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Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor Drama
The following is a list of Teen Choice Award winners and nominees for Choice TV Actor - Drama. Formally known as Choice TV Actor - Action/Drama. |
Mauricio Pesutic
Mauricio Santiago Pešutić Pérez (b. Concepción June 24, 1948) is a Chilean Actor with a long career on tv soap operas, film and theatre. He studied Drama and Film Direction at the Catholic University of Chile. He also wrote and directed 3 short films in the 1970s. He has performed a wide range of roles but stands out as the villain. In 2001 he was awarded best supporting actor at the APES awards, and in 2002 he won the Altazor prize for best TV actor. |
Arrow in the Air
Arrow in the Air is a 1957 British TV play based on the Cyprus Emergency, although Cyprus was fictionalised as "Solaro". It starred Nicholas Amer. |
The Game of the Century (chess)
In chess, The Game of the Century is a chess game played between 26-year-old Donald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956, which Fischer won. The competition took place at the Marshall Chess Club. It was nicknamed "The Game of the Century" by Hans Kmoch in "Chess Review". Kmoch wrote, "The following game, a stunning masterpiece of <dfn id="">combination</dfn> play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matches the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies." |
The Maidens' Consent
The Maidens' Consent (Spanish: "El sí de las niñas" ] ) is a play by the Spanish playwright Leandro Fernández de Moratín. It was written in 1801 and first performed in 1806. The play is a satirical commentary on Spanish social norms of the time and has since become part of the repertoire. 37,000 people saw the play performed during the 26 days it ran at Madrid's Teatro de la Cruz, a figure equivalent to around 25% of the population of the Spanish capital during the period. |
Nicholas Amer
Nicholas Amer, born Thomas Harold Amer (born 29 September 1923) in Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire, is an English stage, film and television actor known for his performances in William Shakespeare's plays. Amer made his professional debut in 1948 playing the part of Ferdinand in "The Tempest". In his long career, Amer has played more than 27 different Shakespearean roles and toured to 31 different countries. |
San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university located in San Francisco, California, United States. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different Bachelor's degrees, 94 Master's degrees, 5 Doctoral degrees (including two Doctor of Education degrees, a Doctor of Physical Therapy, a Ph.D in Education and a Doctor of Physical Therapy Science), along with 26 teaching credentials among six academic colleges. |
Ping Li
Ping Li () is a Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He specializes in language acquisition, focusing on bilingual language processing in East Asian languages and connectionist modeling. Li received a B.A. in Chinese linguistics from Peking University in 1983, an M.A. in theoretical linguistics from Peking University, a Ph.D. in psycholinguistics from Leiden University and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 1990, and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Center for Research in Language at the University of California, San Diego and the McDonnell-Pew Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience in 1992. Li has been employed at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1992–1996), the University of Richmond (1996–2006), and Pennsylvania State University (2008–present), and he has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor at Hong Kong University (2002–2003), an Adjunct Professor at the State Key Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning at Beijing Normal University (2000–present), as well as Program Director for the Perception, Action, and Cognition Program and the Cognitive Neuroscience Program at the National Science Foundation (2007–2009). |
Parkmerced, San Francisco
Parkmerced is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, designed by architect Leonard Schultze and landscape architect Thomas Dolliver Church in the early 1940s. Parkmerced is the second-largest single-owner neighborhood of apartment blocks west of the Mississippi River after Park La Brea in Los Angeles. It was a planned neighborhood of high-rise apartment towers and low-rise garden apartments in southwestern San Francisco for middle-income tenants. It contains 3,221 residences (after sale of five blocks to San Francisco State University (SFSU)) and over 9,000 residents, and is one of four remaining privately owned large-scale garden apartment complexes in the United States. The complex is located south of SFSU, west of 19th Avenue, and east of Lake Merced and the Harding Park Golf Club. The far western boundary of the neighborhood extends to Lake Merced Boulevard, and the neighborhood is popular with students and faculty at San Francisco State University because of its proximity. The property was purchased in October 2005 for approximately $687,000,000 by a joint venture between Stellar Management and Rockpoint Group from a JP Morgan Chase and Carmel Partners joint venture entity. |
Donald Kuspit
Donald Kuspit (born March 26, 1935) is an American art critic, poet, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and former professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts. Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics. He was formerly the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University (1991–1997). He received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983 (given by the College Art Association). In 1983 he received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Davidson College, in 1996 from the San Francisco Art Institute, and in 2007 from the New York Academy of Art. In 1997 the National Schools of Art and Design presented him with a citation for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts. In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2000 he delivered the Getty Lectures at the University of Southern California. In 2005 he was the Robertson Fellow at the University of Glasgow. In 2008 he received the Tenth Annual Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Newington-Cropsey Foundation. In 2014 he was the first recipient of the Gabarron Foundation Award for Cultural Thought. He has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim Foundation, and Asian Cultural Council, among other organizations. He has doctorates in philosophy (University of Frankfurt)and art history (University of Michigan), as well as degrees from Columbia University, Yale University, and Pennsylvania State University. He has also completed the course of study at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical Center. |
Rusty Morrison
