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Chris Mostert
Christiaan "Chris" Mostert is a Dutch saxophonist who has played with the Eagles during their "Farewell 1 Tour" in 2005. He is part of the horns the Mighty Horns . Besides his work with the Eagles, Mostert has also played on solo tours of Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey, and been he also been a membe... |
Suicide of Kurt Cobain
On April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the grunge band Nirvana, was found dead at his home, located at 171 Lake Washington Boulevard East in Seattle, Washington. Forensic analysis at the time determined he had killed himself on April 5. The Seattle Police Department incident report sta... |
New Kid in Town
"New Kid in Town" is a song by the Eagles from their 1976 studio album "Hotel California". It was written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther. Released as the first single from the album, the song became a number-one hit in the US, and number 20 in the UK. The single version has an earlier fade-o... |
Kurt Cobain Memorial Park
Kurt Cobain Memorial Park, also called Kurt Cobain Landing, is the first official, full-scale memorial to Kurt Cobain in his hometown of Aberdeen, Washington. A welcome sign to the city, placed in 2005, more than ten years after Cobain's death, obliquely says "come as you are" but does not men... |
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) was formed out of disagreements over the content and running of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). When director Richard Wolstencroft's film "Pearls Before Swine" was not accepted by the Melbourne International Film Festiv... |
Lunar Park
Lunar Park is a mock memoir by American writer Bret Easton Ellis. It was released by Knopf in 2005. It was the first book written by Ellis to use past tense narrative. The title bears no relation to the public amusement locations known as Luna Park. |
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 languages. He was at first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satiri... |
Patrick Bateman
Patrick Bateman is a fictional character, the villain protagonist and narrator of the novel "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis, and its film adaptation. He is a wealthy, materialistic Wall Street investment banker who leads a double life as a serial killer. Bateman has also briefly appeared in other... |
The Informers (2008 film)
The Informers is a 2008 American ensemble Hollywood drama film written by Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki and directed by Gregor Jordan. The film is based on Ellis' 1994 collection of short stories of the same name. The film, which is set amidst the decadence of the early 1980s, depicts... |
Camden College (fictional college)
Camden College is a fictional liberal arts college, which appears in the works of Bret Easton Ellis, Jill Eisenstadt, and Jonathan Lethem. Whereas Ellis' Camden College is located in New Hampshire, Lethem's Camden is in Vermont, and is notable for being the most expensive college in A... |
Imperial Bedrooms
Imperial Bedrooms is a novel by American author Bret Easton Ellis. Released on June 15, 2010, it is the sequel to "Less Than Zero", Ellis' 1985 bestselling literary debut, which was shortly followed by a film adaptation in 1987. "Imperial Bedrooms" revisits "Less Than Zero"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s self-des... |
Junk Mail (book)
Junk Mail is a 1995 book by Will Self published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It features pieces of writing centred on drugs and the counter-culture, taken from writing in British newspapers such as "The Guardian", "The Observer" and "The Independent". It incorporates a wide range of writing, such as an ar... |
Cannibalism in popular culture
Cannibalism in popular culture is a recurring theme, especially within the horror genre, and has featured in a range of media that includes film, television, literature, music and video games. Examples of prominent artists who have worked with the topic of cannibalism include William Shak... |
The Informers
The Informers is a collection of short stories, seemingly linked by the same continuity, authored by American author Bret Easton Ellis. It was first published as a whole in 1994. Chapters 6 and 7, "Water from the Sun" and "Discovering Japan", were published separately in the UK by Picador in 2007. It disp... |
Daniel C. Matt
Daniel Chanan Matt is a scholar of Kabbalah and a professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He received Ph.D. from the Brandeis University and taught at Stanford University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Matt is best known for establishing the Pritzker translation of the book of Z... |
Mary J. Gregor
Mary J. Gregor (January 1, 1928 – October 31, 1994) was an American author, translator, and professor. She was a Kant scholar and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at San Diego State University, best known for translating the works of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. |
Henry William Dulcken
