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Ismat Zaidi
Ismat Zaidi is a Pakistani senior actress. She has appeared in a variety of television dramas and advertisements. She has worked with directors such as Babar Javed, Mehreen Jabbar, Haseeb Hassan and Farooq Rind. She has appeared with Faisal Qureshi, Fahad Mustafa, Samiya Mumtaz, Ayeza Khan, Aamina Sheikh, S... |
Rufus (biblical figure)
Rufus ("Red") was a first-century Christian mentioned in with his brother Alexander, whose father "Simon a Cyrenian" was compelled to help carry the cross on which the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified. According to Easton he was probably the same Rufus mentioned in , whose mother, (as well as Pau... |
Allophone (Quebec)
In Quebec, an allophone is a resident, usually an immigrant, whose mother tongue or home language is neither French nor English. The term can also be sometimes used in other parts of Canada. The term parallels "Anglophone" (English-speaker), and "Francophone", which designate people whose mother tong... |
Simi Sernaker
Simi Sernaker, born Simantha Sernaker in 1979 and also known as Simi Stone, is the frontwoman of the rock band Suffrajett. Sernaker was born and raised in Woodstock, New York, by her mother Dorothy Sernaker and a Jamaican-born father, Ernest Bledsoe, whose mother traveled on the blues circuit playing pian... |
On My Own (film)
On My Own is a 1991 film starring Judy Davis and Matthew Ferguson. Ferguson plays Simon Henderson, a student at an Ontario boarding school, whose father lives in Hong Kong, and whose mother (played by Davis) is from England. The plot revolves around Simon coming to terms with the revelation that his mo... |
Marvelous Melmo
Marvelous Melmo (ふしぎなメルモ , Fushigi na Merumo ) is a magical girl manga and anime by Osamu Tezuka. This series centered on Melmo, a nine-year-old girl whose mother is killed in an auto accident and has to then take care of her two younger brothers (Totoo and Touch). While in Heaven the children's mother ... |
Hurricane: Category 5
Hurricane: Category 5 was a Custom Coasters International wooden roller coaster located at the Myrtle Beach Pavilion. It replaced the Corkscrew roller coaster which existed since the late 1970s. The Pavilion unveiled their multimillion-dollar coaster May 6, 2000. During operation, Hurricane held t... |
Fujiyama (roller coaster)
Fujiyama is a steel roller coaster at Fuji-Q Highland, Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan. When Fujiyama opened in 1996 it was the world's tallest roller coaster at 259 ft , and had the largest drop in the world at 230 ft . Fujiyama was also the world's fastest roller coaster for a year of its oper... |
Tatsu
Tatsu is a steel flying roller coaster designed by Bolliger & Mabillard at the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park located in Valencia, California, United States. Announced on November 17, 2005, the roller coaster opened to the public on May 13, 2006 as the park's seventeenth roller coaster. Tatsu reaches a h... |
Skyscraper (roller coaster)
Skyscraper is an upcoming roller coaster that will be located at the planned Skyplex complex in Orlando, Florida. Under development by American and Swiss manufacturers US Thrill Rides and Intamin, the attraction will be a Polercoaster model which utilizes an observation tower as its main sup... |
Magnum XL-200
Magnum XL-200, colloquially known as simply Magnum, is a steel roller coaster built by Arrow Dynamics at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. When built in 1989, it was the tallest, fastest, and steepest complete-circuit roller coaster in the world as well as the first hypercoaster – a roller coaster that excee... |
Leviathan (roller coaster)
Leviathan is a steel roller coaster in the Medieval Faire section of the park at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is the first roller coaster designed by Swiss firm Bolliger & Mabillard to exceed a height of 300 ft , putting it in a class of roller coasters commonly referre... |
Cyclone (Revere Beach)
The Cyclone was a wooden roller coaster that operated at Revere Beach in Revere, Massachusetts, from 1925 until 1969. When Cyclone was constructed, it was the tallest roller coaster ever built, as well as being the first roller coaster in the world to reach 100 ft in height. In addition to being ... |
White Cyclone
White Cyclone (ホワイトサイクロン , Howaito Saikuron ) is a wooden roller coaster at Nagashima Spa Land in Mie Prefecture, Japan. At 1700 m in length, White Cyclone is the third longest wooden roller coaster in the world, and is the longest wooden roller coaster outside of the United States. Despite its length, Wh... |
Moonsault Scramble
Moonsault Scramble was a shuttle roller coaster that operated from 1983 until 2000 at Fuji-Q Highland amusement park in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan. According to the "Guinness Book of Records", Moonsault Scramble was the tallest roller coaster in the world until 1996, when its record height was sur... |
