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14068643 | Backstreet Records was an MCA Records subsidiary label founded in 1979 by Danny Bramson, who at the time was executive director of MCA's Universal Amphitheatre. The name was derived from the Bruce Springsteen song "Backstreets". The label's first release was the self-titled debut album by Tears in August 1979. The first major signing to the label was Tom Petty, ending a legal battle between Petty and MCA over his recording contract which was acquired when MCA purchased ABC Records. The label's roster of artists also included J.J. Cale, Keith Sykes, Nils Lofgren, Men Without Hats, and Walter Egan. The label's last release was in 1983, after which it was absorbed into MCA Records. |
14089195 | 007: Quantum of Solace is a first-person shooter (third-person shooter for PlayStation 2 and DS) video game based on the films "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace". The game was released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. The game was released on October 31, 2008 in Europe, November 4, 2008 in North America, and November 19, 2008 in Australia The game's release coincided with the release of "Quantum of Solace". The game is the first James Bond title published by Activision; the company acquired the video game licence to the James Bond franchise in 2006. The game was released on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and primarily developed by Treyarch, the game was ported later to other platforms by three other companies: Beenox, Vicarious Visions and Eurocom. It is powered by the "" game engine. It is also the first James Bond video game to be released on a seventh generation console as well as the first to feature Daniel Craig's voice and likeness, as well as those of Eva Green, Judi Dench, Mads Mikkelsen, Olga Kurylenko and Mathieu Amalric. |
14089584 | Joseph "Joey Dee" DiNapoli (born August 12, 1935), is a high-ranking member of the Lucchese crime family, holding the rank of caporegime or captain. He was also a part of the family's "Ruling Committee/Panel", controlling the day-to-day operations from 2003 to 2011, along with Aniello "Neil" Migliore and Matthew Madonna. DiNapoli has two brothers, Vincent and Louis, who are both members of the Genovese crime family. |
14107586 | The Battle of Lübeck took place on 6 November 1806 in Lübeck, Germany between soldiers of the Kingdom of Prussia led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, who were retreating from defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, and troops of the First French Empire under Marshals Murat, Bernadotte, and Soult, who were pursuing them. In this War of the Fourth Coalition action, the French inflicted a severe defeat on the Prussians, driving them from the neutral city. Lübeck is an old Baltic Sea port approximately 50 km northeast of Hamburg. |
14123875 | Janusz Zaorski (born September 19, 1947) is a Polish film director, scenarist and actor, representative of the cinema of moral concern (Polish: "kino moralnego niepokoju" ), trend in Polish cinema. Zaorski has directed mainly psychological dramas, comedies and TV series. |
14124832 | Linda McAuley is an award-winning presenter for the BBC Radio Ulster consumer advice programme On Your Behalf. |
14135855 | Play the Game, also known as Let's Play the Game, was one of the earliest game shows to be broadcast over an American television network, and the first known example of a television panel show. In 1941-42, CBS aired an early game show, "CBS Television Quiz". |
14161117 | Honjō Shigenaga (本庄 繁長 , January 12, 1540 – January 29, 1614) was a Japanese Samurai who lived from the Azuchi–Momoyama period through to the Edo period. Shigenaga served the Uesugi clan and was known for his betrayal against them. He held the court title "Echizen no kami". |
14164781 | Christian Christophersen Sehested (1666 – 1740) was the second Grand Chancellor of Denmark from 1708 to 1721. He was preceded by Conrad von Reventlow and succeeded by Ulrik Adolf Holstein. |
14172329 | Thunder on South Mountain is a board wargame that simulates the American Civil War battle of South Mountain Maryland, fought on September 14, 1862. In this battle, Union forces fought under the command of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and Confederate forces were under the command of Maj. Gen. Daniel Harvey Hill. Players play the role of these commanders in this tactical, brigade-level simulation. The game has low complexity and an emphasis on command and control. |
