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Monica (singer)

Monica Denise Brown, ( née Arnold; born October 24, 1980), simply known as Monica, is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and actress. Born and raised in College Park, Georgia, she began performing as a child and became part of a traveling gospel choir at the age of ten. She rose to prominence after releasing her debut studio album Miss Thang in 1995. It went multiplatinum, while its first two singles " Don't Take It Personal" and " Before You Walk Out of My Life" made her the youngest recording act to ever have two consecutive chart-topping hits on the Billboard Top R&B Singles chart. In 1998, Monica's second album The Boy Is Mine earned her major international chart success. Pushed by its Grammy Award-winning number-one hit title track, a duet with singer Brandy, it spawned two further Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers, " The First Night" and " Angel of Mine", and established her position as one of the most successful of the urban R&B female vocalists to emerge in the mid to late-1990s.

Monica also ventured into acting, with a supporting role in Boys and Girls (2000), and starring roles in television film Love Song (2000). During the production of her third album, All Eyez on Me (2002), Monica experienced personal struggles and her career went under hiatus. In 2003, her fourth album, After the Storm, was released, and after an unsuccessful period, she scored her fifth number one single on the US R&B/Hip Hop, " So Gone". The album also included her Top 20 Billboard Hot 100 hit " U Should've Known Better". Her sixth album, Still Standing, which recording was tracked by her BET reality show Monica: Still Standing, was released in 2010 and produced the hit single " Everything to Me", which became her sixth number one hit on the US R&B/Hip Hop.

Monica has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, including over 5.3 million albums in the United States alone. With a career lasting over 15 years, she became the first artist to top the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. In 2010, Billboard listed Monica at number 24 on its list of the Top 50 R&B and Hip Hop Artists of the past 25 years.

Monica (radar)

Monica was a range-only tail warning radar for bombers, introduced by the RAF in June 1942. Officially known as ARI 5664, it operated at the boundary between VHF and UHF frequencies of around 300 MHz. It was developed at the Bomber Support Development Unit in Worcestershire.

Unfortunately for the RAF, the Germans developed a passive radar receiver, Flensburg (FuG 227), which was used by Luftwaffe nightfighters from spring 1944 onward to home in on bombers using Monica. On the morning of 13 July 1944, a Junkers Ju 88G-1 nightfighter equipped with Flensburg mistakenly landed at RAF Woodbridge. After examining the Flensburg equipment, the RAF ordered Monica withdrawn from all Bomber Command aircraft.

Monica was also used by the U.S. Army Air Corps as the AN/APS-13, where - known as Archie - it was used as the radar altimeter for the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Monica (rocket)

Monica is the designation of a small French sounding rocket. It was built in several versions, which were between 3.05 and 6.27 m long and had a takeoff weight between 62 and 154 kg. It was launched several times between 1955 and 1962 at Bachar ( Algeria), Hammaguir (Algeria) and the Ile de Levant (France).

Monica (Saunders Lewis)

Monica is a novel by Saunders Lewis, written in the Welsh language and originally published in 1930. Lewis is better known for poetry and plays, and this was his first novel.

Monica (grape)

Monica is a red wine grape that is grown primarily in Sardinia and is one of the few grapes that wine regulations allow to appear on the wine label. The vine originated in Spain but is rarely grown there in recent times. The wine made from these grapes tends to be simple wines made to be consumed young.

Monica di Cagliari is a notable sweet wine made from the grape. Monica di Sardegna is a drier wine.

Monica (given name)

Monica is a female given name with many variant forms, including Mónica (Spanish and European Portuguese), Mônica (Brazilian Portuguese), Monique (French), Monicka, Monika, Moniqua, Monike, Mónika, Monnica, Moneca and Moneeca.

Monica (Monica's Gang)

Monica is the main character of Monica's Gang (Turma da Mônica) comic strips. She was created in 1963. Mauricio de Sousa based the character on his own daughter, who is also named Monica. Monica's hair is influenced by a haircut his older daughter Mariângela gave her once when she was a kid. In 2007, Monica became a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.

