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76 unusual facts about Leroy "Grandmaster" Young


2012–13 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season

:The following SEC underclassmen declared early for the 2011 draft: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Archie Goodwin, Nerlens Noel, Marshawn Powell, Phil Pressey, B. J. Young

Albert Carnesale

Carnesale served as Chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles from July 1, 1997 until June 30, 2006, succeeding former chancellor and Chancellor Emeritus Charles E. Young.

Ammi B. Young

As a sort of compensation, he was appointed in 1852 as the first Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department, a position created by Thomas Corwin, Secretary of the Treasury during the Fillmore administration.

His first monumental work was the Second Vermont State House, a cruciform Greek Revival structure built between 1833 and 1838, which combined a Doric portico modeled on the Temple of Theseus in Athens, with a low saucer dome inspired by the Pantheon in Rome.

Austin H. Young

Young was born Austin Hill Young on December 8, 1830 in Fredonia, New York.

B. J. Young

Young spent the majority of his career in the minor leagues playing for the Adirondack Red Wings and Cincinnati Mighty Ducks of the American Hockey League, the Manitoba Moose of the International Hockey League, and the Anchorage/Alaska Aces in both the West Coast Hockey League and ECHL.

Bennett H. Young

Young ordered his troops to burn the town down, but the four-ounce bottles of Greek fire they had brought failed to work, and only one shed was destroyed.

Bernard C. Young

Because of the redrawn lines, he represented district 12 until in February 2010 he was appointed as city council president to fill the vacancy left by Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

Bob Graziano

His first job was as a certified public accountant at Ernst & Young.

Bruce Young

Bruce A. Young (born 1956), American television, film, and stage actor

California Maritime Academy

The California Nautical School was established in 1929, when California State Assembly Bill No. 253 was signed into law by Governor C. C. Young.

Carleton G. Young

In 1959, in the season-two episode of ABC's Leave It to Beaver, Young played John Bates, the father of series character Gilbert Bates (Stephen Talbot).

Charles Wells Ltd

The Charles Wells Pub Company was formed as a distinct pub estate for Charles Wells Ltd when the parent company merged its brewing operations with London's Young's Brewery to form Wells & Young's Brewery.

Clair S. Tappaan

In August 1927 he was appointed to the Superior Court by Governor C. C. Young, and he was elected to a full term in September 1928.

Cliff Young

Clifford E. Young (1883–1958), general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Council on Competitiveness

The Council on Competitiveness was founded in 1986 by the Chairman of President Ronald Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, John A. Young.

Derek Brownlee

Brownlee worked as a chartered accountant at Ernst & Young (1996–2002), Institute of Directors (2002–2004) and Deloitte (2004–2005), advising large and small businesses before his entering the Scottish Parliament.

Dipesh Chakrabarty

PE adds considerably to the debate of how postcolonial discourse engages in the writing of history (e.g., Robert J. C. Young's "White Mythologies"), critiquing historicism, which is intimately related to the West's notion of linear time.

E. H. Young

After Henderson's retirement and the death of his wife, Young moved with him to Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire.

Eagle-Lion Films

In 1947 it acquired Robert R. Young's PRC Pictures, a small American production company, to produce B Pictures to accompany the British releases.

Frank Young

Frank L. Young (1860–1930), New York assemblyman and Supreme Court justice

Fred E. Young

Young was born in Watsontown, Pennsylvania, but lived more than fifty years in the Kansas City area.

French Third Republic

The first historian to denounce la décadence concept explicitly was the Canadian historian Robert J. Young, who, in his 1978 book In Command of France argued that French society was not decadent, that the defeat of 1940 was due to only military factors, not moral failures, and that the Third Republic's leaders had done their best under the difficult conditions of the 1930s.

Fyra

Which a report of Ernst & Young illustrated with a solvency of -47.5% and low credit ratings for its parent company Finmeccanica.

George M. Young

Young was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, to September 2, 1924, when he resigned to accept a judicial position.

Gerald Young

Gerald O. Young (1930–1990), United States Air Force officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Horace C. Young

On January 19, 1831, he married Laura P. Walker (1808–1890), and they had six children, among them Congressman H. Olin Young (1850–1917).

Horace Young

Horace C. Young (1806–1879), American architect and politician from New York

Hotels in Meridian, Mississippi

Many businesses sprung up in this area, one of them run by E. F. Young, Jr., a local barber and taxi driver.

