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Guillermo Cabrera Guillermo Cabrera González (born February 28, 1982) is a Dominican Republic former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. Cabrera competed only in the men's 200 m backstroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as the Dominican Republic's first ever swimmer in Olympic history. He posted a FI...
Le Port (painting) Le Port, also known as The Harbor, The Port or simply Marine, is a painting by the French artist Jean Metzinger. The work was exhibited in the spring of 1912 at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, and at the Salon de La Section d'Or, Galerie La Boétie, October 1912, Paris, (no. 117 of the catalogue,...
Fred Willard Frederick Charles "Fred" Willard (born September 18, 1939) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor and writer, best known for his improvisational comedy. He is known for his roles in the Rob Reiner mockumentary film "This Is Spinal Tap", the Christopher Guest mockumentary films "Waiting for Guffman", "...
Rick Moranis Frederick Allan "Rick" Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, musician, and songwriter. He is currently on film acting hiatus. He came to prominence in the sketch comedy series "Second City Television" ("SCTV") in the 1980s and later appeared in severa...
List of SCTV episodes The following is a list of episodes for the television series "Second City Television" ("SCTV").
Don Caballero Don Caballero was an American math rock group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The group took its name from the character Guy Caballero, portrayed by Joe Flaherty, on the sketch comedy show "Second City Television". In "SCTV's" parody of the film "The Godfather", Guy Caballero is called "Don Caballero".
List of recurring The Simpsons characters "The Simpsons" includes a large array of supporting characters: co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople, local celebrities, fictional characters within the show, and even animals. The writers originally intended many of these characters as one-time...
List of The Simpsons characters Along with the Simpson family, "The Simpsons" includes a large array of characters: co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople, local celebrities, and as well as fictional characters. The creators originally intended many of these characters as one-time jokeste...
Julie Fulton Julie Fulton (born April 10, 1959 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American actress of stage and screen. Perhaps best known for her role as astronaut Judith Resnick in the movie about the shuttle disaster Challenger, she also originated roles as a regular on Robert Wagner 's Lime Street and for playing several...
John Candy John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian known mainly for his work in Hollywood films. Candy rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City and its related "Second City Television" series, and through his appearances in such comedy films as "...
Edith Prickley Edith Prickley was a character in all six seasons of the Canadian sketch comedy series "SCTV". Created and played by Andrea Martin, the character took over as the station manager for the fictional television station Second City Television, based out of a city called Melonville, and serving the "tri-city ...
Catherine O'Hara Catherine Anne O'Hara {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American actress, writer, and comedian. She is known for her comedy work on "Second City Television" (1976–84) and in films such as "After Hours" (1985), "Beetlejuice" (1988), "Home Alone" (1990), "" (1992), and "...
Edward James Olmos Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined "Battlestar Galactica", Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in "Miami Vice", teacher Jaime Escalante in "Stand and Deliver", patriarch Abraham Quintanilla,...
You Belong to the City "You Belong to the City" is a song written by Glenn Frey (of the Eagles) and Jack Tempchin, and recorded by Frey during his solo career. It was written specifically for the television show "Miami Vice" in 1985. The song nearly reached the top of the charts, peaking at number two (behind Starship'...
Arielle Dombasle Arielle Dombasle (born April 27, 1953) is an American-born French singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's "Pauline at the Beach" (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's "The Blue Villa" (1995). She is best known to American audiences for her appearances on "Miami Vice...
Firearms in Miami Vice In the television series, "Miami Vice", firearms took a key role. Episodes such as "Evan" revolved around them, while the characters themselves also used several firearms during the series. Sonny Crockett (played by Don Johnson) was to have used a SIG Sauer P220, but this was replaced by the then...
Don Johnson Donald Wayne Johnson (born December 15, 1949) is an American actor, producer, director, singer, and songwriter. He played the role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s television series "Miami Vice" and had the eponymous lead role in the 1990s cop series "Nash Bridges". Johnson is a Golden Globe–winning a...
Miami Vice Theme ""Miami Vice" Theme" is a musical piece composed and performed by Jan Hammer as the theme to the television series "Miami Vice". It was first presented as part of the television broadcast of the show in September 1984 and released as a single in 1985, peaking at the number one spot on the "Billboard" H...
