ABC Entertainment is a television production company that was made in New York City in 1999. It was made by merging Buena Vista Television Productions with the ABC Television Network to produce television shows.
Tribune Media
The Tribune Media Company, also called Tribune Media, formerly called Tribune Company, is a media company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its broadcasting company is Tribune Broadcasting. Tribune Media Company is one of the largest television broadcasting companies in the world. It has 39 television stations across the United States. In August 2014, it spun off its publishing division into Tribune Publishing, but before that, Tribune Media Company was the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher (behind the Gannett Company). It owned newspapers, such as the "Chicago Tribune", "Los Angeles Times", and the "Orlando Sentinel". It also has media service companies, such as Tribune Media Services.
Westinghouse Electric (1886)
The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company. It was founded on January 8, 1886, as Westinghouse Electric Company. Later it was renamed the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. They helped to bring electricity to homes and businesses across the United States.
Westinghouse was a diversified company. It was involved in a wide variety of products and services. The company had a number of firsts. It produced the first jet engine in the United States and the first nuclear power plant. It also developed the first U.S. radar station (used at Pearl Harbor). In the late 1980s a number of bad business decisions caused the company to decline. After selling off most of its manufacturing divisions, Westinghouse Electric took the name of one of its subsidiaries, CBS, which it bought in 1995.
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy (January 7, 1966 – July 16, 1999) was an American socialite and the wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. She worked with Calvin Klein.
Bessette and Kennedy, Jr. were married on September 21, 1996.
Bessette was born in White Plains, New York. Bessette, along with sister Lauren and Kennedy, Jr. were killed in an airplane crash on July 16, 1999.
Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris (July 16, 1880 – January 18, 1966) was an American newspaper columnist and novelist. Her stories appeared in the "Atlantic", "Ladies' Home Journal" and some other publications. She used her fiction to promote marriage, motherhood and importance of service to others.
Many of her books were turned into movies.
Norris was born in San Francisco, California. She also died there.
Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson (November 22, 1874 – January 31, 1966) was an American actress. She gained popularity late during her career. She played Matilda Trumbull in "I Love Lucy". She also played Aunt Hester in the movie "A Bill of Divorcement". She later acted in stage and theater.
Patterson was born in Savannah, Tennessee. She died in Los Angeles at age 91 from pneumonia.
Twisted Metal 2
Twisted Metal 2 (also known as Twisted Metal 2: World Tour in Europe and Twisted Metal EX in Japan) is a vehicular combat video game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and developed by Sony Interactive Studios America and SingleTrac. It is the second and most successful game in the "Twisted Metal" series. It was released on the PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, and PlayStation Network.
It was released on October 31, 1996 in North America, in February 1997 in Europe, and on August 28, 1997 in Japan. It was also released on November 13, 1997 on Microsoft Windows as well as on July 26, 2007 in Japan and November 1, 2007 in North America on the PlayStation Network.
IGN rated the game a 7.3 out of 10 GameSpot rated the PlayStation version 8.8 out of 10 stars and the PC version a 6.4 out of 10 stars.
Bob Welch (baseball)
Robert Lynn "Bob" Welch (November 3, 1956 – June 9, 2014) was an American professional baseball starting pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1978 until 1987 and Oakland Athletics from 1988 until 1994. He was a two time MLB All-Star. In 1990, he won the American League Cy Young Award as the league's best pitcher.
Welch was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in California.
Welch died after an accidental fall on June 9, 2014 in Seal Beach, California, aged 57.
Reinhard Höppner
Reinhard Höppner (2 December 1948 – 9 June 2014) was an (East) German politician, mathematician, and writer. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt from July 1994 until 16 May 2002. The role was taken by Wolfgang Böhmer after Höppner's term was over.
Höppner was born in Haldensleben, Saxony-Anhalt, East Germany. He performed several leading positions in the Evangelical Church in Germany.
Höppner died from cancer on 9 June 2014 in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, aged 65.
Twisted Metal III
Twisted Metal III (also known by its former name Twisted Metal 3) is a vehicular combat video game that was both published and developed by 989 Studios. It is the third game in the "Twisted Metal" series. It was only released on the PlayStation and was only released in North America. The game was released on October 31, 1998 in North America for PlayStation. It was rereleased in 1999 as part of the Sony Greatest Hits lineup.
IGN rated the game a 4 out of 10 and said that "with the exception of the four-player combat and Rob Zombie's hard-rock soundtrack -- the two great things about the game -- Twisted Metal 3 is a middle-of-the-road game that unfortunately doesn't do anything more than the first two games. In fact, it's just plain old hat."
GameSpot's Joe Fielder said that the game's soundtrack by Rob Zombie and Pitchshifter was "fitting" but he criticized the "lackluster" level design and "strange" physics engine. He advised readers to check out Activision's "Vigilante 8" or GT Interactive's "" instead.
Twisted Metal 4
Twisted Metal 4 is a vehicular combat video game that was both published by Sony Computer Entertainment and developed by 989 Studios. It is the fourth game in the "Twisted Metal" series. It was only released on the PlayStation and was only released in North America. The game was released on October 31, 1999 in North America for PlayStation. It was rereleased in 2000 as part of the Sony Greatest Hits lineup.
IGN's Marc Nix rated the game a 6 out of 10 and praised the "colorful" graphics and "well-done" interactive environments but criticized the "toy car" control, look and sound of the vehicles.
GameSpot's Joe Fielder said that the game was a "huge leap" ahead of "Twisted Metal III", commenting on the improved level design, control and physics, but he also said that the latter two "remain a little too touchy and unforgiving" and that the graphics, while they were "prettier" than those of Twisted Metal III, they "aren't nearly as sharp as the graphics in its current main competitor - Activision's """.
The Hunger Games trilogy
The Hunger Games is a trilogy of books by Suzanne Collins which tells the story of Katniss Everdeen in these games.
In the book, Katniss let’s her sister go into the games, who is 12 years old, in the hunger games because Prim is very weak and fragile. The hunger games are a competition of the nation of Panem (the present day United States), which is divided in 12 Districts. In these games 12 boys and 12 girls between 12 and 18 years old learn the rules of survival and fight one another to the death until only one survives. The boys and girls are named tributes and represent their Districts. A menace of the games are the Muts. The Muts are mutant wolves. The origin of the competition was the Nuclear War of the Dark Years, when the districts rebelled against the Capitol. The Districts lost the war and the Capitol won. The champion of the games lives in a special village in their districts and they are given money and jewellery and their family will not be elected for the games again.