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3300 | Matrikas
the Matrikas. The yoginis also occupy an important place in Tantra, one of their chief temples in India are in 'Ranipur-Jharial' and the 'Chaushathi Jogini' (the 64 yoginis) temple near Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The rise of Yogini cult is also analogous to the rise of the Matrikas' cult. Bhattacharyya sums it this ... |
3301 | "Rocket engine test facility"
Rocket engine test facility A rocket engine test facility is a location where rocket engines may be tested on the ground, under controlled conditions. A ground test program is generally required before the engine is certified for flight. Ground testing is very inexpensive in comparison to ... |
3302 | Matrikas
of the Devanagari alphabet. First is the (A) group which contains the vowels, then the (Ka), (Cha), (Ta), (ta), (Pa), (Ya) and (Ksha) groups. The seven mother goddesses (""Saptamatrikas"") correspond to the seven consonant groups; when the vocalic (A) group is added to it, the eight mother goddesses (""Ashtama... |
3303 | Matrikas
Ksha, of the Devanagari alphabet itself, the ""Varnamala"" of bija, have been described as being the Matrikas themselves. It is believed that they are infused with the power of the Divine Mother herself. The Matrikas are considered to be the subtle form of the letters ""(varna)"". These letters combined make u... |
3304 | Matrikas
given in the same account as follows: Nivritti, Pratishtha, Vidya, Shanti, Indhika, Dipika, Mochika, Para, Sukshma, Sukshmamrita, Jnanamrita, Apypayani, Vyapini, Vyomarupa, Ananta, Srishti, Riddhi, Smriti, Medha, Kanti, Lakshmi, Dyuti, Sthira, Sthiti, Siddhi, Jada, Palini, Shanti, Aishvarya, Rati, Kamika, Vara... |
3305 | Matrikas
they were demoted to status of ""deities of the entourage"" (""parivara devata"") of Shiva. Their images moved from the sanctums to corners of temple complexes and now they are as guardian deities in small village shrines. The Saptamatrikas are worshipped as ""Saptakanyakas"" (the celestial nymphs) in most Sou... |
3306 | Matrikas
near lakes or rivers, and are made of seven vermilion smeared stones. It is believed that the Matrikas kill fetuses and newborns unless pacified with bridal finery and prayers by women. Devdutt Pattanaik says: ""The cult of the Seven Mothers is found all over India. ... Pregnant women and nursing mothers worsh... |
3307 | Matrikas
– new moon day, with the 64 yoginis represented by rice flour images or supari nuts. The goddesses are worshipped by ceremonial offerings of fruit and flower and mantras. The Matrikas function both as city protectors and individual protectors in both Hinduism and Buddhism. The Astha matrika are considered as A... |
3308 | Matrikas
structures too. In these ""pithas"", the Matrikas are worshipped with their followers (""ganas"") in form of stone statues or natural stones, while in ""dyochems"" (god-houses) in towns and villages, they are represented in brass images. The brass images (""utsav-murtis"") are paraded around town and placed at... |
3309 | Matrikas
""pithas"", which are ""theoretically located at the outer boundaries of the city"" are said to form a protective mandala around the city and assisted to a certain compass point. In other temples like the ones dedicated to Pacali Bhairava, the Asthamatrikas are worshipped as a circle of stones. In Bhaktapur, t... |
3310 | Matrikas
sculpted on temple roofs or terraces. Nepali Buddhists worship the Matrikas as described in Dharanisamgrahas. The Malla king of Nepal Srinivasa Malla built the Patan durbar (court) in 1667 AD and is believed to have seen the Matrikas dance in the durbar one night. The king ordered that the Ashta-matrika be wor... |
3311 | Matrikas
the city or town. They are identified with the guardians of directions (""digpala""), places (""lokapala"") or lands (""kshatrapala""), satiated by blood sacrifice. Newar Buddhists associate the Matrikas with 24 human qualities, which can mastered by visiting three sets of eight Matrika ""pitha""s. The 7th cen... |
3312 | Matrikas
a temple dedicated to the Matrikas ('). Banabhatta's Kadambari, Bhasa's Cārudatta, Shudraka's Mrichakatika mention the ritual offerings of food and shrines of Matrikas at crossroads. Other offerings include flowers and clothes and meat and wine for some Matrikas. Tantric works like Tantrarāja-Tantra (unknown d... |
3313 | Matrikas
worshipped in different parts of the body"" like head, face, anus and legs and reciting mantras. The ""Hrillekha-matrika-nyasa"", a more specialized form of ""Matrika-nyasa"", combines the installation of ""most powerful set of all letters (Matrikas)"" with the seed syllable """" of Goddess Bhuvaneshvari. Ston... |
3314 | "Harald Lesch"
