15 (film), Plot
The film stars three real-life juvenile gangsters, all aged 15, giving an accurate depiction of Chinese teenage gang-life in the Singapore suburbs. The 2003 film features two more gangsters as characters as well as a fight sequence with more affluent English-educated Singapore youths. Rather than scripting the movie or employing professional actors, Tan attempted to capture the troubled lives of his characters in realistic fashion, apparently without much prior scripting.


15 (film), Distribution
In Singapore, the film premiered during the 2003 Singapore International Film Festival. In 2003, it premiered in Canada during the Montreal World Film Festival, and in Britain during the London Film Festival. In 2004, it premiered in the United States during the Sundance Film Festival, and in Australia during the Sydney Film Festival. The film also saw its first US theatrical release in New York City on 13 April 2005.


15 (film), Distribution
In Singapore, the film is distributed by Zhao Wei Films. In North America, it is distributed by Picture This! Entertainment.


15 (film), Reception, Censorship
While the Media Development Authority (MDA) ruled that the film should be passed uncut under the then R(A) rating, the Singapore Police Force was concerned that fights could break out given the use of real gang names, locations and secret society chants in the movie, requesting cuts/edits to be made through the MDA for law and order reasons. Under pressure, Royston Tan ended up making reportedly 27 cuts to the film. Opposition was also raised against the heavy use of Hokkien in the film,  which is discouraged by the Singapore government in favour of Mandarin and English. These restrictions infuriated Tan, and later led him to create his satirical short film Cut.


15 (film), Reception, Critical reception
The film received mixed reviews from film critics. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 50% based on 10 reviews. On Metacritic the film has a score of 47% based on 6 reviews.


15 (film), Reception, Critical reception
The film has been advertised outside of Singapore in gay publications, due to the heavy homoerotic tension between the characters. However, in an interview segment of the DVD Royston's Shorts, a collection of Tan's short films, Tan affirms that the boys whose lives he portrayed do not identify as gay.


15 (mixtape)
15 is the debut mixtape by American rapper Bhad Bhabie. It was released on September 18, 2018, by Atlantic Records. It features guest appearances from Lil Baby, Lil Yachty, Asian Doll, YG, City Girls and Ty Dolla Sign.


15 (mixtape), Background
Bhad Bhabie was first discovered on the Dr. Phil show, where she said the phrase "cash me outside, how 'bout dah?" This later became a meme which went viral, turning her into an Internet star. She gained a following on Instagram and YouTube, and on August 23, 2017, TMZ leaked what would be her first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, "These Heaux". She became the second youngest female artist in music history to enter the Hot 100 with her debut single, debuting and peaking at 77, and a few days later, she was signed to Atlantic Records.


15 (mixtape), Background
She later released "Hi Bich", which also charted on the Hot 100 at number 68, the highest new entry for that week. It was later certified Platinum by the RIAA. She released more singles over the course of eight months. On March 26, 2018, Bhabie released "Gucci Flip Flops", which reached a peak of 79 on the Hot 100, making her the youngest female to have three songs enter the Hot 100 since LeAnn Rimes. The single went on to be certified Platinum in the US, making it her first single to achieve Platinum status.


15 (mixtape), Background
On April 14, 2018, she began her international tour Bhanned in the USA with opener Asian Doll, where she previewed many songs like "Affiliated".


15 (mixtape), Background
After she was nominated at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards for Top Rap Female Artist, she announced she would be releasing a single called "Trust Me" featuring Ty Dolla Sign, as well as a mixtape. She released the single a few weeks later, and while it failed to chart on the Hot 100, it peaked at number nine on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. On August 14, 2018, she announced the release date for the mixtape, and released the intro track for the mixtape, "15 Freestyle". A promotional single featuring City Girls, “Yung and Bhad” was released on August 30.


15 (mixtape), Background
The following month, she released the artwork for the mixtape, and a few days later she revealed the track list, announcing guest appearances from many rappers such as YG and Lil Baby. One day later she previewed the track "Thot Opps (Clout Drop)" on her social media, and the next day she released "Thot Opps (Clout Drop)" and a new track, "Bout That".


15 (mixtape), Background
She released the music video for her collaboration with Lil Baby, "Geek'd Up", the mixtape's fourth single, on September 20.


15 (mixtape), Critical reception
15 received mixed reviews. Writing for Pitchfork and rating the album a 5.5 out of 10, Michelle Kim stated that "Danielle Bregoli's leap from meme to rapper continues with her debut mixtape that leans heavily on mimicry and trails dreadfully behind the current sound of hip-hop. On 15, her first mixtape as Bhad Bhabie, Bregoli doesn't show much versatility past her well-established tough-girl character. She's successful in imitating the sound of today's rap hits; most of the songs on 15 come across like they're specifically engineered to be placed onto Spotify's 'RapCaviar' playlist."


15 (mixtape), Critical reception
AllMusic's Neil Yeung rated the mixtape a three out of five, stating that "for what it's worth, buried beneath the posturing and obnoxiousness lies a glimmer of promise. However, Bhad Bhabie requires some polishing and maturity if she's ever going to grow beyond a mere novelty."


15 (mixtape), Critical reception
For The New York Times, Jon Caramanica gave the album a mixed review and states that "On the entertaining if erratic 15, Bhad Bhabie raps like someone who is learning to rap in real time, which to be fair, she is. Her default mode is taunt, and she's effective at it [...] At its best, 15 is appealing both as straight-ahead hip-hop and also novelty — a rap album made by a rap fan given all the resources of an actual rapper."


15 (number)
15 (fifteen) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the natural number following 14 and preceding 16.


15 (number), Mathematics
There are 15 perfect matchings of the complete graph K6 and 15 rooted binary trees with four labeled leaves, both of these being among the types of object counted by double factorials. With only two exceptions, all prime quadruplets enclose a multiple of 15, with 15 itself being enclosed by the quadruplet (11, 13, 17, 19).


15 (number), Mathematics
Because 15 is the product of distinct Fermat primes, 3 and 5, a regular polygon with 15 sides is constructible with compass and unmarked straightedge, and cos π/15 is expressible in terms of square roots (see here).


15 (number), Mathematics
If a positive definite quadratic form with integer matrix represents all positive integers up to 15, then it represents all positive integers via the 15 and 290 theorems.


15 (number), Mathematics
15 contains the decimal digits 1 and 5, and is the result of adding together the integers from 1 to 5 (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 15)


15 (number), Religion, Sunnism
The Hanbali Sunni madhab states that the age of fifteen of a solar or lunar calendar is when one's taklif (obligation or responsibility) begins and is the stage whereby one has his deeds recorded.


15 (number), Modern use
15 is designated as an emergency number in Pakistan, for mobile phones, similar to the international GSM emergency number 112; if 112 is used in Pakistan, then the call is routed to 15. 112 can be used in an emergency even if the phone is locked and does not have a SIM card in it.


15 ATV
15 ATV is a television station broadcasting to the island of Aruba, broadcasting on channel 15 on SETAR's cable TV system and VHF channel 8 on analog terrestrial television in the NTSC television standard. The station has the call sign of PJA-TV (following the standard in the Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles, with PJ call signs), though it goes by its branding of "ATV".


15 ATV
The station is affiliated with the NBC television network, the only one not located in the United States (following the 2014 closure of VSB-TV in Bermuda), airing many American television programs for the tourists in the area, with programming from the network's flagship station WNBC in New York City during prime time and overnight hours. 15 ATV also broadcasts several local productions, including Noticia Awenochi, Time Out, Mesa Rondo, 15 on 15, Pulso Latino, Trend Alert, Stylish Living and live coverage of events and breaking news.


15 ATV
15 ATV's studios are located at Royal Plaza Mall in downtown Oranjestad.


15 Again
15 Again is the third album by French electronic duo Cassius, released in September 2006 by record label EMI.


15 Again, Writing, recording and production
The album was written and produced by Cassius members Phillippe Zdar and Boombass and was recorded in three weeks in Ibiza. It includes a collaboration with hip hop producer and performer Pharrell Williams. Other collaborators include Sébastien Tellier, -M-, Etienne de Crécy and Le Knight Club (otherwise known as Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Eric Chedeville).


15 Again, Release
15 Again was released on 11 September 2006 by record label EMI. Remixes for the album's first single "Toop Toop" were released in the United States on 21 September.


