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unusual facts about Borg-Warner Trophy


Wheeler-Schebler Carburetor Company

To this day, the trophy awarded annually to the winner of the Indianapolis 500 is known as the Borg-Warner Trophy.


Anita Borg

In 1987, Borg founded Systers, the first email network for women in technology.

Battle of Wolf 359

The battle occurs at the star Wolf 359, a real star system located 7.78 light years from Earth's solar system, and constitutes a total loss for the Federation, after the single attacking Borg ship obliterates the opposing fleet and proceeds to Earth without significant damage.

Beer in Norway

Currently, the Norwegian beer market is dominated by two large brewers: The giant Carlsberg-Ringnes based in Oslo and Copenhagen, Denmark, and the smaller Hansa-Borg, based in Bergen and Sarpsborg.

Borg is originally from Sarpsborg, and is brewed by Borg Bryggerier, that belongs to Hansa-Borg Bryggerier in Sarpsborg.

Borg á Mýrum

His son Egill Skallagrímsson then continued to live and farm at Borg á Mýrum.

One of the country's original settlers was Skallagrímur Kveldúlfsson, who claimed the area around Borg as his land, built a farm and made his home there.

Borg-Warner T-5 transmission

TVR Tuscan with the option of a close ratio gearset on 1st, 2nd & 3rd gears for the Tuscan S

Borg-Warner T-56 transmission

The transmission was originally designed and built by Borg-Warner for the Dodge Viper later being used by GM in 1992 for the generation II and later engines, but as of 1998, is built by Tremec, though nothing changed internally.

Borg–McEnroe rivalry

At the start of the final McEnroe was booed by the crowd as he entered Centre Court following his heated exchanges with officials during his semi-final clash with Jimmy Connors.

Borg, Saarland

Over the years it belonged to St Alban's Chaterhouse in Trier, to the diosceses of Metz and Trier, and to the Duchy of Luxembourg.

Brian Croucher

He has appeared in three science fiction programmes — as the second actor to portray Travis in Blake's 7 and also as Borg in the Doctor Who story The Robots of Death.

Coryse Borg

Coryse Borg is a Maltese actress, director and writer, resident in Żebbuġ, Malta.

Diane Borg

Diane Borg (born September 12, 1990 in Pietà, Malta) is a Maltese sprinter.

Dominic Borg

Throughout all of the epistles, Borg makes liberal use of Cicero.

Gerard James Borg

Borg has penned five of the Maltese entries for the annual Eurovision Song Contest with Philip Vella, besides several Eurovision national final entries.

Giorgio Borġ Olivier

During his stay in London, Borġ Olivier presented a memorandum to the Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, Henry Hopkinson, explaining the Maltese government's position that Malta ought be transferred from the Colonial Office to the Commonwealth Office, as an independent dominion within the Commonwealth.

Giovanni Francesco Abela

He appears to have been the first to note that the ancient temple of Hercules was to be identified with the remains on the hill at Tas-Silg rather than those of Borg in-Nadur.

Gunnlaugr Ormstunga

After a quarrel with his father, Illugi, Gunnlaugr left his home at age twelve to stay for some time at Borg with Þorsteinn Egilsson, the son of Egill Skallagrímsson.

Hour of the Wolf

Painter Johan Borg (von Sydow) and his young wife Alma live on the small island of Baltrum, where he seeks rest after a crisis which is not detailed.

Krige

Alice Krige (born 1954), actress best known for her role in the Star Trek series as the Borg Queen

Malcolm Borg

Borg and his wife, Sandra, have three children, John, Jennifer Borg and Stephen A. Borg.

Mark A. Sammut

He has edited and co-authored Malta at the European Court of Human Rights 1987-2012, with Patrick Cuignet and David A. Borg, with contributions by Prof. Kevin Aquilina (Dean of the Faculty of Laws of the University of Malta), Judge Giovanni Bonello, and Dr. Therese Comodini Cachia.

North American International Auto Show

Bryan Herta was presented with the Baby Borg trophy for the 2011 Indianapolis 500 during the show, which coincided with the promotion of the return of the IZOD IndyCar Series to Detroit later in June.

Odell Borg

Odell Borg, of Native American (Ojibwe) and German heritage, currently living in Patagonia, Arizona, is a Native American flutist and flute maker.

Operation Bertram

On 16 September 1942, Freddie de Guingand, Montgomery's chief of staff, summoned Barkas and Tony Ayrton to Eighth Army headquarters near Borg-el-Arab.

Robogals

Robogals' achievements have been recognised on an international level with the awarding of an Anita Borg Change Agent Award by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

Samuel J. Heyman

During the late 1980s, Heyman attempted hostile takeovers of Union Carbide and Borg-Warner in an effort to increase the scale of GAF's chemical operations.

Seven of Nine

After being cast, actress Jeri Ryan acknowledged she had hardly even seen Star Trek, and had no idea what the Borg were.

Skalla-Grímr

Skalla-Grímr did as his father directed, and when he arrived in Iceland, he discovered the casket had come ashore in the Mýrar district, near Borg.

Species 8472

A designation given by the Borg (the species' name referred to by Star Trek Online as the Undine, though the Hirogen refer to them as 'Fluidians'), Species 8472 has a dense genetic structure, with each cell containing more than a hundred times the genetic material of a human cell because of their triple-helix DNA structure.

Star Trek: The Experience

With the on-screen participation of Trek series cast members Kate Mulgrew and Robert Picardo, and numerous actors in realistic makeup and utilizing well designed props and sets, the threat of assimilation by the Borg seems palpable.

Star Trek: Voyager – The Arcade Game

Much of the game takes place on the USS Voyager, shooting various alien intruders such as the Borg, Hirogen Hunters, Species 8472 as well as several other alien species from the Star Trek universe.

Stephanie Venn Petersen

Stephanie Venn Petersen was born in Duluth, Minnesota to Orville Seward Petersen, an insurance salesman, small business owner and former chair of the Proctor School Board and Ruth Alma (Borg) Petersen, an administrative assistant for the 148th Fighter Wing, a unit of the Minnesota National Guard in Duluth, Minnesota.

Toyota Corona

Toyota Australia manufactured sedans and wagons using 1.9 L Holden Starfire engines, badged in Toyota engine terminology as the 1X, coupled with a 4 speed or optional 5 speed Borg-Warner 505.

Wes Borg

In 1996, Borg along with collaborator Paul Mather wrote the comedic revue The War of 1812, which has just been revived (most recently at the Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival in September 2009).


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