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51417463 | Ian Campbell Stuart (born 17 November 1942) is a retired bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia and the Church of England. |
51418893 | Sir Samuel Rowe {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (23 March 1835 – 28 August 1888) was a British doctor and colonial administrator who was twice governor of Sierra Leone, and also served as administrator of the Gambia, governor of the Gold Coast and governor-general of the West Africa settlements. |
51420489 | White Shit is an American punk rock band, most significant for their 2009 song, ""Jim Morrison"". They released their debut album, "Sculpted Beef", in 2009. |
51425444 | Serge Levin (San Francisco, California, United States, October 3) is an American actor and filmmaker known for: "Alterscape", "Jack Goes Home", "", "Welcome to Willits", "Superstrata", "War on War", and "Lorenz Fractal". |
51425600 | Disjointed is a Netflix original comedy series created by David Javerbaum and Chuck Lorre and starring Kathy Bates. Twenty episodes of the series have been ordered by Netflix. The first 10 episodes premiered on August 25, 2017. |
51445866 | High Strung is a 2016 American drama film directed by Michael Damian and written by Janeen Damian and Michael Damian. The film stars Keenan Kampa, Nicholas Galitzine, Jane Seymour, Sonoya Mizuno, Richard Southgate and Paul Freeman. The film was released on April 8, 2016, by Paladin. |
51466000 | The Turing Test is a first-person puzzle video game developed by Bulkhead Interactive and published by Square Enix. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One in August 2016, while a PlayStation 4 version was released in January 2017. |
51468996 | The 2016–17 Belmont Bruins men's basketball team represented Belmont University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bruins, led by 31st-year head coach Rick Byrd, played their home games at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tennessee as members of the Ohio Valley Conference in the East Division. They finished the season 23–7, 15–1 in OVC play to win the regular season championship. In the OVC Tournament, they lost in the semifinals to Jacksonville State. As a regular season conference champion who failed to win their conference tournament title, they received an automatic bid to the National Invitation Tournament where they defeated Georgia in the first round before losing to Georgia Tech. |
51490828 | Kenny Ridwan is an Asian American teenage actor known for his roles in the TV series "The Goldbergs", "The Thundermans", and "The McCarthys". He has also appeared as a guest star on "Perception", "Bones", "Modern Family", and "House of Lies". |
51505200 | Black Girl Magic (#BlackGirlMagic) is a concept and movement that was popularized by CaShawn Thompson in 2013. The concept was born as a way to "celebrate the beauty, power and resilience of black women," as described by Julee Wilson from The Huffington Post, and to congratulate black women on their accomplishments. Referring to a speech made by Michelle Obama at the Black Girls Rock Awards, Thompson explains that black women around the world persevering despite the adversity inspired her to spread the concept of Black Girl Magic. With these women in mind, Thompson created the social media hashtag, clothing campaign, and rallying cry "Black Girl Magic", in the hopes of counteracting negativity society places on black women. |
51506935 | Christian August Volquardsen (6 October 1840 in Hadersleben – 1 August 1917 in Kiel) was a German classical historian. |
51526229 | Steve Allen was a New Zealand singer and recording artist who found popularity as a singer during the 1970s. He is also known for the hit song "Join Together", and the song for the television commercial, "Use Your Nana" |
51532955 | General George Patton's Third Army's Seine River Crossing at Mantes-Gassicourt was the first allied bridgehead across the Seine River in the aftermath of Operation Overlord, which allowed the Allies to engage in the Liberation of Paris. During the two days of the bridge crossing, allied anti-aircraft artillery shot down almost fifty German planes in two days. |
51540789 | The 2017 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason conference tournament for the Patriot League. It was played February 28, March 2, 5, and 8, 2017 with the higher seed in each matchup hosting at their respective campus sites. Bucknell defeated Lehigh, 81–65, in the championship game to win the Tournament. As a result, Bucknell received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. |
51562766 | The Grief of Others is a 2015 American drama film written and directed by Patrick Wang. It is based on the 2011 novel "The Grief of Others" by Leah Hager Cohen. The film stars Wendy Moniz, Trevor St. John, Rachel Dratch, Chris Conroy, Jenna Cooperman and Mike Faist. |
51573993 | Arthur Freiherr Giesl von Gieslingen (b. 19 June 1857 in Krakau - d. 3. December 1935 in Vienna) was an Austrian general officer during the First World War. |
