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1943 Michigan Wolverines football team

Michigan's starting lineup against Wisconsin was Rudy Smeja (left end), Bob Hanzlik (left tackle), John Gallagher (left guard), Fred Negus (center), Rex Wells (right guard), Robert Derleth (right tackle), Art Renner (right end), Jack Wink (quarterback), Bob Nussbaumer (left halfback), Wally Dreyer (right halfback), and Bob Wiese (fullback).

1957–58 NCAA University Division men's basketball season

Dom Flora, a senior point guard at Washington and Lee University, finished his college career with 2,310 points and 696 free throws made, both of which were ranked fifth in their respective categories in college basketball history at the end of the 1957–58 season.

António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama

After another eight years, on 14 May 1878, King Luis raised him still higher to Duque de Ávila e Bolama (Duke of Ávila and Bolama), thus making him the first non-noble-born individual so honored, especially in view of the fact that the title of Duke was, traditionally, granted in Portugal solely to members of high nobility and relatives of the Portuguese Royal Family.

Anwan Glover

Anwan addressed the press along with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, saying "We're tired of seeing the yellow police tape" and calling for an end to revenge shootings.

Boston Dynamics

The original Cheetah robot runs on a high-speed treadmill in the laboratory where it is powered by an off-board hydraulic pump and uses a boom-like device to keep it running in the center of the treadmill.

California State Route 20

Its west end is at SR 1 in Fort Bragg, from where it heads east past Clear Lake, Colusa, Yuba City, Marysville, and Nevada City to I-80 near Emigrant Gap, where eastbound traffic can continue on other routes to Lake Tahoe or Nevada.

Cameron King

In December 2009 he won the Val Lembit Memorial Trophy for the most outstanding sportsman in NSW, awarded by the Combined High Schools, joining previous winners such as olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and first grade rugby league player Blake Green.

Chuck Dunaway

In 1952, after graduating from high school, Dunaway obtained his first full time on-air radio job at KBST in Big Spring, Texas, at the rate of 65 cents an hour, where he remained for one year before joining KPRC in Houston as a staff announcer in 1953.

CKCX-SW

The site was capable of utilizing 500 kW transmitters, but the end of the Cold War and improved shortwave frequency coordination made upgrading to 500 kW unnecessary.

Datong–Xi'an Passenger Railway

The high speed rail line will run down the length of Shanxi Province from Datong in the north through Shuozhou, Xinzhou, the provincial capital Taiyuan, Jinzhong, Linfen and Yuncheng.

Dominique Fidanza

In 2006, she moved to France to participate at the French reality television show Star Academy France and she arrived at the end of the show but she lost against Cyril Cinélu.

Great Australian Run

The race featured over 4000 competitors at its inaugural edition, and also succeeded in attracting high-calibre elite athletes such as marathon world record breakers Haile Gebrselassie and Catherine Ndereba, as well as Australian 2008 Olympians Craig Mottram and Benita Johnson.

Greater Blue Mountains Area

The greater Blue Mountains region has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports a high proportion of the global populations of the range-restricted Rockwarbler as well as populations of Flame Robins, Diamond Firetails and Pilotbirds.

High Bailiff

The current High Bailiff is His Worship John Needham, who is not Manx nor qualified in the jurisdiction, who took office on 30 January 2010 on the retirement of Mr Michael Moyle.

Honeoye

Honeoye, New York, a hamlet in Ontario County, New York, on north end of Honeoye Lake

Jack Mendelsohn

Dropping out of high school, Mendelsohn joined the Navy and after World War II, he contributed gag cartoons to The Saturday Evening Post and other magazines.

Jan Rokita

When the negotiations for the future European constitution started in the end of 2003, he coined the slogan: "Nicea o muerte – Nicea albo śmierć" ((Treaty of) Nice or death), which was more or less the official position of the Polish delegation.

Jesse Broadwater

His achievements include gold medals at the outdoor, indoor and field World Archery Championships, qualifying in first position for the 2013 World Archery Championships, and achieving a career high ranking of 6 in 2013.

Jibou Botanical Garden

The works for the organization of the Botanical Garden from Jibou started between the years 1959-1968, when Vasile Fati (1932-2007), a biology teacher, with the students and with the other teachers manages to prove that the parks around Wesselényi Castle, where the high school was functioning is appropriate for a botanical garden.

John Scott, Jr.

Scott entered the coaching ranks in 2001 as a defensive line coach at West Davidson High School in Tyro, North Carolina.