Rusty Morrison is an American poet and publisher. She received a BA in English from Mills College in Oakland, California, an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga, California, and an MA in Education from California State University, San Francisco. She has taught in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco, and was Poet in Residence at Saint Mary’s College in 2009. She has also served as a visiting poet at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Redlands, Redlands, California; University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Boise State University, Boise, Idaho; Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon, and Milikin University, Decatur, Illinois. In 2001, Morrison and her husband, Ken Keegan, founded Omnidawn Publishing in Richmond, California and continue to work as co-publishers. She contracted Hepatitis C in her twenties but, like most people diagnosed with this disease, did not experience symptoms for several years. Since then, a focus on issues relating to disability has developed as an area of interest in her writing. |
Penn State University Press
Penn State University Press, also called The Pennsylvania State University Press, was established in 1956, and is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals. It is the independent publishing branch of the Pennsylvania State University and is a division of the Penn State University Library system. The Penn State University Press primarily publishes scholarship but, as a part of a land-grant university with a mandate to serve the citizens of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it also specializes in producing books about Pennsylvania and the Penn State University. The areas of scholarship the Press is most known for are philosophy, art history, medieval studies, Latin American studies, political science, religious studies, and early American history. The Penn State Press employs approximately 24 people, and produces about 70 books a year and over 50 journals. The Press also has several internship programs for Penn State students interested in a publishing career. |
San Francisco State Gators football
The San Francisco State Gators football team represented San Francisco State University (formerly San Francisco State Teacher's College) from the 1931 through 1995 seasons. The Gators originally competed as an independent prior to World War II, then as a member of the Far West Conference from 1946 until the conference changed its name to become the Northern California Athletic Conference, where they remained through the 1994 season. San Francisco State played its home games at multiple stadiums throughout their history with the most recent being Cox Field in San Francisco. San Francisco State was known as the "Cradle of Coaches", having produced coaching greats such as Mike Holmgren, Andy Reid, Bob Toledo, and many others. |
Savernack Street
Savernack Street is a small art gallery in the Mission District of San Francisco founded in 2013 by artist Carrie Sinclair Katz. The gallery interior is inaccessible and visitors can only view artwork by looking through a reverse peephole located on the storefront. The monthly exhibitions at Savernack Street usually feature a single piece of artwork that appears larger or life size when viewed through the peephole. The name Savernack comes from a road in London and is not an actual street in San Francisco. |
Port of San Francisco
The Port of San Francisco is a semi-independent organization that oversees the port facilities at San Francisco, California, United States. It is run by a five-member commission, appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Board of Supervisors. The Port is responsible for managing the larger waterfront area that extends from the anchorage of the Golden Gate Bridge, along the Marina district, all the way around the north and east shores of the city of San Francisco including Fisherman's Wharf and the Embarcadero, and southward to the city line just beyond Candlestick Point. In 1968 the State of California, via the California State Lands Commission for the State-operated San Francisco Port Authority (est. 1957), transferred its responsibilities for the Harbor of San Francisco waterfront to the City and County of San Francisco / San Francisco Harbor Commission through the Burton Act AB2649. All eligible State port authority employees had the option to become employees of the City and County of San Francisco to maintain consistent operation of the Port of San Francisco. |
Cyrus Saatsaz
Cyrus Saatsaz is a journalism professor at the University of Houston and was formerly an instructor in the Journalism & Media Studies department at San Diego State University, the host of WaXed a surf talk show radio show that aired on ESPN 1700 in Southern California, is the author of "Dogwild & Board: Stories, Interviews and Musings from a Surf Journalist", and is a writer for The Huffington Post and GrindTV.com which is associated with Yahoo Sports. Saatsaz was an editor with USA Today for nine years. Saatsaz hosted and was Editor-in-Chief of The Extreme Scene, the world's first action sports radio talk show. In addition to writing for The Huffington Post, Saatsaz is an award winning journalist, having been published in newspapers, magazines, books and websites including the San Francisco Chronicle and its official website SFGate.com, USA Today, AOL.com, Future Snowboarding Magazine, Fuel.TV, The Great Book of San Francisco/Bay Area Sports Lists, and many more. Saatsaz is the founder of a surf shop/bookstore/art gallery in San Francisco called San Francisco Surf Company. Saatsaz also worked for KNBR 680/1050 in San Francisco and The Mighty 1090 and ESPN 1700 in San Diego for 14 years, serving as a sports anchor, host, Creative Director and Executive Producer. |
Olav Engebrigtsen
Olav Engebrigtsen (15 January 1878 – 15 April 1962) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. He was born in Kristiania. He studied art with Harriet Backer for four years, with Kristian Zahrtmann in Copenhagen, and with Henri Matisse in Paris. From 1911 to 1940 he was appointed as illustrator for the newspaper "Tidens Tegn". Among his book illustrations are Margrethe Munthe's songbooks "Kom skal vi synge", Bernhard Stokke's children's book "Dag fra skogene", and contributions to various basal readers for primary school. He is represented at the National Gallery of Norway, in Oslo Bymuseum and in Riksgalleriet. He died in Oslo in 1962. |
Kristian Zahrtmann
Peder Henrik Kristian Zahrtmann, known as Kristian Zahrtmann, (31 March 1843 – 22 June 1917) was a Danish painter. He was a part of the Danish artistic generation in the late 19th century, along with Peder Severin Krøyer and Theodor Esbern Philipsen, who broke away from both the strictures of traditional Academicism and the heritage of the Golden Age of Danish Painting, in favor of naturalism and realism. |
Johannes Wilhjelm
Johannes Martin Fasting Wilhjelm (7 January 1868 – 22 December 1938) was a Danish painter. Strongly influenced by Kristian Zahrtmann, he painted bright, colourful landscapes while travelling in Italy. His works also include religious paintings and portraits. He frequently visited the artists' colony of Skagen in the north of Denmark where he painted scenes of the dunes and beaches. |