15 Again, Critical reception
Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, reported an average score of 84 based on 6 reviews, described as "universal acclaim".


15 Again, Track listing
The US version released by HBF/Justice replaces "Cria Cuervos" with "Shame Shame Chérie" in a slightly different order:


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC
15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron was a Close Support Squadron in the 13 Air Assault Regiment Royal Logistic Corps. They provided elements of 16 Air Assault Brigade with combat supplies as well as transport during times of peace and war.


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, History
The Squadron was formed at Woolwich on May 8, 1878, with a group of men and their horses. Soon afterwards, the horses were replaced with mules and the Company found itself employed on transport duties throughout the British Empire. The Company was deployed to the Egyptian Campaign of 1882-1883, and to South Africa from 1889-1902 where they deployed on supply tasks during the Second Boer War. The Company also fought in Somaliland in 1904 prior to its return to Britain.


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, History
When World War I broke out, 15 Company was deployed to France, equipped with horse transport, in support of the British Expeditionary Force. The Company disbanded in 1919 on its return to Britain. The Unit was reformed in 1922 as 15 Motor Transport Company Royal Army Service Corps and stationed at York.


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, World War II
Again the company disbanded before reforming to enter World War II. In the beginning of the war, their duties were UK-based, operating with requisitioned civilian vehicles. On January 1942, the Company received a fleet of AEC Matadors and deployed on operations in the tank transporting role. The Unit was renamed 24 Company RASC and served in the Middle East, including transport duties at the Battle of El Alamein. After the defeat of the Afrika Korps, the Unit reverted to 15 Company and returned to Britain prior to its involvement in the invasion of Europe in 1944.


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, Post World War II
After World War II, 15 Company was disbanded for a third time, only to reappear at York in 1951 as a General Transport (GT) Company. In 1961 the Company disbanded for a fourth time, yet its title was revived when 122 (Tipper) Company RASC, based in Scarborough Barracks Osnabrück, West Germany, was renamed 15 Company RASC. The Unit took on the GT role for a second time in January 1965 when they exchanged Tipper and assault vehicles for 4 ton vehicles. Four months later, equipped with AEC Mk 1 10 ton cargo vehicles, the Unit changed its title on disbandment of the RASC to become 15 Squadron Royal Corps of Transport (RCT). The Unit saw a period of stability and celebrated its centenary in 1978 in Osnabrück.


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, 1980s
The Squadron returned to the UK in 1983 and was based in Gaza Barracks, Catterick as part of the 2nd Infantry Division Transport Regiment; its vehicle fleet was also changed from the 10 ton AEC to Bedford TM 8 tonne, 4 x 22,000-litre Truck Tanker Fuel (TTFs) and associated Materials Handling Equipment (MHE). In 1990, the Squadron deployed to Cyprus in support of the UNFICYP under the command of Major Steve Bragg and was mainly made up of Territorial Army (TA) personnel. The regular troops were deployed on Operation Granby (Gulf War 1) as sub-units of other squadrons.


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, 1990s
In 1993, the Logistic Support Review and Options for Change saw the amalgamation of the RCT with the other Corps to become the Royal Logistic Corps. At the same time, 24 Airmobile Brigade was established in Colchester requiring a Combat Service Support (CSS) Battalion. 15 Squadron already had a troop in support of the Airmobile Brigade, however now the whole unit become a second-line transport sub-unit of the CSS Battalion. The fleet consisted of DROPS MMLC, 14, 8 and 4 ton General Service Vehicles, Truck Tanker Fuel (TTFs), Unit Bulk Refuel Equipment (UBRE) and various Material Handling Equipment (MHE).


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, 1990s
The Squadron was again re-roled and renamed 15 Attack Support Squadron due to the formation of 16 Air Assault Brigade and the arrival of the Attack Helicopter (AH). In April 2000, the Squadron deployed on a six-month tour of Northern Ireland on Operation Banner. The Squadron acquired a new fleet of Multi Wheel Drive (MWD) fuel vehicles for the transportation of aviation fuel.


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, CSS to 16 Air Assault Brigade
In 2001, the Squadron deployed to Macedonia on Operation Bessemer to assist with disarming the Macedonian population.


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, CSS to 16 Air Assault Brigade
The Squadron deployed again to support the Brigade in 2001 upon short notice to Afghanistan as part of Operation FINGAL in support of US War on Terrorism.


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, CSS to 16 Air Assault Brigade
A period of stability was established until Operation TELIC in 2003 where the Regiment deployed to Kuwait and Iraq.


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, CSS to 16 Air Assault Brigade
In March 2006, the Squadron deployed as 15 Close Support Squadron to Operation HERRICK 4, providing intimate CSS support to the 3 PARA battlegroup based in Helmand Province.


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, CSS to 16 Air Assault Brigade
In 2007 the Squadron was redesignated 15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron and now constantly maintains a parachute element for insertion onto a Drop Zone.


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, CSS to 16 Air Assault Brigade
The Squadron deployed to Afghanistan in March 2008 on Op HERRICK 8, where it conducted numerous Combat Logistic Patrols to Sangin, Musa Qaleh and Now Zad. Members of the Squadron were responsible for the protection and transportation of a turbine to the Kajaki Dam during Operation OQAB TSUKA (Eagles Summit in Pashtu).


15 Air Assault Close Support Squadron RLC, CSS to 16 Air Assault Brigade
The squadron disbanded in 2013, in the re-organisation of the army.


15 Amore
15 Amore is a 1998 Australian film directed by Maurice Murphy and starring Lisa Hensley and Steve Bastoni.


15 Amore, Plot
In World War Two Australia, Italian POWs Alfredo (Steve Bastoni) and Joseph (Domenic Galati) are billeted with Dorothy (Lisa Hensley) and her three little children, while Dorothy's husband is fighting at the front. Also living with them are Jewish German refugees Frau Guttman (Gertaud Ingeborg) and her shy daughter Rachel (Tara Jakszewicz).


15 Amore, Plot
The Italian soldiers become housekeepers and arms length friends, but Frau Guttman cannot reconcile herself to the place or the culture.


15 Amore, Plot
A secret romance begins between Joseph and Rachel, leading to bitterness and drama at the otherwise calm outback home.


15 Andromedae
15 Andromedae, abbreviated 15 And, is a single, variable star in the northern constellation of Andromeda. 15 Andromedae is the Flamsteed designation, while its variable star designation is V340 And. Its apparent visual magnitude is 5.55, which indicates it is faintly visible to the naked eye. Its estimated distance from the Earth is 252 light years, and it is moving further away with a heliocentric radial velocity of 13 km/s.


15 Andromedae
Depending on the source, this star has been classified as a giant star with a stellar classification of A1 III, an A-type main-sequence star with a class of A1 Va, or a Lambda Boötis star with a class of kA1hA3mA0.5 Va+. It is a Delta Scuti variable that changes in brightness by 0.03 magnitude. Two variability cycles, with periods 0.0403 and 0.0449 days, have been observed, a common feature for Lambda Boötis stars. The star is around 130 million years old and has a high rotation rate, showing a projected rotational velocity of 105 km/s. It has 2.7 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 27 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 9,225 K.


15 Andromedae
This system has an excess emission of infrared radiation that suggests the presence of an orbiting disk of dust at a distance of around 50 AU from the host star.


15 April 2013 Iraq attacks
A wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 75 people and injured more than 356 others on 15 April. The attacks came just days before the provincial elections which was held on 20 April.


15 April 2013 Iraq attacks, Background
Violence in Iraq has decreased since its peak in 2006–07, but attacks remain common. Deaths rose in 2012 for the first time in three years.


15 April 2013 Iraq attacks, Background
In the months leading up to the 20 April provincial elections, the first since the withdrawal of US forces in 2011, tensions were high in Iraq as Sunni groups claimed they were being marginalized by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite dominated government. A number of large scale attacks linked to the Sunni umbrella group Islamic State of Iraq were carried out in early 2013 in an attempt to destabilize the country ahead of the elections. At least fourteen election candidates have been murdered, while Anbar and Nineveh provinces have postponed elections because of security concerns. Four other provinces are not scheduled to hold elections on 20 April.


15 April 2013 Iraq attacks, Attacks
The series of attacks began during the morning early rush hour and encompassed more than 40 incidents in and around 20 cities, the majority of them being car bombings. Both Sunni and Shia areas were targeted in the attacks. Initially no group claimed responsibility for the wave of violence.