Millennium Force
Millennium Force is a steel roller coaster built by Intamin at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. It was the fourteenth roller coaster to be built at the park since Blue Streak opened in 1964. Upon completion in 2000, Millennium Force broke six world records and was the world'... |
Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (often called simply Black Star) is the only studio album by Black Star, a hip hop duo consisting of emcees Talib Kweli and Mos Def (the latter of whom now goes by his new stage name Yasiin Bey). The album was released on September 29, 1998, ... |
Amy Ashwood Garvey
Amy Ashwood Garvey (10 January 1897 – 3 May 1969) was a Jamaican Pan-Africanist activist, director of the Black Star Line Steamship Corporation, and founded the "Negro World" newspaper. She was married to Marcus Garvey between 1919 and 1922. |
Universal Hip Hop Parade
The Universal Hip Hop Parade (UHHP) is an annual family-friendly non-profit educational and cultural event held in the historically Black neighbourhood of Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn on the Saturday before the anniversary of Marcus Garvey's August 17 birthday to bring to mind that Marcus Garvey... |
Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind
Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind is a 2001 television documentary. It was produced by Firelight Media for the PBS series "American Experience". The film chronicles the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican national who emigrated to the United States as a labor... |
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., ONH (17 August 188710 June 1940), was a proponent of Black nationalism in Jamaica and especially the United States. He was a leader of a mass movement called Pan-Africanism and he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He al... |
Black Empire (novel)
Black Empire was a tongue-in-cheek speculative fiction novel by conservative African-American writer George S. Schuyler originally published under his pseudonym of Samuel I. Brooks. The two halves of the book originally ran as weekly serials in the "Pittsburgh Courier". "Black Internationale" ran i... |
Leo H. Healy
Leo H. Healy (July 4, 1894-December 1962) was the Assistant District Attorney and a Judge in New York City in the 1920s. In 1911, he held the title of “World Champion Intercollegiate Orator”. He was an attorney for the Black Star Line and in 1923 he was a key government witness in the trial of Marcus Garve... |
Black Star of Africa
The Black Star of Africa is a black five-pointed star (★) symbolizing Africa in general and Ghana in particular. The Black Star Line, founded in 1919 by Marcus Garvey as part of the Back-to-Africa movement, modelled its name on that of the White Star Line, changing the colour from white to black to... |
Robert A. Hill (historian)
Robert A. Hill (born October 1943) is a Jamaican historian and academic, who moved to the United States in the 1970s. He is Professor Emeritus of History and Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Visiting Fellow at The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social ... |
Black Star Line
The Black Star Line (1919−1922) was a shipping line incorporated by Marcus Garvey, the organizer of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and other members of the UNIA. The shipping line was created to facilitate the transportation of goods and eventually African Americans throughout the A... |
Jason Wilson (ice hockey)
Jason Wilson (born April 15, 1990) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing with the Atlanta Gladiators of the ECHL. Wilson was selected by the New York Rangers in the 5th round (130th overall) of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. |
John Vanbiesbrouck
John Vanbiesbrouck (born September 4, 1963), nicknamed "the Beezer" and "VBK", is an American professional ice hockey executive and former player. A goaltender as a player, he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007. Vanbiesbrouck played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for... |
Shawn Collymore
Shawn Collymore (born May 2, 1983) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for the Ruijters Eaters Geleen in the Dutch Eredivisie. He was selected by the New York Rangers in the 5th round (139th overall) of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. |
Luboš Rob
Luboš Rob (born August 5, 1970) is a Czech professional ice hockey player. He was selected by the New York Rangers in the 5th round (99th overall) of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft. |
Andrew Yogan
Andrew Yogan (born December 4, 1991) is an American professional ice hockey player currently playing with HCB South Tyrol of the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL). He was selected by the New York Rangers in the 4th round (100th overall) of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. He was the first hockey player raised in Flor... |
