Hidetaka Miyazaki is the leader of the video game company FromSoftware and head designer games such as "Demon's Souls", "Dark Souls", "Dark Souls 3", "Bloodborne", and "". Miyazaki grew up in a poor family. Miyazaki loved reading, but since his family could not even afford to buy books for him, he would often borrow them from the library. Although he loved reading, there were parts of the books he read that he could not understand, so he just made up parts of the story in his own mind. This would be the way stories in the "Souls" series of video games, which he would later make, are told. In those games, some details are told to the player, but the player is expected to imagine the parts of the story not told.
After university, Miyazaki would be an account manager for the US company Oracle Corporation until he was 29. This was because after playing the game "Ico", he decided to quit his job to become a game designer. Due to his age and lack of experience, very few companies would hire him. However, he got a job from FromSoftware and became the leading designer for some of the "Armored Core" games. While FromSoftware had ideas for "Demon's Souls", the idea was put away because no one thought the game would be popular. However, Miyazaki liked the idea and lead the development team. "Demon's Souls" would become so popular that FromSoftware would become a well-known video game company, and Miyazaki would later take over the company.
Johnny Apollo (movie)
Johnny Apollo is a 1940 American crime drama movie directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Lloyd Nolan. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Heritage of the Desert (1932 movie)
Heritage of the Desert is a 1932 American western movie directed by Henry Hathaway and is based on the novel of the same name by Zane Grey and is the second version of the novel. It stars Randolph Scott, Sally Blane, J. Farrell MacDonald, David Landau and was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
The Big Trail
The Big Trail is a 1930 American romantic western movie directed by Raoul Walsh and starring John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Tyrone Power, Sr., El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Frederick Burton, Ian Keith. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Cherry, Harry &amp; Raquel!
Cherry, Harry & Raquel! is a 1969 American action comedy movie directed by Russ Meyer and starring Charles Napier, Larissa Ely, Linda Ashton, Uschi Digard. It was distributed by Panamint Films.
Casa Grande, Arizona
Casa Grande (O'odham: "Wainom Wo:g") is a city in Pinal County, halfway between Phoenix and Tucson in the U.S. state of Arizona.The population of the city is 57,232 as of 2018. "Casa Grande" is Spanish for "big house".
Millie Small
Millicent Dolly May Small (6 October 1946 – 5 May 2020) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter. She was best known for her 1964 song "My Boy Lollipop". It reached number two in both the UK Singles Chart and the US "Billboard" Hot 100. She was born in Clarendon, Jamaica.
Small died on 5 May 2020 of a stroke in London, aged 73.
My Boy Lollipop
"My Boy Lollipop" (originally "My Girl Lollypop") is a song written in the mid-1950s by Robert Spencer of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs. It was first recorded in New York in 1956 by Barbie Gaye. A later version, recorded in 1964 by Jamaican teenager Millie Small, with very similar rhythm, became one of the top selling ska songs of all time.
Nahum Rabinovitch
Rabbi Nahum Eliezer Rabinovitch (; 1928 – May 6, 2020) was a Canadian-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi and posek. He was the head of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe in Ma'ale Adumim. He was born in Montreal, Canada. In 2015 he led the Giyur K'halacha conversion court, of which he was one of the founders.
Rabinovitch died on May 6, 2020 at the age of 92.
Florian Schneider
Florian Schneider-Esleben (7 April 1947 21 April 2020) was a German electronic pop singer and musician. He was best known as one of the founding members of the electronic band Kraftwerk. He was born in present-day Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
David Bowie named a song after Schneider in 1977. Schneider retired in 2008, but then came back in 2014 then officially retiring a year later.
Schneider died from cancer on 21 April 2020 in Düsseldorf at the age of 73.
Dmitry Bosov
Dmitry Borisovich Bosov (; March 27, 1968 — May 6, 2020) was a Russian businessman. He was the founder, majority shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of ALLTECH Group. He was Head of Supervisory Board of HC Sibir Novosibirsk from 2008 until his death. He was born in Barnaul, Altai Krai, then Soviet Union.
In 2019, he was ranked 102nd in the Forbes list of richest businessmen in Russia, with a fortune of 950 million dollars. In 2020, he was ranked 1851st in the Forbes list of world’s billionaires, with a fortune of 1.1 billion dollars.
Bosov shot himself on May 6, 2020 at his mansion in Usovo, Moscow Oblast at the age of 52.
The Iron Horse (movie)
The Iron Horse is a 1924 American western movie directed by John Ford and starring George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Cyril Chadwick, Will Walling, Francis Powers, J. Farrell MacDonald, Fred Kohler. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
The Young Rajah
The Young Rajah is a 1922 American romantic drama movie directed by Phil Rosen and based on the novel of the "Amos Judd" by John Ames Mitchell. It stars Rudolph Valentino, Wanda Hawley, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, Josef Swickard, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Field and was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Hit the Deck
Hit the Deck is a 1955 American musical movie directed by Roy Rowland and stars Jane Powell, Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Pidgeon, Vic Damone, Gene Raymond, Russ Tamblyn. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
VRML
VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language, pronounced "vermal", or by its initials, known before 1995 as Virtual Reality Markup Language) is a standard 3-dimensional (3D) interactive vector graphics file format designed for the World Wide Web. It has been succeeded by X3D.
VRML uses text files. The vertices, edges, surface colors, UV-mapped textures, shininess, transparency and more of a 3D polygon can be specified. Graphical components can be made to fetch web pages or other VRML files from the Internet from URLs when the user clicks on the graphical component. Animations, sounds, lighting, and other things about the virtual world can interact with the user or can happen when external events say so, such as timers. A special Script Node allows program code (such as program code in Java or ECMAScript) to be added to a VRML file.
VRML files are commonly called "worlds" and have the .wrl extension (for example, a VRML file can be called island.wrl). VRML files are in plain text and usually compress well using gzip, which is useful to transfer them over the Internet faster (some files compressed using gzip use the .wrz extension). Many 3D modeling programs can save objects and scenes in VRML format.
The Web3D Consortium was started to develop the format further. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have made VRML and its successor, X3D, international standards.
The first version of VRML was specified in November 1994. It was specified from, and looked a lot like, the API and file format of the Open Inventor software component, originally developed by SGI. The development of version 2.0 was guided by the ad-hoc VRML Architecture Group (VAG). A working draft was published in August 1996. Formal collaboration between the VAG and SC24 of ISO began in 1996, and VRML 2.0 was submitted to ISO to be used as an international standard. The current and functionally complete version is VRML97 (ISO/IEC 14772-1:1997). X3D (ISO/IEC 19775-1) has succeeded VRML.