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Ahmose (queen) Ahmose was an Ancient Egyptian queen in the Eighteenth Dynasty. She was the Great Royal Wife of the dynasty's third pharaoh, Thutmose I, and the mother of the queen and pharaoh Hatshepsut. Her name means "Born of the Moon".
Ahmose I Ahmose I (Egyptian: Jˁḥ ms(j.w), sometimes written "Amosis I", "Amenes" and "Aahmes" and meaning "Born of Iah") was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the founder of the Eighteenth dynasty. He was a member of the Theban royal house, the son of pharaoh Seqenenre Tao and brother of the last pharaoh of the Seventeent...
Parennefer called Wennefer Parennefer also called Wennefer was a High Priest of Amun during the reigns of Tutankhamen and Horemheb (and possibly later). He was previously thought to date to the time of Ramesses II, but he is now dated to the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Parennefer was more firmly put at the end of th...
Thutmose III Thutmose III (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis III, Thothmes in older history works, and meaning "Thoth is born") was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During the first 22 years of Thutmose's reign he was co-regent with his stepmother and aunt, Hatshepsut, who was named the pharaoh. Whil...
Mutemwiya Mutemwiya (also written as Mutemwia, Mutemuya or Mutemweya) was a minor wife of Thutmose IV, a pharaoh of Egypt, in the Eighteenth Dynasty and the mother of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Mutemwiya's name means "Mut in the divine bark".
Alcoholic hallucinosis Alcoholic hallucinosis (or alcohol-related psychosis or alcohol-induced psychotic disorder) is a complication of alcohol withdrawal in alcoholics. Descriptions of the condition date back to at least 1907. They can occur during acute intoxication or withdrawal with the potential of having delirium...
2008–09 Serie D Serie D, the fifth level of Italian Football, is usually composed of 162 teams divided into nine 18-team divisions. Special relegation of four teams from the professional leagues above Serie D after the team list had been set increased the total number of teams for this season to 166. One division will ...
Engin İpekoğlu He began his football career with Prater SV, an Austrian team, in 1978. He transferred to Sakaryaspor in 1982, became professional in Sakaryaspor in 1985, and won the Turkish Cup with the team in 1988. He transferred to Beşiktaş in 1989. With Beşiktaş, he won two Turkish First League titles (1990 and 199...
U.C. AlbinoLeffe Unione Calcio AlbinoLeffe is an Italian association football club based in Bergamo and representing Albino and Leffe, two small towns located in Val Seriana. The club has played in Serie B for nine consecutive years and got very close to promotion in Serie A in 2008. It currently plays in Serie C since...
Balasore Balasore or Baleswar is a city in the state of Odisha, about 194 km north of the State capital Bhubaneswar, in eastern India. It is the administrative headquarters of Balasore district. It is best known for Chandipur beach. It is also the site of the Indian Ballistic Missile Defense Program's Integrated Test R...
Hernán Crespo Toral Hernan Crespo Toral (December 8, 1937 in Cuenca – March 23, 2008 in Quito) was an Ecuadorian architect, archeologist and museologist who played an important role in the conservation of cultural heritage in Ecuador.
Shamwari Game Reserve Shamwari Game Reserve is located 75 km outside Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It has been voted the World's Leading Safari and Game Reserve and Conservation Company for many consecutive years.
Maan Khodari Maan Sultan Al-Khodari ( معن سلطان الخضري,born 13 December 1991) is a Saudi footballer who plays for Professional club Al-Batin as Defensive Midfielder. On 4 August, his first game in 2012–13 season, he got injured at a cruciate ligament. That kept him away for 4 months.
GAS Kilkis GAS Kilkis (full name: Gymnastic Athletic Club Kilkis, Greek: Αθλητικός Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Κιλκίς , Γ.Α.Σ. Κιλκίς) is a Greek handball club based in Kilkis. It was founded in 1980 and has played in A1 ethniki (first-tier division) many consecutive years. It has won one cup, in 2004. The home arena of the c...
