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4 hours ago · The Kingpin ( Wilson Grant Fisk) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr., and first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #50 ( cover-dated July 1967 ). [5] The "Kingpin" name is a reference to the crime lord title in Mafia slang nomenclature.
- Wilson Grant Fisk
- The Amazing Spider-Man #50 (July 1967)
1 day ago · A stock character, popular in 16th-century Spanish literature, who is comically and shockingly vulgar. Clarín, the clown in Pedro Calderón de la Barca 's Life is a dream, is a gracioso. Examples of similar characters in Anglophone culture include Bubbles, Wheeler Walker, Jr. and the stand-up persona of Bob Saget.
1 day ago · Juan Emilio Viguié (1891–1966), pioneer movie producer; produced Romance Tropical, the first Puerto Rican film with sound; W. Otilio Warrington (born 1944), also known as "Bizcocho", comedian; Holly Woodlawn (1946–2015), transgender actress and Warhol superstar; Z. David Zayas (born 1962), actor; Marcos Zurinaga (born 1952), film director ...
4 hours ago · Richard Phillips Feynman (/ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.
