Archive for July, 2007



Pocahontas (film)

There are a number of movies with the title Pocahontas:

Pocahontas and John Smith - a 1924 film directed by Bryan Foy

Captain John Smith and Pocahontas - a 1953 American production directed by Lew Landers

Pocahontas - a 1995 animated feature from Walt Disney Pictures

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World - the […]

Chub bread

Chub bread or a chub loaf, as baked in Otago in the 1950s and 1960s, consisted of small loaves of brown bread which featured a liberal admixture of whole wheat grains, especially found embedded in the crust.

References

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This House

“This House” is the second single from Tracie Spencer’s second album, Make the Difference. The single was released on November 7th, 1990. It was written by Matt Sherrod, Paul Sherrod and Sir Spence. Its theme touches upon the issue of poverty and giving to one another. After this single was released, the third single from […]

Minor suit

In contract bridge the minor suits are diamonds () and clubs (). They are given that name because contracts made in those suits score less (20 points per contracted trick) than contracts made in the major suits (30 points), and they rank lower in bidding. In particular, one can make game with a bid of […]

Kenny Greene

Kenny Greene (January 17, 1969 - October 1, 2001) was a singer from the R&B group Intro.

Greene helped form the backbone of the early 1990s group, Intro. He wrote and produced most, if not all, of the group’s tracks and was lead vocalist. He helped write many songs for other artists, such as […]

Breakdown

Breakdown may refer to:

Electrical breakdown

Breakdown (Transformers)

Chemical breakdown

Decomposition

Mental breakdown

Societal breakdown

Psychological breakdown

Breakdown, a statement explaining the details of something such as a bill or cost of a plan.

A script breakdown for a play, film, or comic book.

Breakdown (comics), published by Devil’s Due Productions as part of their Aftermath line.

Breakdown (film), starring Kurt Russell.

Breakdown (Episode), an episode of […]

List of diamond mines

“Diamond mine” redirects here. For the game from PopCap Games also known as Diamond Mine, see Bejeweled.

There are a limited number of commercially viable diamond mines currently operating in the world. Diamonds are also mined alluvially over disperse areas, where diamonds have been eroded out of the ground and deposited by water or weather […]

Wes Wilson

Robert Wesley Wilson (b. July 15, 1937) is an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters. Most well known for designing posters for Bill Graham of the The Fillmore in San Francisco, he invented a style that is now synonymous with the peace movement, psychedelic era and the 1960s.

External links

Official Website

References

Artists […]

Open-ended (poker)

Open-ended refers to a situation in poker where the player has four of five cards needed for a straight that can be completed at either end. For example, a player with 3♥ 4♥ 5♣ 6♠ is open-ended, because a deuce or a seven would give the player a straight. This situation is also called an […]

Aber Diamond

Aber Diamond Corporation (; ) is a Toronto, Canada specialist diamond mining and retail company.

The company holds a 40% stake in the Diavik Diamonds Project. Production at the Diavik Diamond Mine, Canada’s second diamond mine, is operated by Aber’s joint venture partner, Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group. The mine began […]

Bad Segeberg

Bad Segeberg is a German town of 16,000 inhabitants, located in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, capital of the district (Kreis) Segeberg. It is situated approx. 50 km northeast of Hamburg, and 25 km west of Lübeck.

It is famous for its annual Karl-May-Festival. The large ampatheater in the city was originally built by the Nazis.

There is […]

Live at Budokan is a live album by the hard rock band Mr. Big. It was released in 1997.

Track listing

“Intro/Piano”

“Trapped in Toyland”

“Take Cover”

“Green-Tinted Sixties Mind”

“Jane Doe”

“Medley/bass intro/Had Enough/Big Love/Take a Walk/Merciless”

“Out of the Underground”

“Alive and Kickin’”

“Whole World’s Gonna Know”

“Road to Ruin”

“What’s It Gonna Be”

“Fool Us Today”

“Addicted to That Rush”

“Suffragette City”

“Livin’ Like a Dog”

“Ain’t Seen Love […]

John Turner (footballer)

John Turner (born February 12 1986 in Harrow, London) is an English footballer, who currently plays for King’s Lynn. He is 178cm (5′10″) tall and plays as a forward.

