Ben Stiller

Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller is a American comedian, actor, writer, producer and film director. He is the child of veteran comedian and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. After beginning his acting careers with a play, Stiller wrote many mockumentaries, and was offered two of his own shows, both entitled The Ben Stiller Show. He begins act in films, and had his directorial debut with Reality Bites. Throughout his career he has since written, starred in, directed, and produced over fifty films with Heavyweights, There's Something about Mary, Meet the Parent, Zoolander, Dodgeball, and Tropic Thunder. In addition he has had many cameos in music videos, television shows, and films.

Stiller is an associated of the comedic acting brotherhood colloquially known as the Frat Pack. His films have grosseds more than $2.1 billion domestically, with an average of $73 million per film. Throughout his careers, he has got many awards and honors including an Emmy Award, several MTV Movie Awards, and a Teen Choice Award. Stiller has some upcoming film in 2010, Stiller will again portray Gaylord 'Greg' Focker in Little Fockers, a sequel to both Meet the Parents & meetthe Fockers. Stiller will produced a Yahoo! web series starring his parent, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. The show will be launch by the end of this year.

Tiger Woods

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose successes to date ranks him among the most successful golfers of all time. At now the World No. 1, he is the highest-paid professional athlete in the world, having produced a predictable $90.5 million from winnings and endorsements in 2010. Woods has winnig 14 professional foremost golf championships, the second highest of any male player, and 71 PGA Tour events, third all time. He has career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to reach the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to won 50 tournaments on tour.

Woods has won 16 World Golf Championships, and has won at least one of those actions each of the 11 years they have been in existences. On December 11, 2009, Woods announced he would take an imprecise leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage after he admitte infidelity. His multiple infidelitie were exposed by over a dozen women, through many worldwide media source. Woods go back to competitions for the 2010 Master on April 8, 2010, after a break lasting 20 weeks.

Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States from 1969–1974 and was also the 36th Vice President of the United States. Nixon was the only President to resign the office and also the only individual to be chosen twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency. Nixon was born in the Yorba Linda, California, USA. After finishing his scholar work at Whittier College, he graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1937 and returned to California to practice law in La Habra.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, he attached the United States Navy, serving in the Pacific theater, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant leader during Second World War. He was chosen in 1946 as a Republican to the House of Representatives representing California's 12th Congressional district, and in 1950 to the United States Senate. He was selected to be the organization mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party candidate, in the 1952 Presidential election, becoming one of the youngest Vice Presidents in history.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King,(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) is a American clergyman,  activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights group. His main legacy was to secured progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights King  is recognized as a martyr by two Christian churches. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights protester beforein his career.

He led in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and recognized himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. In 1964, King became the youngest person to got the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the America, portion from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.After Kennedy's military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 through Second World War in the South Pacific, his aspirations turned into political. With the encouragement and grooming of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Kennedy represented Massachusetts's eleventh congressional district in the U.S.

House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat, and served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential selection, one of the nearest in American history. He was the second youngest President, the first President born in the 20th century, and the youngest nominated to the office, at the age of 43. Kennedy is the first Catholic and the first Irish American president, and is the only president to have win a Pulitzer Prize.

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker, is a American actress, singer and model. After spend much of her childhood in foster's homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early film appearances were minor, but her performances in The tarmac Jungle and All About Eve have serious acclaimed. In a few years, Monroe reached stardom and was cast as the foremost lady in such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Seven Year Itch, and Some Like Hot. The typecasting of Monroe's "dumb blonde" persona controled her career forecast, so she broadened her range. She studied at the Actors Studio and shaped Marilyn Monroe Productions. Her dramatic presentation in Bus Stop was hail by critics, and she won a Golden Globe Award for Some Like it Hot.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln served is the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his murder in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its almost internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful applicant for election to the U.S. Senate.

As an outspoken opponent of the development of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. His tenure in office was engaged primarily with the defeated of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduce measures that resulted in the removal of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

USA - Washington

Washington is an elegant city with the spacious parks, broad streets and magnificent buildings, especially in the government district. Grand Museums invite to study the political, cultural and natural history of the country. In particular the exponats of natural history are amazing and fascinating. The famous Capitol is open to the public and we took the chance to have a look into the interior. Under the far visible dome is a magnificent entrance hall. The huge rotunda shows with a frieze under the dome, with sculptures and paintings important personalities and historic scenes of the American history.

