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Mike Shaw (May 9, 1957 – September 11, 2010) was an American professional wrestler who was best known for wrestling with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring names, Norman The Lunatic and Bastion Booger.
He was married to his wife and they had two children.
He died on September 11, 2010 due to a heart attack.
NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship (Vancouver version) (two times) with Danny O (one) and Dean Ho (one)
PWI ranked him #403 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
Stampede International Tag Team Championship (two times) with Vulkan Singh (one) and Jerry Morrow (one)
Stampede North American Heavyweight Championship (three times)
Most Embarrassing Wrestler in 1993
Worst Worked Match of the Year in 1993 with Bam Bam Bigelow and The Headshrinkers vs. The Bushwhackers and Men on a Mission at Survivor Series
Robert William Holley (January 28, 1922; Urbana, Illinois – February 11, 1993) was an American biochemist.
He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he won for describing the structures for alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis.
AWA Superstars of Wrestling
AWA Superstars of Wrestling World Tag Team Championship (one time) with The Patriot
Cleveland All-Pro World Wrestling
CAPW Unified World Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Great American Wrestling Federation
GAWF Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Great Championship Wrestling
GCW Tag Team Championship (one time) with Scott Steele
Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (two times, current)
Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (three times, current) with Dusty Rhodes (one), and Rikki Nelson (two)
North American Championship Wrestling
NACW Tag Team Championship (one time) with Ricky Morton
NWA Blue Ridge
NWA Blue Ridge Television Championship (one time)
PWI ranked him #221 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003.
Ultimate NWA
Ultimate NWA Heavyweight Championship (one time)
WCW World Tag Team Championship (five times) with 2 Cold Scorpio (one), The Patriot (two), Scotty Riggs (one), and Shane Douglas (one)
Rookie of the Year in 1991
Most Embarrassing Wrestler in 2001
Georgia All State Tag Team Championship (one time) with Chris Walker
Michigan Midwest Heavyweight Championship (one time)
RCW (Tennessee) Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Jamar Shipman (born April 21, 1985 in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an American professional wrestler who currently wrestles for Ring of Honor (ROH) under the ring name, Jay Lethal.
He is probably best known for wrestling for TNA Wrestling from 2005 to 2011.
American Championship Entertainment
ACE Tag Team Championship (one time) with Mo Sexton
American Wrestling Alliance
AWA Heavyweight Championship (one time)
AWA Lightweight Championship (one time)
AWA Tag Team Championship (one time) with Rob Vegas
Big Time Wrestling
International High Powered Wrestling
IHPW Diamond Division Championship (one time)
IHPW United States Heavyweight Championship (one time)
JAPW Heavyweight Championship (two times)
JAPW Light Heavyweight Championship (one time)
JAPW Tag Team Championship (one time) with Azrieal
JAPW Television Championship (one time)
Jersey City Rumble in 2009
JCW J-Cup Championship (one time)
JCW Light Heavyweight Championship (one time)
JCW Television Championship (one time)
MWF Television Championship (one time)
National Wrestling Superstars
NWS/WSU King and Queen of the Ring Tournament in 2009 with Miss April
Politically Incorrect Wrestling
PIW World Championship (one time)
Pro-Wrestling ELITE
PWE Interstate Championship (one time)
PWI ranked him #27 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2008
ROH Pure Championship (one time)
TNA World Tag Team Championship (one time) with Consequences Creed
TNA X Division Championship (six times)
World X Cup in 2006 with Chris Sabin, Sonjay Dutt and Alex Shelley
X Division Wrestler of the Year in 2007
Unreal Championship Wrestling
UCW United States Heavyweight Championship (one time)
UCW World Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Worst Worked Match of the Year in 2006 (TNA Reverse Battle Royal at TNA Impact!)
ROH profile
The Lamborghini Miura is a sports car that was built by Lamborghini from 1966 to 1972.
The Miura is named after the fighting bull.
It was designed by Marcello Gandini.
764 were automobiles produced.
Chase Field is the home baseball park of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
It is in downtown Phoenix, Arizona.
The Diamondbacks moved into Chase Field in 1998 when the team was established.
At that time the stadium was called Bank One Ballpark, or "The BOB".
It was renamed Chase Field after the merger of Bank One with Chase.
Chase Field also hosted the NCAA Insight Bowl from 2000 to 2005.
Stadium site on dbacks.com
M&T Bank Stadium is the home football stadium of the Baltimore Ravens.
It is in downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
The Ravens moved into M&T Bank Stadium in 1998 after spending a two years in Memorial Stadium.
M&T Bank Stadium has also hosted the NCAA Lacrosse Final Four in 2003, 2004 and 2007.
Stadium site on baltimoreravens.com
Buildings and structures in Maryland
Lorne Greene (February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987), was a Canadian actor and singer.
Greene was born on February 12, 1915 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
His first movie was Churchill's Island (1941), as narrator.
He was in films such as The Silver Chalice (1954), Autumn Leaves (1956), with Joan Crawford, Peyton Place (1957), with Lana Turner, The Buccaneer (1958), with Yul Brynner, and Earthquake (1974), with Charlton Heston.
Greene also had roles in some low-budget westerns, including The Last of the Fast Guns (1958), The Hangman (1959),
He also worked on the Japanese film Nippon chinbotsu (1974).
Greene gained fame in 1959 starring in the NBC western Bonanza.
He played role of Ben Cartwright, the owner of the Ponderosa Ranch in Virginia City.
