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Alan Pritchard

Using a Miles Whitney Straight from 1939 on his own initiative and sometimes forging aircraft log books to conceal his work, Pritchard conducted trials of aerial seed sowing and spreading fertilizer which ultimately lead to the development of aerial topdressing.

Antonio Valero

He appeared in TVE in La Forja del Rebelde (The Forging of a Rebel) (1989), directed by Mario Camus, where he had the starring role as the alter ego of Arturo Barea, author of the novel.

Bank of England Act 1696

So much of this Act as related to forging or counterfeiting the Common Seal of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or any sealed bank bill, or any bank note, or altering or raising any indorsement on any bank bill or note was repealed as to England on 21 July 1830 by section 31 of the Forgery Act 1830.

Black Diamond Equipment

Black Diamond Equipment’s history dates back to the late 1950s, when climber Yvon Chouinard began hand-forging pitons and selling them from the trunk of his car in Yosemite Valley.

Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels

It was a costly and complex masterpiece of gold forging executed by the brothers Johann Melchior and George Christoph Dinglinger; it took as its artistic inspiration the duke's preference for the hunt.

Crimean Goths

In "The Crimean Tatars: the diaspora experience and the forging of a nation" By Brian Glyn Williams they quote Vozgrin as saying; 'In all probability their descendents are the Tatars of a series of villages in the Crimea, who are sharply delineated from the inhabitants of neighboring villages by their tall height and other features characteristic of Scandinavians.

Desmond Noonan

During his imprisonment, still in control of the crime family, Damian and Derek Noonan were forging links with other notable Manchester gangs including the Cheetham Hill and Salford gangs.

Disability publications in the U.S.

The American Deaf community is unique by being tied together not only by lack of hearing, but also by a linguistic tradition, American Sign Language, which they identify as forging their Deaf culture.

Eustace Budgell

Budgell, who was vain and vindictive, fell on evil days; he lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble and was accused of forging the will of Dr Matthew Tindal at the expense of his nephew, Nicolas Tindal.

Ford C3 transmission

In February 2009, Ford confirmed its intent to sell the Bordeaux Automatic Transmission Plant for an undisclosed sum to a French company, HZ Holding France SAS, which owns a steel forging operation near Metz.

Frohnauer Hammer

The hammer was used until 1983 in the VEB stamping and forging works unit in Brand-Erbisdorf.

Gearbox Software

These projects included their first non-first-person shooter, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, and Halo: Combat Evolved, forging new publisher relationships with Activision and Microsoft Game Studios respectively.

Gloria Material Technology Corp.

Titanium alloy: Ti-Bar, Ti-Sheet, Titanium Welding Coil, Ti-Tube, Forging / Machining Parts

Go West, young man

Author Ralph Keyes also suggests Soule as the source, offering an account in which the line originated from a bet between Soule and Indiana Congressman Richard W. Thompson over whether or not Soule could trick readers by forging a Greeley article.

Goods for Catalonia

Several detectives launch an investigation, revealing that a West German criminal named Hasso Teschendorf has been forging documents and using them to illegally obtain the goods, which he sold to the Spanish Army and to costumers in Barcelona.

H.R. Owen

Broughtons owned three Bentley franchises in Cheltenham, Pangbourne and Byfleet (strengthening HR Owen's relationship with Bentley) and an Aston Martin franchise in Cheltenham, forging a relationship between HR Owen and Aston Martin for the first time.

Habbush letter

Suskind claimed to have held tape-recorded interviews with Richer, Maguire, and Nigel Inkster of the British Secret Intelligence Service, in which they apparently testified that the White House was behind the forging of the letter.

Henry Peavey

Peavy was hired by Taylor after he dismissed his previous butler, Edward F. Sands, for forging his signature on checks.

Herbert Black

In 2000, Black allegedly repeated the process by forging a friendship with up-and-coming businessman Benoît Laliberté.

Hudson Talbott

He has written and illustrated over a dozen books, including O'Sullivan Stew, Tales of King Arthur and Forging Freedom, based on the story of Jaap Penraat.

IGNITOR

Participants from the Italian side have included Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister Valentino Valentini (who had a key role in forging the agreement on the Ignitor program), and the Minister of Education and Research Mariastella Gelmini who, together with Sergey Mazurenko, signed the agreement in the presence of the two Prime Ministers.

Individual reclamation

In the 20th century, Lucio Urtubia, a Spanish practitioner of individual reclamation, stole millions from Citibank by forging traveler's checks.

J. Ira Courtney

Pauline would later become a prolific and award-winning painter, one of whose works, depicting the forging area at the Fontana Kaiser Steel Mill, hung in the Library of Congress.

