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"An exact Representation of the Capture of three Ships of the Line, and total defeat of the French Fleet, by a Squadron under Command of Admiral Lord Bridport, on the 23 of June, 1795"
Pru(nominated by Aoba47) is the debut studio album by American singer Pru. It was released on November 7, 2000, through Capitol Records. Pru was managed by Capitol Records executive Roy Lott, who had signed Pru to Warner/Chappell Music Publishing after being impressed by her songwriting and voice on a demo tape. Pru collaborated with Ben Garrison, the Characters, and Rick Williams on the album.
The Guilden Morden boar(nominated by Usernameunique) is a sixth- or seventh-century Anglo-Saxon copper alloy figure of a boar that may have once served as the crest of a helmet. It was found around 1864 or 1865 in a grave in Guilden Morden, a village in the eastern English county of Cambridgeshire. There, the boar attended a skeleton with other objects, including a small earthenware bead with an incised pattern, although the boar is all that now remains. Herbert George Fordham, whose father originally discovered the boar, donated it to the British Museum in 1904.
The Battle of Groix(nominated by Jackyd101) was a large naval engagement which took place near the island of Groix off the Biscay coast of Brittany on 23 June 1795 (5 Messidor an III) during the French Revolutionary Wars. The battle was fought between elements of the British Channel Fleet and the French Atlantic Fleet, which were cruising in the region on separate missions. Three French ships were captured, all with very heavy casualties, and the remainder of the French fleet was left scattered across miles of coastline.
Nights: Journey of Dreams(nominated by Jaguar) is an action video game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Wii. The sequel to the 1996 Sega Saturn title Nights into Dreams, it was released in Japan and North America in December 2007, and in Australia and Europe the following month. The story follows two children, Will and Helen, who enter a dream world called Nightopia. When their nightmares come to life, they enlist the help of Nights, an exiled "Nightmaren", as they journey through Nightopia to stop the evil ruler Wizeman from escaping into the real world..
The Rodrigues rail (Erythromachus leguati) (nominated by FunkMonk) is an extinct species of the rail family that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The Rodrigues rail was described as having grey plumage, a red beak, red legs, and a naked red patch around the eye. It was flightless, fed on tortoise eggs, and was described as being attracted to red objects, which humans exploited while hunting it. The Rodrigues rail is believed to have become extinct in the mid-18th century because of predation by introduced cats and destruction of its habitat by tortoise hunters.
"Habits (Stay High)"(nominated by Paparazzzi) is a song recorded by Swedish singer Tove Lo from her debut extended play, Truth Serum, and her debut studio album, Queen of the Clouds (2014). It was written by Lo with Ludvig Söderberg and Jakob Jerlström, while it was produced by the latter two under the production name The Struts. Initially, the singer self-released the song under the title "Habits" on 15 March 2013; after Lo was signed to Universal Music, the track was re-released on 6 December 2013. Musically, it is a pop and electropop song which features a minimal and upbeatelectronic instrumentation. Its lyrics delve into the singer's attempts to forget her previous boyfriend through substance abuse, drinking and other hedonistic practices.
The Fountainhead(nominated by RL0919) is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success. The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an individualistic young architect who designs modernist buildings and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation. Roark embodies what Rand believed to be the ideal man, and his struggle reflects Rand's belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
Achelousaurus(nominated by FunkMonk) is a genus of ceratopsiddinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America, about 74.2 million years ago. The first fossils of Achelousaurus were collected in Montana in 1987, by a team led by Jack Horner, with more finds made in 1989. An average-sized centrosaurine, Achelousaurus was about 6 m (20 ft) long, with a weight of about 3 t (3.3 short tons). As a ceratopsian, it walked on all fours, had a short tail and a large head with a hooked beak. It had a bony neck-frill at the rear of the skull, which sported a pair of long spikes curving towards the outside.
Casey Stengel(nominated by Wehwalt) was an American Major League Baseballright fielder and manager best known as the manager of both the championship New York Yankees of the 1950s, and later of the hapless expansion New York Mets. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. Although Stengel is sometimes described as one of the great managers in major league history, others have contrasted his success during the Yankee years with his lack of success at other times, and concluded he was only a good manager when given good players.