astrophysics in the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Society) and a member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (Astronomical Society). He is also a textbook author. Lesch has made television appearances for the longstanding, self-presented production of the channel BR-alpha: alpha-Cen... |
3315 | "Harald Lesch"
Scholarship) for his television appearances and publications. To honor his work on making scientific findings understandable to the broad public, the Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Emden (nature research society) awarded him an honorary membership on March 15, 2011. For many years, Lesch has presented a... |
3316 | "1990 NBA Playoffs"
the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Knicks winning the first meeting. (2) Philadelphia 76ers vs. (3) Chicago Bulls: ""Bulls win series 4–1"" This was the first playoff meeting between the Bulls and the 76ers. (1) Detroit Pistons vs. (3) Chicago Bulls: ""Pistons win series 4–... |
3317 | "Harald Lesch"
Fiction"". From April to the end of 2007, Lesch moderated the weekly 5-minute program sci_xpert for this channel, which dealt with viewer questions, which mostly had to do with feasibility of science fiction concepts (such as ""How realistic are the huge spaceships from Independence Day?""), but which al... |
3318 | Matrikas
for powers to control and rule and earthly desires (Bhukti). Also important are the banners of the Saptamatrikas, which are carved outside the Udayagiri caves. These banners are called ""Indra's sisters"" in the Devi Purana. The Purana lists them as: swan, bull, peacock, conch, discus, elephant and skeleton – ... |
3319 | Matrikas
names<br> c. This very ability is possessed by Raktabija of the Devi-mahatmya and Vamana Purana. Matrikas Matrikas (singular Matrika, Sanskrit: मातृका, IAST: mātṝkā, lit. ""divine mother"") also called Matar or Matri, are a group of mother goddesses who are always depicted together in Hinduism. Matrikas are th... |
3320 | "Elmwood Park Public Schools"
Elmwood Park Public Schools Elmwood Park Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Elmwood Park, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its fiv... |
3321 | "Elmwood Park Public Schools"
characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J. Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are: The high school's football team had a 41-game... |
3322 | "Guild Wars (video game)"
runes, which among other things increase attribute levels, can only increase the attribute levels associated with a player's primary profession. There are over a thousand skills in the game that can be acquired by the character over time, but players may only use and equip up to 8 of them at a... |
3323 | "Guild Wars (video game)"
to Guild Wars: Factions, which can be played along with the aforementioned core professions. The Paragon and Dervish professions are exclusive to ""Guild Wars: Nightfall"", and can also be played with the core professions. Unlike the campaigns, ""Guild Wars: Eye of the North"" does not offer a... |
3324 | "Thunder Force II"
Thunder Force II Thunder Force II (サンダーフォースII) is a scrolling shooter developed by Technosoft. It was first released in Japan on October 15, 1988 for the Sharp X68000 computer. A year later, it was ported to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis game console and released in Japan (under the name ""Thunder Forc... |
3325 | "Thunder Force II"
the previous game (referred to as ""top-view stages""), and horizontal forward-scrolling stages (referred to as ""side-view"" stages) which would become the series mainstay, dropping the former entirely. Each stage begins in the top-view perspective, where the player has to locate the cores of a cert... |
3326 | "Thunder Force II"
system that would become the staple for the rest of the series. The player's ship now has default arsenal of weapons which include a twin, forward firing shot (the ""Twin"" shot), a single forward, and single backward firing shot (the ""Back"" shot), and a bomb shot in the top-view stages. By collect... |
3327 | "Guild Wars (video game)"
a specific build for a given area or role, or use builds that synergize with the builds of other characters in the party. A player's ability to help the party is based on the way a player's ""build"" works. If the skills combine well, such as a hex spell that makes an enemy attack faster and t... |
3328 | "Guild Wars (video game)"
Unique or rare weapon designs are often found from defeating powerful monsters, or by opening treasure chests. In PvP, reputation in the form of ""faction"" is gained based on how well a player performs. ""Balthazar faction"" is gained by the number of wins that you and your team achieve, and ... |
3329 | "Thunder Force II"
