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StarBuck
Starbucks is a chain of coffee shops. Starbuck or Starbucks may also refer to: People * Starbuck (surname), list of people with the family name * StarBuck, ring name of professional wrestler Michael Majalahti Places Antarctica *Starbuck Cirque, Oates Land *Starbuck Crater, Marie Byrd Land *Starbuck Glacier, Graham Land *Starbuck Peak, on South Georgia North America * Starbuck, Manitoba, Canada *Starbuck, Minnesota, US * Starbuck, Washington, US Oceania * Starbuck Island, an atoll of the Line Islands Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters *Starbuck, a character in the novel ''Moby-Dick'' *Starbuck, a character in ''Fire Bringer'' *Starbuck, a character in the play ''The Rainmaker'' by N. Richard Nash **Starbuck, a character in the 1956 film adaptation ''The Rainmaker'' *Starbuck, a character in '' The Snow Queen'' by Joan D. Vinge *Lieutenant Starbuck, a character in the 1978 ''Battlestar Galactica'' film and television series *Kara Thrace or "Starbuck", a char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
StarBuck
Starbucks is a chain of coffee shops. Starbuck or Starbucks may also refer to: People * Starbuck (surname), list of people with the family name * StarBuck, ring name of professional wrestler Michael Majalahti Places Antarctica *Starbuck Cirque, Oates Land *Starbuck Crater, Marie Byrd Land *Starbuck Glacier, Graham Land *Starbuck Peak, on South Georgia North America * Starbuck, Manitoba, Canada *Starbuck, Minnesota, US * Starbuck, Washington, US Oceania * Starbuck Island, an atoll of the Line Islands Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters *Starbuck, a character in the novel ''Moby-Dick'' *Starbuck, a character in ''Fire Bringer'' *Starbuck, a character in the play ''The Rainmaker'' by N. Richard Nash **Starbuck, a character in the 1956 film adaptation ''The Rainmaker'' *Starbuck, a character in '' The Snow Queen'' by Joan D. Vinge *Lieutenant Starbuck, a character in the 1978 ''Battlestar Galactica'' film and television series *Kara Thrace or "Starbuck", a char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It is the world's largest coffeehouse chain. As of November 2021, the company had 33,833 stores in 80 countries, 15,444 of which were located in the United States. Out of Starbucks' U.S.-based stores, over 8,900 are company-operated, while the remainder are licensed. The rise of the second wave of coffee culture is generally attributed to Starbucks, which introduced a wider variety of coffee experiences. Starbucks serves hot and cold drinks, whole-bean coffee, micro-ground instant coffee, espresso, caffe latte, full and loose-leaf teas, juices, Frappuccino beverages, pastries, and snacks. Some offerings are seasonal, or specific to the locality of the store. Depending on the country, most locations provide free Wi-Fi internet access. Company overview Starbucks was founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker at Seattle's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rainmaker (play)
''The Rainmaker'' is a play written by N. Richard Nash in the early 1950s. The play opened on October 28, 1954, at the Cort Theatre in New York City, and ran for 125 performances. It was directed by Joseph Anthony and produced by ''Ethel Linder Reiner''. The play was translated into more than 40 languages and made into the 1956 film '' The Rainmaker'', starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn. The story was also made into a Broadway musical, '' 110 in the Shade''. The play was revived on Broadway in 1999–2000 starring Woody Harrelson and Jayne Atkinson, who was nominated for the 2000 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Plot summary Set in a drought-ridden rural town in the West in Depression-era America, the play tells the story of a pivotal hot summer day in the life of spinsterish Lizzie Curry. Lizzie keeps house for her father and two brothers on the family cattle ranch. She has just returned from a trip to visit pseudo-cousins (all male), which was undertaken wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starbucks (song)
"Starbucks" is a single by British rock band A, taken from their album ''Hi-Fi Serious'' loosely based on the coffee company. It reached number 20 in the UK Singles Charts. Track listing ;CD 1 #"Starbucks" #"Some People" #"Champion of Endings" #"Starbucks" (Video) ;CD 2 #"Starbucks" #"Monterey" #"Coming Around" #"Coming Around" (Video) A (band) songs 2002 singles {{2000s-rock-single-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starbucks (mixtape)
''Starbucks'' is a mixtape by rapper's All Star Cashville Prince & Young Buck. The mixtape features exclusive tracks and freestyles from All Star & Young Buck with appearances by Yo Gotti, The Outlawz, $o$a Da Plug, and more. It was released for digital download and sale on iTunes on June 13, 2008. It was mainly released to promote the upcoming collab album '' Cashville Takeover'' from Ca$hville Records. Later in 2009 rapper Yo Gotti Mario Sentell Giden Mims (born May 19, 1981), known professionally as Yo Gotti, is an American rapper, songwriter, and record executive. In 1996, Gotti released his debut album ''Youngsta's On a Come Up'' under the alias Lil Yo. He went on to re ... released the mixtape through his label Inevitable Entertainment as well. Track list References {{Young Buck 2008 mixtape albums Young Buck albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starbuck (band)
Starbuck was a rock band formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1974 by keyboardist/vocalist/record producer Bruce Blackman and marimba player Bo Wagner. Both Blackman and Wagner, along with guitarist Johnny Walker, had previous success with Mississippi-based "sunshine pop" group Eternity's Children, scoring a ''Billboard'' Hot 100 hit with "Mrs. Bluebird" in the summer of 1968. Wagner worked as a studio musician in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show, and played drums for the extravagant pianist Liberace. Starbuck's debut single, "Moonlight Feels Right", reached the No. 3 position on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles charts in 1976. Although the band never re-created the success of their debut, several of their songs did chart in the Billboard Top 100, and their 1977 release "Everybody Be Dancin'" reached No. 38. From 1976 to 1980, the band toured with popular groups of the era, including Electric Light Orchestra, KC and the Sunshine Band, Hall & Oates, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starbuck (film)
