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Big Bird (other)
Big Bird is a character in ''Sesame Street.'' Big Bird may also refer to: Songs *A 1968 song by Eddie Floyd *A 1983 song by The B-52s from the album ''Whammy!'' *A 2011 song by Andrew Jackson Jihad from the album ''Knife Man'' People *Larry Robinson, former hockey defenceman *Mark Fidrych, nicknamed "The Bird" after Big Bird *Joel Garner, West Indian cricketer, or his successor Curtly Ambrose Others *A high-energy cosmic neutrino by IceCube Neutrino Observatory in 2013 * Tokyo International Airport Terminal 1 (commonly known as Haneda Airport), in Ota, Tokyo * KH-9 "Hexagon", a spy satellite *NokScoot (call sign: Big Bird), a Thailand-based airline *Big Bird (finch), a species of Darwin's finches *Operation Big Bird *Suwon World Cup Stadium The Suwon World Cup Stadium (수원월드컵경기장) is a football stadium located in Suwon, South Korea. It has been home of the K League 2 team Suwon Samsung Bluewings since 2001. The capacity of the stadium is 44,031. Notable football e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bird
Big Bird is a Muppet character designed by Jim Henson and built by Kermit Love for the children's television show ''Sesame Street''. An bright yellow anthropomorphic bird, he can roller skate, ice skate, dance, swim, sing, write poetry, draw, and ride a unicycle. Despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as a single word (pronouncing it as in the song " ABC-DEF-GHI"). He would refer to grocer Mr. Hooper as "Mr. Looper", among other mispronunciations. He lives in a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone and right next to Oscar the Grouch's trash can. In Season 46, the nest sits within a small, furnished maple tree, and is no longer hidden by used construction doors. He has a teddy bear named Radar. Caroll Spinney performed Big Bird from 1969 to 2018. Matt Vogel began as an understudy in 1996 before becoming the character's full-time performer in 2018. In 2000, Big Bird was named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Floyd
Eddie Lee Floyd (born June 25, 1937) is an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter, best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s, including the No. 1 R&B hit song " Knock on Wood". Early life and education Floyd was born in Montgomery, Alabama, to Florence Floyd, a nurse, and Prince Edward, a steelworker. He had four siblings: Joe, Benny, Dave, and Louise. In 1950, at age 13, Floyd was sent to Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children at Mount Meigs, a juvenile correctional facility, after fighting with the principal. He began his formal music studies there, learning theory and singing in a choir. After three years at Mount Meigs, Floyd moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he lived with his aunt and uncle, Robert and Catherine West. Robert West was an impresario of the Detroit music scene and the founder of Lu Pine Records. Career At age 16, Floyd founded The Falcons, which also featured Mack Rice. They were forerunners to future Detr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whammy!
''Whammy!'' is the third studio album by American New wave music, new wave band the B-52's, released on April 27, 1983, by Warner Records, Warner Bros. (US) and Island Records (Europe, Japan). It was recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, in December 1982 and produced by Steven Stanley. The album spawned three singles: "Legal Tender (song), Legal Tender", "Whammy Kiss", and "Song for a Future Generation". The album entered the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 twice in 1983, reaching both number 29 and 171 throughout the year, while "Legal Tender" reached the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, as well as the Dance Club Songs, ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Play Singles chart alongside its two respective singles. The band's goal with ''Whammy!'' was to update their signature sound with drum machines and synthesizers. The album was also the first to feature vocal performances by all five members of the band, as exemplified in "Song for a Future Generation". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knife Man
''Knife Man'' is the fourth studio album by Andrew Jackson Jihad released by Asian Man Records on September 20, 2011. The album was recorded and mixed by Jalipaz Nelson at Audioconfusion in Mesa, Arizona. Track listing Critical reception Punk music review site AbsolutePunk gave the album a rating of 86 out of 100 with Dre Okorley concluding that "''Knife Man'' is synonymous to the gritted teeth and theatrical story lining of a clever manic depressive duo on a wild ride of political blindsiding and folk-rock maturity." Pop Matters gave the album a score of 8/10 stating "The moralizing on ''Knife Man'' does get heavy-handed at times, but the homespun simplicity and rage with which it’s delivered actually adds to its power." Also stating it was "one of the most remarkable albums you'll hear all year." Sputnikmusic gave the album 4.5/5. In popular culture In the television series Limitless (TV series), the track "Distance" is played during a montage scene in the third episode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Robinson
Larry Clark Robinson (born June 2, 1951) is a Canadian former ice hockey coach, executive and player. His coaching career includes head coaching positions with the New Jersey Devils (which he held on two occasions), as well as the Los Angeles Kings. For his play in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens and Los Angeles Kings, Robinson was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1995. He was also inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2017, Robinson was named one of the " 100 Greatest NHL Players". Larry is the brother of Moe Robinson. Playing career Larry Robinson played Junior 'A' hockey with the Brockville Braves of the CJHL and Major Junior in the Ontario Hockey League with the Kitchener Rangers then turned professional, spending 1971 to 1973 with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs of the American Hockey League before making it to the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens. Nicknamed "''Big Bird''" in part for his size (6'4’ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Fidrych
