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Bokuzen Hidari Bokuzen Hidari (左 卜全 , Hidari Bokuzen , 20 February 1894 - 26 May 1971) was a Japanese actor and comedian born in Kotesashi Village (now part of Tokorozawa), Iruma District, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. He appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai", "The Lower Depths" and "Ikiru". Hidari wa...
Shaheed Woods Shaheed K. Woods (born Shaheed Kamal Jihad Woods) is an American actor, comedian born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. He is best known for "A Gentleman", "Midnight Delight", "Life! Camera Action..." earning him accolades.
Marty Belafsky Marty Belafsky (born September 19, 1975) is an American actor/comedian born in Los Angeles, California. He began acting professionally at age 13 and was soon cast as Louis Plumb on the short-lived NBC series "Hull High". Shortly thereafter, Belafsky landed the role of Crutchy in the Disney musical film, ...
Helen Atkinson-Wood Helen Atkinson-Wood (born 14 March 1955) is an English actress and comedian born in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.
Rosie O'Donnell Roseann O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962) is an American comedian, actress, author, and television personality. She has been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, a lesbian rights activist, a television producer, and a collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company, R Famil...
Chandra Lee Schwartz Chandra Lee Schwartz (born August 18, 1981) is an American theatre performer, who most recently played Glinda on the First National Tour of "Wicked" from Friday, 21 August 2009, through Sunday, 17 April 2011. She originally starred alongside Donna Vivino as Elphaba, who was later replaced by Jackie...
Tim Bedore Tim Bedore (born c. 1957) is an American comedian born in Chicago, IL. His parents moved to Stevens Point, Wisconsin when he was a child. He attended Pacelli High School (Wisconsin) in Stevens Point and the Appleton High School-West, where he graduated.
List of Seattle Sounders FC 2 players Seattle Sounders FC 2 (nicknamed S2) is an American soccer club based in Seattle, Washington that competes in the United Soccer League, the third tier of the United States Soccer Pyramid, as the reserve team of Seattle Sounders FC. The club was founded on October 14, 2014, and play...
Yannis Pappas Yannis Pappas is a Greek-American comedian born and raised in Park Slope Brooklyn, New York. Both of his parents, Anna and Chris, practiced law. He is the youngest of three children. He has two older brothers, Peter and Nikos Pappas. His brother Peter is also a lawyer who worked for the Clinton and Obama ...
Barry Ackerley Barry Allen Ackerley (April 15, 1934 – March 21, 2011) was an American businessman. He was the former Chairman and CEO of the Ackerley Group media company. He was the owner of the Seattle SuperSonics basketball franchise from 1983 to 2001. Ackerley died on March 21, 2011, two days after suffering a strok...
Championship Fighting Alliance Championship Fighting Alliance (CFA) is a mixed martial arts (MMA) based promotion company located in Miami Lakes, Florida. It was founded by former MMA fighter and promoter Jorge De La Noval in 2011. It has currently produced 10 live events. Fallon Fox, who currently is signed to fight f...
Instructional Television Fixed Service The Educational Broadband Service (EBS) was formerly known as the Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS). ITFS was a band of twenty (20) microwave TV channels available to be licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to local credit granting educational i...
Joseph Benavidez Joseph Rolando Benavidez (born July 31, 1984) is an American mixed martial artist. After fighting in smaller shows while working as a screen printer in Las Cruces, New Mexico, he joined up with Urijah Faber's Team Alpha Male in 2007. He has since fought in Dream and more recently the World Extreme Cage...
Michael Alldis Michael Alldis ( (1968--) 25 1968 (age (2017)-(1968)-((11)<(05)or(11)==(05)and(30)<(25)) ) ) born in London is an English amateur bantamweight and professional bantam/super bantam/feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1990s and 2000s, who as an amateur was runner-up for the 1966 Amateur Boxing Associa...
KHK MMA The Khalid Bin Hamad Al Khalifa Mixed Martial Arts (KHK MMA) is a martial arts organization based in Bahrain. It was founded under the patronage of His Highness Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa for its current CEO and professional MMA fighter Mohammed "The Hawk" Shahid in February 2015. Fighters competing under KHK ...
Nedal Hussein Nedal "Skinny" Hussein (born 1 December 1977) is an Australian professional bantam/super bantam/feather/super feather/Lightweight boxer of the 1990s and 2000s who won the Australian super bantamweight title, Australian bantamweight title, International Boxing Federation (IBF) Pan Pacific featherweight tit...
