title: UCF Knights football

text: The Knights compiled an overall record of 112–60–1 at the Citrus Bowl, which includes Division II playoff games in 1987, a Division I-AA playoff game in 1990, the 2005 C-USA Championship Game and the 2016 Cure Bowl.


title: UCF Knights football

text: In early 2005, as a response to the deteriorating condition of the Citrus Bowl, and lack of revenue derived from the games there, UCF formally proposed building an on-campus stadium. Additional motivations included drawing more students to the games, a more intimate setting, and establishing game-day traditions on campus. In December 2005, the UCF Board of Trustees approved the construction of a new on-campus stadium. The new stadium, at the time named Bright House Networks Stadium, was originally planned to open in time for the 2006 football season, but neighborhood opposition delayed the time frame by a year.


title: UCF Knights football

text: Stadium construction began in 2006 and was finished in time for the 2007 season. The first home-game took place on September 15, 2007, as the Knights nearly upset the No. 6-ranked Texas Longhorns. The current seating capacity of the stadium is 44,206, and plans provide for a future expansion to 65,000 seats. Although the Knights lost their first on-campus home game, they finished the remainder of the stadium's inaugural season undefeated. UCF has hosted the C-USA Championship Game twice, and the AAC Championship Game twice. Following the 2014 season, the stadium underwent an $8 million renovation. The Wayne Densch Center for Student-Athlete Leadership was constructed on the east facade of the stadium, and a party deck known as the "Carl Black and Gold Cabana" was added to the east stands. By many accounts the stadium was built cheaply and as fast as possible. Due to these factors the stadium tends to bounce up and down giving it the nickname "The Bounce House". The stadium was renamed to Spectrum Stadium in April 2017 following Charter Communications acquisition of Bright House Networks. After the naming rights deal with Spectrum expired after the 2019 season, the stadium was renamed Bounce House for the Knights 2020 season.


title: UCF Knights football

text: Just over two weeks before the 2019 season opener, the UCF athletic department announced that the entire season-ticket allotment was sold out for the first time in school history. In addition, they created a formal waiting list for season tickets, also for the first time. In the press release, UCF athletic director Danny White teased a possible expansion of Spectrum Stadium in the near future if ticket demand remains high.


title: UCF Knights football

text: Though UCF remains a relatively young program that has shifted conferences several times, it has several long-standing rivalries with schools throughout the duration of Conference USA and The American. The university's biggest rival historically is their instate rival, the University of South Florida Bulls, played from 2005 to 2008, and since 2013. Other rivalries include the East Carolina University Pirates, Memphis Tigers, and Houston Cougars.


title: UCF Knights football

text: One other unofficial rivalry, known as the Civil Conflict, exists between UCF and UConn. However, UCF does not acknowledge the rivalry, and has publicly dismissed it.


title: UCF Knights football

text: The War on I–4 dates years before the two schools ever played a game against each other. The matchup was the subject of much discussion and fan enthusiasm since the 1990s, though the first game was not played until 2005. The rivalry, often known as the "War on I–4" or "I–4 Corridor Clash", continued as a four home-and-away series through the 2008 season. The Bulls won each of the four games, which all drew strong crowds, but South Florida declined to continue the series after 2008. The UCF–South Florida game resumed as a regular conference game beginning with the 2013 season, as UCF joined the American Athletic Conference. The Knights won the first game as conference members 23–20 before 45,952 in Orlando. In 2014, the Knights won for the first time at Raymond James Stadium, and delivered the first home shut-out in South Florida history, 16–0. In 2015, USF defeated the Knights 44–3 to finish a winless season for the Knights. In 2016, the War On I-4 trophy was introduced for the first time. USF took home the trophy by defeating UCF 48–31 and clinching their first 10-win season in school history, only for UCF to take the trophy back from them the following year during their national championship season in 2017.


title: UCF Knights football

text: Every year, several publications release lists of their ideal "team". The athletes on these lists are referred to as All-Americans. The NCAA recognizes five All-American lists. They are the Associated Press (AP), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), "Sporting News" ("TSN"), and the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WCFF). UCF has had numerous players honored as first team All-Americans. To date, Kevin Smith is the only Consensus All-American.


title: UCF Knights football

text: Quarterbacks Daunte Culpepper and McKenzie Milton, and running back Kevin Smith are the only Knights to finish in the Top–10 of voting for the Heisman Trophy.


title: UCF Knights football

text: UCF retires a student-athlete's jersey but does not retire the respective jersey numbers. The Knights coaching staff can choose to reissue a given number, as the retirement of the jersey does not require that the number not be worn again.


title: UCF Knights football

text: As of December 2021, currently 21 players are on an NFL roster. Which ranks 26th overall out NFL players represented by school. They also lead G5 schools with the most active NFL players.


title: UCF Knights football

text: UCF is one of eleven current full members of the American Athletic Conference. With the departure of UConn after 2019, the conference contracted to eleven teams for football, and divisions were eliminated. Teams in The American play an eight-game conference schedule (four home games and four away games). The intra-conference opponents are scheduled on a rotating basis.


title: UCF Knights football

text: From 2015 to 2019, football in The American consisted of twelve teams, split into two divisions. UCF was placed in the East Division with Cincinnati, UConn, ECU, South Florida, and Temple. The West Division consisted of Houston, Memphis, SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, and Navy. Intra-division games (five annually) operated on a two-year cycle, as a home-and-home series. Crossover division games operated on a four-year cycle (home-and-home with three teams, followed by home-and-home with the other three).


title: UCF Knights football

text: Officially announced out-of-conference schedules as of July 2022 are as follows. When UCF joins the Big 12 Conference in 2023, the conference is expected to maintain a nine-game intra-conference schedule. As such, the Knights are expecting to contest three out-of-conference games annually.


title: UCF Knights football

text: A home-and-home out-of-conference series with BYU was scheduled for 2023–2024. However, it was officially canceled on July 13, 2022, as BYU will also be joining the Big 12 in 2023. Planned meetings versus FIU (2022) and Liberty (2024) were also cancelled. The Sam Houston State Bearkats, which will enter Division I FBS in 2023 as members of C-USA, will instead play at BYU in 2023, and at UCF in 2024. UCF eventually added Villanova for the vacated 2023 schedule slot.


title: Aamna Sharif

text: Aamna Sharif (born 16 July 1982) is an Indian television actress known for portraying Kashish in "Kahiin to Hoga" , Muskan in "Hongey Judaa Na Hum" and Komolika Chaubey Basu in "Kasautii Zindagii Kay 2".


title: Aamna Sharif

text: Aamna Sharif was born on 16 July 1982 in Mumbai, Maharashtra to an Indian father and a Persian-Bahraini mother. She studied at St. Anne's High School, Bandra.


title: Aamna Sharif

text: In 2012, Sharif revealed that she suffers from acrophobia since childhood. After dating for almost a year, Sharif married her film distributor-turned-producer boyfriend "Amit Kapoor", on 27 December 2013. The couple had their first child a boy born on 2 September 2015. They named that son as Arain Kapoor.


title: Aamna Sharif

text: During her second year in college, Sharif started receiving offers for modelling of various brands. Sharif started her career through featuring in music videos. Sharif made her acting debut as Kashish Sinha in "Kahiin to Hoga" opposite Rajeev Khandelwal. From 2012 to 2013, she played Muskaan Mishra in Sony TV's "Hongey Judaa Na Hum" opposite Raqesh Vashisth.


title: Aamna Sharif

text: Shariff made her film debut with the 2009 Bollywood film "Aloo Chaat" opposite Aftab Shivdasani. In the same year, she also starred in "Aao Wish Karein", with Shivdasani again. In 2014, she appeared in Mohit Suri's "Ek Villain." However, none of the films gained her recognition making her return to television in 2012 with "Hongey Judaa Na Hum."


title: Aamna Sharif

text: In 2019, Sharif made her television comeback after six years with StarPlus's "Kasautii Zindagii Kay" where she plays the antagonist Komolika Basu replacing Hina Khan.


title: 2022–23 Liga 1 (Indonesia)

text: The 2022–23 Liga 1 (also known as the 2022–23 BRI Liga 1 for sponsorship reasons) is the 13th season of the Liga 1, the top Indonesian professional league for association football clubs since its establishment in 2008. It started on 23 July 2022. Bali United are the two-time defending champions.


title: 2022–23 Liga 1 (Indonesia)

text: Following the Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster, in which at least 133 people were killed in a stampede provoked by police use of tear gas among fans who were still in the stadium, competition in all top three leagues in Indonesia were placed on hold. On 8 October 2022, FIFA recommended that matches be played no later than 17:00 (WIB) and only on weekends to avoid risky situations in some matches.


title: 2022–23 Liga 1 (Indonesia)

text: On 3 December 2022, PSSI announced that the league would resume on 5 December, with all remaining matches held behind closed doors at least until first half of the season ends.


title: 2022–23 Liga 1 (Indonesia)

text: Eighteen teams is competing in the league – the top fifteen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the Liga 2. The promoted teams are Persis (returned to the top flight after fourteen years), RANS Nusantara and Dewa United (both teams will play in the Liga 1 for the first time in their history). They replaced Persipura, Persela (both teams were relegated for the first time since 2008) and Persiraja (relegated after just two seasons back in the top flight).


title: 2022–23 Liga 1 (Indonesia)

text: On 30 May 2022, during the 2022 PSSI Ordinary Congress, four teams had their name change requests accepted by the federation:


title: 2022–23 Liga 1 (Indonesia)

text: PSSI restricts the number of foreign players to four per team with one of them must come from an association member from the Asian Football Confederation. Teams can use all the foreign players at once.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. Mahfouz is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers in the Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism. He is the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He published 35 novels, over 350 short stories, 26 screenplays, hundreds of op-ed columns for Egyptian newspapers, and seven plays over a 70-year career, from the 1930s until 2004. All of his novels take place in Egypt, and always mentions the lane, which equals the world. His most famous works include "The Cairo Trilogy" and "Children of Gebelawi". Many of Mahfouz's works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films; no Arab writer exceeds Mahfouz in number of works that have been adapted for cinema and television. While Mahfouz's literature is classified as realist literature, existential themes appear in it.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Mahfouz was born in a lower middle-class Muslim Egyptian family in Old Cairo in 1911. The first part of his compound given name was chosen in appreciation of the well-known obstetrician, Naguib Pasha Mahfouz, who oversaw his difficult birth. Mahfouz was the seventh and the youngest child, with four brothers and two sisters, all of them much older than him. (Experientially, he grew up an "only child.") The family lived in two popular districts of Cairo: first, in the Bayt al-Qadi neighborhood in the Gamaleya quarter in the old city, from where they moved in 1924 to Abbaseya, then a new Cairo suburb north of the old city, locations that would provide the backdrop for many of Mahfouz's later writings. His father, Abdel-Aziz Ibrahim, whom Mahfouz described as having been "old-fashioned", was a civil servant, and Mahfouz eventually followed in his footsteps in 1934. Mahfouz's mother, Fatimah, was the daughter of Mustafa Qasheesha, an Al-Azhar sheikh, and although illiterate herself, took the boy Mahfouz on numerous excursions to cultural locations such as the Egyptian Museum and the Pyramids.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: The Mahfouz family were devout Muslims and Mahfouz had a strict Islamic upbringing. In an interview, he elaborated on the stern religious climate at home during his childhood. He stated that "You would never have thought that an artist would emerge from that family."


