WebIn May 2009, construction on Xanadu, which was nearly 80% complete (and whose common areas were about 88% complete), came to a halt after a subsidiary of bankrupt Lehman Brothers missed payments, causing other lenders to withdraw from the project, and lost $500 million worth of construction funding. Developers stated the mall was 70% …

WebTheodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist.He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson coined the terms transclusion, virtuality, and intertwingularity (in Literary Machines).According to a 1997 Forbes profile, Nelson "sees …

WebIn March 2000, the Nupedia project was started. Its intention was to publish articles written by experts which would be licensed as free content.Nupedia was founded by Jimmy Wales, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief, and funded by the web-advertising company Bomis.. 2001. In January 2001, Wikipedia began as a side-project of Nupedia, to allow …

WebXanadu is a 1980 American musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel, and directed by Robert Greenwald.The film stars Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck and Gene Kelly in his final film role. It features music by Newton-John, Electric Light Orchestra, Cliff Richard, and the Tubes.The title is a reference to the nightclub in …

WebThe Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band.Their eponymous 1975 debut album included the single "White Punks on Dope," while their 1983 single "She's a Beauty" was a top-10 U.S. hit and its music video was frequently played in the early days of MTV.The band also performed in the 1980 film Xanadu, singing the rock portion of the cross-genre song …

WebCitizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film produced by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles.He also co-wrote the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz.The picture was Welles' first feature film. Citizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made. For 50 consecutive years, it stood at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound …

WebExcalibur Hotel and Casino is a casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, in the United States.It is owned by Vici Properties and operated by MGM Resorts International.. Excalibur, named for the mythical sword of King Arthur, uses the medieval theme in several ways. Its facade is a stylized image of a castle (see also: List of castles …

WebChengdu (UK: / t ʃ ɛ ŋ ˈ d uː /, US: / t ʃ ʌ ŋ-/; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: Chéngdū; Sichuanese pronunciation: [tsʰən˨˩tu˥], Standard Chinese pronunciation: [ʈʂʰə̌ŋ.tú] ()), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese province of Sichuan.With a population of 20,937,757 inhabitants during the …

WebGuardian (James Jacob "Jim" Harper) is a DC Comics superhero introduced in April 1942 by writer/artist Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby.. Guardian resembles the earlier Kirby and Simon character Captain America (first published 13 months earlier by Marvel Comics), as he had no super powers and carried an indestructible shield. When Kirby returned to DC …

WebThe project continued at Autodesk for four years, but no product was released. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, then a scientist at CERN, proposed and later prototyped a new hypertext project in response to a request for a simple, immediate, information-sharing facility, to be used among physicists working at CERN and other academic institutions. He ...

WebHearst Castle, known formally as La Cuesta Encantada (Spanish for "The Enchanted Hill"), is a historic estate in San Simeon, located on the Central Coast of California.Conceived by William Randolph Hearst, the publishing tycoon, and his architect Julia Morgan, the castle was built between 1919 and 1947.Today, Hearst Castle is a museum open to the public …

Web"Magic" is a song recorded by British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for the soundtrack to the 1980 musical fantasy film, Xanadu. Written and produced by John Farrar, the song was released as the lead single from the album in May 1980. It peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks beginning on August 2, 1980. On August …

WebThe Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two robotic interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of Jupiter and Saturn, to fly near them while collecting data for transmission back to Earth. After launch the decision was taken to send Voyager 2 near …

WebKentucky Route Zero is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Cardboard Computer and published by Annapurna Interactive.The game was first revealed in 2011 via the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and is separated into five acts that were released sporadically throughout its development; the first releasing in January 2013 and the last …