Acute HME syndrome In many districts of western Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha and Haryana, India, outbreaks of an acute “encephalopathy” syndrome dubbed as a “mysterious disease” have been an annual feature for many years. The disease affects rural young children during the winter months of September to December, ...
KMBC-TV KMBC-TV, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 29), is the ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri, United States and also serving Kansas City, Kansas. The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate KCWE (ch...
WJXX WJXX, virtual channel 25 (VHF digital channel 10), is an ABC-affiliated television station serving Jacksonville, Florida, United States that is licensed to Orange Park. The station is owned by the Tegna Media division of Tegna, Inc., as part of a duopoly with Jacksonville-licensed NBC affiliate WTLV (channel 12) (...
KXMB-TV KXMB-TV, channel 12, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Bismarck, North Dakota. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 (or virtual channel 12.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter near St. Anthony. The station can also be seen on Midcontinent cable channel 11 in Bismarck-Mandan, and...
WTLV WTLV, virtual channel 12 (VHF digital channel 13), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Jacksonville, Florida, United States. The station is owned by the Tegna Media division of Tegna, Inc., as part of a duopoly with Orange Park-licensed ABC affiliate WJXX (channel 25). The two stations share studio...
KWCH-DT KWCH-DT, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 19), is a CBS-affiliated television station serving Wichita, Kansas, United States that is licensed to Hutchinson. The station is owned by Gray Television, as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate KSCW-DT (channel 33); Gray also operates Univision affiliate KDCU-DT...
KHSL-TV KHSL-TV, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 43) is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Chico, California, United States, that also serves Redding. The station is owned by Heartland Media as part of a duopoly with NBC affiliate KNVN (channel 24), which is owned by Maxair Media but operated by Hea...
WDJT-TV WDJT-TV, virtual channel 58 (UHF digital channel 46), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The station is owned by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting, as part of a duopoly with Racine-licensed independent station WMLW-TV (channel 49), and is also a sister statio...
KSCW-DT KSCW-DT, virtual channel 33 (VHF digital channel 12), is a CW-affiliated television station licensed to Wichita, Kansas, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television, as part of a duopoly with CBS affiliate KWCH-DT (channel 12); Gray also operates Univision affiliate KDCU-DT (channel 31) under a joint...
WFLD WFLD, virtual channel 32 (UHF digital channel 31), is a Fox owned-and-operated television station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations division of 21st Century Fox, and operates as part of a television duopoly with Gary, Indiana-licensed primary CW affil...
KDCU-DT KDCU-DT, virtual and UHF digital channel 31, is a Univision-affiliated television station serving Wichita, Kansas, United States that is licensed to Derby. The station is owned by the Entravision Communications Corporation; Gray Television, which owns CBS affiliate KWCH-DT (channel 12) and CW affiliate KSCW-DT ...
Bill Wirskye William Hawthorne "Bill" Wirskye is a prominent Texas prosecutor who is currently the Second Assistant District Attorney in the Collin County District Attorney's Office in Collin County, Texas. Wirskye is best known for being the lead prosecutor who tried the Kaufman County DA murders, which ultimately res...
Brenda Hollis Brenda J. Hollis, a citizen of the United States, was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone on 16 February 2010, replacing Stephen Rapp. Hollis was the Chief Prosecutor at the Special Court and served as the lead prosecutor in the tri...
Marcia Clark Marcia Rachel Clark (born Marcia Rachel Kleks on August 31, 1953) is an American prosecutor, author, and television correspondent. She was the lead prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson murder case.
Robert J. Cleary Robert J. Cleary (born September 30, 1955) is an American lawyer who has served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey and for the Southern District of Illinois. He was the lead prosecutor in the Unabomber case. He is currently a partner at Proskauer Rose.
Michael Mulligan Colonel Michael Mulligan is a prosecutor in the United States Army notable for serving as the lead prosecutor in the courts-martial of Hasan Akbar and of Nidal Malik Hasan, the sole accused in the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting.
