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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.The internet did not emerge as a result of the funding of National Science Foundation Network as well as private funding for other commercial extensions.
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The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite -LRB- TCP/IP -RRB- to link devices worldwide . It is a network of networks that consists of private , public , academic , business , and government networks of local to global scope , linked by a broad array of electronic , wireless , and optical networking technologies . The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services , such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web -LRB- WWW -RRB- , electronic mail , telephony , and file sharing . The origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the United States federal government in the 1960s to build robust , fault-tolerant communication via computer networks . The primary precursor network , the ARPANET , initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the 1980s . The funding of the National Science Foundation Network as a new backbone in the 1980s , as well as private funding for other commercial extensions , led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies , and the merger of many networks . The linking of commercial networks and enterprises by the early 1990s marks the beginning of the transition to the modern Internet , and generated a sustained exponential growth as generations of institutional , personal , and mobile computers were connected to the network . Although the Internet was widely used by academia since the 1980s , the commercialization incorporated its services and technologies into virtually every aspect of modern life . Internet use grew rapidly in the West from the mid-1990s and from the late 1990s in the developing world . In the two decades since then , Internet use has grown 100-times , measured for the period of one year , to over one third of the world population . Most traditional communications media , including telephony , radio , television , paper mail and newspapers are being reshaped or redefined by the Internet , giving birth to new services such as email , Internet telephony , Internet television , online music , digital newspapers , and video streaming websites . Newspaper , book , and other print publishing are adapting to website technology , or are reshaped into blogging , web feeds and online news aggregators . The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of personal interactions through instant messaging , Internet forums , and social networking . Online shopping has grown exponentially both for major retailers and small businesses and entrepreneurs , as it enables firms to extend their `` brick and mortar '' presence to serve a larger market or even sell goods and services entirely online . Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries . The Internet has no centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage ; each constituent network sets its own policies . Only the overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the Internet , the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System -LRB- DNS -RRB- , are directed by a maintainer organization , the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -LRB- ICANN -RRB- . The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force -LRB- IETF -RRB- , a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise .
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Science policy is concerned with the allocation of resources for the conduct of science towards the goal of best serving the public interest . Topics include the funding of science , the careers of scientists , and the translation of scientific discoveries into technological innovation to promote commercial product development , competitiveness , economic growth and economic development . Science policy focuses on knowledge production and role of knowledge networks , collaborations and the complex distributions of expertise , equipment and know-how . Understanding the processes and organizational context of generating novel and innovative science and engineering ideas is a core concern of science policy . Science policy topics include weapons development , health care and environmental monitoring . Science policy thus deals with the entire domain of issues that involve science . A large and complex web of factors influences the development of science and engineering that includes government science policy makers , private firms -LRB- including both national and multi-national firms -RRB- , social movements , media , non-governmental organizations , universities , and other research institutions . In addition , science policy is increasingly international as defined by the global operations of firms and research institutions as well as by the collaborative networks of non-governmental organizations and of the nature of scientific inquity itself .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.William Shakespeare wrote tragicomedies.
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William Shakespeare -LRB- -LSB- ˈʃeɪkspɪə -RSB- 26 April 1564 -LRB- baptised -RRB- -- 23 April 1616 -RRB- was an English : poet , : playwright , and actor , widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world 's pre-eminent dramatist . He is often called England 's national poet , and the `` Bard of Avon '' . His extant works , including collaborations , consist of approximately 38 plays , 154 sonnets , two long narrative poems , and a few other verses , some of uncertain authorship . His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright . Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon , Warwickshire . At the age of 18 , he married Anne Hathaway , with whom he had three children : Susanna , and twins Hamnet and Judith . Sometime between 1585 and 1592 , he began a successful career in London as an actor , writer , and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain 's Men , later known as the King 's Men . He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613 , at age 49 , where he died three years later . Few records of Shakespeare 's private life survive , which has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance , sexuality , and religious beliefs and whether the works attributed to him were written by others . Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613 . His early plays were primarily comedies and histories , which are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres . He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608 , including Hamlet , Othello , King Lear , and Macbeth , considered some of the finest works in the English language . In his last phase , he wrote tragicomedies , also known as romances , and collaborated with other playwrights . Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime . In 1623 , however , John Heminges and Henry Condell , two friends and fellow actors of Shakespeare , published a more definitive text known as the First Folio , a posthumous collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare 's . It was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson , in which Shakespeare is hailed , presciently , as `` not of an age , but for all time '' . In the 20th and 21st centuries , his works have been repeatedly adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance . His plays remain highly popular and are constantly studied , performed , and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world .
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Richard Burton 's Hamlet is a common name for both the Broadway production of William Shakespeare 's tragedy that played from April 9 to August 8 , 1964 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre , and for the filmed record of it that has been released theatrically and on home video .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Heartlight is the second track on Diamond's album.
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`` Heartlight '' is a song written by Neil Diamond , Carole Bayer Sager and her then-husband Burt Bacharach , and recorded by Diamond in 1982 . The song is the first track on Diamond 's 1982 album , also titled Heartlight , and reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 , becoming his eighth -LRB- and last -RRB- top 5 hit on the chart . The song also spent four weeks atop the adult contemporary chart in late 1982 , and was the last of his eight # 1s on that chart . The song is inspired by the blockbuster movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , which Diamond , Bayer Sager and Bacharach had all seen together . When the alien E.T. leaves Earth , his heart glows a luminous red , hence the title of the song . The songwriters were required to pay Universal Studios $ 25,000 for the use of ideas from the film .
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`` Steal My Sunshine '' is a song by Canadian band Len , jointly written and composed by band member Marc Costanzo and Gregg Diamond . It was released in July 1999 as the lead single from their third album You Ca n't Stop the Bum Rush . The indie pop track became a sleeper hit when radio stations began playing it in March 1999 , four months before Len planned to release their album . `` Steal My Sunshine '' had a commercial single release in July 1999 . It received positive reviews from music critics , and its chart success caused Len to be considered a one-hit wonder . The song earned a nomination for `` Best Single '' at the Juno Awards of 2000 . The backdrop is based on a sample of a short instrumental portion of the `` Andrea True Connection 's '' 1976 disco single `` More , More , More , '' which Diamond wrote and composed specifically for the Connection 's lead singer , former porn star Andrea True . Supposedly inspired by The Human League 's 1981 synthpop hit `` Do n't You Want Me , '' the song 's vocals alternate between Marc and Sharon Costanzo . Gregg Diamond , who was given songwriting credit as the original author-composer of `` More , More , More , '' died three months before the album was released .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Helen Mirren was a recipient of a fellowship.
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Dame Helen Lydia Mirren -LRB- née Mironoff ; born 26 July 1945 -RRB- is an English actor . Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 , and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting , having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 , after two previous nominations , for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen . She received an Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2013 for her West End performance in The Audience , in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II , and in 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway performance in the play . The Audience was written by Peter Morgan , who also wrote The Queen . Mirren won three consecutive BAFTA Awards for Best Actress between 1992 and 1994 and her first of several Emmy Awards in 1996 for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the British television series Prime Suspect , which ran for seven seasons between 1991 and 2006 . Some of her other notable film roles include Marcella in the 1984 film Cal , for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress , 2010 -LRB- 1984 -RRB- , The Cook , the Thief , His Wife & Her Lover -LRB- 1989 -RRB- , The Madness of King George -LRB- 1994 -RRB- , Teaching Mrs. Tingle -LRB- 1999 -RRB- , Gosford Park -LRB- 2001 -RRB- , Calendar Girls -LRB- 2003 -RRB- , The Last Station -LRB- 2009 -RRB- , Hitchcock -LRB- 2012 -RRB- , and The Hundred-Foot Journey -LRB- 2014 -RRB- . She played Victoria Winslow in the action-comedy films Red and Red 2 . In 2003 , she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire -LRB- DBE -RRB- for Services to the Performing Arts . In 2013 , Mirren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , and in 2014 , BAFTA announced that Mirren would be the recipient of the Academy Fellowship .
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The Adler Fellowship is a program to support young singers managed by the San Francisco Opera , started under the leadership of General Director Terence A. McEwen . The fellowship is named after Kurt Herbert Adler who managed the opera from 1953 until 1981 . The fellowship comes with training and performance opportunities .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.The king of Mount Olympus was Zeus.
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Zeus -LSB- ˈzju : s -RSB- -LRB- Ζεύς , Zeús , -LSB- zdeǔ̯s -RSB- Modern Δίας , Días -LSB- ˈði.as -RSB- -RRB- is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion , who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus . His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter . His mythologies and powers are similar , though not identical , to those of the Indo-European deities such as Indra , Jupiter , Perun , Thor , and Odin . Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea , the youngest of his siblings to be born , though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus 's stomach . In most traditions , he is married to Hera , by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares , Hebe , and Hephaestus . At the oracle of Dodona , his consort was said to be Dione , by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite . Zeus was also infamous for his erotic escapades . These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring , including Athena , Apollo , Artemis , Hermes , Persephone , Dionysus , Perseus , Heracles , Helen of Troy , Minos , and the Muses . He was respected as an allfather who was chief of the gods and assigned the others to their roles : `` Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father , and all the gods rise in his presence . '' He was equated with many foreign weather gods , permitting Pausanias to observe `` That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men '' . Zeus ' symbols are the thunderbolt , eagle , bull , and oak . In addition to his Indo-European inheritance , the classical `` cloud-gatherer '' -LRB- Greek : Νεφεληγερέτα , Nephelēgereta -RRB- also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East , such as the scepter . Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses : standing , striding forward with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand , or seated in majesty .
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In Greek mythology , Crotopus or Krotopos was the eight king of Argos . A species of butterfly , Euselasia Crotopus is possibly named after him .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Singapore is ranked highly in education.
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Singapore -LRB- -LSB- ˈsɪŋgəpɔr -RSB- -RRB- , officially the Republic of Singapore , sometimes referred to as the Lion City , the Garden City or the Little Red Dot , is a sovereign city-state in Southeast Asia . It lies one degree -LRB- 137 km -RRB- north of the equator , at the southern tip of peninsular Malaysia , with Indonesia 's Riau Islands to the south . Singapore 's territory consists of one main island along with 62 other islets . Since independence , extensive land reclamation has increased its total size by 23 % -LRB- 130 km2 -RRB- , and its greening policy has covered the densely populated island with tropical flora , parks and gardens . Stamford Raffles founded colonial Singapore in 1819 as a trading post of the East India Company ; after its collapse and the eventual establishment of the British Raj , the islands were ceded to Britain and became part of its Straits Settlements in 1826 . During the Second World War , Singapore was occupied by Japan . It gained independence from the UK in 1963 by federating with other former British territories to form Malaysia , but separated two years later over ideological differences , becoming a sovereign nation in 1965 . After early years of turbulence , and despite lacking natural resources and a hinterland , the nation developed rapidly as an Asian Tiger economy , based on external trade and its workforce . Singapore is a global commerce , finance and transport hub . Its standings include : the most `` technology-ready '' nation -LRB- WEF -RRB- , top International-meetings city -LRB- UIA -RRB- , city with `` best investment potential '' -LRB- BERI -RRB- , second-most competitive country , third-largest foreign exchange market , third-largest financial centre , third-largest oil refining and trading centre , and the second-busiest container port . The country has also been identified as a tax haven . Singapore ranks 5th on the UN Human Development Index and the 3rd highest GDP per capita . It is ranked highly in education , healthcare , life expectancy , quality of life , personal safety , and housing . Although income inequality is high , 90 % of homes are owner-occupied . 38 % of Singapore 's 5.6 million residents are permanent residents and other foreign nationals . There are four official languages : English -LRB- common and first language -RRB- , Malay , Mandarin , Tamil ; almost all Singaporeans are bilingual . Singapore is a unitary multiparty parliamentary republic , with a Westminster system of unicameral parliamentary government . The People 's Action Party has won every election since self-government in 1959 . The dominance of the PAP , coupled with a low level of press freedom and restrictions on civil liberties and political rights , has led to Singapore being classified by some as a semi-authoritarian regime . One of the five founding members of the ASEAN , Singapore is also the host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation -LRB- APEC -RRB- Secretariat , and a member of the East Asia Summit , Non-Aligned Movement , and the Commonwealth of Nations .
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Singapore embraces an English-based bilingual education system . Students are taught subject-matter curriculum with English as the medium of instruction , while the official mother tongue of each student - Mandarin Chinese for Chinese , Malay for Malays and Tamil for ethnically Tamil Indians -- is taught as a second language . Additionally , Higher Mother Tongue -LRB- HMT -RRB- is offered as an additional and optional examinable subject to those with the interest and ability to handle the higher standards demanded by HMT . The content taught to students in HMT is of a higher level of difficulty and is more in-depth so as to help students achieve a higher proficiency in their respective mother tongues . The choice to take up HMT is offered to students in the Primary and Secondary level . Thereafter , in junior colleges , students who took HMT at the secondary level have the choice to opt out of mother tongue classes entirely . Campaigns by the government to encourage the use of official languages instead of home languages -LRB- e.g. other Chinese varieties -RRB- have been largely successful , although English seems to be becoming the dominant language in most homes . To date , many campaigns and programmes have been launched to promote the learning and use of mother tongue languages in Singapore . The language education in Singapore has been a controversial topic in Singapore - although Singaporeans are becoming increasingly English-dominant speakers , many have not achieved a good grasp of their mother tongue . This results in a separate controversy regarding the assigned weightage of mother tongue in major examinations such as the PSLE and GCE Ordinary Level as parents worry that children who are taught English as a first language and whom are brought up in English-speaking families are at a disadvantage for not knowing their mother tongue well .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Leopold II of Belgium died December 17, 1909.
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Leopold II -LRB- 9 April 1835 -- 17 December 1909 -RRB- reigned as the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 . He became known for the founding and exploitation of the Congo Free State as a private venture . Born in Brussels as the second -LRB- but eldest surviving -RRB- son of Leopold I and Louise of Orléans , he succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and reigned for 44 years until his death - the longest reign of any Belgian monarch . He died without surviving male issue ; the current Belgian king descends from his nephew and successor , Albert I. Leopold became the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State , a private project undertaken on his own behalf . He used explorer Henry Morton Stanley to help him lay claim to the Congo , the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo . At the Berlin Conference of 1884 -- 1885 the colonial nations of Europe authorized his claim by committing the Congo Free State to improving the lives of the native inhabitants . From the beginning , however , Leopold essentially ignored these conditions . He ran the Congo using the mercenary Force Publique for his personal enrichment . He used great sums of the money from this exploitation for public and private construction projects in Belgium during this period . He donated the private buildings to the state before his death , to preserve them for Belgium . Leopold extracted a fortune from the Congo , initially by the collection of ivory , and - after a rise in the price of rubber in the 1890s - by forced labour from the natives to harvest and process rubber . Under his régime millions of the Congolese people died ; modern estimates range from 1 to 15 million , with a consensus growing around 10 million . Human-rights abuses under his régime contributed significantly to these deaths . Reports of deaths and abuse led to a major international scandal in the early 20th century , and the Belgian government ultimately forced Leopold to relinquish control of the colony to Belgian civil administration in 1908 .
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Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was a German prince of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha may also refer to : Prince Leopold Clement of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha -LRB- 1878 -- 1916 -RRB- Johann Leopold , Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha -LRB- 1906-1972 -RRB- , Duke of Albany Leopold I , Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha -LRB- 1790-1865 -RRB- , King of the Belgians
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Three Days of the Condor's director was Sydney Pollack.
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Three Days of the Condor -LRB- stylized on the poster art as 3 Days of the Condor -RRB- is a 1975 American political thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford , Faye Dunaway , Cliff Robertson , and Max von Sydow . The screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel was adapted from the 1974 novel Six Days of the Condor by James Grady . The main point of variance from novel to film lies in the presentation of the CIA . In Grady 's book , a rogue element within the Agency is motivated by drug-running greed . In the film , the same individuals act with equal ruthlessness to hide a project intended to protect long-term national interests . Set mainly in New York City and Washington , D.C. , the film is about a bookish CIA researcher who comes back from lunch , discovers all his co-workers shot dead , and tries to outwit those responsible until he figures out whom he can really trust . The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing . Semple and Rayfiel received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay .
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The Contender is a reality television series that follows a group of boxers as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition , while their lives and relationships with each other and their families are depicted . Produced by Mark Burnett , the show is hosted by Sugar Ray Leonard , who shared hosting duties in the first season with actor Sylvester Stallone . Leonard also serves as a trainer on the show , along with Tommy Gallagher . During the first season , boxing manager Jackie Kallen also served as counsel to the boxers . The show ran for fifteen weeks through 2005 on NBC in the United States of America . The show ran in the UK on ITV2 and was repeated later in the week on ITV , and now airs on ITV4 . It also aired on AXN in India , and on the Spanish language network Telemundo . The second season , featuring welterweight contenders , premiered in the U.S. on Tuesday , July 18 , 2006 , at 10 pm ET/PT , on ESPN . The third season , featuring super middleweight contenders , premiered in the U.S. on Tuesday , September 4 , 2007 , at 10 pm ET/PT , on ESPN . The fourth season , featuring cruiserweight contenders , premiered in the U.S. on Wednesday , December 3 , 2008 , at 10 pm ET/PT , on Versus . The series ' tagline is `` The Next Great Human Drama '' , and its soundtrack was scored by Hans Zimmer . Before the show premiered , rival US television Fox network rushed to air a competing show The Next Great Champ , hosted by Oscar de la Hoya . The show performed very poorly , with the final episodes being relegated to cable FSN . In an effort to distance itself from the Fox disaster , NBC opted to hold airing its show until spring 2005 . The show takes the format of a gameshow , with the boxers divided into two teams based on their place of residence in the United States : East Coast or West Coast -LRB- or simply `` East '' and `` West '' -RRB- . These teams live together in group living quarters , in Pasadena , California in the historic Royal Laundry Building on Raymond Avenue , and compete for the right to choose which of their team members fights that week , and who he fights against . Most of the second half of the hour-long episodes are devoted to that fight : the loser is eliminated . On February 14 , 2005 , one of the 16 contestants , Najai Turpin , despondent over personal matters , committed suicide , shooting himself while sitting with his girlfriend in a parked car outside the West Philadelphia gym where he trained . In his memory , the producers set up a trust fund for his daughter Anyae . The show still aired in its entirety , but with a special tribute to Turpin . On May 16 , 2005 , the series was cancelled . The first season cost NBC $ 2,000,000 per episode . Reruns were seen on CNBC . On August 11 , 2005 , ESPN announced that it was picking up the rights to a second season of the show , which began airing on the network in July 2006 , although special editions under the Contender title are currently airing as of March , 2006 . ESPN also announced that it has options to renew the series for two additional seasons . However , on April 10 , 2008 , ESPN announced that it was canceling the series . Executive producer Jeff Wald maintained that the show would continue on another network . It was later announced the show would move to Versus .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.R. Kelly has released 12 albums.
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Robert Sylvester Kelly -LRB- born January 8 , 1967 -RRB- , known professionally as R. Kelly , is an American singer , songwriter , record producer , and former professional basketball player . A native of Chicago , Illinois , Kelly began performing during the late 1980s and debuted in 1992 with the group Public Announcement . In 1993 , Kelly went solo with the album 12 Play . He is known for a collection of major hit singles including `` Bump N ' Grind '' , `` Your Body 's Callin ' '' , `` I Believe I Can Fly '' , `` Gotham City '' , `` Ignition -LRB- Remix -RRB- '' , `` If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time '' , `` The World 's Greatest '' , `` I 'm a Flirt -LRB- Remix -RRB- '' , and the hip-hopera `` Trapped in the Closet '' . In 1998 , Kelly won three Grammy Awards for `` I Believe I Can Fly '' . His distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous hip hop and contemporary R&B artists . Kelly became the first musician to play professional basketball , when he was signed in 1997 . Kelly has written , produced , and remixed songs and albums for many artists , including Aaliyah 's 1994 debut album Age Ai n't Nothing but a Number . In 1996 , Kelly was nominated for a Grammy for writing Michael Jackson 's song `` You Are Not Alone '' . In 2002 and 2004 , Kelly released collaboration albums with rapper Jay-Z and has been a guest vocalist for other hip hop artists like Nas , Sean Combs , and The Notorious B.I.G. The Recording Industry Association of America -LRB- RIAA -RRB- has recognized R. Kelly as one of the best-selling music artists in the United States with 40 million albums sold as well as only the fifth black artist to crack the top 50 of the same list . In March 2011 , R. Kelly was named the most successful R&B artist of the last 25 years by Billboard . Kelly has released 12 solo studio albums , and sold over 100 million records worldwide making him the most successful R&B male artist of the 1990s . He has been credited for helping redefine R&B and hip hop , earning the nicknames `` King of R&B '' and `` King of Pop-Soul '' . He is listed by Billboard as the most successful R&B / Hip Hop artist of the past 25 years -LRB- 1985-2010 -RRB- and also the most successful R&B artist in history . Throughout his career , Kelly has won numerous awards , including a Guinness World Records as well as countless of other awards like Grammy , BET , Soul Train , Billboard , NAACP and American Music Award .
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King is the fourth studio album by American rapper T.I. , released on March 28 , 2006 through Grand Hustle Records and Atlantic Records . Recording sessions for the album took one and a half years to complete in late 2005 according to T.I. in an interview with MTV News . Production was handled by several high-profile record producers , including DJ Toomp , Just Blaze , Mannie Fresh , Swizz Beatz , Keith Mack , Travis Barker , The Neptunes , Kevin `` Khao '' Cates , Nick `` Fury '' Loftin , and Tony Galvin , among others . The album 's release , which coincided with T.I. 's feature film debut ATL , also served as the official soundtrack for the film . The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart , selling over 522,000 copies in its first week of release in the United States , achieving respectable international charting and produced the two hit singles that attained chart success , including US Billboard hit singles `` What You Know '' and `` Why You Wan na '' . It was certified Gold in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America -LRB- RIAA -RRB- , following shipment in excess of 523,408 copies in the United States . The RIAA later certified the album Platinum . Upon its release , King received general acclaim from music critics , earning praise for its varied musical style , opulent production quality , and T.I. 's dichotomous lyrical themes , and including the hit single `` What You Know '' where critics praised DJ Toomp 's production for the single . The album also earned T.I. several accolades , including Grammy Award nominations for Best Rap Album , Best Rap Song and Best Rap Solo Performance , winning the latter for `` What You Know '' . The album also appeared at the top of several publications year-end lists of top albums . Initially naming it one of the best albums of 2006 , Pitchfork Media placed the album at number 147 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s . Stylus Magazine placed the album at number 14 on its list of their Top 50 Albums of 2006 .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.A producer of Spider-Man 3 was an Israeli-American businessman.
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Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 American superhero film produced by Marvel Studios , and distributed by Columbia Pictures based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man . It was directed by Sam Raimi and scripted by Sam Raimi , Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent . It is the final film in Raimi 's Spider-Man film trilogy and the sequel to Spider-Man -LRB- 2002 -RRB- and Spider-Man 2 -LRB- 2004 -RRB- . The film stars Tobey Maguire , Kirsten Dunst , James Franco , Thomas Haden Church , Topher Grace , Bryce Dallas Howard , Rosemary Harris , J. K. Simmons , James Cromwell and Cliff Robertson in his final acting appearance before his death in 2011 . Following the events of Spider-Man 2 , Peter Parker has become a cultural phenomenon as Spider-Man , while Mary Jane Watson continues her Broadway career . Harry Osborn still seeks vengeance for his father 's death , and an escaped Flint Marko falls into a particle accelerator and is transformed into a shape-shifting sand manipulator . An extraterrestrial symbiote crashes to Earth and bonds with Peter , influencing his behavior for the worse . Development of Spider-Man 3 began immediately after the release of Spider-Man 2 for a 2007 release . During pre-production , Raimi originally wanted another villain to be included along with Sandman , but at the request of producer Avi Arad he added Venom , and the producers also requested the addition of Gwen Stacy . Principal photography for the film began in January 2006 , and took place in Los Angeles and Cleveland , before moving to New York City from May until July 2006 . Additional pick-up shots were made after August and the film wrapped in October 2006 . During post-production , Sony Pictures Imageworks created 900 visual effects shots . Spider-Man 3 premiered on April 16 , 2007 in Tokyo , and was released in the United States in both conventional and IMAX theaters on May 4 , 2007 . The film grossed $ 890.9 million worldwide , making it the most successful film of the trilogy financially and the second film in the franchise that was released on IMAX . A fourth film titled Spider-Man 4 was set to be released on May 6 , 2011 , but was canceled in favor of a reboot , The Amazing Spider-Man , released in 2012 .
