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Fractal tree index In computer science, a Fractal Tree index is a tree data structure that keeps data sorted and allows searches and sequential access in the same time as a B-tree but with insertions and deletions that are asymptotically faster than a B-tree. Like a B-tree, a Fractal Tree index is a generalization of a...
Weak heap A weak heap is a combination of the binary heap and binomial heap data structures for implementing priority queues. It can be stored in an array as an implicit binary tree like the former, and has the efficiency guarantees of the latter.
Coprosma repens Coprosma repens is a species of flowering shrub or small tree of the genus "Coprosma", in the family Rubiaceae, native to New Zealand. Common names include tree bedstraw, taupata, mirror bush, looking-glass bush, New Zealand laurel and shiny leaf.
Durvillaea willana Durvillaea willana is a kelp species. It is similar to "D. antarctica" but is found in more sheltered coasts. "D. willana" has smaller blades than "D. antarctica" and is usually found lower on the shoreline because its tolerance of wave action is not as great as "D. antarctica" (Bradstock, 1989). "D....
Duncan Brinsmead Duncan Brinsmead (born January 26, 1960 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian software programmer, best known for patents on the simulation of natural environments in 3D computer graphics (CGI). He created the Maya "Paint Effects" for digitally painting instances like plants or hair in a virtual 3D envir...
Our Casuarina Tree The poem begins with the description of the tree. The poet says that the creeper has wound itself round the rugged trunk of the Casuarina Tree, like a huge Python. The creeper has left deep marks on the trunk of the tree. The tree is so strong that it bears the tight hold of the creeper. The tree is ...
X-Men: The Official Game X-Men: The Official Game (also known as X3: The Official Game) is Activision's tie-in video game to the 2006 film "". The game covers the events of the films "X2" and "", specifically following the characters of Wolverine, Iceman, and Nightcrawler. It also bridges the gap between the two films,...
Lego Knights' Kingdom Lego Knights' Kingdom is an action-adventure video game based on the Lego toy brand. It was developed by Razorback Developments and published in 2004 by THQ for the Game Boy Advance handheld system. It was the second game based on the Knights' Kingdom theme, after "". However, that game was based ...
Jordan Fry Jordan Paul Fry (born June 7, 1993) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Mike Teavee in the 2005 film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", and its tie-in video game, and as Lewis/Cornelius Robinson in "Meet the Robinsons".
Mighty Max (toyline) Mighty Max was a series of toys that were manufactured by Bluebird Toys PLC in the UK in 1992, and designed by Big Monster Toys. The toys were similar to the earlier Polly Pocket toyline; however, these toys were marketed primarily towards young boys. In Canada and the USA, they were distributed by...
Star Trek (2013 video game) Star Trek is a third-person action-adventure "Star Trek" video game. It was developed by Digital Extremes and co-published by Namco Bandai Games and Paramount Pictures in association with CBS Studios International. The game was first released in the United States on April 23, 2013, for PlayS...
Catwoman (video game) Catwoman is an action-adventure tie-in video game based on the 2004 film of the same name based on the fictional character. It features the likeness of the film's lead actress, Halle Berry, though the character's voice is provided by actress Jennifer Hale.
Tron: Evolution Tron: Evolution is a third-person action-adventure, tie-in video game for the film "" by Propaganda Games, published by Disney Interactive. It was officially announced at the Spike Video Game Awards and was released for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360 platforms in...
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game Lego Star Wars: The Video Game is a Lego-themed, action-adventure video game based on the Lego Star Wars line of toys, and the first game in TT Games' Lego video game franchise. It was first released on 29 March 2005, and is a video game adaptation of the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy: "" (...
Tron Evolution: Battle Grids Tron Evolution: Battle Grids is a video game based on the 2010 film "" and the Wii and Nintendo DS version of the third-person action-adventure tie-in video game by the . Its storyline predates that of the other versions. The video game was developed by n-Space and published by Disney Inter...
Shrek Forever After (video game) Shrek Forever After (also known as Shrek 4, and Shrek Forever After: The Final Chapter) is an action-adventure video game based on the film of the same name. It was released on May 18, 2010, in North America. It is the fourth and final video game based on the movie series of "Shrek". Th...