Mark Steven Fidrych ( ; August 14, 1954 – April 13, 2009), nicknamed "the Bird", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Detroit Tigers. Known for his quirky antics on the mound, Fidrych led the major leagues with a 2.34 ERA in 1976, won the American League (AL) Rookie of the Year award, and finished with a 19–9 record. Shortly thereafter, however, injuries derailed his career, which ended after just five seasons in the major leagues. Early life The son of an assistant school principal, Fidrych played baseball at Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough, Massachusetts, and at Worcester Academy, a day and boarding school in central Massachusetts.Wilson, Doug. The Bird: the Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Press, 2014. In the 1974 amateur draft he was selected in the 10th round by the Detroit Tigers. He later joked that when he received a phone call informing him tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Garner
Joel Garner (born 16 December 1952) is a former West Indian cricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early 1980s West Indies cricket teams. Garner is the highest ranked One Day International bowler according to the ICC best-ever bowling ratings, and is 37th in Tests.ICC Highest-Ever Test Ratings Reliance ICC rankings, accessed 21-Jan-2020 Garner was a member of the West Indies teams that won their second world title in the 1979 Cricket World Cup as well as finishing as runners-up at the . In conjunction with fell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtly Ambrose
Sir Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose KCN (born 21 September 1963) is an Antiguan former cricketer who played 98 Test matches for the West Indies. Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, he took 405 Test wickets at an average of 20.99 and topped the ICC Player Rankings for much of his career to be rated the best bowler in the world. His great height—he is tall—allowed him to make the ball bounce unusually high after he delivered it; allied to his pace and accuracy, it made him a very difficult bowler for batsmen to face. A man of few words during his career, he was notoriously reluctant to speak to journalists. He was chosen as one of the ''Wisden'' Cricketers of the Year in 1992; after he retired he was entered into the International Cricket Council Hall of Fame and selected as one of West Indies all-time XI by a panel of experts. Born in Swetes, Antigua, Ambrose came to cricket at a relatively late age, having preferred basketball in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IceCube Neutrino Observatory
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory (or simply IceCube) is a neutrino observatory developed by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. The project is a recognized CERN experiment (RE10). Its thousands of sensors are located under the Antarctic ice, distributed over a cubic kilometer. Similar to its predecessor, the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), IceCube consists of spherical optical sensors called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), each with a photomultiplier tube (PMT) and a single-board data acquisition computer which sends digital data to the counting house on the surface above the array. IceCube was completed on 18 December 2010. DOMs are deployed on strings of 60 modules each at depths between 1,450 and 2,450 meters into holes melted in the ice using a hot water drill. IceCube is designed to look for point sources of neutrinos in the electronvolt, teraelectronvolt (TeV) range to explore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo International Airport Terminal 1
, also known as and sometimes abbreviated to ''Tokyo-Haneda'', is the busier of the two international airports serving the Greater Tokyo Area, the other one being Narita International Airport (NRT). It serves as the primary domestic base of Japan's two largest airlines, Japan Airlines (Terminal 1) and All Nippon Airways (Terminal 2), as well as RegionalPlus Wings Corp. (Air Do and Solaseed Air), Skymark Airlines, and StarFlyer. It is located in Ōta, Tokyo, south of Tokyo Station. The facility covers 1,522 hectares (3,761 acres) of land. Haneda previously carried the IATA airport code TYO, which is now used by airline reservation systems and travel agencies within the Greater Tokyo Area, and was the primary international airport serving Tokyo until 1978; from 1978 to 2010, Haneda handled almost all domestic flights to and from Tokyo as well as "scheduled charter" flights to a small number of major cities in East and Southeast Asia, while Narita handled the vast majority of in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KH-9 Hexagon
KH-9 (Byeman Control System, BYEMAN codename HEXAGON), commonly known as Big Bird or KeyHole-9, p.32 Big Bird was a series of photographic reconnaissance satellites launched by the United States between 1971 and 1986. Of twenty launch attempts by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), all but one were successful. Photographic film aboard the KH-9 was stored on RCA Astro Electronic Division take up reel system then sent back to Earth in recoverable film return capsules for processing and interpretation. The highest ground resolution achieved by the main cameras of the satellite was , though another source says "images in the "better-than-one-foot" category" for the last "Gambit" missions. They are also officially known as the Broad Coverage Photo Reconnaissance satellites (Code 467), built by Lockheed Corporation for the NRO. The satellites were an important factor in determining Soviet Union, Soviet military capabilities and in the acquisition of accurate intelligence for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NokScoot
NokScoot Airlines Company Limited (commonly referred to as NokScoot) was a Thailand-based low-cost airline, operating medium- to long-haul international services out of Bangkok's Don Mueang International Airport. On 26 June 2020, the airline ceased its operation and was liquidated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. History On 16 December 2013, Scoot announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Nok Air to establish a new carrier in Bangkok, operating on medium- and long-haul routes with a fleet of Boeing 777-200 aircraft. NokScoot was a joint venture of Thailand's Nok Air and Singapore based Scoot. The airline operated commercial flights out of Don Mueang International Airport after 20 May 2015. Nok Air owned 51% of NokScoot, with Scoot, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, owning the remaining 49% – the Thai statutory limit for foreign ownership. The airline had an initial capital of 2 billion baht. NokScoot went out of business on 26 June 2020 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