Roman Pšurný
Roman Pšurný (born February 23, 1986) is a Czech professional ice hockey player. He was selected by the New York Rangers in the 5th round (135th overall) of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. |
Daniel Walcott
Daniel Walcott (born February 19, 1994) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. He is currently a prospect within the Tampa Bay Lightning organization in the National Hockey League. (NHL) Walcott was selected by the New York Rangers in the 5th round (140th overall) of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. |
Thomas Spelling
Thomas Spelling (born 9 February 1993) is a Danish ice hockey player. He is currently playing with SønderjyskE Ishockey of the Metal Ligaen. Spelling was selected by the New York Rangers in the 5th round (142nd overall) of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. |
Clark Bishop
Clark Bishop (born March 29, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey Center. He is currently playing with the Charlotte Checkers in the AHL as a prospect within the Carolina Hurricanes organization of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Hurricanes in the 2014 NHL Draft (5th round, ... |
Pavel Buchnevich
Pavel Buchnevich (born April 17, 1995) is a Russian professional ice hockey forward. He is currently playing under contract with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Buchnevich was selected by the New York Rangers in the 3rd round (75th overall) of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. |
Kevin Brownlow
Kevin Brownlow (born 2 June 1938) is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor. Brownlow is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era. Brownlow became interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career ... |
Three Ages
Three Ages is a 1923 black-and-white American feature-length silent comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery. The first feature Keaton wrote, directed, produced, and starred in (unlike "The Saphead" (1920), in which he only acted), Keaton structured the film like three inter-cut short fi... |
The Silent Historian
The Silent Historian (original title: "Het zwijgen van Loe de Jong [The Silence of Loe de Jong]") is a 2011 Dutch documentary film by Simonka de Jong, shown as part of the January 2012 New York Jewish Film Festival, presented in partnership with Jewish Museum and Film Society of Lincoln Center. |
Betrayal (1929 film)
Betrayal was a 1929 drama film produced for Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the last silent film directed by Lewis Milestone, the last silent performance by Gary Cooper, the last silent performance by Germany's Emil Jannings, and the only onscreen pairing of Coo... |
The Betrayal – Nerakhoon
The Betrayal — Nerakhoon is a 2008 documentary film directed by Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath. |
Day at the Circus (1901 film)
Day at the Circus is a 1901 American silent film produced and distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company and directed by Edwin S. Porter. It depicts a parade of the Great Forepaugh and Sells Bros. Combined Circus followed by a horse race in the tent. It was one of many early silent film d... |
The Air Legion
The Air Legion is a 1929 aviation silent film about airmail produced and distributed by Film Booking Offices of America(FBO) and was released just as FBO was being turned into RKO Pictures. In Canada, the film was distributed by the Alliance Communications Corporation. Aviation historian Michael Paris co... |
The Price of Betrayal
The Price of Betrayal (Swedish: "Judaspengar" ) is a 1915 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. |
Annette D'Agostino Lloyd
Annette Marie Lloyd (née D'Agostino; born August 8, 1962, Staten Island, New York) is a silent film historian and author of numerous books on silent film and television, particularly on the life and works of actor Harold Lloyd. |
Lois Weber
Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director, who is considered "the most important female director the American film industry has known", and "one of the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". Film h... |
Theme Park Inc
Theme Park Inc. (also known as SimCoaster in the United States and Theme Park Manager in Australia) is a construction and management simulation video game. It is the last game of the Theme Park series that started with "Theme Park" in 1994 and continued with "Theme Park World" in 1999. "Theme Park Inc." ... |
Theme Park World
Theme Park World, also known as Theme Park 2, and in North America as Sim Theme Park, is a 1999 construction and management simulation game developed by Bullfrog Productions and released by Electronic Arts. The direct sequel to "Theme Park" ("Theme Hospital" and "Theme Aquarium" are thematic sequels), ... |
