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Demise

Similarly the common law doctrine that all offices held under the Crown determined at its demise has been reversed by the Demise of the Crown Act 1901.


1892 Baltimore Orioles season

With the demise of the American Association, the Baltimore Orioles joined the more established National League for the 1892 season.

Adam Nathanson

The group was extant from 1987–1989, and upon its demise, Nathanson and bassist Neil Burke formed Born Against with singer Sam McPheeters.

Alworths

During the demise of the company, Tony Page, former commercial director at Woolworths, together with former UBS banker Gareth Thomas, put together plans to establish a new general retailer to fill the gap on the High Street left by the demise of Woolworths.

Andrew Cash

Around the same time as Ursula's demise, however, his brother Peter Cash also decided to leave his band, Skydiggers.

Ashton North End F.C.

Famous players for Ashton North End include Herbert Chapman, who later led Huddersfield Town and Arsenal to the First Division title as manager, who played for Ashton between 1895 and 1896; and Arthur Wharton, Britain's first black professional footballer, who played for Ashton from 1897 until their demise in 1899.

Bear Stearns

An article by journalist Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone magazine contended that naked short selling had a role in the demise of both Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.

Bellylove

Lisa Rae Black, a veteran of the Los Angeles music scene, recruited Valenta after the demise of her project featuring Barbi Von Greif, which was produced by Dave Rouse and Pierre de Beauport of the Rolling Stones' road crew.

Bob MacDonald

MacDonald was part of the team that founded The Toronto Sun newspaper after the demise of the The Toronto Telegram.

Charles F. Newcombe

In the process he became very interested in the Haida and started to collect their artifacts to "preserve" them from, what was then thought to be, the demise of the native culture.

CJFB-TV

CJFB-TV's demise marked it the first television station in Canada to cease operations since 1991, and also the first television station of the 2000s in Canada to cease operations.

Copyright law of the Russian Federation

Shortly before its demise, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had initiated an omnibus revision of the copyright law of the USSR to adapt it to a market economy.

Cornelius Donahue

Doug Engebretson in his book "Empty saddles, forgotten names: Outlaws of the Black Hills and Wyoming" has the following to say on the demise of Johnny.

Croughton, Northamptonshire

An historic elm reputedly stood in the church grounds for 800 years, and although it is believed to have died of Dutch elm disease in the 1970s, its demise dates back to the early 1900s.

E. S. S. Raman

After the demise of Moopanar, his natural, legal and political heir G. K. Vasan, the present Union Minister of Shipping, merged Tamil Maanila Congress with its parent organization 'Indian National Congress' under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi in 2002.

East Malling and Larkfield

Following the demise of Safeway in 2004, it changed several times in quick succession, becoming first a Morrisons for a short time, as part of that company's purchase of the bulk of the Safeway estate, before being sold to Somerfield, and in 2009, re-opening, fully refurbished, once again as a Morrison's.

Elias Poutanen

After MoonTV's demise Poutanen appeared only abruptly on television though resurfaced as a critic on the show Play on Nelonen, hosted by former MoonTV personnel Thomas Puha and Miika Huttunen.

Findlay Napier

Before the demise of Back of the Moon, Napier began working on a project called Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers at first this project was to bridge the gap between the traditional roots of Back of the Moon and the contemporary song and arrangements of Queen Anne's Revenge.

Georgetown, Arkansas

The disaster contributed to the demise the next year of the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, which had provided passenger and freight service since 1906 from Joplin, Missouri, to Helena, Arkansas.

Grizzly Big Boar

Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001): It is briefly seen several times until it meets its demise when Burt Gummer (played by Michael Gross) has to put an ammo can on his truck's gas pedal, propelling it off a cliff, so he and his friends can get away from a Graboid.

History of Kazakhstan

After the demise of the Eastern Hunnic Empire, the Tele people of Kazakhstan, known in Chinese annals as Tiele, formed tribal unions that became a coveted attraction for the Hunnic successors, but they generally retained independence of their unions.

Ibn Hamdis

"Abd, al-Jabbar Ibn Hamdis left his native Sicily in 1078 at the age of twenty-four, and for the rest of his long life wandered in al-Andalus and North Africa as a court poet, singing the praises of his Arab hosts and lamenting the loss of his home and the demise of Muslim culture in the wake of the Norman invasion of Sicily and the Reconquista in Spain." (Gabriel Levin, To These Dark Steps, 2012, p.77)

Itamar Singer

He is known for his research of the Ancient Near East and as a leading Hittitologist, pioneering the study of this ancient Anatolian culture in Israel and elucidating the tensions which brought about its demise.

John Fernandes

Upon that band's demise, Fernandes went on to form the Athens-based group Circulatory System with other members of Olivia Tremor Control, most notably Will Cullen Hart.

KB Toys

It was also the second-oldest operating toy retailer in North America (behind FAO Schwarz) before its demise.

