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Boyz_n_the_Hood | Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American teen hood drama film written and directed by John Singleton in his directorial debut , and starring Cuba Gooding Jr. , Ice Cube , Morris Chestnut , Laurence Fishburne , Nia Long , Regina King and Angela Bassett . This was the film debut for both Ice Cube and Morris Chestnut . Boyz n the Hood was filmed in ( then called ) South Central Los Angeles , California from October 1 to November 28 , 1990 and released in the United States on July 12 , 1991 . It was nominated for both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay during the 64th Academy Awards , making Singleton the youngest person ever nominated for Best Director and the first African-American to be nominated for the award . The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival . In 2002 , the United States Library of Congress deemed the film `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry . |
Brick_(film) | Brick is a 2005 American neo-noir mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson in his directorial debut , starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt . Brick was distributed by Focus Features , and opened in New York and Los Angeles on April 7 , 2006 . The film 's narrative centers on a hardboiled detective story set in a Californian suburb . Most of the main characters are high school students . The film draws heavily in plot , characterization , and dialogue from hardboiled classics , especially those by Dashiell Hammett . The title refers to a block of heroin , compressed roughly to the size and shape of a brick . The film won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival , and received positive reviews from critics . It has come to be regarded as a cult classic . |
Broker-dealer | In financial services , a broker-dealer is a natural person , company or other organization that engages in the business of trading securities for its own account or on behalf of its customers . Broker-dealers are at the heart of the securities and derivatives trading process . Although many broker-dealers are `` independent '' firms solely involved in broker-dealer services , many others are business units or subsidiaries of commercial banks , investment banks or investment companies . When executing trade orders on behalf of a customer , the institution is said to be acting as a broker . When executing trades for its own account , the institution is said to be acting as a dealer . Securities bought from clients or other firms in the capacity of dealer may be sold to clients or other firms acting again in the capacity of dealer , or they may become a part of the firm 's holdings . In addition to execution of securities transactions , broker-dealers are also the main sellers and distributors of mutual fund shares . |
BottleRock_Napa_Valley | BottleRock Napa Valley is an annual music festival in held at the Napa Valley Expo in Napa , California . The initial BottleRock was a 5-day event that took place May 8 -- 12 , 2013 . The event featured 3 stages with 60 bands , including Jackson Browne , Train , The Black Crowes , Zac Brown Band , The Shins , Primus , The Avett Brothers , Joan Jett , Cake , Jane 's Addiction , The Flaming Lips , Kings of Leon , The Black Keys , Alabama Shakes , The Iron Heart , Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite . Furthur had been scheduled , but withdrew from the lineup due to an injury and health issues suffered by Bob Weir . It was the Napa Valley 's first large-scale music festival . 40 local wineries were featured at the festival . Although the festival attracted over 120,000 attendees and generated mostly positive reviews , several vendors and workers claim to have been left unpaid by organizers following the event . Estimates of well over $ 2.5 million for unpaid wages and services are being claimed by creditors including the City of Napa , venue provider Napa Valley Expo , a variety of security , catering and transportation companies , a local of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and individuals . |
Brenda_Sue_Fulton | Brenda S. `` Sue '' Fulton is a 1980 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point , a member of the Academy 's first class to admit women . She commissioned in the Army as a signal officer , serving as both a platoon leader and company commander in Germany before receiving an honorable discharge at the rank of Captain . During her ensuing years in the private sector , Fulton worked briefly with the Campaign for Military Service ( later SLDN ) , supporting Bill Clinton 's efforts to overturn the ban on gay service . These efforts failed , leading to the `` Do n't Ask , Do n't Tell '' policy . After the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009 , Fulton served as a founding board member of Knights Out , an organization of LGBT West Point graduates , and later OutServe , the association of actively-serving LGBT military members . In those roles , she advocated for repeal of `` Do n't Ask , Do n't Tell , '' and worked closely with the Pentagon on implementation of the repeal . She is still active in Knights Out , and currently serves as President of SPARTA , an LGBT military group advocating for transgender military service . Fulton was among the more than 75 USMA women alumni who attended the first Ranger School graduation to include women , calling the moment as important as her classmates ' own graduation from West Point . In 2011 , President Obama appointed Fulton to the West Point Board of Visitors , making her the first openly gay person to serve as a board member in its history . She spoke as part of a three-person panel at the first-ever LGBT pride event held at the Pentagon , where she discussed her experiences in the Army and at West Point . In 2013 , Fulton openly challenged Academy leadership on its handling of cadet misconduct , specifically related to sexual harassment and assault . Her tenure has been marked by increased diversity in entering classes , with higher percentages of African-American , Latino , and women cadets . In 2012 , Fulton and Penelope Dara Gnesin became the first couple to be married in a same-sex marriage at the U.S. Military Academy 's Cadet Chapel at West Point ( not to be confused with the Old Cadet Chapel ) . They currently live in Asbury Park , NJ . In 2015 , Fulton was elected chairperson of the Board of Visitors at West Point , making her the first woman graduate to hold that position . |
Bombhead | David `` Bombhead '' Burke is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera , Hollyoaks , played by Lee Otway . Initially known as `` David Witherspoon '' , he appeared on the soap between 2001 and 2005 . In 2010 , Otway reprised the role in online spin-off Hollyoaks : Freshers . The character returned again on 13 January 2011 for two episodes . |
Bree_Newsome | Brittany Ann `` Bree '' Newsome ( born c. 1984 or 1985 ) is an American filmmaker , musician , speaker , and activist from Charlotte , North Carolina . She is best known for her act of civil disobedience on June 27 , 2015 , when she was arrested for removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state house grounds . The resulting publicity put pressure on state officials to remove the flag permanently , and it was taken down permanently on July 10 , 2015 . |
Brigitte_Bardot | Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( -LSB- bʁiʒit baʁˈdo -RSB- ; born 28 September 1934 ) is a French actress , singer and fashion model , who later became an animal rights activist . She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was widely referred to by her initials , B.B. Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in her early life . She started her acting career in 1952 . After appearing in 16 routine comedy films that had limited international release , she became world-famous in 1957 after starring in the controversial film And God Created Woman . Bardot caught the attention of French intellectuals . She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir 's 1959 essay , The Lolita Syndrome , which described Bardot as a `` locomotive of women 's history '' and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France . She later starred in Jean-Luc Godard 's 1963 film Le Mépris . For her role in Louis Malle 's 1965 film Viva Maria ! Bardot was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress . From 1969 to 1978 , Bardot was the official face of Marianne ( who had previously been anonymous ) to represent the liberty of France . Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973 . During her career in show business , she starred in 47 films , performed in several musical shows and recorded over 60 songs . She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985 but refused to accept it . After her retirement , she established herself as an animal rights activist . During the 2000s , she generated controversy by criticizing immigration and Islam in France and has been fined five times for inciting racial hatred . |
Boston_martyrs | The Boston martyrs is the name given in Quaker tradition to the three English members of the Society of Friends , Marmaduke Stephenson , William Robinson and Mary Dyer , and to the Friend William Leddra of Barbados , who were condemned to death and executed by public hanging for their religious beliefs under the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659 , 1660 and 1661 . Several other Friends lay under sentence of death at Boston in the same period , but had their punishments commuted to that of being whipped out of the colony from town to town . `` The hanging of Mary Dyer on the Boston gallows in 1660 marked the beginning of the end of the Puritan theocracy and New England independence from English rule . In 1661 King Charles II explicitly forbade Massachusetts from executing anyone for professing Quakerism . In 1684 England revoked the Massachusetts charter , sent over a royal governor to enforce English laws in 1686 , and in 1689 passed a broad Toleration act . '' |
Brainclaw | Brainclaw is an industrial/electronic music project initially created at Ithaca College , NY in 1989 by David Giuffre . The band centers on Giuffre , but features many guest artists on its releases . Notable songs are `` Insekt/Angel '' and `` When The Dark Rains Come '' which were used on the DVD releases of The Matrix Revolutions , The Matrix Box Set and the Spider-Man Collector 's Edition . Brainclaw was signed to BLC Productions in Little Rock , AR . |
Brian_Smith_(American_musician) | Brian Eric Smith ( born February 20 , 1990 ) is an American musician and poet best known for his work as a solo performer . He was born in Carbondale , Illinois and moved to Canby , Oregon when he was three . According to his website , `` Brian was inspired by his older brother to begin playing guitar at the age of fourteen and start recording one year later . Since then , he has written and recorded over 450 songs , toured the US west coast five times , toured South America twice , performed in over thirty European countries , created an album containing more than forty personalized songs for each of his closest friends , served as president of the Oregon State University Musicians Guild for two years , and founded his own music festival as well as DIY music collective in Corvallis , Oregon , which he operated for four years . '' Brian has been on an endless tour since August 1 , 2012 . He is also a vegetarian . |
Brain_types | Brain typing is a system developed by Jonathan P. Niednagel that applies elements from neuroscience , physiology , and psychology to estimate athletic ability . It is based on the psychological typology of Carl Jung and the later work of Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers . Currently , no controlled experiments have been done to assess the effectiveness of Brain Typing ( though there are anecdotal reports of both successes and failures , along with a pilot study on blood samples conducted in conjunction with Divyen H. Patel of Genome Explorations ) , and as a result the American Psychological Association considers Brain Typing a pseudoscience . What separates Brain typing from Jungian typology and its offshoots , such as the Myers -- Briggs Type Indicator ( MBTI ) and Socionics , is its emphasis on motor skills . Each of the sixteen brain types is said to specialize in certain regions of the brain responsible for varying degrees of mental and motor skills . Niednagel believes the types are inherited , possessing a genetic basis . The brain types website and books also explain how it differs from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in that it believes the ENTP/FCIR type is by far the most common of the sixteen types , whereas some other types presumed as common in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator , such as the ISTJ/BEIL , are actually only about 3 % of the populace according to their estimates . Brain types have been criticized by the American Psychological Association as not valid and built for commercial purposes only . |
Brad_Pitt_filmography | Brad Pitt is an American actor and film producer , whose acting career began in 1987 with uncredited roles in the films No Way Out and Less Than Zero . He subsequently appeared in episodes for television shows during the late 1980s , and played his first major role in the slasher film Cutting Class ( 1989 ) . He gained recognition in Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ) and A River Runs Through It ( 1992 ) . He later took on the role of vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the horror drama Interview with the Vampire ( 1994 ) and for his performance in the epic drama Legends of the Fall ( 1994 ) , he earned his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor nomination . Pitt featured in the David Fincher-directed , commercially successful thriller Seven ( 1995 ) , in which he played a detective on the trail of a psychopathic serial killer . The role of a mental patient in the science fiction film 12 Monkeys earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination in the same category . He followed it with the role of Heinrich Harrer in the biopic Seven Years in Tibet ( 1997 ) . Pitt reteamed with Fincher to star in the apocalyptic film Fight Club ( 1999 ) in a role that required him learn boxing , taekwondo , and grappling . A critical and commercial success , the film has since developed a cult status . Pitt portrayed Rusty Ryan in the commercially successful heist film series Ocean 's Trilogy ( 2001 -- 07 ) . In 2002 , he earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his guest appearance in the sitcom Friends . Also that year , Pitt started a production company , Plan B Entertainment , whose first release was the epic war film Troy ( 2004 ) , starring Pitt . He played an assassin opposite Angelina Jolie in the commercially successful action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 2005 ) . Pitt produced the 2006 crime drama The Departed , and acted alongside Cate Blanchett in the multi-narrative drama Babel ( 2006 ) ; the former won the Academy Award for Best Picture . Pitt 's portrayal of the eponymous man who ages in reverse in the drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ( 2008 ) earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination . He starred in the successful war film Inglourious Basterds ( 2009 ) , and produced the superhero film Kick-Ass ( 2010 ) and its sequel in 2013 . In 2011 , he earned critical acclaim for producing and starring in two films -- the experimental drama The Tree of Life and the biopic sports drama Moneyball -- both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture . He also garnered a Best Actor nomination for the latter . His biggest commercial success came with the apocalyptic film World War Z ( 2013 ) , which has grossed a total of $ 540 million worldwide . Pitt produced the period drama 12 Years a Slave ( 2013 ) , for which he won the Academy Award for Best Picture . In 2014 , he starred in the war film Fury which received positive reviews from critics and proved to be successful at the box office . |