In the early years of Greene's career, he made guest appearances on television shows including Ford Television Theatre (1953), Producers' Showcase (1955), General Motors Presents (1955), The United States Steel Hour (1956), Kraft Television Theatre (1957), Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958).
In 1955, he starred in his first series Sailor of Fortune, as Capt.
The series was co-produced by Canada and Britain television, and lasted one season.
He was also a detective in Griff (1973-1974) created by Larry Cohen.
Greene played Wade Griffin, a police officer with many years of service who leaves the force to become a private investigator
Another of his memorable roles was that of John Reynolds in the TV mini-series Roots (1977).
Greene continued to have success on television as the star of the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979), and Galactica (1980) where he played the role of Commander Adama.
The series featured special effects never before seen on American television.
David Keith McCallum (born September 19, 1933) is a Scottish actor.
McCallum is best known for playing Illya Kuryakin in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Dr Donald "Ducky" Mallard on NCIS.
McCallum's first movie work was in Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), followed The Secret Place (1957).
Later, he worked in The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961), Billy Budd (1962), and Freud (1962).
McCallum played a role in the movie The Great Escape (1962), with Steve McQueen and directed by John Sturges.
In 1965,  he worked in the in biblical movie The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).
In this movie he played Judas.
In 1966, he co-starred in Around the World Under the Sea (1966), with Lloyd Bridges.
He had a strong performance in first lead role in a movie in Mosquito Squadron (1969), directed by Boris Sagal.
In 1970s, McCallum acted in movies as Dogs (1976), The Kingfisher Caper (1976),
Most of his career has been in television.
He has worked for over fifty years in television both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
His first appearances were in British television in Our Mutual Friend (1958), The Eustace Diamonds (1959), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1959) and BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960).
In 1964, he played the role of Illya Kuryakin in the American TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. McCallum played the character for 114 episodes.
For this series McCallum was nominated for two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes.
David McCallum also had success in British series Colditz (1972-1974), and Sapphire & Steel (1979-1982).
He also played role the invisible man in NBC TV series, The Invisible Man.
In the 1990s, he was in the sci-fi series VR.5 as Doctor Joseph Bloom.
He worked on the American series The Replacements (2006-2009) and CBS TV series NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003-2011), as Dr. Donald Mallard.
David McCallum Fans Online
Fans From U.N.C.L.E.
Memorial Stadium was a stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
The stadium was home to the National Football League (NFL) team, the Baltimore Ravens from 1996 to 1997 and was also home to the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball from 1954 to 1991, as well as the Baltimore Colts from 1954 to 1983, and the Baltimore Stallions from 1986 to 1987.
The stadium was demolished in 2001.
In 2010 a new baseball field was built on the same site of the Memorial stadium and Cal Ripken was at the ribbon-cutting.
It was nicknamed "The Old Grey Lady of 33rd Street" and "The World's Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum", for the infamous fan noise.
The stadium eventually lost teams because it could not compete with other newer stadiums.
There was a plack on the stadium honoring allied soldiers in World War II.
A replica now sits outside Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the new home of the Orioles.
The Ravens now play in M&T Bank Stadium.
The former website of Memorial Stadium
20th-century establishments in Maryland
Sumacs are small trees.
The leaves are arranged like spirals.
The flowers are in spikes.
Each flower is very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals.
The fruits form clusters of reddish drupes called "sumac bobs".
Cubeb (Piper cubeba), also known as tailed pepper or Java pepper, is a plant in genus Piper is used for its fruit and essential oil.
It is usually found in Java, and so it is sometimes called Java pepper.
The fruits are gathered before they are ripe, and dried carefully.
The seed of the plant is white and hard oily.
In Europe, cubeb was one of the valuable spices during the Middle Ages.
It was used in sauces.
An old recipe includes cubeb in making sauce sarcenes, which consists of almond milk and a few spices.
As a good-smelling snack, cubeb was often candied and eaten.
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis is the title of a book by Julian Huxley which was published in 1942.
It was the book which gave the modern evolutionary synthesis its name, and was one of the most important books on biology in the mid-twentieth century.
The background to the book
"The most informative episode in the history of evolutionary biology was the establishment of the 'neo-Darwinian synthesis'."
Berry and Bradshaw, 1992.
The synthesis was brought about "not by one side being proved right and the others wrong, but by the exchange of the most viable components of the previously competing research strategies".
Ernst Mayr, 1980.
Two of these papers were on the subject of sexual selection, an idea of Darwin's whose standing has been revived in recent times.
Huxley thought that sexual selection was "...merely an aspect of natural selection".
This rather grudging acceptance of sexual selection was influenced by his studies on the courtship of the Great Crested Grebe (and other birds that pair for life): the courtship takes place mostly after mate selection, not before.
The book and its reception
His role was that of a synthesiser, and it helped that he had met many of the other participants.
His book Evolution: The Modern Synthesis was written whilst he was Secretary to the Zoological Society, and made use of his remarkable collection of reprints covering the first part of the century.
Others in the field
However, at the time of Huxley's book several of these had yet to make their distinctive contribution.
Certainly, for Huxley, E.B. Ford and his co-workers  in ecological genetics were at least as important.
Key terms
It was Huxley who coined the terms the new synthesis and evolutionary synthesis; he also invented the term cline in 1938 to describe species whose members fall into a series of sub-species with continuous change in characters over a geographical area.
The classic example of a cline is the circle of subspecies of the gull Larus round the Arctic zone.
This cline is an example of a ring species.
