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7416167 | Infamous Mobb, also known as IM3, is a hip hop group from Queensbridge, Queens, New York, United States, composed of members Ty Nitty, Twin Gambino, Godfather Pt.III, and Ron Gotti. They are an integral part of the Queensbridge hip hop scene, which includes rappers like Nas, Cormega and Mobb Deep, and began with the Juice Crew. Friends since childhood, the Infamous Mobb members all grew up on Queensbridge's 41st side 12th Street. Gambino and Scarface were twin brothers; Twin Scarface died in a car crash in late 1996. The only known track released that Scarface appeared on is "All Pro" on Big Noyd's debut album Episodes of a Hustla. Gotti briefly rapped with them but decided to become a Producer and Manager for the group. |
7421724 | Marc Samuelson is a British TV and film producer and executive producer. |
7426940 | Lean Juicy Pork was a promotinal interview CD from Industrial supergroup Pigface, released in 1991, as a companion to "Welcome to Mexico... Asshole" It mainly featuring members of Pigface discussing what being in the band means to them. The album consists of interviews and a few remixes or "live" versions of songs. |
7453457 | Absolut Null Punkt (often abbreviated to ANP) is a Japanese rock band formed by KK Null and Seijiro Murayama in 1984. ANP's music incorporates elements of free jazz, heavy rock, industrial music, and glitch music. Although the group disbanded in 1987, they reformed in 2003 for a series of live performances. Recordings of these performances make up the "Live in Japan" album, released on the Important Records label. This was followed by "Metacompound", the group's first studio recording in 19 years, also released on the Important Records label. |
7462339 | Nicole Fantl is an Australian actress who has made appearances in several movies. Notably, she originated the lead role of Tammy in the acclaimed dark comedy "Beyond Love" at the Globe Playhouse. She began her acting career in Australian television ("Water Rats") and film ("Queen of the Damned", "Moulin Rouge!" and ""). Her largest voice over role to date is the English voice of Fran in the role-playing video game "Final Fantasy XII". |
7505780 | "The Fountain in the Park", also known as "While Strolling Through (or Thru') the Park One Day", is a song by Ed Haley (1862–1932), published in 1884 by Willis Woodward & Co. of New York, but dating from about 1880. It is best known for the being the source of the tune that contains the lyric "While strolling through the park one day, in the merry merry month of May," and has been featured in numerous films, including "Strike Up the Band" (1940), in which it was sung by Judy Garland. |
7523506 | Deke Arlon (born Anthony Howard Wilson) is a British music publisher and music manager whose clients included Kenny Young, Sheena Easton, Ron Grainer, Elaine Paige, Dennis Waterman, Helen Watson, and Marti Pellow. |
7531656 | Saigō Tanomo (西郷 頼母 , May 16, 1830 – April 28, 1903) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. Chief senior councilor ("hittōgarō" 筆頭家老 ) of the Aizu clan, he achieved fame due to his distinguished action in the Boshin War. He adopted the name Hoshina Chikanori (保科 近野里). Surviving the war, he became a Shinto priest, and achieved renown as a martial artist. He is considered as one of the teachers of the famed Takeda Sōkaku. |
7533903 | You Already Know is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist "the Don Bishop" Agallah, formerly known as 8-Off The Assassin. The album was released on August 22, 2006 by Babygrande. The album's production was handled primarily by Agallah, along with others, such as DJ Premier, The Alchemist and Sid Roams. It also features guest appearances from Kool G Rap, The Alchemist, Ike Eyes, and Dead Prez. |
7535557 | On Our Own is an American sitcom broadcast Sundays at 8:30 pm (EST) on CBS as part of their 1977-78 schedule. It featured Lynnie Greene as Maria Bonino and Bess Armstrong as Julia Peters, two employees in the Bedford Advertising Agency in New York City who also share an apartment. Toni McBain (Gretchen Wyler) was their boss, while April Baxter (Dixie Carter) and Phil Goldstein were their coworkers. |
7544240 | Matt McClure is an award-winning American journalist and actor. He is currently an anchor for all-news TV station NY1 and health/wellness cable channel Veria Living. |
7549548 | Lewinsville is an unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Traditionally, the center of Lewinsville has been located at the crossroads of Lewinsville and Chain Bridge Roads. Together with Langley, Lewinsville forms the census-designated place of McLean. |
