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Sapphire Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
On 6 February 2017, the Sapphire Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, marking sixty-five years of her reign, occurred. The longest-reigning monarch in British history, Queen Elizabeth II was the first British monarch to have a sapphire jubilee. This Jubilee featured blue stamps from the... |
Wedding dress of Princess Elizabeth
The wedding dress of Princess Elizabeth was worn by the future Queen Elizabeth II at her wedding to Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh on 20 November 1947 in Westminster Abbey. Given the rationing of clothing at the time, she still had to purchase the material using ration coupons... |
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British naval officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cous... |
Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal
The Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal (French: "Médaille du jubilé de la reine Élisabeth II" ) was a commemorative medal created in 1977 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elizabeth II's accession in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The medal was... |
Earl of Merioneth
The title Earl of Merioneth was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1947 along with the Dukedom of Edinburgh and the Barony of Greenwich for Philip Mountbatten, R.N. (formerly Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark), the soon-to-be-husband of Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II). |
Edward Iwi
Edward Frank Iwi (28 November 19046 June 1966) was an English lawyer who was best known as an amateur constitutional expert. Many of his opinions, while initially dismissed by the establishment, proved to be correct and caused official policy to be changed. Most notable was his advocacy for the Royal Family ... |
Jubilee Gardens, Lambeth
Jubilee Gardens is a public park on the South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth. Created in 1977 to mark the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, the site was formerly used for the Dome of Discovery and the adjacent Skylon during the Festival of Britain in 1951. A multimillion-pound redevelopmen... |
Monarchy of Fiji
The monarchy of Fiji arose in the mid-nineteenth century when native ruler Seru Epenisa Cakobau consolidated control of the Fijian Islands and declared himself King or paramount chief of Fiji (Fijian: "Tui Viti" ). In 1874, he voluntarily ceded sovereignty of the islands to Britain, which made Fiji a C... |
Elite theory
In political science and sociology, elite theory is a theory of the state which seeks to describe and explain the power relationships in contemporary society. The theory posits that a small minority, consisting of members of the economic elite and policy-planning networks, holds the most power and that thi... |
Pawan Munjal
Pawan Munjal (Pawan Kant Munjal) is an Indian belonging to the promoter family of Hero group. Pawan is the third child of (father) Brijmohan Lall Munjal and (Mother) Santosh Munjal. He is 61 years old and currently serves as the Chairman, Managing Director & CEO of Hero Motocorp. India Today magazine ranke... |
Rahul Bhatia
Rahul Bhatia is an Indian businessman and co-founder and Non-executive director of low-cost carrier IndiGo and Group Managing Director of InterGlobe Enterprises. IndiGo airlines commenced operations in 4thAugust 2006 and had its Initial Public Offering (IPO) in October 2015. After the listing of the airlin... |
New Zealand Listener Power List
The New Zealand Listener Power List is a list of the most powerful people in New Zealand, compiled annually by the "New Zealand Listener" from 2004 to 2009. From 2004 to 2007, the list covered the 50 most powerful people without separating them by field. In 2008, the list was divided int... |
Prathap C. Reddy
Prathap Chandra Reddy (born 1933 in Aragonda) is an Indian entrepreneur and cardiologist, who founded the first corporate chain of hospitals in India – the Apollo Hospitals Group. India Today magazine ranked him #48th in India's 50 Most powerful people of 2017 list. |
Hu Xiaolian
Hu Xiaolian (; born 1958) is the Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China and the former director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange in China. She was ranked 23rd on "The Wall Street Journal"' s "The 50 Women to Watch 2007" list. She was ranked fourth on "The Wall Street Journal"' s "The 5... |
Vineet Jain
Vineet Jain belongs to the Sahu Jain family and is the current Managing director of India's largest media group, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., parent company of "The Times of India" and other large newspapers. India Today magazine ranked him #23th in India's 50 Most powerful people of 2017 list. |
Rajiv Bajaj