Hugh H. Young

Notable recipients include John K. Lattimer, pioneer of pediatric urology and physician investigator of the JFK assassination, and Larry I. Lipshultz, founder of Society for the Study of Male Reproduction.

He was also active in community affairs and was known to be a supporter of Albert Cabell Ritchie, a Maryland politician who made a bid for presidency in 1932 but lost the nomination to Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Democratic Party convention in Chicago, where Young was among the delegates.

James R. Young

He was the Chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department in the 57th United States Congress.

Jess Walton

Walton briefly dated one of the managers for Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and for a time, she associated with them and other musicians, including Laura Nyro and Neil Young.

Jim Harrick

On November 6, 1996, Dalis and school chancellor Chuck Young gave Harrick an ultimatum—resign by the next morning or be fired.

John A. Young

He received his BS degree in electrical engineering in 1953 from Oregon State University, later receiving an MBA degree from Stanford University.

John H. Rountree

In 1866-1867, Rountree served in the Wisconsin State Senate again, elected on the National Union ticket to represent the Sixteenth Senate District (Grant County), succeeding Milas K. Young (another Whig-turned-Republican elected on the National Union ticket); he still described his profession as "farmer".

John J. Midgley

He has been on the faculties of Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and the United States Military Academy, and held executive positions with Ernst & Young, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Center for Public Affairs before being asked to resign, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Commerce One.

Kenneth Pasternak

In 1999, Kenneth Pasternak, Knight/Trimark Group Inc., was named Emerging Entrepreneur Of The Year by Ernst & Young.

Leo C. Young

By 1922, this expanded to broadcasts from Congress, including an address by President Warren G. Harding.

MacAir Airlines

On 29 January 2009, MacAir placed itself into voluntary administration; the following day major creditor Suncorp-Metway appointed Ernst & Young as receivers and the airline ceased operations.

Malaysia Junior Hockey League

One of the main reasons for the waning popularity of the existing domestic competition was the rise of corporate teams such as Ernst & Young, TNB and Maybank which do not have a steady fan following.

Mason Phelps Jr

He was one of three children, including his late brother Taylor who was the road manager for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and later worked for Stephen Stills, The Band and Neil Young.

MetaDesign

Meta's San Francisco office grew a reputation for client relationships with Silicon Valley technology companies and developed innovative interactive teaching media including ViZability, IDEO's first web site, publishing systems for Ernst & Young and McGraw Hill and specialist event publicity for Fuse 98.

Michael K. Young

Michael K. Young received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University in 1973 and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1976, after which he clerked for Supreme Court Associate Justice William Rehnquist.

Music of Senegal

Xalam toured with groups like Rolling Stones and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, finally achieving success in Senegal with 1988's Xarit.

New England Art Union

The board included Everett, Dexter, and Longfellow, and a mix of prominent Bostonian businessmen, artists, and other notables: Joseph Andrews; Thomas G. Appleton; Edward C. Cabot; Alvan Fisher; Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham; James B. Gregerson; Chester Harding; Joshua H. Hayward; George S. Hilliard; Albert G. Hoit; Jonathan Mason; Benjamin S. Rotch; G. G. Smith; Charles Sumner; C. G. Thompson; and Ammi B. Young.

Operation Fly, Inc.

It was recently given much attention for an award given by Ernst & Young and Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area.

Owen D. Young

Under his guidance and teaming with president Gerard Swope, GE shifted into the extensive manufacturing of home electrical appliances, establishing the company as a leader in this field and speeding the mass electrification of farms, factories and transportation systems within the US.

Parago

In 2009, Parago President and CEO Juli Spottiswood was recognized as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009 in the business services category in Southwest Area- North.

Pierce M. B. Young

Returning home in early 1861, he was appointed second lieutenant in the 1st Georgia Infantry regiment, but declined that commission for the same rank in the artillery.

R. A. Young

Her son, however, was educated at Westminster City School and King's College, London, graduating Bachelor of Science (BSc) in physiology with first-class honours in 1891, and then trained as a doctor at Middlesex Hospital, graduating Bachelor of Medicine (MB) in 1894 and Doctor of Medicine (MD) with gold medal in 1895.

Richard L. Young

On July 15, 1997, Young was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana vacated by Gene E. Brooks.

Robert Bardwell

Bardwell is now a product manager for Ernst & Young, one of the world's largest professional services firms.

Robert D. Young

In 1921 the stake was divided into three, and Young continued as president of the Sevier Stake which was reduced to having only Richfield and such neighboring towns as Glenwood and Venice.

