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Friendly, West Virginia

The 1884 Heirloom tomato variety was said to be discovered by James Lyde Williamson growing in a pile of flood debris along the Ohio River near Friendly, after the Great Flood of 1884.

Friendly, West Yorkshire

It was described in Bartholomew's 1887 Gazetteer of the British Isles as a village 3 miles north west of Halifax.

Matamoras, Ohio

Matamoras is an Ohio River town, approximately 20 miles east of Marietta, Ohio; directly across the Ohio River from Friendly, West Virginia.


1923–24 Atromitos F.C. season

The 1924–25 season of Atromitos F.C. was the 1st in the club's history, thus they did not participate in a league, but they played a friendly game.

Adam El-Abd

On 15 May 2012, and for the first time, Egypt national team coach Bob Bradley included El-Abd in the squad for friendly games against Cameroon, Togo, and Senegal, and also against Mozambique in a FIFA World Cup Qualifier.

Aleksandrs Fertovs

He made his debut for Latvia at full international level on 15 November 2009 in a friendly match against Honduras, coming on as a substitute in the 80th minute and replacing Genādijs Soloņicins.

Alessandro Malomo

He remained in Massimo Piscedda's U-19 team in 2009–10 season, which he played the friendly against Denmark in September.

Andreas Görlitz

Shortly after signing for Bayern, Görlitz made his debut for the Germany national team, appearing in the last five minutes of the 1–1 friendly with Brazil, on 8 September 2004; the following month, he assisted veteran Thomas Brdaric as the striker closed the score at 2–0, in another exhibition game, now with Iran.

Andrés Pérez de Ribas

In the same year he was sent to undertake the Christianization of the Ahome and Suaqui of northern Sinaloa, of whom the former were friendly and anxious for teachers, while the latter had just been brought to submission after a hard campaign.

Anestis Argyriou

He scored his first goal in a friendly match against Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C. in a 1–0 victory for AEK Athens.

Aurora Pro Patria 1919

On January 3, 2013, the club was hosting A.C. Milan in a friendly, when the crowd aimed racist chants at A.C. Milan players, including M'Baye Niang, Urby Emanuelson, Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng.

Besa Kavajë

The first match the football ever played took place in Mali i Robit, Golem against the Albanian-American Institute in a friendly.

Bloomfield Stadium

The stadium officially opened on 13 December 1962 on a friendly match between Hapoel and Dutch club Sportclub Enschede.

Bruce Arena

Arena's first match with the club came on August 12, 2006, in a friendly against FC Barcelona.

Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center

The center has received the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification award which indicates that the building was designed, constructed, and is maintained in ways that are environmentally friendly.

Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants

CICPA became a member of the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) and the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) in October 1996 and May 1997 respectively, and has developed friendly cooperation and communications with more than 50 professional accountancy organizations in other jurisdictions.

Christian Javier Bautista

He could only play the few last minutes of the friendly match against Haiti, at the Estadio Cuscatlán.

Daniil Kholmsky

The result of this event was the deposition of Ivan III's adversary and his replacement by the Moscow-friendly Möxämmädämin.

Dawlish Town A.F.C.

At the beginning of season 2006–07 Dawlish Town played a pre-season friendly with Torquay United and marked the occasion by having their new grandstand officially opened jointly by Torquay United Chairman Mike Bateson, Dawlish Town’s Managing Director Terence Stone and Chairman and Director Dave Fenner.

Digital performance

It was during this time that computer hardware was built to become much more “user – friendly” and we then witnessed the invention of the digital camera and the home PC’s (Personal Computer) and the establishment of the World Wide Web.

Down by the Riverside

In the UK on some local radio stations (namely Mix 107), a song about eco friendly travel choices (i.e. leaving the car for one day a week) would air during commercial breaks which would be a parody of Down By The Riverside.

Ernie Blenkinsop

Blenkinsop caught the eye of the Football Association selectors who choose him to play for England in a friendly match in France on 17 May 1928, at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes, Paris, it turned out to be a debut to remember as the English taught the French a lesson in football, beating them by a resounding 5–1 scoreline.

Frank Arnesen

It was also in his time at Ajax, that Arnesen debuted for the Danish national team, in a 1977 friendly 1–0 loss against Sweden, in Malmö.

Hassan Sunny

On July 28, 2008, Hassan played the first half as part of a Singapore Selection side in a friendly match against the Brazil Olympics Team and made outstanding saves against Diego and Alexandre Pato's shots, letting in only two goals.

Henry Wikoff

He was friendly with the Bonaparte royal family in France, and was awarded the honor of Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic, by the King of Spain in 1871, which gave him the title of "Chevalier".

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole

He got on intimate terms with Fleury and seconded his brother in his efforts to maintain friendly relations with France; he represented Great Britain at the congress of Soissons and helped to conclude the treaty of Seville (November 1729).

Irakli Modebadze

He fouled on 14 July 2012 in an friendly game with his club FC Dila Gori, in the game against FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt the Libanese footballer Joan Oumari and provokes the breakup of the game.