Henry William Dulcken (1832-1894) was an English translator and children's writer, best known for translating the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. Many of his books for children were illustrated by the Brothers Dalziel. Described as a "jobbing editor", he was sometimes hired to provide text for... |
Plato Tiburtinus
Plato Tiburtinus (Latin: "Plato Tiburtinus" , "Plato of Tivoli"; fl. 12th century) was a 12th-century Italian mathematician, astronomer and translator who lived in Barcelona from 1116 to 1138. He is best known for translating Hebrew and Arabic documents into Latin, and was apparently the first to trans... |
Anthony Gill (professor)
Anthony J Gill is an Australian pathologist, professor and medical researcher. He is professor of surgical pathology at the University of Sydney and the chairman of the Australian Pancreatic Genome Initiative. Most of his research is focused on translating the improved understanding of cancer g... |
Friedrich Spielhagen
Friedrich Spielhagen (24 February 1829 – 25 February 1911) was a German novelist, literary theorist and translator. He tried a number of careers in his early 20s, but at 25 began writing and translating. His best known novel is "Sturmflut" and his novel "In Reih' und Glied" was quite successful in ... |
Arthur Wesley Wheen
Arthur Wesley Wheen, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (9 February 1897 – 15 March 1971) was an Australian soldier, translator and museum librarian. He is best known for translating the work of Erich Maria Remarque into English, beginning with the classic war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" in... |
Arthur W. Ryder
Arthur William Ryder (March 8, 1877 – March 21, 1938) was a professor of Sanskrit at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for translating a number of Sanskrit works into English, including the Panchatantra and the Bhagavad Gita. In the words of G. R. Noyes, |
François Maspero
François Maspero (19 January 1932 – 11 April 2015) was a French author and journalist, best known as a publisher of leftist books in the 1970s. He has also worked as a translator, translating the works of Joseph Conrad and John Reed, author of "Ten Days that Shook the World", among others. He was award... |
Jody Byrne (academic)
Dr Jody Byrne is an Irish translation scholar and translator who specialises in scientific and technical translation from German and Spanish into English. He is best known as the author of "Technical Translation: Usability Strategies for Translating Technical Documents" (Springer, 2006) and "Scien... |
Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic
Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic (titled Sesame Street Presents Lights Camera Imagination! 4-D at SeaWorld and Busch Gardens Europe parks, and Sesame Street Film Festival 4-D at Busch Gardens Africa) is a 4D film theme park attraction located at Universal Studios Japan, SeaWorld San Antonio, ... |
Drachen Fire
Drachen Fire was a steel roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Operating from 1992 until 1998, the roller coaster was manufactured by Arrow Dynamics. It featured electric-blue track and silver supports, and was located in the Oktoberfest portion of the park, behin... |
Sand Serpent
Sand Serpent (formerly Cheetah Chase) is a Wild Mouse roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. The ride originally operated at sister park Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia as Wild Izzy in 1996 and as Wilde Maus from 1997 to 2003. |
SheiKra
SheiKra ( , ) is a steel Dive Coaster roller coaster at the Busch Gardens Tampa Bay amusement park in Tampa, Florida, United States. The roller coaster was proposed by Mark Rose, vice-president of design and engineering for the park, and designed by Bolliger & Mabillard. The ride was planned to be 160 ft high, ... |
Big Bad Wolf (roller coaster)
Big Bad Wolf was a suspended roller coaster in the Oktoberfest section of Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Designed by Arrow Dynamics, the roller coaster opened to the public on June 15, 1984. The ride was in service for more than 25 years before closing permanently on September 7, 2009. The fo... |
Loch Ness Monster (roller coaster)
The Loch Ness Monster is a steel roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, noted at the time of its opening in 1978 as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster, as well as the first coaster with two interlocking loops. |
Griffon (roller coaster)
Griffon is a steel Dive Coaster roller coaster located at the Busch Gardens Williamsburg amusement park in James City County, Virginia, United States. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard, it is 205 ft high, and is the second-fastest (71 mph ) Dive Coaster built. The roller coaster features two Imm... |
Python (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay)
Python was a steel roller coaster located at Busch Gardens amusement park in Tampa, Florida. Built by Arrow Development and opened on July 1, 1976, it was the first roller coaster at Busch Gardens since the park opened in 1959. The ride was located in the Congo section of the park near ... |
