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List of Types of Doctors

Dentistry is the art and science of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions, diseases, and disorders of the oral cavity, the maxillofacial region, and its associated structures as it relates to human beings. A dentist is a doctor qualified to practice dentistry. In most countries, several years of training in a university (usually 4-8) and some practical experience working with actual patients' dentition are required to become a qualified dentist. The patron saint of dentists is Saint Apollonia, martyred in Alexandria by having all her teeth violently extracted.

List of Types of Doctors

Physical therapy (also known as physiotherapy) is an allied health profession concerned with the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and disability through physical means. It is based upon principles of medical science, and is generally held to be within the sphere of conventional (rather than alternative) medicine. Physiotherapy is practiced by physiotherapists (also known as physical therapists, e.g. in the United States), though aspects may also be practiced under supervised delegation by physiotherapy assistants or other health professionals.

List of Types of Doctors

In American and Canadian English, a veterinarian (from Latin veterinae, "draught animals") is an animal doctor, a practitioner of veterinary medicine. The equivalent term in British English is veterinary surgeon, and both terms are often shortened to vet.

A Veterinary Surgeon is a veterinarian qualified in the UK and some other English-speaking countries (See: Commonwealth of Nations and Commonwealth realms). In the UK, veterinary surgeons are regulated by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons or RCVS. The legislation affecting the activity of UK veterinary surgeons and of the RCVS is the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966.

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Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) is the largest publicly traded integrated oil and gas company in the world, formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. It is the sixth-largest company in the world as ranked by the Forbes Global 2000 and the largest company in the world (by revenue) as ranked by the Fortune Global 500. It is the largest of the four oil "supermajors", which also includes BP (formerly British Petroleum), Shell and Total. It has the highest market value of any publicly traded company in the world, and in 2005 was the most profitable.

List of Oil Stocks

BP plc (LSE: BP, NYSE: BP, TYO: 5051 ), originally British Petroleum, is a British energy company with headquarters in London, one of four vertically integrated private sector oil, natural gas, and petrol (gasoline) "supermajors" in the world, along with Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil and Total.

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Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966 or 1968 as some sources indicate) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model. In 2002, Berry won Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her role in Monster's Ball.

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Vida Guerra is a Cuban-born American model and occasional actress and singer. Her first notable appearance was in a photoshoot for the U.S. edition of FHM magazine, and since then, she has modeled for many other men's magazines, including Playboy. She often appears on Spanish television shows and is well known because of her large buttocks, which are usually accentuated in her photographs.

Heaviest Sumo Wrestler

Konishiki Yasokichi, (born Saleva'a Fuauli Atisano'e on December 31, 1963), is a Hawaii-born Samoan sumo wrestler, nicknamed "The Dump Truck."

Konishiki made his name in Japan by becoming the first foreign born champion, or Ozeki, in the Japanese sport of sumo. Ozeki is the second highest rank in the sport. He entered sumo in 1982 and rose to the topmost makuuchi division in two years, a remarkably rapid rise. It took him a further three years to reach Ozeki rank.

Due to his potential he was given the name Konishiki, after the 17th Yokozuna (see List of Yokozuna) who came from the same training stable at the end of the 19th Century (during the Meiji period in Japan).

During his career he won the top division championship on three occasions and came close to becoming the first foreign born grand champion, or yokozuna, prompting first a debate as to whether a foreigner could have the necessary cultural understanding to be acceptable in sumo's ultimate rank. After winning two championships in three tournaments (his 2nd and 3rd overall) he publicly accused the Japan Sumo Association (the governing body of Japanese professional sumo) of racism for not promoting him to yokozuna. However, Konishiki quickly apologized and never again repeated the accusation in public.

At a typical fighting weight of around 270 kg he was the heaviest rikishi ever in sumo and used his weight to power his opponents out of the ring. However, particularly in latter years, his weight led him to be susceptible to belt throws by lighter and more agile opponents.

He retained his Ozeki rank for more than six years, and carried on fighting in the top division for a further four years. Towards the end of his sumo career he became progressively more popular with many Japanese fans, due his fighting spirit, distinctive bulk and personality.

After his retirement he remained in the Japan Sumo Association as an elder for a short time, before branching out as a Japanese entertainer under the name "KONISHIKI". (The capitalization is an effort to reflect the association's requiring him to write the name in the Roman alphabet, forbidding its being spelled out in Japanese characters, after he left sumo).

In 2000 Shinichi Watanabe, director of Excel Saga and Puni Puni Poemy, created an anime series called Dotto Koni Chan, in which Koni, the protagonist, is a fat kid who strongly resembles KONISHIKI. The series pays homage to KONISHIKI, who is well-loved by many Japanese people.