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2010 Dresden anti-fascist blockade

Supporters of Dresden Without Nazis include local and regional anti-fascist groups, the nationwide anti-fascist associations "No pasarán!" and "VVN-BdA", artists such as Konstantin Wecker and Die Toten Hosen, politicians from the Left Party, the Green Party and the Social Democratic Party and leading members of trade unions.

39th District corruption scandal

The 39th District corruption scandal refers to a persistent pattern of brutality and corruption among a cadre of Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) officers, primarily from the department's 39th District, that emerged in late 1995 and received nationwide attention by 1997, eventually resulting in an investigation by Human Rights Watch.

A. Ronald Walton

Working with ACTFL, the US Department of Education, the College Board, among other organizations, Walton helped to formulate nationwide standards for Japanese, French, Hebrew German, Spanish Chinese and Korean.

Avea

AveA (Aria and Aycell, AandA), the sole GSM 1800 mobile operator of Turkey, was founded in 2004 and has reached a nationwide customer base of 12.8 million as of the end of 2011.

Baptist General Conference

From its beginning among Scandinavian immigrants, the BGC has grown to a nationwide association of autonomous churches with at least 17 ethnic groups and missions in 19 nations.

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.

Chan Santokhi

At the 2010 parliamentary elections Santokhi had, despite being placed low on the voters list of the Progressive Reform Party, second most votes nationwide (Desi Bouterse had the most).

Columbus Salame

Their products are sold at supermarkets locally and nationwide, including Costco, Safeway, Cost Plus and Trader Joe's.

De vierde man

Reve had been asked to supply the 1981 Boekenweekgeschenk, a free book given to every buyer of a Dutch-language book during a one-week nationwide promotion known as Boekenweek ("Book Week").

Denny Hamlin

He won three races in the Nationwide Series, driving both the #18 and #20 entries for Gibbs, as well as the #32 Dollar General/Haas Avocados car for Braun Racing.

Dirt E. Dutch

In 2007 IndieFeed was the featured in-store music used in Guitar Center retail outlets nationwide.

Donna Cheatham

Her 1989 squad was ranked 13th nationwide by USA Today, and her 1990 team was ranked 10th in the country by Street & Smith.

Duke Networks

On February 7, 2010, Motorz TV premiered nationwide on the American cable and satellite television network, MavTV.

Father of medicare

Emmett Matthew Hall was a jurist and chair of the 1964 Royal Commission on health care in Canada which recommended the nationwide adoption of Saskatchewan's system of public insurance for both hospitalization and out-of-hospital medical services.

George W. Pepper

During the public debate over the expansion of advertising in the 1920s, Senator Pepper argued for a "nationwide code of regulation," described in a 1929 speech to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America.

Heinen

Mike Heinen (born 1967), American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour

Helen Keller National Center

Authorized by an Act of Congress in 1967, the Center provides nationwide services for people who are deaf-blind according to the definition of deaf-blindness in the Helen Keller Act.

HM Passport Office

The agency's headquarters is collocated with the Home Office at 2 Marsham Street and it has six regional offices around the UK, in London, Glasgow, Belfast, Peterborough, Liverpool and Durham as well as an extensive nationwide interview office network as all first time adult passport applicants are required to attend an interview to verify their identity as a fraud prevention measure.

Hot mobile

In 2011 Mirs was one of two winners (alongside Golan Telecom) for new nationwide UMTS network licenses from the Israeli Ministry of Communications.

Howard McNair

After his success in his films, McNair was cast in a leading role in Argos's 2009 Christmas campaign, where he gained nationwide recognition as the laughing man at the Christmas table.

HSwMS Sverige

Her cost was approximately 12 million kronor in 1912, and the entire sum was raised in public in a nationwide fundraising campaign that gained over 15 million (approximately 650 MKr, in 2005 Kr) The fundraising was done because of the Karl Staaff government's reluctance to spend money on a new battleship.

Hunter Haas

Haas was a member of the PGA Tour in 2001 and 2005; and a member of the Nationwide Tour in 2002-04, and 2006-10.

James Cotton

They performed "Juke" and "My Babe" together at the induction ceremony which was broadcast nationwide on VH1 Classic.

Jason Keller

In 2008 Keller drove for CJM Racing in their #11 Chevrolet in the Nationwide Series full-time with sponsorship from America's Incredible Pizza Company.

Jay Davis

Jay Davis is an American actor, stand-up comedian and comedy promoter/producer who garnered nationwide attention after appearing in Dane Cook's Tourgasm, a 30-day cross-country-tour-turned-reality-show which also included Cook, Gary Gulman and Robert Kelly, and was given a 8-episode run on HBO.

