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1956 London Heathrow Avro Vulcan crash
The 1956 London Heathrow Avro Vulcan crash was a military aviation accident that occurred at Heathrow Airport on 1 October 1956 when Avro Vulcan B.1 "XA897" crashed whilst attempting to land at the airport in poor weather. The pilot and co-pilot ejected to safety but the remaining... |
Stuart Davies (engineer)
Stuart Duncan Davies CBE FEng FRAeS (5 December 1906 – 22 January 1995) was a British aerospace engineer who was in charge of the design of the Avro Vulcan. He was also responsible for converting the unsuccessful two-engined Avro Manchester into the four-engined Avro Lancaster. |
Roy Chadwick
Roy Chadwick, CBE, FRSA, FRAeS (30 April 1893 – 23 August 1947) was an aircraft design engineer for the Avro Company. Born at Marsh Hall Farm, Farnworth, the son of the mechanical engineer Charles Chadwick, he was the chief designer for Avro and was responsible for practically all of their aeroplane design... |
Saab 36
The Saab 36 (also known as Projekt 1300) was a supersonic bomber planned by Saab during the 1950s. The aircraft was intended to be able to carry an 800 kg free-falling nuclear weapon, but the Swedish nuclear weapons program was cancelled in the 1960s; the plans for the bomber had been cancelled in 1957. The Saa... |
Avro
Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer founded in 1910 whose designs include the Avro 504 used as a trainer in the First World War, the Avro Lancaster, one of the pre-eminent bombers of the Second World War, and the delta wing Avro Vulcan, a stalwart of the Cold War. |
Avro Vulcan XH558
Avro Vulcan XH558 (military serial "XH558", civil aircraft registration "G-VLCN") "The Spirit Of Great Britain" was the last remaining airworthy example of the 134 Avro Vulcan jet powered delta winged strategic nuclear bomber aircraft operated by the Royal Air Force during the Cold War. It was the las... |
Woodford Aerodrome
Woodford Aerodrome or Manchester Woodford Aerodrome (ICAO: EGCD) is a former private airfield and aircraft factory located at Woodford, Greater Manchester. The site, which is 6 NM north of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, was opened by the Avro company shortly after the First World War. It became an ... |
Avro Vulcan
The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan from July 1963) is a jet-powered tailless delta wing high-altitude strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1956 until 1984. Aircraft manufacturer A.V. Roe and Company (Avro) designed the Vulcan in response to Specification B.35/46.... |
Marek Brodzki
Marek Brodzki (born 25 December 1960) is a Polish film director and television director. He directed the film and series versions of "Wiedźmin" aka "The Hexer" and the series "Miasteczko". He has worked as First Assistant Director with top Polish directors Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi and has speci... |
Weronika Rosati
Weronika Anna Rosati (] ; born 9 January 1984) is a Polish actress and a member of European Film Academy. She began her acting career in Polish soaps. In 2005, she starred as Dżemma in her first theatrical feature film "Pitbull". A year later, she launched her international career with a small uncredite... |
Inventory (film)
Inventory (Polish: Stan posiadania ) is a 1989 Polish drama film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. |
At Full Gallop
At Full Gallop (Polish: Cwał , and also known as "In Full Gallop") is a 1996 Polish drama film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the P... |
A Year of the Quiet Sun
A Year of the Quiet Sun (Polish: Rok spokojnego słońca ) is a 1984 Polish film written and directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It tells the story of a romance between a Polish refugee and an American soldier. |
Family Life (1971 Polish film)
Family Life (Polish: Życie rodzinne ) is a 1971 Polish drama film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nomin... |
A Woman's Decision
A Woman's Decision (Polish: Bilans kwartalny , also known as "The Quarterly Balance") is a 1975 Polish drama film written and directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the OCIC Award. |
Agnieszka Holland
Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter. Best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most eminent filmmakers. She began her career as assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, and ... |
Spiral (1978 film)
Spiral (Polish: "Spirala" ) is a 1978 Polish drama film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi which tells the story of a stranger who turns up at a resort hotel in midwinter, behaves rudely towards other guests and disappears the next day. Found half-frozen in the snow he is taken to hospital where his story... |