Breaking_Free | `` Breaking Free '' is a song from the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical . It also appears on the soundtrack of the same name . It is sung by Drew Seeley , Zac Efron , and Vanessa Hudgens . It was also released as a single on June 8 , 2006 . On June 21 , 2006 , it was certified as a Gold single by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 . The song is sung during the film 's climax when the main characters Troy and Gabriella participate in the callbacks in front of the entire student body . In universe , the duet is written and composed by Kelsi Nielsen for the second act of the ` Twinkle Towne ' school musical . The song subsequently appeared on Vanessa Hudgens ' compilation album , A Musical Tribute and appears on the Disney compilation album , Disney Channel Playlist , which was released on June 9 , 2009 . |
Black_Papers | The Black Papers were a series of articles on British education , published from 1969 to 1977 in the Critical Quarterly ; their name intended as a contrast to government White Papers . According to the Critical Quarterly website the Black Papers were : ... an attack on the excesses of progressive education and the introduction by the Labour Party of a system of 11-18 comprehensives to replace the grammar school ... the furore it created led to the publication of four more pamphlets . Contributors included Kingsley Amis , Robert Conquest , Geoffrey Bantock , Jacques Barzun , Iris Murdoch and Rhodes Boyson . The Black Papers were not opposed in principle to progressive education , only to its excesses , which were rampant in British schools in the 1960s and 1970s . They criticised selection for grammar schools at the age of eleven and advocated it should be delayed until children were at least thirteen years of age . They criticised the student sit-ins which were damaging the reputation of British universities ... The editors became leaders in a national campaign ; today the Black Paper proposals for schools by and large are accepted by both the Conservative and Labour Parties in Britain . The first two , both published in 1969 , had the most impact : Fight for Education , March 1969 , edited by Brian Cox and A.E. Dyson Crisis in Education , edited by Brian Cox The Labour Secretary of State for Education Edward Short said in a speech to the National Union of Teachers in 1969 : `` In my view the publication of the Black Paper was one of the blackest days for education in the past century '' , but ten years later the Black Paper proposals were `` at the root of mainstream Labour and Tory policy '' . Forty years later , Short however had not changed his views , saying of them : `` These were scurrilous documents ; quite disgraceful '' . |
Boni_Blackstone | Bonnie `` Boni '' Blackstone ( born November 8 , 1965 ) is a retired American professional wrestling announcer , commentator , model , television and radio producer . She was a popular on-air personality in regional territories of the Southern United States during the 1980s , as part of the announcing team in the Global Wrestling Federation and briefly the World Wrestling Federation , as well as the longtime co-host of Superstars of Wrestling with husband Joe Pedicino and Gordon Solie from 1986 to 1992 . She was one of the earliest , if not the first , female announcers in professional wrestling and has been praised by fellow women in the industry , such as Missy Hyatt , for portraying a more serious and intelligent personality in contrast to the typical wrestling valet . She retired from wrestling in 1995 , and eventually followed her husband into the radio industry . They produced and co-hosted WTLK TV-14 infomercial `` Shoppers ' Showcase '' and , in 2000 , began hosting Pro Wrestling this Week on FOX Sports Radio . Blackstone and Pedicino are also the owners of a successful publishing company , Food Fax , which puts out six specialty advertising guides a year . The company originally sent out fax listings to office workers listing lunch menus and daily specials from over 1,000 local restaurants in Cobb County , Georgia . It was the first of its kind to offer such service . |
Boy_Meets_World | Boy Meets World is an American television sitcom that chronicles the coming-of-age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews ( portrayed by Ben Savage ) . The show follows Cory and his friends and family through seven seasons , from his middle school days as a pre-pubescent child to his life in college as a married man . The show aired from 1993 to 2000 on ABC , part of the network 's TGIF lineup . The entire series has since been released on DVD , as well as on iTunes . A sequel titled Girl Meets World , focusing on Cory and Topanga and their teen daughter Riley , ran on Disney Channel from June 27 , 2014 to January 20 , 2017 . |
Body_memory | Body memory is a hypothesis that the body itself is capable of storing memories , as opposed to only the brain . The idea could be pseudoscientific as there are no known means by which tissues other than the brain are capable of storing memories . Body memory is used to explain having memories for events where the brain was not in a position to store memories and is sometimes a catalyst for repressed memory recovery . These memories are often characterised with phantom pain in a part or parts of the body -- the body appearing to remember the past trauma . The idea of body memory is a belief frequently associated with the idea of repressed memories , in which memories of incest or sexual abuse can be retained and recovered through physical sensations . An example of body memory is based on decapitated animals that upon regrowing their head seem to recall past memories and training . This may suggest evidence that such means may be available to simpler forms of life . |
Box_set_(theatre) | In theatre , a box set is a set with a proscenium arch stage and three walls . The proscenium opening is the fourth wall . Box sets create the illusion of an interior room on the stage , and are contrasted with earlier forms of sets in which sliding flats with gaps between them created an illusion of perspective . Box sets were introduced to the English theatre by Elizabeth Vestris . They were popularized by Marie Wilton at the Prince of Wales 's Royal Theater . They later became a feature of realist theatre , and an example of the `` fourth wall removed '' principle that characterized the work of noted realists such as Henrik Ibsen , Émile Zola , George Bernard Shaw , and Anton Chekhov . In play style of Realism , the Box Set of the stage was a room with either plain black backdrop or three walls , the fourth wall was invisible , separating the characters from the audience , the ceiling was tilted down at the far end of the stage and up toward the audience . Doors slammed instead of swinging when being shut just like in a real world . |
Brad_Scott_(fighter) | Bradley `` Brad '' Scott ( born 22 June 1989 ) is an English mixed martial artist . A professional MMA competitor since 2009 , Scott has made a name for himself fighting all over the country of England . He was a competitor on The Ultimate Fighter : The Smashes . |
Braggadocio_(rap) | Braggadocio is a type of rapping where the MC is `` bragging and boasting '' and can include subjects such as physicality , fighting ability , financial wealth , sexual prowess , or coolness . It is often heavily used in battle rapping , and braggadocio lyrics can range from simply stating how skillful one is to employing complex literary techniques . The book How to Rap shows an example of complex braggadocio through Eric B. & Rakim 's track `` No Omega '' from their Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em album . MCs such as Murs , Guerilla Black , and Esoteric also suggest reasons in How to Rap for why braggadocio is so common in rapping , ranging from competitiveness in the old-school hip hop ethic , to the struggles of `` young , black males in America '' . MCs also feel that braggadocio is an important aspect of hip hop and rapping and that it can also be mixed with other topics to good effect . Rap 's braggadocio -- unlike other bragging by young men about sex , wealth , and physical strength -- can also be about the rapper 's artistic or poetic ability . The term did not originate as a rap term . The origins are very much older . The term is noted as having originated from the late 16th century , and denotes a boaster . It is from Braggadocchio , the name of a braggart in Spenser 's The Faerie Queene . It is a composite of the word brag or braggart , and the Italian suffix - occio , denoting something large of its kind . Refer to the Oxford Dictionary for more details . |
Bleecker_Street_(company) | Bleecker Street , ( stylized as BLΞΞCKER STRΞΞT ) is a New York City-based film distribution company . |
Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress | The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range , subsonic , jet-powered strategic bomber . The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing , which has continued to provide support and upgrades . It has been operated by the United States Air Force ( USAF ) since the 1950s . The bomber is capable of carrying up to 70000 lb of weapons , and has a typical combat range of more than 8,800 miles ( 14,080 km ) without aerial refueling . Beginning with the successful contract bid in June 1946 , the B-52 design evolved from a straight wing aircraft powered by six turboprop engines to the final prototype YB-52 with eight turbojet engines and swept wings . The B-52 took its maiden flight in April 1952 . Built to carry nuclear weapons for Cold War-era deterrence missions , the B-52 Stratofortress replaced the Convair B-36 . A veteran of several wars , the B-52 has dropped only conventional munitions in combat . The B-52 's official name Stratofortress is rarely used ; informally , the aircraft has become commonly referred to as the BUFF ( Big Ugly Fat Fucker ) . The B-52 has been in active service with the USAF since 1955 . , 58 were in active service with 18 in reserve . The bombers flew under the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) until it was disestablished in 1992 and its aircraft absorbed into the Air Combat Command ( ACC ) ; in 2010 all B-52 Stratofortresses were transferred from the ACC to the newly created Air Force Global Strike Command ( AFGSC ) . Superior performance at high subsonic speeds and relatively low operating costs have kept the B-52 in service despite the advent of later , more advanced aircraft , including the canceled Mach 3 B-70 Valkyrie , the variable-geometry B-1 Lancer , and the stealth B-2 Spirit . The B-52 completed sixty years of continuous service with its original operator in 2015 . After being upgraded between 2013 and 2015 , it is expected to serve into the 2040s . |
Book_paper | A book paper ( or publishing paper ) is a paper that is designed specifically for the publication of printed books . Traditionally , book papers are off-white or low-white papers ( easier to read ) , are opaque to minimise the show-through of text from one side of the page to the other , and are ( usually ) made to tighter caliper or thickness specifications , particularly for case-bound books . Typically , books papers are light-weight papers 60 to 90 g/m ² and often specified by their caliper/substance ratios ( volume basis ) . For example , a bulky 80 g/m ² paper may have a caliper of 120 micrometres ( 0.12 mm ) which would be Volume 15 ( 120 × 10/80 ) , whereas a low bulk 80 g/m ² may have a caliper of 88 micrometres , giving a volume 11 . This volume basis then allows the calculation of a book 's PPI ( printed pages per inch ) , which is an important factor for the design of book jackets and the binding of the finished book . Different paper qualities can be used as book paper depending on the type of book . Machine-finished coated papers , woodfree uncoated papers , coated fine papers , and special fine papers are common paper grades . Category : Paper |
Bound_for_Glory_(2006) | Bound for Glory ( 2006 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , which took place on October 22 , 2006 from the Compuware Sports Arena in the Detroit , Michigan charter township of Plymouth . It was the second event under the Bound for Glory chronology . Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event 's card , with Jeff Jarrett defending his NWA World Heavyweight Championship against Sting with the stipulation that Sting would retire from professional wrestling if he 'd lose . Bound for Glory was the first TNA pay-per-view event held in a location other than Nashville , Tennessee , or Orlando , Florida , since the first two weekly pay-per-views in June 2002 , which were held in Huntsville , Alabama . The Compuware Sports Arena was also the site of the first TNA house show . This was the first pay-per-view to feature a half-hour `` Road to '' preview airing the night before . This continued for future pay-per-views . This was the first and only time that all of TNA 's active championships at the time changed hands in one night . |
British_Indian_Ocean_Territory | The British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia . The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islandsmany very smallamounting to a total land area of 60 km2 . The largest and most southerly island is Diego Garcia , 44 km2 , the site of a joint military facility of the United Kingdom and the United States . The only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors , who collectively number around 2,500 ( 2012 figures ) . The removal of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago occurred between 1968 and 1973 . The Chagossians , then numbering about 2,000 people , were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to build a military base there . Today , the exiled Chagossians are still trying to return , claiming that the forced expulsion and dispossession was illegal . The islands are off-limits to casual tourists , the media , and their former inhabitants . Mauritius has sought to gain control over the Chagos Archipelago , which was separated from its territory by the U.K. in 1965 to form the British Indian Ocean Territory . The British Indian Ocean Territory is one of only two British territories where traffic drives on the right , the other being Gibraltar . |
