Mary Hay Caldwell (August 22, 1901 – June 4, 1957) was an American dancer, musical comedy and silent screen actress, playwright and former Ziegfeld girl.

The Holidays Act 2003 helps to promote balance between work and other aspects of New Zealand employees’ lives. It was amended by the Holidays (Transfer of Public Holidays) Amendment Act 2008 and the Holidays Amendment Act 2010. This page includes those changes.

Stanley Clements (born Stanislaw Klimowicz; July 16, 1926 – October 16, 1981) was an American actor and comedian, best known for portraying "Stash" in the East Side Kids film series, and group leader Stanislaus "Duke" Coveleskie in The Bowery Boys film series.

Edward D. Cowart (February 17, 1925 – August 3, 1987) was an American judge (Dade County Circuit Court Judge). He is best known as the presiding judge at the trial of serial killer Ted Bundy, a one-time law student who was arrested for a series of murders from at least 1974 to 1978 and who represented himself in court. Cowart imposed a death sentence, and is remembered for his sympathetic post-sentencing remarks to Bundy: The court finds that both of these killings were indeed heinous, atrocious and cruel. And that they were extremely wicked, shockingly evil, vile and the product of a design to inflict a high degree of pain and utter indifference to human life. This court, independent of, but in agreement with the advisory sentence rendered by the jury does hereby impose the death penalty upon the defendant Theodore Robert Bundy. It is further ordered that on such scheduled date that you be put to death by a current of electricity, sufficient to cause your immediate death, and such current of electricity shall continue to pass through your body until you are dead. Take care of yourself, young man. I say that to you sincerely; take care of yourself. It is an utter tragedy for this court to see such a total waste of humanity, I think, as I’ve experienced in this courtroom. You’re a bright young man. You’d have made a good lawyer and I would have loved to have you practice in front of me, but you went another way, partner. I don’t feel any animosity toward you. I want you to know that. — Judge Edward Cowart Before entering the judiciary, Cowart served as a Miami police officer. He sat on the bench for 14 years, earning wide respect among Florida lawyers. He was known for frequent biblical quotations in the courtroom. Cowart died of a heart attack at the age of 62. Bundy was executed two years later in 1989 after failing numerous appeals to Cowart and the Court of Appeals to overturn his sentence or be granted a new trial.

Digital Ocean, Inc., was a maker of wireless products from 1992 to 1998. It was eventually bought by Harris Semiconductor and its assets made part of Harris's Intersil Division, which was spun off in 1999 into Intersil Corporation. The company was founded in May 1992 by Jeffery Alholm and headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas. Several contracts with Apple Inc., AT&T, Aironet Wireless Communications (later acquired by Cisco as its wireless LAN division), Harris Semiconductor, the United States Department of Defense, and several others made Digital Ocean the leader in developing and manufacturing state-of-the-art wireless products for the entire line of Apple's desktop, portable, and pen-based devices. It was a co-developer of the IEEE 802.11 wireless standard and of the industry's first 802.11 chipset. It developed the Seahorse, arguably the world's first smartphone. In addition, by specializing in rapid, custom development, the company concluded multiple individual development contracts for application specific wireless products in vertical markets. Digital Ocean was granted approximately 20 patents for its development of wireless technologies. In 1998 it was sold with its assets to Harris Semiconductor to become part of their Intersil division; Intersil was then spun off from Harris one year later.

Ume Sámi (ubmejensámien giella) is a Sámi language spoken in Sweden and (formerly) in Norway. It is a moribund language with only about 10 native speakers left which used to be spoken mainly along the Ume River in the south of present-day Arjeplog, in Sorsele and Arvidsjaur.

The Scot Center is the recreation center for students and alumni at the College of Wooster, Ohio, United States. Construction was completed in January 2012 at a cost of roughly 30 million dollars. Home to the Fighting Scots, the center offers a wide assortment of fitness equipment available to both college athletes and the community. It was built to improve athletics and overall fitness at the college. The previous recreation facility for the college, Armington Physical Education Center (the PEC), was adequate. However, an increased demand for high-end facilities pressured the administration and the board of trustees to build the Scot Center. The 123,000 square-foot facility houses four intramural courts for basketball, tennis and volleyball that are put to use daily.

Cyprus–Germany relations refer to the bilateral relations between Cyprus and Germany. Germany is represented in Cyprus through its embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus. Cyprus is represented in Germany through its embassy in Berlin, Germany. Both countries are full members of the United Nations and the European Union. German-Cypriot relations considered one of the closest in the European Union. The Federal Republic of Germany established diplomatic relations with the young Republic of Cyprus on 20 August 1960, the fifth country to do so. Cyprus had gained independence on 16 August 1960. Cyprus’ accession to the European Union on 1 May 2004 gave relations between the two countries a new dimension.

Yuri Senesi (born 26 January 1997) is an Italian football player. He plays for Olbia as a forward.

The Ouya ( OO-yə), stylized as OUYA, is an Android-based microconsole developed by Ouya Inc. Julie Uhrman founded the project in 2012, bringing in designer Yves Béhar to collaborate on its design and Muffi Ghadiali as VP of Product Management to put together the engineering team. Development was funded via Kickstarter, raising $8.5 million and becoming the website's eighth-highest earning project in its history at the time. Units started to ship to Kickstarter backers in March 2013 and were released to the general public in June 2013. It features an exclusive Ouya store for applications and games designed specifically for the Ouya platform, of which the majority are casual games targeted at or used by a mass audience of casual gamers. Out of the box, Ouya supports media apps such as Twitch.tv and XBMC media player. It runs a modified version of Android Jelly Bean (4.1 – 4.3.1 with Linux kernel 3.0.31 to 3.4.39), with rooting being officially encouraged. The console's hardware design allows it to be easily opened up, requiring only a standard screwdriver for easy modding and possible hardware add-ons. All systems can be used as development kits, allowing any Ouya owner to also be a developer, without the need for licensing fees. All games were initially required to have some kind of free-to-play aspect, whether that be completely free, has a free trial, or has purchasable upgrades, levels, or other in-game items. This requirement was later removed. Despite the successful Kickstarter campaign, sales of the Ouya were lackluster, causing financial problems for Ouya Inc. and forcing the company to wind down the business. Its software assets were sold to Razer Inc., who announced the discontinuation of the Ouya console in July 2015. The Ouya has since been considered a commercial failure.

Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER) is a Ukrainian independent think tank, based in Kiev, focusing on and . The think-tank provides consulting services and international expertise. IER was founded in October 1999 by top-ranking Ukrainian politicians and scientists and German Advisory Group on economic reforms in Ukraine. The Institute is headed by Igor Burakovsky, professor and doctor of economic sciences.

Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher. As a composer, he is best known for his oratorios, violin and piano pieces, Scottish folk music and works for the stage. He had many successes as a composer, producing over 90 compositions. Some of his early compositions were performed as a student at the Royal Academy of Music. He composed the following works: Orchestral works
* 1862 - Festmarsch
* 1864 - Concert Overture
* 1869 - Overture to a Comedy
* 1876 - Cervantes, overture (fp. Sondershausen, 2 September 1877)
* 1878 - Scherzo (fp. Crystal Palace, London, 18 October 1878)
* 1879 - Rhapsodie Ecossaise, Op.21 (fp. Edinburgh Choral Union, 5 January 1880)
* 1880 - Burns [Second Scottish Rhapsody], Op.24 (fp. Glasgow, January 1881)
* 1880 - Tempo di Ballo, overture
* 1883 - La belle dame sans merci, tone poem, Op.29 (fp. Philharmonic Society, London, 9 May 1883)
* 1888 - Benedictus, for orchestra, Op.37 No.3
* 1888 - Twelfth Night, overture, Op.40 (fp. St James's Hall, London, 4 June 1888)
* 1894 - Britannia, nautical overture, Op.52 (fp. Royal Academy of Music, London, 17 May 1894)
* 1894 - From the North: Three Scottish Pieces for Orchestra, Op.53 (fp. Philharmonic Society, London, 3 April 1895)
* 1902 - Coronation March, Op.63 (fp. Alhambra Theatre, London, 13 May 1902)
* 1902 - London Day by Day, suite, Op.64 (fp. Norwich Festival, 22 October 1902)
* 1904 - Canadian Rhapsody, Op.67 (fp. Philharmonic Society, London, 15 March 1905)
* 1910 - La Savannah, air de ballet, Op.72 (fp. Bournemouth, 6 April 1911)
* 1911 - Tam o’Shanter [Third Scottish Rhapsody], Op.74 (fp. Queen's Hall, London, 20 May 1911)
* 1911 - An English Joy-Peal, Op.75 (fp. Westminster Abbey, London, 22 June 1911)
* 1911 - Invocation, Op.76 (fp. Philharmonic Society, London, 21 March 1912)
* 1915 - Ancient Scots Tunes, Op.82 (fp. Queen's Hall, London, 31 August 1916)
* 1922 - Youth, Sport, Loyalty, overture, Op.90 (fp. Royal Academy of Music, London, 20 July 1922)Concertante works
* 1875 - Larghetto and Allegretto, for cello and orchestra, Op.10
* 1884-85 - Violin Concerto in C# minor, Op.32 (fp. Birmingham Festival, 26 August 1885)
* 1889 - Pibroch, suite for violin and orchestra, Op.42 (fp. Leeds Festival, 10 October 1889)
* 1891 - Highland Ballad, for violin and orchestra, Op.47 No.1 (fp. St James's Hall, London, 17 May 1893)
* 1897 - , for piano and orchestra, Op.55 (fp. Philharmonic Society, London, 24 March 1897)
* 1906-07 - Suite, for violin and orchestra, Op.68 (fp. Queen's Hall, London, 18 February 1907)Choral works
* 1881 - The Bride, cantata, Op.25 (fp. Worcester Festival, 6 September 1881)
* 1882 - Jason, cantata, Op.26 (fp. Bristol Festival, 19 October 1882)
* 1884 - The Rose of Sharon, dramatic oratorio, Op.30 (fp. Norwich Festival, 16 October 1884)
* 1886 - The Story of Sayid, cantata, Op.34 (fp. Leeds Festival, 13 October 1886)
* 1887 - A Jubilee Ode, for soli, chorus and orchestra, Op.36 (fp. Crystal Palace, London, 22 June 1887)
* 1887 - The New Covenant, ode for chorus, military band and organ, Op.38 (fp. Glasgow International Festival, 8 May 1888)
* 1888-89 - The Dream of Jubal, poem with music, Op.41 (fp. Liverpool Philharmonic Society, 5 February 1889)
* 1889 - The Cotter’s Saturday Night, cantata, Op.39 (fp. Edinburgh Choral Union, 16 December 1889)
* 1891 - Veni Creator Spiritus, cantata, Op.46 (fp. Birmingham Festival, 6 October 1891)
* 1892 - Bethlehem, mystery [oratorio], Op.49 (fp. Royal Albert Hall, London, 12 April 1894)
* 1904 - The Witch’s Daughter, cantata, Op.66 (fp. Leeds Festival, 5 October 1904)
* 1908 - The Sun-God’s Return, cantata, Op.69 (fp. Cardiff Festival, 21 September 1910)Operatic works
* 1882-83 - Colomba, lyrical drama, Op.28 (fp. Drury Lane Theatre, London, 9 April 1883)
* 1886 - The Troubadour, lyrical drama, Op.33 (fp. Drury Lane Theatre, London, 8 June 1886)
* 1897 - His Majesty; or, The Court of Vingolia, comic opera (fp. Savoy Theatre, London, 20 February 1897) [full score lost]
* 1901 - The Cricket on the Hearth, Op.62 (fp. Royal Academy of Music, London, 6 June 1914)
* 1904-05 - The Knights of the Road, operetta, Op.65 (fp. Palace Theatre, London, 27 February 1905) [full score lost]
* 1916-20 - The Eve of St John, Op.87 (fp. British National Opera Company, Liverpool, 16 April 1924)Incidental music
* 1890 - Ravenswood, Op.45 (fp. Lyceum Theatre, London, September 1890) [full score lost]
* 1891 - Marmion, Op.43 (fp. Theatre Royal, Glasgow, April 1891)
* 1897 - The Little Minister, Op.57 (fp. Haymarket Theatre, London, 6 November 1897)
* 1898 - Manfred, Op.58 (written for the Lyceum Theatre, London, but the production was cancelled)
* 1901 - Coriolanus, Op.61 (fp. Lyceum Theatre, London, 15 April 1901)Musical recitation
* 1895 - Eugene Aram, recitation with orchestra, Op.59 No.2 (fp. Queen's Hall, London, 2 October 1895) [full score lost]

Shock-No-Par is the debut studio album by American duo Octant, released by Up Records in August 1999.

The Belfast Giants are an Irish ice hockey team from Belfast, Northern Ireland that compete in the Elite Ice Hockey League. Home games are played at the 9,000-capacity SSE Arena Belfast. One corner of the SSE Arena is known as 'Boomerang Corner' and a large group of fans who generate noise, bang drums and start most of the chants sit there. It is named in memory of long time Giants fan Stewart Boone. Any fans are invited to watch the game from the ‘Boomerang Corner’ as this section of the stadium is not reserved seating.

On April 10, 1917, four days after the United States declared war on Germany, an explosion at the Eddystone Ammunition Corporation's artillery shell plant in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, killed 139 people. The majority were women and girls who worked in the loading room, loading shells with black powder. 55 of the victims could not be identified and were buried in a mass grave. Hundreds more were injured. The victims were arguably among the first American casualties of World War I. The explosion was initially blamed on German saboteurs, and later on Russians. It may in fact have been an accident caused by malfunctioning equipment.

Daniel "Dani" Sordo Castillo (born 2 May 1983) is a Spanish rally driver. He competes in the World Rally Championship for Hyundai Motorsport. He achieved his first WRC victory at the 2013 Rallye Deutschland.

Georgina Oliva Isern (born 18 July 1990) is a Spanish field hockey midfielder who competed at the 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She was included to the national team in 2006, and in 2015 named Best Player at the Valencia semifinal of the 2014/15 World League and Best Player in the Spanish Division de Honor.

George H. Otten (June 21, 1889 – March 26, 1978) was a landscape architect who worked primarily in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Oregon, he served in World War I before later working for the Oregon State Highway Department where he worked on projects such as the design of the Oregon State Capitol's mall.

Neil Young's discography and filmography contains the albums and films produced by Young. As of 2016, most of Young's work, both solo and group, is distributed by Warner Music Group. The only exceptions are his five albums for Geffen Records in the 1980s, which were once distributed by Warner, but are now distributed by Universal Music Group.

The European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting (EWF) is an organization dedicated to education, training, qualification and certification in the field of welding and related technologies.

The 1936 United States Olympic Trials for track and field were held in July 1936 and decided the United States team for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. The Trials for men and women were held separately; men's events were held at Randall's Island Stadium in New York City on July 11 and July 12, while women competed at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island on July 4. The top three athletes in each event qualified for the Olympic Games. The women's meeting also served as the annual outdoor track and field championships of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU); the men's AAU championships were held separately a week before the Olympic Trials.

Jürgen Fatmir Gjasula (born 5 December 1985) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Energie Cottbus. He also holds German citizenship.

Broadcast City was a television and radio broadcast center owned by the Philippine government. It is located at Old Balara, Capitol Hills, Diliman, Quezon City. Broadcast City is the home of state-owned sequestered TV and radio network IBC. This is also the former home of the networks, BBC and RPN (until October 2012, now located at Panay Avenue). It was built in July 1978 and founded by Roberto Benedicto and it was the most modern broadcast facility at that time. IBC has discontinued the usage of Broadcast City in late 2018, and it is set to be demolished to give way for the Larossa Condominum project.

The Fathers of Confederation are the 36 people who attended at least one of the Charlottetown (23 attendees) and Quebec (33) Conferences in 1864 and the London Conference of 1866 (16) in England, preceding Canadian Confederation. The following lists the participants in the Charlottetown, Quebec, and London Conferences and their attendance at each stage. Queen Victoria has been called the "Mother of Confederation". Her role in Confederation is recognized by the celebration of Victoria Day in Canada. Four other individuals have been labelled as Fathers of Confederation. Hewitt Bernard, who was the recording secretary at the Charlottetown Conference, is considered by some to be a Father of Confederation. The leaders most responsible for bringing three specific provinces into Confederation after 1867 are also referred to as Fathers of Confederation. The provisional government established by Louis Riel ultimately negotiated the terms under which Manitoba entered the Canadian Confederation in 1870. The leadership of Amor De Cosmos was instrumental both in bringing democracy to British Columbia and in bringing the province into Confederation in 1871. The province of Newfoundland entered the Canadian Confederation in 1949 under the leadership of Joey Smallwood, who was then referred to as the "only living Father of Confederation". Of the 36 Fathers, 11 were Freemasons, notably Macdonald, but including Bernard, Campbell, Carter, Chandler, Galt, Gray, Haviland, Henry, Pope, and Tilley.

Barbara Bloom (born 1951, in Los Angeles) lives and works in New York City. She is a conceptual artist best known for her multi-media installation works. Bloom is loosely affiliated with a group of artists referred to as The Pictures Generation.For nearly twenty years she lived in Europe, first in Amsterdam then Berlin. Since 1992, she has lived in New York City with her husband, the writer-composer Chris Mann, and their daughter.

The Muppet Christmas Carol is a 1992 American musical fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Jim Henson Productions and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Adapted from Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, it is the fourth theatrical film to feature the Muppets, and the first to be produced following the death of Muppets creator Jim Henson in 1990. It’s also The Walt Disney Company’s second film adaptation of the Dickens story after Mickey's Christmas Carol in 1983. The film was directed by Brian Henson in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Jerry Juhl, and stars Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge, alongside Muppet performers Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, and Frank Oz portraying various roles, including Gonzo narrating the film as Dickens and Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit. Although artistic license is taken to suit the aesthetic of the Muppets, The Muppet Christmas Carol otherwise follows Dickens's original story closely. The Muppet Christmas Carol was released on December 11, 1992, to modest box office success and mostly positive reviews. As well as Jim Henson, the film is dedicated to fellow performer Richard Hunt, who died eleven months before the film's release.

Hyadaphis is a genus of aphids in the family Aphididae. There are at least 3 described species in Hyadaphis.

The Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which was made during the reign of Elizabeth I, was a response to the religious divisions in England during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, and Mary I. This response, described as "The Revolution of 1559", was set out in two acts of parliament. The Act of Supremacy of 1558 re-established the Church of England's independence from Rome, with parliament conferring on Elizabeth the title Supreme Governor of the Church of England (instead of Supreme Head) while the Act of Uniformity of 1559 re-introduced the 1552 Book of Common Prayer (BCP) which contained the liturgical services of the church with some modification in a more Catholic direction regarding the doctrine of the Real Presence; permission to use the traditional Mass vestments other articles of clergy dress in accordance with the Ornaments Rubric of 1549 which stated that these were such as in use in the first year of the reign of Edward VI (January 1547-) when services were still in Latin; and liturgical furniture The BCP became the yardstick of Anglicanism, which came to see its identity mainly in liturgy and institutional continuity rather than in a systematic school or confessional theology; and also to a lesser extent as set forth in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Faith which sought to navigate a middle way (via media) between Roman Catholicism, Continental Protestantism and radical sects. As for the governance of the Xhurch the Queen was determined to maintain control for her benefit and strengthen the monarchy as the supreme arbiter over a fractious society and nobility. All but one of the Marian bishops refused to consecrate a new Archbishop of Canterbury (canon law from the Frist Ecumenical Council of 325 A.D. required a minimum of three for consecration). Intent upon maintaining the three-fold ministry of deacon, priest and bishop in the Apostolic Succession She chose Matthew Parker, a Cambridge University don (lecturer), priest and former vice-chancellor of the university, who was consecrated in December 1559 by four bishops whose consecrators had all been consecrated earlier using the Roman Rite. Two, William Barlow and John Hodgkins, had been consecrated in the mid-1530s using the Roman Pontifical. Scory and Ridley were consecrated bishops on the same day in 1551 with the English Ordinal of 1550 by Thomas Cranmer, John Hodgkins and Nicholas Ridley consecrated in 1532, 1537 and 1547 respectively using the Pontifical. The Church might be "reformed" in theology but there would be no break with the ancient institutional church in governance. The papal bull Regnans in Excelsis, issued on 25 February 1570 by Pope Pius V, declared "Elizabeth, the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime" to be a heretic, released all of her subjects from any allegiance to her, and excommunicated any who obeyed her orders. The bull, written in Latin, is named from its incipit, the first three words of its text, which mean "ruling from on high" (a reference to God). Among the queen's alleged offences, it lists that "she has removed the royal Council, composed of the nobility of England, and has filled it with obscure men, being heretics."

The MYRRHA (Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications) is a "first of its kind" design project of a nuclear reactor coupled to a proton accelerator (a so-called Accelerator-driven system (ADS)). MYRRHA will be a lead-bismuth cooled fast reactor with two possible configurations: sub-critical or critical. The project is managed by SCK•CEN, the Belgium center for nuclear energy research. It will be built based on the experience gained from the first successful demonstration project: GUINEVERE. MYRRHA has an international recognition and has been listed in December 2010 by the European Commission as one of 50 projects to make Europe the leader in high-tech research in the next 20 years. MYRRHA is a research reactor aiming to demonstrate the feasibility of the ADS and the lead-cooled fast reactor concepts, with various applications from spent-fuel burning to material irradiation testing. MYRRHA is intended to be fully operational in 2033, with a first phase (100 MeV accelerator) ready in 2027.

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2014 Asian Games was held at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, Incheon, South Korea on 28–29 September.

Delorean were a Spanish alternative dance band formed in 2000 in Zarautz, a Basque town. The band was originally composed of vocalist and bassist Ekhi Lopetegi, guitarist Tomas Palomo, keyboardist Unai Lazcano and drummer Igor Escudeo; they created the band to explore their mutual interests, from the local punk rock scene to electronic music. Palomo was replaced in 2008 by Guillermo Astrain. Delorean are named after the time machine featured in the Back to the Future series, which was a DeLorean car.

Mayobridge (from Irish Droichead Mhaigh Eo, meaning 'bridge on the plain of yews') is a village within Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, lying on the small river Clanrye which divides the townlands of Mayo and Bavan. It is located within the Newry and Mourne District Council area - it had a population of 1,069 people in the 2011 Census. It falls within the parish of Clonallan, and historically within the barony of Upper Iveagh Upper.

Jason Latimer (Stage name LATIMER) (born March 7, 1981) is American illusionist who in 2003 became one of four Americans to ever win the title Grand Prix "Best Overall" at the World Championships of Magic. In 2012, Jason starred in the six live British television specials on the BBC One's "The Magicians," and won UK competition overall. In, 2014, Latimer joined Penn & Teller and Christen Gerhart as one of the judges on the American magic competition television series Wizard Wars on the Syfy channel. In 2015, Jason launched the Impossible Science program in San Diego, CA. Currently, Latimer is the curator of Impossible Science for the Fleet Science Center and oversees the Impossible Science Initiative in science centers throughout Southern California. Jason co-hosts Science Channel's series SciJinks with Big Bang Theory's Johnny Galecki and Mythbusters: The Search's Tamara Robertson. In 2018, Jason joined the likes David Copperfield and David Blaine as one of the few recipients of the prestigious Golden Grolla Award from the Masters of Magic in Saint-Vincent, Italy. In 2018, Jason was the closing speaker of the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington DC for recognition of Impossible Science and changing education with wonder.

The Chaperone is an 2018 film, directed by Michael Engler, with a screenplay by Julian Fellowes, from the novel by Laura Moriarty. It stars Haley Lu Richardson, Miranda Otto, Elizabeth McGovern, Blythe Danner, Campbell Scott, Géza Röhrig and Victoria Hill. It had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on September 23, 2018. It was released on March 29, 2019, by PBS Distribution.

The Duke Blue Devils football team represents Duke University in the sport of American football. The Blue Devils compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The program has 17 conference championships (7 ACC championships and 10 Southern Conference titles), 53 All-Americans, 10 ACC Players of the Year (the most in the ACC), and have had three Pro Football Hall of Famers come through the program (second in the ACC to only Miami's four). The team is currently coached by David Cutcliffe and play their home games at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. Although Duke has mostly struggled since the mid-1960s, the Blue Devils are currently undergoing a renaissance under Cutcliffe. Duke secured their first Coastal division title on November 30, 2013 with a win over arch-rival North Carolina. Additionally, the Blue Devils cracked the top 25 of the BCS standings, the AP Poll, and the Coaches' Poll during the 2013 season and very nearly scored an upset over a potent Texas A&M team in the 2013 Chick-fil-A Bowl, losing by only four points after jumping out to a 38–17 lead at halftime. In 2014, Duke followed up with a nine win season, including a victory over eventual Orange Bowl winner Georgia Tech, and another close bowl loss to 15th-ranked Arizona State in the Sun Bowl. In 2015, the Blue Devils broke through for a 44–41 overtime win over Indiana in the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium, and followed up with a win over Northern Illinois in the 2017 Quick Lane Bowl.

Roy Yeager (born February 4, 1949) is an American musician. His musical career started off when he moved to Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 14. Yeager met Bobby Sowell in high school in 1964 and soon they were playing gigs, as a duo and with bands. He drummed with the popular Memphis 1960s groups, The Out Of It's and The Crackerjacks, touring the mid-south and played regularly at the popular Thunderbird Lounge and Roaring 60's in Memphis. In 1972, he went with Lobo, in 1974 drummed for singer Joe South. His big break came in 1979 when he joined the southern rock group Atlanta Rhythm Section, he toured with them for three and a half years, recording hit records. He moved to Nashville in the 1980s after marrying, became a producer and bought his own recording studio, Back Street Recording. He has done sessions with many rock and country artists including Ronnie Milsap, Dale Hawkins, Alicia Bridges, Paul Davis, Mike Heron, Gail Davis and others. In 1998, Yeager sold his recording studio and retired, dabbling in real estate and other investments, . In 2018, there were reports that Yeager passed away, but this has not been confirmed.

Karen Moncrieff (born December 20, 1963 in Sacramento, California), is an American actress, director and screenwriter. Her directorial debut was Blue Car. Her directing credits are in both television and features and she acted in the soap operas Passions, Days of Our Lives and Santa Barbara. In 1985, she was crowned Miss Illinois and competed in the Miss America 1986 pageant. Karen graduated from Rochester Adams High School in 1982, the same high school Madonna attended.

John Whitefield Owens (November 2, 1884 – April 24, 1968) was the 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing for his editorials in the Baltimore Sun.

The ABC Television Network is an American television network. As of March 2015, the network currently has eight owned-and-operated stations, and current affiliation agreements with 238 other television stations. This is a table listing of ABC's affiliates, with ABC-owned stations separated from privately owned affiliates, and arranged in alphabetical order by the station's city of license. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their local programming, hosts and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies The station's virtual (PSIP) channel number follows the call letters. The number in parentheses that follows is the station's actual digital channel number. This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions. Notes: 1) Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station that was built and signed-on by ABC;2) Two boldface plus signs appearing following a station's call letters (++) indicate a station that was owned by Capital Cities Communications prior to its acquisition of ABC in 1986

The Hanish Islands (Arabic: جزر حنيش‎) are an island group in the Red Sea. Most of them are a part of Yemen, but before 1998 they were claimed by Eritrea as well. After a case in an international court under the guidance of Abdul Karim al-Iryani, Yemen was granted full ownership of the larger Islands, and Eritrea was awarded the peripheral islands to the southwest. The three largest islands are Jabal Zuqar to the north (about 130 km²), Al-anīsh al-Kabīr (Great Anīsh) to the south (about 116 km²), with the much smaller Al-anīsh al-Ṣaghīr (Little Anīsh) in between.

Piggy Tales is a Finnish computer-animated television series based on Bad Piggies, a spin-off of Angry Birds. Animated in a style resembling clay animation, before transitioning into computer-generated imagery after the release of The Angry Birds Movie, the series focuses on the life of the minion pigs, and it has no dialogue. It was produced by Rovio Entertainment, with the French studio Cube Creative providing some of the animation. Piggy Tales premiered in 2014 on the ToonsTV channel through the Angry Birds applications and on the ToonsTV website. The series continued in 2015 with the second season, subtitled Pigs at Work, followed by the third season, subtitled Third Act, in 2016. A fourth and final season, subtitled 4th Street, has started airing episodes. As of June 2016, the whole programme combined had been viewed more than 1 billion times. As of October 2016, the series, along with Angry Birds Toons and Angry Birds Stella, has aired in over 200 territories.

"Lost Reputation" is the fourteenth season premiere of the police procedural television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and the 296th overall episode. It originally aired on the NBC on September 26, 2012. In the episode, the Special Victims Unit detectives try to stop a growing scandal when Captain Cragen (Dann Florek) is arrested for the murder of an escort, Carissa Gibson (Pippa Black). Meanwhile, Detective Nick Amaro (Danny Pino) has to juggle trying to solve the case against Cragen without losing his family in the process. The episode was written by show runner/executive producer Warren Leight and Julie Martin and was directed by Michael Slovis. The episode picks up where the thirteenth season ended with "Rhodium Nights", Cragen waking up next to a dead escort and the fallout from that, majority of the guest stars from "Rhodium Nights" appearing in "Lost Reputation". "Lost Reputation" earned generally positive reviews, critics praising the continuation of the storyline, with Paget Brewster's and Adam Baldwin's guest appearances, as well as praising stars Mariska Hargitay and Danny Pino. According to the Nielsen ratings, the episode's original broadcast with "Above Suspicion" following was watched by an average of 7.19 million total viewers and received a 2.1/6% share in the 18–49 age demographic, up slightly from the season thirteen finale.

Colonel Patrick Mackellar (1717–1778) was a British army officer and military engineer who played a significant role in the early history of North America. He was the deputy chief engineer at the Siege of Louisbourg (1758) and the chief engineer at the siege of Quebec in 1759. In later years he was responsible for the design and construction of the town of Es Castell on the island of Menorca.

Cyprus–Germany relations refer to the bilateral relations between Cyprus and Germany. Germany is represented in Cyprus through its embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus. Cyprus is represented in Germany through its embassy in Berlin, Germany. Both countries are full members of the United Nations and the European Union.

Freeman's, formerly known as Samuel T. Freeman & Co., is an auction house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1805 by Tristram B. Freeman, a print seller who came to America from London. History In 2016, the company's controlling interest was transferred to the current management team of Hanna Dougher, Chief Operating Officer; Alasdair Nichol, then-Vice Chairman; and Paul Roberts, President, in a friendly management buy-out. Notable Auction Records Collections

The Russian Curling Championships are annual national curling tournaments held in Russia between various Russian curling clubs. The championships are played over a season from winter to spring. In the 1998-99 season, the tournament has been played in two divisions – first and high division – and in 2015, the championships were split into two major leagues A and B. The national championships were introduced during the 1992–93 season, after the was formed the previous year. The first edition was held in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg clubs have been dominating the men's tournament, while Moscow clubs in the women's tournament.

Horseshoe Theory is a 2017 American short romantic comedy film written and directed by Jonathan Daniel Brown, co-written by and produced by , and . The film premiered at the 2017 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah where it won a special jury award.

The Everglades Club is the preeminent, and most exclusive, social club in Palm Beach, Florida. When its construction began in July 1918 it was to be called the Touchstone Convalescent Club, and it was intended to be a hospital for the wounded of World War I. But the war ended a few months later and it changed into a private club without ever opening as a hospital. The Club has no sign, no Web site, and no Wifi. Cell phones are prohibited.

Red Top is an unincorporated community in Idun Township, Aitkin County, Minnesota, United States. The community is located northeast of Isle, and southwest of McGrath.

Marc Robillard (born March 23, 1974) is a Canadian musician, composer and songwriter, residing in Venice, California. He is best known for his songs "So Much More" (featured on a nationwide Sun Chips commercial) and "Contagious" (featured on MTV's Jersey Shore).

A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be spelled either from left to right or right to left identically. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. The longest known palindromic place names in the Latin alphabet are:

Tayberry (Rubus fruticosus x R. idaeus) is a cultivated shrub in the genus Rubus of the family Rosaceae patented in 1979 as a cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry, and named after the river Tay in Scotland. The fruit is sweeter, much larger, and more aromatic than that of the loganberry, itself a blackberry and red raspberry cross. The tayberry is grown for its edible fruits which can be eaten raw or cooked, but the fruit do not pick easily by hand and cannot be machine harvested, so they have not become a commercially grown berry crop. As a domestic crop, this plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

USS Kishwaukee (AOG-9) was a Patapsco-class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations. Kishwaukee had the distinction of being one of the few ships serving in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and returned home proudly with battle and campaign stars to their credit. Kishwaukee was launched 24 July 1943, by Cargill Shipyard, Savage, Minnesota; sponsored by Mrs. John Shipp; and commissioned 27 May 1944, Francis M. Hillman, USNR, in command.

This is a list of notable jewelry designers.

I Can't Escape is a 1934 American film directed by Otto Brower. The film is also known as The Magic Vault (American alternative title).

The Balvano train disaster was the deadliest railway accident in Italian history and one of the worst railway disasters ever. It occurred on the night between 2-3 March 1944 in Balvano, Italy. Over 500 people in a steam-hauled, coal-burning freight train died of carbon monoxide poisoning during a protracted stall in a tunnel.

Cadence Bank, N.A., based in Atlanta, Georgia is a regional bank with 99 branches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. It is a subsidiary of Houston, Texas based . Cadence serves commercial and business banking, treasury management, specialized lending, asset-based lending, commercial real estate, SBA lending, foreign exchange, wealth management, investment and trust services, financial planning, retirement plan management, personal and business insurance, consumer banking, consumer loans, mortgages, home equity lines and loans, and credit cards.

Freeman's, formerly known as Samuel T. Freeman & Co., is an auction house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1805 by Tristram B. Freeman, a print seller who came to America from London. History After an order from Pennsylvania Governor Thomas McKean, Freeman was appointed to the office of auctioneer in Philadelphia, where he subsequently began the company. Over the years Freeman's has grown both nationally, opening regional offices throughout the US, and internationally, expanding into the European market after forming an alliance with Lyon & Turnbull in 2000. The current Chairman of Freeman's is Samuel M “Beau” Freeman II, the sixth generation of the Freeman family to run the auction house. Located at 1808 Chestnut Street, Freeman's offers over 25 in-house auctions a year in sale categories including: American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts, English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts, Asian Arts, American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists, European Art & Old Masters, Modern and Contemporary Art, Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 20th Century Design, Jewelry & Watches, and Silver & Objets de Vertu. In 2016, the company's controlling interest was transferred to the current management team of Hanna Dougher, Chief Operating Officer; Alasdair Nichol, then-Vice Chairman; and Paul Roberts, President, in a friendly management buy-out. The current Chairman of Freeman's is Alasdair Nichol, who assumed the role after Samuel M “Beau” Freeman II, the sixth generation of the Freeman family to run the auction house, passed away in June 2017. Notable Auction Records On September 10, 2011, Freeman's held an auction that brought $3.5 million for a Jade seal, triple the highest sale in the company's history. Other notable auction records set at Freeman's include a sculpture by Wharton Esherick as part of their annual Pennsylvania Sale in November 2014. In November 2017, a draped canvas painting by Sam Gilliam sold for $370,000. Both lots set auction records for the respective artist. Freeman's set a company record in November 2017 when a rare, Belle Époque fancy vivid yellow diamond pendant by J.E. Caldwell and Co. sold for $760,000, making it the most expensive piece of jewelry the house had ever sold. Collections Freeman's has been entrusted with the sale of some of the world's most fascinating collections of fine art and antiques, including the Richard M. Scrushy Collection, The Lehman Brothers Collection, Property from the Reed & Barton Archives, The Avon Collection of Photography and The Collection of Historic USS Constitution Colors of H. Richard Dietrich, Jr. The March 2014 sale of The George D. Horst Collection of Fine Art resulted in 20 auction records for artists including Howard Russell Butler, Emil Carlsen, and Fred Wagner. The December 2016 sale of The Brewster Collection offered paintings, furniture, and decorative items from Nancy and Andre Brewster, who were both respected activists and philanthropists. In April 2016, Freeman's hosted 1,000 Years of Collecting, which offered property from the private Washington, D.C. collection of Jeffrey M. Kaplan. The 465-lot sale was offered in two sessions, with 99% sold by dollar and 96% by lot, totaling over $1.2 million in sales. In May 2017, Freeman's sold paintings and prints from The Stanley Bard Collection , the late manager of the famed Chelsea Hotel. The auction included a painting by Tom Wesselmann, “Face #1,” which sold for $958,000 .

Robertdale Rulon "Rob" Crow, Jr. (born February 21, 1971) is an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from San Diego, California, known for the long list of bands and projects he is associated with, mostly in the genres of indie rock and math rock. He is best known for his involvement with the bands Pinback (co-led by Zach Smith from Three Mile Pilot), Heavy Vegetable, Physics, and Thingy; he has also led or leads the bands Advertising, Alpha Males, Altron Tube, Cthugha, Fantasy Mission Force, Goblin Cock, Holy Smokes, The Ladies, Other Men and Remote Action Sequence Project, as well as performing and releasing solo records under his own name and under the name Snotnose.

Digital Ocean, Inc., was a maker of wireless products from 1992 to 1998. It was eventually bought by Harris Semiconductor and its assets made part of Harris's Intersil Division, which was spun off in 1999 into Intersil Corporation. In 1998 it was sold with its assets to Harris Semiconductor to become part of their Intersil division; Intersil was then spun off from Harris one year later.

Amaretto Ranch Breedables, LLC v. Ozimals, Inc. was a copyright case in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California involving a DMCA takedown notice dispute between companies that produce virtual animals on Second Life. Ozimals filed a DMCA takedown notice, claiming that Amaretto's horse infringed on their bunnies. Consequently, Amaretto filed for a temporary restraining order against Linden Research, the makers of Second Life. This was granted and held in effect as the case proceeded.

Davide Serra is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Algebris Investments, an independent global asset management firm focused on investments in the financial sector, which manages, as of December 2018, $12 bn assets.

