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Amy Madigan Amy Marie Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American actress, producer, and singer. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1985 film "Twice in a Lifetime". Her other film credits include "Love Child" (1982), "Places in the Heart" (1984), "Field of Dreams" (1989), "...
Love Child (1982 film) Love Child is a 1982 biopic based on the life of Terry Jean Moore. The film stars Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges, and Mackenzie Phillips.
Octavia Spencer Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1972) is an American actress and author. She made her film debut in the 1996 drama film "A Time to Kill". Her breakthrough came in 2011, when she starred as Minny Jackson in the period drama film "The Help", for which she won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, BAF...
Jeff Bridges Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor, singer and producer. He comes from a prominent acting family and appeared on the television series "Sea Hunt" (1958–60), with his father, Lloyd Bridges and brother, Beau Bridges. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis ...
Seven Hours to Judgment Seven Hours to Judgment is a 1988 film directed by and starring Beau Bridges. It was produced by Mort Abrahams and written by Walter Davis and Elliot Stephens. The film also stars Ron Leibman and Julianne Phillips.
Diane Ladd Diane Ladd (born November 29, 1932) is an American actress, film director, producer and author. She has appeared in over 120 film and television roles. For the 1974 film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award fo...
We Were the Mulvaneys (film) We Were the Mulvaneys is a 2002 American TV movie written by Joyce Eliason, starring Beau Bridges, Blythe Danner and Tammy Blanchard, and directed by Peter Werner. It is based on the book of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates. It was nominated for three Emmys.
Brian Ralston Brian Ralston (born April 12, 1974) is a composer and musician living in Los Angeles. Ralston is a graduate of the University of Arizona and the USC Thornton School of Music Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program. Brian's latest film is the 2017 drama Rose starring Cybill Shepherd, James Broli...
For Love of Ivy For Love of Ivy is a 1968 romantic comedy film directed by Daniel Mann. The film stars Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters and Carroll O'Connor. The story was written by Sidney Poitier with screenwriter Robert Alan Arthur. The musical score was composed by Quincy Jones....
National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress The National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress (also known as the Rajat Kamal Award for the Best Supporting Actress) (] ), is an honour presented annually at the National Film Awards of India since 1984 to an actress for the best performance in a supporting role with...
Joseph Johnson (FDNY Commissioner) Joseph H. Johnson, Jr. (June 16, 1871 - March 7, 1942) was New York City Fire Commissioner from 1911 to 1913. He was chief of the New York City Transit Authority. By 1918 he was deputy New York City Comptroller. He served as chief of the New York Public Service Commission in 1921.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and 23 men – who died from the fire, smoke inha...
Howard Safir Howard Safir (born February 24, 1942) was New York City Fire Commissioner from 1994 to 1996 and New York City Police Commissioner from 1996 to 2000.
New York City Fire Commissioner The New York City Fire Commissioner is the civilian administrator of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), appointed by the Mayor of the City of New York. There have been 33 commissioners excluding Acting Fire Commissioners, and 38 including Acting Fire Commissioners. This is since M...
Carlos M. Rivera Carlos M. Rivera (born 1934) is the first Hispanic commissioner in the New York City Fire Department's 127-year history. He was appointed the 27th Fire Commissioner of the City of New York by Mayor David N. Dinkins on January 1, 1990 and served in that position until his resignation on August 31, 1993.
Rhinelander Waldo Rhinelander Waldo (May 24, 1877 – August 13, 1927) was appointed the seventh New York City Fire Commissioner by Mayor William Jay Gaynor on January 13, 1910. He resigned on May 23, 1911, less than two months after the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire to accept an appointment as the eighth New Y...
Thomas Sturgis Thomas Sturgis (1846 - February 25, 1914) was appointed the second New York City Fire Commissioner by Mayor Seth Low on January 1, 1902 and served in that position until the end of the Low Administration on December 31, 1903. Prior to this he served as a fire commissioner under William Lafayette Strong, ...
Joseph E. Spinnato Joseph E. Spinnato (born October 24, 1938) was appointed Acting Fire Commissioner of the City of New York by Mayor Edward I. Koch on October 22, 1982 upon the resignation of Fire Commissioner Charles J. Hynes, and was appointed the 25th Fire Commissioner on February 17, 1983. He served in that positi...
