If your name is Ellen, today is your name day. Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elena, and Helen. 10 famous Ellens:
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Dame Ellen MacArthur: English solo long-distance yachtswoman who broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2005.
Ellen Swallow Richards: American industrial engineer and environmental chemist during the 19th century. She was the founder of the home economics movement which promoted the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition.
Ellen Corby (pictured): American actress and screenwriter. She played the role of Esther "Grandma" Walton on the CBS television series The Waltons.
Ellen Arthur: wife of the 21st president of the United States, Chester Arthur.
Ellen Pompeo: American actress, Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy.
Ellen Ripley: Sigourney Weaver’s character in the Alien film series.
Dame Ellen Terry: English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ellen G. White: co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
Ellen DeGeneres: American comedian, actress, and talk-show host.
Beta
(Combat Team Series #2)
Steff was abducted by an evil alien race, the Orbs, at fourteen. Used as a weapon for years, he eventually escapes, but his problems are just beginning. How does a man support himself when his only work experience is a paper round and using an Orb bio-integrated gun?
Warlord is an alien soldier who knows little but war. When the centuries-old conflict which ravaged his planet ends, he seeks out another world where his skills are still relevant. There are always wars on Earth, it seems. However, none of Earth's powerful armies want him.
Natalie has always wanted to visit England and sees a chance to do so while using her martial arts skills, but there are sacrifices she must make in order to fulfil her dream.
Maggie resorted to crime to fund her sister's medical care. She uses her genetic variant abilities to gain access to the rooms of wealthy hotel guests. The Ballards look like rich pickings, but they are not what they seem. When Maggie targets them, little does she know that she is walking into a trap.
Hotel owner Hamilton Lonsdale puts together a combat team to pit against those of other multi-millionaires. He recruits Warlord, Natalie, Maggie and Steff along with a trained gorilla, a probability-altering alien, a stockbroker whose work of art proved to be much more than he'd bargained for, a marketing officer who can create psionic forcefields, a teleporting member of the landed gentry, and a socially awkward fixer. This is Combat Team Beta.
Steff never talks about his time with the Orbs, until he finds a woman who lived through it, too. Steff believes he has finally found happiness, but it is destined to be short-lived. He is left with an unusual legacy which he and Team Beta struggle to comprehend; including why something out there seems determined to destroy it.
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