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unusual facts about Strikeforce: Houston



Acres Homes, Houston

Loretta Devine grew up and attended grade school in Acres Homes.

Allen Ranch

He arrived at the young town of Harrisburg (modern east Houston) and soon after married into the Thomas family which had come to Texas as part of Stephen F. Austin's original colony.

American Institute of Electrical Engineers

The 1884 founders of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) included some of the most prominent inventors and innovators in the then new field of electrical engineering, among them Nikola Tesla, Thomas Alva Edison, Elihu Thomson, Edwin J. Houston, and Edward Weston.

Animal Cops: Houston

The Houston SPCA served as the coordinator of relief efforts for animals trapped in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Antonio de Bellis

Other autograph works are the Scene of a sacrifice in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Finding of Moses the National Gallery, London and The Liberation of St. Peter at Whitfield Fine Art, London.

Baker Hughes

Baker Hughes has its headquarters in the America Tower in the American General Center in Neartown, Houston.

Brays Oaks, Houston

Femin said that the increases in the crime rates are due to a post-September 11 attacks willingness to report crime instead of a true increase in crime.

Bret Bergmark

Bret was scheduled to fight October 9, 2010 at Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Noons II against Cung Le product James Terry, but had to pull out due to an injury sustained while training for the fight.

Caltron 6 in 1

When Caltron Industries, Inc. was going out of business, Myriad Games, Inc., a company based in Kingwood, Texas, bought all of their existing inventory of cartridges.

Chad Griggs

Griggs' next fight was against Valentijn Overeem at Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum on June 18, 2011, in Dallas, Texas.

Chen Chi

Chi's works have been shown extensively throughout the United States including at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1948); the Miami Beach Art Center (1952); the La Jolla Art Center and the Witte Museum (1953); and the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum in Seattle (1955).

ConocoPhillips Rodeo Run

While the 5K route remains flat along the downtown streets, the 10K course features a one mile elevation of the route as it travels over the Elysian Viaduct north of downtown.

Cottage Grove, Houston

named after Robert Louis Stevenson The school opened in 1915 as Cottage Grove High School.

Edmund Gilchrist

Architects G. W. & W. D. Hewitt designed more than 100 houses in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia for developer Henry H. Houston in the 1880s and 1890s.

Elihu Thomson

With Edwin J. Houston, a former teacher and later colleague of Thomson's at Central High School, Thomson founded the Thomson-Houston Electric Company.

Fourth Ward, Houston

It was home to the city's Minor League baseball team, the Houston Buffaloes, and it was the city's first venue for Negro Major League games.

George R. Brown

The organization donates to notable institutions such as Rice University, Southwestern University, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company

He partnered with fellow insurance salesman Norman O. Houston and businessman George A. Beavers, Jr. to secure 500 pre-paid life insurance applications as well as the $15,000 deposit required by California.

Greta Pratt

She is the author of two books of photographs, Using History (Steidl, 2005) and In Search of the Corn Queen (National Museum of American Art, 1994), and her works are represented in major public and private collections, including the National Museum of American Art: Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, and Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Guy S. Houston

The district Houston represented, the 15th Assembly district, covers parts of four counties: Contra Costa, Alameda, San Joaquin and Sacramento.

Houston, a resident of San Ramon, served as the Mayor of Dublin and was a real estate executive prior to serving in the Assembly.

Henry Houston

Henry A. Houston (1847–1925), American teacher, businessman and politician

Henry H. Houston (1820–1895), Philadelphia businessman and philanthropist

Hubert Vo

Vo currently serves as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing the 149th District which contains part of Harris County including part of west Houston and the suburbs of Alief and Katy.

Jake O'Brien

O'Brien was expected to make his debut with the DREAM promotion on July 10 in a Light Heavyweight bout against former Strikeforce and DREAM Champion Gegard Mousasi at Dream 15.

James Houston

James M. Houston, Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College, Vancouver

Jorge Patino

After Nate Moore had to withdraw from his fight against Brazilian Jiu Jitsu world champion André Galvão in Strikeforce, Patino took the fight in short notice for the Strikeforce: Houston event.

