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1869465 | The Refreshments were an alternative rock band from Tempe, Arizona. The band is best known for the single "Banditos" from their 1996 breakthrough album "Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy", and also for "Yahoos and Triangles," the theme song to the long-running animated series "King of the Hill". The latter was a piece the band traditionally performed at soundchecks. The Refreshments disbanded in 1998, although Roger Clyne and P.H. Naffah continue to tour and play Refreshments songs along with new music as Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. |
1881712 | Arthur Robert Hoyle (1922 – 2 May 2012) was an Australian historian and biographer. Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1922 to Arthur Hoyle (1896–1971) and Gertrude Underwood (1895–1972), he served in the Royal Air Force as a navigator during World War II with 460 Squadron and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He returned to Australia and married Moira Peisley (1924–1998). He had four sons, Arthur, Phillip, Warwick and Andrew (dec). |
1883831 | Scott Ford is an American session bassist, vocalist, and arranger. |
1896352 | Tomáš Berdych (] ; born 17 September 1985) is a Czech professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 19 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). His most notable achievement was reaching the final of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, causing consecutive upsets by defeating top seed and six-time champion Roger Federer in the quarterfinals, and world No. 3 Novak Djokovic in the semifinals. In the final, he lost to Rafael Nadal in straight sets. Berdych's biggest career win to date was the Paris Masters in 2005 as an unseeded player, defeating Ivan Ljubicic in the final. |
1896983 | Northern Star is the first solo album released by English singer Melanie C. It was released on 18 October 1999, by Virgin Records. The album's sound is diverse, combining elements of rock music with pop and ambient electronic, along with some R&B, doo-wop, and new age; which contrasted with the sound of the Spice Girls. |
1902110 | Doug Kingsmore Stadium (known prior to 2003 officially as Beautiful Tiger Field) is a stadium in Clemson, South Carolina. It is primarily used for NCAA college baseball and is the home field of the Clemson Tigers of the Division I Atlantic Coast Conference. It opened in 1970 and has a record single-game attendance of 6,524 (set on March 6, 2016, against South Carolina). Doug Kingsmore has ranked in the top 20 in attendance for 15 consecutive seasons. The Tigers have an .810 winning percentage in games played there all time and are 25-2 in NCAA Tournament games there since the NCAA changed its post-season format in 1999 (with a 39-8 record in NCAA Tournament games all time). |
1902857 | Lucifer's Friend is a German hard rock band, formed in Hamburg in 1970 by guitarist Peter Hesslein, singer John Lawton, bassist Dieter Horns, keyboardist Peter Hecht, and drummer Joachim Reitenbach. The group was noted as early practitioners of heavy metal and progressive rock, they also incorporated elements of jazz and fusion into their music, especially in their fourth album "Banquet" of 1974. Beyond heavy metal, the band has been cited, too, as one of the pioneers of doom metal, helping to define both genres due to their heavy sound and dark oriented lyrics of their acclaimed debut "Lucifer's Friend" of 1970, and returning to their roots in 1981 with "Mean Machine", although more influenced by speed metal. |
1903546 | Paul Annacone (born March 20, 1963) is an American former touring professional tennis player and current tennis coach. He is the former coach of open-era leader in Grand Slams Roger Federer and former World No. 1 Pete Sampras. Annacone is currently a coach at ProTennisCoach.com and a commentator at Tennis Channel |
1903594 | The Count's Feud (Danish: "Grevens Fejde" ), also called the "Count's War", was a civil war that raged in Denmark in 1534–36 and brought about the Reformation in Denmark. The Count's Feud takes its name from the Protestant Count Christopher of Oldenburg, who supported the Catholic King Christian II, deposed in 1523, over the election of Christian III. |
1914587 | Dr. Watson is an application debugger included with the Microsoft Windows operating system. It may be named codice_1, codice_2 or codice_3, depending on the version of Windows. It is named after Doctor Watson of Sherlock Holmes fame, the idea being that it would collect error information (symptoms) following a program crash. The use of the word "Watson" has since been expanded to include general end-user feedback services. The original name of this diagnostic tool was "Sherlock". |
1918116 | SLAM magazine is an American basketball magazine in circulation since 1994, published by Source Interlink. |
1925883 | Penny Ann Early (born May 30, 1943) is an American former athlete who achieved two notable firsts: she was the first female jockey, and the first woman to play in a professional basketball league. |
