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Michel Audiard Paul Michel Audiard (] ; 15 May 1920 – 27 July 1985) was a French screenwriter and film director. He was the father of French film director Jacques Audiard.
Jacques Audiard Jacques Audiard (] ; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a screenwriter and film director.
Dheepan Dheepan is a 2015 French crime drama film directed by Jacques Audiard and co-written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré. The film was partly inspired by Montesquieu's "Persian Letters", as well as the 1971 film "Straw Dogs", with guidance from Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who stars as the title character.
Thomas Bidegain Thomas Bidegain is a French screenwriter, producer and film director. He is noted for his collaborations with the director Jacques Audiard. He received the César Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2010 for "A Prophet" and Best Adaptation in 2013 for "Rust and Bone"; both awards were shared with Audia...
David Madigan David Bennett Madigan (born December 11, 1962) is an Irish and American statistician and academic. He is currently the Executive Vice-President for Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Faculty, and Professor of Statistics at Columbia University. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Statistics at C...
The Medium (Rutgers) The Medium is the student-run weekly entertainment and comedy newspaper at Rutgers University with the purpose of promoting the message of free speech. It is the second largest newspaper in Rutgers University and the paper refers to itself as "The Entertainment Weekly of Rutgers University."
1938 Rutgers Queensmen football team The 1938 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1938 college football season. In February 1938, Rutgers announced Tasker's resignation as Rutgers' football coach and his replacement by Harvey Harman. In their first season under coach Harman, the Queens...
WINLAB (Rutgers University) WINLAB is the Wireless Information Network Laboratory, a research laboratory at Rutgers University, that is dedicated to research in a number of disciplines related to wireless communications. It consists of a number of faculty members from the Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engi...
Rutgers University–Newark Rutgers–Newark is one of three regional campuses of Rutgers University, the public research university of the U.S. state of New Jersey, located in the city of Newark. Rutgers, founded in 1766 in New Brunswick, is the eighth oldest college in the United States and a member of the Association of...
Rutgers University–Camden Rutgers University–Camden is one of three regional campuses of Rutgers University, New Jersey's public research university. It is located in Camden, New Jersey, United States. Founded in the 1920s, Rutgers–Camden began as an amalgam of the South Jersey Law School and the College of South Jerse...
List of Rutgers University presidents The President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (informally called Rutgers University) is the chief administrator of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Rutgers was founded by clergymen affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church in 1766 as "Queen's College" and...
2011 Rutgers Tuition Protests The 2011 Rutgers Tuition Protests were a series of primarily student-led public education reform initiatives at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Faced with rising education costs, diminished state subsidies and the possibility of a non-existent tuition cap, campus groups (i...
Rutgers University Police Department The Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD) is a campus police agency responsible for law enforcement on the New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden campuses of Rutgers University. RUPD is a department of the university's Division of Administration and Public Safety which also houses ...
James D. Anderson James Donald Anderson, Jr. (August 16, 1930 – November 20, 1976) was an American herpetologist with the American Museum of Natural History and professor of zoology at Rutgers University who did extensive fieldwork studying "Ambystoma" and other salamander species in Mexico. He was born in Newark, New ...
Eddie Fisher (singer) Edwin John "Eddie" Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American singer and actor. He was the most successful pop singles artist during the first half of the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. Fisher divorced his first wife, actress Debbie Reynolds, to ...
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
Bundle of Joy Bundle of Joy (1956) is a Technicolor musical remake of the comedy film "Bachelor Mother" (1939), which starred Ginger Rogers. It stars Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (who were married in real-life at the time), and Adolphe Menjou. An unmarried salesgirl at a department store finds and takes care of an ...
The Eddie Fisher Show The Eddie Fisher Show was an American musical comedy/variety television series starring Eddie Fisher and his then wife Debbie Reynolds. Other series regulars included George Gobel, Gisele MacKenzie and Mary Tyler Moore. The series alternated on Tuesday nights with "The George Gobel Show" with epis...
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (film) The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a 1964 American musical film directed by Charles Walters and starring Debbie Reynolds. The screenplay by Helen Deutsch is based on the book of the 1960 musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" by Richard Morris. The song score was composed by Meredith Willson....
