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Basaglia Law Basaglia Law or Law 180 (Italian: "Legge Basaglia, Legge 180" ) is the Italian Mental Health Act of 1978 which signified a large reform of the psychiatric system in Italy, contained directives for the closing down of all psychiatric hospitals and led to their gradual replacement with a whole range of commu...
Eva Riccobono Eva Riccobono (born 7 February 1983) is an Italian model, actress, and television presenter.
Astrophel and Stella Probably composed in the 1580s, Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella is an English sonnet sequence containing 108 sonnets and 11 songs. The name derives from the two Greek words, 'aster' (star) and 'phil' (lover), and the Latin word 'stella' meaning star. Thus Astrophil is the star lover, and Stell...
Flavia Vento Flavia Vento (born 17 April 1977) is an Italian model, actress and presenter.
Marta Ribera Marta Ribera is a Spanish theatrical actress star born in 1971. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the Frank Wildhorn musical Jekyll & Hyde (musical) in the starring role of Lucy Harris and her most recent role as The Lady of the Lake in Monty Python's Spamalot. She has also appeared as Sally Bowle...
Janine Gutierrez Janine Marie Elizabeth de Leon Gutierrez, known professionally as Janine Gutierrez (born 2 October 1989, Quezon City) is a Filipina actress, television host and commercial model. A graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in European Studies, she is currently a contract artist of GMA N...
Margareth Madè Margareth Madè (22 June 1982, Paternò, Italy) born Margareth Tamara Maccarrone is an Italian model and actress. She uses her artist name because her own surname "Maccarrone" has too many associations with pasta.
Cultural depictions of Harold Godwinson Fictional accounts based on the events surrounding Harold Godwinson's brief reign as king of England have been published, notably the play "Harold", by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in 1876; and the novel "Last of the Saxon Kings", by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in 1848. Rudyard Kipling wrote...
Edith Walks Edith Walks is a 2017 documentary film directed by Andrew Kötting which imagines a journey by Edith the Fair, wife of English king Harold Godwinson, from Waltham Abbey where he is buried to near the site of the Battle of Hastings and the invasion of England by William the Conqueror in 1066. It includes cont...
Battle of Hastings The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England. It took place approximately 7 mi northwest of Hastings, close to the present...
The Last English King The Last English King (1997) is a historical novel by English writer Julian Rathbone. The novel covers the time of the Battle of Hastings. It revolves around Walt Edwinson, a housecarl of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. The story starts with Walt returning to his home at Iw...
Godwin, Earl of Wessex Godwin of Wessex (Old English: "Godƿin" ; 100115 April 1053) was one of the most powerful earls in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great and his successors. Cnut made him the first Earl of Wessex. Godwin was the father of King Harold Godwinson and Edith of Wessex, wife of King Edward the C...
Tostig Godwinson Tostig Godwinson ( 1026 – 25 September 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King Harold Godwinson. After being exiled by his brother, Tostig supported the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada's invasion of England, and was killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.
Battle of Stamford Bridge The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire, in England on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson...
Gytha Thorkelsdóttir Gytha Thorkelsdóttir (Old English: "Gȳða Þorkelsdōttir" , 997 – c. 1069), also called Githa, was a Danish noblewoman. She was the mother of King Harold Godwinson and of Edith of Wessex, queen consort of King Edward the Confessor of England.
Edith the Fair Edith the Fair (Old English: "Ealdgȳð Swann hnesce" , "Edyth the Gentle Swan"; c. 1025 – c. 1086), also known as Edith Swanneck, was the first wife of King Harold Godwinson. "Swanneck" (or Swan-Neck) comes from the folk etymology which made her in Old English as "swann hnecca", "swan neck", which was act...
Leofwine Godwinson Leofwine Godwinson (c. 1035 – 14 October 1066) was a younger brother of King Harold Godwinson, the fifth son of Earl Godwin.
Robin Guarino Robin Guarino (born April 3, 1960) is an opera and film director. She has directed operas such as "The Marriage of Figaro", "Don Giovanni", "Lohengrin", "Così fan tutte" , and "The Magic Flute" at the Metropolitan Opera. Also, she has directed at Seattle Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Virgin...
