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11548293 | William Brightie Brown (October 19, 1925 – February 23, 2004) was an American football guard in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Green Bay Packers. He played college football at the University of Arkansas and was drafted in the nineteenth round of the 1951 NFL Draft. |
11552232 | "Moonlight Serenade" is an American swing ballad composed by Glenn Miller with subsequent lyrics by Mitchell Parish. It was an immediate phenomenon when first released in May 1939 as an instrumental arrangement, though it had been adopted and performed as Miller's signature tune as early as 1938, even before it had been given the name "Moonlight Serenade." In 1991, Miller's recording of "Moonlight Serenade" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. |
11558194 | The Duke Steps Out is a 1929 silent film starring William Haines and Joan Crawford. The film is lost, but the Vitaphone sound discs track survive at UCLA Film and TV Archives. |
11559048 | Burgers is the third album by Hot Tuna, the folk rock offshoot of Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, and Papa John Creach, released in 1972 as Grunt FTR-1004. It was the band's first studio album, the previous two being live recordings. "Water Song" and "Sunny Day Strut" are instrumentals composed for this album. Hot Tuna did not release the song as a single until June 1982. In 1996, RCA released the CD box set "Hot Tuna in a Can" which included a remastered version of this album, along with remasters of the albums "Hot Tuna", "First Pull Up, Then Pull Down", "America's Choice" and "Hoppkorv". |
11560116 | GridIron Master is a wooden board game invented by Brett Proud, Craig Proud, Paul Morin and Jordan Sampson. It was first published by Canadian company "PHI Sports Games" in 2007. It combines the strategic elements of American and Canadian Football with chess. The Canadian Edition of "GridIron Master" is licensed by the Canadian Football League Players Association (CFLPA). |
11589026 | Nemosia is a genus of tanagers. |
11629164 | Addison Smith McClure (October 10, 1839 – April 17, 1903) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. |
11640722 | Dan Scanlon (born June 21, 1976) is an American storyboard artist and director, working for Pixar. He directed "Monsters University" and is currently directing an original film at Pixar. |
11673134 | Golf Living is a United States based magazine known for its golf and architecture content as well as its cover celebrities. The magazine was founded in 2005. The first issue appeared in September 2005. The founding company was Angeles Publications. It is based in Los Angeles and is published on a quarterly basis. The magazine is part of the ABC Marketing. It was renamed "Golf Luxury Living". |
11675209 | Lawnwood Stadium is a football (both soccer and gridiron) stadium facility in the City of Fort Pierce, Florida. It is the home venue for the Fort Pierce Westwood High School Panthers, Fort Pierce Central High School Cobras, the adult amateur minor league Treasure Coast Bucs of the Southeast Football League, the Treasure Coast Galleons of the Florida Elite Soccer League, and the Daytona Beach Racers' lone home game in 2012 in the Stars Football League. |
11698878 | Sleepless (Italian: Non ho sonno) is a 2001 Italian giallo film directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Max von Sydow and Stefano Dionisi and marks Argento's return to the giallo subgenre. The film was another box office success when it opened in Italy, taking in over $5,019,733,505 lira ($3,280,080 US) by the end of its theatrical run. |
11734044 | David Toguri (25 October 1933, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – 15 November 1997, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was an award-winning Japanese-Canadian choreographer, director and actor, based for most of his career in the UK. He died of cancer. |
11737791 | Lindley DeVecchio (born Roy Lindley "Lin" DeVecchio on April 18, 1940, in Fresno, California) is a former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent in charge of managing mob informants. DeVecchio worked for the FBI during the Mafia wars in New York during the 1980s and 1990s, eventually rising to head of the FBI squad responsible for surveillance of the Colombo crime family. He was also responsible for handling Gregory Scarpa, a Colombo capo who had secretly been an FBI informant since the 1960s. |
11759943 | Astral Project is a modern jazz quartet from New Orleans, Louisiana. It was founded by saxophonist Tony Dagradi in 1978 and includes drummer Johnny Vidacovich, bassist James Singleton and 7-string guitarist Steve Masakowski. The band originally included pianist David Torkanowsky who left in 2001. Astral Project blends jazz, funk, rock, and world music and has been called one of New Orleans' premier jazz groups. |
