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23112737 | BrainRush (spelled BrainRu$h) was a live-action game show on Cartoon Network, hosted by Lamorne Morris and, to a lesser extent, Sarah Karges. It first aired on June 20, 2009, with its last episode airing on July 22. |
23134639 | John Douglas Smith (born 4 August 1966 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian sound editor. |
23147565 | Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion is a fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan novels, and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly comics. |
23185160 | "Walking on Sunshine" is a song by Eddy Grant, originally released as a single and the title track of his 1979 album "Walking on Sunshine". Grant's original version was not a hit, but the song was remade three years later by Rockers Revenge, a studio project assembled by producer Arthur Baker. The single, with vocals by Donnie Calvin, peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart and reached the top thirty in Belgium, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. The single did not chart on the "Billboard" Hot 100, but was number one on the "Billboard" Hot Dance Club Play charts for one week and peaked at number 63 on the "Billboard" Hot Black Singles chart. The song's bassline would later be sampled in Eleanor's 1988 song "Adventure", itself a number-one Dance Club Play hit in 1988. |
23200566 | A drop bear (sometimes dropbear) is a hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory, carnivorous version of the koala ("Phascolarctos cinereus"). This imaginary animal is commonly spoken about in tall tales designed to scare tourists. While koalas are typically docile herbivores (and notably, not bears), drop bears are described as unusually large and vicious marsupials that inhabit treetops and attack unsuspecting people (or other prey) that walk beneath them by dropping onto their heads from above. |
23202912 | The Project (previously The 7PM Project) is a multi-logie award winning Australian news-current affairs and talk show television panel program, airing weeknights across Australia on Network Ten, produced by Roving Enterprises. The show is hosted by Waleed Aly, Carrie Bickmore and Peter Helliar, with rotating daily guest panellists. |
23208173 | The Hofstra Pride football (formerly the Hofstra Flying Dutchmen) program was the intercollegiate American football team for Hofstra University located in Hempstead, New York. The team competed in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and were members of the Colonial Athletic Association. The school's first football team was fielded in 1937. Hofstra participated in football from 1937 to 2009, compiling an all-time record of 403–268–11. On December 3, 2009, the university announced it was terminating the football program. Under NCAA rules, any football players who chose to transfer to other schools were eligible to play immediately, and not subjected to normal residency waiting periods. Scholarship-holders who wished to stay at Hofstra were permitted to keep their scholarships. Funds previously used for the football program went into the creation of the medical school, and enhancing a variety of programs, including public health, hard sciences and engineering. |
23211328 | 20Q is an American game show based on the online artificial intelligence and handheld computer game of the same name. Licensed to and produced by Endemol USA, it premiered on June 13, 2009 during Big Saturday Night airing on GSN, and is hosted by Cat Deeley of "So You Think You Can Dance" with the voice of the computer (named Mr. Q) provided by Hal Sparks. |
23219408 | English singer Pixie Lott has released three studio albums, one compilation album, two extended plays, 16 singles (including three as a featured artist), one promotional single and 18 music videos. |
23221901 | Socrates Hotchkiss Tryon, Sr. (January 24, 1816 – May 15, 1855) was a pioneer physician in what became the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Vermont, he later lived in Iowa and California before moving to the Oregon Territory where he settled the land that now comprises part of the Tryon Creek State Natural Area in Portland and Lake Oswego. He was also a member of the 1846 Iowa Constitutional Convention. |
23238640 | John Roland Gilroy (March 5, 1896 – July 20, 1952), also known as "The Great Gilroy", was an All-American football halfback for Georgetown University and a professional football player for the Canton Bulldogs (1920), Cleveland Tigers (1920), Washington Senators (1921), and Boston Bulldogs (1926). |
