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Tumbleweed Tex Mex Grill & Margarita Bar
Tumbleweed Tex Mex Grill & Margarita Bar (formerly Tumbleweed Southwest Grill) is a chain restaurant based in Louisville, Kentucky. |
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited engineers, manufactures and distributes luxury automobiles and automobile parts worldwide. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW established in 1998 after BMW was licensed the rights to the Rolls-Royce brand name and logo from Rolls-Royc... |
NTN Buzztime
NTN Buzztime is a company that produces interactive entertainment across many different platforms. Its most well-known product, simply called Buzztime, and formerly known as the NTN Network, since 1985, broadcasts trivia and other games via broadband over a national network to over 3,800 bars and restauran... |
St. Lars restaurant
St. Lars is a grill-restaurant in the borough Bislett in Oslo, Norway. It is owned by international TV-chef Andreas Viestad, Face2Face communications agency founder Per Meland and Stargate-producer Tor Erik Hermansen. The restaurant is known for using meat from horses and bear, and even pigs from By... |
2005 Special Olympics World Winter Games
The 2005 Special Olympics Winter World Games were hosted at Nagano in Japan and were the first Special Olympics World Games held in Asia. Nagano became the first city in the world to host the Olympics, Paralympics and Special Olympics World Games. |
World Games
The World Games, first held in 1981, are an international multi-sport event, meant for sports, or disciplines or events within a sport, that are not contested in the Olympic Games. The World Games are organised and governed by the International World Games Association (IWGA), recognized by the International... |
Casting at the 1981 World Games
The sport casting events of World Games I were held on July 29–August 2, 1981, at Gunderson High School in San Jose, California, in the United States. These were the first World Games, an international quadrennial multi-sport event, and were hosted by the city of Santa Clara. The World C... |
David Lloyd Leisure
David Lloyd Leisure is a British sports, health and leisure business that runs health clubs and gyms across Europe. |
1985 World Games
The 1985 World Games, the second World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in London, the capital city of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Three main venues were used, the main one being the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.The opening ceremony was held at the Wembley Conference... |
Nitro World Games
The Nitro World Games, first held in 2016, is an international action sport event that is hosted by Salt Lake City at the Rice-Eccles Stadium every year. In each World Games event, gold medals are awarded for first place, silver medals are awarded for second place, and bronze medals are awarded for th... |
2017 World Games
The 2017 World Games, officially called the X World Games and commonly known as Wrocław 2017, was a major international multi-sport event, meant for sports, or disciplines or events within a sport, that were not contested in the Olympic Games, held from 20 to 30 July 2017 in Wrocław, Poland. The World ... |
Air sports at the World Games
Air sports with the discipline parachuting were introduced as World Games sports at the World Games 1997 in Lahti. At World Games 2013 in Cali also paragliding were introduced. |
Bodybuilding at the World Games
Bodybuilding was part of all World Games until 2009. In 2009 Fitness events were added. After violations against the Anti-Doping Rules at the 2009 games, the International World Games Association decided to suspend the sport from participating in the 2013 World Games and subsequent World... |
India at the 1981 World Games
The 1981 World Games were the first World Games and were held in Santa Clara, California in the United States. The games featured sports that were not included in the Olympics.India competed at the 1981 World Games in Santa Clara and won one Bronze medal in Badminton Men's Singles. |
Live in Old Smokey
Live in Old Smokey is a live CD by English singer/songwriter Linda Lewis recorded at Ronnie Scott's in London and issued in 2006. |
Cordelia Botkin
Cordelia Botkin (1854 – March 7, 1910) was an American murderer who sent a box of poisoned candy to her ex-lover's wife. This was the first American prosecution for a crime which took place in two different jurisdictions, as Botkin had sent the poison from California, but it was received in Delaware. |
The Escorts / The Do's & The Don'ts
The Escorts (Later The Do's and The Don'ts) is a 24 track album featuring "the best of" or greatest hits by The Escorts (Later The Do's and The Don'ts) from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. These are original recordings of all 12 singles released by The Escorts, later known as The Do's &... |
Tuckaleechee Caverns
