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2289856 | Elizabeth Irene Banks (née Mitchell; February 10, 1974) is an American actress, director, and producer. Banks made her film debut in the low-budget independent film "Surrender Dorothy" (1998), and is known for her roles in such films as "Wet Hot American Summer" (2001), Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" trilogy (2002–2007), "Seabiscuit" (2003), "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (2005), "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" (2008), "Role Models" (2008), "The Next Three Days" (2010), "Pitch Perfect" (2012), "The Lego Movie" (2014), and "The Hunger Games" film series (2012–2015). In 2014, she portrayed Melinda Ledbetter, the girlfriend and later wife of the Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson, in the biographical drama "Love & Mercy" and made her directorial debut with "Pitch Perfect 2", whose $69M opening weekend gross set a record for a first-time director. |
2296174 | Janet Stephanie Francis (born 5 August 1947) is an English actress, best known for playing Penny Warrender in the 1980s romantic comedy "Just Good Friends". |
2296864 | Scott Edelman (born 1955) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor. |
2303013 | The Alarm are a Welsh alternative rock/new wave band that formed in Rhyl, Wales, in 1981. Initially formed as a punk band, "The Toilets" in 1977, under lead vocalist Mike Peters, the band soon embraced rock, displaying marked influences from Welsh language and culture. By opening for acts such as U2 and Bob Dylan, they became a popular alternative rock band of the 1980s, retaining a loyal following to the present day. |
2318456 | Arnold Christopher "Kit" Denton (5 May 1928 – April 1997), originally Arnold Ditkofsky, was a writer and broadcaster prominent in Australia. Denton was born in England and was of Polish Jewish descent. He is the father of comedian and television presenter Andrew Denton. |
2322447 | Xanthi (Greek: Περιφερειακή ενότητα Ξάνθης ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace. The capital is Xanthi. Together with the regional units Rhodope and Evros, it forms the geographical region of Western Thrace. |
2325108 | Taylor Evans Stubblefield (born January 21, 1982) is a former American football wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers and St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He left Purdue owning the most receptions in NCAA history. Stubblefield was most recently the wide receivers coach with the Toronto Argonauts. A three-sport athlete at A.C. Davis High School, Stubblefield committed to the Purdue University to play football for the Boilermakers. In his collegiate debut in 2001, he had five receptions for 65 yards. He led the team in receptions and was named to the All-Freshman Big Ten team by "Sporting News". During his sophomore season, he finished with 77 receptions for 789 yards, but didn't record a touchdown catch. As a junior in 2003, Stubblefield earned second-team All-Big Ten honors at the conclusion of the season. In the 2001 Sun Bowl, he had nine catches for a Sun Bowl-record 196 yards. During the 2004 season, Stubblefield was a Biletnikoff Award finalist, earned first-team All-Big Ten honors and was named a Consensus All-American. He finished his college career with an NCAA record of 325 receptions which he held for seven years, 3,629 yards, and 27 touchdowns. He was named to the Purdue Athletic Hall of fame in 2015 and was also named to the 75th Anniversary Sunbowl Team. |
2342709 | Legendary creatures of the Argentine Northwest region |
2351570 | The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is a volunteer group headed by Chris Simcox and dedicated to preventing illegal crossings of the United States border. Arguing that the government is insufficiently concerned with securing the U.S. border, they have organized several state chapters, with the intention of providing law enforcement agencies with evidence of immigration law violations. Simcox states that the group merely reports incidents to law enforcement, and does not directly confront immigrants. There is a standard operating procedure (SOP) that must be followed by Minutemen volunteers. Rules include not speaking to, approaching, gesturing towards or having physical contact in any way with any suspected border crossers they may see. The organization has been criticized as being a right-wing militia. The MCDC is often confused with or thought to be affiliated with The Minuteman Project Inc., but the two groups are wholly distinct. The group was originally co-founded by American neo-Nazi, J. T. Ready. |