1937542 | Living in Oblivion is a low-budget dark comedy independent film, written and directed by Tom DiCillo and starring Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney, Danielle von Zerneck and James LeGros. The film won Tom DiCillo the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. The film was acclaimed by critics, and currently has a score of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film features Peter Dinklage in his debut role. |
1941295 | Arthur Reginald French, 5th Baron de Freyne (July 3, 1879 – May 9, 1915) was Anglo-Irish military officer of the British Army who had also served in the ranks in the United States Army. |
1941865 | Aida is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. |
1946204 | The music industry consists of the companies and individuals that earn money by creating new songs and pieces and selling live concerts and shows, audio and video recordings, compositions and sheet music, and the organizations and associations that aid and represent creators. Among the many individuals and organizations that operate in the industry are: the songwriters and composers who create new songs and musical pieces; the singers, musicians, conductors and bandleaders who perform the music; the companies and professionals who create and sell recorded music and/or sheet music (e.g., music publishers, music producers, recording studios, engineers, record labels, retail and online music stores, performance rights organizations); and those that help organize and present live music performances (sound engineers, booking agents, promoters, music venues, road crew). |
1947735 | General Stanisław Targosz (23 July 1948, Jaroszów, Poland – 4 August 2013, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland) was a Polish general who was the commanding officer of the Polish Air Force. |
1950620 | Laura Lansing Slept Here is a 1988 American made-for-television comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and directed by George Schaefer which premiered on NBC on March 7, 1988. It was written by James Prideaux and co-stars Joel Higgins, Karen Austin, Brenda Forbes and Hepburn's grandniece Schuyler Grant. |
1953880 | John Angelo Gotti (born February 14, 1964) known as "Junior" Gotti, is a former New York City mobster who, according to law enforcement claims, was acting boss of the Gambino crime family from 1992 to 1999 after his father, John J. Gotti, was sent to prison. Between 2004 and 2009 Gotti was a defendant in four racketeering trials which all ended in mistrials. In January 2010, federal prosecutors announced that they would no longer seek to prosecute Gotti for those charges. He has been referred to as "Teflon Jr." for evading conviction like his father. |
1955470 | Suzuki Magoichi (鈴木孫一、鈴木孫市 ) , better known as Saiga Magoichi or Saika Magoichi (雑賀孫一、雑賀孫市 ) , ( 1534 – May 2, 1589 ) was the name given to the leader of the Saika Ikki. He is famous for arming his troops with arquebuses and donning the yatagarasu as his family crest. |
1964520 | Milton Alexander "Alex" Linder (born June 30, 1966) is the owner and operator of Vanguard News Network (VNN), an anti-Jewish, white separatist, Neo-Nazi, Holocaust denial, and white nationalist website which he launched in 2000. VNN is one of the most active white supremacist sites on the Internet, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Its motto is "No Jews. Just Right." |
1981297 | Amped 2 is a sequel to Microsoft's snowboarding game "", which was an Xbox launch title. The game was introduced as part of the XSN Sports lineup, which included such games as "NFL Fever", "Top Spin" and "Rallisport Challenge". |
1984607 | Kristin Lisa Herrera (born February 21, 1989) is an American former actress. She is best known for her role as Dana Cruz on the first season of the Nickelodeon series "Zoey 101" and as Lourdes Del Torro on "General Hospital". |
1988906 | Refuse & Resist! ("R&R!") was a human rights activist group founded in New York City in 1987 by Emile de Antonio, Dore Ashton, Dennis Brutus, John Gerassi, Abbie Hoffman, William Kunstler, C. Clark Kissinger, Conrad Lynn, Sonia Sanchez, Rev. Fernando Santillana, and other activists who were concerned that the American government, epitomized by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, advocated a far right-wing political program directed against the political rights of its people. Artist Keith Haring created R&R!'s logo in 1988. The organization's national office was located in New York City, with chapters at various times in Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Honolulu, Hawaii; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. The organization officially dissolved in 2006. At that time, the national office closed, and the organization's files transferred to the Tamiment Library at New York University. |
