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T.R. Carr T.R. Carr was the mayor of the city of Hazelwood, Missouri in northern St. Louis County, Missouri, from April 2000 until April 2009. He is Professor of Public Administration at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Urban Research at SIUE. Carr represe...
Bay St. Louis station Bay St. Louis is a closed Amtrak intercity train station in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, serving the "Sunset Limited". The Bay St. Louis station consists of two small platforms with indoor/outdoor shelters near the former Louisville & Nashville Railroad Depot, which was built in 1929, but is closed...
St. Louis County Police Department The St. Louis County Police Department (SLCPD) is the primary and largest law enforcement agency serving St. Louis County in the U.S. state of Missouri. The current Chief of Police is Colonel Jon Belmar. According to the Charter of St. Louis County, the county police chief has all of ...
MacArthur Bridge (St. Louis) The MacArthur Bridge over the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois is a 677-foot (206 m) long truss bridge. Construction on the bridge was begun in 1909 by the city of St. Louis to break the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis's monopoly on the a...
Bay of Saint Louis The Bay of Saint Louis (Bay of St. Louis, St. Louis Bay) is a shallow-water, partially enclosed estuary of the northeast Gulf of Mexico along the southwestern coast of Mississippi. The estuary receives freshwater input from two blackwater, or swamp-land, tributaries of the Mississippi River, the Jour...
Streetcars in St. Louis Streetcars in St. Louis, Missouri operated as part of the transportation network of St. Louis from the middle of the 19th century through the early 1960s. During the first forty years of the streetcar in the city, a variety of private companies operated several dozen lines; from the start of the...
Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District The Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District is a public school district based in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi (USA).
Old North St. Louis Old North St. Louis is a neighborhood just north and slightly west of the downtown area of St. Louis, Missouri. Known for the landmark Crown Candy Kitchen, historic 19th century brick homes, and its award-winning community gardens, the neighborhood now known as Old North St. Louis was established as...
Universidad de Oriente The University of Oriente Venezuela (Spanish: "Universidad de Oriente Venezuela", UDO ) is one of the most important universities of Venezuela, located in Eastern Venezuela.
University of Santiago de Cuba The University of Oriente - Santiago de Cuba (Spanish "Universidad de Oriente - Santiago de Cuba", UO) is a university located in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. It was founded in 1947 and is organized in 11 Faculties.
Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros The Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros (also CSU Dominguez Hills Toros, CSUDH Toros, and California State-Dominguez Hills Toros) are the athletic teams that represent California State University, Dominguez Hills, located in Carson, California, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The...
California State University, Dominguez Hills California State University, Dominguez Hills (also known as CSUDH, Dominguez Hills, or Cal State Dominguez Hills) is a public university within the 23-school California State University (CSU) system. It is located in the city of Carson, California in the South Bay region of ...
Chilevisión Chilevisión is the third oldest Chilean television network. Formerly called "Canal 9 de Televisión de la Universidad de Chile", "Teleonce (Universidad de Chile Televisión)" and "RTU (Red de Televisión de la Universidad de Chile"), this TV station was owned by Universidad de Chile, a Chilean state university...
Dominguez Oil Field The Dominguez Oil Field is a large oil field underneath Dominguez Hills near Carson, California and the California State University, Dominguez Hills. It was a major oil producer from 1923 through 1960. Starting in 2010, oil companies became interested in redeveloping the field using modern extractio...
Willie J. Hagan Willie J. Hagan is an American educator and public university administrator. He is the 10th president of California State University, Dominguez Hills, a public university located in the city of Carson, California in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County.
California State University, San Bernardino California State University, San Bernardino, (also known as Cal State San Bernardino or CSUSB), is a public university and one of the 23 general campuses of the California State University system. The main campus sits on 441 acre in the University District of San Bernardino, ...
Isabel de los Ángeles Ruano Isabel de los Ángeles Ruano (born June 3, 1945 in Chiquimula) is a Guatemalan writer, poet, journalist and teacher. In 1954, she moved with her parents to Mexico; they returned to Guatemala three years later, living in various locations within Jutiapa Department and Chiquimula Department. In...
California State University The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California. With 23 campuses and eight off-campus centers enrolling 478,638 students with 24,405 faculty and 23,012 staff, CSU describes itself the largest four-year public university system in the United Sta...
National Geographic Traveler National Geographic Traveler is a magazine published by the National Geographic Society in the United States. It was launched in 1984. Local-language editions of "National Geographic Traveler" are published in Armenia, Belgium/the Netherlands, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Lati...
Tom Forcade Thomas King Forçade (September 11, 1945 – November 17, 1978), a.k.a. Gary Goodson, was an American underground journalist and cannabis rights activist in the 1970s. For many years he ran the Underground Press Syndicate (later called the Alternative Press Syndicate), and was the founder in summer 1974 of "Hi...
Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections is a documentary series originally broadcast on the National Geographic Channel, and later on BBC2. It is presented by Richard Hammond, and looks at how engineers and designers use historic inventions and clues from the natural world in...
Andrew Wojtanik Andrew Wojtanik (born 1989) was the winner of the National Geographic Bee hosted by Alex Trebek in 2004, and the National Geographic World Championship in 2005. To get to the National Geographic Bee finals, he survived two tiebreakers to advance to the final round against 13-year-old Matthew Wells of Mo...
National Geographic Explorer National Geographic Explorer (or simply Explorer) is an American documentary television series that originally premiered on Nickelodeon on April 7, 1985, after having been produced as a less costly and intensive alternative to PBS's "National Geographic Specials" by Pittsburgh station WQED....
Australian Geography Competition The Australian Geography Competition is an Australia-wide competition run by the Royal Geographic Society of Queensland and the Australian Geography Teachers Association and sponsored by the National Geographic Channel. It tests the geographic knowledge of high school students from year...
National Geographic (magazine) National Geographic, formerly the National Geographic Magazine, is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about science, ge...
National Geographic (India TV channel) The National Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated as Nat Geo, is an Indian subscription television channel that features non-fiction, factual programming involving nature, science, culture, and history, produced by the National Geographic Society, just like History an...
National Geographic World Championship The National Geographic World Championship (previously called the International Geography Olympiad, which is now the title of another similar competition for older schoolchildren) is a biennial, two-day-long international geography competition typically held in late July or early ...
National Geographic Kids National Geographic Kids is the child-focused brand of National Geographic Partners. Nat Geo Kids inspires young adventurers to explore the world through award-winning magazines, books, apps, games, toys, videos, events, and a website, and is the only kids brand with a world-class scientific or...
Sega Visions Sega Visions was a video game magazine focusing on games made for Sega video game machines such as Sega Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, and Sega CD. It was created by Sega and was initially published by The Communique Group. In 1992, Infotainment World (who also published the popular game magazine GameP...
Cathy Scott Cathleen "Cathy" Scott (born 1950s in San Diego, California) is a "Los Angeles Times" bestselling American true-crime writer and investigative journalist best known for penning the biographies and true crime books "The Killing of Tupac Shakur" and "The Murder of Biggie Smalls", both bestsellers in the Unite...
Glowworm (comics) Glowworm is the name of two unrelated fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Though created only a few months apart, they have little in common except the name.
Johan Mjällby Johan Mjällby (] ; born 9 February 1971) is a Swedish football manager and former player, currently in charge as manager of Västerås SK. He made his debut for the national team in 1997, and played 49 matches scoring 4 goals as a centre back. Mjällby was the team captain during the 2002 World Cup. He also ...
Gary Madine Gary Madine (born 24 August 1990) is an English footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers. A striker, he began his career with Carlisle United, where he made his first team debut in 2007. He was sent out on loan in 2009, first with Rochdale and then Coventry City before joining Chesterfield in 2010 on loan....
Urethrorrhagia Urethrorrhagia refers to urethral bleeding in the absence of urine associated with dysuria and blood spots on underwear after voiding. This condition, which often occurs in prepubertal boys at intervals several months apart over a period of many years, has a benign self-limited course. Radiological studi...
