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1953–54 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team

This team finished unbeaten a 25-0, and though it won the Southeastern Conference title and could have played in the NCAA tournament, it chose not to because star players Frank Ramsey, Cliff Hagan and Lou Tsioropoulos were ruled ineligible because they had already graduated.

Al-Harra, Syria

The village itself was built around the eastern section of a small volcanic crater in the southeastern base of the Harrat ash-Shamah (Tell al-Harra) elevation.

Arroyo Concepción

On the southeastern outskirts of Arroyo Concepción is the border crossing, which links Puerto Suárez and Puerto Quijarro with the city of Corumbá on the Brazilian side.

Battle of Taegu

The United States, a permanent member of the Security Council, immediately deployed armed forces (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force units) to southeastern South Korea because of their immediate availability from their bases in Japan and Okinawa, where the military occupation of Japan was still in effect (through 1952).

Baumberge

The Baumberge lie within the Münsterland district of Coesfeld running in a northwest to southeast direction between Billerbeck in the west, the Rosendahl villages of Darfeld in the northwest, Havixbeck in the east, Nottuln-Schapdetten in the southeast and Nottuln in the south, Schapdetten being situated on the southeastern slopes of the hills themselves.

British Rail Class 376

The units were ordered by Connex South Eastern, introduced in 2004/2005 by South Eastern Trains to replace Class 465 and Class 466 to be transferred to the Outer Suburban services to Kent and to first class added in the 34 Class 465/2 but which are renumbered as Class 465/9, and are now operated by Southeastern.

Broadfin sawtail catshark

The broadfin sawtail catshark is found in the northwestern Pacific from Sagami Bay off southeastern Honshu, Japan to the East China Sea, including the Ryukyu Islands and the Kyushu-Palau Ridge.

Brown-backed Solitaire

One singing bird was found in Miller Canyon, in the Huachuca Mountains of Southeastern Arizona, and documented by the youth birding Victor Emanuel Nature Tours' Camp Chiricahua in July 2009.

Bundesautobahn 100

It is connected with the Bundesautobahn 111 (A 111) at the Charlottenburg interchange, with the A 115 (the former AVUS) at the Funkturm junction, and finally reaches the A 113 at its southeastern terminus in Neukölln, all linking it with the outer Berliner Ring A 10.

Carl Schwaner

Borneo: beschrijving van het stroomgebeid van den Barito, en reizen langs eenige voorname rivieren van het Zuid-Oosterlijk gedeelte van dat eiland (edited by Jan Pijnappel), 1853 - Borneo: description of the basin of the Barito River, and travel along some major rivers of the southeastern part of the island.

Ch'orti'

Ch'orti' people - one of the indigenous Maya peoples of southeastern Guatemala and western Honduras

Christian Ignatius Borissow

The family soon moved to Ruokolahti, a small Finnish-speaking rural parish in Russian-governed Southeastern Finland, where the father held the vicar’s office from 1790 until his death in 1803.

Coluche

Less than a year later, in June 1986, Coluche died when his motorcycle crashed into a truck on a road in the commune of Opio in southeastern France.

Doe v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

John Doe was an employee for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority SEPTA who had contracted Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome HIV/AIDS.

Drosera quartzicola

Drosera quartzicola is a species in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera and is endemic to the Serra do Cipó in central Minas Gerais state in southeastern Brazil.

Drvar

Drvar lies in the vast valley, the southeastern part of Bosanska Krajina, between the Osječenica, Klekovača, Vijenca and Šator mountains of the Dinaric Alps.

El Moro Canyon virus

EMCV was isolated from western harvest mice (Reithrodontomys megalotis), in El Moro Canyon in southeastern Colorado in 1995.

Erik Reece

It includes the work of modern American poets (among them, Robert Frost, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth, Charles Wright) plus that of four classical Chinese poets, who wandered and wrote about an area of southeastern China that is similar in landscape and ecology to the eastern woodlands of the United States.

F. Ward Murrey

Ward Murrey first became affiliated with the State Library of Ohio in 1961 when he began working for the Southeastern Ohio Library Center (now called Serving Every Ohioan Library Center) in Caldwell, Ohio.

Golden lion tamarin

Tamarins live along the far southeastern border of the country in the municipalities of Silva Jardim, Cabo Frio, Saquarema, and Araruama.

Gray squirrel

The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), from the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; introduced into Britain, Ireland, western North America, Italy, and South Africa

History of Poland in the Middle Ages

The first waves of Slavic migration settled the area of the upper Vistula River and elsewhere in the lands of present-day southeastern Poland and southern Masovia, coming from the upper and middle regions of the Dnieper River.

John L. Crain

In 1992 Crain received the Southeastern President's Award for Excellence in Research; by 2009, on being named president, he had authored 63 refereed journal articles.