2001301 | The Glass Bottom Boat is a 1966 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor, with Arthur Godfrey, Dick Martin, Dom DeLuise and Paul Lynde. It is also known as The Spy in Lace Panties. |
2005514 | Ian David Stark, OBE (born 22 February 1954) is a retired Scottish equestrian who competed in the sport of eventing. Stark was born in Galashiels in the Borders in 1954 and began riding horses at the age of 10. |
2006321 | Patrick Joseph McClure AO (born 1949 in Auckland, New Zealand) chaired the Reference Group on Welfare Reform (2014–15), advises governments on social policy, is a company director, consultant and former chief executive officer. McClure regularly speaks at conferences and appears in the media on welfare reform and social policy issues. |
2007841 | The Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer is a fictional animal invented by "Discover" magazine as an April Fool's Day joke. |
2007870 | The Plaid Tongued Devils are a Canadian musical group. Their music combines Roma, Klezmer, Ska, Rock and Jazz. |
2010889 | Housesitter is a 1992 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Oz, written by Mark Stein, and starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. The premise involves a woman with con-artist tendencies who worms her way into the life of a reserved architect by claiming to be his wife. |
2013215 | Kōga-ryū (甲賀流, "School of Kōga"; occasionally transliterated as "Kōka") is an ancient school of ninjutsu, according to Japanese legend. It originated from the region of Kōga (modern Kōka City in Shiga Prefecture). Members of the Koga school of "shinobi" (ninja) are trained in disguise, escape, concealment, explosives, medicines and poison; moreover, they are experts in techniques of unarmed combat (Taijutsu) and in the use of various weapons. |
2014705 | "Rumors Are Flying" is a popular song. |
2020857 | The Winter Hill Mafia is a structured confederation of Boston, Massachusetts–area organized crime figures, predominantly Irish-American and Italian-American. It derives its name from the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts north of Boston. Its members have included notorious Boston gangsters Buddy McLean, Whitey Bulger, Howie Winter, Joe McDonald, Johnny Martorano, and Stephen Flemmi. They were most influential from 1965 under the rule of McLean and Winter until the takeover led by Bulger in 1979. |
2025128 | Keikogi (稽古着 or 稽古衣 ) or dōgi (道着 ) is a uniform for training, used in martial arts derived from Japan, or budō. ("Keiko" means practice, "gi" means dress or clothes.) The prototype for the modern keikogi emerged in the late 19th century. The keikogi was developed by judo founder Kanō Jigorō. Japanese martial arts historian Dave Lowry speculates Kanō derived the uniform's design from the uniforms of Japanese firefighters' heavy hemp jackets called "hanten". By 1920, the keikogi as it exists today was worn by Kanō's students for judo practice. The Kodokan (judo headquarters) has a photo taken in 1920 that shows Kanō wearing a modern keikogi. |
2028253 | Douglas Eric "Doug" Liman (born July 24, 1965) is an American film director and producer best known for "Swingers" (1996), "Go" (1999), "The Bourne Identity" (2002), "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (2005), "Jumper" (2008), "Fair Game" (2010), and "Edge of Tomorrow" (2014). |
2032916 | Karl Friedrich von Savigny (19 September 1814 – 11 February 1875) was a Prussian diplomat, politician, and a leading member of the Centre Party. His father was the jurist Friedrich Karl von Savigny, who was then privy councillor of the court of appeals, member of the Prussian council of State, and professor at the University of Berlin, and his mother was Kunigunde Brentano, sister of the poet Clemens Brentano. The father was a Protestant, but the mother was a Catholic, and the children were allowed to follow the religion of the mother. Karl Friedrich was first taught at home, then attended the French Gymnasium at Berlin, the Collegium Romanum at Rome, and the Collegium Sebastianum at Naples. He studied law at Berlin, Munich, and Paris. In 1836 he became an auscultator at Berlin; in 1837 he was a referendar in the court at Aachen, in 1840 secretary of legation at London and Dresden, in 1842 at Lisbon, in 1848 at London. In 1849 he was councillor of legations and member of the ministry of foreign affairs, and in 1850 ambassador at Karlsruhe. While here he was able to win over the Government of Baden for the Prussian policy, and, as Bismarck testified, "by cautious and tactful bearing to win a commanding position at Karlsruhe for the Prussian government." |
2033850 | Hallie Todd (born Hallie Jane Eckstein; January 7, 1962) is an American actress, producer and writer, known for her roles as Penny Waters on "Brothers" and as Jo McGuire on "Lizzie McGuire". |
2033943 | John Carlyle "Johnny" Garrels (November 18, 1885 – October 21, 1956) was an American athlete who excelled in the 110 metres hurdles, discus throw, shot put, and as a fullback and end in American football. |
