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0 | !!! | "!!! ( ) is an American dance-punk band that formed in Sacramento, California, United States, in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer. Members of !!! came from other local bands such as The Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers. They are currently based in New York City. The band's seventh album, ""Shake the Shudder"", wa... |
1 | !!! | "integrate the hardcore singer Nic Offer from the Yah Mos. The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie ""The Gods Must Be Crazy"", in which the clicking sounds of the Bushmen's Khoisan language were represented as ""!"". However, as the bandmembers themselves say, !!! is pronounced by repeating thrice an... |
2 | !!! | "Standard Laboratories. This was followed in 2003 by the single ""Me and Giuliani Down By the School Yard"", a lengthy track combining house beats with sinewy basslines, psychedelic guitars, and simple lyrics which quote the title song of the musical ""Footloose"". A second full-length, ""Louden Up Now"", was released ... |
3 | !!! | "and killed by a car while riding his bike. They released their third album, ""Myth Takes"" in 2007. !!! is composed of Mario Andreoni (guitar), Dan Gorman (horns/percussion/keys), Nic Offer (vocals), Tyler Pope (bass/various electronic devices), and Allan Wilson (horns/percussion/keys). Touring members include Shannon... |
4 | !Action Pact! | "!Action Pact! was a London-based punk rock band, formed in 1981 by guitarist Wild Planet, bassist Kim Igoe, singer George Cheex, and drummer Joe Fungus. !Action Pact! was from Stanwell in Middlesex, and was also originally named Bad Samaritans. In 1981 they changed their name to !Action Pact!. The John from Dead Mans ... |
5 | !Action Pact! | """Heathrow Touchdown"" which was released in October, 1981, while George and Joe were still only 15 years old. ""London Bouncers"" and ""All Purpose Action Footwear"", got the attention of BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel. He played their songs often and he convinced the band to record their first full session, which they did... |
6 | !Action Pact! | "Bag"" EP, was released in July 1982 and rocketed to the top of the British punk chart. The band would later be joined by drummer Grimly Fiendish and bassist Thistles, and producer Phil Langham would also moonlight on bass under the name Elvin Pelvin; whereas Kim Igoe, the bassist, continued on as a lyricist. The band ... |
7 | !Hero (album) | "!Hero is an album featuring the songs from the rock opera, !Hero. It is based on the question, ""What if Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania?"" The rock opera modernizes Jesus' last two years on earth and features a cast of many well-known Christian rock artists with Michael Tait, Rebecca St. James, and Mark Stu... |
8 | !Hero | "!HERO is a 2003 Christian rock opera about Jesus. It is based on the question, ""What if Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania?"". After the original tour in 2003 ended, it was released on DVD, CD, and was written into a trilogy of novels and series of comic books. ""!HERO"" is a rock opera modernizing Jesus's las... |
9 | !Hero | all religion in the world has been wiped out, except for small occult and mystic sects. Only one synagogue in Brooklyn exists. Currently, New York City is a police-occupied warzone between ethnic gangs and small, isolated revolutionary groups fighting I.C.O.N. Of all the ancient world religions, only Judaism survives a... |
10 | !Hero | "the people of New York City, teaching people to love their enemies and care for each other. I.C.O.N. realizes HERO is a threat, and the Chief of police Devlin (a derivative of the Devil or Satan), with the help of chief Rabbi Kai (Caiaphas), conspire to end HERO's revolutionary teachings. The Opera is narrated by ""Ag... |
11 | !Kora Wars | The !Kora Wars was a period of raiding by the !Kora people and subsequent military action by the Boer authorities. The mid-nineteenth century experienced migration as a result of the protracted frontier wars that forced the movement of certain indigenous groups further north of the Cape Colony. These included the Khois... |
12 | !Kora Wars | volume and intensity during the mid eighteen hundreds. This forced the authorities to launch a series of expeditions aimed at countering the raids. The !Kora were finally crushed in 1879, but their intimate knowledge of the Gariep (Orange River) rendered them the most significant threat to settler colonies outside of t... |
