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The manga ranked on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi!
2016 list of best manga for female readers.
The series has over 2 million copies in print as of September 2019.
Home Notes
Home Notes was a British monthly women's magazine.
Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet founded "Home Notes" with the aim of dominating the penny magazine market.
"Home Notes" went on to compete with "Home Chat" and "Woman's Life".
Pearson founded it in January 1894 and the magazine ran until 1958 when it was taken over by sister title Woman’s Own.
It was published as a small format magazine which came out monthly.
The formulation was to cover society gossip and domestic tips along with short stories, dress patterns, recipes and competitions.
Bang You're Dead (disambiguation)
Bang You're Dead may refer to:
George Gilroy
George Bruce Gilroy (16 September 1889 – 15 July 1916) was a Scottish first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of George and Annie Gilroy, he was born at Clatto House in Blebocraigs, Fife.
He was educated at Winchester College, before going up to Magdalen College, Oxford.
While studying at Oxford, Gilroy made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's in 1909.
After graduating from Oxford, he joined his father in his jute spinning and manufacturing business.
Gilroy served in the British Army during the First World War with the Black Watch, being commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in August 1914, with promotion to temporary lieutenant in February 1915.
He was made a temporary captain in October 1915, while commanding a company.
He was awarded the Military Cross for actions at the Battle of Loos in September–October 1915.
Gilroy was wounded in action at Longueval during the Battle of the Somme on 14 July 1916, dying from his wounds the following day.
Wanhua (disambiguation)
Wanhua () may refer to:
Mark O. Gottlieb
Mark O. Gottlieb is an American literary agent for writers and illustrators in fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, graphic novels and other genres.
He's known for representing figures such as Lesley Kagen, James Breakwell, Christopher Brown (author), Christopher Hinz, Andrew Klavan, William F. Nolan, Joe Coleman (painter) and Kate Moretti.
Mark Gottlieb has been instrumental in "Trident Media Group" (TMG) publishing house development.
He has lectured and commented widely on publishing, author rights and the place of literature in the contemporary period of history.
Gottlieb is also an author of a number of publications.
Mark Gottlieb was born in New York City and grew up in the town of Scarsdale.
As a child, Gottlieb witnessed many authors frequently visiting his father's house.
Surrounded by an atmosphere of creativity and books, he showed an early interest in literature and art.
He graduated from Emerson College in 2009 with a M.A degree in writing, literature, and publishing.
While a student at Emerson College, Gottlieb co-founded the "Undergraduate Students for Publishing Club" and the "Wilde Press" where he presided during his college years.
After a year of working at Penguin Group USA as a production assistant to the vice president, Mark Gottlieb later joined Trident Media Group.
Before becoming a literary agent in 2013, he first filled the roles of foreign rights assistant to the director of foreign rights, executive assistant to the chairman, and audio rights agent in the company.
As a literary agent, Gottlieb began working directly with authors, building his own client list of bestselling and award-winning authors.
He has represented various genres such as debut fiction, mystery/crime, science fiction, fantasy, thriller, women’s fiction, young adult, graphic novel and more.
During his career at "Trident Media Group", Gottlieb represented many emerging writers in a range of genres of fiction and nonfiction.
Some of the authors appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers Lists and won literary prizes and awards.
Shingo Nishiyama
Shingo Nishiyama was born on January 24, 2002 in Tokyo, Japan.
He has an older sister.
Nishiyama's favorite subjects in school are Japanese history and world history.
He attended Hinode Gakuen, a correspondence school recommended by fellow Japanese ice dancer Aru Tateno.
Nishiyama was accepted into Waseda University's School of Human Sciences and wants to become a skating coach.
He is related to Japanese ballerina Akane Takada through his mother's side and has worked with her on improving body movement.
Nishiyama learned English after moving to train with Brian Orser in Toronto.
He previously lived with a Japanese host family while in Toronto, but now lives alone.
Yoshida / Nishiyama are popular among fans and have a large social media following.
They look up to training mate Yuzuru Hanyu.
Nishiyama began skating in 2008 at the age of six, at the suggestion of his first coach Masahiro Kawagoe.
He previously trained with Yutaka Higuchi in Tokyo, and qualified to compete at the Japan Championships each year.
Nishiyama moved to Canada alone at age 14 to train with Brian Orser, Tracy Wilson, and Ghislain Briand at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club, despite not knowing the language.
After he suffered a hip injury in the fall of 2018 and was unable to practice jumps, another coach at the club, Andrew Hallam, suggested that he consider switching to ice dance.