Rajiv Bajaj (born December 21, 1966) is the Managing Director of Bajaj Auto since 2005. He introduced the Pulsar range of motorcycles credited with reviving the fortunes of the ailing company benefiting the Indian auto industry. India Today magazine ranked him #42th in India's 50 Most powerful people of 201... |
Dilip Shanghvi
Dilip Shanghvi (born 1 October 1955) is an Indian businessman and one of the country's richest people. He founded Sun Pharmaceuticals with a partner, Pradeep Ghosh. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2016. India Today magazine ranked him #8th in India's 50 Most p... |
Aditya Puri
Aditya Puri is the Managing Director of HDFC Bank, India's largest private sector bank. He assumed this position in September 1994, making him the longest-serving head of any private bank in the country. India Today magazine ranked him #24th in India's 50 Most powerful people of 2017 list. |
Vegas Chips
Vegas Chips was a snack food manufacturer based in North Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded in 1987. The company became publicly traded on the NASDAQ in 1989. Vegas Chips was best known for its brand of kettle cooked potato chips. Milton Rudnick became President in 1991. Mlton Rudnick was founder of Jaxs Che... |
George A. Hormel
George Albert Hormel (December 4, 1860 – June 5, 1946) was the founder of Hormel Foods Corporation (then known as George A. Hormel & Co.) in 1891. His ownership stake in the company made him one of the wealthiest Americans during his lifetime. |
Meat grinder
A meat grinder or meat mincer is a kitchen appliance for fine chopping ('mincing') and/or mixing of raw or cooked meat, fish, vegetables or similar food. It replaces tools like the mincing knife, for example, which is also used to produce minced meat, filling, etc. The producer puts the minced food into a ... |
Jennie-O
Jennie-O Turkey Store is a brand name of turkey products. It is now a subsidiary of the Hormel Foods Corporation in Willmar, Minnesota. |
Spam Museum
The Spam Museum is an admission-free museum in Austin, Minnesota dedicated to Spam, a brand of canned precooked meat products made by Hormel Foods Corporation. The museum tells the history of the Hormel company, the origin of Spam, and its place in world culture. |
Hormel
Hormel Foods Corporation is an American food company based in Austin, Minnesota. The company was founded as George A. Hormel & Company in Austin by George A. Hormel in 1891. It changed its name to Hormel Foods in 2017 |
Twistees
Twistees is an iconic brand of Maltese snacks which is now widely exported. Twistees are produced by Darrell Lee Foods at a factory in Marsa which was originally established by Ray Calleja. The most popular snack food in Malta, Twistees are sold in the UK, under the Tastees brand. They are also exported to Lib... |
Jay C. Hormel Nature Center
The Jay C. Hormel Nature Center is a municipal nature preserve on the north-eastern corner of Austin, Minnesota, comprising more than 500 acre of restored and remnant prairie, hardwood forest, wetlands and meandering streams. Purchased with municipal, state, and private donations, the nature... |
Spam (food)
Spam (stylized SPAM) is a brand of canned cooked meat made by Hormel Foods Corporation. It was first introduced in 1937 and gained popularity worldwide after its use during World War II. By 2003, Spam was sold in 41 countries on six continents and trademarked in over 100 countries (except in the Middle East... |
Spam musubi
Spam musubi is a popular snack and lunch food in Hawaii composed of a slice of grilled Spam on top of a block of rice, wrapped together with nori in the tradition of Japanese "omusubi". |
Matthiola incana
Matthiola incana, known as hoary stock, is a species of flowering plant in the genus "Matthiola". The common name stock usually refers to this species, though it may also be applied to the whole genus. The common name "night-scented stock" or "evening-scented stock" is applied to "Matthiola longipetala... |
Marly, Fribourg
Marly is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Its German name is "Mertenlach", but this is no longer common, although still in regional use. It was formed through the 1970 merger of Marly-le-Grand and Marly-le-Petit and the 1976 addition of the former munici... |
Centaurea
Centaurea ( ) is a genus of between 350 and 600 species of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Members of the genus are found only north of the equator, mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere; the Middle East and surrounding regions are particularly species-rich. Common names for this... |
Stillingia
Stillingia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described for modern science as a genus in 1767. The genus is native to Latin America, the southern United States, and various islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Toothleaf is a common name for plants in this genus. |
Lisianthus (disambiguation)
Lisianthus is a common name for flowers in the genus "Eustoma". |
Hesperevax caulescens
Hesperevax caulescens is a small flowering plant in the daisy family. One common name for the plant is hogwallow starfish, as it is a somewhat flat, star-shaped plant which grows in mud. Another common name is dwarf dwarf-cudweed, as the three members of genus "Hesperevax" are known as dwarf-cudwe... |