John R. Schmidhauser

He served one term as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from southeastern Iowa, defeating incumbent Republican Fred Schwengel in 1964 but losing to Schwengel two years later in 1966, and again in 1968.

Kildin Island

:3) Kildinskiy Vostochny (East Kildinsky) is on the southeastern side of the island, near the settlement of Vostochny Kildin.

KMYT-TV

Both stations share studios on Memorial Drive and East 27th Street South (near Interstate 44) in the southeast section of Tulsa, and its transmitter located between East 93rd Street South and the Muskogee Turnpike in southeastern Tulsa County (near Broken Arrow).

Lagrivea

The remains of Lagrivea were probably collected by Viret at the site La Grive L5 in the village of Saint-Alban-de-Roche, department of Isère, southeastern France.

Lomno

Łomno, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, a village in the Starachowice County in southeastern Poland

Magnolia cubensis

It grows in the Sierra Maestra in the southeastern part of the island, at elevations from 700-1800 m (2300-5900 feet).

Mirsad Türkcan

His sister Emina Jahović (known as Emina Sandal in Turkey) is a famous pop singer in southeastern Europe and the wife of a famous Turkish singer, Mustafa Sandal.

Monster Pig

Later news reports brought forward allegations that the entire story was the result of a canned hunt scheme cooked up by Eddy Borden, the owner of Lost Creek Plantation, and Keith O'Neal of Southeastern Trophy Hunters, to build up business for the then four-months-old Lost Creek hunting plantation, trying to create their own news event along the lines of the 2004 “Hogzilla” event.

Ottoman Greeks

They were concentrated in what is today modern Greece and Greek Macedonia, western Asia Minor (especially in and around Smyrni), central Anatolia (espacially Cappadocia), northeastern Anatolia (especially in Erzurum vilayet, in and around Trebizond and in the Pontic Alps (roughly corresponding to the medieval Greek kingdom of Pontus, which was situated along the southeastern shores of the Black Sea and the highlands of the interior).

Rice, California

The subdivision and siding are still in use, but have since changed hands and currently belong to the Arizona and California Railroad, a short line serving southeastern California from Rice to Cadiz, California and southwestern Arizona at Parker.

Roy Skinner

The first player to make the team was Perry Wallace, a local schoolboy star at Nashville's Pearl High School, who enrolled at Vanderbilt in 1966 and first started playing for the team in 1967, becoming the Southeastern Conference's first African American varsity player.

Saint Botvid

The spring is located at the southeastern tip of Lake Bornsjöns in Salem Municipality (Salems kommun) in Stockholm County.

Sam Yan

The intersection area is served by the Sam Yan Station of the MRT, which connects to the Chamchuri Square complex and Wat Hua Lamphong in the intersections' northeastern and southeastern corners, respectively.

Samori Ture

1830 in Manyambaladugu (in the Konyan region of what is now southeastern Guinea), the son of Dyula traders, Samore grew up in West Africa being transformed by growing contacts with the Europeans.

School District 20 Kootenay-Columbia

School District No. 20 (Kootenay-Columbia) is a school district in southeastern British Columbia.

School District of Slinger

The School District of Slinger educates students from K4 through 12th grade residing in the southeastern Wisconsin municipalities of Slinger, Addison, St. Lawrence, Polk, and portions of Richfield, Jackson, Hartford, and West Bend, in Washington County, Wisconsin.

Simo Häyhä

Simo Häyhä spent his last years in Ruokolahti, a small municipality located in southeastern Finland, near the Russian border.

Slovenska Vas

Slovenska Vas, Šentrupert, a settlement in the Municipality of Šentrupert, southeastern Slovenia

Southeastern Nigeria

Before Nigeria became a country through British colonial government, Southeastern Nigeria was a home to many ethnic groups such as the Igbo, Ijaw, Ibibio, Efik, Annang, Ekoi, etc.

Stari Trg

Stari Trg, Ivančna Gorica, a settlement in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica, southeastern Slovenia

Thyatis

It is on the southeastern coast of the continent of Brun, situated between the trade lanes of the Sea of Dread to the south and the Sea of Dawn to the east, alongside a canal ("Vanya's Girdle").

Upper Xiajiadian culture

A culture found mainly in southeastern Inner Mongolia, northern Hebei and western Liaoning, China the Upper Xiajiadian's range was slightly larger than that of the Lower Xiajiadian reaching areas north of the Xilamulun River.

Waldburg-Wolfegg

Waldburg-Wolfegg was a County located in southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Wometco Home Theater

PRISM, an over-the-air and cable television subscription service that served Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, Delaware and the Delmarva Peninsula.

Yakima Valley

Yakima River Valley in southeastern portion of the state of Washington

Yngling

It claims Skelfir was king of Vörs (Vǫrs), modern Voss in northern Hordaland in southwestern Norway, but Halfdan's inheritance was in southeastern Norway.


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