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Victor Slezak Victor Slezak (born July 30, 1957) is an American stage, television and screen actor who has appeared in numerous films, including "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995), "Beyond Rangoon" (1995), "The Devil's Own" (1997), "The Siege" (1998),"The Cat's Meow" (2001), "Timequest" as John F. Kennedy (2002) an...
The Notorious Bettie Page The Notorious Bettie Page is a 2005 biographical film directed by Mary Harron. The screenplay by Harron and Guinevere Turner focuses on 1950s pinup and bondage model Bettie Page.
Striporama Striporama is a 1953 comedy film directed by Jerald Intrator. The film starred a number of burlesque comedy, dance and striptease acts that were popular during the early 1950s. Today, it is best known as one of the few feature films starring pin-up model Bettie Page.
Varietease Varietease is a 1954 American burlesque documentary film and the first such directed by Irving Klaw. According to its plot, the iconic pin-up model Bettie Page performs a burlesque show alongside Lili St. Cyr, Chris La Chris, Vicki Lynn, Bobby Shields, and others.
The Arrow of Gold The Arrow of Gold is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1919. It was originally titled "The Laugh" and published serially in "Lloyd's Magazine" from December 1918 to February 1920. The story is set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War. The characters of the novel are supporters o...
Scienter The scienter action is a category within [tort] law in some[common law] jurisdictions which deals with the damage done by an animal directly to a human. It had a long history in English law, although it was abolished by the [Animals Act 1971]. An action in those common law jurisdictions where it has not been e...
Gender-neutral language Gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language is language that avoids bias toward a particular sex or social gender. In English, this includes use of nouns that are not gender-specific to refer to roles or professions, as well as avoidance of the pronoun "he" (including the forms "him" an...
Mumia Abu-Jamal Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is a convicted murderer, American activist and journalist who became involved in black nationalism in his youth and was a member of the Black Panther Party until October 1970. He left the party and became a radio reporter, eventually becoming president ...
They "They" is the third-person plural personal pronoun (subjective case) in Modern English. It can also be used with singular meaning, particularly in informal contexts, sometimes to avoid specifying the gender of the person referred to.
Foreign language A foreign language is originally from another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to, i.e., an English speaker living in Spain can say that Spanish is a foreign language to him or her. These two characterisations do not exhaust the possible definitions...
Need for affiliation The need for affiliation (N-Affil) is a term that was popularized by David McClelland and describes a person's need to feel a sense of involvement and "belonging" within a social group; McClellend's thinking was strongly influenced by the pioneering work of Henry Murray who first identified underly...
Cloud cuckoo land Cloud cuckoo land refers to a state of absurdly, over-optimistic fantasy or an unrealistically idealistic state where everything is perfect. Someone who is said to "live in cloud cuckoo land" is a person who thinks that things that are completely impossible might happen, rather than understanding how ...
Core stability Core stability refers to a person's ability to stabilize their core. Stability, in this context, should be considered as an ability to control the position and movement of the core. Thus, if a person has greater core stability, they have a greater level of control over the position and movement of this a...
Mumia (disambiguation) Mumia most commonly refers to Mumia Abu-Jamal (born 1954), a convicted murderer.
Greco Pizza Restaurant Greco Pizza Restaurant is a franchise restaurant chain consisting of over 100 outlets in Eastern Canada. The restaurants also deliver pizza. Greco bills itself as the largest pizza chain in Atlantic Canada.
Peppes Pizza Peppes Pizza is a Norwegian pizza chain that serves American style and Italian style pizza. Peppes is the largest pizza chain in Scandinavia. The restaurant was founded by two Americans, Louis Jordan and his wife Anne from Hartford, Connecticut. The restaurant chain is part of Umoe Catering As which consis...
WingStreet WingStreet is a restaurant chain specializing in chicken. The restaurant chain is owned by Yum! Brands, which also owns its sister franchise Pizza Hut. As of September 2008, there were close to 1,600 locations in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. They are almost always co-located with Pizza Hut.
Happy Joe's Happy Joe's Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor is an American pizza parlor chain based in Bettendorf, Iowa. The restaurant chain was founded in 1972 by Lawrence Joseph "Happy Joe" Whitty, a former Shakey's Pizza manager. Its 61 restaurants are mostly located in the Midwestern United States (in Iowa, Illinois, Missour...
