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Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes" is the ninth episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series "South Park", and the 120th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 3, 2004. In the episode, a Wall-M...
Douche and Turd "Douche and Turd" is the eighth episode of the eighth season of the animated television series "South Park", and the 119th episode overall. Written by series co-creator Trey Parker, it first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on October 27, 2004, just before the 2004 presidential election. In ...
Chickenlover "Chickenlover" is the fourth episode in the second season of the American animated television series "South Park". The 16th episode of the series overall, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on May 27, 1998. The episode was written by series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, al...
Funnybot "Funnybot" is the second episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series "South Park", and the 211th episode of the series overall. "Funnybot" premiered in the United States on Comedy Central on May 4, 2011, the first time a "South Park" episode has aired in May since season 10's "Ts...
Tsst "Tsst" is the seventh episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series "South Park". The 146th episode of the series overall, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on May 3, 2006. In the episode, Liane has problems controlling her son Cartman, and enlists several reality ...
South Park Is Gay! "South Park Is Gay!" is the eighth episode of the seventh season and the 104th overall episode of the American animated television series "South Park". It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on October 22, 2003. In it, Kyle struggles to understand a new metrosexual fad that has sp...
Conjoined Fetus Lady "Conjoined Fetus Lady" is the fifth episode in the second season of the American animated television series "South Park". The 18th episode of the series overall, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on June 3, 1998. The episode was written by series co-creators Trey Parker and...
201 (South Park) "201" is the sixth episode of the fourteenth season of "South Park", and the 201st overall episode of the series. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 21, 2010. The episode continued multiple storylines from the previous episode, "200", in which a group of angry celebriti...
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BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust The BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust is a United States oil and natural gas royalty trust based in New York, New York. With a market capitalization of US$ 1.6 billion in early 2008, and an average trading volume of 121,000 shares, BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust is the largest conventional oil and...
Wojtek Memorial Trust The Wojtek Memorial Trust is a Scottish Charity (SCO41057) established in 2009 to celebrate the life of Wojtek, "the Soldier Bear", the lives of those who knew him, and their stories during and after the Second World War. The Trust also aims to promote wider understanding of the many historic and ...
Global Volunteer Network The Global Volunteer Network (GVN) is a Charitable Trust based in Wellington, New Zealand and offers volunteer opportunities in community projects throughout the world. GVN’s vision is to support the work of local community organizations in developing countries through the placement of internat...
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Sleeping with the Light On "Sleeping with the Light On" is a song by English pop rock band Busted. It was the first song which band members James Bourne and Matt Willis wrote together. It was recorded in 2002 for their debut album "Busted", and later released on 11 August 2003 as the album's fourth British single. It r...
Loserville Loserville is a musical with music and lyrics by James Bourne and Elliot Davis, originally created for Youth Music Theatre UK. The story is based on an album, "Welcome to Loserville" from Bourne's second band, Son of Dork.
5 Colours in Her Hair "5 Colours in Her Hair" is the debut single by English pop rock band McFly. It was also the band's first UK number one. It stayed at the top for two weeks. The song was written by two of the band members, Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones, and Busted member James Bourne. The track is especially well kn...
James Bourne discography The discography of James Bourne, an English singer-songwriter. He released three albums as a part of Busted, one with Son of Dork and has three forthcoming studio albums - one under his stage name Future Boy, another with new band Call Me When I'm 18 and now a new Busted album has been announce...
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McBusted McBusted were an English pop-punk supergroup composed of members from bands McFly (Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter, and Harry Judd) and Busted (James Bourne and Matt Willis). The only member of the original groups not participating in the new lineup was former Busted guitarist and vocalist Charlie Si...
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Akodontini Akodontini is the second most speciose rodent tribe of the subfamily Sigmodontinae. It includes at least 106 living species in 19 genera and is distributed mainly in the southern half of South America, with only two genera extending into Guyana ("Podoxymys") and Venezuela ("Necromys"). It also includes gener...
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William J. Young (coach) William James Young (September 9, 1881 – December 5, 1957) was the head coach for the William & Mary Tribe men's basketball team from 1911–1913. He led the Tribe to a 10–6 record during his two-year tenure. Young was also the head coach of William & Mary's football team for two seasons, 1911 an...
