1080° Snowboarding

1080° Snowboarding. 1080° Snowboarding is a 1998 snowboarding video game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and published by Nintendo. It was released for the Nintendo 64 and re-released in 2008 for the Wii's Virtual Console. In the game, the player controls one of...

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The Body (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

The Body (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). "The Body" is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of the supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon, it originally aired on The WB Television Network in the United States on February 27,...

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Oryzomys gorgasi

Oryzomys gorgasi. Oryzomys gorgasi, also known as Gorgas's rice rat, is a rodent in the genus Oryzomys of the family Cricetidae. First collected as a living animal in 1967, it is known from only a few localities, including a freshwater swamp in the lowlands of northwestern Colombia and a mangrove islet...

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Grey currawong

Grey currawong. The grey currawong (Strepera versicolor) is a large passerine bird native to southern Australia, including Tasmania. One of three currawong species, it is a large crow-like bird, around 48 cm (19 in) long, with yellow irises, a heavy bill, and dark plumage, with a white undertail...

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Portrait of a Musician

Portrait of a Musician. The Portrait of a Musician is an unfinished painting widely attributed to the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. His only known male portrait painting, it was probably painted between 1483 and 1487 while Leonardo was in Milan. It has been in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana...

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Margaret (singer)

Margaret (singer). Margaret (born 1991) is a Polish singer and songwriter. Before her mainstream debut, she performed with underground bands, recorded soundtracks for television commercials and produced a fashion blog. Through her blogging, she was discovered by music manager Sławomir Berdowski and...

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Siege of Lilybaeum (250–241 BC)

Siege of Lilybaeum (250–241 BC). The Siege of Lilybaeum lasted from 250 to 241 BC, as the Roman army laid siege to the Carthaginian-held Sicilian city of Lilybaeum (modern Marsala; reconstruction pictured) during the First Punic War. Lilybaeum was well-fortified and situated on the coast, where...

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2015 Formula One World Championship

2015 Formula One World Championship. The 2015 Formula One World Championship was the 69th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 2015 Formula One World Championship as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. Twenty-two drivers representing ten teams contested nineteen...

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Evelyn Mase

Evelyn Mase. Evelyn Mase (1922–2004) was a South African nurse who was the first wife of the anti-apartheid activist and later president Nelson Mandela, to whom she was married from 1944 to 1958. Born in Engcobo, Transkei, Mase moved to Johannesburg to train as a nurse, and there met and married Mandela....

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SS Mauna Loa

SS Mauna Loa. SS Mauna Loa was a steam-powered cargo ship of the Matson Navigation Company that was sunk in the Bombing of Darwin in February 1942. Built in 1919 for the United States Shipping Board, she was christened West Conob and renamed Golden Eagle in 1928, sailing for a variety of...

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Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian

Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian. Hurricane Dorian was the strongest hurricane to affect the Bahamas, causing catastrophic damage in September 2019. Dorian originated from a tropical wave off the western coast of Africa on August 19 and became a tropical storm on August 24....

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Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes. Planet of the Apes is an American science-fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control. Based on French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel La Planète des singes,...

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Dermotherium

Dermotherium. Dermotherium is a genus of fossil mammals closely related to the living colugos, a small group of gliding mammals from Southeast Asia. The two species are known from Thailand; D. major from the late Eocene, based on a fragment of the lower jaw, and D. chimaera from the late...

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Silesian Wars

Silesian Wars. The Silesian Wars were a series of three wars fought between Prussia (under King Frederick the Great) and Austria (under Archduchess Maria Theresa) for control of the Central European region of Silesia (now in south-west Poland). The First (1740–1742) and Second Silesian Wars (1744–1745)...

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Heaven Upside Down

Heaven Upside Down. Heaven Upside Down is the tenth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released on October 6, 2017. The record was initially scheduled to be issued on Valentine's Day, but was delayed by the death of the father of lead singer Marilyn Manson (pictured). It features...

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Saturn (magazine)

Saturn (magazine). Saturn was an American magazine published from 1957 to 1965. It was launched as a science-fiction magazine, but sales were weak, and after five issues the publisher, Robert C. Sproul, switched the magazine to hardboiled detective fiction that emphasized sex and sadism. Sproul renamed...

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Grant Memorial coinage

Grant Memorial coinage. The Grant Memorial gold dollar and silver half dollar were struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1922 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ulysses S. Grant, a leading Union general during the Civil War and later the 18th president of the United States....

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Bernard A. Maguire

Bernard A. Maguire. Bernard A. Maguire (February 11, 1818 – April 26, 1886) was a Catholic priest and Jesuit who twice served as the president of Georgetown University. Maguire emigrated with his family from Ireland to Maryland at the age of six, where he studied under the Jesuits at...

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Operation PBHistory

Operation PBHistory. Operation PBHistory was a covert operation carried out in Guatemala by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. It followed Operation PBSuccess, which led to the overthrow of Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz (pictured) in June 1954 and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. PBHistory...

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Apollo 14

Apollo 14. Apollo 14 (January 31 – February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, and the third to land on the Moon. Commander Alan Shepard (pictured), Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell overcame a series...

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Elizabeth Raffald

Elizabeth Raffald. Elizabeth Raffald (1733–1781) was an English author, innovator and entrepreneur. Born and raised in Doncaster, Yorkshire, Raffald went into domestic service for fifteen years, ending as the housekeeper to the Warburton baronets at Arley Hall, Cheshire. She moved with her husband...

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Margate F.C.

Margate F.C.. Margate F.C. is an English football team based in the seaside resort of Margate, Kent. They currently play in the Isthmian League Premier Division. The club was founded in 1896 and joined the Southern Football League in 1933. After a spell in the Kent League after World War II, the...

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Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley

Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley. Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley (1926–2016) was an English barrister and judge. He was the original co-author of Goff & Jones, the leading English law textbook on restitution and unjust enrichment, first published in 1966. He practised as a commercial...

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Cheadle Hulme

Cheadle Hulme. Cheadle Hulme is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Cheshire, it lies south-east of Manchester, in the Ladybrook Valley. In 2011, it had a population of 26,479. Evidence of Bronze Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon activity, including...

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Nine Inch Nails live performances

Nine Inch Nails live performances. Since the band's creation, the live performances of Nine Inch Nails, an industrial rock band, have been given worldwide. In addition to regular concerts, the band has performed at festivals and other one-off performances. Nine Inch Nails' live performances differ...

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Bee-eater

Bee-eater. The bee-eaters are near passerine birds of the family Meropidae, containing three genera and twenty-seven species. Most species are found in Africa and Asia, with a few in southern Europe, Australia, and New Guinea. They are characterised by richly coloured plumage and slender bodies, and...

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Groundhog Day (film)

Groundhog Day (film). Groundhog Day is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis and Danny Rubin. It stars Bill Murray (pictured), Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott. Murray portrays Phil Connors, a cynical television weatherman who is sent, much to his disgruntlement,...

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Haane Manahi

Haane Manahi. Haane Manahi (28 September 1913 – 29 March 1986) was a New Zealand Māori soldier who served in the Second World War with the Māori Battalion. He joined the battalion in 1939 and fought in Greece, in Crete and in North Africa. In April 1943, during the Tunisian...

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