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31176562 | One Writer's Beginnings is a collection of autobiographical essays by Eudora Welty, winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book is based on three lectures she delivered at Harvard University in April 1983, as part of the William E. Massey Sr. lecture series. The three essays are entitled: "Listening", "Learning to See", and "Finding a Voice." Well received by both critics and fans alike, "One Writer's Beginnings" was on "The New York Times" bestseller list for almost a year. |
31201148 | Maximilian Paul Diarmuid "Max" Irons (born 17 October 1985) is an English-Irish actor and model. He is known for his roles in "Red Riding Hood" (2011), "The White Queen" (2013), "The Host" (2013), and "The Riot Club" (2014). |
31202787 | The LAUNCH Festival was created by Jason Calacanis. The Festival now averages 10,000 attendees per year and features a few dozen speakers well known in the start up world. Past headliners have included Mark Cuban, Paul Graham, Evan Williams, and Yves Behar. During the festival, 50 start ups are revealed and "launch" at the event. The entrants compete in front of a select panel of judges for $100,000 in investment. Winners of the competition have also received investment from the LAUNCH Fund, such as Connect, which received $250,000 from the fund after they won the 2014 competition. Other key LAUNCH Festival competition alumni include Fitbit, Dropbox and Yammer. |
31225806 | Hindsight (, lit. Blue Salt) is a 2011 South Korean film by Lee Hyun-seung, his first after a ten-year hiatus. The film is about a hitwoman who struggles with her feelings for the underworld boss who is her target. The film deals with issues of age difference, and the Korean underworld. It stars Song Kang-ho and Shin Se-kyung, and premiered at the 16th Busan International Film Festival. The film received a total of 763,776 admissions nationwide. |
31225958 | Lara Jobim Matos Rodrigues (born Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, December 22, 1990) is a Brazilian actress. |
31231245 | Khakhrechi or Khakharechi is a village of Malia and Rathore communities in Gujarat, India. Its coordinates are: 23°5'0"N 70°55'8"E. |
31256173 | My Old Duchess is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring George Lacy, Betty Ann Davies and Dennis Hoey. The film was made at Elstree Studios. It was based on an original sketch by Fred Karno. The screenplay concerns a stage manager who disguises himself as a duchess. |
31286560 | Mircea-Emilian Pârligras (born December 28, 1980) is a Romanian chess Grandmaster and Romanian Champion in 2001. As of November 2011, his FIDE rating is 2650, making him the 103rd player in the world. |
31307770 | Camilla Luddington (born December 15, 1983) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Catherine Middleton in the Lifetime TV film "", and as Jo Wilson in the ABC medical drama "Grey's Anatomy". She provided the voice and motion capture work for Lara Croft in the 2013 video game "Tomb Raider" and its 2015 sequel "Rise of the Tomb Raider". |
31314699 | What I Know For Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America is a best-selling memoir by African-American journalist Tavis Smiley and co-written with David Ritz. The authors published it through Doubleday on October 10, 2006. |
31314954 | Loose Ankles is a 1930 all-talking pre-code romantic comedy with songs, produced and released by First National Pictures, which had become a subsidiary of Warner Bros.. The film was directed by Ted Wilde and stars Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Louise Fazenda and Edward Nugent. It was a remake of the 1926 silent film entitled "Ladies At Play" which had also been produced by First National Pictures. Both versions were adapted by Gene Towne from the 1926 play "Loose Ankles" by Sam Janney. |
31329822 | Sound Off is the second studio album released by the American Christian tween pop girl group, The Rubyz. Similar to other iShine artists, "Sound Off" features 10 tracks, 5 original and 5 sing-along. It is the first album featuring The Rubyz as a duo rather than a trio. |
31350094 | Jens Gerd Joneleit (born 17 September 1968) is a German composer, known for his operas. |
31444009 | Cathleen Cochran Herasimchuk, known as Cathy Cochran (born November 11, 1944), is a former judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. A resident of Austin, Texas, she was initially appointed to the court in 2001 by Governor Rick Perry and elected by Texas voters in 2002 and 2008. She did not seek reelection to the bench in 2014 and was succeeded in her Place 9 seat by her fellow Republican, David Newell of Houston. |
