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2 unusual facts about Maurice Jones-Drew


2003 UCLA Bruins football team

Maurice Drew's 83-yard touchdown run tied for ninth longest run from scrimmage in UCLA history, tied with Derek Ayers (1993 vs. BYU) and Jackie Robinson (1939 vs. Oregon).

Backyard Football '10

Players take control of a collection of fictional kids and pint-sized versions of real-life National Football League (NFL) players like Adrian Peterson, Eli Manning, and Maurice Jones-Drew.


Ayrshire and Renfrewshire Football League

For membership, it drew upon Junior football teams based in the south-western Scottish counties of Ayrshire and Renfrewshire.

Bahik

The "Village of Behik" is a protocol signed in Constantinople in 1913 which drew most of the Turco-Persian border.

Baraita of the Forty-nine Rules

The Mishnat ha-Middot has nothing in common with the Baraita cited by the old scholars under that name: for the citations leave no doubt that the Baraita, even in its mathematical parts, was founded on the Bible; whereas the Mishnat ha-Middot is a purely secular work, and, possibly, it drew upon the same source as did Mohammed b. Musa, the oldest Arabic mathematician.

Black Ladies Priory

In 1535, just before the Dissolution of the Monasteries the priory drew an income from lands and rents in Chillington and Horsebrook, both in Brewood parish, and in Bradley, Broom, Kidderminster, Albrighton, Dawley, and Tong: these were worth £11 1s.

Boxford, Suffolk

This drew attention from the media: the Evening Standard incorporated a photograph of the villagers in a centre-page spread in one of their November 1975 editions, and a TV crew led by the late Bernard Falk for the BBC Nationwide programme accompanied the villagers when they left for a two-week stay on 23 July 1976.

Carl Ed

He drew samples for a strip titled Seventeen, loosely based on Booth Tarkington's successful novel Seventeen.

Charles Hulbert

At the request of William Wilberforce and Henry Grey Bennet (who was then Shrewsbury's local Member of Parliament) in 1808 he drew up a report on the management of factories, as an answer to a claim made in parliament that manufactories were hotbeds of vice.

Chase Craig

Born in Ennis, Texas, Craig studied in 1933-34 at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then worked at The Christian Science Monitor in Boston, where he drew Little Chauncey.

Christmas Tree EXEC

Written by a student at the Clausthal University of Technology in the REXX scripting language, it drew a crude Christmas tree as text graphics, then sent itself to each entry in the target's email contacts file.

Convention on the Nationality of Married Women

The Conference for the Codification of International Law, held at The Hague in 1930, drew protests from international women's rights groups, yet the League declined to include legislation enforcing married women's nationality rights.

Cycling in Syracuse, New York

During the 1890s cycle races like the Cicero Plank Road Race in Cicero, New York and the Century run of the Century Road Club to Utica and back were very popular forms of entertainment and drew thousands of spectators.

Dalen Hotel

After its opening in 1894, the hotel drew royal guests from all over Europe, playing host to the likes of King Oscar II of Sweden, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King Leopold II of Belgium, King Haakon VII of Norway and his family, and several members of the British aristocracy.

Declare Yourself

The ads drew national media attention, particularly those of actress Jessica Alba, who wears no visible clothing and is bound with black tape over her mouth and chest.

Denis Goulet

Goulet's work drew its major inspiration from the writings and examples of a group French religious intellectuals including Charles de Foucauld, Simone Weil, Louis-Joseph Lebret and the “worker priests” of the last century and from the hunger and thirst for justice of the gospel of Matthew.

Doneil Henry

Coach Aron Winter was left little choice but to start the young TFC Academy product the following few games including a standout performance on June 15 in a 0-0 away draw against New England Revolution in which he drew high praise from Taylor Twellman who was commentating on the game.

Drew, Oregon

At one time Drew's economy was based primarily on logging, but in a 2006 study, the federal government identified the Milo-Tiller-Drew area as a "community of concern" because of the negative impact the Northwest Forest Plan had on it.

E-novine

Editorial office drew a dozen of junior editors and journalists from Belgrade, in addition to contributors from the entire region of Balkans such as Emir Imamović, Andrej Nikolaidis, Filip David, Mirko Kovač, Vladimir Arsenić, Nenad Veličković, Dženana Karabegović, Ljubomir Živkov and many others.

Forum of Federations

The event drew world leaders such as then U.S. President Bill Clinton; former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien; and Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo.

Gary Beard

Also running was a second Republican, Country music singer Sammy Kershaw of Abbeville, the seat of Vermilion Parish in southwestern Louisiana, who drew 30 percent of the ballots.

Gordon Kurtti

Kurtti also drew a spot-on caricature of Sam Shepard for the 1984 La Mama presentation of Shepard Sets, a series of three short plays: Suicide in B Flat, Angel City and Black Bog Beast.

Group cohesiveness

In investigating these, academic Ted Cantle drew heavily on the concept of social cohesion, and the New Labour government (particularly then Home Secretary David Blunkett) in turn widely promoted the notion.

Guido Guidi

When the title changed to Transformers: Energon he drew the first two issues (#19-20) and #22.