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Hyrum W. Smith Hyrum W. Smith founded the Franklin Quest Company in 1981. Among the company's other products, Smith created the Franklin Planner and seminars on productivity development based on the "belief window" and other concepts. In 1997, Franklin Quest merged with Stephen R. Covey's Covey Leadership Center to for...
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Corey Smith (artist) Corey Smith (born October 3, 1977) is a contemporary American painter, sculptor, photographer, professional snowboarder, and snowboard designer. Smith was the art director at COMUNE, curator and founder of their Drop City artist collective (which he is no longer a part of), and a contributing artis...
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Gregg Harper Gregory Livingston Harper (born June 1, 1956) is the U.S. Representative for Mississippi 's 3 congressional district , serving since 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes the wealthier portions of the state capital, Jackson, along with most of that city's suburbs. Other cities...
Michael Powell (lobbyist) Michael Kevin Powell (born March 23, 1963) is an American former Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and current president of the trade association the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA). He was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission by ...
William J. Maguire William J. Maguire (June 12, 1916 – October 2, 1997) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1976 to 1982. He served as Mayor of Clark, New Jersey and as a Union County Freeholder. Maguire was elected to the State Assembly in 1975, running with f...
Nicholas Micozzie Nicholas Anthony "Nick" Micozzie (born November 2, 1928) is an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He was Republican Chairman of the House Insurance Committee and was also a member of the House Health and Human Services Committee.
Matt E. Baker Matthew E. "Matt" Baker (born January 24, 1957) is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 68th District and was elected in 1992. For the 2009-10 legislative session, Baker has been appointed Republican Chairman of the House Health and Human Services Committee.
Ron Marsico Ronald S. "Ron" Marsico (born October 30, 1947) is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 105th District and was elected in 1988. He is the Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and also serves on the House Transportation Committee.
John J. Taylor (Pennsylvania politician) John J. Taylor is a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 177th Legislative District of Pennsylvania, United States, since 1984. He is Republican Chairman of the House Liquor Control Committee and a member of the House Urban Affairs Committee. Taylor was t...
Polizei SV Berlin Polizei SV Berlin was a German football club from the city of Berlin (SV is the abbreviation of 'Sportverein', i.e., sports club). The early 1920s saw the formation of sports clubs for police and postal workers which included the establishment on 1 June 1921 of " Sport-Verein Schutzpolizei Berlin" as ...
Justin Fox Justin Fox (born January 28, 1964) is an American financial journalist, commentator, and writer born in Morristown, New Jersey. He is the editorial director of the Harvard Business Review Group and business and economics columnist for Time magazine. He graduated from Princeton University and has been publish...
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Chris Wooding Chris Wooding (born 28 February 1977) is a British writer born in Leicester, and now living in London. His first book, "Crashing", which he wrote at the age of nineteen, was published in 1998 when he was twenty-one. Since then he has written many more, including "The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray", which was...
José Manuel Castañón José Manuel Castañón (February 10, 1920 – June 6, 2001) was a Spanish writer born in Pola de Lena, Asturias. Although he fought in Francisco Franco’s 1936 military uprising he was very soon disappointed with Franco’s regime and in 1957 left for a 20-year exile in Venezuela. His best-known novel “Mo...
Katharine McMahon Katharine McMahon is a British writer born in north-west London. She is an historical novelist who, since 1990, has published nine books. Her latest, "The Woman in the Picture", was released in hardback on 3 July 2014 and in paperback on 30 July 2015. McMahon is the best-selling author of "The Rose of...
Joseph Roth Joseph Roth, born Moses Joseph Roth (2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939), was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga "Radetzky March" (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life, "Job" (1930), and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wa...
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933 What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933 is a book of reportage by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth from the era of the Weimar Republic. The selection of pieces from Roth's large journalistic output was made by Michael Bienert and published in German in 1996. The English tran...
Andrew Gemant Andrew Gemant (1895–1983) was a renowned physicist, remembered in part by the eponymous Andrew Gemant Award. His work included a series of fundamental papers on viscoelasticity and fractional differentials, published in the mid 20th Century. Andrew Gemant was born in Nagyvarad, Hungary on July 27, 1895. H...
