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A girl is any female human from birth through childhood and adolescence to attainment of adulthood when she becomes a woman. The term may also be used to mean a young woman.
The English word girl first appeared during the Middle Ages between 1250 and 1300 CE and came from the Anglo-Saxon words gerle (also spelled girle or gurle). The Anglo-Saxon word gerela meaning dress or clothing item also seems to have been used as a metonym in some sense.
Girl has meant any young unmarried woman since about 1530. Its first noted meaning for sweetheart is 1648. The earliest known appearance of girl-friend is in 1892 and girl next door, meant as a teenaged female or young woman with a kind of wholesome appeal, dates only to 1961.
The word girl is sometimes used to refer to an adult female. This usage may be considered derogatory or disrespectful in professional or other formal contexts, just as the term boy can be considered disparaging when applied to an adult man. Hence, this usage is often deprecative. It can also be used deprecatively when used to discriminate against children ("you're just a girl").
Power Girl (real name Kara Zor-L, also known as Karen Starr) is a DC Comics superheroine, making her first appearance in All Star Comics #58 (January/February 1976).
Power Girl is the Earth-Two counterpart of Supergirl and the first cousin of Kal-L, Superman of the pre-Crisis Earth-Two. The infant Power Girl's parents enabled her to escape the destruction of Krypton. Although she left the planet at the same time that Superman did, her ship took much longer to reach Earth-Two.
Possessing superhuman strength and the ability to fly, she is a member of the Justice Society of America and the team's first chairwoman. Power Girl sports a bob of blond hair; wears a distinctive white, red, and blue costume; and has an aggressive fighting style. Throughout her early appearances in All Star Comics, Power Girl was frequently at odds with Wildcat, who had a penchant for talking to her as if she were an ordinary human female rather than a superpowered Kryptonian, which she found annoying.
The 1985 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths eliminated Earth-Two, causing her origin to change; she became the granddaughter of the Atlantean sorcerer Arion. However, story events culminating in the 2005-2006 Infinite Crisis limited series restored her status as a refugee from the Krypton of the destroyed pre-Crisis Earth-Two universe. She was ranked ninth in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.
Amanda Louise Holden (born 16 February 1971) is a British actress and presenter. Among her roles are Mia Bevan in Cutting It, Sarah Trevanion in Wild at Heart, and the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award. Since 2007, Holden has been a judge on Britain's Got Talent.
She is married to record producer Chris Hughes. Her marriage to Family Fortunes presenter Les Dennis ended in divorce in 2003.
Holden was born in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire to Judith Mary Harrison and Naval petty officer Frank Holden. Her parents split up when she was four and she was brought up in the village of Waltham Chase, by Harrison and stepfather Leslie Drew Collister. She joined the Bishop's Waltham Little Theatre Company when she was nine, and credits Angie Blackford as influential in her early stage career. When she was 16 the family moved to Bournemouth and ran a small B&B while Amanda herself studied Drama and English literature A levels with Terry Clarke and Charles Lamb at the Jellicoe Theatre, now part of Bournemouth and Poole College. She successfully auditioned for the independent drama school Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in the Wood Green area of North London when she was 18, graduating in July 1994.
Actors: Joe Pisciotta (writer), Joe Pisciotta (director), Joe Pisciotta (editor), Paris Adkins (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Oren Soffer (director), Oren Soffer (editor), Oren Soffer (writer), Phoenix Glendinning (composer), Eric Phillips (composer), Lihed Adam (actor), Danny Medan (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Sam Ryan (editor), Sam Ryan (producer), Sam Ryan (writer), Sam Ryan (director), Kurt Murray (actor), Jesse Schuppan (composer), Cara Adriana (actor), Mike Andersen (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Sandi Rankaduwa (writer), Sandi Rankaduwa (producer), Sandi Rankaduwa (director), Sandi Rankaduwa (editor), Matt Charlton (composer), Mitch Fraser (actor), Yeha Ahn (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Teresa Huang (director), Teresa Huang (producer), Eileen Soong (miscellaneous crew), Chris Miyasaki (editor), Benjamin Kim (actor), Rona Par (actress), Dennis Bover (miscellaneous crew), Christie Yih Chong (composer), Madeline Abiera (actor), Norberto Estudillo Mendoza (actor),
Genres: Drama, Family, Short,Actors: Will Leon (actor), Ryan Pierson (actor), William C. Albert (actor), Adnan Novo (actor), Michael Butler (director), Michael Butler (actor), Dion Wade (actor), Michael Butler (producer), Michael Butler (writer), Vincent Igneri (writer), Vincent Igneri (actor), Eric Animal Rane (actor), Jeremy Keith Clayton (actor), Holly Miller Addison (actor), Moskowitz David (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Todd Sautner (producer), Victoria Hogan (writer), Trevor Pogue (writer), Trevor Pogue (director), Trevor Pogue (editor), Chris Chaska (actor), Drew Barretto (actor), Janelle de la Cruz (actor), Melissa Belarge (actress), Kyle de Arakal (actor), Torey Mang (actor), Nikki Adams (actor), Madison Esposito (actress),
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Hafid Abdelmoula (actor), Hafid Abdelmoula (producer), Hafid Abdelmoula (writer), Hafid Abdelmoula (composer), Hafid Abdelmoula (director), Hafid Abdelmoula (editor), Trudel Abdelmoula (actor), Trudel Abdelmoula (producer), Sean Hobbs (writer), Sean Hobbs (actor), Mounir Abdelmoula (actor), Yasmine Abdelmoula (actor), Jihad Abdelmoula (composer),
Genres: Music, Short,Actors: Mohsen Makhmalbaf (miscellaneous crew), Babak Karimi (editor), Michael Galasso (composer), Marco Mueller (producer), Babak Payami (producer), Babak Payami (writer), Babak Payami (director), Hooshangh Payami (producer), Cyrus Abidi (actor), Youssef Habashi (actor), Gholbahar Janghali (actor), Farrokh Shojaii (actor), Nassim Abdi (actor), Faride Harajl (costume designer),
Plot: A soldier stationed on a deserted beach wakes up and discovers that it's not going to be an ordinary day: there are the elections, but nobody seems to know anything about them. Just as an electoral urn is being parachuted from the sky, a young woman disembarks on the beach. To the soldier's bafflement, it turns out that she is in charge of the mobile electoral seat and voting on the islands; therefore the soldier is obliged to obey her orders and escort her with his rifle and army jeep across the desert, where the woman obstinately intends to collect the votes. During the day, stressed by a series of absurd events, the two learn to get to know each other. At sunset, when the young woman leaves, the man realizes that the secret vote contained much more than he had ever imagined.
Keywords: adolescent, airplane, appointment, arrest, automobile, baby, ballot, ballot-box, bare-chested-male, beachActors: Reine Brynolfsson (actor), Peter Andersson (actor), Göran Forsmark (actor), Antti Reini (actor), Jonas Karlsson (actor), Rea Mauranen (actress), Bjørn Sundquist (actor), Shanti Roney (actor), Håkan Karlsson (editor), Maria Lundqvist (actress), Lakke Magnusson (actor), Cecilia Frode (actress), Anders Lönnbro (actor), Yvonne Schaloske (actress), Anneli Martini (actress),
Genres: Drama,