Aurelio's Pizza Aurelio's Pizza is an Illinois restaurant chain which centers its business around the thin crust variety of Chicago-style pizza. Aurelio's Pizza has three corporate owned stores and 37 franchised locations in 6 states. Aurelio's Pizza is the oldest Chicago pizza franchise restaurant, franchising since 1...
Yellow Cab Pizza Yellow Cab Pizza Company is a Filipino chain that retails fast food, primarily pizza. In 2001, Yellow Cab Pizza Company was founded by Eric Puno, Henry Lee, and Albert Tan. Max's Group, owner of restaurant chain Max's of Manila, owns the brand. The restaurant also operates 145 branches in Qatar, United...
Imo's Pizza Imo's Pizza is a U.S. chain of pizza restaurants based in the greater St. Louis, Missouri area. It is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
Pizza Fusion Pizza Fusion is a Deerfield Beach, Florida-based pizza restaurant chain. Using mostly organic ingredients and emphasizing green building methods, the restaurants operate under the tagline Saving the Earth, One Pizza at a Time.
Pizza Ranch The Pizza Ranch, Inc., founded in 1981, is a "fast casual" restaurant chain. Pizza Ranch offers pizza, chicken, a salad bar, and a pizza and chicken buffet. Pizza Ranch has over 200 locations in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, W...
Pizza 73 Pizza 73 is a Canadian restaurant chain that offers a number of different styles of pizza, along with chicken wings. It has been operated by Pizza Pizza since 2007. Toronto-based Pizza Pizza had acquired the restaurant for a total of $CAN70.2 million. There are 89 locations throughout Western Canada, which inc...
Gino's Hamburgers Gino's Hamburgers was a fast-food restaurant chain founded in Baltimore, Maryland, by Baltimore Colts defensive end Gino Marchetti and running back Alan Ameche, along with their close friend Louis Fischer, in 1957. A new group of restaurants under the Gino's name involving some of the principals of th...
Tudor's Biscuit World Tudor's Biscuit World is a restaurant chain based in Huntington, West Virginia, most commonly found in West Virginia. Many West Virginia locations share a building with Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti, although the chain is more extensive than Gino's (which is exclusive to West Virginia), having locati...
Papa Murphy's Park Papa Murphy's Park (formerly known as the Cal Expo Multi-Use Sports Field Facility and Bonney Field) is a sports venue located on the grounds of Cal Expo in Sacramento, California. The soccer-specific stadium has a capacity of 11,569 and includes a full-sized (120 x 80 yard) soccer field. Papa Murphy...
Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti is a restaurant chain with 40 locations, most of them within the U.S. state of West Virginia. The company was founded by Kenney Grant in 1961. Many locations are shared with Tudor's Biscuit World although the Gino's brand is exclusive to West Virginia. There is one ...
Sacramento Republic FC Sacramento Republic FC is an American professional soccer team based in Sacramento, California. It plays in the Western Conference of the United Soccer League. Co-founded by Warren Smith and Joe Wagoner in 2012, the team started play in 2014 at Hughes Stadium, a 20,231 seat stadium. They moved mi...
Papa Gino's Papa Gino's, Inc. is a restaurant chain based in Dedham, Massachusetts specializing in American-style pizza along with pasta, subs, salads, and a variety of appetizers. There are over 150 Papa Gino's locations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
Gino's East Gino's East is a Chicago-based restaurant chain, notable for its deep-dish pizza (sometimes called Chicago-style pizza), and for its interior walls, which patrons have covered in graffiti and etchings. The restaurant features deep-dish pizza baked in cast-iron pans, as well as sandwiches, soups and salads.
Papa Murphy's Papa Murphy's, a business based in Vancouver, Washington, United States, is a take-and-bake pizza company. It began in 1995 as the merger of two take-and-bake pizza companies: Papa Aldo's Pizza (founded in 1981) and Murphy's Pizza (founded in 1981). The company and its franchisees operate more than 1,300 ...
Spencer Park, Queensland Spencer Park (currently known as Corporate Travel Management Stadium) is a football stadium located in the suburb of Newmarket, north of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is home to National Premier Leagues Queensland team Brisbane City FC. The stadium, while officially holding 10,000, seats ...