Folmer Bonnén
Folmer Bonnén (1885–1960) was a Danish painter and journalist. He was one of the founding members of the grouping of modern artists known as De Tretten where, in 1909, he exhibited a large colourful painting "Ungdom i aftensol" (Youth in the Evening Sun), causing quite a stir. Kristian Zahrtmann immediately supported the daring work, rewarding Bonnén with a stipendium. As can be seen from his solo exhibition in 1942, Bonnén's later paintings were much more subdued as, no doubt under the influence of the Nazis, he sought to contribute to "national culture". Indeed, during the Second World War, he worked as a journalist for the Nazi newspaper Fædrelandet. |
Charles Lundh
Charles Lundh (1856–1908) was a Norwegian painter who is remembered for joining the Skagen Painters who had created an artists' colony at Skagen in the north of Jutland, Denmark towards the end of the 19th century. Lundh spent the summers of 1883 and 1889 in Skagen. During his first visit, he lived together with Christian Krohg and the Swedish painters Johan Krouthén and Oscar Björck in the house on Markvej which Michael Ancher and his wife Anna bought in 1884. Lundh became Helga Ancher's godfather at her Christening in October 1883. |
Funen Painters
The Funen Painters or Fynboerne were a loose group of Danish artists who formed an art colony on the island of Funen at the very beginning of the 20th century. They were strongly influenced by Kristian Zahrtmann who taught at the Artists Studio School in Copenhagen from 1885 to 1908. Like Zahrtmann, they abandoned the traditions of the Danish Academy and ventured into Naturalism and Realism. |
Theodor Philipsen
Theodor Esbern Philipsen (10 June 1840, Copenhagen - 3 March 1920, Copenhagen) was a Danish painter of Jewish ancestry; known for landscapes and animal portraits. He also did small figures in wax and clay. |
Poul Simon Christiansen
Poul Simon Christiansen, frequently referred to as Poul S. Christiansen (20 October 1855, Rolfsted, Funen – 14 November 1933, Copenhagen) was a Danish painter who developed a Colourist style under Kristian Zahrtmann and as a result of his appreciation of the works of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. He painted landscapes and religious works, many of which became popular as reproductions. |
Hans Ødegaard
Hans Ødegaard (30 May 1876 – 1 March 1943) was a Norwegian painter. He was born in Norderhov. He studied painting and drawing with Brynjulf Bergslien, Kristian Zahrtmann and Johan Nordhagen. Among his paintings at the National Gallery of Norway are "Skraphandel i Vaterland " from 1903, and "Fra Tvedestrand" from 1919. He was responsible for the presentation of elder Norwegian art at the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition at Frogner in Kristiania. The presentation of painters such as Lars Hertervig, Mathias Stoltenberg, Peder Balke and Johannes Flintoe gave these artists a more prominent position in the history of Norwegian art. |
Ossian Elgström
Ossian Elgström (1883 – 1950) was a Swedish illustrator and writer. He was a brother of writer and visual artist Anna Lenah Elgström. Elgström studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts from 1906 to 1907, and then with Kristian Zahrtmann in 1907 and with Christian Krohg in 1908. He contributed to the magazines "Strix", "Söndags-Nisse" and "Puck". He collected folkloristic material from Siberia, Greenland and Lappland, which he used in his books. Among his books are "Lapska myther" from 1914, "Lappalaiset" from 1919, and "Karesuando-lapparna" from 1922. |
Argentine provincial elections, 2015
On the 25 October elections numerous provinces also elected governors, with the new ones beginning their terms on 10 December 2015. These provinces were Buenos Aires province, Catamarca, Chubut, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Jujuy, La Pampa, Misiones, San Juan, San Luis and Santa Cruz, encompassing 11 of the country's 23 provinces. The other provinces elected governors in different days of 2015; the only exceptions were Corrientes and Santiago del Estero whose governors' terms were not due to finish in 2015. |
Uruguay River
The Uruguay River (Spanish: Río Uruguay , ] ; Portuguese: Rio Uruguai , ] ) is a river in South America. It flows from north to south and forms parts of the boundaries of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, separating some of the Argentine provinces of La Mesopotamia from the other two countries. It passes between the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil; forms the eastern border of the provinces of Misiones, Corrientes, and Entre Ríos in Argentina; and makes up the western borders of the departments of Artigas, Salto, Paysandú, Río Negro, Soriano, and Colonia in Uruguay. |
Federico Lacroze
Federico Lacroze (4 November 1835 – 16 February 1899) was an Argentine businessman and railway entrepreneur of French descent. He created the first tram line in Buenos Aires and his Buenos Aires Central Railway helped link the provinces of Entre Ríos, Corrientes and Misiones by rail to Argentina's capital. Lacroze is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires. |
Quadrilateral Treaty
The Quadrilateral Treaty was a pact between the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Corrientes, signed on 25 January 1822. The treaty was intended to be an offensive-defensive pact between the signatories, in front of an attack by Luso-Brazilian invasion from the Banda Oriental (present-day Uruguay), which was seen as very probable. It also wanted to establish peace after the defeat of the "caudillo" from Entre Ríos, Francisco Ramírez, who in 1821 had invaded Santa Fe and Córdoba Provinces, without success. |
Mesopotamia, Argentina
La Mesopotamia or Región Mesopotámica is the humid and verdant area of north-east Argentina, comprising the provinces of Misiones, Entre Ríos and Corrientes. The landscape and its characteristics are dominated by two rivers, the Paraná and the Uruguay. |
Predelta National Park
The Predelta National Park (Spanish: "Parque Nacional Predelta" ) is a national park of Argentina, located in south-west of the province of Entre Ríos, 6 km south from Diamante, in the Argentine Mesopotamia, at the beginning of the Paraná River Delta. The park was created on 13 January 1992 under the Law Nº 24.063, with an area 24.58 square kilometres to protect a sample of the Upper Delta of the Paraná, which belongs to the Paraná Delta and Islands Ecoregion. The Predelta is the area where the sediments of the Paraná start forming islands, while the river itself splits into several major arms and many smaller watercourses. |
Santa Fe Province
The Province of Santa Fe (Spanish: "Provincia de Santa Fe" , ] ) is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco (divided by the 28th parallel south), Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero. Together with Córdoba and Entre Ríos, the province is part of the economico-political association known as the Center Region. |