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Yehuda Talit -LRB- יהודה טלית , born on 2 December 1944 -RRB- is an Israeli businessman , record producer and talent agent .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Hotell is a Swedish drama film.
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Hotell is a 2013 Swedish drama film written and directed by Lisa Langseth . It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival . The film received four nominations at the 49th Guldbagge Awards : Best Script , Lisa Langseth , Best Supporting Actress , Anna Bjelkerud and Mira Eklund and Best Supporting Actor , David Dencik . Bjelkerud received a Guldbagge Award for Best Supporting Actress .
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Happy We -LRB- Två killar och en tjej -RRB- is a Swedish 1983 film directed by Lasse Hallström .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Brandon Lee was killed in an accident involving a prop sword.
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Brandon Bruce Lee -LRB- February 1 , 1965 -- March 31 , 1993 -RRB- was an American actor and martial artist . He was the son of martial artist and film actor Bruce Lee and teacher Linda Lee Cadwell , the grandson of Cantonese opera singer Lee Hoi-chuen , and brother of Shannon Lee . Starting his career with a supporting role in the 1986 television film Kung Fu : The Movie , Lee starred in several low-budget action films during the late 1980s and early 1990s such as Legacy of Rage -LRB- 1986 -RRB- , Showdown in Little Tokyo -LRB- 1991 -RRB- and Rapid Fire -LRB- 1992 -RRB- . In 1992 , he landed his breakthrough role as Eric Draven in The Crow , based on the comic book of the same name . On March 31 , 1993 , Lee died during the filming of The Crow in an accident involving a prop gun . The film was released posthumously in 1994 with the help of stunt doubles and special effects .
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Brandon Lee is a former Australian professional rugby league player who primarily played as a prop . The teams he played for at a club level were : the Penrith Panthers -LRB- 1984 − 87 , 1991 -RRB- and the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs -LRB- 1988 -RRB- .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Melisandre was in a novel in a fantasy series by George R. R. Martin.
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Melisandre of Asshai is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones . She is a priestess of the god R'hllor and a close advisor to King Stannis Baratheon in his campaign to take the Iron Throne . She is often nicknamed The Red Woman due to the color of her hair and clothes . Introduced in 1998 's A Clash of Kings , Melisandre originates from the continent Essos and has come to Westeros to propagate her faith in the Red God . She subsequently appeared in Martin 's A Storm of Swords -LRB- 2000 -RRB- and A Dance with Dragons -LRB- 2011 -RRB- . Melisandre is portrayed by Dutch actress Carice van Houten in the HBO television adaptation .
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The Mezentian Gate is a fantasy novel by Eric Rücker Eddison , the third in his Zimiamvian Trilogy . It is primarily a history of the rule of the fictional King Mezentius -LRB- the Tyrant of Fingiswold -RRB- , and his methods of gaining and holding the Three Kingdoms of Fingiswold , Meszria and Rerek in sway . Published posthumously , The Mezentian Gate is only partially completed as prose . In many of the central chapters , only the plot outline is presented . The first edition , published in 1958 , comprised those chapters completed by Eddison , supplemented by an `` Argument '' summarizing the unfinished portions of the novel . An omnibus edition of the trilogy , published in 1992 as Zimiamvia , supplemented the 1958 text with unfinished draft texts for several never-completed chapters found among Eddison 's manuscripts in the Bodleian Library . The expanded version was published in an independent edition by Harper Collins in 2014 . The Mezentian Gate is chronologically the first book in the Zimiamvian Trilogy .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Michael Caine appeared in the Dark Knight trilogy.
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Sir Michael Caine , -LRB- -LSB- keɪn -RSB- born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr. ; 14 March 1933 -RRB- is an English actor and author . Renowned for his distinctive working class cockney accent , Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon . He made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in a number of acclaimed British films , including Zulu -LRB- 1964 -RRB- , The Ipcress File -LRB- 1965 -RRB- , Alfie -LRB- 1966 -RRB- , for which he was nominated for an Academy Award , The Italian Job -LRB- 1969 -RRB- , and Battle of Britain -LRB- 1969 -RRB- . His most notable roles in the 1970s included Get Carter -LRB- 1971 -RRB- , The Last Valley , Sleuth -LRB- 1972 -RRB- , for which he earned his second Academy Award nomination , The Man Who Would Be King -LRB- 1975 -RRB- , and A Bridge Too Far -LRB- 1977 -RRB- . He achieved some of his greatest critical success in the 1980s , with Educating Rita -LRB- 1983 -RRB- earning him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor . In 1986 , he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Woody Allen 's Hannah and Her Sisters . Caine played Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol -LRB- 1992 -RRB- . Having by that time practically retired from acting on the big screen , he enjoyed a career resurgence in the late 1990s , receiving his second Golden Globe Award for his performance in Little Voice in 1998 and receiving his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules the following year . Caine played Nigel Powers in the 2002 parody Austin Powers in Goldmember , and Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan 's The Dark Knight Trilogy . He appeared in several other of Nolan 's films including The Prestige -LRB- 2006 -RRB- , Inception -LRB- 2010 -RRB- , and Interstellar -LRB- 2014 -RRB- . He also appeared as a supporting character in Alfonso Cuarón 's Children of Men and Pixar 's 2011 film Cars 2 . As of February 2017 , films in which he has starred have grossed over $ 3.5 billion domestically and over $ 7.8 billion worldwide . Caine is ranked as the twelfth highest grossing box office star . Caine is one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s -LRB- the other one being Jack Nicholson ; Laurence Olivier was also nominated for an acting Academy Award in five different decades , beginning in 1939 and ending in 1978 -RRB- . In 2000 , Caine was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his contribution to cinema .
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Clockers is a 1995 American crime drama film directed by Spike Lee . It is an adaptation of the 1992 novel of the same name by Richard Price , who also co-wrote the screenplay with Lee . The film stars Harvey Keitel , John Turturro , Delroy Lindo , and Mekhi Phifer in his debut film role . Set in New York City , Clockers tells the story of Strike -LRB- Phifer -RRB- , a street-level drug dealer who becomes entangled in a murder investigation .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.The Dakota is an apartment located in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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The Dakota , also known as Dakota Apartments , is a cooperative apartment building located on the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City , United States . It was built in 1884 and is considered to be one of Manhattan 's most prestigious and exclusive cooperative residential buildings . The Dakota is famous as the home of former Beatle John Lennon from 1973 to his death outside the building in 1980 .
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The Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital are two adjoining historic buildings located at 135 and 137 2nd Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan , New York City .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.The Dayton Agreement was signed in July.
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The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina , also known as the Dayton Agreement , Dayton Accords , Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement , is the peace agreement reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton , Ohio , United States , in November 1995 , and formally signed in Paris on 14 December 1995 . These accords put an end to the - year-long Bosnian War , one of the Yugoslav Wars .
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The Townsville Peace Agreement was signed in Townsville , Australia on 15 October 2000 between the Malaita Eagle Force and the Isatabu Freedom Movement . The Agreement successfully calmed the situation in Honiara and the Islands in general after the coup d'état of June that year .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Ted Kaczynski grew up in Illinois.
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Theodore John Kaczynski -LRB- -LSB- kəˈzɪnski -RSB- born May 22 , 1942 -RRB- , also known as the `` Unabomber '' , is an American serial killer , domestic terrorist , and self-professed anarchist . A mathematical prodigy , he abandoned a promising academic career in 1969 , then between 1978 and 1995 killed three people , and injured 23 others , in a nationwide bombing campaign targeting people involved with modern technology . In conjunction with this campaign he issued a wide-ranging social critique opposing industrialization and modern technology , and advancing a nature-centered form of anarchism . Kaczynski was born and raised in Evergreen Park , Illinois . While growing up in Evergreen Park he was a child prodigy , excelling academically from an early age . Kaczynski was accepted into Harvard University at the age of 16 , where he earned an undergraduate degree . He subsequently earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan . He became an assistant professor at the University of California , Berkeley in 1967 at age 25 . He resigned two years later . As a Harvard undergraduate , Kaczynski was among twenty-two students who were research subjects in ethically questionable experiments conducted by psychology professor Henry Murray from late 1959 to early 1962 . In 1971 , he moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water in Lincoln , Montana , where he lived as a recluse while learning survival skills in an attempt to become self-sufficient . Seventeen years after beginning his mail bomb campaign , Kaczynski sent a letter to The New York Times on April 24 , 1995 and promised `` to desist from terrorism '' if the Times or The Washington Post published his manifesto , Industrial Society and Its Future -LRB- the `` Unabomber Manifesto '' -RRB- , in which he argued that his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization . The Unabomber was the target of one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 's costliest investigations . Before Kaczynski 's identity was known , the FBI used the title `` UNABOM '' -LRB- UNiversity & Airline BOMber -RRB- to refer to his case , which resulted in the media calling him the Unabomber . The FBI -LRB- as well as Attorney General Janet Reno -RRB- pushed for the publication of Kaczynski 's `` Manifesto '' , which led to his sister-in-law , and then his brother , recognizing Kaczynski 's style of writing and beliefs from the manifesto , and tipping off the FBI . Kaczynski tried unsuccessfully to dismiss his court-appointed lawyers because they wanted to plead insanity in order to avoid the death penalty , as Kaczynski did not believe he was insane . When it became clear that his pending trial would entail national television exposure for Kaczynski , the court entered a plea agreement , under which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole . He has been designated a `` domestic terrorist '' by the FBI . Some anarcho-primitivist authors , such as John Zerzan and John Moore , have come to his defense , while also holding some reservations about his actions and ideas .
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Tacaogane is a former settlement in Pulaski County , Illinois , United States . Its precise location in the county is unknown .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Minneapolis is a little bit north of the Mississippi River's confluence with the Minnesota River.
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Minneapolis -LRB- -LSB- mɪniˈæpəlɪs -RSB- -RRB- is the county seat of Hennepin County , and the larger of the Twin Cities , the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States . As of 2015 , Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota and 46th-largest in the United States with a population of 410,939 . Minneapolis and Saint Paul anchor the second-largest economic center in the Midwest , after Chicago . Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River , just north of the river 's confluence with the Minnesota River , and adjoins Saint Paul , the state 's capital . The city is abundantly rich in water , with thirteen lakes , wetlands , the Mississippi River , creeks and waterfalls , many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway . It was once the world 's flour milling capital and a hub for timber . The city and surrounding region is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle , with Minneapolis proper containing America 's fifth-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies . As an integral link to the global economy , Minneapolis is categorized as a global city . Noted for its strong music and performing arts scenes , Minneapolis is home to both the award-winning Guthrie Theater and the historic First Avenue nightclub . Reflecting the region 's status as an epicenter of folk , funk , and alternative rock music , the city served as the launching pad for several of the 20th century 's most influential musicians , including Bob Dylan and Prince . The name Minneapolis is attributed to Charles Hoag , the city 's first schoolteacher , who combined mni , a Dakota Sioux word for water , and polis , the Greek word for city .
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The Rabbit River is an 8.6 mi tributary of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota , United States . It rises at the outlet of Rabbit Lake , north of Crosby , and flows southwest through a chain of lakes past Ironton , joining the Mississippi River at the outlet of Little Rabbit Lake northwest of Riverton .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Stanley Tucci is not an actor.
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Stanley Tucci -LRB- -LSB- ˈtuːtʃi -RSB- -LSB- ˈtuttʃi -RSB- ; born November 11 , 1960 -RRB- is an American character actor , writer , producer and film director . Tucci was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Lovely Bones -LRB- 2009 -RRB- . He won two Emmy Awards for his performances in Winchell and Monk . He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children , for The One and Only Shrek ! .
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Domenico Nicola Aniello `` Nick '' Scotti -LRB- born May 31 , 1966 -RRB- is an American actor , model and singer . Scotti left high school to travel the world for a career in modeling , moving to Japan at age 17 and France at age 19 . In the process , he became a popular male model . He appeared on the cover of Newsweek in June 1996 with a heading that read , `` Biology of Beauty '' . His self-titled debut album , released in 1993 on Reprise Records , contains two songs that reached the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart . The first , `` Wake Up Everybody '' , was a cover version of a hit song by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes from 1976 . It reached # 9 on the Club Play chart in May of that year and remained on the chart for eleven weeks . The follow-up single , `` Get Over '' , was written by Madonna and Stephen Bray and produced by Madonna and Shep Pettibone . `` Get Over '' peaked at # 33 on the Club Play chart . From 1996 through 1999 , Scotti had a contract role on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless , where he portrayed an auto mechanic named Tony Viscardi . In 1997 , he starred in the independent film Kiss Me , Guido , which was directed by Tony Vitale . For his role in that film , he received a Leonardo da Vinci Award from the Beaux Arts Society , Inc. in the category of Actor , Debut Performance -LRB- Film -RRB- in 1997 . Other film credits include Bullet -LRB- 1996 -RRB- and Detroit Rock City -LRB- 1999 -RRB- . Scotti appeared in episodes of the television programs Sex and The City and Tracey Takes On ... . In 2004 , he hosted a cooking , fashion , and lifestyle show on the Style Network titled New York Nick .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Room 93 is by Ashley Frangipane.
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Room 93 is the debut extended play -LRB- EP -RRB- by American singer and songwriter Halsey . It was released on October 27 , 2014 by Astralwerks . The project was re-released digitally on March 9 , 2015 , including a new version of `` Ghost '' , this later is also included on the singer 's debut full-length album Badlands . The sound of the EP is rooted on the electropop music genre . A digital remix version of the EP , featuring three remixes for the songs `` Hurricane '' , `` Ghost '' and `` Trouble '' was released on March 3 , 2015 . Along with the remix EP , a `` One Mic , One Take '' EP was released on the same date . `` Trouble -LRB- Stripped -RRB- '' was featured on the promo of the episode `` Best Laid Plans '' of the TV series Once Upon a Time .
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Hotel Rooms is a 2013 release from Tyson Illingworth , better known as tyDi . It is a compilation of his non-dance music tracks , some of which had been previously released . The album features the vocals of Tania Zygar , Audrey Gallagher , Kane , Luke Mansini , Carmen Keigans , and Christina Novelli .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.There is an album called Demon Days.
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Demon Days is the second studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz , released on 11 May 2005 in Japan and on 23 May internationally by Parlophone Records and in the United States by Virgin Records . The album features contributions from De La Soul , Neneh Cherry , Martina Topley-Bird , Roots Manuva , MF DOOM , Ike Turner , Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde , Shaun Ryder , Dennis Hopper , the London Community Gospel Choir , and a children 's choir . Albarn brought in Danger Mouse as producer . Demon Days entered the UK charts at # 1 and the US charts at # 6 , outperforming the band 's eponymous 2001 debut album . The album has sold eight million copies worldwide . The album features the singles `` Feel Good Inc. '' , `` DARE '' , `` Dirty Harry '' , `` Kids with Guns '' , and `` El Mañana '' . As with their debut album , the release of Demon Days and its respective live performances were both accompanied by various multimedia . These included interactive features on the Gorillaz website , a total of four animated music videos , virtual interview sessions with the band and animatics for each song . Almost all of the visuals associated with the album were designed by Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett as his design company , Zombie Flesh Eaters . Spin ranked Demon Days as the fourth-best album of 2005 , while Mojo ranked it at number eighteen on their year-end list and hailed the album as a `` genre-busting , contemporary pop milestone . '' NME placed it 98th on their list of 100 greatest albums of the decade . Uncut ranked it at 75 on their list of top 150 albums of the decade . Complex included it on their list of 100 Best Albums of the Complex Decade , placing it at number 43 . Spin later included it in their list of The 300 Best Albums of 1985 -- 2014 .
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Book of Days is the sixth studio album by the English rock band The Psychedelic Furs , released in 1989 . It reached number 74 on the UK Albums Chart and number 138 on the US Billboard 200 . Singles released from the album include `` Should God Forget '' and `` House '' . They peaked at number eight and number one , respectively , on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart . `` House '' also reached number 90 in the UK Singles Chart .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Galaxy Quest was directed by Dean Parisot.
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Galaxy Quest is a 1999 American comedy science fiction film directed by Dean Parisot and written by David Howard and Robert Gordon . Mark Johnson and Charles Newirth produced the film for DreamWorks Pictures . Parodying television series such as Star Trek and its fandom , the film stars Tim Allen , Sigourney Weaver , Alan Rickman , Tony Shalhoub , Sam Rockwell , and Daryl Mitchell as the cast of a defunct television series called Galaxy Quest , in which the crew of a spaceship embarked on intergalactic adventures . Enrico Colantoni stars as the leader of an alien race who ask the actors for help , believing the show 's adventures were real . The film 's supporting cast features Robin Sachs as an alien warlord and Patrick Breen as another alien . Justin Long makes his feature film debut as an obsessed fan of the television show . The film received critical praise and reached cult status through the years , becoming popular with Star Trek fans , staff , and cast members for its affectionate parody . It won the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation , the Nebula Award for Best Script , 26th Hochi Film Award for Best International Picture and was also nominated for ten Saturn Awards including Best Science Fiction Film , Best Director for Parisot , Best Actress for Weaver and Best Supporting Actor for Rickman , winning Best Actor for Allen . The film was included in Reader 's Digests list of The Top 100 + Funniest Movies of All Time .
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Life is a 2017 American science fiction horror film directed by Daniel Espinosa , written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and starring Jake Gyllenhaal , Rebecca Ferguson and Ryan Reynolds . The film follows a six-member crew of the International Space Station that uncovers what initially seems to be the first evidence of life on Mars ; however , the crew finds their discovery might not be what it seems . The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 18 , 2017 , and was theatrically released in the United States on March 24 , 2017 , by Columbia Pictures . It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $ 93 million worldwide .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.The brown bear is on the least concern species listing.
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The brown bear -LRB- Ursus arctos -RRB- is a large bear with the widest distribution of any living ursid . The species is distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America . It is one of the two largest terrestrial carnivorans alive today , rivaled in body size only by its close cousin , the polar bear -LRB- Ursus maritimus -RRB- , which is much less variable in size and averages larger due to this . There are several recognized subspecies , many of which are quite well-known within their native ranges , found in the brown bear species . The brown bear 's principal range includes parts of Russia , Central Asia , China , Canada , the United States -LRB- mostly Alaska -RRB- , Scandinavia and the Carpathian region -LRB- especially Romania -RRB- , Anatolia , and Caucasus . The brown bear is recognized as a national and state animal in several European countries . While the brown bear 's range has shrunk and it has faced local extinctions , it remains listed as a least concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -LRB- IUCN -RRB- with a total population of approximately 200,000 . As of 2012 , this and the American black bear are the only bear species not classified as threatened by the IUCN . However , the Californian , North African -LRB- Atlas bear -RRB- , and Mexican subspecies were hunted to extinction in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , and many of the southern Asian subspecies are highly endangered . One of the smaller-bodied subspecies , the Himalayan brown bear , is critically endangered , occupying only 2 % of its former range and threatened by uncontrolled poaching for its parts . The Marsican brown bear , one of several currently isolated populations of the main Eurasian brown bear race , in central Italy is believed to have a population of just 30 to 40 bears .
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The narrow-ridged finless porpoise , or Yangtze finless porpoise , is a newly accepted species , by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -LRB- IUCN -RRB- , of porpoise endemic to the western Yangtze river in China . After the extinction of the Yangtze river dolphin and the rapid decreasing of population , the Chinese government has given this species the utmost conservation status of National First Grade Key Protected Wild Animal to ensure its survival . Global conservation agencies and charities , such as the World Wildlife Fund and IUCN , have been collaborating with the Chinese government to ensure the survival of the species .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.TD Garden was built in 2009.
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TD Garden , often called `` Boston Garden '' and `` The Garden '' , is a multi-purpose arena in Boston . It is named after its sponsor , TD Bank , a subsidiary of Canada 's Toronto-Dominion Bank . It opened in 1995 as a replacement for the original Boston Garden and has been known as Shawmut Center , FleetCenter , and TD Banknorth Garden . TD Garden is the home arena for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League and the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association . It is owned by Delaware North , whose CEO , Jeremy Jacobs , also owns the Bruins . It is the site of the annual Beanpot college hockey tournament , and hosts the annual Hockey East Championships . The arena has also hosted many major national sporting events including the 1999 and 2003 NCAA Division I Men 's Basketball regional first and second rounds , the 2009 and 2012 Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight , the 1998 Frozen Four , the 2004 Frozen Four , the 2014 United States Figure Skating Championships , the 2006 Women 's Final Four , and the 2015 Frozen Four . It hosted games 3 , 4 , and 6 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals and the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals for the Bruins , and games 1 , 2 , and 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals and games 3 , 4 , and 5 of the 2010 NBA Finals for the Celtics . It is located directly above Boston 's North Station .
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Jones AT&T Stadium -LRB- previously known as Clifford B. and Audrey Jones Stadium and Jones SBC Stadium -RRB- is an outdoor athletic stadium on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock , Texas , United States built in the style of Spanish Renaissance architecture . It is the home field of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team of the Big 12 Conference .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Sean Connery won an Emmy for his role in The Untouchables.
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery KB -LRB- -LSB- ˈʃɔːn_ˈkɒnəri -RSB- born 25 August 1930 -RRB- is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award , two BAFTA Awards -LRB- one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award -RRB- and three Golden Globes -LRB- including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award -RRB- . He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July 2000 after receiving Kennedy Center Honors in the US in 1999 . Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film , starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 . In 1988 , Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables . His film career also includes such films as Marnie , The Name of the Rose , The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , The Hunt for Red October , Finding Forrester , Highlander , Murder on the Orient Express , Dragonheart , and The Rock . Connery has been polled as `` The Greatest Living Scot '' and `` Scotland 's Greatest Living National Treasure '' . In 1989 , he was proclaimed `` Sexiest Man Alive '' by People magazine , and in 1999 , at age 69 , he was voted `` Sexiest Man of the Century '' .
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Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti -LRB- -LSB- dʒiəˈmɑːti -RSB- born June 6 , 1967 -RRB- is an American character actor and producer . He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Cinderella Man and is also known for his roles in the films Private Parts , Sideways , American Splendor , The Illusionist , Cold Souls , Barney 's Version , Big Fat Liar , Love & Mercy , Straight Outta Compton , San Andreas and Win Win , as well as the miniseries John Adams and Downton Abbey . He has won two Golden Globe Awards , a Primetime Emmy Award and four Screen Actors Guild Awards . He currently stars in the Showtime TV series Billions , which has aired for two seasons and has been renewed for a third .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Queen Latifah's fifth studio album has a name.