1960 Cleveland Browns season The 1960 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 11th season with the National Football League. The 1960 Browns compiled an 8–3–1 record, and finished second in the NFL's Eastern Conference, behind the NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles. As runner-up, the Browns qualified for the inaugural thi...
1952 Detroit Lions season The Detroit Lions season resulted in the Lions winning their second National Football League (NFL) championship, having won their first championship 17 years earlier in 1935. The team's co-captains were halfback Bob Hoernschemeyer and defensive tackle John Prchlik, and defensive end Jim Doran ...
Lew Carpenter Lewis Glen Carpenter (January 12, 1932 – November 14, 2010) was an American football player and coach. He played college football for the University of Arkansas and professionally for ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL) as a halfback and fullback with the Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns, and...
Cleveland Browns relocation controversy The Cleveland Browns relocation controversy, sometimes referred to by fans as "The Move", was the decision by then-Browns owner Art Modell to relocate the National Football League (NFL)'s Cleveland Browns from its long-time home of Cleveland to Baltimore during the 1995 NFL seaso...
2016 Cleveland Browns season The 2016 Cleveland Browns season was the franchise's 68th season as a professional sports franchise, its 64th as a member of the National Football League and its first under head coach Hue Jackson and de facto general manager Sashi Brown. The Browns failed to improve upon their 3–13 record ...
Detroit Lions Television Network The Detroit Lions Television Network is a network of seven television stations (and one cable/satellite channel) in Michigan and Ohio that broadcast the NFL's Detroit Lions preseason games and related coverage. On May 21, 2015, the Detroit Lions announced a multi-year broadcast partners...
1982 Detroit Lions season The 1982 Detroit Lions season was the 53rd season in franchise history. An NFL players strike shortened the regular season to nine games. The Lions qualified for their first postseason appearance since 1970. The NFL changed the playoff format due to the strike. The Lions became one of only fou...
2008 Cleveland Browns season The 2008 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 60th season as a professional sports franchise and its 56th season as a member of the National Football League (NFL). The Browns finished with a 4–12 record and failed to qualify for the playoffs. The season marked Romeo Crennel's fourth (and ...
Clayton Beauford Clayton Maurice Beauford (born March 1, 1963) is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver in 1987 for the Cleveland Browns. Beauford graduated from Palatka High School in Palatka, Florida in 1981. He played college football for Auburn University from 1981 to 1984. In Octo...
2008 Detroit Lions season The 2008 Detroit Lions season was the 79th season for the franchise in the National Football League. The Lions entered their third season under head coach Rod Marinelli and were looking to improve on the 7–9 record they put together in 2007. Instead, the Lions had one of the worst seasons in p...
Marie Louise v. Marot Marie Louise v. Marot (1836) was a freedom suit heard by the Louisiana state district court and appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court. The Court held that a slave who is taken to a territory prohibitive of slavery cannot be again reduced to slavery on returning to a territory allowing of slavery...
Alleyne v. United States Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. ___ (2013) , was a United States Supreme Court case that decided that, in line with "Apprendi v. New Jersey" (2000), all facts that increase a mandatory minimum sentence must be submitted to and found true by a jury (not merely determined to be true by a judge...
Duren v. Missouri Duren v. Missouri, 439 U.S. 357 (1979) , was a United States Supreme Court case related to the Sixth Amendment. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who later became a Supreme Court Justice herself, and Lee Nation argued for Duren in what became Ginsburg's last case before the Supreme Court as an attorney. Part of he...
George Anastaplo George Anastaplo (November 7, 1925 – February 14, 2014) was a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and author who was famously denied admission for many years to the Illinois Bar. The denial of his admission became a Supreme Court case, In re Anastaplo, in which he insisted that the Fir...
Rodríguez v. Popular Democratic Party Rodríguez v. Popular Democratic Party, 457 U.S. 1 (1982) , was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States heard on appeal from the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico whether Puerto Rico may by statute vest in a political party the power to fill an interim vacancy in the Puert...
