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Richard Marsh (author) Richard Marsh (12 October 1857 – 9 August 1915) was the pseudonym of the English author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. A best-selling and prolific author of the late 19th century and the Edwardian period, Marsh is best known now for his supernatural thriller novel "The Beetle", which was publishe...
J. J. Syvrud J. J. Syvrud (born May 10, 1977) is a former American football linebacker who played one season with the New York Jets of the National Football League. He was drafted by the New York Jets in the seventh round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at Jamestown College and attended Rock Springs H...
The Rest of the Robots The Rest of the Robots is a collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1964. The stories, centred on positronic robots, are all part of the "Robot" series, most of which take place in the "Foundation" universe. Another collection of ...
Vacuum Diagrams Vacuum Diagrams is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Stephen Baxter. The collection connects the novels of the Xeelee Sequence and also shows the history of mankind in the Xeelee universe, and ultimately the universe. While each short story in the collection is self-contain...
Rock Springs (short story collection) Rock Springs is a collection of short stories by author Richard Ford, published in 1987 and largely dealing with dysfunctional mothers and fathers and their effects on young male narrators.
Mai Al-Nakib Mai Al-Nakib is author of "The Hidden Light of Objects", a collection of linked short stories published by Bloomsbury in 2014. The collection won the Edinburgh International Book Festival's 2014 First Book Award, the first collection of short stories to win. Her short stories have appeared in "Ninth Letter...
Richard Ford Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel "The Sportswriter" and its sequels, "Independence Day", "The Lay of the Land" and "Let Me Be Frank With You", and the short story collection "Rock Springs", which contains several widely...
Folie à Deux (album) Folie à Deux ( ; French for "A Madness Shared by Two") is the fourth studio album by American rock band Fall Out Boy. Produced by Neal Avron, the album was recorded from July to September 2008 at The Pass Studios and The Casita in Hollywood, California. As the follow-up to the band's commercially s...
I Don't Care (Fall Out Boy song) "I Don't Care" is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy and the lead single from the group's fourth studio album "Folie à Deux" in 2008. It was first available for listening on the band's website and mozes.com on September 3, 2008. The song impacted radio on September 16. It is its ...
Welcome to the New Administration Welcome to the New Administration was a viral campaign and mixtape launched by Fall Out Boy bass guitarist Pete Wentz on August 18, 2008 to promote what is now known to be the group's fourth studio album, "Folie à Deux". The mixtape was made available to stream and download on November...
America's Suitehearts "America's Suitehearts" is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy and the second single taken from their fourth studio album, "Folie à Deux" (2008). Initially released to iTunes in promotion before the album's release, "America's Suitehearts" was later serviced to radio on January 20, 2009. A d...
Daughtry (album) Daughtry is the self-titled debut studio album by American rock band Daughtry, the band formed and fronted by "American Idol" fifth season finalist Chris Daughtry. It was released on November 21, 2006, by RCA Records. The album is the fastest selling debut rock album in Soundscan history and the band's...
What a Catch, Donnie "What a Catch, Donnie" is Fall Out Boy's second digital download single and third radio single from their fourth studio album "Folie à Deux" (2008). It was first released as part of the buildup to the new album on iTunes on October 14, 2008 and charted on the US and Canadian singles charts. The tra...
Weezer discography The discography of Weezer, an American rock band, consists of 10 studio albums, two compilation albums, one video album, six extended plays, twenty-eight singles and twenty-four music videos. Weezer's self-titled debut studio album, often referred to as "The Blue Album", was released in May 1994 thro...
Believers Never Die Tour Part Deux The Believers Never Die Tour Part Deux was a two-month concert tour headlined by American rock band Fall Out Boy in 2009 to support the release of their 2008 album "Folie à Deux". Starting on April 3 and finishing on May 17, the opening acts were Cobra Starship, All Time Low, Metro St...
Steve Miller Band The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals. It is best known today for a string of (mainly) mid-1970s hit singles that are staples of classic rock radio, as well as several earlier acid rock albu...
Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet "Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet" is a song by the American rock band Fall Out Boy from their fourth studio album "Folie à Deux" (2008). It was initially released as a digital single as part of the buildup to the new album on iTunes on October 7, 2008. The son...