Montu (roller coaster)
Montu is an inverted roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard, it is the park's second roller coaster designed by the Swiss company following the success of Kumba which opened 3 years prior. When the ride opened on May 16, 1996, it was the world's... |
Grover's Alpine Express
Grover's Alpine Express is a sleigh-themed Zierer junior roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, located in Williamsburg, Virginia. |
NBA Rookie of the Year Award
The National Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year Award is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the top rookie(s) of the regular season. Initiated following the 1952–53 NBA season, it confers the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy, named after the former Philadelphia War... |
1952–53 Boston Celtics season
The 1952-53 NBA season was the Celtics' 7th season in the NBA. |
1952–53 Baltimore Bullets season
The 1952-53 NBA season was the Bullets' 6th season in the NBA. The team featured Hall of Fame center Don Barksdale. With a .229 winning percentage, the team was selected by Nate Silver as the worst team to have ever advanced to the post-season in the NBA, NFL, NHL, or MLB. The Bullets n... |
1952–53 Fort Wayne Pistons season
The 1952-53 NBA season was the Pistons' fifth season in the NBA and 12th season as a franchise. |
Kevin Durant
Kevin Wayne Durant (born September 29, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has won an NBA championship, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award, the NBA All-Star ... |
1953 NBA All-Star Game
The 1953 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game played on January 13, 1953, at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, home of the Fort Wayne Pistons. The game was the third edition of the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game and was played during th... |
1952–53 Philadelphia Warriors season
The 1952-53 NBA season was the Warriors' 7th season in the NBA. |
1952–53 NBA season
The 1952–53 NBA season was the seventh season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Minneapolis Lakers winning the NBA Championship, beating the New York Knicks 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals. |
1952–53 Minneapolis Lakers season
The 1952-53 NBA season was the franchise's fifth season in the NBA. The Lakers continued to be the dominant force in the league as they won the Western Division with a 48–22 record. In the playoffs, the Lakers would sweep the Indianapolis Olympians in 2 straight. In the Western Finals,... |
1952–53 Milwaukee Hawks season
The 1952-53 NBA season was the Hawks' fourth season in the NBA and second season in Milwaukee. |
The Way (2010 film)
The Way is a 2010 American drama film directed, produced and written by Emilio Estevez, starring his father Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt, Yorick van Wageningen, and Renée Estevez. |
In the Custody of Strangers
In the Custody of Strangers is a 1982 ABC made-for-TV drama film. It was directed by Robert Greenwald and written by Jennifer Miller. The film stars Martin Sheen, Jane Alexander and Emilio Estevez, the latter in his feature film debut. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Be... |
Dollar for the Dead
Dollar for the Dead is a 1998 TNT western television film. Film directed and written by Gene Quintano and starring Emilio Estevez. It is the third western film which Estevez stars. Film also stars William Forsythe, Joaquim de Almeida, Jonathan Banks, Ed Lauter and Howie Long. Actor Jordi Mollà nomin... |
Nightmares (1983 film)
Nightmares is a 1983 American horror anthology film directed by Joseph Sargent, and starring Emilio Estevez, Lance Henriksen, Cristina Raines, Veronica Cartwright, and Richard Masur. The film is made up of four short films based on urban legends; the first concerns a woman who encounters a killer... |
Culture Clash in AmeriCCa
Culture Clash in AmeriCCa is a 2005 documentary film directed by Emilio Estevez. It is an anthology of fun and thought-provoking skits and monologues portraying diverse American immigrants. Emlio Estevez doesn't appear in this documentary film. Inspiration came from thousands of interviews con... |
Here Not There
Here Not There is the second full length studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Jane Child. It was released in 1993 on Warner Bros. Records (see 1993 in music). Due to a strange single choice (the label opted for the title track instead of "Do Whatcha Do", which would have been in keeping with her st... |
Rated X (film)
Rated X is a 2000 American television film starring brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, with the latter also directing. Based on the nonfiction book "X-Rated" by David McCumber, the film chronicles the story of the Mitchell brothers, Jim and Artie Mitchell, who were pioneers in the pornography and... |
Bobby (2006 film)
Bobby is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Emilio Estevez, and starring an ensemble cast featuring Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Laurence Fishburne, Spencer Garrett, Helen Hunt, Anthony Hopkins, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LaBeouf, Lindsay Lohan, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, Mart... |
