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Gordonia taipingensis Gordonia taipingensis is a species of plant in the Theaceae family. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Osbeckia octandra Eight Stamen Osbeckia, (Osbeckia octandra), is a plant species in the genus "Osbeckia" of the family Melastomataceae. It is considered to be endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is known as "Heen Bovitiya - හීන් බෝවිටියා" in Sinhala language. But some texts indicate that it is also found in Tamil Nadu of In...
Osbeckia aspera Rough Osbeckia, (Osbeckia aspera), also known as Rough small-leaved spider flower, is a plant species in the genus "Osbeckia" of the family Melastomataceae. It is native to India and Sri Lanka. Leaves are elliptic-lanceolate, base attenuate with more or less velvet-hairy on both sides. Flowers are pink ...
Gordonia villosa Gordonia villosa is a species of plant in the Theaceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica.
Osbeckia Osbeckia is a genus of plants in the family Melastomataceae. It was named by Carl Linnaeus for the Swedish explorer and naturalist Pehr Osbeck (1723–1805).
The Curse of Singapore Sling The Curse of Singapore Sling (also known simply as The Curse Of) is the first studio album by the Icelandic neo-psychedelia band Singapore Sling. It was released in August 2002 by record label Hitt.
Swampscott Fish House Swampscott Fish House is a historic fishing supply storage house off Humphrey Street on Fisherman's Beach in Swampscott, Massachusetts. It is the oldest active fish house in the country.
Hurricane glass A Hurricane glass is a form of drinking glass which typically will contain 20 fluid ounces (600 ml). It is used to serve mixed drinks, particularly the Hurricane from which it is named originating at Pat O'Brien's Bar in New Orleans. Other drinks served in this glass include the Singapore Sling, June bu...
Singapore Sling (1993 film) Singapore Sling is a 1993 Australian television movie about a private eye in Singapore. It led to a series of TV movies.
Hamilton Fish House The Hamilton Fish House, also known as the Stuyvesant Fish House and Nicholas and Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish House, is where Hamilton Fish (1808-93), future Governor and Senator of New York, was born and resided from 1808 to 1838. It is located at 21 Stuyvesant Street, a diagonal street within the Ma...
Fish House Punch Fish House Punch is a strong, rum-based punch containing rum, cognac, and peach brandy. The drink is typically served over an ice block in a punch bowl and garnished with lemon slices.
Singapore Sling (1990 film) Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse (Greek: "Singapore Sling: Ο Άνθρωπος που Αγάπησε ένα Πτώμα" , tr. "Singapore Sling: O Anthropos pou Agapise ena Ptoma") is a 1990 Greek black and white dramatic experimental independent underground art film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis and regarded...
Singapore Sling The Singapore Sling is a gin-based cocktail from Singapore. This long drink was developed sometime before 1915 by Ngiam Tong Boon, a Hainanese bartender working at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel, Singapore. It was initially called the gin sling – a "sling" was originally an North American drink composed ...
Singapore Sling (tax avoidance) A Singapore Sling is a tax avoidance scheme in which a large multinational company sells products to a subsidiary owned by them in a jurisdiction with lower tax rates, which acts as a 'marketing hub'. The subsidiary then sells the product to end users, marking up its value and attributin...
Singapore Sling (band) Singapore Sling is an Icelandic rock 'n' roll band from Reykjavík, formed in 2000. The band have released eight studio albums to date.
Eli Roth Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. As a director and producer, he is most closely associated with the horror genre, first coming to prominence by directing the 2005 film "Hostel" and its 2007 sequel, "". As an actor, his most prominent role was as ...
Howard Drossin Howard Drossin (born October 2, 1970) is an American composer for film and video games. His work includes co-scoring with longtime collaborator RZA, "The Man with the Iron Fists" for Universal Pictures, starring Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu; several award-winning video game titles including "Afro Samurai",...
The Man with the Iron Fists 2 The Man with the Iron Fists 2 is a 2015 American direct-to-video martial arts action film directed by Roel Reiné and written by RZA and John Jarrell. It is the sequel to the 2012 film "The Man with the Iron Fists". The film stars RZA, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Pim Bubear, Ocean Hou, Grace Huan...
