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Holiday Baking Championship


The Holiday Baking Championship is an American cooking competition series produced by Triage Entertainment and aired on Food Network. It airs from early November through late December, covering the U.S Thanksgiving and Christmas season. The first episode premiered on November 9, 2014, and it's become a yearly competition with several spin-off shows, including "Spring Baking Championship", "Halloween Baking Championship", "Kids Baking Championship" and "Wedding Cake Championship". Each episode has two rounds. The first round is the "Preliminary Heat
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List of Holiday Baking Championship episodes


is sent home every week until the final three remain. However unlike previous seasons, the prize money has been halved this year; the winner gets $25,000 as well as a spot in Food Network Magazine and their own video on foodnetwork.com. Four bakers, and self-professed holiday fanatics, compete in a special summer episode of the holiday baking championship where the winner got $10,000. The host was Jesse Palmer and the judges were the same as always: Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman, Lorraine Pascale. Contestants TyNesha Hills
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Holiday Baking Championship


" where the bakers must create small pastries centered around a holiday theme; usually cookies or small cakes. The themes could be as broad as Hanukkah or New Years to something specific like creating a Christmas cookie tree or baking desserts inspired by a Christmas song. The person who wins the pre-heat gets an advantage going into the next round and aren't told about it until the second round theme is announced. The advantage usually varies. (Ex: Getting to swap ingredients/flavors or getting ten minutes of help from
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Spring Baking Championship


Spring Baking Championship is an American cooking competition television series that airs on Food Network. It was originally presented by chef Bobby Deen; with fellow Food Network chefs Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale serving as judges. All four chefs also appeared in the same roles on "Holiday Baking Championship"; and similar to that competition, the grand prize for the winner of this competition is also $50,000. The first season of "Spring Baking Championship" premiered on April 25, 2015. The second season of the series
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List of Holiday Baking Championship episodes


This is a list of episodes for "The Holiday Baking Championship". There are 8 professional and home bakers competing in a 6-episode baking tournament. One person is eliminated every week until the final episode where the final three compete in a single, all-day round for the grand prize of $50,000. 1st - Erin Campbell, Baker and Manager from Palmdale, California 2nd/3rd - Bill Lipscomb, Culinary Instructor from Atlanta, Georgia 2nd/3rd - Naylet Larochelle, Home Baker & Psychologist from Miami, Florida 4th - Terra Nelson,
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List of Holiday Baking Championship episodes


Social Worker & Home Cook from Dallas, TX 8th - Susan Steffan, Bed & Breakfast Owner from Galena, IL 9th - John Marasco , Fire fighter in Thousand Oaks, CA 10th - Joe Settepani, Pastry Sous Chef from Staten Island, NY There are 9 contestants competing in a 7-episode baking tournament. One person is eliminated every week until the final episode where the final three compete for the grand prize of $50,000. At the end of this season, there's a "Holiday Baking Championship" special episode where the
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Halloween Baking Championship


Halloween Baking Championship is an American cooking competition show that premiered on Food Network on October 5, 2015. Like its sister show, Holiday Baking Championship, it's a seasonal program that runs for a few weeks (in this case, the month of October) and aims to crown the best baker of spooky, creepy desserts. Each episode has two rounds. The first round is the "Preliminary Heat" where the bakers are first told of their themes and get varying cook times (anywhere from 30 minutes up to 2
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Holiday Baking Championship


seasons were hosted by Bobby Deen. In Season Four, Jesse Palmer took over the hosting duties. Cake Baker Duff Goldman (famously known for his popular former Food Network show "Ace of Cakes"), Pastry Chef Nancy Fuller (host of current Food Network show "Farmhouse Rules"), and Lorraine Pascale (a former UK model turned chef) serve as permanent judges of the show. The winners of all six seasons of the series compete in "Holiday Baking Championship: Homecoming Special," Mon., Dec.
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List of Spring Baking Championship episodes


This is a list of episodes for "Spring Baking Championship". There are 8 professional and home bakers competing in a 6-episode baking tournament. One person is eliminated every week until the last episode where the final three compete for the grand prize of $50,000. Eight professional and home bakers come to compete in a six-episode baking tournament. This season is the last season with Bobby Deen as host. This season also began the mid-round twists in main heat challenges that are a staple of other baking championships competitions
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Lorraine Pascale


one episode on BBC Two. Lorraine is also a judge on Food Network's "Holiday Baking Championship" and "Spring Baking Championship" as well as a mentor on "Worst Bakers in America". She was a judge in a few episodes of the first season of "Bakers Vs Fakers", and became the hostess for Season 2. Pascale is the patron of TACT, the UK's largest fostering and adoption charity, and an ambassador of both the charities Rays of Sunshine and The Prince's Trust. In summer
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David Bakes Baker


David "Bakes" Baker (born October 17, 1986) is an American professional poker player who has won a World Series of Poker bracelet and appeared at four World Series of Poker final tables. He also has a Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) championship. Baker currently has over US$2 million in tournament winnings. In order to avoid confusion with David "ODB" Baker, he is listed in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) database by the name "David Bakes Baker" and listed at "
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Nancy Fuller


Nancy Fuller (also known as Nancy Fuller Ginsberg or Nancy Ginsberg; born March 27, 1949) is an American chef and businesswoman from Claverack, New York. She is the co-owner of Ginsberg's Foods, and the host of the Food Network television series "Farmhouse Rules." She also serves as a judge on the Food Network cooking competition series "Clash of the Grandmas", "Holiday Baking Championship" and "Spring Baking Championship". Fuller lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with her husband
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Bake Off SBT


