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Tim Dadabo

He has performed in several video game roles including the popular Halo series as the Forerunner Monitor 343 Guilty Spark.


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Allaman

In 1830 de Sellon founded the Society of Peace, a forerunner of the League of Nations and the United Nations Organization (UNO).

Allyn Abbott Young

Nicholas Kaldor insisted that this paper had been neglected because it was 50 years ahead of his time, but it has recently enjoyed a revival of interest as an acknowledged forerunner of modern "endogenous growth theory".

Bernard Waters

Mr. Waters was a member of the handicap committee at the 1900 Grand American trap shoot and was employed as an editor by Forest and Stream Publishing Company (forerunner of Field & Stream magazine), which was located at 318 Broadway in New York City.

British Columbia Liberal Party

He established the BC Power Commission, a forerunner of BC Hydro, to provide power to smaller communities that were not serviced by private utilities.

Bunnygrunt

In 2003, the earlier-recorded Bunnygrunt song 'Season's Freaklings' (also previously featured on a compilation entitled 'Better Than Fruitcake' which was a forerunner to the Bert Dax Christmas compilations—see below) was used on the soundtrack to the Billy Bob Thornton movie, Bad Santa, enhancing the band's popularity.

Byrne Piven

Byrne Piven (September 24, 1929 – February 18, 2002) was an influential American stage actor, director, and co-founder of the Playwrights Theatre Club, a forerunner of The Second City.

Carlo Mazzone-Clementi

Clementi was the name of his mother and his grandfather, Girolamo Clementi, who was versed in the work of Paduan playwright and forerunner of commedia dell'arte, Angelo Beolco, known as "Ruzzante."

Chick Farr

Athletic were a West Lothian club playing in the Midlothian Junior League (the forerunner to today's East Region Junior League).

Chubby Dudley

He debuted in Eastern Championship Wrestling, the forerunner to Extreme Championship Wrestling, in the early 1990s as E.Z. Ryder, a biker character.

Comédie larmoyante

Thomas Heywood's masterpiece, A Woman kilde with kindnesse (acted 1603; printed 1607), can be considered a forerunner of this genre.

Communist Party of Russia

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, the forerunner of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Continental Championship Wrestling

YouTube clips are included to show the Possible Forerunner To ECW? section is not based on original research.

Cornelia Clapp

Clapp completed the equivalent of an undergraduate program at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (the forerunner of today’s Mount Holyoke College) in 1871 before spending one year as a Latin teacher at a boys' boarding school in Andalusia, Pennsylvania.

Dennis Yu

The Imp (兇榜, 1981), Yu's horror movie with strong influence of Roman Polanski, is widely regarded as a forerunner of haunted-house movie in Hong Kong.

Dickson County, Tennessee

It was the forerunner of the Appeal to Reason, which later became a weekly political newspaper published in the American Midwest from 1895 until 1922.

Dinsmoor Glacier

Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Charles Dinsmoor of Warren, PA, who invented the endless tracking "vehicle" in 1886, a forerunner of the modern continuous track and tracked vehicles.

Early English dictionaries

Composed by Richard Mulcaster, headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School in London, The Elementarie is now viewed as an important forerunner of the first actual dictionary in English, although it was not an actual dictionary.

Eric Siday

Among his other contributions to the use of electro-acoustic music in television were numerous station IDs and commercials, including that of the National Educational Television network (the forerunner to PBS), the 1966 CBS "in color" bumper, the news sounder for the ABC Radio Networks, and the 1965–1976 Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures Television logos.

Factions of Halo

The novel Halo: Contact Harvest reveals that the Covenant's luminaries, devices which search for Forerunner relics, discovered a massive cache of the relics on a human colony, Harvest.

Fidel

Vielle, a musical instrument and forerunner of the fiddle

Frederic Erskine Bronson

Frederic Erskine Bronson, PC (December 4, 1886 – April 1953) was a leading Ottawa businessman and chairman of the Federal District Commission, forerunner of the National Capital Commission, a government body empowered with planning Canada's National Capital Region of Ottawa-Hull and Gatineau.

Frederic Heath

Heath indicated that he was brought into the actual socialist movement through three influences: Julius Wayland and his newspaper The Coming Nation, forerunner to the Appeal to Reason; stray copies of literature produced by the Socialist Labor Party of America; and a direct acquaintance with Victor L. Berger, a former teacher who had become the editor of the German-language socialist daily newspaper in Milwaukee.

Garmin Forerunner

The Forerunner 50 also came packaged with a USB stick that allowed training data to be transferred wirelessly to one's pc.

Hugh Brock

Hugh Brock (1914 - 1985) was a lifelong British pacifist, editor of Peace News between 1955 and 1964, a promoter of nonviolent direct action and a founder of the Direct Action Committee, a forerunner of the Committee of 100.

Hydromethanation

GreatPoint Energy, a company founded in 2005 by serial entrepreneur Andrew Perlman, is a forerunner in the development and commercialization of hydromethanation.

Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund

From 1924 to 1933, the ISK (and its forerunner, the ISYL) maintained its rural school, the Walkemühle in the Adelshausen quarter of Melsungen, Hesse and from 1931 to 1933, its own newspaper, Der Funke, both of which were banned by the Nazis.

Jack Ormston

John Glaholme 'Jack' Ormston (born 30 October 1909 in West Cornforth - died 22 June 2007) was a Speedway rider who finished runner-up in the Star Riders' Championship in 1935, the forerunner to the Speedway World Championship.

Jef Valkeniers

As a Dutch member of parliament, he was also a member of the Flemish Cultural Council (forerunner Flemish Parliament).

Laisvė

The privately-owned paper was originally associated with the American Lithuanian Socialist Union, forerunner of the Lithuanian Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party of America.

Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party

One important forerunner of the organized Left Wing Section of 1919 was the magazine The Class Struggle, founded by Ludwig Lore of the New Yorker Volkszeitung.

Liljevalchs konsthall

While the indoor courtyard was also used at this time by Ragnar Östberg at the "Blue Hall" in the Stockholm City Hall, at Liljevalch Bergsten managed to combine traditional details with the newest concrete construction technique, and the art gallery was thus a forerunner to the modern architecture still to come.

Louis Charles Breguet

In 1905, with his brother Jacques, and under the guidance of Charles Richet, he began work on a gyroplane (the forerunner of the helicopter) with flexible wings.

Neue Künstlervereinigung München

The Neue Künstlervereinigung München e.V (NKVM), ("Munich New Artist's Association", if literally translated from German) formed in 1909 in Munich around Wassily Kandinsky, and prefigured Der Blaue Reiter, the first modernist secession which is regarded as a forerunner and pathfinder for Modern art in 20th-century Germany.

Nexor

The primary application was PEM, a forerunner of S/MIME and SEEOTI.

Old Naval Observatory

The Central Intelligence Agency's forerunner, the Office of Strategic Services was a tenant on the Hill during World War II, and the United States Public Health Service had a hospital there.

Proto-Zionism

According to Dov Weinereve, the first "forerunner" is Mordecai Manuel Noah.

Righteous indignation

The Forerunner Commentary on Psalms 137:2 argues that these psalms are about the "bitterness of exile into which God forced Judah", purportedly with the goal of turning grief into zeal, so that the "anger can be used to scour away sin" by becoming "righteously indignant".

Robert Kloster

He also chaired the organization Norske Museers Landsforbund, a forerunner of Norges Museumsforbund, from 1949 to 1957, and the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments in Bergen from 1949 to 1960.

Shandong Provincial Museum

The forerunner of the Shandong Provincial Museum, the Yidu Museum, was established by the British Baptist missionary John Sutherland Whitewright in Qingzhou in 1887, it moved to Jinan in 1904 and was renamed to Guangzhi Yuan.

Shibuya, Tokyo

The Tokyu Toyoko Line opened in 1932, making Shibuya a key terminal between Tokyo and Yokohama, and was joined by the forerunner of the Keio Inokashira Line in 1933 and the forerunner of the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line in 1938.

Sign convention

Nevertheless, the Weinberg form is consistent with Hyperbolic quaternions, a forerunner of Minkowski space.

St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes

The French anti-religious laws of the early 20th century forced the whole community into exile in England, to the forerunner of the present St. Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, where on 18 March 1909 Mother Cécile died.

Steve Loeb

The forerunner of synthesizing the genres of heavy metal and hip-hop, Loeb produced chart records for 13 albums for heavy metal icons Riot and the Top 10 pop single "Amityville" for rapper Lovebug Starski which Loeb wrote with rapper Kurtis Blow.

The Sportswriters on TV

Bill Jauss, Bill Gleason, Ben Bentley, Joe Mooshill, Lester Munson, and Rick Telander were the usual writers discussing the sports issues of the day, and the show was a forerunner of many of the sportswriter TV shows that are much more common now (The Sports Reporters, Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn, etc.).

Tim Coleman

While at Everton, he was notable for being one the few players, along with most of the Manchester United side, to maintain their membership of the Players' Union (the forerunner of the Professional Footballers' Association), in defiance of Football Association rules.

Transvaalse Staatsartillerie

The first attempt by the South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek or ZAR) to form a professional full-time artillery unit was Batterij Dingaan (Dingaan Battery), which could be seen as the forerunner of the Transvaalse Staatsartillerie.

Váci Mihály Gimnázium

The forerunner of the Váci Mihály Gimnázium was founded between 1963 and 1970 in Tiszavasvári as „Kabay János” Általános iskola és Gimnázium.

Vasilisk Gnedov

Contemporary avant-garde poets such as Serge Segay (who has written about Gnedov and published his work) and Rea Nikonova regard him as an important forerunner of and contributor to Russian Modernism.


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