51575640 | Judith Hamer (born 3 December 1990) is a 4.0 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games. She won a Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Award for bravery and trekked across the Andes Mountains in Ecuador as part of a reality television show, "Beyond Boundaries". |
51579067 | Skip and Shannon: Undisputed is an American sports talk show starring commentators Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe with Joy Taylor as the host. The series premiered on September 6, 2016, on Fox Sports 1. |
51612102 | Midnight leagues are a series of initiatives starting in the 1990s with midnight basketball and expanding into other sports, notably association football, when, to curb inner-city crime in the United States and other countries, such sport leagues were founded where vulnerable urban youth could assemble during the night, and keeping themselves off the streets while engaging them with sports alternatives to drugs and crime. |
51625807 | It Comes at Night is a 2017 American psychological horror film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults. It stars Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Riley Keough. |
51626308 | Further Future is a transformational festival held in southern Nevada. The Further Future model is, “a shared experience that’s beyond our future,” and, "promises a carefully curated slate of, business and cultural leaders, chefs, mixologists and masseuses". Further Future caters to a techie club of invitation only exclusives in a controlled setting. Further Future's membership is currently at 4000-5000 and is structured around a corporate retreat setting. Further Future, located on the Moapa River Indian Reservation, claims to offers an "all inclusive" festival experience, different than the, "vanish and leave no trace" principles instilled in those who participate in Burning Man. Further Future is the brainchild of a group called Robot Heart, an art and music collective known for the parties it throws during the annual Burning Man gathering in Northern Nevada's Black Rock Desert. The Further Future event, "aspires to be a gathering of people with the common goal to spend time together celebrating the infinite possibilities of the future, without necessarily being shackled to the dictates of the past or the cycles of present-day society." the invitation-only festival for as many as 5,000 people, runs from April 29 to May 1. |
51633270 | Skinner Street United Reformed Church is the oldest church in Poole, Dorset, England. The current building is the only eighteenth century church building in Poole, and is a Grade II* listed building. The church has a grave for Cyril Coles, one of the gunners in the first tank attack in 1916. The church is used as an adult learning centre. |
51641322 | Kwon Soo-Hyun (born August 18, 1986) is a South Korean actor. Three years into his acting career, Kwon finally got cast in the television series Run, Jang-Mi (2014), playing a vital part in the drama. He also starred in High Society (2015) and Another Oh Hae-Young (2016). He looks up to Park Hae-Il as his role model as he likes the latter acting. |
51655201 | A nightcore edit is a remix track that speeds up its source material, increasing its pitch. Formed in 2002, the name for the internet-based music was originally defined as sped-up and pitch-shifted versions of trance and eurodance songs, but its definition expanded into non-dance territory by the time the remix style became popular in the 2010s. The type of music that started as a subgenre of trance and is still considered so by many people. Indeed, dedicated trance fans usually call it "happy hardcore" to indicate its "similar-but-different" nature. Nightcore is characterized by a sped-up melody (sometimes), fast rhythmic beat (usually), and higher than normal pitch. Almost all nightcore music are original songs nightcored (remixed into nightcore) by nightcore fans. |
51696518 | The 2016–17 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Quakers, led by second-year head coach Steve Donahue, played their home games at The Palestra and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 13–15, 6–8 in Ivy League play to finish in fourth place. They lost in the semifinals of the inaugural Ivy League Tournament to Princeton. |
51717399 | The Happy Hippie Foundation is an American non-profit organization founded by entertainer Miley Cyrus in 2014. The foundation focuses on youth homelessness (particularly among LGBTQ youth), the LGBTQ community, and other vulnerable populations. |
51732250 | Jon Glaser Loves Gear is an American mockumentary television series with reality segments that premiered October 25, 2016 on truTV. Hosted by Jon Glaser playing a fictionalised version of himself, the show focuses on the comedian's love of gear and gadgets. |
51732982 | The 2017 Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big 12 Conference. It was played from March 8 to 11, in Kansas City, Missouri at the Sprint Center. Iowa State will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Tournament with a 80–74 win over West Virginia in the finals. |
51738057 | Miłosz Bochat (born 19 December 1995) is a Polish male badminton player. |
