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Willard Gaylin Willard Gaylin is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is co-founder, along with Daniel Callahan, of The Hastings Center, and was its president since its inception in 1969 to 1993, chairman through 1994, and is now a member of the board. Gaylin received his ...
Sidney Blatt Sidney J. Blatt (October 15, 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 11, 2014, Hamden, Connecticut) was a professor emeritus of psychiatry and psychology at Yale University's Department of psychiatry. Blatt was a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist, empirical researcher and personality theoretician, who...
Saul V. Levine Saul V. Levine (born 1938) is a Canadian psychiatrist and author, professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Residency in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School. Instructor, Dept of Psychiatry, Stanford Professor of Psychiat...
Theodore Shapiro (psychiatrist) Dr. Theodore Shapiro, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York, where he is a professor emeritus in psychiatry and pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. He is a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic ...
Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis is a center for psychoanalytic research, training, and education that is located on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. The institute provides professional training in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. It was found...
Irwin Marcus Irwin M. Marcus, M.D., is an American board certified psychiatrist, neurologist, psychoanalyst, innovator, scientist, medical educator, artist and sculptor. He has been a practicing psychiatrist, sex therapist, marriage counselor, psychoanalyst, child psychiatrist and family counselor for over six decades....
Neuqua Valley High School Neuqua Valley High School (NVHS) is a public four-year high school located near the corner of Illinois Route 59 and 95th Street in Naperville, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Neuqua Valley is the counterpart to Waubonsie Valley High School and Metea Valle...
Mexico, Maine Mexico is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,681 at the 2010 census. Mexico is a small mill town for the papermaking industry.
Thomas R. Proctor High School Thomas R. Proctor High School is a public high school within the Utica City School District in Utica, New York. The school was built in the early 1930s through the U.S. Works Progress Association and Thomas R. Proctor and opened its doors in September 1936. The school is located within One...
Metea Valley High School Metea Valley High School is a high school in Aurora, Illinois that opened in August, 2009 in DuPage County. The school is one of four high schools operated by the Indian Prairie School District. The others in Aurora are: Waubonsie Valley High School and Indian Plains, while Neuqua Valley High S...
Mountain Valley High School Mountain Valley High School is a public high school in Rumford, Maine, serving the towns of Rumford and nearby Mexico. It was formed in 1989 as a result of the merger of the towns' high schools. During the 2007–08 school year, MVHS had 589 enrolled students, 64 faculty and 147 students in th...
Waubonsie Valley High School Waubonsie Valley High School, or WVHS, is a public four-year high school at the corner of Ogden Avenue and Eola Road in Aurora, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Other high schools in Indian Prairie School District 204 are Neuqua Valley High School, Mete...
Dougherty Valley High School Dougherty Valley High School (commonly Dougherty, Dougherty Valley, Dougherty Valley High, DVHS, or DV High) is a public high school located in the Windemere development of San Ramon, California, United States. Dougherty is one of four high schools in the San Ramon Valley Unified School Dis...
Southern Ohio Conference The Southern Ohio Conference (S.O.C.) is an athletic conference in Ohio. The conference is also a member of the Ohio High School Athletic Association, the governing body of Ohio athletics. There are currently sixteen member schools in the conference. The S.O.C. includes teams from four differen...
Paloma Valley High School Paloma Valley High School is a public four-year high school located in Menifee, California. The school is part of the Perris Union High School District. It opened its first school year on September 7, 1995. The mascot is the Wildcat. Paloma Valley High School was ranked by "Newsweek" magazine ...
Panther Valley High School Panther Valley High School is a small public high school providing grades 7 to 12. It is the only high school for the Panther Valley School District. Panther Valley High School is located in the borough of Summit Hill with a mailing address of 912 Coal Region Way, Lansford, PA 18232. It serve...
Estadio Monumental de Maturín The Estadio Monumental de Maturín (Monumental Stadium of Maturin) is the largest stadium in Venezuela by seating capacity, with 52,000 spectators. It was one of the venues of the 2007 Copa America. It is also the home stadium of the Monagas Sport Club.
