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Sparky (robot)
Sparky is a common nickname for people and animals. In the British Commonwealth, it can also be used to refer to an electrician. People * Sparky Adams (1894–1989), American Major League Baseball player *Sparky Anderson (1934–2010), American Major League Baseball manager * Sparky McEwen (born 1968), American football player * H. F. Gierke III (1943–2016), North Dakota Supreme Court justice *Mark Hughes (born 1963), former Welsh international football player and manager *Eddie Lake (1916–1995), American Major League Baseball player * Shelly Liddelow (born 1984), Australian field hockey player *Sparky Lyle (born 1944), American Major League Baseball pitcher *Sparky Marcus (born Marcus Issoglio in 1967), American child actor *Mark Matejka, American Southern rock guitarist * Marv Olson (1907–1998), American Major League Baseball player *Mark Phillips, vocalist of the British band Demented Are Go * Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000), American cartoonist, creator of the ''Peanut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nickname
A nickname, in some circumstances also known as a sobriquet, or informally a "moniker", is an informal substitute for the proper name of a person, place, or thing, used to express affection, playfulness, contempt, or a particular character trait. It is distinct from a pseudonym, stage name, or title, although the concepts can overlap. Etymology The compound word ''ekename'', meaning "additional name", was attested as early as 1303. This word was derived from the Old English word ''eac'', meaning "also", related to ''eacian'', meaning "to increase". By the 15th century, the misdivision of the syllables of the phrase "an ekename" led to its rephrasing as "a nekename". Though the spelling has changed, the meaning of the word has remained relatively stable ever since. Various language conventions English nicknames are generally represented in quotes between the bearer's first and last names (e.g., '' Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower'' and '' Daniel Lamont "Bubba" Franks''). I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sparky Woods
Phillip Perry "Sparky" Woods (born December 20, 1953) is an American college football coach. He was most recently a senior adviser for the football team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Woods served as the head football coach at Appalachian State University from 1984 to 1988, the University of South Carolina from 1989 to 1993, and the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), from 2008 to 2014. Playing career Woods attended Oneida High School, where he is in its Hall of Fame. He holds the record for the most interceptions in a season. He played quarterback and defensive back at Carson–Newman College before graduating in 1976. Coaching career Woods was named the 30th head coach at VMI on February 13, 2008. Before arriving at VMI, Woods had over 30 years of college and professional coaching experience. When coaching at South Carolina, a song about Woods entitled "Sparky Rock" was released on cassette tape. On November 24, 2014, it was announced by VMI that Woods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sparky's Magic Piano
''Sparky's Magic Piano'' is the second in a series of children’s audio stories featuring Sparky, an original character created for Capitol Records in 1947. (Sparky also appeared in comic books as a sidekick to Capitol’s other famous creation, Bozo the Clown.) Sparky is a boy with an overactive imagination. His adventures involve inanimate objects which magically come to life and talk to him. List of recordings featuring Sparky *''Sparky And The Talking Train'' (1947) was Sparky's first adventure on Capitol Records. It was a fantasy story, without the musical or educational element which marked three of the following stories. *''Sparky's Magic Piano'' (recorded in Hollywood, October 1947; released 1948) became the best-known of all the Sparky stories. It was voiced by Henry Blair, and featured musical accompaniment by noted Hollywood studio and session pianist Ray Turner. *''Sparky's Music Mix-up'' (1949) was the last Sparky record to be voiced by Henry Blair, and featured S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Lampoon's Vacation
''National Lampoon's Vacation'', sometimes referred to as simply ''Vacation'', is a 1983 American black comedy road film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, John Candy, and Christie Brinkley in her acting debut with special appearances by Eddie Bracken, Brian Doyle-Murray, Miriam Flynn, James Keach, Eugene Levy, and Frank McRae. It tells the fictitious story of the Griswold family on a cross-country trip to an amusement park and various locations as accidents occur along the way. The screenplay was written by John Hughes on the basis of his short story "Vacation '58", which appeared in '' National Lampoon''. The film was a box-office hit, earning more than $60 million in the U.S. alone with an estimated budget of $15 million. As a result of its success, five sequels have been produced: '' European Vacation'' (1985), '' Christmas Vacation'' (1989), '' Vegas Vacation'' (1997), '' Christmas Vacation 2'' (2003), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Modern World