11796002 | Kotonowaka Terumasa (born May 15, 1968 as Mitsuya Konno) is a former sumo wrestler from Obanazawa, Yamagata prefecture, Japan. He made his professional debut in 1984 and after reaching the top "makuuchi" division in 1990 he remained there for 15 years until his retirement in 2005. His highest rank was "sekiwake" and he earned seven special prizes and eight gold stars during his long "makuuchi" career. He is now the head coach of Sadogatake stable. |
11812032 | Richard Robert "Ricky" Arnold II (born November 26, 1963 in Cheverly, Maryland) is an American educator and a NASA astronaut. He flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-119, which launched March 15, 2009 and delivered the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station. |
11819783 | Oren Moverman (born July 4, 1966) is an Israeli-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and former journalist based in New York City. |
11848048 | Borderline Patrol is a four-track EP released by The Parlotones in 2004. |
11860791 | Barrie Ciliberti was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a University of Maryland University College professor and former Republican legislator in the Maryland House of Delegates. |
11864261 | Robert Reed Altman (born December 22, 1959) has served as a camera operator and director of photography on feature films and television series since the 1970s. He is the son of filmmaker Robert Altman and Kathryn Reed. |
11864798 | "Crying in the Rain" is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Carole King and originally recorded by The Everly Brothers. The single peaked at #6 on the U.S. pop charts in 1962. |
11871126 | Ronald Mack Lewis, II (born November 17, 1972) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at West Los Angeles College and Washington State University. |
11878284 | Alice Claire Fulks (born January 16, 1982) is a voice and stage actress who got her start in voiceover work after she was introduced to ADV Films' ADR director Steven Foster, who cast her as the Countess of Werdenberg in the 2003 anime series "Gilgamesh". Following her spectacular performance as the Countess, Alice was later on cast as the lead role of Mylene Hoffman in 009-1, which was praised by ANN reviewer Theron Martin. In 2007, she was one of the hosts of the American Anime Awards presentation ceremony in New York Comic Con. |
11892171 | Barbara Ann Reynolds (born August 17, 1942) is an African-American journalist and author of a notable biography of Jesse Jackson, "Jesse Jackson, the Man, the Myth, and the Movement". She has written for "Cleveland Press", "Ebony" magazine, "Chicago Today", and the "Chicago Tribune". While at the "Tribune" she covered Jesse Jackson, with whom she at first had a close friendship. Later her relationship with Jackson took a more journalistic and professional tone, and she published the controversial and sometimes critical biography, which she later revisited as "Jesse Jackson, America's David". In 2005, she published an autobiography, "Out of Hell and Living Well". |
11907709 | The Trouble with Normal is an American comedy series that originally aired on ABC from October 6 to November 10, 2000. The show starred David Krumholtz, Brad Raider, Jon Cryer, Larry Joe Campbell, and Paget Brewster. The show was described as "the misadventures of four paranoid young men whose fear of urban conspiracy leads them to seek counseling in a therapy group run by therapist Claire Garletti (Brewster)." Recurring members of the therapy group were played by Jim Beaver and Patricia Belcher. |
11947167 | "I Used to Be Color Blind" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1938 film "Carefree", where it was introduced by Fred Astaire. |
11970404 | The Florida Gators have two Gator basketball programs: |
11971748 | The opera was commissioned by the Paris Opera after the success of Salieri's "Les Danaïdes" with the company. |
11973776 | Bible Review was a magazine that sought to communicate the academic study of the Bible to a broad general audience. Covering both the Old and New Testaments, "Bible Review" presented critical and historical interpretations of biblical texts, and "reader-friendly Biblical scholarship" from 1985 to 2005. After 2005, "Bible Review" merged into "Biblical Archaeology Review". "Bible Review" was published by the non-denominational Biblical Archaeology Society and edited by the society's founder Hershel Shanks. |