Júlio Baptista Júlio César Clemente Baptista (born 1 October 1981) is a Brazilian professional footballer who played most recently as an attacking midfielder or forward for Major League Soccer club Orlando City SC. He is nicknamed "The Beast" due to his size and physical presence on the football field.
2007 Copa Libertadores Finals The 2007 Copa Libertadores Final was a two-legged football match-up to determine the 2007 Copa Libertadores champion. The series was contested between Club Atlético Boca Juniors from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Grêmio, from Porto Alegre, Brazil. The first leg of the tie was played on June...
Carlos Vera Carlos Alfredo Vera Rodríguez (born June 25, 1976) is an Ecuadorian football referee. He has been an international referee since 2006. He has officiated matches in FIFA World Cup qualifiers, the Copa Libertadores, the Copa Sudamericana and the South American Youth Football Championship. He was selected as a...
2007 Copa América Final The 2007 Copa América Final was the final match of the 2007 Copa América. It was held on 15 July 2007 in Maracaibo, Venezuela, between Brazil and Argentina. Brazil won 3–0, with goals from Júlio Baptista, a Roberto Ayala own goal and Dani Alves. Brazil won their eighth title, while Argentina cou...
2007 Copa América The 2007 Campeonato Sudamericano Copa América, known simply as the 2007 Copa América or 2007 Copa América Venezuela, was the 42nd edition of the Copa América, the South-American championship for international association football teams. The competition was organized by CONMEBOL, South America's footba...
2007 Copa Libertadores The 2007 Copa Libertadores de América (officially the 2007 Copa Toyota Libertadores de América for sponsorship reasons) was the 48th edition of the Copa Libertadores. It started on January 24, 2007 and finished on June 20, 2007. It was won by Boca Juniors, who earned their 6th Copa Libertadores t...
2008–09 Copa America (indoor) The 2008-09 Copa America was an indoor soccer tournament that included teams from 3 countries and 3 professional leagues. Each team was supposed to have played 10 games, with the three group winners plus a wild card team to qualify for a final 4 weekend to decide the title. Due to economic...
2007 Copa Sudamericana Finals The 2007 Copa Sudamericana Finals was a two-legged football match-up to determine the 2007 Copa Sudamericana champion.
Paolo de la Haza Paolo Giancarlo de la Haza Urquiza (born November 30, 1983, in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian football player who currently plays for Alianza Lima. He was a member of Peru national football team at 2007 Copa America.
2013 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team The 2013 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season as members of the Big 12 Conference. Kliff Kingsbury led the Red Raiders in his first season as the program's fifteenth head coach. The Red Raiders pl...
2015 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team The 2015 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season as members of the Big 12 Conference. Kliff Kingsbury led the Red Raiders in his third season as the program's fifteenth head coach. The Red Raiders pl...
Texas Tech University Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on 10, 1923 (1923--) , and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the flagship institution of the four-institution Texas Tech University System. The...
1974 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team The 1974 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the Southwest Conference during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. In their fifth and final season under head coach Jim Carlen, the Red Raiders compiled a 6–4–2 record (3–4 against confere...
2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team The 2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Mike Leach during the regular season, and was coached by interim head coach Ruffin McNeill during the 2010 Valero Alamo Bowl....
1986 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team The 1986 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first and only season under head coach David McWilliams, the Red Raiders compiled a 7–4 record in the re...
2012 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team The 2012 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season as members of the Big 12 Conference. Tommy Tuberville lead the Red Raiders in his third season as the program's fourteenth head coach. The Red Raiders...
2014 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team The 2014 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season as members of the Big 12 Conference. Kliff Kingsbury lead the Red Raiders in his second season as the program's fifteenth head coach. The Red Raiders ...
Texas A&M–Texas Tech football rivalry The Texas A&M–Texas Tech football rivalry was an American college football rivalry between the Texas A&M Aggies football team of Texas A&M University and Texas Tech Red Raiders football team of Texas Tech University. The series began in 1927. The rivalry had continued uninterru...
