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Paul Epworth Paul Richard Epworth (born 25 July 1974 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire) is an English music producer, musician, and songwriter. His production and writing credits include Adele, Rihanna, and Maxïmo Park amongst many others. On 12 February 2012 at the 54th Grammy Awards, Epworth won four Grammy Awards...
Seven Nation Army "Seven Nation Army" (also stylized as "7 Nation Army") is a song by American rock duo The White Stripes. It was released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, "Elephant", in March 2003, and reached number one on the Modern Rock Tracks—maintaining that position for three weeks. It also bec...
Late Night Tales: The Flaming Lips Late Night Tales: The Flaming Lips is a compilation album compiled by the members of The Flaming Lips, featuring songs by various artists. The album was released on March 7, 2005 and it features one new Flaming Lips recording, a cover of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army".
Robert Glasper Robert Glasper (born April 6, 1978, in Houston, Texas) is an American pianist and record producer. He has been nominated for 6 Grammys, has won 3 Grammy Awards and is currently nominated for an Emmy Award. His 2012 album "Black Radio" won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 55th Grammy Awards. His...
The Boys Are Back (The Oak Ridge Boys album) The Boys Are Back is the thirtieth studio album of country music group The Oak Ridge Boys. It was released in 2009 under the Spring Hill Music Group label. The album marked the group's return to secular country music after releasing gospel albums since 1992. The track "Seven...
The White Stripes The White Stripes were an American rock duo formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consisted of Jack White (songwriter, vocals, guitar, piano, and mandolin) and Meg White (drums and vocals). After releasing several singles and three albums within the Detroit music scene, The White Stripes rose...
Grammy Award for Best Male Rap Solo Performance The Grammy Award for Best Male Rap Solo Performance was an honor presented to male recording artists at the 45th Grammy Awards in 2003 and the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004 for quality rap solo performances. The Grammy Awards, an annual ceremony that was established in 1958,...
Meg White Megan Martha "Meg" White (born December 10, 1974) is an American drummer and occasional singer known for her work with Jack White in the Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. On an impulse, she played on Jack's drums in 1997. The two decided to form a band and began performing two months later, calling themselv...
Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance The Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance was an honor presented to female recording artists at the 45th Grammy Awards in 2003 and the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004 for quality rap solo performances. The Grammy Awards, an annual ceremony that was established in...
Elephant (album) Elephant is the fourth album by the American alternative rock duo The White Stripes. Released on April 1, 2003 on V2 Records, its release garnered near unanimous critical acclaim and commercial success, garnering a nomination for Album of the Year and a win for Best Alternative Music Album at the 46th ...
Jana Novotná Jana Novotná (] ; born 2 October 1968) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam ...
2006 NASDAQ-100 Open – Women's Doubles The Doubles Tournament at the 2006 NASDAQ-100 Open took place between March 20 and April 6 on the outdoor hard courts of the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, United States. Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur won the title, defeating Liezel Huber and Martina Navratilova...
2012 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles Liezel Huber and María José Martínez Sánchez are the defending champions but chose not to participate together. Huber played with Lisa Raymond as the first seed while Martínez Sánchez played with Shahar Pe'er.
2013 New Haven Open at Yale – Doubles Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond were the defending champions, but decided not to defend their title together. Huber partnered up with Nuria Llagostera Vives, while Raymond played alongside Flavia Pennetta. Huber and Llagostera Vives defeated Pennetta and Raymond in the first round, b...
Williams sisters The Williams sisters are two professional American tennis players: Venus Williams (b. 1980), a seven-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), and Serena Williams (b. 1981), twenty-three-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), both of whom were coached from an early age by their parents Richard Williams ...
2010 Aegon Classic – Doubles Cara Black and Liezel Huber were the two-time defending champions but did not compete together. Black partnered up with Lisa Raymond and Huber with Bethanie Mattek-Sands. Black and Raymond won in the final after Huber and Mattek-Sands retired.
2013 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond were the defending champions but chose not to participate together. Huber played with Hsieh Su-wei, but lost in the first round to Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sania Mirza. Raymond played alongside Samantha Stosur but lost in the quarterfinals...