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Dana Elaine Owens -LRB- born March 18 , 1970 -RRB- , known professionally by her stage name Queen Latifah , is an American rapper , songwriter , singer , actress , model , television producer , record producer , and talk show host . Born in Newark , New Jersey , she signed with Tommy Boy Records in 1989 and released her debut album All Hail the Queen the same year , featuring the hit single `` Ladies First '' . Her second album , Nature of a Sista -LRB- 1991 -RRB- , was her final album with Tommy Boy Records . Latifah starred as Khadijah James on the FOX sitcom Living Single , from 1993 to 1998 . Her third album Black Reign -LRB- 1993 -RRB- , spawned the single `` U.N.I.T.Y. '' , which won a Grammy Award and was successful on the Billboard Hot 100 . She then starred in the lead role of Set It Off -LRB- 1996 -RRB- and released her fourth album , Order in the Court , in 1998 , with Motown Records . Latifah gained mainstream success and acclaim with her performance in the film Chicago -LRB- 2002 -RRB- , receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress . Latifah released her fifth album The Dana Owens Album in 2004 , and has since appeared in a number of films , such as Bringing Down the House -LRB- 2003 -RRB- , Taxi -LRB- 2004 -RRB- , Barbershop 2 : Back in Business -LRB- 2005 -RRB- , Beauty Shop -LRB- 2005 -RRB- , Last Holiday -LRB- 2006 -RRB- , Hairspray -LRB- 2007 -RRB- and Joyful Noise -LRB- 2012 -RRB- . In 2007 and 2009 , she released two more studio albums -- Trav ` lin ' Light and Persona . She created the daytime talk show The Queen Latifah Show , which ran from late 2013 to early 2015 on CBS . Latifah received critical acclaim for her portrayal of blues singer Bessie Smith in the HBO film Bessie -LRB- 2015 -RRB- , which she co-produced , winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie . She has long been considered one of hip-hop 's pioneer feminists . Queen Latifah received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 . Latifah 's work in music , film and television has earned her a Grammy Award , an Emmy Award , a Golden Globe award , three Screen Actors Guild Awards , two NAACP Image Awards , an Academy Award nomination and sales of over two million records .
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Order in the Court is the fourth studio album by American rapper Queen Latifah , released on June 16 , 1998 in the United States on Motown Records . The album is in part dedicated to The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur . This is Latifah 's first album to have a Parental Advisory warning on it , although it did not receive a Parental Advisory warning in Japan .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.The Singing Detective played on BBC One on Sunday nights.
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The Singing Detective is a BBC television serial drama , written by Dennis Potter , which stars Michael Gambon and was directed by Jon Amiel . The six episodes were `` Skin '' , `` Heat '' , `` Lovely Days '' , `` Clues '' , `` Pitter Patter '' and `` Who Done It '' . The serial was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 in 1986 on Sunday nights from 16 November to 21 December with later PBS and cable television showings in the United States . It won a Peabody Award in 1989 . It ranks 20th on the British Film Institute 's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes , as voted by industry professionals in 2000 . It was included in the 1992 Dennis Potter retrospective at the Museum of Television & Radio and became a permanent addition to the Museum 's collections in New York and Los Angeles . There was co-production funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . It was released on DVD in the US on 15 April 2003 and in the UK on 8 March 2004 .
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Porridge is a British sitcom first broadcast on BBC One from 1974 to 1977 , running for three series , two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge -LRB- released under the title Doing Time in the United States -RRB- . Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais , it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland . `` Doing porridge '' is British slang for serving a prison sentence , porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons . Porridge was critically acclaimed and is widely considered to be one of the greatest British sitcoms of all time . The series was followed by a 1978 sequel , Going Straight , which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again . On Sunday 28 August 2016 , a one-off episode revival of the original series , also titled Porridge , was broadcast on BBC One . It stars Kevin Bishop as Nigel Norman Fletcher , Norman Stanley Fletcher 's grandson .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Paul Walker was an American citizen.
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Paul William Walker IV -LRB- September 12 , 1973 -- November 30 , 2013 -RRB- was an American actor . Walker began his career guest-starring in several television shows such as The Young and the Restless and Touched by an Angel . Walker gained prominence with breakout roles in coming of age and teen films such as She 's All That and Varsity Blues -LRB- 1999 -RRB- . In 2001 , Walker gained international fame for his portrayal of Brian O'Conner in the street racing action film The Fast and the Furious -LRB- 2001 -RRB- , and would reprise the role in five of the next six installments but died in the middle of the filming of Furious 7 -LRB- 2015 -RRB- . He also starred in films such as Joy Ride -LRB- 2001 -RRB- , Timeline -LRB- 2003 -RRB- , Into the Blue -LRB- 2005 -RRB- , Eight Below , and Running Scared -LRB- 2006 -RRB- . Besides acting , Walker was the face of The Coty Prestige fragrance brand Davidoff Cool Water for Men , and starred in the National Geographic Channel series , Expedition Great White . He also founded the charity `` Reach Out Worldwide '' -LRB- ROWW -RRB- , an organization providing relief efforts for areas affected by natural disasters . He was often praised for his off-screen charity work , and as a performer . Walker died in a single-vehicle collision on November 30 , 2013 , alongside friend Roger Rodas . Three films that he was involved in at the time were released posthumously : Hours -LRB- 2013 -RRB- , Brick Mansions -LRB- 2014 -RRB- , and Furious 7 -LRB- 2015 , which he had not completed filming -RRB- . The song `` See You Again '' by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth , which appeared on the Furious 7 soundtrack , is a tribute to Walker . The song was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards .
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Paul Wallace Carr -LRB- January 31 , 1934 -- February 17 , 2006 -RRB- was an American actor , director , writer , and producer who performed on stage , film , and television for a half century .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Intimacy (film) is directed by a director.
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Intimacy is a 2001 British film directed by Patrice Chéreau , starring Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox . Intimacy is an international co-production among production companies in France , the U.K. , Germany , and Spain featuring a soundtrack of pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s . It was written by Chéreau with Anne-Louise Trividic , based on stories by Hanif Kureishi -LRB- who also wrote a novel of the same title -RRB- . This mainstream-defined film contains an unsimulated fellatio scene by Fox on Rylance . A French-dubbed version features voice actors Jean-Hugues Anglade and Nathalie Richard . The film has been associated with the New French Extremity .
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is a Japanese film and television director .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Keeping the Faith was written by a Russian.
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Keeping the Faith is a 2000 American romantic comedy film written by Stuart Blumberg , and starring Ben Stiller , Edward Norton -LRB- in his directorial debut -RRB- , Jenna Elfman , Eli Wallach , and Anne Bancroft . This film was released by Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment , in association with Triple Threat Talent , on April 14 , 2000 . The film is dedicated to Norton 's late mother , Robin . It had a budget of $ 29 million .
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Sergei Lvovich Krylov -LRB- Серге́й Льво́вич Крыло́в born August 25 , 1961 , Tula , RSFSR , USSR -RRB- is a Russian singer , showman and actor , head of the organization `` Union of Russian children '' , the vice-president of the World charity theorists professional fashion sex .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Captain America: The Winter Soldier drew inspiration from conspiracy fiction.
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Captain America : The Winter Soldier is a 2014 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America , produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures . It is the sequel to 2011 's Captain America : The First Avenger and the ninth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe -LRB- MCU -RRB- . The film was directed by Anthony and Joe Russo , with a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely , who had also written The First Avenger . It stars Chris Evans as Captain America , leading an ensemble cast that includes Scarlett Johansson , Sebastian Stan , Anthony Mackie , Cobie Smulders , Frank Grillo , Emily VanCamp , Hayley Atwell , Robert Redford , and Samuel L. Jackson . In Captain America : The Winter Soldier , Captain America , Black Widow , and Falcon join forces to uncover a conspiracy within S.H.I.E.L.D. while facing a mysterious assassin known as the Winter Soldier . A major influence in The Winter Soldier was conspiracy fiction from the 1970s such as Three Days of the Condor , with the script also drawing from the Winter Soldier story arc written by Ed Brubaker . The script was written in 2011 , with the Russo brothers entering negotiations to direct in June 2012 and casting beginning the following month . Principal photography commenced in April 2013 in Los Angeles , California before moving to Washington , D.C. and Cleveland , Ohio . While the directors aimed for more realism , with focus on practical effects and intense stunt work , 2,500 visual effects shots were done by six different companies . Captain America : The Winter Soldier premiered in Los Angeles on March 13 , 2014 . It was released internationally on March 26 , 2014 , and in North America on April 4 , 2014 , in 2D , 3D , and IMAX 3D . The film became a critical and commercial success , grossing over $ 714 million worldwide . It also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects . A sequel titled Captain America : Civil War also directed by the Russo brothers was released on May 6 , 2016 .
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S.T.R.I.K.E. , an acronym for Special Tactical Reserve for International Key Emergencies , is a fictional counter-terrorism and intelligence agency appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The organization often deals with superhuman threats , and was introduced in Captain Britain Weekly # 17 as the United Kingdom 's counterpart to the United States ' anti-terrorism agency S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Multiple Internet-based companies are based in San Francisco.
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San Francisco -LRB- initials SF -RRB- -LRB- -LSB- sæn_frənˈsɪskoʊ -RSB- , Spanish for Saint Francis ; Spanish : -LSB- san franˈsisko -RSB- -RRB- , officially the City and County of San Francisco , is the cultural , commercial , and financial center of Northern California . Located at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula , San Francisco is about 47.9 sqmi in area , making it the smallest county -- and the only consolidated city-county -- within the state of California . With a density of about 18,581 people per square mile -LRB- 7,174 people per km2 -RRB- , San Francisco is the most densely settled large city -LRB- population greater than 200,000 -RRB- in California and the second-most densely populated major city in the United States after New York City . San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in California , after Los Angeles , San Diego , and San Jose , and the 13th-most populous city in the United States -- with a census-estimated 2016 population of 870,887 . The city and its surrounding areas are known as the San Francisco Bay Area , and are a part of the larger OMB-designated San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland combined statistical area , the fifth most populous in the nation with an estimated population of 8.7 million . San Francisco was founded on June 29 , 1776 , when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away , all named for St. Francis of Assisi . The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth , making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time . San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856 . After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire , San Francisco was quickly rebuilt , hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later . In World War II , San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater . It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945 . After the war , the confluence of returning servicemen , massive immigration , liberalizing attitudes , along with the rise of the `` hippie '' counterculture , the Sexual Revolution , the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War , and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement , cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States . Politically , the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines . A popular tourist destination , San Francisco is known for its cool summers , fog , steep rolling hills , eclectic mix of architecture , and landmarks , including the Golden Gate Bridge , cable cars , the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary , Fisherman 's Wharf , and its Chinatown district . San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. , Gap Inc. , Salesforce.com , Dropbox , Reddit , Square , Inc. , Dolby , Airbnb , Weebly , Pacific Gas and Electric Company , Yelp , Pinterest , Twitter , Uber , Lyft , Mozilla , Wikimedia Foundation , Craigslist and Weather Underground . It has several nicknames , including `` The City by the Bay '' , `` Fog City '' , `` San Fran '' , and `` Frisco '' , as well as older ones like `` The City that Knows How '' , `` Baghdad by the Bay '' , `` The Paris of the West '' , or simply `` The City '' . , San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings .
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Unitus Impact is a social venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco , California , with regional offices in India and Cambodia .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Joseph Stalin became General Secretary in the 20th century.
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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin -LRB- -LSB- ˈstɑːlɪn -RSB- 18 December 1878 -- 5 March 1953 -RRB- was a Soviet revolutionary , politician and political theorist . He governed the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953 . In this capacity , he served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1953 and as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 . Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist , he helped to formalise these ideas as Marxism-Leninism while his own policies and theories became known as Stalinism . Stalin was born to a poor Georgian family in Gori , Russian Empire . After an education at Tiflis Spiritual Seminary , he joined the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party . Affiliated with Vladimir Lenin 's Bolshevik faction , he raised funds via underground activities such as the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery . After the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 and established a one-party state , Stalin sat on the Politburo during the Russian Civil War . In 1922 Stalin became General Secretary and established the Soviet Union . Despite Lenin 's objection , power consolidated around Stalin and opposition removed following Lenin 's death in 1924 . During Stalin 's tenure the concept of `` Socialism in One Country '' became a central tenet of Soviet society , and a cult of personality developed around Stalin . Lenin 's New Economic Policy was replaced with a centralised command economy , industrialisation and collectivisation . These rapidly transformed the country from an agrarian society into an industrial power , but disrupted food production and contributed to the famine of 1933 -- 34 . Between 1934 and 1939 , Stalin organised the `` Great Purge '' , in which millions of so-called `` enemies of the working class '' , including senior political and military figures , were interned in Gulag-run prisons , exiled or executed , often without due process . In August 1939 Stalin entered a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany , resulting in their invasion of Poland in September of that year . Germany ended the pact by invading the Soviet Union in 1941 . Despite initial setbacks , the Soviet Red Army halted the German incursion and captured Berlin in May 1945 , ending World War II in Europe . The Soviet Union annexed the Baltic states and backed the establishment of pro-Soviet Marxist governments both throughout Eastern Europe and in China , North Korea , and North Vietnam . The Soviet Union and United States emerged as the two world superpowers , and a period of tensions began between the Soviet-backed Eastern Bloc and U.S.-backed Western Bloc known as the Cold War . Stalin led the Soviet Union through its post-war reconstruction phase , during which it became the second country to develop a nuclear weapon , as well as launching the Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature in response to another major famine and the Great Construction Projects of Communism . Stalin died in 1953 and was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev , who denounced Stalin and initiated a de-Stalinisation process . Stalin is widely considered one of the most significant and influential figures of the 20th century . Stalinism influenced various Marxist-Leninist groups and governments across the world , for whom Stalin was a champion of socialism and the working class . After the fall of the Soviet Union , Stalin has been praised by supporters for his role in defeating Nazi Germany and establishing the Soviet Union as a major world power . Critics emphasise his role in causing millions of deaths and numerous political , religious and ethnic repressions .
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Sir George William Chrystal KCB -LRB- 28 August 1880 -- 1 November 1944 -RRB- was a British civil servant . Chrystal was the son of the mathematician George Chrystal and was born in Edinburgh . He was educated at George Watson 's College , the University of Edinburgh , and Balliol College , Oxford , at which he took a second in Classical Moderations in 1902 and a second in Greats in 1904 . He joined the Civil Service at the Admiralty in that year , but two years later transferred to the Home Office , serving successively as assistant private secretary to Home Secretary Reginald McKenna , secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State , and principal secretary to Permanent Secretary Sir Edward Troup . He also served as joint secretary to the Royal Commission on Mines and the Royal Commission on Metalliferous Mines and Quarries . In 1917 he was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Ministry of National Service . After the end of the First World War in 1918 he became Secretary to the Ministry of Reconstruction and of the Demobilisation Section of the War Cabinet . In 1919 he was appointed Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions , holding the post until 1935 when he was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health , retiring in 1940 . Chrystal was also a writer , publishing a new translation of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius , the translation of the Memoirs of Prince Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst , a translation of Julius Meier Graef 's Development of Modern Art , the Life of William Robertson Smith , and a volume of Smith 's lectures and essays . Chrystal was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath -LRB- CB -RRB- in the 1920 New Year Honours and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath -LRB- KCB -RRB- in the 1922 Birthday Honours .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Charlie Rubin refused a writing job on In Living Color.
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Charlie Rubin is an American television comedy writer , producer , and humorist . He has written for National Lampoon , The Carol Burnett Show , In Living Color , The Jon Stewart Show , Saturday Night Live , Seinfeld , and Law & Order : Criminal Intent . Charlie attended Horace Mann School in Riverdale , New York and then Williams College , from which he graduated in 1972 . While at Williams , Charlie , along with his friend , Mitchell Rapoport , founded The Williams Advocate . He also produced an original musical called `` Sizzle '' with William Finn at the Adams Memorial Theater . It was the first original musical to be mounted at Williams College since Stephen Sondheim attended over 20 years earlier . Charlie is currently working on a screen adaptation of Veeck -- As In Wreck : The Autobiography of Bill Veeck . He is also a professor at NYU 's Tisch School of the Arts in the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing , where he teaches writing for television . He married writer Susan Shapiro on July 27 , 1996 .
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Scott O. Brown -LRB- born 1975 -RRB- is an American writer , letterer , publisher , editor , and production manager . Scott has been responsible for publishing top-tier creators like Amin Amat , Mal Jones , Drew Gilbert , Antony Johnston , Steven Grant , and Jamie Delano . During Cyberosia 's history , he oversaw the development of the supernatural pulp thriller Frightening Curves , the critically acclaimed short story collection Aporiatica , along with Overtime and Rosemary 's Backpack . Aporiatica Gn -LRB- 2001 -RRB- 2020 Visions Hc -LRB- 2004 -RRB- Cathedral Child : Texas Steampunk Gn -LRB- 2002 -RRB- Clockwork Angels Tpb -LRB- 2002 -RRB- Damned Tpb -LRB- 2003 -RRB- Dark Gate Gn -LRB- 2004 -RRB- Death Valley Gn -LRB- 2005 -RRB- Johnny Nemo Tpb -LRB- 2002 -RRB- Overtime Gn -LRB- 2002 -RRB- Passenger Gn -LRB- 2004 -RRB- Popimage Vol . 1 : The Time Of Change Gn -LRB- 2002 -RRB- Rosemary 's Backpack Gn -LRB- 2002 -RRB- Second Soul Gn -LRB- 2003 -RRB- Spookshow Gn -LRB- 2003 -RRB- They Do Not Die Gn -LRB- 2011 -RRB- District Comics : An Unconventional History of Washington , DC Gn -LRB- 2012 -RRB- Monstrology Gn -LRB- 2013 -RRB- Published by Platinum Studios , Brown 's graphic novel Nightfall was inspired by Joss Whedon 's Buffy and Angel television shows , and tells the story of industrious , right-wing survivalist David Paxton , who is sent to a tough Texas prison , that is run by vampires . An all around ` man of comics , ' Scott is also the letterer behind the Zuda series High Moon , Box 13 at ComiXology.com , and many Platinum Studios comics including Cowboys & Aliens , Red Mantis , and several others . He is also the writer and letterer of his self-published titles They Do Not Die , and Red Ice with artist Horacio Lalia .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.John McEnroe didn't have rivalries with other tennis players.
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John Patrick McEnroe Jr. -LRB- born February 16 , 1959 -RRB- is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player , often rated among the greatest players of all time in the sport , especially for his touch on the volley . He won seven Grand Slam singles titles -LRB- three at Wimbledon and four at the US Open -RRB- , nine Grand Slam men 's doubles titles , and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title . He also won a record eight year-end championships , 19 Grand Prix Super Series titles , and finished his career with 77 ATP-listed singles titles and 78 in doubles . McEnroe is known for his shot-making artistry and volleying skills ; for his rivalries with Björn Borg , Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl ; and for his confrontational on-court behavior , which frequently landed him in trouble with umpires and tennis authorities . In 1981 , 1983 and 1984 he was both the ATP player of the year and the ITF World Champion for Men 's singles . His match record of 82 -- 3 in 1984 remains the best single season win rate of the Open Era . McEnroe is a former Captain of the United States Davis Cup team and as a player was part of five Cup-winning teams . He continues to play tennis and competes in senior events on the ATP Champions Tour . He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999 and received the Philippe Chatrier Award in 2007 . After his tennis career he became a television commentator , a game show host and a chat show host . Additionally , he has appeared in several films and television shows as himself and has played music live . He has been married since 1997 to musician and former Scandal lead singer Patty Smyth ; they have six children between them -LRB- two together -RRB- .
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John McEnroe was the defending champion . McEnroe successfully defended his title , defeating Ivan Lendl , 6 -- 3 , 3 -- 6 , 6 -- 3 , 7 -- 6 in the final .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Liberia declared its independence on July 5, 1847.
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Liberia -LSB- laɪˈbɪəriə -RSB- , officially the Republic of Liberia , is a country on the West African coast . It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its west , Guinea to its north and Ivory Coast to its east . It covers an area of 111369 km2 and has a population of 4,503,000 people . English is the official language and over 20 indigenous languages are spoken , representing the numerous tribes who make up more than 95 % of the population . The country 's capital and largest city is Monrovia . Forests on the coastline are composed mostly of salt-tolerant mangrove trees , while the more sparsely populated inland has forests opening onto a plateau of drier grasslands . The climate is equatorial , with significant rainfall during the May -- October rainy season and harsh harmattan winds the remainder of the year . Liberia possesses about forty percent of the remaining Upper Guinean rainforest . It was an important producer of rubber in the early 20th century . The Republic of Liberia began as a settlement of the American Colonization Society -LRB- ACS -RRB- , who believed blacks would face better chances for freedom in Africa than in the United States . The country declared its independence on July 26 , 1847 . The U.S. did not recognize Liberia 's independence until during the American Civil War on February 5 , 1862 . Between January 7 , 1822 and the American Civil War , more than 15,000 freed and free-born blacks , who faced legislated limits in the U.S. , and 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans , relocated to the settlement . The black settlers carried their culture with them to Liberia . The Liberian constitution and flag were modeled after those of the U.S. On January 3 , 1848 , Joseph Jenkins Roberts , a wealthy , free-born African American from Virginia who settled in Liberia , was elected as Liberia 's first president after the people proclaimed independence . Liberia is the only African republic to have self-proclaimed independence without gaining independence through revolt from any other power , and is Africa 's first and oldest modern republic . Liberia retained its independence during the Scramble for Africa . During World War II , Liberia supported the United States war efforts against Germany and in turn the U.S. invested in considerable infrastructure in Liberia to help its war effort , which also aided the country in modernizing and improving its major air transportation facilities . In addition , President William Tubman encouraged economic changes . Internationally , Liberia was a founding member of the League of Nations , United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity . Political tensions from the rule of William R. Tolbert resulted in a military coup in 1980 that overthrew his leadership soon after his death , marking the beginning of years-long political instability . Five years of military rule by the People 's Redemption Council and five years of civilian rule by the National Democratic Party of Liberia were followed by the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars . These resulted in the deaths and displacement of more than half a million people and devastated Liberia 's economy . A peace agreement in 2003 led to democratic elections in 2005 , in which Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected President . Recovery proceeds but about 85 % of the population live below the international poverty line . Liberia 's economic and political stability was threatened in the 2010s by an Ebola virus epidemic ; it originated in Guinea in December 2013 , entered Liberia in March 2014 , and was declared officially ended on May 8 , 2015 .
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Sierra Leone -LRB- -LSB- sɪˈɛərə_lɪˈəʊnɪ -RSB- or -LSB- lɪˈəʊn -RSB- -RRB- , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone , is a Constitutional Republic in West Africa . Since it was founded in 1787 , the women in Sierra Leone have been a major influence in the political and economic development of the nation . They have also played an important role in the education system , founding schools and colleges , with some such as Hannah Benka-Coker being honoured with the erection of a statue for her contributions and Lati Hyde-Forster , first woman to graduate from Fourah Bay College being honored with a doctor of civil laws degree by the University of Sierra Leone .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Minecraft is a game.
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Minecraft is a sandbox video game created and designed by Swedish game designer Markus `` Notch '' Persson , and later fully developed and published by Mojang . The creative and building aspects of Minecraft enable players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world . Other activities in the game include exploration , resource gathering , crafting , and combat . Multiple gameplay modes are available , including a survival mode where the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health , a creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly , an adventure mode where players can play custom maps created by other players , and a spectator mode where players can fly around and clip through blocks , but can not place or destroy any . The PC version of the game is noted for its modding scene , where a dedicated community creates new gameplay mechanics , items , and assets for the game . Minecraft received praise from critics , and won numerous awards and accolades . , over 121 million copies have been sold across all platforms , making it the second best-selling video game of all time , only behind the various releases of Tetris . In September 2014 , Microsoft announced a deal to buy Mojang and the Minecraft intellectual property for 2.5 billion , with the acquisition being completed two months later .
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A programming game is generally a video game which incorporates elements of computer programming into the game which enables the player to direct otherwise autonomous units within the game to follow commands in a domain-specific programming language , often represented as a visual language to simplify the programming metaphor . Programming games broadly fall into two areas : single-player games where the programming elements either make up part of or the whole of a puzzle game , and multiplayer games where the player 's automated program is pitted against other players ' programs .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Tipper Gore has only ever been a factory worker.
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Mary Elizabeth `` Tipper '' Gore -LRB- née Aitcheson ; born August 19 , 1948 -RRB- is an author , photographer , and social issues advocate who was Second Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 , and the wife of Al Gore , the 45th Vice President of the United States , from whom she is currently separated . Gore rose to prominence for her work with the Parents Music Resource Center -LRB- PMRC -RRB- , voicing strong opinions and advocating censorship , for the labeling of record covers of releases featuring profane language , especially in the heavy metal , punk and hip hop genres . She has advocated for mental health , homelessness , women and children . Gore has also been an LGBT rights activist since her husband was in office , which was rare for a second lady and against her husband 's beliefs at the time .
