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12777450 | Bustin' Loose is an American sitcom starring Jimmie Walker based on the 1981 film of the same name which aired in first-run syndication from September 26, 1987 to September 11, 1988. |
12784721 | No Sleep til Shanghai is a 2007 documentary film. It stars Jin and was directed by Todd Angkasuwan. |
12798303 | Scott Lanaway is a music artist from Toronto, Canada. His most recent release was 'Mergers & Acquisitions' (2010), a follow-up to 'Answering Machine Diaries' (2006). His musical style has been described as electrofolk - a combination of acoustic instruments and electronic soundscapes. It ranges from pop to cinematic/atmospheric. |
12813418 | High School Musical: The Music in You is a documentary from Award-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple as she follows students from Arlington Heights and Western Hills High School in Fort Worth, Texas as they prepare to put on their version of the Disney hit High School Musical. The Summer Theatre show was directed by Ann Hunter and Julia Worthington. The production was attended by over 2800 people during its four-day run. The documentary premiered in October 2007. |
12818942 | Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It is a book written by counterterrorism researcher Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy and the Economic Warfare Institute. It was published by Bonus Books of Los Angeles, California in August 2003. |
12821585 | Radioman (born 1951) is the nickname of a formerly homeless man in New York City who has become widely known from making over 100 cameo appearances in a number of films and TV shows. |
12844354 | Pete Garcia is the athletic director of the Florida International University Golden Panthers athletic teams. |
12848397 | Party Girl is an American sitcom based on the 1995 film of the same name that aired on Fox in September 1996. The series stars Christine Taylor, Swoosie Kurtz, and John Cameron Mitchell. |
12856644 | Victoria No. 203: Diamonds Are Forever is a 2007 Bollywood film which is a remake of the 1972 hit film "Victoria No. 203". It is directed by Anant Mahadevan and produced by Kamal Sadanah whose father Brij Sadanah was the producer and director of the original. Kamal Sadanah also has a supporting role as a villain in the film which also stars Om Puri, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Shergill, Preeti Jhangiani, Javed Jaffrey, Johnny Lever and marks the debut of newcomer actress Soniya Mehra, the daughter of actor Vinod Mehra. The film was released on 31 August 2007. |
12867123 | Araz Artinian (Armenian: Արազ Արթինեան ) is an Armenian filmmaker and documentarian. She was born Montreal, Quebec. |
12879184 | Mike Lewis (born July 14, 1949) is a former defensive lineman who played ten seasons in the National Football League. Currently resides in Houston, TX and is enjoying the retired life. |
12881269 | Helicia is a genus of around 100 species of trees and shrubs, constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae. They grow naturally in rainforests in New Guinea, Malesia, southern and eastern Asia and Australia. |
12893000 | Rupert Frederick George Byron, 11th Baron Byron (13 August 1903 – 1 November 1983) was a British peer, nobleman, politician, and the eleventh Baron Byron, as a descendant of a cousin of Romantic poet and writer, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron. |
12895114 | Mahonia conferta is a species of plant in the Berberidaceae family. It is endemic to China. |
12896905 | The Garden of Death (Finnish: "Kuoleman puutarha" ) (1896) is a painting by Finnish symbolist painter Hugo Simberg. Like many of Simberg's paintings, it depicts a gloomy, otherworldly scene. The central figures are reminiscent of the classic black-clad Grim Reaper, but paradoxically are tending to gardens; traditionally symbols of birth or renewal. |
12960429 | Steven Peter Graham "Steve" Burton (born 10 October 1982) is an English footballer who last played for Östersunds FK. |
12981662 | Marley & Me is a 2008 American comedy-drama film about the titular dog, Marley. It was directed by David Frankel and the screenplay by Scott Frank and Don Roos is based on the memoir of the same name by John Grogan. The film stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as Marley's owners. "Marley & Me" was released in the United States and Canada on December 25, 2008, and set a record for the largest Christmas Day box office ever with $14.75 million in ticket sales. The film was followed by a 2011 direct-to-video prequel, "". |
12991873 | Leah Hager Cohen is an American author who writes both fiction and nonfiction. |
13002275 | Christine Langan (born January 1965) is an English film producer who has been Head of BBC Films since April 2009. |
