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4 unusual facts about Group A


Peter McLeod

Like all Commodore runners, McLeod upgraded to the newly homologated Holden VK Commodore SS Group A for 1986.

McLeod joined formula 2 racer John Crooke in car #10 (Brock's 1986 car upgraded to VL Group A specs).

The change to Group A touring car regulations for the 1985 Australian Touring Car Championship forced McLeod, and others such as Allan Moffat, to abandon the RX-7 as the cars would have to revert to running the standard 12A motor, would have no aerodynamic aids and would generally be uncompetitive.

Following the ATCC, McLeod built a new 'Walkinshaw' spec VL Commodore Group A SV with the engine and suspension supplied by the Peter Brock organisation, who by that stage were running the BMW M3's.


1993 Australian 2.0 Litre Touring Car Championship

The championship was won by Peter Doulman, driving a 2.0 litre version of his old Group A BMW M3 (the car was an ex-JPS Team BMW and Mobil 1 Racing team car).

1994 Tooheys 1000

For 2.0 litre class, the class later to become known as Supertouring, it consisted of BMW 318i, Hyundai Lantra, Peugeot 405, Toyota Carina, Toyota Corolla, a modified DTM Mercedes-Benz 190E and older modified Group A BMW M3s and Ford Sierras.

Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft

The original DTM was started in 1984 as Deutschen Produktionswagen Meisterschaft (German Production Car Championship), with cars entered by privateer teams and under FIA Group A rules, but was extensively modified throughout the years, allowing more modifications.

F7R

The engine was created because displacement limit for FIA World Rally Championship Group A was 2000 cc and more power could be extracted from F7P (1764cc) engine with more capacity.

Indian Corporate Law Service

This gave a new service option to those who qualified the Civil Services Examination conducted by UPSC to get into Central Civil Services (Group A).

Nissan RB engine

This was when Nismo was going through the process of designing the R32 GT-R to be a Group A race car.

Ravshan Irmatov

In the Group A match between Brazil and Italy on 22 June he blew his whistle to award Italy a penalty and was seen pointing at the penalty spot.


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1988 Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship

With the championship generally ignored by most of the top teams from the stronger Group A championships (Australia, Europe and Japan), Crowe, Bond and Pirro were able to gain the top three placings despite each only running in two of the four rounds.

1992 Summer Paralympics

The games featured a cultural exchange group, a group of intellectually disabled men from Nagasaki who played taiko (traditional drums) during the opening and closing ceremonies and selected track events.

2003 IIHF World U18 Championships

The Group A tournament was held between 5 and 8 March 2003 in Mexico City, Mexico and the Group B tournament was held between 6 and 9 February 2003 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2009–10 Vodacom League

The five Coastal stream teams and four Inland stream teams were put respectively into Group A and Group B. All the playoff matches were played from April 6–12, at two big stadiums in the Mpumalanga region: Themba Senamela Stadium in Mhluzi, Middelburg and Ackerville Stadium in eMalahleni.

2010 IIHF World Championship Division III

The IIHF announced on February 5, 2010 that the Division III Group A championship would be moved from Athens, Greece to Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg after the Hellenic Ice Sports Federation announced they would not able to host the tournament after problems with government funding.

2010 Men's World Floorball Championships Qualifying

All matches in Group A in the preliminary round were played in Zbąszyń, Poland.

2012 FINA Women's Water Polo World League

All games in Group A will be played from 10–13 May 2012 in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, and all games in Group B will be played from 10–13 May 2012 in Volos, Greece.

2013 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II

Group A of the Division II tournament was held in Auckland, New Zealand, from April 7 to 13.

2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Group A

Group A of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the group stage of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup for six teams.

2014 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II

Group A of the Division I tournament will be held in Asiago, Italy, from April 6 to 12.