Bake Off SBT is a Brazilian holiday–themed celebrity reality television competition spin-off from the main series "Bake Off Brasil". The series premiered on Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 9:30 p.m. (BRT / AMT) on SBT, aiming to find the best amateur celebrity baker from SBT. TV host Isabella Fiorentino won the competition with Nadja Haddad as the runner-up and Lívia Andrade finishing in third place. TV host Patricia Abravanel won the competition with Carla Fioroni as the runner-up and João Fernandes finishing
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Bobby Deen


"Road Tasted with the Neelys" featuring Food Network hosts Pat Neely and Gina Neely. In January 2012, he debuted his own cooking show, "Not My Mama's Meals", on the Cooking Channel, in which he tweaks his mother's recipes to recreate them in a healthier manner. Deen also served as the host of the Food Network cooking competition series "Holiday Baking Championship" and "Spring Baking Championship". He is also co-host of the Cooking Channel series "Junk Food Flip". Deen
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Halloween Baking Championship


. Unlike its sister show, Holiday Baking Championship, the panel of judges has changed each of the first three seasons (with the exception of Carla Hall). In each episode, the judges come out dressed in costume for the Main Heat, to keep with the spirit of Halloween. The first season was hosted by Richard Blais with chefs Carla Hall, Ron Ben-Israel and Sherry Yard serving as judges. The second season saw Carla Hall as the only returning chef/judge. She was joined by Food Network personality
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Alice Medrich


Best Food Photography awards from the James Beard Foundation, and the Julia Child Award: Best First Cookbook and the Best Book: Bread, Other Baking and Sweets award from IACP; it was also named one of the best thirteen baking books by the Beard Foundation in 2010. "Chocolate and the Art" won the Cookbook of the Year Award from the James Beard Foundation, and was named one of the best books of the last fifteen years by Epicurious.com in 2010. "Bittersweet" won the Cookbook of the Year and Best
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Alan Geisler


at one time, he won the Club Championship in all four flights, and throughout his career eagled all 18 holes. He played the bagpipes with the Fairleigh Dickinson University Pipe Band and the Kearny Caledonian Pipe Band for several years, even performing in the St. Patrick Day Parade in NYC. Geisler founded a company that manufactured shortenings, emulsifiers and other ingredients for the baking and baked goods industry in 1960. One of his customers was Gregory Papalexis, who manufactured both hot dogs and hot dog buns. Papalexis's customers included hot
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The Great American Baking Show


Samson in the finale. Season 2 returned the following year as "The Great American Baking Show" with ten bakers and an eight-week competition. The season was won by Amanda Faber, with Stephanie Chen as the runner-up. The third season began airing December 7, 2017 with a two-hour premiere. It is the first season hosted by Curry and Adams and for judge Hollywood who last appeared on the 2013 CBS version of the show. This season, baker Antoinette Love, withdrew following a family death
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The Great American Baking Show


On May 4, 2018, the show was renewed for a fourth season. On August 1, 2019, the show was renewed for a fifth season which will premiere in December 2019. Season 1 aired under the title "The Great Holiday Baking Show" and marked a return of the "GBBO" format to American television after the cancellation of CBS' 2013 series "The American Baking Competition." Six bakers participated in the first ABC season. The season was won by Lauren Katz, beating out Nicole Silva and Tim
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List of Holiday Baking Championship episodes


, Bakery Owner from Anoka, Minnesota 9th - Keli Fayard, Executive Pastry Chef from Charlotte, North Carolina As with the previous season, 9 contestants compete in a 7-episode baking tournament. One person is eliminated every week until the final episode where the final three compete for the $50,000 grand prize. There was an additional special episode that aired on Christmas Day bringing up runner up contestants from previous seasons for a one-episode showdown. As with the previous season, 9 contestants compete in a 7-episode baking tournament where one contestant
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The Great American Baking Show (season 1)


The first season of "The Great American Baking Show", released under the title The Great Holiday Baking Show, premiered on ABC on November 30, 2015 as part of ABC's holiday programming schedule. Six amateur bakers competed in twelve challenges throughout the competition for the title of America's best holiday baker. This season was hosted by husband and wife duo Nia Vardalos and Ian Gomez. The judging panel consisted of original "The Great British Bake Off" judge Mary Berry and American pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini. As with the
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List of Holiday Baking Championship episodes


three past season winners compete against three child bakers from the Kids Baking Championship. 1st - Jason Smith, Cafeteria Manager from Grayson, Kentucky 2nd - Cheryl Storms, Bakery Owner from Oakland, California 3rd - Shawne Bryan, Executive Pastry Chef from Miami, Florida 4th - Matt Moratto, Executive Pastry Chef from Gutenberg, New Jersey 5th - Amber Croom, Pastry Chef from Vail, Colorado 6th - Vincenzo Vaccaro, Bakery Owner from Queens, New York 7th - Patti Curfman, Bakery Owner from Stayton, Oregon 8th - Maddie Carlos
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The Great British Bake Off (series 9)


This required cleaning up from the production team. As a result, he was given an extra 15 minutes for the challenge. The two holiday specials will each feature four returning contestants from the series 5–8. The Great Christmas Bake Off featured Liam Charles (Series 8), Flo Atkins (Series 8), Andrew Smyth (Series 7) and Jane Beedle (Series 7). The special was won by Jane Beedle. The Great Festive Bake Off featured the return of winner Candice Brown (Series 7), Steven Carter-Bailey
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The Great American Baking Show (season 2)


the week, bakers created another three-dimensional holiday centerpiece for the showstopper bake, this time with different and unique collections of breads. With the judges failing to reach a consensus as to who would go that week, no one was eliminated. The night before the signature bake, Michael withdrew from the competition due to illness. With six bakers left in the competition, pies and tarts week began with a meringue pie baked and torched under a two hour frame. The technical bake challenged bakers to create a free form,
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Hein Vergeer


his fame as a stepping stone to a career in marketing and communication. Vergeer currently is an advisor of several ventures and he organises events. Both in 2006 and 2007, Vergeer participated in the Holiday on Ice show called "Fantasy". An overview of medals won by Vergeer at important championships he participated in, listing the years in which he won each: To put these personal records in perspective, the last column ("Notes") lists the official world records on the dates that Vergeer skated his personal records.
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Ishtar Gate