Tuckaleechee Caverns ( ) a set of caverns and tourist attraction in Townsend, Tennessee and a short drive from Gatlinburg, Sevierville, Knoxville and Chattanooga. Tuckaleechee Caverns has a 5 star "GEM" attraction listing by AAA. These caverns were discovered in the mid-19th century and were opened... |
Old Sparky
Old Sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Old Smokey was the nickname of the electric chairs used in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. |
Papo Newman
Francisco 'Papo' Newman is a Puerto Rican who was convicted of murder, after allegedly participating in the murder of the Puerto Rican television entertainer Luis Vigoreaux on January 17, 1983. Newman was arrested, confessed to the crime, and testified against his accomplices in exchange for a reduced sente... |
Old Smokey
Old Smokey is a euphemistic name given to the state prison electric chair in New Jersey, which is on display at the New Jersey State Police Museum. The chair's most notorious victim was Richard Hauptmann, the man executed in the chair after being found guilty of abducting and killing Charles Augustus Lindber... |
John Skillern House
The John Skillern House is a historic cabin located 25 mi northwest of Fairfield in Camas County, Idaho, near the confluence of the Big Smokey and Little Smokey creeks. The cabin was built in 1921-22 for John Skillern and his wife, who used it as a summer home and headquarters for John's large sheep... |
Go! (Common song)
"Go!" is the third single from the Common album "Be". It is produced by Kanye West, who also performs backing vocals for the track alongside John Mayer. The track's percussion is handled by Num Amuntehu, while its scratches are provided by A-Trak. Its beat contains a sample from "Old Smokey" by Linda ... |
On Top of Old Smoky
"On Top of Old Smokey" is a traditional folk song of the United States. As recorded by The Weavers, the song reached the pop music charts in 1951. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 414. In one version the first verse is the following; for more on the words see below. |
Ella Purnell
Ella Purnell (born 17 September 1996) is an English actress, who has appeared in the films "Never Let Me Go" (2010), "Maleficent" (2014) and "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" (2016). |
Kashchey the Deathless
Kashchey the Deathless (Russian: Кащей бессмертный , "Kashchey bessmertnïy"), Kashchey the Immortal, is a one-act opera in three scenes (styled a "little autumnal fairy tale") by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by the composer, and is based on a Russian fairy tale about Koschei ... |
Shrek
Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated fantasy film loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book of the same name and directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson in their directorial debut. It stars the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow, and somewhat serves as... |
WildLike
Wildlike is a 2015 American feature film written and directed by Frank Hall Green, a multi-hyphenate film writer/director/producer, partner of Tom Heller at Catch & Release Films and producer at Greenmachine Film. Filmed in Alaska and starring Ella Purnell, Bruce Greenwood, Brian Geraghty, Nolan Gerard Funk an... |
The Fisherman and His Wife
"The Fisherman and His Wife" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale no. 19. It is Aarne–Thompson type 555, the fisherman and his wife. Its theme was used in "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish", an 1833 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin. Virginia Woolf has her character Mrs.... |
Very Blue Beard
Very Blue Beard (Russian: Очень синяя борода , "Ochen sinjaja boroda") is a 1979 Soviet musical comedy animated film loosely based on the "Bluebeard" fairy tale by Charles Perrault. Directed by Vladimir Samsonov, screenplay by Arkady Arkanov. Cinematography by Vladimir Milovanov. Original music score by... |
Scarlet (novel)
Scarlet is a 2013 young adult science fiction novel written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. It is the second novel in "The Lunar Chronicles" series and the sequel to "Cinder". The story is loosely based on the fairy tale o... |
Winter (Meyer novel)
Winter is a 2015 young adult science fiction novel written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. It is the fourth and final book in "The Lunar Chronicles" series and the sequel to "Cress". The story is loosely based on the ... |
Cress (novel)
Cress is a 2014 young adult science fiction novel written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. It is the third novel in "The Lunar Chronicles" series and the sequel to "Scarlet". The story is loosely based on the fairy tale of "R... |
Ella Enchanted (film)
Ella Enchanted is a 2004 fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Tommy O'Haver and written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith loosely based on Gail Carson Levine's 1997 novel of the same name. Starring Anne Hathaway and Hugh Dancy, the film plays with the usual fairy tale genre. |