Krzysztof Zanussi
Krzysztof Zanussi, (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is also a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice. |
Ravenel conjectures
In mathematics, the Ravenel conjectures are a set of mathematical conjectures in the field of stable homotopy theory posed by Douglas Ravenel at the end of a paper published in 1984. It was earlier circulated in preprint. The problems involved have largely been resolved, with all but the "telescope ... |
Townes–Brocks syndrome
Townes–Brocks syndrome (TBS) is a rare genetic disease that has been described in approximately 200 cases in the published literature. It affects both males and females equally. The condition was first identified in 1972. by Philip L. Townes, MD, PhD, who was at the time a human geneticists and P... |
Auguste Brancart
August or Auguste Brancart (21 July 1851 - 1894?) was a Belgian publisher of pornographic literature, credited with the first publication of "My Secret Life". He published translations of English pornography into French and vice versa for English publishers such as Edward Avery. He also published work ... |
Embase
Embase (often styled EMBASE for Excerpta Medica dataBASE) is a biomedical and pharmacological database of published literature designed to support information managers and pharmacovigilance in complying with the regulatory requirements of a licensed drug. Embase, produced by Elsevier, contains over 28 million re... |
Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients
The following tables compare general and technical information between a number of IRC client programs which have been in independent published literature. |
Queen Tripurasundari of Nepal
Queen Tripurasundari (1794 - April 6, 1832) (also known as Lalit Tripura Sundari Devi, or Lalit Tripura Sundari Thapa) (Nepali: रानी ललित त्रिपुरासुन्दरी ) was the acting regent of Nepal after the assassination of Rana Bahadur Shah, from 1806 to 1832. She was also the first woman to have p... |
List of Colombian writers
This List of Colombian writers is an alphabetical list of writers born or brought up in Colombia, who already have Wikipedia pages in the English or Spanish Wikipedia. References for information given in the list appear on the Wikipedia pages concerned. This is a subsidiary list to the List of... |
Digital divide in China
Over the past decade there has been an explosion in the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in China. As the largest developing country in the world, China faces a severe digital divide, which exists not only between Mainland China and developed countries, but also among it... |
List of magic tricks
This page contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based on published literature and marketed effects, there are millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of such effects. |
Dar al-Hikma (Iraqi publishing house)
Dar al-Hikma (Arabic: دار الحكمة , 'House of Wisdom') was an underground publishing house, set up by the Iraqi Communist Party in September 1945. It published literature on politics, science, economy and culture. It issues Arabic translations on Friedrich Engels' "Origin of the ... |
Haidee Wright
Haidee Wright (13 January 1867 – 29 January 1943) as Ada Wright was a London born English character actress. She began acting in plays in 1878 when a small child. She came from a family of actors and had a long career in the UK and the US with much Broadway work with occasional parts in films. Her parents... |
Eily Malyon
Eily Malyon (30 October 1879 – 26 September 1961) was an English character actress in the 1930s and 1940s. |
Susan Tyrrell
Susan Tyrrell (born Susan Jillian Creamer; March 18, 1945 in San Francisco, California – June 16, 2012 in Austin, Texas) was a film, stage and television character actress. Tyrrell's career began in theater in New York City in the 1960s in Broadway and off Broadway productions. Her first film was "Shoot O... |
Kate Duchêne
Kate Duchêne ( (born Catherine Anne Purves Duchêne, 5 January 1959) is an English character actress best known for her role as the teacher Miss Hardbroom in the adaptation of the children's books "The Worst Witch". |
Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; born 18 May 1941) is an English character actress and voice artist. Her earliest roles were in theatre and after several supporting roles in film and television she won a BAFTA Award for her role in "The Age of Innocence" (1993) and went on to take... |
Eunice Black
Eunice Black (1914-2007) was an English character actress best known for her roles in various sitcoms and comedy movies. |
Gemma Jones