Robert F. Young

Only near the end of his life did the science fiction community learn he had been a janitor in the Buffalo public school system.

Robert J. C. Young

White Mythologies was the first book to characterize postcolonial theory as a field in itself, and to identify the work of Edward W. Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi K. Bhabha and the Subaltern Studies historians as its intellectual core.

Robert J. Young

Over the last forty years, Professor Young, a Canadian, has written numerous academic books and articles including France and the Origins of the Second World War and Louis Barthou: Power and Pleasure.

Robert W. Young

The two were presented Pendleton Blankets embroidered with the seal of the Navajo Nation by members of the Navajo Language Academy, including Paul Platero, Ellavina Perkins, Alyse Neundorf, and MaryAnn Willie.

Ronald N. Young

Among the many accomplishments achieved or begun during Young's years as mayor were the Carroll Creek flood control project, the Market Street underground wiring project, the Weinberg Center for the Arts, Harry Grove Stadium, Clustered Spires Golf Course, several parking garages and the revitalization of downtown Frederick.

Roy A. Young

He then worked as assistant cashier and joined the Citizens National Bank as vice president in 1913.

After his resignation, he changed to become chairman of the Merchants National Bank and later chairman of American Woolen Company.

Roy Young

Roy A. Young (1882–1960), American banker; past chairman of the Federal Reserve

Rufus C. Dawes

Because of his contribution, Dawes was also asked to work as assistant to Owen D. Young, who developed the succeeding Young Plan in 1929.

Samuel H. Young

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976.

Samuel Young

Samuel H. Young (born 1922), United States Representative from Illinois

Shi Ming Yi

In the course of the investigations by the auditing firm Ernst & Young, a few financial transactions could not be satisfactorily explained.

Smiths News

On 20 March 2009, Bertram Books, a book wholesaler, entered administration and on the same day Ernst & Young sold the business to Smiths News for £8,611,622 in a "pre-pack" deal.

Stephen M. Young

In the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon Young was portrayed by J. Don Ferguson.

Thomas L. Young

While living in Ireland, his father was a gardener for Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Earl of Dufferin.

Vernon R. Young

Then, toward the end of his period there, he came across the September, 1964, issue of Scientific American, an edition devoted to food and agriculture, which contained an article written by Nevin Scrimshaw, Institute Professor at MIT, who was to become a lifelong mentor, colleague and hero to Young.

Walter Young

Walter X. Young (1918–1942), United States Marine Corps officer during World War II

Washington Oaks State Gardens

In 1936, Louise Powis Clark, wife of the industrialist Owen D. Young purchased the property as a winter retirement home.

William G. Young

After his federal appointment Judge Young sentenced Richard Reid, better known as the shoe bomber, to life in prison.

William T. Young Library

The William T. Young Library, located on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, is named for William T. Young, a prominent local businessman, horse breeder, philanthropist and alumnus of the university, who began fund raising efforts with a donation of $5 million.

The top donor who kick-started the project was Lexington businessman and horse breeder William T. Young who gave $5 million; the University would later raise $21.5 million.

XLN Telecom

In 2006 Christian Nellemann was a winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Technology and Communication and again in 2010.


2002 in chess

Eduard Gufeld, a Ukrainian International Grandmaster and chess author - September 23

5 Pointz

Over the past decade, the striking, graffiti-covered warehouse has attracted several hip-hop and R&B stars, including Doug E. Fresh, Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Kaz, Mobb Deep, Rahzel, DJ JS-1, Boot Camp Clik, Joan Jett, and Joss Stone.

Adolph Mongo

Mongo has served as a consultant and strategist for several Detroit mayors, which includes Coleman A. Young, and Kwame Kilpatrick.

Arie Verveen

His appearance in Caught (1996) was his first lead role in a feature film, opposite Edward James Olmos and María Conchita Alonso, directed by Robert M. Young.

Bedford Blues

The kit is sponsored by three companies; The front of the team shirt by Autoglass, the sleeves by Wells Bombardier and the back by Lifesure insurance.

Charles Wells Ltd

Charles Wells Pub Company has an estate of more than 200 pubs predominantly based across the Eastern and Northern Home Counties regions, while Wells & Young's beers are distributed through both the Charles Wells and Young's pub estates.

Doshin So

In 1936 Wen formally passed his title of grandmaster of Yihe Quán to Nakano, at the Mount Song Shaolin Monastery, at Henan province.

