Look up Orange, orange, orangeish, oranges, or orangish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Orange may refer to:

• Orange (fruit), a citrus fruit
  • Orange juice
• Orange (colour), occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum
• Orange (word), both a noun and an adjective in the English language

History and politics[link]

Netherlands[link]

• House of Orange-Nassau, the royal family of the Netherlands and a branch of the House of Nassau
• Prince of Orange, a title of nobility borne by the heir apparent of the House of Orange
• Principality of Orange, Oranges in the Holy Roman Empire centred upon the town of Orange, now lying in the south of France
• William III of Orange, one of several princes with the title Prince of Orange

Northern Ireland[link]

• Orange Institution, a Protestant organization whose members are known as Orangemen
• Independent Orange Order, an offshoot of the Orange Institution

Other[link]

• War of the Oranges, a brief 1801 conflict between the Kingdom of Portugal and the joint forces of Spain and Napoleonic France
• Orange Democratic Movement, a political party in Kenya
• Orange Revolution, a series of protests and political events in Ukraine
• War Plan Orange, a series of United States war plans
• Agent Orange, the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War.

Geography[link]

Australia[link]

• Orange, New South Wales

France[link]

• Orange, Vaucluse, a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France

South Africa[link]

• Orange Free State, former name of the Free State province
• Orange River, the longest river in South Africa
• Orange River Colony, the British colony created after this nation first occupied (1900) and then annexed (1902) the independent Orange Free State in the Second Boer War

In the United States:

• Orange, California
• Orange, Connecticut
• Orange, Florida
• Orange, Georgia
• Orange, Illinois
• Orange, Indiana
• Orange, Iowa
• Orange, Massachusetts
• Orange Township, Michigan (disambiguation)
• Orange, New Hampshire
• Orange, New Jersey
• Orange, New York
• Orange, North Dakota
• Orange, Ohio
• Orange, Texas
• Orange, Vermont
• Orange, Virginia
• Orange, Wisconsin

Sports[link]

• Orange (bicycles), a bicycle maker
• Syracuse Orange, the athletic teams of Syracuse University
• Netherlands national football team, nicknamed "Orange"

Music[link]

• Orange (Al Stewart album), a 1972 folk recording
• Orange (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album), a 1994 alternative rock recordings
• "Orange" (song), a 2007 comedy rock song by David O'Doherty
• "L'Orange", a 1964 pop song by Gilbert Bécaud
• Orange Music Electronic Company, an amplifier maker
• Orange Record Label, a recording publisher
• A song by Love Battery on Between the Eyes
• Orange (band), an American punk rock band.

Other uses[link]

• Orange (name), a surname and given name
• Oranges (film), a 2008 American film
• Orange (2010 Telugu film), a 2010 Telugu romantic comedy film
• Orange (2012 film), a 2012 Malayalam film
• Orange (heraldry), a tincture used in heraldry
• Orange (software), a data analysis software suite
• Orange (telecommunications), a mobile phone operator owned by France Telecom
• Orange Micro, a computer hardware company
• The Box (New Zealand), an entertainment stream formerly called Orange

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "orange"
• Orangery
• The Annoying Orange, a comedic character
• Agent Orange (disambiguation)
• Ornge, the air ambulance service for the Canadian province of Ontario

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Shane Dawson
Dawson at the Streamy Awards in 2010
Born	Shane Lee Yaw (1988-07-19) July 19, 1988 (age 23) Long Beach, California, U.S.
Occupation	YouTube video maker (actor, comedian)
Years active	2008–present
Known for	Sketch comedy, vlogging
Website
www.shanedawsontv.com

Shane Dawson (born Shane Yaw; July 19, 1988)^[1][2][3] is an American YouTube actor, comedian, and musician. Dawson is known for making comedy videos featuring many recurring characters (such as Shananay, Ned the Nerd, S. Deezy, Mom, and Aunt Hilda), impersonations (such as Paris Hilton, Miley Cyrus and Sarah Palin), and spoofs of popular music videos and television shows. As of September 2011 his main YouTube channel is the fifth most subscribed channel of all time, behind Ray William Johnson, Nigahiga, Smosh, and Machinima.com.^[4][5][6] Dawson has since expanded on YouTube by adding his second channel (twelfth most subscribed)^[4] where he posts video blogs and the series "Ask Shane", which moved to his main channel February 26, 2011.^[7]

Dawson's career began when he and several friends would turn in videos instead of homework in high school. Dawson's first videos on YouTube were old assignments that he turned in during high school.^[8][9]

In November 2009, Dawson was featured on Attack of the Show!^[10] In 2010, Forbes magazine named him their 25th most famous web celebrity.^[3]

Dawson's debut mainstream single (third overall), SUPERLUV! was released on March 31, 2012.^[11]

Personal life[link]

Dawson grew up in Long Beach, California, where he attended Lakewood High School.^[12] Dawson has revealed in a video, that as a teenager he was over-weight and would get bullied a lot, as well as being beaten by his alcoholic father, who then abandoned the family. He has since lost 150 pounds. Shane has three dogs, Miley, Charlie, and Chocolate as well as two cats, Muffins and Snoop. They often appear in his videos. He used to work in Jenny Craig, Inc. along with his mother and brother, but was fired after he uploaded a video of himself pole dancing in the building he worked in. His mother, brother and about 6 other coworkers who appeared in the video also got fired after the company saw the video.^[13] In a video he said he is a virgin, and plans to stay one until he is married as he believes strongly in sex after marriage.^[14] Shane Dawson revealed in a video that he and an unknown female broke up from their relationship, which lasted about a year.^[15] He decided to not release the female's identity in order to preserve her from getting negative criticism. In March 2012, Dawson stated that he was in a relationship with fellow YouTuber, Lisa Schwartz.^[16]

