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unusual facts about Rally-X



20 March 2003 anti-war protest

The Edinburgh demo saw 500 people at midday march to the foot of The Mound, the rally was addressed by MSPs Tommy Sheridan and Lloyd Quinan.

5 April 2010 Peshawar bombings

Hours earlier 44 people died in a suicide attack at a rally in the north-western town of Timergara, Lower Dir District, during a meeting of the Awami National Party (ANP), the ruling coalition in North West Frontier Province.

Ahmed Hassan Said

Said participated in FEP's political rally of 9 October 2011 among the Maspero demonstrations that led to the massacre of many protesters.

Alan Unwin

He attended a rally for the Reform Party in May 1997, in which party leader Preston Manning called for federal prisoners to be stripped of their voting rights (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 16 May 1997).

Alpine Rally

The Alpine Rally, also known by its official name Coupe des Alpes, was a rally competition based in Marseille and held from 1932 to 1971.

Antonio Fassina

He won the Italian Rally Championship in 1976 and 1979 driving a Lancia Stratos HF, and then again in 1981 behind the wheel of an Opel Ascona.

Ascania Racing

Following the introduction of Group R regulations in 2013 and the restructuring of the secondary World Rally Championship categories, Ascania Racing switched to campaigning in the WRC-2 with Mini John Cooper Works S2000 cars supported by British motorsport firm Prodrive.

Battle of Dessau Bridge

His rally did not last long as he died outside of a village in Sarajevo soon before his ally, Johann von Ernst.

Bikelahoma

2008 was the birth of Bikelahoma in this format, featuring Jackyl, Kentucky Headhunters, Crooked X, Bang Tango, Dirty Penny, Murphy's Lawmen, and many others events alongside the rally.

Christian Edstrom

2006 marked Edstrom's first year with Subaru, and his first full year with driver Travis Pastrana, with the introduction of the new Subaru Rally Team USA.

David Bogie

2009 saw him mount a full season in the British Rally Championship where, despite two podium finishes, reliability problems with his Mitsubishi EVO X meant he had a disappointing season.

Deputy Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory

2 Bernard Collaery resigned all Ministerial responsibilities on 29 May 1991, losing confidence in Kaine led Alliance government with Residents Rally, due to unpopular decisions to close schools, close the Royal Canberra Hospital and amend planning laws.

EnerNOC

EnerNOC went public in 2007 on the NASDAQ stock exchange at US$26 per share followed by a rally to US$50 per share in spite of reporting two consecutive annual losses.

Fabrizia Pons

Fabrizia Pons (born 26 June 1955) is an Italian rally co-driver best known for her partnership with Michèle Mouton.

Forever Tarkovsky Club

It released its album on July 1, 2009 (a strong symbol, July 1 being the date of a popular protest rally in Hong Kong) and dissolved on July 5, 2009, after a two-night concert they had baptized "All Farewells Should Be Sudden" (and which featured Christina Chan Hau-man).

Hex Rally

The 2008 rally, held November 24, 2008, featured Longhorn football head coach Mack Brown, strength and conditioning coach, Jeff "Mad Dog" Madden, and the Longhorn Football Team.

Hubert Broad

In the next Challenge International de Tourisme 1930, he was 8th overall (he completed the rally part on the 1st place).

Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw

Laidlaw also won a medal in the Scottish amateur rally, using a Ford Focus ST. In 2007 Laidlaw added a 1001 hp Bugatti Veyron to his extensive car collection, which is sometimes seen between Noordhoek and Cape Town, on the world-famous coastal road Chapman's Peak Drive.

Janusz Waluś

However he did have some sporting success of his own in car racing even winning the national rally championship in the Fiat 127 class.

Jean Ragnotti

Jean "Jeannot" Ragnotti (born 29 August 1945 in Pernes-les-Fontaines, Vaucluse), is a French former rally driver for Renault in the World Rally Championship.

Jen Horsey

Since 2005, she has earned four division podium finishes, including two wins, in five appearances as a co-driver at the Targa Newfoundland rally.

Joe Sabia

In 2009, he was a participant in the Mongol Rally, where he filmed Tupac In Kazakhstan, the most-viewed video related to the rally.

Kim Il-sung Socialist Youth League

On 4 January 2007, in Pyongyang, Kim Song Chol, the First Secretary of the Pyongyang Municipal People's Committee of the KYSL gave a speech at a mass rally, with other high government officials, praising Songun Korea.

Konrad Henlein

From 12 September 1938, forward, he helped organise hundreds of terrorist attacks and two coup attempts by the Sudetendeutsches Freikorps paramilitary organisation affiliated with the SS-Totenkopfverbände, immediately after Hitler's threatening speech in Nuremberg at the Nazi Party's annual rally.

Linton, West Yorkshire

Ian Appleyard (1923–1998), brother of Geoffrey, was a rally driver and ornithologist.

Lipe Art Park

The park is located on an urban brownfield site where a multi-track train yard lay in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a yard whose round-house was the site of an important anti-slavery rally in 1852 at which the eminent abolitionist Frederick Douglas spoke.

