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29678931 | 2010–11 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season |
29714089 | Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu Hyōhō (天眞正自源流兵法) is a koryu (ancient martial art) specializing in iaijutsu (quick-draw sword art) and kenjutsu (swordsmanship) founded by Tose Yosazaemon Osamune around the Eiroku Era (1558- 1570). The system also teaches Yawara (柔), Naginata (長刀) Soujutsu (槍術) and Nagamaki (長巻) as part of the curriculum. The current headmaster of the Tenshisho Jigen Ryu is Ueno Kagenori Genki (上野景範源己). |
29715826 | This is a discography of Milli Vanilli, a pop/dance music project formed by Frank Farian in Germany in 1988, fronted by Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. |
29722684 | Van Allen Range ( ) is a range 14 nautical miles (26 km) long that includes Escalade Peak (2035 m), Tate Peak and Mount Marvel, located at the south margin of Skelton Neve between Boomerang Range and Worcester Range. It was named after James A. Van Allen, an American scientist and one of the original organizers of the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58. He conducted ionospheric research in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and is the discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts. |
29728545 | The Governor of Sheerness Fort and the Isle of Sheppey was a military officer who commanded the fortifications at Sheerness, on the Isle of Sheppey, part of the defences of the Medway estuary. The area had been fortified since the time of Henry VIII, but the Sheerness fortifications were destroyed in 1667 when it was captured during the Dutch Raid on the Medway. It was subsequently re-fortified as Sheerness became the site of a major Royal Navy dockyard, in operation until 1960. The post of Governor was abolished in 1852, when the last governor, Lord Combermere, accepted office as the Constable of the Tower. |
29746216 | The Irishman is an Australian 1978 romantic drama film adapted for the screen from Elizabeth O'Conner's novel and directed by Donald Crombie. Old-time horse wagoner Paddy Doolan refuses to accept the challenge posed by motor transport in the early 1920s. |
29751982 | Ted Nace (born 1956) is an American writer, publisher, and environmentalist notable for his critique of corporate personhood and his anti-coal activism. He co-founded Peachpit Press from his house and grew it into a substantive publisher of computer-related books; it grew quickly, according to a report in the "San Francisco Chronicle". In 2008 he became active in efforts to block the development and use of coal power plants in the United States which promotes protests such as sit–ins at coal mines and banks. He was described in the "Huffington Post" as "one of the amazing brains and strategists behind the anti-coal movement." In 2008 he co-founded the wiki CoalSwarm], a San Francisco-based website to share information similar to Wikipedia and Citizendium but focusing on anti-coal advocacy. He is also a free-lance writer living in San Francisco and has written essays which have appeared in publications such as "Orion Magazine". |
29764899 | Jack Evans is a former quarterback in the National Football League. |
29771874 | The Florida Gators women's golf team represents the University of Florida in the sport of golf. The Lady Gators compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They play their home matches on the Mark Bostick Golf Course on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus, and will be led by third-year coach Emily Glaser in 2014–15. In the forty-five-year history of the Gators women's golf program, the Lady Gators have won nine SEC championships and two NCAA national tournament championships. |
29780795 | Before is an EP by electronic producer Gold Panda, released by Gold Panda himself in September 2009. The track "Heaps" came to prominence when it was used as a beat by American rapper Curren$y for a video by Pitchfork Media leading to Curren$y exclaiming "Give me 16 beats from Gold Panda." |
29854030 | Thor: God of Thunder is an action hack and slash video game based on the Marvel Studios film "Thor". The game was developed by Liquid Entertainment and co-written by Matt Fraction. "Thor: God of Thunder" marks Thor's first standalone appearance in a video game and features the voices of Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Jaimie Alexander, who reprise their roles from the film. The game was released on May 3, 2011 in North America and is available on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and Nintendo 3DS. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game can be played in 3D on 3DTVs and on 2DTVs via TriOviz Inificolor 3D glasses. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions were met with unfavorable reviews, while Wii version was met with mixed reviews and the DS version was met with favourable reviews. Doctor Doom is mentioned in the game. |