Todd Fisher Todd Emmanuel Fisher (born February 24, 1958) is an American actor, director, cinematographer, and producer of television films and documentaries. Fisher is the son of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds.
Susan Slept Here Susan Slept Here is a 1954 American romantic comedy film starring Dick Powell (in his last film role) and Debbie Reynolds. Shot in Technicolor, the film was based on the play of the same name by Steve Fisher and Alex Gottlieb. The film's plotline was later used again by director Frank Tashlin for 1962'...
These Old Broads These Old Broads is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final film role. In a 2001 BBC "Omnibus" documentary about Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley MacLaine says that Julie Andrews and L...
Coke Time with Eddie Fisher Coke Time with Eddie Fisher is an American musical variety television series starring singer Eddie Fisher which was broadcast by NBC on Wednesday nights in early prime time from 1953 to 1957. The program was aired from 7:30 to 7:45 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays and Fridays, and was not see...
Tommy Noonan Tommy Noonan (April 29, 1921 – April 24, 1968) was a comedy genre film performer, screenwriter and producer. He acted in a number of 'A' and 'B' pictures from the 1940s through the 1960s, and he is best known for his supporting performances as Gus Esmond, wealthy fiancé of Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) in "...
2015–16 Magyar Kupa (men's handball) The 2015–16 Magyar Kupa, known as (Hungarian: "BOMBA! férfi Magyar Kupa" ) for sponsorship reasons, was the 58th edition of the tournament.
1955–58 Magyar Kupa The 1955–58 Magyar Kupa (English: "Hungarian Cup") was the 24th season of Hungary's annual knock-out cup football competition. The 1955 Magyar Kupa season was interrupted by the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Therefore, the final was held in 1958.
2016–17 Magyar Kupa (women's handball) The 2016–17 Magyar Kupa, known as (Hungarian: "TIPPMIX Török Bódog női Magyar Kupa" ) for sponsorship reasons, was the 59th edition of the tournament.
Magyar Kupa (men's basketball) The Tibor Zsíros Magyar Kupa is the annual basketball cup competition held in Hungary since 1951. Budapest Honved has won the most titles with 17. The Cup is named after the retired Hungarian player Tibor Zsíros. Each year, a knock-out tournament consisting of 8 teams is played to determi...
2016 Magyar Kupa Final The Magyar Kupa Final was the final match of the 2015–16 Magyar Kupa, played between Újpest and Ferencváros.
2015 Magyar Kupa (men's water polo) The 2015 Magyar Kupa, known as (Hungarian: "BENU Férfi Magyar Kupa" ) for sponsorship reasons, is the 89th edition of the tournament.
2014 Magyar Kupa Final The Magyar Kupa Final was the final match of the 2013–14 Magyar Kupa, played between Újpest and Diósgyőr.
2016–17 Magyar Kupa The 2016–17 Magyar Kupa (English: "Hungarian Cup") was the 77th season of Hungary's annual knock-out cup football competition. The 2017 Magyar Kupa Final was won by Ferencvárosi TC on penalties against Vasas SC on 31 May 2017.
2016–17 Magyar Kupa (men's handball) The 2016–17 Magyar Kupa, known as (Hungarian: "TIPPMIX férfi Magyar Kupa" ) for sponsorship reasons, was the 59th edition of the tournament.
2015–16 Magyar Kupa (women's handball) The 2015–16 Magyar Kupa, known as (Hungarian: "Tippmix Török Bódog női Magyar Kupa" ) for sponsorship reasons, was the 58th edition of the tournament.
Spencer Ludwig Spencer Ludwig is a trumpeter, singer, and songwriter from Los Angeles, California. He is a solo artist signed with Warner Bros. Records and has also performed with Foster the People, Portugal. The Man, Fitz and the Tantrums, RAC, St. Lucia, Cherub, HOLYCHILD and The Wailers. Ludwig is also a former memb...
Songs for a Breakup, Vol. 1 Songs for a Break Up: Vol. 1 is the debut studio EP by the American indie rock band Fitz and The Tantrums, released on August 11, 2009 through Canyon Productions. It was re-released in 2010 when the band signed to Dangerbird Records.
