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Bainbridge High School (Washington)
Bainbridge High School (BHS) is the sole comprehensive high school within the Bainbridge Island School District, serving students in grades 9– 12 on Bainbridge Island, Washington. The principal is Kristina Rodgers Courses Many elective courses offer opportunities outside of the normal high school course range. The school offers Advanced Placement. Athletics Bainbridge High School athletes, known as the Spartans, participate in the following sports throughout the school year: *Basketball *Baseball *Cheerleading *Cross country *Diving *Football *Golf *Marching band *Soccer *Softball *Swimming *Tennis *Track and field *Volleyball *Wrestling In addition, the following club sports are available to BHS students: *Crew *Cycling *Lacrosse *Sailing *Ultimate Frisbee *Water polo Championships *The 2006-2007 Bainbridge High School boys varsity basketball team was ranked first in the state 3A division, won the metro league regular season title, was the KingCo district tournament cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bainbridge Island, Washington
Bainbridge Island is a city and island in Kitsap County, Washington. It is located in Puget Sound. The population was 23,025 at the 2010 census and an estimated 25,298 in 2019, making Bainbridge Island the second largest city in Kitsap County. The island is separated from the Kitsap Peninsula by Port Orchard, with Bremerton lying to the southwest. Bainbridge Island is a suburb of Seattle, connected via the Washington State Ferries system and to Poulsbo and the Suquamish Indian Reservation by State Route 305, which uses the Agate Pass Bridge. History For thousands of years, members of the Suquamish people and their ancestors lived on the land now called Bainbridge Island. There were nine villages on the island; these included winter villages at Port Madison, Battle Point, Point White, Lynwood Center, Port Blakely, and Eagle Harbor, as well as summer villages at Manzanita, Fletcher Bay, and Rolling Bay. In 1792, English explorer Captain George Vancouver spent several days w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Lisa Smile
''Mona Lisa Smile'' is a 2003 American drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The title is a reference to the ''Mona Lisa'', the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and to the song of the same name, originally performed by Nat King Cole, which was covered by Seal for the movie. Julia Roberts received a record $25 million for her performance, the highest ever earned by an actress at that time. Plot In 1953, Katherine Ann Watson, a 30-year-old graduate student in the Department of Art History at UCLA and Oakland State, takes a position teaching the history of art at Wellesley College. At her first class, Katherine discovers her students have memorized the entire textbook and syllabus, so she introduces them to modern art and encourages discussion about what ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fumiko Hayashida
Fumiko Hayashida née Nishinaka (January 21, 1911 – November 2, 2014) was an American activist, originally from Bainbridge Island, Washington, who became one of the first Japanese Americans to be interned in March 1942. Hayashida was the subject of a ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' photograph which shows her, 31-years-old, holding her sleeping 10-month-old daughter, Natalie, while waiting to board a ferry from Bainbridge Island to the mainland with other Japanese American internees. The photo became an iconic image of the plight of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II following the signing of Executive Order 9066. However, the identity of the woman in the photograph remained unknown for decades. She was known only as "Mystery Girl" or "Mystery Lady" until the 1990s, when researchers at the Smithsonian Institution uncovered her identity and tracked her down. Hayashida was born on Bainbridge Island in 1911 to Tomakichi Nishinaka, a berry far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John D
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Gray (basketball, Born 1989)
Steven Gray (born April 8, 1989) is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Peristeri of the Greek Basket League. He played college basketball for Gonzaga University. Gray spent his entire professional career overseas, playing in countries such as Greece, France, Israel, Lebanon, Latvia, Croatia and Bosnia. College career After 125 games played for Gonzaga, Gray posted career averages of 11.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.2 steals per outing. As a senior, he was voted to the NABC All-District 9 First Team and received All-West Coast Conference First Team honors in 2009–10 and 2010–11. He won the WCC Tournament with the Zags in 2009 and 2011. Professional career On July 12, 2011, Gray signed his first professional contract with BK Ventspils of Latvia for the 2011–12 season. After spending the 2012 summer league and pre-season with the Washington Wizards, Gray signed with Chorale Roanne of France for the rest of the 2012–13 sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional sports, professional competition in Israeli sports club, club basketball, making it Israel's primary basketball competition. The league's name is abbreviated as either BSL (Basketball Super League) or ISBL (Israeli Basketball Super League). For sponsorship reasons, the league is also referred to as Ligat Winner Sal ( he, ליגת ווינר סל), lit. ''Winner Basket League'', with "Winner" being the name of a game operated by the league's primary sponsor, Toto Winner. The league is run by the Israeli Basketball Super League Administration Ltd. Overview Ligat HaAl comprises the top 12 basketball clubs in Israel, and was founded in 1954. The league itself is most known in Europe, due to the success of the Israeli teams in European-wide competitions, such as the EuroLeague, EuroCup Basketball, EuroCup (formerly calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American-Israeli
