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United_States_presidential_election_in_Kentucky,_2016 | The 2016 United States presidential election in Kentucky was held on November 8 , 2016 , as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated . Kentucky voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting the Republican Party 's nominee , businessman Donald Trump , and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee , former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her running mate , Virginia Senator Tim Kaine . On March 5 and May 17 , 2016 , in the presidential primaries , Kentucky voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic , Republican , and Libertarian parties ' respective nominees for President . Registered members of each party only voted in their party 's primary , while voters who were unaffiliated were unable to vote . Although Kentucky was won twice by southern Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 , Donald Trump easily carried Kentucky with 62.54 % of the vote , to 32.69 % of the vote for Hillary Clinton . Trump won Kentucky by the largest margin of any Republican since Richard Nixon in 1972 , and swept counties across the state . Clinton only carried the state 's two most urban and populous counties , Jefferson County , home to Louisville , and Fayette County , home to Lexington , both of which traditionally vote Democratic . Trump made history when he won Elliott County . In the nearly 150-year history of the county , it had voted Democratic in every presidential election , never Republican . Trump ended that tradition and won Elliott County handily with 2,000 votes to Clinton 's 740 , or 70 % -26 % . |
Uyghurlar | Uyghurlar ( in English : The Uyghurs ) is a book by poet Turghun Almas on the history of the `` 6,000 year history '' of the Uyghur ethnic group of the Xinjiang region of China . It was published in the 1989 in the People 's Republic of China , at a high point of liberalization of academic freedom and ethnic minority policy in China . The book uses a stylized wolf on its cover that is a widely recognized symbol of Pan-Turkism . It was one of the books of the period that presented an `` alternative Uyghur history '' , based on Soviet historiography during the Sino-Soviet split , that advanced the thesis that the Uyghurs were `` indigenous '' to Xinjiang and should have an independent state . It was also one of the first books to publicize the term East Turkestan , which suggests a kinship to a `` West Turkestan '' in the independent Central Asian states . In contrast to the official Chinese history of Xinjiang , which states that the region was an integral part of China since the Han Dynasty , the book takes a nationalist view , saying that many `` Uyghur '' states throughout history were independent of , or even dominant over , China . The book makes a number of non-orthodox theories about history , including that the Tarim mummies indicate that the Uyghurs were `` older than Chinese civilization itself '' , and that the Uyghurs invented the compass , gunpowder , papermaking , and printing . It concluded , `` If the Jews could reclaim their homeland after 3,000 years , the Uyghurs should be able to reclaim their homeland after 3,000 to 6,000 years '' . |
UHF_(film) | UHF ( released internationally as The Vidiot from UHF ) is a 1989 American comedy film starring `` Weird Al '' Yankovic , David Bowe , Fran Drescher , Victoria Jackson , Kevin McCarthy , Michael Richards , Gedde Watanabe , Billy Barty , Anthony Geary , Emo Philips and Trinidad Silva ; the film is dedicated to Silva who died shortly after principal filming . The film was directed by Jay Levey , Yankovic 's manager , who also co-wrote the screenplay with him . It was released by Orion Pictures and is currently owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . Yankovic stars as George Newman , a shiftless dreamer who stumbles into managing a low-budget television station and , surprisingly , finds success with his eclectic programming choices , in part spearheaded by the antics of a janitor-turned-children 's television host , Stanley ( Richards ) . He provokes the ire of a major network station that dislikes the competitive upstart . The title refers to the Ultra High Frequency ( UHF ) analog television broadcasting band on which such low-budget television stations often were placed in the United States . Yankovic and Levey wrote the film after Yankovic 's second studio album , looking to apply the musician 's parody and comedy to film , and chose the approach of George being a straight man with a vivid imagination to support the inclusion of parodies within the film . They struggled with finding a film production company for financing the film , but were eventually able to get Orion Pictures ' support after stating they could keep the film costs under $ 5 million . Principal filming took place around Tulsa , Oklahoma , with many of the extras for the film from the Tulsa and Dallas , Texas areas . UHF earned mixed critical reviews , and was further impacted by being released in the middle of one of Hollywood 's largest blockbuster summer periods . While only a modest success during its theatrical release , it became a cult film on home video . Shout ! Factory released a special 25th Anniversary edition of UHF on November 11 , 2014 on DVD and Blu-ray . |
United_States_Ambassador_to_Antigua_and_Barbuda | The United States Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Antigua and Barbuda . The title of the ambassador is United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean and is concurrently the ambassador to Barbados , Dominica , Grenada , St. Kitts and Nevis , St. Lucia , and St. Vincent and the Grenadines , while resident in Bridgetown , Barbados . The official title of the ambassador is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean . The United States established diplomatic relations with Antigua and Barbuda on November 1 , 1981 , when the Consulate General at St. John 's was raised to embassy status . Embassy St. John 's closed on June 30 , 1994 . Since that time , all diplomatic functions have been handled out of the U.S. Embassy at Bridgetown , Barbados . |
Urmia | Urmia ( اورمو -- اورمیه , ارومیه ( -LSB- oɾumiˈje -RSB- Variously transliterated as Oroumieh , Oroumiyeh , Orūmīyeh and Urūmiyeh ) is the largest city in West Azerbaijan province . Urmia is situated at an altitude of 1,330 m above sea level , and is located along the Shahar Chay river ( City River ) on the Urmia Plain . Lake Urmia , one of the world 's largest salt lakes , lies to the east of the city and the mountainous Turkish border area lies to the west . Urmia is the 10th most populated city in Iran . At the 2012 census , its population was 667,499 with 197,749 households . The city 's inhabitants are predominantly Azeris , with minorities of Kurds , Armenians and Assyrians . . as well as Iran 's official language , Persian . There are also minorities of Kurds , Assyrians , and Armenians . The city is the trading center for a fertile agricultural region where fruits ( especially apples and grapes ) and tobacco are grown . The Christian history in Urmia , Iran should be noted first . It is highly , and most intricately preserved . Especially seen in the many churches , and cathedrals . An important town by the 9th century , Urmia was seized by the Seljuk Turks ( 1084 ) , and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks . For centuries the city has had a diverse population which has at times included Muslims ( Shias and Sunnis ) , Christians ( Catholics , Protestants , Nestorians , and Orthodox ) , Jews , Bahá ' ís and Sufis . Around 1900 , Christians made up less than 10 % of the city 's population , however , most of the Christians fled in 1918 as a result of the Persian Campaign during World War I and the Armenian and Assyrian Genocides . |
University_of_California,_Los_Angeles | The University of California , Los Angeles ( UCLA ) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles , California , United States . It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919 , making it the second-oldest undergraduate campus of the ten-campus University of California system . It offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines . UCLA enrolls about 31,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students , and had 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016 , including transfer applicants , the most applicants for any American university . The university is organized into six undergraduate colleges , seven professional schools , and four professional health science schools . The undergraduate colleges are the College of Letters and Science ; Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science ( HSSEAS ) ; School of the Arts and Architecture ; Herb Alpert School of Music ; School of Theater , Film and Television ; and School of Nursing . Fourteen Nobel laureates , three Fields Medalists , two Chief Scientists of the U.S. Air Force and three Turing Award winners have been faculty , researchers , or alumni . Among the current faculty members , 55 have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences , 28 to the National Academy of Engineering , 39 to the Institute of Medicine , and 124 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . The university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974 . The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015 -- 2016 ranked UCLA 16th in the world for academics and 13th in the world for reputation . In 2015-2016 , UCLA ranked 12th in the world ( 10th in North America ) by the Academic Ranking of World Universities ( ARWU ) and 31st in the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings . In 2015 , the Center for World University Rankings ( CWUR ) ranked the university 15th in the world based on quality of education , alumni employment , quality of faculty , publications , influence , citations , broad impact , and patents . UCLA student-athletes compete as the Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference . The Bruins won 126 national championships , including 113 NCAA team championships , tied with Stanford for most by any university . UCLA student-athletes , coaches and staff won 251 Olympic medals : 126 gold , 65 silver and 60 bronze . UCLA student-athletes competed in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception ( 1924 ) , and won a gold medal in every Olympics that the United States participated in since 1932 . |
UFC_Connected | UFC Connected is a television show dedicated to the Ultimate Fighting Championship and other mixed martial arts news , interviews and event highlights . It is hosted by `` Showdown '' Joe Ferraro , and airs weekly on Monday nights at 11:00 p.m. on Rogers Sportsnet . It was originally called MMA Connected , but changed its name on April 25 , 2011 to reflect its focus after Rogers Sportsnet became the rights holder to UFC television in Canada . |
Uncle_Murda | Leonard Grant ( born July 25 , 1980 ) , better known by his stage name , Uncle Murda , is an American rapper from East New York , Brooklyn . He is currently signed to G-Unit Records . |
United_States_elections,_1789 | The 1789 United States elections elected the members of the 1st United States Congress . It was the first general election since the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788 , and it elected the first President and the first members of Congress . Formal political parties did not exist , as the leading politicians of the day largely distrusted the idea of `` factions . '' However , Congress would become broadly divided by the economic policies of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton , with the Pro-Administration faction supporting those policies . Opposing them was the Anti-Administration faction , which saw a smaller role for the federal government . North Carolina and Rhode Island did not take part in the presidential election , as they had not yet ratified the Constitution , while a deadlocked legislature prevented New York from appointing its electors . General George Washington won the presidency without any major opposition . As the runner-up in the electoral college , John Adams was elected vice president . Fearing an electoral college tie that could end with Adams winning the Presidency , Alexander Hamilton arranged for several electors to vote for other candidates , including John Jay , who finished with the third most electoral votes . The Pro-Administration faction won majorities in both houses of Congress . |
Vandana_Vishwas | Indo-Canadian architect-musician Vandana Vishwas is an exponent of south Asian genre of World Music in North America . She was an All India Radio artist before she left India , and specializes in composing , arranging and singing North Indian classical music based expressive song forms such as Ghazals , Bhajans , Geet and Thumri . Vandana released her debut music album ` Meera -- The Lover ... ' in 2009 , which is a musical story of the sixteenth century Indian poet Meera Bai . She released her second music album ` Monologues ' , in January 2013 , which is a collection of contemporary Ghazals , Nazms and light Thumris . Vandana released her single ` Samarsiddha ' in July 2014 , which is the theme track for identically titled Hindi novel authored by UK based novelist Sandeep Nayyar , published by Penguin India . In late 2016 , she released her third music album ` Parallels ' , which is a collaboration of south Asian music with several western and ethnic music genres such as Flamenco , African , Rock , Country , Ballad , New Age . Vandana has won the Toronto Independent Music Awards in World music category in 2016 and silver medal at Global Music Awards 2016 for World Music and Female Vocalist categories . |
Tupac_Mantilla | Tupac Mantilla is a Grammy-nominated Percussionist from Bogotá , Colombia ( born October 21 , 1978 -- Age 38 ) . He is the founder and director of the Global Percussion Network PERCUACTION and the director of the percussion group Tekeyé . His eclectic work as a percussionist ranges from his Solo Percussion Project to collaborations with artists such as Bobby McFerrin , Esperanza Spalding , Zakir Hussain , Bill Cosby , Danilo Perez , Julian Lage , Medeski , Martin and Wood and Bob Moses . As a scholar , Mantilla is associated with institutions such as Stanford University through the Stanford Jazz Workshop , Berklee College of Music through the Berklee Global Jazz Institute ( BGJI ) and Harvard University , and continuously gives workshops and lectures and runs rhythm/percussion oriented programs worldwide , through PERCUACTION 's Global Rhythm Institute ( GRI ) . |
Unison_(Celine_Dion_album) | Unison is the 15th studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion and her first studio album recorded in English . The album was originally released on 2 April 1990 by Columbia Records . Its music incorporates a range of contemporary genres with a mix of ballads and dance songs . Dion worked with a range of professional writers and producers , including Christopher Neil , David Foster , Tom Keane and Andy Goldmark . Upon release , the album received generally positive reviews from music critics , who complimented Dion 's voice and technique , as well as the album 's content . On the commercial level , Unison reached top ten in Norway and top twenty in Canada . Eventually , it was certified seven-times Platinum in Canada , Platinum in the United States , and Gold in the United Kingdom and France . The album has sold over three million copies worldwide . Up to five singles were released from Unison , depending on the country . `` Where Does My Heart Beat Now '' became a top five hit on the Billboard Hot 100 , reaching number four . The next US single , '' ( If There Was ) Any Other Way '' peaked at number thirty-five . In 1991 , Unison won Juno Award for Album of the Year and Dion won Juno Award for Female Vocalist of the Year . |
Turning_Point_2 | Turning Point 2 is a 2011 Hong Kong action crime thriller film directed by Herman Yau and starring Michael Tse in the title role of `` Laughing Gor '' and co-starring Francis Ng , Chapman To and Bosco Wong . The film is a distant sequel to the 2009 film Turning Point , a direct sequel to the 2011 TV series Lives of Omission and the third spin-off of The Academy franchise featuring Tse 's character from E.U. |