29856751 | The Flaying of Marsyas is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance artist Titian, probably painted between about 1570 and his death in 1576, when in his eighties. It is now in the National Museum in Kroměříž, in the Czech Republic. It is one of Titian's last works, and may be unfinished, although there is a partial signature on the stone in the foreground. |
29886682 | Bois-le-Prêtre fighting (literally Priest's Wood, "Priesterwald" in German) was a World War I theater of operation between September 1914 and July 1915, involving the French 73 and 128th Infantry Division (the Wolves of Bois-le-Prêtre) and the German 121st Infantry Division. |
29908144 | George Goad (died 1671) was the master of Eton College. |
29924238 | Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. "Tomb Raider" is the tenth title in the "Tomb Raider" franchise, and operates as a reboot that reconstructs the origins of Lara Croft. "Tomb Raider" was released on 5 March 2013 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and on 23 January 2014 for OS X, and on 27 April 2016 for Linux. |
29963465 | The Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury Fort (or West Tilbury) was the military officer responsible for paired fortifications and blockhouses protecting the River Thames: on the south side of the river at Gravesend, Kent and on the north side at Tilbury Fort and West Tilbury, Essex. The fortifications here date from the time of Henry VIII; Tilbury Fort remained in military use until 1950, but the office of Governor was discontinued upon the death of Sir Lowry Cole in 1842. |
29974940 | Frank Marshall (born 26 January 1929) is an English former professional football player and manager. |
29987440 | Scott Myers (born 1958, USA) is an American painter and sculptor who lives and works in Texas. He graduated Texas A&M University in 1984 with a doctorate in veterinary medicine. He studied sculpture throughout Italy focusing on Florence, Venice and Rome. Sculpting in Tuscany, he cast his work in bronze at the prestigious Fonderia d'Arte Massimo Del Chiaro in Pietrasanta. In 1994, Myers became an elected member of the National Sculpture Society. On February 12, 2011, Myers was featured in the popular television show Texas Country Reporter. Myers was inducted in the inaugural class of the Haltom City High School Hall of Fame on March 10, 2011. |
30011265 | Malgassesia is a genus of moths in the Sesiidae family. |
30015420 | Insane (stylized as inSANE) was a survival horror video game, formerly in development by Volition to be published by THQ, in collaboration with film director Guillermo del Toro. It was being developed for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and was to be released in 2013. It was intended as the first installment of a planned trilogy of "Insane" video games. |
30028983 | Armstrong is an unincorporated community in Bath County, Virginia, in the United States. |
30048509 | Leonid Nikolaevich Lazarev (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Лазарев, born July 14, 1937) is a notable Russian photo artist and photojournalist. |
30083897 | Danieltown is an unincorporated community located in Brunswick County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30091957 | Mattoax is an unincorporated community located in Amelia County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30107760 | Morning Star is an unincorporated community in Page County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30109853 | Cunningham is an unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30114615 | Revercombs Corner is an unincorporated community in Rappahannock County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30114630 | Viewtown is an unincorporated community in Rappahannock County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30120673 | Ajax is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30120882 | Pine Ridge is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30120920 | Sharon is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30120930 | Smothers is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30120961 | Swansonville is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30130285 | Cotton Town is an unincorporated community in Cumberland County, in the United States state of Virginia. |
30130374 | Trents Mill is an unincorporated community in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30145908 | The 2003 NAIA Football Championship Series concluded on December 20, 2003 with the championship game played at Jim Carroll Stadium in Savannah, Tennessee. The game was won by the Carroll Fighting Saints over the Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers by a score of 41–28. |
