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Hooker, Missouri

Built on a new alignment of US 66 (which bypassed the town of Devils Elbow), nothing remains of the town.


2006 Newcastle Knights season

Despite trailing 18-6 at halftime, the Knights won its first final since their 2001 Grand Final victory by winning 25-18, but the win came at a cost with hooker Danny Buderus suspended for a spear tackle on Manly winger Michael Robertson, ruling him out of Newcastle's following final against the Brisbane Broncos in what was the last ever Johns vs. Lockyer showdown.

2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Hooker's two Corps played a decisive role in the Battle of Wauhatchie, which opened up the "Cracker Line" to the besieged Union army, and seized Lookout Mountain in the famed "Battle Above The Clouds" during the early stages of the Battle of Chattanooga.

Agustín Creevy

Creevy is known as a mobile hooker with some very good ball handling skills for a hooker, his good offloading skills have led him to become called "Sonny Bill" Creevy (after the All Blacks centre Sonny Bill Williams who's trademark is offloading) by some Montpellier fans.

Anand Bagh Palace

The garden was laid out on the extensice grounds of the Palace by Charles Maries, who was recommended by Sir Joseph Hooker to Maharaja Lakshmeshwar Singh for the post of Superintendent of the gardens of the Raj Darbhanga.

Banksia 'Waite Orange'

A hybrid between B. hookeriana (Hooker's Banksia) and B. prionotes (Acorn Banksia), it is generally intermediate in morphology between those two species.

Betsy Mix Cowles

She was born in Bristol, Connecticut, the eighth child of Giles Hooker Cowles and Sally White Cowles.

Bob Hope's Confessions of a Hooker: My Lifelong Love Affair with Golf

Bob Hope's Confessions of a Hooker: My Lifelong Love Affair with Golf is a 1985 book written by Hope with the assistance of Dwayne Netland.

Brandon Webb

The win came a day after close friend and former UK teammate Jon Hooker and his new bride were among the victims of the doomed Comair Flight 5191 leaving Lexington.

Bridgesia

Bridgesia W.J.Hooker & Arnott (a rejected name) is a synonym of the Phytolaccaceae genus Ercilla.

Canberra United FC

Hooker made a number of key signings in the first registration window, also securing Caitlin Munoz, Amy Chapman, Grace Gill-McGrath, Hayley Crawford, Rhian Davies, Thea Slatyer for the inaugural season.

Charles Lyell

Lyell and Hooker were instrumental in arranging the peaceful co-publication of the theory of natural selection by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in 1858: each had arrived at the theory independently.

Chellis Glendinning

Glendinning's relations include Thomas Hooker, founder of the colony of Connecticut; Dr. Frank E.Bunts, founder of the Cleveland Clinic; and the civil rights activist, her mother Mary Hooker Glendinning.

Daniel Hooker

In 1886, Hooker had become simply a Democrat, and alderman Theodore Rudzinski was the "People's Party" nominee.

Danny Flowers

These included "Tulsa Time" for Don Williams and Eric Clapton; "Back In My Younger Days" for Don Williams; "Gulf Coast Highway" for Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, and Nanci Griffith (co-written with Griffith and James Hooker); and "Before Believing" from Harris' Pieces of the Sky.

Death in the Garden

Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives - a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal), a local hooker (Simone Signoret), a priest (Michel Piccoli), an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel) and his deaf-mute daughter (Michèle Girardon) - are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle.

Denise Vasi

As Randi Morgan, the actress plays a "hooker with a heart of gold" who is encouraged by Dr. Frankie Hubbard (Cornelius Smith Jr.) to ditch her tumultuous past and lead a more fulfilling life.

Earl Hooker

An agreement was reached and in July 1962, Waters overdubbed a vocal (with lyrics by Willie Dixon) on Hooker's single and it was renamed "You Shook Me".

Edward H. Gillette

Foreseeing westward expansion after the war, Francis Gillette and brother-in-law John Hooker had purchased shares in a concern which owned thousands of acres of sprawling Iowa landscape.

Elizabeth R. Hooker House

The Elizabeth R. Hooker House, at 123 Edgehill Rd., New Haven, Connecticut, is an English-style Arts and Crafts suburban villa designed by Delano and Aldrich and built in 1914 for Elizabeth R. Hooker.

Freddie Roulette

Earl Hooker's band, with pianist Pinetop Perkins, harmonica player Carey Bell, vocalist Andrew Odom, and Roulette, was "widely acclaimed" and "considered as one of the best Earl had ever carried with him".