He joined Cambridge United’s youth scheme in the summer of 2002, after leaving Aston Villa’s youth academy..

He made his debut on 2003-04-12 in League Two against Exeter […]

Esoteric Emotions - The Death of Ignorance is an unreleased demo tape by the British doom metal band Esoteric. It was remastered in 2000 as an unofficial release on CDR.

Contents

1 Track listing

1.1 Side A
1.2 Side B

2 Credits

Track listing

Side A

“Esoteric” – 9:06

“In Solitude” – 7:10

“Enslavers of the Insecure” – 8:44

“Scarred” – 12:13

Side […]

Friend zone

The friend zone is a folk psychology concept found in many texts geared towards a male audience about “dating advice”, or “seduction advice”. In that case, that man would be mentally categorized as a “friend” rather than a lover, i.e. put into the friend zone.

Effects
A woman does not easily change her mind and become sexually […]

Funky Diamonds

Funky Diamonds is the self-titled debut of german girl group Funky Diamonds.

The Beginning (Intro) 1:14

I Know That You Want Me 3:16

Funky Diamond Groove 3:20

It’s My Game 3:59

Get It On 3:33

Emotions (Intro) 1:01

A Friend 4:06

Summer Vibes 4:11

Break Down The Rules 3:54

Gotcha! (Intro) 1:28

Bad Girls 3:50

Too Late To Say I’m Sorry 4:30

Take My Love 3:33

Home […]

Baron Taylor

Baron Taylor could refer to:

Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor, (1789-1860), a royal commissioner of the Théâtre-Français

Harry Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield, (1895-1991)

Francis Taylor, Baron Taylor of Hadfield, (1905-1995) (founder of the housebuilder Taylor Woodrow)

Stephen James Lake Taylor, Baron Taylor, (1910-1988), the sixth Life Peer to be created (1958)

Thomas Johnston Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe, […]

Chris Mitchell

Chris Mitchell is an Australian journalist and is editor-in-chief of The Australian. He began his career on the former afternoon tabloid, The Telegraph, in 1973 and after working on The Townsville Bulletin, the Daily Telegraph (Australia) and the Australian Financial Review, became editor of The Australian in 2003. The Australian is owned by News Corporation.

In […]

Earth Defense Force

Earth Defense Force may refer to:

The Mysterians (地球防衛軍, Earth Defense Force), a Japanese science fiction film.

The Chikyuu Boueigun (Earth Defense Force) series of video games by Sandlot, which include:

The Chikyuu Boueigun (2003), released as Monster Attack in Europe.

Chikyuu Boueigun 2 (2005), released as Global Defense Force in Europe.

Chikyuu Boueigun 3 (2006), released as Earth Defense […]

National College of Fine Arts (NCA) is now a university of arts. It was primarily a school opened in Lahore by the British rulers before the independence in 1947.

External link

NCA Homepage

References

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“Hide and Seek” is the first single from Tracie Spencer’s self-titled debut album. The single was released in January 1988. It was written by Lynn Davis. Although Tracie was only 11 years old when this single and debut album was released, critics and fans alike could see that her voice lurked some potential soulfulness. The […]

The Great Chrysanthemum Diamond is a diamond measuring 104.15 carats (20.830 g) with a Pear-Shaped Modified Brilliant Cut, rated in colour as Fancy Orange-Brown and I1 clarity by the Gemological Institute of America. The diamond’s origins are in South Africa, where it was bought by the jeweler Julius Cohen as a 198.28 carat (39.656 g) […]

Calista is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Town of Kwinana. Its postcode is 6167.

References

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Mark Megary

Mark Megary is a bassist who briefly played for the band Girl before being replaced by Simon Laffy. He played on the single version of the song “My Number”.