Michael F. Walsh Michael F. Walsh (February 24, 1894, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York – July 22, 1956, Brooklyn, New York City) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. His father, Patrick, who emigrated from Ballydine House near Cashel in Ireland's County Tipperary, was the first person to serve simultaneous...
Salvatore Cassano Salvatore Joseph "Sal" Cassano (born 22 January 1945) served as the 32nd New York City Fire Commissioner. His appointment by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to succeed Nicholas Scoppetta was announced on 21 December 2009 and became effective on 1 January 2010. Cassano was sworn in on 11 Janua...
Politics of Canada The politics of Canada function within a framework of parliamentary democracy and a federal system of parliamentary government with strong democratic traditions. Canada is a constitutional monarchy, in which the Monarch is head of state. The country has a multi-party system in which many of its legis...
Irish measure Irish measure or plantation measure was a system of units of land measurement used in Ireland from the 16th century plantations until the 19th century, with residual use into the 20th century. The units were based on "English measure" but used a linear perch measuring 7 yard as opposed to the English rod ...
British North America Acts The British North America Acts 1867–1975 are the original names of a series of Acts at the core of the constitution of Canada. They were enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom and the Parliament of Canada. In Canada, some of the Acts were amended or repealed by the Constitution Act, ...
Australian Public Service The Australian Public Service (APS) is the federal civil service of the Commonwealth of Australia responsible for the public administration, public policy, and public services of the departments and executive and statutory agencies of the Government of Australia. The Australian Public Service ...
General Assembly House The General Assembly House, colloquially called Shedifice by the members of parliament, was the first house of the New Zealand Parliament in Auckland. It was in use by Parliament from 1854 until 1864 during the time that Auckland was the capital of New Zealand. It was also used by the Auckland Pr...
Atlantis Music Prize The Atlantis Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length album from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, based only on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales or record label. The award, established in 2008 by St. John's-based alternative newspaper "The Scope", includes a c...
Governance of England There has not been a government of England since 1707 when the Kingdom of England ceased to exist as a sovereign state, as it merged with the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. Kingdom of Great Britain continued from 1707 until 1801 when it merged with the Kingdom of Ireland...
Canada under British rule Canada first came under British rule with the Treaty of Paris (1763) which ceded New France, of which Canada was a part, to the British Empire. Gradually, other territories, colonies, and provinces that were part of British North America would be added to Canada. The Royal Proclamation of 1763...
Succession to the Throne Act 1937 The Succession to the Throne Act (1 Geo. VI, c.16) is the act of the Canadian parliament that ratified the Cabinet's consent to His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936, an act of the United Kingdom parliament that allowed Edward VIII to abdicate as king of Canada, the United K...
Elections in the United Kingdom There are six types of elections in the United Kingdom: elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elections to devolved parliaments and assemblies, elections to the European Parliament, local elections, mayoral elections and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. Within ...
Andrew M. Allen Andrew Michael "Andy" Allen (born 4 August 1955) is a retired American astronaut. A former Marine aviator and lieutenant colonel, he worked as a test pilot before joining NASA in 1987. He flew three Space Shuttle missions before retiring in 1997.
List of The Saddle Club characters Carole is a bright African American girl with a natural riding ability. She became devastated when her mother died of cancer, and when Cobalt died, she almost gave up riding. But her father, U.S. Marine Colonel Mitch Hanson, reminded Carole that her mother would have wanted her to fol...
Don Baker (journalist) Donald Parks Baker is the former Richmond bureau chief of The Washington Post between 1985 and 1999. Before joining The Washington Post in 1970, he was with The Indianapolis Times and the Cleveland Press. He is also known for his documentary role in A Perfect Candidate as the watchdog reporter wh...
Edwin Andrews Air Base Edwin Andrews Air Base was built by the Spanish Alegre C. Ledesma as San Roque Airfield. The base was later renamed as Moret Field after Paul Moret, a US Marine Colonel who died in 1943 because of a plane crash. On March 15, 1945, American forces re-established their units and consecutively impro...
Rules of Engagement (film) Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American war film directed by William Friedkin, written by Jim Webb and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson plays U.S. Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after men under Childers' orders kill a large number of civil...