Jennifer Gemma Jones (born 4 December 1942) is an English character actress on both stage and screen. Her film appearances include "Sense and Sensibility" (1995), "Bridget Jones's Diary" (2001) and Woody Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" (2010). For her role in the BBC TV film "Marvellous" (2014)... |
Ann Way
Ann Way (14 November 1915 – 13 March 1993) was an English character actress in film and television. Born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, she began her career in repertory in Dundee in the 1960s. |
Liz Smith (actress)
Betty Gleadle, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (11 December 1921 – 24 December 2016), known by the stage name Liz Smith, was an English character actress, known for her roles in BBC sitcoms, including as Annie Brandon in "I Didn't Know You Cared" (1975–79), Bette and Aunt Belle in "2point4 Children... |
Hermione Baddeley
Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley, known as Hermione Baddeley (13 November 1906 – 19 August 1986), was an English character actress of theatre, film and television. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Room at the Top" (1959) and a Tony Award... |
National Australia Bank
National Australia Bank (abbreviated NAB, branded nab) is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia in terms of market capitalisation, earnings and customers. NAB was ranked 21st largest bank in the world measured by market capitalisation and 41st largest bank in the world as m... |
Alton Towers
Alton Towers Resort, often shortened to Alton Towers, is a theme park resort located in Staffordshire, England, near the village of Alton. The resort, which is operated by Merlin Entertainments Group, incorporates a water park and hotel complex. The location debuted in 1860 featuring flower shows and garde... |
Disneyland Park (Paris)
Disneyland Park, originally Euro Disney, is a theme park found at Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallée, France. The park opened on 12 April 1992 as the first of the two parks built at the resort. Designed and built by Walt Disney Imagineering, its layout and attractions are similar to Disneyland ... |
Poképark
Pokémon The Park 2005 or PokéPark (ポケパーク , PokePāku ) was a traveling Japanese theme park based on the Pokémon franchise. It has existed in two locations previously, both currently closed. It was in Japan in 2005, and in Taiwan in 2006. The theme park featured twelve Pokémon-themed attractions, and was open be... |
Dragon Park Ha Long
Dragon Park is the largest theme park in Southeast Asian located in Ha Long, Quang Ninh, Vietnam. It opened on January 25, 2017. The amusement park, managed by the Spanish firm Parques Reunidos, is part of a large resort complex known as SunWorld HaLong Park that includes an aerial tramway called th... |
Ocean Park Hong Kong
Ocean Park Hong Kong, commonly known as Ocean Park, is a marine mammal park, oceanarium, animal theme park and amusement park situated in Wong Chuk Hang and Nam Long Shan in the Southern District of Hong Kong. Opened in 1977 by the then Governor of Hong Kong Sir Murray MacLehose, Ocean Park became ... |
Paultons Park
Paultons Family Theme Park | Home of Peppa Pig World is located in the village of Ower, near Romsey, in Hampshire, England. The theme park has 70 rides and attractions. The Peppa Pig World theme park area is based on the children’s television series character. The Lost Kingdom theme park area includes 27 ... |
Rainbow's End (theme park)
Rainbow's End is a 9.3 ha theme park in Manukau, Auckland. Rainbow's End includes the main theme park and also Kidz Kingdom, a family entertainment center for children 8 years and under. The park, owned by Rangatira Limited, is currently New Zealand's largest theme park and currently employs ... |
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Disney's Animal Kingdom is a zoological theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. Owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks and Resorts division, it is the largest theme park in the world, covering 580 acres . The park opened on Earth Da... |
Walibi Rhône-Alpes
Walibi Rhône-Alpes is a French theme park located in the commune of Les Avenières, in the Isère department. It is the largest theme park of the Rhône-Alpes region. The park contains more than 33 rides and it covers an area of 35 hectares. |
Trigger Street Productions
Trigger Street Productions is an American entertainment production company formed by Kevin Spacey and his producing partner Dana Brunetti in 1997. The company's credits include "Captain Phillips", "Shakespeare High", "Safe", "The Social Network", "21", "Shrink", "Fanboys", the Emmy-nominated ... |
Didem Erol
