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Career. Playing style. Achievements. Performance timeline. Record against selected opponents. Notes. Sponsorships. Note. References. External links. Tai Tzu-ying ( Chinese: 戴資穎; pinyin: Dài Zīyǐng; Wade–Giles: Tai Tzu-ying; born 20 June 1994) is a Taiwanese badminton player. [1] .
- Lai Chien-cheng (賴建誠)
- 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
- Taiwan
- 57 kg (126 lb; 9.0 st)
Akane Yamaguchi (山口茜, Yamaguchi Akane, born 6 June 1997) is a Japanese badminton player. She was a two-time world champion who won gold medals in the women's singles at the 2021 and 2022 World Championships.
- Japan
- 2012–present
- 55 kg (121 lb)
- 6 June 1997 (age 26), Katsuyama, Fukui, Japan
- Early Life
- The Leakeys and The Congo
- Conservation Work in Rwanda
- Assassination
- Personal Life and Views
- Legacy
- See Also
- Selected Bibliography
- External Links
Fossey was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Hazel (née Kidd), a fashion model, and George Edward Fossey III, a real estate agent and business owner. Her parents divorced when she was six. Her mother remarried the following year, to businessman Richard Price. Her father tried to keep in contact, but her mother discouraged it, and a...
Journey to Africa
Fossey turned down an offer to join the Henrys on an African tour due to lack of finances, but in 1963 she borrowed $8,000 (one year's salary), took out her life savings and went on a seven-week visit to Africa. In September 1963, she arrived in Nairobi, Kenya. While there, she met actor William Holden, owner of Treetops Hotel, who introduced her to her safari guide, John Alexander. Alexander became her guide for the next seven weeks through Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, and...
Research in the Congo
When Leakey made an appearance in Louisville while on a nationwide lecture tour, Fossey took the color supplements that had appeared about her African trip in The Courier-Journal to show to Leakey, who remembered her and her interest in mountain gorillas. Three years after the original safari, Leakey suggested that Fossey could undertake a long-term study of the gorillas in the same manner as Jane Goodall had with chimpanzees in Tanzania.Leakey lined up funding for Fossey to research mountain...
On September 24, 1967, Fossey founded the Karisoke Research Center, a remote rainforest camp nestled in Ruhengeri province in the saddle of two volcanoes. For the research center's name, Fossey used "Kari" for the first four letters of Mount Karisimbi that overlooked her camp from the south, and "soke" for the last four letters of Mount Bisoke, the...
In the early morning of December 27, 1985, Fossey was discovered murdered in the bedroom of her cabin located at the far edge of the camp in the Virunga Mountains, Rwanda. Her body was found face-up near the two beds where she slept, roughly 7 feet (2 m) away from a hole that her assailant(s) had apparently cut in the wall of the cabin. Wayne Richa...
During her African safari, Fossey met Alexie Forrester, the brother of a Rhodesian she had been dating in Louisville; Fossey and Forrester later became engaged. In her later years, Fossey became involved with National Geographic photographer Bob Campbell after a year of working together at Karisoke, with Campbell promising to leave his wife. Eventu...
After her death, Fossey's Digit Fund in the US was renamed the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International. The Karisoke Research Center is operated by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, and continues[when?]the daily gorilla monitoring and protection that she started. Fossey is generally credited with reversing the downward trend in the mountai...
Books
1. —— (1983). Gorillas in the Mist. Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 9780395282175. OCLC 9132014. 2. —— (1972). "Living with mountain gorillas". In Allen, Thomas (ed.). The marvels of animal behavior. Washington: National Geographic Society. pp. 208–229. ISBN 9780870441059. OCLC 694851776. 3. ——; Harcourt, A.H. (1977). Brock, T. H. (ed.). Primate ecology : studies of feeding and ranging behaviour in lemurs, monkeys, and apes. London New York: Academic Press. pp. 415–447. doi:10.1016/B978-...
Scholarly articles
1. —— (Summer 1982). "An amiable giant: Fuertes's gorilla". The Living Bird: 21–22. ISSN 0459-6137. OCLC 1783015. 2. —— (1982). "Mountain gorilla research, 1974". Research Reports – National Geographic Society. Washington, DC. 14: 243–258. ISSN 0077-4626. OCLC 1586425. 3. —— (1980). "Mountain gorilla research, 1971–1972". Projects. Research Reports – National Geographic Society 1971. Washington, DC. 12: 237–255. ISSN 0077-4626. OCLC 1586425. 4. —— (1978). "Mountain gorilla research, 1969–1970...
Chew Shou Zi ( Chinese: 周受资, born 1 January 1983), commonly known as Shou Zi Chew, is a Singaporean businessman and entrepreneur who has been serving as the chief executive officer of TikTok, an online video platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, since 2021. [1] [2] [3] Early life and education.
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- January 1, 1983 (age 40), Singapore
- Vivian Kao
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