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2012 St. Louis Rams season The St. Louis Rams season was the team's 75th season in the National Football League, the 18th overall in St. Louis and the first under new head coach Jeff Fisher. Finishing at 7–8–1, they improved on their 2–14 record from 2011. In Week 10 against the San Francisco 49ers, the game ended in a...
2007 St. Louis Rams season The 2007 St. Louis Rams season was the 70th season for the team in the National Football League and their 13th in St. Louis, Missouri. This was the third worst season for the Rams during their time in St. Louis. The team looked to improve on its 8-8 record from 2006. However, the Rams slumped...
History of the St. Louis Rams The professional American football franchise now known as the Los Angeles Rams played in St. Louis, Missouri, as the St. Louis Rams from the 1995 through the 2015 seasons. The Rams franchise relocated from Los Angeles to St. Louis in 1995, which had been without a National Football League ...
Governor's Cup (Missouri) The Missouri Governor's Cup was a trophy awarded to the winner of the football game between Missouri's two National Football League (NFL) teams. Originally played for between the Kansas City Chiefs and the St. Louis Cardinals, the last trophy in the original series was awarded in 1987 due to t...
Orlando Pace Orlando Lamar Pace (born November 4, 1975) is a former professional American football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for thirteen seasons. He played college football for Ohio State University, and was twice recognized as a unanimous All-American. He was drafted by ...
2010 St. Louis Rams season The 2010 St. Louis Rams season was their 73rd season for the franchise, and their 16th overall in St. Louis. St. Louis greatly improved on their near winless record of 1–15 from the 2009 season by achieving more total victories, with a record of 7–9, than in their previous 3 years. Since the ...
Max Bemis Maxim "Max" Bemis ( ) is the lead singer, primary composer and primary lyricist of the band Say Anything. He also sings alongside Chris Conley in the supergroup Two Tongues (which features band members from Say Anything and Saves the Day), plays alongside his wife Sherri Dupree-Bemis under the name Perma, and...
Robert Palmer (singer) Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was known for his distinctive, soulful voice, eclectic mix of musical styles on his albums, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, blues, and sartorial acumen. He found ...
Max Bemis and the Painful Splits Max Bemis and the Painful Splits is a side project created by Say Anything's lead singer Max Bemis in September 2010. He has recorded six albums, titled "Max Bemis and the Painful Splits", "Max Bemis and the Painful Splits 2", "The Painful Splits Destroy", "The Painful Splits Are Multip...
Sweet Lies (song) "Sweet Lies" is a song by the English singer Robert Palmer, released in 1988 as a single from the soundtrack of the film of the same name. As well as appearing on the film's soundtrack release, it was also included on Palmer's 1989 compilation album "". The song was written by Palmer, Frank Blair and ...
Bob Kane Robert "Bob" Kane (born Robert Kahn; October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book writer and artist who co-created, with Bill Finger, the DC Comics character Batman. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fam...
Bryan Johnson (comic book writer) Bryan Lee Johnson (born December 7, 1967) is an American comic book writer, podcaster, actor and television personality associated with filmmaker Kevin Smith and the View Askewniverse. He is best known by his local fame in New Jersey and appearances in Smith's New Jersey films as comic...
Clues (Robert Palmer album) Clues is the sixth solo album by Robert Palmer, released in 1980. It has a rockier, new wave edge compared to his previous releases. The album peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart and No. 31 in the UK in 1980. The album also peaked at No. 1 in Sweden, No. 3 in France, No...
Very Best of Robert Palmer Very Best of Robert Palmer is a 1995 compilation album by British singer Robert Palmer. Re-issued in 1997 with the addition of "Addicted To Love '97".
Comics artist A comics artist (also comic book artist or graphic novel artist, comic book producer, comic book illustrator, comic book writer, and comic book author) is a person working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books, or graphic novels. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute t...
