The Spirit (Denny Colt) is a crime-fighting fictional character created by writer-artist Will Eisner. He first appeared June 2, 1940 in "The Spirit Section", the colloquial name given to a 16-page Sunday supplement, distributed to 20 newspapers by the Register and Tribune Syndicate and reaching five million readers during the 1940s. In the 2000s, following Eisner's death, the Spirit returned in comic books published by DC Comics.

The Spirit chronicles the adventures of a masked vigilante who fights crime with the blessing of the city's police commissioner Dolan, an old friend. Despite the Spirit's origin as detective Denny Colt, his real identity was virtually unmentioned again, and for all intents and purposes he was simply "the Spirit". The stories range through a wide variety of styles, from straightforward crime drama and noir to lighthearted adventure, from mystery and horror to comedy and love stories, often with hybrid elements that twisted genre and reader expectations.

The feature was the lead item of a 16-page, tabloid-sized, newsprint comic book sold as part of eventually 20 Sunday newspapers with a combined circulation of as many as five million copies. "The Spirit Section", as it was colloquially called, premiered June 2, 1940, and continued until October 5, 1952. It generally included two other, four-page strips (initially Mr. Mystic and Lady Luck), plus filler material. Eisner worked as editor, but also wrote and drew most entries—generally, after the first few months, with such uncredited collaborators as writer Jules Feiffer and artists Jack Cole and Wally Wood, though with Eisner's singular vision for the character as a unifying factor.

Melanie Moore (born September 17, 1991) was the grand prize winner in the eighth season of the U.S. reality television competition So You Think You Can Dance. According to the results announced on the broadcast, Moore won "overwhelmingly", garnering 47% of the vote in a four-way final tally.

Moore was educated in Marietta, Georgia where she attended Lassiter High School and was crowned homecoming queen. At the time of the competition she was a 19-year-old college freshman attending Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York City. Moore trained and competed for twelve years in Marietta at Rhythm Dance Center. She later left college to continue her dance training in Marietta. Moore won the National JUMP Senior Female VIP.^{[citation needed][when?]}

Michelle Kosilek (57 years old) is a convicted murderer who has made headlines by fighting to undergo gender reassigment while in prison. She changed her name in 1993, and lives as a woman in an all-male prison. She was born Robert Kosilek, and still is a male physically and legally.

In 1990, She killed her spouse Cheryl. Michelle is serving a life sentence in Norfolk, Massachusetts.

She has been diagnosed with gender identity disorder. After suing the government in 2000 for violation of the Eighth Amendment, she has undergone female hormone therapy, laser hair therapy and psychotherapy.

She recently lost her lawsuit attempting to force the Massachusetts Department of Corrections to provide electrolysis for the eighth time.