Kostandin Çekrezi

In 1946, he was the one to receive a delegation headed by Tuk Jakova in New Yorker Hotel, and the second meeting with Mihal Prifti, where Costa suggested that the Albanian government should find the way to connect with the Western powers, especially USA, and abolish the "friendly" relations with Yugoslavia of Tito, drawing parallels with King Zog-Nikola Pašić agreements.

Leonis C. Malburg

As mayor, Malburg has been credited with overseeing the successful implementation of public policy that led the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation to name Vernon the "Most Business-friendly City" in L.A. County.

Mame Biram Diouf

On 12 August 2009, Diouf won his first cap for Senegal in a 2–1 friendly win over Congo DR in Blois, France.

Marwin Angeles

On 24 January 2012, he featured for the senior national team in a friendly match against Icheon Citizen FC, wherein he scored the equalizer to end the match 1–1 in regulation time, forcing a penalty shoot-out that eventually led them to a 2–4 loss.

Matt Phillips

Phillips finally made his Scotland debut in a 5–1 friendly loss to the United States on 26 May 2012 at EverBank Field, Jacksonville, Florida.

Muamer Svraka

He got his international debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina on 31 May 2012 in a friendly match against Mexico on Soldier Field in Chicago which Bosnia and Herzegovina lost 2–1 in the dying minutes of the match due to a catastrophic mistake by Stojan Vranješ.

Mueller Community

In keeping with Mueller's best-practices ethos regarding environmentally friendly development, the Center is the first acute-care facility in the world to achieve LEED Platinum certification.

Muhammad Nurridzuan Abu Hassan

Due to his good performances in the President Cup, Nurridzuan, along with his Perak teammate Kenny Pallraj was called by Harimau Muda A head coach Ong Kim Swee to join the Harimau Muda A squad for the VFF Newspaper Cup 2012 friendly tournament.

Radek Zelenka

Dr. Radek Zelenka is a careful and precise scientist of the original Atlantis Expedition who often supplements the scientific decisions of the "equally brainy" Dr. Rodney McKay, with whom he has a friendly rivalry.

Red Wave

Joanna Stingray, who developed a friendly relationship with some of the most prominent Soviet underground rock band members upon her first visit to the Soviet Union, and Boris Grebenshchikov, the Aquarium frontman, are credited with the idea of publishing such album in the West.

Rex Addison

He was resonance with the rich mix of friendly materials created by Frank Lloyd Wright when he started his architecture studies.

Sabjen Lilaj

He was picked in the 23 man squad that would be travelling to Macedonia for the friendly along with 2 other KF Tirana players, Enri Tafaj and Migen Metani.

Stephen Malcolm

Malcolm died in a car accident, only hours after playing Bulgaria in a friendly international in Kingston.

Sucker pole

Bicycle theft is fed mainly from the fact that it generates about $350 million annually and that the risk to criminals is relatively low even compared with stealing an IPhone, a television, or a car in cities such as San Francisco and Chicago which are considered "bike friendly" cities.

The Little Ghost Godfrey

Laban, who should not be mistaken for Casper the Friendly Ghost, is a friendly character who does not want to haunt and scare people.

The Muppets at Walt Disney World

The story ends with the Muppets having a friendly meeting at Mickey Mouse's office where the signature characters of Walt Disney and Jim Henson compare their companies' theme songs, "When You Wish Upon a Star" and "Rainbow Connection" (sung by a young Raven-Symoné to cheer up Kermit) respectively and the ideals behind them.

The New Lawn

In August 2012, a Manchester United XI played a pre-season friendly at the ground in aid of the Sustainability in Sport foundation which was created by Forest Green chairman Dale Vince and Gary Neville.

The Ziff Who Came to Dinner

However, at the Googolplex Theatre, every kid-friendly movie is sold out, and Rod and Todd will not let Homer see a raunchy comedy called Teenage Sex Wager since it is one of many movies condemned by a Christian publication called "What Would Jesus View?".

Vasilios Koutsianikoulis

Koutsianikoulis had traveled to Heraklion in April 2007 to be tried out by then OFI coach, Reiner Maurer in a friendly against Ergotelis.

Werner Kohlmeyer

In one of his last games for Germany, Kohlmeyer faced Stanley Matthews at Wembley on 1 December 1954, in an international friendly between England and West Germany.

William Gerard

At this point differences between Sidney and Gerard emerged: Gerard believed that Sidney's coercive approach was a mistake, and he was friendly with Barnaby Scurlocke, the leader of the deputation which had been imprisoned.

Worawi Makudi

In May 2011, Lord Triesman gave evidence in the British Parliament that Makudi had demanded the TV rights to a friendly between England and the Thai national team in return for voting for England to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Zakaria Bakkali

After Bakkali's superb Champions League-debut, Belgium coach Marc Wilmots selected him in the 25-man squad in the friendly-game against France.

Zakir Mammadov

His poetic play titled ‘Friendly help’ was staged by amateur team of Agdam Pioneer House in 1955 and by amateur team of Barda Pioneer House in 1956.


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