Black_propaganda | Black propaganda is false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict , but is actually from the opposing side . It is typically used to vilify , embarrass , or misrepresent the enemy . Black propaganda contrasts with grey propaganda , the source of which is not identified , and white propaganda , in which the real source is declared and usually more accurate information is given , albeit slanted , distorted and omissive . Black propaganda is covert in nature in that its aims , identity , significance , and sources are hidden . The major characteristic of black propaganda is that the people are not aware that someone is influencing them , and do not feel that they are being pushed in a certain direction . Black propaganda purports to emanate from a source other than the true source . This type of propaganda is associated with covert psychological operations . Sometimes the source is concealed or credited to a false authority and spreads lies , fabrications , and deceptions . Black propaganda is the `` big lie '' , including all types of creative deceit . Black propaganda relies on the willingness of the receiver to accept the credibility of the source . If the creators or senders of the black propaganda message do not adequately understand their intended audience , the message may be misunderstood , seem suspicious , or fail altogether . Governments can be noted to conduct black propaganda for reasons that include : A ) by disguising their direct involvement a government may be more likely to succeed in convincing an otherwise unbelieving target audience , and B ) there are diplomatic reasons behind the use of black propaganda . Black propaganda is necessary to obfuscate a government 's involvement in activities that may be detrimental to its foreign policies . |
Black_Hole_Sun_(The_Vampire_Diaries) | `` Black Hole Sun '' is the 4th episode of the sixth season of the American series The Vampire Diaries and the series ' 115th episode overall . `` Black Hole Sun '' was originally aired on October 23 , 2014 , on The CW . The episode was written by Melinda Hsu Taylor and Neil Reynolds and directed by Kellie Cyrus . |
Box_(theatre) | In theater , a box ( also known as loge ) is a small , separated seating area in the auditorium for a limited number of people . Boxes are typically placed immediately to the front , side and above the level of the stage . They are often separate rooms with an open viewing area which typically seat five people or fewer . Usually all the seats in a box are taken by members of a single group of people . A state box or royal box is sometimes provided for dignitaries . In theaters without box seating the loge can refer to a separate section at the front of the balcony . Sports venues such as stadiums and racetracks also have royal boxes or enclosures , for example at the All England Club and Ascot Racecourse , where access is limited to royal families or other distinguished personalities . In other countries , sports venues have luxury boxes , where access is open to anyone who can afford tickets . |
Broadway_(Brooklyn) | Broadway is an avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that extends from the East River in the neighborhood of Williamsburg in a southeasterly direction to East New York for a length of 4.32 mi . It was named for the Broadway in Manhattan . The East New York terminus is a complicated intersection with East New York Avenue , Fulton Street , Jamaica Avenue , and Alabama Avenue . The BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway runs on elevated tracks over Broadway from the Williamsburg Bridge to East New York on its way to Queens . Broadway forms the boundary between the neighborhoods of Bushwick , which lies above Broadway to the northeast , and Bedford -- Stuyvesant , which is to the southwest . |
Bismarck_Myrick | Bismarck Myrick ( born December 23 , 1940 ) is a former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia ( 1999 -- 2002 ) and Lesotho ( 1995 -- 1998 ) . He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and a decorated Vietnam War hero . He represented the U.S. at the swearing in of South Africa 's first democratic parliament , led by Nelson Mandela . The Kingdom of Lesotho conferred on him the Kingdom 's highest honor to a non-citizen . Liberia 's major newspapers and civil society organizations named him `` Diplomat of the Year '' or `` Man of the Year '' for three consecutive years . The City Council appointed him Goodwill Ambassador for Goree Island , Senegal in 2008 . He was Political Officer in Liberia during the government of Samuel Doe . He completed study projects in southern and western Africa every other year :2006 -2012 . He graduated from the University of Tampa with honors and earned an M.A. degree from Syracuse University . Spelman College awarded him a Doctor of Humane Letters degree . Dr. Myrick is co-author of Three Aspects of Crisis in Colonial Kenya ; author of `` The United States and Liberia '' in The African Experience : Past , Present , and Future and author of scores of official documents . Portsmouth , VA named two streets in his honor in 2001 and selected him as a 2006 `` Portsmouth Notable '' -- the city 's highest honor . He is featured in the March , 2013 edition of `` The Citizen of Chesapeake '' Newspaper . Active in community service , he is on a number of boards , such as the World Affairs Council . The government of Lesotho awarded him the Most Meritorious Order of Mohlomi , its highest honor to a non-citizen , for his work in promoting democracy . He also served as Principal Officer in Cape Town , South Africa from 1993 to 1995 , and as Principal Officer in Durban , South Africa from 1990 to 1993 , where he helped manage U.S. policies during that nation 's transformation from apartheid to non-racial democracy . During his military career , Myrick also served in Ethiopia from 1975 to 1979 as an Army foreign area officer . He joined the Foreign Service in 1980 and was assigned as Desk Officer for Somalia in the Office of East African Affairs . From 1982 to 1984 , he served as Political Officer at Monrovia in Liberia . He returned to Washington , D.C. to serve from 1985 to 1987 as Action Officer in the Office of Strategic Nuclear Policy , Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs . He was Chairman ( 1986 -- 87 ) of the Interagency Nuclear Testing Arms Control Working Group and served on the U.S. Delegation to the Geneva Nuclear Testing talks . Myrick served as Deputy Director for policy planning and coordination in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs from 1987 to 1989 . In 1989 , he was awarded a Una Chapman Cox Fellowship and conducted research on a project entitled `` Change in the Horn of Africa and Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1990s . '' He holds the Department of State 's Superior Honor Award and four Meritorious Honor Awards . While serving as the ambassador to Liberia , Myrick became the center of a potential international incident : after alleging that Myrick had interfered in domestic political issues , ruling National Patriotic Party chairman Cyril Allen urged the government to arrest Myrick . Disputes erupted among NPP partisans , as some opposed the statement of their party boss and called for an increased separation between their party and the government . Ambassador Myrick began his military career as an army private . He performed military police duties in Okinawa and Germany before his first assignment as an infantry officer in South Korea . He was an infantry company commander in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969 . He earned the Silver Star , two Bronze Stars for heroism in combat , two Bronze Stars for meritorious service in a combat zone , the Purple Heart , Meritorious Service Medal , Parachutist Badge and Combat Infantryman Badge . He was inducted into the U.S. Army Hall of Fame at Fort Benning , Georgia in 1996 . An Army Foreign Area Officer ( Africa Specialist ) , he was Director of African Studies at the School of International Studies , Fort Bragg , NC . He is in the National Infantry Museum 's Hall of Fame at Fort Benning , GA. . He was the ODU 2011 Veterans Day Honoree and Featured Speaker . A native of Portsmouth , Virginia , Myrick earned a bachelor 's degree from the University of Tampa and a master 's degree from Syracuse University . He currently teaches political science at Old Dominion University as an Ambassador-in-Residence and Lecturer . |
Blow:_Blocks_and_Boat_Docks | Blow : Blocks and Boat Docks is collaboration album between American rappers Messy Marv and Berner , the second album of their Blow series . The album features guest appearances from Brisco , Yukmouth , B-Legit , The Jacka , J. Stalin and San Quinn , among others . It peaked at # 48 on the R&B / Hip-Hop Albums chart , # 16 on the Heatseekers Albums chart and # 2 on the Top Heatseekers pacific chart . It is one of Messy Marv 's most successful albums of his career , while Blow : Blocks and Boat Docks is the most successful for Berner . A music video has been filmed for the song `` Well Connected '' . |
Boutique_investment_bank | A boutique investment bank is a non-full service investment bank that specializes in at least one aspect of investment banking , generally corporate finance , although some banks are retail in nature , such as Charles Schwab . Of those involved in corporate finance , capital raising , mergers and acquisitions and restructuring and reorganizations are their primary activities . Due to their smaller size , capital raising engagements are usually done on a best-efforts basis . Boutique investment banks generally work on smaller deals involving middle-market companies , typically less than a billion dollars in revenues , and usually assist on the sell-side in mergers and acquisitions transactions . In addition , they sometimes specialize in certain industries such as media , health care , industrials , technology or energy . Some banks may specialize in certain types of transactions , such as capital raising or mergers and acquisitions , or restructuring and reorganization . Typically , boutique investment may have a limited number of offices and may specialize in certain geographic regions , thus the moniker , ` regional investment bank ' . During 2014 , The Financial Times New York Times , and The Economist all published favorable articles regarding the growing trend of corporations to hire boutique investment banks . Reasons cited included their absence of conflicts , independence , and skill of one or a relative few individuals . The discrediting of traditionally conflicted Wall Street Investment Banking firms , especially those listed as Full-Service or Conglomerates on the List of Investment Banks , due to their role in the creation or exacerbation of the Great Financial Crisis is cited as a primary reason for the ascendancy of these boutique firms . However , advances in technology which permit the outsourcing of all non-core aspects of the firm have also been cited as a cause of this David versus Goliath phenomenon . Working at boutique investment banks generally requires working fewer hours than at larger banks , even though the majority of boutiques are founded and led by former partners at large banks . As larger investment banks were hit hard by the Great Recession of the 2000s , many senior bankers left to join boutiques , some of which largely resemble the partnerships that ruled Wall Street in the 1970s and 1980s . Boutique investment banks took a greater share of the M&A and advising market at the same time . There are many boutique investment banks , both in the U.S. and internationally . Large , prestigious boutique firms include The Blackstone Group , Brown Brothers Harriman , and Piper Jaffray . While these may be national in scale , they are not international and full-service as are the so-called ` bulge bracket firms ' . Smaller boutiques are commonly not household names , but within their niche may be quite well known . |
Brian_Petrovek | Brian Petrovek ( born March 24 , 1955 ) is an American former ice hockey goaltender . He was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the 10th round ( 172nd overall ) of the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft , and was also drafted by the Edmonton Oilers in the 11th round ( 143rd overall ) of the 1975 WHA Amateur Draft . Petrovek is currently the president of the Adirondack Flames of the American Hockey League ( AHL ) . Petrovek attended Harvard University where he played NCAA Division I hockey with the Harvard Crimson of the ECAC Hockey conference . As a goaltender , following his standout 1974-75 sophomore season , Petrovek was named to both the All-Ivy League First Team and the NCAA ( East ) First All-American Team . In his senior year Petrovek was named to the 1976-77 All-Ivy League First Team , and was also selected as the Most Valuable Player of the 1977 Beanpot . In 1998 , Petrovek was inducted into the Harvard University Athletic Hall of Fame . From 1989 to 1993 , Petrovek worked as Vice President of Marketing for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League . In June 1993 , he joined the national staff of USA Hockey , and in 1998 he was elevated to the position of Executive Director . While with USA Hockey , Petrovek served as Team Leader for the United States men 's national ice hockey team at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey , 1997 Men 's World Ice Hockey Championships , and the 1998 Winter Olympics . From 2000 until April 2014 , Petrovek served as the managing owner for the Portland Pirates of the AHL . On May 16 , 2014 , Petrovek was named the president of the Adirondack Flames of the AHL . |
Brick_City_club | Brick City club ( or Jersey club ) is a version of house music from Newark , New Jersey , popularized by DJ Tameil ( formerly Anthrax ) , DJ Tim Dolla , Dj Lilman , Mike V , DJ Black Mic and R3ll ( prev . DJ Rell ) ( Brick Bandits Crew ) ; in the early to mid-1990s to the 2000s . It was then abandoned by DJ Tameil after many new producers began making music `` without his permission '' , as Tameil has said numerous times , thus `` ruining the genre '' . Each track usually consists of a kick used by many other producers and DJs in the same tracks , along with the terms Movie and Building Shaker thrown into the song . DJ Lilman is the most known DJ making Brick City Club hits . His music videos on YouTube have received more than 100,000 views . Other popular DJs are DJ Frosty , DJ Jayhood , and DJ Taj ( including his siter ` Lil E ) . The basic musical structure is similar to Baltimore Club , but it differs in the use of the same beats and mixing . The genre is more popular than Baltimore club ; Brick City or Jersey club is popular in Jersey , Philly , and Florida . Some songs have been featured on the reality show Love and hip-hop . |