Nota
Nota Sports and Racing Cars is an automobile manufacturer in Australia. The company was founded by Guy Buckingham in 1952. He was an aircraft engineer and used his expertise to build triangulated spaceframed sportscars. Possibly Australia's first space-framed cars. In 1958 the company built a series of all-envelop... |
Land Rover Group
Land Rover Group (LRG) was a division of British Leyland (BL) and later the Rover Group that was in existence between 1981 and 1987. LRG brought British Leyland's light commercial vehicle production under one management, consisting of the Land Rover utility 4x4 range, the Range Rover luxury 4x4 and the... |
Leyland Motors
Leyland Motors Limited was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses and trolleybuses. The company diversified into car manufacturing with its acquisitions of Triumph and Rover in 1960 and 1967, respectively. It gave its name to the British Leyland Motor Corporation, formed when it merged with Bri... |
Nuffield Press
Nuffield Press is a former part of the UK's automotive manufacturer Nuffield Organisation / BMC, then effectively becoming part of British Leyland in 1968. At its peak the Nuffield Press used more than 1,000 tons of paper a year producing sales literature, owners manuals, technical manuals, magazines, di... |
Austin Rover Group
The Austin Rover Group (abbreviated ARG) was a British motor manufacturer. It was created in 1982 as the mass-market car manufacturing subsidiary of British Leyland (BL). Previously, this entity had been known as BL Cars Ltd (formerly Leyland Cars) which encompassed the "Austin-Morris" and "Jaguar-Ro... |
Giovanni Michelotti
Giovanni Michelotti (6 October 1921 – 23 January 1980) was one of the most prolific designers of sports cars in the 20th century. His notable contributions were for Ferrari, Lancia, Maserati and Triumph marques. He was also associated with truck designs for Leyland Motors, and with designs for Briti... |
Leyland National
The Leyland National is an integrally-constructed British step-floor single-decker bus manufactured in large quantities between 1972 and 1985. It was developed as a joint project between two UK nationalised industries – the National Bus Company and British Leyland. Buses were constructed at a specially... |
British Leyland
British Leyland was an automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings. It was partly nationalised in 1975, when the UK government created a holdi... |
Riley Motor
was a British motorcar and bicycle manufacturer from 1890. Riley became part of the Nuffield Organisation in 1938 and was merged into the British Leyland Motor Corporation in 1968. ln July 1969 British Leyland announced the immediate end of Riley production, although 1969 was a difficult year for the UK aut... |
MG Cars
MG, the initials of Morris Garages, is an English automotive marque registered by the now defunct MG Car Company Limited, a British sports car manufacturer begun in the 1920s as a sales promotion sideline within W R Morris's Oxford city retail sales and service business by the business's manager, Cecil Kimber. ... |
Will Jacobs
Will Jacobs (born 1955) is an American comics and humor writer. He was a coauthor with Gerard Jones on "The Beaver Papers", "The Comic Book Heroes", and the comic book "The Trouble with Girls" (1987–1993). He was a contributor to "National Lampoon magazine" and various DC Comics. Jacobs left professional wr... |
List of Dhruva enemies
This is the list of fictional characters who have appeared in Raj Comics as the enemies of Raj comics superhero Super Commando Dhruva. Dhruva has one of the most recognisable rogues gallery in Indian comic book genre. Over the years, Dhruva has fought many villains ranging from normal human being... |
Dark Empire
Dark Empire is a "Star Wars" comic book metaseries produced by Dark Horse Comics. It consists of a six-issue limited series written by Tom Veitch and drawn by Cam Kennedy ("Dark Empire I"), followed by a second six-issue limited series by Veitch and Kennedy ("Dark Empire II") and a two-issue limited series ... |
Quattro (comics)
Quattro are a group of comic book villains who first appeared in Malibu Comics' "The Solution" #1. |
Comic Book Villains
Comic Book Villains is a 2002 American black comedy film written and directed by James Robinson and starring DJ Qualls, Donal Logue, Michael Rapaport, Natasha Lyonne and Eileen Brennan. |
Twelve Brothers in Silk
The Twelve Brothers in Silk, also known as The Silk Brothers, is a group of fictional comic book villains, a family of killers that have fought the Birds of Prey in the DC Comics Universe. They were created by artist Joe Bennett and writer Gail Simone. |
Boiled Angel