Bum Phillips (opera) Bum Phillips is an opera in two acts by American composer Peter Stopschinski. Kirk Lynn wrote the English language libretto based on Bum Phillips' memoirs "Bum Phillips: Coach, Cowboy, Christian". The opera was conceived by theater director Luke Leonard and commissioned by Monk Parrots, Inc. as des...
Alexis Soriano Alexis Soriano is a Spanish-Lithuanian orchestral conductor and composer. A pupil of Ilya Musin, and later of Valery Gergiev, he has been Principal Associate Conductor of The Hermitage Orchestra for ten years and is Artistic Director of the "Spanish Evenings Festival" in Saint Petersburg. On the invitati...
Kirill Zhandarov Kirill Zhandarov was born 29 March 1983 in the town of Lomonosov (the Petrodvorets district of Leningrad) in the family, which has nothing to do with art. In school he performed on stage the literary globe theatre. In high school played for the school team of KVN, traveled with performances in many cit...
4 Devils 4 Devils (also known as Four Devils) is a lost 1928 American silent drama film directed by German film director F. W. Murnau and starring Janet Gaynor.
Phillip Boykin Phillip Boykin (sometimes credited as Phillip Lamar Boykin) is an American bass-baritone, broadway, gospel, jazz and opera singer, film and stage actor. In 2017 he was featured in the Broadway revival of "Sunday in the Park with George" and made Broadway history as the first African-American Boatman/Lee ...
Lord Byron (opera) Lord Byron is an opera in three acts by Virgil Thomson to an original English libretto by Jack Larson, inspired by the historical character Lord Byron. This was Thomson's third and final opera. He wrote it on commission from the Ford Foundation for the Metropolitan Opera (Met), but the Met never prod...
Brett C. Leonard Brett C. Leonard is an American dramatist, screenwriter and producer. A member of the LAByrinth Theater Company of New York City, he is best known for his tragic drama "The Long Red Road" which was performed at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago under Philip Seymour Hoffman as director, starring Tom Hardy,...
David Alden David Alden (born 1949 in New York City) is a prolific theater and film director known for his post-modernist settings of opera. He is the twin brother of Christopher Alden, also an opera director in the revisionist mold. The two brothers have covered much of the same repertoire in their long careers, but w...
Julien Nitzberg Julien Nitzberg (born 1965) is a US screenwriter, stage writer, lyricist, theater director and film director, best known in the film world as the director of the documentary "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia". In the theater world, Nitzberg is best known for his controversial musical "The ...
2012 US Open – Men's singles final The 2012 US Open Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 2012 US Open. In the final, Andy Murray defeated defending champion Novak Djokovic 7–6, 7–5, 2–6, 3–6, 6–2 to win the match. It was the equal-longest US Open men's final in hi...
Williams sisters The Williams sisters are two professional American tennis players: Venus Williams (b. 1980), a seven-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), and Serena Williams (b. 1981), twenty-three-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), both of whom were coached from an early age by their parents Richard Williams ...
2017 Australian Open – Men's singles final The 2017 Australian Open Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 2017 Australian Open. It was contested between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, ranked 17th and 9th in the world respectively. It was their record ninth meeting...
Sandra Reynolds Sandra Reynolds Price ("née" Reynolds; born 4 March 1934) is a former tennis player from South Africa who won four Grand Slam women's doubles championships and one Grand Slam mixed doubles championship. Her best Grand Slam singles result was reaching the 1960 Wimbledon final, losing to Maria Bueno 8–6, ...
1973 Queen's Club Championships The 1973 Queen's Club Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom. The men's tournament was part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit while the women's event was part of the 1973 Women's Grand Prix ...
Francesca Schiavone Francesca Schiavone (] ; born 23 June 1980 in Milan) is an Italian tennis player who turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She was also runner-up at the 2011 French Open. Her career high ranking...
Li Na Li Na (; ; born 26 February 1982) is a retired Chinese professional tennis player, who achieved a career-high WTA-ranking of world No. 2 on 17 February 2014. Over the course of her career, Li won seven WTA singles titles and two Grand Slam singles titles at the 2011 French Open and 2014 Australian Open. Li's rise...
