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Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven was a jazz studio group organized to make a series of recordings for Okeh Records in Chicago, Illinois, in May 1927. Some of the personnel also recorded with Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, including Johnny Dodds (clarinet), Lil Armstrong (piano), an...
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (IATA: MSY, ICAO: KMSY, FAA LID: MSY) is an international airport in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is owned by the city of New Orleans and is 11 miles west of downtown New Orleans. The airport's address ...
Louis Armstrong Stadium (1978) Louis Armstrong Stadium was a tennis stadium of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and one of the venues of the U.S. Open. Armstrong was the main stadium before Arthur Ashe Stadium opened in 1997, after which it served as the No. 2 stadium. It is named after the noted jazz m...
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy is a 1954 studio release by Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, described by Allmusic as "Louis Armstrong's finest record of the 1950s" and "essential music for all serious jazz collections". Columbia CD released the album on CD in 1986 in a much altered...
Heebie Jeebies (composition) "Heebie Jeebies" is a composition written by Boyd Atkins which achieved fame when it was recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1926. The recording on Okeh Records by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five includes a famous example of scat singing by Armstrong.
Danny Barcelona Danny Barcelona (July 23, 1929 – April 1, 2007) was a jazz drummer best known for his years with Louis Armstrong's All-Stars. He was a Filipino-American born in Waipahu, a community of Honolulu, Hawaii. He was also frequently introduced to audiences by Louis Armstrong as The Little Filipino Boy. Armstro...
Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions The Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions were recorded between 1925 and 1928 by Louis Armstrong with his Hot Five and Hot Seven groups. According to the National Recording Registry, "Louis Armstrong was jazz's first great soloist and is among American music's m...
Would You Like to Take a Walk? "Would You Like to Take a Walk?" is a popular song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Mort Dixon and Billy Rose. It appeared in the Broadway show "Sweet and Low" starring James Barton, Fannie Brice and George Jessel. The song was published in 1930 by Remick Music Corporation. The so...
Saint Louis Blues (song) "Saint Louis Blues" is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. It remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire. It was also one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song. It has been performed by numerous musicians ...
The Oracle (Sweet Valley) The Oracle was the fictional High School newspaper in the "Sweet Valley High" book series. It was well-run and mostly very informative. Elizabeth Wakefield was the most dedicated staff member and most of her friends worked with her. The editor-in-chief was Penny Ayala, who saw this as a step t...
Academic probation Academic probation in the United Kingdom is a period served by a new academic staff member at a university or college when they are first given their job. It is specified in the conditions of employment of the staff member, and may vary from person to person and from institution to institution. In un...
Michael Wood (academic) Michael Wood born in Lincoln, England, was director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton from 1995 to 2001, chaired Princeton's English department from 1998 to 2004, and still teaches at Princeton today, where he is professor emeritus. He is one of the foremost literary and cultural c...
Nina Stibbe Nina Stibbe (born 1962) is a British writer. After growing up in Leicester, she became a nanny in the household of Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books. Her semi-fictionalised account of this time was the basis for her first book "Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life" which was adapted ...
Andrzej Buras Andrzej Jerzy Buras (born 26 October 1946 in Warsaw, Poland) is a theoretical physicist, professor emeritus at the Technical University Munich (TUM). He received his master's degree in theoretical physics at the Warsaw University in 1971, and emigrated to Denmark in the same year. One year later, he recei...
Shanghai Review of Books Shanghai Review of Books () is a Chinese weekly paper-magazine supplement to Shanghai's "Oriental Morning Daily" (东方早报）with articles on literature, culture, history, art and current affairs, including book reviews, interviews and essays. It is published as an insert in each Sunday edition of th...
Benjamin Hataman Benjamin Hataman is a Filipino staff member who was charged with murder in the 2007 assassination of rival political leader Wahab Akbar in Basilan. He is cousin and former staff member to Mujiv S. Hataman, is an influential politician who was also implicated by ultimately cleared of involvement due to ...
Mulford Expedition The Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Basin was a scientific expedition to the Amazon conducted in 1921. It was organized by Henry Hurd Rusby, who at age 64, was a well known explorer, a professor at Columbia University, and a staff member at the New York Botanical Garden. He hired Orland ...