51747748 | Amy Shira Teitel (born March 7, 1986) is a Canadian-American author, popular science writer, spaceflight historian, YouTuber, and podcaster, best known for writing "Breaking the Chains of Gravity" (Bloomsbury 2015) and her YouTube channel, "Vintage Space". She has also written for The Daily Beast, National Geographic, Discovery News, Scientific American, Ars Technica, Al Jazeera English, and "Popular Science". She is a co-host for the Discovery Channel's online DNews channel. |
51758471 | The 2016–17 Albany Great Danes men's basketball team represented the University at Albany, SUNY during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Great Danes, led by 16th-year head coach Will Brown, played their home games at SEFCU Arena as members of the America East Conference. They finished the season 21–14, 10–6 in America East play to finish in a tie for third place. Due to tiebreakers, they received the No. 3 seed in the America East Tournament where they defeated Hartford and Stony Brook to advance to the Championship game where they lost to Vermont. They were invited to the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament where they lost in the First Round to Saint Peter's. |
51758796 | Rosemary (Rosie) Jeanne Redfield is a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia where she has worked as a faculty member in the Department of Zoology since 1993. |
51799283 | Winston Duke is a Tobagonian actor based in the United States. |
51807631 | Trumped Up Cards is a party game developed by Reid Hoffman to poke fun at presidential candidate Donald Trump. It was modeled after the popular "Cards Against Humanity" card game and sold online. The game was featured on an episode of "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" in which Hoffman was a guest. The game has also been covered by a large number of mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times and USA Today. The game is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. |
51820892 | Stronger Together: A Blueprint for America's Future is a 2016 book by Hillary Clinton and her vice-presidential running mate Tim Kaine, released during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It outlines their vision for the nation were they to win the election. The book was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2016. |
51847650 | Midnight (1916–1936) was a bucking horse who in 1979 was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. |
51850346 | Re Daniel Dawal Migel (Sinhalese: "රෑ දනියෙල් දවල් මිගෙල්" ) is a 1998 Sri Lankan Sinhala comedy, action film directed by Roy de Silva and produced by Soma Edirisinghe for E.A.P Films. It is the first film of Re Daniel Dawal Migel film series. It stars comic duo Bandu Samarasinghe, and Tennyson Cooray in lead roles along with Ranjan Ramanayake, Sangeetha Weeraratne and Maduranga Chandimal. Music for the film is done by Somapala Rathnayake. The film became one of Sri Lanka's blockbuster movies with reaching more than 150 days in cinema theatres. It is the 894th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema. |
51887897 | Commodore of the Royal Navy. He was born son of Ernest Brudenell-Bruce, 3rd Marquess of Ailesbury, in 1845. He gained the rank of Commodore in 1900. He died on 15 February 1912 at age 67. He was the father of future Member of the Legislative Council (M.L.C.) [British Virgin Islands] John Charles Brudenell-Bruce. His great grandson Michael Gatten is a Field Service Engineer for Lockheed Martin. His great-great-granddaughters include model and actress Florence Brudenell-Bruce. |
51895406 | 2016 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game |
51939391 | Mercury Plains is a 2016 American action drama film directed by Charles Burmeister and starring Scott Eastwood, Angela Sarafyan, and Nick Chinlund. Grindstone Entertainment Group acquired the US rights to the film, and it was distributed by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Eastwood stars as an American drifter hired in Mexico to fight drug cartels. |
51983820 | Mieczysław Łoza (6 January 1916 – 21 May 1982) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1952 and 1982. He was married to the actress Halina Buyno-Łoza. |
51986391 | Jessica Blain-Lewis (born February 24, 1979), also known simply as Jessica Lewis, is an American lawyer best known for competing on the reality competition show "Survivor". |
52006063 | "Stockholm" is an instrumental composition released by Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra in 1964. The single spent 2 weeks on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 91. |
52016374 | Faye Dunaway is an American actress who has appeared in 72 motion pictures, 36 television programs, 11 plays and two music videos. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses of her generation, she was one of the leading movie stars during the golden age of New Hollywood. She made her screen debut in the 1967 film "The Happening", and rose to fame that same year with the gangster film "Bonnie and Clyde", for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. She followed this with the box office hit "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968) opposite Steve McQueen. In 1969, she co-starred with Kirk Douglas in Elia Kazan's drama "The Arrangement". The following year, she had a supporting role in "Little Big Man", opposite Dustin Hoffman. Also in 1970, her performance in Jerry Schatzberg's experimental drama "Puzzle of a Downfall Child" earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama. She portrayed Milady de Winter in Richard Lester's "The Three Musketeers" (1973) and "The Four Musketeers" (1974). |