Gate is only one small part of the design of ancient Babylon that also included the palace, temples, an inner fortress, walls, gardens, other gates and the Processional Way. The lavish city was decorated with over 15 million baked bricks, according to estimates. Once per year, the Ishtar Gate and connecting Processional Way were used for a New Year’s procession, which was part of a religious festival celebrating the beginning of the agricultural year. In Babylon, the rituals surrounding this holiday lasted twelve days. The New
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Holiday Baking Championship


a special guest baker). The second round is the "Main Heat" where the contestants get more time than the first round to create a larger confection (in size or quantity) that sticks to the holiday theme of the episode. Partway through the main heat, there's often a curveball thrown in that has the bakers adapt or change their plans. (Ex: In "Signs of the Season", they were told to make cookies in addition to their festive bundt cakes.) The show's first three
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Latke–Hamantash Debate


Lederman, and essayist Allan Bloom. A compendium of the debate, which has never been won, was published in 2005. A latke is a kind of potato pancake traditionally eaten during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Fried in oil, latkes commemorate the holiday miracle in which one day’s worth of oil illuminated the temple for eight days. Hamantashen are triangular baked wheat-flour pastries with a sweet filling which are traditionally eaten on the holiday of Purim. They represent the ears or the 3-cornered hat of Haman, the villain
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Mikhail Galustyan


the team, "Baked by the sun". In 2003, the team won that season's championship. During this time, Galustyan also met his future wife, Victoria. And in 2004, "Burnt by the sun" won the KVN Summer cup and repeated this success in both 2005 and 2009. In 2011, Mikhail became a student of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University. Galustyan was a torchbearer for the 2014 Winter Olympics in his hometown of Sochi. He participated on the last day of the torch relay from
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Sherry Yard


as a judge on several cooking shows, including the Food Network series "Halloween Baking Championship, Cake Wars Christmas", "Christmas Cookie Challenge", Cooking Channel television series "Sugar Showdown" and more recently on ABC's The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition. She has been a guest judge on ", Food Network Star, Duff Till Dawn, Iron Chef America" and "Cutthroat Kitchen." She has also competed in the Food Network show, "Cutthroat Kitchen Superstar Sabotage". Yard stands at 5
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The Great American Baking Show (season 1)


around one of the verses from the traditional Christmas carol. In the quarterfinals, the bakers created two batches of breakfast pastries with any holiday flavor of their choosing. The technical tested the skills of the remaining bakers in Mary Berry's Christmas fruit tart. For the final pastry bake, the bakers created a centerpiece made from cream puffs and pastry pieces for a spot in the final three. The final three begun with the signature bake, a holiday pie, to be baked under two-and-a-half hours.
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List of Holiday Baking Championship episodes


Culinary Instructor from Louisville, Kentucky 5th - David Bondarchuck, Caterer from Denver, Colorado 6th - Dante Marasco, U.S. Navy Cook from Annapolis, Maryland 7th - Punky Egan, Certified Master Baker from Madison, Wisconsin 8th - Stephanie Hart, Bakery Owner from Chicago, Illinois There are 10 contestants competing in an 8-episode baking tournament. In this season there's mid-round twists in several of the second rounds (in the form of an extra ingredient the contestants had to add to their confection). One person is eliminated every
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Sonya Thomas


and 2005 Nathan's contests were Bill "El Wingador" Simmons in the controversial 2005 Wing Bowl, and Dale Boone, who cooled overheated baked beans in order to win an eating contest. On July 4, 2011, Thomas became the first champion of Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest for Women. Eating 40 hot dogs in 10 minutes, Thomas earned the inaugural Pink Belt and won $10,000. Thomas had won 1st place in the National Buffalo Wing Festival US chicken wing eating championship five-years straight from 2007-2011
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Mike Bordin


Trujillo (now of Metallica) attended in the audience. Mike Bordin was married in 1994 to Merilee Ann Bordin (née Hague), after dating for ten years (since 1984). She is a classically trained chef and food stylist who studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Some of her food styling work has appeared in Rick Bayless' "Mexican Everyday" cookbook published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2005, Sara Perry's "Holiday Baking: New and Traditional Recipes for Wintertime Holidays" cookbook published by
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Challah


instead of salt through the Sukkot holiday. For the "Shabbat Mevarchim" preceding Rosh Chodesh Iyar—i.e., first "Shabbat" after the end of the Jewish holiday of Passover—there is a custom of baking "shlissel challah" ("key challah") as a "segula" (propitious sign) for "parnassa" (livelihood). Some make an impression of a key on top of the challah before baking, some place a key-shaped piece of dough on top of the challah before baking
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Christmas dinner


butter tarts, and shortbread, which are traditionally baked before the holidays and served to visiting friends at Christmas and New Year parties, as well as on Christmas Day. In French-speaking Canada, traditions may be more like those of France. (See Réveillon) Other ethnic communities may continue to use old world traditions as well. In Honduras, tamales are traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve evening. Turkey has become popular in the last few years. The traditional Honduran Christmas dinner is served around midnight on the 24th of December
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Geneseo, Illinois


businesses offer in-store hospitality and feature live window displays depicting holiday traditions from different decades. The Maple Leafs have won 4 state championships in football, with 6 second-place state finishes, 54-consecutive winning seasons, and 40 playoff appearances over the last 43 years—an Illinois state record. The Geneseo High School Music Department has been very successful, too, with 6 State Championships in music. Downtown Geneseo will be a stop on the Chicago to Des Moines Amtrak expansion. Geneseo contains 13 active churches of different denominations throughout
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The Great American Baking Show


