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3931749 | “Rubber Biscuit” is a doo-wop song performed by the vocals-only team The Chips, who recorded it in 1956. It was famously covered by The Blues Brothers, on their debut album, "Briefcase Full of Blues," among many other artists, as well as being featured in the 1973 film "Mean Streets." |
3961484 | Couch Potatoes is an American game show which featured two teams competing in a television-centric quiz game. The program premiered in syndication on January 23, 1989. It aired in first-run until June 9, 1989, for a total of one hundred episodes, and reruns aired after that until September 8, 1989. |
3970879 | In the mythological writings of William Blake, Hela is the youngest of the five daughters of "Tiriel". She is the only survivor of his curse. She denounces her blind father for what he has done; he curses her once more, turning her hair to Medusa-style snakes. She guides him to the Vales of Har. |
3978669 | "Swinging on a Star" is an American pop standard with music composed by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1944 film "Going My Way", winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song that year, and has been recorded by numerous artists since then. In 2004 it finished at #37 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. |
3979621 | American singer Jessica Simpson has released seven studio albums, four compilation albums, three video albums, seventeen singles, and fifteen music videos. Her debut album, "Sweet Kisses" (1999), was released through Columbia Records, reached number 25 on the US "Billboard" 200 albums chart, and was certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album sold 1.9 million copies in the US and produced three singles. Simpson's debut single, "I Wanna Love You Forever", reached number 3 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and was certified platinum by the RIAA. In 2001, Simpson released her second studio effort, titled "Irresistible", which failed to match the success of "Sweet Kisses". With estimated sales of over 755,000 copies, "Irresistible" peaked at number 6 in the United States. Her third studio album, "In This Skin", was released in August 2003. Guided by the publicity of her reality TV show, , that album became the best-selling effort of her career, achieving a peak position of number 2 and triple platinum certification in the US. By 2009, "In This Skin" had sold 3 million copies in the US and produced four singles. In 2004, Simpson released her fourth studio and her first Christmas album, "". It reached number 14 in the US and was certified gold by the RIAA. As of February 2009, "Rejoyce" has sold 669,000 copies in the US. |
3984140 | Crash Rickshaw is a side project of the post-hardcore band Project 86. It was founded by Alex Albert, Steven Dail and Joby Harris, with Randy Torres joining later. Crash Rickshaw released their self-titled album on September 11, 2001 on Tooth & Nail Records. Their second album, "The Unknown Clarity", was released on iTunes on March 11, 2008. |
3986426 | Captain Hollywood Project is a famous ‘90s Eurodance music project and live touring act best known for the ground breaking crossover world hits “More and More," "Only with You" and "Flying High." At the peak of its success in the '90s, the project itself achieved 10 Top-20 hits on European music charts. The project was first formed in 1990 in Nuremberg, Germany by rapper/singer, dancer and music producer Tony Dawson-Harrison (aka Captain Hollywood). When first naming the project, Harrison chose the name "Captain Hollywood Project" in order to distinguish his new music for the project from his previous music. He also chose the name to give himself the creative freedom as executive producer to involve any singer, songwriter or producer of his choice when producing each of the new songs for the project. Even though the act has been widely viewed as a one-man act starring Harrison as the rapper/frontman; a talented ensemble of female backup singers, dancers and backing musicians have traditionally been included in the act by Harrison. Today, the Captain Hollywood Project is recognized as a live performing duo act starring Harrison and singer/dancer Shirin von Gehlen (aka Shirin Amour) as the project's new lead singer. Together with their band of live musicians and dancers, Harrison and von Gehlen perform the Captain Hollywood Project hits year-round at concert venues in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Russia and Australia. |
3991194 | The European Civil War is a concept meant to describe a series of 19th and 20th century conflicts in Europe as segments of an overarching civil war within a supposed European society. The timeframes associated to this European Civil War vary among historians. Some descriptions range from 1914 to 1945, thus including World War I, World War II and many lesser conflicts of the interwar period. Others argue that this period started in 1870, with the Franco-Prussian War, or in 1905. Sometimes, the notion also serves to explain or justify the process of European integration and the creation of the European Union as a "solution" to this conflict. |