Boeing_Defense,_Space_&_Security | Boeing Defense , Space & Security ( BDS ) is a division ( business unit ) of The Boeing Company . It is responsible for defense and aerospace products and services . It was formerly known as Boeing Integrated Defense Systems ( IDS ) . Boeing Integrated Defense Systems was formed in 2002 by combining the former `` Military Aircraft and Missile Systems '' and `` Space and Communications '' divisions . Boeing Defense , Space & Security makes Boeing the second-largest defense contractor in the world and was responsible for 45 % of the company 's income in 2011 . BDS is based outside St. Louis , Missouri . Boeing was the largest employer in St. Louis County in 2000 . Boeing Defense , Space & Security is a consolidated group which brought together major names in aerospace ; Boeing Military Airplane Company ; Hughes Satellite Systems ; Hughes Helicopters minus the civilian helicopters products ( which were divested as MD Helicopters ) ; Piasecki Helicopter , subsequently known as Boeing Vertol and then Boeing Helicopters ; the St. Louis-based McDonnell division of the former McDonnell Douglas Company ; and the former North American Aviation division of Rockwell International . |
Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress | The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps ( USAAC ) . Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to build 200 bombers , the Boeing entry outperformed both competitors and exceeded the air corps ' performance specifications . Although Boeing lost the contract because the prototype crashed , the air corps ordered 13 more B-17s for further evaluation . From its introduction in 1938 , the B-17 Flying Fortress evolved through numerous design advances . The B-17 was primarily employed by the United States Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) in the daylight strategic bombing campaign of World War II against German industrial and military targets . The United States Eighth Air Force , based at many airfields in central and southern England , and the Fifteenth Air Force , based in Italy , complemented the RAF Bomber Command 's nighttime area bombing in the Combined Bomber Offensive to help secure air superiority over the cities , factories and battlefields of Western Europe in preparation for the invasion of France in 1944 . The B-17 also participated to a lesser extent in the War in the Pacific , early in World War II , where it conducted raids against Japanese shipping and airfields . From its prewar inception , the USAAC ( by June 1941 , the USAAF ) promoted the aircraft as a strategic weapon ; it was a relatively fast , high-flying , long-range bomber with heavy defensive armament at the expense of bombload . It developed a reputation for toughness based upon stories and photos of badly damaged B-17s safely returning to base . The B-17 developed a reputation as an effective bomber , dropping more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft in World War II . Of the of bombs dropped on Germany and its occupied territories by U.S. aircraft , 640,000 tonnes were dropped from B-17s . In addition to its role as a bomber , the B-17 was also employed as a transport , antisubmarine aircraft , drone controller , and search-and-rescue aircraft . As of May 2015 , ten aircraft remain airworthy . None of them are combat veterans . Dozens more are in storage or on static display . The oldest of these is a D-series veteran of combat in the Pacific and the Caribbean . |
Bradley_Cooper | Bradley Charles Cooper ( born January 5 , 1975 ) is an American actor and producer . He was one of the world 's highest-paid actors for three years , and has been nominated for various accolades , including four Academy Awards , two BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards . Cooper appeared in Forbes Celebrity 100 on two occasions and Time list of 100 most influential people in the world in 2015 . Cooper enrolled in the MFA program at the Actors Studio , New York City in 2000 . His career began with a guest role in the television series Sex and the City in 1999 and his film debut came two years later in Wet Hot American Summer . He first gained recognition as Will Tippin in the spy-action television show Alias ( 2001 -- 2006 ) , and achieved minor success with a supporting part in the comedy film Wedding Crashers ( 2005 ) . His breakthrough role came in 2009 with The Hangover , a commercially successful comedy which spawned two sequels in 2011 and 2013 . Cooper 's portrayal of a struggling writer in the thriller Limitless ( 2011 ) and a rookie police officer in the crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines ( 2012 ) drew praise from critics . He found greater success with the romantic comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook ( 2012 ) , the black comedy crime film American Hustle ( 2013 ) , and the biopic American Sniper ( 2014 ) . For his work in these films , Cooper was nominated for Academy Awards -- two Best Actor , one Best Supporting Actor , and one Best Picture . Cooper became the tenth actor to receive an Academy Award nomination in three consecutive years . In 2014 , he portrayed Joseph Merrick in a Broadway revival of The Elephant Man , garnering a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play . |
Brian_Smith_(Canadian_musician) | Brian William Smith ( born March 26 , 1949 ) is a British -- Canadian guitarist , known for being a founding member of the rock band Trooper . Smith began performing on the guitar before he was fifteen years old . Some of his first gigs were playing with Don Geppert and Anne Attenborough , in a band which played Hawaiian music . Smith has performed with Trooper along with Ra McGuire since 1975 , when their first album was released , to the present day . He currently resides in Langley , BC . At the 1999 SOCAN Awards , Smith and songwriting partner Ra McGuire received SOCAN Classic Awards for `` We 're Here for a Good Time '' and `` Santa Maria '' , presented for songs that have received over 100,000 documented radio plays . Smith received a third SOCAN Classic Award in 2005 , for `` Oh , Pretty Lady . '' Smith and Trooper continue to tour and perform across Canada . As part of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics festivities , Smith was featured when Trooper performed on February 21 , 2010 . Coverage of the event was broadcast in Canada and around the world on networks such as CTV and MuchMusic . On November 19 , 2012 , Smith was presented with a SOCAN National Achievement Award , which is presented to artists who have had outstanding success , predominantly in the Canadian music industry , over the span of their career . He also received three SOCAN Classic Awards for `` Raise A Little Hell '' , `` General Hand Grenade '' , and `` Janine '' , co-written with songwriting partner Ra McGuire . |
Black-ish_(season_2) | The second season of Black-ish aired from September 23 , 2015 to May 18 , 2016 on ABC in the United States . It is produced by Khalabo Ink Society , Wilmore Films , Cinema Gypsy Productions and Principato-Young Entertainment , with creator Kenya Barris , who also served as executive producer alongside Anthony Anderson , Brian Dobbins , Jonathon Groff and Helen Sugland . The series revolves around Dre , portrayed by Anthony Anderson , a family man who struggles with finding his cultural identity while raising his kids in a white neighborhood . He lives with his wife , Bow ( Tracee Ellis Ross ) . On March 3 , 2016 , ABC renewed the series for a third season . |
BlackLove | #BlackLove is an American reality television series that premiered on the FYI cable channel on December 8 , 2015 . The show follows the personal lives of five black women living in New York City as they explore their romantic relationships . The women are guided by relationship experts Damona Hoffman and Jack A. Daniels who help them to get back to dating and find the best ways to look for their significant others . `` This show 's unique title and concept was created in that spirit and stems from the overwhelming social media use of the hashtag during the first season of Married at First Sight , as viewers rooted for the marriage of Monet Bell and Vaughn Copeland , '' Gena McCarthy , the vice president of the network 's programming , explained the concept of the show . |
Blocks_(C_language_extension) | Blocks are a non-standard extension added by Apple Inc. to Clang 's implementations of the C , C++ , and Objective-C programming languages that uses a lambda expression-like syntax to create closures within these languages . Blocks are supported for programs developed for Mac OS X 10.6 + and iOS 4.0 + , although third-party runtimes allow use on Mac OS X 10.5 and iOS 2.2 + and non-Apple systems . Apple designed blocks with the explicit goal of making it easier to write programs for the Grand Central Dispatch threading architecture , although it is independent of that architecture and can be used in much the same way as closures in other languages . Apple has implemented blocks both in their own branch of the GNU Compiler Collection and in the upstream Clang LLVM compiler front end . Language runtime library support for blocks is also available as part of the LLVM project . The Khronos group uses blocks syntax to enqueue kernels from within kernels as of version 2.0 of OpenCL . Like function definitions , blocks can take arguments , and declare their own variables internally . Unlike ordinary C function definitions , their value can capture state from their surrounding context . A block definition produces an opaque value which contains both a reference to the code within the block and a snapshot of the current state of local stack variables at the time of its definition . The block may be later invoked in the same manner as a function pointer . The block may be assigned to variables , passed to functions , and otherwise treated like a normal function pointer , although the application programmer ( or the API ) must mark the block with a special operator ( Block_copy ) if it 's to be used outside the scope in which it was defined . Given a block value , the code within the block can be executed at any later time by calling it , using the same syntax that would be used for calling a function . |
Black_Pearl,_New_Orleans | Black Pearl is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans . A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton Area , its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are : South Carrollton Avenue and St. Charles Avenue to the north , Lowerline , Perrier and Broadway Streets to the east , and the Mississippi River to the west . Through the 1960s the local African-American population referred to the area as `` Niggatown . '' Evidence of the old moniker can be occasionally seen today in the form of `` N-Town '' graffiti . The name `` Black Pearl '' was introduced in the 1970s , being derived from the historically majority Black population and the name of `` Pearl Street '' . Most of the neighborhood is a section of what was the town of Carrollton , Louisiana in the 19th century ; the designated neighborhood boundaries also include a portion downriver of Lowerline Street that was part of the town of Greenville . This later part includes `` Uptown Square '' , a shopping mall complex more recently mostly converted to offices and residences . This area on high ground escaped the Hurricane Katrina flooding suffered by most of the city in 2005 . However a tornado strike in the early morning hours of February 13 , 2007 did significant damage . |
Bobby_Dawson | Robert `` Bobby '' Dawson ( born 31 January 1935 ) was an English footballer who played as a full back . Dawson started his career with non-league South Shields before joining Leeds United in 1953 . After only making 1 first team appearance , Dawson moved to Gateshead in 1955 , where he scored 1 goal in 121 league and cup games . Dawson also had a trial spell at Manchester City in 1951 . |
British_television_science_fiction | British television science fiction refers to popular programmes in the genre that have been produced by both the BBC and Britain 's largest commercial channel , ITV . The BBC 's Doctor Who is listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world and as the `` most successful '' science fiction series of all time . |
Blackstone_Chronicles | The Blackstone Chronicles is a serialized novel by American horror and suspense author John Saul . The series consists of six installments and takes place in a fictional New Hampshire town called Blackstone . The series has been adapted into both a computer game and graphic novel . |
Bread_and_Circuses_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series) | `` Bread and Circuses '' is a second season episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek , broadcast on March 15 , 1968 . It is episode # 54 , production # 43 , written by Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon and directed by Ralph Senensky . Its name is a reference to the phrase `` bread and circuses '' taken from the Satire X written by the poet , Juvenal . In modern usage , the phrase implies a populace that no longer values civic virtues , the public life , and military ( manly ) service ; instead , the people need only food and entertainment . In the episode , Captain Kirk and his companions are forced to fight in gladiatorial games on a planet resembling the Roman Empire , but possessing mid-20th century Earth technology . |
Broadcast_syndication | Broadcasting syndication is the licensing of the right to broadcast television programs and radio programs by multiple television stations and radio stations , without going through a broadcast network . It is common in the United States where broadcast programming is scheduled by television networks with local independent affiliates . Syndication is less of a practice in the rest of the world , as most countries have centralized networks or television stations without local affiliates ; although less common , shows can be syndicated internationally . The three main types of syndication are `` first-run syndication '' , which is programming that is broadcast for the first time as a syndicated show and is made specifically to sell directly into syndication ; `` off-network syndication '' , which is the licensing of a program that was originally run on network TV or , in some cases , first-run syndication ( colloquially called a `` rerun '' ) ; and `` public broadcasting syndication '' . |
Bowfinger | Bowfinger is a 1999 American satirical comedy film directed by Frank Oz . It depicts a down-and-out filmmaker in Hollywood attempting to make a film on a small budget with a star who does not know that he is in the film . It was written by Steve Martin , who also stars alongside Eddie Murphy in two roles , and Heather Graham as a vapid , ambitious starlet . The film was released on August 13 , 1999 and grossed $ 98 million . |
