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238611 | Yōkai (妖怪 , "ghost", "phantom", "strange apparition") are a class of supernatural monsters, spirits and demons in Japanese folklore. The word yōkai is made up of the kanji for "bewitching; attractive; calamity;" and "spectre; apparition; mystery; suspicious". They can also be called ayakashi (あやかし ) , mononoke (物の怪 ) ,... |
241848 | Emma Lee Bunton (born 21 January 1976) is an English singer, songwriter, actress, and radio and television presenter. She is best known as a member of the girl group the Spice Girls formed in the 1990s, and in which Bunton was nicknamed Baby Spice. In 2009, she began as a radio presenter on the Heart Breakfast show in ... |
242864 | Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. (October 5, 1934 – September 21, 2002) was an American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist, who together with his cousin Kenneth Bianchi were known as the Hillside Stranglers, and were convicted for killing ten young women in Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978. |
243855 | Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964), also known as Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 35 machine guns, killing at least 25 enemy soldiers, and capturing 1... |
246309 | Vincent Cassel (] ; born Vincent Crochon, 23 November 1966) is a French actor best known to English-speaking audiences for his performances in "Ocean's Twelve" and "Ocean's Thirteen", as well as "Eastern Promises" and "Black Swan". Cassel is also renowned for playing the infamous French bank-robber Jacques Mesrine in "... |
249553 | The Four "Hitokiri" of the "Bakumatsu" (幕末四大人斬り , Bakumatsu Shidai Hitokiri ) was a term given to four samurai during the Bakumatsu era in Japanese history. The four men were Kawakami Gensai, Kirino Toshiaki (also known as Nakamura Hanjirō), Tanaka Shinbei, and Okada Izō. They opposed the Tokugawa shogunate (and later,... |
251224 | The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom is an illustrated religious magazine, published monthly by Jehovah's Witnesses via the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Along with its companion magazine, "Awake!", Jehovah's Witnesses distribute "The Watchtower—Public Edition" in their door-to-door minist... |
252451 | UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham, England. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. They have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times, and in 1984 were nominated for... |
261331 | In European folklore and folk-belief of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, familiar spirits (sometimes referred to simply as "familiars" or "animal guides") were believed to be supernatural entities that would assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic. According to the records of the time, they wou... |
261946 | The Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) was formed in 1902 and is the third oldest athletic conference in the United States. Its current commissioner is Tim Gleason. Former commissioners include Mike Cleary, who was the first General Manager of a professional basketball team to hire an African American head coach, and would... |
262054 | "Great Balls of Fire" is a 1957 popular song recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis on Sun Records and featured in the 1957 movie "Jamboree". It was written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer. The Jerry Lee Lewis 1957 recording was ranked as the 96th greatest song ever by "Rolling Stone". The song is in AABA form. The song sold on... |
262466 | Ian Frank Hill (born 20 January 1952, in West Bromwich) is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the heavy metal band Judas Priest. |
262800 | Maxwell Frank "Max" Clifford (born 6 April 1943) is a former publicist. During his long career as a publicist, he represented a mixed range of clients, and was often considered a controversial figure, due to his representation of unpopular clients (such as those convicted, or accused of crimes) and his work for people ... |
263662 | Huli jing (狐狸精; ) or jiuweihu (九尾狐; ) are Chinese mythological creatures who can be either good or bad spirits. |
263900 | Canby's Cross is located in Lava Beds National Monument, about 3 miles south of Tule Lake, and 5 miles south-southwest of the town of Tulelake, California. It was erected to commemorate General Canby's death at a peace gathering. General Canby was shot in the face by Captain Jack of the Modoc tribe, who was later hange... |
264727 | The weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be polar orbiting, covering the entire Earth asynchronously, or geostationary, hovering over the same spot on the equator. |
265355 | The Carter Center is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. He and his wife Rosalynn Carter partnered with Emory University just after his defeat in the 1980 U.S. Presidential elections. The center is located in a shared building adjacent to the Jimmy Carte... |
266069 | Steve Brown is a British composer. |
266989 | Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park, (15 June 1892 – 6 February 1975) was a New Zealand soldier, First World War flying ace and Second World War Royal Air Force commander. He was in operational command during two of the most significant air battles in the European theatre in the Second World War, helping to win the... |
