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CHAIN

Controlled and Harmonised Aeronautical Information Network, a concept of EUROCONTROL to improve the quality of aeronautical data.

Chain-O-Lakes, Missouri

Chain-O-Lakes is a village in Roaring River Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States.

Tennis Chumps

Butch runs through a chain link fence to return the next shot by Jerry, and Jerry has to move the sideline after a ball hits the net and drops over.


A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

The unidentified narrator recites the tale as told by Bedloe, delivered after his late return from one of his customary long rambles in the Ragged Mountains, "the chain of wild and dreary hills that lie westward and southward of Charlottesville."

Agastya

His main hermitage is placed by the epic somewhere in the western half of the Indian Ocean, further south of the so-called Malaya Mountains, amongst a series or chain of large islands and submerged mountains.

Alex Schoenbaum

Under Alex Schoenbaum, the Shoney's organization also developed and operated the Captain D's fast food seafood chain, Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken fast-food chain, now part of Mrs. Winner's, and three casual dining chains, The Sailmaker, Pargo's and the Fifth Quarter Steakhouses.

Artane, Dublin

Ivan Beshoff, survivor of Russian battleship Potemkin lived in Artane, where he founded the Beshoff's chain of fish and chip shops

Boaz Island, Bermuda

It is part of a chain of islands in the west of the country that make up Sandys Parish, lying between the larger Ireland Island and Somerset Island, and is connected to both by bridges.

Boomers! Parks

Parks is a chain of family entertainment centers which feature indoor activities such as carousels, kiddie swings, restaurants, musical shows, and amusement arcades, and outdoor activities such as miniature golf, kiddie rides, bumper boats, batting cages, go-karts, kiddie roller coasters, laser tag, and in the case of the Dania Beach, Florida location, a wooden roller coaster called the Dania Beach Hurricane.

Brico Dépôt

Brico Dépôt is a French chain of DIY and Home Improvement stores, headquartered in Longpont-sur-Orge.

Brittani Senser

Her father, Joe Senser, played for the Minnesota Vikings in the 1980s and now owns a chain of sports bar-restaurants around the Twin Cities.

Children's Academy

Children's Academy is a Mumbai-based chain of private co-educational English-medium day schools at Malad and Kandivali in Mumbai.

Cineplex Odeon Corporation

In 1985, Cineplex bought out the Plitt Theatres chain (previously United Paramount Theatres and ABC Theatres).

Conn's

is an electronics and appliance store chain headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, United States.

Dillard's

In 1988, Dillard's purchased the three-unit Miller & Paine chain in Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as more significantly, a half-interest and operational control of The Higbee Co., based in Cleveland, Ohio with partner Edward J. DeBartolo Corp.

Dillons Booksellers

The majority of branches were rebranded as Waterstone's, while a remainder were sold on to the smaller chain Ottakar's, which itself was later taken over by Waterstone's in 2006.

Figaro chain

The name of the chain was widely used by Italian chainmakers inspired by the operas The Barber of Seville (by Gioachino Rossini) and The Marriage of Figaro (by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).

Food-a-rama

When the company was sold in 1985 to Super Rite Foods of PA, it was the second largest supermarket chain in Baltimore, MD behind Giant Food.

From the Mars Hotel

Musical group Animal Collective used a sample from the song "Unbroken Chain" for their song "What Would I Want? Sky" on their EP Fall Be Kind, and have received great praise from outlets like Pitchfork Media and Sputnikmusic for their respectful and interesting usage of the sample.

Geography of Slovenia

The Alps — including the Julian Alps, the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and the Karavanke chain, as well as the Pohorje massif — dominate Northern Slovenia along its long border to Austria.

Greeting card

The largest recorded number of greeting cards sent to a single person went to Craig Shergold, a beneficiary/victim of chain letters and later chain emails.

Gul Ahmed Group

The Ideas flagship store is located in the Clifton area of Karachi, with plans to establish a retail chain throughout Pakistan.

Hafele–Keating experiment

The comparison was conducted by evaluating the arrival times of VHF television synchronization pulses and of a LORAN-C chain.

HELLP syndrome

An association has been demonstrated between long chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA-dehydrogenase (LCHAD) deficiency and maternal HELLP and AFLP (acute fatty liver of pregnancy).

I See the Rain

The Marmalade's original recording also featured in a major clothing chain worldwide advertisement campaign in 2002 featuring Dennis Hopper and Christina Ricci “The Gap - Two White Shirts (version 2)”, directed by the Coen brothers

Island Ink-Jet

It was second-largest ink-refill chain, behind only Cartridge World.