2352099 | The Rensselaer Plateau is a small plateau located in the central portion of Rensselaer County, New York; it generally encompasses significant parts of the towns of Berlin, Stephentown, Sand Lake, Poestenkill, and Grafton, along with small sections of several other nearby towns. Many glacial lakes, including Big Bowman Pond, Little Bowman Pond, Round Pond and Spring Lake are located on the plateau. Elevations on the plateau range from 1,000 to 2,000 feet (305 to 610 meters) above sea level. Vegetation on the plateau is more similar to that found in the Adirondack Mountains to the northwest, with abundant Eastern White Pine, Eastern Hemlock, Red Spruce, and Balsam Fir, along with more limited occurrences of Red Pine and Tamarack. While most to all of the plateau was logged late in the 19th Century and early in the 20th Century, little farming was undertaken afterwards due to extremely poor and rocky soils, allowing much of the forest to regenerate. |
2384316 | Carry On Sergeant is a 1958 comedy film about National Service starring William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse and Eric Barker; it is the first in the series of "Carry On" films, with 31 entries. The film was based on a play "The Bull Boys" by R. F. Delderfield and was adapted into a script by Norman Hudis with John Antrobus contributing additional material and replacing the conscripted ballet dancers of the novel into a married couple. It was directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers, a partnership which would last until 1978. Actors in this film, who went on to be part of the regular team in the series, were Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor and Terry Scott. The first public screening was on 1 August 1958 at Screen One, in London and it went on general cinema release across British cinemas on 15 August 1958. The soundtrack music was played by the Band of the Coldstream Guards, conducted by the composer. |
2384549 | "Desperate Housewives" is an American comedy-drama series that aired on ABC (American Broadcasting Company). It focuses on the residents living on the fictional Wisteria Lane as narrated by their deceased neighbor, Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong). Specifically, the series follows four protagonists and Mary Alice's friends, Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross), and Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria). "Desperate Housewives" features an ensemble cast, which also includes the women's husbands, children, love interests, neighbors, and other acquaintances. |
2386457 | Ian Schrager (born July 19, 1946) is an American entrepreneur, hotelier and real estate developer, often associated with co-creating the Boutique Hotel category of accommodation. Originally, he gained fame as co-owner and co-founder of Studio 54. |
2397745 | Bunnock, also known as the Game of Bones, is a game that is thought to have been created by Russian soldiers to pass the time while stationed in northern Siberia during the early nineteenth century (although a 16th-century painting exists which may or may not show bunnock being played). |
2399083 | Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (14 November 1773 – 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and in the suppression of Robert Emmet's insurrection in 1803. He commanded a cavalry brigade in Sir Arthur Wellesley's Army before being given overall command of the cavalry in the latter stages of the Peninsular War. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and then Commander-in-Chief, India. In the latter role he stormed Bharatpur—a fort which previously had been deemed impregnable. |
2409051 | Deon Richmond (born April 2, 1978) is an American actor from New York City. Richmond is best known for his recurring roles as Rudy Huxtable's friend Kenny (nicknamed "Bud") on the NBC sitcom "The Cosby Show" and Jordan Bennett on the ABC/The WB sitcom "Sister, Sister" |
2409140 | October Project is an American pop rock band based in New York City. The group reached critical and commercial success with their 1990s Epic Records releases "October Project" and "Falling Farther In", and are currently in the process of recording a third full-length album. The group's piano-driven music is characterized by close vocal harmonies. |
2429648 | Special Duties are a British punk rock band from Colchester, Essex. |
2430555 | Homonoia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1790. These are rheophytes and usually found in groups at riverbanks in India, southern China, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea. |
2434247 | "As of March 28, 2013, Fraser Milner Casgrain combined with Salans and SNR Denton to form Dentons."<br> |
2436006 | Circus Maximus is a board game that was originally published by Battleline Publications in 1979, but is better known for the 1980 Avalon Hill edition. |
2436635 | Belphoebe (or "Belphebe", "Belphœbe") is a character in Edmund Spenser's poem "The Faerie Queene" (1590), a representation of Queen Elizabeth I (conceived of, however, as a pure, high-spirited maiden, rather than a queen). Spenser intended her name to mean "beautiful Diana" (Phoebe being an epithet of the Greek moon goddess Artemis, who was known to the Romans as Diana), and it is suggested that she is a member of Poseidon's family. A virgin huntress, Belphoebe can certainly fight, as a potential rapist found out. She is the stronger, militant sister of Amoret. |