14187737 | The 2007 Navy vs. North Texas football game was a regular-season college football game between the Navy Midshipmen and the North Texas Mean Green, played on November 10, 2007 at Fouts Field in Denton, Texas. The game held the record for the most combined points scored in a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) regulation game with 136 total points, until 137 combined points were scored by Syracuse and Pittsburgh during their November 26, 2016 matchup. |
14195532 | The Badr-B (Urdu: ; also known as Badr-II, meaning "Full Moon-2") is the second spacecraft and the first earth observation satellite launched into Earth orbit on 10 December 2001 at 09:15 by the SUPARCO — Pakistan's national space agency. "Badr-B" is a microsatellite, with a mass of ~70 kg, and contained the supercomputerized system to conduct the studies on the gravity gradient. "Badr-B" is a research satellite to explore the upper atmosphere and the near space, and carried a large array of instruments for geophysical research. |
14198342 | Matrose Hermann Künne (12 December 1897 - 23 April 1918) was a German sailor killed during World War I. He was based at Zeebrugge as a crewman on the Torpedo boat "S53" and died fighting British soldiers during the Zeebrugge Raid. He killed a senior British officer - probably Wing Commander Frank Arthur Brock - in hand-to-hand combat with a cutlass. He is buried in Zeebrugge. The World War II German destroyer "Z19" was named "Hermann Künne" in his honour. |
14218736 | The Dallas Margarita Ball is a charity event hosted by The Dallas Margarita Society. The event, which is entering its 40th year, is the world's largest annual black tie invitation only gala in the world. It occupies 3 floors of Sheraton Dallas Hotel (previously known as The Adam's Mark Hotel) in Downtown Dallas. It is held to benefit Dallas Children's Charities. To date over $7,000,000 in toys and donations has been collected to help at-risk children. |
14226096 | Amica is an opera in two acts by Pietro Mascagni, originally composed to a libretto by Paul Bérel (the pseudonym of Paul de Choudens). The only opera by Mascagni with a French libretto, it was an immediate success with both the audience and the critics on its opening night at the Théâtre du Casino in Monte-Carlo on 16 March 1905. Mascagni himself conducted the performance. The opera had its Italian premiere (with an Italian libretto by Mascagni's close collaborator, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti) on 13 May 1905 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. |
14235608 | Ian Brown (born 1963) is an English musician and lead singer of band The Stone Roses. |
14238973 | The 2007 Bowling Green Falcons football team represented Bowling Green State University in the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Gregg Brandon and played their home games in Doyt Perry Stadium in Bowling Green, Ohio. It was the 89th season of play for the Falcons. Bowling Green finished the season 8–5 overall and has finished 4–2 in the MAC East. They participated in the GMAC Bowl, losing to Tulsa 63–7. They capped the regular season by beating arch rival Toledo for the first time in 3 years. |
14241099 | Ian Cairns (born 24 July 1952 in Kew, Victoria) is a former champion surfer who was also influential in establishing the world professional surfing circuit and particularly the World Championship Tour. He was described as "the premier “power” surfer of his era [who] dominated the North Shore during the mid to late-seventies". |
14253855 | "Hollywood Swinging" is a song by R&B/funk band Kool & the Gang from their album "Wild and Peaceful". It became their first number one R&B single, reaching that position in June 1974, proved to also be a successful crossover hit, peaking at number 6 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart, and was written by Robert "Kool" Bell, Ronald Bell, George M. Brown, Robert "Spike" Mickens, Claydes E. Smith, Dennis R. Thomas & Rick A. Westfield. |
14261749 | Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Born in Washington DC January, 1944, Derber attended Yale University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1965 and was a member of Manuscript Society. Later, he attended the University of Chicago, where he obtained his PhD. He has also served as the director of Boston College's graduate program on social economy and social justice. |
