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2004 Emerald Bowl

The Midshipmen triple option rushing offense, including future National Football League (NFL) fullback Kyle Eckel, ranked third among FBS teams in total rushing yards and averaged 291 rushing yards per game.

Canadian National Scrabble Championship

The finals saw 1995 World Champion David Boys, a programmer analyst, win confidently against student Dean Saldanha by 3-1 (scores 465-304, 336-418, 402-291, 414-344).

Chang Qu

Chang Qu (常璩) (c. 291 – c. 361 CE) was a 4th-century Chinese historian who wrote the Chronicles of Huayang (華陽國志) or Records of the States South of Mount Hua, the oldest extant regional history of China.

Claudius Mamertinus

The text of this is extant, preserved in the Panegyrici Latini; it is there followed by two panegyrics from three quarters of a century earlier, addressed to the Emperor Maximian (the first delivered in 289 and the second in 290 or 291).

Dents de Lanfon

Situated beneath Talloires on the east bank of Lac d'Annecy in Haute-Savoie, they are framed by mount Veyrier (1,291 m) in the north, and by La Tournette (2,351 m) in the south.

Jiangzhou

Jiangxi province, known as Jiangzhou (江州) during the Western Jin (CE 291)

Jorge Llames

Llames scored a total of 579 targets (288 on the first stage and 291 on the second) in the qualifying rounds by two inner tens behind South Korea's Kim Dae-Yoong, finishing only in eleventh place.

Leila Arboretum

The Leila Arboretum dates back to 1922 when Leila Post Montgomery, widow of breakfast cereal magnate C. W. Post, purchased 72 acres (291,000 m²) of an old country club and donated the land to the City of Battle Creek “to be laid out and improved as a public Arboretum...”.

M8 Armored Gun System

Advanced technologies incorporated into this variant include hybrid electric propulsion, band track, improved ceramic/composite armor, Second Generation FLIR Night Vision technology, digitization, a XM-291 120 mm main gun along with its 120 mm auto loader.

Mary Bookstaver

She carried Gertrude Stein's manuscript 'word portraits' of Matisse and Picasso to Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work office at 291 Fifth Avenue, (Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession) and insisted that Stieglitz publish them, which he did in the August 1912 edition of Camera Work, a special edition devoted to Picasso and Matisse.

Mike Teague

Teague made a total of 291 appearances for Gloucester, winning the John Player Cup in 1982 (although they had to share the title with Moseley after a 12-12 draw in extra time – the only time the cup has ever been shared) and the John Smith's Merit Table in the 1985–1986 season.

New York State Route 291

In Marcy, NY 291 intersects Fox Road and provides access to the Marcy Correctional Facility and Mid-State Correctional Facility, both located just west of NY 291.

Paul Le Guen

Later that year, sports journalist Graham Spiers published, Paul Le Guen: Enigma (ISBN 1-84596-291-5) documenting his tenure at the club.

Plum Island Range Lights

The uninhabited island has a land area of 1.179 km² or 117.87 ha (0.455 sq mi, or 291.25 acres).

Robert M. McTureous, Jr.

Private McTureous was sent to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, for his recruit training where he qualified as a sharpshooter with both the M1 Garand and the Browning Automatic Rifle by virtue of his 291 and 112 scores, respectively.

Stefanie Thurmann

She finished only in twenty-third place by one point ahead of Italy's Maura Genovesi from the final attempt, for a total score of 576 points (291 in the precision stage and 285 in the rapid fire).

Terry Keel

He went into a runoff with the incumbent Charles Holcomb, who prevailed with 89,376 votes (53.62%) to Keel's 77,291(46.37%).

Ubi panis ibi patria

This latter expression in turn reminds of a verse (Teucer, fr. 291) of the Roman tragic poet Marcus Pacuvius (ca. 220–130 BC) quoted by Cicero (106 BC–43 BC): Patria est ubicumque est bene (45 BC, Tusculanae Disputationes,Liber Quintus (V), 108).

Weird MC

Influenced by Fela Kuti, Lauryn Hill, Da Roots, Miriam Makeba, Queen Latifah and Jimi Hendrix, Idowu travelled back to England where she competed in rap contests in London, including Club 291 contest, similar to America's Apollo, in which she came third.


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