Riptide (album) Riptide is the eighth solo studio album by the British singer Robert Palmer. It was originally released in November 1985. The album was recorded over a period of three months in 1985, at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas. The album charted at number 8 in the US and No. 5 in the UK. It was certifi...
Subfunctionalization Subfunctionalization was proposed by Stoltzfus (1999) and Force et al. (1999) as one of the possible outcomes of functional divergence that occurs after a gene duplication event, in which pairs of genes that originate from duplication, or paralogs, take on separate functions. Subfunctionalization i...
Scotch Collie The Scotch Collie is a landrace breed of dog which originated from the highland regions of Scotland. The breed consisted of both the long-haired (now known as Rough) Collie and the short-haired (now known as Smooth) Collie. It is generally believed to have descended from a variety of ancient herding dogs,...
Mulcahy (surname) Mulcahy is a surname and Clan of Irish Gaelic origin. The anglicized form of "Ó Maolchathaigh" which in Gaelic means 'a descendant of a devotee of Cathach', a personal name meaning Warlike. The name is thought to originate in County Tipperary, However the earliest mention of the family appears in the ...
Irish Setter The Irish Setter (Irish: "sotar rua" , literally "red setter") is a setter, a breed of gundog, and family dog. The term "Irish Setter" is commonly used to encompass the show-bred dog recognised by the American Kennel Club as well as the field-bred Red Setter recognised by the Field Dog Stud Book.
Kanitkar Kanitkar is a surname used by Konkanastha Chitapavan sub-caste of Brahmins in India. Kanitkars, like most other Konkanastha Chitpavan Brahmins, originate in the Konkan strip on the western seacoast of India - about 300-500 kilometers south of Mumbai. Kanitkars (other names: Satkar) were from original five town...
Noble Huston The Reverend Noble Huston (died 1944), was the minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Ballynahinch, County Down and a breeder of dogs, credited with saving the Irish Red and White Setter from extinction in the early the twentieth century. According to Anna Redlich in “The Dogs of Ireland” (Dundalgan ...
Jim Hanna (loyalist) James Andrew Hanna (c. 1947 – 1 April 1974), also known as Red Setter, was a senior member of the Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) until he was shot dead by fellow members, for being an alleged informer. Journalists Joe Tiernan and Kevin Myers desc...
English Setter The English Setter is a medium size breed of dog. It is part of the Setter family, which includes the red Irish Setters, Irish Red and White Setters, and black-and-tan Gordon Setters. The mainly white body coat is of medium length with long silky fringes on the back of the legs, under the belly and on th...
Irish Red and White Setter The Irish Red and White Setter () is a breed of dog, more specifically a setter. As with all the setters and the Pointer, it is classified as a gundog in the UK and is included in the sporting group in America and Canada. It is virtually identical in use and temperament to the related Irish S...
Coity Mountain Coity Mountain (also spelled "Coety Mountain", Welsh: "Mynydd Coety") is a flat-topped mountain in the South Wales Valleys, between Blaenavon and Abertillery. The highest points of both Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent unitary authorities are at the summit of Coity Mountain. The summit is also known as Twyn Ffy...
Shearwater (band) Shearwater is an American indie rock band from Austin, Texas, led by multi-instrumentalist and lead singer Jonathan Meiburg, a singer-songwriter. The band's music is notable for its imagery based in nature, cerebral yet intimate melodic songs, as well as Meiburg's vocals.
Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral is a split CD featuring Austin, Texas "brother bands" Okkervil River and Shearwater. It was first available only at North American tour dates in the spring and summer of 2004, but fans later were able to purchase it online. The tracks include demos, unreleased songs a...
Phoenix (band) Phoenix is an indie pop band from Versailles, France, consisting of Thomas Mars (lead vocals), Deck d'Arcy (bass/ keyboards/ backing vocals), Christian Mazzalai (guitar/ keyboards/ backing vocals) and Laurent Brancowitz (guitar/ backing vocals). They are best known for their singles "Too Young", "If I Ev...