14264035 | Ronald Anthony Mattes (born August 8, 1963 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania) is a former American football offensive tackle who played for 7 seasons in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the seventh round of the 1985 NFL Draft and also played for the Chicago Bears. He played college football at the University of Virginia, and was also an Offensive Line Coach for UVA after his retirement from playing. He is currently the Offensive Line Coach for the North Carolina A&T Aggies. |
14275382 | The 1956 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1956 college football season. |
14290110 | Liz Cohen (born 1973) is a performance artist and automotive designer. Cohen has an MFA in photography from California College of the Arts and Crafts, (now the California College of the Arts), where she has taught. She currently teaches at Cranbrook Academy of Art and lives in Detroit, Michigan. |
14313990 | Kicked Out is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. |
14314293 | Jules Verne Sikes (October 22, 1904 – May 20, 1964) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He was a graduate of Texas A&M University where he was a three-sport star, lettering three years each in baseball, basketball and football. He played end for Dana X. Bible's Texas A&M football teams from 1925 to 1927 and was All-Southwest Conference and mentioned as All-American. He played minor league baseball with Shreveport, Louisiana of the Class A Texas League after college. Sikes was an assistant coach for ends at the University of Georgia in Wally Butts first year as head football coach in 1939 until leaving for Kansas after the 1947 season, interrupted by service in World War II. He coached the Kansas Jayhawks from 1948 to 1953, compiling a 35–25 record. He succeeded George Sauer who left Kansas for United States Naval Academy. From 1954 to 1963, he coached at East Texas State University, amassing a 63–34–4 record. The Lions won five Lone Star Conference championships during his tenure and won both the Tangerine Bowl twice, at the end of the 1957 and 1958 seasons. He was a proponent of the T formation. |
14326812 | Mary Evans (1770–1843), later Mary Todd, is notable as the first love of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and although he failed to profess his feelings to Evans during their early relationship, he held her in affection until 1794 when Evans dissuaded his attentions. |
14338997 | Douglas Geoffrey McGrath (born February 2, 1958) is an American screenwriter, film director, and actor. He also writes political commentary, such as "The Flapjack File", a column for "The New Republic". |
14344295 | Present Truth Magazine is an evangelical Christian magazine, started by Robert Brinsmead, a former Seventh-day Adventist. |
14354839 | Joseph Cameron Alston (December 20, 1926 – April 16, 2008) was an American badminton player who won major titles between 1951 and 1967. |
14392756 | Ethel Cuff Black, (1890-September 17, 1977) one of the founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Her father was a banker in an African-American owned business. Her maternal grandfather was a Civil War veteran. In Bordentown, New Jersey, she attended the Industrial School for Colored Youth and graduated with the highest grade point average. At Howard University, she was chairwoman of the collegiate chapter of the YWCA. During college, she was also the vice-president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, but later voted to reorganize the sorority and formed Delta Sigma Theta with twenty-one other women Due to illness, she graduated Howard in 1915. She was also the first African-American teacher in Rochester, New York. She was married in 1939 to real estate agent David Horton Black. |
14422213 | Steven Mann (May 2, 1943 – September 9, 2009) was an American songwriter and guitarist. |
14437645 | Jerry Brandt is an entrepreneur, impresario, agent, manager, promoter, and club owner active since the 1960s. He is known for discovering Carly Simon and serving as her first manager, as well as for his work with Lori Petty. Brandt was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. |
14441801 | Anastazy Wilhelm Dreszer (April 28, 1845 – June 2, 1907) was a Polish pianist, composer, and educator. |
14467557 | Thomas Salvatore Gioeli (pronounced Jee-OH-lee), also known as "Tommy Shots" (born 1952), is a high-ranking member of the Colombo crime family. |
14499222 | What Starts, Ends is a 1992 album by the British band Rubicon. |
14499471 | Steve Popovich (July 6, 1942 – June 8, 2011) was a Serbian American record company executive. As the founder of Cleveland International Records, he launched and guided the careers of many famous artists through his work with the CBS label family, including The Jacksons, Cheap Trick, Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Bob Dylan, and Meat Loaf. |