Some of Huxley's last contributions to the evolutionary synthesis were on the subject of ecological genetics.
He noted how surprisingly widespread polymorphism is in nature, with visible morphism much more prevalent in some groups than others.
The immense diversity of colour and pattern in small bivalve molluscs, brittlestars, sea anemones, tubicular polychaetes and various grasshoppers is perhaps maintained by making recognition by predators more difficult.
2nd ed 1963; 3rd ed 1974.
Electronic commerce more well known as e-commerce consists of the buying or selling of products via electronic means such as the internet or other electronic services.
This type of trade has been growing rapidly because of the expansion of the Internet.
The need for electronic commerce emerged from the need to use computers more efficiently in banks and corporations.
With the increasing competition, there was a need amongst organizations to increase customer satisfaction and information exchange.
Electronic commerce started with the introduction of electronic funds transfer (EFT) by banks.
Over time many variants of EFTs within banks were introduced like debit cards, credit cards, and direct deposits.
Types of E-commerce
Consumer to business E-commerce also called Business to Consumer (B2C)
Business to business E-commerce
Business to consumer E-commerce also called online shopping
Consumer to consumer E-commerce
Intra organizational E-commerce
Business to Administration (B2A)
Advantages of E-commerce
It can help increase profits; it can increase sales and decrease costs.
It can help organizations do business 7 days a week and 24 hours a day.
It can help organizations have customers all around the world and not be limited to a specific region.
It helps organizations bring a higher return on advertisements if managed properly.
It helps organizations identify new suppliers, partners, and customers.
It increases flexibility and ease of shopping for the customer.
The customers can buy straight from their homes.
It can help in low operational costs.
It can provide personalized products and customer customization.
Shoppers are given a broader range of products to choose from online.
Disadvantages of E-commerce
The buyer cannot touch or feel the product online.
The customer has to wait for the delivery of their product.
Perishable goods bought online can get spoiled during delivery.
It is difficult to know when an online site is safe to use.
If it is an international purchase (i.e. an imported good), the product may be taxed when it arrives at customs.
Sometimes the review can be created manually to lure the customer to buy the product with the wrong intention of selling.
E-commerce involves buying and selling of products and services by businesses and consumers through an electronic medium.
Broadly, e-commerce is classified into four categories: business to business or B2B (Cisco), business to consumer or B2C (Amazon), consumer to consumer or C2C (eBay), and Business-to-Government (B2G).
Business-to-business e-commerce involves agreements between 2 businesses.
Distribution management, inventory management, channel management, supplier management and payment management are some of the areas in which B2B applications are widely used.
In Bangladesh, bgmea.com.bd, bizbangladesh.com are examples of B2B platforms.
B2C commerce involves e-commerce between businesses and consumers.
This form of e-commerce involves the purchase of books or any form of consumer goods.
It also includes the purchase of software, e-books, games, songs as well as e-banking.
ajkerdeal.com, bdbazar.com, daraz.com, bajna.com are some examples of B2C. Advantages of B2C platforms to companies are reduced operating costs, bigger outreach, globalisation, customer convenience and knowledge management.
Consumer-to-consumer e-commerce involves transactions between individual consumers.
For instance, online auction, peer-to-peer system for money or file exchange can be classified as forms of C2C e-commerce.
In Bangladesh bikroy.com, clickbd.com are examples of C2C platforms.
B2G is usually used for licensing process, public purchasing and other government operations.
B2G e-commerce is rather insignificant when compared to the other three forms.
However, B2G can be one of the driving forces for running the public sector known as e-governance.
A wide range of technologies is used in e-commerce that includes electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic mail (e-mail), electronic funds transfer (EFT).
In the case of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), there needs to be an agreement between trading partners.
EDI is a standard method for exchanging business data.
E-mail and fax are also forms of EDI.
In Bangladesh small, medium, and big enterprises have taken up e-business platforms.
When compared to developed countries, developing countries have a higher potential for improving the business structure and raise productivity by using e-commerce as a medium.
M-Commerce (Mobile Commerce) and F-Commerce (Facebook Commerce) are very popular in today's e-business world.
Over the years, the number of online transactions has been on the rise.
According to BTRC officials, the number of internet subscribers in Bangladesh had crossed 80 million in 2017.
At present, there are approximately 2,000 e-commerce sites and 50,000 Facebook-based outlets delivering almost 30,000 products a day.
Currently, 80 per cent of the online sales are taking place in Dhaka, Chattogram and Gazipur.
Over the last few years, internet connections have improved and the number of people who have access to the web has increased thus making way for the e-commerce business to flourish.
In 2016, $50 million was invested in the e-commerce sector in Bangladesh.
Out of which $10 million was from Foreign Direct Investment.
In 2017, the B2C e-commerce business market measure equaled USD 110-115 million (around BDT 9.0 billion) compared to BDT 1335.71 billion made by the retail market.
The outreach of the e-commerce business market exceeded Tk 17.0 billion in 2017 from Tk 4.0 billion in 2016, as revealed from the findings by the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB).
The market measure for e-commerce is expected to equal Tk 70 billion by 2021.
Before 2013, the government had placed restrictions on the purchase and sale of goods and online services through international credit cards (export.gov, 2017).
In the first three quarters of 2016, the e-commerce industry achieved 67 per cent growth whereas, the country's e-commerce transaction reached BDT 3.59 (Xinhua, 2016).
Although the e-commerce sector has grown over the years, there remain many obstacles.
