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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Bishop keeps Markov locked in a duel, eventually ending up at the White House; Markov manages to fire the missile before being shot down and killed, but Bishop manages to intercept it and destroy it harmlessly onto the Tidal Basin.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 2006

Freshford qualified for the final when sun blinded the Cashel goalkeeper, Jovita Delaney, enabling Imelda Kennedy’s speculative shot to drop under the bar for the only goal of the semi-final.

And Along Come Tourists

Thalheim himself did his civilian service (Zivildienst) at the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz in 1996–1997, and portions of the film were shot at the Center and in the nearby town of Oświęcim, Poland.

Black Bat Squadron

On 19 June 1963, a RB-69A/P2V-7U(7105/141233/54-4041) was conducting ELINT mission over mainland China, and was shot down by PLAAF MiG-17PF over Linchuan, Jiangxi, after intercepted repeatedly by multiple MiG-17PFs and Tu-4Ps.

Brain Scan Studios

Brain Scan's first published material was the three issue mini-series Touch of Death, followed by Civil Wardrobe from Rich Johnston, the horror one-shot Fiendish Fables and the six issues series One Last Song.

Castle Koon

The Koon shot of Operation Castle was a test of a University of California Radiation Laboratory designed thermonuclear device.

Counting Headz: South Afrika's Sistaz in Hip Hop

Counting Headz was shot primarily in and around Johannesburg, the cultural and commercial capital of South Africa.

Dedrick D. Gobert

On November 19, 1994, Gobert was fatally shot during a fight with several gang members in Mira Loma, California.

Everybody Get Shot

Everybody Get Shot is the second album by Caramel Jack.

Femme for DKNY

Shot on the streets of Manhattan by photographer Scott Schuman, the ads are designed to reflect the individual style of trendsetting New Yorkers.

Frauen dieser Welt

On the single, which features a shot of the Rottweil concert as the cover, the name of the band is stylised as Die Toten H♀sen.

Full of It

Sam tells lies like "I drive a Porsche", "My dad's a rock star", "My dog ate my homework", "I never miss a shot" (at basketball) and that Vicki Sanders and his English teacher Mrs. Moran are lusting after him.

Geoffrey Turner

He won the George Medal for recovering a mine from a German plane which had been shot down at Fairlight, near Hastings in Sussex.

Gippsland phantom cat

In June 2005 Kurt Engel, a deer hunter from Noble Park, shot what he claimed was a large cat in rugged terrain near the town of Sale.

Gondershe

The film La Conchiglia (1992) by the award-winning Somali filmmaker Abdulkadir Ahmed Said was also shot here, and features the town's local residents.

Hanns Martin Schleyer

After Schleyer's kidnappers received the news of the death of their imprisoned comrades, Schleyer was taken from Brussels on October 18, 1977, and shot dead en route to Mulhouse, France, where his body was left in the trunk of a green Audi 100 on the rue Charles Péguy.

Harsh Mayar

The film was shot in Rajasthan in 2009 and he worked with debut director- Nila Madhab Panda and with veteran actor Gulshan Grover and comic actor Pitobash Tripathy.

Heinz Strüning

At about 6 pm on the evening of 24 December 1944 his Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 (Werknummer 740 162—factory number) G9+CT was shot down by 10-kill ace F/L R.D. Doleman and F/L D.C. Bunch of No. 157 Squadron RAF in a Royal Air Force Mosquito Intruder while he tried to attack a Lancaster bomber over Cologne.

Jenny Logan

Though she played WPC Sally Reed in the TV series Dixon of Dock Green between 1968 and 1969, she is most familiar from her appearances as the woman in the television commercial for the carpet freshener Shake n' Vac, which was shot in 1979, and ran from 1980 to 1989.

Jordan Alan

He has shot TV commercials for clients including 1-800-DENTIST, 1-800-USA-EYES, Invisalign and LA Sight Laser Center.

Katya Zharkova

Katya Zharkova is an international, traditional, and social media sensation thanks to her editorial, shot by photographer Victoria Janashvili, that Katya Zharkova conceptualized and as was seen in PLUS Model Magazine January 2011 issue entitled, "Plus Size Bodies, What's Wrong with Them Anyway?".

Kerosene Hat

Contributing to the song's success was a noir-ish, black-and-white video shot by director Carlos Grasso, which was added to MTV's Buzz Bin.

Kleiza

Saulius Kleiza (born 1964), Lithuanian shot putter and discus thrower

Let's Rock Again!

The memoir was shot by filmmaker and longtime Strummer friend Dick Rude in the 18 months leading up to Strummer's death in 2002.