15 April 2013 Iraq attacks, Attacks
In the capital Baghdad, two car bombs exploded at a heavily guarded checkpoint at the entrance to Baghdad International Airport, killing 3 and injuring 16 others. A blast in Kamaliyah killed 4 and injured 13, while a bombing at a market and a bus station in Umm al-Maalif killed 4 and injured 15. Twin blasts in Habibiya and Karrada killed 4 and injured 24 others, while a car bomb in Shurta killed 2 and injured 9. A roadside bombing wounded 5 policemen in Baladiyat.


15 April 2013 Iraq attacks, Attacks
In the ethnically divided city of Kirkuk, a series of six car bombs left 9 people dead and 79 others injured. The attacks took place in three different neighborhoods in the center of the city – one predominantly Arab, one Kurdish, and one Turkmen. Militants also shot and injured a local doctor. At least three car bombs exploded in Tuz Khurmatu, a city at 170 kilometres (110 mi) north of Baghdad, killing six and leaving 67 others injured. In Mosul, unidentified gunmen shot and killed a married couple and another civilian.


15 April 2013 Iraq attacks, Attacks
A soldier was killed in another shootout with suspected insurgents, while 3 police officers and 2 civilians were injured in roadside bombings. An additional bombing inside the city resulted in no casualties. A bombing at a local political office in Tikrit killed 4 and wounded 3 others, while a later blast at a checkpoint injured 13 policemen. A blast in Ad-Dawr also injured 13 people, while 7 others were wounded after a bombing at a politician's home in a village in Saladin Governorate.


15 April 2013 Iraq attacks, Attacks
In the town of Tarmiyah, 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Baghdad, gunmen shot and killed a police officer. Another officer was killed by a sticky bomb in Buhriz. A roadside bombing in Al Khalis killed a young child and injured 8 others. A car bombing in Muqdadiyah injured seven people. Five people were wounded in two separate blasts in Baqubah, including two policemen. A roadside bomb injured a civilian on a rural road outside Khan Bani Saad. A bombing in Tal Abta killed a police officer and injured two others. Unidentified gunmen killed a captain and injured 2 soldiers in Sabeen, as well as a young man in Shirqat.


15 April 2013 Iraq attacks, Attacks
In Fallujah, a suicide car bomber killed 2 policemen and injured 6 others at a checkpoint, while a sticky bomb killed 2 civilians. Unidentified gunmen shot dead another civilian, while a bombing south of the city resulted in no casualties. A blast in Ramadi targeted a local Sunni cleric, killing 2 of his bodyguards and injuring another. At least 19 civilians were injured in two car bombs that struck near Hillah in Iraq's Babil Governorate.


15 April 2013 Iraq attacks, Attacks
In the southern city of Nasiriyah a car bomb was detonated near a market, killing 2 and injuring 14 others.


15 April 2013 Iraq attacks, Attacks
On 16 April police officials in Kirkuk announced they had arrested a group of five individuals who were involved in the bombings in that city. Another eight people suspected of involvement were arrested by a joint army and police force in Diyala Governorate. Elsewhere, the violence continued. In Aziziyah, a city 75 kilometres (47 mi) south of Baghdad a car bomb killed at least four people on 16 April, and left 15 others injured. In Mussayib, another southern city, a roadside bomb killed a soldier and injured two other people. Another bomb killed a civilian and wounded two others north of Baghdad. Three injuries were also reported in Tarmiyah.


15 Aquarii
15 Aquarii, abbreviated 15 Aqr, is a single, blue-white star in the zodiac constellation of Aquarius. 15 Aquarii is the Flamsteed designation. It is a dim star that is just visible to the naked eye under good viewing conditions, having an apparent visual magnitude of 5.83. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 4.6 mas, it is located around 710 light years away. At that distance, the visual magnitude is diminished by an extinction of 0.18 due to interstellar dust. It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −9 km/s. Relative to its neighbors, 15 Aqr has a peculiar velocity of 28.7+2.9−3.1 km/s and may (62% chance) be a runaway star.


15 Aquarii
Hube (1970) found a stellar classification of B7 III for this star, which would suggest it is a B-type giant star. However, the Bright Star Catalogue (1964) listed it as a B-type main-sequence star with a class of B5 V, and multiple sources use this instead. The star is roughly 65 million years old with a projected rotational velocity of 20 km/s. It has an estimated 5.7 times the mass of the Sun and about 3.4 times the Sun's radius. 15 Aquarii is radiating 822 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 14,318 K.


15 Aquilae
15 Aquilae (abbreviated 15 Aql) is a star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. 15 Aquilae is the Flamsteed designation; it also bears the Bayer designation h Aquilae. The apparent visual magnitude is 5.41, so it is faintly visible to the naked eye. An optical companion, HD 177442, is 39 arc seconds away from it The distance to 15 Aquilae can be estimated from its annual parallax shift of 11.27 mas, yielding a range of approximately 289 light-years (89 parsecs) from Earth with a 9 light-year margin of error.


15 Aquilae
With a stellar classification of K1 III, the spectrum of 15 Aquilae matches a giant star with an age of roughly four billion years. At this stage of its evolution, the outer atmosphere of the star has expanded to 14 times the radius of the Sun. It is radiating 83 times the Sun's luminosity into space at an effective temperature of 4,560 K. This heat gives it the orange-hued glow of a K-type star.


15 Aquilae
This star is most likely a member of the thin disk population of the Milky Way. It is orbiting through the galaxy with an eccentricity of 0.06, which carries it as close as 24.30 kly (7.45 kpc) to the Galactic Core, and as far away as 27.60 kly (8.46 kpc). The orbital inclination carries it no more than 196 ly (60 pc) from the galactic plane.


15 Arietis
15 Arietis (abbreviated 15 Ari) is a single variable star in the northern constellation of Aries. 15 Arietis is the Flamsteed designation; it also bears the variable star designation AV Arietis. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.74, which is just bright enough to be visible to the naked eye from dark suburban skies. An annual parallax shift of 5.84 mas corresponds to a physical distance of approximately 560 light-years (170 parsecs) from Earth. At that distance, the star's brightness is reduced by 0.33 in magnitude because of extinction from interstellar gas and dust.


15 Arietis
This is a red giant star with a stellar classification of M3 III. The measured angular diameter of this star is 3.67 ± 0.11 mas. At the estimated distance of Delta Ophiuchi, this yields a physical size of about 67 times the radius of the Sun. The radius determined from the observed brightness and colour of the star is 87 R☉.


15 Arietis
15 Arietis is a short period semiregular variable with the designation AV Arietis. The period given in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars is 5.032 days. Longterm photometry finds that the strongest pulsation period is 18.1 days with an amplitude of 0.028 magnitudes, while a second is 21.9 days and 0.030 in magnitude.


15 August (2001 film)
15 August (French: 15 Août) is a 2001 French film directed and written by Patrick Alessandrin.


15 August (2001 film), Plot
Some middle aged men quickly have a crisis on their hands when their wives depart leaving them to look after the boisterous kids.


15 August (2019 film)
15 August  is a 2019 Indian Marathi-language drama film directed by Swapnaneel Jaykar and produced by Madhuri Dixit. The film features Rahul Pethe, Mrinmayee Deshpande and Adinath Kothare in the lead roles.


15 August (2019 film)
The film was released on 29 March 2019 on Netflix.


15 August (2019 film), Plot
In Mumbai, a crazy accident sets in motion a love story between Raju and Jui on India's Independence Day. Also, the residents of the chawl where the action takes place unite to help a little boy in trouble.


