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Gordon Stewart Anderson
Gordon Stewart Anderson (1958 – July 8, 1991) was a Canadian writer, whose novel "The Toronto You Are Leaving" was published by his mother 15 years after his death. |
Ron Arias
Ronald Francis Arias (born November 30, 1941) is a former senior writer and correspondent for "People magazine" and "People en Español". He is also a highly regarded author whose novel "The Road to Tamazunchale" has been recognized as a milestone in Chicano literature. |
Hella Haasse
Hélène "Hella" Serafia Haasse (2 February 1918 – 29 September 2011) was a Dutch writer, often referred to as "the Grand Old Lady" of Dutch literature, and whose novel "Oeroeg" (1948) was a staple for generations of Dutch schoolchildren. Her internationally acclaimed magnum opus is ""Heren van de Thee"", tr... |
Dan Vyleta
Dan Vyleta is a German–Canadian writer, whose novel "The Crooked Maid" was shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. His first novel "Pavel & I" was published in 2008 and translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Dutch, Danish, Italian and Czech. His second novel, "The Quiet Twin", was a s... |
2011–12 Memphis Tigers men's basketball team
The 2011–12 Memphis Tigers men's basketball team represented the University of Memphis in the 2011–12 college basketball season, the 91st season of Tiger basketball. The Tigers were coached by head coach Josh Pastner. Pastner was assisted by Jack Murphy and Damon Stoudamire.... |
2016–17 Pacific Tigers men's basketball team
The 2016–17 Pacific Tigers men's basketball team represented the University of the Pacific during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They played their home games at the Alex G. Spanos Center as members of the West Coast Conference. The Tigers were led by fi... |
Garnett Thompson
Garnett Thompson is an American professional basketball player. He is from Islip, New York and initially played college basketball at Suffolk Community College. The 6'9" Forward played college basketball with the Providence Friars. He only played at Providence University for 1 year. He has played inter... |
Damon Stoudamire
Damon Lamon Stoudamire (born September 3, 1973) is an American retired professional basketball player and the current head men's basketball coach at the University of the Pacific. The 5 ft , 171 lb point guard was selected with the 7th overall pick by the Toronto Raptors in the 1995 NBA draft and won t... |
DeMarcus Cousins
DeMarcus Amir Cousins (born August 13, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Boogie", he played college basketball for the University of Kentucky, where he was an All-American in 2010. He left Kentucky a... |
Don Haskins
Donald Lee Haskins (March 14, 1930 – September 7, 2008), nicknamed "The Bear", was an American basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for three years under coach Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University). He was the head coach at Texas Western College (renamed the Universi... |
Pacific Tigers men's basketball
The University of the Pacific Tigers men's basketball team is an NCAA Division I member, part of the West Coast Conference. The team is based in Stockton, California. They play their home games at the Alex G. Spanos Center and are led by head coach Damon Stoudamire. |
1995–96 Toronto Raptors season
The 1995–96 NBA season was the Toronto Raptors' first season in the National Basketball Association. The Raptors, along with the Vancouver Grizzlies, played their first games in 1995, and were the first NBA teams to play in Canada since the 1946–47 Toronto Huskies. Former Detroit Pistons ... |
Dean Smith
Dean Edwards Smith (February 28, 1931 – February 7, 2015) was an American men's college basketball head coach. Called a "coaching legend" by the Basketball Hall of Fame, he coached for 36 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories,... |
2012–13 Memphis Tigers men's basketball team
The 2012–13 Memphis Tigers men's basketball team represented the University of Memphis in the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, the 92nd season of Tiger basketball. The Tigers were coached by head coach Josh Pastner, who was assisted by Damon Stoudamire, Jimmy... |
Hodges baronets
The Hodges Baronetcy, of Middlesex, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 31 March 1697 for William Hodges, Member of Parliament for Mitchell. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1722. |
Quark Expeditions
Quark Expeditions is the leader in Arctic and Antarctic expedition travel. The adventure travel company offers Polar Region expeditions aboard purpose-built small expedition ships and icebreakers carrying fewer than 200 passengers, and on unique land-based adventures. Each polar expedition ship featur... |
British Marine Art (Romantic Era)
Marine art was especially popular in Britain during the Romantic Era, and taken up readily by British artists in part because of England's geographical form (an island). This article deals with marine art as a specialized genre practised by artists who did little or nothing else, and d... |
Vastitas Borealis