3992248 | Do Over is an American sitcom created by Kenny Schwartz and Rick Wiener about a man who gets a chance to relive his childhood. The series, which was originally broadcast on The WB in 2002, stars Penn Badgley. |
3996212 | America East Conference Men's Basketball Tournament |
4000910 | Live is the 13th released album by Tanya Tucker, but her first one recorded live in concert. She primarily performs live versions of songs that have been previously recorded in studio and released on her earlier albums. Three of the songs, however, had not appeared on any of her prior albums: "Somebody Buy This Cowgirl a Beer," "Pecos Promenade," and Robbie Robertson's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," which was made famous earlier by Joan Baez. However, a studio version of "Pecos Promenade" had been featured on the soundtrack to Smokey and the Bandit II and was a Billboard hit, peaking at #10 on the Country charts. |
4026168 | The Greatest Songs of the Fifties is an album by veteran American singer Barry Manilow, released in the United States on January 31, 2006. A significant album for Barry Manilow, it finds the Brooklyn-born crooner taking on songs that were popular in his youth. The project also marked Manilow's return to his former label, Arista, with the company's founder, Clive Davis, setting the singer up with 1950s pop classics much in the way that the savvy businessman steered Rod Stewart in the direction of jazzy standards in his successful "The Great American Songbook" project. The album was an amazing hit in the United States. It entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1, giving him the second chart-topping album of his career. His only other No. 1 album was "Barry Manilow Live", in 1977. This is also the highest-debuting album of his career, selling over 150,000 copies in its opening week and besting the No. 3 opening of "Ultimate Manilow" in 2002. |
4026219 | Bryan Shelton (born December 22, 1965) is an American college tennis coach and former professional tennis player. Shelton played collegiately for Georgia Tech from 1985 to 1988, and then played professionally from 1989 to 1997. He subsequently returned to his alma mater to coach the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets women's tennis team, which won the NCAA Women's Tennis Championship in 2007. He is currently the head coach of the Florida Gators men's tennis team of the University of Florida. |
4026726 | Paul Herbert Goldstein (born August 4, 1976) is a retired tennis player from the United States, who turned professional in 1998. He announced his retirement from professional tennis in February 2008, as he will start working with a clean energy company. |
4031676 | Independent Lens is a weekly television series airing on PBS presenting documentary films made by independent filmmakers. Past seasons of "Independent Lens" were presented by hosts Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Susan Sarandon, Edie Falco, Terrence Howard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, America Ferrera, Mary-Louise Parker, and Stanley Tucci, who served two stints as host from 2012-2014. |
4043708 | Arachnaphobia is a monster truck that races on the USHRA Monster Jam circuit. |
4071395 | Al Brown's Tunetoppers was a band led by Al Brown, born May 22, 1934, who had success in 1960 with a dance tune "The Madison" on Amy Records. The dance calls were by Cookie Brown. Although they were successful in record sales, it had to fight off a competing version by Ray Bryant on Columbia Records who titled his, "Madison Time" with calls by Eddie Morrison. As a result, Al Brown's version could only peak at #23 on the Billboard Charts. Dickey Doo & The Don'ts also released version of "The Madison" on a United Artists album. Dickey Doo was fronted by Gerry Granahan who had a hit with "No Chemise Please" in 1958. |
4084044 | Lawson Duncan (born October 26, 1964) is a retired American tennis player. The right-hander reached his highest Association of Tennis Professionals singles ranking on May 20, 1985, when he became World No. 47. His best performance in a grand slam tennis tournament was the 1989 French Open, where he reached the fourth round. |
4087014 | Kete Krachi is a town in the Krachi West District of the Volta Region of Ghana. Kete Krachi is the capital of the Krachi West District. It is in the West of the Volta region, and is adjacent to Lake Volta. Kete Krachi is connected by a ferry to the town of Kwadjokrom, and by road to Bimbila and Dambai. The town is also known for the Kete Krachi Secondary Technology. The school is a second cycle institution. Kete Krachi is the seventy-second most populous settlement in Ghana, in terms of population, with a population of 11,788 people. |