Jonathan Linton

Prior to entering the NFL, Linton played high-school football at Catasauqua High School in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania and college football at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Kokoda Track

John Landy, the long-distance runner, set a record of four days for the crossing using carriers and guides during the 1950s, and in 1964 Angus Henry, the art teacher at Sogeri High School with two of his students, John Kadiba and Misty Baloiloi, set a new record which was to stand until after the millennium by completing the journey in three and a quarter days without guides, carriers or any signposts or bridges.

Laurel Hill Coláiste

It recently came seventh in the overall Irish national school league table, published in the Irish edition of The Sunday Times (5 November 2006), highlighting the high percentage of pupils who go on to university level.

Legoland Windsor Resort

In September 2010, the park's high quantity of wasps during the season was featured on Watchdog, with general manager Sue Kemp appearing with host Anne Robinson and confirming new signage, actions and details on the website.

Luigi Lucheni

Luigi Lucheni is a prominent character in the Michael Kunze/Sylvester Levay musical Elisabeth, where he serves as a bitter, sarcastic narrator of the events of Elisabeth's life and in the end becomes her executioner.

Makian

It lies near the southern end of a chain of volcanic islands off the western coast of Halmaherato (Halmahera region), to the south of Tidore and to the north of Kayoa and Bacan.

Manjula Chellur

In 2013 the Division Bench of the Kerala High Court, consisting of Chief Justice Chellur and Justice Vinod Chandran, ordered the state government to submit a statement regarding the high-profile rape case against the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, P. J. Kurien.

Marcus Tulio Tanaka

Born in Palmeira d'Oeste, Brazil to a second generation Japanese-Brazilian father and Italian-Brazilian mother, Tulio moved to Japan at age 15 to complete his high school studies.

Mechanics Arts High School

John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics & Science in Boston, Massachusetts, originally named "Mechanic Arts High School"

Megnanapuram

The imposing steeple, 192 ft high, was added in 1868, the coping stone being fixed by Lord Napier.

Pisgah Mountain

The east end of the ridge is named Mount Pisgah and represents a hard rock knob that towers 700–900 feet above Lehigh River towns Jim Thorpe to the east, and Nesquehoning to its north.

Place Jacques-Cartier

At the upper end of the Place stands Nelson's Column, built in memory of Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Rashad McCants

McCants began his high school career at Erwin High School in Asheville, but finished at New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire.

Rick Husband

He attended Belmar Elementary, Crockett Junior High School, and he graduated from Amarillo High School in 1975.

Robert Savage

Confidence was so high even a press release was being written up in anticipation of an announcement until then Chairman Jim Robinson inexplicably changed his mind.

Rodryg Dunin

He was a student at Maria Magdalena Gymnasium (high school) in Poznań, where he participated actively in a secret Polish educational-social youth movement, and later studied at academies in Tetschen (Děčín), Bohemia, and Leipzig, Saxony.

Russell Beardsmore

He did not feature in a single competitive game when United won the first Premier League title in 1992–93, and at the end of the season signed for Bournemouth on a free transfer.

Sergio McClain

McClain's father, Wayne, coached Manual High School during its title run, and after Sergio graduated from Illinois, Wayne joined Bill Self's staff as an assistant coach, where he continued to work under Bruce Weber, eventually following Weber to Kansas State.

Shamkant Navathe

Navathe completed his S.S.C. from Modern High School, Pune in 1961 and F.Y.Bsc (Inter Science) in 1963 and at B.Sc.

Sonia Martínez

But her career was put an end in 1986, when Sonia was in Ibiza filming an episode of the German TV series Großstadtrevier, in what she played the role of a police woman.

South Turkmenistan Complex Archaeological Expedition

In the explorations done at the north mound of Anau, excavation in the Komanov trench at the north end were subject to deep sounding which revealed consecutive layers of buildings.

Stansbury Mountains

Interstate 80 lies at the north end of the range at Timpie, connecting Delle west to Burmester east.

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber

In 2011, Al Jaber was selected to serve on the United Nations Secretary General’s high level group on sustainable energy for all.

The Transformers: Headmasters

The TPBs had new cover art Andrew Wildman, who illustrated several issues toward the end of the original ongoing series.

Theodore McEvoy

Air Chief Marshal Sir Theodore Neuman McEvoy KCB CBE RAF (21 November 1904 – 19 September 1991) was a senior Royal Air Force officer during World War II who held high command in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Third English Civil War

At the end of May 1650 Cromwell turned over his command in Ireland to Henry Ireton and returned to England.