2437430 | Hearts Afire was an American sitcom starring John Ritter and Markie Post that aired on CBS from September 14, 1992 to February 1, 1995. The series' title is taken from a line in the Earth, Wind & Fire song "That's the Way of the World" (which originally served as the series' theme song). |
2437453 | Herman Miller (November 10, 1919 – April 18, 1999) was a Hollywood writer and producer. |
2437855 | Christian the Younger (September 20, 1599 – June 16, 1626), a member of the House of Welf, titular Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt, was a German Protestant military leader during the early years of the Thirty Years' War. Fighting against the forces of the Imperial House of Habsburg, Habsburg Spain, and the Catholic League, he earned a reputation as a dangerous fanatic. |
2441408 | A Hand of Bridge, opus 35, is an opera in one act composed by Samuel Barber with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and is possibly the shortest opera that is regularly performed: it lasts about nine minutes. It premiered as a part of Menotti’s Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto on 17 June 1959 at the Teatro Caio Melisso. The United States premiere occurred the next year. The opera consists of two unhappily married couples playing a hand of bridge, during which each character has an arietta in which he or she professes his or her inner desires. |
2442699 | Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom is the sixth title in the City Building Series. BreakAway Games was contracted for "Emperor" after having previously worked on "Queen of the Nile". "Emperor" is the last of the series to use the same 2D-sprite game engine as seen in the earlier titles, and the first to introduce a multiplayer option. |
2443356 | Isabella Valentine (イザベラ・バレンタイン , Izabera Barentain ) , commonly called Ivy (アイヴィー , Aivī ) , is a fictional character in the "Soul" series of video games. Created by Namco's Project Soul division, she first appeared in the original "Soulcalibur" and its subsequent sequels, later appearing in various merchandise related to the series. She was voiced in Japanese by Yumi Tōma between "Soulcalibur" and "Soulcalibur III", Kanako Tōjo between "Soulcalibur Legends" and "," and Miyuki Sawashiro in "Soulcalibur V"; in English, she was voiced by Renee Hewitt in "Soulcalibur II" and Lani Minella for the remainder of the series. |
2445856 | Stenonia can be either of the following two plant genera |
2447183 | I Am Sam is the soundtrack to the 2001 film "I Am Sam". It was released on January 8, 2002 by V2 Records (see 2002 in music). The album contents are made up entirely of cover versions of songs by The Beatles, although it was originally intended to consist of the group's original recordings. When producers were unable to obtain the rights to the original tracks, they commissioned the artists featured on the album to record the versions released. |
2447519 | Jesse Malin (born January 26, 1967, Flushing, Queens, New York, United States) is an American rock musician. He is currently a solo recording artist. |
2449038 | The Trump International Hotel Las Vegas is a 64-story luxury hotel, condominium, and timeshare located on Fashion Show Drive near Las Vegas Boulevard, just off the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, named for real estate developer and the 45th and current President of the United States Donald Trump. It is located across the street from Wynn Las Vegas, behind Alon Las Vegas on 3.46 acre , near the Fashion Show Mall, and features both non-residential hotel condominiums and residential condominiums. The exterior glass is infused with gold. The hotel is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World. |
2456550 | Night Monster is a 1942 American black-and-white horror film featuring Bela Lugosi and produced and distributed by Universal Pictures Company. The movie uses an original story and screenplay by Clarence Upson Young and was produced and directed by Ford Beebe. For box office value, star billing was given to Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill, but the lead roles were played by Ralph Morgan, Irene Hervey and Don Porter, with Atwill in a character role as a pompous doctor who becomes a victim to the title character, and Lugosi in a small part as a butler. |
2462597 | The Stepford Wives is a 1975 American science-fiction horror film based on the 1972 Ira Levin novel of the same name. It was directed by Bryan Forbes with a screenplay by William Goldman, and stars Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, and Peter Masterson. |
2465576 | Silent Hill is a 2006 horror film directed by Christophe Gans and written by Roger Avary, Gans, and Nicolas Boukhrief. The film is an adaptation of Konami's video game series "Silent Hill". It stars Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates, Tanya Allen, Alice Krige, and Jodelle Ferland. |