Dostoevsky and Parricide "Dostoevsky and Parricide" (German: "Dostojewski und die Vatertötung" ) is an introductory article contributed by Sigmund Freud to a scholarly collection on "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The collection was published in 1928. The article argues that it is no coincidence that so...
Critical approaches to Hamlet From its premiere at the turn of the 17th century, "Hamlet" has remained Shakespeare's best-known, most-imitated, and most-analyzed play. The character of Hamlet played a critical role in Sigmund Freud's explanation of the Oedipus complex and thus influenced modern psychology. Even within ...
The Assault on Truth The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory is a book by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, in which the author argues that Sigmund Freud deliberately suppressed his early hypothesis, known as the seduction theory, that hysteria is caused by sexual abuse during infancy, because he ref...
Peter Swales (historian) Peter J. Swales (born 1948) is a Welsh "guerilla historian of psychoanalysis", and former assistant to the Rolling Stones, who has written essays and letters about Sigmund Freud. A 1998 article in The New Republic magazine noted his "...remarkable detective work over the last 25 years, revealin...
The Interpretation of Dreams The Interpretation of Dreams (German: "Die Traumdeutung" ) is a 1899 book by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex. Freud revised...
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud is a biography of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones. The most famous and influential biography of Freud, "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" was originally published in three volumes (first volume 1953, second volume 1955, third volume 1957); a one-volu...
Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος IPA: [oidípuːs týranːos]), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. Originally, to the ancient Greeks, the title was simply "Oedipus" ("Οἰδίπους"), as it is ...
Why Freud Was Wrong Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis (1995; second edition 1996; third edition 2005) is a book by Richard Webster, in which the author provided a critique of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. Webster argued that Freud became a kind of Messiah and that psychoanalysis is a pseudo-scien...
Freud: A Life for Our Time Freud: A Life for Our Time is a 1988 biography of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, by the historian Peter Gay. The work is based partly on new material that has become available since the publication of Ernest Jones' "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" (1953). The book has been ...
Freud and Philosophy Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation (French: "De l'interprétation. Essai sur Sigmund Freud" ) is a 1965 book about Sigmund Freud by the philosopher Paul Ricœur. Sometimes grouped with works such as Jürgen Habermas's "Knowledge and Human Interests" (1968), "Freud and Philosophy" has rec...
The Bite in the Apple The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs is by Chrisann Brennan. Brennan is an American painter, Steve Jobs' high school girlfriend, an early employee of Apple Inc. before it went public, and the mother of Jobs' first child Lisa Brennan-Jobs. "The Bite in the Apple" was released ...
Katherine Waterston Katherine Boyer Waterston (born March 3, 1980) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut in "Michael Clayton" (2007). She then had supporting roles in films including "Robot & Frank," "Being Flynn" (both 2012) and "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her" (2013) before her supporting r...
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2016 fantasy film directed by David Yates. It is a prequel to the "Harry Potter" film series, and it was produced and written by J. K. Rowling in her screenwriting debut, and inspired by her 2001 book of the same name. The film ...
Logan Lucky Logan Lucky is a 2017 American heist comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh, based on an original script written by unknown newcomer Rebecca Blunt. Soderbergh came out of retirement to direct the film and to distribute it independently through his own company Fingerprint Releasing. The film features an e...
Chrisann Brennan Chrisann Brennan (born September 29, 1954) is an American painter and writer who wrote the autobiography "The Bite in the Apple" about her relationship with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. She has one child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
Alien: Covenant Alien: Covenant is a 2017 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and written by John Logan and Dante Harper, with a story by Michael Green and Jack Paglen. The film is a sequel to "Prometheus" (2012), the second installment in the "Alien" prequel series and the sixth installment overall i...
The Current War The Current War is a 2017 American biographical historical film directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and written by Michael Mitnick. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Katherine Waterston, and Tuppence Middleton, and depicts the War of Currents between Thomas E...
Manhattan Romance Manhattan Romance is a 2015 American romantic comedy film directed and written by Tom O'Brien. The film stars Gaby Hoffmann, Katherine Waterston, Zach Grenier, Caitlin FitzGerald and Louis Cancelmi.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs (born Lisa Nicole Brennan; May 17, 1978) is an American writer. She is the daughter of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Chrisann Brennan. For several years, Jobs denied paternity, which led to a legal case and various media reports in the early days of Apple; they eventually re...