2012 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Doubles Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond were the defending champions, but Huber chose not to compete that year. Raymond played with Sabine Lisicki.<br>
Liezel Huber Liezel Huber (née Horn; born 21 August 1976) is a South African-American retired tennis player who represents the United States internationally. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan. On 12 Novembe...
Martina Hingis Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss professional tennis player, a former world No. 1 singles player and currently ranked world No. 2 in doubles by the WTA. She has spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles No. 1 and has won five Grand Slam singles titles, thirteen Grand Slam women's double...
Luther rose The Luther seal or Luther rose is a widely recognized symbol for Lutheranism. It was the seal that was designed for Martin Luther at the behest of John Frederick of Saxony in 1530, while Luther was staying at the Coburg Fortress during the Diet of Augsburg. Lazarus Spengler, to whom Luther wrote his interpr...
Battle of Mühlberg The Battle of Mühlberg was a large battle at Mühlberg in the Electorate of Saxony in 1547, during the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic princes of the Holy Roman Empire led by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V decisively defeated the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League of Protestant princes under the comm...
John Frederick Herring Sr. John Frederick Herring Sr. (12 September 1795 – 23 September 1865), also known as John Frederick Herring I, was a painter, sign maker and coachman in Victorian England. He painted the 1848 "Pharoah's Chariot Horses" ("archaic spelling "Pharoah""). He amended his signature "SR" (senior) in 183...
John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony John Frederick II of Saxony (8 January 1529 – 19 May 1595), was Duke of Saxony (1554–1556).
Capitulation of Wittenberg The Capitulation of Wittenberg (German: "Wittenberger Kapitulation" ) was a treaty in 1547 by which John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, was compelled to resign the electoral dignity. The Electorate of Saxony and most of his territory, including Wittenberg, passed from the elder, Ernestine li...
Princess Amalie of Saxony Amalie Marie Friederike Auguste (10 August 1794 – 18 September 1870), Princess of Saxony, full name Maria Amalia Friederike Augusta Karolina Ludovica Josepha Aloysia Anna Nepomucena Philippina Vincentia Franziska de Paula Franziska de Chantal, was a German composer writing under the pen name "...
John Steinbruck John Frederick Steinbruck (October 5, 1930 – March 1, 2015) is an ordained Lutheran minister who served for 28 years (1970–1997) as the senior pastor of Luther Place Memorial Church in Washington, D.C. Luther Place is an historic, red-stone church located at Thomas Circle, 1226 Vermont Avenue, N.W., in ...
Frederick III, Elector of Saxony Frederick III (17 January 1463 – 5 May 1525), also known as Frederick the Wise (German "Friedrich der Weise"), was Elector of Saxony (from the House of Wettin) from 1486-1525. Frederick was the son of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and his wife Elisabeth, daughter of Albert III, Duke of Bava...
Paul Luther Paul Luther (28 January 1533 – 8 March 1593) was a German physician, medical chemist, and alchemist. He was the third son of the Protestant reformer Martin Luther and was successively physician to John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony; Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg; Augustus, Elector of Saxony and h...
John Frederick Brill John Frederick Brill (died 1942) was an English soldier and painter who created the Bardia Mural. A photograph of John Brill painting his mother can be found here. On 1 July 1942, the Axis launched an attack with the target being the capture of Alexandria, which was to become known as the First bat...
St. Anthony's Catholic Church (Davenport, Iowa) St. Anthony's Catholic Church is a parish in the Diocese of Davenport. The parish complex is located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States, at the corner of Fourth and Main Streets. It is the first church congregation organized in the city of Davenport and the second...
Old Cathedral of St. Anthony, Guaratinguetá The St. Anthony Cathedral (Portuguese: "Catedral Santo Antônio; Igreja de Santo Antônio" ) Also Old Cathedral of St. Anthony or St. Anthony Church It is the former archbishop's seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Aparecida in Brazil. It is also the parish church of Santo Antó...
St. Anthony Hall St. Anthony Hall is an American fraternity and literary society. Its 11 active chapters go by different names on different campuses, including Saint Anthony Hall, The Order of St. Anthony, the Fraternity of Delta Psi (ΔΨ), St. A's, the Hall and the Number Six Club. Its first chapter (Alpha) was founded...