Michael Wyly Michael Duncan Wyly (born c. 1939) is a retired U.S. Marine Colonel. In 1979, Colonel Wyly was head of tactics at the Amphibious Warfare School (AWS) where he, with John Boyd, introduced maneuver warfare.
Ray Hanson Raymond W. "Rock" Hanson (October 5, 1895 – January 4, 1982), former United States Marine Colonel and highly decorated veteran of World War I and World War II, was best known as the football coach at Western Illinois State Teachers College (now Western Illinois University) in Macomb, Illinois from 1926 to 19...
Arthur J. Burks Arthur J. Burks (September 13, 1898 – May 13, 1974) was an American writer and a Marine colonel.
USS Shannon USS "Shannon" (DD-737/DM-25/MMD-25) was a "Robert H. Smith"-class destroyer minelayer in the United States Navy. She was named for Marine Colonel Harold D. Shannon.
Bruce Boa Andrew Bruce Boa (10 July 1930 – 17 April 2004) was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token North American in British films and television. Boa's most recognizable film role is in "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) as General Rieekan. He also played the Marine colonel in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987)...
Fourier number In physics and engineering, the Fourier number (Fo) or Fourier modulus, named after Joseph Fourier, is a dimensionless number that characterizes transient heat conduction. Conceptually, it is the ratio of diffusive or conductive transport rate to the quantity storage rate, where the quantity may be eithe...
Weissenberg number The Weissenberg number (Wi) is a dimensionless number used in the study of viscoelastic flows. It is named after Karl Weissenberg. The dimensionless number compares the viscous forces to the elastic forces. It can be variously defined, but it is usually given by the relation of stress relaxation time...
Ericksen number In the study of liquid crystals, the Ericksen number ("Er") is a dimensionless number used to describe the deformation of the director field under flow. It is defined as the ratio of the viscous to elastic forces. In the limit of low Ericksen number the elastic forces will exceed the viscous forces and ...
Power factor In electrical engineering, the power factor of an AC electrical power system is defined as the ratio of the real power flowing to the load to the apparent power in the circuit, and is a dimensionless number in the closed interval of −1 to 1. A power factor of less than one means that the voltage and curren...
Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance A Qualified Person Responsible for Pharmacovigilance, or QPPV, is an individual named by a pharmaceutical company as the main person responsible for ensuring that the company (the product's Marketing Authorisation Holder or MAH) meets its legal obligations for the monitoring of th...
F-number The f-number of an optical system such as a camera lens is the ratio of the system's focal length to the diameter of the entrance pupil. It is a dimensionless number that is a quantitative measure of lens speed, and an important concept in photography. It is also known as the focal ratio, f-ratio, or f-stop. I...
Morton number In fluid dynamics, the Morton number (Mo) is a dimensionless number used together with the Eötvös number or Bond number to characterize the shape of bubbles or drops moving in a surrounding fluid or continuous phase, "c". The Morton number is defined as
Womersley number The Womersley number (α) is a dimensionless number in biofluid mechanics. It is a dimensionless expression of the pulsatile flow frequency in relation to viscous effects. It is named after John R. Womersley (1907–1958) for his work with blood flow in arteries. The Womersley number is important in keepi...
Kapitza number The Kapitza number (Ka) is a dimensionless number named after the prominent Russian physicist Pyotr Kapitsa (Peter Kapitza). He provided the first extensive study of the ways in which a thin film of liquid flows down inclined surfaces. Expressed as the ratio of surface tension forces to inertial forces, ...
Euler number (physics) The Euler number (Eu) is a dimensionless number used in fluid flow calculations. It expresses the relationship between a local pressure drop caused by a restriction and the kinetic energy per volume of the flow, and is used to characterize energy losses in the flow, where a perfect frictionless f...
Bleeding Oath Bleeding Oath were an English progressive rock band from London, formed in 2009. The lineup consisted of Robert Heyg (vocals, guitar), Micah Douglas (guitar), Moat "Literally Large" Lowe (bass) and Harrison White (drums). They gained notoriety for their large Facebook campaigns, irreverent attitude and se...
Watershed (Opeth album) Watershed is the ninth full-length studio album by the Swedish heavy metal band Opeth. Released by Roadrunner Records, "Watershed" is the first studio album by Opeth to feature guitarist Fredrik Åkesson and drummer Martin Axenrot, who replaced longtime guitarist Peter Lindgren and drummer Martin...
