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Earvin Johnson Jr., known as Magic Johnson (Lansing, August 14, 1959), is a former basketball player, basketball coach and U.S. businessman, considered one of the greatest players in the history of the sport [2] [1]. He won five NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers, Olympic gold in 1992 and the 1992 Tournament of the Americas with the U.S. Dream Team, an NCAA title with Michigan State in 1979 [1]. He was elected three times better NBA player and best player in the NBA Finals. His name appears in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame [3] and the list of the 50 best NBA players in history [4]. His jersey number 32 was officially retired by the Lakers Feb. 16, 1992 [5].
Magic Johnson has been able to revolutionize basketball [1] [6]: in fact be played point guard, a role traditionally reserved for the lowest and agile player on a team [7]. With its height of 206 cm was the highest play in NBA history [1] [8], but at the same time proved to be a dynamic player and has excellent vision of the game [1]: it has become famous for skills in dribbling, steps behind his back, alley-oops and no-look passes [1] [8] [9]. During the eighties was involved in a heated rivalry with the sporting wing of the Boston Celtics, Larry Bird [10] [11]. Until 1992, the year of the withdrawal of Bird, will share a total of eight NBA titles [12].
Magic has several times announced the retirement from racing. The first in November 1991, when revealed to the world that he contracted the HIV virus [13] [14]. But he returned to play Feb. 9, 1992, having been cleared to take part at the All-Star Game in 1992 [14], then participated in the Olympics, after which he retired again. He dedicated himself to a television commentator for NBC (1992-1994), briefly coached the Lakers in the season 1993-1994, and was appointed vice president of the team in the 1994-1995 season [14]. She started playing in 1996, playing 36 matches in Lakers jersey [15] and thus ending the NBA career. In May 1999, signed a sponsorship agreement for one year [16] with the Swedish team Boras M7 [17] [18], with whom he played six matches Svenska basketligan [19] [20]. In 2000 he repeated the experience with Great Danes in Denmark, where he became president and player [20] [21].
In 1991 he formed the "Magic Johnson Foundation," with the aim of raising funds to fight AIDS and to raise public awareness to issues of prevention and cure of the virus [22] [23]. In March 2012, at the helm of the business group Guggenheim Baseball Management LLC, acquired ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB baseball team [24].
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Eros (formally 433 Eros, the greek Ἔρως) is an asteroid in the solar system. Its orbit periodically brings it fairly close to Earth (it has a perihelion of 1.1 AU), and is therefore a near-Earth asteroid, rather broad category that includes asteroids whose orbits approaches or crosses that of Earth. More particularly, Eros is a typical asteroid Amor. It was discovered on August 13, 1898 by Auguste Charlois and Carl Gustav Witt, independently, and appointed by the gods in Greek mythology of love, Eros. [8]
S-type asteroid, ie composed primarily of silicates, has an irregular shape with dimensions of 34.4 × 11.2 × 11.2 km. [2] [3] Viewed from the poles is reminiscent of a banana or a peanut, due to the characteristic narrowing centrally. Its mass of 6.687 × 1015 kg [3] is equal to about one ten-millionth of the mass of the moon. The surface of golden-brown color, appears heavily cratered. The largest craters of a size comparable with that of Eros, as also observed on other asteroidal objects. The high-resolution images reveal the presence of a layer of regolith, whose thickness may be between 10 and 100 m, which covers Eros in all its parts. [9]
Among the objects of the solar system of its size, was the most observed. [10] [11] Historically, his comments were relevant to determining the value of the solar parallax (and hence the astronomical unit) and the weight of Earth-Moon system. [12] [8] This is the first asteroid orbited around which and upon which was placed a space probe. After entering orbit in 2000, the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft NASA has landed 12 February 2001 on the surface of the asteroid, where he conducted chemical analysis of soil.