Some of the key challenges are net neutrality, high-speed net, parcel delivery logistics and assurance of quality products.
Foreign players also pose competition and risk to local start-ups.
The sector suffers from a lack of logistics and a sound transportation system that restricts e-commerce trading to expand.
The transportation system affects the delivery of products.
Challenges also persist in the logistics sector.
A large chunk of almost 65 per cent of the operations of the e-commerce companies takes place in the capital and Chattogram.
The e-commerce companies fail to reach all parts of the country, including of course the rural areas, due to poor infrastructure and inability to access remote areas for lack of adequate transport facilities.
Born: Belfast, Northern Ireland
B.S.: Queen's University of Belfast, 1948
Ph.D.: University of Birmingham, 1956
Paper entitled "On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox" introduced Bell's theorem, 1964 (Direct download from:
"On the Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics" discussed the supposed existence of hidden variables, 1966. (
Direct download from http://www.mugur-schachter.net/docsupload/autresPublications/autresPublications_doc2.pdf)
Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (German: Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie Herzogin zu Mecklenburg; 10 March 1776 – 19 July 1810) was Queen consort of Prussia as the wife of King Frederick William III.
After her husband's ascension, Louise developed many ties to senior ministers and became a powerful figure within the government as she began to command universal respect and affection.
The queen always tried to stay informed of political developments at court, and from the very beginning of his reign the new king consulted Louise on matters of state.
Though Prussia had not fought in a war since 1795, its military leaders were confident that they could win against Napoleon's troops.
After a small incident concerning an anti-French pamphlet occurred, King Frederick William was finally pressured by his wife and family to break off his uneasy peace and enter the war against the French emperor.
Prussian troops began mobilizing, culminating in the October 1806 Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, which was a disaster for Prussia, as the ability of its armed forces to continue the war were effectively wiped out.
The king and queen had accompanied their troops into battle at Jena (with Louise apparently dressed "like an Amazon"), but had to flee from French troops.
Napoleon himself occupied Berlin, and the king, queen and the rest of the royal family had to flee, despite Louise's illness, in the dead of winter to Königsberg in the easternmost part of the kingdom.
On the journey there, there was no food or clean water, and the king and queen were forced to share the same sleeping arrangements in "one of the wretched barns they call houses", according to one witness traveling with them.
Napoleon demanded, from a highly superior position, peace terms in what was to be called the Peace of Tilsit (1807).
In the midst of these negotiations, the emperor agreed to keep half of Prussia intact.
Louise reluctantly agreed to meet the emperor at Tilsit, but only to save "her Prussia."
She tried to use her beauty and charm to flatter him into more favorable terms.
Before she had called him "the Monster", but now she made a request for a private interview with the emperor.
She threw herself at his feet; Napoleon was impressed by her grace and determination, but he refused to make any concessions.
Queen Louise's efforts to protect her adopted country from French aggression became well admired by future generations.
On 19 July 1810, the Queen died in her husband's arms from an unidentified illness.
Louise's death left her husband alone during a period of great difficulty, as the Napoleonic Wars and need for reform continued.
Napoleon remarked the king "has lost his best minister."
Louise's death mask , from the Laurence Hutton Collection
A list of uses in literature concerning Queen Louise, found in Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres) is great work of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543).
Copernicus had worked his ideas out many years before, however he did not publish until right before his death because he himself did not truly believe it and only proposed the idea as a philosophy experiment.
De revolutionibus is divided into six "books" (sections or parts):
Book I is a general vision of the heliocentric theory, and a summarized exposition of his cosmology.
Book II is mainly theoretical and describes the principles of spherical astronomy and a list of stars, as a basis for the arguments developed in the following books.
Book III describes the apparent movements of the Sun and related phenomena.
Book IV is a similar description of the Moon and its orbital movements.
Books V and VI are the exposition of the new system.
They explain how to calculate the positions of astronomical objects based on the heliocentric model.
The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake was an earthquake that took place in the San Francisco Bay Area.
It happened on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time.
The earthquake caused over 67 deaths.
It caused billions of dollars worth of property damage.
The earthquake happened during one of the games of the 1989 World Series.
Because of that, it is sometimes called the "World Series Quake".
Loma Prieta Earthquake
Earthquakes in California
Natural disasters in the San Francisco Bay Area
The International Energy Agency (IEA; ) is an autonomous intergovernmental organization created in 1974 after the 1973 oil crisis.
Majors began his career in small roles for movie and television.
One role was in Strait-Jacket (1964), with Joan Crawford.
In 1965, he got the role of Heath Barkley on the ABC series The Big Valley, with Barbara Stanwyck as the owner of the ranch, and mother of three of the Barkleys.
Majors played the character for 112 episodes between 1965 and 1969.
It was the first hit of his career.
After the success of Big Valley.
Major starred in the TV movie The Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969).
He played a man who, after returning from Vietnam, loses the most precious things in his life.
In 1970, he was invited to join the cast of The Virginian, starring James Drury.
In The Virginian, the role played by Roy Tate, during the 1970-1971 season of the series.
In 1971, he played Jess Brandon, assistant attorney, in Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law.
In 1978, starred in the movie about Vikings The Norseman.
Then came Killer Fish (1979) and Agency (1980) with Robert Mitchum.
In 1980, he starred in the television remake of High Noon.
In High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980), Majors played Will Kane.
In this movie were two big western stars David Carradine and Pernell Roberts.
In 1981, he returned to television.
He was successful in a number of television series.