Vastitas Borealis (Latin, 'northern waste' ) is the largest lowland region of Mars. It is in the northerly latitudes of the planet and encircles the northern polar region. Vastitas Borealis is often simply referred to as the northern plains , northern lowlands or the North polar erg of Mars. The plain... |
Dorsa Argentea Formation
The Dorsa Argentea Formation (DAF) is thought to be a large system of eskers that were under an ancient ice cap in the south polar region of Mars. The ancient ice cap was at least twice the size of the present ice cap and may have been 1500-2000 meters thick. This group of ridges extends from 2... |
Antarctic
The Antarctic (US English , UK English or and or ) is a polar region, specifically the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises in the strict sense the continent of Antarctica and the island territories located on the Antarctic Plate. In a... |
William Hodges
William Hodges RA (28 October 1744 – 6 March 1797) was an English painter. He was a member of James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, and the Antarctic. |
Fort Conger
Fort Conger is a former settlement, military fortification, and scientific research post in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It was established in 1881 as an Arctic exploration camp, notable as the site of the first major northern polar region scientific expedition, led by Adolphus Greely as part of the US gov... |
Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling
The Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling (CPOM) is a centre for research into polar region processes which may affect: polar atmosphere and ocean circulation; the Earth's albedo; and global sea levels. It is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, a UK Resear... |
Sally Poncet
Sally Poncet (born 1954) is an Australian-born scientist and adventurer who has explored and studied the Antarctic region since 1977. Her specialty is birds and she made extensive studies of albatross and their habitats for the British Antarctic Survey. She has written guidebooks on preservation of the flo... |
Go.com
Go.com (also known as The Go Network) is a landing page for Disney content, created as a joint venture between Infoseek and Disney Interactive. It is currently operated by Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media, a Division of The Walt Disney Company. It began as a web portal launched by Jeff Gold. Go.com... |
India-West
India-West, also known as "India-West Publications, Inc.", is among the leading Indian newspapers in the United States of America which report on issues pertaining to the Indian American population of the United States, with special emphasis on California. It focuses on issues that relate to, or affect the I... |
Interia
Interia, formerly Interia.pl, is a large Polish web portal created in 2000 in Kraków, Poland. It offers, among others: new email accounts, free web hosting, and domain name registration. The list of its 130 services includes the national and international headlines in the Polish language followed by business ne... |
Naver
Naver (Hangul: 네이버) is a popular Web portal in South Korea, owned by Naver Corporation. Naver was launched in June 1999 by ex-Samsung employees, and it debuted as the first Web portal in Japan that used its own proprietary search engine. Among Naver's features is "Comprehensive Search", launched in 2000, which pr... |
Tina Sharkey
Tina Sharkey (born 1964) is an American entrepreneur, advisor, and investor. The co-founder and CEO of Brandless, an e-commerce site, Sharkey is noted for "discovering ways to bring consumers and businesses together." In addition to Brandless, she has been involved in developing several community-focused s... |
Clinical trial portal
A clinical trial portal (also known as clinical portal or clinical study portal) is a web portal or enterprise portal that primarily serves sponsors and investigators in a clinical trial. Clinical portals can be developed for a particular study, however study-specific portals may be part of larger... |
Omniture
Omniture is an online marketing and web analytics business unit in Orem, Utah. It was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2009. Until 2011, Omniture operated as a business unit within Adobe as the "Omniture Business Unit", but as of 2012 Adobe began retiring the Omniture name as former Omniture products were integrat... |
AOL
AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc., originally known as America Online, and stylized as Aol) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York. It is a brand marketed by Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications. AOL was one of the early pioneers of the Internet in the mid-1990s, and the most ... |
Jippii
Jippii was an international mobile and web portal. The service was opened in 1999 as a web portal of Saunalahti Group with the name "Saunalahti.fi". Saunalahti Group and its web portal was renamed "Jippii" in late 2000 (Jippii Group Oyj) and it grew during the dot-com bubble to an international web service. Duri... |
IWon
IWon.com was a free casual game site and web portal that offered the chance to win cash for charities through activities such as playing online games. iWon started as a Web Portal, similar to Yahoo!, that entered its users into daily, weekly, monthly cash prize drawings. Users earned entries drawing based on a poi... |
Parker Bros.