Michael Fitzpatrick (musician) Michael Sean "Fitz" Fitzpatrick (born July 21, 1970) is a French-American musician and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist of the indie pop and neo-soul band Fitz and The Tantrums.
Out of My League "Out of My League" is a song recorded by American band Fitz and The Tantrums and produced by Tony Hoffer. The song is the lead single from the band's second studio album, "More Than Just a Dream". "Out of My League" was released as a single on February 7, 2013. The song became the group's first number ...
Fitz and The Tantrums Fitz and The Tantrums (FATT) is an American indie pop and neo soul band from Los Angeles that formed in 2008. The band consists of Michael Fitzpatrick (lead vocals), Noelle Scaggs (co-lead vocals and percussion), James King (saxophone, flute, keyboard, percussion and guitar), Joseph Karnes (bass g...
HandClap "HandClap" is a song recorded by American indie pop band Fitz and The Tantrums. The song was released as the lead single from their self-titled album "Fitz and the Tantrums" on March 25, 2016 through Elektra Records. It is their highest-charting song on the "Billboard" Hot 100, peaking at number 53.
Blood, Sweat & 3 Years Blood, Sweat & 3 Years is the fourth studio album by American electronic music group Cash Cash, released on June 24, 2016 by Big Beat Records and Atlantic Records. It is their first full-length album since signing to Big Beat, following the release of the "Overtime" and "Lightning" EPs. "Bloo...
James King (musician) James King is an American multi-instrumentalist who is a cofounder for soul band Fitz and The Tantrums. In 2008, he was approached by college friend Michael Fitzpatrick to play saxophone on a few songs that he had written which turned out to be the beginnings of Fitz and The Tantrums. King recomme...
The Walker (song) "The Walker" is a song by the American neo soul band Fitz and The Tantrums. It is the second single from the band's second album "More Than Just a Dream". The song was used in the trailers for the movies "The Boxtrolls" and "Storks", in the trailer for video game "The Sims 4", in television commercial...
Elina Siirala Elina Siirala is a Finnish soprano and vocal coach. She is known as the founder and front woman for the English melodic metal band Angel Nation (former EnkElination) and the second female vocalist for the German symphonic metal/viking metal band Leaves' Eyes.
Sovetskaya Litva Sovetskaya Litva (literally: "Soviet Lithuania"; Russian: Советская Литва ) was a Russian-language daily newspaper published in the Lithuanian SSR. In tandem with the Lithuanian-language "Tiesa", it was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Lithuania, the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR...
Lithuanian Academy of Sciences The Lithuanian Academy of Sciences ("Lietuvos mokslų akademija") or LAS, founded in 1941 as the Lithuanian SSR Academy of Sciences (Lithuanian: "Lietuvos TSR Mokslų akademija"), as an autonomous, state-subsidized establishment serving as a scientific advisory body to the government of Lit...
Lithuanian Supreme Soviet election, 1990 The Lithuanian legislative elections for 141 seats in the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR were held in the Lithuanian SSR on 24 February with run-off elections on 4, 7, 8 and 10 March 1990. In six constituencies voter turnout was below required minimum, therefore a third ro...
People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR (Народный артист Литовской ССР), is an honorary title awarded to citizens of the Lithuanian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is awarded for outstanding performance in the performing arts, whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development...
Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR The Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR (Lithuanian: "Lietuvos TSR Ministrų Taryba" ) or Council of People's Commissars in 1940–46 (Lithuanian: "Lietuvos TSR Liaudies Komisarų Taryba" ) was the cabinet (executive branch) of the Lithuanian SSR, one of the republics of th...
Bronius Vyšniauskas He was an Honored Art Worker of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (1963), People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR (1973), and a recipient of the Lithuanian SSR State Prize (1973).
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; Belarusian: Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika or Bielaruskaja SSR , Russian: Belorusskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika or Belorusskaya SSR ), also referred to as the Soviet Byelor...
Military occupations by the Soviet Union During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed several countries effectively handed over by Nazi Germany in the secret protocol Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. These included Eastern Poland (incorporated into two different SSRs), as well as Latvia (became Latvian SS...
