Big!

Big! is a TV series in which an episode consists of a team of engineers manufacturing the world's biggest items (usually a household item that's normally hand carried, scaled up to proportions that make the items unusable without JCBs and Cherrypickers) for the sake of setting world records.

The devices have to function to qualify.

The series originally aired on Discovery Channel in 2004. It is currently airing on The Science Channel weekday mornings.

Cast

Episodes

The Perhapanauts

The Perhapanauts is an American comic book series created by writer Todd Dezago and artist Craig Rousseau in 2005.

The first two mini-series, "First Blood" and "Second Chances," were published by Dark Horse Comics, although it was announced on October 31, 2007, that forthcoming Perhapanauts comics would be published by Image Comics.

Plot

The Image Comics series began with an annual in February 2008, "Jersey Devil", followed by what may either be numerous upcoming mini-series or an ongoing series. The first series is "Triangle" taking the team into the Bermuda Triangle, which starts publication in April 2008.

The story follows a team of supernatural investigators (in that they both investigate the supernatural, and are supernatural beings who investigate) working for Bedlam, a top-secret government agency. The main focus of the stories are on Blue Group, one team of Bedlam operatives.

The members of Blue Group are Arisa Hines, the group's leader who has psychic powers; Big, a Sasquatch whose intelligence has been artificially raised; Choopie, a Chupacabra with a somewhat erratic personality; MG, a mysterious being who appears human but has the power to travel to other dimensions; and Molly MacAllistar, a ghost. Other characters in the series include Joann DeFile, a psychic who works as an adviser for Bedlam; Peter Hammerskold, a former Marine with psychic powers who is the leader of Bedlam's Red Group and sees Blue Group as rivals; the Merrow, a water elemental fairy who works on Red Group; and Karl, a Mothman who is a Bedlam reservist and would like to be a full-time member of Blue Group.

Big (Sneaky Sound System song)

Big is the second single to be taken from Australian dance-duo Sneaky Sound System.

Release and promotion

The music video for Big was released to the bands YouTube channel on September 12, 2011, and was shot in Las Vegas. The track has been described as "a soaring, majestic pop song with undeniable magic".

The track was performed on popular breakfast show Sunrise.

Track listing

Charts

References

Oaks

Oaks may refer to:

Plants

People

Places

Sport

Oaks (greyhounds)

The Oaks is an original classic greyhound competition, now held at Wimbledon Stadium. It was run at White City Stadium from 1927 until 1958, it moved to Harringay Stadium in 1959–1987 and then to its current home in 1988.

Past winners

(DH) = dead heat

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Khost Airfield

Khost Airport (IATA: KHT, ICAO: OAKS) is located next to the city of Khost in eastern Afghanistan. The airport has been renovated in the last several years. Civilian passengers are allowed to use the nearby NATO's airport for domestic flights to and from the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Airlines and destinations

History

Expanded by the Soviets in the 1980s to support bombing activity during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, it has packed dirt runways now maintained by the U.S. Armed Forces and the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). The US maintains a base there known as Forward Operating Base Chapman.

There had been three major reported accidents, all of them during the 1980s mujahideen fighting and involved Russian-made Antonov An-26 aircraft.

In December 2009, seven CIA employees were killed in a suicide attack at the nearby Forward Operating Base Chapman (FOB Chapman). The bomber, Humam Balawi of Jordan, wore a suicide vest and blew himself up in the base, killing the base commander, CIA agents and civilian contractors.

Staříč

Staříč is a village in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 1,900 inhabitants. The village was first mentioned in a written document in 1258. According to Vincenc Prasek it was presumably named after a person nicknamed "stařek" or "stařík" .

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