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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.

5S ribosomal RNA

Eukaryotic 5S rRNA is synthesised by RNA polymerase III, whereas most other eukaroytic rRNAs are cleaved from a 45S precursor transcribed by RNA polymerase I.

ACCT

Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique, the precursor to what is now the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

Allanridge

Allanridge established as a settlement in 1947 and was named after Allan Roberts whose borehole's proximity to the gold bearing reef was the precursor to the mining in the area.

Apolipoprotein A1

Apolipoprotein A-I binding precursor, a relative of APOA-1 abbreviated APOA1BP, has a predicted biochemical interaction with Carbohydrate Kinase Domain Containing Protein.

Boom Bang-a-Bang

The song was the second consecutive entry with a nonsense title to win the contest (after Massiel's triumph in 1968 with "La La La"), and became infamous in the comedy world - most notably inspiring Monty Python's Flying Circus to parody it with "Bing Tiddle-Tiddle Bong" (Python precursor I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again had previously had Bill Oddie do something similar with a song for which the title was rendered entirely in sound effects).

Carnival Records

In 1961, Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert, set up a short-lived label, the precursor of their A&M Records.

Chinese swords

The weapon, also known as dan dao (single knife) when just one is used, is thereby thought to be an adaptation of the kitchen knives common to Chinese cuisine.

Dayi Daoxin

The teachings of Daoxin (and his successor, Hongren) are known as the East Mountain Teachings, a precursor to the flowering of Chan on a national scale some seventy-five years later at the beginning of the eighth century.

Events preceding World War II in Europe

It would prove to be a precursor to many of the tactics and methods employed in the Second World War, such as the test bombing of Guernica, which aimed to see how effective bombing of civilian areas could be.

Febrile neutrophilic dermatosis

Sweet, working in Plymouth in 1964, described a disease with four features: fever; leukocytosis; acute, tender, red plaques; and a papillary dermal infiltrate of neutrophils.

Florists' Transworld Delivery

On December 19, 1994, a precursor to the FTD Corporation, a private, for-profit company Perry Capital, acquired FTD, which then divided FTD into two organizations: FTD Incorporated, a for profit corporation, and FTD Association, a non-profit trade association.

Fuke

Fuke, known as Puhua in Chinese, the legendary precursor to the eponymous Fuke Zen school of Buddhism in Japan

Global Leadership Adventures

Global Leadership Adventures was founded by Fred Swaniker as a precursor to the African Leadership Academy, based in Johannesburg, South Africa but became a separate entity in 2004.

Graphsim Entertainment

When Parsoft went on to write A-10 Attack!, Graphsim used an un-finished F/A-18 precursor to develop F/A-18 Hornet.

Hazel MacDonald

She graduated from Northwestern University in 1913, and wrote for Photoplay magazine, which is considered the precursor to modern celebrity magazines, from 1916 to 1918.

Henryk Jordan

In addition, Jordan presided over the Kraków Gynecological Society, as well as the Society of Medical Doctors, and the Association of Polish Teachers of Higher Education (a precursor to Polish Teachers' Union).

Hypusine

Deoxyhypusine synthase catalyzes the cleavage of the polyamine spermidine and transfer of its 4-aminobutyl moiety to the ε-amino group of one specific lysine residue of the eIF-5A precursor to form deoxyhypusine and 1,3-diaminopropane.

Impressions chronology

Fred Cash (a returning original member of the Impressions precursor group, The Roosters)

Iran–United Kingdom relations

On 19 June 2009, the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khamenei described the British Government as the "most evil" of those in the Western nations, accusing the British government of sending spies into Iran to stir emotions at the time of the elections, although it has been suggested by British diplomats that the statement was using the UK as a "proxy" for the United States, in order to prevent damaging US–Iranian relations.

Isabel Lestapier Winqvist

She was crowned on 21 April 2007 by her precursor, Josephine Alhanko, who was semi-finalist at the Miss Universe 2006 pageant, held in Hollywood.

Ivan Betskoy

The Saint Petersburg Foundling House was a precursor of the modern Herzen University.

Juazeiro

Juazeiro is the birthplace of Brazil and Barcelona footballer Dani Alves, as well as the precursor of the bossa nova movement, guitarist/songwriter João Gilberto.

Leisurama house

The precursor to the final design was shown at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, which provoked the noted Kitchen Debate between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Major Bowes Amateur Hour

Ted Mack, who had supervised the auditions for Bowes, became the interim host of the radio show and a few months later moved it to the fledgling medium of television.

Margaret Heffernan

Examining examples of willful blindness in the Catholic Church, the SEC, Nazi Germany, Bernard Madoff’s investors, BP’s safety record, the military in Afghanistan and the dog-eat-dog world of subprime mortgage lenders, the book demonstrates how failing to see—or admit to ourselves or our colleagues—the issues and problems in plain sight can ruin private lives and bring down corporations.