52050133 | Stand Up America is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization founded in the weeks after the 2016 Election to resist Donald Trump's agenda. It began as a Facebook community started by Sean Eldridge, which quickly grew to over a million people, and evolved into a national advocacy campaign focused on resisting Trump's corruption, his ties to Russia, and his legislative agenda. |
52102658 | Marzena Trybała (born 16 November 1950) is a Polish actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1971. |
52108720 | "Nightcrawler" is 2014 American thriller film written and directed by Dan Gilroy. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, a stringer who records violent events late at night in Los Angeles, and sells the footage to a local television news station. Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, and Bill Paxton feature in supporting roles. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, before receiving a theatrical release on October 31, distributed by Open Road Films. "Nightcrawler" earned a worldwide total of $50.3 million on a production budget of $8.5 million. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, surveyed 232 reviews and judged 95 percent to be positive. |
52109209 | Ian Craig is an Australian cricketer. |
52129891 | "Jammin'" is a 1937 hit song by the Andrews Sisters (Brunswick 7863). The song established the Andrews Sisters' popularity with their first record. The song was recorded in New York with Leon Belasco and his orchestra on March 18 1937, in the same session that also recorded their other Brunswick Records release "Wake Up and Live" (Brunswick 7872). By October 1937 the sisters had signed with Decca Records. |
52140446 | The discography of Hot Chocolate, a British disco and soul band. |
52152519 | Charles Pertum, known professionally as Charlie "Specks" McFadden (April 24, 1895 – November 15, 1966), was an American country blues singer and songwriter. On his few recordings, released from 1929 to 1937, he was accompanied by Roosevelt Sykes, Lonnie Johnson and others. His most notable song was one he wrote, "Groceries on the Shelf (Piggly Wiggly)", which he recorded in Grafton, Wisconsin, about February 1930. |
52156499 | "Play That Song" is a song by American rock band Train. It was released on September 29, 2016 as the lead single from their tenth studio album "A Girl, a Bottle, a Boat" (2017). Since its release, the song has peaked at number 41 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. It has been certified platinum by the ARIA and the RIAA, and gold by Music Canada. |
52162283 | Star Wars: Assault on Hoth is a strategic board game produced by West End Games and designed by Paul Murphy that recreates the Battle of Hoth as depicted in "". Each player takes the side of the Rebel Alliance or the Galactic Empire on a hex map that depicts the snowy terrain of Hoth as Imperial forces attempt to destroy the Echo Base shield generator before five Rebel transports escape. |
52167594 | The 2017 Atlantic Sun Women's Basketball Tournament was the 31st edition of the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship. It took place from March 3, 8 and 12, 2017 in several arenas. Florida Gulf Coast won the tournament and received an automatic trip to the NCAA Women's Tournament. |
52171341 | Brooke Lewis is an American actress, producer, TV personality, writer, and author. |
52173092 | The 2016–17 Iona Gaels men's basketball team represented Iona College during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Gaels, led by seventh year head coach Tim Cluess, played their home games at the Hynes Athletic Center in New Rochelle, New York as members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC). They finished the season 22–13, 12–8 in MAAC play to finish in a tie for third place. They defeated Rider, Saint Peter's and Siena to be champions of the MAAC Tournament. They received the MAAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament where they lost in the First Round to Oregon. |
52182258 | The 2017 America East Men's Basketball Tournament is the postseason men's basketball tournament for the America East Conference, which was held on March 1, 6, and 11, 2017. All games of the tournament were played on campus sites hosted by the higher-seeded school. Vermont, the No. 1 seed in the tournament defeated Albany in the championship game to win the tournament championship. As a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. |
52182400 | The 2017 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament was the conference postseason tournament for the Atlantic Sun Conference. The tournament marked the 38th year the league conducted a postseason tournament. The tournament was held February 27, March 2 and 5, 2017 at campus sites as top seeds host each round. Florida Gulf Coast defeated North Florida, 77–61, in the championship game to receive the conference's automatic trip to the NCAA Tournament. |
