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Survivor Series: WarGames (2023)
The 2023 Survivor Series: WarGames was the 37th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions.
Terence Frederick Venables (6 January 1943 β 25 November 2023), often referred to as El Tel, was an English footballer and manager who played for clubs including Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers and won two caps for England. As a manager, Venables won the Second Division championship with Crystal Palace in 1979.
YouTube is an online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. Accessible worldwide, it was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google and is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search.
XNXX is a website for sharing and viewing pornographic videos. As of November 2022, it was classified as the 14th most visited website in the world by Similarweb. It launched in 2000 and is currently hosted in Paris, with servers and offices in Montreal, Tokyo and Newark. XNXX is owned by WGCZ Holding, the same company that runs XVideos, another popular pornographic website.
Pornhub is a Canadian-owned internet pornography website. It is one of several pornographic video-streaming websites owned by Aylo. As of November 2022, Pornhub is the 13th-most-visited website in the world and the second-most-trafficked adult website after XVideos. Pornhub was launched in Montreal, Canada, in 2007.
Napoleon is a 2023 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by David Scarpa. Based on the story of Napoleon Bonaparte, primarily depicting the French leader's rise to power as well as his relationship with Empress JosΓ©phine, the film stars Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as JosΓ©phine.
Phillip Jack Brooks (born October 26, 1978), better known by the ring name CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE on the Raw brand, where he previously performed from 2005 to 2014. Brooks began his professional wrestling career in 1999 on the independent circuit, mainly with Ring of Honor (ROH), winning the ROH World Championship once.
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (KoinΔ Greek: ΞλΡοΟΞ¬ΟΟΞ± ΞΡά ΦιλοΟΞ¬ΟΟΟ lit. Cleopatra "father-loving goddess"; 70/69 BC β 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
The Premier League is the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football League (EFL). Seasons typically run from August to May, with each team playing 38 matches against all other teams, both home and away.
The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2β3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Considered the world's worst industrial disaster, over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC).
Leo (also marketed as Leo: Bloody Sweet) is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj and produced by Seven Screen Studio. The film stars Vijay in the titular role, alongside Sanjay Dutt, Arjun, Trisha, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Mysskin, Madonna Sebastian, George Maryan, Mansoor Ali Khan, Priya Anand and Mathew Thomas.
The following notable deaths occurred in 2023. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.
The 2023 specials of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who are a series of three special episodes that are airing to celebrate the programme's 60th anniversary. The specials were written by Russell T Davies and will mark the start of his second tenure as showrunner, having served in the role from the start of Doctor Who's revival in 2005 until leaving in 2010.
The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is scheduled to be the 9th edition of the T20 World Cup, a biennial Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament contested by men's national teams and organised by International Cricket Council (ICC). It is scheduled to be hosted by the West Indies and the United States from 4 June to 30 June 2024.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a 2023 American dystopian action film directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt. Based on the 2020 novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins, it serves as a prequel to The Hunger Games (2012), and is the fifth installment in The Hunger Games film series.
Tiger 3 is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films. The film stars Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif and Emraan Hashmi in lead roles. A sequel to Tiger Zinda Hai (2017), it is the fifth installment in the YRF Spy Universe.
2023 Formula One World Championship
The 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship was a motor racing championship for Formula One cars, which was the 74th running of the Formula One World Championship. It was recognised by the FΓ©dΓ©ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of international motorsport, as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars.
Animal is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language action thriller film co-written, edited and directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga and produced by T-Series and Cine1 Studios. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Rashmika Mandanna and Tripti Dimri. With a runtime of 201 minutes, Animal is one of the longest Indian films ever made. Animal is scheduled to be released on 1 December 2023.
Yasmin Finney (born 30 August 2003) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Elle Argent in the Netflix series Heartstopper (2022βpresent), for which she was nominated for a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance. She joined the cast of Doctor Who in 2023.
Anthony David Benavidez (born December 17, 1996) is an Mexican-American professional boxer. He is a two-time WBC super middleweight champion, having held the title from 2017 to 2018 and again from 2019 to 2020. Claiming his first belt at 20 years, eight months, three weeks and one day old, Benavidez holds the record as the youngest super middleweight title holder in history.
Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena'em Fayed (; 15 April 1955 β 31 August 1997), commonly known as Dodi Fayed, was an Egyptian film producer and the eldest child of the businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed. He was romantically involved with Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both died from injuries sustained in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997.
The India men's national cricket team, also known as the Men in Blue or most commonly Team India, represent India in men's international cricket. It is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.
JosΓ©phine Bonaparte (French: [Κozefin bΙnapaΚt], born Marie JosΓ¨phe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie; 23 June 1763 β 29 May 1814) was Empress of the French as the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810. As Napoleon's consort, she was also Queen of Italy from 26 May 1805 until the 1810 annulment.
Sharleen Eugene Spiteri (born 7 November 1967) is a Scottish singer and guitarist, best known as the lead singer of the rock band Texas. She has a contralto vocal range. In 2013, Texas's worldwide album sales were counted at 40 million records. Texas returned from their hiatus in 2013 with The Conversation, which debuted at No.
Sex is the trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes. A male organism produces small mobile gametes (spermatozoa, sperm, pollen), while a female organism produces larger, non-mobile gametes (ova, often called egg cells). An organism that produces both types of gamete is called a hermaphrodite.
Alejandro Garnacho Ferreyra (born 1 July 2004) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Manchester United and the Argentina national team. Garnacho joined Manchester United's youth system from AtlΓ©tico Madrid in October 2020. He won the FA Youth Cup and the Jimmy Murphy Young Player of the Year award in May 2022.
Oppenheimer ( OP-Ιn-hy-mΙr) is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Projectβthe World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons.
The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11 attacks or 26 November attacks) were a series of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant Islamist organisation from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
Derek Michael Chauvin ( SHOH-vΙn; born March 19, 1976) is an American former police officer who murdered George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chauvin was a member of the Minneapolis Police Department from 2001 to 2020. In his career, Chauvin had 18 complaints against him on official record and was involved in three police shootings, one of which was fatal.
Australia national cricket team
The Australia men's national cricket team represents Australia in men's international cricket.
Tommy DeVito (American football)
Thomas N. DeVito (born August 7, 1998) is an American football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Syracuse and Illinois.
ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a large language model-based chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched on November 30, 2022, that enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. Successive prompts and replies, known as prompt engineering, are considered at each conversation stage as a context.
Mohamed Al-Fayed (; 27 January 1929 β 30 August 2023) was an Egyptian businessman whose residence and chief business interests were in the United Kingdom from the mid-1960s. His business interests included ownership of the HΓ΄tel Ritz Paris, and Harrods department store and Fulham Football Club, both in London.
Nail clubbing, also known as digital clubbing or clubbing, is a deformity of the finger or toe nails associated with a number of diseases, mostly of the heart and lungs. When it occurs together with joint effusions, joint pains, and abnormal skin and bone growth it is known as hypertrophic osteoarthropathy.
Mark Thomas Stoops (born July 9, 1967) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at the University of Kentucky, a position he has held since the 2013 season. Stoops is the all-time winningest head coach in the history of the Kentucky Wildcats football program.
Joshua James Giddey (born 10 October 2002) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected by the Thunder with the sixth overall pick in the 2021 NBA draft. Giddey is the youngest player in NBA history to record a triple-double, having done so at 19 years, 84 days old.
Constitution Day (IAST: SamvidhΔna Divasa), also known as "National Law Day" , is celebrated in India on 26 November every year to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution of India. On 26 November 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted to the Constitution of India, and it came into effect on 26 January 1950.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a dystopian action-adventure novel written by American author Suzanne Collins. It is a prequel to the original The Hunger Games trilogy, set 64 years before the events of the first novel. It was released on May 19, 2020, by Scholastic.
Killers of the Flower Moon (film)
Killers of the Flower Moon is a 2023 American epic western crime drama film directed and co-produced by Martin Scorsese, who also co-wrote the script alongside Eric Roth, based on the 2017 non-fiction book of the same name by David Grann. Set in 1920s Oklahoma, it focuses on a series of murders of Osage members and relations in the Osage Nation after oil was discovered on tribal land.
The Marvels is a 2023 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to the film Captain Marvel (2019), a continuation of the television miniseries Ms. Marvel (2022), and the 33rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 β 31 August 1997), was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and mother of Princes William and Harry. Her activism and glamour made her an international icon, and earned her enduring popularity.
