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1983 James Hardie 1000

BMW became the 6th manufacturer to appear in Hardies Heroes following Holden, Ford, Chevrolet, Mazda and Nissan.

1989 Australian Touring Car Championship

Holden's lack of interest in the 1989 ATCC wasn't well received either by the fans or television broadcaster Channel 7.

365mag

Particularly favoured styles include: minimal (e.g.: Luciano or Ricardo Villalobos), Neotrance (Tiefschwarz, James Holden, Daso or M.A.N.D.Y) or progressive (Hernan Cattaneo or Habersham).

Australian Motor Racing Championships

Formula 4000, the new name for Formula Holden also fronted, with the class expanded to include OzBOSS, a local variation of the European Formula BOSS (Big Open Single Seater), designed to encourage a wide variety of open wheel racing cars.

Australian Stock Car Auto Racing

AUSCAR's were also restricted to running 5.0 litre Holden and Ford V8 engines.

Australian Touring Car Championship

Attention focussed purely on Holden and Ford had blurred as European and Japanese manufacturers joined the Australian agents of the two big American companies, the trend starting in 1981 with BMW, Mazda and Nissan.

Barrowford

The other river is Colne Water, which joins Pendle Water behind the site of the now demolished Samuel Holden cotton mill and this river flows down from the moors above the town of Colne, again this river holds good trout.

Ben Holden

Holden calls college football, basketball, and ice hockey for the CBS Sports Network and done similar roles for the Big Ten Network and Comcast SportsNet and is the voice of the Lake Erie Monsters.

Bernard Holden

As an active Superintendent of the Line and later President of the Bluebell Society, Holden over saw the retention and then the expansion of the railway from near East Grinstead to Sheffield Park and in 1992 was appointed MBE for services to railway preservation.

Bob Holden

In the 2000 election, Holden narrowly defeated Republican Jim Talent.

Calder Park Raceway

Competitors at this meeting included current Calder Park owner Bob Jane (Autoland Jaguar 3.8 #84), Norm Beechey (Holden #40), John Wood (Holden #83) and Peter Manton (Mini Cooper).

Chas Licciardello

Footage aired on The Chaser's War on Everything on 12 September 2007 showed the fake "motorcade" consisting of two SUVs, a black Holden limousine flying a Canadian flag on the bonnet, four "runners" (one of which was Morrow) carrying hand-held video cameras and two motorcycles.

Claudia Joy Holden

Claudia Joy Holden (née Meade) is a fictional character on the Lifetime television series Army Wives, portrayed by Kim Delaney.

Courage of Lassie

The film was shot on location in Railroad Creek by Lake Chelan near Holden.

Dean Holden

In June 2006, Holden married television presenter Danielle Nicholls.

DTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase

The first protein structures of a dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase (RmlB) were completed by Jim Thoden in the Hazel Holden lab (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and Simon Allard in the Jim Naismith lab (University of St Andrews).

Fishermans Bend, Victoria

Fishermans Bend is a primarily industrial centre at the foot of the West Gate Bridge and contains major establishments for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Holden Australia, Hawker de Havilland, the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures, Kraft Foods, Toyota Australia, and port security.

Frankie J. Holden

During the 1970s Holden was the frontman for the Australian retro-rock band Ol' 55, which also included Wilbur Wilde and Jimmy Manzie.

Gentleman Who Fell

Written by Milla Jovovich with Mark R. Holden and Richard G. Feldman, the single charted at No. 21 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

George Stringam

George Lewis Stringam was born on May 21, 1876 in Holden, Utah, United States.

GM Korea

The end of the same year, GM Daewoo introduced the Winstorm, its first proper sport utility vehicle (SUV), which was, as the Lacetti, sold worldwide under different marques and names including Opel, Chevrolet, GMC and Holden, and previously Saturn before the demise of that brand in 2010.

GM2900 platform

The platform was intended to replace both division's J-cars, the Opel Ascona C and the Vauxhall Cavalier Mk.2, although the platform eventually branched out to Holden, Chevrolet's Latin American branch, and even Saab and Saturn.

Holden Astra

The Pulsar for Australia was assembled in Clayton, Victoria; however, for the Astra the body panels were pressed at Holden's Elizabeth, South Australia facility.

Holden Caulfield

The character, as Holden Morrisey Caulfield, also appears in Salinger's "Slight Rebellion off Madison", published in the December 21, 1946 issue of The New Yorker.

Newfoundland Punk band Mopey Mumble-Mouse wrote the song "Holden Caulfield", inspired by the character and Mark David Chapman, quoting Chapman in the song's intro.

