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Dogger, who was born in Amsterdam, was a highly ranked junior, the national champion in multiple age levels growing up. [1] He often outperformed close friend Richard Krajicek, who went on to win Wimbledon. [2] Most notably, Dogger beat Brice Karsh to win the Under 16s title at the Orange Bowl in 1987. [3]
Dogger may refer to: Dogger Bank, a large shallow area in the North Sea between Britain and Denmark; Dogger Bank incident, the Russian attack on British fishermen in 1904 at the Dogger Bank area in the North Sea. Dogger (boat), a type of ketch rigged fishing boat working the Dogger Bank in the seventeenth century; Dogger, a book by Shirley Hughes
Dogger Bank (Dutch: Doggersbank, German: Doggerbank, Danish: Doggerbanke) is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about 100 kilometres (55 nautical ...
Map of Doggerland at its near maximum extent c. 10,000 years Before Present (~8,000 BCE) (top left) and its subsequent disintegration by 7,000 BP (~5,000 BCE). Doggerland was a large area of land in Northern Europe, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea.
Dog – the species (or subspecies) as a whole, also any male member of the same. [287] Bitch – any female member of the species (or subspecies). [288] Puppy or pup – a young member of the species (or subspecies) under 12 months old. [289] Sire – the male parent of a litter. [289] Dam – the female parent of a litter. [289]
The word nigger was often used as a dog's name during the early part of the 20th century. A black explosive sniffer dog named Nigger served with a Royal Engineers mine clearance unit in 1944 during the Normandy Campaign. [5] The black dog leading a sled dog team on the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic (1910–1913) was also named Nigger. [6]
The song also contains references to Biscay, Dogger, Thames ("Hit traffic on the Dogger bank / Up the Thames to find a taxi rank") and Malin Head, one of the coastal stations. Blur's early tour film, Starshaped , also uses extracts from the Shipping Forecast during the opening and closing credits.
The dogger (Dutch pronunciation:) was a group of similar fishing boats, described as early as the fourteenth century, that commonly operated in the North Sea. Early examples were single-masted and were largely used for fishing for cod by rod and line. By the seventeenth century, two-masted doggers were common and were using trawl nets. Doggers ...