14513677 | Suzanne Seggerman is the co-founder of Games for Change and is a public speaker and adviser on new media and social impact. |
14516433 | Miłość (English: "Love") was a Polish free jazz band. The band was founded in 1988 by Ryszard Tymon Tymański, double bassist and guitarist, former leader of new wave group Sni Sredstvom Za Uklanianie. Miłość played free jazz with avantgarde influences and gave birth to, among others, the Tricity and Bydgoszcz jazz bands, and to a style called yass. Miłość recorded two albums with the legendary jazzman Lester Bowie: "Not Two" (1995) and "Talkin' About Life and Death" (1999). The band split up after Olter's death in 2002. |
14534679 | The climate of the Arctic is characterized by long, cold winters and short, cool summers. There is a large amount of variability in climate across the Arctic, but all regions experience extremes of solar radiation in both summer and winter. Some parts of the Arctic are covered by ice (sea ice, glacial ice, or snow) year-round, and nearly all parts of the Arctic experience long periods with some form of ice on the surface. Average January temperatures range from about −34 °C to 0 °C (−40 to +32 °F), and winter temperatures can drop below −50 °C (−58 °F) over large parts of the Arctic. Average July temperatures range from about −10 to +10 °C (14 to 50 °F), with some land areas occasionally exceeding 30 °C (86 °F) in summer. |
14550910 | Pete Sampras defeated Thomas Muster to win the 1993 Peters NSW Open men's singles event. |
14576475 | Veryl Switzer is a former halfback in the National Football League who played 24 games for the Green Bay Packers. In 1954, the Green Bay Packers used the 4th pick in the 1st round of the 1954 NFL Draft to sign Switzer out of Kansas State University where he played from 1951 to 1953. He held the career punt return record at KSU until 1995 and scored the second longest punt return touchdown in school history (93 yards on Sept 19 1953, one of two he posted that year). His best year was 1953 when he led Kansas State in rushing with 558 yards, receiving with eight catches for 211 yards, scoring with eight touchdowns and 49 points, punt returns with a 31.0-yard average and kick returns with a 22.3-yard average. Switzer was invited to the 1954 East–West Shrine Game. |
14576682 | Stanley Robert Heath (March 5, 1927 – September 26, 2010) was a quarterback in the National Football League who played 12 games for the Green Bay Packers. In 1949, the Green Bay Packers used the 5th pick in the 1st round of the 1949 NFL Draft to sign Heath out of the University of Nevada, Reno, where he was the nation's top passer. Previously, he had been a member of the Wisconsin Badgers. Heath was the first NCAA quarterback to throw for over 2,000 yards in a season, a mark that would not be surpassed for fifteen years. He finished 5th in the Heisman Trophy voting in 1948. Heath only played one season with the Packers before moving to the Canadian Football League. |
14583717 | David Hackl (born February 7, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film director and production designer. |
14587301 | Chris Hunter, QGM is the pseudonym of a British author, bomb disposal expert and former British Army officer. |
14611348 | Oleg Grigoriev (Russian: Оле́г Евге́ньевич Григо́рьев ; ] ; born 6 December 1943) was a Russian poet and artist. He is regarded as a successor of the Oberiu tradition. Many of his short poems became modern folklore. |
14613908 | Chris Masten (born 2 May 1989) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was chosen as the first round pick (number 3 overall) in the 2007 AFL Draft by the Eagles, the team he had supported as a child. |
14615231 | Louis Vallario, also known as "Big Louie" and "Big Lou" (born 1942), is a member of the Gambino crime family who was a top aide to boss John Gotti and Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano in the late 1980s. |
14625328 | The great "sugi" of Kayano (栢野大杉 , Kayano Ōsugi ) is a "Cryptomeria" (Sugi) tree at Yamanaka Onsen in Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. One of the four trees believed to be sacred in the precincts of the Sugawara Shrine, it has received the distinction of designation as a Special Natural Monument from the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan. |
14627231 | Louis Ricco (born February 13, 1929), also known as "Louie Bracciole" is a longtime member of the Gambino crime family, holding the rank of caporegime with illegal activities in the Bronx, New York, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York. Regarding Ricco's nickname, "bracciole" is an Italian beef dish. |
