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Liu Zhenhua Liu Zhenhua (; born 1921) is a People's Liberation Army general (shang jiang). He was born in Tai'an, Shandong Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1938. He was a veteran of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War and Korean War. He made significant contributions to the victories of t...
Adam Tsuei Adam Tsuei (; born October 26, 1959) is an entrepreneur, film producer, and director. He was the former president of Sony Music Entertainment in the Greater China Region. He has made and brought to the music world super idols as Jay Chou, Leehom Wang, F4 and Jolin Tsai, which made him been viewed as one of t...
Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki ( ; ] ; born 23 November 1933) is a Polish composer and conductor. "The Guardian" has called him Poland's greatest living composer. Among his best known works are his "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima", "Symphony No. 3", "St. Luke Passion", "Polish Requiem", "Anak...
Beethoven's musical style Ludwig van Beethoven is universally viewed as one of the most influential figures in the history of classical music. Since his lifetime, when he was "universally accepted as the greatest living composer", Beethoven's music has remained among the most performed, discussed and reviewed. Scholarl...
Stefans Grové Stefans Grové (born 23 July 1922, Bethlehem, Orange Free State, South Africa; – 29 May 2014, Pretoria) was a South African composer. Before his death the following assessment was made of him: "He is regarded by many as Africa's greatest living composer, possesses one of the most distinctive compositional ...
Javier Torres Maldonado Javier Torres Maldonado (born 1968) is a Mexican-Italian composer internationally recognized for, mostly, his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic works.
Pearl Chertok Pearl Chertok (June 18, 1918, in Laconia, New Hampshire – August 1, 1981 in White Plains, New York) was an internationally regarded harpist and composer for harp.
Marius Trésor Marius Trésor (born 15 January 1950 in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe) is a retired football defender from France, who was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers. He is considered as one of the France's best defenders of all time, and he is regarded as one of France's greatest ever playe...
Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (] ; 7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as Franc...
Veljo Tormis Veljo Tormis (7 August 1930 – 21 January 2017) was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the greatest living choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 indivi...
Theodor Mommsen Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer generally regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental ...
Arbie Orenstein Arbie Orenstein (born 1937) is an American musicologist, author, academic and pianist, known as a scholar of the life and works of the composer Maurice Ravel and, more generally, as an expert on Jewish music.
Nikolay Pirogov Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1810 – 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1881 ) was a prominent Russian scientist, medical doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847). He is considered to be the founder of field surgery, and ...
Comparison of orthotics Podiatrists have molded custom orthotics to address patients foot malformations. Over the years they have developed numerous means to create the basis for their molds; plaster casts, foam box impressions, or three-dimensional computer imaging. None is very accurate: all produce proper fit under ...
Cynthia Plaster Caster Cynthia Plaster Caster (born Cynthia Albritton on May 24, 1947) is an American artist and self-described "recovering groupie" who creates plaster casts of famous persons' breasts and erect penises.
Lewis Nockalls Cottingham Lewis Nockalls Cottingham (1787 – 13 October 1847) was a British architect who pioneered the study of Medieval Gothic architecture. He was a restorer and conservator of existing buildings. He set up a Museum of Medieval Art in Waterloo Road, London with a collection of artefacts from demolishe...
H. Winnett Orr H. Winnett Orr (March 17, 1877 – October 11, 1956) was an orthopedic surgeon who was born in Pennsylvania, raised and lived the rest of his life in Nebraska. More than any other person, Orr was responsible for the invention of plaster casts method for the treatment of broken bones.
Plaster Caster Plaster Caster is a 2001 documentary film about Cynthia Plaster Caster, the legendary groupie who became famous for making plaster casts of rock stars' penises, including Jimi Hendrix's.
Musée Rude The Musée Rude is an art museum dedicated to the French sculptor François Rude (1784–1855). It has the "Musée de France" label and has been housed since 1947 in a part of the former Église Saint-Étienne of Dijon, built during the 11th century. The museum displays life-size plaster casts acquired by the Dijon...
