Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Dust 514 (/ ˈ d ʌ s t f aɪ v w ʌ n f ɔːr ˈ / ⓘ) is a discontinued free-to-play first-person shooter video game, developed by CCP Shanghai and published by CCP Games and Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. [1] Dust 514 took place in New Eden and was directly connected to CCP's game Eve Online. There was direct interaction ...
January 10 – Jennell Jaquays, 67, tabletop and video game designer, with contributions for Dungeons & Dragons and at id Software. [ 66 ] February 1 – Carl Weathers , 76, actor, best known for portraying Apollo Creed in the Rocky films and providing voice work in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction , Mortal Kombat X and The Artful Escape .
Ender's reliance on Jane becomes obvious when she no longer helps him; he must ask young Olhado to help him with his finances and computer searches, and does not know the password to his own bank account. Jane plays a pivotal role in the development of the book. Jane guides Ender to Lusitania and helps him out considerably in obtaining information.
Ender's Game won the Nebula Award for best novel in 1985, [11] and the Hugo Award for best novel in 1986, [12] considered the two most prestigious awards in science fiction. [13] [14] Ender's Game was also nominated for a Locus Award in 1986. [4] In 1999, it placed No. 59 on the reader's list of Modern Library 100 Best Novels.
The Dust Brothers are a pair of songwriters and producers consisting of E.Z. Mike (Michael Simpson [2]) and King Gizmo [3] ().They are famous for the sample-based music they produced in the 1980s and 1990s, [4] and specifically for their work on the albums Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Odelay, Midnite Vultures and Guero by Beck, the soundtrack to the film Fight Club, and "MMMBop" by ...
Stardust was a 385-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on 7 February 1999. Its primary mission was to collect dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust, and return them to Earth for analysis.
Aucuba japonica, the gold dust plant, an ornamental shrub native to China, Korea, and Japan; Chrysothrix candelaris, the gold dust lichen, a yellow fungus that commonly grows on tree bark; Gold Dust, a cultivar of the rosemary plant
[10] Large dust devils may pose a danger to equipment from Earth. [1] However, some vortices have had beneficial effects. In 2005, the Spirit rover directly encountered a dust devil which blew off the dust which had accumulated on the rover's solar panels, dramatically increasing power levels and enhancing research productivity. [13]