30151705 | The 2000 NAIA Football Championship Series concluded on December 16, 2000 with the championship game played at Jim Carroll Stadium in Savannah, Tennessee. The game was won by the Georgetown Tigers over the Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers by a score of 20–0. |
30153967 | Kaynte is a small village in the Gujrat District of Gujrat tehsil, province of Punjab, |
30171636 | Kunt and the Gang was an English musical comedy performer. Through the release of six studio albums and a number of singles, he has achieved minor chart success, but is best known for his status as an internet celebrity. Kunt's work is known for its controversial lyrical content, dealing with such taboo subjects as masturbation, paedophilia and sexual fantasies. |
30172316 | Alcoma is an unincorporated community in Buckingham County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
30207517 | Krtince (] ) is a small settlement in the Municipality of Šmarje pri Jelšah in eastern Slovenia. It lies just off the main road from Šmarje towards Rogaška Slatina. The area was traditionally part of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region. |
30260001 | Chashm-e-Baddoor (Persian, Urdu: چشمِ بد دور, Hindi: चश्म-ए-बददूर ) is a slogan extensively used in Iran, North India and Pakistan to ward-off the evil eye (which is called "nazar" in the region). It is a Persian language derivation which literally means ""far be the evil eye"." |
30263325 | Great Moments at Di Presa's Pizza House is the name of a 2005 album by alternative comedian Neil Hamburger, which is presented as an audio documentary. It was released by Drag City on April 19, 2005. |
30269758 | Horrie Seden is an Australian former darts player. |
30276483 | Kim Sae-ron (born July 31, 2000) is a South Korean actress. She began her career when she was nine years old and became a popular child star through the films "A Brand New Life" (2009) and "The Man From Nowhere" (2010). As Kim reached her teenage years, she was cast in more leading roles, notably in the film "A Girl at My Door" (2014). She has also starred in television drama series, including "Can You Hear My Heart" (2011), "The Queen's Classroom" (2013) and "Hi! School-Love On" (2014). Her first adult lead role was in the television drama "Mirror of the Witch" (2016). |
30288176 | Alan Morinis (born 1949) is an anthropologist, filmmaker, and writer who has been a leading figure in the contemporary revival of the Musar movement, a Jewish ethical movement. |
30333618 | Garnia is a genus of parasitic alveolates belonging to the phylum Apicomplexia. |
30360378 | American singer Ashlee Simpson has released three studio albums, nine singles, and nine music videos. Simpson debuted as an actress in 2001, appearing on the television series "7th Heaven". In 2003, she began composing solo material and signed a recording contract with Geffen Records in the United States. |
30368593 | Daengbyeot is a 1985 South Korean drama film directed by Hah Myung-joong. It was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. |
30420438 | Bernadetta Matuszczak (born 10 March 1937) is a Polish composer. She was born in Toruń, Poland, and studied with Zygmunt Sitowski for music theory and with Irena Kurpisz-Stefanowa for piano at the State Higher School of Music in Pozna. Later she studied with Tadeusz Szeligowski and Kazimierz Sikorski for composition at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw (now the F. Chopin Academy of Music). She continued her education in composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. After completing her studies, she worked as a composer. Her works have been performed internationally. |
30441675 | Operation Tunisia refers to the actions by internet group Anonymous during the Tunisian revolution. |
30449058 | A Burning Hot Summer (pre-release title: That Summer) is a 2011 drama film directed by Philippe Garrel, starring Monica Bellucci, Louis Garrel, Céline Sallette, and Jérôme Robart. Its original French title is Un été brûlant, which means "A burning summer". The film portrays a tempestuous relationship between an actress and a painter. |
30480560 | Christopher Lewis is a writer and film producer, primarily for television. |
30500357 | Mark Stevenson (born 1971) is a London-based British author, businessman, public speaker and futurologist, as well as a former semi-professional musician and comedian. He is founder of Flow Associates, a cultural learning agency and the cultural change practice We Do Things Differently. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stevenson's first book, "An Optimist's Tour of the Future", was released in the United Kingdom in January 2011 (February 2011 in the United States). His second, We Do Things Differently followed on 5th January 2017 |