Marian Lines

Tam Lin Choral folk fantasy based on the Scottish folk tale and a precursor of the "fables"; Blacksmith and the Changeling and Burd Ellen.

Memoirs v. Massachusetts

The book in question in this case was Fanny Hill (or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1749) by John Cleland and the Court held in Memoirs v. Massachusetts that, while it might fit the first two criteria (it appealed to prurient interest and was patently offensive), it could not be proven that Fanny Hill had no redeeming social value.

Metalorganics

The vapour pressure of a metalorganic precursor is a crucial parameter that governs the concentrations of metalorganic precursors entering the reactor, and subsequently the rate of deposition in MOVPE process.

Monolingual learner's dictionary

Others, like Wordnik or Wiktionary, don't have that explicit focus, yet provide useful resources to learners due to their collaborative nature, which tends to produce definitions and sample sentences that are more diverse, and written in popular terms.

Navi Mumbai Holi riots

The feuding parties were Ghansoli Agri & Koli locals and mathadi settlers, with pre-existing "native vs. immigrant" political bad blood between the two communities serving as a tinderbox.

Noli Locsin

Locsin's arrival served as a precursor for the acquisitions of Marlou Aquino and Wilmer Ong (via draft), Benny Cheng and Vince Hizon (via trade), and Bal David (free agency) to form the formidable Ginebra ragtag/glamour group of the 90s.

Organogels

Typically, gels are synthesized via sol-gel processing, a wet-chemical technique involving a colloidal solution (sol) that acts as the precursor for an integrated network (gel).

Patrick Dewaere

In 1968, he joined Café de la Gare, the troupe of performers which also included such future stars as Gérard Depardieu and Miou-Miou.

Piet Cronjé

He was in command of the force that rounded up Jameson at Doornkop at the conclusion of the Jameson Raid on 2 January 1896, which is traditionally seen as a precursor to the Second Boer War.

Pignon sur rue

This precursor of the genre is often cited by Québécois intellectuals as an early form of a more intelligent and respectable form of reality TV, before the Loft Story and Occupation Double era.

POMCUS

Originally, POMCUS sites were primarily simply guarded, fenced-in lots of pre-loaded, maintained vehicles and weapons systems ready to roll, although the precursor to POMCUS sites was a series of underground storage areas liberated from the Germans in Pirmasens and the outlying areas Husterhoeh Kaserne utilized to store combat-readied armor.

Ralph Nelson

He was the father of Project Xanadu (precursor and main inspiration of the World Wide Web's HTML format and HTTP protocol) inventor Ted Nelson (by his first wife, actress Celeste Holm), and, by his other marriage(s): Ralph, Peter, and Meredith Nelson.

Ray Osrin

In 1950 Osrin worked as an inker on It Rhymes with Lust, a newsstand publication that was a precursor of the graphic novel.

Rental management software

There are also specialized forms of rental which are either a precursor to a sale of a large piece of equipment, or a special business model normally referred to as Rent-to-own.

Sally Schneider

Schneider’s mother knew Dione Lucas, Julia Child's precursor, and was strongly influenced by her classic French technique which she passed on to her daughter.

Sanctuary Medicines

Released in 1999 by Chrysalis Records, Sanctuary Medicines is the debut album of Scottish industrial rock artist Rico and the precursor to his independently-released Violent Silences album.

Scillitan Martyrs

The Acta of the Scillitan Martyrs are considered to be the earliest documents of the church of Africa and also the earliest specimen of Christian Latin.

Shayne McCosh

He played with Sheffield for two seasons, during which time he helped them to win the Challenge Cup in 1999–00 and a Grand Slam of all available trophies in 2000–01.

The Devil at 4 O'Clock

Based on a 1959 novel with the same title by British writer Max Catto, the film was a precursor to the disaster films of the 1970s, such as The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, and The Towering Inferno.

The Great Radio Controversy

Many tracks on this album later received acoustic versions on their follow-up album, Five Man Acoustical Jam, a precursor of the Unplugged trend.

The Higgins Boys and Gruber

The Higgins Boys and Gruber was an American cable television show that aired on weekday afternoons on The Comedy Channel, the precursor to the cable network Comedy Central, from 1989 to 1991.

The Illustrated Australian News

Its precursor Illustrated Australian News for Home Readers was first published in 1837 by Ebenezer Syme and David Syme.

You're the Apple of My Eye

"You're the Apple of My Eye" is a song written by Otis Blackwell and initially recorded and released as a single in 1956 by The Four Lovers, the precursor to The Four Seasons.


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