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7 unusual facts about USA


Adrian McPherson

McPherson was represented at trial by Grady C. Irvin, who earned fame representing former National Baptist Convention President Henry Lyons on embezzlement charges in the late 1990s, and Charles "Chuck" Hobbs, who later garnered national attention while representing several Florida A&M University students in the "Kappa Hazing" trial televised on CourtTV in 2006.

CZ-USA

Initially based in Oakhurst, California, the CZ-USA headquarters and warehouse facility was moved to Kansas City in January 1998.

Harlan County

Harlan County, USA, a documentary film about mineworkers in the Kentucky county and their fight to organize a trade union

L21

USA-193, an American military spy satellite launched in 2006

Mass line

The largest self-proclaimed Maoist party in the USA, Revolutionary Communist Party has adopted the concept of "mass line" during the 1970s.

USA-244

WGS-6 was procured by the Australian Defence Force for the US Air Force, in exchange for participation in the programme.

USA.gov

The site also follows requirements of the Privacy Act, the Federal Information Security Management Act, and other privacy and security requirements.


2007 UCF Knights football team

With their Conference USA championship, UCF got an automatic berth at the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee on December 29, 2007.

A Long Way to Shiloh

A Long Way to Shiloh (known in the USA as The Menorah Men so as not to be thought a Civil War novel) is a thriller by Lionel Davidson.

Acme Monaco

In 1989 a second manufacturing facility was opened in Presque Isle, Maine, USA.

Aptos High School

Aptos High School is a comprehensive secondary school in Aptos, California, USA in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District.

Biotecnol

Dr de Noronha Pissarra has worked at numerous institutions, including King's College, London, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and the Centre for Biotechnology of the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby.

Bob Bradley

Following the World Cup, Bradley signed a contract extension in August 2010 to remain as the USA coach until the 2014 World Cup.

Candida Thompson

As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with musicians such as Isaac Stern, Bruno Giuranna, Frans Helmerson, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, David Kuyken and performed at many festivals such as Kuhmo (Finland), Gubbio (Italy), International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht (the Netherlands) and La Musica (the USA).

Casco Bay High School

Casco Bay High School is a public Expeditionary Learning school in Portland, Maine, USA.

Christoffel Nortje

Professor Nortje has spoken extensively in Maxillofacial Radiology scientific meetings in Hungary, Italy, USA, Brazil, Abu Dhabi, Lebanon, Bangkok, Thailand, China, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

Comedy Review

Articles: The Fast Show; British sitcoms remade in the USA; A to Z of comedy songs; 20 Forgotten Sitcoms.

Demsky

Danielle Demski, a Arizona beauty queen who has competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA pageants.

DeWayne Lewis

He helped lead Team USA to the gold medal at the 2011 IFAF World Championship in Austria and was selected as an All-World defensive back and received the award as the Best Defensive Back at the World Championship.

Eaton Canyon

Eaton Canyon is a major canyon beginning at the Eaton Saddle near Mount Markham and San Gabriel Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains in the Angeles National Forest, USA.

Elna

Elna, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, USA

European Society for Trauma and Dissociation

The idea of establishing a European society for trauma and dissociation was first conceived by ESTD's past presidents Eli Somer and Remy Aquarone during their service on the board of directors of the USA-based International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) with the vision of developing the ISSTD as a United Nations-like organisation composed of continental, regional and national societies.

G. B. Pegram

Following Marcus Oliphant's mission to the USA in August 1941 to alert the Americans to the feasibility of an atomic bomb, in autumn 1941 Pegram and Urey led a diplomatic mission to the United Kingdom to establish co-operation on development of the atomic bomb.

Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh

He has participated in major exhibitions all over the world and his works are displayed in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, USA.

Giacomo Bulgarelli

He finished his career with a brief spell in 1975 with the Hartford Bicentennials in the USA.

Harold M. Westergaard

Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).

Ichthyornis

Ichthyornis was first discovered in 1870 by Benjamin Franklin Mudge, a professor from Kansas State Agricultural College who recovered the initial fossils from the North Fork of the Solomon River in Kansas, USA.

Jason Varitek

His Lake Brantley High School baseball team won the Florida State Championship his senior year in 1990 and was named the number one high school baseball team in the nation by a USA Today poll.

Jesse Nilsson

Nilsson was cast as Eric Singer, one of the central characters in the Disney TV movie Model Behavior, which was released on 12 March 2000 in the USA.

Jessica Schultz

For the 2006 U.S. World Team Trials in March, Schultz was named skip, or captain, of Team USA (the team's regular skip, Cassie Johnson, did not play in the tournament), and the team finished fourth under her direction.

Jorge Arteaga

Jorge begun racing in the USA in 2010, acting as an ambassador for NASCAR's D4D (Drive for Diversity Program) and working in Revolution Racing alongside with drivers such as Mackena Bell and Sergio Peña.

King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

KSAU-HS has a number of licensing agreements to develop its academic programs with prestigious universities worldwide: University of Sydney (Australia); University of Liverpool (UK); South Alabama University (USA); Flinders University (Australia); Arkansas University (USA), Thomas Jefferson University (USA) University of Maryland (USA), Maastricht University (Netherlands), The University of Oklahoma (USA) and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (USA).