31448553 | Midnight's Children is a 2012 Canadian-British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast of Satya Bhabha, Shriya Saran, Siddharth Narayan, Ronit Roy, Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Seema Biswas, Shahana Goswami, Samrat Chakrabarti, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Anita Majumdar and Darsheel Safary. With a screenplay by Rushdie and directed by Deepa Mehta, the film began principal photography in Colombo, Sri Lanka in February 2011 and wrapped in May 2011. Shooting was kept a secret as Mehta feared protests by Islamic fundamentalist groups. |
31506880 | André de Quadros (1953—), conductor, ethnomusicologist, music educator, and human rights activist has conducted and undertaken research in over forty countries and is a professor of music at Boston University. He has had a number of leadership positions at Boston University, including: director of the School of Music, chair of the Music Education Department, chair of the Department of Music in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and artistic director of the Tanglewood Institute. He holds affiliated faculty appointments in other BU departments: the African Studies Center, the Center for the Study of Asia, and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations. |
31532486 | The Friedrich-August Cross was a German decoration of the First World War. It was set up on 24 September 1914 by Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, with two classes, for (to quote its citation) "all persons of military or civilian status, who have shown outstanding service during the war itself". |
31568727 | "Long Island Jewish World" is a weekly, subscription based publication that covers local, domestic and international events for the Jewish communities of the metropolitan New York City area. The publication is a wholly owned subsidiary of Empire Publishing and Printing. Empire also publishes The Manhattan Jewish Sentinel and The Rockland and Westchester Jewish Tribune. |
31575041 | Michael McAlpine is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he researches 3D printing functional materials. He was formerly an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Princeton University, where he conducted research on materials capable of generating power from human motion. He has a BS from Brown University, an MA and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, all in chemistry. In 2010 he was included in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list. |
31589374 | The Nukapu Expedition occurred between October 1871 and February 1872 and was a British punitive operation in response to the murder of Bishop John Coleridge Patteson by the natives of Nukapu. A Royal Navy warship was sent to the island and it sank a group of hostile war-canoes and landed men to attack a fortified village. |
31616780 | Military career of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |
31626113 | Esra'a Al Shafei is a Bahraini civil rights activist, blogger, and the founder and executive director of Mideast Youth and its related projects, including CrowdVoice.org. Al Shafei is a senior TED Fellow, an Echoing Green fellow, and has been referred to by CNN reporter George Webster as "An outspoken defender of free speech". She has been featured in "Fast Company" as one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business." In 2011, The Daily Beast listed Al Shafei as one of the 17 bravest bloggers worldwide. She is also a promoter of music as a means of social change, and founded Mideast Tunes, which is currently the largest platform for underground musicians in the Middle East and North Africa. |
31653557 | Ketan is a town in the Western region of Ghana. It is 15 kilometres from the centre Takoradi the Western regional capital. The serves as a dormitory town for workers who work in and around the Takoradi metropolis. |
31656273 | The Morning After is a Hulu original web series that premiered on January 17, 2011 and ended April 24, 2014. It was produced by Hulu and Jace Hall's HDFilms, streaming Monday through Friday. The show originally featured Brian Kimmet and Ginger Gonzaga as hosts. Later shows used a rotation of hosts including Alison Haislip, Dave Holmes, Damien Fahey, Bradley Hasemeyer, Haley Mancini, Paul Nyhart, and Rachel Perry. |
31656377 | Fleabag is a British comedy television series set in London. It was produced by Two Brothers Pictures for digital channel BBC Three in a co-production agreement with Amazon Studios. The show premiered on 21 July 2016. Phoebe Waller-Bridge writes and stars as the main character, Fleabag, a young woman attempting to navigate modern life in London. Waller-Bridge has confirmed that a second series will be shot in November 2017 and broadcast in 2019. |
