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unusual facts about Lax-kw'alaams First Nation


Lax-kw'alaams First Nation

In 1857 an Anglican lay missionary named William Duncan brought Christianity to Lax Kw'alaams, but, feeling that he was competing in vain with the dissipated fort atmosphere for Tsimshian souls, he relocated about 350 of his flock to Metlakatla, at Metlakatla Pass just to the south.


Annette Walter-Lax

Moon forced Annette to give up her modeling career, as he had with his ex-wife, Kim Kerrigan.

Babuška

Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem, a mathematical theorem and generalization of the Lax–Milgram theorem

Bank Secrecy Act

In 2011 the Observer reported that Wachovia, at one time a major US bank, was implicated in laundering money for Mexican drug lords, through its lax laundering controls, a violation of the Bank Secrecy Act.

Been to Hell

Places shown around Los Angeles include: La Brea Avenue, Santa Monica Pier, The Los Angeles Metro system, Hollywood Boulevard, and The Los Angeles Train Station.

Better Government Association

Through the 1980s and 1990s, the BGA exposed fraud in the Chicago Public Schools, lax security at the O’Hare International Airport, and corrupt secretary of state George Ryan, among other investigations.

Cali Cartel

The lax attitude of the DEA on cocaine is believed to be what allowed the group to prosper, but also to develop and organize itself into multiple "cells" that appeared to operate independently, yet reported to a "celeno" or manager, who reported to Jorge Alberto Rodriguez, who in turn reported back to Cali.

Coastal sage scrub

Other endemic fauna includes: the El Segundo blue butterfly in the LAX dunes; and the Palos Verdes Blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis), at only one site on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

El Segundo blue butterfly

El Segundo Blue (Euphilotes battoides allyni) is a butterfly local to a small dune ecosystem in Southern California that used to be a community called Palisades del Rey, close to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

Eric Lax

Eric Lax has appeared in several video biographies and lives in Beverly Hills with his wife Karen Sulzberger, daughter of the late New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and sister of current Times publisher, Arthur, Jr.

Fort Worth Alliance Airport

Alliance filled-in for Los Angeles International Airport during the filming of the short-lived 2004 TV drama LAX.

Freylinia tropica

Freylinia tropica is a Southern African shrub with lax, spreading branches and found in the South African province of Limpopo and in Zimbabwe.

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

Stephen Halbrook, in the law article "Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews", asserts that German arms laws were extremely lax, and even under the 1920 "Law on the Disarmament of the People", only items such as grenades and machineguns were banned; however, small arms such as rifles and pistols remained in common use.

Joseph Volotsky

After having lived in a few other monasteries, Joseph became disappointed with their lax morals and founded his own cloister in 1479 near Volokolamsk, which would become known as the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery.

L.A. International Airport

The song was rerecorded with updated lyrics in 2003 by Shirley Myers for the 75th Anniversary of LAX.

Lax Lake, Minnesota

Lax Lake is an unincorporated community in Beaver Bay Township, Lake County, Minnesota, United States.

Lax'n'Busto

:Born in Vendrell on 16 September de 1965, he left Lax'n'Busto on 20 October 2006.

Mocosos Pateticos

Some of this demos were then uploaded into their Myspace page and listened by Siltbreeze's, Tom Lax, who offered them to release those songs on a 12 inch vinyl.

Monika Brodka

In May 2012, Brodka released an extended play LAX, which was recorded at Red Bull Studios in Los Angeles together with music producer and engineer Eric Stenman.

N-class ferry

MV Nicola, (A.K.A. Spirit of Lax Kw' Alaams) owned by BC Ferries, but operated by Lax Kw'alaams First Nations.

Operation Willi

Edward, being notoriously lax in security, often left top secret government files sent to him unguarded in his Fort Belvedere residence, giving Mrs. Simpson every opportunity to do so.

People's Park

Governor Ronald Reagan had been publicly critical of university administrators for tolerating student demonstrations at the Berkeley campus, and he had received enormous popular support for his 1966 gubernatorial campaign promise to crack down on what the public perceived as a generally lax attitude at California's public universities.

Put You on the Game

The video shows many Los Angeles landmarks such as Staples Center, The Watts Towers, and LAX.

Pyx Lax

Other important international artists that collaborated with Pyx Lax were: Gordon Gano, Steve Wynn, Bayaka and Saša Dragić.

Sacramento Executive Airport

Aircraft included Martin 4-0-4s and Fairchild F-27s (on Pacific Air Lines), Lockheed L-188 Electras (on Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) and Western Airlines), Boeing 727-100s (on PSA and United Airlines) and Boeing 720Bs (on Western); Western had one B720B nonstop a day to LAX.

Sweet Dreams My LA Ex

The name uses a pun on LAX, the IATA airport code for Los Angeles International Airport.

The Latin American Xchange

During the November 16 episode of Impact!, LAX nearly burned the American flag, as they promised one week earlier, but were stopped by Petey Williams.

The Rock 'n' Rave Infection

After the LAX feud ended, the trio of Rave, Hoyt and Hemme developed a rock band gimmick, bringing out Guitar Hero game controllers to the ring, with Hemme acting like a frontwoman.

Thomas Crosby

In 1897 he was made chairman of the British Columbia Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada and left Lax Kw'alaams to take charge of the newly subdivided mission district covering Lowe Inlet, Bella Bella, and parts of Vancouver Island.

Tim Fischer

In August 2013, following the shooting death of Australian baseball player Christopher Lane in Oklahoma, Fischer called for a tourism boycott of the United States to protest the activities of the National Rifle Association and what he felt were overly lax American gun laws.

TNA Turning Point

LAX won the match by hanging the Mexican Flag above the ring, thus earning the right to have the Mexican National Anthem played in the arena.

Triumph in the Skies

Triumph in the Skies has been compared to the now-cancelled NBC series LAX.

Uihlein Soccer Park

Uihlein Soccer Park has also been used for Lacrosse tournaments (Hot 4 Lax), Ultimate Frisbee games (Milwaukee Ultimate), and Hurling matches (Milwaukee Hurling Club).

Westside Neighborhood School

Through the school year ending in 2005, WNS was Westchester Neighborhood School, located in south Westchester directly under the final approaches of aircraft landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), hence the "Jets" nickname used by the school's athletic teams.

Xtra Airways

Casino Express Airlines operated one (1) Boeing 737-200 jetliner for new start-up airline Tahoe Air which provided scheduled passenger air service from the South Lake Tahoe Airport (TVL) nonstop to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in southern California and also nonstop to San Jose International Airport (SJC) in northern California.


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