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Rambo (other)
Rambo is a surname with Norwegian ( Vestfold) and Swedish origins. It possibly originated with '' ramn'' + '' bo'', meaning "raven's nest". It has variants in French (''Rambeau'', ''Rambaut'', and ''Rimbaud'') and German (''Rambow''). It is now best known from the ''Rambo'' franchise, whose protagonist was known simply as "Rambo" in the novel that inspired it, ''First Blood'' (1972), and then as John Rambo in the film series. Rambo may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters *John Rambo, the main character from the ''Rambo'' franchise * Mary Rambo, female character in '' Invisible Man'' by Ralph Ellison Films * ''Rambo'' (franchise), starring Sylvester Stallone, commonly named after the main character ** ''First Blood'' (1982) ** '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' (1985) ** '' Rambo III'' (1988) ** ''Rambo'' (2008 film) ** '' Rambo: Last Blood'' (2019) * '' Son of Rambow'', a British comedy film inspired by ''First Blood'' * ''Rambo'' (2012 film), an Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vestfold
Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered the previous Buskerud and Telemark counties. The county administration was located in Tønsberg, Norway's oldest city, and the largest city is Sandefjord. With the exception of the city-county of Oslo, Vestfold was the smallest county in Norway by area. Vestfold was the only county in which all municipalities had declared Bokmål to be their sole official written form of the Norwegian language. Vestfold is located west of the Oslofjord, as the name indicates. It includes many smaller, but well-known towns in Norway, such as Larvik, Sandefjord, Tønsberg and Horten; these towns run from Oslo in an almost constant belt of urban areas along the coast, ending in Grenland in neighbouring region Telemark. The river Numedalslågen runs through th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rambo (1985 Video Game)
''Rambo'' (stylized on-screen as ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'') is a 1985 video game based on the film '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' (1985). The game was designed by David Collier and Tony Pomfret with the ZX Spectrum version converted by Platinum Productions. The Commodore 64 version's music is by Martin Galway from Northern Ireland, incorporating melodies from the film's score. The Amstrad CPC version's music was played and recorded live by Choice Software's in-house programmer/designer/musician James Edward Cosby also from Northern Ireland, using a Yamaha DX7 synthesiser via the then new MIDI serial comms protocol. Several other games based on the film were also released, including ''Rambo'' for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' for the Sega Master System. Gameplay The game follows the movie's story. The player, controlling Rambo, has to find his lost equipment, locate the POW camp, rescue the hostages and make it back to the extrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afzal Khan (actor)
Afzal Khan (Urdu: افضل خان), better known as Jan Rambo, is a Pakistani actor, director, producer and comedian. He rose to fame by playing a janitor nicknamed ''Jan Rambo'' on PTV's famous comedy show ''Guest House'' (1991). He later assumed ''Jan Rambo'' as his unofficial screen name taken from the Sylvester Stallone character John Rambo. People on the TV stage set had nicknamed him ''Jan Rambo'' due to his striking resemblance to the Hollywood actor. Career Afzal Khan began his acting career from stage dramas in Islamabad. He acted in a few plays by PTV that were aired only in Islamabad and Peshawar.Profile of actor Afzal Khan on tv.com.pk website Retrieved 14 June 2020 He has made the record of signing the most number of featured films in a single day, that is 26. He has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trond Henriksen
Trond Børge Henriksen (born 28 April 1964, in Trondheim) is a Norwegian football coach and former player. He is the father of Rosenborg BK midfielder Markus Henriksen. Biography Trond Henriksen played in Rosenborg from 1983 to 1993 as a wingback, achieving five Norwegian Premier League championships and three Norwegian Football Cup wins. His uncompromising playing style made him a hero amongst the fans, and he was nicknamed ''Rambo'' after the movie character. He still holds the record of 29 yellow cards in Rosenborg. He worked as a postman until he became full-time coach for Rosenborg's youth team. When Knut Tørum became Rosenborg's head coach in 2006, Henriksen was promoted to assistant coach. After Knut Tørum resigned on 25 October 2007, Henriksen was promoted to head coach. He later went back to in his former position as assistant coach under head coach Jan Jönsson. In June 2020 he took on the role of caretaker manager of Rosenborg BK, a position he had until 1. Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niko Eeckhout
Niko Eeckhout (born 16 December 1970) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 1992 and 2013. He was the 2005–2006 UCI Europe Tour series and the 2006 Belgian National Cycling Championship Road Race champion, and currently works for the Team as a coach. Career Born in Izegem, Eeckhout started his career in 1993 riding for the small Collstrop-team. He immediately started winning minor Belgian races like the Championship of Flanders and the Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde. In 1997 and 1998 he rode for , and then rode two years for Palmans. Eeckhout had a breakthrough season when he transferred to Lotto-Adecco in 2001, winning 11 races, including Dwars door Vlaanderen and the GP van Steenbergen. Eeckhout struggled through the next two seasons and at the end of 2004 his contract with Lotto-Adecco ended and he needed to find a new team. He signed with the Belgian squad Chocolade Jacques and found his second youth. He started the 2005 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Otero Barreto
Sergeant First Class Jorge A. Otero Barreto (born 7 April 1937), a.k.a. "the Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican John Rambo, Rambo" and "Sergeant Rock", is a former United States Army soldier. He earned 38 military decorations during his career, and has been called the most decorated U.S. soldier of the Vietnam War.''Remarks of Major General Orlando Llenza, USAF (Ret.), Delivered to the Puerto Rico Bar Association of Florida, 6th Annual Gala, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.'' Major General Orlando Llenza. 25 October 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2012. Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1 Life 2 Live
