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Karposh Point Karposh Point (Bulgarian: "нос Карпош" , ‘Nos Karposh’ \'nos 'kar-posh\) is the ice-free point on the north coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is projecting 500 m into Morton Strait, and is situated 2.3 km west of the extreme northeast point of President Head, 2.5 km east-s...
Troubridge Island Conservation Park Troubridge Island Conservation Park is a protected area includes all of Troubridge Island and some adjoining waters about 8 km East-southeast of Edithburgh in South Australia and about 74 km southwest of Adelaide. The park was proclaimed in 1982 under "National Parks and Wildlife Act...
Cyclone Hondo Intense Tropical Cyclone Hondo (JTWC designation: 16S) was the strongest and longest lived tropical cyclone to develop during the 2007–08 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. The third tropical cyclone and first intense tropical cyclone of the season, Hondo developed out of a tropical disturbance in ea...
Drinov Peak Drinov Peak (Bulgarian: "Дринов връх" , ‘Drinov Vrah’ \'dri-nov 'vr&h\) is a peak rising to 1630 m in Imeon Range on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands. Situated 3.6 km north-northeast of Antim Peak, 1.9 km north of Slatina Peak, 2.91 km east-southeast of Jireček Point and 1.85 km southwest of Mount Pisga...
Minami-Tori-shima Minami-Tori-shima (南鳥島 , "Southern Bird Island") , also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, located some 1848 km southeast of Tokyo and 1267 km east of the closest Japanese island, South Iwo Jima of the Ogasawara Islands, and nearly on a strai...
Sierra DuFief The Sierra DuFief ( ) is a mountain range 4 nautical miles (7 km) long with numerous sharp peaks, the highest at 1,415 m , extending in a northeast–southwest direction in the south part of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, and named ...
Aprilov Point Aprilov Point (Aprilov Nos \a-'pri-lov 'nos\) is a point on the north coast of Greenwich Island, Antarctica situated 6.9 km east of Duff Point, 2.1 km east-southeast of Kabile Island, 2.2 km east-northeast of Crutch Peaks, 1.8 km south of Ongley Island, 5.5 km west of Agüedo Point, and 2.3 km north-northw...
Chkalov Island Chkalov Island (Остров Чкалова; Ostrov Chkalova), formerly Udd Island (Остров Удд), is a coastal island in the southern end of the Sea of Okhotsk. It is located off Schastya Bay, between the shorebound lagoon and the sea. Baydukov Island lies only 2 km off its east-southeast tip.
The Scarecrow (Connelly novel) The Scarecrow is a 2009 novel written by award-winning American author Michael Connelly. It was Connelly's 21st book (20th novel) and the second featuring as the main character Jack McEvoy, a reporter now living in Los Angeles, and FBI agent Rachel Walling. As a result, the novel is a seq...
The Millionaire Next Door The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy (ISBN  ) is a 1996 book by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko.
Zaïr Kedadouche Zaïr Kédadouche (born 9 August 1957 in Tourcoing, France) is a retired French soccer player. He is also a published author with his 1996 book Zair le gaulois, and is the founder of the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration museum.
Our Stolen Future Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story is a 1996 book by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers. The book chronicles the development of the endocrine disruptor hypothesis by Colborn. Though written for the popular ...
Amygdala hijack Amygdala hijack is a term coined by Daniel Goleman in his 1996 book "Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ". Drawing on the work of Joseph E. LeDoux, Goleman uses the term to describe emotional responses from people which are immediate and overwhelming, and out of measure with the actua...
Hello from Heaven! Hello From Heaven! is a 1996 book written by Bill Guggenheim and Judy Guggenheim. The book records what the Guggenheims term after-death communications (ADCs).
One More River to Cross One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America is a 1996 book written by Keith Boykin, who ran a now-defunct national black gay and lesbian organization. He begins the book by describing his life, including coming out at Harvard Law School, working for President Bill Clinton, and his first se...
Between Hope and History Between Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century is a 1996 book by then-incumbent United States President Bill Clinton. It was published by Random House in September 1996 in the lead up to the 1996 US presidential election, partly as a means to reach out to the electo...
From a Native Son From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985–1995 is a 1996 book by Ward Churchill. It is a collection of 23 previously published essays on various topics relevant to the indigenous peoples of the Americas (particularly of North America) in relation to their experience of being colonized. It...
