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Bäcker

Pär Bäcker (born 1982), Swedish professional ice hockey player


Adriaen Backer

Backer produced several group portraits of Hofje regents as well as historical allegories for city commissions.

Alan Casden

Casden is a loyal backer of Jewish causes, including Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance.

Ball of Fire

Their impatient financial backer Miss Totten (Mary Field) suddenly demands that they finish their work soon.

Central Railroad of Long Island

Just before Stewart's death in 1876, a financial backer of the CRRLI, rubber baron Conrad Poppenhusen, bought a majority share of the LIRR, with each of the newer railways leased to the LIRR.

Danbury and Norwalk Railroad

There were plans in which the D&N would be a link in a railroad connecting New York and Boston, but these died with LeGrand Lockwood, the nephew and financial backer of Edwin Lockwood, in 1872.

Donald C. Backer

Backer then took post-doctoral positions first at NRAO in Charlottesville, Virginia (1971–1973), and then at NASA/GSFC in Greenbelt, Maryland (1973–1975).

Backer then moved on to studying reionization, leading a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, and NRAO called the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER).

Dorothy Schiff

After divorcing Backer in 1943, she married Ted Thackrey, whom she had earlier installed as editor; it was Thackrey's idea to change the Post's format from a broadsheet to a tabloid.

Edward C. Kilbourne

He also supported the YMCA after the original backer Dexter Horton had withdrawn his support and was involved with the Plymouth Congregational Church of Seattle.

Gondi family

Carlo de Gondi was a staunch backer of Piero de' Medici, and when the Medici came to be Grand Dukes, the Gondi received empty but honorary titles of Senators.

Gotye

The title was inspired by an artwork his father painted in the 1980s, discovered by De Backer among old bills and newspapers in his parents' barn; it was later edited in Photoshop to become the album artwork.

Hans de Witte

Hans de Witte (1583-1630) was a German financier who was the main financial backer of Albrecht von Wallenstein's army during the Thirty Years War.

History of trams in Leipzig

The electrical-equipment manufacturer AEG served as the principal financial backer of the new undertaking.

Hospedia

Marlin Equity Partners who are also behind enterprise resource planning business Solarsoft acquired Hospedia LTD in 2010, Hospedia was formed of a combination of Premier Telesolutions (Patientline's competitor) and its backer Milestone Capital.

I.TV

i.TV’s financial backers include venture capital firms Union Square Ventures (backer of Twitter, Tumblr and other companies), RRE Ventures, Rho Ventures, Time Warner Investments, DIRECTV, and others.

Josiah Spode

There he was in financial partnership with William Tomlinson (a solicitor), and in 1772 he took on a pottery at Shelton with Thomas Mountford as his backer.

Kabani Nadi Chuvannappol

It was the directorial debut of P. A. Backer, who won that year's awards for Best Director and Second Best Film at the Kerala State Film Awards.

Konrad Ernst Ackermann

In 1767 the troupe was sold to a consortium of private owners, called the Hamburg National Theatre or the Hamburgische Entreprise, also known as Lessing's Dramaturgie, with Abel Seyler as its main backer.

Kristiane Backer

In 1992 Backer met former Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan in London He gave her books on Islam and invited her to travel with him through Pakistan.

At MTV, Backer hosted the Coca-Cola Report, the MTV European Top 20, Awake on the Wild Side, Headbangers Ball and Party Zone.

Larry Catá Backer

Backer argued that the Chinese constitutionalist state differs from the Western model in that the CCP plays a central role in the Chinese constitutional order.

London Colosseum

Initial plans to sell panoramic views came to nothing, but an elaborate scheme to create a 360-degree panorama on the inside of a dome of the Colosseum, specially built in Regents Park (and resembling the Roman Pantheon rather than the Roman Colosseum), came to fruition, but at such expense that its principal backer, Rowland Stephenson MP, had to flee to America in 1828, soon followed by Horner.

Mariano Tullio Troia

His name also appeared as backer of the killing of Mario Prestifilippo and Giovanni Fici, assassinated in 1987 and 1988 to prevent retaliation after the elimination of the Mafia killer Pino "Little Shoe" Greco.

Matt Salter

He played for London Broncos in the European Super League, and was in the starting line-up (as a prop forward) for them in the 1999 Rugby League Challenge Cup Final, led out by the club backer at the time, Richard Branson.

Ola Lindholm

He currently lives in Lidingö outside of Stockholm with his wife Lotta Bäcker and their son Loa Lindholm.

President of the European Council

Also in his team are the former UK Labour MEP Richard Corbett and Van Rompuy's long standing press officer Dirk De Backer.

Richard Mellon Scaife

Scaife was the major backer of the American Spectator, whose Arkansas Project set out to find facts about Clinton and in which Paula Jones' accusations of sexual harassment against Clinton were first widely publicized.

Robert Pitcairn

When Andrew Carnegie left the railroad to start Carnegie Steel, Pitcairn replaced Carnegie as general agent and superintendent of the Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylvania Railroad.He was also a friend and financial backer of George Westinghouse.

Samuel S. Cox

He was a backer of the Life Saving Service, later merged into the United States Coast Guard.

Schapelle Corby

For example, a minor "collapse" in the court engendered much erroneous speculation that she was pregnant by her former financial backer, Ron Bakir.

Shakermaker

The song illustrates Noel Gallagher's habit of borrowing from the past: the chords are a simple twelve-bar blues progression (albeit with the V (F#) raised to a flat-VII (A)) and the melody for the verse was originally taken from "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" (the song made famous from its use on Coca-Cola adverts in the 1970s) by Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway, Bill Backer and Billy Davis.

Snicker's Gap Turnpike

Thomas Jefferson, who was at least a moral backer of the enterprise, pronounced it a success.

Society of Consulting Psychology

A number of distinguished psychologists have served as President of the Society including Donald Super, Albert Ellis, Orlo Crissey, Theodore Blau, Raymond Fowler, Thomas Backer, and Rodney Lowman.

T. J. Stiles

This massive study was the first comprehensive account of the life of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, the nineteenth-century shipping and railroad mogul, financial backer of Vanderbilt University, and founder of the Gilded Age Vanderbilt dynasty.

Vicky Tiel

While shooting at the studio, Tiel met her first financial backer, Elizabeth Taylor.

WBLK

Contrary to popular belief, despite WBLK's format and target audience, its call letters do not stand for the word "BLacK" per se; rather, they are a tribute to Benjamin L. Kulick, who was a major financial backer of the station when it first went on the air.


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