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Mar 2015

Fight of the Living Dead

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Fight of the Living Dead is a television show airing on CONtv that is a combination of reality and scripted genres. It follows a group of online celebrities as they work together to survive 24 hours of a zombie apocalypse. Contestants face a series of challenges as they try to eliminate competing teams of humans. The show is produced by Alpine Labs, BlackBoxTV, and Revolver Picture Company. Fight of the Living Dead uses over 60 cameras to track each competitor, and it also uses 200 extras to form a mob of zombies that try to keep the competitors from completing their missions.

1 Mar, 2015

Patricia Arquette

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Patricia Arquette is an American actress born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1968. She won two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Allison DuBois in the television show, Medium. In 2015 she won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Boyhood,  feature film role came in 2014 with the release of Boyhood. She has been married twice, to Nicholas Cage from 1995-2001 and Thomas Jane from 2006-11.

18 Feb, 2015

Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show

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The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, founded in 1877, is a two-day breed show where each dog is judged according to how it conforms to breed standards. The show is held annually at Madison Square Gardens. The show is divided into seven groups including terrier group, sporting group, working group, non-sporting group, toy group, hound group and herding group. Each dog competes in its individual group then the group winners compete for the Best in Show award. The show is the second-longest continuously held sporting event in the US behind only the Kentucky Derby.

17 Feb, 2015

Bruce Jenner

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Bruce Jenner was born October 28, 1949 in Mt. Kisco, New York. He is a former U.S. track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the decathalon at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. He currently appears on the reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. He is the father of Burt and Casey, from his marriage to Chrystie Crownover; Brandon and Brody, from his marriage to Linda Thompson; and Kendall and Kylie, from his marriage to Kris Kardashian. He is the stepfather of Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob Kardashian.

12 Feb, 2015

Chris Kyle

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Chris Kyle was born April 8, 1974 in Odessa, Texas. He was a US Navy Seal and sniper, credited with the most confirmed kills in US history at 160. He received several honors including two Silver Star Medals and five Bronze Star Medals. Kyle’s autobiography American Sniper was published in 2012 and was made into a movie which premiered in 2015. Kyle was killed on the shooting range in Erath County, Texas, allegedly by Eddie Ray Routh, a marine veteran he was helping to overcome post traumatic stress disorder. Kyle is survived by his wife Taya, and two children.

16 Dec, 2014

Eddie Redmayne

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eddie rEdward John David “Eddie” Redmayne was born on January 6, 1982 in London, England. Redmayne is an actor, singer and model. Redmayne received a Tony Award for his performance in the stage production of Red. He portrayed Marius Pontmercy in Les Miserables and Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, for which he received a Golden Globe and SAG nomination. Redmayne is married to Hannah Bagshawe.

1 Dec, 2014

Rita Ora

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Rita Sahatçiu Ora was born on November 26, 1990 in Pristina, Kosovo. Ora is a British singer, songwriter and actress. She released her debut studio album, Ora, in 2012. The album debuted at number one on the UK charts, featuring the number-one singles R.I.P and How Do We (Party). Ora appeared as a judge on season 9 of The X Factor and a coach on series 4 of The Voice UK. She stars as Christian Grey’s sister, Mia, in the film Fifty Shades of Grey, set to release in February 2015. Ora is the daughter of Vera and Besnik Sahatçiu. She has an older sister, Elena, and a younger brother, Don.

29 Nov, 2014

Phillip Hughes

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Phillip Hughes was an Australian Test and One-Day International cricketer, born in 1988. He played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He was a left-handed opening batsman who played for two seasons with New South Wales before making his Test debut in 2009 at the age of 20. After being hit by a ball bowled by Sean Abbott, he died two days later on 27 November, having failed to regain consciousness.

26 Nov, 2014

Jason Calacanis

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Jason Calacanis is an American blogger, publisher, and web entrepreneur, born in Brooklyn in 1970. He created the Silicon Alley Reporter industry newsletter and magazine, and broke stories about topics like Microsoft’s attitude to content producers, and a lesbian affair by the girlfriend of a tech CEO. He set up the Digital Coast Reporter, a sister publication, and organized conferences in L.A., New York, and San Francisco. He later created Weblogs, Inc., which was sold to AOL. He was managing editor of Netscape at AOL, and later joined the venture firm Sequoia Capital. He created Mahalo.com, a search engine, and the Open Angel Forum aimed at connecting startups and angel investors. He hosts the podcast This Week In Startups.