National Route 12 (Argentina)
National Route 12 (RN12) is a road in Argentina, connecting the northeast section to the rest of the country. It runs through the provinces of Misiones, Corrientes, Entre Ríos and Buenos Aires. |
Battle of Caaguazú
The Battle of Caaguazú took place in Mercedes Department, in Corrientes Province, Argentina on 28 November 1841, during the Argentine Civil War, between the forces of Entre Ríos Province, commanded by brigadier Pascual Echagüe and Corrientes Province, under brigadier José María Paz, with a sound defeat of the Federal Party forces of Entre Ríos. |
Republic of Entre Ríos
The Republic of Entre Ríos was a short-lived republic in South America in the early nineteenth century. Comprising approximately 166,980 km2 of what are today the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrientes, the country was founded in 1820 by the caudillo General Francisco Ramírez (who styled himself "jefe supremo", supreme chief) and lasted only one year. On September 28th, 1821, Lucio Norberto Mansilla was elected Governor of the Province of Entre Rios, and the Republic was subsequently dissolved. |
Tonea Stewart
Stewart was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, the daughter of Hattie Juanita (Leonard) and Thomas Ezekiel Harris. She has lived in Montgomery, Al since 1990. She is a professional actress; play director, national museum exhibit director, tenured Professor and the Dean of the College of Visual & Performing Arts at Alabama State University. As Dean of the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Tonea serves as administrator over the Department of Art, Music, and Theatre. She also serves as professor, role model, motivator, and mentor to the students. Since her arrival, the number of Theatre majors, minors, and the number of graduates from the Department of Theatre Arts have soared. Recently the Department of Theatre Arts received the 2013 and 2014 Best Fine Arts Program Award from HBCU Digest. Over seventy-five percent of the ASU theatre graduates have received full scholarships to major graduate universities such as Brown, Yale, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Louisville, to Washington State, New York University, and Louisiana State University to name a few. Youth and adults from the Montgomery area and across the nation have been touched by her summer performance and enrichment camps: T.A.P.S.(Theatre Artists Performance School), Camp 3T (Teaching through Theatre), TTI(Technical Theatre Initiative), ARPAC (Adult Repertory Performing Arts Camp), and Camp Gifted for persons with disabilities. |
Bodens Performing Arts College
Bodens Performing Arts College is a full-time Performing Arts College for students aged 16–19 years based in Barnet, Hertfordshire. The part-time school was established in 1973, leading to the opening of the full-time college in 2012. Students undertake BTEC Level 3 Extended in Performing Arts, Trinity Acting Certificate and a Trinity Level 4 Associate Diploma in Acting or Musical Theatre. The course is performance based and students work with resident tutors on a full-time basis, complimented by guest tutors from across the country, experts in their field. |
Hillman Center for Performing Arts
The Hillman Center for Performing Arts is a multi-stage performing arts venue on the campus of Shady Side Academy's Senior School in Fox Chapel, a northern suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Featuring dedicated music and vocal practice spaces, the Richard E. Rauh proscenium theater, and the Peter J. Kountz black box theater, the Hillman Center serves as Shady Side Academy's primary performing arts classroom. Additionally, undertaking the development of a professional performing arts series in the fall of 2006, the Hillman Center also serves the community as a public performing arts venue, whose programming goal is to feature “The Best of Pittsburgh and the World.” The Hillman Center's artistic niche strives to support not only Shady Side Academy's curriculum but also the Pittsburgh community. Featuring traditional offerings (such as symphony and orchestral music, classical dance, and opera) and world music and culture performances, the Hillman Center offers globally diverse arts programming to the regional community. International performers celebrate the diverse ethnic and national communities of Pittsburgh and help connect the audience to the rest of the world. |
Tara (actress)
Tara (born 3 of August 1944 in Imphal, Manipur, India) is an Assamese film actress, who has worked in Assamese, Manipuri, Punjabi and Hindi films in a career extending more than 50 years. Her prominent features include "Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai", which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1988, Banaras - A Mystic Love Story, and Shakuntala, directed by Bhupen Hazarika. |
Columbus Invitational Arts Competition
The Columbus Invitational Arts Competition is a competitive arts event held annually in Columbus, Ohio since 2012. The event brings together organizations selected for inclusion due to a combination of "artistic excellence and exceptional community involvement." In its first year the event drew participation from twenty-five local groups representing over three hundred individual artists, across four categories, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Studio Recordings and Literary Arts. Literary Arts was eliminated in the second year and the divisions were further reduced to Performing Arts and Visual Arts for the third year, which was billed as a "regional" competition, and which drew participation from all five states surrounding Ohio (Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia). Organizers plan to hold the event at a national level by year six, and an international level by year ten. |
Sangeet Natak Akademi
Sangeet Natak Akademi (Devanāgarī: "संगीत नाटक अकादेमी" or The National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama in English) is the national level academy for performing arts set up by the Government of India. |
Timeless (Jim Ankan Deka album)
Timeless is a multilingual album by Assamese musician Jim Ankan Deka. The album was recorded in 2012. The CD contains seven tracks while the digital version has only five tracks. The album is a tribute to Indian music maestros Dr. Bhupen Hazarika and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, writer Bhabananda Deka and the National anthem of India. |
Bhupen Hazarika
