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11th Indian Infantry Brigade

It was relocated from India to Egypt in the middle of August 1939 and trained at Fayed in Ismailia Governorate on the Great Bitter Lake.

1988 Canadian Grand Prix

By the middle of the race Philippe Streiff brought his AGS up to the fifth place, ahead of Andrea de Cesaris' Rial in sixth.

2004–05 Chappell–Hadlee Trophy

Ponting's dismissal proved to be the precursor to another middle order collapse for Australia, for Hayden was dismissed just a few minutes later for 43, and in even shorter order Damien Martyn was dismissed for 5 and Andrew Symonds for his second consecutive duck.

2007–08 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team

PF Ron Anderson (Upper Marlboro, Maryland), a long time AAU teammate of Beasley's, rounded out the class when he was offered a scholarship after a strong AAU showing in the Summer of 2007.

2010 South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team

Trailing 2-1 and down to their last strike in the 12th inning, Jackie Bradley, Jr. singled home the tying run and following a walk to pinch-hitter Jeffery Jones, Brady Thomas lined the first pitch he saw up the middle for a walk-off RBI single.

AAC Middle Wallop

After D-Day, both the 67th RG moved to its Advanced Landing Ground at Le Molay-Littry (ALG A-9) and IX FC Headquarters moved to Les Obeaux, France in late June 1944 ending the USAAF presence at Middle Wallop.

Aaron Heal

He established himself in Western Australia's first-class (Sheffield Shield) and limited-overs (Ford Ranger Cup) sides during the 2006–07 season, taking over from Brad Hogg as the team's primary spinner, but was selected less regularly over the following seasons.

Anne E. DeChant

Examples include Girls and Airplanes (gender equality), Green Hand (supporting troops post-war), Swastika (Holocaust denial), 25 (imbalance in economic status), and Second Class Citizen (prejudice and intolerance toward the gay community).

Bill Norman

A right-handed hitting and throwing outfielder, he rose quickly to the major league level as player, when he was called up to the Chicago White Sox in 1931 after hitting .366 in the Class C Western Association.

Boccadasse

It is enclosed in a narrow bay, at the eastern side the cape of Santa Chiara with a castle (a new building in the style of a medieval castle), on the western side the rocks, and in the middle the tiny cobblestones beach where the seamen's small boats rest.

Brad Green

Braddon Green (born 1959), first-class cricketer for Victoria and Devon

Crystal Palace Park Cricket Ground

Ten years would pass before first-class cricket returned to Crystal Palace, when in 1880 the Players played the Australians during their tour of England.

Daniel Island, Antarctica

Named by Eklund for Commissaryman 2d Class David Daniel, U.S. Navy, cook and Navy support force member of the 1957 wintering party at Wilkes Station during the IGY.

Demetrius Comino

After graduating with a first class honours degree in 1924, Comino served a three-year apprenticeship with British Thomson-Houston in Rugby before leaving to establish a printing business, Krisson Printing Ltd, near Oxford Circus in central London ("Krisson" being Greek for 'better').

Denis Cousins

Cousins' son, Darren, played first-class cricket, while his uncle, Harold, played Minor Counties Cricket for Cambridgeshire.

Dunfermline and West Fife by-election, 2006

The by-election took place in the middle of a leadership election in the Liberal Democrats and the party was perceived in the media to be declining in the polls as a result of negative publicity surrounding the resignation of former leader Charles Kennedy and revelations about the private lives of Mark Oaten and Simon Hughes.

Echte

In the Middle Ages, it served as a trade node on the east-west road between Einbeck and Osterode and the north-south road from Northeim to Seesen.

Eidsvold-class coastal defence ship

Obsolete by the time of the German invasion, both Eidsvold class ships were sunk during the first Battle of Narvik.

Eyvind Hellstrøm

In 2007 Hellstrøm was awarded the Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

Franconia

The city of Fürth in Middle Franconia historically (before the Nazi era) had a large Jewish population; Henry Kissinger was born there.

French National Monotype 1924

It might originate (or vice versa) as the Scheldejol a Class originated in Antwerp, Belgium and also used in The Netherlands but is a little different at certain measurements.

Ghana Empire

French colonial officials, notably Maurice Delafosse, concluded that Ghana had been founded by the Berbers, a nomadic group origination from the Benu River, from Middle Africa, and linked them to North African and Middle Eastern origins.

History of Katowice

Following the annexation of Silesia by Prussia in the middle of 18th century, a slow migration of German merchants began to the area, which, until then was inhabited primarily by a Polish population.