Franciscan Media Franciscan Media, formerly St. Anthony Messenger Press, is a multimedia company comprising "St. Anthony Messenger" magazine, Franciscan Media and Servant books, Catholic Greetings, Saint of the Day, Minute Meditations, and AmericanCatholic.org, used by millions of people, primarily in the United States...
Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony The Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony, Order of St. Anthony or Canons Regular of St. Anthony of Vienne ("Canonici Regulares Sancti Antonii", or CRSAnt), also Antonines, were a Roman Catholic congregation founded in c. 1095, with the purpose of caring for those suffering from the common m...
St. Anthony Messenger St. Anthony Messenger is a national Roman Catholic family magazine published by the Franciscan Friars (O.F.M.) of St. John the Baptist Province, Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States, with the explicit ecclesiastical approval of the Archbishop of Cincinnati.
Alfred Boeddeker Alfred Boeddeker, O.F.M. (August 7, 1903 — January 1, 1994) was an American Franciscan friar who is best known for having founded humanitarian programs to aid the poor and marginalised in the San Francisco Bay Area. These programs, named by Father Boeddeker for Saint Anthony of Padua, include the St. A...
Silver Lake Village Silver Lake Village is a mixed-use development in the city of St. Anthony, Minnesota, United States. It was constructed beginning in 2004 as a $150 million plan to replace Apache Plaza, an aging enclosed mall. Its design is meant to resemble a "walkable community", as its development includes housin...
St. Anthony's Church St. Anthony's Church, Saint Anthony's Chapel, St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, St. Anthony's Catholic Church, St. Anthony Church or variations may refer to:
Feast of St. Anthony The Feast of St. Anthony is celebrated every year in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts on the weekend of the last Sunday in August. The feast has been celebrated since 1919 when a group of Italians from Montefalcione settled in the North End of Boston. They began a society called the Sant'Anto...
Like Water for Chocolate (film) Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: "Como Agua Para Chocolate") is a 1992 Mexican film in the style of magical realism based on the popular novel, published in 1989 by first-time Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. It earned ten Ariel Awards including the Best Picture and was nominated for a...
Laura Esquivel Laura Esquivel (born September 30, 1950) is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and a politician who serves in the Chamber of Deputies (2012-2018) for the Morena Party. Her first novel "Como agua para chocolate" ("Like Water for Chocolate") became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later ...
Swift as Desire Swift as Desire (in Spanish "Tan veloz como el deseo") is a 2001 novel by the Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel.
Lloyd Shearer Lloyd "Skip" Shearer (December 20, 1916 – May 27, 2001) was a celebrity gossip columnist. From 1958 to 1991, he wrote "Walter Scott's Personality Parade" in "Parade" magazine. In this column he used the name Walter Scott, and discussed rumors about celebrities using a question-and-answer style. Shearer al...
Mirage (1965 film) Mirage is a 1965 thriller directed by Edward Dmytryk from a screenplay by Peter Stone, based on the novel "Fallen Angel", written by Howard Fast under the pseudonym Walter Ericson; the novel is not credited by title onscreen. The film stars Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy an...
The Law of Love The Law of Love (Spanish: La ley del amor ) is the second novel, published in 1996 (originally published in Spanish in 1995), by the Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. "The Law of Love" is a multi-genre and multi-media publication which includes elements of history, mythology, magical realism, science fic...
Howard Fast Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson.
Laura Natalia Esquivel Laura Natalia Esquivel (born May 18, 1994 in Buenos Aires, Argentina), known professionally as Laura Esquivel, is an Argentine actress and singer, who gained international popularity for her debut acting role as Patricia "Patito" Castro in the popular Argentine children's telenovela, Patito Feo.
Like Water for Chocolate Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate ) is a popular novel published in 1989 by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel.
Lumi Cavazos Lumi Cavazos (born December 21, 1968) is a Mexican actress who won the Best Actress awards at the Tokyo Film Festival, and Brazil’s Festival de Gramado for her portrayal of "Tita" in the 1993 adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s Mexican novel, "Like Water for Chocolate". The film grabbed the attention of US film...