Tokyo DisneySea
Tokyo DisneySea (東京ディズニーシー , Tōkyō DizunīShī ) is a 176 acre theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, just outside Tokyo. It opened on 4 September 2001, at a cost of 335 billion yen. Owned by The Oriental Land Company, which licenses Disney characters and themes from The W... |
Rollercoaster Mania
Rollercoaster Mania is a theme park game for Facebook. It is developed by Noisy Duck and published by the 6waves. It is currently the 22nd fastest-growing Facebook game by MAU with user figures up by 130,000 to 580,000 in a week which means a gain of 35%. It is based on the 1994 PC game Theme Park o... |
Castle Park (amusement park)
Castle Park, formerly Castle Amusement Park, is a 25-acre amusement park and family amusement center located in Riverside, California. The park utilizes a medieval "castle" theme and includes attractions such as a miniature golf course, arcade, and 27 amusement rides including three roller ... |
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 ... |
Pittsburgh Phantoms (RHI)
The Pittsburgh Phantoms were a professional roller hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States that played in Roller Hockey International. The team got its name from the "Steel Phantom" rollercoaster, located at Kennywood Park, a theme park located in the suburb of West Miffli... |
California Screamin'
The boardwalk-themed launched roller coaster was designed by Ingenieur Büro Stengel GmbH and was built by Intamin. California Screamin' is the eighth-longest rollercoaster in the world (and third-longest steel coaster in the United States), at 6072 ft long. It is also the longest ride with an inver... |
RollerCoaster Tycoon World
RollerCoaster Tycoon World is a theme park construction and management simulation video game developed by Nvizzio Creations and published by Atari for Microsoft Windows. It is the fourth major installment in the "RollerCoaster Tycoon" series. The game was released on November 16, 2016. |
Gulliver's Kingdom
Gulliver's Kingdom (also known as Gulliver's Matlock Bath) is a theme park aimed at children aged 3 to 13 in the Derbyshire town of Matlock Bath, England. Founded in 1978 by Ray Phillips, it is still owned by the Phillips family and now has sister theme parks; Gulliver's World in Warrington and Gulli... |
Bi-fuel vehicle
Bi-fuel vehicles or otherwise known as dual fuel are vehicles with multifuel engines capable of running on two fuels. On internal combustion engines one fuel is gasoline or diesel, and the other is an alternate fuel such as natural gas (CNG), LPG, or hydrogen. The two fuels are stored in separate tanks ... |
Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE
The Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE is a 2003 bi-fuel version of the RX-8 sports car, in which the twin-rotor wankel rotary engine is configured to run on either hydrogen or gasoline. This is the fifth Mazda vehicle to be fitted with a hydrogen wankel rotary engine. The hydrogen tank, with a capacity of 1... |
Hydrogen-powered aircraft
A hydrogen-powered aircraft is an aeroplane that uses hydrogen fuel as a power source. Hydrogen can either be burned in some kind of jet engine, or other kind of internal combustion engine, or can be used to power a fuel cell to generate electricity to power a propeller. |
United States hydrogen policy
The principle of a fuel cell was discovered by Christian Friedrich Schönbein in 1838, and the first fuel cell was constructed by Sir William Robert Grove in 1839. The fuel cells made at this time were most similar to today's phosphoric acid fuel cells. Most hydrogen fuel cells today are of... |
Hydrogen highway (Japan)
Japan's hydrogen highway is a network of hydrogen filling stations placed along roadsides that provide fuel for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCV). An HFCV is a vehicle that uses a fuel cell to convert hydrogen energy into electrical energy. The hydrogen that is used in fuel cell vehicles can b... |
Hydrogen vehicle
A hydrogen vehicle is a vehicle that uses hydrogen as its onboard fuel for motive power. Hydrogen vehicles include hydrogen fueled space rockets, as well as automobiles and other transportation vehicles. The power plants of such vehicles convert the chemical energy of hydrogen to mechanical energy eith... |
Flexible-fuel vehicles in the United States
Flexible-fuel vehicles in the United States are the second largest flex-fuel fleet in the world after Brazil, and there were about 17.4 million flex-fuel cars and light trucks in operation by the end of 2014. Despite the growing fleet of E85 flex-fuel vehicles, actual use of ... |
Fuel cell vehicle
A fuel cell vehicle (FCV) or fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) is a type of electric vehicle which uses a fuel cell, instead of a battery, or in combination with a battery or supercapacitor, to power its on-board electric motor. Fuel cells in vehicles generate electricity to power the motor, generally... |
