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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).

1995 NBA Playoffs

Game 1 @ Alamodome, San Antonio (May 22): Houston 94, San Antonio 93 (Robert Horry hits the game-winner with 6.5 seconds left)

Alfred Brehm

He continued his studies there until September 1846, when he left for Dresden in order to study architecture; however, he stopped after two semesters because Johann Wilhelm von Müller, a well-known ornithologist, was looking for a companion for an African expedition.

Andreyevsky Bridge

Pushkinsky bridge connects First Frunzenskaya street in Khamovniki (left bank) with the southern edge of Gorky Park and Titovsky Proezd leading to Leninsky Avenue (right bank).

Arthur F. Gorham

Gorham left Miami when he received the principal Congressional appointment to West Point from Rep. William L. Fiesinger.

Arthur Vivian

He left college in 1855, on his father's death, to manage the family's copper smelting and rolling works and colliery at Port Talbot.

Atlas Shrugged: Part III

It is a sequel to the 2012 film Atlas Shrugged: Part II, continuing the story where its predecessor left off.

Bahá'í pilgrimage

The House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad, also known as the "Most Great House" (Bayt-i-A'zam) and the "House of God," is where Bahá'u'lláh lived from 1853 to 1863 (except for two years when he left to the mountains of Kurdistan, northeast of Baghdad, near the city of Sulaymaniyah).

Black Monday

The group had left the safety of the walled city of Dublin to celebrate Easter Monday near a wood at Ranelagh, when they were attacked without warning.

Bob Chatt

From the kick-off, John Devey, the Villa centre-forward, swung the ball out to his inside-left, Dennis Hodgetts.

Bombing of the Bezuidenhout

At the time, the neighbourhood was more densely populated than usual with evacuees from The Hague and Wassenaar; tens of thousands were left homeless and had to be quartered in the Eastern and Central Netherlands.

Boxford, Suffolk

This drew attention from the media: the Evening Standard incorporated a photograph of the villagers in a centre-page spread in one of their November 1975 editions, and a TV crew led by the late Bernard Falk for the BBC Nationwide programme accompanied the villagers when they left for a two-week stay on 23 July 1976.

Brad Cotter

Cotter left Silverado in 1993 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he tried to get work as a solo act and a songwriter, landing cuts by Tommy Shane Steiner and Chad Brock, in addition to recording demos.

Chama Cha Mapinduzi

Originally a champion of African socialism, upholder of the system of collectivized agriculture known as Ujamaa and firmly oriented to the left, the CCM espouses today a more neoliberal approach.

Charles Bird King

After the administration changed and McKenney left the BIA, the agency donated the Native American portrait collection to the National Institute, but shoddy care and displays kept it from the public eye.

Cutler's Park

Historic Florence, Nebraska was built on its site, making use of what had been left when it was abandoned.

Damo Suzuki

When Malcolm Mooney left Can after recording their first album Monster Movie, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit encountered Suzuki busking in Munich, Germany whilst the two were sitting outside at a street café, they invited him to join the group.

Francisco Flores Pérez

Even before he left office, Francisco Flores had expressed his interest in running for the office of Secretary General of the Organization of American States, a post which was won in late 2004 by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez an ex-president from Costa Rica.

Gary Cammack

2012 When incumbent Republican Representative Thomas Brunner was term limited and left the Legislature and left a District 29 seat open, Cammack ran in the three-way June 5, 2012 Republican Primary and placed first with 1,450 votes (43.8%); Cammack and incumbent Republican Representative Dean Wink were unopposed for the November 6, 2012 General election, where Cammack took the first seat with 5,991 votes (55.40%) and Representative Wink took the second seat.

Harold Soref

On 30 September 1972, the Daily Telegraph remarked that "Mr. Harold Soref is nothing if not consistent", commenting that when an all-party delegation began a tour of Red China, he left defiantly for Taiwan.

Henry Christy

An account of the explorations appeared in a half-finished book left by Christy, entitled Reliquiae Aquilanicae, being contributions to the Archaeology and Paleontology of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France; this was completed by Christy's executors, first by Lartet and, after his death in 1870, by Rupert Jones.

Jean-Guy Trudel

He left his positions with the Mustangs to become head coach of the newest iteration of the Peoria Rivermen in the Southern Professional Hockey League.

Jolande Sap

She replaced Wijnand Duyvendak as an MP on September 3, 2008, after he left the Dutch House of Representatives.

