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4 unusual facts about ACE


A Losing Streak

Boycie agrees, and Del shows everyone else that he has in fact got two pairs of Aces, giving him a winning hand.

Ace

This duality allows players in some other games to use it as both at once; some variants of Rummy allow players to form groups, or "melds", of rank K-A-2 or similar.

Robert Barbers

Robert "Ace" Barbers, Jr. is the incumbent governor of Surigao del Norte who previously became congressman representing the 2nd District of the same province.

Turning On

An Ace paperback reprinting in 1967 omitted the story "The Handler".


Ace Hardware

Home improvement expert Lou Manfredini serves as Ace's "Helpful Hardware Man" and media spokesperson.

Ace Hotel Los Angeles

L.A. Dance Project, a dance company founded by choreographer Benjamin Millepied, will also take residence in the Theatre at Ace Hotel.

ACE Limited

Walter Scott became Chairman, President, and CEO of ACE in 1990 and saw the company listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1993.

Adrian Carrio

Adrian "Ace" Carrio (born January 12, 1989) is an American race car driver from Monument, Colorado.

Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol

In 1989, the Warrior Preparation Center (WPC) in Einsiedlerhof, Germany hosted the computerized military exercise ACE-89.

Alabama Air National Guard

Maj. James A. Meissner, a World War I ace who had flown with Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, led the effort to form the unit and served as its first commander.

Arthur Chin

About a month after Chin died, on October 4, 1997, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Airpower Heritage Museum in Midland, Texas as the first American ace of World War II.

Bachendri Pal

Bachendri Pal along with Premlata Agarwal and a group of ace climbers, which includes Mt. Everest summiteers have quietly arrived in Uttarkashi and carried out relief and rescue operations in the remotest high altitude villages of the Himalayas that have been ravaged in the 2013 North India floods, where even the Indian Army jawans couldn't reach.

Barry O'Brien

Ace London, with John Worsley, Kaj Melendez, and Mirza Javed (Fleetway Publications, 1962; Cuahtemoc Publishing Ltd, 2011) (ISBN 978-0957032101)

Bud and Lou

They are primarily the foes of Ace the Bat-Hound, the pet of Batman, and were first introduced in the episode "The Dark Hound Strikes!" They attempt to commit crimes for their master, requiring Ace and Krypto (and Streaky the Supercat, on occasion) to stop them.

Chuck Carbo

After his brother launched a solo career, Chuck Carbo also recorded as a solo artist, cutting discs for Imperial, Rex, and Ace.

Clara Hagman

In 2009, Clara was recruited by Ulf Ekberg and Jonas Berggren along with another singer, Julia Williamson, to join Ace of Base, replacing founding members Jenny and Malin Berggren.

David Ansen

Ansen has also written several documentaries for television, on Greta Garbo (for TNT), Groucho Marx (HBO), Elizabeth Taylor (PBS) and the Ace Award winning All About Bette (Bette Davis) for TNT.

Discography of the Ace Attorney series

Gyakuten Saiban 3 Original Soundtrack is a soundtrack album featuring music from the Game Boy Advance version of the video game Gyakuten Saiban 3 (known internationally as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations), composed and arranged by Noriyuki Iwadare.

The Gyakuten Saiban 5 Soundtrack is a two-disc soundtrack featuring the background music from Gyakuten Saiban 5 (known internationally as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies).

Donald Davies

Davies discusses a much larger, second ACE, and the decision to contract with English Electric Company to build the DEUCE—possibly the first commercially produced computer in Great Britain.

Donnie

:This article is about the song by Ace Of Base, Donnie is also a diminutive form of the name Donald.

First Yale Unit

Lt. David Ingalls, a member of the First Yale Unit, flying a Sopwith Camel with the RAF, was the first US naval aviator to become an ace.

Gamlin Kizaki

A skilled pilot and protégé of the famous Zentradi ace Milia Fallyna Jenius, Gamlin's skills were discovered early in his career, and he was made a member of Macross 7's elite squadron, Diamond Force, piloting a VF-17 Nightmare.

George Edwin Thomson

His tally included five enemy planes destroyed; he shared one of these triumphs with fellow ace Sydney Smith.

Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir

Among her most recent solo exhibitions are My Gift, Your Excellency in ASI Art Museum (IS 2011), Audition in Ace Art Inc (CA 2008) both in collaboration with writer Kristin Omarsdottir and Cultus Bestiae Reykjavik Art Museum (IS 2008).

Hazrat Sakhi Shah Chan Charagh

The Minbar at Darbar has been graced by notable scholars from Allama Mirza Yousaf Hussain, Hafiz Kifayat Hussain, Syed Azhar Hassan Zaidi, Hafiz Aashiq Hussain, to illustrious modern luminaries like Mohsin Naqvi, Allama Talib Johri, Agha Naseem Abbas and Allama Ghazanfar Abbas Tonsvi as the ace cynosure delivering three ashraas a year.

Heckmann

Alfred Heckmann (1914–1993), Luftwaffe flying ace of World War II

Hector Garaud

On 22 December 1917, he became an ace, teaming with Marcel Henriot and Gabriel Guérin to shoot down a German two-seater over Livry-Louvercy.