Noall Wootton Noall Thurber Wootton (September 8, 1940 – April 27, 2006) was the Utah County District Attorney, in Utah, from 1974 to 1986. During his time in that role, he is most famous for being the lead prosecutor of Gary Gilmore, the first person to be executed after the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty. Wo...
Bernie de la Rionda Bernardo Enrique "Bernie" de la Rionda (born February 9, 1957) is an assistant state attorney in the fourth judicial circuit in the State of Florida and was the lead prosecutor in "State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman". A graduate of the Florida State University College of Law, de la Rionda has bee...
Linda Drane Burdick Linda Drane Burdick (born October 12, 1964) is the Chief Assistant State Attorney at the Orange and Osceola County State Attorney's Office in Orlando, Florida. She was the lead prosecutor on the State of Florida vs. Casey Anthony case.
Camp Arifjan Camp Arifjan is a United States Army installation in Kuwait which accommodates elements of the US Air Force, US Navy, US Marine Corps and US Coast Guard. The camp was funded and built by the government of Kuwait. Military personnel from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Romania and Poland are also for...
United States v. Hasan K. Akbar United States v. Hasan K. Akbar was the court-martial of a United States Army soldier for a premeditated attack in the early morning hours of March 23, 2003, at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait, during the start of the United States invasion of Iraq.
Hans Brenaa Hans Brenaa (b Copenhagen, 9 October 1910, d Copenhagen, 14 April 1988) was a Danish dancer, teacher, and ballet director. He studied at the Royal Danish Ballet School from 1918 and joined the company in 1928; promoted to principal in 1945. He created roles in George Balanchine Legend of Joseph (1931) and i...
John Lanchbery John Arthur Lanchbery OBE (15 May 1923 - 27 February 2003) was an English, later Australian, composer and conductor, famous for his ballet arrangements. He served as the Principal Conductor of the Royal Ballet from 1959 to 1972, Principal Conductor of the Australian Ballet from 1972 to 1977, and Director...
History of ballet Ballet is a formalized form of dance with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th and 16th centuries. Ballet spread from Italy to France with the help of Catherine de' Medici, where ballet developed even further under her aristocratic influence. An early example of Catherine's develo...
Le baiser de la fée Le baiser de la fée ("The Fairy's Kiss") is a ballet in one act and four scenes composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1928 and revised in 1950 for George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet. Based on Hans Christian Andersen's short story "Isjomfruen" (English: The Ice-Maiden), the work is an homage to ...
New York City Ballet New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. City Ballet grew out of earlier troup...
Apollo (ballet) Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as "Apollo musagetes", "Apolo Musageta", and "Apollo, Leader of the Muses") is a ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed in 1928 by twenty-four-year-old George Balanchine, with the composer con...
Patricia Wilde Patricia Wilde (born 1928 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a former principal ballerina of New York City Ballet, where she danced every major role in the repertoire, many of them created especially for her by George Balanchine. Following her retirement from NYCB she would become a famed ballet mistress and teacher...
Cesare Pugni Cesare Pugni (Russian: Цезарь Пуни ) (] ; 31 May 1802–26 January [O.S. 14 January] 1870 ) born in Genoa, was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a violinist. In his early career he composed operas, symphonies, and various other forms of orchestral music. Pugni is most noted for the ballets h...
In G Major In G Major is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival by ballet master Jerome Robbins to the composer's "Piano Concerto in G Major" (1928–31). The premiere took place May 15, 1975 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with lighting by Mark Stanley. The Paris Opera Ballet commissioned...
Jorge Urrutia Jorge Urrutia Blondel (August 17, 1905 – July 5, 1981), was a Chilean composer, educator and writer, born in 1905. He has composed ballet music, symphonic poems, and works for piano and for voice. He is regarded as a Chilean nationalist in his music, but nevertheless the influence of Claude Debussy and Ma...
