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Thud (band) Albums
Thud or THUD may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Thud, a fictional character in the animated film '' A Bug's Life'' (1998) * Thud, a fictional character in the animated film series ''The Land Before Time'' (1988–2016) * ''Thud'' (album), a 1995 rock album by Kevin Gilbert * ''Thud'' (game), a 2002 board game inspired by Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' series * ''Thud!'', a 2005 ''Discworld'' novel by Terry Pratchett * ''Thud!'', a 1997 children's book by Nick Butterworth Other * F-105 Thunderchief, a U.S. fighter-bomber, nicknamed Thud * Thud (media company), a satirical media company founded by Elon Musk * THUD (US House subcommittee), informal name of a U.S. House subcommittee * THUD (US Senate subcommittee) The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD, informally) is one of twelve subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. It was formerly known as the Subcom ..., informal n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Bug's Life
''A Bug's Life'' is a 1998 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It was the second feature-length film produced by Pixar. Directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Andrew Stanton, the film involves a misfit ant, Flik, who is looking for "tough warriors" to save his colony from a protection racket run by Hopper's gang of grasshoppers. Unfortunately, the "warriors" he brings back turn out to be an inept troupe of Circus Bugs. The film was initially inspired by Aesop's fable ''The Ant and the Grasshopper''. Production began shortly after the release of ''Toy Story'' in 1995. The screenplay was penned by Stanton and comedy writers Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw from a story by Lasseter, Stanton, and Joe Ranft. The ants in the film were redesigned to be more appealing, and Pixar's animation unit employed technical innovations in computer animation. Randy Newman composed the music for the film. During production, a contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of The Land Before Time Characters
This is a list of characters in ''The Land Before Time'', a series of animated feature films. The main characters include Littlefoot (''Apatosaurus''), Cera (''Triceratops''), Ducky ('' Saurolophus''), Petrie (''Pteranodon''), Spike (''Stegosaurus''), and in the spin-off television series and the fourteenth movie, Chomper (''Tyrannosaurus'') and Ruby (''Oviraptor''). Other characters include the families of the main characters, the residents of their home, the Great Valley, and outsiders to the Great Valley. Creation and development The idea for ''The Land Before Time'' came during production of ''An American Tail''. Steven Spielberg's studio Amblin Entertainment was interested in doing a film about dinosaurs, which were popular at the time, leading Spielberg, director Don Bluth, and producer George Lucas to develop the prehistoric setting and its cast. Inspired by the dinosaur-themed "Rite of Spring" sequence from Disney's ''Fantasia'', Spielberg had originally intended for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thud (album)
''Thud'' is the first studio album by the rock music, rock artist Kevin Gilbert (musician), Kevin Gilbert. It was released in 1995. The album was his last release before his accidental death in 1996. Track listing Some distributions of the album were also co-packaged with a bonus CD entitled "Kashmir & Thud EP" including five additional tracks: Personnel *Kevin Gilbert - vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass, drums (5, 7), cello *Bill Bottrell - backing vocals, guitar (3), pedal steel guitar (7) *Brian MacLeod (U.S. musician), Brian MacLeod - drums, percussion *Dan Schwartz - bass (1, 3, 7, 8) *Robert Ferris - backing vocals (4, 6) *Skip Waring, Toby Holmes, Jay Mueller and Bruce Friedman - brass section (9) *Lyle Workman - electric guitar (2) Additional personnel for ''Kashmir & Thud EP'' include: *Kevin Gilbert - vocals, guitars, bass, mic feedback (3), foot tambourine (4), arrangements (1) *Corky James - guitars (1), arrangements (1) *Dave Kerzner - mellotron (3), orchestron ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thud (game)
The fictional universe of the ''Discworld'' novels by Terry Pratchett features a number of invented games, some of which have gone on to spawn real-world variants. Stealth chess Stealth chess is a chess variant, played in the Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild, according to ''The Discworld Companion''. It is similar to normal chess, with the exception of an extra piece and the widening of the board by two specially-colored fields (red and white are described, as opposed to the normal black and white) on either side, known as the Slurks. The extra piece is the assassination, assassin (appearing on either side of the rooks in the beginning of the game), the only piece to be able to move in the Slurk. The assassin moves one square in any direction, and two to capture; however, on exiting the Slurks, the assassin may make as many moves as it has taken within the Slurks and, optionally, a capture move. An example may clarify: If an assassin enters the Slurks and takes five moves within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thud!
