In 1992, the movie won Genie Awards in the categories of Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Overall Sound, and Best Sound Editing.
Tórshavn
Tórshavn () is the capital and largest city of the Faroe Islands, a part of the Kingdom of Denmark. As of 2008, the city has a population of 13,000, with the urban area populated by 19,000 people in total.
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (EYD: Basuki Cahaya Purnama, Hakka Chinese: ; born 29 June 1966), also known as Ahok, is an Indonesian politician. He is the current Governor of Jakarta, serving officially since 19 November 2014. He is the first governor to be a Christian and of ethnic Chinese descent.
Basuki was born in Manggar, Belitung of the Bangka–Belitung Islands province. He is married to Veronica Tan and has three children. He is a Protestant.
Divine Intervention
Divine Intervention is the sixth studio album by American thrash metal band, Slayer. "Divine Intervention" was released on September 27, 1994 through American Recordings. Many of the song were inspired by television shows. The songs were also inspired by other things, like Rush Limbaugh, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and vocalist Tom Araya's wife. Araya said that the album "came out of the past four years of hating life."
The album peaked at #8 on the "Billboard" 200. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA.
It is the first album to feature drummer Paul Bostaph, who replaced Slayer's original drummer Dave Lombardo.
Intercostal muscle
The intercostal muscles ("intercostales interni") are a group of skeletal muscles between the ribs. These muscles help expand and shrink the size of the chest cavity to help breathing.
When breathing in, the muscles of the diaphragm contract. This pulls the diaphragm downwards, and increases the volume of the thorax. At the same time, the external intercostal muscles contract. This pulls the ribcage upwards and outwards. This also increases the volume of the thorax.
There are three main layers;
Circumflex
The circumflex is a diacritic (accent) used in French and a few other languages. It is like a little hat on top of a vowel. Originally, it was an "acute accent" and a "grave accent" put together.
In French, the circumflex usually shows the loss of letter, usually the loss of the letter s. Example: maistre (Middle French) > maître (modern French). Here its function is historical.
Also, less often, the circumflex is used to distinguish between homophones. These are words spelt the same, but with different meanings. Example: "sur" = on, but "sûr" = safe or certain. In those cases the pronunciation of the two words may be different.
Jimmy Greenspoon
Jimmy Greenspoon (February 7, 1948 – March 11, 2015) was an American keyboard player and composer. He was best known as a member of the band, Three Dog Night.
In 2014, Greenspoon was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma, and was forced to stop touring with Three Dog Night. He died from cancer in Montgomery County, Maryland, on March 11, 2015.
Frei Otto
Frei Paul Otto (31 May 1925 – 9 March 2015) was a German architect and structural engineer. He was noted for his use of lightweight structures, in particular tensile and membrane structures.
He designed the roof of the Olympic Stadium in Munich which was created for the 1972 Summer Olympics. He won the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2006 and was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2015.
Otto died on 9 March 2015; he was to be publicly announced as the winner of the 2015 Pritzker Prize on 23 March but his death meant the committee announced his award on 10 March. Otto himself had been told earlier that he had won the prize by the executive president of the committee, Martha Thorne. He was reported to have said "I’ve never done anything to gain this prize. Prizewinning is not the goal of my life. I try to help poor people, but what shall I say here — I’m very happy".
Maienfeld
Maienfeld is a town in the district of Landquart in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is a tourist destination in the Alps. It is popular for its local wine. Maienfeld was the setting of the story "Heidi".
Cermet
A cermet is a ceramic material, like porcelain or clay, mixed with a metal, like steel or copper. They are long lasting, tough composite materials that are stress resistant and produce little friction. Cermets also have the properties of metals. They can conduct electricity. Like metals cermets are somewhat malleable.
East York
East York may mean one of two places:
2010 (movie)
2010 (known also as 2010: The Year We Make Contact) is a 1984 science fiction movie. It was both directed and produced by Peter Hyams. "2010" was released on December 7, 1984. It is based on the Arthur C. Clarke novel "" and is the sequel to the 1968 movie "".
The movie got mixed to positive reviews from critics. It has a 66% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Movie critic Roger Ebert rated the movie three out of four stars and said that it "doesn't match the poetry and the mystery of the original film" and that it "has an ending that is infuriating, not only in its simplicity, but in its inadequacy to fulfill the sense of anticipation, the sense of wonder we felt at the end of 2001". He finished his review by "And yet the truth must be told: This is a good movie. Once we've drawn our lines, once we've made it absolutely clear that 2001 continues to stand absolutely alone as one of the greatest movies ever made, once we have freed 2010 of the comparisons with Kubrick's masterpiece, what we are left with is a good-looking, sharp-edged, entertaining, exciting space opera".
In 1985, the movie was nominated for five Academy Awards in the categories of Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, Best Visual Effects, Best Costume Design, and Best Sound Presentation.
Erol Büyükburç
Erol Büyükburç (22 March 1936 - 12 March 2015) was a Turkish pop music composer and singer. In 1961, he composed his best known hit "Little Lucy". He also wrote the lyrics of this melody. He was born in Adana.
Büyükburç was found dead in his home in İstanbul, Turkey. He was 78 years old. He died of a heart attack.
LAN Airlines
LAN Airlines is a group of airlines from South America. It includes LAN Perú, LAN Colombia and LAN Argentina. LAN Airlines in the largest airline in Chile and also in Peru. It's a member of the Oneworld alliance. The name "LAN" is an acronym in Spanish for "Línea Aérea Nacional", meaning "National Airline".
Michael Graves
Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 - March 12, 2015) was an American architect. Graves was known first for his contemporary building designs and some prominent public commissions, such as the Portland Building and the Denver Public Library. Graves was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Since 2003, Graves was paralyzed from the waist down as a result of a spinal cord infection.
Muwahhidism
The Muwahidin or Muwahid Muslims are a Muslim restoration movement that accepts mainstream Islam. The place an emphasis on the concept of tawhid. Muwahidists believe that the Muslim faith has gradually been mixed with many cultural traditions. They want to bring the Muslim faith back to its original foundations. This means the worship of Allah. They acknowledge the five Pillars of Islam.
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, commonly known as Tower of Terror, is a classic Disney amusement park attraction. The ride is an elevator that drops and rises several times. It is like riding an elevator that fails while people are on it. The theme of the ride is based
There are currently four versions. Three are based on the TV show "The Twilight Zone".