14628025 | Anthony Trentacosta (September 12, 1940 - December 25, 2005), also known as "Tony Pep", was a New York mobster and Caporegime with the Gambino crime family who headed one of their factions in South Florida. |
14642258 | Ian Merrill (born 4 April 1965) is a British author, journalist and artist. |
14683117 | Generation of Youth for Christ, formerly the General Youth Conference, is an annual conference and expression of Adventist theology which organizes and coordinates Bible studies, online sermons, regional youth conferences, mission trips, global networking opportunities for young people, week of prayers and youth camp meetings. It began with a small group of Korean students studying their Bibles together all night. It developed through middle-of-the-night text-messaging between two university students, one in Massachusetts, the other in California. They decided to call people together for a small conference in the woods of California. At that first conference, held in 2002, 200 people were invited; 400 attended. Since then, the popularity of the conventions has grown. The 2010 convention registered 5100 participants. At the main worship service on Saturday morning, 7600 people attended, including many local church members who joined in. |
14687441 | Mazus is a genus of low-growing perennial plants. It has been placed in various plant families including Phrymaceae, Scrophulariaceae, and recently in the family Mazaceae. Consisting of around 30 species, this genus is generally found in damp habitats in lowland or mountain regions of China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. |
14712015 | Keep on Chooglin' is a Creedence Clearwater Revival compilation album released in 1999, that includes the eponymous track, taken from the "Bayou Country" album. The meaning of the neologism "choogling" can be found in the lyrics of the song: "...You got to ball and have a good time / And that's what I call chooglin'." |
14713880 | Christopher Murphy Carley (born May 31, 1978) is an American actor who is sometimes credited as Chris Carley. |
14720145 | The 2005 Dr. Pepper ACC Championship Game was the inaugural contest of the game. It was a regular-season ending American college football contest at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Florida State Seminoles. The game decided the winner of the Atlantic Coast Conference football championship. Florida State University (FSU) defeated Virginia Tech 27–22 in a game characterized by penalties, defense, and a fourth-quarter comeback attempt by Virginia Tech. The game was the final contest of the regular season for the two teams, as bowl games are not considered part of the regular season. In addition, the contest marked the inaugural championship game for the recently expanded conference. |
14725637 | The 63rd Orange Bowl, also known as the 1996 Orange Bowl, was a 1996–1997 Bowl Alliance game played on December 31, 1996, between the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Virginia Tech Hokies. Virginia Tech, champions of the Big East Conference, came into the game with a 10–1 record and #10 AP ranking, whereas Nebraska, members of the Big 12 Conference, came into the game with a 10–2 and No. 6 ranking. In a high-scoring affair, Nebraska defeated Virginia Tech, 41–21. |
14727747 | Karl Wilhelm Ohnesorge (8 June 1872 – 1 February 1962) was a German politician in the Third Reich who sat in the Hitler Cabinet. From 1937 to 1945, he also acted as the minister and official of the Reichspost, the German postal service, having succeeded Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach as minister. Along with his ministerial duties, Ohnesorge also significantly delved into research relating to propagation and promotion of the Nazi Party through the radio, and the development of a proposed German atomic bomb. |
14731020 | Tomb Raider: Underworld is an action-adventure video game, the eighth instalment of the "Tomb Raider" series, following character Lara Croft. The story continues from the events in "" as a direct sequel, but also addresses unexplained plot elements by association with "". "Underworld" was released by Eidos Interactive for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows, in North America on 18 November 2008, Europe on 21 November 2008 and Australia on 5 December 2008. On 14 June 2012, "Underworld" was released on the Mac OS X by Feral Interactive. It is the third game in the series to be developed by Crystal Dynamics and is also the first "Tomb Raider" game to be released on the PlayStation 3. Developers implemented new features into the gameplay, such as the dual-target feature and an upgraded inventory system, using an Active Sonar map and a multi-purpose grappling hook. The game also features a hint system and a new melee combat system where Lara has the ability to battle her opponents using kicks and grapple pulls. Downloadable content was also released exclusively for the Xbox 360, where the player takes control of Lara and her doppelgänger in two new chapters. |
