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Eddy Lecygne Eddy Lecygne (born 6 August 1996) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Stoke City.
Jack Butland Jack Butland (born 10 March 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Stoke City and the England national team.
Josh Tymon Joshua Lewis Tymon (born 22 May 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Premier League club Stoke City.
Peter Crouch Peter James Crouch (born 30 January 1981) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Stoke City. He was capped 42 times by the England national team between 2005 and 2010, scoring 22 goals for his country in that time, and appearing at two World Cups.
Dave Hunt (Oregon politician) Dave Hunt (born November 10, 1967) is an American politician in the state of Oregon. A Democrat, he was the Oregon House Speaker and served as State Representative for District 40 of the Oregon House of Representatives representing Clackamas County from 2003 to 2013. He was elected House M...
United States Deputy Secretary of Labor The United States Deputy Secretary of Labor is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Labor. In the United States federal government, the Deputy Secretary oversees the day-to-day operation of the Department of Labor, and may act as Secretary of Lab...
Mark Hunt (politician) Mark Allen Hunt (born January 23, 1960 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates representing District 36 since January 12, 2013. Hunt served consecutively from January 2009 until January 2013, and non-consecutively fro...
Seth Harris Seth D. Harris (born October 12, 1962) was the 11th United States Deputy Secretary of Labor, and served for six months as the Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor and a member of President Barack Obama's Cabinet. Nominated by President Obama in February 2009, Harris was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate in...
Charles A. Hunt Charles A. Hunt served in the California legislature and during World War I he served in the United States Army.
W.A. Barrows W.A "Walt" Barrows is the current Labor Member of the United States Railroad Retirement Board. He was nominated by President Barack Obama on February 28, 2011 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 26, 2011. He replaced outgoing board member V.M. "Butch" Speakman, who announced his retirement in...
Vilma Rose Hunt Vilma Rose Hunt (November 15, 1926 – December 29, 2012) was a scientist noted for research into radiation and workplace safety for women. After beginning a dentistry career in Australia and New Zealand, Hunt traveled to the United States where she earned her A.M. in Physical Anthropology at Radcliffe Co...
Jennifer Hunt Jennifer Hunt is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. She previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury after serving a term as Chief Economist to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, serving under Acting Secretary Seth Harris and Secr...
Edward C. Hugler Edward Charles "Ed" Hugler (born February 7, 1950) is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations in the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management. That position has been his formal position at the United States Department of Labor since April 2000. Ho...
Alexander Acosta Rene Alexander Acosta (born January 16, 1969) is an American attorney, academic, and politician who is the 27th and current United States Secretary of Labor. A Republican, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Labor Relations Board and later served as Assistant Attorney General f...
TFF Third League TFF Third League (Turkish Football Federation Third League) or "TFF 3. Lig" (in Turkish), is the fourth level in the Turkish football league system. It was founded in 2001–02 season as a continuation of then third level division Turkish Third Football League. 2010–11 is the 10th season of the league. I...
Igor Prijić Igor Prijić (born 30 September 1989) is a Croatian football striker who plays for the Croatian Third Football League club NK Vinogradar. Prijić started his professional career with NK Osijek, from where he was sent on loan to Pomorac and Marsonia, before he was transferred in Segesta Sisak in 2012. He made ...
Aldeburgh Lifeboat Station Aldeburgh Lifeboat Station is an RNLI station located in the town of Aldeburgh in the English county of Suffolk. the lifeboat station evolved from the Suffolk Shipwreck Association station in 1851 which was originally in Sizewell and there has been a lifeboat here since that date. The present...
Croatian Third Football League The Croatian Third Football League (Croatian: "Treća hrvatska nogometna liga" , or commonly Treća HNL or 3. HNL) is the third tier of the football league system in Croatia. The league was established in 1991 following the dissolution of the Yugoslav League. It is operated by the Croatian ...