13 | !Kora Wars | these differences were caused by quarrels over grazing rights, livestock and water sources. The !Ikora were a nomadic people, who were not bound to any one place for long stretches of time, even then they were considered to be semi-pastoral communities. Many of them shunned life in the Cape Colony because it meant livi... |
14 | !Kora Wars | at raiding livestock belonging to colonial settler communities. Many groups within the !Kora community lived all along the expansive Orange River. They became highly knowledgeable of it and used its islands and riverbanks to their advantage. During this time the banks of the Orange were dense with foliage and reeds. On... |
15 | !Kora Wars | Orange River region were able to counter some of the raids from the !Kora people, however a highly skilled and organised group of !Kora marauders began to emerge. A former slave known as Stuurman who belonged to a family in Griqualand led this group. Little is recorded on his ancestry. With a growing number of disgrunt... |
16 | !Kora Wars | years they proceeded to loot the border towns of Clanwilliam, Beaufort West and Graaf Reinet. These were areas leading out of the Cape Colony; policing presence in these areas was scattered. Stuurman also launched attacks on the Tswana of Griqualand. Stuurman was however shot and killed by a white cattle farmer. The 18... |
17 | !Kora Wars | latter's migration. The communities around the Orange River were beginning to grow in their numbers, a reality that some !Kora leaders took full advantage of. The most notorious leaders of this time were Klaas Springbokke of the Springbokke group, Klaas Lukas of the Cat Korana group, with Cupido Pofadder occupying the ... |
18 | !Kora Wars | Jan Kivido and Piet Rooi formed a partnership and were the most consistent raiders. The first recorded significant incident between the !Kora people and the colonial government occurred in 1869, when a Griqua and Scottish trader were robbed along the southern bank of the Orange River. Piet Rooi, the leader of another n... |
19 | !Kora Wars | spurred them into increased levels of livestock pillaging that belonged to the settlers throughout the region. A three hundred-man strong commando under Special Magistrate Maxmillian Jackson was deployed to try and deal with Rooi and Kivido’s activities, and although Kivido was killed in the insurgence, the attack was ... |
20 | !Kora Wars | in exchange for information on the other marauding groups. Lukas orchestrated the recapture of Rooi and some of his cohorts, and handed them over to the Special Magistrate, and about 400 men were sentenced to Robben Island. Those who were able to evade capture retreated into the Kalahari Desert. Some among the captured... |
21 | !Kung languages | "!Kung (!Xun), also known as Ju, is a dialect continuum (language complex) spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola by the ǃKung people, constituting two or three languages. Together with the ǂʼAmkoe language, !Kung forms the Kxʼa language family. !Kung constituted one of the branches of the putative Khoisan language fa... |
22 | !Kung languages | "such as the ǃ in its name, and has some of the most complex inventories of both consonants and vowels in the world. It also has tone. For a description, see Juǀʼhoan. To pronounce ""!Xuun"" (pronounced in Western !Kung/!Xuun) one makes a click sound before the ""x"" sound (which is like a Scottish or German ""ch""), f... |
23 | !Kung languages | "is also sometimes used for the northern/northwestern dialects, as opposed to the well documented ""Ju|ʼhoan"" dialects in the south(east); however speakers of nearly all dialects call themselves ""!Kung"". The spellings ""!Xun"" and ""!Xuun"" seen in recent literature are related to the Ju|ʼhoan form spelled ""ǃXʼu(u)... |
24 | !Kung languages | populous !Kung variety, Juǀʼhoan, is perhaps tied for third place with Naro. Estimates vary, but there are probably around 15,000 speakers. Counting is difficult because speakers are scattered on farms, interspersed with speakers of other languages, but Brenzinger (2011) counts 9,000 in Namibia, 2,000 in Botswana, 3,70... |
