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2 unusual facts about comeback


Comeback

Well-known comebacks include the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final, those of boxer Muhammad Ali after a three-year break from 1967 until 1970, and singer Yusuf Islam, who found earlier success as Cat Stevens and was not active from 1978 until 1995.

Comeback: Single Collection '90–'94

Comeback: Singles Collection '90-'94 is a compilation album by Bonnie Tyler.


10 Out of 10

MK News spoke highly of their performance of the song for their comeback on The Music Trend television show.

1969 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

Five minutes into the second period Joe Millea scored Kilkenny's second goal and the comeback was on.

2006 Michigan State vs. Northwestern football game

The comeback was thought to save John L. Smith's career at Michigan State, but on November 1, 2006 the university announced that Smith would not be brought back after the season as the Spartans finished with four more losses after this game.

Michigan State's chances of completing the comeback appeared to be finished early in the fourth quarter when backup quarterback Brian Hoyer had his 6th pass of the drive intercepted by Northwestern a minute in.

2006 Oakland Raiders season

In the fourth quarter, the only form of a comeback the Raiders could do was QB Aaron Brooks completing a 5-yard TD pass to WR Ronald Curry.

Alan Dapre

His play 'Comeback' was staged at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1987 with performances by Philip Middlemiss and William Ivory.

Anna Luna

This drama series made a comeback the glory days of Philippine drama, and was become a contemporary for some other series like Mara Clara, Agila and Valiente.

Attersana S.C.

After a dramatic late equaliser in the first leg, the Sky Blues took the lead in Mohamed Belouizdad, before the Algerians roused themselves to a comeback, and a 3–2 victory on aggregate.

Bet Lynch

In March 2010 it was reported on Digital Spy that Bet was set to make a comeback in an attempt by the newly appointed Phil Collinson producer to try to restore the show to its 'golden days'.

Bobby Weinstein

Working as part of Costa's production company, Weinstein and Randazzo had some of their biggest successes with comeback hits for Little Anthony and the Imperials in 1964 and 1965, "I'm On The Outside (Looking In)", "Goin' Out Of My Head", and "Hurt So Bad", the last of which was also co-written with Bobby Hart.

Bruce Seldon

Seldon launched a second comeback in 2007, now into his 40's, and knocked out a series of journeymen before being knocked out himself by ranked contenders Kevin Johnson and Fres Oquendo.

Bubbler Ranx

However he made an appearance in the fifth episode of the third series of Andre's television show Peter Andre: My Life in January 2013, where he made a comeback in Andre's concert at The O2.

Byron Mitchell

As of February 2010, Mitchell's comeback had netted him three wins and two losses, His last loss was to current WBA light heavyweight champion Beibut Shumenov, who won and lost two razor thin controversial decisions to Gabriel Campillo.

Crno na belo

Crno na belo (Black and white) is the title of the comeback single by the Serbian punk rock band Goblini, featuring the songs "Luna" ("The Moon"), written during the rehearsals held on May 2010, and "Kao da" ("As if"), written during the U magnovenju recording sessions.

Dhanya Balakrishna

She however made a comeback portraying supporting roles in the 2013 Telugu film Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu as a girl who proposes to the character played by Mahesh Babu; while in Raja Rani, she was seen as Nivetha, a friend of Nayantara's character.

Eric Singleton

He appeared for the first time on the comeback version of "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" in 1998, then for the next few years he was heard on every single Modern Talking song released, until "Last Exit to Brooklyn" in 2001 (except "Win the Race").

Henson Cargill

In 1973, he made a strong comeback to the charts when he signed with Atlantic Records and scored 2 Top 30 hits in 1974 with "Some Old California Memory" and a version of Mac Davis' hit song "Stop and Smell the Roses".

Hiromi Yamada

In 1994, he began a public comeback on an episode of the popular Japanese cooking show, Iron Chef, where he won the "Battle of the Cabbage" against Chen Kenichi.

Ian Jacobs

Ian Jacobs made a comeback to Kickboxing in November 2009, at Tarik Solak's A-1 8 man eliminator tournament.

Imre Pulai

Most assumed that would be the final medal of his long career, but in 2006 he made a comeback at the 2006 European Championships, held in Račice, Czech Republic, winning a C-4 500 m bronze medal.

Jimmy Kébé

In August 2013, after 6 months out injured with a groin strain, Kébé was set to make a comeback for Reading in a match against Peterborough in the League Cup, however he controversially dropped out of contention with an injury, with manager Nigel Adkins unhappy about the timing after speculation linking Kébé with a move to Crystal Palace.

Julio Peralta

He made his comeback (after long, exhausting, two-year injury) in the 2011 Sparkassen Open, winning comfortably the first two qualifying rounds, against Stefan Seifert and David Goffin (No. 220).

Kettle hat

When helmets reappeared in World War I, the kettle hat made its comeback as the British and U.S. Brodie helmet (often called tin hat), as well as the French Adrian helmet.

Kidney transplantation

At least four professional athletes have made a comeback to their sport after receiving a transplant: New Zealand rugby union player Jonah Lomu, German-Croatian Soccer Player Ivan Klasnić, and NBA basketballers Sean Elliott and Alonzo Mourning.

