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Sultanat
Sultanat is a 1986 Bollywood film written and directed by Mukul S. Anand. The film stars Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Sridevi, Amrish Puri, Shakti Kapoor, Tom Alter and marked the debut of Karan Kapoor (son of Shashi Kapoor) and Juhi Chawla. It was not a success at the box-office. It was the first film in which Dha... |
Karan Kundra
Karan Kundrra (earlier known as Karan Kundra) is an Indian film and television actor best known for playing the role of "Arjun Punj" in Ekta Kapoor's Indian soap opera "Kitani Mohabbat Hai" that aired on NDTV Imagine. He is also remembered for hosting three seasons of Ekta Kapoor's yet another crime show "... |
Kunal Karan Kapoor
Kunal Karan Kapoor (born 22 August 1982 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian actor. In 2013, he won the 'Best Actor(male)-Popular' for Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha at the Indian Telly Awards for which he is highly noted. His role as Mohan Bhatnagar gave him a huge fan base and made him the most perfect t... |
Loha (1987 film)
Loha is a 1987 Hindi film directed by Raj N. Sippy. It was released in India on 23 January 1987. It stars Dharmendra, Shatrughan Sinha, Karan Kapoor, Madhavi, Mandakini and Amrish Puri. The film was one of that year's highest grossing films. The film became Dharmendra's first hit of the year 1987, wher... |
Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (English: "One me, and one you") is a 2012 Indian romantic comedy film written and directed by Shakun Batra in his directorial debut. It was produced by Karan Johar and Hiroo Yash Johar under the banner of Dharma Productions, alongside Ronnie Screwvala of UTV Motion Pictures. The f... |
Student of the Year
Student of the Year is a 2012 Indian romantic comedy-drama film directed by Karan Johar and produced by Hiroo Yash Johar under the banner of Dharma Productions and in collaboration with Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment. The movie features newcomers Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia... |
Mera Naam Joker
Mera Naam Joker (translation: "My Name is Joker") is a 1970 Indian Hindi drama film directed by Raj Kapoor. The screenplay was written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. This film was the debut of Rishi Kapoor. "Mera Naam Joker" is a film about a clown who must make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows... |
Karan Kapoor
Karan Kapoor (born 18 January 1962) is a former Indian film actor and model of British and Indian descent. He is the son of Indian Bollywood International Actor Shashi Kapoor and his India settled (late) British Actress Jennifer Kendal. His paternal grandfather was Prithviraj Kapoor and his paternal uncles... |
Gyromancer
Gyromancer is a puzzle and role-playing video game developed by PopCap Games in collaboration with Square Enix. In the game, the player moves through a map of an enchanted forest, battling monsters using their own summoned monsters through a puzzle-game battle based on PopCap's "Bejeweled Twist". In these ba... |
Enchanted Forest Water Safari
Enchanted Forest Water Safari (originally, The Enchanted Forest of the Adirondacks) is an amusement park in Old Forge, New York. |
Enchanted Forest (disambiguation)
An enchanted forest is a forest under or containing magical enchantments. |
Enchanted Forest (Rhode Island)
The Enchanted Forest was a fairy tale-themed amusement park that opened in 1971 in Hope Valley, Hopkinton, Rhode Island. Throughout its lifetime, it was mainly oriented to younger children and families. The park contained rides such as a child-sized roller coaster, bumper cars, and a mer... |
Trollskogen
Trollskogen ("enchanted forest" or "troll's forest") is a windswept, grazed pine forest and nature reserve in the northeast corner of the Baltic island Öland, Sweden (Böda socken, Borgholm Municipality). The forest is on a promontory with an exposed shingle beach on the eastern side, the side of the Baltic ... |
Enchanted forest
In literature, an enchanted forest is a forest under, or containing, enchantments. Such forests are described in the oldest folklore from regions where forests are common, and occur throughout the centuries to modern works of fantasy. They represent places unknown to the characters, and situations of l... |
Alex Randolph
Alexander Randolph (4 May 1922 – 28 April 2004) was an American designer of board games and writer. Randolph's game creations include TwixT, Breakthru, Inkognito (with Leo Colovini), Raj, Ricochet Robot, and Enchanted Forest (with Michael Matschoss). |
Enchanted Forest Chronicles
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles is a series of four young adult fantasy novels by Patricia C. Wrede titled "Dealing with Dragons", "Searching for Dragons", "Calling on Dragons", and "Talking to Dragons". Additionally, the "Book of Enchantments" includes one short story titled "Utensile Stren... |
Talking to Dragons
Talking to Dragons is a young adult fantasy novel, the fourth and final book in the "Enchanted Forest Chronicles" by Patricia Wrede, although it was published first, in 1985. It is told in first person from the point of view of sixteen-year-old Daystar, son of Cimorene, a woman who lives at the edge ... |