Message design logic is a communication theory that makes the claim that individuals possess implicit theories of communication within themselves, called message design logics. Referred to as a “theory of theories,” Message Design Logic offers three different fundamental premises in reasoning about communication. As author Barbara O’Keefe describes, Message Design Logic is “the kind of communication-constituting belief system the message producer relies on in reasoning from the goals sought to the message design used.” These three premises — Expressive Logic, Conventional Logic, and Rhetorical Logic — are belief systems that communicators might utilize when designing messages. The message design logics, therefore, represent “internally consistent and developmentally ordered stages in the

The Muppet Christmas Carol is a 1992 American musical fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Jim Henson Productions and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Adapted from Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, it is the fourth theatrical film to feature the Muppets, and the first to be produced following the death of Muppets creator Jim Henson in 1990. It’s also The Walt Disney Company’s second film adaptation of the Dickens story after Mickey's Christmas Carol in 1983. The film was directed by Brian Henson in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Jerry Juhl, and stars Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge, alongside Muppet performers Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, and Frank Oz portraying various roles, including Gonzo narrating the film as Dickens and Kermit the Frog

UBC Old Boys Ravens is a Canadian rugby union team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Founded in 1974, The Ravens was formed by graduates from the University of British Columbia. The club currently competes in the British Columbia Premier Rugby League.

Thomas Smith (May 1, 1799 – April 12, 1876) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana. Smith was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. In 1818, he moved to Rising Sun, Indiana, where he learned the trade of tanning. He then moved to Versailles, Indiana in 1821 and established a tanyard. Smith eventually became a colonel in the state militia, and member of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1829, 1830, and from 1833 to 1836. He also served in the state senate from 1836 to 1839. Smith died in Versailles, Indiana aged 76 and was interred in Cliff Hill Cemetery.

Pennsylvania's fourth congressional district, effective January 3, 2019, encompasses the majority of Montgomery County and a small sliver of Berks County in southeastern Pennsylvania, and is represented by Madeleine Dean. From 2013 to 2018, the district was in the south-central part of the state, covering all of Adams and York counties, as well as parts of Cumberland and Dauphin counties, with representation by Republican Scott Perry.

ReconRobotics, Inc. is a privately owned advanced robotics company headquartered in Edina, Minnesota. The company designs, engineers, and manufactures tactical micro-robot systems for law enforcement and military personnel that increase situational awareness in order to save lives. Users of the company's robots include multiple branches of the United States Armed Forces, international friendly forces, and more than 550 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. More than 4,700 of the company's micro-robot systems have been deployed or are under contract.

"Do You Think of Me?" is a song recorded by British recording artist Misha B, released as her second official single on 4 November 2012. In an interview Misha B stated that the song's concept was about "missing somebody who’s a loved one".

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, or simply Precious, is a 2009 American drama film, directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels. The script was written by Geoffrey S. Fletcher, adapted from the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire. The film stars Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, and Mariah Carey. This film marked the acting debut of Sidibe who portrays a young woman struggling against poverty and abuse. The film, then without a distributor, premiered to acclaim at both the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, under its original title of Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire. At Sundance, it won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize for best drama, as well as a Special Jury Prize for supporting actress Mo'Nique. After Precious' screening at Sundance in January 2009, Tyler Perry announced that he and Oprah Winfrey would be providing promotional assistance to the film, which was released through Lionsgate Entertainment. Precious won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. The film's title was changed from Push to Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, to avoid confusion with the 2009 action film Push. Precious was also an official selection at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival (particularly the un certain regard section). Lionsgate gave the film a limited release in North America on November 6, 2009 (the release was expanded on November 20). Precious received largely positive reviews from critics; the performances of Sidibe and Mo'Nique, the story, and its message were generally praised. In the film's opening weekend in limited release, it grossed $1.8 million, putting it in 12th place at the box office. As of February 2010, the film had grossed over $47 million domestically, ranking no. 65 for 2009, recouping its $10 million budget, and making it a box office success. Precious received six Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture, at the 82nd Academy Awards. Geoffrey Fletcher won for Best Adapted Screenplay, becoming the first African-American to win a sceenplay award at the Oscars. Mo'Nique won the award for Best Supporting Actress.

Tayberry (Rubus fruticosus x R. idaeus) is a cultivated shrub in the genus Rubus of the family Rosaceae patented in 1979 as a cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry, and named after the river Tay in Scotland.

In quantum statistics, Bose–Einstein statistics (or colloquially B–E statistics) is one of two possible ways in which a collection of non-interacting indistinguishable particles may occupy a set of available discrete energy states, at thermodynamic equilibrium. The aggregation of particles in the same state, which is a characteristic of particles obeying Bose–Einstein statistics, accounts for the cohesive streaming of laser light and the frictionless creeping of superfluid helium. The theory of this behaviour was developed (1924–25) by Satyendra Nath Bose, who recognized that a collection of identical and indistinguishable particles can be distributed in this way. The idea was later adopted and extended by Albert Einstein in collaboration with Bose. The Bose–Einstein statistics apply only to those particles not limited to single occupancy of the same state—that is, particles that do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle restrictions. Such particles have integer values of spin and are named bosons, after the statistics that correctly describe their behaviour. There must also be no significant interaction between the particles.

The Regiment de Meuron was a regiment of infantry originally raised in Switzerland in 1781 for service with the Dutch East India Company (VOC). At the time the French, Spanish, Dutch and other armies employed units of Swiss mercenaries. The regiment was named for its commander, Colonel Charles-Daniel de Meuron, who was born in Neuchâtel in 1738.

USS Sebec (AO-87) was a Escambia-class fleet oiler acquired by the United States Navy for use during World War II. She had the dangerous but necessary task of providing fuel to vessels in combat and non-combat areas primarily in the Pacific Ocean. For her valiant efforts, she received six battle stars during the war. Sebec, a type T2-SE-A2 tanker hull, was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1266) on 20 May 1943 by the Marinship Corp. of Sausalito, California. Launched on 29 July 1943, sponsored by Mrs. E. B. Fox, she was delivered to the Kaiser Swan Island Yard, Portland, Oregon, for completion and conversion to an oiler, and accepted and commissioned by the Navy on 29 March 1944, Lt. Comdr. Howard M. Elder, USNR, in command.

Christian Knaut (August 16, 1656 – April 11, 1716) was a German physician, botanist and librarian born in Halle an der Saale. His older brother, Christoph Knaut (1638–1694) was also a physician and botanist. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, where he had as instructors Gottfried Welsch, Paul Amman, Michael Ettmüller and Johannes Bohn. In 1682 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Jena with a dissertation titled De fermentatione in sanguine non existente. Afterwards he returned to Halle, where he served as a librarian and personal physician to Prince Emanuel Lebrecht of Anhalt-Köthen. As a librarian he was the author of a chronicle and description involving the counties of Ballenstädt and Aschersleben (1698). As a botanist he published Compendium Botanicum sive Methodus plantarum genuina, in which he provided a classification system for flowering plants based on petal number and arrangement. Carolus Linnaeus named the plant genus Knautia in honor of Christian and Christoph Knaut. The standard author abbreviation Knaut is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

The Penniless Porch in Wells, Somerset, England, is an entrance gateway into a walled precinct, the Liberty of St Andrew, which encloses the twelfth century Cathedral, the Bishop's Palace, Vicar's Close and the residences of the clergy who serve the cathedral. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The Penniless Porch was built around 1450, by Bishop Thomas Beckington (also spelt Beckyngton) and bears his rebus or badge on the cathedral side. It forms one of a pair with The Bishop's Eye which formed the gateway into the Bishop's palace from the market place.

Saline Grace is a Germany-based alternative band that emerged from the German avantgarde band Nobility Of Salt and was founded by Ricardo Hoffmann and Ines Hoffmann (née Pollok) in 2005.

The Mass for Four Voices is a choral Mass setting by the English composer William Byrd (c.1540–1623). It was written around 1592-3 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and is one of three settings of the Mass Ordinary which he published in London in the early 1590s. It consists of the text of the Mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus & Benedictus, Agnus Dei) set for a four-part choir. The works is a noted example of English Renaissance music from the Tudor period.

Knife juggling is a variant of toss juggling using special knives as props which are thrown and caught. Although knives are sometimes juggled recreationally, it is generally a performance art. Knife juggling is typically seen performed by street entertainers as part of a routine or at art or historical festivals.

The Original Six are the six teams (Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs) that composed the National Hockey League (NHL) for the 25 seasons between the 1942–43 season and the 1967 NHL Expansion. The name is something of a misnomer, since there were other NHL franchises that ceased operations before 1942, including some that were founded before some of the Original Six. The term dates from the 1967 expansion which added six new franchises; hence the six expansion teams and the "Original Six".

The Russian Curling Championships are annual national curling tournaments held in Russia between various Russian curling clubs. The championships are played over a season from winter to spring. In the 1998-99 season, the tournament has been played in two divisions – first and high division – and in 2015, the championships were split into two major leagues A and B.

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, or simply Precious, is a 2009 American drama film, directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels. The script was written by Geoffrey S. Fletcher, adapted from the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire. The film stars Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, and Mariah Carey. This film marked the acting debut of Sidibe who portrays a young woman struggling against poverty and abuse.

The Museum of South Somerset was located in Hendford, Yeovil, Somerset, England. It was also the location of a Tourist information centre. The museum was closed in 2011 and its collections were moved to the Community Heritage Access Centre at SSDC Lufton Depot, 7 Artillery Road, Lufton.

The Siege of Calcutta was a battle between the British East India Company, and Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal in India. The Nawab aimed to recapture the city of Calcutta from European control, after tensions had risen due to the East India Company building fortifications in case of French attack as part of the Seven Years' War. The British were unprepared for the attack on 20 June and Fort William - containing the entire European population of the city - fell almost immediately, leaving the city in Indian hands.

Edward D. Cowart (February 17, 1925 – August 3, 1987) was an American judge (Dade County Circuit Court Judge). He is best known as the presiding judge at the trial of serial killer Ted Bundy, a one-time law student who was arrested for a series of murders from at least 1974 to 1978 and who represented himself in court. Cowart imposed a death sentence, and is remembered for his sympathetic post-sentencing remarks to Bundy: — Judge Edward Cowart

1000 Hands: Chapter One is the fifteenth studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician Jon Anderson, released March 2019.

The Arabic letter غ (Arabic: غين‎ ghayn or ġayn) is the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being thāʼ, khāʼ, dhāl, ḍād, ẓāʼ), it represents the sound /ɣ/ or /ʁ/. In name and shape, it is a variant of ʻayn (ع). Its numerical value is 1000 (see Abjad numerals). In the Persian language it represents [ɣ]~[ɢ] and is the twenty-second letter in the new Persian alphabet. A voiced velar fricative /ɣ/ or a voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/ (usually reconstructed for Proto-Semitic) merged with ʻayin in most languages except for Arabic, Ugaritic, and older varieties of the Canaanite languages. Canaanite languages and Hebrew later also merged it with ʻayin, and this merger was complete in Tiberian Hebrew. The South Arabian alphabet retained a symbol for ġ, 𐩶. Biblical Hebrew, as of the 3rd century BCE, apparently still distinguished the phonemes ġ /ʁ/ and ḫ /χ/, based on transcriptions in the Septuagint. (example: Gomorrah is represented in Hebrew as עֲמֹרָה, which sounds like ‘Ămōrāh in Modern Hebrew; however, the Greek transcription of Γομορραν, Gomoras, suggests that at this point in time the Hebrew lemma was still pronounced as Ġămōrāh) The letter ghayn (غ) is sometimes used to represent the voiced velar plosive /ɡ/ in loan words and names in Arabic and is then often pronounced /ɡ/, not /ɣ/. Other letters, such as ج, ق, ک/ك (also گ, ݣ, ݢ, ڨ, ڠ, instead of the original Arabic letters), can be used to transcribe /ɡ/ in loan words and names, depending on whether the local variety of Arabic in the country has the phoneme /ɡ/, which letter represents it if it does, and on whether it is customary in the country to use that letter to transcribe /ɡ/. For instance, in Egypt, where ج is pronounced as [ɡ] in all situations, even when speaking Modern Standard Arabic (except in certain contexts, such as reciting the Qur'an), ج is used to transcribe foreign [ɡ] in virtually all contexts. In many cases غ is pronounced in loan words as expected—/ɣ/, not /ɡ/—even though the original language had /ɡ/. When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as ע׳. In English, the letter غ in Arabic names is usually transliterated as ‹gh›, ‹ġ›, or simply ‹g›, e.g. بغداد Baghdād 'Baghdad', or غزة Ghazzah 'Gaza', the latter of which does not render the sound [ɣ]~[ʁ] accurately. The closest equivalent sound known to most English speakers is the Parisian French "r" [ʁ]. Ghayn is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:

Zuqar Island (Arabic: جزيرة زقر‎, Jabal Zuqar) is an island in the Red Sea that belongs to Yemen. It lies between the coasts of mainland Yemen and Eritrea, near the Bab-el-Mandeb straits which connect the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. Despite its proximity to the African continent, Zuqar Island is considered a part of Asia because it sits on the Asian continental shelf.

Christopher Gross is the chef and owner of Christopher's & Crush Lounge, located in Biltmore Fashion Park in Phoenix, Arizona.

Greenwoods Corner is an Auckland neighbourhood located between Epsom and Royal Oak, at the intersection of Pah Road and Manukau Road. It is settled in the lee of Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill and serves as a convenient launching point for the area's many attractions. Cornwall Park with Maungakiekie and the Stardome Observatory, Alexandra Park with its harness-racing track, and Monte Celia Park with the Pah Homestead and TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre are all a convenient distance from Greenwoods Corner (within 2.5 km ).

The Mercedes-Benz B-Class is a compact executive MPV (M-segment) produced by German automaker Mercedes-Benz since 2005. Mercedes-Benz markets it as a sports compact tourer. It is similar to the A-Class, though bigger and with bigger engines. The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) classifies it as a small MPV (multi-purpose vehicle). As of December 20, 2013, delivery of B-Class vehicles reached 1 million since the launch of the B-Class in 2005.

Colonization of the Congo refers to the European colonization of the Congo region of tropical Africa. It was the last part of the continent to be colonized. By the end of the 19th century, the Congo Basin had been carved up by European colonial powers, into the Congo free state, the French Congo and the Portuguese Congo.

Višeslav was one of the first dukes (Croatian: knez) in Dalmatian Croatia. He ruled with the support of the Pope and Byzantium. The Croats warred against the Franks during his rule and avoided defeat until 803, a year after his death. During the Siege of Trsat in the autumn of 799 between the defending forces of the Dalmatian Croatia under the leadership of Croatian duke Višeslav and the invading Frankish army of the Carolingian Empire, the Frankish commander Eric of Friuli was killed. Ultimately, his duchy did accept Frankish overlordship through the Pax Nicephori. Višeslav left behind a baptismal font (Croatian: Višeslavova krstionica), surviving to this day, which remains an important symbol of early Croatian history and the people's conversion to Christianity. The inscription is in Latin and mentions the name of a priest named John (Ivan) who baptized people during "the time of Duke Višeslav" in the honor of John the Baptist.

"Want U Back" is a song by English singer Cher Lloyd from her debut studio album, Sticks and Stones (2011). It was released as the third and final single from the album on 17 February 2012, and it was released as the lead single from the US version of the album on 22 May 2012. The UK single release features guest vocals from The X Factor US contestant Astro. In the United States the song was released as a solo single, without Astro's verses. Its remix features Snoop Dogg. The song was written by Savan Kotecha and Shellback, with production being handled by the latter. Musically, "Want U Back" is a dance-pop song, with elements of bubblegum and synthpop, while lyrically the song is about a girl who's jealous of her ex-boyfriend's new relationship, and tries to sabotage the new relationship.

The 1972 Swedish Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts held in Båstad, Sweden. It was classified as a Group C category tournament and was part of the 1972 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 25th edition of the tournament and was held from July 17 through July 23, 1972. Manuel Orantes won the singles title. No doubles event was held that year.

The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro) is a festival held every year before Lent and considered the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets. The first Carnival festival in Rio occurred in 1723.

Cachuma Lake is a reservoir in the Santa Ynez Valley of central Santa Barbara County, California on the Santa Ynez River adjoining the north side of California State Route 154. The artificial lake was created by the construction of Bradbury Dam, a 201 ft (61 m) earth-fill structure built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 1953. Its surface area covers 3,100 acres (1,300 ha), with a maximum design capacity of 205,000 acre⋅ft (253,000,000 m3), but it is currently limited to 188,000 acre⋅ft (232,000,000 m3) due to sediment accumulation.As of March 28, 2019, it is at 78.0% of capacity.

The Flying Foam Massacre was a series of confrontations between white settlers and Aboriginal people around Flying Foam Passage on Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula), Western Australia. The confrontations occurred between February and May 1868, and were triggered by the killing of two police officers and a local workman. The confrontations resulted in the deaths of unknown number of Jaburara (or Yaburrara, Yapurarra) people with estimates ranging between 15 and 150 dead.

The Nintendo 3DS is a handheld game console produced by Nintendo. It is capable of displaying stereoscopic 3D effects without the use of 3D glasses or additional accessories. Nintendo announced the console in March 2010 and officially unveiled it at E3 2010 on June 15. The console succeeds the Nintendo DS, featuring backward compatibility with older Nintendo DS video games. Its primary competitor was the PlayStation Vita from Sony. The handheld offers new features such as the StreetPass and SpotPass tag modes, powered by Nintendo Network; , using its 3D cameras; and Virtual Console, which allows owners to download and play games originally released on older video game systems. It is also pre-loaded with various applications including these: an online distribution store called Nintendo eShop, a social networking service called Miiverse (Miiverse has been shut down, and cannot be accessed at this time.); an Internet Browser; the Netflix, Hulu Plus and YouTube streaming video services; Nintendo Video; a messaging application called Swapnote (known as Nintendo Letter Box in Europe and Australia); and Mii Maker. The Nintendo 3DS was released in Japan on February 26, 2011, and worldwide beginning in March 2011. Less than six months later on July 28, 2011, Nintendo announced a significant price reduction from US$249 to US$169 amid disappointing launch sales. The company offered ten free Nintendo Entertainment System games and ten free Game Boy Advance games from the Nintendo eShop to consumers who bought the system at the original launch price. This strategy was considered a major success, and the console went on to become one of Nintendo's most successfully sold handheld consoles in the first two years of its release. As of September 30, 2018, the Nintendo 3DS family of systems combined have sold 73.53 million units. Several redesigns have been made since; the , a larger model, first released in Japan and Europe in July 2012, featuring a 90% larger screen. An "entry-level" version of the console, the Nintendo 2DS, with a fixed "slate" form factor and lacking autostereoscopic (3D) functionality, was released in Western markets in October 2013. The New Nintendo 3DS features a more powerful CPU, a second analog stick called the C-Stick, additional buttons, an improved camera, and other changes, and was first released in Japan in October 2014.

The Ouya ( OO-yə), stylized as OUYA, is an Android-based microconsole developed by Ouya Inc. Julie Uhrman founded the project in 2012, bringing in designer Yves Béhar to collaborate on its design and Muffi Ghadiali as VP of Product Management to put together the engineering team. Development was funded via Kickstarter, raising $8.5 million and becoming the website's eighth-highest earning project in its history at the time.

Christian Knaut (August 16, 1656 – April 11, 1716) was a German physician, botanist and librarian born in Halle an der Saale. His older brother, Christoph Knaut (1638–1694) was also a physician and botanist. As a botanist he published Compendium Botanicum sive Methodus plantarum genuina, in which he provided a classification system for flowering plants based on petal number and arrangement. Carolus Linnaeus named the plant genus Knautia in honor of Christian and Christoph Knaut. The standard author abbreviation Knaut is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Robert Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American film and theatre director, producer, and choreographer. His most notable work is the Academy Award-winning film Chicago (2002), for which he won the Directors Guild of America Award, in addition to receiving nominations for the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA Award for Best Director. A five-time Tony Award nominee, he also won a Primetime Emmy Award for his choreography in the television film Annie (1999).