List of songs recorded by My Chemical Romance The following is a list of recorded songs by the American alternative rock/punk band My Chemical Romance. A song titled "Hell Hath No Fury" was recorded for The Man with the Iron Fists but was never released. An instrumental of the track credited to Gerard Way, Mikey Way, F...
The Man with the Iron Fists The Man with the Iron Fists is a 2012 American martial arts film directed by RZA and written by RZA and Eli Roth. The film stars RZA, Russell Crowe, Cung Le, Lucy Liu, Byron Mann, Rick Yune, Dave Bautista, and Jamie Chung. Set in 19th century China, the story follows a series of lone warrior...
The Man with the Iron Fists (soundtrack) The Man with the Iron Fists is the soundtrack to the 2012 American film, "The Man with the Iron Fists", released on October 22, 2012, by Soul Temple Entertainment. The soundtrack was produced by RZA, who also co-wrote, acted in and directed the film.
Grace Huang Grace Huang () is an Australian actress, of Cantonese descent, best known for her role as the Gemini Female in the RZA directed martial arts film, "The Man with the Iron Fists". Huang also starred as Mei Chen in the pilot for the 2013 CBS TV series "Intelligence". Huang also plays May in the Hong Kong actio...
Byron Mann Byron Mann () is a Chinese American actor who has made films in Hollywood, Hong Kong and Mainland China. He is perhaps best known for his performances as Mr. Chau in "The Big Short", Chang in "Hell on Wheels", Ryu in "Street Fighter", Silver Lion in "The Man with the Iron Fists" and Yao Fei in the first seas...
Mike Leeder Michael William "Mike" Leeder is a British actor, casting director, producer and writer born and raised in the UK, who has been based in Hong Kong since 1990. Leeder is considered an authority on Asian Cinema and International Cult and Action Cinema, as well as for his work in front and behind the camera, w...
Soul Temple Records Soul Temple Records is an American record label founded in 2012 by hip hop music recording artist RZA and Bob Perry, after the release of the RZA directed "The Man with the Iron Fists". The labels first release would be that album's soundtrack. The label has since released studio albums by Wu-Tang C...
James Baxter the Horse "James Baxter the Horse" is the nineteenth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series "Adventure Time". The episode was written and storyboarded by series creator Pendleton Ward and Somvilay Xayaphone, from a story by Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne, and Ward. It original...
Jim Jinkins James Jinkins (born 1953 in Richmond, Virginia, United States) is an American animator and creator of the animated "Doug" television series which was later the basis for a feature film. Jinkins also created "PB&J Otter", as well as several other shows produced by his two companies, Jumbo Pictures and Cartoo...
Andrew Overtoom Andrew Overtoom is an American animation director, writer and photographer/cinematographer best known for his work on the Disney animated television series Billy Dilley where he was a Writer and Animation Supervisor for Creator/ Executive Producer Aaron Springer and Supervising Producer Clayton Morrow, ...
Jeff "Swampy" Marsh Jeff "Swampy" Marsh (born December 9, 1960) is an American animator, writer, director, producer, and voice actor associated with several animated television series, most notably as the co-creator, executive producer, and voice of Major Monogram of Disney's animated series "Phineas and Ferb...
Steven Universe Steven Universe is an American animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. It is the coming-of-age story of a young boy named Steven Universe (voiced by Zach Callison), who lives in the fictional town of Beach City with the "Crystal Gems" – Pearl (Deedee Magno), Garnet (Este...
The Problem Solverz The Problem Solverz is an American animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network. Created by Ben Jones, it follows Alfe, Horace, and Roba, a group of detectives in their troubled town, Farboro. The aforementioned characters were designed while Jones attended college in the 1990s; he later...
Stanley (2001 TV series) Stanley is an American animated television series that aired on Playhouse Disney based on the series of children's books written by "Griff" (as indicated on the cover of the original book), also known as Andrew Griffin. It was produced by Cartoon Pizza and was developed for television by Jim Ji...
Pinky and the Brain Pinky and the Brain is an American animated television series. It was the first animated television series to be presented in Dolby Surround and the fourth collaboration of Steven Spielberg with his production company, Amblin Television, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The characters first a...
