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unusual facts about ''Challenger'' space shuttle disaster



Aaron Dixon

Also appearing on the ballot were Libertarian nominee Bruce Guthrie, independent candidate Robin Adair and, after September 19 primary victories, incumbent Democrat, Maria Cantwell and Republican challenger, Mike McGavick.

Alexei Shirov

On the basis of his rating, he was invited to play a ten game match against Vladimir Kramnik to select a challenger for World Champion Garry Kasparov.

Amir Hadad

In mid-July 2002, Amir and his partner Martín Vassallo Argüello won the Seascape Challenger Tournament doubles final.

Andrew Spano

Andrew J. Spano (born April 17, 1936) is a Democratic politician from the state of New York, who served as Westchester County Executive from 1998 until 2010, when he was defeated by challenger Rob Astorino in the November 2009 elections in a surprising upset.

Antony Murray

He was the eldest son of Captain John Jock Challenger Murray and his wife, Cecilia (née Jerningham), and also grandson of Sir John Murray, the oceanographer.

Budapest Challenger

Stella Artois Clay Court Championships, a short-lived Challenger, also from Budapest, but different district

Cape Wind

In the 2012 Massachusetts Senate race, Scott Brown, the Republican incumbent, opposed Cape Wind, while his Democratic challenger and the election winner, Elizabeth Warren supported the project.

Carlos Padilla Maqueo

The album consisted of 10 new original tracks, and includes the track What Can Be Done At This Point, song that gives the name to the album and offers a posthumous tribute to the crew of the space shuttle Challenger.

Challenger tank

There have been three tanks named Challenger in British military service.

Challenger trucks

was a British Columbia-based Canadian manufacturer of heavy trucks, that built both highway and off road trucks, particularly for the logging industry, under the Challenger, Custom Built for Heavy Industry, brand.

Darlene Antonino-Custodio

On May 14, 2007 elections, she defeated her challenger professional boxer seven-division world champion Manny Pacquiao, by more than thirty thousand votes.

Darren Barker

Barker then travelled to Canada in August 2008 and beat local man Larry Sharpe, a former Canadian champion and Commonwealth challenger, in a non-title fight over 10 rounds.

David Holsinger

It is his largest selling work and has been used in several televised memorial performances in recent years, including commemorative services for the Challenger astronauts, Ronald Reagan, and the fallen heroes of the American armed forces.

Desert Wind

This train included the Challenger, City of Denver, City of Kansas City, City of Los Angeles, City of Portland, and City of San Francisco.

Diego Junqueira

In May, he won a Challenger in Italy, beating #206 Dick Norman, #162 Harel Levy, #97 Santiago Ventura, #153 Nicolas Devilder, and #149 Máximo González, those last 4 being the #6, #1, #5,

Dušan Vemić

He then reached the semifinal of a top-level Challenger in Bermuda in April and qualified into the main draw of the French Open in May, where he lost in four sets to eventual third-rounder Janko Tipsarević.

Earthsearch II

When rejected by the suspicious humans, the Angels resort to sabotage on a planetary scale, using terraforming equipment from the Challenger to melt Paradise's polar ice caps and thus raise the sea level in an attempt to get their former crew to rejoin them on the ship.

Edward Vigil

In the 2012 General Election, Representative Vigil faced Republican challenger Tim Walters.

Erik Paulsen

Paulson won reelection with 59% of the vote against Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party challenger Jim Meffert.

Farooq Sobhan

Farooq Sobhan was the principal challenger to Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon when McKinnon stood for election at the 1999 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

Flight 19

In 1986, the wreckage of an Avenger was found off the Florida coast during the search for the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Goodyear Polyglas tire

The Vanishing Point movie featuring Barry Newman, the white 1970 Dodge Challenger driven by the protagonist uses Goodyear Polyglas GT tires.

Guy H. Lillian III

Guy H. Lillian III is a Louisiana lawyer, former letterhack and science fiction fanzine publisher notable for having been twice nominated for a Hugo Award as best fan writer and having had a row of 12 nominations (without winning) for the Hugo for best fanzine for Challenger.

Ignacio De La Fuente

De La Fuente ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Oakland in 2006, placing second of three major candidates, behind the winner (former Congressman Ron Dellums) but ahead of challenger Nancy Nadel.

Jack Reimer

He was defeated in the 2007 provincial election, losing to New Democratic Party challenger Erin Selby.