The Boat Races 2017(nominated by The Rambling Man) Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) tidal stretch of the River Thames in south-west London. For the second time in the history of the event, the men's, women's and both reserves' races were all held on the Tideway on the same day. The races were watched by around a quarter of a million spectators live, and were broadcast around the world by a variety of broadcasters. The two main races were also available for the first time as a live stream using YouTube.
Alfred Shout(nominated by Abraham, B.S.) was a New Zealand-born soldier posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at Lone Pine in August 1915, during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War. After Ottoman forces had counterattacked and seized a large stretch of the Australians' front line, Shout gathered a small party of men and charged down one trench throwing bombs. He managed to retake the trench, and in a similar action later that day, recaptured further ground. In the final push forward, Shout simultaneously lit three bombs to lob at the enemy. One burst just as it was leaving his hand. Shout was grievously wounded, and died two days later.
Mells War Memorial(nominated by HJ Mitchell) is a First World War memorial by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the village of Mells in the Mendip Hills of Somerset, south-western England. Unveiled in 1921, the memorial takes the form of a marble column topped by a sculpture of Saint George slaying a dragon, an image Lutyens used on two other public war memorials. At the base of the column, the names of the village's war dead are inscribed on stone panels. Additional panels were fixed to the wall after the Second World War to commemorate that conflict.
The black-necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) (nominated by RileyBugz) is a member of the grebefamily of water birds. This species is present in parts of Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas. Although it generally avoids flight, the black-necked grebe travels as far as 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) during migration. In addition, it becomes flightless for two months after completing a migration to reach an area where it can safely moult. The migrations to reach these areas are dangerous, sometimes with thousands of grebe deaths. In spite of this, it is classified as a least concern species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The northern rosella (Platycercus venustus) (nominated by Casliber) is a species of parrot native to northern Australia, ranging from the Gulf of Carpentaria and Arnhem Land to the Kimberley. It was described by Heinrich Kuhl in 1820, and two subspecies are recognised. The species is unusually coloured for a rosella, with a dark head and neck with pale cheeks. The northern rosella's mantle and scapulars are black with fine yellow scallops, while its back, rump and underparts are pale yellow with fine black scallops. The long tail is blue green and the wings are black and blue violet.
DJ AM (born Adam Michael Goldstein) (nominated by Freikorp) was an American disc jockey (DJ). Goldstein became obsessed with deejaying as a child after watching Herbie Hancock perform his 1983 single "Rockit". Goldstein developed a drug addiction as a teenager, and was addicted to crack cocaine for several years in his early twenties. Goldstein began deejaying in clubs in Los Angeles and joined the band Crazy Town in 1999. He left the group in 2001 and focused on a career as a solo DJ. On August 28, 2009, he was found dead in his New York City apartment from a drug overdose.
Cleopatra Selene(nominated by Attar-Aram syria) was queen consort of Egypt and Syria then regent and queen regnant of Syria. In various political maneuvers, Cleopatra Selene married her two brothers, and married her two cousins (who were also brothers). She finally married her step-son and gave birth to two children, one of whom became king, with herself as co-ruler. Cleopatra Selene controlled several coastal towns until 69 BC, when she was besieged by Tigranes in Ptolemais; the Armenian king captured the queen and later executed her.
Jean Bolikango(nominated by Indy beetle) was a prominent Congolese educator, writer, and conservative politician who enjoyed substantial popularity among the Bangala people. He served twice as Deputy Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo), in September 1960 and from February to August 1962. He headed the Parti de l'Unité Nationale and worked as a key opposition member in Parliament in the early 1960s.
Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball(nominated by Jaguar) is a pinball video game developed by the Sega Technical Institute and published by Sega. The game's plot revolves around series antagonist Doctor Robotnik's desire to enslave the population of planet Mobius via a machine powered by pinball-like mechanisms. The game is set in a series of pinball machine-like environments in which the player controls Sonic the Hedgehog, who acts as a pinball for the majority of the game.
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