References

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Imagem

Imagem is a data and technology company which manufactures diamond grading equipment which aims to aid in automating laboratory grading of gem quality diamonds. Up to now, the grading of diamonds has been always performed by trained gemologists.

An ImaGem owned and operated demonstration lab is in business in Surat, India.
Commercial installation have been […]

King’s Way

King’s Way is a 45 mile long-distance footpath in Hampshire, England from Winchester Cathedral to Portchester Castle.

This footpath was created by Allan King of the Hampshire Area Rambler’s Association.

The footpath is waymarked by metal and plastic disks found attached to wooden and metal posts, trees and street furniture. These are a red arrow and words […]

Morton’s fork coup

A Morton’s Fork Coup is a coup in contract bridge involving the forcing of an opponent to choose between establishing one or more extra tricks in the suit led and losing the opportunity to win a trick in the suit led. It takes its name from the expression Morton’s Fork.

Example
South receives the lead of the […]

Shreck

Shreck is a 1990 horror film directed by Carl Denham and written by Don Adams and Harry James Picardi. It should not be confused with the 2001 animated film Shrek.

References

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Crown of Queen Adelaide

The Crown of Queen Adelaide was the consort crown of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife and Queen consort of King William IV of the United Kingdom. It was used at the coronation of William and Adelaide in 1831. It was emptied of its jewels soon afterwards, was not worn again by Queen Adelaide, and has never […]

Millennium Star

The Millennium Star is a famous diamond owned by De Beers. At 203.04 carats (40.608 g), the world’s second largest known top-color (D), internally and externally flawless, pear-shaped diamond.

The diamond was discovered in the Mbuji-Mayi district of Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1990 in alluvial deposits; uncut, it was 777 carats (155.4 g). It was purchased […]

Bad Breisig

Bad Breisig is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the Rhine, approx. 15 km south-east of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler.

Bad Breisig is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde (”collective municipality”) Bad Breisig.
References

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Wrather Arch

Wrather Arch is the name of a natural arch in north Arizona. It is located in the eponymous Wrather Canyon, a small tributary of the Paria Canyon, which is itself an important tributary of the Colorado River. With a span of 75 meters (246 feet), Wrather Arch is the longest natural arch outside […]

Gemesis

The Gemesis Corporation is a privately-held company founded by Carter Clarke in Sarasota, Florida, United States. The corporation creates cultured diamonds using proprietary Soviet technology.

During the Cold War, Soviet scientists developed the diamond synthesis technology because diamond is the best substrate for strategic semi-conductor electronics that are less susceptible to the electromagnetic pulse of nuclear […]

Forbes on Fox

Forbes on Fox is an American business analysis program, the third show of the Cost of Freedom business block, on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. ET on the Fox News Channel. The show is hosted by David Asman.

Forbes on Fox is the only one of the Cost of Freedom shows that does not feature any of […]

Donkey’s Tail

for the plant named Donkey’s tail see Sedum morganianum

Donkey’s Tail () was a Russian artistic group created from the most radical members of the Jack of Diamonds group. The group included such painters as: Mikhail Larionov (inventor of the name), Natalia Gontcharova, Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, and Alexander Shevchenko. The group was influenced by the […]

Castor Cracking Group

Castor Cracking Group (CCG) was a demo group from Sweden, and were active on the ZX Spectrum during 1986-88. They were one of the first groups for the ZX Spectrum with their release of Castor Intro early in 1986.<ref name=”CastorIntro10″>CCG, Castor Intro 10, 1988</ref>

Originially they named themselves after Castor in the constellation Gemini, but […]

Mei (dinosaur)

Mei (from Chinese 寐 mèi soundly sleeping) is a genus of duck-sized troodontid dinosaur first unearthed by paleontologists in Liaoning, China in 2004. Mei lived during the Early Cretaceous Period. Its binomial name, Mei long (Chinese 寐 mèi and 龙 lóng) means dragon, soundly sleeping.