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 was the 21st edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster France TΓ©lΓ©visions. The contest took place on 26 November 2023 at the Palais NikaΓ―a in Nice, France, following the country's victory at the 2022 contest with the song "Oh maman"! by Lissandro.
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American retired actor. He achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy-drama series Moonlighting (1985β1989) and has appeared in over a hundred films, gaining recognition as an action hero for his portrayal of John McClane in the Die Hard franchise (1988β2013).
List of Doctor Who episodes (2005βpresent)
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. As of 25 November 2023, 872 episodes of Doctor Who have aired. This includes one television movie and multiple specials, and encompasses 301 stories over 39 seasons, starting in 1963. Additionally, four charity specials and two animated serials have also been aired.
XXX: Return of Xander Cage (released as XXX: Reactivated in some countries) is a 2017 American action thriller film directed by D.J. Caruso and written by F. Scott Frazier. The film stars Vin Diesel in the lead role, Donnie Yen, Deepika Padukone, Kris Wu, Ruby Rose, Tony Jaa, Nina Dobrev, Toni Collette, Ariadna GutiΓ©rrez, Hermione Corfield, and Samuel L. Jackson.
Max Emilian Verstappen (Dutch: [ΛmΙks vΙrΛstΙ. pΙ(n)]; born 30 September 1997) is a Belgian and Dutch Formula One driver and the 2021, 2022, and 2023 World Champion. He competes under the Dutch flag in Formula One for the Red Bull Racing team. Verstappen is the son of former Formula One driver Jos Verstappen, and former go-kart racer Sophie Kumpen.
An ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian terrorist groups has been taking place chiefly in and around the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023, with clashes also taking place in the West Bank and IsraelβLebanon border. On that day, Hamas-led Palestinian terroristslaunched a multi-pronged invasion of southern Israel from the Gaza Strip.
The Principality of Sealand () is an unrecognised micronation on HM Fort Roughs (also known as Roughs Tower), an offshore platform in the North Sea approximately twelve kilometres (6+1β2 nautical miles) off the coast of Suffolk, England. Roughs Tower is a Maunsell Sea Fort that was built by the British in international waters during World War II.
Rinku Khanchand Singh (born 12 October 1997) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian national cricket team. He made his international debut in August 2023 against Ireland. He plays for Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League and for Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket.
XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is an American spy fiction action film series created by Rich Wilkes. It consists of three full-length feature films: XXX (2002), XXX: State of the Union (2005) and XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017), and a short film: The Final Chapter: The Death of Xander Cage. The series has grossed $694 million worldwide.
Rachel Anne Zegler (; born May 3, 2001) is an American actress and singer. She came to prominence with her film debut playing MarΓa in Steven Spielberg's musical adaptation West Side Story (2021), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress β Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. In 2023, she played Anthea in Shazam!
Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American technology giant Meta Platforms. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students.
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Recognized for her songwriting, musical versatility, artistic reinventions, and influence on the music industry, she is a prominent cultural figure of the 21st century. Swift began professional songwriting at age 14 and signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 to become a country singer.
Coleridge Bernard "C. J." Stroud IV (born October 3, 2001) is an American football quarterback for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Ohio State, where he holds many school records, including most passing yards in a single game with 573, as well as being the first player to throw for six touchdowns three times.
Greenfield International Stadium
Greenfield International Stadium, also known as The Sports Hub, and previously as Trivandrum International Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Kerala, India, used mainly for cricket and football. The stadium is located at Kariavattom in Thiruvananthapuram city. It was built on 36 acres of land leased by the Kerala University for βΉ94 lakh (US$146,527. 23) per year for a period of 15 years.
Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy (January 23, 1998 β June 18, 2018), known professionally as XXXTentacion, was an American rapper and singer-songwriter. Though a controversial figure due to his widely publicized legal troubles, XXXTentacion gained a cult following among his young fanbase during his short career with his depression- and alienation-themed music.
Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody (5 June 1981 β 22 March 2009) was an English television personality. She was a contestant on the third series of the Channel 4 reality show Big Brother in 2002. Following her eviction from the show, Goody went on to star in her own television programmes, which in turn led to her launching a variety of products under her own name.