31672213 | Ivy Duke (9 June 1896, Kensington, London – 8 November 1937, London) was a British actress. She was married to the actor and director Guy Newall with whom she co-starred in several films. |
31675324 | 1313 Mockingbird Lane is an American garage rock band whose name was inspired by "The Munsters<nowiki>'</nowiki>" (television show) mansion address. The group formed in the late 1980s in Albany, New York, touring extensively, and releasing at least nine different 45 rpm records, LP records, and CD recordings. The band had a full-page narrative dedicated to them in Timothy Gassen's book "The Knights of Fuzz", about the garage rock and psychedelic music phenomenon of 1980-1995. Of thousands of bands covered in the book, Gassen listed 1313 Mockingbird Lane on his "all time Hot 100" list, which also included The Chesterfield Kings and the Flamin' Groovies. |
31678511 | Journey to the End of the Night is an urban street game. Competitors race by foot around an urban area with a visible colored ribbon. Along the way, groups of chasers attempt to tag them, and if they are successful, they remove the competitor's ribbon. Competitors can also seek refuge in designated safe zones. The first competitor to get to all designated checkpoints in order wins. In 2006, the group AntiBoredom started the game in San Francisco as an activity paired with the online/offline game SFZero, and ran it two additional times that year in New York, as part of the Psy-Geo-Conflux and the inaugural Come Out & Play festival. Variants in other cities include Survive DC. According to one organizer, urban tag "allows racers to experience the city a little differently and expand your concept of public space." |
31679715 | Tecwyn Roberts (10 October 1925 – 27 December 1988) was a Welsh-born American spaceflight engineer who in the 1960s played important roles in designing the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and creating NASA’s worldwide tracking and communications network. |
31691311 | Kim Seok (born 9 September 1991) is a South Korean football player who plays as a forward. |
31691892 | Chris Farren is an American country music songwriter and record producer. He is the president of Combustion Music, a publishing and music production company which was founded in 2001. |
31695136 | "She's Got That Vibe" is the debut single by American R&B singer R. Kelly and band Public Announcement. It was released as the first single from Kelly's debut studio album "Born into the 90's" (1992). The song was recorded in 1991 and was released in 1992. The song was written and produced by Kelly. |
31695772 | The Krtsanisi National Training Centre (Georgian: ეროვნული სასწავლო ცენტრი „კრწანისი“ , "erovnuli sasts'avlo tsent'ri k'rts'anisi") is a major training facility for the military of Georgia, located at the Krtsanisi settlement, outside Georgia’s capital city of Tbilisi, at the foothills of the Iaghluja mountainous range. It is operated by the Georgian Armed Forces Joint Staff Military Training and Education Command. It is also known as the Krtsanisi Training Area (KTA), especially in the United States sources. |
31722286 | The Age of Innocence (1934) is an American drama film directed by Philip Moeller and starring Irene Dunne, John Boles and Lionel Atwill. The film is an adaptation of the novel "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton, set in the fashionable New York society of the 1870s. Prolific on Broadway, Philip Moeller directed only two films: this, and the 1935 "Break of Hearts" with Katharine Hepburn. |
31785309 | I. Glenn Cohen (born 1978 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is also the director of Harvard Law School's Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. |
31786812 | Exit the Dragon is the fifth album by American alternative rock group Urge Overkill. "Exit the Dragon" is characterized as being a darker album than their previous album, "Saturation". The song "The Break" was featured in the "Daria" episode "I Don't." |
31803244 | Are You Gonna Eat That? is the debut full-length album by the American hip hop group Hail Mary Mallon, consisting of rappers/producers Aesop Rock & Rob Sonic and DJ DJ Big Wiz. |
31825609 | Eulogia is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Carl Heinrich in 1956. Its only species is Eulogia ochrifrontella, the broad-banded eulogia moth, described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1875. It is found in most of North America, including British Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington. |