Didem Erol, also known as Dana Flynn is an Australian-born Turkish American actress, model, and TV host. She was born in Sydney to Turkish parents and lives in Los Angeles, California. Amidst media speculation, Didem Erol confirmed she was dating Quentin Tarantino whom she met in Cannes, France. Erol's relat... |
Howard Haugerud
Howard E. Haugerud (August 22, 1924) was an American government official who served in presidentially appointed positions at the Department of Defense and the Department of State during the administrations of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. He later became the senior vice president of the Dana Ho... |
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein-Cohen (born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur. |
Otis B. Thayer
Otis B. Thayer (1862 – August 16, 1935) "Obie," was an American actor, director, film producer and owner of silent era film production companies. Before his film career he was a stage actor and operatic comedian. By 1910 he piloted the Chicago based Selig Polyscope Company filming westerns on locations a... |
Bruce Brown
Bruce Brown (born December 1, 1937) is an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film. He is the father of filmmaker Dana Brown. |
Jim Hutton
Dana James Hutton (May 31, 1934 – June 2, 1979) was an American actor in film and television best remembered for his role as Ellery Queen in the 1970s TV series of the same name and his screen partnership with Paula Prentiss in five films, starting with "Where the Boys Are". He is the father of actor Timothy... |
James W. Horne
James Wesley Horne (December 14, 1881June 29, 1942) was an early American actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later. |
68th Venice International Film Festival
The 68th annual Venice International Film Festival was held in Venice, Italy between 31 August and 10 September 2011. American film director Darren Aronofsky was announced as the Head of the Jury. American actor and film director Al Pacino was presented with the Glory to the Film... |
Dana Brunetti
Dana Brunetti (born June 11, 1973) is an American film producer and social networking entrepreneur. He is the president of Kevin Spacey's production company, Trigger Street Productions. In 2016, he became the president of Relativity Media with Kevin Spacey taking on a chairman position. |
Arizona (song)
"Arizona" is a song written by Kenny Young and recorded by former Paul Revere and the Raiders member Mark Lindsay, with L.A. session musicians from the Wrecking Crew, in 1969. The single was Number 10 on the Hot 100 on 14 February 1970 and was awarded a RlAA Gold Disc in April 1970. |
Louie, Go Home
"Louie, Go Home" is a song written by Paul Revere and Mark Lindsay as a sequel to "Louie Louie" by Richard Berry. It was recorded by Paul Revere and the Raiders in 1963 and released in March 1964. |
Just Like Us!
Just Like Us! is the fourth studio album by American pop rock group Paul Revere & the Raiders. Produced by Terry Melcher and released on January 3, 1966, by Columbia Records, it featured the U.S. hit single "Just Like Me". Unlike their later albums, on which Mark Lindsay was the primary lead singer, the l... |
Bongo Boy Records
Bongo Boy Records is an American record label founded by rock musician, songwriter and producer Gar Francis and Dutch entrepreneur Monique Grimme. Artists include Mark Lindsay, former lead singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders, Blues musician Plainfield Slim, Gar Francis, Kelly Caruso, The Easy Outs, th... |
Paul Revere House
The Paul Revere House (1680) was the colonial home of American patriot Paul Revere during the time of the American Revolution. A National Historic Landmark, it is located at 19 North Square, Boston, Massachusetts, in the city's North End, and is now operated as a nonprofit museum by the Paul Revere Me... |
Just Like Me
"Just Like Me" is a 1965 single by Paul Revere & the Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay as vocalist and released on Columbia Records which marked the beginning of a string of garage rock classics. As their second major national hit, "Just Like Me" reached #11 on the US charts and was one of the first rock reco... |
Paul Joseph Revere
Paul Joseph Revere (Sept 10, 1832 – July 4, 1863) was a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was the grandson and namesake of Revolutionary War patriot Paul Revere. He was born in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He was one of the three grandsons of Paul Revere w... |
Mark Lindsay
Mark Lindsay (born March 9, 1942) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer of Paul Revere & the Raiders. |
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (painting)