Corbett O'Toole Corbett O'Toole (born 1951) is a disability rights activist. She had polio as a child. She ran the Disabled Women's Coalition office with Lynn Witt in the 1970s. She worked as a staff member at the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley from 1973-1976, and as a staff member for the Disability Rights ...
Butcher's Broom (book) Butcher's Broom is an epic, historical novel by Neil M. Gunn written in 1934. Based on a semi-fictionalised account of the Highland Clearances in Sutherland, the novel deals with the decline of Highland culture in a wide scope of pre-Clearance and post-Clearance life, as well as the Clearances th...
Anatomy of Greed Anatomy of Greed is a book by Brian Cruver detailing the Enron scandal from the author's perspective as an employee who worked for the energy giant. In 2002 the book became the first major non-fiction work written about Enron, released by Avalon Publishing in the United States and by Random House in E...
Kenneth Lay Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay (April 15, 1942 – July 5, 2006) was an American businessman. He was the CEO and chairman of Enron Corporation for most of its existence and is a central figure in the Enron scandal. Lay was indicted by a grand jury and was found guilty of 10 counts of securities fraud. Lay died while v...
Nancy Temple Nancy Anne Temple was an in-house attorney for Arthur Andersen who advised Michael Odom and David B. Duncan about Arthur Andersen policies regarding retention of documents from client engagements. Duncan oversaw the shredding of Arthur Andersen documents concerning their work for client Enron, between Octo...
LJM (Lea Jeffrey Matthew) LJM, which stands for Lea, Jeffrey, Matthew, the names of Andrew Fastow's wife and children, was a company created in 1999 by Enron's CFO, Andrew Fastow, to buy Enron's poorly performing stocks and stakes and bolster Enron's financial statements.
Lea Fastow Lea Weingarten Fastow is a former Enron assistant treasurer who pleaded guilty to tax evasion and filing fraudulent Income Tax returns. The wife of former Enron executive and convicted felon Andrew Fastow, she was the second former Enron executive to go to prison after Enron collapsed due to fraud in Decembe...
Enron (play) Enron (stylised as ENRON) is a 2009 play by the British playwright Lucy Prebble, based on the Enron scandal.
Andrew Fastow Andrew Stuart Fastow (born December 22, 1961) is a convicted criminal and businessman who was the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation, an energy trading company based in Houston, Texas, until he was fired shortly before the company declared bankruptcy. Fastow was one of the key figures behind the...
Enron scandal The Enron scandal, publicized in October 2001, eventually led to the bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation, an American energy company based in Houston, Texas, and the "de facto" dissolution of Arthur Andersen, which was one of the five largest audit and accountancy partnerships in the world. In addition to...
Vincent Kaminski Vincent Julian Kaminski was born in Poland and worked as the Managing Director for Research at the failed energy trading corporation Enron until 2002. In this capacity he led a team of approximately fifty analysts who developed quantitative models to support energy trading. In the months preceding Enro...
Teesside power station Teesside Power Station is a former gas-fired power station, in Redcar & Cleveland, England. Situated near the Wilton chemical complex, the station had combined cycle gas turbines (CCGTs) and open cycle gas turbines (OCGTs), however in 2011 the operation of the CCGT part of the station was suspend...
List of Playboy Playmates of 2000 The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 2000. "Playboy" magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
Jaime Bergman Jaime Boreanaz (née Bergman; born September 23, 1975) is an American model and actress who was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month in January 1999, its 45th Anniversary issue. In addition to her magazine appearance she has appeared in several "Playboy" videos.
List of Playboy Playmates of 1999 The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1999, the 45th anniversary year of the publication. "Playboy" magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
Elisa Bridges Elisa Rebeca Bridges (May 24, 1973 – February 7, 2002) was an American actress and model. She is "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1994, and "Playboy's" Video Playmate of the Month for September 1996. She appeared in several video productions from "Playboy" Home Video from 1996 to 20...
List of people in Playboy 2000–09 This list of people in "Playboy" 2000-09 is a catalog of women and men who appeared in "Playboy" magazine between the years 2000 and 2009, inclusive. Note that not all of the people featured on the cover or in the magazine model in the nude.