Italian support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war

Iraq ordered four Lupo class frigates, and six Wadi Assad class corvettes equipped with Otomat-2 anti-shipping missiles.

Jack Blumenau

As the Bell Rings (2007 episodes O Romeo and A Touch of Class, Disney Channel UK) - Tinker

Joel Hulu Mahoe

On the island of Tarawa she taught and formed a promising class of pupils.

Joseph L. Carwise Middle School

Joseph L. Carwise Middle School is a grade 6–8 middle school in Palm Harbor, Florida.

Journey Through a Small Planet

In "Journey Through a Small Planet" (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End of London: a small cluster of streets right next to the city, but worlds apart in culture and spirit.

Kaliprasanna Singha

The quality of the newspaper was ahead of its times and Kristo Das Pal wrote, "He also started a first class vernacular daily newspaper, the like of which we have not yet seen." Bibidhartho Samgraha was first edited by Babu Rajendralal Mitra, the well known native gentleman.

KCPO

Knight Commander of the Pontifical Order of Pius IX, a class in one of the orders of knighthood of the Holy See

Langkampfen

Langkampfen is a municipality in the middle of the Austrian state of Tyrol between Kufstein (8 km southwest below) and Wörgl (8 km north above).

Lewis A. Coser

In contrast, the non-coincidence of economic and political disenfranchisement among Quebecers reduces somewhat the severity of their conflict with English Canada, especially with the rising prosperity of the French Canadian new middle class operating in the public sector and corporate world.

Lipniki, Ostrołęka County

He also had to appeal to the Royal Beekeeping Society and accept the so-called "Prawo Bartne" or "Beekeeper's Laws." This was a set of laws governing the production and sale of honey, wax, and related products, which were a chief product of this region and were particularly valuable to the noble class at the time.

Louis Ritman

He took a drawing class at Hull House, then attended the Art Institute’s school, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and briefly the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then in 1909 moved to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the advice of Parker to continue his studies.

Low Memorial Library

The foyer contains a white marble bust of Pallas Athena, modeled after the Minerve du Collier at the Louvre and donated by Jonathan Ackerman Coles of the Columbia College Class of 1864, an alumnus of Columbia's Philolexian Society.

Ming Hsieh

His family was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution as a part of China's upper middle class having ties with the old national government moved to Taiwan (Yingzhou, Ming's grandfather, was famous high-ranking official of Republic of China); as a result, his family was forced to move in 1966 to a small village near Panjin.

Our Lady of Victory Catholic School

The recognition came from the teachings of Deacon David Jones, whose 5th grade art class curriculum that school year was based on the works of noted artist Bob Ross, host of the American PBS television show The Joy of Painting.

Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School

In a self-paced class, students complete coursework through Calvert, Lincoln Interactive and Little Lincoln.

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.

Philolaus

By nature the middle is first, and around it dance ten divine bodies - the sky, the planets, then the sun, next the moon, next the earth, next the counterearth, and after all of them the fire of the hearth which holds position at the centre.

Pizza saver

In 1985, Carmela Vitale of Dix Hills, New York, was issued a patent for a plastic 3-legged tripod stool that would sit in the middle of the box and keep the top from sagging into pizza, cakes or other foods kept in a box.

Queensland Railways 2600 class

The 2600 class entered service on the McNaughton and Newlands lines.

Seneca Valley School District

In 2009, the 8th grade was ranked 34th out of 141 western Pennsylvania middle schools based on three years of student academic achievement in PSSAs in: reading, math writing and one year of science.

Shakeelur Rahman

He studied at Patna University, where he gained a B.A. with First Class Honours, an M.A. with First Class Honours (awarded the Patna University Gold Medal) and a D.Litt.

Sing, Baby, Sing

When she insists that he represent her, he takes her to Mr. Brewster (Paul Stanton), president of the Federal Broadcasting Company, and Joan auditions, but Brewster refuses to hire her because she is not of the upper class.

Steinebach an der Wied

Steinebach an der Wied is linked to the long-distance road network by Bundesstraße 8, which also links the community with the middle centres of Hachenburg and Altenkirchen.

Taliska

During the writing of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien toyed with the idea of making Taliska the primordial tongue of the people of Rohan who spoke Old English in his translated setting of The Lord of the Rings.

TigerLogic

An enterprise class XML Database Management Server for the emerging XML market to address the growing need for managing and querying native XML data and the ability to handle structured and unstructured data.

V-mail

In 1940 the British Minister of Transport, Lieutenant Colonel John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, put forward the idea that airgraphs be used to reduce both the bulk and weight of mail travelling between the Middle East Force (MEF) and the UK.

