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Defiant (novel)
Defiant may refer to: In the Star Trek universe * ''Defiant'' (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of the series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' * USS ''Defiant'', a starship in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and in the film ''Star Trek: First Contact'' * USS ''Defiant'' (NCC-1764), sister ship to the ''Enterprise'' in the ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' episode " The Tholian Web" Transportation * Boulton Paul Defiant, a British fighter aircraft of World War 2 * Defiant 300, a prototype aircraft of the Philippines * GWR 4073 Class 5080 ''Defiant'', a Great Western Railway locomotive * Rutan Defiant, an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan * , a ''Valiant''-class tugboat launched 2010 * Sikorsky–Boeing SB-1 Defiant, an American compound helicopter Other uses * ''Defiant'', a 2006 album by Vice Squad * Defiant (G.I. Joe), a fictional space shuttle complex in the toy line ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' * Defiant Comics, a comic book publishing imprint * Defiant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Defiant may refer to: In the Star Trek universe * ''Defiant'' (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of the series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' * USS ''Defiant'', a starship in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and in the film ''Star Trek: First Contact'' * USS ''Defiant'' (NCC-1764), sister ship to the ''Enterprise'' in the ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' episode "The Tholian Web" Transportation * Boulton Paul Defiant, a British fighter aircraft of World War 2 * Defiant 300, a prototype aircraft of the Philippines * GWR 4073 Class 5080 ''Defiant'', a Great Western Railway locomotive * Rutan Defiant, an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan * , a ''Valiant''-class tugboat launched 2010 * Sikorsky–Boeing SB-1 Defiant, an American compound helicopter Other uses * ''Defiant'', a 2006 album by Vice Squad * Defiant (G.I. Joe), a fictional space shuttle complex in the toy line ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' * Defiant Comics, a comic book publishing imprint * Defiant Theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defiance (other)
Defiance may refer to: Film, television and theatre * ''Defiance'' (1952 film), a Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Molander * ''Defiance'' (1980 film), an American crime drama starring Jan-Michael Vincent * ''Defiance'' (2002 film), a western starring Brandon Bollig * ''Defiance'' (2008 film), an American World War II film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber * ''Defiance'' (TV series), a science fiction TV series * ''Defiance'' (play), a 2005 play by John Patrick Shanley * HMAS ''Defiance'', a fictional Australian warship in the TV series ''Patrol Boat'' Games * ''Defiance'' (video game), a 2013 tie-in with the TV series ''Defiance'' * ''Defiance'' (1997 video game), a first-person shooter for Windows * ''Defiance'', an expansion campaign for the computer game '' Independence War'' * '' Legacy of Kain: Defiance'', a 2003 video game Literature * ''Defiance'' (book), a 1951 memoir by Savitri Devi * ''Defiance'' (novel), a 2007 novel by Don Brown * ''Defi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Defiant
Toronto Defiant is a Canadian professional ''Overwatch'' esports team based in Toronto, Ontario. The Defiant compete in the Overwatch League (OWL) and are a member of the league's West region. Founded in 2018, Toronto began play as one of eight expansion teams in 2019 and is one of two professional ''Overwatch'' teams based in Canada (the other, Vancouver Titans). The team is owned by OverActive Media, who also owned the Montreal Rebellion, a former academy team for the Defiant that competed in Overwatch Contenders (OWC). At the end of each of their first three years, the Defiant overhauled their roster, keeping no more than three players from the previous year. History OWL Expansion On September 7, 2018, Blizzard Entertainment announced that OverActive Media (OAM) had purchased a slot for a Toronto-based franchise. On the same day, Splyce announced that they would be working with OAM to form and operate the unnamed Toronto team, with OAM's Chris Overholt and Splyce's Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sandpit Generals
''The Sandpit Generals'' (also released as ''The Defiant'' and ''The Wild Pack'') is a 1971 drama film directed by Hall Bartlett. Its plot is based on the novel ''Captains of the Sands'' by Jorge Amado. Melodious soundtracks were written by Dorival Caymmi. The film was not popular in the United States due to its socialist context and was banned by Brazil's military regime for the same reason, but became an iconic film in the Soviet Union, where it took part in the 7th Moscow International Film Festival and, although did not win any prize, in a few years was widely distributed in movie theaters and was proclaimed "the best foreign film" by Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper in 1974. In the socialist country, the movie became so well-known hat it inspired theater plays, books, special reports on post-Soviet criminal youth etc. Plot The film features a street gang of poor homeless youth struggling for existence in Brazil. After letting a girl with her little brother settle in their beac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Defiant
''The Defiant: A True Story of Jewish Vengeance and Survival'' is a World War II memoir by Shalom Yoran, a Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ... survivor and a former Jewish partisan. It was written in the late 1940s, shortly after the war, but only published in 1996 after the author rediscovered his manuscript (written in Polish) and dictated it in Hebrew for translation into English. He wrote his memoirs, illustrating his harrowing experience during the war, at the age of 21, but they remained unpublished for five decades. External links *http://eilatgordinlevitan.com/kurenets/k_pages/stories_yoran.html 1996 non-fiction books Personal accounts of the Holocaust Jewish literature St. Martin's Press books {{Holocaust-memoir-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defiant Theatre