Pinky Dinky Doo Pinky Dinky Doo is an American-Canadian children's animated television series that aired on Nick Jr. from April 10, 2006, until April 8, 2011. that was created by Jim Jinkins, who is perhaps best known as the creator of "Doug".
Doug (TV series) Doug is an American animated television series created by Jim Jinkins. The show focuses on the early adolescent life of its title character, Douglas "Doug" Funnie, who experiences common predicaments while attending school in his new hometown of Bluffington. Doug narrates each story in his journal, and...
West Alabama Tigers football The West Alabama Tigers football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the University of West Alabama located in the U.S. state of Alabama. The team competes in the NCAA Division II and are members of the Gulf South Conference. West Alabama's first football team was fiel...
1911 Alabama Crimson Tide football team The 1911 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1911 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 19th overall and 16th season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SI...
1899 Connecticut Aggies football team The 1899 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1899 college football season. This was the fourth year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies were led by first year head coach T. D. Knowl...
1905 Alabama Crimson White football team The 1905 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was Alabama's 13th overall and 10th season as a member of the Southern Intercoll...
1910 Alabama Crimson Tide football team The 1910 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1910 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 18th overall and 15th season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SI...
1983 Alabama Crimson Tide football team The 1983 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA", "Bama" or "The Tide") represented the University of Alabama in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 91st overall and 50th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SE...
1902 Connecticut Aggies football team The 1902 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1902 college football season. This was the seventh year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies were led by first year head coach Edwin O. S...
Georgia Southern Eagles football The Georgia Southern Eagles football program represents Georgia Southern University in football as part of the Sun Belt Conference under head coach Tyson Summers. The Eagles have won six FCS (I-AA) national championships and have produced two Walter Payton Award winners. The Eagles firs...
1997 Alabama Crimson Tide football team The 1997 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama in the college football season of 1997–98. The team's head coach was Mike DuBose, who was entering his first year at Alabama. They played their home games at both Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa ...
1906 Alabama Crimson White football team The 1906 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was Alabama's 14th overall and 11th season as a member of the Southern Intercoll...
Samuel Bell Samuel Bell (February 9, 1770December 23, 1850) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 14th Governor of New Hampshire from 1819 to 1823, and as the United States Senator for New Hampshire from 1823 to 1835. Born in Londonderry in the Province of New Hampshire, Bell became a lawyer in the 17...
John Hoeven John Henry Hoeven III (born March 13, 1957) is an American politician and the senior United States Senator from North Dakota, in office since 2011. A member of the North Dakota Republican Party, he previously served as the 31st Governor of North Dakota from December 2000 to December 2010. Hoeven was elected...
George LeMieux George Stephen LeMieux ( ; born May 21, 1969) is an American politician who was a United States Senator from Florida from 2009 to 2011. He is chairman of the Florida-based law firm of Gunster Yoakley & Stewart and was chief of staff to Governor Charlie Crist. He was the Deputy Florida Attorney General an...
Clifford Hansen Clifford Peter Hansen (October 16, 1912October 20, 2009) was an American politician from the state of Wyoming. A Republican, he served as the 26th Governor of Wyoming (January 7, 1963 – January 2, 1967) and subsequently as a United States Senator (January 3, 1967 – December 31, 1978). Earlier, he was th...
Lawton Chiles Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. He served as a United States Senator from 1971 to 1989 and as the 41st Governor of Florida from 1991 to 1998.
J. Howard Edmondson James Howard Edmondson (September 27, 1925November 17, 1971) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. He served as the 16th governor of Oklahoma from 1959 to 1963, and a United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1963 to 1964. Elected at the age of 33, Edmondson still remains the yo...
Buddy MacKay Kenneth Hood "Buddy" MacKay Jr. (born March 22, 1933) is an American politician and diplomat from Florida. A Democrat, he was briefly the 42nd Governor of Florida following the death of Lawton Chiles on December 12, 1998. During his long public service career he was also state legislator, U.S. Representati...
Wendell Ford Wendell Hampton Ford (September 8, 1924 – January 22, 2015) was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He served for twenty-four years in the U.S. Senate and was the 53rd Governor of Kentucky. He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor, governor and United Sta...