Mariana Castillo Deball Mariana Castillo Deball (born 1975 in Mexico City) is an artist who studied in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City and the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. She is currently based in Berlin. In 2009, she was awarded the Ars Viva prize, which has been presented by the Kult...
Museum of Plaster Casts (Thessaloniki) The Museum of Plaster Casts occupies two rooms in the basement of the new building of the School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia, Greece. The museum houses a collection of plaster casts, replicas and original archaeological artifacts...
Paul Freeman (cryptozoologist) Paul Freeman (August 10, 1943 – April 2, 2003) was an American Bigfoot hunter who claimed to have discovered Bigfoot tracks showing dermal ridges. The plaster casts Freeman subsequently made were convincing enough to be considered critical pieces of evidence by anthropologists Jeff Meldru...
Aaron Paul Aaron Paul Sturtevant (born August 27, 1979), known as Aaron Paul, is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Jesse Pinkman in the AMC series "Breaking Bad", for which he won several awards, including the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2014), the Sate...
Nick Reding (actor) Nicholas Mark "Nick" Reding (born 31 August 1962 in Chiswick, London) is an English actor. During a career of more than two decades, he is probably best known for playing PC Pete Ramsey in "The Bill" and DI Michael Conner in the BBC crime thriller series "Silent Witness". His many TV and film appear...
Geoffrey Rush Geoffrey Roy Rush {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor and film producer. Rush is the youngest amongst the few people who have won the "Triple Crown of Acting": the Academy Award, the Primetime Emmy Award, and the Tony Award. He has won one Academy Award for acting (f...
Cathy Moriarty Cathy Moriarty (born November 29, 1960) is an American actress whose career spans over 30 years. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Raging Bull" (1980). She also starred in films, including "Neighbors", "White of the Eye", "Soapdish", "Casper", "Analyze That", and "Th...
John Kassir John Kassir (born October 24, 1957) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian. He is known as the voice of the Crypt Keeper in HBO's "Tales from the Crypt" franchise. Kassir is also known for his role as Ralph in the Off-Broadway show "Reefer Madness", as well as its film adaptation, as well as his voi...
Riz Ahmed Rizwan Ahmed (Urdu: ‎ ; born 1 December 1982), also known as Riz MC, is a British-Pakistani actor, rapper and activist. As an actor, he won an Emmy Award, out of two Emmy nominations, and was also nominated for a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, and three British Independent Film Awards. He was initia...
Robert Sacchi Robert Sacchi (born March 3, 1941 in Bronx, New York) is an American character actor who, since the 1970s, has been known for his close resemblance to Humphrey Bogart. Sacchi has appeared in many films and TV shows playing either Bogart or a character who happens to look and sound like him. In a notable e...
Britt Leach Britt Leach (born July 18, 1938; Gadsden, Alabama) is an American character actor. He is best known for his roles in the films "Fuzz" (1972), "Interval" (1973), "The California Kid" (1974), "Jackson County Jail" (1976), "Goin' South" (1978), "Loose Shoes" (1978), "Hardly Working" (1980), "" (1980), "Night W...
Stephen Semel Stephen Semel (sometimes credited as Steve Semel or Steven Semel) is an American Primetime Emmy Award-winning film and television editor, film producer, production manager, and actor. He has worked as an editor for mainstream movies, such as "Airheads", "The Count of Monte Cristo", "Fandango", "Kuffs", "L...
Collected Stories for Children Collected Stories for Children is a collection of 17 fantasy stories or original fairy tales by Walter de la Mare, first published by Faber in 1947 with illustrations by Irene Hawkins. De la Mare won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subjec...
Times Square Lady Times Square Lady is a 1935 American crime drama film, starring Robert Taylor and Virginia Bruce.
Whipsaw (film) Whipsaw is a 1935 American crime drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy. Written by Howard Emmett Rogers, based on a story by James Edward Grant, the film is about a government agent working undercover traveling across the country with an unsuspecting woman, hoping she w...
The Murder Man The Murder Man is a 1935 American crime-drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, and Lionel Atwill, and directed by Tim Whelan. The picture was Tracy's first film in what would be a twenty-year career with MGM. Tracy plays an investigative reporter who specializes in murder cases. The film is n...