11989287 | The Return of the Spice Girls was the third concert tour by the British girl group the Spice Girls. This tour marked the group's first tour since Christmas in Spiceworld in 1999 and the first as the original five-piece since May 1998, during the Spiceworld Tour. The tour is estimated to have grossed over US$70 million and produced $107.2 million in ticket sales and merchandising. The tour was the 8th biggest tour of 2008. The 17-night sellout stand at London's The O2 Arena was the highest-grossing engagement of the year, taking in $33.8 million and drawing 256,647, winning the 2008 Billboard Touring Award for Top Boxscore. |
11991053 | Beyond Today (formerly titled The Good News) is a free religious magazine published bimonthly by the United Church of God (UCG). Subscriptions and printing costs are covered by tithed donations from UCG's members and employees. Subject matter includes Christian living, Bible prophecy, warnings to the English-speaking world, social issues, defense of creationism against evolution, world news, and prophecy, as interpreted by UCG's fundamental beliefs. Articles are exclusively written by the church's ministry. |
11993831 | Insafi, In Punjabi culture relates to talking with justice. |
12002754 | At the conclusion of the final competition, Janel Bishop of New Hampshire was crowned by outgoing titleholder Bridgette Wilson of Oregon. Bishop is the first African American winner ever and the first titleholder from New Hampshire. |
12025982 | Mahonia trifoliolata is a species of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae, in southwestern North America. Common names include agarita, agrito, algerita, currant-of-Texas, wild currant, and chaparral berry. |
12056720 | Sir Edward Marsh Merewether, (9 September 1858 – 28 December 1938) was a British colonial administrator. |
12060890 | English singer, songwriter and rapper M.I.A. has released five studio albums, two extended plays, two mixtapes, thirty-three singles (including six as a featured artist) and twenty-seven music videos. Born Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, M.I.A. began her career as a visual artist and film-maker, and moved into making music after filming a documentary on the band Elastica in 2001. The band's lead singer, Justine Frischmann, lent her a Roland MC-505 sequencer/drum machine which she used to make a demo tape that secured her a contract with British label XL Recordings. |
12066499 | Camouflage is a television game show airing on GSN. Hosted by Roger Lodge, and billed as "the hidden word game where the answer is always right in front of you", "Camouflage" originally aired for 40 episodes from July 2 to 27, 2007. The show is a word game, with contestants searching for a hidden word or phrase in a string of jumbled letters. The show is produced by Enjoy the Ride Productions in association with McB Entertainment. |
12101531 | Christopher Phillip Verene (born October 29, 1969) is an American fine arts and documentary photographer and performance artist. |
12116677 | Ian Craig Marsh (born 11 November 1956) is an English musician and composer. He was a founding member of the electronic band the Human League, writing and playing on their first two albums and several singles, until leaving in 1980 to form the British Electric Foundation and later Heaven 17. |
12128933 | Sakko (先笄 ) is a Japanese hairstyle. It is worn by maiko today, but was worn in the Edo period by wives to show their dedication to their husbands. Maiko wear it during a ceremony called Erikae, which marks their graduation from maiko to geiko. Maiko use black wax to stain their teeth as well. Crane and tortoiseshell ornaments are added as kanzashi. The style is twisted in many knots, and is quite striking and elaborate. |
12129955 | Kim Hyun-sub (] or ] ] ; born 31 May 1985) is a male race walker from South Korea. |
12135978 | Leonid Grigoryevich Ivashov (Russian: Леонид Григорьевич Ивашов ) (born 31 August 1943 in Frunze Kyrgyz SSR, now Bishkek) is a higher Russian military and public official. He is President of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems and a retired Colonel-general. |
12155109 | "Not to be confused with the progressive metal band of the same name who changed their name to Beyond Twilight." |
12156325 | Stagione (Italian for "season") is an organizational system for presenting opera, often used by large houses. Typically each production is cast separately and has a brief but intensive run of performances. By contrast, companies that use a "repertory" system maintain a permanent company and rotate productions over many months or even years. Historically the "stagione" system has been preferred in Britain, the United States. and most large international operahouses. |
12171778 | "Ganymed" is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in which the character of the mythic youth Ganymede is seduced by God (or Zeus) through the beauty of Spring. |