Nishiyama teamed up with Utana Yoshida in early 2019, and she moved to train with him and his coaches at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club in Canada in February 2019.
He continues to train singles simultaneously with ice dance.
In their first season as a partnership, Yoshida / Nishiyama placed sixth at both 2019 JGP United States and 2019 JGP Italy.
They then won gold at the Western Sectional and advanced to the 2019–20 Japan Junior Championships, where they again won gold, ahead of Ayumi Takanami / Yoshimitsu Ikeda.
As a result, Yoshida / Nishiyama were assigned to the 2020 World Junior Championships and the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
Individually, Nishiyama placed ninth in the men's singles event at the 2019–20 Japan Junior Championships.
At the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, Yoshida / Nishiyama placed sixth in the ice dance event with a new personal best, following a sixth-place rhythm dance and a fourth-place free dance.
They were chosen by draw to be part of Team Courage for the mixed-NOC team event, alongside singles' skaters Arlet Levandi of Estonia and Ksenia Sinitsyna of Russia and pairs team Alina Butaeva / Luka Berulava of Georgia.
Yoshida / Nishiyama won the free dance portion of the team event, ahead of both the silver and bronze medalists from the individual ice dance event, to help Team Courage win the gold medal.
Yoshida / Nishiyama have a goal of being in the top ten at the 2020 World Junior Championships.
"JGP: Junior Grand Prix"
Abosede George
Abosede George is a Nigerian-American professor of History and Africana Studies at Barnard College and Columbia University.
Her academic focus are in the areas of African History, Childhood and Youth Studies, Social Reform in Africa, Urban History, Girl Studies, Women's Studies, and Migration Studies.
She is the incumbent President of the Nigerian Studies Association, an affiliate organization of the African Studies Association.
An award-winning author, George has published scored of scholarly articles in high-impact, peer-reviewed academic journals.
Abosede George obtained her B.A.
in History from Rutgers University in 1999.
She proceeded to Stanford University where she earned her M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees in History in 2002 and 2006 respectively.
George began her teaching career in 2003 at Stanford University as a Teaching Fellow.
In 2006, she moved to Trinity College as an Assistant Professor of History and International Studies.
George joined the faculty of Barnard College and Columbia University in 2007.
Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of African urban history, history of childhood and youth in Africa, and women, gender, and sexuality in African History.
From January to May 2011, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at her alma mater, Rutgers College – Rutgers University.
George has published widely on subjects such as girlhood in African/colonial cities, urbanism and social reform in colonial Africa, among others.
Her articles have appeared in several first-tier, peer-reviewed academic journals, including the "Journal of Social History", "Women’s Studies Quarterly", and the "Scholar and Feminist Online".
George was one of the seven historians engaged in the "AHR" Conversation themed “Each Generation Writes Its Own History of Generations”.
Her book, "Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development", which was published in 2014, won her the 2015 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize as the best scholarly book.
Lately, she won the 2019 Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award for her article “Saving Nigerian Girls: A Critical Reflection on Girl-Saving Campaigns in the Colonial and Neoliberal Eras”.
Her forthcoming or ongoing works explores, among others, issues relating to migrants and urbanism in nineteenth-century Lagos, as well as the place of identity politics in Brazilian Architecture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Lagos.
George maintains faculty affiliations with the Africana Studies Program at Barnard, the Institute for African Studies at Columbia (IAS), the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), and the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference (CCASD).
She is a member of the following professional organizations: African Studies Association, Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, and Nigerian Studies Association where she is the current President.
She is equally a member of the Board of Directors of the Lagos Studies Association, of which, together with Saheed Aderinto and Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, she is a foundation member.
Beyond academe, Abosede George has undertaken a number of creative, historical projects.
For instance, the 2018 Lagos Photo Festival featured George's audio piece project which reworks the archives of a court case from the late 1800s in Lagos, Nigeria.
An audio booth was provided in which visitors would sit in and listen to the trial and testimonies from the court case "Ayebomi vs. Regina".
The work received coverage by Vogue Italia.
Abosede George, “Talking Walls: The Work of Brazilian Architecture and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Lagos,” "Journal of West African History" 6, no.
2 (2020, forthcoming)
Abosede George, “Introduction: The Imaginative Capital of Lagos,” "Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and Middle East" 38, no.
3 (2019): 439-442.
Abosede George, et al, “"AHR" Conversation: Each Generation Writes Its Own History of Generations,” "The American Historical Review" 123, no.
5 (2018): 1505-1546.