Bhupen Hazarika was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam, widely known as Sudhakantha. His songs, written and sung mainly in the Assamese language by himself, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi. His songs, based on the themes of communal amity, universal justice and empathy, have become popular among the people of Assam, besides West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level. He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1975. Recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987), Padmashri (1977), and Padmabhushan (2001), Hazarika was awarded with Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1992), India's highest award in cinema, by the Government of India and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008), the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's The National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. He was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in 2012. Hazarika also held the position of the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi from December 1998 to December 2003. |
Kalpana Patowary
Kalpana Patowary (Assamese: কল্পনা পাটোৱাৰী) is an Indian playback and folk singer from Assam. She is a disciple of Ustad Gulam Mustafa Khan and has been influenced by the bard of Brahmaputra Bhupen Hazarika. She sings in 30 different languages. She participated in the reality show "Junoon - Kuchh Kar Dikhaane Ka" (2008) on NDTV Imagine. Patowary has lent her vocals to numerous Bhojpuri songs and Bollywood numbers in films including "Billu" and "R. Rajkumar". Although she has many folk and popular songs to her credit, Bhojpuri music has been her most dedicated foray. |
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
The Association of Performing Arts Professionals (Previously the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, also known as APAP), based in Washington, D.C., is the United States national service, advocacy and membership organization for the performing arts presenting sector and the convener of APAP|NYC, the world’s leading gathering of performing arts professionals, every January in New York City. Through professional development programs and member services, APAP provides opportunities for artists, agents and managers, presenters, and producers to make the connections and gain the information, skills, and resources they need to make the arts a vibrant, valuable and sustainable part of everyday life. APAP supports and educates today’s and tomorrow’s performing arts leaders. |
Hu Jizong
Hu Jizong () (1920 – July 4, 1974) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Suning County, Hebei Province. He worked in Lingling District, Yongzhou, Hunan Province from June 1951 to September 1952 and in Xiangtan, Hunan Province from September 1952 to November 1954. He was member of the Hunan provincial party office (November 1954 – June 1956) and Hunan provincial government (May – December 1957). He was Communist Party of China Committee Secretary of Gansu in November 1966. He was a member of the 9th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (1969–1971) and the 10th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1973. He died in Lanzhou. |
Willy Oskar Dressler
Willy Oskar Dressler (25 April 1876 – 7 November 1954), was a German writer on art and interior decoration. He was born in Berlin and died in Endeholz, Scharnhorst, Lower Saxony. |
Yitzhak Lamdan
Yitzhak Lamdan (Hebrew: יצחק למדן; 7 November 1899 – 17 November 1954) was an Israeli Hebrew-language poet, translator, editor and columnist. |
Alex Smith (footballer, born 1876)
Alexander Smith (7 November 1876 – 12 November 1954) was a Scottish footballer who played as a winger for Rangers and the Scotland national team. |
Vijay Kumar (molecular biologist)
Vijay Kumar (born 7 November 1954) is an Indian molecular biologist, virologist and an Honorary Scientist at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. Known for his research in hepatology, Kumar is an elected fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India, National Academy of Medical Sciences, and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences as well as a J. C. Bose National Fellow of the Department of Biotechnology. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 1997. |
Reinhold Schünzel
Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1886 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite being Jewish, Schünzel was allowed by the Nazis to continue making films for several years until he eventually left to live abroad. |
Raphaël Jerusalmy
Raphaël Jerusalmy (born 7 November 1954 in Paris) is a French writer. |
19th Alberta Dragoons
The 19th Alberta Dragoons originated in Edmonton, Alberta on 1 February 1908, when the 19th The Alberta Mounted Rifles were authorized to be formed and was redesignated as the 19th Alberta Dragoons on 3 January 1911. On 16 February 1936, it was amalgamated with The Alberta Mounted Rifles. It was redesignated the 19th (Reserve) Alberta Dragoons on 7 November 1940. On 1 April 1946, it was amalgamated with the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, The Edmonton Fusiliers and redesignated as the 19th (Alberta) Armoured Car Regiment, RCAC. It was redesignated the 19th Alberta Armoured Car Regiment on 4 February 1949, the 19th Alberta Dragoons (19th Armoured Car Regiment) on 1 November 1954 and the 19th Alberta Dragoons on 19 May 1958. It was reduced to nil strength and transferred to the Supplementary Order of Battle on 28 February 1965. |
1954 Australian Grand Prix
The 1954 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at the Southport Road Circuit near Southport in Queensland, Australia on 7 November 1954. The race was held over 27 laps of the nine mile (9.7 kilometre) circuit, a total distance of 153.9 miles (247.6 km). It was the nineteenth Australian Grand Prix and the second to be held in Queensland. With no suitable permanent circuit available, a course was mapped out on roads in sparsely settled coastal land 2.5 km south west of Southport, and just to the north of later circuits, Surfers Paradise Raceway and the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit. The Grand Prix race meeting was organised by the Queensland Motor Sporting Club and the Toowoomba Auto Club in conjunction with the Southport Rotary Club. The race, which was open to Racing and Stripped Sports Cars, had 28 starters. |
1954 Bulgarian Cup Final
The 1954 Bulgarian Cup Final was the 14th final of the Bulgarian Cup (in this period the tournament was named Cup of the Soviet Army), and was contested between CSKA Sofia and Slavia Sofia on 7 November 1954 at Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia. CSKA won the final 2–1, claiming their second national cup title. |
Thailand's Got Talent (season 1)
Thailand's Got Talent season 1 (also known as TGT) was the first season of the Thailand's Got Talent reality television series on the Channel 3 television network, and part of the global British "Got Talent" series. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, sketch artists, comedians and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of 10,000,000 Baht (approximately $325,000). The show debuted in March 2011. Thailand is also the fifth country in Asia to license Got Talent series. The three judges Nirut Sirijanya, Benz Pomchita Na Songkla, and Pinyo Rutham join hosts Krit Sribhumisret and Ketsepsawat Palagawongse na Ayutthaya. |
Thailand's Got Talent