When Eros was discovered was already introduced the distinction between planets and asteroids (minor planets or planetoids). [95] Nevertheless, its peculiarities attracted the attention of the scientific community, both public: Eros, because Not only was the first object to be discovered between Earth and Mars, but PERFORMED periodic approaches to our planet. [32]
Appeared for the first time in a work of fiction in the story in English Our Distant Cousins (1929) Irish writer Lord Dunsany, in which an aviator adventure ends on the asteroid to a navigational error in his return trip from Mars; Eros is a world alive, covered with forests and inhabited by animals similar to those on Earth, but from the very small size. [96] will then be set on the Eros comic strip On the Planetoid Joe Buck Rogers series, published between August 17 and December 2, 1931 in the United States.
In 1933, the future physicist Freeman Dyson, then nine years, wrote the story unfinished Erolunar Sir Phillip Robert's Collision, in which he imagines an expedition to the moon to observe the asteroid collision with the satellite. [52] The issue of possible collision recur later. Thus, in the episode Visitors From Outer Space animated series Space Angel, [97] when Joe appeared for the first time on television in 1962; in Superman vs. The Flash LCE published between October and November of 1976 by DC Comics; in the TV movie Asteroid 1997, [98] directed by Bradford May and Stephen Baxter's novel Evolution, 2003.
The mafia boss Carmine "The Roman" Falcone and his family take in hand the fate of Gotham City. The criminal organization, however, Falcone is looking for activities with which to recycle the vast amounts of dirty money accumulated in their coffers. Aiming to make agreements with the Gotham City Bank, he invites Bruce Wayne to the wedding of Johnny Viti, Falcone's nephew, and I randomly met Selina Kyle. As Batman, Wayne returns to the villa Falcone, finding even Catwoman. The two escape and Batman delivers a log boss to James Gordon and Harvey Dent, the three make a pact of cooperation in order to frame Falcone. Wayne replaces Richard Daniel, director of its business with banks in favor of tightening the Falcone family. On Halloween night, Daniel was murdered in the street by screws, which is then found dead in a bathtub, killed by two shots from a 22 caliber unidentified.
That same evening, with the help of Catwoman, Batman and Dent are one of the warehouses where the Roman hoards money not yet "cleaned up" and give it focus. Dent then returns home to his wife Gilda and her house explodes, [4] fortunately managed to escape, but his wife is forced to go to hospital. [5] In the following months, several members of the clan are murdered and Falcone it is clear that behind these crimes there is only one killer, dubbed by the press "Feast" for the distinction of making the crimes during a recurrence. Feast also always uses a 22 gauge and a nipple as a silencer. [5] [6]
New Year's Eve, during a party organized by Falcone on his yacht, his son Albert was killed by Feast. Dent At home, meanwhile, Harvey and Gilda celebrate the New Year with Gordon and his wife Barbara. Gilda confesses to Barbara desire to have a child, but believes it is a lost cause because of the enormous amount of work of her husband. [7]
The Valentine's Day, Dent, who has discovered a connection between Wayne and Falcone, is presented along with Gordon at the home of Wayne, but he was elsewhere with Selina, walking around the city, the woman gave him a rose and inadvertently Bruce stings. Back home, Bruce is waiting for Poison Ivy, which has subjugated the will of man through a poison contained in the flower. [8] Wayne gives the green light to its banks to deal with Falcon, but Catwoman intervenes, and by neutralizing Ivy come to himself a billionaire. The incident still casts a bad light on the Wayne-Gordon, at this point, has one more reason to bring the man to court. [9]
While Batman interrogates Julian Day, the Calendar Man, Arkham, Scarecrow escapes Batman chases him and suffers the effect of its toxins, then running away scared and disoriented, as Bruce Wayne, to the family vault, where it stops for Gordon his suspected links with Falcone. [10] In court, Alfred Pennyworth once revealed as Thomas Wayne has edited Carmine Falcone from death, secretly and without asking anything in return. Wayne was acquitted, but the trust placed in Dent begins to falter. Sal Maroni meanwhile, in conversation with his father, Louis, now in retreat, a powerless witness to her murder, yet the work of Feast. Maroni wants to work to frame Falcone, before they can delete it: it goes from Dent to forge an agreement. [11]