Jazz Mafia

In 2007 the Jazz Mafia Horns went on a nationwide tour with 1980s new wave musician Thomas Dolby.

JC Whitney

Roy proposed expanding out from the Chicago-area with a nationwide catalog and placed an ad in Popular Mechanics for sixty dollars.

Kamka Kura

It was broadcast over 36 local radio stations nationwide, both in urban and rural areas including State radio, Radio Nepal.

Kieran Dynes

Kieran Dynes, born in Clonmore Dungannon, Northern Ireland, is a race car driver currently competing in the European Late model(NASCAR) series, he has also raced in the NASCAR nationwide series and the ARCA remax series in the United States.

KZJK

Nationwide Communications bought both the AM and FM stations from the estate of its longtime owner Roy Park, then Nationwide was bought by Jacor, which spun the station off to Infinity Broadcasting (which later became part of CBS Radio).

Leo Steiner

Under the management of Parker and Steiner, the deli became known nationwide, attracting celebrities such as Woody Allen, Jackie Mason and Henny Youngman, and opened branch locations in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Secaucus, New Jersey and Tysons Corner, Virginia.

Mercer County, New Jersey

Mercer County's only commercial airport, and one of three in the state, is Trenton-Mercer Airport in Ewing Township, which is served by Frontier Airlines, offering nonstop service to and from points nationwide.

Milan Radonjić

Consequently and especially after Serbian law prohibited TV card readings, he started working at five television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including nationwide OBN television based in Sarajevo, and a number of television stations in Croatia, including nationwide Nova TV based in Zagreb.

Mox-Linde Gases

MOX has 21 plants nationwide in industrial parks such as Shah Alam, Bayan Lepas, Kulim, Pasir Gudang and Kerteh.

Paul Sarvela

With more than 130 conference papers to his credit, his work has been presented nationwide in the United States, as well as in parts of Europe, where he has been a visiting professor at the University of Cologne (Germany) and lectured in Finland.

Perkins School for the Blind

On June 8, 2012, in conjunction with the Helen Keller National Center (HKNC)and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Perkins School for the Blind was elected to conduct nationwide outreach for the National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program (NDBEDP).

Primus Canada

Primus Canada offers a wide selection of consumer and business telecommunications services available nationwide including Internet, VoIP, Home Phone, Long Distance, Wireless, Hosting, Managed Services and Enterprise IP Telephony.

Quarterback kneel

The play generated tremendous controversy, ridicule and criticism toward the Giants nationwide and specifically offensive coordinator Bob Gibson for failing to use the supposedly foolproof quarterback-kneeldown play.

Raymond Pace Alexander

Many accounts of the black civil rights struggle in the United States focus on the large-scale events, urban rebellions and nationwide efforts that characterized the years after the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards

The Litchfield Park, Arizona division was founded in 1980, and is responsible for granting the Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards, awarding scholarships, honouring industry veterans at the Silver Circle Celebration, conducting National Student Television Awards of Excellence, and operates a free research and a nationwide job bank.

RTÉ.ie

Some RTÉ content is available without geographic restrictions in RealAudio or RealVideo formats, including virtually all news and events broadcasts on radio and television dating back to 1998, and most episodes of Prime Time and Nationwide dating back a number of years.

The Katinas

The group's members sang in church as children, and began playing fairs, soon moving up to nationwide slots opening for R. Kelly, Jasmine Guy, DC Talk, and Amy Grant.

Tobi Jooste

He is ambassador for ACVV and has done a nationwide tour with their clothes to raise funds for charity.

UCB Home Loans

UCBHL operated out of a single location in Sutton with over 300 employees, relocating to Bournemouth and merging with the Portman Building Society's The Mortgage Works in 2007 following Nationwide's merger with the Portman.

United States presidential election in Colorado, 1992

Perot also won pluralities of the vote in Moffat County and San Juan County, the state providing Perot two county victories out of only 14 counties which Perot won nationwide.

Universidad Central del Este

UCE was founded at a time in which the Dominican Republic only counted with a handful of other universities nationwide, which included the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), founded by Pope Paul III in 1538; the Catholic University Mother and Teacher (now Pontifical) founded in Santiago in 1962; and the National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), founded in 1966.

Vice President's Room

In 1919 Vice President Thomas Marshall signed the constitutional amendment bill that would grant nationwide suffrage to women once ratified by the states.

Virgin Radio Italia

Virgin Radio Italia is a music-based Italian radio station, which started nationwide broadcasting on 12 July 2007 at 12:00 AM (with the song What a Wonderful World by Joey Ramone).


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