2037421 | Lord Byron is an opera in three acts by Virgil Thomson to an original English libretto by Jack Larson, inspired by the historical character Lord Byron. This was Thomson's third and final opera. He wrote it on commission from the Ford Foundation for the Metropolitan Opera (Met), but the Met never produced the opera. The first performance was at Lincoln Center, New York City on April 20, 1972, by the music department of the Juilliard School with John Houseman as stage director, Gerhard Samuel as the conductor and Alvin Ailey as the choreographer. A performance of a revised version, by the composer, took place in 1985 with the New York Opera Repertory Theater. |
2041184 | George Campbell Peery (October 28, 1873 – October 14, 1952) was an American Democratic politician, and was the 52nd governor of Virginia from 1934 to 1938. He became the second governor to be selected, at least partially, by the soon to be very powerful "Byrd Organization", led by Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. |
2044650 | Al Basty (Turkish: "Albastı"; Tatar, Kyrgyz, Kazakh: "Албасты", Chuvash: "Алпастă", Azerbaijanese: "Albasdı", Russian: "Албасты́") or Al Kardai is an ancient female spirit, the personification of guilt, found in folklore throughout the Caucasus mountains, with origins going as far back as Sumerian mythology. |
2045753 | The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, is the autobiography and memoir of James McBride first published in 1995; it is also a tribute to his mother, whom he calls Mommy, or Ma. The chapters alternate between James McBride's descriptions of his early life and first-person accounts of his mother Ruth's life, mostly taking place before her son was born. McBride depicts the conflicting emotions that he endured as he struggled to discover who he truly was, as his mother narrates the hardships that she had to overcome as a white, Jewish woman who chose to marry a black man in 1942. |
2046295 | Goodloe Edgar Byron (June 22, 1929 – October 11, 1978), a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1971, until his death from a heart attack on October 11, 1978. He was replaced as 6th district representative by his widow, Beverly Byron, in 1979. |
2072779 | Seventeen Seventy, also written as 1770, is a town and locality in Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia, built on the site of the second landing by James Cook and the crew of HM Bark Endeavour in May 1770 (Cook's first landing in what is now the state of Queensland). Originally known as Round Hill – after the creek it sits on – the name was changed in 1970 to commemorate the bicentenary of Cook's visit. The community of Seventeen Seventy hold the re-enactment of this historic landing each year as part of the 1770 Festival held in May. |
2073922 | Muut was the personification and messenger of death in the culture of the Native American Cahuilla people of southern California and northern Mexico, and was usually depicted as an owl or as the unseen hooting of owls. He was one of the most active and vividly remembered of the "nukatem," a special classification of beings who were created by Mukat, the Creator figure, in the 'beginning.' Death was considered a necessary part of life by the Cahuilla, and thus Muut was seen as more of a psychopomp than a frightening grim reaper character. This role was assigned by Mukat, who argued that overpopulation would have dire consequences. |
2078541 | In the United States, a midnight movie is a B movie or cult film shown at midnight, either at a cinema or on television. |
2080959 | "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" is the twenty-fourth episode of the eighth season of "The Simpsons". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 11, 1997. The episode centers on fictional pilot episodes of non-existent television series derived from "The Simpsons", and is a parody of the tendency of networks to spin off characters from a hit series. As such it includes references to many different TV series. The first fictional spin-off is "Chief Wiggum P.I.", a cop-drama featuring Chief Wiggum and Seymour Skinner. The second is "The Love-matic Grampa", a sitcom featuring Moe Szyslak who receives dating advice from Abraham Simpson, whose ghost is possessing a love testing machine. The final segment is "The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour", a variety show featuring the Simpson family except for Lisa, who has been replaced. |
2082172 | The snallygaster is a legendary dragon-like beast said to inhabit the hills surrounding Washington, D.C. and Frederick County, Maryland. |
2086076 | W. Ford Doolittle {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born February 21, 1941 in Urbana, Illinois) is an evolutionary and molecular biologist. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is also the winner of the 2014 Herzberg Medal of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the 2017 Killam Prize. |