15 August (2019 film), Release
The reception of Bucket List, in which Dixit appeared, prompted her to make a film in Marathi language. Instead of opening the movie in theaters, 15 August was shown to Netflix, who liked the idea. It was released on 29 March 2019.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état
The 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état was a military coup launched by mid ranking army officers in Bangladesh on 15 August 1975. The officers were part of an age old conspiracy to assassinate Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the Bengali nation, whose leadership in the struggle between the 1970 Pakistani general election, during which became the Prime Minister elect of Pakistan and the culmination of Bangladesh Liberation War led to the foundation of Bangladesh as a nation state. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and many of his family members were killed during the coup.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Background
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who won the 1970 Pakistani general election, was denied by the Pakistani military dictatorship to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan; this was a result of long time political oppression of Bengali citizens of Pakistan who were vocally opposed to the authoritarian tyranny of The Establishment (Pakistan). As the democratic demands and protests continued, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivered the speech on 7 March that brought the Bengalis together to become prepared for things to come.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Background
On  25th March of 1971, the  Pakistan Army, launched an armed operation killing intellectuals in Dhaka University and the next day on 26th March 1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan, triggering the 9-month Bangladesh Liberation War that ended with the surrender of Pakistani forces in Bangladesh to an allied force of Bangladesh Mukti Bahini and Indian Armed forces. In 1973, Sheikh Mujibur's Bangladesh Awami League won the first parliamentary election in independent Bangladesh by a landslide.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Background
During the war, perpetrators of the coup, already hatched the plan of assassinating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Many of the conspirators were army officers who were dissatisfied with the decision of independence as they received benefits from a military run administration and they feared a democratic administration might not provide them with as many benefits as administrations of Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan had been giving them.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Background
Besides military officers, career politicians and bureaucrats like Khondoker Mostaq Ahmed and some other ministers who worked in the Pakistani government and Bangabandhu's government were involved in the conspiracy as well because they wanted to be part of Pakistan and blamed Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for the 1971 liberation war.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Background
According to these plans, they got involved in scuffles that made it seem they were unrelated to a deep seated conspiracy and intentionally engineered political crises and famines as in the 1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency through an alliance with communist movements in the country and the Bangladesh famine of 1974, which was an artificially engineered famine that took place with the direction of Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad and other ministers with the help of businesses that controlled trade by increasing prices suddenly and hoarding important items to create scarcity of resources; and when government help were being given to affected citizens the anti-Bangladesh conspirators within the government made sure the grants, stimulus and food stamps could not reach them.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Background
The allies of the grand conspiracy made sure they get the favours of international media and local press and invited them to sell them a narrative that blamed these events solely to the leadership of the newly free country, which was the office of the President when the matters were dissolved to the offices of responsible ministries like Ministry of Commerce (Bangladesh).


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Background
In 1973, Major Shariful Haque Dalim and his wife were involved in a scuffle with the sons of Gazi Golam Mostafa, a leader of the Awami League, at a function at the Dhaka Ladies club. In retaliation, some officers and soldiers of the Lancer unit and 2 Field Artillery Regiment of the Bangladesh Army attacked Golam Mostofa's residence. As a result, Major Dalim, Major S.H.M.B Noor Chowdhury, and other officers were charged with breach of discipline. Major Dalim had sought help from President Sheikh Mujib but was refused. Major Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan resigned from the army over the incident. Major Dalim and Major Noor were among the officers who lost their commissions over the charges of indiscipline.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Background
In 1974, Major Syed Faruque Rahman had become dissatisfied with the Awami League government. He would often discuss his dissatisfaction with Major General Ziaur Rahman who was the deputy chief of army staff. Ziaur Rahman had suggested that Faruque "do something" about the situation in one such meeting.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Background
Major Khandaker Abdur Rashid was able to communicate Commerce Minister Khandaker Moshtaque Ahmed about the situation in the country. Major Khandaker Rashid, Major Dalim, and Khandaker Moshtaque decided that they must dissolve BaKSAL and remove Sheikh Mujib. Khandaker Rashid informed Major Faruque Rahman, who agreed with the plan, and he was also told that Major General Zia would support them.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Execution of the coup
The mutineers decided to divide into teams, and each team was to be given specific instructions and targets.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Execution of the coup, Bangabandhu Bhaban
The operation at the residence of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was led by Major A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed. Major Bazlul Huda was placed in the team as he was the adjutant to the 2nd Field Regiment of Artillery, which was guarding the home of the President. The team also included Major S.H.M.B Noor Chowdhury. Captain Abul Bashar, who was in charge of the guards, had served under Major Dalim.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Execution of the coup, Bangabandhu Bhaban
Some of the guards were killed defending the residence after the mutineers tried to force their way in. Sheikh Kamal was injured defending the residence, and was executed by Captain Huda after the attackers had crossed into the compound. Sheikh Mujib asked "what do you want?" to the mutineers. Major Noor and Captain Huda shot Sheikh Mujib as he was coming down the stairs. Sheikh Mujib's son, Lieutenant Sheikh Jamal, Jamal's wife Rosy, Sheikh Kamal's wife Sultana Kamal, and Sheikh Mujib's wife Sheikh Fazilatunnesa were taken to the bathroom on the first floor.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Execution of the coup, Bangabandhu Bhaban
They were shot and killed there by Major Abdul Aziz Pasha and Risaldar Moslemuddin. Major Faruque promoted Captain Huda to major and Subedar Major Abdul Wahab Joardar to lieutenant on the spot. Faruque had arrived and left on a tank. Colonel Jamil Uddin Ahmad, military secretary to the president, was killed on the way to Bangabondhu Residence after he was called by Sheikh Mujib.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Execution of the coup, Bangabandhu Bhaban
The guards surrendered after a brief firefight and were lined up outside the house. Major Noor shot Sheikh Nasser, the brother of Sheikh Mujib, in the reception area bathroom. Major Pasha ordered a Havilder to kill Sheikh Russel, who was crying for his mother. A witness reported soldiers looting the house. A dead policeman was seen at the entrance. Major Huda went to Sher Shah road at Mohammadpur to order 10 coffins from carpenters. Major Huda also removed the bodies the next day through an army escort.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Execution of the coup, Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani residence
Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani was the nephew of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and viewed as a likely successor. He was killed in his home along with his wife, Begum Arzu Moni, who was believed to be pregnant at the time. His sons Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash survived. His home on Road 13/1 in Dhanmondi was surrounded by 20-25 army personnel on 15 August 1975.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Execution of the coup, Abdur Rab Serniabat residence
Abdur Rab Serniabat, a former minister of water and brother-in-law of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was killed in his home in Mintoo road, Dhaka at 5:00 am. His home was attacked by a team that was led Major Aziz Pasha, Captain Majed, Major Shahriar Rashid, and Captain Nurul Huda. Serniabat's nephew Shahid Serniabat, daughter Baby Serniabat, grandson Sukanto Abdullah Babu, and son Arif Serniabat were also killed in the attack. Three domestic servants were also killed in the attack. His son, Abul Hasnat Abdullah, survived the attack and nine other people were injured in the household.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Execution of the coup, Artillery support
Artillery under command of Fauque fired mortar shells towards Dhanmondi and Mohammadpur. In Mohammadpur, 14 people died from the mortar fire near Sher Shah Suri road.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Execution of the coup, Rakhi Bahini camp
Major Faruque attacked the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini camp with 26 tanks under his command. The Rakhi Bahini surrendered without incident, Faruque moved towards the residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after the neutralization of the Rakhi Bahini was completed.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Execution of the coup, Bangladesh Betar
The main officer of Bangladesh Betar (radio) in Dhaka was attacked by the mutineers early in the morning. They quickly disarmed the police stationed there and took control of the radio. Major Dalim and Maj Shahriar were in charge of the operation at the radio station. They controlled the flow of information from there.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Aftermath
Khandaker Moshtaque addressed the nation from the radio station. His speech, written by Taheruddin Thakur, announced the formation of a new government led by him. Following him, the Chief of the army, his deputy, the chief of naval staff, the chief of the air force, the police chief and Bangladesh Rifles pledged their allegiance to the new government. Khandaker Moshtaque appointed General M. A. G. Osmani as his defence adviser. General Ziaur Rahman was made the chief of army staff on 24 August 1975 and Khalilur Rahman was made the first Chief of Defence Staff of Bangladesh Army.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Aftermath
On 26 September 1975, Khandaker Moshtaque proclaimed the Indemnity Ordinance which protected those involved in the coup legal protection. On 5 October 1975, the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini (Absorption in the Army) Ordinance was passed with strong support from Ziaur Rahman; which absorbed the Rakkhi Bahini into the Bangladesh Army.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Aftermath
On 3 November 1975, the situation had grown tense with some officers of the Bangladesh Army led by Brigadier General Khaled Mosharraf and Colonel Shafaat Jamil launching a coup to remove the mutineers and restore order to the Army. Justice Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem replaced Khandaker Moshtaque as president and Mosharraf was made the chief of army staff. The mutineers in the morning had killed former president Syed Nazrul Islam, former prime minister Tajuddin Ahmed and ministers M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamruzzaman in Dhaka Central Jail where they were locked up since the mutiny on 15 August. Zia was placed under house arrest. On 4 November the mutineers were provided safe passage to Bangkok.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Aftermath
On 7 November 1975, Khaled Mosharraf was killed in another coup that restored Ziaur Rahman to the chief of army staff. The coup was led by the revolutionary soldier's organisation and Colonel Abu Taher. Taher himself was executed for the killing of Khaled under the government formed by Major General Zia on 21 July 1976, in order to restore discipline in the Army and prevent any further coups.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Aftermath
In 1976, the military regime of Bangladesh provided the coup plotters with diplomatic jobs. AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed was made the second secretary of the embassy in Algeria, AM Rashed Chowdhury was made the consulate general in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, S.H.M.B Noor Chowdhury was made the second secretary in the embassy in Tehran, Shariful Haque Dalim was made the first secretary to the embassy in Beijing, and Abdul Aziz Pasha was made the first secretary to the embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They held the positions until 1996, when the Bangladesh Awami League formed the government and recalled them to Bangladesh. They refused to comply and as a result were fired from their positions.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Aftermath, Trial
Major Faruque, Major Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, and former state minister Taheruddin Thakur were arrested on 14 August 1996, the same year Bangladesh Awami League returned to power. Three months later, the Bangladesh Parliament, controlled by Bangladesh Awami League, removed the indemnity Act, making way for trials to start.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Aftermath, Trial
AFM Mohitul Islam, personal assistant to President Sheikh Mujib, filed a charge against the mutineers with Dhanmondi Police Station on 2 October 1996. The Criminal Investigation Department started investigating the case the next day. The CID pressed charges against 20 people on 15 January 1997.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Aftermath, Trial
On 12 March 1997, the trial started with six accused in jail and 14 being outside the country. Zobaida Rashid, wife of Khandaker Abdur Rashid, was relieved of charges after she filed a number of appeals, reducing the accused to 19. Other cases filed with the High Court challenged the legality of the trial court and its location, the cancellation of the indemnity act, which delayed the trial. Major Huda was bought from Thailand in 1998, through the signing of an extradition treaty between Thailand and Bangladesh.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Aftermath, Trial
Dhaka district Justice Kazi Golam Rasul, sentenced 15 accused to death on 8 November 1998. Appeals were filled with Bangladesh High Court. On 14 November 1998 the High Court delivered a split verdict with Justice Md Ruhul Amin upholding the death penalty of 10 of the convicts, Justice ABM Khairul Haque upholding the death penalty of all 15. The case was referred to a third Justice, Mohammad Fazlul Karim, who broke the tie by sentencing 12 of the accused to death.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Aftermath, Trial
Then Chief Justice Ruhul Amin constituted an appeal court with five justices: Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, Justice Md Abdul Aziz, Justice Md Tafazzul Islam, Justice BK Das, and Justice Md Muzammel Hossain. The verdict of the Appellate Division confirmed the death sentences of the 12 convicts on 19 November 2009. Three sought presidential pardons but were refused. On 27 January 2010, Bangladesh Supreme Court refused the convicts application for review. On 28 January 2010, five of the convicts in custody were executed. The hanged were Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Syed Faruque Rahman, Bazlul Huda. On 12 April 2020, Captain Abdul Majed was hanged.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Aftermath, Trial
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party returned to power in 2001 and reinstated the officers who had been dismissed in 1996 to their diplomatic positions.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Legacy
Since 1975, Bangladesh had been under different military governments, with democracy being partially restored a few times and permanently in 1990.