Bands and accompanying musicians of Paul Kelly Paul Kelly is an Australian rock musician. He started his career in 1974 in Hobart, Tasmania and has performed as a solo artist, in bands as a member or has led bands named after himself. Some backing bands recorded their own material under alternate names, Professor Ratba...
Shearwater, The Mullumbimby Steiner School "Shearwater, The Mullumbimby Steiner School", also known as "Shearwater Steiner School", is a private co-ed school that caters for primary and secondary education; years K-12. There is also a pre-school day care on campus. It is so named after the Shearwater bird; its local to...
Fusiles Fusiles, also known as arte de fusil (literally "art of the projection") was a shift in the Mexican music industry towards more exact covers of foreign rock. This shift focused on performing covers in English as opposed to performing the same covers in Spanish. Mexican cover bands had been popular since the ear...
Frosted Ambassador Frosted Ambassador was an enigmatic release on Kindercore Records in 1999. While press releases claimed a long career in bands named Chronicle Ape and the New Sound and a failed solo career before "moving to Belgium to study toast," evidence suggests that the project was actually the brainchild of Th...
Emo Emo is a genre of rock music characterized by an emphasis on emotional expression, sometimes through confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of post-hardcore from the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore and pioneered by Washington, D.C. hardco...
Akeakamai Akeakamai (c. 1976 – November 22, 2003) was a female Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, which, along with a companion female dolphin named Phoenix, as well as tankmates Elele and Hiapo, were the subjects of Louis Herman's animal language studies at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii. The ...
Bryan's shearwater The Bryan's shearwater ("Puffinus bryani") is a species of shearwater that may occur around the Hawaiian Islands. It is the smallest species of shearwater and is black and white with a bluish gray beak and blue tarsi. First collected in 1963 and thought to be a little shearwater ("Puffinus assimilis"...
Melt! (Siouxsie and the Banshees song) "Melt!" is a song by English post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released in 1982 by record label Polydor as a double A-sided single with the song "Il est né, le divin Enfant" and is the second and final single from the band's fifth studio album, "A Kiss in the Dreamh...
White Love (Speed song) "White Love" is a single by Japanese girl group Speed. It was released on October 15, 1997. It was number-one on the "Oricon" Weekly Singles Chart. It was the 10th best-selling single in Japan in 1997, with 1.164 million copies sold and it has sold a total of 1.845 million copies.
General Admission (Machine Gun Kelly album) General Admission is the second studio album by American rapper Machine Gun Kelly. It was released on October 16, 2015, by his indie record label EST 19XX, distributed by Bad Boy and Interscope Records. The album was supported by two singles: "Till I Die" and "A Little More" ...
Jay Park Jay Park (Korean name: Park Jae-beom, Hangul: 박재범, Hanja: 朴載範; born April 25, 1987) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, record producer, model, choreographer, entrepreneur and actor. He is a member of the Seattle-based b-boy crew, Art of Movement (AOM), and founder and Co-CEO of the independent ...
Charlotte (Air Traffic song) "Charlotte" is a single by Bournemouth-based alternative rock band Air Traffic. Taken from the band's debut studio album "Fractured Life", the track was released through Tiny Consumer, a record label division of EMI. "Charlotte" was first released as part of the band's debut single, a doubl...
Epitaph Records Epitaph Records is a Hollywood-based independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record label. Gurewitz took t...
Starship Entertainment Starship Entertainment () is a South Korean record label established in 2008 by Kim Shi Dae. Formerly home to girl group Sistar, it currently manages artists such as K.Will, Soyou, Boyfriend, Mad Clown, Junggigo, Jooyoung, Monsta X, Yoo Seung-woo, Brother Su, Cosmic Girls, #Gun, Mind U, Duetto an...