2087952 | A tomoe (巴, "hoping", "wishing"; also written 鞆絵 , ともえ) , or tomowe (ともゑ ) in its archaic form, is a Japanese symbol described as a swirl that resembles a comma or the usual form of a magatama. The origin of tomoe is uncertain. Some think that it originally meant "tomoe" (鞆絵 ) , or drawings on "tomo" (鞆 ) , a round arm protector used by an archer, whereas others see tomoe as stylized magatama. It is a common design element in Japanese family emblems (家紋 , kamon ) and corporate logos, particularly in triplicate whorls known as mitsudomoe (三つ巴 ) . Some view the mitsudomoe as representative of the threefold division (Man, Earth, and Sky) at the heart of the Shinto religion. It was also associated with the Shinto war deity Hachiman, and through that was adopted by the samurai as their traditional symbol. One mitsudomoe variant, the Hidari Gomon, is the traditional symbol of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. The Koyasan Shingon sect of Buddhism uses the Hidari Gomon as a visual representation of the cycle of life. |
2089443 | The Seventh-day Adventist Church State Council is a non-profit organization that works through courts, legislatures, and through public education throughout the five state western region of Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah to preserve and promote religious freedom. |
2098670 | Robert Manuel Clivillés (born July 30, 1964) is an American record producer, songwriter, arranger, music video director most noted for his work with C+C Music Factory, a group he founded with musical partner David Cole. He is of Puerto Rican ancestry. |
2105844 | George Francis "Shadow" Morton (September 3, 1941 – February 14, 2013) was an American record producer and songwriter best known for his influential work in the 1960s. In particular, he was noted for writing and producing "Remember (Walking in the Sand)", "Leader of the Pack", and other hits for girl group The Shangri-Las. |
2108842 | No-Man are an English art pop duo, formed in 1987 as No Man Is an Island (Except the Isle of Man) by singer Tim Bowness and multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson (the latter also of Porcupine Tree). The band has so far produced six studio albums and a number of singles/outtakes collections (most notably, 2006's career retrospective, "All the Blue Changes"). The band was once lauded as "conceivably the most important English group since The Smiths" by "Melody Maker" music newspaper, and a 2017 article of "Drowned in Sound" described them as "probably the most underrated band of the last 25 years". |
2117647 | The July Crisis was a diplomatic crisis among the major powers of Europe in the summer of 1914 that led to World War I. Immediately after Gavrilo Princip, a Slavic nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo, a series of diplomatic manoeuvres led to an ultimatum from Austria-Hungary to the Kingdom of Serbia, and eventually to war. |
2133779 | Frank Francis Sinkwich Sr. (October 10, 1920 – October 22, 1990) was an American football player and coach. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1942 playing for the University of Georgia, making him the first recipient from the Southeastern Conference. In the course of a brief but celebrated career in professional football, Sinkwich was selected for the National Football League Most Valuable Player Award. He coached the Erie (PA) Vets semi-professional football team in 1949. Sinkwich was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. |
2143619 | Giovanni Battista Doni (c. 1593 – 1647) was an Italian musicologist and humanist who made an extensive study of ancient music. He is known, among other works, for having renamed the note "Ut" to "Do" (in the "Do Re Mi ..." solfège scale). |
2144220 | In Greek mythology, the Pierian Spring of Macedonia was sacred to the Muses. As the metaphorical source of knowledge of art and science, it was popularized by a couplet in Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Criticism" (1711): "A little learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." |
2147203 | Heinrich Georg Stahmer (3 May 1892 in Hamburg, Germany – 13 June 1978 in Vaduz, Liechtenstein), economist by training, served as an aide to German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (1938–1940), special envoy to Japan (1940–1942) and German Ambassador to Japan (January 1943 – May 1945). |
2148577 | Cooks' Cottage, also known as Captain Cook's Cottage, is located in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, Australia. The cottage was constructed in 1755 in the English village of Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, by the parents of Captain James Cook, James and Grace Cook, and was brought to Melbourne in 1934 by Sir Russell Grimwade. It is a point of conjecture among historians whether James Cook, the famous navigator, ever lived in the house, but almost certainly he visited his parents at the house. |
