Archive for February, 2008



Mix Master Ice

Mix Master Ice was a DJ in the hip-hop group UTFO, most famous for their song Roxanne, Roxanne.

Mix Master Ice was also known as “The Ninja” during his onstage appearances [1].

External links

Mix Master Ice’s official Web Site

References

Music from the OC: Mix 3

Music from the OC: Mix 3 - Have a Very Merry Chrismukkah is music from the TV series, The OC. It was released October 26, 2004 on Warner Bros./Wea Records, the same day as Music from the OC: Mix 2.

Track listing

“The Christmas Song” - The Raveonettes

“Last Christmas” - Jimmy Eat World

“Just Like […]

Vokhna

Vokhna () was a village in Bogorodsky uyezd of Moscow Governorate (guberniya) in Russia. It was also known as Pavlovo, and later became a part of the town of Pavlovsky Posad.

Area around Vokhna was one of the closest to Moscow with a large percentage of Old Believers in the population. There are currently […]

Summer Girls

“Summer Girls” is a song by the pop group LFO.

The song’s writer, Rich Cronin, said that the song included numerous inside jokes, and that he never anticipated its success. He claims this is due to the fact that the song was made strictly for a demo tape, but was leaked to a radio station. Many […]

Birchanger Green services

Birchanger Green services is a motorway service station on the M11 motorway at Birchanger near Stansted. It is owned by Welcome Break.

In 2006, Birchanger Green had the lowest overall rating of all UK motorway service areas on the independent Motorway Services Info website.

External links

Birchanger Green at Motorway Services Info

Motorway Services Online - Birchanger […]

Yauza River

Yauza () is a river in Moscow, Russia, a left tributary of the Moskva River and its largest tributary within Moscow city limits. It originates in the Losiny Ostrov National Park north-east of Moscow, and joins the Moskva River in the very centre of the city at Kotelnicheskaya Embankment. Maly Ustinsky Bridge spans over the […]

William C. Kirby

William C. Kirby is Geisinger professor of history and a scholar of Chinese history and culture at Harvard University and is the former Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. After a controversial four-year tenure in which he clashed both with the Harvard faculty and its President, Lawrence Summers, he announced on […]

Tiffany mount

A Tiffany mount or Tiffany setting is a set of prongs (called a claw, crown, or coronet) that hold a gemstone and attach it to a plain band ring. It is the most common setting for a diamond solitaire engagement ring. It is named after Tiffany & Co., which popularized it.

It is inexpensive and […]

Hans Christian Henriksen

Hans Christian Henriksen (1909–1983). Managing director of the Norwegian America Line from 1948 till 1973. Son of Gustav Severin Henriksen.

References

African American History and Women - Timeline 1900-1909 Women and African American History: 1900-1909. 1900.

Los Lonely Boys was released in 1997. The first track, “Diamonds”, has been updated and is the first single released from LLB’s 2006 album “Sacred”.

Track listing

“Diamonds” – 3:15

“All Tied Up” – 2:00

“My Little Angel” – 3:56

“I Don’t Know (How To Say I. L. Y.)” – 2:32

“Crazy Baby” – 2:45

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End of Fashion (album)

End of Fashion is Australian band End of Fashion’s debut album. It was released in Australia on August 152005, reached #3 in the Australian ARIA Album Charts and was certified gold. It features the single O Yeah, which reached #21 on the Australian ARIA Singles Charts.

It also features re-recorded versions of previously […]

Journey To The Center Of Your Wallet is the second full-length album written and performed by the Humpers.

Track listing

“This Measly Dimension”

“Freak Magnet”

“You Give Good Headache”

“Watching You, (I’m)”

“Space Station Love”

“Bombs Away”

“Dope On A Rope”

“Dead Last”

“Blow”

“Do The […]

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 […]

Old Friends from Young Years

old friends from young years is the first studio album by Papa Roach, self-produced and released in 1997.