23246326 | Henry Joseph Thomas "Harry" Drury (27 April 1778 – 5 March 1841) was an English educator, classical scholar, and friend of Lord Byron. |
23270459 | Inception is a 2010 science fiction film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan, and co-produced by Emma Thomas. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious, and is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for a seemingly impossible task: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. The ensemble cast additionally includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine. |
23280992 | It's All Over but the Swingin is a 1957 album by Sammy Davis, Jr., arranged by Jack Pleis and Morty Stevens. |
23308461 | Leslie Belzberg is an American film and TV producer. She is best known for her collaborations with director John Landis. |
23322722 | 100000 Astronautica, provisionally designated 1982 SH, is a Hungaria asteroid from the innermost region of the asteroid asteroid belt. It was discovered on 28 September 1982, by American astronomer James Gibson at Palomar Observatory, California, United States. It was named Astronautica (Latin for "star sailor") on the 50th anniversary of the Space Age. |
23323645 | Arthur Joseph Forrest (May 1, 1895—November 30, 1964) was an American soldier serving in the U.S. Army during World War I who received the Medal of Honor for heroism above and beyond the call of duty. |
23367273 | Escape is a 1930 British crime film directed by Basil Dean and starring Gerald du Maurier, Edna Best and Gordon Harker. It was based on a 1926 play of the same title by John Galsworthy, which was adapted again as a film in 1948. |
23378869 | Therese "Bunty" Bailey (born 23 May 1964) is an English model, dancer and actress. Bunty started her career as a dancer in the dance group "Hot Gossip" in the early 1980s. She became known as the girl in the music videos of A-ha's singles "Take on Me" and "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." made in 1985; she met Morten Harket (the lead-singer and voice of a-ha) on the set and became his girlfriend. |
23409457 | David Lynn Harris was an American orthodontist who owned a chain of orthodontist offices along with his wife, Clara Suarez Harris. The chain was particularly successful, and the couple were able to afford an upscale home in Friendswood, Texas, and luxury cars, including Clara's Mercedes-Benz. On July 24, 2002, Clara Harris confronted her husband in a hotel parking lot because of an affair he was having, struck him and ran over him multiple times with her car, killing him. She was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison. |
23417132 | Minutemen were an American punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California in 1980. Composed of guitarist/vocalist D. Boon, bassist/vocalist Mike Watt, and drummer George Hurley, Minutemen recorded four albums and eight EPs before Boon's death in an automobile accident in December 1985; after his death, the band broke up. They were noted in the California punk community for a philosophy of "jamming econo"—a sense of thriftiness reflected in their touring and presentation—while their eclectic and experimental attitude was instrumental in pioneering alternative rock. |
23421886 | Albert Curtis (26 January 1875 – 12 September 1933) was an Australian tennis player before World War I and medical practitioner in the area of Mental Health. |
23422389 | Alfred Wallace Dunlop (12 January 1875 – 7 April 1933) was an Australian tennis player, born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He won the doubles title at the Australasian Championships, the future Australian Open, alongside Fred Alexander in 1908. He also reached the singles finals at the tournament that year, losing to Alexander. |
23429462 | The discography of B*Witched, an Irish pop girl group, consists of two studio album, one extended play and one compilation. The group released their debut single "C'est la Vie" on 25 May 1998. Despite mixed reviews, it reached Number 1 on the UK charts, making them the youngest female group ever to do so, and also made Number 9 in the US. Subsequent singles "Rollercoaster", "To You I Belong" and "Blame It on the Weatherman" also topped the UK charts. The group's debut album, "B*Witched", was released in October 1998, reaching Number 3 in the UK charts and was certified Double Platinum in the UK and Platinum in the US. B*Witched's second album, "Awake and Breathe", released almost exactly a year after their debut, peaked at Number 5 on the charts and was certified Platinum. Singles from the album were less successful than earlier releases ("Jesse Hold On" reached Number 4, "I Shall Be There" Number 13 and "Jump Down" Number 16 in the UK). The latter two appeared on their new American EP, "Across America 2000", along with live tracks and the earlier cover of "Does Your Mother Know". However, in September 2002, the group officially split when O'Carroll decided to leave the band. |