12177809 | The Last Supper is an opera with music by Sir Harrison Birtwistle to an English and Latin libretto by Robin Blaser. Birtwistle composed the music over the period written in 1998-1999. The world premiere was given by the Berlin State Opera on 18 April 2000, with the production directed by Martin Duncan and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. It was subsequently performed by the Glyndebourne Touring Opera in October/November 2000 and the following summer at the 2001 Glyndebourne Festival. Many of the original cast returned for two concert performances at the Piccolo Teatro Studio Expo, Milan and the Teatro Valdocco, Turin on 4-5 September 2008 with the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Elgar Howarth as part of the Settembre Musica festival. |
12201330 | Rare is the eighth studio album by British rock band Asia, released in 2000. It is completely instrumental, and the only performers on this CD are John Payne and Geoff Downes. Tracks 1–16 were created for David Attenborough's nature film, "Salmon: Against the Tides", and 17–22 for an unreleased CD Rom video game. Track 22 is an adaptation of "The Exodus Theme" from the 1960 film "Exodus". "Rare" is Asia's first studio album not titled with a word beginning and ending with the letter 'a'. |
12201527 | Steven A. Cohen (born 1953 in Orange, New Jersey) is an American academic who has taught public management and environmental policy at Columbia University since 1981. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of Columbia University's The Earth Institute and a Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is also the Director of the Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy in the School of International and Public Affairs and the Director of the Master of Science in Sustainability Management in the School of Continuing Education. He served on the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator’s National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (2002–2004), and currently serves on the Board of Homes for the Homeless and the Board of Directors of Willdan Energy Solutions. |
12204263 | Kay Siu Lim or Lim Kay Siu (, born 1960) is a Singaporean character actor who has appeared in several Asian films, notably TV films since the 1980s. His bald head and sinister demeanour in film and TV has made him an ideal villain. He may be more recognisable in western cinema due to his role as the North Korean villain in "Night Watch" set in Hong Kong where he starred alongside Pierce Brosnan and Alexandra Paul and as Prince Chowfa, King Mongkut's brother (Chow Yun-fat) in "Anna and the King". |
12213886 | Christopher L. "Chris" McKenna (born October 18, 1977) is an American actor. |
12221131 | Major General Arthur Reginald Chater (1896–1979) was an officer in the Royal Marines during the First World War, the interwar years, and Second World War. |
12233424 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (video game) |
12251366 | Leonid Grigorievich Geishtor (Russian: Леонид Григорьевич Гейштор ) (born October 15, 1936, in Homel, Belarusian SSR) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. |
12282565 | Scott Wildman (born April 12, 1951 in San Diego, California) is an American teacher, labor organizer and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. |
12296587 | Tydus Oran Winans (born July 26, 1972) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Cincinnati Bengals. He played college football at Fresno State University. |
12298342 | Antonio Tomasulo, also known as "Bootsie" (1917 – June 23, 2003), was an Italian-American mobster who served in the New York Bonanno crime family running a highly lucrative illegal slot machine gambling operation. |
12323749 | Freiwilliges Feldjäger-Korps von Schmidt (English: Volunteer Riflemen Corps von Schmidt, or perhaps more naturally, von Schmidt's Volunteer Corps of Riflemen ) was a group of Prussian volunteer infantrymen that formed in late 1813 when the Grand Duchy of Baden joined the cause of the Allies after the Battle of Leipzig. Most of the men were students of the university of Heidelberg. It was founded on the initiative of a former Prussian officer, August v. Göckel, who until 1807 had been a Sekonde-Lieutenant in the Prussian "Feldjäger-Regiment" (English: Rifle Regiment ). In mid November 1813, v. Göckel, who had been severely injured by falling off his horse, had to resign, and handed the command over to Frohwalt von Schmidt, a student from the Lower Rhine, who henceforth was to lend his name to the corps. |
12324530 | Sir Ronald Herbert Garvey (4 July 1903 in Lincolnshire – 31 May 1991) was a British colonial administrator who served in the Pacific, the West Indies, and as Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man at the end of his career. |
12332349 | Paul Rae (born June 27, 1968) is an American film and television actor. |
12349451 | Pteronia is a genus of flowering plant in the aster tribe within the sunflower family. |