7559374 | Bethel is an unincorporated community that lies on Long Branch, a tiny stream that runs into the Shenandoah River in Clarke County, Virginia. It lies at the crossroads of Swift Shoals and Kennel Roads. |
7562551 | The Bog Swamp Demon is a swamp monster that first appeared in the pages of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series. His adventures are chronicled in issues #4 through #12 of Volume 2 of the Mirage Studios title. He is one of the many comic book swamp creatures from various publishers based on the archetype established by Theodore Sturgeon's "It!" |
7579478 | La bohème is an 1896 opera by Giacomo Puccini. |
7581293 | Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran |
7594962 | Chicken foot, also known as Chicken dominoes, Chickie dominoes, and Chickie, is a dominoes game of the "Trains" family, similar to Mexican Train. Chicken Foot is played in rounds, one round for each double domino in the set. The game is normally played by 2 to 8 players using any of the common sets (double-six, double-nine, double-twelve, double-fifteen or double-eighteen). |
7605775 | Mowgli is a fictional feral boy in some stories written by Rudyard Kipling. |
7613924 | Saul Metzstein (born 30 December 1970) is a Scottish film director. He is the son of renowned modernist architect Isi Metzstein, and Danielle Kahn. Metzstein was raised in Glasgow. He came to prominence with the 2001 feature "Late Night Shopping" (2001). |
7618726 | Leonid Veniaminovitch Volodarskiy (Russian: Леони́д Вениами́нович Волода́рский , born on May 20, 1950, Moscow), Russian translator, writer and weekly radio show author. |
7630918 | Baptist News Global is an independent Baptist news agency. It was founded in 2014 as a merger of Associated Baptist Press (ABP), which was founded in 1990, and the Religious Herald, which was founded in 1828. |
7637494 | Scott Reeder (born 1970) is an American artist currently based in Chicago, Illinois, and Detroit, Michigan. |
7644867 | L.A. Without a Map is a 1998 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mika Kaurismäki and written by Mika Kaurismäki and Richard Rayner, based on his novel. The film stars David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Joe Dallesandro, and Johnny Depp. It is a French, British and Finnish production. |
7646591 | Young World is a newspaper for children. It is an edition of the well-known "Dawn". It has drawings and stories contributed by children with pictures too! It has reviews of "books", "movies", "songs" and "websites". It also has "News Update" section in the end where news for children are present. There are small articles from comics like "Archie" etc. It has many poems written by children. It also contains a note from the editor every week. "Young World" is delivered only on Saturday. It also contains new words in the Word Of The Week corner for children to improve their vocabulary. |
7647978 | Takenaka Shigekata (竹中 重固 , 1828–1891) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, later a figure in efforts to colonize Hokkaido. He is also known by his court title, "Tango no kami" (丹後守). |
7674206 | Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew is an EP by the grunge band Mudhoney released on October 26, 1993 by Reprise Records. Mudhoney vocalist Mark Arm described this EP as a chance for the band to "get new songs out for fans in between albums." |
7677310 | Chuck Wein (March 24, 1939March 18, 2008) was an American promoter and manager of entertainment acts whose celebrity stemmed from his five-year (1964–1969) association with Andy Warhol and from his discovery of Edie Sedgwick who became Warhol Superstar of 1965. |
7677401 | Tulpar (Kazakh: Тұлпар , Bashkir: Толпар , Tatar: Тулпар , Kyrgyz: Тулпар , Turkish: "Tulpar" , Uyghur: تۇلپار ) is a winged or swift horse in Turkic mythology (for example, Kazakh and Tatar mythology), corresponding to Pegasus. Tulpar is also in state emblems of Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Bashkortostan |
7691694 | Pride & Joy, is an American sitcom series that was shown on NBC in 1995. The series revolved around a Manhattan couple, Greg and Amy Sherman (played by Craig Bierko and Julie Warner), with a newborn son, and a couple across the hall, Nathan and Carol Green (Jeremy Piven and Caroline Rhea). The series ended after one season. |
7703167 | Kaginawa (鈎縄 ) is the combination of the words "kagi" meaning hook and "nawa" meaning rope. The kaginawa is a type of grappling hook used as a tool in feudal Japan by the samurai class, their retainers, foot soldiers and reportedly by ninja. Kaginawa have several configurations, from one to four hooks. The "kagi" would be attached to a "nawa" of varying length; this was then used to scale a rather large wall, to secure a boat, or for hanging up armor and other equipment during the night. Kaginawa were regularly used during various sieges of miscellaneous castles. The "nawa" was attached to a ring on one end which could be used to hang it from a saddle. |