30508015 | The 2010–11 Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team represented Xavier University in the 2010–11 college basketball season. This was head coach Chris Mack's second season at Xavier. The Musketeers competed in the Atlantic 10 Conference and played their home games at the Cintas Center. They finished the season 24–8, 15–1 in A-10 play to win the regular season conference championship. The Musketeers lost in the quarterfinals of the A-10 Tournament to Dayton. They received an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament as a #6 seed where they lost in the Second Round to Marquette. |
30520826 | The albums discography of Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, consists of thirteen studio albums, eleven compilation albums, six live albums, ten extended plays, eleven remix albums and two box sets. |
30558182 | Campbell was born in 1764 at Tombea, Loch Lubnaig, and first educated at the grammar school, Callander, was the second son of a carpenter who, falling into straitened circumstances, removed to Edinburgh, where he died when Alexander was eleven years old. The family was supported by John, the eldest son, afterwards a well-known Edinburgh character (John Campbell died 1795, was precentor at the Canongate church, and a friend of Burns; his picture appears thrice in Kay's 'Portraits'). The two brothers were pupils of Tenducci, then a music teacher in Edinburgh, who helped to establish them both in his own profession. Campbell was appointed organist to an 'episcopalian chapel in the neighbourhood of Nicholson Street.' He also gave lessons in singing. Among his pupils were the Scotts. But the lads had no taste for the subject; the master had no patience. The result was that 'our neighbour, Lady Cunningham, sent to beg the boys might not all be flogged precisely at the same hour, as, though she had no doubt the punishment was deserved, the noise of the concord was really dreadful' (Notes to Scott's Autobiography, in chap. i. of LOCKHART'S Life). While a teacher he published 'Twelve Songs set to Music' (1785?) About the time he became engaged in quarrel with Kay, whom he ridiculed in a sketch. This procured him a place in Kay's 'Portraits,' where he is represented turning a hand organ while asses bray, a dog howls, a bagpipe is blown, and a saw sharpened as an accompaniment (vol. ii. print 204). |
30578638 | Something to Sing About is a 2000 American Christian drama film directed by Charlie Jordan, and starring Irma P. Hall, Darius McCrary, Kirk Franklin, Tamera Mowry, Rashaan Nall, and Helen Martin. It was produced by John Shepherd of World Wide Pictures. The storyline revolves around a young man, Tommy, an ex-convict who is trying to make a more fulfilling life for himself. It was the last film appearance for theater, film and television actress Helen Martin. |
30582905 | On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the fifth leader of the Soviet Union, died aged 75 after suffering a heart attack following years of serious ailments. His death was officially acknowledged on 11 November simultaneously by Soviet radio and television. After five days of national mourning, Brezhnev was given a state funeral and then buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Yuri Andropov, Brezhnev's eventual successor as general secretary, was chairman of the committee in charge of managing Brezhnev's funeral, held on 15 November 1982, five days after his death. |
30598952 | Gamichi (Persian: گميچي , also Romanized as Gamīchī; also known as Gamīchī Deh) is a village in Jazireh Rural District, Ilkhchi District, Osku County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 527, in 184 families. |
30604459 | Sutherland is an unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States. Sutherland is located on U.S. Route 460 9 mi west-southwest of Petersburg. |
30608072 | Khone-Khonischala (Georgian: ხონე-ხონისჭალა ) are two villages settled by the Shetekauri’s family (Khone for winter, and Khonischala for summer period). Villages are located in Dusheti District on the northern slope of Tushet-Khevsusreti part of the Caucasus mountain range, at 1200-1300 meter above the sea level, 138 km distance from Dusheti. |
30612355 | The Double Helix Medal has been awarded annually since 2006 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) to individuals who have positively impacted human health by raising awareness and funds for biomedical research. At the inaugural dinner, Muhammad Ali received the first Double Helix Medal for his fight against Parkinson's disease. Other notable recipients include founders of Autism Speaks Suzanne and Bob Wright; former Paramount Pictures head Sherry Lansing who produced the Stand Up to Cancer telethon; Evelyn Lauder who founded the Breast Cancer Research Foundation; Hank Greenberg of the Starr Foundation, which is one of the largest supporters of scientific research; Marilyn and Jim Simons, the world’s largest individual supporters of autism research; David H. Koch who has donated over $300 million to biomedical research; and prominent scientists and Nobel laureates. |
