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 TrouserPress.com :: Poison Girls
The Poison Girls — a wise post-adolescent poet/singer/guitarist who wittily calls herself Vi Subversa plus a male backing band — are politicized musical agitators employing rock (minimalist at the start but improving steadily to the point of sophisticated diversity later on) as their means for registering social and sexual protest.
It's an exciting document, but the studio albums offer an easier entry point to the Poison Girls' music, thanks to a somewhat varied approach that doesn't carry over in concert.
POISON GIRLS ( Buy CDs by this artist)
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 Magical girl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Magical girls (mahō shōjo,魔法少女) belong to a sub-genre of Japanese shōjo anime and manga.
Magical girls are also known in Japan as 'majokko' (魔女っ子), literally "witch girl", though this term is generally not used to refer to modern magical girl anime.
Powers or no powers, though, magical girls are rarely pushovers even in mundane form, as they tend to learn ordinary acrobatics, martial arts, or other offensive and/or defensive actions, to supplement their supernatural talents.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magical_girls   (1137 words)

  
 Radium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935.
Radium (usually in the form of radium chloride) is used in medicine to produce radon gas which in turn is used as a cancer treatment.
Radium preparations are remarkable for maintaining themselves at a higher temperature than their surroundings, and for their radiations, which are of three kinds: alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma rays.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radium   (1068 words)

  
 Girls Aloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Girls Aloud are also set to appear at the V Festival in Chelmsford and Staffordshire on August 19th and 20th, 2006.
Girls Aloud are one of the most successful girl groups in the United Kingdom.
Girls Aloud's debut album, Sound of the Underground, was released in May 2003.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Girls_Aloud   (2746 words)

  
 Radium Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Radium Girls was the name given to women subjected to radiation exposure at the United States Radium Corporation factory, in Orange, New Jersey, beginning during World War I, five of whom gained notoriety for their efforts in challenging their employer in court.
The Radium Girls saga holds an important place in the history of both the progression of the field of health physics and of the labor rights movement.
The story of the workers was immortalized in the poem "Radium Girls" by Eleanor Swanson, and is included in her collection, A Thousand Bonds: Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium (2003).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radium_Girls   (774 words)

  
 Nitro Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nitro Girls were a dance team in World Championship Wrestling that danced during commercials on WCW Monday Nitro to entertain the fans.
The Nitro Girls were formed in 1997 by Kimberly Page at Eric Bischoff's request.
The Nitro Girls filmed their own PPV that aired in 1999.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nitro_Girls   (276 words)

  
 Mercer Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mercer Girls or Mercer Maids refers to the 1860's project of Asa Shinn Mercer, an American who lived in Seattle, who decided to "import" women to Pacific Northwest.
Mercer proceeded to travel to Boston and later to textile town of Lowell.
By the time Mercer was to depart with his new charges in January 6, 1868, he had fewer than hundred recruits, when he had promised five times that much.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercer_Girls   (276 words)

  
 Spice Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Spice Girls; Cripps, Rebecca; and Peachey, Mal (1997).
From this point up to the summer of 1996, the Spice Girls continued to write and record tracks for their debut album while extensively touring the west coast of America, where they had signed a publishing deal with Windswept Pacific.
The Spice Girls also found themselves at the forefront of a miniature British cultural revolution in the mid-1990s.
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 Some Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1994, Some Girls was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records, with a restoration of the original cover art and the first pressing being packaged in a replica of the original vinyl packaging.
Some Girls appeared in June to a very welcoming audience, reaching #1 in the US and #2 in the UK, becoming their biggest-selling studio album in the process (currently certified six times platinum in the US alone).
Some Girls is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1978.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Some_Girls   (1272 words)

  
 Asa Shinn Mercer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is remembered primarily for his role in three milestones of the old American West: the founding of the University of Washington, the Mercer Girls and the Johnson County War.
As Mercer came to see the clearly underhanded treatment of individual ranchers by the cartels, he began to write more scathing accounts of the events that were unfolding on the open range.
Mercer became well-known throughout the West as a publisher, and eventually found his way to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he published the Northwestern Livestock Journal, a public relations vehicle for the moneyed cattle interests.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asa_Shinn_Mercer   (1272 words)

