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unusual facts about AAA



1905 AAA Championship Car season

The 1905 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 11 races, beginning in The Bronx, New York on June 10 and concluding in Poughkeepsie, New York on September 29.

1936 AAA Championship Car season

The 1936 AAA Championship Car season consisted of four races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Westbury, New York on October 12.

1949 AAA Championship Car season

The 1949 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 14 races, beginning in Arlington, Texas on April 24 and concluding in Del Mar, California on November 6.

1954 AAA Championship Car season

The 1954 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 13 races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 14.

Al Levine

Levine played AA for the Birmingham Barons in 1994, along with Michael Jordan, until he was called up to AAA mid-season.

Arkansas Activities Association

Every public secondary school in Arkansas is a de jure member of the AAA, and most private schools, save for a few schools in the delta that belong to the Mississippi Private Schools Association, are included in membership.

Asia Art Archive

Its first Executive Director, Claire Hsu, founded AAA in collaboration with Johnson Chang Tsong-zung and Ronald Arculli.

Asistencia Asesoría y Administración

On January 12, 2014, it was announced that, with the backing of Mark Burnett, AAA would begin airing a show on American network El Rey on the second half of the year.

Basel I

Assets of banks were classified and grouped in five categories according to credit risk, carrying risk weights of 0% (for example cash, bullion, home country debt like Treasuries), 20% (securitisations such as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) with the highest AAA rating) 50%, 100% (for example, most corporate debt), and some assets given No rating.

Beer Money, Inc.

On June 6, 2010 Beer Money, Inc. participated in the Mexican wrestling promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración's (AAA) Triplemanía XVIII event.

Budget Control Act of 2011

Passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011 was not enough to avert, three days later, Standard & Poor's downgrading the nation's credit rating for the first time in the firm's history, from "AAA" (highest) to "AA+" (second highest).

Columbus Red Birds

Columbus immediately gained a new AAA team when the Ottawa franchise of the International League began playing there in 1955.

Cumberland Falls State Resort Park

Following a $2 million renovation project in 2006, the park received an upgraded rating from two diamonds to three diamonds from the American Automobile Association (AAA) in 2007.

David J. Leland

An avid baseball fan, Leland serves on the Board of Directors of the Columbus Clippers, the Cleveland Indians' AAA franchise.

Delaware River–Turnpike Toll Bridge

A local AAA chapter spearheaded a failed effort to have the bridge named after William Penn.

Edo Vanni

After he hung up his uniform, he was the general manager of the AAA Seattle Angels (1965–68), and worked in the front office as director of group ticket sales for the Seattle Pilots during their lone American League season, 1969.

El Torero

Torero made his first Pay-Per-View (PPV) appearance at AAA's annual Triplemanía show, Triplemanía II-B where he teamed with Giro and Colorado to defeat Fantasma de la Quebrada, Marabunta and Audillo.

Eric Roozendaal

Roozendaal claimed the trips were designed to reinforce New South Wales' AAA credit rating through meetings with Moody's and Standard & Poor's, even though both companies had representatives in Australia that Roozendaal could have met with.

Escoria

Jose Ibarra is a Mexican Luchador (wrestler) who is best known as Escoria / Dark Escoria (Spanish for "Dreg"), a face character that works for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA).

Geoff Geary

Geoff was pitching with the team's AAA affiliate the Ottawa Lynx until July 29, 2007 when the team recalled him after an injury to Ryan Madson.

Grady Hatton

Named to succeed Luman Harris as the Astros' manager for 1966 — and also carrying the unusual (for a field manager) title of club vice president — it was expected that he would be able to harness the young talent he had developed at AAA.

Harold Bedoya Pizarro

The BINCI, acting as AAA, has been accused of carrying out a series of bombings against the Colombian Communist Party's Headquarters and its newspaper Voz Proletaria.

Ismael Ramírez

In both 2006 and 2007, Ramirez split time between the Class AAA Syracuse Chiefs and New Hampshire.

Jamal Abu-Shamala

Abu-Shamala went to Shakopee High School in Shakopee, Minnesota and in 2005 won the class AAA state high school basketball championship.

Johnny Aitken

Outside of his participation at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Aitken is known to have started at least 33 AAA-sanctioned races, from 1907 to 1916, and to have driven relief in at least three others.

Joice Maduaka

At the 2007 AAA Championships she failed to defend her 100 m crown, finishing third behind Jeanette Kwakye, and also had to pull out of the final of the 200 m, despite winning her heat very convincingly, due to illness.