14733527 | The 1994 Orange Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1994. The game was the Bowl Coalition national championship game for the 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season. This 60th edition to the Orange Bowl featured the Nebraska Cornhuskers, and the Florida State Seminoles. Florida State came into the game 11–1 and ranked first in the nation. Nebraska came into the game undefeated at 11–0 and with a number 2 ranking. Despite their unbeaten record, the Huskers were underdogs by as much as 17½ points before the game. |
14734599 | Breaks is a small unincorporated community in Dickenson County, Virginia, United States. Breaks is located very close to the Kentucky border and is east of Breaks Interstate Park. Breaks gets its name in reference to the "break" in Pine Mountain, a mountain range that spans along the Kentucky-Virginia border and ends near the community of Breaks. |
14741134 | Zacarias "Zac" B. Sarian received the 1974 Ramon Magsaysay Award for his work in development journalism. |
14748702 | Andrzej Miłosz (19 September 1917, Vilnius – 21 September 2002, Warsaw) was a Polish journalist, translator of literature and film subtitles, and documentary-film maker. During World War II he was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance, soldier of the Home Army (AK) and ZWZ. He organized the first courier routes in Wilno. |
14755832 | Charismatic Adventists are a segment of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that is closely related to "Progressive Adventism", a liberal movement within the church. |
14761700 | Jed Seidel is an American television producer and screenwriter. |
14764083 | Hope International is an independent organization, operated by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is based in Knoxville, Illinois. The official Adventist church has criticized it for being disruptive. |
14787688 | Peter Carteret (born 1641, date of death unknown) was the Governor of the British colony of Albemarle (which would later become North Carolina) from 1670 to approximately 1672. |
14788278 | The Lucchese crime family's New Jersey faction, also known as The Jersey Crew, is a powerful faction within the Lucchese crime family. The faction operates throughout the Northern New Jersey area. During the 1970s into the late 1980s, the faction was led by Anthony Accetturo and his protégé Michael Taccetta. In 1987, Victor Amuso took over the family and began demanding a higher percentage of tribute from the faction. Accetturo refused and a war erupted between the New Jersey faction and the New York faction. This left brothers Michael and Martin Taccetta in charge of the faction as they tried to have Accetturo and his family murdered. In 1993, Accetturo defected and became a government witness. He helped convict Michael and Martin Taccetta. Today the faction is controlled by Ralph Perna. |
14799248 | Kimble is a Finnish licensed version of the board game "Trouble" in which players compete to be the first to send four pieces all the way around a board. Pieces are moved according to the roll of a die. "Kimble" is manufactured by Tactic Games Group and currently sold under the Tactic brand. |
14830674 | Arthur Ahnger (February 28, 1886 – December 7, 1940) was a Finnish sailor who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. |
14851425 | Samay: When Time Strikes is a 2003 thriller movie starring Sushmita Sen, and Sushant Singh. It was inspired from Hollywood movie Se7en starring Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. |
14854332 | From Black Power to Hip-Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism is the title of a non-fiction book written by Patricia Hill Collins. Published in 2006 by Temple University Press, the book analyzes issues as diverse as family planning, Afrocentrism, and the role of African-American women in the hip-hop movement. |
14870454 | Congo's Caper, known in Japan as Tatakae Genshijin 2: Rookie no Bōken (戦え原始人2 ルーキーの冒険 , "Tatakae Genshijin 2: Rūkī no Bōken" ) , is a side-scrolling platform action video game developed and published for the Super NES by Data East. The game was released in Japan in 1992 . A North American version was released in May 1993. |