2465660 | The National Book Festival is a public book event organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress. It was founded by Laura Bush and James H. Billington in 2001. |
2470199 | Golf Digest is a monthly golf magazine published by Condé Nast Publications in the United States. It is a generalist golf publication covering recreational golf and men's and women's competitive golf. Condé Nast Publications also publishes the more specialized "Golf for Women", "Golf World" and "Golf World Business". The magazine started in 1950, and was sold to The New York Times Company in 1969. The Times company sold their magazine division to Condé Nast in 2001. The headquarters of "Golf Digest" is in Des Moines, Iowa. |
2472455 | The Bolla (also known as Bullar in South Albania), is a type of demonic-serpent like Dragon from Albanian folklore with a long, coiled, serpentine body, four legs, small wings, and silver, faceted eyes. This dragon sleeps throughout the whole year, only to wake on Saint George's Day, where it peers into the world until it sees a human. It devours the person, then closes its eyes and sleeps again. This is explained in the legend of Saint George. When he fought and vanquished the dragon, Saint George cursed the beast so that it be forever blind and only open its eyes on his day only. The Bolla can change into a Kulshedra should it live many years without being seen by a human. It is etymologically related to Greek Φάλη, Φάλαινα 'monster, whale,' (although the relationship is not certain) and comes from the Latin chersydrusus which means something like ‘the snake that lives in the water and on the earth’. |
2473022 | Dog Eat Dog is the 12th album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1985. It was her second album for Geffen Records. The album was a departure for Mitchell due to its synthetic sound (featuring production work by British synthesiser musician Thomas Dolby). Lyrically, the album dealt with prominent issues in mid 1980s society, such as Reaganism, televangelists, consumerism and famine in Ethiopia. One of Mitchell's more unusual songs, "Smokin' (Empty, Try Another)" was recorded by sampling the sound of the cigarette machine in the hall of the studio where "Wild Things Run Fast" was recorded. "Good Friends" was recorded as a duet with Michael McDonald; a video was produced for the song using film animation by Jim Blashfield. "Shiny Toys" and "Good Friends" were released as singles; "Shiny Toys" was also released in a 12" Extended Dance Single format, remix by François Kevorkian, and had a more complete lyric than the album version, featuring spoken voice by Thomas Dolby ("I LOVE being out on the golf course!"). |
2476119 | An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster |
2476751 | "You Give Good Love" is a song by American recording artist Whitney Houston, released as the first single from her self-titled debut album on February 22, 1985 by Arista Records. The song was written by La La and produced by Kashif. When La La sent Kashif a copy of the song, originally offered to Roberta Flack, he thought it would be a better fit for Houston and told Arista he would be interested in recording with Houston. The song garnered mostly positive reviews from critics, but brought Houston a bit of notoriety when it turned up among several songs cited by advice columnist Ann Landers as having suggestive titles. |
2481449 | Claudette Ortiz (born July 21, 1981) is an American singer and model, most famous as the female in the R&B group City High. Ortiz also was a castmate in TV One's reality series . |
2488802 | Giles Francis Watling (born 18 February 1953 in Chingford, Essex) is an English actor and Conservative politician. Since 2017, he has been Member of Parliament for Clacton. He is the son of actor Jack Watling and actress Patricia Hicks, and the younger brother of actresses Dilys Watling and Deborah Watling. |
2489821 | "Purple Pills", also known as the censored version, "Purple Hills", is a hip hop single by American rap group D12, taken as the second cut from their debut studio album, "Devil's Night". It achieved notable success, peaking at number nineteen on the "Billboard" Hot 100, number two in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Norway, number three in Australia, number five in Sweden and number ten in the Netherlands and Finland. |
2490294 | "How Come" is a song by the American rap group D12. It was released in June 2004 as the second single from their second album "D12 World". The song was certified Gold by the RIAA. |
2493823 | Jennifer Slept Here is an American fantasy sitcom that ran for one season on NBC from October 21, 1983 to September 5, 1984. The series was produced by Columbia Pictures Television. |
2496705 | Black Sun Productions collective is a project of sound, visual and performance artists, primarily featuring activists Massimo and Pierce, who also perform under the stage name the Anarcocks. |