The Enchanted Forest (film)
The Enchanted Forest is a 1945 family film starring Edmund Lowe and Brenda Joyce, also featuring Harry Davenport as a hermit who finds and raises a young boy in a forest. The film and story served as the inspiration for a 1998 music composition/recording, "Enchanted Forest" by Loren Connors ... |
Three Colours: Blue
Three Colours: Blue (French: Trois couleurs : Bleu ) is a 1993 French drama film directed and co-written by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. "Blue" is the first of three films that comprise the "Three Colours" trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, and fratern... |
Three Colours trilogy
The "Three Colours" trilogy (Polish: "Trzy kolory" , French: "Trois couleurs" ) is a three-part film series directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski. Two of the films were made in French and one primarily in Polish: "" (1993), "" (1994), and "" (1994). All three were co-written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof... |
Be All That You Can't Be
"Be All That You Can't Be" is the first single from Broadway Calls' second studio album, "Good Views, Bad News". It was released on July 21, 2009. The single has been released on vinyl. The vinyl is available in three colours: Blue, orange and white (Hot Topic Exclusive). Each colour is limited... |
Hokusai Manga
The Hokusai Manga (北斎漫画 , "Hokusai's Sketches") is a collection of sketches of various subjects by the Japanese artist Hokusai. Subjects of the sketches include landscapes, flora and fauna, everyday life and the supernatural. The word "manga" in the title does not refer to the contemporary story-telling "... |
Colombia (cocktail)
The Colombia is a cocktail containing vodka and curaçao. The layering effect takes advantage of the variation in density and temperature between the layers. The drink appears as stacked horizontal layers of yellow, blue and red, which matches the three colours of the Colombian flag. |
Blue
Blue is the colour between violet and green on the spectrum of visible light. Human eyes perceive blue when observing light with a wavelength between 450 and 495 nanometres. Blues with a higher frequency and thus a shorter wavelength appear more violet, while those with a lower frequency and a longer wavelength gr... |
Three Colours: White
Three Colours: White (French: Trois couleurs : Blanc ) is a 1994 French-Polish comedy-drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski. "White" is the second in "The Three Colors Trilogy", themed on the French Revolutionary ideals, following "" and preceding "". The film was se... |
City of Sydney flag
The City of Sydney flag is made up of a horizontal triband of three colours – white, gold and blue. It was designed in 1908. The top third of the flag features three designs. The flag is displayed in Town Hall, Sydney. |
Pan-African colours
The term Pan-African colours refers to two different sets of three colours: red, gold (not yellow), and green (inspired by the flag of Ethiopia), and red, black, and green. They are used in flags and other emblems of various countries and territories in Africa and the Americas to represent Pan-Afric... |
Requiem for my friend (Preisner)
Requiem for my friend is a major and the first non-film musical work composed by Zbigniew Preisner. The composition was meant to honour the composer's late friend, the director Krzysztof Kieślowski, with whom he collaborated while working on a number of films, including the famous "Thre... |
Sweet crude oil
Sweet crude oil is a type of petroleum. The New York Mercantile Exchange designates petroleum with less than 0.42% sulfur as "sweet". Petroleum containing higher levels of sulfur is called sour crude oil. |
Sweet Crude
Sweet Crude is a documentary film by Sandy Cioffi about Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta. The film premiered in April 2009 at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and has since screened at 30 film festivals around the world and has won numerous awards. |
Oil reserves in Libya
Oil reserves in Libya are the largest in Africa and among the ten largest globally with 46.4 Goilbbl as of 2010. Oil production was 1.65 Moilbbl/d as of 2010, giving Libya 77 years of reserves at current production rates if no new reserves were to be found. Libya is considered a highly attractive ... |
Desert Victory
Desert Victory is a 1943 film produced by the British Ministry of Information, documenting the Allies' North African campaign against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps. This documentary traces the struggle between General Erwin Rommel and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, from the German's ... |
United States Oil Fund
The United States Oil Fund (NYSE Arca: [ USO] ) is an exchange-traded fund that attempts to track the price of West Texas Intermediate Light Sweet Crude Oil. |
Sandy Cioffi