The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) is a community of scholars working to expose, document, explain, and resist state crime. As an interdisciplinary forum for research, reportage and debate, ISCI aims to combine rigorous academic research with emancipatory activism. ISCI is based at Queen Mary University of London, one of its four partner institutions. The others are the University of Hull, the University of Ulster and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. ISCI was previously based at King's College London until 1 September 2014.

Peter Jensen (born 1969, Løgstør, Denmark) is a Danish, London-based mens and womenswear designer.

Elfyn Rhys Evans (born 28 December 1988) is a British rally driver from Wales who competes in the World Rally Championship.

The Third World is an album by Argentinian jazz composer and saxophonist Gato Barbieri featuring performances recorded in 1969 and first released on the Flying Dutchman label.

The Belfast Giants are an Irish ice hockey team from Belfast, Northern Ireland that compete in the Elite Ice Hockey League. Home games are played at the 9,000-capacity SSE Arena Belfast. One corner of the SSE Arena is known as 'Boomerang Corner' and a large group of fans who generate noise, bang drums and start most of the chants sit there. It is named in memory of long time Giants fan Stewart Boone. Any fans are invited to watch the game from the ‘Boomerang Corner’ as this section of the stadium is not reserved seating. There used to be a traditional 4 sided scoreboard suspended over centre ice, but this has been replaced by two large video screens, one behind "Boomerang Corner" and the opposite corner of the arena for scores, replays, info etc. Two traditional scoreboards are located near the other two corners.

Joseph W. Underwood (born 1953 in Indianapolis, IN) was inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame in 2007. Joe has recently been selected as a top 50 finalist in the Global Teacher Prize in 2018 by the Varkey Foundation and was recognized for this distinction from the floor of the United States Congress by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. He has won numerous other awards for teaching excellence as a Television and MovieMaking teacher at Miami Senior High School in Miami, FL, as well as for being a Certified Athletic Trainer (retired), and a certified football official. Underwood has written and produced a number of educational video series featuring his “characters” in places he has visited around the world, including the Galapagos Islands; Japan; China; Copenhagen, Denmark; Duai, UAE; and South Africa. In addition, Dr. Underwood has developed other video series to enhance learning.

Richard Raul Garcia (born May 22, 1942) is a former umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB) who worked in the American League (AL) from 1975 to 1999. Garcia wore uniform number 19 when the AL adopted numbers for its umpires in 1980.

Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher. As a composer, he is best known for his oratorios, violin and piano pieces, Scottish folk music and works for the stage. He had many successes as a composer, producing over 90 compositions. Some of his early compositions were performed as a student at the Royal Academy of Music. He composed the following works:

"Lost Reputation" is the fourteenth season premiere of the police procedural television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and the 296th overall episode. It originally aired on the NBC on September 26, 2012. In the episode, the Special Victims Unit detectives try to stop a growing scandal when Captain Cragen (Dann Florek) is arrested for the murder of an escort, Carissa Gibson (Pippa Black). Meanwhile, Detective Nick Amaro (Danny Pino) has to juggle trying to solve the case against Cragen without losing his family in the process.

Višeslav was one of the first dukes (Croatian: knez) in Dalmatian Croatia. He ruled with the support of the Pope and Byzantium. The Croats warred against the Franks during his rule and avoided defeat until 803, a year after his death. During the Siege of Trsat in the autumn of 799 between the defending forces of the Dalmatian Croatia under the leadership of Croatian duke Višeslav and the invading Frankish army of the Carolingian Empire, the Frankish commander Eric of Friuli was killed. Ultimately, his duchy did accept Frankish overlordship through the Pax Nicephori.

The organ pipe mud dauber (Trypoxylon politum) is a predatory wasp in the family Crabronidae. They are fairly large wasps, ranging from 3.9–5.1 mm, and have been recorded to fly from May to September. Female and male are similar in colour, a shiny black with pale yellow to white hind hindtarsomere. The organ pipe mud dauber feeds mainly on three genera of spider: Neoscona, Araneus, and Eustala. Melittobia, a parasitoid wasp, is a common ectoparasite of T. politum prepupae. Other sources of parasitism include the Bombyliid fly Anthrax, Chrysidid wasps, and various species of scavenger flies (Miltogramminae). The tufted titmouse (Parus bicolor) is a known predator of T. politum, and may feed on them more commonly than previously thought as the holes made by the titmouse are similar in shape and size to those made by T. politum leaving the nest after pupation. Organ pipe mud daubers are also an exceedingly docile species of wasp, and generally pleasant to have around, as they serve to keep spider populations down. Stings to humans are very rare, bordering on non-existent. However, if squeezed, organ pipe mud daubers will sting in self-defense. There are a great many other species in the genus Trypoxylon (over 700 worldwide), mostly smaller in size and less abundant.

Lulu Kennedy MBE is the Founder and Director of Fashion East & MAN and the Lulu & Co clothing line. She is also Editor-at-large of Condé Nast's biannual LOVE magazine as well as working as a consultant for brands.

A cross necklace is any necklace featuring a Christian cross or crucifix worn by Christians and others. They are often purchased at stores, or received as gifts for rites such as baptism and confirmation. Crosses are often worn as an indication of commitment to the Christian faith. In addition, some Christians believe that the wearing of a cross offers the wearer protection from evil. Individuals, including Christians and some non-Christians, may also wear cross necklaces as a fashion accessory. Most adherents of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church will wear a cross attached to either a chain or a matäb, a silk cord. The matäb is tied about the neck at the time of baptism, and the recipient is expected to wear the matäb at all times. Women will often affix a cross or other pendant to the matäb, but this is not considered essential. In some nations, such as the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, an atheist state, the wearing of cross necklaces was historically banned. Many Christian bishops of several denominations, such as the Anglican Church, wear the pectoral cross as a sign of their order. In two highly publicised British cases, nurse Shirley Chaplin and British Airways flight attendant Nadia Eweida were disciplined for wearing cross necklaces at work, in breach of their employment terms. Both took their cases to the European Court of Human Rights; Chaplin's case was dismissed, while Eweida was awarded damages on the grounds that the UK government had failed to weigh her right to religious expression heavily enough. In light of such cases, in 2012 the former Archbishop of Canterbury of the Anglican Communion, Lord Carey, and then head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, have urged all Christians to wear cross necklaces regularly.

The Eidgenössischer Stutzer 1851 (English: Federal Carbine 1851), also called Feldstutzer 1851, was the first service rifle used by the Swiss armed forces to be procured by the federal government, which was responsible for the armament of the Cantonal armed forces under the 1848 federal constitution. It was also the first military weapon in Europe to use the smaller 10.5 mm caliber (later reduced to 10.4 mm) instead of the prior de facto standard of 18 mm. The Stutzer was refitted with a breechloading system (à tabatière) in 1867. It was replaced by the Repetiergewehr Vetterli, Modell 1869/70 in 1869.

David William DeCastro (born January 11, 1990) is an American football guard for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Stanford University, and earned unanimous All-American honors. The Steelers selected him in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft, and he was considered one of the best guard prospects available.

In quantum statistics, Bose–Einstein statistics (or colloquially B–E statistics) is one of two possible ways in which a collection of non-interacting indistinguishable particles may occupy a set of available discrete energy states, at thermodynamic equilibrium. The aggregation of particles in the same state, which is a characteristic of particles obeying Bose–Einstein statistics, accounts for the cohesive streaming of laser light and the frictionless creeping of superfluid helium. The theory of this behaviour was developed (1924–25) by Satyendra Nath Bose, who recognized that a collection of identical and indistinguishable particles can be distributed in this way. The idea was later adopted and extended by Albert Einstein in collaboration with Bose.

MS Express Samina (Greek: Εξπρές Σαμίνα) was a French-built RoPax ferry that collided with a rock off the coast of Paros island in the central Aegean Sea on 26 September 2000. The accident resulted in 81 deaths and the loss of the ship. The cause of the accident was crew negligence, for which several members were found criminally liable.

Ronne Hartfield (born Ronola Rone in 1936) is an author, essayist, international museum consultant, and former senior executive at The Art Institute of Chicago and Executive Director of Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education. She has been a co-chair of the Harvard University Arts Education Council and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions, and at Claremont Graduate University School of Religion. In 2004, Ms. Hartfield published Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family to critical acclaim. Ronne Hartfield has served on the board of directors at the American Writers Museum, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Taliesin, Scottsdale, AZ, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago. She is an internationally recognized expert in arts education and multicultural education. Ronne is married to Robert Hartfield, a mathematician at the University of Chicago, with whom she has four daughters.

The Abbey Farm House in Yeovil, Somerset, England was built around 1420 and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The Ham stone farmhouse was built by John Stourton (died 1438), also known as 'Jenkyn' Stourton. As part of the manor of Preston Plucknett it was originally known as Preston Great Farm, and has always been in lay-ownership. The addition of "abbey" only occurred in the 19th century for reasons unknown. It is closely associated with the Abbey Barn which is also Grade I listed.

Nations were new to cinema and its capability to spread and influence mass sentiment at the start of World War I. The early years of the war were experimental in regard to using films as a propaganda tool, but eventually became a central instrument for what George Mosse has called the "nationalization of the masses" as nations learned to manipulate emotions to mobilize the people for a national cause against the imagined or real enemy.

The MYRRHA (Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications) is a "first of its kind" design project of a nuclear reactor coupled to a proton accelerator (a so-called Accelerator-driven system (ADS)). MYRRHA will be a lead-bismuth cooled fast reactor with two possible configurations: sub-critical or critical. The project is managed by SCK•CEN, the Belgium center for nuclear energy research. It will be built based on the experience gained from the first successful demonstration project: GUINEVERE.

Pillarisation (from the Dutch: verzuiling) is the politico-denominational segregation of a society, or the separation of a society into groups by religion and associated political beliefs. These societies were (and in some areas, still are) "vertically" divided two or more several groups known as pillars (Dutch: zuilen). The best-known examples of this have historically occurred in the Netherlands and Belgium. Each pillar may have their own social institutions and social organizations. These may include their own newspapers, broadcasting organisations, political parties, trade unions and farmers' associations, banks, schools, hospitals, universities, scouting organisations, sports clubs and other organizations. Such segration means that many people have little or no personal contact with people from another pillar.

Lucas Andrew "Luke" Falk (born December 28, 1994) is an American football quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round of the 2018 NFL Draft. He played college football at Washington State.

Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva (alt. Scipio Liberating Massiva) is a painting depicting a scene from ancient Roman history by the Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (alt. Giambattista Tiepolo), painted between 1719 and 1721. The painting depicts the Roman general Scipio Africanus after the 209 BCE Battle of Baecula in present-day Spain where he defeated the Carthaginians, capturing their Iberian and North African allies. The painting details the moment in which one of the captured Africans is brought before Scipio, who recognises him to be Massiva, the nephew of a chieftain of Eastern Numidia, Massinissa. Scipio reportedly frees Massiva, sending him home to his uncle laden with gifts and so winning Massinissa's loyalty for Rome.

Shiba Shirō (柴四郎), better known for his pen name Tōkai Sanshi (東海散士, Wanderer of the Eastern Sea), (21 June 1852 – 13 December 1922) was a famous political activist and novelist during the Meiji period. He was born into a samurai family and fought for domain of Aizu during the Boshin War from 1868 to 1869, after which the Aizu domain was abandoned. He was educated at different facilities in Japan and in the United States, and he served in the military during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. His major works include Strange Encounters with Beautiful Women (Kajin no Kigū), first serialized in 1885 and concluded in 1897.

Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace is the 1981 2-hour pilot episode of the television series Bret Maverick, trimmed to a quicker pace and repackaged as a TV-movie for rerunning on local television stations. The 1981 show was based on the 1957 series Maverick, catching up with professional poker-player Bret Maverick (James Garner). The film, written by Gordon T. Dawson and directed by Stuart Margolin, occasionally appears under the simpler title Bret Maverick. The real pilot, however, of both this series and the preceding CBS show Young Maverick, could be said to be the 1979 TV-movie The New Maverick, which featured both Garner as Bret and Jack Kelly as his brother Bart.

The Michael Davitt Bridge (Irish: Droichead Mhícheál Mhic Dháibhéid) is a swing bridge in County Mayo, Ireland that crosses from Achill Island to the Mainland.

Columbus RFC is an American rugby team based in Columbus, Ohio. The flagship team plays in the Midwest Rugby Premiership with an additional team playing in Division III.

The responsibility for the education system in Germany lies primarily with the states (Länder), while the federal government plays a minor role. Optional Kindergarten (nursery school) education is provided for all children between one and six years old, after which school attendance is compulsory. The system varies throughout Germany because each state (Land) decides its own educational policies. Most children, however, first attend Grundschule (literally meaning 'Ground School') from the age of six to eleven. Germany's secondary education is separated into two parts, lower and upper. Lower-secondary education in Germany is meant to teach individuals basic general education and gets them ready to enter upper-secondary education. In the upper secondary level Germany has a vast variety of vocational programs. The format of secondary vocational education is put into a way to get individuals to learn high skills for a specific profession. "Most of Germany highly skilled workforce has gone through the dual system of vocational education and training also known as V.E.T.". Many Germans participate in the V.E.T. programs. These V.E.T. programs are partnered with about 430,000 companies, and about 80 percent of those companies hire individuals from those apprenticeship programs to get a full-time job. This educational system is very encouraging to young individuals because they are able to actively see the fruit of their loom. The education system is encouraging to individuals because they know that most likely a job will be waiting for them when they are done with school. The skills that are gained through these V.E.T. programs are not easily transferable and once a company commits to an employ that came out of these vocational schools, they have a commitment to each other. Germany's V.E.T. programs prove that a college degree is not necessary for a good job and that training individuals for specific jobs could be successful as well German secondary education includes five types of school. The Gymnasium is designed to prepare pupils for higher education and finishes with the final examination Abitur, after grade 12 or 13. The Realschule has a broader range of emphasis for intermediate pupils and finishes with the final examination Mittlere Reife, after grade 10; the Hauptschule prepares pupils for vocational education and finishes with the final examination Hauptschulabschluss, after grade 9 and the Realschulabschluss after grade 10. There are two types of grade 10: one is the higher level called type 10b and the lower level is called type 10a; only the higher-level type 10b can lead to the Realschule and this finishes with the final examination Mittlere Reife after grade 10b. This new path of achieving the Realschulabschluss at a vocationally oriented secondary school was changed by the statutory school regulations in 1981 – with a one-year qualifying period. During the one-year qualifying period of the change to the new regulations, pupils could continue with class 10 to fulfil the statutory period of education. After 1982, the new path was compulsory, as explained above. Other than this, there is the Gesamtschule, which combines the Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium. There are also Förder- or Sonderschulen. One in 21 pupils attends a Förderschule. Nevertheless, the Förder- or Sonderschulen can also lead, in special circumstances, to a Hauptschulabschluss of both type 10a or type 10b, the latter of which is the Realschulabschluss.The amount of extracurricular activity is determined individually by each school and varies greatly. Many of Germany's hundred or so institutions of higher learning charge little or no tuition by international comparison. Students usually must prove through examinations that they are qualified. In order to enter university, students are, as a rule, required to have passed the Abitur examination; since 2009, however, those with a Meisterbrief (master craftsman's diploma) have also been able to apply. Those wishing to attend a "university of applied sciences" must, as a rule, have Abitur, Fachhochschulreife, or a Meisterbrief. If lacking those qualifications, pupils are eligible to enter a university or university of applied sciences if they can present additional proof that they will be able to keep up with their fellow students through a Begabtenprüfung or Hochbegabtenstudium (which is a test confirming excellence and above average intellectual ability). A special system of apprenticeship called Duale Ausbildung allows pupils on vocational courses to do in-service training in a company as well as at a state school.

The 1968 Swedish Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts held in Båstad, Sweden. It was the 21st edition of the tournament and was held in July 1968. Martin Mulligan won the singles title.

The economy of Denmark is a modern market economy with comfortable living standards, a high level of government services and transfers, and a high dependence on foreign trade. The economy is dominated by the service sector with 80% of all jobs, whereas about 11% of all employees work in manufacturing and 2% in agriculture. Nominal gross national income per capita was the tenth-highest in the world at $55,220 in 2017. Correcting for purchasing power, per capita income was Int$52,390 or 16th-highest globally. Income distribution is relatively equal, but inequality has increased somewhat during the last decades, however, due to both a larger spread in gross incomes and various economic policy measures. In 2017 Denmark had the seventh-lowest Gini coefficient (a measure of economic inequality) of the 28 European Union countries. With 5,789,957 inhabitants (1 July 2018), Denmark has the 39th largest national economy in the world measured by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and 60th largest in the world measured by purchasing power parity (PPP). As a small open economy, Denmark generally advocates a liberal trade policy, and its exports as well as imports make up circa 50% of GDP. Since 1990 Denmark has consistently had a current account surplus, with the sole exception of 1998. As a consequence, the country has become a considerable creditor nation, having acquired a net international investment position amounting to 65% of GDP in 2018. A decisive reason for this are the widespread compulsory funded labour market pensions schemes which have caused a considerable increase in private savings rates and today play an important role for the economy. Denmark has a very long tradition of adhering to a fixed exchange-rate system and still does so today. It is unique among OECD countries to do so while maintaining an independent currency: The Danish krone, which is pegged to the euro. Though eligible to join the EMU, the Danish voters in a referendum in 2000 rejected exchanging the krone for the euro. Whereas Denmark's neighbours like Norway, Sweden, Poland and United Kingdom generally follow inflation targeting in their monetary policy, the priority of Denmark's central bank is to maintain exchange rate stability. Consequently, the central bank has no role in domestic stabilization policy. Since February 2015, the central bank has maintained a negative interest rate in order to contain an upward exchange rate pressure. In an international context a relatively large proportion of the population is part of the labour force, in particular because the female participation rate is very high. In 2017 78.8% of all 15-64-year-old people were active on the labour market, the sixth-highest number among all OECD countries. Unemployment is relatively low among European countries; in October 2018 4.8% of the Danish labour force were unemployed as compared to an average of 6.7% for all EU countries. There is no legal minimum wage in Denmark. The labour market is traditionally characterized by a high degree of union membership rates and collective agreement coverage. The concept of flexicurity has been important historically. Denmark is an example of the Nordic social model, characterized by an internationally high tax level, and a correspondingly high level of government-provided services (e.g. health care, child care and education services) and income transfers to various groups like retired or disabled people, unemployed persons, students, etc. Altogether, taxes paid in 2017 amounted to 46.1% of GDP. Danish fiscal policy is generally considered healthy. Net government debt is very close to zero, amounting to 1.3% of GDP in 2017. Danish fiscal policy is characterized by a long-term outlook, taking into account likely future fiscal demands. During the 2000s a challenge was perceived to government expenditures in future decades and hence ultimately fiscal sustainability from demographic development, in particular higher longevity. Responding to this, age eligibility rules for receiving public age-related transfers were changed. From 2012 calculations of future fiscal challenges from the government as well as independent analysts have generally perceived Danish fiscal policy to be sustainable - indeed in recent years overly sustainable.