52183748 | The Ryan and Amy Show is a Vancouver-based Canadian sketch comedy duo composed of Ryan Steele and Amy Goodmurphy. They have toured Canada and the United States including doing Sketch Fest in Montreal and Vancouver as well as Just For Laughs. The group produces sketch comedy shorts that are distributed via YouTube and on their website, but have appeared on other sites as well such as Funny or Die. Goodmurphy and Steele have starred together in many television shows including the YTV show "The Funny Pit" with Roman Danylo, The Face of Furry Creek, CBC's "The Pitch", and "Out For Laughs". Steele made a memorable appearance on The Amazing Race Canada in season 2, coming in 3rd place with co-worker Rob Goddard. While Goodmurphy has been in Super Channel's "Too Much Information" with Geri Hall, Mark Forward and Lauren Ash, as well as Thirty Seventeen directed by Michael Coleman. Currently the duo was short-listed for a Canadian Comedy Award in the "Best Live Ensemble" category in 2016. |
52199254 | Marci Harris is a former lawyer, entrepreneur, and congressional staffer, best known for being the CEO and co-founder of PopVox, an online platform that connects voters with lawmakers. Now living in San Francisco, California, she is originally from West Tennessee, and started the website due to her experiences as a congressional staffer, with the goal of making the government more accessible to the average voter. The website began at the federal level and has plans to move to the state level in 2017. Harris and her initiatives are at the forefront of the civic technology movement, which aims to use technology in order to facilitate public participation in politics to pave the way for better government infrastructure. |
52215492 | Made in China (Hangul: 메이드 인 차이나 ) is a 2015 South Korean drama film directed by Kim Dong-Hoo. It was written and produced by the renowned art house moviemaker Kim Ki-duk. |
52219613 | The Battle of Helsinki was a 1918 Finnish Civil War battle, fought in 12–13 April between the German troops and Finnish Whites against the Finnish Reds in Helsinki, Finland. Together with the battles of Tampere and Vyborg, it was one of the three major urban battles of the Finnish Civil War. The Germans invaded Helsinki despite the opposition of Finnish White Army leader Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim who wanted to attack the capital city with his own troops after Tampere had fallen on 6 April. However, the Germans had their own interests of taking Helsinki as quick as possible and then moving further east towards the Russian border. The city had been under Red control for 11 weeks since the beginning of the war. |
52231391 | The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States marked commencement of the four-year term of Donald Trump as President and Mike Pence as Vice President. An estimated 300,000-600,000 people attended the public ceremony held on Friday, January 20, 2017 on the West Front of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Along with being the oldest and wealthiest person to assume the presidency, he is the first without prior military or governmental service experience. |
52296049 | Data-Pop Alliance is a non-profit think tank founded by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab and the Overseas Development Institute. Emmanuel Letouzé is Director and Co-Founder and Alex Pentland is Academic Director. Its research areas includes public policy, inequality, privacy, crime, climate change and human rights. |
52299217 | Colt Express is a railway-themed family board game designed by Christophe Raimbault, Illustrated by Ian Parovel and Jordi Valbuena, published in 2014 by Ludonaute and distributed by Asmodee. |
52304935 | The 1950 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami for the 1950 college football season. The Hurricanes played their home games at the Burdine Stadium in Miami, Florida. The team was coached by Andy Gustafson, in his third year as head coach for the Hurricanes. The Hurricanes participated in the Orange Bowl, in a post-season matchup against Clemson, where they lost, 15–14. |
52307913 | Alex Israel (born 1982) is multimedia artist, writer, and eyewear designer born and based in LA. Deeply entwined with his hometown, his work explores popular media, Hollywood, and the cult of celebrity, while positing LA as central to an understanding of American culture and the American dream. He is known for his large, colorful airbrushed paintings of abstract gradients and Los Angeles skies, his Self-Portraits, painted on shaped Fiberglass panels, and multimedia installations constructed from movie-house props. His works are often made on the backlot of Warner Bros. Studios. |
52308187 | Sir Henry Warde (1766–1834) was a British Army officer and colonial governor. |
52394936 | Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party is an American variety show starring Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg. The series premiered on November 7, 2016, on VH1. |
52441756 | Andrzej Sariusz-Skąpski (20 November 1937 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish activist. He was President of the Federation of Katyn Families, an interest that may have stemmed from his father's death there. |