Breaker_of_Chains | `` Breaker of Chains '' is the third episode of the fourth season of HBO 's fantasy television series Game of Thrones , and the 33rd overall . The episode was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss , and directed by Alex Graves . It aired on April 20 , 2014 . The episode received critical praise overall , but triggered a public controversy over the decision to portray the sexual encounter between Jaime and Cersei Lannister as rape . |
Bodega_Head | Bodega Head is a small promontory on the Pacific coast of northern California in the United States . It is located in Sonoma County at , approximately 40 mi ( 64 km ) northwest of San Francisco and approximately 20 mi ( 32 km ) west of Santa Rosa . The peninsula , which is approximately 4 mi ( 6.4 km ) long and 1 mi ( 1.6 km ) wide , emerges from the coast to the south . It shelters the shallow sandy Bodega Bay and the inner portion known as Bodega Harbor . Sonoma Coast State Beach comprises beaches and dunes along the south side of the promontory . The University of California , Davis runs an ongoing marine biology program at the Bodega Marine Laboratory . The laboratory is located on the grounds of Bodega Marine Reserve , which is part of the UC Natural Reserve System . The peninsula is considered a prime spot to observe the migration of whales . It is also one of the three points of the Red Triangle , a major feeding ground for great white sharks . A series of trails are a popular destination for recreational hiking . Bodega Head State Marine Reserve & Bodega Head State Marine Conservation Area protect area waters . Like underwater parks , these marine protected areas help conserve ocean wildlife and marine ecosystems . The peninsula was probably inhabited by the Coast Miwok people before the arrival of Europeans . Campbell Cove , on the east side of the promontory , is a candidate for Sir Francis Drake 's 1579 landing site . |
Bonaire | Bonaire ( pronounced -LSB- bɔːˈnɛər -RSB- or -LSB- bɒnˈɛər -RSB- Bonaire , -LSB- boˈnɛːr -RSB- ; Papiamentu : Boneiru ) is an island in the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea . Together with Aruba and Curaçao , it forms the group known as the ABC islands , located less than a hundred miles off the north coast of South America near the western part of Venezuela . Unlike much of the Caribbean region , the ABCs lie outside the hurricane belt . The islands have an arid climate , which helps tourism , as visitors to the islands can reliably expect warm , sunny weather . Bonaire is a popular destination for SCUBA divers , and it is also well known for easy access to its various reefs from the shore . Bonaire 's capital is Kralendijk . The island has a permanent population of 18,905 ( as of 1 January 2015 ) and an area of 294 km2 ( together with nearby uninhabited Klein Bonaire ) . Bonaire was part of the Netherlands Antilles until the country 's dissolution in 2010 , when the island became a special municipality within the country of the Netherlands . It is one of the three BES islands in the Caribbean ; the other two BES islands are Sint Eustatius and Saba . |
Blue_Origin_Goddard | Blue Origin Goddard is the name of the first development vehicle in the Blue Origin New Shepard program , which flew for the first time on November 13 , 2006 . Named after rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard , the vehicle is a subscale demonstrator and flew at a 285 ft altitude during its initial flight . The private spacecraft venture is being funded by the billionaire founder of Amazon.com , Jeff Bezos . He hopes that the private spacecraft could eventually bring space travel within the reach of the masses . A video of the cone-shaped Goddard vehicle shows it climbing to about 85 m ( 285 ft ) before returning to Earth , in a remote part of Texas . The flight marks the first time Jeff Bezos has broken his silence on the work of his space company , Blue Origin . On the company 's website , Mr Bezos said : `` We 're working , patiently and step-by-step , to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go ; and so that we humans can better continue exploring the Solar System . '' `` Accomplishing this mission will take a long time , and we 're working on it methodically . '' Mr Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 with the intention of developing a vertical take-off and landing vehicle , able to take passengers to the edge of space . No timescale for commercial trips has been announced but documents released by the US Federal Aviation Administration suggest they could start as early as 2010 . The video filmed on 13 November 2006 from a site about 120 miles east of El Paso , Texas shows the first craft to launch under the New Shepard program . The vehicle climbed for approximately 10 seconds , reaching a height of 285 ft , before starting to descend and making a controlled landing back on its feet approximately 25 seconds after take-off . The launch , described by Mr Bezos as `` both useful and fun '' , was watched by friends , family and a team of engineers . |
Broadcast_programming | Broadcast programming is the practice of organizing and/or ordering of broadcast media programs ( Internet , television , radio , etc. ) in a daily , weekly , monthly , quarterly or season-long schedule . Modern broadcasters use broadcast automation to regularly change the scheduling of their programs to build an audience for a new show , retain that audience , or compete with other broadcasters ' programs . In the United Kingdom , this is known as TV listings . Television scheduling strategies are employed to give programs the best possible chance of attracting and retaining an audience . They are used to deliver programs to audiences when they are most likely to want to watch them and deliver audiences to advertisers in the composition that makes their advertising most likely to be effective . Digitally based broadcast programming mechanisms are known as electronic program guides ( EPG ) . At a micro level , scheduling is the minute planning of the transmission ; what to broadcast and when , ensuring an adequate or maximum utilization of airtime . |
Brick_(band) | Brick is an American band that created a successful merger of funk and jazz in the 1970s . Their most popular single was `` Dazz '' , ( # 3 U.S. Pop , # 1 U.S. R&B , # 36 UK Singles Chart ) which was released in 1976 . |
Black_participation_in_college_basketball | Blacks have been participating in American college basketball for over a century . |
Blackstone_&_Co | Blackstone & Co. was a farm implement maker at Stamford , Lincolnshire , United Kingdom . |
Bryan_Brown | Bryan Neathway Brown , AM ( born 23 June 1947 ) is an Australian actor . He has performed in over eighty film and television projects since the late 1970s , both in his native Australia and abroad . Notable films include Breaker Morant ( 1980 ) , Give My Regards to Broad Street ( 1984 ) , F/X ( 1986 ) , Cocktail ( 1988 ) , Gorillas in the Mist ( 1988 ) , F/X2 ( 1991 ) , Along Came Polly ( 2004 ) , Australia ( 2008 ) , Kill Me Three Times ( 2014 ) and Gods of Egypt ( 2016 ) . He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his performance in the television miniseries The Thorn Birds ( 1983 ) . |
British_West_Indies | The British West Indies , sometimes abbreviated to BWI , are now the British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean , Anguilla , Bermuda , the Cayman Islands , Turks and Caicos Islands and Montserrat . Before the independence of many new nations , they included a larger number of islands in the region , together with two mainland colonies , all forming part of the British Empire . In 1912 , the British West Indies were divided into eight colonies : The Bahamas , Barbados , British Guiana , British Honduras , Jamaica ( with its dependencies the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands ) , Trinidad and Tobago , the Windward Islands , and the Leeward Islands . Between 1958 and 1962 , all of the island territories except the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas were organised into the West Indies Federation , which did not include the mainland colonies of British Honduras and British Guiana . It was hoped that the Federation would become independent as a single nation , but it had limited powers , many practical problems , and a lack of popular support . Consequently , the West Indies Federation was dissolved in 1962 . Most of the historic British territories , including all of the larger ones , are now independent as separate countries , with membership in various international bodies , such as the Organization of American States , the Association of Caribbean States , the World Trade Organization , the United Nations , the Caribbean Community , the Commonwealth of Nations and the Caribbean Development Bank among others . The remainder are British overseas territories . |
Brave_New_World_(The_Vampire_Diaries) | `` Brave New World '' is the 2nd episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 24th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on September 16 , 2010 . The episode was written by Brian Young and directed by John Dahl . |
Broadway_Theatre_(53rd_Street) | The Broadway Theatre ( formerly Universal 's Colony Theatre , B.S. Moss ' Broadway Theatre , Earl Carroll 's Broadway Theatre , and Ciné Roma ) is a Broadway theatre located in midtown Manhattan . It has a large seating capacity of 1,761 , and unlike most Broadway theaters , it is actually located on Broadway , at number 1681 . Designed by architect Eugene De Rosa for Benjamin S. Moss , it opened as B.S. Moss 's Colony Theatre on Christmas Day 1924 as a venue for vaudeville shows and motion pictures . The theater has operated under many names and owners . It was renamed Universal 's Colony Theatre , B.S. Moss ' Broadway Theatre , and Earl Carroll 's Broadway Theatre before becoming a legitimate theater house simply called Broadway Theatre on December 8 , 1930 . In 1937 , known as Ciné Roma , it showed Italian films . For a short time during the 1950s it showed Cinerama films . On November 18 , 1928 the first Mickey Mouse cartoon released to the public , Steamboat Willie , debuted at the Colony . Producer Walt Disney returned on November 13 , 1940 to debut the feature film Fantasia in Fantasound , an early stereo system . The legitimate theater opened in 1930 with The New Yorkers by Cole Porter . Stars such as Milton Berle , Alfred Drake , José Ferrer , Eartha Kitt , Vivien Leigh , Zero Mostel , and Mae West have appeared on stage . The Shubert Organization bought the theater in 1939 and renovated it extensively in 1956 and 1986 . It has long been a popular theatre for producers of musicals because of large seating capacity , and the large stage , which is nearly sixty feet deep . Often plays that have become successful in smaller theaters have transferred to the Broadway Theatre . |
British_Academy_Film_Awards | The British Academy Film Awards or BAFTA Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) to honour the best British and international contributions to film . Between 2008 and 2016 , the ceremony was held in central London at the Royal Opera House , having taken over from the flagship Odeon cinema in Leicester Square . The 70th British Academy Film Awards were held on 12 February 2017 at the Royal Albert Hall in London . |
Blackstone_Canal | The Blackstone Canal was a waterway linking Worcester , Massachusetts , to Providence , Rhode Island ( and Narragansett Bay ) through the Blackstone Valley via a series of locks and canals during the early 19th century . |
Black-ish_(season_1) | The first season of Black-ish aired from September 24 , 2014 to May 20 , 2015 . on ABC in the United States . It is produced by Khalabo Ink Society , Wilmore Films , Cinema Gypsy Productions and Principato-Young Entertainment , with creator Kenya Barris , who also served as executive producer alongside Anthony Anderson , Brian Dobbins , Jonathon Groff and Helen Sugland . The series revolves around Dre , portrayed by Anthony Anderson , a family man who struggles with finding his cultural identity while raising his kids in a white neighborhood . He lives with his wife , Bow ( Tracee Ellis Ross ) and his kids Zoey ( Yara Shahidi ) , Andre Jr ( Marcus Scribner ) , twins Jack ( Miles Brown ) and Diane ( Marsai Martin ) . After only airing six episodes , ABC ordered a full season of 24 episodes . It was renewed for a second season on May 8 , 2015 . The pilot episode premiered to a total of 11.04 million viewers , ranking number 1 in its time slot . It garnered 3.3 / 10 adults 18-49 . |
Blackfriars,_London | Blackfriars is an area of central London , which lies in the south-west corner of the City of London . The name Blackfriars was first used in 1317 ( as Black Freres from the French ` frère ' meaning ` brother ' ) and derives from the black cappa worn by the Dominican Friars who moved their priory from Holborn to the area between the River Thames and Ludgate Hill in 1276 . Edward I gave permission to rebuild London 's city wall , which lay between the river and Ludgate Hill , around their area . The site was used for great occasions of state , including meetings of Parliament and the Privy Council , as well as the location for a divorce hearing in 1529 of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII . The priory was eventually closed in 1538 during Henry 's Dissolution of the monasteries . Katherine Parr , Henry VIII 's sixth and final wife , was born in the area . Some of the buildings were subsequently leased to a group of entrepreneurs who created the Blackfriars Theatre on the site , not far from Shakespeare 's Globe Theatre which sat almost directly across on the other side of the river . In 1632 , the Society of Apothecaries ( a livery company ) , acquired the monastery 's guesthouse and established their base there . The building was destroyed in the Great Fire of London but the Society rebuilt and Apothecaries Hall is still to be found in Blackfriars today . The area is now the location of Blackfriars station , and forms the northern bridge-head for both Blackfriars Bridge and Blackfriars Railway Bridge . Alongside the road bridge is Blackfriars Millennium Pier , a stop for river bus services on London River Services . The Victoria Embankment stretches along the north bank of the river west from Blackfriars to Westminster Bridge . Notable buildings in the area include the large Art Deco Unilever House , and the Art Nouveau Black Friar pub . The area was once served by a station south of the river Blackfriars Bridge railway station , taking its name from Blackfriars Bridge . It was closed to passengers in 1885 when the current Blackfriars station was opened . The older parts of Blackfriars have regularly been used as a filming location in film and television , particularly for modern films and serials set in Victorian times , notably Sherlock Holmes and David Copperfield . |