23437253 | Mieczysław Mickiewicz (1879 – before 1939) was a Ukrainian politician and lawyer of Polish descent, later a statesman of the Second Polish Republic. |
23442030 | Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA (初音ミク -Project DIVA- ) is a series of rhythm games created by Sega and Crypton Future Media. The games have appeared on the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Nintendo 3DS, iOS, Sega RingEdge and PlayStation Vita platforms. The series currently consists of 5 main titles and 3 spin-offs. The series primarily makes use of Vocaloids, a series of singing synthesizer software, and the songs created using these Vocaloids most notably the virtual-diva Vocaloid Hatsune Miku. The game is the first video game to utilize the Vocaloid software developed by the Yamaha Corporation. |
23468386 | 49s Limited is a lottery company based in London, UK, which operates the 49's draw, Irish Lotto Bet, Rapido, and virtual horse and greyhound racing. |
23483388 | George Edward "Ted" Seman (October 31, 1930 – June 13, 1966) was a Michigan police officer, and the first Evart police officer to be killed in the line of duty. He was a member of the police department during the early years of the agency, before it was more formally organized into the modern police force that it is today. His rank is often listed as "Police Chief" since there was no formal rank structure at the time, and he was the lone officer for the town. |
23522591 | Claudio Cipelletti (born 1962) is an Italian film director. |
23545878 | Jann Klose is a pop singer-songwriter, who has released five albums and two EPs. Klose was raised in Kenya, South Africa, Germany, and northeast Ohio. He is the singing voice of Tim Buckley in the movie Greetings from Tim Buckley, starring Penn Badgley and Imogen Poots, released by Focus Features and Tribeca Film. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Jann talks about guitarist and collaborator Gary Lucas recommending him to director Dan Algrant to sing in the movie. |
23608374 | The Orlando Anarchy are a women's American football team based in the Orlando, Florida area. They currently play in the Women's Football Alliance. They play their home games at Trinity Prep High School in the city of Winter Park, FL. |
23620913 | Don Juan ou Le Festin de Pierre (Don Juan, or the Stone Guest's Banquet) is a ballet with a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi, music by Christoph Willibald von Gluck, and choreography by Gasparo Angiolini. The ballet's first performance was in Vienna, Austria on Saturday, 17 October 1761, at the Theater am Kärntnertor. Its innovation in the history of ballet, coming a year before Gluck's radical reform of "opera seria" with his "Orfeo ed Euridice" (1762), was its coherent narrative element, though the series of conventional "divertissement" dances in the second act lies within the well-established ballet tradition of an "entr'acte" effecting a pause in the story-telling. The ballet follows the legend of Don Juan and his descent into Hell after killing his "inamorata's" father in a duel. |
23632456 | Marienetta "Micki" Jirkowsky (25 August 1962, Bad Saarow, Oder-Spree, Brandenburg – 22 November 1980, Hennigsdorf, Oberhavel, Brandenburg) was a German woman killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall. |
23633892 | Smartish Pace is a non-profit, independent literary journal based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. "Smartish Pace" was founded in 1999 by Stephen Reichert who was a University of Maryland School of Law student at the time. The name, "Smartish Pace", originates from a tort case in which a horse carriage, which was travelling at a smartish pace, ran over and killed a donkey. "Smartish Pace" has published poems by the following Pulitzer Prize winners: Natasha Trethewey, Claudia Emerson, Ted Kooser, Paul Muldoon, Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dunn, Henry Taylor, Mary Oliver, Maxine Kumin, and Anthony Hecht. When referencing places Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson had published, "Newsweek" called the journal "obscure". |
23634016 | TV Burp was an Australian television comedy program which premiered on the Seven Network on 23 July 2009 hosted by Ed Kavalee. |
23647982 | Afterhours is an Italian alternative rock band. The name is a tribute to the same-titled Velvet Underground's song. |