31832446 | Jwibulnori (쥐불놀이) is a popular Korean game. It's a play to make a fire on paddies and fields to exterminate harmful insects and rats during the first full moon of a year in the lunar calendar, which is the national holiday in Korea. Also, this game has a meaning to wish for good health. |
31836988 | The Fort Lauderdale–Tampa Bay rivalry also known as the Florida Derby refers to the ongoing soccer rivalry that currently involves the Fort Lauderdale Strikers and the Tampa Bay Rowdies, both of whom played in the North American Soccer League though the 2016 season. Over the years the rivalry has spanned more than one hundred matches across eight soccer leagues and several tournaments, and involved nine different teams from the two regions of Florida. At times it has involved players, coaches, management and fans. Even the press has fanned the rivalry's flames at times. From 2010 through 2014, the winner of the regular season series automatically won the Coastal Cup as well. The status of the rivalry beyond 2016 remains unclear because the Rowdies have since joined the United Soccer League. For their part, the Strikers took a one-year hiatus and were not mentioned in the NASL's future plans because of ongoing ownership issues, as well as related financial and legal battles. |
31846991 | Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman is a 2010 American short animated comedy film created by J Roland Kelly using Xtranormal. |
31890250 | English electronic music band Ladytron have released five studio albums, one live album, seven compilation albums, six extended plays, 18 singles, one promotional single, one video album and 15 music videos. Formed in 1999 in Liverpool, Merseyside, the band consists of Helen Marnie (lead vocals, synthesisers), Mira Aroyo (vocals, synthesisers), Daniel Hunt (synthesisers, electric guitar, vocals) and Reuben Wu (synthesisers). |
31908728 | Bluetongue Lizard is an old man in Australian Aboriginal mythology. He is a trickster and a powerful sorcerer as well. The myth involving him is the wellspring of the Warlpiri fire ceremonies. He is often regarded as a deity, but this notion is not exactly true. |
31950501 | The Hillmen (a.k.a. the Golden State Boys) were a southern Californian bluegrass group. Formed in 1962, the original line-up of the Golden State Boys consisted of Vern Gosdin on guitar and lead vocals, his brother Rex Gosdin on double bass, Hal Poindexter on guitar, and Don Parmley on banjo. Poindexter left the group in late 1962, however, and was replaced by 17-year-old mandolin prodigy Chris Hillman. Hillman, who had previously been a member of the high-profile San Diego bluegrass group the Scottsville Squirrel Barkers, was invited to join the Golden State Boys by Parmley, after the pair met at a bluegrass evening at The Ice House folk club in Pasadena. Upon his recruitment, the group briefly changed their name to the Blue Diamond Boys before finally settling on The Hillmen, in honor of their mandolin playing wunderkind. |
31951440 | Scott McClanahan (born June 24, 1978) is an American writer, filmmaker, and martial artist. He lives in Beckley, West Virginia and is the author of eight books. His most recent book, "The Sarah Book", was featured in Rolling Stone, Village Voice, and Playboy. NPR called the book "brave, triumphant and beautiful — it reads like a fever dream, and it feels like a miracle." McClanahan is also a co-founder of Holler Presents, a West Virginia-based production and small press company. |
31979301 | Freeloaders is an American ensemble comedy film directed by Dan Rosen and written by Rosen and singer Dave Gibbs. The film is produced by the Broken Lizard comedy troupe and is independently financed. "Freeloaders" stars Clifton Collins Jr., Josh Lawson, Kevin Sussman, Zoe Boyle, Nat Faxon, Warren Hutcherson, Jane Seymour, Olivia Munn, Dave Foley and Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz. It follows a group of friends who find their luxurious lifestyle threatened when the rock star they freeload off decides to sell his home. |
31984725 | Adam Patrick DeVine (born November 7, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, singer, voice actor, screenwriter and producer. He is a star and co-creator of the Comedy Central series "Workaholics", as well as "Adam DeVine's House Party". |
32013920 | The Atlantic Coast Conference awards championships in 26 sports—12 men's, 13 women's, and one coeducational (fencing, which was relaunched as an official conference sport in 2014–15 after having been absent since 1980). In all sports except football and volleyball, champions are determined by a post-season tournament or meet. In football, the teams with the best conference records from the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions play in the ACC Championship Game for the conference title. The volleyball title is awarded based on regular-season play. |