, returned to the competition. The season was withdrawn from ABC's schedule on December 13, 2017 following allegations of sexual misconduct by Iuzzini. ABC announced that it would not air the remaining episodes. On December 21, 2017, the day the season finale would have been broadcast, ABC announced that Vallery Lomas won the competition with Cindy Maliniak and Molly Brodak finishing as runners-up. The fourth season premiered December 6, 2018, under the title "The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition". Adams returned for
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1985 Speedway World Pairs Championship


The 1985 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the sixteenth FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place in Rybnik, Poland. The championship was won by Denmark (29 points) who they beat England (27 pts) and United States (22 pts). The 1985 World Pairs Final was the last World Championship Final appearance of legendary New Zealand rider Ivan Mauger. In a career lasting almost 30 years, Mauger had won 15 World Championships, including a record 6 Individual World Championships, 4 World Team Cups, 3 Long
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National Cherry Festival


held in mid- to late July to coincide with the cherry harvest, the Festival was moved to early July to take advantage of the July 4th holiday. On July 25, 1987, Cherry Festival participants earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for baking the world's largest cherry pie. The pie was in diameter, weighing 28,350 pounds. This replaced the pie baked nine years earlier in Charlevoix, Michigan. This record was held until July 14, 1990, when a pie weighing , in diameter was baked and
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Andrew M. Smyth


and interviewed by the Geekly Chronicles. Heidi Stephens wrote in The Guardian that Smyth should win the competition as he was a "baking assassin" who brought a "bonus ray of sunshine to the Bake Off tent". Whilst the competition was won by Candice Brown, he appeared in the highlights video. One year after he appeared on the show he toured the UK to meet the other competitors one-year on. Since "The Great British Bake Off", Smyth has become a broadcaster and social media chef. He
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1960 NAIA football season


The 1960 NAIA football season, as part of the 1960 college football season in the United States, was the fifth season of college football sponsored by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. The season was played from August to December 1960, culminating in the fifth annual NAIA Football National Championship, played this year for the last time at Stewart Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. During its four years in St. Petersburg, the game was called the Holiday Bowl. Lenoir–Rhyne, who lost the 1959 championship game, defeated Humboldt
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V. R. Naren Kumar


a 4-year gap he entered the 2010 INRC championship in its second season and winning his last title. He announced his retirement from Rallying in 2011. In India, he won four championships for Team MRF, including an Asia Zone Championship in Honda Civic then switched to Team JK, who themselves reappeared into the rallying scene after a seven-year gap, just to sponsor Naren and won another two championships. Yet Naren won the 2005 crown for JK in a rally tyre pulled out of their old stock. He won the National
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The Great American Baking Show (season 4)


The fourth season of "The Great American Baking Show", titled The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition, premiered December 6, 2018 on the ABC network as part of the year's 25 Days of Christmas lineup. This is the first season hosted by Spice Girls member Emma Bunton. Returning for their second seasons are Anthony "Spice" Adams and Paul Hollywood. Joining the judging panel is three-time James Beard Award recipient and pastry chef Sherry Yard. This is the first season without original judge Johnny Iuzzini.
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Auburn University


their fifth consecutive national title in 2007, and the women also won the national title, in their case for the second straight year. The Auburn women have now won five national championships in the last six years. , the Auburn men have won the SEC Championship fifteen out of the last sixteen years, including the last thirteen in a row, and also won eight NCAA national championships (1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009). AU swimmers have represented the U.S. and several other
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1957 PGA Championship


The 1957 PGA Championship was the 39th PGA Championship, held July 17–21 at Miami Valley Golf Club in Dayton, Ohio. In the last PGA Championship played under the match play format, Lionel Hebert won 2 & 1 over Dow Finsterwald, who won the following year, the first as a 72-hole stroke play event. Defending champion Jack Burke, Jr. lost in the second round to Milon Marusic, 2 & 1. At the time, it was not yet known that this was the last at match play, the decision to
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The Great British Bake Off


series of "The Great British Bake Off" began on 14 August 2012. The series was filmed at Harptree Court in East Harptree, Somerset. The finalists were Brendan Lynch, James Morton and John Whaite, the last of whom won the final in a surprise result. In the U.S., the third series was broadcast as season 5 on PBS, and on Netflix as "The Great British Baking Show: The Beginnings". The fourth series of "The Great British Bake Off" started on 20 August 2013 on BBC
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Grandma Moses


included samples of her baked goods and preserves that won Moses prizes at the county fair. Her third solo show in as many months, was held at the Whyte Gallery, Washington, D.C. In 1944, she was represented by the American British Art Center and the Galerie St. Etienne, which increased her sales. Her paintings were exhibited throughout Europe and the United States over the next 20 years. Otto Kallir established the Grandma Moses Properties, Inc. for her. The paintings of Grandma Moses were used to publicize American holidays, including
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History of Ohio State Buckeyes football


victory over the Buckeyes in 22 games). The Buckeyes continued to struggle on defense, losing a third time, at Minnesota. Victories over Michigan to gain a share of the Big Ten championship and over Navy in the Liberty Bowl salvaged the season. For the first time since 1922 the Buckeyes lost three in a row in Ohio Stadium in 1982, including rematches with Stanford and Florida State, and for the second year in a row to Wisconsin, but then won seven straight, the last over BYU in the Holiday Bowl
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Ohio State Buckeyes football


on defense, losing a third time, at Minnesota. Victories over Michigan to gain a share of the Big Ten championship and over Navy in the Liberty Bowl salvaged the season. For the first time since 1922 the Buckeyes lost three in a row in Ohio Stadium in 1982, including rematches with Stanford and Florida State, and for the second year in a row to Wisconsin, but then won seven straight, the last over BYU in the Holiday Bowl. Sophomore running back Keith Byars had a stand-out season in 1983
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2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season