Burçin Erseçal Burçin Erseçal (born March 11, 1990) is a Turkish women's football midfielder currently playing in the Turkish Women's Third Football League for Dörtyol Belediyespor in Adana with jersey number 10. She was a member of the Turkey women's national under-19 football team.
Barbados and CARICOM The nation of Barbados has been an avid supporter of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Barbados was one of the four founding members in 1973 which then along with Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago moved to establish the organisation then known as the Caribbean Community and Common Market. Thi...
Romani people official football team The Romani people official football team is a national football team representing the Romani people. It is not affiliated to any FIFA confederation, so it cannot play in any of their tournaments. It is, however, affiliated to ConIFA, and play in the ConIFA European Football Cup. The...
Bobby Noble (academic) Bobby Noble, aka Jean Bobby Noble or J. Bobby Noble, is a professor at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of the books "Masculinities Without Men?" and "Sons of the Movement" and is one of the foremost scholars of transgender studies in North America.
Masculinities Without Men? Masculinities without Men? is a book by Jean Bobby Noble.
1890–91 Football League The Football League 1890–1891 was the third Football league season, after dominating and being crowned champions for the first two football league seasons Preston North End slipped to second and Everton won the league with a two-point gap. Meanwhile, there had been changes in the league since th...
Skyline (2010 film) Skyline is a 2010 alien invasion science fiction thriller film produced and directed by Brothers Strause, directors of "". The film was released on November 12, 2010. It stars Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Crystal Reed, David Zayas and Donald Faison. "Skyline" was a box office suc...
All Saints' Church, Ryde All Saints' Church, Ryde is a parish church in the Church of England located in Ryde, Isle of Wight. The building is a landmark of the Island, the spire being visible from many places around the Isle of Wight - and indeed from the mainland - projecting beyond the skyline. All Saints' is sometim...
Insidious: Chapter 3 Insidious: Chapter 3 is a 2015 American-Canadian supernatural horror film written and directed by Leigh Whannell in his directorial debut. It is a prequel to the first two films and the third installment in the "Insidious" franchise. The film stars Dermot Mulroney and Stefanie Scott, with Angus Sam...
Beyond Skyline Beyond Skyline is an upcoming American science fiction action thriller film directed by Liam O'Donnell and starring Frank Grillo, Bojana Novakovic, Iko Uwais, Callan Mulvey, Yayan Ruhian, Betty Gabriel and Antonio Fargas. It is the sequel to the 2010 film "Skyline".
Luke and Lucy: The Texas Rangers Luke and Lucy: The Texas Rangers (original title Suske en Wiske: De Texas Rakkers, also released as "Spike and Suzy: The Texas Rangers") is a 2009 Belgian-Luxembourgish-Dutch CGI animated western comedy adventure film released on 21 July 2009 as the first of it kind to be created in Bel...
Wake Up 2 Wake Up 2 (麻醉風暴2) is a 2017 Taiwanese television series and sequel to "Wake Up", with the story set 5 years after the prequel, starring the original cast with the addition of Lego Lee and Summer Meng. This is also Lee and Meng's third collaboration after 2013 film "" and 2014 television series "Aim High". Fil...
List of tallest buildings in Chennai This list of tallest buildings in Chennai ranks high-rise buildings in Chennai, India based on official height. Unlike other metropolitan cities in the country, Chennai continues to experience a horizontal growth (that is, expanding continuously in its area) rather than a vertical g...
The Omega Code The Omega Code is a 1999 religious thriller film directed by Rob Marcarelli, starring Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Catherine Oxenberg, and Michael Ironside. The premillennialist plot revolves around a plan by the Antichrist (York) to take over the world using information hidden in the titular Bible cod...
Silicon Mountain (Denver) Silicon Mountain, also known as the "Silicon Flatirons" is a nickname given to the tech hub in the Denver, Colorado metropolitan area. The name is analogous to Silicon Valley, but refers to the Rocky Mountains beyond the skyline. Denver startups raised $401 million in 2015, while Boulder start...