In The Fall Guy, he played Colt Seavers, a stunt double who worked to solve criminal cases.
The series was one of the biggest hits of Majors and remained in the air between 1981 and 1986.
In the 1990s, he co-starred in the series Tour of Duty and Raven.
He was a guest star on the series Daytona Beach (1996) and  Walker, Texas Ranger (1998).
In recent years he was a guest star on Will & Grace (2005), Cold Case (2007), According to Jim (2008), and Human Target (2010).
In 2011, the movie version of The Big Valley started being made.
Majors plays Tom Barkley.
One of Majors' most famous roles is that of Col.
Steve Austin in the ABC series The Six Million Dollar Man (1974-1977).
In that series, he played an astronaut whose body was rebuilt with bionic parts after a plane crash.
His co-star was the actor Richard Anderson.
There were three movies pilots: The Six Million Dollar Man (1973), The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (1973) and The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping (1973).
Majors was in a reunion movie, The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987), Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman (1989), and Bionic Ever After? (
In 1977, Majors was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as best actor for The Six Million Dollar Man.
(original pilot)
(series)
The Six Million Dollar Man  at Nostalgia Central
The Six Million Dollar Man at Jump The Shark
Machel Montano (born 24 November 1974) is a soca artist from Trinidad and Tobago.
He is the lead of the soca band Xtatik.
He had his first hit as a youth with "Too Young To Soca".
He then won the 1987 Caribbean Song Festival.
Montano was born in Curepe (Northwestern Trinidad), and his family moved to Siparia, (Southwestern Trinidad), when he was very young.[6] He attended Siparia Boys' R.C., then Presentation College, a prestigious secondary school in San Fernando, where he was in the choir led by Mrs Cynthia Lee-Mac.[6] Machel first shot to fame as a nine-year-old boy with the song "Too Young To Soca" while he was still in primary school.
In 1984, along with his older brother Marcus and neighbours, the group Pranasonic Express was started and, in 1989, the band became Xtatik.
In April, 1986, at the age of 11, Montano appeared on the mainstream television show, Star Search.[7] In 1987, he took part in the Trinidad and Tobago National Song Writers Festival, and placed second with his song "Dream Girl".
He also won the Caribbean Song Festival in Barbados.
Such a win made Machel the first Trinidadian and youngest contestant to win this competition.
He is the front-man of the soca band The HD Family, and is noted for his high energy, fast-paced, and often unpredictable on-stage performances.
In 1987 he was the youngest finalist to ever win the Caribbean Song Festival.
His career spans more than 30 years.[2] He now stands as one of the most well-known soca acts in the world, using his leverage as an artist able to sell out shows.[3] Recently he has moved to the Los Angeles area[4] and furthered his pursuit, saying: "I may not be the one to bring it forth, but in the meantime, I have a lot of work to do in order for something to happen."
He is very well known in New York City, where he has had sold out concerts in Madison Square Garden many times over.
Too Young to Soca?
Soca Earthquake (1987)
Dr. Carnival (1988)
Katch Ya! (
Breakin Out! (
One Step Ahead! (
2000 Young To Soca (2000 Re-Edition)
The Xtatik Experience (2005)
B.O.D.Y. (2006)
The Book of Angels (2007)
Flame on, released as Wining Season in the United States (2008)
Heavenly Drum (2009)
Album 34 (2010)
The Return (2011)
Double M (2012)
Going for Gold (2012)- Machel Montano and Friends
Machelements (Volume 1) (2013)
Happiest Man Alive (2014)
Monk Monte (2015)
Monk Evolution (2016)
ASAP is an acronym that means "As soon as possible".
This means that something should be done as fast as it is able to be done.
ASAP (band), a hard rock band fronted by Adrian Smith
ASAP Rocky, rapper
AcceleratedSAP from SAP AG
Asynchronous array of simple processors, AsAP processor architecture
Academics Stand Against Poverty, a network of academics
Aircraft Sales and Parts, a Canadian aircraft manufacturer
Nelson Frazier, Jr. (February 14, 1971 – February 18, 2014) was an American professional wrestler.
He is best known for wrestling with World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment under the ring names, Mabel, Viscera, Big Daddy V, and King V. He wrestles for All Japan Pro Wrestling under the ring name, Big Daddy V and Big Daddy Voodoo.
He was forced to retire from WWE for good as WWE did not want to be responsible for his health problems.
Frazier was in the 2009 movie The Legend of Awesomest Maximus co-starring
Will Sasso and Rip Torn.
He also was in the movie Wrong Side of Town with fellow wrestlers Dave Batista and Rob Van Dam.
AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship (one time) with TARU
Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Music City Wrestling
MCW North American Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Ozarks Mountain Wrestling
OMW North American Heavyweight Championship (one time)
PWF Tag Team Championship (two times) with Bobby Knight
PWI ranked him #49 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1995.
USWA Heavyweight Championship (one time)
WWF Tag Team Championship (one time) with Mo
King of the Ring (1995)
Worst Feud of the Year in 2007 vs. Kane
Worst Tag Team in 1999 with Mideon
Worst Worked Match of the Year in 1993 with Mo and The Bushwhackers vs. The Headshrinkers, Bastion Booger, and Bam Bam Bigelow at Survivor Series
X Wrestling Federation
XWF Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Sylvain Grenier (born March 26, 1977 in Varennes, Québec) is a Canadian professional wrestler.
He is best known for his time working with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
He is known for wrestling for the tag team, La Résistance along with Rob Conway and René Duprée.