only managed to record five podiums finishes. Honda won the constructors championship with 390 points and 14 wins, followed by Yamaha who won the other two races. Repsol Honda team won the teams championship by winning 12 races and scoring 564 points from Rossi and Ukawa. Marlboro Yamaha and Honda Pons who won two races each was second and third respectively. The 250cc class was certain to have a new champion as previous year's champion Daijiro Kato and 1993 champion Tetsuya Harada, who finished second to Kato last year, both moved up
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Sidecarcross World Championship


mostly amateurs who also compete in their countries' domestic championships. One world champion, Willemsen, also won the Dutch national championship the same year. Most national championships are actually "open" events, in which non-nationals are permitted to compete. Sergis and Rasmanis, for example, also won the German championship in 1998. The highest number of championships has been won by Daniël Willemsen with ten, with the last of those coming in 2012. The most successful team is Kristers Serģis and Artis Rasmanis with five titles together
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Dublin Senior Hurling Championship


second with a total of 13 titles, their last in 1993. The record for most consecutive titles is held by Commercials, Garda and more recently Ballyboden St Endas who each secured a five-in-a-row between the years 1895-99, 1925–29 and 2007-2011 respectively. Ballyboden St Enda's won 5 consecutive titles since 2007 and contested a total of 8 finals in the last 10 years. In 2009, they won the double, claiming both the hurling and football championship. This was the first time
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McCloud High School


Joel DeBortoli, who won the school's "only" Division III title. They were one game away from a trip to the state championship, but lost to Vanden High School at the original ARCO Arena in Sacramento. It was the team's only loss that year. The last team championship was the NSCIF Division VI softball title in 2001. The last individual championship was won in track and field by Andrew (Kruk) Mero in 2002. Football games are played at Charles R. Green Athletic Complex, named for former principal
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The Great American Baking Show


The Great American Baking Show is an American cooking competition television series and an adaptation of "The Great British Bake Off" (which is aired in the United States under the title "The Great British Baking Show"). Its first season aired on ABC under the title The Great Holiday Baking Show. The show is the second licensed adaptation of the "GBBO" format in the United States. In 2013, CBS produced one season of "The American Baking Competition," which was hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, with Paul
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Barenaked for the Holidays


Barenaked for the Holidays is a holiday-themed studio album released by Canadian band Barenaked Ladies on October 5, 2004. The album includes Christmas and Hanukkah songs as well as "Auld Lang Syne", which is traditionally sung on New Year's Eve. There are also several songs that are simply about the winter season. The album was the first album recorded at Steven Page's studio, Fresh Baked Woods and was the first released independently by BNL's Desperation Records label (and distributed by the Warner Music Group).
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2018 World Snooker Championship


the championship seven times. The previous year's championship was won by England's Mark Selby, who won the event defeating Scotland's John Higgins in the final 18–15. This was Selby's third championship, having won previously in 2014 and 2016. The champion of the 2018 event would win prize money of £425,000, from a total pool of £1,968,000. The 2018 World Snooker Championship was held between 21 April and 7 May 2018 in Sheffield, England. The tournament was the last of twenty rankings events in the 2017/2018
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State Farm Holiday Classic


, and is now a full-fledged 32-team tournament, mirroring the boys tournament format. Galesburg was the first girls Grand Champion in 1997, by overcoming a 17-point deficit and winning a 77-74 thriller over Class A Mendota on a last-second three-pointer by Jaque Howard. Galesburg won the first three Grand Championships (1997, 98 & 99) and had a winning streak of 16 games, before being defeated by Urbana in 2000. That same year, Rock Island Alleman became the only Class A team,
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2006 Cape Verdean Football Championships


or several years, two clubs Barreirense FC and Beira Mar competed for the first time. FC Derby was the defending team of the title. A total of 11 clubs participated in the competition, one from each island league and one who won the last season's title. The Santiago Island League North Zone had no championships for the 2005-06 season. No extra team participated as the season had only 11 clubs. The season marked the last appearance of Nô Pintcha at the nationals, a club who won a lot of
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List of Spring Baking Championship episodes


. This season featured nine professional and home bakers competing in a seven-episode baking tournament with a grand prize of $50,000. The season premiere aired the first and second episodes together. The last two episodes aired as a two=hour finale. Jesse Palmer replaced Bobby Deen as host for this season. This season featured the most bakers to this point, with 10 contestants (including a baker from Canada) competing in an eight-episode baking tournament for a chance at $50,000. Ali Kahn took over as host
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The Great American Baking Show (season 1)


recipe. The final bake of the week called the showstopper required bakers to bake a structured gingerbread with decorative designs and cookies around it within five hours. Color key: Eliminated Star Baker Winner Festive holiday bakes continued in the tent as bakers had two hours to create a yule log sponge cake with a sweet filling of their choice. The technical bake was based on the recipe of Johnny Iuzzini's tiramisu cake with ladyfinger crisps. For the final showstopper bake, the bakers created a "Twelve Days of Christmas" fruitcake that revolved
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Peter Reinhart


many of his books have also been translated into other languages. In 2002, "The Bread Bakers Apprentice" won the James Beard Award and the IACP Cook Book of the Year awards, as well as the International Gourmand Award for Best Baking Book in the World. In 2012, Reinhart collaborated with Denene Wallace, a baker who specializes in high-protein, low-carbohydrate, gluten-free baking on writing "The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking: 80 Low-Carb Recipes That Offer Solutions
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1980 Philadelphia Phillies season