Aldrovanda vesiculosa
Aldrovanda vesiculosa, commonly known as the waterwheel plant, is the sole extant species in the flowering plant genus "Aldrovanda" of the family Droseraceae. The plant captures small aquatic invertebrates using traps similar to those of the Venus flytrap. The traps are arranged in whorls around a... |
Eustoma russellianum
Eustoma russellianum, is a species of flowering plant in the Gentian family. Its previous binomial name was "Eustoma grandiflorum". Common names include Texas bluebells, Texas bluebell, bluebell, showy prairie gentian, prairie gentian The Bolero Deep Blue, and Lisianthus. |
Myrtus
Myrtus, with the common name myrtle, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae, described by Linnaeus in 1753. |
Lychnis flos-cuculi
Lychnis flos-cuculi, commonly called Ragged-Robin, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is species is native to Europe, where it is found along roads and in wet meadows and pastures. In Britain it has declined in numbers because of modern farming techniques and draining ... |
Peter Shin
Peter Shin is an American animator who served as supervising director of "", the director of "Big Bug Man", the director of "Family Guy" episodes "Death Has a Shadow", "Emission Impossible", "North by North Quahog", "It's a Trap!" and "The Simpsons Guy" and was a character layout artist "The Simpsons" for se... |
Dominic Polcino
Dominic Polcino is an animation director who has worked on "The Simpsons", "Mission Hill", "King of the Hill", and "Family Guy". Polcino worked on the first season of "Family Guy", then left to direct for "King of the Hill" and then returned to "Family Guy". He then went on to create the TV pilot "Loves... |
Cleveland Brown Jr.
Cleveland Orenthal Brown Jr. is a character in the animated television series "Family Guy", and its spin-off series "The Cleveland Show". He is the son of Cleveland Brown and his late ex-wife Loretta. On "Family Guy", he was depicted as slim and hyperactive; however, on "The Cleveland Show" he is sh... |
Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse
Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse is an action-adventure game that was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 20, 2012, in North America, November 21, 2012, in Australia and November 23, 2012, in Europe. The game is based on the American animated telev... |
Criticism of Family Guy
The American animated sitcom "Family Guy" has been the target of numerous taste and indecency complaints. The show is known to include offensive jokes and violent images. The show's dark humor and sexual themes has led to backlash from the community. Since the premiere of Family Guy the Parents ... |
The Simpsons Guy
"The Simpsons Guy" is the first episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series "Family Guy", and the 232nd overall episode. "The Simpsons Guy" is a 45-minute-long crossover with "The Simpsons", and was written by Patrick Meighan and directed by Peter Shin. It originally air... |
There's Something About Paulie
"There's Something About Paulie" is the 16th episode from the second season of the Fox animated series "Family Guy". It is the 23rd episode of "Family Guy". It was also the last episode of the first production season of "Family Guy" to air, but unlike the others, Mila Kunis had replaced L... |
Peter Griffin
Peter Griffin is the main protagonist and title character of the American animated sitcom "Family Guy". He is voiced by cartoonist Seth MacFarlane and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the family, in the 15-minute pilot pitch of "Family Guy" on December 20, 1998. Peter was created and d... |
Cartoon Wars Part II
"Cartoon Wars Part II" is the fourth episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series "South Park". The 143rd episode of the series overall, it first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 12, 2006. After "Cartoon Wars Part I", it is the second part of a two-epi... |
Family Guy Online
Family Guy Online was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on the animated television series "Family Guy", developed in a partnership between Roadhouse Interactive and 20th Century Fox. "Family Guy Online" was free-to-play using the Unity game engine. The game launched into ... |
Martin Short
Martin Hayter Short {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. He is known for his work on the television programs "SCTV" and "Saturday Night Live". He has starred in comedy films, such as "Three Amigos" (1986), "Innerspace" (1987), "Three Fugitives" (... |
Primetime Glick
Primetime Glick is an American television series starring Martin Short as Jiminy Glick. The series aired from June 20, 2001, to July 3, 2003, on Comedy Central. |
Black Toast Music