23656754 | Achoria is a genus of moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Achoria inopina, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales. |
23661752 | Dumasia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. |
23667388 | Amolinia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae, described as a genus in 1972. |
23667418 | Catolesia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. |
23667425 | Ciceronia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. |
23670984 | Adventist University of Health Sciences (ADU), formerly Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences, is located in Orlando, Florida, United States. It is a Seventh-day Adventist institution which specializes in allied health and nursing education. The college is associated with Florida Hospital, and Adventist Health System which is operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system. |
23680379 | Sad Story of Self Supporting Child (저 하늘에도 슬픔이 - "Jeo haneuledo seulpeumi") "aka" Sorrow in the Heavens is a 1965 South Korean film directed by Kim Soo-yong. It was awarded Best Film at the Blue Dragon Film Awards ceremony. Actor Kim Yong-yeon was given a special award for his performance in the film at the Grand Bell Awards ceremony. |
23687725 | Three Steps North is a 1951 Italian–American film noir crime film directed by W. Lee Wilder starring Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani and Aldo Fabrizi. The film is also known as Tre passi a nord in Italy. |
23695033 | Doug Inglish is an American photographer mostly known for his celebrity and portrait photography. |
23695166 | After Midnight Project (commonly abbreviated "AMP") is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. As of 2012, they are on hiatus, with a one night reunion show planned for 2014. |
23712955 | The Yūki Kassen Ekotoba (結城合戦絵詞 ) is a 15th-century scroll containing both text and illustrations describing Ashikaga Mochiuji's "seppuku" and Yūki Ujitomo's rebellion against shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori (the "Yūki Kassen"). It is 28.80 cm long, 378.20 cm wide. The scroll is an Important Cultural Property. |
23726447 | Lee Hyeon-sook (; born November 12, 1971) is a South Korean manhwa artist who made her debut in 1992. Her works include "Seduction More Beautiful Than Love", about a teacher and her student, and "The Flower of Evil", a dark story about twins. |
23734287 | Marstonia scalariformis, previously known as Pyrgulopsis scalariformis, common name the moss pyrg, is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. |
23738141 | Johann von Klenau (13 April 1758 – 6 October 1819), also called Johann Josef Cajetan von Klenau und Janowitz, was a field marshal in the Habsburg army. Klenau, the son of a Bohemian noble, joined the Habsburg military as a teenager and fought in the War of Bavarian Succession against Prussia, Austria's wars with the Ottoman Empire, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars, in which he commanded a corps in several important battles. |
23743707 | Douglas Rushkoff (born 18 February 1961) is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems. |
23754125 | Cries from the Heart (also known as Touch of Truth) is a 1994 American made-for-television drama film directed by Michael Switzer and starring Patty Duke and Melissa Gilbert, who had co-starred together in three prior films. |
23761999 | As Seen on TV is a BBC television panel game show based around TV trivia. It is produced by Shine TV by arrangement with Unique Broadcasting; the latter is the company owned by Noel Edmonds, who presented the similarly themed show "Telly Addicts". |
23775931 | Let's Build Something to Break is the debut full-length album by American rock band, After Midnight Project. It was released on August 11, 2009 through Universal Motown. The album was produced by renowned producer and Goldfinger frontman, John Feldmann. |
23810915 | Up in the Air is a 2009 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner, based on the 2001 novel of the same name, written by Walter Kirn. The story is centered on corporate "downsizer" Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) and his travels. Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick and Danny McBride also star. Filming was primarily in St. Louis, Missouri, which substituted for a number of other cities. Several scenes were filmed in Detroit, Omaha, Las Vegas and Miami. |
23830903 | Ashikaga Shigeuji (足利成氏 ) (1438?–1497) was a Muromachi period warrior and the Kamakura-fu's fifth and last "Kantō Kubō" (Shogun Deputy). Fourth son of fourth "Kubō" Ashikaga Mochiuji, he succeeded his father only in 1449, a full decade after his death by "seppuku". His childhood name was Eijuō-maru (永寿王丸 ) . His rule was from its onset troubled by hostilities with the central government: he was finally deposed in 1455 by shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, after which he escaped to Koga in Shimōsa Province, where he became known as "Koga Kubō". There, he ruled until his death in 1497. |