Some of the fossils unearthed from the site, preserved in three-dimensional […]

Skip jive

A British dance, descended from the jive and ultimately from the Lindy Hop. Danced to trad jazz music, was popular in England in the 1950s and 1960s and is still danced to a limited extent today.

See also

http://www.howtojive.com/intro-skip-jive.htm

References

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Chuck Fipke

Charles E. (Chuck) Fipke is a former prospector who discovered the existence of diamonds around Lac de Gras in Canada’s Northwest Territories. He is now a multimillionaire diamond magnate, described as “near-sighted, goateed, short and tough as an oak stump, his speech jolted by a stutter and a hair-trigger laugh”<ref>Krajick, K.: “Barren Lands: An Epic […]

1989 Summer Universiade

The 1989 Summer Universiade, also known as the XV Summer Universiade, took place in Duisburg, West Germany.

Sports at the 1989 Summer Universiade

Athletics

Basketball

Fencing

Rowing

References

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“Diamonds from Sierra Leone”, often referred to as “Diamonds Are Forever,” was the first single from Kanye West’s second album, Late Registration. Released in 2005, the single heavily samples Shirley Bassey’s theme song for the 1971 James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever although she is not credited. Dame Shirley Bassey was reported to be furious […]

Thanks for Nothing

Thanks For Nothing (1996) is the debut aggrotech/electro-industrial album by Funker Vogt.

Track listing

“A New Beginning”

“Black Hole”

“Thanks For Nothing”

“Animals”

“Alone”

“Remember Childhood”

“This Circle”

“Suspended Animation”

“Funker Vogt”

“The Land Of Milk And Honey”

“Thanks for nothing (Body Rapture Mix)”

“A New Beginning (In Between Mix)”

Notes

Tracks 11 and 12 appear on the Reprorecords rerelease (2001).

Debut albums

References

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Jack Butler

Jack Butler can refer to:

Jack Butler, last native speaker of the Australian Aboriginal language Jiwarli.

Jack Butler, American author.

Jack Butler, English football player and manager.

Jack Butler, American football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Jack Butler, an upcoming band from Scotland.

References

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Intro sequence

An intro sequence is a non-interactive introductory sequence for a computer or video game. They were very often prerendered, hand drawn, or otherwise outside the main game engine. In recent years, sophisticated game engines have been able to render graphics of comparable quality to raytraced sequences, and so modern intro sequences often take place within […]

The International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS) describes procedures for creating reference frames suitable for use with measurements on or near the Earth’s surface. This is done in much the same way that a physical standard might be described as a set of procedures for creating a realization of that standard. The IERS defines a geocentric […]

Ragan Fox

Ragan Cooper Fox is a performance poet who lives in the United States. He received a B.S. and an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. (2006) from Arizona State University. Fox is the author of a book of poetry titled Heterophobia.

References

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Jack Jackson

Jack Jackson is a name shared by a number of individuals:

Jack Jackson (1906-1978), British bandleader and radio disc jockey

Jack Jackson (1941-2006), known as Jaxon, US cartoonist

Union Jack Jackson, British comics character

References

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Irthlingborough Diamonds were a football club from Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, England, founded in 1946. In 1992, they merged with Rushden Town to create Rushden and Diamonds.

The Diamonds played their home games at the old Nene Park, which sits on the site of the current stadium.

References

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Jack Carter

Jack Carter may refer to:

Jack Carter (politician) (born 1947), the eldest son of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter

Jack Carter (comedian) (born 1923), an American standup comedian

Jack Carter (footballer) (born 1989), a member of the Swansea City A.F.C., a British football club

Jack Carter (Eureka character), a character on the science fiction drama Eureka

the fictional protagonist in […]

Enter the Realm

Enter the Realm is a independently-released EP cassette by Iced Earth. It was released in 1989 and re-released in 2001 as part of the Dark Genesis box set. It’s the only Iced Earth release featuring drummer Greg Seymour.

Track listing

“Enter the Realm” [instrumental] (Jon Schaffer) – 0:54

“Colors” (Tom Shaffer/Randall Sawver) – 5:04

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