2497347 | Prom Night is a 1980 Canadian slasher film directed by Paul Lynch, based on a story by Robert Guza Jr., and starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis. The story concerns a group of high school seniors who are targeted by a mysterious masked killer in revenge for their culpability in the accidental death of a young girl six years earlier. The anniversary of the incident falls on their high school's prom night, when the older sister of the dead girl is being crowned Prom Queen. |
2500483 | "Back for Good" is a song recorded by British band Take That for their third studio album, "Nobody Else" (1995). It was written and produced by the lead singer Gary Barlow, with an additional production done by Chris Porter. The song topped the UK Singles Chart, and achieved great success in many countries around the world, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Spain and the United States. |
2501408 | The Ghoulies film series are American horror-comedy films released in the 1980s and 1990s and centered on group of small, demonic creatures that have a wide range of twisted appearances. |
2514977 | Treasure in the Royal Tower is the fourth installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive. The game is available for play on Microsoft Windows platforms. It has an ESRB rating of E for moments of mild violence and peril. Players take on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and must solve the mystery through interrogation of suspects, solving puzzles, and discovering clues. There are two levels of gameplay, Junior and Senior detective modes, each offering a different difficulty level of puzzles and hints, however neither of these changes affect the actual plot of the game. The game was loosely based on a book entitled "The Treasure in the Royal Tower" (1995). |
2516864 | "So, we'll go no more a roving" is a poem, written by (George Gordon) Lord Byron (1788–1824), and included in a letter to Thomas Moore on 28 February 1817. Moore published the poem in 1830 as part of "Letters and Journals of Lord Byron". |
2545782 | Warm Springs is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Bath County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 123. It lies along U.S. Route 220 near the center of the county. Warm Springs includes the historical mill town called Germantown. |
2547676 | Chris Menges BSC, ASC (born 15 September 1940) is an English cinematographer and film director. He is a member of both the American and British Societies of Cinematographers. |
2550991 | Where the Wild Things Are (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) |
2561993 | Truly for You is a 1984 album by American R&B vocal group the Temptations. Released on October 15, 1984 by Motown Records' Gordy label, This is the first full Temptations album to feature Ali-Ollie Woodson (credited simply as "Ollie Woodson"); who joined the group in 1983 to replace Dennis Edwards. The album was produced by Earth, Wind & Fire members Al McKay and Ralph Johnson. Included on the album are the R&B hit singles "Treat Her Like a Lady", "My Love Is True (Truly For You)", and "How Can You Say That It's Over". |
2577339 | Moonrise is a 2013 book written by Penny Wolfson. The full name, Moonrise; One Family, Genetic Identity, And Muscular Dystrophy, refers to her family and her son, Ansel, who struggled through his life with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The book was based on an article the author wrote for "The Atlantic" in 2001, which received a national magazine award. |
2589963 | National Athletic Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities |
2590159 | Elyse Luray is an American art historian and appraiser of historical objects who has become a television personality as a result of her appearances on a number of shows, most particularly as a member, since its premiere in 2003, of PBS's investigation-of-the-past series "History Detectives". |
2590306 | Kericho is the biggest town in Kericho County located in the highlands west of the Kenyan Rift Valley. Standing on the edge of the Mau Forest, Kericho has a warm and temperate climate making it an ideal location for agriculture and in particular, the large scale cultivation of tea. |
2592469 | Chris Walas (born 1955) is an American special effects/make-up artist and film director. |
2592742 | A Damsel in Distress is a 1937 English-themed Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. With a screenplay by P. G. Wodehouse, loosely based on his novel of the same name, music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, it is directed by George Stevens. It is the second (and last) Astaire musical directed by Stevens; the first was "Swing Time". |
2593780 | Scott Alexander (born June 16, 1963, Los Angeles, California) and Larry Karaszewski ( ; born November 20, 1961, South Bend, Indiana) are an American screenwriting team. They met at the University of Southern California where they were roommates; they graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts in 1985. |