32016568 | Harry Frank Harris (September 10, 1895 – March 1969) was an American football blocking back and quarterback who played for the Akron Pros during the 1920 season, where the Pros won the first NFL Championship. He went to West Virginia Wesleyan College and West Virginia University for his college career. |
32030690 | Calvin B. Ball III (September 2, 1975) is a member of the U.S. Democratic Party and since April 2006, has been a Council Member of the 2nd District of Howard County, Maryland. On December 4, 2006, Dr. Ball made Howard County history when he was elected the youngest Chairperson ever to lead the County Council, serving approximately 50,000 constituents, and on December 6, 2010, he was unanimously elected to serve his second term as Chairperson of the County Council. December 2, 2014 he was elected to his third term as Chairperson. He is married to Shani D. Ball, R.N., B.S.N., a school nurse, and they are the parents of two children, Alexis and Alyssa. |
32056108 | Manchester is a census-designated place in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The population as of the 2010 Census was 10,804. Manchester is one of Chesterfield County's 25 designated "communities"; it borders Southside Richmond to the west, but is not to be confused with the city's Manchester neighborhood. |
32072128 | Scott Ross (born November 20, 1951) is an American digital media executive with a career spanning three decades. In the 1980s he led George Lucas' companies and in 1993 he founded, along with James Cameron and Stan Winston, Digital Domain, Inc., one of the largest digital production studios in the motion picture and advertising industries. |
32081977 | Kim Ji-seok (born 13 June 1989) is a Korean professional Go player. |
32096281 | The following is a list of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender characters in video games, including any other minorities falling under the LGBT umbrella term. |
32100795 | The Taming of the Shrew (1929) is the first sound film adaptation of the Shakespearean play of the same name. The movie was directed by Sam Taylor, adapted by Taylor from William Shakespeare's play, and stars Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks. |
32111375 | Victor Mercer (born November 16), better known by his stage name Celph Titled, is an American hip-hop artist and record producer and a member of the hip-hop supergroup Army of the Pharaohs, as well as the Demigodz along with Connecticut rapper Apathy, Ryu from Get Busy Committee, and rapper Blacastan and Esoteric. |
32125822 | Brothers: Abe no Sadato (1019–1062), Abe no Masato and Abe no Norito |
32141561 | Midnight Rendezvous is an EP by the British heavy metal band Tokyo Blade, released in 1984 through the UK independent record label Powerstation Records. The songs were recorded with the original Tokyo Blade guitarist Ray Dismore, before he left the band during the recording of the first album. |
32141897 | Susan MacLaury is the co-founder and executive director of the non-profit media company Shine Global, a licensed social worker, and a retired educator. She is also an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated producer. |
32142820 | Manimekhala (Khmer: មណីមេខលា , "Moni Mekhala"; Thai: มณีเมขลา , "Mani Mekkhala") is a goddess regarded as a guardian of the seas; namely the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea as part of the mythology of Indochina. She was placed by Catummaharajika to protect virtuous beings from shipwreck. She appears in several Buddhist stories including the Mahajanaka-Jataka in which she rescues Prince Mahajanaka from a shipwreck. |
32144784 | Christian August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (German: "Christian August Prinz zu Waldeck" ; 6 December 1744, Arolsen – 25 August 1798, Palácio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, near Lisbon) was a general in the Austrian service, and last commander and Field Marshal of the Portuguese land army. |
32152080 | In May 2011, The Agenda Project, New York-based non-profit political organization, released its “America the Beautiful” campaign, also known as “Granny off the Cliff.” The video was created in response to Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposed Medicare cuts, as part of The Path to Prosperity, the Republican Party’s long-term budget proposal. |
32164454 | Saul B. Cohen is an American human geographer. |