2016 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team The 2016 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season as members of the Big 12 Conference. Kliff Kingsbury led the Red Raiders in his fourth season as the program's fifteenth head coach. The Red Raiders p...
An Essay on Censorship An Essay on Censorship is a lengthy letter, in verse, by Anthony Burgess addressed to his fellow novelist Salman Rushdie. Published in the wake of the 1989 Iranian "fatwa" against Rushdie and the Bradford book-burnings that followed, Burgess's letter has been compared to the "Essay on Man" of Ale...
Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, FRSL ( ; Kashmiri: अहमद सलमान रुशदी , ; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and...
Rana Dasgupta Rana Dasgupta (born 5 November 1971 in Canterbury, England) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He grew up in Cambridge, England, and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and, as a Fulbright Scholar, the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has liv...
Rencontre au Sommet "Rencontre au Sommet. Dialogue between Anthony Burgess and Isaac Bashevis Singer" is an 86-page book containing the complete transcripts of conversations between Anthony Burgess and Isaac Bashevis Singer when they met for a Swedish television documentary in 1985.
Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'FRSL', '4': "} ( ; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English writer and composer. From relatively modest beginnings in a Catholic family in Manchester, he eventually became one of the best ...
Anthony Burgess Center The Anthony Burgess Center of the University of Angers, France, exists to honor the memory of the 20th-century English novelist Anthony Burgess. It houses a collection of books, manuscripts, scores, and other items belonging to Burgess donated by his second wife Liana, and these can be inspected ...
Anthony Burgess: A Life Anthony Burgess: A Life is the title of a biography of the novelist and critic Anthony Burgess (1917-93) by Roger Lewis.
Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems is a posthumous collection of the short poetry written by Anthony Burgess. Compiled and edited by Kevin Jackson, who also provided a short introduction to the text, the book purports to collect most if not all of the poems published under the n...
You've Had Your Time You've Had Your Time, full title: You've Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess, is the second volume of Anthony Burgess's autobiography. Preceded by "Little Wilson and Big God" and first published by Heinemann in 1990, it covers a period of 30 years, from Burges...
Liana Burgess Liana Burgess (born Liliana Macellari, September 25, 1929 – December 3, 2007) was an Italian translator and literary agent who was the second wife of English writer Anthony Burgess. Burgess and Macellari had embarked on an affair while Burgess was married to his first wife, and Macellari gave birth to a s...
Did It in a Minute "Did It in a Minute" is a song performed by American musical duo Hall & Oates. Written by member Daryl Hall with Sara and Janna Allen. The song was released as the third of four singles from their tenth studio album "Private Eyes" in March 1982. Daryl Hall performs lead vocals, while John Oates provi...
One on One (song) "One on One" is a song performed by American musical duo Hall & Oates. Written by member Daryl Hall, the song was released as the second single from their eleventh studio album "HO" on January 29, 1983. Backed by minimalistic, synthesizer-based production, the song's lyrics incorporate various sports ...
Janna Allen Janna Allen (May 12, 1957 – August 25, 1993) was an American songwriter. She is best known as a co-writer of some of the biggest hits recorded by Daryl Hall & John Oates, in collaboration variously with Daryl Hall, John Oates and her sister Sara Allen, who was Hall's longtime girlfriend and the person for w...
Live from Daryl's House Live from Daryl's House (simply known as Daryl's House, and often abbreviated as LFDH) is an online series that was first created in fall 2007. The show features singer-songwriter Daryl Hall performing with his band and various guest artists at his home in Millerton, New York. The show provides ...
Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" is a song written and originally performed by British beat group Gerry and the Pacemakers. The songwriting is credited to Gerry Marsden and the other band members, Freddie Marsden, Les Chadwick and Les Maguire. It was first recorded by Louise Corde...
Daryl Hall Daryl Franklin Hohl (born October 11, 1946), known professionally as Daryl Hall, is an American rock, R&B, and soul singer; keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates (with guitarist and songwriter John Oates).