KYQQ

Sometime in 1990, KWKL dropped its Oldies format and stunted with David Bowie's "Changes" and Bananarama's "I Heard a Rumour" repeatedly and a drop between the songs saying "All Good Things Must Come To An End, Out With The Old" referring to the demise of KWKL's Oldies format.

Last Days of Issa's Father

Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), one of the four great haiku masters of Japan, along with Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson and Masaoka Shiki, described the last days of his father in his diary, beginning when his father suddenly developed fever and became seriously ill and continuing until a week after his demise.

Laura Avery Sumner

McCashin explained to Boston.com in 2009 stating, "I was very hurt the way I was let go for financial reasons. I wish they'd handled my demise better".

Merchant Express Aviation

Competition from such European cargo airlines like Cargo Lion, Cargolux and Germany's DHL, combined with the poor economical situation of Nigeria during the time (which also had to do with Nigeria Airways' demise) to precipitate the cargo airline company's demise before the 2000s had arrived.

Michael Haysman

He lived in Miami for nearly three years working with Allen Stanford's Caribbean Twenty 20 as commentator and analyst but moved to Los Angeles after Stanford's demise.

Middle-market newspaper

In the United Kingdom, since the demise of Today (1986–95), the only national middle-market papers are the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, distinguishable by their black-top masthead (both use the easy-to-carry tabloid paper size), as opposed to the red-top mastheads of down-market tabloids.

NECVA Championship Tournament

NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship, the creation of which led to the demise of both the NECVA and the Molten Invitational

Newmains

The Coltness Iron Works was established in 1837 by industrialist, Henry Houldsworth who, foreseeing the gradual demise of the once booming cotton industry, decided to diversify into minerals.

Niumataiwalu

This latter attribute would eventually attract the attention of one of the noble ladies of Bau, causing an illicit affair and leading to his eventual demise, for the lady was the Radini Levuka, wife of the Vunivalu or Paramount Chief of the Kubuna Confederacy.

Ohlone mythology

One Ohlone creation myth begins with the demise of a previous world: When it was destroyed, the world was covered entirely in water, apart from a single peak, Pico Blanco (north of Big Sur) in the Rumsien version (or Mount Diablo in the northern Ohlone's version) on which Coyote, Hummingbird, and Eagle stood.

Oni Logan

In the mid-1990s, Logan formed the band Violets Demise with former Dio guitarist Rowan Robertson.

Painted Willie

Painted Willie was a punk rock band started in 1984 in Los Angeles by drummer and film-maker Dave Markey after the demise of his first band, Sin 34.

R. H. Stearn and Company

At the time of Stearn's demise Filene's was owned by Federated Department Stores, and Jordan Marsh was owned by Allied Stores.

Raudondvaris Castle

Following his demise, the manor passed from one noble family to another, first the Worłowski, then given to Zabiełło family and finally in 1820s it was purchased by Benedykt Tyszkiewicz.

Robert Hudson Ltd

With the demise of the Gildersome works the company became a sales and service organisation for construction plant and machinery e.g. Ford, Barford, Kubota.

Robert Hyde

By the demise of his brother Lawrence he came into possession of the Heale estates in the Amesbury valley, and these, with his collection of heirlooms, he settled on the issue of his brother Alexander, Bishop of Salisbury.

Rock and Roll Is Dead

Following its release, other artists have released songs of similar titles criticizing the demise of specific musical genres led by reckless artists, namely Marilyn Manson's 1999 "Rock Is Dead" and Nas' 2006 album and single Hip Hop Is Dead.

Russ North

After the demise of Monza, North was in the process of putting his next band together when he was asked to join Tredegar, (pronounced tradeegar) Tredegar was a band from the South Wales village of the same name, and was largely a reformation of the legendary Welsh rock band Budgie.

Scandinavian folklore

Mermaids in most mythology have a bad reputation of luring men to their watery demise.

Shortstown

The main Shorts Building was built next to what is now the A600 road as an hotel for air passengers, but was never completed, because of the demise of the airship as a mode of passenger transport following the loss of the R101 in October 1930.

Songs from the Year of Our Demise

Songs from the Year of Our Demise is the debut solo album from The Posies' Jon Auer.

Stiv Bators

Following the demise of the Dead Boys in 1979, Bators began a tumultuous relationship with Bomp! Records and its president, Greg Shaw.

Texas Ballet Theater

In 1988, after the demise of Dallas Ballet, the company began adding performances of The Nutcracker in Dallas in a business partnership with The Dallas Opera, producing Nutcracker performances in The Music Hall and using The Dallas Opera Orchestra.

The Libertines Bound Together

Bound Together documents, in words and pictures, the band's existence from early conception to the various bands spawned from The Libertines' demise.

TKM Bava Musliyar

After the demise of notable scholar EK Hasan Musliyar as the quazi (chief jurist) of Kasaragod, he was installed in throne in 1988, May 18 and served there until his demise.


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