United States v. Hamilton United States v. Hamilton, 3 U.S. 17 (1795) , was a United States Supreme Court case in which a defendant committed on a charge of treason was released on bail, despite having been imprisoned upon a warrant of committal by a district court judge. The Judiciary Act of 1789 stated that "upon all...
United States v. Jackalow United States v. Jackalow, 66 U.S. (1 Black) 484 (1862), is a U.S. Supreme Court case interpreting the Venue and Vicinage clauses of the United States Constitution. It was an "unusual criminal case", and one of the few constitutional criminal cases from the Taney Court. Jackalow, a mariner fro...
Sonia Sotomayor Sonia Maria Sotomayor ( , ] ; born June 25, 1954) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. She has the distinction of being its first justice of Hispanic heritage, the first Latina, its third female justice, and its twelfth Roman Catholic justice.
Westendorp v R Westendorp v R, [1983] 1 S.C.R. 43 was a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the scope of the federal Parliament's criminal law power under section 91(27) of the Constitution Act, 1867. A unanimous Court found that a municipal by-law that prohibited standing in the street for the purpose of prosti...
Nera White Nera D. White (November 15, 1935 – April 13, 2016) was an American basketball player. White played in the AAU national tournaments for the Nashville Business College team while completing her education at George Peabody College for Teachers, which did not field a team. Later, she led the United States nation...
University of Canberra Capitals The University of Canberra Capitals are an Australian professional women's basketball team competing in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). The team is based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. In 2014 the University of Canberra Union took control of the Capitals from B...
South East Queensland Stars The South East Queensland Stars was an Australian professional women's basketball team competing in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). The team was based in Brisbane, Queensland.
Dandenong Rangers The Dandenong Rangers are an Australian professional women's basketball team competing in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). The club is based in Dandenong, Melbourne, Victoria. Historically, they have been one of the more successful franchises in league history, regularly making the playo...
Colleen Planeta Colleen Planeta (born September 3, 1988) is an American professional basketball player. She currently plays for the Adelaide Lightning in the WNBL.
Adelaide Lightning The Adelaide Lightning are an Australian professional women's basketball team competing in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). The club is based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. The club was formed in 1993 and they play in the 8,000-seat Titanium Security Arena.
Colorado Chill The Colorado Chill were a professional women's basketball team playing in the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL) from 2004 to 2006. Based in Loveland, Colorado. They were Colorado's second and longest-lived women's pro basketball team. The Chill won the final two championships of the NWBL, which f...
Melbourne Boomers The Melbourne Boomers are an Australian professional women's basketball club based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was established in 1969 and, after missing out in 1983, was accepted into the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) in 1984 under the name of Bulleen Boomers, named after the suburb of the...
Liaoning Flying Eagles Liaoning Zhongda Aluminium Flying Eagles () is a Chinese professional women's basketball club in Anshan playing in the Women's Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA). The team's coach is Bo Overton. The team finished third in the 2011-2012 season. There were two players from the club on the China ...
Logan Thunder (WNBL) The Logan Thunder was an Australian professional women's basketball team competing in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). The team was based in Logan, Queensland.
Lil Rounds Lil Rounds (born October 20, 1984) is an American singer from Memphis, Tennessee, who was the seventh place finalist on the eighth season of "American Idol". Following the conclusion of "Idol", Rounds was signed to a record deal with Bungalo Records. Her debut album was to be released in 2010 but has been pu...
Melinda Doolittle Melinda Marie Doolittle (born October 6, 1977) is an American singer who finished as the third place finalist on the sixth season of "American Idol". Prior to her appearance on "American Idol", Doolittle worked as a professional back-up singer for, among others, Michael McDonald, Kirk Franklin, Aaron ...
Tim Urban Tim Suburban Urban (born May 1, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and actor who was the seventh place finalist on the ninth season of "American Idol". Urban's debut album and EP titled "Heart of Me" was released on November 8, 2010 through iTunes.
Without Regret Without Regret is the first major-label (and second overall) album from "American Idol" season two seventh place finalist, Kimberly Caldwell. The album was released on April 19, 2011.
David Hernandez (singer) David Anthony Hernandez is an American singer and the twelfth place finalist of FOX's seventh season of the television series "American Idol". He recently moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue his music career after his time on "American Idol".
