SarvvamCast: Arya, Trisha, JD Chakravarthy, Indrajeet, RohanDirector: Vishnu Vardhan Nirav Shah’s splendid camera and Yuvan’s music & BGM A slow second halfBO verdict : Good openingAyan AyanCast: Surya, Prabhu, Tamannaah, Jagan, Renuka, KarnasDirector: KV Anand Surya, racy presentation Drags a bit in the second halfBO verdict : BlockbusterPasangaCast: Kishore, Sriram, Dharani, Pandian, MurugeshDirector: Pandiraj Good...
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WASHINGTON — Cool and collected, Kavya Shivashankar wrote out every word on her palm and always ended with a smile. The 13-year-old Kansas girl saved the biggest smile for last, when she rattled off the letters to "Laodicean" to become the nation's spelling champion.The budding neurosurgeon from Olathe, Kan., outlasted 11 finalists Thursday night to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, taking home more than $40,000 in cash and...
At 7′9′ tall (236cm), Sun Mingming is the world’s second tallest man and the tallest professional basketball player ever. Many of you may have heard of Sun, and likely to have seen him in his guest appearance on Rush Hour 3 or in the documentary, “Anatomy of a Giant,” that aired on theDiscovery Health channel, but rarely anyone has ever seen...
Rodney Rogers accident! Today we got an update on Rodney Rogers accident on TNT. Rodney talked to Chris Webber in an interview that will be shown during the NBA Eastern Conference finals today, Thursday. As you may remember, Rodney Rogers suffered a motorcycle accident that left him quadriplegic. He was paralyzed from the waist down. He...
Thirteen-year-old Kavya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas, spelled "laodicean," Thursday night to take top honors in the 82nd annual Scripps National Spelling Bee.Kavya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas, reacts to winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night.Kavya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas, reacts to winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night.The eighth-grader won $40,000 in cash and prizes for nailing...
May 22, 1842: Lester Howe goes to investigate why his cows stand at the bottom of the hill in the hot summer months. Lester owned a farm about 40 miles west of Albany, the capital of New York. Lester's cows grazed in the same spot during heat waves. Lester went to investigate the area and a strong, cool breeze came from behind a stand of bushes. He dug out the bushes and found an entrance to a cave. He and his neighbor, Henry...
Kavya Shivashankar, an eighth grader from Olathe, Kansas, correctly spelled L-a-o-d-i-c-e-a-n to win the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night. Kavya won at the end of a championship round in which runner-up Tim Ruiter was eliminated on "maecenas" and third-place finisher Aishwarya Pastapur was eliminated on "menhir."Making her...
the imagist has been becoming too much of a formula for me recently so I decided to look for a new challenge in writing. The only thing I can think of that is grueling but rewarding was long form prose. So here's the first excerpt from a burgeoning attempt to "fictionalize" some of my adventures in fashion. The following is an introduction to a seminal figure I met very early on when I first ventured into the business.My maecenas,...