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere is a 1931 painting by the American artist Grant Wood. It depicts the American patriot Paul Revere during his midnight ride on April 18, 1775. The perspective is from a high altitude as Revere rides through a brightly lit Lexington, Massachuset... |
Dave Meros
Dave Meros (born 8 February 1956 in Salinas, California), is an American bass guitar player, best known as the bass player for progressive rock band Spock's Beard. Meros is also currently the bass player for Iron Butterfly and has also played with such artists as Gary Myrick, Bobby Kimball of Toto, Simon Phi... |
The Grudge 3
The Grudge 3 is a 2009 American direct-to-video supernatural horror film and the third film in "The Grudge" series. Toby Wilkins, who had previously directed the successful film "Splinter" and the short films "Tales from the Grudge", took Takashi Shimizu's place as director who later served as executive pr... |
Texas Chainsaw 3D
Texas Chainsaw (promoted as Texas Chainsaw 3D) is a 2013 American slasher film directed by John Luessenhop, with a screenplay by Adam Marcus, Debra Sullivan and Kirsten Elms and a story by Stephen Susco, Marcus and Sullivan. It is the seventh installment in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" franchise and ... |
List of The Grudge characters
"The Grudge" film series features a large cast of characters mainly created by screenwriter Stephen Susco and Takashi Shimizu. The film series focuses on people affected by a deadly curse that spreads like a virus and manifests itself in various ways, such as turning people homicidal or pe... |
L (film)
L ("Learning") is a Greek movie produced in 2011, directed by Babis Makridis, written by Babis Makridis and Efthymis Filippou, based on an original idea by Yorgos Giokas. It is the first Greek movie selected to compete at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival (19–29 January 2012) where its international premiere wil... |
Stephen Susco
Stephen Susco is an American film and television screenwriter who is most famous for writing the hit movies "The Grudge" and "The Grudge 2". |
Rafoo Chakkar
Rafoo Chakkar (Hindi: रफ़ू चक्कर ) is a 1975 Indian Hindi movie produced by Nadiadwala and directed by Narender Bedi. The movie was inspired by the American film "Some Like It Hot". |
Beyond the Reach
Beyond the Reach is a 2014 American adventure thriller film directed by Jean-Baptiste Léonetti and written by Stephen Susco. It is based on the 1972 novel "Deathwatch" by Robb White. The film, starring Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvine, and Ronny Cox, was released on April 17, 2015, by Roadside Attraction... |
The Grudge 2
The Grudge 2 is a 2006 American supernatural horror film and a sequel to the 2004 film, "The Grudge". Produced by Sam Raimi, the film was directed by Takashi Shimizu (director of the "Ju-on" series), written by Stephen Susco and stars an ensemble cast that includes Amber Tamblyn, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Edi... |
Red (2008 film)
Red is a 2008 thriller film based on a novel by Jack Ketchum and directed by Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky McKee. It concerns one man's revenge after his beloved dog dies in an attempted robbery. The screenplay was written by Stephen Susco based on the novel. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festiva... |
The Grudge
The Grudge is a 2004 American supernatural horror film and a remake of the Japanese film, "". The film was released in North America on October 22, 2004, by Columbia Pictures, and was directed by Takashi Shimizu (director of all previous "Ju-on" films) while Stephen Susco scripted the film. The plot is told ... |
North American P-51 Mustang
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in 1940 by North American Aviation (NAA) in response to a requirement of the British Purchas... |
CLW Curlew
The CLW Curlew was a two-seat, single-engined training aircraft built partly to demonstrate a new wing structure. It flew successfully in the UK in 1936, but the company went bankrupt and only one Curlew flew. |
North American Aviation
North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo Comma... |
Beagle Pup
The Beagle B.121 Pup is a 1960s British 2–4 seat single-engined training and touring aircraft built by Beagle Aircraft Limited at Shoreham Airport and Rearsby Aerodrome. |
North American T-6 Texan
The North American Aviation T-6 Texan is an American single-engined advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), United States Navy, Royal Air Force, and other air forces of the British Commonwealth during World War II and into the 1970s. Designed... |
National Aviation Academy