Josh Hartnett Joshua Daniel Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor and movie producer. He first came to attention in 1997 for his role as Michael Fitzgerald in the television crime drama series "Cracker". He made his feature film debut in 1998 in the slasher film "", followed by teen roles in films such as ...
Red Hot Tires (1935 film) Red Hot Tires is a 1935 American crime drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros., directed by D. Ross Lederman, and starring Lyle Talbot and Mary Astor.
On the Waterfront On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, and, in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film ...
Paul Schrader Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for four Martin Scorsese films: "Taxi Driver" (1976), "Raging Bull" (1980), "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988), and "Bringing Out the Dead" (1999). Schrader has...
Víctor Bó Víctor Bó (born April 8, 1943) is an Argentine actor and film producer. He is the son of classic actor and director Armando Bó, and father and uncle of Academy Award Winners for Best Original Screenplay Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone, respectively. He is currently retired from acting.
Woman Wanted (1935 film) Woman Wanted is a 1935 American crime drama film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Maureen O'Sullivan and Joel McCrea. Written by Leonard Fields and David Silverstein, the film is about a woman wrongly convicted of murder who escapes with the help of a young lawyer who hides her from the...
Capital I ‘Capital I’ is a 2015 Odia language independent feature film written and directed by Amartya Bhattacharyya. This film, tagged as an existential psychodrama, is the first independent feature film of Odisha. The film is produced by Susant Misra and Swastik Choudhury. This film is shot on a shoe-string budget wi...
Robert T. Frederick Major General Robert Tryon Frederick (March 14, 1907 – November 29, 1970) was a senior United States Army officer who fought in World War II. During the war, he commanded the 1st Special Service Force, the 1st Allied Airborne Task Force, and the 45th Infantry Division. He was twice awarded the Disti...
Robert H. Soule Major General Robert H. "Shorty" Soule (February 10, 1900 – January 26, 1952) was a senior United States Army officer. He commanded the 188th Glider Infantry Regiment of the 11th Airborne Division during World War II in the Philippines campaign. He later commanded the 3rd Infantry Division during the Ko...
Robert Arkwright Major General Robert Harry Bertram Arkwright & Bar (1903–1971) was a British Army officer who served in World War II and later commanded the 2nd Infantry Division.
Robert Knox Ross Major General Robert Knox Ross CB DSO MC (23 August 1893 – 3 November 1951) was a senior British Army officer who, during World War II, commanded the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division throughout the campaign in North-West Europe from June 1944 until May 1945.
Robert C. Macon Major General Robert Chauncey Macon (July 12, 1890 – October 20, 1980) was a senior United States Army officer who commanded the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 83rd Infantry Division during World War II in Western Europe and later served as military attaché in Moscow.
Robert Alexander (United States Army officer) Major General Robert Alexander (October 17, 1863 – August 25, 1941) was a senior United States Army officer. He served in World War I, where he commanded the 77th Infantry Division on the Western Front.
Robert Cotton Money Major General Robert Cotton Money, (21 July 1888 – 16 April 1985) was a senior British Army officer, who commanded the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division during the early part of the Second World War.
A. P. Hill's Light Division A. P. Hill's Light Division was an infantry division in General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. Originally including six brigades, the Division's first commander starting May 27, 1862 was then Major General A. P. Hill. Major Generals Willi...
Robert W. Grow Major General Robert Walker Grow (February 14, 1895 – November 3, 1985) was a senior United States Army officer who commanded the 6th Armored Division during World War II. He was notable for his court martial in 1951 for failing to safeguard classified information.
Robert Wanless O'Gowan Major General Robert Wanless O'Gowan (5 September 1864 – 15 December 1947) was a British Army officer who commanded the 31st Division during the First World War.
Thomas Jefferson Foundation The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, originally known as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, is a private, nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation founded in 1923 to purchase and maintain Monticello, the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. The Foundation...
Castle Hill, Filleigh Castle Hill in the parish of Filleigh in North Devon, is an early Palladian country house situated 3 miles north-west of South Molton and 8 miles south-east of Barnstaple. It was built in 1730 by Hugh Fortescue, 14th Baron Clinton (1696–1751), who was later created in 1751 1st Baron Fortescue and ...