Bobby's_Dinner_Battle | Bobby 's Dinner Battle is a television series airing on the Food Network . The show features Bobby Flay challenging contestants to head to head cooking competitions . |
Bloodlines_(Mead_novel) | Bloodlines is the first book in the spin-off series of the Vampire Academy series by American author Richelle Mead . It follows the story of narrator Sydney Sage , the alchemist who helped Rose in Blood Promise , Spirit Bound and Last Sacrifice . The book was released on August 23 , 2011 . |
Bob_Dawson_(actor) | Bob Dawson ( died November 7 , 2001 ) was a Canadian radio broadcaster and actor based in Vancouver , British Columbia . Dawson was a fixture on the local radio circuit during the late 1970s and 80 's , holding various on air and promotional positions at radio stations such CJOR ( a holding at the time of Canadian businessman Jimmy Pattison 's The Jim Pattison Group ) , CJJC and CKXY . Dawson was also the familiar voice of Santa Claus on The Rafe Mair Show on CKNW radio , where he took the calls of children just prior to each Christmas . Dawson moved into TV and movie work in the 1990s , during the period when Vancouver became known as Hollywood North . Dawson appeared in various roles in many of the locally produced television series of the day , including The X-Files , Highlander and Stargate . Perhaps his most prominent film appearance was opposite former Seattle Seahawks linebacker turned actor Brian Bosworth in the 2000 feature film The Operative . Bob Dawson died on November 7 , 2001 in Vancouver , British Columbia at the age of 43 . |
Breckin_Meyer | Breckin Erin Meyer ( born May 7 , 1974 ) is an American actor , voice actor , comedian , writer , producer and drummer known for roles in films such as Clueless , Road Trip , Rat Race and the Garfield film series . |
Black_Sunday_(novel) | Black Sunday is a 1975 novel by Thomas Harris . The novel is a thriller about a plot by terrorists to commit mass murder during the Super Bowl in New Orleans , and law enforcement efforts to stop them . Harris wrote the novel after watching the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis where Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage and murdered them . It was the first novel by Harris , and achieved only moderate success until it was sold to Hollywood . The 1977 film adaptation was a moderate critical and financial success , and sparked interest in the novel . As of 2017 , Black Sunday is the only book by Harris not to involve the serial killer Hannibal Lecter . In his introduction to a new printing of the novel in 2007 , Harris states that the driven , focused character of terrorist Dahlia Iyad was an inspiration for and precursor to Clarice Starling in his later Lecter novels . |
Bronn_(character) | Bronn is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones . Introduced in 1996 's A Game of Thrones , Bronn is a low-born sellsword of great skill and cunning from the kingdom of Westeros . He subsequently appeared in Martin 's A Clash of Kings ( 1998 ) and A Storm of Swords ( 2000 ) . Bronn is portrayed by Jerome Flynn in the HBO television adaptation . |
Birth_(film) | Birth is a 2004 American drama film directed by Jonathan Glazer , starring Nicole Kidman , Lauren Bacall , Danny Huston and Cameron Bright . The film follows Anna ( Kidman ) , the daughter of a prominent Manhattan-based family . Anna gradually becomes convinced that her deceased husband , Sean , has been reincarnated as a 10-year-old boy ( also named Sean ) . Anna 's initial scepticism is swayed by the child 's intimate knowledge of the former married couple 's life . Despite critical praise for various components of the film , including Kidman 's acting and Glazer 's direction , Birth received mixed reviews . Distributed by New Line Cinema , the film 's worldwide box office earnings total was US$ 23,925,492 . |
Bruiser_Brody | Frank Donald Goodish ( June 18 , 1946 -- July 17 , 1988 ) was an American professional wrestler who earned his greatest fame under the ring name Bruiser Brody . As a wrestler , he helped innovate the `` brawling '' style and was infamous for his wild and legit uncooperative demeanor . He was the first opponent of The Undertaker , who would later go on to work for WWE , in 1990 . |
Blood_of_My_Blood | `` Blood of My Blood '' is the sixth episode of the sixth season of HBO 's fantasy television series Game of Thrones , and the 56th overall . The episode was written by Bryan Cogman , and directed by Jack Bender . Beyond the Wall , Bran Stark ( Isaac Hempstead Wright ) and Meera Reed ( Ellie Kendrick ) have successfully escaped the White Walkers , but are about to be caught by their undead , until they are rescued by Benjen Stark ( Joseph Mawle ) . Samwell Tarly ( John Bradley ) returns to his family 's home in Horn Hill , accompanied by Gilly ( Hannah Murray ) and little Sam , intending to leave them there , but changes his mind after reuniting with his cruel father . In King 's Landing , Jaime Lannister ( Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ) attempts to rescue the Queen , Margaery Tyrell ( Natalie Dormer ) , but learns that King Tommen Baratheon ( Dean-Charles Chapman ) has united the faith and the crown . Across the Narrow Sea , in Braavos , Arya Stark ( Maisie Williams ) refuses to kill the actress she was assigned to poison by the Faceless Men , and in the Dothraki Sea , Daenerys Targaryen ( Emilia Clarke ) rides on Drogon and emboldens her newly acquired khalasar . `` Blood of My Blood '' was positively received by critics who praised the return of several notable characters , including Benjen Stark , Walder Frey and Edmure Tully . Further praise was given to other plot points , such as Samwell 's return to Horn Hill , and Arya 's decision to return to being a Stark rather than a disciple of the Many-Faced God . The episode title is a reference to a famous Dothraki saying used between a Khal and his bloodriders . Filming of Bran 's visions was put together precisely and also very carefully chosen . In the United States , the episode achieved a viewership of 6.71 million in its initial broadcast . |
Bob_Wiltfong | Robert `` Bob '' Wiltfong ( born November 26 , 1969 ) is an American actor and comedian best known for his work as a correspondent on The Daily Show on Comedy Central , as well as appearances on Chappelle 's Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien . Wiltfong was a true-life newscaster for 10 years , making him the first correspondent in Daily Show history to have worked as a traditional news reporter . It 's said he subsequently made an exit from the world of non-satirical journalism after the September 11 , 2001 attacks caused him to realize he did not enjoy his career . He also lost a friend of his on September 11 , cameraman Glen Pettit . Wiltfong has won 4 regional , individual Emmys for television performance and has been nominated for 14 others . He was part of The Daily Show 's 2004 winning submission for the prestigious Peabody Award and was featured on the election year wrap up DVD put out by Comedy Central . He was a member of Neutrino , an improv comedy team in New York City . Additionally , Wiltfong has been featured in national commercials for AOL , Microsoft , Staples , Domino 's Pizza and other corporate interests . In 2010 , Wiltfong was selected to star in a national ad campaign for Nationwide Insurance , playing the Nationwide spokesman in a series of nationally broadcast television commercials that aired throughout 2010 . |
Breitbart_News | Breitbart News Network ( known commonly as Breitbart News , Breitbart or Breitbart.com ) is a far-right Los Angeles-based news , opinion and commentary website founded in 2007 by Andrew Breitbart . Co-founder Larry Solov is the co-owner ( along with Andrew Breitbart 's widow Susie Breitbart and the Mercer family ) and CEO , while Alexander Marlow is the editor-in-chief , Wynton Hall is managing editor , and Joel Pollak and Peter Schweizer are senior editors-at-large . Breitbart News is headquartered in Los Angeles , with bureaus in Texas , London , and Jerusalem . Conceived by conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart during a visit to Israel in mid-2007 as a website `` that would be unapologetically pro-freedom and pro-Israel '' , Breitbart News later aligned with the European populist right and American alt-right under the management of former executive chairman Steve Bannon . The New York Times describes Breitbart News as an organization with `` ideologically driven journalists '' that generates controversy `` over material that has been called misogynist , xenophobic and racist '' . Bannon declared the website `` the platform for the alt-right '' in 2016 , but denied all allegations of racism and later stated that he rejected the `` ethno-nationalist '' tendencies of the alt-right movement . One of Bannon 's coworkers said he was not referring to Richard Spencer but instead to `` the trolls on Reddit or 4Chan . '' The owners of Breitbart News deny their website has any connection to the alt-right or has ever supported racist or white supremacist views . Breitbart News voiced support for Donald Trump 's 2016 presidential campaign , and political scientist Matthew Goodwin described Breitbart News as being `` ultra-conservative '' in orientation . After the election , more than 2,000 organizations removed Breitbart News from ad buys following Internet activism campaigns denouncing the site 's controversial positions . Breitbart News has published a number of falsehoods and conspiracy theories . |
Born_to_Be_with_You_(album) | Born to Be with You is an album by Dion , released in 1975 ( see 1975 in music ) . 6 of the 8 tracks were produced by Phil Spector , who had expressed admiration of Dion 's earlier work with his doo-wop outfit , Dion and the Belmonts . The recording sessions were lengthy and chaotic , and on completion in 1974 Spector himself shelved the release for 12 months only to find the album was largely met with indifference by the music establishment at the time . In the 1990s however , the album began to receive widespread critical acclaim , with artists such as Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream citing it as a key influence . The album was included in Robert Dimery 's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . |
Boyd_Morrison | Boyd Morrison ( born February 17 , 1967 ) is an American thriller novelist , actor and former Jeopardy! champion . He has co-authored two books with The New York Times fiction best-seller Clive Cussler . |
Bloodstock_Open_Air | Bloodstock Open Air is an English heavy metal festival held annually at Catton Hall in Walton-on-Trent , Derbyshire , since 2005 . Bands that have played at the festival over the years include Twisted Sister , Saxon , Mastodon , Gojira , Behemoth , Slayer , Anthrax , Cannibal Corpse , Venom , Trivium , Rob Zombie , Emperor , Alice Cooper , Motorhead , Kreator , Amon Amarth , Megadeth , Testament , Exodus , Immortal , Morbid Angel , Machine Head , Lamb of God , and hundreds of others . Originally on one stage only , the festival expanded to incorporate a second stage in 2006 . Known simply as The Unsigned Stage , it was designed to provide a platform for the next generation of metal talent to reach a wider audience . In 2010 it was renamed The New Blood Stage . 2007 saw further expansion with the addition of a third stage , originally called The Lava Stage which in 2009 became the Sophie Lancaster Stage . In 2010 the capacity of this stage was increased and it became the festival 's second stage . This second stage is also used by The 4 DJs Of The Apocalypse , who provide DJ sets until the early hours of the morning . Bloodstock Open Air was conceived as an extension of the original Bloodstock indoor festival which ran from 2001 until 2006 at Derby Assembly Rooms . After an amicable parting in 2006 with his business partner Vince Brotheridge , in 2007 Paul Gregory brought his daughters and son Vicky Hungerford , Rachael Greenfield and Adam Gregory on board as directors . `` It was an obvious move for me , '' he explained , `` as all of them had been working on the festival from its inception . They have brought their talents to the fore as the festival 's continued growth is very much due to their commitment . '' In 2010 , Heaven & Hell was scheduled to headline Bloodstock Open Air , but pulled out due to the death of singer Ronnie James Dio . The main stage at the festival was subsequently renamed as the `` Ronnie James Dio stage '' in tribute to him . |
Brock_Lesnar | Brock Edward Lesnar ( -LSB- ˈlɛznər -RSB- born July 12 , 1977 ) is an American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist , amateur wrestler , and professional American football player . He is signed with WWE , where he performs on the Raw brand and is the current WWE Universal Champion in his first reign . After his successful amateur wrestling career at Bismarck State College and the University of Minnesota , Lesnar signed with WWE ( then the World Wrestling Federation ) in 2000 . He was assigned to its developmental promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling ( OVW ) , where he was a three-time OVW Southern Tag Team Champion with Shelton Benjamin . After debuting on WWE 's main roster in 2002 , he won the WWE Championship on three separate occasions with victories over The Rock and Kurt Angle ( twice ) . Lesnar won the then WWE Undisputed Championship five months after his main roster debut at the age of 25 , becoming the youngest champion in the title 's history . He was also the 2002 King of the Ring and the 2003 Royal Rumble winner , making him the youngest King of the Ring and Royal Rumble winner as well . Following his match with Goldberg at WrestleMania XX , Lesnar left the WWE and pursued a career in the National Football League ( NFL ) . He was named a defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings , but was cut prior to the start of the 2004 -- 2005 season . In 2005 , Lesnar returned to professional wrestling and signed with New Japan Pro-Wrestling ( NJPW ) , where he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in his first match . After a contractual dispute with NJPW , he also wrestled as IWGP Heavyweight Champion in the Inoki Genome Federation ( IGF ) . In 2006 , Lesnar pursued a career in mixed martial arts ( MMA ) , as he signed with Hero 's and won his first fight , against Min-Soo Kim , in June 2007 . He then signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ) the following October . Lesnar lost in his UFC debut against Frank Mir and then won his second fight against Heath Herring . In November 2008 , Lesnar defeated Randy Couture to become the UFC Heavyweight Champion . Shortly after a successful title defense in a rematch with Mir , Lesnar was sidelined due to diverticulitis . He would return at UFC 116 to defeat Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion Shane Carwin and unify the heavyweight championships , becoming the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion in the process . Lesnar then lost the championship to Cain Velasquez at UFC 121 . In 2011 , he was once again sidelined due to diverticulitis and underwent surgery . Lesnar returned at UFC 141 in December , losing to Alistair Overeem and promptly retiring from MMA . Lesnar was a box office sensation in UFC , as he took part in a some of the best selling pay-per-view events in UFC history , including UFC 100 and UFC 116 . In April 2012 , Lesnar once again returned to professional wrestling , rejoining WWE after an eight-year hiatus . Two years later , at WrestleMania XXX , Lesnar defeated The Undertaker to end his undefeated streak at WrestleMania . He achieved world champion status twice since his return , having won the then WWE World Heavyweight Championship in 2014 and the WWE Universal Championship in 2017 . Lesnar has been managed by Paul Heyman throughout the majority of his professional wrestling career . In June 2016 at UFC 199 , the UFC announced that Lesnar would return to MMA to fight at UFC 200 . His opponent was later revealed to be Mark Hunt . Lesnar would defeat Hunt via unanimous decision . However , after Lesnar tested positive for clomiphene , a banned substance on the UFC 's anti-doping policy , he was suspended from competing in the UFC by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for one year , fined $ 250,000 and his victory over Hunt was overturned to a no-contest . Lesnar then retired from MMA for a second time in 2017 . Lesnar is a five-time world champion in WWE , a one-time heavyweight champion in the UFC , a one-time heavyweight champion in NJPW , and a one-time heavyweight wrestling champion in the NCAA , the only person in history to win a championship in each of those organizations . He has headlined numerous pay-per-view events for both the WWE and UFC , including WrestleMania XIX , WrestleMania 31 , UFC 100 and UFC 116 . In 2015 , an ESPN.com article referred to Lesnar as `` the most accomplished athlete in professional wrestling history '' . |
