Warm Bodies is the debut novel of author Isaac Marion. The book was described as a “zombie romance” by the Seattle Post Intelligencer, and makes allusions to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The author, based in Seattle, originally wrote a short story titled, “I am a Zombie filled with love,” that attracted a wide internet audience. Atria Books, a division of Simon and Schuster, acquired the publishing rights to the full novel in early 2010.
A house of cards (also known as a card tower) is a structure created by stacking playing cards on top of each other. House of cards is also an expression which dates back to 1645 meaning; a structure or argument built on a shaky foundation or one that will collapse if a necessary (but possibly overlooked or unappreciated) element is removed. Structures built by layering themselves in this way such as Stonehenge, are also part of this “house of cards architecture”, which dates back to the Cyclopean and Megalithic ages.
Edward Irving “Ed” Koch (pron.: /ËkÉtÊ/; (December 12, 1924 â February 1, 2013) was an American lawyer, politician, political commentator, movie critic and television reality show judge. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and three terms as mayor of New York City, from 1978 to 1989. He also became known as a judge on the television judge show The People’s Court from 1997 to 1999. He died on February 1, 2013 of heart failure.
Applebeeâs International, Inc., is an American company which develops, franchises, and operates the Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar restaurant chain. As of December 2011, there were 2,019 restaurants operating system-wide in the United States, one U.S. territory (Puerto Rico) and 15 other countries. The company is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri after moving from Lenexa, Kansas in September 2011.
Groundhog Day (Pennsylvania German: Grundsaudaag, Murmeltiertag) is a day celebrated on February 2. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, then spring will come early; if it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will continue for six more weeks.
School bullying is a type of bullying in which occurs during the time period a child is in school. Bullying can be physical, verbal, or emotional.
Chris Culliver (born August 17, 1988) is an American football cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the 49ers in the third round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at South Carolina.
BlackBerry is a brand of wireless handheld devices and services developed by the Canadian telecommunications company BlackBerry (known as Research In Motion [RIM] until January 30, 2013). The first BlackBerry device, an email pager, was released in 1999; the 100 millionth BlackBerry smartphone was shipped in June quarter of 2010 and the 200 millionth smartphone was shipped in September quarter of 2012.
December to Dismember (2006) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on December 3, 2006 at the James Brown Arena in Augusta, Georgia. Professional wrestling is a type of sports entertainment in which theatrical events are combined with a competitive sport. The buildup to the matches and the scenarios that took place before, during, and after the event, were planned by WWE’s script writers. The event starred wrestlers from the ECW brand: storyline expansions of the promotion where employees are assigned to wrestling brands under the WWE banner. Despite it being an ECW brand pay-per-view, wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown! brands also worked on the pay-per-view. Its name was derived from the December to Dismember event held by the original Extreme Championship Wrestling in 1995.
Rudy Carlton Gay, Jr. (born August 17, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played collegiately at the University of Connecticut before turning pro.