2011 French Open – Women's Singles Francesca Schiavone was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Li Na, 6–4, 7–6, making Li the first Asian and Chinese Grand Slam singles champion.
1974 Virginia Slims of Philadelphia The 1974 Virginia Slims of Philadelphia was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Palestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States that was part of the 1974 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the third edition of the tournament and...
1968 US Open (tennis) The 1968 US Open (formerly known as U.S. National Championships) was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills in New York, United States. The tournament ran from 29 August until 8 September. It was the 88th staging of the tournament...
Klaus Ewerth Klaus Ewerth (28 March 1907 – 20 December 1943) was a German U-boat commander in World War II. He reached the rank of "Kapitän zur See" with the "Kriegsmarine" during World War II.
Hans Jenisch Hans Jenisch (19 October 1913 – 29 April 1982) was a "Kapitänleutnant" in Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" during World War II and a "Kapitän zur See" in West Germany's "Bundesmarine". He commanded the Type VIIA U-boat "U-32" , sinking seventeen ships on seven patrols, for a total of  gross register tons (GRT...
Ernst Kals Ernst Kals (2 August 1905 – 2 November 1979) was a "Kapitän zur See" with the "Kriegsmarine" during World War II. He commanded the Type IXC U-boat "U-130" on five patrols, and sank twenty ships, for a total of 145,656 tons of Allied shipping. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, awarded to re...
Wolf Junge Wolf Junge was a German naval officer of World War II. As a Kapitän zur See, he was appointed the executive officer of the battleship "Tirpitz" in August 1943 under Kapitän zur See Hans Meyer. He temporarily took control of the ship on 3 April 1944 when Meyer was badly wounded during the Operation Tungsten a...
German auxiliary cruiser Widder "Widder" (HSK 3) was an auxiliary cruiser ("Hilfskreuzer") of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" that was used as a merchant raider in the Second World War. Her Kriegsmarine designation was Schiff 21, to the Royal Navy she was Raider D. The name "Widder" (Ram) represents the constellation Ari...
Ernst Heinrich Lindemann Ernst Heinrich Lindemann (25 January 1833 in Kirchlengern – 8 May 1900 in Düsseldorf) was German politician and mayor of Essen, Dortmund and Düsseldorf. His grandson "Kapitän zur See" Ernst Lindemann was the commander of the battleship "Bismarck".
German destroyer Z43 Z43 was a Type 1936B destroyer of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine". She was laid down on 1 May 1942 at Deschimag in Bremen, launched on 22 September 1943 and commissioned on 24 March 1944. Her service was with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla in the Baltic Sea under the command of Kapitän zur See Wenniger a...
Hansjürgen Reinicke Hans-Jürgen "Hansjürgen" Rudolf Reinicke (10 August 1902 – 29 January 1978) was a "Kapitän zur See", commander of heavy cruiser "Prinz Eugen", in Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" during the Second World War and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
21st U-boat Flotilla 21st U-boat Flotilla ("21. Unterseebootsflottille") was a unit of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" before and during World War II. It was formed in 1935 as a "Schulverband" ("School Unit") based at Kiel under the command of "Kapitän zur See" Kurt Slevogt ("Chef des Schulverbandes").
Ernst Lindemann Otto Ernst Lindemann (28 March 1894 – 27 May 1941) was a German "Kapitän zur See" (naval captain). He was the only commander of the battleship "Bismarck" during its eight months of service in World War II.
Yasuhito Endō Yasuhito Endō (遠藤 保仁 , Endō Yasuhito , born 28 January 1980 in Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture) is a Japanese footballer, who currently plays for the J. League team Gamba Osaka. His older brother Akihiro, who retired in 2008, is also a former professional footballer, and was selected as one of Japan un...
George Young (Scottish footballer) George Lewis Young (27 October 1922 – 10 January 1997) was a Scottish footballer, best remembered for his association with Rangers and for being the first player to receive more than 50 caps for the Scotland national team.
Vanda & Young Vanda & Young were a songwriting/producing duo composed of Harry Vanda and George Young. They performed as members of 1960s Australian rock group The Easybeats where Vanda was their lead guitarist and backing singer and Young was their rhythm guitarist and backing singer. Vanda & Young co-wrote most o...