below Nebula's surface when not in use and takes the opportunity to plan an operation to take it down. They send the next iteration of their Fire Leo series of fighter craft, the FIRE LEO-02 ""Exceliza"", to destroy ORN bases on Nepura and eventually find and destroy ""Plealos"". The player controls ... |
3330 | "Guild Wars (video game)"
tournament by buying in-game tokens using their PvP faction points. The participants are divided randomly into groups of 32 that participate daily in up to six Swiss rounds held on a fixed schedule, and the top eight guilds continue on to a single-elimination tournament. Participants who are u... |
3331 | "Thunder Force II"
an introduction sequence, and an extra stage (top and side view) not found in the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version. Finally, both versions have a few weapons unique from each other (for instance, ""Sidewinder"" in the X68000 version corresponds to ""Nova"" in the Mega Drive version). Japanese magazine... |
3332 | Lahngau
after a checkered history, the House of the Gisos of Gudensberg prevailed until the 11th century. The area around Weilburg was granted by the Ottonian kings to the Bishopric of Worms after 1000. The Niederlahngau was held by the Conradines until the second half of the 10th century. The last mention of a Conradi... |
3333 | Lahngau
dynasties of Nassau, Runkel/Westerburg, Isenburg/Limburg, and Virneburg. The following are attested as counts of the undivided Lahngau: Other possible rulers of the Lahngau referenced to are: The following are attested to as Count in the Niederlahngau: The main sources of the history of the Lahngau are copies m... |
3334 | Lahngau
paraphrased. The persons named in the documents may not always be clearly identifiable. Place names are often in unusual forms and do not always correspond to the same names today. Complete overviews of property ownership for this area only exist from the 12th century, so the opportunity to draw inferences is l... |
3335 | "Thunder Force III"
is a default weapon and assuming the game is operating at the default difficulty settings). On any higher difficulty modes than the default one, all weapons are lost when the ship gets destroyed. CLAWs also make their return and have the same behavior and functions, except now when the player collec... |
3336 | Lahngau
allodial property of the Counts of Diez in Wormsgau does not speak against a Conradine descent, since the Wormsgau also belonged to the Conradine sphere of influence. Lahngau The Lahngau was a medieval territory comprising the middle and lower Lahn River valley in the current German states of Hesse and (partial... |
3337 | "James George Needham"
James George Needham James George Needham (March 16, 1868 in Virginia, Illinois – July 24, 1957) was an American entomologist After studying with John Henry Comstock at Cornell University (1896–1898) he taught biology at Lake Forest University (1898–1907). In 1908 returned to Cornell as assistant... |
3338 | "James George Needham"
the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Limnological Society of America. James George Needham James George Needham (March 16, 1868 in Virginia, Illinois – July 24, 1957) was an American entomologist After studying with John Henry Comstock at Cornell University (1896–1898) ... |
3339 | "Linda Bennett"
Linda Bennett Linda Kristin Bennett OBE (born 8 September 1962) is an English-Icelandic clothing designer and entrepreneur, best known for founding the fashion retailer L.K.Bennett. Born in London, Bennett is the daughter of a London-based fashion retail entrepreneur, and an Icelandic sculptor mother. S... |
3340 | "Linda Bennett"
working on the sales floor of retailers Whistles and Joseph. Bennett set up her first shop in Wimbledon Village, with a goal to produce ""something in-between the designer footwear you find in Bond Street and those on the high street."" Bennett designed the Duchess of Cornwall’s wedding shoes for her ma... |
3341 | "Linda Bennett"
a deal believed to have netted her around £70m. Bennett remained on the board of the company as a non-executive director and retained a stake of about 30 per cent. Since setting up L.K.Bennett, she has won several awards, including: Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Consumer Product catego... |
3342 | "Linda Bennett"
the University of the Arts London, of which the London College of Fashion is a part. In 2006, Bennett was awarded an OBE for services to the fashion industry in the New Year Honours list. Linda Bennett Linda Kristin Bennett OBE (born 8 September 1962) is an English-Icelandic clothing designer and entrep... |
3343 | "Linda L. M. Bennett"
Linda L. M. Bennett Linda Louise M. Bennett (born December 25, 1952, in Cincinnati) was named president of the University of Southern Indiana (USI) by its Board of Trustees effective 2009 July 1, incumbent president H. Ray Hoops retiring on 2009 June 30. Bennett previously served at Wittenberg Uni... |
