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WNBA: Women’s National Basketball Association.
New York Liberty is a American basketball team which was selected as one of eight charter members of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) on October 30, 1996.

Lobo is one of the most accomplished basketball players, both personally and professionally. She is a star forward with the WNBA’s New York Liberty basketball team. She was voted as a member of the first-ever WNBA Eastern Conference All-Star Team in 1999, and was named to the All-WNBA Second Team in 1997.

Richard Branson is founder, chairman, and owner of Virgin Group, which has more than 200 entertainment, media, and travel companies around the world.

The Virgin Group of Companies has more than 200 entertainment, media, and travel companies around the world. Its largest moneymaker is Virgin Atlantic Airways, second-largest airline in the UK behind British Airways. Virgin's other interests include retailing, airships, beverages, cosmetics, clothing, etc.

Alabama is a state in the East South Central United States. It is one of the principal states of the South and is often referred to as the Heart of Dixie. The state capital, Montgomery is popularly known as the Cradle of the Confederacy.

Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government. It is the law-making and the supreme legislative body of the nation. It is made up of two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The House of Representatives has 435 voting members plus a nonvoting representative from Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia respectively. The members of the House are called representatives of congressmen. Representatives are elected by the voters from the geographic area within each state.

John Lewis has been a United States Congressman representing the Fifth District in Georgia since 1987. One of the acknowledged heroes of the American Civil Rights Movement, Mr. Lewis began with the Nashville Student Movement, was president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a Freedom Rider and among the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington.