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2003 Intercontinental Cup The 2003 Intercontinental Cup was the 42nd Intercontinental Cup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's UEFA Champions League and Copa Libertadores competitions. The match was played on 14 December 2003 between Boca Juniors of Argentina, winners of the 2003 ...
Hasan Salihamidžić Hasan Salihamidžić (born 1 January 1977) is a Bosnian former professional footballer. He is currently working as sporting director for FC Bayern Munich. After starting his club career with German side Hamburger SV, he made a name for himself while playing for Bayern Munich for nine seasons with whom ...
2011–13 ICC World Cricket League Championship The 2011–13 ICC World Cricket League Championship (originally named the Intercontinental Cup One-Day) was the first edition of a new limited-overs version of the ICC Intercontinental Cup. It ran from June 2011 until October 2013, in parallel with the first-class 2011–13 ICC...
2001 Intercontinental Cup The 2001 Intercontinental Cup was a football match played on 27 November 2001 between Bayern Munich, winners of the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League, and defending champions Boca Juniors, winners of the 2001 Copa Libertadores. The match was played at the neutral venue of the National Stadium in T...
Steve Henson Steven Michael Henson (born February 2, 1968) is a retired American professional basketball player, who was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2nd round (44th overall) of the 1990 NBA draft. He is an assistant basketball coach at the University of Oklahoma under his former college coach Lon Kruger. On ...
Che' Jones Che' Jones (born April 11, 1971, Columbus, Ohio) is a long time Las Vegas resident who played college basketball at the Ohio State University-Newark, where he ended his career as the second all-time leading scorer in Ohio State-Newark history scoring 1,693 points. Jones finished his career at Ohio State-Newa...
Tim O'Toole (basketball) Tim O'Toole (born March 5, 1964) is an American college basketball coach with California. He is serving as an assistant coach to Wyking Jones. He used to be an assistant coach at Stanford University. Prior to this role with Stanford, he was the Director of Basketball Operations at Syracuse Univ...
Ray McCallum Ray Michael McCallum, Sr. (born March 6, 1961) is an American college basketball coach who previously served as the head coach for the men's basketball team at the University of Detroit Mercy. He is also a former player and head coach of Ball State University. From 2006 to 2008 McCallum served as an assist...
Earl Grant (basketball) Earl Grant (born December 25, 1976) is the current head coach for the College of Charleston men's basketball team. Prior to being named head coach at Charleston, Grant served as an assistant coach at Clemson University and an assistant coach for six years under former Charleston assistant coach ...
Sean Sutton Sean Patrick Sutton (born October 4, 1968) is an American Basketball Coach and former head coach of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball program from 2006 until April 1, 2008. He is currently the Advisor to the Head Coach at Texas Tech University. As a college player and coach, Sutton has been par...
Divya Singh Divya Singh (Hindi:'दिव्या सिंह') (born 21 July 1982) is former captain of the Indian National Women's Basketball Team. Singh led the Indian women's basketball team at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She is known for her game skills, leadership qualities, academic strength and personality. She has do...
Rodney Hamilton Rodney Hamilton (born 1975) is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Tennessee State Tigers basketball team. He played four seasons of college basketball for Georgia State University before playing professionally in Europe for three seasons. His first head...
Weldon Drew Weldon Drew (born April 22, 1935) was the head men's basketball coach at New Mexico State University from 1979 to 1985. He was named to the position in 1979 as the successor to Ken Hayes who left to become head coach at Oral Roberts University. Drew was previously an assistant coach for New Mexico State Uni...
Maura McHugh Maura McHugh (born June 20, 1953) is a former basketball coach who has coached at the college level, in the WNBA and ABL. She was a four-year starter at Old Dominion University in the early 1970s. She was one of the first women's basketball players in the nation to receive a scholarship. She began as a gra...
Fearless Frank Fearless Frank is a 1967 film directed by Philip Kaufman. It is notable as the film debut of Jon Voight. Voight plays a murdered drifter who gets reanimated and turned into a superhero by a scientist (Severn Darden). Other notable cast members include "The Man With the Golden Arm" author Nelson Algren as...
A Walk on the Wild Side A Walk on the Wild Side is a 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, most often quoted as the source for Algren's "three rules of life": "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."
David Scott Milton David Scott Milton (born September 15, 1934) is an American author, playwright, screenwriter, and actor. His plays are known for their theatricality, wild humor, and poetic realism, while his novels and films are darker and more naturalistic. As a novelist, he has been compared to Graham Greene, John...
The Man with the Golden Arm The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American drama film with elements of film noir, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a drug addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world. Although the addictive drug ...
The Man with the Golden Arm (novel) The Man with the Golden Arm is a novel by Nelson Algren, published by Doubleday in November 1949. One of the seminal novels of post-World War II American letters, "The Man with the Golden Arm" is widely considered Algren's greatest and most enduring work. It won the National Book Awa...
Hotel Kenmore Hall Hotel Kenmore Hall is a 22-story single room occupancy hotel located at 145 East 23rd Street in the Gramercy section of Manhattan, designed by architect Maurice Deutsch and constructed in 1927. Author Nathanael West lived and worked at the hotel as a night manager in the early years after the hotel o...
Kim Edwards Kim Edwards (born May 4, 1958) is an American author and educator. She was born in Killeen, Texas, grew up in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, and graduated from Colgate University and The University of Iowa, where she earned an MFA in fiction and an MA in linguistics. She is the author of a sto...
James F. Light James F. Light was an American literary scholar, university vice president, and provost. During his academic career, he helped revive the works of satirist Nathanael West, with the first book length critical study of his work, "Nathanael West: An Interpretive Study", (Northwestern Univ. Press, 1961). He ...
Chicago: City on the Make Chicago: City on the Make is an essay by Nelson Algren published in 1951. Initially greeted with scorn by critics and newspaper editors in the city of its gaze (The "Chicago Daily News" famously called it a "Case for Ra(n)t Control"), it is now widely regarded by scholars as the definitive pro...
Division Street Division Street is a major east-west street in Chicago, Illinois, located at 1200 North (one and a half miles north of Madison Street). Division Street begins in the Gold Coast neighborhood near Lake Shore Drive, passes through Polonia Triangle at Milwaukee Avenue into Wicker Park and continues to Chica...
1983 Tennessee Volunteers football team The 1983 Tennessee Volunteers Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head c...
1938 Tennessee Volunteers football team The 1938 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1938 season. Head coach Robert Neyland fielded his third team at Tennessee after returning from active duty in the United States Army. The 1938 Tennessee Volunteers won the school's first n...
1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team The 1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Johnny Majors, i...
1899 Tennessee Volunteers football team The 1899 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. They were the first UT team to have a head coach. J. A. Pierce helmed the team in 1899 and 1900. The 1899 Tennessee Volun...
1891 Tennessee Volunteers football team The 1891 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1891 season. This was the first Tennessee Volunteers football team. They traveled on Thanksgiving Day to Chattanooga, Tennessee to face Sewanee. They had no head coach and were mainly an in...
2012 Tennessee Volunteers football team The 2012 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Volunteers played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee and competed in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conferen...
Georgia–Tennessee football rivalry The Georgia–Tennessee football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Georgia Bulldogs football team of the University of Georgia and Tennessee Volunteers football team of the University of Tennessee. The series is currently 23–22–2 Tennessee. Both teams are found...
1896 Tennessee Volunteers football team The 1896 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1896 college football season. It was the first official Tennessee Volunteers football team since 1893. The 1896 Vols went undefeated at 4–0 for the first winning season in school history. T...
Tennessee Volunteers football statistical leaders The Tennessee Volunteers football statistical leaders are individual statistical leaders of the Tennessee Volunteers football program in various categories, including passing, rushing, receiving, total offense, defensive stats, and kicking. Within those areas, the lists...
1930 Tennessee Volunteers football team The 1930 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1930 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon), the team was led by head coach Robert Neyland, in his fifth...
Money for Nothing (song) "Money for Nothing" is a single by British rock band Dire Straits, taken from their 1985 studio album "Brothers in Arms". The song's lyrics, considered controversial at the time of the song's release, are written from the point of view of a working-class man watching music videos and commenting...
Walk of Life "Walk of Life" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits from their fifth studio album "Brothers in Arms" (1985). It subsequently appeared on their live album "On the Night" (1993). It was released as a single in 1985 but had first been available as the B-side of "So Far Away" released in advance of ...
Pernice Brothers Pernice Brothers are an indie rock band. Formed by Joe Pernice in 1996 after the breakup of his old band, the Scud Mountain Boys, and including Joe's brother Bob Pernice (hence the 'Pernice Brothers'), the band recorded their first album, "Overcome by Happiness", for Sub Pop in 1998. After a 3-year hia...
List of songs recorded by Bring Me the Horizon Bring Me the Horizon are a British rock band from Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Formed in 2004, the group originally featured vocalist Oliver Sykes, guitarists Lee Malia and Curtis Ward, bassist Matt Kean and drummer Matt Nicholls. Bring Me released the four-track extended p...
The Alchemist (Home album) The Alchemist is an album by British rock band Home, released in 1973 on the CBS Records label. It was the last album released by the group before they went their separate ways in 1974. Cliff Williams went on to join Bandit from 1975 to 1977 before he replaced Mark Evans in Australian hard ro...
Brothers in Arms (album) Brothers in Arms is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 13 May 1985 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. It charted at number one worldwide, spending 10 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart (between 18 ...
List of songs recorded by The Darkness The Darkness is an English hard rock band formed in Lowestoft, Suffolk in 2000. Their first release was the extended play "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" in August 2002, which featured the tracks "I Believe in a Thing Called Love", "Love on the Rocks with No Ice" and "Love Is O...
Brothers in Arms Tour The Brothers in Arms Tour was a concert tour by British rock band Dire Straits of the Balkans, Israel, Europe, North America, and Oceania. The tour started on 25 April 1985 in Yugoslavia and ended on 26 April 1986 in Sydney, Australia. The tour included 248 concerts in 23 countries and 117 cities—...
List of songs recorded by Tenacious D Tenacious D is an American comedy rock band formed in 1994 by Jack Black and Kyle Gass. After starring in its own self-titled television series on HBO, the band released its debut studio album, also self-titled, in 2001. All tracks on the album were credited to Black and Gass, with...
Ride Across the River "Ride Across the River" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits. It first appeared as the sixth track on the band's 1985 multi-platinum selling album "Brothers in Arms". It is very different from the band's other works, with Latino-style beats and flutes. The lyrics are about wars (or the ...
Niangala, New South Wales Niangala is a village located on the south-eastern edge of the Northern Tablelands area of New South Wales, Australia. It is on the Moonbi Range which is part of the Great Dividing Range, at approximately 1300 m above sea level. The village is in Walcha parish in Parry County. At the 2011 cens...
Jennings, New South Wales Jennings is a town on the Northern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The town is located in the Tenterfield Shire local government area, 718 km from the state capital, Sydney and 256 km from Brisbane. It is separated by the state border from its neighbouring town of Wallangarra ...
Stannum, New South Wales Stannum is a small tin mining village on the Northern Tablelands, in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. The region is in Tenterfield Shire. It is 14  kilometres north north-west of Deepwater and south-west of Tenterfield and 48 kilometres from Glen Innes. It is situated on a ...
Northern Tablelands The Northern Tablelands, also known as the New England Tableland, is a plateau and a region of the Great Dividing Range in northern New South Wales, Australia. It includes the New England Range, the narrow highlands area of the New England region, stretching from the Moonbi Range in the south to the...
Walcha, New South Wales Walcha ( ) is a town at the south-eastern edge of the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia.
Bruxner Highway The Bruxner Highway is a 420 km state highway located in New South Wales, Australia. The highway forms an east-west link from the Northern Rivers coast, across the Northern Tablelands in northern New South Wales, close to the border with Queensland.
Electoral district of Tenterfield Tenterfield was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, originally created in 1859, partly replacing New England and Macleay, and named after, and including, Tenterfield. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation...
Electoral district of Armidale Armidale was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, originally created in 1894, partly replacing New England, and named after and including Armidale. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into ...
Kellys Plains, New South Wales Kellys Plains is a small rural locality situated about 8 kilometres west south west of Armidale, New South Wales. The settlement is at an altitude of about 1,044 metres on the Northern Tablelands in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia.
Armidale, New South Wales Armidale is a city in the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia. Armidale had an estimated population of 23,674 as of 30 June 2015. It is the administrative centre for the Northern Tablelands region. It is approximately halfway between Sydney and Brisbane at the junction of the New E...