25 | !Kung languages | special forces against the Angolan Army and SWAPO. At the end of the Border War, more than one thousand fighters and their families were relocated to Schmidtsdrift in South Africa amid uncertainty over their future in Namibia. After more than a decade living in precarious conditions, the post-Apartheid government bough... |
26 | !Kung languages | "and fifteen dialects, but the boundaries are unclear. There is a clear distinction between North/Northwest vs South/Southeast, but also a diverse Central group that is poorly attested. Heine & Honken (2010) classify the 11 traditionally numbered dialects into three branches of what they consider a single language: Hei... |
27 | !Oka Tokat | "!Oka Tokat is a Filipino paranormal drama, which ran on ABS-CBN from June 24, 1997 to July 2, 2002. It originally aired every Tuesday night and starred Ricky Davao, Diether Ocampo, Jericho Rosales, Angelika Dela Cruz, Rica Peralejo, Paolo Contis and Agot Isidro. The show's title is the reverse spelling of the phrase "... |
28 | !PAUS3 | "!PAUS3, or THEE PAUSE, (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), now located in the New York City area, is an international platinum selling musician and artist, who began his career in his early teens in the former Soviet Bloc nations of Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria. THEE PAUSE has been previously selected by MTV & 495 ... |
29 | !PAUS3 | "Than Disco"", ""Hot Biscuits"", ""The Atlantic Monthly"", ""Trip Hop Daily"", ""Creme de le Creme"", ""reverb"", ""Music Under Fire"", and ""Fahrenheit"", and has multiple top-charting tracks and remixes on The Hype Machine and Beatport. THEE PAUSE was selected in February 2012 as a featured DJ for W Hotels Worldwide ... |
30 | !PAUS3 | "meets digital chaos"". THEE PAUSE is bassist, programmer and provides back-up vocals. Lead vocals are provided by Alice Love. Billy Vapor Eyes plays drums, keyboards and rhythm guitars. Their debut EP ""Hello"" successfully charted on two individual Hype Machine Top 100 singles charts without major label promotion, Ey... |
31 | !PAUS3 | "producer DJ Alex J of Digable Planents fame for a late-2012 CD and digital release on Projecting Nothing Records titled ""Of The Echoes"". In March 2013, THEE PAUSE joined forces with Scott Putesky, former lead guitarist and co-founder of the band Marilyn Manson, to form ""The Daisy Kids"". The Daisy Kids was an Ameri... |
32 | !PAUS3 | "four-song CD entitled ""The Samsung Sessions"". That four-song CD/demo was shelved due to legal issues regarding the use of uncleared samples, and only one track from those recording sessions has surfaced to date. Tracks known to have been recorded include: With legal issues resolved, November 20, 2015, saw the releas... |
33 | !PAUS3 | "Samsung"" EP was released digitally on September 20, 2015, via Organic Intelligence Records internationally. Vocal duties were split on this EP between Daisy Berkowitz, THEE PAUSE and Justin Symbol. No tour was planned at the time as the band members focused on their health, and Justin Symbol continued to pursue his v... |
34 | !T.O.O.H.! | "!T.O.O.H.! (an acronym for ""The Obliteration of Humanity"") is a progressive death metal band from the Czech Republic formed in 1990. Early in their career, the band's lyrics focused mainly on gore, but in recent years they have focused a lot more on politics and social matters. The band was founded under the name De... |
35 | !T.O.O.H.! | "by Earache Records, who took the album out of print two months after its release. In September 2011, the band reformed as a duo. In 2013, they released their fourth album, ""Democratic Solution"", for free via their Facebook page. ""Democratic Solution"" was musically very different from their previous recordings; the... |
36 | !T.O.O.H.! | "album was divided, with some reviewers considering it as one of the band's worst, and some as one of their best works. During this time the duo went public with news of Humanoid's mental health problems, as he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia during the recording of ""Democratic Solution"". The band performed... |
37 | !T.O.O.H.! | "duo announced via their Facebook page that they had been working on new material and planned to release an album sometime in 2018. They added that they had laid the groundwork for three songs already, which would be in a more traditional deathgrind style, unlike the band's previous album which featured an experimental... |