13011768 | The Campagne des banquets ("banquet campaign") were political meetings during the July Monarchy in France which destabilized the King of the French Louis-Philippe. The campaign officially took place from 9 July 1847 to 25 December 1847, but in fact continued until the February 1848 Revolution during which the Second Republic was proclaimed. During this campaign, the Republican triptych "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" resurfaced, for example in Lille with Ledru-Rollin. |
13019384 | Charles R. "Monk" Meyer (May 1, 1913August 11, 2001) was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy in 1935, the first year the trophy was awarded, while playing for the United States Military Academy. |
13019589 | The .41 Action Express is a pistol cartridge developed in 1986 to reproduce the performance of the .41 Magnum police load (which is a weaker-than-standard load) in semi-automatic pistols. |
13042464 | Velvet Assassin is a stealth video game for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360, released in 2009. "Velvet Assassin's" working title was "Sabotage". It was released on the Mac app store in 2013. Players take control of Violette Summer, a World War II-era British Secret Intelligence Service spy operating deep behind enemy lines, attempting to help thwart the Nazi war effort. The game's story was inspired by a real life secret agent/saboteur Violette Szabo. The game is notable for featuring various tracks from Dynamedion's production-music library Sonic Liberty, for its score. |
13057155 | The Devil's Wall (Czech: Čertova stěna ) is a comic-romantic opera in three acts, with music by Bedřich Smetana and libretto by Eliška Krásnohorská, in their third operatic collaboration. The subtext of the plot is a Czech legend of a sheer rockface that overlooks the Vltava river, near the old monastery of Vyšši Brod, where the Devil was said to have halted the building of the monastery by damming the Vltava, which then rose and flooded the site. |
13065656 | The discography of Do or Die contains seven studio albums, one compilation and two charting singles. |
13065718 | The Gray Man (previously known as Wisteria: The Horrible Story of Albert Fish) is a 2007 biographical thriller film based on the actual life and events of American serial killer, rapist and cannibal Albert Fish. It premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 31, 2007, and was scheduled for a theatrical release sometime in 2007. It is directed by Scott Flynn and stars Belgian actor Patrick Bauchau as Albert Fish. |
13104348 | Klutter is a segment that ran on Eek! Stravaganza's fourth season from 1995 to 1996 on the Fox Kids block. It was created by David Silverman and Savage Steve Holland. The segment was animated by the same people who used to work for Fox's "The Critic", which was canceled that year. The executive producers were David Silverman, Savage Steve Holland, and Phil Roman. Unlike the Eek and Thunderlizard segments, this was a Fox Children's Productions and Savage Studios co-production in association with Film Roman for animation. It lasted a year with 8 episodes. |
13110530 | "Epitaph to a Dog" (also sometimes referred to as "Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Newfoundland dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies. When Boatswain contracted the disease, Byron reportedly nursed him without any fear of becoming bitten and infected. The poem is inscribed on Boatswain's tomb, which is larger than Byron's, at Newstead Abbey, Byron's estate. |
13134096 | Leavells is an unincorporated community in Spotsylvania County in the U.S. state of Virginia. Leavells was originally a small agrarian community located at the crossroads of Leavells Road (VA 639) and Courthouse Road (Virginia State Route 208). The community has experienced an explosion in population growth due to its proximity to Interstate 95 and presently consists of numerous middle-class housing developments. Some of these developments include Cambridge, Breckenridge, Leavells Crossing, and Oak Grove. Battlefield Middle School is located in the community along with a Giant food store and a CVS Pharmacy. Recently the roads had lanes added to them, along with sidewalks and trees. |
13137532 | It was first performed in Venice at the Teatro S Cassiano in 1643. Highly successful in its day, it was subsequently performed throughout Italy. |
13148092 | Michael Ryschkewitsch is the Chief Engineer of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. |
13155681 | Krachi West 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 West is located in the Krachi district of the Volta Region of Ghana. |
13180913 | Nicodemo Salvatore "Nicky" Scarfo Jr. (born 1964) is the second son of convicted Philadelphia crime family boss Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo Sr. In his 20s, he was allegedly inducted into the Lucchese crime family sometime in the mid 1990s. |
