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unusual facts about C 200 ''Condor''



1990 FIFA World Cup qualification

Around twenty minutes into the second half, Chilean goalkeeper Roberto "Cóndor" Rojas fell to the pitch with an apparent injury to his forehead.

A Man of Principle

Around this time President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla loses power, and the Condor loses his political protection.

Barry Mather

Born in Condor, Alberta, he was a journalist for the Vancouver News Herald and a columnist with The Vancouver Sun before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 federal election for the British Columbia riding of New Westminster.

Black Condor

Amongst its members are Black Condor, a male equivalent to Black Canary.

Blizzard North

It was established in 1993 under the name Condor, founded by Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, and David Brevik.

Bob Bell

Bob Bell (insurance), British insurance magnate, campaigner of the Maxi yachts Condor and Condor of Bermuda in the 1970s & 80s

Boeing Condor

During its evaluations, the Condor logged over 300 hours of mission flying over Moses Lake, Washington.

Boyd Estus

An Academy Award winner, Boyd Estus has received numerous awards including the CINE Golden Eagle (Where the Galaxies Are, Arthur Fiedler--Just Call Me Maestro, Flight of the Gossamer Condor), Melbourne International Film Festival Kino Award (So Many Galaxies...So Little Time), the Peabody Award (NOVA, Tender Places), the Cindy, Emmy, Telly, Hugo Award, and many others.

Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway

The company and its subsidiaries owned and operated many ancillary services including grain handling facilities, an experimental fruit farm at Cinco Saltos in the Rio Negro valley, a power station in Bahía Blanca, the Argentine Fruit Distributors Company, the Club Hotel de la Ventana, the Condor long distance coach company, and a hotel with an adjoining golf course in Miramar.

Chile national rugby union team

The Chile national rugby union team (nicknamed Los Cóndores, "The Condors") is a rugby union nation representing Chile.

Condor Ferries

Condor 10 returned to the fleet in March 2002 to replace the Condor 9 on the St Malo - Channel Island service and to fully compete with the existing fast car ferry service of Emeraude Lines.

Condor Laucke

Condor Laucke was the eldest son of a German immigrant, Friedrich Laucke, who had migrated to South Australia from Bremen in 1895.

Condor of Bermuda

Condor of Bermuda is a polished mahogany race boat; and is often confused with its successor, Condor (sometimes referred to as Condor II (shown in top photo at right), which was of Kevlar and composite construction, and slightly larger, due to IOR rule changes.

Condor Syndikat

Its first share-holders were the three directors of Condor Syndikat, including Fritz W. Hammer, and the Brazilian Count Pereira Carneiro, owner of Jornal do Brasil and a shipping company.

On November 17, 1926, a German commercial mission was organized by the Pilot, Engineer and General-Director of Condor Syndikat Fritz W. Hammer, with the presence of Dr. Hans Luther, a former chancellor of the German Reich, at the time of the Weimar Republic took off from Buenos Aires.

Convoy HG 73

One day after the had left Gibraltar, a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor aircraft of KG 40 located the ships off Cape St. Vincent but was chased away by the Fulmar fighter from HMS Springbank.

Curtiss T-32 Condor II

On 27 July 1934, Swissair Condor CH-170 broke up in mid-air and crashed at Tuttlingen, Germany killing all 12 passengers and crew.

Dean Windsor

Programme
Drapac Porsche Pro Continental
Drapac Porsche
Drapac Porsche
Rapha Condor Sharp (Great Britain)
Rapha Condor Sharp (Great Britain)
Endura Racing

Francisco Azuela

He later served as Director of the Library of the Chamber of Deputies of the State of Guanajuato (1991–1997), and became the CEO and founder of the El Condor de los Andes-Aguila Azteca AC, an international cultural center currently based in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia (1999).

Hans Jenisch

On 26 October 1940 the Empress of Britain was spotted by a German Focke-Wulf C 200 Condor long-range bomber, commanded by Oberleutnant Bernhard Jope.

HSC Condor 10

Condor's use of the Condor 10 on the St Malo-Channel Islands route and their aggressive marketing and fare structure for the service was one of the reasons for the decline of Emeraude Lines which eventually closed down.

Improved Sound Limited

The name "Improved Sound Limited" appears at 1966 and remains, except for a brief period during 1976 when CBS advised them to change to the name "Condor".

James T. Hong

His films and videos include Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Condor: A Film from California, The Form of the Good, Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, The Spear of Destiny, Suprematist Kapital, and The Denazification of MH about Martin Heidegger, which is analyzed in the journal Film-Philosophy.

Lapland War

The first Finnish naval vessels Hämeenmaa, Uusimaa, VMV 15 and VMV 16 arrived with the sixth wave just in time to witness German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor bombers attacking the shipping at Tornio with Henschel Hs 293 glide bombs without results.

Michael Billig

This strand of work is shown in the collectively written work Ideological Dilemmas (1988 - with Condor, Edwards, Gane, Middleton and Radley), Banal Nationalism, and in his major study of ideology and the UK royal family, Talking of the Royal Family (1998, 2nd Edition).

Michio Okamura

Afterwards he joined Condor Inc. as an artist working on the Sega Genesis title Justice League Task Force.

Nazareno Casero

2006 marked his second Silver Condor nomination for playing the real-life Dirty War victim Guillermo Fernández in Chronicle of an Escape, which also marked his second collaboration with Caetano and co-starred name actors Rodrigo de la Serna and Pablo Echarri.

RM Condor

The base has been home to 45 Commando, which is part of 3 Commando Brigade, since 1971, although it was first constructed as a Fleet Air Arm base in 1938, when it was known as RNAS Arbroath (HMS Condor).

Rodolfo González Pacheco

Gonzalez Pacheco was one of the pioneers of Argentine cinematography, collaborating with Hugo Mac Dougall in producing Tres hombres del rio (Three men from the river) directed by Mario Soffici, which earned the Condor Academic Prize from the Academy of Arts and Cinematography Sciences of Argentina for the best original preentation in 1943.

Ron Holland

This led to commissions for the 80-foot Maxi Class yachts Kialoa and Condor and for a series of designs for Finnish yachtbuilder Nautor's series of Swan yachts between 1979 and 1990.

Condor, the Maxi Class yacht built in 1981, still sails as a passenger boat in Australia's Whitsunday Islands.

Sayers Croft

The bombing of the Basque town of Guernica in Spain by planes of the German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion in 1937 made politicians realise the potential for destruction in British cities should another war with Germany break out in Europe.

Social nudity in San Francisco

In 1969, Carol Doda began go-go dancing bottomless at the Condor Club on Broadway and Columbus in North Beach (she had been dancing topless at the Condor since 1964).

SS El Grillo

While at anchor, the ship was attacked by three German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condors from the I.

Team Dignitas

It was founded on 9 September 2003 as a fusion of the Battlefield 1942 clans Legion Condor and Sweden Kompanix.

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor is a 1978 American short documentary film directed by Ben Shedd, about the development of the Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft.

The Sword Smith

The Sword Smith is a low fantasy fiction by Eleanor Arnason, published in 1978 by Condor (ISBN 0-89516-028-5).

Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium

The airline has several sister companies, all of which have a joint fleet management: Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia and Condor.

Trans European Aviation

In early 1960 the operations base was transferred to Coventry Airport and a Bristol Freighter, previously owned by Air Condor, was acquired in October that year.

Westland Yeovil

The Yeovil was designed to meet Air Ministry Specification 26/23 for a single-engined day bomber, with a Rolls Royce Condor engine specified by the ministry.


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