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A breed is a group of domestic animals or plants with a homogeneous appearance, behavior, and other characteristics that distinguish it from other animals or plants of the same species, and arrived at through selective breeding. Despite the centrality of the idea of "breeds" to animal husbandry, there is no scientifically accepted definition of the term. A breed is therefore not an objective or biologically verifiable classification, but instead a term of art amongst groups of breeders who share a consensus around what qualities make some members of a given species members of a nameable subset. The term is distinguished from landrace, which refers to a naturally-occurring regional variety of domestic (and sometimes feral) animal through uncontrolled breeding.
When bred together, animals of the same breed pass on these predictable traits to their offspring, and this ability—known as "breeding true"—is a requirement for a breed. Plant breeds are more commonly known as cultivars. The offspring produced as a result of breeding animals of one breed with other animals of another breed are known as crossbreeds or mixed breeds. Crosses between animal or plant variants above the level of breed/cultivar (species, subspecies, botanical variety, even different genera) are referred to as hybrids.
Eric Breed (June 12, 1971 – November 22, 2008), better known as MC Breed, was an American rapper best known for his singles "Ain't No Future in Yo Frontin", which peaked at #66 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Gotta Get Mine", featuring 2Pac, that made it to #6 on the Hot Rap Singles.
Born in Flint, Michigan, Breed is also known as the first commercially successful rapper to come out of the Midwest. MC Breed's first album was released with rap group DFC and was entitled MC Breed & DFC for independent record label, SDEG Records. His solo debut was 1992's 20 Below, after which he released 1993's The New Breed. He would go on to have a very extensive discography and have a very long career that was at times successful, but he never fully broke into the mainstream. His highest charting album was 1994's Funkafied, which peaked at #106 on the Billboard Hot 200. Through his career he would align himself with various rap scenes. Early in his career with DFC, he and the group were independents, as one of the first groups out of the midwest. However, later in his career he aligned himself with the West Coast, taking on more of a G-Funk sound and befriending West Coast rapper Too Short. Still later, he realigned himself once again with the Dirty South for 1995's Big Baller.
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana. Cobain formed Nirvana with Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1985 and established it as part of the Seattle music scene, having its debut album Bleach released on the independent record label Sub Pop in 1989.
After signing with major label DGC Records, the band found breakthrough success with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from its second album Nevermind (1991). Following the success of Nevermind, Nirvana was labeled "the flagship band" of Generation X, and Cobain hailed as "the spokesman of a generation". Cobain, however, was often uncomfortable and frustrated, believing his message and artistic vision to have been misinterpreted by the public, with his personal issues often subject to media attention. He challenged Nirvana's audience with its final studio album In Utero (1993).
During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with heroin addiction, illness and depression. He also had difficulty coping with his fame and public image, and the professional and lifelong personal pressures surrounding himself and his wife, musician Courtney Love. On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle, the victim of what was officially ruled a suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. The circumstances of his death at age 27 have become a topic of public fascination and debate. Since their debut, Nirvana, with Cobain as a songwriter, has sold over 25 million albums in the U.S. alone, and over 50 million worldwide.
Actors: Sara Kubida (actress), Chris McGovern (actor), Matthew James Sheridan (producer), Matthew James Sheridan (writer), Phillip Langer (actor), Matthew James Sheridan (director), Matthew James Sheridan (editor), Kathryn Neville Browne (actress), Nicole Coulon (actress), Hezues R. (producer), Sean Kevin Gaffney (writer), Sean Kevin Gaffney (actor), Hezues R. (actor), Talia Marrero (actress), Gina Scarda (actress),
Genres: Sci-Fi,Actors: Sandy Fox (actress), Melissa Fahn (actress), Dave Mallow (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (actress), Mari Devon (actress), Richard Cansino (actor), Bob Papenbrook (actor), Simon Prescott (actor), Derek Stephen Prince (actor), Lex Lang (actor), Steve Staley (actor), Terrence Stone (actor), Tom Wyner (actor), Bridget Hoffman (actress),
Plot: Mankind is threatened by a race of creatures called the Nightbreed, people who have, either willingly or through deception, succumbed to supernatural beings. And hunting them down is a man named Shido. A detective. A warrior. A vampire. And with the help of an urban spirit, his naive secretary, and a police agent assigned to special cases, Shido stands as a vanguard against the Nightbreed. But he has his own difficulties as well. Including his sire, the mysterious Kain, and his prophecies of the Golden Dawn...
Keywords: bisexual-vampire, vampireActors: Sandy Fox (actress), Melissa Fahn (actress), Dave Mallow (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (actress), Mari Devon (actress), Richard Cansino (actor), Bob Papenbrook (actor), Simon Prescott (actor), Derek Stephen Prince (actor), Lex Lang (actor), Steve Staley (actor), Terrence Stone (actor), Tom Wyner (actor), Bridget Hoffman (actress),
Plot: Mankind is threatened by a race of creatures called the Nightbreed, people who have, either willingly or through deception, succumbed to supernatural beings. And hunting them down is a man named Shido. A detective. A warrior. A vampire. And with the help of an urban spirit, his naive secretary, and a police agent assigned to special cases, Shido stands as a vanguard against the Nightbreed. But he has his own difficulties as well. Including his sire, the mysterious Kain, and his prophecies of the Golden Dawn...