Matt Iorio

2005 saw Matt Iorio winning the Rally America Open Class Championship as well as the North American Rally Cup (NARC).

MG ZR

A number of MG ZR's still compete in national rallying events, and the 2007 Rally of GB event saw Luke Pinder compete a ZR in the N1 class and despite not driving the car before the event he led the class after day one and went on to win his class.

Miki Biasion

Born at Bassano del Grappa, Biasion came to prominence in the early 1980s, winning both the Italian and European Rally Championships in 1983, driving a Lancia 037.

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution

Proton Motors of Malaysia raced Evolution III's, Evolution V's (most notable with Proton 1784 where Malaysian driver Karamjit Singh won the 2002 Production Car WRC) and an Evolution VII as the Proton PERT in various Asia-Pacific Rally Championship and APAC rally series.

Mogadishu Mile

The Mogadishu Mile refers to a route that was run by United States Army Rangers and Delta Force soldiers from a helicopter crash site to an appointed rally point held by the 10th Mountain Division on National Street during the Battle of Mogadishu on October 4, 1993.

Mogus Wolde Mikael

If it was not clear by this point to Mengistu that he was being squeezed out of power, after a mass rally in Revolution Square in Addis Ababa (better known by its older name, Meskel Square, which was later restored after Mengistu's fall), when General Tafari Benti gave a speech for reconciliation between the various revolutionary factions, he was flanked by Captains Almayahu Haile and Mogus.

Occupy Texas State

On November 17 Occupy Texas State, Occupy Austin, the Texas State Employees Union/CWA, The American Federation of Teachers the ISO and the Texas AFL-CIO gathered at the Texas State Capitol to rally against the Texas Legislature's $6.6 billion cut on public education.

Österreichische Alpenfahrt

The 1973 Austrian Alpine Rally was part of the 1973 World Rally Championship, but after that year the Rally ceased to exist because of the Oil Crisis.

Paul Löbe

At the time of Löbe's state funeral at the Rathaus Schöneberg on 9 August 1967, Andreas Baader (the later Red Army Faction militant), the author Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others in a satirical rally carried a coffin bearing the words “SENAT” to the front of the city hall.

Perranzabuloe

Donald Healey, rally driver, automobile engineer, speed record holder, born in the parish

Ramlila Maidan

The Joint rally was held at Ramlila and was led by several opposition leaders Jagjivan Ram, Morarji Desai, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Charan Singh and Chandra Shekhar.

Richmond Coliseum

On October 22, 2008, it hosted a rally for presidential candidate Barack Obama, drawing over 13,000 people.

Robert W. MacDonald

MacDonald pulled a similar prank later during the 1960 presidential campaign when John F. Kennedy was the featured speaker at a rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Second Amendment Sisters

On March 18, 2008, SAS organized the rally in support of Dick Anthony Heller's right to keep an operable handgun for self-protection in his home subject of the United States Supreme Court hearing of DC v. Heller in Washington, DC.

Sobiesław Zasada

Zasada won the European Rally Champion title in 1966 with Steyr-Puch 650 (the smallest vehicle to achieve such victory) and in 1967 with 4-cylinder Porsche 912.

The Transformers: Escalation

The Autobots rally to find his corpse, but the Machination prove more than ready for Jazz and Wheeljack.

Thomas Cook

With the opening of the extended Midland Counties Railway, he arranged to take a group of 540 temperance campaigners from Leicester Campbell Street station to a rally in Loughborough, eleven miles away.

Tunnock's

Since 2005, Tunnock's has sponsored The Tour of Mull, an annual car rally held on the Isle of Mull.

Valentin Porcișteanu

Before running in the Romanian National Rally Championship, Valentin Porcisteanul competed in the Romanian Hill Climb Championship, obtaining two podiums in Abrud Hill Climb 2003 (3rd place, young drivers' classification) and Brasov Hill Climb 2003 (3rd place, Class N1.6).

2011 is the year of the greatest success of his career – he scored wins in Brasov Rally, Cluj Rally, Arad Rally and Tara Barsei Rally, and ended up the season as the youngest ever Champion in the Romanian National Rally Championship history.

In 2008 Valentin Porcisteanu stepped into the top class of the Romanian National Rally Championship, competing with a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII and finishing 7th in the Overall ranking and 4th in the Mitsubishi Lancer Cup.

Vinters

Jānis Vinters (born 1971), Latvian rally racing motorcycle rider and farmer

Wave Rally

Wave Rally, also known as Jet Ski Riders, is a 2001 Jet Ski racing game developed by Opus Studio Inc. and published by Eidos Interactive exclusively for the PlayStation 2.

WRC Team Mini Portugal

The WRC Team Mini Portugal was formed out of the merger of the Mini entries of Armindo Araújo World Rally Team and Palmeirinha Rally, which were both run by the Motorsport Italia firm for drivers Armindo Araújo and Paulo Nobre respectively.


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