American Sphinx American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, is a 1996 book written by Joseph Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. It won the 1997 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Club Argentino de Rugby Club Argentino de Rugby, simply known as Argentino, is an Argentine rugby union club. Its headquarters are sited in Avellaneda, Greater Buenos Aires, while the stadium is located on the km 43,5 of the National Route 2 (the main road to the city of Mar del Plata). The team currently plays in the ...
San Vicente, Buenos Aires San Vicente is a town and administrative centre of San Vicente Partido, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The southernmost town in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, San Vicente is 30 mi from downtown Buenos Aires, and can be accessed from Constitución Station by bus via Lin...
National Route A004 (Argentina) National Route A004 is a four-lane highway connecting National Route 1 (Buenos Aires-La Plata highway) at km marker 31 with the Juan María Gutiérrez circle in Greater Buenos Aires. The road extends for 8 km (numbered kn 31 to 30), all within the limits of Berazategui Partido in Buenos Ai...
Provincial Route 2 (Buenos Aires) Autovía 2 "Juan Manuel Fangio" (also known as Provincial Route 2, formerly National Route 2) is an Argentine dual carriageway, which runs from Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata. The road was a National Route until 1990 when it was transferred to the Government of Buenos Aires Province. The...
Villa Fiorito Fiorito is a suburb in the Lomas de Zamora Partido of Buenos Aires Province, to the south of central Buenos Aires, Argentina. It forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires urban conurbation. Many Italian and Spanish descendants live there, but in recent decades people from other provinces have come to live ne...
Ministro Pistarini International Airport Ministro Pistarini International Airport (Spanish: "Aeropuerto Internacional Ministro Pistarini" ) (IATA: EZE, ICAO: SAEZ) , known as Ezeiza International Airport owing to its location in the Ezeiza Partido in Greater Buenos Aires, is an international airport 22 km south-southwe...
Buenos Aires Province Buenos Aires (] , "Provincia de Buenos Aires"; English: "good airs") is the largest and most populous Argentinian province. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be part of the province and the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880. Since then, in spite of be...
Buenos Aires Hockey Association The Buenos Aires Hockey Association ("Asociación de Hockey de Buenos Aires" - AHBA) is the Argentine amateur governing body that regulates the practice of field hockey over the Buenos Aires autonomous city and its urban sprawl, Greater Buenos Aires. The AHBA is not affiliated to national...
San Miguel, Buenos Aires San Miguel is in the northwest region of Greater Buenos Aires, 30 km from the City of Buenos Aires. San Miguel is the county seat of San Miguel Partido, and has been a part of Greater Buenos Aires since the early 2000s. The number of inhabitants was 157,532 according to the 2001 census.
Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ] ) is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the first one was the meanin...
Belle (Once Upon a Time) Belle Gold (née French), briefly known as Lacey, is a fictional character in ABC's television series "Once Upon a Time". She is portrayed by Emilie de Ravin, who became a series regular in the second season and onwards after making recurring appearances in the first season, and has become a fan...
Anna Milton Anna Milton is a fictional character portrayed by actress Julie McNiven on The CW Television Network's drama and horror television series "Supernatural". First appearing in the fourth season, Anna is a fallen angel who champions humanity over her own kind; because she is fallen, she is a hunted fugitive of ...
Lionel Luthor Lionel Luthor is a fictional character portrayed by John Glover in the television series "Smallville". The character was initially a recurring guest in season one, and became a series regular in season two and continued until being written out of the show in season seven. The character returned to the sho...
Selina Meyer Selina Catherine Meyer ( ; née Eaton) is a fictional character portrayed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the HBO television comedy series "Veep". Louis-Dreyfus has been critically acclaimed for the role, earning a record-breaking six consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Serie...
Gwen Cooper Gwen Cooper is a fictional character portrayed by Welsh actress Eve Myles in the BBC science-fiction television programme "Torchwood", a spin-off of the long-running series "Doctor Who". The lead female character, Gwen featured in every episode of the show's 2006–11 run, as well as two 2008 crossover episod...
La India María "La India María" (born María Nicolasa Cruz) is a fictional character portrayed and created by actress María Elena Velasco. The character frequently endures situations of racial discrimination, classism, and corruption, although in all of these turmoils, María undoubtedly resolves them with hilarious acts...
Timmy Martin Timmy Martin is a fictional character portrayed by child actor Jon Provost in the long-running television series "Lassie" (1954–1973). Provost debuted in the first episode of the fourth season, "The Runaway" (1957), as the fictional foster child of farm woman Ellen Miller. Both the character and its portra...