  
 Top Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
We then jump to the present (early 80s) where we see Marlene at work in the surprisingly masculine world of the female staff of the agency, in which the ladies of 'Top Girls' must be tough and insensitive in order to compete with men.
In Act I, scene 1, Marlene is depicted as a successful businesswoman, and all her guests from different ages celebrate her promotion in the 'Top Girls' ad agency.
It depicts the life of Marlene, a hard-bitten career woman who runs the 'Top Girls' employment agency, and her interactions with her depressed, unemployed sister, Joyce.
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 Girls On Top (Richard X) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Girls On Top was the pseudonym used by music producer Richard X between 2001 and 2002.
Girls On Top "Greatest Hits" (April 2005) - An unofficial release featuring all four of Girls On Top's singles, along with the unreleased "Romance V.3" (Aaliyah vs OMD), a Richard X remix of the Sugababes single "Freak Like Me" and Fat Truckers' "Teenage Daughter".
The most successful record produced by Girls On Top is "We Don't Give A Damn About Our Friends" which became the comeback single for the Sugababes in 2002.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Girls_On_Top_(Richard_X)   (296 words)

  
 Boys/Girls State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boys State and Girls State are summertime programs geared towards leadership and citizenship training sponsored by the American Legion for high school students between their junior and senior years.
The Boys and Girls State programs are run in 49 of the 50 U.S. states, usually on a college campus within that state.
Each of these Boys State and Girls State groups sends two delegates to Boys Nation and Girls Nation, in Washington, D.C. These delegates are usually the participants elected to the Governor and Lt. Governor positions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Girls_State   (296 words)

  
 Soldier Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soldier Girls is a documentary film by Nick Broomfield about several females training in the US army.
Several of these girls become harder and colder through the course of their basic training; Abing himself the perfect example of what the military can turn people into.
Under the aggressive Sergeant Abing are several girls, some dedicated to defending their country, others who seem to have been forced into joining by circumstance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soldier_Girls   (296 words)

  
 Poison Girls biography - theiceberg.com
The Poison Girls' firebrand political pop was first heard on a shared 12-inch EP, Fatal Microbes Meet The Poison Girls, a co-release for Small Wonder Records and the band's own label, Xntrix, in 1979.
Poison Girls shared much of Crass's ideology (anarchism and communal living), though often through a more accessible musical medium.
After Songs Of Praise, and a one-off 12-inch single for the Upright label (a memorable effort too in "The Price Of Grain"), the Poison Girls broke up.
www.icebergradio.com /artist/26839/poison_girls.html   (296 words)

  
 Indigo Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Indigo Girls are an American folk-rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers.
Their first major-label release, also titled Indigo Girls, included a new version of "Land of Canaan", which was also on their 1985 EP and on Strange Fire.
Indigo Girls at Park West in Chicago, September 18, 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indigo_Girls   (839 words)

  
 Anime News Network - Girls Bravo (TV)
Now in high school, he has developed a rare condition: whenever girls touch him, or even come close, he breaks out in hives.
Plot Summary: Small for his age, Yukinari has been bullied and abused by girls all his life.
Imagine his surprise, when he is suddenly transported to the city of Seiren on a mystic world invisibly orbiting the Earth, and populated with vast numbers of women and very few men.
www.animenewsnetwork.com /encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4146   (174 words)

  
 Animefringe: August 2005 - Reviews - Girls Bravo Vol. 1
Girls Bravo is a pretty straight-forward harem comedy, as you have a group of pretty girls going after one dork for one reason or another.
A decent small touch was having his sister as one of the girls after Yukinari, and she is certainly unique, considering she dips into the black arts from time to time.
Girls Bravo is a show tailored for fan service fanatics, as there is plenty to see.
www.animefringe.com /magazine/2005/08/review/01.php   (977 words)

  
 Uptown Girls Review :: Hollywood.com
Uptown Girls is occasionally too mature for kids and often too childish for adults.
Of course, as with all fairy tales, Uptown Girls is destined for a happy ending.
If the intention is to appeal to preteen girls--as Disney's successfully done with The Princess Diaries and its Freaky Friday remake--Yakin has failed miserably.
www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/1724898   (965 words)