SCCA National Sports Car Championship The SCCA National Sports Car Championship was a sports car racing series organized by the Sports Car Club of America from 1951 until 1964. It was the first post-World War II sports car series organized in the United States. An amateur championship, it was eventually replaced by the...
2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge The 2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge was a multi-class sports car and GT motor race held at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Ohio, United States on August 4, 2012. It was the sixth round of the 2012 American Le Mans Series season and the 41st race in the combined history of sportsc...
Romano WE84 The Romano WE84 is an Australian designed and built, mid-engined closed top racing car built to CAMS Group A Sports Car specifications. The car began its life as the Kaditcha K583 when it first appeared in the 1983 Australian Sports Car Championship and was built by the Queensland based Kaditcha owner and f...
Kathy Rude Kathy Rude (born 1957) is an American sports car driver who was one of the first female drivers to attract international attention. Growing up in Victoria, Canada, she began competing as a teenager in karting events. By her early 20s, after competing in Formula Ford and Formula Atlantic, she attracted the at...
For the Love of Mrs. Brown For The Love of Mrs. Brown is the fourth play in the Mrs. Brown Series by Brendan O'Carroll, preceded by "Mrs. Brown Rides Again". The plot centres on the character Agnes Brown finding a date over the internet for Valentine's Day. The play is 125 minutes long.
Oak Tree Grand Prix The Oak Tree Grand Prix is a sports car race held at the Virginia International Raceway in Alton, Virginia, since 1957. After being a part of the SCCA National Sports Car Championship and the IMSA GT Championship the race, along with the track, went on hiatus from the early 1970s until 2002. It retu...
DeLorean time machine The DeLorean time machine is a fictional automobile-based time travel device featured in the "Back to the Future" franchise. In the feature film series, Dr. Emmett Brown builds a time machine based on a DeLorean DMC-12 car, to gain insights into history and the future. Instead, he ends up using it...
Emmett Brown Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown, Ph.D., is a fictional character in the "Back to the Future trilogy" in which he is the inventor of the first time machine he built out of a DeLorean sports car. The character is portrayed by Christopher Lloyd in all three films, as well as in the live action sequences of the . H...
BMW Nazca C2 The BMW Nazca C2 (also known as Italdesign Nazca C2) was a 1992 concept sports car. The car was designed by famed automotive engineering company Italdesign, home of Giorgetto Giugiaro, and features a similar frontal design of a BMW. It was an evolution of the previous concept the Nazca M12 from 1991. The e...
MG J-type The MG J-type is a sports car that was produced by MG from 1932 to 1934. This 2-door sports car used an updated version of the overhead camshaft, crossflow engine, used in the 1928 Morris Minor and Wolseley 10 and previously fitted in the MG M-type Midget of 1929 to 1932, driving the rear wheels through a fou...
Edmund Bartley-Denniss Sir Edmund Robert Bartley Bartley-Denniss KC (9 April 1854 – 20 March 1931), born Edmund Robert Bartley Denniss, was a barrister, prominent Freemason and Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. He was also a pioneer of the sport of cycling in Britain.
William Humphreys Art Gallery The William Humphreys Art Gallery, in Kimberley, South Africa, was opened in 1952 and named after its principal benefactor, William Benbow Humphreys (1889–1965).
Edmund de Unger Edmund Robert Anthony de Unger (Hungarian: "Odon Antal Robert de Unger" , b 6 August 1918, Budapest - d 25 January 2011, Ham, Surrey) was a Hungarian-born property developer and art collector. In London he built up the Keir Collection, one of the greatest post-war collections of Islamic art, bequeathed ...
Rotman School of Management The Joseph L. Rotman School of Management commonly known as the Rotman School of Management, the Rotman School or just Rotman, is the University of Toronto's graduate business school, located in Downtown Toronto. The University of Toronto has been offering undergraduate courses in commerce a...
François Genoud François Genoud (26 October 1915 – 30 May 1996) was a noted Swiss financier and a principal benefactor of the Nazi diaspora through the ODESSA network and supporter of Middle Eastern terror groups during the post-World War II 20th century. He was considered the Swiss financier of the Third Reich.