Kimball Cho Kimball Cho is a fictional character portrayed by Tim Kang on the American TV crime drama "The Mentalist". Cho is a former agent for the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and is currently an FBI special agent. Cho serves as the polar opposite to Patrick Jane, but is keen to learn his powers of observ...
Tom (Lost) Tom Friendly, often referred to as Tom or Mr. Friendly, is a fictional character portrayed by M. C. Gainey on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television series "Lost". The series follows the lives of around forty survivors from the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. The survivors find themselves on a myste...
Tony Almeida Anthony "Tony" Almeida is a fictional character portrayed by Carlos Bernard on the television series "24". Almeida appeared in a total of 124 episodes (including ""), the third highest number of episodes of any character in the series behind Chloe O'Brian (125) and Jack Bauer (192), portrayed by Mary Lynn ...
Hokl/EB Films Hokl/EB Films is an American motion picture production company. They have previously produced the award-winning motion picture "Chicago Stories" and were a subcontractor on the film "Color of Money". They are currently in pre-production on the motion picture "Never Split Tens" which stars Polly Draper and...
The Tic Code The Tic Code (also known as Lessons in the Tic Code) is a drama film directed by Gary Winick and written by Polly Draper. It tells of a single mother, the relationship she forms with a jazz musician who has Tourette syndrome, and her young son—a jazz piano prodigy—also with the disorder. The musician and t...
Supertastic 6 (animated TV special) Supertastic 6 is the fifth episode of the third season on the part documentary and part rock-mockumentary musical comedy series "The Naked Brothers Band", which was created by Polly Draper. "Supetastic 6" is an animated special.
A Perfect Fit A Perfect Fit is a 2005 American thriller starring Adrian Grenier, Leila Arcieri, Polly Draper, Victoria Rowell and written and directed by Ron Brown. The film is distributed by Warner Bros. and Polychrome Pictures.
Christmas Special (TV special) Christmas Special is the sixth episode and the first holiday special on the part documentary and part rock-mockumentary musical comedy series "The Naked Brothers Band," which was created by Polly Draper. The premise of "Christmas Special" is that Nat has the holiday blues since Rosalina's...
Nat Wolff Nathaniel Marvin "Nat" Wolff (born December 17, 1994) is an American actor, singer-songwriter, and musician. Wolff gained recognition for composing the music for "The Naked Brothers Band" (2007–09), a Nickelodeon television series he starred in with his younger brother Alex that was created by their actress m...
List of The Naked Brothers Band episodes "The Naked Brothers Band" is an American musical comedy television series created by Polly Draper for Nickelodeon. The show depicts the daily lives of Draper's sons, who lead a fictional world-renowned rock band in New York City. As a mockumentary, the storyline is an embellishm...
The Naked Brothers Band (TV series) The Naked Brothers Band is an American musical comedy television series created by Polly Draper for Nickelodeon. The show depicts the daily lives of Draper's sons, who lead a fictional world-renowned rock band in New York City. As a mockumentary, the storyline is an embellishment of ...
Alex Wolff Alexander "Alex" Draper Wolff (born November 1, 1997) is an American actor, musician, and composer. He first gained recognition for starring alongside his older brother Nat in the Nickelodeon musical comedy television series "The Naked Brothers Band" (2007–09), which was created by the boys' mother Polly Dra...
Nat and Alex Wolff Nat and Alex Wolff are an American pop music duo from New York, New York, consisting of brothers Nat and Alex Wolff. The siblings are known for their work on the Nickelodeon television series "The Naked Brothers Band", which was created and produced by their mother, actress Polly Draper. It was adapt...
Voodoo Moon Voodoo Moon is a 2006 horror film written and directed by comic book artist and writer Kevin VanHook. It aired as a Sunday night movie on the Sci-Fi channel on June 4, 2006.
Seven Days in Sammystown Seven Days in Sammystown is the third studio album by American new wave band Wall of Voodoo, released in 1985. This was the first Wall of Voodoo album to include Andy Prieboy on vocals and Ned Leukhardt on drums. It includes their cover version of "Dark as a Dungeon". The album reached #50 on t...
The Spring The Spring is a 1989 independent movie, not available in video, about archaeologists Andy (Dack Rambo) and Matty (Gedde Watanabe), who discover a diary written by a member of Ponce de León's exploration party, which they believe can lead them to the Fountain of Youth. They go to Florida to retrace De León's ...