Boiled Angel was an independent comic book by Florida-based underground comic book artist Mike Diana in the early 1990s. The comic contained graphic depictions of a variety of taboo and gory subject matters. It effectively became the first comic book in the United States to cause its creator to be convicte... |
Deep Six (DC Comics)
The Deep Six are a fictional team of half-humanoid comic book villains created by Jack Kirby as part of the Jack Kirby's Fourth World set of DC Comics titles. They first appeared in "The New Gods" #2 (April–May 1971). |
List of X-Men video games
The X-Men are a fictional superhero team in Marvel Comics' Marvel Universe. The group debuted in 1963 in an eponymous comic book series. Beginning in 1989, the characters appeared in video game adaptations for home consoles, handheld game consoles, arcades, and personal computers. An earlier g... |
Fin Fang Foom
Fin Fang Foom is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted as an extraterrestrial creature resembling a dragon. The character has also appeared in associated Marvel merchandise including animated television series; toys; trading car... |
Tiv people
Tiv (or Tivi) is an ethno-linguistic group or ethnic nation in West Africa. The group constitutes approximately 7% of Nigeria's total population, and number about 3.5 million individuals throughout Nigeria and Cameroon. The Tiv are the 4th largest ethnic group in Nigeria. The Tiv language is spoken by about ... |
Yevgeny Krylatov
Yevgeny Pavlovich Krylatov (Russian: Евге́ний Па́влович Крыла́тов ; born 23 February 1934 in Lysva) is a Russian composer who wrote songs for over 120 Soviet and Russian movies and animated films. |
Kamarinskaya
Kamarinskaya (Russian: камаринская ) is a Russian traditional folk dance, which is mostly known today as the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka's composition of the same name. Glinka's "Kamarinskaya", written in 1848, was the first orchestral work based entirely on Russian folk song and to use the composition... |
César Cui
César Antonovich Cui (Russian: Це́зарь Анто́нович Кюи́ ; 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1835 13 March 1918) was a Russian composer and music critic of French, Polish and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer (he rose to the rank of Engineer-General (compared to full general) of The Russian Im... |
Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 is a symphony by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in 1906–07. The premiere was conducted by the composer himself in Saint Petersburg on 8 February 1908. Its duration is approximately 60 minutes when performed uncut; cut performances can be... |
Julian Scriabin
Julian Aleksandrovich Scriabin (born Yulian Aleksandrovich Schloezer; Russian: Юлиа́н Алекса́ндрович Скря́бин , 12 February 1908 – 22 June 1919) was the youngest son of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin and Tatiana de Schloezer. He was himself a promising composer and pianist, but he died at the age o... |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( ; Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; 25 April/7 May 1840 – 25 October/6 November 1893), often anglicized as Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, was a Russian composer of the romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular music in the classical repertoire. He was... |
Alexander Serov
Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Серо́в , Saint Petersburg, 23 January [O.S. 11 January] 1820 – Saint Petersburg, 1 February [O.S. 20 January] 1871 ) was a Russian composer and music critic. He is notable as one of the most important music critics in Russia during the 1850s ... |
Alexander Alyabyev
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alyabyev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Аля́бьев ; 15 August [O.S. 4 August] 1787 6 March [O.S. 22 February] 1851 ), also rendered as Alabiev or Alabieff, was a Russian composer known as one of the fathers of the Russian art song. He wrote seven operas, twenty musical co... |
Alexander Radvilovich
Alexander Yuryevich Radvilovich (Russian: Александр Юрьевич Радвилович ; born 1955) is a Russian composer, pianist and teacher from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) from which Conservatory he also graduated at which he was under guidance from Sergei Slonimsky. In 1992 and 1994 respectively he was ... |
Eugene Webb
Eugene Webb (born 1938) is Professor Emeritus in the University of Washington Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Webb holds a Ph.D., in Comparative Literature from Columbia University (1965), an M.A. in English Literature from Columbia University (1962) and also a B.A., in Philosophy from the... |
Claude J. Summers
Claude J. Summers (born 1944) is an American literary scholar, and the William E. Stirton Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He taught at the university from 1970 until his retirement in 2002. He was promoted to associate prof... |
Jack M. Guttentag