Moestafa El Kabir (Arabic: مصطفى الكبير‎; born 5 October 1988) is a Moroccan footballer who plays as a forward for Kalmar FF. El Kabir holds a Dutch passport.

The Chicano Art Movement represents attempts by Mexican-American artists to establish a unique artistic identity in the United States. Much of the art and the artists creating Chicano Art were heavily influenced by Chicano Movement (El Movimiento) which began in the 1960s. Chicano art was influenced by post-Mexican Revolution ideologies, pre-Columbian art, European painting techniques and Mexican-American social, political and cultural issues. The movement worked to resist and challenge dominant social norms and stereotypes for cultural autonomy and self-determination. Some issues the movement focused on were awareness of collective history and culture, restoration of land grants, and equal opportunity for social mobility. Throughout the movement and beyond, Chicanos have used art to express their cultural values, as protest or for aesthetic value. The art has evolved over time to not only illustrate current struggles and social issues, but also to continue to inform Chicano youth and unify around their culture and histories. Chicano art is not just Mexican-American artwork: it is a public forum that emphasizes otherwise "invisible" histories and people in a unique form of American art.

Aruna (IAST: Aruṇa) literally means "red, ruddy, tawny", and is also the name of the charioteer of Surya (Sun god) in Hinduism. He is the personification of the reddish glow of the rising Sun. Aruna is also found in Buddhism and Jainism literature and arts. He is the older brother of the mythological bird Garuda. Aruna and Garuda are the sons of Vedic sage Kashyapa and his wife Vinata. Shrines dedicated to Aruna, called Wat Arun, are found in Thailand. Another Aruna is significant in the Ramayana epic, where he takes on a female avatar Aruni, and has two sons who are turned into monkey commanders named Sugriva and Vali.. In Mahabharata Surya offered Aruna and the divine chariot to his son Karna which he denied as he didn’t want to rely on others to win the war like Arjuna who always depend

Henrik Grönvold (6 September 1858 – 23 March 1940) was a Danish naturalist and artist, known for his illustrations of birds. Grönvold was among the last natural history illustrators to publish lithographs.

The Women's Economic Opportunity Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit that measures the enabling environment for women's economic participation in 128 countries. The Economist Intelligence Unit's Women's Economic Opportunity Index is based on 29 indicators that measure a country's laws, regulations, practices, customs and attitudes that allow women to participate in the workforce under conditions roughly equal to those of men, whether as wage-earning employees or as owners of a business. The index was first produced in 2010, with an updated index produced in 2012. Three indicators were added and 15 new countries were assessed in the 2012 version of the Index. According to the latest issue of the Index, for 2012 Norway and Sweden kept their top positions from 2010 with scores of 90.4 and 88.3, respectively. Chad and Sudan remained at the bottom of the index with scores of 23.3 and 19.2, respectively. Countries that had the most changes from the 2010 index included Kenya, which went from 90th place to 86th place. The Index suggests that this change occurred because the Kenyan government enacted new policies mandating equal pay for equal work, and made sexual harassment in the workplace illegal. Thailand moved up one place from 2010 to 2012; the index claimed that Thai women gained greater support for business skills training more than any of their regional counterparts. Saudi Arabia's score increased from 35.9 in 2010 to 39.7 in 2012 mainly due to a ministerial order that included equal remuneration for men and women.

Alin Artimon (born 31 August 1971 in Timişoara, Romania) is a former Romanian football player and current manager. Artimon started his career at and played for the senior team of Politehnica Timișoara before joining Steaua Bucureşti. He was labeled the next Miodrag Belodedici, but he was plagued by injuries and never really managed to progress. His subsequent career saw him play for Timişoara based teams, such as CFR and Poli, before moving on to FC Onești and ending his career at Drobeta-Turnu Severin.

Roy Yeager (born February 4, 1949) is an American musician. His musical career started off when he moved to Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 14. Yeager met Bobby Sowell in high school in 1964 and soon they were playing gigs, as a duo and with bands. He drummed with the popular Memphis 1960s groups, The Out Of It's and The Crackerjacks, touring the mid-south and played regularly at the popular Thunderbird Lounge and Roaring 60's in Memphis. In 1998, Yeager sold his recording studio and retired, dabbling in real estate and other investments, .

Kim Victoria Abeles (born August 28, 1952 in Richmond Heights, Missouri) is an American interdisciplinary artist currently living in Los Angeles. She is described as an activist artist because of her work's social and political nature. She is also known for her feminist works. Abeles has exhibited her works in 22 countries and has received a number of significant awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship.

The left-brain interpreter is a neuropsychological concept developed by the psychologist Michael S. Gazzaniga and the neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux. It refers to the construction of explanations by the left brain hemisphere in order to make sense of the world by reconciling new information with what was known before. The left-brain interpreter attempts to rationalize, reason and generalize new information it receives in order to relate the past to the present.

Antonio Tabucchi (Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo taˈbukki]; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet. His books and essays have been translated in 18 countries, including Japan. Together with his wife, María José de Lancastre, he translated many works by Pessoa into Italian and has written a book of essays and a comedy about the writer. Tabucchi was awarded the French prize "Médicis étranger" for Indian Nocturne (Notturno indiano) and the premio Campiello, and the Aristeion Prize for Sostiene Pereira. In later life he was mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, a feat he never achieved.

Carmen Suite is a one-act ballet created in 1967 by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso to music by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin for his wife, prima ballerina assoluta Maya Plisetskaya. The premiere took place on 20 April 1967 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. The music, taken from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet and arranged for strings and percussion, is not a 19th-century pastiche but rather "a creative meeting of the minds," as Shchedrin put it, with Bizet's melodies reclothed in a variety of fresh instrumental colors (including the frequent use of percussion), set to new rhythms and often phrased with a great deal of sly wit. Initially banned by the Soviet hierarchy as "disrespectful" to the opera for precisely these qualities, the ballet has since become Shchedrin's best-known work and has remained popular in the West for what reviewer James Sanderson calls "an iconoclastic but highly entertaining retelling of Bizet's opera."

Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu that strives to be a "modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use." Linux Mint provides full out-of-the-box multimedia support by including some proprietary software and comes bundled with a variety of free and open-source applications. The project was conceived by Clément Lefèbvre and is being actively developed by the Linux Mint Team and community.

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Spring Breakdown is a 2019 Canadian–American flash animated one-hour special written by Nick Confalone, and directed by Ishi Rudell and Katrina Hadley. It is the third one-hour special. The special was produced by DHX Media's 2D animation studio in Vancouver, Canada for Allspark Animation in the United States as a part of Hasbro's Equestria Girls toy line and media franchise, which is a spin-off of the 2010 relaunch of My Little Pony. The special aired on Discovery Family on March 30, 2019.

The Flemish Legion (Dutch: Vlaams Legioen) was a collaborationist military formation recruited among Dutch-speaking volunteers from German-occupied Belgium, notably from Flanders. It fought on the Eastern Front during World War II. The Flemish Legion was notionally an independent formation attached to the Waffen SS until May 1943 when it was disbanded and reformed as the SS-Sturmbrigade Langemarck within the Waffen SS itself. It was subsequently reorganised on several occasions and was officially designated as a division in September 1944, though the unit never expanded beyond brigade-strength.

The following is a list of publicly traded companies having the greatest market capitalization. This list is primarily based on the Financial Times Global 500 rankings. The list of non-public companies by estimated market value is attached for comparison. Market capitalization is calculated from the share price (as recorded on selected day) multiplied by the number of outstanding shares. Figures are converted into USD millions (using rate from selected day) to allow for comparison. Only companies with free float at least 15% are included, value of unlisted stock classes is excluded. Investment companies are not included in the list.

12 Stories is the debut studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Brandy Clark, released on October 22, 2013, through Slate Creek Records. Clark wrote or co-wrote all 12 of the songs and it features Vince Gill on background vocals. The songs on the album are mostly ones which were admired by, but not recorded by, other artists, possibly due to the provocative storytelling and their content, which is a Clark trademark. Two of the album's tracks were previously recorded by other artists: "Crazy Women" was a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for LeAnn Rimes as the second single from her 2011 album, Lady & Gentlemen, and "The Day She Got Divorced" was previously recorded by Reba McEntire for her 2010 album, All the Women I Am.

This list of stage names lists names used by those in the entertainment industry, alphabetically by their stage name's surname, followed by their birth name. Individuals who dropped their last name and substituted their middle name as their last name are listed. In many cases, performers have legally changed their name to their stage name. People are not listed here if they fall into one or more of the following categories: The following are listed here for the following reasons:

Rochelle Zell Jewish High School (Rochelle Zell, Hebrew: תיכון שיקאגו‎), formerly Chicagoland Jewish High School, is a secondary school located in Deerfield, Illinois.

"Beau Soleil" is the twelfth episode of the American television drama series The Killing, which aired on June 12, 2011. The episode is co-written by Jeremy Doner and Soo Hugh and is directed by Keith Gordon. In the episode, the detectives investigate the link between Rosie Larsen and casino camera footage. Mitch Larsen learns that her jailed husband, Stan, has drained their bank account. The Richmond campaign gets new life as the Mayor's takes a hit.

Slavery in Great Britain existed and was recognized from before the Roman occupation until the 12th century, when chattel slavery disappeared, at least for a time, after the Norman Conquest. Former slaves merged into the larger body of serfs in Britain and no longer were recognized separately in law or custom.

BancorpSouth Bank is a bank holding company headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi with operations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, and Illinois. In 1876, Raymond Trice and Company received a charter to create a bank in its hardware store in Verona, Mississippi. In 1886, the banking operation was moved to Tupelo, Mississippi and the company was renamed to Bank of Lee County, Mississippi. Soon after, it was renamed to the Bank of Tupelo. The bank was renamed to Bank of Mississippi in 1966. In 1997, the bank changed its name to BancorpSouth.

The 1972 Stockholm Open was a men's tennis tournament played on hard courts and part of the 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix and took place in Stockholm, Sweden. The tournament was held from 4 November through 10 November 1972. Stan Smith won the singles title.

On April 10, 1917, four days after the United States declared war on Germany, an explosion at the Eddystone Ammunition Corporation's artillery shell plant in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, killed 139 people. The majority were women and girls who worked in the loading room, loading shells with black powder. 55 of the victims could not be identified and were buried in a mass grave. Hundreds more were injured. The victims were arguably among the first American casualties of World War I.

Jason Latimer (Stage name LATIMER) (born March 7, 1981) is American illusionist who in 2003 became one of four Americans to ever win the title Grand Prix "Best Overall" at the World Championships of Magic. In 2012, Jason starred in the six live British television specials on the BBC One's "The Magicians," and won UK competition overall. In, 2014, Latimer joined Penn & Teller and Christen Gerhart as one of the judges on the American magic competition television series Wizard Wars on the Syfy channel. In 2015, Jason launched the Impossible Science program in San Diego, CA. Currently, Latimer is the curator of Impossible Science for the Fleet Science Center and oversees the Impossible Science Initiative in science centers throughout Southern California. Jason co-hosts Science Channel's series

The ABC Television Network is an American television network. As of March 2015, the network currently has eight owned-and-operated stations, and current affiliation agreements with 238 other television stations. This is a table listing of ABC's affiliates, with ABC-owned stations separated from privately owned affiliates, and arranged in alphabetical order by the station's city of license. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their local programming, hosts and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies Notes:

The Chicano Art Movement represents attempts by Mexican-American artists to establish a unique artistic identity in the United States. Much of the art and the artists creating Chicano Art were heavily influenced by Chicano Movement (El Movimiento) which began in the 1960s. Chicano art was influenced by post-Mexican Revolution ideologies, pre-Columbian art, European painting techniques and Mexican-American social, political and cultural issues. The movement worked to resist and challenge dominant social norms and stereotypes for cultural autonomy and self-determination. Some issues the movement focused on were awareness of collective history and culture, restoration of land grants, and equal opportunity for social mobility. Throughout the movement and beyond, Chicanos have used art to expre

Nobility in Iceland (Icelandic: aðall; Norwegian: adel) may refer to the following:
* Icelanders who belonged to the aristocracy of the Icelandic Republic.
* Icelanders who belonged to the Norwegian nobility.
* Icelanders who belonged to the Danish nobility.

Knife juggling is a variant of toss juggling using special knives as props which are thrown and caught. Although knives are sometimes juggled recreationally, it is generally a performance art. Knife juggling is typically seen performed by street entertainers as part of a routine or at art or historical festivals. The knives are thrown with vertical spin, lending them stability in the air, and are typically allowed to rotate once or twice before being caught. Knife juggling can be performed with any number of objects, but the vast majority of performers use three knives. Patterns used are usually basic and consist solely of a cascade, and sometimes involve simple juggling tricks such as an under the leg throw. This is due the unwieldy nature and increased weight of knives and the increased level of danger when compared to such props as juggling clubs.

Piggy Tales is a Finnish computer-animated television series based on Bad Piggies, a spin-off of Angry Birds. Animated in a style resembling clay animation, before transitioning into computer-generated imagery after the release of The Angry Birds Movie, the series focuses on the life of the minion pigs, and it has no dialogue. It was produced by Rovio Entertainment, with the French studio Cube Creative providing some of the animation.

Matthew 25: Ministries is an international humanitarian aid and disaster relief organization headquartered in Cincinnati, OH. Matthew 25: Ministries provides humanitarian aid and disaster relief to the poor throughout the US and around the world. Matthew 25 collects excess products from corporations and manufacturers as well as the general public and ships these donations to those in need.

Life with Elizabeth is an American sitcom starring Betty White as Elizabeth and Del Moore as her husband Alvin; Jack Narz is the on-camera announcer and narrator. The series aired in syndication from October 7, 1953 to September 1, 1955. The show was the first of numerous sitcoms for Betty White across the decades and was based on sketches involving the Elizabeth character that she had performed on her earlier talk show Hollywood on Television.

The English Theatre Frankfurt is a 300-seat theatre located at the Gallileo skyscraper. Founded more than 30 years ago, it is continental Europe's largest English-speaking theatre. Each season, more than 60,000 patrons visits its wide range of classics, comedies, thrillers and musicals. In terms of its audience, 70 percent are native German speakers and 30 percent are from the extensive English-speaking community at home in and around Frankfurt.

The American Honey Queen Program is a local, state, and national program which annually selects young women to become the spokespeople for the beekeeping industry in the United States. This program is facilitated through the American Beekeeping Federation and involves a competition, the winner of which travels around the United States promoting the beekeeping industry and educating the public about bees and honey.

Wild at Heart (Spanish title: Corazón indomable) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is a remake of the 1994 Mexican telenovela Marimar. Ana Brenda Contreras and Daniel Arenas star as the protagonists, while Elizabeth Álvarez stars as the antagonist, with the special participation of César Évora. As of January 30 2017, Las Estrellas is broadcasting re-runs of Corazón indomable at 12:00pm replacing Mañana es para siempre which ended in January 27, 2017.

Pillarisation (from the Dutch: verzuiling) is the politico-denominational segregation of a society, or the separation of a society into groups by religion and associated political beliefs. These societies were (and in some areas, still are) "vertically" divided two or more several groups known as pillars (Dutch: zuilen). The best-known examples of this have historically occurred in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Mark Jude Poirier is an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter who teaches creative writing at Harvard.

The 1936 United States Olympic Trials for track and field were held in July 1936 and decided the United States team for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. The Trials for men and women were held separately; men's events were held at Randall's Island Stadium in New York City on July 11 and July 12, while women competed at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island on July 4. The top three athletes in each event qualified for the Olympic Games. The women's meeting also served as the annual outdoor track and field championships of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU); the men's AAU championships were held separately a week before the Olympic Trials. Official world records were set in the men's meet by Cornelius Johnson and Dave Albritton in the high jump; Glenn Morris's winning score in the decathlon was also a world record, but not ratified. Harold Manning, winner of the 3000 meter steeplechase, set an unofficial world best. Jesse Owens won three events, equaling the world best for 200 meters around a curve. The 1936 Olympic Trials were marked by the emergence of African-American athletes, including Owens, Johnson and Albritton; as many black athletes qualified for the men's team in 1936 as at all previous Olympic Trials combined. On the women's side, Tidye Pickett qualified in the 80-meter hurdles, becoming the first African-American woman to compete in the Olympics.

Michael "Mick" McDermott (born 1974 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish former professional football player, and current coach. McDermott has held various coaching roles in professional football clubs as well as at the international level over the past 15 years. He has held coaching positions at some of Asia's biggest Clubs; Al Ain FC (Abu Dhabi), Esteghlal FC (Tehran), Al Nasr FC (Dubai). Previously he was the Fitness Coach of Iran national football team during their successful World Cup 2014 qualification campaign. Prior to his current role with the Iran National team, on 2 July 2017, he was appointed as the Assistant Manager of Iranian football club Esteghlal. After a brief spell as 'interim' Manager, on 30 October 2017 he terminated his contract with Esteghlal on mutual agreement. He has played in USL Second Division. On 31st of March, Mick took the job of Glentoran Head coach with imminent investment due to come into the club. He replaced Gary Smyth.

Thomas Smith (May 1, 1799 – April 12, 1876) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana. Smith was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. In 1818, he moved to Rising Sun, Indiana, where he learned the trade of tanning. He then moved to Versailles, Indiana in 1821 and established a tanyard. Smith eventually became a colonel in the state militia, and member of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1829, 1830, and from 1833 to 1836. He also served in the state senate from 1836 to 1839. Smith was elected as a Democratic Representative for Indiana's 4th congressional district to the Twenty-Sixth Congress, which lasted from March 4, 1839 until March 3, 1841. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress, but was elected in Indiana's 3rd congressional district to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1846. Smith was a delegate to the Indiana constitutional convention in 1850. Smith died in Versailles, Indiana aged 76 and was interred in Cliff Hill Cemetery.

A cross necklace is any necklace featuring a Christian cross or crucifix worn by Christians and others. They are often purchased at stores, or received as gifts for rites such as baptism and confirmation. Crosses are often worn as an indication of commitment to the Christian faith. In addition, some Christians believe that the wearing of a cross offers the wearer protection from evil. Individuals, including Christians and some non-Christians, may also wear cross necklaces as a fashion accessory.

"Want U Back" is a song by English singer Cher Lloyd from her debut studio album, Sticks and Stones (2011). It was released as the third and final single from the album on 17 February 2012, and it was released as the lead single from the US version of the album on 22 May 2012. The UK single release features guest vocals from The X Factor US contestant Astro. In the United States the song was released as a solo single, without Astro's verses. Its remix features Snoop Dogg. The song was written by Savan Kotecha and Shellback, with production being handled by the latter. Musically, "Want U Back" is a dance-pop song, with elements of bubblegum and synthpop, while lyrically the song is about a girl who's jealous of her ex-boyfriend's new relationship, and tries to sabotage the new relationship. The song received acclaim from most music critics, some praised her sassy attitude on the song and labelled it "infectious". There are two videos for the song: the UK version and the US version. The UK video features Lloyd traipsing through old photographs with her former beau and some with his new girlfriend and wreaking havoc on the happy couple, while the US version features Lloyd at a diner (Cadillac Jack's) wreaking havoc on her ex's new girlfriend. The song reached number three on the New Zealand Singles Chart, number 18 on the Irish Singles Chart and number 25 on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, the song peaked at number nine on Billboard's Pop Songs chart, and number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it her first top 40 hit in the United States. To date, it is Lloyd's biggest hit worldwide.

Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace is the 1981 2-hour pilot episode of the television series Bret Maverick, trimmed to a quicker pace and repackaged as a TV-movie for rerunning on local television stations. The 1981 show was based on the 1957 series Maverick, catching up with professional poker-player Bret Maverick (James Garner). The film, written by Gordon T. Dawson and directed by Stuart Margolin, occasionally appears under the simpler title Bret Maverick.

The Arabic letter غ (Arabic: غين‎ ghayn or ġayn) is the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being thāʼ, khāʼ, dhāl, ḍād, ẓāʼ), it represents the sound /ɣ/ or /ʁ/. In name and shape, it is a variant of ʻayn (ع). Its numerical value is 1000 (see Abjad numerals). In the Persian language it represents [ɣ]~[ɢ] and is the twenty-second letter in the new Persian alphabet. When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as ע׳.

Message design logic is a communication theory that makes the claim that individuals possess implicit theories of communication within themselves, called message design logics. Referred to as a “theory of theories,” Message Design Logic offers three different fundamental premises in reasoning about communication. As author Barbara O’Keefe describes, Message Design Logic is “the kind of communication-constituting belief system the message producer relies on in reasoning from the goals sought to the message design used.” These three premises — Expressive Logic, Conventional Logic, and Rhetorical Logic — are belief systems that communicators might utilize when designing messages. The message design logics, therefore, represent “internally consistent and developmentally ordered stages in the acquisition of working knowledge about the systematic properties of verbal messages.” As O’Keefe describes further, each premise is “associated with a constellation of related beliefs: a communication-constituting concept, a conception of the functional possibilities of communication, unit formation procedures, and principles of coherence.” The underlying idea behind O’Keefe's work is that “communication is not necessarily a uniform process.”

Aruna (IAST: Aruṇa) literally means "red, ruddy, tawny", and is also the name of the charioteer of Surya (Sun god) in Hinduism. He is the personification of the reddish glow of the rising Sun. Aruna is also found in Buddhism and Jainism literature and arts. He is the older brother of the mythological bird Garuda. Aruna and Garuda are the sons of Vedic sage Kashyapa and his wife Vinata. Shrines dedicated to Aruna, called Wat Arun, are found in Thailand. Another Aruna is significant in the Ramayana epic, where he takes on a female avatar Aruni, and has two sons who are turned into monkey commanders named Sugriva and Vali.. In Mahabharata Surya offered Aruna and the divine chariot to his son Karna which he denied as he didn’t want to rely on others to win the war like Arjuna who always depended upon Krishna. In the Upanishadic literature such as the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, a different sage is named Aruna whose son is also a Vedic sage named Uddalaka. The term is also used for those rishis in Hindu tradition who achieve liberation through self-study.

The following is a list of publicly traded companies having the greatest market capitalization. This list is primarily based on the Financial Times Global 500 rankings. The list of non-public companies by estimated market value is attached for comparison.

Alin Artimon (born 31 August 1971 in Timişoara, Romania) is a former Romanian football player and current manager. Artimon started his career at and played for the senior team of Politehnica Timișoara before joining Steaua Bucureşti. He was labeled the next Miodrag Belodedici, but he was plagued by injuries and never really managed to progress. His subsequent career saw him play for Timişoara based teams, such as CFR and Poli, before moving on to FC Onești and ending his career at Drobeta-Turnu Severin. He started his manager career at the Divizia C team Telecom Timișoara. In 2004, he became the assistant of Gheorghe Mulțescu at Politehnica Timișoara and later on, in autumn 2004, the team's head coach. He continued his career as assistant and afterwards as head coach of Apulum Alba Iulia in Divizia A. After a short stint as manager at Bihor Oradea in Divizia B in 2005, Artimon was recruited in summer 2006 at Poli as a youth-supervisor. He received his big opportunity when being offered the manager position at the club after Sorin Cîrţu's release on 23 October 2006. While initially viewed only as a temporary solution, a good streak of results meant that he would be given the chance to lead the team for the remainder of the season. However, on 5 March 2007, Artimon resigned from his position as manager, stating that he did not wish to continue to work for the club if his efforts remain unappreciated. The resignation came just two days after a draw against Dinamo Bucureşti, when Poli used the second team in protest against a two-match ban received by Artavazd Karamyan. On the 26th of March 2007 he became the manager of the Divizia B team CFR Timișoara. In September 2008 he replaced Nikola Ilievski as manager at CSM Râmnicu Vâlcea. On 30 July 2010, Artimon followed as manager at Juventus Bucureşti.

Joseph W. Underwood (born 1953 in Indianapolis, IN) was inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame in 2007. Joe has recently been selected as a top 50 finalist in the Global Teacher Prize in 2018 by the Varkey Foundation and was recognized for this distinction from the floor of the United States Congress by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. He has won numerous other awards for teaching excellence as a Television and MovieMaking teacher at Miami Senior High School in Miami, FL, as well as for being a Certified Athletic Trainer (retired), and a certified football official. Underwood has written and produced a number of educational video series featuring his “characters” in places he has visited around the world, including the Galapagos Islands; Japan; China; Copenhagen, Denmark; Duai,

The Flemish Legion (Dutch: Vlaams Legioen) was a collaborationist military formation recruited among Dutch-speaking volunteers from German-occupied Belgium, notably from Flanders. It fought on the Eastern Front during World War II. The Flemish Legion was notionally an independent formation attached to the Waffen SS until May 1943 when it was disbanded and reformed as the SS-Sturmbrigade Langemarck within the Waffen SS itself. It was subsequently reorganised on several occasions and was officially designated as a division in September 1944, though the unit never expanded beyond brigade-strength. From the outset, the Flemish Legion was closely associated with the Vlaams Nationaal Verbond (VNV), a collaborationist and Flemish nationalist political party in Belgium.

Greenwoods Corner is an Auckland neighbourhood located between Epsom and Royal Oak, at the intersection of Pah Road and Manukau Road. It is settled in the lee of Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill and serves as a convenient launching point for the area's many attractions. Cornwall Park with Maungakiekie and the Stardome Observatory, Alexandra Park with its harness-racing track, and Monte Celia Park with the Pah Homestead and TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre are all a convenient distance from Greenwoods Corner (within 2.5 km ). Greenwoods Corner shopping village is made up of a collection of small enterprises: restaurants, cafés, and retail businesses. It is located only 7.3 kilometers from the Auckland Central Business District (CBD).

William Purdom (10 April 1880 – 7 November 1921) was a British plant explorer. After being apprenticed as a gardener at Brathay Hall in the English Lake district, he travelled to London to work at the Hugh Low, Enfield Nursery, then onto the Veitch establishment at Coombe Wood. In 1902, Purdom took up a position as a gardener at Kew Botanic Garden soon becoming promoted to a sub-foreman (leading-hand) position. Purdom became heavily involved with early Union activities particularly promoting the rights of junior workers which eventually led to his unjustified dismissal. Despite being a bane to the, then, Kew Director, David Prain, the latter recognized the talents of William Purdom and recommended his employee as being very suitable as a plant collector for a joint venture by Veitch and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University to the northern provinces of China in 1909. Purdom collected and photographed plants for the Arboretum, as well as the great British Nursery firm for three years 1909- 1911. Over many months in the field, he travelled and collected from as far north as Duolun Nor and Jehol, to Wutaishan, out to Yulin and Yan'an on the fringes of the Ordos desert, to the peaks of Tabaishan, as well as in the Minshan Moutains and Lamashan near Jone. He failed in an attempt to reach the monastery of Labrang and the Amnye Machen range due to the hostility of the local lamas. In this period of severe turmoil in China, Purdom's life was at risk on several occasions In 1914, Purdom and the well-known English horticulturalist, Reginald Farrer, set out on an ambitious expedition to Qinghai [[then Tibetan Amdo] and the Province of Kansu province of North-west China. Extensive plant collections were made by the pair through the Minshan Ranges and 'Stony Mountains' in their first season, followed by explorations in the Datong Mountains just to the north-west of Xining. Purdom himself travelled as far west as Lake Qinghai (KokoNor)in search of new plants. Their base camps included Zhugqu (Siku), Jone, as well as the Buddhist monasteries of Quezang (Chebson Abbey) and Tiantang. After completing the work in Gansu, Purdom and Farrer returned overland, travelling by horseback and river-boat southwards through the Dabashan Range and into the Szechuan basin before returning to the coast by way of the Yangtze River steamboat service. The expedition was a great success despite the very definite threats to their lives both from superstitious Tibetan locals and the 'White Wolves' rebels. These two years of exploring and plant collecting are described in Farrer's 'On the Eaves of the World' (2 vols) (1917), and Farrer's posthumous 'The Rainbow Bridge (1921). In those volumes, Farrer very much indicates that the expedition could not have succeeded without the drive, the talents and experience of his co-worker William Purdom. Following the expedition, Purdom chose to remain in China and in 1916 was appointed an Inspector of Forests to the Chinese Government in Beijing particularly concerning himself with re-afforestation projects. When that department was dissolved in 1918, he transferred to the section of government planning the development of the rapidly expanding railway system. In the later capacity he was based in the city of Xinyang on the Beijing to Hankou rail-line working under the eminent Chinese forester, Han An. Here, a hundred years later, Purdom has been afforded a unique Chinese honour, with the Purdom Forest Park, containing some of his original plantings, named in his recognition. At this point he came into professional contact with the Belgian railway engineer and botanical collector, Joseph Hers, who was himself working on the new railway heading towards Xi'an. The pair with similar interests and a love for China, planned to edit Flora of China, but the plan was abandoned probably due to the premature death of William Purdom in Beijing 1921 due to complications following a minor operation on an infected gland in his neck. Hers went on to acknowledge Purdom, both as a friend and botanical collaborator in his later writings. William Purdom collected very many plants new to science and horticulture. Although many of the epithets originally given in his honour have been superseded, quite a number across a wide spectrum of genera still remain in use. These names were given by botanists at both the Arnold Arboretum using the specimens that he had sent there, and those at Kew (from where he had been earlier dismissed) when studying flowering specimens of new plants sent their by the Veitch Nursery. Purdom's eponymous species include: Rhododendron purdomiiPopulus purdomiiLigularia purdomiiDryopteris purdomiiGentiana purdomiiPrimula purdomii Botanical records now reveal that it was William Purdom who in fact first discovered those two fabulous peony species, P.fruticosa and also P. rockii. The latter find made more than a decade before the collections made by explorer, Joseph Rock. The standard author abbreviation Purdom is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

The organ pipe mud dauber (Trypoxylon politum) is a predatory wasp in the family Crabronidae. They are fairly large wasps, ranging from 3.9–5.1 mm, and have been recorded to fly from May to September. Female and male are similar in colour, a shiny black with pale yellow to white hind hindtarsomere. The organ pipe mud dauber feeds mainly on three genera of spider: Neoscona, Araneus, and Eustala. Melittobia, a parasitoid wasp, is a common ectoparasite of T. politum prepupae. Other sources of parasitism include the Bombyliid fly Anthrax, Chrysidid wasps, and various species of scavenger flies (Miltogramminae). The tufted titmouse (Parus bicolor) is a known predator of T. politum, and may feed on them more commonly than previously thought as the holes made by the titmouse are similar in shape

The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro) is a festival held every year before Lent and considered the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets. The first Carnival festival in Rio occurred in 1723. The typical Rio carnival parade is filled with revelers, floats, and adornments from numerous samba schools which are located in Rio (more than 200 approximately, divided into five leagues/divisions). A samba school is composed of a collaboration of local neighbours that want to attend the carnival together, with some kind of regional, geographical and common background. There is a special order that every school has to follow with their parade entries. Each school begins with the "comissão de frente" ("Front Commission" in English), that is the group of people from the school that appear first. Made of ten to fifteen people, the "comissão de frente" introduces the school and sets the mood and style of their presentation. These people have choreographed dances in fancy costumes that usually tell a short story. Following the "comissão de frente" is the first float of the samba school, called "abre-alas" ("Opening Wing" in English). These are followed by the Mestre-sala and Porta-Bandeira ("Master of Ceremonies and Flag Bearer" in English), with one to four pairs, one active and three reserve, to lead the dancers, which include the old guard veterans and the "ala das baianas", with the bateria at the rear and sometimes a brass section and guitars.

The Duke Blue Devils football team represents Duke University in the sport of American football. The Blue Devils compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The program has 17 conference championships (7 ACC championships and 10 Southern Conference titles), 53 All-Americans, 10 ACC Players of the Year (the most in the ACC), and have had three Pro Football Hall of Famers come through the program (second in the ACC to only Miami's four). The team is currently coached by David Cutcliffe and play their home games at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina.

The Women's Economic Opportunity Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit that measures the enabling environment for women's economic participation in 128 countries. The Economist Intelligence Unit's Women's Economic Opportunity Index is based on 29 indicators that measure a country's laws, regulations, practices, customs and attitudes that allow women to participate in the workforce under conditions roughly equal to those of men, whether as wage-earning employees or as owners of a business. The index was first produced in 2010, with an updated index produced in 2012. Three indicators were added and 15 new countries were assessed in the 2012 version of the Index.

USS Sebec (AO-87) was a Escambia-class fleet oiler acquired by the United States Navy for use during World War II. She had the dangerous but necessary task of providing fuel to vessels in combat and non-combat areas primarily in the Pacific Ocean. For her valiant efforts, she received six battle stars during the war.

Slavery in Great Britain existed and was recognized from before the Roman occupation until the 12th century, when chattel slavery disappeared, at least for a time, after the Norman Conquest. Former slaves merged into the larger body of serfs in Britain and no longer were recognized separately in law or custom. From the 17th century into the 19th century, transportation to the colonies as a criminal or an indentured servant served as punishment for both genuine and petty crimes, or for simply being poor and viewed as an 'undesirable', in England and Ireland facilitated by the Transportation Act of 1718 . Tens of thousands of children and vulnerable adults were kidnapped from Britain and transported by sail ship to the emerging lands of America, as a source of expendable labour for the numerous plantations of the colonies. During the same period, workhouses employed people whose poverty left them no other alternative than to work under forced labour conditions. British merchants were among the largest participants in the Atlantic slave trade. And British owners living within the home British isles, as well as within its colonies, owned African slaves. Ship owners transported enslaved West Africans, as well as British natives, to the New World to be sold into slave labour. The ships brought commodities back to Britain then exported goods to Africa. Some brought slaves to Britain, where they were kept in bondage. After a long campaign for abolition led by William Wilberforce, Parliament prohibited the practice by passing the Slave Trade Act 1807 which was enforced by the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron. Britain used its influence to persuade other countries around the world to abolish the slave trade and sign treaties to allow the Royal Navy to interdict their ships. Somersett's case in 1772 held that no slave could be forcibly removed from Britain. This case was generally taken at the time to have decided that the condition of slavery did not exist under English law, and emancipated the remaining ten to fourteen thousand slaves or possible slaves in England and Wales, who were mostly domestic servants. However slavery elsewhere in the British Empire was not affected. Joseph Knight's case in 1778 established a similar position in Scots law. Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, with exceptions provided for the East India Company, Ceylon, and Saint Helena. These exceptions were eliminated in 1843. The prohibition on slavery and servitude is now codified under Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights, in force since 1953 and incorporated directly into United Kingdom law by the Human Rights Act 1998 and into Republic of Ireland law by the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003. Article 4 of the Convention also bans forced or compulsory labour, with some exceptions such as a criminal penalty or military service.

Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva (alt. Scipio Liberating Massiva) is a painting depicting a scene from ancient Roman history by the Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (alt. Giambattista Tiepolo), painted between 1719 and 1721. The painting depicts the Roman general Scipio Africanus after the 209 BCE Battle of Baecula in present-day Spain where he defeated the Carthaginians, capturing their Iberian and North African allies. The painting details the moment in which one of the captured Africans is brought before Scipio, who recognises him to be Massiva, the nephew of a chieftain of Eastern Numidia, Massinissa. Scipio reportedly frees Massiva, sending him home to his uncle laden with gifts and so winning Massinissa's loyalty for Rome. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) was an Italian painter and etcher most famous for his decorative fresco cycles. Tiepolo joined the Venetian painters’ confraternity in 1717 at twenty one years of age. His patrons included such people as doge Giovanni II Cornaro, archbishop Dionisio Dolfin of Udine, the Swedish ambassador Count Carl Gustaf Tessin and Charles III of Spain. Tiepolo died in Madrid while working for Charles III and his work quickly went out of style. Tiepolo's works, especially his frescoes, were developed through a process of drawings and oil sketching and then finally he would work onto the wall where the fresco would be. Tiepolo's work was famous, and is still highly regarded today, for his responses to the light at the site where the painting was to the executed and how this affected his processes.