Jaap Penraat

A longtime friend of Penraat's, Hudson Talbott, authored a children's book about Penraat's activities, entitled Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism During the Holocaust.

Japanese cutlery

Seki, Gifu is today considered the home of modern Japanese kitchen cutlery, where state-of-the-art manufacturing and technology has updated ancient forging skills to produce a world-class series of stainless and laminated steel kitchen knives famed throughout the world.

Jonathan Holloway

The 1972 Fringe was a life determining experience for Holloway who cites work he saw by Lindsay Kemp, Steven Berkoff, Max Stafford-Clarke and Jerzy Grotowski as forging the aesthetics with which he still works today.

Joni Madraiwiwi I

Their eldest, Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna (1888-1958), played a pivotal role in the formation of modern Fiji, by forging the embryonic institutions for the modern nation.

Kagnew Station

The prison was said to hold Eritrean People's Liberation Front veterans, conscripts, alleged armed Islamists, and people accused or forging identity documents or smuggling army deserters out of the country.

Kelesh Ahmed-Bey Shervashidze

In the end, Turkey was able to remove Shervashidze from the Abkhaz throne by forging close ties to Shervashidze’s son Aslan-Bey who killed his father and became the new ruler of Abkhazia.

Louis René Vialy

The first shows Diana surprising the sleeping shepherd Endymion; the second shows Clytie's metamorphoses into a sunflower; the third shows Vulcan and Venus in the Forges of Lemnos, with the Cyclopes forging Achilles' weapons; canvas of 20.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh

Just before his killing, Mabhouh was alleged to have played a key role in forging secret connections between the Hamas government in Gaza and the Al-Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards in Iran.

Manoir Industries

Manoir Industries is a global company in metal processing for the high tech casting and forging components in petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, civil engineering, energy, defense, and construction markets.

Marcus Luttrell

A book entitled "The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228" by Dick Couch describes the training of Class 228, and names Luttrell as one of the graduates of that class.

Marcus Sharp

Sharp failed to get a chance to bat for the team, as they declared 140 runs behind in their first innings before forging to victory thanks to the peripatetic Trevor Jesty, who scored a century in the second innings.

Michael Gudinski

Gudinski is mostly known for forming the highly successful Australian record company Mushroom Records in 1972 through whom he signed several generations of Australian musicians and performers ranging from MacKenzie Theory, the Skyhooks, The Choirboys, Kylie Minogue, and New Zealand's Split Enz to newer artists such as Eskimo Joe, Evermore and others forging a string of successful releases by local talent.

Natalie Medhurst

In 2014, Medhurst will be moving to Perth to play for the West Coast Fever, reuniting with her former Australian coach Norma Plummer, shifting with Firebirds wing attack Chelsea Pitman, and forging stronger links with Australian goal shooter Caitlin Bassett.

Nathan Penlington

Shortfuse attained a reputation for presenting an eclectic fusion of stand-up poetry, performance comedy and music, and regularly presenting up-and-coming performers alongside established names such as John Hegley, Stewart Lee, Kevin Eldon and Simon Munnery, as well as forging working links with performers across the US, Canada and Europe.

National Archives of the Philippines

In 2004, then Director Ricardo Manapat was accused of forging documents to support a disqualification case against Presidential candidate Fernando Poe, Jr.

Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn

There reportedly was one child, Olivia Wilmot (1772–1834) from this relationship, though the duke's paternity was never proven, and Olivia Wilmot was accused of forging the evidence.

Rickey B. Cotton

Cotton joined the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) as a research engineer in 1980 and quickly became instrumental in the expansion of the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL) by forging a strong relationship with the Office of Naval Intelligence.

SPA London

The charity continues its aims of helping other charities including UK based charities such as NSPCC, Breast Cancer, and RNLI as well as forging links with charities in India such as the Rotary Eye Hospital in Navsari, Gujarat.

Stephen Salyer

He brought global news to American listeners by forging an expansive partnership with the BBC World Service to make its 24-hour news channel available to PRI’s 800+ stations nationwide.

The Minutes

The band have toured extensively in Ireland and the UK with the likes of Albert Hammond Jnr The Strokes, The Pigeon Detectives, The Von Bondies, Supergrass and Flogging Molly forging their reputation along the way as a must see act for the future.

The Negatones

In step with their stylistic dichotomies, they are known for both championing analog gear such as Moog synthesizers and magnetic tape recorders, as well as forging unmistakably digital mixes using the nonlinear computer recording platform Pro Tools.

Vein matching

Computer security expert Bruce Schneier stated that a key advantage of vein patterns for biometric identification is the lack of a known method of forging a usable "dummy", as is possible with fingerprints.


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