2594133 | For thirty years there had been a legend of a "ghost cow" that wandered the areas around the Millstone River floodplain and Griggstown. The cow was seen many times but only on foggy nights or other times of poor visibility, and many tales were told by local hunters and hikers along the canal path. No spoor or tracks were ever found. Some fuzzy photographs were even taken, but they were all inconclusive. At the time area was mostly suburban homes and open fields, and the canal was now a state park and walking trail so reports of a lone feral cow wandering a suburban park for decades were greeted with suspicion by local authorities. The cow became known as a sort of "Loch Ness Monster" of New Jersey and believed to be a myth, much like the Jersey Devil. |
2602451 | Guadalcanal is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill as part of the "Smithsonian American History Series". The game simulates World War II naval battles near the Solomon Islands and is primarily designed for two players. It uses the same game design as the Smithsonian edition of "Midway". |
2607811 | Major Lee Applewhite (born July 26, 1978) is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head coach for the University of Houston, where he previously served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. In 2013, he was the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Texas. Prior to Texas, Applewhite served as offensive coordinator at Rice University under Todd Graham in 2006 and at the University of Alabama under Nick Saban in 2007. He was the youngest offensive coordinator among Division I-A schools at that time. |
2609020 | Penny Rae Bridges (born July 29, 1990) is an American actress. Her television work has included roles in "For Your Love", "Family Law", "Boy Meets World" and "The Parent 'Hood". She is best known for her role in "Half & Half", as the young Mona. |
2618038 | Mavia is a genus of ichneumon wasps in the subfamily Gelinae. |
2629043 | Ian Prowse (born 10 January 1964 ) is an English singer-songwriter, currently frontman of Amsterdam and previously of Pele. |
2630379 | The United States Ambassador to France is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state of France. There has been a U.S. Ambassador to France since the American Revolution. The United States sent its first envoys to France in 1776, towards the end of the four-centuries-old Bourbon dynasty. The American diplomatic relationship with France has continued throughout that country's five republican regimes, two periods of French empire, the Bourbon Restoration, and its July Monarchy. After the Battle of France, the United States maintained diplomatic relations with Vichy France until France severed them on the date Operation Torch was launched in November 1942; the Embassy was reopened December 1944. |
2632070 | MediEvil: Resurrection is a 2005 gothic action-adventure video game developed by SCE Cambridge Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable. It is a re-imagining of the first instalment in the series, "MediEvil". It was first released as a launch title on 1 September 2005 in Europe and 13 September 2005 in North America. It was also re-released for the PlayStation Network in 2008. The game is set in the medieval Kingdom of Gallowmere and centres around the charlatan protagonist, Sir Daniel Fortesque, as he makes an attempt to stop antagonist Zarok's invasion of the kingdom whilst simultaneously redeeming himself. The game also features a variety of voice talents, including Tom Baker as the narrator and the Grim Reaper. |
2632968 | Tamerlano ("Tamerlane", HWV 18) is an opera seria in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music theatre company, with music by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene's "Tamerlano" together with another libretto entitled "Bajazet" after Nicolas Pradon's "Tamerlan, ou La Mort de Bajazet". |
2633352 | Tolomeo, re d'Egitto ("Ptolemy, King of Egypt", HWV 25) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's "Tolomeo et Alessandro". |
2633489 | Rodrigo (HWV 5) is an opera in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel. Its original title was "Vincer se stesso è la maggior vittoria" ("To overcome oneself is the greater victory"). The opera is based on the historical figure of Rodrigo, the last Visigothic king of Spain. The libretto was based on Francesco Silvani's "II duello d'Amore e di Vendetta" ("The conflict between love and revenge"). Dating from 1707, it was Handel's first opera written for performance in Italy, and the first performance took place in Florence late in 1707. |
2637077 | Dying Young is a 1991 American romance film, directed by Joel Schumacher. It is based on a novel of the same name by Marti Leimbach, and stars Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott with Vincent D'Onofrio, Colleen Dewhurst, David Selby, and Ellen Burstyn. The original music score was composed by James Newton Howard, with the main song "Theme from Dying Young" performed by American saxophonist Kenny G. |
