Otis Williams (born Otis Miles Jr.; October 30, 1941) is an American baritone singer. Nicknamed “Big Daddy”, he is occasionally also a songwriter and a record producer . Williams is the founder and last surviving original member of the Motown vocal group The Temptations, a group in which he continues…
Oliver Twist is born into a life of poverty and misfortune, raised in a workhouse in the fictional town of Mudfog. Around the time of Oliver’s ninth birthday, Mr Bumble, the parish beadle, removes Oliver from the baby farm and puts him to work picking and weaving oakum at the…
Otzi the Iceman, also called Similaun Man, Hauslabjoch Man or even Frozen Fritz, was discovered in 1991, eroding out of a glacier in the Italian Alps near the border between Italy and Austria. The human remains are of a Late Neolithic or Chalcolithic man who died in 3350-3300 BC. Otzi…
Ollivander was widely considered the best wandmaker in the world, and many wizards and witches bought their wands from him. In 1996, Ollivander was captured and tortured by Lord Voldemort. Is Mr. Ollivander bad? Ollivander is a Ravenclaw – we know this from Pottermore, and his memory of his sold…
Owen Sheers is an award-winning poet and short story writer, an exciting young talent whose work has been described by former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion as “sharp, fresh, clear and ambitious”. Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 but brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales. He was the first writer…
She is the goddess who, with Jupiter, presides over law and order. She also reigns with him in Olympus as his trusted assessor and no longer as his wife; she represents divine justice in all its relations to man. Recipients: The top three competitors receive medals Shape: Usually circular,featuring an…
Once and Again. Once and Again is an American television series that aired on ABC from September 21, 1999 to April 15, 2002. It depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father. Wood’s “Once and Again” binge is not legally duplicable, because the full…
Approximately 23,000 – 12,000 years ago the Niagara Escarpment was covered with a 2 – 3 kilometers thick sheet of ice, known as the “Wisconsin Glacier”. The retreat of the Wisconsin Glacier was the consequence of the Great Lakes surrounding Niagara Peninsula and the Niagara Falls themselves. The rushing water…
Operation Motorman was a large operation carried out by the British Army in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. The operation took place in the early hours of 31 July 1972 with the aim of retaking the ” no-go areas ” (areas controlled by Irish republican paramilitaries) that had been established…
He attended Iowa Falls High School and was a McDonald’s All-American in 1999. Nicholas John Collison (born October 26, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player who played his entire 15-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Seattle SuperSonics/Oklahoma City Thunder franchise. On May 10, 2018,…