2148655 | Asian Aid is a non-profit Christian charity organisation that works to implement development projects and provide sponsorship of poverty-stricken children from Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Founded in 1966, Asian Aid is an accredited, supporting ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Based out of Wauchope, New South Wales, Australia, Asian Aid is a member of ACFID and a signatory of the ACFID code for non-government organisations and has a minor supporting branch in the United States led by volunteer John Truscott. |
2155117 | Slaughter High is a 1986 American-British independent slasher film written and directed by George Dugdale, Mark Ezra and Peter Litten. The plot concerns a group of adults invited to a reunion at their defunct high school, where a disfigured masked killer awaits for revenge. |
2155366 | The Kwahu Plateau is a 260 km long plateau in southern Ghana. It consist of the uplifted southern edge of the Volta River Basin. It forms the main watershed of Ghana, separating rivers in the Volta River system from rivers in the western half of Ghana which flows into the Atlantic Ocean(Birim,Pra, Ankobra). The plateau has an average elevation of 1,500 feet and its highest point is Mount Akmawa at 2,586 feet. The plateau is dissected by several valleys and is marked by tall peaks. To the south it borders dense forest country, which it shields from the harmattan winds of the interior. Cacao cultivation has been introduced in the west, through which traditional trade routes lead to the Atlantic; vegetable cultivation is stressed in the eastern sector. The largest and most important towns on the Kwahu Plateau are Wenchi, Mampong, Mpraeso, and Abetifi. |
2158323 | Ian Michael Roberts (born July 29, 1965) is an American actor, comedian and writer. Roberts is a founding member of the famed Upright Citizens Brigade improv and sketch comedy troupe. |
2158366 | John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (7 July 1860 – 11 January 1925) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician, soldier, peer, administrator and Privy Councillor who served as the Secretary of Scotland from 1905 to 1912 and the Governor of Madras from 1912 to 1919. |
2159552 | Pacific Adventist University (PAU) is a tertiary institution located 21 kilometres (30 minutes) outside Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and operated by the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Both the faculty and the student body are international in composition. While most students come from Papua New Guinea and other Pacific island nations such as Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, others have come from Africa, Australia, Pakistan, China, the Philippines, and the United States. |
2160427 | Phil Soussan (born 23 June 1961, London, England) is a bass guitarist, songwriter and producer who has gained notoriety as a member of a host of famed rock and roll bands, including some who have been fronted by such vocalists as Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, Vince Neil, Johnny Hallyday and John Waite, as well as a membership in Beggars & Thieves. Soussan has also played in bands featuring Jimmy Page, Steve Lukather, Edgar Winter and Richie Kotzen. |
2163264 | 'Sarai Kale Khan' is a village of Gurjar Community The people living here belong to Basista / Bosatta cast (Gotra). The Gurjar community is living here approximately since 1600 AD. The Village also famous for big size Moustaches so people called (Muchhoo wali Sarai) because of the man having big size Moustaches. It's a symbol of their status, personalty and power. Before 1600 AD these community Basista / Bosatta were living in village Dewli - Khanpur situated in South Delhi. Basista / Bosatta community is famous in other Gurjar community because of people of this village sticking together even in the morden times. |
2166566 | Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet. |
2169081 | Fight for Fame is a one-hour reality show produced by E! Entertainment Television, and producers Jay James, Tim Puntillo, Alan Blassberg, and Brian Lando. A long established talent agency - Acme Talent & Literary - provides two top agents, Adam Lieblein (President) and Greg Meyer to add focus to the show, without being seen as "hosts." Each hour shows five actors vying for the opportunity to sign with Adam and Greg at the agency. They are put through four sets of audition challenges, including monologues, improvisation, and scripted auditions in front of well-known Hollywood directors, casting executives and executive producers. At the end of each episode, one actor signs with Acme Talent & Literary. The audience gets to see the decision process of the agents, as well as the attitude of talented and not-so-talented actors. |
2177386 | Jayapala, was the ruler of the Hindu Shahi dynasty from 964 to 1001 CE. The Palas are ruling clans originating in Punjab and belonged to Mohyal Clan."Mohyals who are a subsect of Sarswat Brahmans ... claim with justice and propriety that Jaipal and Anandpal were Mohyal Brahmans." C. V. Vaidya , History of Mediaeval Hindu India, Poona Vil. III, p. 21. |