Haramiyida

Butler & Hooker, (2005) maintain that 'haramiyids' are still stronger candidates for having given rise to the multituberculates than morganucodontids are: "As long as we only have teeth to of the critical taxa, we feel it necessary to adopt the Allotheria concept as a working hypothesis; no doubt the discovery of mammalian skeletal material in the Jurassic will throw new light on the problem", (p. 206).

Harry and Tonto

Continuing west, Harry accepts a ride with a health-food salesman (Arthur Hunnicutt), makes the acquaintance of an attractive hooker (Barbara Rhoades) on his way to Las Vegas, then spends a night in jail with a friendly Native Indian (Chief Dan George).

Hitro Okesene

He played at either Prop or Hooker and represented the New Zealand Kiwis on five occasions both on the 1994 tour of Australia and Papua New Guinea and at the 1995 Rugby League World Cup.

Hoodoo Rhythm Devils

The Hoodoos toured extensively that year playing with Savoy Brown, The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, Graham Central Station, Tower of Power, Mott the Hoople, Bloodrock, and The Tubes.

International Origin

The RFL announced that the first ever Exiles coach would be former Leeds Rhinos coach Brian McLennan, McLennan won numerous accolades with the Rhinos and his first step as coach of the Exiles was to appoint Leeds Rhinos hooker Danny Buderus as the captain of the Exiles.

J. Murray Hooker

Hooker was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rorer A. James.

John Lee Hooker, Jr.

Born in Detroit, Hooker was performing live on local radio stations by the time he was 8 years old, and toured with his father as a teenager.

Jonathan Leavitt

He and the former Emelia Stiles had four daughters, including Sarah Hooker Leavitt, Mary Hooker Leavitt, Emilia Stiles Leavitt (later Mrs. E. T. Foote), and a son Jonathan, who died in 1821 while attending Yale College, an event that threw his father into profound depression.

Joyce Jameson

In 1964, she appeared as a hotel hooker in the comedy Good Neighbor Sam, starring Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider.

Luther Tucker

For several years he worked with John Lee Hooker's band, Grayson Street, L.C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson, and as a house musician at Clifford Antone's club in Austin, Texas.

Patti Yasutake

Her television acting career began in 1985 with an appearance on the show T.J. Hooker alongside William Shatner, Richard Herd, James Darren and Michelle Phillips.

Reginald Hawthorn Hooker

Reginald Hawthorn Hooker was born at Kew the fourth son of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, the distinguished botanist and friend of Charles Darwin and his first wife Frances Harriet Henslow (1825–1874), daughter of John Stevens Henslow.

Hooker was a pioneer in the application of correlation analysis to economics and agricultural meteorology.

Rhys Thomas

T. Rhys Thomas (born 1982), Wales rugby union international hooker 2007

Robin Moore

(October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008) was an American writer who is most known for his books The Green Berets, The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy and, with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.

Rolls-Royce Welland

Eventually, in early 1943, Spencer Wilks of Rover met Hives and Hooker, and decided to trade the jet factory at Barnoldswick for Rolls' Meteor tank engine factory in Nottingham.

Rory Kostjasyn

Since signing with the North Queensland Cowboys, Kostjasyn has been mainly playing the hooker position rotating with Ray Thompson.

Sakowitz

Hooker's plans called for Sakowitz to be one of the mall's anchor stores, along with B. Altman and Bonwit Teller, two upscale chains based in New York City.

Sex in the American Civil War

Popular legend has it that they were so common around the Army of the Potomac when Union general Joseph Hooker was in command that the term "hooker" was coined to describe them; however, the term had been in use since 1845.

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood

The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood (also called The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood) is a 1980 film starring two-time Bond girl Martine Beswick, Chris Lemmon, Adam West and Phil Silvers.

Tom Hooker

Hooker co-wrote and sang lead vocals on the first two Den Harrow albums, and co-wrote many subsequent Den Harrow songs under the name T. Beecher.

Walter Hood Fitch

Fitch's important works are his illustrations for William Hooker's A century of orchidaceous plants (1851), and for James Bateman's A Monograph of Odontoglossum (1864–74).

Warren B. Hooker

Hooker was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1891, until his resignation on November 10, 1898, before the close of the Fifty-fifth Congress, having been appointed a justice of the supreme court of New York on that date.

Welwyn RFC

John Wackett of Welwyn RFC and Rosslyn Park played Hooker for England against Ireland and Wales in 1959.

Xaviera Hollander

In 1971 Hollander published a memoir, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story. Robin Moore co-authored this book and came up with the catchy title, while Yvonne Dunleavy wrote the book.

You Shook Me

In the UK, Pye Records released these Muddy Waters/Earl Hooker songs on a four-song extended play 45 rpm record or "EP" in 1963.


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