TILE64

According to CTO and co-founder Anant Agarwal, Tilera will target the chip at networking equipment and digital video markets where the demands for computing processing are high.

Tommy Dean

Dean was signed out of high school for a $60,000 bonus in 1964 by Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Buzzie Bavasi, who was trying to transform the Dodgers into a team built around pitching, speed, and defense and considered Dean a top young prospect.

Tomorrow Come Today

The track "High Wire Escape Artist" appeared on the soundtrack for the 2003 movie, Daredevil.

UNIFAT

Schools involved Include Eastern High School (New Jersey), Moeller High School, Mount Notre Dame High School, Purcell Marian High School, Sycamore High School (Cincinnati, Ohio), and Madeira High School, Anderson High School, Taylor High School, Wyoming High School, and others from the Greater Cincinnati Area.


see also

2 Horatio Street

In April 1929 the developer brothers Bing & Bing announced that they had acquired all the necessary land on Horatio, West Twelfth and Christopher Streets to build five high-end residential buildings in a concerted effort to "recreate" the Greenwich Village neighborhood.

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a 2007 drama feature film directed by Wayne Wang starring Yu Feihong, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha Lychnikoff, adapted from the short story by Yiyun Li and shot on a high-end high-definition video camera.

Alliant Computer Systems

Alliant was founded, as Dataflow Systems, in May 1982 by Ron Gruner, Craig Mundie and Rich McAndrew to produce machines for scientific and engineering users who needed smaller, less costly machines than offerings from Cray Computer and similar high-end vendors.

Association of Synchronous Data Formats

The Association of Synchronous Data Formats (ASDF) was created in 1988 by the National Science Foundation to promote the usage of high-end synchronous data transmission technology for both intranet and internet solutions.

Autoguider

An autoguider need not be an independent unit; some high-end CCD imaging units (such as those offered by SBIG) have a second, integrated CCD sensor on the same plane as the main imaging chip that is dedicated to autoguiding.

AVADirect

They specialize in highly customized computer systems including Microsoft Windows and Linux servers, high-end workstations and gaming systems, business PCs, and notebooks.

Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles

The show is very similar in nature to such MTV programs as Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, The Hills, and the online series The Suburbs, as it features African-Americans of upper-middle-class families who divide their time between attending school, playing sports, shopping at high-end stores, and driving expensive cars.

Caesalpinia

End use for this timber is typically high-end exotic hardwood flooring, cabinetry and turnings.

Call girl

Suzy Favor Hamilton, former Olympic track athlete who was revealed in 2012 to have been moonlighting as a high-end call girl

Canal Street, New Orleans

The mall contains a Saks Fifth Avenue, The Theatres at Canal Place, food court and approximately 45 high-end retailers including Anthropologie, Brooks Brothers, Michael Kors, and Morton's The Steakhouse.

Chris-Craft Boats

Chris-Craft sold high end powerboats to wealthy patrons such as Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst.

The company sold high-end boats to famous customers such as Dean Martin, Katharine Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley.

Cognizant

The company's senior executives envisaged the firm as a provider of high-end customer services on-par with the six contemporary major system integrators (Accenture, BearingPoint, Capgemini, E&Y, Deloitte and IBM), but at lower prices.

Coldplug

In most computer systems, CPUs and memory are coldpluggable, but it is common for high-end servers and mainframes to feature hotplug capability of these components.

David Lloyd

David Lloyd Leisure, a chain of high-end gym and racquet clubs in UK and Western Europe

Etsuro Nakamichi

Etsuro Nakamichi (died November 10, 1982) was a Japanese engineer and founder of Nakamichi Corporation, a high-end audio electronics company based in Tokyo in Japan.

Fine Sounds Group

The holding takes part in an official event as one unique family for the first time in 2013, with the participation in the Munich High End Show.

Finlay Enterprises

The stores tend to carry many high-end designer lines, including Scott Kay, Tacori, Ritani, Mikimoto, and David Yurman.

Florica Leonida

Currently, she is working as a high-end or luxury prostitute in Germany.

Gibson Les Paul Doublecut

Many believe these newer archtop doublecut Les Pauls were developed in response to the high-end guitars of Gibson competitor Paul Reed Smith (PRS), whose PRS guitars most typically have a doublecut design and master tone and volume controls, and whose production eventually went from a small shop (as Hamer's has stayed) to an assembly-line production rivaling Gibson's.

Gus Mayer

Gus Mayer is a Birmingham, Alabama based, family-owned, upscale specialty department store that caters to upper-end clientele and is known for its high-end fashions.

