However a significant amount of freight traffic used the nearby Rosewater Loop until 2008 when the Mary MacKillop Bridge over the Port River was opened.
The Gershwin Prize was created and first awarded by the Library of Congress in 2007 under the leadership of Librarian of Congress James H. Billington to recognize "the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world’s culture" as part of the Library's mission to recognize and celebrate creativity.
Billington created the Library’s first national private-sector advisory group, the James Madison Council, whose members have supported the NDL Program, many other Library outreach programs, and acquisitions for the Library’s collections.
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Most recently he was awarded honorary doctorates from the Tbilisi State University in Georgia (1999) and the Moscow State University for the Humanities (2001).
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In 2000, the Library’s bicentennial year, Madison Council Chairman John W. Kluge made what was at the time the largest monetary donation in the Library’s history: US$60 million to create within the Library the John W. Kluge Center, a place for advanced scholars and a Nobel-level prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities or social sciences.
On March 31, 2004, Bruce Cole, the directory of the NEH, and James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, signed an agreement creating the National Digital Newspaper Program.
But in 2005, in the wake of the death of Pope John Paul II, Mr Rann announced the rail bridge would be named after Saint Mary MacKillop.
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The bridge was the subject of a successful community campaign, spearheaded by the local RSL and the Portside Messenger newspaper, to name it after Port Adelaide World War II hero, Tom 'Diver' Derrick VC, DCM instead of the State Government's unpopular choice of the 'Power Bridge'.
Some 60,000 volumes were additionally saved from incineration through the prompt action of Congressional Representative Connie Morella and Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.
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Don's accomplishments in racing are featured in the upcoming movie, Snake and Mongoose which features the rivalry between "The Snake" and Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen.
Bruce Hart, son of Stu Hart and Helen Hart, comes from the most prestigious family in professional wrestling which produced such great talent as Bret Hart, Davey Boy Smith, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, Owen Hart, The Honky Tonk Man, Brian Pillman, Dynamite Kid, Nikolai Volkoff, Edge and many others.
Ambassador Kennan, together with Wilson Center Director James Billington and historian S. Frederick Starr, initiated the establishment of the institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
For more than a decade she was the editor in chief of "Book World", the book review section of The Washington Post, during which time she instituted the partnership of The Washington Post with the White House (First Lady Laura Bush) and the Library of Congress (Dr. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress) in hosting the annual National Book Festival on the Washington Mall.
Sharpe is described in at least three books by former wrestling personalities (Tom "Dynamite Kid" Billington, Hulk Hogan and Gary Michael Cappetta) as having shown characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder, as evidenced by a preoccupation with cleanliness that caused him to spend hours washing his hands or showering at arenas and meticulously folding and re-folding his clothing.
The creators included writer Steve Gerber, penciller M. D. Bright, inker Greg Adams, colorist Tom Ziuko with separations by Digital Chameleon, letterer Steve Dutro, and editor Joey Cavalieri.
It was the anniversary of the death of his son Tom, killed at the age of 18 at the Battle of the Somme exactly seven years previously.
She also appeared as Major Tom Cadman's wife in the ITV series Soldier Soldier, and played wardrobe assistant Irenie in the film version of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser.
It was presented by Ritula Shah and the others guests were; Tom Newton Dunn, the political editor of The Sun newspaper, Lord Trimble (Irish Politician) and Angela Eagle (Labour Party MP).
His portrayal of barbershop owner Tom Taylor in the short film The Doll won him "Best Actor" honors at the San Diego Black Film Festival.
The Irish ancestry of Anna Patterson's husband Tom Costello sparked the name Cuil, which the company states is taken from a series of Celtic folklore stories involving a character, Fionn mac Cumhaill, they erroneously refer to as Finn MacCuil .
Later Worthing Technical Centre and Musiro was sold to the Tom Wilkinshaw Tom Walkinshaw of the TWR group Tom Walkinshaw Racing.
In January 2011, Fish directed an adaptation of Nicholas Ray's film Bigger Than Life, entitled Tom Ryan Thinks He's James Mason Starring in a Movie By Nicholas Ray in which a Man's Illness Provides an Escape from the Pain, Pressure and Loneliness of Trying to be the Ultimate American Father, Only to Drive Him Further Into the More Thrilling Though Possibly Lonelier Roles of Addict and Misunderstood Visionary.