Danny Driscoll Daniel "Danny" Driscoll also known by his alias George Wallace (1855 – January 23, 1888) was an American criminal and co-leader of the Whyos with Danny Lyons. The two held joint control over the street gang following the death of Mike McGloin in 1883; however, both men were executed for separate murders ...
Residential Drug Abuse Program The Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) is an intensive nine-month, 500-hour substance abuse rehabilitation program administered by the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), offered to federal prisoners who qualify and voluntarily elect to enroll. Upon successful completion of ...
2010–11 Celtic F.C. season The 2010–11 season was the 122nd season of competitive football by Celtic. New manager Neil Lennon made considerable changes to the Celtic team for the 2010-11 season. He sold Aiden McGeady for a then Scottish record £9.5 million along with captain Stephen McManus and fan favourite Artur Boru...
HM Advocate v Muirhead They were charged with sending parcel bombs to several people associated with Celtic F.C., including their manager Neil Lennon, former MSP Trish Godman, senior lawyer Paul McBride and Cairde na hÉireann, an Irish republican group.
BattleCards BattleCards was marketed as a trading card game and published in 1993 by Merlin Publishing. The game features a unique "Scratch and Slay" system created by Steve Jackson. The cards come in 10 card booster packs which include warrior cards, spell cards, advanced combat cards, quest cards, and treasure cards....
Swipe it! Take what's yours... (card game) Swipe it! Take what's yours... is a card game developed by American creator Earl Johnson III of Los Angeles, California, and was published on December 20, 2014 by EJ3Games, a gaming company also founded by Johnson. The game's name refers to the fact that players in the game ar...
Anything's Wild Anything's Wild is a video poker game that allows the player to select any card (by rank) to act as the "wild card". The game is a variation of Deuces Wild and is based on five card draw where the player is dealt a five card hand. The player can then choose which cards to keep or discard and is dealt ne...
Community card poker Community card poker refers to any game of poker that uses community cards (also called "shared cards" or "window cards"), which are cards dealt face up in the center of the table and shared by all players. In these games, each player is dealt privately an incomplete hand ("hole cards"), which are ...
Texas hold 'em Texas hold 'em (also known as Texas holdem, hold 'em, and holdem) is a variation of the card game of poker. Two cards, known as the hole cards, are dealt face down to each player, and then five community cards are dealt face up in three stages. The stages consist of a series of three cards ("the flop"), ...
Star Wars Customizable Card Game Star Wars: Customizable Card Game (SW:CCG) is a customizable card game based on the "Star Wars" fictional universe. It was created by Decipher, Inc., which also produced the "Star Trek Customizable Card Game" and "The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game". The game was produced from Dece...
Texas hold 'em starting hands In the poker game of Texas hold 'em, a starting hand consists of two "hole cards", which belong solely to the player and remain hidden from the other players. Five community cards are also dealt into play. Betting begins before any of the community cards are exposed, and continues througho...
Asia Poker Asia Poker is a casino table game similar to Pai gow poker that is now popular in most Atlantic City, New Jersey casinos. Players are dealt seven cards and divide their cards into three hands: a four-card hand (High), a two-card hand (Medium) and a one-card hand (Low). The four-card hand must be equal or gre...
Muck (gambling) Muck in gambling has multiple meanings. In poker, it most often refers to the pile of discarded cards into which players may throw their folded hands, and into which the dealer may place burned cards. It may also refer to the action of throwing a hand into the muck. When a player is folding his hand (fa...
Pyramid poker Pyramid poker is a simplified version of pai gow poker, where instead of seven cards, three cards are dealt face down. It uses a standard 52-card deck without jokers. The hand rankings are just like in poker except that aces are always high. The dealer deals the player and himself 3 cards, which is arrang...
Super Bowl XXVII Super Bowl XXVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1992 season. The Cowboys crushed the Bills by the score o...
Super Bowl XXVIII Super Bowl XXVIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1993 season. The Cowboys defeated the Bills by the scor...
Jerry Markbreit Jerry Markbreit (born March 23, 1935) is a former American football referee in the National Football League (NFL) for 23 seasons and became one of the most recognizable referees in the game. Markbreit officiated football games for 43 seasons. From 1965 to 1975, Markbreit officiated college football game...
2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team The 2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season was the fifth under head coach Dave Wannstedt. The 2009 season marked the team ninth at Heinz Field and the program's 120th season overal...
Doug Williams (quarterback) Douglas Lee "Doug" Williams (born August 9, 1955) is a former American football quarterback and former head coach of the Grambling State Tigers football team. Williams is known for his remarkable performance in Super Bowl XXII. Williams, who was named the Super Bowl MVP, passed for a Super B...
Super Bowl XVIII Super Bowl XVIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Washington Redskins and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Los Angeles Raiders to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1983 season. The Raiders defeated the Redskins...
Super Bowl XXXVII Super Bowl XXXVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Oakland Raiders and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2002 season. The Buccaneers defeated the Raider...
Super Bowl XLVIII Super Bowl XLVIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos and National Football Conference (NFC) champion Seattle Seahawks to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2013 season. The Seahawks defeated the Broncos 43–8, the...
2007 New York Giants season The 2007 New York Giants season was the 83rd season for the New York Giants in the National Football League. The Giants finished the regular season 10–6 and in second place in the NFC East, improving upon their 8–8 record in 2006 in which they finished third in their division. They qualified...
Super Bowl LI Super Bowl LI was an American football game played at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, on Sunday, February 5, 2017, to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2016 season. The American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots, after trailing by as many as 25 point...
Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) (Tamil: இலங்கைத் தமிழரசுக் கட்சி , Sinhalese: ඉලංගෙයි තමිළ් අරසු කච්චි ) is a Sri Lankan political party which represents the Sri Lankan Tamil ethnic minority in the country. It was originally formed in 1949 as breakaway faction of the All Ceylon Tamil Co...
Lal Jayawardena Lal R. Jayawardena (Sinhala:ලාල් ජයවර්ධන) (1935–2004) was a noted Sri Lankan economist and diplomat. He was the first director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) (1985–1993) and Sri Lankan Treasury Secretary in the 1970s. Jayawardena had served as Sri Lankan Ambassador to ...
Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) (Tamil: தமிழ் மக்கள் விடுதலைப்புலிகள் , English: Tamil Peoples Liberation Tigers ), previously known as the "Karuna Group", is a political party in Sri Lanka. It was formed by Karuna Amman, a former leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, af...
Tamil National Liberation Alliance The Tamil National Liberation Alliance (TNLA) was a Sri Lankan political alliance representing the Sri Lankan Tamil ethnic minority in the country. It was launched on 22 February 2010 as breakaway faction of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). In June 2011 the party was dissolved and i...
Sri Lanka Freedom Party The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Sinhalese: ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය "Sri Lanka Nidahas Pakshaya" , Tamil: இலங்கை சுதந்திரக் கட்சி ) is one of the major political parties in Sri Lanka. It was founded by S.W.R.D Bandaranaike in 1951 and, since then, has been one of the two largest parties in the Sri L...
Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups rose to prominence in the 1970s to fight the state of Sri Lanka in order to create an independent Tamil Eelam in the north of Sri Lanka. They rose in response to the perception among minority Sri Lankan Tamils that the state was preferring the majority S...
Nationalism Nationalism is a range of political, social, and economic systems characterized by promoting the interests of a particular nation, particularly with the aim of gaining and maintaining self-governance, or full sovereignty, over the group's homeland. The political ideology therefore holds that a nation should...
Crocidura hikmiya Crocidura hikmiya (Sinharaja shrew or Sri Lankan rain forest shrew) is a species of shrew described from the rainforests of Sri Lanka, based on both morphological and molecular data. Its closest sister species is the Sri Lankan long-tailed shrew, another Sri Lankan crocidurine shrew restricted to the ...
