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2 unusual facts about Challenge


Maryann Karinch

She is also known for her athletic endeavors including completion of the first Eco-Challenge and regional awards in body building and gymnastics.

School of Environmental Studies, Minnesota

Another innovation championed by this program includes their annual "adventure learning activity "Eco-Challenge" conducted at nearby Lebanon Hills Regional Park located in Dakota County, Minnesota.


1941 American Football League season

At the beginning of the 1941 season, the Bullies accepted a challenge from the defending Western Interprovincial Football Union champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers for a three-game series; the Bombers had been banned from Grey Cup contention that year due to rules discrepancies between the WIFU and the other organizations playing Canadian football at the time.

1966 Davis Cup

India then fell to defending champions Australia in the Challenge Round which was the 1966 Davis Cup finals.

1993 Scottish Challenge Cup Final

The 1993 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, also known as the B&Q Cup Final for sponsorship reasons, was an association football match between Falkirk and St. Mirren on 12 December 1993 at Fir Park in Motherwell.

Alberto Di Bernardo

After bouncing back between the top and second division, he decided to leave Leeds behind and take on the challenge of playing for Bourgoin in the Top 14.

Apotex Inc. v. Wellcome Foundation Ltd.

The Court rejected a challenge by the generic drug manufacturers Novopharm and Apotex to declare Glaxo Wellcome's patent for AZT, an AIDS-fighting drug, invalid.

Bat-Ochirin Eldev-Ochir

By the mid-1920s he had attracted the notice of Comintern agents who were looking to recruit younger, more radical, and preferably “rural” party members to challenge the authority of “old guard” revolutionaries such as Prime Minister Balingiin Tserendorj, Deputy Prime Minister Anandyn Amar, and Party Chairman Tseren-Ochiryn Dambadorj.

Black Monday

Although now a relatively obscure event in history, it was commemorated by a mustering of the Mayor, Sheriffs and soldiers on the day as a challenge to the native tribes for centuries afterwards.

Brad Lesley

Takeshi's Castle would later be shown in the US on the cable network Spike TV as Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, later shortened to MXC.

Central Única dos Trabalhadores

Alongside the Workers' Party (PT) and the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), CUT was one of the key organizations to challenge the military rule of 1964–1985 during its final stages, organizing strikes in automobile factories located in the ABC Region.

Cesar Climaco

In 1994, Eddie Garcia starred in a film biography of Climaco, "Mayor Cesar Climaco", produced by Seiko Films, the film was rated PG7 in an effort to show the youth the fights of one of Ninoy Aquino's greatest allies in the fight for democracy, in the film Climaco himself goes to Ninoy's residence in the US and convinces him to come home to challenge Marcos for an election.

Chodko Jurewicz

Samogitian Borejko (Lithuanian: Bareika) won the challenge and was generously rewarded by the Grand Duke.

Con Corbeau

In 1907, he signed with the Toronto Pros of the OPHL, and played in their unsuccessful challenge of the Montreal Wanderers for the Stanley Cup.

Declan Hicks

Declan is involved in many various forms of motorsport, and was recently part of a team building and racing a Power Tool Drag Racer to race in the Silverline tools Challenge, soon to be seen on the Discovery Canada magazine show Daily Planet, with his team-mates Jon Lawes and Ben Short.

Dick Stuart

An excerpt: "Every play hit his way was an adventure, the most routine play a challenge to his artlessness. It is hard to describe this to anyone who has not seen it, just as it is hard to describe Xavier Cugat or Allen Ludden. Stu once picked up a hot dog wrapper that was blowing toward his first base position. He received a standing ovation from the crowd. It was the first thing he had managed to pick up all day, and the fans realized it could very well be the last."

Discovery Health Channel

As the network matured, it began producing its own programming in the reality show genre, mostly dealing with babies (Babies: Special Delivery, Birth Day), bodies (Plastic Surgery: Before and After, National Body Challenge), and blood (The Critical Hour, Dr. G: Medical Examiner).

Downhill Challenge

Downhill Challenge is a view-from-behind 3d skiing game developed by Microïds in 1988, published in the US by Brøderbund Software and in France by Loriciel (as Super Ski; in the UK it also had an Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards license).

Edgar Graham

Journalist Ed Moloney, in his 2003 book, "A Secret History of the IRA", contends that Graham's killing was ordered by a restive IRA unit, the Belfast Brigade and Ivor Bell, as part of a campaign that was a direct challenge to Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams' call for a more "controlled and disciplined" campaign twined with a growing parliamentary strategy.

Electroactive polymers

In 1999, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, proposed the Armwrestling Match of EAP Robotic Arm Against Human Challenge.

François Zoko

After 55 games and scoring 11 goals, Zoko was contacted by several teams in the Jupiler League but decided to join the Ankara club for a new challenge in the Turkcell Süper Lig.

Fraser Tranter

In May 1998, a win in the Farmer's Walk helped Fraser towards a 2nd place finish in the UK Docklands Strongman Challenge, and this in turn led to an invite to the 1998 World's Strongest Man in Morocco.

IMSA Performance

Le Mans Series was once again average, finishing fifth in the standings although they did win the Michelin GreenX Challenge for having the most fuel-efficient GT class car.

Indie Game Challenge

The Indie Game Challenge is an award competition run in conjunction between the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), GameStop and The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University (SMU) to support independent video game development.

IRAK4

Animals without IRAK-4 are more susceptible to viruses and bacteria but completely resistant to LPS challenge.