Live: Bad Kitty Board Mix

Live: Bad Kitty Board Mix is a 2006 live album by Sophie B. Hawkins recorded at The Triple Door (Seattle, USA) and The Basement (Sydney, Australia).

Matthew Zook

His work as an economic geographer contributed to a greater understanding of the expansion and impact of WalMart in USA (History of Walmart.

Maury Povich

In 1998 the show was taken over by Studios USA (then a division of USA Networks, later renamed Universal Television after being sold to Vivendi Universal; and NBC Universal Television after VU Entertainment was sold to NBC owner General Electric).

Mecca2Medina

They have worked with many new artists including with The Blind Alphabets and Mohammed Yahya, Missundastood of the USA, Poetic Pilgrimage, Pearls of Islam, Masika Feesibillah and Muslim Bilal.

Medina Valley

For example, the California Fan Palm, Washingtonia filifera occurs only in the western USA west of the Medina Valley and Balcones Fault.

Michelle Loughery

She has been instrumental in beginning world class mural projects in Cuba, Missouri, USA; Vernon, British Columbia and continues to work in the Country Music Capital of Canada, Merritt, British Columbia.

Mindy Duncan

Two other Miss Oregon Teen USA titleholders, Bridgette Wilson (1990) and Tami Farrell (2003), have since also won the Miss Teen USA crown.

Mobile phone industry in the United States

:Previously a MVNO now complete subsidiary of Sprint Corporation, Virgin Mobile USA provides prepaid wireless service using Sprint's CDMA, WiMAX, and 4G LTE networks.

National Astronomical Observatory of China

The reformation of management strucuture imitated to National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) of USA and National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).

Neil Galanter

Neil Galanter is an American pianist in Los Angeles, California, who is a leading specialist in researching and performing the works of Iberian/Spanish, Catalan, Belgian, and other European composers including Mompou, Montsalvatge, Granados, Albeniz, Mompou, Blancafort, Espla, and Poot.

Parrot Records

The label usually licensed (or leased) recordings made by Decca Records, England for the release in the USA and Canada, most notably by The Zombies, Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Them, Jonathan King, Hedgehoppers Anonymous, Lulu, Bobby "Boris" Pickett (reissued from Garpax), Savoy Brown, Alan Price, Love Sculpture (reissued from EMI) and Frijid Pink.

Post Regiment

Their final album, Tragiedia wg Post Regiment ("Tragedy According To Post Regiment") was released in 1998 on Profane Existence records in the USA and Skuld releases in Europe.

Ramiro Villapadierna

Exceptionally he toured the USA for a series on the American society, between the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush eras.

Richmond–San Rafael Bridge

The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (officially, the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge) is the northernmost of the east–west crossings of the San Francisco Bay in California, USA, connecting Richmond on the east to San Rafael on the west end.

Rob Kling

Rob Kling, PhD (born August 1944, died 15 May 2003 - age 58) was a North American professor of Information Systems and Information science at the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University, USA.

Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon

The SunTrust Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon, formerly known as the National Marathon, is an annual marathon and half marathon held in Washington, D.C. It was established in 2006 as an annual event.

Rock pocket mouse

In 2003, scientists sampled DNA from both light- and dark-coloured rock pocket mice from areas in Pinacate Peaks, Mexico and New Mexico, USA.

Rokni Haerizadeh

Haerizadeh is in a number of notable collections globally, namely the Tate Modern, London, UK, Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran, Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK, JP Morgan Collection, NY, USA, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India, British Museum, London, UK, Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France, Rubell Family Collection, Florida, USA, UCCA, Beijing.

Sandtown

Sandtown, New Jersey, an unincorporated community in Southampton Township, New Jersey, USA

Srilekha Parthasarathy

She also has a fan club "No One Noticed Srilekha" in Portland, Oregon, USA, the first for a Tamil singer in Oregon.

Telco

Telco Systems, a telecommunications systems manufacturer based in Mansfield, Massachusetts, USA

Volker Ignaz Schmidt

Since 1995 he has studied composition privately with Franklin Cox (University of Maryland, USA), Bernd Asmus (Freiburg, Germany), Jan Kopp (Stuttgart, Germany) and John Palmer (composer) (University of Hertfordshire, England).

White Flag incident

LTTE's Political Wing leader Balasingham Nadesan and Pulidevan agreed to surrender and they contacted the United Nations, the governments of Norway, United Kingdom, USA and also ICRC and had been assured by Mahinda Rajapaksa and told to surrender at a particular place by the Basil Rajapakse.

World Chess Championship 1907

Emanuel Lasker had virtually retired after retaining the Chess World Championship in 1897, in part due to his doctoral studies in mathematics, but defended his title against Frank J. Marshall from January 26 to April 6, 1907, in the USA, games being played in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago and Memphis.

Yuet Wai Kan

He did his medical training at Queen Mary Hospital, then went to USA for further study.


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2007 Weber Cup


Team USA captain Tim Mack, together with Tommy Jones, put the Americans in front overall for the first time, with a 226-207 win over Team Europe's captain Tomas Leandersson and Mika Koivuniemi.