Sri Lankan Tamil Dramas After the independence of Sri Lanka in 1948, Sri Lankan Tamil dramas started to develop in Tamil populated areas and in Colombo. Sri Lankan Tamil dramas can be categorized by regional identities. Jaffna, Colombo, Batticaloa, Mannar and Hill country are some of the regions which have developed dr...
Casualties of the Sri Lankan Civil War The Sri Lankan Civil war was very costly, killing over 100,000+ civilians and 50,000+ fighters from both sides of the conflict. The "Tamil Centre for Human Rights" recorded that from 1983 to 2004, 47,556 Tamil civilians were murdered by both the Sri Lankan government and IPKF forc...
Special Tony Award The Special Tony Award category includes the Lifetime Achievement Award and Special Tony Award. These are non-competitive honorary awards, and the titles have changed over the years. The Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre is to "honor an individual for the body of his or her work." (T...
Jeanine Tesori Jeanine Tesori (born November 10, 1961, known earlier in her career as Jeanine Levenson) is an American composer and musical arranger. She is the most prolific and honored female theatrical composer in history, with five Broadway musicals and five Tony Award nominations. She won the 1999 Drama Desk Award...
Tony Award for Best Sound Design The first Tony Award for "Best Sound Design of a Play" and "Best Sound Design of a Musical" was given in the 2007-2008 season. In 2014, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced that starting with the 2014-2015 season the Tony Award for Best Sound Design in a Play/Musical would...
Quiara Alegría Hudes Quiara Alegría Hudes (born 1977) is an American playwright and composer. She wrote the book for the musical "In the Heights". Her play "Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue" was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play "Water by the Spoonful".
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play The Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play. Honors i...
List of Jewish American entertainers Persons listed with a double asterisk (**) are producers who have won the Tony Award for Best Musical and/or the Tony Award for Best Play. Those listed with a triple asterisk (***) have won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and/or Play. Those listed with a quadruple ast...
Tony Award for Best Director The Tony Award for Best Director was one of the original 11 awards given in 1947 when the Tony Awards originated. The award was presented until 1960 when it was split into two categories: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical.
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play has been given since 1960. Before 1960 there was only one award for both play direction and musical direction, then in 1960 the award was split into two categories: "Dramatic" and "Musical". In 1976 the Dramatic category was renamed to ...
Triple Crown of Acting The Triple Crown of Acting is a term used in the American entertainment industry to describe actors who have won a competitive Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award in the acting categories. 23 people have achieved the triple crown of acting (14 women, 9 men). Helen Hayes' Emmy Award win on F...
Richard Maltby Jr. Richard Eldridge Maltby Jr. (born October 6, 1937) is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He conceived and directed the only two musical revues to win the Tony Award for Best Musical: "Ain't Misbehavin'" (1978: Tony, N.Y. Drama Critics, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awa...
Claud Jacob Field Marshal Sir Claud William Jacob, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (21 November 1863 – 2 June 1948) was a British Indian Army officer. He served in the First World War as commander of the Dehra Dun Brigade, as General Officer Commanding 21st Division and as General Officer Commanding II Corps in the Fi...
Battle of Dertosa The Battle of Dertosa, also known as the Battle of Ibera, was fought in the spring of 215 BC on the south bank of the Ebro River across from the town of Dertosa. A Roman army, under the command of Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus and Publius Cornelius Scipio, defeated a similarly sized Carthaginian army...
Ivan Simson Brigadier Ivan Simson OBE (1890–1971) was the Chief Engineer in Malaya from August 1941 until its surrender to the Japanese in 1942. Simson was tasked with improving the defenses in Singapore in the face of possible attack by the Japanese, although Simson's defensive recommendations were largely rejected by...
Byzantine–Hungarian War (1127–29) A Byzantine–Hungarian War was fought between Byzantine and Hungarian forces on the Danube between 1127 and 1129. According to the Byzantine chronicler Niketas Choniates, the citizens of the Byzantine town Braničevo "attacked and plundered the Hungarians who had come to" the Byzantine E...
