Nnamdi Asomugha (/ËnÉËmdiË ËÉËsÉmwÉË/ NAHM-dee AH-sÉm-wah; born July 6, 1981) is an American football cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of California, Berkeley, and was drafted in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders. He also played for the Philadelphia Eagles. He has been frequently mentioned as one of the best shutdown corners in the NFL.
Kerry Washington (born January 31, 1977) is an American actress, director and narrator. As of 2012 Washington is the lead actress in the ABC drama Scandal, a Shonda Rhimes series in which Washington plays Olivia Pope, a former crisis management expert to the President. She is known for her roles as Ray Charles’s wife, Della Bea Robinson, in the film Ray (2004), as Idi Amin’s wife Kay in The Last King of Scotland (2006), as Alicia Masters, love interest of Ben Grimm/The Thing in the live-action Fantastic Four films of 2005 and 2007, and as Broomhilda von Schaft, Django’s wife, in Quentin Tarantino’s film Django Unchained (2012).
Fireworks are a class of explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic, cultural, and religious purposes. The most common use of a firework is as part of a fireworks display. A fireworks event (also called a fireworks show or pyrotechnics) is a display of the effects produced by firework devices. Fireworks competitions are also regularly held at a number of places. Fireworks take many forms to produce the four primary effects: noise, light, smoke and floating materials (confetti for example). They may be designed to burn with flames and sparks of many colors, typically red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and silver. Displays are common throughout the world and are the focal point of many cultural and religious celebrations.
Brad Stevens (born October 22, 1976) is an American NBA coach for the Boston Celtics, and a former college basketball player. He grew up in Zionsville, Indiana, where he starred on the Zionsville Community High School basketball team, setting four school records. After high school, he attended DePauw University, where he played basketball and earned a degree in economics. He made the all-conference team multiple times and was a three-time Academic All-America nominee.
Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family reunions, and political speeches and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Independence Day is the National Day of the United States.
An Independence Day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation’s assumption of independent statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state; more rarely after the end of a military occupation. Most countries observe their respective independence days as a national holiday, and in some cases the observance date is controversial or contested.
This list of stage names lists performers, and others related to the entertainment industry, alphabetically by their stage name’s surname, followed by their birth name. Individuals who dropped their last name and substituted their middle name as their last name are listed. Also listed are individuals who have changed the spelling of one or more of their legal names, such as Willem Dafoe. In many cases, performers have legally changed their name to their stage name.
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The Yarnell Hill Fire is an ongoing wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, that was ignited by lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, nineteen firefighters with the Prescott Fire Department’s interagency Granite Mountain Hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire. The lone survivor on the team was moving the crew vehicle at the time of the burnover; he and 22 other people were injured.
Big Cat Records is a UK record label. It launched around 1990 and originally specialized in industrial and noise-rock releases. Operated a US office in NYC for a few years. Purchased by V2 Records in 1996, at which point their roster became much more diverse in style. Artists include Cop Shoot Cop, Foetus, Paul Schütze, Pavement, Lotion, Blumfeld, Broken Dog, Experimental Audio Research, One Minute Silence,and Grandaddy. The newest artist is Young Prince.