4087834 | James Whitney Young (January 24, 1941) is an American astronomer who worked in the field of asteroid research. After nearly 47 years with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at their Table Mountain Facility, Young retired July 16, 2009. |
4105494 | Küre is a town and district of the Kastamonu Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 10,223 of which 3,880 live in the town of Küre. The district covers an area of 541 km2 , and the town lies, at an elevation of 1142 m . |
4110107 | The giant squid's elusive nature and fearsome appearance have long made it a popular subject of legends and folk tales. Its popularity as an image continues today with references and depictions in literature, film, television, and video games. |
4112366 | Francis John Schweihs (February 7, 1932 – July 23, 2008), aka "Frank the German", was an American gangster, who worked for The Outfit, the organized crime family of Chicago. At the time of his death, federal prosecutors planned to indict him for numerous crimes, including murder. It is believed he had participated in, or had knowledge of, many murders going back decades, including brothers Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro and Michael Spilotro, Allen Dorfman of the Teamsters Union, a disgraced Chicago cop, Outfit associate and informant Dick Cain, Outfit boss Salvatore "Sam," "Mooney" Giancana, loanshark Sam "Mad Sam" DeStefano, Outfit hitman Charles "Chuckie" Nicoletti and others. |
4119270 | The United States national baseball team is the national baseball team of United States in international-level baseball competitions. The team is currently ranked 2nd in the world by the International Baseball Federation. They have won the Baseball World Cup 4 times (1973, 1974, 2007, and 2009), the Olympic Games in Baseball once (2000), and the World Baseball Classic once (2017). |
4123537 | Donald Andrew "Donnie" McClurkin, Jr. (born November 9, 1959) is an American gospel singer and minister. He has won three Grammy Awards, ten Stellar Awards, two BET Awards, two Soul Train Awards, one Dove Award and one NAACP Image Awards. He is one of the top selling Gospel music artists, selling over 10 million albums worldwide. |
4125397 | Lair is a 2007 action-adventure video game developed by Factor 5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released for the PlayStation 3 in August 2007 in North America. |
4132785 | The game of Fugitive combines elements of a number of outdoor games such as capture the flag, cops and robbers, and Sharks and Minnows. In Fugitive, players divide into two teams, with each team playing the part either of the "fugitives" or of the "police". The cops are further divided into "runners", "drivers", and "riders." |
4137880 | Michael Lee Lewis (born November 14, 1971) is a former American football wide receiver and return specialist who is currently the team ambassador of the New Orleans Saints. He was signed by the Louisiana Bayou Beast in 1998. He did not play college football. |
4140068 | Paradise Lost is an epic Christian poem by John Milton. |
4143197 | The Krachi West District is one of the twenty-five (25) districts in the Volta Region. Krachi West district capital and administrative centre is Kete Krachi. |
4145894 | The 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season was the main college football season sanctioned by the NCAA. The season began in August 1994 and ended on January 2, 1995. Nebraska, who finished the season undefeated, ended the year ranked #1 in both the Associated Press and Coaches polls. This was the first national championship of coach Tom Osborne's career at Nebraska, despite coming close in two prior attempts; in 1983, his team lost to Miami after Osborne, with his team trailing 31-30 late in the game, elected to try for the lead instead of the tie and failed. In the previous season, Osborne's team lost to eventual national champion Florida State on a missed field goal as time expired. |
4156084 | "Jagdgeschwader" 54 (JG 54) was a Luftwaffe fighter wing during the Second World War, which was the second highest scoring wing of all time, JG 52 being the highest. JG 54 flew on the Eastern Front claiming over 9,600 aircraft shot down, with pilots such as Walter Nowotny, Otto Kittel, Hans-Ekkehard Bob, Max-Hellmuth Ostermann and Hannes Trautloft being termed "Experten". |
4159722 | Bernard Rhodes is a fashion designer, record producer, songwriter, manager and impresario who was integral to the development of the punk rock scene in the United Kingdom during the middle 1970s. He is most associated with two of the UK's best known punk bands, the Sex Pistols and The Clash. It was Rhodes who was responsible for discovering John Lydon and arranging the audition in the King's Road for him to join the Sex Pistols. He also introduced a young Mick Jones and Paul Simonon to Joe Strummer and together with Keith Levene they formed The Clash. Rhodes was an important force behind The Clash, not only managing their business, but also handling marketing and creative direction of the band. He left the band from 1979 to 1981 to pursue other opportunities, but tensions in the band led to singer-guitarist Joe Strummer demanding (and getting) his return in 1981. |
