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3 unusual facts about anchor


Alan Ashby

Following his playing career, he moved into broadcasting as he telecast HSE Southwestern Conference Baseball in 1990 and served as Sports Director and Anchor for KHTV Channel 39 Houston from 1990 to 1992.

Anchor

The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred (being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102).

G. I. Taylor

In the 1930s he invented the 'CQR' anchor which was both stronger and more manageable than any in use and which was used for all sorts of small craft including seaplanes.


Adirondack Frostbite

In 2004, ESPN SportsCenter anchor Steve Levy and NHL analyst Barry Melrose became the team's owners and the team changed its name to the Frostbite.

Adnan Virk

It is planned that starting the 2013 MLB Season, he will anchor Baseball Tonight replacing Steve Berthiaume.

Blaine Nye

He played right guard between Hall of Famer offensive tackle Rayfield Wright (1970–1976) and Dave Manders (1970–1972) or John Fitzgerald (1973–1976) at center and helped anchor a dominant offensive line that led the Cowboys to three Super Bowls in that time.

Bus monitor bullying video

On his show Anderson Cooper 360°, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper announced that Southwest Airlines offered to pay for a trip for Klein and nine people of her choice to Disneyland for a three-night visit.

Cabo de Santo Agostinho

Although the official Portuguese discovery of Brazil was by Pedro Álvares Cabral on April 21, 1500, some historians believe that Vicente Yáñez Pinzón already had set anchor in a bay in Cabo de Santo Agostinho on January 26, 1500, which he named Cabo de Santa María de la Consolación.

Christen Craig

While attending Southern Illinois University, Craig worked as an anchor, reporter and executive producer for River Region Evening Edition on WSIU-TV, the university-owned news station.

Cindy Day

Before her move to CTV, Cindy Day remained one of the longest serving personalities at Global Maritimes, appearing on weekday newscasts with anchor Allan Rowe.

Corey Koskie

While the Brewers acquired a veteran infielder with a solid glove and bat to anchor their very young infield, Koskie's later seasons were marred by injuries, including missing most of the 2006 season with post-concussion syndrome.

County Square

On 20 March 2007, County Square opened its new extended shopping mall to accommodate its new anchor store Debenhams, as well as stores such as New Look, Jane Norman, H&M, Next, River Island and Waterstones.

Courtney Friel

Friel was a sports anchor and entertainment reporter for GoTV Mobile Television, as well as the hostess for the World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel.

Crown and Anchor

Crown and Anchor is one of the dice games played in the British detective series Foyle's War, episode 15, "Casualties of War."

Dago Creek

The name derives from the numerous Sicilian fishermen who would anchor in the protected waters during closed fishing periods and collectively celebrate their heritage with plenty of food and wine.

East Caribbean dollar

In 1822, the British government coined 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16 fractional 'Anchor dollars' for use in Mauritius and the British West Indies (but not Jamaica).

Frederic Hsieh

In the early 1970s, he predicted that the then-predominantly Caucasian city of Monterey Park and the San Gabriel Valley would serve as an anchor for new ethnic Chinese immigrants as an alternative to the old Chinatown in Los Angeles, but it was immediately dismissed and brushed off as mere speculation at the time.

Gretchen Fullido

Fullido is the current anchor for the segment, Star Patrol on TV Patrol and under the contract of ABS-CBN and TFC.

Hal Fishman

The event was emceed by Morning Show anchor Michaela Pereira and attended by such dignitaries as Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Los Angeles County sheriff Lee Baca.

Hechinger

Their sponsorship of the 11:00 p.m. newscast at T.V. station WTOP in Washington, D.C., was a first, according to Walter Cronkite (an anchor of those broadcasts) in his autobiography A Reporter's Life.

Hexing a Hurricane

Those appearing on screen include Chris Rose (Times-Picayune columnist), Angela Hill (WWL-TV Channel 4 news anchor), Garland Robinette, (WWL (AM) radio talk show host), Harry Anderson (actor, former resident, former local club owner), Irvin Mayfield (musician), Sallie Ann Glassman (artist, Voodoo priestess), along with various people of New Orleans.

Hope and Anchor, Islington

Other bands which played at the Hope and Anchor include The Cure, The Stranglers, The Only Ones, The Police, The Stray Cats, The Pogues, Dire Straits, U2, Joy Division, Oliver Coates, The Men They Couldn't Hang amongst others.

Imus

Gilbert Remulla, news anchor, TV host, former representative 1st district of Cavite

Jack H. Jacobs

In October 2008, the Penguin Group published Jacobs' memoir, If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice In America's Time of Need, coauthored with New York Times best-selling author, Douglas Century, with a foreword by NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams.

Jenny Valliere

Along with Molly Picon, she was a star at New York City's Second Avenue Theater in the Yiddish Theater District; a 1925 New York Times article singles them out as the only women whose talents provided the major anchor for a New York Yiddish theater at that time.

John Henry Faulk

Other supporters in the blacklist struggle included radio pioneer and Wimberley, Texas native Parks Johnson and reporter and CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite.