Ferry Cross the Mersey "Ferry Cross the Mersey" (sometimes written Ferry 'Cross the Mersey) is a song written by Gerry Marsden. It was first recorded by his band Gerry and the Pacemakers and released in late 1964 in the UK and in 1965 in the United States. It was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, reaching number six...
Jonathan Wolfson Jonathan Wolfson (born December 1, 1970) is an American television executive, manager, and publicist. He is known for his managerial work with the musical group Daryl Hall & John Oates and the Canadian-rock group Loverboy. He was previously well known for his publicity work with Suge Knight through his...
Hall & Oates Daryl Hall and John Oates, often referred to as Hall & Oates, are an American musical duo from Philadelphia. Daryl Hall is generally the lead vocalist of the pairing. John Oates primarily plays electric guitar and provides backing vocals. The two write most of the songs they perform, either separately ...
Gerry Marsden Gerard Marsden MBE (born 24 September 1942) is an English musician and television personality, best known for being leader of the British Merseybeat band Gerry and the Pacemakers.
Guy Lewis Guy Vernon Lewis II (March 19, 1922 – November 26, 2015) was an American basketball player and coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Houston from 1956 to 1986. Lewis led his Houston Cougars to five appearances in the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament, in 1967, 1968, 1982, 19...
Eddie Hickey Edgar S. Hickey (December 20, 1902 – December 5, 1980) was an American football and basketball coach. He coached basketball at his alma mater of Creighton University (1934–1943, 1946–1947), St. Louis University (1947–1958) and Marquette University (1958–1964), compiling a 429–230 record. Hickey also served...
Glenn Wilkes Glenn Wilkes (born November 28, 1928) is a former collegiate basketball coach who was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He attended Mercer College. He is known as the Godfather of Florida basketball. He had over 550 wins along with 27 winning seasons. He coached from 1957 to 19...
Harry Gallatin Harry Junior "The Horse" Gallatin (April 26, 1927 – October 7, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and coach. Gallatin played nine seasons for the New York Knicks in the NBA from 1948 to 1957, as well as one season with the Detroit Pistons in the 1957–58 season. Gallatin led the NBA in r...
Wayman Tisdale Wayman Lawrence Tisdale (June 9, 1964 – May 15, 2009) was an American professional basketball player in the NBA and a smooth jazz bass guitarist. A three-time All American at the University of Oklahoma, he was elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.
Nolan Richardson Nolan Richardson (born December 27, 1941) is a former American basketball head coach best known for his tenure at the University of Arkansas, where he won the 1994 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008 and the Naismith Memorial B...
Rendezvous Music Rendezvous Music (formerly known as Rendezvous Entertainment) is a record label founded by multiple-Grammy Award nominee and RIAA Certified Gold recording artist Dave Koz, radio entrepreneur Frank Cody and music business veteran Hyman Katz in 2002. At various times, the label has been distributed by So...
Tom Jernstedt Tom Jernstedt is an American basketball administrator, working for the NCAA from 1972 until 2010. He was enshrined into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 2010 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.
John McLendon John B. McLendon, Jr. (April 5, 1915 – October 8, 1999) was an American basketball coach who is recognized as the first African American basketball coach at a predominantly white university and the first African American head coach in any professional sport. He was a major contributor to the development o...
National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a hall of fame and museum dedicated to men's college basketball. The museum is an integral portion of the College Basketball Experience created by the National Association of Basketball Coac...
A. Whitney Brown Alan Whitney Brown (born July 8, 1952) is an American writer and comedian best known for work on "Saturday Night Live" in the 1980s. In addition to writing for the program, he appeared opposite Dennis Miller in a biting satirical Weekend Update commentary segment called "The Big Picture." He won a 1988...
Charles Rocket Charles Adams Claverie (August 28, 1949 – October 7, 2005), known by such stage names as Charlie Hamburger, Charlie Kennedy, and, most famously, Charles Rocket, was an American actor. He was best known for his tenure as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live", for his role as the villain Nicholas Andre i...
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday is an American limited-run series broadcast on NBC. It is a political satire news show spin-off from "Saturday Night Live", featuring that show's "Weekend Update" segment. It initially ran for three 30-minute episodes in October 200...