Beyond Good and Evil 2 Beyond Good and Evil 2 is an upcoming action-adventure video game in development by Ubisoft Montpellier and to be published by Ubisoft, it is a prequel to 2003's "Beyond Good & Evil". Its development was characterized in the media by uncertainty, doubt and rumours about the game's future, until i...
Cladorhiza inversa Cladorhiza inversa is a species of sponge in the taxonomic category of Demospongiae. The body of the sponge consists of a spicule and fibers and is water absorbent.
Heterostropha Heterostropha was a previously used taxonomic category, an order of sea snails, within the superorder Heterobranchia. In the most current gastropod taxonomy, that of Bouchet & Rocroi, this taxon is no longer in use.
Helleborine Helleborine is the common name for a number of species of orchid. It does not correspond to any currently used taxonomic category. Some of the plants called helleborines are classified in the genus "Epipactis", some in genus "Cephalanthera". A genus "Helleborine" was formerly recognised but has now been abs...
Eogastropoda Eogastropoda was a previously used taxonomic category of snails or gastropods, a subclass which was erected by Ponder and Lindberg in 1997. It was one of two great divisions (subclasses) of the class Gastropoda, the snails. The other subclass of gastropods was the Orthogastropoda.
Sigmurethra Sigmurethra is a taxonomic category of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This is an informal group which includes the majority of land snails and slugs.
Aptera Aptera is an obsolete taxonomic category, which included the Apterygota along with various other wingless arthropods.
Dendrology Dendrology (Ancient Greek: δένδρον , "dendron", "tree"; and Ancient Greek: -λογία , "-logia", "science of" or "study of") or xylology (Ancient Greek: ξύλον , "ksulon", "wood") is the science and study of wooded plants (trees, shrubs, and lianas), specifically, their taxonomic classifications. There is no sha...
Comparison of butterflies and moths A common classification of the Lepidoptera involves their differentiation into butterflies and moths. Butterflies are a natural monophyletic group, often given the suborder Rhopalocera, which includes Papilionoidea (true butterflies), Hesperiidae (skippers), and Hedylidae (butterfly ...
Gammaridae Gammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of "scuds", and otherwise gammarids is usually used as a common name.
Cladorhiza segonzaci Cladorhiza segonzaci is a species of sponge in the taxonomic category of Demospongiae. The body of the sponge consists of a spicule and fibers and is water absorbent.
Cold Water (film) Cold Water (French: "L'eau froide" ) is a 1994 French film written and directed by Olivier Assayas. About two troubled teenagers in France during the early 1970s, the film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
Jorge Arriagada Jorge Arriagada (born 1943) is a Chilean film composer. He is perhaps best known for his long-term collaboration with director Raúl Ruiz. He has also worked with directors Patricio Guzman, Barbet Schroeder and Olivier Assayas.
Zeitgeist Films Zeitgeist Films is an American independent film distributor based in New York City founded in 1988 by co-Presidents Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo. Films distributed by Zeitgeist are strongly auteur-driven by directors such as Christopher Nolan, Guy Maddin, Atom Egoyan, Todd Haynes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, O...
Something in the Air (2012 film) Something in the Air (French: Après mai ) is a 2012 French drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas. The film was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. Assayas won the Osella for Best Screenplay.
Graduation (2016 film) Graduation (Romanian: Bacalaureat ; working title: "Family Photos") is a 2016 Romanian-language drama film produced, written, and directed by Cristian Mungiu and starring Adrian Titieni and Maria-Victoria Dragus. Set in a small Romanian town, the film focuses on a doctor. It was selected to compe...
Demonlover Demonlover is a 2002 neo-noir thriller film by French writer/director Olivier Assayas. The film stars Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny, and Gina Gershon with a musical score by Sonic Youth. It premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, although it was more widely released several months later.
Paris Awakens Paris Awakens (French: Paris s'éveille ) is a 1991 French drama film directed by Olivier Assayas.This film has been music composed by John Cale.The film starring Judith Godrèche, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Thomas Langmann, Antoine Basler, Jacques Martin Lamotte and Ounie Lecomte in the lead roles.