Ceephax Acid Crew Ceephax Acid Crew (real name Andy Jenkinson) is a British acid techno and drum and bass electronic musician. Jenkinson is also known simply by the pseudonym Ceephax, which is a reference to the BBC teletext service Ceefax. He is the brother of Squarepusher (Tom Jenkinson).
Ceephax Acid Crew (album) Ceephax Acid Crew is the name of two 12" vinyl EPs and a double-CD album of music by Ceephax Acid Crew. All tracks except "Milk Tray" from "Part 1" and "Acid Vaccination" from "Part Two" were released on the double-CD. Additional songs on the double-CD are from "Radiotin EP", "Bainted Smile EP...
Slacker Radio Slacker Radio is an online music streaming service available in the US and Canada. Listeners can access the service on the web and through mobile apps on multiple smartphones. It allows users to create and share customized music stations. Slacker allows users to customize one of their programmed stations ...
Buzz Caner Buzz Caner is an album by Chaos A.D., an alias of Squarepusher (Tom Jenkinson). Instead of Squarepusher's unusual drum and bass sound, this album uses a more techno-based acid house sound.
Octane (Sirius XM) Octane is an active rock radio station on Sirius XM Satellite Radio channel 37 (previously 20) and Dish Network channel 6037. As a part of the Sirius XM Merger, Octane replaced the XM station SquiZZ on XM channel 48 (later moving to 37) and DirecTV channel 835 (until February 9, 2010). The channel is...
United Acid Emirates United Acid Emirates is an album by Ceephax Acid Crew, released in 2010 on Planet Mu.
Maresin Maresin 1 (MaR1 or 7"R",14"S"-dihydroxy-4"Z",8"E",10"E",12"Z",16"Z",19"Z"-docosahexaenoic acid) is a macrophage-derived mediator of inflammation resolution coined from macrophage mediator in resolving inflammation. Maresin 1, and more recently defined maresins, are 12-lipoxygenase-derived metabolites of the ome...
Squarepusher Squarepusher is the principal pseudonym adopted by Tom Jenkinson (born 17 January 1975), a UK-based recording artist. His compositions draw on a number of influences including drum and bass, acid house, jazz and electroacoustic music. His recordings are typified by a combination of electronic sound sources...
Patrick Lundborg Patrick Lundborg (1967 – June 7, 2014) was a writer on psychedelic culture and author of the books "Psychedelia" and "The Acid Archives". Lundborg had a bachelor of science degree in applied systems science ('datavetenskap' in Swedish) from Stockholm University, with additional studies in classic philo...
Ceerial Port Ceerial Port is an EP by the electronic band Ceephax Acid Crew. It was released in 2006.
Panic 5 Bravo Panic 5 Bravo is an action-thriller film directed by Kuno Becker about American paramedics that become trapped on the Mexican side of the border and terrorized by a violent psychopath. It was released in the U.S. by Pantelion Films.
Vincent Patar Vincent Patar (born 2 September 1965) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. In 2009 he wrote and directed the animated film "A Town Called Panic" along with Stéphane Aubier. It premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was the first stop-motion film to be screened at the festival. In 2013 he c...
Jake Sinclair (musician) Jake Sinclair (born March 7, 1985) is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixing engineer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. His production, engineering, songwriting, and mixing credits include Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, 5 Seconds of Summer, Pink, New Pol...
Paul Bravo Paul Bravo (born June 19, 1968 in Campbell, California) is a former American soccer midfielder and forward who played six seasons in Major League Soccer, two in the American Professional Soccer League and two in the USISL. He also earned four caps, scoring one goal, with the United States men's national socc...
The Mins The Mins are a Georgian Alternative / New Progressive Rock band established in 2011 by Zviad Mgebrishvili. The band played its first live gig in 2011 on Altervision Newcomers. After that the band started to work hard on their repertoire. They mostly performs original songs and only rarely covers. The main song...