Inherent Vice (film) Inherent Vice is a 2014 American neo-noir comedy-drama film. The seventh feature film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, "Inherent Vice" was adapted by Anderson from the novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon; the cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Eric R...
Hubert Gagnon Hubert Gagnon is an actor in the Canadian province of Quebec. He is best known as the voice of Homer Simpson in the Quebec version of "The Simpsons", the voice of Mel Gibson in many movies, and also the character Picabo on the québécois TV show Les Oraliens. He also dubbed the character Vernon Dursley in ...
Citizen Joe "Citizen Joe" is the fifteenth episode for season eight of the Canadian-American military science fiction television series "Stargate SG-1". The episode features known voice actor Dan Castellaneta, who voices Homer Simpson in "The Simpsons". The episode was written by executive producer Robert C. Cooper, th...
Ned Flanders Nedward "Ned" Flanders, Jr. is a recurring fictional character in the animated television series "The Simpsons". He is voiced by Harry Shearer, and first appeared in the series premiere episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". He is the good-natured, cheery next-door neighbor to the Simpson family and ...
Santa's Little Helper Santa's Little Helper is a recurring character in the American animated television series "The Simpsons". He is the pet greyhound of the Simpson family. The dog was introduced in the first episode of the show, the 1989 Christmas special "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", in which his owner aband...
Homer to the Max "Homer to the Max" is the thirteenth episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> tenth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 7, 1999. In the episode, Homer discovers that a new television show, "Police Cops", has a hero also named Homer Simpson. He is delighted...
Patty and Selma Patty and Selma Bouvier ( ) are fictional characters in the American animated sitcom "The Simpsons". They are identical twins (but with different hairstyles) and are both voiced by Julie Kavner. They are Marge Simpson's older twin sisters, who both work at the Springfield Department of Motor Vehicles, a...
Do the Bartman "Do the Bartman" is a song from the 1990 "Simpsons" album "The Simpsons Sing the Blues". It was performed by "The Simpsons" cast member Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson), with backing vocals from Michael Jackson, alongside additional vocals from Dan Castellaneta (voice of Homer Simpson). It wa...
Dan Castellaneta Daniel Louis Castellaneta ( ; born October 29, 1957) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter. Noted for his long-running role as Homer Simpson on the animated television series "The Simpsons", he also voices many other characters for the show, including Abraham "Grampa" Simpson, Ba...
Grampa Simpson Abraham Jedediah Simpson II, often known as Grampa, is a fictional character in the animated television series "The Simpsons". He made his first appearance in the episode entitled "Grampa and the Kids", a Simpsons short on "The Tracey Ullman Show". Voiced by Dan Castellaneta, he is the father of Homer Si...
Damon Dark Damon Dark is an independent public access TV series and web series from Australia about a heroic and obsessive investigator of UFO incidents and other strange cases, created by Australian writer, actor and film maker Adrian Sherlock. Damon James Dark became a dedicated alien investigator after a close encou...
Flashing Lights (Kanye West song) "Flashing Lights" is a song by American hip-hop artist Kanye West. It features Detroit R&B singer Dwele and contains background vocals from Australian singer Connie Mitchell. West co-wrote and co-produced the song with Eric Hudson and released it on November 22, 2007 as the fourth sing...
Power (Kanye West song) "Power" (often stylized as "POWER") is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kanye West, released as the lead single from his fifth studio album, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" (2010). The song features additional vocals by soul singer Dwele and is co-produced by West and Symbolyc One...
The People (Common song) "The People" is a song by American rapper Common, released as the second single of his seventh studio album "Finding Forever". It made its first appearance on Kanye West's "Can't Tell Me Nothing" mixtape. The song features production by West and contains background vocals provided by soul singe...
808s &amp; Heartbreak 808s & Heartbreak is the fourth studio album by American rapper Kanye West. It was released on November 24, 2008, by Roc-A-Fella Records. West recorded the album during September and October 2008 at Glenwood Studios in Burbank, California and Avex Recording Studio in Honolulu, Hawaii, with the hel...
The College Dropout The College Dropout is the debut studio album by American rapper Kanye West. It was released on February 10, 2004, through Roc-A-Fella Records. It was recorded over a period of four years, beginning in 1999. Prior to the album's release, West had received praise for his production work for artists s...