''Starbuck'' is a 2011 Canadian comedy film directed by Ken Scott and written by Scott and Martin Petit. It stars Patrick Huard (''Bon Cop, Bad Cop'') as the main character, Antoine Bertrand as his friend/lawyer, and Julie Le Breton as his girlfriend. The film's title refers to a Canadian Holstein bull, named Hanoverhill Starbuck, who produced hundreds of thousands of progeny by artificial insemination in the 1980s and 1990s. Plot In a 1988 prologue, David Wozniak is at a Quebec sperm bank making a donation. Twenty-three years later, in 2011, he is a hapless deliveryman for his family's butcher shop, pursued by thugs to whom he owes $80,000. His girlfriend Valérie is pregnant with his child. One day, David returns from work to find a lawyer from the sperm bank who tells him he has fathered 533 children. Of those, 142 have joined a class action lawsuit to force the fertility clinic to reveal the identity of "Starbuck", the alias he used as a sperm donor. David's friend and lawy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Scully
Dana Katherine Scully, MD, is a fictional character and one of the two Protagonist, protagonists in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox science-fiction, supernatural fiction, supernatural television series ''The X-Files'', played by Gillian Anderson. Scully is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent, Special Agent and a medical doctor (Doctor of Medicine, MD), partnered with fellow special agent, Special Agent Fox Mulder for seasons one to seven and seasons 10 and 11, and with John Doggett in the eighth and ninth seasons. In the television series, they work out of a cramped basement office at J. Edgar Hoover Building, FBI headquarters in Washington, DC to investigate unsolved cases labeled "X-Files." In 2002, Scully left government employment, and in 2008, she began working as a surgeon in ''Our Lady of Sorrows'', a private Catholic hospital – where she stayed for seven years, until rejoining the FBI. In contrast to Mulder's credulous "believer" character, Scully is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kara Thrace
Kara Thrace (callsign "Starbuck") is a fictional character in the reimagined 2004 ''Battlestar Galactica'' series. Played by Katee Sackhoff, she is a revised version of Lieutenant Starbuck from the 1978 ''Battlestar Galactica'' series. She is one of the main characters on the show. Overview Described by a critic as "one of television's most complex, ever-evolving characters", the role of Starbuck changed over the run of the series. According to Sackhoff, Starbuck originally "didn't value her own life," and this attitude inspired her readiness to die for her shipmates. By the end of the series, however, she is prepared to sacrifice herself for others because she respects all life. The character's physical appearance is based on Sackhoff's perception of Starbuck as an extremely fit, hard-drinking individual. "I didn't want Starbuck to be completely ripped," said Sackhoff. "This is a girl who drinks most of her calories.". A psychologist who specializes in treating Borderline Pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lieutenant Starbuck
Lieutenant Starbuck of the Colonial Service, played by Dirk Benedict, is a fictional character in the 1978 science fiction television series ''Battlestar Galactica.'' Starbuck is a Viper starfighter pilot, gambler, womanizer and smoker of "fumerellos" (cigars). He is involved with Lieutenant Athena and socialator Cassiopeia, and best friend of Captain Apollo. Fictional character history Orphaned at a very young age in the Cylon attack on Umbra, a small agro community on Caprica at the edge of the thorn forest in yahren 7322, Starbuck never knew his parents. The man known as Chameleon, portrayed by Fred Astaire in the episode "The Man with Nine Lives", is discovered to be Starbuck's father, but Chameleon never reveals this fact to his son, instead trusting only Cassiopeia with this knowledge. Starbuck is very close to the family of Commander Adama, who refers to Starbuck as a man "he loves like a son" in ''Galactica 1980''s "The Return of Starbuck". Starbuck was well liked and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snow Queen (Vinge Novel)
''The Snow Queen'' is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Joan D. Vinge. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1981, and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981. Based on the 1844 fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, ''The Snow Queen'' takes place on a mostly oceanic planet called Tiamat. Tiamat's suns orbit a black hole, which facilitates interstellar wormhole travel and connects Tiamat to the rest of the civilized galaxy (the "Hegemony", the remnants of a fallen Galactic Empire). Premise The Galactic Empire, which once ruled large portions of the galaxy, fell into decay millennia ago. A small remnant of this Old Empire coalesces into a group of seven planets known as the Hegemony. Though the Hegemony has large-scale interstellar travel and high technology, it has not yet returned to the Empire's level of technological prowess. Tiamat is an oceanic planet, accessible to the Hegemony only through wormhole travel. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rainmaker (1956 Film)
''The Rainmaker'' is a 1956 American romance film directed by Joseph Anthony and adapted by N. Richard Nash from his 1954 play '' The Rainmaker''. The film tells the story of a middle-aged woman, suffering from unrequited love for the local town sheriff; however, she falls for a con man who comes to town with the promise that he can make it rain. It stars Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges and Earl Holliman. Holliman won a Golden Globe Award for his performance. ''The Rainmaker'' has been remade twice. The first time as a television film of the same name in 1982 directed by John Frankenheimer. The second time in Hindi as '' Thodasa Roomani Ho Jayen'' in 1990. Plot During the Depression era in the Midwest, con man Bill Starbuck acts as a rainmaker, but is chased out of town after town. One day, he arrives in a drought-ridden rural town in Kansas and shows up at the door of spinsterish Lizzie Curry and the rest of the Curry clan. Lizzie keeps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