13187390 | Coda is a code-breaking board game for two to four players, invented by Eiji Wakasugi. The objective is to guess the code of other players while preventing the discovery of your own code. The game has been marketed under the titles "Da Vinci Code" and "Da Vinci Code The Game". In spite of this, it has no connection to the novel The Da Vinci Code. |
13193075 | Little T Learns to Share is a children's book written by NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens. Released November 15, 2006, it tells the story of a child named Little T who doesn't want to share his football, but ends up learning about the value of friends. |
13201269 | A bandmaster is the leader and conductor of a band, usually a military or marching band. |
13231872 | R. Christopher "Chris" Barden (born 1954) Ph.D., J.D., L.P. is a scientist, clinical psychologist and attorney who lives in Edina, Minnesota. He served as the director of the National Association for Consumer Protection In Mental Health Practices (NACPMHP) from 1995-2005. In 2005, the NACPMHP merged into the Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health (CSMMH), a national health care consumer protection agency whose members include physicians, scientists and researchers. |
13238629 | Lawrence B. (Larry) Slobodkin (June 22, 1928 in The Bronx – September 12, 2009 in Old Field, New York) was an American ecologist and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He was one of the leading pioneers of modern ecology. His innovative thinking and research, provocative teaching, and visionary leadership helped transform ecology into a modern science, with deep links to evolution. |
13268478 | Adrift in Manhattan is a 2007 film directed by Alfredo De Villa and written by Nat Moss based on a story by De Villa. The film features an ensemble cast, including Heather Graham, Victor Rasuk, Dominic Chianese, Elizabeth Peña, and William Baldwin. The film earned mixed reviews upon release. |
13269245 | The Road Apples were an American pop rock group from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their lead singer/guitarist was David Finnerty. The other band members were Flip Morse (lead guitar and vocals), Bard Richmond (bass guitar and vocals), Jean-Do Sifantus (drums), and Chuck Eisenhardt (the original keyboard player, later replaced by Wally Baier). The group charted two singles on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in the mid-1970s. Their first single "Let's Live Together" rose to No. 35 on that chart. A follow-up release "Holding On" b/w "Good Lovin' Woman" also entered the Hot 100 and rose to No. 77. The Road Apples participated in the 'Partners of the Americas' program in 1976 and travelled to Colombia, in South America where they performed numerous free concerts for the people of Medellín and Cartegena. |
13293358 | Rachel Wilson (born May 12, 1977) is a Canadian actress who is best known for her role as Heather on "Total Drama" and Tamira Goldstein on "Breaker High". |
13308940 | The Duquesne Dukes represent Duquesne University in college basketball. The team, which started in 1914, has only ever played in NCAA Division I and has had five appearances in the NCAA Tournament. The Dukes play in the Atlantic 10 Conference, of which they have been members since 1976 (minus the 1992–93 season in which the Dukes were single-season members of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference). |
13318609 | Take a Bite Outta Rhyme: A Rock Tribute to Rap is a rap rock compilation album that includes covers of well-known hip hop songs by popular Rock musicians. The album was released by Republic on October 24, 2000. It includes tracks by Dynamite Hack, Staind, Fun Lovin' Criminals, and others. The album reached #195 on the "Billboard" 200 on the week of November 11, 2000. |
13332795 | Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth |
13334850 | Clifford Samuel is a British actor. |
13357961 | Nikalai (Nikolay) Dmitrievich Grigoriev (Russian: Никола́й Дми́триевич Григо́рьев ) was a Russian chess player and a composer of endgame studies. He was born on 14 August 1895 in Moscow, and he died there in 1938. |
13364149 | Dudley Goodall Wooten (June 19, 1860 – February 7, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Texas. |
13408007 | Murray Burton Levin (1927–1999) was a political science professor at Boston University from 1955 through his retirement in 1989. A progressive who once had been a member of the Communist Party USA, Levin was an unreconstructed radical throughout his academic career. In addition to teaching a popular core course on political science, Levin specialized in teaching Marxist political theory to both undergraduate and graduate students. Long before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Levin eventually came to the conclusion that Marxist theory was not a science, let alone a viable system of economics, but was a powerful propaganda tool to mobilize the masses against capital. Class consciousness would be obtained ultimately when the masses finally revolted against the oligarchy. |