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: The Egyptian Revolution of 1919 had a strong effect on Mahfouz, although he was at the time only seven years old. From the window he saw British soldiers firing at the demonstrators in an effort to disperse them. According to Mahfouz, "You could say ... that the one thing which most shook the security of my childhood was the 1919 revolution", he later said.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: In his early years, Mahfouz read extensively and was influenced by Hafiz Najib, Taha Hussein and Salama Moussa, the Fabian intellectual.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: After completing his secondary education, Mahfouz was admitted in 1930 to the Egyptian University (now Cairo University), where he studied philosophy, graduating in 1934. By 1936, having spent a year working on an M.A. in philosophy, he decided to discontinue his studies and become a professional writer. He published his first work in "Al Majalla Al Jadida", a magazine started by Salama Musa in 1929. Mahfouz then worked as a journalist for "Arrissalah", and contributed short stories to "Al-Hilal" and "Al-Ahram".


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: After receiving his bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Cairo University in 1934, Mahfouz joined the Egyptian civil service, where he continued to work in various positions and ministries until retirement in 1971. He served first as a clerk at Cairo University, then, in 1938, in the Ministry of Islamic Endowments (Awqaf) as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Islamic Endowments. In 1945, he requested a transfer to the al-Ghuri Mausoleum library, where he interviewed residents of his childhood neighborhood as part of the "Good Loans Project." In the 1950s, he worked as Director of Censorship in the Bureau of Arts, as Director of the Foundation for the Support of the Cinema, and finally as a consultant to the Ministry of Culture.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Mahfouz published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of screenplays, and five plays over a 70-year career. Possibly his most famous work, "The Cairo Trilogy", depicts the lives of three generations of different families in Cairo from World War I until after the 1952 military coup that overthrew King Farouk. He was a board member of the publisher "Dar el-Ma'aref". Many of his novels were serialized in "Al-Ahram", and his writings also appeared in his weekly column, "Point of View". Before the Nobel Prize only a few of his novels had appeared in the West.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Most of Mahfouz's early works were set in Cairo. "Abath Al-Aqdar (Mockery of the Fates)" (1939), "Rhadopis" (1943), and "Kifah Tibah (The Struggle of Thebes)" (1944) were historical novels written as part of a larger unfulfilled 30-novel project. Inspired by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Mahfouz planned to cover the entire history of Egypt in a series of books. However, following the third volume, his interest shifted to current settings and issues, as well as the psychological impact of social change on ordinary people.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Mahfouz's prose is characterised by the blunt expression of his ideas. His written works cover a broad range of topics, including the controversial and taboo such as socialism, homosexuality, and God. Writing about some of these subjects was prohibited in Egypt.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Mahfouz's works often deal with Egypt's development during the 20th century, and combined intellectual and cultural influences from both East and West. His own exposure to foreign literature began in his youth with the enthusiastic consumption of Western detective stories, Russian classics, and modernist writers as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and James Joyce. Mahfouz's stories are almost always set in the heavily populated urban quarters of Cairo, where his characters, usually ordinary people, try to cope with the modernization of society and the temptations of Western values.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Mahfouz's central work in the 1950s was the "Cairo Trilogy", which he completed before the July Revolution. The novels were titled with the street names "Palace Walk", "Palace of Desire", and "Sugar Street". Mahfouz set the story in the parts of Cairo where he grew up. The novels depict the life of the patriarch el-Sayyed Ahmed Abdel Gawad and his family over three generations, from World War I to the 1950s, when King Farouk I was overthrown. Mahfouz stopped writing for some years after finishing the trilogy.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Disappointed in the Nasser régime, which had overthrown the monarchy in 1952, he started publishing again in 1959, now prolifically pouring out novels, short stories, journalism, memoirs, essays, and screenplays. He stated in a 1998 interview that he "long felt that Nasser was one of the greatest political leaders in modern history. I only began to fully appreciate him after he nationalized the Suez Canal." His non-fiction, including his journalism and essays and his writing on literature and philosophy, were published in four volumes from 2016.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: His 1966 novel "Tharthara Fawq Al-Nīl" (Adrift on the Nile) is one of his most popular works. It was later made into a film called "Chitchat on the Nile" during the régime of Anwar al-Sadat. The story criticizes the decadence of Egyptian society during the Nasser era. It was banned by Sadat to avoid provoking Egyptians who still loved former president Nasser. Copies of the banned book were hard to find prior to the late 1990s.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: The "Children of Gebelawi" (1959, also known as "Children of the Alley") one of Mahfouz's best known works, portrayed the patriarch Gebelaawi and his children, average Egyptians living the lives of Cain and Abel, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed. Gebelawi builds a mansion in an oasis in the middle of a barren desert; his estate becomes the scene of a family feud that continues for generations. "Whenever someone is depressed, suffering or humiliated, he points to the mansion at the top of the alley at the end opening out to the desert, and says sadly, 'That is our ancestor's house, we are all his children, and we have a right to his property. Why are we starving? What have we done?'" The book was banned throughout the Arab world except in Lebanon until 2006 when it was first published in Egypt. The work was prohibited because of its alleged blasphemy through the allegorical portrayal of God and the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: In the 1960s, Mahfouz further developed the theme that humanity is moving further away from God in his existentialist novels. In "The Thief and the Dogs" (1961) he depicted the fate of a Marxist thief who has been released from prison and plans revenge.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: In the 1960s and 1970s Mahfouz began to construct his novels more freely and often used interior monologues. In "Miramar" (1967) he employed a form of multiple First-person narratives. Four narrators, among them a Socialist and a Nasserite opportunist, represent different political views. In the center of the story is an attractive servant girl. In "Arabian Nights and Days" (1979) and in "The Journey of Ibn Fatouma" (1983) he drew on traditional Arabic narratives as subtexts. "Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth" (1985) deals with conflict between old and new religious truths.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Many of his novels were first published in serialized form, including "Children of Gebelawi" and "Midaq Alley" which was also adapted into a Mexican film starring Salma Hayek called "El callejón de los milagros".


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Most of Mahfouz's writings deal mainly with politics, a fact he acknowledged: "In all my writings, you will find politics. You may find a story which ignores love or any other subject, but not politics; it is the very axis of our thinking".


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: He espoused Egyptian nationalism in many of his works, and expressed sympathies for the post-World-War-era Wafd Party. He was also attracted to socialist and democratic ideals early in his youth. The influence of socialist ideals is strongly reflected in his first two novels, "Al-Khalili" and "New Cairo", as well as many of his later works. Parallel to his sympathy for socialism and democracy was his antipathy towards Islamic extremism.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: In his youth, Mahfouz had personally known Sayyid Qutb when Qutb was showing a greater interest in literary criticism than in Islamic fundamentalism; Qutb later became a significant influence on the Muslim Brotherhood. In the mid-1940s, Qutb was one of the first critics to recognize Mahfouz's talent, and by the 1960s, near the end of Qutb's life, Mahfouz even visited him in the hospital. But later, in the semi-autobiographical novel "Mirrors", Mahfouz drew a negative portrait of Qutb. He was disillusioned with the 1952 revolution and by Egypt's defeat in the 1967 Six-Day War. He had supported the principles of the revolution, but became disenchanted, saying that the practices failed to live up to the original ideals.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Mahfouz's writing influenced a new generation of Egyptian lawyers, including Nabil Mounir and Reda Aslan.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: "The alleys, the houses, the palaces and mosques and the people who live among them are evoked as vividly in Mahfouz's work as the streets of London were conjured by Dickens."


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: "Throughout Naguib Mahfouz's fiction there is a pervasive sense of metaphor, of a literary artist who is using his fiction to speak directly and unequivocally to the condition of his country. His work is imbued with love for Egypt and its people, but it is also utterly honest and unsentimental."


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: "Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of [his] fiction."


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: "Mr. Mahfouz embodied the essence of what makes the bruising, raucous, chaotic human anthill of Cairo possible."


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Mahfouz was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, the only Arab writer to have won the award. Shortly after winning the prize Mahfouz was quoted as saying:


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Because Mahfouz found traveling to Sweden difficult at his age, he did not attend the award ceremony.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Mahfouz did not shrink from controversy outside of his work. As a consequence of his support for Sadat's Camp David peace treaty with Israel in 1978, his books were banned in many Arab countries until after he won the Nobel Prize. Like many Egyptian writers and intellectuals, Mahfouz was on an Islamic fundamentalist "death list".


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: He defended British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned Rushdie to death in a 1989 fatwa, but also criticized Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" as "insulting" to Islam. Mahfouz believed in freedom of expression, and, although he did not personally agree with Rushdie's work, he spoke out against the "fatwa" condemning him to death for it.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: In 1989, after Ayatollah Khomeini's "fatwa" calling for Rushdie and his publishers to be killed, Mahfouz called Khomeini a terrorist. Shortly after, Mahfouz joined 80 other intellectuals in declaring that "no blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer."


