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Billy Pontoni Billy Pontoni, (born 1954) or Guillermo García, joined the Pedro Morales Pino conservatory in his hometown Cartago, Colombia as a child. Then he became one of the artists from the Youths Club in Radio Cartago, in which he made his first appearances as a singer. In 1966 he arrived to Bogotá searching for a...
Herb Alpert's Vibrato Grill & Jazz Herb Alpert's Vibrato Grill & Jazz is a jazz club and restaurant on Beverly Glen Circle in Bel Air, Los Angeles, to the south of Mulholland Drive. It was established by Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Herb Alpert. Ariana Savalas is a regular performer at the club.
Godfrey (comedian) Godfrey C. Danchimah, Jr. (born July 21, 1969), professionally known as Godfrey, is an American comedian and actor who has appeared on BET, VH1, Comedy Central, and feature films, such as "Soul Plane", "Original Gangstas", "Zoolander", and "Johnson Family Vacation". He was also a spokesperson for 7 U...
Linda November Linda Ellen November (born October 16, 1944) is an American singer who has sung tens of thousands of commercial jingles. She was the voice of the singing cat in the Meow Mix commercials, sang the jingle "Galaxy Glue" in the 1981 film "The Incredible Shrinking Woman", the "Coke and a Smile" jingle in the ...
Virginia Biddle Virginia Biddle (1910–2003) was an American revue performer and showgirl. Biddle was a regular performer in Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies" shows until 1931.
Stand Up for the Week Stand Up for the Week is a British television comedy series that was shown on Channel 4, featuring stand-up comedy performances reflecting topical events. The show began in June 2010 with a six-episode series aired on Friday nights, moving to Saturday nights for the second series which began in Ma...
R-26 (salon) R-26 (alt. English: "R-Two-Six" or French: "R-vingt-six") was an artistic salon regularly held at the private residence of socialites Madeleine, Marie-Jacques and Robert Perrier at 26 Rue Norvins in the Montmartre district of Paris. First convened on 1 January 1930, the salon became a meeting ground for ma...
Josephine Baker Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. During her early career she was renowned as a dancer, and was among the most celebrated perfo...
Dana Brown Dana Brown (born December 11, 1959 in Dana Point, California) is an American surfer and filmmaker, and is the oldest son of filmmaker Bruce Brown. His films include "The Endless Summer Revisited" (2000) which is made up of unused footage from "The Endless Summer" (1964) and "The Endless Summer II" (1994), as...
Triple Crown of Acting The Triple Crown of Acting is a term used in the American entertainment industry to describe actors who have won a competitive Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award in the acting categories. 23 people have achieved the triple crown of acting (14 women, 9 men). Helen Hayes' Emmy Award win on F...
Triple Crown of Surfing The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing is a Hawaiian specialty series of professional surfing events, offering three events to men and three events to women. For the men, those events are the Reef Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa Ali'i Beach Park; the O'Neill World Cup of Surfing at Sunset Beach; and the Billa...
Andy Finch Andrew Joseph "Andy" Finch (born March 20, 1981) is an American snowboarder. His accomplishments include winning the overall U.S. Grand Prix Halfpipe Title in 2003 and 2004, taking first place in the Arctic Challenge in Norway in April 2004, winning the Vans Triple Crown in February 2004, winning the O’Neill...
Reef Hawaiian Pro The Reef Hawaiian Pro is a surfing event held annually on the North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii. It is currently the first leg of the Triple Crown of Surfing. Surfers compete for a share of $135,000 (men) or $35,000 (women) prize money. Since it carries a 6-star rating, the event is critical for those who wan...
Offshore Festival The Offshore Festival was a camp-out rock and alternative music festival held during Easter at a farm near Torquay, Victoria, Australia from the late 1990s to 2001. It was run by the same organisers as the Falls Festival, held at nearby Lorne on New Year's Eve. It interlinked with the Rip Curl Pro sur...
Haleiwa, Hawaii Haleʻ iwa is a North Shore community and census-designated place (CDP) in the Waialua District of the island of Oʻ ahu, City and County of Honolulu.
Triple Crown College Baseball League The Triple Crown College Baseball League (TCCBL) is a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league based in Fort Collins, Colorado. The TCCBL was founded in 2007 by Triple Crown Sports, a sports event marketing company also based out of Fort Collins, Colorado. Dave King, owner of Trip...