Combat Revolution Wrestling
Quebec Heavyweight Champion (two times)
Northern Championship Wrestling
NCW Quebec Championship (one time)
NCW Tag Team Championship (one time) with Rob Conway
PWI Rookie of the Year Runner-up in 2003
Top Of The World Wrestling
TOW Tag Team Championship (one time) with Rob Conway
World Tag Team Championship (four times) with René Duprée (one) and Rob Conway (three)
Worst Tag Team in 2003 with René Duprée
Sylvain Grenier's Official website
PWI ranked him #96 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2008.
WLW Heavyweight Championship (four times, current)
WLW Tag Team Championship (three times) with Bull Schmitt (one) and Wade Chism (two)
World Tag Team Championship (three times) with Lance Cade
Lovage (Levisticum officinale) is a tall perennial plant.
Lovage leaves can be used in salads or to make soup, and the roots can be eaten as vegetable or grated for use in salads.
Lovage seeds can be used as a spice.
In the UK, lovage cordial was traditionally mixed with brandy as a winter drink.
The yellow flowers of the plant make seed pods, with each pod having a half dozen seeds.
These seeds are harvested just before the pods become ripe.
In Greece, the plant's leaves can be eaten during the winter, before it blooms.
Greeks call it vrouves or lapsana.
Tiffany Dawn Thornton (born February 14, 1986 in College Station, Texas, U.S.) is an American actress, comedian and singer, best known for her co-starring role as Tawni Hart on the Disney Channel Original Series, Sonny with a Chance.
Thornton made her television acting debut on the pilot episode of the Fox sitcom, Quintuplets.
She then went on to guest star on 8 Simple Rules, American Dreams, The O.C., Desperate Housewives, That's So Raven, Jericho, Wizards of Waverly Place and Hannah Montana.
In 2009, she began her role as Tawni Hart on the Disney Channel Original Series, Sonny with a Chance and then went on to play a part in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Hatching Pete.
Thornton became engaged to her boyfriend of one year, Christopher Carney, a court officer, in December 2009.
She has openly stated, "I am a Christian.
I would have nothing without my faith."
2009: "Let It Go" (with Mitchel Musso) - Disney Channel Playlist
2009: "Some Day My Prince Will Come" - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition DVD/Blu-ray
2009: "Magic Mirror" - Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
2009: "I Believe"  Duet with Kermit the Frog - Studio DC: Almost Live
2010: "If I Never Knew You"  - DisneyMania 7
2010: "Kiss Me" - Sonny with a Chance (soundtrack)
2010: "Sure Feels Like Love" - Sonny with a Chance (soundtrack)
2008: "La La Land" (Demi Lovato's video, cameo appearance)
2009: "Let It Go" (with Mitchel Musso)
2009: "Some Day My Prince Will Come"
2009: "I Believe"
Born in Somerville, New Jersey, U.S.. His first roles were the villain Jack Colby in the western classic High Noon (1952) with Gary Cooper, and the sci fi movie The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) as Corp. Stone.
Other classic western movies, he played a minor role in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), as Ed Bailey, and The Tin Star (1957), as Ed McGaffey.
Lee Van Cleef jumped to fame in the spaghetti westerns, directed by Sergio Leone, Per qualche dollaro in più (For a Few Dollars More) (1965) and Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) (1966), with Clint Eastwood in the title role.
He had great success in European cinema in Italy is the protagonist of Spaghetti Westerns: The Big Gundown (1966) - Da uomo a uomo (1966) - I giorni dell'ira (1967) - Al di là della legge (1968) - Sabata (1969) - È tornato Sabata... hai chiuso un'altra volta (1971) - Bad Man's River (1971) - Il grande duello (1972) - Dio, sei proprio un padreterno! (
1973) - The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974) - Take a Hard Ride (1975) - Diamante Lobo (1976).
In the United States, Van Cleef also starred in some western movies such as Barquero (1970), by Gordon Douglas, and The Magnificent Seven Ride! (
1972) by George McCowan
In the early 1980s he worked in the film The Octagon (1980), with Chuck Norris, Escape from New York (1981), directed by John Carpenter, and Armed Response (1986), with David Carradine.
In 1984, Van Cleef was the main protagonist of the NBC television series The Master, created by Michael Sloan, Lee plays an ex-military master martial arts expert ninja.
Although it only lasted 13 episodes in the series keeps hundreds of thousands of fans around the world
He also guest starred in the TV series The Range Rider - The Adventures of Champion - The Gene Autry Show - The Lone Ranger - Brave Eagle - Trackdown - Wagon Train - Laramie - Rawhide - Branded - Laredo - Gunsmoke, always playing villain roles
Van Cleef's only published English-language biography
TheBad.net: A Tribute to Lee Van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef page
Lee van Cleef Forum
actors from New Jersey
Loud is the fifth studio album by Barbadian singer Rihanna.
It was released November 12, 2010.
This record produced several hit songs, including number one hits Only Girl (In the World), What's My Name?
and S&M. The album received mostly positive reviews from the music critics.
The album has sold over 3 milion copies and was fifth on the Billboard 200.
The album was more upbeat and happy compared to 2009's Rated R and features a more dance-pop and R&B sound.
Several rap artists made an appearance on the album including Eminem, Drake and Nicki Minaj.
"Cheers (Drink to That)" contains samples from "I'm with You" (2002), as performed by Avril Lavigne and written by Lavigne, Scott Spock, Graham Edwards and Lauren Christy.