13444519 | George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington (1768–1831) served as a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy. |
13463180 | Jessica Aguirre is a Cuban-American television journalist. |
13465088 | Georgina "Georgie" Kimberley Hagen (born 21 June 1991) is an English actress and singer. She is most known for her appearance as Lauren Waters, from ITV's "Britannia High". She also featured in "The Story of Tracy Beaker" as Rebecca Chalmers in 2005. |
13476710 | In the Ramayana, Rama Setu (English: Rama's Bridge ), also known as Nala Setu, was a bridge built by the Vanara army to rescue Sita - the wife of Rama, prince of Ayodhya and avatar of the god Vishnu, who was kidnapped by Ravana, the rakshasa king of Lanka. Rama worships the god of the ocean, Varuna and requests him to make way. When Varuna does not appear before Rama, Rama starts shooting various weapons at the sea, which starts drying up. A terrified Varuna pleads to Rama. Though he refuses to give way, he gives Rama a solution. He tells Rama that Nala, the son of Vishwakarma - the architect of the gods, is amongst his vanara army; Nala has the necessary expertise of an architect, owing to a boon from his divine father. Varuna suggests that Rama construct a bridge across the ocean to Lanka, under the supervision of Nala. In some versions, Nila also assists in this task. The vanaras fell mighty trees, and collect logs of wood and giant boulders and cast them in the sea. The vanara army completes the 80 miles (130 km) (hundred yojana) bridge in just five days. Rama and his army pass over it and reach Lanka, where they prepare to fight Ravana. The bridge is also known as Nala Setu, the bridge of Nala. |
13482794 | Paris is now a small unincorporated community in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. Located in Virginia's hunt country, it was established in a strategic spot at the eastern base of Ashby Gap along U.S. Route 17 and U.S. Route 50. |
13490079 | The term Alha Khand is used to refer to poetic works in Hindi which consists of a number of ballads describing the brave acts of two 12th century Banaphar Rajput heroes, Alha and Udal, generals working for king Paramardi-Deva (Parmal) of Mahoba (1163-1202 CE) against the attacker Prithviraj Chauhan (1149–1192 CE) of Delhi. The works has been entirely handed down by oral tradition and presently exists in many recensions, which differ from one another both in language and subject matter. The Bundeli, the Bagheli, the Awadhi, the Bhojpuri and the Kannauji recensions are the most well known among these. |
13513813 | Christian "Chris" Munk (born August 5, 1967) is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a 6'9" (198 cm) 225 lb (102 kg) forward Attended and played for Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco and played collegiately at the University of Southern California. Born in San Francisco, California, he played for the Utah Jazz in the NBA. |
13543171 | After Dark is the second and last album by Los Angeles chicano rock band Cruzados, released in 1987. This album is lesser known to its 1985 preceder, as is the line-up for the band, which features guitarist Marshall Rohner in the place of Steven Hufsteter. The album featured fewer elements of blues, and featured more acoustic songs ("Small Town Love", "Time for Waiting") and even experimented with pop-rock ("I Want Your World to Turn") and folk rock ("Road of Truth"). The album's songwriting was also mainly done by rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist Tito Larriva, with help from bassist Tony Marsico on a few songs. |
13557773 | Discoverer 1 was the first of a series of satellites which were part of the Corona reconnaissance satellite program. It was launched on a Thor-Agena rocket on February 28, 1959 at 1:49 PST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It was a prototype of the KH-1 satellite, but did not contain either a camera or a film capsule. It was the first satellite launched toward the South Pole in an attempt to achieve polar orbit, but was unsuccessful. A CIA report, later declassified, concluded that "Today, most people believe the DISCOVERER I landed somewhere near the South Pole." |
13573971 | The Beatmen were a Slovak rock band singing predominantly in English, that existed from 1964 to 1966. Although they released only 4 songs, they remain one of the most significant bands in the history of the Czechoslovak popular music. They were one of the first widely popular Big Beat bands in Czechoslovakia and they were one of the first bands from behind the iron curtain to play in the western Europe, in Munich. The band was the first bigger success for the singer and guitarist Dežo Ursiny, who later became a legend of the Czechoslovak music. |