Thailand's Got Talent ไทยแลนด์ก็อตทาเลนต์, (also known as TGT) is a Thai reality television series on the Channel 3 television network, and part of the global British "Got Talent" series. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, sketch artists, comedians and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of 10,000,000 Baht (approximately $325,000). The show debuted in March 2011. Thailand is also the fifth country in Asia to license Got Talent series. The three judges Nirut Sirijanya, Benz Pomchita Na Songkla, and Pinyo Rutham join hosts Krit Sribhumisret and Ketsepsawat Palagawongse na Ayutthaya. |
Weird Travels
Weird Travels is an American documentary paranormal television series that originally aired from 2001 to 2006 on the Travel Channel. Produced by Authentic Entertainment, the program features various paranormal subjects around the world, especially cryptozoological creatures (cryptids) and haunted locations around the world. The series is narrated by Don Wildman, who also hosts and narrates the History channel's documentary television series "Cities of the Underworld" and Travel Channel's "Off Limits". |
Sylvia Klimaki
Sylvia Klimaki works at SKAI TV in Athens. She is a news anchor and TV host. She also, produces, scripts and presents a taped, one-hour show (http://www.stinpraxi.gr) that has as an ultimate goal to restore faith and to encourage Greek society to move forward. Each week she hosts stories that highlight the limitless power of Greeks to adapt to a changing environment. She had a column with business content on the evening news program SKAI with Nikos Evaggelatos and she was the anchor of the daily morning news program. She has worked as a TV host on PBS upcoming TV series "This is Greece!". It is a travel series in English, showcasing one of the worlds most in demand holiday destinations, Greece! The TV series features 13 episodes including the capital Athens, the Peloponnese, Santorini, Rhodes, Mykonos and many of the Cycladic Islands including Milos, Paros and Naxos. |
Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics
The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, often shortened to the Dole Institute, is a nonpartisan political institution housed at the University of Kansas founded by the former U.S. Senator from Kansas and 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole. Opened on July 22, 2003 - Dole's 80th birthday - the institute's $11 million, 28000 sqft facility houses Dole's papers and hosts frequent political events. The institute is officially non-partisan and has sponsored on-campus programs featuring prominent politicians of both major parties. The institute sponsors the Dole Lecture, which is given in April and features a nationally prominent figure addressing some aspect of contemporary politics or policy. The institute awards the annual Dole Leadership Prize each September, which includes a $25,000 cash award. The Presidential Lecture Series features the nation's leading presidential scholars, historians, journalists, as well as others including former Presidents, cabinet officers, and White House staff members who discuss the nation's highest office in ways that combine scholarly rigor with popular access. |
Ahrre Maros
Ahrre Maros, sometimes Arpie Maros, (born February 3, 1960) is a Hungarian American coffee entrepreneur based in Westfield, New Jersey who is notable for managing two widely attended concert series in the northern New Jersey area for charitable purposes. He hosts the "Coffee With Conscience" music series which mostly features singer-songwriters, as well as the "Powerful Women of Song" series which hosts female performers. The concert series support local charities including the Keith Knost Special Needs Trust. Artists are paid either a flat fee or a percentage of ticket sales, and the rest of the money is donated to charity; over the past dozen years, tens of thousands of dollars have been raised annually. In addition, he owns and manages several coffee shops in the north Jersey area; his coffee shops in Westfield and Summit were cited by "New Jersey Monthly magazine" for their quality. |
Thailand's Got Talent (season 6)
Thailand's Got Talent season 6 (also known as TGT) was the sixth season of the Thailand's Got Talent reality television series on the Channel 3 television network, and part of the global British "Got Talent" series. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, sketch artists, comedians and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of 10,000,000 Baht (approximately $325,000). The show debuted in 12 June 2016. Thailand is also the fifth country in Asia to license Got Talent series. The four judges Chalatit Tantiwut,Patcharasri Benjamad,Kathaleeya McIntosh and Nitipong Hornak join hosts Ketsepsawat Palagawongse na Ayutthaya. |
Thailand's Got Talent (season 5)
Thailand's Got Talent season 5 (also known as TGT) was the fifth season of the Thailand's Got Talent reality television series on the Channel 3 television network, and part of the global British "Got Talent" series. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, sketch artists, comedians and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of 10,000,000 Baht (approximately $325,000). The show debuted in June 2015. Thailand is also the fifth country in Asia to license Got Talent series. The four judges Chalatit Tantiwut,Patcharasri Benjamad,Pornchita Na Songkla and Nitipong Hornak join hosts Ketsepsawat Palagawongse na Ayutthaya. |
The Boat Show
The Boat Show is an Australian lifestyle television program hosted by Glenn Ridge, who is also Executive Producer. This is not to be confused with 31 Digital's (Briz 31) new series by the same name currently covering the marine industry in South-East Queensland. The Boat Show features stories about boating, from people who are passionate about their boats and yachts, to the latest gadgets and boating tips and boating locations both in Australia and abroad. Presenters include Steven Jacobs, Grace McClure, Teisha Lowry and Kellie Johns. It began screening in 2003 on the Nine Network. |
Superman III
Superman III is a British-American 1983 superhero film directed by Richard Lester, based on the DC Comics character Superman. It is the third film in the "Superman" film series and the last "Superman" film to be produced by Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind. The film features a cast of Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Annette O'Toole, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson, Robert Vaughn, Marc McClure, and Gavan O'Herlihy. This film is followed by "", released on July 24, 1987. |
Corey Dargel
Corey Dargel (born October 19, 1977 in McAllen, Texas) is a composer, lyricist, and singer of electronic art songs that "smartly and impishly blur the boundaries between contemporary classical idioms and pop" (New York Times). Dargel has also sung music by other living composers, including Eve Beglarian, k. terumi shorb, Phil Kline, Nick Brooke, and Pauline Oliveros. Formally trained in music composition, Dargel studied with Oliveros, John Luther Adams, and Brenda Hutchinson, and received a B.M. from Oberlin. |