Jan Hammer Jan Hammer (] ) (born 17 April 1948) is a Czech-born American musician, composer and record producer. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crocke...
Philip Michael Thomas Philip Michael Thomas (born May 26, 1949) is an American actor. Thomas' most famous role is that of detective Ricardo Tubbs on the hit 1980s TV series "Miami Vice". His first notable roles were in "Coonskin" (1975) and opposite Irene Cara in the 1976 film "Sparkle". After his success in "Miami Vic...
C. Bernard Jackson C. Bernard Jackson (November 4, 1927 – July 16, 1996) was an award-winning American playwright who founded the Inner City Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Inner City was one of the first arts institutions in the United States to promote multiculturalism. The facility nurtured the careers of numerous p...
Terry Jackson (running back) Terrance Bernard Jackson (born January 10, 1976) is an American former college and professional football player who was a fullback, running back and special teams player in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons during the 1990s and 2000s. Jackson played college football for t...
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956 film) Somebody Up There Likes Me is a 1956 American drama film based on the life of middleweight boxing legend Rocky Graziano. Joseph Ruttenberg was awarded a 1956 Oscar in the category of Best Cinematography (Black and White). The film also won the Oscar for Best Art Direction (Cedric ...
Tom Cruise filmography Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama "Endless Love". Two years later he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy "Risky Business" (1983), which garnered Cruise his first nomination for the Golden Globe Aw...
Miami Undercover Miami Undercover is an American crime drama series that aired in broadcast syndication from January to October 1961 for a total of 38 episodes. The series stars Lee Bowman and former Boxer Rocky Graziano.
Norman Gilliland Norman Gilliland has been a producer on Wisconsin Public Radio since 1984, where he hosts classical music broadcasts, produces the interview program "University of the Air," and reads for "Chapter A Day." He holds degrees in English and Broadcasting from the University of Florida and attended graduate ...
Douglas Parker Douglas M. Parker (born May 25, 1957) is a playwright best known for biographical and reality-based plays. His works include "BESSIE: The Life and Music of Bessie Smith" (2005), a play with music about the rise and fall of the great American blues singer; "Life on the Mississippi" (2006), a play about th...
The Man Born to be King The Man Born to Be King is a radio drama based on the life of Jesus, produced and broadcast by the BBC during the Second World War. It is a play cycle consisting of twelve plays depicting specific periods in Jesus' life, from the events surrounding his birth to his death and resurrection. It was...
Rocky Graziano Thomas Rocco Barbella (January 1, 1919 – May 22, 1990), better known as Rocky Graziano, was an American professional boxer who held the World Middleweight title. Graziano is considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a si...
The Government Inspector (film) The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly (played by Mark Rylance) and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom. It was written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, and won three BAFTAs – Best Actor for Rylance, Best Single Drama and Be...
Rocky V Rocky V is a 1990 American sports drama film. It is the fifth film in the "Rocky" series, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone, and co-starring Talia Shire, Stallone's real-life son Sage, and real-life boxer Tommy Morrison, with Morrison in the role of Tommy Gunn, a talented yet raw boxer. Sage played Rob...
Academy Award for Best Film Editing The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner...
Criss Angel Believe Criss Angel Believe (also written as CRISS ANGEL "beLIEve") was the sixth Cirque du Soleil show in Las Vegas, which was premiered at the beLIEve theatre (which holds 1,600 when at capacity) inside the Luxor hotel in Las Vegas in 2008. It is a theatrical production created in partnership of Cirque du...
Angel (rock band) Angel is an American heavy metal band from New York City, formed in 1989. The band was founded and guided by Criss Angel during the explosion of hair metal in the late '80s. The name of the present band was taken as "Angel" when the glam-rock band formed by Punky Meadows and Mickie Jones gradually dis...
Criss Angel BeLIEve (TV series) Criss Angel BeLIEve is a show that aired on the Spike TV Network. It debuted in October 8, 2013 and is stylized much like Angel's previous show "Mindfreak" that aired on A&E Network. The show gives viewers unprecedented access into Angel's "Think Tank" and shows the creative process behi...
Change Nothing (song) "Change Nothing" is the debut single of American recording artist and "American Idol" season 11 runner-up, Jessica Sanchez. The song was written by Jaden Michaels, Joleen Belle and Harry Sommerdahl. Sanchez first performed the song, her potential coronation song had she won the title, on May 22, 2...