Dawson currently resides in Sherman Oaks, California.^[17]

YouTube channels[link]

Dawson posts new videos on his main channel, ShaneDawsonTV, every Saturday and video blogs on his second channel, ShaneDawsonTV2, throughout the week.^[18] Every Monday, posted on his second channel, he also has an "Ask Shane" webseries where he answers questions from his viewers. This series is similar to a previous web series, "Viewer Orgy Party", which currently only airs approximately once a month. His third YouTube channel, Shane, is where he posts unedited videos directly from his iPhone. He began using this channel in May, 2010. Starting in 2012 Shane had announced he would be making daily blogs (video blog) on his iPhone channel. He has also begun a new series called "Shane and Friends" on his main channel which he does once every month. This series includes him giving advice and talking as basically all his characters. Shane often collaborates with other YouTubers or appears in their videos, such as BrittaniLouiseTaylor, TheFineBros, JoeNationTV, and ijustine.

In August 2010, he announced that he was going to write a television pilot and post it on his main channel, featuring himself and his characters from previous videos, about him in high school.

Television projects[link]

On August 11, 2010, Dawson announced that he was in the making of a 30-minute pilot which he will call SD High. Previously, the funding he needed for the pilot was provided by digital media group Take180 after he helped them out with acting in their own videos.^[19] The pilot is based on two previous videos which Dawson uploaded to his main channel in Summer 2010. In his previous videos, the story centers around a teenage boy in school, and his interactions with the other characters. The pilot was due to be released towards the end of September 2010 on his main YouTube Channel, however Dawson later announced that he had been contacted by a television studio to produce the pilot for their TV channel(s).^[20] According to Dawson, there is some uncertainty involving the pilot, however it may be a TV show in the future.^[21] On March 26, 2011, Dawson uploaded a video to YouTube explaining to his audience that he's working with Happy Madison Productions, Sony Pictures, and some other YouTubers including TheFineBros and BrittaniLouiseTaylor to create the television show.^[22] The video contains an explanation from Dawson about what he's working on, and a 'mock trailer', made up of clips from previous episodes on his YouTube channel, for the show.

In January 2012, Dawson stated in a video that he was now working on a new television show, which would be semi-based on his life working at a Weight Loss center. He stated that he would be pitching the show soon, and that he was "really excited" for it, and stated the show was "kind of like Arrested Development, but - not."^[23] Recently, Shane, on May 16, 2012, announced in his daily vlog that he was working on a professional horror-comedy movie. "I want to write something like a teen comedy but like scary and fun," said Dawson in the vlog, Day 96.

Music projects[link]

In 2012, Dawson revealed in his Vlogs that he was working on a music project. In March 2012, Dawson revealed that his debut mainstream single, SUPERLUV! would be released that month. The song was released on March 31, 2012 on iTunes, with an accompanying music video debuting on his YouTube channel on the same day. The song managed to chart at 87 in Ireland, 16 on the UK Indie Chart and reached the 28th spot on the US iTunes Pop Chart.

On May 8, 2012, Dawson revealed in a video that he has begun working on his next original song, which is tentatively titled The Vacation Song. He previewed about 10 seconds of the "rough edit" of the song, and stated that he was going to change the mood of the song, saying, "Right now, it's a little too happy, because it's a break up song. I want it to be more like Kelly Clarkson's Since You've Been Gone." He stated that the song would "hopefully" be released by the beginning of June 2012.^[24]

Major productions[link]

• Hot Teens Gone Wild on Degrassi! Part 1 - November 21, 2009 (11-minute long special)
• Hot Teens Go Wild on Degrassi! Part 2 - March 6, 2010 (12-minute long special)
• SD High: School Dance Disaster - July 3, 2010 (SD High Episode 1) (8-minute long special)
• SD High: High School Drama - July 31, 2010 (SD High Episode 2) (9-minute long special)
• Haunted House Party - October 30, 2010 (Interactive Halloween special)
• Shane Dawson's Love Story - December 18, 2010 (10-minute long Christmas special)
• SD High: Teens Gone Wild - March 26, 2011 (SD High Episode 3) (7-minute long special)
• Final Destination: The Game - July 2, 2011 (Interactive special based on the Final Destination film series )
• Friends 4Ever - October 29, 2011 (22-minute long Halloween short film)
• How Shananay Stole Christmas - December 17, 2011 (15-minute long Christmas special)

Dawson will play a character named Binder in the upcoming feature-length horror film, Smiley (directed by YouTuber Michael Gallagher and produced by Level 10 Films) which has finished filming and is currently in post-production. It will be released in theaters and DVD in 2012.^[25]

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

Note: These are only songs Shane has released officially to iTunes as singles. He has also released a set of ringtones on iTunes, also available to download as tracks, and he releases all his parodies free on a media sharing website.

Awards and nominations[link]

Dawson has been nominated for various awards.^[26] On August 9, 2010, Dawson won the award for Choice Web Star at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards. Although the category was not featured at the awards show, Dawson stated in a video that he posted to YouTube the next day that "It was just great to be nominated and at the show itself". The nominees for that category included fellow YouTubers Justine Ezarik, Charles Trippy, Lucas Cruikshank, best known for his Fred character, and singer Greyson Chance. Dawson was nominated for Choice Web Star in the 2011 Teen Choice Awards, but lost to Rebecca Black.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Shane Dawson at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Website
• ShaneDawsonTV, Shane Dawson's YouTube channel