15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, Legacy
Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, the two daughters of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, survived the assassinations of their family as they were in Germany in August 1975. Sheikh Hasina has been elected four times Prime Minister of Bangladesh, in 1996, 2009, 2014 and 2018.


15 August 2011 Iraq attacks
The 15 August 2011 Iraq attacks were a series of terrorist incidents that took place across Iraq. At least 37 were killed and 68 injured in Kut after a roadside bomb and a car bomb exploded in the center of the city. A string of bombings and shootings in the capital took the lives of two and left 27 wounded. Eight were killed and 14 injured in a suicide car bombings in Khan Bani Saad City. Two car bombs exploded in the Najaf, killing 6 and injuring 79, followed by another blast near Karbala that killed 4 and injured 41. Numerous other attacks throughout the central and northern parts of Iraq (including a double suicide bombing in Tikrit) left 7 dead and at least 58 wounded.


15 BC
Year 15 BC was either a common year starting on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday or a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Monday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Drusus and Piso (or, less frequently, year 739 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 15 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.


15 Bean Soup
15 Bean Soup is a packaged dry bean soup product from Indianapolis-based N.K. Hurst Co. According to company president Rick Hurst, it is the #1 selling dry bean soup in the U.S.


15 Bean Soup, Ingredients
Every package of 15 Bean Soup includes a seasoning packet and at least 15 of the following varieties of dried pulses:


15 Bean Soup, Ingredients
The soup is currently produced in Ham, Chicken, and beef flavors.


15 Big Ones
15 Big Ones is the 20th studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released July 5, 1976 on Brother/Reprise. It includes seven original songs alongside eight renditions of rock 'n' roll and R&B standards. The LP was the band's first album produced by Brian Wilson since Pet Sounds (1966), and as such, its release was accompanied by a controversial media campaign that declared his comeback as an active member of the Beach Boys' recording and touring group.


15 Big Ones
Most of 15 Big Ones was hastily recorded in early 1976 at the band's Brother Studios. The sessions were fraught with disputes, as Carl and Dennis Wilson felt that the material was not up to standard, while Mike Love, Al Jardine, and manager Stephen Love wanted new Brian-produced product rushed out in order to take advantage of the group's recent resurgence in popularity. Further tensions arose from the interference of Brian's psychologist, Eugene Landy. The members later voiced their disappointment with the finished work. One of the proposed titles, Group Therapy, was rejected in favor of a title that referred to both the number of tracks and the group's 15th anniversary. To support the album, Brian joined his bandmates on a major concert tour for the first time since 1964.


15 Big Ones
Despite mixed reviews, 15 Big Ones went gold and became the Beach Boys' best-selling album of new material since 1965. It peaked at number 8 in the U.S. and number 31 in the UK. Three singles were issued: a cover of Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music" and the originals "It's OK" and "Everyone's in Love with You". The first two charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at numbers 5 and 29, respectively, and ultimately became their only top 30 hits during the 1970s. Brian later referred to 15 Big Ones and its 1977 follow-up, The Beach Boys Love You, as his life-defining albums.


15 Big Ones, Background
In January 1973, the Beach Boys' previous album, Holland, was released amid generally favorable reviews and top 40 entries in the U.S. and UK charts. Early copies of the LP were packaged with a bonus EP, Mount Vernon and Fairway, that was produced by Brian and Carl Wilson.


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Brian later said that his original concept for Mount Vernon and Fairway "was much more ambitious", as he had "wanted to cut new arrangements of some of the songs we used to hear on our transistor radios in the late '50s, like 'A Casual Look.'" His bandmates took issue with the space it would have taken on the LP, and he subsequently lost interest, leaving Carl to finish the project.


15 Big Ones, Background
After Holland, the group maintained a touring regimen, but recorded very little in the studio for the next two years. Several months earlier, they had announced that they would complete their unfinished album Smile, but this never came to fruition, and plans for its release were once again abandoned. Following the June 1973 death of the Wilsons' father and former band manager Murry, Brian retreated into his bedroom and withdrew further into drug abuse, alcoholism, chain smoking, and overeating. He reflected, "I used my room as my little castle. Added to that, I was very depressed with the Beach Boys. I couldn't talk to them and nobody in the band could relate to me. This went on for about two and a half years. But, on and off, I'd sometimes go and record."


15 Big Ones, Background
In October 1973, the band fired their manager, Jack Rieley. By his account, he had "pulled away" from the band due to "terribly complex, complicated and horribly distasteful situations involving aspects of their business and financial management." Rieley's position was succeeded by Mike Love's brother Steve and Chicago manager James William Guercio. Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar, who had joined the Beach Boys as official members in 1972, left the band in December 1973 and November 1974, respectively.