4164634 | Michael Tolan (November 27, 1925 – January 31, 2011) was an American actor. |
4165421 | Verlon Marion Biggs (March 16, 1943 – June 7, 1994) was an American football defensive end in the American Football League and National Football League. He played for the New York Jets (AFL) in Super Bowl III, but felt he didn't receive enough credit for the Jets' playoff win against the Oakland Raiders in the AFL Championship Game that launched them into the Super Bowl. He played well but sulked until 1970, demanded more money, and wound up signing with Vince Lombardi's Washington Redskins of the NFL. Always a dominating defensive end, Verlon solidified George Allen's defense (Allen replaced Lombardi upon his death in July 1970) and led the Redskins into Super Bowl VII. His nickname with the Redskins was "dirty Biggs" because of his extremely physical style of play. |
4173706 | Shila, (शिला in Devanagari, "śila " in IAST) or Shaligram refers to a fossilized shell used in South Asia as an iconic symbol and reminder of the God Vishnu as the Universal Principle by some Hindus. Shaligrams are usually collected from river-beds or banks such as the Gandaki river in Nepal. They are considered easy to carry and popular in certain traditions of Vaishnavism, as an aniconic representation of the divine. They are typically in the form of spherical, black-coloured Ammonoid fossils which have existed nearly a 100 million years before the first humans evolved. |
4176161 | The GEOSAT (GEOdetic SATellite) was a U.S. Navy Earth observation satellite, launched on March 12, 1985 into an 800 km, 108° inclination orbit, with a nodal period of about 6040 seconds. The satellite carried a radar altimeter capable of measuring the distance from the satellite to sea surface with a relative precision of about 5 cm. The initial phase was an 18-month classified Geodetic Mission (GM) have a ground-track with a near-23-day repeat with closure to within 50 kilometers. The effect of atmospheric drag was such that by fail 1986 GEOSAT was in an almost exact 23-day repeat orbit. |
4179778 | Heart Condition is a 1990 American fantasy-comedy film starring Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington and Chloe Webb. It inspired the Malayalam film "Aayushkalam" and the Bollywood film "Hello Brother" which share plot similarities. |
4188995 | A play-in game is a game at the beginning of a tournament that forces the lowest qualifiers for the tournament to play each other before the main portion of the tournament begins. This gives an added advantage to the higher qualifiers, allowing them to rest, while the lower teams extend themselves by playing. Further, teams that participate in the play-in must usually play the next game against the highest qualifier in the tournament and play on the road. Having a play-in game allows for a tournament to have a number of teams that is not a power of two, and gives an extra advantage for teams to play for, as they try to win to avoid having to play in the extra game. |
4190901 | Hawthorne High School is a public High school located in Hawthorne, California, within the Centinela Valley Union High School District. It opened in 1951 with 9th and 10th grades. The first graduating senior class was that of 1954. It is most notable for its association with The Beach Boys, whose original members Brian, Carl, Dennis Wilson, and Al Jardine attended the school. Coincidentally, Olivia Trinidad Arias, who later became Olivia Harrison (George Harrison’s wife), also attended; she graduated in 1965. |
4192075 | Gaspare Pisciotta (Montelepre, March 5, 1924 – Palermo, February 9, 1954) was a companion and first cousin of the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano, and considered to be the co-leader of his outlaw band. |
4216841 | Raja Gidh (Urdu: راجه گدھ ) by Bano Qudsia is an Urdu novel. Gidh is the Urdu word for a vulture and Raja is a Hindi synonym for king. The name anticipates the kingdom of vultures. In fact, parallel to the main plot of the novel, an allegorical story of such a kingdom is narrated. The metaphor of the vulture as an animal feeding mostly on the carcasses of dead animals is employed to portray the trespassing of ethical limits imposed by the society or by the religion. |
4220361 | James Earl Gilstrap (born November 10, 1946) is an American singer best known for his work as a session musician and his 1975 solo hit single "Swing Your Daddy", as well as singing co-lead to the theme from the TV series "Good Times". |
4228118 | The 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 65 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2006–07 basketball season. Team selections were announced on March 11, 2007, and the tournament began on March 13, 2007, with the Opening round game and concluded with the championship game on April 2 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. |
