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Tony Michaelides

He sold jazz, folk and blues records out of his van to major record stores Transatlantic and its subsidiaries Blue Note, Milestone and Nonesuch.


1978 Winchester 400

The 1978 Winchester 400 marked a milestone in the short history of the event, as Michigan short-track legends Mike Eddy and Bob Senneker engaged in a race-long battle over the 400-lap distance on the "World's Fastest Half Mile".

Alaska Route 1

The 2002 Denali earthquake caused significant damage to the Cut-Off, particularly between mileposts 75 and 83 where major cracks and embankment slumping left the roadway fundamentally destroyed.

Antonio Benarrivo

He quickly became one of the strengths of the company Emilian, which will be a milestone for more than a decade, winning many statements in national and European level.

Ball of the Century

During the penultimate Test match of his career on Boxing Day 2006, in the fourth Ashes Test against England, Warne took his 700th Test wicket, bowling Andrew Strauss to become the first cricketer ever to reach this milestone.

Bangabandhu National Stadium

Recently on September 6, 2009 Bangabandhu National Stadium hosted a historical international friendly football match between Argentina and Nigeria, featuring the then record FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi, a milestone for football in the country.

Behavioral cusp

For example, learning to play soccer is not a milestone, but it was life-changing for Pelé.

Carole Ward Allen

Almost a decade later, December 15, 2005, BART Director Ward Allen attained another major milestone as a woman in politics when she was elected among her colleagues on the BART Board of Directors to serve as its president and Lynette Sweet as its vice president, which made BART the first major transportation agency to be led by two African-American women in American history.

Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon

It marked a major milestone in the history of the Church of the East and of Christianity in Asia in general.

Design structure matrix

The latest version of the Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 includes project dependency structure management since v7.0 Milestone 2.

Economy of Qatar

Project highlights in this segment include the multibillion-dollar Doha Expressway and the Qatar Bahrain Causeway, which will connect Qatar to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and is considered a milestone in regional interconnectivity.

Falling in Love with Jazz

Falling in Love with Jazz is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1991, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Bob Cranshaw, Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris and Jack DeJohnette with Branford Marsalis, Tommy Flanagan, and Jeff Watts standing in on two tracks.

Gaius Julius Marcus

His name is recorded on a milestone on the Military Way at Hadrian's Wall although it has been partially erased, suggesting that he had brought disfavour on himself sometime later.

Göltzsch Viaduct

In June 2009, the German engineers' guild declared the Göltzsch Viaduct along with the Fernsehturm Stuttgart as historical milestone of engineering.

Guerrilla diplomacy

Its techniques have been described by Professor Nicholas Cull as "essential to navigating the diplomatic rapids of the twenty-first century", and its analysis as a "milestone" in "diplomacy's current revolution" by Simon Anholt.

Gyula Illyés

He translated from many languages, French being the most important, but - with the help of rough translations - his volume of translations from the ancient Chinese classics remains a milestone.

Hans Guido Mutke

Mutke also made the controversial claim that he broke the sound barrier in 1945 in an Me 262, but mainstream opinion continues to regard Chuck Yeager as the first person to achieve this milestone in 1947 in a Bell X-1 .

Here's to the People

Here's to the People is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1991, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris, Bob Cranshaw, Roy Hargrove, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Jordan, and Al Foster.

International English

In Europe, English received a more central role particularly since 1919, when the Treaty of Versailles was composed not only in French, the common language of diplomacy at the time, but, under special request from American president Woodrow Wilson, also in English - a major milestone in the globalisation of English.

IQinVision

For example, IQeye camera integrate with many popular 3rd Party Network Video Recorder (NVR) applications such as those by companies like Aimetis, Genetec, Milestone, ONSSI, Mirasys and many others.

John Davis Williams

The most significant milestone of Williams' tenure at Ole Miss was the September 30, 1962, admission of James Meredith, an African-American student, following a court ruling.

Kandupidi Kandupidi

The film had been described as a ‘milestone film’ in the history of Tamil cinema by Prabhu Solomon Director of Mynaa and Kumki and under who Subburayan had worked as assistant director for these films.