Julie Kedzie

Kedzie was expected to face Germaine de Randamie as part of the Strikeforce Challengers 19 card on September 23, 2011, but withdrew due to injury.

Ken Bentsen, Jr.

Born in Houston, Texas to Kenneth, Sr. and Mary Bentsen, he graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1977, going on to earn a B.A. from the University of St. Thomas, Houston in 1982 and an M.P.A. from American University in 1985.

Luke Stewart

Stewart went undefeated in his first five fights until losing a unanimous decision to Tiki Ghosn at Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Le on March 29, 2008.

Memorial Park, Houston

The ashes of former professional golfer Dave Marr were spread over the course after Marr's death, as Memorial Park was the course where Marr learned to play golf.

Nate Moore

Moore made his debut for Strikeforce in 2009, defeating Louis Taylor by Submission due to punches in the second round.

Ovince St. Preux

Ovince returned to action less than a month after his win over Britt to fight UFC and Strikeforce veteran Benji Radach on the main card of Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu II.

Pompeo Batoni

He was again the subject of a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the National Gallery in London, and the Ducal Palace in Lucca in 2007-2008.

President of the Republic of Texas

Washington-on-the-Brazos was Texas' first capital in 1836 (provisional), followed quickly by Harrisburg 1836 (provisional), Galveston 1836 (provisional), Velasco 1836 (provisional), Columbia 1836-37, Houston, 1837–39, and finally Austin, the modern capital, 1839-46.

Robert Houston

Robert G. Houston (1867–1946), American lawyer, publisher and politician

Roger Gracie

Roger then won his next bout via submission defeating Anthony Smith at Strikeforce: Marquardt vs. Saffiedine

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Then, in 1981 the Museum of Modern Art (New York) mounted a retrospective of her work that subsequently traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), and the Musée d'Art Contemporain (Montreal).

Stephen D. Houston

From 1978–79 he spent a year as an exchange student at Edinburgh University, Scotland, where he participated in his first field trips, excavating Mesolithic and Neolithic bog sites in Offaly and Mayo counties, Ireland, and at a Bronze Age henge near Strathallan, Scotland.

Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Henderson

The bout between Marloes Coenen and Miesha Tate was originally scheduled to be for the Women's Welterweight belt, but it was renamed to a Women's Bantamweight Championship bout by Zuffa to achieve consistency with the weight class names in the promotion.

Strikeforce: Four Men Enter, One Man Survives

The event was hosted by Strikeforce in conjunction with bodogFight, and was streamed live on Yahoo! Sports.

Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu II

The Fighter Exchange Program is intended to be a tie-in to the Career Mode of the EA Sports MMA game, and features multimedia documentation of four young prospects (Bettega, Cummins, Martytniuok, Phillips) traveling, learning, and training with four established veterans (Jacare Souza, Jason Miller, Gegard Mousasi, Luke Rockhold).

Strikeforce: Marquardt vs. Saffiedine

AXS TV personality and Inside MMA reporter Ron Kruck handled commentary at this event in place of Mauro Ranallo, who was absent due to a private family matter.

Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal

Former World Extreme Cagefighting announcer Joe Martinez announced this event in place of Jimmy Lennon Jr., as Lennon was announcing that same night's Showtime-broadcast Super Six World Boxing Classic boxing card headlined by Carl Froch & Andre Ward.

T. J. Cook

Cook made his debut on July 22, 2011, at Strikeforce Challengers: Bowling vs. Voelker replacing an injured Guto Inocente against Lionel Lanham.

The Art Guys

"The Art Guys: Think Twice," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1995

Tokihiro Satō

Sato’s photographs are held throughout the world in public and private museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art (Saitama, Japan); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo); Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane); and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

Yuri Villefort

Villefort made his promotional debut against fellow Strikeforce import Nah-Shon Burrell on February 23, 2013 at UFC 157.


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