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Tar: A Midwest Childhood

The fictional location of Tar: A Midwest Childhood bears a resemblance to Camden, Ohio where Sherwood Anderson was born, despite him having spent only his first year there.


1957 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game

The Tar Heels won their first NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship and received a large welcome at Raleigh–Durham International Airport when they arrived back in North Carolina.

Aghjots Vank

It was destroyed again in the Earthquake of 1679 that destroyed the nearby monastery of Havuts Tar and the pagan temple of Garni.

Andrés Bonifacio

In his late teens, he worked as a mandatorio for the British trading firm Fleming and Company, where he rose to become a corregidor of tar, rattan and other goods.

Apache Synapse

Existing services may be SOAP, POX/REST services over HTTP/S, as well as SOAP or legacy services over JMS, Apache VFS file systems (e.g. s/ftp, file, zip/tar/gz, webdav, cifs etc.), Mail systems (e.g. pop3, imap, smtp), Financial Information eXchange (FIX), Hessian, AMQP etc.

Applix 1616

:advent, ar, arc, at, cal, cat, chess (gnu), cmp, comm, compress, conquest, cron, dd, diff, ed, eroff, grep, head, indent, make, MicroEMACS, more, nroff, roff, sc, sed, sort, split, STEVIE, strings, sum, tail, tar, tee, ularn, uniq, vi, wanderer, wc, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem, zoo

B. diffusa

Boerhavia diffusa, the tar vine, punarnava or red spiderling, a flowering plant species

Bahram Mansurov

Bahram Mansurov presented his tar to the museum of Japan city Osaka.

Bnied Al-Gar

The word "Gar" in Arabic means Tar, and so it was thus named due to the natural discharge of oils.

Bundas

Due to the destruction of the Angolan Civil War, it is one of the most remote municipalities in Angola and access remains a large problem despite significant progress, as many roads are still not cleared of land mines and many bridges remain destroyed, but easily accessed by a tar marked road from Luena and a bush truck road from Zambia border to N'inda and then tar marked road to Lumbala N'guimbo.

Carpinteria Tar Pits

The Carpinteria Tar Pits are one of the five natural asphalt lake areas in the world, the others being Tierra de Brea in Trinidad and Tobago, Lake Guanoco in Venezuela and the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits (Los Angeles) and McKittrick Tar Pits (McKittrick) both also located in the US state of California.

Chat Moss

Chat Moss threatened the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, until George Stephenson succeeded in constructing a railway line through it in 1829; his solution was to "float" the line on a bed of bound heather and branches topped with tar and covered with rubble stone.

Coat of arms of Cologne

The Coat of Arms of the City are Argent, on a chief Gules three crowns Or. Since the second half of the 16th century (between 1550 and 1580) the arms altered to Argent eleven gouttes of tar Sable (5/4/2), on a chief Gules three crowns Or. The three crowns symbolize the Magi (Three Wise Men) whose bones are said to be kept in a golden sarcophagus in Cologne Cathedral (see Shrine of the Three Kings at Cologne Cathedral).

Daniel Wohl

Wohl collaborated on the score for Tar, a film about poet C.K. Williams featuring James Franco, Mila Kunis and Jessica Chastain.

Emotional Decompression Chamber

The protagonists of the lyrics, Junichiro and Ishtar, are a modern version of Fando y Lis (first work of Alejandro Jodorowsky) chasing the legendary city called Tar on a David Lynch’s Lost Highway.

Euphagus

A prehistoric relative, Euphagus magnirostris, is known from Late Pleistocene fossils found in the famous tar seeps of Rancho La Brea, California.

Fetzer Field

In December 2011 six former Tar Heels; Tobin Heath, Heather O'Reilly, Yael Averbuch, Ashlyn Harris, Megan Klingenberg, were called up to play at the National Team camp.

Fog Bowl

The 1974 Sun Bowl played December 28, 1974 between the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the North Carolina Tar Heels

Gulf Islands National Seashore

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, beginning 20 April 2010, released masses of oil and tar which began washing ashore, in varying amounts, along the Gulf Islands National Seashore on 1 June 2010.

Harlan Sanborn

After Monk McDonald left as the North Carolina head coach, Sanborn became the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels.

Henrik Rödl

Rödl's Tar Heels won the 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, making Rödl the second German to win an NCAA Title.

Il ragazzo della via Gluck

In 1966, the American singer Verdelle Smith sang an English version titled "Tar and Cement", with songwriting credit to Paul Vance, Lee Pockriss, Luciano Beretta, Michele Del Prete, and Adriano Celentano.

Jalal Garyaghdi

Compositional portraits such as Young girl, Kamancha player, Tar player and others occupy a distinct place in Garyaghdi's creative work.

Joel Peralta

On June 19, 2012, during a game at Nationals Park vs the Washington Nationals, Peralta was ejected from the game for having a "foreign substance" in his glove; it was later found to be pine tar.

John Piscopo

The trip was paid for by Shell Oil, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Transcanada, and other groups with financial interests in the Alberta tar sands and the Keystone Pipeline.

