International chess prodigy, born in Russia and representing the Netherlands.
Before Fame He moved from Russia to Japan and then to the Netherlands before becoming known as a chess prodigy.
Trivia He became a Grandmaster at the young age of 14 and in January 2011, he beat world number one Magnus Carlsen.
Family Life His mother is Russian and his father is Nepalese.
Associated With He is often compared to fellow chess prodigy Alexander Obolentseva.
15 Epic Movie Cameos That Prove Even Small Roles Can Make Big WavesGuess who's hiding in plain sight in one of the scenes in 'Liar Liar'? We'll reveal the comedian sneaking around in the background!
By Jennifer FarringtonPublished Aug. 15 2024, 4:31 p.m. ET
Source: Universal Pictures;20th Century StudiosThese are Hands-Down the 15 Best Movie Cameos Ever!Source: Columbia Pictures;Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer;Sony PicturesWhile some cameos are impossible to miss, others are cleverly hidden. Take Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, for example — he finally got his long-awaited cameo in Star Trek Beyond, but good luck recognizing him under all that alien Starfleet makeup.
The Big Brother Naija season 7 show, which kicked off on July 23, had its first eviction of housemates on Sunday, 7th August 2022. Christy O and Cyph were evicted from the show and it came as a surprise to some fans.
The eviction was announced by the show host, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, during the BBNaija ‘Level Up’ Live show.
Christy O and Cyph were sent packing from the ‘Level Up’ house after garnering the lowest votes for the week.
A professor at Texas A&M University posted a series of photos to Facebook that show how within two weeks a mini memorial for a cockroach became a large-scale shrine. Mirror UK reported. The professor initially wrote: "There has been a dead cockroach in the Anthropology building's stairwell for at least two weeks. "Some enterprising person has now made her a little shrine." ADVERTISEMENT
The shrine started off as a very basic paper memorial built by one student then within a day people began to put items around the carcass.
Presidential aspirant, Dele Momodu on Sunday reacted to the presidential aspiration of the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike. Naija News had earlier reported that Wike declared his intention to contest in the 2023 presidential election under the Peoples Democratic Party.
In his statement, Wike described himself as the best man to wrestle power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Momodu in a post on his Twitter account noted that the declaration of the Rivers State Governor will bring robustness and excitement to the race.
YouTube gamer and live streamer on Major League Gaming TV who makes Call of Duty montages and videos. He is one of many directors of the gaming group FaZe Clan.
Before Fame He worked at retail stores and was just making videos as a hobby before he got popular.
Trivia He worked at The North Face and is an avid rock climber and motorcyclist. He also streams gaming sessions to his Dirty Twitch channel.
Wizards of Waverly Place star who played Abby Hanover in the 2011 film Mean Girls 2 and was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her role in House M.D. She also starred in Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars.
Before Fame Her career began at age six, and she made her breakthrough performance in the 2003 film Secondhand Lions.
Trivia She had a voice acting role as Amanda in an episode of Phineas and Ferb in 2009. She has worked as an Emergency Room nurse at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank.
Barely weeks before the 2015 presidential elections hold across Nigeria, the youths in Lagos State, the commercial nerve centre of the country, have declared their support for the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, who is the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The Lagos youths made the declaration today, February 16, 2015, during a Special Youth Interactive session of the Directorate of Youth Mobilisation of PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation which took place at the Etal Hotels & Halls in Ikeja, Lagos State.
Actor who played the role of the sinister demon Crowley on the television show Supernatural. His other roles include lawyer Romo Lampkin on Battlestar Galactica and investigator James Sterling on Leverage.
Before Fame A musician as well as an actor, he once toured with a band called Television Personalities.
Trivia He appeared with Emma Thompson in a film called In The Name of the Father.
Family Life He had two sons named Max and Will with Jessica Sheppard, whom he was married to from 2004 to 2014.
Towards the end of the original Mirror’s Edge, there’s an area that exemplifies most of what studio EA DICE’s 2008 first-person parkour game got right. You’re in an empty atrium and asked to find your way up along a succession of platforms obscured by a lattice of scaffolding. Dazzling sunlight makes the room’s lemon and white checkerboard walls glow. Ambient electronica pings and blips soothingly. Looking at a five-story high maze of concrete, rebar and piping, you wonder “How in the world am I going to scale this?