Triple Crown Trophy The Triple Crown Trophy is a silver trophy awarded to the winner of the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. The Triple Crown trophy has come to represent the pinnacle achievement in horseracing. Commissioned in 1950 by the Thoroughbred Racing Association, artisans at the world-famous ...
Kirk Wise Kirk Wise (born August 24, 1963) is an American film director, animator and screenwriter best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Wise has directed such Disney animated films as "Beauty and the Beast", "", and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". He also directed the English language translation of...
Hercules (1997 film) Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures. The 35th Disney animated feature film, the film was directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. The film is loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the f...
Belle's Magical World Belle's Magical World (also known as Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World) is a 1998 direct-to-video animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, and released by Walt Disney Home Video) on February 17, 1998. The film is a followup to the 1991 Walt Disney Pictures anim...
Beauty and the Beast (1991 soundtrack) Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the official soundtrack album to the 1991 Disney animated feature film, "Beauty and the Beast". Originally released on October 29, 1991, by Walt Disney Records, the album's first half – tracks 2 to 9 – generally contains ...
Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 30th Disney animated feature film and the third released during the Disney Renaissance period, it is based on the French fai...
Human Again (song) "Human Again" is a song originally written for, deleted from, and later restored to the 1991 Disney animated musical "Beauty and the Beast". With music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman, "Human Again" was replaced during production of the original 1991 version of the film by "Something There...
Sleeping Beauty (1959 film) Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on "The Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. The 16th Disney animated feature film, it was released to theaters on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution. This was the last Disney adaptatio...
Disney Renaissance In the history of The Walt Disney Company, the Disney Renaissance refers to the era from 1989 to 1999 during which Walt Disney Feature Animation (renamed Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2006) experienced a creative resurgence in producing successful animated films based on well-known stories, which ...
The Sword in the Stone (film) The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney and released by Buena Vista Distribution. The 18th Disney animated feature film, it was the final Disney animated film to be released before Walt Disney's death. The songs in the film wer...
Aliagha Vahid Aliagha Vahid (Azerbaijani: "Əliağa Vahid" ), born Aliagha Mammadqulu oglu Isgandarov (17 February 1895, Baku – 1 October 1965, Baku), was an Azerbaijani poet and Honoured Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943). He was known for reintroducing medieval ghazel style in Soviet Azerbaijani poetry.
Rauf Atakishiyev Rauf Israfil oglu Atakishiyev (Azerbaijani: "Rauf Atakişiyev" ) was a Soviet Azerbaijani singer, pianist, singer-soloist, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1967), professor (1972).
Mikayil Alakbarov Mikayil Mahammad oglu Alakbarov (Azerbaijani: "Mikayıl Məhəmməd oğlu Ələkbərov" ; 1924– 13 October 1943) was an Azerbaijani Red Army man and a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. Alakbarov was posthumously awarded the title on 26 October 1943 for his actions during the Battle of the Dnieper, during w...
Muslim Magomayev (musician) Muslim Magometovich Magomayev (Azerbaijani: "Müslüm Məhəmməd oğlu Maqomayev", 17 August 1942 – 25 October 2008), dubbed the "King of Songs" and the "Soviet Sinatra" was a Soviet Azerbaijani baritone operatic pop singer. He achieved iconic status in Russia and the post-Soviet countries for hi...
Jamil Ahmadov Jamil Mahammad oglu Ahmadov (Azerbaijani: "Cəmil Məmməd oğlu Əhmədov" ; 1924 – 2 September 1944) was an Azerbaijani Red Army lieutenant and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Ahmadov was posthumously awarded the title on 24 March 1945 for his actions in Operation Bagration. Ahmadov reportedly continued to comman...
Afrasiyab Badalbeyli Afrasiyab Badal oglu Badalbeyli (Azerbaijani: "Əfrasiyab Bədəlbəyli" ) (19 April 1907, Baku – 6 January 1976, Baku) was a Soviet Azerbaijani composer, with noble Iranian origins (he was the descendant of Bahman Mirza and Abbas Mirza, " conductor and music critic, author of the music and libretto of...
