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Mark Poirier

He served as the editor of the book The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us, including short pieces by George Saunders, Jennifer Egan, A. M. Homes and Nathan Englander.


Adolfo Camarillo

Many people of note have ridden on Camarillo White Horses including Governor Ronald Reagan, President Warren G. Harding, 1946 Nobel Peace Prize recipient John Mott, as well as movie stars Leo Carrillo and Steven Ford (son of President Gerald Ford).

Algolagnia

In 1892, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing introduced the term algolagnia to describe "sexual" masochism, to differentiate it from Fere's earlier term called "algophilia"; Schrenck-Notzing's interpretation was that algolagnia involved lust, not love as Fere interpreted the phenomenon.

Angst in My Pants

Angst in My Pants was not a success in the UK but was as successful as their former album, Whomp That Sucker, in the US.

Bruce Small

After the war, Small's Malvern Star bicycles were ridden by Sid Patterson, who won the World Championship Sprint in Copenhagen in 1949, and several other races including amateur World Championship Pursuit in Liege (1950), professional World Championship Pursuit in Paris (1952), and professional World Championship Pursuit in Zurich (1953).

BSA Model E

A 1919 BSA Model E complete with matching sidecar featured in a car chase in the 1965 movie Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, where it was ridden by lead actor Stuart Whitman who played American cowboy Orvil Newton.

Camarillo White Horse

Many people of note have ridden Camarillo White Horses, including (then-Governor) Ronald Reagan, 1946 Nobel Peace Prize recipient John Mott, movie star Leo Carrillo, and Steven Ford (son of President Gerald Ford).

Ciudadela, Buenos Aires

The subject of ongoing controversy, its colloquial name stems from Fort Apache, The Bronx, a 1981 movie about a crime-ridden part of New York City.

Clara Nordström

Born the daughter of a physician and a peasant woman in Karlskrona and brought up in Växjö (Sweden), she was bed-ridden owing to illness up to her twelfth year.

Crossing Hennessy

It is a return to film both for Cheung, who has not appeared in a film for several years, and for Tang, who was banned from acting in mainland China after appearing in Ang Lee's 2007 Lust, Caution.

Distribe

The songs "Lust", "Mawari Dama ni Terasareta umi wa Namida ni Karete" and "Kyuumin -Oyasumi-" were covered by Unsraw and can be found on "Lustful Days", Screaming Birthday and Spiral Circle Complete respectively.

E.I.N.S.

The sentence "Wer keine Angst vor dem Teufel hat, braucht auch keinen Gott" (Who doesn't fear the devil, doesn't need a god) comes from the novel "The Name of the Rose" (Umberto Eco, 1980).

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

In her essay A Green World Deep in Winter: The Bedside Terrarium, published in the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, Bailey describes how Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, inventor of the Wardian case, had published during the mid 19th century a report on the "Use of Closed Cases in Illness", explaining the benefit of a terrarium to bed-ridden patients in order to "beguile many a weary hour".

Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Paralympics – Team

The team championship, para-equestrian dressage event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was decided by tests ridden at Hong Kong Olympic Equestrian Centre.

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Farhh

Ridden by Silvestre de Sousa he carried 125 pounds and won "readily" by two and a half lengths from nineteen opponents.

Five Thieves

The group of five evils comprises Kam (lust), Krodh (rage), Lobh (greed), Moh (attachment) and Ahankar (ego) in Sanskrit; translated into English these words mean lust/addiction, wrath/rage/anger, materialistic greed, attachment/worldly infatuation and ego/pride respectively.

Francine Villeneuve

On November 2, 1991 Villeneuve became the first woman to ride in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, and was the second in any Breeders' Cup race, as American Julie Krone had previously ridden at the Breeders' Cup in both 1988 and 1989.

Frederic B. Vogel

Having invested in over fifty Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, Vogel co-produced the Tony Award-nominated Marlene, and co-produced the Lucille Lortel Award winning "Shakespeare’s R&J" Off-Broadway, R.T. Robinson’s The Cover of Life in the fall of 1994 at the American Place Theater, as well as co-produced the Off-Broadway musical Lust in June 1995.

George Harris, 3rd Baron Harris

Harris was beset will ill-health and remained bed-ridden for some time in the city of Pau in France where he worked for a time for the Church of England.

Glint of Gold

He was ridden in most of his races by the British jockey John Matthias.

Heimdallr

Later in the book, Húsdrápa, a poem by 10th century skald Úlfr Uggason, is cited, during which Heimdallr is described as having ridden to Baldr's funeral pyre.

Hillbrow

In January 2013, Al Jazeera English aired a Witness documentary about Hillbrow described as "A personal journey to Hillbrow, where human spirit, hope and enterprise triumph in this crime-ridden melting pot in the heart of South Africa."

John Willsteed

He has worked on a number of Australian features - including Angst and The Rage In Placid Lake – and over 60 television documentaries and short films.

Kurt Huber

The final scene of this work, which is about the wrongful execution of Agnes Bernauer, depicts a guilt-ridden chorus begging not to be implicated in the title character's death.

