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7 unusual facts about mate


Club-Mate

Geola Beverages of Dietenhofen, Germany originally formulated and marketed Club-Mate under the name Sekt-Bronte.

I-mate

He subsequently obtained rights to HTC products outside of O2 territories and setup i-mate in Glasgow, Scotland to deliver into the market place.

In September 2006, HTC ended this relationship with i-mate (at the same time it cut ties with O2).

Since the end of its relationship with HTC, i-mate carried devices from other manufacturers, including Inventec and TechFaith.

From the beginning of its existence until fall of 2006, i-mate sold branded versions of Pocket PCs, PPC phones, and smartphones manufactured by Taiwanese mobile device giant HTC.

Mate-Demate Device

They were capable of loading Buran (0GT cargo) or Energia components (1GT, 2GT and 3GT cargoes) on top of Myasishchev VM-T and Antonov An-225 aircraft.

For the time of the Buran first flight they were operated at LII, Baikonur Jubilee airfield and Bezymyanka airport.


2013 Korean Grand Prix

Kimi Räikkönen finished in second place for Lotus F1, while his team-mate Romain Grosjean finished third, taking his third podium finish of the season.

Aaron Krauter

Krauter was Heidi Heitkamp's running mate in the 2000 North Dakota Gubernatorial Election but lost.

Abiodun Agunbiade

Between summer of 2006 and February 2007, Abiodun and team-mate Wayne Srhoj didn't play a single official game, as they claimed their contract with FC Naţional had run out at the end of the 2005/2006 season.

Al Green Explores Your Mind

"Take Me To The River" has been covered by several other performers including Talking Heads (on 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food), Ron Fleeger & The Stranger, Al's label mate Syl Johnson, Levon Helm, Annie Lennox, Toni Childs, Max on the Rox, Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Bryan Ferry, Delbert McClinton, Maná, The Commitments, Foghat, Gov't Mule, Phish and Eva Cassidy.

Albert Scanlon

On 13 May 2007, Scanlon presented the Premier League trophy to Manchester United along with former team-mate Bill Foulkes.

Andrey Kivilev

Approximately forty kilometres from the stage finish, as the peloton passed through Saint-Chamond, Kivilev collided with Polish team mate Marek Rutkiewicz and German Volker Ordowski of Team Gerolsteiner, although they were not seriously hurt and finished the stage.

Banning Lyon

In the summer of 2010 Mr. Lyon lived and worked as first mate aboard the SV Valora, a wooden schooner based out of Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

Bitches Ain't Shit

Dr. Dre's verse reminisces about his former N.W.A band-mate Eazy-E (under his real name of "Eric Wright") and his manager Jerry Heller.

Bombyx Hybrid

Bombyx mori females are much more likely to mate with a male Bombyx mandarina, but both species have to be kept in the same container.

California gubernatorial election, 2006

Janice Jordan (Peace and Freedom) - 2004 Peace and Freedom Party vice presidential candidate (Leonard Peltier's running mate)

Carl Fogarty

Despite winning four races that season on the RC45, three more than team-mate Aaron Slight, and one more than Slight had managed over three seasons on the bike, Fogarty again struggled with consistency and finished 4th overall, 16 points behind 2nd placed Slight and 38 points behind champion Troy Corser.

Chick Cancer

Stewie reflects on how it was easier being Q*bert's room mate and an animation of him on the game board is shown.

Clayton Blackmore

He joined Middlesbrough for the 1994–95 season, linking up with newly appointed player-manager and former team mate Bryan Robson.

Craig Pickering

During 2007, he has found success on the indoor circuit, winning the 60m event at the European Indoor Trials and UK Championships in Sheffield in early February, following this with a second place finish in the Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham in the same event, behind his Bath team-mate Jason Gardener.

Ethan Berkowitz

He and running mate for Lieutenant Governor Diane E. Benson faced incumbent Republican Governor Sean Parnell in the November general election and were defeated by a margin of 59% to 38%.

George M. Lowry

Five men volunteered: Joseph G. Harner, Coxswain J. F. Schumaker, Boatswain's Mate Second Class George Cregan, and Seamen Harry C. Beasley and Lawrence C. Sinnett.

Günter Klass

After battling the Ferrari's drivers while it was “raining the proverbial pushrods”, Klass reclaimed the lead lost by his ill team mate Colin Davis.

Heermann

Lewis Heermann, (1779–1833), German, commissioned Surgeon's Mate in the United States Navy in 1802

Hermes Binner

He nominated Córdoba Province Senator Norma Morandini as his running mate on their Progressive Front ticket.

Isidro Lopez

During the 2007 Tohono O'odham election, Ned Norris Jr., who was running for chairman, chose Isidro Lopez as his running mate for vice chairman.

Jan-Arie van der Heijden

In January 2010, Ajax team mate Mitchell Donald joined Van der Heijden on loan from Ajax at the Tilburg club, His playing style has been compared to A.C. Milan star Clarence Seedorf.

Jonny Quinn

Guests included the band, past Snow Patrol collaborator and band mate Iain Archer and singer Declan O'Rourke.

Judit Selymes

She directed Iván Darvas (as a lead) in a version of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and collaborated with many other well-known Hungarian artists, including: Academy Award nominee Lajos Koltai, Zoltán Latinovits, Miklós Gábor, Éva Ruttkai, Lajos Básti, Tamás Major, György Bárdy, ibor Bitskey, Erzsi Máté and Itala Békés.

Kai Reus

After team mate Michael Rasmussen won the yellow jersey during the Tour he dedicated the jersey to Reus.