The Undead (film) The Undead is a 1957 horror film directed by Roger Corman starring Pamela Duncan, Allison Hayes, Richard Garland and Val Dufour. The authors' original working title was "The Trance of Diana Love". The film follows the story of a prostitute, Diana Love (Duncan), who is put into a hypnotic trance by psy...
The Spore The Spore is Opiate for the Masses's second full-length album, released on April 26, 2005, by Jim Kaufman's own Voodoo Records. The CD is sold with a Warcon DVD including videos from Opiate for the Masses, Eighteen Visions, Queens of the Stone Age, Drowning Pool, El Pus, Stutterfly and Bleed The Dream. There ...
Le President a-t-il Le Sida Le President a-t-il Le Sida is a 2006 Haitian movie directed by Haitian Filmmaker Arnold Antonin starring Jimmy Jean-Louis (of Heroes) and Jessica Généus. It tells the story of Dao, a prominent musician who leads an unprotected sexual life with orgies and drug use. He changes his lifestyle w...
Urgh! A Music War Urgh! A Music War is a British film released in 1982 featuring performances by punk rock, new wave, and post-punk acts, filmed in 1980. Among the artists featured in the movie are Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Magazine, The Go-Go's, Toyah Willcox, The Fleshtones, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts...
Dan Frischman Daniel Frischman (born April 23, 1959) is an American actor, noted for playing socially inept "geeks" and "nerds". Frischman's birthdate is often listed as 1964, because early in his career his acting agent encouraged him to falsify his age to make himself more eligible for teenaged acting roles. He was b...
Naomie Harris Naomie Melanie Harris, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 6 September 1976) is an English actress. She started her career as a child actress, appearing on the children television series "Simon and the Witch" in 1987. She played voodoo witch Tia Dalma in the second and third "Pirates of the Caribbean" ...
Sugar Hill (1974 film) Sugar Hill is a 1974 American horror blaxploitation zombie film released by AIP. It starred Marki Bey as the title character who uses voodoo to get revenge on the people responsible for her boyfriend's death. The zombies in this film more closely resemble the creatures of voodoo legend - i.e., th...
Judy Greer Judith Therese Evans (born July 20, 1975), known as Judy Greer, is an American actress, model and author, known for several television and film roles. On television, her best known roles include Kitty Sanchez on "Arrested Development", Ingrid Nelson/Fatty Magoo on "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia", Trixie ...
Addicted to Fresno Addicted to Fresno (original title "Fresno") is a 2015 dark comedy that was directed by Jamie Babbit and written by Karey Dornetto. The film had its world premiere March 14, 2015 at South by Southwest and stars Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer as two sisters that find themselves in trouble after Greer a...
Curtis Greer Curtis Greer (born November 10, 1957) is a former American football player. He played college football as a defensive tackle for the University of Michigan from 1976 to 1979. He was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round (sixth overall pick) of the 1980 NFL Draft. A 6'4", 256 lbs., Greer pl...
Rita Desjardin Miss Rita L. Desjardin is a fictional character created by Stephen King for his horror novel "Carrie". In the 1976 film adaptation, the character was renamed Miss Collins and portrayed by Betty Buckley. In later versions, she has been played by Rena Sofer and Judy Greer. She was renamed Miss Gardner in t...
Measure of a Man (film) Measure of a Man is an upcoming American comedy-drama film directed by Jim Loach, based on the 1977 novel "One Fat Summer" by the author Robert Lipsyte. The film stars Judy Greer, Luke Wilson, Blake Cooper and Donald Sutherland.
The Big Split The Big Split is a 1999 romantic comedy independent film written, directed and produced by Martin Hynes, and starring Hynes and Judy Greer. The film won a Golden Trailer award in 2001 in the category "Best Trailer - No Budget".
Playing for Keeps (2012 film) Playing for Keeps is a 2012 American romantic comedy film directed by Gabriele Muccino, starring Gerard Butler with Jessica Biel, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid, Uma Thurman and Judy Greer in supporting roles. The film was released on December 7, 2012, in the United States and Canada b...
Our Souls at Night (film) Our Souls at Night is a 2017 American drama film directed by Ritesh Batra and written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. It is based on the novel of same name by Kent Haruf. The film stars Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Judy Greer. It had its world premiere at the...