7705840 | S. Sylvan Simon (March 9, 1910 – May 17, 1951) was an American stage/film director and producer. |
7718774 | Chris Morrissey (born 1980) is an American musician, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Morrissey plays the bass and has played and recorded with a number of bands: |
7722106 | Edward Theodore "Ted" Cooper (November 11, 1920 – December 5, 1999) was a long-time United States television scenic designer and creative consultant. Cooper is best known as the production designer and creative consultant for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, the leading producer of American TV game shows. He joined the firm in 1960 and was associated with it until his death at age 79. |
7727406 | The Black and White Ball was a masquerade ball held on November 28, 1966 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Hosted by author Truman Capote, the ball was in honor of "The Washington Post" publisher Katharine Graham. |
7738633 | Bernie M. Farber (born 1951) is a writer, commentator, and the former chief executive officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress and a social activist. He has testified before the Canadian courts as an expert witness on hate crime. He was appointed CEO of the Mosaic Institute, a Canadian NGO that promotes pluralism, peace and conflict resolution internationally, in August 2015 and has announced his retirement, effective October 1, 2017, though he will remain on the NGO's advisory board. Farber was previously CEO of the Paloma Foundation, an NGO which works with homeless youth shelters until his appointment with the Mosaic Institute. He also writes on human and civil rights issues for the "Huffington Post" and "NOW Magazine", as well as various newspapers across Canada, and is frequently interviewed on these topics by the media. |
7746957 | "Somebody Loves You" is a popular song. |
7752536 | Zinedine Soualem (born 17 April 1957) is a French actor. He has appeared in at least five films directed by Cédric Klapisch. |
7754892 | Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology is a compilation album by the American new wave band Devo. It was originally released in 2000, on the label Rhino. 17 of the 50 tracks were previously unreleased on CD, including B-sides, outtakes, remixes, soundtrack songs and spoken word material. The band recorded the long-time concert favorite "The Words Get Stuck in My Throat" in the studio for the first time, specifically for inclusion on this compilation. |
7756283 | "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (originally a 1965 Italian song by Pino Donaggio and lyricist Vito Pallavicini: '"Io che non vivo (senza te)") is a 1966 hit recorded by English singer Dusty Springfield that proved to be her most successful hit single, reaching No.1 UK and No.4 US: the song subsequently charted in the UK via remakes by Elvis Presley (No.9/1971), Guys 'n' Dolls (No.5/1976) and Denise Welch (No.23/1995), with Presley's version also reaching No.11 US in 1970. "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" was also a Top Ten hit in Ireland for Red Hurley (No.5/1978), in Italy for Wall Street Crash (No.6/1983), and - as "En koskaan" - in Finland for Kristina Hautala (No.6/1966). |
7757334 | The Great Gatsby is a 2000 British-American romantic drama television film, based on the 1925 novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It stars Toby Stephens in the title role of Jay Gatsby, Mira Sorvino as Daisy Buchanan, Paul Rudd as Nick Carraway, Martin Donovan as Tom Buchanan, Francie Swift as Jordan Baker, Heather Goldenhersh as Myrtle Wilson and Matt Malloy as Klipspringer. The film on March 29, 2000. |
7766415 | Air Vice Marshal Sir Oliver Swann, (18 November 1878 – 7 March 1948), born Oliver Schwann, was a leading figure in the Royal Naval Air Service and senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the first half of the 20th century. |
7768993 | The Virginia Cavaliers football team represents the University of Virginia in the sport of American football. The Cavaliers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Established in 1888, playing local YMCA teams and other state teams without pads, the Virginia football program has evolved into a multimillion-dollar operation that plays in front of 61,500 seats at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. Starting in the early 1900s, the program has played an outsized role in the shaping of the modern game's ethics and eligibility rules. |