Julie Heldman

In 1970, she was a member of the "Houston Nine" who left the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to play in the Virginia Slims tournament in Houston.

Kyle Mooney

Mooney, along with John Milhiser, Michael Patrick O'Brien, Noël Wells, Brooks Wheelan, and his comedy partner and friend, Beck Bennett, joined the thirty-ninth season of Saturday Night Live to fill the void left by the recent departures of Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Jason Sudeikis.

Lambert Blackwell Larking

For many years Larking collaborated with the Revd Thomas Streatfeild (1777–1848), in the collection and compilation of materials for a new history of the county of Kent and, when Streatfeild died in 1848 the materials were left in Larking's hands.

Left Right Left

Left Right Left is an Indian television series that aired on SAB TV at 9:30pm IST, from Monday to Thursday, it was directed and produced by Tony Singh and Deeya Singh.

Lost Dakota

Lost Dakota is a portion of land that was left over after the division of the Dakota Territory into other states in the late 19th century.

Lusatian Neisse

The Lusatian Neisse is a left-bank tributary of the river Oder, into which it flows between Neißemünde-Ratzdorf and Kosarzyn north of the towns of Guben and Gubin.

Marooning

Selkirk, a sailor with the Dampier expedition, was worried about the unseaworthy condition of his ship, the Cinque Ports, and had argued with the captain until he left him ashore on the island where they had briefly stopped for water and food supplies.

Matt Light

In his senior season, 2000, Light earned first-team All-Big Ten recognition after starting 12 games at left tackle, helping an offensive line that gave up only seven sacks en route to a Big Ten title and Rose Bowl Game appearance.

Napięcie Theatre

The Napięcie Theatre work mainly with their own texts (“Salon Lenistwa”/”Showroom of Indolence” or “Lewa Strona, Prawa Strona”/”Left Side, Right Side”) but they also work with other author’s pieces (“Przewodnik dla bezdomnych”/”A Short Guide for Homeless People” is based on Arthur Rimbaud's and Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki's works; their other plays are inspired by Plato and Andrzej Sosnowski).

Nicky Wu

During his time with Little Tigers Team, he pursued a solo career, releasing an extensive catalogue of songs, Mandarin and Cantonese albums as a solo artist when member Julian Chen left the group to serve compulsory military service.

Pepe Oriola

He left the first round in Italy in a three way tie for first place in the Yokohama Trophy with Stefano D'Aste and Alex MacDowall, having started from the class pole position in race one.

Pezhetairos

At the Battle of the Granicus the battalions were those of (from right to left): Perdiccas, Coenus, Amyntas, Philip, Meleager, and Craterus.

Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen

During the withdrawal from Italy that month, Reuss led a division in the left wing under Archduke Charles, retreating to Ljubljana (Laibach).

Rockwood Lodge

Most notably, the brick-hard limestone below the practice fields left the players so battered that Lambeau frequently had to move practices back to City Stadium.

Roger Dodsworth

The manuscripts were left to Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, who by his will bequeathed them (160 volumes in all) to the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

Ronald Lee Martin

In 1981 he left ABC to work for Merv Griffin's post-production studio, Trans American Video (TAV), where he worked with film and the telecine systems that transfer optical images to video.

Samuel Boteler Bristowe

After court sittings, Bristowe routinely left Nottingham on the 5.40pm Great Northern train to return to his home at West Hallam in Derbyshire, and on this occasion was followed unobserved by Arnemann, who bought a ticket to the same destination and followed the judge onto the platform.

Sinistral and dextral


Right: The normally dextral (right-handed) shell of Neptunea despecta

Skyglobe

A mouse can be used to change the viewing direction or to point at objects; the object under the mouse will be named in the lower-left corner of the screen, along with its horizontal and equatorial coordinates.

The Chips

Only Sammy Strain went on to success in the music industry, as a member of Little Anthony & The Imperials from about 1961 to 1972 when he left to join The O'Jays.

Toyotarō Yūki

However, following the assassination of Yasuda Zenjirō, Yūki left the Bank of Japan to join the Board of Directors for the Yasuda zaibatsu in November 1921, and was appointed Managing Director of Yasuda Bank the same year.

Turban Cowboy

Peter is invigorated by their jump and keeps up skydiving despite Lois' concern, even as his jumps usually result in accidents like falling on Meg at dinner, falling on a ninja that killed a woman, and falling on the castle of the Pig King from Angry Birds with only one pig left alive.