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Lige Gardner -LRB- c. 1846 - c. 1901 -RRB- was a Texas gunfighter sketched in the book titled `` Pages from a Worker 's Life '' by William Z. Foster .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Gustave Eiffel had a complete lack of interest in meteorology research.
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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel -LRB- born Bönickhausen ; -LSB- ˈaɪfəl -RSB- -LSB- ɛfɛl -RSB- ; 15 December 1832 -- 27 December 1923 -RRB- was a French civil engineer and architect . A graduate of École Centrale Paris , he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network , most famously the Garabit viaduct . He is best known for the world-famous Eiffel Tower , built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris , and his contribution to building the Statue of Liberty in New York . After his retirement from engineering , Eiffel focused on research into meteorology and aerodynamics , and making significant contributions in both fields .
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Heinrich von Wild or Heinrich Wild I -LRB- 1833 -- 1902 -RRB- was a Swiss meteorologist and physicist who established a modern meteorological system throughout the Empire and developed meteorological instruments .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Darth Vader serves as the right hand of a character mainly portrayed by Ian McDiarmid.
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Darth Vader , also known by his birth name Anakin Skywalker , is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise . Vader appears in the original film trilogy as a pivotal antagonist whose actions drive the plot , while his past as Anakin Skywalker and the story of his corruption are central to the narrative of the prequel trilogy . The character was created by George Lucas and has been portrayed by numerous actors . His appearances span the first six Star Wars films , as well as Rogue One , and his character is heavily referenced in Star Wars : The Force Awakens . He is also an important character in the Star Wars expanded universe of television series , video games , novels , literature and comic books . Originally a Jedi prophesied to bring balance to the Force , he falls to the dark side of the Force and serves the evil Galactic Empire at the right hand of his Sith master , Emperor Palpatine -LRB- also known as Darth Sidious -RRB- . He is also the father of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa , secret husband of Padmé Amidala and grandfather of Kylo Ren . Darth Vader has become one of the most iconic villains in popular culture , and has been listed among the greatest villains and fictional characters ever . The American Film Institute listed him as the third greatest movie villain in cinema history on 100 Years ... 100 Heroes and Villains , behind Hannibal Lecter and Norman Bates . However , other critics consider him a tragic hero , citing his original motivations for the greater good before his fall to the dark side .
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is a Japanese animated film series produced by TMS Entertainment and North Stars Pictures based on the manga Fist of the North Star written by Buronson and illustrated by Tetsuo Hara . The films are updated re-imaginings of the events depicted in the manga , and include additional details , new characters and minor alterations to some events . The series spans three theatrical films and two OVAs , each focusing on a different character from the manga . These were released in Japan during a three-year span between 2006 and 2008 , culminating with the 25th anniversary of the original manga . The first film , as well as both OVAs , were distributed by Toho . A portion of the project 's budget came from a trust fund established by SMBC Friend Securities , which raised over 23 billion yen . The voice cast includes Hiroshi Abe as Kenshiro , Takashi Ukaji as Raoh , Yuriko Ishida as Yuria , and Kou Shibasaki as Reina -LRB- a new character -RRB- , all of whom were live-action actors with little voice acting experience prior to the production of the movies .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Lymelife was created by sisters only.
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Lymelife is a 2008 independent comedy-drama film written by brothers Derick Martini and Steven Martini , and directed by Derick Martini , depicting aspects of their life in 1970s Long Island from the perspective of a teenager . The film stars Alec Baldwin , Rory Culkin , and Emma Roberts . Martin Scorsese served as an executive producer . The film debuted at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival , in September 2008 and won the International Federation of Film Critics Award -LRB- FIPRESCI -RRB- . After its theatrical release in 2009 , writer director Derick Martini was nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director .
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The Girlfriends were an American girl group who scored one hit in the United States in 1964 , `` My One and Only Jimmy Boy '' . The group was founded as a result of the splintering of the Los Angeles-based studio group The Blossoms . The four members of the Blossoms - Gloria Jones , Nanette Williams , Fanita James , and Darlene Wright - first sang together in 1957 . In 1962 , Phil Spector created the group Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans with James and Wright ; Jones and Williams then formed their own group , The Girlfriends , with Carolyn Willis -LRB- formerly of The Ikettes -RRB- . They released one single , `` My One and Only Jimmy Boy '' , on Colpix Records in 1963 , written and produced by David Gates . The record peaked at # 49 in 1964 . The Girlfriends never released another record . Willis later joined Honey Cone and both she and Jones sang in one of the nostalgia-circuit groups performing as The Shirelles in the 1990s .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Seppuku is a ritual in Japan.
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Seppuku -LRB- 切腹 , `` cutting -LSB- the -RSB- abdomen/belly '' , formal on reading of original Kanji -RRB- , sometimes metathesized as harakiri -LRB- 腹切り , `` abdomen/belly cutting '' -RRB- which is a native Japanese kun reading , is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment . It was originally reserved for samurai . A samurai practice , seppuku was used either voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies -LRB- and likely suffer torture -RRB- or as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offenses , or performed because they had brought shame to themselves . The ceremonial disembowelment , which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators , consists of plunging a short blade , traditionally a tantō , into the abdomen and drawing the blade from left to right , slicing the abdomen open . If the cut , done with a movement , is done deep enough , it can cut the descending aorta , inducing a massive blood loss inside the abdomen , with a very fast death .
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refers to a type of Japanese pottery , stoneware , and ceramics produced in and around the village of Seto in Aichi Prefecture , Japan . The Japanese term for it , setomono , is also used as a generic term for all pottery . Seto was the location of one of the Six Ancient Kilns of Japan .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Ruth Negga was born January 7th, 1982.
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Ruth Negga -LRB- -LSB- ˈneɪgə -RSB- born 7 January 1982 -RRB- is an Ethiopian born Irish actress , who has appeared in the films Capital Letters -LRB- 2004 -RRB- -LRB- also released as Trafficked in some countries -RRB- , Isolation -LRB- 2005 -RRB- , Breakfast on Pluto -LRB- 2005 -RRB- and Warcraft -LRB- 2016 -RRB- . She has also played roles in television , such as in the BBC 's mini-series Criminal Justice , RTÉ 's Love/Hate , E4 's Misfits , and ABC 's Marvel 's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. . In 2016 , she began a starring role as Tulip O'Hare in AMC 's Preacher . For her portrayal of Mildred Loving in Loving -LRB- 2016 -RRB- , Negga was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress , Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama , Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and Critics ' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress , as well as the BAFTA Rising Star Award .
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Yulia Viktorovna Nachalova -LRB- Ю́лия Ви́кторовна Нача́лова born on January 31 , 1981 in Voronezh , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union -RRB- is an Soviet and Russian singer , actress and television presenter .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Machu Picchu is on the ridge of a mountain 2430 m higher than sea level.
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Machu Picchu -LRB- -LSB- ˈmatʃu ˈpitʃu -RSB- -RRB- -LRB- Machu Pikchu -LSB- ˈmɑtʃu ˈpixtʃu -RSB- -RRB- is a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge 2430 m above sea level . It is located in the Cusco Region , Urubamba Province , Machupicchu District in Peru , above the Sacred Valley , which is 80 km northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows . Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti -LRB- 1438 -- 1472 -RRB- . Often mistakenly referred to as the `` Lost City of the Incas '' -LRB- a title more accurately applied to Vilcabamba -RRB- , it is the most familiar icon of Inca civilization . The Incas built the estate around 1450 but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest . Although known locally , it was not known to the Spanish during the colonial period and remained unknown to the outside world until American historian Hiram Bingham brought it to international attention in 1911 . Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style , with polished dry-stone walls . Its three primary structures are the Inti Watana , the Temple of the Sun , and the Room of the Three Windows . Most of the outlying buildings have been reconstructed in order to give tourists a better idea of how they originally appeared . By 1976 , thirty percent of Machu Picchu had been restored and restoration continues . Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historic Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983 . In 2007 , Machu Picchu was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide Internet poll .
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Nevado Ojos del Salado is a stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina -- Chile border and the highest active volcano in the world at 6893 m . It is also the second highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere and the highest in Chile . It is located about 600 km north of Aconcagua , the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere at 6961 m. Due to its location near the Atacama Desert , the mountain has very dry conditions with snow usually only remaining on the peak during winter , though heavy storms can cover the surrounding area with a few feet of snow even in summer . Despite the generally dry conditions , there is a permanent crater lake about 100 m in diameter at an elevation of 6390 m on the eastern side of the mountain . This is most likely the highest lake of any kind in the world . The ascent of Ojos del Salado is mostly a hike except for the final section to the summit which is a difficult scramble that may require ropes . The first ascent was made in 1937 by Jan Alfred Szczepański and Justyn Wojsznis , members of a Polish expedition in the Andes . Its name , meaning roughly `` Eyes of the Salty One '' in Spanish , comes from the enormous deposits of salt that , in the form of lagoons or `` eyes '' , appear in its glaciers .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Born This Way is a place.
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`` Born This Way '' is a song by American singer Lady Gaga , and the lead single from her second studio album of the same name . Written by Gaga and Jeppe Laursen , who produced it along with Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow , the track was developed while Gaga was on the road with The Monster Ball Tour . Inspired by 1990s music which empowered women and the gay community , Gaga explained that `` Born This Way '' was her freedom song . She sang part of the chorus at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards in 2010 and announced the song as the lead single from the album , released on February 11 , 2011 . The record is backed by rumbling synth sounds , a humming bass and additional chorus percussion , with sole organ toward the end . The lyrics discuss the self-empowerment of minorities including the LGBT community as well as racial minorities , referring to `` cholas '' and `` orients '' , which drew criticism from Latino and Asian communities . Critics positively reviewed the song , calling it a `` club-ready anthem '' , though it faced criticism for having similarities with Madonna 's 1989 single `` Express Yourself '' . The song reached number one in over 25 countries and was her third single to top the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and the 1,000 th song in that chart 's history -LRB- since 1958 -RRB- to reach number one . `` Born This Way '' has sold 8.2 million copies worldwide , becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time . Nick Knight directed the accompanying music video , which was inspired by surrealist painters like Salvador Dalí and Francis Bacon . Gaga is depicted as giving birth to a new race during a prologue . After a series of dance sequences , the video concludes with the view of a city populated by this race . Critics noted the video 's references to the work of Madonna , Michael Jackson , Björk , and the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen , as well as to Greek mythology and surrealism . Gaga performed the song at the 53rd Grammy Awards after coming out of an incubating vessel . It was also performed during the last leg of The Monster Ball Tour and on television shows such as Saturday Night Live , Dick Clark 's New Year 's Rockin ' Eve and Good Morning America . The song was treated with different remixes , including a `` Country Road '' version recorded by Gaga herself and another by Indian production duo Salim-Sulaiman . Alice Cooper , Madonna , Katy Perry , Maria Aragon , and the cast of the TV series Glee have covered the song .
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Born of Osiris is an American deathcore band , formed in 2003 in Palatine , a suburb of Chicago . The group underwent several name changes , including Diminished -LRB- 2003 -- 2004 -RRB- , Your Heart Engraved -LRB- 2004 -- 2006 -RRB- , and Rosecrance -LRB- 2006 -- 2007 -RRB- , before finally settling on Born of Osiris in 2007 , basing the name on the Egyptian deity Osiris , and the tale of his son Horus .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.24 is a science fiction film.
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24 is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language science fiction thriller film written and directed by Vikram Kumar . Based on the concept of time-travel , the film stars actor Suriya in triple roles , with actresses Samantha Ruth Prabhu , Nithya Menen and Saranya Ponvannan in lead roles . The development dates back to 2009 , where the film was to feature actors Vikram and Ileana D'Cruz in lead roles . However , in February 2010 , the project was dropped due to difference in opinions between director , producer and actor , facing rejection of the refined script . In August 2014 , Suriya agreed to produce and act in the film , with principal photography commencing in Mumbai in April 2015 , continuing in Nasik , Goregaon and Pune . The second phase of filming was done in Poland by end-September 2015 . Filming was completed in Chennai by November 2015 . Produced by 2D Entertainment , the film has cinematography by S. Tirru . The soundtrack and film score are composed by A. R. Rahman , with lyrics by Vairamuthu and Madhan Karky . The film along with the dubbed Telugu version having the same title was released on 6 May 2016 . It is also dubbed in Hindi as Time Story . The film won two awards at the 64th National Film Awards Best Cinematography and Best Production Design .
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Matrix metalloproteinase-24 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the MMP24 gene .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Al Gore's middle name is Jeffrey.
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Albert Arnold Gore Jr. -LRB- born March 31 , 1948 -RRB- is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton . He was Clinton 's running mate in their successful campaign in 1992 , and was re-elected in 1996 . At the end of Clinton 's second term , Gore was picked as the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election . After leaving office , Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist , whose work in climate change activism earned him -LRB- jointly with the IPCC -RRB- the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 . Gore was an elected official for 24 years . He was a Congressman from Tennessee -LRB- 1977 -- 85 -RRB- and from 1985 to 1993 served as one of the state 's Senators . He served as Vice President during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001 . In the 2000 presidential election , in what was one of the closest presidential races in history , Gore won the popular vote but lost in the Electoral College to Republican George W. Bush . A controversial election dispute over a vote recount in Florida was settled by the U.S. Supreme Court , which ruled 5 -- 4 in favor of Bush . Gore is the founder and current chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection , the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management and the now-defunct Current TV network , a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. , and a senior adviser to Google . Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , heading its climate change solutions group . He has served as a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University , Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism , Fisk University , and the University of California , Los Angeles . He served on the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute . Gore has received a number of awards including the Nobel Peace Prize -LRB- joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , 2007 -RRB- , a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album -LRB- 2009 -RRB- for his book An Inconvenient Truth , a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV -LRB- 2007 -RRB- , and a Webby Award -LRB- 2005 -RRB- . Gore was also the subject of the Academy Award-winning -LRB- 2007 -RRB- documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006 . In 2007 , he was named a runner-up for Time 2007 Person of the Year .
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Brentley Gore -LRB- born June 19 , 1970 -RRB- is an American singer/songwriter and actor . He is best known for his role as ` Matt Garrison ' on NBC 's California Dreams , syndicated in over 48 countries . Following the show , Gore co-founded , recorded and toured with the critically acclaimed LA favorite indie band King Straggler , a band in which he formed alongside Oscar nominee John Hawkes and Rodney Eastman . King Straggler had many songs featured in film and television including the Jeff Bridges film The Amateurs and Men of a Certain Age . The song `` Wasted Love '' was featured in the film .45 starring Milla Jovovich . In 2011 , Gore released his first solo album Up Until Now , which premiered at # 4 on the Reverb Nation Hot New Artist Chart . Brentley also founded the non-profit Los Angeles Performing Arts Foundation in 2009 .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Carice van Houten is Dutch.
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Carice Anouk van Houten -LRB- -LSB- kaːˈris ɑˈnuk vɑn ˈɦʌu̯tə -LRB- n -RRB- -RSB- ; born 5 September 1976 -RRB- is a Dutch actress and singer . Born in Leiderdorp , a town in the western Netherlands , she was brought up by writer and theatre-radio producer Theodore van Houten . Her younger sister Jelka is also an actress . She was exposed to the performing arts at an early age and studied at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Kleinkunstacademie Theaterschool in Amsterdam . Her first leading role as the eponymous protagonist in the television film Suzy Q -LRB- 1999 -RRB- won her the Golden Calf for Best Acting in a Television Drama ; two years later , she won her second Golden Calf for Best Actress for Undercover Kitty -LRB- 2001 -RRB- . She gained widespread recognition for her performance in Black Book -LRB- 2006 -RRB- , the most commercially successful Dutch film to date , for which she won her second Golden Calf for Best Actress , in addition to nominations from the Chicago Film Critics Association , the European Film Academy , and the Online Film Critics Society . She was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Valkyrie -LRB- 2008 -RRB- , and won her fourth and fifth Golden Calf Awards for Best Actress for The Happy Housewife -LRB- 2010 -RRB- and Black Butterflies -LRB- 2011 -RRB- . Her other notable English-language performances include Repo Men -LRB- 2010 -RRB- , Black Death -LRB- 2010 -RRB- , and Brimstone -LRB- 2016 -RRB- . Since 2012 , Van Houten has received international recognition for her role as Melisandre on the HBO fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones -LRB- 2012 -- present -RRB- , for which she has been nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series . After meeting Australian actor and musician Guy Pearce on the set of Brimstone in 2015 , she gave birth to their first child the following year .
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Van Dik Hout are a Dutch pop group from Den Helder in the north of the Netherlands . They formed in the late 1980s as a school band , but moved later to Amsterdam where they rechristened themselves into Van Dik Hout . The band 's biggest hit was ` Stil in mij ' -LRB- Silent inside of me -RRB- in 1994 from their first album ` Van Dik Hout ' , which became platinum in The Netherlands . With this hit , the band also won a MTV Local Hero Award and a Zilveren Harp , a Dutch musical award . In the early 2000s they partnered with Dutch duo Acda en de Munnik to form the band De Poema 's , under which name they had a number one hit in 2001 with Zij maakt het verschil -LRB- She makes the difference -RRB- . The band 's name -LRB- literally `` Of thick wood '' -RRB- is a play on the Dutch saying `` Van dik hout zaagt men planken '' , which refers to something that is over the top .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Rebecca Ferguson was in a British television drama series in the 2010s.
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Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström -LRB- born 19 October 1983 -RRB- , known professionally as Rebecca Ferguson , is a Swedish actress . She is best known for her lead role as Elizabeth Woodville in The White Queen -LRB- 2013 -RRB- , which earned her a Golden Globe nomination , and her starring roles as Ilsa Faust in Mission : Impossible -- Rogue Nation -LRB- 2015 -RRB- and as Dr. Miranda North in Life -LRB- 2017 -RRB- . Ferguson is set to return in Mission : Impossible 6 -LRB- 2018 -RRB- .
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The Crown is a biographical drama television series , created and written by Peter Morgan and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix . The show is a biographical story about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom . The first season covers the period between the Queen 's marriage to Philip , Duke of Edinburgh in 1947 to the disintegration of her sister Princess Margaret 's engagement to Peter Townsend in 1955 . A second season has been commissioned , which is intended to cover the Suez Crisis in 1956 through the retirement of the Queen 's third Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan , in 1963 following the Profumo affair political scandal . The Crown evolved out of Morgan 's 2006 film The Queen and 2013 stage play The Audience . The series is intended to last 60 episodes over six seasons , with 10 one-hour episodes per season , covering the Queen 's entire life , and with new actors being cast every two seasons . Claire Foy portrays the Queen in the first two seasons , alongside Matt Smith as Prince Philip and Vanessa Kirby as Princess Margaret . Filming for the series takes place at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood , Hertfordshire , with location shooting at various locations throughout the United Kingdom . The entire first season was released on Netflix November 4 , 2016 . Its reception was overwhelmingly positive , with critics praising cast performances , direction , writing , cinematography , production values , and the relatively accurate historical accounts of Queen Elizabeth 's reign . Significant praise was directed towards the performances of Foy in the leading role and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill , and Foy received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress and Lithgow the Best Actor at the 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards , among other accolades , including at the 74th Golden Globe Awards and the 7th Critics ' Choice Television Awards .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Code Geass has been adapted into other media.
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, often referred to as simply Code Geass , is a Japanese anime series created by Sunrise , directed by Gorō Taniguchi , and written by Ichirō Ōkouchi , with original character designs by manga authors Clamp . Set in an alternate timeline , the series focuses on how the former prince Lelouch vi Britannia obtains a power known as Geass and decides to use it to obliterate the Holy Britannian Empire , a superpower that has been conquering various countries . Code Geass first ran in Japan on MBS from October 5 , 2006 , to July 28 , 2007 . Its sequel series , , ran as a simulcast on JNN stations -LRB- like MBS and TBS -RRB- from April 6 , 2008 to September 28 , 2008 . The series has also been adapted into various manga and light novels with the former showing various alternate scenarios from the TV series . Bandai Entertainment also licensed most parts from the franchise for English release in December 2007 , airing the two TV series on Adult Swim . Most manga and light novels have also been published in North America by Bandai . At the Code Geass 10th anniversary event on November 27 , 2016 , it was announced that the series will be receiving a new anime , along with a compilation film trilogy in 2017 that will recap the events from both seasons of the anime series . The new anime , titled , will take place a few years after the events of the Zero Requiem . The director Gorō Taniguchi commented that the upcoming project would star an alive Lelouch and not as an alternate setting . Released to critical acclaim , the anime television series has been well received in Japan , selling over a million DVD and Blu-ray Disc volumes . Both seasons have won several awards at the Tokyo International Anime Fair , Animage Anime Grand Prix , and Animation Kobe event . Critics have praised the series for its large audience appeal as well as the cross conflicts shown among the main characters and the moral questions presented .
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is a manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Kumagai and serialized in Weekly Young Jump . It was adapted into a 13-episode anime series directed by Kazuhito Kikuchi . The anime is licensed in the United States , Canada , the United Kingdom and Germany by ADV Films , which co-financed the series ' production . There has been no announcement of the manga being translated into the English language . As the title suggests , it features samurai using guns .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Sleeping Beauty is a fantasy romance film.
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Sleeping Beauty is a 2011 Australian erotic drama film that was written and directed by Julia Leigh . It is her debut as a director . The film stars Emily Browning as a young university student who begins doing erotic freelance work in which she is required to sleep in bed alongside paying customers . The film is based on influences that include her own dream experiences , and the novels The House of the Sleeping Beauties and Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Nobel laureates Yasunari Kawabata and Gabriel Garcia Marquez , respectively . The film premiered in May at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival as the first Competition entry to be screened . It was the first Australian film In Competition at Cannes since Moulin Rouge ! -LRB- 2001 -RRB- . Sleeping Beauty was released in Australia on 23 June 2011 . It premiered in US cinemas on 2 December 2011 on limited release . Overall critical reception of the film has been mixed , rising to some approval through June 2016 , after circulation of the film on the festival circuit ; audience reception , on the other hand , has been weak -LRB- less than a third of a sample of tens of thousands approving -RRB- .
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The Sleeping Car Murder -LRB- French title : Compartiment tueurs -RRB- is a 1965 French mystery film directed by Costa-Gavras from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot . It stars Simone Signoret , Michel Piccoli , Yves Montand , Jean-Louis Trintignant , Catherine Allégret , Jacques Perrin , Charles Denner and Pascale Roberts . This film was the first movie for Costa-Gavras , to be followed later by other , more politically serious work .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Aaliyah was born in Brooklyn.
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Aaliyah Dana Haughton -LRB- -LSB- ɑ : ˈliːə -RSB- January 16 , 1979 -- August 25 , 2001 -RRB- was an American singer , actress , and model . She was born in Brooklyn , New York , and raised in Detroit , Michigan . At the age of 10 , she appeared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside Gladys Knight . At age 12 , Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and her uncle Barry Hankerson 's Blackground Records . Hankerson introduced her to R. Kelly , who became her mentor , as well as lead songwriter and producer of her debut album , Age Ai n't Nothing but a Number . The album sold three million copies in the United States and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America -LRB- RIAA -RRB- . After facing allegations of an illegal marriage with R. Kelly , Aaliyah ended her contract with Jive and signed with Atlantic Records . Aaliyah worked with record producers Timbaland and Missy Elliott for her second album , One in a Million , which sold 3 million copies in the United States and over eight million copies worldwide . In 2000 , Aaliyah appeared in her first film , Romeo Must Die . She contributed to the film 's soundtrack , which spawned the single `` Try Again '' . The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 solely on airplay , making Aaliyah the first artist in Billboard history to achieve this goal . `` Try Again '' earned Aaliyah a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocalist . After completing Romeo Must Die , Aaliyah filmed her role in Queen of the Damned . She released her third and final album , Aaliyah , in July 2001 . On August 25 , 2001 , Aaliyah and eight others were killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas after filming the music video for the single `` Rock the Boat '' . The pilot , Luis Morales III , was unlicensed at the time of the accident and toxicology tests revealed that he had traces of cocaine and alcohol in his system . Aaliyah 's family later filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Blackhawk International Airways , which was settled out of court . Aaliyah 's music has continued to achieve commercial success with several posthumous releases . Aaliyah has sold an estimated 24 to 32 million albums worldwide . She has been credited for helping redefine contemporary R&B , pop and hip hop , earning her the nicknames `` Princess of R&B '' and `` Queen of Urban Pop '' . She is listed by Billboard as the tenth most successful female R&B artist of the past 25 years and 27th most successful R&B artist in history .
