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This is a list of events held and scheduled by Strikeforce, a mixed martial arts organization based in the United States. The first event, Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Gracie, took place on March 10, 2006.
The rally began peacefully under a light rain on the evening of May 4. August Spies, Albert Parsons, and the Rev. Samuel Fielden spoke to a crowd estimated variously at between 600 and 3,000 [22] while standing in an open wagon adjacent to the square on Des Plaines Street. [23] A large number of on-duty police officers watched from nearby. [23]
On December 6, 1948, Lucky Strike introduced yet another musical series, the daytime Your Lucky Strike, aka The Don Ameche Show, since the host was Don Ameche. This 30-minute show, airing weekdays at 3:30 pm on CBS, was a talent competition with little-known and unknown professional vocalists, backed by Al De Crescent on organ or Bill Wardell ...
Spend your Thanksgiving Day in the great outdoors. Fifteen Kentucky State Resort Parks offer a Thanksgiving Day meal for $25.99 for adults and $12.99 for children ages 6-12. Many of the parks are ...
A ten-pin bowling score sheet showing how a spare is scored. A spare is a term used in bowling to indicate that all of the pins have been knocked down during the second ball of a frame when not all the pins were knocked down in the first frame of that player's two turns.
Organized by the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), the strike peaked with the death of two workers on "Bloody Thursday" and the subsequent San Francisco General Strike, which stopped all work in the major port city for four days and led ultimately to the settlement of the West Coast Longshoremen's Strike.
The largest general strike that ever stopped the economy of an advanced industrial country—and the first general wildcat strike in history—was May 1968 in France. [105] The prolonged strike involved eleven million workers for two weeks in a row, [105] and its impact was such that it almost caused the collapse of the de Gaulle government ...
Police strike/coup partly in relation to planned benefit reductions. [19] After a state of emergency and the near assassination of the president, the government steps away from planned cuts to police and military benefits. [20] Police and military pay is then also increased. [20] Bahia, Brazil (2012) [21] 2013 police revolts in Argentina.