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The Challenge (other)
The Challenge may refer to: Film * ''The Challenge'', a 1916 silent film starring Montagu Love * ''The Challenge'' (1922 film), an American silent film directed by Tom Terriss * ''The Challenge'' (1938 film), a mountain-climbing story starring Robert Douglas * ''The Challenge'' (1948 film), an American film starring Tom Conway * ''The Challenge'' (1958 film), an Italian film by Francesco Rosi, starring José Suárez * ''The Challenge'' (1960 film), a British crime film featuring Jayne Mansfield and Anthony Quayle * ''The Challenge'' (1970 film), starring Darren McGavin * '' The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art'', a 1974 documentary film * ''The Challenge'' (1982 film), an action movie starring Scott Glenn and Toshirō Mifune * ''The Challenge'' (2003 film), featuring the Olsen twins * ''The Challenge'' (2011 film), based on the book by Jonathan Mahler * ''The Challenge'' (2023 film), a Russian space drama film directed by Klim Shipenko Television * "The Challenge" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montagu Love
Montagu Love (15 March 1877 – 17 May 1943) was an English screen, stage and vaudeville actor. Early years Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, Love was the son of Harry Love and Fanny Louisa Love, née Poad; his father was listed as accountant on the 1881 English Census. Career Educated in Great Britain, Love began his career as an artist, with his first important job as an illustrator for ''The Illustrated Daily News'' in London. Love's acting debut came with an American company in a production in the Isle of Wight. His Broadway debut occurred in ''The Second in Command'' (1913). He was typically cast in heartless villain roles. In the 1920s, he played with Rudolph Valentino in ''The Son of the Sheik'', opposite John Barrymore in ''Don Juan'', and appeared with Lillian Gish in 1928's '' The Wind''. He also portrayed 'Colonel Ibbetson' in ''Forever'' (1921), the silent film version of ''Peter Ibbetson''. Love was one of the more successful villains in silent films. One o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Challenge (TV Series)
''The Challenge'' (originally known as ''Road Rules: All Stars'', followed by ''Real World/Road Rules Challenge'') is a reality competition show on MTV that is spun off from two of the network's reality shows, ''The Real World'' and ''Road Rules''. Originally featuring alumni from these two shows, casting for ''The Challenge'' has slowly expanded to include contestants who debuted on ''The Challenge'' itself, alumni from other MTV franchises including '' Are You the One?'', ''Ex on the Beach'' (Brazil, UK and US), ''Geordie Shore'' and from other non-MTV shows. The contestants compete against one another in various extreme challenges to avoid elimination. The winners of the final challenge win the competition and typically share a large cash prize. ''The Challenge'' is currently hosted by T. J. Lavin. The series premiered on June 1, 1998. The show was originally titled '' Road Rules: All Stars'', and had notable ''Real World'' alumni participated in a ''Road Rules'' style ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westminster School
(God Gives the Increase) , established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560 , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , head_label = Head Master , head = Gary Savage , chair_label = Chairman of Governors , chair = John Hall, Dean of Westminster , founder = Henry VIII (1541) Elizabeth I (1560 – refoundation) , address = Little Dean's Yard , city = London, SW1P 3PF , country = England , local_authority = City of Westminster , urn = 101162 , ofsted = , dfeno = 213/6047 , staff = 105 , enrolment = 747 , gender = BoysCoeducational (Sixth Form) , lower_age = 13 (boys), 16 (girls) , upper_age = 18 , houses = Busby's College Ashburnham Dryden's Grant's Hakluyt's Liddell's Milne's Purcell's Rigaud's Wren's , colours = Pink , public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cablevision