38 | !Women Art Revolution | "!Women Art Revolution is a 2010 documentary film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson and distributed by Zeitgeist Films. It tracks the feminist art movement over 40 years through interviews with artists, curators, critics, and historians. ""!Women Art Revolution"" is a documentary film, created by Lynn Hershman Leeson, t... |
39 | !Women Art Revolution | historians for over 4 decades about their individual and group efforts to help women succeed in the art world and society by helping them overcome obstacles. There were over 40 individuals interviewed for the project. These interviews are done in a variety of places over time. The interviewees talk about their experien... |
40 | !Women Art Revolution | "than Frida Khalo. Hershman calls the film the, ""remains of an insistent history that refuses to wait any longer to be told."" She says the events of the day led her to feel an, ""urgency to capture that moment"" and shoot whenever, wherever with a borrowed camera. The film gets its name from the Women Artists in Revo... |
41 | !Women Art Revolution | in the study of art history and books. The interviewees all talk about how male-dominated the art world was, sharing their personal stories. The work these feminist artists were creating at the time were very different from works shown or talked about at the time. The film overlays historical events with feminist art e... |
42 | !Women Art Revolution | "art events. The film mentions that minimalism was the popular art style of the time. Meant to be devoid of politics, this movement didn't match up with what was happening socially and politically. The feminist art movement worked to recognize contemporary political movements and social issues, creating a platform for ... |
43 | !Women Art Revolution | """has accumulated (roughly) 12,428 minutes of footage,"" and ""!W.A.R."" shows only 83 minutes, leaving 12,343 minutes of footage out. A digital archive was created to contain the two decades of Hershmann Leeson's interviews that went into creating this film and is available through the Stanford University Libraries c... |
44 | !Women Art Revolution | "all comes together to become an important feminist work. The film could well serve as required viewing for art and film students today."" Reviewer Ellen Druda says, ""This powerful film will ignite even the tiniest spark of feminism in any woman's heart. Not only art lovers will come away with a deeper understanding o... |
45 | !Women Art Revolution | the radical feminist artists who used activist tactics to get their work shown, demanding parity with their male counterparts. However, by the time queer film historian B. Ruby Rich starts talking about how the lesbian artists didn't want to identify as artists because that label was considered bourgeois by their femal... |
46 | !Wowow! | !Wowow! is a collective in Peckham, London. Otherwise known as The Children of !Wowow!, they are a group of artists, fashion designers, writers and musicians, who have promoted numerous art events and parties in London and Berlin. !Wowow! began in the back of the Joiners Arms in Camberwell in 2003 as a performance nigh... |
47 | !Wowow! | Balmforth and artist Matthew Stone. Other artists to have shown in the space include Boo Saville, Gareth Cadwallader, and Ellie Tobin. In 2003, !Wowow! organised warehouse parties in Peckham. At times club nights with 2000 people took place. One of these was attended by Lauren Bush, the former U.S. President's niece, a... |
48 | !Wowow! | "The artists, who curated the exhibition together, included Chloe Dewe Mathews with photographs of lidos, Matthew Stone with digital recreations of old paintings, Rachael Haines with surrealist inspired collages and Boo Saville with monkey paintings and biro drawings. The opening featured shamanistic chanting, a shoppi... |
49 | !Wowow! | "collective and also Mark McGowan. Events included ""Stolen Cinema"" with cult films from a local rental shop, Richard Elms' play ""Factory Dog"", and a ""Greasy Spoon Art Salon Breakfast"" presided over by Lali Chetwynd and Zoe Brown. he week culminated with a party for 1,500 people, with 10,000 bottles of beer, 500 b... |
50 | $1,000 a Touchdown | "$1,000 a Touchdown is a 1939 American comedy film directed by James P. Hogan, written by Delmer Daves, and starring Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward, John Hartley and Joyce Mathews. It was released on October 4, 1939, by Paramount Pictures. Frank Nugent of ""The New York Times"" said, ""Paramount m... |