Muslim Magomayev (composer) Muslim Mahammad oglu Magomayev (Azerbaijani: "Müslüm Maqomayev" ) (18 September 1885 in Grozny – 28 July 1937 in Nalchik) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer and conductor. He is the grandfather and a namesake of Azerbaijani opera singer Muslim Magomayev.
Arif Heydarov Arif Nazar oglu Heydarov (Azeri: Arif Nəzər oğlu Heydərov, June 28, 1926, Agdash—June 29, 1978, Baku) was a Soviet Azerbaijani state figure and a General-Lieutenant of the Soviet Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs. He headed this ministry from March 19, 1970 until his death. Previously he used to wo...
Ilyas Afandiyev Ilyas Mahammad oglu Afandiyev (Azerbaijani: "Əfəndiyev İlyas Məhəmməd oğlu" ) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet writer, member of Azerbaijan Union of Writers (1940), Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan (1960), laureate of the State Prize of Azerbaijan (1972) and People’s Writer of Azerbaijan (1979).
Nargiz (opera) Nargiz (Azerbaijani: "Nərgiz" ) – is the second opera by Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani composer and Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR, written in 1935. Mammed Said Ordubadi is the author of a libretto to the opera. It is considered the most significant composition of Muslim Magomayev. Music of the...
CCGS John G. Diefenbaker CCGS "John G. Diefenbaker" is the name for a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker that is expected to join the fleet in 2021–2022. She was initially expected to be in service by 2017. Her namesake, John G. Diefenbaker, was Canada's 13th prime minister. It was Diefenbaker's government that founded th...
A Ballad of the West A Ballad of the West is Bobby Bridger's a three-part story told in Homeric verse and song about the Mountain Men, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and the Lakota Sioux people inspired by John G. Neihardt's "A Cycle of the West".
Stark's War Stark's War is the name of a series of military science fiction novels written by John G. Hemry and first published by Ace Books between 2000 and 2002. The books are now being sold with updated cover art highlighting John G. Hemry's nom de plume of Jack Campbell. The series covers the invasion of the Moon b...
Black Elk Speaks Black Elk Speaks is a 1932 book by John G. Neihardt, an American poet and writer, who relates the story of Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota medicine man. Black Elk spoke in Lakota and Black Elk's son, Ben Black Elk, who was present during the talks, translated his father's words into English. Neihardt made ...
Amber Brown Amber Brown is a series of realistic fiction novellas for children created and originally written by Paula Danziger; later written by Elizabeth Levy and Bruce Coville. Early editions are illustrated by Tony Ross and later by Anthony Lewis. The original series is narrated in first person by Amber Brown, star...
Cycle of the West A Cycle of the West is a collection of five epic poems (called ""Songs"") written and published over a nearly thirty-year span by John G. Neihardt. As one extended work of literature, the "Cycle" treats historical topics from the American settlement of the Great Plains and the displacement of the Nati...
Amityville: The Final Chapter Amityville: The Final Chapter is the third installment of the "Amityville" book series written by John G. Jones. Most of the book is believed to be fiction unrelated to the actual claims of the Lutz family. John G. Jones is A New York Times/worldwide bestselling author/screenwriter/film & ...
Hilda Neihardt Hilda Neihardt (1916–2004) was one of her father John G. Neihardt's "comrades in adventure," and at the age of 15 accompanied him as "official observer" to meetings with Black Elk, the Lakota holy man whose life stories were the basis for her father's book, "Black Elk Speaks" and for her own later works.
John G. Neihardt State Historic Site The John G. Neihardt State Historic Site, also known as the Neihardt Center, is located in Bancroft, Nebraska, United States and features museum exhibits about Nebraska Poet Laureate John Neihardt.
John Metras John G. Metras {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born c. 1941) was a Canadian football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He won the Grey Cup with them in 1965. He previously played football at the University of Western Ontario, where his father Johnny Metras coached. John G. Metras graduated fr...
2001 SANFL Grand Final The 2001 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Central District Bulldogs defeat the Woodville-West Torrens by 39 points to claim the clubs second premiership victory.
2010 SANFL Grand Final The 2010 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Central District Bulldogs defeat Norwood by 6 points to claim the clubs ninth premiership victory.
2005 SANFL Grand Final The 2005 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Central District Bulldogs defeat Woodville-West Torrens by 28 points to claim the clubs fifth premiership victory.