Sam Long Samuel Patrick Robert Long (born 16 January 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Oxford United.
Mirco Scarantino Mirco Scarantino (born 16 January 1995) is an Italian weightlifter. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's 56 kg, finishing 14th and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Men's 56 kg, finishing 7th.
Filming of James Bond in the 1990s Principal photography for the film began on 16 January 1995 and continued until 6 June. The producers were unable to film at Pinewood Studios, the usual location for Bond films, because it had been reserved for "First Knight". Instead, an old Rolls-Royce factory at the Leavesden Aerod...
Donald Duffy Donald Grant Duffy (1 January 1915 – 16 January 1995) was an Australian doctor and surgeon. He served in the Australian Army in World War II and was a president of the Melbourne Football Club.
List of Home and Away characters (1995) "Home and Away" is an Australian soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 1995, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's then executive producer John Holmes. The 8t...
1995 Benson and Hedges Open The 1995 Benson and Hedges Open was a men's tennis tournament held in Auckland, New Zealand and played on outdoor hard courts. The event was part of the World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour. It was the 28th edition of the tournament and was held from 9 January through 16 January 1995. Unseeded ...
BBC World News BBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel. It has the largest audience of any BBC channel, with an estimated 99 million viewers weekly in 2015/16, part of the estimated 265 million users of the BBC's four main international news services. Launched on 11 March 1...
Danny Bakker (footballer, born 16 January 1995) Danny Bakker (born 16 January 1995) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a midfielder for ADO Den Haag.
Kurama Tatsuya Kurama Tatsuya (16 December 1952 - 26 January 1995) was a sumo wrestler from Yasu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. He fought under his real name for his entire career, never adopting a traditional shikona. He made his debut for the Tokitsukaze stable in September 1968. He was called the "last disiciple of Futab...
Julia Ormond Julia Karin Ormond (born 4 January 1965) is an English actress. She rose to prominence appearing in such films as "The Baby of Mâcon" (1993), "Legends of the Fall" (1994), "First Knight" (1995), "Sabrina" (1995), "Smilla's Sense of Snow" (1997) and "The Barber of Siberia" (1998). She won an Emmy Award for ...
Kenneth Posner Kenneth Posner is an American theatrical lighting designer, working on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in American regional theatre. His most notable designs include the musicals "Wicked" and "Hairspray", two highly regarded musicals of the early 21st century. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Bes...
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. The category was first presented at the 1984 ceremony, when it w...
Open Admissions Open Admissions is a play in two acts by Shirley Lauro that premiered in 1982 at the Long Wharf Theatre under the direction of Arvin Brown. The play had its Broadway debut on January 29, 1984 at the Music Box Theatre where it ran for a total of 17 performances. The Broadway production starred Calvin Lev...
Gerard Alessandrini Gerard Alessandrini (born November 27, 1953) is an American playwright, parodist, actor and theatre director best known for creating the award-winning off-Broadway musical theatre parody revue "Forbidden Broadway". He is the recipient of Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, an Obie Award, four Dra...
Brad Alexander Brad Alexander (born February 2, 1971) is an American songwriter and musical theater composer, most notably of the musical "See Rock City & Other Destinations", which won the 2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, the Richard Rodgers Award and the BMI Foundation’s Jerry Bock Award. He w...
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director This is a list of winners of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director introduced in 1955 to honour directors of plays and directors of musicals. From 1968, multiple awards were presented for each season. In 1975 the category was retired and divided into Drama Desk Award fo...
Nick Cordero Nick Cordero is a Canadian actor. He appeared on Broadway in 2014 in the musical "Bullets Over Broadway" in the role of Cheech, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. He won the Outer Critics C...
Grease: The New Broadway Cast Recording Grease: The New Broadway Cast Recording is the cast album for the 2007 Broadway production of the hit musical, "Grease". The show, directed by Tony Award-winner Kathleen Marshall, played at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City. This recording features performances from th...