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: The publication of "The Satanic Verses" revived the controversy surrounding Mahfouz's novel "Children of Gebelawi". Death threats against Mahfouz followed, including one from the "blind sheikh," Egyptian-born Omar Abdul-Rahman. Mahfouz was given police protection, but in 1994 an extremist succeeded in attacking the 82-year-old novelist by stabbing him in the neck outside his Cairo home.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: He survived, permanently affected by damage to nerves of his right upper limb. After the incident, Mahfouz was unable to write for more than a few minutes a day and consequently produced fewer and fewer works. Subsequently, he lived under constant bodyguard protection. Finally, in the beginning of 2006, the novel was published in Egypt with a preface written by Ahmad Kamal Aboul-Magd. After the threats, Mahfouz stayed in Cairo with his lawyer, Nabil Mounir Habib. Mahfouz and Mounir would spend most of their time in Mounir's office; Mahfouz used Mounir's library as a reference for most of his books. Mahfouz stayed with Mounir until his death.


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Mahfouz remained a bachelor until age 43 because he believed that, with its numerous restrictions and limitations, marriage would hamper his literary future. "I was afraid of marriage . . . especially when I saw how busy my brothers and sisters were with social events because of it. This one went to visit people, that one invited people. I had the impression that married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom."


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: However, in 1954, he quietly married a Coptic Orthodox woman from Alexandria, Atiyyatallah Ibrahim, with whom he had two daughters, Fatima and Umm Kalthum. The couple initially lived on a houseboat in the Agouza section of Cairo on the west bank of the Nile, then moved to an apartment along the river in the same area. Mahfouz avoided public exposure, especially inquiries into his private life, which might have become, as he put it, "a silly topic in journals and radio programs."


title: Naguib Mahfouz

text: Mahfouz distinctly did not like to travel. Belgrade was one of the few cities to which he gladly went and he expressed great respect for Serbia.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Christianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the 1st century in the Roman province of Judea, from where it spread throughout and beyond the Roman Empire.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Christianity "emerged as a sect of Judaism in Roman Palestine" in the syncretistic Hellenistic world of the first century AD, which was dominated by Roman law and Greek culture. It started with the ministry of Jesus, who proclaimed the coming of the Kingdom of God. After his death by crucifixion, some of his followers are said to have seen Jesus, and proclaimed him to be alive and resurrected by God. The resurrection of Jesus "signalled for earliest believers that the days of eschatological fulfillment were at hand," and gave the impetus in certain Christian sects to the exaltation of Jesus to the status of divine Son and Lord of God's Kingdom and the resumption of their missionary activity.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Traditionally, the years following Jesus until the death of the last of the Twelve Apostles is called the Apostolic Age, after the missionary activities of the apostles. According to the Acts of the Apostles (the historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles is disputed), the Jerusalem church began at Pentecost with some 120 believers, in an "upper room," believed by some to be the Cenacle, where the apostles received the Holy Spirit and emerged from hiding following the death and resurrection of Jesus to preach and spread his message.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: The New Testament writings depict what orthodox Christian churches call the Great Commission, an event where they describe the resurrected Jesus Christ instructing his disciples to spread his eschatological message of the coming of the Kingdom of God to all the nations of the world. The most famous version of the Great Commission is in , where on a mountain in Galilee Jesus calls on his followers to make disciples of and baptize all nations in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Paul's conversion on the Road to Damascus is first recorded in . Peter baptized the Roman centurion Cornelius, traditionally considered the first Gentile convert to Christianity, in . Based on this, the Antioch church was founded. It is also believed that it was there that the term Christian was coined.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: After the death of Jesus, Christianity first emerged as a sect of Judaism as practiced in the Roman province of Judea. The first Christians were all Jews, who constituted a Second Temple Jewish sect with an apocalyptic eschatology.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: The Jerusalem community consisted of "Hebrews," Jews speaking both Aramaic and Greek, and "Hellenists," Jews speaking only Greek, possibly diaspora Jews who had resettled in Jerusalem. With the start of their missionary activity, early Jewish Christians also started to attract proselytes, Gentiles who were fully or partly converted to Judaism. According to Dunn, Paul's initial persecution of Christians probably was directed against these Greek-speaking "Hellenists" due to their anti-Temple attitude. Within the early Jewish Christian community, this also set them apart from the "Hebrews" and their Tabernacle observance.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Christian missionary activity spread "the Way" and slowly created early centers of Christianity with Gentile adherents in the predominantly Greek-speaking eastern half of the Roman Empire, and then throughout the Hellenistic world and even beyond the Roman Empire. Early Christian beliefs were proclaimed in "kerygma" (preaching), some of which are preserved in New Testament scripture. The early Gospel message spread orally, probably originally in Aramaic, but almost immediately also in Greek.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: The scope of the Jewish-Christian mission expanded over time. While Jesus limited his message to a Jewish audience in Galilea and Judea, after his death his followers extended their outreach to all of Israel, and eventually the whole Jewish diaspora, believing that the Second Coming would only happen when all Jews had received the Gospel. Apostles and preachers traveled to Jewish communities around the Mediterranean Sea, and initially attracted Jewish converts. Within 10 years of the death of Jesus, apostles had attracted enthusiasts for "the Way" from Jerusalem to Antioch, Ephesus, Corinth, Thessalonica, Cyprus, Crete, Alexandria and Rome. Over 40 churches were established by 100, most in Asia Minor, such as the seven churches of Asia, and some in Greece and Italy.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: According to Fredriksen, when missionary early Christians broadened their missionary efforts, they also came into contact with Gentiles attracted to the Jewish religion. Eventually, the Gentiles came to be included in the missionary effort of Hellenised Jews, bringing "all nations" into the house of God. The "Hellenists," Greek-speaking diaspora Jews belonging to the early Jerusalem Jesus-movement, played an important role in reaching a Gentile, Greek audience, notably at Antioch, which had a large Jewish community and significant numbers of Gentile "God-fearers." From Antioch, the mission to the Gentiles started, including Paul's, which would fundamentally change the character of the early Christian movement, eventually turning it into a new, Gentile religion. According to Dunn, within ten years after Jesus' death, "the new messianic movement focused on Jesus began to modulate into something different ... it was at Antioch that we can begin to speak of the new movement as 'Christianity'."


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Paul was responsible for bringing Christianity to Ephesus, Corinth, Philippi, and Thessalonica. According to Larry Hurtado, "Paul saw Jesus' resurrection as ushering in the eschatological time foretold by biblical prophets in which the pagan 'Gentile' nations would turn from their idols and embrace the one true God of Israel (e.g., ), and Paul saw himself as specially called by God to declare God's eschatological acceptance of the Gentiles and summon them to turn to God."


title: Spread of Christianity

text: According to Krister Stendahl, the main concern of Paul's writings on Jesus' role and salvation by faith is not the individual conscience of human sinners and their doubts about being chosen by God or not, but the main concern is the problem of the inclusion of Gentile (Greek) Torah-observers into God's covenant. "Hebrew" Jewish Christians opposed Paul's interpretations, as exemplified by the Ebionites. The relaxing of requirements in Pauline Christianity opened the way for a much larger Christian Church, extending far beyond the Jewish community. The inclusion of Gentiles is reflected in Luke-Acts, which is an attempt to answer a theological problem, namely how the Messiah of the Jews came to have an overwhelmingly non-Jewish church; the answer it provides, and its central theme, is that the message of Christ was sent to the Gentiles because the Jews rejected it.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: There was a slowly growing chasm between Gentile Christians, and Jews and Jewish Christians, rather than a sudden split. Even though it is commonly thought that Paul established a Gentile church, it took centuries for a complete break to manifest. Growing tensions led to a starker separation that was virtually complete by the time Jewish Christians refused to join in the Bar Khokba Jewish revolt of 132. Certain events are perceived as pivotal in the growing rift between Christianity and Judaism.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Christianity spread to Aramaic-speaking peoples along the Mediterranean coast and also to the inland parts of the Roman Empire, and beyond that into the Parthian Empire and the later Sasanian Empire, including Mesopotamia, which was dominated at different times and to varying extents by these empires. In AD 301, the Kingdom of Armenia became the first state to declare Christianity as its state religion, following the conversion of the Royal House of the Arsacids in Armenia. With Christianity the dominant faith in some urban centers, Christians accounted for approximately 10% of the Roman population by 300, according to some estimates.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: By the latter half of the second century, Christianity had spread west throughout Media, Persia, Parthia, and Bactria. The twenty bishops and many presbyters were more of the order of itinerant missionaries, passing from place to place as Paul did and supplying their needs with such occupations as merchant or craftsman.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Various theories attempt to explain how Christianity managed to spread so successfully prior to the Edict of Milan (313). In "The Rise of Christianity", Rodney Stark argues that Christianity replaced paganism chiefly because it improved the lives of its adherents in various ways. Dag Øistein Endsjø argues that Christianity was helped by its promise of a general resurrection of the dead at the end of the world which was compatible with the traditional Greek belief that true immortality depended on the survival of the body. According to Will Durant, the Christian Church prevailed over paganism because it offered a much more attractive doctrine, and because the church leaders addressed human needs better than their rivals.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Bart D. Ehrman attributes the rapid spread of Christianity to five factors: (1) the promise of salvation and eternal life for everyone was an attractive alternative to Roman religions; (2) stories of miracles and healings purportedly showed that the one Christian God was more powerful than the many Roman gods; (3) Christianity began as a grassroots movement providing hope of a better future in the next life for the lower classes; (4) Christianity took worshipers away from other religions since converts were expected to give up the worship of other gods, unusual in antiquity where worship of many gods was common; (5) in the Roman world, converting one person often meant converting the whole household—if the head of the household was converted, he decided the religion of his wife, children and slaves.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: There was no empire-wide persecution of Christians until the reign of Decius in the third century. As the Roman Empire experienced the Crisis of the Third Century, the emperor Decius enacted measures intended to restore stability and unity, including a requirement that Roman citizens affirm their loyalty through religious ceremonies pertaining to Imperial cult. In 212, universal citizenship had been granted to all freeborn inhabitants of the empire, and with the edict of Decius enforcing religious conformity in 250, Christian citizens faced an intractable conflict: any citizen who refused to participate in the empire-wide "supplicatio" was subject to the death penalty. Although lasting only a year, the Decian persecution was a severe departure from previous imperial policy that Christians were not to be sought out and prosecuted as inherently disloyal. Even under Decius, orthodox Christians were subject to arrest only for their refusal to participate in Roman civic religion, and were not prohibited from assembling for worship. Gnostics seem not to have been persecuted.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Christianity flourished during the four decades known as the "Little Peace of the Church", beginning with the reign of Gallienus (253–268), who issued the first official edict of tolerance regarding Christianity. The era of coexistence ended when Diocletian launched the final and "Great" Persecution in 303.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: The Edict of Serdica was issued in 311 by the Roman emperor Galerius, officially ending the Diocletianic persecution of Christianity in the East. With the passage in AD 313 of the Edict of Milan, in which the Roman Emperors Constantine the Great and Licinius legalised the Christian religion, persecution of Christians by the Roman state ceased.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: According to Indian Christian traditional legends, following previous migration by Jews, Christianity arrived along the southern Indian Malabar Coast via Thomas the Apostle in 52 AD and from this came Thomasine Christianity. But there is no contemporary evidence for this. According to the third century Acts of Thomas, Thomas visited only the realm of Gondophares in Northwest India (which is now Pakistan). Although little is known of the immediate growth of the church, Bar-Daisan (AD 154–223) reports that in his time there were Christian tribes in Northwest India, which claimed to have been converted by Thomas and to have books and relics to prove it. Certainly by the time of the establishment of the Sassanid Empire (AD 226), there were bishops of the Church of the East in northwest India, Afghanistan and Baluchistan, with laymen and clergy alike engaging in missionary activity.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: In 313 BCE, Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of Milan, officially legalizing Christian worship. In 316, Constantine acted as a judge in a North African dispute concerning the Donatist controversy. More significantly, in 325 he summoned the Council of Nicaea, effectively the first Ecumenical Council (unless the Council of Jerusalem is so classified), to deal mostly with the Arian controversy, but which also issued the Nicene Creed, which among other things professed a belief in "One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church", the start of Christendom.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: On February 27, 380, the Roman Empire officially adopted Trinitarian Nicene Christianity as its state religion. Prior to this date, Constantius II (337-361) and Valens (364-378) had personally favored Arian or Semi-Arianism forms of Christianity, but Valens' successor Theodosius I supported the Trinitarian doctrine as expounded in the Nicene Creed.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: In the several centuries of state-sponsored Christianity that followed, pagans and heretical Christians were routinely persecuted by the Empire and the many kingdoms and countries that later occupied the place of the Empire, but some Germanic tribes remained Arian well into the Middle Ages.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Historically, the most widespread Christian church in Asia was the Church of the East, the Christian church of Sasanian Persia. This church is often known as the Nestorian Church, due to its adoption of the doctrine of Nestorianism, which emphasized the disunity of the divine and human natures of Christ. It has also been known as the Persia Church, the East Syrian Church, the Assyrian Church, and, in China, as the "Luminous Religion".