3344 | "Linda L. M. Bennett"
Margolis, Linda Bennett received her baccalaureate and master's degrees and her Ph.D. in political science all from the University of Cincinnati. The Bennetts reside in Evansville, Indiana. On August 15, 2017, Bennett announced she would retire as president USI on June 30, 2018. Linda L. M. Bennet... |
3345 | "Madalena (film)"
Madalena (film) Madalena () is a 1960 Greek comedy film directed by Dinos Dimopoulos. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. The film won three awards in the 1st Thessaloniki Film Festival A girl lives in a small Greek island of Aegean. Along with her multimember family lives from the job ... |
3346 | "Madalena (film)"
works. Despite the obstacles she doesn't give up. Frustrated from the difficulties, she decides to get married with a rich farmer of the island. But the love of her main competitor turns over the situation. Madalena (film) Madalena () is a 1960 Greek comedy film directed by Dinos Dimopoulos. It was en... |
3347 | "The Ninth Wave"
The Ninth Wave The Ninth Wave (, ""Dyevyatiy val"") is an 1850 painting by the Russian Armenian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. It is his best-known work. The title refers to an old sailing expression referring to a wave of incredible size that comes after a succession of incrementally larger waves. It... |
3348 | "The Ninth Wave"
reduce the sea's apparent menacing overtones and a chance for the people to survive seems plausible. This painting shows the destructive side, and beauty of nature. The Ninth Wave The Ninth Wave (, ""Dyevyatiy val"") is an 1850 painting by the Russian Armenian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. It is his ... |
3349 | "Original masters of taekwondo"
Original masters of taekwondo The original masters of taekwondo is a group of twelve South Korean martial art masters assembled by the Korea Taekwondo Association (KTA) in the early 1960s to promote the newly established art of taekwondo. In alphabetical order following Korean naming con... |
3350 | "Original masters of taekwondo"
and later founder of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF), and Nam Tae Hi (1929–2013), known as the Father of Vietnamese Taekwondo. Many of these men held senior positions in the ITF under Choi, but several left over time. Most of the men settled in North America, while others s... |
3351 | "Original masters of taekwondo"
who, while perhaps senior to some of those listed as ""original masters of taekwondo"", were practising arts with other names, such as tae soo do, kong soo do, and others. Some of those leaders resisted using the name taekwondo. The men in the present group were among the first to adopt ... |
3352 | "Original masters of taekwondo"
roles in the ITF in the late 1960s and 1970s. As time passed and many of these masters left the ITF, their photographs were removed from Choi's series of taekwondo textbooks and replaced with photographs of current ITF masters. One of the main reasons for their departure was Choi's insis... |
3353 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
7 million copies worldwide. The game is considered widely influential, serving as a template for many 3D action-adventure games that would follow. """", a remake of the game, was released in 2007 in celebration of its 10th anniversary, and a reboot of its series under the same title was ... |
3354 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
control the camera to get a better look at Lara's surroundings. The game also automatically switches to a different camera view at key points, either to give the player a wider look at a new area or to add a cinematic effect. The world she inhabits is fully drawn in three dimensions and ... |
3355 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
way, she must kill dangerous animals and creatures, while collecting objects and solving puzzles. Gunplay is not restricted to the killing of various animals and occasional human opponents; Lara can fire her weapons at any time. However, the emphasis lies on exploring, solving puzzles, a... |
3356 | "Guild Wars (video game)"
component of the ""Guild Wars Beyond"" initiative. This new content was designed to help bridge the 250-year story gap between the end of first game and the start of ""Guild Wars 2"". In addition to the standard edition, there are many other editions of ""Guild Wars: Prophecies"" available on ... |
3357 | "Original masters of taekwondo"
the martial arts as a child in 1952, starting with Shotokan karate. From 1963 to 1967, Kong served in the South Korean army, attaining the rank of Sergeant. He participated in several demonstration tours across the world. Following a career in the South Korean military, Kong emigrated to... |