Unforgiven_(2006) | Unforgiven ( 2006 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) , which took place on September 17 , 2006 , at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto , Ontario , Canada . It was the eighth annual Unforgiven event . The show 's seven matches showcased prominent WWE wrestlers , who acted out the franchise 's stories in and out of the ring . The event starred talent from the Raw brand . The main event was a Tables , Ladders , and Chairs match for the WWE Championship between Edge and John Cena , which Cena won after retrieving the belt suspended above the ring . One of the predominant matches on the card was D-Generation X ( Triple H and Shawn Michaels ) versus The Big Show , Vince and Shane McMahon in a Handicap Hell in a Cell match . Triple H and Michaels won the match after Triple H pinned Vince following a sledgehammer shot to his back . Another primary match on the undercard was Lita versus Trish Stratus for the WWE Women 's Championship in what was Stratus ' final match of her full-time wrestling career . Stratus won the match after forcing Lita to submit to the sharpshooter , thus becoming a record setting seven time WWE Women 's Champion . As many of the existing feuds ended following the event , some did not . Notably , Jeff Hardy continued to feud with Johnny Nitro , facing off against him for the WWE Intercontinental Championship throughout September . The feud between D-Generation X ( DX ) and The McMahons ended after the event , as DX began an angle with Edge and Randy Orton . Following his win against Edge , Cena began an angle with Kevin Federline , which started the proceeding month at Cyber Sunday and lasted throughout the year . |
United_States_presidential_election_in_Indiana,_1992 | The 1992 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 3 , 1992 , throughout all 50 states and D.C. , which was part of the 1992 United States presidential election . Voters chose 12 representatives , or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for President and Vice President . Indiana was won by President George H.W. Bush ( R-TX ) . The presidential contest in Indiana was not a surprise , with Bush winning 42.91 % to 36.79 % over Governor Bill Clinton ( D ) . Still , the margin of victory was lesser than in earlier elections ; Clinton won in every state bordering Indiana , and except for the Midwest Bush finished first in no state more northern than Indiana . Billionaire Businessman Ross Perot ( I-TX ) finished in third with a significant 19.77 % of the popular vote in Indiana . Indiana would continue to vote Republican in presidential elections until 2008 , in which Barack Obama won by a close margin , becoming the first Democrat to carry the state since 1964 . |
Turanid_race | Turanid race is a now obsolete term , originally intended to cover populations of Central Asia associated with the spread of the Turanian languages , which are the combination of the Uralic and Altaic families , hence also referred to as the Ural -- Altaic race . The latter usage implies the existence of a Turanid racial type or `` minor race '' , subtype of the Europid ( Caucasian ) race with Mongoloid admixtures , situated at the boundary of the distribution of the Mongoloid and Europid `` great races '' . The idea of a Turanid race came to play a role of some significance in Pan-Turkism or `` Turanism '' in the late 19th to 20th century . A `` Turkish race '' was proposed as a Europid subtype in European literature of the period . Pál Lipták ( 1955 ) the `` Turanid '' type is a `` Caucasoid '' type with significant Mongoloid admixture , arising from the mixture of the Andronovo type of Europoid features and the Oriental ( Mongoloid ) . This literature was absorbed by the Ottoman elite , and was partly even translated into Ottoman Turkish , contributing to the idea of an essence of `` Turkishness '' ( Türklük ) the honour of which came to be protected under Turkish law until the revision of article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code in April 2008 . The most influential of these sources were Histoire Générale des Huns , des Turcs , des Mongoles , et autres Tartares Occidenteaux ( 1756 -- 1758 ) by Joseph de Guignes ( 1721 -- 1800 ) , and Sketches of Central Asia ( 1867 ) by Ármin Vámbéry ( 1832 -- 1913 ) , which was on the common origins of Turkic groups as belonging to one race , but subdivided according to physical traits and customs , and l'histoire de l'Asie ( 1896 ) by Leon Cahun ( 1841 -- 1900 ) , which stressed the role of Turks in `` carrying civilization to Europe '' , as a part of the greater `` Turanid race '' that included the Uralic and Altaic speaking peoples more generally . There was also an ideology of Hungarian Turanism in Hungarian fascism . |
United_States_presidential_election_in_South_Carolina,_2016 | The 2016 United States presidential election was held on November 8 , 2016 , as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated . South Carolina voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting the Republican Party 's nominee , businessman Donald Trump , and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee , former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her running mate , Virginia Senator Tim Kaine . On February 20 and 27 , 2016 , in the presidential primaries , South Carolina voters expressed their preferences for the Republican and Democratic parties ' respective nominees for President . Registered members of each party could only vote in their party 's primary , while voters who were unaffiliated could choose any one primary in which to vote . Republicans have only lost South Carolina once since the assassination of John F. Kennedy , in 1976 ( by a double digit percentage margin ) . South Carolina did not vote for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 or George Wallace in 1968 . Had it not voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976 , the Palmetto State would have the longest streak of Republican wins , last voting Democratic in 1960 , however , 1964 was the first time a Republican won South Carolina in as many as 88 years ( back in 1876 ) . Trump also became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Charleston County since Herbert Hoover in 1928 . 2,103,027 South Carolinians turned out to vote , out of the 3,117,690 South Carolinian Registered Voters this is a turnout of 67.46 % . Donald Trump continued the Republican tradition in South Carolina , carrying the state with 54.9 % of the vote . Hillary Clinton received 40.8 % of the vote . |
Uproar_Festival | The Uproar Festival , also called the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival , was an annual hard rock and heavy metal tour inaugurated in 2010 by John Reese and sponsored by Rockstar Energy Drink . The tour was also created by John Oakes , Darryl Eaton and Ryan Harlacher from the Creative Artists Agency , and Perry Lavoisne from Live Nation . Reese is also responsible for creating Mayhem Festival and the Taste of Chaos tour . Uproar Festival is the replacement for Reese 's Taste of Chaos tour , as he was `` running out of bands that fit within the profile of what Taste of Chaos was . '' Uproar Festival hosted a number of other activities other than live bands , such as autograph signings , the Miss Uproar contest , and giveaways . John Reese has stated , that for the first time since 2010 , that the festival shall not take place in 2015 or 2016 . The festivals ' website has had activity as of October 2016 , it was nearly two years since the website has updated there site . There was rumors back in 2015 that Resse planned to do an Uproar Festival with Pantera as headliner , but that was not a possibility . |
UFC_on_Fox:_Henderson_vs._Diaz | UFC on Fox : Henderson vs. Diaz ( also known as UFC on Fox 5 ) is a mixed martial arts event that was held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on December 8 , 2012 at KeyArena in Seattle , Washington . It was broadcast live on Fox Sports . |
Twin_paradox | In physics , the twin paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity involving identical twins , one of whom makes a journey into space in a high-speed rocket and returns home to find that the twin who remained on Earth has aged more . This result appears puzzling because each twin sees the other twin as moving , and so , according to an incorrect and naive application of time dilation and the principle of relativity , each should paradoxically find the other to have aged less . However , this scenario can be resolved within the standard framework of special relativity : the travelling twin 's trajectory involves two different inertial frames , one for the outbound journey and one for the inbound journey , and so there is no symmetry between the spacetime paths of the twins . Therefore , the twin paradox is not a paradox in the sense of a logical contradiction . Starting with Paul Langevin in 1911 , there have been various explanations of this paradox . These explanations `` can be grouped into those that focus on the effect of different standards of simultaneity in different frames , and those that designate the acceleration -LSB- experienced by the travelling twin -RSB- as the main reason ... '' . Max von Laue argued in 1913 that since the traveling twin must be in two separate inertial frames , one on the way out and another on the way back , this frame switch is the reason for the aging difference , not the acceleration per se . Explanations put forth by Albert Einstein and Max Born invoked gravitational time dilation to explain the aging as a direct effect of acceleration . General relativity is not necessary to explain the twin paradox ; special relativity alone can explain the phenomenon . . Time dilation has been verified experimentally by precise measurements of atomic clocks flown in aircraft and satellites . For example , gravitational time dilation and special relativity together have been used to explain the Hafele -- Keating experiment . It was also confirmed in particle accelerators by measuring time dilation of circulating particle beams . |
Two_(Earshot_album) | Two is the second album by alternative metal band Earshot , released on June 29 , 2004 . The album would go on to spawn commercial success with singles such as `` Wait '' and `` Someone '' being featured in several video games , as well as garnering significant radio airplay . Studio work on the album began in late 2002 after extensive touring . `` Wait '' became the album 's lead single . Although it did not chart as well as the band 's debut single , `` Get Away , '' `` Wait '' is considered a breakthrough hit for the band and helped launch them into further mainstream success . It was featured on various soundtracks and made appearances in other media as well . Its music video was also rather successful . Earshot appeared on Headbangers Ball in promotion of Two . In early 2005 , they returned from the road in support of their second release and left their record label . |
Unforgiven_(2005) | Unforgiven ( 2005 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was the seventh annual Unforgiven event and took place on September 18 , 2005 , at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma . The event featured wrestlers and other talent that performed on the Raw program . To date , it is the only WWE pay-per-view event ever to be held in the state of Oklahoma . The main event was a standard wrestling match , in which Kurt Angle defeated WWE Champion John Cena , after Cena used the Championship belt on Angle , leading to a disqualification . In WWE , a championship can not change hands via countout or disqualification , as a result , Cena retained the title . Two featured bouts on the undercard was another standard match , in which Shawn Michaels defeated Chris Masters . The other primary match was a steel cage match , where the ring is enclosed by a steel cage , in which Matt Hardy defeated Edge . Unforgiven grossed over $ 485,000 in ticket sales from an attendance of approximately 8,000 , and received about 243,000 pay-per-view buys . This amount was higher than the following year 's event . When the event was released on DVD , it reached a peak position of third on Billboard 's DVD Sales Chart . |
Tybee_Island,_Georgia | Tybee Island is a barrier island in Chatham County , Georgia , near Savannah , United States . The name Tybee Island is also used for the city located on part of this island . The island is the easternmost point in Georgia . The famous phrase `` From Rabun Gap to Tybee Light , '' intended to illustrate the geographic diversity of Georgia , contrasts a mountain pass near the state 's northernmost point with the coastal island 's famous lighthouse . As of the 2010 census , the city 's population was 2,990 . The entire island is a part of the Savannah Metropolitan Statistical Area . Officially renamed `` Savannah Beach '' in a publicity move at the end of the 1950s , the city of Tybee Island has since reverted to its original name . ( The name `` Savannah Beach '' nevertheless appears on official state maps as far back as 1952 and as recently as the mid-1970s . ) The small island , which has long been a quiet getaway for the residents of Savannah , has become a popular vacation spot with tourists from outside the Savannah metropolitan area . Tybee Island is home to the first of what would eventually become the Days Inn chain of hotels , the oft-photographed Tybee Island Light Station , and the Fort Screven Historic District . It is one of the few locations where the U.S. Air Force dropped an atomic bomb -- by accident ( during a botched 1958 military training exercise ) . Though the `` Tybee Bomb '' did not detonate ( and , according to some reports , was not armed with a fuse ) , there has been ongoing concern , since the Mark 15 nuclear bomb lost during the mishap was never found . |
United_States_federal_executive_departments | The United States federal executive departments are the primary units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States , and are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but , with the United States being a presidential system , led by a head of government separate from the head of state . The executive departments are the administrative arms of the President of the United States . There are currently 15 executive departments . The heads of the executive departments receive the title of Secretary of their respective department , except for the Attorney-General who is head of the Justice Department ( and the Postmaster General who until 1971 was head of the Post Office Department ) . The heads of the executive departments are appointed by the President and take office after confirmation by the United States Senate , and serve at the pleasure of the President . The heads of departments are members of the Cabinet of the United States , an executive organ that normally acts as an advisory body to the President . In the Opinion Clause ( Article II , section 2 , clause 1 ) of the U.S. Constitution , heads of executive departments are referred to as `` principal Officer in each of the executive Departments '' . The heads of executive departments are included in the line of succession to the President , in the event of a vacancy in the presidency , after the Vice President , the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate . |
Wanderlei_Silva_vs._Quinton_Jackson | Wanderlei `` The Axe Murderer '' Silva versus Quinton `` Rampage '' Jackson is a mixed martial arts trilogy that began in the now-defunct Pride Fighting Championships in Japan . All three fights have been contested at the Light Heavyweight limit of 205 pounds ( 93 kg ) and televised live on pay-per-view . The trilogy features three particularly violent fights in mixed martial arts , with all three contests ending in a knockout or technical knockout . On two occasions , the loser of the fight was rendered unconscious . The second fight in particular has received high acclaim , as it was named the 2004 Fight of the Year by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards . The trilogy is also known for the rivalry and bad blood between the two fighters . Indeed , Chris Parry of the Vancouver Sun considers the matches between Wanderlei Silva and Quinton Jackson to be `` legendary '' for the hatred and violence displayed . MMAWeekly.com considers Silva vs. Jackson to be among the greatest trilogies in the history of mixed martial arts . The rivalry began in the months leading up to Pride Final Conflict 2003 on November 9 , 2003 , where the first fight took place . Silva was victorious in the first meeting , after landing close to 20 standing knee strikes to Jackson 's face before the contest was halted . Silva once again bested Jackson with a combination of knees in the subsequent rematch at Pride 28 : High Octane , leaving the latter motionless and hanging between the ropes . The third fight took place in the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ) at UFC 92 : The Ultimate 2008 on December 27 , 2008 . This time , however , it would be Quinton Jackson avenging his two earlier defeats to Silva by knocking him unconscious with a left hook . |