2008 SANFL Grand Final The 2008 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Central District Bulldogs defeat Glenelg by 42 points to claim the clubs seventh premiership victory.
2007 SANFL Grand Final The 2007 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Central District Bulldogs defeat North Adelaide by 65 points to claim the clubs sixth premiership victory.
2003 SANFL Grand Final The 2003 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Central District Bulldogs defeat West Adelaide by 34 points to claim the clubs third premiership victory.
2009 SANFL Grand Final The 2009 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Central District Bulldogs defeat Sturt by 38 points to claim the clubs eighth premiership victory.
West Adelaide Football Club West Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Commonly known as The Bloods and Westies, the club's home base is Richmond Oval (currently known as City Mazda Stadium under a sponsorship agreement). The Oval is locate...
2004 SANFL Grand Final The 2004 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Central District Bulldogs defeat Woodville-West Torrens by 125 points to claim the clubs fourth premiership victory.
2000 SANFL Grand Final The 2000 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Central District Bulldogs defeat the Woodville-West Torrens by 22 points to claim the clubs first ever premiership.
Paul Bravo Paul Bravo (born June 19, 1968 in Campbell, California) is a former American soccer midfielder and forward who played six seasons in Major League Soccer, two in the American Professional Soccer League and two in the USISL. He also earned four caps, scoring one goal, with the United States men's national socc...
Jake Sinclair (musician) Jake Sinclair (born March 7, 1985) is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixing engineer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. His production, engineering, songwriting, and mixing credits include Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, 5 Seconds of Summer, Pink, New Pol...
C. E. Gatchalian C.E. "Chris" Gatchalian (born June 5, 1974) is a Canadian playwright, born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Filipino parents, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre from the University of British Columbia. His play "Motifs & Repetitions" aired on Bravo! (Canada) in 1997 and on the Knowledge i...
Rumen Petkov Rumen Petkov (Bulgarian: Румен Петков ) (born 26 January 1948) is a Bulgarian animator and comic creator. His influence spawned a new generation of young Bulgarian comic book artists as Vladimir Nedialkov, Koko Sarkisian, Ivan Kirjakov and others. He was one of the main artists of the comics magazine DUGA ...
Stéphane Aubier Stéphane Aubier (born October 8, 1964) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. In 2009, he wrote and directed the animated film "A Town Called Panic" along with Vincent Patar. It premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was the first stop-motion film to be screened at the festival. In 2013, h...
Panic 5 Bravo Panic 5 Bravo is an action-thriller film directed by Kuno Becker about American paramedics that become trapped on the Mexican side of the border and terrorized by a violent psychopath. It was released in the U.S. by Pantelion Films.
The Mins The Mins are a Georgian Alternative / New Progressive Rock band established in 2011 by Zviad Mgebrishvili. The band played its first live gig in 2011 on Altervision Newcomers. After that the band started to work hard on their repertoire. They mostly performs original songs and only rarely covers. The main song...
Vincent Patar Vincent Patar (born 2 September 1965) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. In 2009 he wrote and directed the animated film "A Town Called Panic" along with Stéphane Aubier. It premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was the first stop-motion film to be screened at the festival. In 2013 he c...
Ann Lewis (musician) Ann Lewis (アン・ルイス , An Ruisu , born 5 June 1956 in Takarazuka, Hyōgo, Japan) is a Japanese singer, popular in Japan in the 1970s and 80s. She was born to an American father and a Japanese mother. She has one brother and a son, Myuji, who is also a singer in Japan. She was married to Masahiro Kuwana...
House of Hohenzollern The House of Hohenzollern ] is a dynasty of former princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. The family arose in the area around the town of Hechingen in Swabia during the 11th century and took their name from Hohenzollern Castle. ...
Kecharis Monastery Kecharis (Armenian: Կեչառիս ), is a medieval Armenian monastic complex dating back to the 11th to 13th centuries, located 60 km from Yerevan, in the ski resort town of Tsakhkadzor in Armenia. Nestled in the Bambak mountains, Kecharis was founded by a Pahlavuni prince in the 11th century, and construc...
County of Luxemburg The County of Luxemburg (French: "Luxembourg" , Luxembourgish: "Lëtzebuerg" ) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire. It arose from medieval Lucilinburhuc ("""Little Fortress") Castle in the present-day City of Luxembourg, purchased by Count Siegfried in 963. His descendants of the Ardennes-Verdun dyn...