23848654 | Kolibri is a Soviet and Russian experimental pop/rock group formed in 1988 in Saint-Petersburg playing an eclectic brand of baroque pop blended with elements of post-punk, cabaret, chanson and dominated by vocal harmony. In their heyday Kolibri, according to rock historian Andrey Burlaka, combined ironic high posturing with touchingly humane attitude, writing and performing songs that were described variously as exquisite, depressive, extravagant, romantic, naive, sophisticated and decadent. The band released six studio albums which were well received by critics both in Europe and in Russia but never had any commercial success. |
23872469 | Charles Denton (born 20 December 1937) is a British film and television producer and executive. |
23874987 | These hits topped the Dutch Top 40 in 1976. |
23876883 | These hits topped the Dutch Top 40 in 1975. |
23884308 | Stephen "Baamba" Albert (born 1950) is an Indigenous Australian actor and singer. He starred in the musicals "Bran Nue Dae" and "Corrugation Road". |
23896469 | Pam Pinnock (born December 27, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, United States) an American author and publicist. She is an African American. Her interest in publicity comes from working with actor and comedian Eddie Murphy when she was only fifteen years old. A former journalist turned author upon scribing the memoir "The Father Fracture" published on October 12, 2007. The memoir describes her abusive relationship with her lover undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. Her 2007 autobiography spanned the first twenty-five years of her life, beginning with her abusive upbringing. "The Father Fracture" was published by independent publishing house Healeth Publisher. Pinnock has been featured in many magazines and newspapers including "Rolling Out Magazine", All Hip Hop.com, ET Online Entertainment. She has worked with Jay-Z, singer John Legend, Ludacris, actor Bokeem Woodbine, Gary Dourdan and rapper DMX (rapper), Gucci Mane, Jagged Edge, BET Hip Hop Awards. Pinnock has completed her second novel slated for a 2013 release. Pinnock owns a PR firm, The Pinnock Agency, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. |
23899151 | These hits topped the Dutch Top 40 in 1972. |
23899732 | Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Edward Grasett KBE CB DSO MC (1888–1971) was a Canadian born and educated soldier who served with the British Army in Canada, England, India and China. |
23903027 | "Me Plus One" is a song by Norwegian singer and songwriter Annie from her debut studio album, "Anniemal" (2004). It was written by Richard X and Hannah Robinson, and released as a promotional single. The song was written about former Spice Girls member Geri Halliwell. The lyrics refer to a "wannabe señorita" who needs to realise she has "got to let it go". The song received acclaim from music critics. |
23908345 | Paul A. Mendelson is an English television, film and radio scriptwriter. |
23920291 | Hugh Patrick Lygon (2 November 1904 – 19 August 1936 Rothenburg, Bavaria) was the second son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, and is often believed to be the inspiration for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited". He was a friend of Waugh's at Oxford (A. L. Rowse believed the two to be lovers), where both were members of the Hypocrites' Club, along with their contemporary Murray Andrew McLean. |
23921679 | Bob Mortimer Herdman (born March 8, 1966) is a Christian musician, songwriter and producer more known for being a member of the band Audio Adrenaline. |
23932775 | 16 to Life is a comedy film directed by Becky Smith and stars Hallee Hirsh as Kate, a bookish teen about to turn 16 who plays match-maker for her friends. Co-stars include: Shiloh Fernandez, Mandy Musgrave, Theresa Russell, Carson Kressley and Nicholas Downs. The film was originally titled “Duck Farm No. 13”, but was changed to appeal to younger audiences; it was filmed primarily in McGregor, Iowa and premiered August 29, 2009 at the Landlocked Film Festival. |