Bob Kerrey Joseph Robert Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) is an American politician and lobbyist who served as the 35th Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1989 to 2001. Before entering politics, he served in the Vietnam War as a United States Navy SEAL officer and was ...
Mazie Hirono Mazie Keiko Hirono ( ; Japanese name: 広野 慶子 "Hirono Keiko"; born November 3, 1947) is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from Hawaii, in office since 2013. Hirono, a member of the Democratic Party, previously served as a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1985 to 19...
Henk Buck Henk Buck (born Dordrecht, 1930) is an organic chemist. He studied at the University of Leiden where he received his PhD in 1959. He got a lectorship at the University in Theoretical Organic Chemistry in 1964. For his research he received the Golden Medal of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society in 1967. In ...
George Wallace Kenner George Wallace Kenner FRS (16 November 1922 – 26 June 1978) was a British organic chemist. He was born in Sheffield in 1922, the son of Prof. James Kenner. During his childhood, he went to Didsbury Preparatory School in 1928 and moved to Manchester Grammar School in 1934. He was appointed to the f...
Harry Stone Mosher Mosher attended Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1937. He went on to Oregon State University, where he earned a master's degree in 1938. He then returned to Willamette to teach for one year. In 1939, he continued his graduate work at Pennsy...
Nanocar The nanocar is a molecule designed in 2005 at Rice University by a group headed by Professor James Tour. Despite the name, the original nanocar does not contain a molecular motor, hence, it is not really a car. Rather, it was designed to answer the question of how fullerenes move about on metal surfaces; specif...
William R. Roush William R. Roush is an American organic chemist. He was born on February 20, 1952 in Chula Vista, California. Roush studied chemistry at the University of California Los Angeles (B.S. 1974) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1977 under Robert Burns Woodward). Following a year postdoctoral appointment at Har...
Robert Burns Woodward Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist. He is considered by many to be the preeminent organic chemist of the twentieth century, having made many key contributions to the subject, especially in the synthesis of complex natural products and the determin...
Maurizio Prato (scientist) Maurizio Prato (born in Lecce October 11, 1953), is an Italian Organic Chemist, who is best known for his work on the functionalization of carbon nanostructures, including fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene. He developed a series of organic reactions that make these materials more bioc...
Nicholas Turro Nicholas J. Turro (May 18, 1938 – November 24, 2012) was an American chemist, Wm. P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He was a world renowned organic chemist and leading world expert on organic photochemistry. He was the recipient of the 2011 Arthur C. Cope Award in Organic Chemi...
Iain Coldham Iain Coldham is an organic chemist and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge before relocating to Austin, Texas in 1989 for postdoctoral research. His areas of study have included intramolecular trapping of episulfonium ions with...
Dieter Enders Dieter Enders (born 1946) is an organic chemist who has done work developing asymmetric synthesis, in particular using modified prolines as asymmetric auxiliaries. The most widely applied of his chiral auxiliaries are the complementary SAMP and RAMP auxiliaries, which allow for asymmetric alpha-alkylation...
Right Whale Bay Right Whale Bay is a bay 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide, entered between Craigie Point and Nameless Point along the north coast of South Georgia. The name dates back to at least 1922 and is now well established. The right whale is a species of whale found in this area – South Georgia was famous for its whaling...
Pygmy right whale The pygmy right whale ("Caperea marginata") is a member of the cetotheres, a family of baleen whales, which until 2012 were thought to be extinct; previously "C. marginata" was considered the sole member of the family Neobalaenidae. First described by John Edward Gray in 1846, it is the smallest of th...
Right whale Right whales are three species of large baleen whales of the genus Eubalaena: the North Atlantic right whale ("E. glacialis"), the North Pacific right whale ("E. japonica") and the Southern right whale ("E. australis"). They are classified in the family Balaenidae with the bowhead whale. Right whales have r...
Southern right whale dolphin The southern right whale dolphin ("Lissodelphis peronii") is a small and slender species of mammal found in cool waters of the Southern Hemisphere. The dolphin is one of two species of right whale dolphin; "Lissodelphis", the other, the northern right whale dolphin, is found in deep oceans ...