3358 | "Original masters of taekwondo"
was born in 1941 in Chung-Nam, Korea. He trained in taekwondo under H. H. Choi. In 1965, he was invited to be the coach of the German Taekwon-Do Association, and moved from South Korea to West Germany. The following year, he moved to the Netherlands and founded the Netherlands Taekwon-Do... |
3359 | "Guild Wars (video game)"
RPG"" and GameSpy's ""MMORPG of the Year"" awards. The editors of ""Computer Games Magazine"" presented ""Guild Wars"" with their 2005 awards for ""Best Technology"" and ""Best MMO Debut"", and named it the year's fourth-best computer game. They wrote, ""With almost every element of the design... |
3360 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
restricted to fixed save points within each level, marked by a floating blue crystal or by completing the level. When Lara touches one of these the option to save is made available. The DOS version of the game allows the player to save at any time. A stage is finished when a certain door... |
3361 | "Guild Wars (video game)"
PvE world overwhelming, particularly since the party size and number of skills are both limited to eight. He further found combat repetitive, for ""[a]s fun as combat is, and as pretty as it looks ... [mobs] don't give much (if any) experience points and will be dropping items that are virtual... |
3362 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
a medieval monk's journal, which reveals the depths of an ancient monastery of St. Francis in Greece to house the tomb of Tihocan, a ruler of Atlantis, along with a second piece of the Scion. Travelling to a monastery, Lara descends through an expansive underground complex while being pu... |
3363 | "Armenia Bonito, Atlántida"
is tropical. The roads are dirt covered with river rock. It is located inside Pico Bonito National Park (PBNP). Golosón International Airport (LCE) is less than a mile from Armenio Bonito. Armenia Bonito is bordered on the west by the Rio Bonito (beautiful river) and on the south by the mou... |
3364 | "Armenia Bonito, Atlántida"
electricity and poor drinking water. Other homes in the community are made of sticks and mud with thatched roofs. While most homes have a cement foundation some homes have dirt floors. In Armenia Bonito there are two elementary schools and kinder school. There is a boy's orphanage, a soccer... |
3365 | "Guild Wars (video game)"
also now available. Guild Wars (video game) Guild Wars is a massively multiplayer online action role-playing game developed by ArenaNet, a subsidiary of South Korean game publisher NCSOFT. As the original installment of the ""Guild Wars"" series, its campaign was retroactively titled Prophecie... |
3366 | "English Field"
English Field English Field is a baseball stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia. It is the home field of the Virginia Tech Hokies college baseball team. It was opened in 1989 and has a capacity of 1033 in chair back seats plus additional grass-covered bank seating along the left field line known as ""The Hill... |
3367 | "English Field"
50 years. The home team dugout is named for American Baseball Coach Coaches Association Hall of Famer G. F. ""Red"" Laird who was head coach 1940–43 and 1948–1973. During the 2016 season, the park was renamed English Field At Union Park. On March 22, 1989, the Hokies defeated the baseball team from Geor... |
3368 | "English Field"
1,000 games. On April 20, 2007, English Field hosted the first on-campus athletic event after the campus shootings of April 16th. A record crowd of 3,132 watched the Hokies play against the Miami Hurricanes. Coinciding with a statewide day of mourning, the Virginia Tech baseball team debuted the first c... |
3369 | "English Field"
an outdoor amphitheater. The layout provided seven foot sections between terraces and an expansion of handicap accessibility to the section. Additionally, this caused a reduction in foul territory in the outfield and moved the viewable area closer to the playing area. The second portion of the renovatio... |
3370 | "English Field"
a way to aid in the healing process of the campus shootings and made a $1 million contribution to the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund. On October 24, 2007, it was announced that English Field would be the site of an exhibition game between Virginia Tech and the New York Yankees on March 18, 2008. Upon arrivi... |
3371 | "English Field"
Virginia Tech Rescue Squad Captain Jason Dominiczak on behalf of the student body and 32 balloons were released for the victims. Additionally, the university presented four nameplates engraved in Hokie Stone to the Yankees. The starters for the game were left-handed sixth year senior captain Andrew Well... |