Corina (Romanian singer) Corina (born January 26, 1980) is a Romanian pop, dance, and R&B singer. She debuted in 2004 with her album "Noi Doi", produced by Marius Moga. The main single from the album entitled "Noi Doi" reached fourth place in the Romanian Top 100. The second album, named "Îmi place tot", was launched o...
Ann Lewis (musician) Ann Lewis (アン・ルイス , An Ruisu , born 5 June 1956 in Takarazuka, Hyōgo, Japan) is a Japanese singer, popular in Japan in the 1970s and 80s. She was born to an American father and a Japanese mother. She has one brother and a son, Myuji, who is also a singer in Japan. She was married to Masahiro Kuwana...
Stéphane Aubier Stéphane Aubier (born October 8, 1964) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. In 2009, he wrote and directed the animated film "A Town Called Panic" along with Vincent Patar. It premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was the first stop-motion film to be screened at the festival. In 2013, h...
C. E. Gatchalian C.E. "Chris" Gatchalian (born June 5, 1974) is a Canadian playwright, born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Filipino parents, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre from the University of British Columbia. His play "Motifs & Repetitions" aired on Bravo! (Canada) in 1997 and on the Knowledge i...
Rumen Petkov Rumen Petkov (Bulgarian: Румен Петков ) (born 26 January 1948) is a Bulgarian animator and comic creator. His influence spawned a new generation of young Bulgarian comic book artists as Vladimir Nedialkov, Koko Sarkisian, Ivan Kirjakov and others. He was one of the main artists of the comics magazine DUGA ...
Nicholas Nicholas, Nikolas or Nicolas is a male given name, derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος ("Nikolaos"), a compound of νίκη "nikē" 'victory' and λαός; "laos" 'people', that is, victor of the people. The name became popular through Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra in Lycia, the inspiration for Santa Claus. The name ...
Prince Hermann Friedrich of Leiningen Prince Hermann Friedrich of Leiningen (born 16 April 1963) is the younger son of Prince Karl of Leiningen and his wife Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria. Hermann was born in Toronto, Ontario, as Hermann Friedrich Fernando Roland. Through his mother, Hermann is a grandson of King Bo...
Theo Fabergé Theo Fabergé (London, 26 September 1922 - 20 August 2007) was the grandson of Peter Carl Fabergé. His father Nicholas Fabergé, Carl’s youngest son, arrived in London in 1906 to help run the only branch of ‘The House of Fabergé’ outside Russia, in Dover Street, London. After 1917 Nicholas remained in London...
Nicholas V of Georgia Nicholas V, also known as Nicholas VIII (Georgian: ნიკოლოზ V/VIII , "Nikoloz"; 1529 – 1591) was the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia from 28 February 1584 to 1591. He was born into the Bagrationi dynasty of Kakheti, a son of King Levan (r. 1520–1574). He was canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Churc...
Nicholas Netterville, 1st Viscount Netterville Nicholas Netterville of Dowth, County Meath, Ireland, was born 1581, and succeeded his father, John Netterville, on 20 September 1601. Although an enemy accused them of being "but a mean family" the Nettervilles had been in Ireland since c.1280 and had been established at ...
Nicholas Medforth-Mills Nicholas Michael de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (born 1 April 1985) is the eldest child and only son of Princess Elena of Romania and Robin Medforth-Mills. As a grandson of the former king of Romania, Michael I, he was third in line to the defunct throne of Romania according to a new family statute ...
Saint Nicholas Day Saint Nicholas' Day, observed on December 6 in Western Christian countries, December 5 in the Netherlands and December 19 in Eastern Christian countries, is the feast day of Saint Nicholas. It is celebrated as a Christian festival with particular regard to his reputation as a bringer of gifts, as wel...
Ramesses IX Neferkare Ramesses IX (also written Ramses) (originally named Amon-her-khepshef Khaemwaset) (ruled 1129 – 1111 BC) was the eighth king of the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt. He was the third longest serving king of this Dynasty after Ramesses III and Ramesses XI. He is now believed to have assumed the throne on...