Vice_President_of_the_United_States | The Vice President of the United States ( informally referred to as VPOTUS , or Veep ) is a constitutional officer in the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States as the President of the Senate under Article One , Section Three of the U.S. Constitution . The vice president is a statutory member of the National Security Council under the National Security Act of 1947 , and through the 25th Amendment is the highest-ranking official in the presidential line of succession in the executive branch of the federal government . The executive power of both the vice president and the president is granted under Article Two , Section One of the Constitution . The vice president is indirectly elected , together with the president , to a four-year term of office by the people of the United States through the Electoral College . The Office of the Vice President of the United States assists and organizes the vice president 's official functions . As the president of the United States Senate , the vice president votes only when it is necessary to break a tie . While Senate customs have created supermajority rules that have diminished this constitutional tie-breaking authority , the vice president still retains the ability to influence legislation ; for example , the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 was passed in the Senate by a tie-breaking vice presidential vote . Additionally , pursuant to the Twelfth Amendment , the vice president presides over the joint session of Congress when it convenes to count the vote of the Electoral College . While the vice president 's only constitutionally prescribed functions aside from presidential succession relate to their role as President of the Senate , the role of the vice president evolved during the 20th century into more of an executive branch position . Currently , the vice president is usually seen as an integral part of a president 's administration and presides over the Senate only on ceremonial occasions or when a tie-breaking vote may be needed . The Constitution does not expressly assign the office to any one branch , causing a dispute among scholars whether it belongs to the executive branch , the legislative branch , or both . The modern view of the vice president as a member of the executive branch is due in part to the assignment of executive duties to the vice president by either the president or Congress . Mike Pence of Indiana is the 48th and current vice president . He assumed office on January 20 , 2017 . |
Vicarius | Vicarius is a Latin word , meaning substitute or deputy . It is the root of the English word `` vicar '' . Originally , in ancient Rome , this office was equivalent to the later English `` vice - '' ( as in `` deputy '' ) , used as part of the title of various officials . Each vicarius was assigned to a specific superior official , after whom his full title was generally completed by a genitive ( e.g. vicarius praetoris ) . At a low level of society , the slave of a slave , possibly hired out to raise money to buy manumission , was a servus vicarius . Later , in the 290s , the Emperor Diocletian carried out a series of administrative reforms , ushering in the period of the Dominate . These reforms also saw the number of Roman provinces increased , and the creation of a new administrative level , the diocese . The dioceses , initially twelve , grouped several provinces , each with its own governor . The dioceses were headed by a vicarius , or , more properly , by a vices agens praefecti praetorio ( `` deputy of the praetorian prefect '' ) . An exception was the Diocese of the East , which was headed by a comes ( `` count '' ) . In 370 or 381 Egypt and Cyrenaica were detached from the Diocese of the East and made a diocese under an official called the Augustal Prefect . In the eastern parts of the Empire , dominated by Greek language and common use of Greek terminology , vicarius was called exarch . According to the Notitia dignitatum ( an early 5th century imperial chancery document ) , the vicarius had the rank of vir spectabilis ; the staff of a vicarius , his officium , was rather similar to a gubernatorial officium . For example , in the diocese of Hispania , his staff included : The princeps ( i.e. chief of staff ) was chosen from among the senior agentes in rebus ( couriers or special investigators , ` men of affairs , ' from the ministry of the interior headed by the master of the offices ) , from the salaried class of the ducenarii ( those earning 200,000 sesterces a year - the highest regular pay grade in the Roman civil service ; the highest officials , governors and above , were not civil service ) . A cornicularius ( `` chief of staff '' ) . Two numerarii ( chief accountants ) . A commentariensis ( keeper of the commentary , '' the official diary ) . An adiutor ( adjutant ; literally `` helper , '' an assistant ) . An ab actis ( `` acts-keeper , '' archivist ) . A cura epistolarum ( `` curator of correspondence '' ) . An unnamed number of subadiuvae ( `` deputy assistants '' ) . Various exceptores ( lower clerks ) . Singulares et reliquum officium ( various menial staff ) . |
Verismo_(music) | In opera , verismo ( meaning `` realism '' , from Italian vero , meaning `` true '' ) was a post-Romantic operatic tradition associated with Italian composers such as Pietro Mascagni , Ruggero Leoncavallo , Umberto Giordano , Francesco Cilea and Giacomo Puccini . Verismo as an operatic genre had its origins in an Italian literary movement also called ` verismo ' ( see Verismo ( literature ) ) . The Italian literary movement of verismo , in turn , was related to the international literary movement of Naturalism as practised by Émile Zola and others . Like naturalism , the verismo literary movement sought to portray the world with greater realism . In so doing , Italian verismo authors such as Giovanni Verga wrote about subject matter , such as the lives of the poor , that had not generally been seen as a fit subject for literature . A short story by Verga called Cavalleria rusticana ( `` Rustic Chivalry '' ) , then developed into a play by the same author , became the source for what is usually considered to be the first verismo opera : Cavalleria rusticana by Mascagni , which premiered on 17 May 1890 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome . Thus begun , the operatic genre of verismo produced a handful of notable works such as Pagliacci , which premiered at Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on 21 May 1892 , and Puccini 's Tosca ( premiering at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900 . ) The genre peaked in the early 1900s , and lingered into the 1920s . In terms of subject matter , generally '' -LSB- v -RSB- erismo operas focused not on gods , mythological figures , or kings and queens , but on the average contemporary man and woman and their problems , generally of a sexual , romantic , or violent nature . '' However , two of the small handful of verismo operas still performed today take historical subjects : Puccini 's Tosca and Giordano 's Andrea Chénier . `` Musically , verismo composers consciously strove for the integration of the opera 's underlying drama with its music . '' These composers abandoned the `` recitative and set-piece structure '' of earlier Italian opera . Instead , the operas were `` through-composed , '' with few breaks in a seamlessly integrated sung text . While verismo operas may contain arias that can be sung as stand-alone pieces , they are generally written to arise naturally from their dramatic surroundings , and their structure is variable , being based on text that usually does not follow a regular strophic format . The most famous composers who created works in the verismo style were Giacomo Puccini , Pietro Mascagni , Ruggero Leoncavallo , Umberto Giordano and Francesco Cilea . There were , however , many other veristi : Franco Alfano , Alfredo Catalani , Gustave Charpentier ( Louise ) , Eugen d'Albert ( Tiefland ) , Ignatz Waghalter ( Der Teufelsweg and Jugend ) , Alberto Franchetti , Franco Leoni , Jules Massenet ( La Navarraise ) , Licinio Refice , Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari ( I gioielli della Madonna ) , and Riccardo Zandonai . The term verismo can cause confusion . In addition to referring to operas written in a realistic style , the term may also be used more broadly to refer to the entire output of the composers of the giovane scuola ( `` young school '' ) , the generation of composers who were active in Italy during the period that the verismo style was created . One author ( Alan Mallach ) has proposed the term `` plebeian opera '' to refer to operas that adhere to the contemporary and realistic subject matter for which the term verismo was originally coined . At the same time , Mallach questions the value of using a term such as verismo , which is supposedly descriptive of the subject and style of works , simply to identify an entire generation 's music-dramatic output . For most of the composers associated with verismo , traditionally veristic subjects accounted for only some of their operas . For instance , Mascagni wrote a pastoral comedy ( L'amico Fritz ) , a symbolist work set in Japan ( Iris ) , and a couple of medieval romances ( Isabeau and Parisina ) . These works are far from typical verismo subject matter , yet they are written in the same general musical style as his more quintessential veristic subjects . In addition , there is disagreement among musicologists as to which operas are `` verismo '' operas , and which are not . ( Non-Italian operas are generally excluded ) . Giordano 's Andrea Chénier , Mascagni 's Cavalleria rusticana , Leoncavallo 's Pagliacci , and Puccini 's Tosca and Il tabarro are operas to which the term verismo is applied with little or no dispute . The term is sometimes also applied to Puccini 's Madama Butterfly and La fanciulla del West . Because only three verismo works not by Puccini continue to appear regularly on stage ( the aforementioned Cavalleria rusticana , Pagliacci , and Andrea Chénier ) , Puccini 's contribution has had lasting significance to the genre . Some authors have attempted to trace the origins of verismo opera to works that preceded Cavalleria rusticana , such as Georges Bizet 's Carmen , or Giuseppe Verdi 's La traviata . Modest Moussorgsky 's ″ Boris Godonov ″ should not be ignored as an antecedent of verismo , especially because of Moussorgsky 's focus on peasants , alongside princes and other aristocracy and church leaders , and his deliberate relating of the natural speech inflexions of the libretto to the rhythms of the sung music , different from , for example , Tchaikovsky 's use of Pushkin 's verse as a libretto . |
Washington_Mutual | Washington Mutual , Inc. , abbreviated to WaMu , was a savings bank holding company and the former owner of Washington Mutual Bank , which was the United States ' largest savings and loan association until its collapse in 2008 . On Thursday , September 25 , 2008 , the United States Office of Thrift Supervision ( OTS ) seized Washington Mutual Bank from Washington Mutual , Inc. and placed it into receivership with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) . The OTS took the action due to the withdrawal of $ 16.7 billion in deposits during a 9-day bank run ( amounting to 9 % of the deposits it had held on June 30 , 2008 ) . The FDIC sold the banking subsidiaries ( minus unsecured debt and equity claims ) to JPMorgan Chase for $ 1.9 billion , which JPMorgan Chase had been planning to acquire as part of a confidential plan internally nicknamed Project West . All WaMu branches were rebranded as Chase branches by the end of 2009 . The holding company , Washington Mutual , Inc. , was left with $ 33 billion in assets , and $ 8 billion debt , after being stripped of its banking subsidiary by the FDIC . The next day , September 26 , Washington Mutual , Inc. filed for Chapter 11 voluntary bankruptcy in Delaware , where it was incorporated . With respect to total assets under management , Washington Mutual Bank 's closure and receivership is the largest bank failure in American financial history . Before the receivership action , it was the sixth-largest bank in the United States . According to Washington Mutual Inc. 's 2007 SEC filing , the holding company held assets valued at $ 327.9 billion . On March 20 , 2009 , Washington Mutual Inc. filed suit against the FDIC in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia , seeking damages of approximately $ 13 billion for what it claims was an unjustified seizure and an extremely low sale price to JPMorgan Chase . JPMorgan Chase promptly filed a counterclaim in the Federal Bankruptcy Court in Delaware , where the Washington Mutual bankruptcy proceedings had been continuing since the Office of Thrift Supervision 's seizure of the holding company 's bank subsidiaries . |
War_and_Peace_(1956_film) | War and Peace ( Guerra e pace ) is a 1956 American-Italian war drama film directed by King Vidor and written by Vidor , Bridget Boland , Mario Camerini , Ennio De Concini , Gian Gaspare Napolitano , Ivo Perilli , Mario Soldati , and Robert Westerby based on Leo Tolstoy 's 1869 novel of the same name . The film , released by Paramount Pictures , was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti with a music score by Nino Rota and cinematography by Jack Cardiff . The film stars Audrey Hepburn , Henry Fonda , and Mel Ferrer , along with Vittorio Gassman , Herbert Lom , John Mills and Anita Ekberg , in one of her first breakthrough roles . It had Academy Awards nominations for Best Director ( King Vidor ) , Best Cinematography , Color ( Jack Cardiff ) and Best Costume Design , Color ( Maria De Matteis ) . |
WWF_WrestleMania_(1989_video_game) | WWF WrestleMania ( named after the annual pay-per-view event ) is an Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ) video game created by Rare and published by Acclaim Entertainment in 1989 . It was the first WWF licensed NES game and the second WWF game overall , the first being MicroLeague Wrestling . WrestleMania also marked the beginning of a long relationship between Acclaim and the WWF which lasted ten years . Released just months prior to WrestleMania V , it was intended to help build up to that event . The game 's title screen features the tagline for WrestleMania III : `` Bigger . Better . Badder . '' Rare later developed a follow-up game , WWF WrestleMania Challenge . |
Vasily_Bazhenov | Vasily Ivanovich Bazhenov ( March 1 ( N.S. 12 ) , 1737 or 1738 -- August 2 ( N.S. 13 ) , 1799 ) was a Russian neoclassical architect , graphic artist , architectural theorist and educator . Bazhenov and his associates Matvey Kazakov and Ivan Starov were the leading local architects of the Russian Enlightenment , a period dominated by foreign architects ( Charles Cameron , Giacomo Quarenghi , Antonio Rinaldi and others ) . According to Dmitry Shvidkovsky , in the 1770s Bazhenov became the first Russian architect to create a national architectural language since the 17th century tradition interrupted by Peter I of Russia . Bazhenov 's early success was followed by a tragic professional and private life . His two main construction projects were abandoned for political or financial reasons . His magnum opus , the neoclassical Grand Kremlin Palace , was cancelled shortly after groundbreaking . The imperial palace in Tsaritsyno Park fell victim to the Battle of the Palaces ; Bazhenov 's palace core was demolished on the orders of Catherine II . Another project , for the Moscow State University building , ended in a bitter conflict with Bazhenov 's former benefactor Prokofi Demidov and led Bazhenov into bankruptcy . Before his death , Bazhenov implored his children to stay aside from the treacherous construction business . Bazhenov 's legacy remains debated . The attributions of Pashkov House and lesser projects to Bazhenov , backed by a sketchy paper trail , deductions and conjectures , are uncertain to the point where his life and work became subject of conspiracy theories . Even his place of birth and the location of Bazhenov 's grave are unknown . His life story , as reconstructed by Igor Grabar and popularized by the historians of the Soviet period , is regarded by modern critics as the `` Bazhenov myth '' , and even most recent academic research fails to replace this myth with a reliable biography . |