Release formats
Loud (Ultra Couture edition) [CD+DVD]
Deluxe cover art signed by Rihanna herself (lithograph)
Enhanced clear couture cover
Deluxe edition of Loud [CD+DVD]
"Making of Loud" video DVD
20 page full size photobook
Loud (Couture edition) [CD+DVD]
Deluxe cover art lithograph
Loud (Deluxe edition) [CD + DVD]
11 track Loud album
Bonus DVD with the "Making of Loud" video
Packaged as a digipack for the US and Australia
Packaged in standard jewel case internationally
iTunes version
"Love the Way You Lie" (Piano version) (Bonus track)
"Only Girl (In the World)" (Music video) (Bonus track)
"Only Girl (In the World) (Mixin' Marc & Tony Svejda Mix Show Edit)" (Pre-order only) (Bonus track)
Digital Booklet
Credits for Loud adapted from Allmusic.
Rihanna – vocals, art direction, creative director, design, executive producer
Stacy Barthe – background vocals
Nuno Bettencourt – lead guitar
Alex Delicata – acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar
Eminem – vocals
Eric England – bass
Tor Erik Hermansen – instrumentation
Cristyle Johnson – background vocals
Priscilla Renea – background vocals
Theron Thomas – background vocals
Camilla Akrans – photography
Veronika Bozeman – additional production, vocal producer
Leesa D. Brunson – A&R
Noel Cadastre – assistant vocal engineer
Bobby Campbell – assistant vocal engineer, mixing assistant
Ariel Chobaz – vocal recording
Cary Clark – engineer
Corey Shoemaker – engineer
Carol Corless – package production
Karin Darnell – make-up
Ester Dean – producer, background vocals
Mikkel S. Eriksen – engineer, instrumentation
Jesus Garnica – mixing assistant
Brad Palmer – design, video director
Brian Palmer – video director, video producer
Josh Gudwin – vocal recording
Mariel Haenn – stylist
Alex Haldi – art direction, design
Inaam Haq – assistant vocal engineer
Kuk Harrell – vocal producer, vocal recording
Koby Hass Assistant – vocal engineer
Jaycen Joshua – mixing
Brandon Joner – assistant vocal engineer
JP Robinson – art direction, design
Rob Katz – assistant vocal engineer
Alex da Kid – engineer, producer
Karen Kwak – A&R
Damien Lewis – assistant engineer, engineer
Dane Liska – assistant vocal engineer
Erik Madrid – mixing assistant
Scott Marcus – A&R
Dana Nielsen – engineer
Ben O'Neill – assistant engineer
Ciarra Pardo – art direction, creative director, design
Christian Plata – mixing assistant
Polow da Don – producer
Antonio "L.A." Reid – executive producer
Antonio Resendiz – assistant vocal engineer
Evan Rogers – executive producer
Chad "C Note" Roper – engineer
The Runners – producer
Brad Shea – assistant vocal engineer
Noah Shebib – vocal recording
StarGate – producer
Ursula Stephen – hair stylist
Jay Stevenson – engineer
Christopher "Tricky" Stewart – producer
Mike Strange – vocal recording
Carl Sturken – executive producer
Bu Thiam – A&R
Brian "B-Luv" Thomas – engineer
Marcos Tovar – mixing, vocal recording
Sandy Vee – engineer, instrumentation, mixing, producer
Jeff "Supa Jeff" Villanueva – engineer
Miles Walker – engineer
Kyle White Assistant – vocal engineer
Andrew Wuepper – engineer
Robert Zangardi – stylist
Dana Nielsen - engineer
His career began with small roles in television series such as Flipper (1967), I Dream of Jeannie (1967), and Star Trek (1967) as Makora.
In 1968 he played the role of Joshua Bolt on the television comedy Here Come the Brides.
The Young Rebels (1970), Dan August (1971), Ironside (1971), All in the Family (1972), The Streets of San Francisco (1972), The F.B.I. (1972), Ghost Story (1973), Cannon (1973).
He also got two small roles in the films Johnny Got His Gun (1971), and Magnum Force (1974, with Clint Eastwood), Soul plays of role Officer John Davis one of the members of the death squad.
In 1974 he co-starred with Glenn Ford in the television film The Disappearance of Flight 412 directed by Jud Taylor.
In 1979, Soul starred in Salem's Lot, a horror movie about vampires
The decade of the 1980s brought a lot of work television to Soul.
He got starring roles in Swan Song (1980), Rage! (
1980), Homeward Bound (1981), World War III (1982), and Through Naked Eyes (1983).
One of his best films was In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders (1988), directed by Dick Lowry.
He plays a criminal who, with an accomplice, committed a long string of crimes in the state of Florida.
they meet in a bloody shootout with FBI members.
In the 1990s Soul worked on the big screen with Dolph Lundgren in Pentathlon (1994), directed by Bruce Malmuth.
Some years ago Soul worked on British television, has participated in such films as The Dark Lantern (2004), Jerry Springer: The Opera (2005).
Soul shot to stardom in 1975 as star of the detective series Starsky and Hutch.
He played Detective Sergeant Ken Hutchinson who, along with Dave Starsky Paul Michael Glaser, had to stop all kinds of criminals.
The stories deal with simple cases of theft to serial killings.
Soul played the character of Ken Hutchinson in 82 episodes between 1975 and 1979.
Soul also had a successful career as a singer.
He had hits like "Don't Give Up On Us" and "Silver Lady", which peaked at number one on the charts in Britain in 1977.