Castle Hill (Virginia) Castle Hill (Virginia) is an historic, privately owned, 600-acre (243 ha) plantation located at the foot of the Southwest Mountains in Albemarle County, Virginia, near Monticello and the city of Charlottesville, and is recognized by the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of His...
Hayes Plantation Hayes Plantation, also known as Hayes Farm, is a historic plantation near Edenton, North Carolina that belonged to Samuel Johnston (1733–1816), who served as Governor of North Carolina from 1787 to 1789. Johnston became one of the state's first two United States Senators, serving from 1789 until 1793, ...
Castle Hill, Queensland Castle Hill is a suburb in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Most of the suburb is taken up with the Castle Hill reserve with only a small area in the north-east of the suburb being available for housing. In the 2011 census, Castle Hill had a population of 1,009 people. The Indigeno...
Castle Hill High School Castle Hill High School, located in Castle Street, Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia, is a co-educational and comprehensive school with students ranging from year 7 to year 12. Castle Hill High School has performed well during the 2016 HSC, students achieving 170 Band 6's as well as having...
Jacob W. Holt Jacob W. Holt (1811–1880), was an early to mid 19th century carpenter and builder-architect of Warrenton, North Carolina. Some twenty or more buildings are known to have been built by him or are attributed to him and his workshop by local tradition or their distinctive style. Some of his work includes amo...
Four Mile Tree Four Mile Tree is the name of a plantation near Jamestown, Virginia that once encompassed two thousand acres (8 km²), it was situated on the south bank of the James River opposite Jamestown, four miles (6 km) further north. On a hill near the water's edge a handsome old house overlooks the river. This pl...
Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture recognizes individuals for distinguished contributions to the field of architecture. The Medal in Architecture has been jointly awarded each year by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and the University of Virginia S...
Primary residence A person's primary residence, or main residence is the dwelling where they usually live, typically a house or an apartment. A person can only have one "primary" residence at any given time, though they may share the residence with other people. A primary residence is considered to be a legal residence...
Killer BiSH Killer BiSH is the third album by Japanese idol group BiSH released through Avex Trax on October 5, 2016. The album is the first full album by the group to be released from a major label. The album is the first release to feature new member Ayuni D, who joined the group in August 2016 following the departur...
Change (Andrew Hill album) Change is the ninth album by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill featuring performances recorded and scheduled for release in 1966 on the Blue Note label. The album was originally scheduled for issue in 1967 as BST 84233, but was held back from release until 1975, when the tracks appeared under...
American Spring (Anti-Flag album) American Spring is Anti-Flag's ninth studio album. The album was released on May 26, 2015. The album marks the band's first release for Spinefarm Records after releasing their previous two albums on SideOneDummy Records. A lyric music video for the album's first single, "Fabled World" ...
Man Overboard (Man Overboard album) Man Overboard is the second studio album by American rock band Man Overboard. After the release of their debut album "Real Talk" (2010), guitarist Wayne Wildrick left the group, resulting in several line-up changes. In December 2010, the group had signed to independent label Rise Rec...
In Death Reborn On February 11, 2014, it was confirmed that the album's production team consisted of producers include Stu Bangas, C-Lance, Leaf Dog, Panik and including Army of the Pharaohs' own Apathy amongst others, including new faces that hadn't been producing for the group beforehand. In promotion for "In Death R...
Music for Cars (EP) Music for Cars is the third extended play by English rock band The 1975, released on 4 March 2013 through Dirty Hit. and in the United States through Vagrant 5 March. It is the third of four EPs released before the band's self-titled debut. It is also confirmed to share its title with the band's pla...
Chapter 1 (EP) Chapter 1 is the second extended play (EP) by American country music singer Kane Brown who is signed with Sony Music Nashville in early 2016. The five-song EP was released on March 18, 2016, as his first EP with the Sony label although he had an earlier independently released EP on his own label titled "...
