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Mark Horton

Mark Horton (Kung Fu) Kung Fu expert from England, who lives in Holland, with the highest rank under grandmaster Doc Fai Wong


10th FAI World Rally Flying Championship

10th FAI World Rally Flying Championship took place between September 14–21, 1997 in Antalya, Turkey, as a part of the 1st World Air Games.

18th FAI World Precision Flying Championship

18th FAI World Precision Flying Championship took place between July 13 - July 19, 2008 in Ried im Innkreis in Austria, altogether with the 16th FAI World Rally Flying Championship (July 20-26).

1949 England vs Ireland football match

Ireland took the lead in the 33rd minute when Peter Desmond, after collecting a pass from Tommy O'Connor, burst into the England penalty area and was brought down.

2001 FAI Cup Final

The 2001 FAI Cup Final was the deciding match of the 2000-01 FAI Cup, the national association football cup of Ireland.

2011–12 FAI Intermediate Cup

The draw was made on the 6 February 2012 at the FAI Headquarters, Abbotstown, by FAI President Paddy McCaul and former Drogheda United, Shamrock Rovers, Derry City and Shelbourne star Mick Neville.

The draw was made on 6 December 2011 at FAI Headquarters, Abbotstown by the FAI Domestic Committee.

The draw was made on 7 February 2012 at FAI Headquarters, Abbotstown by the FAI Domestic Committee.

2014 FAI Cup

These non-league teams are composed of the sixteen clubs, which reached the fourth round of the 2013–14 FAI Intermediate Cup and the seni-finalists of the FAI Junior Cup 2013-14.

5th FAI World Rally Flying Championship

5th FAI World Rally Flying Championship took place between May 29 - June 1, 1986 in Castellón de la Plana in Spain.

Alex Stevenson

Puzzled by the fourteen-year gap between his first and second FAI cap, Stevenson apparently approached both the Everton secretary-manager, Theo Kelly, and the FAI secretary Joe Wickham for an explanation but neither was prepared to offer one.

Ampor Tevi

In 2001 Fai Sam Ang, the predominant movie director decided to create the well-known Khmer folktale story: Kone Puos Keng Kong(The Snake King's Child).

Anarchism and Marxism

During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, although the anarchists and Marxists both fought in a united front against the fascist movement of General Francisco Franco, the revolutionary Marxists of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), the anarcho-syndicalists of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), and the anarchists of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI) faced repression and attacks from the Communist party.

Au Kin-Yee

She is a long-time screenwriter for films directed by Johnnie To and/or Wai Ka-Fai of Milkyway Image and frequently works alongside writers Wai Ka-Fai, Yau Nai-Hoi and Yip Tin-Shing.

Barograph

Barographs were required by the FAI to record certain tasks and record attempts associated with sailplanes.

Beast Cops

There, Cheung meets a madam named Yoyo (whose name in dubbed version is sometimes given as Yo-Yo Ma), who is also Fai's moll.

Bodyguards and Assassins

Bodyguards and Assassins is a 2009 Hong Kong film directed by Teddy Chan, featuring an all-star cast, including Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Leon Lai, Wang Xueqi, Simon Yam, Hu Jun, Eric Tsang, Cung Le and Fan Bingbing.

China Star Entertainment Group

Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai's Milkyway Image films, such Election, Election 2 and Mad Detective enjoyed Hong Kong box office successes and were sold to a slew of foreign territories (including United States, France and Argentina).

Floating wind turbine

A full-scale prototype was constructed in 2011 by Windplus, a joint-venture between EDP, Repsol, Principle Power, A. Silva Matos, Inovcapital, and FAI.

Forget Him

Also, Hong Kong pop star Jacky Cheung sung an unrelated song called "Forget Him" (1993), lyricized by Lau Jok-Fai (劉卓輝) and composed by John Laudon (劉諾生), recorded on one of his Cantonese albums, Me and You (我與你) (1993).