Cablevision Systems Corporation was an American cable television company with systems serving areas surrounding New York City. It was the fifth-largest cable provider and ninth-largest television provider in the United States. Throughout its existence and in its final years, Cablevision exclusively served customers residing in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and a small part of Pennsylvania. However, at one time it provided service in as many as 19 states. Cablevision also offered high-speed Internet connections (Optimum Online), digital cable (Optimum TV/IO Digital Cable), and VoIP (Optimum Voice) phone service (the eighth-largest telephone provider in the U.S.)Leichtman Research Group"Research Notes,"First quarter 2012, pg. 6, Cablevision (#8) with 2,357,000 residential phone lines. through its Optimum brand name. Cablevision also offered a WiFi-only mobile phone service dubbed Freewheel. On June 21, 2016, Cablevision was acquired by European telecom conglomerate Altice. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Challenge (novel)
''The Challenge'' is an Australian novel by E. V. Timms. It was the fifth in his Great South Land Saga of novels. It is set in Australia during the 1850s. Plot In 1850s Australia, Miss Susan Leigh searches for her father. References External links''The Challenge''at AustLit AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration betwee ... 1952 Australian novels Novels set in the 1850s Angus & Robertson books {{1950s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine McVie (album)
''Christine McVie'' is the second solo album by the British Fleetwood Mac vocalist and keyboardist Christine McVie, released in 1984. It was McVie's first solo recording since her 1970 self-titled release (under her maiden name). It features two US top-40 singles, "Got a Hold on Me" (US No. 10) and "Love Will Show Us How" (US No. 30). The album itself also achieved modest success in the United States, peaking at No. 26 and spending 23 weeks on the ''Billboard'' 200. In the UK, the album entered at #58 on chart. The band on this album includes Christine McVie (keyboards, percussion and vocals), Todd Sharp (guitar and backing vocals), George Hawkins (bass and backing vocals), and Steve Ferrone (drums and percussion). Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham sings backing vocals on tracks 2 ("The Challenge"), 7 ("Who's Dreaming this Dream?") and 10 ("The Smile I Live For"), plays guitar on track 6 ("Got a Hold on Me"), and plays lead guitar on track 10 ("The Smile I Live For" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Challenge (album)
''The Challenge'' is a solo piano album by Hampton Hawes. It was recorded in 1968 and released by Victor. It was his only solo album. Recording and music The solo piano album was recorded in Tokyo on May 7, 9, and 12, 1968. The project was "a result of a Japanese producer's enthusiasm for Hawes's music." The material includes jazz standards, the contemporary pop song "Who Can I Turn To?", and three Hawes originals. All except " Bags' Groove" are short performances. Hawes uses "contrapuntal left-hand lines, doubtless compensating for the absence of bass and drums." Release and reception ''The Challenge'' was released by Victor in Japan. The AllMusic reviewer concluded: "the pianist shows that he could create stirring music without the assistance of a rhythm section." ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' commented that the album was important for being Hawes's only solo release, and noted that even the unsuccessful performance of "Clementine" provided the listener with an insight into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Challenge (miniseries)
''The Challenge'' is a 1986 Australian mini series based on the 1983 America's Cup.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p182 It was one of the first television productions by Roadshow Coote and Carroll. The series sold well overseas and screened in the UK.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 110 Cast * John Wood – Alan Bond * John Diedrich – John Bertrand * John Clayton – Ben Lexcen * Bartholomew John – John Longley * Richard Moir – Warren Jones * Lorraine Bayly – Eileen Bond * Jacki Weaver – Rasa Bertrand * Tim Pigott-Smith – Peter de Savary * Nicholas Hammond – Dennis Conner * Ray Barrett – Bob McCullough * Peter Phelps – Will Baillieu * Ian Gilmour Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, (8 July 1926 – 21 September 2007) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was styled Sir Ian Gilmour, 3rd Baronet from 1977, hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical rainforests in the north-east, and mountain ranges in the south-east. Indigenous Australians have inhabited the continent for approximately 65,000 years. The European maritime exploration of Australia commenced in the early 17th century with the arrival of Dutch explorers. In 1770, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788, a date which became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