Speedland: The Premium Best Re Tracks Speedland: The Premium Best Re Tracks is a greatest hits package by Japanese female pop group, Speed, released on August 5, 2009. It features several brand new recordings of their past hits completely reworked and rearranged. Their debut single, "Body & Soul" and "White Love" are s...
Morning Dove White Morning Dove White is the only album from club-oriented Scottish alternative dance act One Dove. The album was released in 1993. The songs "Breakdown", "Fallen", "(The Transient) Truth", "White Love", and "Why Don't You Take Me" were released as singles or 12" singles before the album came out and we...
White Love (Starship Planet song) "White Love" is the second collaboration single by labelmates K.Will, Sistar and Boyfriend, released under the name Starship Planet (Starship Entertainment). This digital single project is a way of thanking the fans who have cheered on Starship. The special digital single was released ...
Brandon Torrey Brandon Torrey (born May 18, 1983) is a former American football offensive lineman. He was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2006. Torrey accepted an athletic scholarship to attend Howard University in Washington, DC where he played for Howard's Bison Football team from 2001...
Trish King Patricia Morley "Trish" Porter (née King) (born August 27, 1962 in Atherton, California) is an American track and field athlete, specializing in the high jump. She represented her native country at the 1988 Olympics. She was married to Pat Porter also a 1988 and 1984 Olympian in 1991. Both her husband and he...
George Boardman (missionary) George Dana Boardman (February 8, 1801 – February 11, 1831) was an American missionary. He was born in Livermore, Maine, the son of the Rev. Sylvanus Boardman. He attended Colby College, and was the school's first graduate in 1822. He served as tutor for a year at Colby, then continued his ...
B. J. Porter B. J. Porter (born May 12, 1970, in Dallas, Texas) is an actor, writer and comedian. Porter began his career writing and performing on the HBO sketch comedy program, "Mr. Show." Porter, along with the rest of the "Mr. Show" writing staff, was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999. Porter won an Emmy in 2014 ...
Rose Porter Rose Porter (6 December 1845 - 10 September 1906) was an American religious novelist. She was born in New York, New York. Her father, David Collins Porter, was a wealthy New Yorker. He died in 1845, while Rose was an infant. Her mother, Rose Anne Hardy, was the daughter of an English army officer. Porter's ...
Jeremiah Burton Jeremiah Burton (1814 – January 9, 1902) was a farmer. He was born about 1814 in South Carolina before moving to Rabun County, Georgia and first settled at Jones Ford on the Tallulah River. The town of Burton, Georgia was named after its Postmaster Jacob Silas Burton, Jeremiah's son. Jeremiah Burton was...
Darwin Porter Darwin Porter (born September 13, 1937, in Greensboro, North Carolina) was the son of Hazel Lee Phillips, a fashion designer, and Paul Suggs, an attorney. His stepfather, Numie Rowan Porter, adopted him and changed his last name.
Jeremiah Porter Porter was born in manhattan. He grew up in New York City and Lorton, Virginia. He is a current member of Texas State University but his home resides in Brooklyn. He is the only child of Corinne Douglas and his father Jerry Porter has another daughter named Nakayla Porter. Porter attended the Profession...
Ben Cook (actor) Benjamin Tyler Cook (born December 11, 1997) is an American actor, dancer and singer. A Helen Hayes Award nominee, he has appeared in three Broadway productions: "Ragtime", "Billy Elliot the Musical", "Tuck Everlasting" and the upcoming musical adaptation of "Mean Girls". He has also performed in two B...
John Robert Porter John Robert Porter (born 5 January 1953) is an English billionaire businessman and philanthropist best known as the grandson of Sir Jack Cohen founder of Tesco and son of Dame Shirley Porter.
Mayor of Greater Manchester The Mayor of Greater Manchester is a directly elected political post responsible for the strategic government of Greater Manchester, including health, transport, housing, strategic planning, waste management, policing, the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and skills. The creation o...
