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Bang
Bang, bang!, or bangs may refer to: Products * M1922 Bang rifle, a US semi-automatic rifle designed by Søren Hansen Bang * Bang, a model car brand * Bang (beverage), an energy drink Geography * Bang, Central African Republic * Bang, Lorestan, a village in Iran * Bangs, Ohio, United States * Bangs, Texas, United States People * Bang (surname) * Bangs (surname) * Bang, pseudonym of Barbro Alving (1909-1987), Swedish journalist *Stage name for Bae "Bang" Jun-sik, professional ''League of Legends'' player for Evil Geniuses Print media * ''Bang!'', a 2005 young adult novel by Sharon G. Flake * ''Bang: The Pickup Bible That Helps You Get More Lays'', a 2007 book by Roosh V * Bang, a character in the manga series ''One-Punch Man'' * Bay Area News Group (BANG), the largest newspaper publisher in the San Francisco Bay Area Magazines * ''Bang'' (magazine), founded 1991, Swedish magazine * ''The Bang'' (Vagabonds), 1907-1917, the weekly magazine of the Vagabonds (Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang (beverage)
Bang Energy is an American brand of energy drinks made by Vital Pharmaceuticals, a corporation located in Florida. As of 2023, Bang was the fourth-highest-selling energy drink in the United States, behind Monster, Red Bull and Celsius. On July 31, 2023, Monster Beverage acquired Vital Pharmaceuticals for $362 million. Including the Bang Energy brand and a beverage facility in Phoenix, Arizona, the deal came months after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. History Founded in 1993 by Jack Owoc, Bang's parent company manufactured and distributed sports supplements and performance beverages under the brand name VPX. Other products distributed by Vital included Redline, Noo Fuzion, and Meltdown. In 2012, Vital created Bang, marketed as a low sugar carbonated energy drink and with the mission to make high-quality nutritional supplements backed by scientific research. In 2017, it was announced that Bang would offer a caffeine-free variant of the beverage, using ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang! (card Game)
''Bang!'' is a Spaghetti Western-themed social deduction card game designed by Emiliano Sciarra and released by Italian publisher DV Giochi in 2002. In 2004, ''Bang!'' won the Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game of 2003 and Best Graphic Design of a Card Game or Expansion. The game is known worldwide as ''Bang!'', except in France, where it was known as '' Wanted!'' until September 2009. Overview The game is played by four to seven players (up to eight players with variants and expansions). Each player receives a unique character card with special abilities and a number of 'bullets' (representing life points), and takes one of the four roles with different objectives: * Sheriff (always one), whose objective is to kill all Outlaws and the Renegade(s); the player with this role has one extra bullet (life point), which is added to their max life point count, and reveals their role card to all players. * Deputy (from zero to two), whose objective is the same as the She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang Cartoon
Bang Cartoon (also called Bang Cartoons or Bang!) was a website that hosts satirical Flash cartoons based almost exclusively on the NFL. It was created in September 2003. It was operated by John Tayman who is a lifelong fan of the NFL and follows the Washington Redskins. In September 2005, a podcast series was introduced hosted by Tayman and the site's producer Tom Lacks. Like the cartoons it is satirical and based mostly on the NFL. Lacks is an avid Buckeye and Cowboy fan and this is often a source humor on the show. The cartoons grew out of Tayman's love for the NFL and his belief that many NFL fans take the sport too seriously. It has attracted both praise and criticism and has also become popular among a number of the players that they generally parody. The site hosts an active message board community which hosts discussion about the cartoon and podcasts. Links can be found on many player websites, most notably Clinton Portis and Santana Moss. History It began in early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang, Central African Republic
Bang is a village located near the Cameroon–Central African Republic border in Lim-Pendé Prefecture, Central African Republic. The village holds economic importance for the government since it generates customs revenue. History RJ captured Bang from Séléka on 10 February 2014. At the end of February, a fire incident occurred in Bang. It razed 520 houses, leading the villagers to flee the village. They only returned to Bang in March 2014. Bang was liberated by MISCA on 1 July 2014. Together with Ngaoundaye, RJ rebels encircled Bang on 15 June 2016. RJ attacked Bang on 4 April 2017. Bang fell to RJ's hand on 10 July 2017. This incident led the Cameroon authorities to close the border, causing the locals to be unable to go to the market in Mbaiboum. MINUSCA United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (also called MINUSCA, which is an initialism of its French name Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations unies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang (The Good Wife)
"Bang" is the fifteenth episode of the first season of the American legal drama television series ''The Good Wife''. It aired on CBS in the United States on March 2, 2010. In the episode, ex-States Attorney Peter Florrick ( Chris Noth) is released from prison to his home. He is confined to house arrest and starts working on restarting his legal career. His wife Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) has conflicted emotions about his return and distracts herself with a legal case, in which she defends a man accused of killing a mutual fund manager who assisted in Bernard Madoff's investment scandal. The episode was written by co-producer and staff writer Courtney Kemp Agboh and directed by Rod Holcomb. "Bang" included guest appearances by actors Alan Cumming and Gary Cole. Cole plays a forensics expert with a country persona and a strong set of ethics, while Cumming plays a cutthroat political operative several commentators said closely resembled White House Chief of Staff Rahm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang (magazine)