13579738 | "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" is a song performed by British girl group Spice Girls for their greatest hits album "Greatest Hits". It was written by the Spice Girls, Richard Stannard and Matt Rowe, whilst produced by the latter two. It was released as the only single from the album on 5 November 2007, by Virgin Records. The song was the first commercial single release to feature the group's original lineup since Geri Halliwell left in 1998. It was also the official Children in Need single of 2007. |
13584845 | James William Carey (7 September 1934 – 23 May 2006) was an American communication theorist, media critic, and a journalism instructor at the University of Illinois, and later at Columbia University. He was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1995 to 2002. He died in 2006 at age 71. Carey is credited with developing the ritual view of communication. |
13617502 | The MacArthur Study Bible, first issued in 1997 by current HarperCollins brand W Publishing, is a study Bible edited by evangelical Calvinist preacher John F. MacArthur with introductions and annotations to the 66 books of the Protestant Bible. It also has charts, maps, personal notes, Biblical harmonies, chronologies of Old Testament kings and prophets, and appendices. MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church and president of The Master's Seminary, wrote more than half of the 20,000 entries himself in longhand, and reworked many of the others written by seminary faculty. |
13621970 | Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope is a non-fiction book, by Jenna Bush, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush. Ana's Story is the account of a 17-year-old mother who was born with HIV. Bush met Ana, identified only by her first name, while an intern for UNICEF in Latin America. Because of discrimination against AIDS victims, some names and details in the story were altered to protect the subjects. |
13671220 | Just a Little Harmless Sex is a 1999 romantic comedy film which revolves around the offer of oral sex by a stranded motorist (and prostitute) to a monogamous man who stops to help her. Arrested by a passing police officer, the unlikely good Samaritan must telephone his wife to bail him out in the middle of the night. A few days later, she throws him out of the house and goes out with her friends to enjoy a sexy night on the town. The denouement takes place when all the parties meet at a local nightclub for explanations and apologies. The film was directed by Rick Rosenthal, and stars Alison Eastwood, Rachel Hunter, and Lauren Hutton. |
13681032 | High School Football Heroes (HSFH) is a ska punk band from Long Island, New York. HSFH blends the sound of 3rd wave ska with indie rock, drawing comparisons to acts such as Less Than Jake, Taking Back Sunday, RX Bandits and Sublime. The band released two records with Asbestos Records and Orange Peel Distribution. In late 2006 the band disbanded as members opted to pursue other interests. In 2014 the band reunited and began releasing music in a yearly demo format. The most recent HSFH release is always available for free streaming and download through the band's digital platforms. |
13699701 | Hrant Alianak (born 1950), also billed as Harant Alianak or Grant Aljanak, is an Armenian-Canadian actor and playwright. In 1988 he was nominated for the Genie Award "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role" for his role in the 1987 film "Family Viewing". He played Pete in the 1995 Adam Sandler movie "Billy Madison". He portrayed Dr. Mendez in the 2009 Canadian horror film "Pontypool". |
13703466 | Morrison was a small unincorporated community in Warwick County, Virginia. After a municipal consolidation in 1958, it became a neighborhood of the independent city of Newport News. |
13709689 | John H. DeWitt Jr. (February 20, 1906 – January 25, 1999) was an American pioneer in radio broadcasting, radar astronomy and photometry. He observed the first successful reception of radio echoes off the moon on January 10, 1946 as part of Project Diana. |
13727161 | Rockin' the Oldies was the fifth album of rock and roll music by Bill Haley and His Comets. Produced by Milt Gabler, the album was released by Decca Records in 1957. It was the first of three "themed albums" that Haley recorded for Decca. On this occasion the album consisted of re-recordings of popular standards, some dating back 30 years or more, but rearranged in a rock and roll style. For example, Haley's version of Larry Clinton's "The Dipsy Doodle" included new lyrics referring to Haley's past hits, "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and "See You Later Alligator". The album did not produce any hit singles. |
13759830 | The 1994 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by second-year head coach Terry Bowden, they continued the success of the previous season by going 9–1–1. Some of Auburn's wins came in dramatic fashion. The Tigers made four interceptions in the 4th quarter against LSU and completed a last-second pass to beat Florida in Gainesville. Auburn won their first nine games of the season to extend a winning streak extending from 1993 to 20 games before ending the year with a tie against Georgia and a loss to Alabama. Auburn returned to television this season, but was still serving a postseason ban that made them ineligible for a bowl game. |