Kristy Lee Cook Kristy Lee Cook (born January 18, 1984) is an American country singer who was the seventh place finalist on the seventh season of "American Idol". In 2005, Cook released her first album called "Devoted". In June 2008, Cook signed to 19 Recordings and Arista Nashville. She released her post-"Idol" album,...
Allison Iraheta Allison Iraheta (born April 27, 1992) is an American singer from Los Angeles, California, who was the fourth place finalist on the eighth season of "American Idol". Prior to "Idol", Iraheta won the Telemundo competition "". Following the conclusion of "Idol", Iraheta was signed to a record deal with 19 ...
Anthony Fedorov Anatoliy Vladimirovich "Anthony" Fedorov (Russian: Анатолий Владимирович Федоров , ; born May 4, 1985) is an American singer and actor who is former lead singer for the Chicago band 7th Heaven. He rose to fame as the fourth place finalist on the fourth season of "American Idol".
Kimberly Caldwell Kimberly Ann Caldwell (born February 25, 1982) is an American singer, actress and television hostess, from Katy, Texas who was the seventh place finalist on the second season of "American Idol". She used to work as an entertainment correspondent and hosted various shows on the TV Guide Network. She re...
Like My Mother Does "Like My Mother Does" is a song written by Nathan Chapman, Liz Rose, and Nikki Williams. It was first recorded by American country artist Kristy Lee Cook from her 2008 album, "Why Wait". It was later recorded and released as a single by country music singers Jesse Lee and Lauren Alaina in 2010 and 2...
Maritime Broadband Maritime Broadband INC is a US engineering company providing VSAT communication systems for maritime use. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Long Island City and manufactures its proprietary C-Bird in the U.S. The company has developed advanced maritime communication solutions for merch...
Guidance Software Guidance Software, Inc. was a public company (NASDAQ: GUID) founded in 1997. Headquartered in Pasadena, Calif., the company developed and provided software solutions for digital investigations primarily in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia/Pacific Rim. Guidance Software ...
Tyler Media Group Tyler Media Group, also known as Tyler Broadcasting Corporation or simply Tyler Media, headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a media company which owns five television stations (consisting of two Univision network affiliates, one Estrella TV affiliate and two Telemundo affiliate) and thirteen r...
Hi Tech Expressions Hi Tech Expressions was an American video game publisher and developer headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The company was established in 1988. During the course of its existence, the company published primarily juvenile-oriented games. While it published a few adolescent-oriented games...
Proginet Proginet Corporation, which was acquired by Tibco Software in 2010, was a systems management software company. It is best known for having developed a breakthrough product in the late 1980s called XCOM, which allowed companies to manage the process of moving bulk data between 26 different computer operating sy...
Ashland Inc. Ashland Global Specialty Chemicals Inc. is an American chemical company which operates in more than 100 countries. Headquartered in Covington, Kentucky, the company traces its roots back to the city of Ashland, Kentucky, where it was headquartered from 1924 to 1999. The company currently has five wholly ow...
Economy of Atlanta The Atlanta economy is the 10th largest in the country and 18th in the world with an estimated 2014 GDP of over $324 Billion. Atlanta is one of ten U.S. cities classified as an "alpha-world city" by a 2010 study at Loughborough University, and ranks fourth in the number of Fortune 500 companies headq...
Booz Allen Hamilton Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. ( , informally: Booz Allen) is an American management consulting firm, sometimes referred to as a government-services company, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in Greater Washington, D.C., with 80 other offices around the globe.
PISCES PISCES ("Personal Identification Secure Comparison and Evaluation System") is a border control database system largely based on biometrics developed by Booz Allen Hamilton Inc..
OncoMed OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a public American pharmaceutical development company headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company was founded in August 2004 by two University of Michigan investigators, Michael Clarke and Max S. Wicha. s of 2013 , the company had 83 employees. OncoMed's drug discovery...
Needle (2010 film) Needle (also known as Black Magic) is a 2010 Australian independent supernatural horror film starring Michael Dorman, Jessica Marais, Travis Fimmel, Trilby Glover, and Ben Mendelsohn, and directed by John V. Soto. "Needle" is structured as a murder mystery, with six distinct clues pointing to one of ...
