19 Sept 2008 Singer Songwriter CMA Winner Trisha Yearwood 1964-

19 Sept 2008Singer

Songwriter

CMA Winner

Trisha Yearwood1964-

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Tricia Yearwood• Patricia Lynn Yearwood, known professionally as Trisha Yearwood (born September 19, 1964) is

an American country music singer, best known for her series of major hits throughout the 1990s decade and into the new millennium. She is a three-time Grammy award-winner, a two-time Country Music Association Awards-winner and a two-time Academy of Country Music Awards-winner.

• Yearwood made her debut in 1991 with the #1 hit single, "She's in Love with the Boy". Her debut album was certified by the RIAA of selling over two million copies, making Yearwood the first female Country singer to have a debut album to be certified Platinum. Since 1991, Yearwood has released a total of ten studio albums and four compilation albums, including a Holiday album. Of all these albums, four of which have been certified Platinum and five have been certified Gold. She has also charted a total of 38 singles on the Billboard "Hot Country Songs" chart, five of these singles have reached the #1 spot.

• One of the most popular female country singers of the '90s, Trisha Yearwood initially rose to fame as a protégée of Garth Brooks but quickly staked out her own identity. Yearwood has also performed at the Academy Awards and the Library of Congress.

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Stephen Colbert's DNA headed to space station

• hould this world ever cease to exist, Stephen Colbert could live on.

• On Monday, Comedy Central will announce plans to digitize the comedian's DNA and send it to the International Space Station.

• On Oct. 12, video game designer Richard Garriott is scheduled travel to the station and deposit Colbert's genes for an "Immortality Drive."

• Garriott, born in England but raised in the U.S., made his name as one of the makers of the Ultima series. He has punched his ticket aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket through the U.S. company Space Adventures, which has brokered five previous space tourist trips.

• He is collecting material for a time capsule of human DNA, a history of humanity's greatest achievements and personal messages.

• The host of The Colbert Report will essentially be preserved so that aliens could clone him.

• Garriott said there are few better candidates to turn to in the unlikely event that humanity is destroyed and needs to be resurrected.

• "I am thrilled to have my DNA shot into space, as this brings me one step closer to my lifelong dream of being the baby at the end of 2001," Colbert said in a statement, referring to the 1968 landmark science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.





Suspects held over Yemen blasts

• At least 25 suspected militants have been arrested in Yemen over a double car bomb attack on the US embassy that killed 16 people, security sources say.

• They were rounded up in various parts of the country after Wednesday's attack, and are being questioned by Yemeni and US investigators.

• Four civilians, six Yemeni soldiers and six attackers died in the blasts.

• The US said the attack bore all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda, whose members have long used Yemen as a haven.

• The Yemeni government, an ally in America's "war on terror", has often blamed the militant group for attacks on Western targets in the country.

• Large round-ups of suspect militants by the Yemeni authorities are not unusual following terror attacks in the country.





• A security source said the purpose of the latest round-up was to assess whether any of those arrested could have played a part in Wednesday's attack.

• The source said a team of US investigators, possibly from the FBI, were travelling to Yemen to participate in the investigation.

• A US embassy spokesman said this was standard procedure when US interests were attacked abroad.

• An 18-year-old US citizen of Yemeni origin was reported to be among those who died.

• Susan Elbaneh, from the state of New York, had travelled to Yemen to get married and was killed as she queued outside the embassy with her husband.

• The attackers targeted the heavily fortified embassy's main security gate in the capital, Sanaa, as staff were arriving for work.

• As the first car bomb went off, the attackers - some of whom were reportedly dressed as policemen - ambushed the guards, firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades.



Trapped In Vent, Museum Burglar Calls Police

Man Tells Police 'He's A Special Agent

• It wasn't the preferred way to enter the Knoxville Museum of Art, but Richard Anthony Smith told police he was on a mission.

• The 25-year-old Knoxville man called 911 from his cell phone before dawn Wednesday saying he was trapped in an air-conditioning duct leading from the museum roof, Knoxville police spokesman Darrell DeBusk said.