Operation Coyote Operation "Coyote" was a United States Department of Homeland Security effort to track and seize revenue generated by Mexican cartels in the human smuggling industry along the United States-Mexico border. From June to September 2014, U.S. agents seized $950,000 in 504 accounts at undisclosed banks in A...
Creature from the Black Lagoon: The Musical Creature From the Black Lagoon: The Musical was a live performance show formerly located at the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park in Los Angeles, California. It debuted on July 1, 2009, replacing "Fear Factor LIVE". As of March 9, 2010 this show was officially closed.
Emeril Lagasse Emeril John Lagasse III ( ; born October 15, 1959) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and cookbook author. He is a regional James Beard Award winner, known for his mastery of Creole and Cajun cuisine and his self-developed "New New Orleans" style. However, he is perhaps ...
Criss Angel Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos (born December 19, 1967), known by the stage name Criss Angel, is an American magician, illusionist and musician. Angel began his career in New York City, before moving his base of operations to the Las Vegas Valley. He is known for starring in the television and stage show "...
Criss Angel Mindfreak Criss Angel: Mindfreak is an American reality TV show that aired on A&E from 2005 to 2010. It centers on stunts and street magic acts by magician Criss Angel.
Henry A. Roemer Henry A. Roemer (born Sep 27, 1884 in Ohio – died Nov 13, 1969) was president of Sharon Steel Corporation from 1931 to 1957. After accepting the role as president, Roemer was able to set a prime example of how to run a business during the depression. At the beginning of his first term, the company was l...
Listing of the works of the Maître de Laz This is a listing/"catalogue raisonnė" of the works of the Maître de Laz. His work, dating to around 1527, can be seen in various parts of Brittany. He is unusual amongst sculptors in this region working in the 15th and 16th century in that he often worked using "grés feldspath...
Sergeyev Collection The Sergeyev Collection is a collection of choreographic notation, music, designs for décor and costumes, theatre programs, photos and other materials that document the repertory of the Imperial Ballet (precursor of the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet) of St. Petersburg, Russia at the turn of the 20th centur...
Cesare Pugni Cesare Pugni (Russian: Цезарь Пуни ) (] ; 31 May 1802–26 January [O.S. 14 January] 1870 ) born in Genoa, was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a violinist. In his early career he composed operas, symphonies, and various other forms of orchestral music. Pugni is most noted for the ballets h...
Louis Mérante Louis Alexandre Mérante (23 July 1828–Courbevoie, 17 July 1887) was a dancer and choreographer, the "Maître de Ballet" (First Balletmaster/Chief Choreographer) of the Paris Opera Ballet at the Salle Le Peletier until its destruction by fire in 1873, and subsequently the first Ballet Master at the company'...
Pierre Tabart Pierre Tabart (also Thabart, Tharbart) (Chinon, baptized 8 January 1645 – Meaux, 1716) was a French composer and maître de chapelle. Said to have studied music under 'the best contrapuntist of his time', he served as maître de musique in Orléans until 1683, followed by Senlis from 1683-1689. He then succe...
Ballet master Ballet Master (also "Balletmaster", "Ballet Mistress" [increasingly archaic English language use], "Premier Maître de ballet" or "Premier Maître de ballet en Chef") is the term used for an employee of a ballet company who is responsible for the level of competence of the dancers in their company. In moder...
Maître de Chaource The Maître de Chaource was an unidentified sculptor who worked in the late 15th and early 16th century, in the French town of Chaource. While many works are attributed anonymously to him or his atelier, some scholars have identified Jacques Bachot as the artist. There is certainly circumstantial evid...
Jean-Louis Aumer Jean-Louis Aumer was a French danseur and choreographer, who was born in Strasbourg on 21 April 1774, and who died in Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville in July 1833. Educated at the school of the Paris Opera Ballet, he joined the company in 1801 after an initial engagement with Jean Dauberval in Bordeaux. T...
Agrippina Vaganova Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova (Russian: Агриппина Яковлевна Ваганова ; 26 June 1879 – 5 November 1951) was a Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method – the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old "Imperial Ballet School" (today the "Vaganova Academy of Russian Bal...