title: Spread of Christianity

text: The Church of the East developed almost wholly apart from the Greek and Roman churches. In the 5th century, it endorsed the doctrine of Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 428 to 431, especially following the Nestorian Schism after the condemnation of Nestorius for heresy at the First Council of Ephesus. For at least twelve hundred years the Church of the East was noted for its missionary zeal, its high degree of lay participation, its superior educational standards and cultural contributions in less developed countries, and its fortitude in the face of persecution.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: The Church of the East had its inception at a very early date in the buffer zone between the Parthian and Roman Empires in Upper Mesopotamia, and Edessa (now Şanlıurfa) in northwestern Mesopotamia was from apostolic times the principal center of Syriac-speaking Christianity. When early Christians were scattered abroad because of persecution, some found refuge at Edessa. The missionary movement in the East began which gradually spread throughout Mesopotamia and Persia and by AD 280. While the rulers of the Second Persian Empire (226-640) also followed a policy of religious toleration, to begin with, they later gave Christians the same status as a subject race. These rulers encouraged the revival of the ancient Persian dualistic faith of Zoroastrianism and established it as the state religion, with the result that the Christians were increasingly subjected to repressive measures. Nevertheless, it was not until Christianity became the state religion in the West that enmity toward Rome was focused on the Eastern Christians.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: The metropolis of Seleucia assumed the title of "Catholicos", (Patriarch) and in AD 424 a council of the church at Seleucia elected the first patriarch to have jurisdiction over the whole church of the East, including India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The establishment of an independent patriarchate with nine subordinate metropolises contributed to a more favorable attitude by the Persian government, which no longer had to fear an ecclesiastical alliance with the common enemy, Rome.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: When Constantine converted to Christianity, and the Roman Empire which was previously violently anti-Christian became pro-Christian, the Persian Empire, suspecting a new "enemy within", became violently anti-Christian. The great persecution fell upon the Christians in Persia about the year 340. Though the religious motives were never unrelated, the primary cause of the persecution was political.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: It was about 315 that an ill-advised letter from the Christian emperor Constantine to his Persian counterpart Shapur II probably triggered the beginnings of an ominous change in the Persian attitude toward Christians. Constantine believed he was writing to help his fellow believers in Persia but succeeded only in exposing them. He wrote to the young shah:


title: Spread of Christianity

text: It is little wonder then, that when the persecutions began shortly thereafter, the first accusation brought against the Christians was that they were aiding the Roman enemy. Shah Shapur II's response was to order double taxation on Christians and to hold the bishop responsible for collecting it. He knew they were poor and that the bishop would be hard-pressed to find the money. Bishop Simon refused to be intimidated. He branded the tax as unjust and declared, ""I am no tax collector but a shepherd of the Lord's flock"." Then the killings began.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: A second decree ordered the destruction of churches and the execution of clergy who refused to participate in the national worship of the sun. Bishop Simon was seized and brought before the shah and was offered gifts to make a token obeisance to the sun, and when he refused, they cunningly tempted him with the promise that if he alone would apostatize his people would not be harmed, but that if he refused he would be condemning not just the church leaders but all Christians to destruction. At that, the Christians themselves rose up and refused to accept such deliverance as shameful. So according to the tradition in the year 344, he was led outside the city of Susa along with a large number of Christian clergy. Five bishops and one hundred priests were beheaded before his eyes, and last of all he himself was put to death.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: For the next two decades and more, Christians were tracked down and hunted from one end of the empire to the other. At times the pattern was a general massacre. More often, as Shapur decreed, it was intensively organized elimination of the leadership of the church, the clergy. The third category of suppression was the search for that part of the Christian community that was most vulnerable to persecution, Persians who had been converted from the national religion, Zoroastrianism. As we have already seen, the faith had spread first among non-Persian elements in the population, Jews and Syrians. But by the beginning of the 4th century, Iranians in increasing numbers were attracted to the Christian faith. For such converts, church membership could mean the loss of everything – family, property rights, and life itself. Converts from the "national faith" had no rights and, in the darker years of the persecution, were often put to death. Sometime before the death of Shapur II in 379, the intensity of the persecution slackened. Tradition calls it forty-year persecution, lasting from 339 to 379 and ending only with Shapur's death.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Christianity became the official religion of Armenia in 301 or 314, when Christianity was still illegal in the Roman Empire. Some claim the Armenian Apostolic Church was founded by Gregory the Illuminator of the late third – early fourth centuries while they trace their origins to the missions of Bartholomew the Apostle and Thaddeus (Jude the Apostle) in the 1st century.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Christianity in Georgia (ancient Iberia) extends back to the 4th century, if not earlier. The Iberian king, Mirian III, converted to Christianity, probably in 326.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: According to the fourth-century Western historian Rufinius, it was Frumentius who brought Christianity to Ethiopia (the city of Axum) and served as its first bishop, probably shortly after 325.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: The Germanic people underwent gradual Christianization from Late Antiquity. In the 4th century, the early process of Christianization of the various Germanic people was partly facilitated by the prestige of the Christian Roman Empire amongst European pagans. Until the decline of the Roman Empire, the Germanic tribes who had migrated there (with the exceptions of the Saxons, Franks, and Lombards, see below) had converted to Christianity. Many of them, notably the Goths and Vandals, adopted Arianism instead of the Trinitarian (a.k.a. Nicene or "orthodox") beliefs that were dogmatically defined by the Church Fathers in the Nicene Creed and Council of Chalcedon. The gradual rise of Germanic Christianity was, at times, voluntary, particularly amongst groups associated with the Roman Empire.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: From the 6th century AD, Germanic tribes were converted (and re-converted) by missionaries of the Catholic Church.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Many Goths converted to Christianity as individuals outside the Roman Empire. Most members of other tribes converted to Christianity when their respective tribes settled within the Empire, and most Franks and Anglo-Saxons converted a few generations later. During the later centuries following the Fall of Rome, as schism between the dioceses loyal to the Pope of Rome in the West and those loyal to the other Patriarchs in the East, most of the Germanic peoples (excepting the Crimean Goths and a few other eastern groups) would gradually become strongly allied with the Catholic Church in the West, particularly as a result of the reign of Charlemagne.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: In the 3rd century, East-Germanic peoples migrated into Scythia. Gothic culture and identity emerged from various East-Germanic, local, and Roman influences. In the same period, Gothic raiders took captives among the Romans, including many Christians, (and Roman-supported raiders took captives among the Goths).