12358665 | Anaxyrus compactilis (common name: plateau toad) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to Mexico. It is a little know species associated with desert and shrubland. |
12364184 | Grandisonia is a genus of amphibian in the Caeciliidae family. |
12378580 | Austria and Prussia had a long-standing conflict and rivalry for supremacy in Central Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, termed "Deutscher Dualismus" (German dualism) in the German language area. While the rivalry had a military dimension, it was also a race for prestige, and a contest to be seen as the leading political force of the German-speaking peoples. |
12380152 | Lady and Gent is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Stephen Roberts and featuring an early supporting role by John Wayne. |
12389441 | Frank Andrew Fuller (August 8, 1929December 14, 1993) was an American football defensive tackle who played nine seasons in the National Football League with the Los Angeles Rams, the Chicago Cardinals/St. Louis Cardinals, and the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at the University of Kentucky. |
12396810 | Dr. Michael Helfert was a senior scientist at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, and acted as chief scientist and scientist for Earth observations for 100+ Space Shuttle missions (1982–2008). Those Mission Reports were primarily published in the journal Geocarto International. He was also the Director of the National Climatic Data Center's Southeast Regional Climate Center and the South Carolina state climatologist. While at the National Climate Data Center he was also the Director of the U.S. Climate Reference Network. This program designed and maintained very precise climate monitoring stations throughout the USA as well as selected overseas locations in Italy and Siberia. |
12424691 | Edward Taylor Lewis (October 26, 1834 – April 26, 1927) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana. He was born on October 26, 1834 in Opelousas, Louisiana. He attended Wesleyan University of Ohio, earning a law degree, and returning to his home state to work as an attorney. During the American Civil War, he was a captain in the Confederate Cavalry. After the war and Louisiana's Reconstruction, he served one term in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1865 to 1867. In 1883, he was elected to Congress, serving one term as a Democrat before an unsuccessful renomination bid. From 1886 to 1892, he again was a member of the state House of Representatives, and he worked at various judgeships between 1886 and 1908. He then resumed the practice of law, and died on April 26, 1927 in Opelousas. |
12443336 | "Up, Up and Away" is a 1967 song written by Jimmy Webb and recorded by the 5th Dimension, that became a major pop hit, reaching No. 7 in July 1967 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart, and No. 9 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart. In other countries, it reached No. 1 in Canada, and in Australia. The song placed No. 43 on BMI's "Top 100 Songs of the Century". |
12459066 | Krachi East is one of the constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Krachi East is located in the Krachi East district of the Volta Region of Ghana. |
12477875 | "Bewildered" is a popular song written in 1936 by Teddy Powell and Leonard Whitcup. It was a 1938 hit for Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. It was also recorded by Mildred Bailey in the same year. The song was revived in the late 1940s when two different versions, by the Red Miller Trio and Amos Milburn, reached number one on the R&B chart in 1948 (neither of them made the pop chart). Both these versions departed significantly from the original published melody and influenced later recordings. "Bewildered" was subsequently recorded by several other R&B performers, including Billy Eckstine and the Ink Spots, with Eckstine's version reaching number 4 on the R&B chart and number 27 on the pop chart. A decade later it was recorded by Mickey & Sylvia, again with an altered melody similar to that of the Red Miller Trio recording. "Bewildered" was also covered in 1990 by the Notting Hillbillies on their album "Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time". |
12512572 | Michael Cicconetti (born 1951) is a Municipal Court judge in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio who dispenses a unique brand of what he calls "creative justice". The judge often leaves the choice of penalty to the defendant, who is faced with spending time in jail or undergoing one of Cicconetti's unusual punishments. These often involve placing the defendant in a similar position to that of the defendant's victim at the time of the crime. |
12514923 | Road Food is the thirteenth studio album by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who and the last to feature Kurt Winter and Don McDougall on guitars. |