Arthur Saint-Léon Arthur Saint-Léon (17 September 1821, Paris – 2 September 1870) was the "Maître de Ballet" of St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet from 1859 until 1869 and is famous for creating the choreography of the ballet "Coppélia".
List of Kekkaishi episodes This is a list of episodes for the anime television series Kekkaishi. The series was adapted by Sunrise from the manga "Kekkaishi" by Yellow Tanabe. It was directed by Kenji Kodama with character designs by Hirotoshi Takaya and music by Taku Iwasaki. The opening theme for all episodes is "Sha...
Jonathan Davis and the SFA Jonathan Davis and the SFA (Simply Fucking Amazings) is the solo band of Korn frontman Jonathan Davis.
Epic Day Epic Day is the nineteenth studio album by the Japanese rock duo B'z. It was released on March 4, 2015, more than 3.5 years after their previous studio effort, "C'mon", their longest gap between studio albums. It came after a hiatus in which the members released solo projects, including vocalist/lyricist Koshi...
Faget (song) "Faget" is a song by the American nu metal band Korn. It is the sixth track from the band's self-titled debut studio album. The song is about how Korn's lead vocalist Jonathan Davis was bullied in high school for being into arts, wearing eyeliner, being into new wave music (for example, Duran Duran), and w...
Hiroshi Asai Hiroshi Asai (麻井 寛史 , Asai Hiroshi ) (born 26 April 1978) is a Japanese arranger, musician and composer for the Giza Studio label. He is a former member of band "The★tambourines". Since 2012 he is a member of the instrumental band "Sensation". He arranged music for artists such as Miho Komatsu, U-ka Saegus...
Joshua Ray Josh "Joshua Ray" Gooch (born January 16, 1991) is an American guitarist, songwriter and music producer. Joshua is the lead guitarist for Shania Twain. Joshua has also toured with Koshi Inaba of B'z and blues artist Beth Hart. He has recorded with producers Ross Hogarth, Don Gehman, and Johnny Sandlin. Joshu...
List of songs recorded by Linkin Park American rock band Linkin Park has recorded material for seven studio albums, the most recent being One More Light in 2017. A single from the album titled "Heavy" was released worldwide. The band was formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1996 by three high school friends; Mike Shin...
B'z B'z (ビーズ , Bīzu ) is a Japanese rock duo, consisting of guitarist, composer and producer Takahiro "Tak" Matsumoto (松本 孝弘 , Matsumoto Takahiro ) and vocalist and lyricist Koshi Inaba (稲葉 浩志 , Inaba Kōshi ) , known for their energetic hard-rock tracks and pop ballads.
Koshi Inaba Koshi Inaba (稲葉浩志 , Inaba Kōshi ) , born Hiroshi Inaba (稲葉浩志 , Inaba Hiroshi ) on September 23, 1964 in Tsuyama, Okayama, is a Japanese vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter.
Singing Bird Singing Bird is the fifth solo studio album by Japanese singer Koshi Inaba, of B'z fame. It was released by Vermillion Records on May 21, 2014 in Japan. The album debuted at #1 at the Japanese Oricon weekly album charts and at #2 at the "Billboard Japan" Top Albums chart. besides reaching 39# at Oricon's 2...
Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II The Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II was the international celebration held in 2002 marking the 50th anniversary of the accession of Elizabeth II to the thrones of seven countries, upon the death of her father, King George VI, on 6 February 1952, and was intended by the Queen to...
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal The Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (French: "Médaille du jubilé de la Reine Elizabeth II" ) or the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal was a commemorative medal created in 2002 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Elizabeth II's accession. The Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee M...
HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) HMS "Queen Elizabeth" is the lead ship of the "Queen Elizabeth"-class of supercarrier, the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom and capable of carrying up to 40 aircraft. The ship was named by Queen Elizabeth II in July 2014, began sea trials in June 2017 and wil...
George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial The George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial, situated between The Mall and Carlton Gardens in central London, is a memorial to King George VI and his consort, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Completed in its present form in 2009, the memorial incorporates an earlier, Grade II-lis...
Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal The Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal (French: "Médaille du jubilé de la reine Élisabeth II" ) was a commemorative medal created in 1977 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elizabeth II's accession in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The medal was...