Track listing

“intro” – 0:28

“Orange Drive Palms” – 4:53

“Liquid Diet” – 4:19

“GrrBrr” – 4:14

“iSEDuFuknDie” – 4:16

“DIRTYcutFREAK” – 2:45

“Living Room” – 4:14

“829″ – 4:35

“PEEWAGON” – 4:43

“hedake” – 5:20

“Shut Up […]

Code Red (Sodom album)

Code Red is the 1999 album by thrash metal band Sodom. On this album, Sodom returned to thrash metal which pleased many fans. It was also released as a two-disc limited edition with a Sodom tribute album called Homage to the Gods.

Track listing

“Intro” - 0:48

“Code Red” - 3:55

“What Hell Can Create” - 3:32

“Tombstone” - 3:55

“Liquidation” […]

1960s in games

see also 1950s in games, 1970 in games

This page lists board games, card games, and wargames, published in the 1960s.

Games released or invented in the 1960s

The Game of Life (1960)

Management (1960)

Battle Cry (1961)

Chancellorsville (1961)

Civil War (1961)

Acquire (1962)

Squatter (1962)

Mouse Trap (1963)

Afrika Korps (1964)

Focus

Blitzkrieg (1965)

Guadalcanal (1966)

Hey Pa! There’s a Goat on the Roof (1966)

Feudal (1967)

Jutland (1967)

1914 (1968)

Rivers, […]

David Copperfield

David Copperfield may refer to:

David Copperfield (novel), a novel by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield (character), the title character of the Charles Dickens novel

David Copperfield (illusionist), American illusionist and stage magician

David Copperfield (comedian), British comedian and musician who appeared in Three of a Kind

In film:

David Copperfield (1911 film), a 1911 film directed by Theodore Marston

David Copperfield (1922 […]

Moscow, East Ayrshire

Moscow is a hamlet in East Ayrshire in Scotland.

It is on the A719 road some four miles east of Kilmarnock. The name is thought to be a corruption of ‘Moss-hall’ or ‘Moss-haw’ but its spelling was formalised in 1812 to mark Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. A nearby watercourse is the Volga Burn.

As of 2006 its […]

Moscow House of Photography

Moscow House of Photography is a Russian museum, which maintains a large collection of old and contemporary Russian photographic masterpieces and also organizes festivals and large scale projects.
The museum collection compiles masterpieces of the Russian photo art, including works by Alexander Grinberg, Max Penson, Alexander Rodchenko and Dmitri Baltermants. The Moscow House of Photography also […]

Eucrite

Eucrites are achondritic stony meteorites that originate from the surface of the asteroid 4 Vesta, and as such are part of the HED meteorite group. They are the most common achondrite group with well over 100 distinct finds at present.

Eucrites consist of basaltic rock from the crust of 4 Vesta. They are mostly composed of […]

Nicholas Railway Station

Nicholas Railway Station was the pre-revolutionary name of the termini of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway:

Moscow Rail Terminal in Saint Petersburg and

Leningrad Rail Terminal in Moscow.

References

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Thompson and Morgan

Thompson & Morgan is a United Kingdom-based plant and seed grower and retailer, founded in 1855 by William Thompson and John Morgan to grow rare and unusual plants. In 1939, T&M became a limited company and in 1973 their distribution centre in Poplar Lane, Ipswich, from which the company currently operates, was expanded. In May […]

Herkimer diamond

Herkimer diamond is the misnomerous name for double-terminated quartz first discovered in exposed outcrops of dolostone at Little Falls in Herkimer County, New York and the Mohawk River Valley. They became largely recognized after workmen discovered them in large quantities while cutting into the Mohawk River Valley dolostone in the late 1700s. Geologists discovered exposed […]

Pyotr Konchalovsky

Pyotr Konchalovsky (Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, ) (February 21 1876 - February 2, 1956), was a Russian painter, a member of Jack of Diamonds group.

Biography
Pyotr Konchalovsky was born in the village of Slavianka, Kharkov gubernia (currently Ukraine) on February 21 1876. His father was an art publisher. In 1889, the Konchalovskies moved to Moscow and their […]

The Parks-McClellan filter design algorithm is a digital signal processing algorithm developed by James H. McClellan (now at Georgia Tech) and Thomas W. Parks (now at Cornell University) while they were in graduate school at Rice University. The two wrote a FORTRAN program to implement the Remez algorithm. Thus, this type of filter design is […]

Republic (album)

Republic was New Order’s first album after the demise of Factory Records, and their last for eight years.

The album follows on the standard New Order principles of not having anything other than the credits and art inside the CD sleeve, and of having a Peter Saville designed cover. The sleeve itself is a reference to […]

Diamond Education College

Diamond Education College based in Johannesburg, South Africa, provides various training courses enabling students to evaluate and grade rough diamonds, mark rough diamonds for polishing, and evaluate and grade polished diamonds.

External
links

THE OFFICIAL ROUGH DIAMOND EDUCATION AUTHORITY / CORLIA ROBERTS

External links

Educationisforever.org

References

DIAMOND (Carbon) Diamond is the ultimate gemstone, having few weaknesses and many strengths. It is […]

Game client

A game client is a piece of software that connects to a game server. The server provides the connection and sends packets of information back to the game client. Many clients can be connected to the server at the same time, which will keep an overall view of the game world. Each game-client has […]

Rat Pfink a Boo Boo

Rat Pfink a Boo Boo is a 1966 B-movie directed by Ray Dennis Steckler and starring Carolyn Brandt.

Perhaps the most striking feature of the film — beyond the low production values — is a sudden switch in tone and plot that comes roughly forty minutes into the movie. As originally planned, the film […]

AFL South Africa

AFL South Africa is the governing body and development organisation for Australian rules football in South Africa.
The body is funded by North West Academy of Sport, Ausaid and Tattersalls and is primarily concerned with participation in Australian Football amongst indigenous South Africans.
The organisation has seen massive growth in participation through development programs similar to Auskick.

In […]

Banjup, Western Australia

Banjup is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn. Its postcode is 6164.

References

Diamonds from Sierra Leone

“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 […]

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 […]

Martin Taylor

Martin Taylor could refer to:

Martin Taylor, the British Jazz guitarist

Martin J. Taylor, British mathematician

Martin Taylor, the former Barclays chief executive

Martin ‘Tiny’ Taylor, a footballer with Birmingham City F.C.

Martin Taylor, an English football goalkeeper.

Martin Taylor former Microsoft “global general manager of platform strategy”, credited with their Get the Facts campaign.

References

Jack of Diamonds - George Hamilton, Don […]

Shock diamond

Shock diamonds (also known as Mach diamonds or Mach disks) are a formation of shock waves in the exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system, such as a supersonic jet engine, rocket, ramjet, or scramjet. It is formed when the supersonic exhaust from a nozzle is slightly over or under-expanded, meaning that the pressure of […]

Jack Vigliatura

John
“Jack” Francis Vigliatura IV December 20, 1973 - September 8, 1995. was the lead singer and co-founding member of the 1990s alternative rock band For Squirrels. He was tragically killed when the band’s tour bus he was driving blew a tire and flipped over just south of Savannah, Georgia.
References

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A Fantasy Love Affair

A Fantasy Love Affair is the title of the first solo album released by Peter Brown. The album was recorded in 1976 and released in 1977. It charted #9 on Billboard’s R&B charts and #11 on the Pop chart. It was successful on the disco charts as well and contained three hit singles, including […]

Robert Skulj

Robert Skulj, born in 1975, was a Slovenian hacker who discovered a security hole in a banking e-commerce system called Klik in year 2002.

He was discovered dead in August 2003, in his apartment in the city of Trzic, apparently committing suicide by shooting himself. His death is under the same cloud of suspicion that […]

The Friend Who Got Away

The Friend Who Got Away ISBN 0-385-51186-8) is an anthology of essays dealing with the subject of the dissolution of friendships among women. It was published in 2005 by Doubleday. The collection is edited by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell.

Contributors

Francine Prose

Katie Roiphe

Jenny Offill

Lydia Millet

Dorothy Allison

Elizabeth Strout

Kate Bernheimer

Ann Hood

Mary Morris

Heather Abel

Emily Chenoweth

Diana Abu-Jaber

Nicole Keeter

Helen […]

Satanic Rites

Satanic Rites is a demo album by Hellhammer.

Track listing

“Intro” – 0:59

“Messiah” – 4:22

“The Third of the Storms” – 3:04

“Buried and Forgotten” – 6:03

“Maniac” – 3:48

“Eurynomos” – 3:11

“Triumph of Death” – 7:01

“Revelations of Doom” – 3:05

“Reaper” – 2:30

“Satanic Rites” – 7:19

“Crucifixion” – 2:47

“Outro” – 2:02

Credits

Tom Gabriel Fischer - Vocals, Guitars, Bass

Martin Eric Ain - Backing Vocals

Bruce […]

Amīn Rāzī

‘ was a 16th century Persian geographer and author of an encyclopedia called Haft iqlīm (”seven climes”).

See also

List of Iranian scientists

References

Tests Suggest Scientists Have Found Big Bang Goo - New York Times The hot, dense substance, called a quark-gluon plasma, has managed to generate intense disputes in the 15 years or so in which […]

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life is an album released by Monty Python in 1983, in conjunction with the film Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. The album mainly consists of sketches from the film, with a few links performed by Michael Palin. A CD version was later released.

A few pieces of dialogue are on […]

The Puppet Master (album)

The Puppet Master is an album by King Diamond released in 2003. A limited edition includes a DVD on which King Diamond is telling the story of The Puppet Master.

Track listing
All lyrics by King Diamond. Music credits as indicated.

“Midnight” – 1:55 (Diamond)

“The Puppet Master” – 4:41 (Diamond)

“Magic” – 4:57 (LaRocque)

“Emerencia” – 5:19 (Diamond)

“Blue Eyes” […]

Kimberly, Arkansas

Kimberly is a ghost town south of Murfreesboro, Arkansas. The town grew up near John Huddleston’s diamond mine. Kimberly had a population of over 2,000 people. Wooden frame houses were built, some were made into stores, and other businesses. A bank, hotel, and other stores were also built here.

Kimberly was founded after John Huddleston found […]

Kirby Misperton

Kirby Misperton is a small village in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, located about 4 miles south from Pickering by road and about 7½ miles north from Malton.

Adjacent to the village lies one of the most popular amusement parks in England, Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo.

External links

Kirby Misperton History

Hotels

Ashfield Country Manor Hotel […]

The Mighty Diamonds

The Mighty Diamonds are a Jamaican harmony trio, recording roots reggae with a strong Rastafarian influence. The group, which comprises Donald “Tabby” Shaw, Fitzroy “Bunny” Simpson, and Lloyd “Judge” Ferguson, was formed in 1969 and remains together as of 2006. They are best-known for their 1976 debut album Right Time produced by Joseph […]

David Wasson

David Wasson is the producer of The Buzz on Maggie and created Time Squad. Both are animated series. A new show, called Funky Chicken, is due in January 2008.

References

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Toilet seats: Funky designer toilet seats and bathroom accessories toilet seats, bathroom decorating, designer toilet […]

Vortex lift

Vortex lift is a form of lift generated by delta wings operating at high angles of attack.

How it works
Vortex lift works by capturing vortices generated from the sharply swept leading edge of the wing. The vortex, formed roughly parallel to the leading edge of the wing, is trapped by the airflow […]

John Darling

John Darling was a comic strip, created by Tom Batiuk, about a talk show host. It appeared from March 25 1979 to August 4 1991.

John Darling was originally a supporting character in Batiuk’s strip Funky Winkerbean. Popular with readers, he was spun-off into his own strip. The original artist was Tom Armstrong, who left […]

Sweet Home

Sweet Home may refer to:

Sweet Home High School in Amherst, New York

Sweet Home (film), a Japanese horror film

Sweet Home (video game), a survival horror video game for the Nintendo Famicom console based on the Japanese horror film of the same name

Sweethome, Oklahoma

Sweet Home, Oregon

Sweet Home, Arkansas

Sweet Home Mine, Colorado

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