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EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is the designation given to people who have won all four of the major American performing art awards. [1] [2] Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television, audio recording, film, and Broadway theatre. [3]
The puzzle follows a number of conventions, both for tradition's sake and to aid solvers in completing the crossword: Nearly all the Times crossword grids have rotational symmetry: they can be rotated 180 degrees and remain identical. Rarely, puzzles with only vertical or horizontal symmetry can be found; yet rarer are asymmetrical puzzles ...
Crossword. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are ...
He has said that his favorite crossword of all time is the Election Day crossword of November 5, 1996, designed by Jeremiah Farrell. It had two correct solutions with the same set of clues, one saying that the "Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!)" would be "BOB DOLE ELECTED", and the other correct solution saying "CLINTON ELECTED". [18]
Vladimir Aksyonov — Soyuz 22, Soyuz T-2. Buzz Aldrin — Gemini 12, Apollo 11. Second person to walk on the Moon. Aleksandar Panayotov Aleksandrov — Soyuz TM-5. Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov — Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-3. Ali AlQarni — Axiom Mission 2. Andrew M. Allen — STS-46, STS-62, STS-75. Joseph P. Allen — STS-5, STS-51-A.
A small number of actors have played both Holmes and Watson, including Reginald Owen who played Watson in Sherlock Holmes (1932) and Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1933); [78] [79] Jeremy Brett, who played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television; [80] Howard Marion-Crawford, who played ...
These variants generally use the standard six surnames with different first names or titles, often changing the gender of the original character. The UK edition of Cluedo Jr. introduced the first animal players or suspects: Samantha Scarlett, Mustard the Dog, Wendy White, George Green, Polly Peacock, and Peter Plum.
The first well-known major athlete to light the cauldron was nine-time Olympic champion Paavo Nurmi at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Other famous final torch bearers include 1960 decathlon gold medallist Rafer Johnson, who became the first person of African descent to light the cauldron at the 1984 Summer Olympics [1], French football star Michel Platini (), heavyweight boxing champion ...