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Breakthru (other)
Breakthru may refer to: Games * Breakthru (board game), a board game in the 1960s 3M Bookshelf Game Series * ''BreakThru!'', a 1994 video game Albums * ''Breakthru'' (Ran Blake album), a 1976 album by the jazz pianist Ran Blake * ''Breakthru'' (Nidji album), a 2006 album by the Indonesian pop rock band Nidji * ''Breakthru'' (Costa album), a 2005 album by the singer-songwriter Antoniette Costa * ''The Breakthru'' (album), a 2007 album by Afromental Songs * "Breakthru" (song), a 1989 song by Queen * "Breakthru'" (song), a 1965 song by The Shadows off the album ''The Sound of The Shadows'' * "Breakthru" (song), a 1976 song by Ran Blake, the title song off the eponymous album ''Breakthru'' (Ran Blake album) * "Breakthru" (song), a 2007 House Music song by Eskalation with Sacha Williamson * "Break Thru", a song by Natasha Bedingfield from her 2010 album ''Strip Me'' * "Break-Thru", a song by Dirty Projectors off their 2018 album '' Lamp Lit Prose'' Groups, organizations * BreakT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakthru (board Game)
Breakthru is an abstract strategy board game for two players, designed by Alex Randolph and commercially released by 3M Company in 1965, as part of the 3M bookshelf game series. It later became part of the Avalon Hill bookcase games. It is no longer in production. The game has been compared to Fox and Hounds, although it shows more characteristics of the Tafl games of the Middle Ages, such as Hnefatafl. As in Hnefatafl, the game features unevenly matched teams with different objectives. The 3M game set includes a board marked with an cell square grid, twenty silver-colored pieces, a gold-colored "flagship" and twelve gold-colored "escorts". The game is played out as a naval battle, with strategy analogous to the siege game of Hnefatafl. Rules The rules of play are as follows: Objective One player has a "gold" fleet consisting of one large flagship and twelve escorts, with the objective of evading capture while breaking through his or her opponent's blockade, to move the fla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamp Lit Prose
''Lamp Lit Prose'' is the eighth studio album by American experimental rock group Dirty Projectors, and was released on Domino Recording Company, Domino Records on July 13, 2018. Production The album was produced by David Longstreth at his Los Angeles studio. Release The band supported the album with a tour, which began in May 2018 with significant personnel changes. They released the first single off the album, "Break-Thru", on May 2 along with a music video. In ''Spin (magazine), Spin'', Andy Cush described the single as sounding "more immediately Dirty Projectors-ish than anything on the self-titled album" released in 2017. On June 14, they released a second single, "That's a Lifestyle", with an animated music video by Kitty Faingold. In ''Stereogum'', Chris DeVille also contrasted this single with the tenor of ''Dirty Projectors (album), Dirty Projectors'', saying "That's A Lifestyle" echoed earlier albums "''Bitte Orca'' and ''Swing Lo Magellan'', the pop-minded prog ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Break (other)
Break or Breaks or The Break may refer to: Time off from duties * Recess (break), time in which a group of people is temporarily dismissed from its duties * Break (work), time off during a shift/recess ** Coffee break, a short mid-morning rest period in business * Annual leave (holiday/vacation), paid time off work Time off from school * Holiday break, a U.S. term for various school holidays * Christmas break or ''Winter break'', a break in the winter, typically around Christmas and New Years * Spring break, a recess in early spring at universities and schools in various countries in the northern hemisphere * Summer break, a typical long break in the summertime People * Ted Breaks (1919–2000), English professional footballer * Danny Breaks (active 1990s–), British drum and bass DJ, record producer and record label owner Sport * , the first shot meant to break the balls in cue sports, also a series of shots in snooker * Breaking ball, a pitch that does not travel strai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakthrough (other)
Breakthrough or break through may refer to: Arts Books * ''Break Through'' (book), a 2007 book about environmentalism by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger * ''Break Through'' (play), a 2011 episodic play portraying scenes from LGBT life * '' The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer'', a 2018 book by Charles Graeber * '' The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama'', a 2009 book by journalist Gwen Ifill * "The Breakthrough" (story), a 1971 short story by Daphne du Maurier Film and television * Break-through (1944 film), a Canadian documentary film * ''Breakthrough'' (1950 film), an American war film featuring John Agar * ''Breakthrough'' (1986 film), a Soviet disaster film * ''Breakthrough'' (1979 film), a West German war film, sequel to ''Cross of Iron'' * ''Break Through!'', a 2005 Japanese film directed by Kazuyuki Izutsu * Break-through (2006 film), a Russian drama film * ''Breakthrough'' (2019 film), an American Christian film * ''Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraverse
The Ultraverse is a defunct comic book imprint published by the American company Malibu Comics which is currently owned by Marvel Comics. The Ultraverse is a shared universe in which a variety of characters – known within the comics as Ultras – acquired super-human abilities. History The Ultraverse line was launched by Malibu Comics during the "comics boom" of the early 1990s, when a number of new and existing publishers introduced new universes featuring superheroes, debuting in June 1993 with ongoing series ''Prime'', '' Hardcase'' and ''The Strangers''. The project included writers Mike W. Barr, Steve Englehart, Steve Gerber, James D. Hudnall, Gerard Jones, James Robinson, Len Strazewski, and Larry Niven. It emphasized tight continuity between the various series, making extensive use of crossovers, in which a story that began in one series would be continued in the next-shipping issue of another series. Various promotions for special editions or limited-print stories als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Farrell (musician)
Francis Anthony Farrell (31 March 1947 – 19 July 1997) was a British rock bassist, vocalist, and songwriter born in Birmingham, England. He attended St. Philip's Grammar School in Hagley Road, Edgbaston from 1959 to 1963. Over a professional career that spanned thirty years he is best known as the bassist of British rock band Supertramp and for his musical association with Leo Sayer. Farrell co-wrote the song "Rosie Had Everything Planned" with Roger Hodgson while with Supertramp and a number of songs with Sayer including the worldwide chart hit "Moonlighting". Early days His first public appearances were with the Birmingham-based 1960s beat band "The Silverlinks" that he joined with his best friend and school mate Robert Shorter, who played drums, in 1964. He then went on to play bass and provide backing vocals in the Ray King Soul Band that toured widely in the West Midlands. In 1968 he was recruited by Birmingham psychedelic rock band "Breakthru" at the same time as drumm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakthru Beverage Group