Queen Elizabeth cake Queen Elizabeth cake is a dessert cake prepared with typical cake ingredients and a shredded coconut icing. It is sometimes served with tea. Queen Elizabeth cake is named after Elizabeth II. It may have originated in 1953 for the coronation of Elizabeth II, and another account holds that it was inv...
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Queen Elizabeth Hospital or Queen Elizabeth's Hospital may refer to one of several institutions named after Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth II or Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother:
Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II was a multinational celebration throughout 2012, that marked the 60th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II on 6 February 1952. Queen Elizabeth is queen regnant of 16 sovereign states, known as Commonwealth realms, including th...
Wedding dress of Sarah Ferguson Sarah Ferguson wore a dress made from ivory duchesse satin and featuring heavy beadingfor her wedding to Prince Andrew, Duke of York on 23 July 1986 at Westminster Abbey. Designed by Lindka Cierach, the beadwork incorporated various symbols including hearts representing romance, anchors ...
Sapphire Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II On 6 February 2017, the Sapphire Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, marking sixty-five years of her reign, occurred. The longest-reigning monarch in British history, Queen Elizabeth II was the first British monarch to have a sapphire jubilee. This Jubilee featured blue stamps from the...
Akademisches Kunstmuseum Akademisches Kunstmuseum (English:Academic Art Museum) is an art museum in Bonn, Germany. It is the oldest museum in Bonn and houses the antique collection of the University of Bonn with more than 500 antique statues and reliefs, and over 2,000 originals. It is located in a neoclassical buildin...
Maximilian Büsser Maximilian Büsser is a Swiss entrepreneur and founder of the avant-garde boutique watch brand MB&F (2005–present). Prior to MB&F he was the CEO of Harry Winston, Inc. Rare Timepieces (1998 - 2005) and a senior manager at Jaeger-LeCoultre (1991 - 1998). Büsser has lived in Dubai since 2014.
Keith Brackpool Keith Brackpool (born 1957) is a British-American investor and business executive presently engaged as chairman of West Coast United States operations for Stronach Group, a thoroughbred horse-racing company. After starting his career as an investment banker and CEO for Albert Fisher's North American ope...
Hardy Brothers Hardy Brothers is a specialty retailer and private company of fine jewellery, timepieces and decorative arts in Australia. Its historic products are now highly collectible and are held in state and national collections. It is the only Australian jewellery business to hold a Royal Warrant and since 1980 h...
Nelsonic Industries Nelsonic Industries was an electronics manufacturing and development company that operated from Long Island City, Queens, New York City in the early 1980s and throughout the 1990s when it was acquired by the watch-manufacturer, M.Z. Berger. Nelsonic produced numerous toy-themed wrist-watches during ...
Advance Financial Advance Financial is a family owned non-banked consumer financial services company based in Nashville, Tennessee employing over 700 employees and has been named to the Inc.com 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country for the fifth year in a row. The company was founded in 1996...
Petzval lens The Petzval objective or Petzval lens, is the first photographic portrait objective lens (160mm focal length) in the history of photography; It was developed by the German-Hungarian mathematics professor Josef Maximilian Petzval in 1840 in Vienna, with technical advice provided by , the Voigtländer company...
LC Singh LC Singh is the Vice Chairman and CEO of Nihilent Technologies Ltd., a global integrated change management company headquartered at Pune, India. Singh founded Nihilent in the year 2000. Singh is an alumnus of the Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) ,Varanasi] and Harvard Business School, and has...
Maximilian Riedel Maximilian Josef Riedel (born in Vienna, Austria on September 13, 1977) is an Austrian glassmaker and businessman. He is the 11th-generation CEO and President of Riedel (glass manufacturer), a glassware manufacturer established in 1756 and best known for its production of grape variety-specific glassw...
Die Freie Bühne Die Freie Bühne, (German: "Free Stage") was a subscription-based theatre club founded in Berlin in 1889 by 10 writers and theatre critics supervised by Otto Brahm for the purpose of staging new, naturalistic plays that were either censored, not commercially viable, or not otherwise commonly produced. Th...
Invicta Watch Group Invicta Watch Group is an American watch company. The company trades on the name "Invicta Watch Company" and is marketed by Clay Greenwood of Utah. Invicta was a company founded in 1837 by Raphael Picard in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The Picard family had owned and operated the company which pr...