Holden HK

161-cubic-inch (2.6-litre) and 186-cubic-inch (3.0-litre) inline six-cylinder engines were carried over from the HR series; however, a 307-cubic-inch (5.0-litre) Chevrolet V8 was now offered as an option on all models, this being the first time that any Holden had been available with a V8 engine.

Holden Special Vehicles

HSV was created in 1987 as a joint venture between Holden and Tom Walkinshaw Racing – an operation owned by Scottish racing car driver and entrepreneur Tom Walkinshaw.

Holden Torana

This was due to the 'Supercar scare' of 1972, which involved vast political pressure being placed upon Holden, Ford and Chrysler to abandon their proposed specially built 'Bathurst Supercars', such as the XU-2.

Holden-Keating Gang

Their most successful heist was the 1926 hijacking of a U.S. Mail truck at Evergreen Park, Illinois and escaping with $135,000.

Three of these alleged gunmen, Mike Rusick, Frank "Weinie" Coleman, and Samuel "Jew Sammy" Stein, were later found shot to death at White Bear Lake.

HSV Avalanche

Along with Holden's V8 Commodore-based AWD vehicles, the HSV Avalanche series was discontinued in late 2005 due to phasing out of the 5.7 litre LS1 engines because of the Euro III emissions regulations.

Kingswood Country

He lives for three things: his beloved chair in front of the TV, his unsuccessful racing greyhounds Repco Lad & Gae Akubra and his worshipped Holden Kingswood car (late in the show's run Ted traded-in the Kingswood, which had gone out of production around the time the series began, for Holden's replacement mid-range family car, the Commodore).

Marco Ponti

In 1995 he attended a script writing course the Holden School in Turin; the following year he worked at the same place under the direction of Alessandro Baricco.

Mark Winterbottom

At the third round of the year at Pukekohe Park Raceway in New Zealand, he achieved his career first pole by edging out Holden's Garth Tander.

Michael Holden

Explaining how he landed the role of Michael Holden, Brian McNamara said: "Apparently Katherine Fugate and April Webster had been looking for someone to play the role of Michael for quite a while. I was called in at the Nth hour, and Katherine felt that she'd finally found the actor to do it. I'm so grateful. I love playing Michael."

Morgan Paull

Morgan Paull (December 15, 1944 – July 17, 2012) was an American actor probably most notable for playing Holden in the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner.

New Zealand PGA Championship

In 2002, a PGA Tour of Australasia and U.S.-based Nationwide Tour co-sanctioned event, called the Holden Clearwater Classic was started at the Clearwater Resort in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Oakworth

Oakworth Primary School is situated in the grounds of Sir Isaac Holden's estate, along with Holden Park.

Reuben A. Holden III

In 1910, at the age of 20, Holden won the National Intercollegiate title for Yale, defeating R. Thayer of Pennsylvania in the first round, Cullen Thomas of Princeton in the second, S. F. Raleigh of Princeton in semis and Arthur Sweetser of Harvard in the final.

Sherman Q. Mack

In 1990, Mack graduated from Holden High School in Holden in Livingston Parish.

Sons of Adam

The Sons of Adam continued to play and record with Craig Tarwater (later in The Daily Flash) replacing Holden on lead guitar.

Stratfield Mortimer

The Lockram Brook flows through the middle of the parish and there is much woodland in the area, including Starvale Woods, Wokefield Common and Holden Firs.

Suzie Wilks

Wilks maintains a portfolio of several national and local product endorsements and in the past has featured in TV and press advertisements for Holden cars and Cadbury chocolates.

Terence Jay

He is best known for co-starring as Jeremy Van Holden in the 2005 film Green Street, playing alongside Elijah Wood, and for writing and performing several songs on the film's soundtrack, including the one played during the film's final sequence, "One Blood".

The Kiss Seen Around the World

The man who frequently appears throughout the episode calling Peter (and later Neil) a phony is named Holden Caulfield in the credits, a reference to the character of the same name who is the protagonist of the 1951 book The Catcher in the Rye, known to use the word "phony" many times throughout the book.

Todd Joseph Miles Holden

His mother, Nancy Holden, attended the original Little Red School House in New York City, and later earned an MS. A career educator, she founded a program for special needs children in Los Angeles and has been active as board member and president of various Jewish genealogy societies.

After becoming a fixture at youth basketball camps in the Tohoku region, Holden was offered the head coaching job with a professional women’s basketball team sponsored by Yamagata Bank.

Whitechapel and St George's by-election, 1923

Holden's campaign received the active support of Edwin Scrymgeour who had been elected to parliament for Dundee at the 1922 General Election on behalf of the Scottish Prohibition Party.

William Holden Wildlife Foundation

After his untimely death in 1981, his long time life partner actress Stefanie Powers, and Don and Iris Hunt created the William Holden Wildlife Foundation as a fulfillment of his desires and as a tribute to his dedication.


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