3372 | "English Field"
which emptied the Hokie dugout. Most of the Yankees starters came out during the fourth inning, after which Alex Rodriguez sat on the Hokies' bench and signed autographs. Nine different Hokie pitchers combined in walking 10 batters and allowed 10 hits while Jeff Karstens pitched four innings for the Yan... |
3373 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
of her character to establish that there was more to Lara's personality and life than just her immediate actions during ""Tomb Raider""s gameplay. A three-dimensional action-adventure like ""Tomb Raider"" was unprecedented at the time, and the development team struggled to find a way to ... |
3374 | "Institute for the Study of American Cultures"
an annual conference and of publishing books advocating the hyperdiffusionist view. ISAC continued holding annual conferences after the death of its founder and President Dr. Mahan in 1995. The 30th Anniversary Conference was celebrated in 2003. Currently, ISAC's collectio... |
3375 | "Live from Portland"
Live from Portland Live from Portland is the first live album by the Christian rock band Kutless. It was released on December 5, 2006. It was recorded on March 16, 2006, in the band's hometown of Portland, Oregon. The album comes with a CD of the concert's audio, and a DVD with the concert itself. ... |
3376 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
Croft for the game. She recalled, ""I was asked to perform her voice in a very plain non-emotive manner and in a 'female Bond' type of way. I would have added more inflection, tone and emotion to my voice but they wanted to keep it how they felt it should sound, which was quite right. My... |
3377 | "Certain General"
This coincided with a change in management, when the band signed on with Ruth Polsky (the booking agent for New York clubs Hurrah and Danceteria) and her agency, Blind Dates Management. They also began work with the new French record label L'Invitation au Suicide (I.A.S. Records) and made plans to lic... |
3378 | "Mehera Irani"
so Mehera is to Meher Baba."" Her accounts of her life with Meher Baba are documented in the three volume chronicle, ""Mehera-Meher: A Divine Romance"", written by David Fenster, based on tape-recordings of Mehera he made during her lifetime. Mehera met Meher Baba for the first time on October 15, 1922 a... |
3379 | "Mehera Irani"
until the late 1960s that Mehera J. Irani was permitted by Meher Baba to come out of her seclusion and meet some of the men mandali from a distance. On the porch at Meherazad, she simply folded her hands to them out of respect to their love for Baba and saluted them with ""Jai Baba!"" Mehera was one of f... |
3380 | "Certain General"
CBGB's basement studio for Hilly Kristal's CBGB Records. Genya Ravan (the Dead Boys) produced the record. ""These Are the Days"" was officially released on France's Fantastica Label and the group played a nationwide tour of France, co-headlining with fellow New Yorkers The Fleshtones. In 2000, Fantast... |
3381 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
on 5 June 2007. The PSP version was released in June, the Xbox 360 version was released in October and the Wii version was released 14 November. The Xbox 360 version of the video game was made available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace in November 2007 with the """" disc being... |
3382 | "Certain General"
David Bowie, James White, and Al Jarreau, among many others. In a Le Son du Maquis press release from March 2010, Dulany commented on the writing, recording, and producing aspects of this collection: In expressing this declaration we avoided all of the usual recording entrapments: No big studios, no o... |
3383 | "Tom O'Brien (actor)"
Fractious Tribes Productions. In January 2008 established Whole World Fund (w2f), which seeks to invest in arts related projects which foster storytelling and create awareness of the issues that shape our lives. Actor Producer Stage Tom O'Brien (actor) Thomas Patrick O'Brien (born April 12, 1965) ... |
3384 | KSAK
KSAK KSAK is the FM campus radio station of the Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California. The station once broadcast a professionally programmed format designed to represent what actually goes on in the radio industry, instead of alternative programming typically found on most college radio stations. Broadcas... |
3385 | "Certain General"
Records three-CD compilation series entitled, ""New York Noise"", which featured most of the prominent post-punk New York bands from 1978–1982. In 2007, UK label Easy Action Records released the only comprehensive retrospective devoted to Certain General, ""Invisible New York"". That disc included a c... |
3386 | "Certain General"