Soul recorded five albums: David Soul (1976), Playing To An Audience Of One (1977), Band Of Friends (1979), The Best Days Of My Life (1982), and Leave A Light On (1997).
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Printing and the Mind of Man: a descriptive catalogue illustrating the impact of print on the evolution of western civilisation during five centuries.
Compiled by John Carter and Percy H. Muir.
Karl Pressler, München (Munich) 1983.
The list here does not notice mathematics or technology, although these subjects are related to science.
1st century AD / 15th century
Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder, 23–79 AD) Historia naturalis.
Venice, 1469.
Pliny's Natural History is an encyclopedia of the scientific and technical knowledge of the ancient world.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
Nuremberg, 1543.
The first step to modern science.
Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) Historiae animalium.
5 vols, Zurich 1551–57.
An encyclopedia of animals, illustrated by woodcuts.
Wiliam Gilbert (1544–1603) De magnete.
London 1600.
First to propose that the Earth was one large magnet.
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) Astronomia nova.
Heidelberg 1609.
The laws of planetary motion.
Siderius nuncius.
Discorsi et demonstrazioni mathematiche.
Leiden 1638.
Includes mathematics of motion in support of his previous work.
William Harvey (1578–1657) Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus.
Frankfurt 1628.
Proof of the circulation of blood; fundamental to physiology and medicine.
Robert Boyle (1627–1691)
The sceptical chymist.
London 1661.
The foundation of chemistry.
New experimental physico-mechanical touching the air.
2nd ed, Oxford 1662.
Boyle's law.
Robert Hooke (1635–1703) Micrographia.
London 1665.
The microscope and what he saw in it, illustrated.
Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) De solido.
Florence 1669.
Clear recognition of the organic origin of fossils, and first attempt to show sections of geological strata.
Isaac Newton (1642–1727) Philosophae naturalis principia mathematica.
London, 1687.
Mathematical physics, gravity, laws of motion.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) Arcana naturae detecta.
Delft, 1696.
Made many lenses and microscopes, with which he made many discoveries.
Discovered microorganisms, and was the first to name some bacteria.
Edward Tyson (1650–1708) Orang-Outang; or the anatomy of a pygmie compared to that of a monkey, an ape, and a man.
London 1699.
The earliest important work in comparative anatomy.
He showed that between monkey and man stood the anthropoid apes.
The 'pygmie' was a chimpanzee, evidently a juvenile.
Edmund Halley (1656–1742) A synopsis of the anatomy of comets.
London, 1705.
A famous study of comets.
Stephen Hales (1677–1761) Statical essays containing vegetable staticks &c. 2 vols, London, 1731–33.
Ground-breaking work on the movement of water and sap in plants.
Carl Linnaeus, or Linné (1707–78) Systema naturae.
Leiden, 1735.
Originator of the binomial system of classification of living things.
All species he knew about were given both a general (genus) and a specific name, such as Homo sapiens.
The names were given in Latin, and so avoided a problem with local names.
Georges Louis le Clerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–88) Histoire naturelle, general et particuliere.
44 vols, Paris 1749–1804.
Frederick William Herschel (1738–1822) Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, and several planetary satellites.
He worked out what the Milky Way was, and discovered binary stars.
His catalogue of binary stars was expanded further by his son, John Herschel.
On the proper motion of the Sun and Solar system.
London, 1783.
Catalogue of 500 new nebulae, nebulous stars, planetary nebulae, and clusters of stars; with remarks on the construction of the heavens.
London, 1802.
Announces discovery of double stars.
Account of the changes that have happened, during the last twenty-five years, in the relative situation of double-stars; with an investigation of the cause to which they are owing.
London, 1903.
Confirms the discovery of double stars.
Antoine Lavoisier (1743–94) Traité élémentaire de chimie.
2 vols, Paris, 1789.
First modern textbook of chemistry.
Lavoisier understood the difference between elements and compounds, and put an end to alchemy.
James Hutton (1726–97) Theory of the Earth, with proofs and illustrations.
2 vols, Edinburgh 1795; vol 3 London 1899.
Uniformitarianism applied to geology: processes seen today have acted in the past.
Small changes over long periods of time lead to great transformations.
A foundation-stone of geology.
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) Traité de méchanique céleste.
5 vols, Paris 1799–1825.
Fundamental work on applied mathematics and astronomy.
Includes celestial mechanics applied to the solar system.
Laplace was the originator of a number of mathematical techniques, and the author of the nebular hypothesis of how the solar system arose.
He showed the solar system would be long-lasting because of its dynamic stability.
John Dalton (1766–1844) A new system of chemical philosophy.
London: part I 1808, part II 1810; volume 2, part I 1827.
Dalton's atomic theory.
Lamarck (1744–1829) Philosophie Zoologique.
2 vols, Paris 1809.
First coherent statement of evolution (though not quite as now), and a theory (incorrect) as to how it happened.
One of Darwin's most important precursors.
William Smith (1769–1839) A geological map of England and Wales, with part of Scotland.
London 1815.
Founder of stratigraphy and geological mapping.
Michael Faraday (1791–1867) Experimental researches in electricity.
3 vols, London 1839, 1844, 1855.
Faraday, a blacksmith's son, became the greatest experimental physicist of the nineteenth cencury.
Justus Liebig (1803–1873) Dawn of organic chemistry.
Liebig 'invented' the chemical laboratory.
Die Organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie.
Brunswick 1840. (