J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum The J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum is a public museum located on the University of Connecticut's main campus at Storrs, Connecticut. The museum documents and celebrates UConn's intercollegiate athletics. Opening its doors on January 19, 2002, the 2,700-sq...
Stele of Sulaiman The Stele of Sulaiman is a Yuan Dynasty stele that was erected in 1348 to commemorate the benefactors and donors to a Buddhist temple at the Mogao Caves southeast of Dunhuang in Gansu, China. The principal benefactor is named as Sulaiman (), Prince of Xining (died 1351). The stele, which is now held a...
Edmund Robert Harris Edmund Robert Harris (c. 1804 – 27 May 1877) was an English lawyer from Preston, Lancashire, UK who was the principal benefactor of the Harris Museum, Harris Institute or Art School, Harris Technical School and the Harris Orphanage.
Wickliffe Draper Wickliffe Draper (August 9, 1891 – 1972) was an American multimillionaire and philanthropist. He was an ardent eugenicist and lifelong advocate of strict racial segregation. In 1937, he founded the Pioneer Fund, a registered charitable organisation established to provide scholarships for descendants of...
Lyman School for Boys The Lyman School for Boys was established by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts about 1886 and was closed in 1971. It was the first reform school, or training school in the United States, replacing the State Reform School for Boys near the same site, which was opened in 1848. The school was named f...
Michael Mallin Michael Thomas Christopher Mallin (Irish: "Micheál Ó Mealláin" ; 1 December 1874 – 8 May 1916) was an Irish rebel and socialist who took an active role in the 1916 Easter Rising. He was a silk weaver and co-founder with Francis Sheehy-Skeffington of the Irish Socialist Party, was second in command of the...
Patrick Belton Patrick Belton (1884 – 30 January 1945) was an Irish nationalist, politician, farmer, and businessman. He was strongly anti-communist and he was a founder and leader of the Irish Christian Front. Closely associated with Michael Collins, he was active in the 1916 Easter Rising and in the Republican moveme...
Irish Brigade (World War I) The "Irish Brigade" was an attempt by Sir Roger Casement to form an Irish nationalist military unit during World War I among Irishmen who had served in the British Army and had become prisoners of war (POWs) in Germany. Casement sought to send a well-equipped and well-organized Irish unit to...
Roger Casement Roger David Casement (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), formerly known as Sir Roger Casement between 1911 and shortly before his execution for treason, when he was stripped of his knighthood and other honours, was a British civil servant who worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, and late...
Sir Roger Casement (TV series) Sir Roger Casement is a 1968 German television miniseries depicting the efforts of the historical figure Sir Roger Casement to seek German aid for Irish independence during the First World War and his attempts to form an Irish Brigade of Prisoners of War. It was aired in two 90 minute par...
Josephine Ryan Mary Josephine Ryan (29 December 1884 – 16 April 1977) was an Irish nationalist. She was a member of Cumann na mBan and the honorary secretary of the executive committee. She took part in 1916 Easter Rising and War of Independence.
Joseph Plunkett Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: "Seosamh Máire Pluincéid", 21 November 1887 – 4 May 1916) was an Irish nationalist, poet, journalist, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Liam Mac an Ultaigh Liam Mac an Ultaigh of Dublin (fl. c. 1965) is an Irish Nationalist and was Chief Scout of the Fianna Éireann from 1965. In such tenure, Mac an Ultaigh is most recognized for his work on the Committee that under his administration drafted the Fianna Handbook’s 3rd or 1965 (1st 1913, 2nd 1924) editio...
Marcella Cosgrave Marcella Cosgrave (30 April 1873 – 31 January 1938) was an Irish nationalist. She was a founder member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann and Cumann na mBan and took part in the 1916 Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence.
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Queen Maud Land Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: "Dronning Maud Land" ) is a c. 2.7 million-square-kilometre (1 million sq mi) region of Antarctica claimed as a dependent territory by Norway. The territory lies between 20° west and 45° east, between the self-claimed British Antarctic Territory to the west and the similarly ...