Patrick Mullings Patrick "Schoolboy" Mullings ( (1970--) 19 1970 (age 47 ) ) born in Harlesden is an English amateur bantamweight and professional super bantam/feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1990s and 2000s, who as an amateur was the runner-up for the 1990 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) bantamwe...
Domenico Ferrabosco Domenico Maria Ferrabosco (Ferabosco) (14 February 1513 – February 1574) was an Italian composer and singer of the Renaissance, and the eldest musician in a large prominent family from Bologna. He spent his career both in Bologna and Rome. His surviving music is all vocal, consisting of madrigals an...
Game On Dude Game On Dude (foaled April 26, 2007 in Kentucky) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse gelding. He won fourteen graded stakes races, including eight Grade I stakes: the Santa Anita Handicap in 2011, 2013, and 2014 the only horse to have won that race three times; he also won the Goodwood Stakes twic...
Demetrius Triclinius In palaeography, Demetrius Triclinius (Greek: Δημήτριος Τρικλίνιος ; b. ca. 1300), a native of Thessalonica, was a Byzantine scholar who edited and analyzed the metrical structure of many texts from ancient Greece, particularly those of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. He is often compared favor...
Listed buildings in Thornton Hough Thornton Hough is a village in Wirral, Merseyside, England. It contains 39 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the...
Frederick Layton Frederick Layton (May 18, 1827 – August 16, 1919) was an English-American businessman, philanthropist and art collector. He immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, with his father in 1843, when the city was still a pioneer village. He played a major role in the creation of Milwaukee’s meat packin...
John A. Schweitzer John A. Schweitzer, RCA, OSA, is a Canadian artist known for mixed-media collage incorporating text. He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002, first place at the international exhibition "Schrift und Bild in der modernen Kunst" in 2004, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Th...
Lewis Textile Museum The Lewis Textile Museum was bequeathed to the people of Blackburn by a local cotton industrialist, Thomas Boys Lewis (1869–1942). The Lewis Textile Museum was closed in 2006 and a new gallery with its collection of looms and textile machinery was moved to Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. The gall...
Althea Thauberger Althea Thauberger was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1970. She is currently based in Vancouver. Thauberger obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography at Concordia University in 2000 and went on to complete her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Victoria in 2002. In 2003, Thauberger wa...
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme ( ; 19 September 1851 – 7 May 1925) was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician. Having been educated at a small private school until the age of nine, then at church schools until he was fifteen; a somewhat privileged...
Lady Lever Art Gallery The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922. The museum is a significant surviving example of late Victorian and Edwardian taste. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village ...
Beaverbrook Art Gallery The Beaverbrook Art Gallery is a public art gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is named after William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, who funded the building of the gallery and assembled the original collection. It opened in 1959 with over 300 works, including paintings by...
Arkell Museum The Arkell Museum is a museum in Canajoharie, New York that has an extensive collection of American paintings, primarily from 1860–1940, as well as historical exhibits about the history of the Mohawk River Valley and of the Beech-Nut babyfood company. The Canjohaarie Library was founded in 1924, and a gal...
Linda Duvall Linda Duvall is a Canadian artist and educator based in Saskatchewan and Toronto. Her social art projects, exhibitions and research have taken up questions of conscience, truth, and the nature of interpersonal relationships, particularly as they are enacted through conversation. Her art employs photography...
North Star Computers North Star Computers Inc. (later styled as NorthStar™) was an American computer company based in Berkeley, California existing between June 1976 (when according to popular rumor it was formed as "Kentucky Fried Computers") and 1984. Originally a mail order business for IMSAI computers, it soon deve...
North Star Air North Star Air is a Canadian charter and cargo airline headquartered in Thunder Bay, Ontario, with secondary passenger hub in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, and cargo hubs located in Pickle Lake, and Red Lake, Ontario. The majority of destinations served are remote First Nations communities, with regular servic...
Your Family or Mine Your Family or Mine is an American sitcom series based on the Israeli series "Sabri Maranan" (Hebrew: סברי מרנן‎ ‎ ). The series is centered on a young married couple, Oliver (Kyle Howard) and Kelli (Kat Foster), and alternates between their two families. "Your Family or Mine" was announced by TBS i...
Sessão de Terapia Sessão de Terapia was a Brazilian television series written and directed by actor Selton Mello and based on the Israeli series "BeTipul", created by Israeli psychologist Hagai Levi. It is also based on he American version of the series, "In Treatment". It debuted on 1 October 2012 at GNT, at 10 pm and...