Boris_Fyodorov | Boris Grigoryevich Fyodorov ( 13 February 1958 , Moscow - 20 November 2008 , London ) was a Russian economist , politician , and reformer . He was awarded a doctor of economics degree and authored over 200 publications . He served as Finance Minister of Russia from 1993 until 1994 , when he resigned . Fyodorov was Minister of Finance of the Russian SFSR ( as a constituent of the USSR ) in 1990 . From 1991 to 1992 he worked for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London . In 1992 he became director of the World Bank . Fyodorov was a member of the State Duma between 1994 and 1998 . In 1998 becoming tax minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia . In 1994 , he founded United Financial Group UFG , an investment bank which was later , in 2005 , sold to Deutsche Bank . Fyodorov was a member of various boards including Gazprom , Sberbank and Ingosstrakh . He was also a general partner of UFG Private Equity starting from 2006 . In addition to his economic and political accomplishments , Fyodorov was a passionate historian and author of a book on Pyotr Stolypin and his family . Fyodorov died from a stroke on 20 November 2008 in London , England , at the age of 50 . |
Blood:_The_Last_Vampire_(2009_film) | Blood : The Last Vampire , released in Japan as , is a 2009 English-language , French-produced horror-action film ; it is the remake of the 2000 anime film of the same name . Directed by Chris Nahon and co-produced by French company Pathé and Hong Kong company Edko with the blessing of Production I.G , the English-language film was released in Japan and other Asian markets on 29 May 2009 . It was released in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2009 and saw a limited release to theatres in the United States starting on 10 July 2009 . The film focuses on a half-human , half-vampire girl named Saya ( Jun Ji-hyun , credited as Gianna Jun ) who hunts full-blooded vampires in partnership with humans and seeks to destroy Onigen , the most powerful of vampires . |
Bran_Stark | Brandon Stark , typically called Bran , is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones . Martin told Rolling Stone in 2014 that Bran 's chapter with Jaime and Cersei Lannister is what `` hooked '' many readers early in the first novel . Introduced in 1996 's A Game of Thrones , Bran is the son of Ned Stark , the honorable lord of Winterfell , an ancient fortress in the North of the fictional kingdom of Westeros . He subsequently appeared in Martin 's A Clash of Kings ( 1998 ) and A Storm of Swords ( 2000 ) . Bran was one of a few prominent characters that were not included in 2005 's A Feast for Crows , but returned in the next novel A Dance with Dragons ( 2011 ) . Bran is portrayed by Isaac Hempstead Wright in the HBO television adaptation . |
Brisbane,_California | Brisbane ( -LSB- ˈbrɪzbeɪn -RSB- , unlike Brisbane , Australia ) is a small city located in California in the northern part of San Mateo County on the lower slopes of San Bruno Mountain . It is located on the southern border of San Francisco , on the northeastern edge of South San Francisco , next to the San Francisco Bay and near the San Francisco International Airport . The population was 4,282 as of the 2010 census . Brisbane is called `` The City of Stars '' because of a holiday tradition established over 65 years ago . At the start of the Christmas/Hanukkah season , many residents and business owners place large , illuminated stars , some as big as 10 ft or more in diameter , on the downhill sides of homes and offices throughout Brisbane . Many of the stars are kept up all year . |
Bound_2 | `` Bound 2 '' is a song by American rapper Kanye West , featured as the final track from his sixth studio album , Yeezus ( 2013 ) . It was produced by West and Che Pope , with additional production being handled by Eric Danchick , Noah Goldstein , No ID and Mike Dean . The song features vocals from American soul singer Charlie Wilson and serves as the album 's second single . `` Bound 2 '' incorporates samples from `` Bound '' by Ponderosa Twins Plus One and the line `` Uh-huh , honey '' from Brenda Lee 's `` Sweet Nothin 's '' . The controversial music video features his wife Kim Kardashian West , topless , riding on a motorbike with West through various landscapes . `` Bound 2 '' received general acclaim from music critics , who referred to the song as one of the highlights of the album , comparing its soul influenced , sample-based production to West 's debut studio album , The College Dropout ( 2004 ) . The song peaked at number 55 on the UK Singles Chart and 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart . |
Breaking_the_bank | In gaming , breaking the bank refers to a player winning a critical sum of money from the casino . The literal , extremely rare , situation of breaking the bank , is winning more than the house has on hand . The term can also been used for the act of winning more chips than there are at the table . Another situation of it portrayed in fiction is a situation where a gambler will win more money than the casino owns , forcing the casino out of business , and winning the casino itself as a prize . In blackjack , card counting can facilitate a winning streak , that eventually breaks the bank . Mark Bowden reports in the Atlantic that blackjack player Don Johnson broke the bank in 2011 winning nearly $ 6 million at Atlantic City 's Tropicana casino after previously taking the Borgata for $ 5 million and Caesars for $ 4 million . The Tropicana refused to continue playing with Johnson on the terms the casino had negotiated after Johnson won $ 5.8 million , the Borgata cut Johnson off at $ 5 million , and the dealer at Caesars refused to fill Johnson 's chip tray once his earnings topped $ 4 million . Johnson had reportedly negotiated terms with the Tropicana that included a hand-shuffled six-deck shoe ; the right to split and double down on up to four hands at once ; and a `` soft 17 '' whittling the house edge down to one-fourth of 1 percent so in effect , Johnson was playing a 50-50 game against the house , and with the 20 % `` loss rebate '' , Johnson was risking only 80 cents of every dollar he played . As a colloquial term , breaking the bank means spending more money than one has . |
Bradley_Aerospace | Bradley Aerospace , Inc. was an American aircraft manufacturer , founded by Bradley Huggins and based in Chico , California . The company specialized in the design and manufacture of light aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction . The company 's corporate status was listed as `` suspended '' . The company marketed a kit for its all-metal aerobatic Bradley BA-100 Aerobat and then went on to design a two-seat aerobatic aircraft , the Bradley BA-200 ATAC , although only one was built . A third design , the Bradley BA-300 Himat , does not seem to have progressed to the completion of a prototype . |
Boston_Massacre | The Boston Massacre , known as the Incident on King Street by the British , was an incident on March 5 , 1770 , in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob . The incident was heavily publicized by leading Patriots , such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams , to encourage rebellion against the British authorities . British troops had been stationed in Boston , capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay , since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation . Amid ongoing tense relations between the population and the soldiers , a mob formed around a British sentry , who was subjected to verbal abuse and harassment . He was eventually supported by eight additional soldiers , who were subjected to verbal threats and snowballs . Spontaneously they fired into the crowd , instantly killing three demonstrators ; two others died later . The crowd eventually dispersed after Acting Governor Thomas Hutchinson promised an inquiry , but reformed the next day , prompting the withdrawal of the troops to an island in the harbor . Eight soldiers , one officer , and four civilians were arrested and charged with murder . Defended by lawyer and future American president John Adams , six of the soldiers were acquitted , while the other two were convicted of manslaughter and given reduced sentences . Americans up and down the Thirteen Colonies were outraged , as reports , including the engraving produced by Paul Revere ( shown at top-right ) , denounced the British government for sending thousands of troops to Boston in the first place . |
Bobby_and_the_Midnites | Bobby and the Midnites was a rock group led by Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead . The band was Weir 's main side project during the first half of the 1980s . They released two albums , but were better known for their live concerts than for their work in the recording studio . With a rhythm section that included jazz veterans Billy Cobham and , for a time , Alphonso Johnson , Bobby and the Midnites played rock music that was influenced by jazz-rock fusion . |
Book_burning | Book burning is the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials . Usually carried out in a public context , the burning of books represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural , religious , or political opposition to the materials in question . In some cases , the destroyed works are irreplaceable and their burning constitutes a severe loss to cultural heritage . Examples include the burning of books and burying of scholars under China 's Qin Dynasty ( 213 -- 210 BC ) , the obliteration of the Library of Baghdad ( 1258 ) , the destruction of Aztec codices by Itzcoatl ( 1430s ) , and the burning of Maya codices on the order of bishop Diego de Landa ( 1562 ) . In other cases , such as the Nazi book burnings , other copies of the destroyed books survive -- but still , the instance of book burning becomes emblematic of a harsh and oppressive regime which is seeking to censor or silence an aspect of a nation 's culture . Book burning can be an act of contempt for the book 's contents or author , and the act is intended to draw wider public attention to this opinion . Examples include the burning of Wilhelm Reich 's books by the FDA and the 2010 Qur ` an-burning controversy . Art destruction is related to book burning , both because it might have similar cultural , religious , or political connotations , and because in various historical cases books and artworks were destroyed at the same time . In modern times , other forms of media , such as phonograph records , video tapes , and CDs have also been burned , shredded , or crushed . |
Boss_(crime) | A crime boss , crime lord , mob boss , kingpin , criminal mastermind , or Don is a person in charge of a criminal organization . A boss typically has absolute or nearly absolute control over his subordinates , is greatly feared by his subordinates for his ruthlessness and willingness to take lives in order to exert his influence , and profits from the criminal endeavors in which his organization engages . Some groups may only have as little as two ranks ( a boss and his soldiers ) . Other groups have a more complex , structured organization with many ranks , and structure may vary with cultural background . Organized crime enterprises originating in Sicily differ in structure from those in mainland Italy . American groups may be structured differently from their European counterparts , and Latino and African American gangs often have structures that vary from European gangs . The size of the criminal organization is also important , as regional or national gangs have much more complex hierarchies . |
Brazil–United_States_relations | Brazil -- United States relations are the bilateral relations between the Federative Republic of Brazil and the United States of America . Relations have a long history : the United States were the first country to recognize Brazilian independence ; Brazil was the only South American nation to send troops to fight alongside the Allies in World War II . Though never openly confrontational towards each other , relations between the two countries have been relatively distant with brief periods of cooperation in the past . While American-Brazilian relations strengthed significally following the election of Dilma Rousseff as president of Brazil in 2010 , and the recent deterioration of Brazil -- Iran relations , there has been a significant rupture in Brazil -- U.S. relations over the June 2013 revelation of U.S. mass surveillance programs in Brazil , specifically proof of American spying on President Rousseff . This rupture receded somewhat in 2014 after it became clear that President Obama was not directly involved in surveillance programs . Relations have improved markedly since President Rousseff 's June 30 , 2015 state visit to the United States , nearly 2 years after she cancelled a previous visit to the U.S. over the spying scandals . In addition , the two countries share membership in a variety of international organizations , including the United Nations , the World Trade Organization , the Organization of American States , the G8 +5 , and the Group of 20 . Brazil is one of the most pro-American nations in the world . According to a global opinion poll , 65 % of Brazilians viewed the U.S. favorably in 2014 , increasing to 73 % in 2015 . In 2015 , 63 % of Brazilians said they were confident President Obama would do the right thing in world affairs . In another poll conducted at the end of 2013 , 61 % of Americans viewed Brazil favorably , with 15 % viewing it unfavorably . |