4237433 | The Schleswig plebiscites were two plebiscites, organized according to section XII, articles 109 to 114 of the Treaty of Versailles of June 28, 1919, in order to determine the future border between Denmark and Germany through the former duchy of Schleswig. The process was monitored by a commission with representatives from France, the United Kingdom, Norway and Sweden. |
4237652 | The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a university or college within the United States is the name officially adopted by that institution for at least the members of its athletic teams. Typically as a matter of engendering school spirit, the institution either officially or unofficially uses this moniker of the institution's athletic teams also as a nickname to refer to people associated with the institution, especially its current students, but also often its alumni, its faculty, and its administration as well. This practice at the university and college tertiary higher-education level has proven so popular that it extended to the high school secondary-education level in the USA and in recent years even to the primary-education level as well. |
4253154 | Al-mi'raj or Almiraj (Arabic: المعراج "al-mi'raj") is a mythical beast from Arabic poetry said to live on a mysterious island called Jezîrat al-Tennyn within the confines of the Indian Ocean. Its name can be broken up several different ways, though is generally seen truncated as Mi'raj, Mir'aj or just Miraj. |
4271225 | Donald Rodney "Don" Schain (February 26, 1941 – December 26, 2015) was an American director, writer, and producer of many films and TV movies, most notably for Disney Channel. |
4278542 | Tooth Fang & Claw is the seventh and final album by Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes. It was the second offering on the DiscReet label. The band consisted of Nugent, Rob Grange on bass and drummer Vic Mastrianni. The album has the feel of the outdoors and Nugent's love for hunting and rock and roll. |
4280807 | is a publicity and media management firm, based in Brooklyn, New York, that specializes in entertainment and popular culture. Founded in 1990 by Marilyn Laverty, the company has run public relations campaigns for artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Lana Del Rey, and Zac Brown Band. In 2016 "Billboard" named Laverty one of the music industry's most powerful female executives in its annual "Women in Music" issue. |
4291375 | The 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Oklahoma Sooners claiming their first national championship and their first conference championship since the departure of head coach Barry Switzer. |
4293307 | Shahbaz (Persian: شاهباز ) is the name of a fabled bird. It is like an eagle, bigger than a hawk or falcon. The shahbaz lived in the Zagros, Alborz, and Ghafghaz mountains of Iran. In old Persian mythology, Shahbaz was a god who helped the Iranians and guided Faravahar to Iran zamin. |
4294271 | Africa Trail is an educational computer game developed by MECC and published by The Learning Company. The gameplay resembles that of MECC's other "Trail" games, in which players must prepare for a long journey, choose their traveling companions, and make it safely to their destination. In "Africa Trail", players must travel across Africa via bicycle. They may choose three of six people to aid them in their trip. The player's trip can start in Bizerte, Tunisia; Lagos, Nigeria; or Nairobi, Kenya, and end in Lagos, Nairobi, or Cape Agulhas, South Africa. |
4311534 | Elbert Joseph Higgins (born December 8, 1944), known as Bertie Higgins, is an American singer-songwriter. In 1982, Higgins had a Top 40 album with "Just Another Day in Paradise". It spawned the #1 Billboard romantic classic ballad "Key Largo", which referenced the Humphrey Bogart movie of the same name and reached #8 in the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 record chart and #1 in the Billboard adult contemporary charts and #50 in the Billboard Country Music charts. In 2009, the song "Key Largo" was #75 on VH1's Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80s. |
4313128 | Cumnoria is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It is a basal iguanodontian which lived during the upper Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian age) in what is now Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. |
4322319 | The Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, is a legendary apelike beast said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet. |
4356410 | NBA Tonight is a National Basketball Association studio program that airs on ESPN. The program used to air as part of ESPN's "The Trifecta". Formerly known as "NBA 2Night" and NBA Fastbreak, the program, hosted by various ESPN personalities, provides highlights, analysis and updates from the night's NBA games. Segments include "3Ds", which looks at the night's top dunks, defense and dimes (assists). |