Jean-François Steiner Jean-François Steiner is a French-Jewish writer born on 17 February 1938 in Paris, France. He is best known for his controversial non-fiction novel "Treblinka: The Revolt of an Extermination Camp" first published in 1966 as "Treblinka: la révolte d'un camp d'extermination"; translated a year later...
Zaheer Khan Zaheer Khan (born 7 October 1978) is a former Indian cricketer who played all forms of the game for Indian national cricket team from 2000 till 2014. He was the second-most successful Indian pace bowler in Test cricket, behind Kapil Dev.
Lindum Sports Club Ground Lindum Sports Club Ground is a cricket ground in Lincoln, Lincolnshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1861, when Lincolnshire played an All-England Eleven. Lincolnshire played their first Minor Counties Championship match at the ground in 1907 against Staffordshire. Lincolnshir...
Digswell Park Digswell Park is a cricket ground in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1866 between The Node and Southgate. In 2000, the ground hosted its only Minor Counties Championship match to date, which was between Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. In 2003, the ground ...
Pterinochilus Pterinochilus is a genus of tarantulas (family Theraphosidae), in the subfamily known as baboon spiders. The species was first described in 1897 by British zoologist Reginald Innes Pocock. The type species is "P. vorax".
Sclater's guenon The Sclater's guenon ("Cercopithecus sclateri"), also known as Sclater's monkey and the Nigerian monkey, is an Old World monkey that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1904 and named after Philip Sclater. It is an arboreal and diurnal primate that lives in the forests of southern Nigeria. ...
Ornithoctoninae Ornithoctoninae, also known as earth tigers, are a subfamily of Asian tarantulas, which were first erected in 1895 by Reginald Innes Pocock on basis of the genotype "Ornithoctonus andersoni" described in 1892 from former Burma, now Myanmar.
Chaerilus celebensis Chaerilus celebensis also known as the Asian bush scorpion or speckled bush scorpion is a species of scorpion from the family Chaerilidae. It was described in 1894 by Reginald Innes Pocock, using material from Luwu on the island of Sulawesi (Celebes) in Indonesia. Although it has been reported from...
Felis margarita meinertzhageni Felis margarita meinertzhageni was proposed as a subspecies of the sand cat by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1938. Today, this taxon is not recognized as valid.
Pseudaelurus Pseudaelurus is a prehistoric cat that lived in Europe, Asia and North America in the Miocene between approximately 20 to 8 million years ago. It is an ancestor of today's felines and pantherines as well as the extinct machairodont saber-tooths, and is a successor to "Proailurus". It originated from Eurasi...
Kashmir leopard The Kashmir leopard ("Panthera pardus fusca") was described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1930 on the basis of a single skin and skull from Kashmir that differed from typical "P. p. fusca" skins by longer hair and more greyish colour. Therefore, Pocock proposed it as a leopard subspecies under the trinome...
Batesiella Batesiella is a spider genus in the family Theraphosidae (tarantulas), with the sole species Batesiella crinita. It is native to Cameroon. The genus was named by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1903, and honours the collector, G. L. Bates.
Pantherinae Pantherinae is a subfamily within the cat family Felidae named and first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1917.
Panthera onca onca Panthera onca onca was proposed as a jaguar subspecies by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1939. before later research failed to find evidence for it. Pocock also mentioned other subspecies, such as "Panthera onca peruviana", but eventually, due to a lack of evidence, he accepted that "Panthera onca peruvian...
The Mall Wood Green The Mall Wood Green is a large shopping centre and residential complex in Wood Green, north London. It is generally still referred to by its former name of Wood Green Shopping City; the signage on the building still uses that name.
Alexandra Palace railway station Alexandra Palace railway station (originally named Wood Green and later Wood Green (Alexandra Park)) is in the London Borough of Haringey in north London, and is in Zone 3. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Great Northern. Trains mostly go to and from Moorgate on w...
London Skolars London Skolars R.L.F.C. are a professional rugby league club based at the New River Stadium, Wood Green, Haringey in north London. They were founded in 1995 and have been professional since 2003, operating in the Kingstone Press League 1 in the 2015 season. They also run an A-team (formerly known as "Har...