1972 unrest in Lithuania 1972 unrest in Lithuanian SSR, sometimes titled as Kaunas' Spring, took place on May 18–19, 1972, in Kaunas, Lithuania, Soviet Union. It was sparked by the self-immolation of a 19-year-old student named Romas Kalanta and prohibition to take part in Kalanta’s funeral by the officials. As a resul...
Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR The Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR (Lithuanian: "Lietuvos TSR Aukščiausioji Taryba" ; Russian: Верховный Совет Литовской ССР , "Verkhovnyy Sovet Litovskoy SSR") was the supreme soviet (main legislative institution) of the Lithuanian SSR, one of the republics comprising the Sov...
Rubin Schron Rubin Schron, who goes by Ruby, is a New York City real estate investor, landlord and the founder of Cammeby's International Group. He has a personal net worth of well over $10 billion, according to data company Real Capital Analytics. The portfolio of Cammeby's, which Schron founded in 1967, includes offi...
Petroleum Building (Midland) The Petroleum Building (formerly known as the Hogan Building) is a highrise in downtown Midland, TX. The building was built in 1928 and consists of 12 floors and has a neo-gothic style architecture to it. The building stands at 137 ft but with its spires reaches a height of 151 ft. The Hoga...
Woolworth Building The Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, designed by architect Cass Gilbert and constructed between 1910 and 1912, is an early US skyscraper. The original site for the building was purchased by F. W. Woolworth and his real estate agent Edward J. Hogan by April 15, 1910, from...
F. W. Woolworth Building (Watertown, New York) The Woolworth Building is an historic building in Watertown, New York. It is a contributing building in the Public Square Historic District. Plans for the Woolworth Building were begun in 1916 by Frank W. Woolworth, the founder of the Woolworth's chain of department stores...
1 New York Plaza 1 New York Plaza is an office building in New York City's Financial District, built in 1969 at the intersection of South and Whitehall Streets. It is the southernmost of all Manhattan skyscrapers.
90 West Street 90 West Street (alternatively West Street Building) is a building in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by architect Cass Gilbert and structural engineer Gunvald Aus for the West Street Improvement Corporation. When completed in 1907, the building's Gothic styling and ornamentation served to...
Transportation Building The Transportation Building is a 44-story office building located at 225 Broadway on the corner of Barclay Street in the Civic Center neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It also carries the address 2-4 Barclay Street. It was built in 1927 and was designed by the architecture firm o...
34th Street (IRT Ninth Avenue Line) 34th Street was an express station on the demolished IRT Ninth Avenue Line, New York, United States. It was originally built on July 30, 1873 by the New York Elevated Railroad Company, and had two levels. The lower level was built first and had two tracks and two side platforms. The ...
Westchester Avenue (NYW&B station) Westchester Avenue is a former railroad station located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City, partially suspended over Amtrak's busy Northeast Corridor line. It was built in 1908 with rich terra cotta detailing to a design by Cass Gilbert, who would later employ similar te...
Abraham M. Radcliffe Abraham M. Radcliffe (1827–1886) was an architect born in New York City. He opened a Minneapolis office in 1857 and a St. Paul office in 1858. He closed his Minneapolis office in 1868. He designed early commercial buildings in St. Paul and Minneapolis, as well as the Dakota County Courthouse in Has...
Esperanto vocabulary The word base of Esperanto was originally defined by "Lingvo internacia", published by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887. It contained some 900 root words. The rules of the language allow speakers to borrow words as needed, recommending only that they look for the most international words, and that they borro...
List of English words of Scots origin List of English words of Scots origin is a list of English language words of Scots origin. See also "List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin", which contains many words which were borrowed via Highland Scots.
Verbal fluency test Verbal fluency tests are a kind of psychological test in which participants have to produce as many words as possible from a category in a given time (usually 60 seconds). This category can be semantic, including objects such as animals or fruits, or phonemic, including words beginning with a specif...
Timaeus the Sophist Timaeus the Sophist (Greek: Τίμαιος ὁ Σοφιστής ) was a Greek philosopher who lived sometime between the 1st and 4th centuries. Nothing is known about his life. He is the supposed author of a "Lexicon" of Platonic words which is still extant. The "Lexicon" made use of earlier commentaries on Plato wh...