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Alvin Ailey -LRB- January 5 , 1931 -- December 1 , 1989 -RRB- was an African-American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City . He is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th-century concert dance . His company gained the nickname `` Cultural Ambassador to the World '' because of its extensive international touring . Ailey 's choreographic masterpiece Revelations is believed to be the best known and most often seen modern dance performance . In 1977 , Ailey was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP . He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1988 . In 2014 , President Barack Obama selected Ailey to be a posthumous recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Bangladesh has been affected by poverty and violence.
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Bangladesh -LRB- -LSB- bæŋɡləˈdɛʃ -RSB- -LSB- ˌbɑːŋɡləˈdɛʃ -RSB- -LSB- : bn : বাংলাদেশ , বাংলাদেশ -RSB- , -LSB- ˈbaŋlad̪eʃ -RSB- , lit . `` The country of Bengal '' -RRB- , officially the People 's Republic of Bangladesh , is a country in South Asia . It shares land borders with India and Myanmar -LRB- Burma -RRB- . Nepal , Bhutan and China are located near Bangladesh but do not share a border with it . The country 's maritime territory in the Bay of Bengal is roughly equal to the size of its land area . Bangladesh is the world 's eighth most populous country . Dhaka is its capital and largest city , followed by Chittagong , which has the country 's largest port . Bangladesh forms the largest and eastern part of the Bengal region . Bangladeshis include people of different ethnic groups and religions . Bengalis , who speak the official Bengali language , make up 98 % of the population . The politically dominant Bengali Muslims make the nation the world 's third largest Muslim-majority country . Most of Bangladesh is covered by the Bengal delta , the largest delta on Earth . The country has 700 rivers and 8,046 km -LRB- 5,000 miles -RRB- of inland waterways . Highlands with evergreen forests are found in the northeastern and southeastern regions of the country . Bangladesh has many islands and a coral reef . It is home to the Sundarbans , the largest mangrove forest in the world . The country 's biodiversity includes a vast array of plant and wildlife , including critically endangered Bengal tigers , the national animal . The Greeks and Romans identified the region as Gangaridai , a powerful kingdom of the historical subcontinent , in the 3rd century BCE . Archaeological research has unearthed several ancient cities in Bangladesh , which had international trade links for millennia . The Bengal Sultanate and Mughal Bengal transformed the region into a cosmopolitan Islamic imperial power between the 14th and 18th centuries . The region was home to many principalities that had inland naval prowess . It was also a notable center of the worldwide muslin and silk trade . As part of British India , the region was influenced by the Bengali renaissance and played an important role in anti-colonial movements . The Partition of British India made East Bengal a part of the Dominion of Pakistan ; and was renamed as East Pakistan . The region witnessed the Bengali Language Movement in 1952 and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 . After independence , a parliamentary republic was established . A presidential government was in place between 1975 and 1990 , followed by a return to parliamentary democracy . The country has also been affected by poverty , natural disasters , hunger , dominant party systems and military coups . Bangladesh is a middle power and a major developing nation . Within South Asia , the country ranks first in gender equality , second in foreign exchange earnings and third in life expectancy and peacefulness . Listed as one of the Next Eleven , its economy ranks 46th in terms of nominal gross domestic product -LRB- GDP -RRB- and 29th in terms of purchasing power parity -LRB- PPP -RRB- . It is one of the largest textile exporters in the world . Its major trading partners are the European Union , the United States , China , India , Japan , Malaysia and Singapore . With its strategically vital location between Southern , Eastern and Southeast Asia , Bangladesh is an important promoter of regional connectivity and cooperation . It is a founding member of SAARC , BIMSTEC , the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Forum for Regional Cooperation and the Bangladesh Bhutan India Nepal Initiative . It is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations , the Developing 8 Countries , the OIC , the Non Aligned Movement , the Group of 77 and the World Trade Organization . Bangladesh is one of the largest contributors to United Nations peacekeeping forces .
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The history of Bengal includes modern-day Bangladesh and West Bengal in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent , at the apex of the Bay of Bengal and dominated by the fertile Ganges delta . The advancement of civilization in Bengal dates back four millennia . The region was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans as Gangaridai . The Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers act as a geographic marker of the region , but also connect it to the broader Indian subcontinent . Bengal , at times , has played an important role in the history of the Indian subcontinent . The area 's early history featured a succession of Indian empires , internal squabbling , and a tussle between Hinduism and Buddhism for dominance . Ancient Bengal was the site of several major Janapadas -LRB- kingdoms -RRB- , while the earliest cities date back to the Vedic period . A thalassocracy and an entrepôt of the historic Silk Road , Ancient Bengal established colonies on Indian Ocean islands and in Southeast Asia ; had strong trade links with Persia , Arabia and the Mediterranean that focused on its lucrative cotton muslin textiles . The region was part of several ancient pan-Indian empires , including the Mauryans and Guptas . It was also a bastion of regional kingdoms . The citadel of Gauda served as capital of the Gauda Kingdom , the Buddhist Pala Empire -LRB- eighth to 11th century -RRB- and Hindu Sena Empire -LRB- 11th -- 12th century -RRB- . This era saw the development of Bengali language , script , literature , music , art and architecture . From the 13th century onward , the region was controlled by the Bengal Sultanate , Hindu Rajas -LRB- kings -RRB- , and Baro-Bhuyan landlords . During the Medieval and Early Modern periods , Bengal was home to several medieval Hindu principalities , including the Koch Kingdom , Kingdom of Mallabhum , Kingdom of Bhurshut and Kingdom of Tripura ; the realm of powerful Hindu Rajas notably Pratapaditya and Raja Sitaram Ray . In the late 16th and early 17th centuries , Isa Khan , a Muslim Rajput chief , who led the Baro Bhuiyans -LRB- twelve landlords -RRB- , dominated the Bengal delta . Afterwards , the region came under the suzerainty of the Mughal Empire . Under the Mughals , Bengal Subah generated 50 % of the empire 's GDP . The gradual decline of the Mughals led to quasi-independent state under the Nawabs of Bengal , subsequent Maratha expeditions in Bengal , and finally the conquest by the British East India Company . The British took control of the region from the late 18th century . The company consolidated their hold on the region following the Battle of Plassey in 1757 and Battle of Buxar in 1764 and by 1793 took complete control of the region . Kolkata -LRB- or Calcutta -RRB- served for many years as the capital of British controlled territories in India . The early and prolonged exposure to British administration resulted in the expansion of Western education , culminating in development of science , institutional education , and social reforms in the region , including what became known as the Bengali renaissance . A hotbed of the Indian independence movement through the early 20th century , Bengal was divided during India 's independence in 1947 along religious lines into two separate entities : West Bengal -- a state of India -- and East Bengal -- a part of the newly created Dominion of Pakistan that later became the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971 .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Nickelodeon's programming is targeted towards children and adolescents.
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Nickelodeon -LRB- often shortened to and known in the United States as Nick -RRB- is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1 , 1977 , and is owned by Viacom through Viacom Media Networks and based in New York City . It is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 8 -- 17 , while its weekday morning edutainment programs are targeted at younger children aged 0 -- 7 . , Nickelodeon is available to approximately 93.7 million pay television households -LRB- 80.5 % of households with at least one television set -RRB- in the United States .
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Nick Studio 10 was a programming block on Nickelodeon which debuted on February 18 , 2013 and ended on June 17 of the same year , never returning from a planned hiatus after one additional Labor Day special . It aired weekday afternoons during the traditional school year from the network 's headquarters building in Times Square in Manhattan , New York , and was presented live for viewers in the Eastern and Central time zones . The program was hosted by a group of young teens ; Troy Doherty , Noah Grossman , Malika Samuel and Gabrielle `` Gabby '' Senn , who created videos consisting of random humor directed toward pre-teens and teens . The program aired from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET -LRB- tape delayed for the Pacific feed -RRB- , and was the first live afternoon block for the network since the short-lived 2007 block ME : TV . Nick Studio 10 was an attempt to revive the network having live and hosted afternoon blocks , with previous entries including Nick in the Afternoon -LRB- 1994 to 1998 -RRB- and U-Pick Live -LRB- 2002 to 2005 -RRB- . The block started out as solely featuring multiple episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants -LRB- a series commonly marathoned by the channel -RRB- , though two other series , The Fairly OddParents and Monsters vs. Aliens , were cycled into the schedule by the start of April . No new episodes of any series were premiered during the run of the block . The Nick Studio 10 continuity clips were inserted both during naturally during program breaks , along with short clips taken from viral videos or other sources randomly within programming , which included non sequiturs such as `` Nick Did It ! '' before returning to the scheduled programming in-progress . Over time these interruptions were reduced to traditional continuity between episodes without in-show interruption due to viewer feedback .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Eminem has sold over 45 million albums.
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Marshall Bruce Mathers III -LRB- born October 17 , 1972 -RRB- , known professionally as Eminem -LRB- often stylized as EMINƎM -RRB- , is an American rapper , record producer , and actor . Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000s in the United States . Throughout his career , he has had 10 number-one albums on the Billboard 200 and five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 . With US sales of 45.1 million albums and 42 million tracks as of June 2014 , Eminem is the second best-selling male artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era , the sixth best-selling artist in the United States and the best-selling hip-hop artist . Globally , he has sold more than 172 million albums , thus being one of the world 's best-selling artists . Rolling Stone ranked him 83rd on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time , calling him the King of Hip Hop . After his debut album Infinite -LRB- 1996 -RRB- and the Slim Shady EP -LRB- 1997 -RRB- , Eminem signed with Dr. Dre 's Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with The Slim Shady LP , which earned him his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album . His next two releases , 2000 's The Marshall Mathers LP and 2002 's The Eminem Show , were worldwide successes , with each being certified diamond in U.S. sales , and both winning Best Rap Album Grammy Awards -- making Eminem the first artist to win the award for three consecutive LPs . They were followed by Encore in 2004 , another critical and commercial success . Eminem went on hiatus after touring in 2005 , releasing Relapse in 2009 and Recovery in 2010 . Both won Grammy Awards and Recovery was the best-selling album of 2010 worldwide , the second time he had the international best-selling album of the year -LRB- after The Eminem Show -RRB- . Eminem 's eighth album , 2013 's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 , won two Grammy Awards , including Best Rap Album ; it expanded his record for the most wins in that category and his Grammy total to 15 . In addition to his solo career , Eminem is an original member of the Midwest hip hop groups Soul Intent and D12 . He is also known for his collaborations with fellow Detroit-based rapper Royce da 5 ' 9 '' ; the two are collectively known as Bad Meets Evil . Eminem has developed other ventures , including Shady Records , with manager Paul Rosenberg , which helped launch the careers of artists such as 50 Cent . Eminem has also established his own channel , Shade 45 , on Sirius XM Radio . In November 2002 , he starred in the hip hop film 8 Mile , which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song , for `` Lose Yourself '' , becoming the first rap artist to win the award . Eminem has made cameo appearances in the films The Wash -LRB- 2001 -RRB- , Funny People -LRB- 2009 -RRB- , The Interview -LRB- 2014 -RRB- and the television series Entourage -LRB- 2010 -RRB- .
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`` Role Model '' is a song by American rapper Eminem , that features on his major-label debut album The Slim Shady LP . The song also appears on the deluxe edition of his compilation album , Curtain Call : The Hits . Released as a single in 1999 , following `` Guilty Conscience '' , a music video was made , using the heavily censored radio edit . It became a minor hit on the US charts .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.John Lennon was a plumber only.
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John Winston Ono Lennon , -LRB- born John Winston Lennon ; 9 October 19408 December 1980 -RRB- was an English guitarist , singer , and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles , the most commercially successful and musically influential band in the history of popular music . He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a much-celebrated songwriting partnership . Born and raised in Liverpool , Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager ; his first band , the Quarrymen , first became the Silver Beatles , and finally , evolved into the Beatles in 1960 . When the group disbanded in 1970 , Lennon embarked on a sporadic solo career that produced albums including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine , and songs such as `` Give Peace a Chance '' , `` Working Class Hero '' , and `` Imagine '' . After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969 , he added `` Ono '' as one of his middle names . Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean , but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy . He was murdered three weeks after its release . Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music , writing , drawings , on film and in interviews . Controversial through his political and peace activism , he moved to Manhattan in 1971 , where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon 's administration to deport him , while some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture . By 2012 , Lennon 's solo album sales in the United States exceeded 14 million and , as writer , co-writer , or performer , he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart . In 2002 , a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth and , in 2008 , Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all time . He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 , and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice , in 1988 as a member of the Beatles and in 1994 as a solo artist .
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`` Oh Yoko ! '' is a 1971 song , written and performed by John Lennon , that can be found on his album Imagine and the greatest hits compilation Working Class Hero : The Definitive Lennon . The song was written about his wife Yoko Ono , and features Nicky Hopkins on piano and co-producer Phil Spector on harmony vocal . Lennon plays harmonica for the first time on a solo recording -LRB- since The Beatles ' `` Rocky Raccoon '' -RRB- , and it would also be the last time he used the instrument in a released recording .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Eugenio Canfari played football.
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Eugenio Canfari -LRB- 16 April 1877 -- 23 March 1962 -RRB- was an early Italian football player from Genoa who played as a defender . He was one of the thirteen men who founded Juventus in 1897 and the club 's first ever president . His brother Enrico Canfari was also a founding member of Juventus , and was the first ever president , though he never played in the Italian Football Championship with Enrico and Juventus .
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Fabio Cannavaro , Ufficiale OMRI -LRB- -LSB- ˈfaːbjo kannaˈvaːro -RSB- ; born 13 September 1973 -RRB- is an Italian former professional footballer and current manager of Chinese club Tianjin Quanjian . Cannavaro is considered to be one of the greatest defenders of all time . He spent the majority of his career in Italy . He started his career at Napoli , before spending seven years at Parma , with whom he won two Coppa Italia titles , the 1999 Supercoppa Italiana , and the 1999 UEFA Cup . After spells at Internazionale and Juventus , he transferred along with manager Fabio Capello from Juventus to Real Madrid in 2006 , with whom he won consecutive La Liga titles in 2007 and 2008 . After returning to Juventus for one season in 2009 -- 10 , he joined Al-Ahli in Dubai , where he retired from football in 2011 after an injury-troubled season . After his retirement , he became a member of the coaching staff of Al-Ahli , notably as global ambassador and technical director from 2011 to 2013 , and as an assistant coach from 2013 to 2014 . In November 2014 , he was appointed as head coach of Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande . On June 9 , 2016 , he signed a contract with second tier Chinese club Tianjin Quanjian as manager . Cannavaro has also achieved success with the Italian national team . He was part of the Italy team that won consecutive Under-21 European Championships in 1994 and 1996 . After earning his first senior cap in 1997 , he helped his national team to the final of Euro 2000 , being named to the team of the tournament , and eventually became captain in 2002 , following Paolo Maldini 's retirement . Cannavaro led Italy to victory in the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany , and was given the nickname `` Il Muro di Berlino '' -LRB- `` The Berlin Wall '' -RRB- by the Italian supporters due to his defensive performances , which saw Italy keep five clean sheets and concede only two goals , neither of which were in open play ; he was later awarded the Silver Ball after being named the tournament 's second best player . In 2009 , he overtook Maldini as the most capped player in the country 's history . He retired from international football on 25 June 2010 following Italy 's failure to qualify for the knock-out stages of the 2010 World Cup , having amassed 136 caps and scored two goals for the senior national team . In total , he has represented Italy at four FIFA World Cups , two UEFA European Championships , the 1996 Summer Olympics , and the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup . He is currently Italy 's second all-time appearance holder , behind Gianluigi Buffon , and has made the most appearances for Italy as captain -LRB- 79 -RRB- . He was named the 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year , and won the Ballon d'Or award in 2006 which made him the only defender to win the award in a decade and only the third of all time after Franz Beckenbauer and Matthias Sammer , both of Germany . In 2007 , he was in the six man shortlist for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year . His younger brother Paolo is also a professional footballer , who plays for Italian side Sassuolo .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.David Thewlis has performed.
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David Thewlis -LRB- born David Wheeler ; born 20 March 1963 -RRB- is an English actor , director , screenwriter , author . His most commercially successful role to date has been that of Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series . Other notable performances include the films Naked -LRB- for which he won the Best Actor award at Cannes Film Festival -RRB- , Dragonheart , Kingdom of Heaven , The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas , The Theory of Everything , Black Beauty , and Macbeth -LRB- in which he played King Duncan -RRB- . He will play Ares in Wonder Woman . He has also done voice work in the films James and the Giant Peach -LRB- 1996 -RRB- , The Miracle Maker -LRB- 2000 -RRB- , and Anomalisa -LRB- 2015 -RRB- , and is additionally known for the role of Cyrus Crabb in the TV mini series Dinotopia .
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Tobin David Stokes -LRB- born 1966 -RRB- is a Canadian composer , notable for his work in opera , choral music and television . His works have been performed by New York City Opera , Long Beach Opera , City Opera of Vancouver , the Moscow Symphony Orchestra , and the Victoria Symphony . He also writes for television , including scores for documentaries by the BBC , ABC , and PBS .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Indian was solely directed by Mel Gibson.
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Indian -LRB- Tamil : இந்தியன் -RRB- is a 1996 Indian Tamil vigilante crime thriller film written and directed by Shankar and produced by A. M. Rathnam . The film stars Kamal Haasan in dual roles with Manisha Koirala , Urmila Matondkar , Sukanya and Goundamani appearing in other pivotal roles . The film 's score and soundtrack are composed by A. R. Rahman , while cinematography was handled by Jeeva . The film focuses on an ex-freedom fighter turned vigilante bent on rooting out corruption and his son , who is at the other end of the spectrum by facilitating corrupt practices leading to some unfortunate events . The film opened to positive reviews from critics on the way to becoming a commercial blockbuster in the Tamil film industry . Indian was selected by India as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1996 , but was not nominated . The film also went on to win three National Film Awards including that of Best Actor for Kamal Haasan 's portrayal , while his performance also saw him win at the Filmfare Awards and the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards . The film was dubbed and released in Hindi as Hindustani with a few scenes reshot and also in Telugu as Bharatheeyudu . It was also the highest grossing Tamil film upon its release , until surpassed by Padayappa , three years later .
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Tipped Off is a 1920 American short Western film directed by Albert Russell and featuring Hoot Gibson .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Sully received positive reviews from critics.
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Sully -LRB- also known as Sully : Miracle on the Hudson -RRB- is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Todd Komarnicki , based on the autobiography Highest Duty by Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow . The film stars Tom Hanks as Sullenberger , with Aaron Eckhart , Laura Linney , Anna Gunn , Autumn Reeser , Holt McCallany , Jamey Sheridan , and Jerry Ferrara in supporting roles . The film follows Sullenberger 's January 2009 emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River , in which all 155 passengers and crew survived with only minor injuries , and the subsequent publicity and investigation . Sully premiered at the 43rd Annual Telluride Film Festival on September 2 , 2016 , and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. on September 9 , 2016 , in conventional and IMAX theaters . The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed over $ 238 million worldwide , but created controversy with its portrayal of the National Transportation Safety Board -LRB- NTSB -RRB- . The American Film Institute selected it as one of its ten Movies of the Year .
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The critical reputation of the British composer Arthur Sullivan has fluctuated markedly in the 150 years since he came to prominence . At first , critics regarded him as a potentially great composer of serious masterpieces . When Sullivan made a series of popular successes in comic operas with the librettist W.S. Gilbert , Victorian critics generally praised the operettas but reproached Sullivan for not writing solemn choral works instead . Immediately after Sullivan 's death , his reputation was attacked by critics who condemned him for not taking part in what they conceived of as an `` English musical renaissance '' . By the latter part of the 20th century , Sullivan 's music was being critically reassessed , beginning with the first book devoted to a study of his music , The Music of Arthur Sullivan by Gervase Hughes -LRB- 1960 -RRB- .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Keturah was divorced from the common patriarch of the three Abrahamic religions.
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Keturah was a concubine and wife of the Biblical patriarch Abraham . According to the Book of Genesis , Abraham married Keturah after the death of his first wife , Sarah ; Abraham and Keturah had six sons . One modern commentator on the Hebrew Bible has called Keturah `` the most ignored significant person in the Torah '' . Some Jewish scholars have believed Keturah to be the same person as Abraham 's concubine Hagar , but this view is not universally held .
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Hierax , or Hieracas , was a learned ascetic who flourished about the end of the 3rd century at Leontopolis in Egypt , where he lived to the age of ninety , supporting himself by calligraphy and devoting his leisure to scientific and literary pursuits , especially to the study of the Bible . He was the author of Biblical commentaries both in Greek and Coptic , and is said to have composed many hymns . He became leader of the so-called sect of the Hieracites , an ascetic society from which married persons were excluded , and of which one of the leading tenets was that only the celibate could enter the kingdom of heaven . He asserted that the suppression of the sexual impulse was emphatically the new revelation brought by the Logos , and appealed to 1 Cor . vii. , Heb . xii . 14 , and Matt . xix . 12 , xxv . 21 . Hierax may be called the connecting link between Origen and the Coptic monks . A man of deep learning and prodigious memory , he seems to have developed Origen 's Christology in the direction of Athanasius . He held that the Son was a torch lighted at the torch of the Father , that Father and Son are a bipartite light . He repudiated the ideas of a bodily resurrection and a material paradise , and on the ground of 2 Tim . ii . 5 questioned the salvation of even baptized infants , `` for without knowledge no conflict , without conflict no reward . '' In his insistence on virginity as the specifically Christian virtue he set up the great theme of the church of the 4th and 5th centuries .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Taylor Swift does not have five albums.
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Taylor Alison Swift -LRB- born December 13 , 1989 -RRB- is an American singer-songwriter . One of the most popular contemporary female recording artists , she is known for narrative songs about her personal life , which has received much media attention . Born and raised in Pennsylvania , Swift moved to Nashville , Tennessee at age 14 to pursue a career in country music . She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest artist ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house . Her eponymous debut album in 2006 peaked at number five on Billboard 200 and spent the most weeks on the chart in the 2000s . The album 's third single , `` Our Song '' , made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Hot Country Songs chart . Swift 's second album , Fearless , was released in 2008 . Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles `` Love Story '' and `` You Belong with Me '' , Fearless became the best-selling album of 2009 in the United States . The album won four Grammy Awards , with Swift becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner . Swift was the sole writer of her 2010 album , Speak Now . It debuted at number one in the United States and the single `` Mean '' won two Grammy Awards . Her fourth album , Red -LRB- 2012 -RRB- , yielded the successful singles `` We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together '' and `` I Knew You Were Trouble '' . With her fifth album , the pop-focused 1989 -LRB- 2014 -RRB- , she became the first act to have three albums sell a million copies within one week in the United States . Its singles `` Shake It Off '' , `` Blank Space '' , and `` Bad Blood '' reached number one in the US , Australia , and Canada . The album received three Grammy Awards , and Swift became the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice . The 2015 eponymous concert tour for 1989 became one of highest-grossing of the decade . As a songwriter , Swift has received awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame . She is also the recipient of ten Grammy Awards , five Guinness World Records , one Emmy Award , 21 Billboard Music Awards , 11 Country Music Association Awards , eight Academy of Country Music Awards , and one Brit Award . Swift is one of the best-selling artists of all time , having sold more than 40 million albums -- including 27.1 million in the US -- and 130 million single downloads . She has appeared in Time 100 most influential people in the world -LRB- 2010 and 2015 -RRB- , Forbes top-earning women in music -LRB- 2011 -- 2015 -RRB- , Forbes 100 most powerful women -LRB- 2015 -RRB- , and Forbes Celebrity 100 -LRB- 2016 -RRB- . She was the youngest woman to be included in the third of these and ranked first in Celebrity 100 .