Pacific Myth Pacific Myth is a subscription-based serial album and the fifth major release by the Canadian progressive metal band Protest the Hero, distributed through the online music subscription service Bandcamp. Following the independent release of their crowdfunded 2013 album "Volition", the band sought to explore...
Joker's Daughter (band) Joker's Daughter was originally a musical collaboration between Greek-English singer/songwriter Helena Costas and producer Danger Mouse who released their debut album "The Last Laugh" in 2009. Today Helena Costas is backed by a new band and has a new album scheduled for release on 31 October 201...
Rex Riot Rex Riot, born Nicholas Rex Valente, is an electronic music producer. He is known for his work with Nintendo, for their 2012 Wii U Campaign, and various work including a popular remix of Kanye West's "All of the Lights", which he produced with Infuze. He currently has releases under Play Me Records, Heavy Arti...
Dear Old Duke The Duke University Alma Mater, also known as "Dear Old Duke," is the official alma mater of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Needles High School Needles High School (NHS) is a public high school in Needles, California. It is part of the Needles Unified School District. The school nickname is the Mustang, and the school colors are royal blue and white. The current alma mater, "All Hail to Thee," was written by members of the Class of 1959 as ...
Georgetown University Alma Mater The Georgetown University Alma Mater is one of the traditional songs of Georgetown University, and the university's official and undisputed alma mater. It was written to the tune of the Welsh battle song "Men of Harlech" in 1894 by Robert J. Collier, a Georgetown student. The song is pe...
LSU Alma Mater The "LSU Alma Mater" was written in 1929 by Lloyd Funchess and Harris Downey, two students who developed the original song and music because LSU's first alma mater was sung to the tune of "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" and was used by Cornell University. The band plays the "Alma Mater" during pregame and at...
University of Pittsburgh Alma Mater The alma mater of the University of Pittsburgh was adopted soon after the University changed its name in 1908 from the Western University of Pennsylvania to its current moniker. Lyrics were written by George M. P. Baird, class of 1909 and were set to the tune of what was then the Aus...
Alma Mater Iowa Alma Mater Iowa is the alma mater hymn for the University of Iowa. The lyrics were written by Gene Mills - a graduate of the university's College of Engineering in 1947 and the melody of the song was composed in 1960
Alma Mater (Dartmouth College) The "Alma Mater" is the official school song of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Composed by Harry Wellman, class of 1907, it was officially adopted by the College in 1926. The difficult to sing "Dartmouth Undying" replaced it i...
Our Alma Mater "Our Alma Mater" is the alma mater of The College of William & Mary. It was written by James Southall Wilson, a William & Mary alumnus from the class of 1904. Usually, only the first and fourth verses are sung.
Asadullah Boroujerdi Boroujerdi great Shia mujtahids, born in Boroujerd after the degrees, in the same city to pay religious teaching and office, And died in 1892. There is not a lot of time and his alma mater, and just the fact that he (Mohammad Mujahid) and (Sayyid Abul Skinheads) course studied, There is not a lot o...
UNH Alma Mater The "UNH Alma Mater" is the official alma mater of the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire. The lyrics to the song were written by H.F. Moore in 1898, and sung to the tune "Lancashire" by Henry Smart.
Alfred-Louis Brunet-Debaines Alfred-Louis Brunet-Debaines (5 November 1845 - 1939) was a French artist and printmaker who depicted street scenes and architecture, and who was the son of the architect Charles-Louis-Fortuné Brunet-Debaines. In 1863, he began his art studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. During this...
Nguyễn Sáng Nguyễn Sáng ( Tien Giang Province 1923- Ho Chi Minh City 1988) was a Vietnamese painter. He was a graduate of the 1940-1945 class of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine. His favorite medias were pumice lacquer and oil paint. Although not overtly political, Sáng was reluctant and unenthusiastic about the...
Maurice Milliere Maurice Milliere (1871–1946) was a French painter, printmaker and illustrator, born in Le Havre to upper working class parents; his father was a merchant's clerk. His early artistic interests are not known, but he completed his secondary education at the Ecole De Beaux Arts in Le Havre before travellin...