15 Big Ones, Background
The Beach Boys' greatest hits compilation Endless Summer was released in June 1974 to unexpected success, becoming the band's second number-one U.S. album in October. The LP had a 155-week chart run, selling over 3 million copies. Its success had the effect of returning the group to being the number-one act in the U.S. Carl recalled, "There was a whole new generation of fans out there and some of them weren't even as old as the songs themselves. Our concerts were selling out and we were singing and playing better than ever."


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In their concert setlists, the group began swapping out newer songs with their older material to accommodate their growing audience and the demand for their early hits. Later in the year, members of the band appeared as guests on Chicago's hit "Wishing You Were Here". At the end of 1974, Rolling Stone proclaimed the Beach Boys "Band of the Year" based on the strength of their live performances.


15 Big Ones, Production, Caribou sessions (1974)
To take advantage of their sudden resurgence in popularity, the Beach Boys accepted Guercio's invitation to record their next Reprise album at his Caribou Ranch studio, located around the mountains of Nederland, Colorado. These October 1974 sessions marked the group's return to the studio after a 21-month period of virtual inactivity, but the proceedings were cut short after Brian had insisted on returning to his home in Los Angeles. Guercio remembered, "From the day he got here, he said, 'I want to go home.'" Further complicating matters, a fire broke out in the studio and destroyed some of the tapes, after which the band resumed recording in November at their newly-constructed Brother Studios in Santa Monica.


15 Big Ones, Production, Caribou sessions (1974)
While at Caribou, Wilson co-wrote and recorded numerous songs with poet Stephen Kalinich, including "Child of Winter (Christmas Song)", "California Feelin'", "You're Riding High on the Music", "Lucy Jones", and "Grateful Are We for Little Children". "You're Riding High on the Music" was never recorded. "Lucy Jones", as described by Kalinich, "was just a funky song, and Brian and I were having fun." "Grateful Are We for Little Children" later became Wilson's "Saturday Morning in the City".


15 Big Ones, Production, Caribou sessions (1974)
Other tracks recorded at these sessions were "Our Life, Our Love, Our Land", "Don't Let Me Go", "Barnyard Blues", early versions of "It's OK" and "Good Timin'", an alternate version of "Ding Dang", and renditions of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "Honeycomb". "Don't Let Me Go" is a song composed by Carl with lyrics by Love, while "Our Life, Our Love, Our Land" is a song written by Love that he described as an "ethnic" thing that sounded similar to "The Trader" from Holland. "Honeycomb" featured Brian's wife Marilyn on lead vocal.


15 Big Ones, Production, Caribou sessions (1974)
In November, Mike Love told Melody Maker that the band had completed "about 40 tracks" and that their next album would be completed by January 1975. Love reported, "Brian is very involved with the LP. ... The album's a combination between Sunflower and Holland. It's got some of the feel that Holland had, but also sounds a bit like Sunflower in certain respects." The material was written by himself ("about ten" of the songs), Brian (five), Carl and Dennis ("about five" each), and Jardine ("a couple"). The group completed a few tracks from these sessions, including "Child of Winter", but ultimately abandoned most of them. Released as a single at the end of December 1974, "Child of Winter" was their first record that displayed the credit "Produced by Brian Wilson" since 1966.


15 Big Ones, Production, Interim (1975)
With the project put on hold, the Beach Boys spent most of the next year on the road playing college football stadiums and basketball arenas. Early in 1975, Wilson signed a short-lived sideline production deal with former Beach Boy Bruce Johnston and producer Terry Melcher's Equinox Records. Together, they founded the loose-knit supergroup known as California Music. Wilson produced their covers of "Jamaica Farewell" and "Why Do Fools Fall in Love? ", but his participation in the group soon ended. Over the summer, the touring group played a co-headlining series of concert dates with Chicago, a pairing that was nicknamed "Beachago". The tour was massively successful and restored the Beach Boys' profitability to what it had been in the mid-1960s.


15 Big Ones, Production, Interim (1975)
Dennis and Carl had worked for a full two years, probably ... trying to get the best possible Beach Boys songs that they could, and it wouldn't fly without Brian's name on it. I heard that, literally, from business people. "'Til you get Brian on there, it's not gonna happen."


15 Big Ones, Production, Interim (1975)
In a July 1975 article for NME, Nick Kent reported that Carl Wilson had cited "Rollin' Up to Heaven" (retitled from "Ding Dang"), "California Feelin'", and "Good Timing"  [sic] as "titles to new Brian Wilson songs recorded for the next Warner/Reprise album". Carl told Kent that the new songs demonstrated Brian's new "funky" approach. In September, the band recorded a version of the Del-Vikings' "Come Go with Me", but the track was ultimately left off 15 Big Ones. In October, Wilson recorded a rendition of Van Dyke Parks' "Come to the Sunshine", also intended for the band's forthcoming album, but a dispute prevented the track's inclusion.


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Initial sessions
In late 1975, Wilson volunteered himself into psychologist Eugene Landy's 24-hour therapy program, and subsequently, Wilson's worsening condition was almost immediately curtailed. Encouraged by the positive results of Landy's treatment, Stephen Love and Wilson's bandmates requested that Wilson produce the group's several-months overdue album for Reprise. These sessions lasted from January 30 to May 15, 1976 at Brother Studios. Studio staff engineers Stephen Moffitt and Earle Mankey (a former member of Sparks) were enlisted for the project. Brian was officially credited as the sole producer for the first time on a Beach Boys LP since Pet Sounds (1966). Carl and Dennis assisted Brian with the instrumental tracks, while Al Jardine and Mike Love contributed just vocals.


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Initial sessions
15 Big Ones is distinguished for its use of Moog and ARP synthesizers, played by Wilson himself, signaling a more electronic-heavy sound compared to his past productions. Mankey surmised that Wilson employed synthesizers "to fake string parts ... and not have to worry about anything else. He was in there to play the part and get out." In the assessment of biographer Peter Ames Carlin, one of the "more distressing" characteristics of the recordings is the quality of Wilson's singing. Carlin writes that Wilson, who once possessed "a powerful but tender falsetto ... now sang in a baritone croak." In his 2016 memoir, I Am Brian Wilson, it is stated that he suffered from a bout of laryngitis during the sessions, adding that his hoarse voice on the album was not his "normal voice ... It was an assumed voice."


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Initial sessions
As a warm-up exercise, Brian first recorded a batch of oldies with many of the session musicians that he had worked with during the mid-1960s. Mankey remembered that Wilson found it difficult to engage with musicians in the studio that he was not familiar with. "They were the fastest sessions ever. The room would be full of musicians, all the old guys from the past, and there would be some acoustic basses and open mikes. ... At the end of the song Brian would say, 'That sounded great, guys!' and head for the door."


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Initial sessions
Wilson recalled, "It was a little scary because [the Beach Boys and I] weren't as close. We had drifted apart, personality-wise. A lot of the guys had developed new personalities through meditation. It was a bit scary and shaky. But we went into the studio with the attitude that we had to get it done. After a week or two in the studio, we started to get the niche again."


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Initial sessions
By this time, the Beach Boys were three albums behind schedule in their contract with Warner Bros. The original plan was for Wilson to produce one or two albums of all-original material after the oldies exercises were finished. Crawdaddy journalist Timothy White, who attended many of the album's sessions, explained that the premise "represented a compromise at a stage when the Boys felt stymied as a unit and reluctant to commit their own recent or stockpiled individual compositions to a communal album that didn't mainly feature Brian's work."


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Initial sessions
According to Dennis, the group "couldn't agree on enough" with regards to the songs that they had stockpiled. He said in January 1976, "We have a lot of stuff in the can we could have put together and released, but it just wasn't that. It's always left up to the writer of each song as to what will happen to it ... It takes a lot of fun out of the creativity to have to release, release." He reported that the group had planned to issue an album of oldies, and that the other albums may "take the form of a double album of all-new material that stretches from hard rock 'n' roll to these wordless vocals we've been doing that sound like the Vienna Boys Choir."


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Conflicts
Following two days in the studio, during which they recorded "Palisades Park" and "Blueberry Hill", the sessions temporarily halted due to disagreements regarding the album's direction. Mankey said, "It was really tense in the studio. Brian would come in around nine or ten in the morning. One day, they would get something done, and the next day they would do nothing except fight." Group meetings were supervised by Landy, and according to biographer Keith Badman, discussions over each track for the record lasted up to eight hours. Band road manager Rick Nelson acknowledged that Landy had attempted to exert unwelcome artistic control over the group. Landy remarked in a 1988 interview, "Brian and I did that [album] together."