Keywords: bisexual-vampire, vampireActors: Sandy Fox (actress), Melissa Fahn (actress), Dave Mallow (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (actress), Mari Devon (actress), Richard Cansino (actor), Bob Papenbrook (actor), Simon Prescott (actor), Derek Stephen Prince (actor), Lex Lang (actor), Steve Staley (actor), Terrence Stone (actor), Tom Wyner (actor), Bridget Hoffman (actress),
Plot: Mankind is threatened by a race of creatures called the Nightbreed, people who have, either willingly or through deception, succumbed to supernatural beings. And hunting them down is a man named Shido. A detective. A warrior. A vampire. And with the help of an urban spirit, his naive secretary, and a police agent assigned to special cases, Shido stands as a vanguard against the Nightbreed. But he has his own difficulties as well. Including his sire, the mysterious Kain, and his prophecies of the Golden Dawn...
Keywords: bisexual-vampire, vampireActors: Michelle Ruff (actress), Richard Cansino (actor), Melodee Spevack (actress), Dave Mallow (actor), Bob Papenbrook (actor), Simon Prescott (actor), Derek Stephen Prince (actor), Lia Sargent (actress), Julie Maddalena (actress), Maaya Sakamoto (actress), Steve Staley (actor), Mari Devon (actress), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (actress), Melissa Fahn (actress), Takumi Yamazaki (actor),
Plot: Mankind is threatened by a race of creatures called the Nightbreed, people who have, either willingly or through deception, succumbed to supernatural beings. And hunting them down is a man named Shido. A detective. A warrior. A vampire. And with the help of an urban spirit, his naive secretary, and a police agent assigned to special cases, Shido stands as a vanguard against the Nightbreed. But he has his own difficulties as well. Including his sire, the mysterious Kain, and his prophecies of the Golden Dawn...
Keywords: anime, bisexual-vampire, detective, good-versus-evil, murder, vampire, vampire-detectiveActors: Philip Gamboa (actor), Rex Lapid (actor), Danilo Cabreira (director), Don Gordon Bell (actor), Mike Cohen (actor), Willie Williams (actor), Paul Vance (actor), Bugsy Dabao (miscellaneous crew), Michael James (actor), Peter Barker (actor),
Genres: War,Actors: Polly Bergen (actress), Anthony De Longis (actor), Dominic Frontiere (composer), Michael Ensign (actor), David Faustino (actor), Clyde Kusatsu (actor), Douglas S. Cramer (producer), E. Duke Vincent (producer), William Windom (actor), Aaron Spelling (producer), Shari Belafonte (actress), Leigh McCloskey (actor), Sheree J. Wilson (actress), Bruce Abbott (actor), Richard Lang (director),
Genres: Action, Drama,Actors: Lane Smith (actor), Anthony Zerbe (actor), Robert Swink (editor), Laurence Rosenthal (composer), John Wayne (actor), Katharine Hepburn (actress), Hal B. Wallis (producer), Strother Martin (actor), John McIntire (actor), Martha Hyer (writer), Paul Koslo (actor), Andrew Prine (actor), Chuck Hayward (actor), Marvin Weldon (miscellaneous crew), Ralph Volkie (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A small village in the Indian Nation that is run by a Minister Goodnight and his daughter Eula is overrun by a band of drunken thugs. They kill and rape the people of the village. Miss Goodnight then teams up with the ruthless Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn who goes after them and bring them to justice.
Keywords: action-hero, affection, alcoholic, alcoholism, ambush, american-indian, army, arrest, bad-guy, badgeActors: Dale Wilson (actor), Julie Christie (actress), Wayne Robson (actor), Keith Carradine (actor), Michael Murphy (actor), Jack Riley (actor), Terence Kelly (actor), Don Francks (actor), William Devane (actor), Alex Diakun (actor), Warren Beatty (actor), Rene Auberjonois (actor), Bert Remsen (actor), David Foster (producer), Shelley Duvall (actress),
Plot: Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to use her experience to help McCabe run his business, while sharing in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation, which wants to buy out McCabe along with the rest. He refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for him, Mrs. Miller, and the town.
Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, 19th-century, african-american, american-indian, ampersand-in-title, anti-western, banjo, bar, bar-keeperActors: Ray Taylor (director), Roy Barcroft (actor), James Blaine (actor), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Charles King (actor), Charles Middleton (actor), Horace Murphy (actor), William Royle (actor), Charles Stevens (actor), Chief Thundercloud (actor), Eddy Waller (actor), John Archer (actor), Eleanor Hansen (actress),
Genres: Western,