272495 | Sir George Grey, KCB (14 April 1812 – 19 September 1898) was a British soldier, explorer, Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Cape Colony (South Africa), the 11th Premier of New Zealand and a writer. By political philosophy a Gladstonian liberal and Georgist, Grey eschewed the class ... |
274519 | Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges. |
276395 | Courtney Thorne-Smith (born November 8, 1967) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Alison Parker on "Melrose Place", Georgia Thomas on "Ally McBeal", Cheryl in "According to Jim", and her recurring role on "Two and a Half Men" as Lyndsey McElroy. |
284483 | Michael Demaree "Mike" McCurry (born October 27, 1954) is best known for having served as White House Press Secretary for Bill Clinton's administration. He is a Washington-based communications consultant and is associated with the firm Public Strategies Washington, Inc. He is also active within the administration of th... |
286319 | Founded in 1960 and published by Consumers Digest Communications, LLC, Consumers Digest is an American magazine. |
300505 | Scaramouche (from Italian scaramuccia, literally "little skirmisher"), also known as scaramouch, is a stock clown character of the commedia dell'arte (comic theatrical arts of Italian literature). The role combined characteristics of the "Zanni" (servant) and the "Capitano" (masked henchman). Usually attired in black S... |
306396 | The Herald of Christian Science was first published in 1903 in response to the demand for a monthly publication on Christian Science in Germany. Due to an increasing demand for Christian Science Literature from other countries, the "Herald" grew to include twelve different languages. Until the 90’s the magazine was bil... |
307690 | Naked Lunch is a 1991 science fiction drama film co-written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider. It is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel of the same name, and an international co-production of Canada, Britain and Japan. |
307715 | Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski; February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940... |
308436 | Arliss (rendered in its logo as Arli$$) is an American sitcom about a Fire Fighter who finds a bag of cash in a burning building. The series premiered on HBO in 1996 and ended in 2002. |
312522 | Kondō Isami (近藤 勇 , October 9, 1834 – May 17, 1868) was a Japanese swordsman and official of the late Edo Period, famed for his role as commander of the Shinsengumi. |
313664 | Abe no Seimei (安倍 晴明 , February 21, 921 A.D. – October 31, 1005 A.D.) was an "onmyōji", a leading specialist of "onmyōdō" during the middle of the Heian Period in Japan. In addition to his prominence in history, he is a legendary figure in Japanese folklore and has been portrayed in a number of stories and films. |
313885 | Boys' Night Out is a 1962 American romantic comedy film, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and featuring Janet Blair, Patti Page, Jessie Royce Landis, Oscar Homolka, Howard Duff and Howard Morris. It was directed by Michael Gordon and was written by Ira Wallach based on a story by Arne Sultan and Marv... |
315861 | Maeda Toshiie (前田 利家 , January 15, 1538 – April 27, 1599) was one of the leading generals of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period of the 16th century extending to the Azuchi–Momoyama period. His father was Maeda Toshimasa. He was the fourth of seven brothers. His childhood name was "Inuchiyo" (犬千代). His preferred ... |
316443 | Saigō Takamori (Takanaga) (西郷 隆盛 (隆永) , January 23, 1828 – September 24, 1877) was one of the most influential samurai in Japanese history, living during the late Edo and early Meiji periods. He has been dubbed "the last true samurai". He was born Saigō Kokichi (西郷 小吉), and received the given name "Takamori" in adultho... |
319192 | Sarandë District (Albanian: "Rrethi i Sarandës" ) was one of the thirty-six districts of Albania (which were dissolved in 2000) that is now part of Vlorë County. The area of the district was 749 km². The population of the district was 48,474 (2010 estimate). According to the census of January 1993, it was 53,700. The c... |
320002 | Philipp Heinrich Scheidemann (26 July 1865 – 29 November 1939) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). On 9 November 1918, in the midst of the German Revolution of 1918–1919, he proclaimed Germany a republic. Later, beginning in the early part of the following year, he became the second... |
328294 | David Byrne (born 1952) is a Scottish musician and former Talking Heads frontman. |
332583 | Ian Andrew Robert Stewart (18 July 1938 – 12 December 1985) was a Scottish keyboardist and co-founder of the Rolling Stones. He was removed from the line-up in May 1963 at the request of manager Andrew Loog Oldham who felt he did not fit the band's image. He remained as road manager and pianist and was posthumously ind... |
334615 | David Hartley Coleridge (19 September 1796 – 6 January 1849) was an English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher. He was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His sister Sara Coleridge was a poet and translator, and his brother Derwent Coleridge was a scholar and author. Hartley was named after the phi... |
336808 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (or simply Ace Ventura, or also simply Pet Detective) is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac, and co-written by and starring Jim Carrey. It was developed by the film's original writer, Jack Bernstein, and co-producer, Bob Israel, for almost six years. The film co-stars Courten... |