Sörskogen Sörskogen was a Swedish progressive rock project Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth and Dan Swanö started for fun. Both musicians are known for their wide musical interests. The project was supposedly named after a small community near the Stockholm suburb Huddinge where Mikael practiced with his first band Eruption i...
Katatonia Katatonia is a Swedish metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band started as a studio-only project for the duo, as an outlet for the band's love of death metal. Increasing popularity lead them to add more band members for live performances, though outside of the band's...
Chris Cheney Christopher John Cheney (born 2 January 1975) is an Australian rock musician, record producer and studio owner. He is the founding mainstay guitarist, songwriter and lead vocalist of the psychobilly band, The Living End, which was formed in 1994 with school mate Scott Owen. Cheney wrote the group's top 20 ...
The Roundhouse Tapes The Roundhouse Tapes is a live double album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. The CD was recorded on November 9, 2006, and was released on November 5, 2007, in Europe, and on November 20, 2007, in the rest of the world. A two disc DVD version was released on November 10, 2008, and includes e...
OSI (band) OSI is an American progressive rock band, originally formed by Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos in 2002. Chroma Key keyboardist and vocalist Kevin Moore is the only other full-time member of the band. The collaboration may be considered a studio project, as its members and contributors write and track mos...
Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion was a musical collaboration between Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish progressive metal band Opeth and Steven Wilson, an English solo artist and frontman of the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. Åkerfeldt and Wilson began a longstanding musical partnership in 2001 when Wilson produced Opet...
Dirty Man "Dirty Man" is the third single from The Living End's second album "Roll On". It was released on 22 October 2001. The single was relatively unsuccessful due to relentless touring outside Australia and the car crash of Chris Cheney in September 2001 leading to a lack of promotion. The second track on the singl...
Joe Piripitzi Joe Piripitzi is an Australian rock musician. He was the founding drummer of the rockabilly band, The Living End, from 1994 to 1996; which formed in Melbourne with Chris Cheney on lead guitar and lead vocals, and Scott Owen on double bass and backing vocals. Cheney considered Piripitzi to be ideal due to ...
Reggie Redbird Reggie Redbird is the mascot for Illinois State University located in Normal, Illinois. Reggie is present at all home football games, women's' volleyball matches, men's basketball games, women's' basketball games, and appears at various other athletic events. Reggie also does numerous of appearances at s...
Bevo (mascot) Bevo is the mascot of the athletic programs at the University of Texas at Austin. Bevo is a Texas longhorn steer with burnt orange coloring. The shape of the Longhorn's head and horns gives rise to the school's hand symbol and saying: "Hook 'em Horns". The most recent Bevo, Bevo XV, was introduced to Texa...
Aggie (Mascot) Aggie, sometimes referred to as the Aggie Dawg or Aggie Dog, is the official mascot of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a historically black college in Greensboro, North Carolina. Aggie can be seen representing the North Carolina A&T athletic teams on the sideline of football g...
College Basketball on NBC College Basketball on NBC is the branding used for broadcasts of NCAA Division I men's college basketball games formerly produced by NBC Sports, the sports division of the NBC television network in the United States. The network broadcast college basketball games in some shape or form between ...
Chief Illiniwek Chief Illiniwek was the official mascot of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign associated with the University's intercollegiate athletic programs from 1926 to February 21, 2007. The mascot was portrayed by a student dressed in Sioux regalia to represent the Illiniwek, the state's namesake. Th...
Texas Longhorns The Texas Longhorns are the athletic teams that represent The University of Texas at Austin. The teams are sometimes referred to as the 'Horns and take their name from the Longhorn cattle that were an important part of the development of Texas, and are now the official "large animal" of the U.S. state o...
KSKU KSKU (94.7 FM, "Hit Radio 94.7") is a radio station broadcasting a contemporary hit radio format. Licensed to Sterling, Kansas, United States, the station serves the Hutchinson, Kansas area. The station is currently owned by Ad Astra Per Aspera Broadcasting, Inc. The KSKU call letters have been moved to 5 differen...
ESPN College Basketball on ABC ESPN College Basketball on ABC (originally College Basketball on ABC) is the branding formerly used for broadcasts of NCAA Division I college basketball games produced by ESPN, and televised on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). ABC broadcast select college basketball games during t...