Circumlocution Circumlocution (also called circumduction, circumvolution, periphrasis, or ambage) is speech that circles around an idea with many words instead of stating it directly and simply. It is sometimes necessary in communication (for example, to avoid lexical gaps that would cause untranslatability), but it ca...
Wasei-kango Wasei-kango (Japanese: 和製漢語 , "Japanese-made Chinese words") refers to words in the Japanese language composed of Chinese morphemes but invented in Japan rather than borrowed from China. Such terms are generally written using kanji and read according to the "on'yomi" pronunciations of the characters. While ...
List of English Latinates of Germanic origin Many words in the English lexicon are made up of Latinate words; that is, words which have entered the English language from a Romance language (usually Anglo-Norman), or were borrowed directly from Latin. Quite a few of these words can further trace their origins back to a ...
Okwanuchu language Okwanuchu is an extinct Shastan language formerly spoken in northern California. Kroeber described the language as "peculiar. Many words are practically pure Shasta; others are distorted to the very verge of recognizability, or utterly different." Golla speculates at length that the language may have...
How Many Words "How Many Words" is the official second single by the singer-songwriter Blake Lewis, from his debut album "A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream)". The song was expected to be followed by "Know My Name", and then "Without You". However, due to being dropped by Arista Records, "How Many Words" is the final single from ...
Changes to Old English vocabulary Many words that existed in Old English did not survive into Modern English. There are also many words in Modern English that bear little or no resemblance in meaning to their Old English etymons. Some linguists estimate that as much as 80 percent of the lexicon of Old English was lost ...
Bizaar Bizaar is the sixth studio album by Insane Clown Posse. Released on October 31, 2000, it is the first half of the "Bizaar Bizzar" double album, released the same day as its companion album, "Bizzar". It is the 14th overall release by Insane Clown Posse.
Matt Taibbi Matthew C. "Matt" Taibbi ( ; born March 2, 1970) is an American author and journalist. Taibbi has reported on politics, media, finance, and sports, and has authored several books, including "Insane Clown President" (2017), "" (2014), "" (2010) and "The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Poli...
Insane Clown President Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus is a non-fiction book by Matt Taibbi about Donald Trump and the 2016 United States presidential election. The book contains illustrations by "Rolling Stone" artist Victor Juhasz. Taibbi's choice of title for the book was motivated by Trump's...
John McCain presidential campaign, 2008 The 2008 presidential campaign of John McCain, the longtime senior U.S. Senator from Arizona, was launched with an informal announcement on February 28, 2007 during a live taping of the "Late Show with David Letterman", and formally launched at an event on April 25, 2007. His sec...
United States presidential election, 1996 The United States presidential election of 1996 was the 53rd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1996. The Democratic national ticket was led by incumbent President Bill Clinton, and his running mate, incumbent Vice President Al Gore. The Repu...
The Terror Wheel The Terror Wheel is the second EP by American hip hop group Insane Clown Posse, released on August 5, 1994 by Psychopathic Records. It is the second "sideshow" entry in the group's Dark Carnival saga. The EP contains six studio tracks. "The Dead Body Man" which was subsequently re-released in 1995 on I...
Big Money Hustlas Big Money Hustlas is a 2001 American comedy film directed by John Cafiero as his feature film debut. The film, an homage to exploitation films of the 1970s, focuses on a streetwise San Francisco detective who tries to take down a New York City crime lord. It stars Insane Clown Posse's Joseph "Violent ...
Mike E. Clark Mike Earl Clark is an American record producer and DJ from Detroit, Michigan. Clark is best known for his work with Insane Clown Posse, for which he has produced nine studio albums, and Kid Rock. Clark has produced solo material for Insane Clown Posse members Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, and contributed p...
Mutilation Mix Mutilation Mix: Greatest Hits (That Never Were Hits) is a greatest hits album by the American hip hop group Insane Clown Posse. The album consists of excerpts of songs from the group's first three studio albums, as well as some rare, less well-known tracks. Dispersed throughout the music are several reco...
Behind the Paint Behind the Paint is the 2003 autobiography of American hip hop artist Joseph Bruce, better known as Violent J, one half of the Detroit, Michigan hip hop group Insane Clown Posse. The book focuses on Bruce's entire life until 2002. It begins with a chronological account of his childhood, professional wr...
