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3 unusual facts about Ajax


Bernie Saunders

The Saunders family moved from Montreal to the Toronto area his senior high school year and Bernie graduated from Ajax High School, in Ajax, Ontario.

Blair McCreadie

During an October 2007 campaign stop in commemorating a World War 2 Nazi battleship captain in Ajax, PC leader John Tory pledged to build a 100 foot monument to Nazi War Dead from the second world war in the "shape of a swastika."

Elwood Veitch

Veitch was born in Monck Township, Ontario, the son of Wellington Veitch and ALice Alma Brott, and was educated in Bracebridge, Ajax and at the University of British Columbia.


AFC Ajax N.V.

In 1989, Michael van Praag, the son of Jaap, became the new chairman of Ajax, a position he held until 2003.

Ajax Films

This studio had previously been used by Cinesound Productions and Southern International Productions and was where Ajax became involved with feature films, providing facilities for They're a Weird Mob (1966), among others.

Aluspah Brewah

He played with Ajax Academy in Ghana and Ashanti Gold SC West Africa before departing for Europe at the age of 17 years for Royal Antwerp FC of the Jupiler League.

Annie's Song

Denver "wrote this song in July 1973 in about ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a ski lift" to the top of Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, as the physical exhilaration of having "just skied down a very difficult run" and the feeling of total immersion in the beauty of the colors and sounds that filled all senses inspired him to think about his wife.

Arend van der Wel

Arend van der Wel (28 March 1933 – 15 September 2013) was a Dutch professional footballer who played for Ajax and SC Enschede; he also worked as a scout and a coach at FC Twente.

Black flight

There is a large and growing Black population in Toronto's western and eastern suburbs, such as Brampton, Mississauga, Pickering, and Ajax.

Black Ships Before Troy

The main human characters are those of the original Iliad: Paris, Helen of Troy, Hector, Ajax, Achilles, Patroclus, and Odysseus.

Cecil Lolo

Khayelitsha-born Cecil Lolo made his professional debut for Ajax Cape Town on 27 August 2010 in a 2-0 win against Bloemfontein Celtic, at the Cape Town Stadium.

Christie Shaner

Shaner spent the 2010 season playing for two Los Angeles clubs, Pali Blues of the USL's W-League and Ajax America Women of the Women's Premier Soccer League.

Deison Méndez

There, he has attracted interest from European teams like PSV Eindhoven, Ajax, Internazionale, and Sampdoria.

Dejan Meleg

Meleg scored the opening goal in the 17' minute to help Ajax to a 1–4 victory at the Sportpark Puttereng in Putten.

Duncan Lewin

Lewin, a pilot on HMS Ajax during the Battle of the River Plate where he reported on the movements of the Graf Spee'.

Dynamic web page

Google Maps is an example of a web application that uses Ajax techniques.

Felix Gasselich

Felix Gasselich (born 21 December 1955 in Vienna) is a retired Austrian association football player who played for Austria Wien, Ajax, LASK Linz, Wiener SC, Grazer AK, Kremser SC and SR Donaufeld Wien, as well as for the Austrian national side.

Florian Jozefzoon

Born in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana, Jozefzoon made his senior debut for Ajax during the 2010–11 season.

Frank Arnesen

It was also in his time at Ajax, that Arnesen debuted for the Danish national team, in a 1977 friendly 1–0 loss against Sweden, in Malmö.

Gerrit Keizer

For the first few years of his career he deputised for Ajax's No. 1 Jan de Boer, and in 1930 he moved to England, in order to improve his English.

Gertjan Verbeek

Verbeek caused controversy in December 2011 in a 2011–12 KNVB Cup match against Ajax by leading AZ off the pitch in protest at having their goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado sent off for retaliating against a pitch invader.

Green Gully SC

In honour of the Maltese Floriana club, Ajax SC adopted their familiar green and white playing strips.

Guy Hallifax

he joined HMS Britannia in 1899, and in the last war served as first lieutenant and torpedo lieutenant on board H.M.S. Ajax.

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir

Military historian Victor Davis Hanson praised the memoir in Defining Ideas, a journal published by the Hoover Institution, and he likened Cheney to the mythical Greek figure Ajax.

Isaac Cuenca

Cuenca made his debut for his new team 10 February 2013, against Roda JC Kerkrade at the Amsterdam Arena, assisting Daley Blind in his first ever goal for Ajax as the match ended in a 1–1 draw.