List of Fist of the North Star video games The following is a list of video games based on the manga "Fist of the North Star". Since 1986 , many video games based on the "Hokuto no Ken" franchise have been released for the Japanese market, including coin-operated arcade games and computer software. The majority of thes...
The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper) The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The paper commenced publication on December 3, 1847 and ceased as "The North Star" in June 1851 when it merged with Gerrit ...
North Star (TV series) North Star (Hebrew: כוכב הצפון‎ ‎ , also known as "Northern Star") is an Israeli teen drama series of The Walt Disney Company, which was produced by Herzliya Studios. The series premiered on Disney Channel in Israel on 30 November 2014. Disney Channel Israel gave the green light for the productio...
The Lodge (TV series) The Lodge is a British musical drama sitcom that premiered in the United Kingdom on Disney Channel on 23 September 2016 and in the United States on Disney Channel on 17 October 2016. The series is based on the Israeli series "North Star" and stars Sophie Simnett, Luke Newton, Thomas Doherty, Betha...
Legends of the Dark King Legends of the Dark King: A Fist of the North Star Story (Japanese: 天の覇王 北斗の拳 ラオウ外伝 , Hepburn: Ten no Haō: Hokuto no Ken: Raoh Gaiden , roughly translated as "The Conqueror of the Heavens: Fist of the North Star Raoh Side-Story") is a manga series by Youkow Osada that was serialized in the "Wee...
Thomas Doherty (actor) Thomas Doherty (born April 21, 1995) is a Scottish actor, best known for his roles as Harry Hook in Disney's "Descendants 2" and as Sean in the British musical drama sitcom, "The Lodge". In 2017, it was announced that Doherty would play the role of Zander in Michael Damian's film, High Strung: Fr...
Roopam Sharma Roopam Sharma (born 24 May 1995) is an Indian Scientist and innovator creating Social impact through disruptive technological inventions and solves perennial problems. Roopam is best known for his work on Manovue, the technology which enables the visually impaired to read printed text and is meant to repl...
Stefanus Du Toit Stefanus Du Toit is a South African inventor and entrepreneur and a co-founder of Waterloo-based RapidMind, a company specializing in the development of software that automatically parallelizes serial code. The technology behind Rapidmind was developed by Du Toit during his graduate research at the Uni...
Ayanna Howard Ayanna MacCalla Howard (born January 24, 1972) is an American roboticist and the Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. To date, her accomplishments have been documented in more than a dozen featured articles. In 2003, she was n...
Spencer Reiss Spencer Reiss (born 1952 in New York) is a former Newsweek foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America, now a contributing editor at Wired magazine.He began working for Wired as a senior editor in San Francisco in 1996. He is responsible for covering energy issues, new media, comm...
Hany Eitouni Hany Eitouni is an American innovator and entrepreneur, and a cofounder of Berkeley, CA based Seeo, a company commercializing a novel battery technology utilizing solid polymers. In 2010 he was recognized by being listed in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list.
MIT Technology Review MIT Technology Review is a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was founded in 1899 as The Technology Review, and was re-launched without "The" in its name on April 23, 1998 under then publisher R. Bruce Journey. In September 2005, it underwent another transition und...
Joe Pompei Joe Pompei is an American inventor and the founder of Holosonics, a company that has delivered techniques for precisely projecting sound using millimeter-wavelength sound waves using technology developed originally as part of his Ph.D. thesis at MIT. In 2003 he was recognized as a "young innovator" by being ...
Doris Tsao Doris Ying Tsao is an American systems neuroscientist and professor at the California Institute of Technology. She is recognized for pioneering the use of fMRI with single-unit electrophysiological recordings and for discovering the macaque face patch system for face perception. She is a Howard Hughes Medica...
David Berry (inventor) David Berry, M.D., PhD., (born February 10, 1978) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and CEO. Berry has co-founded and helped build over 20 companies in life sciences, technology, and sustainability. He was selected as a 2014 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum....
MIT Enterprise Forum The MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through MIT Technology Review. The organization has headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MITEF has chapters in major cities in the U.S. and worldwide.
Geobiology (journal) Geobiology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of geobiology published by Wiley-Blackwell. It was established in 2003 as both a print and online journal, with five issues per year. In 2011, the journal became online-only, and increased publication to six times per year. The editor-in-chief is Kur...