''Thud!'' is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 34th book in the ''Discworld'' series, first released in the United States on 13 September 2005, then the United Kingdom on 1 October 2005. It was released in the U.S. three weeks before Pratchett's native UK in order to coincide with a signing tour. It was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2006. Plot As the book opens, a dwarf demagogue, Grag Hamcrusher, is apparently murdered. Ethnic tensions between Ankh-Morpork's troll and dwarf communities mount in the build-up to the anniversary of the Battle Of Koom Valley, an ancient battle where trolls and dwarfs seemingly ambushed each other. Lord Vetinari persuades Commander Vimes to interview a vampire applicant to the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. The new recruit, Lance-Constable Salacia "Sally" von Humpeding, along with Sergeant Angua and Captain Carrot, is attached to the investigation surrounding Hamcrusher's death. Meanwhile, Corporal Nobbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Butterworth
Nick Butterworth (born 24 May 1946) is a British author and illustrator of children's books. His picture book ''The Whisperer'' won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2005. His Percy the Park Keeper books became an animated television series of the same name starring Jim Broadbent. His ''Q Pootle 5, Q Pootle 5'' books were adapted by the BBC and broadcast on CBeebies, the channel for young children, in 2013. In the 1980s, he was a presenter on ITV (TV network), ITV children's programme Rub-a-Dub-Tub. Early life Born in Kingsbury, London, Kingsbury in North London, from the age of 2, Butterworth grew up in a sweet shop in Romford. After his education at the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park, Butterworth left home to work as an apprentice typographical designer with the National Children's Home before working at Crosby Fletcher Forbes (the forerunner of design agency Pentagram). Career Butterworth became a freelance graphic designer in the late 1960s. This led to a pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
F-105 Thunderchief
The Republic F-105 Thunderchief is an American supersonic fighter-bomber that served with the United States Air Force from 1958 to 1984. Capable of Mach 2, it conducted the majority of strike bombing missions during the early years of the Vietnam War; it was the only American aircraft to have been removed from combat due to high loss rates. It was originally designed as a single-seat, nuclear-attack aircraft; a two-seat Wild Weasel version was later developed for the specialized Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) role against surface-to-air missile sites. The F-105 was commonly known as the "Thud" by its crews. As a follow-on to the Mach 1 capable North American F-100 Super Sabre, the F-105 was also armed with missiles and a rotary cannon; however, its design was tailored to high-speed low-altitude penetration carrying a single nuclear weapon internally. First flown in 1955, the Thunderchief entered service in 1958. The single-engine F-105 could deliver a bomb load great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thud (media Company)
Thud was a satirical media company founded by Ben Berkley, Cole Bolton, and Elon Musk in 2017. The company launched satirical websites and products. After Musk pulled his funding, the company went defunct in May 2019. Background In 2014, Elon Musk expressed interest in purchasing satirical news site '' The Onion'', however, the purchase did not make it past preliminary negotiations. In 2017, two former ''Onion'' editors who had left the site due to creative differences, Ben Berkley and Cole Bolton, were offered $2,000,000 in funding by Musk to start a satirical media company focused on real-world events. Berkley and Bolton began building out the company by hiring several other ''Onion'' writers and editors. In March 2018, Musk formally announced the venture by tweeting "Thud!" followed by "That's the name of my new intergalactic media empire, exclamation point optional." Musk claimed that the name was chosen because "It’s the sound something thick and dull makes when it hits th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk ( ; born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation. With an estimated net worth of around $139 billion as of December 23, 2022, primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX, Musk is the second-wealthiest person in the world according to both the ''Bloomberg Billionaires Index'' and ''Forbes'' real-time billionaires list. Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa and briefly attended at the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 18, acquiring citizenship through his Canadian-born mother. Two years later, he matriculated at Queen's University and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he received bachelor's degrees in economics and physics. He moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
THUD (US House Subcommittee)
The United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD, informally) is a Congressional subcommittee of the United States House Committee on Appropriations. The United States House Committee on Appropriations has joint jurisdiction with the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations over all appropriations bills in the United States Congress. Each committee has 12 matching subcommittees, each of which is tasked with working on one of the twelve annual regular appropriations bills. This subcommittee has jurisdiction over the budget for the United States Department of Transportation and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is currently Chaired by Democrat David Price of North Carolina, and its Ranking Member is Republican Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida. Appropriations process Traditionally, after a federal budget for the upcoming fiscal year has been passed, the appropriations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
THUD (US Senate Subcommittee)
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD, informally) is one of twelve subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. It was formerly known as the Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, but responsibility for Treasury and Judiciary funding was transferred to the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government in 2007. The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations has joint jurisdiction with the United States House Committee on Appropriations over all appropriations bills in the United States Congress. Each committee has 12 matching subcommittees, each of which is tasked with working on one of the twelve annual regular appropriations bills. This subcommittee has jurisdiction over the budget for the United States Department of Transportation and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