, and then defeated the Kansas City Royals to win their first-ever World Series Championship. The 1980 Phillies were known as "The Cardiac Kids" because of the many close games. The Phillies won the National League East on the second-to-last day of the season with a 6-4 victory over the Expos in a game played in Montreal on Oct. 4, 1980. Pete Rose, 1Bbr Bake McBride, RFbr Garry Maddox, CFbr Mike Schmidt, 3Bbr Greg Luzinski, LFbr Bob Boone, Cbr Larry
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Epiphany (holiday)


cross after each one, are said to stand either for the traditionally applied names of the Three Kings in Polish – Kacper, Melchior and Baltazar – or for a Latin inscription meaning "Christ bless this house." They remain above the doors all year until they are inadvertently dusted off or replaced by new markings the next year. On January 6, as in much of Europe, a Polish style Three Kings cake is served with a coin or almond baked inside. The one who gets it is king or queen for the
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Sumant Misra


the winners, who had won both Wimbledon and the US Nationals at Forest Hills that year. He won the last All India Tennis Championships in 1944–45 and then went on to win the first newly christened National Lawn Tennis Championships of India that was held at Calcutta South Club in Woodburn Park Road, in 1946–47 beating Man Mohan Lal. In 1952–53 he won the national championships again and was the finalist on three other occasions. In the 1947–48 final he was defeated by Lennart Bergelin of Sweden (in later years better known as Björn
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Redd Crabtree


five-gaited division in the World's Championship Horse Show at least once, some multiple times. In 1999 he won the Two-Year-Old Five-Gaited World's Championship with Swish, a horse he bred. His last World's Championship was with Callaway's Bluesman, who won the Five-Gaited Stallion World's Championship in 2010. The same year was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Saddlebred Horse Association. In addition to riding professionally himself, Crabtree taught riding lessons and mentored adult amateur riders.
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Doug Wolaver


was owned by Wolaver and his father at the time of his win. Wolaver was also one of the youngest trainers to win the World Grand Championship at the time, being twenty-two years old. Wolaver won his second World Grand Championship in 1965 on Triple Threat, who was owned by Joe Wright at the time of the win. The stake that year lasted almost a full hour and included 11 entries. Two years later Wolaver and Go Boy's Sundust won another World Grand Championship. Wolaver and his wife Brenda live
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Shayne Greenman


Shayne Greenman (born 11 January 1969 in Benalla, Victoria, Australia) is an award winning Australian artisan baker, sugar craftsman and culinary artist. In early 2012, Greenman became the gold medallist in the Australian Artisan Baking Cup and was the World Championship Artisan baker at the SIGEP Baking Cup in Rimini, Italy. In late 2012 he won the Australian Culinary Challenge Decorated Cake Award, Greenman placed Top 5 in the International Baking Association Cup in Munich,Germany Greenman recently visited as a guest at the Ecole Gastonomique Bellouet Conseil,
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NWA World Tag Team Championship (Chicago version)


by Dick Afflis, who merged it with his Indianapolis-based territory. The last NWA World Tag Team Championship was won by the Shires brothers, Roy and Ray, on April 9, 1960. The Volkoffs, Boris and Nicoli, held the championship four times, the record for the Chicago version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship. Art Neilson and Reggie Lisowski held the championship for 371 days, the longest individual reign in the championship's seven-year history. Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won
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1985 World Snooker Championship


event has been held in the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The previous year's championship was won by England's Steve Davis, who won the event defeating England's Jimmy White in the final 18–16. This was Davis' third championship, having won in 1983 and 1981 previously. The winner of the 1985 event earns prize money of £60,000, from a total pool of £250,000. The 1985 World Snooker Championship was held between 12–28 April 1985 in Sheffield, England. The tournament was the last ranking event of
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Twelfth Night (holiday)


, but throughout Christmas time, especially in the UK, and door-to-door wassailing (similar to singing Christmas carols) was common up until the 1950s. Around the world, special pastries, such as the tortell and king cake, are baked on Twelfth Night, and eaten the following day for the Feast of the Epiphany celebrations. In English and French custom, the Twelfth-cake was baked to contain a bean and a pea, so that those who received the slices containing them should be respectively designated king
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Last Train Home (film)


Last Train Home () is a 2009 documentary film directed by Lixin Fan and produced by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin of EyeSteelFilm. It won the Best Documentary Feature at 2009 IDFA and has been distributed by Zeitgeist Films in the US. Every spring, China's 130 million migrant workers travel back to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This exodus is the world's largest human migration. Working over several years, director Lixin Fan travelled with one couple who has embarked on these annual treks for almost
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W.A.K.O. World Championships 2003


known as the cruiserweight boxing champion Marco Huck) who added to the gold he won at the last European championships, and Ruslan Karaev who would have a number of fights (and win several titles) with the K-1 organization. Other notable winners included Fouad Habbani who won his third straight gold medal in Full-Contact at a W.A.K.O. championships, while Olesya Gladkova, Oksana Vasilieva and Oksana Vasilieva had all won gold medals at the last Europeans. By the end of the championships, Russia was by far the strongest nation in the
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Eruvin (Talmud)


" (Hebrew: עירוב תבשילין "mixed cooked food items") is made in the home on the eve of a holiday with a work proscription that directly precedes the Sabbath. It is made by taking a cooked item and a baked item, and placing them together. It is common to use a piece of cooked egg, fish, or meat as the cooked item and a piece of bread or matzah as the baked item. It is needed because while it is allowed to cook and transfer fire on holidays (unlike
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Dessert bar