Lust 2

Lust 2 is the third album by Depth Charge, and alias of UK producer Jonathan Saul Kane.

Lust's Dominion

If Lust's Dominion is The Spanish Moor's Tragedy by another name, it may have been influenced by the August 1600 arrival in London of Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, Ambassador of Muley Ahmad al-Mansur, King of Barbary or Morocco.

ManBearPig

The Nintendo DS Game Scribblenauts, as well as its sequels, Super Scribblenauts, Scribblenauts Remix, and Scribblenauts Unlimited, contain the object "MANBEARPIG", which can be ridden or carried, depending on its size.

Mary Daly

Gyn/Ecology, Pure Lust, and Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary all endorse anti-vivisection and anti-fur positions.

Monty's Pass

Monty's Pass was the winner of the 2003 Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool, when ridden by Barry Geraghty, trained by Jimmy Mangan and running in the colours of the Dee Racing Syndicate, a group of owners based in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, and led by Blackpool born bingo hall owner Mike Futter.

Moscow Flyer

Ridden by the Irish 18 year old Kate Harrington, 'Moscow' won comfortably and was giving a rousing reception in the winners' enclosure post race.

Mou Tun-fei

After co-directing the hardcore pornographic film Trilogy of Lust with Julie Lee Wa-Yuet, Mou set about making a sequel to Men Behind the Sun, this time visiting the 1937 Nanjing Massacre (or Rape of Nanking) called Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre.

Mr. What

An eight year-old gelding owned by David Coughlan, trained by Tom Taaffe Mr What was ridden by the The Queen Mother's jockey Arthur Freeman who put up six lbs overweight.

No Nay Never

Ridden again by Rosario, No Nay Never started the 4/1 second favourite behind the Aiden O'Brien-trained Coach House in a field of fourteen runners.

One More Last Chance

In it, Gill and various band members are seen playing a round of golf at a golf course, with Gill having ridden a John Deere tractor to the course.

Phenylbutazone

Owned by prominent Massachusetts businessman Peter Fuller and ridden by jockey Bobby Ussery, Dancer's Image remains the only horse to win the Kentucky Derby and then be disqualified.

Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham

Lord Harris is the co-owner of the Olympic gold medal-winning horse Hello Sanctos ridden by Scott Brash in the team show jumping event at the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

Private Gladiator

The Private Gladiator is a pornographic trilogy (Private Gladiator, Private Gladiator: In the City of Lust and Private Gladiator: Sexual Conquest, length 115 minutes), directed by Antonio Adamo and produced by Private Media Group.

Revolt of the Praetorians

One day, Artamne persuades Domitian to hold a sacrificial celebration in the Imperial palace, forcing Lucilla and other patrician daughters to attend and to be subjected to exploitation by the Emperor's lust.

Rising Fast

Rising Fast was ridden in the 1954 events by Melbourne jockey Bill Williamson but when he was seriously injured prior to the Caulfield Cup he was replaced by Arthur Ward.

Sadomania

Sadomania – Hölle der Lust is a 1981 German-Spanish women in prison film directed by Jesús Franco, starring Ajita Wilson.

Sea Moon

In the St Leger at Doncaster Racecourse on 10 September, Sea Moon, ridden by Olivier Peslier, was made 2/1 favourite ahead of the 1000 Guineas winner Blue Bunting.

Sleazoid Express

Founded as a one-sheet (later to expand to four to six pages) by Bill Landis, an NYU grad, projectionist and devotee of the crime-ridden sleaze houses, the magazine not only captured the genre affections but the whole Times Square milieu of drugs, violence and prostitution.

Star Appeal

Ridden by Greville Starkey, he won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at odds of 118:1, defeating a large field which included the great Dahlia and Allez France.

Susan Notorangelo

She has ridden in the Race Across America five times, winning the competition in 1985 and 1989.

Terence Hawkins

It tells the story of Achilles, a monstrous hero, who turns vain and selfish, cruel and noble; of Paris, weak and consumed by lust for his stolen bride; of Agamemnon, driven nearly to insanity by the voices of the gods; and of Trojans and Achaeans, the warriors and the peasants caught up in the conflict, their families torn apart by a decade-long war.

The Curse of Downers Grove

Set in Downers Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, The film follows a teen angst thriller at a high school gripped by an apparent curse that claims the life of a senior every year.

Theodore O'Connor

Ridden by Olympian Karen O'Connor, he performed exceedingly well at such events as the Rolex Kentucky Three Day and the Pan American Games.

Tom Queally

Queally had ridden a winner for trainer David Elsworth when in England for a few weeks in January 2003 and his return to the UK (after a stint as a work rider both in the USA and New Zealand) was an instant success as, attached to the yard of legendary gambler and trainer Barney Curley, he took the apprentice title in his first full season in the UK in 2004 with 59 winners (66 in the calendar year).

Upali Wijewardene

He was the Chairman Board of Stewards of the Sri Lanka Turf Club and was a keen turfite, who raced in Sri Lanka and England, where he won the "Royal Ascot" with "Rasa Penang" ridden by the world famous jockey Lester Piggott.


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