Wisdom (film)
Wisdom is a 1986 American romantic crime film written and directed by its star Emilio Estevez in his filmmaking debut. The film also stars Demi Moore, along with Tom Skerritt and Veronica Cartwright (both of "Alien" fame) as Estevez's parents. The end credits song is "Home Again" by Oingo Boingo and the s... |
Joe Estevez
Joseph "Joe" Estevez (born February 13, 1946) is an American actor, director and producer. He is the younger brother of actor Martin Sheen and the uncle of Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Renée Estevez and Ramon Estevez. |
Found That Soul
"Found That Soul" is a single by the Manic Street Preachers, released on 26 February 2001 from the "Know Your Enemy" album. Writing credit was shared by all three members of the band, James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore and Nicky Wire. The song reached number 9 in the UK Singles Chart. |
Some Kind of Bliss
"Some Kind of Bliss" is a song recorded by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, for her sixth studio album "Impossible Princess" (1997). The song was released as the lead single from the album on 8 September 1997 through BMG, Deconstruction and Mushroom. Minogue co-wrote the track with James De... |
An English Gentleman
"An English Gentleman" is the second single from the album "The Great Western" by Manic Street Preachers vocalist/guitarist James Dean Bradfield, released on 25 September 2006 on Columbia Records." The title track pays tribute to the late Manics publicist Philip Hall. Also featured on the CD versio... |
Beautiful Mistake (film)
Beautiful Mistake "(Welsh: Camgymeriad Gwych)" is a 2000 British music documentary film directed by Marc Evans starring James Dean Bradfield, Huw Bunford and Cian Ciaran. |
James Dean Bradfield
James Dean Bradfield (born 21 February 1969) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. He is known for being the lead guitarist and lead vocalist for the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. |
The Everlasting (song)
"The Everlasting" is the second single to be lift from the Manic Street Preachers's fifth studio album "This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours". It was released on November 30, 1998, through Epic, it peaked on number 11 in the UK Singles Chart, breaking their run of consecutive top ten hits. All three me... |
So Why So Sad
"So Why So Sad" was released by Manic Street Preachers in 2001 and was jointly the first single to be released from the "Know Your Enemy" album. All three members of the band - James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore and Nicky Wire - share the writing credits. The song reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart. |
Tsunami (Manic Street Preachers song)
"Tsunami" is a song by Manic Street Preachers, released as a single on July 5, 1999 through Epic. It was the fourth and final single to be released from the album "This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours" All three members of the band - James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore and Nicky Wire - shar... |
You Stole the Sun from My Heart
"You Stole the Sun from My Heart" is a song by Manic Street Preachers, released as the third single from the album "This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours". All three members of the band - James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore and Nicky Wire - share the writing credits. |
Ocean Spray (song)
"Ocean Spray" is a song by the Manic Street Preachers, which was released as a single on 4 June 2001, the third single to be released from the album "Know Your Enemy". James Dean Bradfield wrote both lyrics and music for the song. It reached number 15 in the UK Singles Chart. |
Katherine Oliver
Katherine Oliver is an American media and entertainment executive based in New York City. Oliver is currently a Principal at Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consultancy firm founded by Michael Bloomberg to provide advice and long-term solutions to cities worldwide. On August 1, 2002, she was appo... |
The Bank of New York Mellon
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, which does business as BNY Mellon, is an American worldwide banking and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City. It was formed on July 1, 2007, as a result of the merger of The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corporatio... |
New York Private Bank & Trust
New York Private Bank & Trust Corporation is a bank holding company headquartered in New York City, United States. Howard Milstein is the Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer. As of early 2007, it had $17.3 billion in assets and was the 50th largest bank holding company in the... |
IberiaBank
IberiaBank Corporation, stylized as IBERIABANK, is an American financial holding company headquartered in Lafayette, LA and the largest bank based in Louisiana. Founded in 1887, it now has over 250 combined offices in 10 states primarily throughout the South. The company has eight locations with representati... |