51 | $1,000 genome | The $1,000 genome refers to an era of predictive and personalized medicine during which the cost of fully sequencing an individual's genome (WGS) is roughly USD $1,000. It is also the title of a book by British science writer and founding editor of Nature Genetics, Kevin Davies. By late 2015, the cost to generate a hig... |
52 | $1,000 genome | Human Genome Research Institute at Airlie House in Virginia. The phrase neatly highlighted the chasm between the actual cost of the Human Genome Project, estimated at $2.7 billion over a decade, and the benchmark for routine, affordable personal genome sequencing. On 2 October 2002, Craig Venter introduced the opening ... |
53 | $1,000 genome | "earmark $500,000 for a breakthrough leading to the $1,000 genome. That sum was subsequently rolled into the Archon X Prize. In October 2004, NHGRI introduced the first in a series of '$1,000 Genome' grants designed to advance ""the development of breakthrough technologies that will enable a human-sized genome to be se... |
54 | $1,000 genome | at Baylor College of Medicine, 454 Life Sciences founder Jonathan Rothberg presented James D. Watson with a digital copy of his personal genome sequence on a portable hard drive. Rothberg estimated the cost of the sequence—the first personal genome produced using a next-generation sequencing platform—at $1 million. Wat... |
55 | $1,000 genome | "debuted the first direct-to-consumer genome sequencing service at an initial price of $350,000 (including analysis). One of the first clients was Dan Stoicescu, a Swiss-based biotech entrepreneur. As the costs of sequencing continued to plummet, in 2008, Illumina announced that it had sequenced an individual genome fo... |
56 | $1,000 genome | built by Helicos Biosciences (a company he co-founded) for a reported cost in consumables of $48,000. That same year, Complete Genomics debuted its proprietary whole-genome sequencing service for researchers, charging as little as $5,000/genome for bulk orders. In 2010, Illumina introduced its individual genome sequenc... |
57 | $1,000 genome | $1,000 genome in a day within 12 months. Sharon Begley wrote: “After years of predictions that the ‘$1,000 genome’ -- a read-out of a person's complete genetic information for about the cost of a dental crown—was just around the corner, a U.S. company is announcing... that it has achieved that milestone.” In January 20... |
58 | $1,000 genome | par with the development of the telescope or the microprocessor”. However, critics pointed out that the $10 million upfront investment required to purchase the system would deter customers. Furthermore, the $1,000 genome cost calculation left out overheads, such as the cost of powering the machine. In September 2015, V... |
59 | $1,000 genome | Dante Labs offered it for $349. In November 2018, around the time of Black Friday, Dante Labs offered WGS for the first time less than $200, and Veritas Genetics for two days for the same price of $199 offered WGS limited to a thousand customers. In March of the same year, geneticist Matthew Hurles of Wellcome Sanger I... |
60 | $1,000 genome | "January 2013 for the team that reaches (or comes closest to reaching) the $1,000 genome. The grand prize would go to ""the team(s) able to sequence 100 human genomes within 30 days to an accuracy of 1 error per 1,000,000 bases, with 98% completeness, identification of insertions, deletions and rearrangements, and a co... |
61 | $100 Guitar Project | The $100 Guitar Project was started on October 20, 2010 when Nick Didkovsky and Chuck O'Meara bought a $100 electric guitar from Elderly Instruments. In 2 years and 30,000 miles of travel throughout the USA and Europe, the guitar passed through the hands of over 65 players, each of whom recorded a piece with it, signed... |
62 | $100 Guitar Project | as a FujiGen Gakki EJ-2 (with a missing neck pickup). These guitars were made in Japan from 1962-65. Alex Skolnick, David Starobin, Elliott Sharp, Mike Keneally, Barry Cleveland, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser, Mark Hitt, Keith Rowe, Nels Cline, Andy Aledort, Hillary Fielding, John Shiurba, Karl Evangelista, Phil Burk, Ray K... |