Balaenidae Balaenidae is a family of whales of the parvorder Mysticeti that contains two living genera. Historically, it is known as the right whale family, as it was thought to contain only species of right whales. Through most of the 20th Century, however, that became a much-debated (and unresolved) topic amongst the...
North Atlantic right whale The North Atlantic right whale ("Eubalaena glacialis", which means "good, or true, whale of the ice") is a baleen whale, one of three right whale species belonging to the genus "Eubalaena", all of which were formerly classified as a single species. Because of their docile nature, their slow s...
Hermanus Hermanus (originally called "Hermanuspietersfontein", but shortened in 1902 as the name was too long for the postal service ), is a town on the southern coast of the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is famous for southern right whale watching during the southern winter and spring and is a popular reti...
Whaling in New Zealand Whaling in New Zealand dates back to the late 18th century, and ended in 1964 since it was no longer economic. Nineteenth-century whaling was based on the southern right whale, and 20th-century whaling on the humpback whale. There is now an established industry for whale watching based in the Sou...
Right whale dolphin Right whale dolphins are cetaceans belonging to the genus Lissodelphis. It contains the northern right whale dolphin ("Lissodelphis borealis") and the southern right whale dolphin ("Lissodelphis peronii"). These cetaceans are predominantly black, white beneath, and one of the few without a dorsal fi...
History of Basque whaling The Basques were among the first to catch whales commercially, and dominated the trade for five centuries, spreading to the far corners of the North Atlantic and even reaching the South Atlantic. The French explorer Samuel de Champlain, when writing about Basque whaling in Terranova (i.e. Newf...
Ine of Wessex Ine was King of Wessex from 688 to 726. He was unable to retain the territorial gains of his predecessor, Cædwalla, who had brought much of southern England under his control and expanded West Saxon territory substantially. By the end of Ine's reign, the kingdoms of Kent, Sussex, and Essex were no longer ...
Odda, Ealdorman of Devon Odda, also known as Oddune, was a ninth-century ealdorman of Devon. He is known for his victory at the Battle of Cynwit in 878, where his West Saxon forces defeated a Viking army led by Ubba, brother of the Viking chiefs Ivar the Boneless and Halfdan Ragnarsson.
Dialect Test The Dialect Test was created by A.J. Ellis in February 1879, and was used in the fieldwork for his work "On Early English Pronunciation". It stands as one of the earliest methods of identifying vowel sounds and features of speech. The aim was to capture the main vowel sounds of an individual dialect by lis...
Bagsecg Bagsecg (also known as Bægsecg or Bagsec) (died 8 January 871) was a Viking leader commonly referred to as a king. In 870 or 871 he led The Great Summer Army to England. His forces joined those of the Great Danish Army which had already overrun much of England. He and Halfdan Ragnarsson became the leaders of a ...
Russian Civil War The Russian Civil War (Russian: Гражда́нская война́ в Росси́и , "Grazhdanskaya voyna v Rossiyi" ; November 1917 – October 1922) was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. The two la...
Tarnogród Confederation The Tarnogród Confederation was a confederation of szlachta in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in the years 1715–1716. It was formed on 26 November 1715 in Tarnogród by nobility angered by illegal taxation, levied for Saxon forces operating in Grand Duchy of Lithuania on behalf of Augustus II th...
Siege of Béxar The Siege of Béxar (or Bejar) was an early campaign of the Texas Revolution in which a volunteer Texian army defeated Mexican forces at San Antonio de Béxar (now San Antonio, Texas, US). Texians had become disillusioned with the Mexican government as President and General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's te...
Æthelwulf Æthelwulf (Old English for "Noble Wolf"; died 13 January 858) was King of Wessex from 839 to 858. In 825, his father, King Egbert, defeated King Beornwulf of Mercia, ending a long Mercian dominance over Anglo-Saxon England south of the Humber. Egbert sent Æthelwulf with an army to Kent, where he expelled the ...
West Saxon dialect West Saxon was one of four distinct dialects of Old English. The three others were Kentish, Mercian and Northumbrian (the latter two were similar and are known as the Anglian dialects). West Saxon was the language of the kingdom of Wessex, and was the basis for successive widely used literary forms o...