Maria van Eicken

Charles Albert (born: 1598 in Kastellaun; died: 1626 at Hundschloss Castle, when he accidentally shot himself)

Mateo Guez

Recent efforts include his work as one of three contributing directors to the unique interactive feature, Late Fragment – an official selection at TIFF 2007 – as well as a variety of short films/photo installations shot using only a Motorola cell phone.

Moscow Trials

All the defendants were sentenced to death and were subsequently shot in the cellars of Lubyanka prison in Moscow

Mr Bennett Goes to Town

Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels was furious with this mistake and demanded to know why the scene had not been re-shot.

Mrs. Chippy

The painting Mrs Chippy, by Wolf Howard, shows the cat "about to be shot", while in the background the crew launch a small open boat on a rescue mission and Endurance is stuck in the ice.

Nandini Singh

She shot to fame as Kesar in Ekta Kapoor's popular hit series Kesar that aired from (2004–2007) on Star Plus and another Ekta Kapoor's Indian soap opera, Kkavyanjali (2005).

Negative cutting

The negative cutter will translate the Timecode in the EDL list to edge numbers (keykode) using specially designed negative cutting software to find which shot is needed from the rushes negative.

Nightmare Theatre

For most of its run, the late-night program opened with a shot of a mist-shrouded castle (in actuality, a touched-up Addams Family Haunted House Aurora model kit), accompanied by sound effects borrowed from Walt Disney's Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House and music pilfered from Neal Hefti's score for the 1966 Roddy McDowall film Lord Love a Duck.

Peter Francisco

In a petition Francisco wrote 11 November 1820 to the Virginia Legislature in his own words, he said that at Camden, he had shot a grenadier who had tried to shoot his Colonel (Mayo); he escaped by bayoneting one of Banastre Tarleton's cavalrymen and fled on the horse making cries to make the British think he was a Loyalist, and gave the horse to Mayo.

Pointe des Almadies

The Almadies peninsula was a featured location in the 1964 film The Endless Summer where Bruce Brown shot the film's stars Mike Hynson and Robert August at a reef near Pointe des Almadies.

Rafael Ruelas

Shortly after a TKO in 10 over the popular Jorge Páez in 1992, Ruelas earned a shot at IBF Lightweight Title Freddie Pendleton, overcoming an early knockdown and winning by unanimous decision.

Razole

Several Tollywood directors choose to work there, and movies like Ladies Tailor, Chanti, Kabaddi Kabaddi, and Vinayakudu were shot in and around Razole.

Rebel Love

The picture was shot on locations in Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama during the summer of 1983, with many scenes filmed at the Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park.

Rick Mercer

Mercer's tightly scripted and performed two-minute "rants," in which he would speak directly to the camera about a current political issue, shot in a style similar to those Denis Leary used in MTV commercials, quickly became the show's signature segment.

Saffo the Greek

In July 1914, he was in attendance with other figures of the Levee including John Torrio (representing Jim Colosimo), John Jordan, Jackie Adler and Harry Hopkins at Port Lamp Burke's roadhouse near Cedar Creek (Indiana) several hours after gunman Roxie Vanilli, a cousin of Torrio whom he had brought in from New York, had shot and killed Chicago detective Sgt. Stanley Birns.

Saint-Victor, Quebec

A Royal Canadian Air Force pilot in World War II, he attacked a cargo ship along the Normandy coast, shot a Nazi airplane, and was credited for sinking a Nazi ship in the North Sea.

Sourabh Vij

Born in New Delhi, Vij won his first medal at the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games, where his mark of 18.45 metres brought him the shot put gold medal (India's second athletics gold of the competition along with Hari Shankar Roy).

Strays Don't Sleep

The release includes a DVD of short films that were directed and shot by professional filmmakers and friends, including Gorman Bechard, The Barnes Brothers, Martin Glenn, Matt Boyd and Jared Johnson.

Ten-Day War

However, the incident sparked renewed public debate after the footage was shown on Serbian TV station B92 in 2006, with many claiming that the soldiers were shot and killed by Slovenian TO troops and that Slovenia is trying to cover up the affair.

The Oh in Ohio

Set in Cleveland, much of the film was shot on location at well-known Cleveland landmarks such as Coventry Village and Case Western Reserve University.

The Paradine Case

Although some external shots show the Lake District in Cumbria, the rest of the footage was shot entirely on three sets at Selznick's Culver City, California lot a first in Selznick's career as an independent producer.

Triumph and Agony

The song "All We Are" received some airplay on American metal radio stations and its video clip shot by director Mark Rezyka had good rotation on MTV's Headbangers Ball.

Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts

In 2006 the music video for the single Pac's Life for the self-titled album was shot at the The Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts.

