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174th Brigade

174th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States), a major subordinate command of the Ohio Army National Guard located in Columbus, Ohio.

Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development

Its major investments include the Financial Services, Industrial Promotion Services (IPS) and Tourism Promotion Services (TPS).

Amanda Blumenherst

In 2013, she announced that she would take a leave from professional golf to spend more time with her husband, major league baseball player Nate Freiman.

Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy

Fourcroy's 1785 publication, Entomologia Parisiensis, sive, Catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur ..., co-written with Étienne Louis Geoffroy, was a major contribution to systematic entomology.

Anya Amasova

Major Anya Amasova (aka Agent XXX) is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, portrayed by Barbara Bach.

Banco Cabo-Verdiano de Negócios

The banking company is located in the second major city of Cape Verde, Mindelo on São Vicente Island.

Battle of Petitcodiac

During Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755), on August 28, Monckton sent Major Joseph Frye with an expedition of 200 provincial militia from Fort Cumberland in two armed sloops, with instructions to clear Acadians settlements on the Petitcodiac River.

Biggar family

Alexander was born in Kinsale, Ireland in 1781, to parents (Major) Harold Robert Biggar and Ann, née Harvey.

Bouza Department

The major (unpaved) road in the area -- RN16 runs through Bouza town from Madaoua to the south to Keita in the north, before reaching Tahoua in the northwest of the Region.

Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park

When Union Major General Ambrose Burnside attacked the Cumberland Gap and Knoxville, Tennessee, Camp Nelson's distance from the Gap and Knoxville, combined with lack of railroads and the weather, hampered the Union advance.

Dody Weston Thompson

Dody went on to develop her other artistic skills as a drama and poetry major at Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University in New Orleans in 1940.

Du Yuanying

While later serving as the military governor (Jiedushi) of Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu), he was further blamed for failure of discipline that caused his soldiers to provoke a major Nanzhao invasion against Xichuan, leading to his exile.

ESPN Major League Soccer

On August 4, 2006, ESPN reached a comprehensive multimedia agreement with Soccer United Marketing (SUM) for the rights to Major League Soccer through 2014.

Gabriel Bracho

In 1994 he held a major exhibition in the Venezuelan national gallery and in the same year was awarded the prestigious National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela.

Gail Sheehy

Sheehy has written biographies and character studies of major twentieth-century leaders, including Hillary Clinton, both Presidents Bush, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.

Gilbert V. Hartke

He directed over 60 major productions at CUA, and several more for the National Players, a touring company he created.

Greg Mullavey

His father, Gregory Thomas "Greg" Mulleavy, played Major League Baseball for the White Sox, Red Sox, third base coach for Brooklyn Dodgers and LA Dodgers, and won four World Series with the Dodgers.

Gregorio Araneta Avenue

It is an 8-10 lane divided avenue designated as part of Circumferential Road 3 (C-3) which travels from Sergeant Rivera Street, at its north end in Balintawak, and meets Nicanor Domingo Street in the south in San Juan near the border with Santa Mesa, City of Manila.

Guillermo Santa Cruz

In 2002, Santa Cruz acted (and, in many cases, was reunited) with fellow Chiquititas stars Camila Bordonaba, Felipe Colombo, Dario Lopilato, Lopilato's sister Luisana, and Georgina Mollo, and he acted alongside noted actors such as Catherine Fulop and Diego García in Rebelde Way, another major Argentine television hit.

Guttman Community College

Guttman offers 2-year associate degree programs with majors in Business Administration, Human Services, Information Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Urban Studies.

Guy M. Brandborg

Although disputes over forestry practices continue, this event sparked major changes to U.S. forestry policies in the 1970s and influenced the passage of the National Forest Management Act of 1976.

Halford Special

The early racing history of chassis number 1916 is not fully documented but what is certain is that it was crashed in 1924 and Major Frank Halford bought the chassis and installed an engine of his own design and built a new two-seater body for the car.

Hugo Peretti

In 1957, they bought into Roulette Records where they both wrote songs for various artists such as Valerie Carr and produced major hits for Jimmie Rodgers including "Honeycomb" (Billboard # 1) and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (Billboard # 3), and "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again" and "Secretly".

Jeff Raikes

In 1992 the Pacific Northwest was in danger of losing the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball franchise.

Jerry Brightman

Major recording artists with Jerry appearing on include: Buck Owens, Susan Raye, Tony Booth, Arlo Guthrie, and David Frizzel.

John Doebley

John Doebley began his undergraduate education as a biology major at West Chester State College in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Jones/Ginzel

Current and recent major works include the Visual Arts Complex at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Hoboken Ferry Terminal in New Jersey, the Tiber River in Rome, and public buildings in Florida and Utah.

Kâni Karaca

He came to Istanbul in 1950 and worked with Sadettin Kaynak, a major composer and performer of Turkish music at the time.