Flexible-fuel vehicle
A flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV) or dual-fuel vehicle (colloquially called a flex-fuel vehicle) is an alternative fuel vehicle with an internal combustion engine designed to run on more than one fuel, usually gasoline blended with either ethanol or methanol fuel, and both fuels are stored in the same... |
Motive power
In thermodynamics, motive power is a natural agent, such as water or steam, wind or electricity, used to impart motion to machinery such as an engine. Motive power may also be a locomotive or a motor, which provides motive power to a system. "Motive power" may be thought of as a synonym for either "work", ... |
Sheena Duncan
Sheena Duncan (7 December 1932 – 4 May 2010) was a South African anti-Apartheid activist and counselor. Duncan was the daughter of Jean Sinclair, one of the co-founders of the Black Sash, a group of white, middle-class South African women who offered support to black South Africans and advocated the non-v... |
Yves Apollinaire Pede
Yves Apollinaire Pede (born 1959, in Abomey) is a Beninois Vodou artist. After being commissioned to reproduce reliefs for the Abomey Museum, he made sand paintings of well-known personalities such as Nelson Mandela. He gradually became oriented towards textile art, looking to Haitian and Cuban Vo... |
Oliver Tambo
Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo (27 October 191724 April 1993) was a South African anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991. |
Samuel Sisulu
Samuel Sisulu (June 1956 - June 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, Soweto uprising student leader and founder of South African Freedom Organisation (SAFO). He was jailed at various prisons including Robben Island in 1978, two years after the 1976 Soweto uprising. Samuel Sisulu was charged ... |
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democra... |
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is a 2013 British-South African biographical film directed by Justin Chadwick from a script written by William Nicholson and starring Idris Elba and Naomie Harris. The film is based on the 1995 autobiographical book "Long Walk to Freedom" by anti-apartheid rev... |
Mkhuseli Jack
Mkhuseli "Khusta" Jack (born 31 May 1958) was a South African Anti-Apartheid activist in the 1980s, known for his involvement in the Anti-Apartheid struggle and his efforts in the Consumer Boycott Campaign. Currently he is a businessman in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. |
Steve Biko
Bantu Stephen Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ide... |
Letitia Sibeko
Letitia Sibeko (born 1930) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. She was member of the African National Congress, the ANC Women's League as well as the Federation of South African Women. She later joined the Communist Party. |
Gcina Mhlope
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe (born 1958) is a well-known South African anti-apartheid activist, actress, storyteller, poet, playwright, director and author. Storytelling is a deeply traditional activity in Africa and Mhlophe is one of the few woman storytellers in a country dominated by males. She does her work... |
Chad Kessler (American football)
Chad Stephen Kessler (born June 24, 1975) is a former American football punter who played college football at Louisiana State University and attended Lake Mary High School in Lake Mary, Florida. He was a consensus All-American in 1997. Kessler was named first-team All-SEC in 1995 and 19... |
Keslers Cross Lanes, West Virginia
Kessler's Cross Lanes (sometimes misspelled as Kesler's Cross Lanes on maps) is an unincorporated community along Route 129 in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States. Just south of Kessler's Cross Lanes is Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park, which is a park of historical int... |
Kessler v. Eldred
Kessler v. Eldred, 206 U.S. 285 (1907) 27 S.Ct. 611, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court defined some effects of a court decision that an inventor had not infringed on a patent. |
Dissenter Acts (Sweden)
Dissenter Acts (Swedish: "Dissenterlagarna" ) were laws, enacted by the King of Sweden with the consent of the Swedish Parliament, which gave nonconformists who wanted to leave the then established Church of Sweden the right to do so, provided that the dissenters then joined one of the state-app... |
Lynn Kessler
Lynn Kessler is dedicated public servant. Kessler is best known for serving eighth terms in the Washington State House of RepresentativesDemocratic Party representative, and serving as the House Majority Leader. Kessler represented Washington State's 24th District from 1992-2010. |
Color consciousness
Color consciousness is a theory stating that equality under the law is not enough; it rejects the concept that there is a fundamental racial difference between people, but holds that physical features, particularly skin color, can and do negatively impact some people's life opportunities. Supreme Co... |