Sandy Cioffi is a Seattle-based film and video artist. She is director and producer of the documentary film Sweet Crude and has produced and/or directed the films Crocodile Tears, Terminal 187 and Just Us. She is a tenured professor in the Film and Video Communications Department at Seattle Central Communi... |
Gold Coast (region)
The Gold Coast is the gold rich region that is now the nation of Ghana on the petroleum sweet crude oil and natural gas rich Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, Africa. |
Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil
Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil is a type of sweet crude oil (sweet crude oil), found primarily in the Appalachian basin in the Marcellus Formation in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, and takes its name for the state of Pennsylvania, where it was first extracted i... |
Tunisian Victory
Tunisian Victory is a 1944 Anglo-American propaganda film about the victories in the North Africa Campaign. |
Enbridge Line 5
Enbridge Line 5 is a major oil pipeline in the Enbridge Lakehead System, which conveys petroleum from western Canada to eastern Canada via the Great Lakes states. Line 5 is particularly notable for passing under the environmentally sensitive Straits of Mackinac, which connect Lake Michigan to Lake Huron... |
2013 Old Dominion Monarchs football team
The 2013 Old Dominion Monarchs football team represented Old Dominion University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Bobby Wilder and played their home games at Foreman Field at S. B. Ballard Stadium. This season was season one... |
2015 Old Dominion Monarchs football team
The 2015 Old Dominion Monarchs football team represented Old Dominion University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Bobby Wilder and played their home games at Foreman Field at S. B. Ballard Stadium in Norfolk, Virginia. The... |
Alan Harre
Dr. Alan F. Harre (born 1940) was the eighteenth president of Valparaiso University, a post he held for 20 years from 1988 to 2008. He was succeeded by Elizabethtown College alumnus, Mark A. Heckler. Harre was designated President Emeritus of Valparaiso University on July 1, 2008 and was voted one of Valpara... |
Old Dominion University Fieldhouse
Old Dominion University Fieldhouse was a 5,200 seat multi-purpose arena in Norfolk, Virginia. It opened in 1970. It was home to the Old Dominion University Monarchs and Lady Monarchs basketball teams until the 2002-03 basketball season, when the Ted Constant Convocation Center opened. |
Old Dominion Monarchs baseball
The Old Dominion Monarchs baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. The team is a member of the Conference USA, which is part of NCAA Division I and just landed the number 1 left-handed pitching prospect in New... |
2009–10 Old Dominion Monarchs basketball team
The 2009–10 Old Dominion Monarchs men's basketball team represented Old Dominion University in the 2009–10 college basketball season. This was head coach Blaine Taylor's ninth season at Old Dominion. The Monarchs compete in the Colonial Athletic Association and played their... |
Old Dominion–VCU basketball rivalry
The Old Dominion–VCU basketball rivalry is a college sports rivalry between the VCU Rams of Virginia Commonwealth University and the Old Dominion Monarchs of Old Dominion University. It is often regarded as the best college basketball rivalry in the Commonwealth of Virginia. |
Matt Quatraro
Matthew John Quatraro (born November 14, 1973) is an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager. He is the assistant hitting coach for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. He played college baseball for Old Dominion University from 1993 through 1996, where he was named an All-Ame... |
Foreman Field
Foreman Field at S. B. Ballard Stadium is a 20,118-seat multi-purpose stadium on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. It opened in 1936 with a football game between the University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary's Norfolk Division (which is now Old Dominion University)... |
Dwight W. Allen
Dr. Dwight W. Allen (born 1931) is a professor of education, eminent scholar, and lifelong education reformist. He served as a professor and Director of Teacher Education at his "alma mater", the Stanford Graduate School of Education from 1959 to 1967. He was Dean of the College of Education, University... |
Quaker Ridge (NYW&B station)
Quaker Ridge is a former railroad station on the White Plains branch of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway in the city of New Rochelle in Westchester County, New York. The station is named for the Quaker Ridge section of northern New Rochelle along the Scarsdale Town border. I... |
Northern Westchester
Northern Westchester refers to the upper portion of Westchester County, New York, a suburban area north of New York City. Lying north of Interstate 287/Cross Westchester Expressway, these communities are distinguished by distance from New York City and their more rural character from those of South... |
Interstate 287
Interstate 287 (I-287) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in the US states of New Jersey and New York. It is a partial beltway around New York City, serving the northern half of New Jersey and the counties of Rockland and Westchester in New York. I-287, which is signed north–south in New Jersey and east–... |
