a Belly Dancer'' and '' Whispers and Moans''. From 2013 onwards she hosted the entertainment programme ''Entertainment Flagship Store'' for the Metro Info, until the last episode on 8 January 2016. Personal life Tung's husband is Zhuang Yaojin, a lawyer. Discography Album Singles Send songs Filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cathy Tsui
''Cathy'' is an American gag-a-day comic strip, drawn by Cathy Guisewite from 1976 until 2010. The comic follows Cathy, a woman who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life: food, love, family, and work. The strip gently pokes fun at the lives and foibles of modern women. The strip's debut was on November 22, 1976, and it appeared in over 1,400 newspapers at its peak. The strips have been compiled into more than 20 books. Three television specials were also created. Guisewite received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award in 1992 for the strip. History Initially, the strip was based largely on Guisewite's own life as a single woman. "The syndicate felt it would make the strip more relatable if the character's name and my name were the same," Guisewite said in an interview. "They felt it would make it a more personal strip, and would help people know it was a real woman who was going through these things. I hated the idea of calling it 'Cathy'. Guisewite h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
