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Nicky's Game

Using his wits to navigate the seedy world of underground poker, Nicky must balance his own interest with those of his father (Burt Young), a retiree whose own gambling debts have pushed him to the brink of eviction.


2003–04 AFC Wimbledon season

Despite the suspension of Eames on 13 February 2004, AFC Wimbledon's success continued under caretaker manager Nicky English, whose first game in charge resulted in a club away record of a 9–0 victory over Chessington United on 14 February 2004.

2012 Nicky Rackard Cup

A total of six teams will contest the Nicky Rackard Cup, including four sides from the 2011 Nicky Rackard Cup and one promoted team from the 2011 Lory Meagher Cup and one team relegated from the 2011 Christy Ring Cup.

3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

Tibby is mentioned by Polly, because she babysits for Nicky and Katherine, Tibby's younger siblings.

A Magical Gathering: The Clannad Anthology

With 34 tracks released between 1973 and 1998, it includes signature songs like "Theme from Harry's Game" and "In a Lifetime".

Andrew Chou

Once he returned to Taiwan, he co-wrote and produced the track "Forever" with Chris Wiebe for Golden Melody Award winner Nicky Lee's album "Imperfect".

Andy Hamilton

Since 1995, Hamilton has written and played the lead role of Satan in the Radio 4 sitcom Old Harry's Game.

Bennett Arron

He has also written for situation comedies, including Ed Stone is Dead (starring Richard Blackwood) and Sam's Game (starring Davina McCall and Ed Byrne).

Brown Bag Films

In 2008, the studio begins working on Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty, directed by Nicky Phelan, landing a second Oscar nomination.

Burley, Leeds

Burley was the back drop for the television drama Harry's Game, in which houses on Burley Road were portrayed to be Belfast which Yorkshire Television considered too dangerous to use for filming.

Devil's Game

The consequence of this CIA program is the present-day Islamic Chechen separatist conflict that the Russians are fighting.

Ender Wiggin

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow.

Flickerpix

They are currently working on a developing an animated version of Old Harry's Game.

Instigators

The band was formed in 1980 by drummer Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw and guitarist Simon Mooney, both students at Thornhill High School, and the line-up was completed by Simon "Semi" Bridgewater (vocals) and Nicky Djorjevic (bass Guitar).

Jim Lynch

In 2006, Lynch was interviewed for the NFL Network documentary America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions chronicling the 1969 Kansas City Chiefs AFL and World Championship season.

Kathleen Christison

The last seven years before her resignation from the agency in 1979 saw her work there centered on the Middle East; and according to Robert Dreyfuss's 2005 book Devil's Game: How The United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (p.160), "Kathy Christison...headed the CIA's Egypt desk from 1973 to 1977."

Leslie Henson

Nicky's sons, with ex-wife Una Stubbs, are composers Christian and Joseph; and another son, with wife Marguerite Porter, is Keaton, an artist.

Lexicon Devil

Nicky Beat told the authors of the Germs biography Lexicon Devil that he had stolen the opening drum beat on "Circle One" from the Allman Brothers song "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed".

Live: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Recorded live in Newark, Delaware by Nicky Rotundo with the Clay Creek analog mobile unit
Mixed by Nicky Rotundo with Cliffy Huntington at Clay Creek Recording Studios, Newark
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Studios, Tenafly.

Maralik

In fiction, Maralik was introduced as the home town of fictional character Petra Arkanian of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series.

Mary Hartline

The show, starring former real-life circus barker Claude Kirchner, featured Mary as the band leader, the circus clowns Cliffy, Scampy, and Nicky, as well as Mike Wallace playing the circus barker peddling Peter Pan Peanut Butter.

Menculik Miyabi

Starring Sabrina Pai and Nicky Tirta, the film follows a young man who is obsessed with AV idol Maria Ozawa and, in an attempt to kidnap her, accidentally kidnaps a Taiwanese tourist.

Myra Nicholson

Myra Leviston "Nicky" Nicholson (14 December 1894 – 20 September 2007) was the third oldest living Australian and the eleventh-oldest validated person in the world following the death of French doyenne Marie-Simone Capony on 15 September 2007.

Natalie Coyle

In May 2013, Natalie performed for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust at the Nicky's Whisper Trophy Final at QPR's Loftus Road.

Nicky Hilton

Nicholai Olivia "Nicky" Hilton (born October 5, 1983) is an American businesswoman, fashion model, socialite, celebutante, heiress and fashion designer.