8-orthoplex

There are two Coxeter groups associated with the 8-cube, one regular, dual of the octeract with the C8 or 4,3,3,3,3,3,3 symmetry group, and a half symmetry with two copies of 7-simplex facets, alternating, with the D8 or 35,1,1 symmetry group.A lowest symmetry construction is based on a dual of a 8-orthotope, called a 8-fusil.

Alberto Bustani Adem

From 1979 to 1983 Bustani worked in research and development for HYL then a subsidiary of HYLSA (now TENOVA HYL of Techint Group), a steel company based in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico in the area of direct reduction of iron ores.

Andrejs Grants

Andrejs Grants gained international recognition by collaborating with group "A" ideological leader Egons Spuris' widow Inta Ruka.

Having influences by documentary photographers, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, group "A" used a reportage style to document everyday life of Soviet Latvia, very often creating photographs full of criticism.

Bakel, Senegal

The majority of the population belong to the Soninke-speaking ethnic group, a dialect of the larger Mandagne-Mandinke language family.

Cameronians

the Cameronian group, a seventeenth-century religious group in Scotland named for its leader, Richard Cameron

Cheriton Fitzpaine

The village also has two pubs, The Half Moon and The Ring of Bells; a Drama Group; a Football Club and a Cricket Club and recently have had a new school opened.

DDB Mudra

The DDB Mudra Group, a part of the DDB Worldwide Communications Group, is India's first and largest integrated marketing communications and services network.

Dennis Ryland

In season three he begins working as the leader of a privately owned company, Haspel Corporation, a defense contractor aiding the NSA in the tracking of the Nova Group, a terrorist organization of 4400 returnees.

Din of Celestial Birds

American experimental short film written, produced and directed by E. Elias Merhige in cooperation with the Q6 production group, a collective of philosophers and artists.

Dulcote Quarry

In 2007 the quarry was bought by the Kilbride group a subsidiary of Kilmartin Holdings, which itself became part of Hansteen Holdings.

Elise Blumann

With the Curator of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Robert Campbell, she helped found the Art Group, a discussion group through which she promoted modernist ideas and attitudes in art and art education.

Fabio Baldas

He is mostly known for supervising one match in the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the USA, the first-round Group A contest between the United States and Colombia.

Forensic podiatry

In addition to the group a formal class covering the aspects of Forensic Podiatry is being held at New York College of Podiatric Medicine open to their DPM candidates.

Greg Sorbara

From 1995 to 2003, Sorbara was a partner in The Sorbara Group, a prominent real estate and land development firm, and served as a director on the corporate board of Royal Group Technologies Inc.

Howard W. Davis

have conspired with . . . Alphonzo Bell, Samuel Traylor and Chapin A. Day, all multi-millionaires, to grant this group a special spot zoning permit to crush and ship . . . from the high-class residential section of Santa Monica, limestone and rock for cement.

Ibrahim Al-Shahrani

His most significant goal was against Qatar in Doha during the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC) final match which eliminated Qatar and led Saudi Arabia to the top of Group A, directly qualifying to 1998 FIFA World Cup in France and leaving Iran in second place for the AFC Play-off against Japan.

Jevetta Steele

She appeared on the album Memorial Beach, recorded by the Norwegian group a-ha, performing backing vocals on the songs "Lie Down in Darkness" and "Move to Memphis".

John Durnford-Slater

In Italy he commanded the Commando brigade that undertook the capture of Termoli, before serving as deputy commander of the Special Service Group, a divisional level headquarters unit that planned and administered all commando operations during Operation Overlord and the advance into Germany.

Joleon Lescott

Lescott also made his Champions League début against S.S.C. Napoli, City however failed to progress past the group stages after away defeats to Napoli and Bayern Munich in Group A, finishing third and dropping into the Europa League as a result.

Katarzyna Kobro

Kobro, Strzemiński, painter Henryk Stażewski and poets January Brzękowski and Julian Przyboś then founded the group a.r., an acronym that is usually interpreted as "Revolutionary Artists" or "Real Avant-Garde".