Víctor_Díaz_(baseball) | Víctor Israel Díaz ( born December 10 , 1981 ) is a Dominican former professional baseball outfielder . He played in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the New York Mets and Texas Rangers , in the Korea Baseball Organization ( KBO ) for the Hanwha Eagles and in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) for the Chunichi Dragons . Díaz attended Roberto Clemente High School in Chicago where he was honored as an Illinois All-State baseball player each of his four years there . As a high schooler , he was invited to dinner by fellow Dominican and star Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa . He attended Grayson County College where he was a first-team National Junior College Athletic Association All-American . He was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 37th round of the 2000 Major League Baseball draft and signed as an infielder . Díaz achieved quick success as a minor league hitter , winning the Gulf Coast League batting title in with a .354 batting average . He managed the same feat the following year hitting .350 in the South Atlantic League . In , he was traded by the Dodgers to the New York Mets for Jeromy Burnitz . Because of his limited fielding skills , the Mets moved Diaz to the outfield in . Díaz made his major league debut with the Mets on September 11 , 2004 . He was impressive during his September tryout , hitting a three-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to win a pivotal game against the playoff-contending Chicago Cubs , essentially knocking them out of the playoffs on September 25 , 2004 . After the 2004 season , the Mets included Dìaz on their 2005 Opening Day roster , and he wound up playing his first ( and so far only ) full Major League season , as in 89 games he hit .257 with 12 home runs and 38 R.B.I.s. On August 22 , 2006 , Diaz was designated for assignment by the Mets . On August 30 , 2006 , Diaz was dealt to the Texas Rangers for Mike Nickeas . After the 2006 season , Diaz headed to the Instructional League to work with hitting coach Brook Jacoby on his swing , then he played in the Dominican Winter League . Diaz competed for a spot on the Rangers 25-man roster , but did not make the cut and started the season with Triple-A Oklahoma . Diaz was called up and absolutely wowed Rangers fans , as he hit 9 home runs in only 104 at-bats and only 25 hits . He only appeared in 37 games for the Rangers in , but even with his performance , became a free agent after the season . On January 11 , 2008 , Diaz signed a minor league contract with the Houston Astros , but was released on May 2 , 2008 . Shortly thereafter , he signed a minor league contract with the Seattle Mariners and was assigned to their Triple-A affiliate , the Tacoma Rainiers . He became a free agent at the end of the season . On December 1 , 2008 , he signed with the Hanwha Eagles in South Korea . But he was released from Hanwha on July 8 , 2009 . On July 19 , 2009 , Díaz signed a minor league deal with the Baltimore Orioles and was assigned to their minor league affiliate , the Norfolk Tides . WFAN personality Joe Benigno is occasionally ridiculed for projecting Díaz to have a better offensive career than then-teammates José Reyes and David Wright in 2005 . Over his career , Dìaz was known for swinging at the ball aggressively , as he only walked 32 times in 1 full season ( 2005 ) and parts of 3 seasons ( 2004 , 2006 , 2007 ) . Growing up , the Chicago Cubs were his favorite baseball team , and Sammy Sosa was his favorite player . It has been said that Dìaz always wanted to do everything in baseball the way Sosa would . In 2012 , Díaz signed a one-year deal worth $ 200,000 dollars ( 15m Yen ) and a $ 50,000 signing bonus ( 3.9 mil Yen ) to play professionally in Japan for the Chunichi Dragons In 2013 , Diaz played for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball , and batted .172 ( 20-116 ) with 2 homeruns and 46 strikeouts . In the summer of 2014 , Diaz played in the Westchester-Rockland Wood Bat League and hit .340 ( 16-47 ) during the regular season while playing in only 17 games , and .500 ( 10-20 ) with two homeruns in 6 postseason games |
Washington,_D.C. | Washington , D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as `` Washington '' , `` the District '' , or simply `` D.C. '' , is the capital of the United States . The signing of the Residence Act on July 16 , 1790 , approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country 's East Coast . The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state . The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district , which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria . Named in honor of President George Washington , the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital . In 1846 , Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia ; in 1871 , it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District . Washington had an estimated population of 681,170 as of July 2016 . Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city 's population to more than one million during the workweek . The Washington metropolitan area , of which the District is a part , has a population of over 6 million , the sixth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the country . The centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District , including the Congress , President , and Supreme Court . Washington is home to many national monuments and museums , which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall . The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations , trade unions , non-profit organizations , lobbying groups , and professional associations . A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973 . However , the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws . D.C. residents elect a non-voting , at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives , but the District has no representation in the Senate . The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution , ratified in 1961 . |
Victor_Wong_(actor_born_1906) | Victor Wong ( September 24 , 1906 in Los Angeles , California -- April 7 , 1972 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor . While Wong appeared in numerous films through the 1930s and 1940s , they were largely small uncredited parts . His biggest role was as Charlie the Cook in the movie King Kong ( 1933 ) and Son of Kong ( 1933 ) . Wong 's most memorable scene came in King Kong when he finds evidence that natives from Skull Island have been aboard the ship Venture , resulting in the kidnapping of heroine Ann Darrow . As Charlie the Cook , Wong yells , `` All hands on deck ! Everybody on deck ! '' This causes panic aboard ship which begins the quest for Ann 's whereabouts and the discovery of King Kong . The Charlie character in the sequel Son of Kong was more prominent to the story and included significantly more screen time for Wong . |
WWE_NXT_(TV_series) | WWE NXT , also simply called NXT , is a professional wrestling television program that is produced by WWE and is broadcast on the WWE Network every Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET . Since June 2012 , it has served as the flagship television show of WWE 's developmental system . Prior to this , NXT existed as a seasonal show which was presented as a hybrid between reality television and WWE 's scripted live event shows , in which talent from WWE 's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling ( FCW ) participated in a competition to become WWE 's next `` breakout star '' with the help of mentors from WWE 's Raw and SmackDown brands . Five seasons of this version of NXT were broadcast from February 23 , 2010 to June 13 , 2012 , with the first four seasons seeing Wade Barrett , Kaval , Kaitlyn , and Johnny Curtis as winners . In the later stages of season five , the all-rookie competition was abandoned with no winner being officially named , although Derrick Bateman was the final remaining rookie on NXT Redemption after both Titus O'Neil and Darren Young were signed to the SmackDown brand . Following the end of the fifth season , WWE ended the seasonal competition format of the show and renamed its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling to WWE NXT . The show originally made its debut on Syfy on February 23 , 2010 , replacing ECW , which concluded the previous week . In April 2010 , a month after its premiere , it was announced that SmackDown would move from MyNetworkTV to Syfy on October 1 . NXT aired its final episode on Syfy on September 28 , 2010 to make way for SmackDown moving there on October 1 , 2010 ( albeit on Fridays as opposed to NXT 's Tuesday timeslot ) and began airing as a webcast at WWE.com for visitors from the United States from October 5 , 2010 to June 13 , 2012 . It soon aired as a WWE Network exclusive from 2014 , where it remains today . As of March 23 , 2017 , all archived episodes of the reformatted version of the show from 2012 onward are available for on demand viewing via the WWE Network . |
Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet) | Vulcan is a small hypothetical planet that was proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun . Attempting to explain peculiarities of Mercury 's orbit , the 19th-century French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier hypothesized that they were the result of another planet , which he named `` Vulcan '' . A number of reputable investigators became involved in the search for Vulcan , but no such planet was ever found , and the peculiarities in Mercury 's orbit have now been explained by Albert Einstein 's theory of general relativity . Searches of data gathered by NASA 's two STEREO spacecraft have failed to find any vulcanoids that could have accounted for claimed observations of Vulcan . It is doubtful that there are any vulcanoids larger than 5.7 km in diameter . Other than Mercury , asteroid , whose orbit has a semi-major axis of 0.55 AU has the smallest known semi-major axis of any known object orbiting the Sun . |
Vice_admiral_(Australia) | Vice admiral ( abbreviated as VADM ) is the second-highest active rank of the Royal Australian Navy and was created as a direct equivalent of the British rank of vice admiral . It is a three-star rank . The rank is held by the Chief of Navy and , when the positions are held by navy officers , by the Vice Chief of the Defence Force , the Chief of Joint Operations , or the Chief Capability Development Group . Vice admiral is a higher rank than rear admiral , but lower than admiral . Vice admiral is the equivalent of air marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force and lieutenant general in the Australian Army . Since the mid-1990s , the insignia of a Royal Australian Navy vice admiral is the Crown of St. Edward above a crossed sabre and baton , above three silver stars , above the word `` AUSTRALIA '' . The stars have eight points as in the equivalent Royal Navy insignia . Prior to 1995 , the RAN shoulder board was identical to the UK shoulder board . ( The UK shoulder board changed in 2001 . ) |
WE_tv_(U.S._TV_channel) | WE tv is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned by AMC Networks . Similar to VH1 and Bravo , the channel 's programming focus is bent mainly towards women , though since the fall of 2014 , the network has also attempted to accommodate additional male viewership . As of February 2015 , approximately 85.2 million American households ( 73.2 % of households with television ) received WE tv . In March 2015 , Dish TV 's Sling TV announced it would soon begin making AMC Networks channels available to cord cutters , including AMC , BBC America , IFC , SundanceTV , and WE tv . |
Varys | Varys is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones . Introduced in 1996 's A Game of Thrones , Varys is from the fictional city of Lys . He subsequently appeared in Martin 's A Clash of Kings ( 1998 ) , A Storm of Swords ( 2000 ) and A Dance with Dragons ( 2011 ) . Varys is portrayed by Conleth Hill in the HBO television adaptation . |
Voodoo_Macbeth | The Voodoo Macbeth is a common nickname for the Federal Theatre Project 's 1936 New York production of William Shakespeare 's Macbeth . Orson Welles adapted and directed the production , moved the play 's setting from Scotland to a fictional Caribbean island , recruited an entirely African American cast , and earned the nickname for his production from the Haitian vodou that fulfilled the role of Scottish witchcraft . A box office sensation , the production is regarded as a landmark theatrical event for several reasons : its innovative interpretation of the play , its success in promoting African-American theatre , and its role in securing the reputation of its 20-year-old director . |
Volume | Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by a closed surface , for example , the space that a substance ( solid , liquid , gas , or plasma ) or shape occupies or contains . Volume is often quantified numerically using the SI derived unit , the cubic metre . The volume of a container is generally understood to be the capacity of the container , i. e. the amount of fluid ( gas or liquid ) that the container could hold , rather than the amount of space the container itself displaces . Three dimensional mathematical shapes are also assigned volumes . Volumes of some simple shapes , such as regular , straight-edged , and circular shapes can be easily calculated using arithmetic formulas . Volumes of a complicated shape can be calculated by integral calculus if a formula exists for the shape 's boundary . Where a variance in shape and volume occurs , such as those that exist between different human beings , these can be calculated using three-dimensional techniques such as the Body Volume Index . One-dimensional figures ( such as lines ) and two-dimensional shapes ( such as squares ) are assigned zero volume in the three-dimensional space . The volume of a solid ( whether regularly or irregularly shaped ) can be determined by fluid displacement . Displacement of liquid can also be used to determine the volume of a gas . The combined volume of two substances is usually greater than the volume of one of the substances . However , sometimes one substance dissolves in the other and the combined volume is not additive . In differential geometry , volume is expressed by means of the volume form , and is an important global Riemannian invariant . In thermodynamics , volume is a fundamental parameter , and is a conjugate variable to pressure . |
Venera-D | The Venera-D ( Венера-Д , -LSB- vʲɪˈnʲɛrə ˈdɛ -RSB- ) probe is a proposed Russian space probe to Venus , to be launched around 2025 . Venera-D 's prime purpose is to make radar remote-sensing observations around the planet Venus in a manner similar to that of the Venera 15 and Venera 16 probes in the 1980s or the U.S. Magellan in the 1990s , but with the use of more-powerful radar . Venera-D is also intended to map future landing sites . A lander , based on the Venera design , is also planned , capable of surviving for a long duration on the planet 's surface . Venera-D will be the first Venus probe launched by the Russian Federation ( the earlier Venera probes were launched by the former Soviet Union ) . Venera-D will serve as the flagship for a new generation of Russian-built Venus probes , culminating with a lander capable of withstanding the harsh Venerian environment for more than the 1 1/2 hours logged by the Soviet probes . Venera-D will most likely be launched on the Proton booster , but may be designed to be launched on the more powerful Angara rocket instead . |
Wake_of_the_Flood | Wake of the Flood is a studio album by rock band the Grateful Dead . Released October 15 , 1973 , it was the first album on the band 's own Grateful Dead Records label . Their first studio album in nearly three years , it was also the first without founding member Ron `` Pigpen '' McKernan , who had recently died . His absence and keyboardist Keith Godchaux 's penchants for bebop and modal jazz ( rather than McKernan 's tendencies toward the blues and soul music ) contributed to the band 's musical evolution . Godchaux 's wife , Donna Godchaux , also appears as a backing vocalist on the album . The release fared better on the pop charts than their previous studio album ( 1970 's American Beauty ) , reaching # 18 . An expanded version was released in 2004 . |
Victoria_Winters | Victoria `` Vicky '' Winters is a fictional character from the television Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows and its remakes of the same name . The role was originated by Alexandra Moltke on the ABC series from 1966 to 1968 . After Moltke left to raise a family in 1968 , actresses Betsy Durkin and Carolyn Groves briefly replaced her for only a handful of episodes , before Victoria was written out completely . Jaclyn Smith , who was married to Dark Shadows actor Roger Davis at the time , was offered the role when Moltke left the show , but she declined . In the 1991 remake , which aired on NBC , actress Joanna Going assumed the part . The character was subsequently portrayed by Marley Shelton in a 2004 pilot . In the 2012 film adaptation , Victoria is played by Bella Heathcote . A good-natured governess with a mysterious past , she is the de facto female lead in the various incarnations of the story . |
