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2 unusual facts about skip


Bubby Lyons

Victory went instead to another Democrat, later lieutenant governor and then Governor Kathleen Blanco, who defeated a Republican, Kernan "Skip" Hand in the general election for the position held in conjunction with the 1988 U.S. presidential contest.

Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

Kernan "Skip" Hand, former state representative and Jefferson Parish district court judge


Aliens in the Attic

An alien crew emerges, made up of Skip (J. K. Simmons), the tough commander, Tazer (Thomas Haden Church), a muscle-bound dude armed to the teeth, Razor (Kari Wahlgren), a lethal female alien soldier, and Sparks (Josh Peck), a four-armed techie, who is the only non-threatening intruder.

Anette Norberg

She led her team to victory for gold over Cheryl Bernard's Canadian team in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver becoming the first skip in the history of curling to successfully defend an Olympic title after previously winning the 2006 Women's Curling tournament in Turin over Mirjam Ott's Swiss team.

Anthrodon

An Anthrodon is a fictional beast from the role-playing video game Xyphus, created in 1984 by Skip Waller and Dave Albert for Penguin Software.

Australia II

The crew of Australia II for the America's Cup races was John Bertrand (Skipper), Colin Beashel, Will Baillieu, Peter Costello, Damian Fewster, Ken Judge, Skip Lissiman, John Longley, Brian Richardson, Phil Smidmore, Grant Simmer, Hugh Treharne.

Blind Luck

Blind Luck's connections opted to skip the Grade I Apple Blossom Handicap, which Havre de Grace subsequently won over California filly Switch.

Calutron

By the spring of 1943, convinced that the Germans might be ahead, General Leslie Groves decided to skip the scheduled pilot plant: procedures for alpha operation at Oak Ridge came from the XA and a scale model of the production magnet alone.

Digital Nation

Digital Nation has interviewed prominent scholars and educators for the documentary, many of whom are featured on the website: Mark Bauerlein, Dr. Jerald Block, Danah Boyd, Anne Collier, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, James Paul Gee, Henry Jenkins, Francoise LeGoues, Gloria Mark, Dr. Clifford Nass, Marc Prensky, Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Philip Rosedale, Noah Shachtman, P. W. Singer and Dr. Sherry Turkle.

Doug Didero

Didero is possibly best known for his success in the Supermodified division at Oswego Speedway, where he and car owner Skip Matczak won two dozen features on his way to three consecutive Track Championships in 1994, 1995 and 1996, capped by wins in the 1996 International Classic.

Dress Me Slowly

The album was produced, recorded and mixed by Clif Norrell at Q Studios in Sydney, except for "Beautiful Girl", "Watcha Doin' To Me" and "Kick a Hole in the Sky" which were recorded by Paul McKercher at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne and mixed by Skip Saylor Studios in Los Angeles.

DVD Show

The series made a move to HD in 2009., the series reviews movies and television programs newly released on DVD and re-releases on Blu-ray, suggesting viewers to Buy, Rent, or Skip.

Elix Skipper

Seven months later, Skipper began wrestling on Thunder and Nitro under the ring name Skip Over, facing members of the cruiserweight division and fellow Power Plant graduates.

Frank Bowman

Frank Lee "Skip" Bowman (born 19 December 1944) a retired four-star Admiral, is the former Chief of Naval Personnel and former Director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion.

George Washington University Student Association

Some SA alumni have been successful after college, such as former SA president Edward "Skip" Gnehm, who was the Ambassador to Kuwait during the Gulf War and received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award and two Presidential Meritorious Service Awards.

Great Britain at the 2006 Winter Paralympics

The team's coach, Tom Pendreigh, was also personal coach of the men's Olympic skip David Murdoch.

Hod Stuart

His father had been a good curler and was once point skip of the Ottawa Curling Club, and both Hod and Bruce played hockey from a young age, often for the same teams.

Jackie Lockhart

She started in the buzzing atmosphere that enveloped the Scottish Championships in Glasgow, where her team - largely inexperienced at the highest level apart from herself at skip - overcame Rhona Martin's rink in a three-match final to claim the right to represent Scotland at the World Championships in Bismarck, North Dakota, ahead of the newly-famed Olympic gold medallists.

Jessica Schultz

For the 2006 U.S. World Team Trials in March, Schultz was named skip, or captain, of Team USA (the team's regular skip, Cassie Johnson, did not play in the tournament), and the team finished fourth under her direction.

Katalina

She also contributed the song "Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered" to the soundtrack for the movie Simply Irresistible starring Sarah Michelle Gellar also produced by Jon St. James and featuring Skip Hahn on keyboards.

