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2006 California Golden Bears football team

The 2006 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley in the college football 2006–2007 season.

Barcid

Note for example Mahón and Qart Hadast (more famous under the Latin translation of its name: "Carthago Nova: - New Carthage) which currently bears the name of Cartagena in modern-day Spain.

Battle Bears Gold

Battle Bears Gold supports monetary transactions through the Google Play store, Windows 8 Store, and the Apple iTunes/App Store.

Bergen Cliff Hawks

Much of the fanbase for the New York Yankees and the New York Mets comes from the northern New Jersey area, and the city of Newark also has commanded attention for the older and newer inceptions of the Bears.

Black Bridge

The plethora of metal music featured in the film was generously contributed by Winnipeg metal acts Lawsuit and Labyrinth along with Canadian metal acts Goat Horn, Betrayer, Kick Axe, Thor, Anvil, Helix, Brighton Rock, Trained Bears and the American group Geronimo!

Boyds Bears

They began making and selling stuffed bears, and the bears became known as "Boyds Bears" for the town of Boyds, Maryland, where they lived and operated their business.

C Painter

It bears the earliest known depiction of the death of Astyanax.

Chaos League

While not a direct video game adaption, Chaos League bears resemblance to Games Workshop's Blood Bowl tabletop board game, which is also about fantasy sports.

Cheapside Hoard

A small red intaglio stone seal bears the arms of William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, dating the burial of the hoard between his ennoblement in November 1640 and the Great Fire of London in September 1666, which destroyed the buildings above.

Corey Bell

Bell had 16 disposals on debut, against Richmond at Carrara, but appeared in just seven more games for the Bears.

Cornwall, Ontario

Its flag also bears the insignia and colours of the flag of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Coxwold

The inn has a restaurant, a small general store with a delicatessen, and bears the arms and motto of Baron Fauconberg.

Dave Wannstedt

After Wannstedt posted back-to-back 4–12 seasons, Bears owner Michael McCaskey fired Wannstedt on December 28, 1998, a day when five NFL head coaches – one sixth of the league – lost their jobs.

Democracy: An American Novel

In a 1961 foreword to the novel, Henry D. Aiken states that the U.S. president of the novel "bears some resemblance to Andrew Johnson, to Garfield, and to Grant".

Extreme Sports with the Berenstain Bears

Extreme Sports with the Berenstain Bears is based on the Berenstain Bears books.

Fred Biletnikoff

In Erie, he attended what was then Technical Memorial High School, now Central Tech, whose athletic field now bears his name.

Goebel Brewing Company

In the John Bellairs book The Trolley to Yesterday and its eventual sequel The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost, the character of Brewster (really Horus, a god of Upper and Lower Egypt) is given his name because he bears a resemblance to Brewster Rooster.

Grevillea striata

In New South Wales, a tree still stands which bears an inscription in memory of a member of Charles Sturt's expedition in 1845.

Hell money

The obverse usually bears an effigy of the Jade Emperor, the presiding monarch of heaven in Taoism; his signature, romanised as Yu Wong or Yuk Wong; and the countersignature of Yanluo, King of Hell (閻羅).

Jon Sanders

A road in Osborne Park, Western Australia bears his name in honour of his sailing accomplishments.

Laura Jane Barney

A wing of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art bears her name as well as do three charitable foundations (her late husband's, her father's and her own).

Madonna with the Fish

On the other side the archangel Raphael is presenting at the foot of the throne the young Tobias, whom he formerly guided to the River Tigris, and who bears the miraculous fish whose heart, liver and gall were to restore his father's sight, and drive the demons from his bride.

Malcolm Boyden

Boyden has become a pantomime regular making his debut in 1997 when he played alongside Frank Bruno and Karl Howman in Goldilocks and the Three Bears at Birmingham’s Hippodrome Theatre.

Merfyn Frych

Merfyn claimed descent from Llywarch Hen through him, and the royal pedigree in Jesus College MS. 20 says that Gwriad was the son of Elidyr, who bears the same name as his ancestor, the father of Llywarch Hen, Elidyr lydanwyn.

Milwaukee Bears

-- Infobox ends --> The Milwaukee Bears were a Negro National League team that operated during the 1923 season, its only season in the league, representing Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Mount Richter

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Charles F. Richter, American physicist, California Institute of Technology, 1930–70; in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, 1935, he developed the Richter Scale which bears his name, used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.