4362030 | Spice World is a 1997 British musical comedy film directed by Bob Spiers and written by Kim Fuller and Jamie Curtis. The film stars pop girl group the Spice Girls who all play themselves. The lighthearted comedy — made in a similar vein to The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) — depicts a series of fictional events leading up to a major concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, liberally interspersed with dream sequences and flashbacks as well as surreal moments and humorous asides. |
4374043 | An Orange Safari is a cocktail made with three parts orange juice and one part Safari (liqueur). It is served with ice in a highball glass. |
4384220 | Shide (紙垂, 四手 ) is a zigzag-shaped paper streamer, often seen attached to "shimenawa" or "tamagushi", and used in Shinto rituals. A popular ritual is using a "haraegushi", or "lightning wand", named for the zig-zag "shide" paper that adorns the wand. A similar wand, used by miko for purification and blessing, is the gohei with two shide. A Shinto priest waves the "haraegushi" over a person, item, or newly bought property, such as a building or car. The wand is waved at a slow rhythmic pace, but with a little force so that the "shide" strips make a rustling noise on each pass of the wand. For new properties, a similar ritual known as "jijin sai" is performed with a "haraegushi", an enclosed part of the land (enclosed by "shimenawa"), and sake, or ritually purified sake known as "o-miki". The "haraegushi" has been used for centuries in Shinto ceremonies and has similarities in Ainu culture. In Ainu culture, a shaved willow branch called an "inaw" or "inau" closely resembles the Shinto "haraegushi", and is used in similar blessing rituals. |
4385714 | Mary Ann Kostecki (August 11, 1934 – May 12, 2008), better known by her ring name Penny Banner, was an American professional wrestler. |
4386123 | A Brief History of Australian Game Shows |
4392592 | Douglas J. "Doug" Erholtz (born February 21, 1971) is an American voice actor. He is best known for his performances as Gin Ichimaru from Bleach, TK Takaishi from Digimon Adventure 02, Squall Leonhart from the Final Fantasy series and Kingdom Hearts II, Asuma Sarutobi from Naruto and Hamrio Musica from Rave Master. |
4392621 | Thurman were an English rock band heralding from Oxfordshire comprising brothers Nicholas Kenny, (Lead Vocals + Guitar) Simon Kenny (Bass + Additional vocals) plus Paul Disley (Drums). Heavily associated with the Britpop movement, rumors circulated at the time that they had originally been called '2 Die 4' -- a heavy metal band that saw heavy rotation on MTV and American rock radio with their one hit wonder "You Got What It Takes" in the early 1990s with Andy Shaw on vocals. After Shaw's departure, they changed their name and music style as to be snapped up by a record label in the wake of the success of Blur and the mid-'90s UK music resurgence. Thurman's chirpy '60s-influenced retro sound was similar to one produced by a number of artists in 1995 at the height of Britpop mania. |
4398472 | The minelayer HNoMS "Olav Tryggvason was built by the naval shipyard at Horten in the early 1930s and had build number 119. She served in the Royal Norwegian Navy until captured by the Germans in 1940. The Germans renamed her first Albatros II, and a few days later Brummer". She was wrecked in a British bombing raid in northern Germany in April 1945. |
4410456 | The Fireman is the experimental music duo of Paul McCartney and Youth formed in the early 1990s. Their music catalogue ranges from rock to electronica, evolving over more than two decades and three albums. Although officially anonymous until 2008 with the release of the album "Electric Arguments", the identities of the two members had been heavily rumored since their initial album’s release in 1993. |
4417394 | Nahuelito is a lake monster reported to live in Nahuel Huapi Lake, Patagonia, Argentina. Like Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, the Argentine creature is named after the lake she resides in and has been described as a giant serpent or a huge hump, as well as a plesiosaur. Nahuelito has been allegedly shown through photos showing a hump, or a serpentine body. |
4424416 | Giovanni Boccaccio, (?1313-1375), was an Italian author and poet. |
4432060 | Charles "Chuckie" Anthony Nicoletti (December 3, 1916 - March 29, 1977), also known as "The Typewriter" and "Chuckie Typewriter", was a top Chicago Outfit hitman under Outfit boss Sam Giancana before and after Giancana's rise and fall. |
4435997 | Many writers make references to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous literary creation, the detective Sherlock Holmes, and these often become embedded within popular culture. While Holmes exists predominately in the context of Victorian-era London, he has been mentioned in such outre contexts as the 22nd century or hunting aliens or supernatural enemies. These references are in addition to the innumerable passing references to Sherlock Holmes made in many literary and cinematic works, such as the labeling of a person as a "Sherlock", whether in reference to their intelligence (or in jest or sarcasm). |
4436337 | James Albon Mattox (August 29, 1943 – November 20, 2008) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms in the United States House of Representatives and two four-year terms as state Attorney General, but lost high-profile races for Governor in 1990, the U.S. Senate in 1994, and again as attorney general in 1998. He was known as the "people's lawyer" because of his advocacy of what he deemed the needs of everyday Texans. He was a member of the Democratic Party. |
4438594 | Ray Parkin (6 November 191019 June 2005) was an Australian writer, amateur artist, and self-taught historian, noted for his memoirs of World War II and a major work on James Cook's "Endeavour" voyage. |
4464566 | Sim Yee Chiang is a Singaporean short story writer, playwright, and librettist. |
4467230 | Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is a British television review programme created and presented by Charlie Brooker and broadcast on BBC Four. The programme contains reviews of current shows, as well as stories and commentary on how television is produced. |
4468316 | Diana Love Webster (née Dill; formerly Douglas and Darrid; January 22, 1923 – July 3, 2015) was an American actress. She was known for her marriage to actor Kirk Douglas, from 1943 until their divorce in 1951. She was the mother of Michael and Joel Douglas. |
4469594 | Verner Edward "Vern" Suomi (1915 – 30 July 1995) was a Finnish-American educator, inventor, and scientist. He is considered the father of satellite meteorology. He invented the Spin Scan Radiometer, which for many years was the instrument on the GOES weather satellites that generated the time sequences of cloud images seen on television weather shows. The Suomi NPP polar orbiting satellite, launched in 2011, was named in his honor. |
4474362 | Temptation was an Australian game show which premiered on the Nine Network on 30 May 2005. Hosted by Ed Phillips and Livinia Nixon, the show was a remake of "Sale of the Century", which aired on Nine in the same timeslot for more than twenty years between 1980 and 2001. "Temptation" had the same general format of its predecessor, but with several new features and a de-emphasis on the "shopping" aspects of the endgame. The show ran until 30 November 2007, when it was placed on hiatus by the network following strong competition from game show "Deal or No Deal" on the rival Seven Network; during the hiatus, Nine filled the timeslot with episodes of the American sitcom "Two and a Half Men". When Ed Phillips made an appearance on "The NRL Footy Show" he announced "maybe summer" would be the return of the show. This statement was accurate, as "Temptation" returned for a shortened fourth series from 1 December 2008 with unaired episodes which were recorded during 2008. During that time, Ed Phillips was dumped by the Nine Network after his contract expired in November, and "Temptation" never returned to the schedule. After 23 January 2009, when the show's final episode aired, all "Temptation" websites were removed, and "Two and a Half Men" returned to Channel Nine's 7:00pm schedule. |
4484369 | New Ways But Love Stays is the second studio album by the Jean Terrell-led Supremes. Building on the foundation of the group's first LP, "Right On", "New Ways" was produced by Frank Wilson and features The Supremes' most successful single with Terrell, "Stoned Love". The plea for peace and love was written by Wilson and a Detroit teenager named Kenny Thomas. The song's title, read by many entertainment executives as a double-edged drug reference, prevented the song from making an impact in some areas; for example, footage of The Supremes performing the number was edited out of a November 1970 episode of "The Merv Griffin Show". However, the song still was a huge success on the charts, reaching number 7 on the Billboard hot 100, and number 1 on the Billboard R&B singles chart. |
4487114 | Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet (25 April 1750 – 3 May 1830), was a British politician and industrialist and one of early textile manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution. He was the father of Sir Robert Peel, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
4505810 | Martha Kelly is an Austin-area stand-up comedian from Los Angeles, best known for co-starring in the FX comedy series "Baskets". |
4517782 | Explorer 52 was an American satellite launched on June 3, 1974 from Vandenberg Air Force Base on a Scout booster. |
4522937 | Atlantis High is a teen comedy TV show, shot in New Zealand in 2001. |
4524798 | Don Juan is a 1926 American romantic Adventure film directed by Alan Crosland. It is the first feature-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, though it has no spoken dialogue. The film is inspired by Lord Byron's 1821 epic poem of the same name. The screenplay was written by Bess Meredyth with intertitles by Maude Fulton and Walter Anthony. |
4549959 | Marxman were a four-piece Marxist hip-hop group with two MCs formed in London in 1989. |