Gail Matthius Gail Matthius (born December 14, 1953) is an American actress, voice actress and comedian. She was a cast member of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" during its critical and ratings low point at the time (the 1980–1981 season headed by Jean Doumanian), and co-anchored the Weekend Update segment with Charles Roc...
Roseanne Roseannadanna Roseanne Roseannadanna is one of several recurring characters created by Gilda Radner, who appeared on "Weekend Update" in the early seasons of "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL"), which aired on the NBC network. She was the segment's consumer affairs reporter who, like an earlier Radner character Emil...
Herb Sargent Herbert Sargent (July 15, 1923 – May 6, 2005) was an American television writer, a producer for such comedy shows as "The Tonight Show" and "Saturday Night Live", and a screenwriter ("Bye Bye Braverman"). During his tenure at "Saturday Night Live", he and Chevy Chase created Weekend Update, the longest-run...
Weekend Update Weekend Update is a "Saturday Night Live" sketch that comments on and parodies . It is the show's longest-running recurring sketch, having been on since the show's first broadcast, and is typically presented in the middle of the show immediately after the first musical performance. One or two of the play...
Seth Meyers Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28, 1973) is an American comedian, writer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He hosts "Late Night with Seth Meyers", a late-night talk show that airs on NBC. Prior to that, he was a head writer for NBC's "Saturday Night Live" (2001–2014) and hosted the show's...
Chevy Chase Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase ( ; born October 8, 1943) is an American actor and comedian. Born into a prominent New York family, he worked a variety of jobs before moving into comedy and began acting with "National Lampoon". He became a key cast member in the debut season of "Saturday Night Live", where hi...
The Chanukah Song "The Chanukah Song" is a novelty song written by comedian Adam Sandler with "Saturday Night Live" writers Lewis Morton and Ian Maxtone-Graham and originally performed by Sandler on "Saturday Night Live"' s Weekend Update on December 3, 1994. Sandler subsequently performed the song as part of his stand...
Nikolaos Mavridis Nikolaos Mavridis (born April 28, 1973) is the founder and director of the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML), and a PhD graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology He is also an assistant professor of research at the Computer Science department, New York University Poly, and adjunct ...
Gilbert V. Rohleder Gilbert V. Rohleder (April 22, 1922 – January 30, 2016) was a 20th-century American pipeline executive, and one of the founding principals of the Mid-America Pipeline Company, founded in 1960. During his tenure, MAPCO evolved into a Fortune 500 company that was ultimately acquired by the Williams Co...
Daniel Haber Daniel A. Haber, Ph.D., M.D. is the director of Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, a Professor of Oncology at Harvard Medical School, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). He earned his B.S. in life sciences and M.S. in toxicology from Massachusetts Institute of Tech...
Nevin S. Scrimshaw Nevin Stewart Scrimshaw (January 20, 1918 – February 8, 2013) was an American food scientist and Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Scrimshaw was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During the course of his long career he developed nutritional supplements for allevia...
Flexible solar cell research Flexible solar cell research is a research-level technology, an example of which was created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in which solar cells are manufactured by depositing photovoltaic material on flexible substrates, such as ordinary paper, using chemical vapor deposition...
University of Virginia The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson, UVA is known for its historic foundations, student-run h...
Alan H. Epstein Alan H. Epstein is a distinguished aeronautical engineer. He currently works at Pratt & Whitney where he is responsible for long-term technology and environmental strategy. He is also Professor Emeritus at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He re...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is often ranked as one of the world's most prestigious universities.
Henry W. Holt Henry Winston Holt (September 14, 1864 – October 4, 1947) was born at Wakefield, Virginia in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, but was raised in Surry County, Virginia. His preparatory education was received at Hanover Academy in Hanover County, Virginia after which he attended Massachusetts Institute of Te...
Journal of Accounting and Economics The Journal of Accounting and Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on the fields of accounting and economics. The editors-in-chief are R. L. Watts (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), J. L. Zimmerman (University of Rochester), R. W. Holthausen (University of Pen...