Norwegian Air Shuttle destinations Norwegian Air Shuttle is a low-cost airline operating from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain and the United Kingdom. As of December 2012, it operates to 87 airports in 25 countries across three continents, from its operating bases. Norwegian was founded in 1993 as a regional air...
SAS Braathens SAS Braathens was the name of Norway's largest airline, created by a merger between Scandinavian Airlines' Norwegian division and Braathens in 2004. On June 1, 2007, the airline was integrated into mainline SAS, and changed its name to SAS Scandinavian Airlines Norge. The airline operated from its hub at ...
Legal name Legal name is the name that identifies a person for legal, administrative and other official purposes. A person's first legal name generally is the name of the person that was given for the purpose of registration of the birth and which then appears on a birth certificate (see "birth name"), but may change s...
Star Search (Singapore season 8) From March 2003, Star Search 2003 began its 3-nationwide talent search for individuals with star potential in Singapore, Malaysia and China. Auditions have been carried out in each of the 3 countries and training for the shortlisted star wannabes are ongoing. Each of the 3 countries wil...
Rosemary Edghill The publishers of her first novel felt that "Eluki Bes Shahar" (her legal name at the time) sounded insufficiently English to attract readers, so she adopted the pen-name Rosemary Edghill, which became her legal name in 2004. Her sister, a reference librarian, writes as India Edghill.
History of Braathens (1994–2004) Braathens SAFE's domestic market was deregulated on 1 April 1994. Since then, any airline within the European Economic Area is free to operate any domestic or international route. Braathens rejected a proposal from the main competitor Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) for a merger; ins...
Braathens Helikopter Braathens Helikopter A/S was a Norwegian helicopter airline based at Stavanger Airport, Sola, and Bergen Airport, Flesland. It used a fleet of seven Aérospatiale Super Pumas to serve offshore oil platforms in the North Sea. The customers were Phillips Petroleum, Norsk Hydro, Statoil, Amoco and Brit...
List of aircraft operated by Braathens Braathens, until 1998 known as Braathens SAFE, was a Norwegian scheduled and charter airline which operated between 1946 and 2004. The airline had 118 aircraft of 15 types, consisting of three or more models each from Douglas, Fokker and Boeing, as well as the de Havilland Heron a...
List of Braathens destinations Braathens (until 1998 known as Braathens SAFE) was a Norwegian scheduled and charter airline that operated from 1946 to 2004. The airline used 53 airports serving 50 destinations, 23 of which were in Norway and 6 in Sweden. Braathens provided international services to 24 airports serving ...
Braathens Braathens ASA, until 1997 Braathens South American & Far East Airtransport A/S and trading as Braathens SAFE, was a Norwegian airline which operated from 1946 until it merged with Scandinavian Airlines Norway (SAS) in 2004 to become SAS Braathens. For most of its history, Braathens was the largest domestic ai...
Chirutha Chirutha (English: "Leopard") is a 2007 Indian Telugu action film directed by Puri Jagannadh. This film is an unofficial copy of Guy Ritchie's 2002 film, "Swept Away". The film marks the debut of Ram Charan, son of the popular Telugu actor Chiranjeevi, in the lead role. Delhi-based model Neha Sharma plays the ...
Priyanka Chhabra She started her acting career by playing Princess Chaula in Zee TV's television series "Shobha Somnath Ki". The show wrapped up and she was immediately approached to play the female lead opposite renowned comedian Vennela Kishore in his first ever movie as a Hero. She made her film debut with Vennela K...
Simhasanam (1986 film) Simhasanam or Simhaasanam is a South Indian Telugu film released in 1986 starring super star Krishna, who also directed the film. The film was simultaneously made in Hindi as Singhasan. The film is a blockbuster and broke many records in the Telugu film industry. The film is based on Janapada Kat...
Kanika Tiwari Kanika Tiwari (born 9 March 1996) is an Indian actress from Madhya Pradesh. She debuted into Bollywood with Agneepath (2012). She has acted as female lead in Telugu film "Boy Meets Girl (2014)", Kannada film "Rangan Style (2014)", and Tamil film "Aavi Kumar (2015)". She is said to act in female lead for s...