Parker Bros., also known at various times as Parker Brothers Manufacturing Company, Parker Brothers Guns, and Parker Bros. Shotguns, was an American firm almost exclusively producing shotguns from 1867-1942. During these years, approximately 242,000 guns were produced in various grades, and are widely cons... |
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Hungry Hungry Hippos is a tabletop game made for 2–4 players, produced by Hasbro, under the brand of its subsidiary, Milton Bradley. The idea for the game was published in 1967 by toy inventor Fred Kroll and it was introduced in 1978. The objective of the game is for each player to collect as many ... |
Parcheesi
Parcheesi is a brand-name American adaptation of the Indian cross and circle board game Pachisi, published by Parker Brothers and Winning Moves. |
Hungry Shark
Hungry Shark is a series of mobile games developed/published by Future Games of London (prior to Hungry Shark Evolution) and published by Ubisoft (since Hungry Shark Evolution). The games allow players to control several unique species of sharks, including mako sharks, great white sharks, hammerhead sharks... |
Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia
Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia is a 2009 book cowritten by Sheila Himmel and Lisa Himmel. Written by a daughter and her mother, "Hungry" depicts Lisa Himmel's struggle with anorexia and bulimia. Published by Berkley Trade, "Hungry" took six years to be complete... |
Scattergories
Scattergories is a creative-thinking category-based party game originally published by Parker Brothers in 1988. Parker Brothers was purchased by Hasbro a few years later, and they published the game internationally under their Milton Bradley brand. The objective of the 2-to-6-player game is to score point... |
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Ewok Adventure
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Ewok Adventure, also known as Revenge of the Jedi: Game I, is a cancelled 1983 shoot 'em up video game based on the 1983 "Star Wars" film "Return of the Jedi". The game was developed by Atari Games and was to be published by Parker Brothers on... |
Parker Brothers
Parker Brothers was an American toy and game manufacturer which later became a brand of Hasbro. More than 1,800 games were published under the Parker Brothers name since 1883. Among its products were "Monopoly", "Cluedo" (licensed from the British publisher and known as "Clue" in North America), "Sorry!... |
Lord of the Rings: Journey to Rivendell
Lord of the Rings: Journey to Rivendell was a video game scheduled to be released for the Atari 2600 and published by Parker Brothers, having been announced in their 1983 catalog. However, it was never released, and it was believed little or no work done on the game's coding. Twe... |
Masterpiece (game)
Masterpiece is a board game by Parker Brothers, now a brand of Hasbro. Players participate in auctions for famous works of art. It was invented by Joseph M. Burck of Marvin Glass and Associates and originally published in 1970 by Parker Brothers, and then published again in 1976 and 1996. The game is... |
Jochen Breiholz
Born in Oldenburg, Germany, Breiholz studied literature, theatre, musicology and art history at Free University of Berlin. In 1988 he did an internship at "Opera News" in New York City which led to an assignment as a freelance writer for the magazine. Until 2004, he worked for Opera News as a music crit... |
Stuart Broomer
Stuart Broomer is a Canadian editor, music critic, pianist, writer, jazz historian, and composer. He is a former editor with "CODA" magazine and currently works as an editor at Coach House Books. As a music critic he has written articles for Amazon.com, "Globe and Mail", "Toronto Life", "Down Beat", "Mus... |
Piers Bizony
Piers Bizony is a science journalist, space historian, author, and exhibition organiser. Bizony specialises in the topics of outer space, special effects, and technology. He has written articles for "The Independent", "BBC Focus" and "Wired". His 1997 book "The Rivers of Mars" was shortlisted for the Eugen... |
Bill Bonner (author)
Bill Bonner is an American author of books and articles on economic and financial subjects. He is the founder and president of Agora, Inc., as well as a co-founder of Bonner & Partners publishing. Bonner has written articles for the news and opinion blog LewRockwell.com, "MoneyWeek" magazine, and h... |
Daniel Smith (writer)
Daniel Smith (born October 7, 1977) is an American journalist and author of the 2012 memoir "Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety". He has written articles and essays for "The New York Times Magazine", "The Atlantic", "Slate", "n+1", "Harper's Magazine", "New York", and others. |
Magazine
A magazine is a publication, usually a periodical publication, which is printed or electronically published (sometimes referred to as an online magazine). Magazines are generally published on a regular schedule and contain a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, b... |
Armando Zamora