Klevan Castle Klevan Castle (Клеванський замок) is one of the oldest forts in Volynia, Ukraine. It was built in the mid-15th century by Prince Michael Chortoryisky in order to control a ford over the Stubla River. Klevan was the main seat of the Orthodox princely house of Chortoryisk until its members converted to Cath...
Prussian nationalism Prussian nationalism was the nationalism asserted that Prussians were a nation and promoted the cultural unity of Prussians. Prussian nationalism arose as a result of the state-building by the Hohenzollern dynasty that was initiated with the merger of Brandenburg with East Prussia in the 16th centu...
St John the Baptist, Edlingham St. John the Baptist Church is a Mediaeval (11th century) Church in Edlingham, Alnwick, Northumberland, England. The church is mostly Norman, from two periods, the late 11th - early 12th Century and late 12th century. The chancel arch and the south porch, with its rare Norman tunnel vault...
Prince Michael of Yugoslavia (born 1958) Prince Michael of Yugoslavia, also known as Michel de Yougoslavie, (Michael Nicolas Paul George Maria; born 18 June 1958 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France) is an investment executive, socialite and philanthropist. He was formerly a real estate broker...
Benveniste Benveniste, is the surname, byname (see below - the origin of the name) in an old, noble, rich, and scholarly Jewish family of Narbonne, France and northern Spain from the 11th century. The family was present in the 11th to the 15th centuries in Provence, France, Barcelona, Aragon and Castile' Spain. Family ...
Prince Michael of Prussia Prince Michael of Prussia (22 March 1940 – 3 April 2014) was a member of the Hohenzollern dynasty which ruled Germany until the end of World War I. His great-grandfather William II was the German Emperor and King of Prussia until 1918. Although "Kaiser Wilhelm" died in exile and his family was...
Mr. Reliable Mr. Reliable is a 1996 film directed by Nadia Tass. It stars Colin Friels and Jacqueline McKenzie. It tells the true story of Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia. Just released from prison, all he wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. A misunderstanding, quickly gets out o...
Daniel Pollock Daniel John Pollock (24 August 1968 – 13 April 1992) was an Australian actor best known for his role as Davey in the 1992 Australian drama film "Romper Stomper", which featured Russell Crowe.
Romper Stomper Romper Stomper is a 1992 Australian drama film written and directed by Geoffrey Wright in his feature film directorial debut. The film stars Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie and Tony Lee. The film tells the story of the exploits and downfall of a neo-Nazi group in blue-collar suburban M...
Eisenstein (film) Eisenstein is a 2000 Canadian film about Sergei Eisenstein, directed by Renny Bartlett and starring Simon McBurney, Raymond Coulthard and Jacqueline McKenzie. It was nominated for five Genie Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
Russell Crowe Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor, film producer and musician. Although a New Zealand citizen, he has lived most of his life in Australia. He came to international attention for his role as the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film "Gladiator", directed by...
Geoffrey Wright Geoffrey Wright (born 1959) is an Australian film director and screenwriter, who gained cult success with the 1992 film "Romper Stomper", which starred Russell Crowe.
Angel Baby (1995 film) Angel Baby is a 1995 Australian drama film written and directed by Michael Rymer and starring John Lynch, Jacqueline McKenzie and Colin Friels. The film was produced in 1993–94. It is a love story of two people with schizophrenia.
Romper Stomper (TV series) Romper Stomper is an Australian television series on video streaming service Stan. It is created as a sequel to the 1992 film "Romper Stomper". The six-part series will see Jacqueline McKenzie, Dan Wyllie and John Brumpton reprise their roles in a continuation of the story, 25 years later. It...
Human Touch (film) Human Touch is a 2004 film directed by Paul Cox and starring Jacqueline McKenzie, Chris Haywood and Aaron Blabey. The plot follows the story of Anna who is a singer trying to raise money for her choir's trip to China. She does this by posing nude for an ageing artist and upon seeing the finished resu...
Opal Dream Opal Dream (also known as Pobby and Dingan) is a 2006 Australian drama film, based on the Ben Rice novella "Pobby and Dingan", directed by Peter Cattaneo and starring an ensemble cast including Vince Colosimo, Jacqueline McKenzie, Christian Byers and Sapphire Boyce. It was filmed on location around South Aus...