Wood Green War Memorial The Wood Green War Memorial is located on the High Road, Wood Green, in the London Borough of Haringey. It was erected in 1920 and paid for by public subscription of the people of Wood Green to remember the men of the area who died during the First World War. It was subsequently adapted to inclu...
White Hart Lane Community Sports Centre White Hart Lane Community Sports Centre, also known as the New River Stadium is a rugby league and athletics stadium in Wood Green, Haringey, north London, England that is home to London Skolars rugby league club, Enfield and Haringey Athletic Club, Wood Green Weightlifting Club,...
Wood Green Town F.C. Wood Green Town Football Club was a football club based in Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey, England. Formed in 1911 as a breakaway from Tufnell Park, they merged with Edmonton (a descendent of Tufnell Park) in 1973 to form Edmonton & Haringey. During their history the club were known as...
Heartlands High School Heartlands High School is a state secondary school located in Wood Green in the London Borough of Haringey. It welcomed its first students in September 2010. The headteacher is Mr. Simon Garrill.
Haringey Heartlands Haringey Heartlands is a currently ongoing urban regeneration project in the London Borough of Haringey, in north London, England. The site is located west of Shopping City in Wood Green. The aim of the development is "to create a vibrant and attractive new urban quarter which acts as the civic and ...
Haringey London Borough Council Haringey London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Haringey in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London. Haringey is divided into 19 wards, each electing three councillors. Haringey London Bor...
Wood Green tube station Wood Green is a London Underground station on the Piccadilly line. The station is between Turnpike Lane and Bounds Green stations and is in Travelcard Zone 3. It is located at junction of High Road, Wood Green and Lordship Lane. It serves Wood Green Shopping City and the nearby Haringey Council ...
Capriccio (opera) Capriccio, Op. 85, is the final opera by German composer Richard Strauss, subtitled "A Conversation Piece for Music". The opera received its premiere performance at the Nationaltheater München on 28 October 1942. Clemens Krauss and Strauss wrote the German libretto. However, the genesis of the librett...
Emmanuel Chabrier Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier (] ; January 18, 1841September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, "España" and "Joyeuse marche", he left an important corpus of operas (including "L'étoile"), songs, and piano music. He was admired by...
Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include "Der Rosenkavalier", "Elektra", "Die Frau ohne Schatten" and "Salome"; his Lieder, especially his "Four Last Songs"; his tone poems,...
The Flight in the Night The Flight in the Night (German:Die Flucht in die Nacht) is a 1926 German silent film directed by Amleto Palermi and starring Conrad Veidt, Robert Scholz and Angelo Ferrari. It was based on the play "Henry IV" by Luigi Pirandello. The art direction was by Hermann Warm. It was shot on location in...
An Alpine Symphony An Alpine Symphony ("Eine Alpensinfonie"), Op. 64, is a tone poem written by German composer Richard Strauss in 1915. Though labelled as a symphony by the composer, this piece forgoes the conventions of the traditional multi-movement symphony and consists of twenty-two continuous sections of music. T...
Allerseelen (Strauss) "Allerseelen" ("All Souls' Day") is an art song for voice and piano composed by Richard Strauss in 1885, setting a poem by the Austrian poet Hermann von Gilm from his collection "Letzte Blätter " (Last Pages). It is the last in a collection of eight songs which were all settings of Gilm poems from...
Loona discography The discography of Loona, a Dutch recording artist, consists of 7 studio albums, three compilation albums, two extended plays, 37 singles, including 12 as featured artist, 8 promotional singles, and 42 music videos, including 12 as featured artist. Loona was first featured on numeous of singles by DJ ...
Best Of – LaFee Best Of – LaFee is the first greatest hits compilation from German rock singer LaFee. The album was released on 27 November 2009 by Capitol Records and EMI. The release will be in two different editions, "Die Tag Edition" and "Die Nacht Edition". "Die Tag Edition" will feature one CD of all singles as w...
Die Nacht (Strauss) "Die Nacht " ("The Night") is an art song composed by Richard Strauss in 1885, setting a poem by the Austrian poet Hermann von Gilm. It was included in the first collection of songs Strauss ever published, as Op. 10 in 1885 (which included also "Zueignung"). The song is written for voice and piano.