7769036 | Screamers is a 2006 documentary film directed by Carla Garapedian, conceived by Peter McAlevey and Garapedian and produced by McAlevey. The film explores why genocides have occurred in modern day history and features talks from Serj Tankian, lead vocalist of the American alternative metal band System of a Down, whose grandfather is an Armenian Genocide survivor, as well as from human-rights activist, journalist, and professor, Samantha Power, as well as various other people involved with genocides in Rwanda and Darfur. "Screamers" also examines genocide denial in current-day Turkey, and the neutral trend that the United States generally holds towards genocide. |
7773574 | Hunter is a 3D action-adventure game in which the player navigates around a series of islands. Hunter was developed by Paul Holmes and Martin Walker (music), and it was released by Activision for the Amiga and Atari ST home computers in 1991. The combination of the game's 3D graphics and sandbox-type gameplay has been subsequently compared to the Grand Theft Auto and similar sandbox games, such as Far Cry 2. |
7778198 | The Patriarca crime family (pronounced ] ) is also known as the New England crime family, the Providence crime family, the Boston crime family, the Boston Mafia, the Providence Mafia, the New England Mafia, or The Office and is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in New England. The crime family has two distinct factions, one active in Providence, Rhode Island and the other in Boston, Massachusetts. |
7783391 | "Shadow Dancing" is a disco song performed by English singer-songwriter Andy Gibb that reached number one for seven weeks on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1978. Albhy Galuten (who also produced this song) arranged the song with Barry Gibb. While Andy Gibb would have three more Top 10 hits in the U.S., this would be his final chart-topping hit in America. The song became a platinum record. |
7788673 | Adam is highly intelligent, with a strong aptitude for science, especially marine biology, a field in which Adam's uncle and namesake made a name for himself a generation earlier. Although he describes himself as "not a churchgoer", he sang in a church choir as a child, and retains a strong moral sense along with a questioning, philosophical nature. Initially somewhat naive, Adam unwisely trusts a beautiful young woman in "The Arm of the Starfish", which results in the death of a friend. Because of this, Adam tries unsuccessfully to maintain an emotional distance from Vicky Austin when he meets her the following summer. He appreciates Vicky for her kind, forthright and poetic nature, and the two become close to each other anyway. By the end of his third and final appearance, Adam and Vicky appear to have formed quite a strong and close, everlasting romantic relationship. |
7792528 | Richard L. Bresciani (January 16, 1938 – November 29, 2014) became the Red Sox’ Vice President/Publications and Archives in 2003 after serving as Vice President of Public Affairs since November, 1996. He had been Vice President of Public Relations since August 1987. He was born in Hopedale, Massachusetts. He joined the Red Sox in May, 1972 as assistant public relations director, became publicity director in 1978 and public relations director in June, 1984. |
7860614 | FAU Stadium is a college football stadium located at the north end of the main campus of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. Opened in 2011, it is home to the Florida Atlantic Owls football team and is intended to be the first part of FAU's multi-use development project, "Innovation Village". |
7873414 | Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政) (born 1069) was a samurai descended from the Taira clan, who fought for the Minamoto clan in the Gosannen War of Japan's Heian period. He is famous for having continued to fight after losing an eye in battle during that war. This was in 1085, when Kagemasa was sixteen years of age. |
7876647 | Bob Murawski (born June 14, 1964) is an American film editor as well as a film distributor of cult horror and independent films under the "Box Office Spectaculars" and "Grindhouse Releasing" labels. He was awarded the 2010 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on "The Hurt Locker", which he shared with fellow editor and wife, Chris Innis. He often works with film director Sam Raimi, having edited the Spider-Man trilogy, "Oz the Great and Powerful", and the 2015 remake of "Poltergeist". He is an elected member of the American Cinema Editors. |