KFST (AM) KFST (860 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Soft Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Fort Stockton, Texas, United States, the station serves the Fort Stockton-Alpine area. The station is currently owned by Fort Stockton Radio Co and features programing from ABC Radio . KFST airs sports from the Fort St...
WGOH WGOH (1370 AM and 100.9 FM and 99.7 WUGO-FM) is a radio station licensed to Grayson, Kentucky. WGOH-AM & FM broadcasts a full service mix of classic country and bluegrass music while WUGO-FM broadcasts an Adult Contemporary format. The station serves the Northeast Kentucky area and is currently owned by Carter Cou...
The Scarlet Letter (1922 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Challis Sanderson and starring Sybil Thorndike, Tony Fraser and Dick Webb. It is an adaptation of the novel "The Scarlett Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Streak (film) Streak is a 2008 American coming-of-age short film directed by Demi Moore, written by Kelly Fremon and Allan Loeb, and starring Brittany Snow and Rumer Willis. The film was actress Demi Moore's first film as a director. The plot focuses on a young woman stuck in a life she no longer wants with gym-rat fri...
The Bridges of Madison County (film) The Bridges of Madison County is a 1995 American romantic drama film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Robert James Waller. It was produced by Amblin Entertainment and Malpaso Productions, and distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment. The film was produced and dir...
The Scarlet Letter (1995 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 1995 American romantic drama film. It is a film adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of the same name. It was directed by Roland Joffé and stars Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall. This version was "freely adapted" from Hawthorne and deviated from th...
Blame It on Rio Blame It on Rio is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and written by Charlie Peters and Larry Gelbart based on the 1977 French film "Un moment d'égarement". Starring an ensemble cast led by Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Michelle Johnson, Valerie Harper, Demi Moore, and José ...
Phenomenon (film) Phenomenon is a 1996 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Jon Turteltaub, written by Gerald Di Pego, and starring John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall, and Jeffrey DeMunn.
Robert Duvall filmography The following is the filmography for actor and director Robert Duvall. He is most known for his roles in the films "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962),Bullitt 1968 "True Grit" (1969), "THX 1138" (1971), "The Godfather" (1972), "The Godfather Part II" (1974), "Apocalypse Now" (1979), "The Natural" (...
Stalin (1992 film) Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The film won three Golden Globe Awards among various awards including cinematography awards for Vilmos Zsigmond as well as best actor for Robert Duvall. Filming was done in Budapest, Hun...
Wild Horses (2015 film) Wild Horses is a 2015 American Western crime film written and directed by Robert Duvall. The film stars Robert Duvall, James Franco, Josh Hartnett, Adriana Barraza, Jim Parrack and Luciana Duvall. The film was released on June 5, 2015, by Entertainment One Films.
Passion of Mind Passion of Mind is a 2000 American psychological romantic drama film starring Demi Moore. It was the first English-language film from Belgian director Alain Berliner, best known for the arthouse success "Ma Vie en Rose".
In the Name of the Law (1932 film) In the Name of the Law (French: Au nom de la loi ) is a 1932 French crime film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Marcelle Chantal, Régine Dancourt and Gabriel Gabrio. It was based on a novel by Paul Bringuier. The film was well received by critics. "Variety" considered Marcell...
Leave It to Beaver (Veronica Mars) "Leave It to Beaver" is the twenty-second and final episode of the first season of the American television series "Veronica Mars". Series creator Rob Thomas wrote the story, and collaborated with Diane Ruggiero to write the teleplay. The season finale was directed by Michael Fields, a...
Waiting for Summer Waiting for Summer is a 2012 Canadian drama film directed by Senthil Vinu and produced by Krzysztof Pietroszek, starring Caleb Verzyden and Virginia Leigh. The film was released on March 30, 2012 at the Canadian Film Fest in Toronto, Canada and won the 2012 Film North Best Feature Award at the Film N...
Think Like a Man Too Think Like a Man Too is a 2014 romantic comedy film directed by Tim Story and the sequel to Story's 2012 film "Think Like a Man" based on Steve Harvey's book "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man". The script is written by David A. Newman and Keith Merryman. The film was released on June 20, 2014. The...