Carrie (2013 film) Carrie is a 2013 American supernatural horror film, directed by Kimberly Peirce, and is the third film adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same name. The film was produced by Kevin Misher, with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen & Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The film was released by Metro-Goldw...
The Wedding Bride "The Wedding Bride" is the 23rd episode of the fifth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" and is the 111th episode overall. It originally aired on May 17, 2010. Guest stars include Judy Greer, Jason Lewis, Malin Åkerman, and Chris Kattan.
Kingman Reef Kingman Reef is a largely submerged, uninhabited triangular shaped reef, 9.5 nmi east-west and 5 nmi north-south, located in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa at . It is the northernmost of the Northern Line Islands and lies 36 nmi northwest of the nex...
Masson Island Masson Island or Mission Island is an ice-covered island about 17 nmi long and rising to 465 m , lying 9 nmi northwest of Henderson Island within the Shackleton Ice Shelf. Masson Island is located in the western part of Mawson Sea at and has an elevation of 465 m . Masson Island was discovered in February...
Bruce Islands The Bruce Islands are a group of small islands and rocks 1.5 nmi northwest of Eillium Island and 3 nmi northwest of Route Point, the northwest tip of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands. They were first roughly shown on Powell's chart resulting from the joint cruise of Captain George Powell and Cap...
Smith Rocks Smith Rocks ( ) is a group of rocks lying 0.5 nmi northeast of Canopus Islands, 0.5 nmi west of Kitney Island, 2 nmi southwest of Wiltshire Rocks, and 3 nmi northwest of Paterson Islands, in the east part of Holme Bay, Mac. Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars ...
Kitney Island Kitney Island is a small island 1 nmi east-northeast of the Smith Rocks, 1 nmi southwest of the Wiltshire Rocks, and 2.5 nmi northwest of the Paterson Islands, off the coast of Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. The Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) first mapped this island which, though left unnamed, was ...
Glacier Ridge Glacier Ridge ( ) is a broad north–south ridge, 4.5 nmi long and 0.8 nmi wide, on the southern slopes of Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica. Completely ice-covered, the ridge descends from about 2200 m to 600 m , terminating 2.1 nmi northwest of Tyree Head. In association with the names of expedition s...
Piñero Island Piñero Island is an island, 2 nmi long and 0.5 nmi wide, lying about 4.5 nmi northwest of Pourquoi Pas Island, off the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition under J.B. Charcot, 1908–10, and named by him for Dr. Antonio F. Piñero, member of the Chamber of Deputies ...
Canopus Rocks The Canopus Rocks are two small, low rocks lying 1 nmi northwest of Canopus Island, 1 nmi east of Nella Rock and the Sawert Rocks, and 1 nmi southeast of Hansen Rocks in the eastern part of Holme Bay, Mac. Robertson Land. They were plotted from photos taken from Australian National Antarctic Research Expe...
Destination Nunataks The Destination Nunataks ( ) are a group of peaks and nunataks, 9 nmi long and 4 nmi wide, rising to 2,565 m at Pyramid Peak and including Sphinx Peak, Andrews Peak, Mummy Ridge, and unnamed nunataks to the northwest, located in northeast Evans Neve, 7 nmi northwest of the Barker Range, Victoria La...
Laysan Laysan ( ; Hawaiian: Kauō ] ), located 808 nmi northwest of Honolulu at N25° 42' 14" W171° 44' 04", is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It comprises one land mass of 1016 acre , about 1 by in size. It is an atoll of sorts, although the land completely surrounds a shallow central lake some 8 ft above sea...
Fincastle Turnpike The Fincastle Turnpike, also known as the "Fincastle and Blue Ridge Turnpike Company", was approved in 1834 by the Virginia General Assembly to maintain a toll turnpike that followed part of the Wilderness Road from Fincastle, Virginia, to the Cumberland Gap. The Fincastle Turnpike also connected Nar...
2011 Philadelphia, Mississippi tornado During the afternoon of April 27, 2011, a violent EF5 tornado touched down in eastern Mississippi, killing three people. Part of the historic 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak on record, this was the first of four EF5 tornadoes to touch down that day and the first ...
Tropical Storm Wukong (2006) Severe Tropical Storm Wukong was a slow moving tropical cyclone which produced torrential rains over Japan. The tenth named storm of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season, Wukong developed out of a tropical depression over the open waters of the western Pacific Ocean. On August 13, both the Japan...