In Newark, New Jersey, there was the Newark family headed by Gaspare D'Amico, the Reina family's Jersey crew controlled by Gaetano "Tom" Reina, the Masseria family's New Jersey faction and the Elizabeth family headed by Stefano Badami.
Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him when he was driving down Highway 11W, a Tennessee road in Rutledge, Tennessee.
In 2011, Jason Swincoe invited him to continue his collaboration with The Cinematic Orchestra by asking him to compose film music (with Tom Chant) for two avant-garde shorts by Peter Tscherkassky, "Outer Space" and "Dream Work," for the Cinematic Orchestra's "In Motion" series in which musicians are asked to compose original scores for classic short films.
The 1977 Open Championship in golf, which saw an epic duel between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus
Among other new features, the game also introduced two new Power-Ups: Mega Ball and Eight Ball; an easy-to-play Kid-Mode; and a euro-techno soundtrack by SideWinder, accompanying the addition of an integrated module player.
This approach is also demonstrated in the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire (adapted from the 2005 novel Q & A), about a poor street kid Jamal coming close to winning Kaun Banega Crorepati (the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) and then being suspected of cheating.
:*NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship (7 times) – with Leroy Rochester (1), Dutch Mantel (1), Buzz Tyler (1), Tojo Yamamoto (3), and Tom Renesto, Jr. (1)
Half Dead and Dynamite is the second LP released by the Minnesota indie rock band Lifter Puller.
Although "It's Nothing" failed to chart or receive an accompanying music video, it elicited positive critical attention: Tom Doggett of RapReviews.com considers it comparable to The Beatnuts' 1997 hit single "Off the Books" because of its flute sample.
In Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship, Trobaugh's work was shown alongside Dread Scott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sue Coe, Lynda Benglis, Andres Serrano, Karen Finley, Alma Lopez, John Jota Leaos, Benita Carr, Anita Steckel, Renee Cox, Gayla Lemke, Marilyn Zimmerman, John Sims, The Critical Art Ensemble, Eric Fischl, Tom Forsythe, Nancy Worthington, David Avalos, Scott Kessler, Louis Hock and Elizabeth Sisco.
He played with Kid Martyn's Ragtime Band at the first two New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festivals in 1968 and 1969 and at Louis Armstrong's 70th Birthday celebration, "Hello Louis", in 1970 when he was photographed alongside Louis Armstrong and his enormous birthday cake, and whiskey and bourbon fountains.
It was founded in 1994 by "Jugi" Tandon—the inventor of the double-sided floppy disk drive and founder of Tandon Corporation—and Tom Mitchell, a co-founder of Seagate and former president and Chief Operating Officer of both Seagate and Conner Peripherals.
She and her husband, Tom Law, whom she met in 1965 at a Peter Paul & Mary concert in Berkeley, CA, lived together on a farm in Truchas, New Mexico for 12 years and had four children, Dhana Pilar, Solar Sat, Sunday Peaches & Jesse Lee Rainbow.
At the sex party, Sookie is surprised to see her friend Tara and Eggs and learns that Mike and Tom Hardaway murdered Lafayette.
He is probably best remembered as Tom Howard, in the BBC Television serial, Howards' Way, which he played from 1985–89, until he died suddenly aged 49 from a heart attack while renovating a holiday home in Dinan, Brittany, France.
With his wife Vilma Hollingbery he has a daughter, Kate, and the couple have three grandsons - Henry, George and Tom.
Michael "Mike" G. French was a three-time All-American lacrosse player at Cornell University from 1974 to 1976, teaming with fellow lacrosse Hall of Fame members Eamon McEneaney, Dan Mackesey, Bill Marino, Tom Marino, Bob Hendrickson, Chris Kane, and Richie Moran to lead the Cornell Big Red to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship in 1976.
Most noted for starring alongside Bruce Willis in Live Free or Die Hard, Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible III, Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman in Deception (2008 film), Paul Bettany in Priest (2011 film) and television role of Nikita, on the CW network TV series Nikita alongside Shane West.
Thanks to his friend Tom Hunter, Leslau became interested in solving the world's problems: in 2006 they had a working holiday in Ayacucho, Peru; in 2007 to Malawi to help build an orphanage.