30638710 | David Matthew Krmpotich (born April 20, 1955) is an American rower. He won a silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in the men's coxless fours, along with Thomas Bohrer, Richard Kennelly, and Raoul Rodriguez. |
30645338 | Meredith "MeMe" Roth (née Clements) is an anti-obesity activist and founder of the National Action Against Obesity, a campaign that she runs out of her home in Manhattan. Roth has appeared on FOX News, CNN, CNBC, "", and "Dr. Phil" to discuss her views on health and obesity. |
30668169 | Easby Moor is a small hill located in the North York Moors national park within the Cleveland Hills, North Yorkshire, England. At the peak, at 324 m above sea level, is a monument to Captain James Cook. The Cleveland Way runs over the moor. The moor overlooks the villages of Easby and Great Ayton. |
30676498 | Steven Earl Lewis (born May 16, 1969) is a former American track and field athlete, winner of three gold medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics and 1992 Summer Olympics. |
30701910 | Governor of the Colony of North Carolina was the top executive of the government of the British colony of North Carolina. |
30702231 | "Uncle Satchmo's Lullaby" (also known under its German title "Onkel Satchmo's Lullaby") is a 1959 song, written by Erwin Halletz and Olaf Bradtke, and sung by Louis Armstrong and German singer Gabriele Clonisch, better known as Gabriele, who was 12 years old at the time. |
30714411 | The Gentlemen was an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1998. Formed by Duff McKagan, formerly of Guns N' Roses, the band's first lineup consisted of guitarists Michael Barragan, formerly of Plexi, and Dez Cadena, formerly of Black Flag, as well as drummer Taz Bentley, formerly of The Reverend Horton Heat. The same year, they adopted the Loaded moniker before disbanding. |
30729591 | 2010–11 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season |
30762611 | The discography of the Japanese idol group Cute consists of 23* singles, 7 studio albums, and 1 compilation album. Beginning with the Cute's major debut back in 2007, all its singles* reached the Top 10 in the Oricon Weekly Chart. |
30831284 | "Stranded in the Jungle" is a song originally recorded by the American doo-wop group the Jay Hawks. It was written by Ernestine Smith and the band's first tenor, James Johnson. The Jay Hawks' version of the song peaked at #18 on the "Billboard Magazine" Best Selling Popular Retail Records Chart. |
30834196 | Clarence is a 1922 American silent comedy drama, based on a play by Booth Tarkington, produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It was directed by William C. deMille and starred Wallace Reid in his penultimate screen appearance. |
30853929 | A Sense of Where You Are, by John McPhee, profiles Bill Bradley during Bradley's senior year at Princeton University. Bradley, who would later play in the National Basketball Association and serve in the United States Senate, was widely regarded as one of the best basketball players in the country, and his status as a Rhodes Scholar playing in the Ivy League only added to his allure. Published in 1965, this book describes Bradley's rise to stardom at Princeton, then follows Bradley through the final year of his college career, culminating in Princeton's third-place finish in that year's NCAA Tournament. |
30863550 | Lieutenant John Steel "Jock" Lewes (21 December 1913 – 31 December 1941) was a British Army officer prominent during World War II. He invented an explosive device, the eponymous Lewes bomb, and was the founding principal training officer of the Special Air Service. Its founding commander, David Stirling said later of Lewes: "Jock could far more genuinely claim to be founder of the SAS than I." |
30864494 | Karl (or Carl) Philipp Josef, Prince von Wrede (] ; 29 April 1767 – 12 December 1838) was a Bavarian field marshal. He was an ally of Napoleonic France until he negotiated the Treaty of Ried with Austria in 1813. Thereafter Bavaria joined the coalition. |
30865136 | The Chillout Project is a series of compilations featuring house, downtempo, and lounge music by various artists compiled and produced by Anton Ramos. |
30874366 | Christopher David Allen (13 January 1938 – 13 March 2015), known as Daevid Allen, sometimes credited as Divided Alien, was an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist. He was co-founder of the psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine (in the UK, 1966) and Gong (in France, 1967). |