The Girls Next Door The Girls Next Door, also known as The Girls of the Playboy Mansion, is a reality television series which originally aired on E! from August 7, 2005 until August 8, 2010. The series was created by executive producer Kevin Burns and Hugh Hefner, founder of "Playboy" magazine.
Sandy Bentley Sandy Bentley (born May 18, 1978, in Joliet, Illinois) is notable both individually and with her sister Amanda (Mandy) Bentley as the Bentley Twins. The 5 foot 9 inch tall twins were featured on the May 2000 cover of Playboy Magazine and were well known as Hugh Hefner's live-in lovers at the Playboy Mansi...
Nobuyoshi Tamura Nobuyoshi Tamura (田村 信喜 , Tamura Nobuyoshi , 2 March 1933 in Osaka – 9 July 2010) was a prominent aikidoka and a direct student of Morihei Ueshiba. The son of a kendo teacher, Tamura entered the Aikikai Hombu Dojo in 1953 as an uchi-deshi (live-in student) of aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba. He was one ...
List of people in Playboy 1990–99 This list of people in "Playboy" 1990–99 is a catalog of women and men who appeared in "Playboy" magazine in the years 1990 through 1999. Note that not all of the people featured in the magazine are pictured in the nude.
Playboy Mansion The Playboy Mansion (also known as the Playboy Mansion West) was the home of late "Playboy" magazine founder Hugh Hefner. Located in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, near Beverly Hills, the mansion became famous during the 1970s through media reports of Hefner's lavish parties.
Ed Roland Edgar Eugene Roland, Jr. (born August 3, 1963) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band Collective Soul. He is also active with a new project, Ed Roland and the Sweet Tea Project.
Jordyn Jackson Jordyn Jackson (born December 6, 1984) is an American vocalist, most recently known for her interpretations of jazz, blues, folk, and pop classics on her 2009 album "September in the Garden". The album was arranged and recorded in New Orleans at Better Than Ezra’s Fudge Recording Studio. The album was mi...
Smashing Young Man "Smashing Young Man" is a song by the American band Collective Soul. It is the third single from their second studio album "Collective Soul". The song was written as an insult to Smashing Pumpkins lead singer, Billy Corgan, who accused Collective Soul of plagiarizing music.
Collective Soul Collective Soul is an American rock band originally from Stockbridge, Georgia. Now based in Atlanta, the group consists of lead vocalist Ed Roland, rhythm guitarist Dean Roland, bassist Will Turpin, drummer Johnny Rabb and lead guitarist Jesse Triplett.
Anthony J. Resta Anthony J. Resta is an American record producer and musician. A multi-instrumentalist, he is a known for his use of vintage audio gear. He has earned twelve RIAA certified gold and multi-platinum awards and has been featured in many articles for his innovative recording techniques. Some of his past cli...
Joey Huffman Joey Huffman (born August 4, 1962) is an American musician. Primarily known as a keyboard and organ player, Huffman has performed with many artists, both in the studio and live. He was a member of Witness, Drivin' N Cryin', and the Georgia Satellites. Joey has recorded on over 125 records as a musician and...
The World I Know "The World I Know" is a song by American band Collective Soul, originally released on their 1995 eponymous album. Written by lead singer and guitarist Ed Roland and guitarist Ross Childress, "The World I Know" peaked at #19 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart when released as a single, and spent four week...
Matt Serletic Matt Serletic is an American record producer and music executive. As a teenager, Serletic joined a band with members of Collective Soul, a group for which he would later produce. Serletic has worked with several other popular bands and artists for Atlantic Records, including Matchbox Twenty, Cher, Blessid...
List of songs recorded by Collective Soul Collective Soul are an American rock band originally formed in Stockbridge, Georgia, and now based in Atlanta. They have released nine studio albums.
September in the Garden September in the Garden is Jordyn Jackson's latest album, and re-envisions ten musical standards. It was recorded by Jacques Delatour and Jack Miele at Better Than Ezra's Fudge Recording Studio in New Orleans in September 2009. It was mixed by Shawn Grove at Edible Studios, the home studio of Ed...
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 is a skateboarding video game in the "Tony Hawk's" series. It was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision in 2001 for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube and Game Boy Color. In 2002, it was published for the Xbox, Game Boy Advance, Microsoft Windows, Nin...