Dessert bars, or simply bars or squares, are a type of American "bar cookie" that has the texture of a firm cake or softer than usual cookie. They are prepared in a pan and then baked in the oven. They are cut into squares or rectangles. They are staples of bake sales and are often made for birthdays. They are especially popular during the holidays, but many people eat them all year. Many coffee shops and bakeries also offer the treats. They include peanut butter bars, lemon bars
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Korean baked goods


and Rural Affairs, in 2016 the total production capacity in the baking industry stood at 2.1 trillion won, which was an 11.8% increase from 1.9 trillion won four years ago. Amongst baked goods produced individual bread products like red bean pastries have had the highest level of production at 48.1%, followed by cakes (34.5%), sliced loaf bread (8.7%) and doughnuts (3.8%). The industry saw total sales grow 49.6% from 3.9 trillion won in 2012 to 5.9 trillion won in 2016, an
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Rose Naftalin


got married and learned how by using books, classes and correspondence schools. At a Chicago cooking school she met Vienna-born Nanny Wolfe, who taught her Viennese-style baking. The family moved to Toledo, Ohio. Rose baked avidly at home. She submitted a bundt kuchen to a local fair and won first prize, a dining room table and chairs. The next year her sixteen-layer chocolate cake won first place in a contest for bakers in Ohio and Michigan. In 1927 Rose and Mandel opened a small
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Tony Gemignani


square cut pizza cooked in four ovens that is a variation on a pizza baked in three ovens that won Gemignani an international championship; The Dillinger and The Crown Point, Cast Iron Pan pizzas, that won the World's Best Pan Pizza and the Best of the Best at the International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas in 2014 and 2016, and subsequently earned Chef Matt Molina the title of Pizza Maker of the Year in 2014 and Best of the Best Champion in 2016. Opened in 2013 at the Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert
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The Great American Baking Show (season 3)


' winning dish was a three pastry/dessert tower. Color key: For the first signature bake, the bakers were given two hours to bake a "naked" cake, a cake that is not entirely covered in icing. The technical bake, assigned by Paul Hollywood, required the bakers to create nine identical lamingtons covered with a white chocolate coating and coconut flakes. In the showstopper, bakers had two hours and thirty minutes to bake a decorative holiday Swiss roll with an evenly distributed spiral filling. Color key: In
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Banitsa


baking pan. The process is repeated with the remaining sheets of dough and each consecutive roll is placed around the first one in the pan. The resulting shape resembles a spiral (see photo). The banitsa is then sprinkled with sunflower oil or melted butter and baked. In Bulgaria, banitsa is a symbol of Bulgarian cuisine and traditions. Traditionally, Bulgarians prepare and serve banitza on two holidays – Christmas and New Year's Eve. On these days, people add kusmeti (literally lucks, meaning fortunes, lucky charms)
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Springerle


Springerle is a type of German biscuit with an embossed design made by pressing a mold onto rolled dough and allowing the impression to dry before baking. This preserves the detail of the surface pattern. While historical molds show that springerle were baked for religious holidays and secular occasions throughout the year, they are now most commonly associated with the Christmas season. The name "springerle" translates literally as "little jumper" or "little knight", but its exact origin is unknown. It may refer the popular motif of a jumping
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Cinnamon Roll Day


Cinnamon Roll Day (Kanelbullens dag) falls on October 4th each year. It is an annual secular holiday in Sweden and Finland that was instituted in 1999 by Kaeth Gardestedt. At the time, she was a project manager for Hembakningsrådet (Home Baking Council), which was historically a trade group supported by yeast manufacturers, flour producers, sugar manufacturers, and margarine manufacturers, and is now supported by the Dansukker brand of sugar. The purpose of the celebration is to increase attention on Swedish baking traditions, with a particular focus
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Brent Guy


2 conference championships, the first Division-1 conference championship in school history. Guy was responsible for running a defense that was 1st in total defense, scoring defense, and rush defense both years. Boise State went on to win back to back Humanitarian Bowl Games during that time. Guy served as the Sun Devils defensive coordinator for four seasons. Guy's 2002 Holiday Bowl defense set school records for sacks and Tackles for Loss (TFLs) with the help of future NFL Super Bowl Champion Terrel Suggs who won the Lombardi and Outland Trophies
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IHF World Men's Handball Championship


The World Men's Handball Championship has been organized by the International Handball Federation since 1938. The competition has been dominated by European countries. It has been won the most times by France who won 6 titles, including 4 of the last 6 championships. The most recent champion is Denmark, winning its maiden title in 2019. The first World Championship took place in Germany in 1938, involving four teams from Europe who competed in a round robin stage to find a winner. It wouldn't be until sixteen years later where the
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Jonny Storm


2006. On 1 January 2007, he won the Athletik Club Wrestling Wrestling Challenge Championship from Toby Nathland, but Nathland defeated him to win it back on 15 December 2007. On 23 March 2007, Storm defeated Maddog Maxx to win the Celtic Wrestling Heavyweight Championship, but he lost it to Maxx in July of that year. Storm runs his own wrestling holiday camp events between 6 and 12 times a week during summer, Easter and Christmas Holidays. Meanwhile, in the FWA he is currently part of the Flyweight Title Round Robin
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1912–13 French Rugby Union Championship


The French Rugby Union Championship of first division 1912–13 was won by Aviron Bayonnais that beat SCUF in the final. The tournament was played by 18 clubs. The 1913 Five Nations Championship was won by Ireland, France was last. The last try was scored at the end of an action of Roger Mialle, future Artillery Commander, who passed the ball to Lucien Besset, future member of parliament, who passed again to Jules Cadenat who scored the try. The last will be the nation team coach after 1930. For second teams
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Cherpumple


A cherpumple is a holiday novelty dessert inspired by Turducken, where several different flavor pies are baked inside of several different flavors of cake, and then stacked together. According to the Cherpumple's creator, pop culture humorist Charles Phoenix, "Cherpumple is short for cherry, pumpkin and apple pie. The apple pie is baked in spice cake, the pumpkin in yellow and the cherry in white." Phoenix noticed that his family often took a slice of each dessert that was made for holidays, so he decided to create a
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Hellmut Seibt


Winter Olympics, placing 11th. Seibt stepped onto a major international podium for the first time at the 1949 European Championships, winning the bronze medal. In 1950, he became the Austrian national champion and went on to take silver at Europeans. Seibt won gold at the 1951 European Championships and bronze at the 1951 World Championships. After successfully defending his European title, he competed at his second Winter Olympics and won the silver medal. After retiring from competition in 1952, he performed for three years with the Wiener Eisrevue (Holiday
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Bator Sambuev