30876582 | The Fast Food Rockers were a British pop group known only for their novelty music. The band claim to have met at a fast-food convention in Folkestone. |
30927573 | Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi (February 1, 1925 – August 3, 2015) was a New Jersey mobster and member of the DeCavalcante crime family since the 1940s, before the family had acquired its name. Riggi was the leader of the "Elizabeth crew" in the family when he was a Caporegime. He had been the acting boss during the 1970s and became the official boss around 1980. Riggi was incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Devens, Massachusetts on extortion and labor racketeering convictions. He was released on November 27, 2012. |
30930439 | Simon Scardifield is a British actor and playwright, who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and with Philippe Gaulier, after reading Modern Languages at St John's College, Cambridge. He was nominated for a UK Theatre Award in 2013, in the Best Performance category. Notable work as an actor includes Edward Hall's Propellor / Old Vic production of The Taming of the Shrew in 2007, Laurence Boswell's adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Double in 2012, Boswell's 2013 production of Lope de Vega's Punishment Without Revenge and Helena Kaut-Howson's Sons Without Fathers, a new version of Chekhov's Platonov, in 2013. His writing credits include Ubykh which aired on BBC Radio 4 in 2012, and adaptations Danton's Death and Aeschylus' The Oresteia for BBC Radio 3 (2012 and 2014). He has translated plays from French, Spanish and German for The Royal Court, The National Theatre, The Almeida, The RSC, The Young Vic and The Donmar Warehouse. He was responsible for the French and German dialect work with the London West End cast of War Horse. He is the voice of Robert Muchamore's CHERUB series audiobooks. |
30934144 | The Voice Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit advocacy group focused on promoting freedom of artistic expression as an agent of social change. The project was founded in 2009 as a response to the Lord's Resistance Army Insurgency in Northern Uganda, but has since expanded programs into Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Russia, China, Afghanistan, Cuba, and the United States. |
30952375 | Kim Hyun-Kon (Hangul: 김현곤, Hanja: 金炫坤) (born October 22, 1985 in Seoul) is a South Korean short track speed skater. |
30968728 | Quickfire: 10-Minute Kitchen Wonders is a short-format television cooking show aired several times daily on GMA News TV (previously known as Q), the sister station of GMA Network in the Philippines from 2007 to 2012, spanned for 5 years. The show only runs for a maximum of 10 minutes per airing and showcases recipes by its host, celebrity chef Rosebud Benitez. Occasionally, the TV show adopts a theme per season (e.g. "Seafood Festival Season", "Market Tour Season", etc.) and also features Filipino celebrities as guests. |
31023069 | Ed Bernard (born July 4, 1939) is an American actor best known for his roles as Detective Joe Styles on Police Woman, Principal Jim Willis on The White Shadow, and as Lieutenant Bill Giles on Hardcastle and McCormick. |
31036863 | Playout247 is a provider of networked broadcast automation services for all types of broadcasting: Satellite, Cable and Internet. Like other UK based broadcast transmission services, notably Technicolor SA and Red Bee, Playout247 provides digital transmission monitoring, BSKYB EPG publishing, OfCom compliance recording and redundancy back up. Situated in London, playout247 has a worldwide partner network. The company transmits over 24 channels on the SKY TV network and more than 38 streamed channels on the Internet. Research online reveals that clients include RT, and Renault TV. Both channels are broadcast on the SKY platform and online. The company has a corporate responsibility programme and supports several charities including Human Being Best. |
31037408 | Ian Barker (born 10 August 1966 in Cardiff) is a British sailor. He won a silver medal in the High Performance Dinghy class at the 2000 Summer Olympics with Simon Hiscocks. He now lives in Christchurch England. He now coaches the Irish 49er team for Rio 2016 Olympics. |
31060365 | The Opéra de Lille is a neo-classical opera house, built from 1907 to 1913 and officially inaugurated in 1923. |
31077781 | Tropic Thunder: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
31086780 | The 2003 CAA Men's Basketball Tournament was held from March 7–10, 2003 at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia. The winner of the tournament was UNC-Wilmington, who received an automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. |
