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A Family Secret

A Family Secret earned two Genie Award nominations (Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Ginette Reno and Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay) and won a Stony Brook Film Festival award for Best Feature.

Basque festival

Basque festivals are organized in the United States of America in towns with an important population of Basque descendants, such as Reno, Boise and Winnemucca.

Battle of Kamdesh

The US soldiers killed in the battle were: Justin T. Gallegos (Tucson, Arizona), Christopher Griffin (Kincheloe, Michigan), Kevin C. Thomson (Reno, Nevada), Michael P. Scusa (Villas, New Jersey), Vernon W. Martin (Savannah, Georgia), Stephan L. Mace (Lovettsville, Virginia), Joshua J. Kirk (South Portland, Maine), and Joshua M. Hardt (Applegate, California).

Ben Kieckhefer

He was elected to the Nevada State Senate in 2010 to represent Washoe Senate District 4, later renamed Senate District 16, which encompasses portions of Reno, Pleasant Valley, Incline Village, New Washoe City, and Carson City.

Bruce Bialosky

Upon arrival in Reno, Nevada, in 1980 Bialosky involved himself in the election of Ronald Reagan for President.

Casey Crawford

After unsuccessful pre-season tryouts with various National Basketball Developmental League teams (Reno Bighorns, Sioux Falls Skyforce,Iowa Energy), Crawford was signed in November by the Coventry Crusaders of the English Basketball League Division 1 team.

Charles Vernon Culver

Culver also attempted to establish the Reno-Pithole railroad, to run between Reno and Pithole, Pennsylvania, the leading oil boom town at the time.

Chukar

Reno Chukars, name of Marysville Gold Sox, a US summer collegiate wood-bat club from California, in 1996–1998

Compubox

At Hobson & Canobbio's request, Gibbs wrote the code for FightStat (also called PunchStat in some venues) and was used at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum and in Reno for the 1985 HBO Boxing telecast of the Livingstone Bramble-Ray Mancini rematch for the WBA's world Lightweight title.

Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse

Reno and Magimel are joined by a religious specialist called Marie, played by Camille Natta.

Darin Allen

Darin Allen won the gold medal in the middleweight division at the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships, held in Reno, Nevada, by defeating East Germany's Henry Maske in the finals.

Dawn Gibbons

On May 2, 2008, the governor filed for divorce on grounds of incompatibility, citing an undisclosed incident in Reno, and asked the court to determine whether he or his wife would live at the Nevada Governor's Mansion in Carson City.

El Cortez Hotel

The El Cortez Hotel, at 239 W. 2nd St. in Reno, Nevada, is a historic Art Deco-style hotel that was designed by Reno architects George A. Ferris and Son and was built in 1931.

Evan Taylor

Taylor attended and played soccer at Godfrey Stewart High School in Jamaica, and started his club career at Reno of the Jamaican National Premier League where, under the tutelage of former Jamaican national team player and coach, Wendell Downswell, he plays for under-21 and senior teams.

G. William Richards

Richards later moved with his family to Reno, Nevada where he served as executive vice-president of the Nevada Division of the American Cancer Society.

Geoffrey T. Hellman

They married in Reno, Nevada in 1941 just hours after her divorce from magazine editor Harry A. Bull.

Gloria Pall

She worked as a showgirl in both Reno and Las Vegas as well as in Hollywood where for a time she was chosen to be "Miss Earl Carroll" from the huge cast of beauties.

Jay Nady

A close friend of legendary boxing referee Mills Lane, Nady served as the manager for Lane's successful campaign for district attorney and judge in Reno, Nevada.

Jay White

Now 1989, after an audition and a seven-week run in Reno, Nevada, Jay moved with his wife and three children from Utica, Michigan to Las Vegas to perform with Legends in the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Dorothy finally filed for divorce and took up temporary residence in Reno, Nevada, with her new lover, (and later 2nd husband) Walter Longcope.