Lewis Young (Australian footballer) Lewis Young (born 20 December 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Western Bulldogs with their third selection and forty-ninth overall in the 2016 national draft. He made hi...
Rick Clausen Richard James Clausen (born June 29, 1982) is the current offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Calabasas High School. He is also a former American football player who played college football for Louisiana State University and University of Tennessee. During his two years at LSU (2001 Redshirt and 20...
Scott Young (American football) Scott Lewis Young (born July 15, 1981) is a retired American football guard. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Brigham Young.
William T. Van de Graaff William Travis "Bully" Van de Graaff (October 25, 1895 – April 26, 1977) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He attended Tuscaloosa High School. He played college football at the University of Alabama, where he was selected as an All-American in 1915, Al...
Bob Young (American football) Robert Allen Young (September 3, 1942 – June 17, 1995) was an American football offensive guard who played 16 seasons in the National Football League, mainly for the St. Louis Cardinals, where he and other Cardinal offensive linemen are credited with introducing modern weightlifting/powerl...
Lewis Young Lewis Jack Young (born 27 September 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays for Crawley Town. He can play either as a striker, as a right winger or as, most recently, a right back. He is the younger brother of Manchester United footballer Ashley Young.
Retreat, Hell! Retreat, Hell! is a 1952 American war film about the 1st Marine Division in the Korean War, directed by Joseph H. Lewis. It stars Frank Lovejoy as a career Marine battalion commander who is recalled from work at an American embassy, Richard Carlson as a veteran captain and communications specialist of Wo...
Id Tech 5 id Tech 5 is a proprietary game engine released by id Software. It follows its predecessors, id Tech 1, 2, 3 and 4, all of which have subsequently been published under the GNU General Public License. It was seen as a major advancement over id Tech 4. The engine was first demonstrated at the WWDC 2007 by John ...
Amen: The Awakening Amen: The Awakening was a narrative driven first-person shooter/role-playing video game with some stealth elements by Cavedog Entertainment. It was to be the first FPS by Cavedog. 60% completed, it was canceled in 2000 for a variety of reasons, one of which being that its overall scope and proprieta...
Rockstar Advanced Game Engine The Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE) is a proprietary game engine developed by the RAGE Technology Group at Rockstar San Diego, with contributions by other Rockstar Games subsidiaries. The engine has been used on several different platforms such as Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Pla...
Tom Clancy's The Division Tom Clancy's The Division is an online-only action role-playing video game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft, with assistance from Red Storm Entertainment, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It was announced during Ubisoft's E3 2013 press conference, a...
Project I.G.I.: I'm Going In Project I.G.I.: I'm Going In (released in Europe as simply Project I.G.I.) is a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Innerloop Studios and released on December 15, 2000 by Eidos Interactive. Upon release the game received mixed reviews due to a number of shortcomings, inclu...
Snowdrop (game engine) Snowdrop is a proprietary game engine created by Ubisoft for use on Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It was first revealed at E3 2013 with "Tom Clancy's The Division", the first game using the engine.
ParaEngine ParaEngine Corporation is a technology and product company focusing on 3D virtual world technologies. It is usually referred to as P.E. for short. ParaEngine Co. is founded by LiXizhi in Shenzhen in the People's Republic of China. In 2009.10, it launched its first public product called Haqi Town, a creative ...
Zero (game engine) Zero is a proprietary game engine created by Pandemic Studios. It was used first in the game "" and later used in several "Star Wars" games including the popular "Battlefront" series. "Battlezone II: Combat Commander" and "Dark Reign 2" both feature an in-engine editor accessible via commands. The en...
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. The fourth installment in the "Call of Duty" series, it was released in 2007 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows. The game breaks away from the Wo...
Charlie Murder Charlie Murder is an action role-playing beat 'em up video game developed by Ska Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 and Ska Studios for PC. First revealed in January 2010 as an Xbox Live Indie Games title, the studio announced in May 2010 that the game would undergo a "compl...
Rana Hydroelectric Power Station The Rana Power Station ("Rana kraftverk") is a hydroelectric power station located in Rana, Nordland, Norway. It operates at an installed capacity of 500 MW , with an average annual production of about 2,100 GWh. The station is owned by Statkraft. In terms of annual production in Norway...