Kinderhook Industries

In June, 2012, the firm took control of M. Davis Company, Incorporated (doing business as USA Recovery, and Skip Masters), a firm based in El Dorado Hills, California that reprocesses property when owners default on loans.

KPRS

In 1950, Andrew "Skip" Carter began operating KPRS as the nation's first Black radio station west of the Mississippi River with a transmitter donated by former Kansas governor, Alf Landon.

Lisa Farnell

Farnell would later team up with 2005 provincial champion skip Erin Morrissey to form a competitive team on the women's World Curling Tour.

My Dog Skip

"My Dog Skip" is the story about nine-year-old Willie Morris growing up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, a tale of a boy and his dog in a small, sleepy Southern town that teaches us about family, friendship, love, devotion and bravery.

Namotu

Anglers can fish for a variety of tropical fish such as Giant Trevally, Yellowfin Tuna, Red Bass, Coral Trout, Spanish Mackerel, Barracuda, Skip Jacks, and an assortment of reef fish as well.

Olga Jarkova

Jarkova remained as the Russian skip until 2005 when she was the team's alternate at the 2005 World Women's Curling Championship.

Ralph Stöckli

In 1996, he was the Swiss skip and they won a silver medal, losing to James Dryburgh of Scotland.

Reubin Askew

Mike Thompson, who managed the 1970 Republican gubernatorial primary campaign waged by state Representative L. A. "Skip" Bafalis, sat out the general election between Kirk and Askew.

Richard Arthur Hayward

Richard Arthur Hayward, (born November 28, 1947 in New London, Connecticut) also known as Skip Hayward, was the tribal chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe for 23 years, from 1975, when the first election was held, until November 1, 1998.

Serge Reid

After the 2010-11 curling season ended, Reid's team announced in a tweet that Pierre Charette would be joining their rink as skip and would throw lead stones.

Skip Away

After Skip Away was soundly defeated as a four-year-old by Formal Gold in the Philip H. Iselin Breeders' Cup Handicap at Monmouth Park and in the Woodward Stakes at Belmont Park, he was given a new rider, Jerry Bailey, who replaced Shane Sellers.

Skip bombing

The first time skip bombing was used in action by U.S. pilots was at the base of Rabaul on New Britain.

Skip counting

Skip counting is a mathematics technique taught as a kind of multiplication in reform mathematics textbooks such as TERC.

Skip Engblom

Skip Engblom (born January 4, 1948) is one of the co-founders of the Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions Surf Shop in Santa Monica, California.

Skip Krake

Phillip Gordon "Skip" Krake (born October 14, 1943 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) is a former professional ice hockey centre.

Skip Lievsay

Skip Lievsay is a New York-based supervising sound editor, re-recording mixer and sound designer for film and television, Lievsay has worked with filmmakers and directors including the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman.

Skip list

Such parallelism can be especially advantageous for resource discovery in an ad-hoc Wireless network because a randomized skip list can be made robust to the loss of any single node.

Skip the Use

Skip the Use is a French band with electro funk, rock and punk influences founded in 2008 with musicians from Ronchin, near Lille and made up of Mat Bastard (vocals), Yan Stefani (guitar), Jay Gimenez (bass), Lio Raepsaet (keyboards) and Manamax Catteloin (drums).

Stian Dyngeland

Despite receiving praise from judge Kurt Nilsen, Dyngeland did not progress from the audition, but he stated that it might have been the best for his footballing career, given that he had to skip a training session to attend the audition.

Tecmo Super Baseball

The player selects the status of all 28 teams (play, coach, watch, or skip) and goes through a complete season (the schedule is based on the 1994 season), ending with the playoffs and finally the World Championship Series.

The Boogie Kings

The band formulated in Eunice, Louisiana in 1955 as teenagers first consisting members Doug Ardoin, Skip Morris, Bert Miller, Byron Launey, Norris Badeaux, Bryan Leger, Murphy Buford and Harris Miller.

The Yorkshire Musical Saw Player

As well as taking part in the "BBC music live" festival he has also played in a skip outside Belfast City Hall for a "Catalyst Arts" Festival, in a folk festival at Broadstairs and as part of the International Gilbert and Sullivan festival in Buxton.

Twennynine

The group featured jazz fusion drummer Lenny White with Carla Vaughn (vocals), Joycelyn Smith (vocals), Skip Anderson (keyboards), Barry Johnson (bass), and Eddie Martinez (guitar).

Wee Wee Monsieur

When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up accidentally joining the French Foreign Legion that they confuse with the American Legion.

Zou Dejia

His first WCT tour event win as a skip came at the 2012 Horizon Laser Vision Center Classic where he beat Brent Gedak in the final.


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