VH1 Europe

Though produced in Warsaw (Poland), VH1 Europe broadcasts from MTV Networks Europe's premises in Camden Town (London, UK) to the whole continent of Europe, covering also the Middle East, South Africa and parts of Northern Africa.


see also

Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson

Slade Hopkinson is a writer who was born into a middle-class family in New Amsterdam, Guyana in 1934.

Alexander the Greatest

Alexander Green is a 16-year-old boy, who lives in Golders Green in London and who wants to leave his middle-class Jewish home.

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.

Bayswater Road

It is where the fictional upper-middle class Forsyte family live in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga.

Bedford Square

Built between 1775 and 1783 as an upper middle class residential area, the square has had many distinguished residents, including Lord Eldon, one of Britain's longest serving and most celebrated Lord Chancellors, who lived in the largest house in the square for many years.

BMW M12

The 2.3 liter engine powered the M3 (which really was a middle class car compared to its rivals such as the Ford Sierra RS500) to the 1987 World Touring Car Championship, the 1987 and 1988 European Touring Car Championship's, the 1987 Australian Touring Car Championship, the 1988 British Touring Car Championship, and the 1987 and 1989-93 Italian Touring Car Championships.

Brett Josef Grubisic

The former collection highlights stories that represent lives outside the urban middle-class mainstream; the latter, featuring such acclaimed writers as Annabel Lyon, Steven Heighton, Camilla Gibb, Michael Turner, and Larissa Lai, aims to redress an absence the editors claim to have noticed in Canadian literature: sexually frank fiction.

Call It a Day

Based on the 1935 play Call It a Day by Dodie Smith, the film is about a day in the life of a middle-class London family whose lives are complicated by the first romantic signs of spring.

Dave Tweedie

Living in the small, working-middle class town of Crockett, California, Dave Tweedie grew up with Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of the rock band Green Day, as well as Scott Holderby of pioneering heavy funk metal band Mordred.

Dear Mr. President

The song criticizes several areas of Bush’s administration and terms in office, including the Iraq War, No Child Left Behind Act, disapproval of equal rights for homosexuals, lack of empathy for poor and middle class citizens, Bush’s strong religious beliefs, and Bush’s drinking and drug usage in college.

Derby della Mole

Turinese novelist and film director Mario Soldati once commented that Juventus were "the team of gentlemen, industrial pioneers, Jesuits, conservatives and the wealthy bourgeois" while Torino were "the team of the working class, migrant workers from the provinces or neighbouring countries, the lower middle-class and the poor".

Édouard Pingret

He was born at Saint-Quentin, Aisne, the son of a middle-class family in a mainly agricultural region, but also home to the celebrated General Cambronne and to illustrious notaries and Normandy judges.

Efraín Morote Best

Following a pattern which was not uncommon among Latin American intellectuals from upper and upper-middle class backgrounds at the time, Morote embraced first religion (becoming the pastor of an evangelical Christian church) and later Communism.

Emilio Pettoruti

Emilio Pettoruti was born in La Plata, on October 1, 1892, to a prosperous middle-class family.

Errico Malatesta

Malatesta was born to a family of middle-class landowners in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy (in the province of Caserta) on December 14, 1853.

Feltonville, Philadelphia

Although a large portion of Feltonville's population is made up of middle class Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and African Americans.

Future of American Democracy Foundation

Norton Garfinkle, The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy

George Charles

In the 1951 General Elections, the first held under universal adult suffrage, the St. Lucia Labour Party under his leadership won five of the eight seats against the middle class-oriented Peoples Progressive Party.

George M Thomas

George M. Thomas was born on March 22, 1955 at Kelothu Vayal in Kayanna Panchayath in a middle class family.

Germaine Dulac

Germaine Dulac was born in Amiens, France into an upper-middle-class family of a career military officer.

Glas 1700

The Glas 1300 GT launched in 1963 had been developed by the Piedmontese firm Frua of Moncalieri, and a contract had at the same time been entered into for the development of a new middle class saloon.

Hugo Williams

Williams is the son of actor Hugh Williams and the model and actress Margaret Vyner, who co-wrote some upper-middle-class comedies in the late 1950s.

Islam in Argentina

The project cost around US$30 million, and includes a mosque, library, two schools, a park, is located in the middle-class district of Palermo, Buenos Aires.

Jean Yeuwain

He belonged to the middle class of Mons and probably studied at the Collège de Houdain, founded in 1545 and whose buildings are today part of the Faculté polytechnique de Mons.