New York, Westchester and Boston Railway
The New York, Westchester and Boston Railway Company (NYW&B, also known to its riders as "the Westchester" and colloquially as the "Boston-Westchester"), was an electric commuter railroad in the Bronx and Westchester County, New York from 1912 to 1937. It ran from the southernmo... |
New York and Stamford Railway
The New York and Stamford Railway was a streetcar line that connected the Westchester County suburbs of New Rochelle, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Harrison, Rye, and Port Chester, with the Connecticut suburbs of Greenwich and Stamford. The company was formed in 1901 when the New York, New Haven ... |
New York State Route 9A
New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) is a state highway in the vicinity of New York City in the United States. Its southern terminus is at the northern end of the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel in New York City, where it intersects with both the unsigned Interstate 478 (I-478) and FDR Drive. The northern te... |
Willson's Woods Park
Willson's Woods Park is a park located in Mount Vernon, New York. The Park is owned by Westchester County and operated by its Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation. Acquired in 1924, Willson's Woods is one of the oldest parks in the County's parks system. The Park was named for the forme... |
Bronx River Parkway
The Bronx River Parkway (sometimes abbreviated as the Bronx Parkway) is a 19.12 mi long parkway in downstate New York in the United States. It is named for the nearby Bronx River, which it parallels. The southern terminus of the parkway is at Story Avenue near Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx neighb... |
Esplanade (Bronx)
Esplanade is a .8-mile street with a series of green traffic medians in the Morris Park and Pelham Gardens neighborhoods of the Bronx in New York City. The street was constructed in 1912 atop a covered trench of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway that was cut through a hill. Atop the hill, E... |
Larchmont (Metro-North station)
Larchmont is a Metro-North Railroad station on the New Haven Line in Larchmont, New York. It is mostly served by local trains originating or terminating at Stamford. The New England Thruway (Interstate 95) runs alongside the station, underneath a parking ramp for rail commuters. Larchmon... |
Karl Steinbuch
Karl W. Steinbuch (June 15, 1917 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt – June 4, 2005 in Ettlingen) was a German computer scientist, cyberneticist, and electrical engineer. He was an early and influential researcher of German computer science, and was the developer of the Lernmatrix, an early implementation of arti... |
MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc.
MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc., 991 F.2d 511 (9th Cir. 1993), was a case heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which addressed the issue of whether the loading of software programs into Random-Access Memory (RAM) by a computer repair technic... |
Armin Meiwes
Armin Meiwes ( ; born 1 December 1961) is a German computer repair technician who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim whom he had found via the Internet. After Meiwes and the victim jointly attempted to eat the victim's severed penis, Meiwes killed his victim and proc... |
Electronix corporation
Electronix Corporation distributes electronic parts and accessories for home and business use, as well as data storage devices (under the name RaidWeb) and electronic technician information services (under the name RepairWorld). In addition, Electronix operates a computer repair/IT service divisi... |
Library technician
A library technician or library assistant is a skilled library and information professional trained to perform the day-to-day functions of a library, and assists librarians in the acquisition, preparation, and organization of information. They also assist library patrons in finding information. The w... |
Celal Kandemiroglu
Celal Kandemiroglu is a graphic artist in the German computer games industry. He was born in 1953 in Turkey and made his first comic when he was five years old. After graduating at the fine arts academy in Istanbul he started to offer his comics to the Bastei-Verlag in Germany around 1978. Since 1985... |
Computer repair technician
A computer repair technician is a person who repairs and maintains computers and servers. The technician's responsibilities may extend to include building or configuring new hardware, installing and updating software packages, and creating and maintaining computer networks. |
Tan Kai
Tan Kai (Chinese: 谭凯; born 1973) is a mainland Chinese computer technician and an environmental activist from Zhejiang province. He operated his own company, called Lanyi Computer Repair, and co-founded an environmental advocacy and monitoring NGO called Green Watch (绿色观察). He was convicted in May 2006 "illegal... |
Conservation technician