14874694 | Yagyū Munefuyu (柳生 宗冬 , 1613 – November 16, 1675) was a daimyo and a teacher of kenjutsu and military strategy in Japan during the Edo period. His highest-ranking pupil was Tokugawa Ietsuna, fourth Tokugawa shogun. Munefuyu, who also went by the name Matajūrō, was the third son of Yagyū Munenori. One of his elder brothers was Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi. His younger brother was Retsudō Gisen, the real person who is fictionalized as Yagyū Retsudō, leader of the "Ura-Yagyu" (Shadow Yagyu), in "Lone Wolf and Cub". |
14882551 | The 2000 Sugar Bowl was the designated Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship Game for the United States 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season and was played on January 4, 2000, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. The Florida State Seminoles, representing the Atlantic Coast Conference, defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies, representing the Big East Conference, by a score of 46–29. With the win, Florida State clinched the 1999 BCS national championship, the team's second national championship in its history. |
14897833 | The Safaris were an American pop group of the early 1960s from Los Angeles, California. |
14916677 | Christian Albert (June 13, 1842– April 16, 1922) was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for valor during the American Civil War. |
14916784 | Alan Marshal (29 January 1909 – 9 July 1961) was an actor who performed on stage in the United States and in Hollywood films. |
14946975 | In Greek mythology, Nete (Νήτη) was one of the three Muses of the lyre that were worshipped at Delphi, where the Temple of Apollo and the Oracle were located. Her name was also the lowest of the seven notes of the lyre. Her sisters that were worshipped along with her were Hypate and Mese. These three muses were comparable to the original three, Aoide, Melete, and Mneme. Alternatively, they were Cephisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, which portrayed them as the daughters of Apollo. |
14982924 | An Armenophile (Armenian: հայասեր , "hayaser", lit. "Armenian-lover") is a non-Armenian person who expresses a strong interest in or appreciation for Armenian culture, Armenian history or the Armenian people. It may apply to both those who display an enthusiasm in Armenian culture and to those who support political or social causes associated with the Armenian people. During and after the First World War and simultaneous Armenian Genocide, the term was applied to people like Henry Morgenthau who actively drew attention to the victims of massacre and deportation, and who raised aid for refugees. President Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt have also been called Armenophiles, due in part to their support for the creation of Wilsonian Armenia. |
15005194 | Judith Margolis (born September 24, 1944) is an Israel-based American artist. In her art and writing she "explores tensions between consciousness, feminism, and religious ritual tradition." |
15036150 | Captain John Gore (c. 173010 August 1790) was a British American sailor who circumnavigated the globe four times with the Royal Navy in the 18th century and accompanied Captain James Cook in his discoveries in the Pacific Ocean. |
15038191 | United States of Tara is an American television comedy-drama created by Diablo Cody, which aired on Showtime from 2009 to 2011. The series follows the life of Tara (Toni Collette), a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder). |
15050067 | Timothy Kay Dinsdale, ARAeS (1924 – 14 December 1987) was famous as a seeker of the Loch Ness Monster. He attended King’s School, Worcester, served in the Royal Air Force and worked as an aeronautical engineer. |
15053078 | Damasonium californicum is a species of perennial wildflower in the water plantain family which is known by the common name fringed water-plantain, or star water-plantain. This is a plant of wet environments in the western United States from Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, California, Montana, Washington State. |
15054477 | The 2008 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA", "Bama" or "The Tide") represented the University of Alabama in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 114th overall season, 75th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and its 17th within the SEC Western Division. The team was led by head coach Nick Saban, in his second year, and played their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. They finished with an undefeated 12–0 regular season, their first since 1994, and won their first SEC Western Division Championship since 1999. They finished the season with a record of 12–2 (8–0 in the SEC) after losses to Florida in the SEC Championship Game and to Utah in the Sugar Bowl. |
