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Helm's Deep

When Cirion, Steward of Gondor, gave Calenardhon to the Éothéod, Aglarond was transferred into the care of the Rohirrim, who named it Súthburg (southern burg in their language).


1996–97 A.S. Roma season

New coach Carlos Bianchi failed to get the most out of a prolific squad, and was sacked in the middle of the season, with club advisor Nils Liedholm taking over at the helm for the rest of the championship.

A.C. Pisa 1909

For the 2007–08 Serie B campaign, the first in 13 years, Giampiero Ventura was named to replace Braglia at the helm of the nerazzurri.

Andrew O'Keefe

From 2007 until 2009, O'Keefe hosted the quiz show The Rich List and in 2006 took the helm of Weekend Sunrise, which he currently hosts on Saturday and Sunday mornings with journalist Monique Wright.

Another Man's Poison

Rapper, who was selected by Davis to helm the film, had directed her in Now, Voyager ten years earlier.

Audrey Haine

The Daisies, with Bill Wambsganss at the helm, was a talented squad that included in their roster players as the sisters Helen and Marge Callaghan, Faye Dancer, Vivian Kellogg, Ruth Lessing and Pepper Paire.

Cap of invisibility

In the Dragon Quest role-playing video game series, there is a piece of equipment named "Hades' helm."

Clarendon Entertainment

In the summer of 2008 Shoebox Pictures went into production on the feature length version of The Tested with Russell Costanzo once more at the helm and Melissa B. Miller producing.

Coat of arms of Wigan

On top of the helm is the crest which consists of a crowned castle and mountain ash tree.

Doc Prothro

In his three full seasons (1939-40-41) at the helm of the Phils, the club remained locked in the National League "cellar" — losers of 106, 103 and 111 games in successive seasons.

Donna the Buffalo

Donna the Buffalo has performed and/or recorded with a variety of musicians, including such prominent folk/roots performers as Jim Lauderdale, father and son Zydeco masters Preston and Keith Frank, Bela Fleck, Mamadou Diabate, Claire Lynch, David Hidalgo, The Duhks and Amy Helm, to name a few.

Drew Helm

Drew Helm (born November 9, 1984 in Jupiter, Florida) is an American soccer player, who currently plays forward for Orlando City U-23's of the Premier Development League, a fourth-tier football league in the United States.

Field guide

Specialist publishers such as Croom Helm, along with organisations like the Audubon Society, the RSPB, the Field Studies Council, National Geographic, HarperCollins, and many others all produce quality field guides.

Flamborough Head

Flamborough Head and the village of Flamborough are the setting for the book Bill Takes the Helm by Betty Bowen.

Florida Seals

Former Macon Trax head coach Tommy Stewart (ice hockey) took the helm of the Seals in 2005 after the Trax ceased operations.

George Rogers Clark Flag

It is worth noting, however, that whereas Colonel Clark had offered a red (war) or white (peace) belt to Indians in Cahokia, Captain Helm presented the Wabash Indians with a red or green belt.

Gordon Igesund

He followed this up in the 2000/01 season with another title, this time at the helm of Soweto giants Orlando Pirates.

Guy Roux

During his period at the helm the team established itself as a powerhouse in French football and became known worldwide as an academy for top players, since it was the club where football stars such as Eric Cantona, Laurent Blanc, Basile Boli, Alain Goma, Djibril Cissé, Philippe Mexès and Teemu Tainio won themselves a name being spotted and their talent further developed by Roux.

Hermione Lee

In the USA, she has been a visiting teaching fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, a Whitney J. Oates Fellow at the Council for the Humanities at Princeton, an Everett Helm visiting fellow at the Lilly Library at the Indiana University at Bloomington, and the Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2004-5.

History of MSNBC: 1996–2007

Former CNN chief Rick Kaplan was hired to run MSNBC, replacing Erik Sorenson as President at the helm of the last-place cable news network.

Hurd's Deep

Hurd's Deep (or Hurd Deep) is a deep underwater valley in the English Channel, north west of the Channel Islands, at position 49 degrees 30 minutes North, 3 degrees 34 minutes West.

Imagineering Australia

Graham Pickles, managing director of sister company Tech Pacific, took the helm of the group and merged the two businesses together under the Tech Pacific banner in 1990.

Jon Sharp

After a 48-0 loss to Catalan Dragons and a run of disappointing results, Sharp's contract was terminated by the Giants and for the 2009 season, Nathan Brown, former coach at St. George Illawarra Dragons, took over the helm.

Killer whale attacks on humans

In August 2005, while swimming in four feet of water in Helm Bay, near Ketchikan, Alaska, a 12-year-old boy named Ellis Miller was "bumped" in the shoulder by a 25-foot transient killer whale.