Robert Beglarian
Robert Beglarian (Persian: روبرت بگلریان , Armenian: Ռոբերտ Բեգլարյան ) is an Iranian MP of Armenian descent, and the current representative of the Armenian community of southern Iran in the parliament. |
Overstepping
Overstepping is the 1998 debut album by avant-garde composer Eve Beglarian. The disc features sixty-four minutes of music with four different works composed between 1984 and 1995 with performers Kathleen Supové (keyboards), Margaret Lancaster (flute), and Eve Beglarian. |
Play Nice (album)
Play Nice is a 1999 album from Twisted Tutu, featuring composer/vocalist/performance artist Eve Beglarian and pianist/keyboardist Kathleen Supové. |
Armenians in the United Kingdom
The Armenian community of the United Kingdom consists mainly of British citizens who are fully or partially of Armenian descent. There has been sporadic emigration from Armenia to the UK since the 18th century, with the biggest influx coming after the Second World War. The majority are based in the major cities of London and Manchester. The 2001 UK Census recorded 589 Armenian-born people living in the UK, and in 2013, the Office for National Statistics estimated that there were 1,235 people born in Armenia resident in the UK, with the number of Armenian nationals being 1,720, although it has been estimated by the Armenian Diaspora Conference that there are up to 18,000 ethnic Armenians including those who are British-born, and of part Armenian descent, living in the UK. |
Tell the Birds
Tell the Birds is the 2007 album by experimental composer Eve Beglarian. |
Zach Bogosian
Zachary M. Bogosian (Armenian: Զաքարի Մ. Պողոսյան , born July 15, 1990) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for the Buffalo Sabres. Bogosian attended Cushing Academy in Massachusetts before he joined the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in 2006. He played two seasons in the OHL, and was nominated for the Red Tilson Trophy as the league's most outstanding player in his second season. Bogosian was regarded as a complete, physical defenseman who could contribute on both offense and defense; he was rated as one of the top players heading into the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, where the Atlanta Thrashers selected him third overall. He signed a contract with the team a few weeks after the draft and began the season with the Thrashers, though he missed several weeks of his rookie year due to injury. In his second season, he tied a team record for goals by a defenseman. Bogosian first played in an international tournament when he joined the American national team at the 2009 IIHF World Championship. |
Eve Beglarian
Eve Beglarian (born Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., July 22, 1958) is a contemporary American composer, performer and audio producer of Armenian descent. Her music is often characterized as postminimalist. |
Kitty Brazelton
Kitty Brazelton (born 1951 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American vocalist, composer, flutist, lead singer, and bandleader. Her bands include progressive rock/folk rock/contemporary classical "Musica Orbis", metal "V", power pop "Hide the Babies", the art rock/alternative rock/avant-garde jazz band "Dadadah", punk rock/computer music trio "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?" and "Hildegurls" (with Eve Beglarian, Lisa Bielawa and Elaine Kaplinsky) who appeared at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Festival '98 in celebration of abbess composer Hildegard von Bingen's 900th birthday. Brazelton is the daughter of pediatrician and author T. Berry Brazelton. |
Almost Human (Maya Beiser album)
Almost Human is a 2006 album by cellist Maya Beiser. The album features composer Eve Beglarian's setting of Henri Michaux's prose poem "I am writing to you from a far-off country" and Joby Talbot's "Motion Detector" and "Falling". |
Caio César
Caio César Ignácio Cardoso de Melo (September 28, 1988 – September 30, 2015) was a Brazilian actor, voice actor and police officer. César provided the Brazilian Portuguese voiceover of Harry Potter (played by Daniel Radcliffe) in all eight of the "Harry Potter" films from 2001 to 2011. |
Sylvio Sarkis
Sylvio Sarkis is a Lebanese actor born on the 28th of September 1998. His career started in 2008 when he participated in the hit Lebanese series "Mou’abbad" along with the much known actors Badih Abou Chakra and Patricia Nammour. Sylvio Sarkis had worked over the past 9 years in 7 hit series such as: "Mou’abbad (Mou2abbad)", "Badal An Dayeh (Badal 3an Daye3)" with famous actor Youssef El Khal and Nelly Maatouk, "Ala El A’aehed (3ala Al 3ahed)" with Famous Actress Darine Hamze and Talal El Jurdi where Sylvio was one of the three main characters in the series. "Ayli Mat’oub Alaya (3ayle Mat3oub 3laya)" along side with the late actor Issam Breidy and actress Yara Fares. The hit Series "Helwe W Kezzabi (Beautiful Liar)" with the famous actress Dalida Khalil and famous singer Ziad Bourji. "Joumhouriyet Noun" with famous actor Youssef Haddad and famous actress Rita Harb. "50 Alef (50 thousand)" with famous actor Tony Issa and famous actress Dalida Khalil which was his second collaboration with her as being co-actors and main characters. |
Brook Sykes
Brook Sykes, also known as Brook Rowan (born 20 September 1983), is an Australian actor born in Melbourne. He played Garth King in the "Wicked Science" TV series. He also appeared as James Gribble in the popular TV series, "Round the Twist". |
Brandon P. Bell
Brandon P. Bell (born 1985) is an American actor born in Dallas. He has appeared in film and television since 2006. |
Michael Romanoff
Michael Romanoff, pseudonym for Harry F. Gerguson, born Hershel Geguzin, (February 20, 1890 – September 1, 1971) was a Hollywood restaurateur, conman, and actor born in Lithuania. He is perhaps best known as the owner of the now-defunct Romanoff's, a Beverly Hills restaurant popular with Hollywood stars in the 1940s and 1950s. |
J. D. Pardo
Jorge Daniel "J. D." Pardo (born September 7, 1980) is an American actor born in Panorama City, California, to an Argentine father and a mother from El Salvador. |
Richard Berry Harrison
Richard Berry Harrison (September 28, 1864 - March 14, 1935) was a renowned actor, teacher, dramatic reader and lecturer. He was featured on the cover of "TIME" magazine on March 4, 1935. The son of fugitive slaves, Harrison was born in London, Ontario, Canada, on September 28, 1864, the eldest of five siblings. |
James Burke (actor)
James Burke (September 24, 1886 – May 23, 1968) was an American film and television actor born in New York City. He made his stage debut in New York around 1912 and went to Hollywood in 1933. He made over 200 film appearances during his career, which ranged from 1932 to 1964; he was more often than not cast as a cop, usually a none-too-bright one, most notably as Sgt. Velie in Columbia's Ellery Queen mysteries in the early 1940s. He appeared in "The Maltese Falcon", "At the Circus", "Lone Star", and many others. One of his best roles was as Charles Ruggles' rowdy rancher pal in "Ruggles of Red Gap". |
