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1973 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

Maryland scoring – Frank Urso 3, Gary Besosa 2, Pat O’Meally 2, Dino Mattessich, Brooks Sleeper, Doug Schreiber

1975 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

Maryland scoring – Frank Urso 5, Mike Hynes 3, Roger Tuck 3, Bill Gould 2, Doug Radebaugh 2, Bert Caswell, Jim Burnett, Mike Ferrell, Tony Morgan, Brooks Sleeper

Maryland scoring – Doug Radebaugh 3, Bert Caswell 3, Roger Tuck 2, Gary Glatzel 2, Brooks Sleeper 2, Mike Hynes, Frank Urso, Bill Gould

Alex Nesic

Alex Nesic became engaged in July 2006 to his Sleeper Cell co-star Melissa Sagemiller after he proposed to her in the South of France.

Animals aboard the RMS Titanic

A Pekingese called Sun Yat Sen, owned by Henry Sleeper Harper and his wife Myra

Ashby Canal

A low embankment, still with some stone sleeper blocks crosses a field and a tunnel passes under the drive to Calke Abbey.

Battle of Beauport

When he arrived before Quebec on 26 June, Wolfe observed that the northern shore of the St. Lawrence River around Beauport (the Beauport shore), the most favourable site for the landing of troops, was strongly defended by the French, who had built entrenchments on high ground, redoubts and floating batteries.

Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House

It has been featured in such diverse publications as Architectural Digest, Country Living, and The Boston Globe, and as been showcased on televisions programs such as America's Castles.

Bellylove

Lisa Rae Black, a veteran of the Los Angeles music scene, recruited Valenta after the demise of her project featuring Barbi Von Greif, which was produced by Dave Rouse and Pierre de Beauport of the Rolling Stones' road crew.

Boston railway station

To the north along the old Lincoln to Boston and Horncastle route, about 2 miles north of the town is the old Hall Hills sleeper depot.

Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick

The sleeper-lounge passenger railway car Cape Tormentine was built in 1954 by Pullman-Standard of Chicago for the CNR.

Charles Deblois

He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament after which he was defeated by Bloc Québécois candidate Michel Guimond in the 1993 federal election when the riding was renamed to Beauport—Montmorency—Orléans.

Dormitator latifrons

Dormitator latifrons, the Pacific fat sleeper, is a species of sleeper goby found on the Pacific coast of the Americas from around Palos Verdes, California to Peru where it can be found in stagnant or sluggish fresh or brackish waters or nearby marine waters.

Emiliano R. Fernández

He was a traveler and a late sleeper, he lived for a while in Sapucai, then in Caballero, then in San Pedro, Puerto Casado, Puerto Pinasco, Rancho Carambola (Brazil), and besides being a musician and a poet, he was also known for various activities such as carpenter, scouts guide, and forest man.

Gare de Chambly

Since the railway had significant needs for treated wood, notably for making sleepers, a sawmill, a joinery and a carpentry shop were set up at Moulin Neuf, as well as facilities for impregnating and creosoting wood and chairing sleepers.

George Pullman

After President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Pullman arranged to have his body carried from Washington, D.C. to Springfield on a sleeper, for which he gained national attention, as hundreds of thousands of people lined the route in homage.

Jan D'Alquen and Ron Eveslage

Jan D'Alquen and Ron Eveslage are American cinematographers best known for their work with film director George Lucas on the sleeper hit film, 1973's American Graffiti.

Jan Lisa Huttner

In late 2008, Huttner made international headlines when she launched an online campaign questioning the Golden Globe Nominations for the sleeper hit Slumdog Millionaire.

John Calvin Jureit

Gang-nails can also be used to strengthen the ends of railroad sleepers, preventing their tendency to spilt when spikes are driven.

Johnny Weaver

He made a brief in-ring return in the Fall of 1987 in the corner of the "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes who was using sleeper hold, calling it the "Weaver Lock," and chasing down Lex Luger and the N.W.A. United States Title.

Kanyakumari Mumbai Express

The 16381/16382 Kanyakumari Mumbai CST Express presently has 1 AC 2 tier, 1 AC 3 tier, 10 Sleeper Class, 4 General Unreserved coaches & 1 Pantry Car.

Lac-Beauport, Quebec

Around 1820, a small cluster of homes was built on the present site of the municipality, named Waterloo Settlement by the English immigrants after the Anglo-Prussian victory at Waterloo.

Les Voltigeurs de Québec

War of 1812: Les Voltigeurs de Québec perpetuate the Provincial Corps of Light Infantry (Canadian Voltigeurs), the 1st and 2nd Battalions (City of Quebec) (1812–15), the Beauport Division (1812–15) and the 6th Battalion, Select Embodied Militia.

Louis Juchereau de St. Denis

His mother, Marie Thérèse Giffard de Beauport, was the daughter of Robert Giffard de Moncel, Sieur de Moncel à Autheuil, and the 1st Seigneur of Beauport, Quebec.

Nick Harper

His 2006 album Treasure Island was a change of direction, seeing both a concerted shift to more overtly political themes (songs such as Knuckledraggers, Sleeper Cell and Intelligent Design - spliced together from audio clips of George W. Bush's speeches on the war on terror - were all highly critical of the Bush regime) and to more historical perspectives.

Norman Baker

Baker married Elizabeth Sleeper in May 2002 at St Peter's church in Hamsey.

Oh, Sleeper

In an interview, vocalist Micah Kinard stated that the band's name was derived from the Epistle to the Ephesians on passage 5:14; which reads: "Therefore it says, 'Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.'" (English Standard Version)

Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier

The main communities are Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Donnacona, Lac-Beauport, Neuville, Pont-Rouge, Shannon, Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Saint-Raymond, Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, and Deschambault-Grondines.

Saint of Me

With Jagger on vocals, acoustic guitar and keyboards, Waddy Wachtel and Ron Wood play electric guitars (Keith Richards is notably absent), Me'Shell Ndegéocello and Pierre de Beauport on bass and six-string bass, respectively, and Stones-recording veteran Billy Preston on organ.

Samuel Morin

He was born in Lac-Beauport, Quebec, but grew up in Saint-Henri in Bellechasse, Quebec.

Sandwich Islands

Sandwich Island Sleeper or Eleotris sandwicensis, a species of fish endemic to the Hawaiian Islands

Swallow and the Wolf

They then recorded their second EP 'Fire' at Guy Chambers's Sleeper Studios with producer Oliver Som (formerly an engineer on He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother by The Hollies, whose recent work includes the Hillsborough charity single).

Takayuki Iizuka

During a tag team match with Hiroyoshi Tenzan against then-IWGP Tag Team Champions, Togi Makabe and Toru Yano, Iizuka turned on Tenzan with his trademark sleeper hold, turning heel and joining GBH as their newest member and their insider in the New Japan Seikigun.

The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1944

A "sleeper" success, A Tree Grows had been published fully 6 months before it eventually made it to the No. 1 spot.

The Sleeper

The Sleeper is the first studio album by English indie folk band The Leisure Society.

Tom Keegan

He is also well known for writing three baseball books, including Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms on the late Elden Auker, a submarine-style pitcher who is known as the last living hurler to face Babe Ruth.

Yeah Ghost

The album features vocals by ESKA (on "Mr McGee", "Medicine Man", "Sleeper", and "The Road"), Martha Tilston (on "Pop Art Blue"), Binki Shapiro (on "Swing" and "Ghost Symbol"), Rowdy Superstar (on "Sleeper"), and Binns himself (on "Everything Up (Zizou)", an homage to French footballer, Zinedine Zidane).


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