7891194 | Ian Curtis (born 1972 in Manchester, England) is a British actor, writer and director who is better known for his lead roles in "Holby City" where he played Ray Sykes and "Soldier Soldier" in which he played Corporal Mark Hobbs. Other appearances - "Dalziel and Pascoe", "Doctors" and "A Touch of Frost". |
7906426 | Quadrille Ball is an annual society ball that has taken place in New York City each year since 1961, usually in January or February. It is a non-profit event that benefits the Germanistic Society, which in turn awards scholarships for German graduate students. The event is normally held at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. In 2006, due to the Plaza being closed for renovations, the ball was held at the Pierre Hotel instead. |
7906804 | "dance4life" is a song recorded by Tiësto featuring vocals by Maxi Jazz of Faithless. As of May 2006, Tiësto is the official worldwide ambassador for the dance4life foundation. dance4life is an initiative originating in the Netherlands designed to increase awareness of HIV and AIDS in secondary school-aged youth. Kofi Annan, then Secretary General of the United Nations said about the song |
7908793 | Candace Hilligoss (born August 14, 1935 in Huron, South Dakota) is an American actress. |
7911106 | The 12" Album was an album of twelve inch mixes by singer and musician Howard Jones, released in November 1984. It was released between the first two studio albums "Human's Lib" and "Dream into Action" and at the time was the only album to feature the single "Like to Get to Know You Well", which had been a hit four months earlier. |
7921703 | American singer-songwriter JoJo has released three studio albums, two mixtapes, three extended play (EP), seven singles, and 13 promotional singles. JoJo has sold more than seven million albums worldwide, and has sold over 2.1 million albums and four million digital downloads in the United States alone. JoJo signed a seven-album record deal with Blackground Records in 2003 and released her eponymous debut album the following year at the age of 13. |
7937580 | Anthony "Tough Tony" Anastasia (February 24, 1906 – March 1, 1963) was an Italian mobster and labor racketeer for the Gambino crime family who controlled the Brooklyn dockyards for over thirty years. |
7940221 | Frank Peter Balistrieri (May 27, 1918 – February 7, 1993), also known as "Mr. Big", "Frankie Bal", "Mr. Slick", and "Mad Bomber", was a Milwaukee Mafia boss who was a central figure in skimming during the 1980s. |
7945414 | Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari, Sr. (born 1924 in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn) is a Lucchese crime family mobster who was sentenced to 100 years in prison before being released in 2014 after serving almost 28 years. During the 1980s, Furnari served as the family consigliere until his 1986 racketeering conviction. |
7970323 | Ian Anderson is an American entrepreneur who founded The Afternoon Company. He started his own recording label, Afternoon Records, after graduating high school that evolved into The Afternoon Company, which is composed of Afternoon Records, Afternoon Printing, The Math Team Agency, Mead Hall Games & Comics, The Meadery, HeroesHearth, Swim Agency, Beta Beta Duh Media, and MFR Presents. He's known in the national independent music scene for signing promising young musicians, such as Yellow Ostrich (Barsuk), Haley Bonar, Sissy Wish (Sony BMG), Now, Now (Trans Records), Night Moves (Domino), We Shot The Moon, Mouthful of Bees, Poison Control Center, We All Have Hooks For Hands and Bad Bad Hats. |
7970947 | Steven Lorenzo Crea (born July 18, 1947), is an American mobster. He is a member of the Mafia (Cosa Nostra) and the current underboss of the Lucchese crime family. |
7979337 | Sean Patrick Duffy (born October 3, 1971) is an American politician, prosecutor, former sports commentator and reality television personality. He first entered public life as a cast member on "", 1998's "", and 2002's "", before going on to serve as district attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin, and the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin 's 7 congressional district . He is a member of the Republican Party and supported Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid. |
7990881 | Karl Georg Albrecht Ernst von Hake (8 August 1768 – 19 May 1835) was a Prussian general and Minister of War. |
7994977 | Miron Białoszewski (] ; June 30, 1922 – June 17, 1983), born in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright and actor. |
8006188 | "West End Girls" is the name of a popular song by the Pet Shop Boys. |
8009108 | Jack Feldstein is a Jewish animator and screenwriter from Sydney, Australia, now living in New York. He is the pioneer of Neon Films. |
8021764 | Nancy Eve Cohen (born 1968 in Chicago) is an American poet and poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. |