European Sociological Review European Sociological Review is a bimonthly peer reviewed academic journal published by Oxford University Press focusing on all sociology fields. It is the official journal of European Consortium for Sociological Research. The Editor in Chief is Melinda Mills (University of Oxford). This jo...
E-gold E-gold was a digital gold currency operated by Gold & Silver Reserve Inc. (G&SR) under e-gold Ltd. that allowed users to open an account on their web site denominated in grams of gold (or other precious metals) and the ability to make instant transfers of value ("spends") to other e-gold accounts. The e-gold sys...
Behavioural Brain Research Behavioural Brain Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. The journal publishes articles in the field of behavioural neuroscience. Volume 1 appeared in 1980 and issues appeared 6 times per year; as submissions increased it switched to a higher frequency and curre...
Third World Quarterly Third World Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge. The journal was established in 1979. s of 2011 , the editor-in-chief is Shahid Qadir. It was published eight times per year until 2011, when publication increased to ten times per year. It eventually moved to publish...
Virulence (journal) Virulence is a peer reviewed medical journal that covers microbiology and immunology specifically, microorganism pathogenicity, the infection process and host–pathogen interactions. It is published 8 times per year by Taylor & Francis. It was previously published 6 times per year by Landes Bioscienc...
Sexless marriage A sexless marriage is a marital union in which little or no sexual activity occurs between the two spouses. The US National Health and Social Life Survey in 1994 (Laumann et al. 1994) found that 2% of the married respondents reported no sexual intimacy in the past year. The definition of a non-sexual m...
Princeton Alumni Weekly The Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW) is a magazine published for the alumni of Princeton University. It was founded in 1900 and, until 1977, it was the only weekly college alumni magazine in the United States. Upon changing to biweekly publication in 1977, the number of issues per year decreased fr...
Space Science Reviews Space Science Reviews is a peer reviewed, scientific journal of space science. It was established in June 1962, and is published by Springer in English, Dutch, French, German, or Russian, with summaries in English. The journal is currently edited by Hans Bloemen. It was printed six times per year ...
Supply &amp; Demand Chain Executive Supply & Demand Chain Executive is a business technology magazine for supply chain executives at manufacturing and non-manufacturing companies and organizations, as well as public sector agencies, covering solutions and services for improving supply chain operations and efficiencies....
Dan Goor Daniel J. Goor (born April 28, 1975) is a writer, who has written for several comedy talk shows including "The Daily Show", "Last Call with Carson Daly" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". He also worked as a writer, producer, and director for NBC primetime series "Parks and Recreation". He is currently servi...
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine is an American police sitcom that premiered on Fox on September 17, 2013, garnering 6.17 million viewers. Created by Dan Goor and Michael Schur, the series revolves around Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), an immature but talented NYPD detective in Brooklyn's 99th Precinct, who comes in...
List of Brooklyn Nine-Nine characters "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" is a sitcom which premiered in September 2013. The show revolves around the fictional 99th Precinct of the New York Police Department, located in Brooklyn.
James M. Connor James Michael Connor (born June 16, 1960 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American actor who, making his film debut as a supporting character in the 1976 science fiction film "Futureworld", has played recurring characters on several television series including "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "The King of Queens...
Michael Schur Michael Herbert "Mike" Schur (born October 29, 1975) is an American television producer and writer, best known for his work on the NBC comedy series "The Office" and "Parks and Recreation", the latter of which he co-created along with Greg Daniels. He also co-created the FOX comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-N...
Ken Marino Kenneth Joseph "Ken" Marino (born December 19, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He was a cast member on MTV's "The State" and has starred in shows such as "Party Down", "Marry Me", "Burning Love", "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and "Childrens Hospital".
Chelsea Peretti Chelsea Vanessa Peretti (born February 20, 1978) is an American comedian, actress, and writer. She is best known for portraying Gina Linetti on the Fox comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine". "Paste" ranked her Twitter account #75 on "The 75 Best Twitter Accounts of 2014".
Joe Lo Truglio Joseph "Joe" Lo Truglio (born December 2, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and writer best known for his performance as Charles Boyle on the Fox sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine". Lo Truglio is also known for his roles in the television series "The State" and "Reno 911!"; films such as "Wet H...
List of Brooklyn Nine-Nine episodes "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" is an American comedy series which premiered on September 17, 2013, on Fox. The series, created by Dan Goor and Michael Schur, follows a team of detectives and a newly appointed captain in the 99th Precinct of the New York City Police Department in Brooklyn. The ...