CIT Group
CIT Group Inc. is a financial holding company founded in 1908 headquartered in New York City. The company's name is an abbreviation of an early corporate name, Commercial Investment Trust. It provides financing and leasing capital to customers in over 30 industries. CIT also operates CIT Bank, an FDIC insured... |
Roman Sledziejowski
Roman J. Sledziejowski (pronounced sleh-jay-YOV-ski) is a Polish-born investment manager widely recognized on Wall Street as an alleged criminal, liar, and thief, allegedly. After graduating from high school as class valedictorian, he attended Columbia University in New York City. In late 1990s Sled... |
BBVA Compass
BBVA Compass Bancshares, Inc. (formerly Compass Bancshares) is a United States-based financial holding company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. It has been a subsidiary of the Spanish multinational Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria since 2007 and operates chiefly in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorad... |
Astoria Bank
Astoria Bank (formerly Astoria Federal Savings & Loan Association) is a bank based in Long Island City, New York. Astoria Financial Corporation is the holding company formed in 1993 to facilitate the conversion of Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association from a mutual form of ownership to stock ownersh... |
Nelson Chai
Nelson Joosuk Chai (born 1965) is an American investment banker and financial executive. He formerly served as the chief financial officer of American financial services company Merrill Lynch and briefly as Bank of America's president for the Asia-Pacific region. He is the former president of CIT Group and ... |
General Mediterranean Holding
The General Mediterranean Holding (GMH) is a financial holding company established in 1979 in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg, founded by Anglo-Iraqi businessman Nadhmi Auchi. |
Stavanger
Stavanger (] ) is a city and municipality in Norway. The city is the third-largest urban zone and metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighbouring Sandnes) and the administrative centre of Rogaland county. The municipality is the fourth most populous in Norway. Located on the Stavanger Penin... |
Diocesan Native Female Training School
Diocesan Native Female Training School (DNFTS, ) was a school under the Anglican Church of Hong Kong in the 19th century, founded in 1860 and closed down in 1868. Its premises now belong to today's Bonham Road Government Primary School(). In 1869, another institution called Dioces... |
Louaize Club
Louaize Club is the basketball department of Notre Dame University – Louaize , a university basketball club basked in Zouk Mosbeh. The club was established in the founding year of 1978 and is currently participating in the 2016 Lebanese Basketball League. |
Symphony of Southeast Texas
The Symphony of Southeast Texas is an American orchestra based in Beaumont, Texas. The orchestra, formerly known as the "Beaumont Symphony Orchestra", officially started in 1953; however, the impetus can be traced back as early as 1923 with the formation of the Beaumont Music Commission. The... |
Muscular Dystrophy Canada
Muscular Dystrophy Canada (MDC) (French: Dystrophie musculaire Canada ) is a non-profit organization that strives to find a cure for neuromuscular disorders. Founded in 1954 as Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada, volunteers and staff nationwide have helped to provide support and resource... |
Karaj Payam Noor University
Karaj Payam Noor University is located in Karaj, Iran, and has two campuses. The main campus is located in Gohardasht, and another campus is located on Ghalamestan Street. The university was founded in 2000-01. In the school's founding year, 70 students were admitted for their BS in accounti... |
Swan 43
The Swan 43 was designed by Olin Stephens and built by Nautor's Swan and was one of the initial two models launched in the companies founding year alongside the Swan 36. |
The Durango Herald
The Durango Herald is a newspaper in Durango, Colorado. The first edition of the "Herald" came out June 30, 1881. Two years later, the "Herald" merged with the Record, which had started publishing in 1880, seven months before the "Herald". The modern "Herald" traces its roots to both papers but the c... |
Skultuna mässingsbruk
Skultuna Messingsbruk is a Swedish company founded in 1607 at the bequest of King Karl IX. Skultuna Messingsbruk is located in Skultuna on the outskirts of Västerås. The logotype of Skultuna consists of the closed royal crown, the name "Skultuna" and the founding year "1607". |
Gufo Temple
Gufo Temple () is located on the bank of Qingshui River, Jingangku, Shanxi province, China and is the first temple to see if entering the Mount Wutai area from the south route. According to Mount Wutai's history, there are only records of the renovation of this temple, but nothing concerning its founding ye... |
Frederick William III of Prussia