Madala Ranga Rao Madala Rangarao is an Indian Telugu Film Actor and producer noted for Erra Cinema or revolutionary movies in telugu film industry. He is popularly known as Red Star by people and associated with Communist Party of India and Prajanatya Mandali. Ranga Rao started his career with saitirical telugu film "C...
Raju Bhai Raju Bhai is a 2007 Indian Telugu drama film directed by Suriya Kiran, starring Manoj Manchu and Sheela in lead and Dhandapani, Tanikella Bharani and Brahmanandam in supporting roles. The film, a remake of the successful 2006 Tamil film "Chithiram Pesuthadi", directed by Myshkin was produced by Manoj's father...
Anushka Shetty filmography Anushka Shetty is an Indian actress who appears in Telugu and Tamil films. She made her acting debut in Puri Jagannadh's 2005 Telugu film "Super", and appeared in "Mahanandi", released later the same year. The following year, she had four releases, the first being S. S. Rajamouli's "Vikramark...
Vijayadasami (film) Vijayadasami is a 2007 Indian Telugu action film directed by V. Samudra. A remake of Perarasu's Tamil film "Sivakasi" (2005), "Vijayadasami" featured Kalyan Ram and Vedhicka in the leading roles.
Shruti Haasan filmography Shruti Haasan is an Indian film actress, composer and playback singer who works in Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil cinema. Born into the prominent Haasan family, she is the daughter of actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika Thakur. Shruti Haasan started her career as a playback singer at the age of six in th...
Ugadi (2007 film) Ugadi (Kannada: ಯುಗಾದಿ ) is a 2007 Indian Kannada romantic drama film directed by Om Sai Prakash and produced by Mega Hit Productions. The film cast includes V. Ravichandran, Telugu actor Srikanth, Kamna Jethmalani and Jennifer Kotwal in the main roles. The film is a remake of the successful Telugu fi...
Welsh Springer Spaniel The Welsh Springer Spaniel is a breed of dog and a member of the spaniel family. Thought to be comparable to the old Land Spaniel, they are similar to the English Springer Spaniel and historically have been referred to as both the Welsh Spaniel and the Welsh Cocker Spaniel. They were relatively u...
American Cavy Breeders Association The American Cavy Breeders Association (ACBA) is considered a specialty club under the America Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA). Like many other specialty clubs under ARBA, the ACBA maintains a membership, awards sweepstakes points, provides special awards, publishes a newsletter an...
Beaglier The Beaglier is a designer breed, the offspring of a Beagle and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. The Beaglier became particularly popular through crossbreeding programs in Australia during the 1990s. The dog was developed because of affection for the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and the Beagle breeds; the bre...
French Spaniel The French Spaniel (Epagneul Français) is a breed of dog of the Spaniel-like setter. It was developed in France and Canada as a hunting dog, descended from dogs of the 14th century. Popular with royalty during the Middle Ages, it nearly became extinct by the turn of the 20th century but was saved by the ...
Picardy Spaniel The Picardy Spaniel is a breed of dog developed in France for use as a gundog. It is related to the Blue Picardy Spaniel, and still has many similarities, but the Picardy Spaniel is the older of the two breeds. It is thought to be one of the two oldest continental spaniel breeds and was favoured by the ...
American Cocker Spaniel The American Cocker Spaniel is a breed of sporting dog. It is a spaniel type dog that is closely related to the English Cocker Spaniel; the two breeds diverged during the 20th century due to differing breed standards in America and the UK. In the United States, the breed is usually called the Co...
List of goat breeds This is a list of goat breeds. There are many recognized breeds of domestic goat "(Capra aegagrus hircus)". Goat breeds (especially dairy goats) are some of the oldest defined animal breeds for which breed standards and production records have been kept. Selective breeding of goats generally focuses...
Water spaniel Water spaniel (capitalized in the names of recognized breeds) was originally a term for water dogs generally, and today refer to several different breeds of water dogs that actually are spaniels, such as:
List of turkey breeds Varieties are often confused with breeds. Only eight breeds of turkey are recognized by the APA in its breed standard, the "American Standard of Perfection". Also there are eight domestic turkeys that are recognized by the American Poultry Association (APA). Many more exist as officially unrecogni...
