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14 hours ago · Jacques Cousteau. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC ( / kuːˈstoʊ /, also UK: / ˈkuːstoʊ /, French: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) [1] was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which ...
14 hours ago · Girl Scouts of the United States of America ( GSUSA ), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [2] It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting.
14 hours ago · Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) [1] is an American singer, actress, and businesswoman. After performing in church choirs as a child, Simpson signed with Columbia Records in 1997, aged seventeen. Her debut studio album, Sweet Kisses (1999), sold two million copies in the United States and was led by the Billboard Hot 100 -top three ...
14 hours ago · Kim Song-ae, 89, North Korean politician, second wife of Kim Il Sung. [9] (death announced on this date) Jean Klein, 70, French Olympic rower. [10] Sita Murt, 68, Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman, cancer. [11] Aleksandar Petrović, 55, Serbian basketball coach, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
14 hours ago · Beauty and the Beast is a Disney stage musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and a book by Linda Woolverton.Adapted from Walt Disney Pictures' animated film Beauty and the Beast – which in turn had been based on the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" by French author Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont – Beauty and the Beast tells the story of an unkind ...
14 hours ago · 2024 in film is an overview of events, including award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre-specific lists of films, and notable deaths.Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) celebrated their 100th anniversaries; Miramax will celebrate its 45th anniversary; 20th Century Animation, DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Searchlight Pictures will celebrate their ...