Marc Evan Jackson Marc Evan Jackson (born August 21, 1970) is an American comedian and actor best known for his work as Sparks Nevada in the "Thrilling Adventure Hour", Kevin Cozner in "Brooklyn Nine-Nine", Trevor Nelsson in "Parks and Recreation", and Dr. Murphy in "22 Jump Street".
SS Mount Ida The SS "Mount Ida" was a cargo ship built in 1938 by William Hamilton & Co. Ltd of Glasgow. Launched in 1938 as "Arcscott", she was renamed "Mount Ida" after being bought by the Atlanticos Steam Ship Company Ltd, of Athens, Greece. She was wrecked in 1939 after being in service for only about 18 months.
Mount Ida High School Mount Ida High School is a public six-year high school located in Mount Ida, Arkansas, United States. Mount Ida is one of three public high schools in Montgomery County and the only high school of the Mount Ida School District. For 2010–11, the school enrollment was 256 students occupying grades 7...
Mount Ida (community), Wisconsin Mount Ida is an unincorporated community located in the town of Mount Ida in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located along U.S. Route 18.
Mount Ida Cities Service Filling Station The Mount Ida Cities Service Filling Station is a historic automotive service station at 204 Whittington Street in Mount Ida, Arkansas. It is a small five-sided frame structure, finished in brick that has been stucoed over, with a hip roof that extends to form a canopy over the ...
Melissus of Crete In Greek mythology, Melisseus ("bee-man"), the father of the nymphs Adrasteia and Ide (or Aega, according to Hyginus) who nursed the infant Zeus on Crete, was the eldest and leader of the nine Kuretes of Crete. They were chthonic "daimones" of Mount Ida, who clashed their spears and shields to drown o...
Mount Ida (Scottsville, Virginia) Described as “one of the most important late 18th century plantation houses in Virginia” by the Senior Architectural Historian, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Mount Ida was built c. 1795 by William Cannon, on a hill overlooking the south side of the James Ri...
Mount Ida School District Mount Ida School District 20 is a public school district based in Mount Ida, Arkansas. The school district serves more than 500 students and employs more than 80 educators and staff at its two schools and district offices.
Mount Ida In Greek mythology, two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida, the "Mountain of the Goddess": Mount Ida in Crete; and Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of western Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey) which was also known as the "Phrygian Ida" in classical antiquity and is the mountain that is mentioned in the ...
KXI92 KXI92 (sometimes referred to as Mount Ida All Hazards) is a NOAA Weather Radio station that serves Mount Ida, Arkansas and surrounding cities. It is programmed from the National Weather Service forecast office in Little Rock, Arkansas with its transmitter located in Mount Ida. It broadcasts weather and hazard inf...
Mount Ida (Turkey) Mount Ida (Turkish: "Kazdağı" , pronounced ] , meaning "Goose Mountain", "Kaz Dağları," or "Karataş Tepesi") is a mountain in northwestern Turkey, some 20 miles southeast of the ruins of Troy, along the north coast of the . The name Mount Ida is the ancient one. It is between Balıkesir Province and Ç...
Steinar Sverd Johnsen Steinar Sverd Johnsen is a Norwegian keyboardist and composer, born 1972. Sverd plays keyboards and synthesizers in Arcturus and was also the main composer for the band. He formed the band with Jan Axel Blomberg (also known as Hellhammer) of Mayhem in 1987, originally under the moniker Mortem (whe...
Darkness → Light Darkness → Light is an album by Elevator. It was released in October 2002. The album was recorded at Mark Gaudet's home in Moncton, New Brunswick, and at the Blue Studio in Toronto.
Axel von Blomberg Major Axel von Blomberg (1908 – 15 May 1941) was an officer in the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") before and during the Second World War. He is best known for the role he played during the Anglo-Iraqi War.
The Forsaken (album) The Forsaken is the third studio album by the Christian black metal band Antestor released in 2005 on Endtime Productions. The album features guest appearances of the established metal musicians Jan Axel Blomberg (Hellhammer) and Ann-Mari Edvardsen.
Elevator (band) Elevator is a band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Started in 1994 as Elevator To Hell, a solo outlet for Eric's Trip lead man Rick White, the project eventually grew to include Eric's Trip drummer Mark Gaudet and White's ex-wife Tara on bass and, for a short while, Ron Bates of Orange Glass as a fourth me...