Laura Osnes Laura Ann Osnes (born November 19, 1985) is an American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage. She has played starring roles in "Grease" as Sandy, "South Pacific" as Nellie Forbush, "Anything Goes" as Hope Harcourt, and "Bonnie and Clyde" as Bonnie Parker, for which she received a Tony...
9 to 5 (musical) 9 to 5: The Musical is a musical based on the 1980 movie of the same name, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton. It features a book by Patricia Resnick, based on the screenplay by Resnick and Colin Higgins. The musical premiered in Los Angeles in September 2008, and opened on Broadway in April 2009. I...
Sachin H. Jain Sachin H. Jain (born in 1980 in New York City and raised in Alpine, New Jersey) is an American physician and health policy analyst who held leadership positions in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). He is...
Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Known informally at the BJ scholars, this summer fellowship is sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The program brings talented African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander college seniors and recent graduat...
Everette James Everette James is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Health Policy Institute (HPI). In September, 2014 he was named to the M. Allen Pond Endowed Chair in Health Policy and Management. He teaches graduate courses on the ...
Marion Greene Marion C. Greene (born July 16, 1970) is a Hennepin County commissioner (District 3) and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who represented District 60A, which included portions of the city of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, which is in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. A Democrat,...
25 Field Ambulance 25 (Toronto) Field Ambulance (formerly "25 (Toronto) Medical Company") is a Canadian Forces Primary Reserve (militia) medical unit in Toronto, Ontario. The company-strength formation is part of 4 Health Services Group, which is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. It is the only Primary Reserve medical...
California Center for Public Health Advocacy The California Center for Public Health Advocacy, located in Davis, California, is a nonprofit lobbying organization founded in 1999 by California’s two public health associations which, according to its website, "tackles the underlying factors that perpetuate childhood obes...
Diana Zuckerman Diana M. Zuckerman (born 16 June 1950) is an American health policy analyst who focuses on the implications of policies for public health and patients’ health. She is an expert on national health policy, particularly in women's health and the safety and effectiveness of medical products. She is the Pres...
Health services research Health services research (HSR), also known as health systems research or health policy and systems research (HPSR), is a multidisciplinary scientific field that examines how people get access to health care practitioners and health care services, how much care costs, and what happens to patient...
National Association for Public Health Policy The National Association for Public Health Policy was founded in 1980 by a group of past-presidents of the American Public Health Association led by Milton Terris, MD, MPH. The purpose of the Association is “to improve the health of the people of the United States by helpin...
Forward surgical teams In the United States Army, Medical Detachments (Forward Surgical), popularly known as Forward Surgical Teams (FST), are small, mobile surgical units fielded since the 1990s. FSTs are utilized in a variety of ways, and can fielded with support elements, including a Forward Support Medical Company ...
Lepidozamia Lepidozamia is a genus of two species of cycad, both endemic to Australia. The name, derived from the Greek word lepidos, meaning scaly, refers to the scale-like structure of the stem and leaf bases. They are native to rainforest climates in eastern Queensland and eastern New South Wales. They have a chromo...
Eucryphia Eucryphia is a small genus of trees and large shrubs native to the south temperate regions of South America and coastal eastern Australia. Sometimes placed in a family of their own, the Eucryphiaceae, more recent classifications place them in the Cunoniaceae. There are seven species, two in South America and ...
George Frideric Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel ( ; born Georg Friedrich Händel ] ; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) [(N.S.) 5 March] – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos...
Tomaso Albinoni Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concerti.
Luigi Rossi Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer. Rossi was born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples and at an early age he went to Naples. There he studied music with the Franco-Flemish composer Jean de Macque who was organist of the Santa Ca...
Domenico Scarlatti Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (Naples, 26 October 1685 Madrid, 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the develo...
L'estro armonico L'estro armonico (the harmonic inspiration), Antonio Vivaldi's Op. 3, is a set of 12 concertos for stringed instruments, first published in Amsterdam in 1711. Vivaldi's Twelve Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, and Twelve Violin Sonatas, Op. 2, only contained sonatas, thus "L'estro armonico" was his first collection...
Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (] ; 4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born in Venice, he is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental co...