This list of stage names lists names used by those in the entertainment industry, alphabetically by their stage name's surname, followed by their birth name. Individuals who dropped their last name and substituted their middle name as their last name are listed. In many cases, performers have legally changed their name to their stage name. People are not listed here if they fall into one or more of the following categories:
* Those who changed their surname due primarily to marriage:
* Living: Maud Adams, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Angelica Agurbash, Karen Akers, Jane Alexander, Lexi Allen, Alicia Alonso, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Boots Anson-Roa, Eleanor Antin, Julia Arnall, P.P. Arnold, Jules Asner, Pernilla August, Jaya Bachchan, Shirley Ballas, Joy Bang, Tisha Terrasini Banker, Glynis Barber, Daniel Barnz, Alison Bartlett-O'Reilly, Barbara Becker, Victoria Beckham, Joy Behar, Pat Benatar, Jodi Benson, Gülse Birsel, Carla Bley, Asha Bhosle, Rosa Bouglione, Angela Bowie, Bonnie Bramlett, Frankie Bridge, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Aline Brosh McKenna, Gail Brown, Pat Crawford Brown, Maryedith Burrell, Ellen Burstyn, L. Scott Caldwell, Kate Capshaw, Nancy Carell, Lynn Carlin, Jean Carn, Kathleen Chalfant, Marge Champion, Stockard Channing, Pamela Chopra, Cheryl Cole, Liza Colón-Zayas, Didi Conn, Nukaaka (Nukâka) Coster-Waldau, Kathryn Crosby, Patrika Darbo, Joan Darling, Betty Davis, CeDell Davis, Kassie DePaiva, Élisabeth Depardieu, Bo Derek, Pamela Des Barres, Natalie Desselle-Reid, Tabitha D'umo, Noureen DeWulf, Joyce DiDonato, Caren Marsh Doll, Helen Donath, Carol Douglas, Anne Dudley, Emily Dunn, Marj Dusay, Sheena Easton, Jenna Elfman, Linda Ellerbee, Violetta Elvin, Lotta Engberg, Shannon Farnon, Barbara Feldon, Takayo Fischer, Bette Ford, Lidija Franklin, Carolyn Garcia, Marcia Mitzman Gaven, Lynda Day George, Marla Gibbs, Kathie Lee Gifford, Astrud Gilberto, Sally Gilpin, Joanna Gleason, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Donna Hanover, Tess Harper, Estelle Harris, Susan Harris, Lindsay Hartley, Rohini Hattangadi, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Lotta Hedlund, Dana Hee, Martha Henry, Bec Hewitt, Anna Kathryn Holbrook, Nancy Holloway, Cissy Houston, Jan Howard, Alaina Huffman, Mary Beth Hurt, Jessica Hynes, Alexandra Isles, Bianca Jagger, Karen Jarrett, Tamara Johnson-George, Sue Johnston, Rebecca Judd, Mitzi Kapture, Jean Kasem, Nan Kelley, Jayne Kennedy, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Joanna Kerns, Sandra Kerns, Anita Kerr, Barbara Knox, Cheryl Ladd, Amel Larrieux, Lucy Lawless, Shamcey Supsup-Lee, Lar Park Lincoln, Rosaleen Linehan, Ernie Lively, Janice Long, Loretta Lynn, Ruth Madoc, Suhasini Maniratnam, Rita Marley, Bridget Marquardt, Susanne Marsee, Elaine May, Gwen McCrae, Aline Brosh McKenna, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Kay Mellor, Sheila Mercier, Monique Mercure, Carol Merrill, Vera Miles, Marisa Miller, Demi Moore, Diana Moran, Maria Muldaur, Mrs. John Murphy, Leigh Nash, Nancy O'Dell, Esther Ofarim, Genevieve Padalecki, Kimberly Page, Galina Panov (Panova), Lara Parker, Alexa PenaVega, Carlos PenaVega, Melanie Paxson, Michelle Phillips, Joyce Hiller Piven, Erin Hershey Presley, Priscilla Presley, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Noomi Rapace and Ola Rapace (created a surname, jointly), Phylicia Rashād, Johanna Ray, Perri "Pebbles" Reid, Jeannie C. Riley, Judith Roberts, Tanya Roberts, Mimi Rogers, Brenda Russell, Susan Ruttan, Jeri Ryan, Carole Bayer Sager, Charo Santos-Concio, Susan Sarandon, Dana Scallon, Rebecca Schull, Melody Thomas Scott, Peggy Scott-Adams, Julie Seitter, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Talia Shire, Joan Micklin Silver, Mary Jo Slater, Grace Slick, Connie Smith, Hillary B. Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Eleanor Sokoloff, P. J. Soles, Tatiana Sorokko, Ronnie Spector, Joan Staley, Brinke Stevens, Stella Stevens, Angie Stone, Anna Strasberg, Mira Stupica, Sulekha Talwalkar, Jennifer Taylor, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Betty Thomas, Linda Thompson, Linda Thorson, Julie Driscoll Tippetts, Jim True-Frost, Anita Tsoy, Tina Turner, Eleni Tzoka, Kim Johnston Ulrich, Nina van Pallandt, Maureen Van Zandt, Colleen Villard, Surbhi Javeri Vyas, Paula Wagner, Rita Walter, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Jack White, Thea White, Lynn Whitfield, Niecy Williams, Spice Williams-Crosby, Linda Womack, Kim Woodburn, Barrie Youngfellow, and Sheri Moon Zombie.
* Dead: Carol Ann Abrams, Jane Ace, Iris Acker, Alberta Adams, Jill Adams, Frances Adaskin, Esin Afşar, Rosa Albach-Retty, Theoni V. Aldredge, Esther Allan, Sheila Matthews Allen, Adrienne Ames, Irena Anders, Liz Anderson, Signe Toly Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, Alice Arlen, Florence Arliss, Silvana Armenulić, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Beatrice Arthur, Dorothy Ashby, Sylvia Ashley, Lys Assia, Aniela Aszpergerowa, Mildred Bailey, Mary Barclay, Elaine Barrie, Inezita Barroso, B. Constance Barry, Patricia Barry, Cheryl Barrymore, Katherine Harris Barrymore, Belle Barth, Frances Bay, Lucy Beaumont, Gertrude Berg, Frances Bergen, Shirl Bernheim, Ilene Berns, Barbara Billingsley, Faye Blackstone, Madge Blake, Scotty Bloch, Beverly Schmidt Blossom, Virginia True Boardman, Helen Boatwright, Karolina Bock, Lucienne Bogaert, Lucille Bogan, Pat Bond, Lynn Borden, Anne Borg, Katie Boyle, Clara T. Bracy, Barbara Brecht-Schall, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Ruth Brown, Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter, Argentina Brunetti, Claudia Bryar, Marie Burke, Adelaide Calvert, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Marie Carandini, Olive Carey, Mary Carr, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Maybelle Carter, Claiborne Cary, Maria Caserini, June Carter Cash, Irene Castle, Darlene Cates, Christine Cavanaugh, Olivia Cenizal, Lee Chamberlin, Henrietta Baker Chanfrau (aka Mrs F. S. Chanfrau), Cyd Charisse, Chris Chase, Yelena Chernykh, Patsy Cline, Véra Clouzot, Angelica Cob-Baehler, Maria Cole, Patience Collier, Roberta Collins, Alice Coltrane, Jane Connell, Nadine Conner, Lady Diana Cooper, Paulette Coquatrix, Ellen Corby, Muriel Costa-Greenspon, Mae Costello, Ida Cox, Fanny Cradock, Elizabeth Crotty, Candy Csencsits, Adelaide Hawley Cumming, Phyllis Curtin, Myrtle Damerel, Ruby Dandridge, Alice Davenport, Fanny Vining Davenport, Ramona Davies, Josie DeCarlo, Ruby Dee, Marie de Forest, Julie Alix de la Fay, Desha Delteil, Dolores del Río, Nora Denney, Phyllis Diller, Jeane Dixon, Mary Dodson, Liv Dommersnes, Eileen Donaghy, Edna Doré, Bianca Doria, Kay Dotrice, Diana Douglas, Phyllis Douglas, Louisa Lane Drew, Alice Drummond, Ruth Duccini, Geeta Dutt, Anita Ellis, Alma Evans-Freke, Dame Pat Evison, Mimi Fariña, Etty Lau Farrell, Kathe Feist, Edwige Feuillère, Margaret Field, Minnie Maddern Fiske (or simply "Mrs. Fiske"), Lisa Fonssagrives, Lilian Fontaine, Dolores Fuller, Gwen Fuqua, Amelita Galli-Curci, Hope Garber, Maria Garbowska-Kierczyńska, Anna Gordy Gaye, Leyla Gencer, Jeannette Clift George, Estelle Getty, Ann Gilbert, Lucile Gleason, Renee Godfrey, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Maude Turner Gordon, Vera Gordon, Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, Beatrice Gray, Dorothy Green, Joyce Grenfell, Laurence Grivot, Alice Guy-Blaché, Louise Closser Hale, Alaina Reed Hall, Grayson Hall, Juanita Hall, Kim Hamilton, Anne Haney, Dona Hardy, Estelle Harman, Cassandra Harris, Carole Hart, Signe Hasso, Wanda Hawley, Adeline Hayden Coffin, Dixie Haygood, Edith Head, Žermēna Heine-Vāgnere, Louise Héritte-Viardot, Alice Herz-Sommer, Algia Mae Hinton, Hanne Hiob, Gertrude Hoffmann, Fay Holderness, Astrid Holm, Dolores Hope, Hedda Hopper, Bess Houdini, Jean Speegle Howard, Faith Hubley, Josephine Hull, Grethe Ingmann, Julia Crawford Ivers, Joyce Jacobs, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Florence Foster Jenkins, Besedka Johnson, Beverley Peck Johnson, Kathryn Joosten, Jenny Jugo, Lakshmi Kanakala, Helen Kane, Fay Kanin, Sylvia Kauders, Gina Kaus, Myra Keaton, Jenny Twitchell Kempton, Dame Madge Kendal, Marketa Kimbrell, Mabel King, Millie Kirkham, May Kitson, Evelyn Knight, Marie Knight, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Sossen Krohg, Yvonne Levy Kushner, Claire Labine, Jessie Royce Landis, Gracie Lantz, Carmencita Lara, Elodie Lauten, Zarah Leander, Evelyn Lear, Vivien Leigh, Rosetta LeNoire, Gloria Leonard, Mimi Lerner, Stella LeSaint, Aleen Leslie, Anna Letenská, Rosina Lhévinne, Lois Lilienstein, Jane Little, Peggy Lloyd, Kathleen Lockhart, Judith Lowry, Alice Ludes, Nola Luxford, Sheila MacRae, Maria Malibran, Toni Mannix, Marietta Marich, Tina Marquand, Pamela Mason, Marilyn Lovell Matz, Linda McCartney, Nobu McCarthy, Ruth McDevitt, Marian McPartland, Margaret McWade, Adah Isaacs Menken, Patricia Merbreier, Zinka Milanov, Betty Miles, Mrs. Elva Miller, Helena Modjeska, Lydia Mordkovitch, Anna Karen Morrow, Yvonne Mounsey, Kathryn Murray, Kira Muratova, Bedia Muvahhit, Harriet Nelson, Shirley Collie Nelson, Frances Nero, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, Nadine Nicolaeva-Legat, Agnes Nixon, Lupe Ontiveros, Joan Orenstein, Rita Orlandi-Malaspina, Mecha Ortiz, Ethel Owen, Bonnie Owens, Helenka Pantaleoni, Giuditta Pasta, Tayva Patch, Dina Pathak, Dorothy Patrick, Katina Paxinou, Barbara Payton, Margaret Pellegrini, Fern Persons, Orna Porat, Dory Previn, Ma Rainey, Saba Raleigh, Esther Ralston, Dottie Rambo, Anne Ramsey, Lois Ramsey, Bijoya Ray, Dana Reeve, Estelle Reiner, Elsa Respighi, Malvina Reynolds, Marjorie Reynolds, Irene Riano, Irene Rich, Billie Mae Richards, Cleo Ridgely, Sylvia Robinson, Nélida Roca, Blossom Rock, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Shirley Russell, Irene Ryan, Joel Ryce-Menuhin, Florence St. John, Harley Saito, Tura Satana, Neila Sathyalingam, Therese Schnabel, Teddy Scholten, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Dawn Sears, Zelda Sears, Toshi Seeger, Zohra Sehgal, Joan Shawlee, Madeleine Sherwood, Teri Shields, Nell Shipman, Elaine Shore, Mitzi Shore, Sarah Siddons, Rose Siggins, Hilda Simms, Susan Raab Simonson, Lilia Skala, Alison Skipworth, Anna Nicole Smith, Mamie Smith, Rosalie Sorrels, Diana Sowle, Zypora Spaisman, Elizabeth Spriggs, Kathy Staff, Anna Sten, Paula Strasberg, Donna Summer, Mai Tai Sing, Smita Talwalkar, Laurette Taylor, Beryl Te Wiata, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Olive Thomas, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Mrs Beerbohm Tree (aka Lady Tree), Barbara Trentham, Sophie Tucker, Helen Twelvetrees, Annette Vadim, Alice Van-Springsteen, Marlene VerPlanck, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, Pauline Viardot, Florence Vidor, Salka Viertel, Nedra Volz, Sláva Vorlová, Ethel Wales, Sippie Wallace, Pat Welsh, Ursula Wendt-Walther, Helen Westley, Jean Willes, Cookie Williams, Dell Williams, Mary Lou Williams, Peggy Willis-Aarnio, Ellen Winther, Sheree Winton, Chan Woods, Jane Wyman, Yafa Yarkoni, Clara Kimball Young, Şenay Yüzbaşıoğlu, Izabella Zielińska, and Norma Zimmer.
* People from Spanish and/or Portuguese-speaking countries and the Philippines if their professional name contains either of their two family names. For more information, see Spanish naming customs, Hispanic American naming customs, Filipino names, and Portuguese names.Note, however, that other cultures have their own naming customs and systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hungarian, Indian, and others), some rather intricate, and minor changes or alterations, including reversing Eastern-style formats, do not in and of themselves qualify as stage names, and should not normally be included. For example, Björk, whose stage name appears to be an original creation, is part of her full Icelandic name, Björk Guðmundsdóttir. Her second name is a patronymic instead of a family name, following Icelandic naming conventions. "Björk" is not a stage name but how any Icelander would refer to her, casually or formally.
* People known by generational nicknames: for example, Trey Anastasio (whose full name is Ernest Joseph Anastasio III), Noah Beery Jr., Noah Beery Sr., Lon Chaney Jr. and Pops Staples
* People who may be popularly, though not professionally, known by a nickname, such as Robert John "Mutt" Lange.
* Those who changed their surname due to adoption or legal name change prior to entering the entertainment industry:
* Living: Dame Julie Andrews, Sean Astin, Jimmy Barnes, Christie Brinkley, Clemency Burton-Hill, Neneh Cherry, Robb Flynn, Dave Gahan, Missy and Tracey Gold, Julie Goodyear, Barra Grant, Jane Lapotaire, Blake and Eric Lively, Elle Macpherson, Jesse L. Martin, Steve March-Tormé, Martine McCutcheon, Frances McDormand, Rita Moreno, Piers Morgan, Simon Pegg, Joanna Pettet,Nicole Richie, Juliet Rylance, Ken Shamrock, Scott Stapp, Kristoffer Tabori, Leigh Taylor-Young, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Louis Tomlinson, Skeet Ulrich, Steven Van Zandt, Suzanne Vega, and Vanna White.
* Dead: Ina Balin, Bibi Besch, Peter Brown, Solomon Burke,William Collier Jr., Larry Coryell, Nancy Davis, Katherine DeMille, George Englund, Joan Fontaine, John Gavin, Wynonie Harris, Sterling Hayden, Eileen Heckart, Charlton Heston, Madeline Kahn, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lawford, Arthur Taylor Lee, Art Linkletter, Lori March,June Mathis, Terry Melcher, Florence and Mary Nash, Baby Marie Osborne, Gram Parsons, Tracy Reed, Doris Roberts, Ginger Rogers, Joe Santos, Sylvia Sidney, Willie "the Lion" Smith, Alan Thicke, and Grace Lee Whitney.
* Those known by a stage name consisting of a single word, not including those commonly referred to by their surname: See List of one-word stage names
* People who adopted a matriname: See List of people who adopted matrilineal surnames
* Those whose stage forename is a middle name, e.g. Paul McCartney and Marie Osmond: these are their real middle names, not stage names.
* People referred or known publicly and/or professionally by an amended forename (substantial changes, indirect nicknames, etc.) — e.g. Dimi Mint Abba, Julie Adams, Cannonball Adderley, Zeca Afonso, Jeff Alexander, Red Allen, Christopher Allport, Chinggoy Alonzo, Ramsay Ames, Tori Amos, Judith Anderson, Keith Andes, Fatty Arbuckle, Gem Archer, Graham Armitage, Jerome Arnold, Kokomo Arnold, Antonin Artaud, Barry Atwater, Coco Austin, Patricia Avery, Tex Avery, Gus Backus, Faith Bacon, Buff Bagwell, Benny Bailey, Ginger Baker, Ox Baker, Johnny Ball, Ryan Bang, Tim Barlow, Binnie Barnes, Lynda Baron, Syd Barrett, Count Basie, James Bate, Jaime Lyn Bauer, Terry Becker, Tex Beneke, Wilson Benge, Bennie Benjamin, Chico Benymon, Barney Bigard, Bam Bam Bigelow, Acker Bilk, Kelly Bishop, Sharkey Bonano, Sean Bonniwell, Lucienne Boyer, Leah Bracknell, Alice Brady, Beau Bridges, John Bromfield, Bruno Brookes, Bubba Brooks, Stephen Brooks, Tina Brooks, K Brosas, Chelsea Brown, Timothy Brown, Joshua Bryant, Slim Bryant, Brad Bufanda, Buddy Buie, Sonny Burke, T-Bone Burnett, Jethro Burns, Geezer Butler, Pat Buttram, Don Byas, Max Bygraves, Zig Byfield, Zoe Caldwell, Haystacks Calhoun, Earl Cameron, Juri Camisasca, Candy Candido, Tantoo Cardinal, David Carradine, John Carradine, Shorty Castro, Exene Cervenka, Chick Chandler, Lon Chaney Sr., Doc Cheatham, Joan Chen, Sonny Clark, Warren Clarke, Buck Clayton, Cheyne Coates, Steve Cochran, Cozy Cole, Jaybird Coleman, Buddy Collette, Patricia Collinge, G. Pat Collins, Betty Compson, Betty Compton, Heinie Conklin, Chuck Connors, Gary Conway, Tim Conway, Carole Cook, Gary Cooper, Matthew Corbett, Jacqueline Courtney, Mars Cowling, Lol Creme, Donald Crisp, John Cromwell, Bing Crosby, Scatman Crothers, James D'Arcy, Linda Darnell, Bodjie Dasig, Cow Cow Davenport, Deddie Davies, Richard Davies, Jim Davis, Lisa Davis, Angelika de la Cruz, Crahan Denton, Ajay Devgan, Manna Dey, Paw Diaz, B. B. Dickerson, Mark Dinning, Kenny Dino, Claire Dodd, Peter Donat, Roni Duani, Patty Duke, Sly Dunbar, Stephen (Steve) Dunne, Junior Durkin, Sunil Dutt, Coke Escovedo, Lu Edmonds, Honeyboy Edwards, Skye Edwards, Anthony Eisley, Joff Ellen, Duke Ellington, Peg Entwistle, Dixie Evans, Madge Evans, Jason Evers, Dez Fafara, Mimsy Farmer, Aniko Farrell, Tovah Feldshuh, Beanie Feldstein, Pops Fernandez, Gabriele Ferzetti, Virginia Field, Fyvush Finkel, Herbie Flowers, Dick Foran, Faith Ford, Carl Forgione, Anthony Forwood, Douglas Fowley, Panama Francis, Alan Freed, Mickey Freeman, Paul Frees, Ace Frehley, France Gall, Red Garland, Snuff Garrett, Anthony George, Dana Ghia, Coky Giedroyc, Hoot Gibson, Terry Gilkyson, Dana Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie, Redmond Gleeson, Mark Goddard, Harold Goldblatt, Beauty Gonzalez, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Tweety González, Michael Gordon, Stubby Gordon, Lloyd Gough, Charles Gray, Timothy Gray, José Greci, Buddy Greco, Dabbs Greer, John Gregson, Carlotta Grisi, Anneke Grönloh, Gigi Gryce, Yvette Guilbert, Clu Gulager, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Mick Guzauski, Sara Haden, Chief Halftown, Pooch Hall, Ram Hall, Rick Hall, Tubby Hall, Chico Hamilton, Kipp Hamilton, G Hannelius, Oliver Hardy, Damon Harris, Jet Harris, Sib Hashian, Wings Hauser, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Allison Hayes, Topper Headon, Niykee Heaton, Tippi Hedren, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, Levon Helm, Skitch Henderson, Joe Herndon, Benny Hill, Bill Hinnant, Skip Hinnant, Junie Hoang, Boscoe Holder, Peanuts Holland, John Hollis, Jennifer Holt, Tim Holt, Skip Homeier, Nellee Hooper, Bob Hope, Roy Horn, Robert Horton, Jennifer Howard, Season Hubley, Peanuts Hucko, Gareth Hughes, Sean Hughes, Gareth Hunt, Carlo Imperato, Antonio Inoki, Agot Isidro, Chubby Jackson, Inigo Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Rebbie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Hattie Jacques, Skip James, Jack Jenney, Lyfe Jennings, Leee John, Money Johnson, Susan Johnson, Henry Jolles, Deacon Jones, Griffith Jones, Rhubarb Jones, Rusty Jones, Spike Jones, Lonnie Jordan, Richard Jordan, Tiny Kahn, Nick Kamen, Frankie Kao, Boney Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Casey Kasem, Buster Keaton, Howard Keel, Maynard James Keenan, Garrison Keillor, Brian Keith, Judy Kelly, R. Kelly, Sam Kelly, Kris Kelmi, Wael Kfoury, Rajesh Khanna, Twinkle Khanna, B.B. King, Jonathan King, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Johnny Kitagawa, Evel Knievel, Fuzzy Knight, Andre Kostelanetz, Kane Kosugi, Harley Jane Kozak, Papa Jack Laine, Lash LaRue, Prince Lasha, James Last, Yank Lawson, Kuh Ledesma, Bunny "Striker" Lee, China Lee, Jacknife Lee, Spike Lee, Lucky Lehrer, Tutte Lemkow, Kasi Lemmons, Bobo Lewis, Philip Locke, Preston Lockwood, Robert Loggia, Beba Lončar, Pixie Lott, Fabrice Luchini, Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor, China Machado, Mac MacLeod, Brandon Maggart, Raine Maida, Arthur Malet, Boots Mallory, Jose Manalo, Miles Mander, Camryn Manheim, Pigmeat Markham, Ziggy Marley, the Marx Brothers, Kedar Massenburg, Dakin Matthews, Christopher Mayer, Mac McAnally, Richard McCabe, Smilin' Ed McConnell, Dylan McDermott, Country Joe McDonald, Pake McEntire, Allan McKeown, Leo McKern, Stephen McNally, Matthew McNulty, Butterfly McQueen, Molly Meldrum, Carlos Mencia, Michèle Mercier, Bubber Miley, Jason Miller, Jody Miller, Moi-Yo Miller, Gyp Mills, Vincente Minnelli, Charlotte Mitchell, Julie Mitchum, Gunner Moir, Miff Mole, Robert Montgomery, Clayton Moore, Dennie Moore, Pee Wee Moore, Tim Moore, Dolores Moran, Buddy Moreno, Chino Moreno, John Moreno, Jaye P. Morgan, Barry Morse, Bubbi Morthens, Zero Mostel, Aga Muhlach, Moon Mullican, Jimmy Murakami, Turk Murphy, Sunny Murray, Max Mutchnick, Grim Natwick, Vhong Navarro, Taylor Negron, Mickey Newbury, Alec Newman, Juice Newton, Nichelle Nichols, Jack Nitzsche, Lobo Nocho, Noël-Noël, Keena Nomkeena, Rolla Norman, Kim Novak, Chubby Oates, Margaret O'Brien, Spec O'Donnell, Dead Ohlin, Michael O'Keefe, Chauncey Olcott, Sy Oliver, Ole Olsen, Moira Orfei, Kid Ory, Ozzy Osbourne, Bibi Osterwald, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Hot Lips Page (aka Lips Page), Alexander Pantages, Sunshine Parker, Michael Parks, Spede Pasanen, Michael Pate, Banjo Paterson, Pat Paterson, Hank Patterson, "Sunshine" Sonny Payne, Jesse Pearson, Tyler Perry, Siân Phillips, Robert Pine, Steve Plytas, Fernando Poe Jr., Lily Pons, Olaf Pooley, Henny Porten, George Pravda, Toni Price, Curly Putman, Buck Ram, Dack Rambo, Sue Randall, Lillian Randolph, Elliott Reid, Django Reinhardt, Debbie Reynolds, Jody Reynolds, Peter Mark Richman, Ron Rifkin, Snaffu Rigor, Elisabeth Risdon, Tex Ritter, Emmanuelle Riva, Renee Roberts, Robbie Robertson, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Kasey Rogers, Fay Roope, Draco Rosa, Pee Wee Russell, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Gian Sammarco, Tiny Sandford, Isabel Sanford, Samantha Sang, Aggro Santos, Tom Santschi, Arjun Sarja, Leo Sayer, Boz Scaggs, Lalo Schifrin, Curly Seckler, Rolfe Sedan, Noot Seear, Peter Sellers, Rimi Sen, Doc Severinsen, Sarah Shahi, Ann Sheridan, Dinah Shore, Jackie Shroff, M. Night Shyamalan, Bunny Sigler, Richard Simmons, Zoot Sims, Campbell Singer, Zutty Singleton, Mews Small, Elliott Smith, Piano Smith, Stuff Smith, Cobie Smulders, Henriette Sontag, Oyo Boy Sotto, Maelcum Soul, Muggsy Spanier, Randy Sparks, Dorothy Squires, Robert Stack, Johnny Stark, Bunny Sterling, Mark Stevens, B. W. Stevenson, Redd Stewart, Sigismund Stojowski, Mink Stole, Sydney Sturgess, Jazz Summers, Slim Summerville, Mack Swain, Birdy Sweeney, Olga Syahputra, Junpei Takiguchi, Baby Tate, Shaw Taylor, Jack Teagarden, Larri Thomas, Lydia Thompson, Big Mama Thornton, Richard Thorpe, Tedi Thurman, John Tillinger, Rip Torn, Rawy Torres, André de Toth, Norman Treigle, Pastor Troy, Butch Trucks, Corinna Tsopei, Barbara Turner, Lana Turner, Scott Turner (songwriter), Midge Ure, Iko Uwais, Mad Dog Vachon, Victor Varconi, Yoyoy Villame, Laurent Voulzy, Luigi Waites, Christopher Walken, Clint Walker, T-Bone Walker, Dylan Walsh, Raoul Walsh, Ray Walston, Lalla Ward, Butch Warren, Gedde Watanabe, Gary Watson, Mills Watson, Fee Waybill, Doodles Weaver, Pat Weaver, Sigourney Weaver, Chick Webb, Tuesday Weld, Paul Weller, Alice White, Eg White, Slappy White, Billy Wilder, Grant Williams, Loudmouth Williams, Dooley Wilson, Richard Wilson, Trey Wingo, Chubby Wise, Mac Wiseman, Finn Wittrock, Woolly Wolstenholme, Bomb Woodard, Woody Woodbury, Ilene Woods, Hank Worden, Vivian Wu, Joe Yamanaka, Yang Jinhua, Bimby Aquino Yap, Bud Yorkin, Ace Young, Alan Young, Jeremy Young, Loretta Young, Peggy Zina and Voula Zouboulaki.
* People with more than one family name, provided at least one is represented in the professional name: for example, Felix Aylmer, Angela Baddeley, Hermione Baddeley, Jeff Banks, Jeremy Beadle, India de Beaufort, Pati Behrs, Jacqueline Bisset, Hugh Bonneville, Johannes Brost, Joseph Calleia, John Carson (actor), Jeanne de Casalis, Jonathan Cecil, Daveigh Chase, Colin Clive, Fay Compton, Viola Compton, Jimmy Crawford (British singer), James Cruze, Oscar D'León, Alexx Ekubo, Peter Finch, Bruce Forsyth, Fil Fraser, Christopher Guest, Alec Guinness, Binnie Hale, Sonnie Hale, Paul Henreid, Trevor Howard, Željko Ivanek, Jimmy Jewel, Stratford Johns, Cavan Kendall, Kay Kendall, Deborah Kerr, Boris Kodjoe, David Langton, Emily Lloyd, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Sharvell-Martin, Henry McGee, Bob Merrill, Jewel Mische, Anna Mjöll, Priscilla Morgan, Alan Napier, Sue Nicholls, Florencio Parravicini, Frankie Poullain, Dennis Price, Anna Russell, Mark Rylance, Thomas Sangster, Tonio Selwart, Roland Shaw, Tony Sheridan, Elisabeth Sladen, Geraldine Somerville, Richard Todd, Edward Tudor-Pole, Bill Travers, Linden Travers, Bailey Tzuke, Betsy von Furstenberg, Martin Wallström, H. B. Warner, Boris Williams, Katherine Woodville, and Robert Wyatt.
* People who change their names for religious reasons (see List of converts to Islam)
* People who change their name(s) due to change in sexual gender, identity, or due to dysphoria or other recognized gender-related issue, or for drag performers, such as Courtney Act, Penny Arcade, Alexis Arquette, April Ashley, Evita Bezuidenhout, Chaz Bono, Pandora Boxx, Cidny Bullens, Lady Bunny, Wendy Carlos, Peaches Christ, Roberta Close, Caroline Cossey, Jayne County, Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling, Sahara Davenport, Tomata du Plenty, Lili Elbe, Dame Edna Everage, Tannie Evita, Flawless Sabrina, Gila Goldstein, Laura Jane Grace, Harisu, Lauren Harries, Heklina, Alina María Hernández, Mimi Imfurst, Dana International, Jazzmun, Caitlyn Jenner, Holly Johnson, Danny LaRue, La Veneno, Miss Shangay Lily, Manila Luzon, Marilyn, Brini Maxwell, Morgan McMichaels, Ginger Minj, Jinkx Monsoon, Silvetty Montilla, Our Lady J, Rosa von Praunheim, Raven, Lily Savage, Verka Serduchka, Shangela, The Lady Chablis, Billy Tipton, Nong Toom, Florencia Trinidad (also known as Florencia de la V or Flor de la V), Del Lagrace Volcano, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Jessica Wild, and Holly Woodlawn.
* People who adopt a pseudo-nobiliary particle, prefix, suffix, hyphenation or other diacritic/symbol, including Willie Cauley-Stein, Robert James-Collier, John D'Aquino, Paquito D'Rivera, Anton du Beke, John Du Cann, Tom Goodman-Hill, Wilfrid Hyde-White, John Martin-Harvey, Crash McLarson, Alice O'Fredericks, Sean O'Haire, Dawn O'Porter, Terry O'Quinn, Annette O'Toole, Denise van Outen, Ruth St. Denis, Rik Van Nutter, Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles, Josef von Sternberg, Erich von Stroheim, and Lars von Trier, as well as, according to some sources, Max von Sydow.In some cases this is reversed; i.e. a surname is simplified by the removal of a genuine particle (or particles), hyphenation or other diacritic/symbol, such as in the cases of Dirk Bogarde, Tabby Callaghan, Lyn Christie, Scott Forbes, Gregory Gaye, Martyn Green, Jean Hagen, Jock Mahoney, Frank Tashlin, and Peter Ustinov.
* People who changed the spelling of a surname to either ensure proper pronunciation, resulting in a name which is basically the same phonetically as the original surname, or, in some cases, possibly required due to name conflicts in re Actors Equity or other acting unions: Hardie Albright, Lauren Ambrose, Don Ameche, Jim Ameche, Eddi Arent, Jay J. Armes, James Arness, Renée Asherson, Claudine Auger, Bessie Barriscale, Alain Bashung, Lina Basquette, Pierre Batcheff, Dave Batista, Warren Beatty, Bonnie Beecher, Lou Bega, Harry Belafonte, Antonín Bennewitz, Michael Bentine, Polly Bergen, Barbara Berjer, Sarah Bernhardt, Mel Blanc, Claire Bloom, James Blunt, Larry Blyden, Beulah Bondi, Jon Bon Jovi, John Brandon, Eileen Brennan, Teresa Brewer, Pierre Brice, Coral Browne, Aristide Bruant, Yul Brynner, Dorsey Burnette, Mike Burstyn, Pat Buttram, Kuda Bux, John Byner, Sammy Cahn, Emma Calvé, Bill Chase, Tsilla Chelton, Tom Clay, Lee J. Cobb, Betty Cody, Toni Collette, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, Michael Curtiz, Cass Daley, Henry Daniell, Smoky Dawson, Desmond Dekker, Tulio Demicheli, Jason Derulo, Tamara De Treaux, Pete Duel, Jane Dulo, Mary Duncan, Irene Dunne, Robbie Dupree, Janine Duvitski, Jeanne Eagels, Richard Eastham, Bob Eberly, Billy Eckstine, George Edwardes, Britt Ekland, Richard Erdman, Roza Eskenazi, Kim E-Z, Nanette Fabray, Edwige Fenech, Sherilyn Fenn, Aaron Fink, David Flair, Reid Flair, Ric Flair, Nina Foch, June Foray, Victor Francen, Jane Frazee, Stan Freberg, Aleta Freel, Pat Friday, Serge Gainsbourg, Mo Gallini, Marvin Gaye, Janet Gaynor, Nicolai Gedda, Jason Gedrick, Will Geer, Robert Gerringer, Rodleen Getsic, Don Grady, Alexander Granach, Al Green, Lorne Greene, Margaret Gwenver, Daryl Hall, May Hallatt, Phil Hartman, Charles Hawtrey, Richard Haydn, Helen Haye, Jerome Hines, Frankie Howerd, Walter Huston, Jack Hylton, Rhys Ifans, Emil Jannings, Adele Jergens, Tor Johnson, Al Jolson, Milla Jovovich, Vic Juris, Bertha Kalich, Sharon Kane, Richard Kline, Patric Knowles, Alexis Korner, Jerzy Kossela, Nancy Kovack, Kidd Kraddick, Jane Krakowski, Belinda Lang, Laura La Plante, Violet La Plante, Rita La Roy, Eva La Rue, Jon Laurimore, Dee C. Lee, Jon Lormer, Eddy Louiss, Celia Lovsky, William Lucas, Laurette Luez, Paul Lukas, Ned Luke, Harriet MacGibbon, Dolores Mantez, Johnny Marr, Derek Martinus, Léonide Massine, Tim Matheson, Walter Matthau, Sharon Maughan, Holt McCallany, Geraldine McEwan, Siobhán McKenna, Ross McManus, Louis B. Mayer, Sue Mengers, Tim Mensy, Daniela Mercury, Mezz Mezzrow, Pras Michel, Marjie Millar, Borrah Minevitch, Cameron Mitchell, Helena Modjeska, Tony Monopoly, Greg Mullavey, Shoista Mullojonova, Patrice Munsel, Aïché Nana, Oscar Natzka, Peter Nero, Julie Newmar, Keena Nomkeena, Ric Ocasek, Lani O'Grady, Warner Oland, April Olrich, Ed O'Ross, Seena Owen, Patricia Paay, Ron Palillo, Joy Page, Albert Paulsen, Doris Pawn, Joe Penner, Iván Petrovich, Suzie Plakson, Gene Pollar, Nyree Dawn Porter, Olga Preobrajenska, André Previn, Jonathan Pryce, John Qualen, Mae Questel, Lynne Randell, Aldo Ray, Ray Rayner, Ginette Reno, Rita Reys, Harry Richman, May Robson, Richard Romanus, Don Rondo, Alma Rubens, Rick Rude, Frances Ruffelle, Sig Ruman, John Russell, Sahlene, Aaron Schroeder, Johnny Sea, Victor Seastrom, Curly Seckler, Élie Semoun, Mack Sennett, Marion Shilling, Lee Shubert, Horace Silver, George Skibine, Andrew Stevens, Kaye Stevens, Amy Stock, Mink Stole, Lee Strasberg, Gloria Stuart, Wes Studi, Patrick Stump, Frank Tashlin, Leonard Teale, Milka Ternina, Maggie Teyte, Bernie Tormé, Alessandra Torresani, Lenore Ulric, Rudy Vallee, Pierre Vaneck, Edward Van Sloan, Victor Varconi, Jimmy Wakely, Eddy Wally, Koko B. Ware, John Witherspoon, Butch Warren, Ted Weems, Snowy White, Slim Whitman, Mykelti Williamson, Anneke Wills, Walter Winchell, Herbert Wise, Donald Wolfit, Víctor Yturbe, Joe Yule, and Blanche Yurka.
* People who changed only a middle or second name, or who switched their first and middle names, such as Garry Gary Beers, Norman Bel Geddes, Halle Berry, Johnny Yong Bosch, John David Carson, David Clayton-Thomas, Michael J. Fox, Simon Gipps-Kent, Paul Michael Glaser, Anthony Michael Hall, Barry Shabaka Henley, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Sean Leonard, Meade Lux Lewis, Anna Maxwell Martin, Wayne Pocket Rocket McCullough, Steven R. McQueen, Denny Scott Miller, Julia Pace Mitchell, Junior Murvin, Rik Van Nutter, Paul Ryan Rudd, Michael Sharvell-Martin, J. Scott Smart, and Phil Spector.
* Other/Unknown Reason(s): Vondie Curtis-Hall, Betty Huntley-Wright, Scout Taylor-Compton The following are listed here for the following reasons:
* Tupac Shakur is listed here, but under the stage name 2Pac. He was born either Lesane Parish Crooks or Parish Lesane Crooks, depending on the source, but his name was changed in early childhood to Tupac Amaru Shakur.
* Elton John is listed here because he used the name professionally before he legally adopted it in 1972.