Ken Mora

After receiving a layoff from Hughes Spacecraft, in El Segundo, CA, he work freelance with his graphic designer with MacTemps (now Aquent) and was ultimately hired away to the post of Art Director at The Verity Group, a management consulting firm in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.

Kensington Security Slot

Kensington Computer Products Group, a division brand of ACCO Brands, Inc. (located in Redwood Shores, California), was founded in 1981 with the invention of the System Saver, a combined cooling fan and surge protector designed for use with the Apple II home computer.

Marius Fiil

He and his wife Gudrun created Hvidstengruppen (the Hvidsten Group), a resistance cell which helped the British Special Operations Executive to parachute weapons and supplies into Denmark.

Mitch Bainwol

After his studies, Bainwol became a member of staff for various Republican political figures from 1977 until 2003 (Robin Beard, Connie Mack, Bill Frist and the RNC) before founding the Bainwol Group, a Washington, D.C. based lobby group.

Molly Hatchet

Armstrong signed Molly Hatchet and garnered the group a recording contract with Epic Records, bringing in Tom Werman as a producer.

Natalie Tennant

Prior to Tennant's election as Secretary of State, she was co-owner of Wells Media Group, a Charleston-based video production and media training company she operated with her husband, state Senator Erik Wells.

Persimmon plc

Ideal Homes, once the largest housebuilder in the country and then part of Trafalgar House was bought for £176m giving the Group a much stronger presence in the south-east.

Premiership Rugby Sevens Series

Worcester Warriors 7s and Gloucester 7s qualified from Group A, played at Kingsholm on Thursday 1 August; Newcastle Falcons 7s and Leicester Tigers 7s qualified from Group B, played at Franklin's Gardens on Friday 2 August; and Harlequins 7s and Saracens 7s qualified from Group C, played at Allianz Park on Saturday 3 August.

Saracens 7s and London Irish 7s qualified from Group A, played at The Stoop on Friday 13 July; London Welsh 7s and Sale Sharks 7s qualified from Group B, played at Edgeley Park on Friday 20 July; and Gloucester 7s and Bath 7s qualified from Group C, played at Kingsholm on Thursday 26 July.

Saeed Salama

At the Returnees from Albania case, he reported that the militant group had decided to shift their focus to attacking American and French targets after those two countries began helping apprehend and kill Islamic militants, and that targets were chosen to give the group a media platform and secure their "power and credibility".

Sahrawi national football team

Their next match was against Occitania, a 6–2 defeat, and the team finished in third position in Group A.

Sinotruk

China National Heavy Duty Truck Group: or Sinotruk Group, a state-owned truck manufacturing enterprise in the People's Republic of China.

Steve Rifkind

Along with operating SRC, and his ever expanding roster of corporate clients, Rifkind's latest ventures include investments in Coalition Music Group, a Reggaeton label, as well in Kid's Block, an educational DVD series for children featuring music by the Trackmasters production team.

Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead

He has been an Honorary Visiting Fellow of Journalism at City University, a member of the Regeneration Through Heritage Steering Group, a board member for Race for Opportunity, a board member for Learndirect, and was a member of the Council for Brunel University.

Tristan Loy

On the first of these occasions, his Group B winning time 13:14.92 was only beaten by one skater in Group A; and on the second occasion, his time was the sixth fastest at the event, faster than Olympic gold medallist Bob de Jong.

Vijayalakshmy K. Gupta

She has trained officers promoted from Group B to Group A, on office procedure, auditing, leadership, communication skills and foundation training programme conducted by National Institute of Communication Finance.

William Martens

He is a former two-time President of the A.P.P.L.E users group, Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.)

You Are the Best Thing

"You Are the Best Thing" is the lead single of the album Gossip in the Grain by American folk singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne released on August 26, 2008 by Stone Dwarf Music, LLC, under license to RCA/JIVE Label Group, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment.