The series is about a secret Hellsing Organization. The organization fights against vampires, ghouls, and other supernatural enemy who threaten England. The series was licensed for English language release in North America by Dark Horse Comics, in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment, and in Singapore by Chuang Yi.
An anime series of the same name was produced by Gonzo. The series was directed by Umanosuke Iida. It was based on the manga but used a screenplay by Chiaki J. Konaka. It was different from the manga in terms of plot, though it used some of the same characters and similar character designs. It has thirteen episodes. It was broadcast on Japan's Fuji Television from October 10, 2001 to January 16, 2002. An original video animation (OVA) called "Hellsing Ultimate" was produced by Geneon. It followed the manga storyline more closely than the anime series. The series was 10 episodes long. It was released in Japan between February 10, 2006 and December 26, 2012. In North America, the series ran from December 5, 2006 to October 28, 2014.
In 2005, the six and seventh volumes of the "Hellsing" manga series ranked among Diamond Comics Distributors' list of the top 48 manga volumes sold in the United States for the year. In November 2007, the ninth volume was among the top 10 volumes sold according to Japan's monthly sales rankings.
Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (15 August 1931 – 22 December 2018), formerly also called The Red Prince, was a senior member of the Saudi royal family. He was known for his liberal stance. He supported a national Constitution, the full rule of law and equality before the law. He was also the leader of Free Princes Movement. His father was Ibn Saud.
Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud died on 22 December 2018 in Riyadh, aged 87.
Lucas Bersamin
Lucas Purugganan Bersamin (born October 19, 1949) is a Filipino politician. He was the 25th Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, the highest court in the Philippines.
He was named by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to the High Court as an Associate Justice on April 2, 2009. He was a member of the Court of Appeals.
Alfred Bader
Alfred Robert Bader, CBE (April 28, 1924 – December 23, 2018) was a Canadian chemist, businessman, philanthropist, and collector of fine art. He was called by the "Chemical & Engineering News" poll of 1998 to be one of the "Top 75 Distinguished Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise" during C&EN's 75-year history.
Bader in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 23, 2018 from heart failure at the age of 94.
Octobass
A octobass is a musical instrument. It is a giant bass with three strings. It is played with a stick like a double bass. It has the deepest sound of any string instrument. There are only seven octobass in the world and they are mostly in museums. The only full working octobass is the one in the Montreal symphony orchestra, making it the only orchestra in the world to have a octobass.
Nana Chudasama
Nana Mansinh Chudasama (17 June 1933 – 23 December 2018) was an Indian jurist and politician. He was the Mayor and Sheriff of Mumbai from 1989 to 1990. He was the founder of the NGO Giants International which has over 500 branches in India and branches across the world including the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, Mauritius and Ukraine.
He died 23 December 2018 in Mumbai at the age of 86 after a brief illness.
Elias M. Stein
Elias Menachem Stein (January 13, 1931 – December 23, 2018) was an American mathematician. He was a known in the field of harmonic analysis. He was professor of Mathematics at Princeton University from 1963 until his death in 2018.
His honors include the Steele Prize (1984 and 2002), the Schock Prize in Mathematics (1993), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1999), and the National Medal of Science (2001). In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Galaxy Express 999
The manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1978. The anime series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1981.
Matsumoto was inspired to create "Galaxy Express 999" by the idea of a steam train running through the stars in the novel "Night on the Galactic Railroad" by Kenji Miyazawa.
The movie "Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy" was released in 1998.
Great Teacher Onizuka
, in short GTO, is a Japanese shōnen manga series. It was created by Tooru Fujisawa. It was originally published in "Weekly Shōnen Magazine" from May 1997 to April 2002. The story focuses on 22-year-old Eikichi Onizuka. He becomes a teacher at a private middle school, Holy Forest Academy, in Tokyo, Japan. "Shonan Junai Gumi" (lit. "Shōnan True Love Group") and "Bad Company" are other manga series by Tooru Fujisawa. They focus on the life of Onizuka before he became a teacher in "Great Teacher Onizuka".
A twelve-episode Japanese television drama running from July to September 1998 was created based on this manga. A live-action film directed by Masayuki Suzuki and released in December 1999 was also created based on this manga. A 43-episode anime television series based on this manga aired in Japan by Fuji Television and Animax from June 1999 to September 2000. Both the anime and manga have been licensed in North America by Tokyopop. A second live action series aired in Japan during 2012, and two more in 2014. It won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen category.
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (or just Michelle Yeoh; born 6 August 1962) is a Malaysian actress. She became famous by having a number of roles in 1990s Hong Kong action movies. She is best known for her role as Wai Lin in "Tomorrow Never Dies". Also, she played as Yu Shu Lien in the 2000 movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
Yeow won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant at age 20 in 1983. She also represented Malaysia at the Queen of the Pacific 1983 beauty pageant. The pageant was held in Australia. She won.
Yeoh started her career acting in martial arts and action movies. She did her own stunts. In a few earlier movies, she was credited as Michelle Khan. She later wanted to use her real name.
Yeoh played the family matriarch Eleanor Young in "Crazy Rich Asians" in 2018.
She was a member of the jury at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999.
Yeow was born in Ipoh, Malaysia.
Yona of the Dawn
Funimation has licensed the anime series for streaming and home video rights in North America. The first opening theme is an song by Kunihiko Ryo, called . The first ending theme is by Vistlip. The second opening theme is "Akatsuki no Hana", by Cyntia. The second ending theme is "Akatsuki", by Akiko Shikata. The first OVA was released on September 18, 2015, the second OVA was released on August 19, 2016 and the third OVA was released on December 20, 2016.
Glass harmonica
The glass harmonica (also called the armonica) is a musical instrument. It was invented by Benjamin Franklin. It is made up of a spinning stick with glass bowls around it. The player rubs their fingers on the glass bowls as the instrument spins to make music. Different sizes of bowl make different sounds.
Charles Mattocks
Charles Porter Mattocks (October 11, 1840 – May 16, 1910) was a colonel in the Union Army. He was given the Medal of Honor for his actions in the American Civil War. He was born in Danville, Vermont and served in the 17th Maine Infantry during the American Civil War. After being captured by the Confederate States Army he was a prisoner of war for nine months in Danville, Virginia. Later, he commanded the Maine State Militia and fought as a Brigadier General during the Spanish–American War. He was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1880, was a county attorney for Cumberland County, Maine, and argued a case in the Supreme Court.
Patrick Steptoe
Patrick Christopher Steptoe CBE FRS (9 June 1913, Oxford, England – 21 March 1988, Canterbury) was a British obstetrician and gynaecologist.
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