Jan Axel Blomberg Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg (born 2 August 1969) is a Norwegian heavy metal drummer. He is best known as the drummer of Mayhem, which he joined in 1988. In 1987 Blomberg formed the avant-garde black metal band Arcturus (under the name Mortem) with Steinar Sverd Johnsen, which broke up in April 2007...
Erik Blomberg (writer) "Erik" Axel Blomberg (17 August 1894 – 8 April 1965) was a Swedish poet, translator and critic.
Mezzerschmitt Mezzerschmitt is a Norwegian black metal band, a spinoff of Mayhem. It was formed in 2000 by Mayhem members Jan Axel Blomberg (Hellhammer) and Rune Eriksen (Blasphemer), collaborating with Lars Sørensen from Red Harvest. They intended to create an industrial metal band, but their sound soon shifted toward...
Mark Gaudet Mark Gaudet (born October 30, 1963) is a Canadian musician from Moncton, New Brunswick. He has played in various indie and metal music groups, such as Elevator, Eric's Trip, Purple Knight and Funeral Fog. In 1974, at the age of eleven Gaudet formed his first band, Purple Knight. In 1991, Gaudet joined Eric'...
Starke man Starke man is a 2010 Swedish comedy series broadcast on SVT. The series focuses on local politics in Svinarp, a fictitious small municipality in the south of Sweden, which the press has branded the second-most boring municipality of Scania in the pilot episode. Much of the series revolves around Lars-Göran B...
Carrier Canal Carrier Canal is an irrigation canal in Kern County, California. It originates from a common diversion at Manor Street in Bakersfield, which also supplies the Kern Island Canal and Eastside Canal. The common diversion originates from the Kern River about 1 mi south of Gordon's Ferry. There are additional ...
Orleans Canal The Orleans Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana. The canal, along with the 17th Street Canal and the London Avenue Canal, form the New Orleans Outfall Canals. The current version of the canal is about 2 km long, running along the up-river side of City Park, through the Lakeview and Lakesho...
New River (Broward County, Florida) The New River is a tidal estuary in South Florida, United States. The river is connected to the Everglades through a series of man made canals. After passing through Fort Lauderdale, the river connects to the Atlantic Ocean at Port Everglades cut. The river is entirely within Broward...
Dundee Canal The Dundee Canal was an industrial canal in Clifton and Passaic in Passaic County, New Jersey. It was built between 1858 and 1861 and ran parallel to the Passaic River. It supplied hydropower and water for manufacturing. There was interest by some members of the business community to modify the canal to su...
Riverside Canal (El Paso) The Riverside Canal is an irrigation canal in El Paso County beginning southeast of El Paso, Texas. The canal acquires water from the Riverside Diversion Dam on the Rio Grande 15 mi southeast of El Paso. The canal is managed by the US Bureau of Reclamation. The canal extends for 17.2 mi with a...
Kern Island Canal Kern Island Canal is an irrigation canal in Kern County, California. It primarily irrigates farmland located on the Kern Lakebed, south of Bakersfield. It originates from a common diversion at Manor Street in Bakersfield, which also supplies the Carrier Canal and Eastside Canal. The common diversion o...
Karakum Canal The Karakum Canal (Qaraqum Canal, Kara Kum Canal, Garagum Canal; Russian: Каракумский канал , "Karakumsky Kanal", Turkmen: Garagum kanaly , گَرَگوُم كَنَلیٛ, "Гарагум каналы") in Turkmenistan is one of the largest irrigation and water supply canals in the world. Started in 1954, and completed in 1988, it ...
Miami Canal The Miami Canal, or C-6 Canal, flows from Lake Okeechobee in the U.S. state of Florida to its terminus at the Miami River, which flows through downtown Miami. The canal flows in a south and southeasterly direction for approximately 77 miles, and passes through three counties: Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-...
History of Over-the-Rhine The history of Over-the-Rhine is almost deep as the history of Cincinnati. Over-the-Rhine's built environment has undergone many cultural and demographic changes. The toponym "Over-the-Rhine" is a reference to the Miami and Erie Canal as the Rhine of Ohio. An early reference to the canal as "t...
Golovnaya Dam The Golovnaya Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Vakhsh River just east of Sarband in Khatlon Province, Tajikistan. It serves to provide water to a system of irrigation canals and generate hydroelectric power. The first generator was commissioned in 1962 and the last in 1963. Between 1984 and 1989...