Frederick William III (German: "Friedrich Wilhelm III" ) (3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840. He ruled Prussia during the difficult times of the Napoleonic Wars and the end of the Holy Roman Empire. Steering a careful course between France and her enemies... |
Joachim Whaley
Joachim Whaley (born September 1954 near London) is a historian and linguist at Cambridge University where he is Professor of German History and Thought. He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He teaches and researches in German history and culture since 1500 and contemporary German politics.... |
French–Habsburg relations
The term France–Habsburg rivalry (French: "Rivalité franco-habsbourgeoise" ; German: "Habsburgisch-Französischer Gegensatz" ) describes the rivalry between the House of Habsburg and the Kingdom of France. The Habsburgs were the largest and most powerful royal house of the Holy Roman Empire fro... |
Army of the Holy Roman Empire
The Army of the Holy Roman Empire (German "Reichsarmee", "Reichsheer" or "Reichsarmatur"; Latin "exercitus imperii") was created in 1422, and came to an end when the Holy Roman Empire was wound up in 1806, as the result of the Napoleonic Wars. It must not be confused with the Imperial Army... |
Battle of Leitzersdorf
The Battle of Leitzersdorf was a battle between the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in 1484. Fuelled by the earlier conflicts of Matthias Corvinus and Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor it marked the end of anti-Ottoman preparations and initiations of a holy war. It was the only open ... |
List of monarchs of Prussia
The monarchs of Prussia were members of the House of Hohenzollern who were the hereditary rulers of the former German state of Prussia from its founding in 1525 as the Duchy of Prussia. The Duchy had evolved out of the Teutonic Order, a Roman Catholic crusader state and theocracy located alo... |
Uniformity policy
The uniformity policy was the concept of implementing Swedish law to the dominions of Sweden during the latter's time as an empire. It is symbolized by the slogan unus rex, una lex et grex unus ("one king, one law, one people") possibly coined by Johan Skytte, governor-general in Swedish Estonia, Ingr... |
Corpus Evangelicorum
The Corpus Evangelicorum was a league of Protestant imperial states within the Holy Roman Empire that came into existence on 22 July 1653. It progenitor was King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden who proposed the Corpus as a body of Protestant states who were allies, or were potential allies, against Fer... |
Duchy of Württemberg
The Duchy of Württemberg (German: "Herzogtum Württemberg" ) was a duchy located in the south-western part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was a member of the Holy Roman Empire from 1495 to 1806. The dukedom's long survival for nearly four centuries was mainly due to its size, being larger than its imm... |
Grand duchy
A grand duchy is a country or territory whose official head of state or ruler is a monarch bearing the title of grand duke or grand duchess. Relatively rare until the abolition of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the term was often used in the official name of countries smaller than most continental kingdoms ... |
Union (band)
Union is an American rock group formed in 1997 featuring lead vocalist and guitarist John Corabi (ex-The Scream and Mötley Crüe), guitarist Bruce Kulick (ex-Kiss), bassist James Hunting (David Lee Roth and Eddie Money), and drummer Brent Fitz (Slash). |
Hooligan's Holiday
"Hooligan's Holiday" is a song by American heavy metal band, Mötley Crüe, released on their 1994 eponymous album. The lyrics to the song were written by vocalist/rhythm guitarist John Corabi and bassist Nikki Sixx, while the music was written by Corabi, Sixx, drummer Tommy Lee and guitarist Mick Mars... |
Brides of Destruction
Brides of Destruction was a short-lived American hard rock supergroup from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2002. The band's last lineup consisted of singer London LeGrand (vocals), Tracii Guns (lead guitar) and Scot Coogan (drums, percussion). Previous members of the band were Nikki Sixx (bass)... |
Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour
The Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour is a 2008–2009 promotional concert tour of music co-written by David Byrne and Brian Eno with performances by Byrne. In addition to being a retrospective of the duo's collaborations, the tour promoted the album "Everything That Happens ... |
Eric Singer Project
Eric Singer Project is an American rock band. ESP was founded in the 1990s by Eric Singer, drummer for such acts as Lita Ford, Black Sabbath, Badlands, Alice Cooper, and Kiss, along with Bruce Kulick (Kiss, Grand Funk Railroad) on guitar, John Corabi (The Scream, Mötley Crüe, Ratt) on guitar and bas... |
Misunderstood (Mötley Crüe song)
"Misunderstood" is a power ballad by the American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released on their 1994 eponymous album. The lyrics were written by vocalist/guitarist John Corabi and bassist Nikki Sixx, while the music was written by Corabi, Sixx, drummer Tommy Lee and guitarist Mick Mar... |
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