La Conner Trading and Transportation Company

The La Conner Trading and Transportation Company was formed in the early 1890s by four officers of the steamer Henry Bailey, Joshua Green, purser, Sam Denny, master, Peter Falk, mate, and Frank Zickmund, second engineer.

Lorenzo Peña

In early 1969 he married his class-mate María Teresa Alonso in Meudon (France); the couple have been living together ever since.

Maria Elizabeth Muñoz

Maria Elizabeth Muñoz, a Chicana activist, was a third-party candidate for Vice President of the United States in the United States presidential election, 1992, representing the New Alliance Party (NAP) as the running mate of Lenora Fulani.

Mate Recordings

Until recently most releases on Mate Recordings were by Roger®, but the label's 2004 "England vs. Finland" compilation album Music is Better Volume One (Manchester vs Helsinki) features also such British and Finnish artists as Alcohell, A Maze, A.N.I.M.A.L., Boys of Scandinavia, Kompleksi, Nu Science and The Science Block.

Murphy drip

On 4 June 1942 Pharmacist's Mate Edwin Miller was stationed on Sand Island (part of the Midway Atoll) and was making ready for the expected Japanese attack.

Music for the Divine

Other performances come from South African composer Mark Kilian who arranged the string sections and played keyboards and Chad Smith’s Red Hot Chili Peppers' band mate John Frusciante, who plays guitar on two tracks.

Nirina Zubir

Instead, she hosted several TV shows and starred in more movies, including Belahan Jiwa (Soul Mate), Heart, Kamulah Satu-satunya (You’re the Only One), Get Married and again in her latest release, Get Married 2.

Noemi Batki

She won her first medal aged 16 at the Juniores European Championships in Aachen, Germany, where she won the silver medal in the 3 metres springboard synchro competition, together with her mate Francesca Dallapè, and won the bronze medal in the platform event.

Peter Odili

In September 2010 it was reported that former military head of state Ibrahim Babangida, who planned to be a candidate for president in the 2011 election, was in discussions with Odili over being his running mate as vice-presidential candidate.

Post-Individualism

The Oxford English Dictionary (1971) notes the adjective "individual" in 1425 referring to the Catholic Trinity, in 1600 to a mate who could not be separated from the spouse and not until 1613 as describing a particular person in contrast to a group.

Ronald Osumba

Osumba was named as Peter Kenneth's running mate in the Eagle Alliance after Raphael Tuju stepped down in Mr Kenneth's favour and gave him a free hand to choose a running mate.

Stefano Morrone

After Venezia's owner Maurizio Zamparini purchased Palermo, he joined the Sicily side along with team-mate: Daniel Andersson, Bilica, Igor Budan, Francesco Ciullo, Kewullay Conteh, Di Napoli, Valentino Lai, Filippo Maniero, Antonio Marasco, Francesco Modesto, Frank Ongfiang, Generoso Rossi, Mario Santana, Evans Soligo, Ighli Vannucchi and William Viali.

The Antelope

John Smith was first mate on the Columbia, later renamed Arraganta, when it sailed from Baltimore, Maryland under a letter of marque issued by the Uruguayan revolutionary José Gervasio Artigas.

The Crimson Pirate

Unknown to Vallo, his first mate, Humble Bellows (Torin Thatcher), overhears them.

Thomas Larsson

He would join his first serious band at the age of 17 in 1982, Six Feet Under (not to be confused with the American band of the same name), which also featured future Baltimoore band mate Björn Lodin.

Tour-Mate Systems

Founder Neil Poch formed the company in response to not being able to find an audio tour while on vacation in 1988 and for the past 20 years Tour-Mate audio tours and products have been featured at prominent attractions such as Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and other varying locations around the world.

Trichuris muris

After establishing their place in the intestinal wall, the adult worms mate and release unembryonated eggs into the environment via the feces.

United States presidential election in New York, 1904

Roosevelt and Fairbanks defeated the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia.

USS Pontoosuc

Seven of Pontoosucs sailors received the Medal of Honor for their actions during this campaign: Cabin Boy John Anglin, Coxswain Asa Betham, Boatswain's Mate Robert M. Blair, Captain of the Forecastle John P. Erickson, Landsman George W. McWilliams, Chief Quartermaster James W. Verney, and Sailmaker's Mate Anthony Williams.

Vic Prinzi

He was also a friend and former college football (starting quarterback and defensive back) team mate of Burt Reynolds at Florida State University, after whom a character in The Cannonball Run was named.

Viktor Sidyak

In 1994, Maffei's 1972 team-mate Mario Aldo Montano invited Sidyak to coach the young fencers, including his own son, at his club in Livorno.

Vincent DePaul Lynch

Following his service in World War II (1944-1945) as a naval pharmacist's mate on the USS Providence (CL-82), he attended Niagara University, Lewiston, New York, and earned B.S. degrees in biology and chemistry (1950).

W. J. A. Davies

He formed a notable international half-back partnership with his Royal Navy team-mate Cecil Kershaw; in their 14 matches together for England they never finished on the losing side.

Wu Hao

The 2009 league season was however very disappointing for him as he often found himself on the substitute bench and once reigning champions Beijing Guoan showed an interests within him he was sold with team mate Wang Xiaolong for a combined fee of 2,000,000 RMB.

Yerba mate

Modifying mate in this fashion is potentially toxic, as these alkaloids can cause a rare condition of the liver, veno-occlusive disease, which produces liver failure due to progressive occlusion of the small venous channels in the liver.

You're My Mate

"You're My Mate" is a song by English pop group Right Said Fred released as the second single from their album Fredhead.


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