23964571 | Deconstructing Sammy is a critically acclaimed book by author Matt Birkbeck about the life and death of Sammy Davis, Jr. and the subsequent efforts to restore his legacy. The book focuses on the efforts of a Pennsylvania lawyer, Albert "Sonny" Murray Jr., who was hired in 1994 by Sammy's poverty-stricken wife Altovise to help resolve Sammy's debts. Upon his death from cancer in 1990, Sammy Davis Jr. owed over $15 million, of which $7 million was owed to the Internal Revenue Service. Murray spent seven years representing the Davis estate, from 1994 to 2001, during which time he resolved the debts, restored Sammy's legacy and earned Sammy a posthumous Grammy Award in 2001. It is Murray's investigation that carries the narrative thread, and exposes Sammy as a brilliant yet tragic figure in American culture. |
23971386 | Babylon is the fourteenth studio album by American heavy metal band W.A.S.P., released on November 9, 2009. The album was inspired by biblical visions of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse". The album contains covers of Deep Purple's "Burn" (originally recorded for W.A.S.P's previous album "Dominator", but not used for unknown reasons) and Chuck Berry's "Promised Land". Promised Land was also covered in 1973 by Elvis Presley, and it was Elvis' version that the band had in mind as demonstrated by the ending comment "How about one of them peanut butter & banana sandwiches." |
23975875 | Gattonia is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae. |
23977262 | Cavalleria rusticana (] ; Italian for "rustic chivalry") is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from a play and short story written by Giovanni Verga. Considered one of the classic "verismo" operas, it premiered on 17 May 1890 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. Since 1893, it has often been performed in a so-called "Cav/Pag" double-bill with "Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo. |
23988432 | Eutonia is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae. |
23995731 | Cabela's Trophy Bucks is a hunting simulation video game, in which a player can track and stalk a variety of trophy deer over 24 states and provinces across North America. Species includes whitetail, Rocky Mountain mule deer, sitka, desert mule deer, Columbian black tail and many others. |
23996189 | Cookia is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. |
24007150 | Bronisław Cieślak (born October 8, 1943 in Kraków) is a Polish actor and politician. |
24048301 | Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme (also known as The South Sea Scheme) is an early print by William Hogarth, created in 1721 and widely published from 1724. It caricatures the financial speculation, corruption and credulity that caused the South Sea Bubble in England in 1720–1. |
24073291 | The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature of southern New Jersey. |
24077037 | Leatherface is a fictional character from the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" franchise. |
24097916 | The Wrong Man is a 1993 American thriller film directed by Jim McBride. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. |
24100931 | "Runnin' Wild" is a popular song first composed and recorded in 1922, written by A.H. Gibbs, Joe Grey and Leo Wood. |
24107135 | World Series of Backgammon (WSOB) is a major televised live tour. The television shows capture the match action, jeopardy and background around some of the world’s largest backgammon tournaments, and have broadcast throughout Europe on Eurosport 1 and 2 whilst being distributed worldwide by ESPN International. |
24120022 | Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe is a special one-off British, video game culture show by Charlie Brooker, aired in September 2009 during the BBC's Technology season. Following on from Brooker's "Screenwipe" and "Newswipe", "Gameswipe" featured reviews of various video games and consoles as well as an insight into the video game industry. |
24127576 | "Good Time Music" is a song originally recorded by American pop rock band The Lovin' Spoonful in 1965. Written by John Sebastian, it appeared on the 1966 Elektra Records compilation "What's Shakin'." The song has been described as "a sort of manifeseto of the group's optimism in its jaunty rhythms and celebration of the return of good time music to the radio." |
24135728 | Nick Halkes (born Nigel Halkes) is a U.K. based music industry executive best known for signing a breaking dance act The Prodigy and being one of the founders of the XL Recordings label XL Recordings. He is now an artist manager, managing Liam Howlett (The Prodigy), DJ Fresh, Bad Company UK and more. He is also a part time lecturer on the music industry at University of Westminster. and runs the Reach Up club night and radio show with partners Andy Smith and Crissy Kybosh. |