Fred Horlacher

On 8 December 1935 in a friendly against Netherlands at Dalymount Park, together with Bill McGuire, Paddy Andrews and Plev Ellis he was one of four Bohemian players in the FAI XI.

Harry Chatton

On 13 December 1931 at Dalymount Park he then captained the FAI XI in the return game against Spain; this time, however, his team lost 5–0.

Inspector Pink Dragon

The Chinese name of Tony Leung Ka Fai's character (馬友友) is also the Chinese name of famed celloist Yo-Yo Ma.

Insurrectionary anarchism

The Informal Anarchist Federation (not to be confused with the synthesist Italian Anarchist Federation also FAI ) is an Italian insurrectionary anarchist organization.

Jan Bervida

In 1946 was Bervida elected Vice-president of the FAI and one year later 1947 was he elected Vice=president to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

Jane March

False rumours that the sex scenes between March and her co-star Tony Leung Ka-fai in the film had been real and not simulated led to her being dubbed "The sinner from Pinner".

Jesse Pye

He had already played in a Victory International on 19 January 1946, scoring in a 2-0 win over Belgium, but eventually made his full debut on 21 September 1949 in a 2-0 defeat against Ireland at Goodison Park.

Joginder Nagar Valley

An FAI category two paragliding competition is organized annually by the Department of Tourism and Civil Aviation at Bir-Billing (31 km from Jogindernagar) in the month of October or November.

Kenneth Bi

In 1998 Bi line-produced Slow Fade for first time director Daniel Chan Fai which was selected into 1999 Berlin Film Festival.

Latécoère 521

On 30 December 1937 it set an FAI record carrying a payload of 18040 kg (39,770 lbs) to 2000 meters (6,562 ft) altitude at Biscarrosse, France.

Mauboussin M.200

The aircraft first flew on 21 March 1939 and in May 1939 established new FAI records for an aircraft of its class.

Milkyway Image

Johnnie To is the principal director and filmmaker at Milkyway Image, as the majority of Milkyway Image films have been directed by him, sometimes in collaboration with Wai Ka-Fai.

Monk's spade

It has been widely used in kung fu cinema (notably by Lau Kar-Fai in The 36th Chamber of Shaolin), and is used by the Shaolin priest in the online game Dragon Fist II and by Abbot Song in Jade Empire.

Paddy Moore

However the highlight of Moore's international career came on 25 February 1934 at Dalymount Park when the FAI XI made their World Cup debut in a qualifier against Belgium.

In February 1934 Moore scored four goals for the FAI XI in a World Cup qualifier against Belgium.

Poon Chi-fai

He was subsequently appointed to the Kwun Tong District Board in 1985 and elected to the Legislative Council in the first indirect election in 1985 through Kwun Tong electoral college constituency consisting of members of the Kwun Tong District Board and reelected in 1988.

Poon Chi-fai, JP (born 6 December 1951, Hong Kong) was the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and Kwun Tong District Board.

RWD 2

On 16 October, 1929, Żwirko and Antoni Kocjan set an international FAI altitude record of 4,004 m (13,133 ft) in the light tourist plane class (below 280 kg / 616 lb empty weight).

Svetlana Kapanina

Together with Mikhail Mamistov and Oleg Spolyansky, she won the team gold medal in the 16th FAI European Aerobatic Championships 2008 in Hradec Králové (Czech Republic).

Tsang Man Fai

During 2012 summer, Tsang Man Fai joined fellow First Division club Yokohama FC Hong Kong.

Yau Nai-Hoi

He often collaborates with fellow Milkyway Image writers Wai Ka-Fai, Szeto Kam-Yuen, Au Kin-Yee and Yip Tin-Shing.

Young and Dangerous

At the same time, Brother Fai Hung has the stuttering Smartie (Gigi Lai a.k.a Tania Sammy) carjack Ho Nam's Toyota MR2 and demands payment, but unfortunately she gets caught by Ho Nam and his friends and is punished by eating dozens of Chinese barbecue pork buns.


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