Irma Vep Irma Vep is a 1996 film directed by the French director Olivier Assayas, starring Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung (playing herself) in a story about the disasters that result as a middle-aged French film director (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud) attempts to remake Louis Feuillade's classic silent film serial "Les...
Eddie's House Eddie's House was a doghouse designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Berger family of San Anselmo, California, to be used by their dog Eddie. Wright designed Eddie's House to be in keeping with the family's home, known as the Robert Berger House, which he had previously designed. The plans for the doghouse...
Clouds of Sils Maria Clouds of Sils Maria (known simply as Sils Maria in some territories) is a 2014 drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas, and starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloë Grace Moretz. The film is a French-German-Swiss co-production. Principal photography took place from August t...
The Holocaust The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators killed some six million European Jews. The victims included 1.5 million children and constituted about two-thirds of the nine million Jews in Continental Europe. A broader d...
HMS Clonmel (1918) HMS "Clonmel" was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I. She was originally to be named "Stranraer", but was renamed before launch to avoid possible misunderstandings of having vessels named after coastal locations.
World War I World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars...
George Heneage Lawrence Dundas Rear Admiral George Heneage Lawrence Dundas CB (8 September 1778 – 7 October 1834) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy. As a junior officer he came to prominence due to his brave conduct during a fire on the first-rate HMS "Queen Charlotte". As a result of this he was appointed to the ...
Timeline of the Holocaust A timeline of the Holocaust is detailed in the events listed below. Also referred to as the Shoah (in Hebrew), the Holocaust was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators. About 1.5 million of the victims were children. Tw...
Capture of HMS Cyane and HMS Levant The capture of HMS "Cyane" and HMS "Levant" was an action which took place at the end of the Anglo-American War of 1812. The British warships HMS "Cyane" and HMS "Levant" fought on 20 February 1815 about 100 miles east of Madeira. Following exchanges of broadsides and musket fire, b...
Convoy TM 1 Convoy TM 1 was the code name for an Allied convoy during the Second World War. Nine tankers, escorted by Royal Navy warships, attempted to reach Gibraltar from Trinidad. The convoy was attacked by a U-boat wolf pack in the central Atlantic Ocean, and most of the merchant vessels were sunk. This was one of ...
Charlie Murphy (singer-songwriter) Charlie Murphy was an American singer-songwriter whose album "Catch the Fire" (1981), released on the Good Fairy Productions label, contained the original version of 'Burning Times', later covered by Christy Moore and Roy Bailey. The album also contained the LGBT rights anthem 'Gay Sp...
William Brown (Royal Navy officer) William Brown (8 May 1764 – 20 September 1814) was an officer of the British Royal Navy who served in increasingly senior positions during a long period from the American Revolutionary War, including the French Revolutionary War, and until the Napoleonic Wars. He began his naval caree...
Escapees' Medal The Escapees' Medal (French: "Médaille des Évadés" ) is a military award bestowed by the government of France to individuals who were prisoners of war and who successfully escaped internment or died as a result of their escape attempt. The "Escapees' Medal" was established by a 1926 law, intended to hon...
Velvet (fish disease) Velvet disease (also called gold-dust, rust and coral disease) is a fish disease caused by dinoflagellate parasites of the genus "Piscinoodinium", specifically "Amyloodinium" in marine fish, and "Oodinium" in freshwater fish. The disease gives infected a dusty, brownish-gold color. The disease occ...
Kepler-1520 Kepler-1520 (initially published as KIC 12557548) is a K-type main-sequence star located in the constellation Cygnus. The star is particularly important, as measurements taken by the "Kepler" spacecraft indicate that the variations in the star's light curve cover a range from about 0.2% to 1.3% of the star'...
Curve fitting Curve fitting is the process of constructing a curve, or mathematical function, that has the best fit to a series of data points, possibly subject to constraints. Curve fitting can involve either interpolation, where an exact fit to the data is required, or smoothing, in which a "smooth" function is const...