Osan Air Base Osan Air Base (K-55; Korean: 오산공군기지 ; Hanja: 烏山空軍基地 ), is a United States Air Force base located near Songtan Station in the city of Pyeongtaek, South Korea, 64 km south of Seoul. Despite its name, Osan AB is not within Osan City, which is 7.5 km to the north. The base is the home of the Pacific Air Force...
Montijo Air Base Montijo Air Base (Portuguese: "Base Aérea do Montijo" ) (ICAO: LPMT) - officially known as Air Base No. 6 ("Base Aérea n.º 6") or BA6 - is a military air base located in Montijo, Portugal. The base is home to three transport squadrons and one helicopter search and rescue squadron and provides logistic ...
Second VA-75 (U.S. Navy) Attack Squadron 75 (VA-75) or ATKRON 75 was an attack squadron of the United States Navy that was active from World War II through the 1990s. Nicknamed the "Sunday Punchers," they were based out of Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia. Originally established as Bombing Squadron EIGHTEEN (VB-18) o...
VA-44 (U.S. Navy) Attack Squadron 44 (VA-44) was an attack squadron of the United States Navy. Originally established as Bombing Squadron VB-75 on 1 June 1945 it was redesignated Attack Squadron VA-3B on 15 November 1946, redesignated VA-44 on 1 September 1948 and disestablished on 8 June 1950. A second VA-44 was in se...
VA-42 (U.S. Navy) Attack Squadron 42 (VA-42) was a United States Navy attack squadron based at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia. The squadron was established as Fighter Squadron 42 (VF-42) on 1 September 1950, redesignated as VA-42 on 1 November 1953 and disestablished on 30 September 1994.
Second VA-65 (U.S. Navy) Attack Squadron 65 (VA-65), nicknamed "The World Famous Fighting Tigers", was an attack squadron of the United States Navy. The squadron was established as Torpedo Squadron VT-74 in 1945, redesignated as VA-2B in 1946, as VA-25 on 1 September 1948, and finally redesignated VA-65 on 1 July 1959....
VAQ-137 Electronic Attack Squadron 137 (VAQ-137) also known as the "Rooks", is a United States Navy electronic attack squadron based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Washington, flying the Boeing EA-18G Growler. The squadron is attached to Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1), which is currently assigned to the USS "Theodore ...
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans is a base of the United States military located in Belle Chasse, unincorporated Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. NAS JRB New Orleans is home to a Navy Reserve strike fighter squadron and a fleet logistics supp...
Naval Air Station Cecil Field Naval Air Station Cecil Field or NAS Cecil Field (IATA: NZC, ICAO: KNZC, FAA LID: NZC) was a United States Navy air base, located in Duval County, Florida. Prior to October 1999, NAS Cecil Field was the largest military base in terms of acreage in the Jacksonville, Florida area.
Second VA-174 (U.S. Navy) Attack Squadron 174 (VA-174) also known as the "Hellrazors" was a United States Navy attack squadron based at Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Florida, and were attached to Light Attack Wing One. The unit has evolved several times throughout its history that dates back to 1944. When it was estab...
Basil Dean Basil Herbert Dean CBE (27 September 1888 – 22 April 1978) was an English actor, writer, film producer/film director and theatrical producer/director. He is perhaps best remembered for the Entertainments National Service Association or ENSA, an organisation set up in 1939 by Dean and Leslie Henson to provide...
Eleanor Coppola Eleanor Coppola (born May 4, 1936) is an American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer. She is married to director Francis Ford Coppola. She is most known for her 1991 documentary film "" as well as other documentaries chronicling the films of her husband and children. Coppola currently lives on he...
Anton Coppola Antonio Coppola (born March 21, 1917) is an American opera conductor and composer. He is the uncle of film director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the grand-uncle of Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Schwartzman, and is the younger brot...
Autumn Crocus (film) Autumn Crocus is a 1934 British romance film directed by Basil Dean and starring Ivor Novello, Fay Compton and Muriel Aked. The film follows a teacher who falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria. It was based on Dodie Smith's first...