15064430 | Wendy E. Diamond is an American author, reality television personality, and founder of pet-related businesses, including "Animal Fair" magazine, Paws For Style, a pet fashion show, and Yappy Hour. For her charitable efforts, Wendy was presented with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor on May 7, 2016. She is also the founder of Women's Entrepreneurship Day. |
15065852 | Pretty Polly (also known as A Matter of Innocence) is a 1967 British film, directed by Guy Green and based on the short story, "Pretty Polly Barlow", by Noël Coward. It stars Hayley Mills, Shashi Kapoor, Trevor Howard, and Brenda De Banzie. The film is largely set in Singapore. |
15103630 | The 2004 Outback Bowl featured the Florida Gators, and the Iowa Hawkeyes. |
15115124 | Admiral Sir George Cranfield Berkeley GCB (10 August 1753 – 25 February 1818), often known as George Berkeley, was a highly experienced, popular, yet controversial naval officer and politician in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain. Serving on several ships, Cranfield-Berkeley saw action at all three Battles of Ushant, commanded fleets in the West Indies and off Ireland and governed the supply routes to Portugal and Spain which kept Wellington's armies in the field during the Peninsula War. He also enjoyed an extensive political career, reforming military practices in Britain and participating in several prominent scandals including feuds with Charles James Fox and Hugh Palliser. |
15115795 | Liahona (formerly Tambuli in the English-language version) is the official international magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is named after the word liahona from the Book of Mormon. The "Liahona" is published in 51 different languages from one to twelve times per year, depending on the language. The magazine consists of articles for youth, teens, and adults, all of which are published concurrently in the church's English-language "Ensign", "New Era", and "Friend" magazines. The magazine began publication in 1977. |
15123686 | Leonard E. "Len" Gillman (January 8, 1917 – April 7, 2009) was an American mathematician, emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He was also an accomplished classical pianist. |
15129124 | Gmina Miłosław is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Września County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Miłosław, which lies approximately 16 km south-west of Września and 45 km south-east of the regional capital Poznań. |
15168058 | "Push Your Head Towards the Air" is the fourth single from "An End Has A Start", the second album by Editors. It was released on 3 March 2008 and featured a new mix of the album track. All 3 formats of the UK edition of the single were limited to 500 copies each, all of which sold out through internet pre-orders before the release date. |
15194895 | Akamatsu clan (赤松氏 , Akamatsu-shi ) is a Japanese samurai family of direct descent from Minamoto no Morifusa of the Murakami-Genji. |
15199288 | Aramazd Stepanian (Armenian: Արամազդ Ստեփանեան , born October 11, 1951) is an Armenian actor, producer, director and playwright born in Abadan, Iran. He is the owner of the Luna Playhouse where he also serves as the artistic director and producer. He was also a former candidate for Los Angeles, California City Council. |
15200722 | Magdalena Mielcarz is a Polish actress, model and singer. |
15206017 | The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal is the official hymnal of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is widely used by English-speaking Adventist congregations. It consists of words and music to 695 hymns including traditional favorites from the earlier "Church Hymnal" that it replaced, American folk hymns, modern gospel songs, compositions by Adventists, contemporary hymns, and 224 congregational responsive Scripture readings. |
15232076 | Agnes of Glasgow (1760–1780) is a figure of American folklore, but nonetheless was an actual Scottish woman. |
15243497 | Suzuki Shigeoki (鈴木重意 , 1511–1585) was a prominent and reputed leader of the Saika Ikki throughout the latter years of the Sengoku period of feudal Japan. He was also referred to as Suzuki Sadayū (佐大夫), and one of the men who use the nickname Saika Magoichi. |