Mark Frauenfelder

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Mark Frauenfelder is an American journalist, blogger, author, illustrator, and maker. He started the independent ‘zine bOING bOING in the 1980s with his wife, Carla Sinclair. The ‘zine became a website in the 1990s and then became the Boing Boing blog, one of the most popular blogs on the internet. Frauenfelder is notable for playing a role in the development of cyberpunk culture in the 1980s and 90s, and worked with Billy Idol on the Cyberpunk album. Frauenfelder and Sinclair lived on the Cook Islands island of Rarotonga in 2003 with their two daughters, and created the magazines Make: and Craft:. Frauenfelder has published several books about computers, unusual people, places, and things, and pop-science projects for parents and children. He is considered influential by makers in the do-it-yourself scene.

17 Nov, 2014

Keira Knightley

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Keira Christina Knightley was born on March 26, 1985 in London, England. She is an actress known for her role as Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. She has starred in movies such as Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, Anna Karenina, and The Imitation Game. Knightley is married to musician James Righton.

16 Nov, 2014

Kendall Jenner

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Kendall Jenner is an American television personality and model, born in 1995 in Los Angeles. She appears on her family’s reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians. She has walked in runway shows for Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Givenchy and Marc Jacobs. She was named the global face of Estee Lauder in November 2014. Jenner and her sister Kylie Jenner own the clothing line “Kendall & Kylie”. Jenner is the daughter of Kris and Bruce Jenner. She has one sister, Kylie, and is the half-sister of Kim, Khloe, Kourtney and Rob Kardashian, as well as Brody and Brandon Jenner.

14 Nov, 2014

Philae comet landing

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The Philae landing vehicle touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on Nov. 12, 2014, more than 10 years after departing Earth. Philae and its spacecraft, Rosetta, are named after the obelisk and the stone that were used to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics. They are operated by the European Space Agency. The landing is the first time humans have landed a spacecraft on a comet. It is expected to supply important scientific data about what comets are made of, and whether they contributed to the formation of life on earth.

Jennifer Lawrence

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Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born August 15, 1990, in Louisville, Kentucky. She is an actress known for her roles as Raven Darkholme in X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past and Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games series. She earned an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role in Silver Linings Playbook. Lawrence is the daughter of Karen and Gary Lawrence. She has two brothers, Ben and Blaine.

5 Nov, 2014

Hawaii lava flow

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On June 27, 2014, lava began flowing from a vent on the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. The lava flow threatened Pahoa village downslope to the northeast, prompting the Obama administration to declare it a major disaster.

26 Oct, 2014

Shakira

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Shakira is a singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer and model, born in 1977 in Barranquilla, Columbia. She has released ten albums, including Laundry Service, which featured Whenever, Wherever, the best selling single of 2002 and Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, which included Hips Don’t Lie, the best-selling song of the 21st century so far. She served as a coach on The Voice during seasons four and six. She has won two Grammy Awards. Shakira is in a relationship with Spanish soccer player Gerard Pique. They have one son and are currently expecting their second child.

24 Oct, 2014

Serena Shim

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Serena Shim, also known as Serena Ali Suhaim, was a Lebanese-American journalist born in 1984. She was working for Iran’s state-controlled Press TV media service and covering the siege of Kobani. She was killed in a car crash in Turkey on Oct. 19, 2014, in a rural area of the country near the border with Syria.

23 Oct, 2014

Peter Kassig

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Peter Edward Kassig, also known as Abdul Rahman, is a humanitarian aid worker and former Army Ranger from Indianapolis. He was captured by ISIS in October 2013, and the group has threatened that it will kill him.

21 Oct, 2014

Oscar Pistorius

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Oscar Pistorius is a South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete born in Johannesburg in 1986. He is the first amputee to win a World Championships in Athletics medal and the first double-leg amputee to compete in both the Paralympics and Olympics. He holds Paralympic gold medals in the 100, 200, and 400-meter sprints and 100-meter relay. He holds silver medals in the Olympic 400-meter sprint and 400-meter relay. On Oct. 21, 2014, he was sentenced to five years in prison for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

Ron Conway

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Ron Conway is an American investor and venture capitalist born in San Francisco in 1951. He has invested in at least 650 startups via his fund, SV Angel. He is involved in politics, advocating immigration reform and efforts by the Silicon Valley tech industry to pursue policy objectives. He worked for National Semiconductor, Altos Computer Systems, and Personal Training Systems. He is renowned for extensive networking, including involving Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O’Neal, Henry Kissinger, and Ashton Kutcher in tech investment, among others. He previously contributed to companies in the Y Combinator startup seed program. He is married and has three sons.