USA / Canada - Niagara Falls

The 25 miles long Niagara River is the connection between the Erie Sea and the 62 miles long Ontario Sea, which forms the Niagara Falls: in the East the American Fall (height: 180 ft / 55 m, width: 1148 ft / 350m), in the North the Canadian Fall, also called the "Horseshoe Fall", (height: 161 ft / 49 m, width: 2788 ft / 850 m. The falls are best viewed from the Canadian site, where also is located the "Skylon Tower", an observation tower, which offers a breathtaking panoramic view of the whole area and enables that you to watch, how the water of the Ontario Sea pours into the Niagara falls. Most impressive for us has been a boat ride along the bottom of the falls. In this way we experienced this raging force of the nature with all our senses. We heard and saw the thunderous water masses fall down from the height and the sea spray sprinkled on our raincoats. These were unforgettable and unimaginable impressions - one simply must have experienced this .

AMERICAN FLAG FACTS

US flag has 50 stars representing the 50 states, and 13 stripes representing the 13 original states.

Earlier flags had a British Union Jack or the motto "Don't Tread on Me,". The first flag approved by the Continental Congress had thirteen stars on a field of blue and thirteen stripes.

The credit for designing the first flag perhaps goes to Francis Hopkins.

The Continental Congress approved the design of the first official U.S. flag on June 14, 1777. This day later came to be celebrated as the Flag Day.

The official colors of the flag are "Old Glory Red," white, and "Old Glory Blue."

On June 14, 1777, Congress adopted a resolution calling for a flag with thirteen stripes, alternating red and white, and with a blue canton or "union", with thirteen white stars. The resolution defined the significance of the colors: "White signifies Purity and the Innocence; Red, Hardiness and Valor; Blue, Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice."

The thirteen stripes and thirteen stars are representative of the original thirteen colonies. The five pointed stars used as a flag symbol gained popularity only after its incorporation into the American flag. Since then it has been used in many state flags and in foreign flags, including Uruguay, Puerto Rico, and the once sovereign nations of the Republic of Texas and the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Until 1818, an additional star and stripe was added as each new state was admitted to the Union. However it later became evident that it was not at all practical as the flag would inevitably become unwieldy. On April 4, 1816, a new scheme was made official. The Flag of the United States would have thirteen stripes, alternating red and white, and a blue canton on which a white star would be added for each state. Each star would be added to the flag on the July 4th following the admission of the new state to the Union.

In 1912, the government specified official patterns, proportions and colors, for the Flag we know today.

Traditionally a symbol of liberty, the American flag has carried the message of freedom to many parts of the world. Sometimes the same flag that was flying at a crucial moment in America's history has been flown again in another place to symbolize continuity in the struggles for the cause of liberty.

The American flag first flew over Fort Derne, off the shores of Tripoli in Libya.

FACTS ABOUT AMERICA

Location: North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between the Canada and Mexico

Land Size : 9,631,418 sq km

Weather/Climate of America : America has mostly a temperate type of a climate, but it is tropical in the Florida and in Hawaii, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest. The low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in the January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains

Population of America :   293,500,000

Capital City of America :  Washington, DC

American GDP :                 $10.98 trillion (2003 est.)

Main Industries :               Petroleum, motor vehicles, aerospace, steel, telecommunications, electronics, food processing, chemicals, consumer goods, mining, lumbering.

American Currency : US dollar (USD)

Agricultural products : Wheat, corn, fruits, vegetables, cotton, beef, poultry, pork, forest products, dairy products, fish.

Main Colors of American Flag : Red, white and blue.

Some US states have cities named the same as other US states. These are :

* Delaware, Arkansas

* California, Maryland

* Oregon, Wisconsin

* Wyoming, Ohio

* Indiana, Pennsylvania

* Nevada, Missouri

* Louisiana, Missouri

* Kansas, Oklahoma

* Michigan, North Dakota

There are approximately 500,000 detectable seismic tremors in California annually.

Rhode Island is the smallest US state in size.

New Amsterdam, Indiana is the smallest city in the U.S., they have a population of 1. (6-04)

Louisiana has 2,482 islands, covering nearly 1.3 million acres.

The states with the smallest populations are: Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.