Brazil | Brazil ( listen ) , is the largest country in both South America and Latin America . As the world 's fifth-largest country by both area and population , it is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas . Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east , Brazil has a coastline of 7491 km It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile and covers 47.3 % of the continent 's land area . Its Amazon River basin includes a vast tropical forest , home to diverse wildlife , a variety of ecological systems , and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats . This unique environmental heritage makes Brazil one of 17 megadiverse countries , and is the subject of significant global interest and debate regarding deforestation and environmental protection . Brazil was inhabited by numerous tribal nations prior to the landing in 1500 of explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral , who claimed the area for the Portuguese Empire . Brazil remained a Portuguese colony until 1808 , when the capital of the empire was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro . In 1815 , the colony was elevated to the rank of kingdom upon the formation of the United Kingdom of Portugal , Brazil and the Algarves . Independence was achieved in 1822 with the creation of the Empire of Brazil , a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system . The ratification of the first constitution in 1824 led to the formation of a bicameral legislature , now called the National Congress . The country became a presidential republic in 1889 following a military coup d'état . An authoritarian military junta came to power in 1964 and ruled until 1985 , after which civilian governance resumed . Brazil 's current constitution , formulated in 1988 , defines it as a democratic federal republic . The federation is composed of the union of the Federal District , the 26 states , and the 5,570 municipalities . Brazil 's economy is the world 's both eighth-largest by nominal GDP and eighth-largest by GDP ( PPP ) . A member of the BRICS group , Brazil until 2010 had one of the world 's fastest growing major economies , with its economic reforms giving the country new international recognition and influence . Brazil 's national development bank plays an important role for the country 's economic growth . Brazil is a founding member of the United Nations , the G20 , BRICS , Unasul , Mercosul , Organization of American States , Organization of Ibero-American States , and the CPLP . Brazil is a regional power in Latin America and a middle power in international affairs , with some analysts identifying it as an emerging global power . One of the world 's major breadbaskets , Brazil has been the largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years . |
Brink's_robbery_(1981) | The Brink 's robbery of 1981 was an armed robbery and three related murders committed on October 20 , 1981 , which were carried out by six Black Liberation Army members : ( 1 ) Jeral Wayne Williams ( a.k.a. Mutulu Shakur ) , ( 2 ) Donald Weems ( a.k.a. Kuwasi Balagoon ) , ( 3 ) Samuel Brown ( a.k.a. Solomon Bouines ) , ( 4 ) Samuel Smith , ( 5 ) Edward Joseph , and ( 6 ) Cecilio `` Chui '' Ferguson ; and four former members of the Weather Underground , now belonging to the May 19th Communist Organization , including ( 7 ) David Gilbert , ( 8 ) Judith Alice Clark , ( 9 ) Kathy Boudin , and ( 10 ) Marilyn Buck . They stole $ 1.6 million in cash from a Brink 's armored car at the Nanuet Mall , in Nanuet , New York , killing a Brink 's guard , Peter Paige , seriously wounding Brinks guard Joseph Trombino , and subsequently killing two Nyack police officers , Edward O'Grady and Waverly Brown ( the first African American member of the Nyack , New York police department ) . Trombino recovered from the wounds he received in this incident but was killed in 2001 in the September 11 attacks . |
Bound_for_Glory_IV | Bound for Glory IV was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) promotion that took place on October 12 , 2008 at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates , Illinois . It was the fourth event under the Bound for Glory name and the tenth event in the 2008 TNA PPV schedule . The show was promoted as TNA 's premier PPV event and their equivalent to the rival World Wrestling Entertainment 's ( WWE ) WrestleMania . Eight professional wrestling matches and one untelevised match were featured on the event 's card , four of which were for championships . The main event of Bound for Glory IV was a standard wrestling match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship , pitting the champion Samoa Joe against the challenger Sting . Sting won the match to become the new champion . Another highly promoted contest on the card was between Kurt Angle and Jeff Jarrett , with Mick Foley serving as the Special Ringside Enforcer . Jarrett was the victor of the encounter . TNA held a Three Way War between A.J. Styles , Booker T , and Christian Cage at the event , which Booker T won . The TNA World Tag Team Championship was defended in a Four Way Tag Team Monster 's Ball match with Steve McMichael as the Special Guest Referee , in which the champions Beer Money , Inc. ( James Storm and Robert Roode ) fought the team of Abyss and Matt Morgan , The Latin American Xchange ( Hernandez and Homicide ) , and Team 3D ( Brother Devon and Brother Ray ) . Beer Money , Inc. pinned Hernandez to retain the championship in the contest . Bound for Glory IV is remembered for Sting winning the TNA World Heavyweight Championship and Team 3D forcing Abyss through a flaming table . There were 35,000 who purchased the event , as reported by The Wrestling Observer Newsletter . Bound for Glory IV had an attendance of between 5,000 and 5,500 people . Chris and Bryan Sokol of the professional wrestling section of the Canadian Online Explorer rated the show a 7 out of 10 , the same as the 2009 edition but lower than the 2007 edition 's rating of 7.5 . It also received a lower rating by the Canadian Online Explorer than WWE 's WrestleMania XXIV PPV event held on March 30 , 2008 , which had been given a 9 out of 10 by Dale Plummer . |
Black_Boys | The Black Boys , also known as the Brave Fellows and the Loyal Volunteers , were members of a white settler movement in the Conococheague Valley of colonial Pennsylvania sometimes known as the Black Boys Rebellion . The Black Boys , so-called because they sometimes blackened their faces during their actions , were upset with British policy regarding American Indians following Pontiac 's War . When that war came to an end in 1765 , the Pennsylvania government began to reopen trade with the Native Americans who had taken part in the uprising . Many settlers of the Conococheague Valley were outraged , having suffered greatly from Indian raids during the war . The 1764 Enoch Brown School Massacre , in which ten school children had been killed and scalped , was the most notorious example of these raids . Led by James `` Black Boy Jimmy '' Smith , the Black Boys -- faces blackened and dressed as Indians -- confiscated and destroyed a number of supply wagons that were headed to Fort Pitt on March 6 , 1765 . Some of the items in the supply wagons were official diplomatic presents , necessary for making peace with Native Americans at Fort Pitt . Other items , however , were trade goods sent by Indian trader George Croghan , who was seeking to recoup his losses from the French and Indian War . Croghan had secretly ( and illegally ) included rum and gunpowder in the shipments in order to make a profit once trade with the Indians was legally resumed . Despite the fact that the shipment contained illegal trade goods , British army officers at nearby Fort Loudoun sided with Croghan and the traders . Using American Indian raiding tactics , the Black Boys continued to prevent shipments from moving through the valley , and Fort Loudoun was surrounded and fired upon on several occasions . Tensions dissipated after formal peace in Pontiac 's War had been established , but in 1769 , when another war with Native Americans seemed imminent , Black Boys again stopped another wagon train . After British troops arrested several of the Black Boys and imprisoned them in Fort Bedford , James Smith and the Black Boys surprised and captured the fort on September 12 , 1769 . No one was harmed , and the prisoners were set free . ( This capture of Fort Bedford is documented only in Smith 's autobiography , so it may be a tall tale , although historian Gregory Evans Dowd notes that there is some corroborating evidence , and some other historians believe the tale to be true . ) Troops were sent to arrest Smith , and in a struggle a friend of Smith was shot and killed . Smith was arrested and charged with manslaughter , but was acquitted , as there were doubts that it was his weapon that had killed the man . The Black Boys were similar to the earlier Paxton Boys in their hostility to the British Crown and the colonial government , but the Black Boys did not target Native Americans in their actions . According to historian Gregory Evans Dowd , a number of historians have confused the two movements . The Black Boys Rebellion has generally been forgotten , overshadowed in American historiography by the 1765 Stamp Act crisis . Nevertheless , some historians see the Black Boys Rebellion as a precursor to the American Revolution . A fictionalized version of the Black Boys Rebellion was depicted in the 1939 Hollywood film Allegheny Uprising , starring John Wayne as James Smith . The film was based on the 1937 boys ' history The First Rebel : Being a lost chapter of our history and a true narrative of America 's first uprising against English military authority , by Neil H. Swanson . |
Brazilian_presidential_line_of_succession | The presidential line of succession defines who may become or act as President of the Federative Republic of Brazil upon the death , resignation , incapacity or removal from office of the elected President , and also when the President is out of the country or is suspended due to impeachment proceedings . The Brazilian Federal Constitution establishes that a Vice-President succeeds as President when the elected President dies , resigns or is removed from office . The other officers in the line of succession are the President of the Chamber of Deputies , the President of the Federal Senate , and the President of the Supreme Federal Court , in that order , but those other officers do not succeed to the presidency as a Vice-President would . Instead , they merely serve as Acting President . The Vice-President and the other officers in the line of succession , in accordance with the constitutional order of preference , also serve as Acting President when the President is under incapacity , or is suspended due to impeachment proceedings , or when the President travels abroad . In Brazil , when the Vice-President dies , resigns or is removed from office , or when a Vice-President succeeds to the Presidency , the Vice-Presidency remains vacant until the inauguration of the Vice-President chosen in the next election . That election is usually the presidential election held in the last year of the presidential term to choose the President and Vice-President that will serve in the next four-year presidential term . Only when both the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency become vacant at the same time are special elections summoned to elect a new President and Vice-President to complete the pending presidential term . |
Blaxploitation | Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film , emerging in the United States during the early 1970s . Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience , but the genre 's audience appeal soon broadened across racial and ethnic lines . The Los Angeles National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) head and ex-film publicist Junius Griffin coined the term from the words `` black '' and `` exploitation . '' Blaxploitation films were the first to regularly feature soundtracks of funk and soul music and primarily black casts . Variety credited Sweet Sweetback 's Baadasssss Song and the less radical Hollywood-financed film Shaft ( both released in 1971 ) with the invention of the blaxploitation genre . |
Blue_Pearl | Blue Pearl are an English electronic music duo , consisting of American female singer Durga McBroom and British musician Youth ( Martin Glover ) . They charted two songs on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart . `` Naked in the Rain '' was a # 4 hit in the UK Singles Chart and a # 5 dance hit in the US in 1990 , which was originally issued on blue vinyl . It was followed by '' ( Can You ) Feel the Passion '' ( whose melody samples Bizarre Inc 's `` Playing with Knives '' ) , which hit # 1 on both Billboard 's Dance Club Play and the UK Dance Chart in 1992 , reaching # 14 on the UK Singles Chart . They also had a minor hit in the UK Singles Chart in November 1990 with the # 31 hit , `` Little Brother '' . Their records featured guest appearances from David Gilmour and Richard Wright of Pink Floyd , for whom McBroom had been a backing vocalist . |
CAMP_(company) | CAMP ( also spelled C.A.M.P. and called Camp , which stands for `` Concezione Articoli Montagna Premana '' ) ( English Translation : `` Conception Articles Mountains Premana '' ) is one of the world 's leading manufacturers of equipment for climbing and associated activities such as ski mountaineering and industrial safety . The company is based in Italy . CAMP manufactures a wide range of products , including ice axes , crampons , ice screws , pitons , carabiners , nuts , tricams , camming devices , harnesses , helmets , rucksacks , tents , ski racing clothing , and various snow tools . The company was founded by Nicola Codega , a blacksmith , in 1889 in the Italian alpine village of Premana , where it is still based . Originally producing wrought-iron goods , an order in 1920 for ice axes for the Italian army was their first foray into the world of climbing equipment . From there the company extended its climbing range to include crampons , pitons , and nuts , and eventually with the encouragement of leading mountaineer Riccardo Cassin and collaboration with American climber Greg Lowe ( founder of Lowe Alpine ) , into non-metallic equipment . The company is still run by Codega 's descendants . |