The Battle of Waterloo (Dutch pronunciation: [ΛΚaΛtΙrloΛ] ) was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition.
Survivor Series, branded as Survivor Series: WarGames since 2022, is a professional wrestling event, produced annually since 1987 by WWE, the world's largest professional wrestling promotion. Held in November generally the week of Thanksgiving, it is the second longest-running pay-per-view (PPV) event in history, behind WWE's flagship event, WrestleMania.
Trolls Band Together is a 2023 American animated jukebox musical comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures, based on the Good Luck Trolls dolls from Thomas Dam. It serves as the sequel to Trolls World Tour (2020), and the third installment in the Trolls franchise.
The Hunger Games is a series of young adult dystopian novels written by American author Suzanne Collins. The first three novels are part of a trilogy following teenage protagonist Katniss Everdeen, and the fourth book is a prequel set 64 years before the original. The novels in the trilogy are titled The Hunger Games (2008), Catching Fire (2009), and Mockingjay (2010).
Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.
The Hunger Games (film series)
The Hunger Games film series is composed of science fiction dystopian adventure films, based on The Hunger Games trilogy of novels by American author Suzanne Collins. The films are distributed by Lionsgate and produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik.
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 β April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
Vanessa Nuala Kirby (born 18 April 1988) is an English actress. She made her professional acting debuts on stage with acclaimed performances in the plays All My Sons (2010), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010), Women Beware Women (2011), Three Sisters (2012), and as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014).
The Railway Men: The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984 is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language historical drama streaming television miniseries about railway workers who saved many lives during the 1984 Bhopal disaster. It is produced by YRF Entertainment (the streaming division of Yash Raj Films) and stars R. Madhavan, Kay Kay Menon, Divyenndu and Babil Khan.
Leo Eric Varadkar ( vΙ-RAD-kΙr; born 18 January 1979) is an Irish politician who has served as Taoiseach since December 2022, and previously from 2017 to 2020. He served as TΓ‘naiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from June 2020 to December 2022. He has been Leader of Fine Gael since June 2017, and a Teachta DΓ‘la (TD) for the Dublin West constituency since 2007.
Texas are a Scottish rock band from Glasgow, founded in 1986 by Johnny McElhone (formerly of the bands Altered Images and Hipsway), Ally McErlaine, and Sharleen Spiteri (on lead vocals). Texas made their performing debut in March 1988 at the University of Dundee. They took their name from the 1984 Wim Wenders movie Paris, Texas.
Randal Keith Orton (born April 1, 1980) is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is currently signed to WWE on the Raw brand. With the third most world championship reigns in history, and a career spanning over 20 years, Orton is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time.
Justin Drew Bieber ( BEE-bΙr; born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer. He is recognized for his genre-melding artistry and global influence in modern-day popular music. Bieber was discovered by American record executive Scooter Braun and signed with RBMG Records in 2008, gaining recognition with the release of his debut seven-track EP My World (2009) and soon establishing himself as a teen idol.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. She is known for starring in both action film franchises and independent dramas, and her films have grossed over $6 billion worldwide. The world's highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016, she appeared in Time's 100 most influential people in the world list in 2013 and the Forbes Celebrity 100 list from 2013 to 2016.
The 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup was the 13th edition of the Cricket World Cup, a quadrennial One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament contested by men's national teams and organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Ten national teams participated in the tournament, which was hosted by India.
Bigg Boss 7 is the seventh season of the Tamil version of the Indian reality television series Bigg Boss, launched on Star Vijay and digitally streaming on Disney+ Hotstar on 1 October 2023. Kamal Haasan is hosting the show for the seventh time. The house will once again be located in EVP Film City, Chennai.
Jermall Charlo (; born May 19, 1990) is an American professional boxer. He has held world championships in two weight classes, including the WBC middleweight title since 2019 and previously the IBF light middleweight title from 2015 to 2017. His identical twin brother, Jermell Charlo, is also a professional boxer and unified WBC, WBA (Super) and IBF light middleweight world champion.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 β November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and by the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president and the youngest president at the end of his tenure.
Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (; nΓ© Bottom; born October 28, 1974) is an American actor. Known for playing dark and unconventional characters in independent films and period dramas, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, The New York Times named him one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.