On Independence Day, the coroner is murdered by Day, just as Sal Maroni Dent informs Batman that he is ready to testify. Meanwhile, Sofia Falcone, daughter of the late boss, visits the cell Maroni, reminding him that Dent eliminated, no longer attempt to stick them. [12] On the day of the trial of Maroni, Gilda is a 22 caliber in the cellar, but Dent states that it is only a test that was taken home and went to court. During the trial against the boss, Maroni fakes a cough to answer questions and throw acid on Dent's face. Recovering in hospital, Dent escapes, and in the meantime feast kills Carla Viti, the sister of the boss Falcone, who was stealing the dossier on the mysterious killer in the coroner's office. [13]
After a month, Dent has not yet emerged into the open, Maroni Gordon was arrested and is now convinced that Harvey is Feast. Batman asks the opinion of Julian Day, who admits to not knowing where to find Dent, but remember that the hero will soon be on Labor Day Festival and could hit Maroni. The prediction proves true when Feast shoots the prisoner during his transfer. The killer also threatens Gordon, but Batman, disguised as a guard, foils the plan of the criminal, who turns out to be Alberto Falcone, the son of mob boss thought he was dead. [14] Alberto Falcone Festival and confesses to murdering the coroner, for he knew that he had faked his death, and Carla Viti, who was rummaging through the files of autopsies. Carmine's father is furious because Alberto has done everything to take his place, that evening Dent has become Two-Face, breaks into his house with Joker, Scarecrow, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Solomon Grundy, Penguin and Mad Hatter. Batman intervenes and kills Falcon, then track down and shoot the assistant corrupt Vernon Fields, who had procured the Maroni bottle of acid. Finally, Two-Face is arrested by Gordon, saying that justice was done, and that the festival was actually two. Batman plays him as if Dent had turned himself in Festa, then like Alberto Falcone.
On Christmas Eve, Gilda's packing up her things and moved away from Gotham, but before leaving took a box and throws its contents into a furnace, a 22 caliber pistol, a pacifier, a coat and a raincoat. Then, talking to himself, reveals that she is the party and that Harvey had committed all the crimes that of Falcone on, having had the same idea of his wife. Gilda had undertaken this mission in order to loosen the grip of the Falcon on Gotham, so as to leave Harvey and herself the time to build a family and have a child. Throwing the last things in the fire, said Alberto is lying to her husband and hopes that he can be cured, because he believes in Harvey Dent.
Magic Johnson has been able to revolutionize basketball [1] [6]: in fact be played point guard, a role traditionally reserved for the lowest and agile player on a team [7]. With its height of 206 cm was the highest play in NBA history [1] [8], but at the same time proved to be a dynamic player and has excellent vision of the game [1]: it has become famous for skills in dribbling, steps behind his back, alley-oops and no-look passes [1] [8] [9]. During the eighties was involved in a heated rivalry with the sporting wing of the Boston Celtics, Larry Bird [10] [11]. Until 1992, the year of the withdrawal of Bird, will share a total of eight NBA titles [12].
Magic has several times announced the retirement from racing. The first in November 1991, when revealed to the world that he contracted the HIV virus [13] [14]. But he returned to play Feb. 9, 1992, having been cleared to take part at the All-Star Game in 1992 [14], then participated in the Olympics, after which he retired again. He dedicated himself to a television commentator for NBC (1992-1994), briefly coached the Lakers in the season 1993-1994, and was appointed vice president of the team in the 1994-1995 season [14]. She started playing in 1996, playing 36 matches in Lakers jersey [15] and thus ending the NBA career. In May 1999, signed a sponsorship agreement for one year [16] with the Swedish team Boras M7 [17] [18], with whom he played six matches Svenska basketligan [19] [20]. In 2000 he repeated the experience with Great Danes in Denmark, where he became president and player [20] [21].
In 1991 he formed the "Magic Johnson Foundation," with the aim of raising funds to fight AIDS and to raise public awareness to issues of prevention and cure of the virus [22] [23]. In March 2012, at the helm of the business group Guggenheim Baseball Management LLC, acquired ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB baseball team [24].