National Aviation Academy (NAA) is a nationally recognized aviation training school located in Clearwater, Florida and Concord, Massachusetts. NAA began training Aircraft Mechanics in 1932. They currently offer 3 programs: an FAA certified combination Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) Certificatio... |
Ryan Navion
The Ryan (originally North American) Navion is a United States single-engine, unpressurized, retractable gear, four-seat aircraft originally designed and built by North American Aviation in the 1940s. It was later built by Ryan Aeronautical Company and the Tubular Steel Corporation (TUSCO). The Navion was e... |
General Aircraft Cygnet
The General Aircraft GAL.42 Cygnet II was a 1930s British single-engined training or touring aircraft built by General Aircraft Limited at London Air Park, Hanworth. |
North American NA-35
The North American NA-35 was a training aircraft designed by North American Aviation. It was first test-flown in January 1940 by Vance Breese. Although announced for trade the month after, the project was pushed aside by plant expansions and the development of the P-51 Mustang. Further test flights... |
North American NA-16
The North American Aviation NA-16 was the first trainer aircraft built by North American Aviation, and was the beginning of a line of closely related North American trainer aircraft that would eventually number more than 17,000 examples. |
Dionicio Morales
Dionicio Morales (1918, Yuma, Arizona - September 24, 2008, Beverly Hospital, Montebello, California) was a Latino civil rights leader and social entrepreneur. Morales was the founder of the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF), the largest Hispanic nonprofit in the nation. He spent his life ... |
Karen Narasaki
Karen K. Narasaki (born April 4, 1958) is an American civil rights leader and human rights activist. In July 2014 President Barack Obama appointed Narasaki to serve as a Commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She is the former president and executive director of the Asian Americans... |
David T. Beito
David T. Beito (born 1956) is a historian and professor of history at the University of Alabama. He is the author of "Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression" (1989); "From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890–1967" (2000); "The Voluntary ... |
Grand Army of the Republic
The "Grand Army of the Republic" (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy (U.S. Navy), Marines and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service who served in the American Civil War for the Northern/Federal forces. Founded in 1866 in Decatur... |
Queen Mother Moore
Queen Mother Moore (July 27, 1898 – May 2, 1997) was an African-American civil rights leader and a black nationalist who was friends with such civil rights leaders as Marcus Garvey, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, and Jesse Jackson. She was a figure in the American Civil Rights Movement and a founder of ... |
A. Maceo Smith
Antonio Maceo Smith (April 16, 1903 - December 19, 1977) was a pioneer civil rights leader in Dallas, Texas, whose years of activism with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and other civil rights and community groups led Texans to dub him "Mr. Civil Rights" and "Mr. Or... |
Taj Matthews
Taj Matthews (born March 24, 1976 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American journalist, entrepreneur, author of "Grandpa was a Preacher: A Letter to my Grandson". The book is the autobiography of his grandfather civil rights icon Rev. Claude Black Jr., who describes life as a minister, civil rights leader and ... |
Whitney Young
Whitney Moore Young Jr. (July 31, 1921 – March 11, 1971) was an American civil rights leader. He spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively worke... |
T. R. M. Howard
Theodore Roosevelt Mason "T. R. M." Howard (March 4, 1908 – May 1, 1976) was an American civil rights leader, fraternal organization leader, entrepreneur and surgeon. He was one of the mentors to activists such as Medgar Evers, Charles Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, and Jesse Jackson... |
William J. White (journalist)
William Jefferson White (December 25, 1831 – April 17, 1913) was a civil rights leader, minister, educator, and journalist in Augusta, Georgia. He was the founder of Harmony Baptist Church in Augusta in 1869 as well as other churches. He also was a co-founder of the Augusta Institute in 18... |
Daniel Carvalho
Daniel da Silva Carvalho (born 1 March 1983 in Jaguarão, Rio Grande do Sul), more commonly known as Daniel Carvalho, is a Brazilian football attacking midfielder for Goiás. |
4 × 400 metres relay
The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 metres is run in lanes. Start lines are thus staggered over a gr... |
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