John Lavington Bonython

-- This is also the closest anchor for her daughter Katherine Bonython, which also links here -->

John Steigerwald

John worked on the sports anchor team at WTAE-TV (ABC), along with other Pittsburgh notables such as Myron Cope and Bill Hillgrove.

Kevin Sites

Sites is often cited by former CNN anchor Daryn Kagan in media stories as her inspiration to launch her eponymous web site, DarynKagan.com.

KKOH

Tom Darby, news anchor, Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame

Lechmere Square

The area is now best known for the CambridgeSide Galleria, one of the few full-fledged interior shopping malls within the city limits of Boston and Cambridge, which is on the site of the original Lechmere store (and, when built, incorporated a newly built Lechmere Sales store as one of its anchor tenants).

Lehrer

Jim Lehrer (1934- ), American journalist, author of fiction and non-fiction, and TV news anchor

Lelia Doolan

She taught at the College of Commerce, Rathmines (now part of the DIT) between 1979 and 1988, where she established and was head of the first Irish course in Media Communications, teaching Bryan Dobson (news anchor), Fergus Tighe (film director), Anne Cassin (newsreader), and Ned O'Hanlon (U2 and Rolling Stones video director) amongst others.

Lloyd Robertson

Robertson has outlasted Kirck, the late Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, Tom Brokaw, and the late Peter Jennings to become the longest-serving network news anchor in television history; he is also one of the longest-serving news anchors on English-language North American television (network or local) along with KTRK-TV (Houston)'s Dave Ward, WNBC (New York)'s Chuck Scarborough and KING-TV (Seattle)'s Jean Enersen.

Lori Geary

Lori started her first reporting job at WRDW-TV in Augusta, Georgia where she was quickly promoted to noon anchor and later moved to Raleigh, North Carolina where she covered politics and conducted some memorable interviews with Jesse Helms, Elizabeth Dole, and John Edwards.

Lyndon Ogbourne

Ogbourne started his television career in 2000 with a part in TV film Anchor Me opposite Annette Crosbie.

Mayflower Mall

East Side Mario's has recently opened in a previous anchor restaurant location.

MSNBC Live

Jeff Rossen – Contributing Anchor and NBC News correspondent

MV Mercedes I

She was caught in a storm while at anchor off Palm Beach, Florida on 23 November 1984, and was driven ashore where she crashed into the seawall front of the home of Palm Beach socialite, Mollie Wilmot, who served the 12 Venezzuelan sailors caviar, finger sandwiches and freshly brewed coffee in her gazebo, offered martinis to journalists and photographers, and granted the stranded Venezuelans access to her swimming pool.

Nickie Nina

Choreographed by Asimyar Tiwana with the event managed by QYT events, the Nickie Nina team also included Pakistani stylist Babloo, anchor Ayesha Sana, models Mehreen Syed, Sunita Marshall, Tooba Siddiqui and Nadia Ali, joined by London based model Sadia Siddiqui, Shrina, Gina and Hajra Ahmed.

Pamela Wu

Prior to joining KCRA 3, Wu worked as anchor and reporter at stations across Northern California, including KVIQ in Eureka, KION in Salinas/Monterey, and the KCRA 3 sister station in Salinas/Monterey, KSBW.

Pat Harper

Following Jorgensen's retirement from the station in 1983, and Bosh's departure in 1984, her co-anchors would include Brad Holbrook and former CBS News reporter/anchor Morton Dean.

Pat Kiernan

From 2000 to 2004, Kiernan was the co-anchor of the CNNfn program "The Money Gang." His co-hosts included Christine Romans and two fellow Canadians, Amanda Lang and Ali Velshi.

Rajdeep Sardesai

He is married to Sagarika Ghose, a journalist and fellow senior editor and anchor at CNN-IBN, since 1994.

Robyn McGlohn

Robyn McGlohn is the current morning/noon news anchor for WSOC-TV Eyewitness News Daybreak and WAXN-TV Eyewitness News This Morning in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sade

Sade Baderinwa, the WABC-TV Eyewitness News correspondent and anchor

Swindon 105.5

Martin created a video diary, and was also interviewed live by leading Sky News anchor Jeremy Thompson.

Tri-County Mall

This project added a fourth anchor, McAlpin's, and a second level of retail, which was built on top of the first.

Tsi-Tsi-Ki Félix

Félix joined Telemundo Chicago in 2001 as a fill in reporter and anchor for Milenka Peña, a veteran journalist and public figure.

Uptons

(which comprised the clothing chains Millers Outpost, Levi's Outlet by M.O.S.T., Dockers Outlet by M.O.S.T., Juxtapose and Anchor Blue).

Via Krupp

Built between 1900 and 1902, ostensibly Via Krupp was a connection for Krupp between his luxury hotel, Grand Hotel Quisisana, and Marina Piccola, where his marine biology research vessel lay at anchor.

WJJL

Former WGN Radio-Chicago VP/General Manager Tom Langmyer worked there as a summer fill-in personality, news reporter and anchor while in college.

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

She also includes interview statements by non-celebrities, and celebrities, including All Things Considered anchor Susan Stamberg, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, television sitcom producer Norman Lear and Mary Tyler Moore Show actor Ed Asner.


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