4550882 | We Are Marshall is a 2006 American historical drama biopic film directed by McG. It depicts the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed 37 football players on the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team, along with five coaches, two athletic trainers, the athletic director, 25 boosters, and a crew of five. It also addresses the rebuilding of the program and the healing that the community undergoes. |
4584210 | Main Aisa Hi Hoon (English: I Am Like This ) is a Bollywood drama film released in 2005. It was directed by Harry Baweja and stars Ajay Devgan, Sushmita Sen, Esha Deol and Anupam Kher. This film is a remake of the American drama film "I Am Sam" written and directed by Jessie Nelson, and starring Sean Penn as a father with a developmental disability. |
4588950 | Penny Downie (born 1954) is an Australian actress, noted for her appearances on British television. |
4595332 | This discography is a comprehensive listing of official releases by British soul singer Beverley Knight. It consists of eight studio albums, three compilation albums (two greatest hits albums and one remix album) and one EP. Knight has also released twenty-eight solo singles (excluding re-releases) and twenty-six solo music videos. She has also collaborated on at least fifteen other projects. |
4604542 | Trump Model Management is a New York City-based modeling agency owned by Donald Trump. Originally known as "T Models", it was founded by Trump in 1999. |
4607230 | "Where the Devil Don't Stay" is a song written and recorded by the rock and alt-country group Drive-By Truckers, and released on their 2004 album, "The Dirty South". |
4616852 | 1967 in organized crime, |
4618259 | To Preserve Quandic was probably the largest graphical adventure game done on the TRS-80 Color Computer at the time of its release. Taking two full disks, it was larger than both "Sands of Egypt" and "Dallas Quest", which preceded it. The basic premise is to preserve the pacifistic Quandic race, who had advanced technology like time machines. |
4627410 | December 11, 1990, the FBI arrests Gambino Family boss John Gotti, underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano and consigliere Frankie Locasio on racketeering charges. |
4632780 | Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet (England, 1785 – 31 August 1814, Fairlee, Maryland) was an English naval officer, the son of Vice-Admiral Christopher Parker and Augusta Byron. |
4665000 | Ivanhoe is a romantic opera in three acts based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott, with music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Julian Sturgis. It premiered at the Royal English Opera House on 31 January 1891 for a consecutive run of 155 performances, unheard of for a grand opera. Later that year it was performed six more times, making a total of 161 performances. |
4676303 | PlayMania was a live interactive game show on GSN, hosted by Mel Peachey, Shandi Finnessey, Jessica York, Angelle Tymon, and Jeff Thisted. The two-hour program featured interactive games that the viewers could play to win cash prizes. On February 20, 2007, the show was replaced with two separate programs, "quiznation" and "100 Winners" which were collectively known as the PlayMania Block. |
4676996 | Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (Albert John Charles Frederick Alfred George; 26 February 1869 – 27 April 1931), was a grandson of Queen Victoria. He was the second son of Victoria's daughter, Princess Helena, by her husband Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. He was the head of the House of Oldenburg and also the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein between 1921 and 1931. |
4716040 | Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor and musician. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in "Revolutionary Road" (2008) and "Nocturnal Animals" (2016), further earning Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for his role in "99 Homes" (2014). He received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for "Long Day's Journey into Night" (2016). |
4718514 | Alice Sophia Eve (born 6 February 1982) is an English actress. |
4723541 | Awal (Arabic: أوال ) is an ancient name of Bahrain, an island country in the Persian Gulf. The name Awal had remained in use, probably for eight centuries. Awal was derived from the name of a god that used to be worshiped by the inhabitants of the islands before the advent of Islam. Awal resembled the head of an ox. As for the meaning of this name, there are "ʼawwal" 'first, first part, previous'; "ʼawwalan" 'firstly, at first'; "ʼawwalī" 'prime, primordial, original'. Awal Premi also means 'the best' in many Indian languages. Similarly the deity Awal of Bahrain appears to be very similar to the deity Nandi of the Hindus. The Indus valley civilization also had a deity like an ox. It is suggested that there were religious and cultural links between these cultures. |