A Conservation Technician is a specialist who is trained in basic conservation methods pertaining to cultural property and may work in museums or public or private conservation organizations. Typically an individual may work with or be subordinate to a conservator. A technician may also work in ... |
Konrad Zuse Medal
The Konrad Zuse Medal is the highest award of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (the German Computer Science Society), given every two years to one or sometimes two leading German computer scientists. It is named after German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse. |
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (Italian: "Uno, Nessuno e Centomila" ] ) is a 1926 novel by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924,... |
Right You Are (if you think so)
Right You Are (If You Think So) (Italian: "Così è (se vi pare)" ] , also translated as "It Is So, (If You Think So)") is an Italian drama by Luigi Pirandello. The play is based on Pirandello's novel "La signora Frola e il signor Ponza, suo genero". |
Kaos (film)
Kaos (originally "Chaos" in the US) is a 1984 Italian drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani based on short stories by Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936). The film's title is after Pirandello's explanation of the local name "Càvusu" of the woods near his birthplace in the neighborhood of Girgenti (Agri... |
Liolà
Liolà (] ) is an Italian stage play written by Luigi Pirandello, which takes place in 19th century Sicily. The title character is a middle-aged single father by choice. He has three young boys, each by a different mother. Liolà is a free-spirit who wanders from town to town, looking to connect with nature, and to... |
Fausto Pirandello
Fausto Pirandello (17 June 1899 – 30 November 1975) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the "Scuola romana (Roman School)". He was the son of Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello. |
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italian: "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore" ] ) is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921. An absurdist metatheatrical play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it... |
Shig Murao
Shigeyoshi "Shig" Murao (December 8, 1926 – October 18, 1999) is mainly remembered as the City Lights clerk who was arrested on June 3, 1957, for selling Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" to an undercover San Francisco police officer. In the trial that followed, Murao was charged with selling the book and Lawrence Fer... |
A Coney Island of the Mind
A Coney Island of the Mind is a collection of poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti originally published in 1958. It contains some of Ferlinghetti's most famous poems, such as "I Am Waiting" and "Junkman's Obbligato", which were created for jazz accompaniment. There are approximately a million copi... |
Christopher Felver
Christopher Felver (born October 1946) is a photographer and filmmaker who has published several books of photos of public figures, especially those in the arts, most notably those associated with beat literature. He has made numerous films (as director, cinematographer or producer), including a docu... |
Lunch Poems
Lunch Poems is a book of poetry by Frank O'Hara published in 1964 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights, number 19 in their Pocket Poets series. The collection was commissioned by Ferlinghetti as early as 1959, but O'Hara delayed in completing it. Ferlinghetti would badger O'Hara with questions like, "How ... |
Pepsi Max 400
The Pepsi Max 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held annually at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. It was the second of two Sprint Cup Series races held at the Auto Club Speedway (the other being the Auto Club 500) and in 2009 and 2010 it was run in October as part of the Chas... |
1994 USAC FF2000 National Championship
The 1994 USAC FF2000 National Championship was the first USF2000 national championship sanctioned by the United States Auto Club. It was the final season of USF2000 racing sanctioned by USAC. The following season would be sanctioned by SCCA Pro Racing. Clay Collier, racing with Ru... |
2013 Auto Club 400
The 2013 Auto Club 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on March 24, 2013, at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, United States. Contested over 200 laps on the 2-mile (3.2 km) asphalt D-shaped oval, it was the fifth race of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series championship. Kyle Busch ... |
2009 Auto Club 500
The 2009 Auto Club 500 was the second race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. the 500 mi race occurred on February 22, 2009, at the 2 mi Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, 60 mi from Los Angeles and was one of the cleanest races in the history of the track with only one caution for an on t... |
Monumental Marathon
The Indianapolis Monumental Marathon and Monumental Half Marathon are a pair of concurrent road races run annually in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. |