Irvin McDowell Irvin McDowell (October 15, 1818 – May 4, 1885) was a career American army officer. He is best known for his defeat in the First Battle of Bull Run, the first large-scale battle of the American Civil War. In 1862, he was given command of the I Corps of the Army of the Potomac. He fought unsuccessfully ag...
Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge Command Ops: Battle from the Bulge (commonly abbreviated BFTB) is a strategic command level computer wargame developed and by Panther Games in Australia and published by Matrix Games in 2010. The game is set around the historical WWII Western Front German offensive and Allied counter...
Hugh Dowding Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was an officer in the Royal Air Force. He served as a fighter pilot and then as commanding officer of No. 16 Squadron during the First World War. During the inter-war years he became Air Officer Comman...
Polyxenidas Polyxenidas a Rhodian general and admiral, who was exiled from his native country, and entered the service of Antiochus III the Great, king of Seleucid Empire. We first find him mentioned in 209 BC, when he commanded a body of Cretans mercenaries during the expedition of Antiochus into Hyrcania . But in 192...
Operation Looking Glass Looking Glass (or Operation Looking Glass) is the code name for an airborne command and control center operated by the United States. In more recent years it has been more officially referred to as the ABNCP (Airborne Command Post). It provides command and control of U.S. nuclear forces in the e...
Battle of Santa Cruz (1899) "For the WWII battle of the same name see: Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands"
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Group C Group C of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the group stage of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup for the Dominican Republic , Turkey , the United States, Finland , New Zealand and Ukraine . Each team played each other once, for a total of five games per team, with all of th...
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Group A Group A of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the group stage of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup for Spain , Serbia , France , Brazil , Egypt and Iran . Each team played each other once, for a total of five games per team, with all games played at Palacio Municipal de Depor...
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification Qualifying for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup to be held in Spain began in earnest on the 2011 Caribbean Championships, a qualifier to the 2012 Centrobasket, which is in itself a qualifier to the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship. The winners of the 2012 Olympic basketball...
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Final The 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Final was a basketball game that took place on 14 September 2014 at Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, to determine the winner of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Group D Group D of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the group stage of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup for Lithuania , Angola , South Korea , Slovenia , Mexico and Australia . Each team played each other once, for a total of five games per team, with all of the games played at Gr...
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Group B Group B of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the group stage of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup for the Philippines , Senegal , Puerto Rico , Argentina , Greece and Croatia . Each team played each other once, for a total of five games per team, with all games played at Pal...
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup The 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 17th edition of the FIBA Basketball World Cup, the tournament previously known as the FIBA World Championship. Hosted by Spain, it was the last tournament to be held on the then-current four-year cycle. The next FIBA World Cup will be held five y...
2013 FIBA Americas Championship The 2013 FIBA Americas Championship for Men was the qualifying tournament for FIBA Americas at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain. The tournament was held in Caracas, Venezuela, from August 30 to September 11, 2013. The top four teams qualified for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World...
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup () will be the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams. The tournament will be hosted in China and it will mark a new era for the competition as described. Rescheduled from 2018 to 2019, this edition will be t...
2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup The 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup will be the 25th staging of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, the international basketball club tournament of FIBA Asia. The tournament was supposed to be held in Kuwait on June 5–13, 2014, but FIBA Asia, through a communique to the National Federations represent...
2nd APAN Star Awards The 2nd APAN Star Awards () is an awards ceremony for excellence in television in South Korea. It was held at the Hall of Jeongsimhwa International Cultural Center, Chungnam National University in Daejeon on November 16, 2013 and hosted by T-ara's Park So-yeon and Lee Hwi-jae. The nominees were cho...
Confession (band) Confession was an Australian melodic hardcore band from Melbourne, Victoria. The band was formed in 2008 by frontman Michael Crafter, who is best known as the former lead vocalist of metalcore bands I Killed the Prom Queen, Carpathian and Bury Your Dead. They have released one EP entitled "Can't Live,...