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Eros (formally 433 Eros, the greek Ἔρως) is an asteroid in the solar system. Its orbit periodically brings it fairly close to Earth (it has a perihelion of 1.1 AU), and is therefore a near-Earth asteroid, rather broad category that includes asteroids whose orbits approaches or crosses that of Earth. More particularly, Eros is a typical asteroid Amor. It was discovered on August 13, 1898 by Auguste Charlois and Carl Gustav Witt, independently, and appointed by the gods in Greek mythology of love, Eros. [8]
S-type asteroid, ie composed primarily of silicates, has an irregular shape with dimensions of 34.4 × 11.2 × 11.2 km. [2] [3] Viewed from the poles is reminiscent of a banana or a peanut, due to the characteristic narrowing centrally. Its mass of 6.687 × 1015 kg [3] is equal to about one ten-millionth of the mass of the moon. The surface of golden-brown color, appears heavily cratered. The largest craters of a size comparable with that of Eros, as also observed on other asteroidal objects. The high-resolution images reveal the presence of a layer of regolith, whose thickness may be between 10 and 100 m, which covers Eros in all its parts. [9]
Among the objects of the solar system of its size, was the most observed. [10] [11] Historically, his comments were relevant to determining the value of the solar parallax (and hence the astronomical unit) and the weight of Earth-Moon system. [12] [8] This is the first asteroid orbited around which and upon which was placed a space probe. After entering orbit in 2000, the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft NASA has landed 12 February 2001 on the surface of the asteroid, where he conducted chemical analysis of soil.
When Eros was discovered was already introduced the distinction between planets and asteroids (minor planets or planetoids). [95] Nevertheless, its peculiarities attracted the attention of the scientific community, both public: Eros, because Not only was the first object to be discovered between Earth and Mars, but PERFORMED periodic approaches to our planet. [32]
Appeared for the first time in a work of fiction in the story in English Our Distant Cousins (1929) Irish writer Lord Dunsany, in which an aviator adventure ends on the asteroid to a navigational error in his return trip from Mars; Eros is a world alive, covered with forests and inhabited by animals similar to those on Earth, but from the very small size. [96] will then be set on the Eros comic strip On the Planetoid Joe Buck Rogers series, published between August 17 and December 2, 1931 in the United States.
In 1933, the future physicist Freeman Dyson, then nine years, wrote the story unfinished Erolunar Sir Phillip Robert's Collision, in which he imagines an expedition to the moon to observe the asteroid collision with the satellite. [52] The issue of possible collision recur later. Thus, in the episode Visitors From Outer Space animated series Space Angel, [97] when Joe appeared for the first time on television in 1962; in Superman vs. The Flash LCE published between October and November of 1976 by DC Comics; in the TV movie Asteroid 1997, [98] directed by Bradford May and Stephen Baxter's novel Evolution, 2003.
The mafia boss Carmine "The Roman" Falcone and his family take in hand the fate of Gotham City. The criminal organization, however, Falcone is looking for activities with which to recycle the vast amounts of dirty money accumulated in their coffers. Aiming to make agreements with the Gotham City Bank, he invites Bruce Wayne to the wedding of Johnny Viti, Falcone's nephew, and I randomly met Selina Kyle. As Batman, Wayne returns to the villa Falcone, finding even Catwoman. The two escape and Batman delivers a log boss to James Gordon and Harvey Dent, the three make a pact of cooperation in order to frame Falcone. Wayne replaces Richard Daniel, director of its business with banks in favor of tightening the Falcone family. On Halloween night, Daniel was murdered in the street by screws, which is then found dead in a bathtub, killed by two shots from a 22 caliber unidentified.