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`` Long Live '' is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her third studio album Speak Now -LRB- 2010 -RRB- . The original version of the song was written by Swift , and produced by Nathan Chapman with Swift 's assistance , and served as the closing track on Speak Now . On the strength of digital downloads following the album 's release , the song charted at No. 85 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 . In 2012 , a new version of the song was released as a single from the Brazilian edition of Swift 's live album Speak Now World Tour -- Live -LRB- 2011 -RRB- , featuring additional Portuguese verses written and performed by Brazilian recording artist Paula Fernandes . This release was a local hit , breaking into the top 5 on Billboard Brazil 's Brasil Hot 100 Airplay chart .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Ben Kingsley is an actor.
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Sir Ben Kingsley -LRB- born Krishna Pandit Bhanji ; 31 December 1943 -RRB- is an English actor with a career spanning over 40 years . He has won an Oscar , Grammy , BAFTA , two Golden Globes , and a Screen Actors Guild Award . He is known for his starring role as Mohandas Gandhi in the 1982 film Gandhi , for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor . He is also known for his performances in the films Schindler 's List -LRB- 1993 -RRB- , Twelfth Night -LRB- 1996 -RRB- , Sexy Beast -LRB- 2000 -RRB- , Lucky Number Slevin -LRB- 2006 -RRB- , Shutter Island -LRB- 2010 -RRB- , Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time -LRB- 2010 -RRB- , Hugo -LRB- 2011 -RRB- , and Iron Man 3 -LRB- 2013 -RRB- . Kingsley was made a Knight Bachelor at Buckingham Palace in 2002 for services to the British film industry . In 2010 , he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . In 2013 , he received the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment .
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Reginald `` Reg '' Evans -LRB- 27 March 1928 -- 7 February 2009 -RRB- was a British-born actor active in Australian television , theatre , and cinema from the 1960s .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Jared Leto was born on the month of December.
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Jared Joseph Leto -LRB- -LSB- ˈlɛtoʊ -RSB- born December 26 , 1971 -RRB- is an American actor , singer-songwriter , and director . After starting his career with television appearances in the early 1990s , Leto achieved recognition for his role as Jordan Catalano on the television series My So-Called Life -LRB- 1994 -RRB- . He made his film debut in How to Make an American Quilt -LRB- 1995 -RRB- and received critical praise for his performance in Prefontaine -LRB- 1997 -RRB- . Leto played supporting roles in The Thin Red Line -LRB- 1998 -RRB- , Fight Club -LRB- 1999 -RRB- and American Psycho -LRB- 2000 -RRB- , as well as the lead role in Urban Legend -LRB- 1998 -RRB- , and earned critical acclaim after portraying heroin addict Harry Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream -LRB- 2000 -RRB- . He later began focusing increasingly on his music career , returning to acting with Panic Room -LRB- 2002 -RRB- , Alexander -LRB- 2004 -RRB- , Lord of War -LRB- 2005 -RRB- , Lonely Hearts -LRB- 2006 -RRB- , Chapter 27 -LRB- 2007 -RRB- , and Mr. Nobody -LRB- 2009 -RRB- . In 2012 , he directed the documentary film Artifact . In 2016 , he played the DC Comics supervillain Joker in the DC Extended Universe film Suicide Squad . Leto 's performance as a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club -LRB- 2013 -RRB- earned him an Academy Award , a Golden Globe Award , and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor . Leto is considered to be a method actor , known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles . He often remains completely in character for the duration of the shooting schedules of his films , even to the point of adversely affecting his health . He is also known to be selective about his film roles . Leto is the lead vocalist , multi-instrumentalist and main songwriter for Thirty Seconds to Mars , a band he formed in 1998 in Los Angeles , California , with his older brother Shannon Leto . Their debut album , 30 Seconds to Mars -LRB- 2002 -RRB- , was released to positive reviews but only to limited success . The band achieved worldwide fame with the release of their second album A Beautiful Lie -LRB- 2005 -RRB- . Their following releases , This Is War -LRB- 2009 -RRB- and Love , Lust , Faith and Dreams -LRB- 2013 -RRB- , received further critical and commercial success . As of September 2014 , the band has sold over 15 million albums worldwide . Leto has also directed music videos , including the MTV Video Music Award -- winning `` The Kill '' -LRB- 2006 -RRB- , `` Kings and Queens '' -LRB- 2009 -RRB- , and `` Up in the Air '' -LRB- 2013 -RRB- .
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Larry Neal Jordan -LRB- born October 11 , 1952 -RRB- is an American magazine publisher and journalist , syndicated radio show producer , and book author . A commercial newspaper publisher from the age of 15 , Jordan is best known as a biographer of American country and western music star Jim Reeves .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Life After Death is a work that follows Ready to Die.
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Life After Death is the second and final studio album by American rapper The Notorious B.I.G. , released on March 25 , 1997 , on Bad Boy Records . A double album , it was released posthumously following his death on March 9 , 1997 . It features collaborations with guest artists such as 112 , Jay-Z , Lil ' Kim , Mase , Bone Thugs-n-Harmony , Too $ hort , Angela Winbush , D.M.C. of Run-D.M.C . , R. Kelly , The LOX and Puff Daddy . Life After Death exhibits The Notorious B.I.G. further delving into the mafioso rap subgenre . The album is a sequel to his first album , Ready to Die , and picks up where the last song , `` Suicidal Thoughts '' , ends . The album was nominated for three Grammy Awards in 1998 including Best Rap Album , Best Rap Solo Performance for its first single `` Hypnotize '' , and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for its second single `` Mo Money Mo Problems '' . Life After Death has been considered by music writers as one of the seminal mafioso rap albums , along with Raekwon 's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx ... -LRB- 1995 -RRB- and Jay-Z 's Reasonable Doubt -LRB- 1996 -RRB- . In 2003 , the album was ranked number 476 on Rolling Stone magazine 's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time .
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Return of the Living Dead is a 1978 novel based upon the George A. Romero film Night of the Living Dead . The novel was written by John Russo , who had , with Romero , cowritten the original film . A film adaptation based upon the novel appeared in 1985 . It stands as the first example of `` zombie literature . ''
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Steven Knight is a British screenwriter for fims.
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Steven Knight -LRB- born 1959 -RRB- is a British screenwriter and film director . He read English at University College London -LRB- UCL -RRB- . Knight has written the screenplays for the films Closed Circuit , Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises , and also directed as well as written the films Locke and Hummingbird -LRB- a.k.a. Redemption -RRB- . Knight is also one of three creators of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ? , a game show that has been remade and aired in around 160 countries worldwide , and has written for BBC 's Commercial Breakdown , The Detectives , Peaky Blinders and Taboo .
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Anthony Frank Hinds , also known as Tony Hinds and John Elder -LRB- 19 September 1922 -- 30 September 2013 -RRB- , was an English screenwriter and producer .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Timea Bacsinszky is a sports player.
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Timea Bacsinszky -LRB- born 8 June 1989 -RRB- is a Swiss professional tennis player who has reached a career-high ranking of No. 9 and won three singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour . 2015 was a breakthrough year for her in singles , winning a career-best 15 consecutive matches spanning two titles then reaching the semifinals of the French Open , the first time she advanced past the third round of a major . She also reached her first Premier Mandatory final at the China Open . Playing for Switzerland in the Fed Cup , Bacsinszky has a career match record of 23 -- 16 . She also has won 12 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women 's Circuit .
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Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or `` shooting '' a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules . Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed sports in the world . Following is an alphabetical index of basketball articles :
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Matt Smith's first major role in television was in 1992.
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Matthew Robert `` Matt '' Smith -LRB- born 28 October 1982 -RRB- is an English actor . He is best known for his role as the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who , for which he received a BAFTA Award nomination in 2011 . Smith initially aspired to be a professional footballer , but spondylolysis forced him out of the sport . After joining the National Youth Theatre and studying Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia , he became an actor in 2003 , performing in plays like Murder in the Cathedral , Fresh Kills , The History Boys , and On the Shore of the Wide World in London theatres . Extending his repertoire into West End theatre , he has since performed in the stage adaptation of Swimming with Sharks with Christian Slater , followed a year later by a critically acclaimed performance as Henry in That Face . Smith 's first television role came in 2006 as Jim Taylor in the BBC adaptations of Philip Pullman 's The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North , while his first major role in television came as Danny in the 2007 BBC series Party Animals . Smith , who was announced as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in January 2009 , is the youngest person to play the character in the British television series . He left the series at the end of the 2013 Christmas Day special , `` The Time of the Doctor '' . He portrayed both the physical embodiment and a holographic version of Skynet in Terminator Genisys -LRB- 2015 -RRB- . Since 2016 , he portrays Prince Philip , Duke of Edinburgh in Peter Morgan 's Netflix biographical drama series The Crown , opposite Claire Foy as Elizabeth II .
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Ray Smith -LRB- 1 May 1936 -- 15 December 1991 -RRB- was a Welsh actor who played the tough-talking police chief , Detective Superintendent Gordon Spikings , in the television series , Dempsey and Makepeace . He was the first actor to play Brother Cadfael for BBC radio .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Directors Guild of America is only one person in the music industry.
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The Directors Guild of America -LRB- DGA -RRB- is an entertainment guild which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad . Founded as the Screen Directors Guild in 1936 , the group merged with the Radio and Television Directors Guild in 1960 to become the modern Directors Guild of America .
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Jed Hilly is the current Executive Director of the Americana Music Association . Hilly was formerly the vice-president of Digital Asset Management and Marketing Services at Sony Music Entertainment , Inc. .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.True Blood is a television series.
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True Blood is an American dark fantasy horror television series produced and created by Alan Ball and based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris . The series revolves around Sookie Stackhouse -LRB- Anna Paquin -RRB- , a telepathic waitress living in the rural town of Bon Temps , Louisiana , two years after the invention of a synthetic blood that has allowed vampires to `` come out of the coffin '' and allow their presence to be known to mankind . Now they are struggling for equal rights and assimilation , while anti-vampire organizations begin to gain power . Sookie 's world is turned upside down when she falls in love with 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton -LRB- Stephen Moyer -RRB- and for the first time must navigate the trials , tribulations and terrors of intimacy and relationships . The show was broadcast on the premium cable network HBO , in the United States , and was produced by HBO in association with Ball 's production company , Your Face Goes Here Entertainment . The series premiered on September 7 , 2008 and concluded on August 24 , 2014 , comprising seven seasons and 80 episodes . The first five seasons received highly positive reviews , and both nominations and wins for several awards , including a Golden Globe and an Emmy .
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is an anime television series produced by Doga Kobo , directed by Takashi Naoya and written by Pierre Sugiura , with character designs by Junichiro Taniguchi and music composed by Kenji Kawai . It is based on the video game Touken Ranbu .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Winona Ryder was a candidate for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Winona Ryder -LRB- born Winona Laura Horowitz ; October 29 , 1971 -RRB- is an American actress . One of the most profitable and iconic actresses of the 1990s , she made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas . As Lydia Deetz , a goth teenager in Tim Burton 's Beetlejuice -LRB- 1988 -RRB- , she won critical acclaim and widespread recognition . After appearances in film and on television , Ryder continued her acting career with the cult film Heathers -LRB- 1988 -RRB- , a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life that has since become a landmark teen film . She later appeared in the coming of age drama Mermaids -LRB- 1990 -RRB- , earning a Golden Globe nomination , and in the same year appeared alongside Johnny Depp in Burton 's dark fairy-tale Edward Scissorhands -LRB- 1990 -RRB- , and shortly thereafter with Keanu Reeves in Francis Ford Coppola 's gothic romance Bram Stoker 's Dracula -LRB- 1992 -RRB- . Having played diverse roles in many well-received films in the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s , Ryder won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award nomination in the same category for her role in The Age of Innocence in 1993 , as well as another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in the literary adaptation of Little Women the following year . She later appeared in the Generation X hit Reality Bites -LRB- 1994 -RRB- , Alien : Resurrection -LRB- 1997 -RRB- , the Woody Allen comedy Celebrity -LRB- 1998 -RRB- , and Girl , Interrupted -LRB- 1999 -RRB- , which she also executive-produced . In 2000 , Ryder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , honoring her legacy in the film industry . Ryder 's personal life has attracted significant media attention . Her relationship with Johnny Depp in the early 1990s and a 2001 arrest for shoplifting were constant subjects of tabloid journalism . She has been open about her personal struggles with anxiety and depression . In 2002 , she appeared in the box office hit Mr. Deeds alongside Adam Sandler . In 2006 , Ryder returned to the screen after a brief hiatus , appearing in high-profile films such as Star Trek . In 2010 , she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards : as the lead actress in When Love Is Not Enough : The Lois Wilson Story and as part of the cast of Black Swan . She also reunited with Burton for Frankenweenie -LRB- 2012 -RRB- . Since 2016 , she has starred as Joyce Byers in the Netflix supernatural-horror series Stranger Things , for which she has garnered Golden Globe and SAG nominations .
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63rd WGA Awards Presented by the : Writers Guild of America , East and the Writers Guild of America , West February 5 , 2011 The 63rd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film , television , and videogame writers of 2010 . Winners were announced on February 5 , 2011 .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Neil Patrick Harris worked on How I Met Your Mother.
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How I Met Your Mother -LRB- often abbreviated to HIMYM -RRB- is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19 , 2005 to March 31 , 2014 . The series follows the main character , Ted Mosby , and his group of friends in Manhattan . As a framing device , Ted , in the year 2030 , recounts to his son and daughter the events that led him to meeting their mother . The series was created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays , who also served as the show 's executive producers and were frequent writers . The series was loosely inspired by their friendship when they both lived in New York City . Among the 208 episodes , there were only four directors : Pamela Fryman -LRB- 196 episodes -RRB- , Rob Greenberg -LRB- 7 episodes -RRB- , Michael Shea -LRB- 4 episodes -RRB- , and Neil Patrick Harris -LRB- 1 episode -RRB- . Known for its unique structure and eccentric humor , How I Met Your Mother has gained a cult following over the years . The show initially received positive reviews , while the later seasons received more mixed reviews . The show was nominated for 28 Emmy Awards , winning nine . In 2010 , Alyson Hannigan won the People 's Choice Award for Favorite TV Comedy Actress . In 2012 , seven years after its premiere , the series won the People 's Choice Award for Favorite Network TV Comedy , and Neil Patrick Harris won the award for Favorite TV Comedy Actor . The ninth and final season began airing on September 23 , 2013 , and concluded on March 31 , 2014 , with a double-length finale episode , which received polarized reviews from critics and fans alike for its controversial twist ending , as many critics and fans believed it contradicted many of the previous episodes . How I Met Your Mother is often compared to Friends , for its setting and characters . Both shows take place in New York and both casts have similar character archetypes .
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`` Miracles '' is the 20th and final episode of the third season of the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother and 64th overall . It originally aired on May 19 , 2008 .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Twenty One Pilots is a duo.
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Twenty One Pilots -LRB- stylized as TWENTY ØNE PILØTS -RRB- is an American musical duo originating from Columbus , Ohio . The band was formed in 2009 by lead vocalist Tyler Joseph along with former members Nick Thomas and Chris Salih , who eventually left in 2011 , and currently consists of Joseph and drummer Josh Dun . The duo rose to fame in the mid -- 2010s after several years of touring and independent releases . They put out two self-released albums , Twenty One Pilots in 2009 and Regional at Best in 2011 , before being signed by Fueled by Ramen in 2012 . Their label debut , Vessel , was released in 2013 . The duo achieved breakthrough success with their fourth album , Blurryface -LRB- 2015 -RRB- , which produced the successful singles `` Stressed Out '' and `` Ride '' . In addition , the single `` Heathens '' , recorded for the soundtrack of the film Suicide Squad , made the group the first alternative artist to have two concurrent top ten singles in the U.S. . The duo has won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance .
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`` Heavydirtysoul '' is a song written and recorded by American musical duo Twenty One Pilots , from their fourth studio album Blurryface , it was released as a single on December 9 , 2016 , originally uploaded onto YouTube as audio only on May 17 , 2015 .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Shingles is more common among people advanced in age.
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Shingles , also known as herpes zoster , is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a localized area . Typically the rash occurs in a single stripe either on the left or right of the body or face . Two to four days before the rash occurs there may be tingling or local pain in the area . Otherwise there are typically few symptoms . The rash usually heals within two to four weeks ; however , some people develop ongoing nerve pain which can last for months or years , a condition called postherpetic neuralgia . In those with poor immune function the rash may occur widely . If the rash involves the eye , vision loss may occur . Shingles is due to a reactivation of varicella zoster virus -LRB- VZV -RRB- within a person 's body . Chickenpox is due to an initial infection with VZV . Once chickenpox has resolved , the virus may remain inactive in nerve cells . When it reactivates it travels from the nerve body to the endings in the skin producing blisters . Risk factors for reactivation include old age , poor immune function , and having had chickenpox before 18 months of age . How the virus remains in the body or subsequently re-activates is not well understood . Exposure to the virus in the blisters can cause chickenpox in someone who has not had it before but will not trigger shingles . Diagnosis is typically based on a person 's signs and symptoms . Varicella zoster virus is not the same as herpes simplex virus ; however , they belong to the same family of viruses . The shingles vaccine decreases the chance of shingles by about half in those between the ages of 50 and 80 . It also decreases rates of postherpetic neuralgia , and if an outbreak occurs , its severity . After 80 the vaccine is still effective , just less so . It contains the same material as the varicella vaccine , just at a higher dose . If shingles develops , antiviral medications such as aciclovir can reduce the severity and duration of disease if started within 72 hours of the appearance of the rash . Evidence does not show a significant effect of antivirals or steroids on rates of postherpetic neuralgia . Paracetamol , NSAIDs , or opioids may be used to help with the acute pain . It is estimated that about a third of people develop shingles at some point in their life . While more common among older people , children may also get the disease . The number of new cases per year ranges from 1.2 -- 3.4 per 1,000 among healthy individuals to 3.9 -- 11.8 per 1,000 among those older than 65 years of age . About half of those living to age 85 will have at least one attack , and less than 5 % will have more than one attack . The disease has been recognized since ancient times .
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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma -LRB- NHL -RRB- is a group of blood cancers that includes all types of lymphoma except Hodgkin 's lymphomas . Symptoms include enlarged lymph nodes , fever , night sweats , weight loss , and tiredness . Other symptoms may include bone pain , chest pain , or itchiness . Some forms are slow growing while others are fast growing . Lymphomas are types of cancer that develops from lymphocytes , a type of white blood cell . Risk factors include poor immune function , autoimmune diseases , Helicobacter pylori infection , hepatitis C , obesity , and Epstein-Barr virus infection . The World Health Organization -LRB- WHO -RRB- classifies lymphomas into five major groups , including one for Hodgkin 's lymphoma . Within the four groups for NHL there are over 60 specific types of lymphoma . Diagnosis is by examination of a bone marrow or lymph node biopsy . Medical imaging is done to help with cancer staging . Treatment depends on if the lymphoma is slow or fast growing and if it is in one area or many areas . Treatments may include chemotherapy , radiation , immunotherapy , targeted therapy , stem cell transplantation , surgery , or watchful waiting . If the blood becomes overly thick due to antibodies , plasmapheresis may be used . Radiation and some chemotherapy , however , increase the risk of other cancers , heart disease or nerve problems over the subsequent decades . In 2015 about 4.3 million people had non-Hodgkin lymphoma and 231,400 died . In the United States 2.1 % of people are affected at some point in their life . The most common age of diagnosis is between 65 to 75 years old . The percentage of people who survive five years in the United States is 71 % .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Precious got acclaim from its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Precious : Base on Nol by Saf -LRB- Based on the Novel `` Push '' by Sapphire -RRB- , or simply Precious , is a 2009 American drama film , directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels . Precious is an adaptation by Geoffrey S. Fletcher of the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire . The film stars Gabourey Sidibe , Mo'Nique , Paula Patton , and Mariah Carey . This film marked the acting debut of Sidibe . The film , then without a distributor , premiered to acclaim at both the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the 2009 Cannes Film Festival , under its original title of Push : Based on the Novel by Sapphire . At Sundance , it won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize for best drama , as well as a Special Jury Prize for supporting actress Mo'Nique . After Precious '' ' screening at Sundance in January 2009 , Tyler Perry announced that he and Oprah Winfrey would be providing promotional assistance to the film , which was released through Lionsgate Entertainment . Precious won the People 's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in September . The film 's title was changed from Push to Precious : Based on the Novel `` Push '' by Sapphire , to avoid confusion with the 2009 action film Push . Precious was also an official selection at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival -LRB- particularly the un certain regard section -RRB- . Lionsgate gave the film a limited release in North America on November 6 , 2009 -LRB- the release was expanded on November 20 -RRB- . Precious received largely positive reviews from critics ; the acting , the story , and its message were generally praised . In the film 's opening weekend in limited release , it grossed $ 1.8 million , putting it in 12th place at the box office . As of February 2010 , the film had grossed over $ 47 million domestically , ranking no. 65 for 2009 , recouping its $ 10 million budget , and making it a box office success.Precious '' received six Academy Award nominations , including one for Best Picture , at the 82nd Academy Awards . Geoffrey Fletcher won for Best Adapted Screenplay . Mo'Nique won the award for Best Supporting Actress , for which she received a standing ovation at the ceremony , along with numerous other accolades .
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Bachelor 's Affairs is a 1932 American Pre-Code film based on the play `` Precious '' by James Forbes . While its availability for viewing is currently limited , it has been preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.American Gods was written by a computer.
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American Gods is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel by English author Neil Gaiman . The novel is a blend of Americana , fantasy , and various strands of ancient and modern mythology , all centering on the mysterious and taciturn Shadow . Several of the themes touched upon in the book were previously glimpsed in The Sandman comic book series . The book was published in 2001 by Headline in the United Kingdom and by William Morrow in the United States . A special tenth anniversary edition , which includes the `` author 's preferred text '' and 12,000 additional words , was published in June 2011 by William Morrow . The text is identical to the signed and numbered limited edition released in 2003 by Hill House Publishers , and to the edition from Headline , Gaiman 's publisher in the UK since 2005 . The tenth anniversary edition marks the first time the author 's preferred text has been available in wide release outside the UK . Gaiman also did an extensive sold-out book tour celebrating the tenth anniversary and promoting the book in 2011 . There are two audio versions of the book , both produced and published by Harper Audio : an unabridged version of the original published edition , read by George Guidall , released in 2001 ; and a full cast audiobook version of the tenth anniversary edition , including the author 's preferred text and 12,000 additional words , released in 2011 . The full cast audiobook project also was announced on Neil Gaiman 's blog , along with a contest in which participants could submit audio auditions and the winner would get an all expense paid trip to New York City , to record a part for the audio book . In March 2017 , The Folio Society published a special collector 's edition of American Gods with many corrections to the author 's preferred text version . Gaiman described it as ` the cleanest text there has ever been ' . In April 2017 , Starz began airing an eponymous television adaptation of the novel . Bryan Fuller and Michael Green serve as showrunners , and Gaiman is an executive producer .
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Calculating God is a 2000 science fiction novel by Robert J. Sawyer . It takes place in the present day and describes the arrival on Earth of sentient aliens . The bulk of the novel covers the many discussions and arguments on this topic , as well as about the nature of belief , religion , and science . Calculating God received nominations for both the Hugo and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards in 2001 .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Christina Aguilera was born in Germany.