Watch the Throne Watch the Throne is a collaborative studio album by American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West, released on August 8, 2011, by Roc-A-Fella Records, Roc Nation, and Def Jam Recordings. Before the album, Jay-Z and West had collaborated on their respective singles and with West as a producer on Jay-Z's work. A...
PRhyme PRhyme is the debut studio album by American hip hop duo PRhyme, consisting of Royce da 5'9" and DJ Premier. The album was released on December 9, 2014, through their own record label PRhyme Records. The album features guest appearances from rappers Killer Mike, Jay Electronica, Common, Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q, Sla...
Hip Hop Since 1978 Hip Hop Since 1978 (HHS78) was a management and production company based in New York City. It was started by Gee Roberson and Kyambo "Hip-Hop" Joshua. HHS78 has been involved in the daily operations of Roc-A-Fella Records since the label's inception in the early '90s. HHS78 originally signed Kanye We...
Graduation (album) Graduation is the third studio album by American rapper Kanye West. It was released on September 11, 2007, through Roc-A-Fella Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2005 to 2007 at Chung King Studios, Sony Music Studios in New York City, at Chalice Studios and The Record Plant i...
Late Registration Late Registration is the second studio album by American rapper Kanye West. It was released on August 30, 2005, through Roc-A-Fella Records. It was recorded over the course of a year in sessions held across studios in New York City and Hollywood, with West collaborating with American record producer a...
Enrique Grau Enrique Grau (December 18, 1920 – April 1, 2004) was a Colombian artist, renowned for his depictions of Amerindian and Afro-Colombian figures. He was a member of the triumvirate of key Colombian artists of the 20th century which included Fernando Botero and Alejandro Obregón.
Lionel S. Reiss Lionel S. Reiss (1894–1986) was a Polish-American Jewish painter born in Jaroslaw, Poland, and grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where he studied commercial art. His family had moved to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. As immigrants to the United States, Reiss’ parents joi...
Conchita Badía Concepció Badia Millàs (14 November 1897 – 2 May 1975) (known by her stage name as Conchita Badía or Conxita Badia) was a Spanish soprano and pianist. Admired for her spontaneity, expressiveness, and clear diction, she was considered one of the greatest interpreters of 20th century Catalan, Spanish and L...
Pack Up Your Troubles (1939 film) Pack Up Your Troubles is a 1939 American comedy film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and written by Lou Breslow and Owen Francis. The film stars Jane Withers, The Ritz Brothers, Lynn Bari, Joseph Schildkraut, Stanley Fields, Fritz Leiber and Lionel Royce. The film was released on Octo...
Carreras Cigarette Factory The Carreras Cigarette Factory is a large art deco building in Camden, London in the United Kingdom. It is noted as a striking example of early 20th Century Egyptian Revival architecture. The building was erected in 1926-28 by the Carreras Tobacco Company owned by the Russian-Jewish inventor ...
Manuel Quiroga (violinist) Manuel Quiroga (15 April 189219 April 1961) was a noted Galician violinist of the early 20th Century, whose career was cut short by a traffic accident in New York in 1937. He was repeatedly billed by music critics as "the finest successor of Pablo de Sarasate", and he is sometimes referred to...
Enrique Banchs Enrique Banchs (1888 – 1968) was an Argentine poet. He published all his work in the space of four years at the beginning of the 20th century, then lay dormant until his death. In his four works, "Las barcas" (1907), "El libro de los elogios" (1908), "El cascabel del halcón" (1909) and "La urna" (1911). ...
John Darby (Dean of Chester) John Lionel Darby (20 November 1831 – 5 November 1919) was Dean of Chester in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th
Manuel de Falla Manuel de Falla y Matheu (] , 23 November 187614 November 1946) was a Spanish composer. Along with Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century. His image was on Spain's 1970 100-pesetas banknote.
Enrique Echeverría Enrique Echeverría Vázquez (19231972) was a Mexican painter, part of the Generación de la Ruptura and early member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. He was one of a number of painters who broke away from the established painting figurative style in Mexico in the mid 20th century to experiment wit...
Dian Lake Dianchi Lake (Chinese: 滇池 , "Diānchí"), also known as Lake Dian and Kunming Lake (昆明湖 , "Kūnmínghú"), is a large lake located on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau close to Kunming, Yunnan, in southern China. Its nickname is the "Sparkling Pearl Embedded in a Highland" and it was the model for the Kunming Lake in the...