Defiant Theatre was a Chicago-based theatre company founded in 1993 by a group of students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which includes Nick Offerman. The eclectic troupe specialized in productions that emphasized inventive stagecraft, perverse and controversial topics, and skillful stage combat. While the company is highly regarded for original plays such as ''Action Movie: The Play'' and ''Godbaby'', Defiant Theatre received notable attention for productions of plays by Caryl Churchill, Alfred Jarry, Sarah Kane, and William Shakespeare. Chicago Magazine named Defiant the "Best Experimental Theatre" in their August 1999 Best of Chicago issue. The company disbanded in 2004. Production history 1993/1994 Season ''Hamlet'' by William Shakespeare directed by Christopher Johnson Opened Friday, November 19, 1993 at The Greenview Arts Center "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may be dead; Defiant Theatre's ''Hamlet'' most certainly is not." - Chicago Reader ''Landsca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defiant Comics
Defiant Comics was a comic book publishing imprint of Enlightened Entertainment Partners, LP. Defiant was established in 1993 by former Marvel Comics and Valiant Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter. Publication history Defiant was founded in the wake of Jim Shooter's departure from Valiant. After attempting unsuccessfully to retain his partial ownership of Voyager Communications (Valiant's parent company) Shooter founded a new company that included some Valiant artists and writers on its staff. He formed a business venture with The River Group to help finance Defiant. In early 1993, Defiant announced that its first title, ''Plasm'', would be released as a series of trading cards that could be put together in an album to form "issue #0". Upon hearing the news, Marvel Comics threatened a lawsuit against Defiant, claiming the new title violated a Marvel UK trademark for their book/character Plasmer. Though Defiant changed the title to ''Warriors of Plasm'', Marvel continued its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice Squad
A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, degrading, deviant or perverted in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a negative character trait, a defect, an infirmity, or a bad or unhealthy habit. Vices are usually associated with a transgression in a person's character or temperament rather than their morality. Synonyms for vice include fault, sin, depravity, iniquity, wickedness, and corruption. The antonym of vice is virtue. Etymology The modern English term that best captures its original meaning is the word ''vicious'', which means "full of vice". In this sense, the word ''vice'' comes from the Latin word '' vitium'', meaning "failing or defect". Law enforcement Depending on the country or jurisdiction, vice crimes may or may not be treated as a separate category in the criminal codes. Even in jurisdictions where vice is not explicitly delineated in the legal code, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Defiant
The USS ''Defiant'' is the name of several starships in the Star Trek media franchise, most notably a vessel featured in '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993–1999). Introduced in the show's third season, it is a warship attached to the show's eponymous space station. The spacecraft was designed by Jim Martin, Gary Hutzel and Tony Meinger. Design and development For the first two seasons of ''Deep Space Nine'', stories requiring characters to travel off-station typically involved small runabout vessels. Producer Ira Steven Behr and writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe believed runabouts would be insufficient to confront the adversarial Dominion introduced in the second season, and they convinced executive producer Rick Berman of the need for a new ship. Additionally, the ''Defiant'' was intended to solve the problem of cramped runabout sets. The ''Defiant'' was initially designed by art illustrator Jim Martin, with contributions from visual effects supervisor Gary Hutzel and model ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sikorsky–Boeing SB-1 Defiant
The Sikorsky–Boeing SB-1 Defiant (stylized as "SB>1"; company designation S-100) is the Sikorsky Aircraft and Boeing entry for the United States Army's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program to replace the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk. It is a compound helicopter with rigid coaxial rotors, powered by two Honeywell T55 turboshaft engines; it first flew on 21 March 2019. On 5 December 2022, the US Army selected the rival Bell V-280 Valor as the winner of the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program. Development 1 Defiant, popular name is SB-1 Defiant --> Sikorsky Aircraft and Boeing are jointly producing a medium-lift-sized demonstrator they named ''SB>1 Defiant'' (also widely known as "SB-1") for phase one of the program. Originally planned to fly in late 2017, its first flight was delayed in April 2017 to early 2018. Once flight testing begins, the aircraft will be evaluated by the Army for further development. Sikorsky is leading the development of phase one with an aircra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutan Defiant
The Rutan Model 40 Defiant is a four-seat, twin-engine homebuilt aircraft with the engines in a push-pull configuration. It was designed by aerospace engineer Burt Rutan for the Rutan Aircraft Factory. ] Development The prototype Defiant, N78RA, was first flown on 30 June 1978. It had been intended as a proof-of-concept of a very safe light twin design, requiring little trim change and no pilot action in case of engine failure, and with good single engine performance. A comparison of the Defiant single engine climb rate with a Gulfstream American GA-7 Cougar, Gulfstream Cougar had shown about vs per minute at low altitude with both aircraft cleaned up. The prototype is now owned by the Hiller Aviation Museum. In 1979 the Rutan Aircraft Factory announced they would proceed with certification of a Defiant-based light twin. Adequate financing was not secured for this project, and the design was modified for homebuilt construction as the Model 74, with the second aircraft (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