That same evening, with the help of Catwoman, Batman and Dent are one of the warehouses where the Roman hoards money not yet "cleaned up" and give it focus. Dent then returns home to his wife Gilda and her house explodes, [4] fortunately managed to escape, but his wife is forced to go to hospital. [5] In the following months, several members of the clan are murdered and Falcone it is clear that behind these crimes there is only one killer, dubbed by the press "Feast" for the distinction of making the crimes during a recurrence. Feast also always uses a 22 gauge and a nipple as a silencer. [5] [6]
New Year's Eve, during a party organized by Falcone on his yacht, his son Albert was killed by Feast. Dent At home, meanwhile, Harvey and Gilda celebrate the New Year with Gordon and his wife Barbara. Gilda confesses to Barbara desire to have a child, but believes it is a lost cause because of the enormous amount of work of her husband. [7]
The Valentine's Day, Dent, who has discovered a connection between Wayne and Falcone, is presented along with Gordon at the home of Wayne, but he was elsewhere with Selina, walking around the city, the woman gave him a rose and inadvertently Bruce stings. Back home, Bruce is waiting for Poison Ivy, which has subjugated the will of man through a poison contained in the flower. [8] Wayne gives the green light to its banks to deal with Falcon, but Catwoman intervenes, and by neutralizing Ivy come to himself a billionaire. The incident still casts a bad light on the Wayne-Gordon, at this point, has one more reason to bring the man to court. [9]
While Batman interrogates Julian Day, the Calendar Man, Arkham, Scarecrow escapes Batman chases him and suffers the effect of its toxins, then running away scared and disoriented, as Bruce Wayne, to the family vault, where it stops for Gordon his suspected links with Falcone. [10] In court, Alfred Pennyworth once revealed as Thomas Wayne has edited Carmine Falcone from death, secretly and without asking anything in return. Wayne was acquitted, but the trust placed in Dent begins to falter. Sal Maroni meanwhile, in conversation with his father, Louis, now in retreat, a powerless witness to her murder, yet the work of Feast. Maroni wants to work to frame Falcone, before they can delete it: it goes from Dent to forge an agreement. [11]
On Independence Day, the coroner is murdered by Day, just as Sal Maroni Dent informs Batman that he is ready to testify. Meanwhile, Sofia Falcone, daughter of the late boss, visits the cell Maroni, reminding him that Dent eliminated, no longer attempt to stick them. [12] On the day of the trial of Maroni, Gilda is a 22 caliber in the cellar, but Dent states that it is only a test that was taken home and went to court. During the trial against the boss, Maroni fakes a cough to answer questions and throw acid on Dent's face. Recovering in hospital, Dent escapes, and in the meantime feast kills Carla Viti, the sister of the boss Falcone, who was stealing the dossier on the mysterious killer in the coroner's office. [13]
After a month, Dent has not yet emerged into the open, Maroni Gordon was arrested and is now convinced that Harvey is Feast. Batman asks the opinion of Julian Day, who admits to not knowing where to find Dent, but remember that the hero will soon be on Labor Day Festival and could hit Maroni. The prediction proves true when Feast shoots the prisoner during his transfer. The killer also threatens Gordon, but Batman, disguised as a guard, foils the plan of the criminal, who turns out to be Alberto Falcone, the son of mob boss thought he was dead. [14] Alberto Falcone Festival and confesses to murdering the coroner, for he knew that he had faked his death, and Carla Viti, who was rummaging through the files of autopsies. Carmine's father is furious because Alberto has done everything to take his place, that evening Dent has become Two-Face, breaks into his house with Joker, Scarecrow, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Solomon Grundy, Penguin and Mad Hatter. Batman intervenes and kills Falcon, then track down and shoot the assistant corrupt Vernon Fields, who had procured the Maroni bottle of acid. Finally, Two-Face is arrested by Gordon, saying that justice was done, and that the festival was actually two. Batman plays him as if Dent had turned himself in Festa, then like Alberto Falcone.
On Christmas Eve, Gilda's packing up her things and moved away from Gotham, but before leaving took a box and throws its contents into a furnace, a 22 caliber pistol, a pacifier, a coat and a raincoat. Then, talking to himself, reveals that she is the party and that Harvey had committed all the crimes that of Falcone on, having had the same idea of his wife. Gilda had undertaken this mission in order to loosen the grip of the Falcon on Gotham, so as to leave Harvey and herself the time to build a family and have a child. Throwing the last things in the fire, said Alberto is lying to her husband and hopes that he can be cured, because he believes in Harvey Dent.