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Eccles St Mary the Virgin's Church is an active Anglican parish church in Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. The church is in the Eccles deanery, the archdeaconry of Salford and the diocese of Manchester. Together with St Andrew's Eccles, St Paul's, Monton, Christ Church, Patricroft and ...
Eccles Interchange Eccles Interchange is a transport hub in Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. It is composed of a bus station, and a single-platform Metrolink light rail station, the latter of which is the terminus of the system's Eccles Line. It opened on 21 July 2000. It is roughly 310 m away from Eccles railway s...
Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner The Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner was the police and crime commissioner, an elected official tasked with setting out the way crime is tackled by the Greater Manchester Police in Greater Manchester. The post was created on 21 November 2012, following an...
Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority The Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority (GMITA) was a local government institution responsible for the strategic direction of passenger transport in Greater Manchester. It existed from 1969 to 1974 as the SELNEC Passenger Transport Authority and was then r...
Demography of Greater Manchester The demography of Greater Manchester is analysed by the Office for National Statistics and data is produced for each of its ten metropolitan boroughs, each of the Greater Manchester electoral wards, the NUTS3 statistical sub-regions, each of the Parliamentary constituencies in Greater M...
Eccles, Greater Manchester Eccles (/ˈɛkəlz/; pop. 38,756 (2011)) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, 2.7 mi west of Salford and 3.7 mi west of Manchester city centre, between the M602 motorway to the north and the Manchester Ship Canal to the south.
Greater Manchester County Council The Greater Manchester County Council (GMCC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater Manchester from 1974 to 1986. A strategic authority, with responsibilities for public transport, planning, emergency services and waste disposal, it was composed of 106 member...
Transport for Greater Manchester Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is the public body responsible for co-ordinating transport services throughout Greater Manchester, in North West England. The organisation traces its origins to the Transport Act 1968, when the SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive was established ...
Eric A. Sykes Eric Anthony Sykes (5 February 1883–12 May 1945), born Eric Anthony Schwabe in Barton-upon-Irwell, Eccles, Greater Manchester, England, was a soldier and firearms expert. He is most famous for his work with William E. Fairbairn in the development of the eponymous Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife and modern ...
Puthiya Mukham Puthiya Mukham (English: "The New Face") is a 2009 Malayalam action film directed by Diphan(Assistant Director-Sajith Jagadnandan) and starring Prithviraj Sukumaran. The shooting locations were Kochi, Palakkad, and Malaysia. The music was
Diphan Diphan or Deepan (1972 – 13 March 2017) was an Indian film director best known for his Malayalam films. He was best known as the director of the blockbuster Puthiya Mukham, released in 2009 and starring Prithviraj Sukumaran. He died on 13 March 2017 after a long time with kidney problems. He was the son of the d...
Mithoon Mithun Sharma (born 11 January 1985), popularly known as Mithoon, is an Indian film music composer and lyricist. He is the son of Naresh Sharma, who has scored background music for over a thousand songs in over two hundred films. He is also the nephew of music composer Pyarelal Sharma of popular Indian music co...
Udayananu Tharam Udayananu Tharam (English: "Udayan is the Star" ) is a 2005 Indian Malayalam black comedy film directed by Rosshan Andrrews and scripted by Sreenivasan from a story by Andrrews. The film stars Mohanlal, Meena, Sreenivasan, Jagathy Sreekumar, and Mukesh. "Udayananu Tharam" presents the Malayalam film in...
List of Malayalam films of 2005 This year saw the comeback of Suresh Gopi as Police officer in Renji Panicker's "Bharathchandran I.P.S." and Shaji Kalias's "The Tiger". For Mammootty it was debut Anwar Rasheed's "Rajamanikyam" and Shafi's "Thommanum Makkalum". Mohanlal had debut Rosshan Andrrewss "Udayananu Tharam" and...