It has locations at the Colonial Brookwood Village in the Greater Birmingham area and The Mall at Green Hills in Nashville, both of which are known as high-end retail centers.

Hybricon Corporation

Hybricon Corporation is a provider of systems packaging solutions serving the Military, Aerospace, Homeland Security, Medical and high-end Industrial markets and develops embedded computing systems and solutions for war fighter critical missions using OpenVPX, VPX, VXS, VMEbus, VME64X, CompactPCI, Rugged MicroTCA, and custom bus structures.

Jessica Amornkuldilok

After her victory in the show, she landed herself in Harper's Bazaar magazine cover, becoming the face of Canon IXUS 2013 Campaign and booked various high-end fashion show around the globe under management of Storm Model Management in London alongside show's runner-up Stephanie Retuya.

KEF

The New York Times has recognised KEF as: "The leading audio company in Europe", also a "Well known to American High-End audiophiles".

King Street, Perth

Other High end retailers surround King street on Hay Street including - Burberry, Emporio Armani, Canali, Hugo Boss and Apple.

Mach 1

Ford Mustang Mach 1, a performance / grand touring (GT) high-end version of the Ford Mustang known for its styling (debuted in 1969)

Mark Levinson

The company was originally based in New Haven, Connecticut, where Mark Levinson had begun to develop high end audio systems; his father was a professor at Yale University.

Mary Quant

After gaining a Diploma in Art Education from Goldsmiths, Quant began an apprenticeship at Erik, a high-end Mayfair milliner on Brook Street next door to the Claridge's hotel.

Navico

The B&G range encompasses instruments, pilots and navigation equipment, plus tactical racing software and other high-end performance measurement and analysis solutions.

Nettop

Some high-end nettops and upcoming models are capable of running Windows Vista and Windows 7.

One Canal Place

The mall contains a Saks Fifth Avenue, The Theatres at Canal Place, food court and approximately 45 high-end retailers including Anthropologie, Brooks Brothers, Michael Kors, Tiffany & Co,and Morton's The Steakhouse.

Patent Box

Creative Sector Tax Reliefs including Video Games Tax Relief, Animation Tax Relief, High-end TV Production Tax Relief, and Film Tax Relief

PowerColor

PowerColor's AMD video cards range from affordable cards appropriate for low-end workstations, to cards for high-end gaming machines, thus catering to a wide range of the market.

PowerQUICC

Used in high end application-aware networking equipment like firewalls and antivirus devices (from Kaspersky Lab).

PowerVR

The chips are in use in many high-end cellphones including the original iPhone, Nokia N95, Sony Ericsson P1 and Motorola RIZR Z8, as well as some iPods.

Real-time sociolinguistics

Labov surveyed sales personnel of three different department stores of varying prestige rankings: Saks Fifth Avenue (high-end), Macy’s (mid-range), and S. Klein (low-end).

Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts

Its facilities include digital screening rooms, postproduction, animation and interactive media laboratories; sound stages; high-end professional video production packages and an extensive digital and print library.

Restaurants in Singapore

World-renowned celebrity chefs, including Mario Batali, Guy Savoy and Tetsuya Wakuda, have set up high-end restaurants in Singapore and they are mostly located at either Marina Bay Sands or Resorts World Sentosa, the two integrated resorts of Singapore.

Sanwa Denshi

Its parts are commonly used in Japanese arcade machines and high-end arcade sticks by manufacturers such as Madcatz & Hori.

Saturn Electronics

Saturn's boards are primarily multi-layered PCBs used in diverse industries such as Power Supply, Military, Aerospace, Automotive, Medical, Telecommunications, and High-End Consumer Electronics Fine Line and Spacing Controlled Impedance Designs.

Sean Banks

Banks was said to be involved with an offshoot of what had been called the "James Bond Gang", which had used high-end sports cars in attempts to outrun police.

Semi-pro

"Semi-pro" cameras, typically film and digital SLRs marketed mainly to high-end enthusiasts and budget-minded professionals — see also prosumer (in the sense of "professional consumer")

Television set

Some high-end TVs have Ethernet ports to receive information from the Internet, like stocks, weather, or news.

XLT

a High end trim for GMC vehicles (LT is the Chevrolet version of this trim)

Xuyên Mộc District

The most famous beaches in the area are Ho Tram Beach, which is starting to see numerous new high end developments come up including the planned MGM Ho Tram Casino and several additional private developments along the main Hồ Tràm Beach.