Valentine Browne, 1st Viscount Kenmare Valentine Browne, 1st Viscount Kenmare (1638–1694), was an Irish peer. He was the son of Sir Valentine Brown and his wife, Mary MacCarty. He was created Viscount Kenmare in the Peerage of Ireland on 20 May 1689, by King James II, after his deposition by the English Parliament, but...
Nicholas Alexios Alexis Nicholas Alexios Alexis (1761-1818) was a key figure and a resistance leader in the independence struggle in Crete. He was born in Marmaketo, a village of Lassithi Plateau, in 1761 when Crete was part of the Ottoman sovereignty. He was a son of Alexios Alexis (1692-1786) and a grandson of the no...
William R. Royal William R. "Bill" Royal (March 16, 1905 – May 8, 1997) was a retired lieutenant colonel from the United States Air Force. In the late 1950s, he and other scuba divers found artifacts and human bones from at least seven individuals in Warm Mineral Springs. A partially burned log found in association wit...
Noble House Film & Television Inc. Noble House Film & Television is the operating subsidiary of "Noble House Entertainment Inc." Founded by filmmaker Damian Lee and Lowell Conn, Noble House develops, produces and distributes international commercial feature films and television programs.
Noble House (miniseries) Noble House is an American television miniseries that was produced and broadcast by NBC in 1988. Based on the novel "Noble House" by James Clavell, it features a large cast headlined by Pierce Brosnan as business tycoon Ian Dunross and was directed by Gary Nelson. However, due to time restricti...
Phantasmagore Phantasmagore is the third studio album from the rock band Deadsy. It was released on August 22, 2006 through Immortal Records. The album debuted at #176 on the "Billboard" 200 chart. "Phantasmagore" had been delayed numerous times since its original release date in 2004, citing label issues and overall c...
František Rint František Rint was a 19th-century Czech woodcarver and carpenter. He was employed by the House of Schwarzenberg to organize the human bones interred at the Sedlec Ossuary, a small Christian chapel in Sedlec, in 1870. He used the bones at Sedlec Ossuary to create elaborate, macabre sculptures, including f...
Struan's The Struan family and their company Struan's (also called the Noble House) is a fictional family featuring heavily in many of the Asian Saga novels by writer James Clavell. The family plays an important role in the novels "Tai-Pan", "Noble House", "Gai-Jin", and "Whirlwind". "Tai-Pan" is the first book about t...
Dirk Struan Dirk Lochlin Struan (1784-1841) is the fictional main character of James Clavell's 1966 novel "Tai-Pan". The title comes from a Cantonese term that Clavell loosely translates as "supreme leader", and Struan is the taipan or head of his own trading company in China, Struan & Company. In Clavell's literary un...
Vero man Vero man refers to a set of fossilized human bones found near Vero (now Vero Beach), Florida, in 1915 and 1916. The human bones were found in association with those of Pleistocene animals. The question of whether humans were present in Florida (or anywhere in the Americas) during the Pleistocene was controvers...
Sedlec Ossuary The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: "Kostnice v Sedlci" ) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: "Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých"), part of the former Sedlec Abbey in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain the ...
Dungeons & Dragons (film) Dungeons & Dragons is a 2000 American-Czech fantasy film directed by Courtney Solomon, written by Carroll Cartwright and Topper Lilien, and based on the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game. Among the more notable features of the otherwise poorly received film are cameo appearances by Ri...
Curiosity Kills the Cat (film) Curiosity Kills the Cat () is a 2006 Chinese thriller film directed by Zhang Yibai. The film is set in the director's home city of Chongqing. Produced by China Vision Group and Eagle Spirit Management, "Curiosity Kills the Cat" stars Hu Jun, Liao Fan, as well as veteran Hong Kong actress ...
Angie Cheong Angie Cheong Wai-yee is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian Chinese actress. She won the Miss Chinese Malaysia in 1992 and went to Hong Kong to compete for the Miss Chinese International in 1993. After that, she signed a contract with the Hong Kong television TVB and became an actress. In 2003, she was beaten by h...