Konstanz

Konstanz station is served by the Upper Rhine Railway running west to Singen with connections to all parts of Germany, and the Etzwilen–Konstanz line running south into Switzerland, connecting to major routes at Weinfelden.

Law enforcement in Poland

In Poland, the national police service Policja is directly responsible to the central government, and whilst it operates with an organisational structure that allows voivodeship commands to exist, the regional authorities do not have any major say in law enforcement policy, and cannot affect the day-to-day operations of their local force.

Liberal State Party

The party performed particularly well in the major trading cities Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the rich municipalities around Hilversum and the Hague and in northern rural provinces, like Groningen and Drenthe.

Liston B. Ramsey

A major accomplishment of his time as Speaker was the creation of the Liston B. Ramsey Activity Center at Western Carolina University.

Major League Lacrosse MVP Award

The Bud Light Major League Lacrosse MVP Award is awarded annually to the best performing player of Major League Lacrosse.

Music of Tanzania

Mr. II and Juma Nature are the most famous Tanzanian rappers; Mr II's (then known as 2-Proud) "Ni Mimi" (1995) was the first major hit for the field.

Netezza

In February 2010, Netezza announced that it had opened up its systems to support major programming models, including Hadoop, MapReduce, Java, C++, and Python models.

Office of the Supervising Architect

In 1893 Missouri Congressman John Charles Tarsney introduced a bill that allowed the Supervisory Architect to have competitions among private architects for major structures.

Palace of St. Michael and St. George

The palace is designed in the Regency style by the British architect George Whitmore, who was a Colonel and later a Major-General in the Royal Engineers.

Peruvanam Pooram

Although the more popular Thrissur Pooram can be accredited with bringing major changes to the conduct of Poorams in Kerala, the Peruvanam Pooram claims a rich history, and it has witnessed a lot of innovations/additions, some of which form the core of temple festivals in Kerala.The first performance of the Panchari melam is said to have been performed for the Pooram of Urakathamma Thiruvadi, at the Peruvanam Pooram.

Portrayal of Native Americans in film

A major scene in Peter Pan involves the Lost Boys and Peter Pan celebrating at the Native Americans' camp after Peter rescues Tiger Lily, the daughter of the chief, from Captain Hook.

Simon Perry

Perry's major public commissions include Threaded Field, Docklands Stadium, Melbourne (1999-2000), On Tap, Caroline Springs, Melbourne (2007), and the much loved Public Purse (1994).

Spam email delivery

Most of the major Windows e-mail viruses of 2003, including the Sobig and Mimail virus families, functioned as spammer viruses: viruses designed expressly to make infected computers available as spamming tools.

Steve Rushton

His first major boost of his career was with Disney Channel's original series The Suite Life on Deck to which he sang the opening theme, "Livin' the Suite Life" Shortly after, he released his first single "Emergency" which was included in the soundtrack for the Disney movie, Race to Witch Mountain.

Sylvanus Thayer

During the War of 1812, Thayer directed the fortification and defense of Norfolk, Virginia, and was promoted to major.

Tempo3

TEMPO³ was selected as the winner of the Mars Project Challenge, run by the Mars Society in 2008, to determine the group's next major project.

The Detached Mission

The CIA officers appoints U.S. Army Major Jack Hessalt as a commanding officer of missile launch command post inside a secret U.S. military base in the Pacific Ocean.

Thomas H. Seymour

Born in Hartford, Connecticut to Major Henry Seymour and Jane Ellery, Seymour was sent to public schools as a child and graduated from Middletown Military Academy in Middletown, Connecticut in 1829.

Toluca Valley

There was some repression of rebellions under later emperor Ahuitzotl but there was no major military activity in the valley again until the Spanish conquest .

Vivartia

Vivartia is the result of the merger of Delta Holding S.A., which included Delta Dairy Products, Goody's, Flocafé and Mechelany foods as well as a dozen other major Greek food and beverages related corporations of the nutritions field, with the snack and bakery business lines of Chipita.

Willmott Dixon

Major projects include Woolwich Central, the largest ever development by Tesco's in-house development business Spenhill, comprising an 80,000 sq ft supermarket and 259 homes over 17 storeys.

ZaMirNET

Amidst the "worst crimes committed in Europe this century" the first major experiment in email was launched in June 1992 in Zagreb and Belgrade, almost exactly a year after Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, triggering a brutal response from Serbia.


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Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

At his post in Fort Duchesne, Utah, he served first as the troop's clerk and later as squadron sergeant major through 1900.

Billy the Cat and Katie

(There is further homage in the naming of some of the model infantrymen, although using "Sergeant-Major" as "Wilson"'s rank is a departure from the strictly parallel.)