Adrian Adlam

Adlam has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, the USA and Japan.

All Star Tennis '99

The featured player on the USA and Europe versions is Michael Chang while in the French version the featured player is Yannick Noah who, has his name above the title as Yannick Noah All Star Tennis '99.

Bobby DeBarge

The group - which consisted of DeBarge, Williams, Jody Sims, Phillip Ingram and Eddie Fluellen - then recorded an album in 1976 under the name Hot Ice entitled Pall Mall Groove, which included DeBarge's incredible singing, piano performance and writing of "Please Don't Let Me Go," released in 1977 on Polydor/Germany and in 1979 in the USA/Canada as SMASH on Source Records/MCA.

Chihchun Chi-sun Lee

Dr. Lee is originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and is currently on the faculty of the University of South Florida, in Tampa, USA, She received a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan, two masters’ degrees from Ohio University, and a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University in Taiwan.

Christopher Asher

Asher has coached professional athletes Derek Knight (top-5 USA ranked 110mHH), Sergio Santos (1st round MLB pick for the Arizona Diamondbacks), Reuben Droughns (NFL-Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns, New York Giants) and Trevor Ariza (NBA- New York Knicks, Orlando Magic, L.A. Lakers).

Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum

The Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum is a museum located in McLean, Texas, USA.

E. V. Gordon

1927 An Introduction to Old Norse, Revised edition 1956, revised by A.R. Taylor; Reprinted 1981, Oxford University Press, USA; 2nd edition

El Prado

El Prado, New Mexico, an unincorporated suburb of Taos, Taos County, New Mexico, USA

Elisabeth Congdon

Elisabeth Congdon was born to mining magnate Chester Adgate Congdon, and his wife, Clara Hesperia Bannister Congdon on April 22, 1894 in Duluth, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, USA.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District is a public school district based in Fairbanks, Alaska (USA).

Henk van den Breemen

The “Gang of five”, as they were called when the pamphlet was presented in Washington DC (January 2008), consisted of General (ret.) John Shalikashvili (USA), General (ret.) Dr. Klaus Naumann (Germany), Admiral (ret.) Jacques Lanxade and Field Marshal the Lord Inge (UK).

Hostin

Countries like Brazil, Canada and USA had received Belgian and French immigrants with that last name.In Brazil the family Hostin arrived with other families at the Belgium settlement of Ilhota in the state of Santa Catharina in the first half of the 19th century.

Jean-Philippe Lamoureux

His sisters Jocelyne and Monique, both born 1989 (twins), both won silver medals with Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and are currently both forwards with the women's NCAA team at the University of North Dakota.

Jennifer Wester

With partner and husband Daniil Barantsev, she is the 2007 Nebelhorn Trophy champion and 2008 World Championship first alternates for Team USA.

Johan Nygaardsvold

He took jobs in British Columbia in Canada, and Kalispell, Montana, and Spokane, Washington in USA before returning to Norway in 1907, having followed a career as an Industrial Workers of the World agitator.

Jordan Alan

He has shot TV commercials for clients including 1-800-DENTIST, 1-800-USA-EYES, Invisalign and LA Sight Laser Center.

Kinderhook Industries

In June, 2012, the firm took control of M. Davis Company, Incorporated (doing business as USA Recovery, and Skip Masters), a firm based in El Dorado Hills, California that reprocesses property when owners default on loans.

Lonely Are the Brave

The Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA gave the film a "Golden Reel Award" for "Best Sound Editing" (Waldon O. Watson, Frank H. Wilkinson, James R. Alexander, James Curtis, Arthur B. Smith), in a tie with Mutiny on the Bounty.

Model-driven engineering

Marco Brambilla, Jordi Cabot, Manuel Wimmer, Model Driven Software Engineering in Practice, foreword by Richard Soley (OMG Chairman), Morgan & Claypool, USA, 2012, Synthesis Lectures on Software Engineering #1.

Molinology

Cultural and scientific interest in molinology is maintained by The International Molinological Society (TIMS), a non-profit organisation which brings together more than six hundred members, mostly from Europe and the USA.

PCCS

Pocatello Community Charter School, a public K-8 charter school in Pocatello, Idaho, USA

Raymond L. Brett

He held a number of Visiting Professorships: University of Rochester, USA, 1958–1959; Kiel University, University of Osnabrück, 1977; University of Baroda, Jadavpur University, 1978; University of Ottawa, 1981.

Smokies

Great Smoky Mountains - a major mountain range in the southern part of the Appalachian Mountains, USA

Tirnavia

The choir performed the Solemn Mass (for 2 organs and mixed choir) by Louis Vierne together with wellknown organist David di Fiore (USA) in October 2004.

Touro University

Touro University California, a medical, pharmacy and physician assistant's school in Vallejo, California, USA.

Wimmersperg Spz

The gun was designed by Heinrich von Wimmersperg of Austria, who after World War II, moved to Detroit, USA.

Yū Asakawa

She is also a co-host of an internet webshow Otaku Verse Zero with Patrick Macias, the editor-in-chief of Otaku USA.