George Ball (diplomat)
George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 – May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat and banker. He served in the management of the State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is remembered most as the only major dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam War. He refused to publicize his doubts, which... |
Kessler v. Treat
Kessler v. Treat, 205 U.S. 33 (1907), was a decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States adjudicated allegations that prisoners were unlawfully imprisoned by Morgan treat, the United States Marshall for the Eastern District of Virginia. In a one-sentence opinion written by Chief Justice Mel... |
English Dissenters
English Dissenters or English Separatists were Protestant Christians who separated from the Church of England in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. A dissenter (from the Latin "dissentire", "to disagree") is one who disagrees in matters of opinion, belief, etc. English Dissenters opposed state interf... |
Rule of reason
Upon its development some critics of "Standard Oil", including the lone dissenter Justice John Marshall Harlan, argued that "Standard Oil" and its rule of reason were a departure from previous Sherman Act case law, which purportedly had interpreted the language of the Sherman Act to hold that all contrac... |
Chris Grocock
Christopher Richard Grocock (born 30 October 1968) is an English lawyer and former professional footballer. |
John Lisle
Sir John Lisle (1610 – 11 August 1664) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England. He was assassinated by an agent of the... |
New Zealand Land Commission
The New Zealand Land Commission was a 19th-century government inquiry into the validity of claims to land purchases by European settlers from the New Zealand Māori people prior to 1840, when New Zealand was annexed to the Australian colony of New South Wales. The inquiry was designed to dete... |
Chris Mort
Christopher "Chris" Mort is an English lawyer and former chairman of Newcastle United Football Club. |
Christopher Mont
Dr. Christopher Mont (1496/7–1572) was a sixteenth-century diplomat, born in Koblenz but in 1531 awarded denization in England, where he became an agent of Thomas Cromwell. |
Christopher Peyton
Sir Christopher Peyton was an English lawyer known for his service in Ireland where he oversaw the Peyton Survey, a preliminary investigation in preparation for the Plantation of Munster. He was made Auditor General of Ireland, and knighted by James I for his service. He was the younger son of Christ... |
Christopher Puller
Sir Christopher Puller (1774 – 26 May 1824) was an English lawyer who was briefly Chief Justice of Bengal. |
John Doddridge
Sir John Doddridge (Doderidge or Dodderidge, etc.) (1555–1628) was an English lawyer, appointed Justice of the King's Bench in 1612 and served as Member of Parliament for Barnstaple in 1589 and for Horsham in 1604. He was also an antiquarian and writer. He acquired the nickname "the sleeping judge" from ... |
William James (railway promoter)
William James (13 June 1771 – 10 March 1837) was an English lawyer, surveyor, land agent and pioneer promoter of rail transport. According to his obituary "He was the original projector of the Liverpool & Manchester and other railways, and may with truth be considered as the father of t... |
Christopher Erle
Christopher Erle (c. 1590 – 1634) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. |
Ford Mustang
The Ford Mustang is an American car manufactured by Ford. It was originally based on the platform of the second generation North American Ford Falcon, a compact car. The original 1962 Ford Mustang I two-seater concept car had evolved into the 1963 Mustang II four-seater concept car which Ford used to prete... |
2016 Touring Car Masters
The 2016 Touring Car Masters was an Australian motor racing series for touring cars manufactured between 1 January 1963 and 31 December 1978. It is the tenth running of the Touring Car Masters. John Bowe is the defending series winner. On the September 15, 2016, it was announced that the Tourin... |
Honda Civic
The Honda Civic is a line of small cars manufactured by Honda. Originally a subcompact, the Civic has gone through several generational changes, becoming both larger and more upmarket and moving into the compact car segment. EPA guidelines for vehicle size class stipulate a car having combined passenger and... |
Ford C170 platform
The Ford C170 Platform is Ford's compact car automobile platform from the late 1990s used by the international Ford Focus through its first generation (succeeded by the Ford C1 platform in 2004 outside North America) and continued in use by the North American Ford Focus until 2011 and the Ford Transi... |
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