Jones Angell

In 2005, after Mick Mixon became the play-by-play man for the Carolina Panthers, Angell succeeded him as longtime announcer Woody Durham's partner, and was on hand for two Final Fours and the Tar Heels' most recent national championship, in 2009.

KIO

KIO slaves are programs that provide support for individual protocols (e.g. HTTP, FTP, SMB, SSH, FISH, SFTP, SVN, TAR).

La Brea Avenue

"La Brea" is Spanish for "the tar", a reference to the La Brea Tar Pits.

Margaret Craig

Margaret Craig (born August 29, 1966) is a San Antonio-based American artist and printmaker who invented the Tar Gel™ Pressless Etching technique along with numerous other innovations.

Mastan Ensemble

The instruments employed by this Ensemble include Daf, Dayereh, Kamāncheh, Lute, Reed, Robab, Santour, Tār and Tonbak.

McKittrick Tar Pits

The McKittrick Tar Pits are one of the five natural asphalt lake areas in the world, the others being Tierra de Brea in Trinidad and Tobago, Lake Guanoco in Venezuela and the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits (Los Angeles) and Carpinteria Tar Pits (Carpinteria) both also located in the US state of California.

North Carolina–NC State football rivalry

However, following Sheridan's retirement from coaching, North Carolina went on another seven-game winning streak, leaving NC State head coach Mike O'Cain winless against Tar Heels coaches Mack Brown and Carl Torbush.

Orvosi Hetilap

However, it was only the second medical journal in Hungary: the first was the Orvosi Tár (English: Medical Cabinet), established in 1831 by Pál Bugát, which stopped publication by the end of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Permabit

Plug-ins are provided by the Albireo SDK to support CFB, PDF, TAR, VHD, and ZIP formats.

President of Malta

The Role of the President is detailed in a publication (in the Maltese language) called Il-Manwal tal-President tar-Repubblika written by former President Ugo Mifsud Bonnici.

Saccharin

In a clash that had career consequences, Wiley told President Theodore Roosevelt that "Everyone who ate that sweet corn was deceived. He thought he was eating sugar, when in point of fact he was eating a coal tar product totally devoid of food value and extremely injurious to health."

Salt Spring

Salt Spring, originally, Aguaje de la Brea (tar springs), a spring in the Antelope Plain on the southeast end of Pyramid Hills, 0.6 miles south of Emigrant Hill and 1.5 miles north of Wagon Wheel Mountain in the Pyramid Hills of Kern County, California.

Shamsur Rahman

During the historical movement against Ershad he published his book Buk Tar Bangladesher Hridoy indicating the great sacrifice of Nur Hossain.

Shim'Tar

Rather than a single person, Shim'Tar is an interchangeable title for the chief warrior of the Bana-Mighdall Amazons.

South's Oldest Rivalry

UNC's sole victory against Virginia during Curry's time as a Tar Heel came when he was a senior in 2001, when he also split time at quarterback (with freshman Darian Durant).

T.A. Robertson

Thomas Argyll Robertson OBE (1909-1994), known as "Tommy" or by his initials as "TAR", was a Scottish MI5 intelligence officer, responsible during the Second World War for the Double Cross System disinformation campaign against the German intelligence services in which every German agent in Britain, with the exception of one who committed suicide without having been detected by the authorities, was actually working for British intelligence.

Tar

Bitumen is a term used for natural deposits of oil "tar" – such as at the La Brea Tar Pits.

Tar Heel

According to this legend, the troops of British General Cornwallis during the American Revolutionary War were fording what is now known as the Tar River between Rocky Mount and Battleboro when they discovered that tar had been dumped into the stream to impede the crossing of British soldiers.

Tar River Poetry

Tar River Poetry has published many of the best-known American poets of the late 20th and early 21st century, including Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners Claudia Emerson, William Stafford, Louis Simpson, Carolyn Kizer, Henry Taylor, and A.R. Ammons, and many other well-known poets including Sharon Olds, Leslie Norris, William Matthews, Albert Goldbarth, and Patricia Goedicke.

Temperature record of the past 1000 years

When the IPCC TAR was still in draft, Fred Singer held a press event saying "We don't accept this" with Wibjörn Karlén who alleged that MBH99 showed neither a Medieval Warm Period nor a Little Ice Age, an inaccurate claim echoed soon afterwards by John Lawrence Daly.

Tio år med Agnetha

The album, released in October 1979, included one new recording, "När du tar mej i din famn" (When You Take Me in Your Arms), composed and produced by Fältskog herself in the Polar Studios and with the same musicians and sound engineers (Michael B. Tretow) as on contemporary ABBA recordings.

WPTI

Following derogatory comments made by Rush Limbaugh regarding Sandra Fluke, WPTI was asked not to promote the university or the Tar Heel Sports Network during The Rush Limbaugh Show.

Zhongba County

Zhongba County has the TAR's southern border with most of western Nepal's Karnali and Dhaulagiri Zones with a border crossing into Mustang District leading through the former Lo Kingdom to its historic capital Lo Manthang.


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