Founded by Bob Mair in 1991, Black Toast Music is an independent music publisher/production music library located in Los Angeles, CA. Since its launch, the company has placed music in television series (including “True Blood,” “Dexter,” “Treme,” and “The Wire,” and others), motion pictures (including ... |
Ed Grimley
Edward Mayhoff 'Ed' Grimley is a fictional character created and portrayed by Martin Short. Developed amongst The Second City improv comedy troupe, Grimley made his television debut on the sketch comedy show "SCTV" in 1982, leading to popular success for both Short and the persona. Short continued to portray... |
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood is a 2004 comedy film starring Martin Short as Jiminy Glick, a morbidly obese movie critic who is involved in a murder case at the Toronto International Film Festival. The supporting cast features Jan Hooks, Janeane Garofalo, Linda Cardellini, Mo Collins and Aries Spear... |
Jiminy Glick
Jiminy Glick is a fictional character portrayed by Martin Short in the TV series "Primetime Glick" (2001–2003), the subsequent 2004 film "Jiminy Glick in Lalawood," and Short's Broadway show "". He began as a recurring character on "The Martin Short Show". When that show was cancelled, he was spun off into... |
The Devil's in the Details (Jennifer Paige song)
"The Devil's in the Details" is a 2017 pop song recorded by American singer Jennifer Paige. The song was written by Jennifer Paige and produced by Jeremy Bose. It was released as the first single from her self-funded fourth album, "Starflower". The music video for "The D... |
Always You (Jennifer Paige song)
"Always You" is a 1999 pop song recorded by American singer Jennifer Paige. It was released in July 1999 as the third single released from her debut studio album "Jennifer Paige". The song was written by Andy Goldmark and J.D. Martin. For this single, "Always You" was remixed by Groove ... |
Crush (Jennifer Paige song)
"Crush" is a 1998 pop song recorded by American singer Jennifer Paige. The song was written by Andy Goldmark, Mark Mueller, Berny Cosgrove and Kevin Clark. It was released as the first single from her debut album, "Jennifer Paige" (see 1998 in music). The music video for "Crush" was produced... |
Jennifer Paige Chambers
Jennifer Paige Chambers is a musical theatre performer, who has appeared in "The Producers" on Broadway with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, in Los Angeles with Martin Short and Jason Alexander, and in the National Tour with Louis Stadlen and Don Stephenson. She had the chance to co-star as t... |
Ivory Lee Brown
Ivory Lee Brown (born August 17, 1969) is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League and World League of American Football. He played for the Phoenix Cardinals of the NFL and the San Antonio Riders of the WLAF. Brown is the uncle of Minnesota Vikings running bac... |
Vad Lee
Lavaedeay Monlique (Vad) Lee (born April 27, 1993) is an American football quarterback for the Columbus Lions of the National Arena League (NAL). Lee went to Hillside High School (Durham, North Carolina). Lee is considered to be a skilled dual-threat, athletic quarterback who redshirted as a true freshman at Ge... |
Mike Dudek
Mike Dudek (born August 21, 1995) is an American football wide receiver for the Illinois Fighting Illini. As a true freshman, Dudek broke Illinois' school record for receiving yards by a freshman, previously set by Arrelious Benn in 2007. |
Josh Rosen
Joshua Ballinger Lippincott Rosen (born February 10, 1997) is an American football quarterback who plays college football for the UCLA Bruins. He was a top-rated recruit coming out of high school, where he was named a 2014 "USA Today" High School All-American. The first true freshman to ever start at quarter... |
John O'Korn
John August O'Korn (born November 22, 1994) is an American football quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines. After attending St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he led his team to the 2012 FHSAA 7A state high school title, O'Korn chose to attend the University of Houston. He be... |
Edorian McCullough
Edorian McCullough (born January 6, 1982 in Dallas, Texas) is a former sprinter and American football cornerback and running back. He won the Texas high school championship in the 100 meters in consecutive years as a junior and senior and set district records with 340 rushing yards in a single game a... |
Chuckie Keeton
As a true freshman in 2011, Keeton started eight of nine games, completing 106 of 174 passes for 1,200 yards with 11 touchdowns and two interceptions. In 2012, he started all 13 games, completing 275 of 407 passes for 3,373 yards 27 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He was a first team All-WAC selection... |
Adrian Peterson
Adrian Lewis Peterson (born March 21, 1985) is an American football running back for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oklahoma and was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings seventh overall in the 2007 NFL Draft. Peterson set the NCAA freshman rushing... |
Chris Young (American football)