Claude Minière Claude Minière (born October 25, 1938, Paris) is an essayist and poet. Initially, he took part in various avant-garde activities before turning towards a more solitary, more classical approach to writing, never forgetting, however, the conquests of Rimbaud, Ezra Pound and free-verse. For fifteen years he...
Nguyễn Phan Chánh Nguyen Phan Chanh (July 21, 1892 - November 22, 1984) was born in a rural Vietnamese village, in Ha Tinh (now Nghe Tinh) province. His early education was in Chinese (as was common in pre-colonial times), and he studied Chinese calligraphy so as to pass the qualifying exams for the title of Mandarin. ...
Beaux-Arts architecture Beaux-Arts architecture ( ; ] ) expresses the academic neoclassical architectural style taught at the "École des Beaux-Arts" in Paris. The "style" "Beaux Arts" is the cumulative product of two-and-a-half centuries of instruction under the authority, first, of the "Académie royale d'architecture"...
René Margotton He studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts of Paris and later with Fernand Léger friend of Maurice Utrillo and Bernard Buffet. He has exhibited extensively in Paris at the Salon de l'Art Libre, Salon des Independants, Salon de Printemps, Salon de l'Ecole Francaise, Salon de la Nationale ...
Detlef Lienau Detlef Lienau (February 17, 1818 Uetersen – August 29, 1887) was a German architect born in Holstein. He is credited with having introduced the French style to American building construction, notably the mansard roof and all its decorative flourishes. Trained at L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he designe...
John Lonergan (artist) John Lonergan was an American artist, educator, and writer. He was born in Troy, NY. Sources variously list the year of his birth as 1895, 1896,1897. Lonergan died in New York City in 1969. His art often depicted the sea and the men who worked it, done in various mediums. These include gouache, d...
Peggy Adam Peggy Adam (born 1974) is a French comic book artist and illustrator. She studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Saint-Étienne, at the OCAD University in Toronto, and at the ESI (Ecole Supérieure de l'Image) in Angoulême.
Contact (Freda Payne album) Contact is Freda Payne's fourth American released album and her second for Invictus Records. The majority of the material on this album contains sad themes, with the exception of "You Brought the Joy." The album begins with a dramatic 11-minute medley of "I'm Not Getting Any Better" and "Sud...
Moonlight (2016 film) Moonlight is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished semi-autobiographical play "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue". It stars Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie H...
Holland (surname) Holland is a toponomical surname indicative of ancestral origin in the Dutch region of Holland, the Netherlands, or the English region of Holland (Lincolnshire), or the English towns of Upholland (Lancashire) and Holland-on-Sea (Essex). It is also an Anglicized version of "Ó hUallacháin" (or Houlihan ...
Anime salve Anime salve is the final album released by Italian singer/songwriter Fabrizio De André in 1996. It was written together with Ivano Fossati, who co-sings in "Anime salve" and " Â cúmba". In a 2011 interview within the DVD documentary series "Dentro Faber" [i.e. "Inside Faber"] about De André's life and works...
André Holland André Holland (born December 28, 1979) is an American actor, known for his roles as Dr. Algernon Edwards on the Cinemax drama series "The Knick", and as Matt Miller on the FX series "". He portrayed politician and activist Andrew Young in the 2014 film "Selma", sportswriter Wendell Smith in the 2013 film ...
Joe Holland (coach) Joseph Vernon "Joe" Holland (September 7, 1916 – January 23, 1992) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He was the first head football coach for the Vanport Vikings (now the Portland State Vikings) located in Portland, Oregon. He held that position for eight seasons, from 1947 u...
André baronets The André Baronetcy, of Southampton in the County of Southampton, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 4 March 1781 for William André, in recognition of the services rendered to the country by his brother John André, who was executed in 1780 after being convicted of espionage...
Kingdom of Holland The Kingdom of Holland (Dutch: "Koninkrijk Holland" , French: "Royaume de Hollande" ) was set up by Napoléon Bonaparte as a puppet kingdom for his third brother, Louis Bonaparte, in order to better control the Netherlands. The name of the leading province, Holland, was now taken for the whole country...