337031 | The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center. GSFC employs approximately 10,000 civil servants and contractors, and is located approximately 6.5 mi northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States. GSFC... |
339250 | Heather Elizabeth "Hedy" Burress is an American actress. She had a starring role in the film "Foxfire" as Maddy, and later landed roles in television shows "Boston Common" and "E.R.". In the video game world, she is best known as the English voice of leading character Yuna in "Final Fantasy X" and its sequel "Final Fan... |
339433 | Acontias is a genus of limbless skinks, the lance skinks, (family Scincidae) in the African subfamily Acontinae. Most are small animals, but the largest member of the genus is "Acontias plumbeus" at approximately 40 cm snout-vent length. All members of this genus are live-bearing, sandswimmers, with fused eyelids. A re... |
340958 | Garner Ted Armstrong (February 9, 1930 – September 15, 2003) was an American evangelist and the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, at the time a Sabbatarian organization that taught observance of seventh-day Sabbath, and annual Sabbath days based on Leviticus 23. |
353057 | In Tagalog mythology, Mayari (also known as Bulan) is the beautiful and most charming lunar deity who was the daughter of Bathala, the king of the gods, to a mortal woman. Mayari is the Goddess of Combat, War, Revolution, Hunt, Weaponry, Beauty, Strength, Moon and Night. She is known as the most beautiful deity in Bath... |
355257 | Generalfeldmarschall (English: general field marshal, field marshal general, or field marshal ; ; abbreviated to Feldmarschall) was a rank in the armies of several German states and the Holy Roman Empire; in the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, the rank "Feldmarschall" was used. The rank w... |
355597 | The Sengoku period Battle of Anegawa (姉川の戦い , Anegawa no Tatakai ) (30 July 1570) occurred near Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province, Japan, between the allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, against the combined forces of the Azai and Asakura clans. It is notable as the first battle that involved the alliance between... |
356925 | Semiramide (] ) is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. |
357125 | Imaginary friends (also known as pretend friends or invisible friends) are a psychological and social phenomenon where a friendship or other interpersonal relationship takes place in the imagination rather than external physical reality. Although they may seem very real to their creators, children usually understand th... |
361982 | Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park is in the South Island of New Zealand, near the town of Twizel. Aoraki / Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest mountain, and Aoraki/Mount Cook Village lie within the park. The area was gazetted as a national park in October 1953 and consists of reserves that were established as early as 1887... |
365149 | Andrew James Somers (born 31 December 1942), known professionally as Andy Summers, is an English guitarist who was a member of the rock band the Police. Summers has recorded solo albums, collaborated with other musicians, composed film scores, and exhibited his photography in galleries. |
365571 | Egmont National Park is located south of New Plymouth, close to the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the mountain which dominates its environs, which itself was named by Captain Cook after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, the First Lord of the Admiralty who promoted Cook's first voyage... |
366111 | Shallow Hal is a 2001 American romantic comedy film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Black about a shallow man who falls in love with an overweight woman. The motion picture was directed by the Farrelly brothers and filmed in and around Charlotte, North Carolina as well as Sterling and Princeton, Massachusetts at Wach... |
375197 | William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American politician and author from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate, and as Secretary of Defense (1997–2001) under Democratic President Bill Clinton. |
376934 | James Allen Hydrick (born February 28, 1959) is an American former stage performer, self-described psychic and a convicted child molester. Hydrick claimed to be able to perform acts of telekinesis, such as his trademark trick of moving a pencil resting at the edge of a table. Following a nationally televised demonstrat... |
380840 | QI (Quite Interesting) is a British comedy panel game television quiz show created and co-produced by John Lloyd, and features permanent panelist Alan Davies. Stephen Fry was host of the show from its initial pilot, before departing after the final episode of the M series in 2015, with frequent "QI" panelist Sandi Toks... |
383211 | Berthold Heinrich Kämpfert, (16 October 1923 – 21 June 1980), better known as Bert Kaempfert, was a German orchestra leader, music producer, and songwriter. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, including "Strangers in the Night" and "Moon Over Naples". |
383448 | The music of Italy ranges across a broad spectrum of opera and instrumental classical music and a body of popular music drawn from both native and imported sources. Music has traditionally been one of the cultural markers of Italian national and ethnic identity and holds an important position in society and in politics... |