is ""Used Man For Sale"" (PreFab International, Continental Record Services, 2016). In addition, he has worked as a recording session guitarist and harmonica player. Several of his songs have appeared on television and film soundtracks. Parker Dulany has continued his work as a painter and poet. He re... |
3387 | "Roughness (psychophysics)"
Roughness (psychophysics) Roughness is studied by examining how textures are perceived and encoded by an individual's somatosensory system. In an experiment to measure and compare the roughness of different sounds, listeners are presented with different sounds and asked to rate their roughne... |
3388 | CUSPEA
has a similar scope to that of Ph.D. written qualifying exams in major American universities. The questions were prepared by physics professors from participating North American universities -- starting with Columbia University where Lee worked, and eventually expanded to 97 universities. Committees of physicist... |
3389 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
been designed to take optimum advantage of each console's capabilities. They also named it runner-up for both ""Action Game of the Year"" (behind ""Die Hard Trilogy"") and ""Adventure Game of the Year"" (behind ""Super Mario 64""), as well as ""Game of the Year"" (again behind ""Super Ma... |
3390 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
consequential, topping the British charts a record three times, and contributing much to the success of the PlayStation. In the previous year, Eidos Interactive had recorded a nearly $2.6 million in pre-tax loss. The success of the game turned this loss into a $14.5 million profit in a y... |
3391 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
publications. In 1998, ""Tomb Raider"" won the Origins Award for ""Best Action Computer Game of 1997"". The Lara Croft character was prominently featured in the popular media outside the realm of video gaming, for instance on the cover of pop culture magazine ""The Face"" in June 1997. I... |
3392 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
some fans complained about the lack of action in the game, in favour of puzzle solving. Ironically, ""Tomb Raider II"" would be criticised for its overabundance of violence, especially against human opponents. ""GameSpot"" listed ""Tomb Raider"" on their ""15 Most Influential Games of Al... |
3393 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
Lara's portrayal to be a positive, visual metaphor of sexual empowerment, or objectifying and sexist. Aside from game appearances, Lara was featured on covers of magazines, in comic books and movies. The amount of media coverage Lara received at the time was previously unheard of, with m... |
3394 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
""Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008"". These records include Most Official Real Life Stand-ins, Highest-Grossing Video-game Movie, and Most Recognizable Female Video-Game Character. The PlayStation version was released for the PlayStation Network in North America in August 200... |
3395 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
version of the game. In 1999, Core Design considered taking legal action against websites, which hosted nude pictures of Lara Croft, stating that ""we have a large number of young fans and we don't want them stumbling across the pictures when they do a general search for ""Tomb Raider"""... |
3396 | "Tomb Raider (1996 video game)"
copyright of ""Tomb Raider"". Sites depicting nude images of Lara Croft have been sent cease and desist notices and shut down, and Eidos Interactive was awarded the rights to the domain name ""nuderaider.com"". Tomb Raider (1996 video game) Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game d... |
3397 | "Julio Salinas"
Julio Salinas Julio Salinas Fernández (; born 11 September 1962) is a Spanish retired footballer who played during the 1980s and 1990s. A tall, lanky centre forward with skills, Salinas was best remembered for his spell at Barcelona – having started his career with Athletic Bilbao – while he was also a ... |
3398 | "Children's Hospice South West"
Children's Hospice South West Children's Hospice South West (CHSW) is a registered charity that provides palliative, respite, end of life and bereavement care for life-limited and terminally ill children and their families from the South West England region. It oversees three of the 41 c... |
3399 | "Children's Hospice South West"
Devon opened in 1995, and instantly provided support for up to 200 families in the South West with life limited children. The second hospice, Charlton Farm at Wraxall, North Somerset near Bristol, was born out of the growing need to provide additional children's hospice care in the South... |
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