Angels & Demons (disambiguation) Angels & Demons is a mystery-thriller novel by Dan Brown released in 2000.
Inferno (2016 film) Inferno is a 2016 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by David Koepp, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Dan Brown. The film is the sequel to "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons", and is the third installment in the "Robert Langdon" film series. It stars T...
The Right Temptation The Right Temptation is a 2000 mystery thriller film directed by Lyndon Chubbuck and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Dana Delany and Rebecca De Mornay.
After Alice After Alice (also known as Eye of The Killer) is a 2000 mystery thriller directed by Paul Marcus and written by Jeff Miller. The film stars Kiefer Sutherland as Detective Mickey Hayden.
The Asti Spumante Code The Asti Spumante Code (full title: The Asti Spumante Code: A Parody) is a 2005 parody novel written by Toby Clements as a parody of "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown. It is noteworthy for being among the first works of fiction to parody the Dan Brown novel (the first notable parody was "The Va Di...
Angels & Demons (film) Angels & Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp, based on Dan Brown's novel of the same name. It is the sequel to the 2006 film "The Da Vinci Code", also directed by Howard, and the second installment in the "Robert...
Michael Cordy Michael Cordy is a British novelist. He was born in Accra, the capital of Ghana. Cordy spent much of his childhood in both West Africa and East Africa, India and Cyprus. He was educated in the United Kingdom at The King's School, Canterbury, and the universities of Leicester and Durham. After ten years in...
Delia Gallagher Delia Buckley Gallagher (born 11 March 1970) is an American journalist based in Rome who currently serves as the Senior Editor for "Inside the Vatican" magazine. She formerly served as CNN’s Faith and Values Correspondent. Based in New York, Gallagher was a long time CNN Vatican Analyst, Vaticanologist,...
Angels & Demons Angels & Demons is a 2000 bestselling mystery-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books and then by Corgi Books. The novel introduces the character Robert Langdon, who recurs as the protagonist of Brown's subsequent novels. "Angels & Demons" shares many stylis...
Kid Quill Mitchell Quilleon Brown, known by his stage name Kid Quill, is an American hip hop recording artist from Shelbyville, Indiana. He made his first notable appearance with his debut album "Ear To Ear" charting on the Top 40 iTunes Hip-Hop/Rap charts. The name "Kid Quill" originates from his middle name Quilleon ...
Fiat S.p.A. Fiat S.p.A., or "Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino" (Italian Automobile Factory of Turin), was an Italian holding company whose original and core activities were in the automotive industry, and that was succeeded by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA). The Fiat Group contained many brands such as Ferrari, ...
Ferrari Ascari The Ferrari Ascari is a Ferrari concept car that won the "Ferrari: New Concepts for the Myth" car design competition in 2005. The car was designed by Manuele Amprimo, Werner Gruber, and Yu Jae-Cheul from Istituto Europeo di Design (IED; English: "European Institute of Design"), Turin, Italy. The judges o...
Fiat Industrial Fiat Industrial S.p.A. was an Italian company into which Fiat S.p.A. (parent company of Fiat Group) demerged most of its activities not directly related to automobiles at the start of 2011. Fiat Industrial served as a holding company for the activities of truck manufacturer Iveco; an 89.3% stake in the ...
GAC Fiat GAC Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Co., Ltd. is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Changsha, China and a 50:50 joint-venture between GAC Group and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. The company was founded on 9 March 2010. Fiat has agreed to invest an initial US$559 million in the venture.
Future Italy Future Italy ("Italia Futura", IF) is an Italian liberal-centrist think tank, formed in 2009 by Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, chairman of Alitalia (since 2014) and former chairman of Ferrari (1991–2014), FIAT (2004–2010) and Confindustria (2004–2008).
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (] ; born 31 August 1947) is an Italian businessman, former Chairman of Ferrari, and formerly Chairman of Fiat S.p.A. and President of Confindustria and FIEG. He comes from an aristocratic family from the region of Piedmont in Italy. He graduated with a degree in ...
Fiat Automobiles Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. (FIAT, Italian: "Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino" , 'Italian Automobiles Factory, Turin' ) is the largest automobile manufacturer in Italy, a subsidiary of FCA Italy S.p.A., which is part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. was formed in January 2007 when F...