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Wulfila or Ulfilas was the son or grandson of Christian captives from Sadagolthina in Cappadocia. In 337 or 341, Wulfila became the first bishop of the (Christian) Goths. By 348, one of the (Pagan) Gothic kings (reikos) began persecuting the Christian Goths, and Wulfila and many other Christian Goths fled to Moesia Secunda (in modern Bulgaria) in the Roman Empire. Other Christians, including Wereka, Batwin, and Saba, died in later persecutions.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Between 348 and 383, Wulfila translated the Bible into the Gothic language. Thus some Arian Christians in the west used the vernacular languages, in this case including Gothic and Latin, for services, as did Christians in the eastern Roman provinces, while most Christians in the western provinces used Latin.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: The Franks and their ruling Merovingian dynasty, that had migrated to Gaul from the 3rd century had remained pagan at first. On Christmas 496, however, Clovis I following his victory at the Battle of Tolbiac converted to the "orthodox" faith of the Catholic Church and let himself be baptised at Rheims. The details of this event have been passed down by Gregory of Tours.


title: Spread of Christianity

text: Christianity spread to other great pre-modern states, including the Kingdom of Aksum where as in the Roman Empire, in Armenia, and in Georgia, it became the state religion; in these areas it thrives to the present day. In others, such as the Sasanian Empire, the Tang dynasty in China, the Mongol Empire, and in many other areas, despite widespread success, it never became the state religion and is now practiced by small minorities.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2 ( 2) is an Indian romantic thriller television series and spiritual sequel to Ishq Mein Marjawan produced by Yash A Patnaik. It starred Helly Shah, Rrahul Sudhir and Vishal Vashishtha.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: The show premiered on Colors TV on 13 July 2020 and went off air on 13 March 2021. It shifted to digital streaming on Voot Select with a new Season named from 15 March 2021. The show ended on 5 July 2021.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: The story revolves around Riddhima, an orphaned physiotherapist. She is madly in love with her fiancé Kabir Sharma, a cop who sends her on a mission as an undercover agent to nab Vansh Rai Singhania, a business tycoon running illegal businesses throughout Southeast Asia.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: Riddhima enters Vansh's cruise party as a party planner. A series of events unfolds in the cruise that leads to Vansh hiring her as his sister Sia's physiotherapist. Eventually, Vansh begins to doubt her and coerces her to marry him to find out her real intention. She agrees, upon being pressed by Kabir.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: On the next day of the marriage, Riddhima finds a statue of Vansh's ex-fiancée Ragini. Believing him to be Ragini's killer, she plans to discover the truth about Ragini's death as it could provide major evidence against Vansh.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: Next, she comes across a secret room in the mansion, where Riddhima sees a painting and another statue of a woman. The woman in the painting is in fact Vansh's biological mother, Uma Rai Singhania who left him without saying a word when he was young. Slowly, after listening to his story, Riddhima develops a soft corner for Vansh.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: Meanwhile, it is revealed that actually Kabir had loved Riddhima in the past .At present He was using her all along for his mission and is actually Anupriya's first husband son. Kabir wants revenge from Vansh for his father's death and Anupriya wants to usurp Vansh's position and his businesses. In the mansion, Vansh begins to fall for Riddhima after she takes a bullet for him. Contrary to Kabir's expectations, Riddhima too slowly begins to reciprocate her feelings for Vansh. With the fear of his mission's failure, Kabir plans to remind Riddhima of her past and mission but it doesn't affect her. A series of events reveals the truth about Anupriya's son before marriage to the Rai Singhania's. However, Anupriya manages to keep his real son's identity a secret. Meanwhile, Vansh and Riddhima's relationship deteriorates due to Vansh's suspicions regarding Riddhima's spying acts.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: Meanwhile, Kabir asks Riddhima to find evidence about Ragini's murder. However, Riddhima defends Vansh, saying that he cannot commit such a crime. The same day, Riddhima gets a memory card containing a video beneath Ragini's statue. She secretly watches the video, which shows Vansh pointing a gun at Ragini but not shooting. Riddhima accidentally comes across Ragini only to find her alive and kept secretly under Vansh. Meanwhile, Riddhima breaks up with Kabir as she is in love with Vansh. Some misunderstandings make Riddhima believe that Vansh wants to harm Ragini, thus she joins Kabir to remove Ragini from the clutches of Vansh and handing her to Kabir. Losing Ragini, Vansh breakdowns and reveals to Riddhima that his mother was actually murdered and Ragini knew the killer. A flashback showing Anupriya was the killer. Some events lead Sia into knowing Riddhima's truth and thus blackmailing her to bring Ragini back to Vansh. Sia soon learns of Anupriya's crime but is injured and now in coma because of the same. Ragini is shot by Kabir, and Vansh is falsely framed and arrested for the murder. Kabir and Anupriya make Vansh into believing that Riddhima betrayed him and he jumps off a cliff thus dying in front of both Riddhima and Kabir.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: A lookalike of Vansh, 'Vihaan' is shown burning someone's body. Meanwhile, Kabir enters VR mansion as Anupriya's son. Kabir reveals to Riddhima his entire plan leaving her helpless. Vihaan is a hacker and a gold-digger. He intentionally plans to meet Riddhima. Riddhima is initially surprised seeing Vihaan, but later joins hands with him to get rid of Kabir from VR mansion, in exchange for a large sum of money. But afterwards, Vihaan reveals to Riddhima that Vansh used him as a body double in dangerous situations. Later on, it is revealed that Vihaan is actually Vansh who is playing mind games with Riddhima to know the truth. Riddhima scared that Vihaan can harm her family, determines to closely follow Vihaan.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: On Christmas Eve, Vansh tells the family that he has planned a big surprise for them. Meanwhile, someone puts a bomb in Riddhima's sandal which Vansh takes out in the right time this saving her. Vansh discloses that it was Anupriya who killed his mother and asks Kabir to arrest her. While leaving the mansion Anupriya attempts to shoot Vansh but Riddhima takes the bullet once again thus saving him. Vansh confesses to Riddhima that he is not Vihaan but Vansh. She is taken to the hospital and saved. Vansh and Riddhima return to the VR Mansion. Ahana enters the mansion to bring new twists and turns in their lives. Ahana tells Riddhima that she comes to help and save her from Vansh but Riddhima doesn't believe her and tries to kick her out from VR mansion. Kabir stops her and tells her that she is his future wife. Meanwhile, Vansh challenges Riddhima to prove her love for him by killing Kabir. Riddhima is unable to kill Kabir and this makes Vansh more mad. They go on a vacation where Vansh leaves her and returns to the VR mansion. At home, he holds a press conference, stating that Ahana is his wife. Riddhima returns and Sia starts calling Riddhima. Vansh, although having hatred for Riddhima, lets her stay home because he wants Sia to recover. After a series of events, Vansh realizes his love for Riddhima and her innocence and they reunite. Kabir sends a box of her childhood memories to Riddhima. Riddhima wants to find out what happened to her parents, which leaves Vansh shocked. It is later revealed that Vansh has a connection to Riddhima's parents' death. Vansh decides to marry Riddhima once again so Riddhima can focus on the wedding and not her parents. But during the marriage rituals, Riddhima learns about her parents' death. Riddhima thought Vansh had killed her parents. But it is revealed that Ishani, not Vansh, killed Riddhima's parents. But, Vansh told everyone that at the age of 15, he accidentally killed Kabir's father and aunt. According to Riddhima, Vansh had killed her parents and she misunderstood him and upon knowing the truth she punishes herself by walking on glass, but Vansh saves her. Later, Kabir feels jealous upon seeing Vansh and Riddhima happy together. He realizes that he has lost Riddhima forever but doesn't accept his defeat and decides to win her back at any cost.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: Later Riddhima becomes pregnant with Vansh's child. But Vansh is not ready to have a child because he thinks that his businesses world is too dangerous for his child. On the Rose day party, Riddhima reveals about her pregnancy to Vansh. But Vansh doesn't accept it. Riddhima tries to convince him many times but he didn't listened to Riddhima. Riddhima starts getting calls from abortion center, but she didn't talked to Vansh about this because she thought he would worry more. Once, Vansh was returning from his meeting, he saw police officers taking a child away from his mother, he thought I am also doing the same with Riddhima. Vansh thought to surprise Riddhima and he bought two balloons one pink and another blue. At VR mansion, someone kidnaps Riddhima and takes her to the abortion Centre but somehow Riddhima escapes from there and reaches the mansion, Vansh who is shattered with Riddhima's move (as someone had written a letter and kept it on the table of Riddhima's room) confronts Riddhima, she lies saying our child is no more. Riddhima gets to know that Ishani was the person who had sent her to abortion Centre and she too reveals this to Vansh. Riddhima tells Vansh that their baby is alive.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: Vansh makes a plan to change his and Riddhima's identity to Aayansh and Shefali Malhotra and leave India. But all his plan was just to distract their enemies the real plan was to fake their death in front of the family. But Aryan destroys the plan. Kabir locks Vansh in a room full of fire but Anupriya saves him after Kabir goes. Kabir tries to forcibly marry Riddhima but is saved by Vansh. Chang's goons chase Riddhima and Vansh. To save themselves from the goons Vansh and Riddhima jump off the cliff.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: After many difficulties, the two reunite in their death and promise each other they will live together forever.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: The first promo of the series was released on 22 January 2020 while the second appeared on 10 March 2020. The second promo revealed that the series would premiere on 30 March 2020. However, due to COVID–19 pandemic, it was postponed to 13 July 2020.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: On 24 September 2020, the filming was stopped for a few days when lead Rrahul Sudhir tested positive for COVID-19 but after his negative testing report, filming resumed thereafter.


title: Ishq Mein Marjawan 2

text: "Ishq Mein Marjawan 2" got an extension titled "" aired from 15 March 2021 to 5 July 2021, replacing "Ishq Mein Marjawan 2" on Voot.


title: Fukrey

text: Fukrey () is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language comedy film, directed by Mrighdeep Singh Lamba, produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, and starring Pulkit Samrat, Manjot Singh, Varun Sharma, Ali Fazal, Priya Anand, Vishakha Singh, Pankaj Tripathi and Richa Chadda. The story and dialogues are written by Vipul Vig and the screenplay is written by Vig and Lamba. Produced under the Excel Entertainment banner, the film was released on 14 June 2013. Despite a poor opening, the film went on to become a sleeper hit. The film is available on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ Hotstar.


title: Fukrey

text: Delhi-based school backbenchers Vikas "Hunny" Gulati and Dilip "Choocha" Singh are perpetually dreaming of making it big. They want to get into the local college but don't have the required grades. The college guard Pandit tells them that he can provide them with the leaked class XII papers to them, for a significant amount. Choocha has this god-gift where he can get the winning number of any lottery in his dream and Hunny has the talent to sand the exact number out of his dream. The protagonists could not afford or collect the money required, so they decided to sell the papers to other students but failed there too.


title: Fukrey

text: Meanwhile, through Pandit, they meet Zafar, a former student of the college and a struggling musician. The fourth character is Lali, whose father Billa, runs a sweet shop. Lali is currently pursuing his degree through correspondence and like Hunny and Choocha also wants to get into the same college, where his girlfriend Shalu, who ignores him all the time studies but doesn't have the marks. Pandit asks Lali to donate ₹ 250,000 in the college development fund to get admission. Lalli asks his father for the money, but he refuses to say the college is too costly.