2637745 | Darcy Rose Byrnes (born November 4, 1998) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Abby Carlton Newman on "The Young and the Restless" and Penny Scavo on "Desperate Housewives". She currently works as the voice of Princess Amber in "Sofia the First" and Maricela in "Spirit Riding Free". |
2639814 | The Cooks River, a semi-mature tide dominated drowned valley estuary, is a tributary of Botany Bay, located in south-eastern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
2640611 | Darren Hayman (born 1 December 1970) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was best known as the writer, lead singer and guitarist in Hefner. Since Hefner disbanded in 2002, Hayman has embarked on a prolific solo career releasing twelve albums under his own name and appearing on albums by Papernut Cambridge, Rotifer and The Great Electric. He has regularly worked with The Wave Pictures, producing an album for them, directing three of their music videos and briefly employing them as his backing band. In January 2011 Hayman recorded and released a song every day in the month of January, working with many collaborators. Hayman also paints and has exhibited his work at exhibitions about animals in space and racing dogs. |
2642634 | Lauren Katherine Tell (née Conrad; born February 1, 1986) is an American television personality, fashion designer, and author. Born and raised in Laguna Beach, California, she attended Laguna Beach High School. In September 2004, at the age of 18, Conrad came to prominence after being cast in the reality television series "", which documented her life and those of her friends. |
2650063 | Chief Noc-A-Homa was the original mascot of the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves from the 1950s until 1986. The name was used for the "screaming Indian" sleeve patch worn on Braves jerseys. From at least the early 1960s, while still in Milwaukee County Stadium, until the early 1980s at Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium, this mascot "lived" in a teepee in an unoccupied section of the bleacher seats. |
2652289 | American R&B girl group Destiny's Child has released four studio albums, four compilation albums, one holiday album, two remix albums, one extended play, twenty-three singles, including four as featured artists and two promotional singles, and three video albums. |
2655492 | Scott Morse (sometimes known as C. Scott Morse or C. S. Morse) is an American animator, filmmaker, and comic book artist/writer. |
2657177 | Tracks to Telluride is a railroad board game centered on the construction of railroad track, and servicing mines along those railroad tracks. The setting of the game is in southwestern Colorado during the mining boom of 1873 through 1888. The game was developed by John Bohrer with playtesting by the Edgewood Gaming Group and the Pittsburgh Smoking Engineers. |
2658547 | Scott Randolph Asheton (August 16, 1949 – March 15, 2014) was an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band the Stooges. |
2659526 | Dagobert Sigismund, Count von Wurmser (7 May 1724 – 22 August 1797) was an Austrian field marshal during the French Revolutionary Wars. Although he fought in the Seven Years' War, the War of the Bavarian Succession, and mounted several successful campaigns in the Rhineland in the initial years of the French Revolutionary Wars, he is probably most remembered for his unsuccessful operations against Napoleon Bonaparte during the 1796 campaign in Italy. |
2664431 | Charles Burnham "Bud" Wilkinson (April 23, 1916 – February 9, 1994) was an American football player, coach, broadcaster, and politician. He served as the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1947 to 1963, compiling a record of 145–29–4. His Oklahoma Sooners won three national championships (1950, 1955, and 1956) and 14 conference titles. Between 1953 and 1957, Wilkinson's Oklahoma squads won 47 straight games, a record that still stands at the highest level of college football. After retiring from coaching following the 1963 season, Wilkinson entered into politics and, in 1965, became a broadcaster with ABC Sports. He returned to coaching in 1978, helming the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League for two seasons. Wilkinson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1969. |
2665808 | Iain Archer is a singer–songwriter/producer from Bangor, Northern Ireland. Archer comes from a musical background and released several solo albums in the mid-1990s on the small Scottish independent label Sticky Music. After a stint with Snow Patrol and a side project with the band's frontman Gary Lightbody in The Reindeer Section, he returned to his solo career. In 2004, he released the album "Flood the Tanks", and in 2006 "Magnetic North", co-produced with David Kosten (Bat for Lashes, Everything Everything), both to critical acclaim. His most recent album, "To the Pine Roots", was released in 2009. |
