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Ike
Ike or IKE may refer to: People * Ike (given name), a list of people with the name or nickname * Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II and President of the United States Surname * Ike no Taiga (1723–1776), Japanese painter * Chika Ike (born 1985), Nigerian actress * Ike Gyokuran (1727–1784), Japanese painter * Reiko Ike (born 1953), Japanese actress Storms * Severe tropical storm Ike (Bining), in the 1981 Pacific typhoon season * Typhoon Ike (Nitang), in the 1984 Pacific typhoon season * Hurricane Ike (2008), in Greater Antilles and Northern America Arts and entertainment * ''Ike'' (miniseries), a 1979 television miniseries about Eisenhower * '' Ike: Countdown to D-Day'', a 2004 American television film *Ike, a fictional moon in the game ''Kerbal Space Program'' Transportation and military * Ikerasak Heliport (LID airport code), Greenland * USS ''Dwight D. Eisenhower'', an aircraft carrier * Dwight D. Ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurricane Ike
Hurricane Ike () was a powerful tropical cyclone that swept through portions of the Greater Antilles and Northern America in September 2008, wreaking havoc on infrastructure and agriculture, particularly in Cuba and Texas. Ike took a similar track to the 1900 Galveston hurricane. The ninth tropical storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Ike developed from a tropical wave west of Cape Verde on September 1 and strengthened to a peak intensity as a Category 4 hurricane over the open waters of the central Atlantic on September 4 as it tracked westward. Several fluctuations in strength occurred before Ike made landfall on eastern Cuba on September 8. The hurricane weakened prior to continuing into the Gulf of Mexico, but increased its intensity by the time of its final landfall in Galveston, Texas, on September 13 before becoming an extratropical storm on September 14. The remnants of Ike ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ike (given Name)
Ike is a mostly masculine given name and nickname, often short for English names Isaac, Isaiah, and Isidore. It may refer to: People Arts and entertainment * Ike Amadi (born 1979), Nigerian-American voice actor * Ike Barinholtz (born 1977), American actor, comedian, voice actor and screenwriter * Ike Cole (1927–2001), American jazz pianist and composer, brother of Nat King Cole * Ike Isaacs (guitarist) (1919–1996), Burmese-British jazz guitarist * Ike Isaacs (bassist) (1923–1981), American jazz bassist * Ike Moriz (born 1972), German-South African singer, songwriter and actor * Ike Quebec (1918–1963), American jazz tenor saxophonist * Ike Turner (1931–2007), American musician, bandleader, talent scout and record producer * Ike Willis (born 1955), American vocalist and guitarist * Ike Nwala (born 1986), American actor and comedian based in Tokyo, Japan Politics and the military * Ike Franklin Andrews (1925-2010), American politician * Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typhoon Ike
Typhoon Ike, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Nitang, was the second deadliest tropical cyclone in the 20th century in the Philippines. Ike originated from an area of disturbed weather southeast of Guam on August 21, 1984, and five days later, developed into a tropical depression. Following an increase in organization, the depression attained tropical storm intensity on August 27. Initially tracking west-southwest, the storm gradually gained strength as wind shear resulted relaxed and Ike became a typhoon on August 30. Continuing to rapidly intensity, Ike turned west and attained peak intensity on September 1, with the Japan Meteorological Agency estimating winds of . At around 14:00 UTC that day, Ike made landfall (meteorology), landfall on the northeastern tip of Mindanao. The cyclone emerged into the South China Sea on September 3 as a tropical storm before re-intensifying into a typhoon and moving onshore Hainan. Ike then struck the Chinese m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chika Ike
Chika 'Nancy' Ike (born 8 November 1985) is a Nigerian actress, television personality, producer, business woman, philanthropist and former model. Early life Born in Onitsha, Anambra state of Nigeria. She began acting in church plays at the age of six. Ike began her career as a model at age 16 just after finishing secondary school. In 2004, Ike completed a two-year diploma programme in Human Kinetics and Health Education before earning her degree in the same course, both from University of Lagos. In 2014, she graduated from the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles where she studied Film Making. Career Film and television Ike began her film career in 2005 when she played a minor character in the movie ''Sweet Love''. She got her first major role that same year in a movie titled ''Bless the Child'' and has since played major roles in over a hundred movies, such as ''Paradise'', ''Mirror of Beauty'', ''To Love a Stranger'', ''Girls Got Reloaded'', ''Happy Ending'', ''Yes We Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reiko Ike
is a Japanese actress, singer, and entertainer. She is best known for her roles in the genre of action/erotic movies known as ''pink films''. Ike also released an album of songs in 1971, ''Kōkotsu No Sekai''. After a drug-related arrest, and another arrest for illegal gambling in the 1970s, Ike dropped out of the entertainment business. Life and career Ike's career was launched with the fourth entry in Toei's ''Hot Springs Geisha'' series, ''Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha'' (1971). A media frenzy erupted following the release of this film when Ike claimed to have lied about her age to gain a part in the movie. Claiming to have in fact been sixteen years of age when she starred in this softcore sex film, Ike caused a scandal. The publicity only served to make the film one of Toei's most profitable films of the 1970s. In her third film, director Norifumi Suzuki's ''Modern Porno Tale: Inherited Sex Mania'' (1971), Ike co-starred with French erotic actress, Sandra Julien. Eirin, the Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ike No Taiga
