Gregory Cameron Thor (born 17 March 1960) is an American actor and acting coach.
The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations on 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, led to the restoration of the French Republic, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war.
The 2014 Major League Baseball (MLB) First-Year Player Draft will be held from June 5 through June 7, 2014, to assign amateur baseball players to MLB teams. The first two rounds will be conducted on June 5, followed by rounds 3 through 10 on June 6, and the last 30 rounds on June 7. It will be broadcast from Studio 42 of the MLB Network in Secaucus, New Jersey.
Kourtney Mary Kardashian (born April 18, 1979) is an American television personality, fashion designer, and model. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, she first garnered media attention through her then-friend Paris Hilton. In 2007, she and her family were commissioned to star in the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Its success has led to the creation of spin-offs including Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami, Kourtney and Kim Take New York, and Kourtney and Kim Take Miami.
iOS 8 is the eighth major release of the iOS mobile operating system designed by Apple Inc as the successor to iOS 7. It was announced at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 2, 2014. A new app named Health, and a framework named HealthKit, will be available. Siri will support hands-free activation and music identification using Shazam. Voice and Video messages will be auto deleted unless user saves it for future references.
This is a partial list of social and cultural phenomena specific to the Internet, such as popular themes, catchphrases, images, viral videos, jokes, and more. When such fads and sensations occur online, they tend to grow rapidly and become more widespread because the instant communication facilitates word of mouth.
The Slender Man (also known as Slenderman) is a fictional character that originated as an Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen (a.k.a “Victor Surge”) in 2009. It is depicted as resembling a thin, unnaturally tall man with a blank and usually featureless face, and wearing a black suit. The Slender Man is commonly said to stalk, abduct, or traumatize people, particularly children. The Slender Man is not tied to any particular story, but appears in many disparate works of fiction, mostly composed online.
Mortal Kombat (also referred to as Mortal Kombat 9) is a 2.5D fighting game with 3D graphics and the ninth main installment in the Mortal Kombat series. It is a reboot of the franchise and was developed by NetherRealm Studios (formerly known as Midway Studios) and published exclusively by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 systems in April 2011, and a PlayStation Vita port was released in May 2012. An expanded version of the game, titled Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition, was released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in February 2012 and for Microsoft Windows in July 2013.
George Jacob Jung (born August 6, 1942), nicknamed “Boston George”, was a major player in the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s. Jung was a part of the MedellÃn Cartel, which was responsible for up to 89 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States. He specialized in the smuggling of cocaine from Colombia on a large scale. His life story was portrayed in the 2001 film Blow, starring Johnny Depp. George Jung was released from prison on June 2, 2014 after serving nearly 20 years for drug-smuggling.