384817 | Mount Terror is a large shield volcano that forms the eastern part of Ross Island, Antarctica. It has numerous cinder cones and domes on the flanks of the shield and is mostly under snow and ice. It is the second largest of the four volcanoes which make up Ross Island and is somewhat overshadowed by its neighbor, Mount... |
385553 | Michael McClure (born October 20, 1932) is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Ja... |
385820 | The skunk ape, also known as the swamp cabbage man, swamp ape, stink ape, Florida Bigfoot, Louisiana Bigfoot, myakka ape, swampsquatch, and myakka skunk ape, is a hominid cryptid said to inhabit the U.S. states of Florida, North Carolina, and Arkansas, although reports from Florida are most common. It is named for its ... |
391932 | Stefan Bengt Edberg (] ; born 19 January 1966) is a Swedish former world no. 1 professional tennis player (in both singles and doubles). A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 1985 and 1996. He also won the Master... |
395557 | Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, (c. 1673 – 2 July 1743) was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death. He served as the Prime Minister from 1742 until his death in 1743. He is considered to have been Britain's second Prime Minister, after Sir Robert Walpole, but w... |
396475 | Azie Taylor Morton (February 1, 1936 – December 7, 2003) served as Treasurer of the United States during the Carter administration from September 12, 1977 to January 20, 1981. She remains the only African American to hold that office. Her signature was printed on U.S. currency during her tenure; this is an honor she sh... |
400293 | Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer, specializing in electric bass, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson and Peter Gabriel. He was also a member of Liquid Tension Experiment, Bruford Levin Upp... |
402708 | Leonid Anatolievich Levin ( ; Russian: Леони́д Анато́льевич Ле́вин ; Ukrainian: Леоні́д Анато́лійович Ле́він ; born November 2, 1948) is a Soviet-American computer scientist. |
407686 | The Newlywed Game is an American television game show that pits newly married couples against each other in a series of revealing question rounds to determine how well the spouses know or do not know each other. The program, originally created by Robert "Nick" Nicholson and E. Roger Muir (credited on-screen as Roger E.... |
408127 | Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, "The Washington Post", for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Her memoir, "Personal History",... |
409576 | Witold Roman Lutosławski (; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and orchestral conductor. He was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. He earned many international awards and prizes. His compositions (of wh... |
409653 | Charles Jeremy Lewis (born October 21, 1934), is an American politician who was a U.S. Representative, last serving California 's 41 congressional district . He was first elected to Congress in 1978, and previously represented the 40th, 35th, and 37th districts. A Republican, he is a former chairman of the House Approp... |
409918 | This is a list of notable directors in motion picture and television arts. |
411292 | Althea Rae Janairo (born January 2, 1967), known professionally as Tia Carrere, is an American actress, model, voice actress, and singer who obtained her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera "General Hospital". |
411596 | Gemini 11 (officially Gemini XI)) was the ninth manned spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini, which flew from September 12 to 15, 1966. It was the 17th manned American flight and the 25th spaceflight to that time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km ). Astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. and Richard F. Gordon Jr... |
414916 | Sir John Vincent Cable (born 9 May 1943), known as Vince Cable, is a British politician who is the Leader of the Liberal Democrats and the Member of Parliament for Twickenham. He was the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2010 to 2015. |
419289 | Arthur Lismer, CC (27 June 1885 – 23 March 1969) was an English-Canadian painter and member of the Group of Seven. He is known for his paintings of ships in dazzle camouflage. |
420126 | Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio; March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005. Often billed as "America's Number One Song ... |
422647 | Claudia Ann Christian (born Claudia Ann Coghlan; August 10, 1965) is an American actress and singer, known for her role as Commander Susan Ivanova on the science fiction television series "Babylon 5". She also voiced several characters for "Skyrim", the fifth video game in Elder Scrolls series. Her main charity work is... |
423762 | Paul Vernon Hornung (born December 23, 1935), nicknamed "The Golden Boy", is a former professional American football player, a Hall of Fame running back for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1957 to 1966, winning four NFL titles and the first Super Bowl. He is the first in pro football hi... |
423779 | Steve Davis, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 22 August 1957) is an English retired professional snooker player from Plumstead, London. Known for dominating the sport during the 1980s, when he won the World Championship six times and was ranked world number one for seven consecutive seasons, he is remembered part... |