Jack M. Guttentag (born December 9, 1923) is a professor emeritus of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a consumer advocate and creator of "The Mortgage Professor", a website that provides free and disinterested advice to consumers on mortgage-related issues. |
Philip G. Hodge
Philip Gibson Hodge, Jr. (November 9, 1920 – November 11, 2014) was an American engineer who specialized in mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials. His work resulted in significant advancements in plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, ... |
Emilio Moran
Emilio F. Moran is an American anthropologist, currently the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Global Change Science at Michigan State University (MSU), and also a published author. He is also the Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Rudy Professor Emeritus at Indiana University. He is a member of ... |
Donald Burkholder
Donald Lyman Burkholder (January 19, 1927 – April 14, 2013) was an American mathematician known for his contributions to probability theory, particularly the theory of martingales. The Burkholder–Davis–Gundy inequality is co-named after him. Burkholder spent most of his professional career as a profes... |
George A. Bray
George A. Bray is an American obesity researcher. As of 2016, he is a University Professor emeritus and formerly the chief of the division of clinical obesity and metabolism at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC) in Baton Rouge. He is also a Boyd Professor emeritus a... |
John Carbon
John A. Carbon, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1952 at the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry in 1955 from Northwestern University. He did basic research devel... |
Criminology (journal)
Criminology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Society of Criminology. The editor-in-chief is Wayne Osgood (professor emeritus of criminology and sociology at the Pennsylvania State University). The co-editors are Eric P. Baumer (pr... |
Issac Koga
Issac (Issaku) Koga was born on December 5, 1899 in Tashiro Village (now Tosu) in Saga Prefecture, Japan, the eldest of 7 children. In July 1920, at the age of 20 he started to study at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tokyo Imperial University (later renamed University of Tokyo). After graduation... |
Liewe Heksie
Liewe Heksie (Afrikaans for "Beloved Little Witch") is an Afrikaans work of fiction created by children's book author Verna Vels in 1961. It centres on Liewe Heksie, a rather incompetent and forgetful witch, who lives with her friends the elves in "Blommeland" and whose foolishness and lack of magic skills... |
Wilbooks
Wilbooks is a children’s book educational publishing company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by children’s book author Bruce Larkin in 1996. The company publishes fiction, non-fiction, humor, and poetry books geared towards children from Pre-kindergarten to third grade. Wilbooks pu... |
Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe
Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe is a 2016 stand alone British Christmas movie based on the Hank Zipzer series of books by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver and the TV series airing on CBBC. The film will be airing on CBBC on 12 December 2016. It is written by Joe Williams and is direc... |
An Na
An Na (born 1972) is a South Korea-born American children's book author. Starting her career as a middle school English and History teacher, Na turned to writing novels after taking a young adult literature class while enrolled in an M.F.A. program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She gained success with her very... |
Pichilemu Blues
Pichilemu Blues is a 1993 book written by Chilean politician Esteban Valenzuela. A movie based on the book was also released, starring Peggy Cordero, Ximena Nogueira and Evaristo Acevedo. |
Charles Tazewell
Charles Tazewell (June 2, 1900 – June 26, 1972) was a radio playwright and children's book author, whose work has been adapted multiple times for film. |
Randy Romero
Randy Paul Romero (born December 22, 1957 in Erath, Louisiana) is a Hall of Fame jockey in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing, Born into a family involved with horses, his father Lloyd J. Romero was a Louisiana state trooper who trained American Quarter Horses and later, after a drunk driver crashed in... |
Gábor Nógrádi
Gábor Nógrádi (born June 22, 1947, Nyíregyháza) is a Hungarian book author, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, publicist and poet who is best known for his children's novels such as the "Pigeon granny" and "The story of" "Pie ("original title PetePite")", a book which won the 2002 Children's Book of the ... |
The Face on the Milk Carton (film)
The Face on the Milk Carton is a 1995 made for television movie based on the book written by Caroline B. Cooney. The movie stars Kellie Martin as Jennifer Sands/Janie Jessmon, a 16-year-old girl who finds her face on the back of a milk carton and puts the pieces of her past together. |