Miles Doleac Miles Christopher Doleac is an American film and television actor, director, writer and producer. Along with his film career, he is also a singer, songwriter, theater actor, author, and professor. He has had acting roles in several films and television shows since 2011 including "Treme, Sleepy Hollow, Amer...
The Apparition The Apparition is a 2012 American supernatural horror film, written and directed by Todd Lincoln, making his directorial debut, and starring Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Julianna Guill and Rick Gomez. The plot follows three college students who, after the death of their friend, must battle ...
The Historian (film) The Historian is a 2014 drama film written, directed, produced by Miles Doleac. The film also stars Doleac along with William Sadler, Colin Cunningham, Jillian Taylor, Glynnis O'Connor, Leticia Jimenez and John Cullum.
Sleepy Hollow (film) Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American Gothic supernatural horror film directed by Tim Burton. It is a film adaptation loosely inspired by the 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving and stars Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, with Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van...
Don't Kill It Don't Kill It is a 2016 comedy horror film directed and edited by Mike Mendez. It stars Dolph Lundgren as Jebediah Woodley, a demon hunter who travels to Mississippi in the hopes of destroying an ancient, but homicidal demon. Kristina Klebe, Tony Bentley, James Chalke, and Miles Doleac all star in support...
The Mother of Tears The Mother of Tears (Italian: "La Terza madre" , literally "The Third Mother") is a 2007 supernatural horror film written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Asia Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Moran Atias, Udo Kier, and Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni. The film has also been billed in English-speaking...
The Hollow (2016 film) The Hollow is a 2016 American crime film, directed and written by Miles Doleac. The film won 3 awards (Best Actor, Supporting Actor, and Cinematography) at the 2016 Long Island International Film Expo.
The Family Corleone The Family Corleone is a 2012 novel by Ed Falco, based on an unproduced screenplay by Mario Puzo, who died in 1999. It is the prequel to Puzo's "The Godfather". It was published by Grand Central Publishing and released May 8, 2012.
Skagboys Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is a prequel to his 1993 novel "Trainspotting", and its 2002 sequel "Porno". It follows the earlier lives of characters Renton and Sick Boy as they first descend into heroin addiction.
Children of Crisis Children of Crisis is a social study of children in the United States written by child psychiatrist Robert Coles and published in five volumes by Little, Brown and Company between 1967 and 1977. In 2003, the publisher released a one-volume compilation of selections from the series with a new introduc...
Jim (comics) Jim is a comic book series by Jim Woodring. It began in 1980 as a self-published zine and was picked up by Fantagraphics Books in 1986 after cartoonist Gil Kane introduced Woodring to Fantagraphics co-owner Gary Groth. The publisher released four magazine-sized black-and-white issues starting in September ...
The Casual Vacancy The Casual Vacancy is a 2012 novel written by J. K. Rowling. The book was published worldwide by the Little, Brown Book Group on 27 September 2012. A paperback edition was released on 23 July 2013. It was Rowling's first publication since the "Harry Potter" series, her first apart from that series, a...
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley is a children's fantasy novel written by the English author Alan Garner (born 1934). Garner began work on the novel, his literary debut, in 1957 after he moved into the late mediaeval house Toad Hall, in Blackden, Cheshire. The story, which...
American Dervish American Dervish is a 2012 novel by Ayad Akhtar. The novel tells the story of a young Pakistani-American boy growing up in the American Midwest and his struggle with his identity and religion. The novel has been published in English, Italian ("La donna che mi insegnò il respiro"), Norwegian ("Begynnels...
The Cove (novel) The Cove is a 2012 novel by American author Ron Rash. It is Rash's fifth novel, his most acclaimed novel being the "New York Times" bestseller, "Serena". "The Cove" was listed as #16 on the New York Times Bestseller list for Hardcover Fiction in the April 29, 2012 issue of "The New York Times Book Revi...
Young's Literal Translation Young's Literal Translation (YLT) is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of "Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible" and "Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament". Young used the Textus Receptus (TR) and t...
Boneland Boneland is a 2012 novel by Alan Garner, a sequel to "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" and "The Moon of Gomrath". The boy Colin from the earlier novels is now an adult, still living near the top of Alderley Edge but now a Professor working at the nearby Jodrell Bank Observatory. His solitary home is a kit-built ...

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