Lorenzo Ratti Lorenzo Ratti (ca. 1589–1630) was an Italian baroque composer. He was the predecessor of Carissimi at the Collegium Germanicum. He composed six Gospel Dialogues for the oratory. He was a teacher of Benevoli.
Francesco Scarlatti Francesco Scarlatti (5 December 1666 – c. 1741) was an Italian Baroque composer and musician and the younger brother of the better known Alessandro Scarlatti.
Jean-Baptiste Senaillé Jean Baptiste Senaillé (23 November 1687 in Paris – 15 October 1730 idem) was a French born Baroque composer and violin virtuoso. His father was a member of Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi. Senaillé studied under Jean-Baptiste Anet, Giovanni Antonio Piani and in Italy under Tomaso Antonio Vitali ...
Antonio Lotti Antonio Lotti (5 January 1667 – 5 January 1740) was an Italian Baroque composer.
Mister Pipeline Mister Pipeline is a title given to masters of the waves at the North Shore's Pipeline. It was first given to Butch Van Artsdalen, and is passed on from generation to generation, by consensus. Other holders of the title have included sometime actor Gerry Lopez and bodyboarding legend Mike Stewart.
Lake surfing Lake surfing is surfing on any lake with sufficient surface area for wind to produce suitable waves. As with ocean surfing, ideal wave conditions are when the wind switches offshore. However, when this occurs over a lake the waves generated by previous onshore wind subside relatively quickly. This means la...
Brylan Van Artsdalen Brylan Van Artsdalen (born August 14, 1984) is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the Featherweight division. A professional competitor since 2010, Van Artsdalen has formerly competed for Bellator and CES MMA.
Skimboarding Skimboarding (or skimming) is a boardsport in which a "skimboard" (much like a surfboard but smaller and without fins) is used to glide across the water's surface to meet an incoming breaking wave, and ride it back to shore. Wave-riding skimboarders perform a variety of surface and air maneuvers, at variou...
Donald West VanArtsdalen Donald West VanArtsdalen (sometimes listed as Van Artsdalen; born October 21, 1919) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Butch Van Artsdalen Charles M. Van Artsdalen (January 31, 1941 – July 18, 1979) was a legendary surfer. He moved to La Jolla, California, from his birthplace of Norfolk, Virginia, at age 14. Van Artsdalen is best known as a pioneer of surfing 25-foot waves at such North Shore locations as Waimea Bay and Sunset Beach; a...
Tow-in surfing Tow-in surfing is a surfing technique which uses artificial assistance to allow the surfer to catch faster moving waves than was traditionally possible when paddling by hand. Tow-in surfing was invented by surfers who wanted to catch big waves and break the 30 foot barrier. It has been one of the biggest...
Waimea Bay, Hawaii Waimea Bay is located in Haleiwa on the North Shore of O'ahu in the Hawaiian Islands at the mouth of the Waimea River. Waimea Valley extends behind Waimea Bay. "Waimea" means "reddish water" in Hawaiian.
Waimea Canyon State Park Waimea Canyon, also known as the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific", is a large canyon, approximately ten miles (16 km) long and up to 3,000 feet (900 m) deep, located on the western side of Kauaʻ i in the Hawaiian Islands of the United States. Waimea is Hawaiian for "reddish water", a reference to ...
Waimea Waimea is a common name in Hawaii and New Zealand. In Hawaiian, it means reddish water, but in Maori it has no meaning. It may refer to:
Eugene Habecker Dr. Eugene B. Habecker is the 30th president of Taylor University and chairman of Christianity Today. Previously, Habecker was president of the American Bible Society. He is also the author of several books, two coauthored with his wife, Marylou Habecker. He was inaugurated in a ceremony on Friday, Apri...
Eugene Melnyk Eugene Melnyk (born May 27, 1959) is a Ukrainian Canadian businessman who has resided in Barbados since February 1991. He is the current and sole owner, governor, and chairman of the Ottawa Senators professional ice hockey franchise of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is the founder, former chairman a...