Nicky James

Signing to Columbia Records under the name the Nicky James Movement, James's new project debuted in 1965 with a single version of Stagger Lee.

Nicky Kinnaird

Nicky Kinnaird MBE is the Belfast-born founder and president of British cosmetic retailer Space NK.

Nicky Mehta

Nicky Mehta is a mezzo singer-songwriter, and member of Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys.

Nicky Rackard

Nicholas "Nicky" Rackard (28 April 1922 – 10 April 1976) was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer who played as a full-forward for the Wexford senior teams.

Nicky Savoie

Nicky John Savoie (born on September 21, 1973 in Cut Off, Louisiana) is a former American football tight end who has a one year career in the National Football League.

Nicky Spesh

An emerging member of the British hip hop and Grime scene alongside the likes of Sway DaSafo, Nicky Spesh first became recognised when he freestyled over DJ Kool Herc's set at The Scala in London in 2002.

No. 1 of the Secret Service

The sequel was not released until 1979 under the title Licensed to Love and Kill with Gareth Hunt replacing Nicky Henson who had signed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Penney's game

Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, "Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays", 2nd Edition, Volume 4, AK Peters (2004), p.

Proof of concept

Their short film Geri's Game used techniques for animation of cloth and of human facial expressions later used in Toy Story 2.

Red 5 Studios

In July 2011, Red 5 announced a collaboration with Orson Scott Card, author of the science fiction novel Ender's Game, as writer of the Firefall story as well as the creation of a manga novel co-written by his daughter Emily Janice Card and drawn by Joe Ng.

Roma Ryan

Roma Shane Ryan (born 20 January in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist, currently living in Artane, Ireland, with her husband Nicky.

Ruth Moody

The Jennys (now Ruth Moody, Nicky Mehta and New York-based Heather Masse) have won international critical acclaim and numerous awards including Juno awards for their albums 40 Days and Bright Morning Stars.

Scottish Festival Orchestra

A Grand Summer Picnic Prom in the grounds of Raemoir House with Scottish tenor, Nicky Spence.

Solar eclipse of July 20, 1963

It also served an important function in the plots of two Stephen King novels, Gerald's Game (1992) and Dolores Claiborne (1992) and was featured in a season 3 episode of Mad Men titled "Seven Twenty Three" (2009).

Steel River Blues

Other stars included Joanne Farrell as Firefighter Nicky Higgins, Stuart Graham as Station Officer Bill McGlinchy, Daniel Ainsleigh as Firefighter Jeremy Lloyd, Satnam Bhogal as Firefighter Sunil Gupta

Stumpy Point, North Carolina

The town is mentioned in the sci-fi novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, in which the little town is razed sometime in the future to build a spaceport in Pamlico Sound, and the spaceport is unofficially named after Stumpy Point.

The Fortune

She loves the already married Nicky, but because the Mann Act prohibits him from taking her across state lines and engaging in immoral relations, he proposes that she marry Oscar and then carry on an affair with the man she wants.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

It shows both musicians, their girlfriends Licorice McKechnie and Rose Simpson, friends Roger Marshall and Nicky Walton, several children of their friend Mary Stewart, and Robin's dog Leaf.

The Landlord's Game

In a 2004 episode of PBS' History Detectives (title: Monopoly; Japanese Internment Camp Artwork; The Lewis and Clark Cane), the show investigated a game board belonging to a Delaware man, having an intermediate version of a game combining elements of The Landlord's Game and Monopoly.

Apart from commercial distribution in 1932, it spread by word of mouth and was played in slightly variant homemade versions over the years by Quakers, Georgists, university students, and others who became aware of it.

World Tour Golf

Evan Robinson worked on the game and graphics code (which was adapted from code written by Dan Silva for an internal EA editor named Prism, which eventually became Deluxe Paint) for WTG, while Nicky Robinson created the editor and Paul Reiche acted as game designer and artist.

You Make Me Feel...

The video clip also includes cameos by doppelganger DJs Andrew and Andrew, Brooklyn rap crew Ninjasonik, photographer Nicky Digital, MTV News correspondent James Montgomery, Elle Magazine creative director Joe Zee, Justjared.com's own Jared Eng, Jersey Shore's The Situation, singer Wynter Gordon, actress Zelda Williams and her father, comedian and actor Robin Williams.


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