• Police and firefighters reached the roof, found a rope and cable and followed them to a vent shaft. Peering inside, they spotted Smith about 45 feet down.

• "Mission failed," he told them.• The Knoxville News Sentinel reported a 911

operator got the call from the 25-year-old Smith before dawn Wednesday, saying he was stuck and needed help.

• Police called on the fire department to lift officers to the roof, where they rescued Smith from the vent and restrained him, charging him with burglary.

• Smith told police he was a "special agent from the United States Illuminati, badge number 0931" and had rappelled onto the museum from a helicopter, a police report said.

• He said he was following orders to "defuse and confiscate" a Soviet-made nuclear warhead, specifically a "MERV6SS-22AN" warhead, according to the report.



Daily SparkDaily Spark

Would you want to have your DNA sent out into space? Why?

Would you want to have your DNA sent out into space? Why?

Give me one difference between the Jamestown colony and Plymouth?

Give me one difference between the Jamestown colony and Plymouth?

Jamestown was just menPlymouth was families





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Pilgrims and American Indians Pilgrim Community

Pilgrims and American Indians

• European fisherman had visited the Plymouth area before the Pilgrims.

• The fishermen brought new diseases to the region. Local tribes like the Patuxet were killed off.



Samoset

• In March of 1621 an American Indian named Samoset walked into the Pilgrim settlement and spoke to them in broken English. He told them about the area and the various tribes.

• Later he introduced them to Squanto.



Squanto

• Squanto had lived in Europe and was a great help to the settlers.

• He showed them how to fertilize the soil with fish and introduced them to the local Wampanoag Indians.

• With his teachings, conditions in the colony improved.



1st Thanksgiving

• The Pilgrims invited Chief Massasoit and 90 other Wampanoag guests celebrating the harvest.

• It became known as Thanksgiving.

• For the event, the Pilgrims killed wild turkeys. For three days the two groups feasted with each other. This event marked the survival of the Pilgrims in the new colony.

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Pilgrim Community

• Although the Pilgrims overcame many problems, their small settlement still struggled.

• Most tried to farm but the land near their settlement was poor.

• They had hoped to prosper by trading furs and by fishing.

• Unfortunately, fishing and hunting conditions were not good in their area.



Community

• The colony grew stronger in the mid-1620s after new settlers arrived and, as in Jamestown, colonist began to have more rights to farm their own land.



Mass/VA Differences

• The Pilgrim settlement was different from Virginia in that families were common there.

• Most people hoped to have many children, who were needed to help with work.

• If parents died families were quick to adopt children left behind. They were raised as if they were their own.



Pilgrim Family

• Pilgrims taught their children to read and offered some education to their indentured servants.

• The family served as the center of religious life, health care, and community well-being.

• All family members worked together to survive during the early years of the colony.



Women in Pilgrim Society

• Women generally cooked, spun and wove wool, and sewed clothing.

• They made soap and butter, carried water, dried fruit, and cared for livestock.



Men in Pilgrim Society

• Men spent most of their time repairing tools and working in the fields.

• They also chopped wood and built shelters.



Women’s Rights

• In Plymouth, women had more legal rights than they did in England.

• In England women were not allowed to make contracts, to sue, or own property.

• In America, Pilgrim women had the right to sign contracts and to bring certain cases before local courts.



Rights

• Widows could also own property.

• A widow often received one third of her husband’s land and belongings.

• In addition, married and widowed women could get licenses to run inns and sell liquor.



Naomi Silvester

• Local courts recognized the ways women helped the business community.

• Widow Naomi Silvester received a large share of her husband’s estate.

• The court called her frugal and laborious woman in the providing of the said estate.



Elizabeth Warren

• Widow Elizabeth Warren’s business ability convinced the colonial leaders to make her a purchaser for the colony.

• She took the place of her late husband.

• The hard work of such women helped the Plymouth colony to survive.



19 Sept 2008 Singer Songwriter CMA Winner Trisha Yearwood 1964-

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