Dependent territory A dependent territory, dependent area or dependency is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state yet remains politically outside of the controlling state's integral area.
Realm of New Zealand The Realm of New Zealand is the entire area (or realm) in which the Queen of New Zealand is head of state. The Realm of New Zealand is not a federation or a unitary state; it is a collection of states and territories united under a monarch. New Zealand is a sovereign state. It has one Antarctic ter...
List of Oceanian countries by population This is a list of Oceanian countries and dependent territories by population, which is sorted by the 2015 mid-year normalized demographic projections. Hawaii, were it a country or dependent territory, would rank 4th.
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List of female dependent territory leaders This is a list of women who had been appointed as leaders of dependent territories. This list also separates between the dependent territory leaders and the autonomous area leaders. Some women were also appointed for the office of head of government in their respective territo...
Shahumyan Region The Shahumyan Region (Armenian: Շահումյան ) is a disputed region, formerly a district of Azerbaijan SSR outside Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. Before the Nagorno-Karabakh War of the 1990s, the district had a substantial Armenian population. The eastern part of the territory remains under the contr...
Independence Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over the territory. The opposite of independence is a dependent territory.
List of leaders of dependent territories This is a list of leaders of dependent territories. A dependent territory is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state yet remains politically outside of the controlling state's integral area. This latter condition distingu...
Protectorate A protectorate, in its inception adopted by modern international law, is a dependent territory that has been granted local autonomy and some independence while still retaining the suzerainty of a greater sovereign state. In exchange for this, the protectorate usually accepts specified obligations, which ma...
Xerox 500 series The Xerox 500 series was a line of computers from Xerox Data Systems (XDS) introduced in the early 1970s as backward-compatible upgrades for the Sigma series machines. The systems had failed to gain traction by the time Xerox sold its Data Systems Division in 1975. The buyer, Honeywell, Inc., continued...
Alexander McCormick Sturm Alexander McCormick "Alex" Sturm (June 23, 1923 – November 16, 1951) was an American artist, author, and entrepreneur who co-founded in 1949, the American firearm maker, Sturm, Ruger & Co. Sturm provided the start-up money and designed the Germanic heraldic eagle that is found on Ruger guns. H...
Bent edge Bent edge or curved edge was an offshoot of hardcore punk that was formed to be a counter-movement to straight edge at the time straight edge was starting to gain traction and support. Bent edge was also part of a rising anti-Dischord sentiment among many people in the punk scene.
Enhanced Versatile Disc The enhanced versatile disc (EVD) is an optical-medium-based digital audio/video format, developed by Beijing E-World (a multi-company partnership including SVA, Shinco, Xiaxin, Yuxing, Skyworth, Nintaus, Malata, Changhong, and BBK), as a rival to the DVD to avoid the high royalty costs associat...
David Duke presidential campaign, 1988 David Duke, a Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and notable perennial candidate, was a candidate for President of the United States in the 1988 election. His run was notable in that after failing to gain traction in the Democratic primaries he switched and became the candidate for ...
LaserDisc LaserDisc (abbreviated as LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in North America in 1978. Although the format was capable of offering higher-quality video and audio than its consumer rivals, VHS and Betamax vid...
United States Senate election in Oregon, 2002 The 2002 United States Senate election in Oregon was held on November 5, 2002. Incumbent Republican United States Senator Gordon Smith ran for re-election to a second term. Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury emerged as the Democratic nominee, and though a competitive g...
Micro venture capital Micro venture capital is money invested to seed early-stage emerging companies with amounts of finance that is typically less than that of traditional venture capital. In contrast to traditional venture capital which is money used to invest in companies looking to fund growth (also referred to as ...
Hans Knirsch Hans Knirsch (September 14, 1877, Triebendorf – December 6, 1933, Duchcov) was an Austro-German activist from Moravia for Austrian National Socialism. After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he led the original party in Bohemia, called the Sudeten German National Socialist Party. Together with Ru...
Multimodality In its most basic sense, multimodality is a theory of communication and social semiotics. Multimodality describes communication practices in terms of the textual, aural, linguistic, spatial, and visual resources - or modes - used to compose messages. Where media are concerned, multimodality is the use of ...