, native_name_lang = , image = , caption = , population = 110,000–150,000 , popplace = New York metropolitan area, Los Angeles metropolitan area, Miami metropolitan area, and other large metropolitan areas , langs = English, Hebrew, Yiddish, French, Russian, Arabic, German , rels = Majority:JudaismMinority:Islam, Christianity, Druzism, and others , related = Jewish Americans, Arab Americans Israeli Americans ( he, אָמֵרִיקָאִים יִשׂרָאֵליִם, translit=Ameriqaim Yiśraʾelim, or ) are Americans who are of full or partial Israeli descent. In this category are those who are Israelis through nationality and/or citizenship. Reflecting Israel's demographics, while the vast majority of the Israeli American populace is Jewish, it is also made up of various ethnic and religious minorities; most notably the ethnic Arab minority, which includes Muslims, Christians, and the Druze, as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Eisenhardt
Ben Eisenhardt (בן אייזנהארט; December 3, 1990) is an American-Israeli professional basketball player who plays for Hapoel Be'er Sheva of the Israeli Basketball Premier League, at the power forward/center positions. Personal life Eisenhardt was born in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and is Jewish. He is 6' 10" tall (208 cm), and weighs 216 pounds (98 kg). He made ''aliyah'', becoming an Israeli citizen. Basketball career Eisenhardt attended Bainbridge High School. He averaged 12 points per game and seven rebounds per game as a senior. As a freshman in 2010–11, Eisenhardt played basketball for California Polytechnic State University. He attended Whitman College, playing for the Missionaries, and graduated in 2014. As a junior in 2012–13 Eisenhardt led the Northwest Conference (NWC) in scoring (442 points), was 4th in conference scoring average (16.4 ppg.) and field goal percentage (54.9%), and was 7th in rebounding (6.2 per game). He became the first Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloud 9 (2014 Film)
''Cloud 9'' is a 2014 American romantic sports drama television film directed by Paul Hoen and written by Justin Ware. It stars Dove Cameron, Luke Benward, Kiersey Clemons and Mike C. Manning. The film is set in the world of competitive snowboarding. The first promo aired on November 29, 2013 during the premiere of "Good Luck Jessie: NYC Christmas". The film premiered on January 17, 2014 as a Disney Channel Original Movie. It was viewed by 4.96 million viewers during its original premiere. Plot Kayla Morgan begins training to win the "Fire and Ice" snowboarding competition alongside her boyfriend Nick Swift, the son of team coach Sebastian Swift. The previous year, a video went viral of famous snowboarder Will Cloud failing to perform a move he created called “Cloud 9,” causing Will to end his snowboarding career and find work at his family's dog kennel. While riding Will’s sled, Kayla crashes into a mountain lodge sign, demolishing it and the sled in the process. Her p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mentalist
''The Mentalist'' is an American drama television series that ran from September 23, 2008, until February 18, 2015, broadcasting 151 episodes over seven seasons, on CBS. Created by Bruno Heller, who was also its executive producer, the show follows former "psychic" Patrick Jane (Simon Baker), who is a consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and his boss, senior agent Teresa Lisbon (Robin Tunney), using the highly developed observational skills he previously employed to "read" people's minds. Synopsis The series follows Patrick Jane, an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) based in Sacramento, California. Although not an officer of the law, he uses his skills from his former career as a successful, yet admittedly fraudulent, psychic medium to help a team of CBI agents solve murders. The real reason for Jane's involvement with law enforcement is to track down the serial killer, known as Red John, who was responsible for the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liv And Maddie
''Liv and Maddie'', also known as ''Liv and Maddie: Cali Style'' for the fourth season, is an American comedy television series created by John D. Beck and Ron Hart that aired on Disney Channel from July 19, 2013 to March 24, 2017. The series stars Dove Cameron, Joey Bragg, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Kali Rocha, Benjamin King, and Lauren Lindsey Donzis. A significant feature of the series is that Dove Cameron plays dual roles, one being Liv, an actress who has returned to her home after starring on a popular television series in Hollywood for four years, and the other one being Maddie, Liv's identical twin who remained behind. Another significant feature of the series are documentary-style cutaways where characters speak to the viewers to explain their opinions on various situations in each episode. Plot Actress Liv Rooney is a girly girl who has just returned to her birthplace of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, after finishing a four-year stint in Hollywood, filming a popular tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dove Cameron
Dove Olivia Cameron (born Chloe Celeste Hosterman; January 15, 1996) is an American singer and actress. She became famous for her double role of the eponymous characters in the Disney Channel comedy series ''Liv and Maddie'', for which she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming. Cameron continued her work with the Disney Channel and portrayed Mal in the '' Descendants franchise'' (2015-2021). In 2016, Cameron starred in the NBC live television musical ''Hairspray Live!''. On stage, from 2018 to 2019, she played the role of Cher Horowitz in an off-Broadway rendition of the 1995 film '' Clueless'', and in 2019, she debuted on the London stage with her portrayal of Clara Johnson in the musical '' The Light in the Piazza''. Cameron further starred in the comedy thriller '' Vengeance'' (2022). As a singer, Cameron made her debut with the soundtrack album to ''Liv and Maddie'' (2015). In the same year, she released her debut single, " If O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