63 | $100 hamburger | "$100 hamburger (""hundred-dollar hamburger"") is aviation slang for the excuse a general aviation pilot might use to fly. A $100 hamburger trip typically involves flying a short distance (less than two hours), eating at an airport restaurant, and flying home. ""$100"" originally referred to the approximate cost of ren... |
64 | $100,000 Fortune Hunt | "The $100,000 Fortune Hunt is an Illinois Lottery game show which debuted on September 16, 1989, and aired on Saturday evenings from 1989-1994 on WGN-TV in Chicago (except for 1 year in 1993 when it aired on WBBM-TV); it was also broadcast on WGN's national satellite feed. Jeff Coopwood hosted the first season, with th... |
65 | $100,000 Fortune Hunt | "players had to rub off the play area on the lottery instant ticket. If three matching prize amounts were revealed, the player won the prize shown–such as a free ticket or up to $100. If three TV symbols appeared, players could submit the ticket to the lottery for a preliminary drawing. This drawing was held every week... |
66 | $100,000 Fortune Hunt | "show and have the opportunity to win the grand prize or other prizes. Two of the 12 at-home viewers were assigned to each of the six on-air contestants as partners. While one of the six who appeared on the game show won the grand prize, his or her two home ""partners"" would win $500 each. Each of the remaining five o... |
67 | $100,000 Fortune Hunt | could never go below zero); players would try to accumulate the most money by randomly selecting panels. There would be special panels such as bankrupt, lose a turn, wipeout, and double. The player who collects the highest prize amount after five rounds was declared the winner and received the $100,000 grand prize. The... |
68 | $100,000 Fortune Hunt | trips, a big screen television, a camcorder combo, and many others. These rules only lasted the first seven months the show was on the air. Afterwards, the losing contestants got to keep whatever money they earned in the game, with a minimum of $1,500 if they didn't have that much. At the end of each show, hostess Koll... |
69 | $100,000 Fortune Hunt | the final season, the winner returned the following Saturday for up to five weeks. If the game ended in a tie, another round was played with the tied players, with the bigger dollar amount winning the game and the jackpot. On April 14, 1990, a new scratch-ticket was introduced with a new home-player rule. Each contesta... |
70 | $100,000 Fortune Hunt | the at-home Bonus Play game. The winning contestant spun a wheel with 10 spaces numbered 0-9. The winning number would consist of the $100,000 winner's letter(s) followed by a 4-digit number which the studio contestant created with four spins of the Bonus Play wheel. Any home viewer whose Bonus Play ticket number match... |
71 | $100,000 infield | "The $100,000 infield was the infield of the Philadelphia Athletics in the early 1910s. The $100,000 infield consisted of first baseman Stuffy McInnis, second baseman Eddie Collins, shortstop Jack Barry and third baseman Frank Baker. According to the ""Encyclopædia Britannica"", the nickname reflects ""the purported co... |
72 | $100,000 infield | American League championships in five years—, , and —and win the World Series in 1910, 1911 and 1913. The group was broken up after losing the 1914 World Series as a result of the financial pressures resulting from the emergence of the Federal League. Two members—Collins and Baker—have been inducted into the Baseball H... |
73 | $100,000 infield | over as the Athletics' regular second baseman, replacing Danny Murphy, who moved to the outfield. During the $100,000 infield years from 1910 to 1914, he played 738 games, getting 922 hits in 2,677 at bats for a batting average of .344. He led the American League in runs in 1912, 1913 and 1914, stolen bases in 1910, si... |
74 | $100,000 infield | in the top ten in American Most Valuable Player voting every year from 1911 through 1914, winning the Most Valuable Player award in 1914. He was sold to the Chicago White Sox after the 1914 season as Athletics' manager Connie Mack attempted to respond to the financial pressures brought on by the newly formed Federal Le... |
75 | $100,000 infield | next to join the Athletics, debuting on July 13, 1908, after playing for the College of the Holy Cross. Between 1910 and 1914, Barry played 686 games for the Athletics, getting 607 hits in 2,334 at bats for a batting average of .260. He finished in the American League top ten in sacrifice hits every year from 1911 thro... |