Lane Kirkland

He befriended Lech Walesa as well as Marian Krzaklewski who replaced Lech Walesa at the helm of Solidarity.

Larry McCarthy

After several years running Heinz's Senate press office, McCarthy joined the staff of the National Republican Senatorial Committee where the Senator took the helm as Chairman for the 1980 campaign.

Leonard Helm

A series of relatively peaceful conquests took place, with Helm reaching as far as Fort Ouiatenon.

Live Like We're Dying

Slezak also said that, "the folks at 19 gave Kris the proper budget to kick off his video career – at least we finally know what the company did with the savings gleaned from hiring student filmmakers to helm Blake Lewis and Diana DeGarmo’s tragic first clips".

Luca Toni

He consequently gained his first cap for the Italian national team in a friendly match 18 August 2004 lost 2–0 to Iceland in Reykjavík, which also marked Marcello Lippi's debut at the helm of the Azzurri.

Martin Baron

Baron's editorial helm at the Globe, where he succeeded Matthew V. Storin, shifted the paper's coverage of international events to locally centered investigative journalism.

Mel Machin

In his first season at the helm he managed to keep the club in the Second Division despite a start with seven consecutive defeats and a serious financial crisis, this feat later became known as "The Great Escape".

Olivier de Kersauson

He was, in particular, the first to build a multihull of composite material, Ribourel, then a trimaran with long floaters, Poulain, at the helm of which he set in 1989-1990 the single-handed round the world speed record.

Ramon Jimenez, Jr.

He took over the helm of the Tourism Department from Alberto Lim who resigned on August 12, 2011.

Ravager

The Ravagers, a 1964 novel by Donald Hamilton featuring secret agent Matt Helm

Robert Colescott

In his George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page From an American History Textbook, he re-imagined Emanuel Leutze's 1851 painting of the Revolutionary War hero, putting Carver, a pioneering African American agricultural chemist, at the helm of a boat loaded with black cooks, maids, fishermen and minstrels.

Shaun Brown

On 21 August 2007, it was reported that veteran SBS TV newsreader Mary Kostakidis had walked out on the network after nearly 20 years at the helm as a news presenter.

Simone De Battista

Amongst her works she appeared on local television, in the popular series Dejjem Tieghek Beckie in 2005/6, Id-Driegh t'Alla in 2005, Santa Monika in 2006, Pupi in 2007, Il-Kristu tal-Kerrejja in 2008 and lately in Is-Sigill tal-Qrar under the helm of Ivan De Battista.

Skipping Girl Vinegar

The band comprises siblings Mark and Sare Lang and their respective childhood friends Chris Helm and Amanthi Lynch, and are named after the Audrey the Skipping Girl Vinegar sign, located in Abbotsford, Victoria.

Sport on Four

Eventually, Cliff Morgan - who had just retired as a senior BBC TV Executive - took over the presenter's role in the Spring of 1987 and remained at the helm until the programme came to an end with schedule changes in April 1998.

T. L. Bayne

After a one year hiatus in which Fred Sweet coached the football team, Bayne returned to take the helm for the 1895 season.

Tales from the Punchbowl

Players must "navigate from the helm of Captain Shiner's ferryboat through an enchanted liquid atmosphere to many strange and mysterious islands. Many experiences are to be had, all in a rose-colored waterworld filled with visuals reminiscent of Dalí and Bosch."

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

In 2006 Sony optioned the rights to make the book into a film, with comedy director Chris Weitz reportedly signing on to helm the project for Columbia Pictures.

The Undercover Man

This was one of a number of noirs directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Gun Crazy and The Big Combo.

Toby Beau

The second album would score a Hot 100 single in the cover of John D. Loudermilk's "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye," but otherwise the album remained a financial disappointment to the band, and less than a year after the release, Zipper, Rose, and Young departed, leaving Silva at the helm with one album left on the contract.

Union Carbide Productions

Union Carbide Productions was a Swedish rock band formed by Ebbot Lundberg (vocals), Patrik Caganis, Björn Olsson, Per Helm and Henrik Rylander in 1986.

Walter Travis

Travis stayed at the helm of "The American Golfer" as Editor until he turned it over to Grantland Rice in the Spring of 1920, and severed his connection with the magazine by the end of 1920.

Western Suburbs Red Devils

With Don Parrish at the helm as captain-coach, Wests took back-to-back titles in 1969-70.

William Gropper

Floyd Dell took over the editorial helm for the next year or so, with the publication soon coming under the financial and editorial umbrella of the Communist Party in a friendly takeover towards the end of that year.


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