Valda Valkyrien

However, the contractual relationship soured after one film and she left Fox to work in feature-length films back at Thanhouser as well as for Lewis J. Selznick's studio.

Vicki Barnett

In 2008, she announced her intention to run for the 37th State House seat, which was left open by the retirement of longtime Democratic legislator Aldo Vagnozzi, who could not run for re-election due to term limits.

Virginia Van Upp

After The Guilt of Janet Ames with Rosalind Russell, Van Upp left Columbia to spend time with her family.

WOLX-FM

(Moore and Elliott were previously teamed with longtime WOLX station personality Fletcher Keyes Fletch, who left the station in August 2010.) National voices include midday personality Ken Merson (voicetracked from Baltimore, MD), afternoon drive host Willie B (voicetracked from Entercom's Memphis cluster), and nationally-syndicated host Tom Kent at night.

Zouk Machine

Joëlle Ursull left the group and proceeded to a solo career, culminating in second place in the 1990 Eurovision performing "White and Black Blues", composed by Serge Gainsbourg and Sylvain Augier.


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1917 World Series

The great athlete Jim Thorpe, better known for football in general, made his only World Series "appearance" during Game 5, where he was listed in the lineup card as starting in right field; but for his turn at bat in the top of the first inning he was replaced by a left-handed hitting Dave Robertson.

Arf invariant of a knot

Every knot is pass-equivalent to either the unknot or the trefoil; these two knots are not pass-equivalent and additionally, the right- and left-handed trefoils are pass-equivalent.

Big League Chew

It was created by Portland Mavericks left-handed pitcher Rob Nelson, and pitched to the Wrigley Company (longtime owners of the Chicago Cubs) by former New York Yankee All-Star Jim Bouton, a Maverick teammate of Nelson's, as a fun alternative to the unhealthy tobacco-chewing habit common among ballplayers in the 1970s.

Billmon

The 2003 Koufax Awards gave Billmon more recognition in the blogosphere and are named after Sandy Koufax, a famous baseball player and a left-handed pitcher.

Bolo punch

Three of the most famous cases of a fighter using the bolo punch were when Leonard avenged his loss to Roberto Durán (see "The No Más Fight"), when Leonard drew with Thomas Hearns in their second fight (see Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns), and when Ike Ibeabuchi knocked out Chris Byrd with a left-handed bolo punch during their 1999 heavyweight contest.

Brian Leppke

Bleeding Through's left-handed guitar player Brian "Lefty" Leppke joined the band in 2001 replacing Chad Tafolla.

Bullpup

Certain designs, such as the FAMAS assault rifle, the Steyr AUG and the Israeli Tavor TAR-21, overcome this limitation by allowing the bolt and ejection port cover to be swapped, turning the weapon into a dedicated left-handed version.

Cec Tyson

Born in Brompton-by-Sawdon, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, Tyson enjoyed a successful career as a left-handed batsman in League cricket in Yorkshire, and made his debut for Yorkshire at the age of 32, against Hampshire at County Cricket Ground, Southampton, in May 1921.

Charlie Hartman

Charles Otto Hartman (August 10, 1888 – October 22, 1960) was a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly in the American League during the 1908 season.

Dick Littlefield

Richard Bernard "Dick" Littlefield (March 18, 1926 – November 20, 1997) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for nine teams between 1950 and 1958.

Don Carman

Donald Wayne Carman (born August 14, 1959, in Woodward, Oklahoma) is a retired Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher.

Dubai Meydan City

It has a 2,400 metre left-handed turf race track and a left-handed 8.75-furlong (1,750 metres) Tapeta synthetic dirt course.

Finlay Massey

He was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Mashonaland Under-24s.

Flat lens

Russian mathematician Victor Veselago predicted that a material with simultaneously negative electric and magnetic polarization responses would yield a negative refractive index (an isotropic refractive index of −1), a ‘left-handed’ medium in which light propagates with opposite phase and energy velocities.

Gabe Gross

Promoted from Triple-A Syracuse on August 7, 2004, he saw limited duty against left-handed pitching.

Gladys Heldman

Heldman, the daughter of New York Court of Appeals judge George Z. Medalie, first became interested in tennis after marrying Julius Heldman, the left-handed United States junior champion in 1936.

Hallahan

Bill Hallahan (1902–1981), American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball

Hamish Barton

A left-handed batsman, and right-arm off break, Barton's father Peter and his uncle Hugh also played first class cricket in New Zealand.

Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon

There is at Monreith House a letter written, left handed, by her after the accident explaining how it happened.

Jerry Nyman

Gerald Smith "Jerry" Nyman (born November 23, 1942 in Logan, Utah) is a former left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1968 to 1970 for the Chicago White Sox and San Diego Padres.

Jim St. Vrain

One day, manager Frank Selee suggested he try batting left-handed, and upon making contact with the ball, St. Vrain was confused enough to run to third base (he was thrown out at first base).

Joe B. Scott

A left-handed hitter, Scott played professionally from 1936 until 1956.

Joe Gaines

In 1963, Gaines occasionally spelled left-handed-hitting Boog Powell as the Orioles' left fielder and batted an MLB career-high .286.

John Hurrell

He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Cornwall.

Ken Raffensberger

Louis Cardinals Hall of Famer Stan Musial said on an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show that Raffensberger was the toughest left-handed pitcher he had ever faced and dubbed him "Crafty Raffy."

Left-handed specialist

Jesse Orosco became a left-handed specialist late in his 24-season career and retired at age 46.

Mage: The Awakening

Tremere Liches: A Left-Handed Legacy of Liches who consume the souls of others in exchange for immortality and power.

Marc Fosset

He learned to play guitar left-handed after seeing Yves Montand and Didi Duprat perform, and was also influenced by Django Reinhardt's style.

Marshall Bridges

A strong left-handed pitcher blessed with an excellent fastball, Bridges broke into the majors with St. Louis in 1959, posting a 6–3 won/lost record and a 4.26 earned run average, striking out 76 hitters in 76 innings.

Masaoka

Onan Masaoka (born 1977), Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher

Matthew Doidge

A left-handed batsman, he did not get to bat in the drawn game in which Sanjay Manjrekar scored 158 not out.

Norwood Hills Country Club

The club has hosted many prestigious events including the National Left-Handed Golfer’s Championship in 1936 and 1940, the PGA Championship in 1948 won by Ben Hogan, the LPGA Tour's St. Louis Women's Invitational from 1965 to 1969, the PGA Tour's Greater St. Louis Golf Classic in 1972 and 1973, and the U.S. Senior Amateur in 2001.

Patrick Coombe

He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Cornwall.

Philadelphia Keystones

Jack Clements, who played for 17 seasons and was the last (and virtually the only) left-handed catcher in major-league history, made his big-league debut with the Keystones.

Raghuram Bhat

A reference is made to the incident where Sunil Gavaskar batted left handed against Raghuram Bhat in the Kannada movie Ganeshana Maduve.

Rex Johnston

In his only Major League start, as a centerfielder on May 2 against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium, Johnston came to the plate five times against southpaws Curt Simmons and Bobby Shantz; he walked once, reached on an error, and grounded out three times.

Shawn Wooten

In the 2002 postseason, Wooten was used as the club's DH against left-handed pitching, platooning with Brad Fullmer.

Stan Levey

A left-handed drummer, Levey has played on over thousands of recordings, including those with musicians Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and with bands such as that of Quincy Jones, and Skitch Henderson and The Tonight Show Band.

Stephen Randolph

Stephen LeCharles "Steve" Randolph (born May 1, 1974 in Okinawa, Japan) is an American left-handed pitcher formerly in Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball.

Steve Ashley

He plays a right-handed guitar, left-handed, without changing the strings, in the manner of Elizabeth Cotton.

Stuart McCullum

A left-handed opening batsman who occasionally kept-wicket, he is the father of New Zealand international players Brendon and Nathan McCullum.

The Cast of Beatlemania

: The first left-handed member of the original Broadway production of Beatlemania.

Travis Wood

On December 21, 2011, Wood was traded to the Chicago Cubs, along with Dave Sappelt and a minor league second baseman in exchange for left-handed reliever Sean Marshall.

UmJammer Lammy

The game revolves around a shy lamb named Lammy, a left-handed guitarist of a rock band named MilkCan, alongside bassist and vocalist Katy Kat and drummer Ma-san.

Verdun Scott

Though his top score in these games was only 60, he and left-handed opening partner Bert Sutcliffe gave the touring team a solid start in three matches, with partnerships of 122, 89 and 121.

Yumi Kumakura

Kumakura said to Mori, "I was spiked by Valentina Borrelli (an Italian left-handed player who spiked a ball very near on net in a pre-championship, Japan, Italy, Cuba,and Russia)".