76 | $100,000 infield | his good friend Collins, such as a defense against the double steal. He finished in the top 20 in Most Valuable Player voting every year from 1911 through 1914, with his best showing a ninth-place finish in 1913. He was sold to the Boston Red Sox in the middle of the 1915 season, where he moved to second base and playe... |
77 | $100,000 infield | Athletics regular third baseman in 1909, and led the American League in triples that season. Between 1910 and 1914, Baker played 742 games for the Athletics, getting 929 hits in 2,864 at bats for a batting average of .324. He led the American League in home runs every year from 1911 through 1914, and led the league in ... |
78 | $100,000 infield | "total bases, extra base hits and runs batted in every year from 1910 through 1914. He finished in the top ten in the American League Most Valuable Player voting every year from 1911 through 1914, finishing third in 1914, his highest showing. Baker was the hero of the 1911 World Series, hitting two home runs to help th... |
79 | $100,000 infield | president Ban Johnson intervened. He finished his career as the third baseman for the Yankees pennant-winning teams in 1921 and 1922. Baker was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1955. McInnis was the final member of the $100,000 infield to join. He started his career as an 18-year-old little-used backup infielder for the ... |
80 | $100,000 infield | Davis, although McInnis did have to begin the season as the Athletics' shortstop when Barry became ill before taking over at first base. Defensively as a first baseman, he was known for having exceptional reach. Between 1910 and 1914, McInnis played 614 games for the Athletics, getting 715 hits in 2,228 at bats for a b... |
81 | $100,000 infield | the top ten in slugging percentage and on-base percentage. He received Most Valuable Player votes every season from 1911 through 1914, finishing seventh in both 1913 and 1914. McInnis is the only member of the $100,000 infield to remain with the Athletics beyond 1915. He was eventually traded to the Boston Red Sox in 1... |
82 | $2 billion arms deal | The $2 billion arms deal is an arms procurement deal in Nigeria that resulted in the embezzlement of $2 billion through the office of the National Security Adviser under the leadership of Colonel Sambo Dasuki, the former National Security Adviser. The illegal deal was revealed following an interim report of the preside... |
83 | $2 billion arms deal | may have been disbursed for the procurement of arms to fight against Islamic insurgency in Nigeria. The investigative report indicated that a total sum of $2.2 billion was inexplicably disbursed into the office of the National Security Adviser in procurement of arms to fight against insurgency, but was not spent for th... |
84 | $2 billion arms deal | National Security Adviser. He was arrested by the Department of State Security Services and following interrogations he claimed to have acted on Colonel Dasuki's order. Colonel Dasuki was arrested on 1 December 2015 by the Department of State Security Services and transferred to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commis... |
85 | $2 billion arms deal | Minister of State for Finance. The arms procurement investigative committee was inaugurated on 31 August 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the procurement of ammunition to fight against insurgency during the administration of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The interim report of the committee revealed several ... |
86 | $2 billion arms deal | Police Force. The committee analyzed how funds were transferred to the office of the National Security Adviser and the Nigerian Armed Forces in local and foreign currencies. The committee observed that about $2.2 billion was disbursed for the procurement of ammunition to tackle insurgency but regretted that despite thi... |
87 | $2 billion arms deal | that the amount of foreign currencies spent on failed contracts was more than twice the $1 billion loan approved by the National Assembly for borrowing from the World bank to fight insurgency. The investigative committee also discovered a total transfer of ₦3.850 billion to a single company by Colonel Dansuki, the form... |