Sima Hydroelectric Power Station The Sima Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in the municipality Eidfjord in Hordaland, Norway. The facility Lang-Sima operates at an installed capacity of 500 MW , and has an average annual production of 1,212 GWh. The facility Sy-Sima has an installed capacity of 62...
Svartisen Hydroelectric Power Station The Svartisen Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in the municipality Meløy in Nordland, Norway. It operates at an installed capacity of 600 MW , with an average annual production of about 2,200 GWh making it the largest in Norway in terms of annual production. T...
Wengie Wendy Ayche (born January 9 1986) known professionally as Wengie, is an Australian YouTube personality and vlogger. She was born in Guangzhou, China. She got the nickname "Wengie" at a dance class when two people gave her a nickname inspired by her Chinese name, Wén Jié. Since starting her channel on February 11...
Nore Hydroelectric Power Station The Nore Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in the municipality Nore og Uvdal in Buskerud, Norway. The oldest plant Nore I operates at an installed capacity of 206 MW , with an average annual production of 1,110 GWh. The plant Nore II has an installed capacity of 52 ...
Blast! (musical) Blast! is a Broadway production created by James Mason for Cook Group Incorporated, the director and organization formerly operating the Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps. It was the 2001 winner of the Tony Award for "Best Special Theatrical Event" and also won the 2001 Emmy Award for "Best Choreogr...
Apostle (production company) Apostle is a New York-based production company specializing in television production created by stand-up comedian and actor Denis Leary and his business partner Jim Serpico. Apostle created the hit TV series "Rescue Me" about a post-9/11 FDNY crew and the drama in their personal lives.
Tubular Bells for Two Tubular Bells for Two is a music-theatre production created and performed by Australian multi-instrumentalists Aidan Roberts and Daniel Holdsworth. In the show the two musicians re-create Mike Oldfield's 1973 album "Tubular Bells" live with over twenty instruments. They won The Sydney Fringe award...
Automotive industry in Brazil The Brazilian automotive industry competed with other Latin American ones (Mexico and Argentina) comparably till 1960, but had two jumps then, making Brazil as a regional leader at first and one of the World's leaders moreover. Near the end of the 1970s new capacities were built by US and ...
Return to Eden Return to Eden is an Australian television drama/soap opera mini-series and later weekly serial starring Rebecca Gilling, James Reyne, Wendy Hughes and James Smillie. It began as a three-part six hour mini-series, shown on Network Ten in 1983. Gilling and Smillie, now joined by Peta Toppano would reprise...
Archdeaconry of St Andrews The Archdeaconry of St Andrews was a sub-division of the diocese of St Andrews, one of two archdeaconries within the diocese. The St Andrews archdeaconry was headed by the Archdeacon of St Andrews, a subordinate of the Bishop of St Andrews. In the medieval period, the Archdeaconry of St Andre...
Prior of St Andrews The Prior of St Andrews was the head of the property and community of Augustinian canons of St Andrews Cathedral Priory, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It was established by King David I in 1140 with canons from Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire. It is possible that, initially at least, the prior of St An...
University of St Andrews The University of St Andrews (informally known as St Andrews University or simply St Andrews; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin "Sancti Andreae", in post-nominals) is a British public research university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It is the oldest of the four ancient universities of Sco...
List of medical schools in the United Kingdom There are thirty-two medical schools in the United Kingdom that are recognised by the General Medical Council and from which students can obtain a medical degree. There are twenty-four such schools in England, five in Scotland, two in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. All ...
Pulham Market Pulham Market and its sister village Pulham St Mary are situated approximately 9 miles (14.5 kilometres) north of Diss in Norfolk, England. It covers an area of 12.08 km2 and had a population of 999 in 443 households as of the 2001 census, the population falling to 977 at the 2011 Census.
St Andrews Links St Andrews Links in the town of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, is regarded as the "Home of Golf". It has one of the oldest courses in the world, where the game has been played since the 15th century. Today there are seven public golf courses; the Balgove, Eden, Jubilee, Strathtyrum, New, the Old Course (w...
John MacGregor John MacGregor, John Macgregor or John McGregor may refer to:
John MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market John Roddick Russell MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market, OBE PC FKC (born 14 February 1937), is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, then at the University of St Andrews (MA economics and history, 1959) and at King's C...