Kunming Kunming ( ; ) is the capital of and largest city in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Known as Yunnan-Fu (云南府 , "Yúnnánfǔ") until the 1920s, today it is a prefecture-level city and the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province as well as the seat of the provincial government. Kunmi...
Xin Zhui Xin Zhui (; died 163 BC), also known as Lady Dai or Marquise of Dai, was the wife of Li Cang (利蒼 ), the Marquis of Dai, during the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). She gained fame more than 2,000 years after her death, when her tomb was discovered inside a hill known as Mawangdui, in Changsha, Hunan, China. Afte...
Kunming Museum Kunming City Museum (昆明市博物馆) is a history museum in Kunming City, Yunnan, China. Smaller than the Yunnan Provincial Museum, Its most notable exhibit is about the history of the city. Other features include a dinosaur exhibit and a rotating exhibition space that holds anything from history to art exhibiti...
Dali–Ruili Railway The Dali–Ruili Railway or Darui Railway (), is a single-track electrified railroad under construction in Yunnan Province of Southwest China. The line is slated to run 336.39 km from Dali in central Yunnan to Ruili in southwestern Yunnan on the border with Myanmar. The line traverses rugged terrain, a...
Yunnan Provincial Museum Yunnan Provincial Museum () is located in Kunming, on Guangfu Road. It houses an exhibition centered on Yunnan's ethnic minorities, as well as a collection of artifacts from tomb excavations at Jinning on the southern rim of Lake Dian.
Yangzong Lake Yangzonghai Lake () (given on some maps as Yangzong Sea, though it is fresh water) is located between Yiliang County, Chenggong District and Chengjiang County, 45 kilometers east of Kunming City in Yunnan Province, China. About 30,000 people rely on the Lake as their drinking water. Yangzonghai Lake is no...
Karel Dežman Karel Dežman, also known as Dragotin Dežman and Karl Deschmann (3 January 1821 – 11 March 1889), was a Carniolan liberal politician and natural scientist. He was one of the most prominent personalities of the political, cultural, and scientific developments in the 19th-century Duchy of Carniola. He is cons...
Luang Namtha Museum Luang Namtha Museum, also Louang Namtha Provincial Museum, is a museum in Luang Namtha, Laos. Largely an anthropological museum, it contains numerous items related to local people such as ethnic clothing, Khamu bronze drums, textiles, ceramics, tools, household utensils, hand-crafted weapons, and Bu...
Flores Island Marine Provincial Park Flores Island Marine Provincial Park, also known as Flores Island Provincial Park, is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the island of the same name in the central Clayoquot Sound region of the West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The park...
B2K B2K was an American R&B boy band that was active from 1998 to 2004. In 1998, the group was formed by American record producer Chris Stokes. They released their self-titled debut album on March 12, 2002. The album peaked at #2 on the "Billboard" 200 and #1 on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs albums chart.
Breaking News (Shinee song) "Breaking News" is a song performed by South Korean R&B boy group Shinee. It was included as a track in their second Japanese studio album "Boys Meet U", released on June 26, 2013. The song was also chosen as the lead promotional single from the album.
Under the Blue Moon Under the Blue Moon is the fifth studio album by American R&B boy band New Edition by MCA on November 24, 1986. Their fourth album and third with MCA and first album after New Edition member Bobby Brown was voted out of the group, the group was going through a transitional phase during this period. ...
Imajin Imajin is an American R&B boy band that is known for their hit "Shorty (You Keep Playing With My Mind)" featuring Keith Murray. The group also made a version of this song with (rapper) Mr. Cheeks of the rap group The Lost Boyz. This single peaked at number 25 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, number 20 on Billboard's ...
We Got It (album) We Got It is the third album by R&B boy band Immature that was released on December 5, 1995. The album featured singles "We Got It" (which sampled Chocolate Milk's 1978 soul hit "Girl Callin'"), "Please Don't Go", "Lover's Groove" and "Feel the Funk" (which also appeared on the soundtrack for the film...
The Journey (Immature album) The Journey is the fourth album by R&B boy band Immature, released on September 23, 1997 on MCA Records. It peaked at #92 on the "The Billboard 200" chart and at #20 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. This will be the last album under the name, Immature before moving to their fifth album ...
