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1943–44 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

The starting lineup consisted of Walton Kirk, Howard Judson, Ray DeMoulin, Bob Morton, Don Delaney and Gordon Gillespie.


1963–64 Creighton Bluejays men's basketball team

All-American Paul Silas rounded his collegiate basketball career by competing for a berth on the United States Olympic Basketball Team.

1992–93 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

After sitting out a season, Andy Kaufmann returned for the 1992-93 campaign and helped lead Illinois to a 19-13 record and trip to the

2007–08 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team

PF Ron Anderson (Upper Marlboro, Maryland), a long time AAU teammate of Beasley's, rounded out the class when he was offered a scholarship after a strong AAU showing in the Summer of 2007.

2007–08 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team

July – Guard Tajuan Porter played on the United States' U19 team in the 2007 FIBA U19 World Championship.

2010–11 Kent State Golden Flashes men's basketball team

Greene won the award by three votes over Julian Muvunga of Miami and D. J. Cooper of Ohio.

2012–13 Army Black Knights men's basketball team

The 2012–13 Army Black Knights men's basketball team represented United States Military Academy during the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

2013–14 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team

The 2013–14 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represents Yale University during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

Albert Hart

Albert Bushnell Hart (1854–1943), American historian, writer, and teacher

Alfred Schneidereit

In November 1943 Schneidereit's Division was returned to the Eastern Front for the Battle of Kursk where he was wounded twice more and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class and the Knight's Cross from Adolf Hitler.

Andre Champagne

Andre Joseph Orius Champagne (born September 19, 1943 in Eastview, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger.

Antonio De Viti De Marco

Antonio De Viti De Marco (Lecce, 30 September 1858 – Rome, 1 December 1943) was an Italian economist.

Arch Merrill

His 1943 A River Ramble is an account of his walk of the entire length of the Genesee River, along with his notes on local history, folk tales, and people he met along the route.

Basil Radford

They appeared together in several other 1940s films, including Crook's Tour (1941), Millions Like Us (1943), Dead of Night (1945), Quartet (1948), It's Not Cricket (1949) and Passport to Pimlico (1949).

Brigham Young University Honor Code

Davies was reinstated to the university the next school year, and returned to the basketball team, where he is scheduled to complete his athletic eligibility in 2013.

Bruce Clark

Bruce B. G. Clarke (born 1943), retired US Army officer, author and consultant

Bugle Call Rag

The song appears in several Hollywood films, including The Big Broadcast of 1937, Orchestra Wives (1942), Stage Door Canteen (1943), The Benny Goodman Story (1956) and The Aviator (2004).

Burgmeier

Tom Burgmeier (born 1943), American Major League Baseball relief pitcher

Charters and Caldicott

They proved popular with audiences and returned in the Gilliat-and-Launder films Night Train to Munich (1940, also starring Margaret Lockwood) and Millions Like Us (1943), and in the BBC radio serials Crook's Tour (1941, made into a film later that year) and Secret Mission 609 (1942).

Doris Burke

In 2003, Burke was named to ESPN's top men's basketball team working with Dick Vitale on the men's games and working the sidelines for ESPN and ABC for their coverage of the NBA.

Dušan Žanko

During his time as intendant, he led Zagreb's opera company on performances in Venice, Florence and Rome in April 1942 and to Vienne in 1943.

Eareckson Air Station

From 1941 to 1943, Colonel Eareckson personally led all of the difficult missions against the Japanese which were located on two other Aleutian Islands, Kiska and Attu.

Egon Wolff

The formation of the Teatro Experimental de la Universidad de Chile (Experimental Theatre of the University of Chile) in 1941, followed by the founding of the Teatro del Ensayo de la Universidad Catolica (TEUC) (Theatre Actor Studio of the Catholic University) in 1943 created a qualitative change in Chilean theatre.

Geoff Grover

Geoffrey David "Geoff" Grover (born 19 September 1943), is a business and marketing expert, currently working in real estate on the Queensland Sunshine Coast.

George W. Littlefield

Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy, II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943; through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, Oklahoma).