University of St Andrews Boat Club The University of St Andrews Boat Club, founded in 1965, is the rowing team affiliated to the University of St Andrews. Operating under the University of St Andrews Athletic Union, the University of St Andrews Boat Club (also known as UStABC) competes in head races and regattas across...
John MacGregor (VC) John MacGregor VC MC & Bar DCM ED (1 February 1889 – 9 June 1952) was a Scottish-Canadian soldier. MacGregor was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. MacGregor served i...
Treehouse (game) Treehouse is a game in which players try to get their configuration of Icehouse pieces to match the central configuration, shared by all players. The rolling of the special "Treehouse Die" tells the player what kind of move to make to change his own or the central configuration, and then he does so to ...
Love in Motion (song) "Love in Motion" is the first new material released by the Australian rock synthpop band Icehouse as a 7" vinyl single-only in October 1981 on Regular Records for the Australian market. The band had been known as Flowers until 27 June 1981 after which they changed their name to Icehouse, they had ...
Can't Help Myself "Can't Help Myself" is the first single released by the Australian synthpop/rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse. It was released in May 1980 as a 7" vinyl single on independent label, Regular Records, five months ahead of debut album "Icehouse". A 10" vinyl single was released in July and had a...
List of Marvel Comics characters: N The Nameless One is a two-headed demon. The Nameless One first appeared in "Sub-Mariner" #22 (February 1970), and was created by Roy Thomas and Marie Severin. He was the leader of the Undying Ones, and led them to conquer the Earth millennia ago. The Undying Ones ruled the Earth for ...
Kill Doctor Lucky Kill Doctor Lucky is a humorous board game designed by James Ernest and released in 1996 by Cheapass Games. In 1998, "Kill Doctor Lucky" won the Origins Award for "Best Abstract Board Game of 1997".
No Promises (Icehouse song) "No Promises" is the first single released by Australian band, Icehouse from the band's 1986 album, "Measure for Measure" and was released in November 1985 on Regular Records as 7" Vinyl Single and 12" Vinyl Single formats. It was also released in the UK and Europe by Chrysalis Records again...
Icehouse (song) "Icehouse" is a song by the Australian rock band Flowers. It was released as a single in Europe in 1982 by Chrysalis Records from the band's first album, "Icehouse", after the band changed its name to Icehouse. In the United States, the song peaked at number 28 on the "Billboard" Top Tracks chart in 198...
Boxes (Icehouse album) Boxes is a soundtrack album by Australian band Icehouse, released by Festival Records / Chrysalis Records in November 1985. The work was originally conceived by its composers, Iva Davies and Robert Kretschmer, in collaboration with choreographer Graeme Murphy of the Sydney Dance Company for perfo...
Icehouse pieces Icehouse pieces, or Icehouse Pyramids, Treehouse pieces, Treehouse Pyramids and officially Looney Pyramids, are nestable and stackable pyramid-shaped gaming pieces and a game system. The game system was invented by Andrew Looney and John Cooper in 1987, originally for use in the game of Icehouse.
We Can Get Together "We Can Get Together" is the second single released by the Australian rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse. It was released in October 1980, on the independent label Regular Records from their first album, "Icehouse", two weeks before the album itself was released. It peaked at #16 on the Aust...
Slash's Blues Ball Slash's Blues Ball was an American blues rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1996. The band, which comprised lead guitarist Slash, lead vocalist Teddy "Big Bag Zig Zag" Andreadis, bassist Johnny Griparic, drummer Alvino Bennet, rhythm guitarist Bobby Schneck and saxophonist Dave McLau...
Five Horse Johnson Five Horse Johnson is an American blues rock band from Toledo, Ohio, formed in 1995. They have toured with such popular groups as Clutch and Halfway to Gone. The band combines hard rock, blues and other influences into a blend of stoner rock/blues music they call their own. Their second to latest alb...
Live at Carnegie Hall (Stevie Ray Vaughan album) Live at Carnegie Hall is the ninth album (and third live album) by American blues rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, released by Epic Records in July 1997. The album consists of live selections from their sold-out October 4, 1984 benefit concert at Carnegie...