The Queen's Necklace (1929 film) The Queen's Necklace (French:Le collier de la reine) is a 1929 French historical drama film directed by Tony Lekain and Gaston Ravel and starring Marcelle Chantal, Georges Lannes and Diana Karenne. The film is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel "The Queen's Necklace" which portray...
Tex O'Reilly Edward Sinnott "Tex" O'Reilly (15 August 1880 – 9 December 1946) was an American soldier of fortune who is said to have fought in ten wars under many flags. Initially serving in the U.S. Army in the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War, as well as the Boxer Rebellion, he would claim to fight in...
George Glass George Glass (August 19, 1910 – April 1, 1984) was an American film producer and publicist, best known for his work with Stanley Kramer. In Kramer's 1997 autobiography, describing how he formed his first production company in the late 1940s, he called Glass "one of the best publicity men in town", and rema...
Chantal Thomas Chantal Thomas (born 1945, in Lyon) is a French writer and historian. Her 2002 book, "Farewell, My Queen", won the Prix Femina and was adapted into a 2012 film starring Diane Kruger and Léa Seydoux.
Filly Brown Filly Brown is a 2012 film directed by Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos. It has a 45% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 11 reviews. It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and won Best Feature Film at the 2013 Noor Iranian Film Festival. The whole cast won the award Special...
Farewell, My Queen Farewell, My Queen (French: Les Adieux à la reine ) is a 2012 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot and based on the novel of the same name by Chantal Thomas, who won the "Prix Femina" in 2002. It gives a fictional account of the last days of Marie Antoinette in power seen through the eyes of ...
Justin Fox Justin Fox (born January 28, 1964) is an American financial journalist, commentator, and writer born in Morristown, New Jersey. He is the editorial director of the Harvard Business Review Group and business and economics columnist for Time magazine. He graduated from Princeton University and has been publish...
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933 What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933 is a book of reportage by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth from the era of the Weimar Republic. The selection of pieces from Roth's large journalistic output was made by Michael Bienert and published in German in 1996. The English tran...
Katharine McMahon Katharine McMahon is a British writer born in north-west London. She is an historical novelist who, since 1990, has published nine books. Her latest, "The Woman in the Picture", was released in hardback on 3 July 2014 and in paperback on 30 July 2015. McMahon is the best-selling author of "The Rose of...
Jean-François Steiner Jean-François Steiner is a French-Jewish writer born on 17 February 1938 in Paris, France. He is best known for his controversial non-fiction novel "Treblinka: The Revolt of an Extermination Camp" first published in 1966 as "Treblinka: la révolte d'un camp d'extermination"; translated a year later...
Andrew Gemant Andrew Gemant (1895–1983) was a renowned physicist, remembered in part by the eponymous Andrew Gemant Award. His work included a series of fundamental papers on viscoelasticity and fractional differentials, published in the mid 20th Century. Andrew Gemant was born in Nagyvarad, Hungary on July 27, 1895. H...
Polizei SV Berlin Polizei SV Berlin was a German football club from the city of Berlin (SV is the abbreviation of 'Sportverein', i.e., sports club). The early 1920s saw the formation of sports clubs for police and postal workers which included the establishment on 1 June 1921 of " Sport-Verein Schutzpolizei Berlin" as ...
Chris Wooding Chris Wooding (born 28 February 1977) is a British writer born in Leicester, and now living in London. His first book, "Crashing", which he wrote at the age of nineteen, was published in 1998 when he was twenty-one. Since then he has written many more, including "The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray", which was...
José Manuel Castañón José Manuel Castañón (February 10, 1920 – June 6, 2001) was a Spanish writer born in Pola de Lena, Asturias. Although he fought in Francisco Franco’s 1936 military uprising he was very soon disappointed with Franco’s regime and in 1957 left for a 20-year exile in Venezuela. His best-known novel “Mo...
Ingo Schulze Ingo Schulze (born 15 December 1962) is a German writer born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena for five years, and, until German reunification, was an assistant director (dramatic arts advisor) at the State Theatre in Altenburg 45 km south of Leipzi...
Félix Sardà y Salvany Félix Sardà y Salvany (Catalan Feliu or Fèlix Sardà i Salvany; May 21, 1844 – January 2, 1916) was a Spanish Catholic priest and writer born in Sabadell. He exercised an apostolate of charity and of the written word. Historian Roberto de Mattei reports that Salvany "was a popular priest in Spain a...