8028887 | DJ Project was a Romanian dance music group, initially made up of Gino Manzotti (Handke Giuseppe) and DJ Maxx (Ovidiu Florea) as producers and Elena Baltagan as the vocalist. The group was formed in 2000 in Timișoara, with their first album, "Experience", released in 2001. |
8029798 | Chris Chan Lee (also credited as Chris "Bia" Lee; born San Francisco, California) is an Asian-American filmmaker. |
8040893 | Seventh-day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine (generally known by the shortened title Questions on Doctrine, abbreviated QOD) is a book published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1957 to help explain Adventism to conservative Protestants and Evangelicals. The book generated greater acceptance of the Adventist church within the evangelical community, where it had previously been widely regarded as a cult. However, it also proved to be one of the most controversial publications in Adventist history and the release of the book brought prolonged alienation and separation within Adventism and evangelicalism. |
8057913 | Thomas "Tommy Karate" Pitera (born December 10, 1954) is a former Mafia hitman in the Bonanno crime family. Pitera earned a reputation as a vicious and sadistic killer who enjoyed murdering people. He was suspected by law enforcement of as many as 60 murders. He was well known for his use of karate and other martial arts when fighting which is a skill he had learned at a young age. It earned Pitera his nickname "Tommy Karate". |
8119324 | Marion Kracht (born December 5, 1962 in Munich, Germany) is a German actress. Currently she resides in Berlin. |
8127403 | Ellen G. White, one of the co-founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has been extremely influential on the church, which considers her a prophet, understood today as an expression of the New Testament spiritual gift of prophecy. She was a voluminous writer and popular speaker on health and temperance. Her teachings are preserved today through over 50,000 manuscript pages of her writings, and the records of others. |
8129521 | Peter "Mr. Bread" LoCascio (10 June 1916 – 2 September 1997) was a New York mobster, drug trafficker and brother of Carmine LoCascio. |
8129532 | Michele "Big Mike" Miranda (July 6, 1896 – July 16, 1973) was a longtime member and eventual consigliere of the Genovese crime family and one of the most powerful New York gangsters in the 1950s and 1960s. |
8131283 | Bartholomew "Bobby" Boriello (March 31, 1944 - April 13, 1991) was a New York mobster who belonged to the Gambino crime family and served as boss John Gotti's favorite bodyguard and chauffeur. A prominent hitman during the 1980s, Boriello participated in the 1990 murder of Gambino Soldier Louis DiBono. |
8138446 | Howard E. Scott (born March 15, 1946 in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California) is an American funk/rock guitarist and founding member of the successful 1970s funk band War. |
8148377 | The chupacabra is a blood-sucking cryptid. |
8178365 | Tracey Spicer, born 1967 in Brisbane, Queensland, is an Australian news reader and journalist. She is best known for her association with Network Ten as a newsreader in the 1990s and 2000s when she co-hosted Ten Eyewitness News in Brisbane, Queensland, and later presenting the national news. She later went on to work with Sky News Australia as a reporter and presenter from 2007 to 2015. Spicer’s 2014 TEDx talk,"The Lady Stripped Bare", in which she draws attention to the pressures women feel to meet society's expectations on how they ought to look, received over 2 million views. She is author of "The Good Girl Stripped Bare", in which she encourages women to resist the pressure to conform to socially imposed gender roles and to speak out against sexism and inequality, and the Women in Media (WiM) Australia “Mates over Merit” report which looked at gender discrimination in the Australian media industry. She currently runs two media companies, Spicer Communications and Outspoken Women. |
8188143 | Oh Stacey (Look What You've Done!) was the third single from The Zutons second album "Tired of Hanging Around", to be released, on 18 September 2006. It entered as the band's eighth consecutive UK Top 40 single, peaking at #24 in the UK Singles Chart. |
8212413 | Dr. George Randolph Kalbfleisch (March 14, 1931 – September 12, 2006) was a US particle physicist. |
8221971 | The genus Delia is part of the fly family Anthomyiidae. |