12515407 | Q Project (real name Jason Greenhalgh) is a drum and bass music producer currently signed to Hospital Records. He makes up half of Total Science, along with fellow producer Paul Smith (who produces under the name Spinback). He is well known for his release ""Champion Sound"", a popular jungle anthem of the 1990s. |
12521052 | Pat Bond (February 27, 1925 – December 24, 1990) was an American actress who starred on stage and on television, as well as in motion pictures. She was openly lesbian and in many cases she was the first gay woman people saw on stage. Her career spanned some forty years. |
12541165 | Salanoia is a genus of euplerid carnivoran with two currently described species found in Madagascar. They are mongoose-like, which is reflected in the older versions of their English names, for example brown-tailed mongoose which is now called brown-tailed vontsira. The name "Salanoia" is derived from one of the vernacular names for "Salanoia concolor": Salano. |
12573105 | Melvin "Mel" Damski (born July 21, 1946 in New York, New York) is an American director and producer of film and television. |
12584492 | "Good Life" is a song by American rapper Kanye West released on October 2, 2007 as the third single for his third studio album "Graduation" (2007). The song features vocals by singer T-Pain and was produced by West and DJ Toomp. It contains a sample of the keyboard outro to "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" performed by Michael Jackson. The song features additional drum programming by Timbaland and additional production by Mike Dean, as well as background vocals by John Legend and Ne-Yo. |
12590487 | The Androscoggin Creature is a mysterious animal that was found dead in Turner, Maine in Androscoggin County, Maine in August 2006. The creature attracted worldwide attention after "Lewiston Sun Journal" reporter Mark LaFlamme described it on August 16, 2006 in an article titled “Mysterious Beast” and made a connection from the unidentified animal to local lore: "[the animal] may be the mystery creature that has roamed the area for years, mauling dogs and frightening residents. Or it could be a dog that has been running wild in the woods". |
12607320 | The Exile (1947) is a adventure romantic film directed by Max Ophüls, and produced, written by, and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. Rita Corday (billed as "Paule Croset") played the romantic interest. According to Robert Osborne, the primary host of Turner Classic Movies, María Montez had a stipulation in her contract that she had to have top billing in any film in which she appeared, so her name comes first in the opening credits, despite her secondary role. The movie is based on the novel "His Majesty, the King: A Romantic Love Chase of the Seventeenth Century" by Cosmo Hamilton. |
12627631 | Charlie Flowers (June 28, 1937 – December 7, 2014) was an American football player. He played for the Ole Miss Rebels of the University of Mississippi, and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997. In December 1959, he was signed by the National Football League's New York Giants. However, in order to retain his eligibility to play in the Sugar Bowl, he requested to keep the contract a secret until January 2, 1960. Wellington Mara accepted this request and the team did not submit the contract to Pete Rozelle for approval. Later in December, the American Football League's Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers offered him more money to play for them. He accepted their offer and withdrew from his contract with the Giants. The Giants attempted to enforce the contract, but their plea was rejected due to their unclean hands. He later played for the New York Titans. Flowers died on December 7, 2014, at the age of 77 following a long illness. |
12629273 | John "Jack" Green (September 15, 1924 – August 4, 1981) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Tulane University in 1942 and was then appointed to the United States Military Academy where he played from 1943 to 1945. At Army, Green was a two-time All-American and played on consecutive national championship-winning teams in 1944 and 1945. Green served as the head football coach at Vanderbilt University from 1963 to 1966, compiling a record of 7–29–4. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1989. |
