tropic
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While Martin was still able to gain attention through his 2000 album “Sound Loaded,” which featured hit tracks like the upbeat tropic salsa “She Bangs” and the Christina Aguilera-assisted “Nobody Wants to Be Lonely,” the commercial gains from the Latin boom would eventually fizzle out.
From Los Angeles Times
Managing the logistics and soothing the distraught women, prosecutors allege, was Jennifer Powers, 45, a former model for Hawaiian Tropic and substitute teacher who was arrested along with Rubin.
The filmmaker has teased it’s a “brutal, wild comedy of catastrophic proportions,” promising news for fans who wondered why Cruise never made another movie like “Tropic Thunder.”
From Los Angeles Times
After the winter solstice the Sun begins to move north again relative to the equator until eventually - six months later - it reaches it most northerly point, overhead the Tropic of Cancer, and gives us the summer solstice.
From BBC
The winter solstice is the moment the Sun appears to stand still, directly above the Tropic of Capricorn, the most southerly latitude it reaches annually.
From BBC
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