32164481 | Charlton Thomas Lewis (born 25 February 1834 in West Chester, Pennsylvania – died 26 May 1904 in Morristown, New Jersey) was a United States lawyer and author. |
32184038 | 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show was an American game show hosted by Jeff Sutphen. The series premiered on June 21, 2011, on ABC and ran for six episodes in its only season. Matt Kunitz, the show's executive producer had stated "If we get a pickup, we'll do at least 12 more episodes." The show was eventually not renewed for a second season due to low ratings. |
32184376 | The Hangover Part II: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
32221209 | Piano & I: An Intimate Evening with Alicia Keys and Her Piano |
32239021 | "Get Lucky" is a song by American recording artist Jermaine Stewart's third album "Say It Again", released as a single in 1988. It was the second of four singles released from the album. "Get Lucky" was written by Errol Brown and Simon Climie. Brown was a Jamaican-born singer and songwriter, best known as the frontman of Hot Chocolate. Climie is a songwriter and the former lead singer of the 1980s, UK pop duo, Climie Fisher, but is now more well known for his work as a collaborator with Eric Clapton. |
32243077 | Sir Claude Hamilton Archer Hill KCSI CIE (1866 – 1934) was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. |
32266378 | Hirai is the direct descendant of Abe no Seimei and a master Onmyoji. He leads the Tsuchimikado Clan, one of the last royal families of Japan that practiced Onmyōdō. He also serves as a spiritual adviser to the Emperor in Kyoto. |
32285355 | Katsukiyo Kubomatsu (久保松勝喜代, 25 October 1894–15 December 1941) was a Japanese professional go player. Nicknamed the "Great Amateur", Kubomatsu was responsible for sending Utaro Hashimoto and Minoru Kitani to Kensaku Segoe and Tamejiro Suzuki respectively and also taught Nobuaki Maeda. Kubomatsu was known as one of the earliest innovators of the shin-fuseki, a revolution in Go theory pioneered by his student Minoru Kitani and Go Seigen in the 1930s. Kubomatsu was known for starting on the tengen, the center point of the board. He was posthumously promoted to 9 dan by the Nihon Ki-in and Kansai Ki-in in 2009, 67 years after his death. |
32286267 | Cornelius Smelt (August 1748 – 28 November 1832) was an administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 1805 until his death in 1832, the longest governorship in the history of the Island. An officer in the British Army, he served first with the 14th Regiment of Foot and then the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot, acting as Deputy Governor of Southsea Castle in the late 18th century. His governorship of the Isle of Man is remembered as one in which he displayed great moral courage in difficult circumstances. His wisdom and fortitude in the long period when the House of Keys and the Duke of Atholl fought their historic political battles were also evident. Upon his death, a memorial was erected in Castletown in the Isle of Man. |
32286949 | Ian Oliver, QPM, is a former police officer, author, speaker and international consultant for the United Nations. He served as Chief Constable of Scotland's Central and Grampian Police. Since leaving the police force, he has worked as a consultant and speaker on the issues of drugs, terrorism and trafficking. He is a published author, a board member of the International Scientific & Medical Advisory Forum on Drug Abuse, an appointed life member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and an elected Member of the Institute of Global Drug Policy. Oliver is the father of Craig Oliver, the final special adviser to David Cameron's government. |
32295438 | No Moon Tonight is a World War II autobiographical book by Halifax/Lancaster/Wellington bomber navigator Don Charlwood. Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1915 Charlwood joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940 and was trained in Canada via the Empire Air Training Scheme. The book covers his training and his experiences as part of the RAF's Bomber Command, and his crew's ordeal completing their tour of operations. The book's title is derived from a line in the song "Tristesse" that was often played in the mess before a mission. |
32298508 | Friends with Kids is a 2011 American romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt, who also stars in the film. Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, Edward Burns, Megan Fox and Jon Hamm also star in the film. |
32335467 | Pseudonym [sju:dənim], (Bengali: সেউডনিম ) is an alternative rock band, based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The band was formed in 2006, with an outright inclination towards progressive and alternative music. |