Ithihasa Ithihasa is a 2014 Malayalam fantasy comedy film written by Aneesh Lee Ashok and directed by Binu S. The film tells the story of body swapping between a conservative young software professional girl (Anusree) and an easy going young petty thief, Alvy (Shine Tom Chacko). The music was composed by Deepak Dev.
Monty Sharma Monty Sharma (born April 17, 1970) is a music composer from India scoring music for Bollywood. He is popular for being the background music composer for "Black" (2005), "Ram-Leela" (2013) and music director for "Saawariya" (2007). He is cousin of famous Indian music composer Mithoon & nephew of famous musi...
Deepak Dev Deepak Devraj Komath, better known as Deepak Dev (Malayalam: ദീപക് ദേവ് ), is an Indian music composer, best known for his compositions in Malayalam cinema, with films such as "Chronic Bachelor", "Udayananu Tharam", "Naran", "Puthiya Mukham," "Urumi", "Grandmaster" and "Bhaskar the Rascal".
Vijaya Bhaskar Vijaya Bhaskar (; 1924–2002) was an Indian music director and composer who composed music for several mainstream and experimental feature films in the Kannada film industry. Scoring music for over 600 feature films, Bhaskar worked in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Tulu and Konkani language films as w...
Casanovva Casanovva (promoted theatrically as Confident Casanovva) is a 2012 Indian Malayalam romantic thriller film directed by Rosshan Andrrews. The film stars Mohanlal, Shriya Saran, Lakshmi Rai, Vikramjeet Virk. The film's original soundtrack was composed by Gopi Sundar, Alphons Joseph and Gowri Lakshmi, with the f...
John Allen (baseball) John Marshall Allen (October 27, 1890 – September 24, 1967) was a professional baseball player whose career spanned three seasons, including one in Major League Baseball with the Baltimore Terrapins (1914). He played the pitcher position. Allen played one game in the majors and gave-up four runs, ...
Theon Greyjoy Theon Greyjoy is a fictional character in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation "Game of Thrones". Theon is the son and heir of Balon Greyjoy, taken as a ward by Lord Eddard Stark following Balon's failed rebellion.
Alfie Allen Alfie Allen (born 12 September 1986) is an English actor. He is best known for portraying Theon Greyjoy in the HBO series "Game of Thrones" since 2011.
Keith Allen (actor) Keith Howell Charles Allen (born 2 September 1953) is a Welsh actor, comedian, musician, singer-songwriter, artist, author, and television presenter. He is the father of singer Lily Allen and actor Alfie Allen, and brother of actor and director Kevin Allen.
Close to the Enemy Close to the Enemy is a British period drama miniseries set in the late 1940s in London. It is written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, starring Jim Sturgess, Freddie Highmore, Charlotte Riley, Phoebe Fox, Alfred Molina, Lindsay Duncan, August Diehl, Alfie Allen, Angela Bassett, Antje Traue, Lily G...
Alfie (Lily Allen song) "Alfie" is a song by British recording artist Lily Allen from her debut studio album, "Alright, Still" (2006). Written by Allen and Greg Kurstin, the song was released as the fourth and final single from the album, on 5 March 2007, by Regal Recordings. In the United Kingdom, it was marketed as a...
Pete Allen (baseball) Jesse Hall "Pete" Allen (May 1, 1868 – April 16, 1946) was a professional baseball player whose career spanned two seasons, including a part of one in Major League Baseball with the Cleveland Spiders (1893). Allen played one game in the majors and went hitless four at-bats. In that game, Allen pla...
Plastic (film) Plastic is a British-American action comedy-crime film directed by Julian Gilbey and co-written by Will Gilbey and Chris Howard. The film stars Ed Speleers, Will Poulter, Alfie Allen, Sebastian de Souza and Emma Rigby.
Marie Antoinette syndrome Marie Antoinette syndrome is a sudden whitening of the hair. The event that named the syndrome was the observation that the hair of Queen Marie Antoinette of France turned stark white after her capture following the ill-fated Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution. Witnesses have alle...