James Garrett

Jesse James Garrett, experience designer, known for having coined the term Ajax

Jan-Arie van der Heijden

In January 2010, Ajax team mate Mitchell Donald joined Van der Heijden on loan from Ajax at the Tilburg club, His playing style has been compared to A.C. Milan star Clarence Seedorf.

Johnny Dusbaba

Johnny Dusbaba (born 14 March 1956 in The Hague) is a retired Dutch football player who played for ADO Den Haag, Ajax, Anderlecht, Standard Liège, NAC Breda and Sint-Niklase, as well as the Dutch national side.

Kristoffer Nordfeldt

The clubs thought to be interested in Nordfeldt were Ajax, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hannover, Heerenveen and Sampdoria.

Lebogang Manyama

Lebogang Manyama made his professional debut for Ajax Cape Town on 20 August 2010 against Mamelodi Sundowns, winning (4-3) on penalties after a 1–1 draw, in a quarterfinal match of the 2010 MTN 8 tournament at Athlone Stadium in Cape Town.

Lerin Duarte

On 31 August 2013 at the end of the Eredivisie match between Heracles Almelo and ADO Den Haag, it was announced by Jan Smit that Ajax and Heracles Almelo had agreed to terms for the direct transfer of Duarte to the Capital city.

Lloyd Doesburg

Doesburg's funeral was on June 22, 1989 and the complete Ajax squad of these days were present, including Menzo, Meijer, Jan Wouters, Aron Winter, Danny Blind, Bryan Roy, Dennis Bergkamp, Frank de Boer and Ronald de Boer who carried the coffin.

Meshomasic State Forest

Nike Ajax anti-aircraft missiles were located at HA-36 to protect Hartford’s aircraft industry from Soviet bombers.

NeoLoad

NeoLoad supports any type of web application including those using J2EE, .NET, AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, GWT, SOAP, PHP, Push technology, etc. as long as they are HTTP 1.0 or 1.1 compliant.

Pavise

The concept of using a shield to cover an archer dates to at least to the writing of Homer's Iliad, where Ajax uses his shield to cover his half-brother Teucer, an archer, while he would "peer round" and shoot arrows.

Robert Kok

Kok began his career with AJAX Amsterdam 1967 till 1977 K. Boom F.C. in Belgium in 1977 and played there until 1978, when he signed for Lierse S.K..

Ronald de Boer

De Boer's first club was De Zouaven in Lutjebroek where he played before being selected for the Ajax youth programme in 1983.

Seydouba Soumah

Seydouba Soumah made his professional debut for Ajax Cape Town on 22 January 2011 in a 3–0 win against Platinum Stars at Moruleng Stadium in Moruleng, North West Province.

Shai Biruk

During his time at Ajax, he met a fellow Jewish Israeli footballer named Daniël de Ridder and was the first to report on Ajax having a Jewish Israeli on their books to the Israel Football Association.

While playing for the Israeli youth academy, Beitar Nes Tubruk his footballing talent was noticed by scouts from the Dutch football club Ajax.

SmartBear Software

LoadUIWeb Pro supports different application types and technologies, including Rich Internet Applications (Adobe Flash and Flex, AJAX, and Microsoft Silverlight).

Stefan Marinković

Already a member of the Switzerland U-17 national team at age 16, Ajax won the young player over ahead of Juventus, Sampdoria, Brescia, Nancy and Valenciennes, all who were in running for the young defender.

During his tenure in the various youth ranks at Lucerne, Stefan Marinković had several trial periods with both Juventus and Arsenal, before the young Left back opted to sign with Ajax instead.

Stefano Denswil

The home match against Vitesse ended in a 0–2 loss for Ajax, with Stefano being cautioned with a yellow card in the 79' minute of the match.

Unión Ájax

Unión Ájax is a Honduran soccer club based in Trujillo, Honduras.

Webfmt

Webfmt, is a platform-independent web-based Ajax File Manager for website, released as open source software under the GPL, LGPL, MPL by Fbis source.

Werner Schaaphok

Werner Schaaphok (born December 22, 1941 in Berlin, Germany) is a former German-Dutch footballer, who during his career played for Ajax, Blauw-Wit, AGOVV and the Chicago Mustangs.

Wilfred Mugeyi

On 2 October 2012, Wilfred Mugeyi briefly took over as interim Manager of Ajax Cape Town, following the dismissal of Maarten Stekelenburg, before himself being relieved by Jan Pruijn and finally Jan Versleijen to conclude the 2012/13 PSL season for Ajax CT.

XPages

The programming model is based on web development languages and standards including JavaScript, Ajax, Java, the Dojo Toolkit, Server-side JavaScript and JavaServer Faces.


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