Alec Fraser-Brunner Alec Frederick Fraser-Brunner (born 6 April 1906—died 17 Sept 1986) was a British ichthyologist. His career included work with the Colonial Office, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and as the curator of the Van Kleef Aquarium in Singapore and the aquarium at Edinburgh Zoo. Amongst his written ...
Tropical fish Tropical fish are generally those fish found in aquatic tropical environments around the world, including both freshwater and saltwater species. Fishkeepers often keep tropical fish in freshwater and saltwater aquariums.
Stegastes Stegastes is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Pomacentridae. Members of this genus are marine coastal fishes except for "S. otophorus", which also occurs in brackish water. These fish are known by the names of damselfish, gregory and major. They are small tropical fish associated with coral and rocky ...
Burmese border loach The Burmese Border loach, angelicus loach or polka dot loach, "Botia kubotai", is a recently described species that has quickly become a popular tropical fish for freshwater aquariums. In 2002, fish collectors working in western Thailand began to expand their search into Myanmar (Burma) area from t...
Paul Matte Paul Matte (1854–1922) was a German tropical fish expert, importer, and fish breeder, and was a pioneer in the importing and breeding of the first tropical fish species to reach Europe. He lived in Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany.
Fish curve A fish curve is an ellipse negative pedal curve that is shaped like a fish. In a fish curve, the pedal point is at the focus for the special case of the squared eccentricity formula_1. The parametric equations for a fish curve correspond to those of the associated ellipse.
Tropical Fish Hobbyist Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine (abbreviated as "TFH Magazine") is a bi-monthly magazine geared to hobbyist keepers of tropical fish, with news and information on a variety of topics including: Care & Maintenance, Aquascaping, Husbandry, Health and Breeding, Species Reports, Aquarium Technology, ...
Identity (novel) Identity (French: "L'Identité" ) is a novel by Franco-Czech writer Milan Kundera, published in 1998. It is possibly his most traditional novel in terms of narrative structure. It's also one of his shortest novels.
François Ricard François Ricard (born June 4, 1947 in Shawinigan, Quebec) is a Canadian writer and academic from Quebec. He has been a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1980, including a special but not exclusive focus on the work of Milan Kundera and Gabrielle Roy, and has published numerous wo...
Alex Epstein (American writer) Alexander Joseph Epstein ( ; born August 1, 1980) is an American author, energy theorist, and industrial policy pundit. He is the founder and President of the Center for Industrial Progress, a for-profit think tank located in San Diego, California. Epstein is also the "New York Times" bes...
Milan Kundera Milan Kundera (] ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech-born French writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores".
Czechs in France Czechs in France refers to the phenomenon of Czech people migrating to France from the Czech Republic or from the political entities that preceded it, such as Czechoslovakia. There is a substantial number of people in France with Czech ancestry, including 100,220 Czech-born people recorded as resident ...
The South (novel) The South is a 1990 novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. It drew comparisons with Milan Kundera.
Shop Talk Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work is a collection of previously published interviews with important 20th-century writers by novelist Philip Roth. Among the writers interviewed are Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Ivan Klima, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, and Edna O'Brien. In addition,...
Slowness (novel) Slowness (French: "La Lenteur" ), published in 1995 in France, is a novel written in French by Milan Kundera. In the book, Kundera manages to weave together a number of plot lines, characters and themes in just over 150 pages. While the book has a narrative, it mainly serves as a way for Kundera to des...
List of people from Brno People known for their achievements in different fields have come from the city of Brno, Czech Republic or lived there. They include scientist Gregor Mendel, who made epochal pea plant experiments, composer Leoš Janáček, and writer Milan Kundera. Numerous politicians and athletes were also born...
Ludvík Kundera Ludvík Kundera (22 March 1920 – 17 August 2010) was a Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian. He was a notable exponent of the Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors. In 2007, he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic. ...