32349880 | Temptation Island is a 2011 Philippine comedy drama film directed by Chris Martinez and starring Marian Rivera, Rufa Mae Quinto, Heart Evangelista, Lovi Poe, and Solenn Heussaff. The film co-stars John Lapus, Tom Rodriguez, Aljur Abrenica, and Mikael Daez. The film is a remake of the 1980 film of the same name. |
32380013 | "Here for a Good Time" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer George Strait. It was released in June 2011 as the 92nd single of his career, and the first single and title track from the album of the same name. He and his son, Bubba, co-wrote it with Dean Dillon, who has also co-written several of Strait's other hits. |
32415238 | Steven Antony Sylvester (born 26 September 1968) is a former English cricketer and is now a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). Sylvester was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. Sylvester also played Academy Football for Oxford United in the early 1980's, and played against Chelsea U18's at Stanford Bridge in the Youth FA Cup under the guidance of Maurice Evans and Dave Fogg. |
32422213 | The Duke Comes Back is a 1933 novel by Lucian Cary which tells the story of a retired boxing champion lured out of retirement for one final bout. It served as the basis for two films, "The Duke Comes Back" in 1937 and "Duke of Chicago" in 1949. |
32449733 | Nerd Nite is an event usually held at a bar or other public venue where 2-3 presenters share about a topic of personal interest or expertise in a fun-yet-intellectual format while the audience shares a drink. It was started in 2003 by then graduate student (now East Carolina University professor) Chris Balakrishan at the Midway Cafe in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston and spread to New York City in 2006, where Matt Wasowski was tasked with expanding Nerd Nite globally. Nerd Nite is held at more than 100 cities worldwide. It launched a short-lived "Nerd Nite: The Magazine" in January 2012 and has also featured an occasional podcast. It has also held "global festivals" and the 2014 event was co-hosted with "Smithsonian" magazine. |
32459877 | Thomas Owen Rice (born 1960) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. |
32489662 | The Temple Owls baseball team was a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, until the end of the 2014 season, when Temple cut the program. For its final season, the team was a member of the American Athletic Conference, having previously been a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference and the Big East Conference. Temple's first baseball team was fielded in 1927. The team played its home games at Skip Wilson Field, 580 Meetinghouse Road, Ambler, Pennsylvania. The Owls were last coached by Ryan Wheeler. |
32513458 | Lord Byron is a film by Zack Godshall and Ross Brupbacher. It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and is garnering praise from the industry as a technical achievement and from critics as an important work of Southern United States fiction. |
32515235 | The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore or The Three Sundays of a Poet is a "madrigal fable" for chorus, ten dancers and nine instruments with music and original libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. Based on the 16th-century Italian madrigal comedy genre, it consists of a prologue and 12 madrigals which tell a continuous story, interspersed with six musical interludes. The unicorn, gorgon, and manticore in the title are allegories for three stages in the life of the story's protagonist, a strange poet who keeps the mythical creatures as pets. The work premiered in Washington D.C. at the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium on October 19, 1956. |
32533482 | The Governor of Blackness Castle was a military officer who commanded the fortifications at Blackness Castle, a Scottish fortress on the Firth of Forth. Held by the Crown since 1453, Blackness saw military use until 1912 and a brief revival during the First World War. |
32533497 | Bill Weeks (c. 1929 – May 2, 2006) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of New Mexico from 1960 to 1967, compiling a record of 40–41–1. Weeks was an All-Big Seven Conference quarterback at Iowa State University in 1949 and 1950. He played in the East–West Shrine Game and the Hula Bowl following the 1950 season. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the eighteenth round of the 1951 NFL Draft. Weeks died at the age of 76 on May 2, 2006 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
32536276 | Patrick Philip "Woody" Woods-Scawen DFC, was a Royal Air Force Officer, who flew during the Battle of Britain and as such was one of "The Few". |