NHL 2K10 NHL 2K10 is an ice hockey simulation developed by Visual Concepts and published by 2K Sports, part of the "NHL 2K" series. It was released on September 15, 2009 for Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 2. Randy Hahn and Drew Remenda provide commentary as they did for NHL 2K9. NHL 2K10 was the final 2K...
The King of Fighters 2000 The King of Fighters 2000 is a 2000 competitive fighting game produced by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home platforms. It is the seventh installment in "The King of Fighters" series for the Neo Geo, and marks the final game in the series produced by SNK before the bankruptcy. The game was po...
Killzone (series) Killzone is a first-person and twin sticks shooter series of video games exclusively for Sony Computer Entertainment's (SCE) video game consoles. The main series and the PlayStation Portable (PSP) installment were developed by Guerrilla Games, a subsidiary of SCE, and the PlayStation Vita installment ...
Dancing Stage Fusion Dancing Stage Fusion, abbreviated DS Fusion or simply Fusion, is a music video game released by Konami to the European PlayStation and PlayStation 2 gaming audience on 5 November 2004. In April of the following year, "Dancing Stage Fusion" was released as an arcade game. Fusion featured new gamepla...
Pro Evolution Soccer 6 Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (also known as World Soccer: Winning Eleven 10 and World Soccer: Winning Eleven X for Xbox 360 in Japan and South Korea, Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 in the United States) is a video game developed and published by Konami. Released in 2006 for the PlayStation 2...
FIFA 14 FIFA 14 is a 2013 sports association football simulation video game developed by EA Canada and published by EA Sports. It was released in late September 2013 for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Microsoft Windows. It was released as a free...
High Impact Games High Impact Games is an American video game developer based in Burbank, California, formed in 2003 by former members of Insomniac Games and Naughty Dog. In 2007, the company released "" for the PlayStation Portable, with a PlayStation 2 port released the next year, and "Secret Agent Clank" in 2008, al...
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan is the third installment of the video game series, "Ty the Tasmanian Tiger". It is the only game in the series to be published by Activision, instead of Electronic Arts which published the game's two predecessors. It was devel...
The King of Fighters 2001 The King of Fighters 2001 (stylized as KOF '01) is a 2001 competitive fighting game produced by Eolith for the Neo Geo. It is the eighth game in "The King of Fighters" series and the first game produced following the closure of the original SNK. The game was produced by the Korean-based compan...
The Monkey Suit "The Monkey Suit" is the twenty-first episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated sitcom "The Simpsons". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 14, 2006. In the episode, Ned Flanders is shocked after seeing a new display at the museum about evolution. Together ...
Old Donation Episcopal Church Old Donation Church is the third Lynnhaven Parish Church and is the oldest Episcopal Church in Virginia Beach. Records show that the parish’s first church services were held in 1637 in the home of Adam Thoroughgood. The first church building was constructed on Mr. Thoroughgood’s land in 16...
TPR Storytelling TPR Storytelling (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling or TPRS) is a method of teaching foreign languages. TPRS lessons use a mixture of reading and storytelling to help students learn a foreign language in a classroom setting. The method works in three steps: in step one the new vocab...
Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod (Mizoram Presbyterian Kohhran Synod in Mizo) is the largest Christian denomination in Mizoram, northeast India. It was a direct progeny of the Calvinistic Methodist Church (officially named the Presbyterian Church of Wales in 1928) in Wales. It was the...
Loan modification in the United States Loan modification is the systematic alteration of mortgage loan agreements that help those having problems making the payments by reducing interest rates, monthly payments or principal balances. Lending institutions could make one or more of these changes to relieve financial pres...
First Church (Demotte, Indiana) First Church is a member church of the Reformed Church in America (RCA) and was one of the first churches in Jasper County, Indiana. It holds two worship services on Sunday mornings. Its full name is "First Reformed Church of DeMotte," but goes by the shortened name First Church. In May...
First Church, Sandwich Massachusetts First Church UCC (or “First Church,” or “First Church Sandwich,” or “First Church of Christ”) is a Congregational church in Sandwich Massachusetts founded in 1638 under Plymouth Colony Charter and the Mayflower Compact. It is either the oldest church on Cape Cod or the second oldest...
