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Shamus may refer to: * ''Shamus'' (video game), a 1982 computer game from Synapse Software * ''Shamus'' (film), a 1973 film starring Burt Reynolds * Shamus Wong, a character from the children's book Tracey McBean * Colloquial term for a private detective People * Shamus Culhane (1908–1996), American animator, film director and producer * Shamus Khan (born 1978), American sociologist * Shamus O'Brien (1907–1981), Scottish-American soccer player * Gareb Shamus, CEO of Wizard Entertainment See also * Shamu, SeaWorld's first killer whale (died 1971) * Shamu (SeaWorld show), SeaWorld's contemporary killer whale shows * Seamus (other) * Sheamus (born 1978), Irish professional wrestler * ''Shammes'' or Gabbai A ''gabbai'' (), sometimes spelled ''gabay'', also known as ''shamash'' (, sometimes transcribed ''shamas'') or warden ( UK, similar to churchwarden), is a beadle or sexton, a person who assists in the running of synagogue services in some w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamus (computer Game)
''Shamus'' is a shooter game, shooter with light action-adventure game elements written by Cathryn Mataga (credited as William Mataga) and published by Synapse Software. The original Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 8-bit computer version was released on disk and tape in 1982. According to Synapse co-founder Ihor Wolosenko, ''Shamus'' made the company famous by giving it a reputation for quality. "Funeral March of a Marionette", the theme song from ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', plays on the title screen. The player moves through four flip-screen levels, each containing 32 rooms, shooting attackers and collecting keys for locked areas while searching for the exit. ''Shamus'' was inspired by the 1980 ''Berzerk (video game), Berzerk'' arcade video game. The game was ported to the Apple II, VIC-20, Commodore 64, TRS-80 Color Computer, TI-99/4A, and IBM Personal Computer, IBM PC. Several of these were published by Atarisoft. It was later sold on cartridge by Atari Corporation following t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamus (film)
''Shamus'' is a 1973 American comedy thriller, comedy thriller film directed by Buzz Kulik, and starring Burt Reynolds and Dyan Cannon. The word "wikt:shamus, shamus" means "detective" in American slang. Plot A man named Victor Papas is attacked by two men at his home and burned to death with a flamethrower, along with his girlfriend. Shamus McCoy, a private detective in Brooklyn, New York, receives a request from E.J. Hume, a wealthy man who runs many companies, to find the diamonds that were stolen from Papas as well as about the murderers. Hume says that Papas stole several million dollar worth of diamonds from Hume just before he was killed. McCoy wonders why he was selected to do the job, but is attracted by the high fee and accepts the proposal. McCoy uses his friend Springy, an informant, and a drug dealer he knows to investigate Papas' background, and finds out that he and his girlfriend worked for a company called River Edge Export. According to Springy's information, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey McBean
''Tracey McBean'' is an Australian animated children's television series produced by Southern Star Entertainment and Film Australia. The show was aired from 2001 until 2006 on ABC Kids. Overview The main protagonist, Tracey, is a young nine-year-old girl who goes to school with her best friend Shamus. Together they use Tracey's inventions for all kinds of purposes, such as school competitions or simply for fun. Tracey lives in a house and Shamus on the 15th floor of a tall apartment building. Shamus loves gardening organically and Tracey likes inventing devices and contraptions. Tracey uses a caravan in her backyard for inventing. The caravan, white with a horizontal thick red stripe, has an antenna, and a computer and many devices and parts within. Tracey's younger sister, Megan, often annoys her to the extent that she will invent something to stop this annoyance. The antagonists are the McConnolly brothers, who go to Tracey's school. They often are rivals of McBean though lac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Investigator
A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI; also known as a private detective, an inquiry agent or informally a wikt:private eye, private eye) is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private investigators often work for lawyer, attorneys in civil and criminal cases. History In 1833, Eugène François Vidocq, a French soldier, criminal, and privateer, founded the first known private detective agency, "Le Bureau des Renseignements Universels pour le commerce et l'Industrie" ("The Office of Universal Information For Commerce and Industry") and hired ex-convicts. Much of what private investigators did in the early days was to act as the police in matters for which their clients felt the police were not equipped or willing to do. Official law enforcement tried many times to shut it down. In 1842, police arrested him in suspicion of unlawful imprisonment and taking money on false pretences after he had solved an embezzleme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamus Culhane
James H. "Shamus" Culhane (November 12, 1908 – February 2, 1996) was an American animator, film director, and film producer. He is best known for his work in the Golden age of American animation. Career Shamus Culhane worked for a number of American animation studios, including Fleischer Studios, the Ub Iwerks studio, Walt Disney Productions, and Walter Lantz Productions. He began his animation career in 1925 working for Bray Productions on the Dinky Doodle series, produced under the supervision of Walter Lantz. After Bray he served as an inker on Ben Harrison’s and Manny Gould’s Krazy Kat cartoons before moving to Fleischer Studios in 1929 after producer Charles Mintz did not retain him upon transferring the studio to Hollywood. Culhane is known for promoting the animation talents of his inker/assistant at Fleischer in the early 1930s, Lillian Friedman Astor, making her the first female studio animator. After serving as director on several Talkartoons and ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamus Khan