Wirtz Corporation is an American holding company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1926 by Arthur Wirtz as a family-owned corporation to oversee his real estate holdings. The company shortly thereafter expanded into liquor distribution. The company grew significantly throughout the 20th century by purchasing many competing liquor distributors, as well as the Chicago Blackhawks NHL team (becoming full owners in 1966), and the Chicago Bulls NBA team in 1972 (Wirtz Corp. sold the Bulls to Jerry Reinsdorf in 1985). Wirtz Corporation is part owner of the United Center arena, and also owns banking and insurance interests. After founder Arthur Wirtz's death in 1983, his son, William, took control of the corporation and ran it until his death in 2007. The company's current owner and CEO is Rocky Wirtz. Subsidiaries The following is a partial list of subsidiaries of Wirtz Corporation * Banner Collective * Benefit Services Group, Inc. * Chicago Blackhawks * First Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BreakThru Films
BreakThru Films is an independent film production company based in Sopot in Poland. Founded in 2002 by Hugh Welchman and initially based in the United Kingdom. The company concentrated mostly in the production of short films, animation, documentary and live-stage shows but has since focused mainly on feature films. Their 2006 short film ''Peter and the Wolf'' was awarded an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and their 2017 feature film ''Loving Vincent'' was Academy nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. History BreakThru Films was founded in 2002 by Hugh Welchman, initially producing a number of short films before diversifying into feature, animation and theatre-based projects. In 2007, they produced Alex, a stage show based on the Daily Telegraph comic strip of the same name, that combined live performances and animation. It premiered in London West End in Autumn 2007 and has since been touring in Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai. In 2008, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strip Me
''Strip Me'' is the third studio album by the English singer and songwriter Natasha Bedingfield. It was released on 7 December 2010 by Phonogenic Records. "Touch" was released as the first single from the album on 18 May 2010 and " Strip Me" was released as the second single on 31 August 2010. Neither of the singles was successful on the US ''Billboard'' charts. The album's title song peaked at number twenty-three on the adult contemporary chart. The album debuted at number 103 on US ''Billboard'' 200 with 10,000 copies sold, a significant drop from her previous album, '' N.B.'', which debuted at number three selling 50,000 units. In Europe, ''Strip Me'' was released in May 2011 under the title ''Strip Me Away'', with more colorful artwork and an expanded list of tracks. It charted only in Germany and Switzerland. Background and production Bedingfield finished recording the album in July 2010. The project's title was unveiled on Bedingfield's official ''Twitter'' page on 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BreakThru!
is a tile-matching puzzle video game released for the Windows and MS-DOS in 1994. It was created by Steve Fry for the Japanese company Zoo Corporation and published by Spectrum HoloByte, for the North American market. The game would later be re-released on a number of different platforms. In the same year the game was ported for the Super NES and the original Game Boy. These two versions were developed by different companies and published by Spectrum HoloByte in North America. A year later, Shoeisha ported/published the game in Japan for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation. Gameplay In the game, the player must move the cursor amongst a grid of different colored squares. All squares must be "removed", and squares can only be removed if they are directly touching two or more squares of the same color. Once squares are removed, blocks then shift downward and either to the left or right, to fill in the blanks. The game ends when either all blocks are removed, or time has run out. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Music
House is a music genre characterized by a repetitive Four on the floor (music), four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 120 beats per minute. It was created by Disc jockey, DJs and music producers from Chicago metropolitan area, Chicago's underground Clubbing (subculture), club culture in the late 1970s, as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat. House was pioneered by African Americans, African American DJs and producers in Chicago such as Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy, Jesse Saunders, Chip E., Steve "Silk" Hurley, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Marshall Jefferson, Phuture, and others. House music expanded to other American cities such as New York City and became a worldwide phenomenon. House has had a large effect on pop music, especially dance music. It was incorporated by major international pop artists including Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson ("Together Again (Janet Jackson song), Together Again"), Kylie Minogue, Pet Shop Boys and Madonna ("Vogu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sound Of The Shadows
''The Sound of The Shadows'' is the fourth rock album by British instrumental (and sometimes vocal) group The Shadows, released in July 1965 through EMI Records. The album was re-released by Capitol Records of Canada in stereo (as opposed to the original mono) on 4 October 1965. The photograph for the alternative cover was taken outside EMI House in London in 1964, by staff photographer Tony Leigh. It was originally used as the inside cover of the Cliff Richard album ''Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp''. Track listing Personnel *Hank Marvin - Lead guitar and vocals *Bruce Welch - Rhythm guitar and vocals *John Rostill - Bass guitar and vocals *Brian Bennett - Drums and percussion *Norrie Paramor Norman William Paramor (15 May 1914 – 9 September 1979), known professionally as Norrie Paramor, was a British record producer, composer, arranger, pianist, bandleader, and orchestral conductor. He is best known for his work with Cliff Ri ... - Producer and orchestral acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