First Church First Church, Old First Church, or First Church Parsonage may refer to:
Wright v. Houston Independent School District Wright v. Houston Independent School District was a 1972 American legal case brought by a parent of a student in the Houston Independent School District in Houston, Texas suing on behalf of her daughter and fellow students to prevent the district from teaching evolution as ...
First Church of Christ, Scientist (Seattle) First Church of Christ, Scientist Building is an historic Christian Science church located at 1519 East Denny Way / 1841 16th Avenue on the corner of East Denny Way and 16th Avenue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Designed in the Classical Revival styl...
Union busting Union busting is a term used by media, labor organizations, and others to describe a wide range of activities undertaken to disrupt or prevent the formation of trade unions. Union busting tactics can refer to both legal and illegal activities, and can range anywhere from subtle to violent. Labor laws diff...
Balance of payments The balance of payments, also known as balance of international payments and abbreviated B.O.P., of a country is the record of all economic transactions between the residents of the country and the rest of the world in a particular period (over a quarter of a year or more commonly over a year). Thes...
Dance bar (India) Dance bar is a term used in India to refer to bars in which adult entertainment in the form of dances by relatively well-covered women are performed for male patrons in exchange for cash. Dance bars used to be present only in Maharashtra, but later spread across the country, mainly in cities. Dance ba...
Project Simoom Project Simoom is the name of a business case involving Swedish government agency Swedish Defence Research Agency (Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut or FOI) and Saudi Arabia to create a propellant, explosives factory in Saudi Arabia to remodify anti-tank weapon systems Documents and details about the pr...
Immigration to Bhutan Immigration to Bhutan has an extensive history and has become one of the country's most contentious social, political, and legal issues. Since the twentieth century, Bhutanese immigration and citizenship laws have been promulgated as acts of the royal government, often by decree of the Druk Gyalpo...
Downward harmonization Downward harmonization is an econo-political term describing the act of adapting the trade laws of a country with an established economy "downward" to the trade laws of the country with a developing economy. This "harmonizing" may affect labor laws, human rights laws, minimum-wage, industry stand...
List of free economic zones In special economic zones business and trades laws differ from the rest of the country. The term, and a number of other terms, can have different specific meanings in different countries and publications. Often they have relaxed jurisdiction of customs or related national regulations. They c...
Iran International Exhibitions Company The Iran International Exhibitions Company (IIEC) oversees and operates all international and specialized exhibitions held in Iran. Site features exhibitions calendar and provides trade laws and regulations. IIEC is affiliated with the Iranian Ministry of Commerce.
Law of India Law of India refers to the system of law in modern India. India maintains a hybrid legal system with a mixture of civil, common law and customary or religious law within the legal framework inherited from the colonial era and various legislation first introduced by the British are still in effect in modifi...
Special economic zone A special economic zone (SEZ) is an area in which business and trade laws are different from rest of the country. SEZs are located within a country's national borders, and their aims include: increased trade, increased investment, job creation and effective administration. To encourage businesses ...
The Young Doctors (film) The Young Doctors is a 1961 film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Ben Gazzara, Fredric March, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert, Phyllis Love, Aline MacMahon, George Segal (in his first movie) and Dolph Sweet. The film is based on the 1959 novel "The Final Diagnosis" by Arthur Hailey. Ro...
Rosario Castellanos Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (] ; 25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 (the poets who wrote following the Second World War, influenced by César Vallejo and others), she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in...
Detective (novel) Detective is a novel by Arthur Hailey. It was written in 1997 and it was the author's last book. Hailey depicts the work of the homicide department and its background and investigation methods.
Centro Cultural Bella Época The Centro Cultural Bella Epoca is a cultural 3,000 square meter cultural centre in the Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City. It includes the Rosario Castellanos bookshop (claimed to be the largest bookshop in Latin America) which carries over 35 thousand different titles, and has a children’...
Wheels (novel) Wheels (1971) is a novel by Arthur Hailey, concerning the automobile industry and the day-to-day pressures involved in its operation.
Zero Hour! (1957 film) Zero Hour! is a 1957 drama film directed by Hall Bartlett from a screenplay by Arthur Hailey, Hall Bartlett and John Champion. It stars Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell and Sterling Hayden and features Peggy King, Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Geoffrey Toone and Jerry Paris in supporting roles. The film ...