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

Born in Laon, Aisne to middle-class parents, he became a lieutenant of the Laon militia, and then entered the French royal army, served in the Seven Years' War campaigns in Hanover (1759), Portugal (1762), and against Pasquale Paoli in Corsica (1771).

Leone Sinigaglia

Born in Turin into an upper-middle-class family, Sinigaglia knew the leading figures of thought, arts and science that lived in the city at the time, such as Galileo Ferraris, Cesare Lombroso, and Leonardo Bistolfi.

Loraine Vélez

Their father was a New York City police officer, who eventually bought a house in the middle-class neighborhood of Queens and moved there with his wife and eight children.

Los Beltrán

Unlike the families of Archie Bunker and Alf Garnett, however, the Beltráns in the first episode are moving up from their working-class digs to a nice, middle-class duplex in Burbank, which they've bought thanks to some lottery winnings.

Louis Uchitelle

Recently, Uchitelle moderated a "Times Talk" panel discussion with John Edwards, Barbara Ehrenreich, Stephen Moore and Katherine Newman entitled "American Middle Class: At Risk?"

MacGregor Knox

He rejects Marxist views that Fascism and National Socialism were agents of, or represented the interests of, capitalism or big business, and he is highly critical of both the Italian Socialist Party and the Communist Party of Germany, whose revolutionary rhetoric, he argues, provoked middle-class support for Fascism and National Socialism.

Manik Sarkar

Manik Sarkar was born in a middle class family in Radhakishorepur, near Udaipur, Tripura on January 22, 1949.

Mario Moretti

Moretti was born in Porto San Giorgio, Marche region of Italy, into a middle-class, right-wing, family.

Matt Frei

In October 2012, Frei headed Channel 4's coverage of the US Presidential election, including making a documentary "The American Road Trip: Obama's story" in which he visited middle-class voters in communities in the mid-west, including Minneapolis, Northwood, Ohio and Gary, Indiana.

Maude Valerie White

Although born near Dieppe in Normandy to upper middle class parents, White and her family moved to England when she was only one year old.

Melvin Anthony

Melvin Anthony grew up in the lower-middle-class neighborhoods of Sacramento and San Bernardino, California.

Middle Class Union

The Middle Class Union was founded in March 1919 to safeguard property after the Reform Act 1918 had increased the number of working-class people eligible to vote.

Now Take My Wife

It starred Sheila Hancock and Donald Houston as a suburban middle-class couple, Claire and Harry Love.

Pakistani community of London

Whilst in Brent and Harrow London Pakistanis are fairly prosperous and mostly Middle Class.

Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district

Many of Allegheny County's southern suburbs of Pittsburgh are located in the district, which range from traditional wealth areas such as Mount Lebanon and Upper St. Clair, middle class communities such as Bethel Park, Brentwood & Scott Township, and working class labor towns such as Elizabeth.

Pietro Zorutti

Much of his Friulian poetry was based around the middle class dialect of Udine, where he spent much of his life.

Tara Springett

Springett grew up as the second child of four born to middle-class German parents who both had problems with addictions.

Telescreen

All members of the Inner Party (upper-class) and Outer Party (middle-class) have telescreens in their homes, but the proles (lower-class) are not typically monitored as they are unimportant to the Party.

The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael

An introverted, socially awkward, middle-class youth, Robert Carmichael, is a talented cello player but is bored by his existence in the coastal town of Newhaven.

Tigray Region

The ruling party attempted to address these challenges in forums with its middle class critics, as well as the establishment of a number of charitable non-governmental organizations controlled by the EPRDF, which include Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray, Relief Society of Tigray, and Tigray Development Association.

White collar

White Collar: The American Middle Classes, a study of the American middle class by sociologist C. Wright Mills

Women Strike for Peace

In particular, in protesting atmospheric nuclear testing, they emphasized that Strontium-90 from nuclear fallout was being found in mother's milk and commercially sold cow's milk, presenting their opposition to testing as a motherhood issue,4 what Katha Pollitt has called "a maternity-based logic for organizing against nuclear testing."6 As middle-class mothers, they were less vulnerable to the redbaiting that had held in check much radical activity in the United States since the McCarthy Era.4

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee was born on December 29, 1844 at Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the present-day state of West Bengal in an upper middle class Bengali Hindu Kulin Brahmin family of considerable social standing.His ancestors belong from the village named Baganda situated in Hooghly district.

Zobel Roxas Street

Zobel Roxas and other streets in the area (e.g, Jacobo, Consuelo, Don Pedro and Ayala Streets) were named for the Zobel de Ayala family who developed middle class subdivisions in those areas of Singalong and San Andres in the 1930s.