Armando Zamora (born 1958, in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico) is a journalist, writer and musician. Zamora has written articles, poems, short stories and novels. A number of these deal with topics related to agriculture, many of which are academic in nature. His work has won a number of awards including firs... |
Mohammad Abdi
Mohammad Abdi (Persian:محمد عبدی, Tehran, Iran, 1974) is a writer, film critic, and art researcher. He has written articles for more than 40 publications and journals in Persian in Iran and abroad. From 1999 - 2000, Abdi served as editor-in-chief of "Seventh Art" magazine, a theoretic magazine on film and... |
Rex Gilroy
Rex Gilroy (born November 9, 1943) is an Australian who has written articles and self-published books on cryptids and unexplained or speculative phenomena. His work has focused on yowie reports, 'out of place' animals, UFOs, and propositions regarding a 'lost' Australian civilization. He has contributed to, ... |
Bruce Barcott
Bruce Barcott is an American editor, environmental journalist and author. He is a contributing editor of "Outside" and has written articles for "The New York Times Magazine", "National Geographic", "Mother Jones", "Sports Illustrated", "Harper's Magazine", "Legal Affairs", "Utne Reader" and others. He has... |
The Tales of Hoffmann
The Tales of Hoffmann (French: Les contes d'Hoffmann ) is an "opéra fantastique " by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach's final work, as he died a year before ... |
La Périchole
La Périchole (] ) is an opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach. Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote the French-language libretto based on the 1829 one act play "Le carrosse du Saint-Sacrement" by Prosper Mérimée, which was revived on 13 March 1850 at the Théâtre-Français. Offenbach was probably... |
List of compositions by Jacques Offenbach
This is a list of musical compositions by Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880). Offenbach is principally known for his operettas, of which he composed 98 between 1847 and 1880. He also wrote two opéras, "Die Rheinnixen" and his unfinished masterpiece "Les contes d'Hoffmann". |
Jean-Christophe Keck
Jean-Christophe Keck is a French musicologist and conductor, born in Briançon, in 1964. He is particularly noted as a specialist in the works of Jacques Offenbach, and is the director of the complete critical edition in progress, named after both, Offenbach Edition Keck (OEK). |
Fantasio (Offenbach)
Fantasio is an 1872 opéra comique in 3 acts, 4 tableaux with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto by Paul de Musset was closely based on the 1834 play of the same name by his brother Alfred de Musset. The opera found little success in Offenbach's lifetime, was revived in the 1930s and pe... |
Emeric Pressburger
Emeric Pressburger (5 December 19025 February 1988) was a Hungarian British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in an award-winning collaboration partnership known as the Archers and produced a series of films, notably... |
Le château à Toto
Le château à Toto ("Toto’s castle") is an opéra bouffe in three acts of 1868 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. It is situated in an important sequence of fifteen opera works and revivals by Offenbach between 1867 and 1869. |
Mesdames de la Halle
Mesdames de la Halle is an opérette bouffe in one act by Jacques Offenbach, with a libretto by Armand Lapointe. It was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris on 3 March 1858. and was the first work of Offenbach's at the Bouffes with a chorus and a large cast. Gänzl describes th... |
Le financier et le savetier
Le financier et le savetier (The financier and the cobbler) is a one-act opérette bouffe of 1856 with words by Hector Crémieux and Edmond About, and music by Jacques Offenbach, based on the poem by La Fontaine. In 1842 Offenbach had set "The Cobbler and the Financier" ("Le Savetier et le Fin... |
Whittington (opera)
Whittington is an opera (described in the premiere programme as 'A New Grand Opera Bouffe Feerie, in Four Acts and Nine Tableaux) with music by Jacques Offenbach, based on the legend of "Dick Whittington and His Cat". It was premiered in a spectacular production at the Alhambra Theatre, London, on 2... |
1967 Scottish League Cup Final
The 1967 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 28 October 1967 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 22nd Scottish League Cup competition. The final was contested by Dundee and Celtic, with Dundee becoming the first side from outside the Old Firm to reach a League Cup Fina... |
1982 Scottish League Cup Final
The 1982 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 4 December 1982, at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 37th Scottish League Cup competition. The final was contested by the Old Firm rivals, Celtic and Rangers. Celtic won the match 2–1 thanks to goals by Charlie Nicholas and ... |
1985 Scottish League Cup Final
The 1985 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 27 October 1985, at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 40th Scottish League Cup competition. The final was contested by Aberdeen and Hibernian. Aberdeen won the match 3–0 thanks to goals by Eric Black (2) and Billy Stark, givi... |