was a Japanese painter and calligrapher born in Kyoto during the Edo period. Together with Yosa Buson, he perfected the ''bunjinga'' (or '' nanga'') genre. The majority of his works reflected his passion for classical Chinese culture and painting techniques, though he also incorporated revolutionary and modern techniques into his otherwise very traditional paintings. As a ''bunjin'' (文人, literati, man of letters), Ike was close to many of the prominent social and artistic circles in Kyoto, and in other parts of the country, throughout his lifetime. Life Ike no Taiga was born into a poor and socially humble family; his father was a farmer on the outskirts of Kyoto. The family moved into Kyoto proper some years before Taiga's birth, possibly to escape famine. His father found work at the silver mint, which granted his family some small degree of wealth, but he died when Taiga was three years of age. Taiga's widowed mother somehow managed to afford to provide him with good teac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ike Gyokuran
was a Japanese Bunjinga painter, calligrapher, and poet. She was famous in Kyoto, Japan, during her lifetime, and she remains a celebrated artist in Japan. Gyokuran was born of a decade long affair between her mother, Yuri, and a high ranking retainer of the ruling Tokugawa shogun. Her parents gave her the birth name . As a child, she was given the art-name Gyokuran, meaning "Jewel Waves," most likely by her painting teacher Yanagisawa Kien (1707–1758). Gyokuran married fellow artist Ike no Taiga, and she is best known by her married name Ike Gyokuran. Her surname before marriage was Tokuyama, and she is also known as Tokuyama Gyokuran. Early life and education Like her mother, Machi composed ''waka'' poetry, but excelled in painting and Calligraphy. Gyokuran began to learn to paint at an early age under famous literati painter Yanagisawa Kien, who was a regular at her mother's teahouse. It is likely that he was the one to introduce her to Ike no Taiga, who became her t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Pacific Typhoon Season
The 1981 Pacific typhoon season was a slightly above average season that produced 29 tropical storms, 13 typhoons and two intense typhoons. The season ran throughout 1981, though most tropical cyclones typically develop between May and October.Gary PadgettMay 2003 Tropical Cyclone Summary. Retrieved 2007-01-05. The season's first named storm, Freda, developed on March 12 while the final storm, Lee, dissipated on December 29. Tropical cyclones only accounted for 12 percent of the rainfall in Hong Kong this season, the lowest percentage for the protectorate since 1972. Hong Kong Royal Observatory (1982)Meteorological Results 1981: Part III - Tropical Cyclone Summaries.Retrieved of 2008-11-10. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator between 100°E and 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean, there are two separate agencies that assign names to tropical cyclones which can often result in a cyclone having two names. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ikerasak Heliport
Ikerasak Heliport is a heliport in Ikerasak, a village on an island of the same name in the Uummannaq Fjord system in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland .... The heliport is considered a ''helistop'', and is served by Air Greenland as part of government contract. Airlines and destinations Air Greenland operates government contract flights to villages in the Uummannaq Fjord region. These mostly cargo flights are not featured in the timetable, although they can be pre-booked. Departure times for these flights a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ike, Texas
Ike is an unincorporated community in Ellis County, Texas, United States. The community is served by Farm to Market Road 878 A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used f .... The nearest city to Ike is Waxahachie. References External links Ike, TXat '' Handbook of Texas'' Online Unincorporated communities in Ellis County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex {{EllisCountyTX-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ike (miniseries)
''Ike'', also known as ''Ike: The War Years'', is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, mostly focusing on his time as Supreme Commander in Europe during World War II. The screenplay, written by Melville Shavelson, was based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir ''Eisenhower Was My Boss'' and her 1975 autobiography, ''Past Forgetting: My Love Affair''. Directed by Boris Sagal and Melville Shavelson, the production starred Robert Duvall as Eisenhower and Lee Remick as Kay Summersby. Film editors John Woodcock and Bill Lenny won an Eddie Award Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing. Members use the post-nominal ... for their work and the series garnered five Emmy Award nominations. External links * 1970s American television miniseries Television series produced at Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerbal Space Program
''Kerbal Space Program'' (''KSP'') is a space flight simulation video game developed by Mexican developer Squad for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. In the game, players direct a nascent space program, staffed and crewed by green humanoid aliens known as "Kerbals". The game features a realistic orbital physics engine, allowing for various real-life orbital maneuvers such as Hohmann transfer orbits and orbital rendezvous. The first public version was released digitally on Squad's ''Kerbal Space Program'' storefront on 24 June 2011, and joined Steam's early access program on 20 March 2013. The game was released out of beta on 27 April 2015. ''Kerbal Space Program'' has support for user-created mods that add new features. Popular mods have received support and inclusion in the game by Squad. People such as Scott Manley and organizations involved in space travel have taken an interest in the game, including NASA, the European Space Agency, Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