432696 | D12, an initialism for The Dirty Dozen, is an American hip hop group from Detroit, Michigan. D12 has had chart-topping albums in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. D12 was formed in 1996, and achieved mainstream success after Eminem rose to international fame. The original lineup consisted of the members... |
435605 | "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", also known as "In The Jungle", or any of "Wimoweh", "Wimba Way" or "Awimbawe", is a song written and recorded originally by Solomon Linda with the Evening Birds for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939, under the title "Mbube". Composed in Zulu, it was adapted and covered internatio... |
436014 | McCloud is an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970-77. The series starred Dennis Weaver, and for six of its seven years on the air it aired as part of the "NBC Mystery Movie" rotating wheel series that was produced for the network by Universal Television. |
436168 | The ninjatō (忍者刀 ) , ninjaken (忍者剣 ) , or shinobigatana (忍刀 ) , are allegedly the preferred weapon that the Shinobi of feudal Japan carried. It is portrayed by modern ninjutsu practitioners (including Masaaki Hatsumi and Stephen K. Hayes) as the weapon of the ninja, and is prominently featured in popular culture. Repli... |
443011 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life is a 2003 action adventure film based on the "Tomb Raider" video game series. Angelina Jolie stars as the titular Lara Croft character, and supporting roles include Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor, Til Schweiger, Djimon Hounsou, and Simon Yam. An inter... |
449485 | The Dorabella Cipher is an enciphered letter written by composer Edward Elgar to Dora Penny, which was accompanied by another dated July 14, 1897. Penny never deciphered it and its meaning remains unknown. |
451642 | The legend lends its name to the controversial modern medical term Wendigo psychosis, described by psychiatrists as a culture-bound syndrome with symptoms such as an intense craving for human flesh and a fear of becoming a cannibal. In some Indigenous communities, environmental destruction and insatiable greed are also... |
452188 | Ian Cameron Bruce (born 14 March 1947) is a politician in the United Kingdom. |
455096 | We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll is a compilation album by Black Sabbath, originally released on 1 December 1975 in the UK and then on 3 February 1976 in the U.S. |
457430 | Roy Warren Spencer (born December 20, 1955) is a meteorologist, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA's Aqua satellite. He has served as senior scientist for climate studies at NASA's Ma... |
457893 | Alyson Rae Stoner (born August 11, 1993) is an American actress, singer-songwriter, choreographer, voice actress, singer, dancer and model. Stoner is best known for her roles in "Cheaper by the Dozen" (2003), "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" (2005–2007) and the "Step Up" series (2006, 2010, 2014). |
458625 | Baron Byron, of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1643 by letters patent for John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, a Cavalier general and former Member of Parliament. The peerage was created with remainder to the heirs male of his body, failing, to his six brot... |
460143 | The Golliwogs were an American rock band that eventually became Creedence Clearwater Revival. |
460445 | Joanna Dark is a fictional character and main protagonist of the "Perfect Dark" fictional universe, created by Rare. She made her debut in the Nintendo 64 first-person shooter "Perfect Dark" and is a player character in all the games of the series. Outside of video games, Joanna also appears as the lead character in al... |
470754 | Teinosuke Kinugasa (衣笠 貞之助 , Kinugasa Teinosuke ) (1 January 1896 – 26 February 1982) was a Japanese actor and film director. He was born in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture and died in Kyoto. Kinugasa won the 1954 Palme d'or at Cannes for "Jigokumon" ("The Gate of Hell"). |
471206 | Viscount Ullswater, of Campsea Ashe in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1921 for James Lowther upon his retirement as Speaker of the House of Commons. He was the eldest son of the Hon. William Lowther, third son of the Hon. Henry Lowther, second son of William Lo... |
471452 | Viscount Combermere, of Bhurtpore in the East Indies and of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1827 for the prominent military commander Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, 1st Baron Combermere. He had already been created Baron Combermere, of Comber... |
472179 | Viscount Simon, of Stackpole Elidor in the County of Pembroke, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1940 for the Liberal politician Sir John Simon. He was Home Secretary from 1915 to 1916 and 1935 to 1937, Foreign Secretary from 1931 to 1935, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1937 to 1940 a... |
475686 | STS-93 marked the 95th launch of the Space Shuttle, the 26th launch of "Columbia", and the 21st night launch of a Space Shuttle. Eileen Collins became the first female shuttle Commander on this flight. Its primary payload was the Chandra X-ray Observatory. It would also be the last mission of "Columbia" until March 200... |
476750 | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction |
476757 | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Children's |
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