Visual_memory | Visual memory describes the relationship between perceptual processing and the encoding , storage and retrieval of the resulting neural representations . Visual memory occurs over a broad time range spanning from eye movements to years in order to visually navigate to a previously visited location . Visual memory is a form of memory which preserves some characteristics of our senses pertaining to visual experience . We are able to place in memory visual information which resembles objects , places , animals or people in a mental image . The experience of visual memory is also referred to as the mind 's eye through which we can retrieve from our memory a mental image of original objects , places , animals or people . Visual memory is one of several cognitive systems , which are all interconnected parts that combine to form the human memory . Types of palinopsia , the persistence or recurrence of a visual image after the stimulus has been removed , is a dysfunction of visual memory . |
Victorious | Victorious ( stylized as VICTORiOUS ) is an American sitcom created by Dan Schneider that originally aired on Nickelodeon from March 27 , 2010 to February 2 , 2013 . The series revolves around aspiring singer Tori Vega ( portrayed by Victoria Justice ) , a teenager who attends a performing arts high school called Hollywood Arts High School , after taking her older sister Trina 's ( Daniella Monet ) place in a showcase while getting into screwball situations on a daily basis . On her first day at Hollywood Arts , she meets Andre Harris ( Leon Thomas III ) , Robbie Shapiro ( Matt Bennett ) , Rex Powers ( Robbie 's puppet ) , Jade West ( Elizabeth Gillies ) , Cat Valentine ( Ariana Grande ) , and Beck Oliver ( Avan Jogia ) . The series premiered after the 2010 Kids ' Choice Awards . The series won for Favorite TV Show award at the 2012 Kids ' Choice Awards and 2013 Kids ' Choice Awards , even beating out iCarly . Victorious has had four Emmy nominations . On August 10 , 2012 , Victoria Justice stated that the series would not be renewed . Also , after the announcement of the series ' spin-off Sam & Cat was made , fans of Victorious expressed dismay that its spin-off series was the reason for its ending , but Dan Schneider himself stated otherwise . Although the Victorious cast only filmed three seasons , when the decision to end the series was made , Nickelodeon split the third season in half , making a fourth season . |
Vinci_(board_game) | Vinci is a board game designed by Philippe Keyaerts . It resembles a diceless variant of Risk with variable special abilities and an original decline mechanic , and is also similar in some ways to History of the World . The game 's name , pronounced `` Vinchi '' , means `` to be conquered '' in Latin . In 2009 , the game 's mechanics were re-implemented with several changes and a fantasy-oriented theme as Small World , also credited to Keyaerts , and published by Days of Wonder . |
Wall_to_Wall_Media_(production_company) | Wall to Wall Media , part of Warner Bros. . Television Productions UK ( formerly Shed Media Group ) , is an independent television production company that produces event specials and drama , factual entertainment , science and history programmes for broadcast by networks in both the United Kingdom and United States . In January 2009 , Wall to Wall 's first feature film Man on Wire won a BAFTA award for Outstanding British Film and followed this success with an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature . Previously , the company had won a Peabody Award in 2000 for The 1900 House . Wall to Wall joined the Shed Media Group in November 2007 . The company 's name derives from negative references made in the mid-1980s , by then BBC Director-General Alasdair Milne and in the title of a book by Financial Times journalist Chris Dunkley , to `` wall-to-wall Dallas '' as a possible aftereffect of the coming deregulation of UK broadcasting . Future BBC2 controller Jane Root , among the company 's founders , considered this a negative , puritanical and conservative view of the medium 's possibilities ( ref . NME , May 17 , 1986 ) and the name `` Wall to Wall Television '' was adopted as a conscious celebration of the medium , which its founders considered the `` establishment '' of the time to be frightened of . |
War_Machine | War Machine ( James `` Rhodey '' Rhodes ) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Jim Rhodes first appeared in Iron Man # 118 ( January 1979 ) by David Michelinie , John Byrne , and Bob Layton . The War Machine armor , which became his signature armored battlesuit , was designed by Len Kaminski and Kevin Hopgood . In 2012 , War Machine was ranked 31st in IGN 's list of `` The Top 50 Avengers '' . The character has been featured in the Iron Man animated series , the Iron Man : Armored Adventures series , and the animated film The Invincible Iron Man . He is portrayed by Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2 , Iron Man 3 , Avengers : Age of Ultron and Captain America : Civil War . |
Warsaw_National_Philharmonic_Orchestra | The Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra ( Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej w Warszawie ) is a Polish orchestra based in Warsaw . Founded in 1901 , it is one of Poland 's oldest musical institutions . The orchestra was conceived on initiative of an assembly of Polish aristocrats and financiers , as well as musicians . Between 1901 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939 , several virtuoso - and conductor-composers regularly performed their works with the orchestra , including Edvard Grieg , Arthur Honegger , Leoncavallo , Prokofiev , Rachmaninoff , Maurice Ravel , Camille Saint-Saëns , Richard Strauss , and Igor Stravinsky . Among the other luminaries who played with the Philharmonic were pianists Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Arthur Rubinstein , violinists Jascha Heifetz and Pablo de Sarasate , and cellist Pablo Casals . The Philharmonic has played host to the Chopin International Piano Competition since the contest began in 1927 , and also appeared at the inaugural Wieniawski International Violin Competition ( 1935 ) and Universal Festival of Polish Art ( 1937 ) . The orchestra underwent an eclipse during the Second World War , during which it lost half its members to the war , as well as its elegant building , which had been erected and modeled after the Paris Opera around the start of the 20th century by Karol Kozłowski . In 1947 , the orchestra resumed its regular season , but had to wait until 1955 for its home to be finally rebuilt , albeit in a new style . When the building was dedicated on 21 February , the Philharmonic was proclaimed the National Orchestra of Poland . The conductor Witold Rowicki was responsible for helping modernize the ensemble and ensuring the orchestra cultivated Polish music both old and recent , as represented by the works of Frédéric Chopin , Henryk Górecki , and Witold Lutosławski , without failing also to refine its mastery of the world repertoire . At home , the orchestra performs in the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music besides accompanying the final rounds of the Chopin International Piano Competitions , while abroad it has toured the five continents to critical acclaim . The Philharmonic has recorded music for several anime series . Notable shows include Gankutsuou : The Count of Monte Cristo , Cowboy Bebop , Soukyuu no Fafner , Giant Robo : The Animation , Ah ! My Goddess : The Movie , Princess Nine , Vision of Escaflowne , Wolf 's Rain , Hellsing Ultimate , Genesis of Aquarion , and more recently , Fullmetal Alchemist : Brotherhood . It has also recorded music for Namco 's Ace Combat 5 : The Unsung War , and together with the Hollywood Session Orchestra , for the SEGA action-RPG Phantasy Star Universe . The orchestra was involved in a major performance for the film Avalon , composed by Kenji Kawai , and part of a performance is shown in the film . Most recently , they have recorded music for the Square Enix role-playing video game Final Fantasy XIII . |
Viktor_Zubkov | Viktor Alekseyevich Zubkov ( -LSB- Ви́ктор Алексе́евич Зубко́в , p = ˈvʲiktər ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ zʊpˈkof -RSB- born 15 September 1941 ) is a Russian politician and businessman who served as the Prime Minister of Russia from September 2007 to May 2008 . He was Vladimir Putin 's First Deputy Prime Minister during the Presidency of Dmitry Medvedev . Zubkov was a financial crime investigator until 12 September 2007 , when he was nominated by President Vladimir Putin to replace Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov , who had resigned earlier that day . The nomination was approved in the Duma on 14 September 2007 . On 7 May 2008 Zubkov 's cabinet was automatically dismissed . This procedure , following an inauguration of the President of Russia is required by the Russian Constitution . After Putin became Prime Minister , Zubkov was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister . Zubkov is also the current chairman of the board of directors of Gazprom , Russia 's largest corporation and one of the largest oil and natural gas companies in the world . |
Viktor_Bolkhovitinov | Viktor Fedorovich Bolkhovitinov ( 4 February 1899 -- 29 January 1970 ) was a Soviet engineer and team-leader of the developers of the Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 aircraft . He was also the lead designer of the Bolkhovitinov DB-A bomber named after him . Bolkhovitinov was one of the first graduates of the Zhukovsky Academy . In 1934 , he designed a modernized version of the Tupolev TB-3 bomber called the DB-A ( long-range bomber of the academy ) . On August 12 of 1937 , a DB-A attempted to fly over the North Pole to the USA , but the crew perished . In 1937 , he designed the `` S '' or `` Spartak '' , a small sleek high-speed bomber with a long greenhouse canopy . Two contra-rotating props were driven by a pair of Klimov M-103 V-12 engines . Development of the aircraft and its planned variants was discontinued when the war began . In 1940 , Bolkhovitinov became head of his own experimental design bureau OKB-293 . Based on a plane design by Bereznyak and Bolkovitinov a few years earlier , and inspired by the attempt of NII-3 to build a ramjet powered plane , Bolkhovitinov decided to build a rocket-powered short-range interceptor . This was the BI-1 . In 1944 , A.G. Kostakov ( head of the jet propulsion institute NII-3 ) was arrested . NII-3 and Bolkhovitinov 's OKB-293 were merged into NII-1 , a new jet propulsion research institute . Bokhovitinov was head of research in NII-1 . In 1946 , his division was turned over to Matus Bisnovat , forming Zavod 293 . Bolkhovitinov received a doctorate in 1947 and became a full-time professor at the Zhukovsky Academy in 1949 . |
Vladimir_Sidorkin | Vladimir Sidorkin ( born May 9 , 1986 ) is an Estonian former swimmer , who specialized in both long and short course freestyle events . He represented his nation Estonia in middle-distance freestyle swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics , and has currently owned a short-course Estonian record in the 100 m freestyle ( 47.99 ) , set at the 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Rijeka , Croatia . Sidorkin competed for Estonia in the men 's 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . He led the field with a solid 1:52.12 to register under the FINA B-cut ( 1:52.53 ) by about four tenths of a second at the Estonian Invitational Championships three months earlier in Tartu . Sidorkin put up a marvelous swim in heat two with a monstrous 1:51.27 to blast both a 26-year-old Estonian record and a sub-1 :52 threshold for the runner-up spot , falling behind the winner Bryan Tay of Singapore by almost a full second . Sidorkin 's record-breaking feat was not enough to put him through to the semifinals , finishing forty-fifth overall out of 58 swimmers in the prelims . A graduate of accounting and business administration at Drury University in Springfield , Missouri , Sidorkin was a varsity member of the Drury Panthers swimming and diving team under head coach Brian Reynolds . While swimming for the Panthers , Sidorkin helped his college teammates claim their ninth consecutive title in the men 's freestyle relay at the 2013 NCAA Division II Swimming Championships . |
Wallis_and_Futuna | Wallis and Futuna , officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands ( -LSB- ˈwɒlɪs -RSB- and -LSB- fuːˈtuːnə -RSB- Wallis-et-Futuna -LSB- walis.e.fytyna -RSB- or Territoire des îles Wallis-et-Futuna , Fakauvea and Fakafutuna : Uvea mo Futuna ) , is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific between Tuvalu to the northwest , Fiji to the southwest , Tonga to the southeast , Samoa to the east , and Tokelau to the northeast . Though both French and Polynesian , Wallis and Futuna is distinct from the entity known as French Polynesia . Its land area is 142.42 km2 with a population of about 12,000 . Mata-Utu is the capital and biggest city . The territory is made up of three main volcanic tropical islands along with a number of tiny islets , and is split into two island groups that lie about 260 km apart , namely the Wallis Islands ( Uvea ) in the northeast , and the Hoorn Islands ( also known as the Futuna Islands ) in the southwest , including Futuna Island proper and the mostly uninhabited Alofi Island . Since 2003 , Wallis and Futuna has been a French overseas collectivity ( collectivité d'outre-mer , or COM ) . Between 1961 and 2003 , it had the status of a French overseas territory ( territoire d'outre-mer , or TOM ) , though its official name did not change when the status changed . |
Wars_of_the_Roses | The Wars of the Roses were a series of wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet : the House of Lancaster ( associated with a red rose ) , and the House of York ( whose symbol was a white rose ) . The conflict lasted through many sporadic episodes between 1455 and 1487 ; however , there was fighting before and after this period between the houses . The power struggle ignited around social and financial troubles following the Hundred Years ' War , combined with the mental infirmity and weak rule of Henry VI which revived interest in Richard of York 's claim to the throne . Historians disagree about whether the Wars of the Roses were caused by the structural problems of bastard feudalism or Henry VI 's ineffectiveness as king . With the Duke of York 's death , the claim transferred to his heir , Edward , who later became the first Yorkist king of England , as Edward IV . His son reigned for 86 days as Edward V , but Parliament then decided that Edward and his brother Richard were illegitimate and offered the crown to Edward IV 's younger brother , who became Richard III . The two young princes disappeared within the confines of the Tower of London . The final victory went to a claimant of the Lancastrian party , Henry Tudor , Earl of Richmond , who defeated the last Yorkist king , Richard III , at the Battle of Bosworth Field . After assuming the throne as Henry VII , he married Elizabeth of York , the eldest daughter and heir of Edward IV , thereby uniting the two claims . The House of Tudor ruled the Kingdom of England until 1603 , with the death of Elizabeth I , granddaughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York . |
Vic_Tanny | Victor `` Vic '' Tanny ( born Victor A. Iannidinardo ; February 18 , 1912 -- June 11 , 1985 ) was an American pioneer in the creation of the modern health club . Tanny was born into an Italian family in Rochester , New York . In 1935 , he opened his first club in Rochester . In 1939 , he sold the club and opened a new one in Santa Monica , California , near Muscle Beach . Some of his family members had legally shortened their surname to `` Ianni '' due to the anti-Italian sentiment that accompanied World War II . Tanny crafted his own new name from the abbreviated surname . The Vic Tanny Centers flourished in the 1950s and early to mid-1960s and expanded the field to a new type of customer . At their peak , there were 100 Vic Tanny gyms in the U.S. and Canada . Prior to the advent of Tanny , gyms had the reputation of being strictly for men , and often of the rougher type at that -- sweaty , dirty , and dingy lairs reserved for serious bodybuilders . According to his friend Jack Lalanne , Tanny 's gyms were the first to be built in a modern and inviting style , featuring amenities such as mirrors and carpets . Tanny welcomed both men and women and offered a `` budget plan '' so that working-class families could join the gym . Tanny 's business fell into bankruptcy in the 1960s . Analysts blamed the insolvency on over-expansion , poor management , and insufficient capital . The Vic Tanny Centers were closed or sold ( among those sold , some retained the Vic Tanny name ) . Nonetheless , Tanny 's gyms had played a part in the evolution of the all-male gym to the modern fitness club of today . Many of the Tanny health clubs became part of the Bally Total Fitness network . Tanny died of heart failure in Tampa , Florida at the age of 73 . |
Walnut_Creek,_California | Walnut Creek is a city in Contra Costa County , California , United States , located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area , about 16 mi east of the city of Oakland . With a total estimated population of 67,673 , Walnut Creek serves as a hub for its neighboring cities because of its location at the junction of ( I-680 ) and San Francisco/Oakland ( SR-24 ) and its accessibility by BART . Its active downtown neighborhood features hundred-year-old buildings and extensive high-end retail establishments , restaurants and entertainment venues . |
Viktor_Zhivov | Viktor Markovich Zhivov ( Виктор Маркович Живов , February 5 , 1945 , Moscow -- April 17 , 2013 , Berkeley , California ) was a Russian and American philologist , specializing on the history of Russian language . Zhivov was a professor at the Russian Language Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and at the Department of Slavic and Languages and Literatures at the University of California , Berkeley . Viktor Zhivov was born in 1945 in Moscow . His father was Mark Zhivov , an author and a translator . He graduated from Moscow State University and in 1977 obtained his Candidate of Sciences degree there for his thesis on Russian phonology . Zhivov was a professor at Moscow State University and received there the degree of a Doctor of Science in 1992 . In 2001 , he retired from Moscow State University . Zhivov joined faculty of the University of California , Berkeley in 1995 and until his death had a double appointment : He was teaching at Berkeley half a year every year , and he spent the rest of his time in Moscow , where he was a Deputy Director of the Russian Language Institute . In 1982 , Zhivov published a paper on the works of Maximus the Confessor , which is still highly cited . In 1994 , he published a dictionary of sacred terms in Russian . Until his death , he was working on a monograph on the history of Russian language , which he almost completed . |
Viktor_Tikhonov_(ice_hockey,_born_1988) | Viktor Vasilievich Tikhonov ( Виктор Васильевич Тихонов born 12 May 1988 ) is a Latvian-born Russian-American professional ice hockey forward currently under contract to SKA St. Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League ( KHL ) . Tikhonov was originally selected 28th overall in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft , by the Phoenix Coyotes . After several years in the NHL with the Coyotes , Tikhonov moved to the Kontinental Hockey League ( KHL ) in Russia , where he spent four years with SKA St. Petersburg . In 2015 , he returned to the NHL , signing a contract with the Chicago Blackhawks , appearing in 11 games for them before he was claimed on waivers by the Coyotes . He was named after his grandfather , Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov , the late Soviet ice hockey player and coach . His father was Vasily Tikhonov , who was also an ice hockey coach . Born in Latvia while it was still a member of the USSR , Tikhonov has represented Russia internationally , participating in several World Championships and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Russia . |
Viola_Davis | Viola Davis ( born August 11 , 1965 ) is an American actress and producer . She is the only black woman to be nominated for three Academy Awards , winning one , and is the only black actor to win the Triple Crown of Acting . In 2012 and 2017 , she was listed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world . After graduating from the Juilliard School in 1993 , Davis began her career on stage and won an Obie Award in 1999 for her performance as Ruby McCollum in Everybody 's Ruby . She played supporting and minor roles in several films and television series in the late 1990s and early 2000s , including the films Kate & Leopold ( 2001 ) and Far from Heaven ( 2002 ) , and the television series Law & Order : Special Victims Unit . In 2001 , she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Tonya in the original production of August Wilson 's King Hedley II . Davis ' film breakthrough came in 2008 when her supporting role in the drama Doubt earned her several nominations , including the Golden Globe , SAG , and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Greater success came to Davis in the 2010s . She won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Rose Maxson in the revival of August Wilson 's play Fences . For her lead role as 1960s housemaid Aibeleen Clark in the comedy-drama The Help ( 2011 ) , she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress among others , and won a SAG Award . Since 2014 , Davis has played lawyer Annalise Keating in the ABC television drama , How to Get Away with Murder , and in 2015 she became the first black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series . Her portrayal also won her two SAG Awards in 2015 and 2016 . In 2016 , Davis played Amanda Waller in the superhero action film Suicide Squad and reprised the role of Rose Maxson in the film adaptation of Fences , for which she won the Academy Award , BAFTA Award , Critics ' Choice Award , SAG Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress . Davis and her husband , Julius Tennon , are the founders of the production company JuVee Productions . Davis has starred in their productions Lila & Eve ( 2015 ) and Custody ( 2016 ) . |
Vic_Ruggiero | Victor `` Vic '' Ruggiero , ( also known as Rugaroo , Bad Vic or Lord Sluggo ) is a musician , songwriter and producer from New York City who has played in reggae , blues , ska and rocksteady bands since the early 1990s , including The Slackers , Stubborn All-Stars , SKAndalous All Stars , Crazy Baldhead and The Silencers ( not to be confused with the Scottish rock band The Silencers ) . He has also performed with punk rock band Rancid , both live and in the studio . He has released four solo acoustic albums and continues to tour and record worldwide . Ruggiero is known primarily as a singer and organist , although he also plays piano , bass , banjo , cigar box guitar , guitar , harmonica and percussion . Ruggiero is known for his distinct Bronx accent that has a deep , raw quality to it . His lyrics usually follow several themes , including the apocalypse , dark humor , political distrust , paranoia , murder , irony , romance and loneliness . His songs have ranged from narrative ballads to whimsical tunes inspired by Beat generation poets , authors and songwriters , including Jack Kerouac , Allen Ginsberg and John Lennon . |
Vintage_Dead | Vintage Dead is a live album by the rock group the Grateful Dead . It was recorded at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco , California , in late 1966 ( thought to be 9/16/66 ) , and released in October 1970 . Vintage Dead was produced without the approval or cooperation of the Grateful Dead . However , it is a legal recording , not a bootleg . An upstart label called `` Together Records '' assembled live recordings of various Bay Area bands for a planned anthology . When the imprint collapsed , MGM paid the remaining debt and assumed the tapes , releasing two albums of Grateful Dead material on their Sunflower Records subsidiary . The first , Vintage Dead , reached number 127 on the Billboard 200 . Produced as a vinyl LP and long out of print , it has not been released as a Compact Disc . Vintage Dead was then followed by Historic Dead , another Sunflower Records album recorded at the Avalon in 1966 . |
WWE_Cyber_Sunday | __ NOTOC __ Cyber Sunday was an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . From 2004 to 2005 , the event was known as Taboo Tuesday and was exclusive to the Raw brand . During the event 's `` Taboo Tuesday '' years , it was the first regularly-scheduled pay-per-view held by the company on a Tuesday since 1991 's This Tuesday in Texas , the first regularly-scheduled non-Sunday pay-per-view since the 1994 Survivor Series , and the first non-Sunday pay-per-view of any kind since In Your House 8 : Beware of Dog 2 in 1996 . The inaugural event was held in October , and the 2005 event was pushed back to early November . By 2006 the show was moved to a more traditional Sunday night slot -- alleviating problems with the taping schedule of SmackDown ! ( usually held on Tuesdays ) -- and renamed Cyber Sunday . The most distinctive feature of Cyber Sunday was the ability for fans to vote on certain aspects of every match . The voting typically began in the middle of an episode of Raw a few weeks beforehand and ended during the pay-per-view , often moments before the match was slated to begin . Because of this , Cyber Sunday was billed as an `` interactive pay-per-view '' . For the first four events , voting was made online through WWE.com , with the official tag line for the PPV being `` Log On . Take Over . '' In 2008 however , this was replaced by votes through text messaging but this was only available to United States mobile carriers . However , the match between The Undertaker and The Big Show was made universal , as fans were allowed to vote for the match stipulation on WWE.com . In 2009 , the event 's Pay-Per-View slot was replaced by Bragging Rights . However , the fan interaction aspects of the pay-per-view have since been incorporated into Raw as WWEActive ( originally RawActive ) for most Raw episodes . |
Wall_to_Wall_(song) | `` Wall to Wall '' is a song recorded by American recording artist Chris Brown for his second studio album , Exclusive ( 2007 ) . The R&B and pop song was produced by Sean Garrett and Walter Scott . Selected as the album 's lead single , `` Wall to Wall '' was first released to urban rhythmic radios on May 29 , 2007 . It received critical praise from contemporary music critics ; many of them called the song a potential hit single and one of the album 's best tracks . The song failed to attain chart success on the Billboard Hot 100 , peaking at number 79 . It also peaked inside the top thirty in Australia and New Zealand while peaking in the lower end of the charts in European countries . The music video for `` Wall to Wall '' was inspired by Michael Jackson 's `` Thriller '' and the 1998 film Blade '' . The Remix of the song features American Rapper , Jadakiss , who also appear in the Music Video . |
Ward_Boston | Ward Boston , Jr. ( June 21 , 1923 -- June 12 , 2008 in Coronado , California ) was an attorney and a retired United States Navy Captain . He served in World War II as a Navy fighter pilot and worked as a special agent for the FBI . He gained notability due to his service in the Navy as a Legal Specialist , where , as chief counsel to the Naval Board of Inquiry investigating the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 crewmen and injured 172 , he personally concluded that the attack was most likely deliberate . He stated the court was ordered by superiors to ascribe the attack to an accident , rather than to deliberate hostility . In 2002 Boston told the Navy Times that the naval court was a politicized sham with conclusions preordained to exonerate Israel . In a signed affidavit he stated that U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had ordered the President of the Court , Admiral Isaac C. Kidd , Jr. , that the assault be ruled an accident , and to reach the conclusion `` that the attack was a case of ` mistaken identity ' '' despite `` overwhelming evidence to the contrary . '' He said he felt compelled to make this information public following the publication of the book The Liberty Incident by bankruptcy judge A. Jay Cristol , which concluded the attack was unintentional , while Boston found that the attack was most likely deliberate . In early 2004 , Boston repeated the revelation before a State Department conference about the Six-Day War . In 2007 , Cristol suggested that another individual helped Boston with his initial affidavit and declaration , and very likely wrote or assisted in the preparation of a June 8 , 2007 article ; he claimed this was part of a much broader propaganda effort emanating from `` a small but well-funded and very vocal group of people and organizations principally supported by Saudi Arabian money '' . |
WWE_Intercontinental_Championship | The WWE Intercontinental Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the Raw brand . Along with the United States Championship on the SmackDown brand , it is one of the two secondary titles of the promotion . The current champion is Dean Ambrose , who is in his second reign . The championship was established by the then-World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) on September 1 , 1979 , after inaugural champion Pat Patterson unified ( kayfabe ) the WWF North American Heavyweight and South American Heavyweight championships . It is the third oldest championship currently active in WWE , behind the WWE Championship ( 1963 ) and United States Championship ( 1975 ) . Although generally contested in the midcard at WWE shows , it was defended in the main events of presentations such as WrestleMania VI , SummerSlam in 1992 , the third and eighth In Your House shows , and Backlash in 2001 . It has been called a `` stepping stone '' to the WWE Championship . In November 2001 , the then-WCW United States Championship was unified into the Intercontinental Championship . In 2002 after the first brand split , it became exclusive to Raw and the WWF was renamed to WWE . Later that year , the European and Hardcore championships were unified into the Intercontinental Championship , which itself was unified into the World Heavyweight Championship . The following year , however , it was reactivated for Raw , followed by the United States Championship 's reactivation as a counterpart title on SmackDown . The title has switched between brands as a result of the WWE draft over the years ; the 2017 Superstar Shake-up moved the title back to Raw . |
Vinyl_(2012_film) | Vinyl is a 2012 British comedy film written and directed by Sara Sugarman . It is based on the true story of Mike Peters and The Alarm who in 2004 released the single `` 45 RPM '' under the name of a fictitious band `` The Poppy Fields '' . The film features a number of past pop and rock stars in cameo roles , such as Steve Diggle ( Buzzcocks ) , Jynine James , Mike Peters and Tim Sanders ( The City Zones ) , along with the actors Phil Daniels , Keith Allen , Perry Benson , Jamie Blackley and Julia Ford . Vinyl has a soundtrack written and performed by The Alarm with Mike Peters , Phil Daniels and Keith Allen all making contributions . Filmed mostly on location in Rhyl , it features many local attractions and features . Despite being a USA production the cast is totally British with many of the actors having connections to North Wales , particularly Rhyl . The cast also includes many past members of The Rhyl T.I.C. ( Theatre in the Community ) which at the time of filming provided many of the younger cast including members of the fake band , the auditionees , security guards , music business employees and of course the fans . The local community of Rhyl also provided location venues in which the crew could film such as The Rhyl Pavilion , Robin Hood Caravan Park , Glan Clwyd Hospital and The Bistro night club . This allowed the film to stay close to the original true story and have the feel of an authentic biog picture . |
Virgil_L._Davis_Jr. | Virgil L. Davis Jr. ( born September 18 , 1960 ) is an American record producer / songwriter / musician based in Los Angeles . He recorded albums with DJ U-Neek for Bone Thugs-N-Harmony , earning a Grammy Award for his musician work on the group 's hit song , `` Tha Crossroads '' , also the 4x platinum album `` The Art Of War '' , the multi platinum album `` BTNHResurrection '' , `` Thug World Order '' and `` Thug Stories '' , `` Strength & Loyalty '' , and `` Uni5 : The World 's Enemy '' and `` The Art of War : World War III '' . He also was a writer / produced and performed on DJ U-Neek 's solo album , `` Ghetto Street Pharmacist '' . He was also signed as a songwriter for Kingpin Records founder DJ U-Neek , where he wrote songs for Arista Records recording artist Angie Stone `` Black Diamond '' album along with other Kingpin Records artist . He later went on to record with Capitol Records recording artist `` Tracie Spencer '' . |