title: Fukrey

text: Zafar's girlfriend, Neetu, who has broken up with him over his career choices is now giving private tuitions to Lali so that he could attain enough marks to get into the college of his dreams and Also To make Shalu Jealous Getting close to Neetu. On the other hand, Zafar's father faces a stroke and is paralysed now, for his treatment, the struggling musician needs money badly. The four meet up at Pandit's office where Hunny explains his scheme. However, since now they all together need a lot of money, they need someone to invest lakhs. So, on Zafar's insistence, Pandit takes them to meet a local gangster, Bholi Punjaban where Hunny tells them their scheme. Bholi is ready to invest, and Lali also gives his shop papers as a mortgage. Bholi tells them to come the next day with the number. However, the same night everyone except Choocha falls asleep.


title: Fukrey

text: The next morning, Choocha narrates a fake dream which Hunny interprets and gets a number. They go to Bholi and tell the number. But it backfires, and Bholi loses her money. Now to recover her money, she gives them a packet containing drug pills which Zafar, Hunny and Lali have to sell at a rave party the same night. She keeps Choocha as security with her. At the party, Police and Narcotics teams conduct a raid, and Lali escapes with a packet with the police chasing him. Lali manages to fool the cops and reaches Neetu's place. He also sees Zafar there. Neetu throws the drugs down the drain just as the police are about to search her home. The cops leave her place warning Lali. Meanwhile, Zafar tells the whole story to Neetu and Also he was Thinking that Neetu was falling for him, but she refuses, Zafar also warns him. Lali also calls Choocha telling him to run from Bholi's house which he succeeds in doing.


title: Fukrey

text: The next morning, all the five land up at Bholi's place. She gives them 24 hours to pay all the money due; otherwise, she would take the money by selling Lali's shop. The four are fighting at Zafar's place where Choocha tells them the truth about not seeing the dream. However, he says to them that he slept last night, and he saw a dream. Zafar is not interested while Lali, Hunny and Neetu are. Hunny interprets the dream, but they are short of cash even after Neetu is ready to give her savings. However, next morning Lali is able to borrow some money from a homeless man who used to remove parts from Lali's motorbike. They invest and win a huge amount.


title: Fukrey

text: They go to Bholi's house and give her the money. Then Hunny tells Bholi that he wants to sell those drug pills again and gives her an advance. Impressed Bholi goes inside and returns with the pills only to be caught red-handed by the police and Narcotics who have raided her home. In a flashback, it is shown that while Hunny, Choocha, Lali and Neetu were investing the money, Zafar met the Narcotics division and made a plan to catch Bholi and also calls Neetu, Lali, Choocha and Hunny where they confess to the police. Now with Bholi behind bars, the police pardon the four, and they are free.


title: Fukrey

text: Three months later, it is shown that Hunny and Choocha have become rich and are entering the same college on horses as they had planned at the beginning of the film while Pandit is shocked to see them also Lali making new girlfriends and Jealous Shalu. Priya reunites with Honey, and Neetu gets engaged to Zafar. Lali, Zafar, Neetu and Priya are having a good laugh.


title: Fukrey

text: The film was shot extensively in Delhi at various locations, including Miranda House, where most of the college sequences and opening song was shot.


title: Fukrey

text: The film was re-released in theatres due to public demand and popularity. The PVR Cinemas showed "Fukrey" along with other movies in September 2013.


title: Fukrey

text: Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated it 3.5/5 and quoted, ""Fukrey" is a twisted and delectably uproarious take on the shortcuts the youth of today indulge in". Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN rated the movie 2.5/5 and noted that, "A tighter script and more screen time for the excellent Pankaj Tripathi, as enterprising campus security guard Panditji, might have helped turn this moderately entertaining film into a rollicking good caper." Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave the film a 3/5 rating.


title: Fukrey

text: "Fukrey" grossed around 142 million within the first five days of its release. By the end of its second week, the film had collected 290 million nett in the domestic markets. The business of the film was varied across India. It was a success in Delhi/UP and East Punjab, as well as in Rajasthan but average in the rest of the country. The film collected around 20 million nett on its second Friday which was just 20% less than the first day. The second weekend and second week business were excellent for the film. "Fukrey" collected 360 million in the domestic markets by the end of its theatrical run.


title: Fukrey

text: Distributed and released by T-Series, the soundtrack of "Fukrey" is composed by Ram Sampath, with lyrics by writers Vipul Vig and Mrighdeep Singh Lamba for one song each, and Munna Dhiman for the rest. "Fukrey" is thus the first Excel Entertainment production to not feature songs written by producer Farhan Akhtar's father and regular lyricist Javed Akhtar.


title: Fukrey

text: The music of the film received good reviews, especially for the song "Ambarsariya", an adaptation of a traditional Punjabi folk song, performed by Sona Mohapatra.


title: Fukrey

text: On 30 January 2016, a sequel to the film was announced, featuring the original cast and directed by Lamba and produced by Excel Entertainment. Filming began in August 2016 in Delhi. The film was released on 8 December 2017.


title: Fukrey

text: A threequel titled "Fukrey 3" commenced shooting on 13 March 2022 with the cast of the previous two films reprising their roles and Mrighdeep Singh Lamba as the director.


title: Fukrey

text: An animated series for kids, titled as "Fukrey Boyzzz", jointly produced by Excel Entertainment and Discovery Kids India, premiered on 12 October 2019 on Discovery Kids India, which showcases the animated avatars of popular characters Hunny, Choocha, Laali, and Bholi Punjaban, along with other characters. "Fukrey Boyzzz: Space Mein Fukrapanti", an Indian animated comedy film directed by Avinash Walzade was released in 2020 continuing from the series.


title: Saturday Night Live (season 46)

text: The forty-sixth season of the NBC comedy series "Saturday Night Live" premiered on October 3, 2020, during the 2020–21 television season with host Chris Rock and musical guest Megan Thee Stallion, and concluded on May 22, 2021, with host Anya Taylor-Joy and musical guest Lil Nas X. With the previous season cut short amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the show instead airing three remotely produced episodes referred to as ""Saturday Night Live" at Home", the season premiere marked the return to Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Lorne Michaels said that the show aimed to have a "limited" in-studio audience, and that they would "work closely with Gov. Cuomo's team."


title: Saturday Night Live (season 46)

text: On September 15, 2020, it was announced that the entire cast from last season would be returning, with Ego Nwodim, a featured player since 2018, being promoted to repertory status while Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang remained as featured players.


title: Saturday Night Live (season 46)

text: On September 16, "SNL" staff writer Andrew Dismukes, Upright Citizens Brigade player Lauren Holt, and stand-up comedian Punkie Johnson were added to the cast as featured players.


title: Saturday Night Live (season 46)

text: Though not members of the cast, on September 16, 2020, it was announced that Alec Baldwin and Maya Rudolph would reprise their respective roles as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, while Jim Carrey would take over impersonating Joe Biden. Biden had been portrayed by Jason Sudeikis while he was vice president and by Woody Harrelson, John Mulaney, and Sudeikis the previous season. On December 19, Carrey announced he would step down from playing Biden, stating it was the original intention that he would play Biden for only six weeks. Current cast member Alex Moffat succeeded Carrey to portray as Biden during the cold open of the episode hosted by Kristen Wiig.


title: Saturday Night Live (season 46)

text: Cecily Strong was absent from the first six episodes of the season due to filming commitments for her Apple TV+ series "Schmigadoon!". Aidy Bryant appeared in the season premiere before taking an extended absence due to filming commitments for her show "Shrill". Both Strong and Bryant were still credited as cast members throughout the season.


title: Saturday Night Live (season 46)

text: This was the final season for cast member Beck Bennett, who had been a cast member since 2013, a total of 8 seasons. It was also Holt's only season on the show.


title: Saturday Night Live (season 46)

text: Prior to the start of the season, Anna Drezen was promoted to co-head writer alongside Michael Che, Colin Jost, and Kent Sublette, making her the first female head writer since Sarah Schneider. Celeste Yim was added to the writing staff.


title: Will Oldham

text: Joseph Will Oldham (born January 15, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded in collaboration with dozens of other musicians under variations of Palace (Palace, Palace Flophouse, Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music). After briefly publishing music under his own name, in 1998 he adopted Bonnie "Prince" Billy as the name for most of his work.


title: Will Oldham

text: Oldham was born on January 15, 1970, in Louisville, Kentucky. His mother, Joanne Lei Will Tafel Oldham, was a teacher and artist. His father, Joseph Collins Oldham, was an attorney and photographer. Oldham graduated from the J. Graham Brown School in 1988. He attended Brown University sporadically while pursuing a career as an actor, and living between Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Bloomington, Indiana. He began making music during this time, initially as a project for his professor Jeff Todd Titon, an ethnomusicologist at Brown University.


title: Will Oldham

text: Oldham is known for his "do-it-yourself punk aesthetic and blunt honesty", and his music has been likened to Americana, folk, roots, country, punk, and indie rock. He has been called an "Appalachian post-punk solipsist", with a voice that has been described as "a fragile sort-of warble frittering around haunted melodies in the American folk or country tradition."


title: Will Oldham

text: Oldham first performed and recorded under various permutations of the Palace name, including Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, Palace Music, and simply Palace. Regarding the name changes during this period (1993–1997), Oldham said:


title: Will Oldham

text: Will stated in a 1995 interview with KCRW that the name Palace Flophouse was inspired by reading John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row". Beginning in 1998, Oldham has primarily used the moniker Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, which draws inspiration from several sources:


title: Will Oldham

text: He has explained that "the primary purpose of the pseudonym is to allow both the audience and the performer to have a relationship with the performer that is valid and unbreakable."


title: Will Oldham

text: Some of his albums, such as "There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You" (1993), "Viva Last Blues" (1995), and "I See a Darkness" (1999), have appeared on greatest albums lists.