Gary Bleasdale
Gary Bleasdale is an English actor born in Liverpool, Lancashire in 1962. Bleasdale has appeared in many television programmes since 1978 when his first role was playing the lead in an episode of the final series of "Z-Cars". He played Kevin Dean in "The Black Stuff" (1978), and its sequel "Boys From the Black Stuff", (1982). He was a regular on "The Harry Enfield Show" for ten years playing one of "The Scousers". He has also appeared in "Casualty", "Roger Roger", "The Bill" and many other UK television dramas. He played the Sheriff's sergeant in the 2006 BBC adaptation of "Robin Hood". Bleasdale played a brute in 'On The Ledge', at The Royal Court Liverpool in April/May 2008 and Terry in 'Lost Soul' at The Royal Court in September 2008. He also had a part as a bar patron in the "Ouroboros" episode of the BBC TV series Red Dwarf. |
Suimenkul Chokmorov
Suimenkul Chokmorov (Kyrgyz: Сүймөнкул Чокморов ; Russian: Суйменкул Чокморов ; 9 November 1939 – 26 September 1992) was a Kyrgyz film actor born in Chon Tash village, Kirghiz SSR (now Kyrgyzstan). In 1964 he graduated from the Leningrad Academy of Arts and later taught painting and composition at the Arts School of Frunze. In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. |
Kasper Lorentzen
Kasper Wellemberg Lorentzen (born November 19, 1985) is a Danish retired professional footballer, who played as a midfielder or forward. He has represented various Danish youth national football teams, most recently the Danish under-21 national team, playing a combined 58 youth national team matches and scoring 20 goals. |
Peter Schmeichel
Peter Bolesław Schmeichel MBE (] ; born 18 November 1963) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and was voted the IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper in 1992 and 1993. He is best remembered for his most successful years at English club Manchester United, whom he captained to the 1999 UEFA Champions League to complete the Treble, and for winning UEFA Euro 1992 with Denmark. |
Kasper Skaanes
Kasper Skaanes (born 19 March 1995) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays for Brann, as a midfielder. |
Kasper Kusk
Kasper Kusk Vangsgaard (born November 10, 1991) is a Danish professional footballer playing as a winger for Danish Superliga club FC Copenhagen. |
Sam Johnstone
Samuel Luke Johnstone (born 25 March 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Aston Villa, on loan from Manchester United. He has also spent time on loan with Oldham Athletic, Scunthorpe United, Walsall, Yeovil Town, Doncaster Rovers and Preston North End. He was an England youth international, winning caps at under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-20 levels. He is the son of Glenn Johnstone, a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Preston North End in the early 1990s. |
Kasper Schmeichel
Kasper Peter Schmeichel (] ; born 5 November 1986) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Leicester City and the Denmark national team. He is the son of former Manchester United and Danish international goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel. |
Kasper Enghardt
Kasper Enghardt (born 27 May 1992) is a Danish professional footballer who plays for Randers. |
Kasper Dolberg
Kasper Dolberg (born 6 October 1997) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ajax and the Denmark national team. Dolberg made his senior debut at Silkeborg IF in May 2015. He joined Ajax in July 2015 and made his debut for the club in July 2016. He represented Denmark at under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-21 level before making his senior international debut in November 2016. |
Kasper Junker
Kasper Junker (born 5 March 1994) is a Danish professional footballer who plays for AGF, as a striker. |
Hugo Sánchez
Hugo Sánchez Márquez (born 11 July 1958) is a retired Mexican professional footballer and manager, who played as a forward. A prolific goalscorer known for his spectacular strikes and volleys, Sánchez is widely regarded as Mexico's greatest-ever footballer, and one of the greatest players of his generation. In 1999, the International Federation of Football History and Statistics voted Sánchez the 26th best footballer of the 20th century, and the best footballer from the CONCACAF region. In 2004 Sánchez was named in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. He is the fourth highest scorer in the history of Spain's top division, and is the sixth highest goalscorer in Real Madrid's history. |
Die hard (phrase)
The phrase die hard was first used during the Battle of Albuera (1811) in the Peninsular War. During the battle, Lieutenant-Colonel William Inglis of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot was wounded by canister shot. Despite his injuries, Inglis refused to retire from the battle but remained with the regimental colours, encouraging his men with the words "Die hard 57th, die hard!" as they came under intense pressure from a French attack. The 'Die Hards' subsequently became the West Middlesex’s regimental nickname. |
2017 St. Louis protests
On the afternoon of September 15, 2017, protests and violent clashes erupted in St. Louis, Missouri, following the acquittal of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley in the Shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, an African American man previously convicted of gun charges and drug distribution. Over 160 people have been arrested during the first three days of demonstrations, with largely peaceful protests ongoing. There has been significant criticism around the police and governmental response to protests, resulting in lawsuits from the ACLU. |
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Die Hard with a Vengeance is a 1995 American action film and the third in the "Die Hard" film series. It was co-produced and directed by John McTiernan (who directed "Die Hard"), written by Jonathan Hensleigh, and stars Bruce Willis as New York City Police Department Lieutenant John McClane, Samuel L. Jackson as McClane's reluctant partner Zeus Carver, and Jeremy Irons as Simon Gruber. It was released on May 19, 1995, five years after "Die Hard 2", becoming the highest-grossing film at the worldwide box-office that year, but received mixed reviews. It was followed by "Live Free or Die Hard" and "A Good Day to Die Hard" in 2007 and 2013, respectively. |
83rd Delaware General Assembly
The 83rd Delaware General Assembly was a meeting of the legislative branch of the state government, consisting of the Delaware Senate and the Delaware House of Representatives. Elections were held the first Tuesday after November 1st and terms began in Dover on the first Tuesday in January. This date was January 6, 1885, which was two weeks before the beginning of the third administrative year of Governor Charles C. Stockley. |
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