''This Modern World'' is a weekly satirical comic strip by cartoonist and political commentator Tom Tomorrow (real name Dan Perkins) that covers current events from a left-wing point of view. Published continuously for more than 30 years, ''This Modern World'' appears regularly in more than 80 newspapers across the United States and Canada as of 2015, as well as in ''The Nation'', '' The Nib'', ''Truthout'', and the ''Daily Kos''. ''This Modern World'' has won a number of awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists James Madison Freedom of Information Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (twice); the strip was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Overview While ''This Modern World'' often ridicules those in power, the strip also focuses on the average American's support for contemporary leaders and their policies, as well as the popular media's role in shaping public perception. The series has been through several incarna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Mario World
''Super Mario World'', known in Japan as '' is a 1990 platform game developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The player controls Mario on his quest to save Princess Peach and Dinosaur Land from the series' antagonist Bowser and the Koopalings. The gameplay is similar to that of earlier ''Super Mario'' games; players control Mario through a series of levels in which the goal is to reach the goalpost at the end. ''Super Mario World'' introduces Yoshi, a ridable dinosaur who can eat enemies and spit some of them out as projectiles. Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development developed the game, led by director Takashi Tezuka and producer and series creator Shigeru Miyamoto. It is the first ''Mario'' game for the SNES and was designed to make the most of the console's technical features. The development team had more freedom compared to the series installments for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Yoshi wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flight Of The Amazon Queen
''Flight of the Amazon Queen'' is a graphical point-and-click adventure game by Interactive Binary Illusions, originally released in 1995 for Amiga and MS-DOS. The game was re-released as freeware in 2004 for use with ScummVM. In January 2022, a sequel was announced, titled ''Return of the Amazon Queen''. Development The game was developed on Amiga 500 using AMOS and ported to C for release on MS-DOS. The game engine was called JASPAR: while developers had read about Lucasfilm's SCUMM, the engine was designed in a different way. Deluxe Paint was used for art. Gameplay is very similar in style to many of LucasArts' popular point-and-click adventures of the 1990s, and was inspired by ''Monkey Island''. The game was inspired by the Indiana Jones film ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'': while the developers knew there was an adventure game of Indiana Jones, at the time it was dismissed as a movie tie-in. Plot In 1949, Joe King, pilot for hire and owner of the ''Amazon Queen'' airplane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bugaloos
''The Bugaloos'' is an American children's television series, produced by brothers Sid and Marty Krofft, that aired on NBC on Saturday mornings from 1970 to 1972. Reruns of the show aired in daily syndication from 1978 to 1985 as part of the "Krofft Superstars" package with six other Krofft series. The show features a musical group composed of four British teenagers in insect-themed outfits, constantly beset by the evil machinations of the talent-challenged Benita Bizarre, played by comedian Martha Raye.CD liner notes: Saturday Mornings: Cartoons’ Greatest Hits, 1995 MCA Records Premise The show takes place in the fantasy setting of Tranquility Forest. The central characters are four British teenage musicians who've formed a pop band named the Bugaloos. The foursome are evidently fictional human-bug hybrids (they appear as mostly human with antennae and actual wings). While occasionally seen air-surfing on leaves, they more usually fly unaided. On the ground, the Bugaloos are som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speed Racer
''Speed Racer'', also known as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuo Yoshida. It was originally serialized in print in Shueisha's 1966 ''Shōnen Book''. It was released in form by Sun Wide Comics and later re-released in Japan by Fusosha. Adapted into anime by Tatsunoko Production, its 52 episodes aired on Fuji Television from April 1967 to March 1968. In the US, the show aired in Broadcast syndication, syndication at approximately the same time. The anime was later re-broadcast on Tokyo MX from July 1 to September 25, 2008. Selected chapters of the manga were released by NOW Comics in the 1990s under the title ''Speed Racer Classics''. These were later released by Wildstorm Productions, a division of DC Comics, as ''Speed Racer: The Original Manga''. In 2008, under its Americanized title, ''Speed Racer'', ''Mach GoGoGo'' was republished in its entirety in the United States by Digital Manga Publishing and was released as a box set to commemorate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