FedEx Air & Ground NFL Players of the Week Every week during the NFL season, six finalists are chosen for the FedEx Air & Ground NFL Players of the Week award, 3 nominated as the FedEx Air player (a quarterback) and 3 nominated as the FedEx Ground player (a running back), online on NFL.com. At the end of the season...
Caleb Knight Caleb "Cal" Knight is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama "Casualty", played by actor Richard Winsor. He first appeared in the series twenty-eight episode "Brothers at Arms", broadcast on 18 January 2014. Winsor had previously auditioned for a role in "Casualty's" spin-off show "Holby City". P...
Avtaar Avtaar is a 1983 film starring Rajesh Khanna and Shabana Azmi. It was directed by Mohan Kumar, and the music was by Laxmikant Pyarelal. Rajesh Khanna did achieve success from "Amardeep" and "Prem Bandhan" onwards, but this was Rajesh Khanna's biggest hit film in terms of box office collections after his bad phas...
George Rainsford (actor) George Rainsford (born 31 July 1982) is an English actor, best known for his portrayal of Jimmy Wilson in the medical drama "Call the Midwife" and Ethan Hardy in "Casualty", for which he has been nominated for a Best Actor award in the 2017 TV Choice Awards.
Jean-Louis Trintignant Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (] ; born 11 December 1930) is a French actor, screenwriter and director who has enjoyed international acclaim. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival as well as the Best Actor Award at the César Awards 2013.
Shabbir Jan Shabbir Jan is a Pakistani television actor who has appeared in many drama serials, such as Wafa, "Makan", "Andata", Survival of a Woman, "Zindagi Dhoop Tum Ghana Saya", "Umrao Jaan", "Jangloos" and "Shab e Gham" and individual play and serials. He won three times PTV best actor award. He has been a nominee...
Ethan Hardy Ethan Hardy is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama "Casualty", played by actor George Rainsford. He first appeared in the series twenty-eight episode "Bad Timing", broadcast on 11 January 2014. Rainsford's casting was announced alongside Richard Winsor who had been hired to play Ethan's brother...
NFL regular season The National Football League (NFL) regular season begins the weekend after Labor Day in early September and ends in December or early January. It consists of 256 games, where each team (32 total) plays 16 games during a 17-week period. Since 2012, the NFL schedule generally has games in one of five t...
Peter Finch Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film "Network", which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the ...
List of awards and nominations received by Vikram Vikram is an Indian Tamil film actor. After making his cinematic debut in the 1990 film "En Kadhal Kanmani", he acted in a series of small-budget Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. It was Bala's tragedy film "Sethu" (1999) that established Vikram in the Tamil film indus...
Crips The Crips also known as Original Crip Homies (OCH) are a primarily African-American gang. They were founded in Los Angeles, California in 1969 mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams. What was once a single alliance between two autonomous gangs is now a loosely connected network of individual "sets", of...
Veronica Hendrix Veronica Hendrix is a journalist and feature columnist whose work has covered the span of the human continuum - from clinical trials of male contraceptives, to the gang violence. Her column "Veronica's View" appears weekly in the "Los Angeles Sentinel" newspaper, the online newsletter "BlackNLA.com", a...
Shane Stanley Shane Stanley (born June 15, 1971 in Los Angeles) is a multi-Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and founder of Visual Arts Entertainment, a film and television production company based in Los Angeles. Best known for executive producing "Gridiron Gang" starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson for Sony Pictures and dir...
Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California, United States and some of its neighboring cities and certain unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Its headquarters are in Downtown Los Angeles. Over the pas...
Stanley Williams Stanley Tookie Williams III (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was an American gang member and convicted murderer, who co-founded the West Side Crips, a street gang which has its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1969. In 1979, he was convicted of murdering four people— a 7-Eleven employee, an...
Operation Hammer (1987) A Los Angeles Police Department C.R.A.S.H. initiative that began in April 1987, Operation Hammer was a large scale attempt to crack down on gang violence in Los Angeles, California. After a group of people at a birthday party were shot down on their front lawn in a drive-by shooting, Chief of Po...