Xi Xi Xi Xi (, born 1938) is the pseudonym of the Chinese author and poet Zhang Yan (). She was born in China and came to Hong Kong at the age of twelve. She was a teacher and now a Hong Kong-based writer. Her works are popular in Taiwan and mainland China. She has become rather well-known to secondary school age Hong ...
Charlene Tse Charlene Tse Ning (born October 9, 1963 in Guangzhou, China), also known as Shallin Tse, is a Hong Kong-based Chinese actress. A Hakka, she is the winner of the 1985 Miss Hong Kong Pageant. She has acted in numerous television series produced by Hong Kong's TVB.
Nina Paw Nina Paw Hee-ching (born 20 July 1949) is a Hong Kong-based actress. Her parents are actors Pau Fong (13 November 1922 – 22 September 2006) and Liu Su. Her younger brother Peter Pau is Academy Awards-winning and five-times Hong Kong Film Awards-winning cinematographer. She was married to Henry Fong, who is als...
Alien Sun Alien Sun (born Suen Kai-kwan on 11 September 1974), also known as Paulyn Sun and Pauline Suen, is a Hong Kong-based Singaporean actress. She represented Singapore at the Miss Universe 1994. She quit her job in business development to launch an acting career in Hong Kong.
Where's Officer Tuba? Where's Officer Tuba? is a 1986 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Philip Chan and Ricky Lau and starring Sammo Hung, David Chiang, Jacky Cheung and Joey Wong. The film was later remade as "Look Out, Officer!" in 1990 which starred Stephen Chow.
Stephen Shiu Stephen Shiu (, born 22 July 1949) is a Hong Kong-based media personality, businessperson, film producer, screenwriter, news presenter, and pundit. He founded Hong Kong Reporter in 2004, an internet radio station focused on live talk radio broadcasting. In 2013 he founded memehk.com, a multimedia news site...
Hong In-young Hong In-young (born October 27, 1985) is a South Korean actress. Hong represented her country at the 2005 edition of the Hong Kong-based Miss Asia Pageant, where she won Miss Photogenic and placed first runner-up. Among her prizes was a contract with pageant organizer ATV, then upon its expiration, she re...
Look Out, Officer! Look Out, Officer! (師兄撞鬼) is a 1990 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Lau Sez-yue and starring Stephen Chow, Bill Tung and Stanley Fung. The film is a remake of the 1986 film, "Where's Officer Tuba?", which starred Sammo Hung.
Michael Bryant (politician) Michael J. Bryant (born April 13, 1966) is a lawyer, former public administrator and former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the downtown Toronto riding of St. Paul's from 1999 to 2009. He was a senior member of Dalto...
Michael J. Kirwan Educational Television Center The Michael J. Kirwan Educational Television Center, also known as KVZK-TV or KVZK Building, is a historic and current television center in Utulei, American Samoa. It is named for U.S. congressman Michael J. Kirwan, from Ohio, who took an interest in the development of Am...
Michael J. Petrides School The Michael J. Petrides School is a school located on 715 Ocean Terrace in Staten Island, New York. It was created by Board of Education officials, and named after Michael J. Petrides. It opened in 1995. The school was created on the former College of Staten Island campus. Students apply to a...
Michael J. Hunter Michael J. Hunter (born July 2, 1956) is an American politician from the state of Oklahoma. Hunter served as the Secretary of State of Oklahoma from 1999 to 2002, having been appointed by Governor of Oklahoma Frank Keating. On November 1, 2016, he appointed to the same post by Governor Mary Fallin. He...
The Michael J. Fox Show The Michael J. Fox Show was an American television sitcom starring Michael J. Fox. The series aired on NBC in the United States from September 26, 2013, to January 23, 2014, as part of the 2013–14 American television season. Fox made his regular return to television for the first time since he w...