She stunned tennis fans with her incredible serves and forehand smashes.
But en route to victory, Maria Sharapova even found time to recreate the iconic Athena poster after the wind caught her mini-dress.
Thankfully, unlike her 1970s counterpart, Miss Sharapova had remembered to put on some underwear.
The Russian star unintentionally recreated the photograph that was taken by Martin Elliott in September 1976 featuring his then girlfriend 18-year-old Fiona Butler.
It was not such a glamorous story for Britain's female tennis hopes Laura Robson and Elena Baltacha.
They came closer than might have been expected but by the end of play yesterday at Wimbledon, it was a familiar story for Britain’s girls.
Both of our remaining players in the women’s draw were dumped out of the tournament in the second round, despite  valiant efforts.
Miss Robson, just 17 years of age, had walked on to the court carrying her tennis backpack like a schoolgirl  off to a particularly unpleasant exam.
Yet when the tennis started she gave her glamorous and vastly more experienced opponent, Maria Sharapova, a real scare, racing to a 4-1 lead in the first set.

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Like the title of The Hills theme song, Lauren Conrad's love life is still "Unwritten."
After three solid years with actor Kyle Howard, 33, the former reality starlet, 25, and her beau have called it quits, PEOPLE has confirmed.
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GIven its huge profits -- it pulled in $8 billion in merchandising sales alone. -- it's no surprise that "Cars" would return for a second go round. After all, a combination of animation and cars is a toy maker's dream. And Disney has made a lot of toys from this franchise.
But it wasn't just cash that brought the computer animation studio back to the world of Lightning McQueen and Mater -- truth be told, they had a burning story to tell.
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Disney announced on Monday a new Pixar film would be released November 27, 2013, Deadline reports, though the House of Mouse withheld any information on title or plot. All they would reveal is that it will be an original story, not a sequel.
The 3D animation studio has a full roster of upcoming releases, the next being "Cars 2," which hits theaters on Friday. They'll premiere a "Toy Story" short, "Hawaiian Vacation," about Barbie and Ken before the showing of "Cars 2," and an untitled short before Disney's November release of "The Muppets." They'll also release Spanish-language short, "La Luna" in 2011.
In 2012, they will help out with the release of the Jerry Bruckheimer/Disney adventure film, "John Carter," and then release the studio's first film about a female hero in "Brave." Then, in 2013, a sequel to "Monsters, Inc.," titled "Monsters University" will hit theaters.
So, where does that leave this new mystery film? Right now, "Up" director and Pixar legend Pete Docter, who has had a major drawing and story hand in nearly all of the studio's big releases, is working on an untitled mystery project, to be released in 2013.

One is a beloved classic franchise of Hollywood-centric, musical theater-singing animal puppets. The other, a new hit medieval fantasy show about killing people. So it's only a natural fit that they're mashed up together.

Where most people would see the Muppets and the HBO hit "Game of Thrones" as entirely disparate worlds, artist and director Yehudi Mercado saw parallels. So many, in fact, that he just had to draw them.

The initial inspiration, he told The Huffington Post, came from a conversation with his comic book writing friend, Paul Benjamin, who had done the Muppets version of King Arthur, a much cleaner, classic medieval-muppets mashup. That four book series was part of a longer line of Muppet spins on classic fairytales; there's also Muppet Robin Hood, Muppet Peter Pan, Muppet Snow White and Muppet Sherlock Holmes.

But while he "had fun matching [Muppets] with inappropriate properties," the real aha! moment came was borne of one casual visual connection.

"The idea of mashing-up Muppets with 'Game of Thrones' started with the Varys character (the bald eunuch), I thought he looked a lot like Dr. Bunsen Honeydew," Mercado said. "That revelation led me to Kermit the Stark and then the rest naturally fell into place. Miss Piggy as Cersei, Link Hogthrob as Jaime Lannister... I knew I had something special when I paired the barbaric Kahl Drogo with Animal. Rizzo as Joffrey was a fan suggestion. I still plan to draw Sweetums as The Hound and Robin as the little crippled Bran Stark."

It takes some knowledge of the HBO show to fully understand his references, there's no question that the pictures speak for themselves. Check out a number of the great images below, and click over to Yehudi's Game of Thrones of Muppets website to see them all, and buy prints.

Gay couples and proponents of gay rights have a reason to celebrate tonight, as the New York State Senate has passed a bill that allows same sex marriage.

New York will be the sixth, and largest, state in the union to adopt gay marriage. Governor Cuomo signed the bill into law at 11:15pm on Friday, which means the law will take effect on July 24, 2011.

The decision, which passed 33-29, was the culmination of weeks of contentious debate and negotiations between Governor Cuomo and the GOP-controlled Senate. After the bill passed in the Assembly, it was unclear if the bill had secured enough votes to pass in the Senate. When a few notable undecideds joined the cause --including Republican Roy McDonald who famously defended his decision, saying "fuck it, I don't care what you think. I'm trying to do the right thing" -- the scale in favor of gay marriage seemed to tip.

Gay rights advocates are hoping the vote will galvanize the movement around the country and help it regain momentum after an almost identical bill was defeated here in 2009 and similar measures failed in 2010 in New Jersey and this year in Maryland and Rhode Island.

"We are leaders and we join other proud states that recognize our families and the battle will now go on in other states," said Sen. Thomas Duane, a Democrat.

Though New York is a relative latecomer in allowing gay marriage, it is considered an important prize for advocates, given the state's size and New York City's international stature and its role as the birthplace of the gay rights movement, which is considered to have started with the Stonewall riots in Greenwich Village in 1969.

A huge street party erupted outside the Stonewall Inn Friday night, with celebrants waving rainbow flags and dancing after the historic vote. They included Sarah Ellis, who has been in a six-year relationship with her partner, Kristen Henderson, said the measure would enable them to get married in the fall. They have twin toddlers and live in Sea Cliff on Long Island.

Dry Water: "

Dry water was discovered in 1968 and got attention for its potential use in cosmetics. Scientists at the University of Hull, U.K. rediscovered it in 2006 in order to study its structure, and Cooper’s group at the University of Liverpool has since expanded its range of potential applications.

An unusual substance known as “dry water,” which resembles powdered sugar, could provide a new way to absorb and store carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, scientists reported at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.

Dry water also could provide a safer way to store and transport potentially harmful industrial materials.Carter explained that the substance became known as “dry water” because it consists of 95 percent water and yet is a dry powder. Each powder particle contains a water droplet surrounded by modified silica, the stuff that makes up ordinary beach sand. The silica coating prevents the water droplets from combining and turning back into a liquid. The result is a fine powder that can slurp up gases, which chemically combine with the water molecules to form what chemists term a hydrate.

One of the most recent involves using dry water as a storage material for gases, including carbon dioxide. In laboratory-scale research, Cooper and co-workers found that dry water absorbed over three times as much carbon dioxide as ordinary, uncombined water and silica in the same space of time. This ability to absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide gas as a hydrate could make it useful in helping to reduce global warming, the scientists suggested

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When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. -Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman

“No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.”

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. -Mark Twain

“Round numbers are always false.”- Dr Samuel Johnsonn

“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you”

It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.- Bono

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”- Robert Louis Stevenson

A liar should have a good memory.- Quintilian

“Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.”

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie”

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.- Lenin

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn

The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”

“It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.” Arthur Calwell

“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence.” -Henri Frdric Amiel

“A half-truth is a whole lie”

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“A half-truth is a whole lie.” -Jewish Proverb

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