Ronne Hartfield (born Ronola Rone in 1936) is an author, essayist, international museum consultant, and former senior executive at The Art Institute of Chicago and Executive Director of Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education. She has been a co-chair of the Harvard University Arts Education Council and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions, and at Claremont Graduate University School of Religion. In 2004, Ms. Hartfield published Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family to critical acclaim. Ronne Hartfield has served on the board of directors at the American Writers Museum, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Taliesin, Scottsdale, AZ, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Institute for the Advanced

Antonio Tabucchi (Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo taˈbukki]; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet.

The left-brain interpreter is a neuropsychological concept developed by the psychologist Michael S. Gazzaniga and the neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux. It refers to the construction of explanations by the left brain hemisphere in order to make sense of the world by reconciling new information with what was known before. The left-brain interpreter attempts to rationalize, reason and generalize new information it receives in order to relate the past to the present. Left-brain interpretation is a case of the lateralization of brain function that applies to "explanation generation" rather than other lateralized activities. Although the concept of the left-brain interpreter was initially based on experiments on patients with split-brains, it has since been shown to apply to the everyday behavior of people at large.

Life with Elizabeth is an American sitcom starring Betty White as Elizabeth and Del Moore as her husband Alvin; Jack Narz is the on-camera announcer and narrator. The series aired in syndication from October 7, 1953 to September 1, 1955. The show was the first of numerous sitcoms for Betty White across the decades and was based on sketches involving the Elizabeth character that she had performed on her earlier talk show Hollywood on Television. The low-budget comedy was produced by and filmed at a local Los Angeles TV station where White and Moore were on the staff (the series was originally a live production on KLAC-TV in 1951). Betty White received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her work on this series.

The Penniless Porch in Wells, Somerset, England, is an entrance gateway into a walled precinct, the Liberty of St Andrew, which encloses the twelfth century Cathedral, the Bishop's Palace, Vicar's Close and the residences of the clergy who serve the cathedral. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The Penniless Porch was built around 1450, by Bishop Thomas Beckington (also spelt Beckyngton) and bears his rebus or badge on the cathedral side. It forms one of a pair with The Bishop's Eye which formed the gateway into the Bishop's palace from the market place. It is a three-storey building of Doulting ashlar stone. The roof is behind a battlemented parapet. It is connected to the adjacent buildings and the rooms above the archway are used by the company occupying No 16 Market Place. The first floor room has panelling from the 17th century. The Penniless Porch was painted by Joseph Mallord William Turner in 1795. It was named for the beggars who plied their trade there, however in 2016 a man was prosecuted for begging nearby.

Carmen Suite is a one-act ballet created in 1967 by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso to music by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin for his wife, prima ballerina assoluta Maya Plisetskaya. The premiere took place on 20 April 1967 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. The music, taken from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet and arranged for strings and percussion, is not a 19th-century pastiche but rather "a creative meeting of the minds," as Shchedrin put it, with Bizet's melodies reclothed in a variety of fresh instrumental colors (including the frequent use of percussion), set to new rhythms and often phrased with a great deal of sly wit. Initially banned by the Soviet hierarchy as "disrespectful" to the opera for precisely these qualities, the ballet has since become Shchedrin's best-known wo