Friðrik

Friðrik Ólafsson (born 1935), Icelandic chess Grandmaster and former president of FIDE

Gareev

Timur Gareev (born 1988) is a chess Grandmaster from Uzbekistan

Garimot Arnis

Grandmaster Jose "Uti" Baet was an accomplished wrestler, studied with Aetas, and taught Grandmaster Felipe "Garimot" Baet (4th generation), who in turn studied with the Mangyans.

Human ecology

Scholarship has increasingly tended away from Gerald L. Young's idea of a "unified theory" of human ecological knowledge—that human ecology may emerge as its own discipline—and more toward the pluralism best espoused by Paul Shepard: that human ecology is healthiest when "running out in all directions.".

Jan Smeets

At Dos Hermanas the following year, he shared third behind Fridman and Bu Xiangzhi (with Sergey Volkov) and at the 2005 Hengelo Stork Young Masters event, he finished one-half point behind the Russian grandmaster Alexander Riazantsev.

Jen Stills

Stills has appeared on Ray LaMontagne's album Trouble on the track “Narrow Escape,” and on the title track of Crosby Stills and Nash's After the Storm.

Mark Bluvshtein

A couple of months later, Bluvshtein raised his International rating above 2500, completing the requirements for the GM title, and he received it at age 16 at the Calvià Olympiad, where he made a further Grandmaster norm, for good measure!

Milan Matulović

Matulović's sharp attacking play is shown in a more favorable light in this game against the Bulgarian grandmaster Georgi Tringov from the 1970 Chess Olympiad at Siegen.

Miniopterus tao

In 1934, Chinese paleontologist C.C. Young was the first to describe fossil bats from the fossil site of Zhoukoudian Locality 1, which is famous for Peking Man.

One Raffles Quay

ORQ is home to international banks such as RBS, Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank AG, Societe Generale Private Banking and UBS, as well as renowned professional services firms Thomson Reuters and Ernst & Young.

Pan Qingfu

Currently living in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Grandmaster Pan's awards include a Hall of Fame award from the United International Kung Fu Federation, a Hall of Fame Award from the World Christian Martial Arts Federation, the International Legend Hall of Fame award from the USA Wushu Kung Fu Federation and a Hall of Fame Award from Black Belt magazine.

Privately held company

KPMG, the UK accounting firms Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, IKEA, Trafigura, J C Bamford Excavators (JCB), Lidl, Aldi, LEGO, Bosch, Rolex and Victorinox are some examples of Europe's largest privately held companies.

Regions-Harbert Plaza

Major tenants include Regions Financial Corporation; law firms Balch & Bingham and Maynard Cooper & Gale; and the accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young and Northwestern Mutual Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company.

Slamannan

Early twentieth century Everton footballer, Alex "Sandy" Young was born in Slamannan, and spent his youth years playing for Slamannan Juniors.

Sport in Saint Petersburg

Chess tradition was highlighted by the 1914 international tournament, in which the title "Grandmaster" was first formally conferred by Russian Tsar Nicholas II to five players: Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tarrasch and Marshall, and which the Tsar had partially funded.

Stewart Haslinger

Stewart Haslinger (born 25 November 1981, in Ainsdale, Merseyside) is an English chess Grandmaster and former British Junior champion.

Subramanian Arun Prasad

Subramanian Arun Prasad (born 21 April 1988 in Salem) is an Indian Chess Grandmaster.

Suttles

Duncan Suttles (born 1945), Canadian International Grandmaster of Chess

Thomas Brierley

When the Duke of Devonshire was Provincial Grandmaster for Derbyshire, Thomas and some friends walked to Chatsworth House which sat in a large Deer Park laid out by Capability Brown where they were refused admittance as the Duke was home.

Tin Pei Ling

On 1 June 2011, Tin announced on her Facebook account that she had resigned from her Senior Associate position in Ernst & Young, where she had worked for four years.

Vladimir Vysotsky

Just several months later Riga-based chess grandmaster Mikhail Tal was heard praising the author of "Bolshoy Karetny" (Большой Каретный) and Anna Akhmatova (in a conversation with Joseph Brodsky) was quoting Vysotsky's number "I was the soul of a bad company..." taking it apparently for some brilliant piece of anonymous street folklore.

Walter Desmond

He was appointed Judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court by Governor C.C. Young on August 3, 1927 and served until April 11, 1934, when he took an appointment from Governor Rolph as an Associate Justice for the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division 3.