Vitamin_C_(album) | Vitamin C is the self-titled debut studio album by pop singer Vitamin C , released in 1999 . The album was a runaway success . Initially failing to chart , it later climbed the Billboard 200 to number 29 and was certified as Gold and later certified Platinum by the RIAA . The Japanese edition featured the song `` The Only One '' as a bonus track . The album spawned two hits , the Gold-selling Top 20 hit `` Smile '' and the Top 40 hit `` Graduation ( Friends Forever ) '' . The album features guest appearances by Lady Saw , Count Bass D , and Waymon Boone . On the track `` Fear of Flying '' Vitamin C samples The Clash 's `` The Magnificent Seven '' . |
Waltham,_Massachusetts | Waltham ( -LSB- ` wɔ : l , θæm -RSB- ) is a city in Middlesex County , Massachusetts , United States , and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution . The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company , the city was a prototype for 19th century industrial city planning , spawning what became known as the Waltham-Lowell system of labor and production . The city is now a center for research and higher education , home to Brandeis University and Bentley University . The population was 60,636 at the census in 2010 . Waltham is commonly referred to as Watch City because of its association with the watch industry . Waltham Watch Company opened its factory in Waltham in 1854 and was the first company to make watches on an assembly line . It won the gold medal in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition . The company produced over 35 million watches , clocks and instruments before it closed in 1957 . |
Virgin_Islands_pledge | The Virgin Islands pledge is a pledge of allegiance to the Virgin Islands , a British overseas territory . It was officially adopted by the territory 's House of Assembly on 23 June 2016 . It 's intended to be commonly recited by Virgin Islanders in unison at public events , especially in schools , and during public celebrations . The pledge was first publicly recited on 1 July 2016 at Territory Day celebrations by Premier Dr. D. Orlando Smith and members of the government . The pledge reads : Adoption of the pledge was a project of Myron Walwyn , the territory 's Minister for Education and Culture . He explained that its adoption was part of the government 's efforts `` to build a nation of citizens and residents that understand and have deep reverence for our heritage as Virgin Islanders '' . In the same vein the government adopted a territorial song and an official territorial uniform . The government also erected flagpoles at each school and public schoolchildren now sing the territorial song as they raise the UK and VI flags each school day morning . The pledge has received a mixed reaction . Some questioned the need for a pledge at all . The reference to God in the pledge is a source of some element of controversy too . House of Assembly member , Alvera Maduro-Caines argued it was appropriate . She said she saw ` nothing wrong with God being a part of the pledge as we are a Christian and God fearing society ' . Others felt the overtly religious reference infringed their rights . The leader of the People 's Empowerment Party , Natalio D. Wheatley , said there was a `` glaring problem '' with the pledge : that it is `` oxymoronic '' to refer to a territory as a country . The use of the capitalised term `` Territory '' suggests the word is part of the territory 's name when it 's not . Grammatically , the reference to `` these Virgin Islands '' rather than `` the Virgin Islands '' at the end of the pledge renders the pledge ungrammatical when recited outside the territory . There was little public engagement concerning the wording of the pledge before its adoption . |
War_in_the_Vendée | The War in the Vendée ( 1793 ; Guerre de Vendée ) was an uprising in the Vendée region of France during the French Revolution . The Vendée is a coastal region , located immediately south of the Loire River in western France . Initially , the war was similar to the 14th-century Jacquerie peasant uprising , but quickly acquired themes considered by the government in Paris to be counter-revolutionary , and Royalist . The uprising headed by the self-styled Catholic and Royal Army was comparable to the Chouannerie , which took place in the area north of the Loire . The departments included in the uprising , called the Vendée Militaire , included the area between the Loire and the Layon rivers : Vendée ( Marais , Bocage Vendéen , Collines Vendéennes ) , part of Maine-et-Loire west of the Layon , and the portion of Deux Sèvres west of the River Thouet . Having secured their pays , the deficiencies of the Vendean army became more apparent . Lacking a unified strategy ( or army ) and fighting a defensive campaign , from April onwards the army lost cohesion and its special advantages . Successes continued for some time : Thouars was taken in early May and Saumur in June ; there were victories at Châtillon and Vihiers . After this string of victories , the Vendeans turned to a protracted siege of Nantes , for which they were unprepared and which stalled their momentum , giving the government in Paris sufficient time to send more troops and experienced generals . Tens of thousands of civilians , Republican prisoners , and sympathizers with the revolution were massacred by both armies . Historians such as Reynald Secher have described these events as ` genocide , ' but most scholars reject the use of the word as inaccurate . Ultimately , the uprising was suppressed using draconian measures . The historian François Furet concludes that the repression in the Vendée `` not only revealed massacre and destruction on an unprecedented scale but also a zeal so violent that it has bestowed as its legacy much of the region 's identity ... The war aptly epitomizes the depth of the conflict ... between religious tradition and the revolutionary foundation of democracy . '' |
Viktor_Korchnoi | Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi ( -LSB- Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й , p = vʲiktər lʲvovʲɪtɕ kɐrtɕˈnoj -RSB- 23 March 1931 -- 6 June 2016 ) was a Soviet ( until 1976 ) and Swiss ( since 1994 ) chess grandmaster and writer . He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion . Born in Leningrad , Soviet Union , Korchnoi defected to the Netherlands in 1976 , and later resided in Switzerland from 1978 , becoming a Swiss citizen . Korchnoi played three matches against GM Anatoly Karpov . In 1974 , he lost the Candidates final to Karpov , who was declared World Champion in 1975 when GM Bobby Fischer refused to defend his title . He then won two consecutive Candidates cycles to qualify for World Championship matches with Karpov in 1978 and 1981 , losing both . Korchnoi was a candidate for the World Championship on ten occasions ( 1962 , 1968 , 1971 , 1974 , 1977 , 1980 , 1983 , 1985 , 1988 and 1991 ) . He was also a four-time USSR chess champion , a five-time member of Soviet teams that won the European championship , and a six-time member of Soviet teams that won the Chess Olympiad . He is the only player to have won or drawn ( in individual game ( s ) ) against every World Chess Champion , disputed or undisputed , since the world chess championship interregnum of World War II . In September 2006 , he won the World Senior Chess Championship . |
Warped_Tour_1997 | Warped Tour 1997 is the 3rd edition of the Vans Warped Tour . The 26 date tour began on July 2 , 1997 in San Diego California and ended August 5 , 1997 in Atlanta , Georgia . The tour featured one main stage , a side stage , and a `` Locals Only '' stage sponsored by ASCAP/Ernie Ball on each date . The tour headliners included : Blink-182 , Descendents , The Mighty Mighty Bosstones , Pennywise , Reel Big Fish , Royal Crown Revue , Sick of it All , and Social Distortion . |
WWE_Bragging_Rights | Bragging Rights was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced annually by WWE . The event was established in 2009 , replacing Cyber Sunday in the late October slot of WWE 's pay-per-view calendar . Since 2011 they were rumors of the revival of the pay-per-view . There are no announcements to bring back this pay-per-view . The concept of the show involves a series of interpromotional matches for `` bragging rights '' between wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brands with a Bragging Rights trophy awarded as a prize . Among the matches , a 14-man tag team match is held between the two brands . In 2009 , the show that won the most matches out of the series won the trophy . However , in 2010 , the winning brand was simply determined by the 14-man tag team match . The SmackDown brand won the trophy both times the event was held . Since its origin , the event has been held only in indoor arenas in the United States . Championship bouts are scheduled on every card , with the lower-tier titles featured on the undercard and the top-tier featured on the main card . Non-interpromotional matches for the card are restricted by the Brand Extension , where WWE assigns its performers to either the Raw or SmackDown , causing these matches to only be set up between wrestlers on the same show . In 2011 , Bragging Rights was replaced by a returning WWE Vengeance as the October scheduled event . However , in 2012 , WWE opted to have only one pay-per-view in October , WWE Hell in a Cell , scrapping Vengeance and moving Hell in a Cell to the last Sunday in October . In 2016 , WWE incorporated the concept of interpromotional matches into their long-standing Survivor Series PPV . |
Vermont_Academy | Vermont Academy ( `` VA '' ) is an independent , coeducational , college preparatory school in Saxtons River , Vermont , in the United States serving students from 9th to 12th grade and postgraduates . Founded in 1876 , Vermont Academy 's student body consists of boarding and day students from 30 states and 15 countries . The campus is 515 acres overlooking the village of Saxtons River . Vermont Academy embraces the concept of having students actively participate in a class as opposed to passive learning . The Academy 's goal is to discover the possibilities that lie beyond the traditional four walls of the classroom and work with students in more progressive methods that encourage and stimulate different types of learners . The Academy 's athletic offerings focus on this type of experiential education . Sports include cross country , biking , and Nordic skiing ; varsity and junior varsity athletic teams compete weekly against teams from all around New England . |
WWE_tournaments | WWE has held a variety of professional wrestling tournaments competed for by wrestlers that are a part of their roster . |
Verne_Langdon | Verne Langdon ( September 15 , 1941 -- January 1 , 2011 ) was an American musician , composer , singer , songwriter , keyboardist , record producer , actor , makeup artist and writer . He is best known for his tracks `` Pipe Dreams '' and `` The Neanderthal Stomp '' . |
Voronezh_River | Voronezh ( , -LSB- vɐˈronʲiʂ -RSB- ) is a river in Tambov , Lipetsk , and Voronezh oblasts in Russia , a left tributary of the Don . The Voronezh River is 342 km long , with a drainage basin of 21600 km2 . It freezes up in the first half of December and stays under the ice until late March . The lower reaches of the river are navigable . The cities of Lipetsk and Voronezh are along the Voronezh River . Going upstream , it leaves the Don south of Voronezh and goes north parallel and east of the Don for about 150 km . West of Michurinsk it swings east and splits into the Lesnoy and Polny Voronezh Rivers ( `` Forest and Field Voronezh '' ) . These go north about 75 km to the border of Ryazan Oblast . To the north are tributaries of the Oka River . To the east are the basins of the south-flowing Bityug River which joins the Don and the north-flowing Tsna River ( Moksha basin ) which reaches the Oka via the Moksha . The river is named for an earlier town destroyed by the Mongol invasion , whose name in turn was borrowed from a place name in the Principality of Chernigov , derived from the personal name Voroneg . From the 1650s the Belgorod Line of forts ran along the Voronezh . In 1706 Peter the Great built boats along the Voronezh and sailed them down the Don to attack the Turkish fortress of Azov . |
Voodoo_Gods | Voodoo Gods is an American death metal band with a roster of international musicians . |
Vic_(film) | Vic is a 2006 American short film drama . It is the directorial debut of Sage Stallone , son of Sylvester Stallone . The film stars Clu Gulager , Tom Gulager and Miriam Byrd-Nethery with cameos by Carol Lynley , John LaZar , and John Phillip Law . Sage Stallone won the 2006 Boston Film Festival `` Best New Filmmaker '' award for this film . The film had its world premiere at the 2006 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films , where the cast and filmmakers were in attendance . |
Vsevolod_Bobrov | Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov ( Всеволод Михайлович Бобров 1 December 1922 -- 1 July 1979 ) was a Soviet athlete , who excelled in football , bandy and ice hockey . He is considered one of the best Russians ever in each of those sports . Originally a football player , he played for CDKA Moscow , VVS Moscow , and Spartak Moscow , and represented the Soviet Union internationally at the 1952 Summer Olympics . After he quit football in 1953 he turned to ice hockey , which he had taken up when it was started in the Soviet Union in 1946 . He was one of the first ice hockey players in the Soviet Union , and joined CDKA Moscow , playing for them and VVS Moscow before retiring in 1957 . A leading scorer in the Soviet League , Bobrov was one of three players to average more than two goals per game over their career , with the other two players ( Alexei Guryshev and Viktor Shuvalov ) his linemates . Internationally he participated with the Soviet national team at several World Championships , including their first tournament in 1954 , as well as the 1956 Winter Olympics , where the Soviets won the gold medal . After his playing career , Bobrov coached both football and ice hockey . He coached the Soviet national team in ice hockey , most notably during the 1972 Summit Series against Canada . A renown athlete , he was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame when it was founded in 1997 . The Kontinental Hockey League ( KHL ) , a Russian-based league , has one of its four divisions named after Bobrov . |
War_Doctor | The War Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor , the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who . He was portrayed by the English actor John Hurt . Although he precedes Christopher Eccleston 's Ninth Doctor in the show 's fictional chronology , his first onscreen appearance came eight years after Eccleston 's ; the War Doctor was retroactively created by showrunner Steven Moffat for productions celebrating the show 's 50th anniversary . Within the programme 's narrative , the Doctor is a centuries-old alien , a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey , who travels in time and space in his TARDIS , frequently with companions . When the Doctor is critically injured , he can regenerate his body , but in doing so , gains a new physical appearance and with it , a distinct new personality . This plot device has allowed a number of actors to portray different incarnations of the Doctor over the show 's long run . The War Doctor , not so named within the episodes in which he appears , is introduced as the incarnation of the Doctor who fought in the Time War of the show 's modern-day backstory . He was created as a result of a conscious decision of the Eighth Doctor , played by Paul McGann , to take up arms and become a warrior ; in accepting this duty , the War Doctor disowned the title of `` Doctor , '' and after the war 's end is viewed with disdain by his subsequent incarnations , who reclaim the title that the character is known by . In the 50th anniversary special `` The Day of the Doctor '' , however , the Eleventh Doctor played by Matt Smith revises his opinion of this incarnation after revisiting the final moments of the war . In his original conception of the show 's anniversary special , Moffat had written the Ninth Doctor as having ended the Time War . However , he was `` pretty certain '' that Christopher Eccleston would decline to return to the role , which he did . As he also had reservations about making Paul McGann 's Eighth Doctor the incarnation who had ended the war , he created a never-before-seen past incarnation of the Doctor , which allowed him `` a freer hand '' in writing the story , acknowledging that the success of doing this would be predicated on being able to cast an actor with a significant enough profile . |