Type I Rifle The Type I rifle "Arisaka" (イ式小銃 , "I-shiki shōjū" ) was produced during the early years of World War II for the Japanese Empire by the Kingdom of Italy ("Type I" is not a numeric symbol, it denominates "Italian"). After the invasion of China, all Arisaka production was required for use of the Imperial Arm...
Eugene Cross Park Eugene Cross Park is a rugby and cricket ground in Ebbw Vale, Wales. In November 1919 the Ebbw Vale Welfare Association was formed and bought the "Bridgend Field". The 6 acre of land became known as the Welfare Ground, and in 1973 its name was changed to its present title in honour of Sir Eugene Cross...
Eugene R. Black Sr. Eugene "Gene" Robert Black Sr. (May 1, 1898 – February 20, 1992) was President of the World Bank from 1949 to 1963. His father, a 1930s Chairman of the Federal Reserve, also named Eugene Robert Black, did not use the "Sr." suffix; Gene's son (the third in line) became Eugene Robert Black Jr.
Type 4 rifle The Type 4 Rifle, often referred to as the Type 5 Rifle, (Japanese: 四式自動小銃 "Yon-shiki jidousyoujyuu") was a Japanese experimental semi-automatic rifle. It was a copy of the American M1 Garand but with an integral 10-round magazine and chambered for the Japanese 7.7×58mm Arisaka cartridge. Where the Garand ...
Eugene Brody Eugene Brody, (Eugene Bloor Brody), (1921–2010) was an American psychiatrist. Brody was chairman of the department of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Dean for social and behavioral studies at the University of Maryland.
QBB-95 The QBB-95 (Type 95) () is the light support weapon variant of the Chinese Type 95 family. Based on the QBZ-95, the standard issue to most PLA units, most parts and ammunition of them are interchangeable (while small number of units are issued with Type 56, Type 81, or Type 03 Assault rifle, the latter of which ...
Edward E. Cox Edward Eugene "Eugene" or "Goober" Cox (April 3, 1880 – December 24, 1952) served as a U.S. Representative from Georgia for nearly twenty-eight years. A conservative Democrat who supported segregation and opposed President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal," Cox became the most senior Democrat on the ...
Chasing Daylight (book) Chasing Daylight is a biography and a common-sense guidebook on how to embrace death without fear or sadness by Eugene O'Kelly, who is the Ex-Chairman and former CEO of KPMG, one of the largest U.S. accounting firms. The biography won, among other awards, the International Business Book Award fr...
127 Hours (soundtrack) 127 Hours: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack to Danny Boyle's 2010 film of the same name. It was composed by two-time Academy Award Winner A. R. Rahman, Boyle's previous collaborator on "Slumdog Millionaire". The score, centred on guitar, was recorded mainly in London and was comple...
Academy Award for Best Film Editing The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner...
James Franco James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. For his role in "127 Hours" (2010), Franco was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He is known for his roles in live-action films such as "Milk" (2008), "Pineapple Express" (2008), "Rise of the ...
List of Polish Academy Award winners and nominees This is a list of Polish Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Polish actors, actresses, and films that have either been submitted or nominated for, or have won, an Academy Award. This list is current as of the 80th Academy Awards cer...
People Like Us (soundtrack) People Like Us: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to Alex Kurtzman's 2012 film of the same name. It is composed by Academy Award winning composer A.R. Rahman whose last successful international release was "127 Hours". Rahman began recording the patch work of score in 2011...
127 Hours 127 Hours is a 2010 biographical survival found footage drama film directed, co-written, and produced by Danny Boyle. The film stars James Franco as Aron Ralston, a canyoneer who becomes trapped by a boulder in an isolated slot canyon in Blue John Canyon, southeastern Utah, in April 2003. It is a British and ...
List of accolades received by 127 Hours "127 Hours" is a 2010 British independent biographical adventure film directed by Danny Boyle. It stars James Franco in the principal role as real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston, whose hand was trapped under a boulder in a Utah ravine for more than five days in April 2003. Ad...
Treat Williams Richard Treat Williams (born December 1, 1951) is an American actor and children's book author who has appeared on film, stage and television. He first became well known for his starring role in the 1979 film "Hair", and later also starred in the films "Prince of the City", "Once Upon a Time in America",...