''Bang'' was a Swedish feminist culture and society magazine, which was subtitled Feministisk Kulturtidskrift. It was started in 1991 by students at Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social .... Previous editors-in-chief included Sanna Samuelsson and . The magazine is named after Barbro Alving, whose signature was "Bang". There were four issues per year with a circulation of 7,500. The last print issue was published in December 2019, and the magazine went on online-only format. The magazine went into bankruptcy in December 2020. References External links Magazine website 1991 establishments in Sweden 2020 disestablishments in Sweden Defunct women's magazines published in Sweden Feminist magazines published in Sweden Magazines established in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosh V
Daryush Valizadeh (born June 14, 1979), also known as Roosh Valizadeh, Roosh V and Roosh Vorek (or Vörek), is an American former alt-right blogger and pickup artist. Valizadeh wrote on his personal blog and also owned the ''Return of Kings'' website and Roosh V Forum, where he published articles by himself and others on related subjects. Valizadeh has self-published more than a dozen dating and travel guides, most of which discuss picking up and having relations with women in specific countries. His advice, his videos and his writings have received widespread criticism, including accusations of misogyny, antisemitism, homophobia, and having ties to the alt-right. Many of Valizadeh's publications have been taken down. On May 30, 2018, DreamHost took down Kings Wiki. On September 10, 2018, several of Valizadeh's books were removed from Amazon.com's self-publishing platform. He was also sanctioned by YouTube, another source of revenue for him, for violating their rules. On October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M1922 Bang Rifle
The Model 1922 Bang rifle is a US semi-automatic rifle designed by the Danish arms designer Søren Hansen Bang. It was a modification of the earlier Models of 1909 and Model 1911 Bang rifles, both chambered in the .30-06 Springfield round. Overview It was gas operated, using a sliding muzzle cup system which was blown forward by the combustion gases while the bullet emerged from the barrel. This ".256 Bang" rifle was a top candidate from 1925 to 1928 for US contracts ultimately won by the M1 Garand#History, M1 Garand. Bang himself demonstrated his own models in US field trials in 1919 and 1927. The Bang rifle was ultimately unsuccessful in US government testing because of its mechanical complexity and susceptibility to gas fouling of the sliding muzzle cup. The Bang blow-forward gas system, originally developed in 1903, inspired several other weapon developments: it was used in the unsuccessful French Puteaux APX Machine Gun, Puteaux APX machine gun of 1904, in its direct succes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang (Desperate Housewives)
"Bang" is the seventh episode of the third season of the ABC television series ''Desperate Housewives'', and the 54th overall episode of the series. The episode was written by Joe Keenan and directed by Larry Shaw, and was first broadcast on November 5, 2006. The episode received critical acclaim, and is widely considered to be one of the series' best episodes. "Bang" garnered 22.65 million viewers upon its initial broadcast, 6.6% more viewers than the previous episode, which garnered 21.24 million viewers. Felicity Huffman submitted this episode for consideration on her behalf in the category of “ Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series” at the 2007 Emmy Awards, and was later nominated. Plot Background ''Desperate Housewives'' focuses on the lives of several residents in the suburban neighborhood of Wisteria Lane. In previous episodes, Nora Huntington ( Kiersten Warren) kisses married man Tom Scavo (Doug Savant) before being threatened by his wife Lynette (Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang! (arcade Game)
Bit Managers, formerly known as New Frontier, was a video game developer based in Barcelona (Spain). It was co-founded by Alberto Jose González, who composed the music for all of their games except ''Bang!'', a coin-operated arcade machine. History The company was founded in 1988 as "New Frontier", initially programming games for ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX computer systems. The company at first met with only modest success. In 1992, the company changed its name to Bit Managers and began to make games for Nintendo consoles (especially for Game Boy). It focused on creating innovative games based on Franco-Belgian comics such as ''Asterix'', ''The Smurfs'' or ''The Adventures of Tintin'' for a client company, Infogrames. In 1997, Bit Managers was chosen by Acclaim Entertainment to develop some games of the ''Turok'' series for Game Boy. In 1998, the year of the launch of Game Boy Color, Bit Managers was the first third-party developer to finish two Game Boy Color titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang (The Shield)
''The Shield'' is an American crime drama television created by Shawn Ryan and starring Michael Chiklis. The series premiered on FX on March 12, 2002 and ended on November 25, 2008, totaling 88 episodes over seven seasons, plus one additional mini-episode. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (2002) Captain David Aceveda, seeking to usurp the current black City Council representative of Farmington by swaying the Latino vote, looks to rid his precinct, The Barn, of corruption, starting with Detective Vic Mackey and the controversial yet effective Strike Team that Mackey leads. Aceveda works with the Justice Department to bring Detective Terry Crowley onto the Strike Team to try to gain evidence to use on Vic. However, Vic is aware of Terry's informing due to his friendship with the Assistant Chief of Police, Ben Gilroy. When the Strike Team conducts a raid on the residence of Two-Time, a drug dealer, Vic and Strike Team member Detective Shane Vendrell are shot at by Two-Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang (film)
''Bang'' is a 1995 American crime drama film directed by Ash Baron-Cohen (aka Ash) who is the cousin of well-known TV and film performer, Sacha Baron Cohen. Plot A young woman in L.A. is having a bad day: she's evicted, an audition ends with a producer furious she won't trade sex for the part, and a policeman nabs her for something she didn't do, demanding fellatio to release her. She snaps, grabs his gun, takes his uniform, and leaves him cuffed to a tree where he's soon having a defenseless chat with a homeless man. She takes off on the cop's motorcycle and, for an afternoon, experiences a cop's life. She talks a young man out of suicide and then is plunged into violence after a friendly encounter with two "vatos." She is torn between self-protection and others' expectations. Is there any resolution for her torrent of feelings? Cast The film features an early film appearance by Lucy Liu Lucy Alexis Liu (; born December 2, 1968) is an American actress, producer, and artist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