Move Any Mountain

Japanese video game music producer Yuzo Koshiro composed an instrumental background music track for the baseball stadium stage in the 1992/1993 Sega Genesis game Streets of Rage 2 named "Under Logic" that bears strong influence from "Move Any Mountain".

Mr. Jack

Apparently at Hearst's request, he shifted his characters from bears to tigers, the emblem of Tammany Hall, creating The Little Tigers.

Oidium mangiferae

There are many species of mango, but the only one raised for commercial fruit production is Mangifera indica, as the fruit it bears is the most appealing and edible.

Olin Kreutz

It was also the second consecutive year in which the Bears selected an offensive lineman from Washington, after Bob Sapp in 1997.

Ralph Jones

While Jones was head coach, Bronko Nagurski made his NFL debut as a member of the Chicago Bears.

Raymond R. Schumacher

Upon returning home, Ray played for the Akron Bears before George Halas signed both Raymond and his brother Harold to the Chicago Bears at the same time.

Richard Champion

When it became apparent that the Bears would make the finals for the first time in 1995, Champion openly wept, a sign of his endurance as a player through tough times.

Seal of New York City

The seal of the city of New York, adopted in an earlier form in 1686, bears the legend SIGILLUM CIVITATIS NOVI EBORACI which means simply "The Seal of the City of New York": Eboracum was the Roman name for York, the titular seat of James II as Duke of York.

Stephen, Stephen

Schneider also makes reference to Colbert's grudge against The Decemberists (whose guitarist, Chris Funk, appeared in the same episode of the show) with the lines "he's calling out the bears in their evil lairs/he's calling out the press in their fancy dress/he's calling out The Decemberists and their Green Screen Contest".

The Adventures of Captain Africa

The new story featured a new hero, Captain Africa, who still bears a strong resemblance to The Phantom in both appearance and behavior.

The Brigand

The film bears a resemblance to The Prisoner of Zenda with Dexter playing a dual role of a rogue exile who impersonates a King in danger of being overthrown by his cousin played by Anthony Quinn.

The Quest Begins

The novel follows the adventure of four bears, Kallik (a polar bear), Lusa (a black bear), Toklo (a brown bear) and Ujurak (a shapeshifter who is usually a brown bear).

The Scarlet Claw

The film is not credited as an adaptation of any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tales, but it bears a significant resemblance to The Hound of the Baskervilles.

The Wreck of the Deutschland

The poem plays a major role in Anthony Burgess' third "Enderby" novel, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, in which Enderby pitches an idea for a movie adaptation of the poem and produces a script, only to be duly horrified when the resulting movie bears little resemblance to either his script or to Hopkins's poem.

Thomas Percival

His personality, his interest in sociological matters, and his close association with the Manchester Infirmary led to the preparation of a scheme of professional conduct relative to hospitals and other charities from which he drafted the code that bears his name.

Tom Thayer

He is currently the commentator on WBBM (AM) for Chicago Bears broadcasts and contributes to the Steve Dahl podcast from Chicago.

Trinity Road Library, Bristol

It was constructed in 1896 in a Jacobethan style, to the plans of William Venn Gough, and bears an inscription with its original name, St Philips Public Library.

Vancouver Special

A home design store on Main Street bears the name "Vancouver Special" and Arsenal Pulp Press of Vancouver published "Vancouver Special," a book of essays about the city by Charles Demers, in November 2009, showing that the reputation of the homes may have now gained a certain vintage glamour.

Vartox

Vartox bears a striking resemblance to Scottish actor Sean Connery and his name and appearance are regarded as an allusion to the movie Zardoz in which Connery starred.

Vereya Bears

The Bears have never been able to break up the stronger Moscow clubs though until Russian Championship XVII when they finished second.

Walter Schlage

Walter Reinhold Schlage was a German born engineer and inventor, best known for the bored cylindrical lock and the lock company that bears his name, Schlage Lock Co..

Wilber Marshall

In 1993, Marshall reunited with Buddy Ryan, who had been the Bears' defensive coordinator during Marshall's first two seasons, signing a contract to play for the Houston Oilers.

William Conner

Conner Prairie is a living history museum in Fishers, Indiana that bears his name and is located on his original property.


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