2009 Scottish League Cup Final
The 2009 Scottish League Cup Final was the final match of the 2008–09 Scottish League Cup, the 62nd season of the Scottish League Cup. The match was played at Hampden Park, Glasgow on 15 March 2009, and was won by Celtic, who beat Old Firm rivals and Cup holders, Rangers, 2-0 after extra ... |
1955 Scottish League Cup Final
The 1955 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 22 October 1955, at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 10th Scottish League Cup competition. The final was contested by Aberdeen and St Mirren. Aberdeen won the match 2–1, thanks to a goal by Graham Leggat and an own goal by J... |
2010 Scottish League Cup Final
The 2010 Scottish League Cup Final was the final match of the 2009–10 Scottish League Cup, the 63rd season of the Scottish League Cup. |
2011 Scottish League Cup Final
The 2011 Scottish League Cup Final was the final match of the 2010–11 Scottish League Cup, the 64th season of the Scottish League Cup. It was played by Old Firm rivals Celtic and Rangers. Rangers won the trophy after extra time 2–1. |
Gerry Mays
Gerry Mays (18 July 1921 – 2006) was a Scottish football player and manager. He played for Hibernian, St Johnstone, Dunfermline Athletic and Kilmarnock, and then managed Ayr United. Mays appeared for Kilmarnock in the 1957 Scottish Cup Final and 1952 Scottish League Cup Final, and for Dunfermline in the 1949... |
2006 Scottish League Cup Final
The 2006 Scottish League Cup Final was a football match played on 19 March 2006 at Hampden Park in Glasgow. It was the final match of the 2005–06 Scottish League Cup and the 59th Scottish League Cup Final. The final was contested by Dunfermline Athletic and Celtic. Celtic won the match 3–... |
2008 Scottish League Cup Final
The 2008 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 16 March 2008 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the 61st Scottish League Cup Final. The final was contested by Dundee United, who beat Aberdeen 4–1 in the semi-final, and Rangers, who beat Hearts 2–0. The two sides had last met in a League... |
Myles Kennedy discography
The full discography of rock musician Myles Kennedy consists of eleven studio albums, two concert films, four live albums, two extended plays, and thirteen singles in total, in addition to eleven studio tracks that he has appeared on as a featured artist, one of which was a single. Born in Bos... |
Bent to Fly
"Bent to Fly" is a song by American hard rock guitarist Slash, featuring vocalist Myles Kennedy and backing band The Conspirators. Written by Slash and Kennedy, it was released as the second single from the guitarist's third solo album (the second with Kennedy and The Conspirators), "World on Fire". The son... |
Cosmic Dust (band)
Cosmic Dust, also known as the Cosmic Dust Fusion Band, is an instrumental jazz band formed in 1990 by Jim Templeton. The band was the first well-known group that guitarist Myles Kennedy played in. The original lineup consisted of Jim Templeton on keyboard, Gary Edighoffer on saxophone, Clipper Ander... |
World on Fire (Slash song)
"World on Fire" is a song by American hard rock guitarist Slash, featuring vocalist Myles Kennedy and backing band The Conspirators. Written by Slash and Kennedy, it is the title track of the guitarist's third solo album (the second with Kennedy and The Conspirators) "World on Fire". Released... |
World on Fire World Tour
The World on Fire World Tour is the third concert tour by lead guitarist Slash as a solo artist, which started in July 2014 and was scheduled to resume in late 2015, in support of Slash's third solo album "World on Fire". The tour features the same backing band that performed with Slash during ... |
Let Rock Rule Tour
The Let Rock Rule Tour was a concert tour by American hard rock band Aerosmith that featured Slash (with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators) as the opening act. The tour sent both acts to various locations across North America from July to September 2014 and included two festival concerts and eightee... |
Apocalyptic Love World Tour
The Apocalyptic Love World Tour is the second concert tour by ex-Guns N' Roses lead guitarist Slash as a solo artist. The tour features the same backing band that toured with Slash during his first solo tour, though this time the act is billed as "Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspi... |
List of songs recorded by Myles Kennedy
Myles Kennedy is an American rock musician. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he originally began his musical career in Spokane, Washington as the guitarist in jazz band Cosmic Dust. After recording 1991's "Journey", he left to form alternative rock band Citizen Swing in 1992. The g... |
Myles Kennedy
Myles Richard Kennedy (born Myles Richard Bass; November 27, 1969) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Alter Bridge, and as the lead vocalist in guitarist Slash's backing band, known as Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. A... |
Back from Cali
"Back from Cali" is the second single and fourth track from Slash's self-titled solo album. It is one of the two songs on the album to feature Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy on lead vocals, the other being "Starlight." The song was written and recorded in March 2010 added to the album's track listin... |