Dís In Norse mythology, a dís ("lady", plural dísir) is a ghost, spirit or deity associated with fate who can be either benevolent or antagonistic towards mortals. Dísir may act as protective spirits of Norse clans. Their original function was possibly that of fertility goddesses who were the object of both private and...
Nordic Passport Union The Nordic Passport Union allows citizens of the Nordic countriesIceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finlandto travel and reside in another Nordic country (excluding Greenland and Svalbard) without any travel documentation (e.g. a passport or national identity card) or a residence permit. Since ...
Ghost riding Ghost riding, frequently used in the context of "ghost riding the whip" (a "whip" being a vehicle) or simply ghostin', is when a person exits their moving vehicle, and dances beside and around it. Ghost riding is also another term used for car surfing, and the term is also occasionally used to describe a m...
Pontianak (folklore) The pontianak (Dutch-Indonesian spelling: "boentianak", Jawi: ڤونتيانق) is a female vampiric ghost in Malaysian and Indonesian mythology. It is also known as a matianak or kuntilanak, sometimes shortened to kunti. Pontianak is called Churel, or Churayl, in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. The ponti...
Murat Gülsoy Murat Gülsoy (born 1967) is a Turkish writer. He started his literary career as a publisher and a writer of the bimonthly magazine "Hayalet Gemi" (Ghost Ship) in 1992. His works explore the metafictive potential of postmodern self-consciousness with ‘page turning’ plots. He also produced interactive hypert...
Knowledge inertia Knowledge inertia (KI) is a concept in knowledge management. The term initially proposed by Liao (2002) constitutes a two dimensional model of knowledge inertia which incorporates experience inertia and learning inertia. Later, another dimension—the dimension of thinking inertia has been added based o...
Scandinavian studies Scandinavian studies is an interdisciplinary academic field of area studies, mainly in the United States and Germany, that covers topics related to Scandinavia and the Nordic countries, including languages, literatures, histories, cultures and societies. The term Scandinavia mainly refers to Denmar...
Traditional Nordic dance music Traditional Nordic dance music is a type of traditional music or folk music that once was common in the mainland part of the Nordic countries — Scandinavia plus Finland. The person who plays this kind of music might be called "speleman" (Swedish/Norwegian), "spelman" (Swedish), "spel(l)em...
Nordic folk music Nordic folk music includes a number of traditions in Northern European, especially Scandinavian, countries. The Nordic countries are generally taken to include Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The Nordic Council, an international organization, also includes the autonomous territories of Å...
Greenland Sea The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Greenland Sea is often defined as part of the Arctic Ocean, sometimes as part of the Atlantic Oc...
2008 NAPA Auto Parts 200 The 2008 NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge, the third running of the event, was a NASCAR Nationwide Series race held on August 2, 2008, at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec. The race was the 23rd of the 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series season.
Dwayne Leik Dwayne Leik (born February 9, 1964) is a former NASCAR driver. He was formerly an owner of Leik Motorsports and a part-time driver in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. He formerly worked as the business manager for Marcis Racing and legendary NASCAR driver Dave Marcis. Leik was able to secure racing sponsorship...
Justin Allgaier Justin Allgaier (born June 6, 1986) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro for JR Motorsports. He was the 2008 ARCA Re/MAX Series Champion and the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series Rookie of the Ye...
2013 DRIVE4COPD 300 The 2013 DRIVE4COPD 300 was a NASCAR Nationwide Series race held on February 23, 2013 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It was the first race of the 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series season. The race was the 32nd running of the event, and the pole position given to Roush Fenwa...
Kyle Busch Kyle Thomas "Rowdy" Busch (born May 2, 1985) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He is the driver of the No. 18 Toyota Camry in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and the No. 18 Camry in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Joe Gibbs Racing. He also owns Kyle Busch Motorsports, whi...
2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series The 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series was the 32nd season of the Nationwide Series, a stock car racing series sanctioned by the NASCAR in the United States. The season was contested over thirty-three races and started on February 23, 2013 at Daytona International Speedway, with the DRIVE4COPD ...