13760390 | Bert Niosi (London, Ontario, February 10, 1909 – Mississauga, Ontario August 3, 1987) was a Canadian bandleader, known as "Canada's King of Swing". |
13772966 | The untitled ninth studio album by American rapper Nas was released by The Jones Experience and Def Jam Recordings on July 15, 2008 in the United States, with earlier dates in some other countries. Its original title, "Nigger", was changed due to controversy surrounding the racial epithet. The album is distinguished for its political content, diverse sources of production and provocative subject matter. |
13786172 | Alexander McClure (3 April 1892 – August 1973) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre half. He played for Birmingham both before and after the First World War, making 198 appearances in all competitions, and helped them win the championship of the Second Division in 1920–21. He also played in the Football League for Aston Villa, Stoke, Coventry City and Walsall. |
13786781 | David Alexander Ian Adams (born 26 June 1963) is an Australian photojournalist and documentary film maker. |
13793582 | An Inspector Calls is a 1954 film directed by Guy Hamilton and written for the screen by Desmond Davis. It is based upon the play of the same name by J.B. Priestley. It stars Alastair Sim. |
13811287 | Ian Harold Beckles (born July 20, 1967) is a Canadian former American football Guard who played nine seasons in the NFL. Beckles was the former co-host of the highly rated The Ron & Ian Show on iHeartMedia, Inc.'s WDAE (620 AM and 95.3 FM) in Tampa, Florida, along with host, Ron Diaz. Beckles now hosts his own program (The Ian Beckles Show) on 102.5 The Bone on Sundays from 11:00am-1:00pm |
13841270 | Brain Capers is the fourth album by the band Mott the Hoople. |
13865389 | On Flame with Rock and Roll is a compilation album by the hard rock band, the Blue Öyster Cult, released in 1990 by CBS Special Products. |
13868692 | The Death of the Lion is an 1894 short story by Henry James. |
13877481 | Cheyenne Game (1958) is a Milton Bradley children's board game for two to four players based on the 1957 Golden Globe Award winning ABC Warner Bros. western television series "Cheyenne" (1955-1962) starring Clint Walker. The game is a typical track/racing board game. A second edition of the game was released during Clint Walker's dispute with Warner Bros. that featured "Bronco" star Ty Hardin on the box cover. "Cheyenne" was one of many board games published during the 1950s based on television programs. |
13890813 | Robert J. "Bluey" McClure (5 June 1925 – 17 July 2003) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the VFL. |
13891795 | John H. Reynolds was born (1923--) 3, 1923 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. He studied first at Harvard University and, after serving in the Navy during World War II, at the University of Chicago. There, he was influenced by his Ph.D. thesis advisor Mark Inghram and by two other famous physicists, Harold Urey and Enrico Fermi. He specialized in mass spectrometry and utilized this method to determine isotope ratios needed for the radiometric dating of geologically and cosmologically relevant samples. In 1950 he was appointed as professor to the University of California, Berkeley where he continued his research on isotope ratios in meteorites, leading to the discovery in 1960 that the Richardton meteorite and other meteorites had an excess of xenon-129, thought to be a result of the beta decay of iodine-129 in the early solar system. His improvement of potassium-argon dating was adopted by several institutions. |
13894222 | Paul Slabolepszy (born 1948), or Paul "Slab", is a South African actor and playwright. |
13904416 | It Ain’t What U Wear, It’s How U Play It is the second and final album from Another Bad Creation. It was released on September 21, 1993 on Motown Records. |
13910169 | Norman Marshall (16 November 1901 – 7 November 1980) was an English theatrical director, producer and manager who began his theatrical career while still an undergraduate student at Oxford. After leaving university he worked with various small touring companies and in 1926 he joined the Cambridge Festival Theatre, first as a press agent, then as a stage manager and in 1932 he became their resident director. In 1934, he bought the lease on the small club theatre, the Gate Theatre Studio, where in the next six years he produced popular intimate revues and many successful plays, some of which later transferred to the West-end stage. |