Holidays Open in 2008, the PWC Toronto Open, Toronto Labour Day Open and Toronto Thanksgiving Open in 2009, the Toronto Labour Day Open and Hart House Holidays Open in 2010, the Hart House Holidays Open in 2011, the Ontario Open in 2009, 2010 and 2011, and the Quebec Open in 2011. In 2011, Sambuev came 1st at the Hamilton Winter Open ahead of Wesley So, who he defeated in the 4th round. Sambuev won the 2017 Canadian Championship (Zonal 2.2) on July 1, 2017 in Montreal
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Southwood Secondary School


won several championships at the WCSSAA and CWOSSA levels in the last few years, notably in Volleyball, Basketball, Swimming and Cross Country. These teams have also participated at OFSAA. In 2007, the Sr. Boys Basketball Team won the AAA OFSAA championship. In 2013 and 2014 the Southwood Football team won a senior "B" division championship despite being a varsity team. In 2007, a group of students from Southwood were among a group of over 3,500 students from across Canada who travelled to Vimy Ridge to commemorate the 90th
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Lucia Valerio


not to make an error resulted in a rally which lasted 450 strokes. Satterthwaite won the point and the match. At the French Championships she reached the quarterfinal in 1931 and 1934. In 1935 she lost the quarterfinal in straight sets to Cilly Aussem who would proceed to win the championship and in 1934 Simonne Mathieu proved too strong for her. In 1931 she won the singles title at the Italian Championships in Milan after winning the final against Dorothy Andrus Burke in three sets. That year she also won the mixed doubles title with
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Helle Trevino


. She later started competing. She attended the Danish Championships in Herning. At the age of 22 she won in the heavyweight and overall categories at the Danish Nationals in 1998, her first show. She also won the overall and heavyweight title at the Scandinavian Championships in the same year. In 1999 she competed at the World Championships in Australia. Trevino became the first professional female bodybuilder from Denmark since Lisser Frost-Larsen, who had last competed in 1984. In her pro debut, she won the heavyweight and overall at
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Auburn Tigers


2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. The Auburn men have won the SEC Championship 14 out of the last 15 years and also won national championships in 1997, 1999, and 2009. The Auburn men won their 13th consecutive SEC Title in 2008, while the Auburn women took home their fifth SEC Championship in the last six years. The Auburn men's 44 consecutive, five-year, dual-meet win record came to an end on January 11, 2007 when they lost to Texas 130–113, exactly five
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Kieran Behan


the finals. 2011 became a break out year for Behan as he competed at the European Championships in Berlin and the World Challenge Cup series where he won silver and bronze medals on the Floor Exercise. He went on to compete in the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo. Because he did not receive funding from the Irish Sports Council or Gymnastics Ireland, by the end of 2011 he had spent close to €12,000 on travel and accommodation expenses to get to the international competitions, friends and family supporting him by raising money through bake
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School holiday


summer classes could be taken in between the breaks. Trip Advisor provides a summary of key holidays. Summer holidays usually last from early July to end of August. The winter holiday usually lasts 1 month, and its time varies depending on the date of the Chinese New Year. In Hong Kong summer holidays last from mid-July to the end of August. Christmas, Lunar New Year and Easter holidays last usually for one and a half weeks. In South India, summer vacations last from the end of March to the
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1998 Chicago Fire season


any of the major American sports leagues won the league championship. The next time an expansion franchise would reach the championship of their respective sports league would be 20 years later, when the first-year Vegas Golden Knights NHL ice hockey team reached the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals. The last professional soccer club to play in the Chicago area was the Chicago Sting, who played in the original NASL from 1974 to 1983, and then in the Major Indoor Soccer League from 1984 to 1988. The Sting won two Soccer Bowl championships:
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76ers–Celtics rivalry


25 to beat out the Celtics by one game and win the number one seed in Eastern Division. Chamberlain also won the MVP over Russell, who had won three of the previous four awards. When they met in the Conference Championship however, Boston defeated Philadelphia 4-1 and went on to win their eighth straight NBA Championship. The next year the Sixers brought in Alex Hannum as head coach. Hannum had also coached the Bob Pettit-led St. Louis Hawks to the 1958 NBA Championship-the last year someone had defeated
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Hideo Ochi


to 1969 he eventually achieved the title "Grand Champion". 1970 he took over Hirokazu Kanazawa's position as National Karate trainer in Germany. Under his guidance, the German national team won the European Championships three times. After they had placed second in the world championship in Los Angeles 1977, the very next year he competed himself once again during his holidays in Japan, defeated 1976's World champion Osaka, and won the National championship of his home country Japan. In 1993, he founded the DJKB (Deutscher JKA-
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Phil Lafon


joined Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in late 1996, having a series of matches against Sabu and Rob Van Dam. At Fright Fight '97, Lafon and Furnas were defeated by Shane Douglas and Chris Candido. At Holiday Hell 97, The Sandman, Tommy Dreamer, Al Snow and Taz defeated Lafon, Rob Van Dam, Sabu and Doug Furnas. They won the ECW World Tag Team Championship from The Full Blooded Italians on December 5. Their reign would not last long, however, as they went on to lose
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The Great British Bake Off (series 3)


The third series of "The Great British Bake Off" began airing on Tuesday 14 August 2012. The series was filmed at Harptree Court in East Harptree, Somerset. Seven thousand applied for the competition and twelve contestants were chosen. For the first time, all three finalists were male: Brendan Lynch, John Whaite and James Morton. The competition was won by John Whaite. No one was eliminated this week due to John having injured his finger and could not complete the last bake, and the judges thought it would be
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