88 | $2 billion arms deal | 2015 by Colonel Dasuki. In addition, the funds disbursed for the purchase of 12 helicopters, 4 Alpha Jets, bombs and other ammunition were not utilized for those purposes. The committee also noted that Dansuki directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to transfer a total sum of $132,050,486.97 dollars and £9,905,473.5... |
89 | $2 billion arms deal | also ordered the arrest of all those indicted. Several notable Nigerians were involved in the arms procurement deals, including Chief Raymond Dopesi, the chair emeritus of DAAR Communications PLC, alongside Attahiru Bafarawa, the former Governor of Sokoto State and Bashir Yuguda, the former Minister of State for Financ... |
90 | $2 billion arms deal | "investigation committee on issues related to arms procurement. According to ""Premium Times"", Dansuki said ""I have never been invited formally or informally to appear before the panel. I am therefore not only surprised but embarrassed by the seeming indictment by the panel purportedly operating from the office of th... |
91 | $2 billion arms deal | "firearms and foreign currencies. On 3 November 2015, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, the presiding Judge of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, ordered the DSS to release his passport to enable in travel for medical attention. Despite this ruling, the DSS prevented him from traveling abroad by putting him under a house ... |
92 | $2 billion arms deal | "for declining the order of the court permitting Dasuki to travel for medical attention. The newspaper described Buhari's action as an attempt to destroy his political opponents like Dasuki with tyrannical methods. In the same vein, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, a former Liaison Officer to President Shehu Shagari and a foundin... |
93 | $2 billion arms deal | "in the leadership of the country"". They described Buhari's anti-corruption war as ""selective"" Yakassai said, ""Since President Buhari and the Attorney General have decided to disobey the court order which says that Col. Sambo Dasuki be allowed to travel abroad for medical attention, it means that Buhari is all out ... |
94 | $2 billion arms deal | Department of State Security Services and transferred to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for further interrogation. Prior to Dasuki's arrest, Shaibu Salisu, a former Director of Finance in the office of the National Security Adviser, was arrested by the Department of the State Security Services and followi... |
95 | $2 billion arms deal | "of the statement made by Shaibu Salisu, a statement that seemed rather implicating. Dasuki was shocked by Salisu's confessional statement. According to ""The Nation"", Colonel Dasuki said, ""You mean Salisu wrote all these! You mean he said these! Give me a pen and paper."" Dasuki gave a long list of people involved i... |
96 | $2 billion arms deal | was arrested at his residence in Abuja by the EFCC in connections with the arms procurement deal having been mentioned by Colonel Dasuki. Preliminary evidence showed that Chief Dopesi received ₦2.1 billion between October 2014 and March 2015 from the office of the National Security Adviser with no coherent reasons for ... |
97 | $2 billion arms deal | federal high court sitting in Abuja on six count charges of money laundering and other financial crimes. The prosecutor maintained that the transfer of a total sum of ₦2.1 billion between October 2014 and March 2015 from the office of the National Security Adviser breaches section 58 (4) (b) of the Public Procurement A... |
98 | $2 billion arms deal | adjourned till 10 December 2015 to consider his bail request. The presiding judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, ordered the EFCC to detain him pending the determination of his bail application. On 10 December 2015, Rotimi Jacob, counsel to the EFCC, argued that granting Dokpesi bail would truncate the trial application fo... |
99 | $2 billion arms deal | Justice Gabriel Kolawole ruled that Chief Dokpesi should be granted a bail in the sum of ₦400 million with two surety in like sum. He said the first surety must be a retired or serving director in the civil service and the second surety must be a private investor with a track record of tax payment in the last 3 years. ... |
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