Heinz Strüning

At about 6 pm on the evening of 24 December 1944 his Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 (Werknummer 740 162—factory number) G9+CT was shot down by 10-kill ace F/L R.D. Doleman and F/L D.C. Bunch of No. 157 Squadron RAF in a Royal Air Force Mosquito Intruder while he tried to attack a Lancaster bomber over Cologne.

John Oliver Andrews

Andrews then scored sporadically until he tallied his seventh win—and his last with 24 Squadron—on 22 November 1916 when he shot down German double ace Stefan Kirmaier, Staffelführer of Jasta 2.

Juhnke

Hermann Juhnke (1893–1914), German World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories

Kazumi Saito

That year, then-Hanshin Tigers ace Kei Igawa had also posted 20 wins, making it the first time since 1982 that both Japanese leagues had produced 20-game winners.

Kenneth Dahlberg

Kenneth H. Dahlberg (1917-2011), American businessman and World War II fighter ace who was involved in the Watergate scandal

Lisinopril

Like other ACE inhibitors, it is a synthetic functional and structural analog of a peptide derived from the venom of the jararaca, a Brazilian pit viper (Bothrops jararaca).

Maxmillian Mare-Montembault

On 16 November, he and his fellow ace Hubert Jones shared a couple of wins as they drove down a pair of enemy observation planes.

Mike Amigorena

He first appeared in Buenos Aires' vibrant theatre scene in 1995 and became a prolific stage actor, notably in a 1998 local production of German playwright Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, and in a compressed Shakespeare production from 2004 to 2006, which earned him Argentine ACE and Clarín Awards.

Northamptonshire Yeomanry

It was during Operation Totalize that Joe Ekins a Sherman Tank gunner of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry gained recognition for killing the renowned German tank commander, Michael Wittmann, the 4th top scoring tank ace in history, on August 8, 1944 near St. Aignan de Cramesnil, France.

Pacesetter Ltd

Star Ace is currently owned by Phillip Reed and Christopher Shy of Ronin Arts.

Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

The game features scenario designs from Shu Takumi, the series director for the Ace Attorney series.

R. H. Bruce Lockhart

Their son was author Robin Bruce Lockhart, who wrote the 1967 book Ace of Spies — about his father’s friend and fellow agent Sidney Reilly — from which the 1983 miniseries Reilly, Ace of Spies was produced.

Ray Crawford

At war's end he was evaluating the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star and was to have flown the very aircraft that fighter ace Richard Bong was eventually killed in.

Robin Bruce Lockhart

The son of the British spy R. H. Bruce Lockhart, he wrote the 1967 book Ace of Spies about the super-spy Sidney Reilly, which was made into a 1983 television miniseries Reilly: Ace of Spies, starring Sam Neill as the title character and Ian Charleson as his father.

Samizu Matsuki

During this period 1964 to 1968, Matsuki visited Rome and painted commissioned portraits for five Air Force officers and their wives, and was commissioned by the Officers Club of the 49th Tactical Squadron to paint a portrait of the recently deceased USAF fighter ace Richard Bong

Sophie Aldred

She co-wrote the hardback reference book, Ace, The Inside Story of the End of An Era with Mike Tucker, published by Virgin Publishing in 1996.

Space Ace

A short-lived cartoon series based on Space Ace was produced in 1984 as part of the Saturday Supercade cartoon block (which was composed of cartoon shorts based on current video games) with Space Ace voiced by Jim Piper, Dexter voiced by Sparky Marcus, Kimberly voiced by Nancy Cartwright, and Commander Borf voiced by Arthur Burghardt.

Stalag Luft I

Hubert Zemke, career officer in the USAAF, fighter pilot in World War II, and a leading USAAF ace.

The Great Santini

Believing that the film's title - giving the perception that it was about circus stunts - would be the problem, it was tested as Sons and Heroes in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as Reaching Out in Rockford, Illinois, and The Ace in Peoria, Illinois.

The Hour of the Dragon

In the hardcover Gnome Press edition of the Conan stories, Conan the Conqueror follows the short stories collected as King Conan; in the paperback Lancer/Ace edition, it follows the short stories collected as Conan the Usurper.

Thieffry

Edmond Thieffry (1892–1929), Belgian First World War air ace and aviation pioneer

Union Airways

Union Airways were founded by Major Allister Miller, a World War I flying ace, who had recruited some 2000 South Africans for service in the Royal Air Force.

VMA-223

VMF-223 left the island on October 16, 1942 having accounted for 110½ enemy aircraft shot down including that of Japanese ace Junichi Sasai.

Wilhelm-Ferdinand Galland

It is assumed that Galland was shot down by the American ace Walker "Bud" Mahurin of the 56th Fighter Group, USAAF.

Yakovlev Yak-3

Marcel Albert, the official top-scoring World War II French ace, who flew the Yak in USSR with the Normandie-Niémen Group, considered it a superior aircraft to the P-51D Mustang and the Supermarine Spitfire.


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