Snapchat is a photo messaging application developed by Stanford University students. Using the app, users can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients. These sent photographs and videos are known as “Snaps”. Users set a time limit for how long recipients can view their Snaps (as of November 2013, the range is from 1 to 10 seconds), after which they will be hidden from the recipient’s device and deleted from the Snapchat server.
Samuel George Hurd, III (born April 24, 1985) is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League for six seasons. He played college football at Northern Illinois University, and, though undrafted, was signed after graduation by the Dallas Cowboys in 2006. He played for the Cowboys from 2006â2010 before joining the Chicago Bears in 2011. He was released by the Bears in December 2011, after he was arrested on federal drug charges. On November 13, 2013 Hurd was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The Saola, Vu Quang ox or Asian unicorn, also, infrequently, Vu Quang bovid (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), is one of the world’s rarest mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine found only in the Annamite Range of Vietnam and Laos. Cousin to the cow, goat, and antelope, the species was defined following a discovery of remains in 1992 in VÅ© Quang Nature Reserve by a joint survey of the Ministry of Forestry and the World Wide Fund for Nature. The team found three skulls with unusual long straight horns kept in hunters’ houses. In their article, the team proposed “a three month survey to observe the living animal” but, more than 20 years later, there was still no reported sighting of a saola in the wild by a scientist. However, a living saola was photographed in the wild in September 2013 by a camera trap set by World Wildlife Fund and the Vietnamese governmentâs Forest Protection Department. Van Ngoc Thinh, the WWF’s Vietnam country director, said, “This is a breathtaking discovery and renews hope for the recovery of the species.”
Todd Jay Christensen (August 3, 1956 â November 13, 2013) was a professional American football player and sports broadcaster for the CBS Sports Network.
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban,[a] Kt., QC (22 January 1561 â 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.
Auckland City Football Club is a football (soccer) club based in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. The club competes in the eight team ASB Premiership (formerly known as the New Zealand Football Championship) which is the highest level of domestic football in the country.
Brooks & Dunn were an American country music duo consisting of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, who were both vocalists and songwriters. The duo was founded in 1990 through the suggestion of Tim DuBois. Before the foundation, both members were solo recording artists. Brooks wrote number one singles for John Conlee, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Highway 101; both he and Dunn also charted two solo singles apiece in the 1980s, with Brooks also releasing an album for Capitol Records in 1989.
Maleficent /mÉËlÉfɪsÉnt/ is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Walt Disney’s 1959 film Sleeping Beauty. She is the self-proclaimed “Mistress of All Evil” who, after not being invited to a royal christening, curses the infant Princess Aurora to “prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die” before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. The character is Disney’s adaptation of the wicked fairy godmother from the original French fairy tale.
The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant began during the turbulent Reconstruction period following the American Civil War. Grant was elected the 18th President of the United States in 1868 and was re-elected to the office in 1872, serving from March 4, 1869, to March 4, 1877. The United States was at peace with the world throughout the era, and was prosperous until the Panic of 1873, a severe national depression, that dominated Grant’s second term.
Dwayne Lorenzo Bowe (born September 21, 1984) is an American football wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Louisiana State University (LSU), and was drafted by the Chiefs 23rd overall in the 2007 NFL Draft. Bowe currently ranks first in the Chiefs record books in receiving-yards-per-game (65.1) and second in receptions-per-game (4.7) to Tony Gonzalez.