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American television anthology series that was produced and broadcast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's "Kraft Music Hall" specials once monthly. Como's production compa... |
Gert Fram
"Gert Fram" is the first short story that was published by American author Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection "Maps in a Mirror", but it originally appeared in the July 1977 fine arts issue of "Ensign" magazine under the pen name Byron Walley. It is Card's first published work. |
The Tinker
"The Tinker" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection "The Worthing Saga". Card first published "The Tinker" in the Vol. 1, No. 2 (1980) issue of "Eternity SF" magazine. |
Second Chance (short story)
"Second Chance" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collections "Capitol" and "The Worthing Saga". Card first published it in the anthology "Destinies" (January–February 1979). |
Unaccompanied Sonata
"Unaccompanied Sonata" is a short story by American writer Orson Scott Card, first published in the March, 1979 issue of "Omni" magazine. It appears in his short story collections "Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories" and "Maps in a Mirror". It was nominated in 1979 for the Nebula Award for Best... |
Breaking the Game
"Breaking the Game" is a short story by American writer Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collections "Capitol" and "The Worthing Saga". Card first published it in the January 1979 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact". |
A Thousand Deaths (Card short story)
"A Thousand Deaths" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collections "Capitol" and "Maps in a Mirror". Card first published it in the December 1978 issue of "Omni" magazine. |
The Fringe (short story)
"The Fringe" is a science fiction short story by American writer Orson Scott Card, originally published in the October 1985 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction". It was later reprinted in his short story collection "The Folk of the Fringe" and in "Future on Ice", a short story c... |
Killing Children
"Killing Children" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collections "Capitol" and "The Worthing Saga". Card first published it in the November 1978 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact". |
Lifeloop
"Lifeloop" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collections "Capitol" and "The Worthing Saga". Card first published it in the October 1978 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact". |
List of Ender's Game series short stories
There are various sources for short stories set in the Ender's Game series. One is the short story collection "First Meetings" by Orson Scott Card. This collection contains the original novelette "Ender's Game" plus three other stories. Another source is Card’s webzine "InterGa... |
Oryza glaberrima
Oryza glaberrima, commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown in West Africa, and was brought to the Americas by enslaved West African rice farmers. It is now largely a subsistence crop, rarely sold in markets even in West Africa. |
Domestic rabbit
A domestic rabbit or domesticated rabbit ("Oryctolagus"), more commonly known as simply a rabbit, is any of the domesticated varieties of the European rabbit species. Rabbits were first domesticated in the Middle Ages and are used as sources of food, fur, and wool, as research subjects, and as pets. The... |
Origin of the domestic dog
The origin of the domestic dog is not clear. The domestic dog is a member of genus "Canis" (canines) that forms part of the wolf-like canids, and is the most widely abundant carnivore. The closest living relative of the dog is the gray wolf and there is no evidence of any other canine contrib... |
Compañía Nacional de Subsistencias Populares
The National Company of Popular Subsistences (Spanish: Compañía Nacional de Subsistencias Populares, CONASUPO) was a Mexican parastatal in charge of developing actions related with the system of supply and the Mexican alimentary security. It was created in 1962 with the inte... |
List of potato dishes
This is a list of potato dishes that use potato as a main ingredient. The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop. It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat and maize. The annual diet of an average global citizen in the first decade of the 21st century included about 33 kg of po... |
Liconsa
Liconsa S.A. de C.V. is a Mexican parastatal company subsidized by the Federal government of Mexico depending on the Secretariat of Social Development. Created as part of a series of social support programs, its function is industrialize and commercialize premium grade milk bags at very low cost to feed, nurtur... |
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