31101331 | Richard Brice Hoover (B.Sc.) (born January 3, 1943) is a scientist who has authored 33 volumes and 250 papers on astrobiology, extremophiles, diatoms, solar physics, X-ray/EUV optics and meteorites. He holds 11 U.S. patents and was 1992 NASA Inventor of the Year. He was employed at the United States' NASA Marshall Space Flight Center from 1966, where he worked on astrophysics and astrobiology. He established the Astrobiology Group there in 1997 and until his retirement late 2011 he headed their astrobiology research. He conducted research on microbial extremophiles in the Antarctic, microfossils, and chemical biomarkers in precambrian rocks and in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. |
31102226 | The Devil's Music - Songs of Death and Damnation is Danish black metal band Horned Almighty's second full-length studio album. |
31105340 | On June 3, 1769, British navigator Captain James Cook, British naturalist Joseph Banks, British astronomer Charles Green and Swedish naturalist Daniel Solander recorded the transit of Venus on the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. During a transit, Venus appears as a small black disc travelling across the Sun. This unusual astronomical phenomenon takes place in a pattern that repeats itself every 243 years. It includes two transits that are eight years apart, separated by breaks of 121.5 and 105.5 years. These men, along with a crew of scientists, were commissioned by the Royal Society of London for the primary purpose of viewing the transit of Venus. Not only would their findings help expand scientific knowledge, it would help with navigation by accurately calculating the observer's longitude. At this time, longitude was difficult to determine and not always precise. A "secret" mission that followed the transit included the exploration of the South Pacific to find the legendary Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown land of the South." |
31113578 | "Drive In Show" is a song originally performed by Eddie Cochran and released on single by Liberty Records in July 1957. "Drive In Show" backed with "Am I Blue" rose to number 82 on the Billboard charts. It was recorded sometime between May and August 1957. The song featured an orchestra and chorus under the direction of Johnny Mann. The writer was Fred Dexter. The song was published by American Music. Sheet music was released for the song with a photograph of Eddie Cochran on the cover. |
31122733 | The Ernest Cook Trust is a large educational charity in England. It was founded in 1952 by the philanthropist Ernest Cook, the grandson of Thomas Cook. Each year the Trustees distribute more than £1.25m in educational grants to benefit children and young people, notably to schools for improving their outdoor education and play areas. |
31132826 | Louise Hay (June 14, 1935 – October 28, 1989) was a French-born American mathematician. Her work focused on recursively enumerable sets and computational complexity theory, which was influential with both Soviet and US mathematicians in the 1970s. When she was appointed head of the mathematics department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she was the only woman to head a math department at a major research university in her era. |
31162135 | Ross Kemp: Extreme World is a BAFTA award-winning British documentary series that has been broadcast on Sky 1 since 21 February 2011. Hosted by actor Ross Kemp, the series follows Kemp and a film crew around the world as they explore various forms of hardship, including homelessness, illicit trade, drug addiction, violence and poverty. Often, he speaks to the authorities who are attempting to combat the problems, and tries to establish contact with ringleaders to get to the source of the issue. A total of five series have been shown to date with a six series begin airing from 8 July 2017. |
31170078 | Shinmen Munisai (新免 無二斎 ) , also called Miyamoto Muninosuke, was a martial artist, expert in using the sword and the jutte. He was also the father of the samurai named Miyamoto Musashi. He was the son of Miyamoto Musashi no kami Yoshimoto, a vassal of Shinmen Iga no Kami, the lord of Takayama Castle in the Yoshino district of Mimasaka Province. Munisai was relied upon by Lord Shinmen Sokan,the head of the Shinmen clan and so was allowed to use the Shinmen name. He was one of the few to have obtained the title of "Unrivaled Under The Sun", title offered to him by the Shogun Ashikaga. |
31172420 | A Hereditary Book on the Art of War (兵法家伝書) is a Japanese text on the theory and practice of swordsmanship and strategy, written by the samurai Yagyū Munenori in 1632. Alongside Miyamoto Musashi's "The Book of Five Rings", it is one of the preeminent treatises on warfare in classical Japanese literature. Similar to Musashi's contemporary work, Munenori's has garnered appeal for its applicability beyond the warrior paradigm. |