2177749 | Virenia Gwendolyn "Nia" Peeples (born December 10, 1961) is an American R&B and dance music singer and actress. Peeples is also famously known as Pam Fields, the mother of Emily Fields on hit TV drama, "Pretty Little Liars", as Karen Taylor Winters on "The Young and the Restless", and as Sydney Cooke on "Walker, Texas Ranger". |
2187371 | John Du Prez (born Trevor Jones; 14 December 1946 in Sheffield, England) is a musician, conductor, and composer. Du Prez was a member of the 1980s multi-hit Salsa-driven pop band Modern Romance and has since written several film scores including "Oxford Blues" (1984), "Once Bitten" and the final Carry On film, "Carry On Columbus" (1992). He contributed to "The Wild" (2006) soundtrack. |
2193672 | Narcissus is an open source JavaScript engine. It was written by Brendan Eich, who also wrote the first JavaScript engine, SpiderMonkey. Its name is based on the mythical figure of Narcissus, who fell in love with himself. This relates to the fact that this JavaScript engine is a metacircular interpreter, because the engine itself is also written in JavaScript, albeit using non-standard extensions that are specific to SpiderMonkey. |
2194932 | O is the debut studio album by American R&B singer Omarion, released on February 22, 2005 via Epic Records and Sony Urban Music. Despite featuring explicit language, the album doesn't have a Parental Advisory label on the cover. It features three singles: the O (number 27), "Touch" (number 94) and "I'm Tryna." The album entered at number 1, and has sold 758,000 copies in the United States up to November 2008. "O" went on to be certified gold by the RIAA and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 48th Grammy Awards. |
2198779 | The Perfect Prescription is the second studio album by Spacemen 3. |
2199084 | General Sir Ralph Darling, GCH (1772 – 2 April 1858) was a British Army officer who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1831. He is popularly described as a tyrant, accused of torturing prisoners and banning theatrical entertainment, but he also built new roads and extended the boundaries of the colony. Local geographical features named after him include the Darling River and Darling Harbour in Sydney. |
2201571 | Brian David Teacher (born December 23, 1954) is a right-handed American former professional male tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking World No. 7 in 1981. |
2202381 | The faint young Sun paradox describes the apparent contradiction between observations of liquid water early in Earth's history and the astrophysical expectation that the Sun's output would be only 70 percent as intense during that epoch as it is during the modern epoch. The issue was raised by astronomers Carl Sagan and George Mullen in 1972. Explanations of this paradox have taken into account greenhouse effects, astrophysical influences, or a combination of the two. |
2209723 | Reimar Constantin von Alvensleben (26 August 1809 – 28 March 1892) was a Prussian (and later Imperial German) general. |
2213011 | Runner's World is a globally circulated monthly magazine for runners of all skills sets, published by Rodale Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States. |
2215159 | Richard Dennis Ralston (born July 27, 1942) is an American former professional tennis player whose active career spanned the 1960s and 1970s.. |
2215319 | The Evangelical Press Association is a professional association serving the Christian periodical publishing industry, including magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and content-rich websites. Its members produce some 200 periodical titles with a combined circulation of over 15 million. EPA is a religious and educational non-profit corporation under the laws of the state of California. It is managed by an executive director, who is responsible to a board of six directors. |
2220198 | Leonidas Morakis (Greek: Λεωνίδας Μωράκης ) was a Greek shooter. |
2226012 | Shambhala Publications is an independent publishing company based in Boulder, Colorado. According to the company, it specializes in "books that present creative and conscious ways of transforming the individual, the society, and the planet". Many of its titles deal with Buddhism and related topics in religion and philosophy. The company's name was inspired by the Sanskrit word Shambhala, referring to a mystical kingdom hidden beyond the snowpeaks of the Himalayas, according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Several of its major authors are Chögyam Trungpa, Pema Chödrön, Thomas Cleary, Ken Wilber, Fritjof Capra, A. H. Almaas, John Daido Loori, John Stevens, Edward Espe Brown and Natalie Goldberg. |
2234846 | Leonid Borisovich Nevzlin (Russian: Леонид Борисович Невзлин ; Hebrew: לאוניד בוריסוביץ' נבזלין , born 21 September 1959) is a Russian-born Israeli businessman and philanthropist. |