James C. Fletcher

During his second administration at NASA, Fletcher was largely involved in efforts to recover from the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.

John-Laffnie de Jager

De Jager won back-to-back challenger events in doubles in September 1991, partnering compatriots, in Madeira partnering Byron Talbot and in Jerusalem with Christo van Rensburg.

Jonathan Glatzer

The film, starring Steve Coogan, Olivia Thirlby, Hilary Duff, Molly Shannon and Josh Peck, is about a reporter and a group of dysfunctional high school students in the aftermath of the Challenger

Junior Witter

Two defences of the title followed in 2007 with wins over Mexican Arturo Morua (TKO 9) and Guyanan Vivian Harris (KO 7) before on 10 May 2008, losing the belt to mandatory challenger Timothy Bradley via split decision.

Laugardalshöll

Perhaps the most prominent event to be held at Laugardalshöll was the World Chess Championship 1972, often dubbed the "Match of the Century", in which American challenger Bobby Fischer defeated the Russia champion Boris Spassky.

Michael Zucchet

He was won the seat by defeating challenger Kevin Faulconer in the 2002 election.

Michelle Mungall

Mungall was not expected to win the race, which was expected to be close between the incumbent Progressive Conservative Mary O'Neill and the Liberal challenger Len Bracko.

Najah Ali

After the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, Ali met with Maurice Watkins, a former professional world title challenger who had been assigned by the American government to train Iraq's Olympic boxing team.

New York's 25th congressional district election, 2008

Walsh's 2006 Democratic challenger Dan Maffei had already announced his candidacy to challenge the seat in 2008, and had mounted a strong campaign.

Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district

Mark Critz ran for re-election to a second full term in the 2012 election, but was defeated by Republican challenger Keith Rothfus.

Quest: The History of Spaceflight

Representative articles have featured an unpublished chapter from the James Hansen authorized biography of Neil Armstrong regarding his involvement with the Space Shuttle Challenger accident investigation; the memoirs of Valentina Tereshkova, contributed directly by the first woman in space; Galileo and European interest in positioning and navigation satellites, military use of satellites in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and the U.S. chimpanzee in space efforts.

Rafael Ortega

For the next defence of his title Ortega travelled to Cantabria, Spain, which was the hometown of the challenger Cecilio Lastra.

Robert Lewis Morgan

In results from balloting on Election Day, November 8, 2005, in the 12th district, covering portions of Monmouth and Mercer counties, Republican challenger Jennifer Beck had an edge of over 1,000 votes for one of the two seats in the district.

Robert Ramirez

In the 2012 General Election, Representative Ramirez faced Democratic challenger Tracy Kraft-Tharp.

RV Tioga

Her sisters include the 50 foot Gulf Challenger, operated by the University of New Hampshire, the 55 foot Fay Slover, operated by the Old Dominion University, and the 81 foot Rachel Carson operated by the University of Maryland.

Scott Gammer

Steeds was brought in as a replacement for Danny Williams, who was the mandatory challenger for the British Heavyweight Championship at the time, however he pulled out of the fight due to the date coinciding with Ramadan.

Thomas W. L. Ashley

In the 1980 general election, Ashley lost in an upset to Republican challenger Ed Weber.

Tollesbury

The centre of the sign shows the yacht 'Endeavour II' which was the 1937 British challenger for the America's Cup while on the left is depicted the fishing smack 'Sallie'.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1976

Incumbent Democratic Congressman Kenneth Lamar Holland of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1975, defeated Republican challenger Bobby Richardson.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1986

Incumbent Democratic Congressman Robin Tallon of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1983, defeated Republican challenger Robbie Cunningham.

United States Senate election in Iowa, 2002

Harkin was opposed in the general election by United States Congressman Greg Ganske, who fought off a surprisingly difficult challenger in the Republican primary.

Washington's 4th congressional district

In the 2008 election, Hastings easily defeated challenger George Fearing (D-Kennewick).

William Tomyn

He faced only one challenger Co-operative Commonwealth candidate Nick Dushenski.

William Wade Dudley

In 1888 having been made Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, Dudley was involved in the 1888 elections and one of the most intense political campaigns in decades, with Indiana dead even between Democrats and incumbent, President Grover Cleveland – and Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.

Women's World Chess Championship 2011

It was organised by FIDE and was played in a match format between the defending champion and a challenger, determined via the FIDE Grand Prix series.


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