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Christina María Aguilera -LRB- born December 18 , 1980 -RRB- is an American singer , songwriter , actress and television personality . Born in Staten Island , New York and raised in Rochester and Wexford , Pennsylvania , she appeared on the television series Star Search and The Mickey Mouse Club in her early years . After recording `` Reflection '' , the theme for Disney 's 1998 film Mulan , Aguilera signed with RCA Records . She rose to prominence with her 1999 self-titled debut album that spawned the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles ; `` Genie in a Bottle '' , `` What a Girl Wants '' , and `` Come On Over Baby -LRB- All I Want Is You -RRB- '' . The following year , Aguilera released two studio albums ; the Spanish-language album Mi Reflejo and the holiday album My Kind of Christmas . She assumed creative control for her fourth studio album , Stripped -LRB- 2002 -RRB- , which produced `` Dirrty '' , `` Beautiful '' , and `` Fighter '' . Aguilera 's fifth studio album , Back to Basics -LRB- 2006 -RRB- , debuted at number one on the album charts of ten countries and spawned the tracks `` Ai n't No Other Man '' and `` Hurt '' . In 2010 , Aguilera released her sixth studio album Bionic and starred in the film Burlesque . The following year , she debuted as a coach on the reality competition television series The Voice ; she has since appeared on six of its twelve seasons . Her seventh studio album , Lotus , was released in 2012 . Aguilera has also been featured on several successful collaborations during her career , including `` Lady Marmalade '' , `` Moves like Jagger '' , and `` Say Something '' . Aguilera has been recognized as a pop icon and earned the title `` Pop Princess '' in her early years . Her work has earned her five Grammy Awards , one Latin Grammy Award , and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . She has sold over 17.9 million albums in the United States as of 2014 and 50 million albums worldwide as of 2015 . In 2009 , she ranked at number 58 on Rolling Stones list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time , thereby becoming the youngest and the only artist under 30 to be named . Billboard recognized her as the 20th most successful artist of the 2000s , and Time listed Aguilera among the top 100 Most Influential People in the World of 2013 . Aside from her work in the entertainment industry , Aguilera is involved in charitable activities through human rights , world issues , and her work as a UN ambassador for the World Food Programme .
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`` Come On Over Baby -LRB- All I Want Is You -RRB- '' is a song by American singer Christina Aguilera , taken from her debut studio album Christina Aguilera . It was released on September 26 , 2000 by RCA Records as the fourth and final single from the album , and was the first where she was given significant creative control . The song was written by Johan Aberg , Paul Rein , Christina Aguilera , Ron Fair , C. Blackmon , R. Cham , E. Dawkins , Shelly Peiken , and Guy Roche ; a re-recorded version included a rapped verse written by Aguilera . Lyrically , it sees Aguilera eyeing a prospective boyfriend . Upon its release , `` Come on Over Baby -LRB- All I Want Is You -RRB- '' achieved international commercial success . It became Aguilera 's third single to peak at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 , also reaching the top ten of countries including Australia and the United Kingdom . The song 's accompanying music video saw Aguilera experiment with her styling , beginning an evolution of image reinventions seen in the ensuing years of her career . Later in 2000 , a Spanish-language version of the song was adapted by Rudy Pérez titled `` Ven Conmigo -LRB- Solamente Tú -RRB- '' which was recorded for Aguilera 's second studio album Mi Reflejo . `` Ven Conmigo -LRB- Solamente Tú -RRB- '' was released on August 8 , 2000 to Latin radio stations in the United States . The song was featured in the videogame Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Vacation stars just one comedian actor.
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Vacation is a 2015 American comedy film written and directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley -LRB- in their directorial debuts -RRB- . It stars Ed Helms , Christina Applegate , Skyler Gisondo , Steele Stebbins , Leslie Mann , Chris Hemsworth , Beverly D'Angelo , and Chevy Chase . It is the fifth installment of the Vacation film series serving as both a modernized reboot and a sequel to the original four films . It is also the second not to carry the National Lampoon name after Vegas Vacation , and was released by New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. on July 29 , 2015 . the film has received negative reviews from critics but it was a box office success , earning $ 104.9 million on a $ 31 million budget .
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Holiday in the Sun is a 2001 American direct-to-video romantic adventure family film directed by Steve Purcell and starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as two teenagers on vacation at Atlantis Paradise Island .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.On April 5th 1992, Sam Walton passed away.
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Samuel Moore `` Sam '' Walton -LRB- March 29 , 1918 -- April 5 , 1992 -RRB- was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam 's Club .
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Sammy Creason -LRB- 27 November 1944 -- 21 December 1995 -RRB- was an American session drummer who played with Tony Joe White , Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan amongst others .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Maggie Gyllenhaal starred in a play.
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Margalit Ruth `` Maggie '' Gyllenhaal -LRB- -LSB- ˈdʒɪlənhɑːl -RSB- born November 16 , 1977 in New York City -RRB- is an American actress . Part of the Gyllenhaal family , she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal . She began her film career as a teenager with roles in her father 's films and appeared alongside her brother in the psychological horror film Donnie Darko -LRB- 2001 -RRB- . She garnered critical praise for starring as Lee Holloway in Secretary -LRB- 2002 -RRB- , for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award . For her performance in Sherrybaby -LRB- 2006 -RRB- , she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture -- Drama . She also received recognition for starring as Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight -LRB- 2008 -RRB- . For her performance in the musical-drama Crazy Heart -LRB- 2009 -RRB- , she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . She subsequently starred in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang -LRB- 2010 -RRB- , Wo n't Back Down -LRB- 2012 -RRB- and Frank -LRB- 2014 -RRB- , for which she was nominated for a BIFA Award . In 2014 , she made her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing , and also starred in the television BBC miniseries The Honourable Woman . For her performance in the latter she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award .
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Candleshoe is a 1977 American family adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions based on the Michael Innes novel Christmas at Candleshoe and starring Jodie Foster , David Niven , Helen Hayes in her last big screen appearance and Leo McKern . The film received positive reviews .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Sade is not a female artist.
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Helen Folasade Adu , OBE -LRB- Fọláṣadé Adú -LSB- fɔ̄láʃādé ādú -RSB- born 16 January 1959 -RRB- , known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade -LRB- -LSB- ʃɑːˈdeɪ -RSB- -RRB- , is a Nigerian-born British singer-songwriter , composer , arranger , and record producer . With members Paul S. Denman , Andrew Hale , and Stuart Matthewman , she gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the English band Sade . Following a brief stint as a fashion designer of men 's clothing and part-time model , Adu began backup singing for the band Pride . Growing attention from record labels led her , along with other fellow band members , to separate from Pride and form the band Sade . Following a record deal with Epic Records the band released their debut album Diamond Life -LRB- 1984 -RRB- . The album sold over six million copies , becoming one of the top-selling debut recordings of the 1980s , and the best-selling debut ever by a British female vocalist . Following the release of the band 's debut album , they went on to release a string of multi-platinum selling albums . Their follow-up Promise was released in 1985 and peaked at number-one in the UK Albums Chart , the US Billboard 200 , and went on to sell four million copies in the US . Sade would later go on to make her acting debut in the British film , Absolute Beginners -LRB- 1986 -RRB- , before the release of the band 's albums , Stronger Than Pride -LRB- 1988 -RRB- and Love Deluxe -LRB- 1992 -RRB- . After the release of the fifth album , Lovers Rock -LRB- 2000 -RRB- , the band embarked on a ten-year hiatus in which Sade raised her daughter . Following the hiatus , the band returned with their sixth album , Soldier of Love -LRB- 2010 -RRB- which became a commercial success and won a Grammy Award . Sade 's US certified sales so far stand at 23.5 million units according to Recording Industry Association of America -LRB- RIAA -RRB- website and have sold more than 50 million units worldwide to date . The band was ranked at number 50 on VH1 's list of the `` 100 greatest artists of all time '' . In 2002 , Adu was awarded an OBE for services to music , and stated her award was `` a great gesture to me and all black women in England '' . In 2010 , The Sunday Times described her as the most successful solo British female artist in history . In 2012 , Sade was listed at number 30 on VH1 's `` 100 Greatest Women In Music '' .
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Sadie McKee is a 1934 American Pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Clarence Brown , starring Joan Crawford , and featuring Gene Raymond , Franchot Tone , Edward Arnold , and Esther Ralston . The film is based on the 1933 short story `` Pretty Sadie McKee '' , by Viña Delmar . Crawford plays the title character , a young working girl suffering through three troubled relationships on her road to prosperity . Sadie McKee is the third of seven films Crawford and Franchot Tone made together . At the time of filming , Crawford had recently divorced Douglas Fairbanks , Jr. , and soon she and Tone were romantically involved . The couple married in 1935 .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.A song from Collision Course won a Grammy.
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Collision Course is a collaborative EP from American rapper Jay-Z and nu metal band Linkin Park , released on November 30 , 2004 by Roc-A-Fella , Machine Shop , Warner Bros. and Def Jam records . Before the album , Jay-Z had released collaborations with The Roots and R. Kelly , and Linkin Park had collaborated with various artists on their remix album Reanimation . The album was inspired by The Grey Album by Danger Mouse , which was a mash-up album between Jay-Z and The Beatles . MTV had originally planned on mashing up only one or two songs , but the project was eventually expanded to a six song EP . The album was mostly produced by Mike Shinoda and Jay-Z , and was recorded between July 16 and July 19 . Upon release , Collision Course reached # 1 on the Billboard 200 . As of June 2014 , it has sold 2 million copies in the United States alone . The album spawned one single , Numb/Encore which eventually won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 2006 Grammy Awards .
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The Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Performance -LRB- awarded as Best Rap/Sung Collaboration until 2017 -RRB- is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards , a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards , to recording artists for quality songs on which rappers and singers collaborate . Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to `` honor artistic achievement , technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry , without regard to album sales or chart position '' . According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards , the award is presented to artists for `` a newly recorded Rap/Sung collaborative performance by artists who do not normally perform together '' , and the `` collaborative artist -LRB- s -RRB- should be recognized as a featured artist -LRB- s -RRB- '' . Americans Eve and Gwen Stefani won the first award in 2002 with `` Let Me Blow Ya Mind '' . The pair were unsuccessfully nominated a second time in 2006 for `` Rich Girl '' . American rapper Jay-Z has received seven Grammys in the category -- four times as lead artist and three times as featured artist ; he has also been nominated for three other songs . Rihanna is the female artist with the most wins in the category , with four wins out of seven total nominations . T-Pain has received the most nominations in the category without a win , with five . From 2017 , the award will be known as Best Rap/Sung Performance . Solo recordings are no longer excluded , `` to represent the current state and future trajectory of rap by expanding the category beyond collaborations between rappers and vocalists to include recordings by a solo artist who blurs the lines between rapping and singing '' .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Fantine has been played by Anne Hathaway.
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Anne Jacqueline Hathaway -LRB- born November 12 , 1982 -RRB- is an American actress and singer . Born in Brooklyn , New York and brought up in Millburn , New Jersey , Hathaway was inspired to act by her mother and as a high school student was nominated for the Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award for Best Performance by a High School Actress for her performance in Once Upon a Mattress . She made her professional screen debut in the short-lived Fox television series Get Real -LRB- 1999 -- 2000 -RRB- , before landing the lead role of Mia Thermopolis in the Disney comedy film The Princess Diaries -LRB- 2001 -RRB- , for which she won the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress -- Comedy . Hathaway went on to become a widely praised `` role model for children '' for her roles in Nicholas Nickleby -LRB- 2002 -RRB- , Ella Enchanted -LRB- 2004 -RRB- , The Princess Diaries 2 : Royal Engagement -LRB- 2004 -RRB- , and Hoodwinked ! -LRB- 2005 -RRB- . Hathaway began to transition to more adult roles in 2005 , winning a DVD Exclusive Award for Best Actress for Havoc -LRB- 2005 -RRB- , receiving a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her role in the critically acclaimed Brokeback Mountain -LRB- 2005 -RRB- , garnering further recognition for appearing alongside Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada -LRB- 2006 -RRB- , and earning a BIFA nomination for Best Performance by an Actress for her portrayal of Jane Austen in Becoming Jane -LRB- 2007 -RRB- . Hathaway received praise for her performance as a recovering drug addict in Rachel Getting Married -LRB- 2008 -RRB- , for which she won the Critics ' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy , Golden Globe , Screen Actors Guild , and Indie Spirit Awards for Best Actress / Female Lead . She went on to win her second Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress -- Comedy for starring in Bride Wars -LRB- 2009 -RRB- and in 2010 , appeared in the box office hits Valentine 's Day , Alice in Wonderland and Love & Other Drugs , which earned her the Satellite Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Motion Picture Comedy or Musical . In 2011 , Hathaway voiced Jewel in the animated film Rio and hosted the 83rd Academy Awards with James Franco , which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Program . In 2012 , she portrayed Catwoman in Christopher Nolan 's The Dark Knight Rises , for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress . The same year , she starred as Fantine in Tom Hooper 's Les Misérables , which earned her widespread acclaim and she won the Academy , Golden Globe , BAFTA , and SAG Awards for Best Supporting Actress . Hathaway has since gone on to appear in Rio 2 -LRB- 2014 -RRB- , Interstellar -LRB- 2014 -RRB- , The Intern -LRB- 2015 -RRB- , and reprised her role as the White Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass -LRB- 2016 -RRB- . People magazine named Hathaway one of its breakthrough stars of 2001 , and she appeared on its list of the world 's 50 Most Beautiful People in 2006 . Following a four-year relationship with real estate developer Raffaello Follieri , Hathaway married Adam Shulman in 2012 , with whom she has one son , born in March 2016 .
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Not to be confused with actress Julia Marlowe who early in her career was billed as Fanny Brough . Frances `` Fanny '' Whiteside Brough -LRB- 7 July 1852 -- 30 November 1914 -RRB- was a Paris-born British stage actress who came from a literary and dramatic family . She is remembered especially for her many comedy roles performed over a four decade-long career . Brough was acting professionally in London by 1870 . She played in a variety of comic and dramatic roles in Britain with several companies and toured America early in the 20th century with Charles Hawtrey . Her career reached a high point in 1902 with her creation of the title role of Kitty Warren in George Bernard Shaw 's Mrs. Warren 's Profession . She continued to act until shortly before her death .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Minions outgrossed each of the Despicable Me films.
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Minions is a 2015 American computer-animated comedy film , serving as a spin-off/prequel to the Despicable Me franchise . Produced by Illumination Entertainment for Universal Pictures , it was directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda , written by Brian Lynch , and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy . The film stars the voices of Coffin -LRB- as the Minions , including : Kevin , Stuart and Bob -RRB- , Sandra Bullock , Jon Hamm , Michael Keaton , Allison Janney , Steve Coogan and Jennifer Saunders with the narration provided by Geoffrey Rush . It was first foreshadowed in the end credits of Despicable Me 2 -LRB- 2013 -RRB- , where Kevin , Stuart and Bob , three of the Minions , are seen auditioning for the film . Minions had its premiere on June 11 , 2015 , in Leicester Square , London , and went into general release in the United States on July 10 , 2015 . Critical response was mixed : some critics praised the comedic aspects of the film and the performances of Bullock and Hamm , while also felt that the title characters were not able to carry the film on their own , and that the villains were flatly characterized . The film has grossed over $ 1.1 billion worldwide -LRB- outgrossing each of the Despicable Me films -RRB- , making it the thirteenth highest-grossing film of all time , the second highest-grossing animated film and the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film . A sequel is scheduled to be released on July 3 , 2020 .
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Mini is a 1995 award-winning Malayalam film written by Iskantar Mirsa , produced by Madhu and directed by P. Chandrakumar . The film handles the problem of alcoholism through the determined efforts of a young girl to save her father from self-destruction . It stars Aarati Ghanashyam , Chandrahasan , Kuckoo Parameswaran , Babu G. Nair and Malini Nair in pivotal roles . It won the National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare . Aarati Ghanashyam won the Kerala State Award and Kerala Film Critics Association Award for Best Child Artist .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Richard Dreyfuss has won an awards at the BAFTAs.
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Richard Stephen Dreyfuss -LRB- -LSB- ˈdraɪfəs -RSB- originally Dreyfus ; born October 29 , 1947 -RRB- is an American actor best known for starring in American Graffiti , Jaws , Stand By Me , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Down and Out in Beverly Hills , The Goodbye Girl , Always , and Mr. Holland 's Opus . Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl , and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland 's Opus . He has also won a Golden Globe Award , a BAFTA Award , and was nominated in 2002 for Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories .
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The British Academy Television Award for Best International Programme , or BAFTA TV Award for Best International , is an award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to outstanding achievements in foreign TV series .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.On May 13, 1913, William R. Tolbert Jr. was born.
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William Richard Tolbert Jr. -LRB- May 13 , 1913 -- April 12 , 1980 -RRB- was the 20th President of Liberia from 1971 until 1980 , when he was killed in a coup d'état led by Samuel Doe . Trained as a civil servant , he entered the country 's House of Representatives in 1943 for the True Whig Party , then the only established party in the country . He was elected Vice president to William Tubman in 1952 and served in that position until he became President following Tubman 's death in 1971 .
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Robert Gerard `` Rob '' Tapert -LRB- born May 14 , 1955 -RRB- is an American film producer , best known as the co-founder of Renaissance Pictures and founder of Ghost House Pictures .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Slovenia is located in Australia.
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Slovenia -LRB- -LSB- sloʊˈviːniə , _ slə - , _ - njə -RSB- ; Slovenija -LSB- slɔˈʋéːnija -RSB- -RRB- , officially the Republic of Slovenia -LRB- Slovene : , abbr. : RS -RRB- , is a nation state in southern Central Europe , located at the crossroads of main European cultural and trade routes . It is bordered by Italy to the west , Austria to the north , Hungary to the northeast , Croatia to the south and southeast , and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest . It covers 20,273 km2 and has a population of 2.06 million . It is a parliamentary republic and a member of the United Nations , European Union , and NATO . The capital and largest city is Ljubljana . The territory is mostly mountainous with a mainly continental climate , with the exception of the Slovene Littoral that has a sub-Mediterranean climate and the north-western area that has an Alpine climate . Additionally , the Dinaric Alps and the Pannonian Plain meet on the territory of Slovenia . The country , marked by a significant biological diversity , is one of the most water-rich in Europe , with a dense river network , a rich aquifer system , and significant karst underground watercourses . Over half of the territory is covered by forest . The human settlement of Slovenia is dispersed and uneven . Slovenia has historically been the crossroads of South Slavic , Germanic , Romance , and Hungarian languages and culture . Although the population is not homogeneous , the majority is Slovene . South Slavic language Slovene is the official language throughout the country . Slovenia is a largely secularized country , but its culture and identity have been significantly influenced by Catholicism as well as Lutheranism . The economy of Slovenia is small , open , and export-oriented and has been strongly influenced by international conditions . It has been severely hurt by the Eurozone crisis , started in the late 2000s . The main economic field is services , followed by industry and construction . Historically , the current territory of Slovenia was part of many different state formations , including the Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire , followed by the Habsburg Monarchy . In October 1918 , the Slovenes exercised self-determination for the first time by co-founding the State of Slovenes , Croats and Serbs . In December 1918 , they merged with the Kingdom of Serbia into the Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes -LRB- renamed Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929 -RRB- . During World War II , Slovenia was occupied and annexed by Germany , Italy , and Hungary , with a tiny area transferred to the Independent State of Croatia , a Nazi puppet state . Afterward , it was a founding member of the Federal People 's Republic of Yugoslavia , later renamed the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , a communist state which was the only country in the Eastern Bloc which was never part of the Warsaw Pact . In June 1991 , after the introduction of multi-party representative democracy , Slovenia split from Yugoslavia and became an independent country . In 2004 , it entered NATO and the European Union ; in 2007 became the first formerly communist country to join the Eurozone ; and in 2010 joined the OECD , a global association of high-income developed countries .
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The Slovene Society -LRB- Slovenska matica , also Matica slovenska -RRB- is the second-oldest publishing house in Slovenia , founded on February 4 , 1864 as an institution for the scholarly and cultural progress of Slovenes .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.The Shield was the alias of Michael Chiklis.
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The Shield is an American crime drama television series starring Michael Chiklis that premiered on March 12 , 2002 , on FX in the United States , and concluded on November 25 , 2008 , after seven seasons . Known for its portrayal of corrupt police officers , it was originally advertised as Rampart in reference to the true life Rampart Division police scandal , on which the show 's Strike Team was loosely based . The series was created by Shawn Ryan and The Barn Productions for Fox Television Studios and Sony Pictures Television . Several notable film actors took extended roles on the show , including Glenn Close , who was the female lead during the fourth season , Forest Whitaker , who guest starred in seasons 5 and 6 , Laura Harring , in season 5 , Franka Potente , in season 6 , and Laurie Holden , in season 7 . The series has received critical acclaim , as well as several awards and nominations . It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series -- Drama in 2002 , and the final season won a 2008 AFI Award for best television series . In 2013 , TV Guide ranked The Shield # 50 on its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time . Chiklis won both the Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Lead Actor in a Drama in 2002 .
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A shield is a hand-held protective device meant to intercept attacks . Shield may also refer to :
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Natalie Wood received three Academy Award nominations before turning 25.
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Natalie Wood -LRB- born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko ; July 20 , 1938 -- November 28 or 29 , 1981 -RRB- was an American film and television actress . She was known for her screen roles in Miracle on 34th Street , Splendor in the Grass , Rebel Without a Cause , The Searchers , and West Side Story . She first worked in films as a child , then became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult , receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old . Wood began acting in movies at the age of four and , at age eight , was given a co-starring role with Maureen O'Hara in the classic Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street . As a teenager , her performance in Rebel Without a Cause -LRB- 1955 -RRB- earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . She starred in the musical films West Side Story -LRB- 1961 -RRB- and Gypsy -LRB- 1962 -RRB- , and received Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performances in Splendor in the Grass -LRB- 1961 -RRB- and Love with the Proper Stranger -LRB- 1963 -RRB- . Her career continued with films such as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice -LRB- 1969 -RRB- . After this , she took a break from acting and had two children with different husbands , appearing in only three theatrical films during the 1970s . She was married to actor Robert Wagner twice , and to producer Richard Gregson . She had one daughter with Gregson , actress Natasha Gregson Wagner . Wood gave birth to Courtney Wagner during her second marriage to Wagner . Her younger sister Lana Wood is also an actress . Wood starred in several television productions , including a remake of the film From Here to Eternity -LRB- 1979 -RRB- for which she won a Golden Globe Award . During her career , her films represented a `` coming of age '' for both her and Hollywood films in general .
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Sarah Catharine Paulson -LRB- born December 17 , 1974 -RRB- is an American actress . After beginning her acting career on stage , she starred in the 1990s television series American Gothic -LRB- 1995 -- 96 -RRB- and Jack & Jill -LRB- 1999 -- 2001 -RRB- . Paulson later appeared in comedy films such as What Women Want -LRB- 2000 -RRB- and Down with Love -LRB- 2003 -RRB- , and had dramatic roles in films such as Path to War -LRB- 2002 -RRB- and The Notorious Bettie Page -LRB- 2005 -RRB- . From 2006 to 2007 , Paulson played the role of Harriet Hayes in the NBC comedy-drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip , for which she received her first Golden Globe Award nomination . In 2008 , she starred as Ellen Dolan in the superhero noir film The Spirit . Paulson has appeared on Broadway in the plays The Glass Menagerie -LRB- 2005 -RRB- and Collected Stories -LRB- 2010 -RRB- . She also starred in a number of independent films , and had a leading role on the ABC comedy series Cupid in 2009 . She later starred in the independent drama Martha Marcy May Marlene -LRB- 2011 -RRB- , and received Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for her performance as Nicolle Wallace in the HBO film Game Change -LRB- 2012 -RRB- . Paulson starred as Mary Epps in the 2013 historical drama film 12 Years a Slave and as Abby Gerhard in the 2015 drama film Carol . Both films received widespread critical acclaim and were nominated for multiple Academy Awards . In 2011 , Paulson began starring in the FX anthology series American Horror Story , playing different characters in each of the show 's six seasons . For her work throughout the series , she has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards -LRB- 2013 -- 16 -RRB- and won two Critics ' Choice Television Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Miniseries -LRB- 2013 and 2015 -RRB- . In 2016 , Paulson portrayed real life prosecutor Marcia Clark in the first season of the anthology series American Crime Story , subtitled The People v. O. J. Simpson . For her work in the series , she has been awarded the Critics ' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries , Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie , TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama , and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Miniseries or Television Film as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie . According to Time magazine , she is one of the 100 most influential people of the year 2017 .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Tom Felton was in a movie with Freida Pinto.