Sled Allen Fletcher Manson "Sled" Allen (August 23, 1886 – October 16, 1959) was a professional baseball catcher and manager. Allen was also a sports promoter after retiring from baseball. Allen played a total of nine seasons in professional baseball, including a part of one in Major League Baseball with the St. Louis ...
Yaté Dam The Yaté Dam is an arch dam on the Yaté River in Yaté commune of New Caledonia, France. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and it supports a 68 MW power station. Plans for the project began in the early 1950s and the dam was designed by Coyne et Bellier. The owner and operator of ...
Campo Verde Solar Project Campo Verde Solar Project is a 139-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic power station in Imperial County, California. The project was approved in December 2012. Construction began in early 2013 and was completed the same year. Designed and constructed by U.S. thin-film manufacturer First Solar, th...
Jeder Rappen zählt Jeder Rappen zählt (JRZ) "(literally Every rappen (nickel) counts)" is the Swiss version of the Serious Request that broadcasts on Dutch radio/television.
Sega Hard Girls Sega Hard Girls (Japanese: セガ・ハード・ガールズ , Hepburn: Sega Hādo Gāruzu ) is a Japanese multimedia project produced as a collaboration between ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Bunko imprint and video game company Sega. The project re-imagines various Sega video game consoles as anthropomorphized goddesses who appe...
The Ogden The Ogden (originally Streamline Tower) is a 21-story luxury condominium tower located at 150 North Las Vegas Boulevard in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. The Ogden was announced in 2004 as the Streamline Tower condominium project, to be built on the former 1 acre property of the Golden Inn motel, which was demol...
Serious Request Serious Request is a family of annual multi-day, multimedia fundraising events for International Red Cross initiatives, typically hosted by radio stations in the week before Christmas. The project was begun in 2004 by Dutch public pop music radio station 3FM. "Serious Request" projects have since been a...
The Greenhouse Project The Greenhouse Project is a non-profit organization which began as an art project by college students to raise awareness about the growing need for aid for Uganda's orphans. The organization's main goals are to provide impoverished, underfunded orphanages around the world with the means to become...
High Resolution Microwave Survey The High Resolution Microwave Survey was a NASA project that was to scan ten million frequencies using radio telescopes. A decade in the making, the objective was to find transmissions from alien intelligences. The primary point of observation for the project was the Arecibo Ionospheric...
Wikisource Wikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikisource is the name of the project as a whole and the name for each instance of that project (each instance usually representing a different language); multiple Wikisources make up the ...
Dragonfly Project Project Dragonfly is an American educational project. It was initially designed to give children opportunities in inquiry based learning in the sciences. The project was started as a magazine and website produced by professors in the Western College Program at Miami University and the National Science...
Mac OS X 10.0 Mac OS X version 10.0, code named Cheetah, is the first major release of Mac OS X (later named OS X and then macOS), Apple’s desktop and server operating system. Mac OS X 10.0 was released on March 24, 2001 for a price of US$129. It was the successor of the Mac OS X Public Beta and the predecessor of Mac ...
Mac OS X Tiger Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is the fifth major release of Mac OS X (now named macOS), Apple's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers. Tiger was released to the public on April 29, 2005 for US$129.95 as the successor to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Some of the new features included a fast searching syste...
WWF (file format) WWF is a modification of the open standard PDF format for document exchange endorsed by the World Wide Fund for Nature (also abbreviated WWF) Germany. The WWF format is promoted as being more environmentally friendly than other comparable document exchange formats (e.g. PDF or DOC) since documents in ...
System Information (Mac) System Information (previously known as System Profiler) is a software utility derived from field service diagnostics produced by Apple's Service Diagnostic Engineering team, at that time located in Apple satellite buildings in Campbell, California, that was bundled with the classic Mac OS sinc...