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Conflicts
Once we had finished a certain batch of songs Brian said, "That's it. Put it out." That's why the album sounds unfinished. Brian just wanted to do one cut and capture the moment rather than working on something."


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Conflicts
Jardine later reported that the group were unsure if Brian possessed the competence to produce an album. Carlin writes that the band had quickly realized that Brian "no longer had the energy or desire to get anything right [in the studio]." Carl Wilson explained, "I believe that Brian was consciously under-producing the album and that was his choice – we deferred to him. But when we voted to do it that way with those particular songs, I left the studio right there on the spot because I was very disenchanted." Without Brian's knowledge, members of the band later touched up the recordings in opposition to his desire for a "dry" sound.


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Conflicts
A Newsweek journalist reported that Jardine and Mike Love were "all for letting Brian take full charge, even though Love makes no secret of resenting him." Mankey remembered that "[a]ll of the people in the studio" felt sorry for Brian and tried to help him improve his work, with the exception of Love and Jardine, who "just thought it was crap. They'd show up and say it was terrible." Stephen said, "Carl was dragging his feet, saying, 'This is a shitty record.


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Conflicts
This isn't anywhere near as good as it should be.'" Carl said, "Thing is, then I came back and worked my ass off because I support my brother Brian professionally and personally." Stephen noted, "They really had mixed feelings about [Brian's comeback] because they knew it would frustrate their own designs for their own music. But they probably liked it economically, because they knew it was going to get them a bigger record deal."


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Conflicts
Dennis later complained, "I was unhappy with the oldies – absolutely. The album should have been 100% original. We had enough Brian Wilson material to do it. ... Steve Love, Mike Love and Alan Jardine were pushing to get it out – it was just a big push. They'd rather just get it out there than take time with it and develop it. Carl and I were really upset." Steve countered that "the hard truth is that you don't have forever to tinker around with this stuff. The pressing demands of business sometimes interfere with artistic indulgence. Business-wise you want to get the goddamn album out when things are gelling." Mike did not believe that time constraints was to blame for the album's "rough sections", explaining that it was not publicly disclosed that Carl had suffered "a debilitating back injury" and had been "self-medicating and drinking".


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Conflicts
Ultimately, a compromise was reached, with the album including a mix of covers and originals. Brian told an interviewer that "15 Big Ones started out as an album of nothing but oldies, but then we ran out of them. Halfway through, Mike Love decided to make the record half old and half new. I didn't like the idea at first, but he literally forced us to do it his way. I resented that." Sessions resumed in early March, and by the time they had finished in May, the group had recorded almost nothing but covers.


15 Big Ones, Production, Wilson-led sessions (1976), Conflicts
Besides those that made it to the final track listing, the band recorded versions of "Workin' in a Coal Mine", "Sea Cruise", "On Broadway", "Mony, Mony", "Running Bear", "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Secret Love", "Don't Fight the Sea", "Peggy Sue", "Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore", and "Let's Dance". Other discarded tracks worked on in this period included the originals "Short Skirts" (Brian), "Gold Rush" (Jardine), "Lisa", "Glow, Crescent, Glow" (Mike), "10,000 Years Ago", and "Rainbows" (Dennis).


15 Big Ones, Packaging and artwork
Group Therapy, a title proposed by Dennis, was rejected in favor of Dean Torrence's suggestion, 15 Big Ones, which referred to both the number of tracks and the group's 15th anniversary. It was packaged with cover artwork that showed photos of the individual band members inside five interlocking rings, resembling the logo for the Olympic Games. This was an intentional reference to the fact that 1976 had been an Olympic year.


15 Big Ones, Packaging and artwork
Mike Love reflected, "The images of Brian, Dennis, Carl, Al, and me in five interlocking circles could have been a metaphor for five bandmates united in common purpose, or five guys living in their separate worlds. With us, it was both." A logo that displayed the band's name, designed by Torrence, was introduced with this release and kept as the Beach Boys' official logo for decades afterward.


15 Big Ones, Release
The Beach Boys' association with Guercio and his Caribou Management company ended in early 1976. Stephen Love subsequently took over as the band's de facto business manager. To highlight Brian's recovery and his return to writing and producing, Love devised a promotional campaign with the tagline "Brian Is Back! ", and paid the Rogers & Cowan publicity agency $3,500 per month to implement it. In Gaines' description, the resultant "media coverage was enormous", appearing across Newsweek, New West, Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. It marked the highest level of press attention that Wilson had received since Derek Taylor's "Brian Wilson is a genius" campaign from 1966. Landy involved himself by openly discussing Wilson's condition and other aspects of his personal life to journalists.


15 Big Ones, Release
On May 24, 1976, lead single "Rock and Roll Music" (backed with "T M Song") was released as the band's first new single in 16 months, peaking in the U.S. at number 5, their highest chart position for a single since "Good Vibrations" (1966). In June, Brian gave his first press interviews in several years, and in July, the band produced a six-hour documentary retrospective for U.S. radio. Starting on July 2, Wilson made regular concert appearances with his bandmates for the first time since December 1964, singing and alternating between bass guitar and piano. From July 3 to August 15, the group embarked on a string of major stadium concert dates across the U.S. The setlists for these dates included "Susie Cincinnati", "Palisades Park", "It's OK", "A Casual Look", "Back Home", and "Rock and Roll Music".


15 Big Ones, Release
At the centerpiece of the "Brian Is Back!" campaign was the release of 15 Big Ones on July 5. The album peaked at number 8 in the U.S., becoming their first top 10 album of new material since Pet Sounds, and their highest-charting studio album since Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (1965). It also became their second Warner Bros. release to be certified gold. On August 5, NBC premiered a Lorne Michaels-produced television special about the band, called simply The Beach Boys.


15 Big Ones, Release
It included live performances of "Rock and Roll Music", "It's OK" (both drawn from their July 5 concert at Anaheim Stadium), and "That Same Song" (filmed with the 75-piece Double Rock Baptist Choir). On August 23, the band were given a five-page cover story on that week's issue of People magazine. On August 30, the second single, "It's OK" (backed with "Had to Phone Ya"), was issued in the U.S. and later peaked at number 29.


15 Big Ones, Release
Maybe it would have been more accurate to say, "We think and hope Brian's on his way back!" But that's not gonna cut it for a professional [media] campaign.


15 Big Ones, Release
—Band manager Stephen Love, orchestrator of the "Brian Is Back!" campaign


15 Big Ones, Release
Despite its success, the "Brian Is Back" promotion proved controversial. Wilson had often solicited drugs from his interviewers and remarked on one occasion that he "'felt like a prisoner". The Guardian's Alexis Petridis wrote that the articles from this period were "heartbreaking and horrifying in equal measure, depicting a halting, visibly terrified man". In his review of the Beach Boys' concert at Anaheim, Melody Maker reporter Harvey Kubernick wrote that Wilson "seemed uncomfortable on stage" and "shouldn't be subjected to being propped up on stage for video purposes or group/media examination. His contributions this afternoon were nil!


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Following the tour, the Beach Boys played a further dozen concert dates at stadiums and basketball arenas, but this time without Brian's participation. On September 17, Brian appeared as a guest presenter on Don Kirshner's Annual Rock Music Awards program, where he was nominated for the Hall of Fame category and lost to the Beatles. Carl and Dennis accompanied him to the podium. On November 8, the third and last single, "Susie Cincinnati" (backed with "Everyone's in Love with You") was issued in the U.S. and failed to chart. On November 16, BBC-2 premiered an episode of The Old Grey Whistle Test that included host Bob Harris' interview with Brian, which had been filmed on September 21.


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Wilson made his first talk show appearance on November 23, on The Mike Douglas Show, followed by an appearance on NBC's Saturday Night, on November 26. Both appearances included a performance of "Back Home". That month, Rolling Stone published David Felton's feature story, "The Beach Boys: The Healing of Brother Bri"  [sic], which presented unfavorable depictions of the band, Brian's wife Marilyn, and other family and friends.


15 Big Ones, Critical reception
15 Big Ones received mixed reviews and was largely disliked by the group's fanbase. Much of the criticism centers around the cover songs, Dennis' and Brian's rough vocal performances, and the record's perceived unfinished, forced, and rushed quality.