Danny Boyle Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director, producer, screenwriter and theatre director, known for his work on films including "Shallow Grave", "Trainspotting", "The Beach", "28 Days Later", "Sunshine", "Slumdog Millionaire", "127 Hours", and "Steve Jobs". His debut film "Shallow Grave" won t...
Silicon Imaging The Silicon Imaging (SI-2K) was a 2K digital video camera built on a single 16mm-sized CMOS sensor manufactured by Altasens. It was able to record direct to disk in the compressed CineForm RAW format, and was notable for its tiny detachable camera head, which can be positioned up to 100m from the record...
Ambulance (TV series) Ambulance is a British documentary television series on BBC One currently narrated by Christopher Ecclestone and formerly narrated by Kris Marshall which follows the work of the London Ambulance Service in series 1 and the West Midlands Ambulance Service for series 2. Series 2 is produced by Drago...
Murder City (TV series) Murder City is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television, first broadcast on 18 March 2004 on ITV, that focuses on two mismatched detectives — DI Susan Alembic (Amanda Donohoe) and DS Luke Stone (Kris Marshall) — who scour London solving complex cases. The first series consiste...
Sold (TV series) Sold is a British comedy drama television series produced by Touchpaper Television for ITV. The series stars Kris Marshall and Bryan Dick as Matt and Danny, employees of Colubrines Estate Agents. It is written by Steve Coombes and was broadcast between 15 November and 20 December 2007.
Metropolis (TV series) Metropolis is an eight-part British television drama series, first broadcast in May 2000. The series was written by Peter Morgan, produced by Glenn Wilhide and directed by Tim Whitby for Granada Television on ITV. The series starred a notable cast including James Fox, Louise Lombard, James Purefo...
List of Death in Paradise episodes "Death in Paradise" was first commissioned in 2010 by the BBC and originally starred Ben Miller as D.I. Richard Poole and Sara Martins as D.S. Camille Bordey. The first series began airing in October 2011. The show was recommissioned and a second series aired in January 2013. A third ...
Humphrey Goodman Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman is a character in the crime drama television series "Death in Paradise", portrayed by Kris Marshall.
Citizen Khan Citizen Khan is a family-based British sitcom produced by the BBC and created by Adil Ray. Five series have been shown so far. It is set in Sparkhill, East Birmingham, described by its lead character, a Pakistani Muslim Mr Khan (Adil Ray), as "the capital of British Pakistan". "Citizen Khan" follows the tr...
My Family (series 1) The first series of BBC family sitcom "My Family" originally aired between 19 September and 7 November 2000. The first episode of the series, and the pilot episode, was entitled "The Serpent's Tooth". All eight episodes in the first series are thirty minutes long. The first episode introduces the f...
Death in Paradise (TV series) Death in Paradise is a British-French crime comedy-drama television series created by Robert Thorogood, starring Ben Miller (series 1–3), Kris Marshall (series 3–6) & Ardal O'Hanlon (series 6–present). The programme is a joint UK and French production filmed on the French Caribbean island ...
Kris Marshall Kristopher "Kris" Marshall (born 11 April 1973) is an English actor. He has played Nick Harper in "My Family", Colin Frissell in the 2003 film "Love Actually", Adam in BT Retail adverts from 2005 until 2011, and Dave in the first series of "Citizen Khan" (2012). He played DI Humphrey Goodman in "Death in ...
Colgan Air Flight 9446 Colgan Air Flight 9446 was a repositioning flight operated by Colgan Air for US Airways Express. On August 26, 2003 a Beech 1900D crashed into water 100 yards offshore from Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States shortly after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in Yarmouth. Captain Scott...
Gameel Al-Batouti Gameel Al-Batouti (Arabic: جميل البطوطي‎ ‎ ; also rendered "Gamil El Batouti" or "El Batouty" in U.S. official reports; 2 February 1940 – 31 October 1999) was a pilot for EgyptAir and a former officer for the Egyptian Air Force. On 31 October 1999, all 217 people aboard EgyptAir Flight 990 were killed...