32539847 | Craig Martin Bolotin is an American screenwriter and film director. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley where he studied philosophy and penned film reviews. He’s written and rewritten numerous screenplays (several unaccredited) for such directors as Ridley Scott and Francis Ford Coppola. |
32540078 | The 2011 ACC football season is an NCAA football season that will be played from September 1, 2011, to January 4, 2012. The Atlantic Coast Conference consists of 12 members in two divisions. The Atlantic division consists of Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Maryland, North Carolina State and Wake Forest. The Coastal division consists of Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. The division champions will meet on December 3 in the 2011 ACC Championship Game, located in Charlotte, North Carolina at Bank of America Stadium. |
32562534 | The history of opera in the Arabic-speaking world is generally viewed to have started from the premiere of Verdi's "Aida" in Cairo at the Khedivial Opera House in 1871, though Verdi's opera was sung in Italian. |
32566705 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder (September 19, 1859 – January 10, 1915) was an American actor, monologist, humorist and sketch artist. |
32632874 | The Cook Statue in Victoria Square, Christchurch, commemorates the three journeys of James Cook to New Zealand. The statue, sculpted by William Trethewey, was unveiled on 10 August 1932 by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe. It was donated by bookmaker and philanthropist Matthew Barnett (1861–1935). |
32638696 | A list of horror films released in 1964. |
32643289 | Blades of Time (ブレイズ オブ タイム , Bureizu obu Taimu ) is an action-adventure hack-and-slash video game developed by Gaijin Entertainment and published by Konami for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Mac OS X. The game is a spiritual successor to Gaijin Entertainment's past work, "X-Blades". "Blades of Time" was released in North America on March 6 and in Japan on March 8, 2012. The Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X versions were announced at a later date, the latter was released on April 21, 2012, followed by the Mac OS X version a few days after. In the English version, the lead character is voiced by Miranda Raison. |
32646894 | Jennifer Cohen (born September 16, 1975) is a fitness personality, author and body image consultant living in Los Angeles, California. She was recently named in “Greatist” 100 most influential people in Health and Fitness and #16 Most Impactful Fitness Entrepreneurs on Web MD. Jennifer is consistently featured in national health, lifestyle and entertainment publications, including; People, Cosmopolitan, Woman’s Health, and in newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. Jennifer has 2 regular columns in Forbes and Entrepreneur which have garnered a loyal readership and are widely considered the most popular on these respective sites. |
32689548 | The Portrait of the Duke of Wellington is a painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya of the British general Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington during the latter's service in the Peninsular War. One of three portraits Goya painted of Wellington, it was begun in 1812, after the subject's entry into Madrid, showing him as an earl in red uniform and wearing the Peninsular Medal. The artist then modified it in 1814 to show him in full dress black uniform with gold braid and to add the Order of the Golden Fleece and Military Gold Cross with three clasps (both of which Wellington had been awarded in the interim). |
32710405 | This is a list of episodes in the "Sweet Valley High" television series, which starred real-life twins Brittany and Cynthia Daniel as twin sisters Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield respectively. |
32716596 | The Seventh Day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination in Ghana. The church is under the West-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists whose headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. |
32719684 | The 1902 Clemson Tigers football team represented the Clemson Tigers of Clemson Agricultural College during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Under third year head coach John Heisman, the Tigers posted a 6–1 record, including an undefeated Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association record, and thus a conference championship. The lone loss was to rival South Carolina, in a controversial game ending in riots and banning the contest until 1909. |