James Stevenson (August 1, 1827 â October 26, 1910) was an Irish-born merchant and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Peterborough West in the Canadian House of Commons from 1887 to 1896 as a Conservative member.
James Stevenson (August 1, 1827 â October 26, 1910) was an Irish-born merchant and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Peterborough West in the Canadian House of Commons from 1887 to 1896 as a Conservative member.
The Houston Rockets is an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The team plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team was established in 1967, and played in San…
Kevin Grant Sharp (December 10, 1970 – April 19, 2014) was an American country music singer, author, and motivational speaker. Sharp made his debut on the country music scene in 1997 with a cover of R&B artist Tony Rich’s single…
In basketball, points are used to keep track of the score in a game. Points can be accumulated by making field goals (worth two points from within the three-point line or three points from beyond the three-point line) or free…
Craig Sager (born 1951 in Batavia, Illinois) is a sideline reporter for TNT and TBS. Sager is a graduate of Northwestern University. He has previously covered sports for CBS and CNN. His nicknames are “America’s Sideline Reporter,” “Sagervision,” and Mr.…
Bernard Humphrey Hopkins, Jr. (born January 15, 1965) is an American boxer and current IBF and WBA light-heavyweight world champion. At 49 he is the oldest fighter ever to be a world champion.
The General in His Labyrinth (original Spanish title: El general en su laberinto) is a novel by the Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez. It is a fictionalized account of the last days of Simón BolÃvar, liberator and…
The Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid, a creature whose existence has been suggested but is not discovered or documented by the scientific community. It is reputedly a large unknown animal that inhabits Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It…
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake was a magnitude 8.1 earthquake that struck some states of Mexico and Mexico City on the early morning of 19 September 1985 at around 7:19 am (CST), caused the deaths of at least 10,000 people and…
Orphan Black is a Canadian science fiction television series starring Tatiana Maslany as several identical women who are revealed to be clones. The series focuses on Sarah Manning, a woman who assumes the identity of her clone, Elizabeth (Beth) Childs,…