Shamus Rahman Khan (born October 8, 1978) is an American sociologist. He has been a professor of Sociology and American studies at Princeton University since 2021. Formerly he served as chair of the sociology department at Columbia University. He writes on elites, inequality, gender/sexuality, and American culture. His work has appeared in numerous national and international media outlets. Early life Khan was born in New York to M. Akmal Khan, a surgeon, and Maura Khan, a nurse, both immigrants from Pakistan and Republic of Ireland, Ireland, respectively. He has an older brother, Omar Khan, who has a PhD in political science from University of Oxford, Oxford and was the director of the Runnymede Trust until 2020 and is currently the director of the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO). Khan attended St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, graduating magna cum laude with distinction in mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamus O'Brien
William Shamus O'Brien (November 29, 1907 – November 28, 1981) was an American-Scottish soccer inside left. During his Hall of Fame career, O'Brien spent eight seasons in the first American Soccer League and another five in the second American Soccer League. Youth While born in Scotland, O'Brien's family immigrated to the United States when he was eleven. They initially settled in Newport News, Virginia when his father was hired by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. However, the family did not remain in Virginia, but moved to Kearny, New Jersey where O'Brien was immersed in one of the country's most productive soccer regions. He began his career with Ryerson Juniors, winning the 1925 New Jersey state cup. He then briefly moved to Hartley before turning professional in the fall of 1925. Professional In 1925, the New York Giants of the American Soccer League signed O'Brien. In 1928, the Giants, along with two other teams from the ASL, were suspended from the leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wizard Entertainment
Wizard Entertainment Inc., formerly known as Wizard World, was a producer of multi-genre fan conventions across North America. The company that became Wizard Entertainment began in 1991 as Wizard Press, the publisher of the monthly magazine '' Wizard''. That company evolved into a multi-title publishing company with diversified interests in branded products and related convention operations. By 2011, the company had discontinued its print division to focus exclusively on its convention business. By 2015, the company had expanded to producing 25 annual conventions around the U.S. In 2021, Wizard sold its convention events business to FanExpo. Corporate history Gareb Shamus founded '' Wizard'' magazine in January 1991 shortly after he graduated from college. The company was originally based in Congers, New York. ''Wizard'' magazine was successful, and the company expanded its publishing operations with more magazines devoted to other elements of the collectible industry. Wizard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamu
Shamu ( – August 16, 1971) was a female orca The orca (''Orcinus orca''), or killer whale, is a toothed whale and the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family. The only extant species in the genus '' Orcinus'', it is recognizable by its black-and-white-patterned body. A cosmopol ... captured in October 1965 from a Southern resident orca, southern resident pod. She was sold to SeaWorld San Diego and became a star attraction. Shamu was the fourth orca ever captured, and the second female. She died in August 1971, after about six years of captive orcas, captivity. After her death, the name Shamu continued to be used in Shamu (SeaWorld show), SeaWorld "Shamu" shows for different orcas in different SeaWorld parks. Early life Shamu was born sometime around 1961. She was the first-known intentional live capture of a healthy orca as the three previous captures (List of captive orcas#Wanda, Wanda, Moby Doll and Namu (orca), Namu) had been unintentional and opportunistic. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamu (SeaWorld Show)
''Shamu'' was the stage name used for several performing orcas at SeaWorld. The Shamu show began in the 1960s. The original Shamu died in 1971, but the name was trademarked by SeaWorld, and has been given to different orcas over the years. In March 2016, following the 2010 death of orca trainer Dawn Brancheau, and subsequent public backlash from the 2013 documentary ''Blackfish (film), Blackfish'', SeaWorld announced they would be ending their orca breeding program and phasing out their orca shows, instead opting to introduce "new, inspiring, natural orca encounters rather than theatrical shows…[focusing] on orca enrichment, exercise and overall health." Original Shamu In October 1965, a female juvenile orca was captured from the southern resident killer whales, southern resident pod in Penn Cove, Puget Sound, Washington (state), Washington by Ted Griffin (orca capturer), Ted Griffin. After living at the Seattle aquarium for two months, she was sold to SeaWorld San Diego in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seamus (other)
Seamus may refer to: * Séamus, a Gaelic male given name Film and television * Seamus (''Family Guy''), a character on the television series ''Family Guy'' * Seamus, a pigeon in '' Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' * Seamus McFly, a fictional Irish character from ''Back to the Future Part III'' (Marty McFly's Great Great Grandfather) * M/V ''Seamus'' (934TXS), a space salvage freighter, and the primary setting for ''Archer'' season 10, " Archer: 1999" Music * "Seamus" (song), the fifth song on Pink Floyd's 1971 album ''Meddle'' Other uses * Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States * Seamus (dog), a dog belonging to U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney * Seamus Finnigan, a character in ''Harry Potter'' by J.K. Rowling See also * * * Sheamus Stephen Farrelly (born 28 January 1978) is an Irish Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw (WWE brand), Raw brand under the ring name Sheamus. Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheamus
Stephen Farrelly (born 28 January 1978) is an Irish Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw (WWE brand), Raw brand under the ring name Sheamus. Prior to joining WWE, he wrestled on the European independent circuit. After becoming part of WWE's main roster in 2009, he went on to become a four-time Professional wrestling world championship, world champion, having held the WWE ChampionshipSheamus' first two reigns were when the title was known as the WWE Championship while his third reign was as WWE World Heavyweight Champion. List of WWE Champions, three times and WWE's World Heavyweight Championship (WWE, 2002–2013), World Heavyweight Championship List of World Heavyweight Champions (WWE), once. He is the first Irish world champion in WWE history, and is also a List of WWE United States Champions, three-time WWE United States Championship, United States Champion and a five-time tag team champion (List of World Tag Team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