Watsonville Riots

In October 1929, Filipinos at a street carnival in Exeter were shot with rubber bands as they walked with their white female companions.

Wattles Mansion

The mansion was featured on the television series The O.C. and Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Reptile Boy"), in the movie Troop Beverly Hills, and the sanatarium scenes in the film Rain Man were shot there as well.

When the Light Is Mine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987

# "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" (Howard Libov, shot December 1983 at Reflection Studios, Charlotte, NC)


see also

Batman: In Darkest Knight

Batman: In Darkest Knight is a one-shot comic book, published in 1994 and written by Mike W. Barr with art by Jerry Bingham.

Batman: The Man Who Laughs

Batman: The Man Who Laughs is a one-shot prestige format comic book by Ed Brubaker and Doug Mahnke, released in February 2005, and intended as a successor to Batman: Year One.

Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted

Rolling Stone writer Dave Marsh called it "a surprisingly successful ... one-shot, with the original group, again dominated by Price and Burdon, turning in fine, hard-nosed blues performances." Bruce Eder of Allmusic judged it "just short of a lost classic."

Campus Special Investigator Hikaruon

The OVA is a one-shot tribute to the Metal Hero genre of live-action superhero shoes that were prevailent in the 80's and 90's.

Chris Giarrusso

Giant Size Mini Marvels one-shot (48 page single-issue comic, December 2001, Marvel Comics)

Color Rhapsodies

Color Rhapsodies was a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles Mintz for Columbia Pictures.

Crash Dive

The USS Semmes (AG-24 ex-DD-189) is seen in one shot; there are probably not many good Technicolor views of a four-stack destroyer available today.

DC Special

With DC Specials cancellation following issue #29 (Aug./Sept. 1977), DC immediately begin publishing the umbrella one-shot title DC Special Series, which lasted until Fall 1981.

Disappearance Diary

About.com's Deb Aoki lists Disappearance Diary as the best new one-shot manga of 2008 along with Solanin.

Eddie Graham

He made a one-shot return to the ring for one final match in 1979 when he defeated Killer Khan by pinfall after the referee was knocked out and subsequent interference by Mr. Hito and Kazuo Sakurada on Khan's behalf was fought off by Mike Graham and Ray Stevens.

Fantomex

After Morrison's run, the character made sporadic appearances in Weapon X #23–25, Mystique #20–21, 24, the Dark Reign: The List—Wolverine one-shot and in Uncanny X-Men #515-522 during the "Nation X" storyline before becoming a founding member of new covert X-Force as seen in the monthly Uncanny X-Force series.

Freezes Over

Hellblazer: Freezes Over collects the "...Freezes Over" storyline illustrated by Marcelo Frusin as well as the one-shot "... And Buried?" illustrated by Steve Dillon and the two-part "Lapdogs and Englishmen" illustrated by Guy Davis.

Genta Ismajli

Her English songs included "One Shot", "Accident", "Something To Remember Me By", "Idolize Me", "Intoxicated", "Choose", and her debut English single, "Planet Me", written by Kara DioGuardi

Great Lakes Avengers

In 2005, the GLA were featured in a four-issue mini-series titled GLA: Misassembled (written by Dan Slott) and the Marvel one-shot GLX-Mas Special (2005).

Henderson's Boys: One Shot Kill

Henderson's Boys: One Shot Kill is the sixth book in the Henderson's Boys book series by English author Robert Muchamore.

House of Mystery

A one shot reprint (in color), Welcome Back to the House of Mystery, featured ten of the most highly regarded stories as selected by Alisa Kwitney in a Cain wraparound by Neil Gaiman and Sergio Aragonés, under the Vertigo imprint.

Hulkling

In the one-shot Avengers Fairy Tales, Hulkling appears as the The Hatter in an adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Jingle Belle

The summer 2001 one-shot special, "Jingle Belle: The Mighty Elves" was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Humor Book.

Juror 13

Juror 13 is a one-shot American manga-inspired comic written and illustrated by D. J. Milky and published by Tokyopop.

Kazuki Takahashi

Originally intended as a one-shot in the manga's episodic introduction of new games, the game was named "Magic and Wizards" as a reference to the card game Magic: The Gathering and its publishing company Wizards of the Coast (the card game's name was changed to "Duel Monsters" in the anime adaptations).

Kit Robinson

In 1974, he published the one-shot poetry magazine Streets and Roads, where for the first time work by such poets as Barrett Watten, Ron Silliman, Rae Armantrout, and Bob Perelman appeared alongside that of Alan Bernheimer, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, and Merrill Gilfillan.

M72 LAW

These one-shot launchers were relatively cheap to manufacture and needed no specialized training; they were so simple to use that they were regularly issued to Volkssturm regiments.