15 Big Ones, Critical reception
White wrote in his Crawdaddy review that the album was a disappointment; although it "does boast several bright moments – but no brilliant ones." Less favorably, a reviewer for The Village Voice described the album as "the kind of music one might expect to find at a rock star's funeral." According to Carlin, most other reviewers "gave 15 Big Ones gentle treatment", such as in Newsweek, which described the album as "fascinating ... [ with] a curiously unshakable unity." Similarly, Jim Miller of Rolling Stone decreed that it was "the most idiosyncratic — and flaky — record I have heard in some time, and it fascinates me."


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Among retrospective reviews, AllMusic's John Bush felt that most of the covers were "simply too well known to be reworked effectively, by anyone", but favorably compared "It's OK" and "Had to Phone Ya" to "Brian's odd pop songs on late-'60s albums like Friends and 20/20." Robert Christgau bemoaned the selection of covers and their lack of a "playful, goofy vocal intensity". Blender's Douglas Wolk wrote that the album is "[o]verwhelmed by clunky covers and bored performances". Pitchfork's Eric Kempfe described the album as "muddy and confused" and highlighted "Had to Phone Ya" and "Back Home" as the best originals. Kempfe added that, with the exception of "Just Once in My Life", the covers "are notable only for the morbid fascination they hold ... Brian's once-sweet falsetto is reduced to a hoarse crackle; as a result, Mike Love's painful nasal whine is the dominant voice on the record."


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In his book Icons of Rock, Scott Schinder called 15 Big Ones "largely a letdown, comprised largely of lackluster remakes of rock and roll oldies, along with a handful of lightweight but charming new songs by Brian. Rock critic Nick Kent called it "utterly uninspired and weary-sounding ... clearly intended only as therapy for Wilson's long dormant production talents."


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Musician Dennis Diken, who wrote the liner notes to the album's 2000 reissue, acknowledged such criticisms and opined, "If you can accept all these points and put it behind you that this isn't Smile, Pet Sounds or even Wild Honey, give 15 Big Ones a spin and dig on what is a very cool and fun Beach Boys album."


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At the time, Brian described the album as "nothing too deep" and promised that his next effort would be as ambitious as "Good Vibrations". In a 1998 interview, he referred to 15 Big Ones and the band's next release, The Beach Boys Love You (1977), as his favorite Beach Boys albums. "That's when it all happened for me. That's where my heart lies."


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Other members of the band, including Carl and Dennis, disparaged the album in the press when it was released. Dennis felt that it was "a great mistake to put Brian in full control" and that the "whole process was a little bruising." He admitted, "We were heartbroken. People have waited all this time, anticipating a new Beach Boys album, and I hated to give them this." Mike Love declined to comment on the album when asked by a reporter. In White's belief, the troubled sessions "precipitated the abrupt solo career decisions by Dennis and Carl Wilson", and what he had witnessed convinced him that "the greatest obstacle the Beach Boys face is that of five divergent personalities, fraught with jealousies, fears, foibles, conflicting interests and basic stylistic disagreements."


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Matijas-Mecca argued that 15 Big Ones marked the beginning of a one-and-a-half-year period in which "Brian produced some of his most creative and interesting (if not necessarily commercial) music since he abandoned SMiLE." Journalist Brian Chidester similarly described the era as the end of "Wilson's full retreat as leader of the Beach Boys", although Wilson "never returned to the form that saw him produce groundbreaking works like Pet Sounds and Smile." Diken wrote, "One might also view the album as Brian's salvation from a goal-less downward spiral and an imminent crash landing."


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Credits adapted from the liner notes of the album's 2000 reissue.


15 Boötis
15 Boötis is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Boötes, located approximately 260 light years away from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.45. The system has a relatively high proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at the rate of 0.166 arc seconds per annum. It is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +16.8 km/s.


15 Boötis
The magnitude 5.51 primary, designated component  A, is an aging K-type giant star with a stellar classification of K1 III. It is a red clump giant, which indicates it is on the horizontal branch and is generating energy through helium fusion at its core. It is around two billion years old with 1.5 times the mass of the Sun and has expanded to 10 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 61 times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,845 K.


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Its companion, component B, is a magnitude +8.53 star was located at an angular separation of 0.80″ along a position angle of 111° from the primary, as of 2015. This is the same separation it had when the system was discovered in 1936.


15 Broad Street
15 Broad Street (formerly known as the Equitable Trust Building) is a former office building in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, on the eastern side of Broad Street between Wall Street and Exchange Place. It has entrances at 51 Exchange Place and 35 Wall Street.


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It was completed in 1928 and made the list of the 20 largest office buildings in the world in 1931.


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The building was built in the neoclassical style for the Equitable Trust Company and was therefore called the Equitable Trust Building. The architects were Trowbridge & Livingston, who also drew plans for the adjacent structures at 14 Wall Street, New York Stock Exchange Building annex, and 23 Wall Street. The builder was the Thompson–Starrett Co.


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The layout of the building is L-shaped, wrapping around 23 Wall Street. The building is 540 feet high and has 43 floors. The assumed value in 1931 was $17,250,000. The facade is made out of grey brick stone, while the limestone base echoes the facade of neighboring 23 Wall Street. The rent area was 750,000 square feet (70,000 m2); the interior was originally luxuriously fitted out.


15 Broad Street, History, Construction and early years
15 Wall Street replaced the Mills Building and another building on the site. The skyscraper contained a truss that spanned above 23 Wall Street. to allow the inclusion of this truss, J.P. Morgan & Co., which occupied the immediately adjoining 23 Wall Street, sold the air rights above that building to the Equitable Trust Company, for which 15 Broad Street was being constructed. To prevent damage to the older structure, heavy timbers were placed on 23 Wall Street's roof while the skyscraper was being built.


15 Broad Street, History, Construction and early years
The building was completed in 1928. The Equitable Trust Co. was one of the units of the Chase National Bank organizations, one of the largest and most powerful banking institutions in the world at the time. The law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell was located in the predecessor building from around 1889 and moved out when it was demolished, but returned to the address into the newly completed building and stayed there until 1959.


15 Broad Street, History, First remodeling
In late 1955, J.P. Morgan & Co. arranged to purchase 15 Broad Street from the Chase Manhattan Bank, which then owned the building. Chase wanted to build a new headquarters at 28 Liberty Street and was selling 15 Broad Street to raise money for the project. Once the sale was concluded the following March, J.P. Morgan & Co. announced that Turner Construction would extensively renovate the building to plans by Rogers & Butler. The work involved adding air-conditioning, adding a ground-floor entrance at 35 Wall Street, and installing cooling towers on the roof. The work was to be complete in mid-1957. The building was also linked to 23 Wall Street as part of the project.


15 Broad Street, History, First remodeling
Morgan & Co. became the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in 1959 following a merger with the Guaranty Trust Company. Morgan Guaranty considered constructing additional stories atop 23 Wall Street as well as replacing both structures with one headquarters. A major renovation commenced in the two buildings in 1962, in preparation for their conversion into a headquarters for Morgan Guaranty. The company's old headquarters at 140 Broadway was being demolished to make way for the Marine Midland Bank Building. The renovation was completed in 1964.


15 Broad Street, History, Condominium conversion
15 Broad Street and 23 Wall Street were sold in 2003 for $100 million to Africa Israel and Boymelgreen. The conversion came after plans to have the building demolished for a new stock exchange building were dropped. The building became a luxury condominium development called Downtown, designed by French product designer Philippe Starck along with project architect Ismael Leyva and developer A.I. & Boymelgreen, making it one of a growing number of residential buildings in the Financial District. Remodeling was largely completed at the end of May 2007.


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According to Real Estate Weekly, by November 2006, 98% of the apartments had been sold. Prices for the 326 units ranged from about $335,000 for a studio to $4.6 million for a two-bedroom apartment with a terrace. The building is fitted with many amenities such as a gym, swimming pool, dance and yoga studio, squash court, bowling alley, business centre, movie theater, lounge and an in-house dry cleaning service amongst other things.


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The original 1,900-piece Louis Quinze chandelier that used to hang in the main hall of J. P. Morgan's 23 Wall Street was given by Morgan to be displayed in the lobby of 15 Broad Street. According to the architect Phlippe Starck, many pieces had come from Austria-Hungary before World War I and have been identified by him as Swarovski crystal. Starck made the roof of 23 Wall into a 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) garden with children's pool and dining area, accessible to the residents of the development.