Vittorio_De_Sica | Vittorio De Sica ( -LSB- vitˈtɔːrjo de ˈsiːka -RSB- ; 7 July 1901 -- 13 November 1974 ) was an Italian director and actor , a leading figure in the neorealist movement . Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards : Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves were awarded honorary Oscars , while Ieri , oggi , domani and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar . Indeed , the great critical success of Sciuscià ( the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Oscar . These two films generally are considered part of the canon of classic cinema . Bicycle Thieves was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history . De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor 's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway 's A Farewell to Arms , a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop . De Sica 's acting was considered the highlight of the film . |
Vladimir_Romanov | Vladimir Nikolayevich Romanov ( -LSB- Влади́мир Никола́евич Рома́нов , p = vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ rɐˈmanəf -RSB- , Vladimiras Romanovas born 1947 in Tver Oblast , Russian SFSR , USSR ) is an ethnic Russian businessman who also holds Lithuanian citizenship following that country 's independence from the Soviet Union . He was chairman of UBIG Investments , which owned a majority of the shares in failed Lithuanian bank Ūkio Bankas . Cash flow from the bank enabled him to stake significant stakes in various sporting clubs , becoming the majority shareholder in both Scottish Premier League football club Hearts and Lithuanian Basketball League club Žalgiris , and taking control of the Lithuanian club FBK Kaunas . The group was the owner of Belarusian Premier League club FC Partizan Minsk before it was sold in March 2012 . |
Viktor_Alksnis | Viktor Alksnis ( Виктор Имантович Алкснис , Viktors Alksnis born 21 June 1950 ) is an ethnic Latvian Russian politician and former Soviet Air Force colonel . He is the chairman of Russian Center of Free Technologies , an organization intended to promote Free Software and open standards in Russia . He is a former member of the USSR Supreme Soviet , a member of the Russian All-People 's Union and has also represented the Rodina ( Motherland-National Patriotic Union ) party in the Russian State Duma . From 2003 to 2007 , he represented the People 's Union party in the Fourth Duma . Due to his political views and personal style , Alksnis was nicknamed `` the Black Colonel '' , an allusion to the Soviet term `` Black Colonels '' for the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 . |
Vladimir_Kramnik | Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik ( Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник born 25 June 1975 ) is a Russian chess Grandmaster . He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006 , and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007 . He has won three team gold medals and three individual medals at Chess Olympiads . In October 2000 , he defeated Garry Kasparov in a match played in London , and became the Classical World Chess Champion . In late 2004 , Kramnik successfully defended his title against challenger Péter Lékó in a drawn match played in Brissago , Switzerland . In October 2006 , Kramnik , the Classical World Champion , defeated reigning FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov in a unification match , the World Chess Championship 2006 . As a result , Kramnik became the first undisputed World Champion , holding both the FIDE and Classical titles , since Kasparov split from FIDE in 1993 . In 2007 , Kramnik lost the title to Viswanathan Anand , who won the World Chess Championship 2007 tournament ahead of Kramnik . He challenged Anand at the World Chess Championship 2008 to regain his title , but lost . Nonetheless , he has remained a world-class player , and is the current world number three . |
WWF_Prime_Time_Wrestling | WWF Prime Time Wrestling was a professional wrestling television program produced by the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) . It aired on the USA Network from 1985 -- 1993 . A precursor to Monday Night Raw , Prime Time Wrestling was a two-hour long , weekly program that featured stars of the World Wrestling Federation . The program featured wrestling matches ( most of which were compiled from WWF `` house show '' matches from venues such as Madison Square Garden ) , interviews , promos featuring WWF wrestlers , updates of current feuds and announcements of upcoming local and pay-per-view events . In addition , Prime Time Wrestling would also air wrestling matches and interviews from other WWF programming such as Superstars of Wrestling and Wrestling Challenge Some episodes of Prime Time Wrestling are available for streaming on the WWE Network . |
Warped_Tour | The Warped Tour is a traveling rock festival that has toured the United States ( including 3 or 4 stops in Canada ) annually each summer since 1995 . It is the largest traveling music festival in the United States , and is the longest-running touring music festival in North America . The first Warped Tour took place in 1995 , and the skateboard shoe manufacturer Vans became the main sponsor of the tour starting with the second tour in 1996 , when it became known as the Vans Warped Tour . Although Vans has continued to be the main sponsor and lend its name to the festival , other sponsors have also participated , with stages or other aspects of the festival sometimes being named after them . Warped Tour was conceived in 1995 as an eclectic alternative rock festival , but in 1996 began focusing on punk rock music . Although it has continued to be known primarily as a punk rock festival , it has included acts of diverse genres over the years . |
Vivian_Wu | Vivian Wu ( ; born February 5 , 1966 ) is a Chinese actress , known for her roles in The Last Emperor ( 1987 ) , Heaven & Earth ( 1993 ) , The Joy Luck Club ( 1993 ) , and The Pillow Book ( 1996 ) and as the historical figure of Soong Mei-ling , commonly referred to as Madam Chiang Kai-shek , in The Soong Sisters ( 1997 film ) and The Founding of a Republic ( 2009 film ) and Departed Heroes ( 2011 TV series ) . |
Wall_Street_(1987_film) | Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film , directed and co-written by Oliver Stone , which stars Michael Douglas , Charlie Sheen , and Daryl Hannah . The film tells the story of Bud Fox ( Sheen ) , a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko ( Douglas ) , a wealthy , unscrupulous corporate raider . Stone made the film as a tribute to his father , Lou Stone , a stockbroker during the Great Depression . The character of Gekko is said to be a composite of several people , including Dennis Levine , Ivan Boesky , Carl Icahn , Asher Edelman , Michael Ovitz , Michael Milken , and Stone himself . The character of Sir Lawrence Wildman , meanwhile , was modeled on the prominent British financier and corporate raider Sir James Goldsmith . Originally , the studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Gekko , but he was not interested ; Stone , meanwhile , wanted Richard Gere , but Gere passed on the role . The film was well received among major film critics . Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor , and the film has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s success , with Douglas ' character declaring that `` greed is good . '' It has also proven influential in inspiring people to work on Wall Street , with Sheen , Douglas , and Stone commenting over the years how people still approach them and say that they became stockbrokers because of their respective characters in the film . Stone and Douglas reunited for a sequel titled Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps , which was released theatrically on September 24 , 2010 . |
Venus_(mythology) | Venus ( -LSB- ` vi : nəs -RSB- , Classical Latin : -LSB- ˈwɛnʊs -RSB- ) is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love , beauty , desire , sex , fertility , prosperity and victory . In Roman mythology , she was the mother of the Roman people through her son , Aeneas , who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy . Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor . Venus was central to many religious festivals , and was revered in Roman religion under numerous cult titles . The Romans adapted the myths and iconography of her Greek counterpart Aphrodite for Roman art and Latin literature . In the later classical tradition of the West , Venus becomes one of the most widely referenced deities of Greco-Roman mythology as the embodiment of love and sexuality . |
WWE_Classics_on_Demand | WWE Classics On Demand was an American subscription video on demand television service provided by WWE . It featured footage from WWE 's vast archive of wrestling footage , including classic WWE , World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) , Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) and more . It offered around 40 hours of rotating programming per month , arranged into four ( previously six ) `` programming buckets '' , often centered on a specific theme . It was originally called WWE 24/7 On Demand . In September 2008 , it was changed to WWE 24/7 Classics on Demand . In April 2009 , it was changed again to WWE Classics On Demand . WWE Classics was presented only on digital cable . Among the services carrying it were Comcast , AT&T U-Verse ( discontinued in 2012 ) , Verizon FiOS , Mediacom , Charter Communications , Cox Communications , Rogers Cable , EastLink , Seaside Communications , Cogeco , Armstrong , Cablevision , Sky Italia and not long ago , Astro . Some of its programming was packaged as Madison Square Garden Classics and began airing on MSG Network in the summer of 2006 . In November 2007 , the service had around 115,000 subscribers . The service closed on January 31 , 2014 to make way for their new video-streaming and subscription service WWE Network . |
War_and_Peace_(1972_TV_series) | War and Peace is a television dramatisation of the Leo Tolstoy novel of War and Peace . This 20 episode series began on 28 September 1972 . The BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy 's epic story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars . Anthony Hopkins heads the cast as the soul-searching Pierre Bezukhov , Morag Hood is the impulsive and beautiful Natasha Rostova , Alan Dobie is the dour , heroic Andrei Bolkonsky and David Swift is Napoleon , whose decision to invade Russia in 1812 has far-reaching consequences for Pierre and the Rostov and Bolkonsky families . The twenty-part serial was produced by David Conroy and directed by John Davies . Conroy 's aim was to transfer the characters and plot from Tolstoy 's magnum opus to television drama to run for a duration of 15 hours ( actually closer to 17 ) . Scripted by Jack Pulman , this version of War and Peace contained battle sequences , which were filmed in Yugoslavia . The production designer Don Homfray won a BAFTA for his work on the series . This dramatisation differs from earlier adaptations in that it preserves many of Tolstoy 's `` minor '' characters -- such as Platon Karataev , played by Harry Locke . |
Vera_Farmiga | Vera Ann Farmiga ( -LSB- fɑrˈmiːɡə -RSB- born August 6 , 1973 ) is an American actress , director and producer . She began her career on Broadway in the play Taking Sides ( 1996 ) . She made her television debut in the Fox fantasy series Roar ( 1997 ) , and her film debut in the drama-thriller Return to Paradise ( 1998 ) . Farmiga 's breakout role came in 2004 , when she portrayed a mother harboring a secret drug habit in the drama film Down to the Bone . She then co-starred in The Manchurian Candidate ( 2004 ) , The Departed ( 2006 ) , The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ( 2008 ) , and Nothing But the Truth ( 2008 ) . She gained more critical acclaim for her role as Alex Goran in the 2009 comedy-drama Up in the Air , for which she was nominated for the Academy Award , BAFTA Award , Golden Globe Award , and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress . She then had starring roles in Orphan ( 2009 ) , Source Code ( 2011 ) , and Safe House ( 2012 ) . Farmiga made her directorial debut with the drama film Higher Ground ( 2011 ) , in which she also starred in the lead role . In 2013 , she portrayed paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren in the horror film The Conjuring , and reprised the role in the 2016 sequel The Conjuring 2 . From 2013 to 2017 , Farmiga starred as Norma Louise Bates in the A&E drama-thriller series Bates Motel , for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination . This role , along with her roles in Joshua , Orphan , and the two Conjuring films , has dubbed her as a contemporary scream queen . |
Wallops_Flight_Facility | Wallops Flight Facility ( WFF ) , located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia , United States , approximately 100 mi north-northeast of Norfolk , is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt , Maryland , primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other Federal agencies . WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets , small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets , high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research and -- using its Research Airport -- flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft including unmanned aerial vehicles . There have been over 16,000 launches from the rocket testing range at Wallops since its founding in 1945 in the quest for information on the flight characteristics of airplanes , launch vehicles , and spacecraft , and to increase the knowledge of the Earth 's upper atmosphere and the environment of outer space . The launch vehicles vary in size and power from the small Super Loki meteorological rockets to orbital-class vehicles . The Wallops Flight Facility also supports science missions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and occasionally for foreign governments and commercial organizations . Wallops also supports development tests and exercises involving United States Navy aircraft and ship-based electronics and weapon systems in the Virginia Capes operating area , near the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay . In addition to its fixed-location instrumentation assets , the WFF range includes mobile radar , telemetry receivers , and command transmitters that can be transported by cargo planes to locations around the world , in order to establish a temporary range where no other instrumentation exists , to ensure safety , and to collect data in order to enable and support suborbital rocket launches from remote sites . The WFF mobile range assets have been used to support rocket launches from locations in the Arctic and Antarctic regions , South America , Africa , Europe , Australia , and at sea . Workers at Wallops include approximately 1,000 full-time NASA civil service employees and the employees of contractors , about 30 U.S. Navy personnel , and about 100 employees of NOAA . |
Warship | A warship is a naval ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare . Usually they belong to the armed forces of a state . As well as being armed , warships are designed to withstand damage and are usually faster and more maneuverable than merchant ships . Unlike a merchant ship , which carries cargo , a warship typically carries only weapons , ammunition and supplies for its crew . Warships usually belong to a navy , though they have also been operated by individuals , cooperatives and corporations . In wartime , the distinction between warships and merchant ships is often blurred . In war , merchant ships are often armed and used as auxiliary warships , such as the Q-ships of the First World War and the armed merchant cruisers of the Second World War . Until the 17th century it was common for merchant ships to be pressed into naval service and not unusual for more than half a fleet to be composed of merchant ships . Until the threat of piracy subsided in the 19th century , it was normal practice to arm larger merchant ships such as galleons . Warships have also often been used as troop carriers or supply ships , such as by the French Navy in the 18th century or the Japanese Navy during the Second World War . |
Vic_Mensa | Victor Kwesi Mensah ( born June 6 , 1993 ) , better known by his stage name Vic Mensa , is a Grammy-nominated American rapper from Chicago , Illinois . He is currently signed to Roc Nation and was a member of the group Kids These Days , which broke up in May 2013 . He released his first solo mixtape Innanetape . Mensa is also founder of the hip-hop collective Savemoney which includes frequent collaborator Chance the Rapper . His debut single `` Down on My Luck '' was released in June 2014 by Virgin EMI . |
Vice_Versa_(song) | `` Vica Versa '' is a 2001 Southern hip hop / horrorcore / underground rap song by Pastor Troy and Lil Pete of D.S.G.B. . First released on the album Face Off , a remix was released in the 2002 follow-up album , Hell 2 Pay . |