2243703 | Public folklore is the term for the work done by folklorists in public settings in the United States and Canada outside of universities and colleges, such as arts councils, museums, folklife festivals, radio stations, etc. The term is actually short for ""public sector folklore"" and was first used by members of the American Folklore Society in the early 1970s. Archie Green is generally credited as the founder of the public folklore movement, although his work builds on that of Ben Botkin and Alan Lomax, going back as far as the 1930s. (They called their work "applied folklore," a related but distinct paradigm.) |
2246898 | The Parihar or Parhar are a Rajput clan of northern India. They claim descent from the mythological Agnivansha dynasty. |
2247843 | Khagrachhari (Bengali: খাগড়াছড়ি ] ) (Chakma:𑄌𑄬𑄋𑄴𑄟𑄩 "chengmi") is a district in south-eastern <a href="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>. It is a part of the Chittagong Division and the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Its local name is "Chengmi". Khagrachhari is also known as Phalang Htaung (ဖလံေထာင္) or the Mong Circle (of the rest of the three hill districts Rangamati is the Chakma Circle (သက္ေထာင္) and Bandarban (ဗိုလ္မင္းေထာင္) is the Bohmong Circle). |
2249907 | Vanessa Marshall (born October 19, 1969) is an American actress, singer and model. She is most active in voice-over roles for animated series, films and video games. |
2253485 | Kangri is a dialect spoken in northern India, predominantly in the Kangra, Hamirpur, Bilaspur, Una districts and some parts of Mandi and Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh and in the Pathankot, Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur districts in the Punjab state. It is associated with the people of the Kangra Valley. It is an Indo-Aryan dialect, closely related to Dogri and today classified as one of the Western Pahari (पहाड़ी) group of languages, with some influence in vocabulary Standard Punjabi (Majhi). which is spoken to the west in the state of Punjab. Kangri, along with Dogri, has been classified as a dialect of Punjabi by linguists but since the 1960s, both have been recognised as dialects of a separate language group called Pahari. |
2254241 | "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" is a song by the English punk rock band The Clash. It was originally released as a 7-inch single, with the b-side "The Prisoner", on 16 June 1978 through CBS Records. |
2259526 | Ian Christopher Stanley (born 28 February 1957) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He was previously a member of the English band Tears for Fears for most of the 1980s, and played a key role in the making of their multi-platinum selling second album "Songs from the Big Chair". |
2262461 | Scotti Brothers Records (sometimes spelled Scotti Bros. Records) was a California-based record label founded by Tony and Ben Scotti in 1974. Their first success was releasing albums from teen pop star Leif Garrett. They later helped launch the careers of David Hallyday, Felony, Survivor, and "Weird Al" Yankovic. They also signed James Brown to a recording contract in the mid-1980s as well as the UK act Flag featuring David Cairns from Secret Affair and Archie Brown. Former "Life Goes On" star Tommy Puett released his only album "Life Goes On" in 1990 under Scotti Brothers Records. |
2266989 | Philip Clive Dent (born 14 February 1950), is a former professional tennis player. Dent's high water mark as a pro singles player was reaching the Australian Open final in 1974, which he lost to Jimmy Connors in four sets. Dent was also the Men's Doubles champion at the Australian Open in 1975 (with teammate John Alexander), and the Mixed Doubles champion at the US Open in 1976 (with teammate Billie Jean King). |
2271435 | Jacinda Barrett (born August 2, 1972), an Australian-American actress and former model, first became known to audiences as a cast member on "" (1995) before appearing in films such as "The Human Stain" (2003), "" (2004), "Ladder 49" (2004), "The Namesake" (2006), "Poseidon" (2006), and "The Last Kiss" (2006). She appeared in the series "The Following" in 2013 and joined the main cast of the Netflix series "Bloodline", which launched in 2015. |
2271725 | Wiesław Marian Chrzanowski (, 20 December 1923 – 29 April 2012) was a Polish politician and lawyer; from 1991 to 1993 he was Sejm Marshal. He was a recipient of the Order of the White Eagle. |
2274127 | Air Vice Marshal Arthur Daniel Button (26 May 1916 – 27 May 1991) was a Royal Air Force officer. |
2280801 | Amala is a mythological giant who supports the world in the mythology of the Tsimshian, Nass, Skidegate, Kaigani, Massett, and Tlingit Native Americans. He supports the Earth which he balances on a spinning pole. He receives an annual application of wild duck-oil to his muscles from a servant which brings relief to his muscles. The belief is that when all the ducks are hunted out, there will no longer be any duck-oil available in the world. At this point, Amala dies and the world topples off the pole and comes to an end. |
2287136 | Also was a big hit in 1959 by Dion and the Belmonts |