Sir Patrick Stewart, OBE (born 13 July 1940) is an English film, television and stage actor, who has had a distinguished career on stage and screen. He is most widely known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its successor films, and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series and as Gurney Halleck in the 1984 David Lynch film Dune.
Eugene Cyril “Geno” Smith III (born October 10, 1990) is an American football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Jets in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He played college football for West Virginia University.
The Million Second Quiz is an upcoming American television game show produced by All3Media America to be broadcast on NBC beginning September 9, 2013. The show follows a group of contestants who compete for up to $10 million in a quiz competition across 1,000,000 seconds, or about eleven and a half days. NBC will air 1 hour segments each day, while the rest of the show will be viewable from within the Million Second Quiz app. It is executive produced by Stephen Lambert, Eli Holzman and David Hurwitz. Ryan Seacrest is to host the upcoming first season.
Highest scoring NFL games is a list of some of the highest scoring games in history along with some miscellaneous facts that made the games historically significant.
Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company, which is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox. It was formed in 1994 with Fox’s acquisition of broadcast rights to National Football League games. In subsequent years, it has televised the National Hockey League (1994â1999), Major League Baseball (1996âpresent), NASCAR (2001âpresent), Bowl Championship Series (2007â2010), the US Open (starting in 2015), and the FIFA World Cup (starting in 2018).
NFL Sunday Ticket is an out-of-market sports package that broadcasts National Football League regular season games unavailable on local affiliates. It carries all regional Sunday afternoon games produced by Fox and CBS. The ideal customer of this package is presumed (based on advertisements) to be a fan of a team who is unable to see their team on local television because they do not reside in that team’s market. The package is available in the United States exclusively on DirecTV (which also offers it on the Internet, on certain tablets and smartphones, as well as on the PlayStation Network and JetBlue Airways flights); in Canada on several satellite and cable providers, in Mexico and Latin America on SKY México, in South America and the Caribbean on DirecTV Latin America, and several cable providers in The Bahamas and Bermuda.
Survivor fantasy leagues are NFL fantasy leagues in which each participant (“team owner”) picks a team each week to win a head-to-head matchup. If that team loses, the team owner is eliminated from the league; winners advance to the next week.
National Grandparents’ Day is a secular holiday celebrated in the United States since 1978 and officially recognized in a number of countries on various days of the year, either as one holiday or sometimes as a separate Grandmothers’ Day and Grandfathers’ Day (see below for dates by country). One celebrates both paternal and maternal grandparents.
Twelve Years a Slave (1853; sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana), by Solomon Northup as told to David Wilson, is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
Thomas Dudley “Tom” Harmon (September 28, 1919 â March 15, 1990) was a star player in American college football, a sports broadcaster, and patriarch of a family of American actors. As a player, he won the Heisman Trophy in 1940 and is considered by some to be the greatest football player in Michigan Wolverines history.