The Winter Knights
The Winter Knights is a children's fantasy novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, first published in 2005. It is the eighth volume of "The Edge Chronicles" and the second of the "Quint Saga" trilogy; within the stories' own chronology it is the second novel, preceding the "Twig Saga" and "Rook Saga... |
Dallas Blues
"Dallas Blues", written by Hart Wand, is an early blues song, first published in 1912. It has been called the first true blues tune ever published. However, two other 12-bar blues had been published earlier: Anthony Maggio's "I Got the Blues" in 1908 and "Oh, You Beautiful Doll", a Tin Pan Alley song whose... |
The Porcupine
The Porcupine is a short novel by Julian Barnes originally published in 1992. Before its British release date the book was first published earlier that year in Bulgarian, with the title "Бодливо свинче" (Bodlivo Svinche) by Obsidian of Sofia. |
Philanthropy (magazine)
Philanthropy is a quarterly magazine published by the Philanthropy Roundtable. First published as a newsletter in 1987, "Philanthropy" became a glossy magazine in 1996. The magazine's primary focus is philanthropy, with a special interest in donor intent and philanthropic freedom. The magazine i... |
Skeptic (U.S. magazine)
Skeptic, colloquially known as Skeptic magazine, is a quarterly science education and science advocacy magazine published internationally by The Skeptics Society, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and resisting the spread of pseudoscience, superstition, and irra... |
The Curse of the Gloamglozer
The Curse of the Gloamglozer is a children's fantasy novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, first published in 2001. It is the fourth volume of "The Edge Chronicles" and the first of the "Quint Saga" trilogy; within the stories' own chronology it is the first novel, preceding the "Twig Sa... |
Clash of the Sky Galleons
Clash of the Sky Galleons is a children's fantasy novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, first published in 2006. It is the ninth volume of "The Edge Chronicles" and the third of the "Quint Saga" trilogy; within the stories' own chronology it is the third novel, preceding the "Twig Saga" and... |
Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". All of the stories had been published earlier, inde... |
Hermann von Wartberge
Hermann von Wartberge (died ca. 1380) was a chronicler of the Livonian Order. Born in Westphalia, Wartberge was a Catholic priest and author of the valuable Latin chronicle "Chronicon Livoniale" covering the history of the Livonian Crusade from 1196 to 1378. Wartberge used previous chronicles (Liv... |
Letters from My Windmill
Letters from My Windmill (French: "Lettres de mon moulin" ) is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet first published in its entirety in 1869. Some of the stories had been published earlier in newspapers or journals such as "Le Figaro" and "L'Evénement" as early as 1865. |
Sazerac Company
The Sazerac Company is a large privately held alcoholic beverages company with headquarters in Metairie, Louisiana (in the New Orleans metropolitan area). Its distilleries include the Barton Brands distillery (in Bardstown, Kentucky), the Buffalo Trace Distillery (in Frankfort, Kentucky), the former Gle... |
Autocesta Zagreb – Macelj
Autocesta Zagreb – Macelj (English: Zagreb - Macelj Motorway ) is a Croatian limited liability company founded pursuant to decision of the government of the Republic of Croatia of March 27, 2003, to facilitate construction and subsequent management of a motorway between Zagreb and Macelj borde... |
Amex House
Amex House, popularly nicknamed The Wedding Cake, is the former European headquarters of American Express, the multinational financial services company. It is located in the Carlton Hill area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The nine-floor building, designed by British architecture... |
Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve
Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve is the flagship brand of bourbon whiskey owned by the "Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery" company (which does not actually own or operate a distillery, but rather has it produced under a contract with another company). It is distilled and bottled by the Sa... |
St John the Baptist's Church, Brighton
St John the Baptist's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Kemptown area of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It was the first Roman Catholic church built in Brighton after the process of Catholic Emancipation in the early 19th century removed restrictions on Catholic wor... |
Jones Road Distillery
The Dublin Whiskey Distillery Company Jones Road Distillery also known as the D.W.D. Distillery, Jones Road, or just Jones Road Distillery, was one of the six great Irish whiskey distilleries of Dublin city visited and documented by Alfred Barnard in his seminal 1887 publication "The Whisky Distil... |
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