24136808 | Mike Mitchell is an American artist known for his pop surrealism and for leading the online grassroots movement in supporting Conan O'Brien during the 2010 "Tonight Show" conflict. He designed the "I'm with Coco" poster, which was based on a photo, that went viral on the internet in January 2010. The poster has been widely circulated and displayed on the web and at various rallies during the 2010 "Tonight Show" conflict, and afterwards for O'Brien's The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour. He also designed a poster in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill depicting a dead SpongeBob SquarePants floating on a polluted sea, with the caption: "Who died in an oil spill because of BP". |
24161256 | Pocatalico is an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. Pocatalico is located along Interstate 77 south of and near Sissonville. |
24163790 | Full House is a Philippine television drama comedy series adapted from a Korean drama of the same name; directed by Mark A. Reyes and developed by Denoy Navarro-Punio. The series premiered on November 30, 2009 in the Philippines via GMA Network, starring Richard Gutierrez and Heart Evangelista reprising the roles of Rain and Song Hye-kyo. It was aired worldwide with a two-day delay on GMA Pinoy TV. The last episode aired on February 26, 2010. |
24171453 | Paper Moon is an American sitcom which aired on ABC during the fall of 1974, starring Christopher Connelly and Jodie Foster in the roles of Moses Pray and his presumed daughter, Addie. The series is based on the 1973 Peter Bogdanovich film of the same name starring Ryan O'Neal and real-life daughter Tatum O'Neal, which was based on Joe David Brown's 1971 novel entitled "Addie Pray". |
24179116 | Mawsonia is a genus of fungi within the Lichinaceae family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Mawsonia harrissonii. |
24199775 | The Border Patrolman is a 1936 American film directed by David Howard. |
24219050 | World Gospel Mission (WGM) is an interdenominational Christian holiness missionary agency headquartered in Marion, Indiana, United States. From its inception, WGM has been aligned with the Wesleyan Holiness tradition of Protestantism. It was organized on 10 July 1910 at University Park, Iowa as the Missionary Department of the National Association for the Promotion of Holiness, and from 1926 as the National Holiness Missionary Society. In April 1981 it became a separate legal entity from the National Holiness Association (now Christian Holiness Partnership).Although WGM has not been controlled by the Christian Holiness Association for many years, WGM remains solidly committed to the proclamation of scriptural holiness. |
24223834 | 30 for 30 is the umbrella title for a series of documentary films airing on ESPN, its sister networks, and online highlighting interesting people and events in sports history. This includes three "volumes" of 30 episodes each, a 13-episode series under the "ESPN Films Presents" title in 2011–2012, and a series of "30 for 30 Shorts" shown through the ESPN.com website. The series has also expanded to include "Soccer Stories", which aired in advance of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and audio podcasts. |
24236356 | The six string quartets, K. 155–160, were composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in late 1772 and early 1773. Because they were composed in Milan while he was working on his opera Lucio Silla, they are popularly known as the Milanese Quartets. Before this set was composed, Mozart had written one earlier string quartet (K. 80/73f in 1770), so these six quartets are ordinally numbered from No. 2 to No. 7. The quartets are written in a plan of keys of D-G-C-F-B♭ -E♭ following the circle of fifths. |
24237690 | Bran Nue Dae is a 2009 Australian musical comedy-drama film directed by Rachel Perkins and written by Perkins and Reg Cribb. A feature film adaptation of the 1990 stage musical "Bran Nue Dae" by Jimmy Chi, the film tells the story of the coming of age of an Aboriginal Australian teenager on a road trip in the late 1960s. |
24274407 | The following songs were produced by 9th Wonder. |
24279231 | Kyhosia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family containing the single species Kyhosia bolanderi, which is known by the common names Bolander's madia and kyhosia. |
24308884 | Snowflake is an unincorporated community in Scott County, Virginia, United States. Its post office closed in April 1961. |
24327649 | David L. Cohen is an American businessman, attorney, and political figure in Pennsylvania. He is best known for being a close confidant of former Pennsylvania Governor, Ed Rendell. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, and he is the executive vice president of Comcast; the company’s chief of lobbying. |