52464158 | Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca ( 1718 – c. 1795) was an Italian poet and librettist. A student and protégé of Metastasio, he was primarily active in the court theaters of Dresden and Vienna. His most successful work was the libretto for the opera "Solimano", first set by Johann Adolph Hasse in 1753 and subsequently set by 18 other composers in the course of the next 50 years. |
52465389 | "Gotta Have You" is a 1991 song by American rhythm and blues singer Stevie Wonder. The song was the first release from the 1991 soundtrack to the film "Jungle Fever". Wonder wrote the song, and co-produced it with Nathan Watts.The song peaked at No. 3 in the Hot R&B/ Hip Hop chart, making it one of Wonder's very few Top 10s of the 90s. |
52470847 | Robert Jordan Hill was a British director, writer, editor and producer of films. He had a partnership with John Guillermin for a time. |
52474629 | Hans Schack, (28 October 1608 – 27 February 1676), was a member of the north German noble family Schack, who after many years in French service, entered the Danish service, made major contributions during the war with Sweden, and loyally supported Frederick III when he overthrew the Danish constitution. He became a Danish field-marshal, commander-in-chief of the Danish army, member of the Board of State, and of the Danish Privy Council, and made a Danish count. |
52482973 | Dorothy Swain Lewis (September 30, 1915 – September 9, 2013) was an American aviator who trained Navy pilots and flew with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program during World War II. She was also an artist who created a series of cast-bronze sculptures of WASP pilots for various World War II memorial sites. |
52486436 | Mauesia simplicis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Moyses and Galileo in 2009. |
52507275 | Bernhard Gottfried Max Hugo Eberhard, Graf von Schmettow, usually shortened to Eberhard Graf von Schmettow, (17 September 1861 – 21 January 1935) was a German general of World War I. |
52524854 | Carol Fishman Cohen is the CEO and co-founder of iRelaunch, an author, a speaker and a consultant to employers, universities, non-profits and individuals on the subject of career re-entry. |
52530853 | 2017 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament |
52563520 | Leonid Iwanowytsch Yachenin (Ukrainian: Леонід Іванович Яченін; 24 July (5 August) 1897, Ihrayevo, now in Slutsk, Minsk Region, Belarus - 16 December 1952, Rostov-on-Don) was a politician and lawyer of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. From 1938 to 1941 he acted as its prosecutor general (the first holder of that role after it had been subordinated to that of the Prosecutor General of the Soviet Union), from 1941 to 1946 as Military Prosecutor for the Five Fronts and for the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and from 1946 to 1952 as military prosecutor for the North Caucasus Military District. |
52563882 | The opera's scheduled premiere under Bruno Walter in Vienna in 1938 was cancelled by the Nazis. |
52570105 | The Oregon Trail is a card game based on the video game of the same name. It was created by Pressman Toy Corporation and released on 1 August 2016. The game is exclusively distributed through Target, although copies are also available via Amazon.com. The game components are in the style of 8-bit video games to emulate the look and feel of the original releases. |
52575392 | Lara Rossi is a British television, film and theatre actress and performer. She is best known for her role as Arabela Seeger in the German-French-Italian-American television series Crossing Lines as well as the upcoming Finnish sci-fi movie . She was nominated twice for the prestigious Ian Charleson Awards – first for her work in Emperor and Galilean at The National, and then for her work on The Alchemist at The Liverpool Everyman. |
52595739 | And After That, We Didn't Talk is the second mixtape from American rapper GoldLink. It was released in November 2015 on Soulection, following his critically acclaimed debut mixtape The God Complex. The mixtape features guest appearances from Anderson Paak and Masego. The project's production was handled by Louie Lastic, Merg, Galimatias, McCallaman, Braeden Bailey, Medasin, Milo Mills, Demo-Tapped, Tom Misch, and Jordan Rakei. |
52605202 | Johann Dietrich von Hülsen (1 June 1693–29 May 1767) was a Prussian lieutenant general of the infantry. After a lifelong officer's career in various infantry regiments, he acquired the special respect of Frederick II in the Seven Years' War as general, and was honored by him with the appointment as governor of Berlin. During the war, he became a canon to Minden and was awarded the Black Eagle Order and the Order Pour le Mérite. His name appears on the top tier of the Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great. |