13911725 | Matsudaira Munehide (松平 宗秀 , October 21, 1809 – December 20, 1873) , also known as Honjō Munehide (本庄 宗秀 ) , was a Japanese "daimyō" of the late Edo period who ruled the Miyazu Domain (modern-day Miyazu, Kyoto). He was known by the titles "Hōki-no-kami" (伯耆守 , "Hōki-no-kami" ) (post-1840) or "Tango-no-kami" (丹後守 , "Tango-no-kami" ) (post-1868). |
13922113 | The Seventh-day Adventist educational system is part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and overseen by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist located in Silver Spring, Maryland.The educational system is the second-largest Christian school-system in the world, after the Roman Catholic system. |
13929447 | After graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree in business and cinema, Chris’ film career has taken him from agency work, to coordinating post-production for American movies seen late at night in Belgium. |
13931414 | Okudaira Tadamasa (奥平 忠政 , 1580 – August 7, 1614) was a Japanese "daimyō" of the early Edo period. He was the son of Tokugawa Ieyasu's son-in-law Okudaira Nobumasa. Due to this family connection, he was allowed to use the Matsudaira surname. He was briefly adopted by Suganuma Sadatoshi; however, this adoption lasted for only five years. Upon Nobumasa's death, Tadamasa succeeded him as lord of the Kanō Domain. |
13933032 | Medium Rare is a compilation album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, released on December 18, 2007 on Big Rig Records. It contains three new songs, nine previously unreleased tracks and some rare B-sides. This is also the band's first release since they went on hiatus in 2003. |
13935745 | Michael N. Grossman is an American film and television director. |
13942524 | Tadeusz Mirosław Kondrusiewicz (born 2 June 1958) is a Polish politician, current Member of Bydgoszcz City Council who represents the 3rd district. |
13950698 | The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a metropolitan public research and space-grant university located on a 1,415-acre (5.73 km) main campus in Orlando, Florida, United States. UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida and is the largest university in the United States in terms of undergraduate enrollment. It was founded in 1963 as Florida Technological University with the goal of providing highly trained personnel to support the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida's Space Coast. After the university's academic scope expanded in the mid and late 1970s to encompass a wider variety of disciplines, the school was renamed The University of Central Florida in 1978. Initial enrollment in 1968 was 1,948 students; as of 2014, the university has 59,770 students from more than 140 countries, all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Since the university's first graduating class in 1970, UCF has awarded more than 250,000 degrees, including 45,000 graduate and professional degrees, to over 200,000 alumni. |
13960072 | Michael David Fields is an American film and television director. |
13966652 | Jodi Carlisle (born August 28, 1960) is an American actress who has appeared in 46 television shows, 5 feature films and four television movies as well as a number of stage plays. Carlisle is perhaps best known as one of the principal voice actors on the long running children's animated TV series "The Wild Thornberrys." |
13972323 | Project Love was an outlaw visuals collective that became famous for its pioneering video projection work during the rave scene of the early 1990s. |
13974751 | Maeda Munetoki (前田 宗辰 ) (June 5, 1725 – January 18, 1747) was a Japanese "daimyō" of the Edo period, who ruled the Kaga Domain. First known as Inuchiyomaru, he inherited family headship in 1745, following the death of his father Yoshinori. However, Munetoki himself did not live long, and died in 1747. The headship of the Kaga Domain passed to his younger brother Shigehiro. |
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14004364 | The 2008 Gator Bowl was played on January 1, 2008 as part of the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It featured the Red Raiders of Texas Tech University, who finished 3rd in the Big 12 Conference's South Division, and the Cavaliers of the University of Virginia, who finished 2nd in the Atlantic Coast Conference's Coastal Division. Texas Tech won the game on a last-second field goal, securing a 31–28 victory. |
14033778 | The discography of American rapper Ice-T, consists of 8 studio albums, 10 compilation album, 51 singles, and 80 music videos. Ice-T has sold over 10 million albums in the US alone. |
14038359 | Wilfred Stanley Arthur, (7 December 1919 – 23 December 2000) was a fighter ace and senior officer of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II. Commonly known as "Woof", and sometimes "Wolf" or "Wulf", he was officially credited with ten aerial victories. As a commander, he led combat formations at squadron and wing level, becoming at 24 the youngest group captain in the history of the RAAF. |