2677270 | Il corsaro ("The Corsair") is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, from a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on Lord Byron's poem "The Corsair". The first performance was given at the Teatro Grande in Trieste on 25 October 1848. |
2679275 | The Caledon Bay crisis refers to a series of killings at Caledon Bay in the Northern Territory of Australia during 1932–34. These events are widely seen as a turning point in relations between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. |
2684376 | Locust Grove, named after the Black Locust trees common to the area, is an unincorporated community in eastern Orange County, Virginia, United States. Its ZIP code is 22508, the population of the ZIP Code Tabulation Area was 7,605 at the time of the 2000 census and increased by 60% to 12,696 by the 2010 Census making it the largest population center within the county (38% of Orange County's total population). While Locust Grove has historically been centered on the intersection of State Routes 20 and 611, most of the current population (and commercial activity) is located along the State Route 3 corridor several miles to the east. |
2691497 | Ulli Lommel (born 21 December 1944) is a German actor and director, noted for his many collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his association with the New German Cinema movement. Lommel is also well known for the time which he spent at The Factory and as a creative associate of Andy Warhol, with whom he made several films and works of art. Since 1977 he has lived and worked in the USA, where he has written, directed and starred in over 50 movies. |
2724902 | Scott Spence is the artistic director of the Beck Center in Lakewood, Ohio. |
2728105 | Peter N. Kirstein is a professor of history at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Illinois. He received his MA. and Ph.D. from Saint Louis University, and his A.B. from Boston University, where he studied under Howard Zinn. Kirstein also attended Washington University in St. Louis. Kirstein received his university's Excellence in Teaching Award. He is known for his research on the atomic bomb, and support of academic freedom. He was reelected for a two-year term (2016-2018) as Vice President of the Illinois Conference of the American Association of University Professors and is chair of the Illinois Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. He chairs his university's Faculty Grievance Committee and served as president of his university's AAUP chapter that ended in March 2017. |
2728408 | Scott Alexander "Scotty" Leavenworth (born May 21, 1990) is an American actor. He began acting in commercials at the age of four, and has since appeared in a variety of films and television programs. Notable appearances include "The Green Mile", "Baby Geniuses", "", "The Soul Collector", "Life as a House", and "Erin Brockovich". |
2753248 | David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow GCMG (31 May 1833 – 13 December 1915) was a British naval commander and colonial governor. He served as Governor of New Zealand between 1892 and 1897. |
2772568 | The discography of American singer Gladys Knight, consists of eleven studio albums, and eighteen singles. |
2793299 | Anthogonium is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae). At the present time (May 2014), only one species is recognized, i.e., Anthogonium gracile found in India, Assam, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Guangxi, Guizhou, Tibet, and Yunnan. |
2808653 | Crnce or Cerrcë (Albanian: "Cerrcë" ; Serbian: "Црнце", "Crnce" ) is a village in Kosovo, 2 km south of the town of Istok. |
2809436 | The Orlando Thunder was a member of the World League of American Football from 1991 to 1992 (known as NFL Europe from 1995 onwards). The team played their games in the 70,000 seat Florida Citrus Bowl, and was coached by Don Matthews in 1991 and Galen Hall in 1992. The team's most visible point was their colors – the League wanted to develop new colors which hadn't been used for teams before, hence the vermilion and green that the Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks wore, and the fluorescent green jerseys that the Thunder sported. |
2809906 | Dirty Rotten Cheater is a game show that aired on PAX from January 6 to April 14, 2003. The show's gameplay combines elements of "Weakest Link" and "Family Feud" along with the BBC game format "The Enemy Within", with a contestant being privy to answers in each round and trying to elude detection by fellow contestants and the studio audience. The PAX version, of which 13 weekly episodes aired, was hosted by Bil Dwyer, produced by Jonathan Goodson, and shot at CBS Television City in Hollywood (except for the original pilot, which was titled "Cheaters" and produced on the "Weakest Link"' s set at NBC Studios in Burbank). Different versions of the show also aired in other countries. |