Airport (novel) Airport is a bestselling novel by British-Canadian writer Arthur Hailey. Published by Doubleday in 1968, the story concerns a large metropolitan airport and its operations during a severe winter storm.
Jean-Claude Andro Jean-Claude Andro (1937, Quimper – 2000) was a French writer. He published his first novel at 22 and then left to teach in Mexico (1960-62). He then pursued a career as a novelist and translator ("Zone sacrée" and "Chant des aveugles" by Carlos Fuentes and "Christ des ténèbres" by Rosario Castellanos)...
Cristina Pacheco Cristina Pacheco is a journalist, writer, interviewer and television personality who lives and works in Mexico City. While her journalism career began in 1960, continuing with regular columns in La Jornada, she is best known for her work in television, hosting two shows called Aquí nos tocó vivir and C...
Overload (novel) Overload (1979) is a novel by Arthur Hailey, concerning the electricity production industry in California and the activities of the employees and others involved with Golden State Power and Light, a fictional California public service company. The plot follows many of the issues of the day, including r...
The Most Dangerous Game (novel) The Most Dangerous Game is a first person narrative novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first published in 1964. The plot of the novel is totally different from the Richard Connell short story "The Most Dangerous Game".
Jürg Amann Jürg Amann (born in Winterthur on July 2, 1947; died on May 5, 2013 in Zurich) was a Swiss author and dramatist. He has written radio plays, a biography of Robert Walser, and other works.
.458 Winchester Magnum The .458 Winchester Magnum is a belted, straight-taper cased, dangerous game rifle cartridge. It was introduced commercially in 1956 by Winchester and first chambered in the Winchester Model 70 African rifle. It was designed to compete against the .450 Nitro Express and the .470 Nitro Express car...
Run for the Sun Run for the Sun is a 1956 Technicolor thriller adventure film released by United Artists, the third film to officially be based on Richard Connell's classic suspense story, "The Most Dangerous Game", after both RKO's "The Most Dangerous Game" (1932), and their remake, "A Game of Death" (1945). This vers...
A Dangerous Game A Dangerous Game is a 1956 novel by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Its original German title is Die Panne, which means "The breakdown". It is known as Traps in the United States. It tells the story of a traveller who, when his car breaks down, is invited for dinner by a former judge, after whic...
.577 Tyrannosaur The .577 Tyrannosaur or .577 T-Rex (14.9×76mm) is a very large and extremely powerful rifle cartridge developed by A-Square in 1993 for professional guides who escort clients hunting dangerous game. The cartridge is designed for use in "stopping rifles": A rifle intended to stop the charge of dangerous...
.404 Jeffery The .404 Jeffery is a large-caliber, rimless cartridge designed for large, dangerous game, such as the "Big Five" (elephant, rhino, cape buffalo, lion and leopard) of Africa. Other names for this cartridge include .404 Jeffery Rimless, .404 Rimless Nitro Express, and 10.75× 73mm. It was created by W.J. Jef...
Silja Walter Silja Walter (23 April 1919 – 31 January 2011) was a Swiss author and Benedictine nun in the Fahr Abbey in Switzerland. Born as Cécile Walter in Rickenbach, Solothurn, in Switzerland, at the age of 30 she became a nun: her religious name was Maria Hedwig (OSB). Her brother, Otto F. Walter, was also a popul...
The Deadly Game (1982 film) The Deadly Game is a 1982 television film that premiered on HBO. The intellectual thriller was directed by George Schaefer and adapted from a 1960 play by James Yaffe that was in turn based on the novel "A Dangerous Game" by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt. It stars George Segal as an Amer...
.460 Weatherby Magnum The .460 Weatherby Magnum is a belted, bottlenecked rifle cartridge, developed by Roy Weatherby in 1957. The cartridge is based on the .378 Weatherby Magnum necked up to accept the .458 in bullet. The original .378 Weatherby Magnum parent case was inspired by the .416 Rigby. The .460 Weatherby Mag...
Land of the Free (Gamma Ray album) Land of the Free is the fourth studio album by German power metal band Gamma Ray, released in 1995. Continuing a trend that would conclude with the band's fifth studio release, the lineup for the album was different from the previous one, as "Land of the Free" was the first Gamma Ray ...