Isaiah Williams

His twin sister, Tahirah, played basketball as a guard at Connecticut She was a senior on the 2008–09 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team that went undefeated and won the National Championship.

J. J. Barnes

J. Barnes (born James Jay Barnes, November 30, 1943, Detroit, Michigan) is an American R&B singer.

Kay Swift

Her 1943 book about life on his Oregon ranch, "Who Could Ask For Anything More?" was made into the 1950 movie Never a Dull Moment, which featured Fred MacMurray as the cowboy and Irene Dunne as Kay.

Land of Hunted Men

Land of Hunted Men is a 1943 American film directed by S. Roy Luby, one of the Range Busters films.

Leo Watson

Watson also provided the voice for Prince Chawmin' in the infamous Censored Eleven cartoon Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (directed by Bob Clampett, 1943).

Longport, New Jersey

Thomas Cruse (1857–1943), United States Army Brigadier General who was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for valor in action in 1882 at the Battle of Big Dry Wash.

Lord of Francis

The current owner is Jeffrey Gibson (1943-) who got the territory handed over after the death of his grandfather Laird Henry Gibson (1886–1981).

Milt Newton

During this time, he was a starting forward on Kansas' 1988 national championship team and joined teammate and Final Four Most Outstanding Player Danny Manning on the all tournament team.

Mistel

As part of Operation Iron Hammer in late 1943 and early 1944, Mistels were selected to carry out key raids against Soviet weapons-manufacturing facilities—specifically, electricity-generating power stations around Moscow and Gorky.

Monty Woolley

Woolley was nominated twice for an Academy Award, as Best Actor in 1943 for The Pied Piper and as Best Supporting Actor in 1945 for Since You Went Away.

Municipality of Cerkno

After the Italian armistice in September 1943, Cerkno was liberated by the Yugoslav Partisans and the region became one of the most important centres of Partisan resistance in the Slovenian Littoral.

National Broadcasting Co. v. United States

As a result of this 1943 decision, NBC was forced to sell one of its networks and it was this action which then led to the creation of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).

No. 8 Squadron IAF

On 2 December 1943, they were moved to Doublemooring in Chittagong (now in Bangladesh) to work closely together with No. 82 Squadron RAF in the Burma Campaign.

Pendry

John Pendry (born 4 July 1943), English theoretical physicist

Piniella

Lou Piniella (b. 1943) a former Major League Baseball player and manager

Salerno Lake

Originally named Devil's Lake, the name was changed to Salerno after the Italian city of that name after the Salerno landings during 1943, in respect of which the Canadian Army played a prominent role.

Squinobal

Oreste Squinobal (b. 1943), Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer

Sweet Slumber

"Sweet Slumber" is a 1943 song by Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra.

The Military Philosophers

Jenkins is living in a flat in Chelsea in early 1943 and is promoted in his liaison duties to supervising the Belgians and Czechs.

The Proud and Profane

In Noumea, New Caledonia 1943, Lee Ashley (Kerr), the widow of a Paramarine Lieutenant killed on the Battle of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal has joined the American Red Cross on the island to entertain American servicemen.

Thomas S. Gordon

Gordon was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1959).

Voronezh Front

During Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev, which began on August 3, 1943, the Front included 38th, 40th, 27th, 6th Guards, 5th Guards, and 1st and 5th Guards Tank Armies.

West Town, Peterborough

Also transferred were Thorpe Hall (maternity 1943–1970), The Gables (maternity 1947–1970), the Smallpox Hospital (1884–1970), Isolation Hospital (1901–1981), and St. John's Close (mentally ill c.1930–1971).

Whitney Warren

Whitney Warren (January 29, 1864 – April 23 1943) was an architect with Charles Delevan Wetmore (1866–1941) at Warren and Wetmore in New York City.

William Schneider

Creed Bratton (William Charles Schneider, born 1943), American actor

Wolfgang Röhder

During September 1943 in the Raum sector the division was under attack by the Russian's, Röhder's Battery was able to withdraw to defend the last bridge over the River Worskla, so the rest of the Division could pull back over it before it had to be blown up.


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