KELM

KELM-LP, a low-power television station (channel 43) licensed to Reno, Nevada, United States

KJFK

KSGG, a radio station (1230 AM) licensed to serve Reno, Nevada, United States known as "KJFK" from 2005 to 2013

KKOH

Reno's Morning News with Ross Mitchell & Monica Jaye, Ross Mitchell - Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame

KRNV

KRNV-FM, a radio station (102.1 FM) licensed to Reno, Nevada, United States

Minnesota State Highway 249

Minnesota State Highway 249 was a highway in southeast Minnesota, which ran from its intersection with State Highways 44 and 76 in Caledonia and continued east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 26 in Crooked Creek Township, south of Reno.

Nevada's 2nd congressional district election, 2006

After the primary, Angle refused to concede, complaining of voting irregularities that disenfranchised many voters in her popular home base of Washoe County, which includes Reno and is by far the district’s most populous and vote-rich jurisdiction.

Ormsby House

This time the new owners appointed former lieutenant governor and future Reno mayor Bob Cashell as general manager.

Peavine Peak

Brooklyn, named for the New York Borough, was settled in March, 1875, on the southeast face of the mountain about midway between Reno and Verdi.

Reno Browne

In 1951, Bill Haley and His Saddlemen recorded a single called "My Palomino and I"/"My Sweet Little Girl from Nevada" for Cowboy Records (CR 1701) which was released as by "Reno Browne and Her Buckaroos", even though Browne had no connection with the recording (though her photo did appear on the sheet music for the latter song).

Reno Gang

On the evening of October 6, 1866, John Reno, Sim Reno, and Frank Sparkes boarded an Ohio and Mississippi Railway train as it started to leave the Seymour depot.

Richmond Fontaine

Underpinned by lead singer and songwriter Willy Vlautin's lyrics, Richmond Fontaine songs often evoke imagery of Reno, Nevada, Portland, the Western United States and Mexico while telling stories in a style that critics have compared to Raymond Carver.

Rob Guest

In 1981 he moved to the United States with his first wife, Lynette Perry, where he spent most of the 1980s performing and hosting shows in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno, Nevada and Lake Tahoe.

S.P. Reno Centese A.S.D.

Società Polisportiva Reno Centese Associazione Sportiva Dilettante is an Italian association football club from Reno Centese, frazione of Cento, Emilia-Romagna.

SAGE Computer Technology

SAGE Computer Technology was a computer company based in Reno, Nevada, United States.

Samuel Garland, Jr.

In 1993, the Central Maryland Heritage League, owners of parts of the Fox's Gap battlefield (part of the South Mountain State Battlefield Park, erected and dedicated a commemorative marker near the spot of Garland's death near the earlier 1889 marker erected by Union soldiers of the IX Corps to Gen Jesse L. Reno on Reno Monument Road.

Suzanne Stonebarger

At Nevada-Reno Stonebarger met and played with her present-day teammate, Michelle More.

Tahoe National Forest

The forest also serves as the water supply headwaters for the towns of Lincoln, Auburn, Rocklin, California, and Reno and Sparks, Nevada, which receive the water through elaborate canal systems that largely originated during the California Gold Rush and Comstock Lode eras.

USS Reno

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Reno, the first after Walter E. Reno, and the second after the city of Reno, Nevada.

Vail Daily

It is published by Colorado Mountain News Media, a division of Swift Communications in Reno, Nevada.

Virginia and Truckee Railroad Depot - Carson City

The Reno and Gold Hill Depots still exist, as well as the V&T Freight Depot in Virginia City.

Warburton Ledge

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Joseph A. Warburton, Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, Reno, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) scientist in charge of the RISP meteorological program, 1974-75 field season.

Washoe County Library

The Washoe County Library, at 301 S. Center St. in Reno, Nevada, is a public library and is a historic Modern-style building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

William A. Massey

After his time in the Senate, he resumed the practice of law in Reno, and died on a train near Litchfield, Nevada in March 1914.

He moved to Reno, Nevada and resumed the practice of law, and was appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George S. Nixon by Governor Tasker Oddie.

WXL36

Hourly weather observations covers conditions for Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Nellis Air Force Base, Desert Rock, Reno, Barstow, California and Needles, California.

Yarbrough

Cedric Yarbrough comedic actor, best known for his role on Reno 911.


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