Christopher Lamont Young (born January 23, 1980) is a former American football safety who played for the Denver Broncos in the National Football League. Young was a three-year starter at Georgia Tech who started 35 consecutive games, beginning with the final game of his true freshman sea... |
Chad Henne
Chad Steven Henne (born July 2, 1985) is an American football quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He attended the University of Michigan. While attending, Henne became the second all time true freshman starting quarterback in Michigan history; accumulated a total o... |
Belle & Sebastian: The Adventure Continues
Belle & Sebastian: The Adventure Continues (original title: Belle et Sébastien, l'aventure continue) is a 2015 French adventure film. It is directed by Christian Duguay. The film is the sequel to the 2013 film "Belle and Sebastian". |
Konga Yo
Konga Yo is a 1962 French adventure film directed by Yves Allégret. It was entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. |
The Bar at the Crossing
The Bar at the Crossing (French: "Le bar de la fourche" ) is a 1972 French adventure film directed by Alain Levent. It was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. |
Man from Cocody
Man from Cocody (French: "Le gentleman de Cocody ") is a French adventure film from 1965 set in Cocody, Ivory Coast. It was directed by Christian-Jaque, written by Christian-Jaque and Jacques Emmanuel, starring Jean Marais. The film was known under the titles: "Ivory Coast Adventure" (USA), "Donne, mitr... |
Belle and Sebastian (film)
Belle and Sebastian (French: Belle et Sébastien ) is a 2013 French adventure film directed by Nicolas Vanier. It was based on the novel "Belle et Sébastien" by Cécile Aubry. A sequel to the film, "", was released on 9 December 2015. |
Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues is a Lego-themed action-adventure video game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by LucasArts. It is the sequel to the 2008 game, "". The game allows gamers to play all four cinematic adventures, including the latest fi... |
Golden Venus
Golden Venus (French:La Vénus de l'or) is a 1938 French adventure film directed by Jean Delannoy and Charles Méré and starring Jacques Copeau, Daniel Lecourtois and Mireille Balin. |
Margaux Châtelier
Margaux Châtelier is a French actress known for her role in the 2013 film "Belle and Sebastian" and its 2015 sequel, "". She appeared as Annalise de Marillac in the Starz series "Outlander" in 2016. |
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Cyrano and d'Artagnan (French: Cyrano et d'Artagnan ) is a 1964 French adventure film directed by Abel Gance, starring José Ferrer and Jean-Pierre Cassel. It is set in 1642 and tells the story of how the poet and duelist Cyrano de Bergerac teams up with the musketeer d'Artagnan in order to stop a ... |
Rat Trap (film)
Rat Trap (French: Le Rat d'Amérique ) is a 1963 French adventure film directed by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. |
Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena
Corpus: A Home Movie about Selena (1998) is a film by filmmaker, Lourdes Portillo about Mexican American singer-songwriter Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. It places emphasis on the transformation of Selena from a popular entertainer into a modern-day saint and role model. This documentary us... |
Mirador de la Flor
Mirador de la Flor (English: Lookout of the Flower ) is a monument in Corpus Christi, Texas that was unveiled in 1997 to honor Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, the Tejano singer who was murdered by her assistant and head of her fan club Yolanda Saldívar, two years earlier at the age of 23. People from aroun... |
Selena (film)
Selena is a 1997 American biographical musical drama film written and directed by Gregory Nava about the life and career of the late Tejano music star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, a recording artist well known in the Mexican American and Hispanic communities in the United States and Mexico before she was mur... |
Murder of Selena
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995) was an American singer who achieved international fame as a member of Selena y Los Dinos and for her subsequent solo career in both Spanish and English Her father and manager, Abraham Quintanilla Jr., appointed Yolanda Saldívar president of Sel... |
List of people influenced by Selena
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995) was an American Tejano singer, songwriter, spokesperson, actress and fashion designer. She was born in Lake Jackson, Texas, 54 miles south of Houston, and her family moved to Corpus Christi after declaring bankruptcy. Her fat... |
Selena Remembered
Selena Remembered is a DVD/CD by Mexican-American Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, released on April 1, 1997 on VHS and on January 25, 2005 on DVD. The DVD features Edward James Olmos narrating special moments and triumphs that helped Selena, and her band Selena y Los Dinos, into superstardom i... |
Selena ¡VIVE!