Omarion Omari Ishmael Grandberry (born November 12, 1984, known by his stage name Omarion) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and dancer. He is best known as being the lead singer of the American R&B boy band B2K; the group achieved success with singles like "Bump, Bump, Bump", "Uh Huh", and "Girlfriend",...
Raz-B De'Mario Monte Thornton (born June 13, 1985), known as Raz-B, is an American, singer and actor. who was a founding member of R&B boy band B2K.
B Boy Baby "B Boy Baby" is a song written by Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry Craig Klepto Tucker, Peter Celik and Angela Hunte. It features uncredited vocals by singer Amy Winehouse and was produced by Salaam Remi for Mutya Buena's debut album, "Real Girl", being released as the fourth and final single from t...
Dr. Freeze Elliot Straite, also known by his pseudonym Dr. Freeze, is a singer, songwriter and record producer. His songs are mostly in new jack swing style. He has, for example, written and produced the hit song "I Wanna Sex You Up" by R&B boy band Color Me Badd and co-written and co-produced "Break of Dawn" for Micha...
Dhar iron pillar The Dhar iron pillar is a now-fragmented iron column located in the Dhar town of Madhya Pradesh, India. The exact origins of the pillar are unknown, but according to the local tradition, it was a victory column erected by the 11th century Paramara king Bhoja.
Pestsäule, Vienna The Pestsäule (English: Plague Column ) or Dreifaltigkeitssäule (English: Trinity Column ) is a Holy Trinity column located on the Graben, a street in the inner city of Vienna, Austria. Erected after the Great Plague epidemic in 1679, the Baroque memorial is one of the most well-known and prominent sc...
Colonna di San Zanobi, Florence The Column of Saint Zanobi (it:Colonna di San Zanobi) is a monumental marble column, surmounted by a cross above a crown of fire, located just north of the Bapstistery of San Giovanni in Florence, Italy.
San Jacinto Monument The San Jacinto Monument is a 567.31 ft column located on the Houston Ship Channel in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States, near the city of Houston. The monument is topped with a 220-ton star that commemorates the site of the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the Texas Re...
Column of the Vicariate The Column of the Vicariate or Colonna della Vicaria was a simple white marble column on a pedestal that formerly stood outside the Castel Capuano along Via dei Tribunali in Naples, Italy. It was used by the government first as a place for punishment of debtors.
Alexander II Column in Odessa Alexander II Column, also known as Alexander's column or Monument to Alexander II of Russia, is a triumphal column located in Shevchenko, Odessa and is commemorated to the visit of Russian Emperor Alexander II the city of Odessa in 1875.
Column of Phocas The Column of Phocas (Italian: "Colonna di Foca" ) is a Roman monumental column in the Roman Forum of Rome, Italy. Erected before the Rostra and dedicated or rededicated in honour of the Eastern Roman Emperor Phocas on August 1, 608, it was the last addition made to the "Forum Romanum". The fluted Cori...
Piazza Colonna Piazza Colonna is a piazza at the center of the Rione of Colonna in the historic heart of Rome, Italy. It is named for the marble Column of Marcus Aurelius, which has stood there since AD 193. The bronze statue of Saint Paul that crowns the column was placed in 1589, by order of Pope Sixtus V. The Roman ...
Berlin Peace Column The Peace Column (German: Friedenssäule) is a column located in Mehringplatz in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Christian Gottlieb Cantian and erected in 1843, the 19-meter column is topped with a brass status of Victoria, goddess of victory, designed by Christian Daniel Rauch. In 1876, allegories of t...
Colonna dell'Abbondanza, Florence The Colonna dell'Abbondanza is a monumental column located in the Piazza della Repubblica in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
Ingerophrynus gollum Ingerophrynus gollum (Gollum's toad) is a species of true toad. It has only been recorded from Endau-Rompin National Park, Johor, in closed-canopy lowland forests in the early evening following brief periods of afternoon precipitation. It is called "gollum" with reference of the eponymous character...
The Burning Red The Burning Red is the third album by the American groove metal band Machine Head. It is the band's second best selling album in the US, selling as many copies in three years as "Burn My Eyes" sold in almost eight years (1994–2002) . The album has sold over 134,000 copies in the US and it was certified ...
Gollum Gollum is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel "The Hobbit", and became an important supporting character in its sequel, "The Lord of the Rings". Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit of the River-folk, who lived near the Gladden Fields. Originally known as S...