  
 Uptown Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uptown Girls is a 2003 comedy/ drama directed by Boaz Yakin and adapted from the story by Allison Jacobs into screenplay by Julia Dahl, Mo Ogrodnik and Lisa Davidowitz.
She is hired as a nanny for an uptight nine year old girl named Ray (Dakota Fanning) who's often ignored by her busy, music executive mother (Heather Locklear).
Molly and Ray couldn't be anymore different - Molly is an adult but acts like a child, and Ray is a child who acts like an adult.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uptown_Girls   (248 words)

  
 VH1.com : Spice Girls : Biography
Spice Girls use dance-pop as a musical base, but they infused the music with a fiercely independent, feminist stance that was equal parts Madonna, post-riot grrrl alternative rock feminism, and a co-opting of the good-times-all-the-time stance of England's new lad culture.
Spice Girls' creative power overruled media scrutiny so that they could fully focus on the new R&B sound they were trying for and a the new collaboration united the foursome once again to release the third album Forever, which hit American shores in fall 2000.
Spice Girls were the first major British pop music phenomenon of the mid-'90s to not have a debt to independent pop/rock.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/spice_girls/bio.jhtml   (783 words)

  
 Some Girls Wander By Mistake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some Girls Wander By Mistake is a collection of early independent singles by the UK band The Sisters of Mercy.
The full line is "Some girls wander by mistake / Into the mess that scalpels make".
It was released in 1992 (1992 in music) on the band's own label Merciful Release under distribution to EastWest (and, due to conflict between the two, never released in USA).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Some_Girls_Wander_By_Mistake   (193 words)

  
 International Order of the Rainbow for Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first class of girls that was initiated into the Order consisted of a class of 171 girls, on April 6, 1922, in the auditorium of the Scottish Rite Temple in McAlester.
Girls (ages 11-21) learn about the value of charity and service through their work and involvement with their annual local and Grand (state or country) service projects.
The highest office that can be bestowed on a Rainbow girl is that of Grand Worthy Advisor of her particular state.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Order_of_the_Rainbow_for_Girls   (193 words)

  
 [ELGIN] Luminous Watch Dial Risks (Radium, Tritium, Phosphorus)
Radium Girls" caused the popularity to wane in the 1930s, but radium dials were again used widely during WWII.
In the late 1920s, it became obvious that the girls and women who painted the dials were suffering and sometimes dying from health complications caused by the radium.
Radium dissolved in water was even sold as a health tonic and said to increase your energy levels and cure diseases.
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 Radium Watch Dial Patterns X-ray Vintage Watches Radioactive
Radium, a radioacitve substance, was mixed with other ingredients to create a luminous paint for applying to the dials and hands of clocks and watches, making them glow.
Radium has an interesting history: It was hailed as a miracle discovery, and was used in radiotherapy for certain cancers.
Clearly the implication was that the radium paint was directly responsible for the illness.
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 Nitro
La Nitro esas la kemiala elemento di qua la atomala nombro esas 7 e olua simbolo esas N.
La Nitro esas senkolora, senodora ed insipida e konstitucas cirkum 78% dil atmosferala aero, quankam ol ne partropenas en du importanta biologiala eventi quale la respirado e la kombusto.
Atlanta Constitution 01-04-1999 It's "Monday Nitro" in Chattanooga.
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 HistoryLink Essay: Mercer Girls
Mercer organized a second expedition of Mercer Girls, which left New York on January 16, 1866 and arrived in Seattle with 34 unmarried women on May 28, 1866.
Mercer for his efforts on behalf of the Washington Territory, the reception was adjourned to the grounds of the University where everyone beheld a beautiful western sunset.
Mercer had intended for his group to travel on the monthly steamer for Washington Territory but the delay in Panama City caused them to miss the sailing.
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 Indigo Girls (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indigo Girls is the first major-label album by the Indigo Girls.
It was released on February 21, 1989 on Epic Records.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indigo_Girls_(album)   (159 words)

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