Maki Enjōji

Her debut as a manga artist was a one-shot called Fu Junai that was published in 2004 in the special issue of April of the Japanese josei manga magazine Petit Comic published by Shogakukan.

Marvel Collectors' Item Classics

The reprints were generally in serial order, with occasional skips; missing, for instance, are The Fantastic Four #5-6, already reprinted in Fantastic Four Annual #2-3 (1964–1965); #11, already partly reprinted in Annual #3; #12, never reprinted at the time; #19, reprinted in heavily edited form in the 1967 promotional one-shot America's Best TV Comics; and #25-26, reprinted in Fantastic Four Annual #4 (1966).

Marvel Zombies

In July of the same year, a one-shot graphic novel, Marvel Zombies: Dead Days provided more story details, and the zombies also appear in a three-part storyline in Black Panther vol.

One Shot Sam

The main charter, One Shot Sam, travels around Hollywood and North Hollywood visiting the locations where the birth of Country rock music took place, including the Troubadour (nightclub), The Palomino, Barney's Beanery, and several locations on the Sunset Strip.

Paramount Comics

Besides Trek, Mission: Impossible and a one-shot starring Snake Plissken, Paramount Comics published The Mighty Heroes, a one-shot based on the animated series.

Pensacola Open

1968: George Archer birdies the last three holes on Sunday on his way to a 65 and a one-shot win over Dave Marr and Tony Jacklin.

Percy Howard

Still, he would become part of the Cowboys lore and was named #6 on NFL Top 10's Top Ten One-Shot Wonders.

Rafael Nieves

Tales from the Heart spawned two full-color one-shots published by Epic Comics, Marvel Comics' creator-owner label, and the latter, Bloodlines, was nominated for two Eisner Awards in 1993 (Best Single Issue, Self-Contained Story; and Best Graphic Album — New).

Rainbow Parade

Many of the Rainbow Parade cartoons were one-shot stories with no recurring characters, but several of the films featured Molly Moo-Cow, Toonerville Trolley and Felix the Cat.

Robert Loren Fleming

Fleming worked for DC Comics initially as a proofreader and later writer, creating Thriller, and was writing an Aquaman limited series and one-shot special in 1989 with plotter/breakdown artist Keith Giffen and artist Curt Swan.

RPG-76 Komar

RPG-76 Komar (eng. Mosquito) is a Polish light one-shot anti-tank grenade launcher that fires an unguided anti-tank rocket propelled grenade.

San Francisco Oracle

After the paper folded, Oracle staff who had left the city and relocated in Middletown, California put out a single one-shot issue of a 24-page psychedelic tabloid paper called the Harbinger in July 1968, with contributions by Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Michael Hollingshead, and others.

SNCASE Durandal

Armament was to be a single "one-shot" AA-20 missile carried underneath the Durandal's centreline.

Strange Eggs

Strange Eggs is a one-shot anthology of stories created by Steve Ahlquist and Chris Reilly, published by SLG Publishing (formerly Slave Labor Graphics).

Tales from the Leather Nun

It was a one-shot anthology of bizarre, violent and perverted stories featuring nuns by Dave Sheridan, Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, Jaxon, Roger Brand, and Pat Ryan.

Television special

Other forms of TV specials are one-time comedy or musical events, one-shot seasonal programs (e.g. Christmas television specials), irregular sports events (e.g. the Olympic Games or the Super Bowl), live coverage of a popular cultural event (such as the Academy Awards or Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade) or spontaneous interruptions of active programming to cover an important news event (election coverage, however, is generally scheduled).

The Last Fantastic Four Story

The Last Fantastic Four Story is a 2007 comic book one-shot written by Stan Lee and drawn by penciller John Romita, Jr., and inker Scott Hanna.

Titans East

In November 2007, DC released a one-shot special called Titans East Special, written by Judd Winick with art by Ian Churchill and Norm Rapmund.

Trapster

He appeared in Brand New Day as one of the villains in the bar, and later fighting Spider-Man in the Brand New Day Extra one-shot.

Waka/Jawaka

The track "It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal" is a strange tale of hallucinations sung by Sal Marquez and Janet Ferguson (the tough-minded groupie in 200 Motels).

West Coast Cooler

A Constable Shuffle can be made using 2 shots of peach schnapps with one shot of Galliano, half a pint of cider and half a large bottle of West Coast Cooler.

Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia

Before he started his three-year run on Wonder Woman (Vol. 2), with #195 in 2003, Greg Rucka started his work on the character a year before that in the one-shot Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia.

X-Men 2099

In the alternate universe of Timestorm 2009–2099, the X-Men 2099 are introduced in a one-shot by Brian Reed and Frazer Irving.