Higgins Armory Museum

Norman Rockwell drew an imagined scene in the Higgins armory museum, titled Midnight Snack, for the November 3, 1962 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

History of Qatar

Sir Percy Cox, the British representative, saw through the ploy and drew a line on the map separating the Qatar Peninsula from the mainland.

Ismael Blanco

On 26 September 2007 in a match against Veria, after putting AEK Athens in front, Blanco revealed a Zorro mask from his sock and drew a big Z in the air celebrating the winning goal.

Jean-Claude Garoute

The movement drew the eye of French author André Malraux who dedicated a chapter to it in his book L'Intemporel.

Jean-Pierre Gibrat

In 1985, on Saval's texts, Gibrat drew, in Télé Poche, l'Empire sous la mer, an adventure starring the canine character Zaza, created by Dany Saval and Michel Drucker.

Juliet Richardson

Recorded with the help of record producer Stuart Price of Les Rythmes Digitales, Zoot Woman and Madonna's Confessions On A Dancefloor fame, the album drew comparisons to a young Annie Lennox or Madonna thanks to her coolly emotional delivery with a sultry sexual charge.

Kampung Boyan

Though it started out as a tin mine in the 1980s, it drew a lot of attention after the rapid development of the Taman and Kamunting mating of the 1980s and 1990s.

Kentucky Central Insurance Company

Fletcher attempted to use the issue to show that a conflict of interest prevented Beshear from saving the company and drew a comparison between Beshear and Enron executives at the time of that company's collapse.

Live a Borrowed Life

The series drew some controversy when George Rolland, who promoted white racial supremacist views, was brought on the show to represent Abraham Lincoln.

Lou Pickles

is a Rugrats/All Grown Up character, grandfather of Angelica, Tommy, and Dil, father of Stu and Drew, and father in law of Didi, and wife of Lulu.

Ludwig Quidde

However, Quidde drew an implicit parallel between the Roman Emperor Caligula and Wilhelm II, de facto accusing both rulers of megalomania.

Madison Cawein

The following year Bevis Hillier drew more comparisons in The Spectator (London) with other poems by Cawein; he compared Cawein's lines "...come and go/Around its ancient portico" with Eliot's "...come and go/talking of Michelangelo."

Maurice Jones

Born at Trawsfynydd, Meirionnydd, Jones he was educated at the local school, then, with scholarships, proceeded to Friars School, Bangor and Christ College, Brecon, and then Jesus College, Oxford, where he gained a first class degree in divinity in 1886, an MA and BD in 1907 and a DD in 1914.

Milton Mallawarachchi

Mallawarachchi was a popular live attraction; at a time when there was no TV in Sri Lanka, his appearances at variety shows sponsored by the Ceylon Tobacco Company drew huge crowds.

Mystery By Moonlight

In November 2002 Her Interactive released the 7th computer game in the Nancy Drew Series, Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, based loosely on this book and a short story in the Nancy Drew Ghost Stories.

Oronce Finé

On the same map, Fine drew Terra Australis to the south, including the legend "recently discovered but not yet completely explored," by which he meant the discovery of Tierra del Fuego by Ferdinand Magellan.

Postmodern philosophy

Postmodern philosophy also drew from the world of the arts and architecture, particularly Marcel Duchamp, John Cage and artists who practiced collage, and the architecture of Las Vegas and the Pompidou Centre.

Robert Banks Stewart

Stewart wrote two highly regarded serials for the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons (1975) (which was set in his native Scotland and drew on the Loch Ness Monster legend) and The Seeds of Doom (1976) (which was influenced by The Day of the Triffids).

Ruby Lindsay

Lindsay drew occasionally for The Bulletin and illustrated William Moore's Studio Sketches (1906) and designed posters.

Sigurd

The illustrator Arthur Rackham drew 70 vibrant renderings of the story for the book Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods, translated by Margaret Armour (1910).

Teatro Campesino

Teatro Campesino's early performances drew on varied traditions, such as commedia dell'arte, Spanish religious dramas adapted for teaching Mission Indians, Mexican folk humor, a century-old tradition of Mexican performances in California, and Aztec and Maya sacred ritual dramas.

The Exploding Hearts

The band drew influences from early British punk bands such as The Undertones, Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Jam, The Boys and The Only Ones, as well as power pop acts like Nick Lowe.

The Penultimate Truth

Dick also drew upon two other of his short stories for the plot of the novel: "The Mold of Yancy" and "The Unreconstructed M".

Thomas Mack Wilhoite

Each section of the squadron drew assigned tasks on 8 November 1942, the first day of the landings; and Wilhoite flew one of five Grumman F4F-4 Wildcats which attacked the French airdrome at Rabat-Sale, the headquarters of the French air forces in Morocco.

Under the Influence of Giants

Aaron Bruno, David Amezcua, and Drew Stewart are currently in the band Awolnation who released their debut EP Back from Earth in 2010 on iTunes.

United States Post Office-Visalia Town Center Station

Following with Art Deco tradition, the architect drew heavy inspiration from a multitude of sources, including Mesoamerica, Greece, Rome, and Egypt.

Walsh-Kaiser Company

The shipyard construction swallowed the popular Kerwin's Beach, which drew thousands to the shores of the Providence River before it was covered over.

William N. Fenton

In his work as an ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, Fenton drew attention to existing historic and ethnographic sources.


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