Libya–Pakistan relations

The new general elections in 1993 revived the comeback of PPP under Benazir Bhutto who was immediately sworned as Prime Minister.

Life's Work

Trying to make a comeback from being forced to wear classic briefs when it took four of her G-strings to "make a decent rag," Lisa referred to her new underwear as "big kid pants," suggesting that she was handed a pair of underwear that only children should wear.

Mademoiselle Yulia

Mademoiselle Yulia will collaborate with M-Flo on their comeback song "Run," which is being used for sports shoe brand Reebok's Reethem & Lite campaign in Japan.

Major Records

Also, pop trio X-Perience from Berlin, who had some hits during the 90s, joined Major Records for their comeback album Lost in Paradise, including a duet with Midge Ure called Personal Heaven.

Mattie Larson

Larson made a strong comeback in 2010 winning the all-around competition at the CoverGirl Classic in July.

Nathan Brew

He made his comeback appearance on 8 February 2003 against Bedwas RFC, again in the WRU Challenge Cup, and followed this up by scoring a try in a Welsh Premier Division match against Cardiff RFC on 25 April.

Nature Trail to Hell

At the time of the song's release, the 3-D process had made a short comeback through horror films like Friday the 13th Part III and Jaws 3-D.

Néstor de Villa

In the 1980s, de Villa made his screen comeback when he was again paired with Blanca in two movies for Viva Films: Forgive and Forget, which also starred Sharon Cuneta and William Martinez, and Saan Darating Ang Umaga (Where Will the Morning Come), a family drama co-starring Maricel Soriano and Jaypee de Guzmán.

Northern February red

Since 2001 the Countryside Council for Wales had not recorded any comeback of the species in Wales or England.

Oleksiy Shelest

He made a comeback from his eight-year absence at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing to race for the second time in 50 km walk, along with his compatriots Serhiy Budza and Oleksiy Kazanin.

Padam Pesum

The film will be the first time Sakthi Vasu and Poorna are pairing up, while it marks Priyanka Kothari, who was last seen in Kacheri Arambam and yesteryear actress Sithara's comeback to Tamil Cinema.

Poonam Dasgupta

After retiring from the film industry, she made a comeback with the play Begum Sahiba co-starring Rahul Roy.

Quai des Orfèvres

Quai des Orfèvres was also a comeback film for director-actor Louis Jouvet with whom Clouzot had become good friends before World War II.

Riddick Bowe vs. Michael Dokes

In 1990 though, his comeback was haulted after he was dominated by Donovan "Razor" Ruddock and lost by fourth round technical knockout after being hit with a vicious combination that knocked him unconscious.

Runar Berg

In 2012, Berg made a comeback for local amateur side Junkeren.

Sokratis Tsoukalas

Although AEK Athens was relegated to the 3rd Division in order the team's debt to be erased, Tsoukalas was agreed to stay and help AEK for the big comeback to Greek Superleague alongside Kostas Tsoupros, Anastasios Tsoumagas, Dimitris Anakoglou, Miguel Cordero, Dimitris Grontis and Michalis Pavlis

Soniya Mehra

After the release of Victoria 203 which was a commercial flop, Soniya took a long gap of three years and she is now attempting to make her comeback in 2010 with the film Basra starring Abhay Deol and directed by Navdeep Singh.

Souled and Healed

Souled and Healed is the 2005 comeback album from Jim Diamond, his first studio album since 1994's Sugarolly Days.

The Bloody Battle of Bayamon

Escalera became a wrestler before returning to boxing, and had a strong comeback as a Lightweight, beating men like Maurice Watkins and Gene Hatcher before suffering a detached retina and retiring from boxing for good in 1983.

The Comeback Story

The Comeback Story is a half-hour drama reality show which aired on ABC from October 2, 1953 to February 5, 1954, in which celebrities explain how they overcame physical disabilities or other kinds of adverse fortunes in their lives.

The Records

They were hired to back Stiff Records singer Rachel Sweet on the "Be Stiff Tour '78". The Records opened the shows with a set of their own. Birch and Wicks also wrote a song for Sweet's debut album entitled "Pin a Medal on Mary". The songwriting duo also penned "Hearts in Her Eyes" for the Searchers, who made an unexpected comeback with their power pop oriented album The Searchers in 1979.

Tracy Hyde

In the 1980s, Tracy made her film comeback in Dead End For Belinda (1980), The Orchard End Murder (1980) and Alice (1981) where she was re-united with her Melody co-star, Jack Wild.

Vernon Taylor

In 1989, he was asked to play at a benefit concert for Charlie Feathers, which led to a comeback career.

Vito Favero

The 1958 Tour de France has been compared to the 2006 Tour de France: Both Charly Gaul and Floyd Landis were favourites halfway the Tour, both lost dramatically at a stage, but at a later stage made a great comeback, which put them close to the two leaders (Favero-Raphaël Géminiani and Óscar Pereiro-Carlos Sastre, and the day before the last stage to Paris they overtook the two leaders in an individual time trial.

World War II combatives

Thanks to the promotion of modified World War II combatives by modern warriors such as Carl Cestari and Bob Kasper, Kelly Mcann, Clint Sporman, Lawrence A. Jordan, and John Perkins these proven methods and techniques are beginning to make a strong comeback.


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