1 Life 2 Live was an American hip hop group, which comprised musicians Red Handed, Babe Blue and Rambo, that became well noted in the late 1990s for their debut single "Can't Nobody" with Timbaland. Career beginnings In 1995, in Bronx, NY, Juan "Red Handed" Cordova produced Doug E. Fresh's " Take 'Em Uptown", which caught the attention of Kid Capri. Capri's affiliates went on to feature Red Handed in various DJing gigs, and later accumulated the attention of next-door neighbor John "Rambo" Arias, who had aspirations of becoming a rapper. The pair formed a friendship and later befriended neighbor Tanya "Babe Blue" Garcia, who also happened to be an aspiring rapper. In 1997, the trio formed as a musical group and recorded two tracks for DJ LS One's mixtape, ''Shut Em Down''. The same year, the group was picked up by Foxy Brown to tour with her in various concert venues both in the United States and Japan. Around this time, the trio performed on ''Showtime at the Apollo''. ''Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rambo Amadeus
Antonije Pušić (; born 14 June 1963), known professionally as Rambo Amadeus () is a Montenegrin author. A self-titled "musician, poet, and media manipulator", he is a noted artist across the countries of former Yugoslavia. His songs combine satirical lyrics on human nature and the silliness of local politics with a mixture of musical styles including jazz, rock, hip-hop and lately drum and bass, and self-conscious ironic wit; for example, his most popular alias is "Rambo Amadeus Svjetski Kilo Car" ("Rambo Amadeus the World Kilo Tzar"), formerly "Rambo Amadeus Svjetski Mega Car" ("Rambo Amadeus the World Mega Tzar") (RASMC) (changed in 2012 because of his belief in the importance of modesty in an environmentally conscious society). His stage name itself is made from John Rambo and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His concerts are never mere repetitions of recorded songs, but a mixture of free improvisation and satirical humor exploiting all aspects of human nature in a crude manner. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rambos
The Rambos were an American Southern gospel music group that was formed in the 1960s. They were one of the most successful Gospel trios of the 20th century. The group consisted of Buck and Dottie Rambo at first along with several various people singing with them and they were joined by their daughter, Reba, in 1965. They were a successful singing trio born out of the United Pentecostal Church. They were inducted into the Gospel Music Association's Hall of Fame in 2001. Group history They signed their first record deal with Benson Records in 1964, after leaving their home in Dawson Springs, Kentucky and ending up in Nashville, Tennessee. Most singers and songwriters would have agreed without hesitation to such a deal with Benson Records, but Dottie wanted to make sure it was the will of God. Without telling anyone else, she prayed that if the deal was God's will, let the contract be for "so many dollars . . . PLUS 13-CENTS" The day the contract was to be signed, they were taken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rambo (band)
Rambo (stylized on-screen as R.a.m.b.o.) were an American punk rock band based in Philadelphia. The band identified with the straight edge, anarchist, vegan, crust punk, cyclist and thrashcore movements. Known for hectic live performances, the band toured extensively in the United States, Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia, including several sections of the latter continent previously unvisited by touring Western rock bands. History R.A.M.B.O. was formed in 1999 by singer Tony Croasdale (known as Tony Pointless), guitarist Andy Wheeler, bassist Beau Brendley and drummer Jeremy Gewertz, the latter two of whom played in Philadelphia-based hardcore band Kill The Man Who Questions. Croasdale was known in the city's punk rock scene for his involvement with the underground venue Stalag 13, and would later co-run a summer music fest that became unofficially known as the Pointless Fest. Initially, the group performed in camouflage face paint and military fatigue, but following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Video Game
''The Video Game'' is a syndicated game show that ran for 1 year from September 1984 to September 1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a .... It was created by JM Production, and debuted shortly after the cancellation of their earlier game show '' Starcade''. ''The Video Game'' was taped at Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. Greg Winfield hosted, Karen Lea modeled, and Christopher Kriesa announced. Gameplay To begin, two contestants were called down from the audience. They each played the same video game, and the first to reach a pre-determined score (or outcome) won a prize and came up to play a special mini-game. Mini-games played on the show included: * "The Maze" – The game was played on a 5X5 grid on the floor. The contestant could start on any square o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rambo (2008 Video Game)
''Rambo'' is a light gun shooter developed by Sega for the arcades in 2008. The game is based on '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' (1985) and ''Rambo III'' (1988), but not ''First Blood'' (1982). Gameplay The player assumes the role of John Rambo, fighting through five levels. The first and final levels are based on the desert battle from ''Rambo III'', the second and third levels focus on Rambo rescuing the prisoners from ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'', and the fourth level consists of Rambo rescuing his mentor, Col. Trautman, from an enemy prison (also from ''Rambo III''). Each level consists of the player shooting down waves after waves of enemy soldiers; if the player waits too long to kill an enemy, the enemy will attack and the player will lose one of their lives. Some enemies attack Rambo with grenades or rockets, which can be shot and destroyed in mid-air. In addition, the game also features non-shooting segments, such as defeating an enemy in hand-to-hand combat, sneaki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