Frederick Augustus Rutowsky Frederick Augustus, Count Rutowsky (also written "Rutowski") (Warsaw/Dresden [?], 19 June 1702 – Pillnitz, 16 March 1764), was a Saxon Field Marshal who commanded Saxon forces in the Siege of Pirna during the Seven Years' War.
Tony Sainsbury Antony "Tony" John Sainsbury OBE has been the chef de mission of the British Paralympic team at five Paralympic Games, and was the chef de mission of the Independent Paralympic Athletes Team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Jana Gantnerová-Šoltýsová Jana Gantnerová-Šoltýsová (born 30 September 1959 in Kežmarok) is a Slovak former alpine skier who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 Winter Olympics, 1980 Winter Olympics, and 1984 Winter Olympics.In December 1980 she won an Alpine Skiing World Cup downhill in Altenmarkt, becoming the fi...
Australia at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Australia competed at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck. The chef de mission of the team will be former Olympic champion Alisa Camplin, the first time a woman is the chef de mission of any Australian Olympic team. The Australian team will consist of 13 athletes in 8...
Canada at the 2011 Pan American Games Canada, which is represented by the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), has competed at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico from October 14 to 30, 2011. The Canadian team was made up of 492 athletes (256 men and 236 women), the most ever for a non-home Games. On the te...
Sri Lanka at the 2017 Asian Winter Games Sri Lanka is scheduled to compete in the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo and Obihiro, Japan from February 19 to 26. This marks the country's official debut at the Asian Winter Games and a global Winter sporting event. The country is scheduled to compete with five athletes in ...
Mike Hay As a player, he had success from 1982 to 1996. He went on to coach the women's team that won gold in Curling at the 2002 Winter Olympics and, partly due to this, was appointed as an MBE in 2004. He later served as Britain's Olympic performance manager at the 2010 Winter Olympics. After this he became Chef de M...
Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics Canada competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 5 to August 21, 2016. Since the nation's debut in 1900, Canadian athletes had appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of t...
Herman Frazier Herman Ronald "Herm" Frazier (born October 29, 1954) is a retired American sprinter. He won gold medals in the 4×400 m relay at the 1976 Olympics and 1975 and 1979 Pan American Games. Individually he earned a bronze medal in the 400 m event at the 1976 Olympics. He served as chef de mission of the 2004 U...
Edgar Grospiron Edgar Grospiron (born March 17, 1969) is a French freestyle skier and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. He received a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. At the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics he was "Chef de mission" for the French Team. H...
Geoff Henke Geoffrey "Geoff" John Henke, AO is a former Australian ice hockey player and Australian Olympic Committee official. He was the chef de mission of the Australian Winter Olympic delegations from 1976 until 1994, and is credited with ending the neglect of winter sports in Australia.
Mehsampur Mehsampur (Punjabi: ਮਹਿਸਮਪੁਰ ) is a village in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 16 km from Nakodar, 31 km from Phillaur, 40 km from district headquarter Jalandhar and 140 km from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by a sarpanch who is an elected representative of vi...
Coorong, South Australia Coorong is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia which is associated with the lagoon known as the Coorong in the south-east of the state and which overlooks the continental coastline from the mouth of the Murray River about 80 km south-east of the state capital of Adelaide to th...
Akalpur Akalpur (Punjabi: ਅਕਲਪੁਰ ) is a village in Phillaur tehsil of Jalandhar District of Punjab State, India. It is 2 km from Phillaur, 45.8 km from Jalandhar, and 112 km from state capital Chandigarh. The nearest train station is situated in Phillaur, nearest domestic airport is 33 km away in Ludhiana and the neare...
Uppal Bhupa Uppal Bhupa is a village in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 8.8 km from postal head office in Nurmahal, 19.3 km from Phillaur, 37.3 km from district headquarter Jalandhar and 140 km from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by a sarpanch who is an elected represent...
Abapura Abapura is a village panchayat located in the Banswara district of Rajasthan state,India.Abapura is a Village in Banswara Tehsil in Banswara District of Rajasthan State, India. It belongs to Udaipur Division . It is located 14 km towards South from District headquarters Banswara. 16 km from Banswara. 474 km fro...