Kate Edelman Johnson

In October 2004 Kate and Dr. Jeffrey Cummings, M.D., Director of the UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Center (named No. 3 in the world for Alzheimer's research) created a significant milestone, opening The Deane F. Johnson Center for Neurotherapeutics at UCLA.

Leslie Lewis

Lewis began singing something while strumming his guitar, Hari felt inspired to jam with an alaap, and the result: the seamless fusion of Eastern and Western sounds that has become characteristic of the Colonial Cousins.The year 1996 was a career milestone; he formed the band Colonial Cousins with ghazal singer Hariharan.

Luckenwalde

The factory was designed by German architect Erich Mendelsohn in 1923, the factory is considered a milestone of Expressionist architecture.

M. B. Patil

This achievement of M B Patil is said to be a milestone in the history of Bijapur district's development in water irrigation amongst other developmental works in Babaleshwar.

Make Me a Millionaire

The show was produced by 3Ball Productions and Milestone Entertainment for an initially anticipated four-year run, and featured Mark L. Walberg as host, with co-presenter Liz Hernandez.

Matten bei Interlaken

A milestone in the history of the place was the first Unspunnenfest in 1805.

Milestone Aviation Group

Milestone Aviation Group was founded in August 2010 by Richard Santulli.

Milestone Films

Milestone's recent releases include Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (www.killerofsheep.com) and Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles (www.exilesfilm.com).

Milestone's current restorations in theaters include Margot Benacerraf's Araya (www.arayafilm.com), the Mariposa Film Group's Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (www.wordisoutmovie.com) and Portrait of Jason.

Some of the films that Milestone has distributed are by Alfred Hitchcock, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, F.W. Murnau, Orson Welles, Shirley Clarke, Mikhail Kalatozov and Luis Buñuel.

MV Reef Endeavour

MV Reef Endeavour built in Suva Fiji and was the first ship to contact the Great Barrier Reef as an attraction, in 1996, an important milestone for tourism in Australia.

North–South Transport Corridor

In mid-September 2013, Rasia FZE announced in a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan the achievement of a key milestone for the Southern Armenia Railway, including the release of a highly favorable feasibility study and the recommended railway design route from China Communications Construction Company.

Øster Allé

The stone has, however, nothing to do with Struense being a quarter milestone installed in 1698 in connection with Ole Rømer's survey of Denmark.

Perceptual art

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's wrapping of the Reichstag was another milestone in this succession.

Red Bull BC One World Finals South Korea 2013

On November 30, 2013, the world’s 16 best B-Boys will go head to head in Seoul’s Jamsil Arena to compete for the opportunity to be crowned the Red Bull BC One World Champion in its milestone 10th Anniversary year.

Rialto Pictures

2007 marked Rialto’s tenth anniversary, a milestone that was celebrated with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Roger Rojas

In April 2013, he scored his 50th league goal against Platense aged 22, making him the youngest player to reach the milestone and surpassing national team striker Jerry Bengtson who was 24 when he scored his 50th.

Santiago Metro Line 2

These stations marked a new milestone in Santiago engineering by travelling under the Mapocho River and the Costanera Norte highway.

Social marketing

The next milestone in the evolution of social marketing was the publication of "Social Marketing: An Approach to Planned Social Change" in the Journal of Marketing by Philip Kotler and Gerald Zaltman.

StrataVision 3D

One particular milestone was rendering the environment in the blockbuster game Myst entirely using StrataVision.

Sunny Days, Starry Nights

Sunny Days, Starry Nights is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1984, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Mark Soskin, Russell Blake and Tommy Campbell.

Tarraco

A milestone, found in Tarragona's Plaça de Braus, mentions the highway between 12 and 6 BC, leading Barcino to the north-east and Dertosa, Saguntum and (Valentia) to the south.

The Night of Nights

Milestone directed The Night of Nights nine years after winning the 1930 Academy Award for Best Director for All Quiet on the Western Front.

The Variable

The hundredth episode milestone was celebrated by cast and crew on location in Hawaii.

Wesley Coaches

One of these was a thirty by eight feet example built by Yeates of Loughborough, which achieved a transport milestone by being the first coach with no partition between the driver and his passengers, which nowadays is normal practice.

WKSU-FM

On January 22, 1980, the station reached a milestone when it linked up with the satellite Westar 1.


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