8230082 | The Game of the Generals, also called GG as it is most fondly called, or simply The Generals, is an educational war game invented in the Philippines by Sofronio H. Pasola, Jr. in 1970. Its Filipino name is "Salpakan." It can be played within twenty to thirty minutes. It is designed for two players, each controlling an army, and a neutral arbiter (sometimes called a referee or an adjutant) to decide the results of "challenges" between opposing playing pieces, that like playing cards, have their identities hidden from the opponent. |
8237004 | Horst Kummeth (born December 27, 1956 in Forchheim, Germany) is a German television actor, writer and director. |
8237394 | The Tasmanian Devil was the name of a drag racing car in the 1960s, named after the Tasmanian Devil cartoon character. |
8265130 | Anthony M. Scotto (pronounced "SKOH-toh") (born May 10, 1934) is a New York mobster and labor union racketeer in the Gambino crime family who ruled the Brooklyn waterfront. Scotto achieved a high level of influence with several New York mayors and a governor before he went to prison. |
8280743 | Breakfast at Pappa's is an EP by the English punk rock band, Consumed. It was released in July 1998 on the American independent punk label, Fat Wreck Chords. The song "Heavy Metal Winner" was used in the video game "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2". |
8281156 | Scott D. Davis is a new age pianist from Dixon, California. He has released five albums. He considers his style to be similar to pianists David Lanz, George Winston, Yanni, and Michael Nyman. |
8312132 | "Diary of an Unborn Child" is the title of an anonymously-written article which was published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in the May 22, 1980 issue of its "Awake!" magazine. Written in the first person, it is formatted to read as the "diary" of a fetus, chronicling the process of fetal development from an in-utero perspective, beginning with conception on October 2 and ending in an induced abortion on December 28. The piece is intended to make readers reconsider their position on the morality of abortion. |
8314029 | Kei Shindō (真堂 圭 , Shindō Kei , born September 10) is a Japanese voice actress. Her major roles include Gentoku in "Ikki Tousen", Kuro Kagami in "Kodomo no Jikan", Kapelteta in "Strait Jacket", Madoka Amano in "", Naomasa in "Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere", and Lovelitchi in "Tamagotchi". In video games she voices Mian in "Dream Club", Rionera in "", and Tamaki in "Code 18". |
8322204 | Shōgen Okabayashi (岡林 将玄 , Okabayashi Shōgen , born 1949) is a well known Kansai based aikijujutsu teacher. |
8323950 | The Columbus Owls were a minor league professional ice hockey team in the International Hockey League from 1973 to 1977. Prior to 1973, the team was known as the Columbus Golden Seals since 1971. After 1977 the team moved and became the Dayton Owls, and later the Grand Rapids Owls. The longtime owner of the team while it was in Columbus, British born mortgage writer Al Savill leveraged his ownership of the club to purchase the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1975, whom he owned until 1977. |
8328961 | Sal Abbatiello is an executive in the music business. |
8340584 | The 2004 Nokia Sugar Bowl, the BCS title game for the 2003 college football season, was played on January 4, 2004 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The teams were the LSU Tigers and the Oklahoma Sooners. The Tigers won the BCS National Championship, their second championship, defeating the Sooners by a score of 21-14. |
8361275 | Adventist World is a monthly international magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church published by the Review and Herald Publishing Association. Editors are based in Silver Spring, Maryland and Seoul, Korea. |
8368670 | Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (12 May 1849 – 15 January 1912) was a British soldier, Liberal politician and colonial administrator who was the Governor of Madras from 1891 to 1896. |
8374179 | Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia (Adelaide of Burgundy, or Otto, King of Italy) is a two-act opera composed by Gioachino Rossini (with contributions by Michele Carafa) to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt. It was premièred at the Teatro Argentina in Rome on 27 December 1817. |
8377440 | Chris Hersch (born 1982, in Orefield, Pennsylvania) is a Boston-based guitarist. |
8394336 | Benjamin Franklin "Buck" Belue played American football and baseball at the University of Georgia from 1978 to 1981. He was the quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs in 1980, when the team went 12–0, and, after beating Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, was named the consensus national champion. One of the key plays in the 1980 season was a 93-yard touchdown pass from Belue to wide receiver Lindsay Scott |