Claiming race
A claiming race in thoroughbred horse racing is one in which the horses are all for sale for more or less the same price (the "claiming price") up until shortly before the race. Race types form a hierarchy in terms of the quality of horse they attract, with handicap races and graded stakes races attractin... |
Andy Michner
Andy Michner (born October 27, 1968, Ann Arbor, Michigan), is a former driver in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and NASCAR Busch Series. He is the current record holder of the world's fastest Sprint Car race at a United States Auto Club event in Phoenix, Arizona at 136... |
2015 Auto Club 400
The 2015 Auto Club 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on March 22, 2015, at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Contested over 209 laps – extended from 200 laps, due to a green–white–checker finish – on the 2 mi D-shaped oval, it was the fifth race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Serie... |
United States Auto Club
The United States Auto Club (USAC) is one of the sanctioning bodies of auto racing in the United States. From 1956 to 1979, USAC sanctioned the United States National Championship, and from 1956 to 1997 the organization sanctioned the Indianapolis 500. Today, USAC serves as the sanctioning body ... |
Auto Club 400
The Auto Club 400 is a 400-mile (643.737 km) Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Prior to 2005, the race was held in late April or early May, and until 2010, the race was run at a length of 500 miles. When the NASCAR Realignment of 2005 wa... |
Comic book convention
A comic book convention or comic con is an event with a primary focus on comic books and comic book culture, in which comic book fans gather to meet creators, experts, and each other. Commonly, comic conventions are multi-day events hosted at convention centers, hotels, or college campuses. They f... |
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialog contained in word ball... |
Crossed (comics)
Crossed is a comic book written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Jacen Burrows for the first ten issues, and published by Avatar Press. Following volumes "Crossed: Family Values", "Crossed 3D", and "Crossed: Psychopath" were written by David Lapham. A new series, "Crossed: Badlands" is written and drawn by ... |
Star Crossed (comics)
Star Crossed, is a three-issue comic book mini-series published in 1997 under the short-lived DC Comics imprint, Helix. Written and illustrated by Matt Howarth, "Star Crossed" recounts the surrealist tale of a deep-space romance between a genetically engineered über-woman and a sentient asteroid. ... |
Nunzio DeFilippis
Nunzio DeFilippis is an American writer of comic books and television. He writes with his wife, Christina Weir, whom he met while they were both students at Vassar College. The two have written for two seasons on HBO's "Arli$$", and have sold story ideas to the Disney Channel's "Kim Possible". In comi... |
Will Jacobs
Will Jacobs (born 1955) is an American comics and humor writer. He was a coauthor with Gerard Jones on "The Beaver Papers", "The Comic Book Heroes", and the comic book "The Trouble with Girls" (1987–1993). He was a contributor to "National Lampoon magazine" and various DC Comics. Jacobs left professional wr... |
Metropolis Collectibles
Metropolis Collectibles is a famous rare comic book dealer of vintage American comics, primarily known for its large collection of comic books originally published in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Metropolis was founded in 1984 by Stephen Fishler, and merged companies in 1999 with Vi... |
Comics artist
A comics artist (also comic book artist or graphic novel artist, comic book producer, comic book illustrator, comic book writer, and comic book author) is a person working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books, or graphic novels. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute t... |
Glenn Greenberg
Glenn Greenberg (b. in New York City) is an American comic book and fiction writer. At the beginning of his career, he became a regular Marvel Comics writer, penning stories for "The Spectacular Spider-Man", "The Rampaging Hulk", "The Silver Surfer", and "Dracula". He has also written articles for comic... |
Snapper Carr
Lucas "Snapper" Carr is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character, whose fictional nickname is almost always used by other characters in favor of his given name, was created by Gardner Fox (writer) and Mike Sekowsky (penciller), and made his first appeara... |
Baron Mordaunt
The title Baron Mordaunt was created in 1529 for Sir John Mordaunt. The fifth baron was created Earl of Peterborough in 1628 and the title then passed to his son, the second earl, in 1644. On his death in 1697, the earldom was inherited by the his nephew, Charles and the barony was inherited by his only ... |
James Innes-Ker, 5th Duke of Roxburghe
James Innes-Ker, 5th Duke of Roxburghe (10 January 1736 – 19 July 1823) was a Scottish nobleman. |
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