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In 1878, Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt began building a lavish, wooden 110-room home known as Idle Hour, on a 900-acre (3.6 km 2) estate on the Connetquot River. The building, initially completed in 1882, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt of Hunt & Hunt (an American who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris), [a] continuously ...
Podcasting reached a new stage of growth in 2017 when The New York Times debuted The Daily news podcast. The Daily is designed to match the fast pace of modern news, and the show features original reporting and recordings of the newspaper's top stories. As of May 2019, it has the highest unique monthly US audience of any podcast.
Drop kicks are mandatory from the centre spot to start a half (a kick-off), from the centre spot to restart the game after points have been scored, to restart play from the 22-metre line (called a drop-out) after the ball is touched down or made dead in the in-goal area by the defending team when the attacking team kicked or took the ball into ...
Poppy Playtime is a 2021 episodic survival horror video game developed and published by American indie developer Mob Entertainment. Set in the year 2005, the player plays as an unnamed former employee of a toy-making company named Playtime Co., who revisits its abandoned toy factory after the company's staff mysteriously disappeared a decade ago.
The Hour of the Star (A hora da estrela) is a novel by Clarice Lispector published in 1977, shortly before the author's death. In 1985, the novel was adapted by Suzana Amaral into a film of the same name , which won the Silver Bear for Best Actress in the 36th Berlin International Film Festival of 1986. [1]
Safety car. In motorsport, a safety car, or a pace car, is an automobile which limits the speed of competing cars or motorcycles on a racetrack in the case of a caution period such as an obstruction on the track or bad weather. The aim of the safety car is to enable the clearance of any obstruction under safer conditions, especially for ...
Golden hour (medicine) The golden hour is the period of time immediately after a traumatic injury during which there is the highest likelihood that prompt medical and surgical treatment will prevent death. [1] [2] While initially defined as an hour, the exact time period depends on the nature of the injury and can be more than or less than this ...
The 2024 12 Hours of Sebring (formally known as the 72nd Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Cadillac) was an endurance sports car race being held at Sebring International Raceway near Sebring, Florida, scheduled from 13 to 16 March 2024. It was the second round of both the 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship and the Michelin Endurance Cup .