Chief warrant officer

This appointment includes, for example, the Division Chief Warrant Officer (DCWO) of 1 Canadian Air Division and the Area Sergeant-Major (Area SM) of Land Force Western Area (LFWA).

Christopher Hibbert

He left Oriel College to join the Army, where a sergeant major referred to Hibbert as Christopher Robin based upon his youthful looks.

Clinton A. Puckett

Following a two-year tour on the Inspector-Instructor Staff, 3rd Battalion 23rd Marines, 4th Marine Division in San Bruno, California, he returned to duty in Vietnam, serving as the Sergeant Major of the 7th Marines.

Company sergeant major

The most famous fictional examples are perhaps Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Brynne 'Shut Up' Williams, portrayed by Windsor Davies in the 1970s sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Company Sergeant Major Percival Bullimore and Company Sergeant Major Claude Snudge played by William Hartnell and Bill Fraser, respectively, in the 1958-63, Granada television comedy series, The Army Game.

David Aldus

His Father, John Macdonald Aldus was a Company Sergeant Major in the South Wales Borderers, as was his father, killed in action in the Khyber pass.

Edgar Huff

He then served as Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Air Station New River, Jacksonville, North Carolina, until his retirement on September 30, 1972.

Foster Dwight Coburn

He served during the latter years of the American Civil War in two Illinois regiments—first as corporal in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth infantry, and subsequently as private and sergeant-major of the Sixty-second veteran infantry.on his own account.

Frankie Segarra

Sergeant Major Jose Luis Santiago, who has the distinction of being the 2nd Battalion 9th Marines first Hispanic Sergeant Major and its first Sergeant Major since its reactivation on July 13, 2007.

Frederick Barter

On 16 May 1915 at Festubert, France, Company Sergeant-Major Barter, when in the first line of German trenches, called for volunteers to enable him to extend our line, and with the eight men who responded, he attacked the German position with bombs, capturing three German officers, 102 men and 500 yards of their trenches.

John Estrada

For the 15th Sergeant Major of the United States Marine Corps, see John L. Estrada.

John W. Browning

He enlisted in September 1861 in the 1st New York Engineers, and took part in the battles of Port Royal, Fort Pulaski, James Island and others in the Department of the South until December 1863 when he was discharged as a sergeant-major and brevet second lieutenant.

John William Ormsby

On 14 April 1917 at Fayet, France, during operations which culminated in the capture of an important position, Sergeant Ormsby, acting as company sergeant-major showed complete indifference to the heavy machine-gun and rifle fire and set a fine example.

José Antonio Lacayo de Briones y Palacios

As Sergeant Major, Lacayo endured a very difficult period in the area of Cartago near the Salto river, on the Costa Rican border of Nicoya and Nicaragua.

José Santiago

José L. Santiago (b. 1960), Puerto Rican sergeant major in the United States Marine Corps

Juan José Guesi

On 27 September 1831 at Miraflores, Catamarca a Federalist force led by Nazario Benavídez and Julián Cuenca defeated the force commanded by Sergeant Major Guesi.

Leon L. Van Autreve

Sergeant Major Van Autreve attended George Washington University, University of Toledo, University of Maryland and Alaska Methodist University, and was a member of Phi Alpha Theta.

Micheal Barrett

In September 1987, Sergeant Major Barrett was assigned to 3rd Battalion 9th Marines at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, and trained as a Scout Sniper to serve as a platoon sergeant for the unit's STA platoon.

Paintings by Adolf Hitler

This painting, along with twelve other paintings by Hitler, was discovered by Company Sergeant Major Willie J. McKenna in 1945 in Essen, Germany.

Paul de Sorbait

During the siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683 he commanded the company formed of students as chief sergeant-major.

Raymond F. Chandler

As Sergeant Major of the Army, Chandler serves as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army's personal adviser on all enlisted-related matters, particularly in areas affecting soldier training and quality of life, including the adoption of the new Army Service Uniform, which phases out the Green Service Uniform in 2014.

Terminal Lance

On May 30, 2012, The Duffel Blog ran a satire piece stating that the creator of the Terminal Lance strip was not Maximilian Uriarte, but instead was Carlton Kent—the former Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps.

Wilfred Hawker

Wilfred Hawker (died 13 March 1982) was a sergeant-major in the Surinamese military who staged two unsuccessful coup d'états in 1982.

William A. Connelly

In June 1975, he became Sergeant Major of the Seventh Army Training Command Grafenwöhr and in July 1976, became Sergeant Major of the 1st Armored division at Ansbach.

William Gainey

Gainey served as the Command Sergeant Major for the 2nd Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, and 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany; Eagle Base, Bosnia and Herzegovina; 1st Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Polk, La.

William Waugh

Billy Waugh (born 1929), retired American Special Forces Sergeant Major and Central Intelligence Agency Paramilitary Operations Officer