Culture of Oregon The culture of Oregon has had a diverse and distinct character from before European settlement until the modern day. Approximately 80 Native American tribes were living in Oregon before the establishment of European pioneer settlements. Trappers and traders were the harbingers of the coming migration ...
Wilderness Road State Park Wilderness Road State Park is a state park located in southwestern Virginia, near Cumberland Gap and Ewing, VA. It consists of about 310 acre around the former Wilderness Road.
Belgian railway line 130A The Belgian railway line 130A is a railway line in Belgium connecting Charleroi with the French border near Erquelinnes. Completed in 1852, the line runs 29.3 km. It runs along the river Sambre, crossing it several times. Beyond Erquelinnes, a French railway line continues towards Jeumont, Sai...
History of Rocky Mountain National Park History of Rocky Mountain National Park began when Paleo-Indians traveled along what is now Trail Ridge Road to hunt and forage for food. Ute and Arapaho people subsequently hunted and camped in the area. In 1820, the Long Expedition, led by Stephen H. Long for whom Longs Peak wa...
O. C. Hackett Oliver Cromwell Hackett was born March 29, 1822 in Scott County, Kentucky. His father was John Hackett, and his grandfather was noted Kentucky frontiersman and militiaman of the American Revolution, Peter Hackett. John Hackett moved the family, including young O. C., from Kentucky to Coles County, Illinoi...
Peter Hackett Peter Hackett was born in approximately 1763 or 1764 in the English colony of Virginia. It is believed that Peter was the son of Thomas Hackett, likely of Montgomery County, Virginia. As a boy Peter was bonded out to Captain James Estill, in approximately 1771, and was a part of the broad Scotch-Irish mig...
Wilderness Road The Wilderness Road was one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. Although this road goes through the Cumberland Gap into southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee, the other (more northern route) is sometimes called the "Cumberland Road...
Scott Pye Scott Robert Pye (born 8 January, 1990) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 2 Holden VF Commodore for Walkinshaw Racing.
James Moffat (racing driver) James Moffat (born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 34 Holden VF Commodore for Garry Rogers Motorsport.
David Reynolds (racing driver) David Reynolds (born 3 July, 1985) is an Australian professional racing driver. He currently drives the No. 9 Holden VF Commodore for Erebus Motorsport in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship.
Will Davison Will Davison (born 30 August, 1982) is an Australian professional racing driver. He currently drives the No. 19 Holden VF Commodore for Tekno Autosports in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. Davison is a two-time winner of the Bathurst 1000, in 2009 and 2016.
Macauley Jones Macauley Jones (born 6 October 1994) is an Australian racing driver currently who competes in the Dunlop Series, driving the No. 14 Holden VF Commodore for Brad Jones Racing. He is also a co-driver in the Pirtek Enduro Cup series.
Jamie Whincup Jamie Whincup (born 6 February 1983) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 88 Holden VF Commodore for Triple Eight Race Engineering. Whincup is a six-time V8 Supercar champion, a four-time Bathurst 1000 winner and in 2017 also won ...
Craig Lowndes Craig Lowndes (born 21 June 1974) is an Australian racing driver competing in the Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 888 Holden VF Commodore for Triple Eight Race Engineering. Lowndes is a three-time V8 Supercar champion, a five-time Barry Sheene Medalist, and a six-time winner of Austral...
Shane van Gisbergen Shane van Gisbergen (born 9 May, 1989) is a New Zealand racing driver competing in the Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 97 Holden VF Commodore for Triple Eight Race Engineering.
Holden Commodore (VF) The Holden Commodore (VF) is an executive car that has been produced by Holden since June 2013. It is the second and last significant restyled iteration of the final fourth generation of the Holden Commodore to be manufactured in Australia. Its range includes the sedan and station wagon variants t...
James Courtney James Anthony Courtney (born 29 June, 1980) is an Australian racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 22 Holden VF Commodore for Walkinshaw Racing. Courtney won the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series driving for the Dick Johnson Racing team.
List of Saturday Night Live episodes <section begin=head />"Saturday Night Live" ("SNL") is a late-night sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. It premiered on NBC, a terrestrial television network, on October 11, 1975 under the title "NBC's Saturday Night". The show often satirizes contemporary Amer...
Ellen Cleghorne Ellen Cleghorne (born November 29, 1965) is an American actress and comedian, best known as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" from 1991 to 1995. Cleghorne was the sketch comedy show's second African-American female repertory cast member, succeeding Danitra Vance in its eleventh season, and the firs...