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unusual facts about Awá-Guajá people


Awá-Guajá people

In April 2012, Survival International launched a world-wide campaign, backed by the actor Colin Firth, to protect the Awa-Guajá people.


Aizumi, Tokushima

Lord Muromachi controlled the region until he was in turn disposed when Chosokabe Motochika from Tosa (Kōchi prefecture) gained control of Awa.

American Wrestling Association

Titled AWA Classic Wrestling, they featured compilations of old AWA footage, hosted by Greg Gagne and Todd Okerlund (son of Gene Okerlund), with occasional appearances by Verne Gagne.

The AWA released an AWA Remco Action Figure line with the toy company Remco and a series of 30 minute videos entitled "Wrestling Classics", primarily featuring wrestlers such as Sgt. Slaughter, the Road Warriors, Jim Garvin & Steve Regal, and World Champion Rick Martel.

Awa language

Awa Pit language, a Barbacoan language spoken by the Awa-Kwaiker people, who inhabit northern Ecuador and southern Colombia

AWF Tag-Team Championship

The titles were soon retired in early 2005 after AWA failed to secure another year of television with eTV.

Ba-awa

Although played in some of the same regions as Oware, it is simpler and in traditional societies is considered a game for women and children.

Candi Devine

She was very active in the AWA in late 1989 and throughout 1990 as part of the Team Challenge Series, wrestling in mixed tag team matches and in singles matches against Wendi Richter and Magnificent Mimi.

Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa

Commissioners Seyyid Abdulai, Abdoulaye Bathily, Mary Chinery-Hesse, Awa Coll-Seck, Haile Debas, Richard G.A. Feachem, Eveline Herfkens, Omar Kabbaj, Milly Katana, Madeleine Mukamabano, Benjamin Nzimbi, Joy Phumaphi, Peter Piot, Paulo Teixeira, Bassary Touré, and Alan Whiteside.

Eme Awa

Professor Eme Awa (born 15 December 1921 - March 2000) was chairman of the National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (NECON), appointed by President Ibrahim Babangida.

Gary Michael Cappetta

Cappetta is familiar to TV wrestling fans who watched him on World Wrestling Federation broadcasts from 1974 to 1985, followed by stints on ESPN with the American Wrestling Association or the AWA and Turner Broadcasting System’s World Championship Wrestling shows.

Hajib Shakarbar

In Jhajjar Hazrat Shakarbar mentioned to them that his first area of d’awa mission was the state of Narhar.

J'erin

Je'rin, also known as jérin-jérin, is a mancala game which is very similar to Ba-awa.

Mike Enos

In 1990, while still AWA Tag Team Champions, Enos and Bloom were loaned out to World Championship Wrestling.

Mohammed Salim

Mohammad Salim Al-Awa (born December 22, 1942) (Secretary General of the International Union for Muslim Scholars) Egyptian Islamist thinker, widely considered to belong to the moderate Islamic democratic strain

Old Harbor, Alaska

On August 14, 1784, Grigory Shelikhov with 130 Russian fur traders massacred (see Awa'uq Massacre) several hundred Qik’rtarmiut Sugpiat tribe of Alutiiq men, women and children at Refuge Rock, a tiny stack island off the eastern coast of Sitkalidak Island.

Personhood

The Whanganui River of New Zealand is revered by the local Maori people as Te Awa Tupua, sometimes translated as "an integrated, living whole".

Shibaemon-tanuki

There are theories that reality of the legend of Shibaemon-tanuki is that it was an excuse for the Kougo Jihen, a struggle that broke out between Sumoto and Awa, or that it was a Dutch person who washed ashore to Japan and hid himself in a castle, and was thought of by the people beneath the castle, who have never seen foreigners before, as a tanuki who disguised as a human, among other theories.

Steve Casey

On March 29, he beat Gus Sonnenberg to start his second reign as AWA world champion, losing the title to Ed Don George on April 18 in Albany, New York.

Steve Regal

In 1985, the AWA began teaming him with "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin and, with the help of the Fabulous Freebirds, surprisingly defeated the Road Warriors to win the tag title.

The AWA Review

It is published by the Antique Wireless Association (AWA), a membership organization founded in 1952 and based in Bloomfield, New York, USA.

The Beverly Brothers

The Destruction Crew's entrance theme in the AWA was the highly popular Queen song "We Will Rock You", a theme of defeating your opponents in sports and leaving them in humiliation.

The Diamond Exchange

As many other promising-yet-underexposed AWA stars had before him (including Hulk Hogan, Rick Martel, and Bobby Heenan), Hennig left the AWA for the World Wrestling Federation in the fall of 1988, weeks after his AWA Title reign ended.

Tohu Kakahi

Along with other members of Te Ati Awa, Tohu fought in the Taranaki Wars in the mid-1860s and was one of the leaders at the 1864 attack at Sentry Hill.

Tom Zenk

After receiving several shots at the AWA title, Zenk moved on to Jim Crockett Promotions (later renamed World Championship Wrestling) in 1989.

Tommy Jammer

Jammer would wrestle his last match with the AWA in Bloomington, Minnesota losing to Larry Cameron on May 3, 1991.

Vachon family

The Vachon family is a French-Canadian family long associated with professional wrestling in Canada and the United States, headed by Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon, his brother Paul "Butcher" Vachon - both longtime NWA and AWA veterans - and their sister Vivian.


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