Knowledge in a Nutshell
Kingsley Ben-Adir is a British actor. He played pathologist Marcus Summer in ITV’s detective drama Vera and private detective Karim Washington on the second season of the Netflix series The OA. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2011.
Clarence Brandenburg, a Ku Klux Klan leader in rural Ohio, contacted a reporter at a Cincinnati television station and invited him to cover a KKK rally. Brandenburg was charged with advocating violence under Ohio’s criminal syndicalism statute for his participation in the rally and for the speech he made. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed Brandenburg’s conviction.
David Boreanaz was born on May 16, 1969, in Buffalo, New York. He is of Italian and FriulianSlovenian descent on his father’s side. His mother is of half Slovak and part Irish, German, French, and Swiss descent. He moved to Los Angeles with a degree in filmmaking, but found it hard to gain work.
Sodium saccharin is an artificial sweetener with effectively no food energy. It is about 300–400 times as sweet as sucrose but has a bitter or metallic aftertaste. People with sulfonamide allergies can experience allergic reactions to sacCharlin, as it is a sulf onamide derivative and can cross-react.
Pulikkuthi Pandi is a 2021 Indian Tamil-language action drama television film produced, written and directed by M. Muthaiah. The film stars Vikram Prabhu, Lakshmi Menon and Singampuli, with Samuthrakani, R. K. Suresh, Vela Ramamoorthy and Sujatha Sivakumar in supporting roles.
Vivekananda was a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world. In India, Vivekananda is regarded as a patriotic saint, and his birthday is celebrated as National Youth Day. His speech introducing Hinduism at the Parliament of the World’s Religions...
Veronica Yvette Spector is an American singer. She fronted the girl group the Ronettes with her older sister Estelle Bennett and their cousin Nedra Talley. Together, they had a string of hits during the early to mid–1960s. Spector launched a solo career and has since released five studio albums and one extended play.
The Buffalo area was inhabited before the 17th century by the Native American Iroquois tribe and later by French colonizers. The city grew significantly in the 19th and 20th centuries as a result of immigration, the construction of the Erie Canal and rail transportation. Since the city’s economy relied heavily on manufacturing, deindustrialization in the latter half of the 20th...
Li Jingliang is a Chinese mixed martial artist who competes as a welterweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Li made his professional debut in 2007, winning via submission due to punches in the second round. He is currently ranked #12 in the UFC welterweights rankings.
Frances Louise Fisher is a British-born American actress. She began her career in theatre and later starred as detective Deborah ‘Red’ Saxon in the ABC daytime soap opera The Edge of Night. In film, she is known for her roles in Unforgiven, Titanic, True Crime, House of Sand and Fog, Laws of Attraction, The Kingdom, Jolene and The Host.