12631319 | William Martin "Willie" Heston (September 9, 1878 – September 9, 1963) was an American football player and coach. He played halfback at San Jose State University and the University of Michigan. Heston was the head football coach for Drake University in 1905 and North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now North Carolina State University, in 1906. After he retired from coaching, he practiced law and served as a state court judge in Michigan. Heston was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. He was selected by the Football Writers Association of America as the halfback for its all-time team for the first 50 years of the sport. University of Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost rated him as the greatest player of all-time. |
12662758 | Charles Babbage (1791–1871), was an English mathematician, mechanical engineer, and pioneering computer scientist. |
12664226 | Marstonia castor, common name the beaver pond marstonia, is a species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States. |
12666780 | Marion's Triumph is a 2003 documentary that tells the story of Marion Blumenthal Lazan, a child Holocaust survivor, who recounts her painful childhood memories in order to preserve history. The film combines rare historic footage, animated flashbacks, and family photographs to illustrate the horrors she experienced. It is narrated by Debra Messing. |
12672890 | The 18th Division ("18. Division") was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed on October 11, 1866, and was headquartered in Flensburg. The division was subordinated in peacetime to the IX Army Corps ("IX. Armeekorps"). The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. The division was recruited primarily in Schleswig-Holstein. |
12676091 | Stephen Bruce "Steve" Gurney {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 8 July 1963) is a New Zealand multisport and triathlon athlete. He has won the Coast to Coast race a record nine times. |
12676100 | Nathan McCree (born January 27, 1969) is an English music composer and sound effects editor for multimedia projects including computer games, television, live events, and radio. He worked with Core Design between 1996 and 1998, for the first three "Tomb Raider" games, among others. He worked also with high-profile names such as the Spice Girls and Orange. In 2008 he became full-time Audio Director for Vatra Games where he worked until 2010. After this he became Audio Director at City Interactive in Warsaw where he worked on "" and "Alien Rage". |
12676677 | Troels Brun Folmann (born 10 January 1974 in Copenhagen) is a Danish composer specialised in epic orchestral music featured in TV shows, trailers and video games, such as the "Tomb Raider" series, and commercial/trailers for films such as "Spider-Man 3", "", "The Illusionist" and "10,000 BC", and the fourth season of TV series "America's Got Talent". He has worked on the "Tomb Raider" series with Crystal Dynamics for "", "" and "", and the spin-off "Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light", refreshing for the first time the classical music style of the old series coming with a new way of perceiving Lara's scores, a much more electronic approach and trailer modern orchestral feeling. |
12691022 | Doug Sharp (born November 27, 1969 in Marion, Ohio) is an American bobsledder who has competed from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. He won the bronze medal in the four-man event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. |
12698722 | Gunfight in the Valley of Tears, Oct. 9, 1973 is a board game simulating tactical level ground combat between Israel and Syria on the Golan Heights during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. The product is intended as a simple game suitable for novices. |
12701389 | Sportsnet World is a Canadian English language Category B digital cable and satellite specialty channel that is owned by Rogers Media. Sportsnet World primarily airs top level association football (soccer), featuring exclusive coverage of the Premier League along with content from other leagues in Europe. In addition, it airs matches from Rugby League. |
12708457 | The film is written and directed by Greg Loftin, produced by Elise Valmorbida and starring Sean Harris in his first feature lead role. |
12722896 | 1+9+8+2 (official title in other sources as 1982), is the fifteenth studio album by rock band Status Quo, released on 16 April 1982. It was the first to include new drummer Pete Kircher, who had recently replaced John Coghlan, and also the first to credit keyboard player Andy Bown as a full member of the band; on the previous few releases he had merely been listed as a guest musician although he had long been an integral member in all but name. |