Edgar Kaiser Jr. Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser Jr. (July 5, 1942 – January 11, 2012) was an American-Canadian financier and a former owner of the Denver Broncos American football team. He was born in Portland, Oregon on July 5, 1942 and is the grandson of shipbuilding industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. He earned a BA degree from S...
Nutri Ventures – The Quest for the 7 Kingdoms Nutri Ventures (also known as Nutri Ventures – The Quest for the 7 Kingdoms) (Portuguese: Nutri Ventures - Em Busca dos 7 Reinos) is a Portuguese TV series produced by the Nutri Ventures Corporation that is distributed through Hulu Kids.
Eagle Mountain Railroad The Eagle Mountain Railroad (EMRR) was a private railroad in California, owned by the Kaiser Steel Corporation, and is owned today by Kaiser Steel's successor, Kaiser Ventures, Inc. of Ontario, California.
Neafie & Levy Neafie, Levy & Co., commonly known as Neafie & Levy, was a Philadelphia shipbuilding and engineering firm that existed from the middle of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. Described as America's "first specialist marine engineers", Neafie & Levy was probably the first company in the Unite...
Kaiser Shipyards The Kaiser Shipyards were seven major shipbuilding yards located on the United States west coast during World War II. Kaiser ranked 20th among U.S. corporations in the value of wartime production contracts. The shipyards were owned by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company, a creation of American industrialis...
Kaiser Ventures Kaiser Ventures (formerly Kaiser Steel) corporation, headquartered in Ontario, California. It was founded by Henry J. Kaiser to provide steel plate for the Pacific Coast shipbuilding industry, which expanded during World War II, then shrank, then expanded again during the Korean War. California Shipbuil...
Henry J. Kaiser Henry John Kaiser (May 9, 1882 – August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. He established the Kaiser Shipyards, which built Liberty ships during World War II, after which he formed Kaiser Aluminum and Kaiser Steel. Kaiser organized Kai...
John Roach & Sons John Roach & Sons was a major 19th-century American shipbuilding and manufacturing firm founded in 1864 by Irish-American immigrant John Roach. Between 1871 and 1885, the company was the largest shipbuilding firm in the United States, building more iron ships than its next two major competitors co...
New York Shipbuilding Corporation The New York Shipbuilding Corporation (or New York Ship for short) was an American shipbuilding company that operated from 1899 to 1968, ultimately completing more than 500 vessels for the U.S. Navy, the United States Merchant Marine, the United States Coast Guard, and other maritime c...
Edgar Kaiser Sr. Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser Sr. (July 29, 1908 – December 7, 1981) was an American industrialist, who was Chairman of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation, the Kaiser Cement Corporation and the Kaiser Steel Corporation.
Dave Attell David Attell (born January 18, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer, best known as the host of Comedy Central's "Insomniac with Dave Attell", which gave him a cult following. Born in Queens, New York, he grew up in Rockville Centre, New York with his cousins the Small family and now live...
Bob Smith (comedian) Bob Smith (born December 24, 1960) is an American comedian and author. Smith, born in Buffalo, New York, was the first openly gay comedian to appear on "The Tonight Show" and the first openly gay comedian to have his own HBO half-hour comedy special. Smith, along with fellow comedians Jaffe Cohen a...
Jimmy Cricket James Mulgrew (born 17 October 1945), known professionally as Jimmy Cricket, is an Irish comedian. He currently lives with his family in Rochdale, North West England.
Vittorio Leonardi Vittorio Leonardi (born 2 January 1977) is a South African stand-up comedian and actor. As a comedian, he has performed as a member of Joe Parker's Comedy Express, as well as performing improvisational theatre with Joe Parker's Improv Express, and has appeared on stages in Witbank, Pretoria, Johannesb...
And There's More And There's More is a comedy sketch show starring Jimmy Cricket produced by Central Independent Television for ITV from 1985 till 1988.
Daniel Alcaíno Daniel Alcaíno Cuevas (] , born April 6, 1972) is a Chilean actor and comedian. Born and raised in Santiago, the capital of Chile, he attended the Liceo Cervantes when he was a teenager. After an unsuccessful attempt to study Law, Alcaíno embarked on a career as an actor and comedian, he studied at the U...