Siamese cat The Siamese cat is one of the first distinctly recognized breeds of Asian cat. Derived from the Wichianmat landrace, one of several varieties of cat native to Thailand (formerly known as Siam), the Siamese became one of the most popular breeds in Europe and North America in the 19th century. The carefully r...
Castle Tioram Castle Tioram ( ) (Scottish Gaelic: "Caisteal Tioram" , meaning "dry castle") is a ruined castle that sits on the tidal island Eilean Tioram in Loch Moidart, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. It is located west of Acharacle, approximately 80 km from Fort William. Though hidden from the sea, the castle control...
Davaar Island Davaar Island or Island Davaar (Scottish Gaelic: "Eilean Dà Bhàrr" ) is located at the mouth of Campbeltown Loch off the east coast of Kintyre, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is a tidal island, linked to the mainland by a natural shingle causeway called the Dhorlin near Campbeltown at low tide. The cros...
Castle Island, Scotland Castle Island (Scottish Gaelic: "Eilean a' Chaisteil" ) or Allimturrail is a small tidal island, lying off the east coast of Little Cumbrae, and to the west of Trail Island, in the Firth of Clyde. It is joined to Little Cumbrae at low tide.
Eilean Donan Eilean Donan (Scottish Gaelic: "Eilean Donnain" ) is a small tidal island where three sea lochs meet, Loch Duich, Loch Long and Loch Alsh, in the western Highlands of Scotland. A picturesque castle that frequently appears in photographs, film and television dominates the island, which lies about 1 km from ...
Erraid The Isle of Erraid (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Earraid ) is a tidal island approximately one mile square in area located in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It lies west of Mull (to which it is linked by a beach at low tide) and southeast of Iona. The island receives about 100 cm of rain and 1,350 hours of sunshine ...
Eilean Ighe Eilean Ighe is a small tidal island near Arisaig in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
Eilean Tigh Eilean Tigh (Scottish Gaelic: "Eilean Taighe" ) is a tidal island in the Sound of Raasay of Scotland, that lies between Rona and Raasay.
Eilean Mhic Chrion Eilean Mhic Chrion is a tidal island sheltering Ardfern in Loch Craignish, Scotland.
Eilean Mòr, Loch Sunart Eilean Mòr, Loch Sunart is an uninhabited, tidal island opposite Oronsay at the entrance to Loch Sunart, an arm of the sea on the west coast of Scotland. At low tide it is attached to Glenmore on the Ardnamurchan peninsula. The highest elevation is 123 ft . At low tide it is attached to Glenmore...
Eilean Shona Eilean Shona (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Seòna ) is a tidal island in Loch Moidart, Scotland. The modern name may be from the Old Norse for "sea island". The pre-Norse Gaelic name, as recorded by Adomnán was "Airthrago" or "Arthràigh", meaning 'foreshore island', similar to the derivation of Erraid.
Ernie Lindsey Ernie Lindsey is an American novelist whose novel "Sara's Game" (2012) became a "USA Today" and Amazon Kindle bestseller. He also writes paranormal suspense novels under the pen name Desmond Doane.
Ruvim Frayerman Ruvim Isayevich Frayerman (Рувим Исаевич Фраерман, 22 September 1891, in Mogilyov, Russian Empire, – 28 March 1972, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet writer, poet, essayist and journalist. A major component of the Socialist romanticism, Frayerman is best remembered as a children's literature author, whose nove...
Meša Selimović Mehmed "Meša" Selimović (] ; ; 26 April 1910 – 11 July 1982) was a Bosnian and Serbian writer, whose novel "Death and the Dervish" is one of the most important literary works in post-Second World War Yugoslavia. Some of the main themes in his works are the relations between individuality and authority, l...
Lily Tuck Lily Tuck (born October 10, 1938) is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel "The News from Paraguay" won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction.
Susan Perly Susan Perly is a Canadian journalist and fiction writer, whose novel "Death Valley" was a longlisted nominee for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A longtime journalist for CBC Radio, she was a producer for "Morningside" who became best known for her "Letters from Latin America" series of reports from war z...
Christie Watson Christie Watson (born 1976) is a British novelist whose novel "Tiny Sunbirds Far Away" won the Costa First Novel Award in the 2011 Costa Book Awards. Her second novel "Where Women Are Kings" also won critical praise and has been widely translated.