Selena ¡VIVE! (English: Selena Lives! ) was a benefit concert which was held on the tenth anniversary of the death of Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. The concert was held on April 7, 2005 at the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas with over 70,000 attendees. The special was produced and filmed by... |
Yolanda Saldívar
Yolanda Saldívar (born September 19, 1960) is an American woman who was convicted of the murder of Tejano singer, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez on March 31, 1995, at the Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas. She will be eligible for parole on March 30, 2025. |
Selena Forever
Selena Forever is an American stage musical, based on the film "Selena", that tells the life of the famous Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. The musical has been staged under two titles. The first - "Selena Forever" was conceived with book and original lyrics by Edward Gallardo and original music b... |
Selena (disambiguation)
Selena (Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, 1971–1995) was an American singer. |
The Burning Tigris
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response presents a narrative of the massacres of the Armenians during the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the responsibility of the Ottoman government. Using archival documents and first-person accounts, Peter Balakian shows the history of how th... |
Peter Balakian
Peter Balakian (Armenian: Փիթըր Պալաքեան , born June 13, 1951) is an Armenian American poet, writer and academic, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities at Colgate University. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2016. |
Gottfried von der Goltz
Gottfried (Graf) von der Goltz (born 1 June 1964 in Würzburg, Germany) is a German-Norwegian violinist and conductor, specialising in the baroque repertoire. His first teachers were his parents, Georg Conrad von der Goltz and Kirsti Hjort. After further education in Hannover, New York, and Freib... |
Human Terrain: War Becomes Academic
Human Terrain: War Becomes Academic is a 2010 documentary film about the US Army's Human Terrain System (HTS), written and directed by James Der Derian, David Udris and Michael Udris. The film examines the history of the HTS program, the public controversy surrounding HTS, and the st... |
Dustin Brown
Dustin James Brown (born November 4, 1984) is an American professional ice hockey right winger for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). During the 2012–13 NHL lockout, he moved to the ZSC Lions, the hockey team from Zürich. The 13th overall pick of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, he has spe... |
Armenian Golgotha
Armenian Golgotha (Armenian: Հայ Գողգոթան ) is a memoir written by Grigoris Balakian about his eyewitness account of the Armenian Genocide. The memoir was released in two volumes. Volume 1, about his life prior and during the Armenian Genocide, was released in 1922. Volume 2, about his life as a fugit... |
Virtual war
Virtual war signifies the increased use of and dependence on technology in the course of warfare. It includes the time/space separation between an attacker and the intended target which results in the "sanitization" of war. The concept has gained notoriety amongst policy makers and academics who study the R... |
James Der Derian
James Der Derian (born 1955) is the Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies and Director of the Centre for International Security Studies at The University of Sydney, having taken up his appointment in January 2013. His research and teaching interests are in international security, infor... |
The Stryder
The Stryder was a band hailing from Long Island, NY. The Band was formed by Peter Toh and Scottie Redix in 1999 after their previous project, Yearly, disbanded following the departure of bassist Eben D'amico who left to join Saves the Day. They added a vocalist and bassist, John Johansen and Nick Wendel (Re... |
Ozone Journal
Ozone Journal is a 2016 Pulitzer Prize winning work by Peter Balakian. |
Mike Comrie
Michael William "Mike" Comrie (born September 11, 1980) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey center. During his 13-year National Hockey League (NHL) career he played with the Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes, Ottawa Senators, New York Islanders, and the Pittsburgh Penguins. He ... |
Bob Atkins (American football)
Robert L. Atkins, Jr., is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League. He played for the St. Louis Cardinal (1968-1969) and for the Houston Oilers (1970-1976). He was born on April 2, 1946, in Modesto, California, and became a native of Atlanta, Georgia. When... |
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