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Thomas Andrew `` Tom '' Felton -LRB- born 22 September 1987 -RRB- is an English actor . Felton began appearing in commercials when he was eight years old for companies such as Commercial Union and Barclaycard . He made his screen debut in the role of Peagreen Clock in The Borrowers -LRB- 1997 -RRB- and he portrayed Louis T. Leonowens in Anna and the King -LRB- 1999 -RRB- . He rose to prominence for his role as Draco Malfoy in the film adaptions of the best-selling Harry Potter fantasy novels by J.K. Rowling . His performances in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1 won him two consecutive MTV Movie Awards for Best Villain in 2010 and 2011 . Following the conclusion of the series in 2011 , Felton appeared in the 2011 film Rise of the Planet of the Apes , a reboot of the Planet of the Apes series . He had roles in the minor films From the Rough -LRB- 2011 -RRB- and The Apparition -LRB- 2012 -RRB- , starred as James Ashford in the critically acclaimed period drama film Belle -LRB- 2013 -RRB- , followed by roles in In Secret -LRB- 2014 -RRB- and Against the Sun -LRB- 2014 -RRB- . Felton 's 2016 films include the epic biblical drama Risen , alongside Joseph Fiennes , and the period biopic A United Kingdom , alongside David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike . He portrays Julian Albert / Doctor Alchemy on The Flash .
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Fast Companions is a 1932 American pre-Code sports drama film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Tom Brown , Maureen O'Sullivan and James Gleason .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Megan Fox began her acting career with several minor film roles.
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Megan Denise Fox -LRB- born May 16 , 1986 -RRB- is an American actress and model . She began her acting career in 2001 , with several minor television and film roles , and played a regular role on the Hope & Faith television sitcom . In 2004 , she made her film debut with a role in the teen comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen . In 2007 , she co-starred as Mikaela Banes , the love interest of Shia LaBeouf 's character , in the blockbuster action film Transformers , which became her breakout role . Fox reprised her role in the 2009 sequel , Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen . Later in 2009 , she starred as the eponymous lead in the black comedy horror film Jennifer 's Body . Fox is also considered one of the modern female sex symbols and has appeared in magazines such as Maxim , Rolling Stone and FHM .
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The Foxes of Harrow is a 1947 adventure film directed by John M. Stahl . The film stars Rex Harrison , Maureen O'Hara and Richard Haydn . The film was nominated an Academy Award for Best Art Direction -LRB- Lyle Wheeler , Maurice Ransford , Thomas Little , Paul S. Fox -RRB- .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Rumi was an influential writer.
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Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī , also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī , Mevlânâ / Mawlānā -LRB- مولانا , `` our master '' -RRB- , Mevlevî / Mawlawī -LRB- مولوی , `` my master '' -RRB- , and more popularly simply as Rumi -LRB- 30 September 1207 -- 17 December 1273 -RRB- , was a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet , jurist , Islamic scholar , theologian , and Sufi mystic . Rumi 's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions : Iranians , Tajiks , Turks , Greeks , Pashtuns , other Central Asian Muslims , and the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries . His poems have been widely translated into many of the world 's languages and transposed into various formats . Rumi has been described as the `` most popular poet '' and the `` best selling poet '' in the United States . Rumi 's works are written mostly in Persian , but occasionally he also used Turkish , Arabic , and Greek , in his verse . His Masnavi -LRB- Mathnawi -RRB- , composed in Konya , is considered one of the greatest poems of the Persian language . His works are widely read today in their original language across Greater Iran and the Persian-speaking world . Translations of his works are very popular , most notably in Turkey , Azerbaijan , the United States , and South Asia . His poetry has influenced Persian literature , but also Turkish , Ottoman Turkish , Azerbaijani , as well as the literature of some other Turkic , Iranian , and Indo-Aryan languages including Chagatai , Urdu , Pashto , and Bengali .
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The lament for Sumer and Urim or the lament for Sumer and Ur is a poem and one of five known Mesopotamian `` city laments '' -- dirges for ruined cities in the voice of the city 's tutelary goddess . The other city laments are : The Lament for Ur The Lament for Nippur The Lament for Eridu The Lament for Uruk In 2004 BCE , during the last year of King Ibbi-Sin 's reign , Ur fell to an army from the east . The Sumerians decided that such a catastrophic event could only be explained through divine intervention and wrote in the lament that the gods , `` An , Enlil , Enki and Ninmah decided -LSB- Ur 's -RSB- fate '' The literary works of the Sumerians were widely translated -LRB- e.g. by the Hittites , Hurrians and Canaanites -RRB- and the world-renowned expert in Sumerian history , Samuel Noah Kramer , wrote that later Greek as well as Hebrew texts `` were profoundly influenced by them . '' Contemporary scholars have drawn parallels between the lement and passages from the bible -LRB- e.g. `` the Lord departed from his temple and stood on the mountain east of Jerusalem -LRB- Ezekiel 10:18 -19 -RRB- . ''
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Friday the 13th's main character is the villain Jason Voorhees.
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Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that comprises twelve slasher films , a television show , novels , comic books , video games , and tie‑in merchandise , as of 2017 . The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character Jason Voorhees , who drowned as a boy at Camp Crystal Lake due to the negligence of the camp staff . Decades later , the lake is rumored to be `` cursed '' and is the setting for a series of mass murders . Jason is featured in all of the films , as either the killer or the motivation for the killings . The original film was written by Victor Miller and was produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham . The films have grossed over $ 464 million at the box-office worldwide . The first film was created to cash in on the success of Halloween -LRB- 1978 -RRB- , and its own success led Paramount Pictures to purchase the full licensing rights to Friday the 13th . Frank Mancuso , Jr. , a producer of the films , also developed the television show Friday the 13th : The Series after Paramount released Jason Lives . The television series was not connected to the franchise by any character or setting , but was created based on the idea of `` bad luck and curses '' , which the film series symbolized . While the franchise was owned by Paramount , four films were adapted into novels , with Friday the 13th Part III adapted by two separate authors . When the franchise was sold to New Line Cinema , Cunningham returned as a producer to oversee two additional films , in addition to a crossover film with character Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street film series . Under New Line Cinema , thirteen novellas and various comic book series featuring Jason were published . Although the films were not popular with critics , Friday the 13th is considered one of the most successful media franchises in America -- not only for the success of the films , but also because of the extensive merchandising and repeated references to the series in popular culture . The franchise 's popularity has generated a fanbase who have created their own Friday the 13th films , fashioned replica Jason Voorhees costumes , and tattooed their bodies with Friday the 13th artwork . Jason 's hockey mask has become one of the most recognizable images in horror and popular culture .
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Timothy Joseph McGhee -LRB- born April 27 , 1973 -RRB- is a convicted killer and Toonerville Rifa 13 gang member of Scottish and Mexican descent from the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles , California . He is alleged to have been responsible for at least 12 homicides between 1997 and 2001 , three of which led to convictions . McGhee is also suspected of at least 10 attempted murders , four of which led to convictions . After assaulting a law enforcement officer , McGhee was either incarcerated or on parole from 1994 to 2000 . During his stints as a parolee , he allegedly shot seven individuals , killing three , and attempted to murder two LAPD officers . He was eventually arrested in 2003 on homicide charges and sentenced to death in 2009 . In a separate trial in 2007 , McGhee was sentenced to 75 years to life for leading a 2005 prison riot . He is awaiting his execution at San Quentin State Prison in California .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Boardwalk Empire is an American period algorithm.
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Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter and airing on premium cable channel HBO . The series is set in Atlantic City , New Jersey during the Prohibition era and stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson . Winter , a Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer , created the show , inspired by the book Boardwalk Empire : The Birth , High Times , and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson about historical criminal kingpin Enoch L. Johnson . The pilot episode was directed by Martin Scorsese and produced at a cost of $ 18 million . On September 1 , 2009 , HBO picked up the series for an additional 11 episodes . The series premiered on September 19 , 2010 , and completed its five-season run on October 26 , 2014 . Boardwalk Empire received widespread critical acclaim , particularly for its visual style and basis on historical figures , as well as for Buscemi 's lead performance . The series received 57 Primetime Emmy Award nominations , including two for Outstanding Drama Series , winning 20 . The series also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series -- Drama in 2011 and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2011 and 2012 .
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The Internet Theatre Database -LRB- ITDb -RRB- is an online database with information about plays , playwrights , actors , legitimate theatre , musical theatre , Broadway shows , and similar theatrical information . The website is run by several volunteer theatre aficionados , each contributing material as time permits . Somewhat similar to the Internet Broadway Database , the site 's creators endeavor to include theatre outside of New York City by indexing London and Off-Broadway productions , national tours , and regional theatre . Modelled on the considerably larger Internet Movie Database , the site indexes by six categories : -LRB- 1 -RRB- show/play name ; -LRB- 2 -RRB- people -LRB- actor , writer , or director -RRB- ; -LRB- 3 -RRB- theatre facility ; -LRB- 4 -RRB- song title ; -LRB- 5 -RRB- character/role ; and -LRB- 6 -RRB- production role . Each day , the site also shows what well-known productions opened or closed on that date at important theatres in the past several decades .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Richard III of England was a king in the 15th century.
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Richard III -LRB- 2 October 1452 -- 22 August 1485 -RRB- was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485 , at the age of 32 , in the Battle of Bosworth Field . He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty . His defeat at Bosworth Field , the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses , marked the end of the Middle Ages in England . He is the subject of the historical play Richard III by William Shakespeare . When his brother King Edward IV died in April 1483 , Richard was named Lord Protector of the realm for Edward 's son and successor , the 12-year-old Edward V . As the young king travelled to London from Ludlow , Richard met and escorted him to lodgings in the Tower of London , where Edward V 's own brother Richard of Shrewsbury joined him shortly afterwards . Arrangements were made for Edward 's coronation on 22 June 1483 ; but , before the young king could be crowned , his father 's marriage to his mother Elizabeth Woodville was declared invalid , making their children illegitimate and ineligible for the throne . On 25 June , an assembly of Lords and commoners endorsed the claims . The following day , Richard III began his reign , and he was crowned on 6 July 1483 . The young princes were not seen in public after August , and accusations circulated that the boys had been murdered on Richard 's orders , giving rise to the legend of the Princes in the Tower . There were two major rebellions against Richard . The first , in October 1483 , was led by staunch allies of Edward IV and Richard 's former ally , Henry Stafford , 2nd Duke of Buckingham ; but the revolt collapsed . In August 1485 , Henry Tudor and his uncle , Jasper Tudor , led a second rebellion . Henry Tudor landed in southern Wales with a small contingent of French troops and marched through his birthplace , Pembrokeshire , recruiting soldiers . Henry 's force engaged Richard 's army and defeated it at the Battle of Bosworth Field in Leicestershire . Richard was struck down in the conflict , making him the last English king to die in battle on home soil and the first since Harold Godwinson -LRB- who was killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 -RRB- . Henry then ascended the throne as Henry VII . After the battle Richard 's corpse was taken to Leicester and buried without pomp . His original tomb monument is believed to have been removed during the Reformation , and his remains were lost for more than five centuries , believed to have been thrown into the River Soar . In 2012 , an archaeological excavation was commissioned by the Richard III Society on a city council car park on the site once occupied by Greyfriars Priory Church . The University of Leicester identified the skeleton found in the excavation as that of Richard III as a result of radiocarbon dating , comparison with contemporary reports of his appearance , and comparison of his mitochondrial DNA with that of two matrilineal descendants of Richard III 's eldest sister , Anne of York . Richard 's remains were reburied in Leicester Cathedral on 26 March 2015 .
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Richard Óg de Burgh , 2nd Earl of Ulster and 3rd Baron of Connaught -LRB- 1259 -- 29 July 1326 -RRB- , called The Red Earl -LRB- Latinized to de Burgo -RRB- , was one of the most powerful Irish nobles of the late 13th and early 14th centuries .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Buckingham Palace's inside layout was on the counsel of Sir Charles Long.
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Buckingham Palace -LRB- -LSB- ˈbʌkɪŋəm_ˈpælɪs -RSB- -RRB- is the London residence and administrative headquarters of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom . Located in the City of Westminster , the palace is often at the centre of state occasions and royal hospitality . It has been a focal point for the British people at times of national rejoicing and mourning . Originally known as Buckingham House , the building at the core of today 's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703 on a site that had been in private ownership for at least 150 years . It was acquired by King George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte and became known as The Queen 's House . During the 19th century it was enlarged , principally by architects John Nash and Edward Blore , who constructed three wings around a central courtyard . Buckingham Palace became the London residence of the British monarch on the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 . The last major structural additions were made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , including the East front , which contains the well-known balcony on which the royal family traditionally congregates to greet crowds . The palace chapel was destroyed by a German bomb during World War II ; the Queen 's Gallery was built on the site and opened to the public in 1962 to exhibit works of art from the Royal Collection . The original early 19th-century interior designs , many of which survive , include widespread use of brightly coloured scagliola and blue and pink lapis , on the advice of Sir Charles Long . King Edward VII oversaw a partial redecoration in a Belle Époque cream and gold colour scheme . Many smaller reception rooms are furnished in the Chinese regency style with furniture and fittings brought from the Royal Pavilion at Brighton and from Carlton House . The palace has 775 rooms , and the garden is the largest private garden in London . The state rooms , used for official and state entertaining , are open to the public each year for most of August and September and on some days in winter and spring .
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New York Crystal Palace was an exhibition building constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City in 1853 , which was under the presidency of the mayor Jacob Aaron Westervelt . The building stood in Reservoir Square . New York City 's 1853 Exhibition was held on a site behind the Croton Distributing Reservoir , between Fifth and Sixth Avenues on 42nd Street , in what is today Bryant Park in the borough of Manhattan . The New York Crystal Palace was designed by Georg Carstensen and German architect Charles Gildemeister , and was directly inspired by The Crystal Palace built in London 's Hyde Park to house The Great Exhibition of 1851 . The New York Crystal Palace had the shape of a Greek cross , and was crowned by a dome 100 feet in diameter . Like the Crystal Palace of London , it was constructed from iron and glass . Construction was handled by engineer Christian Edward Detmold . Horatio Allen was the consulting engineer , and Edward Hurry the consulting architect . President Franklin Pierce spoke at the dedication on July 14 , 1853 . Theodore Sedgwick was the first president of the Crystal Palace Association . After a year , he was succeeded by Phineas T. Barnum who put together a reinauguration in May 1854 when Henry Ward Beecher and Elihu Burritt were the featured orators . This revived interest in the Palace , but by the end of 1856 it was a dead property . The adjoining Latting Observatory , a wooden tower 315 ft high , allowed visitors to see into Queens , Staten Island and New Jersey . The tower , taller than the spire of Trinity Church at 290 ft , was the tallest structure in New York City from the time it was constructed in 1853 until it burned down in 1856 . The New York Crystal Palace itself was destroyed by fire on October 5 , 1858 . When it burned , the fair of the American Institute was being held there . The fire began in a lumber room on the side adjacent to 42nd Street . Within fifteen minutes its dome fell and in twenty-five minutes the entire structure had burned to the ground . No lives were lost but the loss of property amounted to more than $ 350,000 . This included the building , valued at $ 125,000 , and exhibits and valuable statuary remaining from the World 's Fair.New York Times , Other Burned Theatres , December 7 , 1876 , Page 10 . Elisha Otis demonstrated the safety elevator , which prevented the fall of the cab if the cable broke , at the Crystal Palace in 1854 in a death-defying , dramatic presentation.The Elevator Museum , timeline ; `` Skyscrapers '' Magical Hystory Tour : The Origins of the Commonplace & Curious in America -LRB- September 1 , 2010 -RRB- . That year another building directly inspired by London 's Crystal Palace , the Glaspalast in Munich , was inaugurated .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Jeff Bezos was born in January of 1964.
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Jeff Bezos -LRB- -LSB- ˈbeɪzoʊs -RSB- born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen ; January 12 , 1964 -RRB- is an American technology and retail entrepreneur , investor , and philanthropist who is best known as the founder , chairman , and chief executive officer of Amazon.com , which is the world 's largest online shopping retailer . The company began as an Internet merchant of books and expanded to a wide variety of products and services , most recently video streaming and audio streaming . Amazon.com is currently the world 's largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web , as well as being the world 's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services , through its Amazon Web Services arm . Bezos 's other diversified business interests include aerospace and newspapers . He is the founder and manufacturer of Blue Origin -LRB- founded in 2000 -RRB- with test flights to space which started in 2015 , and plans for commercial suborbital human spaceflight beginning in 2018 . In 2013 , Bezos purchased The Washington Post newspaper . A number of other business investments are managed through Bezos Expeditions . With an estimated net worth of US$ 82 billion as of May 2017 , Bezos is currently the third-richest person in the world , just behind Bill Gates and Amancio Ortega in first and second places , and just ahead of Warren Buffett in fourth place . His rise to this position occurred after Amazon registered a 67 % jump in share price .
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Jeffrey `` Jeff '' Bernat -LRB- born December 11 , 1989 -RRB- is a Filipino-American singer , songwriter and record producer . He has grown a big popularity in South Korea , and has many notable successes as an independent artist such as being in the top 5 R&B albums on iTunes multiple times and having a song placement in the Oscar-winning film Birdman .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.There is a Scottish record producer name Calvin Harris.
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Adam Richard Wiles -LRB- born 17 January 1984 -RRB- , known professionally as Calvin Harris , is a Scottish record producer , DJ , singer and songwriter . His debut studio album I Created Disco was released in June 2007 , and was the precursor to his UK top 10 singles `` Acceptable in the 80s '' and `` The Girls '' . In 2009 , Harris released his second studio album Ready for the Weekend , which debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and was later certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry within two months of its release . Its lead single `` I 'm Not Alone '' became his first number-one single on the UK Singles Chart . Harris rose to international prominence with the release of his third studio album 18 Months in October 2012 . Topping the UK charts , the album became his first to chart on the US Billboard 200 chart -LRB- where it reached number 19 -RRB- . All eight of the album 's singles , which were `` Bounce '' , `` Feel So Close '' , `` Let 's Go '' , `` We 'll Be Coming Back '' , `` Sweet Nothing '' , `` Drinking from the Bottle '' , `` I Need Your Love '' and `` Thinking About You '' reached the top 10 in the UK . Harris released his fourth studio album Motion in November 2014 . It debuted at number two in the UK and at number five in the US , and became Harris 's second consecutive number one album on the US Dance/Electronic Albums chart . The album 's first three singles `` Under Control '' , `` Summer '' and `` Blame '' all topped the UK chart . Harris has collaborated with numerous other recording artists . His collaboration with Rihanna `` We Found Love '' became an international success , giving Harris his first US number one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart . The two later collaborated on the singles `` Where Have You Been '' -LRB- 2012 -RRB- and `` This Is What You Came For '' -LRB- 2016 -RRB- . Harris currently holds the record for the most top 10 songs from one studio album on the UK Singles Chart with nine top 10 entries , surpassing Michael Jackson . In October 2014 , he became the first artist to place three songs simultaneously on the top 10 of Billboard 's Dance/Electronic Songs chart . He also became the first British solo artist to reach more than one billion streams on Spotify . Harris has received ten Brit Award nominations -- three for Best British Male , and four Grammy nominations , winning a Grammy for Best Music Video in 2013 . He received the British Academy 's Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year in 2013 and at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards was named Top Dance/Electronic Artist . Additionally , Harris topped Forbes ' list of the world 's highest-paid DJs for three consecutive years from 2013 to 2015 . One of the most successful musicians in contemporary British popular culture , Harris appeared on Debrett 's 2017 list of the most influential people in the United Kingdom . Harris runs his own record label , Fly Eye Records .
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Damian Harris , also known by his stage name Midfield General , is the original founder of the Skint Records label , which became the forerunner of the big success of Norman Cook 's Fatboy Slim . Midfield General is the recording alias of Skint label boss Damian Harris . A prime architect of the sound of big beat , Harris grew up listening first to punk rock , then hip hop , and finally acid house . He then moved to Brighton to study art , eventually taking work as a DJ while promoting clubs around the city . In 1994 , his music knowledge landed him a job at Loaded Records , where former Housemartins member Norman Cook - a friend of Harris ' since his days working at the Rounder store in Brighton - recorded as Pizzaman . He is a fan of Arsenal F.C and has a season ticket at the Emirates Stadium . He has also appeared on episodes of the It 's Up For Grabs Now and The Tuesday Club - Arsenal Podcasts with Alan Davies and Ian Stone . He also released a song called ` Midfielding ' which featured a monologue from surrealist and comedian Noel Fielding .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Mission: Impossible 6 is a movie.
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Mission : Impossible 6 is an upcoming American action spy film written , co-produced and directed by Christopher McQuarrie , and produced by J. J. Abrams , Bryan Burk , Tom Cruise , David Ellison , Dana Goldberg , and Don Granger . It is the sixth installment in the Mission : Impossible film series . The film stars Cruise , Rebecca Ferguson , Ving Rhames , Simon Pegg , Alec Baldwin and Sean Harris all reprising their roles from previous films , with Henry Cavill , Vanessa Kirby and Sian Brooke joining the franchise . The film will be released on July 27 , 2018 by Paramount Pictures .
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is a 1965 Japanese-American science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda . It is the sixth film in the Godzilla franchise . The film involves the discovery of Planet X , which leads to an American-Japanese mission into space where the explorers who run into aliens who state that they are under attack from a powerful creature named Monster Zero . The aliens propose a deal with astronauts to borrow Godzilla and Rodan to get rid of their monster , and in return , they will cure all diseases on Earth . This plan is a cover for the aliens to invade earth after it is free of Godzilla and Rodan . Invasion of Astro-Monster was the fourth film in the Godzilla series to receive production suggestions from American producer Henry G. Saperstein which led to new introductions to the film and the inclusion of an American actor Nick Adams . The film was released five years after its Japanese premiere in the United States with minimal cuts where it was released on a double bill with The War of the Gargantuas .
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Given a claim, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim.Investment funds are also referred to as collective investment vehicles or simply funds.
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An investment fund is a way of investing money alongside other investors in order to benefit from the inherent advantages of working as part of a group . These advantages include an ability to : hire professional investment managers , which may potentially be able to offer better returns and more adequate risk management ; benefit from economies of scale , i.e. , lower transaction costs ; increase the asset diversification to reduce some unsystematic risk . Terminology varies with country but investment funds are often referred to as investment pools , collective investment vehicles , collective investment schemes , managed funds , or simply funds . The regulatory term is undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities , or short collective investment undertaking -LRB- cf. Law -RRB- . An investment fund may be held by the public , such as a mutual fund , exchange-traded fund , special-purpose acquisition company or closed-end fund , or it may be sold only in a private placement , such as a hedge fund or private equity fund . The term also includes specialized vehicles such as collective and common trust funds , which are unique bank-managed funds structured primarily to commingle assets from qualifying pension plans or trusts . Investment funds are promoted with a wide range of investment aims either targeting specific geographic regions -LRB- e.g. , emerging markets or Europe -RRB- or specified industry sectors -LRB- e.g. , technology -RRB- . Depending on the country there is normally a bias towards the domestic market due to familiarity , and the lack of currency risk . Funds are often selected on the basis of these specified investment aims , their past investment performance , and other factors such as fees .
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Eight Roads Ventures is a venture capital fund , with offices in China , India , Japan and the UK . Eight Roads is the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International Limited -LRB- FIL -RRB- . The Ventures arm of FIL was formerly known as Fidelity Growth Partners .
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