title: Will Oldham

text: Johnny Cash recorded a version of "I See a Darkness" on his American Recordings disc "" (2000). Oldham provided backing vocals. Marianne Faithfull included Oldham's "A King at Night" on her 2003 "Kissin Time" tour. Steve Adey also covered "I See a Darkness" on his 2006 LP "All Things Real". Mark Kozelek recorded a version of Oldham's "New Partner" on his 2008 disc, "The Finally LP". Katatonia covered "Oh How I Enjoy the Light" on their 2001 EP "Tonight's Music". In 2009 Mark Lanegan and Soulsavers recorded a cover version of "You Will Miss Me When I Burn". The release is a split single, backed with the Lanegan-penned "Sunrise" featuring vocals by Oldham. In 2011, Deer Tick's cover of Oldham's song "Death to Everyone" appeared in an episode of "Hell On Wheels". Cadaverous Condition covered "Black" on their "To the Night Sky" album (2006).


title: Will Oldham

text: Oldham's first film acting role was as the teen preacher in John Sayles's film "Matewan" (1987), a dramatization of the life of Appalachian mining community in the 1920s and the Battle of Matewan. Following this, he moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. He played the role of Chip McClure (father of Baby Jessica) in "" (1989), and the role of Miles in the film "Thousand Pieces of Gold" (1991). Oldham also played minor roles in "Julien Donkey-Boy" (1999), "Junebug" (2005), and "The Guatemalan Handshake" (2006).


title: Will Oldham

text: In 2004, Oldham appeared as himself in the short documentary film "Tripping With Caveh", wherein he took psilocybin mushrooms with autobiographical filmmaker Caveh Zahedi. The project was intended as the pilot episode of a reality/documentary series, with the concept being that Zahedi would take psychedelics in the company of a different celebrity in each episode. The project was never picked up by a television network, but the short with Oldham finally saw official release in the 2015 retrospective box set "Digging My Own Grave: The Films of Caveh Zahedi".


title: Will Oldham

text: Oldham played a lead role as Kurt in Kelly Reichardt's film "Old Joy" (2006), and had a brief role in the director's next film "Wendy and Lucy" (2008). Oldham played Pastor Pigmeat in the "Horse Apples" episode of the second season of the MTV children's show parody "Wonder Showzen". In 2007, he starred alongside Zach Galifianakis in a music video for Kanye West's "Can't Tell Me Nothing".


title: Will Oldham

text: Also in 2010, Oldham appeared in "Jackass 3D" as a gorilla trainer. As part of an agreement to play that role, he wrote a theme song, in the style of a Saturday-morning cartoon show, for filmmaker Lance Bangs.


title: Will Oldham

text: In 2009, Oldham narrated "Madam and Little Boy", a documentary film about atomic weapons, directed by Swedish artist . In 2010, Oldham narrated "Music Makes a City", a documentary about the formation of the Louisville Orchestra, directed by Owsley Brown III and Jerome Hiler. Oldham provided voice work and inspiration for the character "Will" in the video game "Kentucky Route Zero", released in 2013.


title: María Clara

text: María Clara, whose full name is María Clara de los Santos y Alba, is the "mestiza" heroine in "Noli Me Tángere", a novel by José Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines. Her name and character have since become a byword in Filipino culture for the traditional, feminine ideal.


title: María Clara

text: María Clara is the childhood sweetheart and fiancée of "Noli Me Tángere"s main protagonist, Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra y Magsalin, the son of Don Rafael Ibarra. Although raised as the daughter of Captain Santiago "Kapitán Tiyago" de los Santos and his wife Doña Pía Alba, who are both native Filipinos, María Clara is revealed to have been the illegitimate daughter of "Padre" Dámaso, a Spanish friar, who coerced Doña Pía into illicit sexual relations.


title: María Clara

text: Dámaso is made the girl's godfather; Doña Pía had died giving birth to Mariá Clara. Kapitán Tiyago's cousin, Tía Isabel, then came to be the dominant maternal figure in her life. As her beau Crisóstomo Ibarra was studying in Europe, Kapitan Tiyago sent María Clara to the "Colegio de Santa Catalina de Sena", a convent school where she cultivated femininity under religion. Later in the novel, María Clara discovers the truth that Dámaso is her biological father.


title: María Clara

text: In the novel, María Clara is regarded as the most beautiful and celebrated lady in the town of San Diego. A devout Roman Catholic, she became the epitome of virtue; "demure and self-effacing" and endowed with beauty, grace and charm, she was promoted by Rizal as the "ideal image" of a Filipino woman who deserves to be placed on the "pedestal of male honour". In Chapter 5, María Clara and her traits were further described by Rizal as an "Oriental decoration" with "downcast" eyes and a "pure soul".


title: María Clara

text: Because of her parentage, María Clara had Eurasian features, described by Rizal thus:"María Clara did not have the small eyes of her father: like her mother she had them large and black, beneath long lashes; gay and smiling when she played, sad and soulful and pensive when she was not laughing. Since childhood her hair had an almost golden hue; her nose, of a correct profile, was neither sharp nor flat; her mouth reminded one of her mother's, small and perfect, with two beautiful dimples on her cheeks. Her skin had the fine texture of an onion layer, the whiteness of cotton, according to her enthusiastic relatives. They saw traces of Capitan Tiago's paternity in the small and well-rounded ears of María Clara."


title: María Clara

text: María Clara had been described in her childhood as everybody's idol, growing up among smiles and loves. Although "Noli" only touches upon her briefly in chapters, she is depicted as playful, exchanging wit and bantering with Ibarra, as well as expressing jealous possession when talking about him to her friends.


title: María Clara

text: She is also very kind and considerate, and notices people whom others don't; she was the only person who noticed Elías during the fishing excursion and offered him biscuits. During the eve of the feast of San Diego, she also approached and offered her locket to a leper, despite her friends' warnings and shows of disgust.


title: María Clara

text: During the latter half of the novel, she was often sickly and subdued. Having been separated from Ibarra, and hearing the news of his excommunication, she took ill, and eventually was blackmailed by Padre Salvi into distancing herself from Ibarra. She was also coerced into giving up Ibarra's love letters, which were ultimately used to implicate him.


title: María Clara

text: In spite of her broken engagement with Ibarra, and subsequent engagement to Linares, she remained fiercely devoted to Ibarra. Upon hearing the news of his death, she told Padre Dámaso:"While he was alive, I was thinking on keeping on: I was hoping, I was trusting! I wanted to live to be able to hear about him... but now that they have killed him, there is no longer a reason for me to live and suffer... While he was alive, I could get married... I thought of flight afterwards... my father does not want anything but the connections! Now that he is dead nobody else shall claim me as his wife... When he was alive, I could degrade myself, there was left the comfort of knowing he lived and perhaps would think of me. Now that he is dead... the convent for me or the grave!"This ultimatum caused Padre Dámaso to relent and permit his daughter's entry into the Royal Monastery of Saint Clare (that until 1945 stood in Intramuros).


title: María Clara

text: Rizal based the fictional character of María Clara on his real-life girlfriend and cousin, Leonor Rivera. Although praised and idolized, María Clara's chaste, "masochistic" and "easily fainting" character has also been denounced as the "greatest misfortune that has befallen the Filipina in the last one hundred years". Scholars have also denounced the insinuated culture of Maria Clara, notably that of Filipinas being submissive and quiet towards men – a stereotype that was first brought by the Spanish colonialists. Historians have pointed out that Filipinas have historically been more vocal and have served positions equal to, and some even higher than, men.


title: María Clara

text: In Filipino fashion, María Clara's name has become the eponym for a multi-piece ensemble known as the María Clara gown, emulating the character's traits of being delicate, feminine, self-assured, and with a sense of identity.


title: María Clara

text: Catholicism during the colonial ruling of the Philippines influenced the creation of a new feminine ideal of Filipina women. María Clara as a colonial figure became the ideal Filipina woman as she embodied the qualities of the Virgin archetype, mainly purity, chastity and sacrifice. Along with the impossible standard that María Clara upholds, the effects of Catholicism have led to taboos against the expression and discussion of female sexuality.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: "Adventure 02" was followed by the film series "Digimon Adventure tri.", which was released between 2015 and 2018.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: Four years after the events of "Digimon Adventure", the Digital World is invaded by the Digimon Emperor, who is enslaving Digimon with the Dark Rings while building Control Spires that negate Digivolution. To fight him, three new DigiDestined are recruited, each gaining an ancient Digimon for a partner. The three, along with T.K. and Kari, each possess a D-3, a new type of Digivice that allows them to open a gate to be transported to the Digital World through any computer. They are also given D-Terminals that hold Crest-themed Digi-Eggs that allow their Digimon partners to undergo Armor Digivolution to counter the presence of Control Spires. The Digimon Emperor, revealed to be boy genius Ken Ichijoji, flees to the Digital World. Assisted by Ken's partner, Wormmon, the DigiDestined defeat Ken.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: While the DigiDestined rebuild the Digital World, Davis, Yolei, and Cody unlock normal Digivolution. At the same time, they ally themselves with a reformed Ken, who joins the team to fight Arukenimon, a Digimon who revives the Control Spires as other Digimon. When the Control Spire Digimon prove to be stronger than them, the DigiDestined learn DNA Digivolution, which enable two champion-level Digimon to merge into a stronger ultimate-level one. When Arukenimon creates BlackWarGreymon, he begins to destroy each Destiny Stones, hoping to fight Azulongmon, who appears when each Stone is destroyed. After BlackWarGreymon flees, Azulongmon warns the DigiDestined about an impending threat behind Arukenimon and Mummymon.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: During Christmas, Control Spires appear across the human world, bringing Digimon with them. While the DigiDestined set off with Imperialdramon to destroy them with the help of the international DigiDestined, Arukenimon and Mummymon begin kidnapping several children for Yukio Oikawa, a friend of Cody's father who dreams of entering the Digital World. Once the DigiDestined return to Japan, they fight the Daemon Corps, and their leader, Daemon, while Oikawa uses the Dark Spore inside Ken to implant them into the children. After Daemon is imprisoned in the Dark Ocean, BlackWarGreymon sacrifices himself to seal the portal to the Digital World at Highton View Terrace, before Oikawa and the kids can transport there.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: The DigiDestined are transported to a Dream World with Oikawa and the kids and learn he was controlled by Myotismon. Myotismon splits from Oikawa and uses the energy from the Dark Spores to be reborn as MaloMyotismon. With help from the DigiDestined all over the world, the DigiDestined defeat MaloMyotismon, and Oikawa sacrifices himself to rebuild the Digital World. Twenty five years later, humans and Digimon live together.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: "Digimon Adventure 02" aired with fifty episodes on Fuji TV in Japan between April 2, 2000, and March 25, 2001. The opening theme is by Kōji Wada, which peaked at #85 on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart. The ending themes are performed by AiM, the first half of the show being and the second half being . "Ashita wa Atashi no Kaze ga Fuku" peaked at #50 on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart, while "Itsumo Itsudemo" charted at #93. Insert songs featured in the show include "Break up!" by Ayumi Miyazaki as the Armor Digivolution theme and "Beat Hit!" by Miyazaki as the DNA Digivolution theme. The Japanese version was streamed with English subtitles on Crunchyroll in 2008, followed by Funimation Entertainment in April 2009.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: Saban Entertainment licensed the show in North America. Its English dub aired on Fox Kids in the US and YTV in Canada between August 19, 2000, and May 19, 2001 as the second season to "Digimon: Digital Monsters". Much like the English version of "Digimon Adventure", which was dubbed as the first season of "Digimon: Digital Monsters", the original soundtrack of the show was replaced by music composed by Udi Harpaz and Shuki Levy, and the opening theme is "Digimon Theme" by Paul Gordon. Other songs featured in the show include "Let's Kick it Up", "Change into Power", and "Hey Digimon", also by Gordon. Jasan Radford also performed songs to the show, including "Run Around", "Going Digital", and "Strange." The songs, including "Digimon Theme", were released on the of "".