12732704 | The Jalali calendar is a solar calendar that was used in Iran (Persia), variants of which today are still in use in Iran as well as Afghanistan. It gains approximately 1 day on the Julian calendar every 128 years. The tropical Jalali calendar (Persian: گاهشماری جلالی or تقویم جلالی ), which inherited some aspects from the Yazdgerdi calendar, was adopted on 15 March 1079 by the Seljuk Sultan Jalal al-Din Malik Shah I (for whom it was named), based on the recommendations of a committee of astronomers, including Omar Khayyam, at the imperial observatory in his capital city of Isfahan. Month computations were based on solar transits through the zodiac, a system integrating ideas taken from Hindu calendars . Later, some ideas from the Chinese-Uighur calendar (1258) were also incorporated. It remained in use for eight centuries. It arose out of dissatisfaction with the seasonal drift in the Islamic calendar which is due to that calendar being lunar instead of solar; a lunar year of 354 days, while acceptable to a desert nomad people, proved to be unworkable for settled, agricultural peoples, and the Iranian calendar is one of several non-lunar calendars adopted by settled Muslims for agricultural purposes (others include the Coptic calendar, the Julian calendar, and the Semitic calendars of the Near East). Sultan Jalal commissioned the task in 1073. Its work was completed well before the Sultan's death in 1092, after which the observatory would be abandoned. |
12758034 | Hannah Montana: The Movie is a 2009 American teen musical comedy-drama film based on the Disney Channel television series of the same name. It was the second theatrical film based on a Disney Channel Original Series, after "The Lizzie McGuire Movie" (2003). The film was directed by Peter Chelsom with screenplay penned by Daniel Berendsen. The film was produced by David Blocker, Billy Ray Cyrus, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Steven Peterman and Michael Poryes. The film stars series regulars Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso, and Moisés Arias, as well as Lucas Till, Vanessa Williams, Margo Martindale, and Melora Hardin. |
12759375 | The High School Football National Championship is a national championship honor awarded to the best high school football team(s) in the United States of America based on rankings from "USA Today" and the National Prep Poll. There have been some efforts over the years at organizing a single-game playoff for the national championship. Sometimes a dominant team in one state would defeat a dominant team in a neighboring state after the regular season and then would self-claim the national championship. However, sometimes such a game could not be scheduled, like in 1936 after Washington High School of Massillon, Ohio refused to withhold its black players in a proposed game with segregated Central High School of Knoxville, Tennessee. Central High subsequently proclaimed itself national champion that year. On December 31, 1938, duPont Manual of Louisville, Kentucky and New Britain of Connecticut played in an actual national championship game in Baton Rouge with the Louisiana Sports Association as the formal sponsor – and, by extension, the Sugar Bowl Committee, which held a series of sporting events leading up to the Sugar Bowl game itself. Manual won, 28–20. The following year, on December 30, the game featured Pine Bluff, Arkansas, which defeated Baton Rouge High School by a score of 26–0. This series of games proved difficult to organize, due to some states' prohibition of postseason play. Pine Bluff, for example, had to receive a special waiver from its state to participate in the game. In 1962, Florida state champion Miami Senior High beat Baltimore Polytechnic in the Orange Bowl and was recognized by Imperial Sports Syndicate of California as a national champion. |
12767209 | The Ionosphere-Thermosphere Storm Probes (I-TSP) is a NASA mission which will study the ionosphere and the thermosphere. This mission is part of the Living With a Star program, the second mission in a pair of geospace missions. The first mission is the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, which were launched in August 2012. |
12773151 | Johnny Horizon was a mascot used by the Bureau of Land Management in the United States in the 1970s primarily for its anti-litter campaign. |
12774174 | Established in 1995, Great Big Events is an international Sport Presentation and Event Management company with offices in Sydney (Australia), London (United Kingdom) and Doha (Qatar) with satellite offices around North America, Europe, Gulf Region and Australasia. The company predominantly works with international sporting events as well as cultural, public and government events. Amongst its many notable sporting achievements, the company has produced the Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Australia 2003, France 2007 and New Zealand 2011 Rugby World Cups, the Manchester 2002, Melbourne 2006, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2015 Toronto Pan American Games and the 2015 Baku 1st European Games. GBE have partnered with a number of International Federations to create Sport Presentation guidelines and templates. |