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Frank Zappa (1940–1993) was an American musician, songwriter, composer, recording engineer, record producer and film director. Zappa may also refer to: *Zappa (surname), including a list of people with the name *Zappa (chess), a computer chess program * ''Zappa'' (film), a 1983 Danish film by Bille August * Zappa (''Guilty Gear''), a character from ''Guilty Gear'' *'' Zappa'', a 2020 documentary film about Frank Zappa *Zappa, a character in ''Chrono Cross'' *Zappa, a group of meerkats in ''Meerkat Manor'' See also *''Pachygnatha zappa'', a spider *'' Zappa confluentus'', the New Guinea slender mudskipper, endemic to New Guinea *Zappa–Szép product In mathematics, especially group theory, the Zappa–Szép product (also known as the Zappa–Rédei–Szép product, general product, knit product, exact factorization or bicrossed product) describes a way in which a group can be constructed fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by wikt:nonconformity, nonconformity, Free improvisation, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, Virtuoso, musical virtuosity and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed Rock music, rock, Pop music, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and ''musique concrète'' works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse musicians of his generation. As a self-taught composer and performer, Zappa had diverse musical influences that led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zappa (surname)
Zappa is a surname. It is an occupational name meaning "farmer", from the Italian word for "hoe" (gardening tool). Notable people with the name include: *Frank Zappa (1940–1993), an American musician, songwriter, composer, recording engineer, record producer and film director **Ahmet Zappa (born 1974), Frank's son *** Shana Muldoon Zappa (born 1977), American writer and designer of Disney Star Darlings, wife of Ahmet Zappa **Diva Zappa (born 1979), Frank's daughter **Dweezil Zappa (born 1969), Frank's son **Gail Zappa (1945–2015), Frank's wife **Moon Zappa (born 1967), Frank's daughter *Claudio Zappa (born 1997), Italian professional football defender *Francesco Zappa (1717–1803), Italian composer and cellist of the 18th century *Gino Zappa (1879–1960), Italian economist *Gō Zappa (雑破 業, Zappa Gō, born 1970), Japanese author and anime screenwriter * Guido Zappa (1915–2015), Italian mathematician * Lenny Zappa (born 1987), Australian professional boxer of Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zappa (chess)
Zappa, Zap!Chess or Zappa Mexico, is a UCI chess engine written by Anthony Cozzie, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The program emphasizes sound search and a good use of multiple processors. Earlier versions of Zappa are free (though not open-source software) and the current version (Zappa Mexico) is available at Shredder Computer Chess. History Zappa scored an upset victory at the World Computer Chess Championship in August, 2005, in Reykjavík, Iceland where it won with a score of 10 out of 11, and beat both Junior and Shredder, programs that had won the championship many times. In the speed chess portion of the tournament Zappa placed second, after Shredder. Zappa's other tournament successes include winning CCT7 on the Internet Chess Club (ICC) and defeating Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest 3-1. In Mexico in September 2007 Zappa won a match against Rybka by a score of 5 - 4. Many commentators had predicted a slew of draws based on the stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zappa (film)
''Zappa'' is a 1983 Danish coming-of-age drama film directed by Bille August. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival and was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Zappa was adapted for the screen from the novel by the same name by Bjarne Reuter. It is the first of a trilogy, followed by ''Når snerlen blomstrer'' and ''Vi der valgte mælkevejen''. The sequel ''Når snerlen blomstrer'' was also filmed by Bille August in 1984 and is known as ''Twist and Shout'' in English. Cast * Adam Tønsberg as Bjørn * Morten Hoff as Mulle * Peter Reichhardt as Steen * Lone Lindorff as Bjørn's mother * Arne Hansen as Bjørn's father * Thomas Nielsen as Henning * Solbjørg Højfeldt as Steen's mother * Bent Raahauge Jørgensen as Steen's father (as Bent Raahauge) * Inga Bjerre Bloch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zappa (Guilty Gear)
This is a list of characters from the ''Guilty Gear'' fighting game series. Creation and influences Daisuke Ishiwatari has cited Kazushi Hagiwara's manga ''Bastard!!'', and the fighting game ''Street Fighter II'' as influence to the ''Guilty Gear'' series.Translation However, he noted that the majority of other fighting games were just recycling the character's same skins or style, and so he wanted every character "to be unique in their own way." Kazuhiko Shimamoto's characters were also noted as an inspiration for the male characters, with Ishiwatari saying they needed to be "chivalrous person-like characters", and citing #Anji Mito, Anji Mito "the most closest to this type". The female ones, on the other hand, have not followed a standard, with Ishiwatari only remarking that th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Chrono Cross Characters
is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the PlayStation video game console. It is the successor to ''Chrono Trigger'', which was released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. While its predecessor, like most role-playing games at the time, only offered a handful of playable characters, ''Chrono Cross'' was notable for making 45 different characters available for recruitment over the course of the game, each with distinct backstory and speech patterns. The game's writer, Masato Kato, started with the core characters from ''Radical Dreamers'', a rare, Japan-only visual novel he felt ultimately went unfinished, and greatly expanded the cast and scenario, while leaving the creation of some minor characters to various other members of the development team. The developers also created an "auto accent program", to apply accents and other quirks to character's dialogue, making the dialogue altered depending on who was present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meerkat Manor
''Meerkat Manor'' is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films that premiered in September 2005. Originally broadcast on Animal Planet International for four series, until its cancellation in August 2008, the programme had a revival in 2021 with the programme now known as ''Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty'' in some countries. Using traditional animal documentary style footage along with narration, the series told the story of the Whiskers, one of more than a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats. The original programme was narrated by Bill Nighy, with the narration redubbed by Mike Goldman for the Australian airings and Sean Astin for the American broadcasts. The fourth series, subtitled ''The Next Generation'', saw Stockard Channing replacing Astin as the narrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pachygnatha Zappa
''Pachygnatha zappa'' is a spider named after musician Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by wikt:nonconformity, nonconformity, Free improvisation, free-form improvisation, sound experimen ... because of its unique markings which resemble his famous moustache. Belgian biologists Robert Bosmans and Jan Bosselaers, from the Ghent University, Rijksuniversiteit Gent organized two expeditions to Mount Cameroon and neighbouring ranges. In 1994 (in ''Zoologica Scripta'', Vol. 23, No. 4, pages 325–352) they introduced the species they named ''Pachygnatha zappa''. See also *List of organisms named after famous people (born 1900–1949) External links''Pachygnatha zappa'' Tetragnathidae Frank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zappa Confluentus
''Zappa confluentus'', the New Guinea slender mudskipper, is a mudskipper endemic to New Guinea, where it is only known from the lower parts of the Fly, Ramu and Bintuni Rivers. It is found on mudflats adjacent to turbid rivers. This species can reach a length of SL. Etymology ''Zappa'' was named after musician Frank Zappa "for his articulate and sagacious defense of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution". See also *List of organisms named after famous people (born 1900–1949) In biological nomenclature, organisms often receive scientific names that honor a person. A taxon (e.g. species or genus; plural: taxa) named in honor of another entity is an eponym, eponymous taxon, and names specifically honoring a person or per ... References Mudskippers Fish of New Guinea Taxa named by Tyson R. Roberts Fish described in 1978 Frank Zappa Oxudercinae Endemic fauna of New Guinea {{PapuaNewGuinea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