J. W. Robinson's

In the 1970s ADG used the Robinson's name to open a new chain of department stores on Florida's Gulf Coast, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, starting with a store at Tyrone Square Mall in 1972.

Kerri Strug

In 2008, she appeared in a television commercial for the Zaxby's restaurant chain.

Kettenbrücke-Walzer

Its title commemorated the construction of the first chain bridge over the branch of the Danube through the inner city of Sophiebrücke in Vienna.

Ladbroke Grove rail crash

On 19 September 2011, National Geographic Channel aired an episode of Seconds From Disaster exploring the chain of events that had led up to the collision.

Lake Grove, New York

Lake Grove is a popular commercial area in Suffolk County, including stores and attractions such as the Smith Haven Mall, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and other large chain stores including DSW.

Le Bon Marché

For the former chain of American department stores, see The Bon Marché.

Loveman's

Loveman's of Alabama, a Birmingham, Alabama-based chain of department stores with locations across Alabama

Makian

It lies near the southern end of a chain of volcanic islands off the western coast of Halmaherato (Halmahera region), to the south of Tidore and to the north of Kayoa and Bacan.

Matzo Shortage of 2008

A number of chain grocery stores were reported to have run dry including Safeway, Whole Foods, Lunardi's, Lucky and Mollie Stone.

Monro Muffler Brake

In 2004, Monro purchased the 25 stores and 10 kiosks of Mr. Tire, a Baltimore, Maryland chain which trademarked “On the Rim and Out the Door” pricing.

Montana Air National Guard

As state militia units, the units in the Montana Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command.

Moodabe family

The owner of the chain, 20th Century Fox sold out in the 1980s to the Chase Corporation and then the chain came into the ownership of Hoyts which continued to employ the brothers in senior management positions.

My Rona Home

Hosted by Elissa Lansdell and sponsored by the Rona chain of building supply stores and The Brick furniture chain, the series pits two Alberta families against each other in a competition to design and build a dream home.

Novatel Wireless

In June 2009, Virgin Mobile and Novatel jointly announced the start of a pay-as-you go mobile data program called "Broadband2Go" in the United States, using Novatel Wireless hardware, and available exclusively through the Best Buy chain of stores.

OpenAM

OpenAM has the flexibility to chain methods together along with Adaptive Risk scoring, or to create custom authentication modules based on the JAAS (Java Authentication and Authorization Service) open standard.

Phil Gaglardi

The Gaglardis had two sons: Bob Gaglardi, founder of Northland Properties (whose holdings include the 35-hotel Sandman Hotel chain and 100-plus restaurants under various labels) whose son Tom Gaglardi is the current owner of the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars, and BIll, a Calgary businessman.

Pickup Man

In 2005, a rewritten version of "Pickup Man" was used in television commercials for the restaurant chain Applebee's, to promote their "Carside To Go" service.

Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit

The video was filmed in the vacant offices of, what used to be, the headquarters of the Safeway supermarket chain at Hayes, Hillingdon.

Regal Theater, Chicago

Part of the Balaban and Katz chain, the lavishly decorated venue, with plush carpeting and velvet drapes featured some of the most celebrated black entertainers in America.

Rich Eychaner

In 1995, Eychaner signed on KKDM as an alternative rock station and also owned a local movie rental chain.

Riverside Fox Theater

The theater was part of a chain of West Coast theaters built by Abe and Mike Gore, Adolph Ramish, and Sol Lesser.

Sanski Most

Sanski Most is home to many different types of stores, and in the city center Konzum is located, part of a food chain from Croatia.

Sattler

Sattler's, a regional department store chain headquartered at 998 Broadway, Buffalo, New York

ServersCheck

It can perform traditional network related checks (TCP, PING, traceroute) but can also be used to monitor a wide variety of other checks such as internet related checks (url, email chain, database checks, Windows checks (diskspace, CPU, memory, process, services).

Skywest Airlines Flight 1834

The main section of the SkyWest Airlines aircraft came to rest in the middle of a suburban street after sliding through a chain-link fence.

Thayer Street

While Harvard Square has long been controlled by chain restaurants and stores, many businesses on Thayer remain independent, such as Avon Cinema, Blue State Coffee, Rockstar Body Piercing, East Side Pockets, and NAVA- New And Vintage Apparel with certain notable exceptions such as Johnny Rockets, Starbucks, Au Bon Pain, Urban Outfitters, Chipotle, and CVS Pharmacy.

The Daily News Transcript

By 1980, the Transcript -- then called the Daily Transcript -- was the flagship of a five-paper chain, Transcript Newspapers Inc., that included the News-Tribune of Waltham and three weekly newspapers in West Roxbury-Roslindale (neighborhoods of Boston), Newton and Needham (suburbs west of Boston).


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