Other cast includes Aju Varghese, Vishnu Raghav, Anjo Jose, Sajid, Shine Tom Chacko and Karmayodha,Black Butterfly fame Malavika Nair.
Towards the end of the film, the character Benny (Mike Vitar) wears an all-black pair of Center Hi's - the narration tells us they are "guaranteed to make a kid run faster and jump higher."
It tells the story of Alberto, a Peruvian kid who gets lost during a school trip to the Real Felipe Fortress in the seaport of Callao.
Terrapins pugilists Ben Alperstein and Tom Birmingham went on to compete in the national intercollegiate championship in Sacramento, California.
During Frontiers of Honor, a cross-promotional show between FWA and Ring of Honor in the United Kingdom, Samoa Joe their ROH Champion faced The Zebra Kid in a match that would make the belt a "World Title" as it was being defending outside the United States.
On December 31, 2004 Gracie entered the K-1 scene at the "Dynamite!" card inside the Osaka Dome, facing off against former sumo wrestler and MMA newcomer Akebono Tarō aka.
Jonny Lang, the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Billy Idol, Joe Bonamassa, the Jordanaires, Canned Heat, James Durbin, .38 Special, Orion, Australian Crawl, My Morning Jacket, The Creepshow, The Boppers, David Gogo, Trisha Yearwood, Brian Hyland, Raul Malo, Straight No Chaser, Frantic Flintstones, Rick Saucedo, 45 R.P.M., Tom Green, and Wynonna Judd have also recorded the song.
Jason Plato drove for the team for five years, while Rob Huff, James Pickford, Luke Hines, Darren Turner, James Thompson and WTCC regular Tom Coronel (as a one-off) also competed.
The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) is a comedy film starring Danny Kaye and co-starring Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Walter Abel, Eve Arden, and Fay Bainter, about a milkman who becomes world boxing champion.
The story begins in one of the tanks, named Tom Mix (named after the actor Tom Mix).
The Remains of Tom Lehrer is a box set containing all the songs from musical satirist Tom Lehrer's previous albums along with previously unreleased songs and his works featured in The Electric Company.
However, at the Googolplex Theatre, every kid-friendly movie is sold out, and Rod and Todd will not let Homer see a raunchy comedy called Teenage Sex Wager since it is one of many movies condemned by a Christian publication called "What Would Jesus View?".
Colonel Thomas ('Tom') Edward Vickers V.D. (9 July 1833 - 19 October 1915) was Chairman of Vickers Limited.
He played the politically correct Tom Patterson in the first two series of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–77) and The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin (1996) and also had a role in the Doctor Who serial "Planet of the Daleks" (1973).
Originally opened on Wilshire Boulevard in 1936 by lawyer Tom Bergin, it has been at its current location on Fairfax Avenue since 1949.
Carl Hayman was awarded the Tom French Cup in both 2004 and 2006, and was instrumental in helping New Zealand Māori defeat the British and Irish Lions for the first time in 2005.
Tom Edward Hammonds (born March 27, 1967) is a retired American professional basketball player and National Hot Rod Association drag racer.
Tom Meets Zizou (German title: Tom Meets Zizou – Kein Sommermärchen Not a Summer's Tale) is a documentary film by director Aljoscha Pause, based on the life and career of German football player Thomas Broich.
Tom Cleave Stott CBE (6 June 1899-21 October 1976) spent 37 years as an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly, serving as Speaker of the House from 1962 to 1965 and 1968 to 1970.
Tom Vanstiphout (born 29 April 1975) is a Belgian musician who has made two solo albums and has toured with Clouseau, Jan Leyers and Milow.
In September 2010 Votizen announced it had raised $1.5 million in funding led by Peter Thiel and Sean Parker of Founders Fund with participating investors including 500 Startups, David Cowan, Keith Rabois, Ron Conway, Mark Goines, Founder Collective, Felicis Ventures, PivotNorth, Steve Blank, Eric Ries, Shervin Pishevar, and Tom Shields.
Directors of White Columns have included Josh Baer, Tom Solomon, Bill Arning, Paul Ha, Lauren Ross, and current director Matthew Higgs.
Masters's business partner Tom Gussel chose the name "Xanadu" for the homes, a reference to Xanadu, the summer capital of Yuan, which is prominently featured in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem Kubla Khan.