Monica (actress)

Monica (born Rekha Maruthiraj) is a former Indian film actress, who starred predominantly in Tamil language films. A child actor in the early 1990s, she mostly appeared in supporting roles, before taking lead roles from the late 2000s on. She is probably best known for performances in the films Azhagi, Imsai Arasan 23m Pulikesi and Silandhi. In 2012, she changed her name to Parvana for Malayalam films. In 2014, she converted to Islam, changing her name to M. G. Rahima, and announced that she had quit acting.

Monica (automobile)

Monica was a brand of luxury cars created in France in the 1970s by Jean Tastevin, a French industrialist whose wife's name was Monica.

Monica was the last attempt (after Facel Vega) to create a luxury brand in France. Its only French competitor was the Citroën SM Opéra, the sedan which was built by Chapron.

Although intended to be built in France, design, development and prototype building was entrusted to Chris Lawrence at C.J. Lawrence Consultants of Hammersmith, London, England. The 4-door, 4-seat saloon featured a De Dion rear suspension.

The earliest prototype Monicas were powered by a Ted Martin designed 3.4l V8 engine but later prototypes and the production model were equipped with a Chrysler 5.6 l (340 in³) V8 engine. Advertised transmission options were the Chrysler Torqueflite system or a ZF 5-speed manual gear box.

The Monica 560 was presented at the Salon de Paris 1972 and production began in 1973 at a facility located in Balbigny, Loire. Only 8 production cars (as well as 22 prototypes) were completed before the factory closed in 1974, a victim of the 1973 oil crisis.

A plan by Panther Westwinds to resume production in England was announced in March 1975 but never implemented.

Monica (mobile application)

Monica is a virtual assistant application by gSoft Technology Solutions. The “lite” version was released for the iPhone and iPod Touch on September 16, 2010 worldwide. The full version is released on Sep 2011.

Monica is primarily focused on utilizing TTS and speech recognition technologies developed by Loquendo in order to carry out a number of tasks or follow certain commands for the user, including reading email and news articles aloud, answering questions, making phone calls, among others. Additionally, Monica makes use of various web search engines and GPS in order to carry out many of its tasks, but also to deliver targeted voice ads with vAds. Monica was built with a loose focus on artificial intelligence and with an artificial personality by use of “emotional states” and voice emoticons.

Monica (film)

Monica is a 2011 Bollywood movie with Divya Dutta, Ashutosh Rana and Rajit Kapur in the lead roles and produced by ghazal singer Anup Jalota and Kush Bhargava. It is directed by Sushen Bhatnagar and is inspired from real life incidents such as the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case and the 2G spectrum scam.

Monica (song)

"Monica" is a song by English rock band The Kinks, appearing on their 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. The song was written by the band's main songwriter, Ray Davies.

Usage examples of "monica".

AFFM ninety-nine Will have more accredited participants than any of its predecessors since the event moved to Santa Monica.

From her jump seat behind Crusty piloting the medivac, Monica watched the dirt runway come closer.

Monica had already told Ann about her own emotions, how intense everything had seemed when she was fourteen and in school, how un portant small details seemed back then when her hor mones were rampaging through her body for the first time.

Hospital in Santa Monica, where she underwent the Rorschach Test, the Thematic Apperception Test, the Sentence Completion Test and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Index.

Monica Lewinsky or others suborned perjury, obstructed justice, intimidated witnesses or otherwise violated federal law.

When they reached Mulholland Drive, right at the crest of the Santa Monica Mountains, Ratty turned to the northeast and sank his foot to the floorboard.

I think, Denice, you would have died on the set of that sensable in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Monica took her elbow and guided her to a workstation where a rack of stoppered test tubes stood, their contents glowing redly.

When Monica knocked on the door and Richard an swered it, their eyes met and held in rapport.

An emergency meeting was held, a study was performed, and a resulting MONICA report demonstrated that the French inclination to undercount heart fatalities is too small to matter.

But the Acca has calculated that Monica only has another day or so to live, so I can probably stay nearby that long.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR ROBERT CRAIS was born in Louisiana but now lives in the Santa Monica mountains with his family and an Akita guard dog.

Louisiana but now lives in the Santa Monica mountains with his family and an Akita guard dog.

Devereaux regarded the new DCI as a politically correct nincompoop appointed by the Arkansan President whom, although a fellow Democrat, he despised, and that was before Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky.

It was all so different from the way she remembered it, Lucy thought, as she and Monica pushed through the airlocked door and entered Biosafety Level Four.