Jens Fahrbring

In August 2013, he won his first Challenge Tour event, the Norwegian Challenge.

John Barnard

Despite his friendship and good past working relationship with Prost at McLaren, Barnard opted to leave the Maranello based team and join Benetton, seeking a new challenge, and relishing working again for a team based in England where he wouldn't be subject to the Italian press, where failures with his ideas (such as the numerous failures during testing of the semi-automatic gearbox throughout 1988), often made headlines despite being minor in nature.

John Dennehy

He regained his seat at the 1997 general election and narrowly held it by 6 votes against a challenge from Kathy Sinnott at the 2002 general election.

Lorne Campbell

That season he played for Winnipeg in its unsuccessful Stanley Cup challenge.

Marcos Galvão

Following a loss in his WEC debut to Bowles, Galvão returned to Japan to challenge the undefeated Bantamweight title holder Masakatsu Ueda.

Mark Talbott

In response to the challenge from Jahangir, Talbott acquired a personal coach, Ken Binns, who helped him develop a much sharper array of shots.

Merv Hughes

Hughes has also done some acting, portraying Ivan Milat in the comedy movie, Fat Pizza, as well as appearing on TV commercials featuring losing weight with "The 14-day All-Bran Challenge".

Michael Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens

At the 1964 general election, Hughes-Young faced another challenge from Labour, who had selected Dr David Kerr; in his election address he pointed to the fact that Labour had opposed the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 and asked how the local housing situation would cope without restrictions on immigration.

Mitchell Donald

Donald made no appearances in the Eredivisie in the 2008–09 season under manager Marco van Basten after being badly injured in pre-season at the Amsterdam Tournament in a challenge on Inter's Adriano, but he reestablished himself in the squad following the appointment of Martin Jol.

Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

Nancy Drew returns to her hometown of River Heights to compete in the town's annual Clues Challenge along with her boyfriend Ned and her friends Bess and George.

NFL Quarterback Club

The Game Boy version, also known as NFL Quarterback Club 95, simulated the NFL Quarterback Challenge and featured 13 quarterbacks, including Troy Aikman, Warren Moon, Jim Kelly and John Elway.

Ölziin Badrakh

Known as one of the "rurals", he was one of several younger, more radicalized party members from rural areas (others included Jambyn Lkhümbe, Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Zolbingiin Shijee, Bat-Ochirin Eldev-Ochir, and Peljidiin Genden) recruited by the Soviets in the late 1920s to challenge the MRPR "old guard" of Balingiin Tserendorj, Tseren-Ochiryn Dambadorj, and Anandyn Amar.

Parco di Monza Challenge

The Parco di Monza Challenge was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour that was played in 2006 at Golf Club Milano in Monza near Milan, Italy.

Patti Russo

Patti's television credits include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, The View, Entertainment Tonight, Don't Forget the Lyrics, Qcheck, Huckabee, Lopez Tonight, The USA Music Challenge, Top Of The Pops, Brit Awards, American Music Awards, Party in the Park- Hyde Park UK, Prince's Trust- UK, Pres.

Prince's Skating Club

It began playing challenge matches in early 1897, initially against the three existing teams in England: Niagara, Brighton and the Royal Engineers.

Queer Collaborations

A challenge to the conference occurred in 2001 in Newcastle, when a political dispute caused the conference floor to split.

Regional climate change initiatives in the United States

On February 16, 2005, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels launched an initiative to advance the goals of the Kyoto Protocol through leadership and action by at least 141 American cities, and as of October, 2006, 319 mayors representing over 51.4 million Americans had accepted the challenge.

Rex Barnes

In February 2011, he announced plans to challenge incumbent MHA Ray Hunter for the Progressive Conservative party nomination in Grand Falls-Windsor-Green Bay South for the 2011 provincial election.

Samboy Lim

In one of the invitationals where foreign teams were pitted against PBA teams, Samboy Lim saved the face of the Philippines when he single-handedly took over in the IBA-PBA challenge in 1987 where the import was a then obscure Bobby Parks.

Secretomics

Bovine contaminants present a particular challenge because the protein sequences of many bovine extracellular proteins, like fibronectin and fibulin-1, are similar to the human protein sequences.

Showdown of Champions

The format of events was an extravaganza of challenge matches at the 12,000 seat Putra Stadium in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, November 18, 2008.

South Carolina gubernatorial election, 1892

Tillman had forced the state Democratic party to adopt the entire Ocala Platform in order to avoid a challenge from the Populist Party.

Speed Road Tour Challenge

Then, after the Kobalt Tools 500, Becky Patterson left the Challenge because she did not feel comfortable competing on the show.

Thomas G. Dunn

His staunch conservative ideology, dubious ethical standing and irascible personality earned Dunn a spirited primary election challenge from progressive Democrat James J. Devine when he ran for the General Assembly in 1991.

Undertaker's WrestleMania Streak

On the February 23 episode of Raw, Michaels defeated Layfield, but it was later announced that another competitor would stand in his way to prevent him from advancing to the show in the form of Vladimir Kozlov, who also made a challenge to The Undertaker; the two wrestled the following week on Raw with Michaels defeating Kozlov, and earning his match with The Undertaker.

Vincent Salafia

Salafia was involved in a legal challenge against Dick Roche, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government over the M3 Motorway at Tara in 2006.

William Drury Lowe

After his marriage in 1827 to Caroline Esther Curzon daughter of Lord Scarsdale they lived at Aston Lodge in Aston-on-Trent for a while before he took up the challenge of running the estate near Kimbolton in Bedfordshire.


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