52669057 | Nocturnal is the second extended play by Canadian recording artist Roy Woods. It was released on December 23, 2016 by OVO Sound and Warner Bros. Records. The EP features guest appearances from Canadian R&B duo and OVO label-mates Majid Jordan and MadeinTYO. The first music video to be put out from the album was for the song "Love You" which released April 27, 2017. The album serves as a follow-up to his debut album Waking at Dawn (2016). The artwork was created by Corrado Grilli. |
52688844 | In shogi, Snowroof (雁木 "gangi", lit. 'goose-wooden') is a less common Static Rook opening that characteristically uses a Snowroof castle. |
52696061 | "Start a War" is an unreleased song recorded by American singer Gwen Stefani. Originally intended for inclusion on her then-upcoming and untitled third studio album, the ballad was written by Stefani and Sia Furler, with Arnthor Birgisson as executive producer. The singer expressed gratitude towards Furler for helping her create the composition. The song was initially meant to serve as a bonus track on a CD maxi single for her 2014 single "Baby Don't Lie", although the distribution was scrapped by Interscope and Mad Love Records. After being registered with a UPC, it was then revealed on Universal Music Group's official website that it would be issued as a standalone digital download on November 9, 2015, which was also cancelled. |
52721485 | Some Like It Hot is a 2016 Chinese romantic comedy film directed by Song Xiaofei and Dong Xu and starring Xiao Yang, Yan Ni, Xiaoshenyang, Qiao Shan and Ailun. It was released in China on December 30, 2016. |
52746346 | After Midnight, also known as Naked After Midnight, is a 2014 American mystery thriller film directed by Fred Olen Ray starring Richard Grieco and Tawny Kitaen. |
52748379 | Jason Miller (born circa 1974) is an American communications strategist and political manager, best known as the chief spokesman for the fall 2016 campaign and presidential transition of Donald Trump. Miller is currently employed at Teneo Strategy, and was formerly a partner and executive vice-president at Jamestown Associates. He was initially announced as the incoming White House Communications Director during the transition but withdrew days later. In 2017, he became a CNN political contributor. |
52760652 | Shannon Block (born February 27, 1979) is the current CEO of World Forward Foundation. She is the former President & CEO of Denver Zoo, a former health care CEO, former Chief Business Development Officer, a Certified Fraud Examiner and a minister. Block serves on numerous Boards and is the Vice Chair of the Women's Forum of Colorado. |
52766101 | Deidra & Laney Rob a Train is an American comedy drama crime film directed by Sydney Freeland, from a screenplay by Shelby Farrell. It stars Ashleigh Murray, Rachel Crow, Tim Blake Nelson, David Sullivan, Danielle Nicolet and Sasheer Zamata. |
52766240 | The 2017 Florida Atlantic Owls football team represents Florida Atlantic University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Owls play their home games at the FAU Stadium in Boca Raton, Florida, and compete in the East Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They are led by first-year head coach Lane Kiffin. |
52798015 | Quod is an abstract strategy game played on an 11-by-11 grid of spaces with the four corner spaces removed. Players alternate placing pieces, called quods, into empty spaces. A player wins by placing four quods that form the four corners of a square. The square can be any size and any orientation (in other words, the square can be "tilted"). In addition, each player has a small number of pieces, called quasars, that are used purely for blocking. Quod was invented by G. Keith Stills in 1979, while he was at college, and was popularized by Scientific American in March 1996. Usually, each player begins with 20 quods and 8 quasars. |
52801175 | 2016–17 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season |
52819296 | Confidential Assignment (; lit. Cooperation) is a 2017 South Korean action film directed by Kim Sung-hoon. It stars Hyun Bin, Yoo Hae-jin and Kim Joo-hyuk. |
52852720 | "Mileage" (마일리지 ; "Mailliji " ) is a song by South Korean musicians Jung Yong-hwa of CNBLUE and Yang Dong-geun (YDG). Released on January 9, 2015, it serves as the pre-release single of the former's debut solo studio album "One Fine Day" (2015). While filming for the television series "The Three Musketeers" (2014), Jung was inspired by YDG's affection towards him family on set to compose the song. Upon release of Jung's album, the two performed "Mileage" on music programs and talk shows. The song debuted and peaked at number 57 on South Korea's national Gaon Digital Chart, selling over 78,000 digital downloads since its release. |
52856877 | Sim Teck Yi is a Singaporean footballer who plays for Home United FC as a Defender. He started his career with Balestier Khalsa in 2012. |
52861705 | The Donald Trump–Russia dossier is a private intelligence dossier that was written by Christopher Steele, a former British MI6 intelligence officer. It contains unverified allegations of misconduct and collusion between Donald Trump and his campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the period preceding the election. The contents of the dossier were published in full by BuzzFeed on January 10, 2017. BuzzFeed's decision to publish the dossier was met with criticism from mainstream media outlets. |