Astro

Astro may refer to:

Entertainment and media

  • Astro (UB40) (born 1957), member of the British reggae band UB40
  • Astro (Chilean band), a Chilean indie rock band
  • Astro (Japanese band), a Japanese noise music project
  • Astro (rapper) (born 1996), contestant on the first season of the U.S. version of The X Factor in 2011
  • "Astro", a song by The White Stripes from their 1999 debut The White Stripes
  • Astro (The Jetsons), a dog character who's in The Jetsons franchise
  • Satellites

  • ASTRO, the Autonomous Space Transport Robotic Operations vehicle, an American technology demonstration satellite
  • Project names of astronomy satellites developed by ISAS (now JAXA)
  • ASTRO-A, (Hinotori (satellite))
  • ASTRO-B (Tenma)
  • ASTRO-C, (Ginga (satellite))
  • ASTRO-D (Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics)
  • Astro (Japanese band)

    Astro is a Japanese noise group, originally started in 1993 as a solo project of Hiroshi Hasegawa (長谷川洋 Hasegawa Hiroshi) of the group C.C.C.C.. Hiroshi Hasegawa uses assorted analog equipment including vintage Moog and EMS synthesizers. His music covers a wide range of styles in the noise field, from space music to psychedelically-tinged harsh noise. Since 2013, Astro has been a duo of Hiroshi Hasegawa and Rohco (Hiroko Hasegawa), who has played with Astro since 2009.

    References

    External links

  • Astro / Hiroshi Hasegawa official home page
  • ASTRO / C.C.C.C. / Hiroshi Hasegawa at Facebook
  • Hiroshi Hasegawa/ASTRO/Cosmic Coincidence at umblr
  • Astro discography at Discogs
  • Astro discography at MusicBrainz
  • Astro (rapper)

    Brian Vaughn Bradley, Jr. (born September 27, 1996), better known by his stage name Astro, Stro or The Astronomical Kid, is an American rapper and actor. Mostly known for being a contestant on the first season of The X Factor USA in 2011. Astro took the judges with his original song shot at Simon, for looking at his mom. His mentor was L.A. Reid, the mentor for the boys. Astro was seventh place in the competition. After his appearance on The X Factor, he starred in an episode of Person of Interest. In 2014, he co-starred in the major films Earth to Echo and A Walk Among the Tombstones, and the Fox series Red Band Society.

    Early life

    Astro was born Brian Bradley on September 27, 1996 in Brooklyn, New York. There, he lived in a single parent household with his Jamaican mother, Cascia Thomspon, and younger sister. He began rapping professionally at the age of ten when his mother promised him studio time if he began to do better in school. He soon released his first single, "Stop Looking at My Moms" and created his first mixtape "B.O.A. (Birth of Astro)." He later started composing instrumentals of his own that pertained to the hip hop music genre.

    Bridge (1949 film)

    Bridge (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Qiáo) (also known as The Bridge) is a 1949 Chinese war film made shortly after the Communist revolution in China; as such, it is considered the first film completed after the founding of the People's Republic of China. As a film, Bridge set many of the themes that would dominate the Socialist cinema of post-1949 China, including the glorification of the worker and the conversion of the intellectual to Communism.

    Plot

    During the Chinese Civil War, a railroad factory is commissioned by the Communist army to repair a bridge. Led by a skeptical engineer who does not believe the bridge can be completed in time, the factory workers lack enthusiasm and morale. The project is galvanized, however, by the work of Liang Ruisheng (Wang Jiayi), who inspires his fellow workers to complete the project for the war effort. In the process, even the engineer is converted.

    References

    References

  • Berry, Chris. Postsocialist cinema in post-Mao China: the cultural revolution after the cultural revolution. Routledge (2004). ISBN 0-415-94786-3.
  • Bridge (dentistry)

    A bridge is a fixed dental restoration (a fixed dental prosthesis) used to replace a missing tooth (or several teeth) by joining an artificial tooth permanently to adjacent teeth or dental implants.

    Types of bridges may vary, depending upon how they are fabricated and the way they anchor to the adjacent teeth. Conventionally, bridges are made using the indirect method of restoration. However, bridges can be fabricated directly in the mouth using such materials as composite resin.

    A bridge is fabricated by reducing the teeth on either side of the missing tooth or teeth by a preparation pattern determined by the location of the teeth and by the material from which the bridge is fabricated. In other words, the abutment teeth are reduced in size to accommodate the material to be used to restore the size and shape of the original teeth in a correct alignment and contact with the opposing teeth. The dimensions of the bridge are defined by Ante's Law: "The root surface area of the abutment teeth has to equal or surpass that of the teeth being replaced with pontics".

    The Bridge

    The Bridge may refer to:

    Art, entertainment and media

    Art

  • The Bridge (sculpture), sculpture in Atlanta, Georgia
  • Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists
  • Film

  • De brug (The Bridge), a 1928 documentary short directed by Joris Ivens, of a vertical lift railway bridge
  • The Bridge (1929 film), aka The Spy, a short silent film directed by Charles Vidor
  • Die Brücke (film) (The Bridge), a 1959 World War II film directed by Bernhard Wicki based on the novel of the same name
  • The Bridge (1969 film) (also called Most AKA The Bridge), directed by notable Yugoslav director Hajrudin Krvavac
  • The Bridge (1992 film), based on the novel by Maggie Hemingway
  • The Bridge (1997 film), a short directed by Peter Greenaway
  • The Bridge (2015 film), a movie directed by Mike Rohl starring Katie Findlay
  • The Bridge (2006 documentary film), a documentary about individuals who committed suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004
  • The Bridge (2006 drama film), a fictional story of involvement and disillusionment with Scientology
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