KSPN-FM

KSPN features the AAA format, which combines the classic rock hits from Tom Petty, Van Morrison and Talking Heads with today’s newer musicians like Ben Harper, Blues Traveler, Sonia Dada and Widespread Panic.

Le Cirque

The architectural lighting design was completed by Paul Gregory, principal of Focus Lighting Inc. There is a second flagship restaurant at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas that holds One Michelin Star and a AAA Five-Diamond rating.

Mary Ann McLaughlin

Khan RA, Moskowitz DM, Marin ML, Hollier LH, Parsons R, Teodorescu V, McLaughlin MA, Safety and Efficacy of High Dose Adenosine–induced A Systole During Endovascular AAA Repair. J Endovasc Ther 2000; 7:292-296.

Met Park

This often proved distracting to fans and players when aircraft flew overhead, but inadvertently proved strategic - as the AAA franchise of the New York Mets, players for the Tides could hope to someday be called to play in Shea Stadium, the location of which endures similar noise from nearby LaGuardia Airport.

Mosco de la Merced

Mosco de la Merced (Juan Valdez Valentino) is a Mexican Luchador or professional wrestler, best known for his time in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) where he was a part of Los Vipers for many years.

Motor Square Garden

The retail mall failed, but AAA expanded to occupy the building, along with a tenant, the UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing.

Mr. A

Bruce Hershenson promoted "Mr. A. vs. the Polluters" on the backcover of #2, but it never appeared. A new series was advertised by Mort Todd's AAA around 1991 but never published and only a few images have been seen publicly, in addition to a sticker set and a t-shirt

NAV1

The encoded protein contains coiled-coil domains and a conserved AAA domain characteristic for ATPases associated with a variety of cellular activities.

Noel Jenke

He would play three seasons of professional baseball with the Louisville Colonels (AAA), Winston-Salem Red Sox (A), and the Pawtucket Red Sox (AA).

Omaha Dodgers

The Omaha Dodgers were a minor league baseball affiliate, based in Omaha, Nebraska, of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Class AAA American Association in 1961-62.

Petroleros de Minatitlán

The Petroleros de Minatitlán (English: Minatitlán Oilers) are a AAA-level baseball team playing in the Mexican League.

Protocol for Carrying Authentication for Network Access

In addition, in some scenarios, the PAA entity has to do other message exchange with the AAA server in order to offer the PaC credentials to it.

Razor

Some models, generally marketed as "travel razors" (or "travel shavers"), use removable rechargeable or disposable batteries, usually size AA or AAA.

Rheal Cormier

On May 13, 2007, the Atlanta Braves signed Cormier to a minor league contract and assigned him to their AAA-affiliate, the Richmond Braves.

Roger Reid

After finishing college, Reid was drafted and played professionally, as a shortstop, for both the Atlanta Braves and Chicago White Sox minor league farm systems over four seasons (eventually playing at the AAA level).

Rojos del Águila de Veracruz

The Rojos del Águila de Veracruz (English: Veracruz Red Eagles) are a AAA-level baseball team playing in the Mexican League.

Sonny Gray

As a freshman, he pitched and played left field and was named Freshman of the Year in District 9AAA.

Sutton Place Hotel

The Sutton Place Hotel Vancouver is one of Canada's only two hotels to be awarded the AAA 5-Diamond Award.

Sylvan Hills High School

In 1973, the Bears made it to the Class AAA state tournament semifinals before losing to a Marvin Delph-led Conway team that won back-to-back state titles in 1973 and 1974.

The Cheap Seats

It is strongly implied that Des Moines is the "middle-sized town" in question, as it does indeed have a AAA minor league team (Iowa Cubs) and is in fact "in the middle of the Midwest".

Tom Kramer

Despite starting the 1995 season with a record of twelve wins and one loss and a 3.33 earned run average in 127.0 innings pitched for the Reds' then-AA affiliate, the Chattanooga Lookouts, Kramer was traded to the Detroit Tigers midway through the season, finishing out the season pitching for then-AAA affiliate Toledo.

Tracy Stallard

From 1967 to 1973, he played for several more minor league teams, including the Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs and High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms, with stops in Torreón and Córdoba of the Class AAA Mexican League.

WFFG-FM

In the late 2000s, soul music artists such as Adele, Duffy, and KT Tunstall began to be added to the playlist; however, by 2010, the station has become closer to a true modern rock format, although the station still plays some modern AC and AAA artists which are not found on most modern rock stations.


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