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: After the success of season 1 of "Digimon: Digital Monsters", the producers requested the writers to add more North American jokes to the script, resulting in several revisions. Eventually, along with the result of "", this caused writers Jeff Nimoy and Bob Buchholz to leave the writing team near the end of the series' run. A DVD boxset of the English dub was released in North America by New Video Group on March 26, 2013 and in Australia by Madman Entertainment on July 23, 2014.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: "Digimon Adventure 02" was streamed by Netflix along with "Digimon Adventure" from August 3, 2013 to August 1, 2015 in separate English dubbed and Japanese subtitled versions. Crunchyroll acquired streaming rights to the English dubbed versions, while Funimation acquired rights to the English subtitled versions. The English dubbed version of "Adventure 02" briefly returned to Netflix while the English subtitled version is now exclusive to Funimation.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: Several short films were screened in Japanese theaters during the show's run. A two-part featurette, was released on July 8, 2000 as part of Toei Animation Summer 2000 Animation Fair. The film was featured along with "Ojamajo Doremi#: The Movie", which was screened in between. In the film, the older DigiDestined are abducted by Wendigomon. The younger DigiDestined investigate their disappearance along with American DigiDestined Willis and his partner, Terriermon, who share a common past with Wendigomon. The film grossed ¥120 billion. The film's ending theme song is by AiM.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: "Digimon Adventure 02: Part 1: Digimon Hurricane Landing!!/Part 2: Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals" was released in North America on October 6, 2000, as the third part of "", which included "Digimon Adventure" (1999) and "" (2000). The film was heavily altered, one of the cuts including the subplot where the older DigiDestined are kidnapped by Wendigomon, because Saban Entertainment lacked funding to produce a full two-hour movie. Scriptwriter Jeff Nimoy had wanted to release the movie separately as a television film, but the idea was overruled. In addition to Japanese elements being removed and North American jokes added, Willis' backstory was slightly rewritten to include that he had created Diaboromon in order to draw a connection to "Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!"


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: Various audio dramas were released onto CD in Japan, with the cast reprising their roles from the television series.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: The first drama CD, was released on February 7, 2001 and is centered on the DigiDestined fighting Boltmon, who captures Sora, Mimi, and Kari on Valentine's Day.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: Afterwards, was released on April 4, 2001 and as a single from the Teen-age Wolves and features a drama track where Matt receives a letter from a fan who is about to undergo eye surgery.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: The third drama CD, was released on October 3, 2001 and is centered around Davis visiting Mimi and Willis during summer vacation.


title: Digimon Adventure 02

text: Along with "Power Rangers", "Digimon Adventure 02" was one of the most popular shows on Fox Kids during its run and also contributed to the channel's high ratings, beating out competitors such as ABC, Kids' WB, and Nickelodeon.


title: Erik Grönwall

text: Per Erik Magnus Grönwall (born 3 December 1987) is a Swedish hard rock and heavy metal singer. In 2009, he won the Swedish "Idol" reality television. During several of the shows, he received standing ovations from the jury for his performances. His first single, "Higher", sold gold on digital downloads after only three days. His debut album, self-titled "Erik Grönwall", was released just ten days after the finals and debuted at number one on the Swedish albums chart and was certified platinum. In 2012, Grönwall joined rock band H.E.A.T as lead singer.


title: Erik Grönwall

text: Altogether as a solo artist and band member, Grönwall has numerous top 40 hits. In 2018, he portrayed Simon Zealotes in the NBC live television concert production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Jesus Christ Superstar", in which he received Grammy nomination for in the Best Musical Theater Album category. He left H.E.A.T in 2020 after four albums with the band, and in 2022 joined Skid Row.


title: Erik Grönwall

text: Erik was born in Knivsta, a small town about 30 miles north of Stockholm. He started his musical career by playing the guitar in a local punk/rock band. During high school, his focus went from mostly playing the guitar to singing. He became the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the metalband RAID from north-eastern Stockholm and played with them until summer 2008. His future as a singer really took shape for the first time as he performed the leading role as Galileo Figaro in the Queen musical "We Will Rock You", doing a number of shows at Oscarsteatern in Stockholm. Aggressive, charismatic hard rock frontmen such as Paul Stanley (of Kiss) and Freddie Mercury (of Queen) proved huge influences on Grönwall.


title: Erik Grönwall

text: Grönwall first auditioned for Swedish Idol in 2007, but he did not reach the final auditions at that time. In 2009, he came back, and made quite an impression on the jury who reacted with a mix of crying and laughing after his audition singing Skid Row's "18 and Life". Grönwall performed several rock songs during the show (Kiss – "Shout It Out Loud", Iron Maiden – "Run to the Hills" and Queen – "The Show Must Go On"). He subsequently won the competition.


title: Erik Grönwall

text: Immediately following Idol, Grönwall released his debut single, "Higher", which debuted at number one on Sverigetopplistan. One week later, his self-titled debut album "Erik Grönwall" was released, which included songs performed during the Idol shows. The album made it right into the number one spot on Sverigetopplistan. The album has been certified with platinum.


title: Erik Grönwall

text: In 2009, Grönwall began working on his second studio album titled "Somewhere Between a Rock and a Hard Place" scheduled to be released on 2 June 2010. The lead single for the album, "Crash and Burn", was released on 19 April 2010. The album included songs written by Joey Tempest, Paul Stanley, Jörgen Elofsson, Nicke Borg, etc.


title: Erik Grönwall

text: He made his acting debut in America in the live televised concert rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Jesus Christ Superstar" as the apostle Simon Zealotes on 1 April 2018, Easter Sunday.


title: Erik Grönwall

text: Following the departure of former vocalist Kenny Leckremo in 2010, Grönwall joined Swedish rock band H.E.A.T as lead vocalist. In 2012, they released the album "Address the Nation". It was listed number one on the rock charts and was well received by critics. H.E.A.T started the recordings of their album "Tearing Down the Walls" in 2013, which was released in 2014. The band subsequently started their tour with the album. They have played all over the world and been the opening act for bands like Scorpions. In late 2020, Grönwall left H.E.A.T after four albums with the band, and former vocalist Kenny Leckremo rejoined.


title: Erik Grönwall

text: In 2021, it was announced that Grönwall and former bandmate Jona Tee had a new project going, the power metal band New Horizon. Official audio of the track "We Unite" dropped online on 29 November 2021. Already signed to Frontiers Records, they will have their debut album "Gate of the God"s out in early 2022. A video for the track was launched on 5 January 2022, featuring project guest musicians Robban Bäck (Mustasch, ex-Eclipse, ex-Sabaton, ex-Ammunition) and Dave Dalone (also former bandmate in H.E.A.T.) among others.


title: Erik Grönwall

text: In March 2022 Grönwall announced that he would be joining American heavy metal band Skid Row as their new vocalist, replacing ZP Theart.


title: 2:22 A Ghost Story

text: 2:22 A Ghost Story is a thriller play by Danny Robins. It premiered in the West End in 2021, and received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best New Play the following year.


title: 2:22 A Ghost Story

text: On 10 June 2021, it was announced that the play would premiere at the Noël Coward Theatre in London's West End from 3 August running until 16 October 2021. The production was directed by Matthew Dunster, designed by Anna Fleischle, and starred Lily Allen as Jenny, Julia Chan as Lauren, Hadley Fraser as Sam, and Jake Wood as Ben.


title: 2:22 A Ghost Story

text: The premiere production was nominated for three Laurence Olivier Awards in 2022, including Best New Play and Best Actress for Allen. The show was also nominated for four WhatsOnStage Awards, and won Best New Play, Best Actress for Allen and Best Supporting Actor for Wood.


title: 2:22 A Ghost Story

text: Following the successful run at the Noël Coward, it was announced the play would transfer to the Gielgud Theatre, running from 4 December 2021 to 12 February 2022. A new cast was announced including Stephanie Beatriz as Lauren, James Buckley as Ben, Elliot Cowan as Sam, and Giovanna Fletcher as Jenny.


title: 2:22 A Ghost Story

text: A third West End engagement at the Criterion Theatre, from 10 May to 4 September 2022, was announced without a casting confirmation. On 29 March 2022, the new cast was announced, starring Tom Felton as Sam, Mandip Gill as Jenny, Beatriz Romilly as Lauren and Sam Swainsbury as Ben.


title: 2:22 A Ghost Story

text: On 11 August 2022, an extension of the current engagement at the Criterion was announced starring Laura Whitmore as Jenny, Felix Scott as Sam, Matt Willis as Ben and Tamsin Carroll as Lauren, running from 6 September to 8 January 2023.


title: 2:22 A Ghost Story

text: On 7 December 2022, the cast for its fourth West End engagement was announced. Cheryl (singer), Hugo Chegwin, Louise Ford and Scott Karim will be playing at the Lyric Theatre, London from from 21 January 2023 to 23 April 2023.